The latest wedlock in the music industry is between Hollajosh and Rave Studio. Hollajosh is a gifted musician and creative music producer while Rave Studio is the umbrella organization for Rave music and other entertainment outfits. With the rapidity of bush fire in harmatan, a new baby was born from the wedlock just last week. The new baby is known as MOSORIRE, a nine track Album.

IT had a personal appeal to me, the Igba Uche ceremony of the Uke Item, this age grade in my town Isiugwu Ohafia in Abia state which my mother, Mrs Lucy Kalu Uduma belongs. That day, Dec 27, 2010, the members danced like never before

The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) hosted Dr Gerard Chouin, the Director Institute for French Research in Africa (IFRA), Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, at corporate headquarters in Lagos last week

The book, The Fashola Revolution is a compendium on the developmental changes in Lagos State in the last three and a half years. It is written in lucid English dotted with photograph of projects commissioned by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola. It starts with a map of Lagos State and the brains behind the Revolution who are the cabinet members

To consolidate on the achievements so far recorded on cultural revival of Anioma nation, the Organisation For the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC), the culture umbrella body of the Anioma people, in Delta State, recently reconstituted its board of directors with the appointment of additional Four [4] cultural aficionados with great administrative prowess as board members to strengthen its operational capacity

Professor Tess Onwueme is one of Africa’s foremost female playwrights and a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA. The playwright, who has not only published severally, but is so globally studied was recently honoured with a new appointment as her university’s Professor of Global Letters.

In this abridged discourse shared at the Emporium, JBS Estate, Benin City on the occasion of the Seminar of the Eckankar Edo Area, Tony E.Afejuku , Professor of English at the University of Benin tries to prove some of the humanistic potentials of religion as a critical ingredient to fostering national harmony and unity.

The playwright, Greg Mbajiorgu, Senior lecturer in Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka wrote Wake up as a guest dramatist to African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS), Nairobi. He was commissioned to produce this climate change adaptation advocacy drama for the International Conference on Africa’s Response to Global Challenge through Science Technology and Innovation

One of Nigerian’s foremost artistes, Ikechukwu Andrew Emueze of Foundation for Black Heritage (FOBHE) has scheduled to hold a solo exhibition. The exhibition titled Harvest will be held at Imperial Chinese Restaurant, Victoria Island Lagos from the 1st of April ,2011 till the end of the month

The Executive Secretary of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Dr. Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma, has again stressed the need for parents to place priority on teaching their children indigenous languages

Miakpo Emiaso has courageously blazed a trail by publishing what is doubtlessly the very first full length work on the law, practice and procedure of modern customary courts in Nigeria

WORRIED by the continued increase in joblessness in the country, The Ogun State Governor, Otunba Olugbenga Daniel has advised students of tertiary institutions to learn a trade that would make them self employed

Professor Tess Onwueme is one of Africa’s foremost female playwrights and a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA. The playwright, who has not only published severally, but is so globally studied was recently honoured with a new appointment as her university’s Professor of Global Letters.

The poet, Ikeogu Oke, was the first writer in the year to feature at the regular Guest Writer Session organized by the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF). In this report, TUNJI AJIBADE, highlights on the key issues frothing from the reading.

In our Thespian discourse today, Dr AbdulRasheed Abiodun Adeoye of the Department of Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, discusses the role of a stage director as a critical factor in the realisation of theatrical objectives.