Nigerian born painter, Kunle Adegborioye who is currently based in UK is back in Nigeria with a special message to inspire and engage the Nigerian audience through his latest solo exhibition titled, My Voice; Exhibition of Paintings. The exhibition which opened on the 22nd May at Nike Art Gallery, Lekki, Lagos will run till May 29th 2010.

The first official visit of the newly appointed Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Abubakar Sadiq Mohammad to parastatals of the Ministry , penultimate week in Lagos was an important eye opener to the immensity of tasks expected of the Minister before the expiration of the 2011 national election year.

As the vibrancy of the stalactite catalytically fuels the mesomophic characteristics of the stalagmite, so also the insightful, effective and constructive usage of cartoons can precipitate multifaceted societal development. Hence essayist aldpous Huxley (1894-1963) said, “Parodies, cartoons and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”

The one day capacity building workshop organized for Culture Journalists under the theme; Media and Cultural Orientation by the National Institute for Cultural Orientation, NICO was a significant attempt at finding an interface through which the two institutions of Journalism and Culture can work together towards the socio- political development of the nation.

Last week’s visit to the parastatals of the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation by the newly appointed Minister of the Ministry, Alhaji Abubakir Sadiq Mohammade did not only provide an opportunity to understanding the myriads of problems that clog the wheel of developmental progress in the culture and tourism sector; but also provided the needed critical platform to x- raying the preparedness of the quiet looking and seemingly , cerebrally equipped culture minister, who is saddled with the responsibility of turning around the declining fortunes of the Ministry.

Federal Government has lamented the continued threats to the nation’s cultural and national identities saying that there is need for Nigerians to find a common ground to live in harmony.

Memories of the tragic Nigerian civil war was recently relived again as one of the major actors in the war, Captain August Okpe, Chief Pilot of Biafra during the war years as well as the chief pilot of the Nigerian Airways and an established poet recounts the story of the war in his memoir, The Last Flight which was presented to the public a forthnight ago at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA)Victoria Island.

In what appeared to be a drift from the old order of celebrating people only when they are dead, the gathering of who is who in the art and culture industry and the lots of striking testimonials from culture workers about Toyin Akinosho’s love and passions for culture and culture promotion spoke volumes of the level of satisfying services that he has rendered to the culture clime.

For those who have been disheartened by the continuous decline of the Nigerian theater tradition, the advent of an avant-garde alternative in the emergent stand-up comedy culture has hugely compensated for a truly sad loss.

Determined to encourage cultural exchange of programmes between Nigerian and other countries, the Yaba, Lagos-based art house, Centre for Contemporary Arts, CCA, again returned to the exhibition arena, when it featured the works of a visiting Turkish fashion designer and photo artist Pinar Yolacan in a photography exhibition entitled “Maria Series 2007

Memories of the Nigerian civil war was relived recently as one of the major actors of the war, Captain August Okpe chief pilot of Biafra during the civil war years as well as the chief pilot of the Nigerian Airways and an established poet recounts the story of the war captured in his memoir, The Last Flight which was presented to the public forth night ago at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA)Victoria Island.

Last week was indeed, a very bad week for the tribe of Nigerian writers. The week came with the death of three significant writers and scholars. First, was the announcement of the death of Ossie Onuora Enekwe, a retired professor of Dramatic Literature from the University of Nigeria.

 By Mcphilip Nwachukwu  & Benjamin Njoku Segun Fayose is the HOD, Corporate Communication, Multichoice Nigeria, the owners of M-net Africa. In this interview, he spoke about activities of Multichoice; and especially, about  M-net Channel, its programmes and the controversial creation of Hausa and Yoruba Channels to the exclusion of other language viewers. He spoke to Sunday Arts. […]

It was a gathering of great minds, literary icons, captains of industry, diplomats and notable Nigerians at the second floor of the prestigious Civic Centre located at Ozumba Mbadiwe way in Victoria Island last weekend courtesy of the 3rd edition of the biennial Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

Last week, Octogenarian novelist, Timothy Aluko passed on at the age of 91. Today, Vanguard arts in honour to the famous author of One Man, One Matchet publishes an excerpt from his autobiography titled, The Story of My Life.