Can anything good come out of music? This may have been the question that shaped the minds of Emeka Nwodi’s parents in the early days of the young lad’s contemplation to make a career out of music.” Of all professions, is it music you found to study?” was the question posed to him by his supposedly caring parents from Ichida, Anambra State.

Beads are small, round and perforated objects which are usually strung to form necklaces or bracelets or attached to garments or articles of clothing for decorative effect. Beads are made of a great variety of materials namely: glass, copper, wood, silver, brass aluminum, bone, horn, shell, coral, pearl, jet, amber, mineral, including precious stones, ceramics and plastics.

Build Entertainment Industry and Business into this total re-branding of Lagos Metropolis. Step out of Lagos for a few days, step back in and there is a remarkable change. Roads are wider and cleaner, traffic flow is improved, Estates springing out of swamps, music blaring from road side shops to blend with the hooting, screeching, and revving announcement into Eko-Lagos.

Life in the prison yard is same in every part of the world though with a slight difference from the experience in developed countries. Here in Nigeria, it is usually nothing to write home about as few lucky ones who leave alive on completion of their terms, end up becoming worse than they were and worst of it all, face societal prejudices meted to them by society. These are basically some of the issues Inyang E. Ekwo sets out to address in his latest literary offering, Beyond The Yard.

The Nupe Kingdom occupies the northern part of Igala Kingdom. According to oral tradition, Tosede like Oduduwa, the legendary founder of Yoruba – Land is the legendary founder of Nupe Kingdom who lived in the 16th century. He was the son of Igala hunter prince and a Nupe mother. Tosede finally went to live with his father when his father ascended the Igala throne as the Attah of Igala.

Adamu AJunam, an Engineer with Julius Berger Nigeria Limited is also an artistic writer of strong commitment. Having in the past profiled the nation’s rich tourism cum cultural history in two well received published tourists guide books, he recently came out with a collection of poetry that chronicles his abiding faith in the enterprise called Nigeria.

The dramatic monologue and the chorus poetically cast with imagistic sophistication drawing on JP Clark’s identified technique of INDIRECTION, King Ebizimor begins to narrate the story of A. J. Turner with an admixture of poetry and Prose. Bayelsans have been developmentally enslaved by the rulers in the state.

It was a great day last week for Delta State born writer and activist, Ekanpou Enewaridideke as he unveiled his new five books in Oyangbene community of Burukutu Local Government Area of the State.

By 2.00pm today, hundreds of friends and lovers of art will gather at the popular social centre, Harbour Point in Victoria Island to celebrate a high society persona and ace photographer, Sunmi Smart-Cole at the presentation of his latest book ‘Sunmi’s Lens- medium between man and nature’, side by side with a photo exhibition of his works in black and white, that is, photography in art form.

A THIRTEEN-man cast and I just returned from performing the London showing of Shakespeare’s play, ‘The Winter’s Tale’, on a stage built in honour of the bard himself. Shakespeare’s Globe is a replica of the one William Shakespeare practised on as an actor and playwright, and it played host between late April and early June to 37 international touring companies from around the world including the Nigerian-based “Renegade Theatre”of which I am artistic director.