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.

For any one who has been following the drama going on around the nation’s culture house, the National Theatre Iganmu ,specifically as it concerns the attempt to recall the erstwhile General Manager Mallam Kabir Yusuf Yar’ Adua following barrage of letters of complaints to the Presidency coupled with series of protests carried out against him by some members of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Employees, (AUPCTRE) one would easily conclude that there is no longer room for a come back for the embattled Parastatal Director

Recently, Iroko Arts & Lifestyle, an organization founded by Theresa Ijeomah Nadorp and Oluwatosin Onile-Ere Rotimi, held a one-week exhibition in Maitama, Abuja, with a collector’s catalogue of fifty years of Nigerian Arts—cutting through generations of artists, from the legendary sculptor, Ben Enwonwu to modern artists like Sam Ovraiti and Tayo Omorin.

The Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF) in collaboration with the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy, Abuja is proud to announce a one-day creative writing workshop in Abuja on May 15, 2010.

Tony Esijolomi Afejuku, Professor of English and Literature, University of Benin; Poet and Critic; former National Treasurer, Association of Nigerian Authors; former Chairman, Association of Nigerian Authors, Edo-Delta Branch; former Vice Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Uniben Branch; frontline Itsekiri Activist in this interview with arts editor, McPhilips Nwachukwu examined the socio-cultural violence in the region of the Niger Delta and by extension, the entire nation. Speaking from the stand point of a poet and culture scholar, he spoke as frankly as ever.

Musical Songstress, now popularly addressed by her colleagues as Her Excellency is not yet done with entertainment and the Entertainment Industry.

By Yomi  Awelewa  The comedy industry in Nigeria recently got a boost courtesy of M-Net, premium content provider for Dstv, which introduced the Comedy Club circuit. The second season of this increasingly popular show debuted a few weeks ago. Every Saturday at exactly 8pm local time, DStv viewers are now treated to a bouquet of […]

Femi Art Warehouse an art promoting outfit in its efforts geared towards taking Arts to the next level during the last Easter holidays organised an art exhibition tagged; Easter Artfest. The four day programme with the theme: Promoting African Art and Cultural Heritage kicked off on 2nd of April and ended on the 5th at Muri Okunola Park in Victoria Island.