Recently Fountain of Praise hosted her annual Worship for Change benefit concert, to aid orphans, less privileged and children with special needs. The worship for change concert which started several years back have raised about $100,000 utilized to affect the lives of less privilege kids.

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke last week commissioned cultural-industrial centre built in a bid to alleviate poverty.

Africa During the colonial period, a ‘priceless portion’ of the cultural heritage of many oppressed peoples was ‘robbed’, ‘plunder[ed]‘, ‘despoiled’ . Simultaneously, foreign, “civilising missions” destroyed non-Christian ritual objects.

The much coveted $100,000 prize money of the 2012 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas NLNG will eventually get to the best author today as a winner out of the last three standing is announced at a world press conference in Lagos. The Prize which is in its 8th year running was instituted with a view to motivating Nigerian writers in four literary genres vis a vis, poetry, prose, drama and Children’s literature. The prize is rotated around the genres each year and this year focuses on prose fiction.

Sculptor Chidi Okoye was a lecturer at Federal Polytechnic, Oko before he left Nigeria for Canada on the invitation of Canadian Art Society in 1994. Today, his fame in sculptural art has spread to America, Canada and Europe and his works speak volumes about his creativity and excellence. In this online interview, the Institute of Management and Technology Enugu trained artist talks about his art.