In the face of daunting problems of graduate unemployment ravaging the country now, a new book that seemingly has solutions to youths unemployment was last week presented to the public. The book, …to my Siblings, who want to succeed, a framework for a highly successful and principled life after basic education is written by Dayo Akinola, an engineer.

Facial scarification, known as Igbu-ichi in parts of Igboland,is making a return from ancestry into the designs of Tony George Chidi Akudinobi. A visual thinker and quintessential poet of furniture-cum-interior design in the African mode, Akudinobi is the acclaimed Convener of the African Design Roundtable who holds pride of place for representing Nigeria at the 29th India International Trade Fair (Pragati Maidan) New Delhi.

The Agip Hall of the Muson centre shook to its foundation recently with the spectacular performance of IPI NTOMBI, South Africa’s popular dance drama by students of Greenwood House, Ikoyi. Though stated for 5.30pm, parents, arts and culture enthusiasts filled the hall before the scheduled time.

WEAVING is an ancient craft of man dating to the early new stone age when he learnt to make a rough kind of clothing from the fibers of flax plants. Weaving is described as the orderly interlacing of fibres and pressing them together to make the cloth.

PLANS have been concluded for the 2012 Osun Osogbo Cultural Festival to be hosted by Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, Olanipekun Larooye 11, in collaboration with State Government of Osun come August, 2012.