COME April 12, 2011, Nigerian born artist, Osaretin Ighile, will present a solo sculptural exhibition at the Sokoto Gallery. Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity.

Recently, Sir Emeka Nwokedi, foremost Nigerian Musical Director, Voice Coach and Conductor added another feather to his cap with an exceptional musical production in a concert held at the Shell hall of the MUSON Centre Onikan, Lagos.

The annual International Documentary Film Festival, IREP dedicated to the promotion of Documentary filmmaking as a veritable medium through which desirable change can take place in the world, came to high point last week on the day two of the programme as issues affecting operation of the media in Africa were discussed.

The glamour that attended last week’s public presentation of the book, Osoba: The Newspaper Years, written by the duo of Mike Awoyinfa and Dimgba Igwe, was an indicator of the quality of the subject of the book, Osoba, and journalism, which he represented.

FEW months to his 102nd birthday anniversary scheduled for November the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos as well as the Nigerian Army last Thursday rose to honour one of the highly esteemed sons of the Catholic Church and our dear nation, Monsignor Pedro Ayodele Martins, the first indigenous Head of the Catholic Chaplaincy in the Nigerian Army.