As the nation’s women achieve recognition in political and public service, so they should endeavor to contribute to educating the nation through writing. Encouraging women in aggressive competitive sports will destroy family units, feminity, finesse, and the total essence of womanhood, and nation building.

Humbled by the possibility of becoming the first black American President, President Barak Obama of the United States of America said in an interview with Ebony Collector’s Edition Magazine of January, 2009 that, “…I’m humbled by the fact that I stand on the shoulders of all the people that made all these incredible contributions to lift this country up”.

Although this enthralling book is classified as “Teen Fiction”, Nwokeji explores the age-old problems of poverty and dreams now compounded by child labour and the new wave in crime, kidnapping, through Ike and his brother, Emeka. The book opens with the exposition of the fundamental truth that, as in most other things, there are various levels of poverty:

After successful hosting of the London leg of the the second edition of the inter cultural exchange tagged ,WS7728086 organised by Zmirage as part of the celebrations of the 77th birthday of the renowned playwright, author and Africa’s first Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka that culminated in the performance of Dance of Liberation at Theater Tabernacle in Nottingham, Nigeria’s leg and final stage of the event kicked off in Lagos week end with a lot of activities.

Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGOM), which holds in Perth, Australia from 28th-30th October, 2011, the Managing Director of the Commonwealth Business Council, (CBC) Mr Steve Godfrey last week paid a courtesy visit to the Director General (DG) National Gallery of Art, (NGA), Dr Abdullahi Sabo Muku.