The Federal Government’s Policy of economic diversification and direct foreign investment procurement efforts, received a boost with the overwhelming reception of Nigerian Craft products at the forty (40) year old continental Pan African Cultural Festival, held in Algiers, the Algerian Capital City, from July 5-20, 2009.

The Mbari architectural structures, commonly seen among the Mbaise and Owerri people of Imo State was an artistic appeasement to the gods, especially, the thunder god, Amadioha.

The winning of the prestigious prize in 2001, by Nigeria’s Helon Habila through his entry, Love Poem invigorated a new competitive spirit in the nation’s huge stock of emerging literary writers.

The occasion was the graduation concert put together by the second set of beneficiaries of the Music scholarship programme of the MTN Foundation. Graduating were 24 young men and women who had undergone training in Voice, Classical Music, Music composition and Arrangement, as well as Repairs of Music Instruments.

THE belief that art without documentation is incomplete must have informed the gathering, on Wednesday as another effort in art documentation was recorded when Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja in collaboration with BHS International launched a book containing works of the artists done for the hotel in the last 23 years.