For four days, June 4 to June 7, 2014, the city of Lagos will be treated to an unforgettable experience as Taruwa Festival of Performing Arts in Nigeria [TAF] returns with a second edition themed ‘Telling Our Stories’

I must commend our author, Loolo Florence Chinyere Duru, for her deep interest in the Igbo language and its proverbs. Proverbs are the wisdom of a people in a nutshell

It was all accolades for literary icon, Professor Elechi Amadi who recently turned 80, as the literati gathered at the University of Calabar to celebrate the renowned writere.

It was another celebration of cultural heritage of the Afenmai as people from all walks of gathered for 2014 Afenmai Mass Assembly of Masquerades Outing

In the face of the plethora of challenges confronting Africans on the continent and the Diaspora, concerted and strategic response is required to frontally tackle them

WHEN it comes to exhibitions, Raqib Bashorun can be described as a big masquerade, he does not exhibit often, but each time he exhibits there are always lots of messages from it. For the Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) trained sculptor, painter who has exhibited widely and whose works will be situated anywhere in the world because of the quality, his greatest regrets has always been the fact that Africans especially Nigerians do not take the messages home rather they look at the aesthetic and throw away the contents.

THE official launch of a book, Onobrakpeya: Masks of the Flaming Arrows, an exceptional body of work which demonstrates the versatility of Professor Onobrakpeya’s works and showcases a broad range of masterpieces from his glittering career spanning over 50 years is scheduled to hold on Friday, May 16th, 2014 by 2.00 pm

KNOWLEDGE they say is power and that is reason why Barr. Ima-Mariam Nike Agunbiade after acquiring that knowledge is bent on transfering it to the younger generation. This she have been doing through research, books and establishment of schools in Nigeria.

A MOLUE with unusual accessories which parked outside the Lagos City Hall on Catholic Mission Street, Lagos, penultimate week, attracted a lot of passersby who at first could not understand what it was there for.

This molue is in town! Do not marvel when you see it with a flat screen television, standing fan, light refreshments, art works and a book stand as well as Caucasians, eminent Nigerians , healthy children who ordinarily, have no business boarding a Molue.

Roland Ricketts is a Microbiologist who was one of the six finalists during last year’s edition of MTN Project Fame Season 6. He absolutely loves music and sees the PF Academy as the best music school in West Africa and so has tried several times to get in. Last year, he made it as far […]

The Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, His Royal Highness, Eheneden Eradiauwa recently paid a royal visit to the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi, all in the bid to reconnect with the storyline of the much talked about Lancelot Imasuen’s new film, “Invasion 1897.”

Published in 2011 by Life Apostolate Publications, Enugu, Paulinus Ike Ogara’s Nigeria Must Survive is a two hundred and forty page book that addresses the issues of corruption, insecurity, poverty, unemployment, rural underdevelopment, religious intolerance, ethnic rivalries, and bad political leadership in contemporary Nigeria. These problems are commonly perceived as threats to the corporate survival of Nigeria as an entity.

The location was Davos Switzerland, home of the annual World Economic Forum where the world’s political and business leaders have gathered every year for the past 43years to discuss strategies for improving the state of the world. The occasion was Ariya….a night of good cheer hosted by the Nigerian government to give the world a sense of what to expect when they visit Abuja Nigeria May 7-9 to attend the 24th World Economic Forum for Africa taking place in West Africa for the first time in the 24 year history of the regional forum.

African’s first Nobel Laureate for Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka will be 80 in July and as the entire world rolls out drum to celebrate him, the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) has mapped out its own plans for a unique celebration of the literary icon whom they described as one of the initiators of the idea of Pyratism, and unarguably the most visiblePyrate since the confraternity’s inception.

The book, titled, Resolving Boundary Disputes, written by ThankGod George Ekine and published by Pearl Publishers, Port Harcourt is timely since the timing and theme of this latest book is very auspicious, coming at a time when the city of Port Harcourt is on the global book stage as the World Book Capital. It is a 260 paged collection and display of facts on boundary disputes resolution.