The place of Moremi in Ife history is woven around one Ife oral tradition which claims that Moremi, a victorious and beautiful woman from Offa, married to Oranmiyan, helped Ife to overcome the incessant raids of the seemingly super-human Igbo warriors whom the Ifes were unable to resist.

Among us was my friend, Ochiri’s cousin, Collins Ebomuche, who died early this year, 2018. Collins was a graduate of English and Literary Studies from University of Calabar. By virtue of his training, he was a budding poet, or at least claimed to be one. He had a teaching job as English and Literature teacher at Bishop Aggrey Memorial College.

Picasso’s “Young Girl With Basket of Flowers,” recently sold at a New York auction for $115 million, will be loaned to Paris’s Musee d’Orsay for a Picasso exhibit opening in September.

The very best of Nigerian arts and culture will be making a fascinating appearance in the city of Paris, France as the Embassy of Nigeria hosts business community and friends of Nigeria to an exhibition of some of the Nigeria’s finest art, music, film, cuisine, fashion and traditional games, on the platform of the Nigerian Creative Arts Exchange (NCAE).

THE Institute of African studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, has concluded plans to assemble eminent scholars who will discuss Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka’s works of literature at the second Chinua Achebe international conference in Nsukka.