Former President of Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria and Founder of Gaurapad Charities, Bolaji Rosiji, celebrated Nigeria’s Independence with members of staff by unveiling a special welfare package tagged ‘Heroes award’. The event held at the Guarapad multi-purpose hall, Maryland, attracted over one hundred and fifty Gaurapad staff from across West Africa. Most of the staff had been in suspense for a month as to what the event, tagged Gaurapad Heroes, was all about.

The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) have concluded plans to host the 2015 edition of CBAAC International Distinguished Public Lecture scheduled to hold on the 24th November, 2015 at the Princess Alexandria Auditorium of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Nsukka Campus, Enugu State, Nigeria.

Titus Okereke treats us to a world worth living in his book, Our Fathers’ Land – Including Reminiscences on the Nigerian Civil War. This is the first book of its class, an autobiographic tale well told, to come out of an alumnus of the old University College, Ibadan, from a graduate of the early sixties, 1960-1964.

After participating in many group exhibitions and many years of working behind the scenes building and nurturing students at the Federal College of Education (Technical ) Akoka, Festus Adeyemi is out with his first solo exhibition titled Between the lines, an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and mixed technique arts.

After many months of waiting, the Buhari led federal government finally announced the appointment of ministers with their portfolios. While, many sectors of the economy saw the announcement and appointment as a positive development, others did not see it that way.

I was a member of the panel. Basically, we ensured that the shortlisted stories went through a critique process, suggestions were given after which the playwrights went home with feedback. At the end, only 4 plays would be chosen and performed at the Lagos Theatre Festival. So, they just went through the process of development and that’s why we had a couple of theatre professionals on the panel to assist them fine tune their works for public performance.

Arrangements have been concluded for the take-off of the 2015 edition of Ake Arts and Book Festival, a yearly literary feast, billed to hold at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto-Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital. Expected at the festival which begins from Tuesday November 17th through Thursday 21st, are some of world’s renowned writers, filmmakers, artists, scholars and thinkers for the 5-day event.

Ordinally, the KIA Motors showroom located at Adelu Odeku street, Victoria Island is one of the places customers go to purchase their various range of cars, but the place received unusual visitors last month when people from all walks of life, especially art lovers trooped to the place not to buy cars, but to be part of the unique solo exhibition organised by Arthouse Space for one of Africa’s living modernist masters, Prof Yusuf Grillo titled Igi Araba .

Young poets such as Chika Jones’, “Nigeria my beautiful country, and Ehis Momudu’s “Who am I? Poems on the resolute spirit of patriotism and identity of Nigerians, set the ball rolling for a night of travel via words that provoke, retrospection, re-assessment, and re-evaluation on the part of the audience on issues such as leadership, love, kidnap, gender and self appreciation.

The word depression may sound very simple in the ears of many, but it is a silent yet virulent killer described by psychiatrists as “ the common cold of psychiatry.” But one fundamental issue about it is that despite its negative effect it has not received the deserved attention and worse still, little has been published on the subject all over the world and particularly in the African world. It is in response to this, that Dr Vivian Ikem, a scientist who has experienced it came up with a new book entitled, Shadows In the Mirrow: The Many faces of Depression.