Twenty seven years ago,the NYSC cultural festival started as the director’s Dance/Drama competition; a theatrical presentation in camps to entertain course officials and corps members during the orientation programme.

The Federal Government, penultimate week in Abuja disclosed that it would collaborate with the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the U.S Department of States to promote art and craft and the country.

Short of giving details of the anticipated repossession of Nigerian artefacts from France, Usman insisted that diplomacy remained the “best and only option for now and we would change our strategy if it’s not working.”

The world today is witnessing a situation bedeviled by violence of diverse magnitude, anarchy, starvation, health challenges, evil of the highest order, corruption, poverty, war in the homes, nations and among nations. And in the face of all these, hapless individuals have responded with despair and negative confessions.

My artist name is Ade Bantu, I am a grenzgänger and a fufuologist, I do a bit of music, a bit of Film production and I like exploring the world.

Writer, Journalist and Filmmaker, Casey Imafidon kick-starts the first quarter of the Abuja Writers Forum’s readings on February 23 at Hamdala Plaza, Plot 23, Jimmy Carter Street, off Protea Hotel, Asokoro, Abuja.

LAST week at Waterworth Gallery, Lekki, Lagos, Ms Stacey Okparavero flagged off one week memorial exhibition in commemoration of the death of her sister, Ms Ogaga Okapaevero, who died of asthma in October last year. The exhibition tagged; Art Exhibition for Life: An Asthma Awareness/ Charity Art Exhibition was put up to raise fund for the assistance of asthma patients, who cannot afford their treatments in hospitals.

FROM its humble beginnings, working with rural communities on Bonny Island, Port Harcourt based Rainbow Book Club’s reading campaign has taken giant strides, culminating in producing the first World Book Capital in Sub Saharan Africa.

A CHARITY Exhibition of the finest collection of art works by Stacey Okparavero, which embodies the versatility of art styles that embrace rich African as well as western cultures, opened at the weekend at the Watersworth Gallery, Lekki, Lagos.

By Prisca Sam-Duru Chika Unigwe was the winner of 2012 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas $100,000 sponsored literature prize for the prose category. She won the prize with her entry On Black Sister Street. Last week at two well attended ceremony, the recipient was hosted by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she graduated from the […]

Clark’s portrait of Col. M.C. Moorhouse is that of exploitative manipulator who uses Chief Dore Numa to perpetrate land-ownership atrocities against the natives of Warri. He is the one who rewards Chief Dore Numa with medals and portion of land and political power to intimidate and deprive people of their lands. Col. M.C. Moorhouse is a satanic agent who is responsible for the land-related problems in Warri. Through manipulation, Ogbe people are driven away from the headland for the purpose of building offices, barracks etc. He is a disgusting character.

The United States embassy has launched the 2013 Black History Month with the screening on Monday, of the film “Django”, a 2012 American epic western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film which parades star actors and actresses such as Jamie Fox, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, was screened at the Ozone Cinemas, Lagos. Black History Month is regarded as an opportunity to celebrate the achievements and contributions of African Americans to the growth of the United States of America.

By Prisca Sam-Duru Chika Unigwe was the winner of 2012 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas $100,000 sponsored literature prize for the prose category. She won the prize with her entry On Black Sister Street. Last week at two well attended ceremony, the recipient was hosted by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she graduated from the […]

NOK Art came to lime light in 1928, when Col. J. Dent Young found a small terracotta head amongst the gravels from tin mining operations near the village of Nok in the Jos Plateau of Central Nigeria.

FROM its humble beginnings, working with rural communities on Bonny Island, Port Harcourt based Rainbow Book Club’s reading campaign has taken giant strides, culminating in producing the first World Book Capital in Sub Saharan Africa.