Phrases like climate change, global warming, carbon emission and greenhouse gases have become part of our everyday vocabulary, yet, so many people do not honestly know what they are all about. These days, we hear of earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, floods, typhoons, droughts, erosion, crop failure, intense heat/cold etc.

IT was singing, dancing and rejoicing at the Palace ground of the Oba of Benin, Omo Oba Erediauwa on Tuesday when the people of Utese community in Uhen Ward, Ovia North- East local government area of Edo state went to the Palace of the revered Monarch to present before him their newly crowned Enogie (Duke) in consonance with the culture, mores and tradition of the Benin people.

Abimbola Dare’s debut Christian novel, The Small Print has enjoyed a privileged spot in the top best selling e-books on amazon.co.uk in the romantic Christian fiction category for over three months in a row. The novel continues to fly off the shelves in bookstores across Nigeria.

Ekanpou Enewaridideke, president, Ijaw People Congress is a writer and an activist. Educated at Delta State University, Abraka, where he obtained a degree in English, the Ijaw born writer- activist has written across literary genres and won important literary prizes.

A Nigerian choir, the Lagos City Chorale directed by the Maestro, Sir Emeka Nwokedi bagged three Silver medals at the just concluded 7th World Choir Games held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA from 4th – 14th July, 2012.

According to Ekpo Eyo, “It is indeed unfortunate that so much Nok material has been looted over time to supply the international market. Properly excavated, such pieces might have shed valuable light on the Nok culture.

ONE of the problems militating the development of African states is the inability of the leaders to learn from history, no thanks to the declining fortune of history as a study subject in many secondary schools in some countries and especially, Nigeria.

When Spanish born Jess Castellote came to Nigeria in 1994, he did not have in mind that his services to a non governmental organisation committed to the construction of private residences at the University of Ibadan would change course with time to the fields of education, art and culture.

In the face of daunting problems of graduate unemployment ravaging the country now, a new book that seemingly has solutions to youths unemployment was last week presented to the public. The book, …to my Siblings, who want to succeed, a framework for a highly successful and principled life after basic education is written by Dayo Akinola, an engineer.

Facial scarification, known as Igbu-ichi in parts of Igboland,is making a return from ancestry into the designs of Tony George Chidi Akudinobi. A visual thinker and quintessential poet of furniture-cum-interior design in the African mode, Akudinobi is the acclaimed Convener of the African Design Roundtable who holds pride of place for representing Nigeria at the 29th India International Trade Fair (Pragati Maidan) New Delhi.

The Agip Hall of the Muson centre shook to its foundation recently with the spectacular performance of IPI NTOMBI, South Africa’s popular dance drama by students of Greenwood House, Ikoyi. Though stated for 5.30pm, parents, arts and culture enthusiasts filled the hall before the scheduled time.

WEAVING is an ancient craft of man dating to the early new stone age when he learnt to make a rough kind of clothing from the fibers of flax plants. Weaving is described as the orderly interlacing of fibres and pressing them together to make the cloth.

PLANS have been concluded for the 2012 Osun Osogbo Cultural Festival to be hosted by Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, Olanipekun Larooye 11, in collaboration with State Government of Osun come August, 2012.

A LOT has been said about the = way Nigeria as a country values the works of creativity. While few individuals have respect for artists and their works, many, and especially the leaders do not have regard for works of the creative imagination and their creators.

It was on a Monday, the first working day of the week. And as expected many people would be busy in their offices or in their business places. But this day was different as the turn out recorded at the carnival Panorama, a cultural fiesta involving arts, culture and the media practitioners organised by the Lagos culture community in honour of an outstanding art patron, culture colossus, ace broadcaster and creator of the popular Television drama, The Village Headmaster, Late Ambassador Solomon Olusegun Olusola who passed on recently at 77 was a clear testimony of the fact that it is always good to be good.