The great river of his life has fed many rivulets,
And earned for this unbounded gratitude;
Of our rivers he is the Nile,
Leisurely in its flow and steadfast,
Serving myriads on its timeless course.

The conception was fortuitous, the gestation brief, the birth pangs spasmodic, the delivery somewhat fraught; but nothing in this anxiety-laden process foreshadowed the excitement of the audience on seeing the new baby on stage at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, on October 14, 2010.

Exactly one month after he was inducted into the NNLG Hall of Fame by the Nigerian Academy of Letters, (NAL) Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina died last week in the United States of Americas at the age of 77.

Popular song star, Stella Monye of Oko Mi fame is no doubt a polyvalent artists. Apart from her very ambitious 1000 mics women empowerment NGO that aspires to change the musical career of Nigerian women artists, Monye, also recently added fashion brand to her large and growing creative talent through the introduction of a cloth line called, Samba Clothes. In this interview the Delta State born artist spoke to arts on Sunday about her new found pet.

Against all odds, the four year old, Life in My City festival last month held in the coal city of Enugu; and from a ll candid estimations, the show came out stronger both in organization and in the quality of works that scaled through regional contests held across the federation to make for the national grand finale that held at Nike Lake Hotel, Enugu.

The month of November is a very bad month for the people of the Niger Delta States of Nigeria. It was the month in which in 1995 that vibrant writer and environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa was murdered by the dictators of the Nigerian State. Since after that primitive wasting of a creative voice, the Nigerian literary community has decided to honour the month of November as some kind of memorial in honour of the departed writer.

On July 1, 2010, MNet premiered Studio 53 Extra, a programme focused on the glitzy and glamourous side of Africa. If the earlier incarnation of the show invoked Indiana Jones, this one was undoubtedly all Naomi Campbell. Movie premieres, the runway and album launches are some of the events one tends to see on this show.

Bilkisu Abubakar is one Northern Nigeria female writer, who has employed the tool of creative writing in engaging the discourse of religion, gender and polygamy in the predominantly Islamic North. In this conversation with United States of Americas based literary scholar and writer, Unoma Azuah, how she has successfully done this with her two novels :To Live Again and The Woman in Me.

Centre for Human Development (CHD), organizers of a writing competition to mark Ford Foundation’s 50 years existence in Nigeria with the theme: Nigerian Women: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, had their reasons when they invited University of Lagos lecturer and award-winning author, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, as the Chairperson for the award ceremony.

Political office holders in Nigeria are fond of travelling abroad. When it gets to the extreme with some of them, the media say they are junketing around the world. What provokes the majority of the people is not the amount of money usually expended on the trips. They are particularly angry that the leaders do not care to replicate some of the good things they see and enjoy abroad when they return home.

The 2010 edition of the October Rain, an exhibition of art and design objects to celebrate Nigeria at 50 organised by the Society of Nigerian Artists, Lagos in collaboration with Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN) ended recently in a grand style at the Nike Art Center Lekki, Lagos writes
Japhet Alakam.

The event which begins with a street carnival by 7am at the Carnival route, Area 1 to Area 10, NNPC road, Eagle Square, Abuja is organised as part of activities marking the 50th birthday of the Nation.The official opening ceremony is by 4pm at same centre.

Mr. Abdul Oroh is the Edo State Commissioner for Arts and Culture In this interview with GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE in Benin, explained why EDOFEST earlier scheduled to hold this year has been shifted to next year. He also disclosed the Edo State government’s plan to establish the Oba Ovonramwn N’gbasi Musuem and Cultural Centre as one way to immortalising the achievements of that great African ruler; especially in his war against colonialism.

M-Net, premium entertainment content provider for MultiChoice’s DStv, has always prided itself as ‘the home of magic’. That ascription has made one wonder from time to time, what justification is there in the claim? There seems to be one thousand and one reasons M-Net defines itself home of magic, but a clear one that rings a bell is its music talent-search reality show, now named Glo Naija Sings after the signing of a mouth-watering three-year deal with Nigeria’s indigenous telecommunication giant, Globacom.

Poet Omo Uwaifo does not beat about the bush. He goes to the heart of the matter, making every word to count. He does not dance around the subject, as he admits, “I cannot afford the luxury of the young who probably would have chosen to hope and wait for politicians to find the courage to tell them what the problems are and what they plan on doing to fix them.”