Tony Esijolomi Afejuku, Professor of English and Literature, University of Benin; Poet and Critic; former National Treasurer, Association of Nigerian Authors; former Chairman, Association of Nigerian Authors, Edo-Delta Branch; former Vice Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Uniben Branch; frontline Itsekiri Activist in this interview with arts editor, McPhilips Nwachukwu examined the socio-cultural violence in the region of the Niger Delta and by extension, the entire nation. Speaking from the stand point of a poet and culture scholar, he spoke as frankly as ever.

Musical Songstress, now popularly addressed by her colleagues as Her Excellency is not yet done with entertainment and the Entertainment Industry.

By Yomi  Awelewa  The comedy industry in Nigeria recently got a boost courtesy of M-Net, premium content provider for Dstv, which introduced the Comedy Club circuit. The second season of this increasingly popular show debuted a few weeks ago. Every Saturday at exactly 8pm local time, DStv viewers are now treated to a bouquet of […]

Femi Art Warehouse an art promoting outfit in its efforts geared towards taking Arts to the next level during the last Easter holidays organised an art exhibition tagged; Easter Artfest. The four day programme with the theme: Promoting African Art and Cultural Heritage kicked off on 2nd of April and ended on the 5th at Muri Okunola Park in Victoria Island.

AT last, the planned maiden edition of the 1st African Art Auction by Nike Art and Culture Foundation held last Saturday on the ground flour of the gallery at Lekki. The Nike organized art auction came in the heels of other auctions conducted by ArtHouse Contemporary and Tribes Art Gallery

Today at the main Auditorium Gallery of the University of Lagos, a historic traveling exhibition titled, Benin: 1897.com packaged around the historic plundering of the rich treasures of the ancient city of Benin by the British invading forces will be kick started by His Royal Highness, Prince Edun Akenzua, the Enogie of Obazuwa.

It will be a great responsibility squarely placed on the Nigerian artists head but the ministry of arts and culture bears the full responsibility of holding up the neck on the shoulders.

AFTER his last successful exhibition titled, An Exhibition of World Class Painting at Thought Pyramid Centre for African Arts and Kulture, Abuja in 2008, Zinno Orara, the Painter is back again with another exhibition that attempts to offer solutions to series of disagreements in the world.

The high rate of child abuse and corporal punishment in the country has been attributed to lack of awareness on the part of the government, parents, guardians and teachers. Despite the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, many States and not only in Africa still use corporal punishment as the only way to disciplining children.

Able Poet, journalist and sports administrator, Eddie Aderinokun has joined the league of septuagenarian citizens, who are privileged to recount their long tortuous journey to adulthood.

The current government’s policy to launder the image of the country through the re branding efforts of Former Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili received a boost penultimate week at the Oranmiyan Hall of Airport Hotel, Ikeja with the public presentation of a book, Nigeria: A Harvest of Nature, an illustrative compendium on Nigeria written by Engr. Adamu Ajunam, an engineer who works in Julius Berger PLC.

The decision of the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan ,to sack members of the Executive Council of the Federal,(EXCOF), as a way of appointing new federal officers, who, according to former Information and Communication Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, will help to inject new blood into the national governance business is a very welcome development to the entire ministries ; and most especially, to the culture and tourism ministry.

Quintessential poet, scholar, culture activist and social commentator, Odia Ofeimun is indeed a very phenomenal character. Like his friend, former Ekiti State gubernatorial aspirant under the platform of Action Congress, AC, Dr Kayode Fayemi would remark about him, “Odia’s life as a great man, like music has a way of inspiring us.”

IT was a hilarious moment last week when snow wearing hair styled Africa’s first noble laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka surprised everybody, when he stated that he failed in his duty as a teacher by not converting Odia Ofeimun to the culture of wine drinking

As part of the objectives of Nike Art and Culture Foundation to play home to numerous forms of artistic expression, the magnificent art centre owned by renowned textile artist and painter, Oyenike Davies Okundaye located in Lekki Roundabout in Lekki, Lagos last week played host to many art and culture lovers courtesy of her first exhibition of the year entitled- Timeless Energy: An Exhibition of Painting and Mixed- media by Zibor Moses.