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.

By Tony E. Afejuku You come floating In the wind of my mind – You come floating Quick, light and gay – You and your drums Of love This night, Like last night’s, Of distant beating Of drums of war And love for Fatherland and motherland Despoiled by desponds of land-thieves. I’m hearing and listening […]

The Yusuf Grillo Pavilion in Ikorodu will on April 3 celebrate the contemporary Nigerian art icon, Dr Bruce Onobrakpeya, as it’s star artist.

They say that teachers rewards are in heaven. But the state of the economy and the way teachers are neglected in Nigeria have forced many teachers to reject that promised heavenly promise by insisting to have their rewards here on earth.

It was another scintillating and stimulating evening last week for the numerous visitors, classic music lovers and members of the Musical Society of Nigeria ,MUSON family as Rivers state born and London based ,Victoria Ekenta Oruwari accompanied by Tunde Sosan thrilled them in Suprano concert at the Agip Recital Hall of the Muson centre Lagos in shows tagged “An Enchanting Evening with Victoria Oruwari.”

Nigeria is paradise,” says Italian born, Pietro Evangelista. My goodness, is he from a different planet? For crying out loud, this is a country that’s steeped in turmoil, turbulence and trauma. Why would any rational, normal, logical thinking human being remotely imagine that Nigeria is paradise, or anywhere in Africa for that matter? For decades, perhaps even centuries, Africa has been perceived as the melting pot of negativity.

Recently, a specialized celebrities magazine, Nigerian TopLeaders International hosted its first International Conference and Awards in Accra-Ghana where people from various fields turned out enmasse. The publisher, Aminu Oyarekhua, spoke about the significance of the event and future plans of his organization.