Oliver Enwonwu is an artist and the son of late world-renowned artist and sculptor , Prof Ben Enwonwu. Though relatively young, he has seen it all in arts. He is the founder and executive director, The Ben Enwonwu Foundation, member, Advisory Board, The Art Exchange Limited, CEO, Revilo, an art publishing company, director, Omenka Gallery, founder and editor, Omenka Magazine.

AMADIOHA (god of thunder) belongs to the category or group of divinities which is said to manifest the wrath of the Supreme Being, and they symbolize the thunderbolt or the meteorite stone with which God hurls to strike to death the wicked or evil doers.

Worried by the series of social problems associated with the greed of many leaders in the country, a new play that intends to address some of those issues will soon hit the book -shelves. The new play titled, Edge of the Brink , written by Ifechi Jane Odoe chronicles how Chidi, one of those persons on the lowest social ladder survives all the odds a rotten society throws at him to find himself in the corridors of power but fail to do the right thing. He and his cohorts instead of turning things around, they join the band cult of selfish leaders, who continue to deepen the wounds of bad leadership.

Renowned art collector and founder of OYASAF, Yemisi Shyllon has lampooned Nigeria leaders for their general ineptitude towards the development and growth of visual art in the country.

Chase Magazine, an international crime oriented magazine hit the news stand in 2009 and ever since then the magazine which has as its mission to publish in-depth investigative news and features without fear or favour, with a view to promoting social transformation for the qualitative development of a crime free society has been toiling it out in the arduous task in the publishing industry.

South Africa’s Sifizo Mzobe last Saturday clinched the Award for the fourth edition of Wole Soyinka(WS) Prize for Literature in Africa organized by Lumina Foundation.

It was indeed a beauty to watch as art patrons, artists, promoters and others converged at Quintessence Gallery, Falomo, Lagos for the first of its kind exhibition by Swedish based artists and founder of Modernafricanart , Lande Anjous-Zygmunt as she brought her wealth of experience to the country in a solo exhibition tagged African on the floor, an exhibition of special artistic painted rugs. The exhibition which opened last Saturday with the launch of a book by the artist titled Africa on the floor: A new Voice and Medium for Contemporary African Art will run till 22nd of September, 2012.

Africa is faced with series of security challenges at present,which many believe there is no end to it, but it is also re-assuring to note that a number of people still believe solutions to many of the challenges are not as distant as they seem. Such people believe that if every individual especially the leaders do the right thing, the story will be a lot better.

Renowned art collector and founder of OYASAF, Yemisi Shyllon has lampooned Nigeria leaders for their general ineptitude towards the development and growth of visual art in the country. Adedoyin Shyllon made this call in a paper he presented at the 2012 AGM of the Society of Nigerian Artists recently held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

As part of its social and cultural responsibility to positively promote, through a wide range of academic, cultural, private sector, professional, and sports exchange programs thereby, encouraging the youths to engage in meaningful activities, the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has made plans to sponsor musicians from 21 countries, including Nigeria, who will travel to the United States to engage audiences in Main Street America through Cultural Diplomacy.