Apex Nigeria’s Gas company, Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG the sponsors of the $100,000 literature and Science prizes, last week went a step further in its commitment to encouraging creativity and writing among Nigerian youths. This, the company demonstrated in the Bonny Island of River State, where it organized a reading programme around the theme; Meet the Authour.

It was another brilliant outing last week, when the Committee for Relevant Arts, CORA, again pulled out drums to celebrate the book, arts, culture and book personalities as part of her 13th anniversary in the culture, book and art advocacy.

THE commitment of Centre for Black African Arts and Civilisation, CBAAC, to harnessing for positive Africa’s development the continent’s multicultural status is not only ambitious but also a very commending effort. However, one such attempt at realizing this vision by the leadership of the parastatal’s director, Tunde Babawale was penultimate week fraught with serious logistic challenges.

THAT clarion call for development of the Education wing of National Museum stemmed from the fact that in the past, the teaching of African Studies in our Nigerian Universities and other institutions of higher learning had been treated with levity

Fusillade of reactions have continued to trail last week’s rejection of the Nation’s National Award by world renowned writer and famous mid-wife of African literature, Professor Chinua Achebe.

OTUNBA Eddie Aderionkun is blazing another trail in the field of entertainment. On November 18th, he is bringing Nigeria’s most progressive business brains together in an attempt to get financiers for the first truly breakthrough international film directed by a Nigerian.

Recently, the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Delta State University, Abraka stormed Lagos with an exhibition tagged Visual Symphony, an exhibition of the works of lecturers and PhD students at Quintessence Gallery, Falamo, Lagos. During the exhibition Sunday arts caught up with the Head of Department of the school, Prof. Grace Ojie and she bared her mind on a wide range of issues concerning arts. Excerpts:

It was indeed a celebration of faith and victory over the devil as friends, colleagues and literary icons gathered at the banquet Hall of Excellence hotel, Ogba, Ikeja for the public presentation and launch of a book titled, “Sound of Broken Chains”, a collection of inspirational and revivalist poems…

Lack of self-empowerment principles have been noted to be responsible for students falling apart before completing their studies in school and they end up, blaming their misfortune on one reason or the other.

One of the biggest music festivals in Africa,Felaberation hosted annually, in honour of music legend and pioneer breeder of the afrobeat brand, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was held last month in Nigeria’s cultural captial of Lagos. In this excerpt taken from one of Fela’s scholars, Carlos Moore titled, The Ultimate Social Rebel published in his book; This Bitch of A Life, Vanguard arts serves our readers the freshness and vitality that define the late legend’s art.