ALL is now set for the annual Ijakadi Day Festival which comes up on December 26, 2011.

In Nigeria today, National museum has become one of the important tourist centres for both the nationals and foreigners, old and young, the literate and illiterate.

Jonathan Murray Bruce is an Executive Director at Silverbird. In this interview, he spoke about the cinema business of the Silverbird Group and how it tries to expand the business in other to attain global standard.

Obari Gomba of the University of Port Harcourt in an essay titled; Power As Motif in Aniebo’s Rearguard Actions quoted popular theorist and polemicist, Chinweizu as saying that,” it must be a strange war indeed, which fails to produce literature.”

The book “Sin of the Father” is a social satire that mirrored a typical Nigerian society with its tendency to beautify wealthy people, especially the wealth- without-source folks who are ready to throw it around and buy anything they want including the leadership and even the clergy.

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation Agency, NOA, High Chief Edem Duke has declared October 22nd to 29th, this year to kick off the nationally celebrated National Arts Festival (NAFEST) slated to hold in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital.

What is the place of women in the Nigerian film industry? How much has the industry helped in the empowerment of the womenfolk? Is it that the women have been portrayed in a bad light or that, they are made to be victims of systematic discrimination and stereotypes in Nollywood?

The Entrepreneurial Revolution” by Peter Osalor is a 212- page book that explores the growing phenomenon of entrepreneurial activity, particularly its potential for reducing poverty in Nigeria and similar countries. The author has brought into focus in a simple , straight forward but candid and lucid manner, a message that should provoke every public policy maker, business owner, student and donor to act.

A team from the National Troupe left Nigeria for Israel last week to be part of a one week long theatre festival. The team comprises the Artistic Director, Mr. Martin Adaji, the guest director Professor, Segun Ojewuyi , three actors sourced from the theatre community and three crew members including a stage manager and technical director.

The Nigerian artist is ready for the ‘international market, but he needs to web his domestic commercial environment and create a local market for his productions.