I WASN’T expecting to win the competition. “My painting was all about the tree which stands for the law of impunity, and the land stands for the rule of law where things are meant to grow but the law of impunity just uprooted from the ground and started stepping on all those things that are meant to grow like education, economy, banks, aviation which are meant to be growing to make Nigeria better.

YES, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has given hope to the development of Art in Nigeria. So let’s design the set before we switch on the footlights. We start the countdown to ‘the Build Up’ of Nigeria’s Entertainment industry.

Culture, they say, is a way of life and that is why people go extra miles to preserve it. But in the case of Nigeria, it is a different ball game as many had abandoned theirs in preference to foreign culture in the name of modernisation.

He is noted worldwide as a fighter whose fame accrued from inflicting deadly punches and “knocking down” his opponents. He is also currently angling to emerge in the World Guinness Book of Record as the oldest man to engage in an organized boxing.

One of the greatest challenges facing the Nigerian entertainment industry is piracy. It has robbed the industry billions of Naira, in fact one of the stakeholders in the industry described the perpetrators as terrorist and that the act is more deadly than AIDS. And in line with its core mission to create and maintain a pace setting organisation by adapting technology to customers’ needs, finished with transcending excellent services, the management of Transerve Discs Technologies Limited, one of the optical discs replicating plants, registered by the Nigerian Copyright Commission, last week unveiled its new products. They are Transerve Discs’ new DVD mastering facility and DVD 5 & 9 replicating machines, glass mastering (Stamper) as well as its new anti-piracy initiative, the Job Alert Management Systems (Jams).