During the just concluded Lagos Book and Art Festival held at the National Theatre , Lagos, five Nigerian contemporary artists, Washington Uba (photo-artist), Soibifaa Dokubo (photo-artist), Jude Anogwih (video artist), Emeka Ogbor (video artist), and Jelili Atiku (video and performance artist) in an exhibition titled; Express Ver-bis ,presented a social and politically motivated issues during the festival’s visual art section.

The continued search for ways of harnessing the media for the purpose of cultural promotion being pioneered by the Barclays Ayakoroma led National Institute for Cultural Orientation held its third leg workshop for art and culture editors and writers at the Merit House, Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama , Abuja last week.

After successful hosting of series of exhibition in the nation’s seat of power, Abuja, Thoughts Pyramid Art Gallery, one of the leading art galleries in Abuja as part of its mission to exhibiting works of deep cultural and historical depths will from the 2nd to the 10th of December, 2010 awaken the sensibilities of art connoisseurs with another heart thrilling exhibition tagged, TIES : An exhibition of Paintings and Mixed Media.

Many epochal things happen in Nigeria, and somehow the people forget because the events have not been recorded for posterity. The lack of documentation leads to the cavalier attitude to affairs of state. There are no ready references to bring to bear on the activities of the leaders.

The ant eaters; a collection of rants and anthems; by ‘Kufre Ekanem; Kraft Books Limited, Ibadan; October 2010

After a controversial outing in Big Brother Africa 2, BBA2, where she emerged first runner up, Ofunneka Molokwu has put aside the scandals that almost smeared a good representation of Nigeria’s image and is dedicating her life in service to humanity.

There are different ways to brand a country in a very positive way. One of the ways, I think is the River State way. The institutionalization of a culture of literacy through reading campaigns; a campaign that has resulted in the birth of an international literary festival, which now holds in the beautiful garden city of Port Harcourt.

The novel, Things fall apart, continues to be a reference point to African crisis. And as its writer, Africa’s foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, marks his 80th birthday, which began well before his November 16 birthday, commentators the world over have been using the title of the novel, written to depict the colonial impact on Africa, to describe present Nigerian/African crises as tributes to Achebe.

Today, Saturday, November 20, at Abalti Barracks, Ojuelegba, Surulere, Imo indigenes in Lagos under the aegis of Imo State Towns Development Association(ISTDAL) mark this year’s Imo Day/cultural carnival of 50 cultural troupe.

As the 5th edition of the Lagos based ArtHouse Contemporary kicks off on Monday 22nd, November, 2010 at five star event venue, the Civic Centre, one troubled issue concerning the debate about the inclusion of photography as one component of the nation’s contemporary art, would have been solved permanently.