The event which begins with a street carnival by 7am at the Carnival route, Area 1 to Area 10, NNPC road, Eagle Square, Abuja is organised as part of activities marking the 50th birthday of the Nation.The official opening ceremony is by 4pm at same centre.

Mr. Abdul Oroh is the Edo State Commissioner for Arts and Culture In this interview with GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE in Benin, explained why EDOFEST earlier scheduled to hold this year has been shifted to next year. He also disclosed the Edo State government’s plan to establish the Oba Ovonramwn N’gbasi Musuem and Cultural Centre as one way to immortalising the achievements of that great African ruler; especially in his war against colonialism.

M-Net, premium entertainment content provider for MultiChoice’s DStv, has always prided itself as ‘the home of magic’. That ascription has made one wonder from time to time, what justification is there in the claim? There seems to be one thousand and one reasons M-Net defines itself home of magic, but a clear one that rings a bell is its music talent-search reality show, now named Glo Naija Sings after the signing of a mouth-watering three-year deal with Nigeria’s indigenous telecommunication giant, Globacom.

Poet Omo Uwaifo does not beat about the bush. He goes to the heart of the matter, making every word to count. He does not dance around the subject, as he admits, “I cannot afford the luxury of the young who probably would have chosen to hope and wait for politicians to find the courage to tell them what the problems are and what they plan on doing to fix them.”

Nigerian Theatre has remained a myth, or at best, a mirage. We saw it coming, then it was not there. Truly Nigerian Theatre died with the Rat Race, poverty and lack of education will not allow Theatre to take root in Nigeria especially after independence.

A specter is haunting Africa-the specter of identity-crisis. The sons and daughters of the Mother Continent have over the centuries been brutally severed from their roots through a series of Western-oriented programmes and a history of a systematic agenda of cultural genocide that has plunged the mass of African humanity into a current state of inauthentic existence and the corresponding episode of soul-searching in the hope to once again come to grips with the African self and reality.

For Nubia House Arts School, the training platform of Nubia House productions limited, the producers of the popular TV soap opera, Private Sector, Saturday, October 16, 2010 marked a significant water shed in the school’s history as three major events were celebrated.

Delta State Cultural troupe which performed to a rapturous audience during the celebration of Nigeria’s golden anniversary at Tokyo, the Japanese capital, returned a few days ago to Asaba with tales of pleasant experiences. The 30-member contingent that comprised 20 staff of the performing arts division of DSCAC and 10 officials drawn from the Directorate of Culture and Tourism, and Delta State Tourism Board.

AN exhibition featuring four foremost and apparently oldest visual artists in Nigeria opened penultimate week at TERRA Kulture, Victoria Island as part of activities that marked the nation’s 50th anniversary.

Last week at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suit, Lagos, where the Management of Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas, NLNG in collaboration with the National Gallery of Arts, NGA inducted about 21 Nigerians including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, Ladi Kwale, Fela Ransome Kuti into the National Hall of Fame, late brilliant theatre scholar, poet and playwright, Esiaba Irobi beat LNG laurate, Ahmed Yerima and Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba to win the 2010 LNG literary prize for drama to the tune of $50,000.