It was a very big relief to many especially those that have been battling with one illness or the other as a new health book that provides solutions to myriads of problems facing the average Nigerian was presented to the public last week in Lagos.

THE Niger Delta Youth Movement, NDYM, Middle Belt Youth League, MBYL and Ogoni Solidarity Forum, OSF in collaboration with the Ogoni Economic Forum, OEF, said, yesterday, it was set to launch a book in honour of late Ken Saro Wiwa. The book launch is to be held in conjunction with his 72ndmemorial lecture in Lagos.

At last, the much talked about unique exhibition by the artistic and harmonious family of painters, Emmanuel and Angela Isiuwe kicked off at the Didi Museum, located in Victoria Island, Lagos. The exhibition which is coming after ten years of the couple’s last exhibition tagged Our World Human and Equestrian Life.

Etisalat Nigeria has assembled a strong panel of judges for the maiden edition of its pan-African prize for literature tagged “Etisalat Prize for Literature.” The panel of four is chaired by Pumla Gqola, an associate professor in the department of African Literature at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Gqola is one of South Africa’s most influential public intellectuals and feminists. She is the author of What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa and A Renegade Called Simphiwe.

According to Elizabeth Taylor, the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, the prize is awarded yearly in two categories, fiction and non-fiction, to books that are concerned with American issues, causes and concerns. “We loved Americanah . It’s a powerful, resonant novel and we would be delighted to celebrate it and try to share it with a wider audience,” Taylor wrote.