In what looks like a dramatic come back to her first love, Funmi Ogbogu, daughter of renowned artists Ernest Azubuike Emdim, aka Negro Arts recently opened a new art gallery for business. The Micro Biology graduate of University of Benin who claims that art flows in her family disclosed that she opened the gallery in order to meet the demands of many art collectors in Nigeria especially those in Lagos mainland.

Nike Davies Okundaye is arguably one of the most popular artists in the Nigerian art scene. She is the founder of Nike Centre for art and culture, an art centre committed to the promotion and development of Nigerian art and culture.

Obu Udeozo, poet, painter and Clinical Psychologist is a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Jos. He is the publisher of landmark critical intervention on the third wave of Nigerian poetry titled, Garderners of Dream. In this interview, he speaks about the project that took him so much time and about other sundry issues. He spoke to McPhilips Nwachukwu.

National Institute for Cultural Orientation’s (NICO) bid to actualising its aim of harnessing Nigeria’s cultural resources to meeting the challenges of social integration, peace, unity and national development got a boost last week when it matriculated about seventy students into its 2012/2013 Diploma and post graduate Diploma programmes.

IT was another weekend of entertainment last week as theatre lovers in and around Lagos were held spell bound with plethora of performances that cut across a number of unconventional spaces in the city of Lagos during the Lagos theatre festival 2013.