After her first solo exhibition in 2006 titled, Patterns of Life that tried to draw the attention of the female folk on the need to catch up with others in the events of life, one of Nigeria’s female studio artists that is bent on making a statement in the male dominated art world, Chinyere Ofodile Okanume is out again with another solo exhibition titled Beyond Bound, an exhibition of paintings, oil on canvas, mixed media with fine stones, fabrics and native mat.

For one week beginning from March 23rd to April 1, Lagos will welcome men,women and children from all races, histories, and cultures, in her mission to animate the past, celebrate the present, and illuminate the future as it opens the biggest festival in Lagos State otherwise known as the Black Heritage Festival 2013 edition.

Today, this Column is taking time off from politics and all the associated issues of corruption, to treat our esteemed audience to the profile of a great personality who, if we were asked, would be the Column’s nominee to lead the crusade against corruption, injustice and other social vices in which Nigeria is totally immersed.

In an event well attended by mostly, Lagos Literati, 77 year old British journalist, Kaye Whiteman, was the centre of attraction as the writer and former editor of the West Africa magazine, was last Thursday, hosted by the Committee for Relevant Arts (CORA).

Utimanik Suites, Grace Bill Road, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State, will on March 30, play host to lovers of literature and the state’s Literati as one of Nigeria’s budding authors Godwin Ekpe launches his two poetry books.

The 1998 graduate of Geology from the University of Calabar who also holds a Masters in Geophysics from the University of Port Harcourt, with the release of The Mirror of Self and The Soul of a Poet has ventured into the deep world of poetry.