The Ikom Monoliths are a group of stone sculptures found in small area around Ikom in Cross River State of Nigeria, inhabited by Ekoi people who live in scattered villages. The stone monoliths are known variously as Akwanshi or Atal or Alaptal.

For the master story teller, Onuora Nzekwu, famous writer of best-selling novel,Eze Goes to School, it was all accolades last week at the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) Hall, National Theatre Complex Lagos, when friends, family members, colleagues and government representatives joined him in a triple celebration of life as well as a sterling come back to the business of writing , fifty one years after his novel, Wand of Nobel Wood.

Last year, a synergy started well with the participation of Trinidad and Tobago in the 2011 edition of Abuja Carnival with the presentation of Steelband, a symbol of that country’s popular annual carnival to the Government of Nigeria.

Vanguard Sunday Art recently ran into Melinda Akinlami, the present presenter of Art House, a popular art and culture programme is one of the defining and remarkable programmes from the rich bouquet of Channel Televisions. She shares her experiences on how she has been able to sustain and improve on the reporting of Art House in the last seven years.

It is virtually impossible to predict what Victor Ehikhamenor will do next. From getting repatriated home (to Nigeria) on the team of Next, the newspaper that was to fulfil the integrity yearnings of the idealist Nigerian, as a Creative Director, he morphs to being a big player in new Media publishing with Zazugist.com. Best known as a roving visual artist albeit based in the United States, he is to the arts a natural, as comfortable with the pen as with the scapula. Chatting with Sunday Vanguard over lunch, he tells the reasons why he thinks pidgin English has come of age.