THE fiction that Okpe owned Sapele is now jettisoned. The writers demonstrate, without doubt ,that the present Sapele town is first settled in by Isekiri people, and that the Okpe came in later through Isekiri largesse. With incontrovertible evidence ,they date the arrival of the first Isekiri in Sapele to 700AD; Okpe, 1780. Isekiri visited Sapele for the following reasons:

The theme Horizon of Hope was chosen for the 2011 Life in My City Art Festival (LIMCAF) with the intent that young Nigerian artists will give visual interpretations to the socio-cultural, economic and political situations of their immediate environment. This theme has a broad view and allowed artists to express themselves on almost any subject matter they may choose to engage.

If one takes out the treatise on FIDITI GRAMMAR SCHOOL, from the biographical book, the remainder becomes peculiar to Deacon Ojelabi and to him alone. But with FIDIGRAMS added to it, the horizon widens on the character and personality of Chief Ojelabi as a tutor and mentor.

Battery Dance Company, a New York based dynamic cultural institution with global sensibility penultimate week held an exhilarating dance show at the New CBAAC Hall, National Theatre, Lagos.

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s fifth and latest novel published by Jalaa Writers’ Collective, Lagos, in 2011 holds a memorable title, Roses and Bullets, and a picturesque front cover. The stout 518-page narrative presented in four segments is based on Nigeria’s most nightmarish post-colonial experience.