The dearth of books is a major contributor to the decline in education in the country. The rare sight of books has even created strangeness between books and people.

Media professionals report, but are rarely heard or have their views reported. In this piece, TUNJI AJIBADE, writes on an event that provided reporters and editors with an opportunity to air their views on the state of the nation with regards to security challenges, under the International Literacy Day theme: Literacy For Peace.

IN its determined bid to rejuvenate the culture of theatre in Nigeria by creating opportunities and platforms for performing artists to exhibit their talents and advance their skills, Beeta Universal Arts Foundation (BUAF) in partnership with Terra Kulture penultimate Sunday at Terra Kulture hosted theatre lovers with the command performance of Barclays Ayakoruma’s Castles in the Air.

A first timer at the Bogobiri compound is sure to immediately feel African. Subsequently, the individual is thrown into deep meditation on the dept of dexterity of the artists who created the decors which added radiance to the entire environ. That is the New Nimbus Art Gallery now occupying a space at the Bogobiri House Ikoyi Lagos.

Essentially, The Global Villager: Bamanga Tukur is a literary autography as Eddie Aderinokun himself has subtitled it. The literary spices are obvious even in the central narrative. Those literary elements are laced with philosophical musings characteristic of virtually all Aderinokun writings.