The Osun State Government, through its Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding ( a category 2 Unesco Centre), in conjunction with Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), PANAFSTRAG and the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation is organising an International Conference on Slavery, Slave Trade and Their Consequences.

Art promoter and president of Art Gallery Association of Nigeria (AGAN), Chief Frank Okonta has said that better days lies ahead for emerging artists in the country if given the required exposure that would adequately position them to reap from entire new market and opportunities that abounds in world of creativity.

The UNN Robesonites, the Alumni association of UNN graduates of dramatic arts, is planning a Home Coming in October this year at the department of theatre and film studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

In its avowed bid to maintain the standard and entertain her numerous subscribers, MNET, the producers of TINSEL, the glamorous soap opera which premiered in September 2008 and has grown in popularity all over the continent, last Thursday launched Season 3 of the popular T.V. show.

Forty scientists and 92 foreign and home based playwrights are competing for this year’s pre-eminent prizes in literature and science – The Nigeria Prizes for Science and The Nigeria Prize for Literature.