The Embassy of Switzerland will, this Friday, organise a world-class Jazz concert at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

The event, according to a statement issued yesterday, in Abuja, by the Embassy of Switzerland, would have two top bands - the acclaimed “Squeeze Band”, representing

Not many things can be done successfully without passion. The Fulani poet, Kabura Zakama should know, and he showed much of it, at the October edition of Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF’s) Guest Writer Session. “My first effort at writing poems was an attempt to express my feelings; so many of the poems you find in this book are very personal. When you read them, you read part of my life,” was how Dr Zakama began when he took the ‘hot seat’  at the Pen and Pages venue of the event in Abuja. The personal angle to his works proved as an issue many in the audience would take up. But the usual AWF treats had preceded the guest writers’ interaction with his listeners.

The Project Director of the Most Beautiful Girl in Abuja (MBGA) pageant, Ejiro Okipihwo, has said that the pageant was targeted at keeping Nigerian girls off the streets. Okipihwo, who is also the CEO, Dolce entertainment, stated this while briefing newsmen on the just concluded event, in Abuja

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For many of us arts managers, the choice of plays is extremely critical to our survival. Many of us always lose sight of this factor and sometimes it can be the beginning of the end of our dream. When Michael Kaiser got to the Kennedy Centre at the beginning of this decade, he had a deficit of almost $40m starring him in the face. His first point of call was in the area of programming.