The Etsu of Kwali Abuja, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Shaban Audu Nizazo 111, former Governor of Yobe State and Senator of the Federal Republic, Dr. Bukar Abba Ibrahim and Professor Ebon Thomas Eshett, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology,

WHILE the live transmission of the 2nd Nigerian Bankers' Award, exclusively Vanguard, was going on at the setting of the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, calls were coming from different parts of the world acclaiming what a great event Vanguard

Jibilika Dance Contest - the first-ever versatile and prestigious dance competition's registration has begun.

Ten Zimbabwean arts journalists -- drawn from the print media, television and radio -- have been selected to take part in a rare workshop with practical approach towards writing about arts and culture.

The multi-cultural Chimanimani Arts Festival, which returned to the resort town of Chimanimani on Independence Day after a four-year break, had an overdose of music.

On his farm in Ruwa Lazarus Takawira's sculptures represent the female form in the way in which the Greeks moulded the shapes and forms of their Goddesses out of terra cotta.

Mother, friend, musician, advisor - is what the City Beat-Club Beer Party With the Stars winners found out when they met Halima Namakula and her friends at the Basement Discotheque on Friday.

LAST Sunday, the second season of Dance Africa, a show designed to unearth the best freestyle dance talent on the continent, kicked off on Channel O.

Nigeria's cultural assets ranks among the most attractive in the whole world, says the director general of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Otunba Oleusgun Runsewe.

THE Asset Forfeiture Unit yesterday obtained a preservation order in respect of a house in Cyrildene, Johannesburg, and equipment used to produce pirated music.

Virgin Mobile is inviting the public to choose who should be the opening act for 50 Cent Tour in South Africa in early-May. Send an SMS to 34977 followed by BAND and the name of your favourite local, hip-hop band.

Alkali Kamara aka Watafrico formerly of 'no question' group Tuesday expressed determination to make difference in Sierra Leone's music industry.

Kano, as a pillar of filmmaking in the north, needs to establish a film development agency because all over the world, the significance of the film industry as an engine of growth is becoming increasingly recognised. Only recently did the

Fabrice Gatete and Valence Gasangwa were the lucky winners of the first phase of the GTV's Barclays Premier League SMS competition.

Scores of youths from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Sunday cleaned up Marondera's central business district as part of community service.

As part of this year's Global Action Week (GAW), which began on Monday, the 'World's Biggest Lesson' holds today around the world, at either 4am, 8am or 3pm GMT. To make the event more meaningful, the Civil Society Action Coalition

PARENTS, teachers and pupils of Budo Junior School, which last week lost 20 pupils in a fire that gutted a dormitory, will on April 30 be counselled.

APRIL has been recognised as the National child abuse prevention month in the US and is shared by the different countries where Compassion International operates.

The United Nations Environment Programme has announced Maria Kassabian, 10 years old from Abuja, Nigeria emerges as the regional winner in the 17th Children Global Painting Competition

I ask the Lord to forgive those who were behind the Budo Junior School fire because they did not know what they were doing," were the words of Dickson Wesonga, as he buried his daughter, Melissa, who with 19 others