Category: Entertainment

The calendar of events for the 2017 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) in partnership with the African Union will be formally opened on Tuesday, May 2 at a joint AUC-AFRIMA cultural conference to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2017 entry submission timeline for the prestigious continental awards will also be revealed at the joint conference expected to have in attendance AU officials, members of the International Committee of AFRIMA, past AFRIMA winners and nominees from Southern African, South Africa government officials, media executives in Southern Africa and other stakeholders in the creative/entertainment industry in Africa. Speaking…

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Woman Rising, the annual celebration of women through Music, Arts and Networking returns on April 8 and 9, 2017 in a two-day extravaganza in its usual extension of the annual celebration of International Women’s Day. Now in its seventh year, WOMAN RISING has evolved from a small 50-person gathering which debuted in 2011 to a comprehensive, far-reaching and impactful annual 2-day meeting of women across the creative and business spectrums alike – attracting over 500 women cumulatively. Our 2017 ensemble will feature Adunni Nefertiti (all-female acapella folk group), Kaline, amazing…

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New gift to the movie industry Prisca Umoru has come to shine as one of the up and coming fast rising actresses in the African biggest entertainment industry called Nollywood in 2017. The pretty and petite talented actress is so passionate about the movie industry and her undying love for acting has been her propelling force since she fell in love with Nollywood from her tender age. Simply called Prisca, is the first born out of three children, to her late parents Mr. & Mrs. Umoru, from Edo state, precisely…

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Most recent evicted housemates at the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality TV show, Offiong Edet Anthony (Thin Tall Tony), visited Heritage Bank Corporate Communication office in Lagos over the weekend. Thin Tall Tony as he is famously addressed and Omobolaji Mogaji, Media Sales Executives at Multichoice stormed the bank’s office in Victoria Island where Fela Ibidapo, Group Head, Corporate Communications, Heritage Bank Plc and his team welcomed them. The tall lanky light skinned Tony was evicted penultimate Sunday after spending eight weeks in the house, thus becoming the seventh housemate to be evicted.…

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  In line with the mission of Empower Africa Initiative, EAI founded by Nigeria-born International TV host, Prof Princess Halliday, personalities from all over the world will be converging in Washington, United States of America in August 2017 for a summit on women and leadership in Africa.  Halliday, in a press statement to commemorate the 2017 International Day of Women, disclosed that the event, World African Women Leaders Forum and Honours (WAWLF&H) will avail a platform for distinguished personalities of both genders to converge and have a developmental discourse on…

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Prince James Uche, veteran  Nollywood actor, who has been battling with Diabetes, Blindness, High Blood Pressure and kidney-related disease for about two years now is dead. The actor died yesterday afternoon  while on his way to carry out his routine dialysis in a private hospital in Festac, Lagos. The Chairman, Lagos State chapter of Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Mr. Don Pedro Aganbi confirmed the sad news. He said, the late Prince James Uche was due to travel to India this Saturday for a kidney transplant before he met his untimely death…

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In the spirit of the recently-held International Women’s Day, celebrated velvet-voiced Islamic singer, Alhaja Ruqoyaah Gawat-Oyefeso has lent her weight behind the call for the rights of women in nation building without any encumbrance. To this end, the highly spiritual singer, in collaboration with some of her like-minded friends Alhaja Tawakalitu Adunni Olorire, Hajia Monsurat Ojonla, Hajia Aishat Umuh Niyass, put together an album entitled ‘Eto Obinrin’ (Rights of Women). The album symbolically dwells on the inalienable rights of women and their girl children. This, interestingly, is in consonance with…

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The marriage between Emeka Ike, Nollywood actor, and his wife, Suzanne Emma, has been dissolved. A Lagos Island Customary Court, South West Nigeria today dissolved their 17 year-old marriage. The three-man panel presided over by Chief Awo Awosola, dissolved the marriage in a judgment following a petition filed by Suzanne. Other members of the panel of judges were: Mrs. Opeyemi Olanrewaju and Mr Kehinde Jacob Olayinka. “From all evidence before the court, the marriage between the couple had broken down, and it is irreconcilable, consequently, the marriage is hereby dissolved”,…

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