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  • Glo-sponsored Ofala starts with Arts Exhibition

    The commercial city of Onitsha is agog as the 2018  Ofala Festival, sponsored by  Globacom, kicked off  with  Oraeze  International Arts Exhibition.

    Over 100 artists from Nigeria and the Diaspora are participating in the Exhibition which will run through the period of the festival. The festival will also feature Youth Carnival for the youth age-grade competitions which will be held on October 5, and the Ofala and Azu Ofala festivals which come up by weekend.

    Globacom, in a statement, expressed its delight for sponsoring the festival  for eight years running, adding that the company had enjoyed “the privilege of partnering with the Onitsha Palace as the  official sponsor of the age-long Ofala Festival following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Onitsha people in 2011”.

    Globacom assured lovers of Nigerian culture and tradition of a rich and delightful entertainment.

    As part of activities lined up for the  Ofala  and Azu Ofala  festivals, Onitsha sons and daughters and other dignitaries will converge at the Ime Obi, Onitsha palace ground where they will be addressed by the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, Agbogidi.

    “In addition to the usual activities, Globacom will host a grand Royal Banquet in honour of the Agbogidi on Monday, October 8, at the Dolly Hills Hotel, Onitsha, during which different mouth-watering prizes will be presented to the winners of the various age-grade competitions held in the course of the festival”, the statement added.

    Globacom disclosed further that it “remains focused on our promise of making Ofala Onitsha the biggest festival ever in Black Africa. For the 2018 edition of the festival, participants and tourists who will be part of the celebrations stand the chance of winning several fantastic prizes at the Globacom pavilion within the Ime Obi”.

    Globacom has added colour and grandeur to the Ofala festival celebrations since the commencement of the sponsorship in 2011. The company recently signed an agreement to extend the sponsorship to 2019.

  • Glo-sponsored Prof. Johnbull  seeks true love in courtship

    Glo-sponsored Prof. Johnbull  seeks true love in courtship

    This week on “Professor Johnbull”, the TV drama series sponsored by Globacom, the need for appropriate behaviour and conduct for young folks in love relationship or courtship takes centre stage.

    Entitled Meal Ticket, the new episode takes viewers on a voyage in moral lesson for would-be couples as the omniscient Professor Johnbull, the lead character in the Series, played by the Nollywood veteran, Kanayo O. Kanayo, KOK,  gives a homily on the ideal courtship.

    In the episode, Jumoke (Bidemi Kosoko), dumps her boyfriend, Flash (Stephen Odimgba) for insolvency and goes after an impostor, who drives a car owned by another girlfriend. The bubble burst on them when the girlfriend finds out that her parasitic lover boy has been feeding off her and abandons him to Jumoke.

    Meal Ticket dramatizes a typical courtship in which the female partners see and regard their male friends as their ATM machine who should be responsible for all their needs, lock, stock and barrel, without any intention of becoming independent and responsible self-worth ladies.

    Conversely, the episode presents the flip side, where some young men, whom Professor Johnbull describes as “fine-boy-six-packs with no ambition to be responsible” take undue advantage of innocent hardworking and generous ladies to feed off them all in the name of love.

     

     

  • Glo-sponsored Professor Johnbull kicks against stigmatisation of ex-prisoners

    This week’s episode of TV drama series, Professor Johnbull, sponsored by national telecommunications company Globacom will be focusing on stigmatisation and discrimination against ex-convicts and people living with HIV and other diseases.

    Titled Stigma, the programme, which comes up on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV Channel 251 and NTA on StarTimes at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday enjoys the society to put an end to stigmatisation of ex-convicts. It also calls for timely and proper integration of ex-convicts to the community so that they will not return to the vices that led them to the prison in the first place.

    The erudite Professor, Nollywood’s Kanayo O. Kanayo, KOK, elaborates on the usefulness of having a reformatory prison system for ex-convicts as well as the need for robust public enlightenment campaign on how they can also be useful to the society if fully integrated.

    KOK, who advises people not see people living with HIV as outcasts, also urges every citizen to make conscious efforts to know his HIV status, adding that “there is no ordinary crime as every crime has a devastating effect”.

    A repeat broadcast of the programme comes up on Friday at 8.30 pm on the same TV channels.

  • Glo-sponsored African Voices to feature Nigerian scientist

    Glo-sponsored African Voices to feature Nigerian scientist

    The Glo-sponsored African Voices will come up this weekend on CNN International with renowned Nigerian female scientist, Professor Francisca Nnenna Okeke, as the star guest on the programme.

    A Professor of Physics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Okeke was the first woman to head the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2003 to 2006 and was the first female Professor of Physics in the Eastern part of Nigeria. She was again the first female Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2008 to 2010, and the first indigenous female Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the university.

    The television magazine programme, which runs for 30 minutes on CNN International, will be aired at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday and at 4.30 a.m., 12.30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.

    Viewers can also watch the show during the repeat broadcasts on Monday at 3:30 a.m., 11.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., on Tuesday at 5.30 a.m. and on Wednesday at 10.30 a.m.

    The research professor has contributed immensely to the development of Physics at both secondary and tertiary levels in Nigeria and has conducted many workshops.

    She has written a number of Physics text books and articles that have enhanced the teaching and learning of Physics at both secondary and tertiary levels in Nigeria. She has written many articles that  encouraged girls to study Physics in the country.

    Her passion for Physics and Science began at an early age and this was principally because of her father’s efforts to ensure his children were well educated. She is reputed for her dedicated and painstaking commitment to academic research over the past twenty-four years, and this has resulted in her significant contributions to  geomagnetism and equatorial electrojet (EEJ) phenomena.

    Viewers of African Voices will learn how her academic contributions in her areas of research have immensely helped in simplifying the understanding of rather complex phenomena, and how this has consequently led to a better understanding of geomagnetic and EEJ phenomena.

    Professor Okeke has won several awards in recognition of her contributions to research. Among the awards are: visiting research fellow to University of Natal, Durban, South Africa in 1998, the fellowship international Award as (FJSPS) to University of Tokyo, Japan, from 1999 to 2000, Visiting Associate to CPTEC Brazil, Research visits to Harvard Smithsonian Centre, Cambridge, USA, 2004 and Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA, 2003.