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  • Onyeka Onwenu for NEBA’s Entertainment Extravaganza

    Onyeka Onwenu for NEBA’s Entertainment Extravaganza

    AS this year’s edition of the Nigerian Elite Business Awards (NEBA) takes place on Saturday, November 9, organisers have announced its fusion with a gala nite, tagged Entertainment Extravaganza, to be serenaded by live music from artistes including the elegant stallion herself, Onyeka Onwenu.

    Advisory board member, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, former Chairman, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, affirms that the awards event will hold at the posh Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos amid glitz and grandeur.

    “The Entertainment Extravaganza will avail attendees a networking session, multi-layered live music, comedy, African dance, sumptuous local and continental cuisines, quality wines and non alcoholic beverages,” he assured.

    NEBA, Ohuabunwa explained, is an initiative of Elite Business Africa Network (EBAN), a business advocacy group comprising a compendium of select highly cerebral and integrity-laden business entrepreneurs and professionals with its operational focus on the African continent in order to propagate professionalism, innovation, adherence to corporate governance, probity, excellence and global best practices across Africa.

    Ohuabunwa also stated that companies and individuals would compete and win in the following award categories; Governor of the Year, Business Enabling State of the Year, Company of the Year, CEO of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Life Time Achievement, Bank of the Year, Insurance Company of the Year, Shipping & Marine Company of the Year, Oil & Gas Company of the Year, Telecoms Company of the Year, Consumer Electronics Company of the Year and Foods & Beverages Company of the Year.

    Expected at the event as Special Guests are His Excellency, Vice President Namadi Sambo, Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, renowned economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, among other eminent Nigerians drawn mostly from the corporate world.

  • The First Music Festival to honour Onyeka Onwenu, KSA

    The First Music Festival to honour Onyeka Onwenu, KSA

    IN preparation for its cross-generational music concert, the organisers of The First Music Festival, Five Star Music and Golden Tulip Hotel, have unveiled a list of corporate organisations who have thrown their weight behind the event.

    At the unveiling ceremony held at Golden Tulip Hotel on Thursday, April 4, General Manager of the hotel, Shousha Moshen, expressed gratitude at the support stating that the vision is to continue the festival many decades to come. “It has nothing to do with the finance; it has everything to do with the support. Highpoint of the festival will be the presentation of awards to Nigeria’s music legends such as King Sunny Ade, Onyeka Onwenu, Femi Kuti and Bright Chimezie,” Moshen said

    The sponsors of the first music festival, which is slated for April 20, include Best beverages, Lion Stone, Egypt Air, Air France, KLM, Turkish Airlines, Don Morris, Diamond Battery, Samarien Energy and a host of others.

    President of Five Star Music, Kingsley Okonkwo, aka Kcee, of the defunct Kcee Presh music group, said that the music festival is not like any show but is out to register something in this nation as far as music is concerned. “When the idea came up, we had no money, no sponsor, no idea to get money and today, the festival is going to happen because there are people that are actually supporting the dream. No matter how little their support is, they have seen the dream and have decided to key into it,” he enthused.

    Billed to perform at the event are some of the country’s legendary and young superstars including King Sunny Ade, Onyeka Onwenu, Bongos Ikwue, Tuface Idibia, Flavour Nabania, Kcee, Ice Prince, Olamide, Pasuma Wonder.