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  • ‘Now that you’re Married’ hits TV screens

    ‘Now that you’re Married’ hits TV screens

    From the stable of Red Box Africa Media Company comes a TV show, Now That You’re Married, which is centered on the phases of marriage and the peculiar challenges young couples in capital cities go through.

    Produced by Yinka and Bola Obebe and hosted by Liz Osho, a noted journalist and publicist, the show, which began airing last Monday on DSTV, discusses topics with 36 guests on perception of married and singles spread over 13 episodes.

    Speaking on the show, co-producer, Bola Yinka Obebe said; “Now That You’re Married is a show that was born from our own experiences. My husband and I created the show from our own experiences as a young couple, the things that we went through that our parents don’t remember to tell us about. .”

    Show host, Liz Osho, also stated that for her, it was a learning experience as she was still single during the time of filming. “It was interesting but I thank Bola and Yinka for bringing me on board. It was a terrain I wasn’t familiar with and it was a time where I could be really curious. It is really interesting for me to speak to other married couples. And see the different ways marriages work,” she said.

    So far, the show has hosted guests like include Kaffy, IK Osakioduwa, Lola Maja, and more.

    Executive Producers of the show, Yinka and Bola Obebe are creative/media entrepreneurs. They are a married couple, and their passion for helping marriages be successful was their inspiration for creating the show.

  • MTV Base screens Lip Sync Battle

    MTV Base screens Lip Sync Battle

    The management of music channel, MTV Base Africa, on Tuesday, treated guests and stakeholders to a teaser of its forthcoming programme, Lip Sync Battle which premieres tomorrow.

    Welcoming guests to the screening, which took place at the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas, Lekki, Senior Channel Manager, MTV Base Africa and Senior Creative Director, Viacom, Katung Aduwak said that basically, Lip Sync Battle is all about having fun while giving people an opportunity to express themselves.

    “This season is a step above the previous. We’ve actually taken it to another level with our Lip Sync Battle Challenge. It is an amazing format. The second season is going to be bigger, it’s going to be better,” he said.

    Explaining further, Katung said that the Lip Sync Battle Challenge offers viewers the chance to send a 60 seconds lip syncing of their favourite artiste and stand a chance to win N1million and a VIP experience for two at any MTV award ceremony.

    Also speaking, Vice President of MTV and BET, Monde Twala described the show as an entertaining format that speaks to lifestyle in terms of what the channel stands for.

    “If you go through what we achieved last year, it was quite a Nigeria/South Africa kind of based format. And I think it went well but this year, we have spiced it up by adding other regions from Africa. It really speaks to what young people are doing on a day to day basis around the music genre,” he said.

    Lip sync, he said, wouldn’t be possible without all the talents. “It’s really about the talents that come on board to help. This is one show where you can just let loose, be yourself and try something you probably have never tried before,” he added.

    Another addition to the show this year, according to organisers, is energetic show host, Denrele Edun who replaces music artiste D’banj as host while the show still retains Pearl Thusi.

    Reliving his experience as host, Denrele said that taking over from Dbanj was no joke. “It has been an amazing experience for me. Pearl Thusi and I were dynamites. The fusion was crazy. And over all, my energy was over the roof,” he stated.

    Also present at the screening were some of the Season 2 contestants, DJ Exclusive and sultry singer, Simi.

  • ‘ON THE REAL’ HITS SCREENS

    A new TV series, On The Real, from the stable of EbonyLife TV, made its debut on Thursday night.

    A fusion of reality TV and drama, On The Real follows the lives of five young Nigerian reality TV stars brought together by an obnoxious TV executive. The stars have to balance their new fame with the stark realities of their regular lives.

    Created and produced by Temidayo Abudu, the show parades the likes of Ini dinma Okojie, Funto Angel Johnson, David Jones, Akah Nnani as well as Nancy Isime.

    According to Abudu, On The real is about young people and how they people aspire to live.

    “Not everyone in this day and age now has the conventional jobs so we’re exploring that world and at the same time also touching on different social issues. In this season, there are six episodes. Later this year, we will be shooting another set of episodes to air next year.

    “This is actually my first TV show. On The Real’ promises to bravely tackle problems faced by the youth today including relationships, peer pressure, sex and drug abuse like never before explored on Nigerian Television,” she said.

    Nancy Isime, who plays Amaka in the series, says that the role was challenging as well as exciting. “It’s a different side of me. As an actor, you always want to not play yourself. You always want to play something else. Amaka is a timid shy girl which is the direct opposite of me. So playing it was just beautiful. There is a lot to look out for in this series,” she stated.

    Written by Tamara Aihie and directed by Tosin Coker, On The Real is sponsored by Accelerate TV and Samsung.

    EbonyLife TV and EbonyLife Films are dedicated to telling the full range of African stories as they have never been told before. Strongly rooted in Africa but connecting to a global audience through a shared identity and common values.

  • Agency screens 2000 for HIV/AIDS

    Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has screened 2000 market men and women for HIV and AIDS at Ebute Oluwo Fish Market in Epe.

    It was done under the agency’s free HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) programme.

    According to the market’s Baba Oja-General Ahaji Dauda Kayode, the turn-out was encouraging based on the market population.

    The market’s Iyalaje of the market, Mrs. Folashade Ojikutu, said women were the major beneficiary because about 95 per cent of the market population are women.

    According to her, men kill the fish but the women engage in the buying and selling, smoking of fish, crayfish, crabs, among others.

    This, she said, makes the Prevention of Mother- to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and AIDS awareness campaign important to their existence.

    “No one wants to die and leave her baby behind,” Mrs Ojikutu said.

    A trader, Mrs Muyinat Lawal, said the exercise would advance their health.

    “We also would want the government to institute micro-credit facility for our trade,” she said.

  • Christian pilgrims board screens travellers

    The Christians Pilgrims Welfare Board (CPWB) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has started screening pilgrims intending to travel to Israel for the 2015 pilgrimage.

     

    Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christians Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Kennedy Okpara explained that the screening exercise is necessary to ascertain if the pilgrims are Christians and understand the reason for the spiritual journey.

    Okpara, who was represented by the Federal Commissioner representing North Central Zone, Mrs. Unekwu Ugboro,  said the pilgrimage is a spiritual exercise and not for sightseeing or tourism.

    “They are to be prepared spiritual and we pray that when they come back they would be changed people and when they are changed they will be able change their families, environment and nation positively,” he said.

    He also added that pilgrimage is for moral and spiritual transformation, “we believe that if people are morally and spiritually transformed they will fare better in their endeavours and impact positively on others and at the end of it all, we will have a better nation.”

    The Director of FCT CPWB, Dabara Vingo said the screening is aimed at ascertaining the health status of the pilgrims and to know the people with the tendency to abscond.

    Vingo also said that the board is fully prepared with the help of security, medical and other personnel to read the intent of the pilgrims, adding that the exercise started with 300 pilgrims, a number that increased to 1,200 due to additions from the NCPC.

    He said pilgrimage is for those that are intending to improve their holy life, “the Holy Land would make them read more about their faith thereby transforming their moral lives.”

     

  • Oando screens Kunle Afolayan’s October 1

    Oando screens Kunle Afolayan’s October 1

    Kunle Afolayan’s new movie, October 1, may still be in post-production stage, but it is already getting demands from corporate organisations, with a view to sealing sponsorship deals.

    Touted as one of the best films by a Nigerian director, Afolayan has continued to seek funds to complete the movie. “We still need funds to complete the movie; what we are showing is not the final cut,” he told The Nation.

    At the Eko Hotel and Suites, last night, where the movie was screened exclusively for top executives of Oando Group Plc., and the company’s clients, the event was a show of class for Oando, which staged the preview session for its high network of clients.

    This is the second time the movie was enjoying a private preview, the first being on May 18, when it attracted top shots like Waheed Olagunju, Executive Director, Bank of Industry; Segun Awolowo, CEO, Nigerian Export Promotion Council; Akin Salami, CEO, OHTV; Mo Abudu, CEO, EbonyLife TV; Francois Sastourne, Consul General of France; and Mokgethi Monaisa, Consul General of South Africa, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    The filmmaker is optimistic that more private screenings will be done for the movie, as a way to garner sponsorships for premieres in major cities in Nigeria and abroad.

    Asides the huge publicity for the film, interest from the business community started when in December 2013, the movie won ‘Best Fiction Trailer’ at the International Movie Trailer Festival. The award came with a price of $250 and Afolayan saw it as a great way to end year 2013: “I’m happy about this award. It’s not about the money, but the recognition of the hard work, the efforts of the cast and crew of October 1. It is a pointer to the fact that the film has great potentials to go places when it is eventually released,” he said.

    Already, plans are ongoing to unveil the film at a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Canada, same way that Biyi Bandele’s Half of a Yellow Sun was first shown last September. The filmmaker is targeting October for its release date in Nigeria, obviously in tandem with the title of the film.

    October 1 is a psychological thriller set on the verge of Nigeria’s independence in 1960. It tells the story of a police detective in Northern Nigeria, who is dispatched to a trading post in Western Nigeria to solve a series of horrific murders. The movie stars Sadiq Daba, Kehinde Bankole, Kayode Olaiya, Nick Rhys, Fabian Adeoye Lojede, Kunle Afolayan and Demola Adedoyin.

  • Eye defects: Lagos screens pupils

    Lagos State Government has said it had so far screened about 65,000 primary school pupils for eye defects and impairments under its School Health Programme.

    The screening according to the Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, is one of the strategies employed by the government to reduce the incidence of childhood blindness and pupils dropping out of school or performing poorly as a result of poor vision.

    Idris explained that in addition to the eye screening the pupils benefitted from education on environmental sanitation, personal and oral hygiene, care of the eye and adequate nutrition. Besides, government has trained teachers in childhood blindness prevention amongst pupils.

    About 1,295 teachers have been trained in basic eye blindness detection and prevention and equipped with screening kits and certificates.

    Idris said his ministry was collaborating with the Ministry of Education to ensure that teachers in all the 802 public primary schools in the state are properly trained. Each school is provided with a vision corridor and self-tested billboards. Their training had started to yield benefits as the teachers have so far screened 17,572 pupils; 13,626 were detected to be having vision impairment.

  • Film on Olympic hero debuts July

    Film on Olympic hero debuts July

    Indian Olympic  hero, Milkha Singh, is set to achieve an extraordinary feat once again when his incredible life story is given the silver screen treatment in’ Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.’The movie is set to hit the screens internationally and across all Silverbird cinemas nationwide on July 12, 2013.

    Singh’s life is a portrait of professional triumph over personal tragedy. The film attempts to understand a catastrophic loss that was deemed a sure victory and explores through the darkness of disgrace Milkha Singh’s redemption and catharsis that came when he confronted his past.

    This iridescent tale winds through the plagues of a bloody civil war where Singh’s family were brutally killed during the violent and tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition era resulting in a lost childhood, homelessness, to a life of petty crime and victories hard won and easily lost.

    The young Singh’s builds his character by enlisting in the Indian Army, and through his Ustaad (teacher) learns some of life’s most precious lessons, that being to build his human spirit with perseverance, hard work and discipline. From his Army days, Milkha becomes a formidable runner with an awe-inspiring 96.5 percent winning ratio. Globally recognised as the ‘Flying Sikh’ and India’s original sports hero, Singh’s life is a colourful portrait of professional triumph over personal tragedy.

    The film stars India’s most versatile multi-star, the critically acclaimed actor, producer, singer, writer, director and musician Farhan Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Luck By Chance) who essays the role of Milkha Singh for what is described as Farhan’s most demanding performance to date.

    He is joined by Sonam Kapoor (Saawariya, I Hate Luv Storys, Aisha (Indian version of Jane Austen’s classic Emma)], Art Malik [BBC1’s Holby City], Rebecca Breeds [Home and Away] and is directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (director of the Bafta nominated film Rang De Basanti, Delhi-6).

    The inspirational story is penned by Prasoon Joshi and the soundtrack is composed by the award-winning trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy.