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Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by churchie(m): 10:25am On Jul 18, 2014
Kate Henshaw will contest in the PDP primaries in october to win the ticket to contest for... Read more -- http://halfbloodng.com/?p=644
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by collins011(m): 11:14am On Jul 18, 2014
OK Kate, I wish you all the best in your future endeavor
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by Nobody: 11:58am On Jul 18, 2014
Such a clever way to advertise your blog,Not gonna visit it even if Tonto Dikeh were to be the aspirant

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Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by egift(m): 12:21pm On Jul 18, 2014
Nigerian Bloggers shocked shocked shocked
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by size38: 2:26pm On Jul 18, 2014
Kate Henshaw should use that her little change she got through acting to better her life ooo. Naija politics different from Naija Noolywood. A word is enough for d wise oooo!
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by Hangard: 2:28pm On Jul 18, 2014
Let me help the idiotic Op paste the news.

According to LIB, Veteran
Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw
has revealed that she’s aspiring to
contest for the Federal House of
Representatives for Calabar
Munical/Odukpani Federal
Constituency under the PDP.
Kate Henshaw will contest in the
PDP primaries in october to win
the ticket to contest for the
Federal House of Representatives
She will be officially unveiled on
www.campaign.ng tomorrow July
19th, which is her 43rd birthday.

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Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by churchie(m): 12:32pm On Jul 19, 2014
Kenny saint brown delves into politics too... Read more here -- http://halfbloodng.com/kenny-st-brown-is-going-into-politics-too/
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by churchie(m): 1:02pm On Jul 19, 2014
Hangard: Let me help the idiotic Op paste the news.

According to LIB, Veteran
Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw
has revealed that she’s aspiring to
contest for the Federal House of
Representatives for Calabar
Munical/Odukpani Federal
Constituency under the PDP.
Kate Henshaw will contest in the
PDP primaries in october to win
the ticket to contest for the
Federal House of Representatives
She will be officially unveiled on
www.campaign.ng tomorrow July
19th, which is her 43rd birthday.

You can also help me copy and pate this too... Kenny saint brown delves into politics too... Read more here -- http://halfbloodng.com/kenny-st-brown-is-going-into-politics-too/

Happy weekend Sir grin
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by Hangard: 1:10pm On Jul 19, 2014
churchie:

You can also help me copy and pate this too... Kenny saint brown delves into politics too... Read more here -- http://halfbloodng.com/kenny-st-brown-is-going-into-politics-too/

Happy weekend Sir grin
AT YOUR SERVICE: By Victor Gotevbe & Simon
Peters
Kenny St Brown needs no
introduction as one of Nigeria’s
most celebrated contemporary
gospel artistes.
With a career spanning over a
decade, she brought glamour and
reckoning for gospel music in
Nigeria at the time of her
emergence on the scene.
Today, she is
one of the
artistes
responsible for
putting gospel
music into the
mainstream
Nigerian music
industry. Interestingly, KSB as
she’s popularly called by her fans
is stepping out for good. She has
declared her intention to go into
politics.
In this interview with Showtime
Celebrity, the 2010 recipient of
Soundcity Music Video Awards for
Best Gospel video, explains why
she wants to vie for a seat in the
Lagos State House of Assembly
come 2015 and many more…
What’s happening to Kenny St.
Brown at the moment?
Well, KSB is currently channelling
all her energies and passion into
nation building. I want to go into
politics to help build a nation that
we will all be proud of. Not in
terms of building infrastructure,
nor ensuring that there is regular
power supply in the country.
But it’s in the area of building our
people. We are blessed with
human resources and other
nations refer to us as the giant of
Africa. This is not because of the
infrastructure in place in our
country, but because of our
population and the aboundance of
man power.
My concern is for the youths. You
know I’m youth-oriented.
Unfotunately, we have a lot of
graduates who are unemployed
today. We all saw what happened
few months ago, when Nigeria
Immigration Service were
recruiting young graduates into
the service.
The service wanted to recruit
about five thousand applicants,
but over fifty thousand applicants
showed up for the qualifying
examinations. This showed that
we are actually educated. So, our
problem is not that of education,
but the crave for greatness.
You said that you are re-
channelling all your energies
into re-orientating the minds of
young Nigerians which are your
target audience. How do you
intend to accomplish this goal?
I’m still looking at my area of
calling which is youth
development. I have been involved
in youth development
programmes in the last 16 years,
using our company, Kenny’s Music
as a platform.
We have helped in pioneering not
just a record label, but a company
which has been able to discover
raw talents as it developed them
to become international acts.
The likes of Tu-face Idibia, Paul
Play Dairo to mention but a few
are products of Kenny’s Music. We
have discovered over fifty artistes
and most of these artistes we
made them household names. We
urged them to go and convert
their brands into something else
that can generate wealth for them
even after they have stopped
doing music.
Particularly, I have the ability to
discover as well as ascertain how
to divert the energies of our
youths, especially in the area of
entertainment. Since it has added
to the GDP of the country.
What am I saying, if you have the
kind of rescources that have been
pumped into sports development
over the years, if only 10 percent
of such rescources have been
pumped into the entertainment
industry, things would have been
different in this country.
Talking about Nigerian football for
instance, the various teams we
have like the Super Eagles, Under
23, Under 20, Under 17, Under 13
and before you know, we are
going to have also Under 5. This
indicates a system that
encourages discovering of young
footballers.
The likes of Odegbami, Nduka
Ugbade, Jay Jay Okocha and the
Kanu Nwankwos were discovered
young, before they became
international soccer stars. They
made mega millions in pounds
Sterling, but the British
government did not fail to tax
them heavily.
So, if 10 percent of what we have
been spending on sports were
channelled into entertainment you
would be sure that Nigeria would
become the centre of global
entertainment. At the moment, we
don’t have such funds in the
entertainment industry.
Yet, we have world class
entertainers as we are also adding
to the GDP of the nation. Don’t
you think, it’s high time we begin
to put structures in place.
Let’s start from the grassroots by
encouraging youth development.
It’s obvious now that becoming a
graduate does not make one
useful. Before now, they used to
say that if you don’t have anything
you cannot become an artist.
But today, the story has changed.
One does not need to be a rich
man before becoming an artiste.
Look at what MTV is doing in
Africa today because of the talents
that abound in Nigeria.
The truth is that there are lots of
talented youths out there that
don’t have the platform to
showcase their talents.
Oftentimes, either in the Church,
or where I’m shopping, I have had
to contend with these young
talents who would want to give
me their CDs and urged me to
listen to their works so that I can
help promote them.
There are so many of them like
that but after listening to them
what’s the next thing to do? They
cannot afford to pay for air time.
In most cases, I have sent so
many of them to my brother,
Baba Keke.
But it got to a point where Keke
called me and said, they are too
many. How many of them would I
send to radio stations or
individuals for assistance? But the
money we need to develop these
talents is in the hands of the
government.
So, how do you intend to help in
the area of putting the
structures in place?
I can’t work for government at the
moment. So, I have to join a
political party to let them know
what I can do to help the youths.
On which platform are you
coming out?
I am contesting under the
platform of All Progressives
Congress, APC. I have been
registered with APC, I’m in ward
4, ward D of Onigbongbo Local
Government of Lagos. I’m very
active in my ward as well as in my
local government.
You are vying for what political
office?
I want to contest for the
membership of Lagos State House
of Assembly.
What made you think that you
can achieve all these goals?
Because it’s the legislative arm of
government that make bills and
laws. And Lagos State is the hub
of entertainment; it’s the
cosmopolitan city of Nigeria.
It took someone that has an
insight into what LAWMA could do
and he got into the government
and said hey, we can do this! Till
date, I still marvel at what LAWMA
is doing in Lagos.
The workers keep the streets of
Lagos clean. It’s same way I want
to become a law maker starting
with Lagos State House of
Assembly. It is the youth all over
the world that my heart is crying
for.
Where is your constituency?
Onigbongbo Local Government in
Ikeja, Lagos State is my
constituency. And guess what! This
is the hub of prostitution in Lagos
State; Allen Avenue Junction,
Opebi road and Doyin.
Why do you think that you are
the right candidate to represent
your people?
Actually, I have been a youth
coach. Few weeks ago, I was at
university of Lagos to deliver a
lecture on “From Passion to
Profession”, which was organised
by the Lagos State government.
I was assisting the Senior
Assistant to the Lagos State
governor, Mr. Akim Animashaun.
Recently too, we were at the
College of Education, Akoka, where
I taught the students on how to
regenerate opportunities.
You said that you have been
very active in you ward and
local government. How active
are you in your ward?
About 4-5 years ago, I was the
face of education in my local
government, the entertainer, as
well as the ambassador of change
leading the upgrading of public
schools to meet up with the
standard of that of private schools
in my local government.
But until recently, the number of
prostitutes on Opebi -Allen axis in
the last ten months have
increased to over 200 percent.
This burden became so heavy in
my heart.
You would see a beautiful young
girl looking decent in the day time,
while in the night, you would see
same girl looking half-naked and
you’d wonder what has happened
to her over night? Isn’t somebody
going to show them love and I just
can’t fold my arms any more and
watch things go wrong in our
society.
There’s fire on the mounting, let’s
be honest, see what corruption
has done to us; see what happens
when budget is not meeting
project. …So, it’s high time we do
something.
To be able to achieve your
dreams, you need funds. How
prepared are you to play the
game of politics?
Well, why should I see problems
and not see reasons I should be in
the House of Assembly. Where
there’s a will, there is a way.
Because there is a will for me to
help in the area of youth
development in Lagos State, there
will be a way out to achieve this
goal.
Do you think it’s only by
becoming a law maker that this
particular project can be
achieved?
Tell me which other way you can
use government money, if
democracy is government of the
people by the people and for the
people, how will the people
benefit from the funds belonging
to them? Tell me if there’s any
other way because if I start an
NGO now, you know how people
have bastardized NGO’s. You
should know that am not hungry. I
told someone recently that
everything that people have on
their lips as prayer points, God
has blessed me with. Tell me what
is the prayer point now, if I have
two cars, is it not only one car
that I will drive? If I have a whole
house, is it not one bed that I will
sleep on? God has blessed me
with a son and daughter. I have
three degrees and I’m the CEO of
my company, KSB International
Consulting Company. I’m the vice
president of Kennis Music. So, if
people want to be famous thank
God, I am famous at least for the
last 16 years. I have become a
household name. So, you can see
that I’m a proud beneficiary of
these factors in Nigeria. These are
some of the benefits that Nigeria
has offered me and it’s time for
me to help government to
transform the country.
Why did you choose APC as your
party?
If you see what APC as a party has
done in the states where they are
controlling, you would be amazed.
If you are familiar with how
beautiful Lagos State is at the
moment, then take a ride to Ogun
State where APC is currently in
control, and see the massive
change that has taken place there.
May be, you need to travel to
Ibadan, Oyo State and behold the
massive changes that have taken
place in the city of Ibadan. Or
better still, you travel to Osun
State and behold what Ogbeni
Rauf Aregbesola is doing in that
state. APC signature is change;
especially in the south-west. They
have done so well in propagating
change not just in the
environment but also, in
education, infrastructure, health,
efficiency and many others. So,
they are the team I want to work
with for now.
What kind of change would you
bring about when you
eventually become a law maker
in Lagos State?
Now, we are talking about
funding, revenue and expenditure.
You can’t take it away from the
fact that Lagos State has about 57
LCDs and the federal government
is funding only 27, according to
their records. I am not trying to
speak for governor Fashola right
now, but the truth is that there is
so much demand in respect of the
amount of money the state is
getting from the federation
account. I am saying it would get
to a point where the federal
government would be able to
recognise the great work that the
Lagos State government is doing
with the LCDA that they are not
funding. The state government is
using the little amount it’s
generating internally to fund the
other Local Governments.
Being a celebrated music star,
are you going to dump music for
politics?
I can’t stop singing. Singing is my
nature, music is my life. Give me a
stage now and I will kill the stage,.
I will get you up and get you
dancing. It’s a ministry; I am
actually the youth pastor in my
church, and every Sunday
morning, I’m there. I am a
professional person, I can’t say
because of this I can’t do that. I’m
never an idle person and again, I
easily get bored doing one thing.
According to Karl Max, “religion is
the opium of the people.”

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Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by grailmoore(f): 12:04am On Nov 11, 2014
http://laulauparty.com/kenny-st-brown/



KENNY ST BROWN

Age: 40

LauLau Level: 3

History

Kenny St. Brown was born by her mother in 1974 as Kehinde Ogbungbe. She grew up in the town of Ijebu Ode. Not much is known of her childhood except that it must have been troubled. Growing up with brothers like Kenny Ogungbe and Id Ogungbe must have been quite a troubling experience for her.

Career

Kenny’s family members became major pillars in the Nigerian entertainment industry and she tagged along. She was the Vice-President of a collection of individuals that could not find gainful employment aka Kennis Music. She claimed to have become a gospel musician as she specialised in abducting popular religious songs and releasing them with a funky beat. Either Aristotle or Sango Olukoso told us that “It is Madness to try the same things and expect different results”. We are not sure Kenny St. Brown got that memo. She kept on singing the same songs, wearing the same crazy hairstyles and granting the same silly interviews. Her voice is said to be as sweet as that of the late Musical sage – Chief Orlando Owoh

Politics

Seeing that she was getting near the age of 40 , she thought of how to contribute her quota to National underdevelopment. Thus, she discovered that she was from Onigbongbo local government and decided to go into politics. We can only be grateful to the Almighty that she chose to venture into politics instead of following another path she was thinking of . It could have been a lot worse. We can only shudder at the thoughts of what would have happened if she decided to start a church after she left Bible School.

Elective Post

(APC) Lagos State House of Assembly
LauLau Level 3

Summary: Very Hungry person
The Laulau Rating system is a scientific system that is built up from a simple equation:
Laulau level = Current Income / Future Political Income * 100 %
3
0% - 19%
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by grailmoore(f): 12:06am On Nov 11, 2014
http://laulauparty.com/kate-henshaw/

Kate Henshaw

Age: 43

LauLau Level: 3

History

Kate Henshaw is God’s greatest gift to Mankind. Her body is sculpted like that of an angel. She is an epitome of perfection and walks like a gazelle. She always has a gorgeous smile on her face and is generally known to be pleasant.

Career

Kate Henshaw was said to have started acting in 1993 and she has acted in a great deal of Nollywood productions since then. It is difficult to understand the source of her strength and staying power in the industry. She seems to tower above many of her colleagues on the stage and on the screen

Politics

It is not known how or where she Kate received the call to go into politics. She has been known to be an ardent crusader for human right and justice. She has also been an ardent critic of the ruling party at the National level. We find it interesting that she has pitched her tent with the same party at the local level. It is noteworthy that she has remembered her native name – “Offiong” and has added this to her list of names.

Elective Post

PDP ( Federal House of Representatives)
LauLau Level 3

Summary: Very Hungry person
The Laulau Rating system is a scientific system that is built up from a simple equation:
Laulau level = Current Income / Future Political Income * 100 %
3
0% – 19%
Re: Kate Henshaw Goes Into Politics by dotna(m): 5:19am On Nov 11, 2014
Kudos to her

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