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TASA Freshers during the initiation

That is what they call it – initiation. This is ritual which marks the process of inducting new students of Theatre Arts into the world of acting. This event took place this year in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University in May for the freshers of Theater Arts Department in that school.

The event took place in an open arena as people gazed on while the process which was a bit scary went on. It looked like an fetish initiation into the traditional secret societies in town. But make no mistake, it was simply an academic exercise and everyone who participated is spiritually safe (as we were made to believe).

The students were made to kneel before a make-shift shrine made up of red clothes tied to a tree while people wearing red cloth, looking like chief priests initiated the freshers, a process that qualifies them to be called “Thepia”, a name that makes them full members of Theatre Arts Students Association (TASA). The students were involved in what looked like an oath-taking process and they were all made to drink wine from one cup as part of the initiation process. It was gathered that any student who does not pass through process will not be allowed to act on stage.

President of TASA, Daniel Okonkwo said in an interview, that this practice has been going on for ages and had nothing fetish in it.

The event looked colourful and frightening. But note that they said it was all about acting. Nothing fetish about it o.

Source: http://massmediang.com/professional-ritual-theatre-arts-students-association-initiates-freshers-into-acting-world/

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Reigning Miss Orient Nigeria 2017, Queen Courage, has expressed joy over her emergence as the winner of the 2017 edition of the pageant held recently in Owerri, Imo State, stating that she is now “a proud car owner.”

In a chat with massmediang, Queen Courage also expressed gratitude to Miss Orient Foundation Worldwide for giving her the opportunity to become a queen and own a band new car.

She promised to use her new status to promote the girl child in the society and propagate the vision of Miss Orient Foundation Worldwide which was to reorientate the girls child out of various vices in the society.

Recall that Miss Orient Foundation hosted the third edition of their Nigerian beauty pageant in April 2017 and Miss Courage who emerged winner carted away a star prize of a brand new Toyota Maxima.
President of Miss Orient Foundation Worldwide, Charles Umege, told massmediang in a chat that registration for the 2018 edition of the pageant will take off December 2017.

He further observed that Miss Orient Foundation Worldwide was an organization that uses beauty queens to campaign against associated social vices of the girlchild.

“Companies and individuals have continued to support this humanitarian move by this Foundation,” he added.

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Charles Umege, encouraged more brands to partner and support Miss Orient Foundation in this millennium development goals to help the girlchild think positively.

The international version of the pageant, tagged Miss Global Orient Advocate shall be hosted in Nigeria in October 2017,with contestants coming from different countries.
Source:
http://massmediang.com/testimony-of-a-queen-i-am-a-proud-car-owner-today-says-queen-courage/

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Two female students of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State who were seen in a viral picture online yesterday as they were stripped by kidnappers have been freed from captivity by men of the Nigeria Police. The Kidnapping of the girls, it was gathered took place about a month ago but the girls were freed four days ago.

Reports have it that the kidnap gang was smashed by the police when members of the gang had gone to an agreed venue to collect the N500,000 ransom for one of the kidnapped girls.

Unknown to them, the police were on their trail and as they arrived the venue, they were nabbed by the police who then traced the others and made some arrests. It was gathered that 3 of the gang members were arrested while 3 others escaped. Investigations are on-going to track down and arrest the others.

A source spoke with one of the released girls in her maternal home, Ogidi, Anambra State where she was celebrating her release with her relatives.
For more, see;
http://massmediang.com/breaking-police-smash-kidnap-gang-free-two-fed-poly-oko-students/

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Front line international beauty pageant organization, Miss Orient Foundation Worldwide, has continued to intensify its vision to reorient the global girl child out of vices by embarking on visits to schools across the country to propagate the campaign.
Various Queens of the Foundation, Queen Jeniffer Ijeoma (current Miss Global Orient Advocate), Queen Courage Ugboaja (current Miss Orient Nigeria) and Queen Chioma Olisa (current Miss Orient Voice Nigeria) are all at the forefront of the campaign, visiting schools and inspiring young girls to strive to excel in life.
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President and Founder of Miss Orient Foundation Worldwide, Charles Umege, said that the basic tenet of the campaign was to reorient the girl-child out of vices of prostitution, lesbianism, exam malpractice, drug addiction, among others.

He said the Foundation’s Queens will continue to traverse different girl schools across the country with a view to improving the life of the girl-child.
Source:
http://massmediang.com/miss-orient-nigeria-queens-visit-schools-for-massive-girl-child-reorientation-campaign/

demsid:
Now this is serious. But where is the list

See the full list here:
http://massmediang.com/imagin-o-top-10-countries-where-government-beg-citizens-to-have-many-children-you-wont-believe-number-7/

This may sound strange but the desire for more children by the government of these countries is so serious that one of the countries, Russia, even has a special day called Conception Day when couples are given a day off to go and make babies. Just read this article.

Source: http://massmediang.com/imagin-o-top-10-countries-where-government-beg-citizens-to-have-many-children-you-wont-believe-number-7/

lovethchioma:
Are you saying that I'm mentally ill ?

massmediang in not more than 2pages prove to me why you think I'm mentally ill backing your points with examples. You must be able to convince me otherwise I'll show you your way out of Nairaland.

Just read the article and leave your mind open. The Oyibo people that did the research know what they are talking about.

Just read the article and leave your mind open. The oyibo people that did the study know what they are talking about.

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I bet you did not know that that was a mental illness caused by the anxiety you often express when you discover that you have left your house without your phone or you forgot it somewhere. Sometime you feel like a part of your major body organ has been caught off. Other times you feel like an incomplete human being.

Well, you are actually killing yourself with a mental ailment called nomophobia. British research came up with this concept and have done studies to explain its causes, symptoms and cure. Nomophobia is the fear of being without your phone or losing your signal. A person who suffers from nomophobia is referred to as a nomophobe. Are you a nomophobe? Do you know what it does to your health? Please read this!
For more, see:
http://massmediang.com/do-you-know-that-the-fear-of-being-without-your-mobile-phone-is-a-mental-illness-called-nomophobia-see-causes-symptoms-and-effects-and-how-to-treat-this-ailment/

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Roof of Royal Faith International Ministries where the Witch Crashed through, into the church




Residents of Owerri are still shocked by reports of a frightening incident that occurred in the city when a witch allegedly fell from the sky, crashing through the roof of a church in the early hours of a quiet morning.

The witch was said to have crashed into Royal Faith International Ministries, located at number 6b Onyeche Street, by Douglas Road, Owerri.
Reports have it that the incident began at about 5am on Tuesday, August 15, when neighbours sleeping in buildings around the church heard the voice of a woman shouting “I want to fly, I want to fly!” They quickly rushed outside into the dark early morning to see a woman on top of the Church roof attempting to jump and fly off to no avail. As the woman kept jumping as if she was making efforts to fly, she crashed through the roof of the church. A loud thud was heard inside the Church as the woman landed heavily.

After a while, the woman broke through the wall of the church close to the door. The walls are made of wooden planks and zinc so it was easy to puncture. As she emerged from the church, a crowd of shocked residents were outside, some of them with big stones ready to target her. It was reported that she started pleading with them, “please I am a widow, please let me go, I am a widow.’

One of the residents who spoke to massmediang on the basis of anonymity said those of them that came outside saw the middle-aged woman pleading that she was a widow. “We were afraid to go near her so we stayed where we were,” she said.

It was reported that about five vigilante members arrived the scene and as they flashed their torchlight on the woman, the touchlight bulbs blew and went dead. At this point people became more scared and stayed away from the woman as she walked away with blood-stained body.
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Royal Faith International Ministries, located at number 6b Onyeche Street, by Douglas Road, Owerri, where the incident happened



Narrating the incident to massmediang, the Senior Pastor of the Church, Reverend Chris Ihekworobiri said he was not around when the incident occurred because he does not live in the Church. He said his Church had prayer meeting that Tuesday morning so he was getting to the Church around 7am only to see a large crowd of people in the church premises. “I concluded that robbers had attacked the Church the previous night and probably made away with our musical equipment. But when I got closer, I looked and saw a hole made close to the door of the church, I felt that was where the thieves had moved in and out from. But a woman who witnessed the event, also a neighbour, came I told me it was a witch that fell into the church at night.”

Rev. Ihekworobiri said when he got into the church, he saw a pool of blood on the floor directly opposite the open roof, and another thicker pool of blood that could contain about half a small bucket, at another corner of the church. “We suspect that the witch must have vomited the blood there, probably the one she drank before falling into the church. It was very thick and can get up to half bucket of water,” he said. The Senior Pastor also said he discovered that the podium of at the altar had been mysteriously moved from the center of the alter where it was left the day before to the extreme left corner of the Church, close to the altar.
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Rev. Chris Ihekworobiri, Senior Pastor of the Church


Some other witnesses believe that the incident was not found newsworthy by the press because the Church involved was not one of the flashy, popular Churches in town. “It is because the pastor is unknown and his church is obscure, that is why the whole nation has not heard this. Are you telling me that if this had happened in one of those popular Pentecostal churches, anybody will be asking you where the witch is before reporting this story?” a source said.

At the time massmediang visited the church, the roof areas damaged by the alleged witch were yet to be repaid.

Source:
http://massmediang.com/bizarre-witch-crashes-through-roof-top-into-church-in-owerri/

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Recall that a few days ago, some Imo state elders allegedly came together to invoke the spirit of dead forefathers to work against Governor Rochas Okorocha.
The post was shared by a Facebook user, Ichie Chinedum Cham-Agiriga, who wrote that some elders of Owerri town came together and decided to seek the assistance of their late forefathers, against Governor Rochas.

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The story has been trending online since then.
Owerri Elders reportedly gathered at the graveside of Late Sir Arugo, to lay curses on Rochas and invoke the spirit of their dead forefathers against the governor for relocating the ancestral Eke Ukwu Owerri market.

Well he seems not to care or be frightened as demolitions of other structures in the city have continued since then.
Source:
http://massmediang.com/in-case-you-missed-this-rochas-versus-the-dead-how-owerri-elders-allegedly-invoked-spirit-of-their-dead-forefathers-against-rochas-okorocha-photo/

Governor of Imo State, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha has again incurred the wrath of pensioners in the state after keeping them waiting for 4 days without releasing their money.
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Trouble began when the state government announced that the pensioners should come to Imo International Conference Center (IICC), on Friday, September 1 Owerri to receive backlog of their pensions. Some of them are being owed for up to 8 months.

The pensioners streamed into Owerri capital territory from various parts of the state for their pension, most of them moving like people acting season 20 of a Zombie movie (looking tired, weak, sick, and unhappy with government).

The pensioners numbering over 5000 left in the evening of that day disappointed as only about 10 percent of them were given cheques for 3 months pension. The rest were told to come on Saturday.

On Saturday, September 2,most of them went back to the IICC venue of payment but received nothing.

This merry go round continued until Tuesday, September 5, when they all returned for the pay expecting something good only for Governor Okorocha to arrive the venue at about 4pm in the evening to address them. The governor told them to go home, that the money will be paid to them on a later date yet to be announced.

The pensioners left disappointed, and kept cursing those who made them waste four days in town without paying them.
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The pensioners are waiting for another date to be announced but expressed disgust over the fact that the state government should have made it clear from the first day that money was not available for the payment, instead they made the pensioners waste time and resources on wasteful trips to the city without anything to show for that.

Source:
http://massmediang.com/deception-again-rochas-disappoints-imo-pensioners-dismisses-them-without-pay-after-holding-them-hostage-in-owerri-for-4-days/

Students of Mass Communication department of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) engaged in a contest as pat of their class work to produce the best advert of Chikki noodles. Here are Four out of seven of them. Which do you select as the best?



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Watch First One Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaKfpzf1P4

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Watch Second One Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqb-UGge5zg

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Watch Third One Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2dtgU3iPG8

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Watch Fourth One Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5k7wFnXlI

Source:
http://massmediang.com/blast-from-the-past-the-amazon-kingdom-see-advert-production-of-mass-comm-students-of-coou-done-by-2015-class-chikki-warrior-group-video/