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The Mavin Crew: making it happen with DOROBUCCI

Great performance by MISH

#Nigeria Vs #Ghana Today At 6:30pm | Why #African time na? This is 06:43 PM

and today in akwa ibom state am gonna mak histry... by scoring first.....

klem93:
which tvs/channels

LOCAL CHANNEL: AKBC, AIT,NTA
INTL CHANNEL: DSTV TOP SPORTS CHANNEL WILL AIR IT.

klem93:
will it be broadcasted live?

OH YES

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AKS Intl stadium opening – PROGRAMME OF EVENT: Today, Friday 7th, November 2014.

3:00 pm:
National Anthem of Nig led by Pat Akpabio
– National Anthem of Cote D’’Ivoire led by Patience Ehi
– National Anthem of Ghana led by Emem Andrew & backed by Ibom Unity Brass Band

3.45 pm:
– Hymn: “Afo modot itoro”, sung by Aity Dennis
– Prayer of dedication

3.45 pm:
– Welcome Speech by His Excellency, d Executive Gov of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio, CON

4.00 pm:
– Special Commemorative Song by Akwa Ibom Music Stars: Aity Dennis, Pat Akpabio, Fadabasi, Icekyd, Presh, King David, Mc Galaxy, Dikan, Desmond Offong, Unik, Mr. Xto, Pasto Goody Goody, Mish, Queen Favour, Skankin Master, Aniekan Sasforo, Ann Inyang & Lemmy Jackson.

4.05 pm
– Video Presentation: The Making of Akwa Ibom Stadium

4.15 pm
– Gov leads Mr. President & VIPs to d commissioning point

4.20 pm
– Commissioning of d stadium by Mr. President
– Unveiling of the commemorative plaque

4.25 pm
– Speech by His Excellency, the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR

4.40 pm
– Marching display by the Real Brass Band

4.50 pm
On-pitch pre-match entertainment featuring:
– Mish, singing “Akwa Ibom Ayaya”
– Mavins Crew, singing “DoroBucchi”
– KCee, singing “Limpopo”

5.15 pm
– Grand Parade: ‘Journey across d Land of Uncommon Transformation’ featuring d following groups: Greater Tomorrow Football Academy, The State Cheer Leaders, Akwa Ibom Future Professionals Group, The Royal Rangers, Uyai Iban, Itembe, Council for Arts and Culture, Ekpe, Ekpo, the 9999 Choristers, The State Fire Service, The AKSG Ushers and Ibom Brass Band.
Music: ‘Wavin’ Flag’, by K’naan

5.35 pm
– Arrival and pitch inspection by d national teams of Nigeria – the Super Eagles & dat of Ghana – the Black Stars

6.15 pm
– Presentatn of d teams to the 3 Presidents by HE the Governor & d official VIP Party

6.30 pm
– Kick-off

8.15pm
– Full-time
– Presentations at the State Box
– National Anthems of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana & Nig

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Uganda has suspended 15 of its senior military commanders over their conduct in Somalia, including allegations of
sexual exploitation, the army said.

The suspension on Thursday comes in the wake of a damning report by Human Rights Watch which has accused troops with the internationally funded African Union force in Somalia, AMISOM, of preying on vulnerable women and girls.

“We are doing a general appraisal on performance of the force,” Uganda’s defence and army spokesman Paddy Ankunda told the AFP news agency.

“It’s not sexual harassment alone,” he said, but added the concerns were “one aspect we are looking at”.

“Those are allegations. We are investigating. Until the investigations are completed that’s when we will know their involvement [in sexual abuse], but for now they are suspended,” he said.

The 22,000-strong AMISOM force comprises soldiers drawn from six nations, and has been fighting alongside Somali government troops against al-Shabab fighters since 2007.

AMISOM donors include the United Nations, European Union, Britain and the United States.

The Human Rights Watch report quoted several women as saying they had gone to the AMISOM camp seeking medicine for their sick babies, but were then forced to have sex.

The vulnerable women largely came from camps in the capital Mogadishu, having fled rural Somalia during a devastating famine in 2011.

African Union chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has already ordered an investigation into the allegations, and the probe is due to be completed by November 30.

The pan-African bloc, however, has also accused Human Rights Watch of being unfair and inaccurate, and of undermining peace efforts in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.

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2face Idibia buried his father, Michael Idibia who died on August 23rd, today at their hometown of Amufu Ejeba in Enumoga Ehaje, Okpokwu LGA of Benue State. May his soul continue to rest in peace.

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The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has moved 20 spots from his earlier position of the 43rd richest person in the world to the 23rd position, thereby consolidating his earlier rating as the richest man in Africa, according to Forbes magazine.

The businessman, who has interests in cement, sugar, flour and beverages, is now worth $25bn and is also the first black man to be named among the 25 richest people in the world, according to the magazine.

The owner of indigenous telecoms company, Globacom, Chief Mike Adenuga, was the next Nigerian on the list, with a wealth of $4.6bn, maintaining the 325th position in the world, while Folorunsho Alakija, with $2.5bn, was 687th in the world, and Abdulsamad Rabiu in the 1,372th position in the world, with $1.2bn.

American billionaire, Bill Gates, reclaimed the title of world’s richest person from telecoms mogul, Carlos Slim Helu, of Mexico after four years.

Gates, according to Forbes, raked in extra $9bnin the last one year and has been at the top of the list for 15 of the past 20 years.

Spanish clothing retailer, Amancio Ortega (best known for the Zara fashion chain) retains the number three spot for the second year in a row, extending his lead over Warren Buffett, who is again number four.

Dangote has also been named the world’s 68th most powerful person.


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The Presidency has said there is no part of the world where the President resigns during an ongoing war.

It therefore challenged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to tell Nigerians where such presidents had resigned during war time.

The Presidency was reacting to the demand by the leadership of the APC, including its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that President Goodluck Jonathan should resign because of the on-going war against the country by the members of the Boko Haram sect.

Reacting on behalf of the President, his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, asked Nigerians to ignore such calls.

He said, “The suggestion by one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, that President Goodluck Jonathan should resign from office as a result of the activities of insurgents in the north-eastern part of the country, has once again shown beyond doubt that the former Lagos State governor and his colleagues in the opposition are a bunch of political anarchists and charlatans blinded by an unbridled appetite for power.

“The assertion by Tinubu at a political rally in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday that in ‘civilised’ societies, the President should have resigned is unfounded and lacking in historical precedence.

“We challenge him to tell Nigerians which part of his ‘civilised’ world has there been a call on a President to resign during an on-going war.

“When terrorists attacked the United States of America in September 2001, the leaders of the Democratic Party did not demand a resignation of President George Bush but rather they rose in defence of the American nation to support the various measures taken by the President to defeat the al Qaeda terrorists.”

He said it was necessary to remind the APC leader that it was leading members of his party who vehemently opposed and openly criticised the proscription of the Boko Haram sect by the Federal Government in 2013 with some of them even going as far as describing it as a move against the North while others tried to incite the civil society to condemn this anti-terrorists’ action.

Okupe said that it was therefore unfortunate that the APC, in its desperation for power and eagerness to make selfish political gains from insecurity, had shown a total lack of the spirit of nationalism and statesmanship in its public comments on the challenges of insurgency in the North-East.

He added that it was particularly sad that the leaders of the APC would mount every available podium to pour invectives on the President and ridicule members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria who were in the battlefield against terror.

“Telling the President to resign because of an ongoing insurgency is the height of insensitive, indecorous and bad politics which ought to be roundly condemned by every patriotic Nigerian,” he added.

He said that by the provisions of the Nigerian constitution, the only recognised means of changing a government was through the electoral process.

SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/news/no-president-resigns-during-war-jonathan-tells-apc/

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No blame me o. We can all be guilty of that.

Abi?

Babygal4eva:
what does being gay have to do with marriage?

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Members of the Boko Haram have urged displaced residents of captured communities of Adamawa State to return to their communities as they have assured them of safety, Leadership Newspaper reports.

According to the report, the insurgents told residents that they will be more secured in the “Islamic Caliphate than in Nigerian territories.”

Thousands of residents have fled their communities in the wake of sustained attacks by the insurgents with four local governments of Michika, Madagali, Mubi North and Mubi South of Adamawa State falling under the control of Boko Haram insurgents.

The report quoteed a resident of Uba town, Mallam Salisu Baba as saying that normal activities have started picking up in the captured territories as Boko Haram enjoined residents to go about their normal activities while asking them to open their shops for business.

Also, the resident said the Boko Haram insurgents have warned politicians not to try to hold any election in the state as they vowed to frustrate any of such actions as they have resolve to capture the whole state in no distant time.

The report further quoted Baba as saying that the insurgents assured them of security and unassailable freedom, adding that unlike other parts of the state where curfew was imposed and people are prevented from riding motorcycles, the insurgents have assured residents of free movement anytime of the day and asked them to ride their motorcycles.

SOURCE: http://dailypost.ng/2014/11/05/boko-haram-assures-residents-captured-communities-safety/

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A Nigerian teenager who resides in the UK, Obitana Onyia has been declared wanted by UK’s Metropolitan Police for repeatedly stabbing an unidentified man, at Creek Road on Sunday, November 2nd.

The Met police who declared the 19 year old wanted, described him as a black, 6ft tall with a tattoo of ‘cross’ on his right arm.

“Officers believe that Onyia has connections with Woolwich, Greenwich and Plumstead. He is needed for questioning regarding the stabbing incident. We need not the public to approach him but call police at Greenwich when they come in contact with him” a police source told Dailymail.


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Veteran Nigerian musician who is now a shadow of his old self, Majek Fashek, has announced his political aspiration.
Speaking with Pulse.ng, the reggae artiste stated that his main reason for venturing into politics is to support President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Next year, I’m going to be entering into politics. I am going to be in the PDP…I will support the president. I will support the president and the governor, that’s why I enter into politics. With my knowledge in the American world, presidency is not my calling, I’m a revolutionary musician, so what I can do with the power God gave to me is to support the government so that they can help the poor…The presidency is too much work, I don’t like it. Instead of me to become a president, I will support the president.”

According to him, the incumbent president deserves a second term just like it happened with U.S president, Barack Obama.

“In 2015, I am supporting Goodluck Jonathan, because he needs a second term like Obama. We are in the political era, and we are going into political transition. We either re-elect Goodluck Jonathan or somebody else. But so far, I think Goodluck needs second term to try his best.” He quipped.

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So i should not marry? Am not GAY please! Thank you in advance.....

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Weird MC, born Adesola Adesimbo Idowu, is one female rapper in Nigeria who dazzles on stage.

She was one of the artistes who closed this year’s edition of the annual musical concert, tagged “Felabration” which held penultimate Sunday at the New African Shrine. Showtime Celebrity cornered her. She shares the story of how she dumped basketball for music.

From where do you derive the strength you exhibit on stage?

Every human being has a unique gift from God. At the beginning, it was a gift I didn’t understand. My mother told me that as a little girl, I was restless, energetic and active. My father, at a point, was worried about me.

But after awhile, some of my aunties intervened and allayed his fears as they got him to understand that I would be energetic and active when I grew up.

Not knowing that later in my life, I would go into music. It’s one special thing that has really made my brand stand out.

Any time I hit the international stage or perform anywhere in Nigeria, the first thing people always talk about is the energy I display on stage. They always wonder where I derive my energy from. I thank God for the gift.

At what age did you realize you had that gift?

I started appreciating the gift when I was 14-15years. I was playing football as well as basket ball. I was also into athletics. In fact, I realized that each time, we were running on the pitch, I would run faster than my opponents.

I did hundred meters, two hundred meters, high jump and long jump. That was when I realized that the gift was something special that I should pay more attention to.

Were you doing music by the side?

Then, I wanted to be a rapper. I like rap music but I was not certain whether I would do music professionally. My main focus was actually basketball. I wanted to play basketball.

But along the line, some of my friends advised me against the choice. They criticized the way basketball players are treated in the country. They suggested, however, that I should travel to America, if I must pursue a career in basket ball. I wanted to embrace the idea as I have a British Passport. I was born in London, I could easily travel to America from London.

Again, I caught the music bug. It was the case of me choosing between music and basketball. Later, I went for music because I was more attracted to it than playing basket ball.

I love the idea of going on stage, performing to people and influencing them with my lyrics on stage. I started to enjoy it, and later, concluded I wanted to do music professionally.

What was the experience like the first time you stormed the studio to record your songs?

It was frustrating as well as limiting. I’m somebody who like space, I am very energetic. Standing in a vocal butt to do my vocal, I felt restless. But I had to put the music out for the people to consume it.

So, I did some songs like “Allen Avenue” and later went on stage. I saw how the song was massively received by my fans.

Was your debut album, Allen Avenue, appreciated beyond your imagination?

It was shocking. I got the sign that Allen Avenue was going to be a special album after I finished recording the album. I took it to the Afro beat King, Fela to listen to.

The reason I took it to him was because I sampled one of his evergreen songs, Look and Laugh as part of the music I put together for the single.

I wanted to obtain permission from him, but when he heard the song, he was impressed that I have done something different. According to him, no woman in Africa has ever used Afro beat music to do rap, such that it sounded so marketable.

He gave me his blessing and said that he was in support of my career in music. But the mistake I made was that we had shot the music video before I went to see him.

I wished that we hadn’t done that otherwise, I would have begged him to feature in the video. That was the beginning of a journey for me to know that Allen Avenue was going to be a special single. The single was a bang.

They said that before I came out with Allen Avenue, Nigerians were not receptive to Hip-hop music. But immediately I hit the market, I won the very first Hip-hop music award in this country. I remember, it was EME Awards. That was how we started opening the doors for Hip-hop music to grow and flourish in Nigeria.

After the release of your first single, and it was a hit, were you encouraged to do more hit songs?

I had the courage that my songs would to places. This was because the scene had started to grow. After my emergence, The Remedies surfaced, followed by Tony Totula and 2face. At this point, I decided to change my style again. And this saw me infusing carriage music with talking drum.

I remember playing it to somebody in London, and the person was amazed. Many people were already saying that my second album would be bigger than “Allen Avenue.”

It’s very rare for a musician’s second album to beat his first album. I shot the music video, and the moment I took the video to the MTV Base, they were excited. I have major hits on my hand. And when I released it, it was like an explosion.

How do you define your kind of music?

I don’t even define my music. What I can say is that it’s fusion. It’s like a coat of many colours. You can hear a bit of highlife, brass, pop. It’s a combination of everything. I am a hip-hop fusionist.

When the new generation of Nigerians musicians started emerging, you were about the only female voice in the industry. How do you react to what is happening today where more female singers are taking the centre stage?

I think it is a wonderful thing that more women are now in the game. For awhile, I was worried that women were not forthcoming in the industry. Gradually, they started emerging in the scene. First was Tiwa savage, followed by Waje and later Omawunmi. It’s a blessing to the industry. More female rappers are also emerging

on the scene; Shasha has been there for a while just as myself. It can only get better and bigger with time.

Nothing much has been heard from you in recent times?

I am actually in the studio recording my latest songs. We have actually shot a video for one of the new songs. We are editing right now. We are also recording more songs, in fact, I just want to round off by doing a few collabos. I have already done some collabos but I want to do more .By the grace of God we are good to go. Yes, I know that my fans are missing me. This evening(at grand finale of Felaberation 2014), when I mounted the stage, I was almost in tears. The kind of reception given to me on stage was overwhelming.

In less than two years, the female singers in Nigeria lost two of their colleagues, Goldie and Kefee, to the cold hands of death. Do you think they left a vacuum in the industry following their sudden exit?

I don’t know. You know they just started growing in the industry. Kefee was around for a while and to come to term with the fact that she’s no more is still a shock to me. May God continue to protect and preserve us. And we will continue to do things to make them proud wherever they may be.

What would you say was the greatest mistake you have made as a singer?

I think as a musician, the moment you stepped into the spotlight, you have lost your right to privacy. That’s the only thing I can say on this matter. I am a very, very private person, but now, I have lost it to the public.

Why are you always described as a controversial singer?

I don’t know why. Sometimes, when you are different and unique, people tend to put you in a box. I don’t think I am controversial at all. I am just like everybody else. Well, that’s part of the price I have to pay as a public figure.

What’s one funny thing that has happened to you on stage?

I was performing in Lekki. Then I used to wear two rings and it happened that somebody held my hand and was dragging one of my rings from my finger. I was resisting him, but at point, I allowed him to take the ring because I didn’t want him to hurt me. It pained me because the ring was very expensive.

You have a masculine look?

I am a fit person. I hardly put on women’s clothes.

Is weird MC planning to marry some time soon?

It’s in God’s hands.

But there is a man in your life?

Yes, there’s a man in waiting. You have to be patient.

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Kenny Saint Best is a leading gospel singer and a major player in the entertainment industry. In this interview with INNOCENT DURU, she speaks about her career; how she ventured into music and how Kennis Music, which manages artistes, produces and promotes music, was birthed as well as her political aspiration. Excerpts:

YOU have been in the music for close to two decades, how would you describe the journey so far?

Wow! It has been revolutionary, full of innovation, paradigm shifting, aligning yourself with new developments, upgrading my style, upgrading my delivery of songs, upgrading, adapting the music and getting to work with younger producers and getting to understand and using the language of young people. So it has been very revolutionary. It is been like a 360-degree complete circle change for me every time. To God be the glory that I am still relevant in music because it is not everybody that started the same time with me that can still do today’s music. So it has been a roller coaster journey. It has been full of ups, full of downs, full of revelations, full of innovation, rebranding, repositioning and so on. There are too many words to describe how the journey has been for me because I have not just been an artiste, I have also been discovering artistes.

Myself and my team in Kennis Music always have been involved in discovering, developing young talents and grooming them to become global brands. It has been rewarding, developmental and a success, especially now that the Nigerian government could say that in 2014, the revenue of the country’s GDP rose to become the best in Africa partly because of the contribution of the entertainment industry.

Your family has been a force to reckon with in the entertainment industry in the country. How did it begin?

It began with me when in 1997/98, my journey into music professionally actually began. The first Kennis Music concert we had was in April 1998. Then we had another one in December of the same year. But all the attempt then was to project a new Nigerian thing because as at then, there was no industry. There were no marketing companies for the kind of music that I was going to be doing. There were few radio and television stations then. We only had Raypower, Radio Nigeria and Rhythm as radio stations and NTA and AIT as the only television stations. In the beginning, the concentration of the energy was to project me.

We weren’t looking at the industry, it was just that we needed to market a product and this product, my brothers then were only doing promotion. They were promoting a lot of artistes; they were the ones that pushed Femi Kuti out there when he released his first album. They did the same to the likes of Lagbaja and several others because of the Grammy awards they were going for. Keke and D1 had the opportunity to mingle with the entertainment industry outside Nigeria. It was the fun, while it was also the job until I came on the scene and they started promoting me. They went round to see who could market me but they couldn’t see because the companies were winding up and the ones that were there were only selling indigenous songs and sounds and the sound that I was bringing was different.

That was how we decided to float our record company. I told my brothers that I could do it and we floated it and it started with me. The hype I was enjoying could have made 10 people superstars; so I had to reach out to my friends who are into gospel music like Kingley Ike and Kunle Ajayi of the Redeemed Christian Church of God so that they could come and be part of the hype and that was how it started and people started keying into it. It was like an experiment that eventually became a successful one.

We later started including the secular artistes because we were starting a revolution in the entertainment industry. After that, we began the Easter Fiesta to promote me and because my brothers couldn’t be doing the MC, they started including comedians and as the music industry was growing, the comedy industry was also growing.

What were you doing before you ventured into music?

I was living in the UK and I had just finished my Master’s degree from the University of Benin when I went to the UK. While I was working, the Lord called me to work for Him. Then it wasn’t a music ministry, it was a prayer ministry. That took me on a mission to the UK. When I was done with that, I felt like I needed a job and God said He had a job which He needed somebody to do and I said whichever job He wanted me to do, I would do it since He called me. It was like going into partnership and I knew that He would sort me out because He doesn’t owe anyone. It was an adventure for me working for somebody was supreme and I was ready to go to any direction He wanted me to go. When He sent me to the UK, it was the day of the Holy Ghost Festival in London. Pastor Adeboye and other ministers were going to minister there.

I didn’t have the pull to go to the UK then but when He asked me to go, I went. When I got there, the Spirit of God ministered to me to write my name and drop it in the offering basket with the assurance that the organisers would reach me. I wrote on the note that I was on a mission and that God said I should do this and I am just obeying. This is my number, call me. Truly, the pastor in charge called me and that was how I started working with that ministry. I told them that God sent the missionaries to Africa and I am a product of what the missionaries had done and He was exporting me to also now be a missionary in the UK. When I got to the UK, I l found out that Christianity had gone down. Most of the churches that were booming there are Nigerian churches.

I was one of the people that were sent to go and wet the ground for the revival of the upsurge of Pentecostal moment in the UK. When I finished my work, the Lord said well done good girl but before you go, I will give you a gift of music and that was how He gave me the gift. I didn’t realise it until each time I was in His presence observing quiet time. He told me to always write down all that was coming to my mind but I thought they were poems until He asked me to go and check my diary and gave me the composition. I called Baba Keke immediately telling him that I was coming back home to start music. He was highly elated and asked me to do him a favour by doing two recorded songs in the UK.

I didn’t have money but I got a niece and went into the studio to do the recording and came back to Nigeria thereafter. When I came, he checked it and saw that I could actually sing but he told me that what I recorded was not for the Nigerian market and we started again. It was when we finished the recording that we were looking for who would market it. To our chagrin, an end had come to Sony Music, Premier Music was closing down and we said, what do we do? I told him I could start a record company because God told me that I was coming to back to Nigeria to export music. I didn’t’ know that I was in the picture, that I was coming to start a company that would be developing young people.

You are a youth pastor in your church but your critics have always said that your trendy look is worldly. What is your take on this?

I will say all of us are worldly because we are still in the world; we are only not of the world. We are all living in a secular life. Even when you are in the presence of God, you are not the Spirit, it is the Spirit of God that mingles with the spirit within you and the word of God that you bring to bear that you use as your tools. I am just trendy and each time I don’t appear trendy, God frowns at me saying the kind of people I am sending you to, this look you have cannot pull them into the kingdom. He told me that ‘If I want to pull in people that do not wear ear rings, people that will not wear trousers, people that will not look trendy, I already have people doing that work, but you, your field, your harvest, they are trendy; they are stylish, they are up and mobile people; they are in the entertainment industry; they are on the street, they are even sex workers. So you have to appeal to them.

‘They have to look at you and say, I see you in me. This would make them to release themselves for your counselling because they will feel that if this one serves God, they will also want to serve God’. To some, their sacrifice in the service of God requires that they should not wear ear rings, trousers and all that but you don’t know what I am laying down as a sacrifice. What He is demanding me to lay down as a sacrifice may not be what He is demanding you to lay down as a sacrifice. For you, it might be that by 5am, you have to carry megaphone, go to the bus stop and preach.

And if He says look trendy, be in your best suit but if you now decide not to be in your best suit, then you are doing the job half way and that is disobedience. I am for young people and God loves young people, He does not want young people to perish. He does not want them to say because of doctrine, they do not deserve the blessings of God. It is evil for people to just look and then judge. Of course, they do judge me but it does not do anything to me.

At what point of your life did you decide to go into politics?

If being in politics is a call to service, then I will say I have been in politics long ago going by all that I have been telling you since. Being in politics is a bad way to look at being in public service or being a public servant. But because people look at the corruption and the embezzlement and how people play one another, they call it politics. But for me, it is to render service to humanity for their development, for their upgrade, for the goodness that God has made available for them and all we need to do is to share and disburse them.

Mentally and spiritually, I have been in politics for long. All along in private practice, I have been rendering services in the area of discovering, grooming and developing young people. Now, this has outgrown me. It has grown bigger and asking for a bigger platform for me to continue to perform. Private practice has made us to make the entertainment industry robust. Now, because the large number of talents that the country is churning out because of the success of the entertainment industry, we cannot use our personal money anymore. It has made us to see that there is a wide gap between the government and the people, the young ones in particular. I feel that I can bridge the gap.

I have been working with the Lagos State government and somehow, I have a relationship with people at both the state and the local government levels. If God told me several years ago to come back to Nigeria because I will be exporting talents, you will see that there is a link in all that I am doing and it is God that sent me. Even this political ambition is from God. It is time for us to get the government to connect with the youths. The ambition matured last year but before then, I had worked with Mrs Oluremi Tinubu when she was the first lady of Lagos State. I have also been working with Mrs Abimbola Fashola since the inception of her office as the first lady.

I have also been working to some extent with the deputy governor on issues that pertain to women. I also worked with the chairman of Onigbongbo local government, which is my immediate constituency when he was trying to bridge the gap between the private and the public schools. It was me that they used for fund raising and as the face of the exercise. When I told the people in power that I want to come into the mainstream of politics, they were happy and they embraced me. Honourable Abike Dabiri was the first to say, Kenny, I am glad that you have come into the scene. I worked with ACN but officially, I became a card carrying member of the APC this year but, I will say that I started last year.

Apart from you, so many others in the entertainment industry are also delving into politics. Is it a bandwagon thing or is it a as a result of not making sufficient money from the industry and the urgent need to augment the little that is coming in?

It would be unfair to say that. We have leadership qualities that we have been offering the public through the entertainment industry. There is more to what we can do. Personally, I think it is not true. For me, it is a calling to youth development, it is a calling for me as a woman who has excelled in the entertainment industry to move to the position of leadership to pull others to foster more development in our industry. I am sick and tired of hearing that we have the leaders that we deserve. You just cannot sit down and be complaining, it is democracy and we don’t need to go to military school to go and learn how to carry gun to be in government. It is open to all. It is another calling entirely for some of us who have been there. Look at RMD, he has done well in Delta State. Also watch out for Fibresima, the Actors Guild president, she is doing well and will go places. It is that desire to serve mankind that pulls you to aspire for a bigger platform to serve the people.

We have so many things we want to do in the industry but because of financial challenges, we could not do it. The government has the money to make this dream come through and that is why we have to be with them in order to convince them to release the money and because they trust that we know our industry better, they would be able to release the money for us to make the industry better.

Involvement in politics is quite demanding. What will you not sacrifice to be relevant in politics?

What I will not sacrifice is my body, my faith and I will not go fetish. Those are the things that I will not do. I will not compromise my personality. I believe in hard work. I believe that if God has not put you there, don’t force yourself there. For the purpose of promoting youth development, promoting the entertainment industry and making more women to be in politics and key places to help young women, I will be very willing to give my best. I will always not keep quiet in matters that require the leaders to be accountable and responsive to the needs of the people.

You have been expressing so much concern about the growing number of commercial sex workers in your recent interviews, but the belief out there is that the world of showbiz makes their activities to thrive. Simply put, they go hand in hand. What is your position about this?

Ah! (laughter). That is fallacy and blackmail on the entertainment industry. It breaks my heart to call them prostitutes. You can blame the shaking of buttocks and indecent dressing on the industry because the industry is over sexualised and we need to purge it and separate the real content from selling bad behaviour. That is part of the work I intend to do when I become a parliamentarian. That brings us back to the neglect of the youth in Nigeria.

My brother, the youth ministry in Nigeria at all levels does not stand on its own. At the federal level, it is attached to sports. At the state level, it is either attached to women ministry or to sports again. You will find out that 75 percent of the activities that happen in those ministries are about sporting activities. The problem is that Nigeria of today has a very large percentage of the population as youths, unfortunately this huge part of the population does not have a ministry or a parastatal attending to the needs of the youth to know their challenges and their aspirations. How do you now blame the spread of prostitution on the entertainment industry that is growing the GDP? It is the sheer neglect of the youths by the government that is responsible for this and that is responsible for my pull to come and serve.

We can create an agency for these ladies and make them useful. When we have the youth ministry, you will see what we can do with our youths because the budget will be able to meet their demands. China invested in their youths and that is why they are the toast of the whole world today. The government has not invested in the Nigerian youths, that is why they see us as militants, insurgents, kidnappers and prostitutes. I am not making excuses for them but if we don’t do something now, it will be very bad in the future. One day, you will be driving down and will want to carry somebody only to find that your niece who told you good night is on the street as a sex worker! May it not happen. I think Ikeja has the highest number of commercial sex workers at night and on a weekly basis, they have over 2,500 girls on the street of Ikeja every night and it is growing.

You are a beautiful woman and men hardly take their eyes off beautiful people like you. Now that you are going into politics, they will be breathing down your neck…

(Cuts) whose neck? I don’t have the neck (laughter). I take what you said to be a compliment. When some people see me, they will say you are more beautiful than you appear in video. I spend money on this body, therefore if you don’t give me that compliment, it means my money is not working and that will mean sacking my beautician (laughter).

Thank you very much but do you know what actually attracts people to me? When I speak, you will get raptured. You experience me when I talk, the words I speak linger in your memory and you get nurtured by them. When this happens you get endeared to me but not to the point of touching me. People like to be around me just because of wisdom sake. I am not a typical woman out there and I give God the glory that my tongue is laced with grace. I make everybody that has an encounter with me to feel good and loved. Even though they are endeared to my personal charm, they just love me and hug me and say, KSB, you are a blessing and so they don’t want to defile me. They don’t breathe over my neck, they love me and appreciate me.

They even want to invest in me because they believe that there is more to me than being just here. They feel I should be up there touching lives. Even when I open a bit of my skin, you don’t see y skin, it is another person who is even more beautiful that you will see and you will just want to stay close in touch with me. Since I began my political journey, not even a single man has said to me KSB how far?

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