Kigali — AWARD winning American songstress and actress Lauryn Hill who has been in the country for the 7th Pan-African Dance and Music Festival (FESPAD) said that she has been greatly amazed by the country’s progress and the rich culture.
Speaking to the press shortly before departing, Ms Hill as she is commonly known, said that she would not hesitate coming back for a second time to enjoy the great hospitality the country has to offer and defined her visit as “a major comeback to Africa and Rwanda.”
“I am just excited to be here. I found Rwanda a country rich with culture and beautiful people. I am very excited about the progress I am seeing, it very hopeful,”
“I just came back from the memorial museum and what I saw was touching, powerful, important and extremely necessary,” Hill said in an interview.
The former Fugeez star said that 13 years ago when she visited the continent, she went to Kenya but was advised against travelling to Rwanda for her safety and her pregnancy at the time but added that she had finally fulfilled her dream to come to Rwanda.
“The culture is rich, the people are beautiful, I would like to come back and visit for sometime,” Hill said.
She added that she was impressed by the annual festival which brings together various artistes and that through music the festival can play an enormous role in rebuilding the country and marketing Rwanda as a country.
“I am happy to have been part of this exciting skill and talent showcasing event. It is really exciting,” Hill said.
She further said that it is wrong for people in foreign countries to quickly judge Rwanda before coming down to see what is really happening and what the people are doing to move forward.
The 35 year old songbird is one of the many international artistes the weeklong festival has drawn to the country.
The climax on Saturday is expected feature prominent Nigerian award winning musician D’banj as well as other prominent artistes from the region.
Fuge turned hip hop philanthropist Wyclef Jean is turning his fame and stardom into a political direction. According to Ottawa-Gatineau newspaper Wyclef is running as a candidate for the November 28 presidential elections in Haiti. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The ex Fugee member is known for his humanitarian work especially since his founded in 2005 Yele Haiti Foundation. After the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 Wyclef has dedicated his efforts to reform the country of Haiti. With the help of Wycelf’s Yele Foundation the education system and poverty of Haiti has improved tremendously. Besides his determination Wyclef has donated several funds to the citizens of Haiti.
The Grammy Award winning musician has not yet confirmed or denied his candidacy, but rumors are swirling that Mr. Wyclef is waiting to finalize his paperwork before the deadline. If the rumors are true Wyclef will be a hero to the nation of Haiti. His devotion has certainly helped and inspired millions of citizens. Wyclef remarked in an article for the U.K. Daily Mirror saying:
Wyclef for the people
“Haiti still needs our help – more than ever. People around the world made lots of promises, and we want those promises to be kept. My wife Claudinette and I are passionate about rebuilding Haiti. We’ve seen the situation with our own eyes, and we’ve been listening to others.
Uche Jumbo, Desmond Elliot and Emem Isong were a cast in the Royal Arts Academy Productions, Guilty Pleasure and Nollywood Hustlers starring other notable stars such as Ramsey Nouah, Majid Micheal, Nse Ikpe Etim, Uche Jombo, Susan Peters, Charles Inojie, Monalisa Chinda
and many others.
They are reuniting for new movies set for premiere in August. The movies titled ‘Holding Hope’ and ‘Bursting Out’ would have the trio once again – Emem Isong, Desmond Elliot and Uche Jombo. The premiere would be showed to a selected crowd amidst pomp and pageantry like it was done for the former two movies.
Holding Hope is the story of Mrs. Badmus and her wayward son. It is the
story which springs complexity out of simple plot. For Sidney to inherit his
mother’s wealth who is dying of cancer there is a hurdle he must cross and
that hurdle isn’t an easy one. The story was written by Uche Jombo, Emem
Isong, and Uduak Emem Oguwamalam. With impressive cast such as Uche Jombo,
Desmond Elliot, Nadia Buhari, Biola Williams, Ngozi Nwosu, Rukky Sanda and
many others one can only imagine what to expect.
Uche Jumbo and Biola Wills
Bursting Out is the story of a lady ripe for marriage and family wants her
to get married to the many suitable suitors but she delays, as time goes on
she decides to close her eyes and jump, a decision of faith that comes with
consequences. Star actress, Genevieve Nnaji and Majid Michael reunites in
the movie that has directorial hands of Desmond Elliot and Daniel Adenimokan
to create electrifying masterpiece. Emem Isong is the producer of the flick.
Speaking on the movie, Uche said they want to make people cry, laugh and
perhaps pause and think at the same time. ‘It’s a movie that we intend and
want people to see in the cinema, and be moved by it, cry about it, and at
the same time, laugh. Really, life is too short, as there are things you
Nse, Omoni Oboli and Genny.
can change in life, but there are also things you cannot change”.
‘Holding Hope’ and ‘Bursting Out’ will be premiered on Sunday, August 8 at
Silverbird Galleria, Lagos before doing rounds at ‘community cinema houses’
across the country.
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A married lecturer with adult children in the Ambrose Alli University ‘forced’ a female student of his, Judith Okosun into having sex, the act was filmed and the videotape was flashed everywhere on the internet .
Every faculty, student and family share a common priority in an educational center like the Ambrose Alli University, and that priority is leaning.The Ambrose Alli University will not be the first institution of higher learning in the world to be faced with incidents of corrupt sexual behaviors between unprincipled students and dodgy lecturers or professors.
What is likely to be the first across the globe, is that on July 23rd, 2010, there was dramatic moments of a student, one Judith Okosun, in a chaotic encounter in the latter’s tiny room.
There is a human side to this tragedy, which is the possible shocking response that could occur in persons directly and indirectly involved in this all time and highly published live video.
At the time of his writing, one wonders what the said lecturer and student, their respective families, the administrators, faculty and the student body of the university could be going through emotionally and morally.
There is a feeling of dishonor, indecency and shame that could be robbing on those affected by this hurting incident.
In what manner could the lecturer be thinking at this time even if he is being viewed as dishonorable, what could be streaming through the mind of the student even if she is being described as vicious?
At on point in the video, in what seems to be expressions in the Ishan vernacular, an Edo State dialect of this writer, a female voice, possibly that of a female on-looker or Ms. Okosun could be heard admonishing the highly distressed and near-naked engineering university lecturer; “Oya gbe’, tell me yes ma, Oya gbe (meaning shame on you, tell me yes madam). At which time the visiting but physically shaking, distraught and fenced in lecturer, replied through a nervous laughter, “Yes Ma”.
In the moment to moment recording were traumatic mentions of his wife, and daughter by the streaming and noisy voices of on- looking students. The identified student, Ms. Okosun, could be noticed periodically showing fluctuating display of facial pain and anger, in between phone calls.
At the point of this ugliness, what about their families out there in their respective homes, what could they be thinking is this a real or a fake episode?
For the lecturer’s wife, adult children and other family members, this apparent devastating event could form into an emotional storm and an overbearing event.
There could be feelings of traumatic horror equally manifesting in the affected student’s family. Even the co-female residents of Ms. Okosun, as well as the male students operating the video could be heard periodically mounting off screams of frustration and fury.
And there is no doubt that the families of the video operators could be feeling a sense of traumatic worry over the whole explosion.
How does any one make the families and the faculty, the males faculty mostly, understand the institutional tragedies flowing from this experience.
In the live footage, is a middle aged husband, father and lecturer with a full and open display of his penis per the order of both the female and male students.
So clear, from the entire image is a display of alarm, shame and helplessness beaming across the nation, and globe into various homes, offices, markets, dormitories and other settings.
Under these situations, the need for clear and cool heads through some form of clinical help becomes paramount.
The Nigerian culture historically has little attraction to helpful outlet like professional counseling and therapy, and instead many Nigerians rely much more on religious, tribal and family support or remain indifferent to painful related experiences. Certainly these outlets are part of the African reality.
However, the current institutional traumatic grief stands out markedly, as it is first of its kind, therefore calls for a much more different understanding, assessment and emotional support.
The Psychology department of the University with the help of the two or three Clinical Psychology faculty should set up a Crisis Drop- in- Center in safe like settings. It should be open to any one related or involved with the university. In matters like this one there are natural responses of all types which could include guilt, exhaustion, apprehension, bewilderment or catastrophe.
The overall set up for help should revolve around Institutional Tragedy Assistance. The lecturer in question should be encouraged to receive urgent individual counseling to deal with possible feelings of acute stress, hopelessness, insecurity, gloom and loss.
On a separate basis his wife and children could be scheduled for a critical or an immediate family therapy, and in future another line of therapy with possible inclusion of the dishonored father and husband should be offered.
The student in question, given her reported past frustrations and dealings with this lecturer, and her current feelings of mixed, disgusted emotions and all of her overwhelmed undertakings ,she could gain from a cooling out related crisis intervention.
Her own family could also gain from some sort of supportive counseling. The faculty, administrators and other university staff should be encouraged to come in for counseling focusing on ‘this could have being me’ session.
Also, other students like Ms. Okosun’s co-residents, the students’ video makers and other on-lookers to the graphic scene, could gain from a safe environment like the drop in center to vent their anger and worry over their aberrant acts, the videoing of the episode especially.
And for those whose assessment and intervention showed to be in need of further help, a psychiatrist could become involved for medication evaluation and possible psychotropic medication maintenance.
There is the need for the Vice-Chancellor Sam Uniamikogbo and his administration to realize that crisis intervention is of high importance as it could help the affected players and individuals, the lecturer and the student especially. Immediate therapeutic assistance could help them learn better coping skills, develop good problem solving behaviors, and avoid negative ways of coping such as engaging in self destructive acts like self injury, drug or substance abuse as well as help return the individual to their previous level of functioning.
The commission of inquiry and the probing panel of this incident by the State of Edo under the administration of Governor Adam Oshiomhole, and through an investigatory team at the university are certainly required.
VIDEO:
Here’s a Transcript of the conversation between the lecturer and the student, Judith by Kayode Ogundamisi
TRANSCRIPT:
The sexual harassment encounter between Engineer P. O. Otubu of Ambrose Alli University and a female student “Judith”-The video starts with an approach to a room with a burglary proof gate and a wooden door slightly open behind it. The gate appears locked and Engineer /Professor P. O. Otubu sat on a plastic chair panting after what appears to be a fight between him and student “Judith”
Female voice: Judith
Judith: Uhh
Femaile Voice: I wan talk to you
Lecturer: You don naked me now
Judith: (apparently calling the man) Otubu
Lecturer: Yes?
Judith: Otubu?
Lecturer: Yes?
Judith: Oh. Sheybi you for don pass me (meaning she already got a passing grade from an earlier sexual encounter with the professor) , make I go. It is better than all this sweat.
Lecturer: the other time I didn’t know your number then
Judith: Ah, ahn, you didn’t know…you did it intentionally
Lecturer: No, no, no no
Judith: So that I will come and you’ll do it again , so that you will f**k
Lecturer: Me!
Judith: ( says something in local Edo dialect)
(Lecturer makes a pleading gesture to person filming the incident. Judith appears to use a phone to take lecturer’s picture)
Lecturer: my brother, you are a man. Are you a student?
Male voice: Judith, Judith, Juddith
Male voice 2: (apparently in response to lecturer’s pleading gestures) Wetin you dey beg, you dey beg me? You never see (inaudible)
Male Voice 1 from “film crew”: Judith, Judith, that is okay. Open the door for him. Open for him, open for him. Please open for him
Male voice 2: Open where?
Judith: (apparently in answer to lecturer’s quiet question) I don’t know them o
Lecturer: (to man or men behind camera) My friend
(Judith derides the man’s privates )
Judith: John Thomas (laughs)
Male voice 1: Judith, wey the check wetin e wan sign. E don sign am?
Judith: I no see am see check
Lecturer:E no bounce check now I have the check
Male voices: Oya sign them now. You go sign that check before you leave this place o. Which bank?
Lecturer: (apparently answering) Bank PHB…
Ale voice 1: okay I have somebody that can verify it for me
Lecturer: As soon as they pay in June salary, you cash it
Male voice 2: June salary? We should be waiting for June salary?
Male voice 3?: no, noooo. No.
Male voice 2: Sign it first
Male voice: where is the car key
Male voice: Sign it first
Judith: (Appears to be talking on the phone ) Honey? Ohhhh, e tell me say my car no…I dey video am sha, normal….my love
Male voice: E don sign am
(Judith , whilst on the phone, pulls lecturer’s trousers stripping him nearly naked)
Male voice: Judith, let him sign the cheque first now. (Shouting) Let him sign the cheque
(Whilst Judith is pulling the man’s trousers)
Female voice : Let am sign the cheque
Male voice: let am sign the cheque
Male voice: no worry, e no bounce
(man talks inaudibly)
Male voices keep calling out to Judith
Male voice; leave that man
Judith (still with phone to her ear says to lecturer): Put your hand down
Male voices support her request by shouting the same to lecturer
Male voice: What are you still waiting?
Female voice: Put your hand down
Judith: Put your hand down. Oya snap us. Put your hand down
(Lecturer complies revealing a shrivelled up penis)
Judith: Put your hand down.
Male voice: stay close, stay close
(lecturer smiles sheepishly)
Judith: (slaps his back because he has pulled his trousers up again.) Put you hand down. You are covering your john Thomas
Male voice 1: Put your hands down . you see you are covering it. Put your hands down
Lecturer: Are you taking it? (apparently asking if they are filming / taking pictures)
Judith: Oya, Snap am o. I hope e get memory card
Male voice: yes, yes
Male 2: better memory card, you never see
Judith: you are not going anywhere.
Male voice1: you are not going anywhere. Come come come come, see
Male voice2 : The fact is, If this cheque bounce, this photograph will get around this school
Male voice: settle us first, settle us now first
Lecturer; I beg, give me something to wear
Male voice: I gave you something to wear – that white knicker. Put this on , wear that one
Lecturer: I will wear it on top of it
Male voice: wear it on top. You can go with it . It is my own
Male voice 2: I wanted to give him my knicker if he he can pay for it
Female voice: Go sit down. Your own no pass money (she says apparently to the boy who wanted money for his own shorts) – instead make una dey beg my sister
Male voice: I don beg o. I don beg o
Lecturer: This is pass…Its cheque book
Male voice: There are some things inside ( the ma’s trousers). Give her everything to hold (must be female voice) so that nothing is missing
Male voice: Where is the cheque book? Where is the cheque book
Judith: If you do not put this thing, I will call your wife
Female voice: e say e wan sign cheque now
Male voice: Sign the cheque, before you do anything
( A lot of behind the scene conversations. People are asking what is going on )
Judith: Which date e go put for the cheque
Lecturer: June salary
Male voice: we don’t even know when…
Male date : put any date there
Lecturer: (inaudible utterance) soon as they pay, just come and cash it. This Monday
Make voice2: If you put Monday the Cheque is going to bounce because June salary…Monday is not okay. Put month end
Lecturer: 30th
Male voice: What is on the 30th?
Lecturer: It is Friday or so.
Male voice: okay put 29th
Male voice 2:You go settle our own?
Lecturer: I have already put 30th
Male voice: hope that signature is your signature. Or else you go see yourself , inside TV today
Male voice: This one clear. E clear like DVD nah. This lecturer?
(lecturer gives a frowning Judith the cheque, smiling and petting her)
Male voice: show the cheque, show am, show am
(someone holds cheque up to camera)
Male voice: This is the cheque? From Mr Okosun. N100,000
Former Nigerian state governor James Ibori, wanted by the UK on charges of money laundering and who was arrested in May by Interpol police officers in Dubai, will soon be extradited to London, confirmed a Dubai Police source.
James Onanefe Ibori served as the governor of the oil-rich Delta State from 1999 to 2007. Ibori, who is believed to have entered the UAE a couple of times on visit visas, was planning to start a business here. He was arrested just a couple of months after he entered the country.
Interpol warrant
Acting upon a red corner arrest warrant issued through Interpol, Dubai Police investigators arrested Ibori at a five star hotel in Palm Jumeirah.He was initially bailed and later he was detained, said the source.Based on a media report, Nigeria’s anti-corruption police tried to arrest Ibori to question him over allegations that $290 million (Dh1064 million) was looted from Delta state government coffers while he was governor.
However, hundreds of Ibori’s supporters prevented police from arresting him and he is believed to be a powerful presence among Nigerians.Faridi Waziri, chairwoman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was quoted by media reports as saying that Ibori was detained after an arrest warrant was issued by Interpol.
“The EFCC charged Ibori in 2007 with looting more than $85 million during his eight-year tenure as governor of Delta, one of the three main oil-producing states in the southern Niger Delta region, but a court dismissed the charges,
” Waziri said.Ibori is accused of using state funds to purchase several companies under his name. Commission investigators said Ibori would later launder that money in the UK, in bank accounts he controlled — a matter which he continuously denied even while arrested in Dubai.
Several of Ibori’s associates are facing money laundering charges in Britain, where a court froze $35 million worth of his assets in August 2007 on suspicion they were the proceeds of corruption.Ibori was detained by Dubai Police on the sole request by the Metropolitan Police Service, the police source said.
When extradited Ibori would become the second person to be sent to Britain for trial under a 2008 treaty.
British trial
According to various media reports, his wife, sister and personal assistant were all the subjects of a money-laundering trial in London that began in 2007.
Anti-corruption officials in Nigeria said they are working with the Metropolitan Police in London to ensure Ibori is extradited there.
Its no wonder to hear that the South African president womanise, after all, most political leaders womanise with sex scandals here and these, while some still manage to keep it private. But in the case of president Zuma, he has put others in the shade. His own case makes sex scandal morally upright.
The 68 year old president is a unique womaniser. He has got skills as a womaniser to be a world-beater. I think he should be the last president to engage in such acts if it were to be a must for all presidents considering the high rate of HIV infection in South Africa. And i ask, is this the best way president Zuma can help solve the problem of high rate of HIV infection in the country?. This question brings to mind the statement he made while emphasizing on the need to create more hotels and restaurants to get more young men and women dating. Is Zuma making it open that he’s a flirt?
Zuma’s family crisis has been zeroed in on his terrible sex life. He has been facing sex scandals even before he was sworn in as SA president. His failure to using condom in extra-marital relationship has resulted into family crisis. Lets give you a quick run-down of president Zuma and wife’s sex scandals story.
In 2005, Zuma who was accused of raping an HIV positive woman claimed that he had protected himself from getting infected when he took his bath after having sex with the woman, and had not used a condom. Sounds funny!. In 2009, Zuma married two more wives (Ntuli and Madiba) and in early 2010, he impregnated another woman, his friend’s daughter named Sonono Khoza. The highly-sexed president has been married five times, but currently has three wives and two fiancées ‘Gloria Ngema’ and ‘Princess Sebentile of Swaziland’. Zuma might still have some fiancées out there which he is not ready to disclose (but will later do as he impregnate them).
The 68 year old president has more than 21 children and all his wives and fiancées are in their thirties. Zuma was once accused of raping his friend’s daughter. Recently, Zuma’s second wife, Ntuli popularly known as Mantuli was accused of been impregnated by her ex-private bodyguard who had committed suicide after the scandal was revealed.
Zuma is really disturbed by the incident that he had to call for a serious family meeting. Zuma’s family are not taking it likely with Mantuli as different letters have been submitted to the media accusing Mantuli of carrying her late bodyguard’s baby. Mantuli who is still battling with a married actor who had claimed to have had a child with Mantuli is not living with the president as she lives in durban. Its now a case of “like husband(zuma), like wife(mantuli)”.
South Africa is known for her high number of HIV victims as the country produces more than 300,000 victims of HIV every year. Could one say President Zuma’s case explains why S.A. produces such a high number. Zuma’s sex life is one of a kind. As Kerry Cullinan will say “HIV prevention is getting people to change their sexual habits”. But Zuma, the influential and notable figure who is capable of effecting the change is not by any means working towards it. He is rather selling himself short among young women. You should wonder if Zuma has ever been sex-starved by his wives, which might be an excuse for his extra-marital relationship but Then if that is assumed, then what of his failure to using condom during sex.
Overall, President Zuma needs caution and he needs to make use of his discretion. Hopefully, the family crisis resulting from the untimely scandal knock sense into president Zuma, make him regain consciousness and get out of the wood.
The event put together by Magic Entertainment and Slick Bar VGC would take place every last friday of the month. DJ Pioneer tells that his intenton with DeJaVu Night is to provide fans who have been the only reason the Nigerian music industry as remained as vibrant and promising as it is, a chance to enjoy good music from premium and tested fastrising artistes without the hassle of paying a fee at the gate.
“The music industry is still without a structure even being a multi million industry, pirates living comfortably of their illict trade, artiste still not getting royalties every time their music is used – radio and TV are still promotional avenues and don’t give the artiste enough for using their materials as content”, DJ pioneer said.
“The only reason there is an industry is because there are fans. Every artiste who is in business and big today from Tuface, D’banj, P sqaure to M.I. had to convince and rake in the fans before the corporate endorsement came.They are career artistes and don’t need to moonlight to make ends meet.” he added.
“I feel an event without a gate fee is got this inviting aura,” he said jokily.
DJ Pioneer is a protege of renowned Nigerian DJ – DJ Humility. Born Eno Henry in the 80s into a family of six as the First child, He dropped out from The University Of Calabar to become a career DJ and presently attends private institution, Grace Polytechnic, Surulere. DJ pioneer is an on-air DJ with Rhythm FM.
His dream is to represent Nigerian in the world DJ championship – DMC.
“We kicking off in Lagos island but it would be moving to the mainland and Abuja in the nearest future”, Pioneer enthused about the event.
Deja Vu Nite promises to be like no other experience as it would parade nextrated artistes and a bundle of A list celebrities. The event, hosted by Silverbird Rhythm FM’s Elboogie and Victoria Pepple will hold at Slike bar VGC Opposite Nicon Hotel Hotel, Victoria Garden City Lagos on the 30th of July, 2010.
It would be hosting Kas (‘fimile’ fame) and Wizkid as well as feature an array of noted artistes, such as: Ajuju, Sleek, A Jay, Ojeezy, King Boston with Nigezie’s Andre Blaze as a special guest. DJ Pioneer supported by DJ Johnny Blaze would be on the wheel of steel all night.
Entry into the event jointly facilitated by Slick bar VGC, Magic Entertainment and powered by DJ Pioneer is free and it is open to all but guest would be denied entry when the club capacity is reached.
Asa has been called a lesbian, which she has denied but not once being said to be sexy but she does make a pass for a hottie. She was recently photo’d at the Ultima Studios and Project Fame House where she was paying a mentorship visit to the budding singers at the MTN Project Fame Academy. She is said to be rounding up work on her second album which is yet to have a release date.
Asa was accompanied by her manager Janet Nwose on her visit even the studio’s CEO wouldn’t miss a chance to be photo’d with her. See the pictures below [anybody got a tip on who his the man in her life? she shouldn't be single]
Here's the hot Asa with Joke Silva
Asa with Academy Principal Joke Silva
Strikes a pose alone.
Asa and Kaffy
CEO of ULTIMA STUDIOS Femi Ayeni poses with singer ASA
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