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We are moving N100m into Ekiti with 24 plays and giving 16 local Govts N750k each as grants We give grants to those taking part as against other festivals who ask those who come to showcase to fund themselves and then turn to share their gate fees and finally all plays are free We must…

I feel so ashamed to say that I hardly attend Magodo Estate meetings popularly called MRA Although I attend strategic meetings during the election period, you cannot really call me an MRA person. Anyway, that is how this Saturday, I found myself at the south east zonal meeting and as expected, the talk was boring…

I first met her as Roli in the then extremely popular soap opera – Mirror in the Sun, and since then, she has been all over, powering one of the most iconic careers in film, theatre and management. She has been with the legendary Olu Jacobs since she was 19 and he was in his…

.. The renaming of the Charly Boy Busstop by the Bariga Local Govt is all shades of petty. With all due respect to Olamide, that Busstop, I reconfirmed while working with Fada on his biography was named as such cos the very good people of bariga used to gather there to meet with him and…

This young lady, Haliya Adebayo – Mustapha is daughter to my child hood hero and fellow Shomolu sojourner. She was born for my hand in Shomolu when me and the papa dey suffer, me as Stockbroker, him as Insurance man. Today she has grown to such a brilliantly beautiful young lady. This is are just…

Following my lecture at Sir Otitoju’s 70th, the irresistible UI Alumni Lagos chapter is sending a powerful 5-man delegation led by Otunba Folaran the Chapter President to pay me a courtesy call to discuss amongst others securing a viable wealth creation model for the great alumni Plenty of plates of afang with periwinkle, garnished with…

Ruth Osime is a ruthless, take-no-prisoners kind of interviewer Tomorrow she will be discussing the Homosexual issue on her popular program – Perspective Her angle would be the women who describe themselves as married to gay men and how they are coping She wanted me on board and I was keen but talks that spanned…

Let’s have a colloqium, just 30 people in a room and pull in General Ike Nwachukwu your hero to chair it and talk about your work in design and architecture… That was me to architectural maestro Chike Iroegbunam just yesterday in his luxe office as a way of celebrating his 60th. Chike froze, swivelled on…

As I sat in the beautiful Oriental Hotel Ballroom yesterday at the investiture of my sister, the ever-so-brilliant and elegant Uto Ukpannah as the second female president of the very powerful Institute of Chartered Secretaries, my eyes surveyed the room Uto’s investiture had pulled in power. Emir Sanusi was in full attendance, Keem Bello Osagie,…