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AU, AFRIMA UNVEIL NOMINEES FOR 6TH AWARDS CEREMONY

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….Diamond Platnumz, Davido, Teniola, Fally Ipupa, AKA, Shatta wale, Amara Brown, DJ Arafat make the Regional Category list
….Continental Category scheduled for Release on August 23
…..Voting to commence from September 1 to November 22, 2019
…..AFRIMA Main Events slated for November 20-23, 2019

The African Union, AU and the International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA unveiled the Nominees’ list (regional category) for its 6th edition at a World Media Conference on Wednesday, August 14, 2019, at the Abora Hall, of Eko Hotels And Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

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With an array of music industry professionals, artiste and music journalist in attendance to witness the unveiling of 2019 Nominees’ list for Regional and Continental category emerged from the 8,157 songs/videos received as entries from its online portal which closed earlier on August 2, 2019. The unveiling event was broadcast on African Independent Television (AIT), RayPower Fm and Kennis Music FM as the remaining 25 continental categories will be released on Friday, August 23, 2019 after auditing by the International auditors of AFRIMA.

The Regional category for Best Female Artistes and Best Male Artistes of the five regions (Western, Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Central Africa) have been thoroughly selected from the entries to reveal artiste who will be competing at the 2019 awards ceremony.

This year’s list showcases a wide range of creativity and talents both from new and known artiste across the regions. Artiste like Shatta Wale, Kizz Daniel, Salif Keita, Burna Boy will be competing for the Best Male category in Western Africa, while Teniola, Simi, Aya Nakamura, Mzvee, Yemi Alade amongst others will be competing for the Best Female category in Western Africa. Dominating Central Africa include Cameroonian artiste Blanche Baily, Charlotte Dipanda, Daphne alongside their male counterpart Locko, Magasco and Salatiel.

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For Eastern Africa; we have great contenders including Sheebah from Uganda; Vanessa Mdee from Tanzania; Nikita Kering from Kenya with Tanzanian Diamond platinum, Rayvanny, Mboso, and Kenyan Khaligraph Jones and Nyashinski.

Moroccan Yann’Sine, Ahmed Soultan, Amiinux, and Algerian Soolking with Cairokee from Egypt, Salma Rachid from Morocco will be battling it out in the Northern region for Best Male and Female category.

A huge representation for South African artiste as they hold sway over the Southern African region for both Male and Female categories. These artistes include AKA, Nasty C, Cassper Nyovest, Sjava, Black Coffee, Kelly Khumalo, Zonke, Nadia Nakai among others. Amara Brown, Tamy Moyo, Jah Prayzah, and Winky D also lock down few spots for Zimbabwe in the Southern regional category.

The Continental category comprising of different genres of music will be released Friday, August 23rd following an auditing process from the international auditors of AFRIMA.

Drawing from their pool of experience and professionalism, the 13-man jury, guided by the AFRIMA acronym FACEIT which stands for Fairness, Authenticity, Creativity, excellence, Integrity, and Transparency underwent a week-long process of thoroughly screening, categorizing, assessing, and grading from the thousands of entries in order to arrive at the best reflection of rich and creative talents embedded in African music, reviewed songs were produced between the period of August 1, 2018, to August 2, 2019.

Mr. Chris Syren, representing Southern Africa, speaking on behalf of the AFRIMA jury, gave a report on their activities including the tireless and assiduous process they had to embark upon during adjudication, the quality of works received, criteria for selection, and the voting process. He commended AFRIMA for its sense of inclusiveness and unity at leading the conversation of using music as a tool for integration and shared prosperity in Africa. The Head of Culture, Africa Union, Mrs. Angela Martins, via a video conference expressed her excitement of this year’s AFRIMA, its capacity to promote the African culture positively as well as called for more support for the continental initiative.

The AFRIMA online voting platform is set to open to the public on Sunday, September 1 and will run till November 22, where both continental and regional nominees in the 36 AFRIMA awarding categories will compete against one another for the coveted 23.9 carats gold-plated AFRIMA Trophy.
Nominees will depend on their fans and followers spread across the globe to vote for them in an open voting process via the AFRIMA website, www.afrima.org

The 2019 AFRIMA ceremony scheduled to hold on November 20-23, 2019 during a four-day fiesta of music, glamour, Afrocentricism and entertainment in the official awards Host City will commence with the Welcome Soiree followed by the AFRIMA Music Village, the Host City Tour, the Africa Music Business Summit, the exclusive Nominees Party and concludes with the live Awards Ceremony.
Fans of African music globally can follow along and take part in the AFRIMA 2019 events on social media, live stream on the AFRIMA website, the AFRIMA App and by tuning to over 84 television stations which are AFRIMA partners.

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Filmmaker and Actress Omobolanle Onifade is Out with another movie titled Second Chance (Video)

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Filmmaker and Actress Omobolanle Onifade is Out with another movie titled Second Chance (Video)

Filmmaker and Actress Omobolanle Onifade is Out with another movie titled Second Chance (Video)

 

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Sahara Weekly Reports That Award winning filmmaker Omobolanle Onifade is out with another inspiring and interesting movie, Second Chance starring John Ekanem, Debby Felix, Chioma Okoli, Ehis Perfect, Anthony Nwahiri Bukola Mato and others…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filmmaker and Actress Omobolanle Onifade is Out with another movie titled Second Chance (Video)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The story is created by Omobolanle Onifade and she is also the Associate Producer for the project and Mercy Ubiebor the Producer . An Accelerate Studios production.

 

 

Second chance is the story of a rising legal practitioner confronting her demons in a gripping tale of love, loss, temptation, addiction, and redemption. The well scripted movie is a must watch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would be recalled that delectable Bolanle Onifade is the producer of the movies Wizard and FIYIN showing on her YouTube channel BOLAGOLD Tv.

 

The phenomenal Actress cum Realtor is definitely the next big thing in the movie industry as she is currently a producer in Accelerate Tv doing mighty things.

 

 

 

Born and raised in the ancient city of Abeokuta in Ogun State. She is an Alumnus of EbonyLife Creative Academy , a film academy founded by Mo Abudu.

 

 

 

Confessing her winning strategies, she said faith in God, dedication and self development have been her winning ways

 

 

 

 

 

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JUST IN: Popular Actor, Mr Ibu Dies Of Cardiac Arrest

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JUST IN: Popular Actor, Mr Ibu Dies Of Cardiac Arrest

 

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Sahara Weekly Unveils that popular Nollywood actor, John Okafor AKA Mr Ibu has died of cardiac arrest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUST IN: Popular Actor, Mr Ibu Dies Of Cardiac Arrest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was made known by the president of the actors guild.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details later

 

 

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Deep End Entertainment premieres Block buster “Reflection”

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On Saturday February 24th, history was made as Deep end entertainment premiered “Reflections” at the Viva Cinemas in Ikeja. The premiere was attended by Legendary superstar actor Paul Obazele along side other Prominent Nollywood actors like Big Tony of the Prodigal brother Fame, the director Mr. Osaretin Festus Isibor, Kelly Ogbeide who played the female lead role in this blockbuster film. Comic act Pikolo, APC ex Officio south west Hon. Bunmi Oriniowo also graced the event.

REFLECTION was first premiered on the 30th of December at Deep End Cinemas in Benin City. “Reflections “ is about a man in his mid fifties faceing his ultimate accountability in his darkest mind. His split personalities would taunt and chastise him for his atrocities in his last hours as he mirrors himself against his alter ego. All his bad deeds would hunt him to self condemnation. It’s a crazy movie, full of suspense and it’s also a thriller.

On the concept of the Movie, the director Mr. Osaretin Festus Isibor said “ I just thought about a crazy idea one cool evening and remembered I
this guy Paul Obazele whom I’ve worked with before and every time he takes Coke, he gets high and he can behave certain ways and I said to myself I’m gonna write a script that will depict this guy’s character. So, I grabbed my iPad immediately. I sat up all night and wrote the script, Reflections and I am glad I did and it turned out to be a really interesting movie”.

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The film recently hit the Cinemas as many fans who watched the most thrilling film gave kudos to all the actors and actress that took a role in the film, Particularly the Actors and actress that took a duo role.

One of the eye witness that Graced the Premiere of “Reflection” said a lot of energy and Ability were pushed into making the film a Blockbuster, therefore describing the work as International standard and the one that will stand the test of time.

Osaretin Festus Isibor who is the founder of Deep End Group of Companies has mostly and heavily delved into the Nigerian entertainment and hospitality industries. He is the CEO Deep End Farms, Deep End Studios, Deep End Records, Deep End Cinemas, Deep End Hotels, Deep End Fun House, Deep End Hunted House, Deep End Villa Obagie.
Osaretin Festus Isibor is a devoted businessman who is so much passionate about people’s happiness and that is why he invested majorly in the fun value chain. He is a film producer, a music expert and an overall entertainment guru.
Reflections will be premiered on Saturday March 16 at Silverbird Cinema, Central Area Abuja by 4pm.

 

Deep End Entertainment premieres Block buster "Reflection"

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