Canuk looks to engage young Nigerians in the UK with first ever youth seminar

 DIASPORA organisation the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) will be hosting a youth session in London on November 14 as part of a renewed attempt to engage young people.

 Titled the Canuk Youth Engagement Panel Session 2015, the event will meet periodically and is designed to attract young Nigerians in the UK and get them more involved in the community's activities. Among those who will  be leading  discussions  at the event  are  Afrobeat musician May7Even, City entrepreneur,  Prem Goyal OBE, one of the Queens  Young  Leaders 2015 Tijani Zayyad  and Onyi Anyado  a motivational speaker.

 Due to take place at The Arc Centre on St Paul Street in north London starting from 2pm, the event will be attended by the acting high commissioner Ambassador Olukunle Bamgbose. Canuk is hoping that all the Nigerian diaspora youth organisations in the UK will send delegates to the event.

 Bisola Babalola, in her early twenties currently undertaking an LLM in international law and a member of a youth committee arranging the session, said young people are willing to serve and actually give their best so long they understand the relevance to them. Tijani Zayyad  19 one of the speakers expecting  to lead  one of the discussions  on the day, added that the opportunity  to represent  is  unreal and every opportunity  to represent community and country is precious.

Davido feat. Olamide in 'The Money'

The man of the moment Davido teams up with the baddest guy ever liveth Olamide to deliver this monster HIT titled The Money.

This is the official mastered version of The Money by HKN Boss Davido featuring Olamide and produced by Kiddominant, kindly ignore the version that leaked to the public yesterday.

Video for The Money drops SOON, shot and directed by Sesan

Late Dora Akunyili's daughter wins the 2015 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize

Information reaching us has it that Njideka Akunyili Crosby is the 2015 winner of the tenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize.

 The Studio Museum in Harlem made the announcement on Monday, October 26, 2015 revealing that it was bestowing its Wein Prize – a $50,000 award won in the past by esteemed artists like Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock – to the Nigerian-born painter who has lived and worked in the United States for many years. To Randy Kennedy in the New York Times, the prize – established by George Wein, a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his wife, Joyce Alexander Wein, a trustee of the museum who died in 2005 – has been given every year since 2006 to established or emerging African-American artists.

The Future Awards Africa celebrates 10th anniversary, launches #AfricaNeedsYou campaign

The Central Working Committee (CWC) of Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has officially launched the media campaign for the 2015 edition – which celebrates 10 years of inspiring Africa.
The campaign is themed #AfricaNeedsYou, and it will be driven by a tour of 100 cities across Africa. This tour will a) re-focus attention on the issues young people are facing across the continent, b) the case studies of how TFAA’s global brain trust has solved these issues and then c) set up hubs in each city - made up of past winners, nominees, partners and volunteers at community-levels – to solve these problems.
“Over the past 10 years, we have created a platform that has spotlighted, invested in and grown businesses amounting to over $100 million dollars in revenue, supported and created change organisations reaching over 200 million African youth, transformed governments and
institutions, and has inspired millions of young Africans directly with these stories told strategically through its 10-year cycle of global media partners,” says Ohimai Atado who is chair of the CWC. “
“There is plenty to celebrate in the ground we have covered and the impact we have made with our partners. However, there is still so much work we all have to do – and we are fired up to engage these problems, and to galvanise the continent to solve them.”
The one-year tour, which kicked off in October 2015, has now visited Kano, Banjul, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Enugu, Abuja and Lagos. Next on the schedule are cities in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Adamawa, Sokoto and Accra.

Eyo cultural troupe, Harrysong, Kcee ignite Legend ‘Taste And Tell’ night

Harrysong and Kcee performing at the at the Legend Taste and Tell night “Wave 2” held at Kuwait Field, Egbeda- Lagos recently.

 Rave of the moment and Reggae Blues crooner, Harrysong and fellow label mate, Kcee, were the special guest artistes at the Legend Extra Stout ‘Taste and Tell’ night, held in Lagos over the recently and they thrilled the highly excited crowd who trooped out in their numbers to witness the unique activation. 

The duo got the highly elated crowd dancing and singing along to some of their hit tracks. Harrysong kicked off his performance with his ‘Beta Pikin’ hit and his performance drew waves of cheers from the crowd that filled the marquee on Kuwait Field venue of the event. Kcee, the Limpopo master, followed up with a medley of some of his tracks.

But that was just to prepare the already galvanized crowd for the big one – Reggae Blues - which got everyone dancing and raising their glasses of Legend Extra Stout. As the duo performed, the crowd erupted in frenzied dance and merriment.

Yet another interesting side attraction at the Legend ‘Taste and Tell’ night was the performance by the Eyo cultural troupe, which added a cultural dimension to the event. The traditional performers hopped their way on the stage in their resplendent white attire, dancing and eulogizing the Legend brand.

The Legend ‘Taste and Tell’ is a unique consumer engagement activation introduced by Legend early this year. Consumers were required to correctly identify Legend Extra Stout from three unmarked stout drinks. Individuals who correctly identified Legend extra stout were rewarded with gift prizes.

In the second wave of the activation, the brand introduced a new activity geared towards inspiring Nigerians in the pursuit of excellence. The new activity called “Express Yourself”, involves participants being picked at random and talking about distinctive features they think could qualify them to be called legends. The segment recorded its first winner when Kelvin Dike, a 28-year old businessman, told of an emotional story of his struggles and conquests. Kelvin said the most trying time of his life was when he lost his mother in 1998 as a kid but rose above the challenge to become a self-made man. He was adjudged the winner by the crowd. He won a generator for his effort.

Also there was a question and answer session where consumers were asked questions relating to the brand. The winners went home with N5000 worth of airtime on any network of their choice.

In the Legend Taste and Tell tradition, consumers were picked through a raffle draw to come and taste and tell the difference between Legend Extra Stout and two other stout brands.  Sylvester Obinna, Godwin Obaike and Daniel Samuel emerged winners as they correctly identify Legend Extra Stout. While Obinna went home with a generator, Obaike and Samuel won a refrigerator each, for which they were grateful to the Legend brand.

6TH Niger Delta Advancement Awards 2015 holds November 28TH

 All is now set to host the 6th Niger Delta Advancement Awards (NDAA) 2015. Powered by JUVENIS Magazine, its organisers said the event is coming in months after the list of nominees was released in a press conference held in Port Harcourt.

According to the organisers, “the 6th Niger Delta Advancement Awards (NDAA) 2015 will be a historic night of awards, music, comedy, dance, fashion, spoken words and lots more as celebrities, media executives, captains of industry and government functionaries will converge under one roof. The award is scheduled to hold on Saturday, November 28, 2015 at THE GLASS HOUSE, along Rumuola-Stadium Link Road, Port Harcourt. Time: 5.00 pm”