Sunday 29 September 2013

Meet Olawale Ojo: The Winner of MTN Project Fame 2013

The decision had been taken by fans of MTN-sponsored Project Fame West Africa music reality show who voted for their preferred candidates among the 'Sensation Six', as the 2013 finalists were called.

With just the collating company, Alexander Forbes armed with the result, the ceremony took place Saturday night at the Ultima Studio, Lekki, Lagos, as the contestants graced the stage, singing their last songs, each, just to entertain the studio guests.

Amidst the tension and anxiety that pervaded the studio, petit-frame contestant, Olawale Ojo, was declared winner of the sixth edition of the continental music show.

That night, the last shot at music, by the 400level Agronomy Student of Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, was a near-perfect rendition of Asa's Beautiful. He had sang it half-way when he delved into the Fuji genre, not losing focus of the theme of the song. He had sang his mother's praise in a high tempo tempo fuji beat and sliding back smoothly, to Asa's slow and sonorious tune as he wraps up a performance that got the audience clapping excitedly.

Even though he is more at home with the Jazz genre, perhaps his versatility was what endeared the fans to him, gathering the highest number of votes that upstaged other five finalists.

'The Pimp', as he is fondly called by friends, won for himself, N5m cash prize, a brand new car and one-year recording contract for his effort in the competition.

Olawale thus become the sixth winner of the popular musician reality show.

Why I Dumped Her Oyibo Husband -Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw Reveals

She looks very young like a lady in her early 30s, but actress Kate Henshaw is 42 years old and she is single again after she was married for several years. Below is what she said about her collapsed marriage:
I just decided that, ok, it didn't work. Next, I had to move on. There is no need holding on to the past – no need holding on to something if it's not working any more. There is no need flogging a dead horse since it is already lifeless. And when you decide to bury the horse, would you not leave the grave site afterwards? You would go now. 
Anything that happens to you now, that sun would still set, another day would come. So, it's your choice to either be part of the living or be in the grave yard. 
And I choose to be alive, enjoy my life and smile at everything that is happening – good or bad. As long as God is with you, things would always be fine with you.

I'm not thinking about anything. At the moment, I'm facing my career. If it comes, fine. If it doesn't come, that's okay. It's not the end of the world because I'm convinced that God loves me. Love has given me more than enough. I have the most gorgeous daughter in the whole world. That's enough for me.

Judgment against Prince Oyinlola Is a “Miscarriage of Justice” - New PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has described the judgment of the suit challenging Prince Oyinlola's status as the PDP's National Secretary as a "miscarriage of Justice".

The factional PDP in an online statement signed by its National Spokesman, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka, said that the party learnt with shock of yesterday's judgment by the Federal High Court Abuja, presided over by Justice Abdul Kafarati in the suit filed by the Ogun State chapter of PDP against PDP's National Secretary, His Excellency, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Governor of Osun State.

 The breakaway PDP observed that in the judgment, Justice Abdul Kafarati ordered the PDP faction led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to swear in a new National Secretary for PDP and went ahead to order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delete Prince Oyinlola's name from its records as PDP's National Secretary.

The Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led PDP condemned what it described as "obvious and glaring miscarriage of justice" as the judgment was given in spite of the pendency of Prince Oyinlola's suit over the subject matter at a superior court of competent jurisdiction – the Federal Court of Appeal Abuja.

The faction said it wish to inform Nigerians that Prince Oyinlola was never served any court processes before the judgment was delivered.

The splinter PDP went further to say that the judgment "unfortunately dishonours the Court of Appeal and His Lordship's pronouncement" on the subject matter which negates procedures outlined in the Constitution of the PDP for the emergence of the party's National Secretary.

The faction opined that the Judiciary was the last hope of the common man and a defender of the weak against the strong and appealed to the Judiciary not to indulge itself in anything that may tend to give a contrary impression.

The Baraji New PDP also appealed to its supporters and all PDP members to remain calm as arrangements are being made to appeal the judgment and ensure that justice is done in the matter.