January 13, 2023 - theBladeNG

HOW PEACE ANYIAM-OSIGWE HELPED US SELL NOLLYWOOD TO GERMANY—AMBASSADOR ISAAC IZOYA

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Convener of the Nollywood Film Festival Germany and Nollywood Europe Golden Awards, Ambassador Isaac Izoya, has recounted how the late AMAA Founder, Barr. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe had collaborated with him to promote Nollywood in Germany. Izoya who penned a condolence message to millions of fans and well wishers of Nollywood over the death of Ms. Anyiam Osigwe, described the death as “sudden, shocking and untimely”. Izoya who said that Ms Anyiam-Osigwe collaborated with his organisation in 2008, in the showcasing of Lagos as the city of excellence under the “Loving Lagos…

UCHECHI EMELONYE’S ‘UNDERWATER’ WINS BBC MUSIC INTRODUCING ‘RECORD OF THE YEAR 2022′

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’Nigerian Afrosoul singer, Uchechi Emelonye wins BBC Music Introducing ‘Record of the Year 2022’ ‘Underwater’, one of the two singles released in October 2022 by Afro-Soul sensation, Uchechi Emelonye has won the BBC Music Introducing ‘Record of the Year 2022’ in Lancashire, England. BBC Music Introducing, launched by the global media network, BBC in 2007 is a special platform dedicated to supporting new artistes and their music, by offering the rare opportunity to be to be played on BBC Radio network and subsidiaries like BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2,…

“DAY OUR PRAYERS WERE NOT ANSWERED”—BROTHER OPENS UP ON HOW AMAA FOUNDER, PEACE ANYIAM OSIGWE DIED

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Contrary to all the rumours and media reports, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe’s elder brother, George Anyiam-Osigwe, has revealed how his younger sister died. Speaking when a delegation of the Association of Movie Producers, AMP, led by Queen Blessing Ebigieson, the association’s Vice President, paid the deceased family a condolence visit, Anyiam-Osigwe revealed that Peace was with him at his house in GRA, Ikeja, Lagos till midnight on Saturday, January 7. Said he, “We took tea together. Then she left around midnight after chatting with me for a long time. She had no…

PVC COLLECTION: INEC EXTENDS DEADLINE TO JAN. 29

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of permanent voter cards (PVC) till January 29. The commission announced this in a statement on Thursday signed by Festus Okoye, its national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education. INEC had fixed December 12 to January 22 for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 LGAs. It also said it would devolve PVC collection to the 8,809 registration areas/wards from January 6 to January 15, 2023, after which the exercise will revert to the LGA…

JUST IN! LISA MARIE, DAUGHTER OF MUSIC LEGEND, ELVIS PRESLEY DIES AT 54

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Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock’n’roll legend Elvis, has died aged 54, her mother has said. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said. Lisa Marie, also a singer, was rushed to hospital earlier on Thursday. Media reports say she had cardiac arrest. She was found unresponsive at her home in Calabasas, California, sources told US outlet TMZ. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known,”…