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30 — SATURDAY Vanguard, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
Presidential candidates set
to meet movie stars in Benin
The presidential candidates of major
political parties in the country are
expected to have a quality
interactive session with the movie stars
as the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN,
converges on Benin , the Edo State capital
for its annual summit tagged “Nollywood
Actors Summit 2022.”
The three-day summit with the theme,
“Impact of Digital Technology on the
Acting Profession” comes up at Victor
Uwaifo Creative Hub, Benin.
Speaking on the summit in a chat with
NollyNow, during the week, the National
President of AGN, Mr. Emeka Rollas said
15 contestants
battle for Naija
highlandah title
tonight
op 15 contestants are getting
Tready to battle for William
Lawson’s The Naija Highlandah
title, as the search for bold
Nigerians who live by their
rules, climaxes tonight in a blaze
of games and entertainment.
The grand finale taking place
at The Stable, Union Bank Sports
Ground, Bode Thomas, Surulere
will feature performances from the
‘Gongo Aso’ crooner, 9ice, Orezi,
ARB B and among others.
There will also be fun games,
including giant board games,
snooker board, soccer table board,
card games, games from the
activations, rodeo bull ride and
photo ops. “The month-long
search saw daring participants
compete through a series of
challenges to win the grand prize of N2 million
and a trip to Scotland.
It has been an adventurous journey for the
final 15 contestants, 13 male and 2 females,
who will be vying for the ultimate prize
tonight as they had to score the qualification
mark of 80 to participate in humorous, bold
and unconventional challenges to earn their
place at the grand finale and a shot at the
star prize. “Commenting on the finale, Lerato
Makume, Bacardi Marketing Manager for
Nigeria, said, "William Lawson's Blended
Scotch Whisky has lived up to its reputation
of defying the norm with this exciting
campaign. At William Lawson’s, we make our
own rules, we are brazenly different and have
demonstrated all these in the month-long
activation. We are delighted at how the
campaign has gone because it affirms
Nigerians love our brand and messaging. We
are excited that the first-ever Naija
Highlandah will emerge on Saturday. Many
interested Nigerians are welcome to attend.
Just come early and rest assured that plenty
of excitement awaits as we pick that
courageous person to take the ultimate prize."
The search for The Naija Highlandah
commenced on October 6, with William
Lawson's Highlandahs storming major
streets and bus terminuses in Lagos. The
Highlandahs visited the Oshodi and Ikeja Bus
Terminals, where they paid the bus fares of
random Nigerians to the delight of
beneficiaries and other members of the
public.“
•Contestants playing the game
the essence of the summit is to educate their
members on the use of digital technology
to improve their crafts. It will also avail
them privileges to build and refine acting
skills, connect with great filmmakers;
casting Directors, Producers and film
distributors.
He hinted that the
presidential flagbearers
of the political
p a r t i e s ,
•Emeka Rollas
Becoming
someone else for
the screen is my
guilty pleasure
— Moyo Lawal
C
urvy actress Moyo Lawal who's best known for
flaunting her huge backside and boobs on
Instagram at random, has reminisced on a role she
played in a movie, where she transformed into a weird
soul, describing the experience as her “guilty
pleasure.”
The actress confessed that playing such roles in
movies make her even happier.
Sharing her experience in a post on Instagram, the
screen diva said she stopped playing such horrifying
roles in movies because of the fact that people wouldn't
believe she was acting. But this year, she has decided
to experiment again, and she's loving it.
“Becoming someone completely makes me even
happier. If you ever saw my earlier catalog, you will
see lots of exaggeration such as brows, dressing,
speech etc. But then, I realized that people didn’t want
to accept I was acting. Then , I will see comments like
ooh , so she can look nice, she even speaks well . So, I
stopped !! Since it is like you, people don’t want to
understand that it is acting.
“However, this year , I decided to experiment again.
And I totally loved it. Becoming 'Feturi' with scattered
teeth was super difficult and I had a lot of cuts but
totally worth it… “ the curvy actress wrote on IG.
Lawal said the film titled, “Life is Good” is being
produced by Something Unusual Studios.
According to her, “I can’t wait to see the beautiful
'ugliness' that @i_am_nodash created , come alive
on screen.” The actress began her acting carer, after
starring in the TV series, “ Shallow Waters” in which
she played the role of Chioma in the TV series.
including APC, PDP, Labour Party,NNPP,
SDP among others have indicated their
interests to show up at the summit, which
commences on Monday November 21
and ends on Wednesday, November 23,
2022.
“We have reached out to the presidential
candidates of the various political parties
and they have indicated their interests to
talk to the entertainment industry,” AGN
boss added.
Rollas also stated that
other guilds and
associations in Nollywood
have been invited to be
part of the historic
summit. He frowned at
stakeholders who are
currently kicking against
the use of Nollywood as
an umbrella body for an
AGN event, stressing that
every guild in the
industry has the right to
use Nollywood as a
name to feather its nest.”
“If anybody is kicking
against anything they
should write to me,” he
added.
F
•Moyo
Lawal
ast-rising singer, Nwodo
Chinonso Victor, known as
Kolaboy, recently released his fivetrack
EP titled 'Kola from the East'
with classic highlife featuring
Flavour among other big names
in the music industry.
The Enugu-born act revealed
that he started singing while he
was in secondary school.
"I was the social prefect of my
school then. That was when I
began my journey into the world
of music before I started recording
independently in Onitsha,"
talented artiste said.
On his style of music, Kolaboy
said he's not limited to a particular
sound. “When I started music, I
wanted to be peculiar and do
something different from what
others have been doing. I came
out with the storytelling brand,
where you make songs out of
sharing your story.
"The first song I made was a
storytelling one, 'Hello Mummy.'
It was basically a fictional and
non-fictional story about myself,
and that was before I started
exploring other aspects of music,
including the highlife genre. What
I was trying to do with my brand
was like a bridge between our
ancestral sound and the modern
sound. It is much like a mashup."
The artist stated that one of his
What earns me
sacred Chieftancy
title – Ugezu.J. Ugezu
P
opular film director and actor, Ugezu
J. Ugezu has revealed that the
chieftancy title which was conferred on
him last weekend in Anambra state was
as a result of his immense contribution
towards the advancement of the Igbo
metaphysics, ideology, tradition and
language.
The actor, said that he saw the title as
an encouragement for him to do more
for the Ndigbo.
Ugezu, who's known for his occult
grand master roles in movies, was
conferred with a chieftaincy title of Nze
Ukwu, Ayaka Igbo Gburugburu of Iduu
Eri Kingdom by HRM, Eze Aka Ji Ovo
of Obu Gad in Aguleri during this year's
World Eri Festival.
He said the monarch expanded his title
from Ayaka Enugwu-Ukwu and Umunri,
to Ayaka Igbo Gburugburu.
The excited actor added that the king
considered him worthy of the sacred title
following what he has been doing for
Ndigbo, adding “My title shouldn't be
restricted to just Enugwu-Ukwu and
Umunri as he amplifies it to Ayaka Igbo
Gburugburu.”
“I am delighted because he is the one
king who has the ancestral authority to
bestow such title on anyone,” he added.
Meanwhile, congratulating the actor,
Kanayo .O.Kanayo MFR, described
Ugezu's title as “well deserving
following his courage, tenacity, sense of
duty to Ndigbo and preservation of our
cultural and spiritual norms.”
•Ugezu J. Ugezu
Kolaboy team up with
Flavour for new EP
favourite songs, "Hello Mummy", was a
conversation between mother and child:
"It was more like a letter to my mother
trying to explain youthful exuberance.
There is a particular way all parents see
entertainers. I come from a religious
background, there is this perception they
have about all entertainers. I was writing
to tell her and
explain the
reason I am
doing music. I
am not going
a s t r a y
because I am
following my
dreams."
Asked which
of his songs
brought him
i n t o
prominence,
he replied:
"The first
song that
gave me my
break in the
industry
wasn’t really
an original
song on the
cover of
Olamide's
s o n g
'Motigbana.”
•Kolaboy