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Nigeria Music Video Awards Announces 2015 Winners

12/9/2016

The organisers of the Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA) have announced the winners of the 2015 edition of the awards.

Recall the heavily publicized annual ceremony was called off barely 78 hours to the D-day.

The coordinators had cited logistics challenge for the decision. They said ‘it was a tough call but it was inevitable’. The orgnaisers also said ‘the need to overhaul the concept, with a view to making it more purposeful also overwhelmed it’. The event was however rescheduled for a later date.

However given reasons on why they are releasing the winners for 2015 edition despite the fact that the ceremony was not held, the Coordinator of the award, Cally Ikpe said, “all other stages of the 9th edition of the NMVA was observed, from the call for entry, the nomination and to the online voting among other ancillary programs. It is imperative that the public is let in to what the result of the process is.

Though belated, but we are pleased to announce the winners in the various categories for the 9th edition of the annual Nigeria Music Video Awards. In a short while, we will also let you know what the plans for the 2016 edition are”.

The NMVA 2015 winners….
BEST RNB VIDEO

TIMI DAKOLO – WISH ME WELL

BEST HIGHLIFE VIDEO

HARRYSONG – RAGGAE BLUES

BEST SOFT ROCK / ALTERNATIVE VIDEO

ADEKUNLE GOLD – SADE

BEST GOSPEL VIDEO

HUMBLESMITH – OSINACHI

BEST VIDEO BY MINORS

YOUNG BOBBY & LEXXY EYE – FAMOUS

BEST AFROBEAT VIDEO

WIZKID – OJUELEGBA

BEST RAGGAE/DANCEHALL VIDEO

SHEYI SHAY – RIGHT NOW

BEST AFRO HIP HOP VIDEO

FALZ – KARISHIKA

BEST AFRO POP VIDEO

ORISTEFEMI – IGBEYAWO

BEST POP EXTRA VIDEO

TEKNO MILES – DURO

BEST VIDEO BY A NEW ARTISTE

KISS DANIEL – LAYE

BEST CONTEMPORARY AFRO VIDEO

KOREDE BELLO – GODWIN

MAINSTREAM HIP HOP VIDEO

VECTOR – KINGKONG REMIX

BEST USE OF DANCE IN A VIDEO

MAY D – IBADI

BEST USE OF COSTUME IN A VIDEO

TIPSY – O WUNMI

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECT IN A VIDEO

REEKADO BANKS – KATAPOT

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

MR MOE MUSA – MELO BY OLAMIDE

BEST DIRECTOR

MATTMAX – KINGKONG RMX BY VECTOR

BEST NEW DIRECTOR

WOLE SIREN – OKORO BY JOWANA

BEST EDITOR

UNLIMITED LA – AWW BY DIJA

RECORD LABEL OF THE YEAR

MAVIN RECORDS

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

VECTOR – KINGKONG REMIX

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Confronting Frustration in the Workplace- A New book

10/9/2016

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Media Specialist, Michael Owhoko, exposes workplace realities in new book

You receive a job that you have been wanting for a while. Now, after a few months on the job, you begin to realize that things are not as you would have hoped.

Office politics start to take a toll on your workflow and ultimately, you notice how managers deploy their positions to their advantage despite corporate objectives. How do you handle this frustration? Where does this stem?

As someone who has had many personal accounts in similar positions in his career,
Michael Owhoko decided to share those years of unpleasant experiences into a
Guidebook, “Career Frustration in the Workplace.” Throughout the book, employees will begin to make sense of the situations they find themselves in and also, businesses will understand how they can improve their environment.

“The words in my book expose what transpires in the workplace all over the world that people have not been bold enough to discuss in the public space,” Owhoko said.

Owhoko points out that many managers allow personal interests to override organizational objectives that can lead to selfish motives. All of these developments have negative impacts on the employees and the organization.

“To avoid pitfalls, I’ve provided and identified specific principles that will put the organization and careers in jeopardy if not addressed and upheld,” Owhoko said.

By reading “Career Frustration in the Workplace,” readers will learn how to prove their worth to co-workers, confront bad behavior in a professional way, and follow through on organizational mission statements and objectives. Whether you’re a new professional or a veteran, Owhoko’s words will leave an impact on your career.

Career Frustration in the Workplace
By: Michael Owhoko
ISBN: 978-1-4917-8552-2
Available in softcover, hardcover, e-book
Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iUniverse

About the author
Michael Owhoko is a media and public relations practitioner who has worked in the banking, oil and gas, and media industries. Owhoko earned degrees in political science and mass communications from the University of IIorin and the University of Lagos in Nigeria. Currently, Owhoko is the publisher of Media Issues, an online newspaper, and resides in Victoria Island, Lagos.

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Nigerian Literary Icon, Isidore Okpewho Dies At 74

5/9/2016

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Isidore Okpewho, one of Nigeria’s foremost scholar of oral literature, author, and humanist, has died.

Professor Okpewho died at the age of 74 at a hospital in Binghamton, New York where he lived and taught at the State University of New York since 1991.

According to Nduka Otiono, a family source said that Professor Okpewho died on Sunday, September 4, 2016 surrounded by family members.

The award-winning novelist, was author, co-author, and editor of about 14 books, dozens of articles and a seminal booklet, A Portrait of the Artist as a Scholar.

His teaching career spanned University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and State University of New York at Binghamton.

His Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology, Okpewho’s last books were published two years ago.

Born on November 9, 1941 in Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria, Okpewho grew up in Asaba, his maternal hometown, where he attended St. Patrick’s College, Asaba. He proceeded to the University College, Ibadan, for his university education.

He graduated with a First Class Honours in Classics, and moved on to launch a glorious career: first in publishing at Longman Publishers, and then as an academic after obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Denver, USA. He crowned his certification with a D.Litt from University of London.

With his two earliest seminal academic monographs, The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance (1979) and Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance (1983), Okpewho quickly established his reputation as a first-rate scholar and pioneer of oral literature in Africa.

For his distinctive and prolific output he was honoured with a string of international academic and non-academic awards that included the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM), in Humanities for the year 2010.

As a writer noted, “Recognition for Professor Okpewho’s work has come with some of the most prestigious fellowships in the humanities: from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1982), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1982), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1988), the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard (1990), National Humanities Center in North Carolina (1997), and the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003). He was also elected Folklore Fellow International by the Finnish Academy of the Sciences in Helsinki (1993).”

Prof Okpewho also served as President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA).

For his creative writing work, Okpewho won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature and 1993 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Africa.

His four novels, The Victims, The Last Duty, Tides, and Call me by my Rightful Name are widely studied in Africa and other parts of the world, with some of them translated into major world languages.

He is survived by his wife, Obiageli Okpewho; his children: Ediru, Ugo, Afigo, and Onome, as well as members of his extended family.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family in the coming days.

“We will miss his charming presence, warm-heartedness, and wise guidance,” said a member of the family last night in Binghamton, New York. “But we are consoled by the great life he lived, the many lives he touched beyond the nuclear family, and the remarkable intellectual legacy he left behind.”

Culled from www.9jainformant.com

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