AGN ELECTION LATEST: RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMMORROW -AGN

Writes Desmond Ike Chima

Emeka Rollas

Few minutes ago, we served our readers a scoop emerging from AGN  that one of the election candidates, Ibinabo Fiberesima, has won the election, and promised to bring you update. True to our promise, We have been able to get a top member of the Guild to react to the story and here's is his how he captured it below.

From the results sent in so far officially Emeka Rollas is still maintaining an early lead. We are surprised to read online that one of my opponents has gone ahead to declare herself winner of an Election date has not been counted. AGN Electoral Committee AGNEC is still expecting scanned copies of result from the States.

Ibinao Fiberesima

According to what myemag gathered, the election took place in various states unlike the norm where members gathered in a convention to cast their votes.

Meanwhile we have also been informed that Emeka Ike today arrested AGN's BOT incumbent chairman, EMMA OGUGUA in Lagos, all in the name of disrupting the election, which started earlier in the day.
Like they say, AGN is a drama house so expect anything. Stay tunned as we will continue to bring you more update on this...

EMERGING: Actress, Ibinabo Fiberesima Emerges First Female President of Actors Guild of Nigeria?

 Writes Desmond Ike-Chima

This is an emerging story from sources in AGN this evening, that ctress,Ibinabo Fiberesima has emerged the first female president of the AGN. You would recall that It was a long struggle for the actress whose dream was to become the president of the guild.She even took to Facebook to campaign recently. If this turns out to be true, then her dream of becoming the first national president of the perennially troubled guild has finally been realised.
Friend and actress,Rita Dominic ,took to Twitter to congratulate her some minutes ago.
Stay tunned, as we work to get the details...
 ?@ritaUdominic  :Ibinabo won! A woman AGN president yayyy @ibiliciousxx Congrats love

ANGEL UFUOMA STORMS U.S FOR DR. BELLO'S WORLD PREMIERE

Angel Ufuoma

 Emerging actress and one of the new faces in Nollywood Angel Ufuoma is currently in the US, for the world premiere of Tony Abulu’s star studded movie-Dr. Bello, at the Kennedy Centre, in Washington DC.

The pretty and cerebral Cambridge trained lawyer, featured in the movie alongside some heavyweights including Hollywood based Isaiah Washington and Vivica Fox.

Soft-spoken Ufuoma, was among the few Nigerian stars specially invited for the historic event holding this weekend amid glitz and grandeur.

Ufuoma, we reliably gathered will spend a few weeks after the premiere to rest, network and also explore new avenues and frontiers for her blossoming career with her foreign partners, before coming back to partake in some of the productions already lined up for her.

Ufuoma who left our shores in the evening of Thursday, was recently in Rwanda, South Africa and London, respectively, for a big budget international movie production that will soon hit shelves globally.

Since her arrival barely a year ago in the highly competitive Nollywood, the sexy starlet from Delta State, is gradually becoming the darling of leading filmmakers, especially those based outside Nollywood, and has continued to wow and dazzle them with her acting prowess.

Don Jazzy’s Confession:WITHOUT D’BANJ MY PRODUCTION SKILLS WOULD HAVE BEEN WASTED

Writes Desmond Ike-Chima

DBanj and Don Jazzy

Its been months since the one of Nigeria’s largest music empire, Mo’Hits crumbled like the walls of Jerico. However the duo of Don Jazzy and D’Banj, owners of Mo’Hits seem to have started missing each other already. Although D’Banj is yet to make a public declaration to that effect, but Don Jazzy just did, when on his twitter timeline he made the following comment: “Kudos to my bro D’banj, for without him my production skills which I gathered from JJC would have been wasted”.

Although in that same vein he appreciated the effort others who played key roles in modifying the brand Don Jazzy. We obtained the twitter post for your perusal.

HOODRUSH PREMIERES IN OCTOBER …As Nollywood Actress, Bimbo Akintola Unleash Her Singing Prowess

Budding actress, Bimbo Akintola’s not just an actress, she is a genius, a rare breed and a thorough professional in her chosen career, acting.

The third child of a family of six and a native of Oyo State, Nigeria. She started acting as a pupil with her peers for the school’s end-of-year drama events. As she took part in more plays, her passion for acting grew and became effortless with time.
Bimbo starred in a bluck buster recently and while expressing her mind on the yet to be released movie, Hoodrush, here is how she captured it.

‘“For those of you who haven’t heard me sing before, you will see a bit of that in Hoodrush,’she said. “Also, I think O.C Ukeje is such a brilliant actor, I think he is going places so people should watch out for him and my ‘’fake’’ daughter, Chelsea Eze , she is such a talented actress too.

Shedding more light on the movie, the actress whose hobbies are, Singing and dancing also showered kudos to the producer of the movie, Dimeji Ajibola whom she said was receptive to ideas.
Dark skiined Bimbo Akintola gave her first shot to movies, when she starred in “Out of Bounds” for which she was awarded the Best Actress/English Actress in Nigeria. She has also appeared in other movies such as The Mourning After, Out of Bounds, Diamond Ring, Dangerous Twins, and 90Ninth Day. Among others
Film lovers, and the world at large await the October debut of Hoodrush in the cinemas, to see our own Bimbo, showcase her acting prowess, which has stood her out all these years.

VIDEO: HOW PARALYMPIC NIGERIAN TEAM WERE LEFT STRANDED ON ARRIVAL

The Nigerian contingent to the just concluded London Paralympic games on Tuesday September 11th 2012 arrived the country to a very low profile reception.
When the 29-man team arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) at about 2.30pm on Tuesday afternoon, there was no official of National Sports Commission on hand to receive them.
In fact some of them were mobbed and even robbed of their medals.
This is indeed a disgrace to the entire Nation...watch this video and drop your comments below

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TWITTER LAUNCHES WORLD'S MOST INOVATIVE TIMELINE...details here

There is no doubt that since it’s introduction, Twitter has emerged the world’s most preferred micro-blogging site. With a very large number of celebrities subscribed to it, Twitter has indeed generated so much fans for itself, and have been used on on many sites being position as a widget, preferably on the side bars of various websites.

But according to observation, responding to tweets from these website, requires the user to navigate away from the page to Twitter and then post tweets.

Well, for website/blog owners, here is good news from the stables of Twitter owners.

Twitter will soon be launching it’s new HTML widget with an interactive interface.

By embedding this new widget into a website, a user can access a miniature version of Twitter there and then, without migrating to the main twitter page. The new widget includes a scrollable interactive timeline which not just displays tweets, but also gives the option to respond to them via the widget. Retweets and favourites also come as part of the upgrade besides allowing photos and images to be displayed through click-to-expand. Users can also pull tweets related to a specific hashtag or from a list and display them through the widget, rather than pulling tweets only from a given account.

We obtained the statement release by twitter management team on it’s website and here it is below:

With one line of HTML you can deliver any account's Tweets, favorites, a list, search query or #hashtag directly to your website. Embedded timelines are interactive, enabling visitors to reply, retweet and favorite Tweets, follow your accounts, and Tweet directly to you all without leaving the page. The auto-expand photos option brings the photo front and center in the timeline, and you can expand Tweets just like you would on twitter.com to see cards, and retweet and favorites counts. These new tools are built specifically for the web: they load fast, scale with your traffic as your audience grows, update in real-time, and work great in modern, legacy, and mobile browsers.

ITS SHOWTIME IN HEAVEN ...Tribute To Amadi Ogbonna, Group Entertainment Editor, Vanguard Newspapers

By Lolade Sowoolu

It’s been six nights since my sleep was disturbed. Five days and I’m still struggling with reality. My heart is sour. I’m sorely grieved. I struggle for the words because the tears won’t let me be. I’ve never been at this point before. Things like this shouldn’t happen till thirty years’ time or later. But somehow, someone pushed the fast forward button and he left us all with memories before we could even document them. Scarcely have we settled down to party, and you already left the show.

Amadi, Lolade Sowoolu and Ben Bruce’s mother at an interview session, 2010

Kemi Lawal, my columnist friend at PUNCH was first to buzz me that Wednesday night. I was deep in sleep having been kept waiting for over five hours at a friend’s office earlier in the day.

 Ngbo ki lo sele s’Amadi’? (What happened to Amadi?)

Huh? I responded half awake, rubbing my eyes. It sounded more like information rather than a question. Before I could finish processing the conversation, my primary phone line began ringing from different numbers non-stop. My BlackBerry soon took cue with unending PINGs. And then the whole ‘Display Picture’ fever from colleagues. No way was I giving in to the rumours. Palpable fear enveloped me. I was sweating. The blocked nose that had tormented me for nights was suddenly moist. I had the numbers to call. If anything went wrong at the Vanguard office, surely Eze was bound to know. I called Mr Eze Anaba, the Deputy Editor.

Yes Lolade.

‘Editor, what about Mr Amadi?’

‘Who told you?’, he said.

And my heart stopped. But I pressed further. I repeated the question, and then he gave me the official phrase: nothing is official yet. We will know by morning. Let me talk to you in the morning please.

By now, nearly all of my colleagues on my BBM contact had his picture up with PMs (Private Messages) saying ‘Adieu’ or ‘Rest in Peace’. Then I began to ‘imagine’ the news as true. And that was the beginning of the tears.

Mazi Ogbonnaya Amadi and I may belong to different generations but I can speak confidently of the last six years of his life, about the same duration for which I worked closely with him like a girlfriend, sister, daughter, right hand colleague and protégée. We’ve written countless stories together, conducted countless interviews. Yes we had a few fights but his love for me overpowered him at all times except once. Considering my hard news background, he taught me the entertainment language and made rising easier for me. He’d joke about how he would have married me if we had met me earlier and I’d reply saying, we’d fight every blessed day seeing we could barely get one day of office work over without an argument.

Mr Amadi was a lover-man, totally mesmerized by his boys and wife. He was a free spirit; quick to pick offence yet lacking the heart to follow through. It’s alright if you call him a coward in this regard. He’d tell me: I am the past. You are the present. Together, let’s give our readers the future.  He was SHOWTIME himself – a power-dresser blessed with good looks despite his small frame.

Today I look back and feel sorry for him. He must have stifled and managed more pains than we saw or knew. Many times I and Cally Ikpe (a mutual close friend introduced to me by Amadi years back) had teased him about being incapacitated each time his driver was away. In fact we called him weak for never daring to drive. We told him of several other asthmatic people who drove. But he remained adamant. He sacked his driver of many years, Femi, about three months ago after prolonged arrogance and disrespect, he said.

I have been away from the Vanguard office officially for eighteen months. We (the management and I) resumed talks and I was asked to resume again in August. I declined asking that all paper work be completed against September since August was nearly midway. I didn’t know that month was to be my last opportunity to work with you. When I last saw you at the office the Friday prior to your death, I had no inkling. You gave no clues because you had none too. We spoke about family. You told me of the SUV you were planning to buy for ‘Mummy Jude’, saying it was the one way you could thank her for seventeen years of marriage. We spoke of Jude’s admission into FUTO and about his nephew-turned-son who wants to follow in his steps and only just finished his first year of National Diploma at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba. We spoke of the KSA show he was going to Lagos to seal that evening with a promoter. ‘KSA is playing for me for free’, he said. I don’t know of how many people the Juju King would play for free. That’s how influential my Amadi was.

Today I look back and I wish I had resumed those two weeks before the fatal 29th. Since we share office corner, I would perhaps have ‘chased’ you home before your health came to that unfortunate end. I knew your symptoms. Ben Njoku did too.  But he was away on leave. I know (yes present tense) your dedication to the work. You passion oozed across our tables each time we sat to work. You were always about your pages; about our readers. You struggled to finish up that Wednesday in time for the paper to go to bed. And just as always, the paper went to bed that Wednesday night and got up the next morning; but you did not. I lost the chance of spending your last weeks with you and I completely regret it. I could have been with you in the car when the driver took you to the hospital. When the car was stuck in traffic, I could have stopped a bike earlier to get you to the hospital before the attack that labelled you BID (brought in dead) by the hospital. Maybe your inhaler was there in your pocket but you couldn’t reach it and the driver was focused on the road before him. I could have been there that one time that mattered, but I wasn’t.

It’s been eight days now and I can’t bring myself to walking into the Vanguard premise again. I can’t imagine the news room without you. I doubt I’ll ever resume there again. Adieu my Editor and Number one fan! It’s your superstar Lolade, bidding you farewell and saying SHOWTIME will NEVER be the same again!

EXCLUSIVE! ABU VENTURES BUYS DUNCAN MIGHTY"S ALBUM FOR N15 MILLION

...Writes Desmond Ike Chima

Duncan Mighty

We have it exclusively that Port Hacourt 1st son, Duncan Mighty has concluded plans to officially release his third album, anytime soon.
Myemag's investigation revealed that the 20 tracker album which was mixed and mastered by Nigeria's oldest Sound Engineer, Danjigi, was sold to Top Alaba marketer, Abu Ventures for a whopping N15m.
Duncan whose loyalty and continued love for Danjigi can not be questioned had asked him to come over to the garden city to personally supervise and handle the mix and mastering of the album, which was produced by the singer himself. According to our source, Danjigi spent more than two weeks in PH putting professional touches to the album which is now set for release anytime soon.
Although, Duncan's last album, LEGACY which had the popular track, Port Harcourt First Son recorded a huge success, his fans must be expecting something bigger from him this time, lets see what he's got

DANA AIRE RESUMES OPERATION IN NIGERIA ...Ban lifeted

...writes Desmod Ike Chma 

Shortly after Indians owned Dana Airline sent over 150 Nigerians to their early grave, feelers reaching us at myemag, has it that Civil Aviation Authorities of Nigeria, have lifted its ban on the airline operators, whose plane crashed into a two story building on Sunday, June 3, 2012.

Air Hostesses who died in the crash

faces of some who died in the last Dana Crash

According to a statement from Nigerian Aviation Ministry earlier today, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 ‘the Ministry is satisfied with the air worthiness of the airline’.

 Confirming the story, Jacky Hathimarani, the Managing Director of the airline, divulged "We're very happy about the removal of the suspension and we look forward to resuming operations in the near future,"

Now the big question is, how can Nigeria’s Aviation ministry declare an airline which killed over 150 citizens of this country to their graves due to its negligence  be given another opportunity to perhaps come back and do worse? Well, it is believed that Nigerian aren’t fools said a Lagos based activist.