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Rugged Steps Foundation Plans Charity Concert In Garden City
The Rugged Step Foundation, a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, employing the use of creative skills for talent enhancement is to organise the 1st Port Harcourt Christmas Charity Concert and Award Night this month.
Executive Director of the foundation, Prince Kalada Oko Jaja, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt recently.
According to the executive director, the Charity Concert and Award Night is targeted at the physically-challenged in the society, who have been relegated in the scheme of things. As an interface, he said the programme, which is billed to take place at the Hotel Presidential will accord the vulnerable and discriminated in the society a broad sense of participation and rekindle their faith in their abilities.
Prince Oko Jaja, a motivational speaker and youth activist said the concert is to prove that there is ability in disability and so the onus lies on the able and privileged people in our society to lend a hand of passion and fellowship to the disadvantaged and often stigmatised members of the society. According to him, the only way to ensure that peace reigns in the Niger Delta is to show love and concern to these disadvantaged members of the society.
The programme will feature, guest artists, Nolly Wood stars, motivational talk-show and presentation of awards to the highly talented among the physically-challenged.
Apart from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the official sponsors, the Foundation also counts on the partnership of the Rivers State Ministry of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for optimal success.
The 1st Port Harcourt Charity Concert is also an exclusive outreach programme to groom charity ambassadors, and restore the diminishing sense of charity among our people.
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R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.