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RSG Backs Teens Beauty Pageant …As Rollins Club Promises N1 million To Winner
The Rivers State Government has pledged its partnership with Rollins Recreation and Resource Club to ensure the success of the forth-coming Miss Royalty Teens Beauty pageant which comes up in April this year.
The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Joeba West who said this during the unveiling of the Miss Royalty Teens Beauty Pageant in Port Harcourt, organsied by Rollins Recreation and Resource Club said the government will always work with organisations whose objectives is to create opportunities for youths in the state.
She said that the forth-coming pageant will create opportunity for teenage girls to discover their inate potentials that will be useful for them and the society in future.
The Commissioner urged the Foundation not to relent, but to strive to fish them out as the future would be better for it.
President of the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industries Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA) Engr. Emeka Unachukwu said that the event is another mile stone in the effort to discover talents in the state.
Engr. Unachukwu said that the Chamber is happy to be associated with the programme as so many young artistes have been produced.
The Chief Executive Officer of Rollins Recreation and Resource Club Mrs RoI. Emiko Akaruese said that the pageant which holds April 20, will feature teenage girls between the ages of 13 and 17 years from different parts of the country.
Mrs Akaruese said that, the event aims at empowering young teenagers through the one-off scholarship scheme, while giving them opportunity to grow and develop positive self image, cultivate their talents and public speaking abilities.
“The programme will help facilitate self-confidence, provide a platform and gather experience. Life-long memories and building life long friendship, while promoting the spirit of good sports woman/sportsmanship”, she said.
According to her, winner of the pageant will go home with one-off scholarship award of one million naira first runners-up five hundred thousand, while the third place winner will get three hundred thousand.
She said that, the contestants will be scored on personal interviews speech, poise, talent evening gown and stage questions.
“The girls will go through pageantry/educational seminars stage deportment training, question and answer technique, personal grooming, etiquette, speech seminar, total image management etc., she said.
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.
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