Entertainment
Organisers Set For Maiden Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention
The Nigerian
Entertainment Industry Lecture Series (NEILS) to highlight the advantages of health insurance and why entertainers must insure their health will hold on July 22, the organisers have said.
The lecture is part of the activities for the maiden Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention being organised in conjunction with National Health Insurance Scheme.
The other collaborators in the event that is scheduled for the Grand Ball Room of Eko Hotel in Lagos are Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Medical Association.
“It will encourage the practitioners of the entertainment industry to insure their health and plan for the unforeseen.
“It will put an end to the highly degrading means of begging for alms whenever any practitioner of the industry is down with an ailment,” the organisers said in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.
“And at the end of this conference, practitioners will put more premium values on their health and understand perfectly the importance of health insurance.
“Also, there will be timely intervention to save the life of any practitioner in the entertainment industry who falls sick.
“In the past, the industry has lost some of its finest entertainers because it took too long to raise the required funds from the public, friends and fans.”
According to the statement, the convention will also help to fulfil the directives of the Nigerian government urging all citizens to embrace the National Health Insurance Scheme.
“The convention will help the practitioners of the entertainment industry to preserve their own future and that of their families.
“Majority of them have learnt lots of lessons from our yesterday celebrities who by now cannot foot their own health bills.
“None of the crop of today’s celebrities will be a star for life, especially as the times and seasons are subject to change.
“This will help them to save a fraction of their earnings today for their health insurance schemes against rainy days instead of blowing all on life’s frivolities,” it said.
Some of the topics to be discussed at the convention are “The Health Implications of Celebrity Life Styles”, “Benefits of Health Insurance Policies” and “Health Insurance Policy …at What Cost?
The others are “Health Insurance Policy…How Dependable?” and “The Role of Government in Health Insurance Policies”.
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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