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MTN Street Dance Winners Celebrate Victory In PH
The winners of the MTN
Street Dance Competition in Port Harcourt that was held at the Carniriv Junction Aggrey Road recently, the”Street Empire” celebrated their victory in grand style with lots of fun and thrilling.
The celebration dance show tagged “Splash Night” which took place at the No.5 Field Volleyball Court, Niger/Bende Street, Port Harcourt Township on Sunday featured the expendables that won several competitions as well as top ten finalists in the Nigeria Got Talents Dance competition held in Lagos, Team Exploit, Explorers, and Exoduz.
Speaking with our correspondent, the leaders of Street Empire Dance Club, Inyang Adam Joseph a.k.a. AD Rock said the three months old dance team also won Rivers State International Dance Day held on April 19,2016, Baptist Church Talent Hunt, Mile One Diobu Port Harcourt as well as the All Street Dance sponsored by the communications giants, MTN in Port Harcourt.
Joseph hinted that they were celebrating their victory with a dance as it is their dream to make fame and wealth as well as create impact on the society with dancing.
According to him, with Bobby Blackson as his role model, the Street Empires’ would take dancing to the next level.
Also speaking, the President of Port Harcourt Dancers Association, Bobby Blackson opined that his aim had been to give dancing recognition in the society for them to have empowerment, stressing that most dancers would be given the orientation as future leaders.
Blackson said dancers were looking at changing the society for better, through dancing and enjoined all dancers to do what they know best and aim at the sky as their limit.
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.