Scheduled for November 28 and 29, 2008, the peace concert which will herald the December 5 planned cultural festival CARNIRIV will also feature the young at heart artistes and stake holders in the entertainment industry.
Prior to the peace walk and concert, the organisers of the CARNIRIV also disclosed that December 2 has been set aside to host the Walk For Live an event that will feature market women and civil servants in the State.
Yibo Koko, renown artiste, play writer and one of the foremost comedians in the country told Showtime in a telephone interview that the December 5 the cultural festival, (CARNIRIV) will start Eleme junction and end at Aggrey Road.
Honourable Marcus Nle-Ejii the Commissioner in charge of Culture and Tourism while addressing a press conference recently told journalists that, “the idea of having a carnival, CARNIRIV 2008, has been one of the best things to happen to our dear State for a long time and it has kept us busy with its vast tentacles and elements while we look at how to tap into its potentials.
At the same time it is helping us fulfill our promise at the polls for employment opportunities”. The State Mr Nle- Ejii said “needs to expose its tourism potentials and capabilities to the entire world and we need the support of the business and corporate community to make this vision a reality.
CARNIRIV 2008; our culture, our pride, is a project that will transform the event management industry in Nigeria with the machineries already in place.
With the required infrastructure, human resources, peoples of Rivers State and the several indigenous dancers, masquerades and other activities put in place, it is obvious that the memories of the carnival will linger in the minds of the participants for a long time to come.
We expect over one million visitors and participants, International Artistes and Indigenous artistes to create the right local flavor, Rivers State is ready to host the world.
Port Harcourt, the state capital is known all over the world as the Garden city, because of its beautiful layout and decent environment. Port Harcourt is indeed one of the fastest growing, metropolitan cities in Africa.
NMVA in fresh breath, gets dates
By Lolade Sowoolu
As the entertainment industry and indeed the whole of Nigeria brace up for a lot of entertainment action particularly as the year is rounding off, questions continue to pour in as touching the sustenance of the Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA); the novel award that debuted at the Expo Hall of Eko Hotels last year on the stables of Callivision Network.
Mr Cally Ikpe, initiator of the NMVA and CEO of Callivision Network has not only affirmed the continuity of the NMVA but gone ahead to announce dates for this year’s edition while speaking on the effect of competition in music video awards hosting in the country.
According to him, “ It is very healthy for the industry. In fact a lot more are welcomed. The more the merrier. It shows that I’m championing a good course”. The music video awards pioneer stated that he would give his full support to any course that would further the course of entertainment particularly music promotion in Nigeria, ‘It’s a small world and would indeed get a lot bigger if we support each other’, he submitted.
As he and his team finalise plans for the follow-up edition- NMVA ‘08, the broadcaster has announced a modification in the award categories that will be considered in this year’s award ceremony.
This he says is a product of the brain storming interactive session held among the entertainment industry stakeholders two months back.
The new categories, he disclosed, will be made public in a soon-to-be- held press conference that will flag off the submission of entries for this year’s edition and formally make public the dates for the ceremony.
However, the last weekend in the month of November has being decided on by the organisers.
Even though Cally has again stressed sponsorship as a challenge he insists that the show will go on.
“We are presently working very hard on the next edition which is due at about the same period we had the last one. We should be confirming that (the dates- 29th and 30th of November) shortly during the press conference coming soon.
We are bent on a classier show, world class this time”, he concluded.
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