Monthly Archives: January 2018

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN,S DAY, 8TH MARCH 2018, ENUGU, NIGERIA – AN EVENT YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS

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Are you a teacher, join us in this conference as your job is at risk.

Are you a lawyer, join us in this conference as you will learn how to increase your client number?

We welcome our judges to attend as they will have an in-depth understanding of domestic abuse which will help them make fair judgment?

Are you a researcher, please join us as we have one of the best researchers from UK on issues of domestic abuse? We are partnering with them to roll out a research that will be peer reviewed in the international arena.

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ROLE MODEL OF THE WEEK, MAUREEN ALIKOR – POET, BRAND STRATEGIST & ADVOCATE FOR WOMEN

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Maureen Alikor is a graduate of English Studies from the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Rivers State.

She is a writer, a poet, a social media marketer, a brand strategist and an entrepreneur.

She is the convener of Demystify Abuse Campaign, an NGO set to combat the issue of rape and sexual abuse. She is FIDA (International Federation of Female Lawyers, Rivers State Branch) ambassador. An advocate against stigmatization against rape and sexual abuse victims.

She also advocates for victims to live beyond their experiences as life doesn’t have to come to an end for them. She is the founder and lead brand strategist of Ripplegasm Ventures, a consulting, PR and media company that specializes in brand development, marketing and advertisement.

She is a member of Port Harcourt Literary Society, serving under the resident poet as administrative secretary. She is a farmer, focusing on Cassava production. She facilitates an online relationship class called Bolt & Hinges. She believes that sound relationship and emotional management is essential for productivity. She is an advocate for purposeful living and has spoken on purposeful living on TV, radio and various events and platforms

 

MAUREEN

POETRY CORNER – [ origins ], WRITTEN BY ABEIKU ARHIN TSIWAH FROM GHANA

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[ origins ]

😐
some bodies survive under water
when a heart breaks 
and tears form a castle

good things happen effortlessly
like finding love in a wand
in the middle of a terrorist attack

ugly things do not survive day light
they are like alphabets
breaking into sentences in darkness

beautiful things are not always beautiful
sometimes it is just the music in their rigid bodies
that attract our feet in the sand

someone next door died a night ago
and our neighbour’s dog came wailing
like it had mistaken a stone for a bone

but you see – not everything makes sense to all men
while some are smokeless cigarettes
others are mayhem writing crustal bodies in the sand

my mother isn’t dead yet
but i cry as much as a child
whose mother died on a moon a night ago

not everyone is a product of the earth
some are dead bodies
resurrected in poems & silicon chips

on every wednesday
i want to be like a god with bones & heart
that can be broken by the hand of love

but you see – i’m no god
& i’m no spirit but biology
finding a woman to breathe life into
😐

#TheCapeCoastBoy
#TheVillageThinkers

 

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ROLE MODEL OF THE WEEK – NKECHI UGOCHUKWU, FOUNDER OF CENTER FOR GIRL CHILD RESEARCH

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Nkechi Ugochukwu was born in May 19th, 1993 at Osina Community Hospital, Ideato North Local Government Area, Imo State. She is the second child of Mr and Mrs Emmanuel Ugochukwu from Eziokwu Ozuakoli Urualla in Ideato North Local Government. Urualla is one of the rural communities in the state in which its inhabitants specializes mostly in Agriculture and Small Scale businesses.
As a young girl, Nkechi was born with a physical leg condition caused by lack of vitamin D which brought series of psychological abuses and rejections from peers, family members and teachers who called her ugly and told her she will not be getting married. These abuses led to her suffering of  severe low self esteem and lack of self confidence.
 “Based on the saying that every disappointment is a blessing in disguise”, Nkechi buried her time in reading. Books and movies became her best friends and with the knowledge acquired, she conquered low self esteem by confronting the circumstances that tends to pull her down.
 At 19, she tried running an NGO that aims to help young girls overcome low self esteem, it failed due to lack of leadership qualities. Two years later, she cofounded an organization called Mind Miners Initiative into motivating young girls to become whom they really want to be. She has worked as volunteer in different local and international organizations where she focused on helping communities and individuals become the best part of them.
As a passionate girl child advocate with the goal of becoming an international girl child advocate and research consultant, Nkechi founded Center For Girl Child Research And Advocacy where she focuses on helping individuals and organizations working around gender by providing appropriate verifiable qualitative and quantitative data and also help to develop effective intervention strategies on these issues. This is aimed at eradicating gender harmful practices and abuse globally.
She hope to continue her work as a community developer with a focus on women and Girls.
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INTRODUCING “AFRIKA OUTLOOK” AS PART OF AFRICAN HERITAGE TV MAGAZINE, HAMBURG, GERMANY

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Providing the platform for our own narratives.
Studio Talk Guest (s)- (Celebrities, Politics, entertainment, Civil Society, Business)
= Music Segments:- (Music from Stars & Celebrities as well as from newcomers and young talents)
= Inside the Community:- (Short Reports from AO Team on: Political Events, Religious Events, Social Events, Associations Events, Business Events e.t.c.)
You are welcome to join our team if you are in Hamburg and you are interested in providing our narratives

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“MY LITTLE BOOK OF SPIRITUAL SECRETS” WRITTEN BY AFRICA4U AWARD WINNER- BEN EDEM (GET YOUR COPY TODAY )

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In view of this, Ben began a movement to assist people understand more about spirituality, the power within, as well as the technicalities of the spirit realm.
With a blend of motivation and spiritual revelations, Ben has effected changes in the lives of people within and across Africa.
In his book, “My little book of spiritual secrets”, you’ll understand the spiritual mysteries of the elements, traditions, and dogmas.
You’ll understand the spiritual power of the sun, the moon, and numbers. You’ll discover answers to trivial questions about angels, dreams, and spirituality. You’ll understand the spiritual significance of the first day of the third month, the eighth month and many others.
For more information contact +2348091051678
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POETRY CORNER “AND OUR SHRINES NOW HAVE HOLES” WRITTEN BY KENNETH CHRISTIE ATITI

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-and our shrines now have holes-

I woke up as a wizard today
with scales on my palms
and rivers beneath my footsteps

so I walked on
along that thin glass
of flowing men like plenty water
and women whose hair were snakes like Medusa

before noon
I was an ordinary man
who was carried like a baby
on the back of many worrying spirits-

they were my kindred
from future times
and were only here
to break the endless tide
of mother and child in an open market

but they would tear my tongue at noon
when they sought feathers of eggshell sublimities
at the fiery festival of tangled rhythms
where they spoke in scents of a sleepless bride

and still there
I saw her proud again in flashing memories –
like a clan-country-continent
dressed in colourless robes

yet if we must call names
let us not Trump all in one hole –
where black cocks claim innocence
at the unconcerned rites
that would cut their brothers’ throats
and then cry fowl

but we all came from God’s loin
at the breaking age
where we washed our navels with dew drops
by the side of the Martyrs’ blood
at these comings and goings
of a groping “igbakhuan” ancestry
not knowing that gods stay home
in their own shrines

and I will wear my beads proudly
and not let this error of darkening clouds
prevail in his mouthing judgment
even if it is still noon –

for his words run from him too
as we do from our unkempt shrines

–Kenneth Christie-Atiti.
©2018.

 

KEN

ROLE MODEL OF THE WEEK, DJ DYNAMITE (HENRY OGUNGBILE) BASED IN THE NETHERLANDS

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DJ Dynamite brings the accumulated experience of over 18 years behind the decks and an International repertoire to match.

Having been bitten by the music bug at an early age, he moved to Johannesburg (South Africa) from Nigeria to school/develop his skills. His CV boasts of major Nightclubs in and around Joburg/Yeoville where he’s been the In-house DJ or guest at various gig and festivals.

DJ Dynamite has grown to become an household name in the Afro Beat scene in Europe, since moving to Amsterdam.

He’s toured major cities from Vienna to Budapest, Spain, London to mention but a few and has helped promote the Afro Beat Genre which predominantly was of the Nigerian root but has since stretched all over Africa and the rest of the world.

Check DJ Dynamite out at Club DNA Amsterdam, Club Kings (Amsterdam) and African Kitchen Gein when in or around Amsterdam.

 

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IGBO LANGUAGE SCHOOL OPENS IN FRANKFURT, GERMANY ON THE 20TH OF JANUARY

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IGBO LANGUAGE SCHOOL OPENS IN FRANKFURT, GERMANY ON THE 20TH OF JANUARY

In a bid to promote African languages in the diaspora, an organisation will open a school where children can learn Igbo in the German city of Frankfurt. Igbo is the language of the Igbo people, one of the main ethnic groups in Nigeria.

Founded by the Christian Igbo Professionals Network (CIPN), the official opening ceremony of the Igbo Language School Frankfurt will take place on 20 January 2018.

“The Igbo Language School Frankfurt Germany was conceived to teach Igbo language to Igbo children in Germany as well as to other interested persons, and to promote friendship amongst cultures,” the CIPN said in a press statement signed by Engr Stanley Okoli and Mr Che Chidi Chukwumerije, Chairman and Secretary respectively of the organisation.

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“The Opening Ceremony of the Igbo Language School Frankfurt will be an opportunity to familiarize you with our vision, and present our mission and school plan in the upcoming period.”

The CIPN believes that children of African descent born and bred in the diaspora should be afforded the opportunity to learn the mother tongue of their parents. The language, they believe, is the window to their culture of origin.

The Igbo language, a member of the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, has approximately 24 million speakers in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea. Igbo is written in the Latin script, which was introduced by British colonialists. // SJ

Opening Ceremony of the Igbo Language School Frankfurt
Date: Saturday 20th Jan 2018, 12pm
Venue: Saalbau Niederrad (Clubraum 2), Goldsteinstraße 33, 60528 Frankfurt am Main
For information/enquiries: Igbo.christiannetwork@gmail.com and +491731652099

 

 

SOURCE –  AFRICAN COURIER, GERMANY

ROLE MODEL OF THE YEAR 2017, YOMI KOIKI PLANS TO VISIT 36 STATES IN NIGERIA (PROMOTING THE BEST FROM EACH STATE )

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After my 76 days Mission to showcase Nigeria, I am planning to visit the whole 36 states before end of 2018.

Bringing out tourist destination and information about each state and more.

If you would like to sponsor or support in anyway do get in touch via

07936 435365 whatzup only
07037649064
Musakalam1@yahoo.com

You can also support by donation

 

https://www.gofundme.com/4z2cars

YOMI

ABOUT YOMI  – ROLE MODEL OF THE YEAR 2017

A BIT ABOUT YOMI

 

My name is Olayomi Olakunle Koiki and I was born 31/05/1978  in lagos Nigeria to Alhaji and Alhaja koiki From Ijebu Ode.

 

I am the Founder and CEO of Imperial Computer Centre & General Store and also The Founder of the whatzup group Agricultural International Cooperative Organisation.

 

I am The Business development Manager for 9jadiaspora – working with the community by bringing the news, events, business and various occasions within the Community via all our social media platforms.

 

I am also a presenter on the Starr Radio UK every Wednesday call 

9ja Voices and the link below shows you all my past shows and interviews 

 

https://youtu.be/wi9NWjCq2Ko

 

I worked  in the hospitality industry in UK for more than 19years with all the 5 star Hotel’s.

 

In my spare time, I am The PRO to HEN FOUNDATION and successful deliver the foundation 3 days breast cancer screening in lagos October 2017.

 

Onward Nursery and Primary School Surulere Lagos.

Attended Abeokuta Grammar School.

Did a Foundation at London Metropolitan University.

Lambeth College London

Robertann Computer College.

 

2017 Uncelebrated Nigerian Award UK for contributions to Creative / Performing Services.

 

Twitter @yomez06

Instagram olayomi koiki 

Facebook olayomi koiki 

YouTube olayomi koiki

Skype yomez2006

 

+44 7936 435365 (Whatzup Only)

070 3764 9064

Musakalam@yahoo.com

#olayomikoiki2017 #olayomikoiki #9jadiaspora #9javoices @9jadiaspora #olayomikoikilagos

 

King of Social Media

 

 

Mr Olayomi O Koiki

PRO and Founder

Agricultural International Cooperative Organisation

( AICO)