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Africa Movie Academy Awards founder, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, is dead

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Peace Anyiam-Osigwe

The founder of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, is dead.

A statement from her family confirmed the tragic incident on Tuesday morning. They, however, didn’t reveal the cause of her death.

 

Describing the late filmmaker as an epitome of creative transcendence, the Emmanuel Onyechere Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe clan said Peace was an outstanding personality, trailblazer, titan, pathfinder, go-getter, humanitarian, one-of-a-kind creative, and visionary leader in the film and television industry.

 

“Peace left indelible imprints on the sands of time. We as a family and clan will continue to do all that is necessary to ensure that her legacy lives on,” the statement read.

 

The statement added that the Africa Movie Academy Awards and the Africa Film Academy, along with their training programmes across Nigeria and the African continent will carry on seamlessly the institutions she set up and with the full support of the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation and other institutions and government agencies she has worked with over the years.

The late Ms Anyiam-Osigwe was a Nigerian filmmaker and entertainment executive.

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Veteran Nigerian actor ‘Papa Ajasco’ is dead

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Papa Ajasco

Veteran Nigerian actor, Femi Ogunrombi aka Papa Ajasco is dead. Late Ogunrombi racked up popularity for his role in Wale Adenuga’s comedy series.
This news of the talented thespian’s death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, on his Twitter handle on Sunday.
He wrote, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular #waleadenugaprod comic series, ‘Papa Ajasco’, Mr. Femi Ogunrombi, is dead.”
Ogunrombi took over the character Papa Ajasco, when the former character, Abiodun Ayoyinka, pulled out of the show and he carried on with the role while it lasted.
Papa Ajasco and Company (formerly The Ajasco Family) is a Nigerian family television sitcom created by Wale Adenuga in 1996. The show is a spin-off of a feature film of the same title produced by Wale Adenuga in 1984, which in turn is based on the comic Ikebe Super. The story revolves around the Ajasco family and their comedic interpretations to major societal issues.

The main characters include womanising patriarch Papa Ajasco, his long-suffering wife Mama Ajasco, their mischievous son Bobo Ajasco, local playboy Boy Alinco, promiscuous gold-digger Miss Pepeiye, and illiterate ne’er-do-wells Pa James and Pa Jimoh. At its prime, Papa Ajasco was widely considered to be Nigeria’s most watched comedy series, viewed weekly in twelve African countries.

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Black Sherif shortlisted for BBC 1 Xtra Hotfor2023 campaign

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Black Sherif

Ghana trailblazer and singer, Black Sherif, has been honoured by BBC 1 Xtra as he is part of artistes to lookout for on the station’s prestigious Hotfor2023 campaign.

Blacko was chosen alongside several incredible artists who are tipped to excel in 2023 and beyond, according to the British black music powerhouse.

Some of the artists who made the list include the sensational British female group, Flo, Doechi, Cristale, Nemzz, Ayra Starr, Debbie among others. Black Sherif had an incredible run in 2022 and released his debut studio album, ‘The Villain I Never Was’ which is still charting across various digital streaming platforms.

He successfully headlined his own shows in both the UK and Ghana, and he delivered an outstanding performance on the 25th MOBO Awards main stage at the OVO arena in Wembley, UK.

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Afrochella is now AfroFuture, organisers officially announce name change

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Co-founder of Afrochella, Ken Agyapong Jnr

The 2022 Afrochella was said to be the last Afrochella in Ghana, an announcement that brought shock to many. Organisers of Afrochella made the ‘shocking’ announcement at the very end of the two-day festival in December 2022. “This is the last Afrochella,” said co-founder Abdul Abdullah to the thousands of people who were at the El-Wak stadium in the capital, Accra.

In a new update, the co-founder of Afrochella, Ken Agyapong Jnr, has revealed that though they announced that the annual show had come to an end in 2022, the event will return this year, 2023.

According to the son of Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central Constituency, they have decided to rebrand and give the event a new name and identity, hence, marking the end of the name ‘Afrochella’ last year.

Speaking on Daybreak Hitz, the co-founder, he said “at the beginning of last year (2022) in February, when we dedicated that the theme for the year will be Afrofuturism, that is when we actually came up with the idea of changing names. Because, in the long run, we knew we were going to change the name”.

There were speculations the event might not be making a return over a lawsuit from Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and its organizer, Goldenvoice for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday, October 5.

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GTA forces Shugatiti to stop selling food in penis shaped pots

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Shugatiti to stop selling in penis shaped pots

Shugatiti has introduced a way to make her food business more attractive but that has been disapproved by Ghana Tourism Authority although her strategy was attracting adventurous tourists.

The Ghanaian socialist who doubles as a nudist, designed variety of food pots, some shaped as fish with others seeming like a man’s balls to serve food sold at her local dishes restaurant.

The pots attracted attention on social media but according to Shugatiti, she can’t use some of them again because the Ghana Tourism Authority has cautioned her to desist from using her infamous genital-shaped clay pots. She has disclosed that the government agency said her restaurant isn’t safe for children.

“Ghana Tourism Authority served me a letter discouraging me from the use of my penis-shaped pot. They indicated that it isn’t safe for children. So now, we no longer serve with those pots…ever since I opened my shop, government officials have been disturbing me. You can’t operate a business in Ghana if you’re not strong,” she said.

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Benin pro-government parties win parliamentary majority

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Benin elections

Benin’s pro-government parties have won a majority of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, the country’s constitutional court announced Thursday. The vote also marked the return of the opposition after a four-year absence.

Sunday’s vote, which went ahead peacefully, was a test for the West African state. President Patrice Talon has promoted development, but critics say that democracy has gradually been eroded under his watch.

It was the first time the opposition was participating in elections since businessman Talon came to power in 2016.

Over six million Beninese were called to elect 109 MPs. Pro-Talon parties the Republican Bloc and the Progressive Union for Renewal together won 81 out of the 109 seats, said Razaki Amouda Issifou, president of the constitutional court.

The opposition Democrats party gained 28 seats, he said, adding that voter turnout was 37.79 percent.

Seven political parties – including three allied to the opposition – were allowed to take part in the election.

Only parties that win more than 10 percent of the vote are eligible to get parliamentary seats, according to a proportional system.

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UK condemns Iran’s execution of dual British-Iranian citizen

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Alireza Akbari pictured in Tehran

A dual British-Iranian citizen was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and corruption, a state-affiliated media outlet reported Saturday, the latest in a string of executions carried out by a regime grappling with unprecedented protests across the country.

The Iranian official, Alireza Akbari, was executed for crimes including “corruption on earth,” according the Iranian judiciary-affiliated outlet Mizan. Akbari was charged with working as a spy for MI6, the British intelligence agency, and reportedly paid more than $2 million in various currencies – 1.805 million euros, 265,000 British pounds and $50,000 – Iranian state media reported Saturday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “appalled by the execution.” He added on Twitter: “This was a callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people. My thoughts are with Alireza’s friends and family.”

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Saturday afternoon that the British government planned to sanction Iran’s Prosecutor General, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, to underline “our disgust at Alireza Akbari’s execution.”

“The Prosecutor General is at the heart of Iran’s use of the death penalty. We’re holding the regime to account for its appalling human rights violations,” Cleverly said.

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Netanyahu defiant despite protests against Israel judicial reform

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government plans to charge ahead with a proposal to change the country’s judicial system, despite fierce criticism from top legal officials.

Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, has made the legal changes the centrepiece of his new government’s agenda and the surging opposition to them is presenting an early challenge for the Israeli leader.

Netanyahu’s comments on Sunday came after opponents of the plan held nationwide protests on Saturday.

They say it would cripple judicial independence, foster corruption, set back minority rights and deprive Israel’s courts of credibility that helps fend off war crimes charges abroad.

The proposed changes have sparked an outcry from the Supreme Court’s top justice, who in rare public criticism called the proposed changes an “unbridled attack on the justice system”.

Despite the opposition, Netanyahu told a meeting of his Cabinet that voters cast their ballots in the November elections in support of his campaign promise to modify the justice system.

There have been calls in the past to reform Israel’s justice system, which was given greater clout in the 1990s and has been seen since by critics as being too interventionist in the process of lawmaking.

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Biden declares disaster in California amid deadly storms

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Flooding and mudslides have blocked access to some homes in California

United States President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in the state of California, as the latest in a succession of storm systems brought heavy flooding to already waterlogged regions and threatened snowfalls of up to two metres (six feet).

The latest system was expected to bring “heavy lower-elevation rain, significant mountain snow, and strong winds,” with “another surge of Pacific moisture” expected on Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.

It predicted “disastrous flooding” across the lower Salinas River valley, a key agricultural region south of San Francisco Bay.

Late on Saturday, Biden “declared that a major disaster exists in the State of California and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides”, the White House said in a statement.

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Mexico tightens ban on smoking in public places

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Mexico tightens ban on smoking

Mexico has brought into force one of the world’s strictest anti-tobacco laws by enacting a total ban on smoking in public places.

The step, which was first approved in 2021, also includes a ban on tobacco advertising.

Several other Latin American countries have also passed legislation to create smoke-free public spaces.

However, Mexico’s legislation is considered to be the most robust and wide-ranging in the Americas.

It amounts to one of the most stringent anti-smoking laws in the world. Mexico’s existing 2008 law – which created smoke-free spaces in bars, restaurants and workplaces – is now extended to an outright ban in all public spaces. That includes parks, beaches, hotels, offices and restaurants.

There will also be a total ban on the advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products, meaning that cigarettes cannot even be on show inside shops.

Vapes and e-cigarettes are also subject to tighter new restrictions, particularly indoors.

The Pan American Health Organisation has welcomed the step and applauded the Mexican government for implementing the ban.

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