Sorry, this piece came ‘this late’, I’m sure you don’t want
me to bore you with reasonssssss… pls read. Thanks
Indeed
the world is becoming or should I say has become a global village. Alright, no
slow mo, lemme just go straight to my story. Meanwhile, the story is kinda long but please
follow me *puppy face*- hope that worked *now smiling*
Here
I am 11:53am, tired but have to put this out ‘cos it’s hot in my head… I had
anticipated my Saturday was going to be hectic so ‘almost’ nothing caught me by
surprise except the ANNOYING trip to Lekki Phase 1.
Annoying because my friend
I had gone to see told me she was not home after I told her I was coming by.
Honestly I was really pissed but had to let it go cause I couldn’t even lash
out at her ‘anyways’ since it’s her wedding we are prepping for and of course I
am her chiefo. Lemme give you a bit of my waka waka before I got to that stage…
I woke up around past 7, had girls’ talk/gist,
planned the day with my friend and I ended up leaving the house around past
10am… Straight to Lecture (Surulere)> >Choir Practice (Ikoyi)>>
Awoof Ride to Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island (to buy Ijebu garri with An Dee
>> Park n Shop V.I An Dee again) that turned out to be a good trip cause I
got free Fox Biscuit and Colgate Tooth Paste which I should have bought a while
back but laziness and alaroro (stinginess –lol) got the best part of me hence
the delay. Don’t call me ole or cheap o *whatever*… So u see that’s how I got
to that annoying trip to Lekki Phase 1. By the way, Moji if u are reading this,
I FORGIVE YOU cause I don’t have a choice.
Alright
straight to the main event of the day MTV BASE ALL STARS EVENT… I had with me
my ‘borrow- borrow’ laptop bag and in there was my mobile party outfit for the
day.
Anyways, I got to the venue and *sad face*they had not started so I liased
with a friend James Silas who advised I changed since I’m going to work on the
Red Carpet and the event is yet to start. I yielded and finally looking fresh
& ready to do shakara I got ready to work.
The
press conference kicked off at exactly 8:30 and up came Ehis the new MTV VJ who
came on with his set of well arranged white teeth and of course beautiful
speech. He gave a lil intro about the event, then he went straight on to
introduce the first set of panelists: handsome Alex Okosi *wink* Senior Vice
President & Managing Director, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN)
Africa and Zozo the gentleman/rep from
Kwazulu-Natal Province; that’s the company partnering with MTV to bring the all
stars event to all of us *a round of applause ladies and gentlemen*.
12:43
am… I looked at the table to see if I still got water left in my bottle, nay,
its finished. *shaking my head* I dare not get up cause if I do, its straight
to bed…
*sigh*
Mr.
Alex Okosi spoke about the essence of the MTV Base All Stars event and also
shed more light on the past event which was held in Durban (South Africa),
Nairobi (Kenya) and of course the one being held at the moment in Lagos
(Nigeria). Agreeing with Alex, Zozo
spoke about the initiative as being part of an awareness campaign to profile
Kwazulu-Natal as a “tush” *permit my English* tourist destination for culture
and economic growth.
12:52am
*yawn* oti re body mehn but I ghast finish this o…
Back
to Ehis who carried all along well…
After the talk with Alex and Zozo, he
introduced the 3 artistes repping Naija for the night: the newly married 2FACE IDIBIA– spotting white top, neatly slashed skinnies, black hat, black
shade, black shoes and of course I couldn’t have missed out his dazzling silver
wedding band… neatly shaved ICEPRINCE ZAMANI who wore white Kaftan or is it Senagalese, black shade, Black
Choks (he carried the outfit with such fantasti swag…shoutout bro)… dimpled
cheek Davido with Blue Cap, expensive customized Gold
OBO (Omo Baba Olowo)pendant, Peach & Grey Hooded T-Shirt, Blue Jeans and a
catchy Addidas Slippers with black socks – for Press Conference o *uhn! *shrug* when u are big, you are big o*
I mean who cares what you wear as long as u come deliver- abi ke? And finally,
out came Professor all the way from South Africa. By the way, it’s his first
time in Naija and he says he’s enjoyed our jollof rice or was it fried rice he
said… sorry I no remember, e no mata sef abi?
1:08am…
I have to go to bed now. 1:09am *now typing and tryna calculate how many hours
I have to slept… hoops sorry I mean sleep. -PAUSE… OK continue… done… thinking
…If I go to bed now I’ll wake at 7…uhnnnnnn, not a bad one… So PAUSE again…off
to bed… To be continued… should I proof read before I go???? Uhnnn …. NO
…
1:12am
…
1:13 saved to desktop/Minimise/Hibernate
*Eyes
covered*
…Monday Morning 11:20am: I ended up leaving the
story opened while I attend to a frend/do office beat (Sorry, no excuse is good
enough) … Came back to shutdown>>> lecture at 5pm
Tuesday 10:37…
Finally,
I get to sit at my desk without any distraction. Oh by the way, I just got the
news of a colleague’s baby delivery – Congrats Damola Aji and wifey (please
y’all should add Olamide to her numerous names o) *wink*.
Back
to the MTV All Stars gist, I promise no more distraction… Alex Okosi stated that there will be big
event in Durban that will bring together artistes from different African
countries, and such artistes will be voted for so please visit www.mtvbase.com if you’d like to be a part of that. This will also feature
America’s Snoop Lion aka Snoop Dogg.
The press conference went on for a bit and
journalists were given a chance to ask questions. Some of the Qs are:
·
Are the artistes going to
have collabos ?
·
How is MTV Africa going to support female artistes? -Lola from
OTV
·
Will the 3 acts performing tonight perform in Durban? Etc etc
After
the press conference we moved on to the red carpet and it was a massive
turnout- trust my Lagidi peeps, dem no dey dull Friday night.
Spotted
quite a few familiar faces: Djs Caise and Sose who are also part of the night’s
gig, Vyonne Vixen, Mo Easy, Gideon and Jibade of Tinsel, Zaina, oga Efe
Omorogbe, etc etc
Shoutout to BHM(Black House Media) for always
coming thru. *BIG HUG* and my new friend Mary of Business Day.
One
of the questions I asked Alex Okosi is, are some of the journalists going to be
a part of the Durban experience? Your guess is as good as mine. Keep your
fingers crossed, I might just be heading to Durban in May.
Shoutout
to BHM(Black House Media) for always coming thru *BIG HUG* and my new friend
Mary of Business Day.
Ok.
That’s it… Story done.
Twitter: @MTVBaseAfrica, use
hashtag #AfricaAllStars
See
y’all soon.
Cheers >>>>L.O
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