Wande Coal, Harrysong, others to mentor winners of Dbanj’s lottery platform

Music icon and award-winning entertainer Dbanj, has on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at the final draw of 2016 for his lottery platform, CREAM, rewarded lottery winners with their monetary earnings.

The DKM Boss also announced that former Mo Hits label mate, Wande Coal, Harry Song, artiste manager, Godwin Tom, and record label, Aristocrat Records among others will mentor the winners.

The CREAM platform, which is supported by the Bank of Industry and MTN Nigeria, stands for “Creative, Reality, Entertainment, Arts, Music

The program aims to reward young creative minds in the Nigerian entertainment industry and provides them the opportunity to live their dreams of showcasing their talent to the world.

Lucky winners of the lottery get to win exciting opportunities, including a recording deal, which consists of recording a track, shooting a state of the art video, a collaboration with any artiste of their choice (music or video collaboration), talent showcase, talent branding, promotion and marketing among other opportunities.

Winners of the lottery with Bizzle and Dbanj

Two past winners, TK Swag and Legendary Courage whose videos were shot by CREAM had their videos launched at the draw.

Notable faces in attendance were Publisher Encomium magazine; Kunle Bakare, A&R and media consultant; Bizzle Oshikoya, Editor Business Day, Anthony Osae-Brown, rapper; Vector, Founder/CEO The Cable; Simon Kolawole, singer; Harry Song, On-Air personality; Jimmie Akinsola and DJ Obi to name a f

CREAM is currently open to only MTN subscribers and draws once every month and winners emerge from five categories including Music, Video, Collaboration, Showcase and Showbiz. Participants can take part in multiple categories to increase their chances of winning. Talents are opened to DKM's international A & R who would select additional talents based on merit.

Nwelue called on Nigerian youths to come together and join hands with him to exit President Muhammadu Buhari from office.

On Wednesday, December 14, 2016, Onyeka Nwelue who is a young Nigerian filmmaker who is based in UK has formed a new political party he called Progress Party specifically for the Nigerian youths.

Nwelue called on Nigerian youths to come together and join hands with him to exit President Muhammadu Buhari from office.

He took to his Facebook account to declare his intention and he wrote:

“#ProgressParty

This is not to cajole anyone, but at the beginning of this year and end of last year, lots of my friends lost their parents - two of my good friends lost their mothers to renal failure. It was not because you can't treat any of these - the health system in Nigeria can't. I had to undergo my own kidney surgery in India. Far away from the hands of Nigerians who could not even successfully operate on me when I had appendicitis.

There is no electricity if you meet surgeons who know what they are doing. And if they have a blaring generator in Nigeria, there are other problems - they don't have the things needed. The hospitals in Nigeria are jokes! A few private hospitals still have to fly in foreign doctors. Even when the Nigerian public officers get sick, they jet off to India, Germany and the US. You can hear them proudly say these things. No iota of shame.

It was so heavy for me today that I said to my mother, 'I'm tired!' She only went to bed after midnight as she kept looking at me and thinking. She came to my room and said: "Nna, I understand!”

Sharing his one of his experience in a Nigerian hospital Nwelue wrote:

“I took my aged father (oh yes, he was born in 1945), to the OphthalmologyIist today and I know how much I had to cough out, as I have no insurance, as this is a country, steeped in bureaucracy. After paying, I felt sweaty. This is because I am scared of losing my father right now. Or seeing him go blind. It will be disastrous. No shame in sharing this with you, but I am heading somewhere with my story.

People have laughed when I said I want to have an organized control over Nigeria. I know people who came to Nigeria to contribute and the system changed them. We can't keep running. I'm never going to acquire any other citizenship. I will not. I have had the opportunities too, but I will not. I will stick with Nigeria, but whether Nigerians love it or not, we have to find a solution to our problems.

Our parents have failed. My parents suddenly agreed that they failed and they want us to correct the mistake they made. We can't fail our children now. We can change Nigeria. We can get a metro system, we can have a shift in our mentality. We can restore the dignity of the Nigerian. We can see pride in our passports again. You can laugh all you want.

Not to sound mischievous, some of us still have the privilege to run away, but if you're surrounded by poverty-stricken people, all you will feel is rage and angst.

Let's join the #ProgressParty”

The new politician has since been getting massive supports from people especially from him home-front.

Will Nwelue’s political party fly or it is going to be one of the controversies he is known for?

He has courted controversy before now when he described late novelist Chinua Achebe's most read novel Things Fall Apart as the worst book ever written by an African. And of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka he claimed that the renowned writer writes very bad dialogue.

Nwelue is an assistant visiting professor of African Studies and Literature at Manipur University Imphal, India.