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Burna Boy Discloses Why He Doesn’t Do Giveaways On Social Media
He owns a foundation called The REACH, though which he does his charitable work.
Burna Boy, through his foundation, renovated a home for disabled persons in Rivers State this month.
Afrobeats artiste, Burna Boy, has turned down the request from a fan for an online giveaway because he has the belief that those who are truly in need of assistance or giveaways are not online.
In a clip from Burna Boy’s recent Instagram live session, he stressed that he prefers to do his charitable works or giveaways offline.
He said: “Me I no dey do all this one. I only do giveaways to places that matter and most of them are not on the internet. Dem no know wetin be Instagram.”
In confirming what he said, Burna Boy has actually done numerous charitable works, of which most recently, in March 2024, when he partnered with his non-profit organization, The ‘REACH Foundation’ Nigeria to renovate a dilapidated home in Rivers State.
The facility known as Cheshire Home, located in Borokiri area of Port Harcourt, was home to the physically-challenged in the city and it blossomed until financial challenges made it impossible to maintain. Burna Boy, through ‘REACH Foundation’ restored it to its former glory.
At the unveiling of the refurbished Chesire home on Wednesday, March 21, 2024, the chairperson of the Board of Directors of The ‘REACH Foundation’, Halliday Floretta said, “We sincerely thank the sponsor for supporting this Cheshire Home renovation project, we lack words to appreciate Mr. Damini Ogulu and his team for their compassion and continuous trust in the Reach Foundation, via their numerous interventions/supports that have so far impacted several communities and lives.”
Back in 2020, during the historical ENDSARS protests, Burna Boy created a ‘relief program’ under REACH Foundation called ‘ProjectProtectng’, for victims of police brutality across the country.
In burna Boy’s words: “I have created a sub-fund under my charity – The ‘Reach Foundation’ called (@ProjectProtectng) to help protesters that are wrongfully harmed/arrested by SARS during and after these protests. This is a fund for the people by the people.”
In September 2020, the singer also through The ‘REACH Foundation’ donated food to communities in Rivers State. The areas reached were Kalasunji, Queenstown and Epele-Ama in Opobo, and over 300 families were fed.
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Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, has announced that his sixth studio album would be dedicated to his late mum, Jane Morayo Balogun.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker made the announcement in a video message shared via his social media platform on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
He also disclosed that the album, which is titled ‘Morayo’ and in honour of his late mum, would be released ‘very soon’.
Wizkid’s words: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
It could be recaled that Wizkid’s mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, died on August 18, 2023, in London.
The singer said the pain of losing his mum ‘hurts deeply’.
In his words: “The pain is profound.”
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Actress Patience Ozukor: I Rejected The Name-Tag ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ On Me, To Have My Own Name-Tag ‘Patience Ozukor’
Nollywood veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, has disclosed and talked about how people tried to impose titles and name-tags on her at the beginning of her career and how she handled it.
The veteran actress said when she began her acting career, people tried to compare her with legendary actress, Liz Benson, by tagging her as ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ but she rejected the tag because she believes they are both unique.
She disclosed that she also rejected suggestions to answer her husband’s first name as her surname and instead chose to bear his family name.
She actually disclosed this in an interview session via a media platform.
Her words: “I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started my acting career and people started recognizing this woman from Enugu.”
“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, “You’re the ‘Liz Benson of Enugu.”
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am ‘Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’.”
“And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land, you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.”
“So, my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’,” she concluded.
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