18th March, 2011
This year’s edition of BOBTV, the annual expo and marketing of African films and television programmes, kicked off on Tuesday, 15 March at the Ladi Kwali Conference Centre of Abuja Sheraton Hotel.
The event, the eighth edition, attracted the creme de la creme of the Nigerian society including ex-Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu, presidential candidate of National Transformation Party, Dr. John Dara; Charles Ojugbana who stood in for Mr. Labaran Maku, the Minister of Information and Mr. Peter Igho, the Director-General, National Lottery Regulatory Commission, among others.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mrs. Stella Mbubaegbu, CEO and Principal, Highbury College, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, in a lecture entitled the Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Or Are They? dwelt on issues of professionalism and etiquette.
Mbubaegbu took the audience on a mental train of thoughts as she sighted her grandmother looking into the telescope, hoping to see a beautiful future where things turn out right.
By this, she inspired her audience to be the beautiful one that has been born by excelling whether as a parent or a professional, since everyone is called to be a leader in a particular field. The event also saw the induction of four Nigerian entertainment players into BOBTV Hall of Fame. According to the organisers, honour should be given to whom it’s due, thus the recognition of leading Nollywood marketer, Prince Sir Osita Cyprian Okeke (Ossy Affason), Barrister Efere Ozako, make-up artist Dagogo Dimas and showbiz impressario, Ben Murray-Bruce.
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