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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

TODAY'S MEAL- HOT AND FRESH FROM DERONI


FRESH NEW HOT GOSPEL ARTIST FROM Port-Harcourt

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Destiny Ebiuwa Iyoha best known as Deroni is an incredible multi-talented inspirational and a gospel music artist who hails from the Great Benin city of Edo State in Nigeria. Born on the 14th of June 1981 but grew up in Port Harcourt where she lives and got married to her handsome and lovely husband Iyoha Emmanuel and she is blessed with 4 beautiful kids. She is a lover of God with a desire to affect lives positively via music, bringing many to the knowledge of God.
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Deroni who is a graduate of the Enugu State University Of Science And Technology (ESUST), Enugu started her music career when she was 14 years of age form one of the well to do churches of this generation Christ Embassy as one of the choristers.
She have been on the low for several years but decided to come out of the shadows to use her creative and incredible spiritual gift to uplift, bless and encourage others in the year 2000.

Deroni took a very big advantage of her time in Ekpoma to set for quiet time with God when she got the move and leading of the Holy Spirit which opened her heavens musically. She have recorded 10 songs, done two videos and have one album with seven tracks on it just to share her brilliance and awesomeness with the world.




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Songs on the album titled Emmanuel


  • BLOOD
  • EMMANUEL
  • JESUS OPEN DOORS
  • WE WORSHIP YOU
  • LOADED
  • GRATEFUL
  • YOU BE OGA


Some of her spiritual mentors are pastor Chris Oyhakilome of Christ Embassy, Pastor Felix Ebuade, Pastor Freedom Eriya, Pastor Victor Akinsete of Winners chapel PH, Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith (Winners Chapel), Joyce Meyer and musical role models are Cece Winans, Sinach to mention but a few.


Lyrics of Emmanuel.

Emmanuel Emmanuel
With the power of at work we make it through
Emmanuel Emmanuel
With the power of God at work we make it through
Emmanuel oh oh
Come on help me sing.

Verse

You are God 
All by yourself 
you created the world.

With the rod


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Saturday, June 8, 2019

THE MAN TO DELIVER THE FIRST LECTURE

THIS IS THE MAN DELIVERING THE 1st RAS KIMONO MEMORIAL LECTURE, MONDAY, JUNE 10 AT THE MAGNIFICENT COSON HOUSE, IKEJA


Professor Duro Oni has been on the staff of the University of Lagos since 1976 and has held various positions including that of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Management Services);Dean, Faculty of Arts; Professor and Head of the Department of Creative Arts: Pioneer Director, Confucius Institute: He was also the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies. In a career spanning over forty years at the University of Lagos, Prof. Duro Oni initiated and developed degree programme in; Creative Arts(Theatre Arts, Music & Visual Arts) at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, M.Phil. and Ph.D. levels and the Bachelor's Degree in Chinese Studies.
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He was also the Director General / CEO of the Federal Government Parastatal, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) and Special Assistant/Adviser to the Hon. Minister of Culture and Social Welfare/Youth and Sports from 1990-1992. He holds the BFA and MFA Degrees from the California Institute of the Arts in the United States and a Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan. An academic of repute, Duro Oni has a total of ten books and over sixty articles in reputable journals and chapters in books in the areas of Theatre Arts Design and Aesthetics, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Management, Cultural Studies and the Nollywood/Nigerian Films.


An Academic, Culture /Theatre Administrator and Production Designer, Duro Oni has also travelled widely and has trained in and or visited the following countries, among others; U.S.A., Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Bermuda, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Canada, Barbados, Trinidad, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Turkey and a host of African countries including Egypt, Republic du Benin, Togo, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Libya, Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire and Ethiopia.
Prof. Duro Oni is a Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Letters, Fellow of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artistes (SONTA), Fellow and Advisory Board Member of National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners(NANTAP), Senior Overseas Fellow of the Ferguson Centre, Open University in the United Kingdom (2006-2007),Fellow, Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, (RSA),UK.
Prof. Duro Oni, who was born inMinna, Niger State on the 15th of December, 1952 is from Iwoye-Ijesa in Osun state. He is fluent in English, Yoruba and Hausa.
Please meet the man we are all coming to listen to on the 2019 Ras Kimono Memorial Day and delivering the first Ras Kimono Memorial Lecture on Revolutionary Music for Equality and Justice. Please meet the erudite Prof. Duro Oni.