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PH Comedy Club Host Julie Okah-Donli
DIRECTOR GENERAL NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE PROHIBITION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
Come Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 the Platinum Lounge of Hotel Presidential Port Harcourt Rivers state will come alive as from 9pm to 11pm as the Port Harcourt Comedy Club founder and chief host Angel D Laff has concluded plans to bring Barrister Dame Julie Okah-Donli Director General of National Agency for the Prohibition of trafficking in Persons-NAPTIP. The progamme is coming on the heels of the Angel D’ Laff’s campaign to stop Human Trafficking in the society.
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The event proper will also see the presence of MC TAGWAYE popularly called MR. PRESIDENT a name he acquired as a result of his speech mannerism resembling that of President Muhammadu Buhari. Other comedians who will grace the occasion include Mc Tagwaye, Coxson, Michael Ogolo with music to be supplied by Prettcall, Timi and Amby J. Dj Double O and Dj Slim will dish out best in musical entertainment at the event.
Excerpts From Angels D’Laff Interview
I would like to break it down into two sectors if we look at the West, I mean South west of Nigeria there is this mentality built in them , the Yoruba man likes entertainment be it local bit , mixed, foreign or whatever, they know how to rally around themselves, they know to drive humour and they know to drive fun. It is a natural thing in Yoruba land. Perhaps they injected that into the entertainment industry generally and that is why we say that Lagos is like USA that harbours a lot of talents every day, as everyday people are relocating from their states within Nigeria to Lagos why because Lagos has given that room where you can make good living from your skills. But in other parts of Nigeria we don’t not have such privilege because it is either Government or the private sector do not see the importance of skills and talents. So, what they see is politics , policy, it is medicine, Health sector, what they see is do good road for the people and provide electricity that is all that they know. But they don’t know that life family depend on this comedy industry. Imagine the government and the private sector investing in entertainment in this part of the country where we are even you the journalists you are going to enjoy your professionalism other than covering only political events, this one is against this one and even when you come to do your job they will say oh you are APC or you are PDP. That divide has actually divided the talents. And even in more recent times we are even in trouble if you perform on stage they will say you are APC comedian or PDP Comedian as in this state people don’t see the creativity in you, they don’t see the skills in you people don’t see that you are doing a job for a living. But in Lagos when you go there, there is no APC Comedian, there is no PDP comedian. These people are breaking records see now they are international look at Wizkid, look at Davido, these boys are breaking records internationally and no more Lagos or within Nigeria anymore but internationally. The government in Lagos has seen the importance of the skills in this industry and they invested in it. And today, look at the result. Politics alone cannot give Nigeria that image that we are looking for outside but entertainments do. So, you can now see that with time we cannot say that Nigeria can get close to California but Lagos will get close to California. This is because Lagos is like a country of its own. You can see talents that are here you are paid ten thousand Naira(-N10,000) here and if you relocate to Lagos and you make it a little bit big and by the end of the day you are getting more than hundred times more than money that was being paid to you in your local base here. So, why won’t you go to Lagos? So, the people who understand the industry, we have culture and Tourism here what do they do that’s Culture and Tourism, what do they do as Culture and Tourism? So, it is a big concern to us here at Port Harcourt.
