WELCOME TO AUNTY AMEBO'S BLOG: December 2013

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY AA READERS

To all my AA Readers who has stayed with me all through 2013, i want to say a big thank you and blow you a kiss..Muahhhh, you made my year and so i promise to make 2014 a great Amebo year for you. Hope i am the first person to say happy new year to you *Wink* LOL.

Sammie Okposo renounces COSON membership

Sammie Okposo

Sammie Okposo has renounced his membership with the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON).

According to a statement released by his reps, Okposo’s decision to leave COSON is due to what he says is the lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the collective management organization. The Gospel singer wants COSON to stop collecting royalties and acting on his behalf with immediate effect.

‘I, Sammie Okposo, a proud Nigerian artiste wishes to notify the general public and all stakeholders alike that I have stopped being a member of COSON’, he said in a statement released this week.

Okposo’s exit comes weeks after the Broadcast Organisation of Nigeria (BON) and Independent Broadcast Association of Nigeria (IBAN) pronounced a ban on the airing of the musical works of 96 musicians including Okposo.

Okposo has also called for the registration of another CMO with a view to breaking the monopoly currently being enjoyed by COSON.

Meanwhile COSON has responded to Okposo’s statement saying that he will still return to COSON.

‘With time Gospel Singer, Sammie Okposo will realize that there are few Nigerian institutions that are run with a level of transparency, accountability and professionalism available at COSON and he will return to the fold’, Chinedu Chukwuji said in a statement sent to NET.

According to Mr Chukwuji’, ‘Sammie has not availed himself the opportunity of visiting the COSON office and is clearly unfamiliar with the quality of personnel, the technology and processes put to work at COSON’.

Mr Chukwuji also said that COSON has not received any resignation letter from Okposo.

Wole Soyinka’s 2nd daughter confirmed dead at 48

Wole Soyinka and daughter Iyetade Apampa

Noble Laureate and Professor Wole Soyinka has reportedly lost his daughter Iyetade Apampa who died while receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

A statement confirming the sad news was released on Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Soyinka’s close aide Jahman Anikulapo (former Editor of the Guardian) on behalf of the family.

Anikulapo described Iyetade as an ‘affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious’ lady who ‘struggled with her health in recent years’.

‘In spite of this, she greeted every day with a smile and doted on her two children. She took ill quite suddenly and passed away while being treated at UCH, Ibadan. Iyetade leaves behind two children, both parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews’, the statement read.

Burial arrangements have not been announced yet.

Prince William to study at Cambridge University

Prince William and wife Kate Middleton. Photo: Getty Images

Prince William will study at Cambridge University next year.

The second in line to the British throne – who stepped down from his career with the Royal Air Force (RAF) earlier this year – will study Agricultural Management at the prestigious British seat of learning between January and March 2014.
The 10 week course is the first step for the prince in learning how to manage the Duchy of Cornwall; a portfolio of land, property and investments which he will inherit from his father, Prince Charles, when he becomes king.
William – the Duke of Cambridge – will have 18 to 20 hours of lectures, seminars and meetings a week, as well as essays and field trips to complete.
A Kensington Palace spokesperson said the prince was ‘very much looking forward’ to the course, adding: ‘The executive education programme of seminars, lectures and meetings will draw on the strengths of academics across the university’.
‘The course has been designed to help provide the Duke with an understanding of contemporary issues affecting agricultural business and rural communities in the United Kingdom‘.
The course will be run by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), part of the Cambridge University’s School of Technology.
William’s course will not lead to a formal qualification, and its costs are being met privately. He will also still undertake royal duties while studying.
The prince previously graduated from a course in Geography from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2005.