The Future Award Launches Season 5

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Finally, the season 4 of The Future Awards came to an end on September 30 and the new season was launched. The event slated to start at 5pm at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island started with a red carpet/cocktail interview. The media was all around to interview guests. Celebrities like Tosyn Bucknor of Top FM Radio, Funke Bucknor-Obruthe of Zapphaire Events, Iyanya of MTN Project Fame, Kola Osinowo, Julius Agwu, Lami Opere among others were all on the Red Carpet.
The event proper kicked off with the DJ taking guests back in the days with old Naija beats. Ibiyemi,the new sensational singer on the block started the programme with a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem.
The MCs' of the event, Shade Ladipo and Andre Blaze of Nigezie welcomed guests and took time out to appreciate the sponsors and supporters of The Future Awards.
An experimenting and scattering performance was given by the RoofTop MCs. It was indeed a wonderful experience.
The Marketing and PR Director of RedSTRAT Communications (organisers of The Future Awards) came up to deliver a speech on the journey of TFA '09 so far. She talked about the road shows which was done in different states in Nigeria and also Ghana and UK. She said the Season 4 of TFA was the best they have had so far and they expect it to be even bigger this coming Season 5.
A post humour award was awarded to Gani Fawehinmi and a minute of silence was given in respect of His Soul.
Eugene W. Taylor, one of the speakers at The Platform a program put together by The Covenant Christian Centre came on stage to give an inspirational talk. He came all the way from Mississippi and this happens to be his first time in Nigeria. He gave a short but deep speech stating that he never went to college and yet he had 3.4million dollars and happened to be the youngest African American to enter the stock market at 27.
The Creative Director, Chude Jideonwo gave a speech on the theme of TFA 2010 'I represent Naija'. In his speech, he said 'Young Nigerians are misunderstood; there are actually many reasons to celebrate the Youth'. He stated the damages that have been made to Nigeria and gave measures that should be made to make The Future of Nigeria a better one.
Iyanya, MTN Project Fame Winner also took the stage and gave a wonderful performance of his hit song-Truly Love you.
Mosunmola Umoru(TFA 09 Business Owner of the year) and Uche Nnaji(TFA 09 Style Entrepeneur of the year) both spoke on the TFA experience, the impact it had made on their lives n business and the amount of exposure it brought their way. For Mosunmola, the award was a thing of glory for she and her staff, it helped them see that their efforts were not in vain. For Uche Nnaji (Ouch!), it was also a well deserved glory and he even plans on opening his third Ouchlet in some few days.
The LightUp Nigeria Crew was also on ground and a representative spoke on the purpose of The LightUp Nigeria campaign. She said the group was formed by Young Nigerians tired of the PHCN situation, tired of spending money on fuel and diesel. In their words, All we need is light, give us some light, LightUp Nigeria! Lighters were raised as the guests agreed to this campaign.
The final sign out note on the event was done by Mr. Capable himself, alongside WhizKid the new n coolest kid in the industry. He got the whole hall on fire with his performance; he really ended the event with a banging performance.
The event came to an end at this point, The Future Awards Season 5 was declared open and guests were asked to start nominating by visiting http://www.thefuturenigeria.com/!
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