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SATURDAY TELEGRAPH
TV&Radio
4 JUNE 2016
with Deborah Ocheni
Bold Faces: Profiling Azubuike Egwuekwe
This weekend AIT
Egwuekwe
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old Faces is a showbiz programme that profiles local and international personalities who have distinguished themselves in various professional endeavours. This edition of the programme featured a footballer, Azubuike Egwuekwe, who talked about his background, career, challenges, gains from football and other issues. Bold Faces is aired on African Independent Television (AIT) every Sunday at 12:30pm. Egwuekwe gave his background information as follows: “I am from an extended family, the third child of my mum. I started playing football at the age of 10 and was under 17 when I joined a youth club in Yola. It hasn’t been easy because I have two elder brothers who played football in the past without any success so to do well comparatively was like a dream come true. Football has helped me a lot, at least I can boast of houses and cars. I haven’t had any injuries before and even when I sustain an injury it will heal in one or two weeks at most because I don’t want injuries to cut short my career; I am very conscious, I always talk and pray to my God before I go to the field. My role model is Uche Okechukwu and for the current Supper Eagle team, they are not doing
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badly and I think they will improve by the grace of God. Speaking on his relationship with team mates, he said: “we were like one family in the team, you could hardly differentiate if you saw us. Our coach taught us to love one another and that really helped us in the team. In terms of welfare, they took good care of us too. I am using Infiniti jeep for now. My alternative occupation is business, you know we Igbo men like business and I will do anything in business. I love dressing simple and my best food is vegetable and fufu”. My favourite musician is Timaya because he is from Niger Delta and I love everybody from Niger Delta. The boldest step I have ever taking was when my father asked me to stop football as a career, he even threatened to disown me if I didn’t stop playing football and I said if you disown me for playing football then so be it. He sent me packing from his house but after about two to three weeks, I returned to the house and he
asked me what I was doing in his house. I simply told him that this is my father’s house, if there was anybody that was supposed to leave, it would definitely be you. He threatened to call soldiers, I summoned courage and asked him to go ahead and call soldiers and that was how we settled it. Another interesting segment of the programme is ‘Sport Diagnosis’ where a medical practitioner diagnoses and analyses guests on the show. Dr. Sunday Osunkwo, sport doctor said of the footballer: “Igwuekwe’s personality had grown in the country even before he became bigger and in the limelight. He is the tallest defender in the Nigeria Super Eagles; when he is playing his heart beats up to from 150 to 200. When you see a defender that is more than six feet and taller than others in the field, that tells you there is something special about him”. The programme intermittently replays videos of Egwuekwe playing on the pitch.
FACE BEHIND THE VOICE
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Beat FM’s Dami
ami Elebe does Midday Shows on Saturdays and Gospel Shows on Sunday mornings on Beat 99.9 FM. She is usually accompanied by a co-host, which is good, because on her own she sounds a little nervous. However, she is very realistic and down-to-earth. Her opinions are always spiced with common sense, and you can’t help but nod your head. Dami’s has degrees in Advertising and Arts and her hobbies include painting, drawing, sculpting and writing. She lives an artistic life inspired by music. Dami has been able to prove that talent is what drives her to achieve her best on a daily basis. With a beautiful playlist, wit, charm and sense of humor, she makes sure
she draws in everyone listening to her such that never want to let go. Radio is a powerful medium and Dami is there with the strength to take you through it.
TELEVISION
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Saturday 8:00 Nickelodeon 9:00 Brights 10:00 Smallvile 11:00 Crack in the Wall 11:30 UAC Soccer Lafflines 12:00 Music Video and More 12:30 Voices 1:00 Indomitable
Saturday 7:30 Business Africa 8:30 Destiny Encounter 9:00 Cartoon 10:00 Super Book 10:30 Sports File 11:30 Snakes and Lizards 12:00 Souncity Top Choice Videos 1:00 Hitz 1:30 Pavitra Rishta 2:35 Village Square 4:10 Movie 5:35 Los Rey 6:20 Spice Most 7:00 News Headline 7:10 Footprints 8:00 Pulse 234 8:30 Spider 9:00 Spice Specials 9:30 Soundcity Party Mix 10:30 Omnisport Sunday 8:00 Hutos 9:05 Arambara 9:35 Village Square 11:05 Snakes and Lizards 12:00 Soundcity’s Global Countdown 1:00 Hitz 1:30 Pavitra Rishta
1:30 MBGN Diary 2:00 Adams Apple 3:00 Unspoken 3:30 Boom Town 4:00 Local Movies 5:30 Two Sides of a Coin 7:00 News 7:30 Secrets and Scandal 8:00 My Wedding Story 8:30 Fans Championship 9:00 Local Movies 9:30 Events Diary 10:00 News Sunday 8:30 Brights 9:30 Gospel Rhythms 10:00 St Dominics 11:00 Gospel Symphony 12:00 Walking with God 12:30 Revival in the Land 1:00 The Advantage 1:30 Love Dating and Marriage 2:00 Mountain Top Life 2:30 Impact Today 3:30 Singles and Married 4:00 Chapel of Uncommon Grace 4:30 Elevation Church 5:00 Reel Infotainment 5:30 Gospel Rhythms 6:00 WWTBAM 7:30 Hour of Salvation 8:00 Local Movies 9:00 Entertainment weekly 9:30 Boom Town
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Rainbow 74.1 FM Saturday 7:30 You and your Marriage 8:00 Whispers 9:00 Sports Tackle 10:00 Family Life 11:00 Kids on Radio 12:00 Hot Gist and D Sport 4:00 Wazobia Flavour 6:00 Request and Shout 11:30 Icon Saturday
Sunday 8:00 The Word with Interaction 9:00 God Bless Nigeria 10:00 Rainbow Gospel Gig 11:00 Talk your Own 11:30 Story Story 12:00 Classic Music 5: 00 180 Degrees 5:30 House Party Mix 9:00 Akamara 10:30 Afro Classic
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Saturday 77:30 Papers Today 8:00 Good Living 10:00 Saturday Sports 12:45 Replay Africa 1:00 Fan Zone 4:00 Me & You 6:00 Entertainment Unscripted 7:30 Afrobeat Tonight 9:00 Single Life 10:30 Old School Groove
Sunday 7:00 Press Report 8:00 Church without Barrier 10:30 Think You Know the Bible 11:00 Country Music 1:00 Chart Busters 2:30 Palaver 5:00 World News 6:00 Youth Connect 8:00 Sunday Evening Groove 10:00 Music