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Late Aretha Franklin Awarded 2019 Pulitzer Prize, Ellen Reid Too

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Legendary music star, Aretha Franklin has been posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her contribution to American music and culture.

Also, composer, Ellen Reid was also awarded this year’s Pulitzer music award for her opera “Prism,’’ which premiered at the Los Angeles Opera last fall.

Franklin, who passed away in August 2018 at age 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.

She became the first individual woman to receive a special citation prize, which was first awarded in 1930.

The iconic music star became the 12th musician, and first female performer, to be given the citation – joining the likes of Bob Dylan, Scott Joplin and John Coltrane.

Franklin, whose powerful voice, trained in the gospel tradition, moved on to embrace jazz, soul and rhythm and blues had won 18 Grammys, had 17 top 10 US chart hits and became the first woman admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Pulitzers also honour the best in literature, theatre, and journalism.

Jackie Sibblies Drury won the drama prize for “Fairview’’, a play which seems to be a black family comedy in the style of The Cosby Show or A Different World.

Similarly, novelist Richard Powers won the fiction prize for “The Overstory’’, a multi-narrative look at nine Americans who are brought together unfolding natural catastrophe.

While David Blight picked up the history prize for his acclaimed biography of Frederick Douglas, the escaped slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement.

The New York Times and Washington Post won journalism awards for their coverage of President Trump, while there was a special citation for the staff of Capital Gazette

.(NAN)

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MoneyMaster to Serve As Payment Partner for ‘Ounje Eko’

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To help in collection and payment service at its Ounje Eko markets across the state, the Lagos State Government has appointed Nigeria’s leading payment service bank, MoneyMaster Payment Service Bank Limited (MMPSB), as its payment partner for the “Ounje Eko” Food Markets, a food price discount initiative packaged to bring succor to residents of the state.

In a statement in Lagos, MoneyMaster PSB said it will be responsible for collection of payments in 57 LCDAs in the state under the programme which was introduced amidst rising food costs in the country by the state government across the five divisions of Lagos State on Sunday, March 17, 2024.

To facilitate collection and payment services of the programme, the statement explained that MoneyMaster will deploy its cutting-edge payment solution which is expected to facilitate seamless payment and reconciliation, thus ensuring smooth shopping experience for Lagosians who will be patronizing the markets.

“The appointment of MMPSB is a testament to the quality of payment solutions that the bank deploys to its growing business partners in private and public sectors”, The statement concluded.

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Nollywood Actor, Amaechi Muonagor is Dead

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Nollywood legend, Amaechi Muonagor, has reportedly passed on. He was 61.

The actor suffered kidney failure and has been on dialysis.

His demise on Sunday came just few days after a video, where he was soliciting funds for Kidney transplant went viral.

His death comes weeks after another Nollywood actor, Mr Ibu, died.

No official statement has yet been released.

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Easter Weekend Buzzes with Stage Play, ‘What Men Want’, at Law School Auditorium

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Easter weekend beginning from Saturday, March 30 to  Easter Sunday, March 31, will be full of fun for Lagosians and theatre lovers around the city as they will experience a breath-taking, rib-cracking and heartwarming satire entitled What Men Want at the Main Auditorium of the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos.

What Men Want revolves around love, marriage and sacrifice. Ever imagine what a Gen-Z and Millennials co-wife system is like. The play is a satirical comedy that tells the story of two women married to a loving man, a Generation-Xer. The first wife is a Millennial whilst the second and younger wife is an outspoken GenZ. As the play unravels the audience get to interrogate the values that make for a good, well lived life; and the age-old question of what a man is seeking in a woman that keeps him exploring amorous relationship with the female folk throughout his life.

The play is produced by Oluwanishola Adenugba for Live Theatre Lagos and directed by Austin Onuoha (“Itura” and “AmUnbroken”) and features Motunde Sogunle (‘Mr. Maraconi Web Skits”) and Diana Agbede (‘A True Christmas Story”). What Men Want would move you so get ready to laugh, to cry and be thoroughly entertained.

Organisers of the play said tickets to the show are selling at N7000 for Regular, N15000 for VIP and N35000 for Prestige and are available at Pick N’Pay Supermarkets on Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island and on Glover Road, Ikoyi. The tickets are also available at MedPlus Pharmacy Saka Tinubu, MedPlus Pharmacy Lekki 1, MedPlus Pharmacy Opebi and MedPlus Pharmacy Ikeja GRA. The tickets can also be purchased online at tix.africa/whatmenwan and ariiyatickets.com.

The play is supported by Abbey Mortgage Bank PLC, Flour Mills of Nigeria PLC, Pepsi, Folham OOH, 88.5 UFM, PulseNG, Mediacrush OOH, Smooth 98.1, The Lagos Review and 96.1 Lagos Traffic Radio.

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