By Ovat Abeng
Popular Nigerian Actress, Film maker and Musician, Jennifer Eliogu, has bagged the best artiste of the year award at the just concluded 3rd edition of the prestigious Anambra Man Of The Year (AMTY) Awards Celebration.
The event which took place at the Stanel Dome Awka, on Friday, was organised to recognised and appreciate sons and daughters of Anambra origin who has in one way or the other contributed to the prosperity and development of Anambra State and Nigeria at large.
Accepting the award, Actress Eliogu, thanked her fans for all of their support and vowed to work more harder to promote love, peace and unity among Nigerians through entertainment.
She also appreciate the organisers for recognising her contribution to the larger society.
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Jennifer Eliogu is a seasoned veteran of the Arts, who has excelled in the entertainment industry for over two decades. She has featured in over two hundred Nollywood movies. Her music career has spanned 10yrs and soared with an 11-track album and several hit songs. Her music band is called “The Silk Band”.
“Ugoeze as she is fondly called, is a graduate of English Education from Lagos State University and is from Uke in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
She is also the founder of Initiative for Development, Empowerment and Absolute Stability (IDEAS), an NGO established to support and empowers the youth, women, physically challenged and the downtrodden.
The organisers also honoured His Eminence, Peter Ebere Cardinal Okpaleke, the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese as the AMTY Man of the year, the Rector, Federal Polytechnic Oko, Engr. Dr Mrs Francisca Unoma Nwafulugo as Anambra Woman of the year and many others during the occasion.
It was gathered that Bishop Okpaleke received the award through Fr. Prof Anthony B.C Chiegboka, the Vatican General of Ekwulobia Dioceses.
