MC Abbey, Lolo 1, Presh, Others ‘Share Closets’

MC Abbey, Lolo 1, Presh, Others ‘Share Closets’

MC Abbey, Lolo 1, Presh, Others ‘Share Closets’

It was fun as sounds of Nigeria made
music meet shopping at give-away prices
amidst exchange of banters, when some
of Naija’s celebrities including Presh of
the KC Presh fame, Lolo 1 of Wazobia
FM, and OTB of Naija FM among others
shared their closets at the recently held
Share Your Closet (SYC), a charity auction
aimed at raising funds through sales of
fairly used good quality items to support
widows and the less privilege people
living in the slums, at St Leo Catholic
Church, Ikeja Lagos.
The event which held at the St Leo
Catholic Church, Ikeja Lagos, was put
together by Qtaby Events an event
production/management and artiste
management outfit in conjunction with
the Jegede Paul Foundation, a non-
governmental organisation that focuses
on the upliftment of the less privilege
through socio-economic development
and outreach projects.
In a brief remark about the event, the
chief executive officer of Qtaby Events
and administrator of Life Fountain
Orphanage Home, Victoria Nkong, said
the vision behind Share Your Closet is to
encourage members of the society who
would love to reach out to the widows,
and do not have money or do not know
how to reach them. This event gives
them an avenue to encourage and give
support the less privileged.
The SYC is an off spill of Slum Invasion,
an annual event by the Jegede Paul
Foundation in slum communities in
Lagos. The Slum Invasion is a program
the Foundation has been doing yearly
with celebrities to celebrate with them in
slum neighbourhood and sensitise the
people of such communities, particularly
the youths on the possibility of getting a
better life, and help some of them with
some skills acquisitions.
She said, “Funds generated from this
auction will be directed to the widows
who will get grants for small business
and skills acquisition empowerment.
Items not sold would be donated directly
to residents of a slum community in
Lagos.”
According to her, the Share Your Closet
is an off spill of Jegede Paul Foundation
annual Slum Invasion Project, which
since 2013 it was established has been
involved in widows support programs
and the less privilege empowerment.
The SYC is an off spill of Slum Invasion,
an annual event by the Jegede Paul
Foundation in slum communities in
Lagos. The Slum Invasion is a program
the Foundation has been doing yearly
with celebrities to celebrate with them in
slum neighbourhood and sensitise the
people of such communities, particularly
the youths on the possibility of getting a
better life, and help some of them with
some skills acquisitions.
Other celebrities at the event included
N6, Ransome among others who donated
items to the auction. 10 widows were
selected from the 30 present for an
empowerment program, while everyone
went home with a package each.
With Lolo 1 and OTB as anchors, it was
indeed music meet comedy as Presh
thrilled the guest-shoppers with some of
his songs that wafted from the giant
speakers placed within the
Church compound.

Lolo 1 of WAZOBIA FM (left), Presh and
Victoria Nkong.