DOLLY PARTON RETURNS TO PUBLIC EYE TO CELEBRATE OPENING DAY AT DOLLYWOOD . (PHOTO).

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 Dolly Parton returns to public eye to celebrate opening day at Dollywood     Dolly Parton made her first public appearance in months to celebrate the opening day of Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, on Friday. The country music icon reflected on the past year, a year after the death of her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, saying she is “doing good” and has been working to rebuild herself spiritually, emotionally, and physically after grieving and dealing with health issues that kept her from touring. Joined on stage by Dollywood president Eugene Naughton, Parton brought her trademark humor to the crowd, joking about rumors of a new husband while reaffirming her devotion to Dean. She also shared updates on her ongoing projects, including a new Broadway musical and her Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum in Nashville. Parton previewed the park’s 41st season, highlighting the upcoming NightFlight Expedition ride, a new “Run Dollywood” race weekend, an updated ...

MOU BETWEEN NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ARTS & CULTURE & BANK OF INDUSTRY WILL CREATE 200,000 JOBS-ALH. LAI MOHAMMED SAID TODAY.{PHOTOS}.

Image may contain: 3 people, people sitting and text                  Alhaji Lai Mohammed,has said the MoU between the National Council for Arts and Culture {NCAC} and the Bank of Industry {BoI},which makes available 300 million Naira loan for stakeholders in the Creative Industry,will create 200,000 jobs in the Sector.The Minister said this in Abuja today friday when the Director General of the Council,Otunba Olusegun Runsewe,presented to him the MoU,which was signed earlier in the day.''I have been reliably informed that top on the list of the benefits that will accrue from this landmark MoU is that it will create over 200,000 jobs for the sector.This is epochal,and it is in line with one of the cardinal programmes of this administration,which is job creation and empowerment.''-Lai Mohammed.Alhaji Mohammed said the MoU will equally enhance the capacity of producers of cultural products and services to work towards attaining the standard of modern practice in the packaging of their cultural products,to enable them compete favourably at the global markets and earn the nation's Artists a decent living.The NCAC DG acknowledged the leadership role of the Minister,particularly in leveraging on the unique potential of the creative Industry to drive the diversification of the economy away fro oil. ''Today,we have come to make a history-making presentation to the Honourable Minister.Today happens to be a day that will create a change and we are going to tell our story the way it should have been told some feww years ago,''-Otunba.The Minister used the occasion to decorate some journalists with a special pn=in with the inscription: ''Our Culture,Our Pride'',as part of a conscious strategy to mobilise the media to promote the nation's Creative Industry.One more photo below.
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