{"id":2349,"date":"2020-07-27T00:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/towncryyers.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2020-07-27T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:36:45","slug":"lekan-alabi-hosts-the-screen-hugs-culture-for-julie-coker-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/towncryyers.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/27\/lekan-alabi-hosts-the-screen-hugs-culture-for-julie-coker-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Lekan Alabi Hosts The Screen Hugs Culture\u2019 For Julie Coker At 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Omiko Awa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All roads will today lead to Omo Ajorosun Club, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State, where Oloye \u2018Lekan Alabi, the Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland and the first Culture Ambassador of the National Museum and Monument, Ile Ife, will celebrate ace screen queen, Chief Julie Coker, who clocked 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alabi, the host, in a release noted that organisers of the birthday gig as a result of the ravaging coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic would only allow eight guests and three journalists from three different media houses into the venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pleaded with family members, friends and well wishers of the veteran television broadcaster to key into the virtual platforms, Facebook and Youtube, to watch proceedings from 2pm to 4pm Nigerian time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He disclosed that aside dinning and wining; there will be a lunch of the \u2018The Screen Hugs Culture,\u2019 in honour of Chief Coker, who strides as the Yeye Eto of Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coker, who has been living outside the country for some time now was in 1958, Miss Western Nigeria. 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