Kefee - No Be Sapele Water

The Video to the follow-up Hit song by Kefee, Kokoroko, this song (No be Sapele Water) has been tipped to be one of the biggest songs of 2010/2011, hence the video has also been long anticipated.

Produced and shot on location in Lagos - Nigeria by the team of Wudland Production.

I have graduated from the university of life, says Bode George

Chief Bode George with EFCC Officers

After completing 2 years on charges of abuse of office, Chief Bode George from has been released from Kirikiri maximum prison. GREAT celebration heralded the release of former South West People Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George from the Maximum Prison in Kirikiri in Lagos Saturday,  as  hundreds of party supporters and well wishers welcomed him to a warm reception.

He said: “Out there in the prison, you are totally blanked out,  You don’t know what is going on, so, I want to thank you guys, thank all Nigerians with malice to nobody and love for all.  We will make our country an envy to other nations.  I have collected the certificate from the university of life and I thank God. I just graduated from the university of life”.


His thanksgiving service is showing Live on AIT as of 12noon Sat. Feb 26th 2011. Obasanjo is at the Thanksgiving service and PDP sent a delegate.

Thanksgiving service for an ex-convict showing Live on TV. Only in Naija!

I Love Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan

I have been going round Nigeria, State to State and City to City. My God, Nigeria is beautiful! I have been talking about our plans to improve our ailing infrastructure, our education standards, Power, Agriculture and the health sector among others. I have been telling Nigerians who gather in their thousands in Bauchi, Jos, Ilorin, Minna, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Ibadan, Kaduna, Lafia and others that the most urgent thing we need to do is to create jobs for our youths and develop our country and this we have started to do with progress being made in the Roadmap to The Power Sector Reforms which has seen the commencement of the new Super grid and the successful take off of several new power stations to power the entrepreneurial skills of Nigerians which in turn will lead to the creation of jobs for the people

Ugandan president to release rap album

Ugandan President Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni says he might release an album after a rap he performed became a smash hit on Uganda's radio stations and in its nightclubs.

"I was very happy with the reaction of the youth because that means they are very thirsty for the music of their ancestors," the 67-year-old told a news conference before elections on Friday.

The song was titled, "You want another rap?" after a question Museveni shouted to crowds of young people and quickly appeared for sale in Kampala.

You can listen to his hit rap song on YouTube 

"So after the election you may get quite a big album of the classics."

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Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow - AFRICAN REMIX!!!

Yes! they are back!




Another of their remix, have fun!

Kenya hosts African Movie Awards this weekend

Nairobi is about to witness a major invasion of Nollywood stars as several major Nollywood actors are set to descend on Nairobi for the AMAA (Afican Movie Academy Awards) nomination night and musical concert.

The African Movie Academy Awards or the “African Oscars” have not attained the pomp and colour associated with the American Oscars but we are heading there.


The seventh edition of the awards has the 2011 Nomination Night scheduled in Nairobi this Sunday, two months ahead of the award ceremony.


The African Movie Academy Awards is an offshoot of the African Film Academy and aims at honouring the brightest and best actors, actresses, directors and writers in the African film industry, besides promoting their works internationally.


The best year for Kenya at the African Oscars was in 2009 the country had seven entries. That year, Wanuri Kahiu won five awards including Best Picture and Director with her bomb blast inspired film, From a Whisper.

Voter registration: Lagos tops list with 6.2 million voters

Facts have emerged that Lagos State topped the list of registered voters for the 2011 general elections with a figure of 6,247,845.

But the North-West lead the six Geo-political zones with 18,900,543 eligible voters.

These were contained in provisional figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday in Abuja.

According to the figure, a total of 67,764,327 Nigerians were registered at the end of the registration exercise.

A LOVE REKINDLED

A LOVE REKINDLED by Myne Whitman

A new book is set to hit the market from the pen of Award winning blogger and author of romantic fiction, Myne Whitman. The novel, titled A LOVE REKINDLED is set in the United States and Nigeria, and is a story that entertains, emotionally engaging, and provides a window into Nigerian culture, places and people. 

This book was written to showcase local characters in a loving relationship, something that is almost never seen in books. The author also witnessed ethnic violence in Warri and decided to explore this topical issue through fiction. 

Love stories cut across race and geography, and the conflict in A Love Rekindled will attract adult mainstream and fiction readers everywhere. Myne Whitman also says she plans to write more of such books and would make this a series, which is always popular. 

Her first novel, a self-published romantic fiction set in Nigerian and titled A Heart to Mend, was very well received, and has garnered a substantial following on blogger, Facebook and Twitter. It was also subsequently published in 2010, to good reviews, in Nigeria.

http://www.freado.com/book/5186/A-Heart-to-Mend-Paperback

Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon explains why he speaks too much grammar

Late Uche Okafor buried

Late Uche Okafor

Mrs Ifeyinwa Fedila Okafor (wife of late Uche Okafor ) and Miss Tochukwu Laureen Okafor (daughter) at the burial

The remains of former super eagles player, Uche Okafor, has been buried. He was buried on Thursday Feb 17 in his family home in Ezeakpi Umuabali Ubomiri, near Owerri, Imo State.

May his soul rest in peace...amen.

12 Nigerian billionaires unite to raise money for Jonathan and PDP campaign

President Goodluck Jonathan during his presidential campaign launch. Photo: NAN

Aliko Dangote

Twelve top Nigerian businessmen, including billionaires Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola and Mike Adenuga, were selected yesterday in Abuja by the People’s Democratic Party to join a committee that will raise funds to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign. Others in the Donor Committee are Tony Elumelu, former chairman of the United Bank for Africa; Jimoh Ibrahim, chairman of NICON Insurance; Emeka Offor, Kashim Bukar, Sayyu Dantata, Jim Ovia, Dahiru Manga, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Kola Salako. 

Mike Adenuga

The ruling party also named a nine-member finance and fundraising committee headed by former chairman of the Nigeria Stock Exchange, Oba Otudeko. The members of the committee are Atedo Peterside, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Funsho Lawal, Bola Shagaya, Tukur Mani, Tony Onoh, Funsho Awoyemi and the party’s director of finance. 


According to our source, they were billed to be inaugurated last Saturday evening but the event was put off out of respect to the Nigerians who died during Mr. Jonathan’s campaign rally in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

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Mark Zuckerberg -- How the Rich Get Richer

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrated his company's move to brand new $230 million offices by ... chomping down on $6 tacos and a veggie soup while sitting on a floor at Facebook on Friday.

Nigerian woman jailed in the UK for sending son to Nigeria

Edirin Onogeta-Idogun moved to London seven years ago

A London woman who sent her teenage son to their native Nigeria because she disapproved of his lifestyle has been jailed for eight months.

Edirin Onogeta-Idogun, 17, from Newham, flew from the UK to Nigeria last July. His parents Lydia Erhire and John Idogun were issued with a court order to return the boy, who is believed to be with his father in Lagos. 

When they failed to do so, Mrs Erhire was convicted at the Old Bailey of being in contempt of court.

World's Best Press Photographs Of 2010

Some pictures of events from last year

Andrew Biraj, a Reuters photographer based in Bangladesh, has won the 3rd Prize Daily Life Single category with this picture of an overcrowded train approaching a station in Dhaka 

The Eritrean national cycling team passes a camel caravan on the road from Barentu to Keren, by Chris Keulen, of the Netherlands, Panos, pictures for Geo, who won 3rd Prize Stories Sports

Four Somali refugees en route to Yemen sleep in the desert after traveling all night on muddy roads and in pouring rain, Somaliland, in a picture by Ed Ou, Canada, Reportage by Getty Images, who won 1st Prize Stories Contemporary Issues

 More pictures when read more

BANKY W - FOLLOW YOU GO & Rep 4 Naija

BANKY W - FOLLOW YOU GO.
OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO, DIRECTED BY 'KEMI ADETIBA
Shot entirely in Lagos, Nigeria.





New Video: Rep 4 Naija ft. D'banj, M.I., Naeto C, El Dee, Sound Sultan & others (MTV Base)

Nigerian freed after 15 years awaiting trial

Effiong Elemi-Edu, 40, was released from prison in Nigeria last month after spending more than 15 years inside awaiting trial.

He was newly married and working in a plastic manufacturing firm when he was rounded up by police in Lagos in November 1995, the month after the murder of pro-democracy activist Alfred Rewane. His brutal killing has been linked to the government of former military ruler Sani Abacha.

Mr Elemi-Edu told the BBC about his arrest and how he was largely forgotten in the justice system even though military rule ended in 1999.

Read Complete report on BBC

Chimpanzee Problem Solving by Cooperation

A brief, interesting clip from National Geographic's "Ape Genius" documentary, demonstrating problem solving skills in chimpanzees, by requesting cooperation.

Also shows chimpanzees providing assistance to humans, by noticing assistance is needed, and retrieving out of reach objects for their human companions.

As time goes on, it becomes more and more obvious that the great apes are our evolutionary cousins. I would hope everyone viewing this would be able to share in my astonishment and awe at the brilliance displayed by these amazing creatures.

High School Student with 2 Wives, 7 Kids

Life has been challenging for 31-year old Islamic cleric, Yekini  Akeem, an SS-2 Student of Itabo  Community High School, Itabo, Lanlate, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria. This is because he is attending  secondary school at that age and he has two wives and seven children.

Alfa, as he is popularly referred to by his colleagues, said one of the  greatest challenges facing him has been the difficulty of interacting with his classmates who are far  younger than him.
Some of them, he claimed, heap lots of insults on him daily because of his age and they know that back  home he has two wives and seven children.

Alfa said: “I disregard every insult because I know what I want.  Often, I serve punishment together  with my classmates even when it is receiving strokes of the cane.”

Yekini blamed the delay in his secondary education on an illness that affected his father in 1995 when  he was preparing for his Junior Secondary School Certificate exam, JSCE. This later truncated his  education.

“ After staying for six years at home, Alfa said he later enrolled in a Qu’ranic school. He graduated  in Arabic studies in 2004 and became a qualified Islamic teacher (Alfa).

I Wanna Be An Engineer

I Wanna Be An Engineer - (Billionaire Geeked Out Mix) by: Only Won - the Lyrical Engineer

Seven Staff Of Bankphb Arrested For N75m Fraud Via Keylogger

Seven staff of Bank PHB are in police custody for allegedly defrauding the bank of N75million.

The suspects include Idowu Makunjuola, Akinwale Olugbemi, Ajunwa Solomion, Peter Tarie, Isaac Ukpe, Kehinde Aiyebodofor and Gabriel Onigboke.Also arrested in connection with the fraud are Abiola Ologodade, Bode Olofin, and Ajayi Abayomi; suspected to be the brain behind the fraud.The suspects were arrested by officers of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba on January 28, following a complaint by the bank.Spokesperson for the Lagos Police Command, Samuel Jinadu, said the suspects were able to hack into the accounts of customers with a device called the Keylogger.

Catholic Church Releases iPhone App For Confession

An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States.
"Confession: A Roman Catholic app" is thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority. It walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the company behind the program describes as a "personalized examination of conscience for each user." "Our desire is to invite Catholics to engage in their faith through digital technology," said Patrick Leinen of the three-man company Little iApps, based in South Bend, Indiana.
 . . .

The app is not designed to replace going to confession but to help Catholics through the act, which generally involves admitting sins to a priest in a confessional booth. Catholics still must go to a priest for absolution. Little iApps said Bishop Kevin Rhoades, of the Diocese of Fort Wayne in Indiana, officially authorized the app for Catholics to use. "It has been approved by Bishop Kevin Rhoades," said Weinandy. Leinen said the app has already aided one man in returning to the sacrament after 20 years. "We hope many more will take advantage of this new confession resource," he added.

Dbanj ft. Snopp Dogg - Mr Endowed (Remix)

Yes it is out!

Nigeria music is going far and faster this time around. Thanks to D'banj for this wonderful collaboration with Uncle Snoop. Now, before you start watching the video, please understand the enormity of this collaboration. One of the biggest Acts in Africa, Dbanj features a hiphop legend on the remix of his hit single.

OFFICIAL VIDEO: P-Square ft 2face Idibia - Possibility

Photo of the Day!

The current issue of Genevieve Magazine has on the cover; actor Ramsey Noah, Beauty queen Miss Nigeria 2010, BBA winner Uti Nwachukwu, Make-up artist Lola Maja, Comedian Basket Mouth, singers Omuwumi Megbele and Banky W and actress Monalisa Chinda.

Pasuma Wonder In Search For The Next Fuji Star

The popular fuji crooner ,wasiu alabi pasuma and A021 Media in partnership with EIC Communication  has initiated a new reality TV show in search of the next fuji star tagged "OHUN".

Audition for the first indigenous music Tv contest kicks off in four cities(Abeokuta, Ibadan, Ilorin, Ikeja ). The show will soon hit your TV screen , watch out for it. I am sure it will be fun as an indigenous genre music.

Man with 86 wives to sue INEC

The celebrated polygamist, Pa Abubakar Masaba, is heading for a showdown with the Independent National Electoral Commission and the police following allegations that members of his family, numbering over 5,000 were denied registration by suspected thugs in the just concluded voter registration exercise.

Our correspondent gathered that suspected thugs allegedly thwarted efforts by members of the Masaba’s family to participate in the voter registration exercise at a registration unit in Bida Local Government Area of the state.

Masaba is reported to have 86 wives. It was learnt that the thugs specifically prevented INEC officials from registering the Masaba family and that security operatives allegedly refused to come to his rescue.

The lawyer to the family, Mr. Shehu Jubril, told our correspondent in Minna, Niger State, that over 10 hoodlums frustrated efforts of the Masabas to register.

Intoducing: Mohammed Jammal(white Nigerian)

I first came across White Nigerian on a blog which I cannot remember right now but on the blog was a youtube video of Mohammed Jammal hanging out with Aki and Paw Paw and another of him making a funny comparison between life in Nigeria and life in the UK. Come 9th of January 2011 during Lord Of The Ribs show at Sheraton Hotels Abuja, White Nigerian was introduced onto the stage by Basket Mouth and soon after that, an interview with him was hurriedly put together. Below are the excerpts from the interview.

BACKGROUND
I grew up within a family of 7 kids in Jos, where I lived for 18 years of my life. I attended Hillcrest School before moving to London where I graduated with a BA in Business Administration at London Metropolitan Business School. I later went on to do a Masters in Global Management at Regents Business School where I graduated with a 2.1 last year.  Now I have moved back to home to start my career as I promised myself I would do.

THE NAME WHITE NIGERIAN
When I moved to London all my friends started calling me white Nigerian because it was the first time they had seen a “white boy” from Nigeria who speaks pigeon english and Hausa. Since then, everyone calls me the white Nigerian. 

VOYAGE INTO ENTERTAINMENT
It all started with a video I made on youtube where I was speaking pigeon English and Hausa with Kevin Pam, the former winner of Big Brother Africa. I got over 20,000 views in the first two months of releasing that video. After that, Nigerian’s all over the world asked me to make another video, so I made one comparing life in London to life in Nigeria. As of today, the video has over 70,000 views.



Interview and more pictures when you click here

FLAVOUR My Woman is Gone

Check out the video for “My Woman Is Gone”. It’s off Flavour’s last album “Uplifted.” There’s something about Flavour’s voice that blends into any genre… even Reggae! His ability to make the Igbo language sound so appealing is currently unmatched. 


Texts from notjustok.com

2face Idibia To Appear On The Mo’nique Show Tuesday Feb 8th

2face Idibia will appear as a guest on the ‘The Mo’nique Show’ on Tuesday, February 8 2011 on BET. Make sure you tune in.

Also CNN Entertainment News correspondent Lola Ogunnaike interviewed himfor an upcoming BET International segment which will air in 50 countries.


Spotted on Linda Ikeji

Broadway Musical FELA! screening in Lagos Feb 6th

FELA! the musical has finally come to Nigeria, courtesy the British Council, the British High Commission and National Theatre, London. This will be the first time that the musical will seen in Nigeria. The screening is on Sunday February 6th, at the New Africa Shrine, Agidingbi, Lagos. Time 4pm.

If interested you can get your tickets at the British Council Ikoyi office for N500.

Christians Protecting Muslims During Their Prayers In Egypt

Amazing pic of Christians protesters protecting Muslims during their prayers in Egypt yesterday.

Jos people should take note!
Pic from huffingtonpost.com

Angry Mob Sets Zenith Bank Ablaze Over Police Shooting

Angry mob in Abuja set a branch Zenith Bank building ablaze over the killing of a taxi driver in front of the bank by a police guard. The incident which took place at Mpape village, a suburb of Nigeria's federal capital.Thousands of protesters stormed the premises of bank and barricaded the roads and set the bank building on fire.

N-reports

Be a part of the change for a new NIGERIA. You can make a difference.

This second episode focuses on performing our duties before complaining this election season. Hope you enjoy and don't forget to SEND TO ALL PROGRESSIVE-MINDED NIGERIANS!


LWKMD---- very funny!