Naija for Life….

When I was a little boy, I never
believed that the Nigerian national
anthem is an english language ! Back
den we used
to be like.
“Araiz oh compassion…..Ninguria corl
obey….. Tusa
awa fadasla….. Is lu an sley an fe…..
Delebosa
awarisofa….. Shalebo ri inveh….. Tusa
tusa awa myti…..
Worle shaba….. In freedoor is ar unity!
Can you remember this version of the
national anthem?

Happy independence day fatherland

20 Ridiculously Laughable Quotes By Some Nigerian Leaders/politicians

(1). “If Nigeria breaks, some people in the country would have no where to run to, but for me and my people in Adamawa Kingdom, we will pack our luggage and whatever we have and join our kith and kin in Cameroun” = Lamido of Adamawa (2) “You press men, you always say there are no minerals in kano. We have Coca Cola, Fanta, Mirinda and the newly invented Sprite” = Bakin Zuwo. (3) “Foreign investors should ignore Boko Haram and invest in Nigeria” = Jonathan. (4) “I will water your school and fire your school” = Orji Uzoh Kalu (5) “Nigerians don’t panic, terrorist attack is everywhere, …maybe it’s our turn” =Jonathan. (6) “I will rather kill myself than commit sucide” = Dame Jonathan. (7) “I founded this school for the masses and the school fees is 850,000 naira” = Atiku Abubakar. (8) “…until I see someone eating out of the gutters before I believe there is poverty in Nigeria.” = Umoru Dikko. (9) “Telephone is not meant for the poor” = David Mark. (10) “The worth of a child born and breed in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States” = Yakubu Gowon. (11) “School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich” = Ikedi Ikiri Ohakim. (12) “At 50, Britain is still battling with King Arthur and the knights of the round table so Nigeria is not doing too badly” = Diezeani Madueke. (13) “Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria” = Obasanjo (14) “The corp members were destined to die, nobody can run away from destiny” = Isa Yaguda. (15) “On behalf of 20 million naira, I donate my family” = Dame Jonathan. (16) “We, the PDP did not win this election, I have gone to church to confess, I gave them money and they called the result” = Chris Uba. (17) “I want to commend the doctors and nurses for responding to treatment” = Dame Jonathan. (18) “I can see camera people, are they going to televise us alive?” = Dame Jonathan. (19) “We do not pray for accidents but they are inevitable. But we will continue to do everything to ensure that we do not have accidents. But an accident is an act of God” = Stella Oduah. (20) What is the website of NSCDC? “I cannot categorically tell you one now” …when pressed futher, he says, “Hmmm, the website is, excuse me, my Oga at the top knows the website”. He again, cleared his throat and said: “My Oga at the top is working on the website and I don’t have them.” When the presenters insisted that he give a functioning website address of the para-military outfit, he dropped the bombshell: “ww.nscdc, that’s all.” = Obafaiye Shem. Channels TV Interview with NSCDC boss. Enjoy yourself

Britain Starts Counter Petition To Keep Piers Morgan Back In America

Earlier this week there where reported petition that was started in the US – aiming to kick CNN host Piers Morgan out of America. The number of signatures on that list has since grown from 30 000 to more than 70 000!

The uproar started after Morgan called gun advocate Larry Pratt an “unbelievably stupid man” on his CNN program during a discussion about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The petition that followed accuses Morgan of engaging “in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution” and wants to deport him “immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens.”

But in a hilarious twist, a counter petition has now been started in Britain – aiming to keep Morgan in the United States, and out of the UK. It is called ”Keep Piers Morgan in the USA”:

We want to keep Piers Morgan in the USA. There are two very good reasons for this. Firstly, the first amendment. Second and the more important point. No one in the UK wants him back. Actually there is a third. It will be hilarious to see how loads of angry Americans react.

The petition needs 25 000 signatures by 24 January to merit a response from the White House.

In a series of Twitter messages since, Morgan alternately urged his followers to sign the new petition, and, in response to one article about the petition, said “bring it on” as he appeared to track the petition’s progress.

If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?

Headies 2012: Full List Of Winners

Since its emergence in the Nigerian
entertainment scene, the Headies
awards have been known for rewarding
hard work and beaming spotlight on
those that deserve it. Seven years on, the
awards grows stronger and bigger.
In a year that witnessed a star-studded
nominees list, the winners obviously
deserve everything they get. The
winners are a true reflection of the votes
of their esteemed fans.
This year’s awards will go down in
memory as one of the best Headies ever.
Omawumi and MI were fantastic; the
Basket Mouths and the Ali Babas should
be wary of these budding comedy
talents…
Check out the full list of winners below.
Full List of Winners at the 2012 Headies
Best RnB Singer – May D – Soundtrack
Best Pop Single – Iyanya – Kukere
Best Rap Single – Angeli -Vector ft 9ice
Best RnB/Pop Album – P Square
Best Street Hop – Chuddy K
Best RnB Pop Album – P-Square
Best Rap Album – Ice Prince – E.L.I
Best Vocal Performance (Male) – Wande
Coal – Private Trips
Best Vocal Performance (Female) – Tiwa
Savage – Love Me Love Me Love Me
Best Collaboration – Sound Sultan ft Excel
and Flavour – Orobo
Revelation of the Year – Wizkid
Recording of the Year – Brymo – Ara
Best Label Head – Banky W
Producer of the Year – TY Mix – Super C
Season (Naeto C)
Lyricist on the Roll – Vector – Angeli
Next Rated – Davido
African Artist of the Year – Sarkodie
(Ghana) Azonto
Artiste of the Year – Wizkid
Album of the Year – Psquare – The
Invasion
Best Music Video (Director) – Jude Okoye
– Chop My Money
Song of the Year – D’banj – Oliver Twist
Headies Hall of Fame – Femi Kuti

Source: InformationNigeria.org

“God will strike those sayingI’ve joined Illuminati, I am aking wherever I am” – D’Banj

In a major interview to the Lagos State
based radio station, Cool FM, Mo Hits, DB/
Good Music/Mercury/IDJ artiste, Dapo
Oyebanjo, popularly called D’banj, sought to
lay to rest various allegations and rumours
being peddled about him.
The artiste also spoke on chances of
reconciling with former partner and friend
Don Jazzy. Asked if there were chances that
both parties may reconcile, he said: “We can
always work together, and Don Jazzy still
produced some songs on my forthcoming
album. Yes, we can work together in future.
Maybe a big company can pay a lot of money
for us to perform, and yes, it has to be a lot
of money for me.”
Although the separation remains fresh in
the minds of the public since the break-up
made public in March this year, the singer
appeared to be still be nursing the wounds.
He appeared overwhelmed with emotions
when the interviewer referred to Don Jazzy
as his friend. To this he replied, “What do
you guys call friends? I mean, I had friends
for nine years, and you guys saw what
happened after the divorce. I lost custody of
my children apart from the one I had out of
wedlock.”
D’banj also said he was boss of defunct Mo
Hits Record by claiming that it was his
record label D’Banj (DB) Records that went
into partnership with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D,
and not Mo’Hit.
Ever since the singer was officially signed on
to West’s G.O.O.D music label in July, he was
rumoured to have joined the dreaded
Iluminati Cult, which is alleged to be home to
a number of American celebrities, including
West.
In defence, D’banj said, “I don’t know
anything about the Illuminati. When I
wanted to travel out of Nigeria for the first
time, I collected my international passport
from Bishop David Oyedepo. That shows
that I owe my success to God. If my success
is too fast for people or they cannot
understand it, please don’t attribute it to
illuminati. I feel very offended when that is
being said, because it simply translates to
giving God’s glory to another person which
He does not share with anyone. God will
strike anyone who attributes my success to
someone else.”
To the allegations of an existing relationship
with Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji, he
said, “I am very single, and Genevieve is my
friend. I have been saying this for over a
year since we shot the Fall in Love video.
Can’t you people just see fine boy and fine
girl in a video kissing each other and not
think anyhow?”
Although the singer, who released his debut
album “No Long Thing” in 2005, was
recently featured on West’s Cruel Summer CD
inlay and a couple of other singles, he has
been criticised for ‘leaving his kingship in
Nigeria to become a prince in America.’
Amidst laughter, D’banj replied, “Did I
change the crown? I only carried my crown
to the US. People are just confused but the
truth is I am still a king wherever I am. Being
in a different country and culture I had to
study the environment which is what I am
still doing. I actually thought I would release
my album in America, but my label thought
UK would be better because I have a bigger
fan base there. I weighed my options,
remember everything did not come from
me, so I had to do what I did to move on.”
The singer, who revealed that his mother
allowed him to travel to the UK in 2002 with
a condition that he would spend just two
months there, describes social media
network as platform for idle talk.
“I am too busy for social media, please. If
you people want to talk to me go to TV or
radio, I don’t go to social media except I
have something to say. I never give out
recharge cards on Twitter (laughs), even
when I was with Globacom, I never did that.
If you want to do that, why not help a
charity instead?”
Source: PUNCH

Nigerian wins Hollywood honour…..

The National Academy of Best Selling
Authors in Hollywood has celebrated
Nigerian entrepreneur and maritime lawyer;
Mfon Ekpo
Mfon Ekpo, entrepreneur, consultant,
maritime lawyer and founder of Premier
Pioneers Network was recognised and
honoured with the Golden Quill by The
National Academy of Best Selling Authors in
Hollywood.
The Best Sellers summit and awards gala
took place on the 28th of September 2012
at the legendary Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
in Hollywood, California, where the first ever
Oscars were held.
Mfon Ekpo was honoured with the ‘Golden
Quill’ for her best selling book,” The Only
Business Book You Will Ever Need” which
she co – authored with New York times best
seller Robert Allen of the Multiple streams of
income fame, America’s foremost
management expert Brian Tracy, NFL super
agent Leigh Steinberg whose career was the
inspiration for the ‘Show me the money ‘
character played by Tom Cruise in the
Academy award winning movie “Jerry
Maguire”, and a host of other renowned
world experts.
The book, which was released on the 8th of
March 2012,reached best-seller status in
three Amazon.com categories on the first
day of release – reaching as high as #2 in
the Direct Marketing category as well as
entrepreneurship and Business
Management categories.
Mfon, the founder of Premier Pioneers
Network, a platform where professionals
from various walks of life come together to
teach on areas they are passionate and
knowledgeable about, wrote in the new
book about “The ‘Voltron’ Formula:
Dynamics of Building an Outstanding Team.”
Her contribution in the book also won the
Editor’s Choice Award 2012, an award that
recognises outstanding contributions in
collaborative books.
Mfon Ekpo whose mantra for life and
business is “discover, develop, and
deploy“also juggles multiple roles as a
strategy consultant, professional negotiator
and mediator, writer, speaker, singer and
songwriter. She has trained people in the art
of negotiation, writing, public speaking,
ideas generation and implementation since
2006.
Her first book, “Pushing to the front “which
she co-authored with Brian Tracy and other
thought leaders was also a best seller. Mfon
also serves on the board of several
companies and is currently the Director of
Strategy and Head of H.R at Red Media, a
founding partner of the John Maxwell Team
and a Member of the British Institute of
International and Comparative Law. She
trains young people on humanitarian issues
as a school speaker for the British Red Cross
and enjoys expounding life lessons to
readers on her blog, The School Called Life.
Other recipients of the award from the
National Academy of Bestselling Authors
include Michael Gerber, Best selling author of
the book ‘E-myth’, Brian Tracy, Best selling
Author of multiple books including ‘Goals’,
Jack Canfield, multiple best selling author
famously known for his book, ‘Chicken Soup
of the soul’.

Football meets Music: Mikel Obi sets up record label called ‘Matured Money Minds’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Mikel Obi has always shows how much he loves music. It is practically seen whenever the footballer is not on the field of play for both his country and club, he listens to music from his devices with his headphone. He hardly miss any music shows and night clubs whenever he is in Nigeria for holidays.

 

The Jos, Plateau State-bred footballer has taken his love for music to another level by floating his own music label. As we were informed by an industry source, Mikel now owns new record label named Matured Money Minds (MMM). This was recently established and is fully controlled and run by his younger brother, Patrick.

 

MMM already has about four artistes. They are; Splash, Kido, Edgar and Charass. We learnt that the artistes already have their songs and full promotions are in the pipeline to promote and make them rub shoulders with the biggest artistes in the Nigerian music industry.

 

P-Square used to play football together with Mikel back in those days when they were together in Jos. Having seen how successful P-Square (who is now richer than Mikel) have become in music, that could be one of the motivating factor for the footballer’s interest in music business.

 

 

 
Source: Ovation

 

Ayo The Winner Of MTN Project Fame Season 5

Ayo (Ayobami Ayoola) has emerged the winner of the 5th season of MTN Project Fame West Africa. Marvellous, emerged as the first runner up, while Adetoun and Ella were the second and third runner ups respectively.
Ayo was voted the winner of West-Africa’s foremost music reality TV show by public voting
from the five countries in the sub-region that had contestants in the reality show.
As the winner, Ayo walked away with N2.5 million, a Toyota Rav4
and a recording contract.
Ayo had previously participated in another music reality show last year but was evicted during the show’s finale.
By winning this season, he joins past Project Fame West Africa winners, such as Iyanya, Chidinma and Monica, who have all become
superstars in the fledgling Nigerian music industry, churning out hits that are rocking the airways.

Lindsay Lohan Says She Can Relate to Elizabeth Taylor in New Liz & Dick Promo

That’s certainly what the embattled starlet seems to suggest in this new promo for the upcoming biopic Liz & Dick, which weaves together making-of footage and interviews with LiLo and her costar Grant Bowler.

Watch Lindsay Lohan “drink, fight and fornicate” as Elizabeth Taylor

“I’m a huge Elizabeth Taylor fan, and I relate to her on a lot of levels—living in the public eye, dealing with the stress of what other people say, whether it’s true or not,” Lohan says in the video. “I personally understand Liz because you’re living your life for everyone to see and people are growing with you. You get to a point where you become numb to it, and you just live your life in that way you feel you need to live it.”

As for Lohan’s portrayal of the Hollywood icon, Bowler, who takes on the role of Taylor’s greatest love of all, Richard Burton, insists she nailed it.

“She’s pretty much Elizabeth Taylor reincarnated,” he says.

The promo also makes sure to point out that this is Lohan’s first starring role in five years.

Guess we’ll have to wait until November, when Liz & Dick premieres on Lifetime, to see if it was worth the wait.

2BABA AND WIZKID STORM THE AMSTEL MALTA LAGOS SHOWTIME

All is set for the last leg of Amstel Malta
Showtime scheduled to hold in Lagos on 5
October.
2face Idibia
The gig will feature performances by
musical acts Tuface Idibia and Wizkid, while
comedian, I Go Die, will also be on hand to
thrill the audience. Ace dance group,
Corporate Dance World, will complete the
lineup while Darey ‘Art’ Alade anchor the
event.
Amstel Malta Showtime will also feature
competition in singing, dancing and comedy
categories with winners in all categories
walking away with a cash prize of
N500,000, a brand new iPad and an all-
expenses paid weekend getaway in Lagos.
The winners will also get the opportunity of
performing alongside Wizkid, Tuface, I go
Die as well as CDW. The first and second
runners-up in all the categories will also get
N150,000 and N100,000 each.
This year alone, the Amstel Malta Showtime
train moved across three cities; Port
Harcourt, Benin and Ibadan with top artistes
performing. Some of the artistes who have
performed so far in this year’s edition
include MI, 9ice, Naeto C, Davido, P Square
and Flavour. The event also featured
comedians Buchi, Senator and a host of
others.