Sunday, August 12, 2012
ECO- Dr Lover
Sequel to his first single “feeling myself”, ECO ,winner 2011 sprite triple slam music category and regional 2008 multina dance all. the multi-talented young abuja based artist signed under POSHYEAL ENTERTAINMENT is poised to strike a visible impression with his new firecracker titled ”DR LOVER” produced by renowned music producerTEKNO and mixed by MEKOYO. listen download enjoy !!!
VIDEO: Essence – Orin ft InkEdwards
First time Essence featured a Rapper, itwas Naeto C doing the facebook love remix with Jaywon Here, Essence introduces Ink Edwards in a song written for the love and passion of the art.Produced by Masterkraft, The video depicts how boring life would be without music. It also shows how the old can love to get jiggy with it.
The video also celebrates; great womensingers in Nigeria, such as- Ayo Balogun, Onyeka Nwenu, Salawa Abeni,Stella Monye, Christy Essien, Evi Edna Ogoli.
watch and enjoy peeps.
DIRECTED BY MEX.
The video also celebrates; great womensingers in Nigeria, such as- Ayo Balogun, Onyeka Nwenu, Salawa Abeni,Stella Monye, Christy Essien, Evi Edna Ogoli.
watch and enjoy peeps.
DIRECTED BY MEX.
B.O.U.Q.U.I – Good & Bad ft Obiwon
Gospel and inspirational music could only get better with B.O.UQU.I finding her rhythm and unleashing the power of ministration through her potent lyrics and testimonial music endowment.
Having released two hot singles “Sokuyokoto and Emi Lelei featuring Midnight Crew” off her forthcoming studio album titled “ Mark Of The General”, the exhilarating gospel/Inspirational music queen “B.O.U.Q.U.I” is back for the umpteenthtime with another praise invasion single “GOOD & BAD” featuring Obiwon.
With the chorus clamoring on ‘whether he good or bad…..’ the song featuring Obimo crooner “Obiwon” is deemed to praise the heavenly LORD in all situations and at every circumstances of life. Bukola Afolayan with the stage name Bouqui on the song magically unravels a diverse praise style with an Igbo lyrical dexterity to complement the striking vocal delivery by Obiwon.
The song ‘Good & Bad’ will not only pave the way for Bouqui’s forthcoming album “Mark Of The General” but will also earmark a great return for the dark skinned singer ‘Obiwon’.
Good & Bad is the last single off Bouqui’s third studio album which is set for release at the end of this month.The song is produced by JMETZ, recorded by Kollo at the countrysydes studio and mastered by Mixmaster Jay for Bouqui’s Place Entertainment
Having released two hot singles “Sokuyokoto and Emi Lelei featuring Midnight Crew” off her forthcoming studio album titled “ Mark Of The General”, the exhilarating gospel/Inspirational music queen “B.O.U.Q.U.I” is back for the umpteenthtime with another praise invasion single “GOOD & BAD” featuring Obiwon.
With the chorus clamoring on ‘whether he good or bad…..’ the song featuring Obimo crooner “Obiwon” is deemed to praise the heavenly LORD in all situations and at every circumstances of life. Bukola Afolayan with the stage name Bouqui on the song magically unravels a diverse praise style with an Igbo lyrical dexterity to complement the striking vocal delivery by Obiwon.
The song ‘Good & Bad’ will not only pave the way for Bouqui’s forthcoming album “Mark Of The General” but will also earmark a great return for the dark skinned singer ‘Obiwon’.
Good & Bad is the last single off Bouqui’s third studio album which is set for release at the end of this month.The song is produced by JMETZ, recorded by Kollo at the countrysydes studio and mastered by Mixmaster Jay for Bouqui’s Place Entertainment
DOWNLOAD: DJ ECool – Bestof EME [Mixtape]
World Renound DJ, ECOOL (Member of The “Hottest Coalition of Nigerian DJs”) puts together a compilation of the HOTTEST EME (Wizkid, skales, Banky W,Dj Xclusive, Shaydee, Niyiola) Tracks out there up till date Friday, Aug 10 2012. Listen/Download/Share/ Comment/ Feedback.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
South Africa claim first rowing gold
LONDON(AFP) – South Africa stunned favourites Great Britain and Denmark to claim their first ever Olympic rowing gold medal in the lightweight men’s four on Thursday in front of a 25,000 crowd.
All eyes were on the host nation to follow up Wednesday’s gold in the women’s pairs, and Denmark, champions at the Beijing Games four years ago.
But the South Africa four — James Thompson, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and Sizwe Ndlovu — gate-crashed their party in gripping fashion.
Seemingly out of contention in the first 1500m they exploded in the closing quarter to overhaul the Danes and then Britain to rewrite their country’s and the Games’ rowinghistory.
Denmark took control from the start, with Britain, featuring Northern Ireland brothers Richard and Peter Chambers, looking dangerous in lane three.
The British four started to press Denmark, forwhom Eskildi Ebbesen was seeking a fourth Olympic title.
But the big guns had no answer to South African’s finishing surge, the winning crew falling over themselves in jubilation after crossing the line in front of a capacity crowd at Eton Dorney.
World champions Australia came in fourth.
“That was brutal, we were fighting, fighting, fighting,” said Richard Chambers.
Teammate Rob Williams added: “It’s a tough event, we wanted to win gold, so silver’s not fantastic, but it is a medal at our home Olympics…”
In other finals action the all-conquering United States team, unbeaten in the past fouryears, added women’s eight gold to their Beijing and world championship titles.
The USA comfortably held off Canada in silver with the Netherlands filling the bronze position.
New Zealand world champions Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan won gold in the men’s double sculls.
The Kiwi pair overhauled Italy’s Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti late on, with longtime leaders Luka Spik and Iztok Cop of Slovenia taking bronze.
All eyes were on the host nation to follow up Wednesday’s gold in the women’s pairs, and Denmark, champions at the Beijing Games four years ago.
But the South Africa four — James Thompson, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and Sizwe Ndlovu — gate-crashed their party in gripping fashion.
Seemingly out of contention in the first 1500m they exploded in the closing quarter to overhaul the Danes and then Britain to rewrite their country’s and the Games’ rowinghistory.
Denmark took control from the start, with Britain, featuring Northern Ireland brothers Richard and Peter Chambers, looking dangerous in lane three.
The British four started to press Denmark, forwhom Eskildi Ebbesen was seeking a fourth Olympic title.
But the big guns had no answer to South African’s finishing surge, the winning crew falling over themselves in jubilation after crossing the line in front of a capacity crowd at Eton Dorney.
World champions Australia came in fourth.
“That was brutal, we were fighting, fighting, fighting,” said Richard Chambers.
Teammate Rob Williams added: “It’s a tough event, we wanted to win gold, so silver’s not fantastic, but it is a medal at our home Olympics…”
In other finals action the all-conquering United States team, unbeaten in the past fouryears, added women’s eight gold to their Beijing and world championship titles.
The USA comfortably held off Canada in silver with the Netherlands filling the bronze position.
New Zealand world champions Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan won gold in the men’s double sculls.
The Kiwi pair overhauled Italy’s Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti late on, with longtime leaders Luka Spik and Iztok Cop of Slovenia taking bronze.
Push to preserve Fela Kuti’s legacy15 years after death
LAGOS (AFP) – The spirit of Fela Kuti haunts his old house — the musician’s colourful clothes in the bedroom, his shoes on a rack — but the marijuana smoke, his many wives and his beguiling sax playing are long gone.
Thursday marks 15 years since the death of Kuti, the Nigerian Afrobeat musician who became a global icon thanks to his unique sound, his wild lifestyle and his harsh criticism of his country’s corrupt military regimes.
He is far from forgotten, both here and in many places abroad, and his family has beenworking to further preserve Kuti’s legacy, including efforts to turn his last house into a museum — the reason his bedroom was left as is.
Femi Kuti, son of legendary afrobeat musician and activist Fela Anikulakpo-Kuti, performs on stage with his children at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos on July 29, 2012. Nigeria marks on August 2, 2012 fifteen yearssince the death of Kuti, the Nigerian afrobeat musician who became a global icon thanks tohis unique sound, his wild lifestyle and his harsh criticism of his country’s corrupt military regimes. AFP PHOTO
“It’s gone beyond a Nigerian story,” his son Femi Kuti, also a musician, said recently before taking the stage at the family’s New Afrika Shrine club in Lagos. “It’s gone beyond an African story. It’s like jazz.”
Kuti’s legend has in some ways only grown since his death aged 58 in 1997 from an HIV-related illness, especially following a recent Broadway musical about his life that drew rave reviews.
His outsized personality and social activism made him a hero to many while he was still alive, and his funeral in the giant economic capital of Lagos drew massive crowds into the streets.
The saxophone player was a harsh critic of Nigeria’s corrupt elite, lashing out in songs like “Coffin for Head of State” or “International Thief Thief”, but with irresistible grooves that combined jazz, traditional music and other sounds.
His songs repeatedly landed him in trouble with the authorities, including arrests and theburning, allegedly by soldiers, of his compound, which he had christened the Kalakuta Republic and declared independent.
His original Shrine club where he regularly performed was shut after his death, but his family later opened the New Afrika Shrine at another location.
He was also known for marrying 27 women on the same day, most of them his dancers, and his love of marijuana was well-documented.
To some, echoes of his campaign for justice can still be heard in Lagos.
His name was invoked repeatedly during a national strike and mass protests in January over the removal of fuel subsidies, which caused petrol prices to double.
President Goodluck Jonathan was eventually forced to partially reinstate the subsidies.
Seun Kuti, another of Kuti’s sons, played politically charged concerts before thousandsat the main protest site in Lagos. Femi and his sister Yeni Kuti also helped lead rallies there.
For Kunle Tejuoso, who runs a record label as well as a bookstore and music shop that caters to Lagos intellectuals, Fela Kuti was “bold enough to shout out and use music as a weapon against a very, very vicious system.”
Kuti was raised in a middle-class family and studied music in England, but was able to connect with ordinary people even after his fame grew, Tejuoso said.
“He stuck to the basics, he stayed with the people, and I think he was immersed in his music,” he said at his store, which sells framed photos of Kuti.
– ‘Be with the people’ –
“And to get to that music, you have to be withthe people. In order to get the message across, you have to understand what they’re saying.”
Asked whether his father’s legacy had more to do with music or social activism, Femi Kuti said they were equally important.
“You cannot forget the fight for social justice, making, especially, Nigerians aware of their predicament,” he said.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and largest oil producer, and is often ranked as one of the world’s most corrupt countries. It was ruled by successive military regimes before a return to civilian government in 1999.
But it was not only Nigeria’s leaders that concerned Kuti. Femi points out that he was also intent on speaking out against the injustices of colonialism. Nigeria, a former British colony, gained independence in 1960.
After the first Kalakuta Republic was destroyed, Kuti moved to the three-storey building his family is now seeking to turn intoa museum in Lagos, with renovation work underway.
His pyramid-shaped tomb sits out front, the building situated on a narrow road in a crowded neighbourhood.
“It is very important to me, and this is why we buried him here in the first place — because we wanted to turn this place into a museum after he passed away,” said Yeni Kuti as she stood on the building’s rooftop terrace.
The Lagos state government has provided thefamily with 40 million naira (200,000 euros,$250,000) for the museum, according to Yeni,who estimates they will have to raise around 25 million naira more to complete the job.
The aim is to open the museum in October during “Felebration”, an annual series of events honouring Kuti around his birthday.
They plan to install glass around his bedroom so fans can see inside, with exhibitsin other rooms in the house and a small hotel.
“It’s a global issue of mankind oppressing one another for wealth, for corruption, greed,” Femi Kuti said. “And my father is just part of this big story.”
Thursday marks 15 years since the death of Kuti, the Nigerian Afrobeat musician who became a global icon thanks to his unique sound, his wild lifestyle and his harsh criticism of his country’s corrupt military regimes.
He is far from forgotten, both here and in many places abroad, and his family has beenworking to further preserve Kuti’s legacy, including efforts to turn his last house into a museum — the reason his bedroom was left as is.
Femi Kuti, son of legendary afrobeat musician and activist Fela Anikulakpo-Kuti, performs on stage with his children at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos on July 29, 2012. Nigeria marks on August 2, 2012 fifteen yearssince the death of Kuti, the Nigerian afrobeat musician who became a global icon thanks tohis unique sound, his wild lifestyle and his harsh criticism of his country’s corrupt military regimes. AFP PHOTO
“It’s gone beyond a Nigerian story,” his son Femi Kuti, also a musician, said recently before taking the stage at the family’s New Afrika Shrine club in Lagos. “It’s gone beyond an African story. It’s like jazz.”
Kuti’s legend has in some ways only grown since his death aged 58 in 1997 from an HIV-related illness, especially following a recent Broadway musical about his life that drew rave reviews.
His outsized personality and social activism made him a hero to many while he was still alive, and his funeral in the giant economic capital of Lagos drew massive crowds into the streets.
The saxophone player was a harsh critic of Nigeria’s corrupt elite, lashing out in songs like “Coffin for Head of State” or “International Thief Thief”, but with irresistible grooves that combined jazz, traditional music and other sounds.
His songs repeatedly landed him in trouble with the authorities, including arrests and theburning, allegedly by soldiers, of his compound, which he had christened the Kalakuta Republic and declared independent.
His original Shrine club where he regularly performed was shut after his death, but his family later opened the New Afrika Shrine at another location.
He was also known for marrying 27 women on the same day, most of them his dancers, and his love of marijuana was well-documented.
To some, echoes of his campaign for justice can still be heard in Lagos.
His name was invoked repeatedly during a national strike and mass protests in January over the removal of fuel subsidies, which caused petrol prices to double.
President Goodluck Jonathan was eventually forced to partially reinstate the subsidies.
Seun Kuti, another of Kuti’s sons, played politically charged concerts before thousandsat the main protest site in Lagos. Femi and his sister Yeni Kuti also helped lead rallies there.
For Kunle Tejuoso, who runs a record label as well as a bookstore and music shop that caters to Lagos intellectuals, Fela Kuti was “bold enough to shout out and use music as a weapon against a very, very vicious system.”
Kuti was raised in a middle-class family and studied music in England, but was able to connect with ordinary people even after his fame grew, Tejuoso said.
“He stuck to the basics, he stayed with the people, and I think he was immersed in his music,” he said at his store, which sells framed photos of Kuti.
– ‘Be with the people’ –
“And to get to that music, you have to be withthe people. In order to get the message across, you have to understand what they’re saying.”
Asked whether his father’s legacy had more to do with music or social activism, Femi Kuti said they were equally important.
“You cannot forget the fight for social justice, making, especially, Nigerians aware of their predicament,” he said.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and largest oil producer, and is often ranked as one of the world’s most corrupt countries. It was ruled by successive military regimes before a return to civilian government in 1999.
But it was not only Nigeria’s leaders that concerned Kuti. Femi points out that he was also intent on speaking out against the injustices of colonialism. Nigeria, a former British colony, gained independence in 1960.
After the first Kalakuta Republic was destroyed, Kuti moved to the three-storey building his family is now seeking to turn intoa museum in Lagos, with renovation work underway.
His pyramid-shaped tomb sits out front, the building situated on a narrow road in a crowded neighbourhood.
“It is very important to me, and this is why we buried him here in the first place — because we wanted to turn this place into a museum after he passed away,” said Yeni Kuti as she stood on the building’s rooftop terrace.
The Lagos state government has provided thefamily with 40 million naira (200,000 euros,$250,000) for the museum, according to Yeni,who estimates they will have to raise around 25 million naira more to complete the job.
The aim is to open the museum in October during “Felebration”, an annual series of events honouring Kuti around his birthday.
They plan to install glass around his bedroom so fans can see inside, with exhibitsin other rooms in the house and a small hotel.
“It’s a global issue of mankind oppressing one another for wealth, for corruption, greed,” Femi Kuti said. “And my father is just part of this big story.”
FG Still Grants Rice, Palm Oil Waivers
The House of Representatives and the Federal Ministry of Finance are in disagreement over import waivers on rice and palm oil granted to some individuals from January to 2012 to May 2012, after the Minister of Finance announced the suspension of such waivers in September lastyear.
Chairman House Committee on Finance Abdulmumin Jibrin said on Thursday July 19, 2012, during a debate on the alleged non-implementation of the 2012 budget by the Federal Government at the plenary session of the House that documents submitted to his committee by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) indicate that the government was still granting import waivers to some fewindividuals to import such items despite policy stopping it.
He said analysis of the documents shows that“on the average, the government has grantedminimum of N2 billion waivers per month from January to date to import rice, palm and vegetable oil”, adding that in the month of May 2012 alone, the government granted N39 billion waivers to some few individuals.
But Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, the Senior Special Assistant on media to Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told Daily Trust on telephone yesterday that no such waivers were given after the policy statement last year.
“I can tell you authoritatively that between January and May, no such waivers were given,” he said.
Nwabuikwu said the only waivers given within the period were the regular ones givento ‘companies that use Nigerian gas to power;to companies that purchase police and military equipments and to development partners like nongovernmental organisation (NGOs) in the area of health. He also said waivers are given to returning Nigerian diplomats.
On September 22nd 2011, Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that waiver requests would from then be granted by the ministry and sent to the Economic Team for consideration.
She said in Washington DC, at a seminar that,“all those who usually go to see the Presidentat night will no longer be allowed to do so. If they have any proposal, it must be presentedto the Economic Team. We are also going to hold a retreat with the private sector to discuss policy inconsistencies caused by the pressure they exert on the government.”
On 30th November 2011, Daily Trust exclusively reported that the Federal Government granted rice and palm oil import waivers amounting to about N150 billion to 10 companies, with one of them securing the duty write offs 164 times since February 2011.
The companies that previously benefitted from import waivers include Connotation Concepts Limited, which registered its nature of business as ‘Bookshops and Stationery Stores; Energy Resources Management Limited.’ The company got rice import waiverapprovals 34 times.
Other beneficiaries are Network Supplies Limited which got rice import duty waivers 36times that year amounting to N5billion in taxes; Olam Nigeria Limited, Presco Industries Limited and Sopon Nigeria Limited.
Speaking on the floor of the House during thedebate last week, Rep Jibrin also reeled out figures from the various revenue generating agencies indicating that there have been ‘unprecedented increase’ in revenue generation in the first six months of 2012; surpassing the budgetary projection by about30 percent.
He said such revenues are from the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and the Department of Petroleum Resources.
“Some people are determined to put it in ourpsyche that Nigeria does not have money. We are left with only one option which is to compel the executive to do the right thing,” Jibrin said.
The National Assembly is currently embroiledin dispute over the implementation of the 2012 budget, with the lawmakers threatening consequences should President Goodluck Jonathan fail to implement the budget hundred per cent by September 18, 2012.
But yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe said that no country achieves 100 percent budget implementation.
Okupe who is reacting to National Assembly-Presidency’s face-off over budget implementation told reporters in Abuja that that he sees the current misunderstanding between the members of the NASS and the Federal Government, especially the Minister of Finance as something that is not very healthy and not necessary.”
The finance minister has insisted that the budget has been implemented 56 per cent but the National Assembly believes that less than 40 per cent has been implemented.
Chairman House Committee on Finance Abdulmumin Jibrin said on Thursday July 19, 2012, during a debate on the alleged non-implementation of the 2012 budget by the Federal Government at the plenary session of the House that documents submitted to his committee by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) indicate that the government was still granting import waivers to some fewindividuals to import such items despite policy stopping it.
He said analysis of the documents shows that“on the average, the government has grantedminimum of N2 billion waivers per month from January to date to import rice, palm and vegetable oil”, adding that in the month of May 2012 alone, the government granted N39 billion waivers to some few individuals.
But Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, the Senior Special Assistant on media to Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told Daily Trust on telephone yesterday that no such waivers were given after the policy statement last year.
“I can tell you authoritatively that between January and May, no such waivers were given,” he said.
Nwabuikwu said the only waivers given within the period were the regular ones givento ‘companies that use Nigerian gas to power;to companies that purchase police and military equipments and to development partners like nongovernmental organisation (NGOs) in the area of health. He also said waivers are given to returning Nigerian diplomats.
On September 22nd 2011, Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that waiver requests would from then be granted by the ministry and sent to the Economic Team for consideration.
She said in Washington DC, at a seminar that,“all those who usually go to see the Presidentat night will no longer be allowed to do so. If they have any proposal, it must be presentedto the Economic Team. We are also going to hold a retreat with the private sector to discuss policy inconsistencies caused by the pressure they exert on the government.”
On 30th November 2011, Daily Trust exclusively reported that the Federal Government granted rice and palm oil import waivers amounting to about N150 billion to 10 companies, with one of them securing the duty write offs 164 times since February 2011.
The companies that previously benefitted from import waivers include Connotation Concepts Limited, which registered its nature of business as ‘Bookshops and Stationery Stores; Energy Resources Management Limited.’ The company got rice import waiverapprovals 34 times.
Other beneficiaries are Network Supplies Limited which got rice import duty waivers 36times that year amounting to N5billion in taxes; Olam Nigeria Limited, Presco Industries Limited and Sopon Nigeria Limited.
Speaking on the floor of the House during thedebate last week, Rep Jibrin also reeled out figures from the various revenue generating agencies indicating that there have been ‘unprecedented increase’ in revenue generation in the first six months of 2012; surpassing the budgetary projection by about30 percent.
He said such revenues are from the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and the Department of Petroleum Resources.
“Some people are determined to put it in ourpsyche that Nigeria does not have money. We are left with only one option which is to compel the executive to do the right thing,” Jibrin said.
The National Assembly is currently embroiledin dispute over the implementation of the 2012 budget, with the lawmakers threatening consequences should President Goodluck Jonathan fail to implement the budget hundred per cent by September 18, 2012.
But yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe said that no country achieves 100 percent budget implementation.
Okupe who is reacting to National Assembly-Presidency’s face-off over budget implementation told reporters in Abuja that that he sees the current misunderstanding between the members of the NASS and the Federal Government, especially the Minister of Finance as something that is not very healthy and not necessary.”
The finance minister has insisted that the budget has been implemented 56 per cent but the National Assembly believes that less than 40 per cent has been implemented.
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