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While Nigeria's lack of athletic success is a story in itself, we must also recognize that the modern Olympics is also a global cultural event; therefore, the country must leverage its pop culture. My thoughts on BusinessDay.
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I chuckle everytime there's a new update in the Wizkid-Davido beef. Theirs isn't the first in Nigerian music history, and it won't be the last. Case in point: Chief Dr Sikiru Ayinde Barrister & Gen. Kollington Ayinla whose friendship was punctuated by a 20-year feud.
Shall we?
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SARS officials don't wear police uniforms, are heavily armed, drive around in unmarked buses and pick people at random. That's kidnapping. They murder some of their victims too.
Nobody in government- local, state or federal- thinks this is a problem.
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That one time Pasuma's backup guy wanted to steal the show. Paso was saying "Eeiss! Area..." but the guy was in the zone 😂😂
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Where were you in the year 2000?
What’s a rap song where the vocalist featured took it to another level?
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You mean after Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ali Farka Toure, Lekan Babalola, Sikiru Adepoju, Angelique Kidjo, Youssor N'dour etc.
It's okay. You simply don't know.
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Nigerian music has always been global. Glad to see Burna Boy on Jimmy Kimmel. It’s major.
In 1992, Majek Fashek was on Late Night With David Letterman. His song So Long Too Long from the album Sprit of Love was released under Interscope Records.
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People remember Ola Rotimi mostly for The Gods Are Not To Blame - which is great. Truly a piece of classic literature. One of my favourite plays. But have you ever read Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again? Incredible.
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I think because Kunle is youthful and seemingly carefree, people don't give him his deserved accolades. But I think - to me - Kunle Afolayan is the greatest filmmaker in these parts. The greatest filmmaker in African history.
A story of death, resurrection and the greedy desires of men. Anikulapo, a film by Kunle Afolayan, is coming to Netflix on September 30. 🌘
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The AMVCA moment that stands out the most to me was when the late great Buki Ajayi received the Industry Merit Award in 2016. She was 82 and couldn’t believe all these people were giving her a standing ovation.
“And Peace”, she said.
Four months later, she passed away.
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"When I saw FASHOLA BABATUNDE I thought it was the Honourable Minister of Works going to Abuja with his men, so we decided to do the flight since he's a serving minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I didn’t know that it was a bunch of useless people.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Shout out to Charles Adetokunbo for putting his kids in a position to chase their dreams. Died way too early. He'll be proud of all his boys.
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Tomorrow's protests must be gargantuan: 15th October is Fela's birthday. We must make him proud.
#SARSMUSTEND
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Nothing much to see here. Just Seun Kuti performing at Glastonbury 2014 where he’s remaining at his “local shrine.”
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This February makes it 49 years since the Nigerian Police killed Kunle Adepeju, an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan who was among the the students protesting poor management of their school. He was 21 years old.
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How is that Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was able to build no less than 15 low cost housing estates from Ipaja to Isolo to Lekki - with each comprising 100 or so blocks of 6 flats that people still live in till date- in one election cycle between 1979 and 1983?
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Nobody has been able to buy new SIM cards or replace old ones since December but "Economic Driver of the Year". Lol.
Dr Pantami Bags Economic Driver of the Year Award.
The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy,
@DrIsaPantami
has bagged the Nigerian NewsDirect Award of Excellence as "ECONOMIC DRIVER OF THE YEAR 2020".
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Dear
@wizkidayo
you're a pop star. Global one like Chris Brown & Justin Bieber. Don't let them put you in that 'Afrobeats' box. Much love.
Afrobeats artist Wizkid talks about using the genre's rise to the mainstream to change global perceptions of Africa.
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I wish somebody from Daily Mail and Buckingham Palace will do a translation of the song playing and relay it to The Firm.
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I spent hours in the heart of Bariga today. Brothers and sisters, we have a generation of drug-crazed, criminal-minded young people on our hands. And we’re not doing jackshit about it.
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It took me a while to understand the Yoruba concept of ìlara. That people could be resentful of you, not that you did anything to them o. Just the existence of you grates on them to the point that they harbour so much hate for you in their mind. It’s a strange phenomenon.
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The most fascinating thing about Twitter how ANYBODY can tweet ANYTHING and countless people will accept it as truth and fact.
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20 years ago, Styl Plus themselves already reimagined Olufunmi as a hiphop song. Da Capo did justice to it. The remix itself is a classic and it didn’t need any Afro-cultism dagaram.
#AfrobeatsHistory
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The population of Lagos in 1980 was 2.5 million. The population of Lagos in 2024 is ~20 million. The real sadness is how Nigerians allow their other states and cities to fail, and then blame Lagos for struggling under the pressure of overpopulation.
Ikoyi in the 1980 before the senselessness and lack of order and clear direction around our town planning and environmental agencies over the decades..
Very sad
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There’s no metric by which Mr Sanwoolu has failed as governor of Lagos. I understand that some folks have scores to settle with him and that’s fine. However I’ll be voting him for a second term and I hope everyone else does too.
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Saw some kids in the neighborhood being bussed to school for "summer" lesson. Aren't they supposed to be on holiday???
I think we overschool kids in Nigeria. Go to school at 7am. Stay there till 3. Do home lesson. Do weekend lesson. Do summer lesson.
Let kids be kids abeg.
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The conviction that a section of Nigerians have that - Bola Tinubu didn’t attend CSU or that the Bola Tinubu that attended was female - is wonderful. I’m surprised because many otherwise intelligent individuals allowed their good sense to be stampeded into the headless mob.
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Meanwhile, one of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar will be Nigeria's next president. This other candidate will lose so badly but his supporters will insist the election was rigged while the man himself will concede and go back quietly to his supermarket.
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Looks like there’s an agenda to ridicule Yoruba culture and practices. The funny part is other peoples cherish and protect theirs whilst some of Yoruba extraction join them in the disparagement.
Always funny to me.
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The Vector album is really really dope. I hope he does a promo run because
a. I think he’s likeable dude.
b. More people need to hear him speak.
c. TESLIM is really great work.
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What do we think about the demolition of Oniru Beach or we don’t care as it’s not Landmark?
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I woke up today thinking about Funmi Aragbaye. She was one of the first successful gospel musicians. If her voice didn’t move you to giving your life to Christ, then you were the devil himself. Being signed to SONY Music, her records rivaled those of SSP and co.
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When governors of states that are Lagos say they’re meeting with foreign investors, what exactly are they discussing? Because how can Lagos find space to have a car assembly plant on Wemco Road when Oyo and Ogun have landssssssssss.
Why does Lagos want it more than others?
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On this day in 2001, Chief James Ajibola Idowu Ige was murdered in his Bodija, Ibadan home. He was a lawyer, politician, teacher, political activist & former governor of Oyo State. At the time of his murder, he was Nigeria's Minister of Justice. His killers have never been found.
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I know if KFC knew who Debola Daniel was, they would have behaved differently. Now they don buy market.
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Again: the most miraculous thing about the last election season was how a former governor/presidential running mate was able to convince Nigerians that he was not of the political establishment and that he had worn only one wristwatch for 17 years.
And they believed.
Are you daft? I said I WAS GIVEN CASH ENVELOPE BY PETER OBI WHEN HE CAME FOR CONSULTATION AT ONDO STATE PDP SECRETARIAT IN AKURE ON SUNDAY APRIL 24th 2022. Sue me 😀
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Some people will start their journey at 23. Some will start theirs at 41. Neither is invalid. Don’t allow anybody pressure you into believing you’re a lost cause or that you don’t have time. You’re on your own journey, not theirs.
Just keep walking. Never stop, never settle.
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The great Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, MFR sang it in song:
When money finish for giver hand, receivers go dey spread gist say giver no plan him life well.
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Today makes it six years since Nomoreloss passed away. Keep resting in peace, Muyiwa.
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Meanwhile, that person whining about "Oyo movies" has not seen anything. Wait till we make a film about Alaafin Orompoto. Or a remake of Ogbori Elemosho.
As Abass Akande Obesere sang, the crying of Alabosi is a daily endeavour. Continue crying; cry inside bucket...
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Hehe. Hello.
Dear
@wizkidayo
you're a pop star. Global one like Chris Brown & Justin Bieber. Don't let them put you in that 'Afrobeats' box. Much love.
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Again? Who’s doing KSA’s biopic or docu series? He’s still here o!
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It’s unlikely that anyone born after the last military interregnum would know this.
Bola Abimbola featuring King Sunny Ade, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma and Daddy Showkey in “Friends.” Released circa 1997 (although I’m not very sure now).
Raise your hand if you ever saw this on tv.
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People who worked with him on radio will know more, but as a fan, you loved Dan Foster. I did. I certainly did. Rest in peace Big Dawg.
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Apparently when women fry meat and keep in the fridge they have plans for it. Me I've been snacking on it with beer this past week.
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Waking up to the news that the great Orlando Julius Ekemode has joined his ancestors. He passed away in the early hours of this morning at the age of 79.
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Again: the Lagos housing bubble has to burst. It's not right to charge all these huge figures for accommodation. It has to stop.
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Today I'm reminded of a Nigerian music mogul, Saliu Adetunji. Born in Ibadan, Western Nigeria in 1928, he was the first of 17 children- a modest number by those days standards as his father was quite influential.
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“We’ve been sitting down for so long,
We’ve been fooling around for too long...”
Here’s the rest of that Majek’s performance.
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The war on Yoruba culture continues. Every time it appears that Yoruba experience a win of any sort, these types of sentiments come up. One is starting to believe that it is deliberate.
But ojú-oró ní ń lékè omi, ọ̀ṣíbàtà ní ń lékè odò; àwa yóò lékè gbogbo yín.
My dear Nollywood,
We are slowly pivoting towards a tribal trajectory.
As I skim through, all the amazing language based titles, coming out of the industry.
I cannot help, but see a subtle race, to showcase whose culture is best.
As much as we desire to tell our stories
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You're not a savage. You're just a mannerless twat who does not have home training.
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Wizkid hasn't used his private life as "content", like many of his peers. And it's incredible how he almost never reacts to stuff written or said about him. So I think it's unfair how folks are using his mother's obsequies as gist. Give the man a break. It's only right.
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Olosho. You reduce all the woman’s accomplishments to ‘prostitute’ because you want to criticize your own president? Who raised this despicable beings?
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In the history of IDAN, there has never been any artiste who has Idan’d more than Sir Shina Peters. His previous two albums sold a cumulative 12 million copies, but in 1990 with Experience, he took it to another level that nobody else could reach - or even dare.
Name a song where an artist was in their IDAN moment.
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If a retired diplomat who served three years in a country gets turned down for a visiting visa to said country, I don’t think it’s because his own country’s passport has been “bastardized.” Sounds like they have an issue with *him*.
But hey 🤷🏾♂️
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Not many people remember Wizkid's cameo in Ikechukwu's Naija Boy (2007). Even I had forgotten until I saw Drinks With Killz featuring Darey.
2007. When he told you on Familiarity with Jayru "I no be small boy, I been doing tings", he knew what he was saying.
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Someone was telling me how the Maryland-Opebi flyover being constructed by Cousin Jide is “unnecessary.” So I reminded them of the bridge that connects that Law School area to Falomo which wasn’t there before BRF. I’m still laughing now because they didn’t even know that!
Smh.
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Lack of growth scares me. Scares me when people do the same things the same way over and over and over again. I understand that safety and comfort are important. But how do you stay years in the same job, same role, same spot? Take riks and succeed nau!
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Last night,
@Femiakuti
@RealSeunKuti
and
@madeakuti
shared a stage. I'm not sure if that was the first time all three of them would play together but it was certainly a powerful moment that even this great image cannot completely describe.
Their ancestors would be proud.
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My
#BurnaBoy
book is going on nicely. Can't wait to share with you. Like they say in our Nollywood, coming soon!
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Me and my family have never suffered under any dispensation. Sorry if you have. Vote who you want and leave me alone. 🤷🏾♂️
In a country where the minimum wage is $50, you want to continue with the status quo? Suffer never tire you and your family ni?
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Every single currency note has a serial number and at any point in time, the CBN knows precisely how much money in circulation. But people want to believe you can keep one calabash in your room that will be dispensing fresh money every day like the ATM opposite Eko Hotel 😂😂
For the 100000000times there is nothing like money rituals. Stop killing people. We live in real world not nollywood movies
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A journalist interviewing a guest shouldn't say stuff like "I'm not buying your explanation." Ask your questions, explore inconsistencies in the subject's remarks but you cannot, CANNOT introduce your personal beliefs and convictions to query what is being said.
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What I miss most about post 2000 Nigeria is how kids don’t fly kites and run about anymore. I did in Felele, Ibadan. I did in Olomore, Abeokuta. I did in Ilupeju, Lagos.
But all of a sudden, no more kids with kites again.
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H/t to
@marclamonthill
how the Craig Hodges story. Stumbled on it in the past but happy that Marc shared it again. You’ve got to have a cause.
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So my people, Wiz vs O.B.O is nothing new. my people say, tí kò bá rẹ ìjà, wọ́n kìí ń làá. At 34 & 32,they have plenty of time to fight & make up. It's not new, or strange, or shocking.
And as Kollington sang in Fuji Megastar (1990), Èdùmàrè fi ìṣe yìn wá, gbogbo wa.
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Barrister invented Fuji, evolving it from wéré music. He was a child star, far more talented than his peers, winning awards in Mushin. Kollington, five years younger, was equally talented, winning his own awards in Ebute Metta. They became friends & essentially grew up together.
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Although his first studio album Recognition came out in 1993, Pasuma's break out album was Orobokibo circa 1996/97. So many quotables that went on to become mainstream pop culture lingo.
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Away from the governor for a minute: Rufai should never call himself a journalist. He’s a talking head, a commentator. Because everytime someone he doesn’t like comes to Arise, he pouts and sulks like a petulant toddler.
Thank you to the
@Arisetv
team for inviting me to their studio on this special International Women's Day.
If you missed the interview, I started by celebrating the incredible contributions that women have made and continue to make in every aspect of Lagos.
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So I was a guest at K1’s Ule Omo Ojusagbola home in Ijebu-Ode. First we spoke about his new EP, Fuji The Sound and why he’s constantly evolving the genre.
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“Fuel subsidy will go immediately I become President.”
Mr. Peter Obi.
January 8, 2023.
So why are his followers angry that the actual president says it’s gone 🤷🏾♂️
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Oh by the way: Dbanj is in my all time greatest Nigerian artistes top 3. First you have Alhaji Dr Sikiru Ayinde Barrister. Then you have Dbanj, or Skibanj like his Jamaican friends call him. Don't @ me please. Merry Christmas.
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Crazy how Prince Harry wrote about this exact transformation in his book and these same Britons said "Na lie." Lol
After the death of Princess Diana, there was a sense among many in Britain that “We can’t have Camilla.” But Saturday's coronation of King Charles III marks the conclusion of Camilla's image transformation, with her set to be crowned as queen.
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"Two Ghanaians and three rappers from SA.
One Kenya rapper can step to me on they best day.
As for Naija I give the legends they props.
There's four niggas who did it like me and that's where it stops."
JUDE MA PA MI NAU!
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What is this I'm seeing about a Nigerian journalist telling their guest, "You need a dictionary..."? Is this still journalism that we're doing like this? At the barest minimum, where is the decorum a member of the fourth estate is supposed to embody?
Na wa o!
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Lateef Jakande was governor of Lagos for only four years. Only four. Don't forget.
Count how many Jakande Estates you know, how many roads he constructed and how many schools he build. In only four years.
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Beyoncé knows nothing about English premier league football. Yet she was interesting here. You can tell she’s charismatic, funny even.
Nigeria, let’s tell our stars to develop their personalities & be fun to interview. As of now, they’re boring AF
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To be honest, I don’t know how Seyi Tinubu was able to hold himself back from lashing out this election season. He carried himself admirably despite all the invectives hurled at him and his family.
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Barrister struggled through the year with little or no performances, and two weeks after his 20th birthday in 1968, he followed in his friend's stead and joined the Nigerian Army. He sang about it in the album Oke Agba (1980).
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I hope Ms Kidjo knows and realizes that most Nigerians love her and respect her artistry, and that the trolls are a small, inconsequential group. She's one of us.
On tour in the USA month!
April 5th - Seattle, WA
April 7th - Tucson, AZ
April 9th - Scottsdale, AZ
April 14-16th - Santa Monica, CA
April 23rd – Berkeley, CA
April 25-26th – New York, NY
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Motorbikes are banned in Port Harcourt and dispatch companies have to register with state government for "security purposes"?
Could have sworn LASG tried it early 2020 and our people did plenty "anti-people" threads.
I wonder why Port Harcourt and Wike are different...🤔
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This the person you people are saying awwwwww for now that he’s positive. Wasn’t he using coronavirus to troll the other day? Okay.
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MTV set up an interview with an artiste. Didn’t require him to travel or move at all. Just turn your phone on. They did advert and ran it on their channel. Many times.
At the agreed time, artiste overslept. Overslept. Sigh.
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Told him this seven years ago and he took offence. I’m happy he’s done it the right way now sha. Legend in my eye still.
🚨All 38 Albums and 500+ tracks by Beautiful Nubia have now been made available for streaming on DSPs.
Legend. 👏🏽🙌🏼
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Dan Foster paved the way for all of us. His death saddens me. It feels really personal. This is terrible news.
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Let me tell you guys a story about how a Black American R&B singer born in Detroit, who left Motown over unpaid royalties, came to reinvent himself with a (Yoruba) song he called Going Back To My Roots in 1977. It became a smash hit when the disco band Odyssey covered it in 1981.
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Perhaps it was Kollington's age, he wasn't posted the war front. Barrister wasn't as lucky: after the three-month induction into the army, he was shipped out to war. The only luck he experienced was that the bullet that hit him was not fatal, and so he was shipped back to Lagos.
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@mofeyintola
Great observation. I think it had to do with the blatant sexualization the women had to deal with… our people can be rambunctious a little too much.
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In 1988, Nigeria had a minor drought that caused extended dry spells. It inspired a young Majek Fashek to compose “Send Down The Rain.” The rains actually started shortly after the song was released, and it poured every time Majek performed it.
Rest in peace, Rainmaker 🕊️
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My son is 3 today. Like I say, he’s proof that God loves me. Because having him changed everything and brought the realization that for the first time in my life, I had something that was mine and something to live for. God is the Greatest.
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When the Civil War broke out in 1967, there was a ban on early morning movements & gatherings. Wéré experienced a slump that year. Kollington took stock of his life - only a Standard 6 education at 15 years old - and figured that the military offered a way out of a bleak future.
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So he told his friend Barrister - who was dealing with a different challenge of his own (his father had died and his education had stopped) but had a few years of secondary school education - that he was enlisting in the army.
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American Faaji Series - Abass Akande Obesere.
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The music bug did not leave either of them. They continued to make music and record albums. Eventually, Barrister got disillusioned with his desk job and told Kollington leaving the army to face music full time because the meagre salary they earned did not look promising.
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@OluJacobs_
Nor has the elegance diminished one bit. Pictured here in 1995 from the archives of the legendary
@TheRealFAJ
.
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