PHOTOS FROM WIZKID’S UK TOUR (ARRIVALS)

Wow… this young man is sure going places. See Another picture below…

Afro-Juju Legend ,Sir Shina Peters Turns 54 Yesterday!!!

 

   Afro juju legend, Sir shina peters turns 54 yesterday May 30,2012 .Shina peters was born Oluwashina Akanbi peters May 30,1958 in Ogun state

 He began his career while playing the guitar with General Prince Adekunle, later forming his own group with Juju Maestro Segun Adewale.Shina Peters, after releasing many albums with Segun Adewale through the 1980s, went on to form his own band “Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars”.

       Their first album release Ace (Afro-Juju Series 1) in 1989 went double platinum and was the career breakthrough which catapulted Sir Shina Peters back into the limelight. “Ace” was a musical fusion between Juju and Afro beat; a rhythmic collaboration which pierced Ethnic, Cultural and language barriers in Nigeria.

    The second album release Shinamania (Afro-Juju Series 2) went on to further prove that Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars were on the verge to change and revolutionize the Juju Music scene in Africa. Sir Shina Peters is still regarded as the creator of a well-respected music genre (Afro Juju) that exists in its own class till this day. He currently has 16 albums  to his credit.

   Shina peters was inducted into The Headies (Hip-HopWorldAwards) Hall of Fame in 2011.

Tweet of the day

  

UNN student commits suicide this morning

A student from the university sent me a mail about what happened in their school early this morning. The students of University of Nigeria, Nsuka, woke up to find one of their own hanging from a rope in an unfinished Franco building beside the hockey pitch in their school. Roommates of the dead student said he left the room around 2am this morning and they thought he had gone to study, only for his corpse to be found dangling from a rope this morning. He’s a 3rd year Physics and Astronomy student in his early 20’s. So so sad. A photo of the sad incident when you continue…but viewer discretion advised.

 Wish someone had reached out to him before this happened. May his soul rest in peace…amen.

2 Shotz Responds To Accusation Of Collecting N100,000 Without Appearing For Show

 

     Rapper 2 shotz has responded to the accusation by lead city university students that he collected N100,000 from them for a fashion show and didn’t appear  .The rapper has responded through his publicist , read below:

“It’s been deemed necessary for 2shotz to respond through his publicist, about the stories making rounds that he collected money for a fashion event in Lead City University Ibadan and refused to turn up.

The said amount [N100, 000] was meant for 2Shotz appearance at the fashion show. It must be made clear that 2Shotz has a no refund policy of such fee.

  Unlike stories going round, 2Shotz was actually in Ibadan for the event but unfortunately, the organizers did not pick him (2Shotz) up at the hotel for the show.  As expected anywhere in the world, when you invite an artiste for an event, it is the responsibility of the organizers to get the artiste to the said venue, something these organizers failed to do, as seen in the attached conversation.

 “I was very angry, that the organizers could bring me to Ibadan, and did not find it necessary to come pick me up at the hotel” said 2Shotz

It is rather unfortunate, that the organizers could still go ahead and paint up such story.

2Shotz remains faithful to his fans and will continue to churn out good music that will always keep them happy”

 

 

Big Brother Stargame – Mampi’s Thunder Thighs Dance Their Way Home

Twenty-five-year-old Zambian R&B singer, Mampi became the first celebrity housemate to be evicted from the Upville house on Sunday.

After forming a close bond with Zimbabwe’s Maneta, the pair were nominated by some of their fellow housemates for gossiping too much. After spending three weeks in the house, Mampi will probably be best remembered for her signature style of dancing, dubbed ‘thunder thighs’.

The Namibian indulged in a bit of gossip with the dancing diva yesterday…

What was the best thing about the Upville house?

Getting to meet different people from different places and sharing our different cultures. It was lots of fun getting to know all the different housemates, living with them and exchanging our cultural values.

And the worst thing?

It was definitely challenging and not as easy as it seems. Watching the show from home is very different from actually doing it and being part of it. It’s a psychological and mental game, not a physical one. Having cameras on you 24/7 is so annoying, especially when you want to pick your nose, or other little habits that you don’t want people to see. You can’t run or hide in the house.

What did you learn about yourself through the experience?

Nothing really, apart from the fact that I learned I can be a bit of a bully. It’s fun to bully people sometimes. Not everyone, just some people in the house.

Who did you most dislike and why?

Goldie. I believe she was very plastic and she was pretending too, too, too much. I think she’s trying too hard to be sweet. I don’t think she’s really a sweet person. When you look in her eyes you can see a lot of anger there. I think she’s the biggest pretender in the house.

Do you think you and Maneta’s gossiping may have played a role your nomination and eviction?

Yes, but at the end of the day, it’s a game. A game of gossip, hatred, backstabbing and betrayal. You choose which one you do. They will keep evicting people for different reasons, maybe some lie and some are unpredictable. It’s the name of the game. I don’t look at it as gossiping. I found someone I could confide in, it only looked bad on TV but every single person loves gossiping and they will still continue to talk about each other. It’s fun. Being out of the house, I am still saying the same thing. So in the house it is considered gossip, but on the outside it’s an interview. It’s just my opinion anyway.

Do you feel you made the right decision, entering the house?

Everything happens for a reason and out of every negative, you can make a positive. You mould yourself. I don’t think entering the house was a bad idea at all. I had so much fun and I think it was the right time for me to go out. Mentally I felt ready to go. I realised at some point that it was not easy at all so, all in all I think everything worked out the way it should have. The timing was perfect.

We loved your dance moves, where did you learn to move like that?

(Laughs) I don’t know! I love to dance and never expected people to copy my ‘thunder thighs’. That’s my signature back home, I am actually better known for dancing than for singing.

It’s something that amuses people. Funnily enough, I only discovered my talent for dancing at 17. I guess it’s just something I was born with.

What did you think of our Lady May?

I really liked her so much. She’s actually the first person I related to when I got into the house but after a while I felt she changed. Perhaps it was when I got closer to Maneta, maybe she felt abandoned. I was disappointed that she nominated me but I don’t blame her, it’s the nature of the game. I tend to think that people nominate those they are threatened or irritated by. I don’t think I irritated her because we never argued or had any differences. So I have to think that I was perhaps a threat to her. We share vocal skills and I would love to do a ‘collabo’ with her, more than anyone else in the house.

Future plans?

I plan to get back to work and continue recording except this time I want to make an international album. I am known in Zambia and now it is time to cross borders and take my music to the rest of Africa. I hope to visit Namibia soon.

Source: The Namibian

Paul Okoye chilling with his baby

 

Baby as in girlfriend? Cute girl! Paul doesn’t tweet much but yesterday he tweeted this photo of himself and that babe chilling on a boat in Cape Town, South Africa, where P-Square is performing. If that’s his babe, now y’all know what she looks like. More photos, paul…:-)

I can’t be doing hide-and-seek games. Basket mouth is not even my hello-hi friend -Ifeoma Okeke

Ifeoma Okeke Nollywood actress Ifeoma Okeke recently held The Purple Campaign, at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac, Lagos, on May 21. The event now in its second year, a campaign against social vices such as drugs, child abuse, molestation, human trafficking and domestic violence, was well-attended by personalities and celebrities. In a recent chat with Entertainment Express, the buxom entertainer talked about the pains of being a plus-size actress in Nollywood. She also vented her anger on rumour mongers who peddled false tales about her love life. “I am not a baby that I will be playing hide and seek games, when I was in a relationship everybody knew, and when I get into another again, everybody will know” she asserted. In this encounter, the multi-faceted Mental Case actress, opened a window on her world. Excerpts. What do you consider the unpalatable aspect of the movie industry? For every profession there is a good side and a bad side. The way we are portrayed is not good, it’s like there is nothing good about actors and actresses. I can understand that we are like the mirror, so anything we do is in the spotlight. They are other sectors that are very bad, and nobody says anything about them. But once it’s an actor or an actress, it becomes a story. That is the only thing that affect the actors, the way we are portrayed, everything about us is portrayed in the extreme. The way we are being portrayed isn’t good and I am advising anybody who wants to be an actor or actress to be prepared for this – you are going to be portrayed on the bad side but don’t let it bother you. Have you been enraged by rumours about you in the newspaper? I have heard rumours about me in the press of which two made me angry which is one of the reasons I don’t grant interviews. It’s either your words won’t be stated just as you said it or they cast headlines that is largely misrepresentation just to sell their papers. I granted an interview around February and the reporter quoted me using the word “flaunting my breast” –that is a language I don’t use; I’d rather use the word bo*bs, because br*ast is too raw. I am an actress, I know the words to use. I granted one interview during the I Take My Chances premiere, and one Journalist kept asking questions about a dead relationship. She was just repeating questions about a dead relationship, kept talking about my size and so on. I was like “girl at what point did I say this, at what point did I not say this? Where I had gone mad at a press man was when they said I was dating Basketmouth who is not even my hello-hi friend. We are not enemies, for no other reason than that you cannot be friends with everybody. The only time I came in contact with Basketmouth was during his first child dedication when a friend of mine who happened to be his wife’s friend took me there. As his guest he could know that this lady is an entertainer, he could know that there is an Ifeoma Okeke wherever, but no more than that. But this news was all over the internet. One celebrity magazine had it on its cover page that I was ruining his marriage, that he paid my bills, that the two cars I was using was bought by him. If somebody goes to the press tomorrow and say I am dating Alibaba, I don’t care because you see him on my Blackberry everyday, so you can insinuate, but in the real sense, we are not dating. I no reach him level; make I even come down: if you say I am dating Donald Okoeja, they always see us on the red carpet, so it makes sense. But how can somebody go and cut my picture and place it side by side with Basketmouth’s and say we are dating? In fact I was mad. I searched for the person responsible for that. I was ready to fight. If I am dating somebody in the industry, I will let it out; I am not a baby, so I can’t be doing hide-and-seek games. Basket mouth is a wonderful guy, but you can’t just come up and say we are dating. I have had relationships in the industry and I didn’t hide it. And don’t forget that I am a single person, so what you put in the front pages of your paper might do something bad to my future. What are your plans for marriage? If I see a man I want to marry today, I will get married to him today. I am old enough, I know what I want. I have experienced love and bitterness, I am not part of those people that will say I don’t want to get married. I know what I want, I want to get married; I love kids, I want to have my kids. I want to give my parents grandchildren. How do you deal with men? I deal with men the way they should be dealt with. How? Some people will just come across and say hi can I date you? I tell them no. Have you dated a fan before? Never. It is not like there is anything wrong with dating a fan but most of them don’t come with the real intention. They come because they see you on screen, more like “wow, this girl’s boobs…” I am not ready for somebody to use me as a bet. That’s why I said never, its nothing personal. Do you have tattoos or body piercing? You know I am a village girl, I am very local. I don’t have anything against tattoos but I cannot pierce myself. Maybe its because I can’t stand the pain. I love it on people. My friends have it. I don’t have anything against it. I never wear cloth finish na Tatoo I go dey wear (laughs) I have so many things to do, but not tattoos. But it is beautiful on people. I love them. Source:Nigeriafilms

Silverbird Cinemas, Kunle Afolayan In Messy War Over Exorbitant Percentage Cut

Just few months after a movie producer engaged it over an alleged scam, Silverbird Cinemas, Victoria Island, Lagos might be in another battle with another popular Nigerian filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan. According to information gathered, Kunle Afolayan, has decided to go tough with some cinema operators in the country over high percentage charged by them on movies shown in their cinemas. Kunle also alleged that most cinema operators in Nigeria are killing the movie industry with the high percentage they now charge for movies shown at their cinemas. Our source gathered that Kunle decided to hit hard on the big screens investors because according to him, cinema operators now collect as high as 70 percent of gross profit on movies shown at their cinemas while movie owners take 30 percent. Our source contacted Kunle on phone to confirm the story, which he said was true. He however told our source that consultations were going on in reaching a compromise on the matter. When our source contacted Ozone Cinemas about the matter, the General Manager, Patrick Lee told our source that his cinema does not charge that high as claimed by Kunle. He gave our source a breakdown of how he charges filmmakers on their movies shown at his cinema. According to Lee, Ozone takes 50 percent of the gross profit for the first week a movie is shown at the cinema, 55 percent from second week, while 60 is charged from the third week upward. An investigation made by our source on Genesis Cinemas at Lekki reveals that the cinema runs a flat 50 percent from the gross profit between the cinema and movie producers from the first week to when it stops showing at the cinema. On the part of Silverbird Cinemas, a source, who begged for anonymity told our source that Silverbird Cinemas charges 50 percent in the first week, 55 percent from the second week, from the third week, it charges 60 percent, 65 percent from the fourth week while it charges 70 percent from the fifth week upwards. According to what the anonymous source told our source, most Nigerian movie producers are always told these terms before putting pen to paper. He wondered why somebody like Kunle Afolayan would lay such claims on them. The source said some filmmakers like Kunle believe cinema operators should dance to the tunes of movie producers. In the new charges arrangement shown to our source, cinema operators now charge 50 percent for the first two weeks, which is not the same for foreign movies. This new charges, we were told took effect two weeks ago. Our source contacted some filmmakers on this issue. According to Blessing Egbe, the producer of Two Brides and a Baby, she claimed that Silverbird shows the big-boy character. She wondered why they claim to support Nollywood when they actually are not, especially with their exorbitant charges. She told our source that only Silverbird Cinemas charged 70 percent of the gross profit from her movie. Another filmmaker, Tunke Kelani told our source that the charges depends on the contract and bargaining power of the producer involved. According to him, he was charged 50 percent for the first week, 55 percent for the second week while 60 percent was charged from the third week up when his movie, Maami was shown at Silverbird Cinemas. The movie industry in Nigeria has received a massive boost since the reintroduction of the cinema culture in Nigeria. Most good producers now go for cinema movies as against the home video movies. With this, what awaits the fast growing make-believe profession?

Why I renamed UNILAG – Jonathan

President Goodluck Ebebe Jonathan has explained why he renamed the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after the late Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola who’s presumed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential election. According to Jonathan, Chief Abiola who died in 1998 in detention deserved to be honoured.

 He said: “As a starting point, we must draw strength from our history and work to ensure that the labour of our heroes past is not in vain. It is partly for this and other reasons, that I have directed, as part of the activities marking  Democracy Day, that due processes should be initiated for the building of a presidential museum in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. This museum will document the lives and times of Nigeria’s presidents and heads of government since 1960, and remind us, by extension, of the high points of our national history.

“It is also in this regard that the Federal Government has decided that late Chief M.K.O. Abiola be honoured, for paying the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of justice and truth. Destiny and circumstances conspired to place upon his shoulders, a historic burden, and he rose to the occasion with character and courage. He deserves recognition for his martyrdom, and public-spiritedness and for being the man of history that he was.  We need in our land, more men and women who will stand up to defend their beliefs, and whose example will further enrich our democracy.

After very careful consideration, and in honour of Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s accomplishments and heroism, on this Democracy Day, the University of Lagos, is renamed by the Federal Government of Nigeria, Moshood Abiola University, Lagos. The Federal Government will also establish an Institute of Democratic Studies and Governance in the university”.

Abiola’s state, Ogun, had named a polytechnic and a stadium after the late business mogul. The President who started with the history of how far Nigeria had come, spoke on his agriculture policy and how determined his administration was, in making the reforms in the sector work. “Let me reiterate my personal passion and commitment to driving the agricultural transformation for Nigeria. The prosperity of Nigeria must start with improving the living standards of our farmers, and revitalizing rural economies across the nation.

Source: Daily Post