Video: Iyanya Featuring Flavour - Jombolo

The Kukere master Iyanya hits a new Video which Feature Flavour N'abania and it was Directed by Sesan..........DOWNLOAD VIDEO HERE

 

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Popular Musician Fatai Rolling Dollar Is Dead

Nigeria's oldest practicing musical performer, Fatai Rolling Dollar, is dead. He died at the age of 85.

His wife, Zainab Olagunju, affirmed the news to Premium Times in a phone meeting.
According to her she said the musician was receiving medication in America as he fell sick in the country. She said that few days after coming back to Nigeria, he complained of inability to walk fittingly. He was in this way taken to a private hospital at Ogunlana Drive in Surulere area of Lagos State.
The late musician's wife said her spouse was admitted in the hospital for a week, before he at last passed away early Wednesday morning.
"Yes it is true, Baba is dead. He died this morning at a private hospital at Ogunlana drive of Surulere in Lagos," Fatai's widow told Premium Times reporter on the telephone.

She said Fatai's bill was being footed by an organisation for whom he acted as a model in a promotion.
The late musician was regularly referred to as ageless on account of his coordinated performance. One of his popular singles, 'won kere si number wa.'

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A Brief History Of M.K.O Abiola.

Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (August 24, 1937 – July 7, 1998), often referred to as M. K. O. Abiola, was a popular Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Egba clan born in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Moshood was his father’s twenty-third child but the first of his father’s children to survive infancy.
MKO showed entrepreneurial talents at a very young age, at the tender age of nine he started his first business selling firewood. He would wake up at dawn to go to the forest and gather firewood, which he would then cart back to town and sell before going to school, in order to support his old father and his siblings
  He later established a band at age fifteen where he performed at different functions in return of food. He in the end came to be acclaimed enough to begin requesting money for his exhibitions and utilized the cash to uphold his family and his optional instruction at the Baptist Boys High School Abeokuta, where he outperformed. He was the editor of the school magazine The Trumpeter, Olusegun Obasanjo was deputy editor. At the age of 19 he joined the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons apparently as a result of its container Africanist office, inclining toward it to the Obafemi Awolowo-led Action Group's keep focus on investment and educational advancement for the Western Region of Nigeria, where the Yoruba were in the majority.
  In 1956 Moshood Abiola started his professional life as bank clerk with Barclays Bank plc in Ibadan, South-West Nigeria. After two years he joined the Western Region Finance Corporation as an executive accounts officer before leaving for Glasgow, Scotland to pursue his higher education. In Glasgow he received 1st class in political economy, commercial law and management accountancy. He also received a distinction from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. On his return to Nigeria, he worked as a senior accountant at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital, then went onto Pfizer, before joining the ITT Corporation, where he later rose to the position of Vice President, Africa and Middle-East of the whole partnership, which was head-quartered in the United States. Therefore Moshood Abiola invested a considerable measure of his time and money in the United States, whilst holding the post of executive of the corporation's Nigerian subsidiary.
  Abiola invested heavily in Nigeria and West AfricaHe set up Abiola Farms, Abiola bookshops, Radio Communications Nigeria, Wonder bakeries, Concord Press, Concord Airlines, Summit oil international ltd, Africa Ocean lines, Habib Bank, Decca W.A. ltd, and Abiola football club. In addition to these, he also managed to perform his duties as Chairman of the G15 business council, President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Patron of the Kwame Nkrumah Foundation.
  Moshood Abiola sprang to national and global prominence as a consequence of his humanitarian exercises. The Congressional Black Caucus of the United States of America issued the following tribute to Moshood Abiola 

  “Because of this man, there is both cause for hope and certainty that the agony and protests of those who suffer injustice shall give way to peace and human dignity. The children of the world shall know the great work of this extraordinary leader and his fervent mission to right wrong, to do justice, and to serve mankind. The enemies which imperil the future of generations to come: poverty, ignorance, disease, hunger, and racism have each seen effects of the valiant work of Chief Abiola. Through him and others like him, never again will freedom rest in the domain of the few. We, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus salute him this day as a hero in the global pursuit to preserve the history and the legacy of the African diaspora”

From 1972 until his death Moshood Abiola had been conferred with 197 traditional titles by 68 different communities in Nigeria, in response to the fact that his financial assistance resulted in the construction of 63 secondary schools, 121 mosques and churches, 41 libraries, 21 water projects in 24 states of Nigeria, and was grand patron to 149 societies or associations in Nigeria.

  Moshood Abiola was twice voted worldwide businessman of the year, and gained various honorary doctorates from universities all over the world. In 1987 he was given the golden key to the city of Washington D.c., and he was bestowed with an award from the NAACP and  the King center in the USA, and also the International Committee on Education for Teaching in Paris, around numerous others. In Nigeria, the Oloye Abiola was made the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland. It is the most noteworthy chieftancy title accessible to everyday citizens around the Yoruba, and has just been given by the tribe 14 times in its history. This basically rendered Abiola the ceremonial Viceroy of the greater part of his tribespeople. According to the folklore of the tribe as recounted by the Yoruba elders, the Aare Ona Kakanfo is expected to die a warrior in the defense of his nation inorder to prove himself in the eyes of both the divine and the mortal as having been worthy of his title

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Photo From Former Governor Peter Odili Daughter Wedding.

Daughter of Rivers state former Governor Peter Odili, Njideka Odili got married to Uzoma Nwosu
Iheme on June 8, 2013.
Iheme is the son of Court of Appeals Judge, Justice
Chioma Nwosu Iheme and the wedding took place in
Abuja with President Goodluck Jonathan in
attendance.

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POKELLO'S SISTER SPEAKS ABOUT THE S*X TAPE

Pokello's sister, Takudzwa Dube says the Big
Brother Housemate has moved on from the s*x tape
which she considers to be a mistake.
"I am rallying behind her.
She taught me a lot about life. One thing I cherish
most is she told me about her s*x tape issue and said
I should not follow her footsteps because what
happened was a mistake," said Takudzwa.
Pokello is a fun loving person and loves her food and
dancing.
"I guess some people during this week saw how
Pokello dance proving her other side. A lot of
fireworks are lined up and she is prepared for that
though. I believe in her and she promised me that
she will never have s*x in the house as her purpose
in the house is to show to the world, who she really
is" said Takudzwa.
Pokello has a baby boy, Nathan, who is turning 10
years old this year. He loves soccer and goes to
Alexandra Primary School.
Her aunt Tariro Chikumbire said Zimbabweans
should not judge her because of the s*x tape.
"Pokello loves what she does and I am happy with
BBA many will see her real side apart from what has
been published in the media. She is very passionate
about what she does. I also like to take this
opportunity to say that Pokello is a hard worker and
some may say she was born rich but did you know
she started her own business with US$2 000, selling
shoes in her car," said aunt Tari.
Aunty Tariro together with other family members
launched the Team Pokello campaign to garner votes
for the socialites.
"Let's forget about the sex tape. She is representing
young women of Zimbabwe and let's rally behind
her," she said.
Source: www.newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk/

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Photo Of The Day: Security Check

All I can say on this is that Nigeria is getting advance when it comes
to security! :-D

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Chinua Achebe's Biography And Works.

Chinua Achebe was born in Eastern Nigeria on November 16, 1930, to Isaiah and Janet Achebe, who christened their son Albert Chinualamogu. Isaiah Okafor Achebe was a catechist for the Church Missionary Society, and he and his wife traveled Eastern Nigeria as evangelists before settling in Ogidi, Isaiah's ancestral Igbo village, five years after Chinua Achebe's birth. Growing up in Ogidi, Achebe had contact with both Christian and Igbo religious beliefs and customs.
Quote:  "Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him." - Chinua Achebe
   Achebe's first lessons were taught in Igbo at the church school in Ogidi. He began to learn English at the age of eight. An avid reader and an outstanding student, Achebe was selected at fourteen to attend Government College, a highly selective secondary school in Umuahia, where one of his classmates was the poet Christopher Okigbo. Upon graduation, Achebe accepted a scholarship to study medicine at University College in lbadan, but after one year decided to switch to the study of English literature, forfeiting his scholarship. With the financial assistance of his older brother John, he was able to continue his studies.
   In 1958 Achebe published Things Fall Apart which won him the Margaret Wrong Memorial Prize for the novel's contribution to African literature. In 1960, the year of Nigeria's independence, Achebe published No Longer at Ease and was awarded the Nigerian National Trophy for Literature. Achebe spent the remainder of 1960 and part of 1961 traveling through East Africa, interviewing other African writers. After his return to Nigeria he married Christie Chinwe Okoli, with whom he was to have four children, and was appointed Director of External Broadcasting for NBC.
    After the second coup, and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) he became a spokesperson for the Biafran cause in Europe and North America. He also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka which was renamed the University of Biafra during the war.
     After three years of bitter struggle, Biafra surrendered, and Achebe, more dedicated than ever to the preservation of Igbo culture, began editing Okike: An African Journal of New Writing. He published his literary response to the war in Beware Soul Brother (1971) and Girls at War and Other Stories (1972), winning the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1972 for Beware Soul Brother, which was published in the United States as Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems (1 973).

 Quote: "When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool." - Chinua Achebe

  From 1972 to 1976, Achebe taught in the United States at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where his wife earned a doctorate, and the University of Connecticut. After the 1976 assassination of Murtala Muhammed, for whom Achebe had great respect, the author returned to teach at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka. In 1979, Achebe was elected Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors and received the Nigerian National Merit Award and the Order of the Federal Republic. In 1982, he and Obiora Udechukwu edited Aka Weta, an anthology of "egwu" verse.
    After Shagari's re-election and removal from office by a subsequent military coup, Achebe once again concentrated his energies on artistic and cultural projects, editing the bilingual Uwa ndi lgbo: a Journal of Igbo Life and Culture. In 1986, Achebe was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the State University of Anambra at Enugu. The following year, Achebe published his first novel in twenty years, Anthills of the Savannah (1987) and returned to teach in the United States at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, the City College of New York, and Bard College. In 1988, he published Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-87

Other Works by Chinua Achebe:

Things Fall Apart, 1958
No Longer at Ease, 1960
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories, 1962
Arrow of God, 1964
A Man of the People, 1966
Chike and the River, 1966
Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems, 1971
How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi), 1972
Girls at War, 1973
Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973
Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975
The Flute, 1975
The Drum, 1978
Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christofer Okigbo (editor with Dubem Okafor), 1978
Aka Weta: An Anthology of Igbo Poetry (co-editor), 1982
The Trouble With Nigeria, 1984
African Short Stories, 1984
Anthills of the Savannah, 1988
Hopes and Impediments, 1988

Quote: "One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised." - Chinua Achebe

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