HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS KEDIKE

Born on May 2, 1988, Chidinma Ekile, popularly known by her stage name Chidinma, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter, recording artist, stage performer, and brand ambassador for MTN Nigeria. 

In 2010, she rose to stardom after winning the third season ofMTN's Project Fame West Africa, a reality-singing competition series. After releasing the music video for her "Emi Ni Baller" single, she became the first female musician to peak at number 1 on the MTV Base Official Naija Top 10 chart.In 2011, she released her first single "Jankoliko", featuring Sound Sultan. Chidinma, her self-titled debut studio album, was released through the music platform Spinlet. It was supported by the singles "Jankoliko", "Carry You Go", "Kedike", and "Run Dia Mouth". The album features guest appearances from Sound Sultan, Tha Suspect, Olamide, and Muna. In 2012, Chidinma won the "Best Female West African Act" category at the 2012 Kora Awards; she performed "Kedike" at the ceremony.

Having met with her on several occasions, I and my team were priviledged to meet her again on Easter Friday during EMBRACE 7 held at IKORODU TOWN HALL...

some of the pix after the cut

What Is Your Relationship/Marriage Deal Breaker?

A deal breaker can be defined as any issue of factor that cannot be overlooked and therefore leads to the termination of a relationship or transaction. 

I've heard so much about what people go through in their relationships and marriages.

The things some people have to put up with though…..Na wa.

Some people don’t feel infidelity is enough reason to walk out of their relationship, they say –“What’s the guarantee the next person I date won’t be worse?”. While there are some that don’t feel physical abuse is good enough cause to end their relationship or marriage.

What may seem like a big deal to one person may be nothing to another- You hear some people say “lai lai, I can never take that from my man or woman”.

For some guys the girl most be a very good cook, for some chics the guy must be a pro at cunnilingus.

Some don’t even have a deal breaker. For them, anything goes. 

So I’m curious, what’s your own deal breaker? What is it that your partner could do to you that w'd make you throw in the towel on your relationship? You can have more than one, you can even have a long list. But please kindly share with us. It could serve as an eye opener for some people. And if you choose not to have one, please tell us your reasons.

New Video : Lola Rae Feat. Iyanya - Fi Mi Le

Lola Rae's follow up Single 'Fimile' featuring Iyanya; The Kukere Master

Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr SID, D’Prince & The Mavins – DOROBUCCI

JAMMEST!!!

If you’ve been following Don Jazzy‘s recent posts on InstaGram, you must have come across the #DOROBUCCI hashtag frenzy. Unknown to many, it’s actually the title of a song by the Mavins: Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr SID, D’Prince, Reekado Banks, Korede Bello, Di’Ja.

I’d personally hand this song over to any DJ who doesn’t have it by the end of this week, if I had to. Korrect tune!

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Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr SID, D’Prince & The Mavins – DOROBUCCI

Produced by Don Dorobucci ! [DOWNLOAD]

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Produced by Don Dorobucci ! [DOWNLOAD]

VIDEO: Praiz – Mercy

“Less than 48 hours after releasing his newest single ‘Mercy’, Praiz has released a follow up video for the groovy Pop tune.
Directed by Patrick Elis, the video will definitely keep you glued to your screens for about 4 minutes as the X3M Music act woos his love interest with help from KCEE, Iyanya, Sean Tizzle, Timaya, Sammy, Simi and others.
It’s a fun video to watch. Go ahead, press play!”

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New Video : Davido ft Mafikizolo - "Tchelete (Goodlife)"

South African super-group, Mafikizolo, and Nigerian sensation Davido

The huge collaboration by South African super-group, Mafikizolo, and Nigerian sensation Davido -- courtesy of Twenty Twenty Media -- 

The song titled "Tchelete (Goodlife)" is produced by Shizzi & Oskido.

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Watch video below:

Oprah Winfrey, Larry Ellison and David Geffen Want to Buy LA Clippers

Billionaires Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen and Larry Ellison want to buy the embattled LA Clippers from disgraced owner Donald Sterling. The three billionaires with a combined wealth of $60 billion revealed on Wednesday that they have formed a consortium to take over the NBA team in the wake of 80-year-old Sterling's lifetime ban from the league.

Television entrepreneur Winfrey, is joining forces with the world's fifth richest man, Ellison and entertainment mogul Geffen to pry the franchise from Sterling's grip - after he revealed he would not sell the team he bought for $12 million in 1982.

Confirming the move with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap, Winfrey's representative said that she is 'in discussions with D. Geffen and L. Ellison to make a bid for the LA Clippers should the team become available.' Geffen said he and Ellison would run the team, while Winfrey would be an investor.

Waje, Seun Kuti take #BringBackOurGirls campaign to the streets

Waje and Seun Kuti have taken their #BringBackOurGirls campaign from the streets of Twitter to the streets of Lagos. The stars both took placards in hand to go against the kidnap of 234 young Nigerian girls two weeks ago. Earlier the group were reportedly tear-gassed by the police, they continue to March though.

Other celebs noted in the march include Kathleen Ndongmo, Cameronian activist, Debola Williams of The Future Project & designer Ugonna Omeruo amongst others. 

See more pics after the cut

Protest to Rescue 234 Abducted School Girls Starts in Lagos (Photos)

 

The protest to find and rescue the 234 abducted schoolgirls started today in Lagos. But according to the protesters, instead of being supported, the Nigerian Police tried dispersing them. That the Police shot 4 teargas canisters at them, telling them that they cannot march but have to leave. The protesters stood their ground and after a while, continued with their peaceful protest.

 

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Obsession with Plastic Surgery Left this Porn Star Looking like a Creature from Harry Potter (Photos)

Rina Nanase, a 25-year-old Japanese model and porn star has put herself through so much plastic surgery that she now sort of looks like Dobby the Elf from the Harry Potter films. The resemblance is uncanny – the large eyes, long nose, and pointed chin. The weirdest part is the once beautiful girl is actually proud of her new look…

Nanase, who makes adult films under the name Rumi Kanda, has been open about her quest for physical perfection and documented her surgery via her Twitter account. Late last year she began a series of operations to thin down her cheeks, sharpen her chin, lengthen her nose and enlarge her eyes, sharing post surgery pictures as the scars healed.

But when she tweeted the first pictures of her completed look, the reactions from fans and followers were less than complimentary. Many ridiculed her that she now resembles Dobby the elf from the Harry Potter movies. However, Ms Namase has shrugged off the criticism, insisting she is very happy with her new face and accusing her detractors of “jealousy”.

Check out her photos below:

Rihanna Turns Heads Again With Her African Inspired Hairstyle & Outfit to #iHeartAwards

It’s definitely been a huge year for Rihanna. Chick just won Artist of the Year at the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards which held last night at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. And aside her award acceptance speech which was witty and honored all her fans, Rihanna's outfit and hairstyle to the event, Bantu knots, is trending yet again.

Check out more of the photos and let's read what you think about it.

Thanking her fans and team, Rihanna had said:

“I know I’m a pain in the ass, but it’s worth it because we got the biggest award of the night!”

She also won Best Fan Army for her famous Rihanna Navy, Hip Hop/R&B Song of the Year for “Pour It Up,” and Song of the Year for “Stay.” See more photos below

Amazing Photos: Elvina Ibru talks about her Weightloss, from 250kg to 115kg, in New Interview

Back in England two decades ago, popular daughter of billionaire businessman  Olorongun Michael Ibru, Elvina Ibru won an unusual beauty contest. She was crowned the Miss Big and Beautiful Competition UK. At her peak, Elvina weighed all of 210 kgs. Fast forward to today, the former singer now weighs 115kg and she's oozing so much sexiness with her new figure. 

Read Elvina excitedly talk about her massive weightloss journey with TheNation in a new interview, how a lot of Nigerian men wanted to father her babies and how much she hates being married. Interview seems long but is very interesting and quite revealing. I couldn't cut any part out to make it shorter.

Excerpts:

• You won an international beauty pageant because of your big size, why are you slimming down?

 I think Gloria, my elder sister, started it. Initially, she was the biggest amongst us all. She started losing weight first. Then I was getting bigger by the day. So two years ago, after Gloria inspired me with her gradual weight loss, I started telling myself that I could do it too. I guess what eventually triggered it off was that I had been big all my life but I never had any sickness or illness. It got to a point when I was beginning to feel sluggish. I felt I was suddenly trapped in my own body. There were some things that I had always loved to do, but my body was just not responding.

So I was asking myself, what was happening in my body? Also I was feeling little ache at my back, and I just had a little son. So I asked myself how I was going to be enjoying and playing with my little son when I could not even lift my body. 

Boko Haram Has More Sense Than This Jonathan’s Leadership ––Iyabo Obasanjo's New Letter

Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of President Olusegun Obasanjo has written another open letter to the leadership of the Boko Haram sect. Although she accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of hindering the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency, she faulted the insurgents for betraying the true essence of revolutionaries in directing their venom against the lower class.

"I am moved to write about the current state of affairs in Nigeria. My first inclination was to write to the President but since all letters to him seem to elicit only open derision and even more stupidity from his inner circle, I have decided to address my letter to a group also currently causing Nigerians a lot of pain and agony that may actually have more sense than the country’s leadership."

This is serious. Read Iyabo's shocking letter below:

Dear Boko Haram

The fact that you have taken arms against the Nigerian state is no surprise. The question should be why haven’t more young people organised themselves against the state?

Even the fact that your motto, ‘Against Western Education’ is in a way reasonable given the fact that your leader, martyred by the Nigerian state had university education and found no reasonable employment but had to resort to thuggery for politicians to survive, as the story goes.

He, like millions of Nigerian young people and college graduates, seeing a blighted future are doing anything to survive. They have become opportunistic desperados, almost sub?human as the stepping on and trampling on each other to death at the Immigration employment debacle indicates.

Where you’re wrong

Where I think you have gotten it wrong are in two areas, if you can pardon my giving you some unsolicited advice. First, your victims are becoming more and more the people you should be attracting to your side. Take the Nyanya bus massacre.

The people that live in Nyanya are usually the clerks, messengers and other lowly office workers that live out in relative slums compared to the rest of Abuja and take public transportation to work to receive monthly salaries they barely get by on.

Consult any written work of successful revolutionaries be it French, Russian, Cuban or even the more recent uprooting of communism in Eastern Europe, to succeed you need the people to be on your side. Right now you are not achieving this.

You are targeting the group you need most. This does not make for a successful revolution but you are making yourselves into nuisances to the people and in the end while the state, including its military machine may not be able to conquer you, your downfall will be alienating these potential allies, i.e. the oppressed and down-trodden.

Secondly, the abduction of girls. It must be hard to stay in the bush as all male revolutionaries fending for yourselves with no sexual gratification.

Cuban example

But again, reading up on past bush revolutionaries like the Cuban, for example, indicates that they were able to convince some women to go voluntarily with them into the bush.

Somehow, revolutionary zeal does not include sexual abstinence and cooking and cleaning by yourselves.

Reading must be hard for you since you hate education but the past is a good guide to the future and if you can’t read, you are done for in organizing or succeeding in most endeavours as most things have been done before and reading up on how it was done can only serve as good guidance.

The parents of the girls you abducted are just trying to give their daughters a chance at having successful lives. Without an education there is very little anyone can achieve in this early 21st century.

I know living in the bush; it must still seem like the dark ages but the truth is that even with the lack of jobs and opportunities for young people in Nigeria currently, it is still better to be educated.

An educated university graduate who was selling food from a food cart ignited the Arab Spring which was spread by use of the internet which is hard to use if you are not educated.

There are writings, videos and stuff you post on the internet which I haven’t seen. But think of it, you can only post and use the internet because some of you have some education.

But in the end you have no control over the distribution of your advertising and recruiting information because as you may know, the internet is really part of the western system you despise.

Why you’re succeeding

The truth is that you have succeeded because the Nigerian state has failed to provide jobs and opportunity for its young people who you can now easily recruit. By disrupting education, you are adding to the burden of the people.

You may say, but how about our religious issue? Let the truth be told, just as there are indigenous southern Muslims, there are indigenous northern Christians even from your epicentre in Borno State and just as you are zealous for your religion, I don’t see them giving up their religion either.

The reasonable solution to this impasse would be for you to advocate for everyone to be able to practice their religion as they see fit with respect for each other’s beliefs.

Remember, a couple of centuries ago, all of our ancestors below the Sahara were all animists worshipping various ‘gods.’

This ‘One God’ — us against them situation — is a relatively recent one in our human history and you will be advised to let the originators fight it out and let your people be.

SEAN TIZZLE –– Take It (official video)

Nice sound, cool video. Enjoy...