World Music Day: COSON wants more respect for Musicians

As the world celebrates World Music Day this June 21, 2013, Nigerians have been told to set aside the day to respect talented Nigerian musicians and their counterparts worldwide by recognizing that music like every other valuable product in the world is sacred.

 According to the Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria, Chief Tony Okoroji who is currently on international assignment, ‘everyone in Nigeria ought to come to terms with the fact that the music profession has become an important contributor to whatever respect Nigerians receive today across the world as our musicians continue to fly the flag of our nation high wherever they find themselves. Our country has to in turn ensure that the rights of our musicians are respected at home. It is our duty to make sure that the wanton abuse of the intellectual property of our creative geniuses in our country becomes a thing of the past and that our nation appropriately reaps the fruit of that ingenuity in continued investment and employment. Who knows from which family the next 2Face Idibia, Flavour or Banky W will come from?’

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P Square honours Michael Jackson in new video

Multi-talented duo of Peter and Paul Okoye, popularly known as P-Square, has officiially released a new single and video, Personally. The video is part of P-Square’s effort to honour the late Michael Jackson, a music icon who had immense influence on their music career. MJ, as Jackson was fondly called, died on 25 June, 2009.

Four years after MJ’s death, one of the most popular entertainers he mentored (P-Square) have dedicated their big budget music video of their new single to his memory. Shot in Lagos and co-directed by Jude Engees Okoye and Clarence Peters, Personally is another video that showcased the dexterity of P-Square as the master of their craft. It is a must watch video, not just for P-Square’s fans, but for every Michael Jackson’s follower.

According to P-Square, "this video is dedicated to our mentor, legendary pop icon, the late Michael Jackson, who still inspires us personally."

Victor Osuagwu sworn-in as Lagos Actors Guild Chairman

As the famous actor and comic star, Victor Osuagwu took an oath of office on Monday, June 17, as the new Chairman of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Lagos State Chapter, expectations were high from stakeholders in the industry alongside up and coming acts who believe in his ability to reposition the troubled guild. 

Six months in office: Ibinabo renders stewardship

“My plan is to revamp the guild and bring back love and peace to the guild. We have had enough of these fights. We need to build up our corporate image so that people will see us and identify with us. We need to have a programme for our veterans and see to their welfare. We need to look at the issue of insurance as well as several others things. I understand that my opponent did not take the defeat in good faith but with time, I know that he will come to terms and we will work together as a team. I keep telling them that nobody can fight God, I am not God but I am a child of God.”

MTN Project Fame All Stars Concerts to start on Friday

No doubt, history is being made as MTN Project Fame becomes the first music reality TV show in Nigeria to gather past stars for a mega concert. The concert is billed for Calabar this weekend, June 21, 2013, and next week in Lagos on Friday 28, June 2013. Tagged ‘All-Stars Concert’, it is expected to live up to the hypes and buzz already building up around the country.

Glo X-Factor judges, Onyeka, MI, Reggie berate music teacher for lack-lustre performance

 
Music Teacher, Darlington Timothy who brought four of his students to the last audition of Glo X Factor shown on television stations across Ghana and Nigeria as Episode Five over the weekend, got some music lessons from the judges who advised him to cut down on his theatrics and give the listeners the benefit of his beautiful voice.

Telly4 Africa serenades Zeb Ejiro on E-Stars TV

 

For his immense contributions towards the growth, sustenance and global recognition of Nollywood, one of its leading filmmakers, Zeb Ejiro, who is generally acknowledged as a force to reckon with in the industry will take the centre stage this third quarter of 2013, courtesy of Telly4 Africa.Viewers will be thrilled and titillated with the great works of Ejiro and also hear from him about his sojourn in Nollywood in a celebratory broadcast on E-Stars TV’s channel 122 on StarTimes Digital TV Platform.

Iyanya, Chidinma, Praiz, others lead MTN Project Fame’s All-Stars Concert

This month, MTN Project Fame West Africa is set to bring together an array of the reality show’s musical stars for a concert that has been entitled ‘All-Stars Concert’ as a testimonial of five years of nurturing hitherto ordinary youths into musical super-stars. The concert will hold on Friday 21 June 2013, in Calabar and in Lagos, on June 28. Performing at the concert are Iyanya, Praiz, Chidimma, Kesse, Nicholas, Tolu, Monica, Ayo, Oyinkansade, Musulyn, Adetoun, Christian, Yetunde ‘Omo-Ibadan’ and many others.

 The Project Fame All-Stars Concert, apart from being a delight to watch, will also be an eloquent testament to MTN’s pioneering capacity, as a leading light, in ferreting out hidden talent, grooming them and preparing them for the dizzying heights of fame.

                                                 

Three new faces join Big Brother’s The Chase

The Chase is on and as the show heats up, three new faces have joinedthe latest season of Big Brother Africa, which is headline sponsored by Airtel. The trio will help keep DStv viewers up to date with the latest happenings on the show, and keep track of the growing online frenzy. Viewers got to meet Boity Thulo and Tumi Morake on Sunday’s first live show, while David Kibuuka joins the team later in the season, to add his own comic twist.
Model and actor Boity Thulo is the ‘IT Guru’ on segments featured each Sunday, keeping viewers up to speed with Big Brother’s online
elements. She’ll also contribute to Good Morning Africa, Star Gist and 53 Extra, making sure that Big Brother fans stay up to date with anything Chase-related happening on the website, mobile and social media networks.

ACN lambasts, warns Reuben Abati

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has decried the growing propensity of presidential spokesman Reuben Abati to resort to the use of foul language against critics of the Jonathan Administration, saying such crude verbal attacks may boomerang on the presidency if left unchecked.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said there is a difference between a vicious verbal attack, which Dr. Abati now engages in with relish, and a robust response to critics of the Administration, which is what is expected of him.

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Okonjo Iweala’s 46,821 ghost workers

Sincerely, I’m not moved or excited by the recent public outcry and unnecessary noise making by the federal government that it had so far identified 46, 821 ghost workers.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, while confirming the figure during her presentation at the 2013 Ministerial Platform in Abuja, disclosed that the ghost workers were uncovered in 215 of its ministries, departments and agencies.

It’s not enough to always bamboozle and in most cases, entertain Nigerians with scary numbers of ghost workers, without helping to find lasting solutions to their unending menace.

BREAKING NEWS! Fatai Rolling Dollar is dead

Wonkere Si Number Wa crooner, Fatai Rolling Dollar is dead. Authentic but painful information reaching us has it that the octogenarian high life legend died early this morning in his Lagos home, after a brief illness.
A younger colleague of the 85 year-old entertainer, Chijioke Enebechi, who confirmed the ugly news to us, disclosed that Dollar had been seriously ill since on Sunday. 
"I got the shocking news of Pa Rolling Dollar death this noon. But before then I knew he was very ill since on Sunday. Upon receiving the painful news, I tried his mobile phone severally, it rang but nobody picked it."
We would definitely keep you posted as more details on the death are made public.