Few days ago we officially announced the release of the Supreme Mavin Dynasty first lady “Tiwa Savage” “RED” album which had its listening party at the industry night on Wednesday 16/12/15.
The 17 track album is super interesting with features from the likes of Wizkid, Olamide, Busy Signal, D’Prince, Dr Sid, Reekado Banks with production credits from Don Jazzy and top music producers.
Waste no time to check out the album’s track list below;
1. Adura
2. African Waist
3. Ban Bang
4. Ovation ft Olamide
5. Rewind
6. We don’t give a damn
7. Make time
8. If I start to talk ft Dr SID
9. Love me hard
10. Keys to the city ft Busy Signal
11. Before nko ft D’Prince
12. My Darling
13. Kolobi
14. Birthday
15. Say it
16. Go down ft Reekado Banks
17. Bad ft Wizkid
Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare beat record breaking star, Usain Bolt, to the 2016 Guinness world records feat as the athlete with the most diamond league appearances.
Okagbare participated in a 38 diamond league events higher than any other athlete in the world, according to the records.
“Multi-discipline athlete, Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria participated at 38 Diamond league events between July 3, 2010 and September 5, 2014. Okagbare’s specialities are the 100m and 200m sprints and long jump,” the book said.
The IAAF Diamond League is an annual series of track and field meetings held from 2010 till date and billed to hold again in London by 2016.
The competition was designed to replace the IAAF Golden League, which held from 1998 to 2010
Though Bolt was awarded IAAF world athlete of the year in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013, he is yet t to have as much appearances as the multi-talented Nigerian.
Okagbare holds the women’s 100 metres Commonwealth Games record for the fastest time at 10.85 seconds.
Source:: stargist
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Press statement from the presidency..
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that one of the best exhortations to the nation he has heard from the pulpit was the one made early this year by Father Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministries, Enugu. Receiving Father Mbaka who was on a courtesy call at State House, Abuja on Friday, President Buhari expressed his appreciation of the Catholic priest's exemplary courage.
"Thank you very much for what you have done and said. It brought you out to the whole country as a man of courage. It was honest and well delivered. It has gone into the records as one of the best concerns expressed from the pulpit, not because it favoured me and my party, the All Progressives Congress, but because it was good for the country, " the President told Father Mbaka.
President Buhari reaffirmed his conviction that change will come to the country, "with a lot of hard work, despite the security and economic problems." He appealed for the continued understanding and patience of Nigerians.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was present at the President's audience with Father Mbaka described the priest as a man "who stood for truth and propriety, and declared corruption unacceptable."
He added that the Buhari administration "is committed to truth and justice, and won't encourage corruption in any way."
Fr. Mbaka, who in the run up to the 2015 presidential election, told his teeming followers that erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan would not be re-elected because of pervading corruption and insecurity in the land, said he was happy with the mission and methodology of the Buhari administration.
He also wished the President a happy 73rd birthday.
Nobel laureate, late Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September 2016 after the Catholic Pope recognized her for her intercessory role in the cure of a man with multiple brain tumours.
Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87 and was known as the "saint of the gutters", is expected to be canonised in early September 2016.
It's not clear if the ceremony would take place in Rome or India. Teresa, who was born to Albanian parents in Skopje in Macedonia, and known across the world for her charity work, was beatified the first step towards sainthood in 2003.
Buckle up Abuja, it's going to be an adrenaline rush quest, come this Sunday 20/12/15. Your itinerary shouldn't be sealed without being a part of these two tidal experiences. The "Koko Tour After-Party" featuring D'Banj and Friends: 2Baba, Timaya, Wande Coal, Tonto Dikeh, Vector, Naeto C, Oritse Femi, KaySwitch, 2Kris, Ketchup, Orezi, Banky W.
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TUFACE Idibia can be rightly said be part of creators of the modern Nigerian music. However, the artiste made use of his voice in 2015, to encourage youths not to be used as tools for violence was Tuface Idibia, with the flag-off of his ‘Vote not fight Election no be war” campaign, geared towards a violence free electoral.
The timely initiative was officially unveiled at a press conference held in Lagos on the September 30, 2014.
The campaign was put together by the 2face Foundation in partnership with Young Stars Foundation, National Democratic Institute (NDI), and other partner organisations.
The voter education campaign was aimed at promoting peaceful participation by Nigerian youth in the 2015 elections. The campaign seeks to encourage youth to make a commitment to shun violence and embrace peace.
Known for his uniqueness the legendary singer also made headline with his Fortyfied concert; celebration of a living legend, to mark his 40th birthday while also highlighting his achievements thus far, with the launch of a book.
The event attracted top notch personalities and colleagues from around the globe.
Adekunle Gold
ADEKUNLE Gold whose real name is Adekunle Kosoko has continued on a success path following his breakthrough into the Nigerian music scene with Sade 2014. Signed under YBNL Records, Adekunle followed up with Orente and early December, he released his third single,Pick Up, an inspirational song asking God to answer his desires.
His exploits enabled him to clinch the ‘Revelation of the Year in Africa’ award at the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA 2015. Unknown to some people, Adekunle is also a graphic designer and designed the YBNL logo. As an artiste however, he enjoys regular airplay on radio and performs regularly at shows.
Small Doctor
SMALL Doctor comes raw, direct and full in your face. Known by his moniker, ‘Akeweje Oganla’, his peculiar style of music which blends fast tempo beats with street lingo and slangs has made him popular. And it is this street credibility that ensured the Mosquito crooner got a 2015 Headies nomination in the ‘Best Street Hop’ category, his first major nomination for an award. He however, will be battling for the title with Olamide (Bobo), Reminisce (Skilashi), Falz (Ello Bae) as well as as Masterkraft’s Indomie which features Olamide, CDQ and Davido.
Olamide
FOR Olamide whose real name is Olamide Adedeji, 2015 has been bountiful. The artiste who records his songs in Yoruba with a high dose of street slangs continued endearing himself to a growing global fanbase. His effort was rewarded with the award of ‘Best Male Artiste in West Africa’ at the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA 2015. MTV Base also named Olamide at the Hottest Nigerian artiste 2015.
In November, he dropped his fifth album Eyan Mayweather. The founder of burgeoning music label, YBNL, also got seven nominations the highest for any artiste at the 2015 TooXclusive Awards. And in December, Google also recognised Olamide’s videos of Bobo, FalilaKetan, MeloMelo and Lagos Boys in its YouTube Rewind of 2015 which reviews videos that shaped the world in 2015.
Yemi Alade
SHE might not have found her Johnny, but musician Yemi Alade is blazing trails in the industry. She clinched the Best Female Artist in Western Africa at the All Africa Music Awards in November. Earlier in July, the 26-year old songstress got Best Female Artiste in Africa at the 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards, MAMA. In 2014, she released her first album, Kings of Queen which have garnered some awards.
D’banj
AFTER a brief hiatus from active music scene, Dapo Oyebanjo, more popularly known as Kokomaster D’Banj, released a visula EP titled ‘An Epic Journey’ to mark his 10 years of being an entertainer. In July, he won the Legendary Award at MTV Africa Music Awards, MAMA 2015.Confidential, one of the tracks on the album, features Hollywood actor, Idris Elba and rapper, Shadow Boxer.
D’banj who was appointed as Agriculture Ambassador by the Nigerian government last year also became the Brand Ambassador of Slot, and he received a brand new Porsche for that. After a spending seven years with Mo’Hits records with Don Jazzy, D’banj signed to Kanye West’s Good Music record label.Also, after a two-year break, D’banj is also set to revive his Koko Concert, taking the show to five Nigerian cities between December 5 and December 29.
The maiden edition of Koko Concert took place in 2010 in the United Kingdom while the subsequent year’s concert was held in Nigeria. The 2012 concert saw D’banj bring to Nigeria G.O.O.D Music acts Big Sean, Pusha T as well as Tinie Tempah and Idris Elba.
Supreme Mavin Dynasty
Arguably the most successful music group in Nigeria, the Supreme Mavin Dynasty led by Don Jazzy continued to be impressive. Though SMD’s first lady Tiwa Savage put to bed a baby boy and wasn’t so much active, it wasn’t the case for the rest of the crew.
The family – Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr Sid, D’Prince, Di’Ja, Reekado Banks and Korede Bello came out with a single, Jantamantafollowing the mould of Dorobucci and Adaobi.
In August, Don Jazzy and Reekado Banks won the City People Entertainment Awards respectively for ‘Special Recognition’ and ‘Most Promising Act of the year (Male)’ categories while Mavin Records got the Record Label of the Year Award. Reekado Banks and Korede Bello’s videos have garnered over 1.2million and one million views respectively on Youtube. Tiwa Savage and Reekado Banks were also nominated for the 2016 KORA All-Africa Music Awards in the Best Female (West Africa), Most Promising Male Artiste of Africa categories respectively while Mavin’s Adaobi was nominated for Best Collaboration.
On their individual capacities, Don Jazzy became a Johnnie Walker Ambassador while Korede Bello was practically everywhere as his hit single, GodWin, trended on virtually every platform. GodWin won ‘The Song of the Year’ award at the 4th Annual Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards (GIAMA). Bello who is back in school for his HND even performed at President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration.
Reekado Banks, famed for his singles ‘Chop Am’ and ‘Katapot’ also did a foreign collaboration with one of Jay Z’s artistes.
Wizkid and Davido end rift
They are contemporaries yet the music industry has cast a sort of rivalry between Wizkid and Davido. This has made the young musicians to be pitted against each other to determine whose music is better, who is richer, who has the most awards and who has more fans.
Though this rivalry may be good for business, those expecting a collaboration had waited a while. The fans however, got their wish as Wizkid and Davido stunned industry watchers when they both performed at the grand finale of the Remy Martin club tour which held at Ocean View, Victoria Island, Lagos early December.
Though their new albums are due to be released in 2016, fans enjoyed the sight of Wizkid and Davido on the same stage at the same time before 2015 wound out.
ONE campaign
ONE Campaign, inspired by an advocacy organization ONE, made headline in the year 2015, with its focus on using prominent singers globally to preach against the impact of poverty on gender equality.
The campaign had seven prominent African singers -Victoria Kimani from Kenya, South African Judith Sephuma, Waje from Nigeria, Vanessa Mdee from Tanzania, Arielle T from Gabon, Gabriela from Mozambique and Selomor Mtukudzi from Zimbabwe – recorded the song ‘Strong Girl’ to address the gender inequality that they believe goes hand-in-hand with poverty. They sang their hearts out in the song.
The song is inspired by a recently released report by ONE, an advocacy organisation that aims to fight extreme poverty and preventable diseases particularly in Africa titled Poverty is Sexist: Why girls and women must be at the heart of the fight to end extreme poverty.
Lead singer of legendary Irish band U2 and founder of One Campaign, Bono, also paid a visit to Nigeria; Bono who is the front runner of One Campaign’s philanthropic movement to alleviate poverty in Africa got to meet with some of Nigerian celebrities like Cobhams Asuquo, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Waje and D’banj.
‘Strong Girl’ was produced by award winning music producer Cobhams Asuquo.
T he Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu yesterday said the Federal Government will not scrap the Petroleum Support Fund (also known as subsidy) but will, instead, embark on price modulation.
He denied saying the price of petrol will go up in January.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, he said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will alongside the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) sit to determine the new template to arrive at a new price which will be subject to quarterly review in line with the price of crude oil.
He explained that government is planning to use N87 and N97 as a ceiling for the price modulation at every given time instead of fixing the fuel price without basis.
Kachikwu said: “ I did not say that refine product will sell N97 next year. That is not what I said. I said between a bound of N87 and N97. We are going to look at the prices.
“Today the price is close to N87 so there might be no need to change prices. By January, it may well go up slightly. By February it may well go up slightly. But March it may well go up slightly; by April, it may come down.
“So it is all a dynamic of what the price of crude is. So I have not put a static figure; myself and PPPRA will sit down to do the calculation to be able to announce what the PMS will sell for in January. We do not anticipate any major shift in the cost of crude today.”
The minister who lamented that the Federal Government spent an unbearable over N1 trillion on fuel subsidy this year said NNPC has to take measures to whittle some of the cost elements of the subsidy template.
He said government will now look at how to reduce its allocation to the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) and foreign exchange.
He said: “Now what we are doing is review the PPPRA template – how we can whittle down some of the cost elements – the cost for clearing, allocation for PEF? We will reduce – foreign exchange provision (what do we do with the foreign exchange so that some stability in the exchange rate (is acheived?)
“ It is a key component that when you deregulate, you are back to square one or so. So we are looking at how do we provide allocation in the oil industry so that there is certainty in terms in the regime for FS and that saves you the exchange component in the whole analysis.”
He said President Muhammadu Buhari has resolved that government will get a technical partner to repair and run the refineries and bring out its investment.
However, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said removal of the subsidy will free over N700 billion annually which can be channeled to provision of infrastructure like roads, education, health service, power, security, creation of jobs and basic benefits for the poor in the society.
The statement said that while addressing a Policy Roundtable on Subsidy Removal Debate organized by the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, the Acting Executive Secretary, Dr Orji argued; “From NEITI’s independent audit report, over N4 trillion has been paid as subsidy to marketers from 2006-2012. The breakdown of the subsidy shows that N2.197Billion was paid as subsidy in 2006. This rose to N236.64Billion in 2007 and N360.1Billion in 2008. In 2009 the country paid N198.1Billion as subsidy for petroleum products and in 2010 the subsidy payment rose to N416.45Billion. The payments skyrocketed to N1.9 trillion in 2011. Payments of oil subsidy declined to N690Billion in 2012 following the subsidy protests across the country in January of that year”.
In the spirit of Christmas, Flux Factory presents “Final (Baba-Nla Cover)” by Speroachbeatz and E.C.O. The dynamic duo came up with a smashing cover to the already raving song by the starboy CEO. The cover adds some comic lyrics to the song.
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