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Mali's government on Sunday announced the sacking of senior military officers and the dissolution of an ethnic militia, a day after the massacre of more than 130 Fulani villagers, including women and children...
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Series of Afghanistan civilians confirmed dead in the Air strikes carried out in the northern province of Afghanistan on Saturday as Forces intensifies battles in Taliban's strongholds.

Amruddin a Council member in the province said The casualties of the Airstrikes included children ,he also pegged the civilian death toll at 12.

The bodies were brought into Kunduz city in the back of a truck as part of protests by dozens of civilians.

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Emergency services said on Saturday they had begun airlifting 1,300 passengers off a cruise ship in trouble off the Norwegian coast.

The Viking Sky cruise ship sent an SOS message due to "engine problems in bad weather", southern Norway's rescue centre said on Twitter, while police reported that the passengers would be evacuated by helicopter.

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Zanotty:
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Dogon hunters massacred over 100 people in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday. The gunmen surrounded the village before attacking people in their homes in Ogossagou in the country's Mopti region, a local official said.

The attack on Saturday targeted members of the Fulani ethnic community. Ambassadors for the UN are currently in Mali addressing the increasing levels of ethnic and jihadist violence.

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The death toll in Mozambique has climbed to 417 after a cyclone devastated swathes of the southern African country, flooding thousands of square kilometres, the government said on Saturday.


Mozambique Lands and Environment Minister Celso Correia told reporters in the port city of Beira that 417 deaths have been recorded at this time.

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Who do you think won the debate ?

Aeroberry:
very true. Go to his facebook page you will see it there

I just added the youtube video of him saying it.

otipoju:
How true is this?

very true. Go to his facebook page you will see it there

The post is from the Facebook page of Atiku Abubakar.

Your chance to speak to the nation on National TV. Simply post a one-minute video about your idea to get Nigeria working again to your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account by Dec 24 with the hashtag #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain and your state.

Terms and Conditions for ‘The Voice of the People’ Contest.

1. I am a Nigerian citizen.

2. I accept that my entry video can be used in any manner by the PDP Campaign Organisation in all media.

3. Accept the verdict of the judges to determine the winning videos.

4. I will not pay for votes or boost my entry via any unfair means to get my video into the consideration set.

5. Accept my photograph and image may be used for all promotional materials during and after the competition has ended.

6. Agree that my entry must conform to the submission dates as prescribed by the promoters of the competition. Competition opens on December 2, 2018 and closes on December 24, 2018. Any submission after the closing date will be disqualified.

7. Accept that all information I have provided about myself is accurate and correct. Any false information will lead to the disqualification of my entry.

8. Accept to keep all information I may receive during the course of participating in the competition with strict confidentiality.

9. Accept to travel to any location as may be required by the promoters of the competition in promoting the winners. The cost of travel will be provided by the promoters of the competition.

10. Expressly relinquish my rights to the use of my content for a period of 2 years to the PDP Campaign Organisation and its agents.

11. The People’s Democratic Party or it’s candidate shall not be held liable via litigation or other means for anything associated with the contest.

12. The judging criteria will be based on the following:
- The originality of the idea to help Get Nigeria working again.
- How feasible it would be to implement.
- The clarity of how the idea is communicated.
- The creativity of the video.
- The number of social media engagements generated by the video.


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Nigeria news is really interesting this days especially since some APC members started defecting to PDP. The same people who left PDP during the time of Jonathan and close to the elections are going back to PDP. This is the type of political culture PDP gave to us. Politics of defection. Only in Nigerian politics I am seeing this.

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In 1990, as stadiums improved and match attendance and revenues rose, the country’s top teams considered leaving the Football League in order to capitalise on the influx of money into the sport. The managing director of London Weekend Television (LWT), Greg Dyke,  actually met with the “big five” representatives – Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton and Arsenal. He wanted to see if these clubs would be interested in a larger share of television rights money and break away from The Football League. His offer was juicy and attractive and they showed interest. Fortunately, they had the backing of The Football Association. Hence, things would be easy.

And when the 1991 season came to a close, a proposal was made to start a new league, The Premier League. This new league was believed would bring more money into the game. An agreement was reached and signed on 17 July 1991 by the game’s elite clubs. In The Founder Members Agreement basic principles, the newly formed top division would have commercial independence from the FA and the Football League.

Following this development, all the First Division Clubs resigned in 1992 from the Football League. And on 27 May the same year, the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company based in Lancaster Gate.

The format was that the EPL or Premier League would have a single division while the Football League would have three. The competition format remained the same.

The full detailed history is in aeroberry.com.

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Introduction


PDP Nigeria whose acronym means Peoples Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria. In fact, it is one of the major political parties in Nigeria. Due to the connection of this political party with the history of democracy in Nigeria from 1999 till date, it is pertinent that we look into how this party started, its founders, mission and vision and some criticism of the party based on its mission and vision.

The origin of PDP
This party was founded  28 July, 1998. It originated from the coming together of like-minded political association at the time such as G-34 and People Democratic Movement PDM.

This was how G-34 started. Nigeria has been under the military rule and dictatorship for many years. Human rights were not respected. Press freedom was being trampled upon. The economy was in a sorry state. Poverty was everywhere in the nation. The rich were getting richer while the poor were getting poorer. The dictator President Sani Abacha was trying to make himself a life military president.

While this sordid state of affairs was holding sway, a group of politicians under the auspices of the All Politicians Summit convened a meeting in 1997 to discuss the way out of what was fast becoming a festering dictatorship. That meeting, led by Dr Alex Ekwueme was brutally dispersed by the security apparati of the Sani Abacha’s regime.

Dr Ekwueme undeterred by the brutish antics of the regime continued rallying key political figures of different ideological persuasions under a new platform called Institute of civil society.

In the midst of all this confusion, a group of political leaders, eighteen of them in the first instance and later thirty-four decided to “dare the lion in his den”. This group known as the G-34 later formed the nucleus and rallying point of the associations that formed what is today, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Some of PDP founding members
Some of the founding members of PDP who were also members of the G-34 which later became PDP are Chief Alex Ekwueme, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Audu Ogbe, Chief Sunday Awoniyi, Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, Alhaji Sule Lamido, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Chief Solomon Lar, Iro Alhaji Abubakar, and Alhaji Dan Musa.

Others are: Professor Ango Abdullahi, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, Ambassador Aminu Wali, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, Professor Jibril Aminu, Professor Iya Abubakar, Alhaji Bello Kirfi, Chief Barnabas Gemade, Professor Daniel Saror, Dr. Sulaiman Kumo, Iyochia Ayu, Chief Tom Ikimi, Alhaji Isiyaku Ibrahim, Senator Walid Jibril, Dr. Garba Nadama, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Chief Abubakar Olusola Saraki, Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura, Chief Antony Aneni, Alhaji Musa Musawa, Chief Bola Ige, Chief Jim Nwobodo, Professor Jerry Gana, Colonel Ahmadu Ali.

Brief Political History of PDP
In 1998 the party selected former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. The duo went on to win, being sworn-in on 29 May 1999.

In the legislative election held on 12 April 2003, the party won 54.5% of the popular vote and 223 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives, and 76 out of 109 seats in the Senate. Its candidate in the presidential election of 19 April 2003, Olusegun Obasanjo, was re-elected with 61.9% of the vote.

In December 2006 Umaru Yar'Adua (formerly of the People's Redemption Party and the Social Democratic Party) was chosen as the presidential candidate of the ruling PDP for the April 2007 general election, receiving 3,024 votes from party delegates. His closest rival, Rochas Okorocha, received only 372 votes. Yar'Adua was eventually declared the winner of the 2007 general elections, held on April 21, and was sworn in on May 29, 2007, amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud. In the Nigerian National Assembly election, the party won 260 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives and 85 out of 109 seats in the Senate.

At the PDP's 2008 National Convention, it chose Prince Vincent Ogbulafor as its National Chairman on March 8, 2008. Ogbulafor, who was the PDP's National Secretary from 2001 to 2005, was the party's consensus choice for the position of National Chairman, selected as an alternative to the rival leading candidates Sam Egwu (who was backed by Obasanjo) and Anyim Pius Anyim. All 26 other candidates, including Egwu and Anyim, withdrew in favor of Ogbulafor. Meanwhile, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje was elected as National Secretary.

In 2011, after the People's Democratic Party saw members defect for the Action Congress of Nigeria, some political commentators suspected that the PDP would lose the Presidency. Following PDP candidate Goodluck Jonathan's victory in the 2011 elections, it was reported that there were violent protests from northern youth.

In 2015 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan (PDP) lost the election of Muhammadu Buhari of APC. Jonathan called him and congratulated him. The first in Nigeria history for a seating president to loose an election, accept the election and congratulate his opponent.

PDP Logo and Slogan
The PDP logo is an umbrella. The umbrella has the green - white - red color on the cover part of the umbrella with the inscription PDP written boldly with black ink on the white-colored section.

The popular slogan for the PDP is "PDP ! Power to the People. Power to the People !  PDP".

Political Ideology
The party has a neoliberal stance in its economic policies and maintains a conservative stance on certain social issues.

 Mission, Vision and Objectives of PDP

The mission, vision and objectives of PDP are as follows:

1. Maintain and preserve the integrity, unity and sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as one indivisible political entity.
2. Ensure genuine restoration, permanent entrenchment and practice of democracy, the rule of law, equity and social justice.
3. Promote national integration and harmonious co-existence of the diverse communities of our society.
4. Build an egalitarian society founded on the principle of freedom, equality and justice.
5. Uphold the independence of the judiciary, a free press, as well as uphold the freedom of speech and of association.
6. Ensure that only competent, dedicated, patriotic and credible candidates are sponsored for elective offices at all levels of governance.
7. Ensure that the programmes of the party at all levels conform at all time with the fundamental objectives and directive of the principles of state policy, as contained in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as conform at all times with ethic, aim and objectives of the constitution of the party.
8. Promote mutual respect for and understanding of the religious, traditional and cultural heritage of the various communities of our nation.
9. Eradicate illiteracy in our society and to promote learning and research, science and technology.
10. Build, promote, sustain and consolidate political economic and social independence and self-respect for all Nigerians.
11. Cooperation with Africans and other nationalist movements and organizations working for the eradication of imperialism, neo- colonialism, racism and to strive relentlessly towards African Unity, as well as greater understanding and cohesion among all peoples of African descent.
12. Cooperate with all members nations in promo- ting the course of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Organization of African Unity (OAU) now African Union (AU), the Commonwealth and United Nations Organization (UNO) and other international and regional groupings shall be in the best interest of Nigeria and Africa, and help to find just and peaceful solutions for international disputes.
13. Build a political culture in which all Nigerians are equal members where each contributes according to his ability, where no one person dominates and where, no political party belongs to one individual.
14. Undertake other activities, which in the opinion of the party are conducive to the attainment of the aims of objectives of the party.

As can be gleaned from the above it is the aim of PDP to consolidate democratic culture, promote constitutionality, social justice, and freedom of the mass media, independence of the judiciary, socio-economic self-sufficiency and credible leadership. These objectives are in consonance with the elements of democracy and good governance.

However, the big question is have they lived up to this ?  It is a simple question every Nigerian has a good and correct answer to. The Peoples Democratic Party government laid a foundation of democracy totally different from what they have as their objectives. They messed up our democracy. The foundation of democracy they left behind was one of election rigging, corruption, lack of rule of law and order, disrespect of the judiciary and court order, bloated budget that only enrich the political elites but impoverished the ordinary people.

The Structure and Organs of PDP
Political parties are forms of institutions which possess both formal and informal structures. These structures and organs of political parties help them to effectively aggregate and process the diverse societal demands. Thus, as a matter of practical necessity every political party must possess structures and organs.

The structure and organization of the PDP is hierarchical, arranged from the Ward through the Local Government Area, State, Zones and National level. Based on article 10 of the party’s constitution its organs are constituted as follow (i) Ward Executive, (ii) Ward Congress (iii) Local government Executive Committee (iv) Local Government Area Congress (v) Senatorial District Working Committee (vi) State Caucus (vii) State Working Committee (viii) State Executive (ix) State Congress (x) Zonal Working Committee (xi) National Caucus (xii) National Working Committee (xiii) National Executive Committee (xiv) Board of Trustees (xv) National Convention.

The PDP and Democratic Consolidation
Democratic consolidation is a very important element for good governance. One of the things in politics that enhances democratic consolidation is free and fair elections. With the Peoples Democratic Party government, only little progress was made in the electoral process. We would say It conducted four general elections in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 respectively. Thus, it sustained the nation’s nascent democracy for as long as 16 years. This is first ever in the political history of Nigeria. However, the many years of the PDP rule witnessed a profound assault, rape, debasement, travesty and reversal of democracy. Most of the general elections held under the PDP government were characterized by notorious electoral malpractices. The general election were like warfare with a flurry of intimidation, thuggery, outright violence, widespread electoral irregularities, horse trading, ballot box stuffing with thumb printed ballot papers, ballot box snatching, election rigging, manipulation and falsification of election outcome and announcement of preferred candidates as winners. The outcome of the elections did not reflect the preferences of the electorate rather than the outlook of the PDP government.

Within the party there was also complete disregard for democratic values. Its primaries, conventions and congresses, which are the democratic institutions for nominating party candidates for elections and electing party officials, was a mess and undemocratic. The PDP government witnessed the development of godfatherism, barbarism, personality and military cult of the highest dimension. Horse-trading, browbeating, talk to step aside culture and imposition of preferred candidates of the god-fathers in the party characterized the party primaries, congresses and conventions. Some of the party leaders tell candidates nursing ambition with air of finality to forget it because there is no vacancy for their desired political offices. These situations in the party no doubt progressively restrict the democratic space and denude the nation of credible leaders required for providing good government.

PDP and Opposition Parties
The PDP government liberalized the political space for opposition. The Nigerian party registration laws were reformed. This paved way for the growth of political parties from 3 in 1999 to 50 in 2007. The processes of governance of the PDP since 1999 have also led to the flowering of mass media and civil society organizations.

Nevertheless, the PDP government was at several times hostile to opposition parties, critics, mass media and civil society groups.

Multiparty system a ploy to consolidate power by PDP
 Granted that the party further liberalized the political space for opposition through development of multiplicity of political parties, the multiparty system, which the party encouraged, was never a liberal imperative for genuine democratic process. Its multiparty system was a ploy to consolidate dominance over opposition parties. It has in fact been contended that the multiplicity of parties turn out to be the undoing of the opposition as it created more chances for different political tendencies finding their voices elsewhere. The strategy was that if the oppositions were not united to fight against the ruling party at the time which was PDP, they will find it hard to flush them out from power since PDP was the biggest party in Nigeria and in Africa.

PDP poaching members of other political parties
 Furthermore, the PDP took advantage of its control of the federal bureaucracy and executive power. Hence, they poached members of the other parties to whittle down their potency. Through the weapon of appointment the PDP broke the ranks of other parties especially the AD and ANPP. Members of the opposition parties who held government appointments found it difficult to resist the temptation of belonging to the ruling PDP.

Also through poaching, the PDP government was able to infiltrate the Nigerian Bodies of Students. The institutions of higher learning which used to be the hotbed of opposition activism with hobnobbing with the PDP appears considerably doused in their fire of activism.

PDP hostility against mass media
 There were also some cases of mistrust and demonstration of hostility against mass media when PDP held federal power. For instance, the African Independent Television station was shut down for its critical comments on the ill-famed third term agenda of the PDP government. Similarly, the PDP government invoked the outdated sedition law against some journalists such as Gbenga Aruleba of the African Independent Television and Rotimi Durojaiye of Daily Independent newspaper for their comments on the state of the Nigeria’s presidential aircraft. But for the intervention of well-meaning Nigerians they would have been convicted.

PDP denial of police permit to opposition parties for rallies
Under the PDP led government, opposition parties have been denied police permit to hold rallies. While police and other security operatives have broken some rallies organized by opposition parties in defiant of police permit. For instance, the CNPP was denied police permit to hold rally in protest of the questionable victory of the PDP in the 2003 general election while the rally that was organized in Kano state without police permit was broken into by the police and the organizers were brutalized and teargas. Former President of the Senate and a former chieftain of the ANPP Chuba Okadigbo died as a result of alleged complications from the ruthless police brutality.

Apart from opposition political parties, the PDP also denied civil society and organized labour opportunities (police permit) to hold rallies in protest of unpopular PDP government policies. During the frequent hike in the prices of petroleum products the PDP government deployed the police to break rallies and protest marches organized by a coalition of the civil society and the organized labour. Many of the protesters were beaten up, arrested and detained by the police for spurious charges.

PDP and Independence of the Judiciary
The judiciary under the PDP government has enjoyed considerable independence from the other branches of government. Some of the major landslide rulings and pronouncements of the Supreme Court in some cases involving the federal government and other levels of government ending in the favor of the latter indicate this. However, the PDP hardly obeys the court ruling on cases involving it and some of its members or the opposition.

Accountability and Transparency
Governance under the PDP witnessed the establishment of several anticrime and corruption commissions such as, the cyber-crime commission, the code of conduct bureau, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Crimes Commission (ICPC) and Economic Financial and Crimes Commission (EFCC). Although these commissions have served as instruments of restraints on the corrupt tendencies and practices of the public officeholders, their impact is still less than expected at their often public and vocal launch. Corruption still undermines economic policies and the efficient functioning of state institutions. In fact, there is the perception that the anti-crimes and corruption laws are not evenly applied to all Nigerians. There has been the colony of the untouchables never subjected to scrutiny. Moreover, the anti-graft crusade has been suborned as instrument for witch-hunt, blackmail, intimidation and political vendetta.

Conclusion

Some PDP politicians today complain about how the recent ruling party, APC, is doing badly. But are they different from APC ? Like people would say, PDP is no different from APC. Basically, many of the founders of APC were disgruntled politicians who moved from PDP to APC. They are one and the same thing. This is the reason why many people are talking of a “Third Force” – a party completely different from PDP and APC. The problem is how can this new party be formed. Will the opposition parties apart from PDP be ready to come together to form this ‘Third Force’ ? Even if they are ready, how credible are the politicians in these opposition parties ? Like I would always say, we need a revolution in Nigeria to save us from PDP and APC. PDP laid the messy foundation and APC is just continuing where they stopped.

[url]Source: https://www.aeroberry.com/2018/tekno-biography-songs/[/url]

Tekno Profile and History

Introduction
To write a biography of Tekno is something we here in [url]Aeroberry.com[/url] are happy to do. Who would not like to know something about this genius in the Nigerian and African music space.  Also the history of Tekno is one that at any time is very inspiring since reading his life history makes you understand that when it is your success time, it is your time. You may be very talented but unnoticed, do not be disheartened neither should you give up. Keep working hard, at the right time, at the right place, your shine will come.

We cannot write about Tekno’s profile without mentioning that he is a Nigerian singer-songwriter, producer, performer and dancer. He is one of Nigeria’s and Africa’s best. Some people say that any song he produces is a hit song and this is not far from the truth. He has produced a lot of hit songs for himself and for others. It is believed that he was the man who produced the sound for Davido’s hit song “IF”. As a result he has been nominated several times for different awards and has also won some awards.

In this article, we will highlight these areas in his life:

Tekno’s family and early life
Tekno’s music career
Tekno’s songs
Tekno’s nominations and awards
Tekno’s endorsement deals
Family and Early Life
Tekno is from Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, in the south-eastern part of Nigeria. Though he is from this state, he was born in Bauchi Nigeria. As is obtainable in Nigeria, people belong to the ethnic group or tribe of their parents and grandparents and not necessarily where they were born. In other words, indigeneship (ancestral tribal home) is what determines which state one belong to and not residency or birth. Tekno's parent ancestral home is Abakaliki in Ebonyi state, Nigeria. Nevertheless, his primary and secondary education were done in the Northern part of Nigeria.

His family is made up of 4 boys and 1 girl. As is the custom in the Nigerian military, any member of the army could be transferred to any part of the country as may be required by their leader. Consequently, since Tekno’s father was in the Nigerian army, his family lived in different part of the country – Bauchi, Nassarawa, Kaduna and Abuja.

The name Tekno Miles or Tekno is his stage name. As a matter of fact, his real name is Augustine Miles Kelechi. He was born on 17 December, 1992.

With regards to his education, Tekno is not ashamed to let people know that he did not finish school. Maybe he meant he did not finish his university. Because according to him, when in school he was more distracted by playing music and entertaining people. Nevertheless he claims to be intelligent.

He is not yet formally married, however, he lives with his girl friend Lola Rae, who is also sort of a popular musician. She gave birth to their first child this year (2018) which Tekno hinted about on his Instagram page.

Music career
Tekno’s interest for music began at a tender age. He was born in a family that loves music. His dad plays the guitar. Consequently, like a typical Nigerian dad who would like to introduce the son to his hubbies, Tekno's dad employed a music teacher who taught him the guitar and the piano as well. According to Tekno in an interview on NTV Kenya, whenever as a little boy he played a new song, his dad would buy him a gift. Moreover, Tekno revealed during the interview on NTV Kenya  that he was between the age of 5 to 7 when his dad employed the music teacher to help him with his musical skills. At a younger age, he also used to sing and dance in school and in church.

This musically talented young man lived his life unnoticed until in 2012 he was discovered by Julius Agwu, a Nigerian popular comedian. He was discovered in Abuja at an event where he performed his remix of Ice Prince’s song, “Oleku” which he titled, “Onye Ne Kwu.” His performance was so good on this day that he was given a standing ovation. And as Tekno told an interviewer on  Hip Tv, Julius Agwu was one of the performers at the event. Since he was impressed with his performance, Julius called him up on stage and prayed for him.

Two other persons that witnessed him performed that day were Iyanya and Ubi Franklyn, the manager of Made Men Music (Triple MG) that later signed him into their music label. It was due to the advice of Iyanya and Ubi that he later relocated to Lagos, in the western part of Nigeria where there were more opportunities and platform for his musical career. In actual fact, he was signed to Made Men Music Group on 5 October 2013. Putting pen to paper with his music label, kick-started his rise to stardom.

However, to clarify an issue, Tekno Miles was first signed under K-Money Entertainment before he moved over to Triple MG. His song titled "Holiday" was released under the imprint. This song "Holiday" made him locally and internationally popular Tekno claims on Hip Tv interview titled, "Next Rated Interview - Tekno". When he was with this group, they gave him a car, a house and a new life. He was richer and lived a better life than he was before he joined the group. They helped him shoot a movie that cost over 3 million Naira.

Tekno songs
When he was asked what normally inspires his songs on an interview on Hip Tv, he said that his inspiration comes on hearing a good beat. This is his main inspiration. However, he is also inspired listening to songs of other artiste and watching a video.

Tekno has never released an album. Nevertheless, he has released a lot of singles and has featured in many others. Majority of his songs are chartbuster. This is to say that he produces hit songs back-to-back most of the time. Tekno songs are listed below:



a. 2013 Songs
i.     Holiday

ii.    Onye Ne Kwu ft Ice Prince

b. 2014 Songs

i.    Dance

ii.   Shoki ft B-Red

iii.  Go Low

iv. Mess

v.  Zima

vi. Jonzing

vii. Anything

c. 2015 Songs

i.   Duro

ii.  Maria

iii. Wash

d. 2016 Songs

i. Where

ii. Pana

iii. Rara

e. 2017 Songs

i. Yawa

ii. Be

iii. Samantha

iv. Go

v. Mama ft Wizkid

vi. Only One

f. 2018 Songs

i. Yur Luv

ii. Jogodo

Songs produce by Tekno for other musicians are:
i.   2014 Show (Victoria Kimani)

ii.    2015 Feeling you (Rima ft Tekno)

iii.   2015 Pray For You (Lynxxx ft Tekno)

iv.   2015 Boss (Ice Prince)

v.    2016 Last Station (Stonebwoy ft Tekno)

vi.   2017 If (Davido)

vii.   2017 Catch you (Flavour)

viii.  2017 Silika (Madee ft Tekno)

ix.    2017 Green Light (DJ Cuppy ft Tekno)

Nominations
i.    2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Best New Act of The Year

ii.   2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Hottest Single (Duro)

iii.  2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Best Music Video of the Year (Duro)

iv.  2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Afropop Artist of the Year

v.   2016 WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards for African Video of the year (Pana)

vi.  2016 WatsUp Tv Africa Music Video Awards for Best African Male Video (Pana)

vii. 2016 WatsUp Music Video Awards for Best West African Video (Pana)

viii. 2016 WatsUp Music Video Awards for Best Afro Pop Video (Pana)

ix.   2017 BET Award for Best International Act Africa

Awards
i.    2014 City People Entertainment Awards for Best New Musician of the Year

ii.   2015 9th Nigeria Music Video Awards for Best Pop Extra Video (Duro)

iii.  2016 MTV Africa Music Awards for Best Breakthrough Act

iv.  2017 City People Music Award for Music Producer of the year

Endorsement deals
i.    18 August 2016 Brand Ambassador MTN Nigeria

ii.   12 January 2017 Sony Music deal worth $4 million

iii.   2 June 2018 Distribution deal with Universal Music Group Nigeria

Conclusion
Ever since the release of his song, Holiday, Tekno's life has dramatically changed. It has been a progressive and constant climb in the lather of success. From an obscure talented musically creative young man to now this internationally well known, chartbuster creating musician. His life is one sort of a success story that can inspire you any day. The secret is not just only being talented but working hard also. I believe he will tell you this himself if you meet him and ask him.

Source: https://www.aeroberry.com/2018/falz-this-is-nigeria-song/

When Childish Gambino released "This is America" viral song, no body thought the fever will spread to the Nigerian creative booming music scene. However, Falz the bad guy one of Nigeria's A list music artist caught the fever and released Childish Gambino's version of "This is America" in a Nigerian garb and tagged it "This Is Nigeria" #ThisIsNigeria. As a matter of fact this music has gone viral. As of when this article was written, it was #2 in the trending story on Twitter in Nigeria. An hour before,  it was #1 on Twitter.

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The music highlighted the various ills in the Nigerian society. It highlighted corruption in the political system; corruption in the police force (SARS); the kidnapping of school children at Dapchi and Chibok; the drug abuse cases in country; the failed health care system and many others. He did it in a very entertaining way that the message sinks. In a 3:42 mins song, the situation of Nigeria was summarised. One very interesting line for me there is the one that said, "police station dey close 6pm for security reason." What a line.

One of Falz's fans on his twitter handle said something which resonated very well with me. He said, "I am relating to this version than the original". True, this speaks to Nigerians. Hopefully, this comment won't attract the ire of Childish Gambino. lol.


Will this lead to a change in the system  or would we all just be entertained, dance to the "banger" sound like the hijab girls in the video and talk about it for a while before the dust it raises fades ? This is the question that one will ask following the release of the song. Who knows. At least somebody with a big voice is saying something that everyone in the country will hear and maybe listen to.

This is the Youtube clip of the song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_xEqCWrm0

Jaguntemmy:
All this online polls forget majority of buhari supporters don't have smartphone.
Na 2019 them go see the reality show

Many Nigerians too have smartphones and have access to the internet. So they should not be ignored. Buhari needs the west, the south and the east to win. Without them is will fail.

The Aeroberry.com Opinion Poll conducted on Twitter by Ezenwa Emmanuel has just come to an end. In the Poll, people were asked, "Are you happy with Buhari's government so far ? At the end of the Poll, the overwhelming majority of the people who voted, showed that they were not happy with the government.

As indicated in the Twitter post below, the total number of persons who officially voted in the Buhari Poll were 38, 289. In summary,  74% voted that they were not happy with his government, whereas 18% voted that they were happy with what he is doing. On the other hand, 8% of the persons who voted said they were not sure if they were happy or not.

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Majority of those who took part in the poll were Nigerians who may vote in the 2019 elections. This is indicated in the target audience pictured below. Moreover, I personally made sure that those who participated in the poll came from different parts of Nigeria - North, South, East, West. This I believe will give me a balance and fair idea of what Nigerians think about the government of President Buhari.

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Reactions of people who voted
Some people who participated in the poll gave their reasons for voting the way they did. One of them with the Twitter ID @AOgosi wrote, "U should ve added "God forbid" to this poll. Cause "No" is too small." Another participant @paulinusmyles27 said, "Am 100% not happy, pmb is a total failure. Wake me up from sleep and I will tell you the same thing." And some other person with the name Abdulkhardir Yusuf and Twitter ID @Ex_khaleed wrote, "We need to change the bagger ." Abubakar Ismael @ABUBAKA71643118 wrote, "I'm not happy with buhari administration".

For your information, I am mentioning the names and Twitter ID of these people because they made their comments openly, which means they are not afraid to show that they voted the way they did. Many others voted, but did not comment so, I will not mention them here but respect their privacy.

There were those who voted in support of Buhari but were not happy with what they saw. Maybe they did not expect that the result would be the way it is. As such, for whatever reasons, after voting, they condemned the Poll to be fraudulent, meaningless, not capable of changing anything during the real elections, would not remove anything from the popularity of Buhari, rather would make Buhari even more popular.

Some of those who voted, supporting Buhari are Raslan with Twitter ID @Bellokabir12 who twitted, "Am much satisfied wit his government n he will have mah vote 2019". Same with MAliyu with Twitter ID @Yar_Aliyu who said, "Very happy with his performance". Okulaja Adewunmi W @Adaptorokulaja wrote "I'm not Buhari Family member, I voted YES, this govt is the best that Nigeria have had since Democracy began, are U guys expecting us to support the people that stole all our boom before 2015? Check this analysis and tell me a govt that would have succeeded".

In addition, some of those who were not happy with the Poll and even accused me of being biased gave their reasons. For instance, MML @tunoguns twitted, "We no say you be PDP member." He accused me of being a PDP member whereas I am not a politician but an ordinary Nigerian looking for a better Nigeria. Ahmad Garba was suspicious of the Poll, he wrote, "This poll is scam, I'm pretty sure most of Nigeria's are happy wt the present govt. Unless if u are corruption minded person or carried away by bigotry."

Most of the comments there were very interesting and worth reading. It tells you the state of mind of Nigerians regarding Buhari's government. And for those who support him, it tells you how they feel strongly about him and would not want to see him loose the 2019 elections.

On the flip side, there were people who voted no but might still vote for Buhari during the 2019 elections. For instance, Shina Bam @shynestbam tweeted, "I entered No but I may still vote Buhari depending on who is up against him ?" This therefore reveals something about this Poll. Maybe not all who voted "no" may vote against Buhari during the 2019 elections unless a more credible candidate from other parties is given. Therefore, this should be something, PDP and other opposition parties should reflect upon.

There were people who were impressed that Nigerians were happy to express their feelings regarding the government. However, they were concerned that many of them may not have their PVCs. Consequently, they encouraged people to go get their PVCs for it is what will help them to effect any change or keep the president there if they wish to. For example, @josycastoll tweeted, "I am glad you are encouraging people to get their PVC. I also lend my voice to the call. Please if you are seeing this and you are yet to get your PVC or yet to register for voting, kindly make the move to do so today. That said, majority here aren't interested in the elections."

Finally, there were people who thought the Opinion Poll meant nothing. For them, it won't actually reflect the true nature of things in the country and it won't affect Buhari in the next election. To such people, I will refer them to Opinion Polls that were conducted when Buhari and Jonathan were campaigning for the presidential elections. Majority of the Polls then showed that Buhari would win the elections and he did. Such people may like to read this article by Naija.com which summarised most of the Polls at the time : Click => Buhari defeats Jonathan in 10 polls conducted so far.

Source is from [url]aeroberry.com[/url]

Please join in the vote below. Nigerians are enthusiastically expressing their feelings regarding Buhari's government. Over 27,000 have already joined. We target 50,000. It is a poll started by Ezenwa Emmanuel of aeroberry.com.

The Opinion Poll still has two more days to go. Join and express your feelings.

The link to the poll is below.



https://twitter.com/aeroberryplc/status/993307020177494016

Chidinma Ekile Photos on Ilé Ilà ( "House of Lines" Àdùnní  Chair

Chidinma Ekile also known as Ms. Kedike was born on 2 May 1991. She is a very popular Nigerian musician, singer and songwriter. From the nature of her name, you can tell that she is from the eastern part of Nigeria, specifically, from Imo state. However, she was born in Ketu, Kofose, in Lagos state.

Her rise to stardom started when she won the third season of Project Fame West Africa. Since then, her progress in the music world in Nigeria and in Africa has been constant and astronomical. Consequently, unlike some Project Fame West Africa winners, she has produced some popular and hit songs like, Kedike, Jankoliko, Emi Ni Baller, Oh Baby and more.

Recently we spotted Ms. Kedike in her instagram page where she posted some beautiful pictures of herself. The nature of the damsel and her outfit in the picture could not but made us to decide to feature it on our fashion page.

She tagged the pictures "#MadeinNigeria #asooke" and "ARTxCHAIR OWN IT!" Now, you may wonder why tag the pictures this way. Following the lead on the comment section of the photos, you can tell she was modelling for a Nigerian lifestyle and furniture design company called House of Lines founded by a Nigerian lady by name Tosin Oshinowo.

Ilé Ilà (translated "House of Lines" was started by Tosin Oshinowo in 2017 to celebrate her native Yoruba culture. It is a lifestyle furniture-line designed and hand-made in Lagos, Nigeria. The company design period-conscious furniture with a contemporary African content, hand-made with love, in Lagos Nigeria.
 
Consequently in the pictures below featuring the beautiful and baby-faced looking Chidinma, you will discover that the furnitures at the background were purposely made to be conspicuous in the photos. The emphasis is that they are Nigerian made furnitures with a beautiful Nigerian born angelic looking damsel modelling for the company.
 
The furniture being advertised is the Àdùnní  Chair. Àdùnní  means ‘daughter of the sweet one’ in Yoruba, one of the languages spoken in Nigeria. It is a celebration of African Modernism. The chair’s frame is made from Nigerian teak wood and is upholstered in two styles of the indigenous Yoruba textile Asò-oké. The front bears Asò-oké Gboro-gidi (solid) and behind Asò-oké Onja-wú ati iho (perforated), both hand-loomed in Nigeria.
 
The Àdùnní  Chair  is in seven vibrant colours, each with a matching footstool. The colours are pupa féré (pink), osàn (orange), pón (yellow), pupa (red), elésè àlùkò (purple), ewé (green) and búlúù (blue).

Source : https://www.aeroberry.com/2018/chidinma-ekile-photos-adunni-chair/

Have you ever been to Anambra state before ? Have you ever been to Onitsha the heartland of Anambra state ? If you have not, this is an opportunity for you to see a glimpse of the beauty of the great city. This is a drone of Video of Onitsha created by Aeroberry.com. Hope you will like it. Drop your comments about what you think about the video. It may help them to improve where they need to improve to get the beauty of Nigeria out to the world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8VbV1wkY7Q&t=28s

Antoine Griezmann is a world class striker every coach would like to have in their team. For the moment he plays for Athletico Madrid, however, Athletico Madrid are now preparing for his exit. How ? Awesome! I will tell you.

It is rumoured according to Squawka News, that Athletico Madrid are poised to sign £30 million Thomas Lemar. This dude is a 21 year old Monaco winger who are being chased also by Bayern Munich and Manchester City. He scored his 7th goal of the season for Monaco in their 2-1 thrashing of Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League on Tuesday Night. According to Squawka News, Athletico Madrid are ready to empty their bank to buy more players into their team.

Their fear is that Antoine Griezmann would leave them soon. So, they are looking for his replacement. The Frenchman recently spoke of how he regularly quizzes international teammate Paul Pogba on life at United under Jose Mourinho while admitting it would be “awesome” to play alongside the £89m midfielder at club level.

I would believe any news coming out from Man United about buying a world class striker like Antoine Griezmann. They really need one. Ibrahimovich is not really living up to expectations in Old Trafford. Moreover the other strikers they have, Rashford and Martial are not consistent with their goal scoring. If therefore, this is a rumor, there could be an iota of truth in it. Do you think so ?

This post was culled originally from http://www.aeroberry.com/antoine-griezmann-chased-man-united/

EverestdeBliu:
clothed madness indeed!

I just hate this

Haywhymido:
hahaha, na die. arsenal don suffer

hi