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VIDEO: Olamide performs Durosoke And Ghost Mode With Phyno @ DKM Concert

Watch Olamide & Phyno as they teamed up on stage at the DKM Concert in Lagos.Enjoy!!

http://gidimp3ng.com/video-olamide-phyno-performing-dkm-concert/

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look at this yeye guy o, people work for a month and they were not paid salary as at 18th of another month... yet, you are here saying rubbish.. anyway, you may be doing your job. propaganda ofcourse.

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Between Dbanj and Olamide: The REAL reason why Olamide rejected Dbanj's offer...

For a while now, D’Banj and his management team have been planning to sign in rapper Olamide to the his label, however, Olamide turned down the Koko master’s offer, preffering to roll alone for now.
Olamide, who does not want to play the fool at this phase of his career, politely told D’Banj that he was not ready to surrender some of his powers, especially having to be booked for shows only by D’Banj’s management outfit, pleaded for time to even think about the offer as he still wants to work with his present team and taking things as they come for now.
He believes that for now, there is nothing D’BANJ could do for him that he can’t do by himself.
In the future, I will consider his offer. If anybody wants me, he should have unfettered access to me. I am just starting out in the profession’, he allegedly told close friends.

“Apparently, he would have been blocked from having direct access to his clients and that will reduce his share from his appearance fees. He does not like the bottle necks and some terms that will make it difficult for him to be reached all because D’Banj wants his value to rise. That may happen, but what eventually gets to Olamide will be peanuts”, A source disclosed to Tribune when asked why the deal was botched.
He added that the success that Olamide is enjoying now informed his decision to opt out of the deal because there is nothing, apart from management offer, that he stands to benefit from.
“Olamide can be easily reached by anybody and his fees are still okay. The moment he signs the deal, he will be getting fewer shows, though huge fees, but will lose many of his grassroot fans to the elitist crowd D’Banj belongs” he added.
Since D’Banj couldn’t have the “Ode Lon Like” crooner, he has reportedly reached out to Durella.
Do you think Olamide made a wise decision?!

http://www.kemifilani.com/2013/05/between-dbanj-and-olamide-real-reason.html

Zlatan Ibrahimovic: '' Ronaldo is a lucky guy. Always gets first row tickets to see Messi win his awards.''

Mario Balotelli: “There's only one that is a little stronger than me — Messi. All the others are behind me.”

Andrea Pirlo: “I don'...t believe that I can win the Ballon d'Or — not while Lionel Messi is around.”

"I hope Maradona can forgive me, but I think Messi's goal is even better.”
—Deco

"I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi.”
—Diego Maradona

“Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the only player who can change direction at such a pace.”
—Arsene Wenger

Alex Ferguson: “He's won the Ballon d'Or 4 years in a row, quite rightly because the goals he’s scoring is uncanny. He's only 25 — Christ!”

“What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.”
—Thierry Henry

Jürgen Klopp: “Cristiano Ronaldo is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem — Leo Messi. Cristiano reminds me of... .German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up.”

Filippo Inzaghi (2006 FIFA World Cup Winner): “No one is born with the talent that Lionel Messi has.”

Antonio Conte: “The only way to stop Messi is with a gun.”

Luiz Felipe Scolari: “The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi.”

"Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him.”
—Gerard Piqué

Happy birthday Messi

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Merit, abeg shut up....i just returned from osun last wednesday and every one i know that work with the govt had not been paid as at then. next pls.. although, i had they were later paid before the weekend..

MANY youths of this generation know little or nothing about Lokoja city of today. They may also not know the role this beautiful city played in the history and developments of beautiful Nigeria nor are they aware of the abundant historical relics she boasts of today, especially those that existed before and during the colonial era. Lokoja is a historical ancient city of freedom fighters, educators, emancipators and liberators.

Lokoja is located in the heart of Nigeria, in the present North-Central. She was capital of the British northern protectorate and, by extension, remained a convenient administrative town for the British colonial government after the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates into one country called Nigeria in 1914.

Lokoja is the first settlement of the British in Nigeria, In fact, the name Nigeria was coined by Flora Shaw in Lokoja, a British journalist who was later to marry Fredrick Lugard, and as it was said, she coined the name Nigeria while, enraptured, she gazed at the River that stretched before her.

After the amalgamation of Southern and Northern protectorates in 1914, the new Governor General, Lord Lugard ruled Nigeria from Lokoja. Today, Lokoja is the capital of Kogi State, a state carved out of Kwara and Benue State in 1991.

According to European historical records, Lokoja is said to have been founded by William Balfour Baikie, although in reality, there had been indigenous people who had been living in the area for thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans.

Atabor Julius wrote that the magnificent River Niger and River Benue meet in Lokoja, forming the famous confluence from which Kogi derives its official sobriquet (The confluence state). Kogi is contiguous to nine states in Nigeria and is essentially a transit route to 16 other states including the Federal Capital, Abuja. Lokoja on the other hand also straddles some strategic roads to, at least, five geo- political zones out of the six such zones in Nigeria.

History has it that, there are many reasons why Lokoja is a special place in Nigerian history. First, Lokoja was the first administrative and commercial capital of Nigeria when Lord Lugard became the Governor General of Nigeria after Mungo Park, Richard and John Landers explored the River Niger in 1830’s. Being of such strategic importance, opened up Lokoja to all Nigerians, thus allowing all and sundry to draw from the fountain of the Niger with insatiable quest for knowledge and discovery.

Second, Lokoja is said to be a prominent centre for slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries as a result of her location; it later served as a centre for freedom. The late Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther spearheaded anti-slavery crusade in Nigeria and erected the Iron of liberty at a spot where slaves were set free in Lokoja. At the same spot, he established the first primary school in Northern Nigeria for all Nigerians who wanted to seek freedom from ignorance.

The third and also significant place of Lokoja was the crucial role she served as a practice ground for distance education by many Northern Nigerian Emirs in the 1800’s. During the colonial era, several Northern feudal lords who vehemently opposed colonial rule and domination of their territories by the European imperialists were banished to Lokoja as punishment by the colonial overlords. What the colonialists did not realise was that, what the Emirs lost at the bend they gained at the roundabout. The Emirs used distance education method to keep in constant touch with their subjects. Consequently they were continually a step ahead of the colonialists who never ceased to be amazed at how informed and intelligent the people they sought to colonise were.

Notable among the deposed Emirs who perfected the traditional form of distance learning included the Late Emir of Bida, Mallam Mohammed Bashir, deposed in 1901, the late Emir of Zaria, Mallam Aliyu Dansidi and the late Emir of Kano, Mallam Aliyu Abdullahi deposed in 1903. These forerunners of open and distance learning in Nigeria have their graves in Lokoja and should constitute an interesting tourist attraction.

Fourth, as if to rekindle memories, the first course writing and instructional material development of the National Open University of Nigeria meeting took place in Lokoja in 2002. This means that, the protagonists of the National Open University of Nigeria must have realised that, by so doing, they would be bringing open and distance learning to its home and its origin in Nigeria. As Prof. Jegede was to say, there in Lokoja, they defied the usual intense heat at the time of the year to write 183 courses and adapt 235 others in 54 programmes carefully chosen to kick start the re-establishment of the National Open University of Nigeria in Lagos. (Prof. Olugbemiro Jegede)

Besides all these, historical relics such as the Lugard House, the first primary school in northern Nigeria, the first cantonment church, the first hospital in northern Nigeria, iron of liberty, graveyards of the deposed emirs and Europeans commentaries are major tourism potentials which attract people from all works of life to the Lokoja.

Till date, relations of the European workers of the United African Trading Company (UTC), soldiers as well as missionaries buried in the European cemeteries in Lokoja literally troop to the state to see the tombs of their departed great grandparents and pay tribute to them. The cemeteries which are located in three different areas within Lokoja township hold six to eight hundred graves of Africans and Europeans. These are said to constitute the largest contraption of European graveyard in Nigeria.

With these historical references, Lokoja is no doubt a city of historical importance located strategically.

According to Ad Ali, Lokoja rose to fame as a result of her location at the confluence of the two great waterways in West Africa, the Niger and Benue Rivers. These natural waterways served as the major means of communication and transportation especially for the riverside dwellers in the colonial days. Lokoja also served as a commercial rendezvous during the east west kola nut trade in West Africa. Lokoja was distribution centre for agricultural products, chiefly cotton. Expectedly, she had food processing industries as well.

With the arrival of the Europeans, the city rose to international fame when she served as the first British settlement in Nigeria and as a major inland port for European companies. The town grew to become a cosmopolitan settlement peopled mostly by different ethnic groups from the Middle Belt and the far North. This cosmopolitan nature has remained to date, but not with its own ripple effects, different ethnic groups, for example, notably the Oworo, Nupe, Igbirra, Hausa, Igala, are laying claim to the ownership of the town. These claims and counterclaims have posed a dilemma and a clog in the wheel of the town’s development since Nigeria’s independence.

Although, Lokoja is a major historical trading city, unfortunately, her national stature has diminished. Here is a city which was supposed to accommodate a steel industry, but only the Ajaokuta steel mill, which is to be served by the abundant Iron Ore deposits, has found its presence in the city and, more recently, the Dangote cement factory. The steel revolution may still happen as the Nigerian government has recently rekindled interest in bringing the steel mill there and revive some of its other industries which are no longer in production. It is hoped the government will walk its talk and ignite the promised steel industry revolution in the very near future for the city to thrive once again.

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Author of this article: By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

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LETTER TO DSTV ON BBA FROM AFRICAN YOUTH
by Iyinkaye Al-Ameen


I urge and plead with All African Youths, let's ask DSTV to give Us a BBA where African Youths go and discuss/profer solutions to Africa's Problems, not this morally loose show where single parents who can't keep their relationships go
into the house to show their fallen breasts, where drug addicts, porn stars,
ill-mannered people mix up and get rewarded. Ha! Having sex in the public with somebody who is not your spouse?
God have mercy ! The demon of sexual
immorality has etched its ugly head into
the show, hence the next sane option is to nip the programme in the bud.
The BBA is all about immoral behaviour and that is why it attracts lots of fans. They even prefer open sex every day.
There is no single thing to learn from the programme, they just promote sex and
immorality. It's time we ignore it & speak up against it, for what it's worth. How long does it take to imbibe a habit?
21 days; and BBA runs for 90days, subtly making people addicts to bad habits. Say NO to TV shows without value. Reality
shows with immorality is a NO NO!!! I do not know who the "African Youth" is
but I agree whole heartedly with the message. As a person I was not comfortable with the show from the first
time I stumbled on it. P.S.
For those of us who are(and claim to be)
Muslims, this is a good fight (of faith
And for the Christians, the bible speaks it all.
Let us not (even covertly) endorse ungodly values...which is what BBA
promotes! If this piece offends you, pause a minute and ask yourself why. Is it because it is trash or that it pricks the
conscience?? Say No to Immorality..

Why has OSun state Government not paid its staffs for May in 21st June?

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I am sure the coach would work the team to victory

Spain is not a team to fear for me,Nigeria perform better when they have better opponent. Surely,we shall defeat Spain. Like Cote 'D' Ivoire like Spain. 3 more matches for Nigeria to lift the Confederation cup.

DON'T BE A TRIBALIST. What is the difference between a racist and a tribalist? A racist discreminate between people of different races,holding one race(his) as superior than others,while a tribalist discriminate between people of different tribes or ethnicity,holding one ethnic group (his) as superior than the others. What is the difference? If we can frown at and condemn a racist, a tribalist should receive worse condemnation.

You are right

How do you determine their living? Let me state that, no farmer in Nigeria live below $1. I repeate, no farmer,no matter the size of his or her farm lives below $1. The standard of living of a farmer is not judged by his income,but rather by his comsuption. The value of what he comsume determine his living standard and i am very certain that, every family member of a farmer consume above $1 per day.

How do you determine the income of a farmer? The farm produce he consume makes him live above $1

Let me also add that,even almajiri's, we cannot conclude that almajiri live on less than $1. It is not about their income,it is about the value of what they eat. Even if they eat left over, that also was purchased by one and it has it monetary value. Almajiri live on the value of the left over food they eat.

Seal, you got it right. How much you earn officially doesn't matter as such, many of those families have other sources of earning. Why must people insult each other anytime we discuss? Its crazy

What exactly is your point?