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Letter to the next generation Young African, You are brave, you are resilient. You are savvy, you are entrepreneurial, and unlike the generations that have come before you, you are much hungrier for success. You call your ambition, “your hustle”, and you have several of them because you are tireless and eager to achieve financial independence – no matter how elusive it appears. You are optimistic but you are also anxious. You have seen others toil long and hard for economic security in vain, decades of labour without fruit. Some of your friends may have discussed emigrating with you – legally or illegally, and some may have lost their young lives crossing the Mediterranean in search of a future overseas where their talents are recognized and rewarded. You may even know a few in Libya, unsuspecting victims to the ugly acts of slave trade. A combination of these factors has left you disillusioned and disconnected. You don’t believe in politics. There is no use in getting involved. You have seldom experienced good governance, so you think, “What’s the point?” But despite the gloom, there actually is indeed a point. My generation and the ones before may have failed you, and the infrastructure for success glaringly absent – a persistent darkness in place of electricity, a stifling business environment that discourages enterprise and innovation, debilitating bureaucracy, inaccessible public officials who remain oblivious to your needs, an outdated education system in urgent need of reform– and the list goes on, but, if there’s anyone with the power to transform our continent and reshape our economic and social trajectory, it is YOU. There is formidable power in your intellect and creativity, your talent and ingenuity are rare, and your resolve and determination against all odds, can drive great change. But most importantly, the greatest force is in your numbers. Together, all 600 million of you that are under 30 years old, have the potential to be the most influential bloc on this continent. The indescribable influence that you can collectively wield, I hope that you soon fully understand and hopefully, deploy. Today, I’d like to discuss the inescapable reality of politics with you. It has been a busy week of traveling from Lagos to Boston, to Los Angeles, and in a few hours to New York, to receive BCIU’s inaugural Dwight Eisenhower Entrepreneurship Award, but I thought to take time out this evening to share a few thoughts with you. I have been inspired to share this with you after listening to my former professor at Harvard, Prof Michael Porter, whose session during our leadership council meeting of the Harvard Kennedy School Center of Public Leadership, was insightful, powerful, and very thought provoking. His well-articulated argument emphasized that as a people we cannot afford to remain passive about politics. Though his reference region was America, there are strong parallels with our own situation in Africa. The main root cause of our continent’s underlying failure to pull the majority of its citizens from the unyielding clutches of poverty is poor leadership, so then why do we continue to tell ourselves that politics exists in a realm outside our own realities? Why do we refuse to engage in the political process of identifying and supporting visionary candidates, instead we remain at the mercy of political leadership committed to putting private interest ahead of public interest. Leaders who are beholden to the ideology that political parties come before citizens. Leaders who are private gain-seeking actors. What we desperately need is a continent-wide awakening. We must grow to become active citizens who are committed to getting involved. The system is not self-correcting, there are no market forces at play to ensure that it corrects itself. It will require human actors – me and you – to identify and dismantle the structural impediments that fuel the status quo of bad leadership. We must address this issue both systemically and systematically. Our democracy has become very disconnected from being democratic, we must bring power back to the people. We must reform the rules of our electoral processes to inject more transparency. We must transform politics from being an industry for a few interests, to being about the people and addressing the public needs. We must change the oligopoly nature of our politics today to being one for the majority. The barriers to entry are high in politics, and very often, our best brains and talent are discouraged from running for office. We must dismantle these systems that keep away talented, individuals from joining the race. We must open the door for generations knocking after us. We must take advantage of our demographic dividend, millions of young people who are ready to make a change. We must welcome this new generation of new ideas and we must democratize access to opportunity for all. We must get more women involved in the process because when you empower women you empower communities. Structural reforms mean that no one individual can make this change alone, but with our collective voices and the realization that this is our time and that no one but us can save our continent, we can achieve change. We can no longer outsource politics or governance to people we do not trust. We must understand the inextricable link between governance, economic growth and national security. To pretend that politics does not influence the entirety of our lives harms us more than it benefits us. We must change the rules of the game. We must put up a coordinated front to reorient our values and bring power back to the people. Our leaders must be the best amongst us - those with the most transformative ideas and the capacity to deliver. . It should be the best amongst us leading us in government, in the military, in our judiciary and of course the corporate sector. We must instill accountability in our processes, but also hold ourselves accountable. We must play our own role in identifying and empowering those amongst us best placed to make this difference. To abscond from this duty is to be negligent of our responsibility to our continent. It won’t be easy, but nothing good comes easy. A famous man once said you should learn to categorize all your problems in three sections: Easy, Impossible and HARD but doable. When it’s easy, you should give it to someone else to handle. When it’s impossible, you shouldn’t bother with it. But when it’s hard but doable, you should go straight to work to make it happen. My fellow Africans, I appeal to you that though this task seems hard, it is entirely doable and we must begin this journey. Let us rise to this challenge and begin to elect leaders who we trust in and are confident will help us realize the social and economic hopes of our continent. TOE

TV personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu was quite
surprised when he came out of the front door of
his home and found a dead owl. He shared a
photo of the dead creature via his Insta-stories,
asking Nigerians why it was there. If na me HOLYGHOST FIRE!!! But the fact that it is dead is a good thing. See below.

'Here's the true story behind
the Psquare breakup problems',

New details have emerged about the problems within Psquare.
Peter Okoye, Paul Okoye, and Jude Okoye have been players in a long drama, with Peter firing Jude as his manager, setting up a new structure for his business, and going solo with a single. Paul
too had also released a single, and has stuck with Jude.
In an interview with NET, Peter Okoye unburdened his heart » with all the details of the fight,
explaining that Jude and Paul disrespected him and marginalized him, Paul had floated his personal band named MVP, and the inefficient business structure was hurting the brand and their decision-making process.

See excerpts of the interview below.
On Problems with Paul
Four years ago, I told Jude that he needs to step down as our manager, because I didn’t want to
disrespect him as a brother, but this is business, we have to structure it. And Jude said to me that there’s a way I’ll talk to him, and he’ll slap me. So I kept quiet’.
‘So, a few hours after, Paul came to me and said if I want Jude to step down it’s not a problem, but it’ll mean that he (Paul) will go solo. The the first time word got out about Psquare breaking up, a lot of people called us, senators, governors, and people like that. In fact three of us were once in a private jet to go and see someone who wanted to resolve our issues and we didn’t speak to each other all through the flight. At the end of the day, I swallowed my pride for peace to reign and allowed
Jude to remain as our manager’.
‘Truth is, I’ve not been in talking terms with Paul since December 2015 and that was why I travelled
in January because I had a lot on my mind.
Something happened at Mavin Studios last year that broke my heart.

Now listen to this, Psquare featured on songs with J-Martins, Bracket, LKT, 9ice and these 4 songs were done by Paul alone, but guess what, did I appear in the videos, YES’.
‘Now hear this, we have other collabos with Kaha,.Darey, Ruggedman . I did these songs alone. How come they don’t have videos? Paul refused to appear in the videos’.
‘So I told Paul that when next he does collabo alone, he should be in the video alone, because it
got a point where artistes began to feel if they do a collabo with Paul it gets a video but if it’s me it
doesn’t get a video.
The last collabo we did was with Flavour and I refused to do another one. Even Flavour had to
speak all the Igbo he knows to convince me before I agreed to do it. Only for my brother to come and tell me that ‘shey I thought you said you won’t appear in any video that I did the collabo alone?
Why did you appear on this one?’. I was sad but I knew another one will come’.
‘So Tiwa Savage called me, apparently Paul had gone to do a song with her, not the campaign song they are promoting now, another Psquare collabo
entirely. So she called me that she’s been trying to reach Paul to get the CD of the song from him that he’s already done his part, so I went to Paul’s house to help ask for it and tell him that I want to
go to their studio to do my verse and he said he doesn’t know where the CD is’.
‘I went to the Mavin studio to meet Tiwa, when I got there, she asked for the CD and I told her Paul
didn’t give me any CD, so I called him again and gave the phone to Tiwa and told her on phone that
the CD is at Omole, so I got into the studio recorded my verse and when I finished, everybody
was clapping. I was surprised only to realize that Paul had gone to tell them that I don’t sing or write
songs’.
‘I felt really bad and betrayed, but I covered up for him. I jokingly asked Teebillz if they gave him Red
Label and he said yes, so I was like you guys caused it, and we laughed over it. So when my
assistant went to pick up the CD, Paul and Jude started shouting at him to tell Peter that what is he
doing at the Mavin studio? He knows how we work.
The next day, I went to Paul and told him how I felt when I heard what he said. Only for Jude to say
that he made Paul the lead singer of Psquare 8 years ago! A leader leads, he doesn’t destroy.’

On Management deals
When it comes to decision-making, it has always been a Triangle formation, and the highest vote wins. I never used to complain because we were all okay, but what has changed now is the fact that we’ve grown. You can make a certain decision based on how we used to do it and it may affect everyone as an individual, but it gets to a point when the decisions taken never gets to be my own and I began to wonder if anything is wrong’.
‘I always get Ideas, most of Psquare ideas come from me, and when I say Idea, I mean materials
we need to put out for people to see, video, stage performances and all. But when I come up with
them, nobody wants to accept it. I didn’t complain because people still love what we do, but then
again, there wasn’t much competition in the industry back then’.
‘As time goes, we should get better, it shouldn’t be same triangle deciding, because if we continue that same way, we’ll lose it. All I want is a proper structure in the sense that, we need to have proper management, business managers and all’.
‘As I speak to you right now, we don’t have any office, no structure. When this issue started about five years ago, our lawyer told us the way we run our business is wrong without a structure’.
‘I’ll give you an instance’.
‘We had to go perform somewhere once, andbecause I had a slight argument with Paul, he said
he’s not going. The show was the wedding of the President’s daughter, because some times when we perform for some certain people, they always talk to me, they don’t call Jude’.
‘I didn’t even know until we got to the airport and at the end of the day we missed the reception, but
we finally performed at the gala night, because when I got to the airport my brother wasn’t there,
and I became confused on how I was going to explain to the President that we can’t perform?
Psquare at President Buhari’s inauguration ceremony in Abuja.
‘So I made up my mind to go with the band, perform like that and lie that my brother was sick.
So we left for Abuja and when we got to the hotel dressing up my assistant manager called that he
was on the way to the airport with Paul, so we had to wait for them to land in Abuja and that was why
we couldn’t make it on time to the reception’.
‘
Only for Jude to say Paul said he wasn’t going for a show and I still went on it with’.
‘Imagine if Jude had a proper structure and we had contracts? That wouldn’t happen. And it was
more because the show came through me. If the show came through Jude it wouldn’t have
happened. I don’t have a problem with doing things as a family, but then the structure and proper
organization is important too. The name Psquare is very big outside but inside we have no structure, I
see people like Audu of Chocolate City, Mavin Records, even Ubi Franklin and I wanted us to
have a structure like that. Psquare is just up there because of the grace of God.’
On Being Disrespected Publicly by Paul
‘It’s really sad that people have labeled me ‘Dancer’, and people don’t really know what I do
for Psquare. Kudos to Paul, I’m not a good songwriter, in-fact I’ll rate myself 30%, so when it comes to song writing, I give it to Paul 100%.
‘However, not writing songs does not disqualify you from being a musician. I can tell you for free
that a Nigerian wrote two of the songs on Rihanna’s new album. I’ve travelled a lot and most
times people ask, ‘which one are you, the singer or the dancer’? And it’s really sad’.
‘In Psquare, I am the creative person, I can sit- down and tell you what people want to hear, what
they want to see and what they want to learn from Psquare. But it’s not something to brag about’.
‘Jude directs all our videos’.
‘This whole thing began when Paul went online and started post lyrics of most of our songs on
Instagram that he wrote them all, just because Peter brought in something to the table’.
‘I’ve been trying to bring more business for Psquare I didn’t know it was going to cause problems. I sent my manager to a meeting in
Senegal to meet with Universal music about getting us deals, and when he came back, the way they
responded to him wasn’t encouraging’.
‘So I had to send Diouf, the footballer to help get the documents and convince my brothers before we could pull through with the deal. And after some months, we started making money. Meanwhile, while filling the forms, Jude filled everything as Psquare. So the first money came, we shared it.
The second money was bigger, it came and we shared it too. That was when Paul said we had to
re-fill the form and give proper credit to the songwriter (Himself) and if the form is not brought
back, he’s going to expose me and tell the world that he writes all the songs’.
‘And the next day he went online to post those lyrics. So my question is, when he was doing that what did Jude do about it? Absolutely nothing!’

Beautiful Nakitende Esther is hot from hair to toe. @envogue_magazine see more of her pics below

wow. This really made me laugh. Who ever made dat cake should be given an award . lol

The reason why D’Banj hides his wife alot.
Infact it is a shock that the koko master is this secretive. I never knew he is this secretive but he has proved that he is the most secretive celebrity in Nigeria and in fact he deserves that award. He got married in 2016 secretly to the point that there was no wedding pictures that ever leaked on the internet up till today. Even none on his social media pages, in fact going through his timeline on instagram there is no picture of his wife and kid. It leaves me to wonder >top secret things. Yesterday he was pictured with two scantly dressed women and then on his shirt is the word "ESCAPE". Is he trying to say something, looks like he is trying to escape from his fatherly duties at home,** D’Banj this your secret of hiding your family will not last for ever, one day one day wind go blow and we go see fowl yansh. I went on instagram to search for the wife's name which is Lineo Didi Kilgrow > notice that there is no oyebanjo in her name> anyway her page is empty, no pictures. Thor na dem sabi

Big Sean. Sean Michael
Leonard Anderson (born
March 25, 1988), known
professionally as Big Sean,
is an American rapper from
Detroit, Michigan. Sean signed with Kanye West's GOOD Music in 2007, Def Jam Recordings in 2008 and Roc Nation in 2014. He is super talented as that fact is not in question.
Jhene Aiko his girlfriend is also an amazing singer and is 29 years old, will be 30 in March. Both of them has dated famous people in the past. Big Sean has dated Naya Rivera, Ariana Grande and currently Jhene Aiko. He doesn't have any kids yet. Jhene Aiko on the other hand has dated Donald Glover, O'Ryan, Shad Moss and previously married to Dot
da Genius (2015 - 2017). She has a child with O'Ryan. She filed for divorce from Dot Da Genius whose real name is Oladipo Omishore, .. (He is an American/Nigerian) because of irreconcilable differences. The rumor is that Dot Da Genius physically abused her and that she cheated with her now alleged boyfriend, Big Sean.
The divorce papers was concluded this October 2017. She immediately got a large tattoo if Bigsean's face on her arm to show how in love she is. I think Big Sean should do the same... Get a tattoo of Her face on his arm too to show that it is mutual.
Speaking to Billboard music on how she met Big Sean, this is what she had to say,
" Well, I'm almost 30, so that makes a big difference. I'll be 30 in March. I would say I'm more aware. More aware, more myself. I know I feel like you got my mission statement [at our listening session] where I talked about being Penny
-- which is the nickname that my great- grandfather gave me when I was four -- and I feel like that is really my true self.
When I met Sean, if you looked in the dictionary for Jhené Aiko, it would be a picture of Sean.
Basically, he is my type, but he knows. That's why when I was 16, I had a lot of boyfriends that were
like, that fit, that look. I was dating people who I wasn't attracted to right off the top or whatever. So
I ended up not having a type. But then when I met Sean, I had a boyfriend and he was showing
interest in me, but I was like, I have a boyfriend.
But we were friends, it was never, nothing disrespectful ever happened between me and
Sean.
Then when I broke up with that boyfriend, he had a girlfriend. So it was, ' Okay, alright.' We're still
friends and we were forced to really, really get to know each other on a friendship level, you know what I mean? And to the point where he was even
at my brother's funeral. We talk to each other on a friendship level throughout all of my relationship,
just like, "How is this one thing, how are you doing?"
And obviously we worked together as well throughout our relationship. We did songs together.
And then it just came to a point where it was like, "I'm single, you're single, we love each other." We actually already loved each other as people and then it was like, "Okay, let's just, you know, be
together." So it was different because of that friendship. That comes first, we're friends before
anything. We can bicker like a friendship.
If you're friends, when we're debating something, it doesn't turn into some crazy argument because we're actually friends. I have a big family. The friends that I have become family. I don't have a bunch of friends. I literally have like two friends outside of my blood relatives.
Everyone else that I call a friend is literally related to me by blood. So Sean has become my family. I
don't know what the future holds, but as far as my life goes right now, yeah, he's "L-O-M-L."
I also have to mention that Big Sean is a very stylish man. His fashion sence is OnPoint..

From envogueng.

Why I keep my wife away from the public -Yul Edochie
Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, who is also the last son of veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, who has been married for more than 10 years, has disclosed why he keeps his wife away from the
public.
In his interview with Goldenpearlmedia, Yul was
asked why his wife Mrs. May Edochie, always seem to be hiding her face from the media’s paparazzi, Yul had this to say.
“My wife is not an actress, she’s not into show business, she’s a computer engineer, also a
business woman, she’s not into the whole paparazzi spotlight thing, its her lifestyle. So, she can’t be in the media eyes.” “I could remember that While growing up, my father taught me discipline, honesty, integrity, bravery, self
respect and for fellow humans, hard work, passion for work, a lot more and I have passed that onto all my children.”

Speaking on the Midday show on The Beat 99.9FM with OAP Toolz, superstar singer Tiwa Savage , speaking on gender discrimination in the
society, she said:
It’s real. I’m not going to say I’m completely comfortable with it but it is what it is. You have to deal with it. If it means you have to work 10 times harder than your male counterparts, don’t complain about it, do what you have to do. We all celebrate people like Oprah and Mo Abudu and we don’t actually realise what they have to do to get to that point. They probably had to do 20 times than their male counterparts. Once you get there, you don’t complain about how you get there. So, whatever it is you have to do as a
female, you just have to get it done.
I know I’ll (ruffle) a few feathers but I also don’t think men and women are equal, I don’t think
that’s how God created us that way… especially in the household anyway. So I think as females
when we realise that yeah we can be strong in our career, but when we are home we have to realise that the man is the head of the house.
Talking about her marraige, She said that she and Tee Billz “are doing what they are doing privately and it should remain private” as a response to Toolz’s
question on whether they are back together.
Talking about her experience in child birth, She said the day she’ll never forget was the day she had her son after a 22-hour labour, adding that she has a lot of scars on her body to remind her.
She said she’s embracing her stretch marks, adding that if she were not in the entertainment
industry, she wouldn’t have tried to lose weight.
She said she has a pouch and she isn’t going to do surgery to get rid of it.
She added that she has plans for her stretch marks, which is to paint them in different colours.
She lamented that women are being seen as wrong when issues arise in relationships whether they are right or wrong.
See the other things she said according to toolz. ..

She came to the interview with no entourage, she even did her own make-up herself, before arriving; cutting costs.
She does not have any extra cast doing her make-up and all. When the camera goes off, it’s just her and her son. No extras around…
She is working on a song with Coldplay and he was very interested in African dances
The structure of the industry abroad is different,
she can record a song and it’s out the next day, on the internet, in Africa. But in the international
market, it could take up to a year or two for the song to get out.
She doesn’t want her son to feel pressured to do music because that’s what she’s doing and he’s
a little shy. If he’s dancing and he catches you watching him, he’d stop.
She’d love for her son to be a ball player (basketball or soccer), so he can buy her a retirement home…
Her most embarrassing day is the first day she had to perform at an event in Eko Hotel and her back zip broke and exposed her back/behind.
If she were a guy, she would get away with a lot more. If she were a male artist, she wouldn’t have as much flack

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rokiatu:
What a big shame.

i dont understand, what exactly are they going to potray in this kind movie. Nawa