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So you have the predisposition to believe every allegation? That is not objective, there is nobody at the top that allegation wont be levelled against but if they remain unproven, then they are unfounded.

Racoon:
This is totally unethical if proven to be true.This needs to be thoroughly revisited & Mr.Ezenwa punished accordingly if found guilty.

This is what proper national leadership in Nigeria's context should look like,all tribes represented.I can even see Babangida Aliyu who was a perm sec in state house well placed in front row.

AuntLaVIV:
President Bush, Obasanjo, Late Stella, Soludo In A Throwback Picture

I'm not sure dude knows much about contract law.

nextstep:
We are circulating around the same thing:


- he claims he owes 100% of the videos while he doesnt
He owns 100% of the videos she did while in the label. Section 9 assigns performances (live, recorded, etc) 100% to him. Even if he paid only 50% of the cost, the contract assigns all of the video to him.

- he claims she owes him 100% of video production cost, while she doesnt
He paid 100% of the cost, she owes him her share (50%). I don't see a claim she owes 100% of the cost. Please point me to anywhere that claim is made.

- he hijacked her vevo (and possibly royalties) while the contract says only a Lagos court can decide that.
If she feels there's a dispute, she is free to take him to court. However, section 15. (NON-CIRMUMVENTION) says essentially that "Artists shall not detrimentally interfere with the efforts of Company to distribute..." Since the music video belongs to the Label (section 9), and not to Cynthia, the label essentially owns how and when the video is played, including YouTube, Vevo, radio stations, etc. and can take steps to protect its property, including taking ownership of the page for the brand "Cynthia Morgan". She assigned that right in section 10 (LICENSE FOR USE OF NAME AND IMAGE).

- the minute she stepped out of the contract and they accepted that she could leave, then the record label had NO MORE CLAIM over these songs.... apart from the 50% royalties to offset the debts.

Contracts end, but the ownership of the songs remains with the Label. They own the rights (section 9), they own the copyright if assigned (section 12), and have sole, exclusive and perpetual ownership to the songs (section 14) (i.e. forever).

Former employees don't come back to claim any rights to the work they did for a former employer (unless it was stimulated in contract)... I don't see how she can still own the songs (and all performances, including music videos) she assigned to somebody.

Are we reading the same contract?

Laughable,even Nas can not utter that.The best rap album till date still remains Notorious sophomore album life after death. Nas's best album in performance is illmatic yet did not beat biggie's debut ready to die.This is not my assessment but from RIA the American Music Industry Standard for album certification in the rap music category.Also this is in reference to the time of album(vinyl) sales not streaming and downloading we have now.

Angelfrost:
You are kidding, right??!... Nas was and will always be lyrically miles ahead of Christopher Wallace!!!

What rap album really comes lyrically close to Nastradamus??!... Please, name it!!! I will wait!!!

Ll

Don't take the bait,better ignored.

Ishilove:
Ask Nairaland oldies about my comment

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Both of them couldn't lace Notorious BIG Stacey Adams shoe or button up his famous Versace shirt lyrically speaking.

27Pushing30:
Stop underrating Jay z

I repeat STOP underrating Jay Z.

No lyricist does it better

Please can you tell us what the ideal sharing formula should be between a label and an artist.Please research what Wizkid got from EME,something like 25% or next to zero after expenses.

jrusky:
Going through this contract I noticed something is not right, I noticed *greed contract clause* or I called *career slavery contract* by seen sharing profit 50/50 for upcoming artist that clause is a complete dream killing contract clause.

I don't know Cynthia infact I'm hearing of her for the first time 2 days ago and Jude himself I only know he existed when Paul and Peter career began and lately about the marital fracas between his 2 siblings that was all.

Whatever happened let both put all behind and move on. MayD also dropped his unhapoiness with same Jude so let us not be too emotion as per things if few people speak ill of someone pls check that person life well possibly something not right somewhere.

You are very knowledgeable of the industry of brand marketing.Those supporting her are just being emotional and sentimental.

nextstep:
Granted, this contract favors the company more than the artist, but that's what people mean by "pay your dues". She needs to hustle and really blow before she can start seeing real money. Second or third contract is always sweeter, with experience and more leverage. It's the same in any part of the world, whether movies, music, engineering, etc. Most entrepreneurs who seek venture capital barely break even on their first deal. There's a small profit on the second, then a larger payout on the third, and soon they are the ones calling the shots.

As lawyer mentioned yesterday - all the upfront costs are being borne by the Company. 100%. She's basically taking a loan on 50% of the costs of production and promotion, and needs to pay those back before she starts seeing royalties. And I've seen her video sets, they are expensive, albeit very creative and imaginative.

She's not the first, and could have asked for advice from others who have walked this same path. She assumed she could really blow quick, perhaps leverage some feuds to boost her, but reality has hit her hard.

Where is the other 50% coming from then.50-50 is a fair deal.Put your money where your mouth is,she was signed as an established artist not an upcoming one.Dame way Don Jazzy signed Tiwa Savage.

sketcherJ:
Guys the title is not even the case. I took my time to read the content of this contract. I was kinda supporting Jude before but when I saw this contract. I just know that there is no way an artist would become rich in this record label.
How much will the artist make to pay production fee 50% and still share 50% with the company? Read guys!!

That's simple maths.50/50 deal is fair enough.At the point she was signed,she wasnt a green horn in the industry.Please don't be too emotional and take it easy with cursing..

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

It is almost a hopeless situation,I have given up.Can you imagine how N40M was twisted to$40m and most of them fell for it without listening to Jude's interview. I knew Jude to be a very shrewd business man,my younger sis was his account officer in ETB then.He is not this monster they are portraying him to be . I was around squareville in 2013,it was a beehive of activities with lots of hangers on. Jude Engees is actually welcoming but Paul is the serious introvert.
Talking about the silly boy MAYD claiming to be sleeping on TV carton in the BQ.he should have told his gullible audience about the gold encrusted beds his bosses were sleeping on in the main house.Most people will find it hard to believe that when PSQUARE shot their first popular video,they were living in a tenement building in rough part of Ilupeju and did not have a TV to watch their own video.They had to go to Howie T's(their manager then) house to see it.

Ishilove:
Did you read where Jude said he never stopped her from using her name? You people should learn to hear both sides before commenting

I am not obsessed. You claim to be a civil servant but you are heavily leaned on a political party.Your type will leak documents.

seunmsg:
Why are you obsessed with my handle?

Can you provide a single official document that was leaked by me?

People like seunmsg.

dre11:
https://punchng.com/fg-threatens-to-dismiss-workers-leaking-official-documents/

There was a minister for Lagos then in the first republic and it was Yardua's(former president)father.

Lyoncrescent:
I know this may be off topic but can you clarify something for me. Now that Abuja is the capital of Nigeria and the FCT ministers are appointed over Abuja, I observed that most of the FCT ministers are often from the north except the first FCT minister. You can clarify this however my main question is when Lagos was the capital of Nigeria, was there a role for Lagos minister in a role similar to the position of FCT minister either in the military or civilian governments and if yes there was such a role , was it predominantly for southerners same way FCT minister is predominantly for northerners ? Thanks. You can respond on your diary. I follow you and will get the notification.

He is a bloody liar.So when they took you from Nigeria to Atlanta and NY swanky clubs for shows/shoots,you swam across the Atlantic to get there. This boy here is an ingrate,he rates himself too high.My pal had some promotion deals with him for his remittance company and he was a total flop.They dont even read or respect contracts.Shocking a graduate of Unilag and alumnus of Kings College can not write proper English.WTH is "boys squatters"

RichDad1:
And your were busy shouting chop my money ?

Mehd ohhh

Rip* not Reap.

OgunLaakaye:
Evil plots

How about othe square record artiste? They are owing $100,000 too?

Tell us another thing madam!

Its glaring square records reaps artiste off.

Despite how great they were back then, not one artiste in the entire world they can take credit for.

Cynthia might have her own problems, but it still doesnt erase my initial facts.

You reap someone off and still claim they are owing you

Fear one man business in Nigeria

You are talking to the chief hypocrite of NL,a waste of time. A so called career civil servant who is politicking actively.He is the type that will be leaking official documents for political gains.

Agboriotejoye:
So you don't think he should be sacked for insinuating gross cronyism because he has access to power? It's not a question of what the guy did but what his statement(made in hausa for that matter) portends.

A presidential aide for that matter. This is a big shame on Nigeria

I mean a lot of knowledgeable folks are on commenting on this thread.Which is a deviation from most topics on NL. Even when we need to disagree lets keep insults out of it.Once insults start to flow,then the thread will be derailed.

kingreign:
Meaning?

This is one of the cleanest threads on Nairaland,please don't let us pollute it with insults and drag the motley crew out of their shells.

kingreign:
Every airline can be made to understand go a programme called 'customization'.
Let's leave it this way. I won't wanna go long into it.

He can't of course,he was employed by them. Imagine an active civil servant being overtly political. He will see evil and hear no evil because it is APC in govt.

Racoon:
In addition, have you done the whistle blowing job or you're afraid of the whistle blower policy & corruption ongoing under this government? Buzz the EFCC, ICPC man.

They were lying,thinking claiming to be from Jos will buy them passage.They must have used it in some other checkpoints with success.

ElasticStone:
They might not even be indigenes of Jos sef. See Jigawa on the truck's plate number.

Curious why you keep mutating from Solmus design to Solmus and now techmo

techmo:


what is Solmus and why are you helloing it

Hello Solmus.

techmo:



Audio Governor looking for something to trend and chase clout with, tell us the freaking company so that people who had contact wouldn't disappear into thin air

24hours and the first contacts would continue to spread it more

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Trobell is an engineering company with no record of auditing,legal or financial consulting. You can see the name of the promoter is Garba Lawal.This is obviously a front for MALAMI&CO.

GamalNasser:
They have a valid case even though they had not recovered Zero Naira ..The Federal govt should try to settle of court with them ..The fault is from Malami who rushed to sign a contract with the when he new the govt was only bluffing and the IOC will leverage international powers to call their bluff

You are a mirror of your words.Yesterday you said we should print more naira,today you are discrediting the report of an agency concerned about well being of children.Have you taken a deep dive into that article before your epistle. You are obviously punching above your pay grade in most intellectual matters dude.Stick to local politics.

By the way,if you are smart to create paragraphs,you should be smart enough to know paragraphs are never started in lower cases of alphabets. Try to improve on that.Also punctuation is damn atrocious,you might need to repeat elementary class to remedy that.

Exc2000:



each country needs to have a full policy document and piece of legislation on disaster management, this fire brigade approach is very stupid... we should set up a special fund in case things like this happens, because even after Corrona virus goes, Trump is hell bent on giving us another World War, and I doubt Trump vs China, Russia , Iran nuclear war wouldn't be more catastrophic than Corrona Virus, infact we should thank Corona virus for slowing down tensions between the western power bloc and the eastern power bloc

The sooner we start preparing for Lockdowns and War the better for us all, rather than making silly excuses of hunger , poverty and disease

Whats our excuse as Africans not to prepare, Isreal, Saudi and other middle eastern countries without good soil imported tonnes of fertile soil into their country and now produce more than enough agricultural product that they even export.

yet Africa with the resources are listening to insults from UNICEF saying blacks cant follow simple health guideline because they are lazy and hungry.. the sickening part is many people are already commending UNICEF for calling blacks hungry , lazy people who would prefer a plate of food to keeping healthy during dangerous pandemic

In 2020 white racist Unicef Directors still tells Africans , not to take simple health precaution because they are lazy , hungry poor and stupid, while the Unicef workers conducting this report had since travelled back through their various embassy in Nigeria to go to their own country to observe every health directives including lockdown

Buhari please end the lock down so that Kano and Jigawa people, lagos and ogun people can enjoy free movement and transmit whatever is killing them in hundreds across the entire country from SouthEast to SouthSouth and everywhere, Wike should also open the state borders and let Almajiri bring in food from Kano, last last na una without basic health insurance go suffer pass, Unicef people are already in their various countries 2nd week corona entered Nigeria, observing lockdown, Trump test all staffs and people close to him regularly, and once you are positive you can kiss the white house good bye, he isn't even travelling anymore for November election campaings


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6 paragraphs of incoherent soliloquy. Bro take it easy!!!

Exc2000:



each country needs to have a full policy document and piece of legislation on disaster management, this fire brigade approach is very stupid... we should set up a special fund in case things like this happens, because even after Corrona virus goes, Trump is hell bent on giving us another World War, and I doubt Trump vs China, Russia , Iran nuclear war wouldn't be more catastrophic than Corrona Virus, infact we should thank Corona virus for slowing down tensions between the western power bloc and the eastern power bloc

The sooner we start preparing for Lockdowns and War the better for us all, rather than making silly excuses of hunger , poverty and disease

Whats our excuse as Africans not to prepare, Isreal, Saudi and other middle eastern countries without good soil imported tonnes of fertile soil into their country and now produce more than enough agricultural product that they even export.

yet Africa with the resources are listening to insults from UNICEF saying blacks cant follow simple health guideline because they are lazy and hungry.. the sickening part is many people are already commending UNICEF for calling blacks hungry , lazy people who would prefer a plate of food to keeping healthy during dangerous pandemic

In 2020 white racist Unicef Directors still tells Africans , not to take simple health precaution because they are lazy , hungry poor and stupid, while the Unicef workers conducting this report had since travelled back through their various embassy in Nigeria to go to their own country to observe every health directives including lockdown

Buhari please end the lock down so that Kano and Jigawa people, lagos and ogun people can enjoy free movement and transmit whatever is killing them in hundreds across the entire country from SouthEast to SouthSouth and everywhere, Wike should also open the state borders and let Almajiri bring in food from Kano, last last na una without basic health insurance go suffer pass, Unicef people are already in their various countries 2nd week corona entered Nigeria, observing lockdown, Trump test all staffs and people close to him regularly, and once you are positive you can kiss the white house good bye, he isn't even travelling anymore for November election campaings


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Really,print in more naira in a way of QE with no production to back it up.You mean Govr should share naira unearned to everybody like a candy to kids.Please I will like to know the school you learned that from.Because even Tinubu a trained accountant(not an economist)has walked back the talk on QE in Nigeria,Zimbabwe's case will be child's play if we try that.. The opprobrium it was subjected to made him recant quickly.

Btw,what is the obsession about loss making national assets like NNPC.Aramco of Saudi the biggest state owned oil corporation has already been floated.Do you think it was a light decision to take.Nobody tells a blind man outside that it is raining.

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we cant even sell our oil, even if they pay us $20 per barrel, our oil are at high sea accruing bills , demorage and storage / shiping fees

Tinubu's advise comes handy now, print in more Local currency to stimulate local purchasing power just has US are doing right now printing dollar, when the economy goes right CBN can mop up excess liquidity

Or They can use Atiku's model seeking us to sell National revenue generating Asset so as to generate forex and spend it on toothpick, gussi and prada.. and when the next recession comes we wont have anything to sell again

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You are well.schooled. When the tariff war escalated late last year,who blinked first. Which country bent over to adjust and whose diplomats came to DC. That's how to do the maths.Leave the ignorant folks alone,the way they say the north feed the south.Just see how the pandemic exposed that fallacy as their people are hiding in unimaginable places to get to the South.

martineverest:
mtchewwwww....America and American companies feed china...apple,google, Microsoft,Intel, Qualcomm etc all got their hardware factories in China... relocating to factories to India or Vietnam will collapse china


secondly, slapping huge tax on Chinese exports to USA will collapse china...mind u,America isn't acting alone.....many asian nations like India,Vietnam,Japan,Korea,taiwan etc are waiting for America to sanction china as their economies will boom further

He is actually right. It is who pays the piper

stormborn28:
He who "plays"

The Emir has cleverly removed Kolapo that he bore for long as Justice of court of appeal in Ibadan.They surely know how to play the game.See how Agboola that was downplayed in the Prof's name suddenly sprang up.

AroleOduduwa2:
Our brain have been programmed by ruling class to fight between each other along ethnic lines.

Of what different does it make if he’s Yoruba or Fulani, we should judge people based on their merit and not their ethnicity.

The man in question has a good resume, but he’s part of Nigeria problem, he has been in the corridor of power since the creation of Nigeria with no meaning impact

The Gambaris of ilorin identify as Fulani,same with the Belgores.

Destroyerofyeeb:
This one na our yoruba brother na. Let's see how he's gonna turn out. Hope he's not gonna become another cabal like the last one.

Nephew how? That is his older brother retired Justice of court of Appeal.

naptu2:
Biography.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Gambari


His nephew, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari, is the Emir of Ilorin.