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look who is talking. The question should be when GEJ removed subsidy. What did Nigerians say.

Subsidy should be done on a time by time bases as to not suffer people unnecessarily.

I guess his not complaining because his feeding from government.

3 months why not make it 1 month. With the new level of scrutiny I wonder how people will cope.

Bad leaders have made Nigeria a laughing stock.

Award of death. A wanted felon nominating who. Life is about justice.

When you have the power and misuse it, providence has a way of taking it back.

They way your family collapsed abi. Be deceiving yourself

Sensible Nigerians have rejected APC because of their criminality and their bias to wards credible elections.

Great move the more the better. 2027 Nigerians most winn.

Nigeria have what to takes to conquer the world. But bad leaders are the problem.

Thank you Burna boy, wizkid and Davido for setting the record straight.
Akon tried to claim the credit by saying he invented afrobeat.

Afrobeats has swept the world of music like a tsunami - it dominates playlists and its fans cram into huge stadiums to hear the likes of Nigerian superstars Wizkid, Davido and Burna Boy.

Photographer Oliver Akinfeleye, known professionally as "Drummer", caught the Afrobeats wave early - and he decided to document it as it grew into a global phenomenon.

Since 2017, the New Yorker of Nigerian descent has had exclusive backstage access to some of the biggest artists of the genre - capturing quieter moments of reflection as well as strutting stage performances.

"I remember my first project with Wizkid like it was yesterday - Echostage Washington DC, 2017," Drummer told the BBC. "The feeling was exhilarating. It was my job to tell the visual story of how it all went down."

Drummer has not stopped clicking since - and has now released Eagle Eye, a book of photographs showcasing Afrobeats' rise from humble beginnings to one of Africa's largest cultural exports.

Afrobeats has its roots in various West African musical genres that became especially popular in the decades that followed independence as the continent began celebrating its freedom from colonial rule.

Highlife, which flourished along the coast from the late 19th Century, became synonymous with Ghana's national identity after independence in 1957 - and was in turn hugely influential on Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. His Afrobeat (minus the "s" movement, which mixed traditional rhythms with funk and jazz, became the sound of the 1970s and 1980s in West Africa.

At the turn of the millennium, this rich cultural heritage fed into Afrobeats, along with a mix of Western pop, rap and dancehall.

It gained further popularity in the UK and North America, where there are large diaspora populations, in particular from Nigeria, where most of the genre's stars came from.

Afrobeats artists began performing to these communities at first in small venues in the early 2010s.

Then it really take off - between 2017 and 2022 Afrobeats experienced 550% growth in streams on Spotify, according to data from the world's most popular streaming service.
This resulted in many of the artists becoming household names around the world, and the musical industry taking note.

It has gone on to include African music in mainstream award ceremonies like the Grammys.

Today these artists easily pack out stadiums like Madison Square Garden in New York - pictured below ahead of Wizkid's performance in 2023.

"Madison Square was a night to remember - the iconic venue illuminated in the colours of the Nigerian flag honouring our homeland," says Drummer.
Drummer was able to take photographs of the musicians as they started out on their global careers.

"I always felt that I was capturing moments with just my eyes. Walking the streets of New York City, I would frame scenes in my mind - people, light, emotion," the photographer says.

"I'd ask myself, how do I translate this mental perspective to reality?"

Gradually, the audience grew and became more international with fans in countries such as China, Germany and Brazil.

Now even non-African musicians are taking up the Afrobeats sound and releasing their own versions, including artists such as Chris Brown, who released Blow My Mind with Davido.

The US singer has also performed with Wizkid in London - as the photo below from 2021 shows.

"I love this picture because when Wizkid brought Chris Brown out at The O2 arena, the place exploded. No-one saw it coming - the energy shifted instantly," says Drummer.

"Shock, excitement and pure electricity. A moment stamped in memory and in history."
Drummer says one of the aims of the photo book is not to just show people what he saw, but to help them feel what he experienced - through his pictures.

It also sometimes reveals the feelings of the superstars in their private moments.

This final picture shows Wizkid backstage on his phone in 2021.

It was "a rare quiet moment", but even in the silence and the calm his presence spoke volumes, says Drummer.



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You be real old school guy. A fist full of dollars
Clint Eastwood was a banger then.

Commentor:
No retreat, no surrender.

For a fist full of dollars.

Don't mind that guy he thinks everybody is like him.

dederocs:
More than money how?

Diddy was not fetish, all those things people are saying are hogwash.

He collected more than money from them too. Drop emotions and think, he was one of my favorite too

His excel Ogbeni live in lagos. Forget money na water.

tabaralph:
The cap in his head never do 🤣🤣, Una just want make this man squander all the wealth he amassed as a governor for 8years and minister for 8years….you are a bad guy🤣🤣

E bi like say na you pay for the crowd. Kwantinue dey shayo, ADC go clear your mind say that firewood wey una keep for Asokoro. Na real OTP.

richie240:
Hehehehehehe....na so una goad gej to oblivion.
You see rented crowd you dey still dey misyarn.

Who the cap fits like him wear it. The cap look good on you ogbeni. Carry dey go.

The way you talk is like you've seen the tape abi.

Caseless:
Those he slept with and reaped? They should stand for someone caught on camera beating a woman?

He's a gay man who organizes gay party for the powerful and, like Epstein, he has their tapes - so they won't allow him to fall like that

I hope you read the article very well there was no rape conviction.

Bonapart:
I wouldn't stand behind a rapist

Such is life. Fake friends everywhere. The moment they see you're in a fix they bail. When they see you flying they start to clap.

Former Manchester United midfielder, Paul Pogba, has revealed what he went through during his 18-month ban from football, saying that people avoided him.

Pogba was handed the doping ban when he was at Juventus and the Serie A club immediately terminated his contract, meaning he had to find a new team upon the conclusion of his suspension.

The French international during an interview with UK website, the Daily Mail, revealed what he went through during his ban and praised his wife for standing by him.

People were avoiding me and my wife. My wife was the one cheering me up during that difficult period,” the 32-year-old said.

“My phone stopped ringing like it used to and people stopped calling me for events. I can’t stop praising my wife for what she did then, even as we had to the the job of co-parenting our children.”

Pogba will return to competitive football action in the 2025/26 season after the World Cup winner joined French Ligue 1 club, AS Monaco a few days ago.



https://guardian.ng/sport/football/people-avoided-me-during-my-ban-pogba/

I get where you're going

but will you swear that puff daddy is not talented

Will you swear that those days you where not buying music lyrics book about puff daddy song.

Juju can make blood money but not talents.

Originalsly:
Don't think you know what goes on behind the scene.

Which video. If there was video evidence where is it. But beware of AI

Kalulu44:
So all the videos of him you see frolicking with men are fake or what?

This your response. Sacrifice their manhood for what now. Not that they are not talented.

Originalsly:
Don't you think it can be because they had to sacrifice their manhood and be sexually abused? There must be reasons why they didn't show support nor show up .... actions speak louder than words.

I agree totally. But one thing will remain constant truth.

MissOpe:
Life is transactional, no amount of emotions and sentiments can change it.....

OK. If you say so.
Time will tell sha.
Ooooooooiiiii

naturefellow:
you're naive.

Donr be in a haste to give opinion on issues you know little or nothing about.

Way overdue. But I doubt if the court orders will be obeyed.

This is APC government where court orders are flautered.

And only baba sope wins.

As a man So if you were told puff daddy is homosexual, you would believe..

safarifarms:
Do you know how he treated them? One of the guys who worked with him and exposed many of his atrocities did so because he won't pay the guy for his work instead wanted to sleep with the guy before paying him.

He assaulted cassie and owned up to it. But that he raped cassie that he didn't do.

Moreover the guy that brought this homosexual angle is a man that needed favor from puff daddy but couldn't get. And started ratting that puff daddy killed Tupac and all what not.

miketayo:
You believe he was accused wrongly, something he owed upto. even before this case started he had publicly apologized to Cassie.
You are only speaking with emotions

The man is obese that's why he doesn't move around. This heading is confusing. The man is in his house nah

Puff daddy any day any time
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Puff daddy any day any time.

Forumites:
Till tomorrow I still call him Puff Daddy. P. Diddy no sweet for mouth. I remember when when Jay Z and Nas(tradamus) Dey drag rap floor. “Hard knocks” and “I know I can”.


Nostalgia wan finish me mehn.

That's the case. Some don't understand. Diddy is a bad boy but not was they are saying.

chidiokay:
That is LIFE, the moment you have problem people will abandon you to your Fate ... the celeb world is even the worst

My prayer for you is that you will not be accused wrongfully. It is soul destroying. Then people that don't know you, people you no dey send because of envy them go reason your matter.

miketayo:
So if your friend is a criminal, you would stand with him, probably cover up his crimes. What about the lives of the people he has destroyed?

Thank you so much. Its a conspiracy to destroy him.

Which musician that is not into sex.

jayce232:
Honestly. The guy contributed a lot to music & made a lot of artists. Almost all the artists in the late 90s to early 2000 were produced by bad boy entertainment.

Bro I can relate. Those where the days sha.
Gen Z will not know what puff daddy stood for.

Guy changed rap from gangster rap to more danceable pop rap

Forumites:
Guy we don take style old oh. See names wey u dey mention.

Excuse me. Did I hear sleep with male, thats to low for puff daddy. If he was homosexual people would have known right from his hay days.

Puff daddy is naughty by nature as In he sleeps with different girls and them groupies. It's because they consented at that material time.

But the conspiracy angle that he trafficked girls was bullshit.

I can still remember Diddys halftime show in Newyork, some girls where dancing with their Bra off. Did he force them to do that.

northbird:
He's a pervert. He has never helped any artist for free. What in the name of God will make you sleep with male artistes? Yuck.... Even animals do better..

You cant satisfy everyone no matter what. How ever good you are, people will say you're bad.

Some business partners will want you to split profit 50 50 with them but forget that without a good manager there can be no talent.

grandstar:
Are you a stranger in Jerusalem? Many accuse him of sexual and financial exploitation. He is alleged to have preyed on both males and females. Is Burna going to stand behind him, or is it Justin Beiber?