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May God help us

I just saw on CNN the Italian is a woman, which one is correct now, or are they two now ni?

malabioni:
Are you that hypnotized by this Pipul TV bullshit that you failed to smell their stupidity. Pipul TV are not the direct owner of any of the stations. So there for, it requires internet to stream. The only way your theory is even possible is if 9mobile allow meshing on there network which I doubt and second Pipul TV now decided to rebroadcast each and every station trough 9mobile network of mesh. Then compile it and broadcast all station trough 9mobile. Yes this will work but like we all know 9mobile is not a mesh network. So your statement is wrong. Even 9mobile pays for the network it distribute.

I may or may not agree with all you've been saying, but I definitely agree with you that the statement @nairalandbuzz made about the content been on Etisalat's server is very wrong.

Ok

bestpunterever:
this whole thing will be ended as a scam, thing is corrently freezing like mad..money has gone just like that

, It's working here though probably your internet, and about the scam part only time will define if that's going to be true or not .

cashflowpc:
We are working on it. Thanks

What I am having issues with right now is you guys sustainability though, l am still trying to figure out how you plan to make up your running costs currently.

bestpunterever:
why are you postin fake picture?
just answer that

like i fucking said, it's not fake picture

malabioni:
Of Cause IPTV is real but even all resellers out there are selling at $10 to 25$ per month. But the problem is it is illegal streaming. Because you are offering people unlicensed content. Pipul TV is Illegal content IpTV service, to partner with the likes of 9Mobile is quite unreal. To get license to stream all sport station is not naira kind of money it cost millions of dollars so I know it’s not possible all that they are saying because I offer same service with 4000 station over 162 sport stations latest movies and series but I know I’m just a reseller and not the license owner which means it can shut down anytime that’s why I have client do monthly sub and download the app only rather than selling box. But I gotta give it to them by now they have made 9million and no sub has been issued out yet isn’t it strange lol.

Well they must have some kinda license, if not there's no way they would've gotten this far to actually launching a box with having any issues legally so far, with the kinda move and attention they are trying to pull.

malabioni:
And to top this if there is truly any partnership going on with Pipul TV and 9mobile I think it would have been posted somewhere online or something. Or even from 9mobile themself. You guys have to be real with yourself. When you get 9mobile sim did they tell you which sub to get to connect lol it is well Just like MMM it takes time to realize the scam.

Well I sure know the CEO wouldn't say he has partnership if he didnt, but yeah am waiting for how they are gonna pull the 9mobile data stuff, though have seen and tested the IPTV, and that works, what remains now is the data from 9mobile

bestpunterever:
posting fake pictures that may tempt desperate prospective subscribers to pay through you when general subscription on pipul tv is not ready.

Like I never asked, and will never request that, like I stated earlier I don't work for PipulTv, plus the only way you can subscribe is via the webbsite online, don't let anyone delude you otherwise

georgee:
Fake pix...


Ur boss said subscription has nt started

Have got no boss, and I don't work for pipultv, and that's not fake pics

bestpunterever:
He is trying to scam people

And how am I doing that,

georgee:
Have u started watching or still same story of goal post shifting

Yes I have,

ok

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lolz, funny

nice

hmm

I have often asked myself why we always want to be stars. There are different reasons with different people. They all however boil down to the same thing as they all have to do with self.

We want to have a good life
We want to have more money than we can spend and buy the best things life has to offer.
We want to me admired and worshipped by people all over the place.
We want to be famous and be recognized everywhere we show up.
We want more and better sex, and musical videos tell us stardom will give us that.
We want to come out of poverty and obscurity and into wealth.
We want to become rich and influential and help people.

(I know every man will like to deny the sex part. I hear you but it sits in the core of what we seek when we want to be known and adored especially in our youth. We envy the musical stars the half=clad beauties that flaunt their sexuality in videos. That’s for another day.)

The bottom line is that we want to achieve some measure of wealth and fame. Now is time to ask yourself if the things you expect of superstardom are really available. Most of the time, we don’t want to consider this. We say, ‘let me get there first and then we can discuss that’ or simply, ‘we will cross that bridge when we reach it’. Truth is there is also the other side that needs to be managed and that is managing your emotions and determination when you are not getting superstardom.

I recall when in University of Benin, I ventured into stand-up comedy. There were always a lot of events that needed MCs and good speakers were not in short supply. There was an edge needed to make one special and I had it. So I anchored a few programmes and became an instant star. I enjoyed it at first but it soon began to irritate me. I was losing my identity. In order to remain the new superstar me, I had to do what was expected of me by my ‘fans’. The status dictated where I should go or eat and who I should be with and what I ought to wear. Even the girls you would have expected would flock around you will not be the type you need. I recall that the one person I liked told me that I was a star and that there were too many girls. She didn’t want to be a statistic. I did all I could to persuade her that the star thing was outside of me but to no avail. It was annoying. I eased myself out of the game.

Years after, I used the same talents in church and it was an instant hit. Again i had challenges. I was losing seriousness as people barely took me seriously even in serious meetings. Before i even said a word into the microphone, people were already laughing. Wetin? So I made up my mind. I have only deployed part of that talent as a teaching method and used it to keep my classes alive and pass serious messages without offending the listeners.

So here are the big questions. If it is about superstardom, why is Whitney Houston dead and her daughter Bobby Kristina with her? Both dead from drugs! It is sad but somehow, in spite of having everything, everything was not quite enough. The list is long both in Nigeria and outside of people who could not manage their status. George Best (football), Amy Winehouse (music) died of alcohol poisoning, Majek Fashek (music) said to have lost it all to drugs and rescued by friends, Marilyn Monroe (Movies), Brenda Fasie (Music) died from drug-related brain damage, Oscar Pistorious (athletics) shot his girlfriend to death and claimed he thought it was an intruder, Etim Esin (football) his football career crashed after he was accused of rape, Michael Jackson (music)bankrupt, Evander Holyfield (Boxing) bankrupt, MC Hammer (Music) bankrupt, Mike Tyson (Boxing) bankrupt, ex-convict or rape and not allowed into some countries, Kurt Hening (Mr Perfect –wrestling)died of drug overdose at 44, Chris Benoit (Wrestling) said to have murdered his wife and child before taking his own life…. Like I said, the list is long and all of them tell us for certain that there is more to being a superstar than the glitz and glitter we see on television. Otherwise, why would superstars commit suicide or murder their spouses? Oh go ahead and shock yourself. Google it and see for yourself. Some of the names you could go for if you choose to Brett Butler, Anthony Ciccone and Madonna, Fantasia, Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Nicholas Cage, Willie Aames, Burt Reynolds, Mike Tyson, Sly Stone, Cory Haim….And do you know why I am not mentioning Nigerian names much? They are too many to count and their stories too pathetic …..and you know them yourself.

There are loads and loads of young people seeking to become famous for music and dance as well as football, basketball and other sports. This is why the traffic is crazy at Project Fame, Ultimate Search and Nigerian Idol for instance. After auditioning, they show us clips of people who totally messed up at the auditing. We find some who have not been fortunate enough to have someone tell them they can’t sing. Or perhaps they were told but did not listen. Could even be there is the voice of one motivational speaker ringing in their ears telling them they can fly without wings or learning to. In all, we have bleary-eyed youths in their thousands seeking the few spaces available to tomorrow’s superstars. Knowing the Nigerian factor, if there are twenty spaces on the offer, it really will not be up to twenty up for grabs by merit. This is the point where I part ways with the many students who want to be stars or who are already campus stars.

Recently, I was reluctant to work with my students who wanted to be part of the fad called Fashion Meets Music. Of all the students who showed interest, only one was stable academically. I felt it would amount to further distraction to share the minimal attention going to academics with something else. I asked my friend and my student Sugar,

“Why not Fashion or Music Meets Education or Academics?” Education in fact drives fashion and music.

Sugar knows when not to argue. I can guarantee that she understands what I am saying but I cannot guarantee that she agrees with my position. And what is my position? Since only one percent or less of people who seek fame and fortune in music make it there, young people have to have a back-up plan. Again, since only a percentage of those who make it to superstardom earn and retain their money over the years, there has to be a plan to which one can fall back if anything were to go wrong. We read that Akeem Olajuwon suspended his basketball career to go to school otherwise he would be ‘all brawn and no brains’ like some are wont to mock the black sports stars. Or are you hearing this for the first time? Yes, when you are all muscles or speed and you have no education or proven intelligence, they call you “all brawn (muscles) and no brain”! That’s why people like Jay Z are highly acclaimed. On the flip side, there are hundreds and hundreds of former superstars who are either in jail, out of jail and broken, doing menial jobs or just groping from club to club high on drugs and waiting to die.

For indeed there is nothing worse than having been up there and no longer having capacity or welcome to come up there again. Here’s my counsel.

“Grab your books and make sense so you can have something to fall back on when things are not going well. It’s simple, you must have something that sustains you while you wait to be a star. You must have something to fall on back on because superstardom is a bitch. It comes back to bite hard at people who burn up all the ropes in search of it and people who fail to manage it. In one sentence, I encourage you to pursue your dreams but I also encourage you to acquire skill and education while you are at it. You never truly know.

While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old undergrad of University of Port-Harcourt. Shagari was 54 years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was 17. Yemi Osinbajo was 22. The generation of the likes of Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo, Ifeanyi Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Garba Nadama, Awal Ibrahim and so on has gone for good! Some of us in our 40s and 50s, when in school, either in the university or secondary school, had lofty dreams, both personal and societal. We were always motivated by nationalists and inventors who had impacted positively on the cause of humanity. We were voracious readers of novels and other books. Nelkon for our Ordinary Level Physics, Lambert for Chemistry, B.O ADELEKE and Goh Cheng Leong for our Geography, Phebean Ogundipe for Practical English and others like that. We were always flaunting our knowledge of current affairs. Inter-school quiz competition was the in-thing. Fast forward 35 years on and you are shocked and disturbed. Have you ever spoken to or engaged a 20 year-old boy? Ask him what motivates him and he is likely to mention music, hip hop to be precise. He has hundreds of downloaded songs on his phone. He can sing all of them off hand. He know all the singles of Nice, Neato C, Timaya, Davido, Whiz Kid off had. But he does not know anything about history of nationalism in the country. Ideas about good society, responsible family and good conduct do not motivate him. He just wants to make money because his friend who does yahoo is rich and rides a good car, an SUV! The things that interest him are things that do not add value. He has google but never uses it for advancement of knowledge but to download porn and other inanities. Yet, in TWENTY years time, they are the ones that will be contesting to become governors, senators, Reps members and even president. They belong to a generation that does not care about morality. They belong to a generation that is motivated only by money and its acquisition. By 2035 to 2040, they will be our senators, Reps, governors and so on. I wonder if we have ever spared a thought how this country will look like under them. I told a man recently and these are my words: IF A GUY WHO IS IN LAGOS COULD USE FALSE PRETENCE TO OBTAIN $20,000 FROM SOMEONE IN UNITED STATES, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF SUCH A GUY BECOMES A STATE GOVERNOR AND IS IN CHARGE OF AN ALLOCATION HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE TO OBTAIN UNDER FALSE PRETENCE? WHICH HIS STATE IS STATUTORILY ENTITLED TO. I am worried, deeply worried. Are you?

ISSUE # 5:
THE YORUBA-SPEAKING SOCIETY AND THESE SONGS
What I will say here may offend you but if it is true, hit the roof alone and come back down. When I say the Yoruba-speaking community, I do not mean Yoruba people strictly. I mean everyone who speaks and revels in the beauty and wealth of the language irrespective of where they are from. The Hausa have mature songs but their societies are not permissive enough to allow these songs to openly thrive and threaten the sanity of their children. Calabar people are said to be promiscuous. We hardly know songs that propagate this, except of course those ethnic contraptions by KC Presh. I do not think anyone has found them significant enough to bother to translate them. The Edo are culture-bound and God help you if you sing obscenities in Edo, Ishan, or Urhobo. The Igbo society loves songs. But when I spend vacations there I am amazed that songs like ‘Yori Yori’ and ‘Ada Owerri’ do not get anything you could really call airplay. Even Phyno is popular with club-goers and is not getting the Olamide reception. The mind set there is culture and religion bound. Even M. C Logh’s jazzed up version of Osadebey’s ‘Osondi Owendi’ is offensive for some. So what goes on air? More of traditional music and gospel music in English and Igbo as well as classics. I still hear Mary McKee, Don Williams, K C and the Sunshine Band, Manhattans, Abba, Smokey, Majek Fashek and Bongos Ikwue. I am not saying they do not play new songs or hip-hip. I am saying they do not come anywhere near ruling the airwaves.
Here in the South West, I commend their love for their own traditional genres: juju, apala, fuji, senwele, etc. But the airwaves belong to the younger artistes. I also find that of all Nigerian languages, Yoruba is the easiest to fuse with hip-hop, makossa and reggae. Zaki and Darey Art Alade have done songs in Hausa with varying levels of success. This is very difficult to accomplish in Igbo which flows more naturally with highlife. And of all the Nigerian societies, there is none more inundated with this scourge of lewd music than the Yoruba speaking areas. Skin me if you want but that is what I have found. The question I ask is this. Why do we sit back and allow this to happen? Why do we then get mad when someone steps up to clean the mess? For Lagos governor, Raji Fashola said, ‘don’t display pornography on the street of Lagos’. He did not say don’t buy, acquire, borrow or watch. Is it too hard for us to say, listen to whatever you want but don’t bring into the open ANYTHING, ANYTHING, ANYTHING, ANYTHING that has the potential or suggestiveness to compromise the innocence of the younger generation. Is it too hard?
ISSUE # 4: IS THIS A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE?
Some would ask, ‘is this about Christianity?’. I will answer no. There is gospel music as a genre and there is Christian music. If you didn’t know, now you know. This is not judgemental; it is only based on the expectation of the Christian community of the people they allow to minister to them. Let me say it again. The Christian community allows for anyone that wants to sing Gospel to do so. Beyonce, Elvis Prestley, Kenny Rogers, Boney M, Whitney Houston, Dolly Patton and so many others have recorded Christmas albums. They have a right to do so. But they are not doing the Christians any favour that the latter would ever acknowledge. They may not even play the songs. Why so? Because the Christian community expects some more from people THEY ALLOW TO MINISTER TO THEM. This is why they appear to judge musicians. Every time someone rises, and Christians support him, the integrity of Christianity is at stake and Christians see it as their responsibility to support the singer (who is also a minister) and help him/her to live what he/she sings. This is the reason artistes like Kenny St Brown, Bouqui, (and who was that who sang Lele), Tunde and Wunmi Obey, Yinka Ayefele, Oritz Wiliki, Jeremiah Gyan, Beenie Man etc are considered singers in the Gospel genre but are hardly invited to sing in Christian concerts (except of course the ones organized by their churches). They will be in Kennis Music Easter Jam but will not be in a Gospel Revival or Crusade. Now forget that thing Kennis Music does at the Beach at Easter. That is also why Kenny St Brown finds her audience in Clubs as her videos would show.

Let me ask. Korede Bello’s song, “Na Godwin” is currently rocking the airwaves. But is it gospel? Yes as a genre but no as Christian music. It has more appeal in the clubs and bars than in praise worship in church. Compare it’s impact on the Christian community with Midnight Crew’s “Igwe” and tell me what you think.

Ask yourself which names come to mind when you plan a Christian concert. Here are a few: Midnight Crew, Infinity, Buchi, Eben (who many of us do not know), and Lara George. In the Christmas of 2010, Cool FM’s Praise Jams featured Ron Kenoly. Now they are asking people to call in and say who they want. If I called in, I would ask for Ray Boltz, Phil Driscoll, Fred Hammond, Israel Houghton, Kirk Franklin, or Nicole Mullen. Call in and say Beyonce and see the response you get.
This is not about Christianity but if it is what helps us to protect the younger generation, then let it be about Christianity.
Finally, listening to the song ‘Oliver Twist’, these are my standpoints

There is nothing special about the song, there is nothing striking or novel about it. It is just like the tepid movie District ( that Dora Akunyili made noise about and helped boost its sale in Nigeria
Three minutes and fifty-seven seconds of something pleasant to the ears, that sounded more like swing than what Nigerians would usually dance to. But it is still Dbanj! DJs will play it because it is Dbanj. If I played it as a DJ, I would play it out of compassion. It might just sound wonderful to other listeners, let’s not forget.

3. It disses someone. It might be difficult to say if it is Omotola. He does say someone’s yansh is bigger, and does also say he likes Omotola because people like her. It comes down hard on the person he is dissing. He may want to explain that himself. I wouldn’t know who among the persons he mentioned has the ‘bigger’ bottom. Each time I see them on TV, I concentrate on their faces. Wherever Dbanj is looking is his headache.

It is structurally deficient, because it misrepresents Oliver Twist both as a novel and as a character. This is problematic for a generation that has forgotten how to read and depends on hear-say. Somewhere in the minds of the kids, Oliver Twist will now become some sort of Casanova. Dbanj’s confession is that he likes and wants all these women (Beyonce, Rihanna, Omotola, Genevieve,Toyin Buari) which makes him an Oliver Twist for wanting more and them all, even though ‘I know it’s wrong’. On a personal note, if he says he secretly longs for them all, he only speaks his emotions. If he is Roman Catholic, it is a new dimension in Confessions.
By extension, let me tell you the damage by way of analogies.

Example #1
(‘The evil that men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones’- Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar. )
Nigerians often say, ‘the evil that men do live with them’. This is not nearly what the text means. It must be interpreted in full. Caesar was dead, murder by his foes among whom was his bosom friend Brutus. Mark Anthony only meant that when a man dies, only the evil he did is remembered by people. The good he did are buried with his bones.’ Does that come close to what you have always read?

Example #2
(‘The end justifies the means.’ Machiavelli in The Prince.)
This passage is often interpreted to mean that whatever means you used to get a thing is justified, as long as you have got it. Although this is an accurate interpretation, the writer meant the exact opposite. His message to the Prince is that the means MUST justify what you get. If the means is armed robbery, your end, the jeep CANNOT be justified by the fact thqt you now have it.

So let us do damage control next.
Please tell the children that Oliver did not want more sex of female company. He only wanted more food to keep from starving. Older listeners may understand what Dbanj was inferring but please let us not compromise the younger generation.
As for the ban, if it is for reason of big yansh, then it is only a ruse aimed at selling the record.
Are you still there?

Did D’banj read Oliver Twist or someone told him the story?

I heard when NBC banned Dbanj’s song. I was asking myself if it was a ban or a gimmick or for real. Then I saw it in the newspapers and I was thinking to myself ‘I know these people are retards, but are they this retarded? In writing this, I really do not care whether it meets you well or not. I do not care if your hero is bashed. I just want to talk and I am almost sure you will not read this through to the end.
I will begin by saying that I have heard the song. Halfway through this work, I will stop and hear the song yet again. I do this because I want to capture my exact emotions before and after. First thing is that I am not sold out to any of these performers. I listen to some songs and I actually like some. That is not the issue here. Majority of the songs are the same beat with varied idiotic rants.
The issue is that some people are pretending that they have just woken up to the permissive society we have created for ourselves and the generations following us. We often claim that the youths of today are slaves of Facebook and Twitter, Brazilian hair and Blackberry Messenger. What we are not saying is that the teenagers in our homes have no way of affording these things we abhor. We are the ones financing them. And we turn around and cry when they fail SSCE. NBC has always been there and they have often come out to ban songs. It is not a Nigerian phenomenon. I recall the songs of American band 2LiveCrew. Some of their songs were banned in the USA. I recall also Paul Hardcastle whose song about Vietnam War was banned because of these lines,

‘In America, the average age of a combat soldier was 26, in Vietnam it was 19.’

In Nigeria, I recall that Zulezoo’s song ‘Kerewa’ was banned for being too suggestive even when the song condemned adultery in the lines, ‘two people wey God join together, na adultery na im put dem asunder’.

I hear now that 2Shot had a song banned once because of the use of ‘alomo’. Now I have not heard the song. ‘Alomo’ is the name of an alcoholic drink but you can be sure that some twist must have been introduced to the song that would have added to the meaning of the expression and attracted the attention of NBC. That brings us to the first of the issues for discussion.

ISSUE #1: LYRICS:
Many of the singers we hear have a way of creating innuendos. Of all the genres I know, fuji singers are the most mischievous. Virtually everything has an underlying meaning very different from the surface and very obscene. References to oranges (breasts), pestle (penis), mortar (vagina), Bakassi (buttocks), cowbell (breasts), konga (vagina)… the list is endless. When Dbanj showed up on the scene, he introduced ‘koko’ and ‘kokolet(s)’. When the heat built up, he said ‘kokolet’ means beautiful women. I remember reading a piece where he said ‘kokolet meant a beautiful woman like his mother. I cannot vouch that the reporter was quoting him right. If he said that, then it is really unfortunate. Anyone who has been at his show knows that the mannerism that accompanies his mention of ‘koko’ leaves nothing to imagination. He signals to his groin, holding the microphone up like an erect phallus, working his waist forward and backward. This he does as he asks the audience, ‘do you want the koko?’ And the yelling girls go dizzy from replying ‘we want the koko’.

His claim of koko being anything other than the male sex organ is merely a way to get out of the logjam. ‘Koko’ clearly means his penis.
While we were dealing with that, Dagrin (RIP) appeared on the scene and introduced the lines in Yoruba that could be transcribed like this,

‘My Daddy has gone to Lokoja/ will you come play with me/ on the bed or on the rug/ or we could spread a mat,’

and followed with a refrain

‘my mummy is not home, daddy is not home, I am alone at home, come and receive KONDO/ come and see commando’.

The song spread fast. No one was in doubt what he was saying. Even children understood. Then the heat built up and people wanted to know what this meant. On Teju Babyface’s show, Dagrin was asked what KONDO meant; he really had nothing intelligent to say. We do not speak disrespectfully of the dead in Nigeria. But the only people who benefited from the young man’s misfortune when he had the fatal road crash were his colleagues who made collaborations in his honour. Then they began to dedicate every unfortunate contraption they sang to his memory. They just made money. I worry differently for him. I worry about when he stands before God, will he sing Him that song?
But all these really amounted to intros when a new crop of musicians appeared on the scene. We thought we had seen the height of nonsense. Very wrong. A new generation of singers were on the way.

One of them is the pastor’s son called Terry Gee. He has completely re-defined the world of obscenity. In one song, the number of times he mentions ‘obo’ (which is the Yoruba word for vagina) is countless. He has disciples of course. There are other names popular for their use of mind-blowing vulgarity. Damoshe (RIP) at that time and Lil Kesh at this moment. One of the songs from Damochee goes,

‘meji l’onyan, okan l’oko’ (breasts are two, penis is one). An ingenious use of pun which otherwise would mean, ‘you selected two but you took away one’.

Now hear this. Kids sing these songs in front of their helpless parents. This is the musical society we have spawned for ourselves. I am told that the girls love these songs more. There is no point wondering why rape takes the pride of place among these youths? Another singer that takes me to the next issue is the one called St Janet.

ISSUE # 2: PATRONAGE
The songs, when they are released, prey a lot on the curiosity of the listening public. Everything is done to create hype in order to attract attention. When St. Janet debuted, she grabbed attention by distorting age-old Christian songs and rhythms, attaching new lewd meanings to them all. For instance, the Christians sing, ‘O ko mi yo,’ to mean,’ God rescued me’ was twisted it to mean, ‘my penis was exposed/came to view’. Yoruba speakers will better understand the magnitude of damage she does to the psyche of Christian minors as well as the deep-seated disgust genuine Christians feel. Most Christian leaders have wisely ignored her. She has patronage of course. I hear that she was accused of singing bad songs and she responded that people who condemn her listen to the songs. This is true but this still does not justify her. I have sat with colleagues as they enjoyed listening to her. Beyond that, I have had a different thought in my mind. Notice that much of her creative energy is directed at Christian songs. This will not make the Muslim listener feel threatened or insulted. I am wondering. What if those songs were patterned after popular Islamic songs and rhythms. Ha! Okay, you get the picture. I doubt if she would not be hiding for her life by now.

ISSUE #3

Radio stations in Nigeria play disgusting songs. I am listening to some now on radio and the presenter is yelling out ‘club mix, club mix’. I am wondering, why is he playing them on public radio with minors listening? Many of the videos we see on TV are hopeless. I particularly wonder about the women and all their noise about ‘dignity of the woman’. There appears nothing wrong in the case of musicals where women are more than half-naked and dancing with over-dressed male artistes. You do not see the idiocy in this until you imagine a female artiste singing fully dressed with boys wearing only pants dancing for her. When is this going to happen? Why do we do sex-dance for kids with all the shaking of buttocks and the suggestive actions? General Obasanjo once invited Awillo Lagunba to a state event with girls who danced like the devil was their father. I wondered why they would be called to do those dance steps and sing words we do not understand. At a state sponsored event! Then we also hosted Brenda Fassie. We love her no doubt. Her popular song, which she brought us, we did not understand. Interpreted, it meant ‘leave me alone to live my life. The life she spoke about resulted in her sniffing cocaine that they suspected had been tampered with. She died of brain damage.

Hear what the artiste Ruggedman is reported to have said in The Vanguard (Friday, September 2, 2011). ‘The truth is that the person that banned this song will hear this song till he is sick of it. He will hear it at almost every party he goes to. He will hear it from the cars that will drive past him. He will hum the melody even in his sleep. He’ll probably record his own version of the Oliver Twist video sef. Lol. He is doing his job, so let us allow him to exercise his power. It’s allowed. God bless him and his hustle. No long thing.’

Now, how you react to this tells you how deranged you are. Ruggedman tells you it does not matter what you think. He cares nothing about the family values you are trying to protect and enthrone in your home. Do this, replace the person who banned this song with the names of your kids and see what he is telling you. Whatever you like, do. I hear Dbanj says, ‘they don’t hawk garri but people buy it’. I cannot vouch for the authenticity. He may not have said it but it sure captures what they care about you and your wife and your effort to protect your children. Beyond Oliver Twist, they do not care if they twist your life or those of your children.

ISSUE # 3: REACTIONS
Of course, Nigerians have opinions. One of the opinions is what you are reading. That is if you have not become angry and gone off to something more attractive. We have a way of citing other examples of stink when the one we enjoy is squashed. People ask ‘what about this person, what about that person?’ One Adio Idowu commented on the Vanguard article.

He said, ‘Is it only this song d@t ‘ny@sh’ is mentioned, y r we m@king issue of this fu**, w@t e we going 2 s@y of terry g nd@ll oder @rtiste song. 4 me NBC is losing it’.

This is exactly how he typed it. Now, we will forget his horrid language and focus on his message. He is saying, if we cannot do anything about all of them, we should let them be. I would have bought this but I did not grow up in the gutter.

One Samuel Otu said, ‘what did you tink of this banned?’

Now, who was asking why they do not pass English at SSCE?

One Ogoliegbune says, ‘To be honest, I have heard that song a million times and don’t see any reason it should be banned. Joblessness.’

But Zlurene has a different response from Ogoliegbune. Says, ‘Thank God some of our leaders have enough presence of mind to recognize the level of decadence in our entertainment industry. Let other sectors take a cue.’

The question I ask you is, who would you let into your house to interact with your kids, Ogoliegbune or Zlurene?

One Opeyemi Ahmed is more dismissive. Says, ‘My people to candid with you what dbanj has done is rubbish. He can’t sing a good song.’

This is just one forum and people would like to defend their blocs and constituencies. However, these comments are useful because they give insights to the thought and sensibilities of the people who listen to the songs. You might now wonder. What did he actually say in that song that is causing the furore?

The newspaper reporter who wrote the article in The Vanguard (Adekunle Aliyu) says, ‘The video musical by Dbanj made mention of Omotola Jolade’s buttocks in his new song ‘I like Omotola, her y*nsh is bigger’. Of course Omotola’s fans expect her, if Dbanj was really talking about her, to fire back at him. If she does, it would only be Season 3 and certainly not the finale. Well, let us not forget that Dbanj worked for PDP during the election. Jonathan called him a youth ambassador. Jonathan also called South West leaders in ACN ‘rascals’. His mentor, the General Olusegun Obasanjo (former military Head of State and former Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander of all Armed and Unarmed forces; as well as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ruling PDP and holder of a Diploma, or is it a degree, in Theology from NOUN) called the General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (Former Military President and former Commander in Chief of Armed and Unarmed Forces and the man who helped get OBJ out of prison, dusted him up and installed him President) a fool at 70. So why should it surprise anyone if Dbanj was talking about Omotola’s butts?

Your reaction is yours and you can write a rejoinder to this. But only bear in mind that there is more at stake than music. The damage done by the song ‘Yahooze’ by Olu Maintain is still felt by travellers who encounter foreigners who see the song as institutionalizing ‘Advance Fee Fraud’. This is not helped by the song “Maga don pay, shout halleluyah’ by Kelly Handsone. And then Orezi crowned it with “Won ti sanwo” (They have paid), all the songs celebrating rewards from fraud.

It got bad among the ones who understood the damage they were doing and Cobhams and some others had to come up with a song to counter it. They released ‘Maga No Need Pay’ when Kennis Music-sponsored Kelly Handsome came up with “Maga don pay, shout halleluyah’. Was it also not Kennis Music that sponsored ‘Yahooze’? The fact that NBC kept mute over these damaging songs is why some people feel there is bias. NBC banned ‘Konga’ by Konga but did nothing about Dbanj’s where he blatantly says,

‘every night she’s sucking me, every night she’s fucking me … koko yato si koko’.

Some people will say that is not what he said but we know what we hear. Akon had a song in two versions. One is played only in clubs with adults and the other is for open play. In the former, he says,

‘I wanna love you love you, you already know.’

In the club version, he sings,

‘ I wanna Bleep you, Bleep you, you already know’.

In Nigeria, we play the club version for kids. The question I want to ask is, must the dementia of a few persons be allowed to hold children to ransom?

Let’s leave all that and come closer to today’s music. Lil Kesh does not see what is wrong with vulgar lyrics. When his song ‘gbese’ was banned, he had this to say, according to http://pronaijamusic.com/index.php/2015/09/18/lil-kesh-explains-why-he-embraces-vulgar-lyrics-in-his-music-2/

“I don’t see anything vulgar in ‘Gbese’ but I appreciate the ban after the song had blown, I could remember they banned ‘Shoki’ also when even JSS 2 students had it on their phones so their ban doesn’t make any difference but more controversy and putting my name out there again so no wahala”.

Now, if that was not vulgar, how about his song “Ladi” which means to ‘suck vagina’?

Here are part of the lyric, the part by Lil Kesh.

[Lil Kesh Verse]
Emi Keshi ehnn baba shoki ehnn
kima ladi, kima Jedi ehnn kima mudi ehn.. wah wah
Emi Keshi ehnn baba shoki ehnn
kima ladi, kima Jedi ehnn kima mudi ehn.. Kima ehn ehn
Iranu abasha iranu abasha iranu abasha iranu abasha
iranu abasha iranu abasha iranu abasha iranu abasha
Na ija lyrics zone dot com
Olurun… jeje mi jeje mi mo joko si’ta
mo bari omo kan to’n pe ni kemi
nigba ti mo ri idi kemi Mo pariwo ahhh!
Mo ni Kemi wa se o ma femi.. ehh
She say kesh so you want to sample me [Sample me]
Are you sure that you can handle me [handle me]
Skibo, wait are you kidding me?
So you mean you want to ri idi mi
O gbe idi soke mo de fa poran jade
Nigba to mo ko fun owa ki mi kare
She say this your thing it is big o jawe
Ejo mi ko, oluwa lo da mi lare
Leyin to je banana nana
Me i now want yash her yash her
She say lick my pulet pulet i say kai abasha basha

If you don’t speak Yoruba, please do not ask anyone to interpret these words for you. You will hurt yourself.

The more saddening part is that Phyno and Olamide are part of that song, consenting and contributing. Hear again how Lil Kesh defends his song,

“They are singles not an album, I know the kind of market am directing my songs to, am from the streets, I know what the people from the street want to listen to. A normal conductor on the street can be vulgar for 24hours so to catch his attention you need to study the kind of life he lives. Whichever way, all that is going to change before people tag me vulgar they should wait for my album that is expected to drop towards the end of the year. I have very positive songs.

Now, how about that?

Now you get the message. Some of the songs your children sing and internalize are not meant for them. They are songs that add nothing to them but wears down the wall o resistance against immorality. They ‘unteach’ the things you would have loved them to learn and which you may have put in so much to teach and uphold. Many parents have been shocked to their bones to see the kind of dance their young daughters did at their birthday parties. We hanve had man and wife look at each other, their eyes asking the same question, “when did this happen?” and feeling quite betrayed by whoever had the more charge over the girl.

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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” – Christopher Morley"

This post simply does not need any introduction or further explanation. Reading is good and everybody should be doing it, no matter how busy or occupied you are, irregardless of your age. Happy reading!

1. Stimulates the Mind / Exercises the Brain – Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia, since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it or lose it” is particularly apt when it comes to your mind.

2. Reduces Stress – No matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story. A well-written novel can transport you to other realms, while an engaging article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.

3. Improves Knowledge – Everything you read fills your head with new bits of information, and you never know when it might come in handy. The more knowledge you have, the better-equipped you are to tackle any challenge you’ll ever face. Additionally, here’s a bit of food for thought: should you ever find yourself in dire circumstances, remember that although you might lose everything else-your job, your possessions, your money, even your health-knowledge can never be taken from you.

4. Greater Vocabulary – The more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll inevitably make their way into your everyday vocabulary. Being articulate and well-spoken is of great help in any profession, and knowing that you can speak to higher-ups with self-confidence can be an enormous boost to your self-esteem. It could even aid in your career, as those who are well-read, well-spoken, and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly (and more often) than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific breakthroughs, and global events. Reading books is also vital for learning new languages, as non-native speakers gain exposure to words used in context, which will ameliorate their own speaking and writing fluency.

5. Improves Memory – When you read a book, you have to remember an assortment of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history, and nuances, as well as the various arcs and sub-plots that weave their way through every story. That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are marvellous things and can remember these things with relative ease. Amazingly enough, every new memory you create forges new synapses (brain pathways)and strengthens existing ones, which assists in short-term memory recall as well as stabilizing moods. How cool is that?

6. Better Analytical Thinking Skills – Have you ever read an amazing mystery novel, and solved the mystery yourself before finishing the book? If so, you were able to put critical and analytical thinking to work by taking note of all the details provided and sorting them out to determine “whodunnit”. That same ability to analyze details also comes in handy when it comes to critiquing the plot; determining whether it was a well-written piece, if the characters were properly developed, if the storyline ran smoothly, etc. Should you ever have an opportunity to discuss the book with others, you’ll be able to state your opinions clearly, as you’ve taken the time to really consider all the aspects involved.

7. Improved Focus and Concentration – In our internet-crazed world, attention is drawn in a million different directions at once as we multi-task through every day. In a single 5-minute span, the average person will divide their time between working on a task, checking email, chatting with a couple of people (via gchat, skype, etc.), keeping an eye on twitter, monitoring their smartphone, and interacting with co-workers. This type of ADD-like behaviour causes stress levels to rise, and lowers our productivity. When you read a book, all of your attention is focused on the story-the rest of the world just falls away, and you can immerse yourself in every fine detail you’re absorbing. Try reading for 15-20 minutes before work (i.e. on your morning commute, if you take public transit), and you’ll be surprised at how much more focused you are once you get to the office.

8. Better Writing Skills – This goes hand-in-hand with the expansion of your vocabulary: exposure to published, well-written work has a noted effect on one’s own writing, as observing the cadence, fluidity, and writing styles of other authors will invariably influence your own work. In the same way that musicians influence one another, and painters use techniques established by previous masters, so do writers learn how to craft prose by reading the works of others.

9. Brings Inner Peace & Tranquility – In addition to the relaxation that accompanies reading a good book, it’s possible that the subject you read about can bring about immense inner peace and tranquility. Reading spiritual texts can lower blood pressure and bring about an immense sense of calm, while reading self-help books has been shown to help people suffering from certain mood disorders and mild mental illnesses.

10. Cheap Entertainment – Though many of us like to buy books so we can annotate them and dog-ear pages for future reference, they can be quite pricey. For low-budget entertainment, you can visit your local library and bask in the glory of the countless tomes available there for free. Libraries have books on every subject imaginable, and since they rotate their stock and constantly get new books, you’ll never run out of reading materials. If you happen to live in an area that doesn’t have a local library, or if you’re mobility-impaired and can’t get to one easily, most libraries have their books available in PDF or ePub format so you can read them on your e-reader, iPad, or your computer screen. There are also many sources online where you can download free e-books, so go hunting for something new to read!

11. Improves Listening Skills – What parent doesn’t want their child to be a good listener? The experience of being read to helps children develop good listening skills by keying them into the components of language. Through reading they learn to recognize phonemes (the sound building blocks of language), learn new words to add to their oral vocabularies and connect written words to their real world applications.

12. Builds Early Literacy Skills – Before a child can read independently she must have phonemic awareness and a basic understanding of phonics. Phonemic awareness or the understanding that words are made up of distinct sounds that affect their meaning is the precursor to reading. Reading aloud to your child is one of the main ways to help him develop phonemic awareness. Beyond this, in order to read, a person must understand that there is a connection between letters and sounds. Without this knowledge letters are just squiggles on a page! When you read with your child she learns that print is a representation of the words you say aloud. Repeated experiences with reading allow this understanding to grow. The single greatest factor in a child’s ability to read is early experiences being read aloud to.

13. Aids in Pre-school / Kindergarten – In this day and age children are expected to come into kindergarten with a strong knowledge base. Today’s kindergarteners are expected to enter the classroom on day one with a knowledge of upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, the ability to recognize basic shapes and colors and the ability to count to ten. Reading books tailored towards youngsters with your child helps them develop these important and necessary skills.

14. Start Young, Start Early – Generally, the more time you are exposed to something and the more time you spend practicing it, the better you’ll become at performing it. This is absolutely true for reading. Research shows that children who have repeatedly been exposed to books from birth generally exhibit strong reading abilities.

15. Improves Academic Performance – There is a strong correlation between a child’s ability to read and her academic performance. Because so much of our schooling relies on our abilities to read, children must have strong reading skills to succeed and thrive in school. [Source]
Improves Earning Potential and More Likely to Be Financially Stable – For every year that a person spends reading (either independently or being read aloud to), his/her lifetime earning potential goes up considerably. For a time investment of approximately 87 hours a year (20 minutes a day for 5 days a week), you can increase your child’s ability to support him or herself in the future considerably.

16. Improves Relationships – Because we are busy it is difficult to have “quality” one-on-one time with our children without distractions. Building 20 minutes into each day for reading together provides this important bonding time. There is nothing more wonderful than snuggling a young child on your lap while reading a few storybooks aloud. Even if your child is beyond the “snuggling” stage, spending 20 minutes reading independently provides you with quiet, uninterrupted time together engaged in the same activity.

17. Greater Empathy – A good fiction book will help you have more empathy. A University in the Netherlands found that when you put yourself emotionally into a story you’ll have higher level of empathy – understanding of others emotions.

18. Become Sexier – Reading is the new sexy. A recent study by Prokosch found that after physical appearance intelligence is one of the most attractive qualities. So, keep on reading and go to class. A study recently confirmed the belief that being (or appearing) smart makes you more attractive to others. In fact, it’s one of the sexiest traits in the eyes of a majority of women.

19. Become More Interesting – People who met Theodore Roosevelt were impressed at his ability to hold a conversation about any conceivable topic. How did he do it? Through devouring books. When you read alot you’ll have more perspective and understanding, you’ll become one of those extremely interesting people.

20. Keep Yourself Updated – These days what was cutting edge 5 years ago is now old school. If you want to stay at the top of your industry and crush it, reading the latest books is important. Through reading you can learn anything.

21. Be More Successful – Research has shown that the more you read, the smarter you become, and that reading directly affects a child’s intellectual development.

22. Improves a child’s probability of staying in school – One of the main reason why children drop out of school these days is due to the lack of academic performance. With poor results, sources of motivation are hard to come by, giving reasons for them to quit and search for different avenues to pursue their dreams. Reading improves knowledge and trains one to be better at things that one aspires to excel at – with this a foundation can be established to build the confidence that they need to fully experience the education that they deserve. One study confirmed that children who read for pleasure do far better at school. Readers not only made more progress in vocabulary and spelling but also math.

23. Don’t Get Left Out – Almost everything anyone is ever talking about stems from a book, or an idea that was rooted in one. The reward comes from having read through the same lines that someone else has and recognizing in their words a path that you’ve already tread. It becomes your own because your take on the story is guaranteed to be individual, making your experience all the richer and all the more personal to you.
24. Be Wherever You Want, Whenever You Want – Reading about something is as close as you can get to actually being there without actually being there. A contrarian might suggest he’d rather have adventures than read about them, and that sticking your nose in a book is no substitute for getting your hands dirty. It’s a fair point, but some of us are saddled with responsibilities that keep us from sailing the Indian Ocean with a disgraced young lord looking for redemption, or walking the Parisian underworld between the wars, looking for women and enough money to pay for them. The point is, when you’ve read a novel, you’ve lived through the story.

25. Be A Better Leader – Life requires relationship. Each of us interact with others on a daily basis. And our lives are either giving life to others or draining it from them. I want my life to give life to others and inspire them to live better. There is a growing passion in my heart to continue taking this message of “finding more life by owning less” to more and more people. I’m not entirely sure what that looks like down the road, but there’s a 100% chance leadership qualities will be required.
26. Increases Exposure – Reading opens our heart to new ideas, new cultures, and new worldviews. Good art always does.

27. Increases Reading Speed – Just like any skill in life, we improve with practice. While not a slow reader, I have never considered myself particularly fast either. No doubt, reading 52 books in 52 weeks will be a stretch for me. It will require my attention and practice and will likely increase my skill and pace in reading – at times, by necessity.
28. Setting a Good Example for Your Kids and Other Children – My kids are young (elementary school) and still learning to read. I want them to embrace the practice with joy. I want them to become lifelong readers. And I want them to recognize their father as one who does the same.

29. Dream Big – While I have enjoyed reading all genres of books, I have always found special joy in biographies. Reading the stories of those who sacrificed much, inspires me to do the same. Reading the stories of those who loved unselfishly, inspires me to do the same. And reading the stories of those who accomplished much, inspires me to dream big and do the same.

30. Improves Your Self-Discipline – Reading is not a simple task as everyone would like to think, at least to those who have been reading since at a very young age. Time, concentration and even motivational factors to read could dampen your efforts in reading as much as you could. Do not give up and fight your way through – find the time, hunt for the proper book and set yourself a very comfortable setting to start reading.

31. Be More Creative – New thoughts always stretch our minds to rediscover life in new ways. We begin to see the world differently. And we find new creative solutions because of it.

32. Idea Prioritization – One thing’s for sure, there are a lot of different approaches to life and the problems we face. Reading books provides opportunity to better discern what has worked in the past and what has not.

33. Increases Productivity With Your Time – If you’ve nothing to do while waiting for something to happen as you follow your schedule, you better read a book. While waiting for time, you may just read something good from a book. While waiting for the traffic to move, or while going to and fro your destination, you may also read a few pages of a book (it’s a different matter altogether if you’re the one driving – you need to listen then to an audio book, or books in a different format). Or read a book to someone who’s driving and those willing and ready to listen, if that works for you.

34. Training and Learning Rolled Into One – I remember a question fielded out by a teacher of mine in graduate school, who’s an expert corporate trainer, who asked the class if books can actually train people. He was in a manner of speaking, sounding out his doubts on the use of books in training. I said otherwise, and explained myself. Well, he was not convinced by my ideas (basically, books give out ideas that you apply in your everyday life situations), and I thought he must have taken it against me. But still, I still stick to my position on books being both a great training and learning tool. You apply what you read from books in life, and you revise, if you made mistakes. You, thus, learn in the process – books then facilitate training and learning.
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