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The main attraction this movie has for me is that as a fan of voltron as a kid I have been longing for a movie that is deserving of the fighting robot treatment. I think pacific rim will do it justice

MRbrownJAY: my biggest regret this summer so far is none other that AFTER EARTH.......oh what a let down this movie was for me.

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That film should win a truckload of razzies

MRbrownJAY: not out yet, and by the look of all the FLOPS this last few months (that were suppose to be box office hits), i am reserving my judgment on that one too.

Its been a very bland summer to tell you the truth. The blockbuster types like iron man 3 and man of steel were ok but many moviegoers haven't seen anything fresh like Pacific Rim in a while. Monster movies. Its a novel concept that channels the japanese godzilla type disaster films of the 1960s and 70s.

Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro, the man responsible for Hellboy and the dark, fascinating Pan's Labyrinth looks set to orchestrate something of a coup over the established summer blockbuster "sure-bets" like Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel. Though there has been plenty of good stuff to watch, there's always room for a dark horse to captivate fans used to certain franchises. Pacific Rim from pre-release reviews could be the movie people will be talking about as the next big thing. It has plenty an adult moviegoer would like to see and everything kids would want in a movie.

The movie is set in the year 2020 and mankind is under attack from very very big amphibious beasts (the Kaiju) that have escaped from a gargantuan crack in the floor of the pacific ocean and have killed millions in a seven year war. The governments and corporations of the world come together to build equally huge warrior robots (the Jaegers) that have enough weaponry to make popular robot heroes like the Transformers and even Voltron look ordinary.

Read more at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/pacific-rim-surprise-hit-of-summer.html

@op- I think Lengoma was released in 2012

Its funny how time flies when you are having fun. These five songs were some of the biggest songs of 2003 and made their performing artistes worldwide superstars. Add any more if you can remember

“In Da Club” by 50 Cent

Curtis Jackson went from underground hustler to overnight superstar with the release of this song. It was released under Shady/Aftermath Records and produced by the great Dr. Dre who put together a unforgettable beat that 50 Cent blazed mercilessly over. I remember the song made to want to be in a Club.

“Hey ya” by Andre 300

The other half of Atlanta rap duo Outkast released this single as part of the double album shared by him and partner Big boi “Speakerbox/The love below”. Though he was already a star the song was a rip roaring hit. A mishmash of funk,hip-hop and rock that is probably one of the most unique songs ever performed by a hip-hop artiste.

“Where is the love” by Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas had also been around for a while like and had scored a couple of notable tracks like “Request line” in which they featured Macy Gray. “Where is the love” which featured the vocals of a newly solo Justin Timberlake brought them into the mainstream limelight and the rest is history. I even heard a sermon in church where the preacher started with “Where is the love my people?”

“Clocks” by Coldplay

This song featured a fantastic piano riff that has been rehashed and copied by many. The song is still probably the band’s best known song.

"Rock your body" by Justin Timberlake

This Michael Jackson type song produced by the Neptunes was Justin Timberlake’s launch pad to a hugely successfully career. The song was reportedly originally written for MJ. Justin must be thanking his stars that he got to perform it instead of the King of Pop

Read more at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/10-years-ago-5-songs-that-helped-5.html

Terry G has really matured as an artiste. He actually had a live band as opposed to past exploits of a cd with the instrumentals only or even the song and vocals and him just dancing with all his energy.

Fresh off the release of his latest album, "Book of Ginjah", Terry G visited Abuja to a live show. The  performance was something of a formal introduction to his new material and Kizaro's Blog was there live as it happened on Friday at the Thisday Dome, Abuja.

The  show started off at about 10pm with a number of Abuja based acts who opened the stage with some really enthusiastic performances that seemed to excite a bored crowd with each passing act.

The signal to an escalation of the event was Denrele's mounting of the stage at 11:30pm in a trademark wacky leather suit  decked with shiny metal, studs and knee length boots complete with 12 inch heels. His hyperactive antics set the tempo up for the evening as he interacted with the crowd until he opened the floor for comedians AY and Akpororo who worked the crowd and cracked ribs back to back for about forty five minutes.

Wande Coal & Terry G

Slizzy-E was next and dished out two of his songs followed by Donna Diva. At about midnight, W4 came on to treat the crowd to a Fela-esque rendition of "Wa Gba Control" and suddenly the flurry of top acts went like lightning. Chuddy K whose energy lit up the hall when he leaped off the stage and strutted past    the VIP section to rock it out with the fans in the back to "Gaga crazy". K-Cee was next to give the crowd a sample of his current No. 1 club banger "Limpopo". Gordons and Klint the drunk gave cameo performances  and gave way for the man of the evening, Terry G.

Terry G came in at about 1.am in grand style through the front gates from behind the crowd singing his hit, "God guide me". He had the audience singing along word for word as if they were in church. Backed up by a full band complete with a saxophonist and trumpeter he treated the crowd to a number of hits, hardcore fans almost stormed the stage when he gave a rendition of his street anthem "Free madness". It took the bouncers and Terry G's chopping of knuckle with many of the fans to calm them down. He was joined on stage by Timaya for a hot collabo on "Malonogede". Timaya was a surprise package and treated the crowd to a good time, followed by Wande Coal and Solid Star.

The show had rough edges and the performances of the artistes could have showed more intentional stagecraft as the acts all seemed to do the same thing over and over. The artistes however gave an amazing account of themselves with some spontaneous brilliance and gave the fans something to relish. The show was like the star of the day - eccentric, entertaining and full of surprises. 


See more at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/the-terry-g-book-of-ginjah-concert.html

I am a huge fan of the original movie, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there was a sequel

Despicable Me was the surprise smash hit of 2010 and made $540 million worldwide. For the initiated, the original story was about Gru, super-villain obsessed with the greatest crime ever in history who meets in his match in the form of three cute little orphans and an  upcoming young super villain. It was the 10th most successful animated movie ever in the USA and a critics favorite

In the sequel, Gru (now a good guy) is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to battle a new super criminal.

Read more at http://www.kizarofaro..co.uk/2013/07/despicable-me-ii-return-of-gru.html?m=1

Some more pics from last night

See more at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/live-terry-g-book-of-ginjah-concert_5.html

Terry G assembled an all-star repertoire for his "Book of Ginjah" Concert which took place at the Thisday Dome, Central Area, Abuja on the 5th of July 2013.

The roll call of artistes include Chuddy K, W4, Denrele, AY, Akpororo, Slizzy-E, Klint the Drunk, K-Cee, Timaya, Wande Coal, Solid Star, Jaywon and a number of others.

Read the rest at http://www.kizarofaro..co.uk/2013/07/live-terry-g-book-of-ginjah-concert_5.html?m=1

I can imagine the relief at being snatched from the jaws of death

Crassus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKqV3zbJjo&list=PLD7867A202B37B064

there it is

Thanks Crassus. I have to digest this. Back in a bit.

odogwu-x:
Infact I'm going to go and dig up some of my old movies on the thing.

The movie that captures it accurately is "victory at entebbe" it had Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Heroism at its finest. Movies like "Delta Force" were modeled in honour of the rescue. They even used israeli made Uzi's

Exactly 37 years ago, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) pulled off one of the most daring and successful rescue operations in history.

The Entebbe Airport terminal building 
The story began on the 27th of June 1976 when an Air France flight that originated from Tel-Aviv was hijacked by four terrorists from Palestine and West Germany who boarded the flight during a stopover at Athens Airport. The plane was forced to land in Benghazi, Libya for refueling and then took off for Entebbe Airport, Uganda.  When the plane landed in Uganda, four more terrorists joined the party and the Jewish passengers were separated from the rest and herded into the airport terminal. Non Jews were put on another plane and flown out Uganda. Idi Amin was in full support of the terrorists and personally welcomed them. Ugandan troops were also posted to secure the area.

Continue reading at http://www.kizarofaro..co.uk/2013/07/july-4th1976-miraculous-raid-on-entebbe_4.html?m=1

Father Dave Smith is the resident priest and rector of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Sydney in "down under" Australia. This very unusual man of God is a 6th Degree Black Belt holder in Karate, professional boxer and former Kickboxing champion who literally "fights the good fight".

As a young pastor he cooked up plenty of ways to get the youth of Sydney off the streets and into the Trinity Youth Center, away from drugs and gang violence outside. He was known to walk through the streets of Sydney and challenge tough youth to combat in the Ring. The deal would be if he lost the fight he would buy a round of coffee and donuts but if he won the vanquished would have to come to church the next Sunday.

Read the rest at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/fighting-father-smith-hardest-priest-in.html

russellino: Very nice. The guy jacked Duncan Mighty's beat mercilessly though. Nice video.

I love the song silly, the video is the bomb too. I don't know why this guy hasn't blown yet. I don't know who's behind AJE filmworks but they make classic ish everytime

Black Solo recently released the video for his praise single titled "Ekene Oma". Born Solomon Bello in Enugu State, he was inspired to go into music by Bob Marley and Beenie Man and started as a reggae/dancehall artiste. He's an affiliated act with the likes of Tuface Idibia, Terry G and Odogwu (Faze's brother and manager).

Though not easily recognizable or a household name yet, he is one artiste who has been in the game for a long time and has a lot of street credibility. "Ekene Oma" is a traditional Niger Delta praise and worship song that channels the brilliant instrumentals of ''Jesus Bu Eze'', Duncan Mighty's song from his 2008 debut album. Black Solo started off beautifully but wasted a beat he could have done so much with. It started out praising the good Lord but quickly descends into a ''hailing'' spree giving ''props'' to celebrities and chairmen. All in all quite a good song.

Look out for a cameo in the video by none other than ''ex''-militant warlord, Ateke Tom.

Read more and view the video at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/black-solos-releases-video-for-ekene-oma.html

Almost exactly ten years ago, in 2003, a close friend and die hard Chelsea Football Club Ultra fan called ND used to keep going on and on about a Russian billionaire who had bought over his club and how they were going to dominate England and blah blah blah. Of course I and other non-fans laughed him down. As time went by I got familiar with the baby faced and humble looking money bag but wasn't convinced that Chelsea would do anything different. After all they had fantastic players over the years like Gianfranco Zola, Marcel Dessailly, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Gustavo Poyet but they had been known more for winning the then named Carling Cup and scarcely anything else.
In April 2004, "doubting thomases" like myself and ahem! Arsenal supporters got to understand that there was nothing usual about the business when Claudio Ranieri's boys knocked Arsenal FC out of the Champions League in the quarter finals. It was significant because that Arsenal was one of the strongest ever, boasting of titans in their prime like Thierry Henry, Vieira, Edu, Reyes, Ljungberg, Kolo Toure and other players who just a season before had gone unbeaten in a whole season. It was a coup especially as Chelsea almost had a tradition of losing to them.

The impact of raw seemingly unlimited cash bought success to Chelsea and paved the way for the likes of mega buck football fans to take over teams like Manchester City, PSG and Monaco.
Here's a year by year tracking of the "Chelski" era.

April 2003: Falling in love with football
The headlines were shared by David Beckham and the Brazilian Ronaldo, who scored five goals between them, but Real Madrid’s extraordinary Champions League victory over Manchester United held a more far-reaching significance.
Among the spectators at Old Trafford that night was an unknown billionaire Russian who was sufficiently captivated to decide that a football club should be his next purchase.
Abramovich quickly settled on Chelsea as his desired club.
As well as the London location, the share structure meant Chelsea was relatively quickly attainable. A meeting was swiftly arranged at Stamford Bridge between Abramovich and then chief executive Trevor Birch.
“I wasn’t totally convinced he was the real thing,” admitted Birch. Abramovich made no attempt to haggle over money and accepted the asking price. The meeting lasted less than 20 minutes.
Birch contacted Ken Bates, then Chelsea owner, and a meeting was arranged later that day at the Dorchester Hotel.
A £140 million deal to buy Chelsea and cover their debts was soon agreed. Within two months, Abramovich had spent more than £100 million on new players.
Within two years, John Terry was lifting the Premier League trophy. English football would never be the same again.

Read the rest at http://kizarofaro..com/2013/07/how-chelsea-owner-roman-abramovich.html

Nigeria is a perfect example of an environment where so many new jobs were created by the coming of the GSM providers. It opened up a new world of industry and altered the business environment. I personally saw many a youth who put themselves through school by applying their skills to the micro economy that latched on to telecoms.

The most important skill sets shifted as well.

WHY THE CAREER IS DEAD
The Career is dead
Author: Jocelyn K. Glei
Source

Fact: A substantive portion of the working population now earns its livelihood doing a job that didn't exist 10 or 20 years ago.


We’re at an interesting crossroads in terms of careers. We still want them, but they don’t exist anymore. In the US, the typical job tenure is now 4 years, with most workers cycling through about 11 jobs in their lifetime.

If the 20th-century career was a ladder that we climbed from one predictable rung to the next, the 21st-century career is more like a broad rock face that we are all free climbing. There’s no defined route, and we must use our own ingenuity, training, and strength to rise to the top. We must make our own luck.
The lightning-fast evolution of technology means that jobs can now become indispensable or outmoded in a matter of years, or even months. Who knew what a “Community Manager” was ten years ago? What about an “iPad App Designer”? Or what about “Chief Scientist” (at LinkedIn)?

A substantive portion of the working population now earns its livelihood doing a job that didn’t exist 10 or 20 years ago. And if your job itself hasn’t changed, chances are you’re using new and unanticipated technology and/or skills to perform that job. (E.g. You’re a designer who blogs, a comedian who uses Twitter, or a branding consultant turned e-tailer.)

Ten years from now, we’ll probably all be doing some new type of work that we couldn’t even possibly imagine today. The thought is both exhilarating and frightening. How do we prepare for a future filled with uncertainty?

1. Explore, relentlessly. The tools you use today will not be the tools you use in the future.
You may have heard the term “life sport” before. It refers to sports—like golf, tennis, or swimming—that you can play from ages 7 to 70. The ever-brilliant Kevin Kelly recently expanded this concept to include technology as life sport, outlining a must-read list of “techno life skills” that we should all cultivate. As Kelly puts it: “If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole—how technology in general works.”

Whether it’s interviewing someone over Skype, developing an affable Twitter persona, learning how to publish an e-book, or experimenting with a new task management app, we must become adept at testing out new technologies that can benefit us in our personal and professional lives.


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Sir Paul McCartney: He arrived in Nigeria in August 1972 to record an album with his band – Wings. He overlooked offers to record in “beaten paths” like Brazil and America and chose to record in Lagos because he felt that he would have a nice relaxing time lazing at the beach all day and recording music at night. He rented a comfortable crib in Ikeja, then about an hour’s drive from EMI Studios at Apapa, where he was to record the album. He got a rough Lagos welcome and was “obtained” at knife-point while taking a walk in some lonely neighbourhood as well as harassed by Fela when he tried to recruit some members of abami eda’s band members. After a while he toughened up and the album eventually became one of McCartney’s most successful projects. It was humorously titled “Band on the Run”.

I scoured some information from someone who was around when Ali came. He spent three days and had to change hotels a day before he was to leave because babes besieged Ikoyi Hotel hoping to "tango" with the champ. The old cassius clay wouldn't have minded but he had just converted and joined the Nation of Islam in the USA. I guess he didn't want to embarrass his new mentor Elijah Muhammad.

2. James Brown: The Godfather of Soul visited Lagos with his band in 1970 and were blown away when they witnessed Fela’s performance at the Afrika Shrine. Bootsy Collins, one of James Brown members had this to say -

"We were telling them they're the funkiest cats we ever heard in our life. I mean, this is the James Brown band, but we were totally wiped out! That was one trip I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.'"

JB is pictured here with men of the Nigerian Airforce.

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1. Mohammed Ali: The World Heavyweight Champ visited Lagos in June 1964 and treated himself to the Island’s hospitality. He’s pictured here in his agbada receiving love from some Lagos Island youngsters that trooped out to receive the “toughest man in the world”.

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Youngtekkey: some people are just real dullard and they don't know anything ojb produced the whole 2face grass to grace album and mind u most songs ojb producad were free coz most of them mean artistes first come as friends so he does not collect money from most of them so stop saying where is all the money he made if u don't know he is not like sarz samklef and co he even teach most of this renowned producers the work and is free of charge to get more info go and search for what he has done on google before start to saying rubbish here

My brother that was the mistake OJB made. He was doing paddy-paddy with artistes instead of charging them big money.

horlajide: OP wa gbayi

OJB is one of the most and might probably be the most prolific producer Nigeria has ever had. He practically dominated the scene back then especially in the era before this, He can be compared to what music director Clarence Peters is right now(in terms of dominance). If we were to list all his songs both known and unknown its gonna be endless. He's been instrumental to A LOT of artistes success and Tu-face readily comes to mind here.

You are very correct bro.I can't even remember. Man mi he's an institution. If you talk about Tuface's success today go back to his first which Ojb almost singlehandedly produced.

click2cbn: This is a poorly written n researched work wit a misleading topic! I was expecting to see lists of songs

Bro u dey shayo under hot sun? Why your blood dey hot. No be list of songs be that?

Ojb has done his bit and he needs help that's what important.

Adex097: When did they sing this one

"Kiss me again" was D'banj's first single ever and was recorded in 2002. Ojb got a more popular (at the time) Ruggedman to feature on the track. Shortly after this D'Banj travelled to UK where he met don jazzy

Mynd_44: Why not post everything here? I am not going to any blog

Sorry boss na phone I dey use post. Its very difficult to post with. Interesting list you should check it out. Or let someone help copy and paste it

To be honest I always felt that song was familiar, especially the chorus. I also didn't know sean tizzle used to be in naija ninja crew

Nigeria cannot afford austerity measures now. I saw okonjo iweala recently and the woman looked old. I heard she's under tremendous pressure to juggle money and that the FG is mopping up a lot of the cash in cirrculation to drive plenty of these projects. That's why people are complaining of not having much cash