Hi guys, I was at the Styl-plus Expressions launch in Abuja last weekend. By Abuja standards it was a good show. I think our guys are doing great. Big lo and 2 shotz seem to have settled ther rift to do a collabo with Styl-plus it was a great jam. Faze formerly of Plantashun Boys was there. The guy has depth like I`ve only seen in Majek Fashek and if he can hang on long enough he`ll be a legend and outlast 2Face ( love the guy but believe he`ll have short shelf life). African China was crazy! He took the government to the cleaners, in fact at a point he said he prefered to sing for only the people at the back coz the organizers put some government VIPs at the front row, dudes got passion.
And Styl-plus. Damn those boys can sing! Afetr Olufunmi I couldn`t imagine what they would come up with. But Imagine that is something you haven`t heard before, it`s different, and addictive, and it's pace is fast like techo but so danceable. The other revelation was a song called Ima. It's heavenly and talks about love in Nigeria. Styl-plus have good stage craft too. Zeal (the plus in Styl-plus) is a star in the making if he can keep his feet on the ground. Tunde and Shifi(hope I spelt right) are a wonderful genuine partnership and I see them lasting like the Kenny and D1 of Kennis Music. They will be in lagos this weekend I think. Overall Nigerian artistes are incredibly talented and I hope they get the material rewards they truly truly desereve.

@Jakuma,
Well said man, I appreciate your grasp of the issues.

@oyibo01
It`s so stereotypical of you to say the black man is his worse enemy. I stand by Jakuma`s assertions that we were joined together without our consent by some drunks and given a name by someones wife. What I concede to you is that the whiteman shows more purpose. They would`ve corrected this anomaly by any means necessary and done it a long time ago.

@issac boro
Despite the unfair situation, we Niger Deltans shouldn`t look at other Nigerians as enemies. Our problem is leadership even with our people. I apprediate all three tribes especially igbos and yorubas, those guys have talent like we do too. And it`s wrong to think we should shut out other Nigerians . Lots of us have benefitted from other societies, I have lived in Lagos, Benin and europe and nobody said I shouldn`t be there because I didn`t come from there but I did respect the indigenes and thats what we should demand. Our due and respect.

@everybody
Big up guys, we`ll get there, and when we do, EVERBODY is welcome!

Seun go tell this to a Texan, Saudi or a Bruneian and see what he does to you, and they all have the same oil.

Now with all this deep water talk. If God forbid, things fall apart in Nigeria, who is going to hop over the Niger Delta and go to deep water to prospect? That area will belong to the Niger Delta! The Federal government tried to create the onshor / offshore difference but we are just decieving ourselves

Seun and Naijaman don`t get the issue. Fair is fair. Wether the oil companies move to the deepwater, it doesn`t take away the fact that our oil policy doesn't support development. If I don't understand an issue (like Palestine) I either look into it or keep quite. That Naijaman works in an oil prospecting firm doesn't make him competent enough to make such comments which was totally childish

Guys the world is always in a state of flux. If the present arrangement in Nigeria is unfavourable to the Niger Delta people, nobody should blame them for agitating, America had to take up arms to free themselves from the expolitation of the britsh, Canada too. And all this sentimentality about "Nigeria" is misplaced. Some people are holding this contraption together for selfish reasons. Were it not for oil resources from Niger Delta, Northen Nigeria would be like Niger, Chad or Mali, and they are all too aware of this fact

You know, in the days that Malu joined the Army they sent the blockheads who couldn`t pass in school. Then unfortunately, they became the ones that ruled us for donkey years. Malu and his colleagues are very unintelligent men, so we expect too much from them. He`s an idiot. If not the leaders themselves make the same type of irresponsible comments all day, everday, he should have charged for treason.

For goodness sake why do we look up to crooks in Nigeria? These guys are not idealistic neither do they believe in anything. In every society we have crooks but they aren`t typically the guys running things.

Owo hit the nail on the head. Each of us looks at ourselves as first a Hausa man Yoruba man or Niger Delta man before we accept that we are Nigerians. In more developed climes it`s less emphasized and totally irrelevant. The US report is shocking but not totally rubbish. These guys do a bit of home work.

The Federal Government let this situation generate to this point. And it still doesn`t want to own up. How do you keep a people that produce more than 90% of Nigeria`s revenue in grinding poverty.Granted, those guys have sofisticated weapons from proceeds of bunkering but what alternatives have they ever been given. A guy with a job would think twice before undertaking the risk of going head to head with an Army. Now it's getting late.