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A few months back, Chocolate City’s co-founder, Audu Maikori at NEC Live event said he will be step down from the record label CEO role in June, 2015.

Audu has finally stepped down and new roles has been given to MI Abaga and Ice Prince.

MI is now the CEO of Chocolate City while Ice Prince is the Vice President.

The record label also celebrates Audu 10 years of leadership at the entertainment company. Chocolate City was founded by Audu, Paul Okeugo and Yahaya Maikori in 2005.

Audu took to Twitter to share the news. Read below!

Hello everyone it’s is my pleasure to announce the team that will be running Chocolate City Music

— Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

To clarify I have not left entertainment business … I have merely left the day to Day responsibilities of CCM ( @choccitymusic) — Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

It’s been 10 years of working with an incredible team to build arguably one of the most successful music labels in Africa…

— Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

And want to say thank you to each and very staff and artist we have worked with in that period — Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

From July 1st I shall officially assume the role of President ChocolateCityGroup @choccityGroup. So you can call me “mr President’ (lol)

— Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

The New CEO of Chocolate City Music is…… — Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

…Mr Jude Lemfani Abaga pic.twitter.com/nAea20phIq

— Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

The New CEO of @choccitymusic is @MI_Abaga ! Congratulations to a great leader and partner!

— Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

The New Vice President at Chocolate City Music is @Iceprincezamani ! Congratulations to you my brother!

— Audu Maikori (@Audu) June 30, 2015

Audu will sit on the record label’s board with Hakeem Bello Osagie, Paul Okeugo and Yahaya Maikori.

http://nexthop.com.ng/audu-maikori-steps-down-mi-abaga-cops-chocolate-citys-ceo-status/

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Ever expressive legendary comedian, Ali Baba is seeking to inspire and enlighten artistes on the mistakes they can make in their line of expertise, as he has listed ’50 things that can kill an artiste’s career’.

The veteran in the comedy business shared his wisdom on the costly errors budding artistes can make, writing on his instagram page today, June 29, 2015:

“SOME 50 THINGS THAT CAN KILL AN ARTISTE’S CAREER 1. Not understanding the business 2. Failure to research 3. Poor financial management skills 4. Charges and discounts 5. Pride and arrogance 6. Expensive Lifestyle 7. Taking game changers for granted 8. Bad health 9. Peer pressure 10. Lack of quality education 11. Wicked contracts 12. Failure to take risks 13. Not matching up to competition 14. Not networking 15. Failure to weigh consequences of decisions 16. Wanting to be everything 17. Hangers on who don’t build or contribute but only take 18. I have arrived 19. Side chicks 20. India hemp 21. Complacency 22. Bad PR 23. Rent 24. Baby momma 25. Facing the future with old ideas 26. Stingy and selfish 27. Can’t think for themselves and won’t pay someone who can 28. Not IT compliant. 29. Keeping up appearances 30. Lack of integrity 31. Bad company 32. Bad habits 33. Alcohol 34. No self confidence 35. Bad belle journalists 36. Wrong advices 37. That stalker you said NOOOO! To 38. Beef aka jealousy 39. No set goals 40. No mentors and role models 41. Karma 42. Afowofa 43. No career review mechanism 44. Poor choice of life partners 45. Waiting for someone to make you a success 46. Weak upbringing 47. Home trouble 48. Unnecessary rivalry 49. Controversy 50. Lack of a structured industry”

There are some interesting points on the list. Any one on the list you disagree with?

http://nexthop.com.ng/50-things-that-can-kill-an-artistes-career-ali-baba/

Kennis Music cofounder, Dayo Adeneye is proud to be a grand pa. Recently, D1 posted a photo of his grandson.

Dayo said he can’t believe he’s a grand pa already. The media mogul grandson’s name is Jordan.

Reports have it that Dayo’s daughter, Jazmyne Adeneye, 21, is the mother of Jordan.

http://nexthop.com.ng/dayo-adeneye-shows-off-his-grandchild/

Former EME label mates and friends, Skales and Wizkid have been at loggerheads for a while now but the Baseline recording artiste has admitted to loving Wizzy’s latest single, ‘Expensive Shit‘, and even shouting out the Starboy.

Skales took to his twitter account today, June 20, 2015 to declare his love for the song, saying he’s been playing it ever since it was released.

The ‘Shake Body‘ hit maker wrote: “Shout to my brother wiz …dat expensive shit tune is a jam !!!!! Been playing it ever since”

Seems Skales wants to put rivalry aside and support his former friend’s career.

http://nexthop.com.ng/expensive-shit-skales-admits-to-loving-wizkids-latest-single/

Source:http://nexthop.com.ng/olamides-shakitibobo-hit-or-miss-next-big-dance-style/

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Much ado about dance style-oriented songs. It started with Disco dances of the 70’s & 80’s, evolving into the addictive Break-dances of the 90’s/early 2000’s – made popular in the United States.

Nigerians/Africans have since gone on to begin writing their own dance rules.

Olamide looks to be the latest in what is rapidly becoming a long train of artistes peddling songs in a view to creating new dance moves with the release of his Young John-produced single, ‘Bobo‘.

The song sees Badoo continue with his deviation from his once signature ‘pure-rap’ style. It leaves little to be desired in content(except maybe for his core followers), but so are most dance-oriented music being made. It is however, his bid to wanting to coin/create a dance style from the song, that catches our attention.

From short clips of the ‘shakiti-bobo’ dance enthusiasts going viral on social media, and also from the music video of the song, there seems to be no ‘wow’ factor as the dance looks uninspired. But then it is Olamide, who anything he does at the moment turns to gold(he knows it too) due to a hugely dedicated YBNL fanbase.

Reflecting on numerous dance moves that have had blistering impact or influence, the Daddy Showkey, Baba Fryo era of Galala was a viral, contagious disease anybody found it hard to escape from. It was truly a unique and fascinating dance style that ruled the ‘ghetto’ for years.

Then there was Makossa in the early 2000’s made popular by the Awilo Logomba‘s and Magic Sysyem‘s. This had originated from neighbouring francophone countries, Congo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and the Benin Republic, as a slew of entertainers marveled their audiences with the most catchy dance routines you could think of. The rhythm in their songs complemented the highly addictive, waist-breaking moves, so much that men gave women a real run for their money.

The Makossa spread to this part of the world like wild fire and trust Nigerians, who sure know how to promote or over-elaborate on trends. It was such a monumental period that the originators, our neighbours, had to move their crafts and performances to the biggest stages in the country. Indeed, if you missed this era, you unfortunately missed the most exciting dance machine ever!

At this point, dance-themed music had started to gain wide recognition and acceptance, that our own Olu Maintain seized the opportunity to create the ‘Yahooze‘ dance. Boy did this become a disease of some sort, as old, young, rich, poor, physically challenged, all did their best impresario of being a ‘big boy’ by throwing their hands up while in a static position. Any corner you turned at a banging party and there’s a sight of girls isolated with almost no rub-a-dub touches -quite unusually- from their male counterparts, as they are all busy doing the ‘yahoo’ dance. It had so much significance, that the brothers who hustle through their computers using their brains -effectively or ineffectively- in fattening their bank accounts, felt they had to lay claim to the anthem as theirs…..it was quite appropriate.

After Yahooze, the game was on!

Entered Artquake with ‘Alanta’, the wild duo as at that period had little recognition and acceptance for their studio efforts, somehow they managed to come up with the song ‘Alanta’, and the madness began. You somehow simply had to display a sort of uncomfortable reaction to a gulf of fire burning through you, and there was indeed no limit to the contagious nature of the dance.

The birth of more dance-origination songs continued afterwards with the smoothness of ‘Azonto‘, the indigenous-influenced ‘Ettigi‘, the Iyanya moment of ‘Kukere’-ing, and also the comedic nature of ‘Sekem’ by MC Galaxy.

Total shut-down and madness however, resumed with ‘Shoki‘ ….it is still the biggest/viral dance today as a flurry of music lovers make their best impresario of the dance style at every slight opportunity.

Lil’ Kesh, coincidentally Olamide’s protege, undoubtedly owned the dance-move(Orezi had done his own version) with a descriptive, technical know-how of the dance with his song and video of the same title, and it remains the biggest song he is associated with.

Safe to say it is no coincidence that these dance-oriented songs became arguably the biggest hits of these originators/artistes, as they haven’t been able to replicate or match the frenzy with subsequent releases.

Olamide Badoo however, has already made an enormous statement of his name in the entertainment industry, where a dance propaganda would do little to elevate or tarnish his status. It is left to be seen how viral and accepted(it is rapidly beginning to, thanks to his utmost dedicated fanbase) Daddy Miliano’s new dance-move gets, and the direction it takes him from there.

According to reports, popular Yoruba actor, Segun Ogunbe has impregnated his wife’s best friend and upcoming actress, Omowunmi Ajiboye.

Omowunmi is the actor’s first wife, Atinuke Ogunbe‘s best friend. Segun and Omowunmi have married secretly and the two are blessed with a new baby.

An anon actress blasted the actor for cheating on his wife and she also blasted Omowunmi for dating her friend’s husband.

Read what she wrote below:

“Omowunmi Ajiboye, You are such a bad friend to have a baby for your best friend, Atinuke Ogungbe’s husband, you guys are turning this world to another world, anyway it’s not a big deal to you but you are a disgrace to all Yoruba girls and to the film industry. Both of you need to be expelled from the film industry. Segun Ogungbe is a silly idiot to have impregnated his wife (Atinuke Ogungbe’s) best friend Omowunmi, both of you are a disgrace to the film industry also to the whole nation. Segun Ogungbe is a silly idiot to have impregnated Omowunmi who squatted with Atinuke for several months in Abeokuta.

“Mr Ibi Giga you are such a heartless and a shameless man, your movies are one of the best of mankind but you don’t learn from what you are teaching the public, if you, Mr Segun Ogungbe Olusola Bobo I show think your fans are silly like yourself, you are getting it twisted, you are a disgrace to the film industry”

Source: http://nexthop.com.ng/yoruba-actor-segun-ogunbe-reportedly-impregnates-wifes-best-friend-upcoming-actress/

Nollywood actress, Moyo Lawal who recently said she wants to start dressing properly opened up on why she can marry a poor man.

When asked if she can marry a poor or rich man, Moyo replied saying “Poor man with a vision? Yes! But the most important thing like my dad always says is that a man should have a vision and must be interested in making sure that his family does not go hungry.”

The actress who turned down marriage proposal from her former lover said the reason why she turned him down was because she wants to pursue her career.

In her words, “Yes I have and that was because I wanted time to pursue my career but he didn’t understand so I turned it down.”

When asked if she can marry any of her male colleagues in the movie industry, Moyo said “Who knows what God has in store for us? As for me I don’t know what God has in store for me. Whether he is in the industry or not, whether he is in the gutter or not, whether he is from the skies or whatever does not matter as long as God sent him to me”

Moyo is currently working on a new movie titled ‘Living in Lekki.’

http://nexthop.com.ng/heres-why-i-can-marry-a-poor-man-actress-moyo-lawal/

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1. Change ur simcard
2. Make una put buglary for your house, make hin no park him boiz come ra*pe you.
3. Inform Mopol, No inform police ohh.. most police na egunje people and em dey fear cultist.
4. Carry mopol go warn am, make em carry am go barrack. I swear hin papa no go near you again.
5. If you sabi person wey be cultist wey belong to , carry am go meet am.
6. Incase you nor fit do 4 and 5, find babalawo, and carry am go meet am, make the babalawo threaten am with jazz. I swear, if hin see you, hin go run.
7. Tell your husby, not to confront him directly. Your hubby can team up with his friends and plot a way to deal with the buccanian nigga. Remember, two heads is better than one.
8. Keep praying! May the lord help you.

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Mii I go pray for people, no b only myself.

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Make Iya ngbali no dey fight for street bcoz of N10 garri. Make sexkillz no dey carry money give ashewo again. Make nairaland programmers no dey write spaghetti code again (na doz ones wey b newbies I dey refer to).

Make virgin wey dey nairaland turn to disvirgin n people wey don disvirgin turn to virgin. Make people wey dey find pikin get pikin, dose wey dey maltreat pikin, dey lash em 7 strokes every morning.

Make phcn no dey use generator for their office again, coz diz kain thing na curse. To d poster wey dey above me, if u b guy, ur wife no go run comot for house, if you b gal ur husband no go run comot for house. Say Amen if you bliv.

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