The year 2018 has been a stupendous year for the Nigerian music industry. We are creating many megastars and superstars. Sold out shows in the United Kingdom has become a norm for our artistes, from Wizkid selling out the 02 Arena to Davido shutting down London with his 30BG Tour to Yemi Alade headlining on the big stage, and to crown it all, the reigning queen of Afrobeat, Tiwa Savage was crowned the Best African Act for MTVEMA awards. Burnaboy has become a religion; his fans believe that no Nigerian artiste is better than him. He is a class act, coincidentally, the title of his song ‘Ye’, which is also the same as Kanye West’s Album was a marketing genius.

Olamide latest song Motigbana is Afrobeat mixed with honey, literally! Take a listen and you will be enthralled with the combination of trumpet, saxophone, ayo, and band; a mix of urbane and modern hip hop blended with African high life music. Acoustic sounds of flute, guitar and shrills of birds gives you an euphoric feelings which sends downs chills down the spine. Eclectic, facile and danceable. That song reflects the true meaning of Afrobeat. The song is so smooth in the ears that it echos suavity. It is a great leap from his first song of the year ‘Science students’ which echoes to the streets where he is celebrated as a Lagos boy which also went viral. Olamide’s street credibility is not in doubt but Motigbana takes his talent up a notch, a refined rendition, ready for the international stage and collaborations.

Wizkid’s ‘Bad Energy’ gets girls wilding. Alongside Skepta, the song is a mixture of London rap music, especially drill genre which has been associated with violence, but this encounter with Afrobeat doesn't depict knives and hooded Londoners with mean faces standing akimbo without smiles on their face. Instead, it was shot on the islands of Lagos with rhythmic urban dancers providing a music video lovely for every age bracket to watch over and over. Wizkid as Messi of Nigerian music eclipsed his own records in 2018 with the release of ‘Fever’. The release of the audio of the song on October 1st was not a hit by Wizkid’s standards but he broke the internet with the video where he featured Tiwa Savage frolicking with each other in an open beach house. With Tiwa Savage in scanty beachwear, Nigerians were left with a lot to imagine, bicker about and trend. Trust Wizkid, he has arrived and has taken his place as Nigeria’s biggest music export, however, he is the Messi. We all know the Ronaldo. The OBO prodigy.

Davido titillated his fans with engagement to Chioma his girlfriend earlier in the year and sang ‘Assurance’ for her after buying her an expensive SUV. Gossip has it the automobile is worth over N20m. That song is one of the top 5 hit songs of 2018. He has gone ahead to release other songs like ‘Nwa baby’, collaborations and mentor acts in his record label where Peruzzi is one of his products.

Phyno the king of Afrobeat in the South East who sings in the Igbo language featured Wale in his ‘NWA’ song and that put his doubters at bay as he bagged an international collaboration. Burna Boy was featured by Major Lazer and undoubtedly the success story of Nigerian music industry will require series to review the exploits of our top acts.


Even with the tremendous success of the Nigerian music industry, you still come across Nigerians who feel indifferent to its sounds whose inferiority complex are etched in the view of anything foreign as superior to the black people. This Nigerian music industry that is booming started after year 2000. Especially the modern Afrobeat genre which stemmed from industry legends like Fela Kuti, Raski Mono and Majek Fashek. Nigeria music industry is less than 20 years and is already a success. There’s room for improvement, but believe me, if Nigeria developed like our music industry, we will be a developed country in less time we can imagine!

While the Wizkids and Davidos are cruising around the world in the latest private jets, their successors, I like to call them, led by Kizz Daniel is morphing into a sensation. He’s building that sort of profile which particularly Wizkid has. All he needs are a few songs like his 2016 bangers (Woju, Laye, Mama) to cement his place. Runtown is in a class of his own. Collaboration with top African acts like Nasty C and endorsements keeps him in the top 10 Nigerian Afrobeat lineup. Tekno brought back nostalgic memories for many with ‘Jogobo’ (originally by Danfo Drivers) - though it caused a raucous after which there was a meeting between the acts and peace brokered. The song is a hit and has grossed over 15 million views on Youtube. Skales is doing good. I will not leave out DJ Cuppy and Simi, they have been tremendous. However, sensational acts that seem to have been lost in circus include Mr Eazi, YCEE and Lil Kesh among many others. Hopefully 2019 will be very a good year for them. Whenever artistes are out of circulation, they most likely have management, financial or litigation issues which bogs them down and even at that such periods spurns inspirations for them to rekindle the fire and shine. They’d come at us with bangers. We wait!

Tuface is a master of the game, he keeps reinventing himself. Whoever thought he would give us a banger like ‘Amaka’ which immediately it was released knocked off the song at the number 1 of many charts. His talent and industry is not hype, though a veteran, he keeps giving music lovers fresh vibes. You cannot but node your head to the rhythm of ‘Amaka disappoint me’, the rest of lines one may not understand because it is rendered in a Niger Delta language but the song hits the bone marrow.

One surprising entrant into the Nigerian music industry is Larry Gaaga. Aside the conventional celebrity DJs like DJ Exclusive, Jimmy Jatt and DJ Spinball, Larry is developing into the likes of Calvin Harris and David Guetta, featuring superstars, not voicing any part of the song but chimes in at interval, with his “put a bang bang” background echo. I actually had to Google him when I first heard of him in 2018, though music industry insiders would know him, as a newbie (I work with Frank Golden Music Management Company as head of operations Africa), he was kind of new though he looks like in being in his late 30s. He had a stint with YSG Entertainment as General Manager/Head of Vector's management team in February of 2011, I learned. One of the highlights of his rising profile is his contract with Universal Music. This brings me to the fact that music management which is one of the deficiencies of Nigerian music industry is receiving attention. Record labels and music management are still in the formative stage despite Nigeria having had huge presence of global music companies in the days of Fela and Osita Osadebe. But they seem to be coming back. Universal Music is now in Nigeria and record labels like Marvin Records earlier in the year put out adverts for positions which showed they wanted to set up a proper music management company.

The best way to summarize 2018 for Nigerian music is to talk about Duncan Mighty. Who would have thought that in 2018, with his major hits as far back as 6-7 years ago would become a chart-topper doing hit songs with Davido, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage and other A-List Nigerian artistes. He is actually the summary of the success story of the Nigerian music industry for 2018. His resurgence with fresh bangers is one story every Nigerian artistes would like to replicate in their lives. He took giants steps and his efforts paid off. To rap it up, I often tell people I grew up with the advent of modern Afrobeat when we danced all American music parties. But today we have a music industry and in 2018, it has been exhilarating.

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For startups, some type of projects come once in a while, especially a foray into areas they are not familiar with. An opportunity came for me to pitch a portal to a university. Proposal was quickly packaged — for many of us who have submitted 10s of such proposals, it’s a basic stuff — and sent. The IT department called for a demo. As a Java programmer, something close to a system architect, I put together an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for a company which replaced their Sage accounting software. In fact, the enterprise system does more than accounting with 5 modules (Sales, Warehouse/Store inventory, Accounting, Expenses, Administration). I built the system from scratch for a year plus, using Java enterprise technologies, MVC programming model, Bootstrap, HTML5 and it was deployed in a hosted private Tomcat over MySQL.

Now the potential project at hand needed a similar system. However, the institution needs to get up and running quickly. Not having a university portal in 2018 is awkward. One’s mind will wander wide wondering which of the higher institutions in Nigeria hasn’t implemented a university portal. Almost all have, those that haven’t are mostly private universities, some not more than 10 years old. Most public universities have, the norm is to change vendors managing their portal once a new sheriff (VC) is appointed. So for this private university, they have tried to use internal staff expertise to get up and running, but building such a system requires an ICT company with experience in software development at an advanced level.

After a meeting with the IT staff, I went home with my team (we are just about three) but as the project lead, conceptualizing the system was my forte. The ERP I mentioned earlier was conceptualized by me after I had tried to get a colleague who now works with Crossover to put it together. In those days (before 2015), we didn’t have much knowledge. We wanted to deploy with Spring Framework but installing the framework proved abortive and we had to take the route for building from scratch.With Bootstrap to serve as our views, we set out developing the models and controllers and over the next one year, the system was up and running.

On this current project, one thing I have learned as programmer is not to reinvent the wheel. Java language being my major is an open source platform so I am an open source evangelist. I went online to search for open source university management information system (UMIS). I found one, Open Baraza and when I searched further, it has been around for a while (before 2015), was developed with programming models I was familiar with, and it had the GNU General Public License (GPL) which “is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.” I downloaded the platform to run on my computer system. First, it runs on PostgreSQL, being familiar with relational databases like Oracle and MySQL, this was nothing extraordinary. I installed the database on my Mac and ran the application and it didn’t take me up to a full day to have it running. I was relieved. I went for the demo and basically tried to convince the staff that this platform which is what Babcock uses is robust. I had examined the source code and was confident I could manipulate anything in it. On the day of the demo, the technical head of ICT who I have been speaking to who was favorable to using Open Baraza was’t around and his team which included the university head of ICT was skeptical. The programmer staff, also a lecturer was stentorian about having a live version as proof of concept as they all have Open Baraza on their system but I guess getting it online and live was the issue. I later discovered it. Tweaking Open Baraza UMIS platform was not a yeoman’s job.

So I was challenged to present a proof of concept which they can access like a live application and that was the beginning of the daunting task. I like programming challenges. I trust my prowess when it comes to developing any system in Java. So I went home, I had to understand that system and deploy it online. I had a Tomcat running for the ERP so the best bet was to package the program, deploy in the container and we are good to go. But no, it won’t work that way because the person(s) who developed this system, was an expert at standalone application, in fact, the platform has an embedded Tomcat and programmatically the system runs highly customised. You cannot package it as a WAR (web archive) file for deployment. Folders are arranged in an unconventional way and if you try to create a project from it in an IDE like Netbeans, you are sure to have your IDE mess things up. It will successfully create but fraught with errors but your WAR file cannot run.

Here was where I started brainstorming. I navigated from folders to folders, reading all the documentations and README to understand this platform first. With the embedded Tomcat, you can run it on localhost, that’s all you can achieve but when dropped in Tomcat, online or offline, logs tell you the UMIS can’t run.

The idea of virtual private hosting (VPS), something I hadn’t used before came to my mind. I know Linux OS to advanced level and I was like, get this folder up in a VPS and run the script and boom, we replicate what I have on my localhost. It is easier said than done. I went online, got a VPS from Web4Africa and another one from WhoGoHost. I opted for the later because after purchasing from Web4Africa, activating the service was taking time, I was impatient. Being a premium customer of WhoGoHost, I had to order from them but I was skeptical about such a service from Nigeria and preferred Web4Africa from South Africa. However, WhoGohost proved to be more responsive and that is where the application is currently deployed.

Here was where I discovered Cloud Computing and Linux DevOps VPS in practice. The first task was to install PostgreSQL. I have installed 10s of databases and done so on my system, but getting this to run on the Linux CenOS 7 was not straightforward but I got that sorted. I registered a domain and the technical guys at WhoGoHost got it pointed to my VPS IP address. The next task was to install a web server, I contacted the guys at WhoGoHost, they reasoned that I needed to buy CPanel. C’mon I had spend almost N40,000 and this is just a demo. This was day 2 of my marathon hacking. I succeeded in installing the Apache Server 2 without the technical guys. Surfing Google to find answers to each issue I encountered was my usual approach. The newest website I found was digitalocean.com, I was very familiar with others where you find most answers specifically serverfault.com and stackoverflow.com.

After installing the database and Apache, I deployed the UMIS folder to my home directory on the VPS. The first hurdle was getting the SWING desktop application which is used in populating the database to run. Opening desktop apps from a VPS requires allowing the VPS server and system to communicate. After many hours that was resolved by activating xhost. This was the point the real work started. The program ran on the server but getting Apache Server to communicate with the embedded Tomcat to echo on the domain was the issue. I tried all sort of fixes thrown at me from Google. With Linux OS, there’s no straightforward way of accomplishing one task. With the different flavours of OS, different versions, you have to find the command suitable for your OS from those who have encountered such issue. This was where I had to switch to the source code version instead of the runnable version. I had to prove to myself I actually understood Java and have to customise the Java program classes to get this portal to run. I understood that before my Tomcat could talk to the Apache Server, I needed a proxy. The simplest it could use was Mod_proxy. I went about configuring it. This was the second day. My people, it didn’t work. By this third day, I was tensed, it was Saturday evening, this demo should be up by Monday, I have to prove to these guys that I know my onions. I was like in a trance. Anyone who called me, those I could pick their calls noticed the uneasiness and tension in my voice.

After some hacking, configurations, brute force (trial and error), I resolved to use Mod_jk which was a more sophisticated server connector module. I succeeded in installing it in a short time because by Saturday, I had learned so much about Linux DevOps that I was feeling fly. My experience with bottom-plate coding, reading and disambiguating server configurations came in handy. I am this sort of guy that reads server documentations like a textbook. I play around with Tomcat, Glassfish and JBoss server configurations. I study documentations like I was going to write an exam while coding. This was Sunday evening and I had the application running on the VPS on embedded Tomcat and Apache Server running and Mod_jk installed but I can’t see the application on the domain in a browser. The servers can’t communicate. In the process of installing the connector modules, I had extended the source code and added two connectors to the Tomcat class, normal HTTP1.1 and AJP.

What I forgot was that I needed to recompile the project and redeploy to have the changes I made propagate. I thought about this after reading the logs for Mod_jk and discovered it couldn’t link to the Tomcat port and Tomcat wasn’t even listening to that 8009 port. This was Monday already. I was in distress already. I CANNOT fail. I must deliver. This led me to check the jar file of embedded Tomcat java class and I discovered the connector methods I added wasn’t reflected since Saturday. This had made me get all the configuration on the VPS server correct as I thought the issue was from the server.

But once that thought of checking the jar files I deployed came and I found the disparity and I was like ‘eureka, I found it.’ I had been binge drinking all these five days, recall I hadn’t left my room these since Saturday because I went to play football Saturday morning, which didn’t take place because the pitch was flooded. So I five days I hadn’t left the house. So I installed ANT compiler, looked at the build script, made changes as necessary and compiled and uploaded, just like a smooth operator, the portal echoed on the browser. I poured myself a shot, walked out of my room with all the tension in my head subsiding and fizzling out. I could breathe. I sent some Whatsapp messages to the university IT guy, ‘the portal is up’ and some links. Had a few boisterous phone calls and conversations with my guy at home who is part of the team but mostly working on the UI and another colleague. That was not the end of it. The portal could only run if I SSHed the VPS. Once I log off, or network cut, it went down.

By Tuesday, I needed to get it running as a service. At this point, I was taking things easy because I had already done the difficult part. After setting up the startup script as a service and it kept failing, reading the logs informed me the service couldn’t start because the embedded Tomcat couldn’t find the folders. I had to provide absolute paths by tweaking the embedded Tomcat java class replace the getCurrentDir method. I recompiled and deployed, it was running as service, 24/7. At this point, I was feeling myself. I know if the guys at the university could, they could have done what I did a very long time ago and had portal running but my experience of cloud computing and Linux DevOps VPS requires some above intermediate level of software development.

You need to be an expert and resilient to do what I have done without assistance from anyone. But this is how I learned programming. Aside the Oracle Database administration program training I was taught years back, everything I know, I learned by reading and practice. I taught myself, just like I have done as described here in a production environment and have learned what many would pay thousands of dollars and take months to learn. If you want to learn, contact me. I’m willing to share the knowledge. I’m OUT. Stand up for the champion!

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If you have a proposal for university portal (custom built ASP, PHP, JAVA), send me an email to frankgod02@gmail.com, info@topazictsolutions.com. There is a prospect we can collaborate on.

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The best way to master a framework or platform is to get hold of the documentations. It will be rare to find users of some frameworks in Java as there few developers who actually use Java Technologies for serious development in Nigeria and on this forum. For instance, I taught myself SWT after I needed my application to use native look and feel, the documentation and examples on forums such as vogella.com, stackoverflow.com and the rest were of great help. I have not used Netbeans RCP Platform, but I can deduced by mere reading the challenge that your DataNode should be the one implementing Transferable. Dataobjects as the name implies should be data models which represents the data that your DataNodes should have. I didn't google this, just trying to infer from what you explained.

Don't know if you got any or enough proposal yet. However, I can work with you to deliver this solution. I am a Java programmer who learned programming on this forum from scratch. I own a startup (Topaz ICT Solutions Ltd) now. I am currently rounding up an Enterprise Resource Planning (SME) Solution for a company in Lagos (see attached picture of Sales Invoicing Home page, there are five modules - Inventory Warehose & Branches, Accounting and Administration alongside the Sales solution with multi-branch support hosted online). Contact me (frankgod02@gmail.com (preferrable) or info@topazictsolutions.com) for username and password to access the solution. I can work with you to deliver a tailor made online real-time solution for your client.

Don't know if you got any or enough proposal yet. However, I can work with you to deliver this solution. I am a Java programmer who learned from programming on this forum from scratch. I own a startup (Topaz ICT Solutions Ltd) now. I am currently rounding up an Enterprise Resource Planning (SME) Solution for a company in Lagos (see attached picture of Sales Invoicing Home page, there are five modules - Inventory Warehose & Branches, Accounting and Administration alongside the Sales solution with multi-branch support hosted online). Contact me (frankgod02@gmail.com (preferrable) or info@topazictsolutions.com) for username and password to access the solution. I can work with you to deliver a tailor made online real-time solution for your client.

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Java has an API in Java 7 for sound. Check it out.

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my pay is around 400k+/months
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So all the qualifications the guy spelt out above are not visible to you?

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I hope we can learn enough to be proficient in a core language like Java. If you know Java, learning android or any mobile programming platform will be simple and easy

Tunder Lemo.

They should give it to a yoruba man. Soludo, Sanusi and Tunde and the cycle is 3/4 complete. I believe these tribes including the minorities have the brains to run this country's financial system. After him, a minority from any of the tribes should be appointed then we start with an Igbo man again. However, GEJ may appoint someone from the minorities because this is the SS opportunity to implement policies that will give them some leverage in the financial system.

We have capable hands from all the regions, no region can claim to have the best. Let's teach Africa governance of inclusiveness. That's why I still advocate that the North should give GEJ the chance for 2015 and lay hold to 2019 and hand over to Ndi Igbo in 2027.

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I live between two generations. I am in my very early thirties. I was knowledgeable from 10. I had used the desk phone, I had watched black and white with wood and front opening rack. I watched video cassettes. I have lived and schooled in Lagos, Onitsha and Abia State. I used the Nitel Phone Booths. Making calls was a luxury. I spent my youth looking at the American street life as the vogue. Listened to all foreign music tapes and danced all foreign music parties. I saw my village in the medieval period giving way to mansions. Our compound gave way to a decent duplex in the countryside. I lived without telephone 13-14 years of my youth life, and 8 years of these years were as a full fledged adult. The cell phone although I started in 2003 is still a new thing to me. Am still adapting to it. It's not part of my life. My wardrobe, perfumes, cars, decent apartment are more important to me than the phone. It's just one of the accessories. I work with it. It's an extension of my PC. I could be in the villa for a ceremony and I keep the phone for two days without touching it. In that environment, I want to have the trips of coming home and seeing my late grandpa who loved me so much, used to have long conversation with me about the wars he fought in Burma and Egypt. He never agreed he was a Nigeria. To him, he died a Biafra. He wants his own country.

That's a bit of me. The X generation who provides the link between the older generations, and the Y generation. We saw two worlds unfold in our eyes. It was a thralling experience. I wrote love letters. Hand couriered and sent to be received via a proxy or in person. Enchanting times.

Put this on the fp

dopedealer: Do internet banking and stand the chance of been a victim of internet fraud.
Nija Ninjaz are watching #

Developers are gonna be watching. Ethical hackers willl also follow the trends. Daredevil hackers are watching. Someday in 2014, some hacks may occur.

It means "Owner of the Post" OP. Someone made that post. Old Nairaland users devised that. You don't abbreviate the of and the.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State

Am gonna follow this thread. An Enterprise Architect/IT Consultant should know this.

The Hyundia car would be good. if I sort this, am I gonna get it?

I will start a Java 7 advanced beginners class. The class will commence on 10th Jan 2014. Classes will hold here and run for 3 months and 1 month for a mini project.

Note that you should be an advanced computer user. These include use of less common utilities such as the command line, computer registry, microsoft office applications and other operating system utilities. Knowledge of any programming language would be a plus.

You must have a computer and a connection to the internet.

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Now she wants you and you want Arsenal. When she opts for a dude that even hates football and is ready to spend that time with her, you will run to this place to tell us of how your wife cheated.

I watch football. I love it. I even prefer watching in my house or in my in-laws place. What's important is the joy you get from the winning not the crowd of coaches who can't run a meter but can score many goals with their mouth. A greater percentage of those you see at the viewing center are single and young bloods who have no wife at home.

You are asking for big trouble and you will soon get it. This is just a warning.

kofsy:
Ok. But it's not a good enough reason to refer to the bolded. Does your girlfriend complain when she takes the pill?

If not for the fear of pregnancy, many girls don't like taking drugs. I know a few.

Akainzo:

I call Bullshit on the bolded part. You know nothing about the tech world, you are simply a user Q.E.D.

That's your damn opinion and its inconsequential.I DON'T NEED YOUR ENDORSEMENT. You that is a guru in technology, clap for yourself.

Do you know what uncaught exception is in bb. Commot for road jare.

The truth is bitter. Ask girls how bitter it is to swallow pills after sweet s-ex.

Now the bb romance has just started to decline, it's time for the bitter pills.


Swallow it for your own good.

Samsung s4 (black mist) things on my mind

Younger girls any day. Less risk and fresher. Older girls should go and get married. They should be in their husbands house and not dating me.

Akainzo:

The bolded part of your comments is the crux of your misinformation. There you were earlier saying that "there were better smartphones in the world before the BlackBerry", that is what I have taken you up on and which is what you have just confirmed: You are a late bird and did not know when the ONLY smartphone was a BlackBerry. BlackBerry built the smartphone market.

The Android and iPhone knew they couldn't compete on the communications aspect and thus went for the consumer areas: games, apps, gimmicks. They are quite successful and have sold millions more than the BB. However, as a smartphone that gets things done, the Z10 nails it.

I couldn't imagine myself using a lesser OS when I have had super cool mobile and internet experiences. I have had opportunities of picking up lesser blackberry phones and I swear I cannot stomach such degraded devices. I have been playing ps on phones before blackberry. I have been browsing comfortably before blackberry why should I because of hype get on the train and get frustrated. Mind you, am a techie and I have first hand experience of technology.

From day one I told my girlfriend that bb was gonna go down. Today she's like, you never liked bb and gush seems you killed it by yourself. I looked at their future from a vantage point and saw the ovation going down in a few years.

It will only take aggressive innovation to resurrect bb. Live with it.

Samsung s4 (Black mist) on my mind.