naptu2: Sikiru Adepoju and Babatunde Olatunji also featured on 2Pac Shakur's posthumous album "The Rose That Grew From Concrete". The album is made up of various stars reading 2Pac's poems.
Babatunde Olatunji recited the poem on this track, while he and Sikiru Adepoju played the drums.
2Pac ft Babatunde Olatunji and Sikiru Adepoju - Wake Me When I'm Free (2000).
naptu2: Throwback pictures of a two-time Grammy Award winning Nigerian musician.
Sikiru Adepoju is a legendary talking drummer from Eruwa in Oyo State Nigeria. He is descended from a long line of drummers and his father began teaching him how to play the drums when he was six years old. He and his brothers played in the family band. He later became a member of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey’s Inter-Reformers Band when he was a teenager and this was when he became famous in Nigeria.
He travelled to the United States in 1985 in order to play with afrobeat legend Orlando Julius and master drummer Babatunde Olatunji. Olatunji had been famous and very influential in the music scene in the United States since the early 1960s and he introduced Sikiru Adepoju to his friends, including Micky Hart.
Musician, musicologist and drummer for the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart had an idea to make an album in which all the best drummers from around the world would feature.
The album featured Mickey Hart (United States), Zakir Hussain and T.H. “Vikku” Vinayakram (both from India), Babatunde Olatunji and Sikiru Adepoju (from Nigeria), Airto Moreira and his wife Flora Purim (from Brazil) and Giovanni Hidalgo and Frank Colon from Puerto Rico. The album won the first ever Grammy Award in the “World Music Album” category at the 1992 Grammy Award ceremony. It also reached number 1 on the Billboard chart for Top World Music Albums.
Unfortunately Babatunde Olatunji died in 2003.
Sikiru Adepoju has collaborated with many musicians including Stevie Wonder, Babatunde Olatunji, Carlos Santana, Ebenezer Obey, Airto Moreira, Bimbo Abimbola, Mickey Hart, Orlando Julius, Muruga Booker and The String Cheese Incident.
Sikiru Adepoju continued to collaborate with Micky Hart on many projects after the death of Babatunde Olatunji. One of those projects was the Global Drum Project which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album. It also reached number six on the Billboard chart for top world music albums. The album featured Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo.
Bekool: Facts kee you there with all that is currently going on in the north east is not enough to conclude that the girl was obviously murdered by jihadist sympathizers in the airforce
T9ksy: The moment i read her story, i knew that she was purposely wasted. The story just doesn't jell.
Just a few days before Tolulope's story, a frustrated soldier resigned from the military after he was deliberately shoot at by one of his colleagues. He was a proficient sniper who has killed many boko haram members.
Moreover, how many times have our soldiers been ambushed in this war that seems to have no end.
Still no evidence, no names or anything. I prefer to deal with facts not speculation.
surgical: This is a big lie, the sister already she dropped her off when she received a call to come,so they are just looking for a story that will seat well,we know they just wasted the girl
Wow! You know that they just wasted the girl? Can you tell us the names of the "they" that wasted the girl and also show us your evidence?
I don't know if this story is true (there is no link and I don't know who Channels TV's source is), but there's absolutely nothing in this story that contradicts what the Air Force had previously said.
1) They said that the driver is a former classmate of hers from Air Force Secondary School. Nothing in this story contradicts that.
2) They said that she was knocked down when the driver was reversing. Nothing in this story contradicts that.
3) They said that they have 2 people in custody and that the incident is being investigated. Nothing in this story contradicts that.
Meanwhile people who were not there are spinning all kinds of stories and they have not been able to provide any evidence to back their story.
Nbotee: First dey claimed it was a friend dat hit her while reversing to greet her... Now it is a civilian who had dropped her off dat hit her while reversing?? D said driver hit only her despite dropping her and her friends?Nigerians may neva know d truth about her death.
Can't the friend be a civilian? They are not mutually exclusive and there's nothing contradictory there.
Secondly, they didn't say that the driver dropped her friends. They said that the driver gave she and her friends a lift, but they only said that the driver dropped her off when the incident happened.
An Epidemic: Nigerian Men Killing Their Nurse Wives In The US. By Abiodun Ladepo
Posted: Jan, 22 2014, 2:01PM
"Yes I have killed the woman that messed up my life; the woman that has destroyed me. I am at Shalom West. My name is David and I am all yours.” Those were David Ochola’s words during his 911 (U.S. Emergency Number) call to authorities after shooting dead his 28 years old wife, Priscilla Ochola, in Hennepin, Minnesota. The 50-years old husband was tired of being “disrespected” by his wife, a Registered Nurse (RN) whom he had brought from Nigeria and sponsored through nursing school only to have her make much more than him in salary - a situation which led to Mrs. Ochola “coming and going as she chose without regard for her husband.” The couple had two children – four years old boy and a three years old girl.
In Texas, Babajide Okeowo had been separated from his wife, Funke Okeowo, with whom he resided at their Dallas home. Upon the divorce, the husband lost the house to his wife, along with most of the contents therein, as is usually the tradition in U.S. divorces where the couple still has underage children. Mr. Okeowo, 48, divorced his wife because not long after she became a RN and made more money than him, she “took control” of the family finances and “controlled” her husband’s expenditure and movement. The husband could no longer make any meaningful contribution to his family back in Nigeria unless the wife “approved” it. He could not go out without her permission. Frustrated that his formerly malleable wife had suddenly become such a “terror” to him to the point of asking for in court and getting virtually everything for which he had worked since coming to the US thirty years prior, the husband got in his vehicle and drove a few hundred miles to Dallas to settle the scores. He found her in her SUV, adorned in full Nigerian attire on her way to the birthday bash organized in her honor. She had turned 46 on that day. Mr. Okeowo fired several rounds into his wife’s torso while she sat at the steering wheel, mercilessly killing her in broad daylight.
Also in Dallas (they sure need anger management classes in Dallas), Moses Egharevba, 45, did not even bother to get a gun. The husband of Grace Egharevba, 35, bludgeoned her to death with a sledge hammer while their seven years old daughter watched and screamed for peace. Mrs. Egharevba’s “sin” was that she became a RN and started to make more money than her husband. This led to her “financial liberation” from a supposedly tight-fisted husband who had not only brought her from Nigeria, but had also funded her nursing school education.
Like Moses Egharevba, Christopher Ndubuisi of Garland, Texas, (these Texas people!) also did not bother to get a gun. He crept into the bedroom where his wife, Christiana, was sleeping and, with several blows of the sledge hammer, crushed her head. Two years before Christiana was killed, her mother, who had been visiting from Nigeria, was found dead in the bathtub under circumstances believed to be suspicious. Of course, Christiana was a RN whose income dwarfed that of her husband as soon as she graduated from nursing school. The husband believed that his role as a husband and head of the household had been usurped by his wife. Mr. Ndubuisi’s several entreaties to his wife’s family to intercede and bring Christiana back under his control had all failed.
If circumstances surrounding the death of Christiana’s mother were suspicious, those surrounding the death of a Tennessee woman’s mother were not. Agnes Nwodo, a RN, lived in squalor before her husband, Godfrey Nwodo, rescued her and brought her to the US. He enrolled her in nursing school right away. Upon qualifying as a RN, Mrs. Nwodo assumed “full control” of the household. She brought her mother to live with them against her husband’s wishes. Mrs. Nwodo quickly familiarized herself with US Family Laws and took full advantage of them. Each time the couple argued, the police forced the husband to leave the house whether he had a place to sleep or not. On many occasions, Mr. Nwodo spent days in police cells. Upon divorcing his wife, Mr. Nwodo lost to his wife the house he had owned for almost 20 years before he married her. He also lost custody of their three children to her, with the court awarding him only periodic visitation rights. Even seeing the children during visitation was always a hassle as the wife would “arrive late to the neutral meeting place and leave early with impunity.” Mr. Nwodo endured so many embarrassing moments from his wife and her mother until he could take it no more. One day, he bought himself a shotgun and killed both his wife and her mother.
Caleb Onwudike’s wife, Chinyere Onwudike, 36, became a RN and no longer saw the need to be controlled by her husband. Mr. Onwudike, 41, worked two jobs to send his wife to her dream school upon bringing her to the US from Nigeria. After four years, she qualified as RN. Once she started to make more money than her husband, she began to “call the shots” at home. She “overruled” her husband on the size and cost of the house they purchased in Burtonsville, Maryland. She began to build a house solely in her name in their native Umuahia town of Abia State, Nigeria, without her husband’s input whatsoever. Mrs. Onwudike came and went “as she liked,” within the US and outside the US. In fact, she once travelled to Nigeria for three weeks “without her husband’s permission” to lavishly bury her father despite her husband’s protestations that they had better things to do with the money. Mrs. Onwudike let her husband know that this was mostly her money and she would spend it however she wanted. Through her hard work, she had risen to a managerial position at the medical center where she worked. Upon her return from burying her father, her husband got one of her kitchen knives and carved her up like Thanksgiving turkey inside their home on New Year’s Day.
Death is death no matter how it comes. But the goriest of these maniacal killings is probably the one that happened here in Los Angeles, California. Joseph Mbu, 50, was tired of his RN wife’s “serial disrespect” of him. The disrespect began as soon as she became a RN. Gloria Mbu, 40, had once told her husband he must be “smoking crack cocaine” if he thought he could tell her what to do with her money now that she made more money than him. Before she became a RN, Mr. Mbu had been very strict with family finances and was borderline dictatorial in his dealings with Mrs. Mbu. However, Mrs. Mbu learned the American system and would no longer allow any man to “put her down.” When Joseph Mbu could not take it anymore, he subdued his wife one day, tied her to his vehicle and dragged her on paved roads all around Los Angeles until her head split in many pieces.
[Author’s note: Although these are true stories, all the names and some of the details of the incidents have been altered as a mark of respect to the families involved. All of the killer husbands noted in these stories were found guilty. Most of them received the death sentence. Only the California and Maryland culprits received life sentences without the possibility of parole.]
It often comes to Nigerian men living in the US as a rude shock when their wives become the household’s bread winner. Having been accustomed to the docility, domestication, subjugation and outright terrorization of women back home in Nigeria, many Nigerian men are astounded when their wives assert their financial, behavioral and social independence.
It is commonplace for Nigerian men to take important family decisions without consulting their wives; to travel out of town and indeed out of country without consulting their wives. Some do not even bother to inform their wives! It is not a big deal for Nigerian husbands to answer phone calls from their girlfriends while lying in bed with their wives; to buy expensive gifts for their girlfriends and making only perfunctory, casual attempt to conceal such gifts.
It is nothing strange for Nigerian men to, in fact, bring those girlfriends to their matrimonial homes while their wives are home! Some Nigerian men think they have the carte blanche to do what they want because they are the bread winners. What’s the wife going to do to them? Beat them? Leave them? Leave them after one, two or three children? Who’s going to marry her? So Nigerian men think.
This cruel and phenomenal hostage-taking by Nigerian men in Nigeria is what Nigerian women in America are trying to stop. And they figured out the easiest way to begin curtailing these bullish husbands’ wings is to improve their own potential to earn more. A good way to earn a decent pay in the US (unlike in Nigeria) is to become a Registered Nurse.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual salaries of RNs, based on information from May 2012, is $68,000, while the mean annual salary is $69,000. The middle 50% of RNs earns between $54,000 and $78,000. Only 10% of RNs earns less than $44,000, while some 10% earns more than $97,000. The BLS also reports average hourly wages: The median hourly wage of a RN is $32.00 and the mean hourly wage is $33.00. The middle 50% of RNs earns wages of $27.00 to $40.00, with 10% of them earning less than $22.00 while 10% earns more than $48.00 an hour.
Nigerian men in the US are quick to send their “newly-imported” wives to these nursing schools in the hope that once the women graduate, they (the husbands) could take control of their finances and continue their enslavement. You can imagine a man who was probably a menial worker earning less than $30,000 annually in an expensive place like California or New York going back to Nigeria to “oppress” the village with dollars. He finds a “village girl,” brings her to the US and sends her to nursing school. When she graduates and makes twice his salary, he begins to feel inferior to her and his macho instincts take control of him, catapulting his emotions over his sense of reason. If the RN wife decides to take a second or third job, she can easily triple or quadruple the gap between her earnings and those of her menial job husband’s.
Working long hours takes the wife away from home and because nurses are expected to work overnight shifts, you end up with a husband who is usually home alone at night with just the children. Since even “normal” marriages can be potentially stressful endeavors, adding spousal jealousy and a husband who sleeps alone half of the time to the equation will certainly test the limits of the marriage. It is the reason why even when such husbands do not go over the hill to kill their wives, they divorce them in epidemic numbers. A friend in New York told me that RN women there are being divorced in droves as if they are plagues.
What is the big deal if a RN wife makes more money than her husband? There are several other professions in which wives make more money than their husbands. In fact, I know of a few military couples with the wives senior in rank to their husbands even though they joined the military at the same time. Yet, nobody is killing or divorcing anybody. Is this strictly a RN thing?
My hope is that some of these RN wives learn from the many other RN wives who successfully manage their homes in spite of making more money than their husbands. My hope is also that the husbands of these RNs learn from husbands of the many RNs who successfully cope with a wife who makes more than they do. I don’t know how they do it, but for every RN who is killed or divorced by her husband, there are hundreds, if not thousands more who proudly respect their husbands and submit to their husbands’ authority – yes, their husbands’ authority (NOT control and NOT abuse) even here in the US.
By Abiodun Ladepo Los Angeles, California, USA Oluyole2@yahoo.com
kendrick9: He got Game(1998)- 7.5/10 Directed by Spike Lee. Denzel Washington is effortlessly good in this, he's so smooth One of his most underrated roles .. it's a Spike Lee joint, I'm a big fan of his camera shots/angles. And Finally I've seen a sportsman who can act..... Ray Allen a real life basketball star features in this.. It's a great movie with unique storyline.
Chris525: This project was initiated by the GEJ admin. A lot of projects initiated by this admin will be completed by the next.
Even OBJ made massive investment in the rail sector. You're clueless about how governance works. Pls dont quote me anymore. Thanks.
The project was not initiated by the GEJ regime. It was first talked about by the Shagari Administration in the early 1980s.
It was started by the Babangida Administration in 1987. They laid the tracks, but the tracks were from nowhere to no where. Then it was abandoned.
It was talked about by both the Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan administrations.
It has been continued by the Buhari Administration and hopefully they will complete it.
The original purpose of the rail line was to take iron ore from Itakpe and steel from Ajaokuta to the port in Warri, but the Buhari Administration has decided to extend the rail line to Abuja.
Bulleye: All Yoruba are waiting for Tinubu's statement on the death of Tolu, the young air Force combatant that lost her life in NAF barracks in Kaduna. Yes, Kaduna city of crocodile.
GEEBITE: The Flaming Flamingoes,Up Super then.Family feud pushed your club into extinction,learnt Fashola tried to mediate but failed eventually.
The rogue Peter Ridsdale,always leaving clubs in debts from Leeds,to Cardiff and Plymouth Argyle.I learnt he is leeching on Preston now,Im certain that will end in sad tales for that club as well.
He succeeded. Stationery Stores bought over Union Bank's place in the NNL and we now have a beach soccer team too.
GEEBITE: Obviously you support Leeds.Terrible financial management damaged the Club.The reason it took them so long to get out of that doldrums. For my late dad's sake,I wish them well.
I love football, but the only club I support is Stationery Stores.
There was a documentary about that problem back in the day. Peter Ridsdale and David O'leary were trading accusations.
The problem was that Peter Ridsdale spent with the belief that they would qualify for the Champions League every year and he blames David O'leary for not qualifying and denying them the financial windfall that comes from the Champions League, but David O'leary said that there was no way that any manager could guarantee that they would appear in the Champions League every year.
Tony Yeboah was Ghana's version of Rashidi Yekini and he had a great partnership with Jay Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudano at Eintracht Frankfurt.
Then came a coach that did not like the three of them and Yeboah and Gaudano left, while Okocha spent some time on the bench.
Bayern Munich were interested in Yeboah, but Frankfurt did not want to sell him to another Bundesliga team and so he went to Leeds United.
Yeboah was very famous and well liked at Leeds for two wonder goals. The first was a goal against Wimbledon and this was the second. This was his wonder strike against Liverpool in 1995.
I have waited many years in order to be able to quote this post.
naptu2: Alan Smith, Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell, Lee Bowyer, Jonathan Woodgate, Ian Harte, Lucas Radebe, Rio Ferdinand, Nigel Martyn, Eirik Bakke, Paul Robinson, Nicky Barmby, Robbie Keane, Danny Mills, Michael Duberry, David Batty, Olivier Dacourt
Alan Smith, Ian Harte, Eirik Bakke, Harry Kewel, Mark Viduka, Nigel Martyn, Jonathan Woodgate, Alf-Inge Haland, Lucas Radebe, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Lee Bowyer, Paul Robinson, David Batty, Lee Sharpe, Olivier Darcourt, Danny Mills, Anthony Yeboah, Robbie Keane, Michael Bridges, Robbie Fowler, Bruno Ribeiro
Celebrities › Re: 50 Hollywood/European Stars That Were Yoruba by naptu2: 8:56am On Jul 19, 2020
