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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 7:42am On Apr 16, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
Now I remember Don cornelius very well

Who has the song in the video

This guy with Doctor-who popularised sweaters that year

Zhane - Groove Thang (1994).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVszYWFdvc

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 3:28am On Apr 16, 2018

Michael Jackson, The Jacksons and a very young Alphonso Ribeiro.

1984 Pepsi advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Md5lPyuvsk

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 2:29am On Apr 16, 2018*

I almost forgot! I said that there were many sitcoms in the 1990s and early 2000s that featured Soul Train lines and that I would post a video of one of them.

This is one of the best of those Soul Train reenactments, partly because Don Cornelius actually featured in it. It's the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

I also need to explain the very last part of the video. In 1985 or '86 the NTA showed a video of a young boy that was immitating Michael Jackson on stage. His dance steps and miming were executed perfectly. Michael Jackson saw this young boy and was so impressed by his performance that he invited him to feature in one of his Pepsi commercials.

That young boy's name is Alphonso Ribeiro and you might know him as Carlton Banks, Will Smith's cousin in the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOze1M1cRIQ

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Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 9:08am On Apr 15, 2018

ADENIKETINA2015:
She still married to him?

Yes

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Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 8:59am On Apr 15, 2018

slam7000:
@naptu2, The woman beside Sienne Allwell Brown reminds of Elizabeth Nze-Uzoukwu. Nit sure if I got her last name correct. Elizabeth Nze was a former NTA news caster.

I initially thought that it was Elizabeth Nze, but when I looked closely I realised that it wasn't her.

Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 8:16am On Apr 15, 2018

naptu2:
Do you know Funmi Odubekun, Waheed Olagunju, John Momoh, Hauwa Baba-Ahmed, Ronke Ayuba, Joan Odwyer, Elizabeth Nze, Sienne Alwell-Brown, Patrick Oke, Donald Ovberedjo and Segun Aderiye?

naptu2:
Funmi Odubekun, Joan O'Dwyer, Waheed Olagunju, Ronke Ayuba, John Momoh, Patrick Oke, Elizabeth Nze, Hauwa Baba-Ahmed, Ruth Benameisia, Sienne Allwel-Brown

And later, Donald Ovberedjo, Tokunboh Ajayi and Cyril Stober.

I remember when Cyril Stober was dating Efunsheke Merriman-Johnson of NTA2 Channel 5. Yinka Craig and Patrick Oke introduced him as "Cyril 'Your Reach Out' Stober".

I remember when Sienne Allwell-Brown got married. They introduced her as, "Sienne Allwell-Wed".

Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 7:26am On Apr 15, 2018

uglodoh:
You showed a Youtube of her brocasting news.

Did you watch the video? If you did you would have heard the newscaster say that the report about the church society was by Jennifer Iwenjiora. She was not the newscaster. She was the person interviewing the woman.

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Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 7:20am On Apr 15, 2018*

SalamRushdie:
naptu2 please is the son Atikus biological son?

ADENIKETINA2015:
Obviously not, going by his name and the post also states 'his step son' which implies the woman may have had him before/after(that is if separated) her marriage to Atiku.

1) Jennifer Iwenjiora was an NTA News reporter in the 1980s.

2) She met Atiku Abubakar for the first time in 1982, but they later lost touch.

3) She relocated to the US in the late 1980s or early 1990s and she got married to a man named Douglas (for whom she had her son, Anthony Chuka Douglas). They later got divorced. She is a US citizen.

4) She became reacquainted with Atiku Abubakar in the late 1990s and they got married. She adopted the name Jamilah Atiku Abubakar.

5) She lived in Atiku Abubakar's mansion in Potomac, Maryland. She also got her Ph.D. while she was in the US.

6) She was the subject of an investigation by the US Government regarding certain financial dealings, but she said that the funds belonged to her husband and she didn't know anything about it.

7) She relocated to Dubai, where her son got married a few days ago.

8 ) She is also a lawyer and was called to Bar in Nigeria a few years ago.

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Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 6:51am On Apr 15, 2018*

SalamRushdie:
Oh so he wife used to be a govt newscaster ..interesting ..nice

She was a reporter, not a newscaster.

1) Jennifer Iwenjiora was an NTA News reporter in the 1980s.

2) She met Atiku Abubakar for the first time in 1982, but they later lost touch.

3) She relocated to the US in the late 1980s or early 1990s and she got married to a man named Douglas (for whom she had her son, Anthony Chuka Douglas). They later got divorced. She is a US citizen.

4) She became reacquainted with Atiku Abubakar in the late 1990s and they got married. She adopted the name Jamilah Atiku Abubakar.

5) She lived in Atiku Abubakar's mansion in Potomac, Maryland. She also got her Ph.D. while she was in the US.

6) She was the subject of an investigation by the US Government regarding certain financial dealings, but she said that the funds belonged to her husband and she didn't know anything about it.

7) She relocated to Dubai, where her son got married a few days ago.

8 ) She is also a lawyer and was called to the Nigerian Bar a few years ago.

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Events › Re: Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 1:34am On Apr 15, 2018

naptu2:
Jennifer Iwenjiora's (now Jamilah Abubakar) news report from 1985.

NTA Network News at 12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3sxvRfhgQ

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Events › Pictures Of Ben Bruce And NTA Legends At Atiku Abubakar's Stepson’s Wedding by naptu2(op): 1:34am On Apr 15, 2018*

Jennifer Iwenjiora was an NTA News correspondent in the 1980s. She later got married to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who became Nigeria’s vice president in 1999. She is now known as Jamilah Atiku Abubakar.

Jamilah Atiku Abubakar’s son, Anthony Chuka Douglas, got married to Whitney Erin Woods in Dubai and the event was held from the 12th to the 14th of April. They had a wedding lunch on the Lawn at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel on April 13th and her former colleagues at the NTA were at the event.

First picture) Standing (from r-l). Ruth Benamaisia (newscaster from the early 1980s till the early 2000s), Ben Bruce's wife, Ben Bruce and then

Sienne Al-Well Brown (newscaster from the early 1980s till the mid-1990s).

The woman beside Sienne looks very familiar.

Seated is the ever beautiful Ronke Ayuba (newscaster in the 1980s).

Ruth Benamaisia got married to Eric Opia in the mid-1990s, Sienne Al-Well Brown got married to Razak Lawal in the early 1990s and Ronke Ayuba got married to Colonel Tanko Ayuba (the minister of communications) in the 1980s.

Second picture) Senator Ben Murray-Bruce and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Third picture) An old picture of Jamilah and Atiku Abubakar.

Fourth picture) Anthony Chuka Douglas and Whitney Erin Woods.

https://twitter.com/benmurraybruce/status/984851026577711104

http://awchuka.com/wedding/

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 12:46am On Apr 15, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
Mid to late 90's

I think you are referring to Open House Party.

Dr Levi Ajuonuma was the last host of The Sunday Show on NTA Channel 10 (previously hosted by Sylvester Ofuogu in the 1980s). He also hosted other shows on the NTA.

In the mid 1990s he created a show called Open House Party which was broadcast on RayPower FM. It was basically a party on radio. It was sometimes hosted at various night clubs in Lagos and at other times the show was done in the studio.

Many famous people appeared on the show and various DJs played popular music.

Levi Ajuonuma was later appointed as the head of public affairs at the NNPC, but he still hosted the show occasionally.

Dr Levi Ajuonuma was killed in the 2012 Dana Air crash.

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 12:34am On Apr 15, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
Sunday Rendezvous was the 12 or 1 'o' clock show sponsored by limca and goldspot. There was a late night version on radio, can't remember the station I think it was on Friday nights, with a signature tune of soul to soul

On radio? Friday nights? Mid or late 1990s?

(I think I know what you are talking about).

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 11:31pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa, Ishilove, Kyase.
This was the movie of 1984. The soundtrack was awesome (Chaka Khan, McFadden & Whitehead, etc). Breakdance The Movie.

This was where they realised that they needed Kelly. The MC rapping on stage is Ice T. He now acts in Law And Order SVU as Detective Fin Tutuola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2guxhefWrQ

This is one of my favourite scenes (Turbo dancing with a broom).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEoaN9qIxFs

Teaching Kelly to breakdance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-q2CNPDfOU

The final dance scene. Breakdance mixed with classical ballet. This is where I fell in love with the song Ain't No Stopping Us by McFadden & Whitehead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIYF80xSdw

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 4:43pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
Ok, this is popping, what of breaking cause it looks like breaking to me

Cc Ishilove.

Windmill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lf9CoTh_Kk

Airflare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8VxeKO8SjY

Etc.

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 2:44pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
I thought Michael's dancing was influenced by Prince.

Time Magazine talks to Jeffrey Daniels about Michael Jackson.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1907409_1907413_1907560,00.html

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 2:40pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
I thought Michael's dancing was influenced by Prince.

Ishilove kyase

Breakdancing was divided into two back in early 1980s Nigeria - poppin and breakin. I knew people who specialised in one or the other. Breakin was more energetic and included headspins and other fast and energetic moves. Poppin was about sending waves through your body.

I've been searching for a better way to explain poppin to younger people and this is it.

Michael Jackson and Jeffrey Daniels poppin during a practice session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJzxvf4VUxU

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 2:32pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
I started watching soul train early 90's
Though I have most of shalamars songs didn't know about the MJ part though

Break dancing became very popular in the early 1980s. In Nigeria it was extremely popular 1983-1985 and it was made even more popular by movies like Breakdance, The Movie.

Jeffrey Daniels was originally a dancer on Soul Train and he choreographed a lot of Shalamar's dance routines.

Michael Jackson wanted to know more about this hip new dance so he hired Jeffrey to teach him. Jeffrey taught him the backslide and Michael flipped it and created the Moonwalk.

Michael talked about it in several interviews (including the interview with Oprah) and Jeffrey also talked about it when he was in Nigeria (he was a judge on Pepsi Nigerian Idol).

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 2:22pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
Do you remember the version sponsored by Lima and parley soda

That's Sunday Rendezvous.

It started as Kessingsheen Hit Show on NTA 2 Channel 5 in 1988, became Sunday Rendezvous, moved to Channel 10 and was shown until c2006.

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 2:07pm On Apr 14, 2018

I also remember that there used to be something called 20-20 Soul Train in the 1980s. I think the host was a woman and Jeffrey Daniel also sometimes hosted it, but it was not as good as the original.

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 1:56pm On Apr 14, 2018

(I FOUND IT! )

Proudlyngwa, Ishilove, Kyase

And this is my favourite Soul Train line.

(The first girl is dressed like Kim Fields)

The force. . .it's got a lot of power and. . it makes me feel. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P-TXxoWTSE

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 1:53pm On Apr 14, 2018

Ishilove:
Oga naptu2, folks like me who are in our early 20s don't know who Don Cormenius is

I wish you love, peace and soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuRqUo5yxgw

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 1:50pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa

Do you know that Jeffrey Daniel started off as a dancer on Soul Train before they created Shalamar and before he taught Michael Jackson the back slide?

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Forum Games › Re: The Comment Without Any 'Like', Wins. (LIKERS' PARADISE) by naptu2: 1:46pm On Apr 14, 2018

Proudlyngwa:
Some things are done just to make you happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7KawdsVSQ

Naptu2 kindly do a topic on this.

Cc Ishilove

Kyase come and see how we used to roll those years

Even before I clicked on the video I knew that it just had to be a Soul Train line.

That was the part of the show that I always looked forward to. I should do a thread about Soul Train lines, including the ones that were done on sitcoms 10 or 20 years later (Fresh Prince of Bel Air, etc), but

Until then, my name is Don Cornelius and I wish you peace, love and soul

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NYSC › Re: Aggressive Error Message Corper Got While Checking NYSC Portal. Is This Real? by naptu2: 8:08am On Apr 14, 2018

And there were more.

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