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Politics › Re: Shehu Shagari In Full Military Regalia (Throwback Photo) by naptu2: 1:40am On Feb 26, 2017

iukpe:
Abeg which president was this? What happened to "Alhaji Shehu Shagari"?

Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari.

Politics › Re: Shehu Shagari In Full Military Regalia (Throwback Photo) by naptu2: 6:12pm On Feb 25, 2017

That's Abdullahi Bello beside the president.

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Politics › Re: Shehu Shagari In Full Military Regalia (Throwback Photo) by naptu2: 4:40pm On Feb 25, 2017*

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Politics › Re: Photo Of Osinbajo Inspecting Toilet At Murtala Airport by naptu2: 4:03pm On Feb 25, 2017

Dongreat:
I am happy you find it amusing. After laughing please don't forget to buy fuel at a ridiculous price as a result of "the most expensive ($20 billion dollars) blackout from your government and charge your phone before buying a data at 200% increase to support your VP in his inspection of toilets when he has a minister appointed to do so with a ridiculous budget drawn out from your commonwealth.
Now who looks like the clown here? You who laugh at my English yet suffering and smiling, or me who has built an empire for my generations unborn? Once again man, continue Hahahahahaha. Hohohohohoho

Ps: I expect more highlights from my bad English.

HaHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I'm "suffering and smiling". Please keep it coming bro, but please don't "savage" Nigerians.

Politics › Re: Photo Of Osinbajo Inspecting Toilet At Murtala Airport by naptu2: 3:28pm On Feb 25, 2017

Dongreat:
Many Nigerians are stack illiterate and think Osibanjo act means humility, not knowing that time he should be using to implore tactics to savage this country is been spent on watching toilets yet there is a minister of health to employ an health inspector from the outrageous budget allocated to his ministry and Lagos also has a ministry of health. Nigerians una well done.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

grin

Thank you. I needed that laughter.

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 8:28am On Feb 25, 2017

Thosyn:
Waohh waohh, thanks for this really...I'm most impressed with the OP

But i haven't seen Aki Special on the list...I love this song, i hope i have a witness out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_MnLaaWc3w

I consider him to be a Nigerian and his songs are on my list of 150 Nigerian songs.

naptu2:
The old debate: "Was Prince Nico Mbarga a Nigerian or a Cameroonian"?

Prince Nico Mbarga was born in Abakaliki, Nigeria to a Cameroonian father and a Nigerian mother. He grew up in Nigeria and started playing music in Nigerian school bands. He achieved his greatest success while playing in Onitsha, Nigeria.

Prince Nico Mbarga was one of the original members of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN). He also set up his record company (distributed by Polydor Nigeria) and his hotel in Nigeria (the hotel was in Ikom).

Prince Nico Mbarga died in a motorcycle accident in Calabar, Nigeria in 1997 and he was buried at his residence in Ikom, Nigeria.

In my view, Prince Nico Mbarga was a Nigerian.

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 8:26am On Feb 25, 2017

Pointblank09:
++++++VIP Gheu

Can some one tell me the name person that sang
Africa ooooo eeee oooo
Africa ....Africa eeeeeee and the tiltle?

The song that you are referring to (Gheu), is actually called Ahonka Womu and it is on the list.

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 6:32am On Feb 23, 2017

Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 6:22am On Feb 23, 2017

This is probably the most famous and the best a capella group to come out of Africa (by now, many of you will already know the group I'm referring to). They've won 4 Grammy awards.

The South African isicathamiya and mbube styles of singing (a capella) were very popular in Nigeria in the 1970s and '80s. It was believed at that time, that black South Africans were very good singers and that this ability was developed because of their long years of suffering under the apartheid system (just as it was believed that black Americans developed their ability to sing during the era of slavery in the United States).

Ladysmith Black Mambazo became the symbol of South African a capella singing in the 1980s. They sang Homeless and Diamonds In The Soles Of Her Shoes with Paul Simon and also provided backing vocals on another Paul Simon song, Bodyguard. These songs became worldwide hits.

I'm going to post two videos here. The first is a video of Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing Homeless. The second is a video of Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing Homeless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFQ1TSzdpRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b5B9pOUd4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBMAXQ28V-w

Politics › Re: Lagos To Begin Construction Of 4th Mainland This Year, 2017 by naptu2: 7:50pm On Feb 22, 2017*

browniex:
thanks for the info, quite revealing.

I remember when you could see, what I used to call the "sheer drop".

There were barriers on the road at the Ebute Metta end of the bridge. They prevented you from going straight, so you had to use the exit. You could see the "sheer drop" (the place where the bridge abruptly came to an end) from the exit ramp.

There were always workmen there, but they never did anything. Then sometime in the late '80s, the extended the bridge a little bit. Not by much, just a little bit and then they abandoned it again.

Then in 1990 they completed it. I was surprised at how quickly they completed it, after abandoning it for several years.

Politics › Re: Lagos To Begin Construction Of 4th Mainland This Year, 2017 by naptu2: 7:36pm On Feb 22, 2017

browniex:
Before the coming of the third mainland bridge, how did lagosians use to commute between the mainland and island?just asking.

Joavid:
good question. I think naptu2 can answer.

johnie:
In the seventies, only the Carter(First) and Eko (Second) Bridges linked the Island with the mainland.

Carter bridge was constructed by the colonial government while the military ( I believe Gowon) built the Eko Bridge.

The odd and even number concept was adopted to reduce vehicular movement in the seventies. Odd-number vehicles could ply the major roads on particular days and even-number cars on the other days. Ojuelegba and Yaba were two major bottlenecks in those days. Fela's song Ojuelegba , was about the regular confusion at the place. Whenever we were going to school and climbed the overhead bridge at Jibowu (from where we could clearly see the traffic situation at Yaba), my dad would remark Yaba O wo loni o! - meaning Yaba is messed up today.

In those days, people such as my parents had to have two cars -one even and the other odd numbered. My dad still advises me today to ensure that my cars are evenly spread between odd and even - just in case the number regime returns!

The Third Mainland Bridge was constructed by the Babangida government and was actually named after him (Ibrahim Babangida Boulevard) on completion. That name did not stick particularly because of the June 12 Saga which shortly followed the opening of the bridge. In the first phase of the project, Adeniji to Adekunle was done and open to traffic. When completed, the Adekunle-Oworo section of the bridge was not open to traffic for about six months.

Before the Adekunle-Oworo section was opened, I worked variously at Lagos Island and VI and had to go through Adekunle to join Ikorodu road. That stretch from the Third Mainland Bride through Herbert Macaulay was hell. The traffic used to be very bad. Thank God that in those days, the incidence of robbery in the traffic hadn't started (at least I neither experienced nor heard of it).

That's how we used to "cope" then.

https://www.nairaland.com/987367/how-did-lagos-cope-before

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Politics › Re: Lagos To Begin Construction Of 4th Mainland This Year, 2017 by naptu2: 7:32pm On Feb 22, 2017

browniex:
Before the coming of the third mainland bridge, how did lagosians use to commute between the mainland and island?just asking.

Joavid:
good question. I think naptu2 can answer.

Everybody used Carter Bridge before the Gowon Government conceived of the Ring Road project (which included Eko and Third Mainland bridges).

The government imposed the odd and even number system in order to reduce the traffic jams in the 1970s and 80s. It didn't work. Lots of people had both odd and even numbered cars.

President Shagari commissioned the first section of the Third Mainland Bridge c1980. This was the section from Lagos Island to Ebute Metta. So you would get off the bridge at Ebute Metta, then take Herbert Macaulay Road and Ikorodu Road in order to get to Ikeja.

I remember the great traffic jam of 1989. Eko Bridge was closed for repairs, so everybody had to use either Carter Bridge or Third Mainland Bridge.

On the first day of the closure, I was at home in Ikoyi, waiting for the driver to bring someone home from Queen's College in Yaba. The school day ended at 2 o'clock, so I would usually expect them to be home by 3 or 3:30.

3:30 became 4 and then 5 o'clock. That's when I made the mistake of deciding to go and look for them (there were no mobile phones at that time).
The traffic jam on Third Mainland Bridge and Herbert Macaulay Road was incredible. People heading towards the mainland had taken over the entire road and it was impossible to drive to the Island (which was why my driver was stuck). Worse still, we got to QC, only to be told that they left hours ago. I took Murtala Muhammed Way and Carter Bridge on the way back. Herbert Macaulay Way and Third Mainland Bridge were impassable.

It was because of that great traffic jam in 1989 that a third lane on Herbert Macaulay Way (from St Agnes to Jibowu) was reserved for people heading to Ikeja.

Then c1990, Colonel Raji Rasaki was appointed governor of Lagos. According to Babangida, Colonel Rasaki "disturbed" him every day about the Third Mainland Bridge, to the extent that he had to tell his secretary not to allow Rasaki in whenever he came to State House.

The bridge was finally completed in 1990 and there was a huge party on the bridge to mark the commissioning. Immediately President Babangida left the event, Sir Shina Peters took to the stage and the party had begun. I can still remember how Governor Rasaki danced happily at the commissioning.

The section of the bridge from Ebute Metta to Oworonsoki was renamed IBB Bridge on the day that the Federal Government moved to Abuja. I still have a video of that ceremony.

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Music/Radio › Re: List Of 150 Of The Greatest Nigerian Songs By Naptu2 by naptu2(op): 10:02am On Feb 22, 2017

TempUser:
Please can someone avail me the links to these songs please? :

Je ka ma fera wa mo nife re o shade

You is the one ti Mo really feran by harzadous

Show me love by taiwo and Kenny (taye Kenny... Awa omo meji..... Show me love huh huuuun, show your real love......... Ooooleku, fun mi ni owo mi o....)

Orlando- iwo ololufe mi o jowo dakun ye ma ko mi sile, sile,..... Iwo ni Mo feran just (I love you)..... Ni gbogbo aye mi...

Please

Orlando Julius - Ololufe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm39Lo6aDpA

Phones › Re: Why People Are Excited About The Return Of The Reliable Nokia 3310 by naptu2: 7:12am On Feb 22, 2017

Nokia Cityman, Hotline Ericsson, Motorola DynaTAC, or nought-nine-nought-dozen-dozen.

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 7:24pm On Feb 21, 2017

joseph1832ng:
Naptu2. Please I need the title of this song by charly boy. Ogbonyara was the chorus or something like that.

I seriously need to get that song. Just downloaded 1990.

Akula Owu Onyeara. The original version by The Funkees is on YouTube. I also saw 1990 on YouTube, but I'm still looking for Big Bottom.

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 6:54pm On Feb 21, 2017

She was a regular guest at the Nigerian Music Awards in the late '80s and early '90s.

I think this performance was at the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1967 (she had previously appeared on the Tonight Show in 1963).

Cc adexsimply

Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNeP3hrm__k

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Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 6:51pm On Feb 21, 2017*

This might probably be the first African song to become a worldwide hit. The song is so special that I'm going to post two videos of it. There are uncountable versions of this song.

Miriam Makeba first released Pata Pata in 1957 and it was an instant hit. She made a lot of trips to the US and Europe over the next few years, partly due to the US/Caribbean legend, Harry Belafonte, who was eager to promote African artistes in the US. She also campaigned against apartheid.

In 1960, after one of her trips abroad, she went back to South Africa, but was denied entry. The white supremacist government had cancelled her passport and revoked her citizenship documents because she campaigned against apartheid.

Many African countries came to her aid. She was given citizenship of many African countries including Ghana and Tanzania and Cuba also gave her citizenship. She was also invited to perform at the inauguration of the Organisation Of African Unity (the forerunner of the African Union) and she also addressed the UN.

She lived in the US for much of her time in exile and re-released Pata Pata in the US in 1967. It became a worldwide hit again.

So many people have covered this song (including Manu Dibango). She released a dance version in 1989 and it became an anthem on Radio Nigeria (I'm still searching for that version).

Cc adexsimply

Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5S5sH1Ikk

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Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 4:10pm On Feb 21, 2017

AgentOfAllah:
Thanks Naptu2. You have no idea how much this means to me...it came at a time I'm organising an African event at my institution; so I've shamelessly created a new playlist in which more than 60% of the songs are from your list. The song "Welela" brought so much memories, I almost teared up listening to it!

Thank you again. You're awesome!!!

My pleasure.

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 3:37pm On Feb 21, 2017

Here it is! This song was very effective in keeping those little children busy.

Brenda Fassie - Ag Shame Lovey (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmywGu5LY4

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Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 3:32pm On Feb 21, 2017

And I remembered the song after I created the thread.

Brenda Fassie had two songs that were popular in Nigeria in the late '80s and early '90s. I included "It's Your Wedding Day" in this list, but I couldn't remember the name of the second song, so I omitted it. Then, just a few minutes ago, I caught myself humming the song.

I can't find any video or information about the song online, but I remember the lyrics very well.

Mi do do, do do, do la do ti,
Re mi do do, do do, do la do ti,

One step back and one step forward,
Just move your body,
Turn around and shake your hand,
Move your body

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Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 2:35pm On Feb 21, 2017

So let's continue with the masters. . .the quartet of African greats. I've posted one of Masekela's songs, so now here's one from Manu Dibango.

naptu2:
This is one of the most popular and one of the most sampled African songs ever. He sued Michael Jackson and Rihanna for stealing part of the song (the part that goes "Ma ma ko, ma ma sa, ma ma makosa" ).

He had first sued Michael Jackson for stealing part of the song (which he used in "Wanna Be Starting Something" ). Michael admitted that he stole it and the case was settled out of court. Rihanna then asked Michael for permission to use that part of the song (in Please Don't Stop The Music) and Michael permitted her to use it, without first getting Dibango's permission. So Manu Dibango sued both Rihanna and Michael (again). He won.

That part of the song has been sampled by very many music acts around the world.

The word Makossa means "I dance" in the Douala language of Manu Dibango's people in Cameroun. It was popularised by Manu Dibango and is now used as the name of a genre of music from Central and West Africa.

Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa (1972).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4I9iBZNUu4

Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 12:48pm On Feb 21, 2017

scobaba:
Elder Nap2u.... Help your boy with Zamina Mina Zangalewa Video abeg. Tnx sir.

This song was on heavy rotation on NTA2 Channel 5 in the late 1980s. The group was originally known as Golden Sounds but they changed their name to Zangalewa due to the popularity of this song.

President Paul Biya made them honorary members of the Cameroonian Army and entertainers to the president.

Shakira covered this song in the official anthem of the 2010 World Cup. Her version is called Waka Waka, This Time For Africa.

Zangalewa of Cameroon - Zamina Mina Zangalewa

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

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Music/Radio › Re: 50 Songs By Other Africans That Were Hits In Nigeria by naptu2(op): 12:39pm On Feb 21, 2017

Kyri:
9 is actually Premier Gaou - Magic System (Ivory Coast)

Yes, both 9 and 10 are inverted.

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