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eaglechild:
Oh yes number 18.
Taxi driver

That song is just sublime.

warrenweste:
Great.. Do you have the miliki express original video?? Been looking for it for years.

eaglechild:
That's good.

Taxi driver by Bobby Benson

I guess you forgot that.

warrenweste:
Great list but u forgot to add

Miliki express.. Ebenezer obey

Omode o. -Funmi Adams

Mama- funmi Adams

Funmi adams-Ahyae yaro

Shina Peter's-Ace



@ naptu2

Akinwerndey:
U tried very well in compiling this list... I only have issues with the inclusion of Davido, Olamide and Wiizkid on the list. They are good musicians but their songs shouldn't near best Naija music of all time because of the durability of their songs and the lyrical contents is not up there with other legends for now. If U had included ojuelegba may be it will be fair a bit . U even skipped the likes of marvellous benji, african China, Junglist, Black face, eedris, mode9 et al. Anyway you worked hard. #Respek

francileudo:
oliver de coque

eaglechild:
Very good list.

Perhaps it should have been named 150 best classic songs and the list should be "in no particular order" because it is really difficult to put some ahead of others.

I believe I've listened to all the songs and I'll make a playlist out of this.

Some child stars like the girl that sang I'm going to school to learn can be slotted in.

Caveatemptor:
The group Osibisa,although mostly populated by Ghanians,had a sprinkling of Nigerians over the years they were on top. I think their song Celebration, should be on the list.
@Naptu2, You have not said anything about the group BLO,which comprised of Lemmy Jackson and Tunde Odunmosu. I can't remember who theN stood for but they were a bad funkified group in the 70s and 80s. They had a song,"Back in time",that used to rock the air waves back in the day.
Oh! Nostalgia.....

Come on little children,
Happy little children
Ta na na na na na na

They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil!
No tea,
Or potato juice.
You'll see,
No tomato juice.

And all the children in Africa sing!
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil!

BeeBeeOoh:
@ naptu2.....please do you know the name of that track King Sunny Ade sang one song about Nigeria------- Naijeriya something something? Ain't a Yoruba but, I love that song so much. Am also a great fan of Ebenezer Obey

Omololu007:
where is the song African soldier...it was sang by by bongo zigwe am not really sure

Ishilove:
I vaguely remember it...perhaps if I hear the lyrics I will recollect

Ishilove:
I vaguely remember it...perhaps if I hear the lyrics I will recollect

Caveatemptor:
And I think the song "Going back to my roots",by Lamont Dozier,should be on this list. The Yoruba lyrics on that song were written by Orlando Julius,although I not sure he was credited on the album.

Caveatemptor:
I thought his name was Dan Ikechukwu?

ikorodureporta:
Op, where is Daniel Wilson, where is Shina Peters, Where is Tosin Jegede,Etc & for the newer generatn, Mode9, Emphasis,:...

dejt4u:
OP.. Where is
"Odun nlo s'opin" by ECWA Choir and that baddest collabo of that time "nigeria yi ti gbogbo wa ni(not sure of the title)" by Sunny Ade ft. Orlando et al

Akinwerndey:
Baba fryo's denge pose is nt on the list

Ishilove:
I honestly thought 'eje ka jo' was performed by Nel Oliver

thrugemaster:
32) One Early Morning - (I can't remember the name of the artist)

i think it was sang by William Onyeabor


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

Noblesoul123:
The Legends of the '60s through 80s were real trail blazers. How come none of Harry Moscow's songs were listed?

naptu2:
Mathew 25:36

[size=14pt]Bishop Kukah celebrates Christmas with prisoners[/size]

Published on December 26, 2014

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has advised inmates of Sokoto prisons, in north western Nigeria, to move closer to God.

Speaking when he visited the prisons as part of activities to mark this year’s Christmas, Kukah said it was necessary as God never failed His servants.

He said that the Catholic diocese had for over three years celebrated with the prisoners at Christmas as a way of extending the joy of the season to them.

” It is a season of Joy and celebration so we have come here to celebrate with you because we are all one, Muslims and Christians alike” he said.

” I am not here to find out what reasons you all have for finding urselves here but to advice you to take life more seriously and start making plans for your future outside of this prison” he said.

He said that some of the young inmates were supposed to be in school while the older ones were supposed to be working to make ends meet for their families.

He said that they, therefore, needed to make efforts, while in prison, to be better and change their ways so that they would have a better future.

” An idle mind is the devils workshop so you need to think of what you want to do and start working towards it so that when you are out of here you will have a source of livelihood.

” Last year I saw about 600 inmates now the number has increased to over 700. No matter how comfortable you are here this place is not a place for you to be.

” Your mates are out there trying to make it for themselves and you are in here. Some of you are here for the second or third time which shows how unserious you are.

” I pray that God blesses you and hopefully some of you will celebrate next Christmas with your family and friends” Kukah said.

Kukah, who was accompanied by Fr. Victor Mordi, the Cordinator, Justice Development and Peace Caritas (JDPC) and Rev. sisters of Daughters of Divine Love Convent, later distributed a meal to more than 740 inmates.

Fr. Mordi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said the Catholic faithful chose to share the joy of Christmas with inmates just as Christ shared himself with humanity.

Mordi, who is also the prison coordinator of the Diocese, said the gesture was also to complement government’s effort to improve the condition of prisons.

“We always come once every month to bring cloths, food items, pray, counsel and interact with Christian inmates. This is the time we come and get to see all of them including the Muslims” he said.

He said that the Diocese made continuous efforts to ease the plight of inmates and assist them acquire vocations that would be useful to them later.

“We also pay fine for those first time inmates who do not have the means to do so. We hope in the near future to assist inmates improve their literacy level through education” he said.

naptu2:
Context.

CANAN is the Christian Association of Nigerian AmericaNs. The event was CANAN's annual dinner. It was held at the Marriot in Houston. The theme of this year's event was Trade and Investment (how Nigerian-Americans can invest in Nigeria). The special guest of honour was Vice President Osinbajo.

The girl is Nigerian, a christian (many of the abducted Chibok girls were christians) and she is now based in America, so she was invited to the event.

Notable Nigerian-Americans who have accomplished great things in the past year were given awards at the event.

naptu2:
I watched it on the news yesterday night. That's one of the Chibok girls that escaped. Remember that they were given scholarships in the US in 2014. She has been based in the US since then.

There's even an old Nairaland thread about a documentary that an american did in 2014 or 2015. The american interviewed them to find out how they were setting down in the US. I'm still searching for the thread about the documentary, but this is the thread about the scholarship.

https://www.nairaland.com/1872318/57-escaped-chibok-girls-gain

simongonner:
WASHINGTON — Lily had sworn never to go back to school. After being kidnapped from her high school in Chibok, Nigeria, by armed group Boko Haram, the 18-year-old planned to leave education behind and do what her family had been doing for generations —
farming. School was not safe any more.

Boko Haram kidnapped Lily and 275 other
schoolgirls one night in April 2014. In a
remote town in northeastern Nigeria, the
radical fighters grabbed Lily and the others as they slept inside the local high school’s
dormitory. They stuffed them into trucks and drove off into the night with a convoy of
squealing, terrified high school students.
Lily said her heart was pounding, and she
closed her eyes and prayed. Hours after her
capture, she found the courage to jump out of the moving truck; a friend followed her. She ran through the bushes in the middle of the night, and made her way back home.
After that, she resolved never to return to
school.

The mass kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian girls captured the world’s attention. Boko Haram had rampaged across northeastern Nigeria for five years, but the Chibok kidnapping gained the group worldwide infamy and revulsion. Boko Haram, a phrase that loosely translates as “Western education is forbidden,” aims to a government rule by an extreme interpretation of Shariah law.

Since 2009, the group has spilled blood across the region, bombing, looting and kidnapping. Activists in Nigeria birthed the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, demanding the Nigerian government to find the schoolgirls who were still missing. Only 57 of the girls had escaped, and they did so with no help from the Nigerian government.

The likes of First Lady Michelle Obama,
celebrity TV personality Ellen DeGeneres, and Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai carried signs marked #BringBackOurGirls.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Ogebe, a U.S.-based
Nigerian human rights lawyer collaborated
with a couple in Nigeria to help bring some
Chibok schoolgirls who had escaped from
Boko Haram to the United States.

“Schooling is an incredibly high-risk activity in northern Nigeria,” Ogebe said, explaining that girls freed from Boko Haram captivity could face security risks, survivors’ guilt and
discrimination from their community.

“Most had been stigmatized as a ‘Boko
Haram’ wife, which further traumatized them,” Ogebe said.

Lily was made fun of after her escape; leaving Nigeria offered her a chance to change the course of her life.
Lily and nine other girls arrived in the U.S.
last year, between July and December.
The three Nigerian activists, who later formed Education Must Continue Initiative, helped them obtain U.S. visas so they could attend
reputable private schools that offered
scholarships for them. Initially they attended
two different schools, with some of the girls
on the West Coast, but now all are attending
the same school in Virginia.
Lily was back in school.
“I know I said I would never go to school
again but things have changed,” Lily said with
a smile. “I am in America!”
The girls recently went back to class after a
summer break that included trips to the White
House, museum and a national tour with a
church choir. Host families housed the girls
during the summer vacation.
Murna, 19, discovered she has motion
sickness and cannot sit in a car for long. Lily
has not acquired a taste for American food.
Sometimes, Lily’s mind wanders to Nigeria, to
Chibok, to Boko Haram, to her best friend
Dorcas, who was abducted with her and is
presumably still in the clutches of Boko
Haram members. Dorcas and Lily grew up
together as neighbors.
“She is still inside Sambisa,” Lily says. “I miss
her so much. She is a very good person.”
Sambisa Forest, a 40,000 square-mile stretch
of nature reserve in northeastern Nigeria, is
believed to be Boko Haram’ main hide out .
Many believe it’s where the 219 Chibok
schoolgirls still missing are being held. More
than 700 captives have been freed from Boko
Haram, according to the Nigerian military.
Amnesty International estimates that Boko
Haram has abducted more than 2,000 people,
mostly women.
The group has formed an official alliance with
the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL,
also known as ISIS), calling itself the Islamic
State West African province.
Murna, 17, says she used to have nightmares
about Boko Haram.
“I had a dream that Boko Haram came to
America on a plane and entered into the
house to kidnap us and take us back to
Nigeria,” she said. Murna, a tall and animated
teenager, said she had several similar
nightmares and is only recently beginning to
cope with the trauma she endured.
Murna often spends her time braiding
extensions into her hair. Lily and Lovely, 18,
like to sit together and watch Nigerian movies
on the iPads they borrowed from their school.
They are acquiring new skills: learning to play
violin, becoming tech-savvy and logging into
Skype to video chat with friends, improving
their use of American English.
“These young ladies immediately impress with
their effervescent personalities and sweet
dispositions. After simply giving them a ride
in the car, they thanked me,” says Deanna
Gelak, an education specialist who is hosting
one of the girls. Gelak describes them as
young ladies with a “special grace, good
nature and wit.”
Lily, Lovely and Murna do not yet know what
the future holds for them. They think often
about their friends and families they left
behind in Nigeria, but are uncertain of
returning to live in their home country.
Lily watches a video message from her
parents, sent to her via Facebook. She listens
to her mother pray for her in her native Kibaku
language. The sight of her elderly, white-
haired father makes her cry. She turns her
head away and sniffles. When asked what her
mother said in the video, Lily says, “She told
me that Boko Haram came to attack Chibok
again but that I should not worry. They are
fine.”
Murna prays every day for the safety of her
father who is a police officer in northeastern
Nigeria. Lovely’s father was recently killed by
Boko Haram. She was not able to attend his
funeral.
The girls sometimes feel they are too distant
from their loved ones. But, they are carving
new relationships in the United States.
Inspired by Ogebe, the Nigerian lawyer who
helped bring them to the United States, Lily
and Lovely have decided to become lawyers.
Murna wants to be the first medical doctor in
her family. They all hope for a Nigeria free
from Boko Haram, where all girls will feel safe
enough to go to school. http://www.america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/30/nigerias-chibok-girls-find-new-start-in-us.html

Caveatemptor:
I still think Ofege is one of the greatest bands to come out of Nigeria. Their lyrics were just so ahead of their time and most of the songs we have today. And they played real instruments too!
Melvin Ukachi later went Solo and I still feel his lyrics are miles ahead of any of today's stars.

Naptu2,
This your list is not complete without BLO and Jake Solo. What about Dan l- Monkey come chop banana?
Nice list though.

Caveatemptor:
I still think Ofege is one of the greatest bands to come out of Nigeria. Their lyrics were just so ahead of their time and most of the songs we have today. And they played real instruments too!
Melvin Ukachi later went Solo and I still feel his lyrics are miles ahead of any of today's stars.

Naptu2,
This your list is not complete without BLO and Jake Solo. What about Dan l- Monkey come chop banana?
Nice list though.

joseph1832ng:
This same duo sang E je Ka jo, right?