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Politics › Re: Lagos Seals 70 Churches, 20 Mosques, 11 Hotels For Noise Pollution by naptu2: 9:00am On Jun 24, 2016*

Politics › Re: Lagos Seals 70 Churches, 20 Mosques, 11 Hotels For Noise Pollution by naptu2: 8:37am On Jun 24, 2016

syntekelite:
pls how do we report such noise and pollution?let us know as most people are living like uncivilised people in their own house

Try this.

email:
info@lasepa.gov.ng

LASEPA phone no: +234-704-635-1295
+234-815-045-8639
+234-815-045-8638

Politics › Re: Lagos Seals 70 Churches, 20 Mosques, 11 Hotels For Noise Pollution by naptu2: 7:55am On Jun 24, 2016

Good. This is the 2016 thread.

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Family › Re: My Maid Sees Me As The Wicked One While My Husband Is The Good One. by naptu2: 1:40am On Jun 24, 2016

MoltenMagma:
A lot of the people bashing the op for having a 13 year old maid are hypocrites who don't know what they are saying. I have a family friend who has been keeping a maid since 2009. That's 7 years now. She brought in this little village girl when she was about 8 years old to assist her take care of her baby, and this girl has been with her ever since. I always meet her happy whenever I go visiting her hubby (he is my friend), she is well taken care of and goes to school.

Not all mistresses maltreat their maids and. 13 years is NOT too young to be a maid.

It is, according to the law.

http://icirnigeria.org/keep-a-house-help-go-to-jail-naptip/

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Music/Radio › Re: Nigerians That Have Been Ranked On Billboard Charts. by naptu2(op): 7:35am On Jun 21, 2016*

SaffronSpice:
I think he was able to achieve that feat because the song was released in Europe.
I don't even think he was living in Nigeria when he did the song,so I personally wouldn't consider him the only Nigerian to have had a song on the Hot 100 Chart.
It's like Ghanians/Ivorians claiming such, due to the success of Nico & Vinz.

I will love to see a Nigerian artiste who stays in Nigeria and releases his songs in Nigeria on the chart.

Now, that'll be something.

Virtually all the people on that list were based abroad at the time that they featured on the charts and there's one reason for that - promotion.

Billboard has charts in various genres of music and different methods of consuming/purchasing music. The genres include, pop, hip hop, world music, rock, R&B, etc and the methods of consuming music include downloads, airplay, CD single sales, CD album sales, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The Hot 100 chart is a chart of singles from the different genres and methods of purchasing music, while the 200 album chart reflects the position of albums, regardless of their genre and method of purchase.

The data that is used in determining ranking is sourced primarily from the United States. This means that the airplay chart reflects how many times the songs are played on radio stations in the United States, the album sales chart reflects the number of times the album is sold in the US, etc. They don't reflect the number of times the song is played on Joy FM in Ghana or Raypower in Nigeria.

Therefore, the songs must be heavily promoted in the United States and this costs a huge amount of money and requires that the artist spends some time in the US.

Music promotion involves interviews on US radio and tv stations, concerts in the US, getting on air personalities on US radio stations to play the songs, etc.

It's not really about the quality of the song (of course it has to be above a certain quality), but the amount of effort and money you spend in promoting it (nigerian record companies don't have the money and contacts to run a proper promotion campaign in the US).

Michael Jackson was angry with Sony Music executives because he believed that they did not invest enough in promoting his Invincible album (released in 2001). The album contained a lot of really great songs, but they didn't do well on the charts (unlike his other albums). Sony Music didn't invest as much money in promoting it as they did with his other albums, because they felt that Jackson's child molestation scandals had hurt his brand and that he was past his prime. (I remember that they had erected giant statues of Michael in major cities around the world when they were promoting his History album).

Dr Alban's It's My Life got to number 88 on the Hot 100 chart in 1992, but it was not his best song. Hello Africa (1990) was a huge hit across Europe and Africa and was a minor hit in the US (part of the video was shot on Ikorodu Road in Lagos). This encouraged his record company to promote his next single (It's My Life) in the US and it got into the Hot 100. His other songs, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Hallelujah Day (in my opinion) are better than It's MY Life, but they didn't do well on the charts because his former record company had moved on by then and he released those songs on his own labe, Dr Records.

Babatunde Olatunji was born in Lagos, but he moved to the US in 1950 (to attend Moorehouse College). He had already started teaching African drums at universities in the US and had been signed by Columbia Records before he appeared on the charts. He collaborated with famous. US musicians like Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderley and Mickey Hart. He was mentioned in one of Bob Dylan's songs and Carlos Santana covered one of his songs on his (Santana's) very first album. So it's no suprise that he featured on the charts again.

Sikiru Adepoju is descended from a long line of traditional drummers. He also played the talking drum for Ebenezer Obey. None of these brought him fame in the US. He went to the US in 1985 to understudy nigerian musicians like Babatunde Olatunji and Orlando Julius (who were based in the US at the time). That's when he became famous and appeared on the charts. Babatunde Olatunji introduced him to his famous friends like Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann.

Sunny Ade spent most of 1983 in the US promoting his Syncro System album, so it's no surprise that it appeared on the chart.

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti had just returned from a tour of the US when he was arrested at the Murtala Muhammad Airport in 1984 or 1985. He went on another tour of the US in 1986 to promote his Beast Of No Nations album and that's when he had that concert in Detroit. It was a recording of the Detroit concert that got on the Billboard chart.

Asa spends most of her time in France and the US. She is signed to Naïve Records in France and BMG Music in the US (BMG is now part of Sony Music), who promote her music in Europe and the US respectively.

We all know that one of the things that led to a split between D'Banj and Don Jazzy was the fact that D'Banj wanted them to move to the US to work with Kanye West in order to break into the US market, while Don Jazzy wanted them to stay in Nigeria to consolidate their hold on the African market.

2Face's African Queen made a minor impact in the US (featuring on a Hollywood movie) because Kenny Ogungbe took him to the US in 2003/2004 to meet US record executives and promote the album. He went to the US again to promote his Ascension album and this was when he appeared on Monique's show.

Wizkid appeared on the chart because Drake is an already established act in the US. We can see that Drake, who is Canadian, has had to spend considerable amount of time in the US in order to promote his music there. Ditto for Celine Dion. Craig David also had to move to Los Angeles at a point in time, in order to promote his music in the US.

So, basically, what I'm saying is that a Nigerian artist would need to spend considerable amount of time in the US promoting his music and have distribution deals or be signed on to US record companies, in order to make it into the charts. This is because it is primarily a US chart.

Dr Alban - Hello Afrika (1990).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYImEf_-km0

Dr Alban - Hallelujah Day (1996).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7fgGWkYoY

Dr Alban ft Michael Rose - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1997).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaTJ3LQ8TrM

Culture › Re: Delta Igbos by naptu2: 8:16am On Jun 20, 2016

Ishilove:
Okay

Philomena Obeta

That's my real name

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Politics › Re: Ambode Constructs Park In Iyana Oworo by naptu2: 8:07pm On Jun 19, 2016

Ademusiwa1:
i cant laugh

Kabiyesi, welcome. How is Canada?

Music/Radio › Re: Nigerians That Have Been Ranked On Billboard Charts. by naptu2(op): 3:20pm On Jun 19, 2016

It was number 1 in Nigeria, Austria, Belgium, germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Israel and Sweden.

It was number 2 in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland and India.

On Billboard charts (in the US) it was number 3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, 4 on the Hot Dance Music chart, 28 on the Modern Rock chart and 88 on the Hot 100 chart.

It was number 5 in Finland, number 13 in France, number 6 in Norway and a major hit across Africa.

The song was used in Guinness Stout adverts in Nigeria, Tampax tampon adverts in the UK, in a Bollywood movie (Baazigar) and in several adverts in France. A remix of the song was used as the title track of a German soap opera in 2013 and 2014.

Dr Alban - It's My Life (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHm_6AQ7CY

Music/Radio › Re: Nigerians That Have Been Ranked On Billboard Charts. by naptu2(op): 3:09pm On Jun 19, 2016

STILESGANG:
Any tom,dick and harry can debut on the billboard world chart.Heck! even reminisce once debuted on it.

Where are the Nigerian artistes that featured on the main chart(Billboard hot 100 or top 200)?

It was right there in front of you.

Dr Alban's It's My Life was number 3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music Club Play chart, number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1992.

Music/Radio › Re: Nigerians That Have Been Ranked On Billboard Charts. by naptu2(op): 2:46pm On Jun 19, 2016

magicminister:
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
BILL BOARD WORLD MUSIC CHART IS DIFFERENT FROM BILLBOARD TOP 100.
THE TOP 100 CHART IS WEHRE THE CREME D LA CREME AT.
MATTER OF FACT, NO NIGERIAN ARTISTE HAS EVER MADE IT TO THE TOP 100 CHART.

Dr Alban's It's My Life was number 3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music Club Play chart, number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1992.

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Music/Radio › Nigerians That Have Been Ranked On Billboard Charts. by naptu2(op): 11:29am On Jun 19, 2016

[size=14pt]List of some nigerians that have been ranked on Billboard charts.[/size]

Billboard Magazine is a popular music magazine. It (along with Right On Magazine) was very popular in Nigeria in the 1980s and '90s. Billboard is also well known for its popular music charts, the most famous of which are the Hot 100 Chart and the 200 Album Chart.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Billboard_cover_December_12%2C_2015_Lady_Gaga.jpg/461px-Billboard_cover_December_12%2C_2015_Lady_Gaga.jpg

Quite a few nigerians have appeared on Billboard charts over the years and they include:

1) Babatunde Olatunji's album, Drums Of Passion, was number 13 on the charts in 1960 (Babatunde Olatunji also won a Grammy Award).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Babatunde_Olatunji_Drums_of_Passion.jpg

Babatunde Olatunji also featured on the album Planet Drum, which was number 1 on the Billboard World Music Album Chart in 1991 and won a Grammy Award for best world music album (also in 1991).

2) Sikiru Adepoju was the second nigerian that featured on the album, Planet Drum which was number 1 on the Billboard World Music Album Chart in 1991 and won a Grammy Award for best world music album (also in 1991).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/PlanetDrumCD.jpg

3) Sunny Ade's Synchro System was number 91 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1983.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/SyncroSystem.jpg

4) Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's album, Live In Detroit, was number 9 Billboard World Music Album Chart in 1986.

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5) Dr Alban's It's My Life was number 3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music Club Play chart, number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1992. (This song was also used in adverts and soap operas in the UK, Germany and India).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/It%27s_my_life.jpg

6) Lagbaja's We Before Me was number 15 on the Billboard World Music Album Chart in 2001.

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7) Femi Kuti's album, Africa For Africa was number 12 on the Billboard World Music Album Chart in 2011.

https://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/23a7ef72a263c33444418b6b113c5f92b168f2b9.jpeg

Femi's album, No Place For My Dream was number 7 on the Billboard World Music Chart in 2013.

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8 ) Asa's Beautiful Imperfection album was number 3 on the Billboard World Album chart in 2011.

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9) D'Banj's Oliver Twist was number 9 on the Billboard's UK Official Single's Chart in 2012.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/OliverTwistsong.jpg

10) 2face Idibia's The Ascension album was number 12 on the Billboard World Album chart in 2014.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/2face_Idibia_-_The_Ascension_album_cover.jpg

11) Wizkid was number 97 on the Billboard 100 Artists Chart in May 2016.

Wizkid also featured with Kyla on Drake's song titled One Dance, which got to number 1 on the Billboard Twitter Last 24 Hours Chart on April 12, 2016. The Billboard Twitter Last 24 Hours Chart is a relatively new chart and Wizkid is the first nigerian to feature on this specific chart. The song also got to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/DrakeOneDance.png

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Celebrities › Re: 'WIZKID Is The Best Artist Nigeria Has Ever Produced' - See My Reasons by naptu2: 8:12pm On Jun 18, 2016

Chuksemi:
Thank you very much. I would modify my comments accordingly.

Kindly visit www.nairaland.com/3173867/letter-potential-undergraduates I would love to get your thoughts on that. Thank you once again.

That's a really nice thread.

Education › Re: Letter to Potential undergraduates. by naptu2: 8:07pm On Jun 18, 2016

Very good thread. I love the way you write.

Celebrities › Re: 'WIZKID Is The Best Artist Nigeria Has Ever Produced' - See My Reasons by naptu2: 7:54pm On Jun 18, 2016*

Chuksemi:
Wizkid is first on billboard. Dbanj topped U.K top hundred chart not billboard.

1) Babatunde Olatunji's album, Drums Of Passion, was number 13 on the Billlboard Charts in 1960 (Babatunde Olatunji also won a Grammy Award).

2) Sunny Ade's Synchro System was number 91 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1983.

3) Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's album, Live In Detroit, was number 9 on the Billboard World Music Album Chart in 1986.

4) Dr Alban's It's My Life was number 3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music Club Play chart, number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1992.

5) Asa's Beautiful Imperfection album was number 3 on the Billboard World Album chart in 2011

6) 2face Idibia's Ascension album was number 12 on the Billboard World Album chart in 2014.

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Celebrities › Re: CoolFM "Femi & The Gang" In Twitter War by naptu2(op): 9:58am On Jun 17, 2016

UjSizzle:
Even Zoë Chinaka is gone too

Go deal with your problems instead of entertaining Nigerians on twitter

Zoé Chinaka @ ZoeChinaka

If only we all had friends like Kelechi *sigh

https://mobile.twitter.com/ZoeChinaka/status/743546885663789056?p=v

Celebrities › Re: CoolFM "Femi & The Gang" In Twitter War by naptu2(op): 6:31am On Jun 17, 2016*

Femi Obong-Daniels @ FemiCoolfm

Saddest week of my career. Four of my 5-star generals suddenly gone. I know they'll never walk alone. Still it hurts⁠

@IamDemola_ Harsh times bro. Company had to downsize. We even had to take a pay cut earlier. Kelele then left on health & personal grounds.

@IamDemola_ We all knew the downsizing would still happen but no one knew it would be so soon or that it would affect 3 ppl at once.

Every department affected but from my team, the 3 were Fiona, Okon & Deji . Left the team demoralised & angry. Nkoro resigned the next day.

It now means more work for less people. Surely, the team will increase again once things normalise but this is the current painful reality.

As team head, I take the blame for who goes and who stays. It's an unfortunate job a head must do. Taking 3 ppl off a list of 7 is a killer.

Especially when each person is as good as 10. More so when you've kept the team that long & accomplished so much together with the audience.

https://mobile.twitter.com/FemiCoolfm/status/743152460034867200?p=v

Kelechi Nkoro @K1Says

Since Mr Femi Obong-Daniels has come out on Twitter to deceive the Fans....I will have to Clear the Air on why I resigned.

Nigeria's change agenda has been hard on everyone, so l understood it when the management of #CoolWazobiainfo said they wanted to downsize.

In fact, we have had to work on a paycut, just to make things normalise in the past, but to blame all this on just that are all lies.

In life, there is a limit to how much you can take from an individual, especially when the person keeps lying and cheating you.

I will just past and focus on the Final straw that broke the camels back.... #Goalfest....

I was at the #chan tournament in Rwanda, when l herd about the proposal a guy dropped for Goalfest partnership..My reaction was "Great idea"

I came back to Nigeria 2wks later & was told a percentage had been agreed with the team but not yet signed..that point..l felt all was well.

The next step was for the team to start publicity of the Event...Since it was what was asked of us Majorly... Meanwhile Oga had other plans.

Now...one of the agreement we had with the guy was that 2weeks to the event...The Gang will be paid....(the Beginning of the end for Fiona).

Fiona has always been the Mother figure, fighting that everyone gets what the deserve.I guess somebody felt threatened. They could not deal.

Now...it was two weeks to the event and we(gang) had seen no alert, so Fiona took it upon herself to push for our money....was that wrong?

With just a week to Goalfest....rumours started flying that Femi had used our money to get a Land Rover Black LR3 jeep. Boys no wan believe

Even when members of the team saw the Jeep....we laughed about it in disbelief....saying "Femi can't do this to us" Little did we know.

Now....Goalfest came and went.... still no money for boys, no word from oga.....on what is going on..... that was when the doubt set in.

After a week of wait.... Our weekly departmental meeting day came and for everyone, we said "Oga, go tell us the truth today or we go fight"

"The Meeting that broke Femi & the gang".... it started with Femi trying to Convince the gang that the money had not been paid....

.....that the LR3 land Rover Jeep was not bought with the gang's money....I must confess, we believed him.... don't blame us...he's d boss.

Femi even went further to persuade us not to keep quite when the guy came and ask for our money. Boys ginger saying "Ha! This guy go hear m"

After 1 hour of waiting.... "The Guy" showed up.... and the meeting took another turn... we all were angry and ready to tear the guy down..

The agurment was so heated up that one member of the gang had to even push the guy and almost punched the guy....it was hot...

Now..."The guy" had to be taken outside to cool him off...and in the mix up....Femi called off the meeting saying "This meeting is over"

Now Deji came out and said."If this meeting is over, then let all conclude that our money has been stolen"I guess that what "The guy" Heard

Next thing we saw...was a guy running back in with tears on his eye says "you all are calling me a thife, when l have paid Femi the money"

Yes...he said that...you are shocked? So was the gang members for 40 secs... with everyone looking at eachother...asking ourselves "what?"

To cut the long story short.... The guy paid Femi the agreed money and Femi bought a Jeep with the gang's money...

I never resigned from CoolFm because, the company wanted to downsize or forced my close friends to resign.......

I left because l could not take it anymore from Femi..His lies and Snake-like moves.. If You Know Kelechi Nkoro, then you will understand.

Fiona had to send him this....after he came on Twitter to form a pity party

If l can come on Radio and Criticise people when they do this.....then l should also be able to speak out, when it happens to me....

For all of you that say you have lost respect for me for doing this......Thank you....I had to speak out....

For those who understand the struggle.....I will be back on Radio and TV soon.....

https://mobile.twitter.com/K1Says?max_id=743473300731498497

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/629167177241886720/ukDSlLbK_400x400.jpg

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Celebrities › CoolFM "Femi & The Gang" In Twitter War by naptu2(op): 6:12am On Jun 17, 2016

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