₦airaland Forum

Missy89:
Do they operate outside the country?

The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) operates outside the country. They've got operatives in all Nigerian embassies around the world.

Obiagelli. Read section 4 of this act. This is the act that established the SSS and NIA (in 1986). Note: The Nigerian Security Organisation (NSO) is the forerunner of the SSS, NIA and DIA

http://www.placng.org/new/print.php?sn=336

Think about it this way.

The Minister of Defence is the member of cabinet that supervises the armed forces (logistics, etc). The Minister of Internal Affairs supervises the police and uniformed civilian security agencies. The National Security Adviser supervises the intelligence agencies.

Obiagelli:
I have been reading the budget, then i came across the allocation of over 50 billion naira to the office of the NSA. From the trials of the last NSA i have been wondering what exact is the job of the NSA?

From wikipedia,

A National Security Adviser serves
as the chief adviser to a national
government on matters of security.
He or she is not usually a member
of the Cabinet but is usually a
member of various military or
security councils.

I understand these roles vary from country to country and even government to government. In Nigeria i know there are several departments under the ONSA some of which include:
1.Departments of Internal Security
2. Defence Affairs
3. Economic Intelligence
4. Special Duties
5. Counter-terrorism Centre
6. Lawful Interception
7. Behavioural Analysis
8. Policy and Strategy
9. External Security
10. Administration and Finance
11. Presidential Communication Command and Control Centre.

These are the few info i have been able to gather. Do you think 50 billion is justifiable for these offices?

Is the DSS also under the NSA or they have their own budget.

Naptu2 ibnsultan tonyebarcanister omenka missy89 modath henry120 philip17

The Department of State Security is in the office of the National Security Adviser. The National Intelligence Agency also report to him, but they are domiciled in the foreign ministry (they are actually under the NSA, but the foreign ministry is their cover).

Full time

Goal. Akaichi

Nig 1-1 Tun

Half time

No goal

Baby mi show colour re, ka jo ma rocky

Bobo no go die, unless to ba d'arugbo

King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall (KWAM1) - Consolidation (1994).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe7UefYCN8


Lagbaja - Show Your Colour (1996).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkM3lKS-A6Q

President Babangida renamed Obalende Road after him (Nojeem Maiyegun Road) and that's still its official name, but people still call it Obalende Road.

I don't know how I forgot to include this video earlier. This is one of my favourite songs. The guitar line is one of my two favourite guitar solos ever (the other is from Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child). This man often plays the guitar with his feet and his tongue when he is playing this song.

If you go back to page one and listen to Runtown's song, "Baby Answer", you'll discover that the guitar solo at the end of the track is not from Peacock Band's "Eddie Quansa". It's actually from this song that I'm about to post.

Sir Shina Peters played a rock version of this song on his guitar during a live performance in the mid 1990s. It was absolutely wonderful.

This man is not only an accomplished musician (singer, guitarist and flutist), he is also a sculptor and Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Benin. He was once the Edo State Commissioner for Culture.

This song was awarded the gold record certification by Philips West Africa in 1996, for sales of over 500,000 units.

Sir Victor Uwaifo - Joromi (1970s)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe7UefYCN8

I sat oustide my house around 10 or 11 o'clock one night in 1986 or '87 and enjoyed what the breeze was blowing towards me. Fela was playing at Jazz 38 (38 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi) and the bassline of this song was booming across South West Ikoyi. They must have been using some kind of super speakers. It was wonderful.

Jazz 38 was owned by Tunde and Fran Kuboye and Fran was Fela's niece. I think that It was at this concert that Fela met Dede for the first time.

It's always amusing when some foreigners try to speak pidgin English and I found it quite entertaining when Macy Grey sang, "If you wan cook soup, na water you go use".


Fela Anikulapo-Kuti- Water No Get Enemy (1975)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBC5URoF0s


Femi Anikulapo-Kuti ft Macy Grey and D'Angelo - Water No Get Enemy (2002)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkRULPL7q6Y

jojothaiv:
How about Bata Mi, I know its a regent/woman that first sang it long ago before Gilbert(A-Q) now make a cover version of it....

Princess Bunmi Olajubu (The Regent of Ikogosi).

benzeeno:
All these copyright talk has killed the flow...mr naptu2 please can you continue with the uploads.

Sorry, I'm a little bit busy right now, but I'll post more videos this evening, including songs by Orlando Owoh, Tic Tac, Macey Grey, Fela, Femi, Mos Deff, etc.

TonyeBarcanista:
These guys na hungry boys wey de find pay. Military must not negotiate with any criminal that engage in economic sabotage. Swoop on them all....



BTW: Wetin concern Ogun and Lagos state with Niger Delta Militancy? This looks fake

There are a lot of links between Lagos, Ogun and Niger-Delta militants.

One of the main reasons for the traffic gridlock in Apapa is because the NNPC and oil companies cannot move petroleum products by pipeline anymore, so they have to move them by tanker trucks.

Armed gangs have taken over Ikorodu and parts of Festac in Lagos and Arepo in Ogun State. They have killed policemen, SSS operatives and civil defence officers. They are heavily involved in pipeline vandalisation and have also branched out to armed robbery (They were heavily involved in the Lekki, Ikorodu and Festac robberies in the past year). The army had to conduct an operation in Ikorodu to try and flush them out.

Some of the armed robbers that were arrested after the Ikorodu, Lekki and Festac robberies have confessed that they have training camps in the creeks around Lagos, Ogun and Ondo states. The police and the military started a campaign to try and deal with them in December. That might explain why they want amnesty now.

http://thenationonlineng.net/how-we-robbed-banks-in-lekki-ikorodu-by-suspects/

http://www.informationng.com/2015/10/massive-military-operation-to-rid-ikorodu-of-criminal-elements-underway.html

http://www.channelstv.com/2015/09/17/vandals-kill-seven-dss-operatives-in-ikorodu/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/reign-of-terror-in-lagos-the-vicious-gangs-that-control-festac-town/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/militants-take-over-arepo-creeks/

Okeycima:
oga thank u for the lecture but am talking about this from experience.if u check since the revolution of nigerian music(2000-till date) and tell,and u do know what happen between The Artist SUNNY BOBO and the work he copied from Peacock band international?.

What exactly is your point?

1) Are you saying that there are no copyright laws in Nigeria? That's false because there are copyright laws. http://www.nigeria-law.org/CopyrightAct.htm

That's also why the Nigerian Copyright Commission is there.

2) Are you saying that a person cannot get redress when his rights have been infringed? That's also false because I've given you examples of people who have gone to court to enforce their rights (Rex Jim Lawson's family, etc).

3) Are you saying that plagiarism only happens in Nigeria? That's also false. I've given you examples of plagiarism in other countries (Robin Thicke, Solomon Linda, etc).

There are plagiarists everywhere that would like to illegally exploit a person's works. It's up to the rights holder to go to court to enforce his rights. Pharrell and Robin Thicke did not want to admit that they plagiarised Marvin Gaye's work, but his family went to court and the court compelled Thicke and Williams to pay Marvin Gaye's family and acknowledge that he is the owner of the work.

4) Are you saying that all remixes and cover versions are bad? That's also not true. The original owner of the copyright work reaps a lot of benefits when his work is covered. He earns royalties and it brings his work to a new generation that might not have heard of it before. That's why you can see that in many cases the original owner is featured in the cover version (eg, Adewale Ayuba and Jazzman, Victor Olaiya and 2face) and that in some cases the work is covered by children of the original owner (eg Paul Dairo and I.K. Dairo).

So what is your point?

This is one of my favourite Fela tracks. It's a short anti-war song that was recorded during his 1969 Los Angeles sessions (this was during the closing stages of the Nigerian Civil War).

It was remixed by Gboyega "Afrologic" Oyedele for the 2010 Felabrations event.

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Viva Nigeria, Viva Africa (1969).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia08eAsinCE

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Viva Nigeria, Viva Africa (remixed by Afrologic in 2010).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTLaQhcL9k

Excuzeme:
Abeg Parkwell joor!
Naptu did not say he has exhausted on Remixes in the musical space of Nigeria, ...did he?

Even in LA, they do remix over and over again....... the only thing is you take permission from the copyright owner before you do it.

but after many years and some songs have become "public songs", you can even do the remix without permission (I think there is a certain number of years when copyright/ becomes obsolete.

A song has to be "Up there" ... before anyone can even think of doing a remix of it because its the old version that sells the remix, at first release.


@Naptu: Respects! Keep it coming Pls.

What we did with that "Raise-da-Ruff by Jazzman Olofin" ehn? only God can forgive Boys in those days At the University.
The base guitar and tune was from the "party Anthem" of the late 70s' early 80's - "Set it off".

Even if you dont like to dance, one the Record hits the turntable and the Big Kenwood Speaker, backed by a Binatone Amplifier and Reverbrator churns out that tune, Abeg, you will just find your self floating, so to speak.
Many a Boys got banned from school because something went wrong at the "Lit Party"!

There is these guys from St Gregory's college back then (77 - 81), not sure but l think their name is Ofege? Any clues on them?

I didn't see the last part of your post earlier.

Dapo Olumide (keyboards) became a pilot and was the CEO of Virgin Nigeria. He later became the CEO of Ropeways Nigeria, the company that plans to build a cable car system in Lagos.

Some of the other members of the band were outside the country the last time I heard from them, but I can't remember what they are doing (I'll update this post as soon as I remember).

Most of their hits (Try And Love, Wizzy Ilabo, etc) are on Youtube.

Okeycima:
oga am not saying that the op has done something bad to enlighten us,rather oga what i want u to understand that whatever place u used in citing the issue of nigerian artist and copying,is that place,it is not nigeria,becos in nigeria the dont obey it talkless of seeking for permission to photocopy another man's hardwork,and pls if he can get any song by the named artists which i have mention i would love to know.we all learn,but i don't think another has done that remix with there song especially oliver de coque that guy is simply classical

This is not really true. There are copyright laws in Nigeria and that's also why the Nigerian Copyright Commission exists. Artists try to copy other artist's work without permmission all over the world, but they get into serious trouble when they are discovered. I'll give you two examples (one from Nigeria and one from outside Nigeria).

Feladey got into trouble when he covered Rex Jim Lawson's songs without permission in the 1990s. Rex Jim Lawson's family sued him, but the case was eventually settled out of court.

Robin Thicke and Pharrel Williams recently got into trouble when they sampled Marvin Gaye's song, "Got To Give It Up" (one of my favourite songs) for their song "Blurred Lines". Marvin Gaye's family sued them and they had to pay millions of dollars to Gaye's family and include Marvin Gaye's name in the album credits.


Covering a song legally is not a bad thing. It brings the song to a new generation and also gives money to the writer of the song. Some retired musicians depend on this money. For example, Snoop Dogg often sampled his uncle Charlie Wilson's (of the Gap Band) song and this meant that Charlie Wilson got paid even though he had retired and was fighting alcoholism.

Paul "Play" Dairo covered his father, I.K. Dairo's songs and this made the songs known to a new generation. Natalie Cole covered her father, Nat King Cole's songs and this brought it to a new generation.

Song writers hold copy rights over their songs for the duration of their life and 50 years after they are dead (it's 70 years in some jurisdictions). It's basically their pension. Disney had to pay the family of the South African guy that wrote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (Solomon Linda), despite the fact that he had been dead for many years before The Lion King was made (he wrote the song in the 1930s).

Excuzeme:
There was this Night Club in the mid/late 70's called Kakadu Night Club along Olonode/Borno Way junction.
Its just around where Lagos State Governor then, Mobolaji Johnson had his house
My house was next to the Kakadu Club and all this stars, especially Olaiya, played "LIVE" there every night.
It was very handy for me!

Then you really need to watch the play. The play was inspired by the nightclub.

OrlandoOwoh:
It's unfortunate Ralph Amarabem of the Peacock Dance Band suffered blindness before his death some seven years ago. He was the guitarist of Rex Lawson till around 1966/67 when he, like some other people, relocated to their regions of origin due to the pogrom and Civil War. He relocated to Owerri, East Central State. Rex Lawson replaced him with David Bull (from Bunny, Rivers State), who relocated from Gboko, Benue-Plateau State to Port-Harcourt.

Have you watched the play called Kakadu - The Musical? I was invited to watch it in 2014, but I couldn't go.

I had thought of creating this thread sometime in the middle of last year, but I kept putting it off because I couldn't find all the videos I was looking for. Then I finally went to watch Kakadu during the christmas holiday and it was unbelievable. They played almost every single song that I wanted to post on this song. It felt like they were picking the songs from my brain. That's when I decided that I must create this thread, even though I don't have all the videos that I want to post.

There was a funny part in the play, when Ben Ogbeiwi (MTN Project Fame) was singing Baby Jowo. He got to the part where he was supposed to sing -

Ko wa fun mi loyan tutu mu o

And he sang: -

Ko wa fun mi something tutu mu o.

swedge218:
Would that be oklobimatete? Sold out album?

Thank you very much, I think that's it. I just wish I had the videos of both the original and the cover version.