₦airaland Forum

rayblast:
I thought dis guys were sighted in a restaurant eating amala last year? So na our arms money una dey take chop amala abi?

Oh, I think that was Fayose and Buruji; eating amala and downing it with Moet!

You for don give am the money straight.

If you are moved to do something, fear not if the person involved is lying. Just satisfy your conscience although to be frank, it is painful if someone wastes ones resources on frivolities under the guise of "I don't have transport..." and "Epp me".

No, no, not for me. The centre of gravity will be so high it will tip over at slightest provocation.

Awesome soundcard... in fact, anything EMU. Wish it was FireWire or USB though.

I call it symptoms of 'Diasporalysis'.

sylvalord:
[b]I do not even drink cocacola, i prefer fanta and if it is not available i will settle for sprite or 7up but never coke. But this new song(taste the feeling) and advert has captured my heart and my soul. I even had to download the video and i watch it every minute. Avicii and Conrad sewell did a wonderful job on that song. Many of our local artistes are releasing cover versions of this wonderful song; Simi, Tuface, yemi alade, adekunle gold. Diamond Platnumz did a swahili version of this wonderful song and many pianists are making piano covers of this song. I really want to see pentatonix do an acapella version of this song because this song is driving me NUTS! I definitely do not like this advert because of cocacola, i love this song and advert because i love good music, i love art and i love avicii. The person who scripted that advert is a fvcking genius! Infact i don't know how to explain the feeling this song is giving me, all i know is that it is a wonderful feeling. So wonderful i couldn't stop myself from letting it all out here. +connects earphone and keeps listening to taste the feeling)!+[/b]

Me too!

I'm sure the argument that roads are to be made before structures are erected are valid but methinks even with the attendant lack of order, road contractors embarking on any road construction/renovation project should embark on adequate survey of any place they are to work and factor in the costs of reasonably suitable solution for such buildings that may have issues. In cases where they costs may exceed reasonable threshold, building owners be advised prior to the work to find a lasting solution to the matter


Just a thought.

Menh:
I saw this car parked outside a MFM church today.
For me the man 'don KOLO'

From the (church) podium to the (beer) parlour.

blackboi:
"Thanks to the Graphic Designer who bailed them out of obscurity.

NTA is next in the media sector."

Can't find this commet to quote it directly but... kai.... where do I start concerning the bolded? In fact, it is waaaaaaay beyond the work of a graphic designer no matter how good or professional he or she might be... damn, it is not as simple as visual representations o! I can't even start to explain, no time for now.

David0:
I think this is worth sharing.
Union Bank is gradually hitting her mark and in next 2 years may likely be Nigeria's leading Bank.
If you are still in doubt, Kindly visit any of her branches and experience the transformation currently going on in the bank.

Union Bank recently won the award for ‘Best Brand Development To Reflect Changed Mission / Vision / Positioning’ beating Abu Dhabi Sports Council, Bank Al Bilad, Bahrain Finance Company, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Industry Gulf Finance and VOX, and ‘Best Visual Identity From The Financial Services Sector’ beating Bank ABC, ADCB, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Industry Gulf Finance and MAF Finance.

I say big Congratulations to Union Bank on this achievement, and wish them many more to come.

http://www.transformmagazine.net/articles/2016/best-in-brand/

Cc: lalasticlala

Which agency was responsible for the creative executions?

Modified:

I've found out, Landor, US but likely their S.A. shop, without help from any Nigerian agency. Kinda of thought it'd be a certain CreativeXone that won their account sometime ago.

Update:

I still have N80k non-reversed POS transaction several months down the line and it is still unresolved. I don write letter tire!

Ereme "Twyse" Abraham (@twyse_116)

Comedian & Film Maker

Ha, ha... women can be dangerous.

I remember years back in school, a girl who was friends and neighbor with an older school colleagues girlfriend decided to show me a peculiar kind of wickedness.

My friend and his girlfriend always made the key to their room available for me when not in town and I often stayed there just to change space.

This one night her friend whom I'm very friendly with knocked on the door that she wanted to come in and pen a letter since that room had a table and chair or is it fan... something ridiculous.

Toh, I let her in oh, she sat for upwards 40 minutes writing while I continued with my creative task. It did occur to me that she may have wanted something but even at the peak of my needless playfulness, restraint was and is one thing I always pride myself with... or is it in. I fear to sh*t for shoosh.

Anyway, na so her sister come town to resume as a fresher at another institution weeks later, we met and we dated albeit briefly.

The slander this girl peddled against is something I still find scary til this day just because I overlooked her. In fact, I had to go see her at her then boyfriend's guest house - a rich niccur who was once the wiz kid of taxation in Nigeria - to beg her. She denied any complicity but her sister told me that she got into trouble for dating me and that she was planning on making her life (and mine) unbearable.

The worse thing was that she unfortunately was friends with my main chick's best friend. One day, I went to see my girl friend and all three plus another unknown were present. I was first shocked but later relaxed believing all was well only for me to take my leave and as I was stepping out she voiced: "Eh hen, when last did you see d**i?"...

The rest is best imagined!

richiepolymer:
Something is fishy here. You mean they used AK47 riffle to go rob these few naira notes? Why police dey lie like this? Last time I checked, na police dey tie magazines together like this

Those are not AK's and anyone from guerrilla fighters to police tape mags together; it's for efficient exchange when one 'cartridge' is spent.

permanentgrace:
This issue of recovering magazines from armed robbers is what i dont understand. What do they use magazines for in the course of their operations?

Are you like serious? OK, perhaps...

The 'magazine' in this case if the casing that holds several bullets for semi automatic and automatic weapons.

goldonome:
pls drop me ur contact sir

Send your digits to richgamutonline@yahoo.com and be sure to note on NL that you have mailed me.

Cheers!

freezyfofo:
All I see in ur post are ignorance... what mac will do hp or acer will do beta, whereas, they are not even a studio priority. Go and learn pls. The most valuable studio equipment is the ears. Yes, ears of the engineers and producers. Followed by a HD sound card. Peace.

I have worked in (and built from the ground up) standard class studios... it's not by studio, true.

Bruh, na you put yourself for work with the active word 'standard' and then putting up that picture. Save for those, your original post would've been strategically fine and the quoted would be (near) excellent.

I do a great deal of work also from my notebook, my tools and my ears from my bedroom when it suits me and I pay bills that way; it's not all the time I feel like working in my 'standard' place.

No hating.

goldonome:
Please I need lots of info from u guys...I'm a music producer, and recently awarded a contract for a live music production of which I ve not done before...please I need informatiom regarding the type of soundcard, Computer system, Mixer and other logistics that I can use to achieve a good sound and music...thanks

Are you like going to record a band/sessionsmen? You need a major setup for that if it will all be tracked real-time but if you are doing overdubs, its appreciably easier.

Please specify and/or expatiate but generally, you'll require a trully solid computer in the range of an Core I7... for PC or a Mac. Any DAW from Pro Tools to Cubase, Logic or Studio One will do with a soundcard that comes with many I/Os i.e. Avid HD, Presonus 192, MOTU 24I/O... most especially if you are tracking drums realtime... For your bass/guitars (and voice if you like), preamps will go along way in giving a well rounded sound for mixing.

Let's know better details sha.

Nothing can be standard with that our budget my friend... from gear and gadget to acoustics, it's not possible.

If you are talking an M-Audio Keystation 49 + Core i3 PC and accesories + Berhinger B1 mic + furniture maker's foam... maybe.

silvermania:
k I just love the beat maybe a good studio can give me a nice beat as that

Correction: "good producer can give you a nice beat as that"

[quote author=Orikinla post=45290618]Nigerians love to use our Almighty Baba God for camouflage. Even armed robbers, looters, call girls, runs babes, kidnappers and sex traffickers in Nigeria give credit to God for their success and then tell lies to decorate the rest. Here is someone a top guy named Isa at STB-MCcann, an advertising firm in Yaba gave N400, 000 (four hundred thousand naira) for her hip hop rap LP and she and family used the money for shopping and wasted the guy's investment! What a scandal![/quote

This.must have been a while back. N400k na beans now.

silvermania:
I did a freestyle on his mama track and it went perfectly well with one of my written love song, can I do my track on his beat without his permission or I have to seek for it. Am asking because have listened to many artist using someone else's beat e. g sade by adekunke gold and the likes.

I would have said it's a "cover" but you are doing an original song on it, innit? Just don't put it out commercially.

Strictly speaking, freestyle is for rappers.

How? I can't say for sure but it is important to keep keeping at it.

Training and truly understanding the rudiments of vocal dynamics will help one in discovering one's true voice and style. Of course, we have those who don't even have 'vocal talent' to their voice that are out there but in the international scene, it is mostly those with that have found that unique factor that are truly remarkable and remembered.

R. Kelly possesses a sweet and sonorous voice but hardly pitches or goes beyond a particular scale; he is revered as one of the greats (of the newer age anyway). Anita Baker was a victim of several rejections specifically for her deep male like voice... today , we know where she is placed in the Hall of Fame.

Not everyone will be an Aretha Franklin... you can be a Louis Armstrong.

saxby:
I'm not here to talk about any Tecno Boom J8 or Glo, Etisalat or even MTN.

Rather I'm here to tell you about how to pronounce recognize Nigerian foods especially when you travel out.

See pics below for their English names.

You can add yours too if you know any.

I doff my hat. Well done sir.

Chrome it is! Even on my desktop.

Donariok:
Some thoughts just passed tru my mind as I was reading this.
a whole Ibrahim badamasi can talk like this after being humbled by old age.

One day!!! just One day, Fayose will become an old man and I wonder how, just how he will feel after reflecting on the insults he'd thrown at Buhari. who knows, maybe by den, just maybe, lalasticlala and seun will b the new lair Mohammed ,


oh, old age! by then, there will be no balon d'or contest for both messi and ronaldo. by then, Linda must have grown much more older than the way wizkid described her. by then, Nnamdi KANU must have advised his grandchildren to tell their grandchildren not to involve themselves in any Biafra saga. by then, we won't have the time for booking space for comments.

oh old age. oh how I wish I can be young forever .

Quite poetic!

jideflash:

Perhaps remuneration package should be put, no?

You guys have at least 2 great guys the Gyang guy and TY whom I know personally.

Oyiboman69:
he lacks lacks etiquette

But his bus pass is intact, LoL....

'A ticket'... get it?

I will not even read the post - the tile is enough - for me to comment. I'm less concerned about NIPOST for now.

We have become a lazy people with the advent of Social Media and SMS. Don't get me wrong, it is a good development to have these social tools as it has greatly advanced reach and it is a true factor of the Jet Age.

However, nobody reads or writes well anymore. People just can't be bothered! Imagine 'text speak' when writing a letter or an application. You think the recent screen grabs of Corpers' blunders on their youth service completion are funny? They are but a sad reality of where we are headed.

Sometime 2011, I was at my then office's canteen and overheard a conversation between two girls. They were both in agreement that the internet is just for Facebook! The more educated one who was an undergrad at one of those glorified state universities couldn't fathom what else the net was useful for.

Imagine if I had the access to the internet I have now, then, that would have been a blast! Project work would have been well aided and a lot of things one had to go all out to get information about would have been easier. Now, these so called FB girls can't even use the FB optimally either as a (responsible) networking or communication tool.

I mean, what is 'monin', 'tomao'... it is (grudgingly) understandable if you are trying to cut SMS count/cost or in an emergency but not to be used perpetually. What am I saying? It is not even acceptable... what happened to abbreviations like using only consonants i.e. 'tmrrw' or '2mrrw'; 'ltr' (not to be confused with liter) or 'l8r'...

Then, we used to write. Even to woo and impress a girl, you'd need to take a lesson in writing or contract it to someone.

Some will say English is not our mother tongue, I agree. But even the so-called mother tongue, can anyone really communicate well with it? How many can write a letter in Yoruba for instance with all the attendant markings well placed?

Mike is truly a humble guy... just meteor him minutes ago at a location.

truskool:
Are u a creative sound producer? Can you engineer a track for an A-list artist? Can you come up with interesting concepts for corporate bodies to advertise their services ?

If so, We are looking for:
A Music producer/Sound Engineer For Corporate work.

-Must be conversant with music production softwares especially ProTools, Cubase, FL Studio and Waves.
-Ability to play the Keyboard is a must.
-Good communication skills.
-Good Human Relationship skills.
-Time & Process Conscious.

Inquire at Digi Lounge/Cloud 9 Studios @ No. 9 Nafada Rd. Kubwa. Call 09020030032 to schedule an interview.

*Please Come with a Demo Cd or USB of prior work (pref. Corporate jobs i.e jingles,adverts,etc) or send samples to info@oncloud9.tv

You need more than a producer/engineer @ the bolded; more like a creative director sorta thing IMO...

On another thread you asked for good producers and you are yet to do the needful. Please forget the guy that is talking spread legs - he was prolly joking.

Music business in Nigeria is near kalo kalo. Not that it doesn't return the investment, but it seldom does in the general. A lot (not all) of what you are seeing being successful is either of 2 things:

Talent + 'good' branding + wherewithal to spend stupendous amounts to propagate the music = attention, appreciation and returns via digital sales (ringtones and CBRTs), appearances and shows and in select cases endorsement

And the second,

Near talent + average - if any - branding + some wherewithal + God's grace (same also in the first) = attention, appreciation and returns via digital sales (ringtones and CBRTs), appearances and shows and in select cases endorsement

A third scenario is where there is nothing to write home about but the money behind the act is a massive war chest and these are the ones that are everywhere but nowhere and two outcomes await them, to fizzle out or with concerted effort and spending, gain acceptance and success.

Let me not bore you...

Madam, at least post a sample of your music for now... or for those that are interested, let them provide an email in case you don't want it in public domain at all

branhampaul:
Any One Got An Idea, Do Share!

For like 10, 000 copies, it should be between N80, 000 and 130, 000 depending on the kind of print, if it comes embossed...