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Genevieve- No.5

Eldee- No.4

Banky W- No.3

D'Banj- No.2

Wizkid- No.1

The era of pen pals or fans clubs are fast disappearing with the bug of information technology eating into every fabric of our everyday living. The most powerful tools of communication are shifting from what we used to know to what are taking over the way we socialise, even across great distances.

In today's fast paced world of inter-connectivity from one part of the world to another, the social networking utilities like Twitter and the Facebook top the bill. Between the two utilities, billions of people around the world socialise freely, sharing information and even doing businesses, regardless of boundaries and time zone differences.

Although Facebook is as good as it could get but Twitter has the edge for its configuration,which makes it very easy to determine the number of people who is connected with a person.

It has become a platform through which a person's popularity could be measured. Facebook, for all the goodies it offers has a limitation as to the number of people who could stay connected with a person. On Twitter, the number is limitless..

Currently, the champion of Twitter is the American diva, Lady Gaga, who has close to 30 million people following her on Twitter. Not even the most powerful man on the planet, the American President, Barrack Obama, comes close.

Next person is another entertainer, Justin Bieber,a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer and actor. He has close to 27 million followers.

In fact the first five spots are taken by entertainers, including Katy Perry, Rihanna and Britney Spears before a breather was given for President Barrack Obama to occupy the 6th place. After the American President, it was entertainers' party all the way.

Nigeria's entertainers may not play in the same league as their American counterparts but they sure can hold their own anywhere in the world. Gone are the days of the rag-tag entertainers who wait for handouts from people who, more often than not, ride on their prides, before throwing some tokens their way. Now they drive the best cars, live in most luxurious homes and some of them even fly their own jets to cruise around the world.

So, who are the Nigeria's superstars of the Twitter? While the question may not provide answer to a popularity check among Nigeria's entertainers it goes a long way in giving an insight into those making the entertainment industry tick.

Though the Twitter is updated constantly, almost every second of the day and that to a certain extent may affect the number of followers a star has at any point in time which may even change between a twinkling of an eye.

Top 5 superstars of Twitter

Tuface Idibia, P-Square or D'Banj may be the names on the minds of most people but none of these superstars come first on Twitter with the highest number of followers. The Nigeria's number superstar of the Twitter is the new music sensation holding the music industry spellbound.

Fast rising Nigerian pop star, Ayo Balogun popularly called Wizkid, is the most popular Nigerian artiste with a followers list of over 325, 100 people. No wonder, the little guy is snapping up every award here and there. Recently, he took the international scene by storm when he won the Best International Act (Africa) at the BET awards held in Los Angeles, USA.

Trailing him with a bit of meanness is the Koko Master, Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, known as D'Banj. No one can question D'Banj's popularity and the 'Oliver Twister' storm raiser has over 300,136 followers. At the last check, he was just some 25,000 short of overtaking the 22 year-old Wizkid.

In the third place is Olubankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W. The guy does Rhythm and Blues and seems to be winning hearts with his deft delivery. He has over 230, 000 followers and breathing down his neck is another musician, Eldee, born Lanre Dabiri. He has over 202,000 followers.

Now, Nollywood makes it first entry and who could have pulled it off other than dear Genevieve Nnaji. Genevieve has been described as the queen of Nollywood and on the Twitter popularity check, the mother of one has not disappointed. As at last check, she has over 176,000 followers on her Twitter account. She can thus be regarded as the most famous female entertainer in Nigeria.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201208260286.html

[quote author=Mr. Globe]lol its not about meetings and ratifyings. We the igbos will never trust Yoruba people. We are wiser than that. worse still is the meeting involved the wife of felon and convicted criminal awolololololo. Even those Yoruba people know this assembly won't work with the east in mind[/quote]From your last statement, you think so?

This isn't funny anymore.

Damn, can't stop laughing.
This girl badt gan

Mod, please let this topic be on the front page. It's too funny to be hidden.

Nigerians, u're too much

More

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Keep them coming

@ibis. I'm so sorry. I read ur post lately, i hope u made your trip and got all you wanted.
Any way, I'll still post what you requested for incase of next time, and any NLer who wishes to visit the state.
You can get a bus going to Oshogbo from Lagos here:
U can get from Ojota, from Ikorodu and I think from Ketu aswell.
Or you can travel with train, from oshodi train station

Cheap hotels:
Gazah hotel. Dada estate, Oshogbo
Capital hotel. Capital, Oshogbo
Leisure spring.

Interior decoration:
Laden furnitures.
(Sorry, don't have much idea about that)

Best way to move:
You can charter a taxi, or bus.

Clothing, textile and bead work:
Igbona market. Oshogbo
Orisumbare market. Oshogbo

Painting:
Between olaiya and old garage. You can ask around.

I think this will help

CAMEROONPRIDE: thanks i was giving up ? i thought nobody was interested by this thread...

Some of us do, but very minute in number. I'm interested in anything 'Africa' and wish we can get our act right. Had it's been it's a thread on exchanging words, it'll have been filled up with peoples comment. I pity the way we Africans reason. We see our selves as enemy and kill ourselves on worthless issue. U can see for yourself, the amount of hatred among we Nigerians, from tribal war to religious war. The hatred between Nigerians and S/African, same with Ghanians. All these things are part of what makes we Africans look like fools. I pray we Africans will wise up one day.

And cameroonpride, I like you Don't get it twisted your topics and post are mostly about Africa.

kodred: perhaps we are all in a haste to judge quickly.....lets see hw it goes, afterall evrytin has its advantages nd disadvantages

If we watch and let them do as they wish, it'll be too late to correct the action. We better criticize it now and try our best in not making it come through.
Most countries that have strong economy has lesser denomination, and majority of the countries with poor economy have very high denomination, which is the part we're towing right now.
What else do we need see before we know this action will cause catastrophe to our economy?

Obiagu1: 1906 amalgamation was when (strangers) were added to peaceful Southern Nigeria to create disharmony in the South and things have never been the same again.

Whose fault? Or was it Yoruba that added themselves to the Southern Nigeria?
And how has yoruba created disharmony in the south, before 1914 when the North was joined to form Nigeria?
You also said Yorubas to be stranger. Are they stranger on their own land of Old Western Region? Or they came to Southern Nigeria to claim their land?

Kolade9: Pickpockets go hammer dis year

That's likely to be very true. I don't pray I misplace just two of those sheet.

It's long overdue.

Good job, keep them coming

N5,000 will strengthen the cashless policy – CBN official
The Director, Corporate Communications Affairs of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Ugochukwu Okoroafor has affirmed that the apex bank’s decision to introduce the N5,000 note is to strengthen the cashless policy of the bank.

Illustartion of the planned N5000 with leading female activists by Vanguard newspaper.
He further explained that the Project Cure which is the review of the nation’s currency announced by the CBN last week, is in-line with the CBN’s statutory policy of reviewing the nation’s currency. He also stated that the move is in line with global best practices of reviewing nation’s legal tender on a regular basis of every five-eight years.

Mr Okoroafor on our weekly breakfast show, Sunrise, noted that the N1,000 has been in existence in the last seven years. N500 has been around for 11 years, N200 for 12 years and the N100 for 13years, hence the need for this overall review of the currency, which according to him is ‘over-due’.

The corporate affairs manager also argued that it is essential to rejuvenate the currency, “to make it new”, “for an economy that is just coming out a global recession” he said.

However, a chartered accountant, Bala Zaka, countered the CBN’s policy, describing it as ‘irrelevant brilliancy’.
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/08/25/n5000-will-strengthen-the-cashless-policy-cbn-official/

bid4rich: how old are you now?

I clocked "5" yesterday

yemmy19: Dullard,if u ar still adamant that u dnt knw Funmilayo Kuti,u ar a disgrace to all JSS student.if ur son or daughter is in d JSS Ω̴̩δω,beg him or her to teach Ɣ☺ΰ ...olooodo oshi

Oga take am easy now
I don turn olodo because say I no know them?

getukudo: What have you done for yourself and your community as a whole? Why must you come here and show us all that you are stupid!

I'm not here to debate about my personal life or achievement. I'm a Nigerian who is patriotic enough to show concern about issues in my country. If you have problem with that, then get off the thread. It's not by force to make comment and show your ignorance on a public forum.

With those map up there, was Edo part of the old Eastern region?

I think with this, no Southerner(S/W, S/E and S/S) is happy about the amalgamation at first.

Major socio-cultural organisations in the country have expressed opposing views on the plan by the Federal Government to embark on an elaborate centenary celebration of the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914 by the British.

Nigeria became a nation when the then Governor-General of the country, Lord Frederick Lugard, merged the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria with its Northern half in 1914.

President Goodluck Jonathan had said that the FG would mark the nation’s 100 years of existence during an official visit to Jamaica, where he attended the Caribbean country’s 178th Anniversary of Emancipation and the 50th anniversary of its independence recently.

In separate interviews on Friday, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Ijaw National Congress, and the Ndigbo Unity Front, opposed the planned celebration. This is in contradiction to the position of the Arewa Consultative Forum, which says the event is worth celebrating in spite of the challenges facing the nation.

Former Governor Bisi Akande of Osun State said that while the centenary anniversary of the nation’s existence could be marked, it should not be celebrated.

Akande said that it would be wrong for funds to be provided for the centennial celebration since it was clear that the nation did not have anything to celebrate.

Akande called the citizenry’s attention to the prevalence of crime, violence and insecurity in the land.

“It doesn’t make sense to budget money for it,” Akande said through an aide, Mr. Lani Baderinwa. “What is there to celebrate about the country’s amalgamation when everything is upside down?

“There’s massive unemployment among the youths, crime is unbearably high and characteristic violence is prevalent all over the land.”

On its part, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo stated that while the unity of the nation could not be negotiated as it marks 100 years of its amalgamation, it was necessary to ensure the component nationalities that make up the nation were given fair treatment as “against the prevailing situation where some groups like the Ndigbo are made to feel like second class citizens in their own country.”

The President-General of Ohanaeze, Dr. Ralph Uwechue, said that issues like the rotation of strategic national offices like the presidency must be entrenched in the constitution so that every zone or group could feel a sense of belonging.

Uwechue said recognition must be given to the fact that Nigeria is made up of several nations which must find accommodation. “We must allow for what (former Prime Minister) Tafawa Balewa described as unity in diversity,” Uwechue added.

He called for devolution of powers to the states as it was at independence when “the attraction was at the regions, not the centre.”

But another Igbo organisation – the Ndigbo Unity Forum – said that there was nothing to celebrate about the amalgamation, as it has worsened relationships rather than bring about the peace and progress of the constituent nations.

The NUF president, Mr. Augustine Chukwudum, told SATURDAY PUNCH that the proposed celebration by the government would lead to another wide scale looting of public funds.

“Nigeria has nothing to celebrate because we have failed as a nation and our successive leaders have failed us too,” Chukwudum said.

He, however, said the National Assembly should be courageous enough to take up the issues that are critical to the survival of the nation and discuss them so that the people would not have to find options like taking their destinies in their own hands.

Similarly, the Ijaw National Congress kicked against the move to celebrate the nation’s amalgamation. It described the amalgamation as an action that brought strange bed fellows together.

The INC National Secretary, Mr. Robinson Esite said, “The amalgamation is what has brought the woes to Nigeria; it brought strange bed fellows together and so, celebrating it will amount to celebrating the evil day. So, it is not worth celebration; it should have been a period of sober reflection, a period of regret rather than celebration.

“We have always insisted on a national conference for Nigerians to sit down and chart the way forward and to decide on the modality for our continuous existence. We are agreed that we should continue to remain a united Nigeria, but the modalities for our continued existence should be discussed.

“For the several years the North ruled this country, no ethnic nationality from the South has insisted that those who must be leaders must be Christians. This is the only time a South-South person is president of Nigeria.

“They call themselves born-to-rule, the question we ask is, ‘To rule who?’ So, it is expedient that a national conference is called for us to decide the modality of our existence and until that conference is called, we continue to see avoidable crisis.”

However, the pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, said that the FG had cause to celebrate the 100 years of amalgamation of the country despite the security challenges in Nigeria.

The National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Mr. Anthony Sani, told one of our correspondents in Kaduna on Friday that Nigeria was not the only country saddled with security challenges.

“You may wish to know that many countries face security challenges. Examples include India, which experienced bombings in Mumbai more than seven times last year. Norway, of all countries had violence; Cyprus had its own share. We also know Thailand has an equivalent of Boko Haram, which started way back in 2004,” he said.

The forum noted that Nigerians should not question its existence based on the current security challenges, instead “we must discuss how best to overcome the collective challenges for national good.”

“That the country is facing some challenges now is not to vitiate the benefit of one big united Nigeria in which individual and group aspirations can find expression, especially in the future,” he added.

He insisted that to celebrate the concept of nationhood, which holds a lot of promise for generations yet unborn, could not amount to a waste.

“Nigeria has been more than a geographic expression, especially when regard is paid to the wide and deep interdependence among constituent parts of the country which make divorce impossible or more difficult.

“Nigerians should remember that this nation is not about the only country put together with religious and ethnic diversities. We should mimic other countries by working hard in order to overcome those differences that divide the people, and in favour of core values of humanity that unite the people.

“And this is because it is very possible to make the most of our God-given diversities, to respect them and honour them,” Sani said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/acn-acf-igbo-groups-disagree/

bittyend: I don't want to turn this thread into a religious debate - and talk about how Christianity is also about paganism. But you need to stop the critique about whatever they do at the festival - that's their religion. Freedom of religion, no?

Because I'm not in support of it doesn't mean I'm criticizing it. Have you read any critique from any of my post? May be you read them over. The freedom of the Yoruba, that gives anyone the right to practice any religion he/she wishes shouldn't be compromised.
Peace man

@Bittyend, get this right.
You're not from Osun, definitely you won't know much about "Osun Oshogbo". I'm not against any tradition that promote yoruba culture. But "Osun Oshogbo" has gotten to an extent where by people worship the river as their god. May be you try and get there this seasons festival, you'll see people from different countries(mostly: Brazil, US, Venezuela, central and Southern American countries) going to ask for children and other things. In short, they've turn the river to their god. But as for me, it's a NO. I won't take tradition in place of Christianity. This what we call freedom.

bittyend: But you support the paganism in Christianity - and changed your name to; Paul John, no? Are you sure you're Yoruba, or just another impostor? Yoruba tradition is here to stay, if you don't like it - move to Israel.

@Bittyend, who else is yoruba, when a person from Osun state is not yoruba? 100 percent yoruba man.
Because I said I'm not in support of the traditional festival doesn't mean I have a problem with them. Okay?
And about the name, my last name is OLUWASEYI
Peace my bro

GOD bless eyin Omo ODUDUA

Osun festival is near, you'll see how Aregbe would spend enough on that ceremony, but he's a muslim. The former governor who was a Christian even did more than this during his own time. Aregbe that people are shouting of, about him Islamizing Osun state has entered churches that I don't know aw many time. Same with Oyinlola the former governor entered mosque when he was the governor.
But I'm not in support of that Osun Oshogbo festival

Desola: You've attempted this in the past, trying to put Yorubas at loggerheads as to which religion has the majority over the other but it didn't work.

The point with you migrants is that you visit one Yoruba state and conclude that you've seen it all. Lagos, as i've warned you long ago, is not the yardstick for religious representation. Reason being that we have a lot of you migrants there too who come from your enclaves to build churches due to the rights granted you by the Nigerian constitution. Go to other states within Yorubaland and carry out an emperical research and come back to relay your findings. My own assertion is based on origin and first hand experience. Yours is based on sight only.

@Desola, I think you're wrong about this. It's like it's only Lagos and Kwara you have imbalance between the Christian and Muslin population. My state(Osun State) is like 50/50, and I think it's the same as Ekiti, Ondo and the rest. Ilesha for example where the present governor(Aregbe) came from, has a larger percentage of Christian, but the governor is a muslim. Should we say because of this the Muslims are more than Christians? It's a no. Also Ife which is like the origin of Yoruba has enough traditionalist and Iwo aswell has more Muslims than Christians. I think you should be to other Yoruba states before you pass you judgment. Nothing personal, peace