₦airaland Forum

Ondo Assembly To Pass Laws Promoting Tourism

The Ondo State House of Assembly on Monday promised to pass relevant laws that would complement the efforts of the state government in projecting the tourism and cultural heritage of the state.

The Chairman, House Committee on Culture and Tourism, Mr Felemu Bankole, made the promise during an oversight visit by the committee to the state’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Akure.

Bankole, representing Akoko South West II constituency, commended the efforts of the ministry in projecting the cultural heritage of the state for global attention.

He also the commended the ministry for sustaining the indigenous cultural and traditional heritage in the face of modernism, adding that laws would be passed to enhance the maximum performance of the ministry.

Earlier, Mr Kayode Akinmade, the Commissioner for Information and supervisor of the ministry, had said that tourism had the potential to enhance the economic growth of the state.

He solicited for approval of funds to sustain the cultural heritage of the state. (NAN)


http://leadership.ng/business/468198/ondo-assembly-to-pass-laws-promoting-tourism



Long overdue.I expect osun state to do the same.

[size=15pt]Adeyemi Ajao, Nigerian-born Mark Zukerberg of Spain[/size]

He is the founder of Tuenti.com, the largest invite-only social network in the world, which sold to Telefonica in 2010 for $100 million in the largest startup transaction ever in Spain.

He is regarded as the first African ever to sell his startup for $100 million on August 4, 2010, when Telefonica took controls of 85% of Ajao’s Tuenti, an invitation-only private social network site for students and young people in Spain. Tuenti popularly called “Spanish Facebook” was started by Adeyemi Ajao at 22 and four of his friends. Tuenti has over 14 million users and is the largest Invite-Only network in the world.

Tuenti, which in Spanish comes from "tu enti[dad]" meaning your identity, sounds like Twenty in English. It is rated as one of the fastest growing social network sites. Tuenti features many tools common to social-networking sites. It allows users to set up a profile, upload photos, link videos and connect with friends; recently a chat application has been added. Many other utilities, such as the ability to create events, are also offered. Unlike similar social network sites which feature banner advertisements, Tuenti has opted out of these traditional forms of "noisy" and obstructive advertising.

Zaryn Dentzel, one of its founders and current CEO, stated that they intend to focus on Spanish users more before possibly expanding to other countries.

Adeyemi Ajao was born in southern Spain to a Nigerian father and a Spanish mother. He was in Nigeria for only six years, spent two years in Italy and then moved to Spain when he was nine, growing up in the small beach town called Marbella.

Adeyemi earned a Masters in Finance from Emory, a J.D. from ICADE in Madrid, and an MBA from Stanford, and graduated at the top of his class at each university. He was elected one of the “Top 100 Spaniards of the Year” in 2009, and was invited by the U.S. Congress to the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a representative of the Spanish Commission for Accomplishments in Entrepreneurship.

Adeyemi’s father was one of the first mechanical engineers in Nigeria, who started a steel company in Nigeria. He saw his father fought hard to put his company together, but unfortunately didn’t make it in Nigeria, and left for Italy.

Ajao the Co-Founder/CEO of Identified has also launched other successful innovations such as Cabify, an application for hiring of vehicles with driver via mobile under the slogan "Move with style." Cabify requests high-end vehicles with professional drivers using technology, to bring consumers the luxury. You can ask about one of your cars from any device, be it a mobile phone, a computer or tablet. The user receives a notification with information about the designated driver, model and license plate number. On the screen of your device, you can see how the vehicle looks and can even contact the driver if needed.

JME

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Jamie Adenuga was born in Hackney, into a family who are originally from Nigeria. He grew up in Tottenham, North London where he lived in a council house. He attended St. Paul's School and then Winchmore School in Winchmore Hill, Enfield along with his brother Skepta. Adenuga subsequently graduated from University of Greenwich receiving First Class Honours in 3D Digital Design.

Jamie Adenuga (born 4 May 1985), better known by his stage name Jme (commonly capitalized JME), is an English MC. He is the co-founder of the crew and label Boy Better Know. Adenuga was previously part of the grime crew Meridian along with his brother, Joseph Adenuga (also known as Skepta). As well as working with Boy Better Know, Adenuga now focuses mainly on his own solo ambitions. Jme has appeared on many grime DVDs including Practice Hours where Bossman, Big H and Jme did a freestyle over the beat to his single "Serious".

In October 2008, he became one of a small number of unsigned artists to headline at the London Astoria. As his fanbase has grown, Jme has travelled throughout Europe and to New York with Tim Westwood to perform.

Jme's third studio album, Integrity>, was released on 4 May 2015. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number twelve.

Rotimi

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Olurotimi Akinosho better known by his stage name, Rotimi, is an American singer-songwriter, actor and model. From 2011 to 2012, he starred as Darius Morrison on the Starz Network original drama series Boss. Rotimi is also the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of FrontRoSeat Productions.

Rotimi was born in Maplewood, New Jersey, to Nigerian parents, and attended Columbia High School, where he was a standout on both the varsity basketball team and the honors choir. He continued his studies at Northwestern University and graduated with a Communications minor in Business.

YoruBanger:
[size=15pt]Adeyemi Ajao, Nigerian-born Mark Zukerberg of Spain[/size]

He is the founder of Tuenti.com, the largest invite-only social network in the world, which sold to Telefonica in 2010 for $100 million in the largest startup transaction ever in Spain.

He is regarded as the first African ever to sell his startup for $100 million on August 4, 2010, when Telefonica took controls of 85% of Ajao’s Tuenti, an invitation-only private social network site for students and young people in Spain. Tuenti popularly called “Spanish Facebook” was started by Adeyemi Ajao at 22 and four of his friends. Tuenti has over 14 million users and is the largest Invite-Only network in the world.

Tuenti, which in Spanish comes from "tu enti[dad]" meaning your identity, sounds like Twenty in English. It is rated as one of the fastest growing social network sites. Tuenti features many tools common to social-networking sites. It allows users to set up a profile, upload photos, link videos and connect with friends; recently a chat application has been added. Many other utilities, such as the ability to create events, are also offered. Unlike similar social network sites which feature banner advertisements, Tuenti has opted out of these traditional forms of "noisy" and obstructive advertising.

Zaryn Dentzel, one of its founders and current CEO, stated that they intend to focus on Spanish users more before possibly expanding to other countries.

Adeyemi Ajao was born in southern Spain to a Nigerian father and a Spanish mother. He was in Nigeria for only six years, spent two years in Italy and then moved to Spain when he was nine, growing up in the small beach town called Marbella.

Adeyemi earned a Masters in Finance from Emory, a J.D. from ICADE in Madrid, and an MBA from Stanford, and graduated at the top of his class at each university. He was elected one of the “Top 100 Spaniards of the Year” in 2009, and was invited by the U.S. Congress to the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a representative of the Spanish Commission for Accomplishments in Entrepreneurship.

Adeyemi’s father was one of the first mechanical engineers in Nigeria, who started a steel company in Nigeria. He saw his father fought hard to put his company together, but unfortunately didn’t make it in Nigeria, and left for Italy.

Ajao the Co-Founder/CEO of Identified has also launched other successful innovations such as Cabify, an application for hiring of vehicles with driver via mobile under the slogan "Move with style." Cabify requests high-end vehicles with professional drivers using technology, to bring consumers the luxury. You can ask about one of your cars from any device, be it a mobile phone, a computer or tablet. The user receives a notification with information about the designated driver, model and license plate number. On the screen of your device, you can see how the vehicle looks and can even contact the driver if needed.

Inspired!

Top of the class at Stanford - salute!

Taio Cruz a Yoruba man? haba
if truly all the people you guyz have been talking about are Yoruba's, it shows Yoruba's are not left behind in this 21st century

WIZGUY69:
Taio Cruz a Yoruba man? haba
if truly all the people you guyz have been talking about are Yoruba's, it shows Yoruba's are not left behind in this 31st century

His dad is Yoruba.

Sneakbo

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Agassi Babatunde Odusina, or Sneakbo (born in 1992, in Brixton) as he is otherwise known, is an English rapper. His first song, "The Wave", made #48 on the UK Singles Chart and he has since released a number of hits, including being a featured artist on the D'Banj song "Oliver Twist".

A very serene streets in Ibadan (took the pix myself )

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[size=17pt]Nigerian Female Architect, Olajumoke Adenowo, on 'CNN African Voices'[/size]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2CIQuastvw

Chamillionaire

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Hakeem Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire was also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click until the group split in 2005.

He began his career independently with local releases in 2002, including collaboration album Get Ya Mind Correct with fellow Houston rapper and childhood friend Paul Wall. He signed to Universal Records in 2005 and released The Sound of Revenge under Universal. It included hit singles "Turn It Up" featuring Lil' Flip and the number-one, Grammy-winning hit "Ridin'" featuring Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Ultimate Victory followed in 2007, which was notable for not containing any profanity. Chamillionaire is also known for his most anticipated Mixtape Messiah series, which came to a halt in 2009.

In early 2011, he left Universal Records, which led to his would-be third album, Venom, going unreleased. Chamillionaire released his first independent extended play Ammunition in March 2012 and was noted as his first major release since he left the label. Another EP, Elevate, was released on February 17, 2013 . He said it is going to be one of several to be released before his third studio album, and shortly after his third EP Reignfall was released on July 23, 2013. He is working on his third studio album, Poison.

Chamillionaire joined Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Upfront Ventures in early 2015

Chamillionaire was born to a Muslim Nigerian father and an African-American Christian mother in Washington D.C., and moved to Houston, Texas at the age of four. Chamillionaire's parents separated in his early teenage years. He settled into a notoriously dangerous inner-city neighborhood in North West Houston called Acres Homes.

SirShymexx:
His dad is Yoruba.

Definitely. He's a Yoruba man

Elijah Oyefeso

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Interview with 20 Year Old Millionaire Stock Trader – Elijah Oyefeso

20 year old Elijah Oyefeso isn’t your typical uni dropout. In fact, he’s now a stock-trading high roller driving three sports cars (2 featured on The Daily Mail today). After just 4 months at Buckingham University studying International Football Business Management, Elijah decided to leave, telling Student Cheddar “Uni was decent, my course was very standard but at the end of the day it just wasn’t my passion. I found that I really started to fear the fact of working under someone else”.

Elijah, who grew up in South London now makes over £26,000 a month trading ‘binary options’. Binary options are basically estimates of an underlying asset’s performance during a given time frame. Instead of buying and selling stocks ‘in the market’, Binary Options just involves placing a bet on the direction of a stock without having to purchase a stock.

If the above hasn’t already inspired you enough then check this video of Elijah purchasing his new Lamborghini.

Interview with Elijah Oyefeso

So Elihaj, when & why did you start trading?

I started trading when I was just 17 years of age. However, I never really took it seriously until I left university. Starting early defintely helps with your general market perception, but I don’t think that it is essential!

The reason I started trading was because I was once browsing YouTube and came across a video of Tim Sykes (a famous penny stock trader) make over $5000 in a 15 minute video! I thought ‘if he can do it, why can’t I?!’.

What does a typical day for you involve?

A typical day for me involves getting up quite early to get a general awareness of the market, and I often start trading at around 10am. After I have finished trading (this varies between 30 minutes to 3-4hours) I go to the gym to let off some steam! I also put a lot of focus in to starting other businesses (I have around 5 projects going off at the minute). I go to my local church 3 times a week and I think most of my success comes from my faith.

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How did you learn how to trade so profitably?

I learnt a lot through different media outlets, namely YouTube, blogs and books. I highly recommend YouTube as you can find exact trading strategy walk-throughs by experts such as Tim Sykes.

Most importantly, I learnt from my very expensive mistakes. It’s all good reading books about how not to follow your emotions when trading, however when you make a loss of £2000 because of following your heart not your head, the lesson really sinks in!

What do you think are the most important skills you need in order to trade successfully?

Three skills: Discipline, time and patience. All these skills can be developed, however you’ll never make profits trading in the long run without them.

Whats been your biggest profit [and loss]in one day?

My biggest profit in one day was £10300 in March this year. However, I’ve also had some pretty hefty losses (great lessons), of which my worst was £2000 in one day. Trading is a rollercoaster of profits and losses, however if there are more ups then downs, it’s a very fun ride!

It seems I've exhausted music - time to hit fashion/modelling.

Yorubas doing Yourbaland proud!

Remi Alade-Chester

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Born and raised in the city of Lagos, in Nigeria, Remi Alade-Chester was living in his hometown till the age of eleven, at which point he migrated to the US with his immediate family, Remi began a new life on his continuous journey to success. Standing at 6’1, the power-house model with his sculpted physique, flawless skin and a striking face, makes a bold statement. On how he got into modeling, Remi told online magazine LAMODEDIMITRI “I was always advised to try it out since I was in high school, but I never thought much of it until my designer roommate in college introduced me to a photographer. With money as a catalyst, I soon started dabbling, and that’s when Graham from Gadal Model Management found me and I flew-out to Barbados to meet him. The rest is pretty much history…”

Remi began modelling around his 20th birthday, which makes it a 2 year career thus far, since he is now 22. Interestingly accelerating through the model industry, Remi gained enough prominence to walk the runway for the Fall 2011 menswear collection of Parisian fashion house Givenchy. Although his fast growth has been a major curve ball, he really could not have had it another way.

Betty Adewole

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Betty Adewole (born in 1992, in London, UK) is a professional fashion model from England. Both her parents are Nigerian, and nurses. She was discovered by a scout from Models 1 in London while she was shopping with her mother.

She has walked the catwalk in fashion shows for Elie Tahari, Emilio de la Morena, Vivienne Westwood, Fashion East, J. Crew, Mark Fast, Nathan Jenden, Paul Smith, Issey Miyake, Jasmine de Milo, PPQ, Maison Martin Margiela Paris, Pam Hogg, Loewe, Emanuel Ungaro, Marcus Constable, and Nasir Mazhar, among others.

She also did campaign work for Libery of London.

She has been in magazines such as Arise, 125, and French Revue de Modes.

She also graced the covers of Arise, 125, and French Revue de Modes.

She's currently signed with One Management in New York, Elite Models in Milan, Major Models, and Models 1 in London.

Scouted at 15 in her hometown of London - shopping on Tottenham Court Road, to be precise - the model has politely dismissed comparisons with another capital-born model, Naomi Campbell, asserting that, while flattered, she is "very different". After a steady start, the turning point in her career was being signed by IMG last year, and subsequently cutting her waist-length hair into a boyish crop - forcing designers in search of a new look to take notice.

From her debut on the catwalks of Loewe and Maison Martin Margiela during the spring/summer 2011 season, Adewole has become one of the industry's most sought-after catwalk faces. With appearances in some of fashion's biggest shows - from Alexander McQueen and Tom Ford to Stella McCartney and Givenchy - under her belt, she's likely to give fellow Londoners Jourdan Dunn and Cara Delevingne a run for their money in the popularity stakes when the shows begin next month.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigerian-professionals-making-waves-in-canada-i-/207385/

[size=18pt]Nigerian Professionals Making Waves in Canada[/size]

Canada is one of the greatest countries in the world. The country accommodates peoples from different cultures and backgrounds - giving them opportunities to accomplish their set goals in life. Nigerians are not left out in the opportunity that the North American nation offers. Zacheaus Somori, who is in Ottawa, profiles some of the achievers making waves in the country with the intention to contribute their own quota to the Nigerian economy

ADENIYI, Adetola

Adeniyi Adetola migrated to Canada in 1996 and has been based in Toronto, Ontario. He is a journalist, writer, publisher, educationist and a consultant. Adeniyi, a prolific columnist and commentator, began his career in journalism officially as a reporter in 1959. Since that time when he erected a public pressboard at Ago- Iwoye Secondary School, Ogun State, Adeniyi has devoted his life to various genres of mass communication: acting, to singing, debating, drumming, poetry and choreography.

A non-partisan political impresario, Chief Adetola Babatunde Adeniyi is the Chairman of Linkworld-ICC and Managing Consultant of The Knowledge Plaza as well as Chairman/CEO of Toronto-based Canada College and Canada University Press.

A vibrant political commentator and consummate analyst, Adeniyi is also a strategist and tactitian per excellence and has over the years been a consultant on Media, Strategy and Public policy to several top level political office holders and corporate institutions across the country.

www.canadacollegewebsite.com

WALE Adesanya

Wale Adesanya is from Abeokuta, Ogun State. He migrated to Canada in 1978 and presently based in Ottawa, Ontario. He holds first degree in Engineering from the University of Ottawa and later bagged MBA in Finance, CSA. He is presently the President of ADE Financial Group,
an Insurance and Investment Consulting Firm in the city of Ottawa.

With over nineteen years of financial experience, Wale’s mission is to be a partner for people who are committed to finance and investing - enabling them to become more confident in their financial decision making and empowering them towards financial freedom. Prior the starting his brokerage firm, he worked for Prudential Life Insurance, MetLife and Clarica to name a few.

Adesanya is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Nigerian Professionals and Business Network, a professional working group based in Canada. He served on the Board of Canada-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce, Board of Advisory of The Nigerian Canadian Association, Ottawa - an organisation that he served as the President for over 7 years.

In 2010, as part of the Nigeria 50th anniversary, he was awarded the prestigious Nigeria Golden
Jubilee Award for Community Development and Leadership by former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Professor Iyorwuese Hagher. Adesanya is also the owner of Diplomacy Limousine and Car Services, one of the top transportation companies in Ontario.

With passion for Nigeria, Adesanya has consistently worked to bring Nigerian professionals in Canada together for the purpose of brainstorming and articulating positions on Nigeria’s democracy and governance.

Adesanya was the Executive Director of the team that hosted a four-day World Conference tagged: “Nigeria @ 50, Building Partnership through Public and Private Partnership” in Ottawa in 2010. Over 500 Canadian and Nigerian entrepreneurs, politicians and Professionals, from all over the world, attended the conference in the capital city of Ottawa. He is married to Perihan Adesanya and they both have three grown up children, Lanre, Genni
and step-son, Jeyhan.

www.ADEFinancial.com

Adetola Motunrayo

Adetola Motunrayo is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa. Migrated to Canada in 2001, took up a job offer on arrival in Brookfield as a Family Physician and later became the Senior Medical Office in Charge of Brookfield- Bonnews hospital. He is a certificant of the College of Family Physician in Canada and recently became Fellow of the College of Family Physician of Canada.

He has additional qualifications in Dermatology and Independent Medical Examination.
He moved to Ottawa in the summer of 2005 to start his solo family practice which has now
metamorphed into Zoemed Clinic in Ottawa. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family
Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine.

He is also an examiner for the College of Family Physician of Canada, Peer reviewer for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and has been the General Secretary of the Canadian Association of Nigerian Physicians and Dentists. He is also the CME director of that organisation.

He retains an active interests in what goes on in Nigeria, hence writes articles in the Nigeriaworld.com. He completed his undergraduate medical education in 1990 at the Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University. After his national service in 1992, he began his post graduate education in Internal medicine at the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu and University College hospital, in Ibadan.

He later travelled to South Africa where he worked for 6 years and also completed his post graduate training in Family and Emergency Medicine at the University of Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He worked as senior and then Principal Medical Officer at the hospitals in Klerksdorp and Pietersburg.

www.zoemedical.ca

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Ahmed, Adekunle Garba

Dr Ahmed Garba migrated to Canada in 1997 and has since based in Ottawa, Ontario. He works with the department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Ottawa, specialising in Psychiatry (sub-specialisation in Psychiatry and Law).

Ahmed is a forensic psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. He had his first from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, with his residency training in psychiatry and addictions at the WHO Training Centre, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria and the University of Liverpool (UK). He also holds a Masters of Law degree from the prestigious Osgoode Hall Law, York University (Canada).

AG, as he is popularly called, is an Associate Professor in the Divisions of Forensic and Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and holds a cross appointment in the Criminology department of the University of Ottawa. He is an adjunct also professor at Queen’s University. His research interests and clinical practice include the assessment and treatment of patients with major mental disorders, psychopathic and personality disorders.

He has authored and peer-reviewed articles which were presented both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Ontario Review Board, Nunavut Review Board, an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Medical Council of Canada, a supervisor at Albert Ellis Institute of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and a consultant for the Correctional Service of Canada.

He is also the Co-director of the Canadian Centre for Rational and Cognitive Therapies. Although AG lives in Ottawa with his wife and 3 children, he regularly returns to Nigeria to teach and provide mentorship to mental health professionals. He is a recipient of the 2013 Planet Africa Award for Science and Technology.

www.med.uottawa.ca

AHMED Safiya

Safiyat Mohammed is based Toronto, Ontario after migrating from Nigeria to Canada many years ago. Safiya is the current Vice President of the Nigerian Canadian Association (NCA). She holds an MBA degree from Bayero University, Kano and HND from School of Technology Kano. Her work experience spanned from teaching to being a Chief Design Manager for 10 years in a leading Textile Mills in Kano, where her innovative designs resulted in an unprecedented volume in business, which enabled the company pay back a 2.4million dollar investment loan within six months.

On relocating to Canada, the strong lioness dusted her books and enrolled in a college in Toronto
where she studied to become a Nurse. According to her, She has always loved to help people. She wanted to give back to people by helping them live a healthier life. This zeal for giving back to the community propelled her to volunteer as Shop-Steward at her place of work - representing
Service Employees International Union, Canada –fighting for the rights of workers.

‘We want to impress it upon our people that we have every cause to celebrate and thank God for
keeping Nigeria united despite all the turbulence. United, we will achieve a great deal. Today
may be rough, but with determination, nothing is impossible for us to attain as a nation,’Safiya once said.



Akinbolaji, Yisa

Akinbolaji Migrated to Canada in 1997 has since been living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A mixed-media artist, Akinbolaji, has developed a unique painting technique for which he was featured on the cover of Art Business News, New York, in 2011. The artist has also been featured in national and international media including CBC, CTV, City Tv, NTA News, Daily Times, Guardian Newspaper, Style Magazine, Winnipeg Free Press and Ottawa Stars.

Akinbolaji first began experimenting with the technique in 1993 while in Lagos. He later incorporated this technique into his monotype printmaking while obtaining his master's in fine arts from the University of North Dakota.

Akinbolaji's professional career began in 1986 in Lagos, where he studied fine arts at the Yaba
College of Technology. Before going to Canada in 1997, he was recognised with his inclusion in Nigerian Artists’ Who's Who and Bibliography (1993), compiled for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. Akinbolaji's works have been exhibited in notable galleries in Canada and the United States.

He currently serves on the board of the Manitoba Arts Council. He served as President of the Manitoba Society of Artists 2001 - 2003.Yisa is the founder of Creative Foundation Inc. ‘’My work is reflective of my experiences and imagination. Though a painter, I don’t just paint, I create using paint and forms. Before I begin to create my work (abstract or figurative), I imagine how I can use my materials so the viewers can have a magical experience on a two-dimensional surface’, he once said.
www.yisagallery.com

EMODE, Richard

Emode Richards is from Owan East Local government of Edo State. Emode, who is the Chairman of SNC Lavalin Canada migrated to the country in 1997 Canada. He had his university education on a Federal Government Scholarship at the University of New Brunswick.

Emode is a Geodetic Engineer by profession with over thirty years hands on experiences. He is licensed by the Professional Engineers of Ontario, Order of Engineers of Madagascar, and the Council of the Registration of Engineers of Nigeria.

Richard is also licensed by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors. He is a member of Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2009, he was bestowed a Fellow of Engineers Canada by the Canadian Council of Engineers.

Emode has delivered GPS training to GIS Specialists around the Province of Ontario; implemented GPS applications to various Highway design and constructions. He also participated in training of engineers from Nigeria on Public -Private Partnerships.

He was a participant in the joint North American (Canada, USA, & Mexico) 1st Global positioning System’s Global Orbit Tracking Experiment (GOTEX-1) Project.

Richard Emode was involved in a multi-billion US dollars five year SNC Lavalin Nickel and Cobalt Ambatovy Mine EPCM project in Madagascar and a Copper and Gold mine project in Panama. He was among the original group of staff that started the POLARIS Program of the Ontario Ministry of Consumers and Commercial Relations.

He was also part of the team that designed the seats and as-built documentation of The Sky Dome (now Roger’s Centre - a sporting complex) in Toronto, Canada. He currently works with SNC Lavalin on the construction of the Highway 407 East extension project in Ontario, Canada.

Richard Emode is a Justice of the Peace in Edo State of Nigeria and takes an active role in assisting various community causes. He is a Patron of Confraternity of Christian Mothers of Nigeria and the Board Chair of Grace Foundation-Nigeria. He is happily married with four children and grandchildren.

TY Ogunkoya

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1990 - Born in Nigeria

2008 - Signs with New York Model Management

FEB 2008 - Debuts at the fall Dior Homme show in Paris, as an exclusive

2008 - David Sims photographs Ogunkoya for Benetton

JUN 2008 - Walks the spring Belstaff, Etro, Versace, Costume National, and Hermès shows in Milan and Paris

1 AUG, 2008 - Models.com features Ogunkoya as a top-ten newcomer Story»

SEP 2008 - Walks the spring 3.1 phillip lim and DKNY shows in New York

2010 - Cedric Buchet photographs Ogunkoya for the spring issue of Vogue Hommes International

2010 - Appears in the spring issue of DANSK, photographed by Alexander Sainsbuy

SEP 2010 - Walks the spring Lacoste show in New York

Raised in London and studied Engineering at Imperial College, one of the UK's premier Universities. A top-3 Uni in the UK.

I'm out for the day.

Shalom!

I just saw a few recent pictures of Eko Atlantic on Skyscrapercity.

https://i.imgur.com/WmttGYC.jpg?1


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Also, a lot of folks don't know how big Skepta is cos he's not a pop artist.

He's the biggest independent artist in the UK and he runs his own record label (Boy Better Know) with his brother, JME. He was also the one who got Drake on the remix of Wizkid's tune "Ojuelegba". We call him the King of Grime (UK's version of rap music) and he has single-handedly turned that genre of music into a big thing across Europe and even a lot of Americans are now listening to it cos of him.

He has done a lot of sold out shows in the US, Canada, and across Europe.

This is the video of the Ojuelegba remix - Skepta rapped at the end. The picture on the screen is a picture of Skepta as a baby with his dad, Joseph Adenuga Sr.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdDpr--__YY

asha80:
[url][/url]nothing shows this guy has Yoruba lineage

His Dad is Ijesha from Osun State.

Aareonakakanfo:
Jonah Olorun I will also be taking that same position very soon. So far I'm satisfied with the way the thread has fared,the romanis didn't derail it.This is the first time I'm getting lucky

The said 'Romanis' dont ball like y'all. They're occupied with more important things than interfering in Southwest matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2CIQuastvw

Olajumoke Adenowo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5ZHds8BQw

Two in one.