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Ah! Nice!! Bless them both . . .

[size=16pt]MasterChef star Greg Wallace, 44, finds new love, 27, on Twitter website[/size]

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MasterChef host Gregg Wallace has found love with a stunning schoolteacher 17 years his junior – after wooing her on social networking site Twitter.

Twice-wed Gregg, 44, met biology teacher Heidi Brown, 27, after she became one of his “followers” on Twitter, on which a host of celebrities post regular updates about themselves.

Heidi is now accompanying the greengrocer-turned-presenter to showbiz parties and will quit her job next month to move in with Gregg.

Theirs is the first known instance of a celebrity romance developing from Twitter, whose other users include Jonathan Ross, Demi Moore and Stephen Fry.

Even US President Barack Obama posts – or “tweets” – on the site.

Heidi first got in touch with Gregg, whose new Celebrity MasterChef series began last week on BBC1, after a message he posted about “jiggling cabbage” prompted a saucy response from fans.

Gregg, whose Twitter name is Pudding Face, wrote: “Jiggling cabbage is not a euphemism. No more than shuffling shallots or sorting celery.”

Heidi – who split from her husband David, 32, last year – replied: “How do you sort celery?”

Gregg wrote: “Big ones to the left, leafy to the right. You didn’t know that?”

Later she sent him a flirty message asking if he was aware that magazine writers had declared him a “weird crush”. Seizing the moment, Gregg asked Heidi, of Carlisle, Cumbria: “Ever visit London? Give me a call, I’ll buy you lunch.”

They met up and Heidi, who at 5ft 9ins is two inches taller than Gregg, accompanied him to the Bafta awards in April.

Gregg tweeted that night to say: “Waiting for the car. Girl on my arm looks amazing.”

Next day she tweeted: “Had a fabulous weekend with a truly exceptional man, very very happy.”

Heidi has now decided to leave her job in Penrith and has told friends she is moving in with father-of-two Gregg, who has homes in London and Kent.

Gregg, who refers to himself as the “cooking woman’s crumpet”, boasted in February: “TV is very, very good for your love life. The girls are getting younger too.”

Peckham-born Gregg’s first wife Christine left him after just six weeks. Second wife Denise – on whom he admitted cheating regularly – split from him in 2002.

He started out selling vegetables in Covent Garden and built up a  business before his TV career. A spokesman for Gregg said last night: “He and Heidi are very happy.”

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Hmm yummy!

That cake is giving me the munchings . . .

Sorry for the distraction

Jerry is deceased

Died two years ago at the age of 73

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Have a feeling you know who called her that . . . ^{Jerry Falwell called her "Ellen Degenerate"}

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I recall someone called her Ellen Degenerate when she "came out"

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Oic, can live with that

Well that's not peculiar to him alone

Nope! not particularly a fan the way you put it . . .

albeit when I see talent, I usually aim to appreciate, acknowledge and/or "recognise" it ^{"recognise" it - Weird using my login name there that way}

No doubt, chap's got some . . .

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Toughness probably came from momma's gene

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T what gripe have you got against Ikechukwu? . . .

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Ah-ha! ^bing!

Gotcha! Now witcha . . . 

Comprehende' !

Muncho gracias! bella!! for clearing that up . . .

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Any picture you get wouldn't be any better than what you saw in the vid above

and that's if  (i.e. a big IF mind you) the OP would oblige surrendering the much anticipated picture at all . . .

Ikechukwu hasnt changed stature (i.e. physique) that much since the above vid shoot anyway 

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. . . still a camel? ^{scratching head}

Not familiar with that slang . . .

What's it means or suppose to mean please? ". . . still a camel"?

[size=14pt]Kylie Minogue wants Catholic wedding[/size]

Kylie Minogue is converting to Catholicism.

The 41-year-old singer reportedly has her heart set on a traditional church wedding to Spanish model Andres Valencoso - who she has been dating since last November - and is even considering adopting his faith in order to have the ceremony of her dreams.

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A source said: "She enjoyed the sense of community Andres' family share thanks to their faith. Kylie is so intent on including the traditional aspects of a Catholic mass that she's thinking of converting."

Kylie and Andres are reportedly planning to tie the knot in Spain at the Parador de Cardona, a 9th century castle on the Costa Brava.

The pair are also keen to throw a second celebration in Australia, near the singer's Melbourne family home.

The source added to Britain's Grazia magazine: "It will be a larger affair in Australia - there will be a few more people invited. But it will still be very private.

"Both Kylie and Andres would prefer a gorgeous, intimate wedding to anything flashy."

Although Kylie is yet to confirm her engagement, the '2 Hearts' singer is said to have been discussing her outfit for both weddings with stylist William Baker.

The source explained: "Kylie has got tons of ideas about her dress. The betting is she'll go with Dolce and Gabbana, as she's worked with them for years. She doesn't want anything super-sexy - she wants to look sophisticated and refined."

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^{Chastity in '93 
and today Miss Bono is well on her way to becoming Mr Bono}[/center]

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Who let you out? . . .

You're turning out like an about-to-be-swatted irritating fly, buzzing around the crime forum room

Why can't you swallow a chill pill and/or go barking up another tree

Pick up a crusade or cause to fight other than objecting to posting misdemeanour news in the Crime forum

Talking about jokes, quote me where I made jokes of the matter . . .

You couldn't honestly reply to the question posed, whether if the victim was your sister, wife, mother, aunt, cousin, relations etc you would have the same stand.

I won't be responding anymore until you grow up

and starting writing properly with decorum and/or propriety

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Disclaimer before accessing Crime forum:
Crime
Not recommended if you're here to have a good time.

Its beggar's belief why people wander into this forum in the first place expecting sugar coated North East West South (i.e. NEWS) information

A crime has been committed and this chap is against sharing the information to catch the alleged perpetrator.

Consider if the victim were you sister, daughter, cousin, aunt, girlfriend, wife or whatever I bet you would get down from your high horse and sing a different tune . . .

If you are allergic to crime stay away from this forum then.

You weren't back-arm twisted and frog-marched in here, were you?

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen friend . . .

As the Crime forum entry disclaimer stated "Not recommended if you're here to have a good time" Biko . . .

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"O ma se ooo . . . "

May her soul RIP . . .

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This is who he is . . .

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[size=18pt]Cleric dismissed after texting explicit messages to teen girl[/size]

A vicar has been sacked after he sent 'sexual and intimate' text messages to a 16-year-old girl in his parish.

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^{The Rev David Waters
banned from the clergy
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Reverend David Waters, 61, targeted the schoolgirl after he claimed to have suffered a 'crisis of faith'.

The unmarried clergyman has now been banned from taking church services after being stripped of his licence by a church disciplinary tribunal.

Mr Waters admitted sending 'inappropriate text messages, in that they contained words or phrases that were unseemly and of a sexual and intimate nature'.

Their precise content has not been revealed.

Church leaders were tipped off about his behaviour by a member of the girl's family, but the tribunal was told that the teenager, now 18, did not want the vicar to be punished further.

Mr Waters made a full confession, admitting that on various occasions before May 2007 he sent sexual messages to her - behaviour which he later accepted was ' scandalous and offensive'.

He was suspended from his position as rector of St Catwg's Church in Gelligaer, South Wales, in June 2007, but as the girl, understood to be a regular member of his congregation, was 16 at the time, police did not investigate.

The tribunal ruled that the appropriate penalty would be to bar the vicar from holding a licence or obtaining permission to officiate in any church in Wales.

To parishioners, the vicar later likened his situation to that of a surgeon who started shaking .

He partly blamed his actions on being in charge of a huge parish and tending to the demands of his parishioners.

One of them said: 'He was a person you could go to and he would always try and help you - he never turned anyone away. I think it all got too much for him in the end.'

Mr Waters has now left the parish, having previously spoken of feeling 'burnt out' by his role in the community.

He said: 'The demands have been incredible. I love this parish, I love every single person in this village.'

He added: 'I began going through weird experiences and the doctors think I had a breakdown.

'I was going through a crisis of faith. I felt I was unworthy to be at the altar, that I was letting God down and letting the congregation down. I'm so ashamed.'

Although he has not been defrocked, the ban means if he wishes to apply for a licence or obtain permission to officiate again, he must provide written medical evidence that he is not at risk of repeat behaviour.

It will then be up to the relevant bishop to decide whether to grant such a licence or permission.

A Church In Wales spokesman said: 'The Reverend David Waters was referred to the tribunal in respect of an allegation of conduct giving just cause for scandal or offence.

'Having admitted the offence, Mr Waters has been inhibited from holding a licence or obtaining permission to officiate in any diocese in the Church In Wales.

'The tribunal recognised that at the time of the offences the Reverend David Waters was suffering from a form of mental illness.'

Another parishioner said: 'He told us he was going through a crisis of faith and simply felt burnt out.'

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[size=18pt]Call me Chaz, says Cher's girl who is undergoing a sex change[/size]

Cher's daughter is undergoing a sex change to become a man.

Chastity Bono, 40, the singer's only daughter, started the process earlier this year and wants to be called Chaz.

Referring to his client as 'he', publicist Howard Bragman said: 'Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honour his true identity.

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^{Identity crisis . . . Chaz}[/center]
'He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his loved ones.

'It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his "coming out" did nearly 20 years ago.'

Miss Bono, 40, whose father is Cher's late ex-husband Sonny Bono, came out as a lesbian at age 18, when she was studying at New York University.

While Sonny was more accepting, Cher reacted badly.

The 63-year-old star has admitted: 'I flipped out. I'd always had this idea that she would get married and have a family.'

Distraught by her mother's reaction, Miss Bono abandoned her studies to attempt a rock career.

Her sexuality was announced to the world in an American newspaper in 1990.

Five years later she appeared on the front cover of gay magazine The Advocate, describing herself as 'out at last', and became a vocal advocate of gay and transgendered rights.

Changing gender typically involves hormone therapy and sometimes, but not always, some surgical alteration.
Gay leaders yesterday hailed Miss Bono's decision to have a sex change as courageous.

Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said: 'Chaz Bono's decision to live his life authentically represents an important step forward, both for him personally and for all who are committed to advancing discussions about fair-and equality for transgender people.

'Coming out as transgender is an extremely personal decision and one that is never made lightly. We look forward to hearing Chaz's story in his own words in the future.'

Miss Bono, who appeared with her parents on their early 1970s TV series The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, has had a famously fraught relationship with her mother.

The pair fell out over her 1998 tell-all book Family Outing, which revealed details of their troubled relationship.

In it Miss Bono claimed she incurred Cher's wrath from an early age by wearing tomboy clothes and refusing to invite girls to her birthday parties.

She said her mother terrified her and sent her to a series of psychiatrists. Miss Bono also revealed that her mother once caught her in a clinch with a female college friend, but refused to accept that her daughter might be gay.

And when Cher found out her daughter was a lesbian she apparently ordered her out of her New York apartment and told her to 'see a shrink'.

In a later interview she said: 'My mum did not comfort me with kisses and cuddles. It was not the family way.'

Miss Bono's rock career sank, with her band Ceremony splitting up in 1993 after their debut album flopped.

She also failed as a film producer and became a recluse, battling an addiction to the painkiller OxyContin which saw her attend rehab in 2004.

She has also battled with her weight. After ballooning to 21stone she appeared on the U.S. version of the TV show Celebrity Fit Club.

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In recent years, Miss Bono and her mother have put aside their differences and improved their relationship.

Sonny Bono, who split with Cher in 1974, died in a skiing accident in 1998.

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"Sites and forumz such as these re for laundaring our already bad image" Isn't that what you wrote?

Dont shoot yourself in the foot or step right in it

What is the purpose of the crime forum eh?

Maybe Seun can assist with answering that question.

Decoration? Lip service? for the fun of it? . . .

Nigger ko, nigga ni, my foot . . .

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Get a grip and dont unnecessarily get your knickers in a twist mate . . .

Better watch you don't burst a vein with the huffing and puffing

People shouldnt do the crime, if they don't want attention or cant do the time . . .

Do you really reckon Nairaland has a presence only in Naija . . .

Point of correction Nairaland is on the Internet and not internet

There is a huge difference between Internet or internet

More to the point, for all we know, this chap could have absconded to Naija already to go underground only to resurface when/if the dust settles

That girl could have been anyone's sister, daughter, wife, girlfriend . . . etc

The sooner that chap turns himself in for questioning or interview at a police station the better

It is possible the chap might be sheltered by someone in London or otherwise oblivious to the crime committed

The information and the photo was provided so he can be identified

He should make contact with the police to help them with the investigation

If he is innocent at least he can be ruled out

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errhem . . .

Would rather say innocent until proven guilty 

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That will be telling . . .

He hasnt be found yet to answer to the allegations

[size=20pt]Police hunt man who raped teen in the toilets of Amika nightclub[/size]

POLICE were today hunting a rapist who attacked a teenager after dropping down from the ceiling of a nightclub toilet.

The suspect, named by police as Adebayo Omokayode Awosabya, 41, had been lurking in roof space at the Amika nightclub in Kensington.

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He watched through a grille until the 19-year-old victim entered the toilet cubicle, before leaping down on top of her and tearing off her clothes. He told the girl: "It’s OK," before sexually assaulting her

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Source said: "What happened was like something out of a horror movie."

Awosabya was working as a toilet attendant on the night of the attack, on 3 July last year, and was familiar with the layout of Amika nightclub.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We would like to speak to Adebayo Omokayode Awosabya, who is also known to use the name Andrew Olasebikan.

"The suspect lowered himself into the cubicle from the air vent in the ceiling. He then assaulted [the victim]. She resisted and the suspect subsequently let her go."

The trendy club, on Kensington High Street, is popular with celebrities such as Rihanna, Prince Harry and U2 frontman Bono.

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Awosabya is described as approximately 5ft 6ins tall and of small build. Anyone with information should call the Kensington and Chelsea Sapphire Unit, which investigates sexual assault crimes, on 020 8246 4014 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

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Iyaegbe:
Is it really wrong to be flirting on the internet?

I met this guy online, never seen him before (and would probably never see him).

We chat on messenger everyday. My colleagues said it is bad because I am married.

I don't know if the guy is married or not but I don't really see anything bad in it. help me out, is it bad?

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. . . Help you out? Is it bad?

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy . . .

Cyber flirting can be harmless fun

especially for singles and the likes . . .

But check this out . . . ^{This should settle down the dust}

With your husband watching over your shoulder . . .

Would you be that keen and/or comfortable chatting and/or flirting with the chap, eh?

Be true to yourself now  . . .

Would you be at ease, hmm? Typing away, with hubby in the same room, close by?

In light of the above, here's the make-up-mind time . . .

Think it through or fathom it out yourself whether it's OK or not

[size=14pt]How to handle women— King Sunny Ade [/size]
Written by Ogbonna Amadi  Saturday, 06 June 2009 

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^{Sunny Ade - I don’t love sex.
Sex has never been the basis of any of my relationships.}[/center]
King Sunny Ade (KSA) is an interviewer’s delight. But in this encounter with Entertainment Editor, Ogbonna Amadi, KSA bares his life like never before.

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Did you expect to be among the 20 Nigerian Living Legends? And the fact that you’re among the top five?

First of all,  I want to thank God Almighty for giving me the grace to be past of this history while I’m still alive. Only God knows how many musicians we have in this country today.

I’m the only musician who is picked as one of these distinguished Nigerians. That alone makes me happy. Whether I win or not, I’m happy that my name is listed among the living legends.

It’s a glorious thing to know that among 140 million Nigerians, I made that list and I think it’s a pride to my fans all over the world. It’s also the biggest thing that’s happened to my family. With respect to all Nigerian musicians, it is something that I feel jealous about. Even though, I don’t know the criteria for that selection, I’ve never influenced my selection in any way.

You’ve been voted twice for the Grammy Awards as one of the 100 musicians in the world and  virtually had won all the awards in this country. Which of these awards do you considers the most honourable in your career?

I’m still begging God to give me more room in my heart to take more awards because every single award means a lot to me. And I don’t categorise them as the same. I take it that each of them comes at its own time. I love and respect every single award given to me. None of them is greater than the other.

Considering that KSA is now studied at the tertiary institutions as a course, what kind of person do you want people to see you?

Well, I don’t even need to say it. Because if you look at all those awards, you’ll be able to categorise the kind of man you want to study about.

From this angle,  he’s a legend; for someone else he’s a doctor, and so on. It depends on the way  you want to look at my person. But I am a Nigerian musician. There is need for us to study Nigerian music, including the hip- hop genre following the fact that  Nigerian hip-hop is different from that of the Europeans.

What is the future of Juju music in Nigeria?

The future of Juju music is everlasting  because juju music is played alongside highlife. If you listen to most of the songs we have today. You’ll notice they’re all coming from the same root.  Juju music is more or less the umbrella. So, it’s always there.

If you listen to IK Dairo, you’ll notice it is juju music. But it’s quite different from the music known as Bakare. But both are juju music. My music and that of Orlando Owoh of blessed memory are all juju music. Even that of Fatai Rolling Dollar is juju music. So, juju music is very wide and has come to stay.

Because it has been there before I was  born, and I pray it continues to be there even when I’m gone.
You sang Molo (Mono). Which music is Molo?
Molo is outside the territory.

Was it a controversy or what?

There’s nothing like controversy. With respect to foreign music, in those days,  Indian music came into this country and sold even when we didn’t know what they are talking about. Recently, Awilo took over the scene, even when Awilo himself came and performed in this country, people liked it.

Looking back some 15 to 20 years ago, you’ll see the juju music in one corner, fuji music in another corner, highlife music on its own and Reggae too.

It’s a pity that in Nigeria today, we’re all self-made artistes and our music has become like a hotel. If you build a new hotel today, people will rush to the place, and the moment another one is built, the same people who rushed to the first one will move over to the new one.

Baba Frayo came and everybody started posing with him. And the moment Awilo came, some people crossed over to Awilo music. That’s the way our people change with the trend.

One thing I’ve observed today is that live performances have died in this country. Instead, they prefer to mime, which was not part of the Nigerian style. Our people have lost sight of how and where to place our music.

That’s why, sometimes, you see them nominating my name in various categories that is not juju music. But the unique thing is that the juju music is not fading away because if you attend any party in this country today that commands honour, you’ll meet me.

It’s a pity that if you are invited to play in a concert alongside emerging artistes like 9ice, P-Square and others,  they’ll not give me enough time to arrange my stage the way it should be. They’ll expect me to do miming, which is not my way of music. So, I’ll not play it for them. The future of juju is everlasting.

Juju and highlife. Which is superior?

For me, highlife is the husband and juju music is the wife both of them go together. The difference is that juju music doesn’t play horn but they both play guitars and drums. Highlife wasn’t playing talking drum at a time until Chicago came. Highlife uses horn while juju music uses accordion. And now there is a keyboard. So, they are both interwoven.

So, which one is more superior?

Right now, we’re doing a research on highlife music. And some people are saying that highlife music started in Nigeria and others say it’s Ghana. But we want to know, if it started in Ghana, how long did it stay there before it got to Nigeria. Or if it started in Nigeria, how long did it stay here before it got to Ghana.

Which of the two did your ancestors play?

We are still working on that. You see people like Denge Eriwolede and others whom we believe started juju music
are the ones that were lucky to be recorded. There could have been other ones before them. I intend to introduce this argument  to my students and we all will do the research together.

Are you going to pay more attention to the practical or theoretical aspect of music while lecturing?

Both will be taken care of because you can’t ask a person without a good voice training to come and start
singing for you. So you must prepare them in both ways.

If you eventually bow out of the stage, who do you think will continue from you?

I’m not worried. I just believe that God will do his wonders the way he wants. Because I don’t take this throne from any of my family members or anybody. I just found myself in this music and started playing it. Nobody taught me how to play any instruments.

So, God will raise people to continue this music. But one thing that’s lacking in my family is education. And I want to see to it that we get that one done, after which any of my children can take after me, if they so wish. I don’t mind being their manager but education will come first.

What do you think is wrong with Nigerian music distributors?

I think the problem with them is that we’ve had the same people in the business. If you take your music to Alaba and they don’t like you,  you may be forced to change your style of music. Change will only come  when all of us decide to do away with the marketers. What stops anybody from buying music from anywhere?
Zigma Records . . .

First of all when I created Zigma Records during the time of African songs, I had Sonny Alade Records and others distributed and marketed by Emola Kassim and Okoroha. It’s not that I’m jumping from one place to another but sometimes, I might decide to change my marketer. If you’ve handled my works for sometime, I’ would want to give it to someone else to evaluate the work.

But generally, I had to separate myself with these distributors because of their shakara, until I went into master disc. At a point, it came to a level of ganging up by the distributors, so I decided to patronize Zigma Records.

Zigma Records is still alive and it’s located around Ikorodu Road managed by Femi Adeyemi. We have artistes from different genres of music, including hip pop. Of course you know that one of my son is a hip pop artiste (KSA junior).

How do you intend to handle people from other genres of music?

We’ll see to that because people are different and should be handled differently. My mother told me that a woman is born to be admired and taken care of and not to treat them anyhow because you think you’re this or that.

One single woman represents the whole mothers of the world. There’s an entrance in a woman that once a child comes out of that entrance, he/she will never go back to that entrance. In sexual aspects, it doesn’t occur to me that women should be ill-treated because they are in love with you.

Have you ever been bold enough to say no to any woman?

No, you’re not meant to say that because some will just want to be around you even, if it’s for two minutes. You have to keep watching her until you understand her mission. Because, there’s little to what she can tell you. You must understand women very well, so that you don’t hurt them. Because if you do, then you are in trouble.

As regards to women, one would have thought that you should be retired by now,

God has a way of allowing it to come. But it’s a matter of decision now. So I’ve decided to stop having children.

What if woman has a baby now and says you’re the father?

Aaagh! I should know any woman I slept with.

Did you marry a new wife recently?

No, which new wife?

I’m talking about the honourable,

She’s not a new wife.

How come she was in the background and nobody knew about here?

That’s her own way of life, until she entered into politics.

What was she doing before you met her?

She was a trader.

How did she get into politics?

She got into politics because she felt she liked it. She used to work with Madam Olusanya, who is a clearing agent. And all of them decided to go into politics.

Am surprised that she came out from nowhere and won election?

When she said she wanted, I told her I wouldn’t involve myself. But if she liked it, she could go ahead. Even my other wives who went into politics also did it because that’s what they wanted to do.

Did you give them your support?

You should allow your woman to do what she likes to do; if not they’ll be a burden on you. But I know I’m not a politician.

Sometimes, I ask myself what they see in you. Why do they keep coming?

I don’t know because I ask myself same question sometimes and I don’t get answers. I just believe that’s the way it has been written about me.

How many wives had your father?

He had three wives.

It’s  said that a man is supposed to be bigger than his father. Will you consider women as one way you’re bigger than your father?

I don’t think so. It’s more like a miracle to me because from when I was born till when I found my band, I never came close to a woman, until late 1969. I’m telling you the truth. I lost my virginity at about 22/23 years.

How did it happen?

By then, I’d started playing with Baba Sallah. Before then, I used to like say a particular woman was my friend. But between me and her, there was nothing like sex. Even those days, I didn’t come across any woman that complained about sex. They just love to be around me.

And then as a young man, my dream was just to become somebody. Though I didn’t know how but I didn’t want to get married without having any steady income.

After I formed my band, we went to Epe to play one day, and a lady was just helping us out. She was so nice to us that every member of the band liked her. So, I started discussing with her and later invited her to Lagos.

She came and stayed with me for almost three weeks. That was the first time I fell in love.

Did you have sex with her within this period?

No. I didn’t until after like three months when she came back again.

Did you marry her?

No.

Why?

I don’t know. May be, she just came to dis virgin me and go. I didn’t see her again until about 20 years ago.

Is she married?

I don’t know.

Among all these women you talk about, did you ever get to wed any of them (pay bride price)?

Yes, I do. Anytime I meet a woman I want to marry, I’ll beg her not to get pregnant for me until we get to know each other. I’ll also tell her not to let me touch her if she knows she’ll get pregnant before the marriage proper. Because if you allow me to touch you and you get pregnant, I’ll not wed you. And it happened to one or two women.

Did you marry them?

No. But I keep my children.

Did any of them later have another child for you?

Yes, they did. But the difference is that we’re not married.

Did you ever do any wedding that you had to print invitation on cards like your daughter did?

No, but I do naming ceremonies.

How do you cope with all these women?

I just thank God because they are the ones coping with me.  They understand my kind of work and allow me do
it.

Has their been any case where any of them went against you?

No. No single one of them has ever gone against me.

Abiola died and there was problem of too many children and sharing of his belongings. Have you made provisions for your children?

Let’s just pray I don’t die untimely. At least, one should have records of everything that belongs to one. So, if anybody comes outside that record, they’ll have themselves to blame.

What I’m saying is, even those whom you think are your children may not be. So, how do you know your children?

Everybody is lucky now and the DNA is there.

Are you saying that you’ll include in your will that all your children must go through DNA?

Going through DNA is not even the ultimate, though it is good. I’m an Ondo man so I know all my children.

The king seems not to have a particular place of abode. Why do you prefer hotels?

Ah! That is the worst lie I’ve ever heard.

What is it that you tell your women when they come close that makes them love you?

My brother, the moment you tell your woman the truth from the beginning and she finally finds out that it’s the
truth, she’ll love you.

Quote me anywhere. I don’t love sex.  Sex has never been the basis of any of my relationships. What I look out for is their etiquetes and any woman that has them will give you happiness. If it is possible today, I’ll take you to where I live in a duplex.

So even your family knows where to get you when they want?

Yes, I don’t hide. I don’t go to the hotels to meet women, no. I only come to hotels to do business and make money. In the past, I’ve had to do my management meetings at the boardroom with my  staff. And the meetings usually start around 9pm - 3am.

So, I started inviting the husbands of some of my staff members to join us. But now, I do my meetings in hotels. I bet you, when I take you to where I live, you’ll shake my hands. Before, I used to stay in VGC but I had to leave because the place turned out to be like a corporate organisation. So, if you go looking for me there, you won’t find me.

You’ve said you didn’t go to school and now KSA is being taught in the university. How are you going to cope?
Well, their lecturer will have to lecture all of us together and I’ll do my own part.

Have you at any point rated or scored your music?

You can imagine I’ve never done that. There was also a time I invited some to score my music and he couldn’t. But abroad, when they play my music on the computer, the computer will score it. Going to the university now is like a different world for me. I have to begin studying the language, attitude behaviour and so on.
Going to school now will also help me to learn how to score my music on my own.

Do you think this new status will improve you and your music?

Yes, why not. It will give my music a new face. I’ll learn alongside the students. But I’ll also have to teach them because I’m older with plenty of experience.

I know you’re a very busy man who’s always on the road. Do you think you’ll have time to carry out this project at the university?

I see this project like building a house. When you decide to build a house, you’ll begin to create time for the house. When they tell you it’s time for the foundation or decking, you’ll love to be there. So, I’ll create time for it.

In the 70s, you did a music that was nominated for a grammy but till date, you never got into that nomination again. What happened?

It’s because the record company where I did that music was in America. And the way they do things is quite different from what they do abroad. They can’t allow any music recorded here to be nominated in the grammy.

That’s why the grammy is within the Americans. And they’ll also have to understand the language in the music.

Are you the first Nigerian to have been nominated for a grammy award?

Yes, twice.

You were able to take Nigerian music to that level?

Yes.

How did it make you feel?

Happy.

The music industry seems to be booming now and our people have left live performances for miming. Do you think we’re on the right track?

Those days when we were there, we were lucky to have Polygram, Polydor, CDS, Yehman. We used to have world standard studios here in this country.

Now, all these things are gone. So, those who are strong enough go to South Africa and other places to do their recording. It’s a pity that today, miming has taken over. For the new generation musicians, miming is not good but for us, we are beetles that cannot be beaten.

The real music today can only be found in the church where they still play live music. Even the highlife music which people think is gone is still in the reservoir.

Have you ever done a family re-union where  gathered all your children together?

I used to do that when they were young. But now that they’re grown ups, not all of them are here in Nigeria. Even the ones in this country are in various states of the federation.

We are hoping to do that again this year,  probably in December or early next year. For now, I go round to see them, all of them. Even when many of my children were here, they preferred to go see my mother during holidays.

Were you also close to your mother?

Yes. I had to be close to her. Because she had to see us through all alone as my father died when I was young?

How many of you did she have?

According to my parents,  they had 11 children but only four of us survived and we’re remaining just two now, my sister and me.

What about mama?

Mama is dead now.

When you started have one, two, three wives, how did mama take it?[/s][s]

At that time, she wasn’t seeing any of them as my wife. She just saw them as my girlfriends.
My first marriage didn’t work out and the moment you left one woman for another, it becomes a problem.
In my first and second marriages, me and the women found it difficult to understand each other then. But now that we’re matured it’s easier. Later, I decided to go and marry from my home town and that one too turned out to be the same.

If you have to live your life again, will you marry as many wives as you do now?

I wouldn’t. I didn’t really like to marry many wives. I did all that because I took it wrongly from the beginning.

If I had decided to manage one and try to make it work, I wouldn’t have had many wives. In those days, there used to be this tradition of wedding before you impregnate a woman, which I kept sacredly. Marrying too many wives is one of the mistakes I made in life. The reason why I don’t like discussing my marital life is because I think it’s different from a normal marital life.

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[size=14pt]How to handle women— King Sunny Ade [/size]
Written by Ogbonna Amadi  Saturday, 06 June 2009 

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King Sunny Ade (KSA) is an interviewer’s delight. But in this encounter with Entertainment Editor, Ogbonna Amadi, KSA bares his life like never before.

EXCERPTS:
Did you expect to be among the 20 Nigerian Living Legends? And the fact that you’re among the top five?

First of all,  I want to thank God Almighty for giving me the grace to be past of this history while I’m still alive. Only God knows how many musicians we have in this country today.

I’m the only musician who is picked as one of these distinguished Nigerians. That alone makes me happy. Whether I win or not, I’m happy that my name is listed among the living legends.

It’s a glorious thing to know that among 140 million Nigerians, I made that list and I think it’s a pride to my fans all over the world. It’s also the biggest thing that’s happened to my family. With respect to all Nigerian musicians, it is something that I feel jealous about. Even though, I don’t know the criteria for that selection, I’ve never influenced my selection in any way.

You’ve been voted twice for the Grammy Awards as one of the 100 musicians in the world and  virtually had won all the awards in this country. Which of these awards do you considers the most honourable in your career?

I’m still begging God to give me more room in my heart to take more awards because every single award means a lot to me. And I don’t categorise them as the same. I take it that each of them comes at its own time. I love and respect every single award given to me. None of them is greater than the other.

Considering that KSA is now studied at the tertiary institutions as a course, what kind of person do you want people to see you?

Well, I don’t even need to say it. Because if you look at all those awards, you’ll be able to categorise the kind of man you want to study about.

From this angle,  he’s a legend; for someone else he’s a doctor, and so on. It depends on the way  you want to look at my person. But I am a Nigerian musician. There is need for us to study Nigerian music, including the hip- hop genre following the fact that  Nigerian hip-hop is different from that of the Europeans.

What is the future of Juju music in Nigeria?

The future of Juju music is everlasting  because juju music is played alongside highlife. If you listen to most of the songs we have today. You’ll notice they’re all coming from the same root.  Juju music is more or less the umbrella. So, it’s always there.

If you listen to IK Dairo, you’ll notice it is juju music. But it’s quite different from the music known as Bakare. But both are juju music. My music and that of Orlando Owoh of blessed memory are all juju music. Even that of Fatai Rolling Dollar is juju music. So, juju music is very wide and has come to stay.

Because it has been there before I was  born, and I pray it continues to be there even when I’m gone.
You sang Molo (Mono). Which music is Molo?
Molo is outside the territory.

Was it a controversy or what?

There’s nothing like controversy. With respect to foreign music, in those days,  Indian music came into this country and sold even when we didn’t know what they are talking about. Recently, Awilo took over the scene, even when Awilo himself came and performed in this country, people liked it.

Looking back some 15 to 20 years ago, you’ll see the juju music in one corner, fuji music in another corner, highlife music on its own and Reggae too.

It’s a pity that in Nigeria today, we’re all self-made artistes and our music has become like a hotel. If you build a new hotel today, people will rush to the place, and the moment another one is built, the same people who rushed to the first one will move over to the new one.

Baba Frayo came and everybody started posing with him. And the moment Awilo came, some people crossed over to Awilo music. That’s the way our people change with the trend.

One thing I’ve observed today is that live performances have died in this country. Instead, they prefer to mime, which was not part of the Nigerian style. Our people have lost sight of how and where to place our music.

That’s why, sometimes, you see them nominating my name in various categories that is not juju music. But the unique thing is that the juju music is not fading away because if you attend any party in this country today that commands honour, you’ll meet me.

It’s a pity that if you are invited to play in a concert alongside emerging artistes like 9ice, P-Square and others,  they’ll not give me enough time to arrange my stage the way it should be. They’ll expect me to do miming, which is not my way of music. So, I’ll not play it for them. The future of juju is everlasting.

Juju and highlife. Which is superior?

For me, highlife is the husband and juju music is the wife both of them go together. The difference is that juju music doesn’t play horn but they both play guitars and drums. Highlife wasn’t playing talking drum at a time until Chicago came. Highlife uses horn while juju music uses accordion. And now there is a keyboard. So, they are both interwoven.

So, which one is more superior?

Right now, we’re doing a research on highlife music. And some people are saying that highlife music started in Nigeria and others say it’s Ghana. But we want to know, if it started in Ghana, how long did it stay there before it got to Nigeria. Or if it started in Nigeria, how long did it stay here before it got to Ghana.

Which of the two did your ancestors play?

We are still working on that. You see people like Denge Eriwolede and others whom we believe started juju music
are the ones that were lucky to be recorded. There could have been other ones before them. I intend to introduce this argument  to my students and we all will do the research together.

Are you going to pay more attention to the practical or theoretical aspect of music while lecturing?

Both will be taken care of because you can’t ask a person without a good voice training to come and start
singing for you. So you must prepare them in both ways.

If you eventually bow out of the stage, who do you think will continue from you?

I’m not worried. I just believe that God will do his wonders the way he wants. Because I don’t take this throne from any of my family members or anybody. I just found myself in this music and started playing it. Nobody taught me how to play any instruments.

So, God will raise people to continue this music. But one thing that’s lacking in my family is education. And I want to see to it that we get that one done, after which any of my children can take after me, if they so wish. I don’t mind being their manager but education will come first.

What do you think is wrong with Nigerian music distributors?

I think the problem with them is that we’ve had the same people in the business. If you take your music to Alaba and they don’t like you,  you may be forced to change your style of music. Change will only come  when all of us decide to do away with the marketers. What stops anybody from buying music from anywhere?
Zigma Records . . .

First of all when I created Zigma Records during the time of African songs, I had Sonny Alade Records and others distributed and marketed by Emola Kassim and Okoroha. It’s not that I’m jumping from one place to another but sometimes, I might decide to change my marketer. If you’ve handled my works for sometime, I’ would want to give it to someone else to evaluate the work.

But generally, I had to separate myself with these distributors because of their shakara, until I went into master disc. At a point, it came to a level of ganging up by the distributors, so I decided to patronize Zigma Records.

Zigma Records is still alive and it’s located around Ikorodu Road managed by Femi Adeyemi. We have artistes from different genres of music, including hip pop. Of course you know that one of my son is a hip pop artiste (KSA junior).

How do you intend to handle people from other genres of music?

We’ll see to that because people are different and should be handled differently. My mother told me that a woman is born to be admired and taken care of and not to treat them anyhow because you think you’re this or that.

One single woman represents the whole mothers of the world. There’s an entrance in a woman that once a child comes out of that entrance, he/she will never go back to that entrance. In sexual aspects, it doesn’t occur to me that women should be ill-treated because they are in love with you.

Have you ever been bold enough to say no to any woman?

No, you’re not meant to say that because some will just want to be around you even, if it’s for two minutes. You have to keep watching her until you understand her mission. Because, there’s little to what she can tell you. You must understand women very well, so that you don’t hurt them. Because if you do, then you are in trouble.

As regards to women, one would have thought that you should be retired by now,

God has a way of allowing it to come. But it’s a matter of decision now. So I’ve decided to stop having children.

What if woman has a baby now and says you’re the father?

Aaagh! I should know any woman I slept with.

Did you marry a new wife recently?

No, which new wife?

I’m talking about the honourable,

She’s not a new wife.

How come she was in the background and nobody knew about here?

That’s her own way of life, until she entered into politics.

What was she doing before you met her?

She was a trader.

How did she get into politics?

She got into politics because she felt she liked it. She used to work with Madam Olusanya, who is a clearing agent. And all of them decided to go into politics.

Am surprised that she came out from nowhere and won election?

When she said she wanted, I told her I wouldn’t involve myself. But if she liked it, she could go ahead. Even my other wives who went into politics also did it because that’s what they wanted to do.

Did you give them your support?

You should allow your woman to do what she likes to do; if not they’ll be a burden on you. But I know I’m not a politician.

Sometimes, I ask myself what they see in you. Why do they keep coming?

I don’t know because I ask myself same question sometimes and I don’t get answers. I just believe that’s the way it has been written about me.

How many wives had your father?

He had three wives.

It’s  said that a man is supposed to be bigger than his father. Will you consider women as one way you’re bigger than your father?

I don’t think so. It’s more like a miracle to me because from when I was born till when I found my band, I never came close to a woman, until late 1969. I’m telling you the truth. I lost my virginity at about 22/23 years.

How did it happen?

By then, I’d started playing with Baba Sallah. Before then, I used to like say a particular woman was my friend. But between me and her, there was nothing like sex. Even those days, I didn’t come across any woman that complained about sex. They just love to be around me.

And then as a young man, my dream was just to become somebody. Though I didn’t know how but I didn’t want to get married without having any steady income.

After I formed my band, we went to Epe to play one day, and a lady was just helping us out. She was so nice to us that every member of the band liked her. So, I started discussing with her and later invited her to Lagos.

She came and stayed with me for almost three weeks. That was the first time I fell in love.

Did you have sex with her within this period?

No. I didn’t until after like three months when she came back again.

Did you marry her?

No.

Why?

I don’t know. May be, she just came to dis virgin me and go. I didn’t see her again until about 20 years ago.

Is she married?

I don’t know.

Among all these women you talk about, did you ever get to wed any of them (pay bride price)?

Yes, I do. Anytime I meet a woman I want to marry, I’ll beg her not to get pregnant for me until we get to know each other. I’ll also tell her not to let me touch her if she knows she’ll get pregnant before the marriage proper. Because if you allow me to touch you and you get pregnant, I’ll not wed you. And it happened to one or two women.

Did you marry them?

No. But I keep my children.

Did any of them later have another child for you?

Yes, they did. But the difference is that we’re not married.

Did you ever do any wedding that you had to print invitation on cards like your daughter did?

No, but I do naming ceremonies.

How do you cope with all these women?

I just thank God because they are the ones coping with me.  They understand my kind of work and allow me do
it.

Has their been any case where any of them went against you?

No. No single one of them has ever gone against me.

Abiola died and there was problem of too many children and sharing of his belongings. Have you made provisions for your children?

Let’s just pray I don’t die untimely. At least, one should have records of everything that belongs to one. So, if anybody comes outside that record, they’ll have themselves to blame.

What I’m saying is, even those whom you think are your children may not be. So, how do you know your children?

Everybody is lucky now and the DNA is there.

Are you saying that you’ll include in your will that all your children must go through DNA?

Going through DNA is not even the ultimate, though it is good. I’m an Ondo man so I know all my children.

The king seems not to have a particular place of abode. Why do you prefer hotels?

Ah! That is the worst lie I’ve ever heard.

What is it that you tell your women when they come close that makes them love you?

My brother, the moment you tell your woman the truth from the beginning and she finally finds out that it’s the
truth, she’ll love you.

Quote me anywhere. I don’t love sex.  Sex has never been the basis of any of my relationships. What I look out for is their etiquetes and any woman that has them will give you happiness. If it is possible today, I’ll take you to where I live in a duplex.

So even your family knows where to get you when they want?

Yes, I don’t hide. I don’t go to the hotels to meet women, no. I only come to hotels to do business and make money. In the past, I’ve had to do my management meetings at the boardroom with my  staff. And the meetings usually start around 9pm - 3am.

So, I started inviting the husbands of some of my staff members to join us. But now, I do my meetings in hotels. I bet you, when I take you to where I live, you’ll shake my hands. Before, I used to stay in VGC but I had to leave because the place turned out to be like a corporate organisation. So, if you go looking for me there, you won’t find me.

You’ve said you didn’t go to school and now KSA is being taught in the university. How are you going to cope?
Well, their lecturer will have to lecture all of us together and I’ll do my own part.

Have you at any point rated or scored your music?

You can imagine I’ve never done that. There was also a time I invited some to score my music and he couldn’t. But abroad, when they play my music on the computer, the computer will score it. Going to the university now is like a different world for me. I have to begin studying the language, attitude behaviour and so on.
Going to school now will also help me to learn how to score my music on my own.

Do you think this new status will improve you and your music?

Yes, why not. It will give my music a new face. I’ll learn alongside the students. But I’ll also have to teach them because I’m older with plenty of experience.

I know you’re a very busy man who’s always on the road. Do you think you’ll have time to carry out this project at the university?

I see this project like building a house. When you decide to build a house, you’ll begin to create time for the house. When they tell you it’s time for the foundation or decking, you’ll love to be there. So, I’ll create time for it.

In the 70s, you did a music that was nominated for a grammy but till date, you never got into that nomination again. What happened?

It’s because the record company where I did that music was in America. And the way they do things is quite different from what they do abroad. They can’t allow any music recorded here to be nominated in the grammy.

That’s why the grammy is within the Americans. And they’ll also have to understand the language in the music.

Are you the first Nigerian to have been nominated for a grammy award?

Yes, twice.

You were able to take Nigerian music to that level?

Yes.

How did it make you feel?

Happy.

The music industry seems to be booming now and our people have left live performances for miming. Do you think we’re on the right track?

Those days when we were there, we were lucky to have Polygram, Polydor, CDS, Yehman. We used to have world standard studios here in this country.

Now, all these things are gone. So, those who are strong enough go to South Africa and other places to do their recording. It’s a pity that today, miming has taken over. For the new generation musicians, miming is not good but for us, we are beetles that cannot be beaten.

The real music today can only be found in the church where they still play live music. Even the highlife music which people think is gone is still in the reservoir.

Have you ever done a family re-union where  gathered all your children together?

I used to do that when they were young. But now that they’re grown ups, not all of them are here in Nigeria. Even the ones in this country are in various states of the federation.

We are hoping to do that again this year,  probably in December or early next year. For now, I go round to see them, all of them. Even when many of my children were here, they preferred to go see my mother during holidays.

Were you also close to your mother?

Yes. I had to be close to her. Because she had to see us through all alone as my father died when I was young?

How many of you did she have?

According to my parents,  they had 11 children but only four of us survived and we’re remaining just two now, my sister and me.

What about mama?

Mama is dead now.

When you started have one, two, three wives, how did mama take it?[/s][s]

At that time, she wasn’t seeing any of them as my wife. She just saw them as my girlfriends.
My first marriage didn’t work out and the moment you left one woman for another, it becomes a problem.
In my first and second marriages, me and the women found it difficult to understand each other then. But now that we’re matured it’s easier. Later, I decided to go and marry from my home town and that one too turned out to be the same.

If you have to live your life again, will you marry as many wives as you do now?

I wouldn’t. I didn’t really like to marry many wives. I did all that because I took it wrongly from the beginning.

If I had decided to manage one and try to make it work, I wouldn’t have had many wives. In those days, there used to be this tradition of wedding before you impregnate a woman, which I kept sacredly. Marrying too many wives is one of the mistakes I made in life. The reason why I don’t like discussing my marital life is because I think it’s different from a normal marital life.

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Fri Jun, 05 2009

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Major Moji Adekunle Obasanjo, presidential candidate of the Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN) in the 2007 general elections and one of the wives of the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, is dead according to Nigerian evening paper, PM News.

The retired army officer died in her home, Valley Estate, along the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, last night, after a brief illness. She was aged 65 according to the paper.

“When P.M.NEWS visited her residence this morning, it was deserted. Only the security guard, simply called John, attended to our reporters.

“According to him, one of her children called in very late last night and gave instructions that nobody should be allowed into the residence. Other residents, who spoke with P.M.NEWS this morning, were also unaware of the incident.” The report said.

The retired Major of the Nigeria Army, Mojisola Obasanjo, was the first woman in the country to contest for the presidential position on the platform of the Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN).

Major Mojisola was married to Obasanjo for seven years.

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