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the mails have been pouring in, please keep them coming.

VillageBoi: Oh boy, I hear you o! We tried that with a new artist and told the 'story' of the song in the video... well let's just say 'Nigerians' hated it because there were no na.ked girls in it. And all the 'stations' said that was why they were not going to play the video - you can see it here -


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

There is also the 'original' version with the 'intro' at the start found here - https://vimeo.com/58096277

wow thats a very lovely video, i would love to meet with the director of that video and possibly you and the artiste, we can always work out something, pls send me a mail via spilecttv@gmail.com

Thanks.

pleep: when i clicked this thread and saw no "unclad girls" i didnt bother to read srry

nice one pleep, i was almost tempted to put some pictures, but then i listened to the inner voice in me, infact i just might put those pictures now.

oh, i loved seeing that hatch, oh, i will so miss it.

emeka ike doesnt ever take care of his hair. that guy should visit the baber's shop regularly nah.

nice family though.

well, i have formed mine already.

Briareos: I just sent you an email.

Sent you a reply already!

We will start shoot next month and by next month i mean next week.
Thanks.

Hello fellow film freaks, if you are very passionate about film making, acting especially. i would love you to please send an email to spilecttv@gmail.com or call 08034897955, a text would also do.

if you have a daily nine to five job, but you can also make out time during the weekends
if you are looking to build a good profile for yourself acting and/or directing
want to enhance your skills as a video editor.

please contact us via the informations above.

PS: you would not be charged in anyway for anything. That I can guarantee!

please i wont mind if u drop your youtube channel as i would love to see your other short clips, plus, i would also love to know what part of the editing u were responsible for, as in, color correction, color grading, and bla bla bla. did u also do the sounds?

vote Patrick Obianwu for Anambra State Governor......

I dont know why Peter Obi as Governor couldn't withdraw ifeanyi uba's police escort. Abeggi

i m so voting you 2015, go ahead and shake everybody on God's green earth, you still have my vote boss!

i m so ordering that cake if i am his boss!

I guess, when it comes to social media, not as many of us still like the face or name of our president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as we did three years ago – when the story of his “remarkable luck” fascinated the nation. Well, perhaps it’s “just my luck”that I chose to put his face on the cover of my last book – Fellow Nigerians, I Wish You Good Luck.

Yeah, I know not many of you got around to read that – (it’s still on sale now, though, $8 inthe US and less than ₤5 in the UK, I’m not sure what Jumia.com are saying but soon sha they will finish sleeping and you would be able to get it from them too) if only to avail yourself of the many “amusing” jabs and some really thoughtful controversies in there.

Not that I am always deliberately “controversial” but the truth is that we live in a society that breeds natural conflicts – conflict of religious persuasions, conflict of political affiliations, conflict of sexual preferences, conflict of choice of language,conflict of personal perspectives about what someone else writes on his own Facebook wall, et cetera, et cetera.

A friend took a copy of my Fellow Nigerians, I Wish You Good Luck and noticed the dedication page:
To Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR . . .whose first name and the history of his many “lucky” attainments . . . inspired me to write this book. And to the many Nigerian citizens and residents who go to bed hungry most nights, . . . while even the exotic dogs of their wealthy neighbours have more than enough to eat.

That friend wondered if I was deliberately being provocative by juxtaposing the “lucky” success of Mr. President with the abject penury that plagues our country amidst wanton waste of wealth. Well, not really. I’m a “pure breed”. Pure breeds don’t go out looking for trouble, but if trouble comes looking for us, we don’t budge. A ma ta tan sibe ni. We always give the situation whatever it takes. And when the situation requires telling the truth as it is, without mincing words; we do just that.

On November 28,2011 – TELL magazine was saying concerning the book, that it is “structured to have a conversational tone,[it] gives the reader the feeling of being part of the writing process”.That editor did get me feeling a little flattered when he concluded, “Undoubtedly, Oyetomi has done a good job of recording some part of Nigeria’s history, while expressing his candid thoughts”.

Wow. I like candour. I always like to say precisely what I mean; only sometimes just a little less, but very rarely more. I have been tongue-tied for a little while now, at least because of distractions and detractors. Yet once more, I feel like saying a few things – only that I can’t shout. As in, I nor fit shout. The Naija palaver tire me small.

Nevertheless, it’s an appropriate time to talk. And I will be talking soon. In fact, I have started to clear my throat, so that I can yanu bi apere (open my mouth wide like basket mouth).

If I remember correctly, there is a page in the Fellow Nigerians book in which I said something like “drunk drivers steering the nation”. I must have been comparing the nation to a moving vehicle, and those in political leadership as drivers of that vehicle. That analogy makes sense to me because I have had a good share of rides in public buses. I remember travelling from Ibadan to Akure one of those nights, and I was sitting in the front, beside the driver – chatting with him.Most other passengers had slept off. We chatted about many things, and allowed our conversation to steer itself. When we got to the issue of “substances”, he told me “igbo na fine food” (i.e.marijuana is good for the body). He said, if I had slept off like the others,he would have allowed Mary Jane to keep his company somewhere along the way. My eyes widened a bit. I smiled. “And your eyes won’t get cloudy?”, I asked him. “Of course, not”, he replied me, “It does make me very balanced. I cool down with it. Especially, if all my passengers have slept off and it’s a night journey like this”. How very interesting!

Igbo na fine food! That expression stuck. Don’t quote me o, and don’t try it. And if you have beentrying it, stop it – if you can.

Sorry, that was a digression. I was saying something about steering the nation. Nigeria is a moving vehicle – I can’t determine precisely what kind of vehicle it is. It could be an aeroplane, but I doubt – because it’s not moving that fast.Possibly, it’s a molue bus or gbadigbadi canoe. Whatever it is, it’s a vehicle and we are all in it. And it does have operators – a large crew, headed by a captain, or driver. They seem to know what they are doing. The confidence they exude shows that they are convinced that the nation is moving in the right direction, following the right course, and progressing at the appropriate speed. So, it’s a little controversial when I come on social media and see all the noise you all are making. Yet, I know that igbo na fine food.

Please kindly don’t quote anything I have said so far – but you can quote this one: I, Temitope Oyetomi, I believe in Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and I am praying for him to succeed. Someone said that’s a bad prayer, and I was wondering what that person meant. Have you ever seen a situation in which people are riding in a bus, and praying that the driver of that bus should not succeed? Or, rather, would you pray while flying in a plane that the pilots should fail?

[From this point forward,again, you can’t quote me.] Well, I know say igbo na fine food but I am praying for
every driver and every pilot in this world that they may always succeed. And I am praying for all the passengers too, may we not all sleep off to the extent that we won’t be aware when drivers and pilots start eating “fine food”.

Anyway, to stop perambulating,very recently I wrote to some people that matter – including Mr. President and Vice-President Namadi Sambo, and some other “timbers and calibres”. I have informed them that soon, I will be publishing a sequel to the Fellow Nigerians book. The new book is titled, Understanding Transformation. I should avail you of this paragraph from my letter to the Presidency:

Positive national re-orientation, and entrenching best practices values in society, is not just a matter of political office alone. It is boils down to quality leadership in every sector as well as motivation for those who follow. If we must build a truly great nation, we must inspire all hands to be on deck – and that inspiration must start with you, and I, and indeed everyone that we can get to understand how the process of positively transforming a nation works.

I will be keeping much of the rest to my chest until the book comes out of press. Meanawhila, you might want to catch up with where the conversation began by ordering a copy of Fellow Nigerians, I Wish You Good Luck from Amazon.com orAmazon.co.uk or Amazon.ca The links are inserted below:

http://www.amazon.com/Fellow-Nigerians-Wish-Good-Luck/dp/9784956519/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1367107581&sr=8-2&keywords=oyetomi

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fellow-Nigerians-Wish-Good-Luck/dp/9784956519/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367107584&sr=8-1&keywords=oyetomi

http://www.amazon.ca/Fellow-Nigerians-Wish-Good-Luck/dp/9784956519/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1367107589&sr=8-4&keywords=oyetomi


And for a parting shot, I was growing through my files and saw some letters I had kept. I decided to share one of it with you here. It was from the Office of the Speaker House of Representatives. They were describing one of my books as “intellectually engaging and challenging”. I think, apart from when I am being deliberately jocoserious, that’s always how I love to write. I like books that are intellectually engaging and challenging, and by God’s grace, my Understanding Transformation will certainly be one of such.

mehn, the fact that Goodluck Jonathan attended that launch means he has my vote for 2013, i tell u, i am so voting that man!

991: That man is Retired Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (SAN) , is he Charlie boy's father??

yes he is, by all means!

85 views and no reply.... is that all i get? i can at least make use of some criticism....

In the beginning Adam ate the apple - the first story was told, and ever since then, I'm of the opinion that the world has been driven by stories from the first day.

The best sales men always have the perfect anecdote for their sales pitches, you know I once went out with the principal manager of a multi-billion naira company to bid for a contract, he ended his pitch by saying "it seems like I ve been talking a lot, as my people say, if your girlfriend die and you too dey cry about am, dem go think sey na you kill am, perhaps, I should stop talking now and begin to show you samples of jobs we have done" the whole board burst into laughter. Oh boy, he got the deal!

The world is driven by stories, everything is scripted, from religious documents, to business plans, to tech apps, to television shows - and yes, even the Keeping up with the Kardashian show, to songs and most importantly music videos.

Growing up as a kid I was particularly drawn to how artistes surrounded their album sales with a story or two, ("the tupac and B.I.G. saga" "Get rich or Die trying" that's fifty sent trying to tell his whole underdog story in one album as depicted in the movie) every album dropped had a story around it, they called it their inspiration. Their music videos were shot to be consistent with the story.

Now, that's easy right? The right inspiration or story should give u the best content for your songs, shouldn't it?

Okay, then afterwards, u tell the video director what your story his, perhaps he will creatively give your music video a consistent screenplay (in Jayz's case he loves having the controversial illuminati this and that to his music videos, well u can also call them coincidences).

Now, why are our music videos filled with images of half naked girls? Please pardon me, I actually meant quarter naked girls, is it that the directors are short of stories, or that the artistes have only just one story - unclothedness!

"Naked girls, just flood the set with naked girls, no be guys? Dem go watch am joor" I'm sure that must have been what olu maintain told the director of the nautty video.

Recently, I saw a very good friend of mine giving burna boy a very good massage on his neck in the "tonight" music video, I stumbled upon the behind the scene footage and noticed that she only wore panties in that scene. "Ehn? It was nice meeting u" I didn't bother keeping in touch with her again.

Please artiste and directors, give us good stories, the bible, koran and religious materials are filled with it. Even Atheist love stories, common' they told us about the big bang.

Stop showing us naked girls and give us good stories.

I leave it there.

@searchobinna

50calibre: What is this rant? This is the last picture of a guy and his late father and you are talking all this gibberish

We are saying the same thing. Only u wasted time quoting me again!

What is the soldier doing there in the first place, the last time I checked Charly boy asked me to combat boko haram with social media so I will say, the boko haram guy isn't there, he is faceless.

But if the soldier is american then B1 - he wants to be visible
If the soldier is nigerian then C1 - he is hiding inside the bush
If the soldier is hausa, then I will say A1 - behind that massive boulder.

In this case the soldier is American, so its a B1. (I did a lil ojoro though)

Oh! I see, why not put dstv and libraries in the prisons and send them there, I promise you they will be better of there.

Let them read about Leo tolstoy, Ghandi, Vespucci and co, and let them learn how to fight for their rights. Infact, I will volunteer to teach them history!

But hey, they must learn it in jail.

Now, wait o, the northern traditional leaders, are they not also the northern spiritual leaders and in some cases political leaders? Are they not learned? Because I am trying to understand where in the univeral library of whack ideas did they come up with the Amnesty for Boko Haram idea?

Wait o, Amnesty or no amnesty can't these traditional, political and spiritual (three in one) leaders singlehandedly combat boko haram in their states if they want to.

God bless Nigeria!

Shebi I talk am u nor hear,

Chale, nairaland na internet photo archive for nigerian celebrities.

Dr SID, may God grant you the grace to bear your loss and advance forcefully.

BTW, very lovely pix, I hope to get something like that with my dad (chai, nna m a ga kwe kwanu?) I doubt if the man go gree. And by the way kwam1 will neva get to enjoy this relationship with all 38kids and more to come.

What, I'm feeling so sleepy that I'm begining to spew gibberish.

(Guy, this is nairaland and not your blog site)

I wish you speedy recovery, not because you are a nice person, but because th good book asked me to pray for my enemies.

The Microchip by robert noyce!

I see, nairaland is now the internet photo album archive for celebrities. Wonderful achievement!

Tetuila, ur son looks good, he is obviously feeding well, but then he looks scared of the camera.

My lil nephew would pose infront of a camera anyday anytime. Oh boy, that guy is celebrity in the making.

The husband knows her very well, her likes, dislikes, turn ons and put offs, hence getting her to like him with a fake account on social media would have been as easy as.

The man should stop tempting his wife joor!

ibrutex: coz muhammed has completed his mission no need to come back, but you guyz never give him 'JESUS' chance to complete his mission and to correct atrocities you comitted with his name.

We are saying the same thing, (u can't promote The Truth in ur own falsehood.)

rcb34: please read his write up again, and make meaning from what he said, "the holy qu-ran thought him (isa) jesus is coming again and he beliefs in christ jesus", I dnt knw why u act like an extremist,here is a true muslim telling you the truth bt listen to ur reply.

In my own opinion, we are both saying the same thing!

firstolalekan: [size=19pt]THE HOLY QUR'AN THOUGHT ME TO LOVE HIM, RESPECT HIM, BELIEVE HIM.
OUR PROPHET (ISA) -JESUS- IS COMING AGAIN.[/size]

Why is it your prophet isa that is coming again, why not your prophet mohammed,i once heard a Muslim say the anti Christ would come, I asked why not the anti mohammed? You see, you can't promote the truth of God in your own falsehood.

Xtians are not allowed to comment in the Islamic forum on nairaland and that makes me wonder why they are allowed to comment here.

The audacity, I woke up today with just three words on my lips "I am he" he said that and the whole temple servants dropped as though they were dead. Mehn, my Jesus is so awesome, but yet when he thought of the cross and prayed about it, sweats drop from him as great drops of blood. He did that for me, he saw a perfect church in his mind and that was enough for him to go through all the mockery and torture. He divided history into 2. BC and AD. What a man! I love you Jesus and even so now, come Lord Jesus!