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Terry G is talented but i think he needs to work on his image . Surely we cant have our celebs experimenting with hair dyes likes its the 90's over again (Tony Tetuila anybody)!!!.

Lol Java and Tosin still at each others throats .

@ Poster ,  I think you should just give it a rest. Your arguements are at best without merit. Peeps here have tried to enlighten you a lil bit but it looks like you would rather look dumb than accept you are waaaay over your head on this one.

Pidgin is unique. You dont have to know Patua to listen to Jamaican music. Good music is good music everywhere you go.

Pafun I really think you have had this bashing coming to you. We are all entitled to our views, you made yours clear in a previous thread, and here you are again trying to stir things up.

Moving on,

Why is it so hard for Nigerians to differentiate between hating and criticism??!!! Quite a number of people here are being labelled anything from traitors to turn coats simply for the mere fact that they expressed their thoughts and they happen to reside in the U.K. Anytime one voices their opinion, one is labelled a traitor. I am no less a patriot than a Nigerian at home. If I say I prefer living in the UK , IT DOES NOT MEAN I HATE NIGERIA.

Good music isnt for everybody.

Nneka is big outside of Nigeria in case you' all dont know. She has toured with some big time musicians including Lenny Kravitz.

@ Pafun, Your post is well intentioned but it really does come off as smug. Suddenly it seems as if doing any kind of business in Nigeria is better than anything anyone has going here in the UK. I have been in the Nigerian manufacturing sector for a long time and I can categorically tell you that right now, it is cheaper to import most goods from China than produce them in Nigeria!!!!!!!! You need to be totally self reliant (water, electricity, etc) and at the same time expected to make profits at the end of the year. Whereas you dont have those problems here.
To say the obstacle facing anyone trying to invest in Nigeria is not daunting, would be underestimating it. In as much as Nigerians are 'supposedly' in the U.K, Nigeria is an an even tougher terrain to operate in.


We need to know the pros and cons before jumping to conclusions.

Second or third or fourth chance you mean

'Best' club inthe world got whooped today. Una no wan talk that one abi,

Kid would prolly get a Gulfstream on his 18th then.

Music is a matter of taste. Most Nigerians tend to go for the dancy type of music especially the ones with some nonesense catchphrase. Personally I think M.I is a breathe of fresh air. He might not be original but he has the talent. Dude can spit.
I gave up on Nigerian music a long time ago but peeps like him have now made me go back and check for them. People have crowned him the messaiah because no other rapper (note rapper) has done as much as he has to push the boundary of Nigerian rap.

Even though I doubt it but I hope he gets back into the game . His talent is being wasted.

I am surprised about Amos too. I really thought he had a Caribbean Heritage or something.

Laura Izibor

Laura Elizabeth Arabosa Izibor  is an Irish recording artist, musician and producer. She won the RTÉ 2fm song contest while still in secondary school. She went on to win an award at the 2006 Meteor Music Awards.[1] She also performed at that year's Electric Picnic music festival and Music Ireland 2007. Izibor has opened for Aretha Franklin, India.Arie, Estelle, Maxwell and John Legend on tour.

Her debut album, Let the Truth Be Told, was released in Ireland on Friday 8 May 2009, and in the UK on Monday 18 May with a U.S. release to follow on 16 June.

Laura Elizabeth Arabosa Izibor was born in 13 May 1987 in Dublin, Ireland. She is the fourth of five children born to Irish mother Trish and Nigerian father Saul. Izibor's parents separated when she was seven and she was raised by her mother.

Truth can be real bitter. You are in self denial if you believe these pictures to be inappropriate.

Its called HATEr.

Someones schizo here

Airrzee I honestly feel for you. You just started a war you cant win. Goodluck.

Here they go trying to pull a man down. Perfect timing!

Yet another conspiracy theory.

Bunch of kids having fun, next,

Did i miss the bit about the Yoruba and Igbo states??!!

How much damage can an AWOL president do in 50 days? Quite a lot, it seems. For one the Yoruba and the Igbos seem to be fomenting plans which might see the creation of Yorubaland and the re-emergence of Biafra.

Not that this is a new story in this part of the world; there is a tacit peace agreement between the major tribes in Nigeria showing an outward face of unity which is far from the reality. A quick journey through the colonial history of West Africa reveals where many of the underlying problems arise.

The British lumped together the Caliphate of Sokoto, kingdoms of Benin and the Igbos, among others, and ended up calling it Nigeria. From the outset, there have been differing cultural attitudes towards politics, governance and leadership and, very importantly, the approach to the demands and processes of the modernisation of Nigeria.

Far from being hatched in a dark room in a basement or beer hall, these secessionist ideas are being given ample exposure in all forms of media. The other day, I read a full page advertisement in the Sunday Punch by Atayese, an umbrella group representing Nigeria’s Yorubas, calling together a meeting of all Yorubas young and old to discuss their future in the “Federal Republic” of Nigeria. The outcome of the meeting held in Oyo state was “to advocate a remedy that would evolve a new union of Nigerian nationalities, where the respective nations would grow at their own pace and maintain their autonomy”.

The defence for an autonomous state for the Yoruba or Igbo people does have a surprisingly good precedent. Consider Kosovo for example, with a population of 1.8 million, or Abhkazia with a miniscule 216,000. To put it in context, the Yoruba are about 39 million and the Igbos about 29 million, more than enough to populate a properly-sized country. The advert continues to mention the failings and agitations in other multi-ethnic national states, starting with the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh out of India, the breaking up of the United Kingdom and finishing off with the Uighurs, Tibetans and Mongolians stirring up a hornet's nest in China.

To add an extra ladleful of legitimacy to their idea of an autonomous Yoruba state, they include a full paragraph from the United Nation’s 2007 Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I have taken the liberty of distilling it to focus on Article 3: “Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”

And everyone listens to the United Nations, don’t they?

To get to the bottom of the desire of the Yorubas and the Igbos for their own autonomous states one need only look at the different attitudes between northern Nigeria and the rest of the country. The north and south (divided in the spirit of British colonialism) are pursuing different styles of affairs management, one steaming towards implementing strict Sharia law and the other in the opposite direction. To many it does seem like a pretty good idea to carve up Nigeria into more manageable portions based on ethnicity and religion. Of course, there's always this nasty little problem of many tribes in the middle belt of Nigeria that don’t fit into either camp. Think back to the mass exodus of Hindu’s from nascent Pakistan and more recently the troubles the various ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia have faced. Not a pretty sight; hundreds of thousands killed or injured, many millions permanently displaced.

The only foreseeable outcome of pushing further demands for Yoruba or Igbo autonomy is going to be violence. The only reason the north will fight for unity is not to keep the various tribes in Nigeria living together in an altruistic wonderland, but that they want to keep their troughs overflowing with the spoils of the oil rich delta region. Without the oil-money, the Muslim north would have the future that would be best-described as a nightmare. But equally nightmarish would be a war that would closely resemble the 19th century US Civil War.

Countries are said to get the presidents they deserve and it seems the Nigerian president is a pretty good incarnation of the future of the country - nobody really knows what will happen next.

By Nicholas Kühne

Nicholas Kühne has adopted Lagos as his home for the foreseeable future.

Read the story by Shola Adeyemo of Nigerian Compass here.

Photo: Policemen stand in a truck during a protest rally against Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua's long absence without handing over power, in the capital Abuja January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

If this is not a good example of capital flight, i wonder what is, Money made in Africa being sent abroad to people who dont really deserve it.

Thanks Gtitan you made my day with your brilliant take on this issue.

Its really comical how everytime a Lagos picture is posted here and people go into a frenzy because its not a picture of the Island. You forget that to get to the Island from say the airport, you have to go through those so called ghettos which some people here would have us believe is no more!. People should stop getting worked  up over mere pictures. You should instead direct that emotion to our leaders whose fault it is that a great majority of Nigerians cannot afford  3 meals a day.
Lets all conveniently forget that and gush about how serene and beautiful VI and Abuja are. The fact remains that these places still remain exclusive even for a great number of us on this forum.

Instead of you coming here and making a complete plonker of yourself,  Why dont you google it?

'Vector the Viper' lol, What the hell kinda name is that,

This is sooo mad funny. Where does Durella think he is ,  lala land!! Dude needs to figure out how not to be like Dbanj instead of selling some shitty assed sneakers. The idea is good if you have a HUGE fanbase and you are in America or Europe. Dude's been watching too much MTV. As for his sneakers, I wouldnt even wear them,  even if I get paid to.

Who wants to wear a '2 gabaski' sneakers when you can get a good Nike or Addidas for even less the price.