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read Dbanj interview with bloomberg...
The mansion, the pool, the Bentley, the life-size portrait and the gold medallions are the spoils of a revolution in Nigeria and music superstar D’banj is enjoying them.
The 35-year-old used to have to bargain with street-market traders to sell his CD’s because there were no formal distribution outlets. Today, MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest mobile-phone operator, and Emirates Telecommunications Corp. sell songs by D’banj and other stars like Davido and 2Face as ringtones and downloads. Now Tidal music streaming service owned by U.S. rapper Jay-Z is interested in the Nigerian market.
“Our consumers can’t get enough of it; you only need to give them a way to get the music,” 35-year-old D’Banj, whose real name is Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, said at his home in the up-market Lekki neighborhood of Lagos, dressed in a shiny fuchsia shirt. “The telecommunications companies are bridging the gap and they’re raking in billions and billions of naira every year, just from content.”
Thanks to Nigeria’s answer to Spotify and Apple Music, the music industry has seen sales triple in the past five years as mobile downloads surged despite rampant piracy. With at least 550 albums each year, revenue to artists from sales is now worth more than $150 million annually, according to Sam Onyemelukwe, chief executive officer of Lagos-based Entertainment Management Co., partner of Paris-based Trace TV.
Enough for a Ferrari

Outside of his revenue from Apple Inc.’s iTunes, D’banj said that in the past 18 months he’s earned more than $200,000 from sales in Nigeria. “It’s close to buying me a Ferrari,” he said by the pool at his home, where he has his own recording studio.
More than two-thirds of MTN’s almost 63 million subscribers in Nigeria are using its ringtones service, for as little as 50 naira (25 cents) a song, with downloads on its Music Plus platform growing about 25 percent a year, said Richard Iweanoge, MTN Nigeria’s general manager for consumer marketing.
“We have become the largest distributor of music in Nigeria,” Iweanoge said. “It turned out that Nigerians actually wanted to buy music, they just didn’t have a legal way to acquire it.”
The boom has drawn the attention of Jay-Z, the rapper whose real name is Shawn Carter. “My cousin just moved to Nigeria to discover new talent,” he said April 26 on his Twitter account. It was part of his move to make his Tidal music-streaming business “a global company,” he said.
Satellite Television

Boosted by satellite television outlets such as Trace TV and MTV Base Africa, a unit of Viacom Inc., many Nigerian musicians have won international acclaim.
“Trace and MTV Base have played a very good part in bringing the artists to the rest of the world,” Onyemelukwe said. “We pay royalties and it brings the viewers to whom we can advertise to gain revenue.”
At the 2015 MTV Base Africa Awards held in South Africa in July, Nigerian musicians swept the most prestigious awards, with Davido winning best male artist and Yemi Alade best female artist. D’banj, ambassador for brands from Apple’s Beats Music to Diageo’s Ciroc Vodka, clinched an award for popularizing African music.
In the 1960s and 1970s Nigeria had a robust music industry, with EMI Group Ltd., Philips Records and Polydor Ltd. and publishing the works of musicians including the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, King Sunny Ade and Osita Osadebe who went on to achieve global appeal. Most of the companies pulled out in the 1980s as an economic crisis led to currency devaluations and lower disposable income.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/nigeria-s-answer-to-spotify-lures-investors-from-mtn-to-jay-z

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ochejoseph:
‎    The  Limits of Propaganda 


1.Propaganda can propel you into an office but it takes more than propaganda to be seen as a performer.

2.Propaganda can help a politician to sell fish to  fishermen, but it takes more than propaganda to erase campaign promises

3. Propaganda can portray you as terrorist slayer,‎ but it will take more than propaganda to win the war on terror 


4. Propaganda can portray you as the only messiah but when  time confronts you with the opportunity to perform a simple miracles,  do not complain 

5. Propaganda and lies have very short live span but the truth endures forever 

6.Propaganda might help you deceive the  people but in the end propaganda always bows  to the superior fire power of the truth

7. Propaganda is like ice it quickly melts In the face of heat 

8. Propaganda can make a thief look like a Saint, it takes a higher IQ to separate truth from embellished falsehood and manipulated facts


9. History has shown us that all institutions ever built on propaganda never stood the test of time and crumbled sometimes with devastating consequences.

10 . Propaganda can help you deceive the  people,but  only the gullible is deceived all the time  


‎The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Proverbs 12:19

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