D'banj's explosive new interview: Opens up on feud with Don Jazzy

Written by Ayeni Adekunle of Thenetng.com  

‘There’s an important person in that building, right?’ the cab driver asked. ‘Important musician?’

I nodded, too tired to let any curious driver drag me into a conversation.

He got the message and left me alone the entire drive from Canary Wharf to the London Marriot Hotel, in Grosvenor Square.

Then, as I got down to get my suitcase from the trunk, he gave me a knowing look, smiled, and said ‘are you the musician?’

‘Of course not’, I said to him, smiling this time. ‘The musician is in Canary Wharf, his name is D’banj’.

Silence. Confused look.

‘D’banj?’

Yes, D’banj. He’s big in Africa. You know ‘Oliver Twist?’

Silence again, then as his final ‘no’ came, I said ‘Google him.’

It was 4am on Saturday, April 21. I arrived in London eight hours earlier, and had spent almost all of that time chatting with D’banj, in his first interview with a Nigerian newspaper in a long time, and his first interview on the Mo’Hits brouhaha.

FUNKE AKINDELE FOR GBAGAUN AWARDS

The Nigerian association of Gbagaun(NAG)
wants to honor popular thespian actress
Funke Akindele A.k.a Jenifa with the title "best
and most creative Gbagaun of the year".This
award ll be given to her for her creative use
of grammar in her award winning movie
Jenifa and d sequel" The Return of Jenifa" .
In an interview with the P.R.O of the
association.He said d association is proud of
Jenifa cos she has given gbagaun a new
phase in Nigeria as even sophisticated babes
use these phrases,sentences and words often
without stress.Examples are:

Stephenie Okereke's Wedding Pictures

After all the ado, Nollywood actress finally marries her Price charming in London Yesterday. If Mr. President attended is a story for another day. Happy Marriage Life our own Steph... 

Revolution is Coming, If.... - Buari

Former Head of State and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday in Kaduna said if ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) continues with its corruption and short-changing of Nigerians, revolution will certainly occur in Nigeria.
It is only a matter of time, he warned.

N15m Scam Still Rocks Jim Iyke. Mobbed in Cameroun, Goes Tough on Fans!

Do you remember the N15 million Naira share scam rocking “bad boy” Jim Iyke? Report said he was also recently mobbed and hospitalized in Cameroun for undisclosed reasons.

All effort by ace Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha, a.k.a Jim Iyke, to stop trial over an alleged N15 million share scam rocking him has hit the brick wall as as Abuja Chief Magistrate Court has okayed him for prosecution. 

A mild drama also ensued at the court as Jim instructed his aides to seize the handset of one of the fans, and allegedly wiped the contents of his memory card in a bid to forestall the publication of his pictures within the vicinity of the court.

Magistrate Azubike Okeagu in a ruling he delivered on Tuesday, said he was satisfied that the Nigerian Police Force has successfully established a prima-facie criminal case against him.

President Jonathan Responds to Times Magazine Listing

President Goodluck Jonathan has responded to Times Magazine for naming him as the 62^nd most influential person in the world. Read his response has posted on his facebook page and comment if it is well deserved honour or not....

"My attention has been drawn to a publication in
the highly influential Time Magazine on my
inclusion in this year’s edition of ‘The 100 Most
Influential People in the World’ list.

 As the list is
compiled from votes received from the public, I
am humbled by this gesture and would want to thank all Nigerians, Africans and citizens of the
world who voted for my inclusion in the 2012 list.

WHO IS IN-CHARGE OF NIGERIA: MY Husband Or...?

By Olusesan Ogunyooye

Patience: These Boko Harams; who born them? Is it not a women? Look at how they have turned innocent children to widows?

Reuben: Your Excellency, I have warned that it is better you leave me to do all the talking instead of creating this national embarrassment. The world is laughing at us!

Patience: I warned Joe boy before he brought you into this government. I told him that your mouth is full of words and you have insulted me too much when you were a Editor-in-chief in your newspapers. But he won’t listen to me. Look, let me tell you, me is the first lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and your wife with all are certificates is not better than the grass in my compound.

Love across ages and colour.

I think Nigerian guys are more interested in this marriages these days... isn't this like what you are thinking? For me, its Happy Marriage Life bros.

BOKO HARAM: Shall We Then Not Beg For Our Lives?

By Olusesan Ogunyooye

I hate to write that this nation is a failed state. I hate to define our democracy as “Government of the people by Boko Haram and for the people”. I hate to think our Nigeria; once “A Fuji House of Commotion, has become A Hammer House of Terror”. I hate to admit that life in this country is now brutish, nasty and short; and the only things we can all do is pick one of Ola Rotimi’s works and ask; where is the “Hope of the Living Dead”?

Yoruba says; “if your mother’s concubine is powerful than your father, you must call him daddy”. This is the ugly reality in this nation today. Therefore, if Boko Haram is bigger, ubiquitous and more determined than our government; shall we then not beg for our lives?

Today, we are like the proverbial monkey who strives not to be shamed; and once it is disgraced; it strives not to die. If we strive not to be shamed as a people, and Boko Haram has seized into the ineptitude of our government to make us dance naked in the market; shall we then beg not to die?

Real Estate Finance: Private Equity can ease Nigeria’s problem – ACTIS

For a nascent market like the Nigerian Real Estate industry, there are loads of problems punctuating the flow of development to make it compete favourably with other emerging markets. Core in these baskets of problem is finance: as finance windows such as mortgage, pension, bonds, and so on appear more as paper tigers.

In this chat with 3Invest Intelligence, Mr. Chu’di Ejekam, Director of Real Estate, Actis, opens up on the concept of Private Equity, especially in the Nigerian market.