TIWA SAVAGE, OLAMIDE WIN IN THE CHANNEL O MUSIC VIDEO AWARD 2014

Tiwa Savage

The Channel O African Music Video Award has come and gone. It is adjudged to be very successful.  Cassper Nyovest and Diamond won in most of their categories. Davido missed out in the categories he was nominated for, but our dear Tiwa Savage did us proud by winning in her category. Kcee and Olamide are among the winners' list. Below is the full list of winners at the prestigious award.  

MOST GIFTED MALE
CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA – WINNER ****
DAVIDO – AYE
RIKY RICK FT OKMALUMKOOLKAT – AMANTOMBAZANE
K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA
SARKODIE – ILLUMINATI

MOST GIFTED FEMALE

THEMBI SEETE – THUNTSHA LEROLE

BUCIE FT HEAVY K – EASY TO LOVE

LIZHA JAMES FT UHURU – QUEM TI MANDOU

TIWA SAVAGE FT DON JAZZY – EMINADO – WINNER*****

SEYI SHAY – IRAWO

MOST GIFTED NEWCOMER

DREAM TEAM FT TAMARSHA, AKA & BIG NUZ – TSEKEDE

CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA

EMMY GEE FT AB CRAZY & DJ DIMPLEZ – RANDS AND NAIRAS

DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE – WINNER*****

PATORANKING – GIRLIE O (REMIX)

MOST GIFTED DUO, GROUP OR FEATURING

UHURU FT OSKIDO & PROFESSOR – Y-TJUKUTJA

DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER)

R2BEES FT WIZKID – SLOW DOWN

K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA

KCEE FT WIZKID – PULL OVER – WINNER*****

CASSPER NYOVEST

MOST GIFTED DANCE

UHURU FT OSKIDO & PROFESSOR – Y-TJUKUTJA

DAVIDO – SKELEWU

DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER)

P SQUARE – PERSONALLY

BUSISWA FT VARIOUS – NGOKU – WINNER*****

MOST GIFTED RAGGA DANCEHALL

BUFFALO SOULJAH – BASAWINE – WINNER***** 

OREZI – RIHANNA

JESSE JAGGZ FEAT WIZKID – BAD GIRL

PATORANKING – GIRLIE O (REMIX)

SHATTA WALE – EVERYDOBY LIKES MY TING

MOST GIFTED AFRO POP

DAVIDO – AYE

MAFIKIZOLO FT MAY D – HAPPINESS

DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE – WINNER***** 

FLAVOUR ADA ADA

IYANYA – JOMBOLO

Olamide

MOST GIFTED KWAITO
UHURU FT OSKIDO & PROFESSOR – Y-TJUKUTJA – WINNER*****
CHARACTER FT MONO T & OSKIDO – INXEBA LENDODA
BIG NUZ FT KHAYA MTHETHWA – INCWADI YOTHANDO
DJ VETKUK VS MAHOOTA – KHABA LENJA
DJ CNDO – YAMNANDI INTO

MOST GIFTED R&B
2FACE FT T PAIN – RAINBOW
JIMMY NEVIS FT KWESTA – BALLOON
GB COLLECTIVE FT BRIAN TEMBA & REASON – CHOCOLATE VANILLA
DONALD – CRAZY BUT AMAZING – WINNER*****
NIYOLA – TOH BAD

MOST GIFTED HIP HOP
CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA
KHULI CHANA FT DA L.E.S & MAGESH – HAPE LE HAPE 2.1
PHYNO – ALOBAM
K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA
AKA – CONGRATULATE – WINNER*****

MOST GIFTED SOUTHERN
DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER)
CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA – WINNER*****
AKA – CONGRATULATE
ZEUS – PSYCH
K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA

MOST GIFTED WEST
R2BEES FT WIZKID – SLOW DOWN
DAVIDO – AYE
BURNA BOY FT D’BANJ – WON DA MO
OLAMIDE – TURN UP* – WINNER*****
DR SID FT DON JAZZY – SURULERE

MOST GIFTED EAST
SAUTI SOL – NSHIKE
DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE** Winner
NAVIO – NO HOLDING BACK
EDDY KENZO – SITYA LOSS
ELANI – KOOKOO

MOST GIFTED VIDEO OF THE YEAR
EMMY GEE FT AB CRAZY & DJ DIMPLEZ – RANDS AND NAIRAS
DAVIDO – AYE
K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA
BURNA BOY – RUN MY RACE
TIWA SAVAGE FT DON JAZZY – EMINADO
DR SID FT DON JAZZY – SURULERE
RIKY RICK FT OKMALUMKOOLKAT – AMANTOMBAZANE
CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA – WINNER*****
SARKODIE – ILLUMINATI
DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER)
AKA – CONGRATULATE
DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE

MUSLIMS, PIG MEAT AND CANADA

The Muslim community in Quebec in Canada had written to the Mayor of the city requesting the removal of Pork meat (pig meat) from Schools' menu, because the muslims do not eat pig meat. The request was turned down and the Mayor gave his reasons. This was how he put it:

"The Mayor of Dorval in Quebec, Canada responded to the Muslim community there when they requested that pork be removed from school lunch room menus. He refused to comply with the request and gave the following reply to the Muslim community:

The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval ,has refused, and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why...

“Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec , its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that's where they chose to immigrate.

“They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec .

“They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them.

“They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (whereas the reverse is not true, in that Muslim states do not accept non-Muslim immigrants).

“That no more than other nations, Canadians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture.

“And if Canada is a land of welcome, it's not the Mayor of Dorval who welcomes foreigners, but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole.

“Finally, they must understand that in Canada ( Quebec ) with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain.

The municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia.

“For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Canada , there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world, most of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms in accordance with Shariah.

“If you left your country for Canada , and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered that life is better in Canada than elsewhere.

“Ask yourself the question, just once, “Why is it better here in Canada than where you come from?”

Simple logic is speaking here. Or What do you think? 

STOP CALLING PRESIDENT GOODLUCK AN IDIOT AND DRUNKARD

President Jonathan, the POPE and Dame Patience Jonathan

 It is becoming a dangerous trend in the social media especially for critics to malign President Goodluck Jonathan. This has not gone unnoticed by the Presidency's media spokespersons who now warns that such attitude would no longer be tolerated. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has particularly warned that anyone, of any age, calling the President an "Idiot or Drunkard" will be corrected by means of force.  

He says on his Twitter page that,  “Being a critic is no licence to insult and abuse government officials; most especially the President of the nation. Criticism is different.

Dr. Doyin Okupe - SA to GEJ

“But when you say the President is an idiot, a drunkard and so forth, you no longer deserve any respect. Yorubas say children that are not trained at home must be forcefully trained by outsiders. It is our cultural obligation".

He further reminded Nigerians that “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is an anointed leader, an active, focused performer favoured by God and loved by the genuine silent Nigerian majority.”

OBJ and GEJ

Thus, Nigerians, especially the critics of the President, are advised to mind their words as they talk about the man and the office of the President. Criticism of GEJ must be done with respect for the person and office of the President. To do otherwise, according to Dr. Okupe shows lack of parental (home) training. 

Thank you, Mr. Doyin Okupe. 

NIGERIAN TO DIE SOON, FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

On the 25th of November 2014, 35 years old Mr. Abuchi Ngwoke, from Eastern Nigeria was sentenced to DEATH by the Malaysian Court for drug trafficking.


The report has it that in 2012, Abuchi swallowed 251.66 grams of Methamphetamine from Nigeria, but was caught at an Airport in Malaysia.

Malaysia is a hard drugs route and the government does not take the drug offence lightly. The standard punishment is usually death, except for some miracles, which the Malaysian government hardly believes in. 

No date has been fixed for Abuchi's execution. 

TWO GIRLS BOMBED MAIDUGURI MARKET, FEMALE BOMBERS ON THE INCREASE IN NIGERIA

Two teenage girls yesterday detonated bombs separately that have killed over 40 people in a busy market in Maiduguri, Borno State,  Northern Nigeria. The first suicide bomber had killed only three people, but as sympathizers gathered at the scene of the bomb blast, the second girl in full hijab, bomb tied behind her like a baby, found her way to the center of the crown and detonated her deadly explosive which killed scores.

Though no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, the Islamic fundalist terrorist group, Boko Haram, is being suspected. 

Boko Haram has killed more than 1,500 people in the north-east which they now control in part. They use car bombing, explosive vests in people-concentrated areas. Now their recruits are younger people and even females. 

It is now becoming a trend for female suicide bombers to be used in the latest attack of terror against innocent Nigerians living in the North-East. It is even suspected that some of the kidnapped Chibok girls are been hypnotized and used as female bombers. Not much investigation has been done in this regard but, if this is true, then we really have no hope  expecting the girls back, at least, not the whole of them. And of course, the terrorist group had allegedly told  Nigerians not to expect the girls back.
We do hope that the Nigerian military will intensify effort to rescue the girls, if truly, they are still in the custody of the militants.

A report by some villagers who escaped from Mubi and its environs, claim that the Islamists gave some men the option of swallowing a seed (called dabino, in Hausa) or be killed. Those who accepted were said to loose their senses and followed the terrorists, and carried out any instruction given. Those who refused were killed instantly, their headscut with a sawing machine used in felling trees.

CHARLES B DIES OF KIDNEY FAILURE

Late Charles B Chukwuma

Charles Bruce Chukuma, Chaz B as he was called on radio, has died yesterday due to kidney failure. He had had a kidney transplant in 2012, donated by his wife. Yesterday, as he anchored  his show, "SHARING LIFE ISSUES WITH CHAZ B" he was said to have signed off abruptly during his radio show and a colleague replaced him, and he later died last night. 

Charles B  was from Delta State, Nigeria. He was well experienced in the Hospitality Management Industry while in the United States of America. He also had consulted on management turn around in the hotel and entertainment sectors in Nigeria. He attended Kings College, Lagos, North Technical Education Centre in Florida and Miami Dade Community College (North), Florida, USA.

Through his  limousine and bodyguard service, he personally related with celebrities and VIPs like Donald Trump, Renee and Celine Dion, Natalie Cole and other world celebrities. 

"SHARING LIFE ISSUES WITH CHAZ B", was one programme that endeared him to many Nigerians as they found solutions to the issues of their lives. He prayed for callers even on radio. The radio show which he started at Inspiration FM, but later moved to Rythm FM became no. 1 radio programme in Lagos city. 

May his soul rest in perfect peace.

LAWLESS LAWMAKERS JUMP FENCE, TEAR-GASSED BY THE POLICE

Lawmakers jumping the fence of the NASS Complex

A special session of the National Assembly was to hold today, Thursday the 20th 2014. The lawmakers had gone on recess  in order for them to attend to other committee issues and their various party activities and to resume in December. But for the letters from the President on the extension of the State Of Emergency in the three northern states beleaguered by Boko Haram insurgents, the special session was convened. 

But as the lawmakers got to the entrance of the National Assembly, the were stopped by heavy police blockage. Even the Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal was hindered from proceeding into the chamber. A rowdy session ensured, and our honourable lawmakers fought their way into the meeting place, with some scaling the fence. The police fired tear gas to disperse the lawmakers, but some found their in, most of whom were said to be APC members. The Speaker was somehow smuggled in from another entrance, after the police on ground had communicated with their superiors on the phone. As expected, the PDP lawmakers who were in walked out, leaving behind just a scanty number of them. 

The APC lawmakers were shouting in anger, some saying, "Jonathan must go....Jonathan must be impeached."

It appears the PDP did not want Tambuwal to preside over the session with the lawmakers, based on their stand that his cross-carpeting to APC stripped him off the position of the honourable Speaker, while the APC insists Tambuwal is still the speaker, and has the right to convene and preside over the special session. The question now is, why the Police and the Tear-Gas on the honourable lawmakers And should the law makers have forced their way, by jumping the fence, into the complex just to have the session? Don't these all amount to lawlessness?

In the midst of the crisis, both the Upper and Lower house had to adjourn till next week Tuesday, so that, for the Upper house, the Service Chiefs could be summoned to give a true situation reports on the war against terrorism in the North-East. 

Senator David Mark has to shut down the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, to call down the situation. 

We hope to see what happens in the coming week.

~Emdee David

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AYO ORITSEJAFOR SPITS FIRE ON NIGERIAN MUSLIM LEADERS

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Ayo Oritsejafor, who has severally been accused of being a "Christian Boko Haram", has taken some time to reply his critics. He also cleared the air on the fact that the Christians in Northern Nigeria are  not only been marginalized but also, suppressed by the various Muslim-dominated government and traditional rulers of the Northern region. 

Excerpt:

"...Turkey, some time ago, was 100 per cent Christians. The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire that was a neighbour to Constantinople was a 19-year-old boy. And the Christians were warned of what was going to happen, they said it could not happen. They sent emissaries to him. He received them. They said ‘we told you, they are so nice’. When the boy turned 21, he invaded Constantinople. Guess who helped him? Christians. The cannon with which he blew down the walls were invented by a Bulgarian Christian that was even inside Constantinople. He invented this thing and approached the king of Constantinople for money in exchange for the weapon, the man said he didn’t have.

The inventor sneaked out of town with his invention, went to the Sultan and the Sultan gave him money and collected the equipment and helped to lead the troops to blow down the whole wall. In the meantime, Christians inside had been fighting each other, talking nonsense about nothing. When they saw the invaders approaching, they held hands to say they were praying. Which prayer? And they came in straight, and the first place they went to was the church. And the Sultan walked into the church shouting ‘Allah Akbar’; and made his way to the pulpit, made some rituals and turned it into a mosque. For the next 1,000 years, that building was used as a mosque. The man who started the modern day Turkey by introducing democracy, what he did was to stop the place from being used as a mosque but he didn’t return it to the church. Instead he turned it into a museum. So inside that museum, you will see Muslim things and you will see Christian things. Do you think if that place was originally a mosque and was changed to a church, and they came and stopped the church, you think they will not change it back to a mosque?

Arab colonisation

Look at what is happening in Jerusalem. When we talk like this, some people will attack me. Look at the Al-Aqsa Mosque; was there not something in that place before that mosque?         There was a Jewish temple there before that mosque. Why is it that the world never ask questions? If the original thing there was a mosque, and the Jews came and built a synagogue or a temple on top of it, you think it will stand? They would have blown it up by now. Everybody is talking about the mosque. What about what was built there before the mosque? Nobody is asking, nobody is talking.

We talk about western colonization; what about Arab colonization? We never talk about it. We pretend that it doesn’t exist or it didn’t happen. What happened to Egypt? Is it not the same thing that happened in Turkey? For over 1,000 years, Egypt was totally a Christian nation. The Arabs invaded. They came in. In the usual stupidity of Christians, they said it could not happen. They killed them like rats. And brought in a lot of Arabs within 50 years. Today, Egypt is known as an Arab country. Were the Pharaohs Arabs? Please let’s be realistic. They were real Africans, black people. Is that what you have there today?

What happened in Sudan? Why is it that Sudan split? You have Southern Sudan and Sudan. The whole of Sudan was pure black people. The same thing, they came in from Egypt and raided that place, took it over. Killed the men, dashed themselves the women, and brought in a lot of Arabs. Within 50 years or thereabouts, it became Arab Republic or Islam Republic or something. Today, everybody is seeing Sudan now as an Arab country. But was it really an Arab country? Is Sudan really an Arab country? Nobody asks questions.

I can push it further. Fulani herdsmen kill innocent natives across the nation, rape women and do several despicable things to people in the nation, but what do we hear ? Calls for compensation for them. People clamour for grazing land for them as if to say the nation should compensate them for killing innocent Nigerians. Nobody has asked the question as to where herdsmen get sophisticated weapons like AK47 from? Do you know that for the past 30 to 40... years, no church organisation has been issued a certificate of occupancy to build a church in the far North?

Go to the North of Nigeria and see the suffering of Christians. Are you aware that generally across the North, you cannot be a traditional ruler except you convert? Go to Gwoza. Gwoza is 80 per cent Christians, but they have an Emir of Gwoza. Does it make sense? That a place where 80 per cent of the people are Christians, you start an emirate, and there’s an emir who is a Muslim over 80 per cent Christians. Look at Mubi that was just taken over; there was an Emir of Mubi. In a place that is also over 80 per cent Christians. Can it be the other way round? Can you try it?

Can you go to Sokoto and say that from now it’s a Christian traditional ruler that will rule over a particular area? The only Christian in Bauchi State House of Assembly is a woman and she was thrown out. What did she do? The House woke up one day with the governor, and decided that a local government area headquarters that was located in a Christian area be relocated to a Muslim enclave. And they just did it like that. The woman got up and said no. They said she insulted the House. Her tenure is almost over, they took her security, took her car, no salary for almost three months. What has anybody done? All kinds of things have happened.

We have a Christian President and all these things are happening to Christians. People are complaining that the President is weak, he doesn’t act. What do you think?

Well, personally, I will say that people’s styles are different. All leaders will not operate the same way. So don’t rule out that possibility. Also, because personalities and style would be different, you also discover that there could be a leader who feels that because I’m a Christian, I should not do things that will make people think that I’m favouring Christians and would bend backwards to satisfy the Muslim side so that they will be happy. All I will tell you is that the man is...  is bending backwards to satisfy these our brothers. He is the President of both Christians and Muslims. But the funny thing is our Muslim brothers complain that he is not treating them well. You sit back and wonder, it’s puzzling

.- Ayo Oritsejafor

The clergy man has spoken his mind, loaded with past and recent historical facts. What's your opinion on this?