Gbolahan Bamisile's Personal Blog
Tuesday 24 March 2015
Jonathan commission phase 1 504MW Alaoji power station in adamawa
The president is currently in Abia state to commission 504MW of power. I hope this will help to improve the deplorable state of electricity in the country. More details later
OMG! what is Nicki Minaj wearing?
Monday 23 March 2015
Fall out of Ekiti audio tape: Court bars soldiers from polling booth
Court bars soldiers from polling stations during forthcoming election
A Federal high court sitting in Lagos has barred the Federal Government from deploring soldiers to supervise the forthcoming general elections.
Delivering judgement on a suit filed by Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, a member of the House of Reps representing Surulere Federal Constituency 2 on the platform of the APC against the President, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief Of Army, Chief of Air Force, Chief of Naval Staff and Attorney General of Federation, the presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba said it was unconstitutional to deploy military for the supervision of election purposes without the approval of the national assembly.
Delivering judgement on a suit filed by Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, a member of the House of Reps representing Surulere Federal Constituency 2 on the platform of the APC against the President, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief Of Army, Chief of Air Force, Chief of Naval Staff and Attorney General of Federation, the presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba said it was unconstitutional to deploy military for the supervision of election purposes without the approval of the national assembly.
Saturday 28 July 2012
Dbanj Vs DonJazzy
D`banj & Don
Jazzy : Who Is Winning?
Don Jazzy
The acclaimed producer
was
the first to hit the ground
running, literally.
Immediately after Mo’Hits
was pronounced dead, Don Jazzy unveiled
his new record
label, Mavin Records, with a
formidable line up
of artistes
including Dr Sid, Wande Coal,
D’Prince and
surprisingly, Tiwa
Savage.
Subsequently, he released the
Mavin Records’
collaborative album, Solar
Plexus. If he thought
the album would
typically send music fans
dancing a storm, Don
Jazzy must be rethinking its timing,
which has been panned and
pilloried by critics as a
hurriedly put together job. Not
even
Wande Coal and Tiwa
Savage’s combined talents could rejuvenate the
album’s
stillbirth. In view of the lukewarm
reception Solar
Plexus
received, the producer has
been reaching out to fans by,
on one occasion, doling out
money on twitter and visiting media
houses in a sustained
publicity drive . For a producer who has built
a
lot of myth and reverence
around his persona by evading
the media, his visits to media
houses and clamour for
interviews
these days smack of desperation.
In the intervening period, he
has
implied that his deal with Kanye
West’s GOOD Music might no
longer work out because he can
not give his 100 per cent to his
contract. “Kanye has over 100 per cent
lined up at his beck and call
and it is not like I am priority.
So, I will be spending a lot
of
money staying in the United
States when I can return home
and be making money as well
as grooming more artistes.
And it’s
very easy these days,
I can work here and once I’m
done, and
feel it’s something
that would suit Kanye West, I’ll just email it
to them.”
Things might be a bit bumpy
now, but without
undermining
Don Jazzy’s genius and mastery
of street hop, there
is no doubt
that he will still have his time in
the sun. Whether
he would still be as revered and financially
buoyant is what is now
subject
to conjectures. But, it is just a
matter of time.
D’banj One of the causes of the duo’s
split in D’banj’s reckoning
was
that his partner edged when
there was an opening for them
to break into the international
market. Now that the encumbrance of
the other guy
has been cleared, the
Kokomaster is solely
committed
to realising his dreams of going
international alone.
And he has
rapper, Ikechukwu, who has subjugated his own career to
help push D’banj’s, seemingly;
bulky hype man, Special ED and
his younger brother, Kay Switch,
to open up the frontiers of his
music. With a home in Atlanta and London, D’banj now shuttles
between Nigeria and these cities
as he hopes to achieve what no
Nigerian-bred artiste has –
fostering a flourishing
international career. He has been lucky. His single,
Oliver twist,
has been such a
cross-continental hit that its
acceptance must
have
humbled the successful
entertainer. As an artiste on Kanye
West’s Good Music
label, he has also been quite
visible in the
international
showbiz circuit and has
covered a couple of
international magazines. However, history is not so much
in D’banj’s
favour as even more
talented acts like Majek Fashek
(well, he
did himself in with
drugs), Ras Kimono and Mike
Okri, who all
scampered abroad at the height of their fame, are
back home now with
no
breakthrough abroad and a loss
of homeground. But the
circumstances are
indeed different because
D’banj has a deep
pocket and
he is still very much loved at
home. He has performed
at
several concerts and shows where Don Jazzy’s artistes
didn’t
have a look-in; and
even where they did, they
were subsumed
under D’banj’s
halo. In order not to lose his fan
base at home
perhaps, and
with Don Jazzy gone, he
recently signed producer,
Jay
Sleek, who has worked with
Tuface Idibia, Sound Sultan,
Wizkid and Timaya among
other artistes, to his DB
Records as
in-house producer. In just over five years, Jay Sleek
has gained
considerable
popularity for producing great
music for these
artistes and
many more. “This has been a
long time coming so, we
are really happy to see Jay Sleek join
the D’banj family. It’s
exciting to
be working with one of the best
in the game. Jay
Sleek is a
fantastic producer,
hardworking, humble and immensely
creative. I’m so
certain that he will carve a niche
for himself
here and inspire us to
even greater music,” D’banj says
in a
statement during the week. This has resulted in the
release of the
single, O yato
(The difference is clear).
Unlike his last
single, Oliver
Twist, O yato got mixed
reviews. That the song
trended worldwide on twitter
on the day of release was a
pointer
to people’s views
about it. Many fans urged him
to return to
Don Jazzy,
lampooning what they perceived as the wateriness of
the lyrics. In the midst of the conflicting
and critical reviews of O
yato,
D’banj sneaked in with a
sterling feature on the remix
of Naeto C’s Tony Montana.
And that swayed arguments again in his
favour once again.
With Let’s Get the Party
Started, a Tuface
Idibia song,
featuring him, MI, Wizkid and
Tiwa Savage, the
entertainer
rose to the challenge. He is not leaving his flanks open
for
potshots. But the ultimate
barometer to gauge his post-
Don Jazzy era would be the
release of his album which
had been
in the works before the split. If it tanked, woe
betide his career;
but if it
became a chartbuster, it would
be a pointer to the
fact that he
knows what he is doing after
all. As he trudges on,
D’banj is
especially trying to launch
KaySwitch’s career. The
latter
released a single, Sister Caro
featuring D’banj recently.
It is not
doing badly. It is indeed a good start for the Covenant
University dropout who never
had a single to his name
during
his years in Mo’Hits.
Saturday 23 June 2012
Euro 2012 live stream
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Friday 22 June 2012
New version of Facebook for Blackberry Released
A newer and better version of facebook for blackberry application was released today. This new version addressed some of the problems users faced with the earlier version. Some of the new features in the new version includes :Users can now like or comment on a comment made by another user under any updates, freezing while in chatting mode has been rectified and the connection speed is faster now.
Inspite all these,there are still some salient features that are missing. The most important of all are the birthday or event reminder,fewer newsfeeds among others.RIM must put all these into consideration if they ever want to recover from the loss of its costumers to apple and google.
While waiting for the BB10 to hit the market later this year,why not update your facebook for blackberry and enjoy this new features
Inspite all these,there are still some salient features that are missing. The most important of all are the birthday or event reminder,fewer newsfeeds among others.RIM must put all these into consideration if they ever want to recover from the loss of its costumers to apple and google.
While waiting for the BB10 to hit the market later this year,why not update your facebook for blackberry and enjoy this new features
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Nigeria Dancing On a Wet Grave
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto
Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, has said that Nigeria is “dancing on a wet
grave”.
Kukah warned that
unless something was done urgently, the grave might cave in soon.
The cleric, who spoke in Abuja
on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Northern Reawakening Forum, also
wondered how Nigeria deteriorated to the level where it now finds
itself.
He said, “It is
daybreak for Nigeria. The country is currently dancing on a wet grave.
We are not moving forward. The war going on now is not between
Christians and Muslims or Muslims against Christians; it is a conflict
between darkness and light. This madness must end.”
Kukah recalled how a Muslim
saved his sister in 2003 by advising her to run to army barracks because
of an impending riot.
He, however, regretted that the said
sister later lost her belongings when some people invaded the area in
retaliation.
The cleric said
he was scheduled to be in Tunisia for a conference but had to cancel it
when he heard about demonstrations in the country.
He said, “So, how do I explain
to the people who begged me to come to Tunisia and I refused because of
what is happening now in Kaduna in particular and Nigeria as a whole?”
Kukah regretted that about 95
per cent of Nigerians were not happy with politicians for their failure
to deliver on their promises.
Also speaking at the event, a former
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Audu Ogbeh,
said he predicted the crisis in the northern part of the country 10
years ago.
Ogbeh, who was a
former minister of agriculture would come when emirs would not be able
to even sit in their palaces.
He said though he was not happy that his prediction
was coming to pass, Ogbeh said there were signs that the situation could
degenerate.
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