Thursday, April 29, 2010
INEC Chairman Prof. Maurice Iwu Sacked
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Industry Night honours Dagrin
INDUSTRY NITE: Started over a year ago - A networking forum with attendees from Record Label Executives, Artists, Promoters, to Publicists, Media Houses, Brand Managers and more (including the General Public).
On April 28th, 2010, Industry Nite will pay tribute to Dagrin.
DAGRIN a charismatic young star whose music impact in the African Hip Hop scene has been revolutionary.
Dagrin performed twice at Industry nite: 5 weeks ago, and before then a year ago when he was relatively unknown.
His passing at 23 has stunned the Entertainment Industry not least his family,friends and fans.
'The Industry unites for DAGRIN', will pay homage to DAGRIN'S legacy and contribution to the African Music Industry.
Monetary donations will be collected at the entrance of the venue and ALL proceeds go to DAGRIN'S family.
Performances from an All star line up of artists have donated their time to payhomage and respect to Dagrin: GT Guitarman,Omawumi, TosinMartins, Sasha, General Pype, YQ, Sound Sultan, Weird MC, Shank, Waje, Show Dem Camp, Banky W, Lami, Pin Code, Zara, Overdose, Aquadragon, Benny P, Badman Floss and more.
There will also be speeches by major people in the industry to talk about DAGRIN and their relationship with him (business/personal).
Host: Olisa Adibua
Date;28th april,2010
Start time: 8pm
Come with a candle!!!
For more information on Industry Nite please email Matthew Ohio or Ngozi Omambala at industrynightnaija@gmail.com
For Press and Publicity matters regarding industry night please email bobby@bobbytaylor.ca
UNITE FOR DAGRIN.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Tweets Mourns for Dagrin from Friends and Colleagues
Still on the Death of Dagrin, Some of the tweets posted by Dagrin’s friends and industry folks on social networking site, twitter, in reaction to the news are written below.
Dr Sid- Please let’s pay our respects and pray for his family. I ask everyone to please change your avatar to his picture and trend #RIPDAGRIN
Kemi Adetiba- We all pray to rise to the top. We live every 2mrw like it could never be snatched from us. In our minds. That can never be us.
Ikechukwu- God, it’s true, isn’t it? May the Almighty father accept my brother Dagrin’s soul into heaven and may he rest in perfect peace, Amen.
Munachi Abi- God! Da Grin!!! Lord Jesus no!!!! God please no.no.no.no. It can’t be true
Darey- Pray for the repose of his soul…RIP Dagrin. We shall miss you…your music…your swag…My heart goes to his family
Wande Coal- God bless you Dagrin RIP
BankyW- RIP Da Grin. Lord have mecy on us all. Damn.
Joke Jaiyesimi – Just when your star started shining, death decided to cheat and snatch you away. So sad. RIP Dagrin
Bouqui- Am sooooo sad
D’Prince- R.I.P Da Grin a shining star gone too soon
Jimoh Ibrahim stakes $250m - Acquires Virgin Nigeria
News reaching us from Guardian Nigeria by Wole Sadare on the Acquisition of Virgin Nigeria.
THE recently announced acquisition of Nigeria Eagle Airline (formerly Virgin Nigeria Airline), may have cost NICON Group of Companies $250 million (N37 billion), under a debt buy-over deal sealed with United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA).
The amount represents Virgin Group's indebtedness to the bank, which liability has now been taken over by Jimoh Ibrahim-led organisation.
There were however, indications in the aviation industry yesterday that Captain Dapo Olumide, who was introduced by Ibrahim as being retained as Chief Executive Officer of the acquired airline, may quit the position this week.
Ibrahim had announced the retention of Olumide as the helmsman of the airline at the weekend, citing the confidence reposed in him by the board of directors for the decision.
Already, industry operators had expressed mixed reactions over the airline's acquisition, given the antecedent of Ibrahim. He acquired EAS Airlines but shortly, on his own, wound up its operations.
Ibrahim is expected to assure workers of his plans to consolidate on the success of the airline as driven by the Olumide-led management, at a briefing slated for today.
A very reliable source told The Guardian that Olumide was already planning his exit from the airline, stressing that the decision was personal to him.
Efforts to reach him yesterday proved abortive as his mobile phones were switched off.
It would be recalled that the airline was indebted to UBA to the tune of $250 million, a debt reportedly incurred by the Virgin Group.
A source in UBA told The Guardian that to them, it was an economic decision they took by transferring the risk to the new owner.
"We are disturbed that there were claims in the media that Jimoh Ibrahim paid $100 million to acquire the airline", said the UBA source.
Olumide is an aviation professional and a trained pilot with over 28 years experience, having started his career after he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, USA in 1980.
He joined Aero Contractors in 1982 and following many successful years, he was appointed the Deputy Managing Director in 2002 and transformed the original company vision from an exclusively B2B model to the more demanding and more modern B2C approach.
He joined Virgin Nigeria in November 2008 as the Chief Commercial Officer, after a brief stint as a banker with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), specifically in the area of transport infrastructure project development.
Before his current appointment as the chief executive officer, he was the Company's Deputy Managing Director with oversight responsibilities for Commercial Planning, Sales and Marketing, Cargo and Corporate Aviation.
Captain Olumide is a change manager and within a short time in the helms of affairs of the airline, brought his expertise to bear by turning the fortunes of the airline around especially by initiating and implementing policies that have brought the airline from the doldrums especially during the turbulent economic recession that adversely affected global aviation business.
Also, he led the management team that created an indigenous and unique brand for the airline, which has made the airline to remain a force in the domestic and regional markets.
He initiated code share with Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Delta Air and signing technical service with Ethiopia, the first in West Africa with another African profitable airline.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, former spokesman of Nigeria Airways, Chris Azu Aligbe said he found it "difficult to begin to say what will be the consequence of the airline's acquisition, because you don't know who is coming, but all I need to say is that Olumide and his team, they have done wonderfully well. They met a very bad situation and they have battled all their lives to salvage that situation.
"If it were not for the albatross of the debts accumulated by Virgin Group, the Nigerian Eagle would have stood out clearly, showing that people who know what they are doing are in place; they have a good roadmap and they were battling to stay on that road map.
"That roadmap comes along the line of national aspiration to have a world standard airline that can compete and gradually moving up from domestic and regional dominance to the point where it should be. It's quite sad that this has happened".
On Ibrahim's antecedents regarding the way he allowed EAS to die shortly after acquisition, Aligbe said people are apprehensive because of that, noting that everybody was shocked when it was bought, adding that people believed it was going to be revived, "but it just died that way and not even a word was said about it".
He however, stated that people had every reason to be apprehensive but quickly noted that Ibrahim would not invest that amount of money in such a place and allow it to go down the drains.
His words: "He is a businessman, even if the money fell from the skies to him as manna from heaven, I am sure that he does not intend to throw it away; that is my own submission, I may be wrong. I will be shocked if I find that I am wrong. I think that having invested, his sole business is to have an airline functioning and coming back after the EAS debacle, coming back to buy over another airline, airline that is major; I think it shows that he has an intention to own an airline that will work, but what people are afraid of is that he does not stand on the wrong footing"
Another aviation expert, Captain Dele Ore, said: "Whatever you are telling me is all speculative and what I am reading in the newspaper is worrisome. But I want to know how much money that has been injected into the place and by whom.
"The track record that is on ground should make us very, very worrisome. Why is EAS (NICON Airlines) no more flying? If it is an on-going business and it is flying, it can merge with a new one. Then you are thinking of a merger and we can understand that. As it is now, another dead company is in the offing".
He disclosed that Nigeria Eagle is the best run airline in Nigeria, which has met IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) requirements. It is the only company in the industry that has met IOSA.
"To me, that is an airline that is qualified to be an airline in Nigeria. So if Olumide was able to sustain and maintain it, we should say that we commend his effort. If he leaves, nobody is indispensable, but it will be a very sad story and we will be going in circles and that airline will be worse off for it".
Have More Sex - Brazilians are Advised
I've always known that being sexually active is healthy, but you rarely read where it's being advised publicly. Brazilian Minister Jose Gomes Temporao advised Brazilians publicly while addressing journalists
People need to be active. A weekend football game must not be the only physical activity for a Brazilian. Adults need to do exercise: walk, dance and have safe sex," said Jose Gomes Temporao.
The minister gave the advice as he launched a campaign to prevent high blood pressure, which afflicts a quarter of Brazil's 190-million strong population.
After making his unusual comments, Mr Temporao defended his promotion of sexual intercourse to journalists, according to the G1 news website.
"It's not a joke. It's serious. Having regular physical exercises also means sex, always with protection of course," he said.
"Dancing, having sex, keeping weight under control, changing dietary habits, doing physical exercise" all help keep blood pressure down, he said.
He added that he believed there was a health "time bomb" ticking in Brazil, which within 20 years could see a "gigantic percentage" of the population suffering chronic illnesses, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.
An average Woman Dates 24 Men before Settling Down
Or so i heard o, I stumbled on the article Posted by Ami Angelowicz on thefrisky.com that an average woman will date about twenty four men before finally settling dowm. Check out the original post;
"This may make all of the serial daters out there feel a little bit better. Or, ahem, make me feel better. A new survey done in the U.K. found that the average woman goes on about 24 dates before she finds a keeper. And to add a little more solace—seven percent of the more than 2,000 women polled went on between 41 and 60 dates before finding someone special and one percent went on a staggering 61 to 80 dates before finding Prince Charming. Geez, no wonder we get so sick and tired of dating. That’s a lot frogs.
The poll also found that one-third of the women surveyed have ditched out on a date when they knew the guy was lame. (Raises hand.) One out of four women will only go out with a guy once before she determines if he’s Mr. Right, while 35 percent will give a dude two dates, and 16 percent think three dates is fair.
And this dating business costs us, too. On average, the research found that we spent about $3,000 on dating, mostly on getting our hair did and buying new clothes and stuff. I wonder what that figure would be for the guys?
Moral of story: dating is hard and you have to pick through the proverbial haystack to find that needle" Well, i don't think that statistics will be applicable everywhere especially in Africa
Chimamanda Adiche's Purple Hibiscus now in WAEC Syllabus
Saw it on Linda Ikeji's blog that Chimamanda Adichie's award winning first novel - Purple Hibiscus is in the WAEC Syllabus. I think it's a big feat for her as she becomes a popular name among teenagers and youths
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