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“I’m a businessman, I’ve always been a businessman.” – Dbanj recently sat down with Trace Urban to giist a bit about his business moves, musical career and the story behind his most recent album, De Kings Men. I didn’t understand a bit of his introduction, lol but good video highlight nonetheless.
Disturbing news on Lagos Island – an electrical fault caused a fire to break out this morning at the Great Nigerian Insurance House on Lagos Island. The building is said to house propoerties worth billions of naira, many of which may have been lost to the disaster.
The afri-tech world is all abuzz with news of the fire of 13 of Jason Njoku’s employees from Iroking – the naija music platform. Amongst those ousted include the company’s CEO, Michael Ugwu, who allegedly was fired for starting his own digital music platform while working for the company. Dra-ma. TC has it.
“Revenue earned by Nigeria this year may be as much as $12 billion short of budget estimates.” – Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. How is one “short” 12 Billion USD. Crude theft aside, that’s too much now. There are at least 30 countries in the world who have less than that as their nominal GDP! Smh.
Nicki Minaj had her breasts on near full display, Miley managed to rock her Lil Kim 1999 MTV Movie Awards costume perfectly and Kerri Hilson and her boo Serge Ibaka pulled off a great Prince Akeem and Lisa look from Coming to America. Gotta love Halloween! Click for more celebrity halloween looks.
Kcee (Limpopo) and Wizkid team up for a funny video (directed by Clarence Peters) for the single “Pullover”. Best part of the vid has to be the police dancing. lol comedy.
Some of Africa’s finest on this Sarkodie remix for U Go Kill Me. The track features E.L, Ice Prince, Wizzy F Baby and Navio. Definitely a body mover; you can do a lil two-step to this one if you don’t want to kill em too much lol looking forward to hearing this at a wedding reception or loung party soon!
Looks like fun times and good loocking people, behind the scenes at Banky W’s shoot for the Jasi video. The video, directed by Sesan, also features an appearance from Lynxxxx.
More opinions on Stellagate 2013 – “There should be no sentiments when it comes to tackling corruption. Stella Oduah, if she really had a hand in this, is wrong and she has to face the music.”
Lagos State Gov. Babatunde Fashola, has presented the budget estimates the year 2014 to the State House of Assembly. The whole thing totals to about 3 billion US dollars (almost half a trillion naira). The gov sector to get the largest chunk of the budget? – General Public Service with 100, 255 million Naira.
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