Tuesday, August 30, 2016

'I'll Marry At The Right Time', Says Ruggedman


Veteran rapper, Ruggedman, has disclosed that he is still bidding his time as far as marriage is
Ruggedman
concerned, and does not believe it should be done based on pressure.
According to him, parents who force their offsprings into marriage are in part responsible for the cases of domestic violence prevalent in the society.
'Ruggedy Baba', as he is also known, revealed this in an interview published recently.
Said he: “Marriage is not a fashion statement that everybody wants to join the trend. You don’t get married when you are very ready to get married."
“I keep saying parents should not force their children to get married because it’s part of what causes domestic violence in homes of nowadays.”
The rapper also mentioned that he is not under pressure to tie the knot, which he hopes to do at the appropriate time.
When this happens, it will in no way affect his music career which looks reignited following the release of his latest single,'Religion', which featured 'Gongo aso' singer, 9ice.
 “I know I’ll get married when the right time comes. If you do things right, marriage won’t be a barrier to your music or whatever you are doing."
“I will not lie to you, I know a lot of artistes that got married and it slowed down their career so much. But there are those who got married and are still doing their thing."
"It’s all left to you and how you manage your marriage and career. I’ll always advice that one should marry his or her best friend; it helps a lot”, he siad.

"I'm Scared Of Our Future", Writes Charley Boy


Charly Boy is worried about Nigeria's future over whioch he has written a piece on where the
Cnarley Boy
country and her citizens are headed.
The 65-year-old eccentric Nigerian celebrity in the piece, stated that he knows that there is no vaccine against mismanagement or incompetence and posted on his instagram.
Read the Area Fada: "My people, I no go lie, fear dey catch me for the future of our country.
I know that there is no vaccine against mismanagement/incompetence. Most Naijas may have concluded that the CHANGE mantra was only 419. There is great fear in the land, most people are not sure where the country is headed, and what many Nigerians are asking is whether you feel us, your subjects, if you feel our plight at all.
I see so many of my people walking with their heads dangling over their shrinking shoulders, being swept by hunger and poverty in the land of plenty. God are you there?
My people are desperate for someone to believe in, Nigerians needs a Talk and Do Presido, no go-slow for the matter because many things don scatter. We certainly need someone who practically leads us through this pain with sincere action and not mere intents or words.
I don talk my own, how we go do am?"
Charly Boy has always been an odd character since his emergence on the music scene in the late 80s. Five years from hitting 70 Charly Boy is still an entertaining oddball.

COSON Urges Day-long Hunger Strike By Nigerian Musicians On “No Music Day”


 I readiness for the “No Music Day” slated for Thursday, September 1, 2016, the Copyright Society of
Nigeria (COSON), has called on all its members across the country, other stakeholders in the music industry and lovers of music in Nigeria who are sympathetic to the plight of creative people ravaged by piracy and other forms of copyright infringement in Nigeria, to observe one day Hunger Strike that day.
Making the call, COSON Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji said, “Creative people in Nigeria cannot afford to forget that historic week in 2009 when Nigerian artistes of different shades embarked on a weeklong hunger strike staged in front of the National Theatre in Lagos. The hunger strike which was a result of frustration caused by the devastating level of intellectual property theft in our country was the prelude to what has become known as “No Music Day” the day on September 1, 2009 that practitioners in the Nigerian music industry asked all the 400 licensed broadcast stations in the country not to broadcast music for a significant period of the day”
Continuing, Chief Okoroji said, “In 2016, it has become imperative that we take appropriate action to remind the different governments in Nigeria that the disease which necessitated the hunger strike of 2009 has not quite been cured and that at this time of dwindling oil revenue, Nigeria must take important steps to protect its creative industries to ensure the socio-economic progress of our nation”.
As internet websites, telecommunication operators, telephone manufacturers, offline download speculators, etc. take hold as key channels for the distribution of music, COSON has decided that the theme of this year’s event would be “The Monetization of Musical Content in the Digital Space”.
Broadcast stations across Nigeria have been requested not to broadcast music between the hours of8am and 10am on Thursday, September 1, 2016 as a mark of solidarity with the nation’s creative industries which have suffered immensely from the debilitating infringement of copyright. Rather than broadcast music, the stations have been asked to dedicate the 8 am to 10 am time belt to the broadcast of interviews, documentaries, debates and discussions that focus on the rights of creative people and the potential contributions of creative activities to the national economy. Newspapers and magazines across the country have also been requested to publish special features on these issues in the coming days.
The Nigerian public is requested to tune in to different domestic radio and television stations on September 1 to engage top COSON members, Intellectual Property lawyers, investors in the music industry and other music industry experts who will spread out to diverse broadcast stations to discuss “The Monetization of Musical Content in the Digital Space”.
On No Music day, flags at the COSON office in Lagos will fly at half-mast, the organization will issue an important statement on the state of the music industry while there will be an ‘open day’ for artistes, journalists and members of the public interested in the subject of Monetization of Musical Content in the Digital Space.

Oliver Mtukudzi In Top Form On 65th Album


Oliver Mtukudzi
You know you're an icon when you release your 65th album and you're still standing.
Oliver Mtukudzi is one such rare breed.
The Zimbabwean is in South Africa to talk about Eheka! Nhai Yahwe his 65th release.
His career spans some 41 years. He says: "I would not call it a career because I have yet to decide what career I am going to pursue. I am only doing me. My journey since 1975 has not been easy.
"It's taken persistence, a lot of hard work and a lot of creativity, I am glad I have gotten this far."
The album's title Eheka! Nhai Yahwe is Shona for "Enjoy! My Dear Friend" and is vintage Tuku.
There is unmistakable musical depth and distinct African sounds his fans define as Tuku Music, because of its more trendy take of the mbira-powered chimurenga genre.
"Struggle (chimurenga) does not necessarily refer to a particular one. When people think about struggle in a global scale, most people think about the building of humanity. Not me. The umbrella term that covers everything I talk about in my music is self-discipline, which is needed in all spheres of life," says Mtukudzi as he explains the philosophy behind his music.
Eheka! Nhai Yahwe, Mtukudzi features South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela on Bhiza Ra Mambo and Kusateerera .
South Africa singer Maduvha Madima on Ndinecha, while the likable singer stays on as backing singer on some of the tracks.
About Masekela, Mtukudzi said: "Bra Hugh and I met a long time ago, in the early 1980s. He came to one of my shows, took his horn and jumped on stage while I was performing and started playing.
"And I wondered, who is this chap was with the trumpet, only to be told he's Hugh Masekela. I knew Hugh Masekela the name, but not the person. As it turned out, it just so happened that he and I were fans of each other."
Mtukudzi says they never recorded together, but performed together at several festivals in Africa and around the world.
"When Hugh came back home (from exile), we finally had opportunities to record together. We have recorded music together that we'll put out at a later stage.
"One day though, he came to my studio and I happened to be working on this album and he said 'I want to be on this song and that song' and I said why not?"
Explaining Kusateerera, Shona for "disobedience", Mtukudzi said: "The song is about today's life; we tend not to listen to each other. We are too busy with our own lives that we do not take time to listen.
"We always want to be heard but we never listen."
Mtukudzi's wife Daisy features on Haasi Masanga which means "it's no coincidence" as, according to Tuku, "we are here on earth not by coincidence, but by purpose".
Mtukudzi still sends socially conscious if not "woke" messages.
Bhiza Ra Mambo, which means "the horse king", is inspired by a Shona proverb.
"The Horse King is no one in particular; more than anything, it is a prayer," he says.
"The Bible teaches common sense with which to approach life. When you climb a horse, it will take you where you need to go.
"When you kneel down and pray, that is you climbing the horse, which you ride to get to your destination."
Shifting away from music, I ask Tuku whether he is happy about how much his music has spoken to issues happening in his native Zimbabwe and the entire African continent. Does he feel his music has said enough on issues that are of importance in the African arena? "Yes," he offers confidently.
"I have had my music quoted in churches, political arenas, sportsmen and women have quoted my music, families, people in general.
"This says the messages are getting through to the rightful people," he chuckles.
And about the future of African music and art, Mtukudzi painted a rather gloomy picture.
"I'm scared," he says. "Because I feel that our youngsters don't believe in who they are, but rather, they believe in the idea of who they can be.
"You see, as Africans, our history has always been bombarded with situations where we have always felt inferior, so much so that we have passed this feeling on to our children, so they too feel inferior.
"In actuality, there is no culture that is inferior to another. We're all just unique. The reason why we are here as Africans is to compliment all these other colours.
"We are not here to compete, we are here to compliment others.
"I might not be there in future and these kids will never know what will happen if they do not know who they are, they'll just be secondary.
"And that's my biggest fear. These kids must tell the world who they really are."

APC May Lose Ondo Election Over Internal Crisis, Warns Sen. Tayo Alasoadura


• Fetish objects placed at party’s secretariat
• Buhari has no preferred candidate in primaries, says presidency
An aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, has warned that the party could lose the forthcoming governorship election if its leaders did not resolve the crisis in the state chapter.
Meanwhile, ahead of Saturday’s governorship primary election in the state, President Muhammadu Buhari has exonerated himself from the crisis of confidence rocking the state chapter of the party.Briefing journalists,
Sen. Tayo Alasoadura
yesterday, in Abuja when he met with the 24 aspirants of the party, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, said the discussions were peacefl and fruitful.
He said: “The government of President Buhari wishes to reiterate that it has no preferred candidate among the 24 aspirants and that government would do all in its power to provide a level-playing field for all the aspirants.”

Alasoadura, representing Ondo Central in the Senate, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Akure yesterday, appealed to Buhari and the APC leadership to urgently resolve disaffection among party members over allegation of imposition of one of the aspirants as the party’s candidate.
In another development, the Deji of Akure, Oba Ogunlade Aladetoyinbo, condemned the placing of fetish objects at the secretariat of the party in Akure.A statement issued yesterday by the monarch’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Michael Adeyeye, condemned those who sealed the entrance to the secretariat with palm fronds, the traditional means of sealing premises in Akureland.
“The sacrilegious act carried out at the Ondo State secretariat of the APC early this morning is condemnable in its totality. We want to state that carrying out traditional sealing off of premises remains the prerogative of the palace. The Deji of Akure remains non-partisan and a father to all political aspirants and never authorised such. The palace is apolitical and therefore should not be dragged into the internal wrangling of any party,” Adeyeye said.
Alasoadura said: “With the level of discord in the party today, it will be very difficult for our party to win the governorship election. The discord is so deep-rooted, and unless we are careful, it will affect the party’s chances.”
“I am appealing to President Buhari, who is the leader of the APC, and the party’s leadership to urgently resolve the crisis over alleged imposition. Ondo State is too strategic in the South West to be lost by the APC.”