Olamide's Story From Grass To Grace

When grassroots-to-limelight Yoruba rapper, Dagrin, died in a road crash in 2010, the lamentation that greeted his passage had hardly died down when some other up-and-coming singers started scheming to fill the vacuum created As is done when star artistes passed on, they wanted to take advantage of the gap, with some of them not minding becoming new Dagrin... But as it normally happens in such a circumstance. All of them failed to realise their dreams. The lesson they failed to learn is that, no artiste can really replace another one. That is why no one has been able to replace Fela, Tupac or Sikiru Ayinde Barrister in the real sense of it. People may try to be opportunistic but it will be extremely difficult to convince listeners or the audience that the dead man has resurrected. Instead of aping the fallen hero, perhaps the best thing to do is to hone one's talent and work hard at one's style, especially if it is close to that of the deceased. If it is done well, the market will have no other option than to look in one's direction. This seems to be how rave-of-the-moment and weird Yoruba rapper, Olamide has proved wiser than his peers who were trying to ape Dagrin. Also called Young Erikina, the artiste has demonstrated much versatility in his songs, Eni Duro and Bend down Low, to the extent that he has broken into the league of the big players. While it has been rumoured that a major telecoms player has struck a N25m deal with him, D'Banj's new strategic romance with Olamide made him (Olamide) the subject on the lips of many followers of the sector. Apart from featuring him in a song, there are reports that the younger act has been signed onto D'Banj's label, a move that, many believe, is going to be mutually rewarding. Such a move would naturally make some guys remember D'Banj's epic divorce with Don Jazzy, and either sees the romance with the younger act either as a survivalist ploy or a strategic one. But the fact is it is a good story for Olamide and a sign that he is doing well and may just be one of the artistes to dictate the space in the next few years. Although there has not been any official confirmation, D'banj's younger brother, Kay Switch, welcomed Olamide to the family on Twitter on Wednesday. Tweeting via his handle,

@kayswitch, Kay Switch stated, "Welcome to the family, Baddo." Baddo is Olamide's nick name. The music star is currently in Atlanta with D'banj for a music performance. ©2014

Yvonne Nwosu In Sexy Sizzling Hot Pics

Yvonne Nwosu, a fashion designer shares some pics of herself to the fans.

Nicki Minaj Label A&R Drops "Pink Print" Out Of The Trendy Album On Their List

Nicki Minaj's latest album "The Pink Print" has
been slammed and called "The Shit Print" by
someone who claims to be a Universal Music

A&R …Using the twitter handle Jaywan Inc, he said
the label is disappointed in the salesand regret giving
her the marketing power..
This may explain why she's been churning out
unclad pictures, slamming her ex and basically
creating drama to push album sales….Read Tweets Above.

Photo: EL Dee & Wife Take Kids To Santa Clause

Eldee took wife and children to see Santa Clause, Father Christmas of the whole universe.

Davido Condems False Allegation For Beating Up A Cab Man

Some hours ago, news spread like harmmatan fire about the involvement of teenage singer, Davido in an alleged assault on a cab driver. While the story went viral, many condemned the 'omo baba olowo' artiste for the alleged violent act.

Disturbed by it, the son of billionaire businessman, Deji Adeleke, was forced to open up on the news story. The MTN Pulse ambassador took to his twitter handle some hours ago to respond to the news item.

According to him, "Wow! Don't believe everything you read, people. SMH (Shaking My Head). And that is all.

" In the earlier reported story, Davido allegedly beat up a cab driver, Femi Ajibola, after he (cab driver) reportedly tried to assist one Davido's 'girlfriend', who was reportedly being chased by the teenage artiste from his hotel room.

This, as also reported, happened after the girl allegedly caught Davido with one of her friends in his (Davido) hotel room in Victoria Island, Lagos on July 1, 2012.

Femi alleged that Davido seized his car keys and his 100,000 Naira got missing in the process. He also claimed that he suffered some injuries from Davido and his bodyguards' beating. Tough, his car key has been retrieved by the police from Davido, but he is reportedly yet to get his lost money back and also get any treatment or apology from Davido.

Kcee Gave Out N4 Million Naira In Warri

It appears that Kcee gave a whooping 4 million naira
to his Warri fans at the Warri Again Comedy Concert
which held yesterday, 25th December.While
performing, he randomly picked 4 people, 3 guys
and a lady, then promised to give them 1 million
naira each,as Christmas gifts, everyone screamed in excitement.

Awilo, Shina Peters, Emma Nyra, Olamide, Orezi,
Phyno, Tekno, Cynthia Morgan, Selebobo, MC Galaxy,
Lil Kesh, May7even, Gordons, Osama, Baba Frayo,
Professor Linkin,Elenu, Funny Bone, Seyi Law with
music from DJ Humility. also performed at the event.

The chairman of the Nigerian Football Federation,
Amaju Pinnick and Warri based billionaire Ayiri
Emami were there too

Help The Poor, Obasanjo Tells Wealthy Nigerians

A former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has
appealed to wealthy Nigerians to please look the
way of less-privileged Nigerians this season and
beyond. Obasanjo made this statement at a carol
service he organised in Abeokuta while preparing to
usher in Christmas, pleading that it will go a long way if they do. "I want to appeal to the rich in the society to
always remember the less-privileged in the society.
There are many children without hope out there. We
should come to their aid. There are boys and girls in
our communities with such problem," he said.

What A Pity Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's Television Station Shut Down Over Tax Inclination

Officials of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service, LIRS,
have shut down Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's Infinity
Television station for owing the state government
several millions of naira. Infinity TV, located on 16, Moyibat Oyefusi Street,
Omole Phase 1, is a Direct To Home, DTH cable TV
incorporated in 2009 by the Pastor Chris. It is also
said that the management of the Tv station, are
owing their workers up to 10 months salaries. The station was shut down on the 23rd of December, 2014.

Aliko Dangote Loses $7.8 Billion To Stock Market

According to a report by Forbes, Dangote, Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia lost a lot of money as a result of
the devaluation of Naira. The Forbes

report by Mfon obong Nsehe below…

A few weeks ago, the Governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, announced a nearly 10%
devaluation of the Naira, Nigeria's currency, after
admitting that a plunge in world oil prices and
dwindling dollar reserves were making it difficult to
defend the value of the currency. The Naira is now trading at N187 to $1, compared to N165 in
November. In dollar terms, the devaluation has
knocked more than $40 billion off the value of
Nigeria's economy.

Dangote is the biggest loser among Nigeria's richest
people as the Naira's slump, coupled with falling
stock prices, has erased more than $7.8b of his
fortune since Feb, when Forbes locked in the values
for its annual ranking of the World's Billionaires.

Dangote was worth $25 billion at the time; as of
market close on Tuesday, he's worth $17.2 billion.
More than half of the drop in his fortune has
happened since early November. As of Nov. 7,
Dangote was worth $21.6 billion, $4.4 billion more
than now.

Here's why: The last few weeks have been a bit of
a disaster for many companies listed on the Nigerian
Stock Exchange. Several blue-chip stocks such as
Dangote Cement, Zenith Bank, Transcorp and United
Bank of Africa among several others have hit one-
year-lows as a result of the fall in oil prices, a general uncertainty regarding the 2015 general elections,
Central Bank regulatory headwinds, and weak
earnings from large cap companies. These have all
contributed toward putting naira-denominated assets
including equities at risk.

After Dangote, the second biggest loser among
Nigeria's ultra-rich is Tony Elumelu, the Chairman of
Heirs Holdings, an investment company. Heirs
Holdings, which is wholly-owned by Elumelu, is the
controlling shareholder in Transcorp, a publicly-listed
conglomerate with interests in power production, hotels and agriculture. Transcorp's current market
capitalization is now $700 million, down from $1.4
billion at the beginning of November. Heirs Holdings
has lost an estimated $345 million in paper value on
Transcorp, and its stake in the company as at Monday
is now worth roughly $400 million, down from $700 million. Elumelu's investments in other listed
companies like UBA, Africa Prudential PLC and UBA
Capital have shed a little over $27 million in value.

Other big losers include Nigerian multi-millionaire
banker Jim Ovia, a co-founder of Zenith Bank. The
value of his stake in the financial services provider is
$240 million as of late Monday, down from more than
$350 million last month. He owns a 9% stake in the
bank.

Source......GossipMill

Olamide Speaks Out Saying, Veteran Musicians Should Be Blamed For Poor Content

Indigineous Nigerian singer, Olamide, in a recent interview with My Streetz magazine, has blamed veterans in the industry for the poor content been dished out by the younger generations.

According to the singer, accusing fingers should be pointed at the older generations of singers who have failed to raise quality artistes that they can be proud of. In his words, "The Nigerian music industry is popular but lacks content because the right knowledge has not been properly passed from one generation to the other. We have failed to properly raise protégés across all sectors of the music industry ( from performing artistes, sound engineers, instrumentalists...). On the international stage, our sound quality and content is below par. Arguably, some of the great veterans have failed on this subject and the new generation artistes have followed suit but one artiste is deciding to be different . This is the new chapter around Olamide....this is the story of; 'THE KING and HIS Protégé' - Olamide and Lil Kesh.

Karrueche Tran Luckily Got A Diamond Ring From Chris Brown

Chris Brown has gone from venomously putting Karrueche Tran on blast … to giving her what looks like a small diamond mine.

Karrueche coyly posted the pic of her latest
acquisitions … courtesy of CB.

Nicki Minaj 'Pink Print' Full Album Track Lists

Nicki Minaj has revealed the official tracklisting for her forthcoming The Pinkprint album, which will be available in stores on December 15th.

The project will include 19 songs with features
from Lil Wayne, Drake, Chris Brown, Skylar Grey,
Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Meek Mill, Jeremih, and
Lunchmoney Lewis.

Hit the jump to view the tracklist for The Pinkprint. You can also now pre-order the album from Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart!

Pink Print Track Lists

1. All Things Go

2. I Lied

3. The Crying Game

4. Get On Your Knees featuring Ariana Grande

5. Feeling Myself featuring Beyonce
6. Only featuring Lil Wayne, Drake & Chris
Brown
7. Want Some More

8. Four Door Aventador

9. Favorite featuring Jeremih

10. Buy A Heart featuring Meek Mill

11. Trini Dem Girls featuring Lunchmoney Lewis
12. Anaconda
13. The Night Is Still Young
14. Pills N Potions

15. Bed Of Lies featuring Skylar Grey
16. Grand Piano

17. Big Daddy featuring Meek Mill

18. Shanghai

19. Win Again

El-Rufai Picks Kaduna APC Chairman As A Running Mate

The All Progressives Congress, APC, gubernatorial
candidate in Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has chosen
the chairman of APC in Kaduna, Mr Barnabas Bantex
as his running mate for the 2015 general elections.

Mallam El-Rufai had earlier this week said he will be
announcing who his running mate would be before
the week runs out. Members of the party have also
welcomed the idea.

[Photos] Usher Dishes Out A Sex Tape OF Himself And Tameka Foster

Remember last month when rumours circulated
about singer Usher's sex tape with ex-wife Tameka
Raymond? Well, yesterday Santa delivered some
screenshots from the tape, which was on a computer
that was stolen from Usher when his car was broken
into in 2009, for Christmas. Screenshots from the tape, which was shopped
around but wasn't touched by any adult film
company because it was stolen, was circulated on
Twitter yesterday.

Y'all know we don't publish bad things
here...hehe...but the screen grabs floating around
show the then Mrs. Raymond preforming one of her
wifely duties. So far Usher does not appear in any of
the leaked photos. To see the pics, just search for
Tameka Raymond on twitter...you pervs!. Though the news has is going viral on th social networks.

2014 Highest Paid Actresses In The Movie Industry

Not Only Are They Fashionable and Pretty, These
Ladies are also pretty, and Are The Pillar Behind
Nollywood.

Below you can find some of the Richest and Most
Successful Nollywood Actress. They are the Highest
Paid Actresses in The Movie Industry.

Check on it.

1. Kate henshaw Nuttal – N67 Million
2. Genevieve Nnaji - N64 Million
3. Ini Edo – N60 Million
4. Rita Dominic – N58 Million
5. Mercy Johnson – N55 Million
6. Omotola Jalade Ekeinde – N53 Million
7. Patience Ozokwor – N51 Million
8. Monalisa Chinda – N50 Million
9. Uche Jombo – N49.5 Million
10. Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha – N46 Million

Michelle Obama Shares A Pic With Her Husby, Barrack Obama. U.S President.

American First Lady Michelle Obama Shares A Pic On Her Twitter Page, showing a long Track he has Been With Barrack Obama The Active U.S President.

Photo Justin Beiber Buys Himself A Brand New Jet

Justin Bieber made more money in 2014, than all
other entertainers under 25
To celebrate Christmas, the 20 year old bought
himself a private jet. He posted the pics on instagram
with caption New jet for Christmas, and she's beautiful'. Meanwhile some fans are slamming him, saying he
would be broke before 30 and made a bad decision
to buy the jet.Others said he should donate the
money to charity instead of buying a jet ...

Amber Rose Shows Face Without Make

Amber Rose Shows Herself in new pics without make up, but bet me. In the pic Amber Rose looks so dishy to everyman unlike make up Faces.

Chris Brown And Karueche Was Spotted Together In A Club

Looks like Chris and Karrueche can't let each other go
no matter how much they try.

The on/off again
couple were spotted leaving a night club together on
Wednesday Dec. 24th. According to TMZ who got the photo, Karrueche
hosted a holiday party at the club and Chris showed
up to support his girl.

Cosy Orjiakor Poses In Nude Pics

Cosy Orjiakor Shares all of this pics on her twitter page for Christmas Celebration. Wondering she Spent her wonderful time with nude pics. Hmmmmm!