Part 2 ........AUDIO: The $3 million conversation between Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola...

BREAKING NEWS: Chris Brown And Drake Got Into A FIST FIGHT . . . And Chris Brown Gets His JAW CRACKED!!! (Pics Of Chris' Face BUSTED OPEN)

P-Square - Beautiful Onyinye ft. Rick Ross [Official Video]

Bishop Oyedepo Slaps President Jonathan .... hehehehe

Karma's a bitch!!! ...

Mercy (Kanye's new Video) with cameo appearances by D'banj...

Shinji Kagawa's Manchester United transfer agreed

 

Manchester United have agreed a deal reported to be worth an intial £12m to sign Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa from German side Borussia Dortmund.

The 23-year-old needs to pass a medical and obtain a UK work permit, but the Old Trafford club expect both to be completed by the end of June.
It is thought the fee could reach £17m depending on success and appearances.
Kagawa scored 13 goals in 31 Bundesliga games as Dortmund won a league and cup double in the 2011-12 season.

Chuddy K - Gaga Crazy [Video] It's sizzling hot!!!

D'banj signs Davido to new label Def Jam Africa...

Good Music/Island Def Jam Records act, D'banj has just wrapped up a deal to bring hip-hop rave Davido on board as Def Jam Africa's first signing. Hope we'll get a clearer picture in the coming weeks.

Nigerian Oil Baron To Fight $21 Million Divorce With African Law

A wealthy Nigerian-born British-based oil baron has been granted permission to use Nigerian tribal law to appeal a $21 million divorce payout to his former British wife, the Telegraph has reported.

Michael Prest, the 50 year-old founder of Nigerian energy trading firm Petrodel Resources, split from his wife in an acrimonious divorce in 2008. During a British High Court hearing on the divorce in October last year, the presiding judge ordered the tycoon to pay his former wife cash and assets worth over $20 million.

However, Prest has applied to appeal the court’s decision on the grounds that his Petrodel’s assets do not belong to him, but are held in trust for his children, siblings, nephews and nieces in Nigeria, under Nigerian Itsekiri customary law.

The oil baron claims that his company, Petrodel Resources Ltd, was established in 1992 with $13,000 in start-up capital which was provided by his late father. As a result, under traditional law, his company and assets are not owned entirely by him, but by his extended family; he mainly acts as custodian of the wealth.

The tycoon’s attorney Martin Pointer disclosed to the court that under customary law in Nigeria, Prest (who is the first-born son of his family) has a historic responsibility to use the family “inheritance” to look after his siblings and their children.

Prest’s case is also helped by the fact that his younger brother went to a Nigerian High Court in 2009 and obtained a declaration which states that Petrodel Resources is a part of their late father’s estate. Michael Prest also previously acquired a court order from a Nigerian court which forbids him from sharing information about Petrodel and its assets with third parties. Hence, it is difficult to ascertain the true market value of Petrodel resources.

But the former wife, Yasmin Prest, 49, is crying foul. She told the court that Petrodel is “100 per cent owned and controlled” by her former husband. Last October, during the original court case in London, she had claimed that her former husband was worth ‘many tens, if not hundreds, of millions of pounds’. She demanded a divorce payout of about $40 million, plus about $1 million a year for upkeep of herself and the four children she bore with the tycoon. Prest had previously offered her the equivalent of $35,000 a year and a lump sum of about $2.5 million.

The court has not yet set a date for the full appeal.

Michael Prest, an extremely reclusive oil trader and former protégé of controversial commodities trader Marc Rich, founded Petrodel resources in 2001. The company has extensive oil exploration interests in Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda.

Source: The Telegraph

I own Mo' Hits... (and Don Jazzy is one of my artistes) ... the controversial interview

On Sunday (Feb. 19), fans from as far away as Maryland packed into New York City’s Irving Plaza to see D’banj, Nigeria’s biggest Afrobeat star in concert. The self-proclaimed “Kokomaster” hit the stage to screams and even fainting, as one woman sunk to the floor after D’banj touched her hand. Running through his three albums No Long Thing, Rundown Funk U Up and The Entertainer including his international hit “Oliver Twist,” the MC born Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo commanded the stage with waist wines, glittering outfits and jokes about his “Koko,” also known as his manhood.

EBONY.com: How will you break into America’s entertainment scene?

D’BANJ: I’m bringing my culture, my music and preaching the gospel. We’ve been learning from America’s Hollywood scene and other areas in Africa because our continent is developing. We look up to the way you’ve built your industry and we try to do ours in the best that we know. It’s so good to see that Americans appreciate my music so that’s what I’m bringing, just original Africa.

EBONY.com: How did you join Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label?

D’BANJ: I had a concert in Dubai and when we pulled up to the airport’s first class lounge and a hostess ran up to me with a plaque with Kanye’s face on it, asking me to sign it. I said ‘I’m not Kanye West, I’m D’banj but Kanye West is coming? All eyes open.’ Then my manager spoke to Kanye, came back and told me ‘He’ll give you five minutes.’ I walked over -- as an African man I’m always prepared -- and I played my music ‘Stand Out,’ ‘Fall In Love’ and ‘Scapegoat’ for him on my iPod. Before we knew it, I’d almost missed my flight and he invited me to New York.

Coming from Africa I’m my own manager, I have my own label called Mo’ Hits with my artists Dr. Sid, Wande Coal, Don Jazzy, D’Prince and K-Switch. I own Mo’ Hits and we’ve won numerous awards by the grace of God. Being with Kanye for the last eight months and me leading a successful label in Africa, I’ve learned a lot and I believe people will see what we’re going to do. I signed with Kanye in June and that same month I won the BET Award for Best International Act. My New York concert isn’t done by G.O.O.D. Music, it’s done by Live Nation, meaning I’m already a moving machine. So who better to introduce me to the global world than Kanye West, a crazy genius?

EBONY.com: What is your chemistry like in the studio with West?

D’BANJ: Kanye doesn’t try to change you. He has great ears and great people working with him. I learned the way people do music in America is different, number one, the budget. You don’t have to rush a song, you can take your time. I was glad because I have a studio in my home but I thought I was doing too much. I’ve been working with everyone else on G.O.O.D. Music too and John Legend and I worked together in London recently. It’s been great experience, I just beg people to listen with an open mind.

"Culled from Ebony"

Throwback!!! Asiwaju and Bob Dee during NADECO days...

Panic in court as police tender live python as exhibit

Naija palava!!!

In a trial for fraud and stealing at the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, an investigating police officer tendered a live python as an exhibit causing pandemonium as lawyers, litigants and policemen took to their heels on sighting the snake.

Naturally, the prosecutor, Oladejo Balogun refused to accept the snake as an exhibit.

Making an oral application asking the court to order the police to return it to their custody till the next adjourned date; the prosecutor said he had no place to keep the snake and had no idea what he was supposed to feed the snake.

The police in turn said that they were tired of keeping the snake since the arrest of the suspects last Saturday and asked the court to accept and keep it as an exhibit.

Apparently in an attempt to defraud the complainant one Alhaji Jelili Kuku, two suspected fraudsters, Kayode Oseni, 42 and Jamiu Adeyemi, 37 allegedly planted the snake in the house of the complainant.

The defendants had gone to Kuku’s house at 14, Foursquare Street, Ikotun, Lagos and planted the snake on the pretext that he was under the influence of some demonic spirits inside the house (represented by the snake they were trying to plant) and they would need to pray and buy a ram to be sacrificed which they claimed would save his life. They had already extorted N40,000 from him as the price of the ram.

However, they were unlucky as Kuku saw them while they were planting the snake and invited the police who arrested them.

This is really weird you know!!!

Source: pmnewsnigeria.com

World Exclusive: Whitney Houston's last pictures....

 

An uncensored version of Whitney Houston's pix. in casket...

Source: National Enquirer

Carlos Tevez issues unreserved apology to everybody at Manchester City

Manchester City's Carlos Tevez leaves following a training session at Carrington. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

 

 

Carlos Tevez has issued an unreserved apology "to everybody I have let down" at Manchester City following his five-month battle with the club and declared his hope that Roberto Mancini will now allow him to return to action.
The striker had a dramatic fallout with his manager after refusing to warm-up during a Champions League group game at Bayern Munich on 27 September and then went awol, returning to his homeland in Argentina without permission for three months. Although Mancini is yet to see Tevez since the latter returned to the club last week, the manager is said to be at ease with the development.
Tevez said: "I wish to apologise sincerely and unreservedly to everybody I have let down and to whom my actions over the last few months have caused offence. My wish is to concentrate on playing football for Manchester City."
It is understood that Tevez, who has been training in the afternoons away from the first-team squad as he regains fitness, met the director of football, Brian Marwood, at the club's Carrington complex and other members of staff on Tuesday afternoon. Mancini had already left when Tevez arrived at around 3.30pm for the session, that included a two-hour work-out before gym work, but was kept fully informed.
Earlier in the day, the manager had been asked about Tevez before Wednesday evening's Europa League last-32 second leg with Porto at the Etihad Stadium but, unaware that the striker was about to apologise, he refused to talk about the subject, saying: "We have another three months to talk about Carlos Tevez."
With Tevez's apology being unreserved and unconditional, the next issue is whether Mancini will consider selecting him as he seeks to guide City to a first championship since 1968. Immediately after the incident at Bayern the Italian declared Tevez as "finished" at City and on Monday last week, on the day before his return, Tevez gave an interview in which he accused the Italian of treating him "like a dog".
With Tevez also announcing he has withdrawn his appeal to the Premier League for the £1.2m fine – approximately six weeks' wages – for his decision to fly to Argentina, it remains to be decided whether the club will fine him for the outburst last week. If so, Tevez can expect to forfeit two weeks' wages, amounting to £400,000.

Dowd decision infuriates Mancini

Roberto Mancini left Anfield raging at more perceived refereeing injustices after his Manchester City side had crashed out of the Carling Cup.

Mancini: Unhappy with referee Dowd

A 2-2 semi-final second-leg draw with Liverpool on Wednesday night condemned City to elimination as the Reds progressed to a Wembley meeting with Championship outfit Cardiff on February 26.
But, on a day when City were forced to accept a four-match ban for Mario Balotelli which Mancini is convinced should not have been levied, the Italian also felt his side had been wronged by two major mistakes from referee Phil Dowd.
First Mancini felt Dowd should have awarded a penalty for Charlie Adam's tackle on Edin Dzeko when the game was still goalless.
Then, after Nigel de Jong's brilliant curling effort had put City in front, Dowd did award a spot-kick for handball against Micah Richards when Daniel Agger's shot struck the visitors' skipper on the leg, then shot up onto his arm.
"It hit his leg before his arm," said Mancini, before addressing Dowd's clear indication that Richards had made the initial block with his arms raised.
"He could cut his arm off.
"It is my opinion. I didn't think it was a penalty."
Richards also expressed his unhappiness at the decision, saying on his Twitter account: "Not happy! How can I stop it hitting my hand if it hits my foot first!"
Conversely, Mancini felt Adam should have been punished, adding: "If you watch the game, it was a penalty on Dzeko by Adam."
All this, and Balotelli as well.
Mancini feels referee Howard Webb changed his mind over the Italian's stamp on Tottenham's Scott Parker, robbing him of the forward for Wednesday night's game as well as clashes with Everton, Fulham and Aston Villa.
"I hope tomorrow they can change tonight's result because they decided about Mario after the game," said Mancini.
"The referee was there. He saw everything.
"If he felt it was correct, he should send him off during the game, not after."
Earlier on Wednesday, FA chairman David Bernstein released a statement offering his personal backing to Webb, who insisted in his report of the game that he did not see the Balotelli incident, offering an opportunity to raise the violent conduct charge.
Evidently, that cut little ice with Mancini
"Everyone watched the game," he said.
"The referee was there, 10 metres from the tackle. He could have sent Mario off at that moment, not after the game because he watched the video.
"That is easy. I can be a referee in the next game."
Mancini added the alternative was the widespread use of video technology, which has been consistently vetoed by world governing body FIFA.
"He (Webb) can't say he didn't see it. He saw everything," said Mancini.
"Now it is finished and Mario can do nothing. We lost Vinny (Kompany) for four games for nothing and now we are without Mario for four games."
Nevertheless, even after Steven Gerrard's spot-kick, City still got themselves into a position where they could have taken the game into extra-time thanks to Dzeko's close-range effort.
That the goal was cancelled out by what turned out to be a decisive strike from Craig Bellamy must have been particularly galling for Mancini, who fell out with the Welshman not long after his arrival at the club, sanctioning a loan move to hometown club Cardiff, and then, last summer, his sale to the club he supported as a boy.
"What do you want me to say to that?" said Mancini, when asked if the downturn in his personal relationship with Bellamy made the outcome of Wednesday night's encounter worse.
"I am disappointed because I didn't get to the final. What changes if Bellamy scores, or Gerrard or (Andy) Carroll?
"I am happy with the players I have got. Bellamy scored. I am also happy for him."

Fergie reveals Robin van Persie could have joined Manchester United

 SIR ALEX FERGUSON has revealed that Robin van Persie could have been a Manchester United player – but the Dutch destroyer slipped through the net ­despite a top-level ­scouting mission to Holland.
But the Old Trafford boss confesses it could have been a different story had United followed through their interest in the kid from Rotterdam when he was just a young, ­up-and-coming star.
Fergie dispatched his spies to watch Van Persie play for Feyenoord ­reserves. But the striker – who had a wild streak then – was sent off and United’s ­interest in him fizzled out.
Arsene Wenger and Arsenal stayed on the case and eventually snapped him up after a series of clashes with Feyenoord coach Bert van Marwijk.
Fergie doesn’t often miss out on players he really wants.
But Van Persie can now be added to a list that includes two other stars who infamously got away from United – Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.
“There’s no doubt Van Persie’s goals have helped Arsenal ­tremendously this season,” said Ferguson. “The lad has matured, but I ­remember us going to see him in a reserve team at Feyenoord way back.
“I think he got sent off that day in the first half – or he walked off, I can’t quite remember what happened.
“We left it alone at the time but he’s turned out to be a fantastic player.
“It wasn’t anything to do with any disciplinary problems – it was just that we didn’t see enough of him at the time and Arsenal were closer to the situation than we were.
Carrying
“He’s scored 18 goals in the league and his form is fantastic this season.
“He’s carrying Arsenal in terms of goals, but you could say the same about Barcelona, in that if you stop Messi they aren’t the same team. Or if you stop Ronaldo at Real Madrid they aren’t the same team either. All the top teams have a player who makes the difference, like David Silva at City. For many years, it was Didier Drogba at Chelsea.”
United demolished Arsenal 8-2 at the end of August and Ferguson comes to London seeking goals – with wing star Antonio Valencia on fire.
“Antonio is back to his best form now, there’s no doubt about that,” said Ferguson. “It took him a bit of time to get over the couple of injuries he’s had. The latest one, it took him longer than we thought.
“Also, Nani’s form was so good at the time I was having to play Valencia at right-back so he’s had to cope with that and probably thinking ‘am I going to get to play in my normal position at right wing?’
“But his form has got better and better and now I have moved Nani to the left hand side we’ve seen Antonio come back to his best form, which is pleasing. If you can identify good wide players, I think they are important.
“I think it is always the way we have been at United and as long as the wide players have the appetite to work, then fine.
“The ones we have always had like David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Ashley Young and Nani, have a ­fantastic work-rate. They have always ­contributed in that respect.
Threatening
“With Antonio, he can go past his man and he tries to do that most of the time.
“But he’s got enough to also come inside and he can pass the ball well.
“He has a lot going for him. Last week against Bolton, he was starting to show his real top form.
“He has been threatening, you can see gradually he is getting to that point and he is in really good form now.
“He is effective like Ronaldo was but in a different way, of course.”

Exclusive: Basketmouth hits the music scene!!! Out with first single as ODDZ “Where You Dey” feat. Wizkid & eLDee

Comedian Basketmouth hits the music scene!!!

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Official Press Release

If you call him- Mr. Multi-talented you might be right – He raps – very well at that, he is a Comedian and finally a Compere extraordinaire. Some have even come to refer to him has the Crown Prince of Comedy; whether that’s a right assertion is a topic for another day. But we can tell you for a fact that he is good at his job.

The new deal with him right now, is that he is remembering what majorly brought him to the entertainment scene in the first place-Music. He had fallen madly in love in the 90′s with Rap Music better known now has Hip-Hop. His many influences or inspirations then were the likes of Wu Tang Clan – made up of the likes of Method Man, Ghostface Killah, RZA, Raekwon, GZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastards, Inspectah Decks & U-God, Buckshot and many others.

He took his love a step further by collaborating with his elder brother-Godwin and a few other friends to form a Rap Group they named-The Psychopaths made up of 8 members, they experimented in the studios bringing all the 8 elements together, but never released an Album or any of the singles.

While Godwin & Bright who later became popular by his moniker-Basketmouth got admitted into University of Benin, the other members of the Psychopaths went their different ways, thereby putting a temporary stop to their group. Bright & Godwin continued at Uniben and formed an affiliate group which later collaborated with the likes of Faze of Plantashun Boyz, Dare Art Alade & others, but like before they didn’t release any single or body of work.

Recently Godwin who had gone on to live in the UK with family came to Nigeria and out of fun, both brothers decided to enter the studio and see what they could make of their latent talent, they had a collaboration with Eldee D Don & the Prince of the moment-the one & only Wizkid and what they came up with is titled- Where You Dey?

But the main deal-the full body of work, a complete album at that is now in the works. Tentative release date is sometime in April of 2012, and both brothers are collaborating with Africa’s pride Tuface, the one & only Egberi Papa 1-Timaya, Dare Art Alade, Davido, Terry D Rapman, Flavor, Nigeria’s number one lyricist-Mode 9, OD & many others.

Not to worry at all, Basketmouth is not retiring from comedy, he is only giving a voice to a talent he had always toyed with, to see how the people would accept or view his 1st love- RAP MUSIC!