‘I and Don Jazzy created the syllabus of music’ – Wande Coal

Nigerian singer, Oluwatobi Wande Ojosipe, popularly known as Wande Coal, has claimed that he and his former producer and record label boss, Don Jazzy, created “the syllabus of music.”

He said a lot of people read through what he and Don Jazzy did and took from it and created their own sounds

The ‘Bumper 2 Bumper’ crooner made the claim during a recent interview with Cool FM, Lagos.

He, however, said there was nothing wrong with the youngsters copying what he and Don Jazzy did.

He said, “Me and Don Jazzy have always had a bond. He knows I always come with energy. Even in the studio, I’m always pumped. I’m like, yo, let’s do this sound. And he makes sure he kills it.

“So, it’s like symbiotic [relationship]. I feel like me and Don Jazzy created the syllabus of music. We created a syllabus of music and a lot of people read that and then took what they had to take to create their own. And that is what is happening now.

“There is no problem with that as long as we are still here making magic with the new generation’s sounds.”

Wande Coal and Don Jazzy worked together at the defunct Mo’hits Record and Mavin before parting ways in 2013.

in Yobe Over 44,000 households was affected by flood

 Latest statistics released by the Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), showed that a total of 44,845 households across 17 local government areas of the state were affected by flood disaster last year.

During the trying period, the agency noted that wanton destruction of lives and property was recorded, leading to the displacement of hundreds of people in the affected communities.

It is against this backdrop that, Governor Mai Mala Buni approved immediate commencement of validation and

verification of registered 2022 flood victims ahead of the Special National Economic Livelihood Emergency Intervention (SNELEI) intervention in the state.

According to SEMA, SNELEI is a federal government intervention designed to provide support to victims of the 2022 flood disaster.

Targeting more than 24,000 prospective beneficiaries in the state, it said the support is expected to come in the form of food, livelihood support tools and crop seedlings, among others, which will be distributed directly to the victims to build their socio-economic resilience.

“The support, which is implemented by NEMA-SEMA, is predicated on the number of people affected by the 2022 flood and classified as most vulnerable.

“Validation has since commenced across the LGAs”, the Agency noted

Olawepo-Hashim - Subsidy removal, painful surgery needed to save Nigeria’s economy

A former presidential candidate and business man, Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has appealed to the Labour Movement and other Social groups to accept the removal of the subsidy on  Petroleum product as a painful surgical procedure instituted to excruciate a  dangerous cancerous cell in the life of a patient in order to save the critically ill.

In a statement from his media office in Abuja on Monday, Olawepo-Hashim explained that since the subsidy was removed already in the 2023 budget by  the previous administration, it is now obvious because the market price is reflected and the entire market has absorbed the increase with prices going up for different items.

According to him, “even if the subsidy is reversed, prices of goods and services will not be reviewed to their previous levels and it would be a loss to the Economy.”

He added that “there cannot be any sensible talk about undoing what has been done but managing the pains of the adjustment on vulnerable groups such as Labour, who do not have the price mechanism for their services to absorb the pain.” 

He noted that “as an enterpreneur, what I have done in my business is to pay immediately, a transport subsidy across  board; same amount to all my workers without prejudice to their salary scale. I believe the Government and all employers of labour will do the same.”

He maintained that “there are far more benefits of removal of the subsidy to the economy, chief among which include massive investment in the mid and downstream sectors of the economy that hitherto have been locked out due to the subsidy regime.

These sectors, he argued, typically create  millions of jobs and remain a critical section that add value to the Economy.

“In the past I have been a strident campaigner against removal of petrol subsidies because I had no trust in the ability of most of the previous governments to manage the gains of the  exercise for the benefit of all Nigerians. 

“The times are different now. Nigeria has a new political-Economic manager in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we can trust his ability to manage the exercise in the interest of all. 

“Comrades, we have marched together in the past three and a half decades saying no to subsidy removal, but it is time to shift grounds; let us only insist on welfare and  protection for the working class in the midst of this adjustment,” he said.

After keeping her daughter’s identity secret for over two decades, Kate Henshaw finally unveils daughter, Gabrielle

After keeping her daughter’s identity secret for over two decades, Nollywood star Kate Henshaw, on Monday afternoon, shared a rare photo of both of them.

Unlike her colleague, Genevieve Nnaji, who has managed to keep her only child Theodora away from the public’s prying eyes, Henshaw’s move has earned her admiration.

Gabrielle, 23, is the product of a marriage between Henshaw and her former husband, Roderick James Nuttal.

Henshaw and Mr Nuttal tied the knot in 1999, while their daughter was welcomed the following year.

It came as a pleasant shock to the fans of the actress when she posted a photograph of herself and the young Gabrielle on Instagram on Monday.

Not much is known about her daughter, though some say she lives in the UK, where her father is based.

In 2011, to the dismay of her fans, Henshaw announced that they were getting divorced, although she didn’t give reasons.

Since her divorce, Henshaw has not been known to be romantically linked to anyone, at least not publicly.

Besides having a Nubian tone while her daughter has light skin, many Instagram users opined that their resemblance was uncanny.

Although Henshaw, a fitness buff, did not say why she celebrated Gabrielle, she described herself as a proud mum.

So proud of you, dearie. May your light keep shining brighter and brighter,” she wrote on her Instagram page with over two million followers.

The duo wore white outfits and sported an afro hairdo, highlighting their resemblance.

The actress’ colleagues, including the likes of Funke Akindele, Ivie Okujaye, Ufuoma McDermott, Mo Abudu, VJ Adams, Dakore Akande and others, have been fawning over the photographs of the mother and daughter.

Kate Henshaw

The award-winning actress studied Medical Microbiology at the School of Medical Lab Science at Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Before becoming an actress, Henshaw worked as a model, featuring in various commercials, including a print and television advert for Shield deodorant.

She won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the movie ‘Stronger than Pain’ in 2008.

In 2011, Henshaw was honoured by the Nigerian federal government as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR).

She has acted in many acclaimed movies, including ‘Chief Daddy’, ‘New Money’, ‘The Ghost and the House of Truth’, ‘4th Republic’, ‘The Women’ and ‘Blood Sisters’.

Also a politician, the veteran actress, in 2014, aspired to represent the Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Federal constituency under the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) but lost the primaries.

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APC thugs attacked me with guns in court

A former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Showunmi, has narrated how he was attacked on Monday at the sitting of the Ogun State election petition tribunal in Abeokuta.

Mr Showunmi blamed the attack on thugs he associated with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The PDP chieftain narrated his experience at a press conference later.

He explained that he was in court in solidarity with his party and its governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu, at the first hearing of their petition challenging the reelection of Governor Dapo Abiodun of the APC.

“I alighted at a reasonable distance from the courthouse because I knew that parking would be a problem, and I proceeded to walk. As I moved towards the environment, I had seen some type of terrible characters that in a decent society, they should be in prison, milling around and driving all over the place. Some of them are fairly known operators who play around their parks and garages.

“I approached the court gate, and it was locked and. I realised that there was no room in the court anymore, and I simply turned back. As I made to leave, a horde of murderers descended on me, bringing out cudgels and whips; they brought out guns, and they were generally misbehaving. Luckily, a security vehicle was not too far of, and I entered the security vehicle to make my way to leave,” Mr Sowunmi narrated.

The politician said he could not recollect any time in the history of Ogun State where “brigandage, misbehaviour, thuggery, criminality, marauders and murderers” were elevated to that level.

He called on President Bola Tinubu to check thuggery in the state, stressing that, “not even under Muhammadu Buhari has brigandage been tolerated to the level that we are beginning to see it now.”

Mr Showunmi, one of Atiku Abubakar’s spokespersons in the 2019 election, accused the police at the court of “standing by helpless as though they did not understand that they have the responsibility to keep the peace.

“I kept asking myself, how could they have been watching APC thugs hold guns and sticks?

“I was asking myself, when did Ogun State become a place where thugs are sent for the opening day of a tribunal? How does it become fashionable for you to mobilise miscreants to the tribunal?”

Relocate tribunal to Abuja

Mr Showunmi urged the Court of Appeal to relocate the tribunal to Abuja to avoid further attacks on PDP members.

“Our position is that, the President of the Court of Appeal, in his wisdom, should please relocate the Ogun State election tribunal from Abeokuta because it is no longer safe so that we can go and have that tribunal in the peaceful atmosphere of Abuja and everybody can have the case adjudicated, and we can deal with the outcome of the court cases.

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