Month: December 2016

#Headies2016: Full list of winners 


The 2016 Headies awards, which had several top acts not showing up, has finally come to an end.

The show which took place at Eko Convention Center, Victoria Island, Lagos, yesterday, December 23, 2016, saw Kiss Daniel, snagging three awards out of the 5 he was nominated in.

See the full list of winners below;

The 2016 Headies awards, which had several top acts not showing up, has finally come to an end.

The show which took place at Eko Convention Center, Victoria Island, Lagos, yesterday, December 23, 2016, saw Kiss Daniel, snagging three awards out of the 5 he was nominated in.

See the full list of winners below;

BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR: A non-voting category for the best single recording by an artiste or group in the year under review.

EMERGENCY – D’BANJ

PRAY FOR ME – DAREY FEAT. SOWETO CHOIR

LOVE DON’T CARE – SIMI

ORENTE – ADEKUNLE GOLD

SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING – BRYMO

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR: An individual responsible for producing the most acclaimed song or album in the year under review.

DJ COUBLON ‘GOOD TIME & RABA’

PHEELS – ‘PICK UP & LAGOS BOYS’ – OLAMIDE

LEGENDURY BEATS – ‘FINAL – BABA NLA’ WIZKID

YOUNG JOHN – ‘MAMA’ – KISS DANIEL

MASTAKRAFT – ‘FADA FADA’, ‘CONNECT’ – PHYNO

OSCAR HERMAN-ACKAH – ‘PRAY FOR ME’ – DAREY

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: A voting category for the best conceptualist, best directed and most exciting video in the year under review. This award goes to the video director.

EMERGENCY (D’BANJ) – UNLIMITED LA

MARY (SEYI SHAY) – MEJI ALABI

SOLDIER (FALZ THA BAD GUY) – CLARENCE PETERS

MADE FOR YOU – BANKY W

BAD – TIWA SAVAGE FEAT. WIZKID – SESAN

BEST R&B/POP ALBUM:

A category for the best R&B/Pop Album in the year under review (by single individual or group).

NEW ERA – KISS DANIEL

WANTED – WANDE COAL

KLITORIS – BRYMO

NAKED – DAREY

SEYI OR SHAY – SEYI SHAY

BEST R&B SINGLE:

A category for the best R&B single in the year under review (by a single individual or group).

LOVE DON’T CARE – SIMI

MADE FOR YOU – BANKY W

SUPER WOMAN – WANDE COAL

PRAY FOR ME – DAREY

ADUKE – TJAN

SMILE – SHAYDEE

BEST POP SINGLE:

A category for the best pop single in year under review (by single individual or group)

MAMA – KISS DANIEL

FINAL (BABA NLA) – WIZKID

PICK UP – ADEKUNLE GOLD

OSINACHI – HUMBLESMITH FEAT. DAVIDO

REGGAE BLUES – HARRYSONG FEAT. OREZI, IYANYA, OLAMIDE, KCEE

EMERGENCY – D’BANJ

FADA FADA – PHYNO FEAT. OLAMIDE

MONEY – TIMAYA FEAT. FLAVOUR

BEST REGGAE/DANCEHALL SINGLE:

A category for the best Reggae/Dancehall single in the year under review (by single individual or group).

NO KISSING’ – PATORANKING FT SARKODIE

BODY HOT – PRAIZ FT. JESSE JAGZ & STONE BWOY

JAGA LOVE – JESSE JAGZ

OLOWO – CYNTHIA MORGAN

PAM PAM – KETCHUP

TIMAYA – I LIKE THE WAY

BEST RAP ALBUM: A Non-Voting Category for the Best Album By A Rap Artiste Or Group In Year Under Review.

EYAN MAYWEATHER – OLAMIDE

POWERFUL – ILL BLISS

STORIES THAT TOUCH – FALZ

LIL’ KESH – YAGI

BEST COLLABO: A voting category for the best R&B, Pop or Hip-hop collaborative track (including cameos).

SOLDIER – FALZ FEAT. SIMI

REGGAE BLUES – HARRYSONG FEAT. OREZI, IYANYA, OLAMIDE, KCEE

OSINACHI – HUMBLESMITH FEAT. DAVIDO

WAIT – SOLIDSTAR FEAT. TIWA SAVAGE

NO KISSING – PATORANKING FEAT. SARKODIE

MONEY – TIMAYA FEAT. FLAVOUR

BEST RAP SINGLE:

A voting category for a single (released on-air) recording of a rap.

EYAN MAYWEATHER – OLAMIDE

ASAMALEKUN – REMINISCE

JAGABAN – YCEE

CHUKWU AGOZI GOGI – ILL BLISS

AGU JI NDI MEN – A-Q

SHOW YOU SOMETHING – BOOGEY

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE(MALE): A non-voting category for the single male artiste with the most outstanding vocal performance on a single song or album.

BRYMO – SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING

DAREY FEAT. SOWETO CHOIR – PRAY FOR ME

SHAYDEE – SMILE

WANDE COAL – SUPER WOMAN

RIC HASSANI – GENTLEMAN

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (FEMALE):

A non-voting category for the single female artiste with most outstanding vocal performances on a single song or album.

SIMI – LOVE DON’T CARE

SEYI SHAY – RIGHT NOW

ARAMIDE FEAT. ADEKUNLE GOLD – LOVE ME

OMAWUMI FEAT. ANGELIE KIDJO – PLAY NA PLAY

NEXT RATED:

This category is a voting category for the most promising upcoming act in the year under review.

YCEE

MR. EAZI

HUMBLESMITH

ARAMIDE

HIP HOP WORLD REVELATION:

A voting category for the best new artiste in the year under review.

KISS DANIEL – NEW ERA

SEYI SHAY – SEYI OR SHAY

LIL’ KESH – YAGI

RUNTOWN – GHETTO UNIVERSITY

LYRICIST ON THE ROLL:

A non-voting category for the Rap Artiste with the best lyrical depth and performance on a single song or album.

ILL BLISS – CHUKWU AGOZI GOGI

REMINSCE – ASALAMALEKU

YCEE – JAGABAN

BOOGEY – SHOW YOU SOMETHING

A-Q – AGU JI NDI MEN’

MODENINE – NO MATTER WHAT

BEST STREET-HOP ARTISTE: A voting category for the artiste whose songs are inspired by the streets. Such song should captain lingua, which may also be originated by the artiste and popular on the street.

OLAMIDE – WHO YOU EPP

AJEBUTTER FEAT. FALZ – BAD GANG

KOKER – KO LE WERK

YCEE – JAGABAN

SMALL DOKTA – GBERA

2T BOYS – CUSTOMER DADA NI

BEST ‘ALTERNATIVE’ SONG: A voting category for the artiste whose songs reflect any form or style of music which falls outside the mainstream of recent or past popular musical trends.

PICK UP – ADEKUNLE GOLD

SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING – BRYMO

YOU SUPPOSE KNOW – BEZ

WAIT FOR ME – JOHNNY DRILLE

GENTLEMAN – RIC HASSANI

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: A voting category for the best album (solo or group) in year under review, that meets judges requirements of excellence (Songwriting, production, rendition and promotion) and acceptability (Sales and popularity).

STORIES THAT TOUCH – FALZ

NEW ERA – KISS DANIEL

WANTED – WANDE COAL

SEYI OR SHAY – SEYI SHAY

ARTISTE OF THE YEAR: Most critically and commercially adjudged artiste in the year under review. Overall most successful artiste for the year under review.

WIZKID

TIWA SAVAGE

FALZ

YEMI ALADE

OLAMIDE

SONG OF THE YEAR: A voting category for the most popular song in the year under review.

FINAL (BABA NLA) – WIZKID

OSINACHI – HUMBLESMITH FEAT. DAVIDO

PICK UP – ADEKUNLE GOLD

REGGAE BLUES – HARRYSONG FEAT.

FADA FADA – PHYNO FEAT. OLAMIDE

AFRICAN ARTISTE: A non-Nigerian award category for an individual African artiste or group with the most outstanding achievement, impact and infiltration into the Nigerian music scene in the year under review.

SAUTI SOL

CASPER NYOVEST

DJ MAPHORISA

STONEBWOY

SARKODIE

 Headies Hall Of Fame: Laolu Akins

Special Recognition: Flavour

Tekno Gets Disqualified From Headies “Next Rated” Award Category 


Headies jury took the decision because he failed to participate in all of the required activities leading up the event.


Official emails between the organisers and the singer’s reps confirm all nominees for the category were required to take part in promotional activities including photoshoots, interviews and more.

It was the only category Tekno was nominated in. He missed out on major nominations including ‘Artiste of the Year’.

Former governor of Delta State, James Ibori has been released from UK prison


He was released a few minutes past noon upon a court order. His media aide, Mr. Tony Elumenor confirmed the release.

Ibori was sentenced by a United Kingdom court to prison for 13 years and served out his term midnight yesterday. 
Expectation of his return home to Nigeria, however, remains murky as friends and associates many of who are gathered in London are still deliberating on the future of the former governor.

#ScribblesMusic: XBullz – Watch it 


After letting everyone get a piece of him with his really explosive ‘Panda Cover‘, and letting the world experience true art with ‘Mba‘, XBullz has decided to end an amazing year with the release of a new one titled ‘Watch it’.

This indigenous hip hop song is sure to blow you away… 

Download and enjoy Watch It HERE…

Kanye West blackmailed over sextape


Earlier this year, Kanye released a song titled “Real Friends” and little did we know the reason. In the song he somehow gave us a hint that he was once blackmailed over a sextape. He sang,

“I had a cousin that stole my laptop that I was f–kin’ bitches on. Paid that n—a 250 thousand just to get it from him. Real friends…Huh?”

According to his cousin, Lawrence Franklin, the laptop was Kanye’s back in 2011 and contained a sextape of Yeezy and a fair-skinned unidentified African-American woman. He says it was this turn of events that caused Kanye to become distrustful of those in his inner circle.

“the sex tape episode started his decline – he stopped trusting people. This did make Kanye upset… It caused a huge rift in our family,”. he said.

That is why they say, ‘careful who you trust’. We do hope he can take care of it before it hits the media, because sincerely, he’s been through a lot lately. 

Here’s a photo of the “warrant of arrest” issued on Wizkid in Uganda


Nigerian pop superstar Wizkid has been declared wanted by the Ugandan government for a host of reasons. 

Apparently he was paid to make an appearance at an event in the said country, but he didn’t show up, leading to the issue of the warrant.

Here’s a picture of the warrant:


While there’s every possibility that this may be true given the artist’s current state of health which has made his doctors advise him to ditch all shows he ought to perform in from November 2016 till the new year, it’s also really possible that the organizers have fallen prey of impersonation.

A case of an impostor collecting money in Wizkid’s name and then going off the grid has happened time and again, the latest of which a girl got caught while collecting money on behalf of Wizkid so he could perform at a show. 

We do hope this is just another minor case, because as wizzy’s health hasn’t been on his side lately, he doesn’t need the additional stress. 

End of the road for Hillary as Electoral College seals Donald Trump’s victory


Donald Trump, president-elect of the US, has secured the 270 electoral college votes needed to formalise his victory in the November 8 election.Trump’s opponents had flooded the electors with emails and phone calls, urging them not to support the billionaire.

But the college went ahead to certify him as the 45th president in US history.

Texas ultimately put the president-elect over the 270 threshold, despite two of its electors voting against him.

According to New York Times, four Democratic electors also cast their votes for “someone other than Mrs Clinton”.

The result will be officially announced on January 6 in a special joint session of Congress.

The US electoral college has certified Donald Trump as president, despite a last-ditch effort to deny him the White House.

Reacting to his win, Trump thanked Americans for putting their trust in him, and promised to be the president of all.

“I thank the American people for their overwhelming vote to elect me as their next president of the United States,” Trump said in a statement after the result came in.
“With this historic step we can look forward to the bright future ahead. I will work hard to unite our country and be the president of all Americans.”

He also used Twitter to thank his supporters and take a swipe at the media.

Numerically, Trump’s opponents never stood much chance. To keep him out of the Oval Office, 38 Republican electors would have had to defect.

Even that would probably only have delayed the inevitable.

If no candidate reaches 270 in the electoral college, the house of representatives must vote on the next president, and the Republican-controlled chamber would most likely have chosen Trump.

Sad: Nollywood actress murdered in Ikorodu traffic


Nollywood actress, broadcaster and TV host, Aisha Alli-Balogun was shot dead on friday, December 16 on her way home around Asolo Majidun, Ikorodu expressway. Aisha was also the presenter of the comedy show Stand-Up Nigeria.According to eye witness report, the robbers wanted to kidnap Aisha and her daughter and it was while she was struggling to save her daughter that she was hit by the bullet.

The now late Aisha was one of the contestants at the Next Movie Star reality show in 2011 where Tamara Eteimo was crowned winner.

Sad enough, Aisha’s daughter Fareeda was kidnapped by the robbers and her wherabout remain unknown as at press time.

The beautiful presenter was married to Ajibola Yussuf Abiose with whom she had two kids, a boy and a girl.

Source: xsouth.com

Russia’s ambassador to Turkey assassinated in Ankara

An off-duty police officer assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at an art exhibition in Ankara on Monday, officials said. The gunman shouted “Do not forget Aleppo!” as he opened fire, shooting the ambassador severally on his back at close range.

The shooting of Ambassador Andrey Karlov was captured on video. Russia’s foreign ministry described it as a “terror attack.”

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Russia has been instrumental in helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in its push to retake the eastern sector of Aleppo, which had been held by rebels for nearly four years.

Here’s what we know right now:

• Off-duty police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas was the gunman, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a press conference. The attacker was born in 1994 in the town of Soke in Turkey’s Aydin province, he said.

• Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency reported that the gunman had been neutralized. But it was not immediately clear whether the attacker was killed or captured by police.

• Karlov was giving a speech at the opening ceremony of a photo exhibit when the gunman opened fire.

• Images of the scene showed a body on the ground as a man wearing a suit and holding a pistol stood nearby.

• In a video circulating on social media that shows the shooting, the gunman is heard shouting, “Allahu akbar (God is greatest). Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria! Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria!”
“Get back! Get back!” the man can be heard shouting in Turkish as he waves a gun.
“Only death will remove me from here. Everyone who has taken part in this oppression will one by one pay for it,” he said.

• The shooting occurred a day before diplomats from Turkey, Iran and Russia are scheduled to meet in Moscow to discuss the situation in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.

• “We are currently in contact with Turkish authorities, who are assuring us that a thorough, comprehensive investigation will be conducted,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in remarks broadcast on Russian television. “Murderers will be punished. Terrorism won’t sustain. We’ll fight it.”

• “This attack shows the most disgusting and barbaric face of terrorism,” Turkey’s foreign ministry said in a statement, vowing to fight terrorism alongside Russia and its other allies.

• The attack occurred at the Cagdas Sanat Merkezi modern arts center in Ankara. The arts center is located in a posh, upper-middle-class neighborhood, near luxury hotels and many foreign embassies.

• Russia’s foreign ministry described Karlov as an “outstanding diplomat.”
“He’s a diplomat who’s contributed a lot in fighting terrorism during his career,” Zakharova said.
The ambassador began his diplomatic career in 1976 and has been the envoy to Turkey since 2013, according to a profile on the website for the Russian Embassy in Ankara.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on the phone after the shooting to discuss the details of Karlov’s death, according to Russia’s state-run Sputnik News Agency.

Focus on Aleppo: Russia is the most powerful ally of Assad’s regime and has carried out airstrikes since September 2015 to prop up the embattled leader. As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Russia has also used its veto powers to block a political solution to end the war.

“Our task is to stabilize the legitimate government and to create conditions for a political compromise … by military means, of course,” Putin told the state-run Russia 24 TV in September.
Moscow’s bombardment of Syria has drawn criticism from Western powers, with US President Barack Obama on Friday accusing Russia of slaughtering civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo.

“Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone: the Assad regime and its allies Russia and Iran,” Obama said during a year-end news conference. “The blood for these atrocities are on their hands.”

Moscow has recently tried to distance itself from the current assault in eastern Aleppo, saying earlier this month it hasn’t bombed the city since October 18.

A series of attacks: The shooting of the ambassador is the latest in a long string of attacks in Turkey this year, although it’s the first in recent memory to be directed at a foreign dignitary.

A car bomb exploded near a public bus in the central province of Kayserion Saturday, killing 13 soldiers and wounding 55 people, according to Turkish officials.
The attack came exactly a week after a pair of bombings in Istanbul killed 44 people, including 37 police officers, and injured 155 others. The explosions, which occurred after a heavily attended soccer game at Besiktas Vodafone Arena, were claimed by a Kurdish militant group called the Kurdish Freedom Hawks.

Turkish-Russian relations were improving: In its statement after Monday’s shooting, Turkey’s foreign ministry said it wouldn’t let the attack cast a shadow on the friendship between Turkey and Russia.

The attack comes at a time of improving relations between the two countries — relations that hit an all-time low after Turkish forces shot a Russian warplane out of the sky near the Syrian border in November 2015.

Russia had slapped a raft of sanctions on Turkey in the wake of the deadly jet incident, hurting Turkish exports and damaging its tourism industry.

But the relationship began to thaw in June, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote a letter expressing “regret” to the family of the pilot who was killed in the shootdown.

When Erdogan faced down an attempted military coup in July, Russian President Vladimir Putin was among the first world leaders to call and offer his support.

Erdogan and Putin have spoken several times on the phone in recent weeks as they worked to hammer out a deal to evacuate civilians from eastern Aleppo.

101-year-old paedophile bags 13-year prison sentence


A 101-year-old paedophile – one of the oldest convicted criminals in British legal history on Monday was sentenced to 13 years in prison for 21 sexual offences against children.

Ralph Clarke, from Birmingham in the English Midlands, was found guilty of sexually abusing two sisters in the 1970s and early 1980s. The victims, who were between the ages of 4 and 13 when the abuse took place and are now in their late 40s, spoke to police after they saw Facebook posts celebrating Clarke’s 100th birthday. 

The retired lorry driver was also convicted of sex offences against a young boy, which he admitted during the trial at Birmingham Crown Court.