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A Great Chill-Day For Workers?!

Happy Workers' Day to all workers.
Yay! It's May 1st and another reason to celebrate the Nigerian workers from all sectors irrespective of the affiliation or status.

The journey has been somewhat of a mixed-feeling for the workers who seem not to be enjoying the full benefits of our democracy.
Hopefully the future could be better.

Let us know. » assuming you could influence policies what's your wish for the average Nigerian worker at this moment.

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Our Cover Pose » Susan Peters!

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Name: Susan Peters
Profession: Actress
Nationality: Nigerian


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REPORT: "Go And Die With The #SocialMedia Bill" - KEMI OLUNLOYO Blasts!

On the recent drama radiating around the Nigerian Senate and the National Assembly about the claim that a bill is being sponsored on the floor of the Nigerian senate which could make it criticisms via the social media against Government henceforth illegal, one of Nigeria's notorious female online activists who's the daughter of former Oyo State governor Ms Kemi Olunloyo aka "Dr KOO" has lambasted the senate for a wrong move taken as it were. Her brief is presented below:

• Nigeria once has a darling leader and yes he was a darling because he was good for one thing. Silencing free speech, locking up Journalists and basically taking away people's HUMAN RIGHTS. General Sanni Abacha was the nonentity that cost me my commonwealth status in the UK and now my visa to go over there even with a US green card is N120,00.
  

  I once fled to Canada on a 5 year temporary asylum after violence on media houses during the 2007 election, and so did leaders like Bola Tinubu and many others in NADECO who are big time APC leaders today. Now word comes that an APC Senator wants to sponsor a bill which will nicely bring our Senators together and silence our FREEDOM of speech and expression on social media.
  This Social Media bill aims to lock critics up, but its not critics of Pastors, Nigerian masses, Religion, Prostitutes, tribes or any other in the list of things I already rip on social media in this country daily. It is specially and conveniently targeted to critics of the government. The Social media bill attempts to put us in jail for 7 years. What happens to us after the seven years and we criticize you again?
  The Wall street Journal reported in 2011 that President Jonathan's win was largely powered by social media. Politicians want us to use social media to vote them in but not to discuss about them? There are far more issues today in Nigeria than 10 years ago.
  
  I get delivery of water to my house because I don't have a bore hole yet in my temporary residence. The Water Corporation did not show up for two weeks and the private company also failed to show up leading me to call yet another tanker company for an N8000 delivery of water for my weekly household use. During that two weeks, I ended up doing what our university girls do in the hostels. I actually bathe with an N80 bag of Pure Water sachets which my son emptied in the bucket one by one. That was insanity in the first degree. That was just to avoid going to the stream behind my apartment.
  
  Buy my dad is a high ranking politician my friend said. What does that have to do with anything? Water is a basic human right and every Nigerian has the right to it. Social Media is also a basic human right, so don't try to twist the 199 constitution in our faces. So if I write such a story of my experience on social media ripping the government all the way from local, to national on my lack of water, I am eligible to spend time in jail? I'm going hard on you.
  Well then, lets bring back a dictatorship and you will see me join the military soon as I will be part of that government by FORCE! You cannot silence anyone on social media! We know the government is targeting Journalists and then ordinary citizens. Well, wait a minute, Pastors, Doctors and business men also target the government. Even Femi Fani-Kayode a former government official and politician who silences his critics is a critic himself and may be locked up too. Seun Kuti, JJ Omojuwa, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, FFK and even my arch enemy Kayode Ogundamisi are all eligible for some 7 year itch.
  
  Prepare the cells because the criticisms just began. Mighty Joe the armed robber was executed by the government 40 years ago in June 1973 for stealing like N10 or so and a few other armed robbery kings like Oyenusi. These days, our politicians are stealing BILLIONS. Can we get the firing squad at Bar Beach back? We are going after you more than ever.
  I am UNTOUCHABLE and to that I tell our Senators to Go and Die. If anyone bothers me, they may well be having a reunion dinner upstairs with Abacha tonight, the King of them all when it comes to killing free speech. Shout out to my mentor Journalism Senator Chris Anyanwu of Imo state. She's not going to vote for that mess I bet you.
  
  "Kemi is an independent-minded person and she is not the kind of person you can suppress. She believes what she believes. Some of them may be wrong in other people’s system." Victor Omololu Olunloyo my father said in the Punch Newspapers 11/30/13. The Nigerian mind is independent and social media will stay that way! Independent! Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo Pharm.D is an International Journalist, Clinical and Research Pharmacist and Social Media and PR Expert. She is also the News Director and Creator of HNN Africa.

REPORT: A Stern Advice To Runaway Nigerian Rapper eLDee.

Ordinarily there shouldn't have been any reason for this piece. But a certain need to inform some novice among Nigerian music artistes who seem to have lost their reasoning in moments uder pressure.

The Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON) and Independent Broadcasters Association of Nigeria (IBAN) couple of days ago jointly issued a press release ascertaining the ban of (music) content airplay of Niger music artistes who are registered under the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) imprint. The reason was highlighted that COSON is keen o harassing BON/IBAN member (radio/TV) stations on forceful payments of unjustified and uncontitutional fees as royalties for usage of music contents of Nierian artistes.
Although there had been mixed reactions towards the shocking declaration by the broadcast media to seize airplay of indigenous music contents, there seem to be a progressive trend of dialogue between the BON/IBAN and COSON mediated by NBC and PMAN to find a suitable pact to end the evolving crisis.




However, a particular statement credited to runaway rapper now turned singer Lanre Dabiri popularly known "eLDee", to a very large extent, really made a whole mess to the entire situation. And a testimony to the fact that some artistes just "talk careless before reasoning". Less than 48hours when the purported ban on most Nigerian music artistes had been sanctioned by BON/IBAN, our dear rapper-turn-singer eLDee wrote on twitter, thus:




Even the average illiterate Nigerian cannot ridicule the transmission strength of radio media, not to even talk of the TV broadcast. ELDee seem to depend so much on social media platforms, but he has forgotten that the most active social media networks could only boast of over a one-third of the entire audience in a typical age-distributive society.

And probably due to the nature that it doesn't cost an 'arm & leg' to get access to a radio content unlike the weekly or monthly subscriptions to get access to the internet; traditional or contemporary, modern or technological improvement, no matter how it is presented - radio media will always have more audience and followership than the SM avenues.

Or maybe he has also failed to realise that the affected banned Nigerian artistes stand to lose the unlimited privileges of song/album reviews, promotional interviews, endorsement opportunities (which I don't think he understands because he has none), exclusive media coverage, and lots of other benefits that the radio provides on free-to-air basis, same with the terrestial TV media.

No doubt, if the present ban should be adherred-to in its entirety even with the presence of social media, I stand to be corrected that Nigerian artistes would be the ones at a major loss and not the broadcast stations.

Can't figure-out what exactly eLDee would want to prove - no thriving artiste on Tribes Records, admire his courage though, still keeping the vision of the music label. Unfortunately, we can only look at what the relevant artistes would certainly lose from the unfortunate ban when it finally takes its full effects.

This Weekend with PHOTO-LINES...

It's the end of another week and just in time to refresh those moments that have made headlines in Nigeria, Africa, and the rest of the world.
Call it whatever you want to call it but probably for now it's called PHOTO-LINES!

Here we go..

* Nigerian FG / ASUU making headway in negotiation it seems. But not sure of resumption date for students

* Leaked Nude Photos of a Nigerian female banker released by ex-boyfriend.

* Mourinho / Samuel Etoo celebration during UCL game between Chelsea FC and Shalke 04 - Chelsea won the game 3 - 0 with Samuel Etoo scoring a brace.

Nigerian Nude Model ABIE XRISABI Flaunts It RAW!

Super Hot Nigerian-Born Nude Model is no doubt a delectable woman in all ramification. In this piece, Abie Madalla Xrisabi flaunts her body in lingerie showcase. Enjoy the photos...