JTE Gist: Wizkid Beats Davido To Emerge Best African Male Artiste In Western Africa
By Unknown - Sunday, November 12, 2017
Singer Wizkid, has emerged the Best African Male Artiste in Western Nigeria, at the 2017 AFRIMA Awards.JTE Gist: Wale Parties With Wizkid, Toolz, M.I, Yung L In Lagos (Photos)
By Unknown - Sunday, November 12, 2017
It was all fun last night as Nigerian-American rapper Wale stepped out for the Martell Blue Swift “H.O.M.E” party along with a host of other celebrities as well as co-brand ambassador and host of the night M.I Abaga.
The party had in attendance Toolz, Timini Egbuson, Sharon Ooja, Ric Hassani, Poe, Chuey Chu, DJ Lambo, Loose Kaynon, Yung L, Maria Okanrede, Idia Aisien and the MC of the night Do2dtun.
See photos below:-
JTE Gist: Efe Reveals New Song Title and Release Date [Read Full gist Below]
By Unknown - Sunday, November 12, 2017
The matrix music act and Ex BBN winner set to drop a new song after the huge success of his last hit "Mercy is a Bad girl". His new song " I love you" Drops tommorow!!
Hit tune unveil for you to rock, dance and vibe with, as the song carry a high tempo instrumental and feresise The Asake Crooner dash another best of him out, which tagged, Afori - Aforun "A Love Song"
Handle
Twitter & Facebook @Feresise
Instagram @Feresise1
Whatsapp: +2348063142039
Without No Delay,
Listening Feresise - Afori - Aforun
Hit tune unveil for you to rock, dance and vibe with, as the song carry a high tempo instrumental and feresise The Asake Crooner dash another best of him out, which tagged, Afori - Aforun "A Love Song"
Handle
Twitter & Facebook @Feresise
Instagram @Feresise1
Whatsapp: +2348063142039
Without No Delay,
Listening Feresise - Afori - Aforun
New talent discovered right here in African with a superb and unique style of music which take away your heart at first listening, it's about an affectionate love song by Feresise the Afro Pop Singer which give his fans across the world this hit love song, entitle Asake
Handle:
Twitter & Facebook @Feresise
Instagram @Feresise1
Whatsapp: =2348063142039
Without No Delay,
Listening and Watch Feresise - Asake Beneath
Truth Me, You Will Put On Replay
DOWNLOAD: MP3 || DOWNLOAD MP4
DOWNLOAD: MP3 || DOWNLOAD MP4
JTE Gist: See Rapper ClassiQ Looking Super Fly in New Picture
By Unknown - Sunday, November 12, 2017
ClassiQ A.k.a Arewa Mafia Looking Super fly in a new picture he post on Instagram. His Ep coming soon!!
JTE Gist: Mista Flex Reveals Art Cover for his Upcoming Album (BAM)
By Unknown - Sunday, November 12, 2017
The Arewa Finest rapper Mista Flex A.k.a Karkuzu Reveals the art cover for his upcoming album some days back.
Anticipate!!!
[MUSIC] Yeba Remix By Masterkraft Ft Wizkid X Rekado Banks & Cdq
By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017
Another Masterkraft /Wizkid collaboration, new
fire right here. Listen to the remix of the single
Yapa released some weeks ago
featuring Reekado Banks & CDQ. Wizkid graced
the remix with a top notch chorus.
Listen and share your thoughts.
Dj Krept is one of the Best and Biggest Disc Jokey in Ghana and the whole of Africa Entirely. Here is his latest Mix Which He Made with the Youths up and Coming stars which Features acts likes Spacely, Kwesi Arthur, Mista Classic, Broni and many More.
This mix will surly make you Dance and Move out Your soul.
Enjoy!
Nigerian music minister, Pastor, Founder and President of God’s Heritage Ministries International, Pastor Felix Akara, is out with a new song titled Ezi n'ulom n'ekele ya which means "My household shall gratefully serve the Lord."
Pastor Felix, in this song calls out to all families to seek and serve the living God who guarantees eternal salvation.
Ezi n'ulom n'ekele ya is a track from his soon to be released album "Dwell in His Presence".
Download
Connect:
Twitter: @felixakara
Instagram: @felixakara
Website: www.felixakaraonline.org
Dj Krept is one of the Best and Biggest Disc Jokey in Ghana and the whole of Africa Entirely. Here is his latest Mix Which He Made with the Youths up and Coming stars which Features acts likes Spacely, Kwesi Arthur, Mista Classic, Broni and many More.
This mix will surly make you Dance and Move out Your soul.
Enjoy!
Adekunle Gold lays a curse on a blogger who called Lil Kesh an upcoming artiste
By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017
A certain blogger made an attempt on making a news about why Lil Kesh is yet to bag an award from The Headies and he referred to the youngster as an upcoming artiste. That tag got Adekunle Gold so furious that he cursed him.
Adekunle Gold was obviously not pleased with such declaration by the blogger. However, in the blogger’s opinion, Lil Kesh is yet to be made. He is still far away from the likes of Davido. In what is assumed an absolute unintended bash, the blogger dished out a news that was meant to relief Lil Kesh’s fans. But it turned out doing the direct opposite.
It would normally be expected that fans would be the ones to bombard the blogger with various ill words. But the rapper’s former label mate could not stand the insult. I mean, if the blogger tags Lil Kesh an upcoming artiste, what then will he call Adekunle Gold? Taking all these to thought, Adekunle couldn’t help calling the gods on the blogger.
The blogger wrote; “Nigerian upcoming artiste Lil Kesh reveals why he doesn’t have an award from the Headies.” Angered by the post, Adekunle replied him thus; “Keshy upcoming??? Ori Yin Gbale!!!” Lol…
Top Four Dress Styles For The Season
Top Four Dress Styles For The Season
There are quite an array of dresses for fashionistas to choose from, and especially for the dynamic weather we’ve been facing. Well, if you’re all about simple and chic, a sweater dress will be your best friend this season.
The Work Ready Sweater Dress
Two things we love about this sweater are the color and the length. The black-and-white speckled stripes are super vibrant and look great with a black shoe or black tights.
You don’t need to accessorize this piece too much. The cowl neck will cover your neck, and the sleeves come all the way down to the wrists, giving you enough coverage to wear the dress on its own. The length and fit are flattering and work appropriate. For a conservative work atmosphere, pair with opaque black or gray tights.
For a Date with the Girls
This maxi Dress Style is perfect for your fall wardrobe. The burgundy color is rich and complements the included faux-leather belt perfectly. A shirttail hem at the bottom of the garment is a modern touch, while the long length keeps you warm and safe from exposing too much in a sharp wind.
Pair with brown boots for a south-western sweetheart look. You could also wear a neutral-toned scarf with a sleek heel for a totally different feel.
Sweater Dresses as LBD
Who says your LBD can’t be a sweater? This piece has a feminine cut at the shoulder, plus a soft v-neckline and short-ish length. You could wear this Dress Style as is for a shopping day, or easily dress it up for date night.
Your favorite necklace will be showcased here if you pair this dress with a simple black shoe. Because this dress is a touch on the short side, avoid a heel that’s too high or too sleek; a simple ankle bootie will work well.
For Showing Off
if you have warm weather, you will prefer a sweater dress that’s on the lighter side. This piece won’t keep you super warm, but it does have a fair amount of sex appeal, with the lace-up detail and form-fitting shape.
if you have warm weather, you will prefer a sweater dress that’s on the lighter side. This piece won’t keep you super warm, but it does have a fair amount of sex appeal, with the lace-up detail and form-fitting shape.
If the weather’s right, you don’t need much more than a simple shoe and a pair of stud earrings to pair with this dress. When it’s cold outside, pair this Dress Style with a denim or leather jacket.
Nigeria Investors Trapped in the Dark as Power Outage Worsens
By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017
One clear sign that a country is suffering a severe lack of decent infrastructure is when a night-time power cut in a regional airport raises not a murmur of surprise or protest from anyone. In dozens of meeting rooms, hotels, restaurants and bars during a recent visit to Nigeria, back-up diesel generators kicked in for short periods whenever the grid supply failed.
Many organisations keep a pair of bulky generators to ensure a continuous power supply. Some have more. Only at Kaduna International Airport did everything go dark for several minutes. Power cuts have been part of everyday life for longer than most Nigerians can remember. “It has been like this all my adult life,” says Atedo Peterside, a 61-year-old businessman and banker.
He oversaw the privatisation of Nigeria’s electricity generation and distribution networks under former president Goodluck Jonathan and sits on the government’s Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council. In Mr Peterside’s words, privatisation might have “stopped the bleeding” from the electricity sector but, apart from this, progress has been slow.
On paper, the national grid has a capacity of 13,400MW but in practice it is between a quarter and third of that — only a little more than at independence in 1960. 13,400MW National grid capacity, but just a third is typically available Electricity is far from the only challenge. Roads are littered with potholes. In Lagos, the same short car journey could take 20 minutes or two hours, depending on traffic.
On the 12km bridge that skirts Lagos Lagoon, and for many kilometres beyond, traffic is near-stationary in one direction or the other for several hours each day. On another route in and out of the city, however, along the Atlantic coast through Lekki, conditions can be better. This is thanks to a toll road put out to concession under a public-private partnership in 2008.
“At the time everybody including the World Bank said it wasn’t possible,” says Opuiyo Oforiokuma, head of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment, a fund manager, in Lagos. Mr Oforiokuma, a former senior manager at Thames Water International Services in the UK, Latin America and the US, returned to Nigeria in 2006 to set up the toll road PPP, the first of its kind in the country.
“People said we were raising a huge amount of capital, that road users wouldn’t be willing to pay, that there were land issues and the scale and complexity of the project [were too great],” he says. “A lot of that was true.” Nevertheless, the project got off the ground with funding from ARM-Harith and the African Infrastructure Investment Managers, at the time a joint venture between Old Mutual Investment Group of South Africa and Macquarie Capital of Australia.
Hopes that it would be a blueprint for other projects came to nothing. ARM-Harith had to wait until December 2015 to close its next major project, the Azura-Edo 450MW gas-fired power station being built in Edo, east of Lagos. The Azura project established what Mr Oforiokuma says is “a ringfenced template” of financial and other structures but this has yet to be replicated.
$91 Million AMOUNT RAISED BY NIGERIA’S FIRST INFRASTRUCTURE EQUITY FUND
Despite a list of potential PPPs and other investment opportunities, the “conveyor belt” of deals that Mr Oforiokuma and others want to see has not happened. He blames many factors: a lack of government or other guarantees, a shortage of the skills to structure projects in an investable way, a resistance to private provision of infrastructure and, above all, the difficulty of attracting capital. Appealing to foreign capital became especially hard after the collapse of the oil price and its effect on Nigeria’s economy, made worse by the government’s refusal to let the naira float. “By fixing the currency, they drove investment away,” Mr Oforiokuma says. “Nobody will put money in when they think the currency is still on a slide.”
Fund management for infrastructure investment is in its infancy. ARM-Harith manages Nigeria’s first infrastructure equity fund, which has raised $91m so far and aims to close by the end of the year. Bolaji Balogun, head of Chapel Hill Denham, another Lagos fund manager, runs the country’s first listed infrastructure debt fund. It is licensed to raise up to $600m; its first raise, in June, was just under $20m and this was used as 10-year loans to off-grid power projects. Its second, of about $70m, is expected to close this month.
Like Mr Oforiokuma, Mr Balogun laments the fact that “pockets of achievement have not turned into oceans of achievement”. He points to an unwillingness among Nigerian pension funds to invest in infrastructure: some 85 per cent of their assets are in government bonds and another 5-8 per cent in bank deposits, he says, leaving little or no allocation for long-term assets. He believes the government should do more.
“There needs to be an infrastructure department with the powers to create an environment that enables PPPs,” he says. Mr Peterside, the government’s adviser, is not optimistic about the prospects for that. “Eventually the government will have to make it attractive for people to invest in infrastructure,” he says. “But it has taken them two years to realise they do not have the money. Everything takes too long.”
Here's why this app knows your name even when you don't use it
By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017
The Truecaller application has been a breath of fresh air for many who just want irritating calls and text messages identified and blocked.
Truecaller application has become a hit among African countries.
The caller-ID and call-blocking app has gained widespread popularity worldwide since it was released in 2009.
The Swedish-owned company behind the service, True Software Scandinavia AB, reports that it now has over three billion telephone numbers in its database and over 100 million Google Play Store downloads for its Android app alone.
The company is currently searching for offices in Africa given its popularity in the continent.
Truecaller's massive adoption in Nigeria could be partly blamed on the Nigerian Communication Commission's lack of willto stop spam callers and messagers in their tracks.
For those who don’t use the app, have you ever wondered how your telephone number is available on Truecaller despite you not having ever installed the app?
Here’s how it works?
This means that, even if just one person has your contact details on their device address book, without your permission, as soon as they install the Truecaller app your contact details are now part of the global Truecaller database.
Truecaller doesn’t immediately make your contact details, as a non-user, available (but users can search based on your name) but as soon as you call any Truecaller user, the app’s caller ID function will query the database and identify you, thus indirectly “unlocking” your identity.
Truecaller’s Privacy Policy
As part of the Truecaller app’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you as a user have to give it access to your entire address book, which is in turn added to their global database of people’s contact details. This is called Crowdsourcing.
But this is not the only method by which Truecaller collects people and organizations’ contact details as Ted Nelson, Chief Commercial Officer further explained to iAfrikan.
“We also gather, and organizes phone numbers from different sources including white and yellow pages across the world, and social media channels. Once the information is gathered, Truecaller runs it through different layers of verification (our proprietary algorithms) to make sure that the contact information we organize is accurate.”
Truecaller through various methods is able to integrate to various social media platforms and refine the data it already has uploaded on its contacts database. This can include things such as matching a name to a telephone number, uploading a profile photo, specifying a location, etc.
