Breaking News: Gaddafi Reported Dead

Former Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi is dead, several reports have stated.
According to Retuers, the 69-year-old died of wounds suffered on Thursday, October 20, 2011, as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya‘s interim rulers said.
After 8 months of unrest in Libya, Gaddafi was reportedly captured in his hometown after revolutionary fighter attacked his house in Sirte. According to the reports, he was shot several times while trying to escape.
‘He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head’. There was a lot of firing against his group and he died‘, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters.
Gaddafi’s death however remains unclear as there little or no evidence to prove this news.

Comedian Tee-A and his colleagues ignored the independence bomb threat and headed to Abuja for an independence concert that was the bomb!
Along with  Wizkid, Mocheedah, Durella, Zeez, Gbenga Adeyinka, Skuki, Holy Mallam, Tunde Ednut, Eldee, Omo Baba and many others, Tee-A and the cast of his TV Show TymeOut With Tee A – Princess and MC Abbey gave fans more than their money’s worth…And they kept asking for more.
View photos taken at the event below…

Princess

Omobaba

Holy Malam

Mo'cheddah

Gbenga Adeyinka

Wizkid

Tee-A

MC Abbey and Tee-A

MC Abbey

Tee-A

Tee-A and Princess

Princess

Princess

Skales and Wizkid on stage

Eldee on stage

Gbenga Adeyinka

DJ Zeez

Skuki and DJ Zeez on stage

Djinee on stage

Djinee

Mo'Cheddah

Holy Malam

Omobaba

Tunde Ednut

Alibaba

The audience

Support Me And I Will Get The Grammy – 9ice

9ice

 Hitmaker 9ice was recently in London for the 2011 edition of Crack Ya Ribs’
In an interview with Adesope Olajide of Factory 78, the multiple award winner let us in a few things he’s up to, like his forthcoming album and the plans he has for his protege Seriki.  
How are you doing my brother?
I’m fine and you
It’s nice to have you here back in the UK after a while and you’ve been going round the world. Your last album was amazing the singles have been fantastic. You are blessed with hits after hits. How hard or how easy has it been to make the second album even better than the first one.
Well it is more difficult because coming from my own part of the world. If you do one thing people want something better so if you are unable to do it, its like a scar so to deliver people will respect you and adore you for that but the most important thing is to give thanks to God for making it happen and that’s it
The last 12 months has been all sort of stuffs we are happy that all sort rumors and things have been put behind and we can now focus on the music. For you as an entertainer how difficult is it for you to focus on the music when other stuffs are happening behind you?
For me personally, I have two lives there is 9ice the artiste and 9ice Abolore so when things are happening to 9ice the artiste the abolore consoles him.
We are happy for that, the music I’ve always wanted to talk about it the parables you throw out there you say ‘ki won lo bere lowo iya won’ where did you learn those parables and how did you learn them and use them in your song?
Well I will say there are things I grew up with sharing I might not be paying attention to it while I was growing up. When I grew up as an adult I was trying to be creative all those things started flashing back. I can’t speak English like the white or better than the Americans so I decided to speak in my mother’s tongue I listened to while I was growing up and that was it and glory be to God its working for me
I saw you perform on stage and I saw an interview you did. You were talking about where you grew up, Bariga where you talked about your people, the emotions that turn up on your face. Tell me the feeling that you connect with when you think about the people you grew up with…
Well the feeling is mutual because I’m a success today doesn’t mean the whole of bariga gets the survival. I’ve seen thousands of people suffering and we are being blessed. When you come out of the ghetto and God has done something great to you all you need do is give back to the society and I know the government can’t do everything there are still a lot of people millions trying to fend for themselves and they are still going to have bankers from the ghetto, engineers from the ghetto , musicians , architects from the ghetto. So people should look into that ghetto because so many good things will come out of the ghetto.
Now you promised me as a fan that you are bringing home a Grammy how long do you want me to wait for it?
Well it’s the fans that do it for us. For me personally without my fans I won’t be where I am today so let’s just keep supporting 9ice let’s keep supporting Nigerian music and in no time the Grammy will be
Now the next album you have to be working on it now. How far gone are you in the next album and when should we be waiting?
The album is done we are compiling songs together now. We are releasing it December 7th. It was supposed to drop in September, it’s a double album.
One of my favorite songs of yours apart from ‘Gbamu gbamu’, crazy. ‘Loni’ with Dagrin I listened to it on YouTube over and over again like crazy. Tell me about making that song a hit. How it feels for you for making that song with a legend and what the vibe was when you were making the track.
My producer worked on the beat and I listened to it and I told him I like this beat because it’s African and it sounds juju and I told him I should be able to do something with this. When I was done with my own verses and chorus and I thought to myself ‘who can I put on the song that will compliment the song?’. And I thought of Dagrin I called him and he showed up. He spent some hours in the studio and later he came out with something. And people loved it
Finally I saw you perform for the Governor of Lagos Babatunde Raji Fashola. I saw it here live in the UK. What caught me about the performance was that when you started to sing you completely threw everything out of the way and you started to talk to people in the crowd. Is that how you talk during performances and how you inspire your fans when they come out to watch you?
Yes definitely because talking to the crowd makes a lot of sense. Its not just about entertaining them you also need to correlate with them talk to them and make them understand what they are listening to. Most times they listen to songs and they don’t understand what you are saying so through you action, charisma, people get to know what you are saying and they understand.
Thanks you very much 9ice Alapomeji is your record label and you’ve got the boys that you are bringing up. What else can we expect from Alapomeji?
Seriki is coming out with his own album in November. People should look out for that album because it’s going to be crazy, it’s going to be wonderful.

Tiwa Savage Is Nigeria’s Hottest Female Act

She’s hot, even your mama knows it. It’s just been a year and she’s taken the number one spot as Nigeria’s hottest female act. Her name is Tiwa Savage and frankly speaking, she’s not playing games. I bet when she left the shores of Nigeria at the early age of 10, she never thought she would come back in grand style.
A lot of her fans including you, you and you don’t even know where she emerged from, but her sultry, sexy and sassy style has got us hooked like an 8-year-old with a sweet tooth in a candy store. Tiwa carries an aura of sensuality around her – something her counterparts have not been able to do for years. Maybe it’s just the right time a new diva emerges, taking a completely different approach from the divas of the older generation who one can say were more graceful and conservative (think Onyeka Onwenu, Christy Essien-Igbokwe, Evi Edna Ogoli).
All it took was one song; the pop smash hit ‘Kele Kele’, for the US returnee to grab the ear of the Nigerian listeners. But it was the video (which some would say is a spin off from Rihanna‘s ‘rude boy’ video) that got us more interested. Then when the buzz was at its highest peak, she released her second single ‘Love me, love me, love’, a similar tune with a catchy hook too. She recently released the video to the song – trust her to have flashed some skin here and there.
It played a ripple effect for the singer – the shows started coming in, award nominations and most recently she was chosen to headline the Hennessy Artistry and was also selected to be a co-host at the Nigerian Idol season 2.
The  32-year-old singer has fast risen to the top spot that she now occupies a position of envy in the community of Nigerian divas. Another aspect at which the singer excels over her peers is her energetic and captivating stage performances. Word has it that she now attracts a fee of N800,000 per show.
A few have however raised their noses at Tiwa, suggesting her style is too ‘raunchy’ for Nigerian viewership. But if we can let the foreign videos which pose more ‘threat’ make way to our homes, why not let one of ours follow suit?

Chinua Achebe Is The Most Powerful Celebrity In Africa

American publishing and media company Forbes has named Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe better known as Chinua Achebe as the most influential celebrity in Africa.
Achebe ranks number one out of a list of 40 most influential celebrities which also includes actors, cerebral authors, musicians, movie producers, supermodels, TV personalities and athletes selected from all across the continent of Africa. The second position is occupied by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, while the third position by Ivorian footballer and Chelsea FC centre forward Didier Drogba.
The 40-man list selection involved picking out individuals with the highest number of votes from a vast nominations entry of 7,500 people. And then their media visibility (which includes exposure in print, television, radio and online), references on Google, TV/radio mentions and other mentions across continent.
A total of 11 Nigerians including Achebe are featured on the list. They include Noble laureate Wole Soyinka (6), Afrobeat maestro Femi Kuti (10), Nollywood star actress Genevieve Nnaji (19), Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie (32), hit producer Don Jazzy (36) and musicians 2face Idibia (34), Psquare (35), D’banj (37), Nneka (38) and Asa (39).
Check out the full list below…
1. Chinua Achebe, 80, Novelist (Nigeria)
2. Youssou N’dour, 51, Musician (Senegal)
3. Didier Drogba, 33, Footballer (Cote D’Voire)
4. Angelique Kidjoe, 51, Musician (Benin Republic)
5. Akon, 38, Musician (Senegal)
6. Wole Soyinka, 77, Playwright (Nigeria)
7. Salif Keita, 62, Musician (Mali)
8. Yvonne Chaka Chaka, 46, (South African)
9. Oumou Sang, 43, Musician (Mali)
10. Femi Kuti, 49, Musician (Nigerian)
11. Toumani Diabaté, Musician (Mali)
12. Oliver Mtukudzi, 59, Musician (Zimbabwe)
13. Haile Gebrselassie, 38, Athlete (Ethiopia)
14. Khaled Hadj Ibrahim, 51, Musician (Algeria)
15. Samuel Eto’o, 30, Soccer Player (Cameroun)
16. Alek Wek, 34, Supermodel (Sudan)
17. Liya Kebede, 33, Supermodel (Ethopia)
18. Dobet Gnahoré, 29, Musician (Ivory Coast)
19. Genevieve Nnaji, 32, Actress (Nigeria)
20. Koffi Olomidé, 55, Musician (Congo)
21. Neill Blomkamp, 32, Movie Director (South Africa)
22. Souad Massi, 39, Musician (Algeria)
23. Baaba Maal, 58, Musician (Senegalese)
24. Hugh Masekela, 72, Musician (South Africa)
25. K’Naan, 33, Rapper (Somalia)
26. Amadou and Mariam, Musicians (Mali)
27. Awilo Longomba, Musician (Congo)
28. Eric Wainaina, 38, Musician (Kenya)
29. Binyavanga Wainaina, 40, Author (Kenya)
30. Ngugi Wa Thiongo, 73, Author (Kenya)
31. Freshlyground, Musicians (South Africa)
32. Chimamanda Adichie, 34, Writer (Nigeria)
33. Rokia Traoré, 37, Musician (Mali)
34. Tuface Idibia, 36, Musician (Nigeria)
35. P-Square, 29, Musicians (Nigeria)
36. Don Jazzy, 30, Music Producer (Nigeria)
37. D’Banj, 31, Musician (Nigeria)
38. Nneka, 31, Musician (Nigeria)
39. Asa, 29, Musician (Nigeria)
40. Patricia Amira, 33, TV Personality (Kenya)