Friday, 17 February 2012

Video: Lilwayne ft Bruno Mars- Mirror

One of my best Musicians in the World.I so much Love him! What drives me crazy about this song is the lyrics.

Video: Davido- Dami duro

The freshest Kid in the industry. Davido is keeping it real and i'm proud of him. He's the type of Musician that just plays with beats. He is definitely among the biggest thing right now in the Nigeria Music Industry. 'On this beat is Davido and i'm driving all the Girls crazy oo nanananananinananina' Enjoy!

Video Premier: Bracket ft Wizkid- Girl

Just recently Wizkid joined Bracket to travel to S.A and this was the outcome.I Love these guys! Girl is the type of Song that'll keep you dancing dancing dancing! Enjoy!

Vdeo: Flavour ft Tiwa Savage- Oyi Remix

Flavour just can't stop getting any better.If i must ask why is everyone going to S.A to shoot with God Father? Well here is the official Video for Oyi remix ft sexy Tiwa Savage .The audio was released on Valentines day now here is the Video.I just stumbled on it.

Video Premier: Ice Prince- Juju

Here is the official Video for Ice Prince 'Juju'.This Video was shot by South African based Nigerian Mike Ogoke a.k.a The Godfather.It's my favourite track on his E.L.I Album. I Love the line where he said 'Every time i see myself i dey feel like say na Juju dey worry me'.

That's the link for the Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUmi4jumek

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Skales drops Mukulu video

Faze drops another video

Jmartins birthday and industry Nite

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Before Ogbuide of Oguta Lake

I travelled to Oguta, in Imo State, recently with a 6-member crew, to hunt for locations for my debut film, The Distant Light, a story that has been described by German anthropologist, Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, as an ‘Avatar-in-Nigeria thriller.’ Sabine is an authority on Oguta/Oru-Igbo cultures and traditions and has written one of the most extensive and deeply researched works on the cosmology of the Igbo gods and goddesses. She spent close to 26 years there, living with the people and learning everything about them. That came to culminate into the groundbreaking work of anthropology, “The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake,” published by Africa World Press, Inc.

Our paths crossed last year at a women’s conference, where she was speaking on Igbo traditions and I was giving a speech on why people need to study other people’s cultures. I found her quite intriguing (for she could speak Oguta Igbo, always sports Nigerian fabrics and holds a Chieftaincy title in Oguta) and when I finally bought her book, which she autographed, I saw names of my maternal family members in there, where she had acknowledged the help they had offered to her during her stay in Oguta.

At the beginning of this year, after getting nominated in the Creative Artist of the Year of the Future Awards, and Adekunle Samuel Owolabi beat me in that category, we agreed to work together, at least, to ‘cool me down,’ for bruising my ego. I agreed to produce a script and he will produce a camera. And we will do a film together.

I went into solitude at Bonny Island, and believe me; I finished the first draft within three days. I worked with a self-imposed deadline. On the fourth day, I left Bonny Island, with a broken heart, a broken pair of glasses and a completed script, that kept me happy.

This was just after the 2010 AMAA Awards, which I had attended in Bayelsa. For a lot, the AMAA was motivational and inspirational. For some, it was an avenue where anyone could face intimidation. Of course, watching Kunle Afolayan walk up to that stage, smiling and raising his plaques to thank the world, I felt I could come close. I just didn’t sleep well that night, as I kept thinking of how many heads he has! “The Figurine”, from every angle, came close to a perfect work of art.

Onyeka Onwenu has accepted a role in it, as well as AMAA-winning OC Ukeje. A friend recently said that critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it’s done, they have seen how it’s done, but they can’t do it. I agree. I’ve always being very passionate about the cinema and decided to enroll into a film school abroad, where I was trained as a scriptwriter and got to understand that it is easier said than done. So, as a harsh critic of Nollywood, I take back whatever harsh criticism I made in the past about its directors and actors. However we want to summarise it, making a film is never a child’s play. It is a battlefield. People die. People live.

For choosing Oguta as our location to shoot, we have been asked by the Chief Priestess, Akuzzor Anozia, after making incantations and consulting Ogbuide Lake Goddess, that we will perform rituals. Oh, yes, we have a long list of things to buy after which we will proceed to the Shrine of Ogbuide to appease her. The Consort of the Priestess will guide us throughout the whole period we will spend in Oguta.

For last time I updated my Facebook about Oguta, a friend commented: “I lost a close friend of mine to the Lake recently. He got drowned and the native couldn’t let his people take his corpse.” It was no surprise as my mother used to tell me similar things. When I asked the Chief Priestess, she said that if the dead person’s family had performed rituals, they would have gone with the corpse. I went back to the friend who had commented and she said, “Yes, they were asked to perform ritual. But it was expensive.”

“The Distant Light” is my take on arrogance and belief. Is belief necessary for a people? Does arrogance pay? It is my own way of contributing to Nigerian cinema, with a cast and crew from different parts of the world. It is my way of saying that we the young people are quick at condemning the works of the older generation and still cannot do anything to make changes. This is my way of saying, “Thank you to Tunde Kelani and Kunle Afolayan” for refining Nigerian cinema, for inspiring a new generation.

Onyeka Nwelue is author of The Abyssinian Boy (DADA Books, 2009). “The Distant Light” will be produced by DADA Films, Lagos and KStunts Media, Johannesburg.

Biography

Onyeka Nwelue is the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of BLUES & HILLS Consultancy.He studied Sociology & Anthropology briefly at the University of Nigeria, before dropping out to focus on his writing and filmmaking. He has since then studied Scriptwriting.

He has been invited and participated at the 2nd International Writers' Festival - India, Jaipur Literature Festival-India, Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival- Hong Kong, DSC South Asian Literary Festival - UK and Lagos Book and Art Festival - Nigeria. He has received a grant from the Institute for Research on African Women, Children and Culture (IRAWCC), Arizona, USA. His first novel, The Abyssinian Boy (DADA Books, 2009) won TM ALUKO Prize for First Book and came second at the IBRAHIM TAHIR Prize for Fiction and has been republished in India by Serene Woods. Danish filmmaker and visual artist, Lasse Lau has bought the rights to film The Abyssinian Boy.

Nwelue has been nominated twice in the Creative Artist of the Year category of the Future Awards. He has been published in the Guardian, Times of India, NEXT, Punch, Daily Times, The Sun, Vanguard, ThisDay, Ecletica Magazine, Kafla InterContinental, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Insurance & Money Weekly and several other publications. He served as the Director for the first edition of Bayelsa Book & Craft Fair 2011, is currently a Writer-in-Residence at Centre for Research in Art of Film & TV (CRAFT), Delhi, where he teaches Film Adaptation and is a member of the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), organisers of the yearly Lagos Book & Art Festival. His second novel, The Orchard of Memories is forthcoming.

He is the editor of FilmAfrique, the exciting new film magazine, published by Africa Film Academy, curators of the Africa Movie Academy Awards.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

DJ Khaled ft Rickross &Lilwayne- I'm on one

Dr Frabz – Follow Me ft eLDee & Shank

Nneka – Soul is Heavy

Video- Lilwayne ft Rickross JOHN

Sauce Kid – What Do I Do ft Adey

VIDEO: 2face Idibia – Be There

Brand new Video from 2baba this was definitely shot outside Nija

Sunday, 1 May 2011

BAD GUY OSAMA IS DEAD FOR REAL!!!

Osama bin Laden is dead, Obama says

Osama bin Laden, the longtime leader of al Qaeda, was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside of Islamabad, Pakistan.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Obama confirms that U.S. officials have taken custody of bin Laden's body
Source: State Department to issue "worldwide caution" for Americans
Hundreds of people cheer outside the White House
Official: Bin Laden was killed along with other family members outside Islamabad

The mastermind of the worst terrorist attack on American soil is dead, U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night, almost 10 years after the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.

Osama bin Laden -- the longtime leader of al Qaeda -- was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a senior U.S. official told CNN.

In an address to the nation late Sunday night, Obama called bin Laden's death "the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda."

Up-to-the-minute updates on bin Laden | President's statement

"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan," Obama said. "A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

How U.S. forces conducted the mission | Video

Mansion where bin Laden died on fire

Obama: Osama bin Laden killed

New Yorkers celebrate bin Laden death

Bin Laden death 'a victory for U.S.'

U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world were placed on high alert following the announcement of bin Laden's death, a senior U.S. official said, and the U.S. State Department should be sending out a new "worldwide caution" for Americans shortly. Some fear al Qaeda supporters may try to retaliate against U.S. citizens or U.S. institutions.

U.S. issues travel warnings

Hundreds of people arrived at the White House late Sunday night and chanted, "USA! USA!" They then chanted, "Hey, hey, goodbye!" in reference to the demise of bin Laden and then spontaneously sang the national anthem.

"This welcome news is a credit to our intelligence efforts and brings to justice the architect of the attacks on our country that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, in a statement issued Sunday night.

Osama bin Laden, the face of terror

The news brought some relief to the grieving family members of those killed on 9/11.

"This is important news for us, and for the world. It cannot ease our pain, or bring back our loved ones," Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93, said in a statement. "It does bring a measure of comfort that the mastermind of the September 11th tragedy and the face of global terror can no longer spread his evil."

In his speech, Obama reiterated that the United States is not at war with Islam.

Americans hit streets to celebrate | Video

"I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, released a statement Monday morning welcoming the death of bin Laden.

iReport: Send us your reactions

"As we have stated repeatedly since the 9/11 terror attacks, bin Laden never represented Muslims or Islam In fact, in addition to the killing of thousands of Americans, he and Al Qaeda caused the deaths of countless Muslims worldwide," the statement said. "We also reiterate President Obama's clear statement tonight that the United States is not at war with Islam."