Keri Hilson Can’t Get Enough Of Flavour’s ‘Ashawo’

Keri Hilson has been listening to Flavour’s hit song ‘Ashawo.’The award winning singer couldn’t hold back her excitement.

She tweeted ‘Sawa Sawa Sawale, Sawa Sawa Sawale, ASSHHHHHH!! #nowplaying “Ashawo” Remix by Flavour. love thisss sonnnnng!!!’
A fan was kind enough to explain to the singer what the title of the song meant in English.

No surprise Keri Hilson is getting familiar with Nigerian songs as she is set to perform in Nigerian at the ‘Face of Sofa’ pageant holding in November in Abuja.

Government Should Ban Cigarette And Legalize Marijuana- Seun Kuti

After commending his brother Femi Kuti’s exciting performance alongside him on Stage at the concluded 2012 Felabration concert at the Afrika Shrine, Seun Kuti broached an argument supporting smoking marijuana against smoking cigarettes.

Seun is son of foremost afro-beat rhythm crooner, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, acclaimed possessor of death in his pouch who died 15 years ago following his debilitation to AIDS.
In his home sitting on a cluttered, narrow street of Lagos in Ikeja, which recently was transformed into a museum and popularly called Afrika Shrine, family annually put up a week of concerts to celebrate the legacy of the afro-beat maestro otherwise dubbed Abami Eda.

Seun Kuti usurped the avenue after his stage performance reliving his father’s style at the 2012 edition of the Felabration concert in Afrika Shrine to speak on his support for weed smoking. Marijuana undoubtedly is his choice against cigarette, taken after his father’s choice of purposeful adoption of anything African against whatever appears to be of African colonization by the west.

He condemned the non-legalizing of Marijuana like cigarette, suggesting that the position of the law on the two products was illogical.

In his submission, the favored cigarette has lethal consequences, while the legally opposed marijuana was medicinal and good for human consumption. But, Seun said, the killing cigarette was favored because it was to the white man’s profit, stressing that marijuana would make black countries richer than the white if legalized. His argument is an absolute face off with cigarette consumption while beckoning marijuana to the spotlight.

Proclaiming this position through lyrics of songs, the young Fela marionette damned black politicians for taking the white’s advice against its own natural produce of ‘weed’, which he said was good after all, and accepting the white’s product which truncates lives.

“This song is about the good leaf; ewe rere. Me I nor dey say make Government legalize Igbo o. If Government like, them legalize am. If Government like, them nor legalize am. I’m smoking it mehn!” Seun introduced.

Continued Seun, “Our politicians nor get sense. Because the white man talk say Igbo nor good, them follow dem talk say Igbho nor good. But now, in the United States of America, dem dey smoke Igbho legally”.

Seun suggested that the west advised the black politicians against legalizing marijuana because they knew it would make the black countries rich.

“Igbo doesn’t kill, but cigarette dey kill. Because cigar na white man’s business, as far as you write ‘Smokers are liable to die young’, it becomes legal.

“Why not also put Igbo in a box and write Igbo smokers are liable to go crazy young?”, he quipped.

Seun encouraged further in songs; “plant am make e grow… e good, e good, e goodu well well… plant am make e grow”.

After his groovy performance on the stage, Seun had an interview with citizen journalist Segun O’Law, reiterated this position stating the benefits of smoking marijuana to include ‘medicinal’. Although Seun warned that over sniffing of weed could intoxicate or drive a subject crazy, he stood in his submission that modest weed smoking was better than cigarette bearing the latter's deadly outcome.

“Marijuana is medical, and I feel Cigarette is selling legally because it is white man’s business. It is killing millions of people everyday.. Igbo is not killing anybody.

“Marijuana is not only for smoking. It’s used for a lot of things; you can make clothes, you can drink tea, it is good, it is medicinal, it helps your appetite, they give it to cancer patients.. a lot of benefits”, he explained.

Many celebrities in the Nigerian and foreign entertainment industries performed at the concluded 2012 edition of Felabration.

The atmosphere at Afrika Shrine, Felabration concert 2012 was beyond expectation, shrouded in thick fumes of discharges from countless wraps ‘igbo’.

Nollywood Generates N126bn, Ranks Third In The World

Nigeria’s film industry otherwise known as Nollywood is reported to have generated about N126.4bn ($800m) in the last three years, thus making it the third highest revenue earner in the world, according to the managing director of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) Robert Orya.
NEXIM has revealed that Nigeria is Africa’s biggest movie producer, with a consistent production of over 2,400 yearly titles in the past threeyears – 2,408, 2,514 and 2,621 in 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively.

A 2011 data from the Nigerian Film and Videos Census Board (NFVCB) indicated that 1,743 and 1,234 movies were respectively registered and approved.

The percentages produced in 2012 in the main languages were forty-four percent English, thirty one percent Yoruba, 24 percent Hausa and 1 percent Igbo.

The global film and entertainment industry is reported to have generated a bulk of about N14.3trillion ($90.6billion) revenue in 2010.

This is however, projected to increase to N16.2trillion ($102billion) in 2012.

American film industry, Hollywood is ranked first in world, and India’s film industry Bollywood taking second place, leaving Africa’s giant Nollywood in third place

Principal Arrested For Having Sex With Student

The principal of Etiwanda High School was arrested early Tuesday for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student.

Brian Garret Joseph, 38, and the student started the relationship when she was a minor and attending the high school, according to San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies.

Joseph resigned from his position at the Chaffey Joint Union High School District school on Tuesday after making bail.

Chaffey Joint Union officials contacted sheriff's deputies at the Rancho Cucamonga station to report that Joseph might be involved in a sexual relationship with a former student.

"We got an anonymous tip that was very recent and we acted on it immediately," Superintendent Mathew Holton said. "This is a very sad day."

The sheriff's Crimes Against Children Detail investigated the allegations.

Detectives said they learned Joseph has been involved with the former student -- who is now 18 years old -- and that it became sexual while she was a student at Etiwanda High.
A search warrant was served shortly after midnight at Joseph's home in the 14000 block of Parkwood Avenue in Corona.

Joseph was taken into custody on accusations of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. He was booked at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino and released on bail.

Holton sent an email to district staffers addressing the allegations on Tuesday morning.

"Dr. Joseph voluntarily resigned and, as a result, we have asked Tom Mitchell, a former EHS principal, to provide his good leadership skills to EHS and to continue to support the students and staff during this time of transition," Holton wrote in the email.

Joseph was principal for four years and also served as assistant principal at Etiwanda High, Holton said.

Etiwanda High records show Joseph, who is married and has earned a doctorate degree, worked for the district for nine years.

Coca-Cola Phases Out Returnable Glass Bottles Across Plants

The Coca-Coola Company has started phasing out returnable glass bottles (rgb) across its production plants worldwide.

Accordingly, the Company has entered into a partnership with JBF Industries Ltd to further expand global production of packaging material made from plants.
The company had been refilling the returnable bottles since 1932 but said it no longer makes business sense to continue doing so.

Ronald Lewis, Vice President/Chief Procurement Officer at The Coca-Cola Company said that the supply partnership with JBF Industries will help Coca-Cola continue its leadership in bringing renewable, lower-carbon plastics to the marketplace and move the company closer to its target of using plant bottle packaging technology in all of its plastic bottles by 2020.

“The benefits of sustainable innovation are only fully realized when commercialized and put in the hands of consumers. In 2009, we introduced the world to our plant bottle package — the first recyclable PET plastic bottle made partially from plants. Today, Coca-Cola has sold more than 10 billion plant bottle packages around the world that are less dependent on petroleum and have a lower carbon impact.

“Since the package launched in 2009, its use has eliminated the equivalent of almost 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions – the equivalent of 200,000 barrels of oil from The Coca-Cola Company’s PET plastic packaging. Plant bottle packaging is available in more than 24 countries worldwide and across a wide variety of Coca-Cola products,” he said.

New Kim Kardasian And Ray J's Sex Tape Reportedly On Sale For £24million

Kim Kardashian is the star of a second sex tape, according to a report. The beauty shot to fame in 2007 when an X-rated clip of herself with then boyfriend Ray J was leaked on the internet.


But more footage is allegedly back to haunt her as Showbizspy says a new tape has emerged of the former couple.

The saucy video, which is reportedly on sale for £24million, is said to be even raunchier than the one that made her famous.

It is believed to feature curvy Kim, who is now dating Kanye West, performing a variety of erotic acts.

It could now be released on DVD like Kim’s first tape.

A source told Showbizspy: ”It’s definitely Kim in the video. And it’s even raunchier than her last one.

“There are all kinds of eye-popping moments.

“Kim fears this will damage her relationship with Kanye West.”

Kanye West has recently been dogged by sex tape rumours as well, as a 20-minute video surfaced online of the rapper and a Kim Kardashian lookalike, who states her age (above 18) for the camera.

The married woman, who tells Kanye that she doesn’t have sex with her husband anymore, was not identified.

Kanye doesn’t appear to be too hard on Kim about her raunchy past. In his newest single Clique, he raps: “Eat breakfast at Gucci/My girl a superstar all from a home movie.”

Victim's Father Forgives Alleged Rapist

The father of a rape victim on Wednesday told the Karu Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, that he had forgiven the 24-year-old alleged rapist.

The accused person, Paul Fidelis, had pleaded not guilty when the case was mentioned on Oct. 3.

 “I have forgiven the alleged offender,” the father of the victim, Pastor Paul Goodness of Anguwan Fulani, Jikwoyi, Abuja, said on Wednesday.

“As a pastor who preaches to people about forgiveness, I feel I should show good example. Fidelis’ family members have come and pleaded with me.”

But the magistrate, Mr Christopher Oba, warned Goodness of the implication of his decision. “You don’t let your 13-year-old-daughter to be molested and you want to overlook it in the name of compassion.

“This act of defilement can negatively affect her for the rest of her life; it may make her not to trust any man again.” But Goodness insisted, “I believe the word of God can do better in her life.”
The magistrate then ordered that 21 strokes of the cane be administered on the accused and that he should sign a bond of peace that would run for 10 years.