US based Nigerian reggae musician and actor The Ras General has dropped a new single ‘How Long’, a song inspired by current events happening around the world.
A former member of the Rasta Officers Band, the first reggae family band to come out of africa formed with his three brothers as members.
The Ras general (Given name, Stanley Onwu) would soon relocate to Ghana where he became a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel Organisation where he met another rasta bredren by the name Ras Korby and together they formed another band known as The Nazarite VowBand, one of the biggest and most militant reggae outfits in Ghana at the time.
The Ras General always on the move later migrated to the united States of America, where he still resides with his family.
The artiste who is also an Actor, Poet, Movie Producer, Writer and Singer has performed alongside many local and international acts including reggae legends like Mutabaruka, Yesus Afari, Culture, Don Carlos, Buju Banton and Toots Hibberts just to mention a few.
He also played a major role alongside Jamaican movie star Paul Campbell in the movie ‘The Jamaican Mafia.’
His brand new single ‘How Long’ released under his Peoples’ Army music label is currently enjoying massive airplay on reggae shows on local radio stations across the country and on other radio stations across the west african coast.
The song is also available for download on social media platforms.
Accomplished role interpreter, Saidi Balogun is set for location for his first ever comedy movie.
The Ibadan, Oyo state born act had before now, produced series of movies in different languages, even as he holds the enviable record of the first African Black Man from Nigeria to produce one and only 2 and the first Person to Produce all cast in Africa Ankara.
“Master P” another movie you can wait to see from the stable of the multiple Award winner, and an exceptional script interpreter Saidi Balogun, according to him said the hilarious comic movie will be shot in cinema standard with higher resolution for saidi Balogun productions,
“Master P” is big one which has been conceived for years now and the time is ripe now to make the idea real”
Acts on the bill of the new movie are scheduled to hit location from the 2nd of December 2020 in Ajilete settlement in Ogun state.
The project “Master P”, according to Saidi,” is unique because we always give you value for money and your time”
The Actors involved in the new work include Ayo Adesanya, Olaiya Igwe, Adewale Eleso, Eniola Badmus, Bimbo Akintola, Odunlade Adekola, Olaniyi Afonja (sanyeri ), Jude Orora, Tunde usman (Okele), Saidi Balogun, Office Garji, Funky Mallam, Koffi the Guru, THE NEPA BOYS, AJIREBI, MUSTAPHA SOLGBADE, Peter ijaye gbemi Samuel Olashehinde, Ben O Ben including his children namely Jamal, Zenat and Kalid.
Veteran song writer and Gbolaboom Records boss, MC Wraps has returned to the music scene with a new groovy track titled ‘Freestyle’.
Freestyle is a rhythmic song creatively delivered with soothing melody. Indeed, while doing justice to the beat, MC Wraps proved his dexterity as a song writer with proven integrity.
Born Gbolahan Abu, MC Wraps, an indigene of Lagos State, started his foray into showbiz by writing song/lyrics and movie scripts.
Yanke, his first single as a singer released many years ago enjoyed reasonable reviews from music buffs locally and internationally.
According to Keith Richards, a British songwriter and guitarist of The Rolling Stones fame, “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” This is what ‘Gbemileke’, the new song of young Priscilla Okpaka, an HND 2 student of the department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) will be doing at a time Nigeria and the world over are facing critical situation.
The guitarist whose love for music can be dated back to when she was young, explained her musicianship comes to live after she started learning guitar, in her words “Music is my life, it is what I live for, it is what makes me happy and I developed interest when I was very young but I did not have what it takes to be a musician then and this had seen me being embarrassed from competition especially during my secondary school days.
“I never gave up rather I kept developing myself and this happened till I got my guitar and this helped to seriously develop my musical talent. I can say my instrument helped developed my musical skills as going around with my guitar gives me more time to rehearse alone and generally stay closer to my music and this helped a lot”. She stated.
Though Priscilla sees herself doing more gospel genre of music in the future but her latest effort ‘Gbemileke’ is a song for this challenging moment as it was a song she composed when she was going through some down period that only her mother’s constant prayer could help with and her musical knowledge of writing, scoring and singing the hope-filled song has always been working the wonder of soothing her anytime she’s disturbed and it has also worked for many who have been opportune to listen.
The song brings comfort and assurance especially for the budding youths and young adults who want to make it in life without going through the back doors, and it is the conviction that her music will soothe a troubling mind and help rebuild the hope of many that the LASPOTECH Performing Troupe supported her to produce the track that will be going up form people’s consumption on the 16th of November on major and every music downloading platforms.
Warner Music Group has announced a new licensing agreement with artist-first music streaming platform Audiomack, making the record company’s diverse catalogue available on the service across Africa, Canada, and Jamaica for the first time.
Audiomack, which boasts more than 16 million monthly active users, will also provide support for WMG’s A&R research activities across these territories.
Alfonso Perez Soto, EVP, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa, for Warner Music, says: “This deal is another important step in growing Warner Music Group’s presence in Africa. Under the new deal, not only will our teams benefit from a range of key A&R, marketing, and data commitments in Africa, but it will also help support our African artists’ international expansion into the US and western markets.
“Audiomack is incredibly popular and influential in global youth culture scenes and in the process of breaking new artists worldwide, so I’m excited to see our African artists become part of the platform.”
Allan Coye, Senior Vice President, Digital Strategy & Business Development, for Warner Music Group, adds, “We launched our first partnership with Audiomack in the US a little over a year ago. In that time, we’ve collaborated to create a lot of value for WMG artists and for Audiomack. We look forward to extending the benefits of this partnership to our many artists across these key regions.”
Among the key regions covered in this partnership are Nigeria, Ghana, JamKenya, South Africa and Tanzania. “The expansion of our partnership with WMG represents the next phase of Audiomack’s consistent investment in the African market,” says Vanessa Wilkins, Director of Music & Data Partnerships at Audiomack.
“Leveraging our robust presence in the region, Audiomack will arm WMG A&R teams with the data-based insights they need to identify rising stars and bring new opportunities for growth to the thousands of creators that Audiomack serves,” she continues.
Dave Macli, CEO of Audiomack, concludes, “We’re delighted to bring the Warner Music Group catalog to Audiomack’s millions of listeners across Africa. Audiomack’s goal has always been to provide every artist worldwide with a no-cost platform to launch their careers and connect with new fans.
“As a result of this deal, African artists on Audiomack who decide to partner with Warner will remain on Audiomack and connected to their earliest supporters.”
Over the past few years, Warner Music Group has made many strategic deals and investments that have seen the company become a key player in the African market. In 2018, it launched Warner Music Middle East, which covers Arabic North African countries and is led by Managing Director Moe Hamzeh.
In 2019, WMG announced a pioneering partnership with Chocolate City, the most influential independent record label in Nigeria. And earlier this year, WMG announced its investment in Africori, Africa’s leading digital music distribution, music rights management, and artist development company.
Earlier this year, Audiomack, in a quest to bolster its presence across the continent of Africa, opened its first international office in Lagos, Nigeria.
The PS5 is finally here and while games are undoubtedly the most important part of any console launch, the PS5’s new user interface is a treasure trove of pretty cool new options. We had an in-depth look at the options and found a few tips and tricks to help supercharge your PlayStation experience.
Some are handled seamlessly during set-up but others are buried in a mountain of settings and options. We thought it was worth breaking down.
Here’s what we think is worth doing when you first turn on your PS5, to help tailor your PS5 experience to your own specific preferences.
PlayStation 5
1. Check out your privacy settings
During the initial PS5 set-up you’ll be asked to select from a series of four different privacy settings with names like “Social and Open” or “Solo and Focused”. It’s essentially letting you control your online profile and what others can see.
But those settings can be broken down further within those categories, giving you complete control over whether you’ll show up in search results, or who can add you as a friend, etc.
These settings can be found under the “Users and Accounts” tab in settings.
2. Select your power settings
The PS5 gives you the ability to better control how much power your PS5 is pulling, mostly when you put it into “rest mode”. As with the privacy settings, you’ll be able to choose between profiles during set-up, with presets that can be broken down further if you feel like diving deeper. Those presets determine how long it takes for your PS5 to power down when idle and also whether or not the console will automatically download updates — very useful if you want to avoid the dreaded system update when you want to play something online.
3. Mess around with HDR sliders
If you have a TV that’s HDR capable, you’ll definitely want to make sure you have these settings right.
Again, the PS5 allows you to tinker with the contrast and brightness during set-up but, personally, I went back and forth with these settings a few times, mainly because if you change the settings on your TV after set-up (say, to a Game Mode) those HDR settings will be affected. It makes sense to go back and optimize. Especially if you’re as picky about picture quality as I am! (I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time fixing these settings.)
4. Experiment with the sub-menu
Possibly my favourite parts of the PS5’s UI is the sub-menu you can bring up whilst in-game. Basically if you push the big PlayStation button in the middle of the controller this sub-menu pops up in game. Very nifty.
Older consoles have had some variation of this feature for a while now, but I’m a huge fan of the PS5’s version. It’s unobtrusive, subtle and allows for customization.
You can access settings, mess around with sound levels and add additional devices like headphones. You can even link your Spotify account and choose music from the sub-menu. VR options are also available from here, which will be a big help for those trying to fix VR issues on the fly.
You can easily switch between recently played games in this sub-menu as well, negating the need to go to the homepage to start a new game.
But my favourite part: It’s possible to customize your sub menu. You can even add the PS5’s accessibility options to the sub, which I’d imagine will be incredibly helpful for disabled gamers.
5. Choose between performance and resolution
Those of you with a PS4 Pro will most likely be aware that games are going a bit PC. Games like God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn let you choose whether you’d prefer the PS4 Pro focus its extra processing power on resolution or performance (which essentially means frame-rate).
Personally, I always prefer a focus on performance over resolution. And if you have a TV that doesn’t do 4K, you’ll definitely prefer performance over resolution.
Either way, to save you the hassle of selecting your preferences anew with each game, the PS5 allows you to select a default choice in the settings. Head to Saved Data Game/App settings and select game presets.
6. Pick your default difficulty
In the game presets section, there’s a lot of good stuff — you can even choose which difficulty you prefer as a default.
Personally, that’s not something I’d be doing. I reckon game difficulty is way too subjective and differs wildly between games. But I know there are folks out there that like to immediately crank to the toughest setting straight away and, vice versa, people who just like to play games for the story.
7. Check your controller settings and have a tinker
This is an absolute must.
This isn’t exactly a new thing, but the PS5 lets you set up default controller settings that are applicable to all games. First and foremost, you can make “invert” your default on first-person shooters or in third-person games with camera controls.
I am constantly having to dive into game settings to change that, so that’s a must for me.
You’ve probably heard that the PS5 DualSense controller is a big leap forward in terms of its adaptive triggers and vibrate functions. You can also make changes to the intensity of the effect. Personally I wouldn’t touch it. I’m very happy with the default, but it’s there if you want to tweak it.
8. Choose your spoiler settings
I couldn’t believe this one exists but it does!
You can actually control the level of spoilers you will see when navigating through the PlayStation Store. You can select between eliminating “all” potential spoilers, or eliminating spoilers as determined by the developers of the game.
So if you happen to be incredibly sensitive to spoilers, you can head to the Saved Data Game/App section of the settings and click on Game Presets. The option is in there.
Music a universal language and one artiste that is speaking it in clear terms to the listening joy of his fast growing fans and Nigerians at large is Damian Wan also known as Afro Casano. His recent effort titled “Table Turn” is a fusion of good melody and morally sound lyrics. The singer is a golden ray of hope in the gloomy dark cloud of Nigerian morally deficient music industry and it is a matter of time before the ray turn to a full blown sun pouring on the ever increasing thirst of youths across the world. Damian whose songs are usually not just great melody but also songs that will stand its ground amongst the people for impactful meaning recently dropped a new song that has been enjoying massive airplay across Nigeria, the song which featured one of Nigerian music genius in the person of “Musical Taliban” Oritsefemi. The song comes handy during this period as it is song to pray for better time for everybody and the country especially during this trying period.
Nigerian music star, Tiwa Savage, has revealed that she attempted to kill herself twice.
Tiwa Savage in a Black Box interview with media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, on Monday, said the incident happened while studying in London.
The ‘Koroba’ crooner said she almost took her own life due to bullying she received as a black kid in London.
She narrated that her strong Nigerian accent was mocked by her classmates and she had to get a Police escort.
“I moved to London with my mum at age 10. I was teased so badly. They used to call me ‘African girl’, ‘Foo foo’, ‘Your food smells’ and so on. It was terrible. It was so bad that I literally tried to kill myself two times. I was really depressed.
“I was really bullied; they will flush my head down the toilet during lunch break. I had to have a police escort me sometimes because after school they would rush me on the bus.
“These were gangs of girls, it was really bad. I wanted to bleach to be lighter and was growing my hair. The bullying went on for three to four years.”
The long-awaited Nollywood movie “SON OF MERCY” sets to hit the cinema in December 2020 after much anticipation. The buzz that followed the forthcoming premiere of the movie explains a lot about the thrills and suspense that the long-awaited movie will entail.
The good book had stated ‘I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy’ but how can you explain Efe, a young man growing up, scared of poverty, stole his father’s pension money to travel abroad and was duped along the way, he must not return home except he makes it. This is not your regular prodigal son story.
Son of Mercy portrays the desperation of the regular African youths who are tired of the usual comfort zone and seek a better life that the economy and polity of the country evidently will not offer. It’s a must-watch for all youths and parents.
The cast of the movie also captures the direction of the message in the project. The producer MOSCO IMOBHIO ensures the cast for every role reflects the true face and feel of the people’s perception and look. Mosco Imobhio is an International based Entrepreneur, Producer, Founder of Mosco Imobhio Foundation and CEO St.Moscomee LTD
The movie feature Alex Ekubo, Linda Osifo and Kevin Ikeduba and many more. Award-winning cinematographer Amen Imasuen directed the movie and going by the cast and production team, the flick is totally different from the norm as put together by St Moscomee limited Production and Kada film Entertainment.
Come 2nd November 2020 by 11 am all roads shall lead to Kada cinema in Benin City, Edo State, where the movie will be previewed by major players in the media.
It come as no surprise that this woman of substance who married to a God fearing handsome man in Nigeria, Mrs Temitope Alabi, today Tuesday 27th October 2020 pulled all the stops to ensure her 50th birthday was celebrated by her lovely Children with as much fanfare as possible.
Not only that, the indefatigable woman of passion double the joy on this occasion with 50 days undiluted power packed night of praise and worship also cutting the cake together with her lovely Children and well wishers. The philanthropist Tope Alabi Gospel Band who has traveled both International and local in order to contribute her quota to the gospel music industry, a glaring evidence that she is not only a successful woman in Nigeria and Africa at large of business but also a successful home maker, a devout Christian and a cheerful giver.
Asides from her family, many people testified to her wonderful attributes which are worthy of emulation and prayed for her continued success and good health.
The entire family of Temitope Alabi spent time dancing and praising God in the course of the event while the beautiful 50-year-old celebrant was spotted at strategic conners of the room where everywhere was just sparkling with Lemon green and yellow Trust Beth News asked the Children to describe their mum in one words and they have this to say ” Our Mum is a true definition of a virtuous woman, she is a wife and not a knife, she is a mother not a murderer. She has transferred her good virtues into her children and every child that comes close to her. Her life so far is a lesson, a gift and a guide for many to learn, emulate and appreciate”
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