WHAT MANNER OF WORLD IS THIS???

In a period like this when there is fear and anxiety on the faces of the people, when "great powers" of the world seems powerless, when giants are swimming in their tears, when the nursing mothers have forgotten their sucking children, when fathers fails to provide for their families and households, when the elders are around and yet the household becomes an empty shell, when those living in the glass houses are throwing stones simply because somebody has already put their own houses in a dilapidated condition, when Nations fail to discharge her responsibilities adequately for the citizens, when our leaders remains adamant in their corruptible manner despite the consciousness of death,murder and assassination has become an order of the day, Terrorism here and there, bribery, corruption and embezzlement are the locust, cankerworm and the caterpillars that have eaten deep into the head of the government leaders, even our religion houses has become the den of lions..... America is currently in danger of Terrorism, Europe is no longer at rest over safety and protection/defence, Asia is faced with flood, hurricane/saars/overpopulation/, Africa is swimming in abject poverty/disease/malnutrition ............... In a period like this, where can we run to? where can we go for the solution? Will there ever be peace in the world again? Is there really a freedom anywhere on earth...? (earnestly waiting for the answer to these questions from readers)

What I just know is that this world will soon come to an end and each and everyone of us that are opportuned to stop-over here will give account of our activities while here and that is what is going to determine your next place of abode.....so get to the right path, stop quarelling with your creator, come to where your salvation is assured...remember He's the only way to the everlasting rest...so come back home today and get yourself ready for the earnestly awaiting trumpet which will sound any moment from now. There can never be peace in the world, nation will continue to rise against each other and killing and shedding of blood will continue, all this will persist so that the word of the Holy book might be fulfilled. This may be your last chance of reading this kind of message,so what's keeping you aside? it's better you get rid of it and do the right thing at the right time b4 it's too late..."Aabo oro laaso f'Omoluabi, to ba denu re yoo dodidi"and dont forget... JESUS IS LORD

WATCH OUT FOR THE NEW EDITION

Welcome back to my homepage. The new edition of my latest book titled NIGERIA SO FAR will be released soon. All thanks go to Almighty God and those who are able to get a copy of the previous publication. The new edition fully packaged and reloaded with the latest happening in Nigeria since we had the new administration under Alh. Umar Yar'adua/Goodluck Jonathan as President and V.P respectively.

NIGERIA SO FAR is a book that contained both the current and past affairs of the most populous black Nation of the World called NIGERIA. The book also contained the biographies of some notable Nigerians who have contributed immensely to the growth and development of Nigeria as a Nation. Peolpe like Hubert Macauley, Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, M.KO.Abiola e.t.c. The book also have a live interview withTaiwo Akinkunmi, The man who designed Nigeria National Flag...and lots more. It's a must to have for everybody that want to get updated about what make up Nigeria....... So Watch out...

I.K DAIRO - THE ARTIST OF THE WEEK (16TH MAY, 2007)

I.K DAIRO, Juju Exponent and the first truly international star of African music .Born in Offa, Kwara State, Isaiah Kehinde Dairo joined his first juju band in 1942, and spent the next ten years as a migrant laborer and cloth trader, while continuing to perform music on the side. In 1956 he returned to his family's home town, Ijebu-Ijesha, and formed his first band, the Morning Star Orchestra. In 1959 the band was rechristened the Blue Spots, a name retained until Dairo's death.
I.K. Dairo's meteoric rise paralleled the emergence of Nigeria as an independent nation (1960), and his music still symbolizes that period for many Nigerians. Kings, Ambassadors, Businessmen, Heads of state all counted themselves among his fans. Beginning in the late 1950s, he introduced new elements into juju music, including the ten-button accordion and Latin-derived rhythms. At the same time, Dairo conducted research into the oral traditions of the various Yoruba sub-groups. His ability to extend the appeal of juju music across ethnic lines while at the same time reaffirming the genre's links to 'deep' Yoruba culture lay at the heart of his success. Dairo was also a brilliant arranger, one of the first African musicians to master the 3-minute song form, required by the recording technology of the time.

Another source of Dairo's appeal was his skill as a composer. His songs covered a range of topics: "Salome," a love song in praise of a young woman with "eyes like traps and teeth as white as cowries"; "O Wuro Lojo," a song about the value of hard work (" The morning of a person's life is like the foundation of a house--lay it on rock, not on shifting sand"); and the 1963 song "Ka Sora," in which Dairo prophesied the Nigerian Civil War years before the outbreak of military hostilities. Mr. Dairo said that songs often came to him at night, in dreams, borne upon the wind and the wings of angels.
In 1963 Queen Elizabeth awarded Dairo the MBE (Member of the British Empire) for his contributions to the culture of the Commonwealth. He is the only African musician ever to recieve such an honor. In 1966 a music poll was held in Spear, a popular Nigerian magazine, and I. K. Dairo won handily. The readers' responses convey some sense of his enormous appeal: "Sensible hedonist. . Dairo's consistent drumming, sedulouslity, impartiality and unservitudeness make him the Shakespeare of Music. An earthly god of music!"; "His music contains a lot of the up and down of his world. It teaches us knowledge, moral spirits and other things." "His is music without tears."

Chief Dairo was well respected by his peers and fans throughout Nigeria. In January 1991 over 2,000 people turned out to celebrate Dairo's 60th Birthday and his "official retirment" from music. Among the crowd were all of Nigeria's top musicians civic and business leaders. Less than a month later he recieved an invitation to come on tour of North America and so posponed his retirement to take the Blue Spots on the first of three North American tours.
In the 1970s and 80s, I.K. Dairo continued to develop his cosmopolitan-traditionalist approach to juju music, touring England, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, and North America. He worked for the welfare of musicians, helping to found the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) and serving as President of the Nigerian chapter of the Performing Rights Society (PRS). The leader of a burgeoning syncretic Christian movement in Lagos, he was subject of several published biographies.

I.K . Dairo's final professional position was as a member of the Ethnomusicology faculty at the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1994-95.
At the time of his death Dairo and the Blue Spots were working on material for a new album. Using material he composed during his stay in the U.S., Dairo was ecstatic about recording this new material influenced by contact with musicians from all over the world. Unfortunately, that record was never to be.

The first truly international star of African music, . Dairo specialized in juju music, a lively mixture of traditional Yoruba social dance drumming, songs, and praise poetry, Latin American rhythms, and Christian church hymns, performed on guitar, percussion, and talking drums. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Dairo made hundreds of records, and toured Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, paving the way for younger musicians such as King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, SIna Peters and many others.

Isaiah Kehinde (I. K.) Dairo, MBE, the Nigerian musician and religious leader, died Thursday (February 7, 1996) in Efon-Alaiye, near Akure, Nigeria.

He was 65 years of age then.

He's survived by his son who really took interest and passion for Music after him. Paul I.K. Dairo popularly known as "PaulPlay"(his lyrics mostly drawn from his father past works is best seller in the market) is now going worlwide promoting his father's Image and that of his own which he called comteporary Highlife Hi-Hop.

K.S.A. - The Artiste of D Month (April,2007)

ALL HAIL THE KING!

King Sunny Adé was born. Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, September 22, 1946, in Oshogbo, Nigeria to d Royal Family from Ondo. When Adé dropped out of school in 1963 in order to play with Moses Olaiya & his Rhythm dandies, a Lagos juju band, his parents - from the royal family of Ondo town - were horrified. In Nigeria, as in much of Africa, music was regarded by 'respectable' people as a very low-caste occupation.In 1966 he formed his first band the Green Spots, in 1974 he renamed the band the African Beats. By 1975, he felt sufficiently powerful and financially secure to set up his own label, Sunny Alade Records which was his main recording vehicle through 1990.

In the 1990's he set up Sigma Disc records now a major independent in Nigeria, and Masterdisk Nigeria Ltd., which releases all his domestic releases.By the early '80s, African music was finding a growing audience in the UK, where a number of the more adventurous labels were looking around for African artists to put under contract. In 1982, Island Records signed Adé for Europe and North America (promoting him as 'the African Bob Marley'). The three albums were - Juju Music, Synchro System and Aura. When the artist and the label ultimately disagreed on the artist’s future artistic direction, they parted ways amicably.

For almost ten years, King Sunny Adé continued to release records and dominate the domestic music industry in Nigeria, while only vinyl imports trickled out to the rest of the world.In 1996 Adé signed a new deal with Atlantic Records subsidiary, Mesa/Bluemoon under which he released three records. E Dide / Get Up. Odu, and Seven Degrees North. It was only when Odu, a collection of early rearranged classics and new material was released that it re-confirmed that King Sunny Adé could still create brilliant albums; the album was nominated for a Grammy.Adé has remained a powerful force in Nigeria.
Not only is he a pioneer in juju music; using hawaiian guitar and reggae-style effects; A sort of capitalist-cum-philanthropist, King Sunny has channeled the monies earned as a music superstar into holdings in a multitude of companies, including an oil firm, a mining company, a nightclub, a film and video production house, record labels, pressing plants, even a PR firm. Ultimately, it appears King Sunny's greatest investment is in the lives of others. He estimates that over 700 people work for him in one way or another, with 200 of them directly employed in music.In January 2002, he completed a four year term as President of The Performing Musicians Assoc. of Nigeria (the national musicians union) Still performing weekly at a wide variety of parties and events, both public and private, King Sunny Adé intends to use his newly recaptured free time to focus on his music.

With 111 albums to his credit already in Nigeria, African music fans can surely look forward to more great things to come.Juju Music Juju music is a music of broad social messages. Rooted in the ancient Yoruba tradition of conveying broad social and cultural messages. Musically it is a thrilling hybrid of Western pop and traditional African music that incorporates electric guitars and synthesisers with such indigenous instruments as talking drums.

For 30 years King Sunny Ade has been thrilling audiences and listeners with dynamic live performances creative videos and innovative recordings.