6team

some times in 2003 a saw a gospel on TV called mu mi dele by a group of very young Nigerian and i most say i loved the song the moment i heard because the song was this kind of soul stiring kind of song. The song was on air for a while and after no more and i vever heard anything about the group again. I concluded they were one of those one hit wonder but i keep remembering that song and constantly wishing those guys had made it far. One day i decided to google ou their name and what i got shorked me. By the way the name of the group is 6team.
Unknowingly to me, the group had not just made success but good success. I mean this group has left the shores of 9ja and making it big in UK. My joy knew no bounds that day. Here is the interview they granted on this site. Enjoy it.

6Team is a five man group on a musical mission to take Gospel music to the next level.
This group is made up of two sets of brothers and a friend. For the past nine years, this group has been getting accolades for the inspirational works that they have put together.
Unlike many groups that fall apart after a couple of years of successes, 6Team has maintained their friendship and their mission which is to spread the message of God’s love to all.
The interview.

How did you guys meet and start performing together?
We used to sing in the same neighborhood and play together. A couple of us were already performing in church choirs. Since we were already friends with the love of music and Christ in common – it seemed to come together for us to all perform together. That is how the whole concept of 6Team came together which is a team of brothers and friends with Jesus in the center coming together to praise God.

I know that you have an album currently released in the United Kingdom? How has the reception been?
Yes, we released our second album in the UK. It is a double CD album and the names of the CDs are “approved” (worship session) and “get loose” (praise session). The response in the United Kingdom has been great so far. We will be coming to the UK in the next three to four weeks to promote this album at different venues in the UK. We intend to release the album in Nigeria towards the end of this year.

I love that name “get loose”. What kind of gospel fusion should we be expecting in that album?
Get loose is contemporary Christian music with a fusion reggae, hip hop, pop, rock with its base in African music. We try to maintain some pieces of African elements in our music.

So has the team struggled in any way in terms of collaborating with other artists that many might consider as being “worldly”?
Not really. We know what we are here to do and that has not stopped us in any way from collaborating with anyone. We all have our different gifts and talents and they are all from God.

I know that on your new CD, listeners should be expecting something definitely hot and spicy from your group. I also know that there are some hot collaborations with some heavy weight Nigerian musicians – can you please name some of them?
Yes, we have a collaboration with Rugged Man on the song, Holy Ghost party. We also worked with OJB Jezreel who wrote African Queen which is one of the top songs in the continent. We also have Dare Art Alade and Cobhams collaborating on this cd as well to mention a few.
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Here is their myspace address. http://www.myspace.com/the6team

Easter + funny stuffs

Easter is that time of the year we christians remember the ultimate price Christ paid on the mount of carlvary to redeem mankind. At this time of the year i usually embark on personal retreat and soul searching. This is the period i ask myself questions on the choices i've made.
Apart from that, the fact that easter is here comes with a big relieve. Since i come from a catholic family, we were made to resite the rosery every morning and night through out the duration of lent. The decades counting on the rosery is really getting at me and i'm happy it'll come to an end any moment from now.

I just think i should share a few funny jokes and pics even though i feel i'm the only one that reads my blog.


BABY BEAN


IF THIS BABY WAS A NIGERIAN, HE'D HAVE BEEN D'BANG(KOKO MASTER)



I'M SURE THIS BABY LEARNT TO EAT FROM THE TOILET FROM GARFIELD



FUNNY STORIES

Best Known Man In The World

There was a man named Sulio and Sulio knew EVERYONE in the whole world!!! Once when Sulio got a new job, Sulio says to his new boss, "Boss, I know everyone in the whole world!" His boss doesn't believe him, so he says "No you do not know everyone in the whole world" but Sulio says "Yes I do!" so Sulio's boss says "Well prove it!" then Sulio says "Pick someone... and I know them!"
Well Sulio's boss thinks for a minute and then comes up with a name. "Tom Selleck! I bet you don't know Tom Selleck!" Sulio says "Tom Selleck! Tom and I were in boy scouts together when we were kids!" but Sulio's boss says "No you weren't!" then Sulio says "Yes we were!" so they fly to Hollywood and drive up to Tom Selleck's house. Sulio knocks on the door and Tom Selleck answers and Sulio goes "Tom!!!" and Tom goes "Sulio!" and they hug and catch up for 30 minutes and Sulio's boss can't believe it. But then he thinks "Well that could happen, it's just one person," so he tells Sulio and Sulio says "OK, pick somebody else!"

This time Sulio's boss has someone in mind! "The president, Bill Clinton! You don't know Bill Clinton!" but Sulio says "Oh yes I do! Bill and I were on debate team together in college!" Sulio's boss says "No you weren't!" and Sulio says "Yes we were!" so they fly to Washington and they catch up with the President at a press conference. They work their way through the crowd until Sulio get's close enough to catch Clinton's eye and waves "Bill!" and the President waves "Sulio!" and after the press conference they hug and catch up for 30 minutes and Sulio's boss is stunned-- he can't believe it. But then he thinks "Well that's just two people in one country-- that doesn't mean he knows everyone in the whole world!" so he tells Sulio and Sulio says "OK, pick someone out of the world spectrum and I know them!"

And Sulio's boss knows just who to pick so he says "The Pope! You do not know the Pope!" and Sulio says "The Pope! The Pope BAPTIZED me!" and Sulio's boss says "No he didn't!" and Sulio says "Yes he did!" so they fly to Rome where the Pope is giving Mass in front of hundreds of thousands of people. They work their way through the crowd-- without much luck-- so Sulio says "Boss, we're never gonna get there together through all these people so I tell you what--I'll work my way up there and when I do, I'll give you a sign that shows you I know the Pope!" and he leaves. Well Sulio's boss waits and waits and waits and just when he's about to give up, he sees the Pope come out onto the balcony and right there beside him is Sulio!

Shortly afterwards, Sulio's boss passes out. Sulio comes back and finds his boss passed out and he fans him and says "Boss! Boss! Wake up!" and when his boss comes to, he asks "Boss what happened?" Sulio's boss looks at Sulio and says "OK, I can see Tom Selleck. I can see Bill Clinton... hell, I can even take the Pope! But when somebody standing next to me asks 'Who's that up there with Sulio?' that's a little more than I can take!

Deaf Collection

The mafia boss is looking for a new man to make weekly collections from all the private businesses that they were 'protecting'. Feeling the heat from the police force, he decides to use a deaf person for the job -- if he were to get caught, he wouldn't be able to communicate to the police what he was doing.

On his first week, the deaf collector picks up over $50,000. He gets greedy, decides to keep the money and stashes it in a safe place. The mafia boss soon realizes that his collection is late, and sends some of his hoods after the deaf collector. The hoods find the deaf collector and ask him where the money is. The deaf collector can't communicate with them, so the hoods drag the guy to an interpreter.

One of the hoods says to the interpreter, "Ask him where da money is."

The interpreter signs, "Where's the money?"

The deaf man replies, "I don't know what you're talking about."

The interpreter tells the hood, "He says he doesn't know what you're talking about."

The hood pulls out a .38 pistol and places it in the ear of the deaf collector. "NOW ask him where da money is."

The interpreter signs, "Where is the money?"

The deaf man signs, "The $50,000 is in Central Park, hidden in the third tree stump on the left from the West 78th Street gate."

The interpreter says to the hood, "He says he still doesn't know what you're talking about and doesn't think you have the guts to pull the trigger!"

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This should be my longest post so far, so i think i picked up a few tricks from Linda Ikeji.

Entertainment Gist

Our 9ja artists are really taking the game to next level. Heard our darling 2face has cooked up a new joint with R of RnB himself; R Kelly and Chakademus and Pliers. Cant wait to sample those joints.


Also heard that our own one and only Faze has sorted out his deal with Akon. I’m so happy for him cos it turned out that gist wasn’t a scope after all. Some one actually termed it the biggest scope of 2007.

His fans now has reason to smile. We love you Faze. Also heard he has a new track with the samboribo crooner Sauce Kid. This guys are really doing us proud.
Still talking about Sauce Kid, heard the Kid also has a new stuff with Rugged. Hope guys will be able to survive what ever that joint is made of, cos I cant begine to imagine what those two very talented rappers will come up with.

Beautiful

My country is a beautiful country and i love her; we all love her in our own different ways. Even those that are milking her dry still loves her because she has so much milk for them to milk. We are a very loving people, a very inpatient people, a very hard working people, a veru happy people and above, we'er quick to forgive and most times forget. Only a few remembers.
When someone is not living up to our expections, we get very impatient with the person and wish him out of the way but one that person is out or improves, we start missing the person and we start showering praises on the person.
When IBB was in power, we wshed him out.In the early 90’s when Dimka plotted to over throw IBB, there was celebration in the land. The coup failed thanks to Abacha. IBB was finally pressured to step “aside” and we all hived a sigh of relief. But today many of us wish him back because we agree that his days were better than today. In other words we want to go back to the goods days of IBB. The only people that don’t want him back are people like Gani and Soyinka. Even people in Aboila’s family want him back.
Same goes for Abacha. We all miss Abacha so badly today because we all agree that his days were better.
Some of us are already missing Baba. Gives us two more years and we’ll wish Baba back to Aso Rock to give us more of his good old days.
The main reason I started this whole stuff about peoples’ good old days is because of our darling Super Eagles. When they lost their first match and drew the second one; we all called for their heads, especially that of the coach Berti Vogts.

At Last It Ends

At last the year is comming to an end and i'm happy and greatful to God for letting me see another end of the year. I cant surmarise all that happened to me this year cos it'll be too long a surmary.All i can say is that i made tremendouse progress this year. You bet i did. This year's sallah and xmas was all fun. It was a very wonderful barka da christmas.

At this period i embark on a personal retreat to find out where i did well that requires improvement and where i didn't do well that requires discarding. I urge you to do same.
I eagerly look forward to next year cos i know next year holds so much for me. We always say that, but i believe that of next year is going to be like none other.

Merry this season you all and happy 2008. I'm out.

Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is one writer I love reading his novels, I’ve only read a total of two. Two is a good number, I suppose. I love reading novels and I’ve read loads of them, ranging from love to crime, adventure to history and science, even children’s own. But my favorite is crime. My love for novels started way back in primary school. I’ve not read novel in years largely because I felt I was too busy. I went to Lagos and while at Ikeja I saw this man selling novels and I decided to stop and take a look. I do this most of the time but I always ended up not buying, but this day was different because I bought and not just one but two. The two were by Dean Koontz. I bought them for two reasons. One was because the writer was one of my favorite, though before then I had only read one of his works, but that one was enough to make him one of my favorite. The second reason was because the novel was cheap. Imagine a brand new original novel selling for only a 100 bucks. I never bought them because I wanted to read them. The first of his work I read was Lightning. The main theme of the book was time traveling. That was years back but the story is still very fresh in my mind. Before then I had heard about time traveling but I didn’t understand the concept.
It’s amazing the wealth of knowledge I’ve amassed from the pages of novels and it’s also amazing how much effort guys like Koontz put into researching a particular theme before putting it down in pages. When these guys write, they write as though they were authority in that field. The second work by Koontz that I read was about Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Virtual Reality(VR) and the way this guy conveyed the message and the terms he used will definitely stun even the best AIs and VRs. I read this book in the bus from Lagos (I hope some people will not see this blog cos I convinced them that I went and came back with flight) and before we got to Abuja I had finished. I couldn’t put the book down until I had finished and this only goes to confirm that this guy is now my favorite. Before I forget the name of the novel is Demon Seed. The only thing that ever distracted me from the book from time to time was the bus driver. The way the guy was driving is really had to describe for fear of starting a horror novel, but all I can say is that this young man was driving as though he had copies of duplicate lives that he couldn’t wait to end the one currently in him in order to make use of the other copies. God dey sha. The simple and short of the book is about a young beautiful lady in her thirties with loads of money leaving alone in one big mansion she inherited from her father. She was the fourth generation to live there. She lives alone because she sent parking her husband, an AI expert from the house cos the man abused her physically. Before her husband’s physical abuse, her own father had sexually and physically abused her from age 5 to 17. Can you beat that? She on her own part was a video game writer, so she was able to write a VR therapy program to help her overcome all the abuses done to her by her father. She had an automated security home, though not as good as that of Bill Gates her neighbor. An AI program written by her former husband in one university found it’s way to the internet, then her home. The AI was able to take over her security system and that was when the nightmare started. I’m yet to read the second one but I know it’ll be an interesting read because it is written by Dean Koontz, trust me.

preciate 9ja hip-hop

I love music. Ye right, who doesn’t know that by now; probably the deaf. The truth is that I love music with a passion and I cant get tired of saying it. Sometimes I wonder what life would be without music. I’m not restricted to a particular genre; I seem to enjoy every genre of music. Lets go back to the very beginning.
When I was much younger I used to listen to guys like Raskimo, Alex O, Orits Wiliki, Lucky Dube, Chaka Chaka, etc. But as the years went by I listened more to western rap music and almost forgot about our own Nigerian music. But all that changed in mid 2006 when I decided to really listen to Ruggedman’s thy kingdom come album, two years after it was released. Listening to that album made me pay more attention to Nigerian music and it’s amassing how fast the local industry has grown since then. I remain grateful to Rugged for bringing me back home just as i'm greatful to Morinho for making me like football; that's a topic for another day. You can’t believe the large collection of 9ja songs I have today on my laptop.
Today I’ll be reviewing some Nigerian rap artists that I’ve listened to their album based on my order of preference.
Number one on my list is Ruggedman.

I love his two albums.The guy’s delivery on the mic is superb. I get to hear and understand every word he spits both on his track and when featured. I like the way he switches styles on his track and none of his tracks sounds alike. In short there is no dull moment on ruggedman’s track and the guy does great justice to producer’s beat. He has this unique voice that needs no introduction. And never think of battling the rugged cos the guy can decide to release a 20 track album to diss you.

Number 2 is Gino.

Though new on the block but this dude is amazing. He is the only one on my order of preference that really gives rugged a good run for his money. I sometimes call him Nigerian Jarule, though he does not have Jarule voice but he most definitely has the attitude and the hieght and his voice is good and unique. His album I can assure u is very addictive. His track that seems like I cant enough of is player’s way. When you listen to Gino, it's like you're kind of taken into his world, his experiences, his pains and confessions like he did in the track pain plus work. And for those of you that think he came up too fast and wont last, you better start thinking again cos Gino is here to stay.

Number three is OD.

This guy is hardcore but mainstream lovers wont get bored by this guy cos he’s good.

My number four is Mode 9.

He’s got this unique voice and style. Modey is very good with metaphors and lyrics that has profound meaning but the reason he’s not my number one is cos, if I listen to a mode 9 album, I observe that he maintains the same style of rap in all the tracks. He doesn’t switch styles. The only thing that change is the beat and wording and that tends to get me bored. Haven seen him anchor the lyricist on soundcity, I think I kind of understand why he does the kind of music he does. He is fully persuaded that’s how real hip-hop is done. But no doubt he’s a terrific artist and I hope he’ll one day do a dance track for a change.

Number five is Sauce Kibaba.

The guy is good on the mic and he switches styles in his tracks and I have no problem with the fact that he sounds very yankeesh cos that’s where he at. Yebariba!! I love u men.

Other rap artist I like their works are FreeStyle, Terry da Rapman, Jafar, Abounce, Alabi. I also like some up and coming like Gangsta, MI, Neato C, Alaye, Silly.



FreeStyle being the current king of hip hop in Nigeria and despite how good he is couldn’t make it to my top 5 cos of his voice. His voice is too light for a male rap artist. He’s very good but the voice also plays a very important role. For those of u that might not like my review, go do yours

Japan will replace the internet

I’m a subscriber to codeproject news letters and of all the news letters they sent to me, the one that intrigued me the most was the one on Japan’s plan to replace the internet as revealed by Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga. We all know that virtually all human activity of today is internet compliant. The commercial www internet of today emerged from the effort of two private networks, the ARPAnet and the NSFnet. But this was only in 1990 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Which means the commercial internet of today is only seven years old. In the last few years the internet has grown astronomically to the extend that we in the third world are finding it really difficult keeping up with the pace. The extract from the source claims that the minister said an organization will be set up as early as this fall with cooperation from businesses, academia and government offices for promoting the technology when the Internet is seen to be faced with increasing constraints in achieving higher throughputs of data as well as ensuring data security. The envisaged network is expected to ensure faster and more reliable data transmission, and have more resilience against computer virus attacks and breakdowns. The ministry is hoping Japan will take a lead in development of post-Internet technology and setting global standards, a move that ministry officials believe would help make Japanese companies competitive in the global market for hardware and software using such technology.
Expectedly people have been reacting to this. The reaction ranges from insightful to absurd. I’ll give you a few reaction from some contributors after which I’ll give you mine.
1. “Just make all of the new celphones, ps3's, and consoles work on the new network and you're set... at least in Japan. Since celphones cycle out so quickly in Japan, thanks to their trendsetting ways, switching over to their new faster, more powerful, internet will be a breeze.”
2. “dont think they are referring to IPv6... and i really hope they are not... I hope they come up with a totally new architecture... high time we shifted away from IP”
3. i have been told by an insider that it will be based on pigeons flying with bits of paper that look like this "101010101010010" between people
now this is absurd.
1. “You gotta be kidding me! that means changing the entire world! ow, will my ps3 still work then?”
I forgt to tell u that some were funny.

Wanna know what I think? I think innovation is a good thing. Imagine what life will be today without all tech stuffs we have around today. I cant imagine how our fore fathers lived in the past. So the Jap guys have my vote.

For a complete story on this article go tohttp://www.newlaunches.com/archives/japan_working_to_replace_the_internet.php

DONT START IF YOU CANT FINISH

The month of August is almost coming to an end and I haven’t made any post for the month. Shame on me. Though not making the post has not been entirely my fault, because each day when I pick my laptop to work with, when I remember I have to make a post I just lost it. This is because I find it difficult deciding on the issue to blog about. I ask myself, Should I be blogging about the happenings in the entertainment circle or the political circle. Sometimes I thought blogging about sports and my favorite team was better. On a second thought I said no. Or better still I think blogging about so many things that I’m doing that I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be able to piece them all together could be a wonderful idea. So many issues I have to resolve before blogging, and you cant believe that blogging is just one little aspect of a whole lot of things I do. The question now is if it takes me so long to resolve the little one like blogging, how long does it take me to resolve the big ones ? You have to know me personally to find out. This is really amazing. I finally settled for something less and it’s all about not starting if you cant finish. Yes, don’t start if you cant finish. Doing this(not starting if I know I cant finish) has pitched me against many, especially those very close to me. This has even made some call me selfish even when I know I’m very generous person, trust me cos I know I am. But the truth is that I’ve always allowed my conscience to be my judge. If my conscience acquits me, no body can find me guilty. Some people start something without knowing the consequences if they stop half way. I’ve seen people start a fight or quarrel without waiting to find out if they are in a position to carry on to the end. If you are not the person with the position of advantage, why engage somebody in a fight or quarrel ? My elder sister regards me as selfish simply because I know most of what she want me to do for her, but refuse to do them. I’ve told her time without number that my motives are purely harmless. I know that if I do them a couple of times and stop later, she’ll hate me more for it.
I try as much as possible not to learn from my mistakes, but to learn from that of others. An uncle of mine who was highly liked and respected by one of my cousins made the mistake of giving my cousin money a couple of time, but when he decided to stop, the young man hated and despised my uncle for that. He would have still retained his respect and love if he hadn’t made the mistake of initiating the act of magnanimity. But despite all my knowledge of not starting if you cant finish, I still went ahead and started a blog that requires me making at least a monthly post. I’m I sure I can sustain it. Time will tell.

MY FIRST POST

My first post is definitely not going to have anything to do with programming, coding or any thing IT. It will also not have anything to do with entertainment. This is because coding and entertainment was not the first thing I found myself doing when I became conscious of myself. The first thing I can remember doing when I was small was being conscious of my environment and trying to relate with those around me. So my first post is going to be about relationships.
It’s important to have relationship with people, both within your family and outside your family. When I find myself in a new environment, I try to study the people around in order to find out who I can relate with. Over the years I’ve made wise relationship decision. Such decisions has led to my relationship with people like Anthony Elisha (Tonero), Joseph Obaje (Bigjoemayocis), Essien Eyo (Etubom), Cajetan Obi (C J), Abdulzayad Yusuf (Zaza) and so many others that I cant mention now. So for those of you that have been left out, it’s because I don’t want to bore who ever is reading this with the names of my friends. One thing you should always look out for in a person before deciding if you can make that person a friend is to ask yourself, from all you’ve seen of this person, can he or she improve your life in any way. If yes, then go ahead and make that person a friend. The main reason I started this post is because of a man that is having so much influence in my life right now. This person presently is a great source of motivation to me and to those around him. He spurred me into opening this blog in the first place. The man is no other person than the general overseer ofJoshua Generational Ministries International , Prophet David Edobor. What I admire most in this young, great man of God is that, the fact that I am not a member of his church has not been an obstacle to his assisting me in any way possible. This he also extends to everybody that come his way. One other thing I admire in this man of God is his desire to empower so many young people around him. For now I intend stopping here, but I’ll definitely take up a topic soon on leadership and he is going to be the focal point. Then you’ll get to know what it means to lead by example.