T.I.N MAGAZINE: January 2016

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FULL NAME:       Jim Ovia
DATE OF BIRTH: November 4, 1951
OCCUPATION:     Bussinessman
NET WORTH:     $850million(2015)
MARITAL STATUS: Married

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Doyinsola

In case you don't know who Doyinsola is; she is a songstress who came into the music scene in 2015 after making her hit song "BAMIDELE". The song is quite a popular jam on many Nigerian radio stations, the song is a romantic Afropop song, you will definitely dance listening to this awesome song and the music video is sure a great one too with an interesting storyline.
You will find a link to download the song on MTNMusicPlus down below this post and the video embedded alongside.
Doyinsola talked more about herself and her music with T.I.N Magazine in the brief interview you are going to be reading below.

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Hello Doyinsola, this is Apata Bayode interviewing you from T.I.N Magazine.
CAN YOU PLEASE TELL US YOUR FULL NAME?

My name is Doyinsola Olatunji‎

WHAT ABOUT YOUR FAMILY AND EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND?

I have 3 brothers, one of them is the popular nollywood actor Damola Olatunji, and Hon Tunde Olatunji of the Osun State House of Assembly. I graduated from Bowen University, Iwo. Studied economics

WHERE DO YOU HAIL FROM AND WHERE ARE YOU BASED?

I am from Edun Abon, (Edunbong City) Osogbo, Osun state. Edunbong is the nickname we gave my town

WHEN DID YOU START MUSIC OFFICIALLY AND WHAT INSPIRED YOU?

I first featured in Star Quest in 2007. Went back to school and and came back officially in June 2015. I have been singing since I was 7 years old. My brother inspired me as I saw him pursue he's dream and he told me I can make it.

ARE YOU SIGNED TO ANY RECORD LABEL AT THE MOMENT?

I am not under a Record Label right now, but I am managed by 23/25 Entertainment.

THE SONG "BAMIDELE" SEEMS TO BE YOUR BIGGEST SONG EVER, WHAT BROUGHT IT UP?

Well, I was just vibing in the studio with my producer Teemode and the idea just kinda flowed. I wanted a different scenario instead of the guy toasting a girl, why not the girl doing it? It was fun making that track.‎

DO YOU HAVE SONGS YOU'VE RELEASED BEFORE OR AFTER "BAMIDELE"?

‎I have many other songs recorded, but I have only released Bamidele. That's my first official single.

THE SONG HAS QUITE SOME RADIO POPULARITY AND LESS SOCIAL MEDIA POPULARITY WHY?

‎We all have different strategies to explore. We are available on social media. We also need to promote it on Radio and TV so, the traction. We get is what we follow up more. I want to use this medium to thank all the Stations playing Bamidele.thabjs for supporting my dream.

THE SONG IS NOT MUCH OF A HIT SONG EVEN THOUGH IT IS A GREAT SONG, DID YOU NOT PROMOTE IT WELL?

I am happy you said it's a great song, if you do music, you will know it's not easy at all and if you have a great song, it opens you up for a hit song. You're looking for a hit abi, don't worry I am bringing a train to jam you soon. *laughs*

ANY PLANS ON REMIXING THE SONG WITH AN A-LIST ARTIST?

We are currently in talks with some artistes, we need to get it right and not just put any artiste for the sake of it. You might get a Bamidele remix soon.

THE SONG'S VIDEO WAS RELEASED RECENTLY, HOW EASY WAS THAT?

I had fun shooting the video because it was shot in my city, Osogbo. The logistics wasn't exactly easy Cus it wasn't in Lagos, but I had the best crew working on the video. Deji Kale shot it, and he was amazing. ‎

CAN YOU MENTION A FEW SHOWS, EVENTS YOU'VE PERFORMED AT?

My favourite was the Glo Lafta Fest in Ikeja. The biggest was the Star Trek in Lagos. I also performed at the One Lagos Fiesta. We don try.

ANY AWARD NOMINATIONS?

Yes. I just won the Best Song Recording at the Top Naija Music Awards. That's the first and hopefully more will as soon as possible.

SO, WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR 2016, SHOULD WE EXPECT MORE GOOD MUSIC?

I have 2 new singles ready for release. 2016 is my fear don't fret.

ANY MESSAGE FOR YOUR FANS OUT THERE?

Your girl Doyinsola thanks you all for your immense support this short while. Promise to make you proud in the year 2016. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter on @dyhonnie

Thanks for your time Doyinsola. We hope to have another interesting chat with you in the nearest future.

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BIO AND PROFILE OF ANNIE IDIBIA

FULL NAME:          Annie Macaulay Idibia
DATE OF BIRTH:   13 November 1984
OCCUPATION:       Actress,model and presenter
MARITAL STATUS: Married

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FULL NAME: Oludemilade Martin Alejo

DATE OF BIRTH: January 29, 1993

OCCUPATION: Rapper, songwriter

MARITAL STATUS: Not Married

INTRODUCTION
Ycee is a Nigerian rapper who raps in Pidgin English, English,and Yoruba language he came into limelight in 2015 with his hit song "Jagaban", Ycee is a 200L student of Unilag as of 2015. Won Headies Rookie Of The Year Award at the 2015 headies.

REVIEW: We Need More Songs Like Phyno's CONNECT To make Igbo Language More Influential In The Music Industry.

Hello guys, its your favourite TIN Magazine writer Apata Bayode and if you are a music lover or artist you should checkout the article below, its me talking about PHYNO's CONNECT song.

So, many Nigerian rappers last year tried crossing to the singing zone starting from Olamide and the rest, but actually only few of them did well and among the few is Baba Igbo, Phyno.

I tuned on to TraceUrban channel 325 on DSTV late November 2015 and guess what?? Trace was showing my favorite jam Adele’s HELLO music video, after the end of the video I was about switching to HIPTV when I saw “CONNECT” on the screen I was like; “Wetin be connect again Phyno??” And immediately I remembered someone on my Facebook TL was talking about one Connect song by phyno few days before, and I was like “let me check this one out for a minute sha…”

After watching the video for about a minute I was like “The hell?? Phyno haven’t rapped?” I was seriously feeling the rhythm and the few Brokin and English I could understand in the song and most especially the heavy cool beat cooked by T-SPICE was turning me on like torchlight and the video itself is so “doppy!” I didn’t finish the video before I went online searching the song and I realized it’s been released since October, didn’t know, “Not a big fan of Phyno ”. I immediately went on MTNmusicplus to buy the song because I loved it, well, that’s what I do when I hear songs on radio or somewhere that I really love its sound.

After downloading the song It was on my repeat for about 5times before I finally decided to look up the lyrics and translation online.. After getting the lyrics and meaning online I became much more obsessed with the song because it made a lotta sense to me. Even though I still don’t understand some words in the song but I can proudly tell you by now I have learnt some new Igbo slangs via Phyno’s Connect that I’m really digging right now, as a matter of fact I used a couple words from the song in a song I recently wrote.

So what am I saying in essence?? Any sensible music lover would know Phyno’s connect is among if not the best Hip Hop song sang in Igbo language in a very longtime. It has a sensible meaning, it’s not someone shouting “I am crazy, “I want to do Rihanna” and shi*ts like that. I think our Igbo musicians should start using the Igbo language a lot more in their music but when using it they should make sure it is a song with good rhythm and lyrics, I think via that way even many artists from other tribes will use Igbo language a lot more in their music and they will become hits.

Let’s take a look at Frank Edwards, Dude introduced us to some Igbo language via his good music and now lotta gospel artists are using these words in their music.

It is quite obvious the two most influential languages in our music industry at the moment are; Pidgin English and Yoruba language, these two languages are often used by many Nigerian artists of different tribes to make nationwide hits so I believe we can expand this via making more good music with our dialects.

So in conclusion I think we all should try making more good music with our dialects!!!

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FULL NAME: Olajide Olatunji

DATE OF BIRTH: 19 June 1993

OCCUPATION: Video game commentator, comedian, rapper, actor
MARITAL STATUS: Not Married

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FULL NAME:           Antar Laniyan

DATE OF BIRTH:    unknown

OCCUPATION:        Actor

MARITAL STATUS: Married

INTRODUCTION
Antar Laniyan is a popular award winning Nigerian actor,director and filmmaker who started his acting career as far back as 1981, he's been consistent in the movie industry ever since and he shows mostly in Yoruba movies.

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Album credits

Year	Artiste	Album
2012	Olamide	YBNL
2013	Olamide	Baddest Guy Ever Liveth
2014	Olamide	Street OT
2014	M.I	The Chairman
2015	Olamide & Phyno	2 Kings
	Runtown	Ghetto University
	Seyi Shay	Seyi or Shay
	Olamide	Eyan Mayweather

CONTROVERSIES
Rumored to have had a disagreement with Olamide in 2014 which lead to them not working together for the year but he revealed there was no fight between them later in 2015.

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Pheelz with Olamide

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SOURCES: wikipedia.org, culturecustodian.com, mimiscorna.blogspot.com.ng, myacadaxtra.blogspot.com.ng

Ex Militant TOMPOLO Full Biography,Life And Career

FULL NAME:            Government Ekpemupolo

DATE OF BIRTH:     12th April 1971

KNOWN TO BE A:   MEND commander and Businessman

MARITAL STATUS: Married

INTRODUCTION
Tompolo whose real name is Government Ekpemupolo is a Billionaire Nigerian businessman, ex-militant and commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. He was granted amnesty in 2009 by president Yar'Adua.

EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND

Tompolo had his earliest education at Okepopo Primary School, Warri in Delta State of Nigeria. He grew up just like any other regular growing boy in his community until at a certain age of his life, he started noticing some of the unwarranted marginalisation of his community from the benefits accruing from oil exploration and production which was drilled from his own community.

In the year 1993, Ekpemupolo left secondary school and became a member of a resistance group in the Niger Delta. In the year 1998, he joined the Ijaw Youth Council, which was newly formed as at that time, and became a well respected member of the group. Observing that much progress have not been made by the Ijaw Youth Council Ekpemupolo joined the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, where he quickly rose to the rank of a high commander, and with his vast wealth he was able to supply MEND with the resources needed to achieve their goal.

Tompolo recalled that he was always accompanying his father’s elder brother, the late Papa Gbamido Ekpemupolo as he went from one court to another, in Benin, Warri or Abuja, over cases between the Ijaw in Gbaramatu and the Itsekiri. “So when we realised that if we didn’t stand firm we would be forced to pay rent to our neighbour, we decided to take our lives in our hands and fight out the battle. That is where the battle between us and our Itsekiri brothers started,” he stated. The face-off was compounded by the relocation of the headquarters of Warri South-West Local Government Area from Ogbe-Ijoh to Ogidigben, an Itsekiri community.

The war threw up Tompolo as a ruthless and brave soldier and a good manager of forces. After the war, threats to his life and his own ambition of playing in the bigger league compelled him to move to Oporoza within the Gbaramutu kingdom. There, two developments emerged to lend Tompolo excuses for his militancy and its underlying goal of mercantilism. Violent agitations against the oil multinational, Shell, had been growing since Abacha deployed soldiers against the Ogonis and other Niger Delta elements protesting against oil spillages, general environmental degradation and non-development of the oil-producing areas. The coup de grace was government’s hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, an Ogoni and environmentalist.

CAREER AND LIFE

In the 90s, Ekpemupolo was in command of thousands of militants and was very successful in attacking the insensitivity of the government and the Multinational oil companies to the exploitation and degradation of the peoples and environments of the Niger Delta.

Tompolo’s profile and stature soared in 2006 when he gathered his fellow group leaders from across the Niger Delta at Camp 5 to accord their struggle a definite name and platform. Besides, the new platform was meant to be immediately used to press for the release of Asari and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, the former Bayelsa State governor, both of who were incarcerated by the federal government. So it was at Camp 5, Tompolo’s headquarters, that the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, was formed. MEND was, however, not formed as an umbrella organisation of all the militant groups but as an organ to issue unified, rather than discordant, statements for them. So if any of the groups attacked any oil installation or kidnapped any figure, it was MEND that would admit responsibility for the act.

Tompolo had maintained in a rare interview that it is not an issue in dispute that he was the founder of MEND. “I did not go to school, so anything concerning paper work, there are people who handle it. I am not the only person; there are others. If you are doing something, you have to put heads together with others because the idea is to cut across our nine states. That was how MEND was formed and that was the reason the last time that all the ex-militant leaders went to Abuja. In the presence of everybody, I told them that I am the owner of MEND. It was formed in Camp 5. I said it in the presence of everybody and nobody can contest it with me,” he declared. Names Tompolo was referring to as the intellectual minds behind his operations then included Oboko Bello, who studied Mathematics up to the doctoral level and Henry Okah, who was appointed in Camp 5 as the propangadist for MEND though he was not in the country. Okah has since been arrested in South Africa for gun-running and the 1 0ctober 2011 (Independence Day) bombing in Abuja.

Tompolo boasted that, apart from Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom, every other militant general had his tutelage at Camp 5. “Henry Okah was one of us. That is the truth and he is somebody that if not for greed and his trying to say that I want to be all and all, he is one person that all of us respect. He is one of us,” he said. Based in South Africa, Okah was the brains behind the e-mail and text messages to media establishments on MEND’s activities.

MEND announced its first signature statement with the abduction of nine foreign staff – three Americans, two Egyptians, two Thais, one Briton and one Filipino – of Wilbros, an American oilfield services company based in Panama but with a major office and company executives in Houston. Its Nigerian operational base is Choba, Port Harcourt. Wilbros has since been acquired by Nigerians; it is widely believed that former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, now serving term in an English jail is behind the acquisition. MEND, which claimed to be fighting for a greater share of Nigeria’s oil wealth, claimed responsibility for the Saturday 17 February 2006 abduction. There followed a series of raids which consequently cut Nigeria’s crude oil exports drastically and negatively impacted on the economy.

Until the JTF fell out with Tompolo’s militant group, he was the Task Force’s favoured boy. The JTF was always turning to him for information and assistance to nail pirates and kidnappers, and as one unconfirmed source said, his magnanimity was always rubbing off in some forms on the men and officers of the Force. In July 2004, Tompolo was said to have assisted the JTF, then under the command of Brig-General Elias Zamani to capture John Togo, a notorious sea pirate and his gang that included Perembowe Ebinimie, Felis Dissi and Peter Dolobowei. The JTF and the Delta State government were also said to be employing Tompolo’s structures to provide security for the troubled waterways in the state. The source alleged that Tompolo was earning as much as N100mn every month to maintain peace, on behalf of government, on the waterways.

By 2009, Tompolo had amassed so much influence in Niger Delta affairs that even powerful figures in the zone looked up to him for economic and political empowerment. Reliable Niger Delta sources affirmed that his influence sustained his kinsman, Chief Wellington Okrika as Executive Chairman of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, for so long. Tompolo was also said to have virtually single-handedly enthroned Godwin Bebenimibo, a retired Superintendent of Police, as Gbaran III Agadagba, the traditional ruler of the Gbaramatu kingdom.

In May 2009, Brigadier-General Sarkin Yaki Bello, commander of the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, in Niger Delta, had declared Government Ekpemupolo the most wanted man in Nigeria. Bello had fingered Ekpemupolo, or Tompolo, as he is widely known, and his band of militants in the Gbaramutu creeks of the Niger Delta as executing the killing of 11 soldiers – one officer and 10 junior men. It was just one of the many instances of the militants’ atrocities.

The militants had been running riot in the Niger Delta, perpetrating illegitimate bunkering, operating illegal refineries, vandalising oil pipelines, engaging in kidnapping and doing piracy. And Tompolo was in the thick of it as one of the leaders. The JTF was intent on doing him in. Bello’s men stormed the Okerenkoko, operations headquarters of Tompolo, desperately searching for him. They were successful all right, but not in nabbing Tompolo. What they found were numerous rifles, machine guns, Uzzi guns, Army mistin carriers, dynamite and gun boats. In the Niger Delta, Government Ekpemupolo, ruthless, invincible and taciturn, was and is indeed, a government all of his own.

So when in June 2009, the President Yar’Adua administration embarked on implementing its Amnesty programme for Niger Delta militants, it could not but court Tompolo as the arrowhead of the programme. The federal government could not afford not to patronise him; his acceptance of the amnesty programme largely influenced other militant leaders to embrace peace. His embrace of the peace overtures largely crumbled MEND, the structure that wrought havoc and nearly crippled the economy of the nation. Newspaper reports painted how Tompolo received a hero’s attention on the day he led more than 1,500 militants to surrender their weapons in Oporoza village. Received by then Minister of Defence, retired General Godwin Abbe and cheered on by hundreds of people wearing vests with the inscription Tompolo Is Our Hero, the militant surrendered a large cache of arms that included general purpose machine guns, rifles, rocket launchers, explosives and countless numbers of various ammunition.

Tompolo was reported to have shed tears at the occasion while remembering close friends, associates and relatives who had died while the militants were waging what he called a fight to free the people of the Niger Delta from bondage. He promised that since the militants have embraced amnesty, the issue of MEND and the reason to shed blood was over. The warlord insisted that anybody using MEND for any liberation cause for the Niger Delta would be doing so for his personal interest. He, however, warned that if the federal government reneges on its promises to develop the Niger Delta, militants in the area would have no choice but to go back to taking up arms.

Tompolo always cites Isaac Adaka Boro, the late Ijaw militant who was killed during the Nigerian civil war, as his hero and the main inspirational figure for his daring struggle against the federal government. He strongly believes in the Egbesu deity, the god that many Ijaw worship, and sees it as directing his survival so far. He explained that the deity helped him to achieve his aims and objectives, since he was pursuing what he insisted was “a genuine struggle”.

Today, Tompolo is not only a free man, he is a darling of the very federal government that only three years ago, considered him an arch enemy deserving of extermination. Despite his violent past and little education, he is one of the most influential Nigerians today. There is no doubt that he is very close to President Goodluck Jonathan. To cement the romance, government has invested the Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, GWVSL, a firm widely believed to be owned by Tompolo, with a contract worth $103.4 million (over N15 billion) to supply 20 vessels for the use of the nation’s military authorities to secure the waterways. Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Ziadeke Akpobolokemi, had last year sent a memo titled, “Award of Contract for the Strategic Concessioning Partnership with NIMASA to Provide Platforms for Tracking Ships and Cargoes, Enforce Regulatory Compliance and Surveillance Of The Entire Nigerian Maritime Domain,” to President Goodluck Jonathan.

In considering the memo, President Goodluck Jonathan and Akpobolokemi chose GWVSL as the preferred company for the 10-year concession agreement. The concession is renewable for two terms of five years each. Jonathan, in a memo dated 9 November 2011, with reference number PRES/99/MT/61, approved Akpobolokemi’s memo, which the Federal Executive Council rubber-stamped on 5 January 2012. According to Akpobolokemi, GWVSL “will provide platforms for effective policing of Nigeria’s maritime domain and ensure compliance with international maritime conventions on vessels and ships voyaging the country’s waters”. NIMASA maintains that the concessionaire would help the federal government to enforce the sabotage law and collect levies on its behalf.

NIMASA’s projection shows that about N124bn is expected to be generated in revenue to the federal government by GWVSL. Akpobolokemi underlines the public-private partnership with Tompolo’s company as necessary because the federal government could not bear the cost of the project.

Ekpemupolo was granted full amnesty as well as all of his men when he embraced the amnesty offer on the Federal Government of Nigeria under president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on June 27, 2009.
Ekpemupolo is currently helping the government of Nigeria in tracking down miscreants who were taking advantage of the struggle to commit crimes in the region. This follows the handing over of weapons by militant commanders in the Niger Delta region in exchange for the promised amnesty and guarantee of jobs and training by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

SOURCES: saharareporters.com, nigerianbiography.com, wikipedia.org

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