FORBES: ITS DANGOTE AGAIN!

It’s not like Aliko Dangote needed any further justification. The man is now a regular on the Forbes list of the world’s richest men (wort $11.2 billion as at March 2012.) Now, Forbes Africa, in collaboration with ABN Productions has named his company Dangote Group as the top rated West African company.

At a dinner event hosted in Lagos, Forbes Africa presented its list of top 25 companies in the West African capital market which comprises of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Ghanaian Stock Exchange and the Abidjan-based Bourse Regionale des Valeurs Mobilieres SA (Regional Securities Exchange SA) or BRVM.

The Top 25 list which was ranked in terms of market capitalization, revenue and profit, also featured companies like Nigeria Breweries Plc, Zenith Bank Plc, First Bank Plc, Nestle Nigeria, Flour Mills, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc and Ecobank.

The Managing Editor, Forbes Africa, Mr. Chris Bishop, while presenting the awards, congratulated the Dangote Group for its achievements. Speaking about the event, he said:  “I think this was a hugely successful night and a signal to African companies everywhere that their time has come. All too often the lists of the world have overlooked the success of African companies.

“Nights like this show how important successful African companies are in the progress of the world economy.”

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Oscar Onyema, also spoke at the awards.

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Posted in: AFRICA,BUSINESS SCHOOL,COMPANIES,DANGOTE,FORBES,NIGERIA

USHER TO LAUNCH ALBUM IN NIGERIA

Sony Music Entertainment and  MComm, Nigeria’s leading entertainment and value added service company, have announced a historic partnership between both companies that will officially bring Usher Raymond’s hot new album “Looking 4 Myself” to Nigerian music fans. Speaking in Lagos early this week, Mcomm CEO, Chidi Okeke, said “

    "This is a landmark partnership, with Nigeria being the first West African country to have an official international release from a Grammy winning US artist".

Okeke is a leading industry expert in mobile technology and music content distribution.

    ‘We believe this will form a foundation for potential future strategic alliances with Sony Music. The album will be available nationwide from Friday, 29th June, as part of an official release, in Compact Disc (CD) form. “Looking 4 Myself” will be sold in major cities like Lagos, Abuja, Port- Harcourt, Enugu, Ibadan, and will be available in designated album stores and retail outlets nationwide.”

    "Music has and will always be the international medium of communication and Mcomm is all about delivering the very best of music, local and international, to music fans on our shores. There are also a number of exciting partnerships in the pipeline between Mcomm and other brands which are geared towards connecting Nigerians with their favorite music brands from everywhere in the world”, he added.

According to Usher Raymond, his seventh studio album, 'LOOKING 4 MYSELF' is "a record that really gives people an experience.”

Highly prolific artist, Usher Raymond has been a music industry icon for many years, garnering numerous awards for his soulful ballads, heartfelt lyrics and pulsating dance steps. Throughout the years Usher  has continued to evolve, pushing boundaries ,breaking stereotypes and creating the kind of  popular music that millions of his fans all over the world know him for.

On this new album, the seven-time Grammy winner takes bold steps into unexpected musical territory. Assuming the most active role of his career as a songwriter, and working with a wide range of producers and collaborators—including Diplo, Swedish House Mafia, Max Martin, Will I. Am, and Luke Steele — one of the best-selling musical artists in history has blended electro dance beats with his signature, era-defining R&B, pop, and hip-hop sounds to create a style that goes beyond any defined category.

Source: Date360

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Posted in: looking 4 myself,new album,NIGERIA,usher

NIGERIA: OUR LAND...OUR PRIDE!

OUR LAND...OUR PRIDE!

Tears trickling down my cheek

 Fear almost holding my heart captive

The lot of the hopeless gradually becoming our fate

We wail and cry out no one answer

The man whose duty it is to care and answer is deaf to our cry

The men who should remind him to listen are long blind and deaf to us,

 before him.

We look out but saw no semblance of hope

We search within, still look bleak

“I see better days ahead, it is well” the optimists echoes

“We are doomed, it is over, we have failed” the pessimist maintained

We struggle to hold on to our faith

Trying times are but for a season they say

But our season seems hell bent on staying

Still, steadfastly we hold on to our faith…..

Our strong, steel laden, faith in our land

Saying though we can’t see no hope in sight

But we believe it’s there

Though the future looks bleak

But we know the veil will be lifted and we will behold our bright future

For sure, God will heal our land!

Nigeria…our land, our pride!

                                                                                                                                                                                Sane.

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Posted in: NIGERIA,OUR LAND,OUR PRIDE

NIGERIA: WHERE DEATH IS CHEAP!

Bombs are still going off...accidents still happen on the
roads...petrol-carrying tankers still explodes...Suddenly! Planes too
have started crashing.


How did it get to this? If you go to church BH will bomb you. If you
decide to board a plane,it just may crash, if you decide to go by bus
armed robbers may attack and you may be shot dead. If you decide to
stay at home a plane might just crash on your house. If you decide to
just take a walk,you just might be kidnapped and killed if ransome is
not paid.


Hmmm!...so where do we run to? Nigerians die needlessly everyday
because of some folk's negligence and incompetence. We don't care, we
can sacrifice lives just to make few notes.

True,death is inevitable,but here it is cheap! It amazes me how we
don't value human life here. Blatant disregard for obvious signs of
disaster causing thousands of avoidable deaths. This is murder!


God help us all! Our land needs healing. Thousands of brilliant minds
and intellectuals lost yearly to senseless, avoidable deaths.


God! Help Nigeria!

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Posted in: DANA AIRLINE,NIGERIA,Plane crash

REPS SUMMON OBASANJO FOR CALLING THEM "ROGUES AND ARMED ROBBERS"

The Nigerian House Of Rep hinted that it will have to summon Former President Olusegun Obasanjo to come and defend a statement credited to him. Obasanjo had on Wednesday called some members of NASS 'rogues and armed robbers' while wondering what kind of law they make. The House of Reps committee on ethics has been directed to investigate the allegation.

The Senate on its part asked the former President to name the rogues and armed robbers among the legislators.  The senate spokesman said that that Obasanjo is highly respected and will not like to engage in any talk-back with him.

I wonder what they are 'armed' with, abi, an armed robber is sha armed with something!!!

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Posted in: House of Rep,NIGERIA,Obasanjo,SENATE

US CONGRESS WANTS BOKO HARAM LISTED AS TERROR GROUP

The United States (US) Congress is stepping up pressure on the Barack
Obama administration to formally designate the Boko Haram sect, which
has alleged al-Qaeda links, as a "foreign terrorist organization".
Mr Scott Brown, a Republican senator from Massachusetts, wrote
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton late last week on the matter.
He urged Mrs Clinton to designate thesect, which has been linked to
700 killings in Nigeria in the past 18 months, as a terrorist
organisation under US law.
ON Sunday, US Representatives, Peter King and Patrick Meehan, chairmen
of the House Homeland Security Committee and its counterterrorism
subcommittee, released a letter they sent to Clinton last Friday,
suggestingthat the administration was moving too slowly on the matter.
King and Meehan cited a Reuters' report last week about how the
Justice Department earlier this year had urged the State Department to
apply the "foreign terrorist" designation to Boko Haram. The
congressmen suggested that by not doing so, the department was
"denying the United States intelligence and law enforcement
communities the tools they need to combat an al Qaeda-affiliated
terrorist organization.




Source: Ascology

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Posted in: boko haram,Congress,NIGERIA,terrorists,United States

MEET GOLDIE HARVEY, BBA NIGERIA'S "REPRESENTER"!

• Goldie’s real names are Susan Oluwabimpe Harvey

• She is from Ikole in Ekiti State

• She is the first of four children

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Posted in: bba stargames,big brother,goldie,NIGERIA

LAGOS BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKED 54TH GLOBALLY

The Lagos Business School (LBS) has been ranked 54th globally for the sixth consecutive timey by the Financial Times of London in its Executive Education 2012 rankings released on Tuesday.

The Financial Times of London releases a list of top rated management programmes from schools globally, using staff and student diversity, growth in business and international reach and quality of learning as basis for ranking. This year, only four African business schools made the list and LBS is making it for the sixth time.

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Posted in: 54TH,BUSINESS SCHOOL,LAGOS,LBS,NIGERIA