Introducing rising Nigerian Soul singer and songwriter Bemyoda with his sublime debut single titled “Shima Yam”. The Soulful opus – whose title means “My Heart” or “My Love” in the native language of TIV – is backed by lush acoustic guitars, deft bongo drum patterns, minimalist violin arrangements, soft backing harmonies and complementing hand claps which all make for a very memorable and enjoyable 4-minute listening experience.
Written over a year ago during a jam session with producer Sleekamo and R&B Singer/Guitarist Sammy and later reproduced by Laitan Dada, “Shima Yam” is a beautiful love song about taking a relationship slowly and being with that special someone for the long haul… Built around clever lyricism and warm and alluring vocals, “Shima Yam” is a perfectly crafted piece of music from Soul newcomer Bemyoda as he shows off an excellent blend of Soul, Blues and Folk music elements that is well beyond his years to create something really special with “Shima Yam”.
Stand Network LLP , the fastest growing Independent Media and Production company are in the final stages of a Mega partnership with Sound Walk Music, USA. to bring Jamaal “Mali Music” Pollard on a two city tour of Manchester and London (United Kingdom)
Founder of Stand Network LLP. Mr Tyough Beetseh has confirmed dates for the Manchester and London Tours as September 21st and 22nd respectively. This event promises to be a once in a life time experience as other outstanding UK artists will be sharing the stage to perform other groundbreaking and inspirational hit songs.
The event which is tagged “The Pentecost Day” has already started creating a buzz in the cities of Manchester and London. Tickets for this Grand Tour/ Concert will be on sale as early as June, 2012.
WHO IS “MALI MUSIC”?
Gospels latest sensation, Jamaal “Mali Music” Pollard , The Savannah-based singer, songwriter, producer broke out of the box of traditional gospel music with several hits songs including “Yahweh”, ” The Job experience” and the collaboration with Kirk Franklin (Give me that) . Mali recently hit the global scene with his outstanding performance on BET. He has since earned several nominations including a Dove Entertainment Award.
His sound is heavily inspired by geniuses Bilal and D’Angelo, is free boundless and uninhibited, he serves as a Minister of Music at Faith on the move Ministries and his passion lies in creative, powerful , effective Christian Lifestyle music that stretches its genre.
Since his regional release of the EP, “THE COMING”, in February 2008, touring has become a way of life. With rapidly growing appeal, Mali regularly performs with industry greats. Artists like Kim Burrell, Deon Kipping, Dietrick Haddon, and Kierra Sheard readily welcome him to share their stage, as they are mutual fans. In January 2009, he joined Contemporary Gospel hit-maker Tye Tribbett in ministry on internationally broadcasted TBN’s Praise the Lord and again at the 2009 Stellar Awards in Nashville, TN. Mali Music has also gained ongoing internet fame. His MySpace music profile boasts more than 1 million views, it’s current playlist having 15 million hits. His various YouTube clips celebrate nearly 30 million views, as these numbers grow daily. Additionally, Mali has enjoyed press recognition through The South Magazine in Fall 2008 and graced the cover of the Winter 2009 issue of Image Magazine.
His album ” The 2ECOND COMING” was released in July 2009, and comprised of smash singles such as acoustic Youtube hit “Avaylable”, “No Muzick” and “I hate you” stretching the boundaries of contemporary christian music. ”THE 2ECOND COMING” displays Mali’s extensive vocal and production versatility, and his God-given ability to reach any audience. His bold, unique sound and gift for musical storytelling has captured audiences across the world
Along with being a phenomenal performer, Mali Music is an accomplished producer and actor. He currently has production and vocal credits on recent CD releases, DMG’s Gumbo Red and label mate, Laura Wilson’s Nayshon Shaka. In 2007, he landed the lead role in the Savannah College of Art and Design produced film “Linked”, and scored its soundtrack. With well over 100 songs in his portfolio, Mali is credited with scoring two gospel stage plays, Urban Resurrection in 2005 and Zion’s March in 2006, becoming a local legend in the Christian community.
Ever seeking to enhance his craft, Mali continually studies, increasing his knowledge of music theory. His desire to build his musical repertoire is undying as he is constantly reading, writing, finding new music, and experimenting with diverse vocal styles. His musical gift is evident and undeniable in “THE 2ECOND COMING”. As his genius grows, Jamaal “Mali Music” Pollard is sure to unforgettably impact the world.
Foreign Investment is viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth in developing countries. Its perceived ability to deal with major obstacles such shortages of financial resources, technology, and skills.
This has made it the centre of attention for policy makers in developing countries such as Africa. Bodies such as the IMF and the World Bank have suggested that attracting large inflows of foreign investment would result in economic development. Sub–Saharan African governments are very eager to attract foreign investments. They have changed from being generators of employment, and spillovers for the local economy to governors of states that promote competition and search for foreign capital to fill the resource gap. This change is attributed to changes that are caused through structural adjustment programmes and the internalization of neo-liberal assumptions promoted by the World Bank and IMF
There is no doubt that foreign Investment in most nations, especially developing countries, can create jobs and capital for the host nation, while providing access to know-how, technology, and lucrative export markets. However it important not to forget its potential to also rain high profits on multinational enterprises.
The long engrained notion that foreign investment is the key to our economic success is highly overrated. While it is important in certain industries to buy know-how technology and intellectual property to enhance our industrial capacity, There is clearly and overstated mindset that foreign investment is the key to our future. Take the alleged employment gains for example, International experiences have shown that Foreign investment is hardly accompanied by substantial employment creation, and in some cases may even lead to job losses. Looking at a case of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) programme in Namibia which created jobs and thus reduced the unemployment rate. However, the jobs that were created were mostly characterized by poor working conditions and very low salaries. Most of the employees still do not have job security and little prospects of improving their standards of living.
The key to our future as a country and continent is not based on foreign investment. We are the architects of our own future and should not always be made to believe that we are not capable of building our economy from within and we should not expect foreign investment to solve our economic problems.
We should be determined to setup our own airlines, setup our own oil industries, setup our own banks and IT firms. Set up our own refineries and refine our own crude oil. We are able to drive our economy by ourselves. After all we have invested immensely in acquiring foreign education and experience. We need to become confident in our abilities and take our destiny by the horn.
We have to learn to do it by ourselves and not depend on investors. Also important is the development of legitimate, transparent, and consistent economic policies. Foreign companies should be treated as domestic companies, obeying our laws and gaining access to our incentives. We have a vast amount of natural resources and our trade policies should also encourage fair trading and consistency but must be more in the interest of our nations rather than foreigners.
Our foreign policies should encourage this balance and Africa will be great.
2. The question of the veto held by the five permanent members,
3. Regional representation,
4. The size of an enlarged Council and its working methods, and the Security Council-General Assembly relationship. Member States, regional groups and other Member State interest groupings developed different positions and proposals on how to move forward on this contested issue.
The reform of the Security Council requires the agreement of at least two-thirds of UN member states and that of all the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), enjoying the veto right. While France has previously backed this move through their current president Nicholas Sarkozy who in his words said …it is a “scandal” that Africa, a continent of 1 billion people, is not “represented” on this crucial UN body there has still been no head way on this issue.
Clearly, most people will argue there have been drastic changes in geopolitical realities since the current set up of the council was agreed (far back in 1945). It is obvious that the current UN council charter was formed by the winners of the Second world war and this was clearly shaped to suit their national interests, they quickly allocated veto powers among themselves which is not surprising.
However over the years the strength of the UN has increased with new countries making more contributions to the UN than the 5 states which have the permanent seat. For example, in 1992 Japan and Germany were the 2nd and 3rd Largest contributors respectively. Over time as India and Brazil began to argue their case. The four countries decided to unite as the G4 and demand a united Veto power which is clearly a legitimate and logical request.
Well as expected, The UN responded by increasing the number of non-permanent seats from 6 to 10. Kofi Annan in 2005 even made a bid to increase the number of seats to 24 in a plan he referred to as “In larger Freedom”. But clearly even this proposal has not been adopted.
It is quite interesting that even when top contenders for new permanent seats on the UNSC are listed, no African country is mentioned. Well, considering that every nation and continent is fighting for their national interest, that is not completely surprising.
But with the involvement of many African Nations such as Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Egypt in peace keeping nations on the continent and beyond and other major responsibilities and contributions made by these countries to the advancement of the UNSC. It has become essential that a permanent seat with veto powers be exclusively allocated to an African Country.
THE PROPOSAL
Yes, there have been arguments of “unproven” human rights violations in most of the countries mentioned above except south africa , however it is only logical to say, rather than give this exclusive permanent seat to one african nation (as a sole representative of africa). This permanent ”african allocated” UNSC seat can be rotated by the african countries after every four years. Germany, Brazil, India and Japan which are the G4 nations can also be provided with a (one) permanent seat as G4 and power to veto. Allowing them to rotate it among themselves. This will bring the total number of permanent seats to 7. This will not only be logical and reasonable but will also ensure that the United Nations exists to fulfill its founding ideals of preserving peace and security, promoting global cooperation, and advancing human rights.
Finally, from the last speech of Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the parliament of india, it was quite clear that the US are more interested in advancing India’s interest in clinching a sole permanent seat on the UNSC. However, the United Kingdom and France have been more inclined towards supporting Africa’s interests. All these negotiations atleast for now have all ended in deadlock.
UNSC reform requires a political commitment from the member states at the highest level. I hope these members work in this direction in the coming months with a view to achieving effective reform to enable the UN exert an effective influence on global economic and political issues of critical importance.
Timothy Tebow popularly known as Tim Tebow is an american football player for the Denver Broncos quarter back
He was born on August 14th 1987 in the philipines to baptist missionaries (Father Ramsey Robert Tebow was a pastor) .
Tebow is known for his excellent rushing and passing skills and particularly his frequent demonstrations of his religious beliefs.
Over a short period of time, Tebow has attracted unprecedented praise, criticism, and attention from the sporting media and beyond. So much that many of his fellow football players have said that they “have never seen anything like it.
Tebow became the first sophomore (2nd year student) to win the Heisman trophy in 2008. Tebow led Florida to a 13-1 record and its second national championship in three years, and was named the offensive MVP of the national championship game.
Tebow was also considered one of the nation’s top recruits and was the subject of an ESPN ”Faces in Sports” documentary. The segment was titled “Tim Tebow: The Chosen One”,
During his college career Tebow wore a reference of biblical verses on his eye black. He wore John 3:16 on his eye black , the verse was ranked ” the highest ever ranked google search within 24 hours”. He then switched to Proverbs 3:5-6, this also attracted a whooping 3.43 million searches. Then in 2010 NCAA released a statement that they were banning messages on eye paint. This rule was immediately dubbed “the Tebow rule” by the media. Although the NCAA strongly denies the rule was influenced by Tebow particularly
Tebowing is a neologism for the act of taking a knee in prayer with head resting on one hand. It is derived from Tebow’s propensity for kneeling and praying. The origin of the phrase is credited to fan Jared Kleinstein, who posted a picture with friends on Facebook, in which they mimicked a pose of Tebow following the Broncos’ comeback overtime victory over the Dolphins on October 23, 2011.
The popularity of the picture led Kleinstein to set up a website showing pictures submitted by people depicting various interpretations of Tebowingall over the world. After two and a half-months, the site received 20,000 photograph submissions from all seven continents and 20 million page views from 2 million unique visitors.
Tebow launched the Tim Tebow Foundation in January 2010, In the Philippines, Tim Tebow preached the Christian Gospel in front of schoolchildren and entire villages and assisted in medical care
Dont be surprised if they soon look for a controversy to pin on this guy as the world always does with rising stars.
Anyways, bottom line is, Its simply amazing how God decides to announce people who are not ashamed or afraid to announce him. Tim Tebow is rising and is unstoppable and so am I
…and yes I admire people with that kind of audacity.
The Tyough foundation is a charity group founded by Ty Beetseh in January 2011 to aid and support basic education and health in the rural parts of africa.
Our focus in 2012 is to provide 324 desks for 6 schools in different parts of the country. We also hope to launch the VTI (Volunteer Teacher Initiative) which will provide opportunities for Nigerian graduates who are unemployed to Volunteer to teach in specific, carefully selected schools. These Volunteers will be provided with transportation and feeding allowances. This initiative will aid these volunteers in gaining work experience whilst giving back to their communities voluntarily.
Please Join the Tyough Foundation Group on facebook
The Pizza delivery is a story about a young Nigerian (Leviticus) who migrates to the United Kingdom where he gets a job as a pizza delivery guy to earn a living. Leaving a Pregnant Wife behind.
On this faithful day, Leviti (as he is fondly called) while on duty (delivering pizza) receives a phone call from his wife….. this phone call ultimately turns out to be a distress call.
The entire story begins and ends with that phone call but what happens in between is what changed the life of Leviti forever……
A Ty Beetseh film with emerging and talented producer Dapo Osinaike. The Cast includes a group of talented RCCG JCC Coventry upcoming star actors which include;
Nath Oyamenda as Leviticus
Iyin Oshinyemi as Anjeke
Kevin Dada as Mr Pius
Foluke Onamusi as Mrs Cordelia (Mr Pius’s wife)
Bukola Jinadu as Mama
Episode 1 can also be found on youtube “The Pizza Delivery (Power of Praise) HD” on the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxd4EViZcQ
Chuka Umunna is a member of the British parliamment who is born of a Nigerian father from Awka and an Irish mother.
After graduating from the University of Manchester with a law degree, University of Burgundy in Dijon in France, and Nottingham Law School in Nottingham , he went ahead to start his legal career as a solicitor with Hebert Smith in the City of London.
He once challenged the Sun newspaper editor Kelvin MacKenzie on the BBC’s Question Time television programme in 2007
Simon Woolley once described Umunna as one of the ten, young, gifted and black people in British politics and went ahead to refer to him as “UK’s Barack Obama”
Another Statesman also described him as ” The Barack Obama for Britain” although he never took that comparison seriously
It is important to mention that Umunna became the the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary in just 18 months after becoming a member of the British Parliament.
Umunna is rising gradually through the ranks and is carefully becoming a force to reckon with, I have heard Umunna talk in many interviews and must say he is intelligent articulate and focused.
Without a shadow of doubt, Chuka Umunna is a Man to watch, well so AM I .
Bubba Smith, famed for his role as gentle giant Moses Hightower in the ’80s comedies, was found dead in his L.A. home on Wednesday.
Born Charles Aaron Smith, the man affectionately known as ‘Bubba’ began his career as an American football player in the NFL in 1967 and played professionally for the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers.
When his time as an athlete ended in 1976, he carved himself a new career as an actor. And it was in 1984 that he shot to international stardom with ‘Police Academy’.
His character, Moses Hightower, was a florist before joining the force and became a staple of the series which saw affable crook Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) and a team of misfits including sound-effects specialists Jones (Michael Winslow), incomprehensible Zed (Bobcat Goldthwaite), gun-obsessive Tackleberry (David Graf) and sexy trainee Thompson (a young Kim Cattrall) seek to earn their badges under accident-prone Academy chief, Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes). Smith reprised his role as the softly-spoken strongman in six of the seven films that graced cinemas over the course of the ’80s, only bowing out for the seventh instalment, ‘Police Academy: Mission to Moscow’, which revisited some of the cops in 1994.
The 6 foot 7 star also appeared in several TV shows, including ‘Half Nelson’ and several smaller film releases, but it is still for his stint in the slapstick cop capers that he is best remembered.
Smith’s body was discovered at his home by a caretaker, and a coroner is investigating the cause of death. However, it is believed he died of natural causes and police are not treating the death as suspicious.
Well, I dont really like writing about peoples death’s but I personally shared and enjoyed the Police Academy Movies and really liked the role Bubba Smith played.
