I remember when I first met @davido in a hotel lobby in South Africa! I could not have imagine we would collaborate one day. But the great @shizzi, who we had both been working with, made the connection and #JOY was born!!! 🌞
Meet Benson Idonije, Fela Kuti’s Manager And Burna Boy’s Grandfather.
He is a Nigerian music industry legend.
Some thing you need to know about him
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Nigerian & African musical legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti went into exile to Ghana after he, together with his family, were brutalized and his house was burnt down by Nigeria’s military government in 1977.
The Captain and his men...left Akintola’s mutilated body, riddled with bullets, surrounded by empty shell casings soaked in blood, lying there on the bare ground in his courtyard. The Aare Ona Kakanfo had fallen to his death. The curse persists.
THE STORY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF CHIEF SAMUEL LADOKE AKINTOLA that happed on JANUARY 15, 1966. He was premier of Western Nigeria from independence in 1960 till his assassination in 1966 During the first coup to ever happen in Nigeria.
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Congratulations to Zahrah Ibrahim, a Nigerian lecturer and PhD student of Engineering at Aberdeen in Scotland, for winning the prestigious European “Drilling Engineering Innovation Award”.
Her presentation on “A Novel Approach for Wellbore Strengthening” wowed the judges, and secured her the top spot among the nominees.
She is a role model for excellence and innovation in Engineering. Let’s celebrate her success and encourage more girls to pursue education and their dreams.