D'banj rewards creative minds with new lottery platform

Internationally recognized award winner and entertainer, Dapo Oyebanjo, globally known as the Kokomaster, Dbanj has announced the rollout of his latest project, “Cream” to reward young creative minds in the Nigerian entertainment industry.


The announcement was made today, Thursday, September 1, 2016 at an exclusive media reveal which held at the Federal Palace Hotel in Victoria Island with key media executives and top bosses in the telecomm industry.

The “CREAM” platform, which is supported by the Bank of Industry, MTN and D'kings Men Media Ltd stands for “Creative, Reality, Entertainment, Arts, Music”. It will provide creative minds the opportunity to live their dreams of showcasing their talent to the world. Lucky winners of the lottery will win exciting opportunities including a recording deal which consists of recording a track, shooting a state of the art Video, a collaboration with any artiste of their choice (music or video collaboration), talent showcase, talent branding, promotion and marketing, among many others.‎

At the exclusive announcement, Dbanj stated,

“We have created this platform to reward tons of creative minds out there who don’t have the right platforms to showcase their talent to the world. Nigeria is filled with so much art and creativity and what better way to promote this great heritage than to give these young minds the right platforms. I am happy to bring to my loyal fans and lovers of good music this exciting platform that the world can benefit from.”The competition, which is open to MTN subscribers only will run once every month and winners will emerge from three categories including Music, Video, and Collaboration. Three winners will be selected from the draws every first working day of the every month. The CREAM will run for a period of one year.

Interested participants must take part in the daily draws for a month to qualify for the next month and can also be a part of multiple categories to increase their chances of winning.

The CREAM Lottery service is available to all new and existing MTN prepaid customers only. Winners will also be announced on the CREAM website.

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Victoria Beckham writes letter to her 18yr old self, admits to being drunk when she met husband David

Businesswoman, fashion designer, former singer and mother of four, Victoria Beckham who stars on the cover of Vogue magazine's October issue has written an emotional letter to her 18 year old self in which she revealed she was drunk when she met her footballer husband, David Beckham. She writes in the new October issue of Vogue:



“I know you are struggling right now. You are not the prettiest, or the thinnest, or the best at dancing at the Laine Theatre Arts college. You have never properly fitted in, although you are sharing your Surrey school digs with really nice girls. You have bad acne.
“You think the Principal has put you at the back of the end-of-year show (in a humiliatingly bright purple Lycra leotard) because you are too plump to go at the front. (This may or may not be true.)”
She continues:
“You are going to have so much fun with your clothes – PVC catsuits; chokers that say absurd things; weird spiky blonde hair. It will never occur to you that you appear ridiculous. You will turn up at awards ceremonies resembling a drag queen. But I look back at you and smile. It will add interest to your life to go from one extreme to another. I love the fact that you will feel free to express yourself.”
“Learn more about football, especially the offside rule. And yes, love at first sight does exist. It will happen to you in the Manchester United players’ lounge – although you will get a little drunk, so exact details are hazy.
“While the other football players stand at the bar drinking with their mates, you will see David standing aside with his family. (He’s not even in the first team at this stage – you are the famous one.) And he has such a cute smile. You, too, are close to your family, and you will think how similar he feels to you. He’s going to ask for your number. (He still has the London-to-Manchester plane ticket on which you wrote it.)”


David and Victoria Beckham went on to marry in 1999 and share four children; sons Brooklyn, 17, Romeo, 14, Cruz, 11, and five-year-old daughter Harper.

Nigerians regret voting for Buhari- ex APC governorship aspirant, Nath Apir, says

Former APC, governorship aspirant in Benue state, Nath Apir has said that Nigerians are currently regretting that they voted President Buhari into office. According to Vanguard, Apir said this in a media chat with newsmen in Makurdi, Benue state yesterday September 1st.

"During the last administration. Our economy was performing above average. This government came in and because every government comes in to fix the problems of the previous government. It took Presidemt Buhari six months to appoint Ministers in a country where, whether rightly or wrongly was rated by the World Bank and the IMF as Africa’s largest and number one economy.
We did not get that rating through bribe. On coming to government it behoved this administration to inflate the tyres that were low on air pressure, grease those bearings that needed to be oiled so that we don’t grind to a halt just like we are in now. Our country is in shambles, the people can hardly feed, the Naira has crashed to over N400 to the Dollar. They talk of recovering money from looters and we have not seen where the monies have gone to. Where exactly are the three or five key pillars of the economic policies of the APC government? Agree that there are issues of militancy in the south south, other governments also faced same challenge. Buhari came in with a military mentality to crush them. Look, civilized people negotiate, they don’t do that because they are weak. They do that because they know that you cannot go forward in a situation of crisis and chaos. He has just aggravated our economic situation in the country. Six months no Minister and the country was drifting and has not recovered till today and he has brought us to this level. Nigerians are regretting voting Buhari, that is the truth. All his policies had been anti corruption, by the time he came in as military ruler in 1983 we resorted to the purchasing of essential commodities. We are back to that vicious circle. We are back to anti corruption war without real economic policies. Let me tell you, western countries are neck deep in corruption. Don’t be deceived, they have been receiving stolen monies from Africa without questioning the sources of such wealth. Today we are asking for the return of those monies and they are asking for proof that the monies are our own when they did not ask the alleged thieves where they got the monies from. These are basic things we should know, they use the monies to develop their economies. President Buhari’s war on corruption is excellent and I support it, but he must not use his anti corruption war to destroy the country’s economy. He should strengthen institutions to fight corruption. You want to fight corruption go after bankers, permanent secretaries as well, don’t just go after only highly exposed political people. These people cannot transfer monies without the banks. Permanent secretaries are the accounting officers of their offices. How come they are not being held to account. “The economy is in shambles and he has no solution. The experience of the Finance Minister is low. Who is running this economy. You cannot assemble a group of yes sir people and expect good results. No one to challenge you. An educated man said, ‘we are all ignorant of everything except in that which we know’, that is why you need great minds around you as a leader. So our country is in recession, though I’m not surprise because we had same in 1983 to 1985. Who is running this economy? As a President he is looking at a maze but you cannot read or lead the economy inside that maze without anybody interpreting it to you, it’s a matrix. Buhari has to reorganize his administration, he has to push out those who obviously have no business in the government, corrupt and inefficient people are everywhere in this government they must leave now to save our country.”he said

Pregnant Adaeze Yobo steps out in sheer leggings

Joseph Yobo's wife, Adaeze, shared this photo of herself stepping out in a shirt and sheer leggings. The mother-of-two is currently expecting her third child.

Models of all sizes team up for campaign to encourage body positivity

French body-positive blogger Clémentine 'Clem' Desseaux, 28, and 25-year-old British 

model Charli Howard who was told by a modelling agency that she was 'too big' 

at 5'8 and a US size 2-4 to model, have collaborated to create the All Woman 

Project, a campaign aimed at encouraging body positivity.





Speaking to SELF, Charli said about the campaign:

'We really want the media to celebrate women of all shapes and sizes and to stop 

training girls to think they have to be these white, skinny, tall, beauty ideals. 

She added: 'Everyone looks completely different, and we need to embrace 

that and start really encouraging it more in fashion images.'