Yemi Alade has reaffirmed her decision to sign two new female artistes.
The self-acclaimed Mama Africa said “I put out the word that I was going to do that and my email at the moment is full to be sincere, so I am going through every one of them because I want it to be personal because there is a lot of talent obviously and a lot of people have been sending their emails, and eventually Thank God for this time so I get more time to listen to what has been sent.
source: The Nation
The world-famous song Pata Pata, a South African dance hit from the 1960s, has been re-released with new lyrics to spread information about coronavirus to vulnerable communities.
Meaning “touch touch” in the Xhosa language, Pata Pata was written by Grammy-winning singer Miriam Makeba who named it after a dance move popular in Johannesburg at the time.The new version sung by Beninese artist Angelique Kidjo includes lyrics such as, “We need to keep our hands clean so ‘no-Pata Pata’... Don’t touch your face, keep distance please and ‘no-Pata Pata’”.
It will be played on more than 15 radio stations across African countries, said the UN children’s agency, Unicef,which organized the release.
“It sounds so simple and yet it’s still really difficult to get information out to people in the most remote areas or to people who aren’t online,” said Unicef
Nicknamed “Mama Africa”, Makeba helped popularise music from the continent worldwide.
She was a friend and mentor to Kidjo, a Unicef goodwill ambassador and one of the biggest African celebrities of the last decade.
John Oluseun
Dabiri (Yoruba: John Olúseun Dábírí ) (born 1980) is a Nigerian-American
aeronautics engineer and the Centennial Chair Professor at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech), with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace
Laboratories (GALCIT) and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on
unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with particular emphasis on topics
relevant to biology, energy, and the environment. He is best known for his
research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a
vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the
Biological Propulsion Laboratory, which examines fluid transport with
applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac
flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts
of optimal vortex formation.
In 2010,
Dabiri was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his theoretical engineering work.
He established the Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy (FLOWE)
in 2011, a wind farm which investigates the energy exchange in an array of
vertical-axis wind turbines. His honors include a Young Investigator Award from
the Office of Naval Research, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE), and being named as one of Popular Science magazine's
"Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. [6] Bloomberg Businessweek
magazine listed him among its 2012 Technology Innovators.
John Dabiri is Professor of Civil & Environmental
Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research
focuses on science and technology at the intersection of fluid mechanics, energy
and environment, and biology. Honors for this work include a MacArthur
Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and a
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Popular
Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists for
his research in bio-inspired propulsion. For his research in bio-inspired wind
energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology
Innovators, and MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35
innovators under 35. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, and in 2018 he won the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in
Teaching. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Fluid
Mechanics and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
John received his B.S.E. summa cum laude in Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2001, his M.S. in
Aeronautics from Caltech in 2003, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor
in Aeronautics from Caltech in 2005. He joined the Caltech faculty in 2005, was
granted tenure in 2009, and he was promoted to full professor in 2010. During
his 10 years on the Caltech faculty, he served as Chair of the Faculty Board
and as the Dean of Students.
By Molly Fosco
At an Onyejekwe family get-together, you can’t throw a stone
without hitting someone with a master’s degree. Doctors, lawyers, engineers,
professors — every family member is highly educated and professionally
successful, and many have a lucrative side gig to boot. Parents and
grandparents share stories of whose kid just won an academic honor, achieved an
athletic title or performed in the school play. Aunts, uncles and cousins
celebrate one another’s job promotions or the new nonprofit one of them just
started. To the Ohio-based Onyejekwes, this level of achievement is normal.
They’re Nigerian-American — it’s just what they do.
Today, 29 percent of Nigerian-Americans over the age of 25 hold
a graduate degree, compared to 11 percent of the overall U.S. population,
according to the Migrations Policy Institute. Among Nigerian-American
professionals, 45 percent work in education services, the 2016 American
Community Survey found, and many are professors at top universities. Nigerians
are entering the medical field in the U.S. at an increased rate, leaving their
home country to work in American hospitals, where they can earn more and work
in better facilities. A growing number of Nigerian-Americans are becoming
entrepreneurs and CEOs, building tech companies in the U.S. to help people back
home.
It hasn’t been easy — the racist stereotypes are far from
gone. Last year, President Donald Trump reportedly said in an Oval Office
discussion that Nigerians would never go back to “their huts” once they saw
America. But overt racism hasn’t stopped Nigerian-Americans from creating jobs,
treating patients, teaching students and contributing to local communities in
their new home, all while confidently emerging as one of the country’s most
succesful immigrant communities, with a median household income of $62,351,
compared to $57,617 nationally, as of 2015.
NIGERIAN-AMERICANS ARE BEGINNING TO MAKE A MARK IN SPORTS,
ENTERTAINMENT AND THE CULINARY ARTS.
“I think Nigerian-Americans offer a unique, flashy style and
flavor that people like,” says Chukwuemeka Onyejekwe, who goes by his rap name
Mekka Don. He points to Nigerian cuisine like jollof rice that’s gaining
popularity in the U.S. But more importantly, Mekka says, Nigerians bring a
“connectivity and understanding of Africa” to the U.S. “Many [Americans] get
their understanding of ’the motherland’ through our experiences and stories,”
he adds.
The Nigerian-American journey is still relatively new
compared with that of other major immigrant communities that grew in the U.S.
in the 20th century. The Nigerian-American population stood at 376,000 in 2015,
according to the Rockefeller Foundation–Aspen Institute. That was roughly the
strength of the Indian-American community back in 1980, before it emerged as a
leading light in fields ranging from economics to technology. But
Nigerian-Americans are already beginning to make a dent in the national
consciousness. In the case of forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, he’s
helping fix hits to the brain. The 49-year-old Omalu was the first to discover
and publish on chronic traumatic encephalopathy in American football players
(Will Smith played him in the 2015 film Concussion). ImeIme A. Umana, the first
Black woman elected president of the Harvard Law Review last year, is
Nigerian-American. In 2016, Nigerian-born Pearlena Igbokwe became president of
Universal Television, making her the first woman of African descent to head a
major U.S. TV studio. And the community has expanded rapidly, up from just
25,000 people in 1980.
Traditionally, education has been at the heart of the
community’s success. But success isn’t so easily defined within the culture
anymore. Nigerian-Americans are beginning to make a mark in sports,
entertainment and the culinary arts too — like Nigerian chef Tunde Wey in New
Orleans, who recently made headlines for using food to highlight racial wealth
inequality in America.
It was education that brought an early wave of Nigerians to
the U.S. in the 1970s. After the war against Biafra separatists in the ’60s,
the Nigerian government sponsored scholarships for students to pursue higher
education abroad. English-speaking Nigerian students excelled at universities
in the U.S. and U.K., often finding opportunities to continue their education
or begin their professional career in their host country. That emphasis on
education has since filtered through to their children’s generation.
Dr. Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola was born in Columbus, Ohio,
to such Nigerian immigrant parents. Her mother is a retired engineer, now a
professor at Walden University; her father is a retired professor, now a
strategist at a consulting firm focused on governance in Africa. “Education was
always a major priority for my parents because it was their ticket out of
Nigeria,” Olayiwola says. Her parents used their network of academics to get
Olayiwola thinking about a career in medicine from a young age — by 11, she was
going to summits for minorities interested in health care. Olayiwola was
constantly busy as a kid doing homework and sports and participating in
National Honor Society and biomedical research programs, but it was the norm,
she says; her Nigerian roots meant it was expected of her.
Today, Olayiwola is a family physician, the chief clinical
transformation officer of RubiconMD, a leading health tech company, associate
clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco, instructor in
family medicine at Columbia University, and an author. Her new book, Papaya
Head, detailing her experience as a first-generation Nigerian-American, will be
published later this year. Olayiwola’s siblings are equally successful – her
older brother, Okey Onyejekwe, is also a physician, her younger brother, Mekka
Don, is a lawyer turned rapper, and her sister, Sylvia Ify Onyejekwe, Esq, is
the managing partner of her own New Jersey law firm.
But Olayiwola feels she needs to do more. She doesn’t want
America’s gain to be Nigeria’s permanent loss.
***
Olayiwola and her brother, Okey, stay active in the
Nigerian-American community. In 1998, they co-founded the Student Association
of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas, which organizes at least two medical
mission trips to Nigeria each year. Between 2000 and 2004, the siblings often
flew the nearly 8,000 miles to Nigeria to perform screenings for preventable
diseases. They took blood pressure, advised patients on diabetes and obesity
prevention, and provided prenatal counseling in rural areas.
“I feel a tremendous sense of wanting to go back [to
Nigeria] and help,” says Olayiwola.
It’s a sentiment shared by many in the Nigerian-American
community. But it’s easier said than done for some of America’s most qualified
professionals to leave world-class facilities and a comfortable life to return
permanently to a nation that, while Africa’s largest economy, remains mired in
political instability and corruption.
In the 1970s and ’80s, some foreign-educated Nigerian
graduates returned home, but found political and economic instability in a
postwar country. In 1966, the country’s military overthrew the regime of
independent Nigeria’s first prime minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. It was the
first of a series of military coups — again, later, in 1966, then in 1975,
1976, 1983, 1985 and 1993 — that were to deny the country even a semblance of
democracy until 1999.
“My parents were expected to study in the U.S. or U.K. and
then go back to Nigeria,” says Dr. Nnenna Kalu Makanjuola, who grew up in
Nigeria and now lives in Atlanta. Her parents did return, but with few jobs
available in the economic decline of the 1980s, many Nigerians did not. Within
a few years of their return, Makanjuola’s parents too decided it was best to
build their lives elsewhere.
Makanjuola, who has a pharmacy degree, works in public
health and is the founder and editor in chief of Radiant Health Magazine, came
to the U.S. when her father won a Diversity Immigrant Visa in 1995 — a program
Trump wants to dismantle. Makanjuola’s father moved the family to Texas so his
children could have access to better universities. Makanjuola intended to one
day pursue her career in Nigeria as her parents had, but it’s too hard to leave
the U.S., she says: “Many Nigerians intend to go back, but it’s impractical because
there’s more opportunity here.”
As an undergraduate student in Nigeria, Jacob Olupona, now a
professor of African religious traditions at Harvard Divinity School, was a
well-known activist in his community. He considered a career in politics, but a
mentor changed his mind. The mentor told Olupona: “Don’t go into politics
because you’re too honest and don’t join the military because you’re too
smart.” So Olupona headed to Boston University instead, to study the history of
religions — a subject he had always found fascinating as the son of a priest.
Like Olayiwola, the importance of education was instilled in him from a young
age but so too was the importance of spreading knowledge. “When you educate one
person, you educate the whole community,” Olupona says. That belief is what
translated into his career as a teacher.
Olupona stresses that Nigerians have also achieved a lot in
their country of origin. Moving to the U.S. isn’t the only route to success, he
says. Still, he believes the many academic opportunities in the U.S. have
benefited Nigerians. “There’s something about America and education that we
need to celebrate,” he says.
Marry those American opportunities with an upbringing that
emphasizes education, a drive to serve the U.S. while not forgetting their
roots, and a growing penchant for success, and you have a unique cocktail that
is the Nigerian-American community today.
Anyone from the Nigerian diaspora will tell you their
parents gave them three career choices: doctor, lawyer or engineer. For a
younger generation of Nigerian-Americans, that’s still true, but many are
adding a second career, or even a third, to that trajectory.
Anie Akpe works full time as vice president of mortgages at
Municipal Credit Union in New York City, but she’s also the founder of
Innov8tiv magazine, African Women in Technology (an education and mentorship
program) and an app called NetWorq that connects professionals. Raised in the
southern port city of Calabar, she had the Nigerian hustle baked into her
upbringing. “There was no such thing as ‘can’t’ in our household,” she says.
Akpe’s banking career fulfilled her parent’s expectations, but she wanted to do
more. Four and a half years ago, she launched Innov8tiv to highlight success
stories back home in Nigeria and throughout the African continent. Through her
magazine and through African Women in Technology, which offers networking
events, mentorship opportunities and internships, Akpe is helping propel women
into careers like hers. “Africa is male-dominated in most sectors,” she says.
“If I can show young women there are ways to do things within our culture that
allow them to grow, then I’ve been successful.”
***
Like Akpe, rapper Mekka Don took a traditional career route
at first. He got a law degree from New York University and worked at a top-10
law firm, but he had always wanted to pursue music. At 25, Mekka, who is the
younger brother of Jacqueline Olayiwola, and Sylvia and Okey Onyejekwe, decided
to take the plunge.
Fellow attorneys ridiculed him, asking incredulously: “Who
leaves a law career to become a rapper?” But his family was understanding —
part of a shift in attitudes that Mekka says he increasingly sees in his
parents’ generation of Nigerian-Americans. “My parents see how lucrative music
can be,” he says, adding, “They also get excited when they see me on TV.”
The lawyer turned rapper has been featured on MTV and VH1,
has a licensing agreement with ESPN to play his music during college football
broadcasts and just released a new single, “Nip and Tuck.” He still has that
law degree to fall back on and it comes in handy in his current career too. “I
never need anyone to read contracts for me, so I save a ton on lawyer fees,”
Mekka says.
The community’s drive to succeed sounds exhausting at times,
particularly if you never feel you’ve reached the finish line. Omalu, the
forensic pathologist, was recently in the news again after his independent
autopsy of Sacramento youth Stephon Clark showed that the 22-year-old was
repeatedly shot in the back by police officers, which conflicted with the
Sacramento Police report.
But if you ask Omalu about his success, he’s quick to
correct. “I’m not successful,” Omalu says, adding that he won’t consider himself
so until he can “wake up one day, do absolutely nothing and there will be no
consequences.” Part of Omalu’s humility is faith-based: “I was given a talent
to serve,” he says. Omalu has eight degrees, has made life-changing medical
discoveries and has been portrayed by a famous actor on screen, but he doesn’t
revel in his accomplishments.
And what about Nigerians who come to the U.S. and don’t
succeed? Wey, the activist chef, says there’s a lot of pressure to fit a
certain mold when you’re Nigerian. Choosing the right career is only one part
of that. “You have to be heterosexual, you have to have children, you have to
have all of those degrees,” he says of the cultural expectations he was raised
with. “It limits the possibilities of what Nigerians can be.”
While others agree it can be stressful at times, they say
the high career bar isn’t a burden to them. “I don’t know anything else,” says
Olayiwola about being raised to value education and success. Akpe feels the
same. “You’re not thinking it’s hard, it’s just something you do,” she says.
Now that doctor, lawyer and engineer are no longer the only
acceptable career options within the community, the path to professional
achievement is rife with more possibilities than ever before. Sports, entertainment,
music, the culinary arts — there are few fields Nigerian-Americans aren’t
already influencing. And the negative stereotypes? Hold onto them at your own
peril.
SOURCE: OZY
Nigeria has recorded 87 new cases of coronavirus pandemic in nine states of the federation - This was disclosed in the late night of Saturday, April 25, by the NCDC - The total cases of COVID-19 in the country now stand at 1182 .
Nigeria has recorded 87 new
cases of coronavirus pandemic as Lagos state took the lead with 33 while Borno,
Osun, and Katsina have 18, 12, and 9 respectively. Legit.ng reports that the
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on the evening of
Saturday, April 25 via its Twitter handle @NCDCgov. Other states included
Katsina (9), Kano (4), Ekiti (4), Edo (3), Bauchi (3) and Imo (1). The NCDC said
that as at 11:55 pm on April 25, there were 1182 confirmed cases of coronavirus
reported in Nigeria.
Source: https://www.legit.ng
Regardless you’re a student, stay-at-home mom or even a top
executive or businessperson, Amazon helps everyone make money. Amazon’s money
making programs are very simple to join and the company offers generous pay
too.
Amazon Associates is the most popular affiliate marketing program in the world. It’s open to anyone that has a social media page, blog or website. Joining is free. Once you join, Amazon provides a free dashboard where you can create excellent ads and affiliate links for your social media, blog or website. Whenever anyone clicks on your affiliate link to buy something, you get a small commission, Amazon pays between two and 20 percent of the cost of the product (minus taxes and freight) for your efforts. In fact, a lot of bloggers are earning loads of money through Amazon Associates. They write excellent and honest reviews of products that attracts people to buy the stuff.
2. Amazon Flex
Amazon Flex is the simplest way to make money on Amazon. Anyone with a valid driving license and a vehicle can join Amazon Flex. They pay varies from $12 per hour to $30 per hour. The pay varies according to nature of delivery and the goods. Sometimes, you can get tips from happy customers too.
3. Self-Publish on Amazon
If you’re an author or poet or even a professional that can
teach some vital skills, it’s possible to make money from Amazon through its
self-publish program.
4. Sell on Amazon
Anyone from a Multinational Company (MNC) to startups, small retailers to brand owners can become a seller on Amazon. If you have a startup, home based business and would like to grow your customers, Amazon provides an ideal platform. In fact, Amazon states that more than half the products it sells are from other companies.
Amazon Business is a very special platform that encourages
Business-to-Business (B2B) sales and purchases.
This service is particularly helpful if you have a business that serves
other companies.
These could be stuff like machinery, industrial applications, chemicals and lots more. Amazon also provides an economical B2B advertising facility to promote your products and services. Selling on Amazon Business is helping a lot of foreign companies get products from America and elsewhere they were unable to procure earlier.
6. Sell Apps on Amazon
Software developers can make money on Amazon by developing
apps for Amazon Fire Stick TV and other Android-based devices sold by the
company.
To do so, you’ll need an Amazon Developer account, which is
free to open. Amazon allows you to run tests for your app free of cost and
later, publish the same for sale on Amazon App Store.
7. Merch by Amazon
Merch by Amazon is a service that helps you make money on Amazon. Actually, this is a way that creative people can make money on Amazon. You can upload your artwork on Amazon for free. And whenever anyone buys that, you get the money. Merch is an exclusive service for discerning clients. You can create artwork on shirts, garments and other stuff and stock with Amazon. The company will ship the stuff upon order as a ‘Prime’ consignment so you get money faster.
8. Sell Your Services on Amazon
Amazon also helps you sell your professional services to large and small companies through its Services on Amazon section. You can provide any service- from housekeeping to moving, repairs to annual maintenance or even highly professional skills such as consulting. Selling services on Amazon is an ideal feature for professionals in various fields.
9. Advertise Your Products on Amazon
Amazon also offers digital marketing services by allowing
you to advertise your products on its own website as well as others. However,
the sale will always be through Amazon or your company.
This service is available for skilled digital marketers. It
involves creating excellent ads and providing other digital ads for various
suppliers and associates of Amazon.
10. Work for Amazon Fulfillment
Festival and shopping seasons brings about countless orders
from people across America and foreign countries to Amazon. This automatically
translates as heavy work at Amazon Fulfillment Centers that operate around the
country.
During such peak shopping seasons, Amazon enlists the help
of people like you and I to fetch the order from their shelf, packaging,
labeling and dispatching, as usual. Pay depends on the nature of your work. And
this isn’t a regular employment.
11. Earn Money with mTurk
Amazon Mechanical Turk or mTurk is a very popular way to
make money on Amazon. However, it isn’t available round the year. Amazon
announces its mTurk program in advance through announcements on its website.
As Amazon mTurk member, you have to perform micro tasks.
These include detecting and deleting wrong images of products, proofreading product
descriptions, removing duplicate listings and so on.
12. Amazon Influencer
Are you popular on social media such as Facebook? Become an
Amazon Influencer and start making money by attracting people to buy various
kinds of products from Amazon. You will actually be using the product and
speaking of its pros and cons that attract people to buy from Amazon.
13. Amazon Delivery Service Partner
For obvious reasons, Amazon cannot own a fleet of thousands
of vehicles of assorted shapes and sizes. Therefore, Amazon has a program known
as Amazon Delivery Service Partner. And this is open to owners of small to
large fleet of vehicles.
As Amazon Delivery Service Partner, you’ll carry a truckload
of orders from the nearest Amazon Fulfillment Centre to a local delivery
station.
14. Amazon Handmade
Every craftsperson can sell their handmade stuff such as
embroidered goods, paintings, sculptures and handicrafts through the Amazon
Handmade platform and make money.
It’s worth remembering that Amazon Handmade is strictly for
craftsperson. Therefore, never try to sell anything that isn’t unique on Amazon
Handmade.
15. Amazon Prime Direct
Stream your favorite videos worldwide to subscribers of
Amazon Prime Videos and its affiliate partners. You will be paid for these
efforts. Amazon gets lost of request top videos of movies, soap opera and lots
more.
Obviously, Amazon cannot maintain a library of videos and
top music. When you telecast as part of their Amazon Prime, you can earn money
using Amazon.
16. Amazon Games
Love computer games? Amazon allows you to make money while
playing online games with others or allowing them to watch the battles as
spectator. There’s a wide selection of popular games that any aficionado will
find interesting.
All you need to do is live stream your game to an audience.
And Amazon pays you because they collect revenue from advertising during your
game.
17. Amazon Reviews
There’s a special reason I’m mentioning Amazon Reviews as
the last way to make money on Amazon. There’re several companies that will
offer freebies or very high discounts for buying their products through Amazon
and leave an excellent review.
This system continues to flourish despite certain lawsuits that have come up before the Federal Trade Commission from unhappy customers. These customers bought the stuff after reading excellent reviews. However, they were soon disappointed and complained to the FTC.
Therefore, I would not recommend this way to make money on
Amazon. Instead, Amazon has its own reviewer program. This is voluntary and you
don’t get any money to leave an excellent review.
18. Teach Alexa Skills
Teaching and creating skills for Amazon Alexa, the
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based personal assistant Alexa and selling digital
products through Alexa isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
However, if you have excellent AI skills and wish to sell
digital products for Alexa, you can make enough money with Amazon.
19. Amazon Web Service Marketplace
Amazon Web Services or AWS is a service from Amazon that
helps you sell date, software and other IT based applications to companies and
retail users.
AWS helps you upload the date, software and applications on
their Cloud system. Buyers need to pay and download your data or software. You get a large chunk- almost 80 percent- of
the software you sell.
20. Manufacture for Amazon
Yes, I’m right. Amazon also has a few of its own branded
products. These include batteries, garments and almost every other thing that
can be sold via Amazon.
However, the product will bear the Amazon name. If you’re
not worried about the branding, manufacture goods under the Amazon brand and
make money.
source: moneyconnexion.com
Former Super Eagles forward and Nigeria’s soccer ambassador, Daniel Amokachi, has revealed that he slept at the altar of Prophet T.B Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations for weeks in search of miracle but to no avail.
Amokachi had flown back to the Lagos-based Synagogue Church of All Nations, while attempting to relaunch his career after suffering a protracted knee injury he sustained ahead of the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
The Ojude Oba festival is an annual celebration by the Yoruba people of Ijebu-Ode, a major town in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. This v...
