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Kuboye’s Son, Baba T, Launches Musical Career
Coming from a background steeped in music, it didn’t come as a surprise that Babatunmida Kuboye, the son of renowned jazz duo, Tunde and Fran Kuboye (Fran died in 1997), has decided to launch a professional music career.
Though Baba, as he prefers to be called by fans and friends, has always been on the periphery of the music industry by virtue of his regular sessions at his parents’ popular Jazz 38 Club with The Extended Family Band and even released an album to lukewarm reception years back, the London-based RF Engineer is now keen to give established Nigerian music stars a run for their talent and artistry.
•Baba T
He is coming to the scene with a new single titled, Baba De Baba, accompanied with a video shot on location in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
“My guiding principle in doing music is that it should always be fun. I had fun making the track. From the composition to the recording in the UK to the video shoot in Florida. My hope is that people will also have fun while they watch and listen to it,” Baba said.
He added that despite the fact that he only has one single at the moment, he is upbeat about his chances of overcoming any challenges that will confront him on his way to stardom.
“I have been exposed to some of the good and bad sides of the industry due to my background. I have also had personal experience while doing my music. Though nothing can ever fully prepare one for the wonderful world of the music industry, I think I have a good support system and experience to deal with what comes my way,” he said.
“ There are other artistes like me who compose or produce their own music, rap, play an instrument and run their own label. I am bringing an alternative. That alternative is just the music that I compose which I think is distinct. My music is urban, but you will still hear some jazz or Afrobeat influences in my compositions,” he said.
This, he admits, is because he grew up listening to the popular music of his generation.
“I like the commercial and style of putting music on wax. My folks always insisted that music be seen as an expression and nothing more, so I don’t do music out of an expectation or for any other reason apart from deep interest, burning passion and great desire,” Baba reiterated.
No doubt, his family’s Afrobeat and Jazz background remains a big influence in his career, though Baba is always receptive to other genres of music.
He took a keen interest in hip-hop when he listened to the late American gangster rapper, 2Pac Shakur’s fourth studio album titled All Eyes On Me in the mid- 90’s.
He recalled that his dad bought a CD changer at the time and 2Pac’s album was among the free CDs given out as part of the package.
“I felt the lyrical content and the beats on 2Pac’s album and that got me into rapping. I also listened to other rappers such as Nas and before I knew it, I became more conscious and thoughtful with my lyrics. These days, my musical taste is more eclectic; I like to hear the collection of sounds. I will try anything once – but my favourite stuff is urban music,” he said.
Not surprisingly, as Baba started writing his own songs in his teens he took more time to rap; to the consternation of many who thought he would follow in the footsteps of his father by doing Afrobeat or Jazz. The drawback, he says, was that he felt his voice was too deep to be a lead singer and that was his reason for not taking to Afrobeat or Jazz.
“One would expect that given my background, I would be doing Afrobeat or Jazz. If you put it in terms of genre of music, it is a deviation. But if you put it in terms of what my parents and uncle (Fela) did – it’s actually not that different.
“I think my parents took to jazz because it was the popular and cool music in their time. Fela formed Afrobeat and made it a popular music then and even beyond his time. I grew up listening to these kinds of music as well as what was on radio and TV. Having been exposed to all these as a kid, it allowed me appreciate music, its composition and instrumentation,” he said.
The young rapper whose late mother, Fran (nee Ransome-Kuti) was a singer, pianist, painter, saxophonist and dentist; and his dad a bass guitarist and entrepreneur, said he is not into music for competition but rather to contribute his quota as a talented artiste.
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The Kano State Government on Saturday said it has transferred 1,098 ‘almajiris’ to different states of the country.
The commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo, disclosed this while presenting a report before the state’s task force on COVID-19 at the government house, Kano.
Almajiris are children who are supposed to be learning Islamic studies while living with their Islamic teachers. Majority of them, however, end up begging on the streets of Northern Nigeria. They constitute a large number of Nigeria’s over 10 million out-of-school children.
Mr Garo said the Kano government transported 419 almajiris to Katsina, 524 to Jigawa and 155 to Kaduna. He said all of them tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the Kano State.
Despite the coronavirus test done in Kano for the almajiris, the Jigawa government earlier said it would quarantine for two weeks all the almajiris that recently arrived from Kano.
Mr Garo said another 100 almajiris scheduled to be taken to Bauchi State also tested negative to COVID-19.
In a remark, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said the COVID-19 situation in Kano was getting worse. He appealed for a collaborative effort to curtail the spread of the virus in the state.
Mr Ganduje, who commended residents for complying with the lockdown imposed in the state, said the decision was taken to halt the spread of the virus.
Kano State, as of Saturday night, has 77 coronavirus cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
The decision to transfer the Kano almajiris is part of the agreement reached between Northern governors that almajiris in each state be transferred to their states of origin.
However, even before the latest agreement by the governors, the Kano government had been transferring almajiris to other states and neighbouring countries after it banned street begging in the state, most populous in Northern Nigeria.
Despite the transfers, however, no concrete step has been taken to ensure such children do not return to Kano streets as there is freedom of movement across Nigeria although interstate travel was recently banned to check the spread of the coronavirus.
Sourced From: Premium Times Nigeria
By Ugochukwu Alaribe
Operatives of the Abia State Vigilante Service, AVS, popularly known as ‘Bakassi Boys’ have arrested 24 market women hidden in a container truck, at Ekwereazu Ngwa, the boundary community between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.
The market women, said to be from Akwa Ibom State, were on their way to Aba, when they were arrested with the truck driver and two of his conductors for violating the lockdown order by the state government.
Driver of the truck, Moses Asuquo, claimed he was going to Aba to purchase stock fish, but decided to assist the market women, because they were stranded.
A vigilante source told Sunday Vanguard that the vehicle was impounded while the market women were sent back to Akwa Ibom State.
Commissioner for Home Land Security, Prince Dan Okoli, who confirmed the incident, said that smuggling of people into the state poses great threat to the state government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID- 19.
Sourced From: Vanguard News
Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba of the Lagos State police command have arrested one Mrs Nene Steve for allegedly killing her maid, Joy Adole
The maid was allegedly beaten to death by Nene for requesting for her salary at their residence located at 18, Ogundola Street, Bariga area in Lagos.
Narrating the incident, Philips Ejeh, an elder brother to the deceased said that he was sad when they informed him that his sister was beaten to death.
He explained that the deceased was an indigene of Benue State brought to Lagos through an agent and started working with her as a maid in January 2020.
‘’She reported that her boss refused to pay her and anytime she asked for her salary she will start beating her.
She was making an attempt to leave the place but due to the total lockdown she remained there until Sunday when her boss said she caught her stealing noodles and this led to her serious beating and death,’’ Ejeh said.
He called on Lagos State Government and well- meaning people in the country to help them in getting justice for the victim.
The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, stated that the woman and her husband came to Bariga Police Station to a report that their house girl had committed suicide.
Detectives were said to have visited the house and suspected foul play with the position of the rope and bruises all over the body which confirmed that the girl had been tortured to death and the boss decided to hang up the girl to make it look like suicide.
He said: “The police moved on with their investigation and found a lot of sign of violence on her body that she has been tortured before a rope was put on her neck.’’
He added that the police removed the corpse and deposited it in the mortuary for autopsy to further ascertain the cause of the death.
Elkana said the matter has been transferred from Bariga police station to Panti for further investigation while the couple have been arrested and will be charged to court.
Ostensibly alarmed by the latest killings of dozens of soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an urgent meeting of Service Chiefs to find ways to stop the trend.
He has also dispatched the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to the neighbouring Republic of Chad for an urgent meeting with President Idris Deby and his defence counterpart.
Knowledgeable sources said in Abuja on Friday that the president is worried by on the deterioration of security situation on the Nigeria – Chad Border that has led to the recently increased Boko Haram terrorism in the area.
The sources which did not want to be named in Abuja said: “Nigeria has a Chad problem in the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) put together to secure the Lake Chad basin areas and repeal the Boko Haram terrorist attacks against all the countries neighbouring the Lake.”
The sources noted that Chad is believed to be having their own internal security challenges and this has reportedly led to their pulling away their own troops manning their own border around Lake Chad, saying: “That lacuna is being exploited by the Boko Haram terrorists, who go in and out of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon to launch terrorist acts. This is a clear illustration of the fact that terrorism is beyond national borders.”
When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed that the Defence Minister is going to Chad but said he is unaware of the purpose.
Meanwhile, the military authorities are said to be in the process of identifying the families of the latest victims with a view to making contact with them.
Credible sources revealed that it is the reason the president is yet to make any pronouncement on the matter.
“The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs, as well as the fact that families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. This, it is understood, is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,” the source said.
Sourced From: Tribune
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