Veteran musician, Sound Sultan, has aired his opinion on the quality of music being churned out in recent times, while lamenting the lack of content and originality that is gradually becoming characteristic of Nigerian music.

With a couple of successful singles to his credit, fast rising singer, Minjin, is gradually finding a comfortable spot on the Nigerian music scene, and he doesn’t seem to be relenting in his resolve to take over the industry with his never-say-never attitude.

I get amused while passing through some neighbourhoods. I see bare-bodied young men walking in the streets, parading their well-chiseled bodies. I always say to myself, I hope these guys are also building their mental muscles.

Nigerians say: “Like father, like son.” Igbos will say, whatever a snake births must be long. When NEPA was unbundled and privatized, the government promised an end to darkness. These new electricity companies haven’t just continued in NEPA’s dark ways. They have taken to the superciliousness and poor work ethics of public institutions that characterised NEPA.

When Thomas Edison deaf at the time, invented the phonograph, he probably never anticipated popular music, let alone musician such as Bongos Ikwue. The possibilities Edison imagined for the recording industry began with the spoken word and ended with classical music.

IN the days when highlife music truly thrived and was well sustained, one of its key exponents was the legendary Chief Dr. Sunday ‘Oliver De Coque’ Akanite. He popularized the highlife music genre, locally and internationally but as fate would have it, Oliver De Coque passed away, nearly nine years ago, (on June 20, 2008) after a heart attack.

When l wrote what l thought was a thought provoking article on the steady descent of Nigerian socioeconomic environment into a situation that is comparable to an Intensive Care Unit, ICU of a hospital, l had no inkling that l would sooner than later be a victim of an ICU situation.

I don’t know if anybody made a physical count, but the reports in the media was that 34 private jets landed in Minna for the wedding of Halima, the daughter of General Ibrahim Babangida. In other words, the figure could have been more or less. But 34 jets for a wedding?

It has been a busy week for the government and people of Enugu State following avalanche of activities heralding the second year anniversary in office of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on May 29, 2017.

A cross section of workers who spoke to Saturday Vanguard through their unions, were unanimous that the past two years of the administration have been extremely difficult, characterized by untold hardships, job losses, unpaid salaries and frustration among others.