By Lolade Sowoolu and OpeOluwani Akintayo It’s two weeks to  D-day and nominees are intensifying their campaign for votes on popular social networking sites:  Facebook and Twitter. Organisers of the urbane music award in Nigeria, Smooth Productions, have disclosed that this year’s nominees party will take place in three cities across the country.

I will say women and children are my major fans. Any musician that doesn’t have women or children by his side is not a good musician – His music is not accepted. Children come around me a lot. I like women very well because my mother is a woman. But in terms of sleeping with women, I don’t indulge that much. I’m married and I have a kid. So I want the best for my family.

‘Move on, we must’, that’s the slogan that drives Yoruba rapper, Lord of Ajasa, at the moment. After suffering a deal gone sour with the marketer of his sophomore album, Tjoe, the rapper has refused to be deterred from releasing commercial music as he last week released 3rd Avenue- his third body of works.

He, in the presence of the police PRO, Supt Frank Mba, agreed upon negotiation to pay the sum of N 1,174, 000 for expenses and losses incurred by the botched show organisers. On the spot, he paid the N100, 000, he had brought along and gave his word to pay up the balance.

All roads lead to the nation’s number one celebrity hang out on Sunday, May 9 when Nigeria’s fast rising Yoruba music goddess, Oluyinka Ayanda, attempts to fulfill her life long dream of carving a niche for herself in the music hall of fame, as she formally launches her debut album, titled Teni N Teni