I remember being in the US and one of my teachers called me to the side and said, ‘you know you’re a really bright kid. You’ve got to stay always focused and keep working hard and you’re gonna be successful’. And that has always stuck to me.

According to him, “the actors in Nigeria have unanimously decided to suspend Emeka Ike indefinitely for anti-guild activities. We have also stripped him as the Vice President, South East of the guild. Let me use this medium to state that the move to suspend him was not made by the Board of Trustees, but AGN members who have been monitoring his anti-guild activities for some time now.”

The word had spread like wildfire that King Sunny Ade has been chosen as Africa’s sole representative to perform at the opening ceremony at the 2010 edition of the World cup held in South Africa.

So much have been said and written about the true state of health of Fuji music maestro, Ayinde Barrister. But the most damning part of the story that really got us worried was when information filtered into our office that the famed fuji musician was in a coma.

Few hours after he led members of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) in a protest march to denounce the decision of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to licence a single CMO in the country, former PMAN president Charly Boy was a guest of the Police command in Abuja.