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  • LAMBOGINNY TO SPEAK TO YOUNG LEADERS

    LAMBOGINNY TO SPEAK TO YOUNG LEADERS

    NIGERIAN singer Lamboginny, has been penciled down among the top leaders to speak at the President Barack Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center (RLC) West Africa cohort 5.

    The artiste was invited because he has constantly used his musical talents to affect the society positively from the age of 25 when he started musical concert therapy in the Nigerian Prison service and fighting for freedom for over 30 helpless inmates.

    Lamboginny became the first Nigerian artiste to be appointed as Ambassador to Nigeria prisons and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and was able to pull of the one million march against drug abuse.

    Speaking on the special invitation, he said “Am humbled and honoured to be specially invited by President Barack Obama’s Young Africa Leaders Initiative (YALI) as a guest speaker/performer at the YALI West Africa Accra RLC Cohort 5…which I am also a participant with other young leaders across West Africa.”

  • Lamboginny laments unapproved sale of own song on iTunes

    Lamboginny laments unapproved sale of own song on iTunes

    Popular Nigerian singer, Lamboginny, has said that his song, Meje, is being sold online without his consent, noting that the song carries the imprint of either Goge Africa or Kcee’s 5Star Music.

    The singer said he was informed a week earlier that his new song is selling on iTunes but he didn’t take it seriously.

    He said: “Sometime during the week, I was informed that one of my new music materials, Meje, is selling on iTunes but I thought it was just a joke because I just finished signing an international digital distribution deal with a Canadian distribution company for my songs, videos and my better part! I mean the video cuts from my humanitarian projects, which I planned mid June. However, I went on iTunes and found my song selling at $1.29 by Goge Africa and 5Star Music, without my knowledge.”

    Lamboginny revealed that he is not signed to either Goge Africa or Five Star Music, and as such, none of them has the right to sell his music.

    “I am not signed under Goge Africa or 5Star Music, so why would they be selling my song; the leading single from my forthcoming album, and a song handpicked to lead my first digital sale online for that matter? We can’t make good money from Alaba Market, we give our songs out to bloggers for free download and iTunes which is our little hope of good record sales and now they are trying to take that away too? NO WAY! I AM GOING TO FIGHT THIS TO THE VERY END. My legal team is coming at you… Why rip me off my intellectual property! Kilode”

    He however said that 5Star artiste, Kcee, has called to disassociate the label from such act,

    “Yes! Kcee and Soso Soborekan have called to disassociate 5Star Music from the evil act and as well vouched to join in the hunt and bring the culprit to justice with their brand name being the signature behind the iTunes upload. But as far as my team and I are concerned, and if the information of upload on iTunes is genuine, then it is a shame that this is being done to us by one of us.”

    The singer said he decided to make a case of the situation because ‘we

    need to join hands together to put a stop the problem of piracy and plagiarism. Goge Africa can as well come out to put up a public disclaimer on this if they truly know nothing about it as done by 5Star Music.”

  • Lamboginny drops theme song for Copa Lagos

    Lamboginny drops theme song for Copa Lagos

    KINETIC Sports, organisers of the Copa Lagos have released the official theme song for the beach football tournament titled Copa Lagos. Written and produced by one of Nigerian’s hottest talents, Lamboginny, management of the sporting outfit say that the new single will bring rhythm and passion to the city of Lagos.

    “As a musician, I have been visiting the Copa Lagos since it started and I noticed that for such a big tournament, we deserve an anthem. I tried to see if I could bring my style of music to become an anthem for sport. We have never really had a dancehall fusion into football anthem song. So I called my producer, we went to the studio and we did the first cut of the song. When I brought it back to Copa, they listened to it and they fell in love with it immediately,” says Lamboginny.

    A 3-day tournament, this year’s edition of Copa Lagos will hold from the December 12 to 14 at the Eko Atlantic City, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.

    CEO of Kinetic Sports, Samson Adamu describes Copa Lagos as more than a sports event, but a lifestyle. Beach soccer fans, he said, will be offered a varied range of activities, fashion shows and family activities, which will bring rhythm and passion to one of the most populous cities in Africa.

    “This year is a very special year for us because we are doing something different. Aside the theme song, for the first time, we will be introducing clubs beach soccer in Nigeria. We have FC Barcelona Beach Soccer Team coming to play with some of the biggest names in African football including Enyimba, Stationery Stores, Pepsi Football Academy and so on.  Also we have a fashion show where six great designers will be showcasing their works. There is also a lineup of amazing artistes who will be performing in our concerts,” Adamu revealed.

    Sponsors of the event include 1960BET, First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Eko Atlantic, Cool FM, LTV, Pepsi and venue sponsors Eko Energy Estate.

  • Lamboginny, Clay take campaign against Ebola to Lagos community

    Lamboginny, Clay take campaign against Ebola to Lagos community

    Sensational singer, Lamboginny and fast-rising rap artiste, Clay, at the weekend, further gave vent to the theme of their recently released musical collaboration titled #Brokenwhen they stormed thesecluded rural community of Nanti village, popularly called the Snake Island, Lagos.

    In excitement, the villagers led by their Baale trooped out to receive the music stars who were joined by members of the Nigerian Red Cross as they enlightened them on the need for personal hygiene in order to live a healthy life.

    Apart from distributing free materials and kits to the inhabitants, medical experts were also on ground to educate them about the dreaded Ebola Disease Virus (EVD).

    Meanwhile, the popular artistes have also offered to give full scholarship to two indigent ‘#Broken children’ to enable them realise their academic ambition.

    According to them, “If you know of any teenager or child who is of a secondary or primary school age living with no support, you can just put a smile on his/her face by sending the name, age, location, class (secondary or primary) and that #Broken story -that is, the touching story about the child and why he/she should be given the scholarship ahead of others-to lamboginny84@gmail.com.”