Primed to chart a new direction for his career, Gongo Aso crooner, Abolore Akande, popularly known as 9ice, has joined the likes of Mavins Records and Iyanya by signing a deal with Temple Management Company.
The deal was consummated last Thursday at the corporate office of the company in Victoria Island, Lagos and witnessed by representatives of both parties.
While receiving 9ice, Idris Olorunnimbe, CEO/ Founder, TMC noted that 9ice still commands a strong place in Nigerian music.
“We recognize the foundation that 9ice has built and established, together we can build on and take it to newer heights,” Olorunnimbe said.
“At Temple Management Company, we do not gamble but believe in strategy and pinpoint execution.”
He explained further, “With our team and structure, we are here to support 9ice to actualize his career goals. In 9ice, we see a brand that has an important and strategic core that we can expand.”
TMC has amassed clients in sports, arts, media and of course, entertainment. Some of its clients include Don Jazzy, Mavin Records, Project Fame winner, Jeff and Iyanya,
In his remarks, 9ice said, “For me, this is the right thing to do at this stage in my career and indeed for any forward thinking artiste. When we started music, we grew with the knowledge that everything was all about the artiste; you are the manager, owner of the record label etc. We did this to the best of our ability.”
“This is the time to give experienced professionals the chance to take care of you because one will become the better for it. Temple Management are like our own Sony or BMG in Nigeria. Any artiste who plans to grow need to work with the right people such as Temple Management Company.
9ice kick-started his singing career with Fuji music but his career would take a big leap when he teamed up with ID Cabasa’s Alapomeji Records.
He is best known for his multiple award-winning song Gongo and its eponymous album and won the MOBO Best African Act in 2008, same year of album release. His albums include Certificate (2007), Gongo Aso (2008), Tradition (2009), Certificate and Tradition reloaded (2010), Bashorun Gaa/Versus (2011), CNN/GRA (2014).
Tag: New Deal
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9ice signs new deal with TMC
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New deal for Benue people
Most often, great men are born poor or had deprived backgrounds. That could be said of the current governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom who hails from Guma Local Government Area.
Though he had his primary school at St. John’s Primary School Gboko and St Catherine’s Primary School Makurdi and his secondary education at Idah Secondary Commercial College Idah, in the present Kogi State, he dropped out in form two in 1979 when his father who was retired from service could not pay his school fees. But he was resolute to forge ahead.
Governor Ortom told our correspondent that out of the will to succeed in life, he moved into Gboko garage as a tout.
He said: “Refusing to be frustrated in life, I had to go to Gboko garage and became a tout to earn a living. It was in that garage that a good-spirited Nigerian taught me how to drive because I was very dedicated to duty. Another person also gave me some money to obtain a driving licence, after which he was employed as a professional driver. On recommendation, he became the driver and confidant of a prominent Gboko-based Christian leader and politician, Pa Samu Ihugh.
Governor Ortom enrolled at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and obtained both the Interim Joint Matriculation Board Certificate, in 1995 and Diploma in Journalism in 1998. He also attended the Benue State University where he obtained the Advanced Diploma in Personnel Management in 2001 as well as Masters of Public Administration in 2004.
He crowned his educational pursuit with a PhD from the Commonwealth University, Belize, through distance learning. His working experience spans the private, public as well as political spheres. He rose from Salesman to Sales Manager with Gyado Foods Company Limited, before his election as Executive Chairman of Guma Local Government Area from 1991 to 1993 on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
He told our correspondent that since 1992, he had nursed the ambition and vision to be the governor of Benue State and has diligently worked towards the vision.
He, however, said the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) attempted to frustrate the vision but only delayed it.
“ I contested the governorship position on the platform of the PDP, but was rigged out. Having lost the PDP primaries, some people called and advised me to join the APC.
“They told me that the APC constitution as amended allowed any one to join the party and contest election, I asked the leader of the party Senator George Akume and he confirmed it. So, I resigned from PDP and joined the APC.
“The people of Benue State supported me massively because they believed in me and the God I serve. I have been around them for long; I’m a grassroots politician and have set up industries which employed over 400 people. So, they believed I can create job and wealth if elected as governor,” he said.
Priority
Governor Ortom revealed that his main priority is to create wealth, encourage micro-businesses for our people, rule with the fear of God and tackle security; this is because, without security, there is nothing one can do, especially with regard to attacks on farmers by Fulani herdsmen.
My coming to Government House Makurdi is by divine arrangement. So, I will never disappoint neither God nor man. I will rule with the fear of God and I will work hard to eradicate poverty among the people.
There will be fairness, equality, transparency, love and unity. At the same time, quality would be entrenched into the system of government.
Those who will serve in my administration should forget about making money. They are coming to serve the people.
Rule of law shall be observed by all. I will use government organs to fight corruption. My administration would not tolerate corruption.
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Birmingham offer Viv Solomon-Otabor new deal
SL10.ng understands that Championship side Birmingham City have opened talks with Viv Solomon-Otabor about a new deal.
The Anglo-Nigerian winger signed his first professional contract with The Blues last summer, and the agreement between both parties is set to expire on June 30.
But the 19-year-old could prolong his stay at St Andrews by committing his future to the club for one more year if he accepts the new deal that has been offered.
Over the last two weeks or so Solomon-Otabor and his representative have been mulling over whether or not to accept the terms proposed by Birmingham City.
The highly-rated starlet was on the brink of joining Conference Premier side Kidderminster Harriers on loan in February, only for Birmingham City to pull the plug on the deal at the eleventh hour.
The youngster enjoyed a taste of first team action while on loan at Oxford City during the 2013-2014 season.
Viv Solomon-Otabor has appeared for the Academy teams of Birmingham City since 2012.
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Keshi hasn’t rejected new deal
Coach Stephen Keshi’s agent Emmanuel Addo has rubbished a report that his client has rejected the contract offered him by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
“It’s not true. I didn’t grant any interview to anyone or any wire agency on the contract,” a very furious Addo declared.
“This is sickening, very sad and upsetting my stomach.”
Keshi has been far from happy with the contract he described as a “slave contract”, but a final decision on whether to accept it or not has not yet been taken.
Addo further clarified to AfricanFootball.com: “This is a contract and you need to go through it thoroughly.
“The NFF expects us to revert to them on the contract and we have handed it to our lawyers to look at it. And a report from them would be sent to us before we respond to the NFF and I think that is the way to go.”
He added: “Anyone that has spoken privately to me knows my position on the contract but you know everybody tailors a contract to suit them, so I think that is what the NFF did and it’s up to us to now look at it make out points known and if it does not work, we shake hands and part ways.”
Meanwhile Ado has demanded for an apology from online portal SL10.ng on the false report which he said has embarrassed his person.
A copy of the letter which was addressed to the website’s editor in which Ado claimed never to have spoken to any of its reporters was obtained by SportingLife.
“I must let you know that I am scandalized by the story on your website attributed to me that he (Keshi) has rejected the contract offered him by the Nigeria Football Federation. Sir, I didn’t speak to your reporter.
“I demand an apology and an immediate refutal.This story has embarrassed my person and my client,” read the letter.
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Books on the New Deal and an Indian Massacre Win Bancroft Prize
Books on racial politics during the New Deal and on an 1864 massacre of American Indians in Colorado have won the Bancroft Prize, considered one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.
Ira Katznelson’s “Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time,” published by Liveright, was cited for its “fresh interpretation of a much-studied topic, exposing the racial politics that enabled Franklin Roosevelt to secure Congressional support for many New Deal measures.”
Ari Kelman’s study “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek,” published by Harvard University Press, was praised for its even-handed treatment of the 1864 massacre of Arapaho and Cheyenne by Colorado Territory militia, in an account that judiciously weighs “the fraught politics of inconclusive and contradictory archival records, the goals of National Park memorialists, the claims of property owners, and Native American efforts to have a historic injustice marked and recalled without perpetrating further violation of the spirits of murdered ancestors.”
The BancroftPrize, established in 1948 by the trustees of Columbia University with a bequest from the historian Frederic Bancroft, includes an award of $10,000.