Chocolate   city names  chairman

Popular entertainment company Chocolate City Group today named businessman Hakeem Bello-Osagie as its group chairman.

Bello-Osagie, the Chairman of Etisalat Nigeria is joined by existing board members Yahaya Maikori, Paul Okeugo and Audu Maikori.

‘As Chocolate City enters this new phase of global expansion and rolls out next generation services for its artists, clients and media partners we are very pleased to welcome Mr. Hakeem Osagie an entrepreneur par excellence who shares our passion and vision of creating a world class entertainment brand. He will bring to Chocolate City years of vast international experience, relationships and a uniquely successful track record in global business excellence plus invaluable guidance as we execute our objective of building the leading entertainment brand in Africa’, Chocolate City Group CEO Audu Maikori said in a statement released on the company’s website.

‘Keem as he is fondly called holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, a law degree from Cambridge University and an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He is also a member of the Nigerian Bar.

Chocolate City consists of three subsidiaries – Chocolate City Music which houses acts like Brymo, DJ Caise, Ice Prince, Jesse Jagz, and M.I (who is also a Director of the subsidiary), Chocolate City Media and Chocolate City Movies.

Nigerian musician and respected Afrobeat singer Femi Kuti has for the third time lost out at the Grammy Awards. This follows his two other Grammy losses (2003 and 2010).

Femi who was nominated in the ‘Best World Music Album‘ category for his ‘Africa for Africa‘ album lost the award to  Malian band Tinariwen for the album Tassili. Latin/Roots music band AfroCubism and South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo were the other losers in the group. The announcement was made this evening Sunday, February 12, 2012 at the Pre-telecast (where most awards are given). The awards show itself runs from 8 to 11:30 (G.M.T).

As reported  earlier, Femi Kuti deliberately skipped out on attending the awards show stating that he ‘didn’t want to raise his hopes high’. He was however excited when the news of his nomination came about late last year.

Check out the other winners announced at the Pre-telecast:

Success comes with so many things,good and bad.For hiphop star,Kingsley Okonkwo(Kcee),it has been the two ends of the stick as while his fame is on the rise since the release of his club hit,Okpekete,so are his troubles.

The story in town is that the talented singer is allegedly having extra-marital affair which has even produced a two year old love child.

According to source,Kcee has been enjoying the sizzling romance without the knowledge of his wife,who already has a baby girl for him.

It was further alleged that Kcee met the other woman in Dubai,United Arab Emirates(UAE), during his 2009 world music tour which kicked off there before proceeding to Germany,France,Italy,UK,Holland and other European countries.And hitting their secret romance off from the world’s tourist haven,the product of the unholy affair is a two-year old girl they allegedly named Latasha.

Daughter of a billionaire sheik from Dubai,Claudia (as the lady is simply called) is one major reason Kcee has made UAE his second home. In fact,there is hardly any month he does not visit Claudia for the sake of the baby (Latasha) he loves so much, our source squealed.

Contacted for comments,Kcee said it was not true he has a mistress and a love child in Dubai.

His manager,Soso Soberekon,however,admitted in a phone chat that Claudia is Kcee’s business partner and not his lover.He also said he was not aware they have a child together.

Some people are pessimistic about the possibility of reconciliation between the proverbial lyricist, 9ice and his estranged wife, Toni Payne, but fans and friends are on the other hand optimistic that one day the couple will get over the storm in their marriage.

By the looks of things, It appears the duo might get back together.

Unconfirmed news making the rounds says Toni Payne is eight weeks pregnant for 9ice.

According to sources, the talented musician is feeling betrayed by Tonie Payne's sudden pregnancy news.

Close source says 9ice feels so bad with the latest developments.

He believes the pregnancy would create another controversy and this might impact his career in a negative ways.

We learnt Toni Payne has not been so comfortable since reports that 9ice has twins from another relationship.So, she uses various ploys for getting her own way

Recalled few weeks back, we brought to your notice how the two estranged celebrated couple use to meet secretly at a three bedroom apartment located in Gateway street in Magodo,Lagos.

And what the source who always notice when they both arrive their secret location told us.

Then he said; They come together at least three times in a week and when they come like that they spend the night,except in some few cases when they have to leave later at night”

From the look of things, their under G affair has resulted in a pregnancy.

We gathered that despite 9ice's remonstrations about the new developments,Tonie Payne remained adamant.

We learnt 9ice’s disposition towards the pregnancy infuriates tonie payne and they had a little tiff over the issue.

Some people are insinuating that the issue at hand prompted Tonie Payne’s Twiiter war with 9ice.

Tonie Payne took to twitter some days back and tweeted thusAnybodys sperm can swim to fertilize an egg but not everybody has a good heart to carefully nurture the result of the sperm meeting the egg.

Some minutes laters,she tweeted There are some people in ur past that should remain there simply cos dey av no positive biz in ur future.The sooner u realize,the wiser u are.

It should be noted that Toni Payne and 9ice are still married legally,they are only separated and not divorced.

9ice was a burgeoning musician when he met the then US-based Toni Payne at an event in Lagos. They got married in July 2008 and had a baby shortly after. They agreed to separate in January 2010, confirming speculations that the marriage was not built on solid foundations.

All efforts to reach the two estranged celebrated couple to react to this development proved abortive as their GSM lines were all switched off.

We did not want to join the bandwagon of rumor-mongers, but we urge the duo to issue us a statement about the story.

Success comes with so many things, good and bad. For hiphop star,Kingsley  Okonkwo (Kcee),it has been the two ends of the stick as while his fame is on the rise since the release of his club hit,Okpekete,so are his troubles.

The story in town is that the talented singer is allegedly having extra-marital affair which has even produced a two year old love child.

According to source,Kcee has been enjoying the sizzling romance without the knowledge of his wife,who already has a baby girl for him.

It was further alleged that Kcee met the other woman in Dubai,United Arab Emirates(UAE), during his 2009 world music tour which kicked off there before proceeding to Germany,France,Italy,UK,Holland and other European countries.And hitting their secret romance off from the world’s tourist haven,the product of the unholy affair is a two-year old girl they allegedly named Latasha.

Daughter of a billionaire sheik from Dubai,Claudia (as the lady is simply called) is one major reason Kcee has made UAE his second home. In fact,there is hardly any month he does not visit Claudia for the sake of the baby (Latasha) he loves so much, our source squealed.

Contacted for comments,Kcee said it was not true he has a mistress and a love child in Dubai.

His manager,Soso Soberekon,however,admitted in a phone chat that Claudia is Kcee’s business partner and not his lover.He also said he was not aware they have a child toget