Hi all,

Last week was a pretty hectic yet fulfilling one for us at C.C. M.I was off to Ethiopia for the Bring The Noise tour. Meanwhile in Abuja the inaugural edition of the British Council’s WAPI,(words and pictures) took place on a very high note, on hand was Emem Ema(the WAPI event manager for WAPI Lagos) to help coordinate and support The launch WAPI event, which included dances, acrobatics ,arts exhibitions, poetry, book readings, hip hop, freestyle battles and pure soul music!

The Host for the event was the incredible Jesse Jags and Katung(K bLack). The Minister of Culture and Tourism - Prince Adetokunboh Kayode dropped by and had so much fun he decided to stay for almost and hour, chatting with the youth and interacting with the CC Crew.

The freestyle lyrical battle had Jesse Jags and Ice Prince up against the Krock and a few other MC’s. The battle was mad fun and got every one in the crowd up on their feet applauding! Other artists at the event included Byron, OB Jazz, Seun, Ekene the Poet,

The press were fully represented AIT, NTA,DBN,234 Media and it was nice to see so out of towners Ebun Olatoye( True Love) Bibi(Salamander),Lydia(Taruwa). Our friends Victor Anieliefo (ALS), Danny Kure(Blake and Harper), Ifeanyi, OJ, Oj of Cool FM, Gang, Nike Coker,  and a host of others were also in the house. The event ended (reluctantly) at around 6.30 pm. The Graffiti work done outside the British Council premises was another key attraction of the day. In all WAPI had  over a 120 attendants(not bad for a first launch)

Sunday January 13th -Location- LAGOS- The Future Awards _

M.I returned from Ethiopia and headed straight for the awards ceremony. I also flew in that morning for the event  where CC acts  M.I and  Christine Ben Ameh( Winner Nokia First Chance 2007) were performing. MI’s performance was brilliant to say the least and had the audience enraptured with his freshly cut  (unreleased) track “Oooohhh”.It s was applause galore for M.I from start to finish!He rounded up with his smash hit "crowd Mentality". Oby Ezekwesili of the World BAnk in her keynote address that night, quoted  M.I "when i say fly, dream" stressing the need for Nigerian youth to learn to fly, to dream to break new ground,which incidentally is what the awards are about- Nigerian youth who dared to dream and made it happen!

Yours truly presented two awards- Best use of technology and Best Use of Advocacy, with my co -presenter the pretty Ronke Apampa.

in all the event was a flaming success, my men Baba Aminu and Bayo Omisore also did us proud by winning the Journalist of the year and Best Magazine awards respectively.

So is there really hope for our great nation? Yes and guess what it lies in you-- the future of Nigeria, so be yourself, be yourself , be yourself!!

MI 1