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This year’s festival, which is tagged “Africa Rising: To Celebrate the Best and Brightest ...Read the full article.

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Let's keep polishing our image. This is the "cheapest" way to do it. We can continue stealing, killing one another and do all sorts of nasty things, and then bring the American singers to take home "good" tidings about the clay-footed "gIANT" of Africa. "Oh, I was there in Africa, in Nigeria, and they are good people", Rihanna would tell her white friends, "although they are corrupt and can't be trusted."

Good work, Thisday, and all the Governors supporting this noble gesture. Nigerians like to do the tough work. Instead of providing employment for the people, they steal all the money, then bring in Americans to clean up our image. Rubbish.

ochi

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=Ochi Dabari;4295069317>Let's keep polishing our image. This is the "cheapest" way to do it. We can continue stealing, killing one another and do all sorts of nasty things, and then bring the American singers to take home "good" tidings about the clay-footed "gIANT" of Africa. "Oh, I was there in Africa, in Nigeria, and they are good people", Rihanna would tell her white friends, "although they are corrupt and can't be trusted."

Good work, Thisday, and all the Governors supporting this noble gesture. Nigerians like to do the tough work. Instead of providing employment for the people, they steal all the money, then bring in Americans to clean up our image. Rubbish.

ochi

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Ochi Dabari:
YOU HAVE SAID ALL. Thanks.

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=Ochi Dabari;4295069317>Let's keep polishing our image. This is the "cheapest" way to do it. We can continue stealing, killing one another and do all sorts of nasty things, and then bring the American singers to take home "good" tidings about the clay-footed "gIANT" of Africa. "Oh, I was there in Africa, in Nigeria, and they are good people", Rihanna would tell her white friends, "although they are corrupt and can't be trusted."

Good work, Thisday, and all the Governors supporting this noble gesture. Nigerians like to do the tough work. Instead of providing employment for the people, they steal all the money, then bring in Americans to clean up our image. Rubbish.

ochi

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My brother, you couldn't have put it more intelligently. Such display of perversity truly brings to the fore the insensitivity of our riggers of elections and their cohorts, like the publisher of Thisday and his ilk. Of what purpose is all the grandstanding? What succour does this provide to the teeming milions of hungry, impoverished, sick, neglected and ignored populace? I remember recently the Lagos State Government invited Rio Ferdinand to Lagos with tax payers' money no doubt - perhaps to help ameliorate the traffic condition in Lagos, the deplorable educational system, the hunger of the many children whose parents could not afford to feed and clothe them properly, etc? Nigeria, a country ruled and controlled by visionless people with mostly misplaced priorities. All the people want is good governance, characterised by accountability and honest leadership, a feature presently lacking in all the States of the Federation, local governments and the central government. What is the PMAN leadership doing about this charade or are they also part of the jamboree of using foreigners to showcase (sic) our economic potentials?

If the publisher of Thisday and his super-rich detached-from-reality friends are serious, they should enlist the help of their superstar friends to mount the rostrums in Nigeria to campaign for better governance; empowerment of the masses; better education; infrastructural development; provision of adequate health facilities (not in Ghana (ask the Senate Committe on health - bunch of irresponsible, shameless people!) or Germany (ask the President of Nigeria, a clueless imposition who does not understand the meaning of 'charity begins at home'); affordable food; decent housing; security of life and property, etc. Now is that asking for too much? With that, they artistes themselves will clamour to be associated with Nigeria, not the otherway round - albeit the average hungry Nigerian has nothing to do with, or gain from, whatever Thisday thinks it is doing! We know our problem in Nigeria - corruption and irredeemable bad governance and lack of real franchise to enable our people to choose their leaders. How music is supposed to cure this, I invite thisday to tell us or, better still, the spokesman to Ya'Adua donated by the publisher of Thisday...oh he's probably too busy advising his boss on how to rescue Nigeria from the abyss 'created by the Niger Delta militants' (sic) and the procurement of arms from the British, etc!

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Good talk Ochi. Truth be told, as much as ThisDay likes to splash this event around (with almost permanent placement of music pictures on its website), these American singers and the American press hardly mention these Nigerian visits to the American public. Talk about one-way love and misplaced priorities...

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I have no problems with the event per se., My question is this, why should public funds be used to sponsor such events?

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=Ochi Dabari;4295069317>Let's keep polishing our image. This is the "cheapest" way to do it. We can continue stealing, killing one another and do all sorts of nasty things, and then bring the American singers to take home "good" tidings about the clay-footed "gIANT" of Africa. "Oh, I was there in Africa, in Nigeria, and they are good people", Rihanna would tell her white friends, "although they are corrupt and can't be trusted."

Good work, Thisday, and all the Governors supporting this noble gesture. Nigerians like to do the tough work. Instead of providing employment for the people, they steal all the money, then bring in Americans to clean up our image. Rubbish.
ochi

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Ochi,

May you live a thousand years in perfect health and prosper. Amen is all I can say as a stamped approval to your nail-on-the-head words. Big up man!

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=Zanderlex;4295069365>I have no problems with the event per se., My question is this, why should public funds be used to sponsor such events?

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Why not? There are too many saints in NVS. Nigerians do not deserve entertainment just becos they are from a corrupt nation. My friends corruption is not only a leadership thing. The woman who saw me as someone not from Port Harcourt and sold a bottle of Coke to me at 120 Naira is as guilty as Ibori...There is nothing new that Nduka is doing that Ben Bruce did not do. Nigeria is a part of the global village and the people can be a part of what others are enjoying. If the public funds are not spent on this ONE MAN will spen it on a girl. At least a few thousand more have enjoyed for a few hours what you my brothers and sisters in America, the UK, Russia, and where ever you are take for granted. Yes we have greater problems BUT we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Nigeria is a VERY STRESSFUL place, please support anything that can bring smiles to the faces of these people just like Obama brings smiles to some of your faces. Please stop this Holier than thou atitutide. Yes Nduka is no good, he supports corrupt leaders and so what? What of you who do nothing and expect the country to just change because you are writing about it. Resolve today to DO SOMETHING what ever it is.pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee do something by any means necessary

Omowa2

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=Omowa2;4295069422>Why not? There are too many saints in NVS. Nigerians do not deserve entertainment just becos they are from a corrupt nation. My friends corruption is not only a leadership thing. The woman who saw me as someone not from Port Harcourt and sold a bottle of Coke to me at 120 Naira is as guilty as Ibori...There is nothing new that Nduka is doing that Ben Bruce did not do. Nigeria is a part of the global village and the people can be a part of what others are enjoying. If the public funds are not spent on this ONE MAN will spen it on a girl. At least a few thousand more have enjoyed for a few hours what you my brothers and sisters in America, the UK, Russia, and where ever you are take for granted. Yes we have greater problems BUT we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Nigeria is a VERY STRESSFUL place, please support anything that can bring smiles to the faces of these people just like Obama brings smiles to some of your faces. Please stop this Holier than thou atitutide. Yes Nduka is no good, he supports corrupt leaders and so what? What of you who do nothing and expect the country to just change because you are writing about it. Resolve today to DO SOMETHING what ever it is.pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee do something by any means necessary
Omowa2

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You Omowa. What are you doing?

Is this what you can do? Shout down on others saying "Please stop this Holier than thou atitutide. Yes Nduka is no good, he supports corrupt leaders and so what?..."

My broda, it is not about "sainthood". This smiles you talk about is what Fela calls "suffering and smiling".

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ThisDay as a News corporation is really mis-directed here in trying to launder Nigeria's image abroad through it's flamboyant and luxurious rich-can-attend-only yearly concerts. Instead of spending all that money on these "American artists", they could re-direct their efforts at organizing academic competitions like rewarding creative writings amongst Nigerian youths, because they really need to hear our secondary school students and graduates write letters or speak English to recognize the impending dangers of our failed educational system.