For a while now, it’s been practically impossible to reach out to Koko master, D’Banj. This is because the multiple award winning pop star has not made details of his management available to people and the fact that the exit of his last manager, Tony Nwakalor was done on a low key. NET investigations have however revealed that D’banj has really parted ways with Tony Nwakalor and his new manager is an American-based woman who goes by the name, Tonya Merritt while Davido’s former manager, Asa Asika currently represents D’Banj here in Nigeria. Confirming Tonya Merritt as his new manager, D’Banj shared a picture of himself, Tonya Merritt and renowned photographer, Reza with the caption: ‘Reza the Great National Geographic Fellow and my manager, Tonya Merritt, successful day guys.’ In one of D’Banj’s tweets dated August 15, 2014, D’Banj had made a subtle introduction of Tonya when he shared a picture of her with the caption: ‘EJA NLA and the best and rarest Agent in the World. Mamalet of Life Tonya Merritt the one who gets me…lol! God bless you!.’ In one of Tonya’s tweets dated May 19, 2013, she also shared a picture of D’Banj cuddling her with the caption, ‘Best client and friend in the whole wide world. D’banj Rocked Durban tonight with Snoop Lion.’ D’Banj’s past managers It is known knowledge that D’Banj began his career with Mavin records boss, Don Jazzy in the UK as the duo were nurtured by Kwam 1’s former manager, Ayo Shonaiya who owns and runs the RMG Company in the UK. Ayo Shonaiya was very instrumental to the career of D’Banj especially in the very beginning, with Ayo’s influence and power helping them break into the Nigerian market before they met Sunday Are who became their first manager. When the Mo’Hits’ brouhaha happened and D’banj parted ways with Sunday Are, he got Abisagboola Oluseun John a.k.a Bankulli as his manager. Bankulli reportedly handled D’Banj’s career pretty well and together, they conquered grounds internationally and recorded huge successes before an issue involving Kanye West tore them apart in early 2013. That prompted D’Banj to hire Tony Nwakalor, who at that time was managing rapper, Olamide; music producer, Samklef and Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh as his manager. Tony is currently the CEO of Sound Core media and entertainment consultants. Who is Tonya Merritt Based in Atlanta Georgia, Tonya Merritt is an international business consultant, publicist and booking agent. Her relationship with D’Banj dates back to several years ago and her influence in D’Banj’s career has been huge even when he doesn’t seem to be doing much in the country. She has been the one pulling the strings and getting D’Banj a number of international deals, shows, collabos and endorsements. She was instrumental in his collaborations with Snoop Lion, she pulled the strings that got Giuseppe Zannoti to present D’banj with a custom made sneakers and was also responsible for the D’Banj-Kenya Monroe aside many others. In the beginning, Tonya’s job was limited to managing D’banj’s international bookings and deals, but now she has assumed full custody of his entire management. She launched her company, Tonya Merritt Group in Nigeria back in 2006 and in her career as an international agent, she has worked with super stars like Trey Songz, Amber Rose, Snoop Lion and many more.... 
The media personality responsible for the shut down of Linda Ikeji’s blog after reporting her to google over plagiarism and copyright infringements, Mr. Aye Dee has come out to console the female blogger on Twitter. Meanwhile, even with Linda’s blog having been yanked off by Google on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, Mr. Aye Dee, who claims to be the Editor-in-Chief of United States-based media platform, ‘15Past8 media group’ went on his Twitter page today, October 9, 2014, to post several tweet consoling the former model. In the tweets, Aye Dee went as far rendering prayers for Ms Ikeji to come back bigger and stronger.
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The furore over what began as a bitter Twitter exchange between a Nigerian whose identity is known simply as Mr Aye Dee and celebrated blogger, Linda Ikeji, reached its climax on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 when Google finally deleted the popular www.linda ikeji.blogspot.com. The shut down of Nigeria’s leading blog followed complaints filed to Google by Mr Aye Dee, editor-in-chief of US-based 15Past8 media group according to his bio, against Linda Ikeji over copyright infringements. And having tweeted: ‘Google just notified us that they are removing our copyrighted content from Linda Ikeji’s website. All the stories and images Linda Ikeji took from me without permission in the last few days have been removed from her site by Google. Someone has to say something. It costs money to get good work done. I spend time getting information from my sources, as well as analysing and verifying the information. All that costs money. I don’t mind donating my time for Nigeria’s sake, but for someone to take my labour and use it for personal profit, no way!’ days ago, the blog was finally shut down yesterday. Responding to enquiries made by NET, Taiwo Kolade-Ogunlade, the search engine’s Communications and Public Affairs manager in Anglo-Phone West Africa, said issues of copyright infringements are seriously considered and swiftly dealt with by Google. In a direct link he sent as part of his reply, Google makes it clear that ‘Blogger respects the rights of copyright holders and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable copyright laws. When we receive proper notice as required by the DMCA, we will work to promptly remove content that has been identified as copyright infringement. Repeat infringers’ blogs are removed, and in appropriate instances Blogger accounts will be terminated.’ Going further, the statement points to Blogger’s copyright policy and Copyright Tips: ‘In general, any original work of authorship may be protected by copyright. Copyrighted materials may be subject to claims of copyright infringement. The most common reason we take down content from blogs for copyright infringement is that they have republished unauthorized copies of copyrighted content, and the owners of the copyrighted content have alerted us that their content is being used without their permission. Once we become aware of an unauthorized use, we will remove the content promptly.’ The company lists literary works including articles and passages of text, images and photographs, music files and MP3s, movies, movie trailers and videos among copyright materials, adding : ‘Anytime Blogger is properly notified that a blog or any part of a blog on our site infringes the copyrights of a third party, we will take it down from the site as required by law. If you believe that a blog infringes your copyright, please send us a copyright notice and we’ll take it down. If you believe we’ve removed content from your blog in error and that you are the copyright owner or have permission, you can file a counter notice and let us know. Accounts determined to be repeated infringers may be subject to termination.’ Finally the statement says: ‘Our current repeat infringer policy counts strikes by 24-hour periods. For example, if 5 blog posts were removed under the DMCA today, those removals would count as 1 strike. If 3 more posts were removed on the following day, those would count as 1 additional strike, totalling 2 strikes against that blogger’s account. Multiple strikes will be evaluated and may result in further remedial action, including deletion of the blog and/or terminating the account.’ This makes it clear what happened in the case of the deletion of Linda Ikeji’s blog which, however, seemingly made a brief return about an hour after it was first deleted yesterday before going down again....
In a recent interview on the Capital Xtra show with DJ Abrantee in London while promoting his new album ‘Ayo,’ Nigeria’s award winning pop sensation, Wizkid has confirmed he was with American super star, Rihanna in the studio while he was in Los Angeles. Not just that, Wizkid said he wrote some songs for her album project. In his words, Wizkid said: ‘Yea, I went to the studio to write something for her, she was in the studio as well, big shout out to Rihanna, so we made something together hopefully it gets picked. We’ll still do more stuffs together, you know she’s a cool person, I’m going back to Los Angeles so definitely I’m going to get back in the studio with her again.’...
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Wang Zhengyang became one of the trending topics recently after attending China Internet Security Conference in Beijing as the country’s youngest hacker. The 13-year-old boy who hacked into school computer system to get answers for his homework, is currently working with Tsinghua University in Beijing, and has developed a public profile in China. Speaking at the conference, the junior student said: ‘You have to attack the websites first to find its weaknesses.’ ‘It is interesting to look for website security risks and I am overwhelmed with joy when I find one. But I will not use my talent for something illegal.’...
