Nigerian artists win big at Channel O awards

Thirteen Nigerian acts walked into the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, SA, venue of the 2012 Channel O Music Video Awards with their heads held high; hours later, six of them emerged as winners.

D'banj cut the tape with the 'Most Gifted Male Video of the Year' award and also the 'Special Recognition' award which he missed last year as he had not been able to attend.

Pop giants Psquare won the 'Most Gifted Group/Duo' award for their collaboration with May D on the hit single 'Chop my money,' while highlife crooner Flavour won the 'Most Gifted R&B Music Video of the year' award for his collaboration with Tiwa Savage on 'Oyi' remix.

The awards however came with shockers for singing sensation Wizkid who fell in the Most Gifted African West Video category where his hit single Pakurumo had been nominated.

2Face, Naeto C and Mo'Cheddah also fell at their own nominations; Most Gifted R&B Video, Most Gifted African West Video and Most Gifted Female Video for songs Be there, I Gentle and See me respectively.

However, Chocolate City act BrymO, won the 'Most Gifted Pop' for his hit song 'Ara' and the award show's co-host Ice Prince, won the award for 'Most Gifted Hip Hop Video of the Year.'

New hit wonder; Davido also walked away with the 'Most Gifted New Comer of the Year' award, beating Kenya's Camp Mulla and Ghana's E.L, among others.

See the full winners list below...

Most Gifted African South Video of the Year

Cashtime Fam - Shut it down (Stundee)

Most Gifted Group or Featuring of the year

Psquare ft. May D & Akon - Chop My Money

Most Gifted Reggae Dance/Hall

Buffalo Souljah ft Cabo Snoop - Styra Inonyengesa

Most Gifted African East

AY feat Sauti Soul - I Don't Want to Be Alone

Most Gifted kwaito

Ees feat Mandoza - Ayoba

Most Gifted African West Music video

D-Black ft Mo'Cheddah - Falling

Most Gifted R&B Music Video of the year

Flavour ft. Tiwa Savage - Oyi [Remix]

Most Gifted AfroPop

BrymO - ARA

Most Gifted Hip Hop Video of the Year

Ice Prince Zamani- Superstar

Most Gifted Dance Music Video of the Year

DJ Cleo - Facebook

Most Gifted New Comer of the Year

Davido - Dami duro

Most Gifted Female Video of the Year

Zahara - Loliwe

Most Gifted Male Video of the Year

D'Banj - Oliver Twist

2012 Special Recognition award recipient

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300 Nigerians deported from Botswana

About 300 Nigerians living in the Republic of Botswana have been deported back to Nigeria by the Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama administration in the past few months following refusal of the authorities to renew their permits.

Perturbed by their plight, the deportees have called on President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to quickly look into the relationship between Bostwana and Nigeria in order to ascertain the true conditions of Nigerians living in that country.

The deportees, who said most of them had lived and worked in that Southern African country alleged that since General Khama, whose mother was of British origin and father a Motswana assumed office, Nigerians in that country had been subjected to dehumanising conditions and racial abuse even when they claimed they had been law-abiding and of good behavior.

Narrating their ordeal, Mr. Kingsley Ndubuisi from Anambra State, who returned to the country without his belongings in September, this year, alleged that all Nigerians whose permits expired were forcefully, deported leaving their property, wives and children behind.

"The most annoying of all the troubles Nigerians are facing in that country is the incessant stamping of (PI), meaning Prohibited Immigrant on the passport of Nigerian nationals by the Bostwana authorities; the implication is that such a person cannot enter Bostwana again,"Ndubuisi said.

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Nigeria beat Venezuela in football friendly

Ideye Brown and Igiebor Nosa scored in a five-minute span early in the second half to lead Nigeria past Venezuela 3-1 in an international friendly on Wednesday.

After both teams failed to convert multiple scoring opportunities in the first half, Nigeria broke through when Brown slotted his shot past goalkeeper Daniel Hernandez in the 48th minute, reports greenwhichtime.com.

Nosa made it 2-0 in the 53rd, landing an arcing 30-yard shot inside the right post.

Venezuela got a goal back when Frank Fleschcer scored in the 69th.

Nigeria's Onazi Ogenyi completed the scoring in stoppage time.

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Nigeria is second most corrupt country in the world according to poll

The perception of the Federal Government before Nigerians crashed further, as they rated the nation's leadership as the second most corrupt in the world, a Gallup poll just made public has revealed.

Gallup, in its first-ever report on "Global States of Mind: New Metrics for World Leaders," stated that 94 per cent of Nigerians believe there is widespread corruption in government.

The poll also showed that in the world, only Kenyans believed their government was more corrupt. The poll also revealed that about 96 per cent of Kenyans had alleged that there were widespread corruption in their government, while only five per cent of Singaporeans said their government was corrupt.

Singaporeans believe their country was the least corrupt in the world. Gallup said last year's revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt where GDP was rising, shows that world leaders need more than just GDP and other traditional economic metrics to run their countries.

Gallup Chairman and CEO, Jim Clifton, said: "Economic data are becoming less and less valuable because they tend to be outdated by the time they are made available. More significantly, GDP is less valuable because leaders now need to know much more than what people are spending-they need to know what they are thinking; GDP isn't enough if you are watching for instability."

"All institutes worldwide knew GDP was rising in Tunisia and Egypt. They knew what 11 million Tunisians and 80 million Egyptians were buying and selling-but they didn't know what they were thinking," Clifton added.

Clifton said GDP wasn't enough if leaders were trying to figure out the levels of hunger, hopelessness, or suffering, adding that the United Nations did not see those revolutions coming, neither did the World Economic Forum (WEF), nor the World Bank.

"The US spends tens of billions on intelligence- and it missed those revolutions too," Clifton said. Gallup's World Poll spans about 150 countries, territories, and areas, annually capturing what more than 98 per cent of the world's adult population is thinking on topics from basic needs to job creation. Gallup's World Poll data set now includes more than one million interviews conducted since the research initiative started in 2005.

Respondents were asked questions on law and order, food and shelter, institutions and infrastructure, good jobs, wellbeing, brain drain and quality GDP growth.

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