Majek Fashek

The question on the lips of all concerned Nigerians lately is whether or not the abysmal decline in our economy can be arrested by the measures currently adopted by our Central Bank. My usual response to this question is that you cannot sow rice and hope to reap cassava (a la Majek Fashek)! To be clear on this issue, we may identify the salutary features of an improving economy to be as follows: single digit/low interest rates to encourage industrial activity; increasing employment, increasing disposable income, stable price level, (inflation below 5%), lower petrol prices and a transparent and market determined exchange rate regime.

In what many have described as the best ever assemble of reggae musicians in the history of the Nigerian music scene, AY Gardens, the Ogba located entertainment spot, comes alive today as friends of troubled musician, Majek Fashek, rally support for his proposed return to the United States of America.

Lagos comes alive this weekend with an array of events that will ease off the week long job load. At the ever busy Ikeja area, 'Club O' (Jabita Intercontinental Hotel) will be playing host to the famous 'Rainmaker,' Fashek Majekodunmi (Majek Fashek) as it honours its Chief Executive Officer, Hon. Rasheed Adewale Shitta-Bey today, Friday January 30, 2009, for keeping the hotel business going for an onward of 25 years, at its 144, Awolowo Way venue. This, it will be doing in conjunction with TV3 Cable TV/MC Morris Production as they present 'The Club O' Blast, 2009.

IS it fate or retribution or perhaps self-inflicted pain? If it is retribution, for what sin then? But then, what kind of a man would inflict so much on himself? Fate? It must be the cruelest on Nigeria and one of Africa's biggest reggae music export to the world, Majek Fashek at present.

Joanne Emi, a solo singer who has worked with the late Sonny Okosuns, Majek Fashek, Christy Essien Ugbokwe, Idris Abdulkareem and of late, Tee mac is set to launch her debut album titled New Day.