MTN Terminates Contract With Don Jazzy, Davido, Tiwa Savage, Reveals New Ambassadors

Telecoms giant, MTN on Friday terminated its contract with Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage and Davido among others.

Following the development, the management has also released the names of it’s 2016/2017 celebrity ambassadors to include Praiz, Chidinma, Iyanya, Tekno, Falz and more.

The termination and release of new signees was made public through the press release by the management saying: “In line with its commitment to supporting 

Nigerian musicians by providing alternative platforms through which they can receive lucrative value for their intellectual property, MTN has announced brand ambassadors for 2016-2017.

“Music ambassadors for 2016-2017 are: Praiz (Praise Adejo); Iyanya (Iyanya Mbuk);Chidinma(Chidinma Ekile); Falz (Folarin Falana); Tekno Miles (Augustine Kelechi) andSkales (Raoul Njeng-Njeng)

“Four other ambassadors are – Saka, (Hafiz Oyetoro); Nedu (Steve Onu); Osuofia (NkemOwoh) and Adamu Zango.

MTN Executive, Amina Oyagbola spoke on the new developments. “MTN remains proud to be associated with the growth and development of the careers of all our ambassadors, past and present,” she said.

“We specially thank all our former ambassadors for their immense contributions to building our brand and also making us the network of choice in Nigeria. We will definitely continue to maintain the strong and mutually beneficial relationship with them through the monetisation of their content on all our digital platforms – MTN Music+, CRBT and VAS.”

Illbliss bids goodbye to music

While many awaits the drop of his fourth album with the title ‘iLLYGati’, as his the single ‘Ayakata’, featuring Falz the Bahd Guy, which he released earlier in the year, Tobechukwu Melvin Ejiofor, well known in the music scene as illBliss, has bid goodbye to the game the brought him fame, fortune and endeared him to many young Nigerians, particularly the rap freaks.

The rapper, businessman and owner of the talent-managing outfit, The Goretti Company, called it quit to music yesterday in a post he put on his Instagram. “Thank you all for being with me through this amazing musical journey…Goodbye…to the game…I’m gone…Next Chapter.”

illBliss as a celebrated Hip hop and rap artiste, started his music career as a member of the now defunct Hip-Hop group, Da Thorobreds, which consisted of other notable Hip-hop artistes including Elajoe, Obiwon and B-Elect.

They bagged the award for the Best Hip-Hop song by a group/duo at the 2006 maiden edition of Hip Hop World Awards for the massive hit Streethop. As a solo artiste, illBliss won his first major award at the Sound City Music Video Awards (SMVA) for Best Hip-hop video, with his street anthem ‘U go wound o’. American Hip-hop superstar, Nas, presented the award.
He released his debut album in 2009 titled ‘Dat Ibo Boy’, which housed the hit single ‘U go wound o’ and ‘Aiye po gan’ featuring Terry G. He is responsible for launching the careers of acts like Chidinma and Phyno among others.

In 2012 he released his debut album ‘Oga Boss’ which was nominated for Best Rap Album at the Headies 2013. August 2014, he announced a release of a third album ‘Powerful’, which had singles like ‘Bank alert’ on it but pushed it back for a mid-year 2015 release to finish production and tie-distribution for digital and physical sales.

In collaboration with ace video director, Clarence Peters, they formed a joint venture called CAPital Hill Music/Goretti Co, a recording/talent management company respectively.

Born and raised in Enugu state, popularly known as Coal City or 042; he acquired primary and secondary education in the same city between and subsequently gained admission to study Political Science/International Relations in the University Of Nigeria.

Illbliss represents three aspects — consciousness, lyricism and creativity.His diverse approach to hip-hop ranges from social issues to love/relationships, peer pressure and topics the average head can relate to, while retaining elements of hip-hop and ethnic content, a virtue which sets him apart from the crowd.