It is with great pleasure The House of Jola , would like to announce that Miss Olubumi Ademokoya 1st runner up of the Nigeria’s next super model, became the winner of the prestigious Best model of the World 2007  held in Turkey. in a unanimous decision by the judges and the auidence she will also go home with a  cash prize and a modelling contract from one of the worlds leading skincare and beauty range.Discovered 7 months ago by Mrs. Joan Okorodudu.Please find attached pictures.

We would also like to announce that Mr.Omashola Oburoh was also selected as one of the best top ten model by the same contest Best model of the world 2007.Also a model from the stable of House of Jola.

Nigerians have the opprtunity to watch the crowning ceremony on www.youtube.com  search (best model of the world winner 2007)

sammy okposo takes over festac town

the seemingly sleepy town of festac , Lagos state was brought into a lively start last yestersay as top Nigerian musicians visited the town to grace this years black and white concert. the event which took place at the New LG complex at First gate, had in attendance over 10,000 youth who trooped in to not only have a good time but also to listen to the word of God. though a religious activity, the Black and white concert has earned a reputation which has seen it rated as one of the biggest concerts in the country. the major act for the night is Sammy Okposo as he makes his seccond appearance in the Festac. he surely gave a memeorable performance at his first visit, because the crowd at yesterday’s event were eagerly anticipating his appearance on stage.

deji leaves soundcity

the young and ever smiling vj of souncity, deji falope has decided to opt out from the entertainment outfit. this will not be the first time soundcity will be wintessing such, but deji’s exit is believed to inflict a deep cut on soundcity as he is believed to be the most talented of the bunch in SC. in a chat with deji , he disclosed that his decision is for him to chat his own course as he is doing better on his own.

pasuma suprises all

gone ar the days when fuji artistes are tought to be touts and irresponsible. Pasuma wonder the orobokibo creator has shown  to the world that fuji music and musicians can hold their own anyday in the music world. This is evident in the way the fuji maestro and entertainer, is suprising everyone who watches the tv programme ; celebrity takes two. I mean Pasuma, was actualy balley dancing, to everyones astonishment. as the competition goes on, he has been tipped to win the competition, though Wasiu Alabi(pasuma) has said that he his not interested in the cash prize and gift, but only the exposure his participatiopn will give to fuji music

silver does it

silver saddih ready to drop album at last. watch out for the full details on this site. note ; his video is curently being charted on major music stations in Nigeria right now

colossal’s grugde with soul-E

There has been various statement in the media about Soul E and his relation with his record label.

Please find attached material that will allow you have a much more balanced opion about the situation.

I am sending you pictures attached showing:

1/.how he looked when he joined the label
2/.Of him signing his contract he claims was signed under duress
3/.and the letter written to him asking him to report back to work

Please compare what Soul E looked like when he came to us and how he was after we changed him.

We bought him clothes, paid for his schooling, we paid for his project in his school, paid for his hospital bills. In fact, he has opted out from his OND program and IS NOT A GRADUATE. He has not rounded it up. It was Colossal that made him go to school, as soon as he left Colossal; his education came to a stop.he has many many carry overs in his school. You have access to verify this, please go to LASPOTECH exam and records. He says he is a banker! With no certificate?!

You need to understand that all the exposure Soul e got in his life was from Colossal. He had never entered a plane before and the first time he did this was when we took him for a show in Abuja. This is contrary to his many statements that he has been everywhere in the world. I can tell you he has never travelled out of Nigeria before except maybe to Ghana. Even that is not confirmed.

We gave him 150K monthly which we paid into Intercontinental Bank PLC account in Moloney branch, Obalende. He received this money every month for the duration of the show at the vault. This is verifiable.

Apart from this 150K monthly, we still gave him 20K monthly for him to ensure he had pocket money.This was free from the company.

We provided a home for him we furnished ourselves and provided a car and driver for him.
He never paid for a manager as we provided one for him too.

In order to differentiate him from other artists, we did audition for a 9 man band to support him. All the instruments we we used were bought by us exclusively for Soul E. I mean a full 9 man band with instruments. Very expensive investments. The medicals, salary and welfare of the band members was paid for by the company.

The real problem is that Colossal did a good job in its work of promoting Soul E. He became so visible and popular within such a short amount of time Soul E thought it was all about him and his talent. He forgot that there was a machinery behind him spending millions to ensure he became the product he is today. This can be confirmed by his statements that he made Colossal what it is today and that Colossal is nothing without him! Please note that Colossal has sister companies (operating under different names) doing diverse other businesses from event management to advertising and the music aspect is not a major aspect of our business as Soul E wants the world to think!

Trouble started when Soul E came to us and stated that he wanted a jeep (BMW X5), he wanted a furnished duplex and 4 Million Naira!

Naturally, we didn’t take him serious given the investments we already made on him. After our refusal, he took off for many months and we refused to come to work. We heard that he had gone to form another company with a lady called Tracy Nither. As expected of Soul E, he quarreled with her and they split up. He ran out of finances soon after that split with Tracy Nither and he came back to Colossal saying he was mis advised and that it was the devil that made him run away. He signed 2 letters of apology and resumes work. Soon after that, he met another lady who had sufficient means to allow him run away again… We all know the rest of the story!

Would you believe that we even offered him a car and he said unless he got the jeep there would be no deal.

Let me tell you, right now, we have 35,000 units of unsold CDs in the head office out of 40K units we printed from ECOMAX. (please contact ECOMAK Opebi for confirmation of units printed). . Most of the CDs were sold by us through a marketing team of about 10 people who went around in a bus branded with Soul Es picture . Note that we sold the CDs at a loss through our marketing team because our object was not sales, but to get him popular. How could we have made money from selling the CDs for N100 when we had to calculate cost of repairing he bus, cost of paying salary to the bus driver, cost of paying the marketing staff, cost of running,servicing and fueling the generator that was used to play Soul Es music around the town? This went on for many months. Note: we spoke to Obaino, T Joe to become Soul E’s marketers but they didn’t take the job. It was Ike the Don that eventually took the job. Ike the Don is very popular in Alaba, please contact him and find out how many units of CDs were sold. Till date, he has thousand of unsold Soul E products. Do you image how much loss this cost us? We have 140,000 CD jackets wasting in the office (you are free to come and see them), we have 2 multi million Naira videos we shot that we can not release because the boy went mad before we could release this. Calculate these losses plus what we have already spent on the boy!. The angry thing is that the boy knows everything, he knows the very truth of everything. That’s what makes it all the more pailful. He was like a younger brother to us and we are all very shocked at who he has turned out to be.

As established businessmen, we had close ties with starcomms and I used this link to ask them to allow us to host a show for them.

Please NOTE: we were already holding the show at the Vault before we signed on starcomms. Since Soul E was our artists, we used the platform to promote him by making him host the show. This is the logical thing any company would do.he never knew anyone in Starcomms,

In fact, starcomms was not happy that we were using them to promote only Soul e, they said we needed to open the platform to ensure that all other Nigerian artist had equal access to their platform.

We are an organized company and we have proof signed by Soul E that he received up to date records of every single kobo the company made. Our accounts department provides him with details of request. Soul E was our only artist and was close to all oour staff, he has access to all our financial records. We have documents he has signed over the many months he was with us showing he collected his money and was appraised of income at every stage. He is trying discredit Colossal, he will answer in court.

Its important that he is taught a lesson for the sake of the Nigeria music/entertainment industry.

All record companies are now afraid to spend money promoting artist because of ungrateful people like Soul E. Its affecting the chances of up and coning artists and will have an effect of dynamism of the music inductry, who will invest in a sector where there is no respect for contractual obligations?. Journalist needs to support transparent and companies like Colossal to ensure they are not taken for granted.

Soul E needs to refocus his life and understand that those prophets he is in the habit of visiting in Ibadan who tell him he will succeed in his negative ambitions are not greater than God and he can not continue the way he is and succeed.

Soul E can not build a career on lies, deceit and dishonesty. We are convinced that society and those close to him do not know who is really. Most especially the lady he has chosen to marry and when the time comes, she will discover many things and who this boy called Soul E really is.

This story is not over and if you check his track record; he has issues with everyone in his life; his former group, his family, his record label and now his Church.

We have initiated over 3 court cases against him, the most recent is for defamation of character and libel. He has said in various print media that Colossal cheated him, that Colossal is a slave driver, that Colossal is owing him millions etc. He will answer for all these in court. In court, we want him to prove that we cheated him, that we did not give him accounts of money made and that we owe him millions of Naira!

For far too long Nigerian record companies allow artists to just get away with whatever they want, but please understand. No other record label has done for an artists what Colossal did for Soul E in the short period he was with us, we spent millions on him, we brought people from USA and Canada here many times to work on his project. How can we let him walk away? The Soul E Baba video that made him famous, does he know how much it costs? He signed a valid 6 year contract and he will not be able to do anything related to music in Nigeria or anywhere in the world unless he settles with Colossal in a legal way. The negative press he is giving Colossal may win him sentimental support from the public, but it will in now way affect the truth that will be established in court.

Colossal feels cheated and abused and we intend to use the law court to ensure we get justice.

There is so much more to be told but we are not out to wash Soul E dirty cloths in public; Colossal only wants justice and for the world to know the truth.

Please spread this information to all members of the press, let them know that the truth is that the boy is greedy and wants to breach his contract so he can earn all the money for himself now that the ‘mugu’ company has done its job of making him popular. That’s the simple truth behind all the drama.

If you need any documents from Colossal to substanciate any of the statements and claims above, please do contact us immediately as we are now more than eager to spread the real story to everyone

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