Moe Musa Skelewu vs Sesan Skelewu

Which do you prefer?

Skelewu by Sesan

Skelewu by Moe Musa

Which do you prefer and why??

Toke Makinwa, Freeze, Do2un make final LAFA List

Without a doubt, picking the OAP's on radio with the most popular Locally Acquired Foreign Accent has been an immense task on the Grapevine Team.

We've already been blasted thoroughly by some and others are, well, 'Lafaaing' it out. Either way, this award is just to recognise the effort of every individual who has put in so much effort into acquiring this accent....we say Kudos because it ain't easy.

NUMBER 5

Ifedayo Olarinde

Freeze, aka Daddy Freeze, aka Freeze Cool Fm, came into radio limelight when Cool Fm held the radio waves down with almost no competition.

Now we know he is half oyinbo but does that warrant his accent? 

Freeze is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, born in Osun state and father of 2 very beautiful kids (his wife is Hella pretty as well). Freeze started out on radio in 1996 with BCOS Ibadan but later joined cool FM in 2001 till date making it 17 years of radio presenting with some TV work thrown in as well.

Freeze is also half Romanian (which accounts for the only 'onyinboness') bet is the accent that Freeze uses a Romanian accent??? To his credit though, Freeze has kind'a reduced his phonee since he got cut at the cord from Olisa and we prefer him without the phonee abi?

NUMBER 4

Lydia Olarenwaju aka pHisayo

#InDoctorAlban'sVoice Hello Phisayo tell us where you got your accent from.

Again another member of Smooth FM joins the gang of the L.A.F.A Nominees, Phisayo holds down the Kasbah on the afternoon shifts and the music selection is EPIC... as well as the accent (Forged in the mountains of Mordor... one accent to rule them all, my precious).

Olufisayo is a poet/songwriter/singer and broadcaster who has been working on TV and radio for a while although she came into the limelight most recently when she joined the Smooth Fm team.

Getting info on pHisayo was like digging into the Archives of hell because we found NOTHING right next to the "Great Fire-Wall of pHisayo," but thank you Linkedin and POW!! We got our info!

Her real name is Lydia and she attended the Moshood Abiola Poly in Abeokuta then there on to IMT in Enugu. So Lydia, which ABA sales man convinced you to change this accent to what it is now?

Na ask we dey ask oh! But mostly... we are in love with it as it stands out as one of the very best on Lagos Radio.

NUMBER 3

Joyce Odichinma Onyemuwa

Another leading lady in the pack of Locally Acquired Foreign Accents is Joyce who hosts the night cafe on Cool FM along side N6, the votes in for this young lady where quite 'amany' and we will unravel this joyce-ful mystery.

A “pint sized” broadcaster, Joyce Odichinma Onyemuwa has been in radio for over five years starting out at Brila Fm, and is an avid music lover and pianist. She is presently an undergraduate at the University of South Africa but since she still has a job in Lagos, we will assume it is a distance learning course??

Joyce grew up majorly in Surulere, she attended Amazing Grace Primary school, Surulere and then on to Gbaja Girls Secondary School for secondary education. After this she went to the Nigerian Institute of Phonee Speaking some where in... (If we knew all Lagos go speak phonee, so let's keep that secret) where she acquired this delicious accent with robust "R's" she uses to mesmerize listeners.

Joyce we love you. And we hope when you're done at The University of South Africa you will have picked up a new accent ... preferably South African.

NUMBER 2

Dotun Kayode

Born in 1984 in Lagos State, Dotun's first love apprently isn't even Taiwo but Dance.  His skills as a dancer eventually landed him in popular music videos for some A-list artistes such as D’Banj and DJ Zeez and the rest, they say, is history.

Hold up! (Wait a minute!), we have not discussed the accent.

Dotun studied Mass Communications at the the Lagos State University (LASU) and Advertising and Public Relations; and his foray into Radio began when he started off as an intern in Cool FM in Lagos.

So now we're here, abeg, plixt help me check it... How did this young man land this powerful accent that keeps his microphone flooded??? (and we mean... FLOODED)

Well, all mysteries aren't meant to be solved I guess but i'm sure being married into the Oyebanjo family will help at least when D'banj returns from seeing Kanye & Kim, he'll probably bring some accent back to share to everyone. #JustSaying

AND FINALLY OUR NUMBER 1 LOCALLY ACQUIRED FOREIGN ACCENT WINNER IS OFCOURSE...

Toke Makinwa

Love her or Hate her, Ms Makinwa is definately doing something right!

Since her entrance into radio in 2010, Toke has been on the rise and has just finished shooting her 2nd TV Commercial (all rise and clap please, because alot of OAPs can't boast of this). Probably the most photographed OAP on every red carpet (at every event), Toke is definitely something special.

Her Video Blogs are funny, witty and sometimes downright nasty but we just love to see her made up face every opportunity we get (which is VERY often by the way). BUT... WHERE DID THAT ACCENT COME FROM??????

Toke attended FGGC Oyo and then University of Lagos and most of her peers can testify that even in school Ms. Makinwa had been mastering this Accent (we are impressed) but kai, the Accent heavy sha.

Ms Makinwa, reduce am small naa, beter yet tell us where you got this #WinningAccent from so we can quickly purchase our own and maybe,  just maybe we can rise as well. *sob*

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Ok people thats the the list and again we are making fun of ourselves here as OAPs, no beef or 'Hate' (Nigerian celebs love that word sha #Osi_Suave).

Being a successful On Air Personality doesn't have to do with how thick your accent is but how articulate and smart you sound (In our Opinion of course).

P.S.

ACCENTS WE LOOOVE

GBEMI OLATERU OLAGBEGI 

Simple, Smart and Articulate (gerrit) #NaijaTop40radioStandard

THE L.A.F.A. Nominees for OAP's in Lagos are out....

 

The Locally Acquired Foreign Accents (L.A.F.A.) Nominees for OAP's in Lagos are here and of course we couldn't put everyone on the list.

Only the Best of the Best accents could make it here and it was a long and tough decision we had to make based on so many nominations from YOU our listeners.

The nominees were picked based on their background - individuals who we know for a fact didn't live 'abroad' in their childhood years, and so we wondered where in the hell did they learn to speak this english even better than the original owners. lol

Do note that these young men and women have proven very successful in their endeavors as personalities on Lagos Radio and that we recognize that it has taken much more than just their remarkable voices to get them where they are today. Thus we commend their wonderful, individual and unique talents. 

(Disclaimer: The Grapevine Team is not 'Beefing' any of these successful OAP's just merely stating the obvious.)

NUMBER 10

OSIKHENA DIRISU

It is with great pleasure that we introduce you to OSI, aka Osi sauve who holds down the graveyard   shift during the weekends at Beat FM.

Sharp witted and funny dude, Osi is very similar in features to M.I. Abaga and, like M.I., has a very low level tolerance for punches (must be a spark-plug syndrome).

Osi has been on Radio Professionally For 2 years before joining the Beat99.9FM. He studied Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Benin which was when he began his radio career at Rhythm FM Benin.

When asked on tips for up and coming OAPs, this was his reply "Put God first, identify your talent and build it. Drop the fake accent....." Errrm okay no comment!

Mazi'no Appeal Ofoh

NUMBER 9

No, being on the Grapevine Team does not exempt you from being on this list; which is why we have judiciously put the the very amiable Smooth FM presenter as our Number 9. Mazino Appeal, we ask, where did you get your accent from??? Or do they sell accents in Festac???

Mazino is a full born and bred (yes proudly) Festac boy. He completed his secondary school in two Festac schools (names are not necessary bcos hey who gives a.....) then went on to LASU before completing with a Masters at the Pan African university, ALL here in Lagos. So we say again - Young man where did this accent come from? At least so we can go buy ours naaa...

NUMBER 8

Matse Uwatse Ndoli

Have you ever heard anyone spit phonee with Pidgin english?? then you havent heard the lovely Matse on radio. Although she isnt technically on radio right now, there was no way we could resist not including this fine mama into this list because of the expertise of her phoneepidgin which is now (in Barney Stinson's voice) Legen... (wait for it) ...dary!

Uwatse was born on the 10th of May, 1981 in Warri, Delta State in the southern parts of Nigeria. She first attended John F. Kennedy International school in Effurun, then Our Lady's High School Effurun before moving to Federal Government College Warri. She later proceeded to Delta State University, Abraka, and had a year abroad course in French studies at Village du Benin, Togo.

So unless theres a special phonee course somewhere in West Africa, we have to ask our Warri sisteh wia she haff pick this phonee from ohh?

HIAN!!

NUMBER 7

                               

Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa

So this was a very hard name to add to the list because we all know and love this very talented MC and OAP, but digging deep we have not been able to fathom how 'WildChild' gained and perfected this foreign accent that he has used to wow the whole of Africa.

IKwas born in Lagos, Nigeria to homemaker Felicia Oviawe and Brigadier General Samuel Oviawe, he started out on stage at a young age, acting in stage plays and being in the choir as early as age 7. 

IK attended Kings College Lagos and The University of Lagos, where he got his start in the television industry on a show called Campus Circuit Television, which aired on Africa Independent Television.  IK confesses to have lived in almost every part of the country (We are assuming this country is Nigeria of course).

So where did these accents formulate from?

NUMBER 6

Titi & Gbemileke 'Oscar' Oyinsan

The only couple making the list and without a doubt the power couple on Radio. Proud parents of twin girls this looks and feels like a match made in Radio heaven except we would like to know where the accents came from of course.

Now we know that Titi was born in Lagos but apparently moved to the UK till she was like 3 then brought back to Nigeria (eerrm.)

Anyway we will give Titi a semi-pass for that but still we must question her better half who we know was fully born and bred in Naija!!

Gbemileke "Oscar" Oyinsan hails from Akure, Ondo State but apparently had a brief 4 year stint in London before coming to finish his secondary and university days at Olashore International School and University of Lagos respectively.

Should we give Oscar a pass because of this unexplained stint in the UK?

Over to you!!!

Our last 5 of the nominees for the On air Personality for Radio category of the L.A.F.A Awards, we are keeping to be released on Wednesday because we have some very tight contenders on that list.

Please join us on the show Tuesday and Thursday 8:15am The Grapevine on Smooth 98.1fm for the final names that you voted for.

Our SMS code is 33981 so you can text during the show and ofourse leave your comments behind as you read

All love

The Grapevine Team

Introducing.....THE L.A.F.A AWARDS

The Grapevine Team would like to officially announce the L.A.F.A. Awards (full meaning The Locally Acquired Foreign Accent Awards).

These awards are informal nominations by The Grapevine Team and of course all our listemers on Smooth FM to help us identify Personalities who we think/know/assume have home grown American/Canadian/British/Scottish/etc accents without justifiable reasons for these accents.

The most popular culprits are the Radio On Air Personalities (OAP) but we won't stop here - there are many deserving awardees in the Movie, Music and, of course, TV categories. Not to forget Pastors, Public speakers and even politicians.

We will fish you out and give you our honorary awards. 

Please feel free to join this portal with your nominations for our first set of awards which will be going to.......

The Radio OAP's

THE MOST INVENTIVE WAY TO DO YOUR JOB

So. you're an R&B star, doing your thing, rocking your performance at an LA nightclub and in the midst of your adoring fans, you see a woman holding out a piece of paper to you. Who knows - maybe she wants an autograph, maybe it's an "I HEART CIARA" letter.

Here's a secret - IT WAS NEITHER OF THESE THINGS.

In some news we didn't get a chance to bring you during the show, Ciara got served! The 27-year-old R&B star was onstage when she was served legal papers in the middle of her performance in Los Angeles - a woman held out a piece of paper to the star, who reached down and looked at it without pausing her performance. 

Ciara was obviously unimpressed because she promptly tossed the page back at the woman.

Kudos to TMZ for capturing video footage of this!

Brand Ambassador: Why not me????

Success seems to be contagious in the entertainment industry.

First, it was Wizkid buying a Porsche

Dr. Sid unveiling his mansion in Lekki and I Go Save revealing an
N11m ride. Well, M.I. can officially say he is in the same category as these other artistes;

‘The Chairman’ recently acquired a Bentley.

This has been a good year for M.I., who is one of the lucky artistes signed on as Glo ambassadors, and who is also on the coveted panel for the first ever X-Factor Nigeria.

We hope for more success for the Loopy Records boss. Even though Chocolate City as a record label seems to be heading for the records, this doesn’t seem to be slowing Jude Abaga at all.

Still on the subject of success, I guess it is appropriate to talk about the many brand ambassadors (except me, of course).

Congrats to the newly signed brand Ambassadors for MTN: Iyanya (long overdue), Praiz and Chidinma (all Project Fame successes) and then there’s Wizkid who is also signed to MTN, and who has his new Star contract and renewed Pepsi contract.

Let’s not forget the OBO himself, Davido, who was unofficially the first artiste signed by MTN, and who is reportedly being paid
N70 million by the telecom giant. Ms. Tiwa Savage, who also renewed her contract with Pepsi, had her first exclusive listening party this last weekend at the Wheatbaker Hotel in Ikoyi.

This is definitely a good time to be a Nigerian artiste — why am I not one?

Ms. LADIPO 

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Did Tom Ford just give a shout out to Iyanya???

Words Arent Just Enough

W.A.J.E.

I had the pleasure of meeting Waje over 5 years ago and a combo of her and her partner in 'Chimes' Omawumi left a huge impression on me.

May 1st Words Arent Just Enough debut at the Industry Night special held in honour of the songstress,
watch a small video of how awesome that voice is

Well done Waje, its been a long time coming

Have you listened to the Album? What are you thoughts?? Please share

TONTOH IS BACK & SHE'S HI AGAIN!!!!

Mzzzzz Tontoh Dikeh is back with a remix of her song HI (as if the original wasnt bad enough)

It seems POKO isn't giving up on this quest to be a pop star *yawn*

After torturing us with 'Itz over' it seems Tonto Dikeh liked to see us in pain which is she has decided again to in inflict more on us with HIIIIII

;Listen to the song and be prepared!!!

The Beautiful Port & What nots!!

TODAY ON GRAPEVINE SMOOTH 98.1 FM LAGOS

It was a full studio with Zino, Soope, Joe and I

Haha Chris Attoh the sexiest man in Ghana and Gwyneth `Paltrow the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.......I love you Chris but really??? who are the people giving this award or statement???
Dont get me wrong I mean Chris is one fine hunk of chocolate but for the whole of Ghana???

GWYNETH NOT SO BEAUTIFUL PALTROW

SEXIEST MAN IN GHANA????

Watch this weeks episode UNSCRIPTED lol (mad fun)

Saka was the most talked about person on social media with this porting business, lovely ad by MTN tho and shame on Etisalat for their stingy attitude on not paying top dollar to retain their brand ambssadors,  I know BankyW was glad to leave their stable
Although in fairness Etisalat have a better network and unlike Saka i will be porting to Etisalat imediately (Etisalat im up for endorsement Tinz)

WATCH THE AD HERE

Watch the `Grapevine Saka Port dance

JOIN US THE GRAPEVINE ON SMOOTH 98.1 FM ON TUESDAYS & THURSDAY AT 8:15AM

XOXO Ms Ladipo