Last day of Voting in the YadaMag Readers Choice Awards

Hey guys,
Today is the final day of voting in the 2011 YadaMag Readers Choice Awards. It means if you have not voted you should go and vote. Here are the nominees again.

Choice Artist of the year

• TY Bello
• Lara George
• Segun Obe
• Sammie Okposo
• Nikki Laoye
• Rooftop MCs

The Next Big Thing

• Simi
• Onos
• Threadstone
• K’ore

Choice Author of the year

• Myne Whitman (A Heart to Mend)
• Chimamanda Adichie (The Thing Around Your Neck)
• Nwabundo Onyeabo (Out of Curiousity)
• Tolu Akanni (A-Z Life Lessons)
• Abidemi Sanusi (Eyo)

Choice Blog of the Year

• Myne Whitman Writes
• Bella Naija
• Verastically Livin’
• It Was So Much Easier When I Only Had One (Solomon Sydelle)
• Light Her Lamp (Jaycee)
• Good Naija Girl
• Nigerian Curiosity (Solomon Sydelle)

Choice Online Personality of the Year

• Myne Whitman
• NakedSha
• Verastic
• Jaycee
• AlooFar
• T.Notes
• Solomon Sydelle
• Echecrates
• Miss Balance

Yada Category that ROCKED!!!

• Fashion
• Reviews
• Spiritual Diet
• Interviews
• Health
• It’s a guy thing

Choice Artist of the year (Foreign)

• Group 1 Crew
• The Washington Projects
• Je’kob
• Sho Baraka
• Lecrae
• Natalie Grant
• Francesca Battistelli

Choice Author of the year (Foreign)

• Ted Dekker (Burn)
• Angela Hunt (The Fine Art of Insincerity)
• Frank Peretti (House)
• Francine Rivers (Her Daughter’s Dream)
• Max Lucado (Outlive your life)

Choice Blog of the Year (foreign)

• Finally (Danielle Kimmey)
• Jason Boyett Blog
• Expanding my Territory (Jabez)
• Joshua Harris’ Blog
• Desiring God
• Think International (Jeff and Sean)

Choice Online Personality of the Year (foreign)

• Jabez
• Danielle Kimmey
• Jason Boyett
• Andrea Lucado
• Sean Carnell and Jeff Moors

If you have been nominated, spread word to your friends and supporters, informing them to vote for you. The voting link is http://yadamag.com/yadamag-readers-choice-awards/

This is the final day so let us go and vote. Winners will be announced on Monday... :)

Nominee List for the 2011 YadaMag Reader Choice Awards

Yada Magazine is proud to introduce to you the 2011 YadaMag Readers Choice Awards. The award is our way of appreciating people who have been featured on our website one way or the other. Below are the complete nominees for the awards. Voting closes on the 14th of May 2011 and the winners will be announced on the 16th of May.


Choice Artist of the year

• TY Bello
• Lara George
• Segun Obe
• Sammie Okposo
• Nikki Laoye
• Rooftop MCs

The Next Big Thing

• Simi
• Onos
• Threadstone
• K’ore

Choice Author of the year

• Myne Whitman (A Heart to Mend)
• Chimamanda Adichie (The Thing Around Your Neck)
• Nwabundo Onyeabo (Out of Curiousity)
• Tolu Akanni (A-Z Life Lessons)
• Abidemi Sanusi (Eyo)

Choice Blog of the Year

• Myne Whitman Writes
• Bella Naija
• Verastically Livin’
• It Was So Much Easier When I Only Had One (Solomon Sydelle)
• Light Her Lamp (Jaycee)
• Good Naija Girl
• Nigerian Curiosity (Solomon Sydelle)

Choice Online Personality of the Year

• Myne Whitman
• NakedSha
• Verastic
• Jaycee
• AlooFar
• T.Notes
• Solomon Sydelle
• Echecrates
• Miss Balance

Yada Category that ROCKED!!!

• Fashion
• Reviews
• Spiritual Diet
• Interviews
• Health
• It’s a guy thing

Choice Artist of the year (Foreign)

• Group 1 Crew
• The Washington Projects
• Je’kob
• Sho Baraka
• Lecrae
• Natalie Grant
• Francesca Battistelli

Choice Author of the year (Foreign)

• Ted Dekker (Burn)
• Angela Hunt (The Fine Art of Insincerity)
• Frank Peretti (House)
• Francine Rivers (Her Daughter’s Dream)
• Max Lucado (Outlive your life)

Choice Blog of the Year (foreign)

• Finally (Danielle Kimmey)
• Jason Boyett Blog
• Expanding my Territory (Jabez)
• Joshua Harris’ Blog
• Desiring God
• Think International (Jeff and Sean)

Choice Online Personality of the Year (foreign)

• Jabez
• Danielle Kimmey
• Jason Boyett
• Andrea Lucado
• Sean Carnell and Jeff Moors

If you have been nominated, spread word to your friends and supporters, informing them to vote for you. The voting link is http://yadamag.com/yadamag-readers-choice-awards/
Lets go-a-voting

HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blogville!!!!!

I need your help.

I have been running the Yada website for a while now and while traffic may be a little bit impressive it is not as I expect it too. I was expecting to see my favorite online family (blogville) flooding the site with your opinions and your comments but it seems you guys have abandoned the site.

Please guys, the Yada site needs you. So much is going into the website. For example, we interviewed the amazing singer Onos just recently. We also premiered the new Group 1 Crew music video which is awesome by the way and should be checked out. Glory Onyema our senior editor wrote an article on her boobs and we also premiered Hawk Nelson's new video called Crazy Love.

Please guys, we need you. We need you to hype us a little. We need you to follow us. We need you to be critics. So why don't you bookmark the Yada website now. Or better still why dont you go to your blogger dashboard and add www.yadamag.com to one of the blogs you follow or even add it to your Google Reader list. Please guys. I need you to help me make this work. I am not about to give up now and I need your help.


Thanks guys.

Organise and Plan

That's what I need to do

Organise and plan.

I can't believe this blog is suffering.

I need to organise and plan.

Don't worry. The Awake series continues.

To all the Kiss and Tell fans... we starting the series on the Yada site...  Click here

Love y'all

Official Apology

This is an official apology from me to you. I am sorry I have not been blogging as often as I used to and I am sorry I don't visit your blog as often as I used to. I promise to make it up to all of y'all. I promise.

Have you seen the YADA website?

you need to see it. Bookmark the site. Comment on it. Follow it.

Please I could use your support.

Thanks
www.yadamag.com

On YADA...

Hey guys!!!

What's good??? It is a beautiful Saturday and I hope YOU ALL ARE  RELAXING!!! It is very essential for y'all to take a break once in a while and just enjoy life...

On YADA, our February issue is out. It was delayed due to a number of reasons but we thank God that finally it is out.  International Nigerian fashion designer, Adebayo Jones is on the cover and you can view the magazine here

Also, we are still receiving emails about our hard copy issue so if you want to write an article, subscribe to the magazine or even sponsor or advertise in it, just send an email to yadamag@gmail.com or harryitie@gmail.com stating what exactly you are interested in.

Thank you so much for your support guys...

Also, I want you guys to follow the YADA Magazine blog and also check out the new post on The Eden Project... 

Trotcha!!!

Happy New Year Peeps!!~!

I am so sorry this is coming late but I have to say it... Happy new year guys... How y'all doing? Hope you have made your resolutions and all... Well, just watch this video and know that 2010 is gonna be big...




Thank you so much for your support. Alos you can send your articles for the first isuue of YADA Magazine to harryitie@gmail.com on or before Jan 14...

Trotcha!!

Au Revoir 2009... 2010... HERE WE COME!!!

Let's be real, 2009 was not really THE YEAR for most of us (OK for the peeps, I know, the year sucked!).But for me to say that 2009 was not a remarkable year, I will be lying... So I think I need to count my blessings and I will do it monthly

January... Hmmn, the month was just there, nothing really happened in this month. I fellin love with Hillsong in January sha. I also saw Ben Carson for like 2 minutes in my school.

February... This was the month I got the concept for YADA... Thank you Lord for revealing it to me... through my uncle of course...

March... The Talkaholic was 2 years old in March. Also I discoverd that Afrigator actually ranks blogs and mine was no 45 in Niageria (Now I am no 33).

April... I started Kiss and Tell... Love that blog...

May... MY birthday month...YIPEE!!! I was sick in the hopital and God healed me... Also... YADA came out this month and it rocked. People loved it. Thank God. and My best friend,also the editor of YADA, Bunmi Obanawu became the Vice Chairperson female of the Covenant University Student Council.

June...I started my podcast in this month and started working for Viktory at Viklife.com

July...My name became Anani.... Yahweh is my covering... Hallelujah!! LOL

August.... YADA came out again this month with Glory on the cover. I got Hillsong's Faith+Hope+Love album this month. I decided Kiss and Tell needs to be a book..also I was at the Harambe Conference...I want to add here that I am very thankful for the grace God gave Jeremy and Adie Camp when they lost their baby this month.

September... I entered my final year this month. The YADA website was launched this year and I got the concept for my mixtape this month.

October... It was a blessed month.... Don't wanna go into details

November... I fell in love with the Lemon and Lime flavor of Orbit. YADA November came out this month too..I also found a new hobby... Photography!!

December... Amazing month, The Experience Lagos rocked!! I saw Kirk Franklin live... YIPEE!! Fell in love with Audrey Hepburn, YWAP's Mini was a success, YADA December was released, my mixtape Emunah was released, Colours of Christmas at House on the Rock was amazing... Christmas too was good

I won't deny I have had an amazing year. I am so thankful and grateful to Him becasie this is just the beginning. 2010 is gonna rock!!!

Here are memorable pictures from 2009

The first YADA cover...

I experiment with Photoshop


A song that has been playing in my head...

Videos from me 2 u...

Merry Christmas and an amazing video from Nikki Laoye

Hey guys!!!

It's Christmas and how are you guys do... I hope you are excited as I am. Today, we remember the price that our saviour, Jesus Christ paid on the cross. In the Spirit of Xmas.. I have a few gifts for you.

1. YADA December- Click here

2. Emunah Mixtape- Click here

Thanks guys for your cooperation and please send feedback to harryitie@gmail.com

Take care guys... Enjoy your Christmas and check out this video from Nikki Laoye, Rooftop MCs and Rap2Sai and its called Taka Sufe... I LOVE THE SONG!!!

YADA Information

Hey guys,
First of all, I want to say a big thank you for supporting YADA since we started in May 2009. It has been awesome to know that through it all, I still have your support... Thank you.

We have received emails as regards The YADA Black & White Ball and as most of you might have already guessed. The event is not holding again. This is due to circumstances beyond our control and we are awfully sorry it had to be canceled. We were looking forward to the vent but God knows best. That might sound very cliche but I tell you, It is the truth. We can only hope that by next year, we will have a bigger event. It is to this end, that I want to invite you to an event that is holding this Saturday in Onike Yaba. It is a concert organized by YWAP Lagos and it is called mini. The venue is Praiseville, No13 Majoro Street, Onike Yaba and the time is 5pm. Please be there as it will feature performances by Rooftop MCs, Riola from Naijasings, Soul Quest of the Malta Guinness fame (they were on the cover of the first issue of YADA), Skales amongst others. You can RSVP to the event here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194487323275&ref=mf

As regards the December issue of YADA... it is ready and you can view it here http://issuu.com/yadamag/docs/yada_december_-_indesign

It will be available for download on our issuu page and soon on our website so just bear with us and please do not forget to send your feedback to yadamag@gmail.com, info@yadamag.com and harryitie@gmail.com

Once again... thank you for your support and keep reading YADA... coming next is our Feb issue... stay locked...

The December issue of YADA Magazine is closer than you think

Yes oh!!! Our December issue is closer than you think... here is the cover of the issue.. What do you think???

As regards mini- the concert... Rooftyop MCs will be there oh

And you will get a chance to share your mini-story

 

It is gonna be mad exciting and I can't wait to see you there... i.e Saturday the 19th of December, 2009 at Praiseville, Majoro Street, Yaba, Lagos. You can RSVP here

Trotcha!!!

Another inspiring article

First of all...I got new Kiss & Tell for y'all..check it out here
And you have to read YADA

I love Max Lucado... I mean the way he dissects the Word is so commendable... I got another of his amazing emails and I just have to share this with you...   

Pursue the Virtue of Contentment

by Max Lucado

A businessman bought popcorn from an old street vendor each day after lunch. He once arrived to find the peddler closing up his stand at noon. “Is something wrong?” he asked.
A smile wrinkled the seller’s leathery face. “By no means. All is well.”
“Then why are you closing your popcorn stand?”
“So I can go to my house, sit on my porch, and sip tea with my wife.”
The man of commerce objected. “But the day is still young. You can still sell.”
“No need to,” the stand owner replied. “I’ve made enough money for today.”
“Enough? Absurd. You should keep working.”
The spry old man stopped and stared at his well-dressed visitor. “And why should I keep working?”
“To sell more popcorn.”
“And why sell more popcorn?”
“Because the more popcorn you sell, the more money you make. The more money you make, the richer you are. The richer you are, the more popcorn stands you can buy. The more popcorn stands you buy, the more peddlers sell your product, and the richer you become. And when you have enough, you can stop working, sell your popcorn stands, stay home, and sit on the porch with your wife and drink tea.”
The popcorn man smiled. “I can do that today. I guess I have enough.”
Wise was the one who wrote, “Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income” (Eccles. 5:10 NIV).
Don’t heed greed.
Greed makes a poor job counselor.
Greed has a growling stomach. Feed it, and you risk more than budget-busting debt. You risk losing purpose. Greed can seduce you out of your sweet spot.
Before you change your job title, examine your perspective toward life. Success is not defined by position or pay scale but by this: doing the most what you do the best.
Parents, give that counsel to your kids. Tell them to do what they love to do so well that someone pays them to do it.
Spouses, urge your mate to choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be married to a happy person who has a thin wallet than a miserable person with a thick one. Besides, “a pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life” (Prov. 13:7 MSG).
Pursue the virtue of contentment. “Godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Tim. 6:6 NIV). When choosing or changing jobs, be careful. Consult your design. Consult your Designer. But never consult your greed.

From Cure for the Common Life
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 2006) Max Lucado

Love him... Love God more...

Trotcha...

On YADA: Calling all bloggers

Hey guys... YADA November is out and it rocks... I am guessing you know that... anyways... You guys can start to send your articles now for the December issue...
 Here are a couple of guidelines though

1: Every blogger or writer should submit at least 5 pictures. not scanned. good bright pictures with moderate or Good enough smiles

2. Every Bloggers Article should come in before the 25th of this month please. I would need to really get good Pictures.

3: Anyone sending pictures should make sure they are high resolution and of High quality.

4:We don't use scanned pictures

Plus every writer should put a brief write up about their writing lives. it for the page that shows our contributors. we want to make avenue for other magazine to feature you on an article....

Thanks guys.. and keep reading YADA...

PS: You can also be a guest writer on our YADA blog

Nkem Owoh has been released

Hey y'all

I got great news for y'all. According to Linda Ikeji's blog... Osoufia has been released!!!

Glory!!!

He is yet to make a statement... While you wait for the statement, you can read YADA here

Peace

I got EXCEEDING JOY!!!!

OMG!!! I am so happy and I really excited..honestly.... Things are going really well for YADA and I am so grateful to God... all the positive feedback and everything... WOW!! Thank you guys for reading YADA... I really appreciate it. So now, I have been singing Hillsong's  Exceeding Joy  like on a regular...lol... So imma share the lyrics here today... It is from their Hope album and it was done by Miriam Webster..

Check out our YADA website here
View the November issue here

Here are the lyrics
Hillsong- Exceeding Joy
I have found exceeding joy,
Jesus answered when I called
this Name that has saved me,
pure love that embraced me.

Mercy, grace, eternal life.
Bought from darkness to His light.
While lost in my sin, He
raised me and made me live.

Chorus:
My soul magnifies the Lord,
my heart joys in God my Saviour,
for He lifts the lowly,
He's done great things for me.
I will sing, praising evermore,
He is mighty and Holy is His Name.

I will lift my head up high,
praising Jesus through each trial.
Though I have not seen Him,
I love Him completely.

I TOO HAPPYY!!!!

The November issue of YADA Magazine is OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hola blogville!!!

The November issue of my darling magazine/journal... YADA is out... Please check it out here.

It is necessary you do oh!!! The magazine is TIGHTTT!!!!

It will be available soon on the website for download so please keep your ears to the ground..

You can send your articles for the December issue to harryitie@gmail.com, yadamag@gmail.com or info@yadamag.com

You can also view the YADA blog here

Thanks for the support!!

Love y'all

Harry!!!

The YADA Website Works!!!

Hey guys,

Just wanna let you know that the website for YADA Magazine works... You can check it out here

God bless you... The new issue comes out anytime soon so be on the look out

Peace

Meanwhile, Max Lucado blessed me with this today... Got it in my mail and I think you should read it too

God Does Big Things
with Small Deeds

by Max Lucado

“Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin” (Zech. 4:10 NLT).

Begin. Just begin! What seems small to you might be huge to someone else. Just ask Bohn Fawkes. During World War II, he piloted a B-17. On one mission he sustained flak from Nazi antiaircraft guns. Even though his gas tanks were hit, the plane did not explode, and Fawkes was able to land the plane.
On the morning following the raid, Fawkes asked his crew chief for the German shell. He wanted to keep a souvenir of his incredible good fortune. The crew chief explained that not just one but eleven shells had been found in the gas tanks, none of which had exploded.
Technicians opened the missiles and found them void of explosive charge. They were clean and harmless and with one exception, empty. The exception contained a carefully rolled piece of paper. On it a message had been scrawled in the Czech language. Translated, the note read: “This is all we can do for you now.”
A courageous assembly-line worker was disarming bombs and scribbled the note. He couldn’t end the war, but he could save one plane. He couldn’t do everything, but he could do something. So he did it.
God does big things with small deeds.
Against a towering giant, a brook pebble seems futile. But God used it to topple Goliath. Compared to the tithes of the wealthy, a widow’s coins seem puny. But Jesus used them to inspire us. And in contrast with sophisticated priests and powerful Roman rulers, a cross-suspended carpenter seemed nothing but a waste of life. Few Jewish leaders mourned his death. Only a handful of friends buried his body. The people turned their attention back to the temple. Why not?
What power does a buried rabbi have? We know the answer. Mustard-seed and leaven-lump power. Power to tear away death rags and push away death rocks. Power to change history. In the hands of God, small seeds grow into sheltering trees. Tiny leaven expands into nourishing loaves.
Small deeds can change the world. Sow the mustard seed. Bury the leaven lump. Make the call. Write the check. Organize the committee.
Moses had a staff.
David had a sling.
Samson had a jawbone.
Rahab had a string.
Mary had some ointment.
Aaron had a rod.
Dorcas had a needle.
All were used by God.
What do you have?
God inhabits the tiny seed, empowers the tiny deed. He cures the common life by giving no common life, by offering no common gifts. Don’t discount the smallness of your deeds.

From Cure for the Common Life
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 2006) Max Lucado

It has been a while... BUT I JUST DEY JO!!!!

Waddap BLOGVILLE!!!, to say I have missed you guys will be an understatement. I have been SO BUSY with school and all but I am here and I just wanna say I shall be consistent...OK? YADA October issue is comin soon. keep your fingers crossed. If you have not downloaded the august issue go and do that now. My mixtape Emunah is coming out in November and it is going to be tight....keep your fingers crossed oh... I will give youi more info soon

Peace

The Thing With Swagger...

This article is from the August issue of YADA Magazine.... Enjoy

It is amazing how urban culture evolves as fast as the speed of light. It’s no news that urban culture is largely influenced by the hip-hop culture so we can say we have been influenced from the guys in Cali to the guys in the ATL and not forgetting those who make the Bronx and Brooklyn their home. We had “bling-bling”, “pimping” and we also had the “izzle” phase. So what is the new thing in vogue now? What is the ‘thing’ that is defining urban culture? I don’t even need to say it... It is swag.

What exactly is swagger? Where did it originate from? Why is it one of the most widely used words in the urban dictionary today? There is Gospel Swag, Swagger Rock, Swagger Redefined even we have an article in this issue titled ‘Corporate Swag’. Ad- companies are beginning to use the word for some of their campaigns. I even saw a video on YouTube where CNN anchors were discussing President Obama’s swagger. Funny right?

According to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, Swagger (as a verb) is walking in an extremely proud and confident way. As a noun, it is a way of walking or behaving that seems too confident. According to blurit.com ‘The word swag has a Scandinavian origin. Swag could be used as a noun and verb. A drapery or curtain that is wrapped in an arch between two points is called swag. Festoon or decoration of flowers or fruit is also termed swag. Swag could also be an ornament. It is carved out or moulded out of some substance that could be an accessory. In slang terms, swag indicates stolen property or loot. Herbal tea that is sold as marijuana to a naive customer is also termed swag. In Australia, the word swag implies a pack that contains personal possessions of a swagman. When someone lurches or sways, he is said to be swagging. This is mainly used in the British context. Swagging is also travelling about with a luggage or swag’.

This is not the context in which the word is used today. When you hear swagger now, it has to do mainly with how a person carries himself or herself. From the way the person talks, to the looks and then to the way the person dresses. I mean it is all encompassing. Swag entered hip-hop through the likes of Cam’ron, The Diplomats and Jay Z. Soon the word has kicked off and everyone has got swagger now. Every artist, actor and even white boys too are beginning to have swagger.

Swagger is a hip-hop slang that I can say has spread around the globe like a virus. However, most people have a problem with the word because of its original meaning. So what is going to be the next hip hop slang; arrogance, conceit, bragging. LOL! I am just playing.

So this is what’s up on urban culture and we will be back with more in the next issue of YADA. Peace!