D’Banj unveils Kokomobile

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Award-winning singer D’banj, in a partnership with Robert & John and First Bank, officially unveiled the Kokomobile D’banj series phones last week. Speaking at a press conference held at SQ restaurant on Thursday, April 7, 2011, D’Banj revealed that the project had been in the making since 2007 and expressed his excitement about the product launch.

“It’s a dream come true for me, especially looking at my role models who are into other things aside [from] music,” he said. “It’s a dream come true. Kokomobile is a strictly Nigerian phone and a privilege because the project has gone through a lot.”

Also speaking about the Kokomobile, chief executive officer of Robert &John, Femi Awosika, said the idea came in May 2007.

“We needed a great company that shares the same dream that we do and to get a proper representation,” he said. “Mo’Hits [Records] has to come in, as we all know D’banj is a very big act in the industry. Then we decided to go to First Bank, with over 100 years of experience, to finance the product. So we built a relationship that [First Bank] loved and the idea came alive.”

Speaking about the first model from the series, Mr. Awosika revealed that the Kokomobile is a “unique communication and entertainment device” with features including easy access to the Internet, a charity portal, God Bless Nigeria — which allows users to make donations to the Freedom Foundation, access to various social networking portals as well as a First Bank application that gives users access to financial services called First Mobile. Other features include the Kokodownload which allows users to download all the latest music and music videos from D’Banj and the Mo’Hits crew including exclusive beats from the Mo’Hit’s boss, Don Jazzy.

D’Banj further revealed that the Kokomobile was the reason that he ended his ambassadorial contract with telecom giant, Globacom.

“I didn’t want the phone users restricted to only one network,” the singer said.

Robert & John is a mobile device manufacturing company based in Nigeria. The company had already produced the mobile series rj100 and rj200 before the D’Banj series.

courtesy : Next Newspapers

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Azuka

THISDAY entertainment and Style Columnist, on her faceebook status wrote " In far away NAIROBI, D'BANJ has sent his thugs 2 intimidate and bully me over a story l did last week on my FAIRGROUND column asking "If he is really Mr endowned or lacking songs" and how GLO slashed his fee as dia AMBASSADOR frm 60 million 2 12.5million becos of his unprofessional conduct.on Friday

 however, D'banjis said to be on a sponsored tour of the Eastern African City and Azuka is on the team of Journalist covering the Gig.

She says D'banj was obviously pissed becos of her negative review of his song 'Mr Endowed' and her revealing story on his reduction of fees for his Glo endorsement deal from 60 million Naira to 12.5 million. All these was revealed on her Saturday column Fairground. She reportedly gave him a tongue lashing wen he and his 'thugs' tried to intimidate her. She posted thus on her facebook page.....

Azuka Francisca Ogujiuba ‎@ Julie, no b small thing, if d organizers of d event was not there, only God wat wud ve happened.....they were all carrying glasses of Hennesy including d KOKO GANSTER himself...and D'banj was acting like a Don as his his thugs bully me....l told h

Azuka Francisca Ogujiuba @ oyindamola My dear, na so l c am....but l ve decided 2 ve my own thugs dat will follow me around and bully anybody who l tink has annoyed me....lol!!

im 2 fuck off becos he cant make me like d useless song and dat if wat l wrote was fabricated, he shud sue and not send thugs afta me....we dey watch!!!!