{"id":468988,"date":"2018-03-02T03:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/i-diversed-from-music-because-of-poverty-dbanj\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T03:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T03:30:30","slug":"i-diversed-from-music-because-of-poverty-dbanj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/i-diversed-from-music-because-of-poverty-dbanj\/","title":{"rendered":"I diversed from music because of poverty \u2013 Dbanj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday,  2 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>nigeriafilms.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/58878622.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dbanj Ola\" title=\"Dbanj Ola\" width=\"295\" height=\"181\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo a.k.a. Dbanj<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1519961430_871_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Afro hip-hop megastar Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo a.k.a. Dbanj says fear of poverty made him to think out of the box to create wealth, urging youths to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Dbanj said in Lagos on Wednesday that Nigerian youths must go the extra mile, be creative and have a new perspective to be relevant and make wealth.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at the 2018 Social Media Week (SMW) Lagos which began on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019banj spoke on the topic: \u201cChanging the Game: Artistes are leaders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The music star said that fame might not bring wealth but thinking out of the box will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fear of being poor made me think out of the box to create wealth for myself and remain relevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFame will not guarantee you money; fame will not give you wealth, but it can give you what you need if you channel it properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChannelling your fame properly to create wealth is another advantage that stands you out,\u201d D\u2019banj said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it was high time artistes created brands for themselves and be ambassadors of their own brand.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Uzoma Dozie, Managing Director, Diamond Bank Plc, said that the bank would invest in artistes if information and data available on their revenue flow would be available.<\/p>\n<p>Dozie called for professionalism in the music industry especially as more people would be going digital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you do to inspire people and how you do it matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Social Media Week Lagos is currently in its sixth edition with the theme: \u2018Closer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The event which will end on March 2 is featuring discussions covering the future of the media, tourism, governance, gender inclusion, entertainment and emerging ideas and trends across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Friday, 2 March 2018 Source: nigeriafilms.com 2018-03-02 Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo a.k.a. Dbanj Afro hip-hop megastar Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo a.k.a. Dbanj says fear of poverty made him to think out of the box to create wealth, urging youths to follow suit. Dbanj said in Lagos on Wednesday that Nigerian youths must go the extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":468990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}