G-WORLDWIDE HAS PAID KISS DANIEL OVER NGN 120 MILLION NAIRA & SINGER ACCUSED HIS FAMILY MEMBERS OF BEING FETISH.

G-WORLDWIDE
HAS PAID KISS DANIEL OVER NGN 120 MILLION NAIRA & SINGER ACCUSED HIS FAMILY
MEMBERS OF BEING FETISH.


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There has been a lot of
misinformation in the media as to the background of Kiss Daniel’s wrongful exit
from G-Worldwide Entertainment. The management of G-Worldwide Entertainment
wishes to state it had never been its intention to seek legal redress, nor join
issues with an artiste who we fear is being given bad legal advice. However we
feel it is important that we set the records straight for the benefit of the
general public and others who are interested in knowing the truth.

Firstly, we would like to reiterate
that our organization’s sole mission is to scout, develop and promote artistes
till the point where both partners become profitable and the artiste can then
decide to continue their creative journey as they deem fit. Contrary to
widespread insinuations (and though we love a good joke) we are not a slave
camp and we have no time whatsoever held any of the talents on our roster
against their will.
The issue of restrictions on
collaboration by our artistes is one which has been well flogged and one we
will address immediately. Our management policy is unique in that we look for
innovative ways to position our artistes to build and own their own sounds and
brands before seeking to enter collaborations with artistes from other labels.
To this end, we have trained and developed our artistes in a way that ensures
that their first albums are well composed and delivered in way that gives them
the platform to sell their art as strong individual brands. This strategy is
not without its results as is evidenced from Kiss Daniel’s debut album “New Era”
receiving much positive reviews and landing the 8th place on the Billboard’s
World Album Chart within a week of release. The Nigerian music industry is very
competitive, and as such it is pertinent that players in the market develop
unique strategies to break in and remain relevant.


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The New Era album of Kiss Daniel
therefore only contained collaborative efforts with his label mate Sugarboy.
However, on the soon to be released album ‘Evolution’ by Kiss Daniel, we have
worked with other talents such as Phyno
and Olamide. Sugarboy has also collaborated with Y-Cee on a song due to be released in January 2018. 
There have also been issues raised that the company has not made
available its books of accounts to Kiss Daniel, leading to him filing an action
at the Lagos State High Court seeking an order granting him access to the books
of the company. Whilst our lawyers have filed the necessary papers to strike
out the suit, it is pertinent that we briefly note that at no time have we
denied the artiste or his lawyers access to our books. With the facts we have,
we believe that the suit was a ploy to misdirect the public away from his
untimely and unlawful exit from the company. The label has records of email
correspondence with Kiss Daniel where he and his representatives at different
times requested for books of the company and same were supplied to them. All
these have been placed before the court in response to the suit filed by the
artiste at the Lagos State High Court. Until now they are yet to respond to
papers filed challenging the competence of that suit. Sadly too, even though
Kiss complained about access, in another breath he has admitted the audits held
between his accountants and the label’s accountant.
Apart from the above, there have been rumors that Kiss Daniel was
on a monthly stipend of (NGN 50,000). Everyone knows that such amount of money
cannot get a decent apartment to live in Lagos. Kiss Daniel, contrary to that
rumor, has received substantial allowances over the last two and half years.
Kiss Daniel was offered a 360 deal in 2013, and the terms of his initial
contract has been reviewed twice in his favor, whilst the company has had to
bankroll obligations relating to advertisements, promotions, music production,
videos, trips, wardrobe at different times, etc. Indeed, the company has been
quite flexible with our remuneration policies with the belief that he will be
able to build a solid financial base for himself.  For the avoidance of
doubt the following are some details of how the label catered for his financial
needs as well as his personal welfare:
1. Contrary to rumors
making the rounds that Kiss Daniel was only on a NGN 30,000 salary since he
joined the label up until after the release of Woju and Laye singles, this is nothing
but falsehood. Before the release of those singles in 2014, Kiss Daniel was put
on a monthly allowance of NGN 30,000 whilst he was still in his father’s house
in Kuto, Abeokuta, medical allowance of NGN 150,000 and other unrecorded
stipends whilst no revenue was being generated by him. This remained the norm
while the label invested in recording sessions, productions, transportation,
and other costs associated with developing him as an artist.
2. Loans of up to NGN 550,000
was given to him within 2 weeks of his signing onto the label for him to get a
car for his mom to start a Taxi business. There are documents to back this. In
addition following his request for financial support for his dad’s burial, G-Worldwide
released the sum of NGN 200,000 which was exactly what Kiss Daniel requested
for. As recent as October 2017, he again requested for a loan to run his
account in order to acquire a house for himself under a mortgage, to this end the
company released NGN 13,000,000 (Thirteen Million Naira) to him though the company was not obligated
under the contract to do so.
3. As per the contract
between Kiss Daniel and G-Worldwide, the label was meant to recoup its investment
before any royalty sharing was to commence; the only provision available for the
artiste was allowances and loans which was at the discretion of the label. In
June 2015 following his return from UK tour, the company amended the contract
and immediately began the payment of royalties as agreed and from that time
till the wrongful termination of his contract, G-Worldwide has paid Kiss
Daniel
the sum of NGN 117,233,318 (One
Hundred and Seventeen Million, Two Hundred Thirty Three Thousand and Three
Hundred and Eighteen Naira)
as royalties from performances alone, he has
also received money from other incomes to the sum of NGN 3,296,826.40 (Three
Million, Two Hundred and Ninety Six Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Six
Naira and forty kobo) for the financial
record of 2016 as opposed to the false allegations made by him and his lawyers (The company’s books of account support this)
As it stands, Kiss Daniel owes G-Worldwide Entertainment quite a large sum of
money  for the financial year due to end
in 2018.
4. Following the signing
of the contract in 2013, Kiss Daniel moved into an apartment furnished by the
label in April 2014 in Lekki Lagos and only moved out in October 2015. Despite
the terrible picture painted by Kiss Daniel to the media, the label actually
during that period undertook the payment of all the bills in the said
apartment, including waste, power, service charges, feeding, etc.

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5. We have also noted
the falsehood that at the time of his father’s demise, the label barred him
from attending the burial. Let it be on record that immediately the news of his
father’s demise filtered in, Emperor
Geezy
, CEO of the label authorized that his own personal car be used to
convey Kiss Daniel to Abeokuta to attend and be a part of his father’s burial
and he only requested for a two days leave to spend time with his family and
NGN 200,000 to send across to his family people who had to put the dad to the
ground immediately and needed an urgent burial and he was bitterly angry and
ranting that imagine none of his family members could come up with NGN 10,000
to support his dad’s burial. The company was open to giving him more money but
he said the NGN 200,000 will be okay to take care of everything being the fact
that the dad was a Muslim and much is not expected to be done. The label CEO’s
brother even accompanied him on this trip back home, as well as one of the
label’s staff. Interestingly on arriving at a hotel in Abeokuta which had been
fully paid for by the label, he refused to attend his own father’s burial on
the grounds that he believed that his family are fetish and is father death is
not ordinary with the way he suddenly fell sick and died after going through a
lot of pain, and he is scared and will not want to be exposed to any dangers.
On the same night of his arrival at the hotel is younger brother was on his way
to visit him, sadly we were informed that the brother just got involved in a
car accident. The label took care of his brother medical bills in full up to
NGN 300,000 and even assigned a staff of the company to stay with him at the
hospital for about 8 days to take care of his needs until he was deem fit to be
discharged. Kiss Daniel left Abeokuta the next morning for Lagos without
attending the burial insinuating the accident suffers by his brother was from
familiar persons.
6. In response to the
claim that Kiss Daniel was barred from supporting other artistes, especially
those who supported him and the label at the New Era album launch, we would
like to put it on record that at no time has the label barred him from
performing at events where friends in the industry have asked for his support.
We understand the importance of collaborative efforts in a fledging industry
such as ours. Kiss Daniel however has made it a habit to turn up at events late
or not at all, always blaming the label for his truancy. Clear examples include
his failing to appear at the Reekado Banks
album listening party at Hard Rock Café and the recent 2Face’s (2Baba) Buckwyld ‘n’ Breathless Concert
on 22nd of October, 2017 at Eko Hotel,. He did this even when 2Baba had
provided two separate accommodations for him and his manager Louiza Williams at Eko Hotels, and the
label had covered other logistics costs. He stood up 2Baba and manager after
claiming he was on his way from 6pm till 1am the next day. He repeated the same
show of shame at the Chronicles of Ushebebe
and Soundcity’s 2016 MVP Awards. His
excuse always being that the label has restricted him from supporting other
talents in the industry. His favorite saying:  “You know I’m signed to a label na, I’m not my
own boss yet”. One should wonder why his manager would be at these venues to
liaise with the event organizers before his arrival, if he wasn’t approved by
the label to be at those events mentioned above. His usual play was to ask the
manager if money is involved and once she says “no we are going to support” he
will either not take his calls once she’s around his house for takeoff, or
switch off his phones and later complain that he was not feeling too well or
had an urgent meeting at Abeokuta.

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Last year, many people wondered how we managed to pull off such a
massive concert for his New Era album launch with no support from any
organization. That event which included the lease of the prestigious Eko Hotels
with over 20 superstars was one of the most expensive projects the company ever
embarked upon.
Nevertheless, we understand that artistes grow with their
songs and popularity, and may eventually seek an early exit. That being said, a
contract between two parties is a legally binding arrangement and both parties
having deployed resources to perform obligations thereunder, the contract has
to be executed in line with its terms and conditions.
G-Worldwide’s contract with Kiss Daniel simply put, allows for the
artiste to exit, but in so doing, he is duty bound to repay to the company all
monies expended by the company in furtherance of the contract and all losses
including losses suffered from cancellation of fixed events and shows by reason
of the termination. The contract is also expressly clear on the fact that
intellectual property rights to all the songs produced under the contract
including the stage name of the artiste are properties of the company. We know
that so far, Kiss Daniel has kept these facts away from the public; choosing to
resort to cheap blackmail and whipping up emotions. We will not take this route
as a responsible company and this is why we are in court.

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We have done our best not to harp on the history of his
recalcitrance. Nevertheless, we keep being harassed by different lawyers (his
present lawyer is the fourth) with outrageous demands, but we have retained the
opinion that some terms cannot be imposed on us. Most recently in October, he
had demanded, going forward, a 100% of revenues from his performances and
endorsements even while he understands his level of indebtedness to us and the
terms of the contracts. When he was referred to the contract terms, his
response was to serve us a termination notice without even following the
stipulations for termination under the contract. He thereafter announced his
personal record label in less than nine (9) days after the undue notice and has
since been soliciting bookings and infringing on G-Worldwide intellectual
property rights by performing songs from the ‘New Era’ album and the yet to be
released ‘Evolution’ album. This is the reason for the restraining order of
status quo issued by the Federal High Court on the 30
th November 2017.

Law abiding organizations and business concerns have either contacted us for
clarity, which we have provided through our solicitors, Calmhill Partners. Other well advised entities have in support of
the rule of law and sanctity of contracts, terminated their engagement with him
or removed him from performance schedules. The Nigerian musical industry we
believe will learn and grow from this incidence.
We have put everyone who
wishes to contract Kiss Daniel on notice and advise that you should not allow
yourselves be misinformed about the subject matter or be swayed by his
misrepresentations or lack of capacity to perform some of the songs that he has
been contracted to perform. Whilst we look forward to a speedy dispensation of
justice in the matter before the Court, we reiterate our advice that event
organizers should consult their lawyers to avoid being complicit in the offence
of acting in contempt of court.
It remains illegal to
deal with Kiss Daniel directly instead of G-Worldwide Management pending the
hearing of the suit in Court. 
All inquiries about Kiss
Daniel should be directed to: [email protected] or call Louiza
Williams on +234 817 540 3350.

Thank You.

For: G-Worldwide
Entertainment

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