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ahahaah this is super story!

sometimes i wonder what these psychologists do... this is madness now! that girl needs help!!!

why is no one talking of the huge amount of money this is costing the nation and that if some little character problems of our leaders is corrected, we wont have to go spending a cut-throat amount of money to achieve the usual. Government should of course monitor the internet which i believe is a very important aspect of securing the nation but it shouldn't take such an amount away... cause normally, these are what the NPF should do as part of their job.

rodeo0070: *Covering his eyes*
Please can someone tell me if the guy still lie down there?

That's how he's gonna lie forever. what a pity!

I grew up in a neighborhood where some of us describe our homes as 'prisons'...why?... because we were always denied by our parents a play on the field using our very energetic, restless and risk friendly BODY... it was always like there is something in the body to put to test and it is lying there idle not knowing
the joy of winning by winning a 'monkey post' contest;
the anger of losing by losing a 'ten ten' challenge;
the pain of a breakdown by the cracking of bones;
and of course the happiness of being able to play with once a broken bone again...

Not being able to feel the joy and the happiness as well as the anger and the pain and all the lessons in them was what made home 'prison' then.

WHERE DO YOU CALL PRISON?

Now that we are youths, we no longer need our bodies to feel
pain through bruises;
happiness through winning a 'ten ten' contest;
or anger through losing a 'monkey post' match
still we need our restless, energetic and risk friendly MIND to feel anger, happiness, joy and sadness because we still need the lessons in them... and the fact is, where we can have all these is where FREEDOM is and where they are all taken away is where PRISON is.

I once visited a prison yard and seriously, it was a terrifying experience and I DREAD it... where your body is put under total restriction and your mind given a lot of freedom can be a very scary place but you know what? I dread more of a place where your mind is given total restriction and your body a lot of freedom.

I watched with keen interest lately a huge and beautiful church building built and donated by the vice senate president (senator Ike Ekweremadu) to his people in his homeland and I thought to myself

"if this man has driven through roads ridden with pot-holes, passed through non tarred roads, zoomed through the beggars and the homeless to build a church of that magnitude in a place where there is no electricity, no jobs for the youths, no portable water and well equipped clinics, then what he built and donated in the real sense is a 'prison' where the minds of the people will be restricted to feeling...

JOY: because truly there is no joy.
SADNESS: though written all over their faces, it becomes unholy to feel it in the 'house of God'.
HAPPINESS: because that is already promised in heaven and so there is no qualms not having it here & now on earth and
ANGER: because it automatically becomes a sin to be angry in 'the house of the Lord'."

WHERE DO YOU CALL PRISON?

"APC IS A THREAT TO PDP".... you mean to say, Mr. Koro

shanpannna o oooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

olawumia: Sentiment ?i wonder how some youths reason ,a goveror came on air bragging how an election was influenced, and we call dat sentiment. Too bad ....in a civil n meaningful nation ,such person suppose to be at d back of bar eating beans. Naija i hale ooo

you've gotten it right bro. the problem is the youth. how can any youth is suppose to be known for ground breaking changes in an environment like this reason in anyway with a situation like this. if the youths ever want to make a change, these are the kind of fights we should be fighting!

when natural rules become unnatural

It’s time you wanna be born, mama rush abroad
You wanna go to school, you’re sent abroad
You’re sick and need treatment, you go abroad
You wanna have fun and go shopping, you go abroad
You’ve found a wife material and wanna marry, you go abroad
You wanna give birth to your baby, you rush abroad
You wanna earn a good living, you go abroad
You wanna boast of a place you’ve been, you talk abroad
You wanna run for safety, you run abroad
You wary and wanna die, you’re carried abroad
And even when we can’t step out of the shores of this country, we still manage to dream, wish, dress, eat and talk like we’re abroad.

WHAT’S THIS PLACE?
A backyard of a building where ‘abroad’ is the living room?
A dark stain on the world’s colorful rays?
A miserable brackish backwater from the Dead Sea?
Or an identity of a people with no name and therefore live with no shame?

If you’re born, you school or get treated here, you’re common. If you shop, marry or have fun here, you’re common. If you’re given birth to, you earn a living or die here, you’re common. And if you boast, dream, think, wish, eat or talk of here, you’re common yet common sense eludes us all.

Governor Suntai’s aides who were involve in an airplane mishap with him had their families screaming foul because they were initially denied treatment abroad but they’ve long been released from ‘abroad’ because their injuries could be managed and treated here. Their mild injuries didn’t matter then; they just want to be treated abroad.

I bet Mandella is gonna die in South Africa and maybe in his homeland but even our Chinua Achebe could not take his last breath from the atmosphere of the land he live for neither did Ojuwku and many more… they all took it ‘abroad’.

The ant runs at the feelings of threat to its life, so does the bird at the sound of a fling; animals in the wild at the slightest note of a threat to their lives also flee but if humans do the same, who will stand and die the course for others to live… How will humanity understand loyalty, dignity, sacrifice, integrity, service, faith and unity without which a nation is no different from a jungle?

Everyone wants to eat fat, drink, sex, have children, feed grandchildren and see great grandchildren… for what purpose do you think the animals also flee?

Unfortunately, you will not be lined up with the animals in the world beyond instead, you will be in turn where the purpose for which you were born and the purpose for which you died will be placed side by side and be used in determining the gate through which you’ll proceed!

The other day when a Boko Haramist was to be judged and sentenced according to the laws of the land, the presiding judge was nowhere to be found. I asked my mum why a judge had to be absent on a day like that and she responded rhetorically “you this boy, you don’t know anything. How do you expect a culprit like that to be judged…? He had to be absent so as not to put his life at risk of course!”

“How is this man different from a bush RAT?”

Just thinking of the incessant killings of the innocent and freedom loving citizens on the streets and corners of this country in the name of unity and I ask "is unity really worth it?"... How destinies are caught up between the sharp edged swords of some people's greed and love for money and again i ask "can life be wickedly destined?"

Far more than sin, foolishness has lead more souls through the gates of hell.

What are you gonna tell God you were doing at the bank of a 'wrongly positioned' ocean all your life? Trying to scoop the waters dry?
How are you gonna explain wasting your life constructing a ladder to re-paint the skies with the color you believe is right.
Or how does it sound that you spent a lifetime ploughing a landscape into an ocean for not being 'correctly' sized?

…because humans cannot alter these ones, they worship them instead.*SMH*

How will you stand and explain to your God you spent your life destroying humanity because you believe they're wrongly placed?

People with identity is what humanity is...same tongue, culture and belief. It is more of foolishness than sin to want to wipe them all out cause no matter how little they may seem, one thing that is very sure like the steeliness of the cutlass's blade is that they cannot be wiped out.

It is intriguing how wisdom skips sleep and foolishness is like a sleeping pill; it can't wait for the nights to fall.
If our leaders sleep over this and assume it will all go down with no serious effort of theirs, I bet they are on a 'long thing'.

@op. this's a cow transporting a cow on a bike

free2ryhme: How would raising petrol prices, under any guise, benefit Nigerians? If majority of Nigerians are poor and are already dealing with untold hardship which is directly caused by government officials who steal the nation's monies for themselves only, how will it be possible for “poor” Nigerians to purchase petrol at a much higher price when they can least afford lower petrol prices now? If the government needs more money for projects, why don't they lower the salaries of all government officials, after all, 75% of the nation's monies are spent on salaries and benefits to civil servants – something that shouldn't be in the first place. Why should government be providing cars and houses to government workers, in addition to pay them huge unjustified salaries? Also, why can't the federal government stop all “security votes,” which amounts to billions of Naira every month, to incompetent and thieving governors, and instead use those monies to develop the country?

there is some kind of economics thought in expensive schools that only the rich and powerful only understand... the type that Okonjo Oweala read in school. if you ask her these questions, she will have answers for you

these pdp states won't stop spending and wasting away the money they don't have. keep putting your the future of your children in debt.
good governance in SW... keep it up.

fluid26: @ANY-PEN

I understand that the middle of the road is the most dangerous place to be. However, that's not the case here. Tuface had consistently made his position (on government policies) known time and again. He is not guilty of any form of ambiguity.

The gifts are a form of appreciation of good music served the nation by one of it's most industrious artistes. Moreover, Akpabio has been in power long enough to amass such wealth to procure and dole out such gifts without being accused of 'lifting' them from government coffers. On another note, what can Tuface possibly do to uplift or destroy (as the case may be) Akpabio at this time? He (Akpabio) has proven to be somewhat distinctive in governance (at least in comparison with his colleagues).

Asking him to reject such honour is just absurd and uncalled for. He has worked hard to gain himself the fame & reputation and fully deserves whatever accolades that might come his way (and by extension his family). Countries with Stars like Tuface even tend to do more for his likes. In my opinion, the gifts are not even enough, considering Tuface's contribution to the Nation's accomplishment and position in the music industry in Africa and the rest of the world.

Do you guys know that he hesitated? ok, The reason why he hesitated is what i am trying to justify. 2Face has said a lot about the government and that is one of the reasons a lot of people love him. money isn't everything... forget the fact that he is a commercial pop star, what am saying is that anyone be it a politician or a musician should be responsible for what they say and make public. people should be able to make clear their stands not just for themselves but for people looking up to them.

if you're thinking in money context, you may never understand me but if you appreciate integrity in people... you clearly understand.
there are so many other musicians i wouldn't have bother even think about if they received a 100x of what he was given... why? because they have made it clear they aren't on the masses side... and that they just wanna go clubbing and have fun.

i want you to be specific in pointing out musicians in America for example (because that is Nigerians favorite reference) where politicians go all out in dolling out gifts to pop stars despite the fact that they have a better economy and people their appreciate their government more than what we have here.

pro01: Madam don't be so naive, or worse still, self-righteous.

Tuface had choices, but he chose RIGHT and WISE, inevitably. We're talking about a commercial pop artiste doing his thing in order to make a living for himself - in a country such as Nigeria where the lines between economy, polity, and politics are blurred, if not non-existent. He never claimed to be a 'socially conscious', revolutionary, swim-or-sink-with the masses-even-if-I-starve crusader (ala Fela, the only REAL one ever). He owes nobody any fake moralistic obligation, at the expense of his own wellbeing or career. After all, he does not hold public office.

It would have been disastrous for him, his blossoming career, and his 'new' marriage, to reject his wife's home governor's goodwill gesture merely to please some social media noisemakers and give them ammunition to scoff at the governor. Tuface is wiser than that.

In any case, you people should let him savour the feeling any newly-wed ought to. It's ridiculous to make so much noise over this matter, at the expense of the poor dude's happiness and fulfilment in the aftermath of his traditional marriage.

this is the problem with our fathers and it is a pity we are picking after them by not seeing issues as they should be. we reason with sentiments and make decisions with 'My Oga At The Top' syndrome yet we don't know it. if our society is gonna change for the better, people are gonna have to be taken by their words especially people we call role models. 2Face is a role model any day in Nigeria and am a big fan but since he accepted those gifts, i've been very bad about about him... not because i hate him now or something but because i naturally love people with integrity and he now seems out of the league.

joyli: Anypen, let me ask u a question, if u are in his shoe what will u do? Gift frm someone of high authority
and u turn it down?

Av u forgotten that this people are called 'OGA ON TOP'

They made all our so call celebrities what they are today. Still they critize them, u see if u want to deal with bribe n curruption is frm the grassroot! The guy has to sit on defence because he is human. That is the society we live in. Our musician critize them with their songs, yet go to them for help.

Na oga ontop matter.

i just said what i would have done. though it is difficult but i i would have thought the governor has seen my stands on things like that before coming to offer me gifts...he must have seen some of my works and most of them already said my principles and values so why coming to test them. i would have taken those gifts as a test that i should pass by wisely rejecting it.
someone said he would have turned it over to charity and i think he would have gotten more wise ways of handling such situations if he wanted to.

joyli: Letz call a spade a spade, the car in question is a gift. If u are in his shoes, won't u take it. Letz free d guy jor.

what on earth do you think they call bribe? they are also 'gifts'. am not saying he shouldn't accept whatever he wants to from anyone but he should also remember his words and try to practice them. if i was the the one, i would practice what i preach that is what is called integrity. words are powerful! if you won't do them, do not bother saying them or you'll be classed

The seat on the fence is a very tempting seat and it isn’t any comfortable as we all can guess because you can’t dare rest your back nor enjoy placing your arms on succulent and well framed armchairs. But the temptations these seats come with always make comfort a momentarily forgotten issue… you grow so hungry to enjoy the ‘goodies’ from both sides that you don’t care your back isn’t resting and that it may ache tomorrow.

Recently, 2Face Idibia was on that seat when the News of two SUVs given to him and his newly wedded wife by a serving governor filtered the airspace. At first it was reported that he hasn’t make-up his mind in accepting the gifts and at that point, I felt for him and tried exploring the thoughts in his head. He must have found himself between sides; one, with the million of Nigerians whose love for him has been tremendous and who has been appreciating his works but hates the government, and on the other side, with the government whose excessive kindness by loading out juicy gifts is mainly because they see him as a selling point (“2Face” is a household name and that name can sure win ‘votes’ in a place like Nigeria).

If you were in 2Face’s shoe, what are you going to do?

This isn’t the first time musicians are been used to gain cheap favors and earn people’s interest. I remember in 1997 when prominent musicians like King Sunny Ade, Ayinde Barrister and some few others had to run abroad to avoid gracing a concert organized by the then Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha.
I also remember King Wasiu Ayinde, the Fuji superstar who was reported been caught with ballot boxes during the governorship election in 2003 and whose support and services for the ACN is not hidden.

The same scenario seems to be playing out now in 2Face’s case and more than ever before, musicians are been seriously pushed to the corner of making decisions of choosing between the people and the government (since the people and the government are not always on the same side). Musicians need to go dust the papers having their principles and values well spelt-out and learn to follow with all their might like some of their predecessors did.

I can still remember many of 2Face’s tracks especially the one with Sound Sultan titled “Ole” where he called politicians thieves.

You cannot always sit on the fence and feel comfortable because you cannot have your back watched when you want the best of opposing sides. Politicians come and go but the people remain.
Thought it isn’t too easy to reject juicy advances but your principles and values help out easily in situations like this. Practicing what you preach is not what a lot of people can do but you cannot afford to be like just anyone when you’ve succeeded building a name from the scratch.

When it was later reported with pictures that he (2Face) accepted the gifts and also accepted to have 20 of their to-be guests sponsored to the venue of their white wedding in Dubai, I laughed and SMH because everyone knows where the money for all these is coming from, the intentions behind all the governor’s actions and of course 2Face's dilemma.

GBN!

laugh wan kill me die!

sometimes, i just wonder to an extent that i forget that i can speak...
many many things wey no suppose to happen for this life... many many things...many many nonsense!

why wont people kill in the name of terrorism? why wont people Kidnap and steal in the name of corruption. to be candid, these things pay in a place like this. May God fight this fight for Nigerians that has gotten their lives and livelihood cut shot as a result of this man's (GEJ) deeds and misdeeds.

I must admit that the video has a lot of unconnected dots in the storyline

- Tiwa talked of being tipsy yet there was no sign of alcoholic drink or any sign that she's taken some earlier.

-According to the lyrics, Don J should be trying to touch Tiwa and trying to be all over her and that would have justified Tiwa's "i don't want you to touch me, i just want you to watch me" Instead, Don J was just sitting there playing the Don as if Dons don't feel 'hot urges'

-Although, Don's dressing showed some level of casualty as shown in his tie that was loose, Tiwa on the other hand who was suppose to be half drunk and who was suppose to be dancing seductively was perfectly dressed and seems to be 100% in her senses.

-Although, the video showed some level of dizziness, we were not sure if it was Don, Tiwa or the cameraman who was dizzy as the video was not specific on this.

Except for these unconnected lines in the story, the pictures were clean and simple!

firstolalekan: u dont know the IRAN's mighty. time will tell.
with Russia behind and china sitting on the fence, its going to be a fun war.

no country in the world, and i repeat; NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CAN CONQUER ISRAEL!

Meddler: I totally agree with u. What a disappointing video. Good thing I heard the song b4 the video. My love for the single just declined drastically after watching the video

i wonder what else you want from a musical video that is not in here. the story line you're looking for is there but because you're too dumb to think in a story, you must show the street, bosoms and those crazy things you're use girls doing on screen, you seems to find this not interesting.
this video is clean and simple.

nice video! if people can't find girls shaking their 'shithouse' and doing like mad people on screen, then they think a video isn't good! this video is simple and clean with nice concept.

N6 and nyahya video that had all the story line left one with mumu shows

adaobi123: plus why is she floating in the air ? i thought this song should be about love and theres nothing about love in the video

do you listen to lyrics in music at all
the song is about being naughty. that she is in the air means she's been drinking and feeling high and not about love in that sense (westlife).

Afam4eva: [size=14pt]I hope all these things are not staged. Lion's business is to tear any living thing apart. Lion has no sympathy for non Lions, so whether you saved it or gave it food for 50 years. When it has the opportunity, it will tear to to shreds.[/size]

This lion is not hungry remember. i've seen antelopes and zebras grazing just beside a lion when it is not hungry. The narrator explains that the animals know when their predators are hungry. life would have been better if there is no hunger even among human beings.