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Senior Pastor and founder of Cornerstone church in Texas USA, John Hagee has said that if it were left him for him women who call God's name while having sex will be jailed.
While speaking to Newslo, the US pastor said there is no greater sin than using God's name while having sex.

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Good day Sir,
Congratulations on your new role as the Governor of arguably Africa’s most commercial state. The tasks ahead are herculean for you and your officials but you must hit the ground running. I have got no access to you or your commissioners but since I can access a laptop, I decided to write you this letter which is straight from the heart.
Sir, I am really hurt. I am very hurt about so many things which are of no direct concern to you but I have got a simple request. It’s obvious that Nigerians are not the easiest crop of people to lead but no set of people really are. You must do your best lest you go down in history as just another ex-governor of Lagos state. We often seek solutions to just stuff we consider complex problems but we fail to resolve simple problems which require just common sense and functional consciences.

Sir, what does it really cost to construct standard pedestrian bridges? Does it cost more than the lives of those who get murdered by hit and run drivers every other day on the Lekki-Epe expressway which is about a 49.8km distance that runs from the end of Ozumba Mbadiwe road in Victoria Island to Epe?
For a state which prides itself as a mega-city, is it not a show of shame that there are only three pedestrian bridges for a great distance as 49.8km? Oh! I get it. Pedestrians have no business living in that part of Lagos? How come the partnership between Lagos state Government and Lekki Concession Company doesn’t mandate the latter to ensure more pedestrian bridges are constructed? Are we not sick and tired of watching our soil soak up the blood of innocent citizens? Sir, does it require rocket science to do the needful? Is the primary responsibility of a government no longer to protect the lives and interest of its citizens?
I have seen and heard of the young, old and middle-aged knocked down at various instances just around the Ajah axis of the Lekki-Epe expressway. They lost their lives simply because the government who they pay tolls and taxes to mandatorily have chosen not to give a damn about their well being. The blood of these lost ones may forever haunt those who refused to come down from their high horses and do the needful.
Sir, you can make Lagos better by fixing simple problems such as this. I hope you don’t respond to this except through positive actions, your time starts now!
Augustine Ogwo is a writer, blogger and web content developer. In 2010, he won the 1st runner up award in the short-story category of the maiden edition of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Award (organized by the Niger Delta Restoration of Hope). He blogs at www.austinaija.com


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Cool FM on-air personality, Freeze hours ago shared this photo of himself, D'banj and Basketmouth at an event years ago. The caption he gave the image read:
#ThrowbackThursday @iamdbanj, @daddyfreeze and some other acquaintance who I can't seem to remember on stage at an event many years ago! @coolfmlagos

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I am heading to the seminary

fabulous660:
OP will you do it on ur wedding day?

Warisdis? Is his second hand inside d gown?

Ermmm... three tomatoes now go for a whopping 500 Naira in parts of Lagos. When did tomato become crude oil? I thought our agricultural sector had received a huge boost since fertilizer distribution improved. Are our irrigation systems not functional? Kilode! What's happening?
Well, I suggest those senators who are sharing over N9bn wardrobe allowances for four years at one fell swoop should take a cut and contribute it to the agricultural sector.

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/06/dear-tomato-where-did-we-go-wrong.html

Stoke City have signed 25-year-old striker, Joselu from Hannover 96 for 8million Euros. This is the club's third signing of the summer after defender, Phillip Wollscheid and goalkeeper, Jakob Haugaard formerly joined the club.
The new signing has been handed jersey number 11.

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/06/sealed-joselu-joins-stoke-city.html

As a kid, I thought girls were born with just two piercings; one on each ear. I probably had that sort of conception because all my female classmates through primary and secondary school had the same type of tiny hole in each ear.

Years down the line, I have come to realize that I was so wrong.
Girls are obviously not born with a hole in each ear but they later get pierced if their parents religious stance permits. I quickly understood this because during my teenage years I began to come across ladies who had multiple piercings on their ears. There was no longer uniformity in the ear piercings as some had seven holes on one ear and three on the other. It then became clear to me that ladies and even men who had piercings on their nose, lips, navels, and eyelids existed in this planet and actually in my country, Nigeria.

My point is that it is now commonplace for people to get piercings in various parts of their body. Months back, I came across a lady who was trying to fix a pin (ring) on her tongue. As I watched her, I felt really nauseated and I wondered why people subject themselves to so much troubles while trying to 'fit in'. She looked very uncomfortable but was bent on wearing the tongue ring as if she had been instructed by some gods that her survival was dependent on that. Since that episode, I have been curious to understand why ladies pierce their tongues and it appears I now understand why they do what they do:

CROWD MENTALITY
A lot of ladies have gone ahead to pierce their tongues because they saw a girl at the club who pierced her tongue and they felt that was the reason men flocked around her. Women are naturally very competitive especially when it comes to fashion and it is not surprising to see a lady go pierce her tongue because her flat mates, colleagues or course mates had gotten same.

BOREDOM
Shocked? Don't be. Some ladies have pierced their tongues simply because of boredom and the need to try something new. "I got it due to sheer boredom", someone wrote on an online forum. In a country like Nigeria where unemployment is the order of the day one shouldn't get surprised with the increasing number of ladies with all sorts of piercings including tongue piercing. For me, this group of people pierce their tongues just out of curiosity

MORE HERE>>> http://www.austinaija.com/2015/06/why-ladies-really-pierce-their-tongues.html

Wow! That's Mr. W and Wizkid some years ago. How time flies. Check out Wizkid's attire and big hands

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KKTBM poster boy, Yung6ix shows he has got class and a great fashion taste in these new promo photos.
The young raplord is gearing up for the online release of his music video for Heartbreak Swag, a track off his debut album 6' O Clock.

More photos here: http://www.austinaija.com/2015/06/6ix-rap-pugilist-yung6ix-is-prince.html

Your favourite TV personality, Andre Blaze Henshaw is not just a broadcaster, father and social entrepeneur. It is very safe to call him a fitness aficionado or Yogi when next you meet him. Andre's partner is definitely lucky for obvious reasons. These photos tell the whole story.

It seems he even went n*de in one of the photos:

To see more: http://www.austinaija.com/2015/06/fit-as-fiddle-who-knew-andre-blaze-had.html

You may have for a long time now heard the rumor of legendary Nigerian singer, Bongos Ikwue being dumped by the late Maryam Babangida for the ex-military leader, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB). Another version of that rumor had it that Maryam even had a child for the singer before dumping him for IBB. The rumors were tied to a song by Bongos titled Mariama

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In a few hours from now, you will cease being the President of this great nation. You will now find enough time to spend with your wife and children. Most importantly, you will rest from the great demands of ruling a nation as corrupt and complicated as ours. You have done your best as President of over 160 million people for the past five years, thank you so much.
You may not have too many fans but looking deep into your eyes, I know you are a great man who meant well. I personally think you started the race slowly but you finished greatly despite losing your re-election bid.

The challenges your administration faced were enormous but you don't expect less from a country like Nigeria. Well, you have come to the end of your tenure in one peace and you have developed some key sectors of our economy. Much more could have been done under your watch but you are not a magician and so we expect the incoming administration to consolidate on your government's effort and of course surpass your achievements.

For the deserved freedom the media enjoyed under your watch, we thank you. For the first class graduates who were awarded scholarships under your watch, we thank you. For the monumental successes achieved in the agricultural sector under your watch, we thank you. We thank you, we thank you, we thank you.

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[quote author=caesarjayjay post=33948578]Okay! So I saw this photo and for a moment, I thought this was Iyanya. The styling of the beards and hair maybe made it so. Do you think Kcee is attempting to look a lot like the MTN Project fame alumnus?

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Media personalities, Toke Makinwa and the newly engaged Ebuka Obi-Uchendu are in Paris for the 300th anniversary of the oldest cognac house, Martell. They caught up with singer, model and actress, Solange Knowles.
Lovely photos but I guess they wouldn't all be wearing these lovely smiles if they had met in an elevator.

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/toke-ebuka-hook-up-with-solange-but-not.html

Comedian/actress, Eniola Badmus was recently in Anambra for a new movie shoot and she was nice enough to share this very funny shot. She wrote: Bikeman easy ooo......make I no go fall.....filming.
I love her shoe.

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/gbogbo-bigs-girl-wheres-eniola-badmus.html

Joshbeatz continues to rain good music on his fans as he releases this freestyle which features Patoranking.
Hustler was produced by the young genius himself - JoshBeatz who is set to release visuals for his collaboration with Olamide Baddo!
JoshBeatz has an official single with Patoranking & other topnotch artistes set for release soon!
JoshBeatz is signed to HKN Music and flies his pride as the label's preferred in-house producer & the youngest hitmaking producer in West Africa!
DOWNLOAD

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/joshbeatz-patoranking-hustler-freestyle.html

Okay! So I saw this photo and for a moment, I thought this was Iyanya. The styling of the beards and hair maybe made it so. Do you think Kcee is attempting to look a lot like the MTN Project fame alumnus?

https://instagram.com/p/25bCLMxK6J/?taken-by=iam_kcee

Eclectic Producer Shadybizniz is here with with Watch Out featuring super talented Afro-soul singer Jumar and J-Town Veteran emcee Hench.
This trap influenced banger was produced off the Drumpad 24 app on a Sony Xperia phone so... shout out to Sony, shout out to the fans following our music from day one.
DOWNLOAD

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/music-shadybizniz-watch-out-ft-hench.html

You have listened to Ayo Jay's Gimme Kiss and now we have got the #ShotsByMega directed video. Very sexy!!!

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/so-many-kisses-for-ayo-jayheres-gimme.html

With just over a week to the swearing in of Nigeria's President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari it appears he has already made his first major appointment. Reports this morning have it that all is set for the announcement of Femi Adesina as the special adviser on media and publicity to the new president.
Adesina is currently the managing director and editor in chief of the Sun newspapers.
Dear readers, what do you know about Femi Adesina?

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/muhammadu-buharis-first-appointment.html

Adesina's appointment, though yet to be formally announced, is said to have been concluded but merely waiting for some formality before the official announcement.


Already, the management of The Sun Newspaper, it was gathered, is concluding plans to re-organise its management structure following Adesina's impending departure.

Adesina was recently re-elected as the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) for another term of two years.
The NGE president was returned unopposed at the 2015 bi-ennial convention of the Guild which held in Lagos by his colleagues, most of whom described his tenure as the “best the Guild has ever had.”

With his new appointment, Adesina also becomes the second person to be so appointed while serving as the president of the Guild of Editors. The first person was the late Mrs. Remi Oyo, who was the SA, Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-appoints-femi-adesina-special-adviser-on-media-and-publicity/209785/

If you have ever watched Wizkid performing at the New Afrikan Shrine, you will understand that he draws a lot of inspiration from the lifestyle and music of late Afrobeat king, Fela-Anikulapo Kuti. To honour the legend, Wizkid has a new tattoo of Fela. The former EME artiste who recently released a new single, Expensive Sh*t is also wearing a new tattoo of a lion. You like?

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/wizkid-immortalizes-king-fela-with-new.html

Nollywood screen-goddess, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and her daughter, Meraiah were recently announced as the new ambassadors for Knorr seasoning cube; a rare deal for mother and daughter. They has been a photoshoot to that effect and the result is pure class. I have been staring at this awesome photos so I decided to share. Check these out:

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/all-shades-of-class-omotola-meraiah-are.html

Some insist that once a dog eats chocolate, it is an automatic death sentence for the pet. Some others believe it is just a myth as they have watched their dogs consume chocolate and nothing happened. I read that chocolate is highly toxic but I also read it isn't essentially toxic to dogs.
I don't know which to believe so I am simply asking, is chocolate poisonous to dogs or not?

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/chocolate-kills-dogs-true-or-mere-myth.html

G-Worldwide Entertainment premieres her front-line artiste, Kiss Daniel's sophomore video, Laye. In quick succession to his debut hit single, the RnB sensational singer reappears in Laye, a flirty love song with a classy Taste of Location plus simplicity tailored to perfection.

This video also features G-Worldwide Entertainment recording and performing artiste Sugarboy acting as Kiss Daniel's co-pilot.


This masterpiece was Directed by AJE FILMS, with multiple location in East Africa.

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/video-kiss-daniel-laye.html

Blackmagic comes through with a brand new single - Levelz

This was produced by the very talented Kid Konnect & comes after he dropped the video for his well accepted remix for Africa which featured Phyno, Reminisce & Vector

Here's something really splendid from BlackMagic; Enjoy

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/music-black-magic-levelz.html

On the 31st of May 2015 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, super star acts such as Davido, Olamide, M.I, Cynthia Morgan, Korede Bello, Kiss Daniel will thrill audience at the seventh year of Yaw live on stage with OKEY BAKASSI in a stage play, titled YOU!

YOU! Is a two-man satire written by Obi Martins and directed by Emma Uduma.

The play deals with the Past, Present and Future of the socio-political and socio-economy status of Nigeria. This play is written in view of the happenings in the country without been offensive to anyone, group of people or government of the day.

In the words of Mary Hirsch, Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Other acts to perform include Reekado Banks Lil Kesh, DI'JA, Runtown, Skales, Adekunle Gold and top Comedians of the Federal Republic.

DATE: 31st May, 2015.
VENUE: Expo Hall, Eko Hotel & Suite, Lagos.
RED CARPET: 5pm
SHOW TIME: 6pm

Tickets available on www.deals.vconnect.com and www.ariiyatickets.com

For more information on YOU!, visit the website www.yawnaija.tv or
call 08065293138.


Join conversation on social media - use #YOUMay31st.

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Out of favour Tottenham FC striker, Emmanuel Adebayor may not be busy on the field of play but he is definitely taking his looks serious. The Togolese who is expected to leave White Hart Lane this summer is wearing a fresh look as he is wearing a new hairstyle. He took to Instagram to show us how he looks now. I like!

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/adebayor-shows-off-brilliant-new-hairdo.html

Good news! Prof James Nwoye Adichie is a free man once again. The 83-year-old father of award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was abducted on Saturday around Nsukka while travelling from the University town to his hometown, Abba.
The abductors had initially demanded a whopping N50m from the release of the octogenarian.

http://www.austinaija.com/2015/05/kidnappers-free-adichie-days-after.html

My father’s generation suffered a disastrous war, and saw death of loved ones and friends. Wars have deep psychological effects on the people. While most of them participated in the war either as adults or child-soldiers, others were too young, or, even, babies, and bore the brunt of the war as its unfortunate victims.
This bloody war affected mostly people of the South Eastern Nigeria. I must respect their courage at that time and how they were able to pick up after that and, indeed, recover within an impressively short time, especially, after their wealth was decimated and they were handed a paltry twenty pounds by the Government of the Federation of Nigeria no matter the amount standing to the credit of the Igbo holder of the account. The story of a typical South-Easterner is a story of inspiration and courage in the midst of adverse circumstances. One of my grouses with my father’s generation is that they have failed, either by default or design, to teach my generation about the Nigerian Civil War sufficiently. No effort has been made to incorporate the War in educational curriculums so that my generation can learn what actually happened, its remote and immediate causes, the effects of the war; and how to prevent same from recurring. Instead, the War is covered with a blanket. A recent example of the authoritarian muting of the lessons of the War is the initial refusal of the Nigerian Film and Video Censor Board to approve the viewing of the screen adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel “Half of a Yellow Sun” in Nigeria. In Europe, people still visit major sites of WWI to lay wreaths etc. Remembrance Days are still observed. But, in Nigeria, my father’s generation made no such plans.

They did well, though, in the evolution of meaningful highlife music which is still the best form of music that Nigeria can offer. Their generation saw dedicated and responsible highlife musicians. They had a lot of great souls that the country might never have again who sang about a wide range of issues: Rex Jim Lawson. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, Dr. Victor Olaiya, King Sunny Ade, Sunny Okosun etc.

My father’s generation went to the universities in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. They got education of a superlative quality. They were educated when Nigeria’s value system and set of morals had not gone to the dogs or thrown out of the window. Those were the days when you dare not bribe a Headmaster. Most of them went to the universities with scholarships, with every single thing paid for. My generation is regaled by my father’s generation to the point of ennui of how their daily meals in the hostels were all of eggs and chicken parts and how their laundries were done by members of staff specially appointed for that particular assignment. It is an indictment on my father’s generation’s lack of foresight that the first students’ riot in the history of Nigerian university system was in the 1970s over a matter as mundane as the reduction of chicken ration in their meals. My father’s generation never sorted any lecturer; and they were taught by qualified, sometimes expatriate, other times foreign-trained Nigerian lecturers who were passionate about lecturing. My father’s peers had options of where to work immediately after their studies. Most of them were besieged by companies on their graduation days, wooing them to come and work for them. Most had up to five choices of where to work.

Most of the universities then were of new facilities; they had good classrooms, hostels; and the graduates faced little or no competitions after the university. Nigerian educational institutions were so strong then, you dare not cheat in exams etc. Today, Nigerian Universities are suffering from a reversal of fortunes. University of Ibadan, for instance, then, was amongst the best ten in Africa. The same university today is the 35th in Africa according to the current Webometrics ranking of African universities. My father’s generation never cared to sustain the quality of education they enjoyed for my generation. Today, they are the big professors of today, vice-chancellors, principals, headmasters etc. They are in charge of all sectors of our national polity. They never thought of maintaining the standard of education in these universities, secondary schools, primary schools, all of them. They never paused to wonder if my generation will enjoy the privilege of being accosted by prospective employers for jobs the same way they all got jobs the next day after graduation. Most of them today are Principals, and have their schools being used as special centres during WASSCE, NECO and JAMB exams. Most of them that work in senior positions at the bodies that administer these exams are the ones that release these question-papers through the backdoor to my own generation for financial gratification. They are the professors and lecturers that my generation sorts today to get better grades. Worst of all, they never thought of population explosion and so have no safety net to cushion its dire consequences.

They saw our value system die. They saw our set of morals die. They saw integrity got deleted from our polity. They saw the facilities they enjoyed in the universities depreciating, never to be sustained. While they went to the universities with scholarships in their days, today, we have nothing like that anymore. They saw everything got worse. They are the ones EFCC chases today. They are the ones that instituted corruption; practically taught us corruption; and saw most of our institutions die. They fuelled the decay of a lot of social services. They saw the military got corrupted. They saw the police got corrupted. They have been managing the affairs of the country for decades now. They rig elections, and ask my generation to help them carry ballot boxes. They are the ones that give my generation moneys that we share to voters at polling booths. They are the governors that do not perform today. They are the ones that now send their children who are part of my generation abroad to enjoy education of global quality, because education institutions here are pretty dead. They are the ones that boast of how many of their children they have sent abroad for quality education. They are the ones that widened the inequality gap in the country to a large degree. They are the ones that have fuelled the establishment of private universities as they watched the public ones die. Today, these public schools are so dead, that they are basically for the poor people, and one cannot rely on the low quality of education that Nigerians get in most of them. Even with the enormous school fees paid in those private schools, the quality of education delivered there cannot be compared to what my father’s generation obtained at the public schools of their days.

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