Politics › Re: Why Senate President, Akpabio Walked Out Senator Akpoti (Video) by Cmanforall: 8:38am On Feb 21, 2025 |
Their business
Interesting! Natasha was proving stubborn unnecessarily.
What is special about her former seat that she can't change it? |
Car Talk › Re: Vehicle Prices Set To Soar As Donald Trump Moves For 25% Tariff by Cmanforall: 1:04pm On Feb 20, 2025 |
Edoreborn: Hmmmm,,its well oo..Those wey go buy go still buy.. That's mainly for new cars |
Crime › Re: 99% Of Social Media Information Is Inaccurate – SP Akpabio Warns (Video) by Cmanforall: 1:04pm On Feb 20, 2025 |
Hmmmm How did he know? |
Travel › Re: FG Bans 60,000 Litre Fuel Tankers From Plying Nigerian Roads Beginning March 1 by Cmanforall: 9:48am On Feb 20, 2025 |
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Crime › Re: Man Kills Woman, Twin Children In Abia by Cmanforall: 7:51am On Feb 20, 2025 |
Mental problem |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Real Madrid Vs Manchester City: UCL (3 - 1) On 19th February 2025 by Cmanforall: 7:47am On Feb 20, 2025 |
Dafresh: you know sabi football Lol I don't blame you. They didn't show the lines for one to assess. So what is aid was an assumption atm. |
Politics › Re: IGP Egbetokun, APC Planning To Assassinate Gov Adeleke - Osun PDP by Cmanforall: 1:49am On Feb 20, 2025 |
This allegation is risky from PDP |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Real Madrid Vs Manchester City: UCL (3 - 1) On 19th February 2025 by Cmanforall: 1:46am On Feb 20, 2025 |
The last goal, goal from City was an offside, but they were compensated |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Donald Trump Says Zelensky 'dictator' Without Elections by Cmanforall: 11:14pm On Feb 19, 2025 |
EIiens: I feel sorry for the families who lost their loved one in this war at his point
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. Sorry for them Peace talk would have saved many lives and structures |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Zelensky Is A Dictator Who Talked The U.S Into A War He Couldn't Win - Trump by Cmanforall: 6:13pm On Feb 19, 2025 |
Truth is that in terms of career, that some (or few) Ukrainians have used this war to get better opportunities in developed countries, while some lost their well-paying jobs and resources in Ukraine |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Zelensky Is A Dictator Who Talked The U.S Into A War He Couldn't Win - Trump by Cmanforall: 6:10pm On Feb 19, 2025 |
Trump should take it easy on this man |
Travel › Re: Niger Republic Enforces Travel Restrictions On Nigerians With ECOWAS Passport by Cmanforall: 6:02pm On Feb 19, 2025 |
iamnotillicit: We gave it out... And can still take it back  The.people there don't also want to be part of Cameroon |
Travel › Re: Niger Republic Enforces Travel Restrictions On Nigerians With ECOWAS Passport by Cmanforall: 10:04am On Feb 19, 2025 |
DukeofUmueri247: Invade Niger and Annex Chad for what reasons exactly?? Talking about winning wars, first fight and win Boko Haram first... He could have even talked of annexing Bakasi |
Politics › Re: Amotekun Arrests 114 Northern Invaders In Ondo, Sends Them Back To North by Cmanforall: 3:41pm On Feb 18, 2025 |
Godfullsam: Why send them back to their respective states?
They should have been prosecuted and jailed if found guilty instead.
These guys may still find their ways into our forest. One Nigeria! |
Celebrities › Re: 'Ned Nwoko Isn’t The Father Of My Child' - Chika Ike Shares New Maternity Photos by Cmanforall: 3:39pm On Feb 18, 2025 |
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Celebrities › Re: I’m A Mad Man, A Patient Of Aro Psychiatric Hospital - Portable by Cmanforall: 2:26pm On Feb 18, 2025 |
Emeskhalifa: When you dey deck those guys, u no be mad man but once police declared you wanted, you suddenly became mad abi? Eh Mr Portable?? 
Your legal adviser is doing a terrible job Politicians play same card. Remember Dino |
Education › Re: Expelled UNIZIK Student Receives Good News As Nigerian Lady Is Set To Help Her by Cmanforall: 12:45pm On Feb 18, 2025 |
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Politics › Re: Today Is Ben Murray-Bruce's 69th Birthday by Cmanforall: 9:36am On Feb 18, 2025 |
naptu2: BENEDICT MURRAY-BRUCE OON (born February 18th, 1956).
Senator Ben Murray-Bruce was born on February 18th, 1956 to Mullighan and Margaret Murray-Bruce. Both his parents were mixed race (half Nigerian, from Akassa in Bayelsa State and half European).
Parents
Ben Bruce's father, William Mullighan Murray-Bruce was an executive with the United African Company (UAC). UAC is a successor of the Royal Niger Company and it was the biggest non-oil company in Nigeria up till the early 1990s.
UAC had many subsidiaries and Mullighan Murray-Bruce worked for Kingsway Stores, the largest chain of chemists, supermarkets and malls in Nigeria at the time.
The children were born in different cities across Nigeria because Mullighan Murray-Bruce was often transfered from city to city.
Upon retirement from Kingsway, he was given some of the underperforming branches as part of his retirement benefit and he founded his own supermarket chain, Domino Stores, using those branches.
Education
Ben Murray-Bruce attended Our Lady of Apostles Private Primary School, Yaba, Lagos from 1962 till 1968. He attended St Gregory's College, Ikoyi, Lagos for his secondary education from 1969 till 1973.
He was the Senior Prefect at St Gregory's College and here his organisational ability and interest in the entertainment industry shone through.
As Senior Prefect, Ben Murray-Bruce was also Chairman of the Harvest Planning Committee and they raised a record amount of ₦400, which was a lot of money in 1973.
The school chaplain, Reverend Father James O'Connel and Ben Murray-Bruce invested the money in musical equipment for the school band. It paid off hugely.
A junior student Melvin Ukachi had approached Ben and asked if he could do some practice with the band. Ben responded in the affirmative. Ukachi and his group later known as Ofege used the school band to wax their first album which sold over one million copies.
Ofege released songs that were well played all over Nigeria and indeed all over Africa and they did this while they were still secondary school students!
Ben Murray-Bruce was interested in entertainment from an early age, but his father didn't always approve of this. He said that his father came into his room one day and saw him dancing and threatened to break his legs if he ever caught him dancing like that again. He said
He attended Simpson College, Indianola Iowa (1975 – 1976); Iowa State University (1976 – 1977); and University of Southern California (1977 – 1979), where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing. He said that he easily got bored and he often changed schools whenever he got bored.
He received his big break in the entertainment industry by accident when he met Louis Smallwood while he was a student at the University of Southern California.
He was sitting at home in California one day when there was a knock on the door. He opened the door and discovered that the person that knocked had gotten the wrong address. However, they had an interesting conversation and Ben Bruce asked the man what he did for a living. The man was a teacher of child stars.
The law said that anyone under the age of 16 had to be educated, but there were child stars like Todd Bridges, Michael Jackson and Gary Coleman who could not attend school because of fame or their schedule. Louis Smallwood taught them at home or at the location where they were working. Mr Smallwood invited Ben Bruce to the set of Sanford and Son, where he was working at that time.
Ben Murray-Bruce got to know very many famous stars in the US entertainment scene of the 1970s through his friendship with Mr Smallwood. He became friends with Joe Jackson (Michael Jackson's father), Dick Griffey (founder of SOLAR Records), Stevie Wonder, Muhammad Ali and other stars.
Photo 1) 7 year old Ben Murray-Bruce with Santa Claus (Father Christmas) a Kingsway
Photo 2) 1969-1973 set of St Gregory's College. In the picture are Ben Murray-Bruce, Olayemi Cardoso, Dr Bode Karunwi, John Wiltshire, Disun Holloway, Stephen Nsolo, Udo Egbo, Osula, Adedipe and Ekpe. Ben Murray-Bruce was the senior prefect.
Photo 3) Ben Murray-Bruce, who was Senior Prefect of St Gregory's College, presenting a present to the Principal of St Gregory's College, Chief Paul Amenechi, in 1973.
Photo 4) Senator Ben Murray-Bruce Happy birthday |
Politics › Re: PANDEF Leader, Edwin Clark, Is Dead by Cmanforall: 9:29am On Feb 18, 2025 |
Rest in Peace |
Celebrities › Re: LG Crisis: Davido Makes U-turn, Hails Osun Police Commissioner by Cmanforall: 9:23am On Feb 18, 2025 |
Ineks: Indirectly, Davido is a politician He is... Said it here, he will contest soon in the future. The 35 years age limit for some political position may be limiting him for now. Macaroni is another. Note these words! |
Celebrities › Re: LG Crisis: Davido Makes U-turn, Hails Osun Police Commissioner by Cmanforall: 9:12am On Feb 18, 2025 |
zero8zero: This is what you get when you make dumb people your celebrities. Na why wizkid dey always flog am silly. He forgot he'd need police escorts when he visits, let one not release stray bullet  |
Politics › Re: Davido Calls Out Police Commissioner Over Political Crisis In Osun (Video) by Cmanforall: 10:26pm On Feb 17, 2025 |
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Education › Re: Can I Still Enrol Jamb And Try Gaining Admission At The Age Of 26 by Cmanforall: 10:42am On Feb 17, 2025 |
Why not?
Even at 50.
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Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Is Ready' To Put Troops On Ground In Ukraine To Protect Peace by Cmanforall: 8:55am On Feb 17, 2025 |
Soon Brits will start demonstrating hoe their resources are being used 'wasted' abroad |
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Is Ready' To Put Troops On Ground In Ukraine To Protect Peace by Cmanforall: 8:54am On Feb 17, 2025 |
Will this bring 'Peace'? |
Politics › Re: Access To Aid Over: Okonjo-Iweala Asks African Leaders To Be Innovative by Cmanforall: 7:23am On Feb 17, 2025 |
They should have been doing this since |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Tottenham Hotspur Vs Manchester United (1 - 0) On 16th February 2025 by Cmanforall: 9:22pm On Feb 16, 2025 |
Azazyel: This team is poor. I was just laughing. See useless spurs balling them. Spurs that would return to factory setting in the next game now kept a clean sheet. Wonders shall never end! Amorim sef should have brought in those small boys early in the second half. They would have saved him. Amorim is tired of these players. I saw the way he bowed his head deep in the second half and I can tell that he is tired. ETH went through this and I'm not surprised. Bruno should have been substituted Zirkzee or what's his name, tries to dribble and looses ball easily |
Politics › Re: Anambra Declares War On Ritual Killings, Fraudulent Spiritual Practices by Cmanforall: 5:36pm On Feb 16, 2025 |
delpee: Kudos to Dr Soludo for this. Other Governors need to do the same so we can rid our nation of these heartless murderers who think they can prosper from other people's blood. Professor He earned it! |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Europe To Be Excluded From Russia-ukraine Peace Talks, US Envoy Confirms by Cmanforall: 5:06pm On Feb 16, 2025 |
MERCHANDISER: When the war ends,will Russia still play in European football? Nice question And future Olympics?
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Europe To Be Excluded From Russia-ukraine Peace Talks, US Envoy Confirms by Cmanforall: 3:18pm On Feb 16, 2025 |
Interesting how peace talks are coming now. Why were slme Russian billionnaires assets confiscated during the early stages of this war? It affected Chelsea club, according to a friend  |
Literature › Re: Chimamanda Adichie Had Twin Babies In 2024 by Cmanforall: 11:38am On Feb 16, 2025 |
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Politics › Re: FG To Take Over Salaries Of 28,000 Health Workers Affected By USAID Freeze by Cmanforall: 10:07pm On Feb 15, 2025 |
Melagros: COMRADES, 28,000 health workers? How? The total number of workers in USAid is 10k globally, how come their number jumped up to 28k? Abeg Nigerian public office holders make una dey lie small small  Food for thought! 🤔 You know how things work in Nigeria  Politicians will start adding names etc.
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