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Education › Re: 10 English Sentences That Can Make You Appear As A 'Quarter-Baked' Graduate by donephi(m): 9:52pm On May 02, 2016

kudoxs:
Graduates don't go to university or polytechnic to learn how to speak good english. This is pure african mentality, many indians guru out there went to the best Universities and can't even speak good English but they work in reputable organizations all over the world. You want to know why? It's because spoken language doesn't matter [s][/s]but how well you can contribute to an organization or the world at large.

did you just say that @ the bolded?

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: #50,000 Job In Ibadan And #100,000 Job In Lagos, Which Is Better ? by donephi(m): 3:05pm On May 02, 2016

buharisbae:
my dear Lagos is better many people think Lagos is an expensive place to live buh I can tell u Lagos is one of the cheapest place to live in Nigeria

Lagos has many opportunities also

Cute lady

Celebrities › Re: Check Out The 5 Different Types Of Butts In The World; Which One Is Yours? (pics by donephi(m): 11:54am On May 02, 2016

lyntiffany:
Mine is Round.... Love that I have it well rounded.

Crime › Re: “I Have Bought Over 4,256 Stolen Phones” (photo) by donephi(m): 8:53am On May 02, 2016

evegran:
Checked your dp in a funny attempt to see a clue of your so called moniker.

I was disappointed...

So you wanted to get a glimpse....

Sports › Re: Lets Talk About Swimming. by donephi(m): 8:06am On May 02, 2016

Houseofglam7:
This is front page worthy but since it ain't about Tiwa and Tee Billz, I ain't so sure

Informative

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Romance › Re: 8 Qualities Every Woman Looks For In A Man by donephi(m): 8:02pm On May 01, 2016

halfricanadian:
Even if i have thank God i have stopped

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 12:01pm On May 01, 2016

I guess you were raised with good morals

olapluto:
MOST ladies who carried the issue on their head like Jumoke bread are singles, divorced or soon to be divorced. They are the ones who do not fully understand the meaning of MARRIAGE. Most of them I see on my fb wall, I know their history. Some from broken homes, some got married only after they got pregnant for the guy and had to force his hands into marriage.

For all 45 minutes of Tiwa video, all I see is typical family issues. Issues that are normal in marriage. Most happily married couples deal with such issues weekly. It starts to die down after few years of living together. Reporting the issues to outsiders is always one sided. E.g Tiwa said she 'never cheated on her husband'. She did not say she never slept with Don Jazzy or Sid. Perhaps it all happened before marriage and Tunji gets flash backs.
As for spending on the man, it is a shame that she can say that out. If the man were to list his spendings on her or her issues, I am sure he will have plenty to say too. In my home, my wife can buy me a trouser of 200USD and broadcast to the world, while no one is there when I pay average of 800USD everytime she fills her online shopping baskets. If Tiwa asks for money for diapers from her husband, shes only doing it to spite him. Every family has their modus operandi. My wife will NEVER ask me for such because we have both made provisions and I deal with other things. When we go food shopping, we both understand she will pay fully while I handle school fees.

In my opinion, the marriage is too fresh to crash like that. Impatience, and social media killed the marriage. Every married man has had a day when he wished he never touched his wife with a long stick. On other days, you just sit and marvel at the gift God has given you. However, when family and Instagram start to get recognition in the marriage, then things get out of hand. I had to stop my wife from uploading family pictures on facebook. Family matters stay indoors.

Tiwa's shoddy attempt to tell her side of the story is poor. Married couples can easily relate to where their problem is coming from. Singles and single mothers can also quickly pounce on Tiwa's story to convince themselves on why marriage is not important. The only victim in all these is the child. Imagine one day when he's 10 years old and he sees this video on Youtube. He is going to be deprived of a decent upbringing due to parents who were keen to satisfy social media before satisfying poor Jamal.
For all the 'edible catering' and cheating stories, one thing was for sure, it would wane. Our mothers went through worse things and ended up being boss ladies in their homes. Men are strong headed but weak minded. We know our wives and know who we are playing with.

Overall, I pray that both of them can come together, leave family issues out of public eye. God be with them. Amin

Lastly, if you are one of those who is encouraging them to wash more dirty linen outside, stay away from them. God doesnt like those who break homes.

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 11:55am On May 01, 2016

edpunter:
Type good English. If you don't know what to say shut.up or click 'like' to good opinions rather than saying BS.

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 11:54am On May 01, 2016

Orikinla:
How can a wife that the husband and his friends prostrated for at the traditional marriage and she swore to Almighty God before witnesses at the church wedding to love him in health or in sickness; for better for worse now betray him calling him a cocaine addict and a shameless thief wanted by the EFCC?
She has already condemned and sentenced him before prosecution.
Then shedding tears later not for him, but to save her fame and fortune of multimillion naira endorsements as a brand ambassador.
God have mercy!

this is so... expect more rants from both of them

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 11:52am On May 01, 2016

You could be right but this is not far from been arranged

adorable29:
Why are people so DAFT.
Women are sentimental in nature and are prone to tears. Even when watchinh a MOVIE can cry TALKLESS of having to talk about her life in such a pathetic series of unfortunate event to the whole world. WHY IS THAT SO HARRRRRD TO UNDERSTAND? WHY IS THAT IMPOSSIBLE TO CAUSE TEARS.

Heck I cried when watching and you call the person EXPERIENCING IT AS FAKING TEARS.

Una no well o.

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 11:49am On May 01, 2016

okusebi:
this op is high.. no doubts

High on what?

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 11:45am On May 01, 2016

mandhip:
Even me I try to watch D video twice by the time I get to 3 minutes I realise how foolish I was try to listen to 45 minutes interview on divorce abt people who choose their own path themselves not being forced to it? Nt me I'm sorry. People should be responsible for their choice in life both tbliss and doro cheergiver

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 9:02am On May 01, 2016

mymadam:
Surely, the fall-out from the so-called 'video interview' will soon be felt... unfortunately with an unexpected titanic-like collateral damage. Fasten your seat-belts folks... 'cos "you ain't heard nothing yet". From Genesis all the way to revelation!

Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 9:02am On May 01, 2016

princesamuel5:
Never knew we had analyst in the entertainment industry.

You just saw one

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Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 9:01am On May 01, 2016

Jimi23:
Most of these yeyebrities are not worthy to be made ambassadors of brands. Its just a waste of money. Imagine, she doesnt mind the fact that her junkie husband takes weed. Indecent set of people claimimg role models and brand ambassadors. Companies should go the way of corporate social responsibility instead.

And they are suppose to be someone's role model. So much for morals

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Celebrities › Re: Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 9:00am On May 01, 2016

zelexotunla:
Tiwa Savage doesnt deserve to be Pampers ambassador with her husband drug issues. It is a shame on our professional PR. A brand ambassador harbour drug addict! SHM

I wldnt have said it better

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Celebrities › Five Disappointing Blunders In Tiwa Savage’s Controversial Video – Ayo Alaba Ido by donephi(op): 8:51pm On Apr 30, 2016

After the raging hullabaloo over TeeBillz’s bombshell, the superstar-brand-ambassador expectedly felt it was necessary to clear her part and protect her career in what could have been a major doom. It would be believed that she consulted her PR team for ‘professional’ advice on the best way to manage the looming crisis, and guess the ‘presumably brilliant piece’ they all came up with… a seemingly ‘staged’ video where she supposedly granted an interview with what was to be believed by fans and stakeholders as some off-the-cuff candor.

The interview was meant to be seen as being purely unprecedented with credit of hard-work given to the interviewer’s platform. Perhaps, many took it just as that… Whatever was said in the interview wouldn’t be so much of my concern, but taking the PR profession for granted and insulting the innocence of people and essence of the PR practice is what I might not be able to stomach in this situation.

Tiwa is no doubt a big brand in Africa’s entertainment scene, and whatever professional display done by her or her team may instantly become a model for others to follow. The video (or interview) was not just an error; it was a huge professional blunder capable of garnering adverse ripple effect that may be largely counter-productive for her career, and quite misleading for upcoming stars and PR professionals. Below are 5 blunders in the video.

Granting a Camera-Light-Action interview in a space of 24 hours
Since when did we start granting a controlled video interview to ‘immediately’ respond to snowballing crisis in the entertainment scene in Nigeria? In this part of the world, everything under camera, light, and action is believed to be staged and obviously pre-arranged. I’m sure this is one of the reasons Charles Novia earlier called Tiwa a Beyonce-clone. Perhaps, Tiwa and her team failed to realize that it wouldn’t be easy to completely be a Beyonce clone in the Nigerian environment. Her PR team should have known better to simply set up a single camera video with a head-on shot somewhere in the corner of her room or her living room and give possible impression of staged drama a very wide berth. This is if at all a video is found necessary (oh! I understand her team really wanted to show the Nollywood sober mood in her costume with the repentant scarfing, and the largely exaggerated teary part with an obviously poor art director. If not, why a video?).

What!!! A 44-minute long video? (The shorter the merrier, my dear)
If her PR team were qualified professionals, they should have known that too much talk was one of the biggest threats to crisis communication. In fact, I would have wondered why even a 5-minute long video if at all it must be a video! In a sane country with a sane system, her too much talk in the bid to further exonerate herself and make TeeBillz the bad guy has landed her career in a massive doom. To bring back TeeBillz’s drinking habit and the alleged cocaine use is a ground of mere unreasonableness. Are brands and fans meant to congratulate ‘you’ for condoning, conniving and colluding with a partner who had been on the illegal side of the law for many years? Not to even say that connivance and collusion is a crime on the part of the law within marital issues. Yes, TeeBillz was unreasonable and also guilty for bringing back Tiwa’s alleged affairs with the three music stars since the law suggests that once you had condoned the action, it should not form basis for any further allegation. But, what Tiwa’s PR team failed to realize was that TeeBillz wasn’t a brand ambassador. Now, our supposed brand ambassador is also known as someone who condoned, connived and colluded with an alleged cocaine addict. What a shame! Hopefully, TeeBillz will not charge her for maligning his character, and then a part of the career and emotional distraction begins. Hopefully again, she is still a responsible brand ambassador after covering one of the world’s biggest criminal acts. What an insensitive charlatans called professional PR team.

The Nollywood Costume Stunt
If her PR team must create a Camera-Light-Action scene, why take away the Tiwa brand since we already know that the interview is a controlled one. The beginning of the failure of the video was the Nollywood’s repentant-born-again-Christian style. My conclusion was that the PR team had more of Nollywood movies than the real essence of PR practice.

The Artistic Tears
If anyone wonders again why such long video, this part should be an obvious answer. Hey, if there was no such display of tears, how would the PR team succeed at bouncing the Tiwa brand back to dominate and have a controlling influence on people’s emotions? There was urgent need to create sympathy and leverage it to survive the lingering storm. But the tears rather came like they had been pre-planned, and there was either a written or unwritten script that suggested that “this must be done at so so line… we need you to break the tears; it’s the high point of the video.” Tiwa didn’t really need to break the tears, and if she must, silent tears would have been more penetrating than the loud and seemingly staged ones.

The Disappointing Interviewer
If there must be a great staged play, the actors must be carefully selected! Kunle Afolayan is a great man to consult here… I wonder how the interviewer (Treating her as just an interviewer here) planned to substantiate the veracity of the video with her tacky and completely unprofessional display. She clearly showed how pre-ratified the interview questions were with her conservative and carefully selected conduct. It was really my first time of seeing such supposedly high profile interview with little or nothing coming from the interviewer; all her questions were clearly ratified and her spontaneity was complete zero… No expressions, no reactions, no further queries, nothing! That was very poor, my dear!!

While there could be more to say, I have decided to, as much as practicable, avoid talking about the family and whatever they could be pooling through; my concern is more about the increasing abuse of the practice of Public Relations that is even more rampant in the entertainment industry. I hope Tiwa’s supposed video rejoinder will not snowball into even bigger crisis for herself, her family and her career.

What a PR-damage-control stunt; probably the biggest PR goof of the decade.

Ayo Alaba Idowu

Founder, CEO

Green News

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Travel › Re: Experiences Of Nigerians Living In London by donephi(m): 7:04pm On Apr 29, 2016

erico2k2:
Some can send £1000 home each month to thier savings gs account. In today's money that's N450,0000
These are not top earners.I ha e to small us here like that.they work in construction. Thier target is 5 yrs then rtn bck 9ja.

Are you saying the AVERAGE Nigerian makes money LEGALLY and sends this much monthly?

Travel › Re: Experiences Of Nigerians Living In London by donephi(m): 6:46pm On Apr 29, 2016

Dollyak:
I laugh at those who thinks every Nigerian in Uk and us does blue collar jobs, in an attempt to feel smug or justify their failure in securing a Visa. Anyways, the average Nigerian in usa and UK is still many times richer than those in Nigeria. That's even ignoring the quality of life and security..

This assertion is a fallacy , I stand to be corrected. On what premises are you making your conclusion?

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Celebrities › Re: TeeBillz Packs Out From Their Home In Lekki - Ebiwalismoment.com by donephi(m): 3:02pm On Apr 29, 2016

januzaj:
Teebillz is just a lazy motherfu**ker.....when olamide and don jazzy fought....he supported don jazzy knowing he was bleeping his wife....useless pusssy nigga could not voice out then because Tiwa was still paying his bills.....
Olamide is hardworking and he can feed this mother**cker for 1000 years....
This lazy nigga is a guy that cash rules everything around him....if Don jazzy had offered him money,he would fan him while he was bleeping tiwa

Meanwhile
Teebillz packing out like

Haba! Rubber rubber...Na wedding gifts for Ibadan

Celebrities › Re: TeeBillz Packs Out From Their Home In Lekki - Ebiwalismoment.com by donephi(m): 3:01pm On Apr 29, 2016

januzaj:
Teebillz is just a lazy motherfu**ker.....when olamide and don jazzy fought....he supported don jazzy knowing he was bleeping his wife....useless pusssy nigga could not voice out then because Tiwa was still paying his bills.....
Olamide is hardworking and he can feed this mother**cker for 1000 years....
This lazy nigga is a guy that cash rules everything around him....if Don jazzy had offered him money,he would fan him while he was bleeping tiwa

Meanwhile
Teebillz packing out like

Haba! Na wedding gifts for Ibadan

Romance › Re: Love Or Money Which One Will You Go For? by donephi(m): 5:07pm On Apr 26, 2016

halfricanadian:
I dont need nor mean romantic love i just dont want money

really

Romance › Re: Love Or Money Which One Will You Go For? by donephi(m): 7:30am On Apr 26, 2016

halfricanadian:
Love

Romance › Re: Do You Switch Off The Light When Having Sex With Your Partner? - Nigerians React by donephi(m): 7:02am On Apr 26, 2016

olymurphy:
Question

Answer

Romance › Re: Miss Nairaland Contest 2016 - Nomination & Verification Thread by donephi(m): 1:40pm On Apr 23, 2016

Estharfabian:
Would've loved to be on Your team..But lanickY's Kind-heartedness got to me first. something I do not possess.

You sure you don't wanna ride with us? we could use your Social skills...
Howdy

Howdy

Romance › Re: Miss Nairaland Contest 2016 - Nomination & Verification Thread by donephi(m): 10:22am On Apr 20, 2016

Estharfabian:
[font=serif]Lol. yeah!

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Your team made this thread and the forth coming competition fun.

As it stands now there are only two candidates which are mimzy and others which is making the competition kind of ... except others up their game.

Why did you actually opt out? Was the hype and expectation from you too much to handle or you were scared of loosing?

Well you've made your decision which you can make another all by yourself

Romance › Re: Miss Nairaland Contest 2016 - Nomination & Verification Thread by donephi(m): 9:55am On Apr 20, 2016

Estharfabian:
Seriously??

in a wrap...I'm sorry for stepping down?
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So you prefer been in a campaign team than contesting? What motivated that choice?

Romance › Re: Miss Nairaland Contest 2016 - Nomination & Verification Thread by donephi(m): 9:40am On Apr 20, 2016

Estharfabian:
...see ehn..

I'm sorry...
I posted a VN apologizing To You Pipu Nah...

What were you actually saying on the VN?

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Romance › Re: Miss Nairaland Contest 2016 - Nomination & Verification Thread by donephi(m): 9:21am On Apr 20, 2016

Estharfabian:
What's Your team again?

Cc: laveda...Oya..let the imaginary Malice stop. I need to Join a campaign team! remember my Mom, granny, dad, siblings are Nairalanders?

Why are you like this? Why go back and forth? What's the discrepancy betwEen contesting and been in a campaign team when the later is more demanding?
You seriously fall hand I swear sad

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Romance › Re: My Husband And I...(A Short Story) by donephi(m): 9:05am On Apr 20, 2016

misspicy:
Where did she state that its fiction?

did you read the original post or people's comment?

Are you saying you can't see where it's written

Romance › Re: I Think I Got The Most Beautiful Girl Friend In The World (photos) by donephi(m): 7:03am On Apr 20, 2016

ebubey:
tnks , no dats abuja hostel, Unijos.

you schooled in jos(unijos or demonstration second school)

Education › Re: In Need Of A Roommate At Choba by donephi(m): 10:13pm On Apr 19, 2016

donbenedict:
thanks alot... we could be good friends tho..

Chief flirt-er ONE of nairaland

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