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gidzbobby: guys be like..... terry watch your moves.... hope he didn't do that his alanta xha..... but the cameraman fast o..... can that leather be original or.......

prymesolution: God bless him

mystiqueDZ: sin..No wonder its always sins of the father blah blah.Mothers re pure!

clun: Picture is not showing.

stolen stone: damn!!!!!!!!!! I most definitely need one of those!

homesteady: They are looking good, but their mother fine pass them

ebenezer4o2: But sometimes true#

Tbken: I didnt understand anything there....
Meanwhile let me continue with ma
Chin-chin...see you
guyz leta

coolandcute: Wait let me ask ifa.!!!!!@op u must be a prophet because u just said exactly what I was thinking earlier today,well the thing is some questions do not have answers

Bendtner111: Shall ye continue to languish in friendship zone that ye maybe call a nice guy?In St Paul's voice*God forbid!

joebeckz: Our beloved corper precious died last tuesday on her way comin back from the nysc 3weeks camp. She was the nysc band instructor,while coming back,their bus ran into anoda due to miscalculated overtaking. Her remains left for her home town this morning n wud be laid to rest tomoro. She was a batch A serving corp member here in jos. She was a fine singer in camp n her favorite song "kabiosi" thrilled every one in camp. May her soul rest in peace. Drop ur tributes to her.

Penssuwa: importance here does not have nexus with ones appearance. It is the content that matters and not the container.

collynzo2: He also mentioned something about fixing world cup matches. When Sani Kaita got that useless red card against Greece in SA 2010, I told my friends with whom I was watching the match that I could swear on my life that it was a case of match fixing.
The issue was later mentioned in one of the match fixing probes but quickly swept under the carpet presumably by FIFA in order to keep the reputation of the world cup intact.

osystein: hmmm.. did he really say those things? This to me looks fictional, why didn't he write this when mandela was alive?

GeneralJ: thank GOD
but i feel for that white dress sha ohh.. i mean,wow, do you know how much bleach you have to buy to get the sand out of the fine white dress..chaii, , can't you take it off, or put towel and sit on the floor..instead of spoiling the fine white dress..omg, and that dress go fit sell for like 300 naira ohh..chaii

fijiano202: guy sometimes it may taste and smells like a fish but may end-up been a snake ooo,no Give bad advice oo

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Kora award winner and Ex Project Fame winner, Chidinma Ekile, tells ‘Nonye Ben-Nwankwo how she has been able to manage the recent controversies surrounding her

You won Kora Awards last year and this year again, you were nominated for an international award, Channel O Awards. Did you ever imagine that you would get to this stage?

No way. I never imagined it in any way. All I did was just to be focused. I knew this was what I loved doing and I decided to just keep doing it. I didn’t expect that it would get this big. Sometimes I sit back and I think back of how it started.

But did the awards have any impact on your career?

Oh yes. When I won the Kora and got back to Nigeria, it was a whole different experience. People started treating me differently. They wondered how ‘small’ Chidinma could go to Cote D’ivoire and bring the Kora home. It added to my profile. Being nominated for the Channel O Award is a big deal for me even if I didn’t clinch the award.

How has it been since then?

It has been good and challenging. It has been a lot of work.

Did you go back to school?

Oh yes. I am managing my career and my studies. I don’t have a choice. I wake up every day and I realise I have a lot of things to do. This is really the best time to tidy up my education. This is my youth. I get busier by the day. It will get tougher. I have to do what I have to do before time gets tougher.

Are you not scared or intimidated competing with other bigger female artistes in the industry?

I have never been a competition person even though I am a product of a competition. But I didn’t see Project Fame as a competition. I was doing what I love doing. In the industry, I am not in any competition. I am just Chidinma. I have tried to carve a niche for myself. I try to be different all the time. I don’t like a situation where somebody will say ‘Chidinma sounds like this person or that person.’ When that comes, competition arises. I am not in for that. I just want to be me and I always try to improve. I want to be versatile. I don’t want to be put in a box. I am here to have fun and make money at the same time.

But you must look up to some of the female artistes…

Definitely. Most of the time I was preparing for the Project Fame competition, I listened to Omawumi a lot. I followed her right from the time she came out of West African Idols. I just loved her kind of music. It is African and she has lots of messages at the same time. I love Onyeka Onwenu as well. I can learn from any one. I am still able to talk and ask question. I am still their baby.

Do you owe Project Fame all you have achieved?

I owe it to Project Fame to a reasonable extent. I don’t think I would be here if not for Project Fame. I didn’t take music seriously. I felt it was something I could do during my leisure. I didn’t know it would become a profession.

If you hadn’t won, you wouldn’t have been bothered?

It wouldn’t have mattered. I didn’t even know I was going to win. I felt I was having fun and if I got money, it was okay. I didn’t want to be the winner. I didn’t want everybody’s eyes to be on me. But it happened and I didn’t have a choice. I decided to give it a trial. That is why I am here today.


You eventually came into the spotlight and it opened doors to controversies and scandals…

I have been in the news lately. My manager told me that I am a balloon on top of lots of needles. People want me to drop on those needles and get deflated. He told me to be careful. The first time was when my nude picture went viral. I actually went for a photo shoot for my friend. I wore a tube dress. Some mischief makers actually cropped off the lower part of the picture and posted it on the Internet. It was as if I was nude. I wasn’t happy at all. I had that picture. I had to post the real picture on the net and people now got convinced the nude picture wasn’t original. I thought that was the end, I didn’t know a bigger scandal was coming…


You mean the sex video?

Oh yes. I woke up one morning and I was greeted on the internet with ‘Chidinma and sex tape’. I was worried primarily because of my mother. I didn’t let her see the video but I had to show her the photos. I didn’t want to go out that day. I couldn’t go out. But my mum felt otherwise. She told me to ignore the mischief makers. I almost took some actions but I thought against it. I met Sound Sultan on a set. He told me, ‘Babe, you are now a star. I welcome you officially into the industry.’ I trended for three days. Even people who didn’t know me got to know me. My fan base grew. And then, I was happy because more than 90 per cent of the public didn’t believe I was the one in that video. There were people who didn’t need to see the video to believe I couldn’t have done such thing. I am just grateful to everyone who didn’t believe the story. My twitter account was hacked and the people created another account. They kept releasing nasty pictures and they were even responding to the tweets as if I was the one doing it. I was just watching and laughing. It put me in the spotlight. I used it for good.

But such scandal shouldn’t be good for your career…

Ever since I started, I have been scared of scandals. I didn’t want to have any. But I realised that I cannot run away from it. It is just normal. It is not everybody who is happy seeing me rise. Some people are trying to do something to stop me. But sex tape is not enough to stop me. They should bring up something else. The sex tape just took me to another level in my career. It moved me up. This is no more ‘little’ Chidinma. It didn’t bring me down in any way. I am still doing a lot of things.


One of the Skuki boys said he is in love with you and would want to marry you…

Oh yes. Everybody wants to marry me but I am not ready for marriage.

But the boy came out publicly and declared his love for you…

I laughed when I saw that story. I have not considered his request. I still have to make more money before I consider marriage. He is actually my friend and he never told me something like that. I have been linked with so many people. People cannot imagine me being a saint. They are just looking for something to attach to me.

How does it feel like being a star?
It is a lot of work. People see me and envy me and say ‘ohhh, she is now a star and she must be enjoying’. I am not enjoying. The more you are there, the more you do things. The expectation is now so high. Being a star is not so much fun because you have to do more work. You have to please people. You have to smile even when you are not in the mood. It is so frustrating. But then, you owe it to some people, you have put yourself out there. This is what I have signed for. Nobody begged me to do this.

http://www..com/2013/12/chidinma-opens-up-about-her-sex-scandal.html

Popowaa: For this xmas season?Abeg we can talk abt love after xmas

Presbulg: How dem wan take enter heaven nao, the angels go dey confused if they can't find their passport for that book

Yemlizzy: Him in who we trust and place all our worries on this earth.

mukina2: Then-ANC leader Mandela in January 1961
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Mandela with his wife Winnie in 1962
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Cleaning the 'Free Mandela' signs from King's College Chapel Cambridge
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African women demonstrate in front of the Law Courts in Pretoria after the verdict of the Rivonia trial
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is pictured meeting with Mandela in Gaza City in October 1988
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Mandela on his release from prison in February 1990
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yaxeji: South African President Jacob Zuma has confirmed the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

FrontiersNews was the first medium globally to confirm the death of the antiapartheid icon.

In his nationwide broadcast, on Thursday night, President Zuma's said "He is now resting. He is now at peace. Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father."

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6799-breaking-news-mandela-passes-on