AlexReports: Popular Abuja-based Nollywood Actress, Empress Njamah has held a Barbecue Party to commemorate the Eid Al Adha Sallah celebration, as her friends turned-up abrutly to the impromptu get-together, held at her mansion in Gwarinpa, Abuja.
According to the Nollywood Actress, Empress Njamah said that the Barbecue party was organised to ensure that her Muslim friends and colleagues were happy in this season Ramadan and that the engagements of sacrifice for peace and unity is fervently established.
The party which was enlivened with the presence of top Nigeria Abuja- based nollywood celebrities, entertainment CEOs, Event hosts, top showbiz personalities, family members, friends and loved ones.
While reacting to the turnouts and attendance at the sallah Ramadan Barbeque celebration, Actress Njamah made a post via her verified instagram page, she writes, "it turned out to be the best sallah meat in the history of Sallah, especially with the huge turnup in less than 5hours".
She also thanked everyone who made out time to grace her invitation, she says, "thanks guys, you all made the meat sweeter". It was indeed a humourous and funfilled setting for everyone, with so much merriment, drinks, food and meats.
*Do you know that asking a person “How was your night?” is wrong?* Well, if you didn’t know it until today, get to know with the help of Edward E Onoriode who shared the update on his Facebook wall. I felt it very necessary to spread the word and help people know about it too.
Here it is.... as posted by Edward E Onoriode.
I attended a IED (Improvise Explosive Device) fusion cell meeting with some US and British EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) experts yesterday to discuss all the IED incidences that had happened within the week across Somalia.
At the meeting hall, I saluted one of the British officers ‘Good morning sir’ and he responded back ‘good morning to you too’
My oversabi did not allow me to keep quiet so I went further with the Nigeria popular phrase ‘how was your night sir?’
Dude was shock. He looked at me in a weird way as if I’d said something out of the ordinary. Something that’s sacrilegious which is an abomination to his ears. After some sec, he said ‘how my night went is none of your business’!
I was awed in shock. Normally, I was expecting a simple ‘fine’ ‘Good’ ‘Splendid’ ‘ My night was great’ etc. But he didn’t say any of these but he told me ‘how my night went is none of your business’! I felt embarrassed.
For minutes, I couldn’t mutter a word back to him. I just buried my head in shame.
All through the meeting, I was lost in thought and I couldn’t concentrate on the meeting minutes. I kept asking myself within, ‘was my question wrong?’ ‘have I said something that offended this man?’ ‘could it be that he had a bad night rest and he decided to transfer the aggression at me?’
After the meeting, I did a little Google search and I couldn’t believe the answers I got.
Ladies and gentlemen, did you know the phrase “How was your night ” In English Language means “How was last nights sex?” “How was your night shift duty?” “How was your health during the night hours?”
Whenever you ask this question in the morning to healthy people who are not in sick bed, you’re invariably inquiring about their sexual comfort/activities during the night or how their night shift went and it’s rude to ask such mostly if you’re not closely related to the person. No wonder the British officer find my question condescending because he felt I was intruding in his private business since I’m not too familiar with him. But I asked that question with a sincere and innocent mind without any harm. Basically, how was your night is normally asked to people who are receiving treatments in the hospital or people who are on night shift.
Nigeria has really messed me up. Now, I’d be more careful whenever I want to speak with these white folks because I never can tell when I’d say something that’s offensive and invasive again. By the way, I need to un-learn so many English I’ve been proudly speaking, they’re wrong. My happiness is that I know the appropriate question whenever I want to enquire how a person’s night went now and it should be;
“Did you have a good night sleep?” or “Did you sleep well?
The answer to ‘ How was your night?’ Is actually ‘none of your business!’
I have checked our local languages. Even as literal translation goes, no Nigerian language asks ‘How was your night?’ I am checking because of this phrase, for those who know, was not in use in Nigeria as recent as 10 years ago.
As my Doctor friend said to me, it may have come from hospitals. It’s common knowledge according to the doctor that sick people often have rough nights and most deaths occur at night. So a doctor’s question to the patient during morning ward rounds is usually ‘How was your night?’ If we exported hospital vocabulary to the streets, are we now to assume, we are all at death’s door?
The proper address for mornings is simply ‘good morning’ and if you want to spice it up by being overly friendly, you may add ‘hope you slept well?’ A person’s night is not our business.
If we are Igbo it’s either, ibolachi– have you woken up. Ututuoma- good morning.
If Yoruba, 'ę karo' – good morning. You can go further as Yorubas are won’t do by adding “se daada l'ę ji’ – hope you woke up well?
None of these our local greetings intrusively asks ‘How was your night?’ So, No! It is not African either. Let us be well aware when we leave our lanes to go measuring that of others. ���������� *So now we know!* *Don't go asking me or anyone else "How was my night anymore?*
After coming out yesterday to publicly apologise to ex-girlfriend, Julie Ibrahim on social media, a comeback did not come to past for Iceberg Slim.
Nigerian artiste, Iceberg Slim took to social media yesterday to express a profound apology to ex-girlfriend, Actress Juliet Ibrahim, for not being a better half for the gorgeous actress and not treating her well while they were together.
According to her, she has forgiven Iceberg Slim and all, but there’s no way she’s going back to date him again.
“I appreciate the fact that he has come to clear the air, because I remember when it started everybody was killing me and attacking me, I have no idea why they’ll always chose to blame the woman for such things. But I was strong enough to ignore all the negative comments. I’m just glad he came out to tell the truth about everything.
pressmanng: The wife of Kaduna Starte Governor, Hadiza Isma'l El-Rifai has said that she would not stop what she is doing to entertain an uninvited Guest.
She said this via her Twitter handle.
"If you come to visit me and I’m not expecting you, you may have to wait, because:
1. If I’m soaking in the bath, I’ll not cut short my enjoyment.
2. If I’m eating amala ati ewedu/gbegiri, I’ll not accelerate the rate of my swallows.
3. If I’m reading a book, I must reach the end of the chapter.
But if we have an appointment, it will be an entirely different story"
Betternews: Last year, Waje celebrated her daughter’s 19th birthday with an emotional story.
I named you Emerald cause i knew you were going to be special, there was something about you that was beyond me, it wasn’t just a mother’s love, it was a reflection of grace, i knew God was crowning me with something special, precious, BEAUTIFUL.
Now you are 19, wow! It was just yesterday that you turned 1 o. I remember your first step, well it wasn’t your first cause we discovered you had been taking small steps but won’t let anyone notice ( nor be today your kunkuru start), or how you spilled wine and licked it from the floor before we could run to you. Was it when you turned 5 and fell really ill that big mummy was so confused…. aunty ify and i had to rush u to the hospital. Or how you will play rough in school that the child who left home wasnt the one that usually came bck cause you would
HeWrites: President Muhammadu Buhari has said that killers who scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ do not know God.
Buhari said this on Wednesday on his visit to Batsari Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Katsina State.
President Buhari promised that he would fight insurgency and banditry until peace and security are returned to the country, Igbere TV reports.
He said: “What brought me here is to condole you over the recent bandits’ attacks affecting not only you but all of us. I have nothing to add on what the Emir had already spoken extensively about, but all that leaders should do right from home is ensure justice.
“I assure you that we sleep and wake-up with the sad moment of banditry and kidnapping activities in the state and country. By the grace of God, we will use soldiers, police and other public servants to end banditry.
“All those whose activities is to kill people and saying ‘Allahu Akbar’ are lying because God is not wicked. You can’t carry bomb or gun, sword or knife to go and kill innocent somebody and say ‘Allahu Akbar’. This implies that you either don’t believe in God or you don’t know what you are saying.”
He urged the people to provide information about suspects to security agencies.
“There is popular Hausa adage that says it’s the rat in the house that tells the rat outside that there is fish in the house, so within yourselves, your neighbours and even your relatives there are informants.
“So in this case, both you and I don’t know them, it’s only God that knows them, we can’t do anything here rather intensify prayers for God’s intervention by exposing them,” Buhari said.
A vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, specially ordered to be used by British-American actress, Elizabeth Taylor, just sold at an auction in New York for $520,000 (₦189million).
The late actress purchased the custom “smoke green” color 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II H.J. Mulliner Drophead Coupe, which she nicknamed the "Green Goddess" because of its distinctive color, soon after her marriage to Eddie Fisher and was brought to Rome for the filming of Cleopatra in 1962.
Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Eddie Fisher didn't last, but she kept the Rolls-Royce for almost two decades, considerably longer than any of her eight marriages.
The luxury ride, one of only 20 ever made, features a left hand drive, a 6.2 liter V-8 engine with 40,644 miles on the odometer, and the iconic Rolls Royce silver goddess hood ornament.
This sale comes five months after a vintage 1987 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur, specially armored to be used by Princess Diana during her official visit to the U.S. in 1990, sold at auction for US$45,250 (₦16.2 million).
GistTeller: Aliko Dangote is now a grandfather as his daughter, Fatima and her hubby, Jamil Abubakar, have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl.
Fatima welcomed their bundle of joy in a US hospital. The billionaire businessman is said to have departed Nigeria for the US to meet his grand daughter.
Fatima and Jamil who is the first son of former Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar, got married in a society wedding which took place in March 2018.
GistTeller: Aliko Dangote is now a grandfather as his daughter, Fatima and her hubby, Jamil Abubakar, have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl.
Fatima welcomed their bundle of joy in a US hospital. The billionaire businessman is said to have departed Nigeria for the US to meet his grand daughter.
Fatima and Jamil who is the first son of former Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar, got married in a society wedding which took place in March 2018.
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