₦airaland Forum

charles316:
GLORINA,U ARE JUST A BIG TRIBALIST.DONT SPOIL D GIRL`S MIND .NA PEOPLE LIKE U DEY MAKE NAIJA DISUNITED.4KIN TRIBALIST.

@ POSTER,THE TRUTH IS IF D IBO PARENTS LIKE U ,THEY WONT PRETEND(I KNOW DIS ABT D IBOS).SO IF THEY RECIEVED U WELL, THEN GIRL GO AHEAD.

ANOTHER FACT ABT D IBOS IS DAT D MEN ARE VERY FAITHFUL.IF U REALLY WANT TO BUILD A HAPPY FAMILY,THEN U NEED TO MARRY AN IBO MAN.MY MUM IS IBO AND MY DAD IS YORUBA.SO I KNOW AND HAVE SEEN WHAT I AM TELLING U.U SHLD KNOW DAT MOST GIRLS DONT TELL THEIR FRIENDS D TRUTH ESP because THEY ARE ALWAYS JEALOUS.

LOVE WILL SEE U THRU.

no, i'm not a tribalist. It's the plain truth. By the way i was speaking from my own observation

The poster wanted to know the situation between Igbo men and Yoruba women in general. And as i already mentioned, there are exceptions.
The fact that his parents recieved her does not mean they liked her from their hearts(unfortunately you can never tell the minds of people)

@Poster

There could be different reasons why he doesn't want any commitment. And only him and God knows why. All you need to do is pray about it and ask for God's will to be done.

You could also discuss the issue(Igbo men and Yoruba women) with him. I hope for you he tells you the REAL reason why he doesn't wanna marry you

Goodluck sis

simplysmat:
Tell it to ladies in thier thirties and unmarried.

Yeah some 30+ old ladies go hunting for love. But in most cases they do it out of desperation

stillwater:
It's proven. This glorina has issues.

Truth hurts

Don't worry. You'll be alright, Nnugwo?

African remote control is real. But God is mightier.

drrionelli:
What a blessing! All the best to the both of you!

Following your honeymoon, you will be posting pictures of the ceremony for us all to enjoy, right?

I will. Stay tuned

Hey sweety

Let me tell you certain facts from my own observation:

Igbo men marry Igbo women

Igbo women marry Yoruba men(most cases the Yoruba men are very very rich ::ego talks: )

Yoruba men are very open to other tribes(compared to Igbo men)

Igbo men marry Yoruba women if and only if ego is there in abundance

Igbo men invest in relationships

Igbo women only date very rich guys irrespective of their tribes :bling bling:

Yet there are exceptions, depending on the family background of your love(lover, boyfriend, girlfriend, partner) and your love for each other.


I am not Igbo by the way, i once dated an Igbo guy and he wanted to use style to find out how rich i was . . . hehe 

Thanks guys

To a God-sent man. Celebrate with me

hey ladies!

do you think the big dark ladies hair is real? or is it weave. How can i grow my hair that long?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJATwRuTR4E&feature=related

Please guys !

Agreed, the degree of love between couples varies, but please make sure you love the person to a certain degree and vice versa

Don't ever make the mistake of marrying someone who does not love you. And marrying someone you don't love but loves you is a risk:

1. What if you eventually never fall in love with him/her
2. love is two sided
3. What if you eventually meet your honey pie?

Czarskit:
Why do I seem to agree with d poster?!

Love has its ups & downs. . . Singlehood is quite 'stagnant'. . . Life is an adventure & a go @ love is just a part of it. . . But I'll rada risk a go @ love than remain single. . .

yea it's worth risking. But believe me the best love you can ever experience is love you don't force. Love to me is a surprise. It is not something you plan.

It just happens. And you don't have to stress yourself over it. All you need to do is work hard at keeping ur love

van der jo:
@poster,
i agree with you on that but there is still true love,like they say nothing good comes easy but its not frustrating to find true love,it will come when its time.

That's exactly what I'm saying: Love will find you. You don't go about looking for it

You might find it in the wrong places=wrong choice

You can enjoy your singlehood without any headaches

Looking for love could be frustrating

HeatFusion:
LOL, SHARRAP DIA JOR
Lazy girl

No, You Shut The Fukc Up HeatFusion!   Before i send my Government officials to descend on you.
Do you think i'm one of ur slaves? Abeg carry your lazy stinky ass go jor.
You are going to wash your pata yourself. You will not get a househelp. better start washing dem patas before they begin to decay. Modern slavery is a disease

HeatFusion:
LOL, You be housegirl, you suppose to dy lay my bed.
You telling me that it's not made? Better go and fix it before I come after you with hot iron.
Lazy girl

US govt ko US housegirl ni

my dear. You call me lazy. Yet you're looking for someone to help you lay your stinky bed. Isn't that contradictory? olodo!

HeatFusion:
I can sue her right?
Ok,as my housegirl, call my lawyer for me by tomor.
I want that woman arrested for looking like that on her weding day

I am not ur housegirl o. I work with the US Government, if you know what i mean

By the way, do u still do modern slavery in this day and age? Better repent o.

You are going to do the sueing yourself. Even ur co-jubilators won't come and help you. As you lay your bed so you lie on it. Pele  

HeatFusion:
I can't.
If I could, I'd hav sued you too
ewwww TMI.
am just 14, plz

You keep saying you can't. Believe me the court won't reject your case. You will find a very good lawyer.

Ini has commited a crime? Let justice prevail

She has wronged you? Why not revenge

Impossible is nothing

Nothing is stopping you, dearie

HeatFusion:
If I could, I would.
Since I can't, I'll continue to comment

You can. Why not do it?

Anyone who has anything against how Ini looked on her wedding day can as well sue her  

busy_bodi:
may u live long

Amen sis

Only model size women are allowed to wed? Whatta joke!

Ini gained weight on her wedding day? So What

Her make-up looked messy?? So What

Her hubby is not Brad Pitt? So What

Her wedding gown is not beautiful? So What

At the end of the day, she is happily married, which is all that matters

She doesn't need any body's permission to wear whatever she pleases. That's her prerogative

Enjoy the interview  



REMEMBER Tosin Jegede, the kid-singer that made history in Nigeria as the country’s youngest music star in the 80s.
She is really matured now, and radiating with life. A highly talented kid-singer, who relocated to the UK over 20 years ago in pursuit of her academic career after releasing two albums.

Tosin is back for good. She has not forgotten her roots. Fondly remembered in the late 1980s for her persuasive songs, urging parents to listen to their children and pay their school fees among other hits.

In this interview, young Tosin, now in her late 20s speaks about her project, The Tosin Jegede Foundation, her plans to stage a come back to music as well as the biography of Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, which she presented to the public on Thursday, in Lagos. Excerpt

It’s nice to see you.

Thank you.

You’re more of a woman now.

Yeah, I’m grow up. It’s been 15 years. It would have been weird, if I’d have remained a child.

Did you still have your videos

Somewhere. Somehow, I did.

When was the last time you set your eyes on any of your videos?

Oh, it’s been ages. Maybe, when I was in Nigeria in 1994 or ‘95, thereabout. So, it’s been a while.

Do you sometimes remember doing all those stuffs when you were a kid?

I do. Like when I met Fela. As a child then, Fela was a scary man to me. When I met him, I was quite scared. I remember meeting Sunny Ade too. Performing at the OAU Summit, when I heard that Nelson Mandela was going to be around. I was like Wao! I remember my first time ever in Abuja too. The Nicon Hilton Hotel experience,  I remember those little, little things. It’s quite fun too.

Did those experiences helped you in any way during your growing up days?

Funny. I just see it as an experience I had. I think in a sense, it’s been part of my being a star. If I were to put it that way. And that’s just part of it and all I take it as. Its just like all the other parts of my life like growing up, going to school and meeting friends.

I’m sure when you traveled out of the country, it was freedom at last. Nobody probably remembered Tosin again, 

It was fantastic because here, I couldn’t really go out. When I travelled out, I probably was a focal point. And then, before I could know it, people started crowding around me and ,  I really felt different going over there and I’ll be outside and no one is even looking at me twice or they just walk past. However it’s quite good to have spent the first few years of life that way.

Wasn’t there any Nigerian that could identify you at a point?

After a while, Nigerians started coming after me, asking whether I was the same Tosin Jegede that they used to know way back in Nigeria. But it’s really being a long time, how do you recognize me? So I get that once in a while.

Do you still sing?

I can try.

Whatever happened to your voice?

It’s still there, somewhere but I sort of struggle to do it. I still enjoy singing. But how good I can sing, might be another puzzle.

Your dad wrote most of the songs and he was your manager while you were a kid-star. How easy was it for him to assume the role of being your dad and at the same time, your manager?

When I was younger, my dad wrote most of my songs and we’d go into the studio and record. Then, my dad would be like ‘do it again. You don’t get it right or your mouth s too close to the microphone, ’

Then after a while, you get tired. It wasn’t too much pressure, considering that I was only about 5 when I recorded my first album. But as time went on, my dad ceased to be my manager. For the 2nd album, I had a manager, my dad wrote the songs but then he worked with some other people as well.

After a while, he began to understand. There were some days, I’d be there every single day during the mixing of my 1st album.

For my 2nd album, my dad was like ‘okay, you get tired, so they mix for two weeks without my being there and then I come and do the voice. So we had a good relationship but it was bitter-sweet because things like when I’m recording I can’t drink cold drinks and I can’t eat groundnut were issues.

Held go like after the recording, you can have as much of these things as you like. I just got to understand that and we didn’t even have an agreement because I’m still really close to my dad and will always be close to him.

Did you remember crying in the studio?

I think there were quite a few times that I just got upset. There was one particular day my dad actually told me, I think we were recording my 2nd album. I can’t remember what song it was, and because the 1st day we were there, I was there with my friends and they were doing the chorus. So we were all playing around.

I had to come back on the second day, which wasn’t planned and be on my own. I got tired and said I just wanna go home, and my dad shouted at me that we paid for the session. So, I really got upset and started crying and couldn’t do nothing else. I wasn’t feeling pushed.

So what did you study in school?

I studied Business Administration and Mathematics.

Why did you decide to take a break from music?

I think when I left Nigeria, it was more like taking a break from celebrity life. When I got to the UK, I realized how they treated celebrities. The press and people always wanting a piece of the action. So, I said I want to stay away from this for sometime. Now, I realized how much I was young to have stepped out of it. But I just felt I should stay off music for a while, so I could basically be myself and understand myself the direction of my life.

Getting into music, 

When I was till in the UK, I used to visit the motherless babies home. I remember that was the reason I started singing. It was because I went to a motherless babies home in Isolo and I saw children there and I thought it would be good to sing for them to make them happy. It was like a small girl’s dream but it happened. I was really happy when I could do a concert and my dad donated the proceeds from that concert to charity. I felt, I was doing something. and that’s really where my passion has been, charity.

What are you currently doing?

But being away from music, I’ve realized that I can’t really achieve now that because it was the money I made from singing that helped me to touch the lives of other people. But the passion is still in me. So, I recently set up a charity organization: The ‘Tosin Jegede Foundation.’ I’m basically trying to push this forward.

Over the last one year, I’ve tried to dedicate more time to it. In 2005, I did an exhibition to raise money for the foundation and that’s what I’m doing now. The major thing you’ll see soon is a biography which I’ve written on Cardinal Okogie.

Did he let you do that?

The Cardinal is my friend. I go to his office and he’s really friendly. He’s been really encouraging too since I was young. When I was about 14 or 15 years old, I actually asked if I could write his biography.

I conducted the interviews and gathered all the necessary information for the writing of the book. It was launched on Thursday at McGovern Hall, St. Agnes Catholic Church, Maryland, Lagos. That’s the 1st major project I would have done.

How easy was it getting him to speak with you considering his busy schedule?

It’s true he is busy. I just had to have a few sessions of appointments with him but then, I was back and forth between Nigeria and UK, so over a period of time, I was able to finally get that end product. One, it was already done. I was waiting for him to read through and approve of it.

So what do you plan to do with the proceeds from the launch?

The proceeds will be going to the Tosin Jegede Foundation. There’s a project I’m launching in September. The foundation focuses on Children and Education. So, its going to be about creating awareness for the importance of education, the quality of education a well and affordability. That’s really what we want to do, so whatever project we undertake will revolve around that foundation’s focus.

Don’t you think music can be a veritable tool to garnering support for your pet-project?

Music is very powerful. I think it will.

Don’t you also think it’ll be good to go back to work and make it?

I will surely go back to the work . I’m not really walking away from the name. I think, I’ve done that for quite a few years but I’m involved in the arts as well.

The question now is when? I feel more like I need to push this forward before I can go back to my first love-music. Because there’s so much happening in music now that for me to come back, I need to really position myself properly. I just can’t rush into it.

What experience of work did you have?

In the last two years, I was working in UK, it was quite totally different. I also tried to raise money in that sense.

But back here, it’s been quite a mixture of different things. I’m not married. Really, I have a very strong confidence. I think I’ve been lucky in the times that I’ve been away from public glare, have built confidence in myself. I am happy with myself.


By Ogbonna Amadi

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/content.asp?contentid=4283&ContentTypeID=5

Enjoy the interview

REMEMBER Tosin Jegede, the kid-singer that made history in Nigeria as the country’s youngest music star in the 80s.
She is really matured now, and radiating with life. A highly talented kid-singer, who relocated to the UK over 20 years ago in pursuit of her academic career after releasing two albums.

Tosin is back for good. She has not forgotten her roots. Fondly remembered in the late 1980s for her persuasive songs, urging parents to listen to their children and pay their school fees among other hits.

In this interview, young Tosin, now in her late 20s speaks about her project, The Tosin Jegede Foundation, her plans to stage a come back to music as well as the biography of Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, which she presented to the public on Thursday, in Lagos. Excerpt

It’s nice to see you.

Thank you.

You’re more of a woman now.

Yeah, I’m grow up. It’s been 15 years. It would have been weird, if I’d have remained a child.

Did you still have your videos

Somewhere. Somehow, I did.

When was the last time you set your eyes on any of your videos?

Oh, it’s been ages. Maybe, when I was in Nigeria in 1994 or ‘95, thereabout. So, it’s been a while.

Do you sometimes remember doing all those stuffs when you were a kid?

I do. Like when I met Fela. As a child then, Fela was a scary man to me. When I met him, I was quite scared. I remember meeting Sunny Ade too. Performing at the OAU Summit, when I heard that Nelson Mandela was going to be around. I was like Wao! I remember my first time ever in Abuja too. The Nicon Hilton Hotel experience,  I remember those little, little things. It’s quite fun too.

Did those experiences helped you in any way during your growing up days?

Funny. I just see it as an experience I had. I think in a sense, it’s been part of my being a star. If I were to put it that way. And that’s just part of it and all I take it as. Its just like all the other parts of my life like growing up, going to school and meeting friends.

I’m sure when you traveled out of the country, it was freedom at last. Nobody probably remembered Tosin again, 

It was fantastic because here, I couldn’t really go out. When I travelled out, I probably was a focal point. And then, before I could know it, people started crowding around me and ,  I really felt different going over there and I’ll be outside and no one is even looking at me twice or they just walk past. However it’s quite good to have spent the first few years of life that way.

Wasn’t there any Nigerian that could identify you at a point?

After a while, Nigerians started coming after me, asking whether I was the same Tosin Jegede that they used to know way back in Nigeria. But it’s really being a long time, how do you recognize me? So I get that once in a while.

Do you still sing?

I can try.

Whatever happened to your voice?

It’s still there, somewhere but I sort of struggle to do it. I still enjoy singing. But how good I can sing, might be another puzzle.

Your dad wrote most of the songs and he was your manager while you were a kid-star. How easy was it for him to assume the role of being your dad and at the same time, your manager?

When I was younger, my dad wrote most of my songs and we’d go into the studio and record. Then, my dad would be like ‘do it again. You don’t get it right or your mouth s too close to the microphone, ’

Then after a while, you get tired. It wasn’t too much pressure, considering that I was only about 5 when I recorded my first album. But as time went on, my dad ceased to be my manager. For the 2nd album, I had a manager, my dad wrote the songs but then he worked with some other people as well.

After a while, he began to understand. There were some days, I’d be there every single day during the mixing of my 1st album.

For my 2nd album, my dad was like ‘okay, you get tired, so they mix for two weeks without my being there and then I come and do the voice. So we had a good relationship but it was bitter-sweet because things like when I’m recording I can’t drink cold drinks and I can’t eat groundnut were issues.

Held go like after the recording, you can have as much of these things as you like. I just got to understand that and we didn’t even have an agreement because I’m still really close to my dad and will always be close to him.

Did you remember crying in the studio?

I think there were quite a few times that I just got upset. There was one particular day my dad actually told me, I think we were recording my 2nd album. I can’t remember what song it was, and because the 1st day we were there, I was there with my friends and they were doing the chorus. So we were all playing around.

I had to come back on the second day, which wasn’t planned and be on my own. I got tired and said I just wanna go home, and my dad shouted at me that we paid for the session. So, I really got upset and started crying and couldn’t do nothing else. I wasn’t feeling pushed.

So what did you study in school?

I studied Business Administration and Mathematics.

Why did you decide to take a break from music?

I think when I left Nigeria, it was more like taking a break from celebrity life. When I got to the UK, I realized how they treated celebrities. The press and people always wanting a piece of the action. So, I said I want to stay away from this for sometime. Now, I realized how much I was young to have stepped out of it. But I just felt I should stay off music for a while, so I could basically be myself and understand myself the direction of my life.

Getting into music, 

When I was till in the UK, I used to visit the motherless babies home. I remember that was the reason I started singing. It was because I went to a motherless babies home in Isolo and I saw children there and I thought it would be good to sing for them to make them happy. It was like a small girl’s dream but it happened. I was really happy when I could do a concert and my dad donated the proceeds from that concert to charity. I felt, I was doing something. and that’s really where my passion has been, charity.

What are you currently doing?

But being away from music, I’ve realized that I can’t really achieve now that because it was the money I made from singing that helped me to touch the lives of other people. But the passion is still in me. So, I recently set up a charity organization: The ‘Tosin Jegede Foundation.’ I’m basically trying to push this forward.

Over the last one year, I’ve tried to dedicate more time to it. In 2005, I did an exhibition to raise money for the foundation and that’s what I’m doing now. The major thing you’ll see soon is a biography which I’ve written on Cardinal Okogie.

Did he let you do that?

The Cardinal is my friend. I go to his office and he’s really friendly. He’s been really encouraging too since I was young. When I was about 14 or 15 years old, I actually asked if I could write his biography.

I conducted the interviews and gathered all the necessary information for the writing of the book. It was launched on Thursday at McGovern Hall, St. Agnes Catholic Church, Maryland, Lagos. That’s the 1st major project I would have done.

How easy was it getting him to speak with you considering his busy schedule?

It’s true he is busy. I just had to have a few sessions of appointments with him but then, I was back and forth between Nigeria and UK, so over a period of time, I was able to finally get that end product. One, it was already done. I was waiting for him to read through and approve of it.

So what do you plan to do with the proceeds from the launch?

The proceeds will be going to the Tosin Jegede Foundation. There’s a project I’m launching in September. The foundation focuses on Children and Education. So, its going to be about creating awareness for the importance of education, the quality of education a well and affordability. That’s really what we want to do, so whatever project we undertake will revolve around that foundation’s focus.

Don’t you think music can be a veritable tool to garnering support for your pet-project?

Music is very powerful. I think it will.

Don’t you also think it’ll be good to go back to work and make it?

I will surely go back to the work . I’m not really walking away from the name. I think, I’ve done that for quite a few years but I’m involved in the arts as well.

The question now is when? I feel more like I need to push this forward before I can go back to my first love-music. Because there’s so much happening in music now that for me to come back, I need to really position myself properly. I just can’t rush into it.

What experience of work did you have?

In the last two years, I was working in UK, it was quite totally different. I also tried to raise money in that sense.

But back here, it’s been quite a mixture of different things. I’m not married. Really, I have a very strong confidence. I think I’ve been lucky in the times that I’ve been away from public glare, have built confidence in myself. I am happy with myself.


By Ogbonna Amadi

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/content.asp?contentid=4283&ContentTypeID=5

TOYOSI20:
errrr. . .don't see the correlation here at all. . .like ma spouse is ma spouse and ma best friend is ma best friend. . . .

Two different people. . . , loyalty is key for me anywayz. . . .

and i personally think maself and ma spouse would have far more pressing and important things to talk about besides "Gossiping"

For some people, it is not always the case. There are sistas who share things (secrets) with their best friends, they don't trust their husbands enough to tell

can you share your best friends secrets with your spouse?

I personally believe that secrets are meant to be kept. And spouses are supposed to be truthful with each other. Under 'normal' circumstances, people should never share their best friends' secrets with their spouses except it is necessary, e.g. if you need his advice or help on a certain issue.

Woman Turns Husband Into Punching Bag

A 50-year-old estate agent, Gbenga Ayeni, has approached an Agege Customary Court for the dissolution of the marriage with his wife, Moyosore, over alleged frequent physical attacks on him.


Ayeni pleaded with the court to dissolve the four-year-old union after accusing his wife, a hairdresser, of being responsible for his misfortune in life. The estate agent claimed that since he started living with Moyosore, he had had no rest of mind because she always fought him with broken bottles and other dangerous weapons any time they had misunderstandings.

He said there was a particular day she stripped herself when she fought with him and in the process, tore his clothes with the broken bottle she had in her hand. He told the court further that such repeated actions had made him to be fed up with the relationship and thus prayed the court to dissolve the marriage.

In her defence, the hairdresser said they were not legally married but her estate agent husband conned her into living with him as husband and wife. She said Ayeni borrowed some money from her, years back, to pay for his house rent, but when she needed her money to pay her own house rent, he could not pay her and in the process, she was sent packing by her landlord because she could not meet the deadline given to her.

She said Ayeni asked her to move into his house and that was how they started living together as husband and wife. The hairdresser further said that it was while living with Ayeni that she got pregnant and later bore him a male child, who is now one year old.

Moyosore added that she was surprised Ayeni wanted her out of his house after her money was used to rent the apartment in which they both lived, and impregnating her. Delivering his judgment, the presiding judge said since both agreed that the child was theirs, then, Ayeni should take the responsibility of the child’s upkeep. In addition, he was asked to get another rented apartment for Moyosore, for peace to reign.

Canada To Deport Nigerian Conman

A Nigerian immigrant, who pulled off an elaborate e-mail scam that cost a retired Winnipeg doctor more than $35,000, has been denied release back into the community while he awaits deportation.

Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi, 37, told the Federal Immigration and Refugee Board, Tuesday, that he wants to return to Toronto to spend time with his sisters and close down his trucking business before Canadian authorities ship him home.

He has just been granted parole after serving part of a 30-month sentence he received last year. Owolabi’s bid was rejected after the board ruled he posed a serious “flight risk” and would likely disappear if granted his freedom. He will remain in custody until his flight back to Nigeria can be arranged, which is expected to happen in the first week of March.

Owolabi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, for his role in the international con, which was uncovered in 2007, following an undercover Winnipeg police operation. A retired Winnipeg doctor was duped into thinking he was in line to inherit more than $1 million, which he planned to donate to Third World countries in their ongoing battle against the deadly malaria. In fact, the 84-year-old man was the victim of a common hoax that rarely leads to arrest.

The victim — a world-renowned expert on malaria, who has done extensive work with the World Health Organization — was contacted with an offer that must have appeared too good to be true. The mysterious e-mailer said he would be in line for a massive inheritance if he wired more than $35,000 to a bank in Ghana, Africa. The senior complied — moving money from a Swiss bank account he owned — and was expecting a windfall in return.

The victim called police after he was asked for more money, and Owolabi was arrested after he flew to Winnipeg from Toronto to meet the victim and collect another payment of $7,800.