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She was in jail for such a long time. She was usually the first person that was visited anytime a dignitary (chief judge, governor's wife, NGO leader) visited Kirikiri to release prisoners or deliver relief materials.

The scandal was such a shock to me, because Oyakhilome was one of the policemen that I had a high regard for.

Before her there was Iyabo Olorunkoya and the famous/infamous Gloria Okon.

Blazinraj01:
I recently downloaded their song; Orere Elejigbo. Cool song I must say.

Do you know anywhere that I can download any of the Sunshine Sisters' songs?

Ishilove:
They don't know I exist but I was touched to my bone marrows

So the deaths of your cousin and aunt did not "touch" you?

naptu2:
I will actually cry the day this woman dies.

Duet with the queen of soul.

George Michael and Aretha Franklin - Knew You Were Waiting For Me (1987).




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxzQJaA228

Ishilove:
I did not cry when my cousin and aunt died, will I now cry when a woman who doesn't know I exist dies?

Ishilove:
Lmao! You're trolling me, shey?

Ishilove:
I did not cry when my cousin and aunt died, will I now cry when a woman who doesn't know I exist dies?

The characters in those movies do not know that you exist.

Ishilove:
So I wasn't the only one??

Three Idiots- When Ranchoddas' father finally accepted his son's career path. Gosh I cried like a baby.

Igodo- When Izu (?), the second to the last man standing died just a few meters to the promise land. The movie got me depressed for days on end.

Why are you crying for people that you don't know?

Otodo Gbame

verygudbadguy:
Lovely.. Our love for our mothers can not be overemphasized. They deserve every bit of it.

Both parents should share the love though... It took two to make us... Don't mind me ooo.

#JealousyDeyWorryMe

BTW, i like Ahmed Musa's concept. He used all his jerseys from different team to construct the dinning chairs. Watch how Nigerians will imitate that concept sharply

He's not the first. Obafemi Martins and others have done it before.

Obafemi Martins' dining chairs (2013 thread).
https://www.nairaland.com/1357480/obafemi-martins-uses-all-club

https://www.nairaland.com/2782400/checkout-fabulous-life-obafemi-martins

Once upon a time, there was a concrete slab in front of a barracks and for 80 years there were always four soldiers guarding it.

Then one day, a new commander was appointed to superintend over the barracks. He noticed that there were always four soldiers guarding this concrete slab and he asked them why they were guarding it. None of them knew why. In fact, none of the soldiers in the barracks knew why the stone was always guarded. It had just been so for 80 years.

Bent on finding why this was the case, the new commander went into the archives and he eventually found out the reason.

A previous commander had wanted to build a new platform on which events could be held. The concrete slab was supposed to be part of the platform. However, wild animals often walked on the slab before the concrete could get dry, thereby messing up their work. Therefore, the commander ordered that four soldiers should guard the slab every night for three weeks until the job was completed.

However, the commander was transfered after the first week and every other commander that has been appointed has continued the tradition for 80 years without knowing why.

Guarding the concrete slab

Answers

The common denominator here, is the tv show Morning Ride.


1) Woman with Onyeka Onwenu in the second photograph and with Femi Segun in the third photograph.

Pamela Mojekwu was the most famous fitness trainer in Nigeria in the 1980s and early 1990s. She had her own tv show on Lagos Television, an exercise segment on Morning Ride (on NTA2 Channel 5) and columns in Vanguard Newspaper, Lagos Weekend newspaper and many magazines.

She also owned an exercise studio called The Bodyshop. Its headquarters was in Ilupeju, with branches at Surulere and Festac. Stars like Onyeka Onwenu, were regular customers at The Bodyshop.

She had a little daughter that suffered from sickle-cell disease. The daughter used to appear in some of her exercise sessions on Morning Ride, performing exercises for children and sicklers (the daughter was around 7 or 8 years old at that time).

She and her assistant (the karate instructor at The Bodyshop) also appeared in a Vitamalt advert.

She left Morning Ride in the mid-1990s, in order to take care of her daughter (in fact, she practically vanished from the scene).

Pamela Mojekwu moved to the US in the early 2000s, partly in order to get treatment for her daughter. She was involved in a car accident in 2009, in which her (now grown up) daughter died.

The City of Chicago charged her with vehicular homicide. The court found her guilty of vehicular homicide and she was jailed.

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2) Man in the first photograph

Danladi Bako created Morning Ride in 1988. He was the host of the show from 1988-1992.

It was the best breakfast show on Nigerian tv at that time. Participants at all the weekend's entertainment and social events usually appeared on Morning Ride to promote their shows.

Contestants in Miss Intercontinental, Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria, Miss Nigeria and other such beauty pageants usually appeared on Morning Ride the morning before the show. I predicted that Miss Jamaica (Sandra Foster) would win the 1989 Miss Intercontinental pageant after seeing her on Morning Ride with Danladi Bako.

Foreign and Nigerian music stars usually appeared on Morning Ride before performing at concerts in Lagos. Musicians also appeared on Morning Ride while trying to promote their latest album. They also had reports from Super Eagles training camps (before any important match), clips of the latest society wedding, etc.

Danladi Bako also created Master Sports (a popular sports programme on NTA2 Channel 5) in 1991. Master Sports had the best sports presenters at that time (Paul Bassey, Chris Eseka, Mitchel Obi and Sam John). He was the first producer of the show and he often appeared as a guest (another regular guest was Mumini Alao).

President Obasanjo appointed him as the director general of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in 1999 and he resigned in 2002 to go into politics.

He was turbanned as the Kogunan Sokoto by the late Sultan of Sokoto in 2001.

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3)Woman in fourth picture
Tina Onwudiwe had two massive hits in Nigeria in the early 1990s: Black On Black (Asiko Lo Laiye) and a remake of Bob Marley's Turn Your Lights Down Low.

Miss Onwudiwe was also a stylist/fashion designer and she designed most of the costumes that were used in her videos (and some of the costumes that were used in Charlie Boy's videos).

She was nicknamed African Oyinbo because she had a Nigerian father and a British mother.

She brought Charlie Boy to Lagos in the early 1980s, helped him to get a record deal, paid his house rent for two years and helped him to develop his image.

She died of lung cancer in Johannesburg in 2001. Several Nigerian musicians, especially Charlie Boy and Onyeka Onwenu, tried to raise funds for her treatment when a magazine published an article about her battle with cancer. They staged a concert called Time Out For Tyna.

4) Man with Pamela Mojekwu in third picture and Tyna Onwudiwe in fourth picture

Femi Segun was a polyglot. He studied modern European languages at the University of Ife and he spoke English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and a host of other languages. He worked as an interpreter/protocol officer at the Presidency/CVU from 1983-1990.

He was the third host of Morning Ride (after Danladi Bako and Okojie). He hosted the show from the early 1990s to the late 1990s. The two pictures above were taken on the set of the show.

He was Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti's husband (and therefore, Fela's son-in-law). There are rumours about why they divorced, but I won't go into that here.

He was killed in a sports bike accident on Admiralty Way, Lekki in 2014.

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I believe that everybody can recognise Onyeka Onwenu (carrying the dumbbells in the second photograph). I don't need to introduce her.

She has appeared on Morning Ride many times. I remember one particular occasion, when she appeared with King Sunny Ade to promote their songs about family planning ( "Choices" and "Wait For Me" ) in 1990. Danladi Bako was interviewing them and they were responding to his questions, when an air force officer sitting near me exclaimed, "Wow!" He was shocked because he didn't know that King Sunny Ade could speak proper English. He kept on exclaiming throughout that segment, "Wow! You don't mean it! This is Sunny!".

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Princess 'Deun Adedoyin-Solarin was probably the youngest presenter on Nigerian television in the late 1970s, when she started presenting programmes on the NBC (NTA) at the age of 17.

She co-hosted Morning Ride in the mid-1990s and she currently has her own show, Princess Arise on Ben Tv.

hahn:
Naptu abeg do you have any clips of Tina Onwudiwe? I used to watch her growing up and there is this song she sang and part of the lyrics goes "brothers killing brother, children fighting wars" etc

I always sing it to my wife but will love to have her listen to the song herself

How many years since Africa's been free?
Take a look around and tell me what do you see?
Brothers killing brothers, children fighting wars,
Starvation and poverty still knocking on our doors

Tina Onwudiwe - Black On Black (Asiko Lo Laiye).

Unforunately I don't have a video clip of the song.

Afam4eva:
I can see Onyeka Onwenu, Christy Essien Igbokwe and Tina Onwudiwe who died of cancer many years ago.

Two out of three.

MuttleyLaff:
1) Chris Oyakhilome Lady on right looks familiar, but her name eludes me, looks and maybe Princess Deun Arize Adedoyin-Solarin
2) Onyeka Onwenu on the right
3) [s]Lady on left looks familiar, but her name eludes me, looks and maybe Clarion Chukwura[/s]
4) [s]Lady on right looks familiar, but her name eludes me, looks and maybe Ibinabo Fiberesima[/s]

Good try.

Ishilove:
I know the answers

Can you identify the man in the first picture?

Can you identify the 6 people in these photographs?

1) https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/17522597_1877763115814320_5082317711083762609_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=2c9c8bdd0863f88d823b0837d958d1e1&oe=595BC14D


2)
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/17499336_1877764135814218_4061834849794164947_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=00d616054bee4567002c16129c70ae5d&oe=595828C9


3)
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/17498573_1877763515814280_5391916941079778960_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=04e2e188d39fc39b1cd8d94f44eab00a&oe=596BCB1C


4) https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/17457355_1877763019147663_8145270731774132691_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=6725265fae5c490ec1af986138d99bc9&oe=595DBCA0