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It was a convivial atmosphere at the Harbour Point venue of the "Symphony of Praise and Thanksgiving," as thousands of well wishers gathered for the reception of Reverend Ada Ugo-Ngadi, who was on August 22, 2021, ordained Priest of the Methodist Church Nigeria.
The hall was filled to capacity, as popular gospel artistes like Mercy Chinwo, Chioma Jesus and Sammy Okposo, among others, thrilled the audience with good music.

The Rev. Ugo-Ngadi, an astute business woman and quintessential player in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, was on August 22, 2021 ordained into the Priesthood of the Methodist Church Nigeria in a ceremony officiated by the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Dr.Samuel Kanu Uche, at the Hoares Memorial Cathedral Herbert Macaulay Way Yaba Lagos.

The celebrant is known by many as an experienced business leader and silent philanthropist.

Interaction with guests at the event revealed that Rev. Ada has for years, had widows,recovering drug addicts,and all kinds of indigent persons on her monthly payroll as a way of giving back to the society and service to God.

Our correspondent further hinted that she is investing in medical facilities, rehabilitation centres and feeding programmes in different locations.

On why her philanthropic activities are rarely heard or reported in the media,a close associate responded that she does not want to be known or seen as doing these things and wants God to take all the glory.

Speaker after speaker extoled the virtues of the newly ordained priest of the Methodist Church, Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi, saying her ordination was long overdue and that she was deserving of the new religious office.

One of the attendees narrated how Reverend Adaoha helped sponsor church building projects and several evangelistic outreaches, irrespective of denomination. “She deserves this ordination because she loves God and always supports the work of God,” the attendee said.

For The Reverend Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi, it is the dawning of a new era in which the support of family and friends will be deemed indispensable. How much of that support she is able to access in her life-long priesthood journey is left to be seen, in an era of increasing religious mediocrity and pastoral rascality.

An observer noted that the celebrant being a woman of repute, her investiture was symbolic, especially in an era where religious titles are bastardised and used as mere decorative veneers. "The onus now lies on The Reverend Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi to prove skeptics wrong by being a true reflection of the new office with which she has been trusted," the source said.

It promises to be all fun and excitement as a leading
entertainment company in Nigeria, Smile Global
Entertainment kicks off the second edition of her Lagos dance concert with millions of naira up for grabs.

The competition, which is arguably Lagos biggest dance concert ever has opened its entry from 15th of July to August 15th.

According to the organisers, for the 2019 edition, all the contestants need to do is to upload a one minute video of their dance moves and upload on Instagram, tagging @Lagosdanceconcert, @smileglobal1 and the YouTube handle smileglobaltv.

In addition, the video will be also be uploaded on YouTube page and their fans would be asked to subscribe and vote via the YouTube channel. That is the process of registration. After that, contestants who made it to the next level would be announced and contacted.

In a press release made available to artmatazz.com,
Executive producer of Lagos dance concert and CEO Smile global entertainment, Mr. Brown W. Chinedu said: "It is an event that starts with audition of dances from the street and we intend rewarding the winners N500, 000 N300,000 and N200,000 respectively. It is a dance concert that infuse culture, tradition, contemporary, Hip-Hop and all aspect of dance moves.

Groups and individual dancers whose aim is to promote dance as a culture in Nigeria can join the contest. We have over-emphasised or paid attention to music artists, comedian, movie, but nobody is paying attention to dance. That is why we came up with this idea to dance in the commercial light. We have serial of dancers who are there, but people don't know them."

He continued: "It is an avenue to put dancers on the
spotlight, so that people can celebrate dance as a means of art because there are people who went to study dance in University level. It is not all about those that shake their butt in a video recording or vixens. No! But people who go to school to study dance. We also want parents to encourage their children to see dance as a career and a system of art. That is why we are putting this together. Basically to promote young dancers and also sell out the already made dancers."

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By Christian Agadibe


Hundreds of desperate and starving persons in Lagos have come to depend on the non-governmental organisation, The Candlelight Foundation, for free meals weekly to reduce hunger and boost nutrition in the face of harsh economic realities in which many families are unsure of their next meal.

The NGO, despite recording a steady increase in the number of its dependants as a non-profit soup kitchen, has forged on in its commitment to bringing succour to destitute Nigerians. 

In line with its mandate, The Candlelight Foundation has finalized plans to organise a ‘Walk Against Hunger’ and will seek donations to save lives. The kind gesture established by the Candlelight Foundation is supported by Providus Bank, FBN Mortgages, Indomie Noodles among others. 

The events are part of broader humanitarian projects that include the “Football Over Hunger” match between Fintech companies that are Pagatech and Fint and “Walk Against Hunger” and other initiatives of the NGO to raise funds and sustain the cause and get government’s backing.

Commenting on this year’s projects, the executive director of the Candlelight Foundation, Uzoamaka Okeke, said: “We are working on two projects at the moment. The Football over Hunger match and our annual Walk Against Hunger. The football match is between two organisations in the Fintech industry: FINT and Pagatech on 19th of April. 

“It is a novelty match to raise funds for our cause as well as a team-bonding opportunity for each organisation and an opportunity to be part of a great cause. The walk against hunger will be held on May 4th this year and will congregate at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

“It is another great opportunity to raise awareness of the hunger emergency in our country and band the public together to fight it.” 

Highlighting the focus of the NGO, Okeke stressed that, “The beneficiaries of our projects are always the less advantaged in our society. We provide free meals and adult education to the needy as well as get young kids off the street and put them back in school.” 

On their achievement since inception of Candlelight Foundation, Okeke explained that there are many accomplishments: “We have been able to provide over 50,000 meals to the needy and give people jobs. Our adult education classes currently have more than 50 men and women in attendance. We have been able to educate on hygiene, and given over 100 men free haircuts and shaves. 

“We give out clothes and shoes regularly. Our centre in Surulere, Lagos, has shower facilities where they bathe for free. They also come and wash their clothes for free without fear of theft. We have been able to provide a non-judgemental place where they can come and talk, rest weary legs, take shelter from the sun and rain; we have provided a place where they can receive hope.” 

Asked what the Candlelight aims to achieve at the long run by setting up a non-profit soup kitchen, Okeke stated that: “Unless you have a heart of stone, just step outside your home and you will see the need. We started it because there was a need for it. Our aim is to affect the thinking capacity of every Nigerian by providing the basic nutrition one needs to be effective in society. 

“A hungry man cannot apply for a job nor sit for an interview. A hungry man will eventually become a nuisance when he has so much potential inside of him.” 

She also disclosed the factors that have made the NGO unique and outstanding. “There are so many NGOs out there doing great things. The Candlelight has found itself catering mostly but not exclusively to the less advantaged men in our society. These men are both socially and biblically head of household, but with little or no tools to function properly in that role, one can only wonder what kind of role model such a man is to his wife and kids.” 

The Candlelight director also opened up on the challenges of running a non-profit soup kitchen in Nigeria: “One of the major challenges to fundraising is the awareness of who we are and what we do. We are trying to get the word out and let people know we exist and that they could possibly save a life with just N200. 

“It costs only N200 to feed one person and give them hope that tomorrow could be better. I think the economy also has a role in the challenges to fundraising. It was quite a tight year in 2018. Somehow, I just believe this year would be much better. I am moved by the plight of the poor and I want to care for as many as I can reach. Please kindly follow us on @thecandlelightng on IG and Facebook…Website: www.thecandlelightng.com

“It is not an easy road. There is quite some backlash, but it is a road I have chosen and must see through, not to prove anything to anyone but because it is a noble cause; a cause I would gladly champion.”

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We live in a world where politics has replaced philosophy,
where the bedrock of looting has become the attitude of
selfishness. A world where nations are ruined when
politicians think for themselves first before thinking
about anyone else without considering the effect it will
have on society.

This seems to be the perfect description of the eastern
heartland, as Information reaching our news desk has it
on reliable ground that the leagues of looters parading
themselves as people’s representatives who in August last
year assembled and held a meeting in other to loot Public
funds which were made available for the establishment of
ICT centers in their various LGAs as part of their
constituency project are none other than the honorable
members of Imo state house of assembly.

SecretReporters gathered that these unworthy honorable
members went further to sign off the money for the
execution of the contract through their preferred
contractors as a report has it that apart from few of the
lawmakers most of them do not even have building plans
talk less of having a project in the phase of completion.
Even those that managed to complete theirs did not equip
it. Apparently, boasting of an ICT center without
computers

It was further revealed that more than N20million was
actually paid to each of them to proceed with the project
with regards to the undertaking which they signed
through the speaker RT. Hon. DR. Acho Ihim over the
constituency projects embarked upon by the 8th
Assembly of the government of Imo state.
It was also alleged that these looting disciples out of
greed and as a means to enrich their wormhole pockets
also signed to supervise and ensure the handover of the
projects to Imo state government by the contractors
billed to execute the constituency projects in their various
LGAs.

Documents in our possession also revealed that in a
cunning move by Rt. Hon. Acho to portray due process
and accountability by ensuring effective supervision and
timely completion of the projects by the contractors as
specified, the speaker of the house mandated that the
project was to be completed on or before the 31st of
August, 2016, as failure to supervise and ensure
completion of the project by each house member was to
attract a deduction of an amount of money from their
monthly earnings which till date has turned into a fairy
tale.
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About two years ago, the General Overseer of the Mountain of Miracles and Liberation Ministries, Dr. Chris Okafor was rumored to have purchased a private jet. According to one Mr. Brown, a freelance blogger who broke the news at the time, the information was leaked by a member of the church. The church did not officially issue a statement but a trusted source who is very close to the Liberation City General overseer waved it off as a “rudderless rumor”. But on December 27, 2018 what the source referred to as “rudderless rumor” suddenly crystallized into a verifiable reality.

Posting recent pictures and even video evidences, a source who would not like to be named insisted the man of God has actually just acquired a new jet.

The controversial man of God who is known worldwide for his daring and accurate prophecies is no stranger to rumors and allegations. However, he has not responded to the latest allusions.

If found to be true, Dr. Okafor will Join the growing list of Nigeria’s mega pastors whose ministries have been graced with luxurious jets. The man of God who once boasted that he had never touched his church money for personal use will eventually have to explain if the his latest acquisition was purchased with church money or received as a gift from partners and or well wishers.

Dr. Okafor is one of the most travelled preacher out of Nigeria, reaching nearing 200 international locations yearly for his worldwide prophetic crusades known as Chris Okafor World Outreach.

By Christian Agadibe

African Women in leadership Organisations Lagos Chapter Partnering Afriglobal Medicare Services ltd, Small Christian Community and CCR of Regina Pacis Church Lekki empowers Over two hundred Members of the Community in Eti Osa Local Government area of Lagos State.The Multifaceted Empowerment Outreach was carried out through Skills and Entrepreneurship trianings,Preventive Medical Care and Wellness Counselling,Technical Workshops and Financial Support for select Members of the Communities who will be receiving the packages in later dates after satisfying the criterias.

The Event which held in the Premises of the Church on Saturday 17th of November for the whole day saw to a free medical screening of over One hundred and fifty Members of the Community with free Wellness Counselling .

Over two hundred Individuals participated in the syndicate trianings facilitated by Team from Lagos Business School and Lead Consultants from various fields of endeavour (Technical and Business). Trianing TEAM from Network for Women and Public Policy NETWAPP were also on ground.

Areas covered includes Entrepreneurship ,Information and Communication Technology,Marketing Communications,Value Chain Management and Opportunities in Agriculture ,Web Design and Development,Graphics Design StoryTelling ,Commercialisation of Skills , Solar Technology and Installation,Catering and Hotel Management.

Skills Acquisition and Workshops were equally inculcated in the trianings as other participants were also drilled in Aluminium Fabrication and Designs by a TEAM From Lagos State Skills Acquisition Center Mushin.

The Community Service Outreach in AWLO is one of the requisite roles of state Chapters of the Organisation to connect with their host Communities as an extension of the Organisations' CSR in their Leadership Development Works across Continents.

This year focused on Preventive Madical care,Vocational /Skills and Entrepreneurship Trianings,Technology Education,Networking etc.

According to the Lagos Chapter Cordinator of AWLO Mrs Maureen Omeibe ,who is also the Global Dean of Coordinators, the Leadership Development Programme of AWLO is Wholistic and it tries to Connect the Membership to the relevance of Service in the discharge of Leadership duties across shares of human endeavour.

The one full day event that is executed Under the Plartform of their Project GCEP ( Grassroot Connect Empowerment Project ) due to its Community Outlook was the first one since the Official Launch of the Project in 2017.

Going Further Mrs Omeibe ,Who is also the Founder of Network for Women and Public Policy and an Executive Director in a Sub Automobile Company Degab Industries Limited,emphasised the need for members of the Community who aspire to be leaders in their line of endeavours to acquire additional skills,tailored and cutting edge trianings to boost Confidence,knowledge and proficiency for increased productivity.It is all about Continuous Learning and Improvement in what ever environment we find our selves she said.She is Calling on groups,Organisations or individuals who possess the requisite Capacity to bank on these nature of programmes to support the government in optimising the economic Output and productivity of citizens at that level.This she says is why NETWAPP collaborated in the Event.

Addressing the Participants she noted that the Objective of the Outreach in addition to the welfare provision is to bring a message of Service in Leadership and capacity building home to the Members of the Community through trianings and exposure to the various hidden Opportunities in the environment available to them for exploitation.

She went ahead to express her expectation that the participants will make use of the garnered knowledge and psychological empowerment to gain further independence in establishing and running small scale enterprises or skill shops.

No participant is expected to remain idle after the trianing hence opportunities for advance trianings and financial Support is provided all in Partnership with the Small Christian Community and CCR of Regina Pacis Lekki.

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Talented actor, Pope Stan along with Mercy Johnson wowed many fans with the movie entitled, ‘Oma my wife’ as the new film garner heavy traffic on you YouTube with over 234k views.

In a statement made available to artmatazz.com, Pope said: “The gripping movie presents us with the themes of wickedness betrayal and jealousy. What can never be yours can never be yours. Sometimes what we want so badly could be meant for somebody else; wisdom and understanding is the way to a better life. Do not take the path which the gods did not destine for you it will lead to adversity.


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Talented actor, Pope Stan along with Mercy Johnson wowed many fans with the movie entitled, ‘Oma my wife’ as the new film garner heavy traffic on you YouTube with over 234k views.

In a statement made available to artmatazz.com, Pope said: “The gripping movie presents us with the themes of wickedness betrayal and jealousy. What can never be yours can never be yours. Sometimes what we want so badly could be meant for somebody else; wisdom and understanding is the way to a better life. Do not take the path which the gods did not destine for you it will lead to adversity.


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Ghanaian actor John Dumelo has stated that he would rather give his tithe to the needy rather than drop it at the church, Yen Ghana reports.
According to him, his decision is borne out of the fact that the needy “need it more” than the church does. Tithing is one of the most controversial topics among Christians in the 21 Century, as many disagree on how it should be given.

In fact, there are even some churches that do not believe in the process of tithing and insist on not paying their tithes.

John Dumelo has opted to better the lives of needy people; something that can invariably change the world we live in.
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Dumelo, though, appears to believe in tithing, but says he often gives his to the needy rather than to the church.
In a Twitter post, which he has since deleted, the star actor said he doesn’t know if his actions are wrong, but believes the needy need such monies more than the church.

“I give my tithe to the needy most of the time. I think they need it more than the ‘church’. I don’t know if it’s wrong,” he wrote.
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A woman is calling for a change of law than allows people to be legally married to more than one person at a time
Mary Crumpton is a practiser of polyamory – meaning she believes in having more than one partner.
Mary Crumpton made a lifetime commitment to John Hulls earlier this year in a special ceremony.
People who are polyamorous consent to their partner’s being in a relationship with somebody else.
Naturally Mary’s husband Tim Crumpton gave her his blessing to be married and even walked Mary down the aisle of the special blessing ceremony.
Mary lives with Tim and John under the same roof in Chorlton, Manchester and is in equally committed and loving relationships with both of them.
What’s more Mary also has two boyfriends who live nearby and if any of her partners wanted to start seeing another woman at the same time, she’d be happy for them.
Although Mary is married to both Tim and John, it’s only her commitment to Tim which is legally recognised.
Mary’s situation has spurred her to try and change the law and she it now is getting ready to lobby for new marriage rules.
‘John was already living with me and Tim before John and I had our ceremony,’ explains Mary, 45.
‘He moved in with us in 2015 so we’d already got into a stable and happy domestic situation, so it’s not changed anything practically, but it has changed things emotionally for me.
‘It’s lovely to be able to feel that I’ve made that commitment to John, so that he’s not ‘in second place’ any more.
‘We got to the point where John and I both felt that we wanted to make that lifetime commitment, but obviously in this country you can’t marry more than one person.
‘Tim was fully supportive of mine and John’s commitment to one another.’ Mary and John’s ceremony took place at Chorlton Unitarian Church. They made vows to each other, and Tim and John made extra vows, promising to honour and respect Mary’s commitment to the other man.
‘The church is very forward thinking, they were the first to do homosexual marriages and civil partnerships so they are very inclusive and respectful of diversity,’ says Mary.
‘I went to the church and said that I’d like to have a wedding with John. I told them I knew it wouldn’t be a legal wedding, but I wanted it to be a wedding in every other respect.
‘They ran it by the committee and everyone was fully supportive.
‘That’s quite an amazing thing because as far as I know, it’s the first polyamorous wedding ceremony that’s happened in a church in the UK.
‘People have had handfastings in fields, but an actual church saying yes we will do this for the first time, we’ve made history and I’m proud of that.
I hope that other churches will follow on.
‘The way we did it, with the help of a minister, Laura Dobson, we structured a service, with a walk down the aisle, the white dress.
‘There wasn’t a dry eye in the house! Everyone was really moved by the whole thing.
‘We kept a lot of the things that are in a normal service, we kept all those normal wordings in – we promised lifetime commitment. Clearly we weren’t going to say excluding others because I’m married to Tim as well!
‘It was lovely, having all the family there and everybody being so supportive. There were lots of people who’d never seen anything like this before and got used to it through seeing it happen, coming up afterwards saying: ‘Mary that was amazing, I didn’t get it before but I can see that it’s really working for you’ so that was lovely.
‘Since then everything has been great. Tim and John get on great, they’ll go off on bicycle rides together – they joke that I’m a bit of a wild one and it takes two of them to keep me in line!’

Mary is keen to push for change to marriage laws so John has the same legal rights as Tim, who she married in 2013.
‘In our hearts, he is my second husband, I have two husbands, but clearly legally, Tim’s the only one,’ says Mary.
‘There are plenty of people in my situation who have more than one partner they would like to commit to for life, be it same sex or different sex, and we’ve got a lot of Muslims in our country now and I don’t quite know how it works if they bring their wives here, maybe they have to pick one to be their legal wife, and I don’t think that’s fair.
‘I think that I want to have a country where we respect people’s choices, in terms of their relationships and if that means that a Muslim man wants to marry three women and have those women respected in law as his wives, he should be able to do so.
‘And if I want to have two husbands, then I’d like that to be respected in law as well, and I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be.
‘At the moment, because I’m not legally married to John as well as to Tim, if I was knocked down by a bus tomorrow and was in hospital, Tim would be my next of kin and gets to make all the decisions and John would not be recognised.
‘Clearly Tim and John are close and therefore of course Tim would consult John, but if they disagreed about a decision, what would happen then?
John’s rights are not respected. ‘Other things like, if I die and I haven’t made a will, everything would go to Tim and John would get nothing. I have to make a will to make sure everything gets split between them.
‘But if I’d been able to legally marry John as well as Tim, then I wouldn’t have to go that extra mile, it would just be automatic.
‘There’s things like that, where John has no legal rights because I can’t marry him legally and that upsets me, and there are a lot of people in the country that this affects, who are in a similar situation, who are having to do work-arounds to make sure that any partner they are not married to get fully respected.
‘I would really like to see a change in the law. We’ve done marriage for people in homosexual relationships, this is the next thing that needs to happen.
‘I think there needs to be a big campaign, people need to write to their
MPs, get the issue raised in parliament and go from there really.
‘That’s my target for next year, do some research and get as many people on board as possible to make it happen.
‘There’s lots of people who aren’t polyamorous but know people who are, and I’ve said this to them and they say absolutely, quite right, you should have your other relationship respected and legalised, that’s perfectly reasonable.
‘I think there’s lots of people from the Muslim community who would be in favour as well. I think the next thing is put together a team of people and try to take the campaign forward.
‘The first thing was lets talk about it, lets get other people talking about it and get it more accepted and less judged, and go from there. So watch this space.’
Mary says there are more people living in polyamorous relationships in the UK than people might realise.
‘There are lots of people living like this, there’s a UK poly group, there’s a Manchester poly meet-up group, people get together. They have confidentiality rules because a lot of people haven’t told their families or workplaces.
‘When I first started looking into it I thought there wouldn’t be anybody, but there’s loads of people.
‘The Manchester polyamorous community is quite big, they have meet ups a couple of times a month, there’s a lot more people living this way than you would imagine.
‘You could have a married couple next door, and you think they are going out with a friend but actually it’s their partner, because they are discreet about it.’
Since Mary last spoke out about polyamory, Tim has started seeing someone, but far from being jealous, Mary says she is pleased that her husband is happy, and would give her blessing to any of her partners if they wanted to pursue relationships with more women.
‘They are very welcome to (have other relationships). My husband Tim has recently started seeing a new lady, and that’s going really well,’ says Mary.
‘They’ve all been on dates occasionally but not really developed any relationships particularly.
‘This is the first time Tim has formed a bond with someone, so hopefully this one will pan out. I’m very, very pleased for him. It’s very exciting.
‘I think jealousy arises because of fear of losing somebody.
‘My relationship with Tim is so good, and I know that we love each other so much that I don’t feel in the slightest bit threatened by him falling in love with someone else.
‘I know it’s not going to affect him and me at all. Knowing that, I can just sit back and be really pleased for him that he has some extra happiness in his life.
‘It’s no different to if he’d joined a darts team and was suddenly going out every week to play darts, I’d be pleased he had a new interest.
‘I see him having a new partner as the same thing, I’m pleased he’s got something new in his life, bringing him some joy.
‘I know the person and she’s lovely so I could not be happier, I’m really happy to finally see him having that as well.

‘I’ve had the joy of being in love with more than one person and he’d been open to it but it hadn’t really happened, so to see him exploring that is just great.
‘People are used to the idea of you having a second child, if you have a second child it doesn’t mean you love the first one any less so people understand that love is not a limited resource.
‘I just say, romantic love works the same way as that kind of love, I can love more than one person at the same time, actually, a lot of people can.
‘A lot of people have been in that situation of being in a relationship with one partner and loving someone else, and they either pretend that they haven’t got those feelings, or they have an affair, neither of which are great outcomes.
‘A lot of people do understand is that it is possible to love more than one person, the only difference is people in my situation talk about it and find a way to make it work.’
As for whether or not she’d consider another relationship herself in future, Mary is thinking practically.
‘Even though I say love is not a limited resource, time is. There are only seven days in a week, to try to have more partners than that would be a challenge,’ she says.
‘I suppose if you had a partner who was long distance, who you only saw once a month then maybe.
‘I always say never say never. If Prince Charming walks in tomorrow and I fall in love with him I’ll just have to find a way round that.
‘I do know people who are in polyamorous relationships who have six or seven partners, but that’s generally partners who are not all living together, because time is an issue.
‘For me it’s really important that I am giving quality time to everybody I’m involved with.
‘If you have too many partners, to my mind, for me, I would find it difficult to do justice to the relationships so it’s about having that balance of allowing love to blossom and flourish where you find it, but equally being sensible about how much time you have got, how much you can commit to.’
Mary wants to carry on being open about polyamory, as she feels many people still don’t really understand what it’s all about.
‘I’ve been called a slag. People would find out and say: ‘Oh, you’ve got two men, that’s disgusting and perverted’ so I can understand why people feel they have to hide it,’ says Mary.
‘I thought someone needs to stand up and say ‘this is how some of us live, and it’s okay’.
‘I knew there would be some backlash, it has in some ways been a challenging thing to do but I felt someone had to do it.
‘A lot of people have the wrong idea about it, they think it’s all leaping into bed with people, sleeping around.
‘There are some people who do that, there’s a whole community of swingers, and that’s what some people do and there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s fine, it’s just not me.
‘It’s about love. Although I have more than one partner, I am quite old fashioned, I don’t just go straight in with people, I have to know that I am in love with someone before I am fully intimate.
‘That’s something people didn’t understand, they thought: ‘Oh you just want to s**g around’. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not me.
‘I want genuine love and relationships with more than one person at a time.’
After she first spoke to the M.E.N about her lifestyle, Mary was overwhelmed by messages from people from the UK and beyond, after the story was picked up by the international media.
Most of them thanked her for speaking out, as it enabled them to tell their families and friends that they are also polyamorous.
But it did not come without its downsides, with Mary even receiving death threats from people who did not agree with her lifestyle.

‘It was a bit mad, I got so many messages, literally hundreds of private messages on Facebook from people tracking me down,’ says Mary.
‘It was overwhelmingly positive, but there were some negative. I had death threats: ‘What you are doing is immoral and against God’s law, I’m going to come to your house and kill you.’
‘One guy even found out where I live, took a photo of my front door and sent it to me with a message saying: ‘I wasn’t joking, I’m going to kill you tonight.’
‘Before I had a chance to do anything about it, he deleted the account so it was untraceable. So yeah I put the chain on that night!
‘That’s one of the reasons I chose to speak out about it, because we live in a world where if someone is doing something a bit different, people are very judgemental.
‘But people used to be very judgemental about being homosexual, but now it’s so much accepted – people know that people fancy people of the same sex- and I think that’s where we need to get to with different relationship styles.
‘We need to get to a point where people just say: ‘Okay, you happen to be polyamorous, you’re monogamous, we’re all just living our lives and if people understand how it works, that’s the first step.
‘I got people from all over the world messaging saying thank you for speaking out, saying: ‘I showed this article to my dad then told him I was the same way.’
‘I think I managed to explain it quite well so people could see it’s not some weird, perverted cult. It just so happens that I love more than one person, and that’s okay.’
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Actress and model Kim Porter passed away on Thursday at the age of 47 after she was said to be battling the flu that turned into pneumonia.
And her ex and father to three of her children Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was absolutely ‘devastated’ upon learning the news.
According to a source for People, the 49-year-old rapper maintained a very positive relationship with Porter.
‘Diddy is devastated and shocked,’ said the source, ‘he and Kim were still very close friends and co-parents even though their romantic relationship didn’t work.

The source also added that Diddy believed that ‘they were still a family.’
TMZ report: ‘Diddy never stopped interacting with Kim, despite breaking up way back in 2007. Their connection went beyond the fact they were co-parenting three kids… they genuinely had love and affection for each other.
‘They celebrated holidays as a family, vacationed together and just hung out … and there was never an extended period where they were at odds with each other.

‘They never had a formal custody agreement. They accommodated each other’s schedules when it came to the kids — and it always worked.’
The model, actress and mother of four, including three children with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – was found dead in her home on Thursday.
The actress and model’s cause of death, however, has not yet been confirmed.

Kim’s close friend, Kimora Lee Simmons, 43, was seen sobbing outside the house as the body was removed by the coroner.
Simmons was beside herself as stood in the garage alongside other loved ones to Porter, who suddenly passed away Thursday after suffering flu-like symptoms and possibly pneumonia for several weeks, according to TMZ.

Celebrities also took to social media to express their condolences as Rihanna wrote on Instagram:
‘This is heavy. heartbroken about this man. we lost a real one today, beautiful inside and out. so many will be affected by this, some won’t even know why…but the whole world was graced by the vibrance in your spirit.’
‘R.I.P to Kim Porter, I send my condolences to her friends and family,’ wrote 50 Cent.
‘She was loved and will be missed dearly. I know Puff is hit right now, he loved her for real, soul mate type s**t. Chin up puff, Positive vibes only.’
Wendy Williams shared: ‘I just heard the sad news about Kim Porter. My condolences to Diddy and Kim’s families. Rest In Peace.’
‘Totally shocked. Kim Porter has left us. Too young. Nothing but memories of her, my lil bro and I goofing around in the lab with Al B. Heartfelt prayers/condolences to the family especially the kids. Sad,’ Tevin Campbell wrote.

Diddy’s representative confirmed Porter’s death and asked that the family be given ‘privacy at this time’.
Porter and Diddy dated for 13 years. They share three children together, twin girls Jessie James and D’Lila, 11, and 20-year-old son Christian.
The model and actress also had a son, Quincy, from her relationship with R&B producer Al B. Sure!.
Porter and Diddy were seen together just last month as their entire family came out to support the premiere of Quincy’s film The Holiday Calendar.
Porter was an accomplished model and actress, appearing on the covers of Runway and Essence Magazine.

She also made appearances on shows including Law & Order, as well as the films The Brothers and Mama, I Want To Sing.
Diddy first met Porter when he was an A&R executive in the early 1990s. It was love at first sight – at least for the future hitmaker.
Porter had been at the studio with her ex-boyfriend AI B. Sure when Diddy first laid eyes on her.
‘I wasn’t trying to holler at her or anything, but I was admiring her – her lips, her eyes, her mouth, her shape, her energy,’ Diddy told Essence in 2006.
All the rapper could think was ‘I wish I had a girl like that’.
Porter and Diddy were on and off for more than a decade, their dramatic splits and reconciliations frequently making national headlines in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Porter would go on to work as a receptionist at Uptown Records. By 1994, she and Diddy were a couple – and they were inseparable.
‘We went out together, we ate together, we played together,’ Porter told Essence during the same interview.
‘He would want me at the office. I would want him at my shoots. Our bond was so tight.’

Diddy, who hails from Harlem, was completely taken by how different Porter – a Columbus, Georgia native – seemed from the other girls he knew.
‘She wasn’t like a New York girl,’ he said. ‘She was Bohemian, mixed with Georgia-peach hospitality.’
‘I got the idea she’d like doing stuff like walking barefoot in the grass. I didn’t think I could get her to like me.’
‘She was smooth, you know, like ice. She’s cool and collected and thinks before she speaks. You meet a lot of young ladies, and they just don’t do that. Kim was never pressed. She was always in control.’

But shortly after the birth of the couple’s first son, news hit that Diddy was dating Jennifer Lopez. Suddenly Porter’s name was all over the press.
‘Everywhere I went, people were asking, “Are you okay?”‘, Porter recalled at the time.
‘They were talking to me like I was really crushed. But I just had a baby. I couldn’t be somewhere in a corner heartbroken. I have kids. I’m a grown woman.’

Porter kicked Combs out of the house they shared and he went on to date Lopez for two years.
It wasn’t until Combs faced the possibility of jail, after he was charged with bribery and weapons possession, that he won Porter back again.
‘I think the threat of losing his freedom forced him to grow up and take responsibility for his actions,’ she said.
The couple seemed stronger than ever after they got back together, with Diddy even declaring that Porter ‘completes me’ and that she was his ‘muse’.
But just seven months after their loved-up interview was published, Porter and Diddy had broken up yet again.
And, much like the first time around, the betrayal happened when Porter was pregnant – this time with the rapper’s twins.
Porter was informed by a friend that Diddy had another daughter on the way with another woman.

The baby – named Chance – was born five months before Porter’s daughters. Her mother was Sarah Chapman, a woman in Atlanta who worked in fashion.
Porter planned her break-up from Diddy for weeks, waiting until he was out of town before packing up the house.
She took the cars, the nursery, the furniture – even the kitchen table.
‘There was no other way,’ Porter told Essence in 2007. ‘You think he would have let me walk out the door?’
‘I wanted him to know I wasn’t breaking up with him for two weeks – or maybe leaving for two days. If I pack up everything – twins and all – it means I’m out!’
‘Puffy’s an action person, not a talk person. So I had to have an action. Telling him, “Babe, I’m leaving,” was not gonna do it.’
But the couple remained friends through the years, something Porter predicted from the beginning.
‘You know how when two people go their separate ways, most of the time there’s animosity? It’s not like that with us,’ she said soon after their break-up.
‘Sean and I have this bond, this friendship. I’m the person he can tell his inner most thoughts to and he’s that person for me. He still calls me every day and we talk.’

The former couple continued to make appearances at red carpets and parties together and Porter made appearances on Diddy’s show I Want to Work for Diddy, which aired from 2008 to 2010.
Diddy even gave Porter a shout out in one of his songs in 2010.
His lyrics – ‘What if the twins ask me why I ain’t marry their mom (why, damn!) / How do I respond? – raised eyebrows due to the song’s title ‘Coming Home’.

Diddy and Porter never rekindled their relationship, but he continued to shower her with love.
He took to Instagram to share a birthday tribute for Porter in 2015, writing: ‘We thank God for you! Love and be clear! She’s set 4 life! BE CLEAR! Thank you for my beautiful children

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FORMER Governor of Anambra State and Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Peter Obi has described as sheer fabrication, wicked and inhuman, the allegation being circulated by the opposition that he demolished mosques when he was governor of Anambra State; snubbed the Sultan, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III; drove the Hausa away from Anambra State and shunned the then Minister of Finance, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman’s attempt at mediation and did not visit schools in the North.

Responding to journalists’ questions at Southern Sun, Lagos yesterday, Obi regretted that rather than some political elites focusing on resolving the plight of several millions of Nigerians without livelihood, over 10 million of out-of-school children and many more of unemployed youths, they are busy engaged in emitting hate speeches and spreading concocted falsehoods in their desperation to be elected into public offices so that they will continue with impoverishing the nation and the generality of the people.

Obi said: “As a matter of fact, the mosque at Onitsha was destroyed before I became governor. Describing the allegation that he snubbed the Sultan of Sokoto who was in the State as ridiculous, Obi asserted that irresponsibility and disrespect for elders and leaders were not in his character. According to him, “The irony of this concoction is that I have been a friend of His Eminence, the Sultan right from my first year at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1980 through his tenure as Nigeria’s Defence Attaché in Pakistan till the present. “The fact is that the visit of his Eminence, during which I was alleged to have snubbed him was purely a courtesy call after which I personally accompanied him to see the Obi of Onitsha, Obi Alfred Achebe with whom he had a meeting. I also requested His Eminence to visit the Hausa community in the state during which I offered to rebuild and subsequently gave them the funds for that purpose.”

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A gang rape victim, who turned up for the Presidential Gender Based Violence Summit in South Africa, stripped naked to show President Cyril Ramaphosa a scar from the incident.

The gang rape victim, Ausi Phindile who had five surgeries around her abdomen after the incident, stripped naked to show President Rhamaphosa, her scars and also raise the alarm that women are abused, raped and murdered daily.
It was further gathered that during the event, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa will launch a national strategic plan to tackle gender-based violence (GBV), after years of lobbying by activists.

Ramaphosa was speaking at the Presidential GBV Summit Thursday, the latest in a string of meetings convened by Ramaphosa on significant issues facing the country such as health and unemployment.

“Our society is too tolerant of violence against women, often putting pressure on women to withdraw charges against the perpetrators,” he said

“We must raise boys and girls with the knowledge and understanding that no person has the right to treat them as inferior or to harm them in any way and that boys and girls are equal in all respects.”

Ramaphosa also said that government would consider establishing a national registry of protection orders to improve enforcement.

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Recently, British Prime Minister Theresa May stated that the world’s poorest people lived in Nigeria, and in order to ensure that this stops being our story, Nollywood star actress Ebube Nwagbo’s foundation has taken up the task to fight poverty and hunger by joining the Candlelight Foundation to provide free meals for 200 less privileged people in society.

The Nollywood diva who is set to launch her fashion line known as PoshedUp By Ebube Nwagbo, with a website, www.poshedupbyeb, visited the foundation and made a donation to feed 200 disadvantaged persons.

Speaking at the Candlelight Foundation, Ebube said: “We know, as Nigerians, what the society is all about regarding hunger and poverty. There are lots of people out there that don’t have anything to eat. They can't feed. They don't have anything to put in their stomach. So, I am asking everybody out there watching this right now, you can do this. No matter how little it is.

“Everybody across the world thinks Nigeria is so poor and hungry. In fact, they said we are the poorest people on earth. No, we are not! With people like you and I, no matter how little, we can erase that fact in the minds of people out there.

“We can do this, you can do this, I can do this, and together we can do this. Come, let us do this and make Nigeria great.”

The producer of the movie 'Not Enough' urged members of public to donate to the foundation to feed hungry and less destitute people.

In her words, “With as little as N1,000, you’ll be making a great change in the lives of these hungry people. So, come out and do something. One thousand naira might be little but it is a lot to somebody out there. So let us do this, it is a challenge.”

Leveraging on her star power, goodwill and fame, the visibly excited actress, in the televised visit to the Candlelight Foundation, urged viewers to give their widow’s mite and go the extra mile to help destitute people who might have given up all hope on account of poverty.

She said: “My name is Ebube Nwagbo and right now I'm at the Candlelight Foundation and it is amazing. I feel so fulfilled coming out here today and doing the little I can. I hope to be back; in fact, I will be back more often. Candlelight Foundation, thank you so much for doing this and I hope we can do better and bigger than this. God bless you. God bless your good heart and may God keep blessing and replenishing you.

“I am happy I'm here. Nice place and, obviously, the people out here are so happy. It's a lot doing something and putting a smile on someone's face and I'm glad I'm part of it.”

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I scored 193 in jamb nd scored 72 in d pume
, i didn't choose dem

Lasu gave me biz admin nd i didn't choose dem as my prefered uni.... So happy nd tnkful to GOD...

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