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In a twist of event (or call it a life coming at one fast), a lady who has been making fun of short brothers got married to a height impaired brother over the weekend. While it is weird to see someone get married to the type of people she mocks, people on the internet should realize that you shouldn't allow the opinion of others on social media to influence your life decisions.

Some people will write things just for fun, jokes or to get popular and you who dont know will think it is all fun and jump on it.

Source is Uncle Tosin Adeda
https://twitter.com/tosinadeda/status/917105737607925760

From Anambra

Kano: Just check out the TRUTH they brought to the trend. Please dont bash the livestyle of others, they are obviously happy with it.

No Hate, just respect

Love Trumps Hate

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Mynd44

Just when I thought my song of this month is Cardi B's Bodak Yellow, I stumbled on one that blew me out of the water.

"Ponmile" by Reminisce is great. The audio, cool and then I saw the video. I was enjoying it until it got to a point and I hated the song. I hated the song not because the song was not good and all but the video passes a subtle message that made my entire body revolt.

It featured Adekola Odunlade and Lota Chukwu, great acting by the two of them except for some flaws.

1. When he slapped her in 2:58, I am pretty sure he slapped her left cheek so why was she holding her right cheek? Oh well……maybe reverbration happened but the second issue is my main issue.

2. The song goes
"I love you no more, ko ma kin se'se ooooo (I love you no more is not a sin)
If you don't love me again, please let me know
Malo je kin ka e mo corner pele brother Samu (dont let it be that I find you cheating with some guy)
Olewu ooo; its very dangerous"

For a song that carried such words, I didnt expect it to have a domestic violence scene. Yeah yeah, he had a disclaimer in the end about how he doesnt believe in DV but isnt it weird that all through the song, the man was keeping in the madness his wife was throwing at him. He was keeping his demons chained until it got to the part where Reminisce said cheating for her will be dangerous.

You are in a country where domestic violence (especially against women) is high and you come out to do a video that subtly promotes it (the disclaimer doesnt do it please).

I told a friend that I will prefer if the video showed that the man imagined the entire domestic violence part and he just snapped out of it and decided to look at her and say "I need a divorce" not end where the man raise a machete, and changed his mind about killing her.

We know the man never actually proved that she was cheating just suspicions and he started acting weird which was what made the woman go psycho.

Before you go "but it is just a song; an artistic impression", please I have heard where peoole use songs to relate to their personal lives and musicians should try harder to make things better not make it look okay and then do a disclaimer.

Olamide's "Story for the gods" and the date rape all over the song is another source of concern but issue for another day.

By the way, here is a video of the song


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vDQQSvJf8

Have a great day


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Ishilove

The Jordanian King Abdulah II anniunced this during a meeting with Nigerian President Buhari. As seen in a press report by Femi Adesina thanking the Jordanian leader (see pictures below)

According to Papers gotten by Sahara Reporters, The Indigenous People Of Biafra has now been proscribed and declared a terrorist group according an Abuja court on the prayers of the Attorney general of the federation

https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/910544026239209472

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Amidst the lies, denials, counter denials, the violence, riots, arson, deaths and alleged death, fights, online progaganda, dancing snakes etc just one question rests in the mind of a lot of people.

Where is the Supreme leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu?

Has he given a statement in the past 2,3 days? And I don't mean some written/typed document, I mean video, or on the street. Has he joined any protest/resistance on the street of anywhere? Is he putting himself in harms way like the young men are doing?

Is he getting his hands dirty by looking for innocent Hausa folks inside buses?

Is he joining to stop military trucks?

Please where is Nnamdi Kanu? This might be the time for him to walk the talk

Legendary Nigerian artist, Tuface Idibia, and his beautiful wife Annie arrived at the internally displaced people’s camp on Tuesday. The artist pledged 60% of his music proceeds to helping about 110000 people who have been affected by the recent floods in Benue. He arrived the camp with trucks filled with various relief materials such as noodles, rice, yams, water, amongst others.

The veteran artist is also considering holding a big concert to gather more money and materials to help the victims.

“The gesture is aimed at giving hope to the displaced persons and to ameliorate their hardship,” he said.

He also assured the people that this was just the beginning and that he was willing to do more for them.

“But I will wait to see how far our efforts and intervention of government go for some time,”

“More materials are coming on Sunday, but these are my people and I am deeply concerned by what is going on.”

The wife of the governor of Benue state, Mrs Eunice Ortom, thanked the couple for their donations. She commented that she was proud of all the humanitarian effort he has been putting up around the world. She also commended individuals, government agencies and corporate organisations who have donated to the victims with both money and relief materials and all that has been done to show love and concern for the people.

The Benue flood has affected over 46,000 homes and has made over 110,000 people internally displaced. The IDP camp, built in an international market downtown Makurdi, has been the shelter of the people since the flood.

http://wiklys.com/music/tuface-and-wife-annie-donates-massively-to-benue-flood-victims

Do you think this will work?

I must say, he is hard to recognize though

Good day everyone, today I am going to teach you all how make my shea butter mix, this mix I use for all my DIYs and I also use when styling my hair to seal in moisture (A styling series coming soon), I also use this just as a hair moisturizer on its own. This also comes in very handy during wash days (wash day routine coming soon).

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Raw shea butter (you should be able to get this from a number of markets in Nigeria)

Essential oils (optional), I use lemon essential oil and grapefruit essential oil

Glycerin (this is not optional as it is a humectant and attracts moisture to the hair)

Olive oil (or any other liquid carrier oil you have like coconut oil, avocado oil etc)


HOW TO PREPARE

Firstly, melt the sheabutter by putting it over boiling water, To ever table spoon of sheabutter add Secondly add a table spoon on glycerin

Thirdly add a teaspoon of olive oil

Also add 6 drops of essential oil

Finally,

put your mixture in a container and put in the freezer for about 3 hoursLike I said this shea butter mix acts as a good moisture sealant and also a good hair moisturizer on its own, it really does make my hair super soft..


http://prettymundne..com.ng/2017/04/hairdiy-my-shea-butter-mix-for.html?m=1

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Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox, a Ponzi scheme known simply as MMM, on Friday opened for business after one month of break, but investors in the scheme have remained stranded as they still cannot access their funds.

MMM had announced the resumption on its Twitter handle, saying it was “now open” even though it had initially promised to reopen today, Saturday, January 14.

In the message, the scheme’s founder, Sergey Mavrodi, said because of the likely deluge of requests from participants, payments would be gradual and have limits.

He also said it would prioritise payments to participants with small amounts, which were not specified, and that big investors would have to wait longer.

“Please, be prepared to wait for a couple of days. We are certain things will then calm down, and the system operation will return to normal.

“We’re the ones setting limits, so it’s completely under our control, and we are not expecting any emergencies in principle. Have no fear and go on about your business as usual.

“As the system is socially oriented, we will make paybacks to the poor and the economically disadvantaged in the first place; it means to the members with small PH (Provide Help) amounts. The richer can wait. Moreover, we’ve warned you repeatedly to only provide help with amounts that are not critical for you.”

With about three million Nigerians involved in the scheme and huge investments at stake, the freezing of the MMM’s accounts a month ago had sparked fears that the ponzi scheme had crashed.

Meanwhile, some investors have expressed their frustrations as they might have to wait much longer to recover their much needed money from the scheme.

Some of the participants told Saturday PUNCH that their funds that were tied down in MMM were meant for various uses including purchase of goods, payment of tuition, debts, rent and others.

The fears and frustrations are further heightened by MMM’s declaration that it would introduce bitcoins as the new mode of payment ahead of its comeback, which some participants of the scheme have described as confusing.

For example, Frank Bunna who deals in computer accessories at Olugbede market in Idimu, Lagos, said he was stranded as he had invested all the money for his goods in MMM.

The Igbo trader, who was looking dejected when our correspondent visited the market, said his future was dashed as he expressed disappointment that he would not be able to get his money back today (Saturday).

He said, “This is my life! How will I live? I invested N2m! Look at my shop, it is totally empty. I invested the whole money for my business on this MMM; I even borrowed N300, 000 that I added to it. I spent six days in the hospital as soon as I heard the account was frozen. I am hypertensive so my blood pressure shot up when I heard the news. To hear that I would not be paid immediately means that I am dead.”

Another Lagos resident simply identified as Korede, who invested over N500, 000 in the scheme, said, “There is going to be crisis in my home. I borrowed my wife’s N300, 000 to invest in the scheme. I didn’t tell her, but I guess she’s suspicious now.

“I promised to return the money December ending, but couldn’t. That was when MMM froze our accounts. It appears that there is going to be some delay before I can get the money. I just hope my wife will forgive me in case this thing fails. To be sincere, I am afraid.”

An undergraduate of the University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, who identified himself as Chiboy because he did not want his parents to know he invested his tuition and money meant for his dissertation in MMM, said he had been left stranded since December 2016, when MMM was suspended and desperately needed his money back.

“I had thought that I would be able to get my money back immediately MMM reopened but from what I heard, it would not be possible. My mother will kill me. I don’t even know what to do,” he said.

A teacher in a private secondary school in Egbeda, Lagos, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the bursar of the school had invested N1.5m belonging to the institution in the scheme before the scheme was suspended last month.

According to the teacher, when the bursar could not provide the money, he was sacked by the school management and asked to sign an undertaking to return the money when MMM reopened on Saturday, January 14.

“The bursar has since been arrested and in his undertaking, he had said he would get the money back immediately MMM resumed operations. But with this development, it will take some time before he can get paid, and that is if he gets paid at all,” the teacher said.

A travel agent in Lagos, who identified himself as Mr. Oduntan, lamented that he has been going through difficulty after investing N900, 000 meant for paying his rent in MMM with the hope that he would get about N1.2m in return.

Oduntan said he was desperate to recover his funds as his landlord had been on his neck since then.

Also, a banker in a new generation bank in Ikeja, Lagos, told one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity that three of her colleagues were sacked for introducing some customers to MMM.

According to the banker, his colleagues were sacked after the aggrieved customers officially complained to the bank manager that they were stranded because they had invested in MMM, which was introduced to them by some employees of the bank.

The source said, “The customers said they needed their money back. They blamed some of my colleagues for introducing them to MMM and the bank had to sack them.

“One of the customers complained that the money he had put in MMM was meant to roof his house and that his planned relocation to the house has had to be delayed because of that. Another one said the money he had invested in MMM was meant to pay his debts while another said the money was meant for his wife’s business.”

Another banker working in a commercial bank in Akute, Ogun State, also said one of her colleagues was sacked for investing N2m he had loaned from the bank in MMM and was unable to pay back the loan.

A barbing salon operator in Ilorin, Kwara State, Adejare Lawal, who spoke with one of our correspondents on Thursday, said he had invested money belonging to some of his colleagues, which was from their contributory scheme, in the investment.

According to him, he invested around N350, 000 in November, hoping to get a profit of at least N80, 000 by the second week of December before accounts were frozen.

“This is the biggest risk I have taken in my life and at the moment all I can think about is how to get the money back. I was the one coordinating the barbers’ association’s contribution in my area and I invested it in MMM.”

In Oyo State, an estate agent, Mr. Funso Ogungbade, said he had invested the sum of N3.5m, part of which was from the rents he had collected from tenants on behalf of some landlords, in MMM. “My target was that by Saturday, everything would be sorted out but as it is now, I cannot get the money back soon. MMM is saying that it will start by paying the people with small funds and that it will also put a peg on how much we can get,” he said.

A student at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, simply identified as Wole, said he had invested N50, 000 into the scheme a week before it froze all accounts.

Another MMM investor, who simply identified himself as Olayinka, said, “I’m desperate to recover my money. All my investment has gone into it,” he added.

Olayinka, who lost his job over a year ago, said he had invested N700,000 that was paid to him as entitlement in MMM, given how profitable the scheme was before it collapsed.

He said, “I have been counting down since the day MMM announced the closure. Everything I had went into it so I am seriously stranded.”

Another MMM investor, Miss Janet (surname withheld), said, “I lied to my brother to lend me money to pursue my Master’s programme. I’ve not been working for some time, and he was the one who advised me to go for a postgraduate degree. So, when I asked for money, he gave me N150, 000.

“With the way it was booming, I invested my N600, 000 in it, including the money I had saved from my previous workplace. So, I’m in a fix as I’m talking to you.”

Our students invested school fees in MMM –VC

On January 11, 2017, the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Prof. Labode Popoola, told journalists that the school’s authorities would publish in national newspapers names of students who owe tuition, claiming that some of them had invested the money in the MMM scheme.

Noting that the affected students had owed since their enrolment, Popoola said it had come to the knowledge of the school that most of them were enrolled in MMM.

He disclosed that the cumulative debt being owed the school by the students was N2bn.

He said, “We are aware that parents of most defaulting students had given them their school fees and it was revealed that the students had diverted the monies into the MMM scheme.”

Confusion mounts over bitcoin

Findings by Saturday PUNCH showed that more Nigerians have been searching for information about bitcoin on the popular search engine- Google.

For instance, between Thursday and Friday, search for “where to buy bitcoin in Nigeria” on Google Nigeria rose by 200 per cent, according to Google Trends.

Search for “MMM bitcoin” rose by 150 per cent; “What is bitcoin all about?” rose by 160 per cent; while “meaning of bitcoin” rose by 60 per cent.

One of the participants who spoke with Saturday PUNCH, Bunna, said he had no idea of what bitcoin meant and that the more he asked questions about it, the more confused he got.

“I don’t know what bitcoin means. Don’t even bother explaining how it works to me because many people have tried and they left me more confused,” he said.

“Once I get paid, I don’t even want to be part of any MMM again. God knows that nothing in this world will make me do this nonsense again. While other people were celebrating Christmas, I was in the hospital. Even now, I have yet to recover, so why do you think I would want to do this kind of thing again?”

Wole, a LAUTECH student, said, “Another problem now is the introduction of bitcoin to the platform. I have yet to fully understand how it operates. I will read more about it so as to know how to go about withdrawing my money. I just hope the system wouldn’t crash.”

Speaking about the bitcoin option recently introduced, Janet said, “Whether bitcoin or no bitcoin, I want my money, possibly today (Friday).”

Chiboy said he had only heard of bitcoins and was not interested in “such things.”

Olayinka said, “They wouldn’t dare introduce bitcoin at this time. But if they do, we are at their mercy. I just want my money back

http://punchng.com/investors-stranded-mmm-reopens/

While I am not a legal practitioner and keep won't even attempt to quote the law and sturvs like that, I think certain questions need to be asked as regards the Governor Wike, DSS and the attempted arrest (or as it is called abduction) of judges. While the media will always be the media and want to make sales hence be sensational, I think some questions have to be asked when we all calm down to think about it.

1. Is it illegal to arrest a sitting judge?

2. Is it illegal to arrest at night?

3. Is it illegal for the DSS to arrest?

Now if you answer these questions, please help me answer this one.

4. Is it illegal for the DSS to arrest a sitting judge at night?

After you have answered the first four questions, please let me throw this in

5. Is it illegal to obstruct justice by preventing security agencies from carrying out an arrest?

justi4jesu:
But the currency is in Pounds, and If i check out with Paypal, their currency converter with be so high.

Well…….I dont mind

justi4jesu:
Do they accept Paypal?

Yes they do

How abou this?

How much to get it to Lagos?

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pallybrown:
the hand that remove it will still write it back in Jesus name amen

Other people will pray for the opposite but that's not the issue....the issue is do political office holders who have been declared to have lost elections have a right to hold that position before appealing or during?

I guess there are also people out there who believe that if an electipn is annulled, any appeal by the person occupying that position should be done outside that position. The situation we have now is like a mam convicted of a crime but because he is appealing that judgement is in his house claiming "status quo".

This issue should be taken to the supreme court for translation in my opinion

[quote]Personal details: Born 24 August 1967 Rumuepirikom, Obio-
Akpor, Rivers State , Nigeria

Political party: People's Democratic Party (PDP)

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike (born 24 August 1967) is a Nigerian lawyer, politician and [b]former Governor of Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State [\b]. He is an Ikwerre from Rumuepirikom in Obio-Akpor , Rivers State, Nigeria .

He is a member of the People's Democratic Party. Wike was appointed minister of state for education on 14 July 2011. He was later appointed the Acting
Minister of Education, after Mrs Riqqayatu was sacked but resigned before finishing his term.to campaign for Governor of Rivers State .

In 2014, he won the Rivers State People's Democratic Party primary and chose former Secretary to the State Government Ipalibo Banigo as his running mate for Deputy Governor.

He defeated Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the April 11Gubernatorial Polls to emerge as governor

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Read more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezenwo_Nyesom_Wike

The lot of you are tribal bigots

Why are you guys fixed on tribe?

kaycid77:
Afam shut up....I said shut your trap, this is not the first time you are selling out...When you were a Mod we had issue with you more than any other Mod thats not even Igbo...Who made you a mouthpiece for SS.... Mind you I am a SS

He is still a mod

smh

"If since May 29 you have not found a reason to criticise the new government, you are not part of the problem, you are the problem" Omojuwa

You people are so fixated on tribe that you can't see anything else but that.

You all are jobless

#IStandWithOhimai

Ohimai the guy who the space in his head is big enough to park a Boeing 747 has showed his hands finally.

To be honest though, I feel his pain. I wonder how it must feel watching Akpabio making a fool of everything during the entire screen exercise(not just Amaechi but all). It was just shameful.

Gone were the days that the opposition did their job in the senate as they have been reduced to clowns. People like Ben Bruce who is more visual on Twitter are just frustrating.

Ohimai did what he thought right same way @deyanjudeji has said he won't support Iris Wada

The present leadership of the PDP are without shame and integrity

people will soon scream witch hunt now and call False their hero while also saying he is the only trustworthy Yoruba person

Championship winner!!!!!!