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Should a Christian sleep with his wife before marriage?

Popular comedian, Basket Mouth shared a very cute post about him and his daughter, it seems the comedian is enjoying being a father, see his post on Instagram below:

http://www.broadwayafrica.com/basket-mouth-shares-cute-post-about-daughter/

Many people do not know that beyond the ‘fine boy’ poster picture of IK Ogbonna, that he is deeply religious, IK who confessed to being a born again Christian said he do commit sin once in a while and each time he falls into sin, he asks for forgiveness, including the time he falls into sin with his then fiancée, Sonia Morales now turned wife. In this interview with www.BroadwayAfrica.com, IK spoke about gay rumours, Linda Ikeji, Baby Mama and 2016.

http://www.broadwayafrica.com/ik-ogbonna-speaks-on-sleeping-with-his-wife-as-a-born-again-christian-before-marriage-2016-gay-rumours-and-linda-ikeji/

See what actor, IK Ogbonna has to say about sleeping with wife before marriage

http://www.broadwayafrica.com/ik-ogbonna-speaks-on-sleeping-with-his-wife-as-a-born-again-christian-before-marriage-2016-gay-rumours-and-linda-ikeji/

How to Have Great Relationship in 2016

A number of relationships hit the rocks in 2015. Some of the main factors that led to these broken relationships were; first, the couple’s lack of understanding about each other’s personality which made maximizing their differences impossible. Also, some of the partners in these broken relationships were unwilling to compromise on their expectations. For example, in one of the cases I handled, the guy believed the lady was stubborn and would not listen to all his corrective suggestions while the lady felt the Guy is a bully because he complains too much. Though they profess to love each other, their relationship did not survive through 2015. This couple taught me a new lesson; having a good relationship is not dependent on finding a good person. If you find a good person and you are unable to manage the relationship well it still will not work. Below are some tips on how to improve your relationship in 2016.

One of the easiest ways to improve a relationship is when each partner in the relationship makes conscious efforts towards understanding himself/herself first before trying to understand the other person. Self-knowledge helps you to know why you have certain expectations of your spouse and if those expectations are necessary. Self-knowledge also helps you to know for sure if the person you are in a relationship with is the one for you...

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http://www.broadwayafrica.com/how-to-have-a-great-relationship-in-2016/

How to Have Great Relationship in 2016

A number of relationships hit the rocks in 2015. Some of the main factors that led to these broken relationships were; first, the couple’s lack of understanding about each other’s personality which made maximizing their differences impossible. Also, some of the partners in these broken relationships were unwilling to compromise on their expectations. For example, in one of the cases I handled, the guy believed the lady was stubborn and would not listen to all his corrective suggestions while the lady felt the Guy is a bully because he complains too much. Though they profess to love each other, their relationship did not survive through 2015. This couple taught me a new lesson; having a good relationship is not dependent on finding a good person. If you find a good person and you are unable to manage the relationship well it still will not work. Below are some tips on how to improve your relationship in 2016.

One of the easiest ways to improve a relationship is when each partner in the relationship makes conscious efforts towards understanding himself/herself first before trying to understand the other person. Self-knowledge helps you to know why you have certain expectations of your spouse and if those expectations are necessary. Self-knowledge also helps you to know for sure if the person you are in a relationship with is the one for you.


http://www.broadwayafrica.com/how-to-have-a-great-relationship-in-2016/

This should be on the front page please. Mr. Minister, i hope you are not sidelining Federal Roads in Port Harcourt

Tinubu goofed on this matter. When is the time right for anyone to call for national conference? When is it right to stand and do what is right? He has a right to his opinion but he is clearly not speaking for the Yoruba people. Ire o!

U are not a serious man and this show you are not committed to your marriage and God

Come and experience 2000sqm filled with fashion items from the best designers in the world.
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This exhibition will avail trade visitors opportunity to interact with the exhibitors, discover new business leads, and consolidate on existing business relationships.
For all you fashionistas that are also looking for where to ‘shop’ don’t miss this opportunity as all fashion items at the exhibition will be up for grabs at highly discounted rates.
Expected at this year’s events are exhibitors from Turkey, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Lebanon, china our own Naija designers.
Fashion has been said to be our life style in Nigeria, so fellas! Come and let us turn this natural gifting’s of ours into a profitable venture and in turn Nigeria in the fashion hub of the world.
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The popular television quiz show My Education Quiz Play, (MEQP) is set to produce new set of winners on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of March, 2013, that will go home with the ultimate prize of N1 Million naira and N2 Million naira for the secondary schools and tertiary institutions categories respectively.

My Education Quiz Play (MEQP) is an educational play initiated for students in senior secondary schools and tertiary institutions to earn money that will empower them enough to see their dreams of quality education accomplished. It is a platform for change in the orientation of the youths toward the importance and value of education as against the unbalanced push for entertainment.

MEQP is an initiative of the Foundation for Effective Leadership and Development (FELD), an NGO with strong passion for change in the education sector that will ultimately culminate in effective leadership at different levels of human interaction.

The recording of new episodes for MEQP starts on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of March, 2013, by 8.00 a.m. prompt at the Dream Factory Studio, Onward Complex, Plot Y B Mobolaji Johnson, Alausa. To be part of the recording or be a contestant, text EXCEL to35811 to be part of the show, the more you text the more your chances of being a contestant. SMS costs N100.

Ten winners have emerged in the past with different prize money wins from secondary schools to tertiary institutions. Winners are Chidinma Ezugu N155, 000.000, Precious Onowudijo N120, 000.00, Adewole Toluwani N55, 000.00, Adidu Obi N55, 000.00 Iko Abasi Melodi N10, 000.00. Okoji Donald N35, 000.00, Ann Ejiegbu N210, 000.00, Alim Dumebi favour N190, 000.00, Anakwe Godwin N10, 000.0 0 and Gbenga Lawal N40, 000.00.

Opportunity to be among the new winners is here again, you can be part of it by texting EXCEL to 35811 and you could be the next to have your education fees settled.

Follow us Facebook on www.facebook.com/myeducationquiz. On twitter:@myeducationquiz, you can also visit our website for more information on the quiz play. You can send us an email at myeducationquiz@yahoo.com. Visit our blog: myeducationquizplay..com and also watch our video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZi-NgJvwUg and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0qB_ATrd8

Who will go home with the money? Friday and Saturday will tell.

Goldie: we didn’t take you seriously. We apologise.

It was a hot, Sunday afternoon when the BBM request beeped on my phone. I was totally engaged with the English Premiership football match showing on my TV. Not in the mood for any chit-chat. Checking out the identity of the sender showed me a 'Goldie Harvey' and my first impulse was I was face-to-face with another impersonator trying to take the place of one of Nigeria's many hardworking entertainment celebrities. My curiosity got the better of me and I confirmed the request consciously granting the 'impostor' some measure of access into my life.I figured he\she will delete the connection in due course like others usually do. As at then, Goldie and I had never actually met in the true sense of the word. We weren’t friends. Neither were we enemies. We had bumped into one another a couple of times at events and that was it. Nevertheless, I was still surprised as to how the ‘impostor’ got my PIN.

Still caught in the reverie of the football match, my phone buzzed few minutes later and it was celebrated comedian, Gbenga Adeyinka. He wanted to introduce Goldie to me (like I didn’t know her) and informed me of her desire to work with my PR firm, Bigsam Media. He it was who had passed my PIN to her. Goldie herself requested my number and later called.

God, that voice on the phone! It wasn’t sweet or golden but plain.... and heavy laden with sadness. ‘I’m tired,’ she said to me like we had known for years. ‘I've worked with many people, spent a lot of money but not gotten much in return’.

She wanted to work with us as she had heard so much about us and was hoping we would stand out from the myriad of half-baked,briefcase PR firms(experts) running rings around entertainers and promising celebrities a dinner date in the White House 'if only you can spend good money.’

I listened calmly and gave her an appointment at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja but for some reasons I showed up three hours late. She was understandably angry and was on the verge on leaving when I breezed in and apologised. We fixed another date to meet and finalise details on how we could work together regarding her blossoming brand. Sadly, I never made the appointment. Way before our meeting, Bobby Taylor and Gbenga Bada, fellow journalist friends had tried all they could to get me to interview and feature Goldie on my page while I was still in the employment of The Sun Newspapers. I just played an unwilling horse all through.

Looking back now, I realised that like many others, I didn’t take her serious at all. Many people had dismissed Goldie from the very beginning of her career, contending she was all beauty and no talent. Peeps were quick to condemn her art or lack of it. Check the popular blogs and see the deluge of negative comments that follow any post on Goldie and you'll get a feel of what I mean.

Despite the ‘pull-her-down’ at all costs syndrome, Goldie kept pushing the envelope, working and living her life. If she cared about what people said about her, she didn’t show it. They would lambast her for wearing a particular dress and Goldie would defiantly wear something similar next time. They said she was everywhere, strutting the red carpets like a pepper seller but she was undeterred. Goldie was living her life by her rules and not by what ‘almighty' commentators said. As if she knew she won’t be here for a long time.
I was told a popular producer had told her to go sell her Benz ML before he would sign her on and produce her song. And that was after months of keeping her waiting. She didn’t relent but decided to take her destiny in her own hands and thus embarked on a journey from one radio station to another, buying stuffs for the OAPs for her songs to get airplay.

Goldie eventually teamed up with Kennis Music, thankfully, Keke Ogungbe signed her on.

Upon hearing news of her death, I called Denrele, Baba Keke, KSB but their numbers were switched off. I called Funke Akindele to get across to Denrele’s friend hoping to hear that the rumour wasn’t true. She already did, and was close to tears on phone. A newspaper editor told me Goldie's step-mum already confirmed it. After speaking with Linda Ikeji who broke the news, I still chose to doubt it.

I saw a tweet that Goldie was scheduled to perform at a certain Princeton Hotel in Ikeja and I dashed out to search for the location in spite of loud protestations from my wife that it was past 1am. She must definitely be at Princeton performing and would be willing to dispel the wicked 'rumor' doing the rounds about her passing.

Sadly, all my efforts proved abortive. Goldie wasn’t there. She was gone. Gone to be with the saints.

What was I looking for in the dead of night? What,what,what? All I wanted was just one more chance to make up for my folly of dismissing her and not taking her seriously. Suddenly, wonderful and innovative ideas on how to enhance 'Brand Goldie' are popping up in my brain. I want to work with her

We won’t always have people around. Why can’t we celebrate men and women while we have them? Bickerings, pull-him-down, dismissal and nonchalant attitudes because we hold the ace should stop. We won’t always have all the time we want with people we love and life is too short to harbor hate. My heart went out to people whose bluff I have called and those I'm not treating right at present. What if I don’t see them again? Dear Lord, I need to make up for past follies. I'm sorry I didn’t take some people seriously. I need to make some calls and mend fences right away.

Another lesson from Goldie’s demise: live your life. Goldie didn’t allow others write her script for her. She gave life her best. One single after the other, appearances at several red carpet events, Big Brother Africa, upcoming reality show etc Goldie didn’t slow down. She gave life her all like she knew she won’t live up to thirty. We all don’t have the promise to live till 80, if you drop dead today, can you confidently say you gave life your best?

Like the rest of us Goldie wasn’t perfect but didn’t deserve the way some people tried to pull her down. She was hustling on the grind of life, trying to make a name for herself like the rest of us. She wasn’t perfect just like the rest of us with many skeletons in our cupboards. Yet, some people were busy moving from one blog to another knocking her hustle. Now, that she’s gone are you happy?

Goldie, continue to rest in peace. We all owe death but so sad that he showed up too early at your doorstep.

May God comfort your parents, siblings, hubby and loved ones.



Samuel Olatunji is a foremost entertainment journalist; now CEO of Bigsam Media and Editor-in-Chief of Icampus Newspaper and the website:

www.ientertainmentng.com. He can be reached via his email: (sirolatunji@yahoo.co.uk)

Goldie: we didn’t take you seriously. We apologise.

It was a hot, Sunday afternoon when the BBM request beeped on my phone. I was totally engaged with the English Premiership football match showing on my TV. Not in the mood for any chit-chat. Checking out the identity of the sender showed me a 'Goldie Harvey' and my first impulse was I was face-to-face with another impersonator trying to take the place of one of Nigeria's many hardworking entertainment celebrities. My curiosity got the better of me and I confirmed the request consciously granting the 'impostor' some measure of access into my life.I figured he\she will delete the connection in due course like others usually do. As at then, Goldie and I had never actually met in the true sense of the word. We weren’t friends. Neither were we enemies. We had bumped into one another a couple of times at events and that was it. Nevertheless, I was still surprised as to how the ‘impostor’ got my PIN.

Still caught in the reverie of the football match, my phone buzzed few minutes later and it was celebrated comedian, Gbenga Adeyinka. He wanted to introduce Goldie to me (like I didn’t know her) and informed me of her desire to work with my PR firm, Bigsam Media. He it was who had passed my PIN to her. Goldie herself requested my number and later called.

God, that voice on the phone! It wasn’t sweet or golden but plain.... and heavy laden with sadness. ‘I’m tired,’ she said to me like we had known for years. ‘I've worked with many people, spent a lot of money but not gotten much in return’.

She wanted to work with us as she had heard so much about us and was hoping we would stand out from the myriad of half-baked,briefcase PR firms(experts) running rings around entertainers and promising celebrities a dinner date in the White House 'if only you can spend good money.’

I listened calmly and gave her an appointment at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja but for some reasons I showed up three hours late. She was understandably angry and was on the verge on leaving when I breezed in and apologised. We fixed another date to meet and finalise details on how we could work together regarding her blossoming brand. Sadly, I never made the appointment. Way before our meeting, Bobby Taylor and Gbenga Bada, fellow journalist friends had tried all they could to get me to interview and feature Goldie on my page while I was still in the employment of The Sun Newspapers. I just played an unwilling horse all through.

Looking back now, I realised that like many others, I didn’t take her serious at all. Many people had dismissed Goldie from the very beginning of her career, contending she was all beauty and no talent. Peeps were quick to condemn her art or lack of it. Check the popular blogs and see the deluge of negative comments that follow any post on Goldie and you'll get a feel of what I mean.

Despite the ‘pull-her-down’ at all costs syndrome, Goldie kept pushing the envelope, working and living her life. If she cared about what people said about her, she didn’t show it. They would lambast her for wearing a particular dress and Goldie would defiantly wear something similar next time. They said she was everywhere, strutting the red carpets like a pepper seller but she was undeterred. Goldie was living her life by her rules and not by what ‘almighty' commentators said. As if she knew she won’t be here for a long time.
I was told a popular producer had told her to go sell her Benz ML before he would sign her on and produce her song. And that was after months of keeping her waiting. She didn’t relent but decided to take her destiny in her own hands and thus embarked on a journey from one radio station to another, buying stuffs for the OAPs for her songs to get airplay.

Goldie eventually teamed up with Kennis Music, thankfully, Keke Ogungbe signed her on.

Upon hearing news of her death, I called Denrele, Baba Keke, KSB but their numbers were switched off. I called Funke Akindele to get across to Denrele’s friend hoping to hear that the rumour wasn’t true. She already did, and was close to tears on phone. A newspaper editor told me Goldie's step-mum already confirmed it. After speaking with Linda Ikeji who broke the news, I still chose to doubt it.

I saw a tweet that Goldie was scheduled to perform at a certain Princeton Hotel in Ikeja and I dashed out to search for the location in spite of loud protestations from my wife that it was past 1am. She must definitely be at Princeton performing and would be willing to dispel the wicked 'rumor' doing the rounds about her passing.

Sadly, all my efforts proved abortive. Goldie wasn’t there. She was gone. Gone to be with the saints.

What was I looking for in the dead of night? What,what,what? All I wanted was just one more chance to make up for my folly of dismissing her and not taking her seriously. Suddenly, wonderful and innovative ideas on how to enhance 'Brand Goldie' are popping up in my brain. I want to work with her

We won’t always have people around. Why can’t we celebrate men and women while we have them? Bickerings, pull-him-down, dismissal and nonchalant attitudes because we hold the ace should stop. We won’t always have all the time we want with people we love and life is too short to harbor hate. My heart went out to people whose bluff I have called and those I'm not treating right at present. What if I don’t see them again? Dear Lord, I need to make up for past follies. I'm sorry I didn’t take some people seriously. I need to make some calls and mend fences right away.

Another lesson from Goldie’s demise: live your life. Goldie didn’t allow others write her script for her. She gave life her best. One single after the other, appearances at several red carpet events, Big Brother Africa, upcoming reality show etc Goldie didn’t slow down. She gave life her all like she knew she won’t live up to thirty. We all don’t have the promise to live till 80, if you drop dead today, can you confidently say you gave life your best?

Like the rest of us Goldie wasn’t perfect but didn’t deserve the way some people tried to pull her down. She was hustling on the grind of life, trying to make a name for herself like the rest of us. She wasn’t perfect just like the rest of us with many skeletons in our cupboards. Yet, some people were busy moving from one blog to another knocking her hustle. Now, that she’s gone are you happy?

Goldie, continue to rest in peace. We all owe death but so sad that he showed up too early at your doorstep.

May God comfort your parents, siblings, hubby and loved ones.



Samuel Olatunji is a foremost entertainment journalist; now CEO of Bigsam Media and Editor-in-Chief of Icampus Newspaper and the website:

www.ientertainmentng.com. He can be reached via his email: (sirolatunji@yahoo.co.uk)