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This is way off the topic but y is it that people cannot b original with their stories. This was lifted WORD for WORD from linda ikeji's blog and still it's sayin 'exclusive'. The way our bloggers are lazy ehn,only God that will help us grow

tpiander:
I have to say, I'm not familiar with any of these people you mentioned.

Who is the scary looking person in the last picture though?

And the one before that?

the second to the last guy is to gospel rap in America what Ali Baba is to comedy. The last man is a very popular singer and pastor.i am surprised you do not know them

Like many other Nigerian Christians, I grew up in a very strict and orthodox Christian environment. Wearing trousers for ladies were (and still is although not as strict as it was back then) practically outlawed. A guy wearing earrings in the church was like a homosexual man living in Zimbabwe. This were the things we grew up with , the very tenets we go absorbed into. In the church , 2 Corinthians 6:14 was more of a rule with no exception but in this present age where people are more passionate about gay rights than peace in the middle East, a torrent of changes have swept through the Christian community like the harmattan blowing from the Sahara across West Africa .
While I would not delve into the argument of whether these practices are wholly justifiable or not, there seems to be a trend of double standards in the church . It is rather necessary to ask ourselves why the church frowns on tattoos and men wearing earrings and the occasional cliché 'unequally yoked with unbelievers', to mention a few but then the same people who sing edifying songs to us have these tattoos and body piercings. Am talking from lecrae who has tattoos and pierced ears to Deitrick Haddon Even our own Kingdom singers are not left out of this traditional anomaly. Tim Godfrey recently made a track with a secular artiste and has consistently featured secular artists in his videos. Also, Frank Edwards who hustled to take a picture with 2face at a concert sometime in February(oh you didn't know) has collaborated with MI, Oritsefemi and j martins. Is this a case of double standards, or are we now to turn a blind eye to this and then say 'see it doesn't matter what they do with their lives just be blessed with the wonderful ministrations from their lips?.
We should not forget that the only thing that is universal is not football but TRUTH. You cannot bend it to your convenience. The truth doesnt change! How is it that the very second you get a tattoo or plait your hair(as a guy) or as in some other churches, leave your hair uncovered you are automatically blacklisted as a rebel but the same people who take us to lofty celestial heights are 'guilty' of these same 'sins' yet it is ignored. It reeks of moral negligence because a practice cannot be right in America or amongst our own local Artistes/Ministers and simultaneously be wrong in our local churches so who is wrong and who is right. If on one hand we say it is right to get tattoos or body piercings then why do Christians who do it in this part of the world get ostracised and victimised? If on the other hand it is wrong, then why do we ignore the fact that these ministers of God are doing the wrong things yet wave it off with 'forget his lifestyle just get blessed with his ministrations'. Let us not forget that these ministers not only show our their latest records , they show us their lifestyles and people get influenced by them. In this age and time, a man with data and an Instagram account could be more influential than a preacher with a table sized bible. Christianity has nothing to do with confusion and double standards so the sooner we clear the table and universally set things straight, the better for our collective Christian race. If not the church itself might be sending more people to hell than the devil himself.

if dis ever gets to court it could go either way...and if u look deep it will definitely end up in favor of d army guy...u knw y,because it was an accident, and accidents ve a reason for being called accidents-cause they happend without malice..moreso,they could score a very big point by asserting and proving that the accident occurred as a result of d collective failure of d school authorities and d govt to provide basic amenities lik speed brakes and pedestrian bridges in an EXPRESS road..let's face it,dis could occur again,even today..as long as d road is still like that..they lld prolly end up wit minimal damages

Lacomus:
You just scammed your old boy right ?

yes oo..but I dnt know if I should still pay tithe on it..but scamming him was necessary

so I was wondering..is it a waste of time paying tithe from money u scammed your parents? mature answers please

“Wetin him dey find again? Him dey drag with him pikin mate…
Old man wey no get brain, him brain don die pata pata.”
“Anybody That Come And Tell You “Change,” Stone That
Person”
“Our people no dey born shildren wey dem no dey fit count
Our men no dey born shildren throway for street. We no dey like
the people for that side.” – Dame Patience Jonathan.
If you were not privy to the source of the above statements,
you would be forgiven to think I was quoting from a book on
illiterate women still grappling with the issue of Nigeria’s unity.
The above words were delivered by Nigeria’s First Lady,
Patience Jonathan, at various campaign grounds from Cross
River State to Kogi. She was on national TV when she made
these statements. For the sake of those who don’t understand
pidgin and poorly spoken English, the First Lady was taking
direct shots at the All Progressives Congress’s presidential
candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari. She also reserved
ungracious words for northerners when she suggested they
mostly just have kids only to abandon them. In her worst
display of why she should never ever have been seen near a
First Lady let alone be one herself, Patience Jonathan has been
on rampage embarrassing the presidency and indeed our
country. It is a shameful sight to say the least. The only thing
sadder than this is the fact that the authorities have looked on
while the First Lady openly told her supporters to stone those
who don’t tow the line of returning her husband, Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan as president.
What have we done? What have northerners done? What was
the sin in trusting the Jonathans with power in 2011 and why,
despite paying with death to loved ones and displayed family
members, did the First Lady believe taking shots at northerners
would guarantee the return of her family to the Villa?
Even if a place is reserved for some display of madness in
politics, is such a place reserved for the office of the First Lady?
Shouldn’t that office and whoever occupies it represent the best
of Nigeria’s family values, kindness and decorum? Did we not
have First Ladies, even under military governments, that were
dignified in speech and in deed? Many will blame her lack of
exposure for why she is who she is but that cannot be it, it is
one thing to lack respect and be unenlightened, it is another to
be unenlightened and to lack respect to boot. Dame Patience
Jonathan is the embodiment of a badly educated woman who
also doubles as an unenlightened woman who sees no wrong in
inciting violence.
We need not look too far to find examples of First Ladies who
brought class and elegance to the privileged office. They may
have their own faults but few people will fault the elegance and
class of the likes of Maryam Babangida and Stella Obasanjo.
Looking to use Michelle Obama as an example of who Mrs.
Patience Jonathan should emulate may be asking too much.
But if the First Lady does not know what is right and what not
to say, especially on national television, does she not have
media managers? Are they paid to urge her and her classless
disrespectful self on or they are paid to make her look better?
Even if they have given up on her getting better, would it be out
of place for them to suggest she never appears on live TV?
They could at least edit the unwholesome parts of her speech
from the whole speech. If per chance the whole speech is
unwholesome, would it not be better to make the speech
available without its sound? That is, if the First Lady must be on
television at all.
One saw that one or two men in the president’s campaign team
said they saw nothing wrong in the Patience Jonathan
statements. Now, it is one thing to want to earn a living, it is
another thing to live life as though living beneath one’s beliefs
is a way to earn a living. Or would anyone say stoning those
who don’t agree with them tallies with the belief system of any
civilized person for that matter? Haba! Should we begin to
accord honourary titles to cows just because we are desperate
to feed off their meat? Let us call a spade what it is, Madam
Patience Jonathan is a disgrace to Nigerian women. Our
women have certainly got more class.

we are left with that choice because we don't ve many good men in politics...and the men at the top are really self centred and corrupt..its not a surprise because that is how they got there

written by Odigili Uche

2014 ushers in a new year which promises to be an eventful year for Nigerians. Apart from the already cliché 'this is my year' and 'I will get married this year' , what remains atop of the minds of most Nigerians (mostly politicians) is the presidential election that comes up on the 14th of February. After slugging it out at the primaries(actually only one of the candidates in actual sense did slug it out),our options have been limited to two somewhat combustible individuals-an incumbent who had no shoes and a retired general who has just one million naira in his account(or so his says).However, i and many Nigerians will agree that rather than the election boiling down to the best two candidates possible who can lead this great country out of the proverbial wilderness, we have rather been faced with the unpleasant inconvenience of having to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. As it is with the case of governorship elections in Nigeria, and in fact any other political election where the electorate before voting puts into consideration not that candidate who would not embezzle any public funds at all but the individual who would embezzle the least funds, we literarily hold the cards to our own future where the we must vote not who we think is the better candidate for our collectively progress but who we know(or think we know) will ultimately do less damage in the next four years.
The incumbent, president Good luck Jonathan has overseen a country that has been plagued by corruption which although existed long before he became a politician spiraled out of control and became sort of a norm in his tenure. We have also been made to deal with insurgency as it has now become as common as hearing 'knockouts' and 'bangers' go off in the festive periods to hear that a market or motor park has been bombed in the north. Some pro-Jonathan will be quick to point out that president Jonathan is merely suffering from the success of emerging as the president in 2011 but it is rather appalling at the way in which he has handled the situation. Everything seems to be working against him at the moment and when we add up the drastic fall in oil price(which is not his fault by the way) and consequently the devaluation of the naira which could not have come at a worse time does not seem to help his re election bid, does it?
On the other end of the stick, we have General Muhamadu Buhari, a retired general who ruled Nigeria in a military regime from 1983 to 1985 . after unsuccessfully running for the office of the President of Nigeria in 2003, 2007, and elections he has scaled through the APC primaries to emerge as the only opposition to President Jonathan in the race to become the president of the Federal republic of Nigeria. However a glance at his regime reveals a reign of terror which in the name of 'war against indiscipline' led to the an outright abuse of human rights, disregard of the judicial process and suppression of criticism. There are several reasons to believe Buhari is a very tribalistic individual. Is it by deeds? Here is a man who placed then president Shehu shagari under house arrest in a palatial mansion in ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's vice, alex Ekueme in kirikiri prison. Shagari like Buhari happens to be a Hausa/Fulani man while Alex Ekueme is an igboman. Also, a reflection of his words only serve to strengthen the belief that he is not only tribalistic but a religious bigot. In 2001 he said 'Allah Akbar:God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the sharia in the country'. Several questions have been asked,and rightly so too if a man of this nature and reasoning can successfully steer this nation without shredding it into small, untraceable bits. It appears that Buhari has been gaining support from some quarters not because they feel he deserves to be the president but because they want Jonathan out. They seem more of anti-GEJ than pro-GMB but it is certain Buhari would not mind as long they translate to votes.
While the elections are expected to be free, fair and conducted in a transparent manner(yes some of us still believe that) it is the electorate that ultimately make a decision that is sure to affect the future of this country. It is our moral, civil and constitutional obligation to ensure that we vote but this time we do not vote for better man, rather we vote for the better evil. It is a shame that we have all been put into this tight corner and giving my opinion will be delving into the arena of conflict, something i have desperately resisted. The choice must be made and inevitably we are going to have to make it, sadly what we can best aim at is damage control.

As exclusively reported by NET in 2012, the once
buoyant relationship between Ayo ‘Wizkid’
Balogun and David ‘Davido’ Adeleke has run into
stormy waters.
Though the music stars have maintained relative
peace in the last one year, they have once again
resumed hostilities on popular social network,
Twitter.
Currently, the young pop stars are at loggerheads
over what insiders say is a claim to superiority
between ‘Wizzy’ and ‘Omo baba olowo.’
Both camps have taken sides, insults have been
traded and subliminal messages thrown around;
the tension between both artistes keeps
threatening any air of peace left.
The dispute between Wizkid and Davido, which
have seen older Nigerian celebrities, Iyanya and
Wale Gates trying to mediate, dates back to the
parting of D’banj and Don Jazzy, as reported by
The NET.
First Blood
It all started with the news of D’banj signing
Davido to his DB Records back in May 2012 – the
news turned out to be false, but this obviously
didn’t go down well with the ‘other camp.’
‘Davido was very close to Don Jazzy and the
Mo’hits squad before they parted with D’banj.
When Jazzy heard Davido signed with D’banj, he
wasn’t entirely happy’, a close friend of both
camps tells NET.
Second Round’s On Me
Don Jazzy is said to have immediately told
Wande Coal (who mentors both Wizkid and
Davido) to stop visiting Davido at his Lekki home.
Davido, at the time, was still recording his debut
album and had plans to collaborate with Wande
and Wizzy on separate songs. When Davido
contacted Wande Coal, the pop singer’s
management asked for an exorbitant fee
(reportedly N1.5m) for the collabo. Sources say
Davido was keen to get it done, but his manager
Asa Asika was having none of it. This ‘sudden
policy’ led to a war of words between Asika and
Wande’s manager Nana. The collabo never
happened. Wande and Davido stopped talking to
each other.
Strike Three
Davido moved on to record the much talked about
duet with Wizkid. But when he sent the
instrumental to the EME team, Wizkid, sources
say, told them he couldn’t work with Davido on
the song, saying the beat wasn’t up to standard
and he didn’t want to lower his brand. Little did
Davido know that it was his fight with Wande
that made him (Wizkid) immediately take sides.
‘Wande is like Wizkid’s elder brother. Wizzy looks
up to him a lot and anything Wande says, Wizkid
will do. When Wande told him about what
happened between him and Davido, he just took
sides with him’ says our inside source.
Davido, losing on both ends, scrapped both songs
and even though it was a huge blow, he didn’t let
it get him down. The disappointment is said to
have inspired the first track on his album ‘All of
you.’ Davido, well known for his boisterous
attitude, laid it all out on the song, claiming to be
better than ‘everyone’, referencing artistes such
as 2face, Psquare and D’banj as his mentors,
conspicuously leaving out the MAVIN and EME
crew. The MAVINS seemingly responded by not
attending Davido’s album launch, held at the Eko
Hotel and Suites.
‘Davido doesn’t send Don Jazzy or them Banky
W again, that’s what inspired that song. He
believes they aren’t better than him, and to an
extent, he does prove it’ said our source.
As It Stands
After the Don Jazzy-D’banj split, crew members
decamped and spoils were taken. While Don
Jazzy took pop singers Wande Coal, Dr SID, and
rapper D’Prince, launching his MAVIN Records
label with surprise signing Tiwa Savage, D’banj
went the other way, with his younger brother Kay
Switch. Other familiar friends like Naeto C,
Ikechukwu, Davido, the HKN Gang and Mo’Hits
hype man Special Ed readily affiliated themselves
with D’banj.
Cat And Mouse Game
After all that happened in 2013, Wizkid and
Davido sheathed their swords and then began the
cat and mouse game.
Davido’s HKN Gang continued working and
soaring high, while Wizkid kicked off his StarBoy
Entertainment even though he was still signed to
EME.
The pop stars tried to avoid each other most of
the time and when it was unavoidable, they put
up a façade to give the impression of a good
relationship.
Change Of Handlers
Davido fell out with his cousins and fellow HKN
team but later reconciled with them while Wizkid
also reconciled with EME and signed on two acts
in the United Kingdom.
A few months after Davido parted ways with his
manager, Asa Asika, Wizkid also parted ways with
his manager, Osagie Osarenkhoe after their
contract expired.
Kamal Ajiboye immediately took over Davido’s
management while his elder brother, Adewale
Adeleke took over the running of the HKN Gang
businesses.
Meanwhile, Wizkid immediately employed the
services of Godwin Tom as his manager. The two
camps looked good to go and take on any team
but the façade relationship remained, with Special
Ed always claiming the two were cool.
The Sesan Ogunro Part
Unknown to many, the relationship between
Wizkid, Davido and top music video director,
Sesan Ogunro, also contributed to the ongoing
battle for supremacy between the two.
Earlier in the year, Sesan Ogunro shot one of the
three videos for Davido’smonster hit, ‘Skelewu,’
but the video was leaked days before it’s official
release, after which Davido went on a Twitter rant
accusing the filmmaker of breaching terms of
agreement.
While Sesan, who is hardly drawn into the
limelight except through the videos he made,
cleared the air, Wizkid was quick to show his
support for the talented filmmaker, throwing
shade at Davido by praising the Sesan’s work
and referring to Davido and his crew as ‘smellos.’
A few weeks later, Sesan shot Wizkid’s ‘Jaiye
jaiye’ video, while Davido worked with Mr. Moe
Musa on a new video.
And They Grew In Leaps And Bounds
Between 2013 and 2014, Davido and Wizkid
amassed more affluence, fame and awards than
their contemporaries and older colleagues.
From Nigeria to other parts of Africa, Europe and
America, the young men continued to conquer the
world as their rivalry thickened.
Winning awards from Hip Hop World awards to
MOBO, NEAs, MAMAs and BET, the competition
for the most superior between the two grew, as
their rivalry got deeper.
Just as they performed at tours and concerts
across Europe and America, jealousy and envy
became the order of the day and the dislike for
one another couldn’t be quenched.
Trouble once again reared its ugly head after
Davido threw shade at Wizkid for allegedly
parting ways with his old friends and buddies,
Wizkid replied with his concert success, featuring
Akon and Wale on stage at his New York show.
The Twitter Rants
Both Davido and Wizkid were quick to take to
Twitter to express their mutual dislike, thereby
kicking off a beef-trending week.
Here are some tweets from the duo, despite
claims that all is well between them.
‘Snitch. No wonder you are not rolling with your
day 1 niggas,’ Davido
‘Thank you so much New York! Amazing show
last night, big up @Wale and @Akon. Proper
show, proper venue, boys talk, men work,’ Wizkid
‘Pull Half of my crowd before talking shit Nigga’
Davido
‘It’s all fun and game till somebody gets knocked
out! Ask around, I got them hands!! You would
always have a H factor, Smello…’ Davido
‘Done with all this shit!! Back to music…smooth
sailing.. Tick tock’ Davido
‘Easy to type shit about somebody and put it on
twitter, another thing wen you see face to face,’
Adewale Adeleke
All ima say is it won’t be pretty niggas ain’t
p***y but if you are willing to find out, we can
take that route as well…’ Adewale Adeleke
‘ROTFLMAO…’ Wizkid
Iyanya, Wale Gates Appeal To Warring Parties
Following what seemed like a brewing battle
between the two, older colleagues of the music
sensations have decided to wade in.
Iyanya and Wale Gates have tried to calm frayed
nerves without calling any names.
While Wale Gates used Twitter to reach out to the
youngsters, Iyanya took to Instagram to preach
about peace.

Many of us made new year resolutions and while some achieved a bit of it,some completely floped..so the question now is,did u meet ur new year resolution..plus it wnt be bad if you tell us what it was

Highly recommended for fp..pls check it out...https://www.nairaland.com/1567143/soyinka-falana-blast-apc-visiting#1567143.1

Soyinka, Falana Blast APC For Visiting Babangida,
Obasanjo, Others! Says It Is Clear They Only Want
Power
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, Sunday, lashed out
angrily at the patron-shopping strategy of the
opposition All Progressives Congress, APC,
suggesting that the strategy lacked moral focus,
and had the feel of political prostitution.
In a short email message, the professor of
literature said he was triggered by media reports
indicating that an “APC-led group …has been
paying courtesy visits to former Heads of States,”
prompting him to ask if the party had thought it
through what disaster this would mean for the
nation.
Mr. Soyinka said the media report that stirred him
to respond to the APC had these words: “Tinubu
added that the APC had resolved to rescue
Nigeria, appealing to Obasanjo to lead the
mission. We’re resolved and determined to rescue
Nigeria. We want you as navigator”.
He then asked if the APC was truly comfortable
that this represented its core principles.
“Would it be correct to state that their purpose is
captured in the following Mission Statement?” he
queried, suggesting that an impending political
disaster loomed before the nation, with grave
humanitarian consequence.
“If this attribution is correct, may I urge you, as
an urgent public service, to advise families to
begin the stockpiling of life-belts for the
guaranteed crash.
“Don’t forget to alert the coastguards – Ecowas,
AU, UNO etc etc – to be on the alert for possible
salvage operations.”
Mr. Soyinka then hinted at the moral opportunism
of the patron-shopping strategy by asking: “By
the way, If General Sani Abacha were alive today,
would he also have been on the ship’s
complement? As Captain perhaps?”
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Femi
Falana also has this to say;
“I understand that one of the retired generals is
going to become the chair of the Board of
Trustees of the APC! This is a case of alienation
from the people. How can APC leaders believe
that Nigerians want Generals Obasanjo and
Babangida to be rehabilitated after destroying the
country?
“The duo ruled for 20 years and ruined the
country in the process. General Obasanjo has just
confessed that he has been installing
incompetent leadership since 1979. And he is not
ashamed to make that provocative disclosure.
Has he offered public apology for his maxima
culpa before wooing him?
“The situation is not different in a number of
states and local council areas where the new PDP
is busy taking over all the structures of the APC.
Since the APC is positioning itself to retain the
status quo it cannot become a truly progressive
party.”
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This story don dey long..if u guys like create threads long enough to mend my boxers those dat wanna fooorrrk b4 marriage will do it..its all by the grace of God..fyi,am a virgin oo

I saw this picture not long ago and I decided to share it.its a picture of wizkid and his longtime friend.in this first split,wizkid is basically hanging on to his friend bt in this second one its more like the opposite.its funny how money can change everything

pretty_boi: I doubt he ever cited Wizkid as an example chairman. WizKid was featured on 2 songs off his first album & this new song with WizKid is on his new album (his second album).

bros abeg check his interview and read for urself..http://www.360nobs.com/2013/09/jesse-jagz-says-marijuana-was-not-reason-behind-label-exit-chocolate-city-was-uncomfortable-with-the-truth/

Its obvious this guy got a vision frm bob marley or sometim..once a cool and talented rapper,nw an ambassador for weed..and hez jst hypocritical,he once said naija music is wack and meaningless citin wizkid as an example..guess d dude finally realised that dis business is abt wat's in demand

I know if I comment dat am fine some imbeciles will definitely pour out their frustration on me..anyway,the cute pple on nairaland dnt need to announce it b4 its noticed..@op,being photogenic is different frm bein cute and ild rada go for the latter if dats wat it takes

This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody
This year I will not abuse anybody

Wait oo..did anyone else notice how horrible the song and video were...dats ws sooo dry

Rawpidgin: @ 18, most of the ladies u've dated? u should be thinking about ur future son

lol,I got a future man..am a law student in my third year and ma grades aint crashin...bt wats life without the female folks

Personally I dnt tink height is all dt neccesary..nt tryn to blow ma own horn bt it depends on packaging...am 5 '8,fine small,18 yrs old bt most of d girls ve dated tink am 20 or sumtin...be long in ur pockets and ur pants and ure good to go

nigga uve gotten it to frontpage..can u rest now...the title was wholesomely misleading

This is stupid...op do you even know the meanin of the word 'powerful'....

Godwin10: Uniben Waiting o..

wait wela...uniben wey carry this strike for head like gala

sakaguchi: Eyah!
RIP.
Is he from Uniben? So he was on his way to vote for the continuation of this strike without any pity for the students who have been crying to see the end of the impasse?
Rest in Peace sir! May your soul find eternal rest with the Lord. By the way sir, the strike will be called off.
Once again, rest in peace.

I love your use of sarcasm here...although hilarious,yet inappropriate for the issue at hand...respect to the dead