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the great king is following the foot steps of king David and king Solomon of the Bible .... God bless my king ...ade a pe Lori , irukere a pe lowo, bata a pe lese oo.... oonirisa , arole oodua, igbakeji oorisa

humility at its peak ....May God bless the humble ooni with more wisdom .... kabieyesi oooo

Pastor EA Adeboye recently visited the Palace of the Ooni of Ife, as the son of the soil, the Ooni of Ife offered Pastor Adeboye the highest and biggest sit in the parlour which is against the rule of the Oba.
Normally, the Oba sits on the highest chair, but this case was different. The Ooni of Ife had this to say:
...."There is only one God which is our Creator.... HE has Representatives here on Earth and Pastor EA Adeboye is one of them, so anytime you see them, Respect and honour them."
Source: RCCG COLFESTAC

nice one op. I don't know Nigeria has scary war ship...... lovely

lord God pls I wish to meet and shake ooni hands too..

another aregbe in the making...

lord jesus pls I want to snap with ooni too.. dis I pray in jesus name..

I rep names checker association lautech branch.. am not surprised... stupid people from the erosion ravaged middle east

I rep association of name checkers, ibadan branch. am not surprised.. stupid ppl from cursed erosion ravaged middle east..

lautech, lautech, lautech, lautech and lautech... that badoo schl na die.. that is the first schl I saw Bentley I. my life in 2009.. muscle is like a taxi in dat schl.. but I think yahoo guys in that schl don dey low key nw.. d schl bad gan.. dat 2015 guy dat dupe a white of 1 billion naira came from lautech.. he broke all record of yahoo yahoo. even I once heard dat a student sold d schl senate building to a white man in 2010..

AshiwajuFoward:
Oh my fvcking God. Didn't know I was dealing with an illiterate village champion who doesn't even know what a skyscraper is for goodness sake. Public housing buildings at Onitsha and 6-storey hotels in Owerri don turn to skyscraper. Guy, the less you talk the better for you coz you are only exposing your ignorance and embarrassing your region. Here's a list of the tallest buildings in Nigeria,educate yourself for a change. Smh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Nigeria

. oboi... u bad gan.. see how u unless d misrable motherfucker from the erosion ravaged desert... the guy thought 3 story building is a skyscraper... I don't blame him.. typical village boy.. u better come southwest and be upgraded

oponu op... don't u know when sw is governed by pdp, in state like ekiti, apc in osun oyo and Ogun and labour party in ondo state.. even sdp, and accord have a strong base in sw...

RisingSun1:
Absolute Rubbish

Where is his signature?

This DSS is still disgracing themselves.

are u blind?? check d pictures very well. fool

hahahahaahhaha..... foolish man... he should spend d easther too in prison..

greatest ladokite...... Omo ladoke owo loke!!!!!!!!! Ogbomosho is our home

hinwazaka:
This woman is so sheepish, unattractive and unpresentable. There is nothing to write home about in relation to charisma. No gait, no elegance. Just your average run of the mill boring housewife. She is a good and suitable partner for that good for nothing VP anyway. Also, she needs to sack with immediate effect her poor excuse for a Stylist. Just look at the drab gown she is putting on. I guess you can blame it on her boring, dirty tribe

Abeg let's see the pictures of the elegant LovePeddler that gave birth to a mistake like u.... if only ojukwu children and family can be this loving, happy and caring... we all know wat happend to ojukwu 's family after his death. bianca went on a pussie sharing promo sotey fani kayode even get his humble share.. ojukwu children lips hunting demself. God bless AWOLOWO'S FAMILY

basilo101:
We also need d names of those killed by Adewale Adegboyega during d so called igbo coup.
Ifeajuna - East
Nzeogwu - Midwest
Adegboyega - West

it's is ademoyega not Adegboyega.... his main mission was to seize NBC and announce d military coup and take over. he did not kill any1 during the coup...

neocortex:
This is the man who institutionalized witchcraft and wizardry
in his church. He turned children and parents against themself
with one blaming the other for their woes.
His evil legacy is part of the problems we are still grasping
with as a nation.

mad man.... u shuld Becareful of what u say pls....

The story is often told about the mother cheetah who
comes back home from the hunt to find her cubs have been trampled to death by elephants. Knowing that she is no match for these giants, she blames and kills a herd of
goats.
Similarly, when a group of Kenyan musicians took to
the streets last week calling for less Nigerian and
Tanzanian music, they were killing goats. The elephant in
this case is history. However, not even history is a match
for innovation.
It’s funny, but the country music star Kenny Rogers can
come to Kenya today, charge an arm and a leg, and play a
month of sold-out stadium gigs. Yet his heyday was in the
‘80s. The same holds true for top-tier Nigerian acts. Their
time, however, is now. Kenya seems predisposed to
preferring the foreign, the exotic, the western. At the risk of
being accused of bringing up ‘that old trope,’ it all began
with the erosion of our culture when the colonialists came.
Colonialism eroded Kenyan culture I dare say more than it
did in West Africa, in Uganda, in Tanzania. Kenya was a
settler state. The Brits had no plans of going anywhere.
Ever. And in their assistance, and under duress, we threw
the culture baby out with the pagan bath water and planted
the Church and the Union Jack over the scene of the crime
dressed in mandatory, state-issued calico cloth threatened
by the physical and mental whips of our settler masters.
And when the new government in independent Kenya
clamped down on the Funk movement of the late 70s along
with all other artistic expression, threatening and jailing
academics in the universities and strangling the media, we
shrunk into our cocoons, allowing ourselves instead to be
satiated and sedated by the likes of ABBA , The Bee Gees
and The Beatles. Homegrown innovation had been dealt a
blow that would take us decades to recover from. I was
born middle class (and English-speaking) in the ‘70s. My
predilection for all things Western was established early in
life. I would be irritated, nay embarrassed, when I’d get
home from school and find the housekeeper blasting ‘that
shady Rhumba.’ When I began my music career in the 90s
there weren’t many Kenyan musicians to look up to.
Anyone who had managed to record anything had been
condemned by society to dying, drunk or living poor, a
result of ‘loose morals and bad choices.’
I’m always slightly embarrassed when I introduce myself to
folks I meet around the continent. I’m ‘Eric,’ while the SouthAfricans are ‘Kgomotso'; the Nigerians are ‘Olusegun.’
Even while the Tanzanians might be ‘Damien’– pronounced
‘Da-mi-YEN’– they speak Kiswahili with such ease and
fluidity having studied subjects like Biology in their
national language.
The Kiswahili language rolls off their tongues like honey to the easy beat of Bongo Flavour, as close as you can get to Zouk singing on dry land. As a result, in Tanzania, American Idol loses pride of place to Project Bongo , a reality show focusing on homegrown talent. Conversely, urban Kenyans get as far as Sheng, a hybrid of Kiswahili and vernacular so diverse that kids fromestates separated by as little as a highway have different names for the same thing.
Sheng dictionaries become obsolete by the time they go to press, owing to the rapidity in the change of vocabulary. A Sheng speaker can date you to within a year of your birth, locate your home to within a street by the word you use for ‘car’ or ‘mobile phone.’
in the rural areas, Kiswahili is as foreign as Greek, and is
spoken only by those who might have picked it up in schoolor by those ethnicities whose ethnic language shares acommon Bantu base with Kiswahili, akin to that between Italian and Spanish. We claim to have a national language
Then comes the issue of national pride. If Nigerians were to group the peoples of the world in order of superiority they would place themselves first. Them. The Americans.
Manchester United. In that order. They have a very healthy
self-image. In music the battle between Nigeria and Kenya
continues to be fought mainly in the latter. I’m not sure
Naija musicians even know there’s a contest running, and
are a mixture of bemused and irritated by the prevalence of
their music on our media observed when they visit. Urban
legend recounts a Naija artist rebuking a Kenyan journalist
for fawningly informing him that he was more famous than
any Kenyan artist in Kenya. “This would never happen in
Nigeria,” he said. I want to thank him but I’m not sure that
this isn’t a threat.
Where Nigerians are proud, Kenyans are mild-mannered.
Where Nigerians are loud, we are meek. We suffer silently
and only let our anger come out in large expressions of
violence that shock the world. If a coup breaks out in most
parts of Africa today it’s greeted by a sigh and a ‘ho-hum’
by the Western world. When one thousand Kenyans meet
their deaths at the hands of their own countrymen the world stops. It takes one million Rwandese to get a similar effect.
We are non-confrontational as a people and the largely
conservative masses led by an even more conservative
elite are happier to hunker down behind their corporate
desks, more content with the bottom line than the shaking
of bottoms. We pray for the day we will beat Nigeria at
football. We’re used to losing to them. For the sake of the
Nigerian team we hope that that victory happens in Kenya.
At least we will grant them asylum. Nigerians are not used
to losing to Kenya. If our victory happens in Lagos, no one
is leaving the stadium alive. We are, however, Africans together for international events.
As Kenyans, we held our breath with them when one of the preferred candidates to succeed Pope John Paul II , the
Nigerian Cardinal Arinze , got closer to the prize. But in
secret we thanked God that he wasn’t elected because we
would have never heard the end of it. For similar reasons,
before we sleep, we raise a prayer of thanksgiving that
Obama has Kenyan and not Nigerian roots. But this
inferiority complex has plagued us even since the African
Writer Series was founded in 1962- Chinua , Wole , Cyprian
Ekwensi, Elechi Amadi . Growing up we seemed to be more
aware of them than we were of Ngugi and Meja Mwangi ;
Soyinka’s The Lion and The Jewel getting more runs than
Imbuga’s Betrayal In The City.
But when Kenyan artists march the streets asking for more
airplay, what do they really mean? Surely they don’t mean a
total ban? Where would we be without Stevie? Michael
Jackson? The Beatles? Who wants to live a life without
Beyoncé? And would you really like to be in a club that
didn’t play Tiwa Savage , Chameleone , Diamond Platnumz?
And if we embraced a total ban of art coming from outside
Kenya, why stop there? Why not ban everything that wasn’t
local? Like technology. Ban the television, the cell phone,
the car, the computer. All innovation involves a certain
amount of borrowing. You’ve got to start at a known to get
to an unknown. You’ll hear the guitar lines of Kinshasa in
the music of Stromae , Iyanya and Davido; South African
rhythms and guitar lines are the signature of Paul Simon ’s
Graceland and Vampire Weekend ’s music. In researching
this piece, I confirmed the similarity between contemporary
Naija music and traditional Coastal East African Chakacha-
a driving 12-8, triplet feel heavily reliant on a 3-2 clave
that is the signature of Afro-Cuban music. The Ragga beat
behind Flavour’s “Nwa Baby ” is exactly the same as Chaka
Demus and Plier’s “Murder She Wrote,” just at a different
tempo, and the melody of the former is borrowed from the
1930s recording of “El Manicero” by Don Azpiazu Havana
Casino Orchestra . Only heaven knows where Don Azpiazu
got his version.
Is Kenya lagging behind in music? Our lawyers, bankers,
brewers can compete with any of their colleagues globally.
A Kenyan long distance runner need only beat his next-
door neighbour to stand a chance at being the best in the
world– recent culpability of doping notwithstanding. Naija
music is brazen. It is not timid or full of angst. It walks into
the club grabbing its crotch with its recreated sound of old
turned over on its head, with easy lines and catchy hooks
shotgunned by a thumping, ear-whomping, pulsating four-
to-the-floor kick drum that grabs you, shoves a beer down
your throat and promises you that tonight you will get
lucky. And it comes with all its friends.
When a Naija song plays, it’s charging at you through the speakers riding onthe reputations of all of Nigerian Highlife, Fela , King Sunny Ade , Majek Fashek , and more recently P-Square , 2face and D’banj . Add to that the dizzying pace at which they release new material and you’ve got a tsunami. Maybe Kenya has suffered from not having an all-embracing identity genre that helps artists ride on each other’s shoulders. I’ve always been a proponent of diversity, but it can be argued that there’s not a single Jamaican Reggae, Ragga or Dub artist who’s not running on the steam of Bob Marley , PeterTosh and their contemporaries.

kr0ne:
Just in case you don't know, Enugu means "on the hills."

the first picture of Enugu u posted is not enugu... dats the picture of wildlife conserve in Cameroon.... ole..... [url]

kr0ne:
Just in case you don't know, Enugu means "on the hills."

the first picture of Enugu u posted is not enugu... dats the picture of wildlife conserve in Cameroon.... ole..... [/url]

kr0ne:
Just in case you don't know, Enugu means "on the hills."

the first picture of Enugu u posted is not enugu... dats the picture of wildlife conserve in Cameroon.... ole.....

chamboy:
u need to go to Taraba.... God finished work on that land

I will definitely try to visit Taraba state this year.... Ave been hearing a lot about the state.. I was told it is the most naturally beautiful state in northern nigeria...

op.... weldone..... ur list is accurately complied.... I think osun should be in the first five... cross river deserve the 2nd position while pleatue state deserve to b d first... anyway you try..... I don't think there is any place in east of river niger that is naturally beautiful... Ave been dere before all I can see is dirty and erosion ravaged places... red soil, mud and rough landscape...

glimpse33:
Sky Scraper Indeed.

Travel to Dubai to see the Real Sky Scraper!
Not this 'upstairs' you are talking about.

I challenge u fool to name a building as tall or better still taller than cocoa house in Biafra......