₦airaland Forum

* Nike Oshinowo: Born Adenike Asabi Oshinowo in 1968, her beauty supercedes that of her agemates and even younger ladies. Businesswoman, socialite, entrepreneur and former pageant director, I wonder who takes all the stress lines on her behalf! That makes one more beauty secret to search for...

Of course...they are not all exhausted; so, who are your own additions?

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/old-but-glowing-actresses.html

Joke Silva: Born September 29 1961, she’s black and she’s beautiful. What’s more? She’s never far away from your TV screen. I always wonder how she manages to stay relevant year in year out.. role model tinz o! Better grab yours too

*Onyeka Onwenu: Born 17 May 1961, Mama Africa looks the same always. She is currently the chairperson of the Imo State Council for Arts and Culture. Her evergreen track, ‘Iyo gogo’, interests me always *smiles*. One will wonder what her beauty secret is.. guess what her answer is?... “It is God”.

Rachael Oniga: It’ll interest you to know that she is Ngozi Ezeonu’s birthday mate. I guess May 23rd celebrants are beautiful people one should look out for. Born in1957 in Eku, Delta state, this old-mama-yongie is not tired of the spotlight. She is known for playing matronly roles in movies. She surprised everyone during the Nollywood Nite at the Coliseum when she jumped onto the stage and danced heartily to Olu Maintain’s "Yahooze". Beat that?

Liz Benson: Born December 31st 1969, this screen diva never gets old. Her marriage to Bishop Great Ameye of Freedom Family Assembly after her long years of widowhood made heads turn and kept gossips busy for some time.

For some people, age has appeared to be fair in terms of physical appearance. Among them are these Nollywood actresses whose beauties have stood the test of time:


Ngozi Ezeonu: Born May 23rd 1965, Ngozi has been making waves in Nollywood since 1993. I hope you can remember that old movie titled ‘Nneka. The Pretty Serpent.’ Mother of four, Ngozi glows on!


http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/old-but-glowing-actresses.html

*Freestyle: From d Tyrbesmen group till he started out on his own, Freestyle was one of the hottest rappers back then. Where he is now, I wonder!!!

C-mion: To remember cmion,you'll have to remember his hit single back den 'shake it' and 'no be God' wit gino. The guy was hoot back then but heard he is now a born again christian and has two singles to attest to this

*2shortz: He hasn't been gone for too long, but everyone still wonders where he has gone to after dropping that hit with Mr Incredible .He got married recently at the Ikoyi registry. Marriage responsibilities? *shrugs*

*Big Lo: You should remember 2shotz and Big Lo's "Delicious" because it was a great hit around 2004 and 2005 thereabout. Much later, Big Lo just faded with the wind.

*Sanchez: Yeah, this guy's hit really made people crave for more back then. The edo rapper dropped a single ' pick it up' which was like a comeback to Snoop Dogg's drop it like its hot. Much later,we never heard about him again.

*Eddie Remedy: He is the former member of the remedies and former hubby to Kenny Saint Brown. After he left the group,he tried to stage a comeback, but it was shaky,and I bet he just gave up.

*Jazzman Olofin: From the X-appeal group,then starting out on his own, Jazzman really rocked the good old days with his songs 'raise the roof' and 'shake something'. He had his second child last year august. Family man...

*Tolu Maintain: Everybody remembers Maintain, and the break up saga. While Olu moved on, Tolu also did a song with big bamo 'Kowonje', after which noone heard from him again. Tolu, where are you?

*Tony Tetuila: Former Remedies member,he is known for songs like 'My Car' that made a great hit back then and also his collabo with Ghana's VIP, 'Two Women' but he seems to be missing in action these days.

*Blaise: Rapstar, Blaise started out hot,spicy and on fire. She is known for her collabos in MI's song, Obiwon's "Obi Mo Rmx", we have been waiting for more, but it seems we won't be getting.

* Overdose: One of nigerian's rapstars especially known for his song ' Alujo', Overdose just went off and none has heard anything from him.

*Lexzy Doo: Former singer in the group X Appeal with Jazzman olofin, he came out with his own track, Baby Ske Ske ,then Omo Ele. After that, he seems to have vanished into thin air.

*Blackface: Member of the Plantashun Boyz, he came out with his album after separation, with songs like 'Hard Life,etc. That seemed to be all.

* Mr Kool: The guy with that sweet sensual voice back then, he is known for his collabo with Idris Abdulkareem and his single 'work that', he was a bit of a struggling artiste back then.

The simple question is, where are all these artistes?!

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/where-are-these-artistes.html

Station: Channels Television
Programme: Sunrise Show (Live)
Language: English Language (Not pidgin o…)
Supporting Speakers: Patrick Obiagbon for Wole Soyinka
Panel of Judges: You, of course!


Nigerians have expressed amazement at the flawless choice of words used by the First Lady of Nigeria to lambast Prof. Wole Soyinka.

Just look at this excerpt from her speech as read by her spokesperson, Ayo Osinlu: “It is an embarrassment to his throng of admirers and followers that a sage of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s status, who used to be a guage of public morality in this nation would lend himself to a propaganda of high drive, to save a Governor who was elected to launch into a river without applicable survival skills”.

They want to tell us that the First Lady wrote that?

Now, Nigerians have vexed and have challenged her to a one-on-one debate with the Professor on Television. Well, if both will agree to attend, you can trust that it’d be a double explosion from both sides (Don’t get your head too close to the television …else, you might just lose it). While Hon. Patrick will support Prof. Wole Soyinka in the blowing of “grammar”, you can expect that the other side will shoot “eyinbo” (they are two different things entirely…*big smile). It is the presenter I pity; he’d most likely burst into flames…!

Please, don't choke on your laughter…and talking about the winner…let the most explosive team win!

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/patience-versus-soyinka-debate.html#more

What kind of a mother would do this to an 8-month-old baby?

Xiao Bao was stabbed 90 times in the face with scissors by his mother for biting her while she was breastfeeding him. The baby was left in a pool of blood before an uncle came to the rescue.After 100 stitches on the baby, doctors who operated upon him now believe he will survive the ordeal. Another photo after the cut:

News, Xiao Bao, motherhood, mother stabs baby for biting her, Chinese baby

The mother of the infant makes a living with two of his uncles, recycling trash. It's not clear if cops have detained the mother, who is currently undergoing psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she is mentally ill.

Simply put, the results must be positive!

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/ridiculous-woman-stabs-breastfeeding.html#more

With regards to the media, Nigeria appears to be coming up…. But in the course of the evolution, what haven’t we seen? At some point Galaxy TV (Lagos) presenters were sitting on stools and a certain cameraman was funny enough to show the full shot of a presenter who had removed one of his legs from his palm slippers and had put it on the adjoining legs of the stool…hehehe! Take note, they don’t sit on stools anymore though…*big smile.


Some other newscasters will not just cease to amaze us with their dressing…and the reporters? Oh, goodness! ... funny accents, pronunciations and of course, names. AIT is particularly known for uniquely-named reporters.

Some other television stations have just one background with which almost all their programmes are presented…one brown curtain here in a particular local NTA station comes to mind. Others steal sports highlights from stations like Supersports in such a way that even a baby will recognize that there is something fishy about the absurd information covering the top of the television screen where the Supersports logo would originally have been.

What’s more, some television stations start airing interesting movies that they never complete; they just cut the movie short without any apology and slot in programmes upon programmes until it dawns on you that they have no plans of allowing you to see the conclusion of the movie. And talk about the repetition of the same movies over and over again…

Lest I sound judgemental, I think these stations are actually improving by the day but really…which is your worst Nigerian TV station

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/worst-nigerian-tv-station.html

Twitter @tutubranch

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson

Date Of Death: September 3, 1970,
Cause of Death: Barbiturate overdose, possible suicide
Band: Canned Heat


http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/27club-musicians-who-died.html

Jim Morrison

Date Of Death: July 3, 1971.
Cause of Death: "heart failure"
Band: The Doors

Janis Joplin

Date of Death: October 4, 1970, 27 years and 258 days
Cause of Death: Drugs overdose
Band: The Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band

Brian Jones

Date Of Death: July 3, 1969.
Cause of Death: Drowned in a swimming pool
Band: Rolling Stones

Les Harvey

Date Of death: May 3, 1972,
Cause of Death: Electrocution by live microphone after touching it with his wet hands
Band: Stone the Crows
There they are; the club of famous artistes who died at the young age of 27.

Kurt Cobain

Date Of Death: April 5, 1994,
Cause of death: suicide by shotgun
Band: Nirvana

Jimi Hendrix

Date of Death: September 18, 1970.
Cause of Death: Asphyxiated on vomit after combining sleeping pills with wine.
Band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys

You must have heard of "27 Club",a term which refers to those artistes that have died at the age of 27, either by accident or self destruction. Here are some of them:

Fame is wonderful, however, celebrities especially the young artistes need to avoid self destruction through drugs, over-partying and other social vices. Live healthy and learn from experience and examples

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/27club-musicians-who-died.html

Amy Winehouse

Date of Death: July 23, 2011,
Cause of Death: Probable drugs overdose.

The world's largest private yacht, Azzam, took to the sea yesterday. Believed to have been ordered by a middle east billionaire, Azzam is a staggering 590 feet long and was built by German firm, Lurssen, for a whooping £400million.

It has knocked Roman Abramovich off the owners' top spot and was officially unveiled for the first time in April following three years at the shipbuilder's docks in Bremen.

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/photos-world-largest-yatch.html

Some of us actually heard of the hairstyle, Bob Marley before we knew about the musician himself...lol. Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley and his friends formed the Wailing Wailers.The Wailers got their big break in 1972 when they landed a contract with Island Records. Marley sold more than 20 million records, making him the first international superstar to emerge from the so-called Third World. He died in Miami, Florida, on May 11, 1981.

So, here are facts about him that you should know:
1. He believed that smoking weed makes you free.
2. He was born Nesta Robert Marley, but a Jamaican passport official swapped his first and middle names when he was a little boy.

3. His father was white, and his mother was black, but he self-identified as a black African.
4. He was raised Catholic, but converted to Rastafari in the 1960’s.
5. When he first married his wife Rita and moved to the states, he spent time working at the DuPont and Chrysler plants under the alias “Donald Marley.”
6. In 1976 A few days before the Smile Jamaica Concert, a gunman broke into Bob's house and shot him in the arm. Bob still performed at the concert not wanting to give the gunman the benefit of the doubt. The gunman is still unknown.
7. Bob Marley has an undetermined number of children, though his official website recognizes eleven.
8. He was a vegetarian due to his devotion to the Rastafari practice.
9. His favorite Reggae singer was Bunny Wailer, and he thought the rest were “skanks.”.
10. His band, The Wailers, was once fired from a tour because they were more popular than the act they opened for.
11. His final words to his son Ziggy before he died of cancer at the age of 36 were “Money can’t buy life.”


http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/facts-about-bob-marley.html

Sometimes, we don't know how much load we have acquired as Nigerians, until it is time to move out of that house where we have stayed for so long. You would then begin to see the books you used in primary school, exercise books from secondary school, the cardigan your mum wore to college and even some wedding gifts of your parents that remain unwrapped...lol.

Today is Saturday...enough of this 'it might be useful" mentally that makes us amass unnecessary load. Organize a “throwing out” day every month to make sure that you don’t have clutter building up. Particularly, here are some of the things you should consider purging from your home today:

Old Magazines:
Magazines are usually colorful and beautiful...so much so that we think they should automatically go into an archive of issues and editions, especially if we are ardent readers of particular titles. However, you should ask yourself what you have done with the pile of magazines lying around you? How many have you read cover-to-cover again and again. You had better go and exchange them all for puff-puff...lol!
On a more serious note, if you have an article that really speaks to you, you can scan a digital image of it and keep it in your computer. Or keep a folder of magazine clippings if you like saving magazine articles.Once you're done, simply forget about how much you bought the "expensive" magazine and do away with the rest!

Receipts, Bills and Documents
Don't throw away the receipt of your Laptop o...just in case you meet a 9ja policeman on the road...lol. Throw away receipts for items that you aren’t planning on returning or selling, and ones that you won’t need to use come tax time. Also, why keep the deposit slip of a banking transaction for a year; when the person you sent money to has received, spent and even forgotten about the money.

Clothes:
Use the two-year-rule for clothes-get rid of apparel that you haven’t worn in two years. Note that I didn't say you should wear your cloths for just two years o...I only said, if you have not worn it in two years, then you are most likely not to wear it anymore in a lifetime!

Books:
You are a medical doctor, planning to get married...but somewhere in your house, you still have the likes of Ali, Simbi, Edet and Agbo residing in your bookshelf. Common man! Beautiful memories they bring...but you just have to let them go.

In doing this, you may however decide to leave some textbooks you think may come in handy irrespective of what class you used them. For basic English principles for instance, you may always have to refer to your Brighter Grammar, Mastering English etc. But having done Common Entrance and passed it twenty years ago, what is your "Odiaka" still doing in your house?!

Don't throw away books though...you can give them out or even sell them out to people who will re-sell them at cheaper rates.

Medicine and Vitamins:
Yes, it's good to have a first aid box or a medicine closet but when medicine stays there for too long, you have expired drugs in your hands.Take a look at your medicine closet and clear out drugs that have expired, medicine that has sat on your shelf for too long, or ones that you no longer use. Do not also forget to check what the proper disposal methods for your drugs are. First, check to see what the proper disposal methods are.

Plastics:
We can so keep plastics! Plastic spoons, cups, plates, buckets, etc. collected as souvenir from "owambe" parties do not cease to seem ever so useful to us. Check the kitchen, bathrooms and everywhere for plastics that are no longer in use, and you can dispose of them.

Bags and Shoes: Just like cloths that seem ever so appealing to us until they are condemned, bags and shoes will always appeal to our sense of usefulness, as long as they can still be worn or carried. But it is not until when a shoe gets totally condemned that you dispose of it...if you have worn it for so long that you now have new ones that are the "reigning champions", you can simply give it away to people who will find it more useful.

Plastic Bottles:
Yes, we always want to store-up water in the refrigerator and all that...but that does not mean that every plastic bottle should be treasured with such n great care; except of course, you are into the business of selling "sobo"...or "kunu"...lol! Storing water in the fridge works best with bottles of the same size, you can specially plan for that. Once you have, you can consume the content of your plastic drink and forget about the bottle!

Electronics and their Corresponding Packs:
As part of your archives, you are saving electronics as per their evolution...you should seriously consider disposing of some of them...abeg! This one is the most ridiculous- the television is condemned already but the pack with which your father bought it in the 70's is still lying graciously somewhere...common!

Jewellery:
The jewellery you bought years ago has faded already (50 carat "panda", my brother calls it...hehehe), but it is still lying somewhere in your trinket box. You are probably thinking that you will need some part of it someday, maybe the hook, to fit another jewellery that is getting spoilt...but by so doing, you only subscribe to wearing "panda" for a life time....hehehe!

Bottles of Cosmetics and etc.
Okay...sometimes these producers come up with promos and they ask us to submit wrappers or containers of their products to claim a prize...but are you seriously preparing for that? How can we explain that you have empty bottles of perfumes lying on your dressing table? Because they were expensive when you bought them? Some ladies keep the bottles of their creams as if to say it is a medal for taking care of their skins...haba!

So...there you go...try to define the things that are really useful and let go of the others. Don't forget that some of these things lying redundant to you might be useful to some other persons. This is something you do time after time, and not just at once...so that you remain rational in your judgement. Plus, if it is not your personal property do ask for permission from your family members before you dispose of them!

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/things-to-throw-away.html

Twitter @tutubranch

This is not only a bizarre account of how Wang Fang, a 27-year-old Chinese was born with her feet facing backwards; it is also an inspiring account of how she has learnt to live with her condition, to the extent of refusing a disability pension.
A waiteress, she was quoted as saying; "I can run faster than most of my friends and have a regular job as a waitress in the family restaurant. There is no reason to class me as disabled."Doctors and her family feared she would not be able to walk properly when she was born, but agreed that she can now outrun anyone she knows.

Wang, who has a five year-old son with normal feet, said: "I can walk as well as anyone else, and even run faster than them. I'm like everyone else - except of course that I put my shoes on backwards."

Now...here is the lesson...is there any "disability" in your body or physical world? It shouldn't make you disabled in any way. You are more than your body, man...you have your mind!

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/woman-with-backward-feet.html

Derrick Thomas

Derrick had seven kids with five different women. It was expected that there would be a lot of cash to be given to his children when he died due to his $34 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs.
However, between $20,000 every month in child support, and over $60,000 every month in credit card bills, there was barely any money left to pass on. Oh, and he was only 33 when he died...

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/20-notorious-womanizer-athletes-in.html

Shawn Kemp

He has seven kids with six different women and it is rumored that there are many more. This just adds onto his legal issues which includes possession of cocaine, 60 grams of marijuana and a semi-automatic pistol.

Calvin Murphy

He had 14 kids with 9 different women; no wonder he was called "Pocket Rocket". In 2004, he was accused of molesting five of his daughters. A jury found him not guilty but there are still speculations about the whole incident.

Jose Canseco

There has been speculation of Canseco’s extra-curricular activities from the start of his baseball career. He was married twice and both ended due to domestic violence. He has also been said to say that “Madonna wanted his baby” and he proposed to Lady Gaga via Twitter yet the two have never met. He also bashed his ex-girlfriend Leila Shennib on Twitter and posted her personal phone number.
He probably now realizes that all that is waste of time; we never get to hear anything about him these days.

Travis Henry

Henry was a former NFL running back with the Bills, Titans and Broncos. He had 11 kids with 10 different women- one kid during high school, two during college, six during his NFL career and two after he retired. Oh, and I should not fail to mention that he had all of the children before the young age of 28!

Tiki Barber

Tiki Barber ditched his 8-month pregnant wife Ginny for a 23-year old blonde chick that had been featured in Maxim and was an NBC intern. The couple had been married for 11 years. Eight days after his official divorce, he went and married his mistress.Now, womanizer may not take the definition of quantity of harm done...but of quality of harm done!

Magic Johnson

Magic admitted to having sex with around 300 people per year for a few years. However his life took a turn in 1991 when he admitted to being infected with HIV. At this point in time he announced he had "lost count" of his number and said he had absolutely no idea which girl that he got it from.

The devastating news forced him to retire his career with the LA Lakers. 21 years later, Magic is still active with his foundation, which attempts to decrease the occurrence of HIV/Aids in vulnerable people. He was able to get married and have a child, neither of which are HIV positive. Overall, Johnson's reputation went from promiscuous in the 90's to a role model now.
AIDS is real o…o ye womanizers!

Derek Jeter

Some people say that keeping up with Derek’s dating life was just plain annoying because you never know which celebrity he was going to be with. His longest relationship lasted about three years with Minka Kelly. He's also known to have relationships with Mariah Carey, Jessica Biel, Vanessa Minnillo among many more.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo has dated a lot of women, including celebrities- Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Imogen Thomas. He also has a child already whom nobody seems to know the baby mama. She wasn't seen for the first year or so of her child's birth and there are speculations that Ronaldo is paying her to keep hush about who she is.

However, he seems to have taken a turn for good and is now in a two-year relationship with Irina Shayk.

Tiger Woods

Tiger was married to Elin Nordegen but he had one of the most infamous reputations of womanizing in sports history. Numerous mistresses came to admit Tiger had affairs with them, some film stars, some waitresses from local dinners.
Like you can guess, the end of it was not palatable as he paid a hefty $110 million for his divorce settlement and is now forbidden to have any of his girlfriends around his kids.

http://www.tutubranch.com/2013/07/20-notorious-womanizer-athletes-in.html