Iconic Nigerian Afropop singer, Davido has revealed in a new interview that detectives in the United States came to search his house when he first bought it.
In the interview with Channel 4, the singer stated that the detectives were suspicious of him because of the neighbourhood where he bought the house.
In his own words,
“I’m the only African person in that neighbourhood so I moved in and two days later, detectives came to my door. They came in and searched the whole house asking me what I do because I bought that house cash. I don’t have a problem with authorities but it might be shocking,” he said.
“I won’t say it is racism, that’s how they’ve been brainwashed. Living in America, you are brought up to think that Africa is a no-go area. In Africa, we are brought up to think that these people took everything from us so that is something that we have to fix.”
The 26-year-old Afrobeats singer described entertainment as a saving grace for Africa saying, “that is the only thing we can look at and smile.”
Davido said he might probably go into politics or hang around the political circle.
“I might probably go into politics. If I’m not in it 100%, I might just be around. There’s a lot of things going home that’s not right. If I was in that position, there’s a lot of things I’ll do differently.
“Being African is cool now. It’s not only music, there’s the clothes, food and the whole culture.
“I have the biggest record ever in America right now, an African record. Most of the record is broken English, I’m speaking in broken English they don’t even know what I’m saying but it feels good.”
A Twitter user who probably had expectations for Big Brother Naija 2018 housemate, Teddy A, aired his disappointment at the singer after the latter shared a photo on social media page recently.
After leaving the Big Brother Naija reality show last year, ex-housemate Teddy A dropped two songs, ‘Down’ and ‘Balance,’ but the unknowing Twitter user went to singer’s page to drop a comment under the photo above to question him over unreleased songs.
He probably won’t know what hit him when the singer gave him a response that should put him in check.
The 15-year-old girl now identified as Miss Chinwe, who got married to a demented old man in Anambra is a nursing mother with a six months old baby, it has been discovered.
The wedding between the little girl and the man which happened few days ago in Ozubulu area of Anambra, had caused a stir among Nigerians who vehemently condemned the union which was dubbed ‘unholy’.
According to activist, Prince Harrison Gwamnishu, the demented man Izuchukwu Igwilo is said to be a businessman based in Lagos.
It has also been reported that the commissioner for Ministry of Women and Child Welfare Anambra State, Nigeria Police Anambra command and other concerned Nigerians have waded into the matter to rescue the teenage girl from the marriage.
Miss Chinwe has been handed over to Ministry of Women and Child Welfare in Anambra State.
A Nigerian man who took to his Facebook page to welcome his 3rd child into the world, in the process, condemned other guys who always use contraceptives.
One Young Kenopia TN on the platform certainly wowed many of his friends when he revealed that his newborn child is his third child from his third baby mama.
Young Kenopia shaded other men who use condoms as he stated that he’s now a proud father of three kids… He wrote alongside photos,
Be there and be using condom to fuck up and down, here’s my third child from another baby mama
Am now a father of three beautiful kids
Welcome my little princess goodness
Earlier today, she yet again called for more attention with the claim that she is a man.
She took to her page to tell her followers she has a confession… Sharing a photo of herself, she wrote,
I have a confession to make y’all, I’m actually a man ? ??? #justforlaughs #melaninpoppin #blackisbeautiful #gambianprincess #saynotobleaching #princessshyngle Happy new month y’all ????
A man who discovered that his girlfriend was cheating on him devised a rather hilarious way of welcoming her at the Airport.
The photo of the man, standing in the airport in Melbourne, Australia with a huge sign saying “I KNOW YOU CHEATED” was posted on Twitter last Wednesday by Twitter user Krystal.
The gentleman was apparently waiting for the “cheater” to come through the airport. The twitter user posted the photo with the caption,
At Melbourne airport today he was waiting to greet his cheating partner… I AM DECEASED
The thread has been retweeted 25 000 and given 75 000 likes so far.
Three women lost their lives after a boat which was heading to Bayeiku, Ikorodu, from Oke Ira Nla, Ajah, Lagos state capsized earlier today.
The boat which is reported to have been conveying 20 passengers, ran into a submerged object and capsized mid-sea within the Oke Ira Nla axis while heading to Bayeiku area of Ikorodu, at 12:15pm on Saturday.
Confirming the incident, the General Manager of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Mr. Damilola Emmanuel disclosed that an on the spot investigation is being carried out by LASWA.
According to him, the number of casualties of the boat which capsized in Lagos could have been as a result of fear or shock, as all passengers were wearing their life jackets.
“Unfortunately, three persons were confirmed dead, while 17 persons were rescued alive.
“LASWA sympatises with the families of the deceased and the Agency is committed to achieving a zero incident rate on the waterways through enforced regulations and thorough risk management culture” Emmanuel said.
A traffic thief was ruthlessly dealt with after he was caught trying to steal a phone inside a moving car. Apparently, the thief thought he could have his way by sticking his hand into a moving vehicle and make away with the mobile device he had preyed on.
He was rather unfortunate as he was caught by the hand and was not going to be let go as the car continued on motion while passengers in the vehicle served him justice there as they slapped him numerously.
The Twitter user who shared the video which has since had people talking, found the situation, said to have occurred in Congo, rather hilarious as he wrote alongside the video,
This guy attempted to pull a phone from this car and the passengers caught his hand and this is what happened ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Watch the video below,
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A few days ago, we brought you reports about how a fresh graduate of History and International Studeis from the UNiversity of Calabar died in a motor accident on the 28th of January, 2019, just a few days to her wedding, which was slated for the 2nd of February.
Mary has been buried on her ‘Wedding Day’ which is today, 2nd of February.
The accident which took her life occurred in Edor, Ikom local government area of Cross River State.
She was said to be on her way to her hometown for the traditional wedding rites. Late Owan was a niece to University of Calabar Vice Chancellor, Prof. Zana Akpagu.
Veteran rap artiste, Naeto C and his stunning wife, Nicole, held the the baptism of their second daughter, Naeso, on Friday February 1st.
The couple welcomed their baby girl, Naeso in November 2018. Sharing photos on her page, his wife wrote,
Today is my birthday. Today was Soso’s baptism into the Faith. Today is the Best Day Ever.
#31 #Feb1st #FebruaryBaby #HappyBirthdayToMeeeeee #WelcomeHomeSoso
While he, shared a photo of just the three of them alone, wrote,
So yesterday was very special, we celebrated my amazing wife’s @nicolechikwe birthday and doubled up with our daughter, Naeso’s baptism; so blessed to have them?
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has just tweeted to confirm he’s safe and sound after a helicopter carrying him and his crew crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi State. (ICYMI)
Taking to his Twitter page to confirm his status, the VP wrote,
‘We are safe and sound! Thank you to everyone who has expressed concern and thank you to the crew who managed the situation well. We believe that God will continue to keep us and Nigeria safe even as we go higher’
His aide, Laolu Akande, had earlier confirmed that the VP and everyone involved in the crash were okay.
A woman has taken to her social media page to call out a school situated in the Lekki side of Lagos, after her son’s hair was mysteriously shaved off in the school.
The lady who took to her Instagram page to give her narrative, gave details on how shocked she was to see that her son’s hair had been shaved off – she says in these days of money ritual, she cannot keep quiet.
To make the whole scenario even more suspicious, the said school refunded the child’s school fees as seen in a letter written to the family, which she also shared on her page.
See her post:
Please read my current situation. I need all the help I can get. I need answers to my questions.
On the 18th of January 2019, after dressing my children up for school, my husband dropped them off.
I usually pick them up at school but I was busy and requested that that the school drop them with the school bus .
I noticed a strange thing on my son’s head immediately and I asked him what happened to his head/hair. He said he was sleeping in the class and one of the students woke him up.
I immediately went to the student’s house(names withheld) and asked what he knew about my son’s shaved head. He responded that he knew nothing about it. Thereafter, I called the owner of the school about what happened and on Sunday, she came to my house that the matter would be investigated.
After waiting and not getting any feedback as promised, I reported the matter to the police station. She was subsequently invited and asked to come with the teacher and class nanny. The DCO of police stated she would go to the school to see things by herself.
She pleaded I should allow my chidren return to school, assuring me that nothing would happened to them. The DCO also asked the little boy that my sons said woke up but the little boy was just crying.
The class teacher was also said to have gone to one of the student’s house and upon enquiry from the school owner, she said the teacher is also carrying out her own investigation. What investigation? When the police is involved already!
During one of these period, my son said his teacher told him to mention the boy that woke him up from sleep as the person that shaved his hair.
Since the DCO has assured us that my kids are safe, we let them returned to the school and to my surprise, the owner of the school after the close of the day, refunded the money we have paid to the school and wishing my kids all the best in life.
I have been in turmoil since this incident happened because nobody could explain why my son’s hair was shaved and who did especially in this season when pants, pads and diapers are being stolen for God knows what purpose.
Attached is the shaved hair, the refunded cheque and the letter from the school.
A Nigerian man said to be a soldier has been captured on camera assaulting a Keke Rider in Yaba, Lagos for allegedly ignoring him when he spoke to him.
The video was shared on Twitter by a user, @iammrzone – in the video, the officer is seen landing heavy slaps on the Keke Rider while another colleague watches without holding him back.
The unidentified soldier in mufti was later seen seizing the key to the tricycle.
The user who shared the video wrote,
This is so wrong. This stupid Army man decided to beat the Keke driver because he spoke to him and the keke driver ignored him
We reported earlier of how Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo was involved in a helicopter crash as he flew to Kabba, Kogi State for a campaign tour towards the forthcoming general elections.
Gracefully, the VP and the rest of his crew came out unhurt and according to his aide, he embarked on his scheduled program. His aide, Laolu Akande, confirmed that the VP and everyone involved in the crash were okay in a tweet where he wrote,
“VP Osinbajo’s Chopper crash lands in Kabba, but he and the entire crew safe, he is continuing with his engagements and plans for the day in Kogi State.”
In light of this report, a new video which captures the moment when the VP was rescued out of the crashed helicopter, has emerged online.
The Helicopter is surrounded by security officials who quickly went to the rescue of the VP and his aide… Watch video below,
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A suspect identified as Emmanuel Johnson, has been arrested after he stole the whooping sum of N660,000 from his friend’s bank account.
According to multiple reports, the suspect was said to have visited his friend, identified as Ibrahim at his home in Delta state, where he reportedly stole the said friend’s ATM card without the victim’s knowledge.
Moments later, it was gathered that Ibrahim was shocked when he received a debit alert of N660,000, just few hours after Emmanuel left his house.
Ibrahim quickly rushed to the bank to freeze his account, and also block his ATM card, before he reported the issue to the police.
The police immediately swung into action and discovered that Emmanuel, his friend was behind the shady withdrawal.
It was learnt that the suspect had uploaded pictures of himself grooving on Facebook and also flaunted wads of cash online.
The suspect was nabbed on Friday, February 1st (yesterday) over the crime which he committed on 18th of January, 2019.
He will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
Very popular slay queen Symply Tacha was today, spotted at one of the centres of the Big Brother Naij audition, which is ongoing across the country.
Apparently, the video was shared by a lady, Gochi Lambert who mocked her ‘for living a fake life’, as she ‘slays’ on Instagram; “But is hungry in real life”.
She tagged the video; “Sorry I had to do this,never wish to be anyone just cos they’ve got 211k ff on ig,most of them haven’t even eaten well self, So this @symply_tacha is nothing close to what she posts online, not fair one bit, @tundeednut come and see your babe oo.”
The lady could be heard in the video berating Symply Tacha and even called her unprintable names while she was walking in on the line to be auditioned.
Symply Tacha who also doubles as a brand influencer on Instagram, however did not give attention to the troll and rather focused on her destination.
Watch the video below;
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Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo has just escaped death after the helicopter conveying him crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi State.
Reports say the incident happened during a campaign tour of the state.
According to an aide of the Vice-President, Laolu Akande, he’s confirmed that the VP and everyone involved int he crash is okay.
Laolu Akande said the vice president and the crew were unhurt.
“VP Osinbajo’s Chopper crash lands in Kabba, but he and the entire crew safe,” Akande tweeted. “He is continuing with his engagements and plans for the day in Kogi State.”
VP Osinbajo's Chopper crash lands in Kabba, but he and the entire crew safe. He is continuing with his engagements and plans for the day in Kogi State.
Today 2nd of February 2019, A Big Brother Naija aspirant who came for the audition for this year’s edition of the reality TV show, proposed to his girlfriend at the Lagos audition center.
The young man identified as Thompson went on one knee to ask for the hand of his girlfriend, Jessica in marriage and she said ‘YES’.
The end to the four-month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU), is not in sight as the re-conciliatory meeting between the Federal Government and the striking lecturers which held on the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, in Abuja last night, ended in a stalemate.
ASUU had embarked on the strike since November last year following the failures of Federal government to implement the agreement reached on the funding of universities, the payment of outstanding earned allowances and sundry issues.
Before Friday’s meeting which lasted about three hours, a five hour meeting two weeks ago could not resolve the differences in the government’s position and the demands of ASUU, although the minister said that” substantial progress was made and that with the few areas of disagreement remaining, the strike would soon be over.”
Unlike before, both ASUU and the minister declined to disclose what the meeting agreed upon and when the strike will be called off.
After much prodding, ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi just said progress is being recorded.
“We are making progress,” he quipped and declined to say if government has agreed to their demands for the strike to be called off.
The next meeting between the lecturers and the Federal government comes up innext Thursday February 7th.
A Nigerian lady who actually is a graduate has decided to chase her really, really unique passion of styling a people’s hair especially men’s and this has got most social media users wowed.
Charles Anitha (@AnithaCharles) on Twitter, took to her page to share her skill with her followers as she shared a photo of herself styling a man’s head.
She revealed that she found love with the clipper and she enjoys beautifying people. It’s no doubt that Anita’s kind is quite rare coupled with the fact that she’s a graduate too.
See her tweet below,
I am a graduate. But I found love with the clipper. I beautify people by barbing and styling their hair. My office is located at Pedro, in Gbagada, Lagos. Please kindly retweet. pic.twitter.com/215rW2jCIS
Since Anitha’s post, several Twitter users quoted her tweet as they dropped goodwill messages and also to encourage her.
See some reactions below,
See how beautiful life is.. Someone found love with the Clipper all Guys found love in her Work.. To who may concern i am proud of you, i don't know you tho
I am happy u found something u r passionate about n u pursuing it many of us have pasion forj stuffs different from what we studied n often don't feel fulfilled till we follow it
I passed by the venue yesterday morning and the crowd was already beginning to overflow.
Read Ivan-Whyte Eagle Lawson’s very detailed, jarring, albeit hilarious eye witness account to that farce called BBN auditions. According to him, blood flowed, limbs were torn and heads broken.
Where do I start from?
From going for BBN auditions to turning to a casualty specialist and helping admit unconscious bodies in the hospital?
Mentally traumatized:Permit me this tautology.
The blood and mangled flesh I have seen this morning alone could fill up a 400 leaved photo album if I decided to take pictures.
Have never been happier to be back home.
As early as 5am this morning,my mum phoned me.
I told her I was preparing to head to Ikeja for the Big Brother Naija auditions,and she seemed hesitant with a response to that.
I kind of expected a ‘good luck’ or something similar,but my mum’s voice sounded a little worried from the other end.
She just told me to call her once I arrived the venue.
So ‘Vroooom’–I zoomed through traffic and rolled into Aromire avenue,Ikeja to meet the longest and thickest sea of humans I had ever seen in my entire life.
3 packed-out world standard stadiums had nothing on the crowd of humans I saw on that street this morning.
It wasn’t yet 7am yet,but nothing less than 13,500 humans were sandwiched on that road already–and caused traffic congestion that stretched from Oregun into Awolowo way and diagonally upwards towards Allen and Sheraton hotels.
Instantly reality hit me.
This wasn’t an audition.
This was just a formality for the cameras.
More than 90% of the people who had shown up for the audition didn’t have international passports.
Many even boasted about it openly.
More than 80% learnt of the auditions yesterday from friends who told them:’Come try your luck na–you fit win N45 million.’
At least 60% of the crowd ‘applying’ weren’t entertainment inclined, nor even understood what the essence of the show was.
They just saw it as an ‘awoof gamble’ that did not require cash to participate.
I won’t talk about the guys that were wearing wigs,plaiting coloured hair,slinging non-functional guitars and wearing stage costume.
(Even a cross-dressed male with artificial eye lashes,female clothing and heels also came to audition.)
It is the stampeding that I want to talk of.
I watched a girl clutch at my legs with her last will-power and beg:’Help me’–before hundreds of legs stomped her out of sight beneath the ocean of feet.
I hope she survived.
In less than 5 minutes of trying to hew my way through 7,000 grimy bodies and get to the gate,my white and green customized Tee-shirt tore in 3 places and I was looking like a tunnel bomb explosion survivor who slept in a dust bin.
A lady trying to scale the perimeter fence got slashed on the upper thigh with sharp steel and narrowly missed dissecting her vagina by a few cm.
See blood like a fountain.
International Passport and phone thieves had a field day too,and 6 out of every 10 people had their shoes trapped under collapsed metal–never to be found again.
A seedy guy who fell from the top of the security post was trampled upon by a lady and her stiletto heels tore his septum(skin dividing nose into nostrils) off.
I watched as this guy held his injured nose and cried like a baby as people trampled him over like he was some abandoned sack of yam peelings.
No body send am.
Within the 3 hours I lingered around that venue trying to get in,I saw about 8 women slumping unconscious and being raised above the heads and passed from hand to hand like the way they moved ladies that fainted in Michael Jackson’s live concerts.
And trust me–the ones whose lifeless bodies were even lifted and passed above the sea of heads–out of the melee of bodies were the lucky ones.
Several collapsed from lack of oxygen and were trampled upon for like 10 minutes first before some considerate human called for rescue.
A lot of the candidates had arrived the venue as early as 1am today and had stood till 7am without a morsel of food and water–before commencing pushing,huffing and struggling,falling and rolling.
My height saved me from sustaining grave injury by being mowed over and trampled to an inch of my life.
But in quick minutes,my white shirt sleeves became a pallete board for all the colours of brown facial foundation and multi-coloured make up the ladies pressing all over me wore.
There was no kind of dirt,pancake powder,eye pencil crayon,nude lip stick and bronzer that wasn’t smudged on my shirt.
And did I mention that for every male in this audition,there were 10 females?
Yes.
Slay queens didn’t come to play at all.
2 whole hours of pushing,nearly falling, regaining balance,having girls complain that you are elbowing their breasts,having your scrotum squashed by all kinds of rear ends…
By the time I managed to burrow myself to the gate after my sneaker managed to survive being trampled on by at least 25 different pairs of feet without shredding into pieces—I was looking more like someone auditioning to be an Okada man than someone auditioning for a reality show.
When the bouncers at the gate rolled the gate close and stopped letting anyone else in,I knew this was my cue.
I clawed myself out with whatever remnant of gracefulness I could scrape up and started striding towards Allen roundabout fiddling with my phone and trying to book a Gokada to come whisk me straight home.
Then I heard my name.
Turned and saw my producer–Greyhome Richards looking all neat and sharp.
Even though I envied that he had honourably stayed away from the whole madness and just calmly watched,I was glad to see someone I knew.
We shook hands and laughed out about the whole sorry situation the future leaders of this country were suffering for N45 million–while crossing the road to get coffee from one of these mobile vendors.
Then I saw it.
A guy was lying on the side of the road in just underpants matted in wet sand,filth and an oddly angled right arm.
He was frothing from his mouth in near throes of death and breathing laboriously.
Audition contestants were standing around gisting and laughing–paying no heed to the dying guy lying right before them.
Some even crossed his body and flicked more sand on his face,and a couple just stood around video capturing his shame without trying to help.
I drew closer to the supine guy with Shadrack and crouched next to him asking what happened?
Was he asthmatic?
Did he have a health condition?
Did he have a phone where we could reach out to a family member?
Could we get him to a hospital?
In few minutes,I gathered 3 things:
(1) He had fallen from the high fence while trying to scale,dislocated his right arm and had a near fatal seizure.
(2) He had immediately been so trampled by a horde of boots against the broken metal barricade;that his entire clothes had been torn beyond recognition–and so they had to be peeled off his body and stacked in a messy heap close-by while his near-lifeless body was dragged across the road and deposited beside the gutter.
(3) His both I-phones had been stolen,plus his wallet, credit cards,international passport with Dublin and Canada Visas.
I rallied some kind hearted Nigerians to help us get an ambulance,because I know what death looked like and the eyes I saw there were already one step out of this world.
Only 2 girls worked with me and another well built guy and eventually we hefted the dude into an Uber cab (after about 2 declined–for fear of the man dying in their cabs),and I directed the cab to Lagoon hospital on Balogun bus stop,Awolowo way.
In the critical case unit,we met another Big Brother Naija stampede victim.
Her flesh had been ripped open from her thigh to her abdomen and you could literally see the whites of her bone.
Buying an admission card in Lagoon hospitals is about N30,000 and a simple stitch on wound operation is N28,000!
I learnt her boyfriend had rushed down to the hospital after she was brought there to settle what he could.
Infact,administering a local anaesthetic injection alone cost over N18,000–and because the boyfriend could not afford that,the girl was adviced to bite a pillow and endure being stitched raw!!!
I almost shed a tear watching the whole thing.
A doctor walked past me and was discussing with the boyfriend about how she had type I Diabetes and how he hopes her bleached skin would allow proper healing.
The girl was crying and moaning ‘Jesus’.
The guy I brought was starting to have spasms again and started speaking deliriously and trying to tumble off the wheel chair we wheeled him in.
He kept saying:’Mummy ,please hold me.Jesus ooo…’
I asked the doctor to give him a bed and run tests,and was told I had to pay for a card first.
N28,000.
Then treatment and daily admission
I told the doctor that I wasn’t related to the guy in any way,but was just a concerned Nigerian who happened to be at the auditions’ venue when he collapsed, and couldn’t just watch him die.
Doctor said hospital policies were hospital policies and he had no power here.
Then he asked me a question.
Why was I carrying another person’s cross?
I sat back and stared in disbelief.
How could a human ask such a monstrously diabolical question?
I was supposed to let him die because the ‘cross wasn’t mine to bear?’
The guy started sputtering and convulsing violently while stabbing the air–and again reality hit me.
I was about to have a dead human with no traceable identity piled on me,and I knew I couldn’t run out on him at this state.
I made a quick decision:
‘Please get this man treated–dammit—I will make a transfer.Please hurry NOW!!
I watched him being wheeled into the ICU unit,and an attendant escorted me to a section where I was given an account number to transfer the patient registration levy.
I used my Stanbic IBTC where I saved my rent money and wailed inwardly as I received the debit alert.
Then I sat and waited.
In the course of the over 2 hours I was there,about 23 casualties from the Big Brother Naija stampede were rushed in.
Several ran back because of the cut-neck cost of treatment here,but I saw things today.
A lady rushed in with her twin sister that had been dealt a glancing brush by a speeding Mack tipper while standing by the edge of the road.
The lady had been thrown head first into a gutter where she struck her head on the concrete curb and cracked her skull.
As soon as the mum rushed into the reception and saw her other daughter,she slumped.
A guy had toppled over while climbing the audition venue fence–and had dislocated his jaw and neck.
A lady had fallen bottom-first–or rather–forcefully trip-sat on a rusty sharp steel prong while being pushed back and forth in the melee–and had her anus torn into bloody bits.
I’m tired of writing.
I’m sure as many as attended this Lagos audition saw these and many more.
The guy I brought in was eventually stabilized and placed on drip.
I was allowed to see him.
Fair chubby guy with Jheri curled hair.
He was still very weak,but he thanked me profusely and begged I wait until his brother arrived so he could repay me.He was able to read out his brother’s number, which I dialled on my phone and called.
One hour later,the brother bounded into the hospital hyperventilating and asking what ward Chisom was in.
I dragged my scruffy,trampled and stained body out of the hospital without revealing myself to the brother.
And found my way home.
I have been thinking.
What kind of auditions do the organizers hope to achieve with such a structure?
What is the use of throwing a free open audition where just anybody can just
walk in and play around?
Yes.
I can tell you for free that out of that vast sea of humans,not up to 100 were ELIGIBLE for a reality show audition based on the requirements they were looking for.
Comedians dressed like circus carnival clowns,dancers wearing cheap shiny costumes styled in the recycled forms of what church dance crews generally wear,cross-dressed males wearing female cultural dance attire,guys fixing Darling Yaki weave-on on their hair and Xpression attachment on their beards…
……Where is the line between being unique–and being an Isoko Yam festival masquerade?
So why wouldn’t the organizers just device an online modality of screening out the ones they don’t need within 4 to 5 screening levels–and call for physical auditions when they have the last most eligible 100 from each zone/area?
You can imagine that DSTV Nigeria never really did much publicity on radio,Newspaper or NTA–but had such an explosive turn-up of candidates and audition applicants(almost 31k in Lagos alone as at last count).
The bulk of the publicity was done on social media.
Imagine if preliminary screenings were also done on social media/internet.
Imagine how much more interesting the auditions would be.
But just look at the mess I saw today.
Even at 10 candidates per session,the judges would get tired before 500–800 people and start to rush through the whole thing.
Plus how much merit does the whole exercise demand?
Some leap over fences,and gamble with their lives to get in first.
Not like they are exactly eligible tho.
Remember…this isn’t Gulder ultimate search auditions o.
Some other eligible ones don’t fancy risking their lives this way,and stay calm and put–but do not get the chance of auditioning.
Ever.
What of safety?
What of security?
What happens if Boko Haram chooses to strike in such large gathering?
People risking their lives,dying and getting injured for auditions that require candidates to breeze in cool,relaxed and collected–and answer questions naturally.
I think the government needs to step in here and regulate the way auditions hold in this country.
Why does no one seem to care?
You could actually die a gruesome death and the show would still go on –oblivious of your existence or death.
And is there anyone here that has photos or video clips of Ebuka ochendu,Uti Nwachukwu,Miracle T Boss,Cee-C or Tobi when they were doing the blind auditions with the sea of others?
There is something I need to understand.
And today was a working day,Friday–and the crowd was almost 36k in Lagos alone.
How will tomorrow’s auditions be on Saturday–a work free day?
Lagos city will locked down.
I am getting a lot of calls about tomorrow’s auditions.
Please I value my life.
And my limbs.
Every single attire I wore today has been destroyed–including my wrist watch and shoe–and I never even got into the hall.
I hear some people were even paying money to be allowed in.
God.
Making money off people they already know will never enter the house?
Ethiopian athlete, Sintayehu Legese has won the 2019 Lagos City Marathon and will smile home with the 50 thousand dollars grand prize.
Legese finished the race with a time of 2:17:26 while Kenya’s Joshua Kipkorir came second. The second and third place runners are expected to go home with $40,000 and $30,000 respectively.
On the morning of the 1st day of February 2019, Nigerians woke up to an incredible amount of youths storming the 8 audition centers for this year’s edition of Big Brother Naija.
Nigerians in light of this, started blaming the ASUU strike, joblessness and the government for the turnout of youths at the audition centers.
However, a Twitter user, @prime_tobbi has shared a new perspective to the BBNaija auditions as he claims that the individuals who will eventually make it into the house will not be picked from the thousands who are laboring at the auditions.
The fiasco 4 #BigBrother has begun & millions of youths all over the country have queued up for hrs for a chance at the prize money. why are your past housemates not posting throwback pics of them on the queue?
Because the organizers hav 1 unchangeable rule. THEY DON'T PICK PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS. U must understand Dat #BBNaija is a trade in attention & is thus business. So chuks who is on #AsuuStrike can never get in. EVERY HOUSEMATE HAS 1 THING IN COMMON, THEY WERE POPPING BEFORE…..
Take MIRACLE for example, a top model, top 5 MR universe contestant, ECOWAS fashion wk. Do U think he left his pilotting shift to queue?? or BITTO, one of D best OAP, media expert & former mr. malabo all before #BBNajia
I have personally known KHLOE as a popping model and vixen for davido, wiz, banky w etc or TEDDY A who had a 2016 hit with PHYNO, or BISOLA, host of billboard Nigeria on STV, actress, and appeared on Falz' ELLO BAE and countless movies. #BBNajia
K.BRULE, learnt music in UK, collaborated with CHOC CITY & AMORE, or ANTO, who had worked with DISNEY, STANLEY ALLIANCE, ORLANDO MAGIC, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, or ALEX, former MISS EASTERN, CALABAR FESTIVAL REGULAR, & worked with NESTLE as a model #BBNajia
IFU is another ball game entirely, @ 23, she was launching her fashion collection, presented 4 GOLDMYNE, VIDEOWHEEL, don countles voiceovers, CO PRODUCED DYNAMIX AWARDS, starred in MNET HIT TINSEL, EMERALD, vlogger, RED CARPET PRESENTER, CONTENT CREATOR. #BBNajia
My point is, you dont need #BBNajia PQ, and queuing is a waste of your time, posting the #BigBrother eye on your profile is burning data. THE AUDITIONS START YEARS BEFORE THE ACTUAL AUDITIONS…WHO KNOWS U?.. WHAT HAV U DONE?… WHO HAVE YOU INFLUENCED?.. BB IS NOT A TALENT HUNT
former housemates will tell you to be yourself..LOL. WHO ARE YOU? IF YOU GOT IN, WHO WILL VOTE FOR YOU?#BBNajia is not a PONZI SCHEME/an alternative to strike. ITS BUSINESS, ALWAYS HAS BIN IF YOU SEE IT AS THAT MAYBE THEY INVITE U NEXT YEAR..LEAVE D QUEUE & GET 2 WORK. pic.twitter.com/R4Rq3rlsAh
A new video shared by UK based Nigerian comedian, Wale Gates, captures some yet-to-be identified Igbo men seen spraying cash endlessly on a couple who danced away happily while an Igbo song played in the background.
Sharing the video, Gates wrote,
“These are the kinda friends I need. Tired of these bible quote senders on my birthdays”
Many have after seeing the video, have alleged that the Igbo men may be fraudsters considering the manner and way they are spending money.
But it usually is in the fashion of flambouyant Igbo men to display their tremendous wealth during ceremonies like these by spraying wads of cash while on the dance floor.
The audition for this year’s edition of popular reality TV show, Big Brother Naija is currently ongoing, and in about a few more hours, it will be concluded and aspirants will be shortlisted until the panel of judges pick their contestants.
Few hours into the audition which started on the 1st of February, there’s been a handful of drama from venues of the audition and asides from the audition grounds being overly crowded by youths aspiring to emerge as winner of the N45m, there’s been cases of people fighting, fainting et all.
A clearer photo of a man who fainted at the Audition Venue. Photo By: Legit.ng
Newly married Nigerian singer and songwriter, Adekunle Kosoko, better known as Adekunle Gold, upon seeing the craze and drama that has accompanied the audition alone, took to weighing in on it.
The singer says that he hopes these same people use the same energy and desperation to vote in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
He took to twitter and wrote:
I’ve just seen pictures & videos of #BBN auditions in different cities, Blown away by the size of the crowd. Now let’s use the same energy and same desperation to vote.
I’ve just seen pictures & videos of #BBN auditions in different cities, Blown away by the size of the crowd. Now let’s use the same energy and same desperation to vote.
Popular Nigerian comic act, Ayobami Ajewole, better known as Woli Agba, has just shared that he was really frightened the first time he flew in an aircraft.
He reveals that this was years back, when the Alfa Sule Dance Troupe gave him an opportunity to travel by air from Lagos to Abuja for the first time in his life.
Before then, he stated in an interview that it never occurred to him that he could enjoy the luxury of air travel.
He said,
“It was really the first opportunity I had to travel out of the country. We went to South Africa. It was also the first time I would enter a plane. In fact, I didn’t even know that one could travel by air from Lagos to Abuja.
“When the plane took off, I was smiling inside me. Suddenly, the pilot announced that the plane was in a sort of trouble. It was not funny. There and then, I told God that He didn’t bring me on the journey to waste my life. I thought I was going to die. Fortunately, nothing happened. The plane didn’t crash. I was so happy and relieved when we eventually arrived in South Africa.”
Woli Agba admitted that at a point in his career, he felt that he had been forgotten as an entertainer and there was nothing for him to fall back on.
“People stopped talking about us at a point and I didn’t have anything to fall back on. I felt as if I had used up all my glory and there was nothing left for me. I was preparing to get married at the time. But from nowhere, things started working out for me again,” he said.
On his relationship with female fans, the humour merchant claimed that he had never received sexual advances from his female fans. “Ladies respect me whenever they see me. They call me Woli Agba and daddy. Even when I attended Olamide’s concert, they came to me and started calling me daddy. Ladies don’t see me as a young guy they can relate to or entice. I get direct messages on social media from ladies, but I value my marriage and my home comes first. I am too focused to be distracted.”
Ace Nigerian comedian, Ayo Makun and his lovely wife, Mabel have been married for a decade now although, they have been together for a total of over 15 years.
The comedian has however stated that staying married is not an easy feat but credits his marriage to true friendship with his wife.
Staying married is not what anybody can brag about. Some people are just lucky to enjoy grace by marrying their true friends who can tolerate their excesses.’
The comedian cum actor added that they approach their union with a mindset that it is a work in progress, he told Saturday Beats,
My wife and I approach our marriage with the idea that we will both work together on “being married” every day. Staying married for me and my PA (Personal Angel) is a daily work in progress.
“We don’t ignore problems when we first notice them. We work on them before they fester and explode. We try to treat each other like a date and with respect too. We try not to take each other for granted,”
A 22-year-old cattle herder identified as Ibrahim Umaru, has in a new report, revealed how he escaped from prison in Delta State.
According to the report by Newtelegraph, Umaru escaped from prison in 2018 and fled to Zamfara State, where he joined a gang of bandits who specialized in cattle rustling and razing down communities.
After embarking on several operations, Umaru was again rearrested after he led members of his gang to rob a filling station in Asaba, Delta State and an AK-47 rifle was recovered from him.
A police source said,
“Umaru was first arrested in 2014 when policemen on patrol accosted him after he took some cows for grazing. The policemen searched and found a gun on him.
He was taken to court, where he was charged for illegal possession of firearm. He was sentenced to five years in prison, but later escaped and fled to his home town and later joined a cattle rustling syndicate.
This gang has killed several people in Zamfara State. The gang was headed by Buhari Daji, who is now late.
Umaru took part in several robberies, cattle rustling and kidnapping activities in Zamfara State before returning to Asaba Delta State with an AK-47 rifle which he started using to terrorise residents and business owners in Asaba Delta State.”
After his arrest, Umaru said,
“I escaped on one of the days I was taken out of the prison to cut grasses outside prison premises. I wasn’t wearing my prison vest, so I seized the opportunity to escape.”
Talented Nigerian singer, Teni The Entertainer burst into tears while she was performing on stage recently – the singer with a sonorous voice poured out her emotional side as she sang her recent hit single Uyo Meyo.
Teni had her industry nite on the 30th of January and couldn’t hold back her emotions as burst out in tears on stage during one of her performances.
While the talented singer was performing her recent hit single, “Uyo Meyo,” she felt overwhelmed by the love shown to her from the crowd and she eventually burst into tears.
A viral video shows the moment a house help was caught with panties belonging to her madam and her madam’s daughter.
In the video, the madam and her husband can be heard interrogating the girl about the stolen panties. She cried and swore she wasn’t planning to use it for anything. She claimed she only wanted to keep it for her personal use.
But the woman’s husband didn’t believe the househelp’s story and he asked her how she intended to wear the pants belonging to her madam which wouldn’t her size. The girl had no reply to this.
The madam went on to ask the househelp why she didn’t seek her permission first before taking the pants and the girl said it was because she was scared. The woman then asked if she was also scared of her daughter, who is away in the University, and asked why she didn’t inform the daughter that she wanted her pants.
According to reports, the househelp’s was to travel home on holiday when she was caught with the pants.
It wasn’t revealed what further actions, if any, has been taken against the girl.
Underwear theft has become rampant in Nigeria with a lot of people believing it’s prime material for money rituals.
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