It is more or less like a fact that many entertainers delay getting married because they believe their fans of the opposite sex would reduce once they do. Kennis Music artiste, Joel Amadi, clearly holds that thought as well.
In a new chat with Sunday Scoop, he said,
“I am not getting married anytime soon, but I know I will definitely do that at the right time and with the right person. It is true that marriage reduces an artiste’s female fans, and I have even had such an experience in the past.
For instance, I used to enjoy watching a programme called Clinic Matters, but I stopped watching it after Lilian Esoro, who is one of the actresses in it, got married to Ubi Franklin. If that could happen to me, then it must have happened to so many people as well.”
A Zimbabwean woman who suffered a number of miscarriages early in her marriage has shocked the Christendom after offering her daughter as tithe to her church leader.
The woman rightly named and identified as Convictions Mapfumo from Sally Mugabe Heights in Zimbabwe has given her child, who is now in Grade Three, to Holy Baptist Apostolic Church founder Bishop Susan Ziki Dube, who has assumed the role of the mother while the daughter assists in the church.
Mapfumo said after going through the painful experience of miscarrying four pregnancies, the leader of Holy Baptist Apostolic Church prayed for her, and she has now conceived three girls born in 2005, 2009 and 2011.
“After my struggle to conceive, I decided to give this child to God as a tithe to thank Him for answering my prayers. I was prayed for by the leader of the church. I have also given myself to working in this church because there is nothing more I can give to God for what He has done for me,” she said.
The child has now assumed Bishop Ziki Dube’s surname and addresses. Mapfumo said she registered her church leader as the mother of the child on the birth certificate.
Rev. Chris Christian is the General Overseer of the Locust Army International Ministry. At 51, he is still a virgin and doesn’t plan on getting married.
He says it is a vow he made with God along with a vow of poverty which does not permit him to own any property.
Read excerpts from his quite interesting interview with Vanguard below:
How old is the church?
The church will be 21 in August.
You started in Kano and relocated to Lagos that is already saturated with churches and ministers
There could be many ministries but with different mandates. There is no ministry in Lagos that has my mandate, each mandate has its own converts. This is end-time Apostolic church born to declare rapture and golden age of the church on earth, we are bent on making sure that Jesus is revealed second time as an Adam. It is a different mandate and there are disciples of this mandate.
I learnt you have a vow of poverty.
Yes, I have a vow of poverty and that does not permit me to own anything.
So what happens to all the money in the church and property?
I am part of the church and the church belongs to Christ and his people so I serve the church and people. The money is for the church, even the money people give me belongs to the church and we use it to develop the church because of the vow of poverty; that is why I am not married. I don’t have anything to do with money.
This is contrary to the craze by men of God to acquire wealth. There are different types of calling. Because I am an eunuch, I have a vow of chastity, the vow is peculiar. I have pastors under me but I encourage them to get married because they don’t have the vow.
So also is the vow of poverty; if a man of God is not into that vow, he can do anything. But people should be moderate, sometimes there is a lot of avarice, some people are greedy. It is not supposed to be like that.
The FRCN code, trying to check the excess of ministers, even though the code is not completely okay, it has its duties.
A pastor should be very careful, he should follow Jesus pattern.
About eunuch, does it mean that up till this age you don’t know any woman.
Yes, I am a virgin. An eunuch does not permit that, you know there are two types of eunuch. In Catholic church, there are people who are born eunuch by God; there are those who made themselves eunuch for the sake of the gospel.
They are not the same. I am made eunuch by God and it has a lot of implications and secrets which we can not discuss, it is different from a man who decided not to marry.
A man who decided not to get married will struggle with that because he doesn’t have a pattern and nature. An eunuch’s life is natural. It is not about body and there is a spirit in the eunuch; that is why I am eunuch and vowed for poverty.
So, if somebody is not an eunuch by God, he will find it difficult to keep the oath because such grace is not given to him,he is just struggling with self and that is why over time people go into certain acts contrary to their oath.
But a man made an eunuch by God is kept, over time, by God, from spirit to soul to body.
But you are a human being with mortal body
There are different types of human beings. If you look at the Bible, Jesus, Moses, Elijah, those that were unique, even some devoted reverend fathers who were called eunuchs, they maintained chastity, so it is possible; life is all about decisions and grace.
The grace can not be intimidated by a man.
Have you been tempted by the opposite sex?
I pastor females. It is not the temptation that matters, it is how you react to it. There are so many females that come, but it is my reaction to it that counts, not what people really believe.
Sometimes, some men of God will say that people seduce them, I say it is a platform you create. Like if that girl at the reception, if somebody has to come through her, it is me that decide who comes. I don’t think anybody will force herself into my office. If someone wants to see me and I say no, how does the girl come inside?
So whatever that is destroying men, men are part of it. God made choices in men. Grace should not be ascribed to me for that because I didn’t contribute anything. I was born an eunuch and I don’t feel anything . So, I don’t even struggle or try to discipline myself.
As an Igbo man, acquisition of wealth and property is very important to your people. Does it mean you don’t have any property.
I told you that I am not married. I have a vow of poverty. If you know what a vow is, you should know it is binding. So when you say you will not, God is not a man. He watches me. I didn’t even keep the oath because of man. I keep it because God is watching me; so I don’t have anything anywhere and I will not have anything.
Former beauty queen and Flavour’s first baby mama, Sandra Okagbue shared this photo of herself with her daughter and Flavour’s 2nd baby mama, Anna Ebiere’s daughter who she called her twins.
Her caption read:
Umu ejima mu ❤️❤️️❤️❤️️ @2niteflavour
Aren’t they one big happy family?! Nigerians are so in love with the photo as we are too! See their reactions below:
Thus true life testimony shared online by Instagram page, Unfilteredng – a young lady tells her story of how she started engaging in sexual intercourse at the tender age of 8 after she caught 2 adults doing it.
Read her heartbreaking story below:
I started engaging in sexual activities when I was 8 years old and in primary 4, after I caught 2 adults engaging in a sexual act. I was caught the second time by my parents and they flogged me mercilessly.
I stopped for a while until I went to live with my grandmother during my junior secondary school. My male cousin introduced me to porn, and from there we started having sex. My female cousin too started fondling me.
When I finished JSS 3, I returned to live with my parents. I hated them and thought they didn’t love me. I decided to seek for the love I desired outside. I had my first boyfriend in SS1. While all this was going on, I was the head chorister in church and saw visions.
Before university, I had slept with 5 people. I noticed I could no longer hear God. I knew I was on the wrong path but the more I tried to stop, the deeper I fell.
All the relationships I entered into never lasted long because after every sexual act, I felt bad and cut them off. After a short period, I would go back to the guys. Immediately I left any (relationship), I entered into another one. The devil always had an alternative for me.
I was such a curious person. I wanted to know what young ladies saw in dating older men so I decided to give in to a leader in church who was pestering me.
On a particular Sunday, my group pastor was addressing us and told us to confide in her if we had anything eating us up.
When I got home I called her. She counselled me and told me to go for deliverance and to see the assembly pastor. I thought that was all but few months after the deliverance I went back to the acts. When I tried to stop fornication, pornography set in.
During that period of my life, every time I went to church, all the sermons pointed at me. I knew God had been talking to me for more than 3 years, but even when I listened and repented immediately, I would still go back.
I decided to surrender my life in totality to him and God has been faithful. I now see visions and hear clearly from him. I also thought no one would ever accept me with my past but he has given me a fiancé who not only accepts my past but is willing to make me forget it all. #Unfiltered #RealStories
Photos of boiled pieces of meat which supposedly have ‘Allah’ inscribed on them are making the rounds on Facebook – Bankole Adegboyega Abdul Kabir, shared the images, stating that the incident happened at the Olowogbowo area in Lagos.
Ghanaian actress, Ellen Korkor Asante has advised women, who are married to chronic cheaters to support their husbands by giving them condoms on their way out of the house.
Ms. Asante was captured in a video advising what seems to be a group of friends:
“When he is going out, don’t stop him. Infact, give him a cond*m to protect himself.
Then when he is in his 70s and bed ridden with stroke, wear that sexy underwear before him, apply some powder, shake your bum and go out and sleep with young men…those in their 20s,” she said.
A teenage mother has been accused of sexually abusing her infant son and producing child porn with the resulting images.
Jazmine Nichole Pacyga, 19, from Michigan, allegedly performed oral sex on her three-month-old son, according to court documents.
The assault occurred on Feb. 5 and Jazmine “admitted” to the crime. She has been charged with first degree criminal sexual conduct and manufacturing child sexually abusive material. She faces up to life in prison.
The petition alleges the place Jazmine chose to create the video was their own house, which has now been deemed unsuitable for the baby, due to “drunkenness and neglect.”
Jazmine’s parental rights have been suspended as a result and she has been lodged in the Muskegon County Jail on two felony charges.
The child has been placed in the custody of DHHS and efforts are underway to determine the baby’s father, Michigan Live reports.
Nollywood actress Stella Idika, in a recent chat with Inside Nollywood, disclosed that her boobs are the most cherished part of her anatomy and that her boyfriend can’t do without the round fleshy mounds.
“My boobs and face are so special to me but I cherish my boobs more. They are not that big but I like its shape and the fitting it gives my clothes. Asides, my boyfriend loves them very much; he can’t do without my boobs.’’
Idika also opened up on what turns her off in men, saying that being dirty and unkempt is a rebuff for her.
“I can’t stand a guy that smells of stale sweat all the time and those who’s feet stink when they take-off their shoes. I also can’t date guys that talks down on women. These kinds of men believe that every successful lady out there is lose. That mentality is totally wrong and pisses me off!’’
Clearing the widespread rumours that she is a smoker, the Ohaofia, Abia State-born starlet admitted that truly, she used to smoke but had since dumped cigarettes for good.
An armed robber in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, snatched the mobile phone of a student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe university and took the daring move of uploading his own picture on his victim’s Facebook account (Gabrilla Uchechi Eberechukwu).
The incident happened on Thursday and the unidentified suspect, who changed the victim’s profile picture on Facebook to his, even went as far as sharing an update which then elicited a barrage of abusive comments for his confidence.
Some screenshots below:
One of Eberechukwu’s friends, Ifunanya Joy, commented on the picture, “You stole my friend’s phone. You are a big thief” to which he replied with a laughing emoji.
Joy explained that she had spoken with her friend who explained that the man had taken control of her Facebook account and did not know what to do.
“She doesn’t even know what is going on with her Facebook now,” Joy said.
The suspect’s photograph has been circulating on the social media with messages for help in locating him.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging to the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
This is just as the EFCC revealed on Friday that it discovered $9.3m and £74,000 belonging to a former Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu. The money was allegedly kept in a bungalow situated in the slums of Kaduna.
The two discoveries were made as part of investigations into a string of fraudulent activities in the NNPC, which cost the nation over $20bn at a time the oil price stood at about $100 per barrel on the average.
According to impeccable sources within the EFCC, the building allegedly belonging to Diezani was purchased between 2011 and 2012. It is situated in the same estate where Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, resides.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the building comprises 18 flats and six penthouses.
Properties on Banana Island are believed to be among the most expensive in Africa with a plot of land selling between $4m (N1.25bn) and $6m (N1.8bn), according to Forbes Magazine.
A source at the EFCC said,
“The aggressive drive by the EFCC to recover all hidden assets of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is under investigation for corruption and money laundering, produced another breakthrough this week with the discovery of a property acquired through shell companies by the former minister at upscale Banana Island in Lagos.
“The property is a 15-storey edifice comprising 18 flats and six penthouses.
“The property was acquired by the former minister between 2011 and 2012 at a total cost of $37.5m from the developers, YF Construction Development and Real Estate.
The property was allegedly acquired in the name of a shell company, Rusimpex Limited under the control of certain Mr. Afamefuna Nwokedi of Stillwaters law firm, in Lagos.”
Last year, the commission seized an $18m mansion in the Asokoro area of Abuja allegedly belonging to the ex-minister.
She has, however, denied all the allegations leveled against her.
Nigerian male barbie doll, Bobrisky has declared his wishes to get pregnant and bear a child for his bae who brought him out of poverty and made him a star.
While parading himself on Snapchat, he said this want of his is because of the love he has for his bae and wants something that will bind them together.
A Muslim father refused to collect financial dowry when his daughter’s fiancé came to ask him for her hand in marriage – what the bride’s father asked for instead will melt your heart.
Wife of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Mrs Uchechi Nnamdi Kanu, in an interview with ThisDay, said her husband is so obsessed with the Biafra that the he would gladly sacrifice her, their children and other family members for the struggle.
Excerpts from the interview are seen below:
It’s a year since your husband was detained by the federal government, how has your family been fairing without him?
My husband’s absence is being felt in the family as would any family without the head, but we are holding up alright under the circumstance we find ourselves.
Under this circumstance, would you advise him to dump the struggle and return to you, if you had the opportunity?
No. I will not advise my husband to jettison the struggle come what may. Anybody advising him to jettison the struggle, he will despise. That is his personality. To him, freedom from oppression is the holy grail. All he thinks about is Biafra and he would always say that he can only be regarded as a complete man when he’s able to rise up in the morning as a free man with Biafran flag flying on top of our house. That is what he always told me.
Okay, your husband’s insistence on the struggle makes him come across as a stubborn man. Can you tell us about him, how he lived in the house and the fond memories you have of him?
My husband is indomitably obstinate when it comes to fighting a good cause – he abhors oppression. My husband is a kind-hearted and very intelligent man, whose witticism can crack your ribs for a very long time. When he is at home, you will know. He is a man that is obsessed with Biafra to the point of insanity and many times he has said publicly that he would gladly sacrifice me, the children and the wider family, if that is what it would take for Biafra to be free. That is the type of man Nigeria is facing, and that is the kind of man my husband is.
How did you meet him, and what has marrying him been like?
I met my husband in my hometown but that will be a story for another time.
Why not now?
It won’t be now. I can only tell you that being married to my husband has been ethereal even though as with every marriage it has its ups and downs. This period especially, encapsulates this feeling more than any other period. I feel down because he is not here with us but at the time I feel elated because he is fighting a noble cause – the contradictions of life.
When you first met him, did he come across to you as a freedom fighter?
Not at first, because he probably didn’t want to frighten me with it. As it turned out he kept it very close to his chest. You wouldn’t think he is because he is a softly-spoken gentleman and sometimes very reserved. The one thing that stood out from day one was that he abhors injustice against all peoples and was always complaining about how poor people were treated anytime he visited home from the UK.
He would complain about everything that is wrong with the society from poor electricity supply to inadequate housing, bad roads, check points, general poverty and every other social problem plaguing the people. It never occurred to me at the time that he would regard the liberation of Biafra as that all-encompassing solution to effect those improvements in our lives that he talked endlessly about.
What do you tell your kids about their father, do they know what he is passing through?
I tell them “daddy is home making sure our people are set free so we can all go home to Biafra and live because England is not our home”. Though our children are born in England, they are not English or British. They know they are Biafran and that is their identity and Biafra is our home and their father is making sure that it’s as good a place as England, so they and all kids in Biafraland can have all the things that children have where we are now in England when we finally move back to where we come from.
The ex-BBN See Gobe housemate was evicted from the show last week and judging from his former boo, Gifty’s behaviour and diary sessions in the house, she doesn’t seem to miss him at all.
He made a post asking his fans who they are voting for this weekend and excluded her name!… Probably he’s still hurt? Lol… get over yourself Soma… it’s all a game!
To be fair, he didn’t include Debbie-Rise’s too, so maybe he was out of characters to write their names huh? ??
Singer cum actress Jennifer Lopez, and her rapper beau, Drake’s relationship is said to have “fizzled” out – according to a source who spoke to Entertainment Tonight:
‘She likes Drake. They’re just busy, so it has fizzled.’
‘She’s a mom with an insanely busy career. He’s touring in Europe. Who knows what will happen in the future when they’re more able to be in the same place,’ the insider continued.
A source also told the website:
‘[They] have taken some time apart, not because they don’t want to be with each other, just because their schedules started getting insane.’
The man was spotted buying things at Onitsha in Anambra State and the hairstyle on his head could definitely not go unnoticed! Sad enough that he, a guy, is wearing braids as long as that… it couldn’t have gotten any worse until you realize it’s pink abi orange!
Seun Egbegbe has been charged with 36 counts of Advance Fee Fraud in Lagos – the filmmaker, with his accomplice, Ayo Oyekan had disguised themselves as directors of Gbagada general hospital and tried to swindle two bureau de change operators, one Alhaji Isa Adamu and Abdullahi Haruna of 9000 dollars and 3000 pounds respectively.
The duo were apprehended after the bureau de change operators raised an alarm.
Seun’s iPhone theft case has been adjourned to April.
Just judge a person by their photos y’all! So this lady shared a photo of herself posing by a car which she says her helper bought for her – from the look of the photo, she doesn’t look like the genuine owner of the car and so a guy asked her to do what you see below… her reply is just epic!
Facebook user, Abuchi Onwumelu shared these photos of the Nigerian army meeting with the crippled man who was assaulted by soldiers in Onitsha for wearing a camouflage.
The Facebook user wrote as the caption of the photos:
“NIGERIA ARMY VERSUS PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED (CRIPPLE), CHIJIOKE RAPHAEL URAKU
HAPPENING NOW AT 302 ARTILLERY REGIMENT/14 FIELD ENGINEER REGIMENT, ONITSHA: PHOTO CAPTION: THE NEW 302 COMMANDER, COL. IDONGESIT UKO AKPAN AND THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR PUBLIC RELATIONS (82 DIV), COL. SAGIR MUSA WITH THE ASSAULTED CRIPPLE, MR. CHIJIOKE RAPHAEL URAKU A NATIVE OF IKWO EBONYI STATE SHORTLY AFTER THE WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE. ABUCHI ONWUMELU OF FIDES NEWSPAPER, WHO COVERS THE EVENT, REPORTS THAT THE SOLDIERS WHO CARRIED OUT THE DASTARDLY ACT HAVE BEEN APPREHENDED AND SUBJECTED TO FACE DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS. CASH GIFT AND ASSORTED CLOTHES WERE PRESENTED TO THE VICTIM. NIGERIA ARMY CONDEMNED THE UNWHOLESOME ACT. ADDRESSING NEWSMEN ……”
The cute little toddler has her daddy’s chubby chin and it’s absolutely adorable! The proud father shared this collage photos as he and his wife takes their daughter, Tiwa on her first swimming lesson.
He captioned the photo:
Who’s got the swag?
Yeah! Tiwaloluwa got swag.
Her first swimming lesson.
Cooler than cool.
#PepperdemGang #PreValentine
One 38 years old Mr. Hassan Joshua, has been sentenced to two months imprisonment in Abuja for criminal breach of trust and cheating, after he was unable to pay back his customer’s N430,000.
Joshua, a welder, who resides at Nimasa Estate, Gwarimpa, Abuja, said he paid the money into the money doubling scheme, Movrodi Mondial Movement (MMM).
The prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, had told the court that one Mr. Fagbo Tubosun of Gwarimpa Estate reported the matter at Gwarimpa Police Station on February 7.
Dalhatu said the convict was given the money in October 2016 to construct a water tank and doors.
“After collecting the money, he refused to do the work and he absconded to an unknown destination,’’ he said.
The prosecutor said that during police investigation, Joshua confessed to the crime.
The judge, at the Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave him N10,000 option of fine and warned him to desist from committing crime, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The judge also ordered the convict to pay N430,000 to the complainant. His offence is punishable under Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.
U.S President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban will remain blocked – this is according to a federal appeals court ruling late Thursday.
The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel means that citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries will continue to be able to travel to the US, despite Trump’s executive order last month.
“On the one hand, the public has a powerful interest in national security and in the ability of an elected president to enact policies,” the judges wrote. “And on the other, the public also has an interest in free flow of travel, in avoiding separation of families, and in freedom from discrimination. We need not characterize the public interest more definitely than this… The emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is denied.”
The ruling is a significant political setback to Trump’s new administration and raises questions about how the courts will view his apparent vision for an expansive use of executive power from the Oval Office on which he is anchoring the early weeks of his presidency.
Trump immediately tweeted his reaction to the ruling:
“SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!”
Ugandan media socialite Zari Hassan has revealed why she and Tanzania bongo superstar Diamond Platinumz aren’t officially married yet.
Speaking to a local Tanzanian radio station, Zari said she wants the biggest wedding affair in East Africa but first, some conditions have to be met.
“We are not under pressure to exchange vows, we have never sat down to plan out wedding despite having two children together. But before all this, we first want to advance our economic investments.
“We will settle down formally once we build our children apartments which will help them in the future, even if we won’t be around,” said Zari as quoted on Clouds FM on Thursday, February 9.
In spite of these conditions, Diamond is scheduled to visit her parents for a formal introduction in March 2017 where he will seek Zari’s father’s blessings.
Zari and Diamond have been the face of bongo love after the 36-year-old Ugandan mother of five fell in love with 26-year-old Diamond Platinumz.
They have two equally famous children; Princess Tiffah and Prince Nilan.
According to Edaily, despite the fairy tale affair, Sheikhs are not impressed by them because of “Zari’s habit of siring children out of wedlock” which is not in accordance with Islamic teaching.
Kenyan comedian, Eric Omondi and his lovely girlfriend Chantal Juliet Grazioli are so love smitten that they decided to recreate Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden to celebrate lover’s day.
The photos are quite unique and we’re loving every bit of them… continue below:
