Lol… Her story of the shy guy is hilarious to me though… She says the guy was sweating because he wanted to chat her up… LMAO! Why won’t he sweat?! When he’s confused whether he’s capable of enough of handling the her load! LMAO..
Read what she wrote below:
“I saw him staring at me…I noticed him sweating and uncomfortable.. We were stuck at d waiting room for over 40min. Don’t know what was causing his discomfort. But I kept quite…when it was time for me to go in…I jokingly said…hi…hope your ok.. A problem shared is a problem solved .. Found out all he wanted was to chat me up and get a number.. Well ended up giving him my public line. Sometimes people miss out on opportunities because they are afraid to ask. Be a true Nigerian we are not afraid of the word #No. Its just a word. It does not come with a jail sentence or koboko. The word #No simply shows your recognized. Ur noticed .. Be ambitious, be recognized and get noticed… Then soon u will start hearing yes yes yes… Hahhha exactly d sound i make when am getting some. ……. Hahhahaha”
So you’ve been going through your tailor’s catalogue and you couldn’t just find that perfect style you want for your Ankara fabric you’re to rock next weekend for that Owambe?! You have nothing to fear B, we’ve got ya!
I stumbled upon these stunning amazing photos of Nigerian women rocking their Ankara fabrics in the most stunning styles possible on Laila and I thought it wouldn’t be fair not to share with y’all too!
Scroll through the next couple of photos and pick your fave B, I’m sure you just might love everything!
A woman was “romantically electrocuted” the moment when she turned up at a church for a wedding she was invited to, only to realize she was the bride.
While the bride is usually responsible for the majority of a wedding’s organization, on this occasion, Mercedes Ortiz was kept completely in the dark.
In fact, the stunned bride only found out she would be the star attraction at the wedding when the doors of the church were opened.
Her husband, Gustavo, managed to arrange the ceremony at the church in Argentina, without his wife suspecting a thing. And her incredible reaction was caught on camera as dozens of her friends helped surprise her.
An almost nine-minute long film of her entrance, caught by a friend, shows how staff at the church in the city opened the massive wooden doors to the church and people start applauding.
Mercedes appears momentarily stunned before it appears someone tells her she has, in fact, arrived at her own wedding. She had been told she was going to a friend’s ceremony. She then breaks down into tears as she realizes what her soon-to-be husband has done.
Every time she composes herself, as her friends manage to put a veil on her head, she breaks down into tears as she spots another old friend. At one stage, she spots what are thought to be her three children with Gustavo; Gaspar, 13, Gianni, 10, and four-year-old Gala.
It takes her a number of minutes to make her way down the aisle with her father as she stops to greet guests. But she eventually gets to the altar where she gives Gustavo a kiss.
Later that night, while the couple danced, she told him: “I can’t believe you did this, you’re crazy.” The childhood sweethearts have been together for 30 years before Gustavo made Mercedes an honest woman, according to Argentinian site tn.com .
He is said to have come up with the idea five years ago and spoke to a father at the Sacred Heart of Barracas Church who agreed to the plan.
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade revealed yesterday that he married his as a virgin – the executive governor also noted that presenting your body as a virgin is the greatest gift any woman could possibly hand to her husband.
Speaking during a lecture on the HIV/AIDS scourge to mark the 2016 World Aids Day in Calabar, the governor is quoted as saying:
“I should say to the teenagers here today that when somebody leads you to the altar, at the end of that day he should be glad to say I married my wife a virgin.”
He stated that young people easily gave in to sex due to financial inducement, peer pressure and influence of international movies and believed that with the use of condom they were secure from HIV, which in most cases was not full-proof protection against the pandemic.
According to the governor,
“When people use condom, they think they are safe which is the major cause of infection because evidence abound that the use of condom does not provide total protection against HIV/AIDS since the condom itself has small holes that are 0.05 wider than microbes, which makes HIV virus to pass successfully.”
Dr Rose Nyambi, the Director General of the State Action Committee Against AIDS, SACA, said the state had 164,267 persons (108,000 females; 61,827 males) living positively with the virus.
The drama between Dabota Lawson and Sylvia Nduka which started on Thursday is definitely not ending anytime soon as the new mother has confirmed that Sylvia Nduka is indeed the ex-beauty queen guilty of sleeping with her billionaire ex-husband, Sunny Aku.
The beauty entrepreneur who called out an unnamed person on Snapchat yesterday, took to Instagram early this morning to clear any doubts and put Sylvia on blast, referring to her as the joke of the year in response to the denial she tweeted yesterday about the allegations.
“The #JokeOfTheYear is you honey.” and went on to detail that she was not pissed at Sylvia for sleeping with Sunny Aku as he means absolutely nothing to her but that Sylvia, after advising her to keep the news of her pregnancy low key, went on to fuel rumours and crack jokes about the identity of her daughter’s father. That, according to Dabota Lawson was a low blow and what set her off.
The #JokeOfTheYear is you honey. And i really want to put this behind me but it’s unfortunate that you choose to publicly address out of 3 points (my best friend and daughter) the one that matters to you the most (The Man).
When you clearly understood from our conversation and your apology ovr the phone yesterday that the fact that you claim we are “sisters” and you didn’t reach out to me after you heard I had a baby but started fueling rumours/cracking jokes about who my baby’s father is and then coming on to my IG page to blow kisses is what pissed me off.
Also considering you’re the one whop advice me to keep all of this low key, haba! No mother would tolerate that. I mean i value you more than a man whose existence is totally irrelevant to me at this point and that has not and will never change, hence I never addressed those allegations in the past. As a matter of fact, 99.9% i believe you won’ stoop so low. But my precious little baby, my heart and joy after 9 months and 12 hours of labour?You touched me where you’re not supposed to you crossed the line an hurt me big time, friends don’t do that and that’s why i got mad. But it’s all good.
The wedding between the president’s daughter Zahra Buhari and Ahmed Indimi has been moved to December 16, SDK reports.
The details of the new date was sent to exclusive guests, shutting down earlier reports that President Buhari suspended the marriage indefinitely.
A source close to the couple told the blogger that cars carrying the items needed for the decoration of the wedding ground arrived yesterday at the Defense House in Maitama, Abuja. And a second source revealed the new dates of the wedding sent to the exclusive guests, and it states:
“H.E HAJ AISHA M BUHARI CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE WEDDING FATIHA OF HER DAUGHTER ZAHRA BUHARI AND AHMED INDIMI WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE ON DECEMBER 16TH WHILE THE KAMU WILL TAKE PLACE IN ABUJA. DETAILS OF THE EVENTS WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU.”
This comes after news made rounds that a ‘fight‘ broke out of Zahra’s Laife ceremony days ago after one of the Indimi daughter’s, Yakata, refused to hand over her phone to security, resulting in an altercation between her and the wife of the Nasarawa State governor, Mrs. Tanko Almakura.
Due to the breach of decorum, the president, is said to have gotten upset, and allegedly suspended the wedding indefinitely.
However, with this new information, one wonders if perhaps the family members are working against detractors.
Can you imagine? So all those time, the “Don” had been deceiving us eh? … just take a look at that staff, see the dragon head with a tail like that of a snake and the body looking like a seahorse, all in one! Lol… The leg even looks like an eagle’s one. Only God knows who carved it.
The Supreme Mavin Dynasty’s boss, shared this throwback photo on his social media page, recounting the time he used to wear lots of fake jewelry.
He captioned the photo:
“Bae can you see my eyes? Somebody will just pack plenty fake jewelry and wear. Well we thank GOD sha. ?#TBT”
A Twitter user, @opichizzie, has taken to the social media platform to accuse an FRSC official (pictured above), of assaulting her while she was driving along Airport road, Lagos.
She claims the official thought she did not have a valid drivers license and attacked her even before asking for it, before passersby intervened.
A very close friend to the NYSC Corp memeber that died in Kano due to the negligence of the officials has come out to reveal the last moment of Ifedolapo Oladepo.
Read What she posted below:
You called me five hour to ur death and told me to start coming as the nysc doctors are not doing any tin for you they thought you were pretending u did not want to go for parade so they did not attend to u,wen u started callin people from home they eventually gave u an injection immediately after the injection u called ma again that you notice a lot of rashes on ur body that i should speak with the doctor who refuse to talk to me,u called five minutes later and told me your tongue is twisting they sent all ur friends out after seeng all the reaction on ur body after giving u the unknown injection,u z we should ask for flight and i called immediatel they told me Abuja flight is Mon,wed &Fri.
I told u to tell anybody in the clinic dat am a nurse they should allow me to speak to them a male nurse took phone from u and told me u are having anaphylactic reaction and they will watch you for just one our and transfer u to aminu kano teaching hospital but alas they did not transfer you untill 5hours later wen they notice u are restless and calling people at home,boarded a bus going to kano with ur sister oladepo Kemisola Oladepo to come pick you from there,I begged them to take you to a teaching hospital around but they took you to General hospital gwazo where they have notin or little care to render,they took ur phone from you claiming u are not resting, from that 5’pm I could not talk to you, I took a 16 hours journey to make sure I get to you,but I was called Around 3am dat you gave up,without any doctor in the hospital to assist you the only nurse on duty told me she tried her best,her best of staying beside you wen death was taking you away cos there was notin to use,from that 3am till I got to kano I was hoping it will only be a mix up somewhere it can’t be you,got to kano and met you at aminu kano mortuary,alas it was you being put in dat cold place.
Amokkkkkeeeeeeeeee Mi you couldn’t withstand the agony,NYSC succesfull cut your destiny due to negligence. REST ON OUR QUEEN,if you are opportuned to come back to the world pls coma as my daughter.ADIEU Oladepo Ifedolapo AMOkE MI
The cosmetics entrepreneur had yesterday, took to her snapchat to accuse an ex-beauty queen of sleeping with her ex-husband during and after their split. In case you missed it
Though she didn’t mention names, it wasn’t hard to decode the hint she gave of the “beauty queen who even commented on her Instagram page with a kiss emoji”.
And so it turns out Sylvia Nduka who attended Dabota‘s wedding was the one – in response, Sylvia took to Twitter to laugh off the allegations calling it joke of the year.
The businesswoman has now, this morning responded back to her saying:
The #JokeOfTheYear is you honey. And I really want to put this behind me as I promised your sisters but Its unfortunate you choose to publicly address out of 3 points ( my best friend and daughter ) the one that matters to you the most ( The Man) . When you clearly understood from our conversation and your apology over the phone yesterday that the fact that you claim we are “sisters” and you didn’t reach out to me after you heard I had a baby but started fueling rumors/ cracking jokes about who my Baby’s father is and then coming on to my IG page to blow kisses is what pissed me off . also considering you’re the one who advice me to keep all of this low key, haba!
No mother would tolerate that. . I mean I value you more than a man whose existence is totally irrelevant to me at this point in time and that has not and will never change, hence I never addressed all those allegations in the past. as a matter of fact 99.9% I believe you won’t stoop so low. But for my precious little baby, my heart and joy after 9 months and 12 hours of labor ? My dear you know I’m coming for you . You touched me where you’re not supposed to, you crossed the line and hurt me big time, friends don’t do that and that’s why I got mad. But it’s all good.
Pictured above are two notorious robbers identified as Goke wale and Ganiy Idowu.
They were arrested by men of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad. They were both arrested as they stuffed N1.548M abandoned robbery loot into their private parts in Oshodi, Lagos.
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has made good his promise to throw away his U.S residency green card and leave the United States, if Donald Trump won the presidential election. This came as he said that Nigeria was sinking when Buhari took power
Soyinka had vowed that he would give up his permanent US residency should Trump win the election, as a way of protesting Trump becoming the President of the United States. “I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been,’’ the 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale. At the same time, he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card. “It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said. Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs. In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, social media had trended with calls by Nigerians on the laureate to destroy his US permanent residency.
He, however, fired back that he reserved the right to determine when to destroy the document. Soyinka also said yesterday that he was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari had lost popularity just 18 months into office, given the high expectations that greeted his coming to power He said: “There’s nothing surprising to me about his losing popularity, it should be expected. People wanted change, that word was not just a slogan, it was a promise.’’
Soyinka, who noted that Nigeria was sinking when Buhari took power, said But when he took over power, said: “Fulfilling political promises when you take over the reins of power and you have to clean up a lot of mess, it’s not easy,” said the Nobel prize-winning author.
The ex-military ruler has seen his approval ratings decline in recent months from 80 percent last year to 41 percent this September, according to analysis firm BMI Research.
Soyinka said while Buhari was the better choice of the two candidates in last year’s election where he squared off against ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, it was high time the country weaned itself off leaders with military backgrounds. “I was not particularly enamoured of the idea of a military person continuing — for heaven’s sake, it’s been too long. “I feel very passionate that it’s about time that we eliminated the last vestiges of military control, of military representation. It’s as if there are no brains outside the military,’’ he said.
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River says the only way to end the HIV scourge in Nigeria is for married couples to remain faithful to their partners while young people abstain from sex.
Ayade said this on Thursday in Calabar at the commemoration of the 2016 World AIDS Day celebration.
He said, “The absolute factor that can put an end to HIV/AIDS spread is total loyalty and abstinence.
“Married couples must be faithful to their partners. Young people must remain virgins until they get married and never allow any barber to use unsterilised clipper to cut your hair.
“Whatever the story, AIDS is real, it is a scourge, you must avoid it.’’
According to Ayade, the time has come to teach young people true African culture where sex before marriage is a taboo.
He described the usage of condom `campaign’ as creating a false feeling of protection, adding that the use of condom had not helped in stopping the scourge.
“Rather, it increases the level of promiscuity among the younger generation and encouraged unfaithfulness,’’ he added.
He said that the state government would do everything within its power to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in Cross River.
The Director-General of the State Action Committee on AIDS, Dr. Rose Nyambi, disclosed that no fewer than 164, 267 people were currently living with HIV/AIDS in the state.
She said the number was made up of 103,000 females and 61,627 males.
Nyambi said the figure, which represented a 6.6 per cent prevalent rate, put the state on the fifth position in Nigeria.
According to her, Cross River has a mixed epidemic which shows that the prevalence among the general population and key population is high.
Nyambi also said that the state had the highest rate of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission in Nigeria.
She stated that this was achieved through various government policies and programmes on HIV/AIDS prevention.
The director general, however, lamented the exit of donor partners, describing the development as creating an extra burden on the state government.
United for one last time, these are the coffins containing the remains of Brazilian footballers killed in the devastating Colombia air crash.
The bodies of Chapecoense players killed when the LaMia airline plane smashed into a mountain have been identified and are being embalmed and prepared for transport by military aircraft back to their homeland.
Heartbreaking pictures show the coffins laid out in the Colombian city’s San Vicente Mortuary with chairs dressed in white left out for grieving friends and relatives.
The caskets are due to arrive in the club’s home city of Chapeco as soon as midday on Friday and be taken directly to the club’s stadium for a collective wake that Brazilian President Michel Temer is expected to attend.
“I have been married for five years to a good man but it seems that isn’t enough anymore. We have been happy together and we have a three-year-old son also. My husband tries his best to satisfy me and I was content until a new couple moved into the next flat.
I have been married for five years to a good man but it seems that isn’t enough anymore. We have been happy together and we have a three-year-old son also. My husband tries his best to satisfy me and I was content until a new couple moved into the next flat.
My husband is not usually at home and it does get lonely being alone in the house with our son. There are days I get frustrated with the fact that he is not usually around to keep me company or even there to share my thoughts with and we would sometimes have arguments about this. We were still able to cope with ours situation until six months back when he travelled and stayed away for two months. I got restless staying indoors all by myself after I had put our son to bed and decided to step outside our apartment for a while. That was when Mr Richard and I met.
He and his wife moved into the flat next to ours and considering all that I was dealing with, I wasn’t able to visit and welcome them properly, so we said our hellos and exchanged pleasantries. He said good night and went into his flat but not long after that he came outside again. He asked if all was well and how my husband was. I told him my husband was out of town and that he won’t be back till later but while I was still talking, I unthinkingly burst into tears and startled my neighbour.
He tried calming me down and only asked what the problem was when I stopped crying. It felt so good to finally talk to someone about my husband’s constant travelling that I poured out my heart to a man I hardly knew. After I had finished talking, he then revealed that he was going through the same thing with his wife who was a serial globe-trotter. And that was how our odd friendship started.
To cut the long story short, my neighbour in whom I have found a friend and confidante is now more attractive to me than my own husband and sometimes I get the feeling that he finds me attractive as well. My husband is home now but I don’t even feel like talking to him most times and would rather spend the time chatting with Richard on the phone. I know my actions might cause serious problems later but I can’t help myself anymore. Please what should I do?
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) on Thursday announced the dismissal of five lecturers and the termination of appointments of eight others in Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi.
The dismissal and termination of appointments are in connection with sexual-related offences.
The Executive Secretary of the board, Dr Masa’udu Kazaure, who made this known at a news conference in Kaduna, said 16 other lecturers were demoted, while four others were warned.
He also said two others were advised, another two cautioned, while one lecturer would be mentored.
He said the development was the outcome of an investigation following a publication by The Punch newspaper of April 9, 2016 with the title: `School Where Prostitutes Assist Male Students to Get Marks’.
He said: “The summery of the publication indicated that students hire prostitutes or beg their girl friends to sleep with lecturers on their behalf in order to earn higher grades in their courses.
“The lecturer chooses a hotel of his choice and the affected students pay the hotel bills, which include the meals before the action.
“Some of the lecturers give the option of paying by cash, which cost between N10,000 and N20,000, which could give the student not more than a ‘C’ grade.
“We promptly informed the Minister of Education, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and Department of Security Services (DSS).’’
Kazaure said the board, therefore, constituted a fact-finding committee with representation from EFCC, ICPC, DSS, NBTE and the Federal Ministry of Education and gave it one week within which to getting to the root of the matter.
The committee was also to proffer lasting solutions to the problem.
He said the committee submitted its report on June 14, 2016, which was deliberated by the board and recommendations submitted to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu
According to him, the recommendations were approved on Nov. 21.
“Consequently, the minister approved the dismissal from the services of the polytechnic two chief lecturers, two principal lecturers and one Lecturer I.
“Also, four chief lecturers, one Principal Lecturer, one Lecturer I, one Lecturer II and one Higher Technician had their appointments terminated.
“The minister also approved the demotion of one Chief Lecturer, four principal lecturers, three senior lecturers, three Lecturer I, four Lecturer II, and one Senior Instructor.
“One Chief lecturer, one Principal Lecturer, one lecturer I, and one Lecturer II were warned, while a Chief lecturer and one Senior Technologist were advised to be of good conduct.
“In addition, two senior lecturers were cautioned, an Assistant Lecturer is to be mentored and one ND student is to be advised, while another student denied admission into the polytechnic,’’ Kazaure said.
The jungle justice meted out to the man, who variously claims to be a filmmaker and movie marketer, for allegedly stealing a total of nine iPhones from a shop on Medical Road, was the beginning before his arraignment at an Ikeja Magistrate Court on Thursday for stealing.
With the advent of social media, however, fans and followers would always have their say in any matter of interest to them. And this was no exception.
Upon releasing the statement,
@mhz_zeal wrote: “Karma is a bitch” while @walking goldmine wondered: “How could you have gone to the shop to buy 9 iPhones with no money on you, then took those phones to the car bcos you needed to fetch money?
Why not leave the phones, go for the money and make payment before taking them to your vehicle?”
Also having her say, @queenstacyp wrote:
“He was advertising for iPhone.
He is now a proud brand ambassador for them… your cup will soon overflow and jungle justice will be the next. You better join MMM and stop this petty stealing.”
Adding a comic angle to it, @ abunmsy wrote:
“He even stole the English because I know he can’t speak good English.”
She has been busy on social media in the last few days but has concentrated on posting pictures from a movie location she is shooting in Abeokuta and environs.
In fact, one of her followers pointedly urged her to say something about the matter a few days ago but she refused to say anything as at the time of going to press.
Following his arraignment, Egbegbe was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri on Thursday with a bail bond of N1million with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In her recently launched book: “On Becoming”, Toke Makinwa revealed something that shocked even her dearest fans; that she bleached her skin just to please her estranged hubby, Maje Ayida while they were still dating.
But what many of Toke Makinwa’s fans didn’t know is the extent of the bleaching, and today, they will find out after seeing the before and after pictures of Toke after bleaching below:
throwback photo… toke and maje have been together for 12 years… so it’s safe to say they were probably dating when she was like this (left picture)throwback photo… toke and maje have been together for 12 years… so it’s safe to say they were probably dating when she was like this (left picture)
A LASTMA official scheduled to get married on the 10th of December, 2016 drew inspiration from his profession to prosecute an outstanding and emotional pre-wedding photoshoot.
In the photos taken by professional photographer, Bisi Daniels, the LASTMA official could be seen directing his fiancee based on the regulations of road usage.
The pictures seem to have improved the image of the LASTMA in public following activities of thuggery and bullying which the Lagos State agency has been known for.
Despite Security Exchange Commission and Central Bank of Nigeria’s warning that Nigerians should steer clear of the Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM) scheme, the number of subscribers has continued to climb and the scheme has become the current number one investment for many Nigerians in recent times.
The scheme pays over 30 percent on investment to subscribers in one month while giving them numerous bonuses for bringing in new investments. This of course looks like the ‘wonder banks’ of the 90s that crashed with billions of Naira belonging to investors disappearing with them.
Yet Nigerians continue to put their fate in MMM. It is now even being preached in some churches as a good source of investment.
A look into the scheme has revealed the reason why the scheme is working and why people are very much attracted to it. It also uncovers flaws and reasons why it may crash.
The Mavrodi Mundial Movement was instituted in Russia in 2011 by a mathematician and statistician named Sergey Mavrodi. He had created an algorithm that allows subscribers to have a huge purse of funds where they can draw from as long as new subscribers are willing to fund whatever was taken out.
It is more like a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme but with a twist. A Ponzi scheme collects funds from investors and use the funds of new subscribers to pay old subscribers and when there are no new subscribers the scheme breaks down. Same goes for Pyramid schemes, but MMM is bit different.
How MMM Works
MMM organises interested participants on a networked platform. It matches people who are willing to assist or fund others with people who need funds. The amount you are able to ask for in funding depends on the amount you are able to assist people with. It allows one to give out fund to people with the assurance that they will get assistance when they request for it.
MMM simply make new ‘helpers’ to transfer money (help as they call it) to other people who had provided help previously to earlier participants and the circle continues. But it is not really a circle and does not go round, instead it is a pyramid that keeps going up and this may have consequences on the long run.
If you accept to provide help of N100,000, the bank account of either one person who requested for help of N200,000 or a number of people whose total request is N100,000 will be sent to you to pay the money into, which you have to pay. Paying this money will allow you to be qualified for ‘help’ as well. But it goes more than that. Paying N100,000 you get N130,000 as help.
Here is how the extra N30,000 is derived. Once you have the N100,000 in the system, you earn 1percent of your investment every day. In 30 days that make the N30,000. But the money is actually not an interest.
All monies on the scheme is called ‘Mavro’. So your N100,000 is converted to 100,000 Mavro. Each Mavro is not really money, but a unit of trust or a unit of ‘helperbility’. So for you to leave your 100,000 in the scheme, you earn 1% on your helperbility. Meaning the more you are willing to help the more help you can get. This helperbility you earn can now be converted to Naira at N1 to 1Mavro.
However, it is not necessary at all to wait for a month. Help can be requested at any time. But only after confirmation of your Mavro. One gets confirmed after actually transferring money to someone who needs assistance.
The scheme goes on and on as long as there are more people to give out their money to people who need it.
Government Intervention
Since it’s became popular earlier this year, government has tried to dissuade Nigerians from participating in the scheme. They have issued numerous warning telling Nigerians that the scheme is a scam that will crash in future.
Director of Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, says MMM is a Ponzi scheme. “At times like this when the economy has suffered some decline, Nigerians should be very careful with those they deal with. Any institution that is not licensed by the CBN to accept deposits should not be given money to keep under any guise. We can vouch for the banking system. The deposit money banks are the only licensed institutions to take deposits. If you need to deposit money in any form, go to any of the deposit money banks and put your money, you can buy fixed income instruments or invest in stocks,” he said.
Okoroafor said the CBN could not guarantee the unregistered institutions, insisting that when depositors lose money to them, the bank would not be able to help them.
According to the Security Exchange Commision (SEC), the venture had no tangible business model, describing MMM as a Ponzi scheme, where returns would be paid from other peoples’ invested funds.
“Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return with little risk to investors. The scheme generates returns for older investors by acquiring new investors and will later crash,” the Commission’s site reads.
So the question is, why is the government not doing anything about it if it is considered dangerous?
The answer lies in the model of MMM. It has no physical or tangible asset. The whole business model relies on the internet and mutual trust between subscribers. So it is difficult for the government to halt their operations or have any control over them. Blocking MMM is just like blocking Facebook or any other site. Also, users are already informed that they are sending out money on their own accord.
The Growing Users
Despite all the warnings, MMM users continue to grow in number. Even MMM managers clearly states on their website that there is no guarantee of getting back your money after you have provided help yet the system is well designed in such a way that you provide help before you can be helped.
Meaning when your money is in, there is no 100 percent security guarantee that you will get your money back. Though for now it is working, there is no assurance it will in future.
Despite this, many continue to harp on the scheme, even those who are meant to know better. From studies, members with the highest funds in the scheme are in the banking sector. And they even encourage others to go into it.
Shade, who works in a first generation bank and does not want her surname released, says that MMM is her biggest investment till date and she now makes money from her profit from the scheme. “I was one of the early people on MMM. I have a client who keeps bringing in huge sums every month. She later introduced me to MMM. I started with just N5,000 and in less than two weeks I was able to get my money back with interest. Now I have millions in it,” she says.
When asked if she is not afraid that the scheme may crash, she has this to say, “If it crashes tomorrow, I will not lose a kobo. I started with N5,000 like I told you and later put in over N250,000 of my own money. Today I operate in with millions.”
A new subscriber, John Eyighator, says that he is joining the scheme just because everyone is doing it. “My colleague made N300,000 last week and I have heard many other people that are saying good things about it. No bank can give me that kind of money, so I decided to try it. I put in N100,000 this week, immediately they confirm me, I should be able to make over N60,000.
These are just a few of those we spoke to who all have something positive to say about the scheme. However, there should be a source for concern.
Unanswered Questions
There are some things about MMM that does not add up, which subscribers should be aware of. Firstly, Mavrodi Mundial Movement is not registered as a company in Nigeria. If a company is helping others legally then they should not find it difficult to register the company and even have an office.
However, a user countered this point. According to Ity, solutions owner who is also a ‘Guardian’ (people with large number of subscribers under them) with MMM, he says “As for MMM not being registered legally, you should know that MMM is a donation system, there is nothing illegal about donations. All monies are being transferred peer-to-peer.” He asks that his name is not published.
Secondly, it is not explained where that 10 percent that is given to new subscribers comes from. The scheme is pretty simple, but there is the question of where the funding for the 10 percent given to first time users comes from. It only means that the operators of MMM are also involved one way or the other.
Also, when we looked into the history of the founder of the scheme, Sergey Mavrodi, not much can be said about his financial history. The only thing positive to his credit is that fact that he is a very good mathematician.
Apparently, MMM is not the first scheme that Mavrodi has created. He founded the first scheme in 1989 but it later crashed and was sentenced to prison. He was then elected a local council member in Russia while in prison so he was released due to the immunity he got from his election. Mavrodi declared MMM bankrupt on December 22, 1997, then disappeared, and was on the run until his arrest in 2003.
Wikipedia also said he was deported from USA for fraudulent dealings and in 2007, a Moscow court sentenced him to four and a half years in a penal colony. The court also fined him 10,000 rubles ($390).
In January 2011, Mavrodi launched this current pyramid scheme called MMM scheme which has lasted till today. This time, he targeted third world countries including India, Latin America and countries in Africa including Nigeria. Today, Nigeria has the highest number of MMM subscribers in Africa.
Also, subscribers need to be afraid that the scheme may well be on its way to a big crash. This is because it has already crashed in Zimbabwe and many lost all their life savings. This is reminiscent of what happened in Russia.
Finally, one also needs to be weary of organisations that refuse to speak to the press. For this story, Independent tried to reach the people in MMM through their website. We even asked a lady called Tonia who was responding cto us thinking we wanted to subscribe. But she later stopped responding when we introduced ourselves as the media.
If MMM has nothing to hide, they should hold a press conference, or an event letting Nigerians know the faces behind the scheme.
A financial analyst, Ben Agbakoba says that such schemes can only thrive in third world countries like Nigeria because many people are poor and are looking for get rich quick schemes. He says the scheme will work for a while but will eventually crash.
“They are only taking advantage of our poor economy. Such schemes cannot work if Nigerians are well off. It is hard to tell Nigerians to stop patronising the scheme. If we say so, the scheme will crash. And if it continues, it will still eventually crash. But people will prefer not to know exactly when it will crash. I think they should continue, after all, they all know the risks involved,” says Agbakoba.
This young lady pictured above is believed to be mentally unstable and has caused some drama inside a market.
According to LIB, the lady is said to have walked into a phone shop in Surulere, Lagos this afternoon and told the sales rep she wanted to buy a phone that costs N620,000.
When she was asked to pay for the phone, she replied, saying that she needed to withdraw the money using the ATM.
When she returned, she brought out N500 and asked the sales rep to hand her the phone. She said it was Tinubu that asked her to come and buy the phones.
The astonished sales rep called in her superior who sat the girl down and asked her for her name. She replied “Chidinma”.
When pressed further, she said she does not know where she stays and also where she is going to.
She has been handed over to police officers from Bode Thomas, Surulere.
The plane that crashed in Colombia’s Medellin killing 71 people on board including members of the Brazillian football team, Chapecoense, ran out of fuel moments before it crashed on Tuesday November 29th.
This is according to a leaked audio recording of the pilot’s final communications with the control tower.
The pilot was heard repeatedly requesting permission to land, saying that the plane had suffered “total electrical failure, without fuel.”
A co-pilot of an Avianca plane flying nearby at the time also said he overheard the LaMia 933 plane reporting it was out of fuel, calling “mayday” and asking the control tower to direct it to the runway.
Main cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained by Brazilian investigators. Only six of the 77 people on board survived the crash.
The remains of Ifedolapo Oladepo, the corps member who died in NYSC camp, Kano was today interred in Osogbo at her family’s residence.
Many were not able to hide their feelings as the first class graduate of Transport management from the Ladoke Akintola university of Technology, ogbomoso began her final journey.
She died on Tuesday at the NYSC orientation camp in Kano state.
Five members of the Super Falcons participating at the on-going African Women’s Nations Cup in Cameroon were forced to travel by road from Douala to Yaoundé yesterday, as the aircraft in which they were supposed to fly developed electrical fault shortly before take off.
The team, which defeated the Banyana Banyana of South Africa 1-0 to qualify for the final of the championship, had left their Parliamentarian Flat hotel in Buea at 6.00 a.m. and arrived in Douala for their flight to Yaoundé. They were scheduled to depart Douala at 9.00 a.m. for the state capital, a journey of about 45 minutes by air and about four hours by road.
The Nigerians arrived at Douala airport alongside their South African counterparts, who will face Ghana’s Black Queens in tomorrow’s third-place match.
But on getting to Douala airport, CAF officials could not secure enough seats for the entire Nigerian team to continue their journey inside one plane. “The team experienced some delay at the airport, but at the end, all the players and officials could not travel together in one plane because it was a small aircraft which could not accommodate both Nigeria and the South African team at the same time. As a result, five members of the team were left behind.
“Those five people were later checked into another plane, but just as they were preparing to commence the journey to Yaoundé, smoke started coming out from the plane due to electrical problem and everybody was evacuated. The five people had to embark on their journey by road to Yaoundé,” a member of the team said.
She added that even those who made the trip by air had to leave their luggage behind in Douala due to the small nature of the plane.
They were expecting their bags to arrive their Djeuga Palace hotel in Yaoundé at 8.00 p.m. yesterday.
The incidence is coming less than 24 hours after a Brazilian football team was involved in a plane crash on their way to a match in Colombia.
Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card. “It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said.
A 29-year old man, Aregbesola Quazeem has landed in trouble after he allegedly attacked a female hotel attendant, Amaka Christopher for disrupting his sex plans with his lover over poor condition of a chalet in a hotel he lodged in Lagos.
Quazeem was angry that he lost money and at the same time could not achieve his sex desire because his partner refused to sleep with him after complaining of poor condition of the chalet with non-functional air conditioner.
The incident happened on Sunday at a popular hotel, CY Hotel located at Ikotun area of Lagos.
An angry Quazeem allegedly took his lover to the hotel and paid N4,000 to lodge till day break.
When they moved into the room, they discovered the place was not conducive as there was no functional air conditioner which caused unbearable heat in the room.
The woman insisted that Quazeem cannot not sleep with her under the heat and she asked that they relocate to another room with an AC or he should forget about their sex romp.
Quazeem went to the attendant to complain and requested for another room. She told him that every other room in the hotel had been fully booked and there was nothing she could do that night.
On the basis of that, Quazeem requested a refund of his money so they can look for another place to lodge and she refused. This led to a disagreement which resulted in Quazeem attacking Amaka and reportedly injured her and tore her clothes.
The matter was reported to the police at Ikotun division who arrested Quazeem. By then his lover had left the place.
He was charged with conduct likely to cause breach of public peace and assault on Amaka.
He pleaded not guilty.
The presiding Magistrate, Mr A.A. Fashola granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two surety in like sum.
He was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect his bail.
The Catholic Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has warned women against beating their husbands, saying they “should love and respect them“,
He stated this while reacting to a police report about Mpingi district in the Uganda’s central region, which showed that five out 10 reported cases of domestic assault involved women beating their husbands.
Uganda’s privately owned Daily Monitor quotes the Archbishop of Kampala, saying women should accept men as the head of families:
“Do you want to take over power from men in your families? I think you want to challenge God who tells us that men are the heads of the family.
“Stop torturing the innocent servants of God. There is no need for you women to behave like some people we are seeing nowadays in the country who are merciless.”
Music producer Cobhams Asuquo is today, celebrating his son, David, who turned 5-years-old. The music veteran took to his IG page shared a photo of himself with his son and wrote:
My boss is 5!!! Happy 5th birthday Sir. My other employer. I love you soo much David and I have soo much to teach you. I’ll always make you proud by God’s grace.
I live so that you can be a better man. David the world needs better men and we would raise each other to be better men in this world. God bless you my son! We are turning up this weekend, you just name the place. #happybirthdayDavid #happybirthdayson #Godblessyou
