While most people heavily doubt any truth to this story, some are ecstatic on how powerful the “man of God” is – a man who is said to have doubted the miracles that was performed by a controversial Zimbabwean pastor named Prophet Shepherd Bushiri a.k.a Major 1 of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church, was said to meet with “fire from above” which burnt his jacket during the church’s service yesterday.
A statement on the church’s Facebook page reads:
Miracle Sunday LIVE: Don’t challenge God…
As the man of God continues to minister and demonstrate the power of God, something out-of-this world takes place.
A man runs forward screaming and asking the God of Major 1 to forgive him. To the surprise of many, this man holds up a burnt jacket. He notifies the masses that he was doubting the things that were taking place in this place.
In a record chasing history that is close to Guinness book of record, a 41 year-old man arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police for stealing the phone of his helper has pleaded that he should be assisted from going to prison the eighth time.
The suspect, Emmanuel Oyewunmi, from Ikale, Ondo State, was arrested by the operatives on Friday night at Ojodu-Berger Bus Stop for stealing N600 and a phone from a bus driver and a passenger.
Oyewunmi, before now, has been on the wanted list of RRS’s operatives for stealing a Samsung Galaxy S4 belonging to one Mrs. Adesewa Oni from her car.
On the said day, Oyewunmi was a park attendant outside Shoprite Shopping Mall, Ikeja, when Oni drove in to attend a ceremony at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa.
For keeping an eye on her car, Oni instead of offering Oyewunmi the N200 he requested decided to drive him to a nearby ATM to withdraw some money out of which she gave him N1000.
Unwittingly for her, she left Oyewunmi inside her car while she gets the money from the ATM. Upon returning, she handed Oyewunmi the N1,000 and she drove off.
The victim, while reliving her experience said “I have driven about five minutes away from Alausa when I felt the urge to make some calls for appointments, and I realised that my phone, Samsung Galaxy S4, was missing. Quickly, my mind raced to him and I realised my folly.
“How could I have left a total stranger in my car alone, leaving documents and valuable items in the car with him? It was just a silly thing to do for me. I traced him back to that spot but he was gone… When I was done looking for him everywhere, I was advised to report the incidence at the RRS’s Headquarters the same day,” she explained.
Oyewunmi on interrogation admitted stealing the phone of his helper while she left him in the car to get money through the ATM last week Sunday.
The suspect said “I was pushed into it by the need to get hard drugs. As soon as I got the phone, I went to Ipodo in Ikeja to get hard drug. It was the hard drug dealer that bought it from me. He bought it N8, 000:00. I spent the rest on drug. I was so pained that I forgot to shave and barb from the proceeds of the stolen phones.”
He explained further, “hard drug has spoilt my life. It was the cause of my rejection by my wife, and my father. I got hooked on drug while I was young and getting out of it has been extremely difficult for me… Some faith based non-governmental origination have assisted me through rehabilitation in the past, I have always gotten back into it. Drug has been the predominant cause of my imprisonment…. If I am imprisoned now, it would be the eigth time and third time this year.”
On his second offence, Oyewunmi admitted stealing a phone and N600 from the bus driver and a passenger but pleaded that he was under the influence of drug.
Confirming the arrest of the suspected thief, the Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Dolapo Badmos, urged Lagosians not to expose themselves to criminals. The suspect has been transferred to the Lagos State Taskforce for prosecution
Ex-Beauty queen and self acclaimed “Billionaire Wife” Dabota Lawson has given birth to a female child in the United States according to reports on Sunday.
Dabota was previously married to businessman Sunny Aku. Their split was quite publicized at that time.
Dabota, according to SDK gave birth in Texas on Saturday October 8th.
In an official statement by Garba Shehu, presidential media adviser, President Muhammadu Buhari has made his first official reaction to the arrest of seven senior judges between Friday night and Saturday morning, saying that the raids on the judges’ residence by the Department of State Security Service (DSS), was an assault on corruption and not on the judiciary.
It was earlier reported over the weekend that an agent of the Department of State Services (DSS), Garba Abdullahi, said it raided the homes of seven judges, including two of the Supreme Court, across the country over allegations of corruption levelled against them, adding that it found $2million stashed in the house of one of the judges.
In the statement by Garba Shehu, the presidency described the raids as ‘surgical’ saying due process was followed in the arrests.
Read it in full below;
Corruption, not judiciary under attack
The Presidency assures that the President reserves his highest respect for the institution of the judiciary as the third arm of government.
To this end, the President will not do anything to undermine its independence.
President Buhari remains a committed democrat, in words and in his action, and will not take any action in violation of the constitution.
The recent surgical operation against some judicial officers is specifically targeted at corruption and not at the judiciary as an institution.
In a robust democracy such as ours, there is bound to be a plurality of opinions on any given issue, but there is a convergence of views that the country has a corruption problem that needs to be corrected.
But reports by a section of the media are giving us cause for concern.
In undertaking the task of reporting, the media should be careful about the fault lines they open. It is wrong to present this incident as a confrontation between the executive and judicial arms of government.
The Presidency has received assurances from the DSS that all due processes of the law, including the possession of search and arrest warrants were obtained before the searches.
To suggest that the government is acting outside the law in a dictatorial manner is to breach the interest of the state.
GARBA SHEHU
SSAP (Media and Publicity)
ABUJA
9-10-16
Beautiful Mavin Record singer, Aphro Di’ja who of course completely surprised all us of with the news of her marriage and birth if her baby boy is here again, this time making us smile with a beautiful picture of herself and son.
But she didn’t stop there. She added a sweet caption with the words: “#Mamabear when dad is sleeping but we want to play”
She added in what seemed like the voice of her little cutie, “Thank you to all my grandparents, aunties,uncles, and most of all The Almighty for looking out for us…”
A woman has been left completely heartbroken after her fiance to whom she was about to get married to, was killed.
The tragic incident occurred when Al-Shabaab insurgents descended on the Kenyan town of Mandera town on the night of Thursday, October 6.
According to reports, the terrorists mercilessly butchered six non-residents in Bulla area of the town.
Eyewitnesses disclosed that the attackers selected Christians and butchered them.
Among those brutally killed in the attack was a middle-aged man identified as Evans Araka.
Araka was a humanitarian aid worker working in Mandera with the Islamic Relief Kenya foundation.
He was to marry his fiancée, Rebecca, in November 16, 2016.
“Evans Araka my love very hard to believe you’re gone sitting here at Chiromo waiting…… everyone in tears am so torn apart…. confused… what will I do with the wedding gown….. what will I tell the children….. terrorism has robbed us,” Rebecca said.
Rebecca in her wedding gown
Araka had even bought a wedding gown for his wife-to-be but that did not happen. Today, Rebecca is at the Jiromo Mortuary awaiting to receive her prospective husband, albeit lifeless.
The government admitted it had received intelligence about the attack but it was not enough.
Last night, actress Eniola stepped out like this and a Facebook user had this to say about it:
Can someone just tell Eniola Badmus to stop flashing her boobs? These suspended things are not even attractive anymore. No. They are already worn out. I can’t even have an erection looking at them. These are not boobs. They are woods. I’m tired.
Nemesis caught up with five robbery suspects, Sunday, in Lagos, when their get-away car skidded off Eko Bridge by Iddo, while in flight, killing three of the suspects and one innocent bystander, a man who the car fell on.
It was gathered that two of the suspects sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital, while the dead bodies were deposited at a mortuary.
The incident was said to have occurred during the downpour at 2.15 pm.
General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu, who confirmed the incident, said preliminary investigation revealed that the occupants in the car could be robbers as several dangerous weapons were recovered from the car.
According to Tiamiyu,
“the agency received a distress call regarding a lone accident at Iddo Bridge at 2.15p.m.
“On arrival at the scene of the incident, the Emergency Response Team, ERT, of the agency discovered a grey-coloured Hyundai ix 35 with number plates SMK 485 CM, which skidded off the Eko Bridge by Iddo Terminus and fell on a man, who died immediately.
“Three of the suspected robbers died immediately, one escaped with injuries, while the fifth was taken to the hospital by Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS.
“The dead bodies, three suspected armed robbers and one other person identified as a mechanic named Nwamba, were handed over to State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU, and were subsequently taken to the mortuary, while the vehicle was towed to Denton Police Station, Ebute Meta, by the agency.”
According LASEMA boss, items found on the victims include one locally-made double-barrelled pistol with five live cartridges, one laptop, mobile phones and a dollar note.
Tiamiyu, who advised residents to always be security conscious at all times, said the matter had been handed over to Nigeria Police for proper investigation.
Often times, we have witnessed extreme fasting and praying events in Nigerian churches, but this disheartening story of Aradhana Samdariya takes the cake.
According to Tribune, the 13-year-old collapsed and fell into a coma two days after she completed a 68-day fast. She later died of cardiac arrest in their southern Hyderabad city in India.
Newsmen gathered that Aradhana’s family, who practice the religion called Jainism, coerced her into partaking in the religious event called Chaturmas all for their commercial success. Now her death has been ruled as homicide.
“As of now nothing is clear,” the police officer in charge of the case told the press. “The body was cremated and our investigation will rely on the doctor’s report. We will question the family before moving ahead.”
However, the deceased girl’s family claims she ‘pledged’ to observe the Chaturmas which required her drinking only boiled water. After she completed the fast, her community celebrated her, with many taking selfies with her. Upon her death on October 4, she was quickly cremated and celebrated as the ‘child saint’.
Over 600 people attended her funeral.
Following the revelation that a priest had told the family to get the child to go on the fast for prosperity in their business which was recently flopping, her grandfather denied this.
“It was about her faith. No one forced her to fast. She fasted for 34 days in 2015 and eight days in 2014,” Samdariya told AFP. “People came to show sympathy with the family after she died. There was no religion involved. She was quite devoted and we are not superstitious.”
In an exclusive interview with Daily Sun, award-winning Ghanaian actor, Frank Artus, who is born to an Egyptian father and Liberian mother, has spoken out on his secret daughter, why he can act nude in a movie, his most embarrasing moment as a popular celebrity and much more.
Below are excerpts from the chat;
Who is the real Frank Artus?
Frank Artus is a quiet and intelligent person by nature. He is more like an introvert; I’m not a sociable kind of person. I always stay indoor. I go out once in a while. Somebody met me one day and said: ‘Please, Frank, take me to this club’. Then I said: ‘I don’t know’. He was like ‘you live in Ghana and you don’t know?’
We are surprised to hear that you have a daughter. Did you have a secret marriage?
I don’t like to discuss my relationship in the public. I’m cool with that but I do have a daughter.
How do you feel bringing your daughter into entertainment?
I encourage my children to do whatever they desire, provided I’m going to guide them. I tell my children the positive and negative sides of everything. And I will guide them through it.
How do you feel being a father?
I feel awesome. Responsibility is huge (laughs), sometimes it is choking but at the end of the day, you will get to enjoy it, most especially when you see that your children are doing extremely well in school.
What is your greatest achievement in Nollywood?
My greatest achievement is having many fans. When I go to places, people tend to recognise me. I think that is one of the greatest things I have achieved. Before coming to Nollywood, I would go to places and people would not recognise me. But now they recognise me any where I go.
What is the craziest thing a fan has done to you?
Two of my fans in America tattooed my name on the back of their hands. I actually thought it was a fake tattoo, but later I realised it was real. And guess what, it’s not just a small tattoo; it is huge.
What is the craziest thing a female fan has done to you?
Apart from always demanding sex from you as an entertainer, which you don’t have to give them, you have to work with the flow. It is not as if you are going to tell them that what they want is what you are going to give them, but you have to be very flexible with them in their demands, because they are fans and they are the ones who keep you in the market.
Your fans see you as a s*x symbol. Did you set out to be a s*x symbol?
Obviously not, sometimes my friend will say ‘people see you like this but they don’t even know you’. That is how it should be. And that is why I don’t want the youth to look at me as such. And that’s why I said they shouldn’t copy what I do in movies. No, that is not me, it is just a character.
Can you act nude?
It depends on the script. There should be a reason for it.
A woman recently accused you of defrauding her, what do you have to say?
She has already apologised, so there is no need to comment on it.
A lot of fans look up to you. What advice would you give to them?
I will advise them not to copy what I do in movies. What I act in movies is not the real me. There is a difference between what I do on screen and my personal life.
Frank is a crazy guy on screen and everybody knows that, so they should try and follow my personal lifestyle and not what I do in movies.
The actor who is now reportedly fighting for his life at the Lagos General Hospital has called on Nigerians to help him.
Daily Post reports that Alabi who spoke on his sickness, said, “I went to bed at about 8:30 pm that fateful day with the intention of waking up at 1 am. When it was about 9 pm, I had a strange expulsion on my right leg.
“Immediately, the leg started burning and I screamed throughout the night. The following morning I couldn’t move the leg again. It was a spiritual attack. That’s what has kept me under this condition,” he narrated.
Putting to rest the allegations that he has been battling diabetes for years, the actor said that he only discovered his diabetic state after he was hospitalised.
Meanwhile, Alabi said that the hospital management is yet to come to a conclusion pertaining to the amputation of his leg.
Alabi added, “I may be evicted from the hospital any moment from now because I have no money to sustain my stay here. I don’t want to die. I am calling on well-meaning Nigerians to come to my rescue.”
There it was, clear as day, two blue lines staring back at me from the small pregnancy test I had just purchased.
I double checked…
One line = not pregnant.
Two lines = pregnant.
Yup, I was definitely pregnant.
My heart was pounding.
My head was spinning.
My stomach was churning.
I was nervous, excited, scared and ecstatic all at the same time.
This was actually happening! After years of dreaming, preparing for and anticipating this day, it was finally here. I was going to be a mother.
Little did I know that in nine short months, I would begin the most exhausting, life-changing, heart-wrenching, but indescribably rewarding journey of my life.
In nine months, I would learn the price of motherhood firsthand. I would know exactly what it takes to be a mother. I would gain a whole new understanding of and gratitude for the beautiful woman I call Mom.
I would learn about things mothers experience that their children often know very little about.
Here are 10 things your mom never told you.
1. You made her cry… a lot.
She cried when she found out she was pregnant. She cried as she gave birth to you. She cried when she first held you. She cried with happiness. She cried with fear. She cried with worry. She cried because she feels so deeply for you. She felt your pain and your happiness and she shared it with you, whether you realized it or not.
2. She wanted that last piece of pie.
But when she saw you look at it with those big eyes and lick your mouth with that tiny tongue, she couldn’t eat it. She knew it would make her much happier to see your little tummy be filled than hers.
3. It hurt.
When you pulled her hair, it hurt; when you grabbed her with those sharp fingernails that were impossible to cut, it hurt; when you bit her while drinking milk, that hurt, too. You bruised her ribs when you kicked her from her belly; you stretched her stomach out for nine months; you made her body contract in agonizing pain as you entered this world.
Long time actress, Empress Njamah has said people saying she enhanced her buttocks to make them big are learners and as a matter of fact they actually don’t see well.
According to her, she ‘enhanced’ it naturally by losing some body weight which automatically made her butts reduce and it was on purpose.
Speaking with Kemi Lanre Aremu, the actress said;
I did not enhance my buttocks. I have always had big buttocks. Whoever says I tampered with my bottom is a learner.
I actually reduced my buttocks because I used to like to wear a particular design and size. As a result, I had to lose weight to fit into it. My bottom reduced when I lost some weight. I’m not against people enhancing their bodies.
They have their reasons for doing so but I would rather go to the gym than go under the knife because the after-effect of surgery is worse than going to the gym.
If you really want to enhance your body, you can exercise and get the natural enhancement.
In what could best be described as a horrible case of someone jumping from frying pan into fire, 20-year-old Kumi Mallam Jayi, is now awaiting arraignment in court for the alleged gruesome murder of Hassan Adamu, 27, his friend.
Jayi allegedly hacked Adamu to death on September 10, 2016 by beheading him with his cutlass. He also cut off one of Adamu’s legs, in an apparent attempt to dismember him and make his body untraceable.
The incident happened at Jato Mariga under Azara Development Area, Nasarawa State.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abubakar Sadiq Bello, who gave the gory details of the alleged murder said the path that led up to the horrendous incident began when Jayi sought the advice of Adamu over his inability to have intercourse with his wife. He was deeply disturbed that three years
after marrying, he had no child to show for it, due largely to his inability to sustain an erection.
Adamu after considering Jayi’s request was said to have offered to help him to overcome the predicament.
At the headquarters of the police command, where he spoke with Sunday Sun reporter, Jayi recounted the background to the horrific incident.
Two burglars got more than they bargained for recently after picking the wrong house to break into. Garfield Morgan, 54, and his 36 year old accomplice friend Kim Gorton are both career burglars, having stolen from hundreds of homes in their lives.
But it’s unlikely they’ll go back to crime after the traumatic episode they experienced in the home of Harry Harrington…
Harry Harrington is 6’7 and weighs over 136kg of pure muscle. He’s a notorious gay se-x predator who has served time in jail for numerous se-xual assaults. An aggressive and predatory offender, he’s not the kind of man you want to annoy. But that’s just what Morgan and Gorton did that fateful night.
Garfield and Kim broke through the backdoor of Harry Harrington’s house in Florida.
The heavily built Harrington caught them in the act and easily overpowered them.
He tied them up and for 5 days used them as his se-x slaves, banging their poor back ends almost to death.
Only a neighbor who heard cries and alerted the police saved them from their painful and horrific experience.
As you can see from their mug shots above, the men were extremely traumatized by their ordeal. What they went through is inexcusable, but many online commentators are saying that they deserved some kind of retribution for their crimes. But…five days of being raped by a man is a bit much, isn’t it?
The men face burglary charges, while Harrington is facing another stretch inside prison for his actions.
Actor Femi Adebayo during the week went to the registry with his new woman, Omotayo Aduke Sanusi in Ibadan and their traditional marriage will take place today. Only selected people were invited for the short occasion.
It will be recalled that Femi Adebayo a father of three, few years ago got separated from his wife. We wish the couple all the best.
Maje Ayide has finally opened up about the infamous scandalous marriage crash between him and his former lover – Toke Makinwa.
As you already know, while maje was still married to popular media personality Toke Makinwa, He got his babymama Anita Solomon pregnant and today, they have an adorable son – Micah.
– When he was asked about the outrage, media attention the scandal attracted and how he dealt with it, Maje said:
“I had a very dramatic year last year. I am kind of slowly trying to climb out of that hole. How did I deal with it? I focused on my work. I put my work forward and allowed that
speak for me. I and a couple of the big brands I work with got a bit spooked. Business wasn’t actually kicking”.
– On how he’s handling his new family and plans to get married again, Maje said:
“I am still learning. Its a whole new world. Its a whole lot of self discovery to come so I just take each day as it comes. Its life. Like is evolving. Life is crazy. You just got to hold on, strap up and move on. About remarriage, No. I don’t know”.
– Lessons he learnt, Maje said
“I learnt that people could be vicious. People could be judgmental when they no nothing about you or anything about your story or where you are coming from but its fine. Hold on to the people that do know you. They are the ones that matter and don’t get derailed”.
A woman has reportedly revealed how she wanted to destroy prophet T.B. Joshua, the General Overseer of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) during his last crusade in Peru.
According to the lady, a huge force restricted her from destroying the pastor when she got close to him.
Read the press release by the church:
Uncontrollably welling within, her anger reached bursting point. Only one devilish thought flashed incessantly through her mind – to destroy TB Joshua at all cost. Rushing towards him in a violent fit of rage, a supernatural force suddenly hit her, crashing her to the ground. Evil was defeated!
The malicious spirit of anger had plagued Cezia Carassa’s life for almost as long as she could remember. “I used to hit my husband and punch him in the face,” she recalled. “I used to get really mad. It was really strange force inside me.”
Cezia didn’t really want to attend the crusade with Prophet TB Joshua but curiosity eventually triumphed and she decided to join 50,000 other attendees at the historic event.
“When the Mass Prayer started, I went down to the pitch because I wanted to destroy Prophet TB Joshua,” she candidly described. “I felt a huge force inside me. I wanted to attack everyone. I wanted to destroy.”
The demonic spirit of anger had been rudely exposed by the Spirit-filled prayer! “When I got near to the prophet, I felt some strength and force pushing me away from him. And then I fell.”
Since that Divine encounter, an incredible sense of peace and tranquility has filled Cezia’s life. “I felt that the opposite force that was pushing me to destroy things were gone. But other force made me new. I felt brand new! When I looked at the mirror, I was not the same. Before I used to look like an angry women, but right now I feel very new. And I look even younger!” Truly, the evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed!
Ghana’s U-23 coach, Malik Jabir has blamed excessive sex’ as a major setback for stars performance on the football pitch. Speaking in a recent interview published on VibeGhana, the retired football striker said:
‘A lot of today’s players cannot play 90 minutes because they get tired so easily, And you know why? Because they don’t sleep enough and don’t train enough and they engage in too much sex..’
Malik Jabil who represented the Black Stars at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games, is currently a technical advisor for Asante Kotoko S.C. in the Ghana Premier League.
Unarguably one of Nigeria’s most talented thespians, Joke Silva, speaks about her award-winning career, marriage and other related matters.
What do you remember of the time you began acting?
What I remember was that it was incredible fun. It was at the University of Lagos and I was part of the cultural centre. We used to rehearse plays directed by the late Prof. Bode Osanyin, and we performed at places like the Goethe Institute and British Council. We were always performing.
Why did acting appeal to you?
I enjoyed performing for people. I think I had more fun before I went for my training than I did after training. I performed with the University of Lagos, went to Nigerian Television Authority, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria and from there, I went to perform at the National Theatre.
Soon after, I went to train in England. I went to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, London. When I completed my training, I returned home after a stint at The Royal Court Theatre. I also did a little bit of work with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
How and when did you notice your flair for acting?
My parents were the ones who enjoyed watching me perform. When I was in primary school, we had a stage production called The Merry Peasant or The Stranger.
It was a musical and I played the Merry Peasant. This was something I did in my final year in primary school. Years later, someone saw me and said, “Were you not the Merry Peasant? You were excellent.” I continued performing in secondary school, Holy Child College, Obalende and when I went for my A levels in Bournemouth.
I also sat for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts examinations. I did that up to gold medal.
How come your parents encouraged you to pursue a career in acting at a time when most parents frowned at such?
I think part of it had to do with the fact that they were both professionals. My late mother was a medical doctor, and my late father was a lawyer but both of them also enjoyed the arts.
My mother played the piano and when my father was at the London School of Economics, he would join his friends who were on film sets in London. My mum did her A levels abroad and studied Medicine in Liverpool.
My mother had a schoolmate who became a very successful actress and she used to watch her on the big screen. For them, it was what I loved doing.
However, they also tried to caution me because they knew it was a hard profession. My father’s cousin was the late Uncle Jab Adu of the Village Headmaster and Adio Family fame. He was very good friends with the Olusolas.
My parents knew it wasn’t really a piece of cake to be an actress in any country and becoming an actress in Nigeria, was doubly difficult. For them, they would have preferred if I had a fallback plan.
My father was interested in me having Law as a fallback plan. I think with me, there was an understanding of my nature very early on in life that if I should had a fallback plan and things got difficult, I would just quit.
I think that was part of the reason I was pretty stubborn with them about not wanting a fallback plan. Also, when I had my gap year, they saw how much I flourished and thrived as an actress. They both felt that since acting was what I had been wired to do, then there was a need for me to get proper training.
Did you read a theatre-related course at the university?
I did not go to university until years later. I had been working for quite a couple of years, I had been married and I was expecting our second child when I went to UNILAG to study English.
How is the industry different from when you started out as an actress?
Then, there wasn’t that much work. I could function on the various platforms of theatre and television. At that time, there were not many films. The films that were being done at that time were few and far between. It was usually with the late Pa Hubert Ogunde, who I really wanted to work with but never got the opportunity to do so. I was really upset about not being able to work with Pa Ogunde, Ade Afolayan and Baba Sala. I did more theatre and quite a lot of television. Now, there is a lot more work. Once you are a good actor and you have been able to network properly, you are rarely going to be out of work.
When did you get your career breakthrough?
It was probably in the early eighties and in three different films; Owuro Lojo, which did exceptionally well and brought me to the notice of the Yoruba audience. There was Violated, which brought me to the notice of the English-speaking audience and then, there was theatre which sealed my professionalism and acumen. That was The King Must Dance Naked by Fred Agbe.
Have there been times you felt like quitting?
I have been acting for about three decades and I always feel like quitting until the next job comes.
What have you done to remain relevant over the decades?
I think a good actor is one that continues to learn about their craft and is always willing to learn. You can’t say because you have been acting for years, then you know everything. A lot of times, you are working with a different director, so they bring something new to the table. Of course, because you have experience, you can think along with the director on some things but I think it also important to be open to the experience, learn , see where the character is taking you. No two characters are the same. Do you have retirement plans?
What for? Acting is one job that you don’t need to retire from because you have people in real life who live to be 100 years old and above.
What does one need to build a successful acting career?
A lot of people say humility gets you a long way but sometimes humility can be a very interesting word to define. I think getting along with people, always being willing to try new experiences as long as they are not harmful help to build a great career. I think longevity in the industry also has to do with being aware that there are changes happening. Some changes are good and some are bad. There are some changes that you must help to nurture.
Are you impressed by the current generation of actors?
Yes, I am. I have worked with some of them on Gidi Up and they are an amazing crop of talents. I work with a lot of them in the theatre as well and they are totally dedicated to their work. Of course, you do find a few who come in because they want the fame. I am not interested in those, I am interested in those who are totally dedicated to their craft and continue to up the ante.
What brought about the Lufodo Academy of Performing of Arts?
I felt that there was a gap in the training of actors. You had either the Theatre Arts degree awarded by the universities or you had training that was informal in which you apprenticed with a company.
We felt that the gap was the academy that you find in other parts of the world. The training is totally practical and it is usually between two and three years. Sometimes it might be less depending on your experience or level of theatre awareness.
The academy is going on to its fourth year, but right now, we are on a break. We are restrategising but we should back again on stream in January.
Do you consider yourself lucky to be married to someone in your industry?
I am very lucky to be married to the man that I am married to. Firstly, because he is my friend more than the fact that he is in my industry. That I would marry someone in my industry was not farfetched because I was always around people in my industry and I was not mixing with too many people outside my industry. He is somebody who has incredible passion for his work, believes in his work and he has so much respect for his work. I think that is my gain from being married to him.
How did you meet?
We met at the National Theatre whilst we were working on the production of Jero’s Metamorphosis.
Did you not entertain fears about getting married to someone in the limelight?
It did not even occur to me that there was likely to be that kind of stress until we started experiencing it. We managed it by God’s grace.
How have you been able to stay married for 30 years?
God is amazing because it is not as if we have a fantastic formula. We have had times when each party was like, “Lord, is this what this marriage is all about?”
Have there been times when your ego as celebrities got in the way of the marriage?
Not really. It is us as human beings finding it difficult to navigate whatever part of the marriage experience we are in at that point in time. Thankfully, God has been extremely faithful and we have been able to weather the storms.
How do you create a work-life balance?
I am not sure that any such thing exists. I think that is in people’s imagination. You just do the best that you can with whatever you are dealing with, irrespective of whether its work or family. If there is a balance, more credit to you.
How do you like to relax?
Watching television but I am more likely to relax watching foreign television than I will watching Nigerian television. Watching the latter is work for me because it is my industry, so I am watching it critically and I can’t get lost in it. For the foreign ones, I can get totally lost in it. Sometimes it is utter rubbish but I couldn’t care less because it has done what it is supposed to do, which is to relax me.
At 55, how you keep fit?
It is God’s grace again because I don’t exercise and that is really bad. It drives my husband nuts because as an actor, you are supposed to be really fit. Apart from moving around every single day, I am always doing something.
Have any of your children taken after you?
We do have a child who has taken after us except that he is not in front of the camera. He is a producer.
All of your years of being married, why have you retained your maiden name?
It was a decision my husband and I made for two reasons. Firstly, I grew up knowing some people who as celebrities were known by a particular name and then the name changed. Subsequently, the marriage did not work and they went back to their maiden name. I did not want that to happen to me, so if I am Joke Silva, I am Joke Silva. If the marriage works, I am still Joke Silva, and if it does not work, I am still Joke Silva.
Did you fear that your marriage would not work?
I was quite young when I got married but it also seemed as if these celebrity marriages were not marriages that worked all the time. Also, all my husband’s professional life before we got married was in England and over there, nobody changed their names when they got married. Sometimes you would not even know that this person was married to that person because they retained their identity. Most times it is a brand. My brand was being built and was doing well around the time that we got married, so why change it? That does not change the fact that I am still Olu Jacob’s wife. How do you like to dress?
My style is elegant and easy. I don’t like to have too much going on. Probably because I don’t have the figure for it, I do not wear things that expose my body. I don’t believe in wearing clothes that are too tight.
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Talking about giving your Woman Massive Orgasm In Bed, do you know that female orgasm will never be possible if you the man don’t last long in bed?
Here is the gist… It takes an average woman 10 to 15 min of deep intense sex for her to orgas,m. I mean hard core digging…not just any type.
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This 7 year old, Zainab Umar was reported missing in Marcy 27, by a Facebook user, Hamisu Hasan…But right now she’s been found.
Zainab is said to have been discovered in Malali, Kaduna State. The little girl has since being reconnected with her parents and siblings.
Governor El Rufai was also at the Police station to see the child.
“THIS IS A GREAT NEWS! DON’T BE DESPAIR IN THE POWERS OF YOUR SINCERE PRAYERS. Did you remember this little girl? Sometimes back in March I shared her story. ..
Her name is Sultana. Yes! You must have remember by now. Zainab Umar (Sultana).
She went missing since 27th March, 2016, when she was coming back from Islamiyya at Badikko, Kaduna State. Yesterday she was discovered at Malali, Kaduna. The little Sultana was abducted by two couples.
An Igbo woman & her partner from Adamawa State. There were other five children with them.
One of them said he was brought from Lagos. The abductor insisted that the little girl is her daughter. But when police played a game theory on them, they both confess that they mean no harm to the girl. .
They abducted the girl because she is beautiful. When the brothers of the girl were brought to her, they embraces each other in an emotional outburst of joy & happiness. Police are still investigating the abductors to dig out more information about them.
They could be a syndicate. We gave all thanks to Allah who answered the sincere prayers of some among us & reveal the position of this crime. It was reported that governor El-Rufai himself visited the police station to have a true situation of the event first hand. The little girl’s beauty is her offense! Or was it really?”
Did you know that bipolar disorder, a mental health condition where one shifts between periods of mania and depression, can lead to an excessive desire for sex? Sitawa Wafula, in her article originally published on Love Matters Africa, a portal providing easy-to-access information and news on sexuality and sexual health for young adults around the world. narrates how she managed to control the desires. Read her touching story:
Sex and mental health made me who I am: I am Sitawa Wafula and I live with both epilepsy and bipolar.
At 18, I was raped but was never treated for the trauma I went through. That is where the bipolar disorder came from, a mental health condition where one shifts between periods of mania and depression.
I was told that during mania, I would experience days without sleep, moments of talking too fast and that I could be a spendthrift.
No one told me that this illness would come with an excessive desire for sex.
Every time it happened, I beat myself up. I thought that if I was a man, that would be acceptable, but a woman with an excessive desire for sex?
There was just no place in the world for a woman like that! I questioned myself a lot and asked myself why I had desires that saw no moral barriers.
Desires that ran against the notion that men were the only ones allowed to have lots of sex, desires that slandered girls and labeled them whores.
There was no way to ignore the desires. They demanded fulfillment and often fulfillment from more than one person.
These desires saw men like shoes. I was not satisfied with just one pair. I wanted them all- the stilettoes, the wedges, the flats, the boots. Each shoe has its purpose. There wasn’t just THE SHOE.
Trying to fulfill my desires, I have had lots shoes and I was never attached to any of them. I never saw anything wrong with wearing up to three pairs of shoes in a day, sometimes with no socks.
I never saw it as cheating on the other pairs. Whenever I stabilized from my mania, I would feel devastated.
For the longest time, I thought to myself that to change I would need to choose my battles wisely. Otherwise, I would just be a Christian African woman who had an excessive desire for sex and no way to be normal.
Over the years, as I have understood my illness better, I learnt that my hyper-sexuality was only one symptom of a larger illness. I have also learnt that I am not my illness.
So, I decided to embrace myself as a Christian African woman with an excess desire for sex due to my bipolar diagnosis.
I also made a bold step to master owning just one all-season pair of shoes. This pair understands my depression, my mania, and my in-between state.
It has been two years since I have had this pair of shoes. Coupled with understanding my illness and striving every day not to fall into depression or to be overtaken my mania, it has really helped reduce my hypersexual activities and exposure to the risks it comes with.
Sometimes, maybe one pair of shoes is all you need to help keep you stable and comfortable.
Top Nigerian comic acts, Chinedu Ikedieze popularly referred to as Aki and Helen Paul are currently in the city of Port Harcourt for an event as a campaign for GoTV.
Both of them looked as adorable as can be as they got cozy to take these cute selfies from the event together.
We can’t help but love how they are together… More below:
An Igbo business woman identified only as Beatrice with her husband, who hails from Adamawa state have both been arrested for the alleged kidnapping of a beautiful girl identified as Zainab Umar in Kaduna state.
The lass kidnapped from Islamiyya at Badikko area of Kaduna state on the 27th of March 2016 was found by her aunt in Malali area of Kaduna yesterday.
When police asked the couple for the motive behind the abduction, they simply said they did it because she is beautiful. Police raided the couple’s hideout where five other children were rescued.
