How South Africans worked against Nigeria

Fireworks and jubilant scenes marked the end of the thrilling semi final match of the 2014 African Nations Championship between Ghana and Nigeria in Bloemfontein Wednesday night. Officials In attendance were 12, 560 spectators and almost three quarters of that number cheered endlessly for Ghana.

Either by arrangement or sheer happenstance, the majority of Ghana fans were stationed behind the goal post manned by Nigeria goalkeeper, Chigozie Agbim. They sang noisily, made catcalls, beat their drums and blew their trumpets all in a way to distract the Nigerian captain.

The penalty shootout took place at that particular goal post in front of Ghana fans. Their catcalls and senseless roars behind the keeper, perhaps, had an impact in the performance of the Super Eagles players in the penalty shootout.

It must be noted that most of those fans that rooted for Ghana Black Stars are South Africans. Ghana played all their matches, up to the semifinal duel against Nigeria in Bloemfontein. They formed a large support base. This was enhanced by the fact that some of the locals were still pained for the fact that The Super Eagles eliminated the Bafana Bafana in the group stage. Most of South Africans have not forgiven the Nigerian team for that. So the game against Ghana provided an avenue for payback time.

The booed every move by the Super Eagles and cheered the Ghanaians even when they missed the ball.

Ten man Ghana team was galvanized by the hospitality of their host community and that clearly gave them a psychological edge. Ghana coach, Maxwel Konadu admitted after the match that the supporters were his twelfth player. “Support from the fans played a major role in our progress. They did everything for us and I thank them for helping us against Nigeria,” he said, adding, I will attribute today’s victory to them.”

Why I have not remarried -Victor Essiet

Victor Essiet of The Mandators fame, who just returned to the country after sojourning in the United States for over two decades now speaks on why he has not married again after the death of his former wife, Peggy. He also talks about his upcoming album, his American experience and his plans to revive the reggae music in Nigeria

By SAM ANOKAM

What’s your latest album, ‘Freedom Train’ all about?

You must know that the track is an introduction of the upcoming album which is 15-tracks. The message of redemption is still strong today. There is no prosperity for the suffering masses and their ordeals are on the increase. Freedom is our right, it should be demanded for; it is not earned. We are not going to beg for our freedom.

But it is a collective effort of the masses; the masses should come together and  demand for their freedom.  It is a message that we are bringing as usual that since the world is not getting better, we cannot relent on our efforts to mount pressure on those oppressing us.

I am working with independent records companies such as Mystic Records California and PP Records based in New York to release this major work. We are still working on this album.

This is one single that is dropping very soon. I will be shooting a video of this very track in Los Angeles before we embark on a world tour. We  are planning  to release the first single in February while the second single will be released in April. The album itself will be released in June.

 Were you surprised that no Nigerian artiste was invited to    perform at Mandela’s funeral?

I was not surprised because this is Africa, and in Africa we have a lot of wicked people. They do not believe in doing the right thing. Yes, we stood for our sister country  during the apartheid era, and one  had expected South African leaders to use Mandela’s funeral to honour Nigeria.

Until Africa finds the right people who would put things in perspective, things would remain this way.

What is the essence of this event?

Do you know that Nigerians keep asking me why I left Nigeria for America? I went for a radio and television interview session, and the listeners were calling to find out what I’m doing currently and  why I travelled out of the country.

I realised that I am so much loved and the things I did while I was in Nigeria  and which I  took for granted were appreciated by the masses. Yes, I sojourned in America for a long time and while I was there, I  got blessed by God.

I didn’t make much name in America like I did in Nigeria. But I  gained in terms of monetary compensation much more than I did in my own country. The big names in Africa didn’t buy my cassettes and video cassettes. The masses bought my video cassettes and listened to my songs. The masses made me who I am today.

I got to America and I didn’t have to introduce myself because I was seen on TV, the papers, recordings and so much more. The Americans were elated by the way Africans applauded my arts.

So, I got their attention and made something for myself because of my popularity in Africa.  As you know, Nigeria is dying because the truth is suppressed. I am using this medium to tell all my contemporaries that I am back home and ready to support everybody.

Is it a way of reviving reggae music in Nigeria?

Yes. Reggae is about truth and justice and the reggae artistes need to earn a good living singing their songs. I have just signed a franchise in America known as  ‘Reggae meets Africa’. Reggae in Africa has to be exported. I happened to be the only reggae artiste from Africa known in America, and this is not supposed to be so.

Honour is never given to whom it is due. But I have won an award in America as ‘Best New Entertainer’ by International Reggae World music. If I have won the award, that means I have what it takes to stand the test of time. My coming back is to show them that I appreciate them and wants to carry them along in whatever  I am doing.

When I left Nigeria for America, I didn’t relocate because I don’t like my country. But I left for America because I got to go to somewhere else and do something differently. I am not using this medium to try to get back into the Nigerian music scene because I am ever present in the scene.

I am going to continuously offer quality music. I am looking at the situation where every good reggae artiste in Africa would be known by the world because of the message they are conveying to the masses.

For instance, Rhymzo is a  very good reggae artiste, but he hasn’t done much for himself in monetary value. How can he survive this way?

There are other good reggae artistes wallowing in poverty because of the truth and justice in their songs. Meanwhile, the government is sponsoring artistes doing meaningless songs because these musicians are not condemning their wicked attitudes toward the masses.

I cannot fight this battle alone. That’s the reason for this invasion. We are not only talking about reggae artistes in Nigeria, but all my brothers in Africa. We want a situation where we can take a reggae artiste from Nigeria to South Africa and bring in Ghanaian reggae artiste to Nigeria.

You were known to be a social crusader. Is it that you have changed since you got to the United States?

This is the mistake we make. Back in the days, I made my first album; it didn’t make it because it was not promoted very well. I made another album, it didn’t also fly. I produced the two albums while I was still in college in Lagos.

The third album which was Crisis contained songs such as ‘Rise to the Top’, ‘Inflation’, ‘System’, ‘Redemption’ which canvassed for the emancipation of the blacks in South Africa and the song, ‘I love You’, which  preached   love and unity in Africa  became a major hit and automatically turned the music industry around in this country.

There are ghettos in America; joblessness, sufferings but it is not in the same magnitude that we have here. Wherever I am, I represent the voiceless people, the downtrodden people.

I am not going to be shooting a music video depicting some kind of things that is not part of me. I am a sufferer from time immemorial. As   long as there are suffering people, people that are not having enough to eat then, I’m a sufferer.

We are not alright until my African brothers or sisters are doing well.  Again, I said there are 15 songs in the album. We will be shooting the video in Nigeria as well as other parts of Africa.

How have you been able to maintain your dread locks?

It has been with me almost all my life. I handle my dreadlocks just as you wash or comb your hair.

Have you  re-married?

Not at all. I am just being focused on my career. It is very difficult to make it on the  international scene. It demands a lot of commitments. So, I have been putting a lot of energies into my music to be able to achieve what I have achieved internationally. I’m still a single father. I have a son and his name is Essien. I love him so much.

Don’t you think you belong to the old school, and hip hop has taken over in Nigeria?

I just want to correct another thing. I lived in the US and I would want somebody to tell me where music is highly sophisticated in the world? I want somebody to tell me where the centre of entertainment is located in the world today?

When you tell me that, then I am going to tell you that hip-hop that we are talking about today is not the hip-hop we know internationally.

If I belong to the past, King Sunny Ade was in the past, Chief Ebenezar Obey, Late Sonny Okosun, Fela, Victor Olaiya et al were there before I was born.
When I came into the scene, I had a place in the Nigerian music industry.  I am strong and resolved in the things that I do. I can do anything. As a matter of fact, I am not boasting, I can do what every other musician is doing. But they cannot do what I do.
I was there before so many musicians that are here today just like many where there before me. They made ways for all of us like I made ways for others. Others came to make way for us, they did not come to destroy or drive away other people.
I have been doing music for a long time now and I have been growing from strength to strength even when I am not here. I am here joining hands with the young people who we have paved the way for .
Myself, Majek Fashek, Ras Kimono, Onyeka Onwenu, Evi Edna, late Xtian Essien, among many others were in the forefront and are still doing it.  Let’s face the reality. The reality is that old school is the real music. All the songs I have released are evergreen.
What is going on in the country today? It’s the same thing I was singing against in the 1980s. We are yet to have another Moses who would lead us to the promised land. What we have today is hypocrisy.
It pains me because I went through this and only God helped me to be able to be sitting here. Not that I am fully back but I am going to be here doing the things that we need to do to move our country forward.
I don’t have problem with what kind of music we have in the country today. But the problem is within us as a people, let us promote whatever we have but gear towards the emancipation of the real people.

Govt shutdown:Why Jonathan will not intervene in Rivers crisis — Ben Obi

SPECIAL Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter-Party Affairs, Senator Ben Obi, in this interview spoke on why the president may not intervene in the crisis ravaging Rivers State as demanded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders while directing APC federal legislators.
He also spoke on how the president is handling pressures to declare his 2015 political ambition, allegations that the president is not fighting corruption and the leadership tussles between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and APC in the National Assembly. Excerpts:

ON the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC 2015 timetable

First of all, they have a constitutional responsibility to take care of elections; it is that responsibility they have adhered to. For me, it is part of the transformation agenda that those who are given responsibilities to perform do so without let or hindrance. That is what the Professor Attahiru Jega-led INEC has done.

Nobody was expecting it. If anybody was saying that they were under some influence that person is wrong in his presumption.

It is the independent nature of the various organizations under this administration that is coming to play. We must thank the president for making sure that these organizations have a free atmosphere to function.

So, when is President Goodluck Jonathan declaring whether or not to run?

I want Nigerians to understand one thing. I have been on the side of the opposition for very long. Now, I am in the executive, current leadership.

Path of governance

President Jonathan appealed to Nigerians and said he would not discuss politics until 2014. Despite all the pressure mounted on him by the opposition to draw him into politics much earlier than 2014, he resisted it; he continued on the path of governance and maintained that he would say something in 2014.

Now we are in 2014, now INEC has spoken, we do expect that with all of these, I am sure he will sit down with his kitchen cabinet and look at the pros and cons, what his administration has done and then take a position clearly on what his next line of action will be.

I want say, as somebody who has been deeply involved in the management of political parties; a political party will only sponsor a candidate, whose achievements they are proud of. So, when I see people talking about who the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is going to sponsor or not, I feel sorry for them because they don’t understand how political parties are run. I cannot tell the APC that because I had been associated with most of them one way or the other that A or B is a better candidate. I can’t do that.

And I expect that they too will not try to put themselves in a situation where they will be dictating to the PDP. Their business is to go and wait for whoever it pleases the PDP to produce.

In every climate and political understanding that I know of, particularly, when the constitution is on his side, they concede the first, the right of refusal to seek re-election to the incumbent.

The constitution is on the side of President Jonathan. His achievements speak for him.

If you feel offended or aggrieved, he has put out a mid-term report, cataloguing his entire achievements. I am still waiting to see a critical objection and rejection of that document rather than people just shooting in the dark.

He has put down his achievements in black and white. Take them one-by-one and dismantle or dislodge them but that has not been the case.

So, as far as I am concerned, I serve a president who has made a tremendous impact in the lives of Nigerians judging particularly from where he took off. What was the situation when he came on board and what is the situation today?

How soon will the President meet with his kitchen cabinet over the issue?

Like I said he will meet with his kitchen cabinet, they will study the INEC guidelines and timetable and decide: what do we do? Where do we go from here? Nigerians will be adequately informed at the appropriate time.

As far as I am concerned, they (president and his kitchen cabinet) still have some two to three months to really concentrate on governance and that is the Jonathan philosophy.

His New Year message was very clear: ‘Nigerians will enjoy a better 2014,’ which means there are certain things he will want to put up that will make a difference. Let’s complete that process before we go into the political event. Let’s create the atmosphere for a better Nigerian environment.

On allegations that the government influenced INEC to put the presidential election first to create a bandwagon effect in favour of the PDP

Go back to the past INEC elections and draw your analogy from there. There is nothing INEC will do today that people will not say it is doing it in favour of the president in power.

But those of us who are part of the government in power are really a bit perturbed the way things were done without consultations. Consultations I mean here is the council of state and various bodies.  They are performing their responsibility as a body under the constitution. For anybody to think that all they are doing is in our interest is unfortunate.

On leadership tussle in the House of Representatives between APC and PDP with APC claiming majority over PDP

We have legislators from APGA and Labour Party. Have you taken their numerical strength? Where do they stand? APC has 172 and PDP 171 members, if you add APGA and Labour, who then constitutes the majority? It is always better we do stocktaking before we come to the public domain.

I must commend the Speaker for the matured manner he handled the issue that day. Both camps, APC and PDP poured encomiums on him.

APC tied its directive to shutdown government to the resolution of the crisis in Rivers State…

Again it is a vindication of the position of the President. If the president dabbles into the issue of Rivers, he should be ready to dabble into the issues of the 36 states plus one – the Federal Capital Territory.

Having appointed people to take charge of the various departments of government –the Inspector General of Police, Director, Department of State Services, etc, it is when the matter overwhelm these people that there can now be a communication to the government.

Like many people talk about corruption, have we had complaints from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or Independent Corrupt Practices and related offences Commission (ICPC) that they are under-funded?  Have they said there is this intervention from the government that is making us not perform? As far as the presidency is concerned, the right people have been put in place and they have been doing their assignments. Until they fail, there is no point to intervene. I was listening to Amaechi, he said he spoke to the IG, ‘I am going to lead this Save Rivers Rally myself.’ And he thanked the IG because the IG sent men to make sure that they are protected. Some of these things are due to gap in communication.

On Speaker Aminu Tambuwal’s comment that President Jonathan is not fighting corruption the way he should given issues around Aviation Minister, Princes Stella Oduah and Director General of the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC), MS Arunma Oteh?

On Oteh, I am a member of the Presidential team,  I do not know nor have I heard of how the president found a way to fund SEC.

International politics

But I do know that Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating minister of the Economy, a highly respected international figure, who but for international politics would have been president of the World Bank and the President of the World Bank pays her absolute respect, set up a committee and that committee vindicated Oteh.

The legislature came up with its own issue. Ordinarily what needs to be done here is to look for solutions. It is not my duty to start educating the legislature on what to do. I just want to make sure, as somebody who has served on both sides, I can tell you there is always a way out of such a dilemma.

That is a way that must be looked into at resolving the issue so that both sides can sleep with their eyes closed.

On the issue of Speaker Tambuwal talking about body language, when I was in the Senate a couple of people talked to me about the Third Term agenda. I was the person who coordinated the project. I was not the chairman. Senator Idris Kuta of blessed memory was the chairman.

A lot of offers were made to me on how we should allow the third project sail through. The speaker talked about body language, when you are in the legislature, the truth of the matter is that you see permanently a challenge from the executive. And the more challenge you put across to the executive the more assured you are of your position.

Purview of the executive

I say to my colleagues in the executive, the young man (speaker) is managing 360 legislators from different political parties, background and interest, etc.

So he has a duty to navigate the storms and as long as whatever he says cannot be used against him, all well and good. Talking about Stella Oduah, the president did what he should do. Within the purview of the executive, he set up a committee immediately to investigate Stella Oduah.

Let me tell you something and I say this with all seriousness and experience as a politician, 35 years experience: this woman has done what no minister of Aviation had done. She has done so much in improving our aviation sector. I don’t see how on earth she will bring herself to a level of deliberately engaging in unexpected and unbelievable scam.

A lot of Nigerians across the country have commended her. I, as a son of Anambra State where she comes from, I am exceedingly very proud of her. I am happy. Whatever it is, a committee has been set up. By the time a decision is taken, it will be clear that the president will not go out of his way to shield anybody that is indicted. The President Jonathan that I have seen and known  in the last two and a half years  will not shield you if you are found wanting President Jonathan is not the typical Nigerian politician, who lies and promises you what he would not do. He is not the aggressive type of person. He is somebody who means well for this country. He is committed to seeing a true Nigerian nation unfold. That is why he is all-accommodating. No president has been bashed by the media as him.

Divine message

I keep telling our people, the way you make your bed so you lie on it. If we ridicule our president that is the way people outside will see us. It is not about Jonathan. Beyond all of these, there is a divine message in Jonathan’s appearance on the political scene. It will be better if all of us join hands to make this country better.

Jonathan’s critics say he is too slow compared to rulers like Obasanjo…

I was a victim of the Obasanjo era. All those who say this now were saying a different thing when Obasanjo was in power. Today, President Jonathan is consulting. For every action he takes, he consults. Every action he had taken that needed to be reversed was reversed. Let us give him his dues.

On comments that the national conference is now threatened with discordant tunes trailing the report of the Senator Femi Okurounmu committee

I don’t agree. The national confab is not threatened. The President set up a committee, to come up with a template. The committee has submitted its report and people are reacting. Naturally, that is what it should be.

The committee is not all-knowing, it is not omnipotent. People are reacting from the various zones of the country, that is what it should be so that by the time the report is finally collated and the way we are going to hold the confab is decided, everybody will feel included and involved. I see the president’s position as purely defined and straightforward.

American Apparel's 62-year-old lingerie model

Keen to show that sexy has no expiration date, American Apparel has cast 62-year-old Jacky O'Shaughnessy to model its lingerie

BY Olivia Bergin | 31 January 2014

Jacky O’Shaughnessy for American Apparel

Should American Apparel be renamed American Provocateur? Judging by the retailer's discussion-provoking ad campaigns and model choices, we don't think the title is too far-flung.

Just a couple of weeks on from the furore over the sweatshop-free-and-proud label's pubic hair-sporting mannequins, American Apparel is broadening its scope for what it thinks is sexy.
READ: American Apparel in trouble again with advertising watchdogs
Posting a picture of 62-year-old Jacky O'Shaughnessy sporting a lace bandeau bra and kickers (and nothing else except for a slick of red lipstick) on Instagram and Facebook, the caption reads: "Sexy has no expiration date. Jacky in Floral Lace Lingerie".
Feedback on the social networking sites ranged from anger and abhorrence to comments made by those who are perhaps more mindful that one day they will be the same age as O'Shaughnessy.
"Now she looks amazing. Honestly, not a flaw. Such a great figure and beautiful, long hair. Her skin looks healthy as does her entire body. And she doesn't look 'too old' for those pieces" wrote one user.
O'Shaughnessy, who is not a professional model and was scouted on the off-chance by American Apparel in New York two years ago, starred in an 'Advanced Basics' campaigns for the brand in 2012 - but was fully clothed in the images. It is thought that the picture above was taken in 2012, but hasn't been used by the brand until now.
At the time she told Fashionista: "Marsha [the photographer] introduced me to American Apparel and all of a sudden I discovered clothes that are beautiful, affordable and actually fit. I don't need to alter anything. They're perfect for my lifestyle, I like to be comfortable. You could say American Apparel and I discovered each other. It's a new world."
There's no denying that O'Shaughnessy is striking, but perhaps it's actually the underwear chosen that isn't doing her justice.

Who could succeed Anna Wintour at US Vogue?

As rumours that Sarah Jessica Parker will succeed Anna Wintour at US Vogue are shot down, we ask: Who could step into Wintour's Manolo Blahniks when the time comes?

BY Bibby Sowray and Olivia Bergin

Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker

It's possibly the most ludicrous fashion rumour we've ever heard but claims that Anna Wintour has been grooming Sarah Jessica Parker as her replacement at US Vogue got us thinking: who will replace her when she eventually leaves?

Wintour's will be some metaphorically big shoes to fill, she is American Vogue. Here we place our bets...
Victoria Beckham: the chameleon
She's come a long way since her days as a Zig-a-zig-ah-ing Spice Girl and now sits firmly at the top of the international fashion tree. Who's to say she can't morph into a magazine editor next?
Anna Dello Russo: the exchange programme
Can you imagine Vogue in the hands of the woman that brought us 'Fashion Shower'. Wouldn't it be amazing? A stalwart fashion editor, Dello Russo certainly has the vision, even if it is a bit, umm, outrageous.

Victoria Beckham; Anna Dello Russo
Amy Astley: the safe choice
The editor-in-chief of Vogue's little-sister publication Teen Vogue, Amy Astley has worked with Wintour before when she was a beauty editor at Vogue. Well respected in fashion circles, Astley would be a very safe pair of hands to leave big Vogue in.
Natalie Massenet: the business guru
The founder of Net-A-Porter, Natalie Massanet is an omnipotent presence in British fashion as the chair of the BFC. However, she's US-born, used to be a fashion editor at Tatler and she's got Wintour's seal of approval. "Natalie's doing a very good job," said the editor-in-chief of Massenet's impact on London Fashion Week. "She's a very organised person and she's obviously having an impact on where the shows are located."

Amy Astley, Natalie Massenet
Eva Chen: the protegée
When Wintour became artistic director of Condé Nast she immediately bumped former beauty editor Eva Chen up to editor of Lucky, one of Conde Nast's US titles. Chen is very well known, and liked, in the industry meaning the top title at Vogue may well be hers one day.
Marc Jacobs: the curveball
Think about it. "He's opinionated and has some spare time now [that he's left Louis Vuitton]," says Lisa Armstrong, "also a brilliant stylist in addition to knowing what we all want to wear."

Eva Chen; Marc Jacobs
Tamara Mellon: the all-rounder
The Jimmy Choo co-founder has business savvy and a creative mind. Since setting up her eponymous label (in NYC, no less) she knows how to stand up to a boardroom of investors and get ideas off the ground. Plus she's glamorous, supremely well-connected and used to work at British Vogue.
Tonne Goodman: the internal hire
Surrounded by British-born counterparts at US Vogue, Goodman, the magazine's fashion director is like a fresh breath of Manhattan air. Styling tricky celebrities is her bread and butter, and no-one understands the demands of the high-earning American woman better than she.

Tamara Mellon; Tonne Goodman
Roger Federer: the sporty spice
OK, this suggestion is as likely as Andy Murray winning Wimbledon (oh… hang on) but the tennis supremo attends shows with Anna, while she cheers him on from the stands. He certainly knows how to wear a suit, and has probably learnt more than meets the eye from those fashion soirees the two love to hang out at.
John Galliano: the provocateur
A curveball perhaps but it's well known that Anna is a huge supporter of Galliano's. It was her that got him his first post-scandal job at Oscar de la Renta and what better way to bring him back to the top than to seat him in her big, shiny editor's office?

Roger Federer, John Galliano
Lena Dunham: the voice of a generation
Dunham is US Vogue's current flavour of the month, quite literally, as she appears on the February cover - the result of months of wooing by Wintour, apparently. Often dubbed 'the voice of her generation', she would certainly bring a new voice.
Lucy Yeomans: the Brit pick
Yeomans was appointed editor of Harper's Bazaar in the UK when she was just 29 years of age. Now masterminding the launch of Net-A-Porter.com's first print magazine, Porter, fashion journalism runs through her veins.

Lena Dunham, Lucy Yeomans
Meryl Streep: when life imitates art
As The Telegraph's fashion editor Lisa Armstrong comments: "If we're choosing editors based on the fact they once played writers, what about someone who actually played an er, editor - Meryl Streep?" A valid point we're sure you'll agree.
Stefano Tonchi: the editor's choice
Italian-born Tonchi would be a publisher's dream; he's the current editor of style bible W (also owned by Conde Nast) and has previously worked at Esquire, L'Uomo Vogue and edited T: The New York Times Style Magazine. He moves in similar circles to Wintour and would be editorially-focused.

Meryl Streep; Stefano Tonchi
Photos: AP/AFP/Rex/Getty

Would You Wear This?Fashion Finds...Yea Or Nay? Can you pull off this Celine Pedicure shoe?

In the world of 'many fashion' trends, we get lost! Literally. We come across various pieces that leave us in awe (most times) and majority that works.
We all really love to stand out hence our quest to shop for unique items. Talking about unique items, we stumbled on this Celine Pedicure Shoes and we couldn't get over the actual 'pedicure look' it features! It is a piece that got rave reviews and caused major stir across fashion week in 2013.
The Celine pedicure shoe is featured in the Celine spring/summer 2013 collection. Is it a look you can pull off? Tell us how you will rock this unique footwear!

Celebrity Fashion: Refreshing Looks From The 56th Grammy Awards!

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The 56th edition of the annual Grammy awards held last night and as expected. our favourite celebrities turned up, boy did they! From their dresses to jewelry and flawless make-up, most of them sparkled like gemstones (or maybe the gemstones did!)
The celebrities played up their different games as they brought out their best designer frocks to play, the red carpet saw a whole lot of pieces from luxury brands.
The 2014 Grammy awards was a little modest, nothing really was over the top, it was genuinely refreshing!
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COMEDY ZONE: AKPOS Jokes of the day

AKPOS: Papa when I go HEAVEN,
I go ask Mama why she Died so Soon..
PAPA:
What if she dey HELL?..
AKPOS: Na u go ask her be that
+++++++++++++++++
Akpos: 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 Teacher:
where is 5?
Akpos: Yesterday, I heard on the
news that 5 died in a car accident
+++++++++++++++++
EKAETTE: Before we Marry u dey
give me Gifts, Wetin happen
now?..
AKPOS: Fishermen still dey give Worm to Fish wey he
don catch ?
+++++++++++++++++
AKPOS; Sweetheart, let’s play Hide
& Seek..
EKAETTE; Noooooo, the last time
we did, I didn’t
find u till February 15
+++++++++++++++++
Two days to to Valentine’s day:
Girlfriend: Baby, I heard the new BlackBerry is out.
Akpos: All BlackBerrys always hang.
Girlfriend: This one doesn’t hang.
Akpos: so I’m a liar abi? Its over between us
+++++++++++++++++
Teacher: Can U see God?
Akpos: No.
Teacher: Then there isn’t a God!
Akpos: Sir, can U see ur brain?
Teacher: No.
Akpos: so u have no Brain
+++++++++++++++++
Akpos:I am dreaming to be
rich…just like my
father.
Teacher: “Is ur father
rich?
Akpos: No,he’s dreaming Too
+++++++++++++++++
Wife: If i knew u were dis Poor I
wuldn’t av married u!
Akpos: what do u think I
meant when I said u were the
only thing I have in
this world?
+++++++++++++++++
Joba: Bros, why u wan Divorce
your Wife na..
AKPOS: She too dey Smile for
Sleep, e be like She
don get another Husband for her
DREAMs
+++++++++++++++++
OCHUKO: Guy, why u wan swallow
that MAGNET ..
AKPOS: Ekaette say I no dey
ATTRACTIVE again..
+++++++++++++++++
TEACHER: Why are those two
Mental People
Kissing each other.. AKPOS: They
are MADLY in love.

Kwankwaso blow Jonathan: You’re not qualified to contest in 2015

‘…this amounts to a third term’
BY SONI DANIEL
As President Goodluck Jonathan prepares for his re-election next year, Kano State Governor, Dr. Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso has warned that Jonathan is not qualified to contest for presidency in 2015.
According to the governor, any attempt by Jonathan to run in the next poll will amount to a third term in office, which is not acceptable to most Nigerians.
Kwankwaso, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, yesterday, advised President Jonathan to take urgent steps to solve the raging insecurity challenges in the North-East and stabilise the Nigerian economy and take a  bow from governance in 2015, when he would have attained the eight-year maximum limit stipulated by the Nigerian Constitution.
The governor argued that contrary to the President’s position that his tenure started in 2011, the true position remains that he actually started serving as Nigeria’s President in 2007 and would have completed his eight years in 2015.
Describing any third term bid as a taboo, Kwankwaso pointed out that Jonathan and those urging him to run in 2015 could never justify such a move, which runs contrary to the clear provisions of the law.
The governor said: “Jonathan is not qualified to contest election again in 2015 going by the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution. Third term is not acceptable to any part of Nigeria and the time limit stipulated must be respected by all Nigerians.
“I am sure Nigerians will kick against a third term whether by Jonathan or by any other person in this country.
Mr. President would have completed his eight years in office by 2015. He served as Vice President for two years, Acting President for two years and is doing another four years, which will terminate in 2015.
“But those advising the President are pretending that his tenure started in 2011. I saw them on television the other day trying to argue in that direction, but they can never be correct. I am not a lawyer, but I know that two plus four plus six can never be eight.

Controversial interview: Yes Mag reacts to Genevieve’s denial… “we have evidence”

Publishers of Yes Magazine have responded swiftly to Genevieve Nnaji’s denial of an interview published in it’s soft sell, insisting they have evidence.

Yes in a statement said “Like we professionally stated in our intro, it’s an old interview she had with our Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Azuh Arinze, years back at Oceanview Restaurants, Victoria Island, Lagos. He only stumbled on the tape again and reproduced it. Above all, we still have the tape of the interview as well as photographs taken on that day”
In the alleged exclusive interview, Genevieve Nnaji had been quoted as opening up on the kind of man she wants to spend the rest of her life with; an alleged relationship with Kunle Coker and plans to go back to school.
Hours after the story went viral, Genevieve had come on social medium twitter to refute the interview.