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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Question for the guys: Do you really check each other's 'junk' out?

Don't lie! Y'all do this.

Child labour: 6 year old boy photographed Hawking Drinks

Here are photos of a little boy, not more than 6 years
old, spotted hawking drinks as early as 10 this
morning in Lagos. I know some people need to make
ends meet to survive but sending a child this young
to the street is wrong on every level. This is so
heartbreaking to see!

Do you think there should be some kind of
punishment for parents/guardians who send an
innocent child out on the streets instead of school? I
think we should all get involved. Send a child to
#schoolnotstreet!

Pay tax for what? Bishop Oyedepo reacts to being named richest pastor in the world

Winners Chapel GO Bishop David Oyedepo who
recently turned 60, has reacted to the Forbes List of
World's Richest pastors where he was placed at No.1
with an estimated worth of about $150million.

Asked about Forbes' estimate of his fortune, Bishop
Oyedepo told Reuters that he doesn't know how
Forbes arrived at their figure but says he's blessed...

"For me, to have fortune means someone who has
what he needs at any point in time. I don't see
myself as having $150 million stacked up
somewhere. Whatever way they found their
figures, I am only able to say I am blessed by the
Lord."

Asked if churches should pay tax considering how
much they make, Bishop Oyedepo said;
"There is no single government input on this
premises. We supply our water, we make our
roads, then you ... say: 'Let's tax them'. For what?"

Win N250,000 & N30,000 weekly by creating your own Dance video

Nigerians are not smiling at all as Diamond bank is
giving away lots of cash prizes to fans who can dance
to the #YouNeedANewBank song. One winner is
going to be taking home the grand prize of N250,000
and they will also be giving out N30,000 every week to
one person who's dance video is extremely creative.

Do you think you have what it takes to win the
N30,000 for this week or are you aiming for the
N250,000?
Do not carry last oh, Follow this link to Download the
song, create your own video and submit: https://a.pgtb.me/jv0Xg3 Read the terms and conditions,
you will be disqualified if you do not follow it.

They've started rejecting Nigerian students admission because of Ebola

Despite being an Ebola-free country, some
universities in the US are now rejecting Nigerian
students admission.

Twitter user @Idrisayobello
shared one of those rejection letters on twitter and
wrote, "Ironic that NavarroCollege only 31 miles
away from Dallas with an active #Ebola case is
denying admission to Nigerians who are ebola-free!".

This is ridiculous!

Remembering The Chibok Girls - By Femi Fani Kayode

Article written by Femi Fani-Kayode

In the early hours of the morning of April 14th
2014 276 girls were abducted from their school as
they slept. They all came from a predominantly
Christian town in northern Nigeria called Chibok.

They were all between the ages of 15 and 18. They
were eager to get a good education and to make
something of their lives. 90 per cent of them were
Christians who believed passionately that their
God would always protect them and make a way
for them in the predominantly Muslim Borno state
where they resided in north-eastern Nigeria.

They left home on the morning of April 13th
confidently, eagerly and happily and went to school
to do an exam. The Federal Government of Nigeria,
headed by a Christian President by the name of Mr.
Goodluck Jonathan, had earlier reminded the local
authorities that the school had been closed for a
considerable period of time for security reasons and
warned that it should not be re-opened for the exams
to take place at Chibok because of the activities of the
deadly islamist terrorist sect known as Boko Haram
in that area. However the Muslim Governor of Borno
state, Mr. Kashim Shettima, ignored these warnings
and assured the Federal Government that he would
provide the necessary security. He also assured the
parents of the safety of the young girls.

He said that he would open the school specifically for
the purpose of the exams and he encouraged the
girls to not only come and do those exams but also
to spend one night at the school after finishing them.

Convinced by his assurances and moved by his
conviction and confidence, the parents of the girls
allowed their wards to proceed to the school for the
exam and they encouraged them to spend the night
there. The curious twist to the tale is the fact that a
few of the girls that went to take that exam were the
children of those that taught at the school yet after
the exams were concluded not one of them stayed in
the school or opted to spend the night.

It was almost as if they had a premonition of what
was going to happen or, perhaps, someone on the
inside had warned them about the horrors that lay
ahead. The Governor of the state did not honor his
word to provide security at the school. As a matter of
fact as the girls prepared to sleep that night not one
adult was in the school premises to watch over them
apart from an old man who was the school
gatekeeper and who slept at the gate. No teacher,
supervisor or school official stayed with them that
night and neither did the school matron, headmaster
or principal.

Not one person in authority was with them let alone
an armed man or woman to protect them from the
obvious dangers. They were on their own. Worse still
there was no electricity that night and no lights were
on because there was no power flowing from the
national grid and neither was the school generator
working. The girls were not only on their own but
they were also in total and complete darkness.

They
said their prayers, sang a few hymns, asked for God's
protection and went to bed. Then, at approximately
3.00 a.m. in the morning, Boko Haram stormed the
premises. The girls were subjected to the most
unspeakable forms of abuse: they were raped,
brutalised, traumatised and finally they were
abducted.

The terrorists not only took the girls but they also
ransacked the school, stole all the food in the
premises, burnt a number of school buildings and
made away with whatever they could lay their hands
on. They bundled the 276 young girls into their
lorries and sped in the dead of the night into the
deadly clutches and dark groves of their hideout- the
notorious Sambisa Forest. A few days later the
leader of Boko Haram, Mr. Ibrahim Shekau, released
a video of himself telling the world about his
intention to convert the girls to Islam, sell them into
slavery ''in markets'' and marry them off in foreign
lands.

He said that Islam permitted him to do so. He also
said that he would never release them. He claimed
that they had become slaves of Boko Haram and that
they would remain slaves forever. Two weeks later a
video was released of some girls covered in Muslim
shawls and garb reciting the Koran. It was clear that
Mr. Shekau had kept his word. These girls had been
forcefully converted to Islam and they were now
slaves.

Thankfully 55 of them managed to escape whilst they
were being abducted from the school on their way to
Sambisa forest. They did so by jumping off the
moving lorries that their captors had herded them
into. Two more escaped a few days after arriving in
Sambisa forest. They have since recounted some of
the horrors that they were subjected to and that they
faced whilst in captivity.

This includes multiple rapes on a daily basis from
several men, group sex, beatings, killings, torture,
enslavement, maimings and forced renunciations of
their christian faith and conversion to Islam. Clearly
the 219 girls that are still in captivity are literally in
hell. Stories are told of how some of them have been
sold off ''in marriage'' to wealthy Arabs in north
Africa and the Middle East and how others have
become sex slaves in bordering African nations like
Chad, the Sudan and Niger Republic. Up till today the
Nigerian Federal Government has no idea where they
actually are and have not been able to rescue any of
them.

A world-wide ''Bring Back Our Girls'' campaign has
been launched and this has created more awareness
about their horrendous plight and kept hope alive for
their safe return. However when a former President
of Nigeria, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the
world would soon have to come to terms with the
fact that ''we may never see those girls again'' and
that ''by now some of them will be dead whilst others
will be pregnant'' it did not give much cause for hope
or cheer. Perhaps the utter despair that Mr.
Obasanjo's words reflected added to the anxiety,
trauma and heartache that resulted in the sudden
deaths of no less than 7 of the parents of the
abducted girls.

The truth is that the girls are not just the victims of
the most vicious Islamist terrorist organisation on
the African continent today, an organisation whose
sheer cruelty and barbarity is at par with that of ISIL,
but they are also the victims of an uncaring and
insensitive ruling political elite in Nigeria who would
prefer that the whole matter is just swept under the
carpet and forgotten simply because they do not
have the capability, the guts or the political will to
take on Boko Haram in any meaningful way and
rescue the girls.

The reality, as unpleasant as it may sound, is as
follows. When the question is asked ''where are our
girls?'', the answer is that they are somewhere in hell,
hoping and praying that the Nigerian authorities and
the international community never forgets them and
manages to muster the resolve, know-how and
courage to rescue them. We owe them that much:
after all they are our children.

Yet all hope is not lost. On 25th September 2014 one
of the girls was released by Boko Haram. Sadly she
was not only pregnant but she had also lost her mind
as a consequence of the trauma that she had
suffered from her ordeal. The good news is that she
is at least alive and safely back home with her family
where she belongs. This gives us hope for the others.
May God bring home our girls and may we never
forget them.

M-Net, multichoice lift the lid on new Dstv premium channels

This month, DStv audiences will be
exposed to two new high-end television
channels that will hit the screens in the
next two weeks. These out-of-the-
ordinary additions to DStv's Premium
package will be called M-Net Edge (113)
and VUZU AMP (114).

Switched-on, trendy viewers who
currently enjoy VUZU, will be able to
dive into the coolness and amplifi ed
experience of VUZU AMP for the first
time on Tuesday 13 October at 17:00
CAT. Channel 114 on DStv will be the
home of this amplified VUZU channel
featuring local and international content
in HD.

On Tuesday 20 October at 19:00 CAT, M-
Net Edge will officially launch on
channel 102, as the thought provoking
and more irreverent home to
awardwinning television.

It will be a companion to flagship
channel M-Net 101, known for its
blockbuster and Hot off the Heels
series.Due to the age restrictions linked
to the programming on M-Net Edge, the
channel will be on air for eleven hours
only – from 18:00 CAT in the evening
until 05:00 CAT the next morning.

The revolutionary M-Net Edge line-up
will feature the most critically acclaimed
cult-craze series from Hollywood – the
kind of risqué shows you would prefer
not to watch with the entire family. On
the October schedule, for example, you
will find the eagerly awaited Emmy
awardwinning comedy-drama Orange is
the New Black. Among the other big
attractions are the brand new series
Masters of Sex and Satisfaction, as well
as new seasons of The Americans, Defi
ance and American Horror Story.

VUZU AMP will kick off its mission to be
the antidote to average with The Flash,
which means that the channel will boast
"Express from the US" titles. The show
will premiere in the US on 7 October and
will make its debut shortly thereafter on
VUZU Amp. Already earning a huge
amount of attention in global TV-land,
The Flash is based on the DC Comics
character Flash, a costumed superhero
crime-fighter – and is a spin-off of
Arrow.

At the time of its launch, VUZU AMP will
also host many season premieres of
hugely popular television series, among
them The Vampire Diaries, Devious
Maids, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, So You Think
You Can Dance and Pretty Little Liars.

To make way for these two
unprecedented channels, the current M-
Net Series Showcase and M-Net Series
Reality channels on DStv Premium will
discontinue. Instead, the content from
these channels will be found on M-Net
Edge (channel 113) or VUZU AMP
(channel 114).

Woman who allegedly transformed from a bird dies in hospital

The woman who eyewitnesses claim fell from tension
wire while flying as a bird and turned into this
woman pictured above at Cappa B-stop, Oshodi on
Friday Oct. 10th, has died in hospital.

Witnesses claim they saw a bird flying around the
area around 12noon that Friday afternoon, then the
bird hit a high tension clable and then transformed
into a badly burnt woman. Policemen arrived the
scene as a crowd gathered the supposed 'witch' and
took her to the hospital..

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP
Kenneth Nwosu, told Punch that the woman died in
hospital and her body has been deposited at the
Mainland General Hospital's morgue.

ODH releases new single Gbo Gbo Ile ft Reminisce

Fast rising Nigerian Afrobeat producer ODH has
launched caller tunes for his singles "Gbo Gbo Ile"
featuring the Alaga ibile himself, Reminisce & "Garra"
featuring DRB's Boj and upcoming northern crooner,
Highness Hafeez. These caller tunes are available on
the following networks : MTN, Airtel and Etisalat. To
add to this, (You might have seen different artists
wearing snapbacks with the abbreviation ODH and
been curious as to the meaning. Wonder no longer).

Also feel free to share it on your social medias. Stay
tuned for more from ODH. The future is bright for
this young lad.

Follow him on twitter : @BeatbyODH
For
Bookings : muyiwa.awoniyi@bsbmanagement.com

Download now goo.gl/tGJGsh

Garra- ODH ft Boj and Hafeez Callertunes

For MTN: Text 703549 to 4100
For Airtel: Text 0286068 to 791
For Etisalat: Text 605203 to 251

God Loves Nigeria - written by Femi Fani Kayode

Article written by Femi Fani Kayode. Read below...

God loves Nigeria so much. For those that doubt it
kindly consider the following. They created ebola
in their demonic labs for bio weapons. They sent
the disease to our shores through an insane
Liberian but the Lord defended us and refused to
allow it to take root in our shores.

God loves Nigeria so much. Why? Because, as the
bible says, ''He uses the foolish things of this
world to confound the wisdom of the wise''. For
those that still doubt it kindly consider the
following.

They refused to label Boko Haram as a terrorist
organisation until all men of goodwill begged them to
do so and until the terrorists had slaughtered no less
than 25,000 Nigerians, including innocent children
whilst abducting thousands more.

They refused to sell us arms to fight the Haramites
and when we approached other nations to do so they
directed them to say ''no'' and turn us down.

Yet God was with us, we sourced those arms
ourselves and ever since then the tied has turned and
our gallant soldiers are winning the war against Boko
Haram.

Can all this be just coincidence? Do these so-called
friends and allies of our nation really wish us well?

I read the response of the American Ambassador to
Nigeria about our concerns about the US arms
embargo on Nigeria. He spoke nothing but
nonsensical popycock and bunkum.

What on earth have we done to them that they seek
to bring us to our knees and decimate our country
with terror, torment, violent brutality and disease?

Why have they visited us with so much covert hate
despite our obnoxious fawning and desperate
crawling before their superpower thrones for the last
one hundred years?

Have we not played the fool enough for them and
have we not bowed low enough to them on bended
knee for the last 54 years?

Yet despite all our efforts to please our international
partners and modern-day slave masters they seek to
effect their prophecy that chaos must envelop
Nigeria and that our country must break up by 2015.

They seek to ensure that we are enveloped in a sea of
carnage and fratricidal butchery the likes of which
have never been seen before on the African continent
or indeed in world history.

In the light of all these observations numerous
questions must be asked? Who is really behind Boko
Haram and how come they have more sophisticated
arms than the Nigerian military?

Who supplies them with those arms and all that
training? Is it the same forces that covertly trained,
armed and supplied ISIS, Al Nusra and Daesh?

Is it the same powers that used those barbaric
terrorist organisations in Syria to attempt to topple
President Bashar Al Assad and in Iraq to push Nouri
Al Malaki out of power?

Is it the same forces that unleashed mayhem and
created turmoil in the Ukraine and that sought to
plunge Europe and Russia into a bloody war?
Is it the same forces that created Al Qaeda and
commissioned Osama Bin Ladin to push the Soviets
out of Afghanistan? Is it the same people that seek to
use Boko Haram to decimate our country, destroy
our people and bring our government to it's knees?

It is very clear to me that NATO will deploy ground
troops to Iraq and Syria relatively soon. This was the
plan all along. The long-term objective is not just to
destroy and defeat ISIL but also to remove Bashar Al
Assad from power in Syria.

As a matter of fact the latter has always been the
primary objective and America, Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
Qatar and a handful of others in the Arab Gulf states
supported and funded ISIS, Al Nusra, Daesh and a
number of other terrorist groups specifically for that
purpose for a number of years.

The sheer evil and horror of ISIS has provided a
useful pretext and justification for a full scale
invasion of Syria and Iraq by the western powers and
their sunni Arab allies.

That invasion, which will be clothed in the name of
''liberation'', will come soon. Bashar Al Assad, Syria,
Russia, Iran, China and their secularist allies in the
region need to brace up and prepare for the worst.

This is indeed a rhapsody of reality.
Yet whoever unleashed these forces and whatever
their evil intentions for Nigeria are, one thing is clear:
despite all our complexities, self-hate, self-doubt,
ignorance, naivety, eccentricities and innocent
trusting ways, God loves us dearly and we shall not
go the way of Iraq, Syria or Libya.

After all this is the land of the Ameyo Adadevoh's and
other brave souls. This is the land where the
watchers pray through the night and stand in the gap
for their beloved nation and their compatriots
regardless of faith, tribe or creed.

This is the land where, though we pretend to hate
one another and we bicker morning, night and day,
we know the meaning of the word patriotism, honor,
dedication, resilience, ruggedness and love.
This is the land whose people know how to worship
and praise the one true God and who call on His
name night and day.

The earthly powers that be and the emissaries of the
devil, no matter how powerful, how rich and how
connected will never destroy us and neither shall the
counsel of satan prevail in our land.

Each time they throw a bomb at us, like ebola, it shall
''return to sender''.

Each time they refuse to sell us arms to enable us to
defend our people and redeem our honor the Lord
shall raise others who shall do it in their stead.

The bottom line is as follows: you may hate us and
seek to shame and humiliate us but God loves
Nigeria and His purpose for our nation, whether you
like it or not, shall surely come to pass.

God bless Nigeria and may He continue to deliver us
from our enemies, preserve our unity, defend our
shores and protect our borders.

The watchers prayed "return to sender" and ebola
was sent back to Houston through another insane
Liberian. Now they seek to learn lessons from the
Nigeria that they targeted and sought to destroy
about how to "contain ebola".