The pics below are from another show...
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Femi Kuti's two young sons join him on stage to perform
The pics below are from another show...
Tonto Dikeh advises people on verge of suicide in Twitter message
Tonto is now reaching out to other people who are going through depression after a fan reached out to her saying he wants to kill himself . See her positive messages after the cut...
D'banj and Wizkid rock same Versace shirt
Wizkid shared the photo on his instagram page. Who is the scary looking guy in between?
Redeemed Church to build 3-kilometre long church auditorium
According to pastor Adeboye, the new auditorium will be built at the mission’s camp ground at km 46, Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Some Nigerians are already criticizing the plan saying the billions that will spent in building this auditorium, which will only cause more queues along this express way, could be used for other things, like hospital, school, farmland, anything that will provide employment - but then, bringing more souls to the Lord is a good thing! :-)
A 3km auditorium is pretty wide. Do you know how long it will take you to walk 3km? 35 minutes.
When Redeemed builds this auditorium, it will one of the top ten churches in the world in area size.
Beyonce's perfume collection named best celebrity scent in the world
Monday, 12 August 2013
Jocelyn Dumas falls on stage trying to rock Denrele Edun's boots
Stunning new photos of MBGN 2013 Anna Banner
Is 'once a cheat, always a cheat' really true for all men?
Is the ‘once a cheat, always a cheat’ belief true? If your partner’s cheated once, are you wrong to trust them again? The answer isn’t as clear cut as it first appears because people cheat for different reasons.
If you’re trying to decide whether your partner deserves another chance, a more helpful question to ask is why did they cheat in the first place.
Some people cheat to get their partner’s attention. If their partner’s a workaholic or unavailable to them, being caught with someone else is a way of saying ‘Hey, if you love me, pay attention to me!'.
‘Payback cheating’ is also common. If you’ve cheated in the past or done something else to hurt your partner, they might retaliate to get even.If your partner's been desperately trying to tell you they're unhappy but not feeling heard, cheating might well be a cry for help (albeit not an advisable way to flag up relationship problems).
Even if you don’t decide to forgive, cheating for these reasons is entirely different than ‘opportunistic’ cheating: not turning down a low-risk opportunity simply because monogamy doesn’t supply the erotic charge that new flesh delivers.
Trying to predict whether your partner will cheat again?
Ask yourself these questions: What’s their cheating history? If they’ve cheated on every person they’ve ever been out with and been forgiven for doing so, why should they stop?
It might cause you problems, but it’s working for them. A true serial cheater will often see nothing wrong with being unfaithful.
When caught, they’ll either get angry and tell you it’s none of your business - making it easier to leave - or turn on the tears and blame their past, making (false) promises they’ll reform. They won’t.
If your partner has a history of being unfaithful and forgiven or they’ve done it to you repeatedly, they will almost certainly continue to cheat.
What was the state of the relationship? If your relationship’s in tatters - you’re not communicating well and arguing bitterly - it’s easier to understand and forgive than if someone cheats when you’ve just come back from a blissfully, loved-up holiday in the Caribbean.
What sort of person is your partner? Is this out of character for them? Are they otherwise kind and loving?
Do you have children together? If you do, there’s clearly more incentive to try to work it out.
Is your relationship worth fighting for? Have you been limping along for a while now, with no real joy left? Or is this a horrible but genuine mistake in an otherwise solid relationship?
If
your partner's been desperately trying to tell you they're unhappy but
not feeling heard, cheating might well be a cry for help, argues Tracey
How sorry are they for betraying you? Do they accept how much they’ve hurt you and genuinely want to make it up to you?If you decide your partner is worth taking the risk on again, take a long, hard look at that last sentence and make sure the answer is yes.
The problem with giving second chances is this: once you forgive bad behaviour, you effectively condone it.
It needs to be absolutely clear that if you find out they’ve cheated again, you’ll walk with no questions asked.
If you’ve already done this and it’s a repeat offence, walk now
Ghanaian divas at the Channel O OnewsLive Launch
Private jet owners barred from govt terminal
The order, which has taken effect, was
conveyed through a memo from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria
to the heads of all the security agencies operating at the MMIA.
Airport sources said some private jet owners and
chartered jet operators had stopped travelling through the international
wing of the MMIA.
As a result, private jet owners and
chartered jet passengers travelling out and coming into the country will
not go through the required security screening, including that of the
Immigration, Customs, narcotics control and the State Security Service
at the MMIA. (Read the rest on Punch)
Blessing Okagbare wins silver medal at IAAF World Championships
The last time Nigeria won a medal at the Athletic World Championship was in 1999. Blessing we salute you!
Nike Oshinowo wants to make someone a beauty queen for 100years
They are looking for someone who is versed in our culture and embodies everything Nigerian. The pageant will take place every hundred years.
Ms Oshinowo will organize the first pageant this year or next year and the next one will be staged when our great grand children are the ones enjoying the world and abusing each other online. Hehe. Nothing wey person no dey hear. Lol. Makes sense?
Transgender teen, Dwayne Jones, murdered by mob in Jamaica
From Associated Press
Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
By age 16, the teenager was dead - beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.
"It was horrible. It was so, so painful to see him like that."
Police spokesman Steve Brown said detectives working the case are struggling to overcome a chronic problem: a strong anti-informant culture that makes eyewitnesses to murders and other crimes too afraid or simply unwilling to come forward.
Even though some 300 people were at the dance party in the small riverside community of Irwin, police have yet to make a single arrest in Dwayne's murder. Police say witnesses have said they couldn't see the attackers' faces.
Dwayne was the center of attraction shortly after arriving in a taxi at 2am with his two 23-year-old housemates, Khloe and Keke. Dwayne's expert dance moves, long legs and high cheekbones quickly made him the one that all the guys were trying to get next to.
Like most Jamaican homosexuals, Dwayne was careful about confiding in others about his sexual orientation. But when he saw a girl he had known from church, he told her he was attending the party in drag.
Minutes later, according to Khloe and Keke, the girl's male friends gathered around Dwayne in the dimly-lit street asking: "Are you a woman or a man?" One man waved a lighter's flame near Dwayne's sneakers, asking whether a girl could have such big feet.
Then, his friends said, another man grabbed a lantern from an outdoor bar and walked over to Dwayne, shining the bright light over him from head to toe. "It's a man," he concluded, while the others hissed "batty boy" and other anti-gay epithets.
Khloe says she tried to steer him away from the crowd, whispering in Dwayne's ear: "Walk with me, walk with me." But Dwayne pulled away, loudly insisting to partygoers that he was a girl. When someone behind him snapped his bra strap, the teen panicked and raced down the street.
But he couldn't run fast enough to escape the mob.
The teenager was viciously assaulted and apparently half-conscious for some two hours before another sustained attack finished him off, according to Khloe, who was also beaten and nearly raped. She hid in a nearby church and then the surrounding woods, unable to call for help because she didn't have her cellphone.
Dwayne's father in the Montego Bay slum of North Gully didn't want to talk about his son's life or death. The teen's family wouldn't even claim the body, according to Dwayne's friends.
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| Dwayne's friend, Keke |
"He was the youngest of us but he was a diva," Khloe said. "He was always very feisty and joking around."
Inside their squatter house, Khloe and Keke said, they still talk to their dead friend.
"I'll be cooking in the kitchen and I'll say, 'Dwayne, you hungry?' or something like that," said Keke while sitting on the old mattress in her bedroom, flinching as neighborhood dogs barked outside. "We just miss him all the time. Sometimes I think I see him."
But down the hall, Dwayne's room is empty except for pink window curtains decorated with roses, his favorite flower.
International advocacy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile country in the Western Hemisphere for gay and transgender people. After two prominent gay rights activists were murdered, a researcher with the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch in 2006 called the environment in Jamaica for such groups "the worst any of us has ever seen."
Local activists have since
disputed that label, but still say homophobia is pervasive. Dwayne's
horrific July 22 murder has made headlines in newspapers on the island
and stirred calls in some quarters for doing more to protect Jamaica's
gay community, especially those who live on the streets and resort to
sex work.
For years, Jamaica's
gay community has lived so far underground that their parties and church
services were held in secret locations. Many gays have stuck to a
"don't ask, don't tell" policy of keeping their sexual orientation
hidden to avoid scrutiny or protect loved ones.
Some say the hostility partly stems from the legacy of slavery when black men were sometimes sodomized as punishment or humiliation. Some historians believe that practice carried over into a general dread of homosexuality.
But in recent years, emboldened
young people such as Dwayne have helped bring the island's gay and
transgender community out of the shadows. A small group of gay runaways
now rowdily congregates on the streets of Kingston's financial district.
Dane Lewis, executive director of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals & Gays, said there were increasing "pockets of tolerance" on the island.
"We can say that we are becoming more tolerant. And thankfully that's because of people like Dwayne who have helped push the envelope," said Lewis, one of the few Jamaican gays who will publicly disclose his full name.
Yet rights groups still complain of the slow pace of the investigation into Jones' murder, despite the justice minister calling for a full probe.
The school that reeks of death
Things happen in this country. Remember the school
massacre that happened in Yobe state about a month back? Now we know
some of what happened. We also now know the names of some of the
students that were attacked.
The Nigerian Telegraph sent someone to the school to
look. According to them, the place is now a ghost town, and people are
scared to talk about what happened. The saddest part was looking at the
pictures of the school at the end of the story.
Read the full story here: http://telegraphng.com/2013/
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