All African Music Awards 2015

AFRIMA AWARDS CEREMONY
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2015
Venue: Eko Convention Center, Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Time: Red carpet starts 4.30pm, Main event starts 7.30pm

FOCUS:
To create a night of glamour, glitz and grandeur for Africa in its crowning glory through a world-class live production event broadcast to over 80 countries around the world .

EXPECTED GUESTS:
African artistes and celebrities, International artistes and nominees, African Union Chairperson, African Head of states, Ministers of Trade/investment and Tourism in Africa, Members of the Diplomatic corps, local and international media.
5000 guests expected.

Unoaku Anyadike is MBGN World 2015

Unoaku Anyadike represented Anambra State at this year’s pageant and after was chosen as the overall winner of the pageant – therefore she is the MBGN 2015 . She will represent Nigeria at the Miss World 2015 pageant which will take place on the 19th of December 2015 at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China.

So, who is Unoaku?

Here is the scoop on the pageant queen.

She’s 21. Unoaku celebrated her birthday on the 16th of September

She is a student of psychology at the University of Ibadan

She has other jobs – Unoaku has been a personal assistant to Nollywood star Enyinna Nwigwe

She participated in MBGN 2014 (as Miss Lagos) but had to drop out due to exams at school

She is from Anambra State (her dad is Igbo and mum is Yoruba). Contestants rarely get to represent their home states but in this case, she actually did

Her answer during the Q&A sealed the deal – we hear that her articulate answer to the question on Climate Change and her reference to the erosion issues in Anambra helped her win points with the judges.

Her role models are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Millen Magese

She comes from a close knit family – “I’m the last girl out of 5 beautiful girls in my family. We are Christians and from Ekwulobia, Aguata local government in Anambra state. We live in Ile-Ife, Osun state. My father is a Professor in Literature-in-English at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and my mother is the founder and proprietor of Sunshine Nursery and primary school Ile-Ife, Osun state. My family is the best family in the world and they come first, I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”

She is a Christian – She says “I love to meditate on the word of God” and I am presently reading “How to be lead by the spirit of God” by Kenneth Hagin

She is a blogger – Anyadike has a blog which is focused on positivity and spirituality

Her Favourite Meal is Amala and Ewedu with goat meat and a cold bottle of water

She has a crush on Empire star Jussie Smollett and admires Miss World 2001 Agbani Darego

If She were President, she would…The first thing I’ll do is to try to eradicate poverty, promote education especially the girl child education and make Nigeria one of the developed countries in the world

Seyi Shay To Open Lagos Photo Festival Gala Night

International recording artist Seyi Shay has been announced as the headliner for the upcoming Lagos Photo Festival gala night happening at Eko Hotel
on Wednesday. The gala night themed “I No Get Eye For Back” is an intimate evening dedicated to the promotion of photography in Lagos, a live auction of photographs by renowned local and international photographers, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and entertainment.

Proceeds from the live auction will go towards sustaining programmes of Lagos Photo Festival, which include Youth Empowerment through Contemporary Art among other programs. This is not the first time Seyi Shay has shown interest in youth empowerment and she has through her involvement in the Lagos Photo Festival gala night decided to do her own bit and support this program.

Lagos Photo Festival 2015 officially kicked off on October 24 and will run through till November 27. This festival will showcase some of the best local and international photo arts and after months of speculation, Seyi Shay will be unveiling her photo album themed “The Corruption of Eve” .

EVENT: EXCLUSIVE NIGHT-OUT PARTY

EXCLUSIVE NATION ENT || ARAB NATION ENT

                    Presents

     EXCLUSIVE NIGHT-OUT PARTY

   Venue: Club 40/40 Asokoro, Abuja.

  Date:    27th Dec
 
Time:   3pm till dawn

   Gate fee:          Guys:-1.5k
                             Vip:-   3k
                             Vvip:- 5k
            
Ladies:- Free
  

Live performance
Rap battle
Comedy
Music
Stage-on

       Supported by:
          New Skool Entertainment
           Crazy stars ✨
            Take Five
           Abj HYPERS

Male Celebrities In Agbada

A few years back, Agbada was an attire meant for kings, chiefs, rich men and if it was a wedding, it had to be the parents or at least you had to be old. It was so unusual for young men to wear Agbada but that was then.

These days, you don’t have to be 70 years old, rich, or have a title to step out in Agbada. Agbada is now a ‘thing’ for young men, particularly for events. The attire is so elegant it makes any guy look fabulous! If you have not tried it, you will never know how cool it feels.

Still in doubt?

Check out these pictures of celebrities rocking beautifully designed Agbada attires.

Baale Runs Over Student With Car In Lagos

Samuel Olayinka, a seven year old primary one student has been killed by a baale, Chief Spencer Savage after he crushed him with his vehicle.
The Punch reports that the incident happened on Wednesday, October 7 when the traditional ruler drove into Fagba junior grammar school in Iju station. He was trying to park his car but did not know that the boy was behind. He ran over the boy and all attempts to save his life proved abortive.

It was reported that although the school had closed since 1pm, Olayinka was still in the compound till 3pm waiting for his elder sister who was supposed to take him home.
His mother, simply identified as Mama Mary said he was a calm boy who rarely played.
“I was surprised when I learnt he was playing, because he was a reserved child. Most times, I forced him to play at home; he was very calm. His sister normally goes to pick him when she closes from school at 3pm.
“There are supposed to be security guards at the school that regulate the vehicles entering the compound. He was attending a private school before I withdrew him from there when I could no longer afford the fees.
“It was very painful but I have left everything to God. It is a tragedy that I can never forget. I did not know how I got admitted in a hospital when I was told he had died. The baale (Savage) visited me once while I was in the hospital and he paid my hospital bill.”
Savage said he did not drive carelessly but it was unfortunate that the boy was behind his vehicle at the time he was reversing.
“I did not drive recklessly. I did not know he (Olayinka) was behind the car, trying to pick something and I didn’t see him in my rear-view mirror. I rushed him to Ayodele Medical Centre and the doctor tried his best. The doctor said he had an internal hemorrhage.
“I took him to the mortuary and I was subsequently detained at a police station for two days. It was not intentional. I also have children. I wanted to see the principal to discuss my child’s poor performance.”
One of Olayinka’s teachers who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the baale was not aware that the boy was behind his vehicle.
“The baale was not aware that the boy was at the back of his car. I still believe the accident could have been averted if he (baale) was more careful. The back tyre crushed the boy’s head and he died afterwards.
“The incident was reported at the Iju Police Station.

“Besides, his mother should not have allowed a little child like that to wait that long for his sister. Our school closes at 1pm; the mother should have come to pick him herself. The security here is lax. We have only two security guards manning the seven schools. The guards resume by 8am and close at 2pm.
“The school compound has become vulnerable to hoodlums since its fence collapsed. Our pupils are no longer safe from intruders and abductors. These are imminent dangers which need the government’s attention urgently. The seven schools have a population of over 5,000.”
In a related development , a truck crashed into a shopping complex in Ekiti after the brake of the vehicle failed. Fortunately, the shop owners escaped death when the incident happened.

President Buhari Makes Addition To 2016 Budget

Before the passage of the 2016 budget, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Federal Ministry of Finance to include the basic healthcare provision fund.
The president, who spoke during an event to mark Nigeria’s delisting as a polio endemic country at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was pleased that Nigeria did not record any case of polio in the last one year.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, has an addition to next year’s budget

According to The Nation, President Buhari said: “The National Health Act has made provision for universal access to basic healthcare with a focus on the poor and the vulnerable as well as the basic healthcare provision funds to support its implementation.
“I have already instructed the Federal Ministry of Finance to provide for the basic healthcare provision fund under the 2016 Budget Appropriation.
“For 14 consecutive months, Nigeria has not recorded any new case of polio virus. This, as I had been briefed, is the first step towards certification of Nigeria as polio virus free country by WHO in the next two years.”
President Buhari, who said that the fight against polio has taken its toll on Nigerians, stressed that the eradication process had been in the offing since 1998.
“I want to assure you that there will be no complacency, as we will maintain and improve on our surveillance system as well as raise the childhood population immunity against the polio virus to avoid any spread of the disease.

“The federal government will sustain the current momentum and we shall continue to regard this campaign as an emergency until we are declared polio free in the next two years,” he added.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed how some state governors are not helping in the fight to totally eradicate the epidemic in Nigeria .

Chelsea boss Mourinho blasts Wilmots over Hazard Real Madrid claims

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has blasted Belgium coach Marc Wilmots over comments regarding Eden Hazard. Wilmots has stated this week he’d like to see Hazard move to Real Madrid. “The national team is the national team and the coach is the coach,”
Mourinho said.  “When Hazard is in the national team I don’t open my mouth. Ever. But some people don’t have the same ethics and comment when the players are at the club.”

South African universities shut despite fee agreement

South African campuses closed Monday, many for a second week, as students refused to end protests despite a government decision to scrap the tuition fee hikes that triggered nationwide demonstrations.
Student leaders have vowed further action to push for other demands, including universal free education.
Police last week fired rubber bullets and tear gas at tens of thousands of students gathered outside government headquarters in Pretoria as protests over the proposed fee hikes turned violent.
Max Price, the University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor, said the campus would be closed all week, as students had not committed to ending protests and the disruption of lectures.
“I believe no purpose will be served by attempting to keep the university open,” he said in a statement.
Price added there had been “diminishing investments by government in higher education over the past five years” as he praised “the courage and tenacity” of the student protesters.
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, the centre of recent protests, was also shut on Monday.
Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib criticised the students’ decision to continue protesting.
Habib said disruption of lectures and exams would “only further entrench and deepen the inequalities in our society.”
Public universities in South Africa, although funded by the state, are independent and have the power to determine their own fees.
The students argue that higher fees would force poorer students out of the education system.
The University of Pretoria, Fort Hare and University of the Western Cape were also shut Monday.

Adeyeye Ogunwusi is the new "Ooni of Ife"

The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola has approved the appointment of a new Ooni of Ife.
He is Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi of Giesi Ruling House of Ile-Ife, State of Osun.
The Secreatary to Osun state government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti said the choice of Ogunwusi as the Ooni follows the completion of the due process by the kingmakers and the communication of their decision to Government.
Until his appointment on Monday, Ogunwusi was non-executive director at Imperial Homes Mortgage Bank Limited (a subsidiary of GTBank).
He is a graduate of Accountancy and a certified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and of the Institute of Management.
Adeyeye is currently the Managing Director of Howard Roark Gardens Limited which is undertaking multi-million naira Jacob Mews Estate project in Yaba and the Lakeview real estate development in Lekki.
He has been involved in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts locally and abroad for over 11 years. He was involved in the development of the Northern Foreshore Estate, Cityscape International Limited’s Buena Vista project in Lekki, Primewaterview Limited’s projects, Westcom Limited’s projects, and the Ajaokuta Steel’s and Delta Steel’s resuscitation projects

SIM cards penalty: NCC slams N1trn fine on MTN

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation’s telecommunications regulator, has issued mobile phone firm MTN Nigeria, with a $5bn (£3.5bn) fine for failing to disconnect subscribers with unregistered Sim cards bought before January 2012.
From that date anyone buying a Sim card in Nigeria has had to register it under their name by law.
Phone companies were told to register their existing customers’ Sim cards, which MTN Nigeria – the biggest telecommunications firm in Nigeria – has failed to do, reports the BBC.
The fine is the largest in the history of telecom infringements in Nigeria and may redefine the relationships between telecommunications operators and the regulator.
Nigerians continue to complain about poor services from mobile network operators and blame the regulators for not doing enough to solve the problem.
A senior executive at MTN Nigeria said that the company will issue a statement on the fine later today.
Meanwhile, Shares in South Africa’s MTN dropped more than 5 percent on Monday after reports in Nigeria said the mobile phone firm’s Nigerian unit could face a fine of as much as $5.2 billion, traders said.
MTN declined to comment on the matter.
“The report is definitely the reason why it is moving. We just don’t know how credible it is,” said Petri Redelinghuys, a trader at Inkhunzi Investments in Johannesburg.
A second trader confirmed the share was falling as a result of the report.
Chris Maroleng, the Johannesburg-based spokesman for Africa’s largest mobile operator, declined to comment.
MTN was trading 5.32 percent at 180.80 rand by 1109 GMT.

Christ Destroyed Our Death

DEATH is a separation. Once the spirit, which is life, departs from a human being, the person dies and the fleshly toga dismembers into morass of earthy dust. In man, the physical death is brought about by the separation of the human spirit from the flesh (soul and body). Death is the inglorious wages of sin.
The spiritual death is human separation from the Lord, his Creator. The spiritual death, called the second death, will manifest fully in the hell fire. Death was occasioned by the first human couple’s sin.
As a result of joint human fall in the first Adam, when he sinned in the Garden of Eden, death proliferated to all humans. ‘But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear’ (Is.59: 2; Gen.3: 5-7)
The devil had power over death through sin, so the Lord Jesus accepted death to destroy death and the devil. In His death on the tree of Calvary, Christ tasted death for all humans. ‘But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man’ (Heb.2: 9).
On the cross of Calvary, Christ, Who knew no sin, became the Second and the Last Adam. His death became a joint death for the entire human race. ‘And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, ‘Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost’ (Lk.23: 46). So by His overcoming death by His death and resurrection, all human beings in Him became free ALSO from death.
Since Christ came and died hanging on the cross, death is no more for everybody. The Great Saviour has delivered us from this body of death. ‘O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord…’ (Rom.7: 24, 25).
In Christ, the bondage of fear of death gave way to freedom. A liberty that will even make us to taunt death and scoff at it in the end… ‘O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?’ (1Cor.15: 55).
All saints despise death at baptism, and like Christ, will be changed and transported to be with the Lord, forever. That day, the Word of God by the Psalmist comes to fulfilment: ‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord’ (Ps. 118:17).
The punitive judgment of the saints’ sin and death laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of His death is everlasting. In the Lord Jesus, we passed over death to victory. For all that accept Christ Jesus, the physical death ceases to be punitive wages of death, but a sleep of rest awaiting the trumpet of God to usher one into glory.
Death commits mortals to dust, but the Almighty God has judged it. And death itself shall eternally ‘die the second death’. That day, death would hastily release ALL of Adam’s progeny in its custody, yet will he be hauled into fire.





•Pastor Julian Ejikeme Okechukwu of Christ Manifest Ministries writes from Lagos. +2348034046895; christmanifest@gmail.com