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SILENCE OF THE STREETS  The streets no longer cry!  It has become lonely and tranquil as a graveyard I miss the gathering of men round the table shouting, 'bring more bottles '. The ladies in their cliques telling the tales of Dennis  The streets no longer cry!  It is now like the tales of the moonlight  like the tick tock the traffic light blinks  Yet, motorist to horn at passersby who walk majestically on the high way  We have become the shadow of ourselves  The rich in their tents, having no location for their vacation and the masses hoping for a drop of water to quench their thirst  Oh! how could I forget?  The days we wished schools were over just to go home and eat well prepared dishes but now, we have eaten more than enough  The streets no longer cry!  Where all our market women who joyously awaits the 'morrow for a fresh sale?  The streets no longer cry! At the sight of a child crossing the road with a ...

To my cheating Huband - Melissa, your once upon a time wife.  My soul cries, My heart bleeds, I can't speak, I resort to words.  You broke my heart, How wicked thou art, I took you away from the mat, Now how tragic is the aftermath. You cheat! A cheapskate with no shit, I gave you all despite your stink, Yet I'm repayed with my soul caused to sink. I remembered your vow on the holy altar, Without mercy you made my heart flutter, My smiles that day, now I start to wonder, Alas! The vows you made thrown into deep waters. I'd cry till my lacrimal glands stop working, Till there are no more tears but regrets, Till there are no more words but action,  Then will I leave you to your bad deeds  Misery shall befall you when you find this, And with bent knees I say this, For you took pleasure in my breast,  You shall run and find no rest, May your bad deeds bring you distress, And no other bosom shall give you rest   In one quick swoop, Melissa glances th...

BREATHE "I can't breathe". Those were the words he uttered Before his life was snuffed out. "I can't breathe". Those were the words that he uttered Before his life was ended, under the knee of a police officer. He groaned in pain, Pinned to the ground, Unable to move, Unable to breathe, Losing the power, The will to live. And as he gave up, As his life ebbed into nothingness, He sparked a change, a movement. He sparked the cry of a people, Stifled by years, decades of  oppression and racisim By years, decades of unfiltered bigotry and prejudice. "We can't breathe!", they chant. "We can't breathe!". And I wonder, If the knee will still be on the neck, Restricting the freedom of a people. And I wonder, If the knee will still be on the neck, Pressing the life out of a people. I wonder, If the knee will ever be removed, If an entire race will be able to live, to breathe. Ayomikun Mishael Afolayan

Well, even in foreign countries, fingers are easily pointed at Nigerians because the outside world believe we are "419ers" Did you know that the first exponent of 419 in Nigeria was not a Nigerian? "On 18 December 1920, a certain Mr. Crentsil, a former employee of the Marine Department of the colonial government in Lagos, wrote an extraordinary letter to a contact in the British colony of the Gold Coast, today's Ghana.... It is ironic that the first known Four One Nine fraudster known to history was not a Nigerian at all, but rather a Ghanaian.  Crentsil seems to have written a number of similar letters, each time offering to provide magical services on payment of a fee.  In December 1921, he was charged by the police with three counts under various sections of the criminal code including section 419... But Crentsil was in luck; the magistrate presiding over his case discharged him with caution on the first count and acquitted him on the two others for la...

As usual, straight out of Twitter, woman tells how she was raped....  21 Years Ago, a 15 year old seeking to find her path was brutally raped by her employer, all she had to show was a twin birthed 9 months after.  Hid behind the childhood abuse, layers and layers of Rejection, often criticized, broken, bruised, she refused to be a statistic and.. ...became the standard to many more young men and women who would be battered, abused.... TODAY.... the evening and the morning and it’s the 21st Birthday of my sons. Everything has changed since the blood.  Happy Birthday KanKan and Dada. To every single teenage mom, to every young person who has been themed a mistake and misfit... here I stand your validation that “No one and nothing has the power to define who you become but you!”  Choose what you will and desire to be.. well. .....to thousands of young men and women around Africa and the world who would be raped, battered, abused and ...

Now is the time to let loose all of the things that's been hidden...  The story of Eman Kellam  is one that is very familiar to us but we just don't know  This guy was on a mission that almost made his father break his head with an iron rod Eman Kellam  is of Nigerian YouTuber based in the United Kingdom,  Now here is the gist.... This guy called his Dad, sat him down and told him that at 16 he has impregnated a girl of 14 years...  As a typical African dad, he started calling for his mum.. hence the common voice we do hear now calling FUNKEEEEE.....  That was how Eman Kellam got into limelight till date. The video earned him a feature on French Montana's album Watch video  PRANKING MY DAD VIDEO

Just two days ago Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg took to his page to announce the new invention of the brand " The Shop " This will enable Facebook users set up a SHOP on their Facebook page while payment/transaction details will be added paving way for easy payment of goods purchased. A Facebook shop lets you show and sell products to people on Facebook. To add a shop to your Facebook Page here are the steps: On a computer , select the Shop tab on your Facebook Page. If you don't see this tab, you can  change your Page template to the Shopping template . Follow the on-screen instructions to add a shop to your Facebook Page. Fill in all the required fields. Select Finish when you're done. Further more, Shops on Facebook can be linked to Instagram pages, He later said efforts are on going to link Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp to the shops created on Facebook Question now is : is this not giving other sales platform a run for their creativit...

Many people kept asking me what is usually the event on Google Page's feed and I've responded that it's called "The Doodle"  This is meant to give education to many of it's users and today isn't an exception  Today, Google helped Zimbabwe Kickstart her Cultural Week with the documentation of a vital musical instrument callne the MBIRA   This instrument was recorded to have survived for a thousand (1000) years in the culture of Zimbabwe  This instrument Originated from the southern part of Africa and has played a very important role in the culture of Zimbabwe's Shona people.  Mbira is made of a hardwood board otherwise known as GWARIVA which is usually fixed with some metals of strings sound keys. A large hollow gourd (deze) provides amplification, and materials such as bottle caps or beads can be affixed to the soundboard to create the instrument’s signature buzzing sound.

Tony Igy To talk about the Dancing Pallbearers will be like going to Mount Everest twice a day  What many didn't take cognisance of is the beautiful sound that comes at the sight of the Ghana dancing Pallbearers  He is Anton Igumnov the copyright owner of the song used by the Ghanaian Pallbearers Tony Igy is a Russian who was birthed on 6 June 1985 Tony's specific genre of music is  electronic dance music .  He is best known for his hit "Astronomia", which was originally released in 2010. A 2014 Vicetone remix of "Astronomia" became a global phenomenon in April 2020 as part of the Dancing Pallbearers meme. He has released more than 25 tracks and 5 Albums since his career as a professional musician Now if you do not know before, you now know the origin of that sound 

PLEASE READ TILL THE END  If you hang around the barber shop long enough you're gonna get a haircut  Who are you helping at the moment ? Who are you touching their lives at the moment ? It doesn't have to cost you millions but you can choose to lay off the burden of #100 biscuits off your neighbors kids  Chadwick Boseman told the whole world at an award ceremony how Denzel Washington paid for his tuition fees  Denzel never knew this till Chadwick became a major star to reckon with in the industry, he (Denzel) bursted in to tears in the open  This made to conclude that the little things we do today will pile up at our door steps in the nearest future....  It could be words of encouragement or even little tutorials within your community but sure thing is whoever you're doing things for will always come back to remember you in ways you won't expect....  Don't forget that you are the reason many people may survive but if you tilt your head othe...

The "Igbo Landing" story of 1803 In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted by capsizing their ship and drowned themselves while singing in Igbo, a song that translates to ... "the water spirit brought us. The water spirit will take us home".  (Mmụọ mmiri du anyi bịa, mmụọ mmiri ga-edu anyi laa). Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved... people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast. In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah Georgia, on the slave ship, the Wanderer. They were purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants... John Couper and Thomas Spalding for forced labor on their plantations in Simons Island. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons Island. ...

If the world will all be infected with the novel Corona Virus I'm very sure that TAIWAN will manage the situation effectively As at the moment of filing this report, Taiwan has recorded less than 10 deaths and active cases, likewise Taiwan has tested more than 60,000 Taiwanese Many analyst are asking one question and that is "Why is this not making the headlines?" Comparing Taiwan to the likes of the United States,Germany,UK and many more  Taiwan is the closest country to Wuhan

As we will have it slit down our throats till we almost choked on it, veteran braodacster brought MUSILIU AKINSANYA AKA Mc Oluomo to the public via her show where he (Mc Oluomo) dished out some ideas on bringing ease to our roads in Lagos, but one Twitter user had this to say : THREAD Either deliberate or not, whatever it is MC Oluomo got going with the PR stunt is impressive. But it’ll require a lot more to stop me from associating him or NURTW with bloodshed and a reign of terror. Childhood days in Isolo, my mother had a shop at Afariogun in Oshodi. Newly retired, she invested her gratuity in a fabric shop in Oshodi. Every now and then, she & friends will close shop for days & lose income, because fighting in Oshodi between gangs of MC Oluomo & his rivals. As a student having to commute Oshodi frequently, I was robbed. Till 2019, my colleagues living in the Oshodi area worked & lived in fear at intervals due to brutal clashes and murders of alleged NURTW g...

If there is anything in dancehall genre of music in Nigeria we can't exempt one person who had infused extraordinary energy in the past years Just like Goldie Harvey of blessed memory, Cynthia Morgan came in to limelight and gave us great energetic dancehall music that rocked our parties  She did tracks like "I'm taken" "German Juice" in the midst of many, we will not forget to mention that she few awards too at the Headies. Question now is WHERE IS CYNTHIA MORGAN ?  Some said she is depressed while some said she's broke, a very good account of Jude Okoye was recorded last year when he said Cynthia has been depressed for a while.  We hope to see our Naija Queen of Dancehall again on the dance floor doing her thing.

It will rather be seen as "USELESS" if I as a full blown man is seen as chasing GOATS around. But it will sound more absurd if a whole Government of a country goes to war with Goats  Today we dug on this particular Twitter thread and though funny but it was an eye opener  HOW THE GOVERNMENT OF ECUADOR WENT TO WAR WITH GOATS Fun fact : One of the funniest "real life is stranger than fiction" stories ,for me is when the government of Ecuador essentially had a war with goats . Yes. The animals. This is a thread on how it happened.   A little background on goats . They are , despite belief, actually quite intelligent and very adaptable. They have the ability to survive in almost all climes and a very good reproductive rate. They have been shown to have quite high cognitive ability and learning.  The Galapagos islands are one of the world's most unique biodiverse locations, and where Charles Darwin went to develop the theory of evolution. They are located...

No doubt about it, everyone now has a battle they fight either silently or in the open. I dished out a question on my WhatsApp status asking "WHAT DO LADIES GO THROUGH IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS BUT HARD TO SPEW OUT" Response I got from people was pretty shocking. Here you go.... Do you wish to read from her status more stories  Send your name to Me via WhatsApp on  08037096255

THE FUEL PRICING DEBATE: OUR STORY I have read the various observations about the fuel pricing regime and the attendant issues generated.  You have all certainly raised strong points.   The most important issue of course is how to shield the poor from the worst effects of the policy.  I will hopefully address that in another note. Permit me an explanation of the policy. First, the real issue  is not a removal of subsidy. At $40 a barrel there isn't much of a subsidy to remove.  In any event, the President is probably one of the most convinced pro-subsidy advocates.  What happened is as follows: our local consumption of fuel is almost entirely imported. The NNPC exchanges crude from its joint venture share to provide about 50% of local fuel consumption. The remaining 50% is imported by major and independent marketers.  These marketers up until three months ago sourced their foreign exchange from the Central Bank of Nigeria at the offici...