Tribalism breaks Toke Makinwa's heart, recounts a personal experience.

See what the media personality posted on IG this morning concerning tribal differences…


‘There is so much to say on this topic, it is heartbreaking but real. Tribalism has been and is still been practiced today. Lagos is home for everyone, our generation knows better too. Let’s not let this come in between us, the OBA’s statement was ignorant but do we really blame him? We all at some point in our lives have been on the receiving end of acts of tribalism. Let’s take out the tension and be real with each-other. Our parents generation practiced tribalism openly and they were not corrected.In some homes befriending people from other tribes was frowned on, marrying from another tribe is still being frowned on today, tribalism even from people of the same tribe is real too. What we need is to educate and not instigate. I had Igbo friends growing up, I was the only Yoruba girl in the midst of Igbo girls. Did they make fun of me? Sometimes but it wasn’t out of malice. We lived, we loved and we are still very close. I have had a friend’s mum tell me “haaa omo ondo ni e? Mi o mo ooo, a kin ba ondo sore” meaning – I’m from Ondo? She didn’t know…. If she had, she won’t let her daughter befriend me cos they don’t like Ondo people, Ondo and Ijebu don’t mix… I was shocked. She went ahead and said “You Ondo people are wicked”.

My friend is from  Ijebu ooooo, we are both Yoruba girls and that statement was made by her mum. We are still friends today and her mum got over it. Please educate people around you. Vote who you want, vote your conscience but please stop with the tribalism comments. Our beauty is in our diversity. It is a distraction, don’t fall for it. Let’s all live as one.’

Russian Commission Ratifies BRICS Currency Reserves Agreement at $100Bln

A Russian Cabinet of Ministers commission on Monday approved the ratification on an agreement to create a pool of conditional currency reserves for BRICS member states at $100 billion.

MOSCOW – A Russian Cabinet of Ministers commission on Monday approved the ratification on an agreement to create a pool of conditional currency reserves for BRICS member states at $100 billion.

The Russian Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry introduced the legislation to create the joint bank between the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS).

“The overall volume has been set at $100 billion. China’s share is $41 billion, South Africa’s is $5 billion, and Brazil, India and Russia’s is set at $18 billion each,” according to the document, published on the Cabibet of Ministers’ website.

The currency pool will be maintained by a board of directors, a permanent committee, and a coordinator, whose functions will be performed by the state chairing BRICS.

A country-borrower may use up to the 70 percent maximum of state-limit funds if it has an approved International Monetary Fond (IMF) crisis stabilization program and fulfills its obligations under the agreement, according to the document. Up to 30 percent of the resources may be used without such a deal with IMF.

The agreement will be considered at a government session, according to the Russian Cabinet of Ministers.

The agreement on the creation of the pool was worked out by the finance ministries of the BRICS countries at the June 2012 meeting in Mexico.

Photos: Roads leading to Ekiti state blocked ahead of rumored sitting by APC lawmakers to unseat Fayose

All roads leading into Ekiti state have now been blocked today by those loyal to Governor Fayose following strong rumours that the APC members of their state House of Assembly were planning to carry a sitting today to start impeachment proceedings against Fayose.


Many loyalists also annexed the roads leading to  the state Assembly complex with police men and DSS keeping watch.

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Airport cleaner denies getting ₦12m present from TREM church

Airport cleaner, Josephine Agwu says she didn’t receive N12million from TREM church last Sunday when she was hosted by the Presiding Bishop and general overseer of the church, Dr Mike Okonkwo.

“I was at TREM for the Easter service but it is not true they gave me N12 million. I got a call from TREM asking me to come for their service. It is a lie that I was given N12m. I did not even see the report” she told Encomium magazine.

But she refused to reveal how much was handed to her, only saying that of all of that was not offered  to her, prayer was the most crucial to her “Prayer matters most. That’s the most crucial thing to me. Every other thing may follow. That prayer is the most crucial” she said

About 6 Children killed in School During Saudi-Led Airstrikes in Yemen

According to a military source, At least six children were killed after the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes and hit a school in central Yemen.

SANAA, April 7 (Sputnik)– At least six children were killed after the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes and hit a school in central Yemen, a military source told Sputnik on Tuesday.”So far we have recovered the bodies of three students, the bodies of the remaining [three students] are still being removed,” the source said.

Yemen has been hit by violent clashes between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the country’s president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

In late March, the situation in Yemen deteriorated after a Saudi Arabia-led international coalition launched airstrikes against Houthi positions.

At least 74 children were killed and 44 injured since the beginning of the airstrikes, according to the the UN children agency UNICEF.

In past two weeks, over 500 people have been killed, and more than 1,700 injured in Yemen, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Thursday.

I'ill drag Oba of Lagos to ICC - Son of former Anambra governor says

Son of late ex-governor old Anambra state Chief C.C Onoh and ex-member in the Enugu state House of state, Dr Josef Onoh has vowed to drag the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu to the International Criminal Court of Justice over the anti-Igbo comments he made during his meeting  in some Igbo leaders resident in Lagos last Sunday.

Addressing Vanguard, Dr Josef Onoh said

“Let it be known that whether Oba Akiolu’s threat comes to fruition or not, I have concluded to take him to the ICC where he will keep company with the like Charles Taylor and answer to human right charges that will be preferred against him” he said

Nollywood director Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi reacts to Kunle Afolayan's tweets about the Ibos

You realize when individuals have an opinion about you and just can’t chill for the proper moment to let you to know…:-). Nollywood director Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi aka Mr Hollywood reacts to Kunle Afolayan’s tweets


“I almost ignored Kunle Afolayan’s useless tweets about Igbos being the only Pirates in Nigeria because to me, Kunle is just an over rated Nollywood film maker. He’s not better than Izu Ojukwu, Teco Benson, Obi Emelonye, Chineze Anyaene to mention but a few.

The secret of Kunle is his DOP Yinka Davies who does everything for him and at the end of the day Kunle will just come and announce ‘action’… Give him another local DOP and see if Kunle is worth all the praises his kinsmen showers on him. Kunle should thank Peace Anyiam Osigwe for giving him the platform of AMAA as a pedestal to limelight. Trust me, if Kunle walks the street of Onitsha, Aba, Enugu or any where outside yoruba land, not even one person will recognise him as a celebrity. I will rather worry myself with the Oba’s threat to Ndi igbo than spend one second of my time thinking about Kunle’s senseless tweets about the Igbos.

Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi (Mr Hollywood)

Houthis Capable of Attacking Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah Leader Says

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said within an interview that the Houthi command hasn’t made a decision regarding potential attacks on Saudi Arabia, which includes been leading international coalition efforts from the rebels in Yemen, although there’s a genuine likelihood of such move.

 

 The Houthi command has not made a decision regarding potential attacks on Saudi Arabia, which has been leading international coalition efforts against the rebels in Yemen, although there is a real possibility of such move, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told the Syrian News Channel (Al-Ikhbariyah).

“As of now, the leadership in charge of military action in Yemen has not decided whether to cut off the Bab-el-Mandeb straight [which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden] and launch attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that they have such capabilities,” Nasrallah said.

According to the leader of the Beirut-based militant group, Saudi Arabia and the coalition are suffering a “catastrophic failure” in their efforts to defeat Houthis through airstrikes as the attacks have turned Yemeni residents against the authorities.An international coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been carrying out airstrikes against the Shiite Houthi rebels since March 26, following a request for military aid from Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi who has left the country amid the hostilities.

The rising death toll from the violence prompted Russia to call for a “humanitarian pause” in fighting.  A UN resolution to this effect is currently being considered by the 15-nation UN Security Council.

Hezbollah, a paramilitary and political organization originating in Lebanon’s Shiite population, was established in the 1980s. The group’s primary goal was military opposition to Israel’s occupation of Lebanon.

Hezbollah has been helping the Syrian government fight ISIL extremists and radical Sunni militants, including al-Nusra Front, a Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda.

Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by many Western governments including Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and many European states, but not by Russia.

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Mesothelioma Law Firm - Reach one in Time to Get Compensation!

It is much better to get resort to a mesothelioma Law Firm  or mesothelioma lawyers when mesothelioma illness is identified clinically. There are numerous crucial and necessary legitimate facets like the time bar to record the match, the full time and length for coverage, the injury triggered as a result of in a specific business or injury due to some arbitrary behave on the the main individual in his early living etc.

As deciding the applicability of most, these facets are element of particular understanding and qualified experience so it’s generally a good idea to let the decision be made by the mesothelioma lawyers or  mesothelioma Law Firm .

Occasionally to locate just how much relevance the so-called coverage has with the declare for settlement, the mesothelioma mesothelioma can even employ a personal detective to check out the matter. There are numerous legislation firms which entirely cope with just mesothelioma cases.

Such type of legislation firms hold mesothelioma lawyers who do cope with the instances associated with settlement declare in the event mesothelioma illness is identified in a patient. There are numerous organizations which to gain, bargain the protection of the personnel and make them to become function in dirty atmosphere with little or even no protection.

Do you think you need mesothelioma lawyer or mesothelioma Law Firm ?

When you yourself have labored in a building company or industry and have come in contact with asbestos then you can certainly file  a case against an individual or the organization that’s responsible for the experience of asbestos environment.

You will need to get support of mesothelioma Law Firm (s) since stuffing case requires large amount of legitimate technicalities and you need to be completely conscious of asbestos legislation. Actually when you are appointing a mesothelioma attorney from the legislation organization you’ve to make sure that the attorney is having excellent knowledge in managing asbestos connected cases.

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After, lungs and the heart hence damage, quickly the in-patient is confronted with significant reduction in his power to function and actually, to earn. Such condition, mesothelioma law firm and mesothelioma lawyers become of good help. It is obviously quite useful to the individual to get  legal services from the reputed mesothelioma law firm or organization in or just around his locality, since the income to the individual is from both parties, in earning or losing. All through seeking legal services such instances the individual or any party on the patient’s area does not require to pay for any expenses at the very first instance.

A portion  or percentage  is priced by the mesothelioma lawyers or mesothelioma law firm who was simply employed for the job. Whatsoever actions or alternatives be used by the mesothelioma law firm, it’s perhaps not generally chargeable until the case filed is won.

All about Secured Loans: For Everyone on Benefits !

Particular secured loans have numerous advantages over different loans that you may pursue. The largest benefit is that banks and different lenders may be are more variable with a secured loan. Look at a several of the most worthy price bearing in mind of personal loans that you could get.

- Decrease interest rates ( Things to take into consideration)

With secured loans, the borrowers do not only count on the credit history and situation to obtain a loan. They contain a product of protection in the deal.

Credit record is never crucial – Provided that there is not any problem about the worthiness of the collateral, several lenders will not enforce restricted principles regarding the most credible credit report that will qualify for personal secured loans.
Employment could be optional – but without a job may be the main reason that activated the necessity for a loan, and lenders may possibly be much more flexible if they are enjoying the normal ease of a Secured loan.

Excellent credit may possibly raise the amount of the secured loans. Different lenders are ready to loan a lot more compared to the price of a residence or part of asset if they’re working together with a borrower with acutely exemplary credit. It is not peculiar to see loans price 110% as well as 125% of the worthiness of a product of home or home.

Must read Facts About Personal or Secured Loans and On the web Transactions

Personal or Secured loans are getting significantly better to avail nowadays, thanks in wonderful measure to the easy evidence and running that is completed just before loans are being sanctioned. Particular loans fall under two extensive classes – Secured loans and unsecured Loans

Secured loans are generally for larger quantities such as for instance purchasing another house, home or car buy as well as Educational loans taken against a mortgage that’s typically fully guaranteed against default  via’well secured’asset like a home etc.

Unsecured or not secured loans are personal use loans which can be provided for smaller quantities like cost of medical expenses, Bank card payment and other exigencies that need quick cash.

Personal use loans, or’unsecured loans’require having a loan or credit without the transparent collateral. They generally require less paperwork in comparison to secured loans like mortgages but the time of loan is smaller and loan quantities smaller. Since there is no collateral set up or any repossession of loan cost, particular loans present significant dangers for lenders as a result of dangers involved. Ergo, the costs may possibly often be higher.

Why Businesses Will get Secured Loans

Once in a while, a loan that requires the client to have collateral  in advance will have a lower interest rate yet not all the time.  Infrequently, the FICO assessment will influence the initial installment too. There are a great deal of elements that banks consider when giving out loans.

The main contrast that will be recognized when paying the cash back is that the unsecured loans don’t require any guarantee and the secured loans will have something that can be taken back from the client or consumer on the off chance that they don’t make the installments as they have consented to. There is a considerable measure that can happen from the day that they sign the advance papers until the day that they would pay the last installment so it is essential to be ready for it.

The banks and fund organizations are ensuring themselves when they oblige something secure that they can take if the installments are not made. Secured credits are an exceptionally basic kind of advance for business purposes and also individual reasons. A few individuals will have an inclination on the sort that they would like yet others can just get the secured loan.

 

"I'm like Isreal, whoever wants to impeach me will have to impeach God - Fayose

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state says for anyone to successfully impeach him, they would have to impeach God first. Gov. Fayose said this during an audience participatory programme; ‘Meet Your Governor’ aired on the State Television, EKTV, Ekiti Radio, Progress FM and NTA, Ado Ekiti today April 6th.

“I’m like Israel that is in the midst of enemies but will always prevail. Whoever wants to remove me will first have to impeach God. They are doing all these just to get at me because of my support for President Jonathan and I have no regret for supporting the president. Let me say it again, I have not been served any impeachment notice. The House of Assembly is also on recess and Dr Adewale Omirin is not the speaker of the State House of Assembly. Omirin is in court, challenging his impeachment and he can’t be challenging his impeachment in court and at the same time laying claim to being Speaker.” he said.

Gov. Fashola's son, Demola sends sweet message to his mum as she clocked 50 today

Demola, one of the children of Governor Babatunde Fashola took to his instagram page this night to respect his mom, Dame Abimbola Fashola as she turned 50 today.


See the message bellow.

“The 21 years I have spent on this earth would not have been the same without you. We thank you for picking us up when we were in a million pieces, for dusting our knees and encouraging us to try again when we were down. For the infinite ways you show us the true meaning of unconditional love. Walking half a century on Earth in love and light is not an easy feat yet you have made it look effortless.

All of our achievements in this lifetime are yours because none of us would be the people we are today without you. Thank you for being the wind beneath our wings. Happy Birthday Mother Dearest, We Love you forever and A Day.

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#PiracyIsNotATribalThing: Uche Jombo reacts to Kunle Folayan's Tribal comment !

The performing artist responds to Kunle Afolayan’s cases that Igbos are in charge of piracy in Nigeria…

Backstage pics from Wizkid's video shoot today

Wizkid imparted photographs from his music video shoot today with chief, Sesan Ogunro.


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PDP set to rig Ebonyi polls – APC

The Ebonyi State section of the All Progressives Congress has asserted that the Peoples Democratic Party arrangements to apparatus the governorship and House of Assembly races on Saturday.


The Ebonyi APC Chairman, Ben Nwaobasi, said the gathering had gotten reports that outcome sheets of the prospective decisions have been sold to the PDP by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Nwaobasi made these cases on Monday while addressing writers in Abakaliki, the state capital. He, in this manner, approached security operators to explore the matter, including that it was equipped for creating emergency in the elections.

 

“We can’t allow a repeat of the National Assembly elections in the state and we are calling on security agents to prepare for the challenge ahead.

“We heard that people have bought the results sheets for the next elections and we are watching them. We have alerted the whole world on this,” he said.

Speaking on the preparedness of the party for the governorship and state assembly elections, Nwaobasi said the APC was poised to win the polls.

He said,

“Nobody should be given preferential treatment and we are calling on INEC not to be funny anymore. We cannot accept what happened in the National Assembly elections again; if it re-occurs we will fight it to the end.”

 

Ambode: Outrage over Oba Rilwan Akiolu’s death threat against Igbo

Various organisations in the country have expressed outrage over the threat by Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, against Igbo if they fail to vote for the Lagos State All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, in Saturday’s election.

The monarch reportedly told Igbo leaders in Lagos on Saturday that he would “make life unbearable” for the Igbos in Lagos if they frustrate efforts to ensure that Am¬bode emerges as the next governor of the state.  Oba Akiolu was quoted as saying, “On Saturday, if anyone of you goes against Ambode, whom I picked, that is your end. If it does not happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and it is not my father who gave birth to me.

“By the grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos State, the person is going to die in¬side this water.”

Among those that have called out the monarch are the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria and the youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. While the CCFN asked Oba Akiolu to revert his “curse” on the Igbos, the Ohanaeze youths gave the monarch 48 hours to withdraw his threat and apologise for his outburst against the Igbos. CCFN, an organ of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, in a statement by its Executive Secretary, Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey, on Monday in Abuja said Akiolu was  “missing the point that Nigeria is a Republic and a democracy and not a monarchy.”

He said,
“We humbly call on the Oba himself to withdraw his curse and rather appeal to the people, for indeed, such a threat may amount to playing God and God, who is a merciful father, will not allow his children to die so senselessly just because they are fulfilling the dictates of their conscience.”

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According to him, the fact that APC is the government at the centre is a strong factor to employ and appeal to people to vote for its candidate “rather than invoking ancestral powers for destruction.”

Bassey added,
“Why is it that in Africa we usually invoke our powers for destruction and not for building-up? Why single out a particular ethnic group for this curse? Does it mean a Yoruba or Hausa person, living in Lagos. who votes for Jimi Agbaje will go scot-free, while any Igbo, who votes for Agbaje, will drown in the Lagoon?

“Does it mean that people should vote out of fear and not their consciences? Would such an election be free and fair, where people have to vote out of intimidation?

Does not the threat of the Oba Akiolu amount to voter intimidation?”

The Ohanaeze youth wing said it considered the comments credited to the monarch as “a despicable insult on the Igbo nation home and abroad, least expected of a royal father in the rank of Oba of Lagos.”

In a statement in Umuahia on Monday, the National President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said, “Igbo youths will not take this insult lightly, and unless he apologises within 48 hours, he should know he is courting our wrath.

“Nobody, no matter what he thinks he is, has the right to command Ndigbo anywhere on who to vote for in a democratic setting.”

He said the “unprintable comments”, credited to the Oba, had only revealed his innate hatred against “Ndigbo, whom God has destined to prosper in any part of the world even in hostile environments.” He, called on security agencies to immediately invite the monarch for questioning over his remarks “which portend grave security implications.”

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Airport Cleaner Who Returned Lost Money Rewarded By TREM Church

Honest airplane terminal cleaner Josephine Ugwu pictured with TREM head minister Bishop Mike Okonkwo who compensated her for returning lost cash she found at an airplane terminal toilet in January, at his congregation at the beginning of today.


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3000 PDP members dump party to APC in Benue, publicly tear membership card

3000 PDP individuals in Benue state tore their paty participation cards as they decamped to the APC at a service in Benue state as of late. Haha.


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Audio confirmation: Listen to audio recording of Oba of Lagos threatening Igbos in Lagos

It would be ideal if you listen to the Oba of Lagos debilitating the Igbos in Lagos in the event that they vote in favor of anybody aside Ambode this Saturday. Kayode Ogundamisi imparted it on his Facebook wall.

A survivor of the attack in Kenya, Cynthia Cheroitich who spent two days hiding in a wardrobe had to drink body lotion to survive. The young woman was rescued 2 days after Al-Shabaab militant group from Somalia stormed Garissa University College Kenya on Thursday, April 2, 2015, killing over 147 Christian students.

According to the 19-year-old who was rescued yesterday, April 4, 2015, she was initially too petrified to believe police officers were not Al-Shabaab gunmen when they came to rescue her. Left with nothing to eat and lacking strength, Cynthia, currently in the hospital where she is receiving intensive care, said she drank body lotion to boost her hopes of survival.

Checkout First Lady, Aisha Buhari’s Easter Message To Christian Women

The wife of the president-elect , Mrs. Aisha Buhari has assured Nigerian women that they would witness a better deal when her husband formally takes office on May 29, 2015.

In an Easter message to Christian women, Mrs. Buhari said Nigerian women are among the hardest working social group, but have remained economically and politically marginalised.

According to her, under her husband’s government, honest labour and hard work would be adequately rewarded, while corruption would be fought aggressively.

She explained as a social group, women are among the sorry victims of the social and economic devastation caused by corruption.

She advised Nigerian women not to despair as the General Muhammadu Buhari led administration would spare no efforts to promote and protect their welfare.

Mrs. Aisha Buhari wished Christian women the abundant blessings of the Easter celebration

9ice Baby Mama Toni Payne Poses With Big Python

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March 28, Presidential election, pride to Nigeria – Anenih

Executive of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih, has depicted the presidential race which was lost by President Goodluck Jonathan on March 28, as a pride to Nigeria.


He additionally said that Nigerians are expecting incredible things from the President-elect, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.).

According to him,
“The 2015 Presidential Election, in which the incumbent President lost to the opposition, has become a source of pride to Nigeria.

“It has portrayed to the world that democracy in Nigeria compares to the best anywhere.”

The PDP BoT Chairman, in a two-page statement titled: “Marching on with Hope” and issued yesterday in Abuja, said: “A keenly contested Presidential Election, which many predicted would spell doom for Nigeria, has ended, gloriously, with everyone a winner.

“I congratulate the President-elect, Gen. Buhari, on his victory. Nigerians are expecting great things from him; it is my hope that he will take this great country to greater heights in the journey towards our manifest destiny.

“I salute the statesmanship of President Jonathan, in conceding defeat, even before the official declaration of results.

“By this noble act, President Jonathan has made an indelible mark on the sands of time. History will be very kind to him.”