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"It's like learning to ride a bike again" -Toke Makinwa on finding love again.

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I’ve not been able to take my eyes off this magazine cover.

Such a beautiful concept…but for the peeping boy. It took a while to discover she was seating in a canoe and the peeper is actually the peddler. Great shot.

After her infamous separation from her ex-husband, Maje Ayida, Media personality, Toke Makinwa who
is  gracing the cover of the FAME Magazine opened up about
finding love again. Excerpts from her interview below 
  

It’s
tricky! It’s exactly like learning to ride a bike again but I think I am doing
very well. Laughs. Of course you get the initial stumble and fall off but the
key is to accept that things are different now and that’s ok. My first date
after my separation, I cried on my way home as I couldn’t believe I was back
dating again, the stress and joys of getting to know someone again, the
excruciating pain of the past and the will to trust another again.

Actor, Pa Kasunmu suffers health relapse

Veteran
actor, Kayode Odumosu, popularly called Pa Kasunmu who has been battling with a
heart related ailment since 2013 and was recuperating has suffered a health
relapse, PUNCH has learnt. The 63-year-old who visited India recently for
evaluation however hopes to raise funds for proper treatment.
“I
spent just nine days in India. I thought that I would receive full treatment.
But when I got there, they told me that it was for evaluation. Then they asked
me to come back after two months.
Later,
after I had recovered from the illness, I started thinking about how to get
funds for my second journey to India. But I couldn’t find my international
passport and that of the nurse that accompanied me on the first trip.”

He also
added that his eye sight was worse than two years ago. “I see double and images are always blurred.” 

Rumour: Manchester United to make Marcus Rashford the highest-paid teenager in football

Manchester United are reportedly
in talks with Marcus Rashford’s representatives over a possible new deal.
Rumour has it that the new pay package which is around £50,000-a-week will see
the 18 year-old sensation who has scored more goals in all competitions for the
Red Devils than any other player since his debut in February 2016 become the
highest-paid teenager in world football. 
The British footballer signed a
£1million-a-year contract with United last May and penned another 4 year-deal
with the club in May 2016.

Goalkeeper arrested for conceding 43 goals

Bizarre: German goalie arrested after his team lose 43:0
I’m just confused. How do you concede 43 goals?
Should the “offence” be excusable because the
goalie is an amateur?
Here’s the scoop. Goal keeper, Marco Kwiotek was
picked up by the police during a training session after his side, SV Vonderort
lost to PSV Oberhausen. The German team consisting of refugees from Syria,
Iraq and Guinea made headlines after they were heavily walloped by their
opponent.
According to the report, shortly before the end of
the session, policemen approached the goalie and whisked him away for
questioning. He was released almost immediately after.

Imagine
a PL or La Liga team conceding 43 goals?

Sevilla, Real Madrid set new record

It was a record-breaking weekend in Spain.
Sevilla became the first team in La Liga
history to start a game without a single Spanish player in their line-up. The
players who featured in the game were from six different nationalities namely
Argentina, France, Brazil, Japan, Italy and Portugal.
Real Madrid  on the other hand beat Espanyol 2-0 away to equal Barcelona’s La Liga record for most
successful wins under Pep Guardiola. The Los Blancos recorded 16 consecutive victories, surpassing the
15-game winning streak recorded by the squad during Miguel Munoz’s tenure in the 1960/61 season.

Ronaldo, Bale ruled out of Espanyol clash

The duo of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale will miss the Los Blancos clash with Espanyol in Catalonia on Sunday, coach Zinedine Zidane has confirmed. While Ronaldo has a sore throat, Bale is suffering from a hip problem.

“Cristiano will not travel with us, he has a sore throat, and he will stay at home. He is not ready.He took a big blow to his hip the other day. With so many games to play, we cannot take risks.

“I want to have Gareth at 100 per cent for a very difficult game on Wednesday. He might have got a bang in the same spot and be out for 10 days, or more.”
The frenchman continued, “If Cristiano, Gareth and Karim are at 100 per cent, then they play. But that does not mean they must always play. We have many games.

“My idea is to always rotate, so that players think at any moment they will be called to play. They all need to play, that’s my idea.”

Patience Jonathan and her $31 Million Skye Bank Accounts | By: Tony Ogunlowo

The former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has written to the Chairman of the EFCC claiming the ownership of more than $31 million found in various Skye Bank accounts. In an affidavit sworn before  the Federal High Court in Lagos she claimed the money was for her medical expenses.

So Mama Peace claims the money was for medical expenses?  Even though the whole of Nigeria finds this difficult to believe I don’t – she really needs a lot of money for her medical condition(s).
The sum she quoted for medical expenses is understandable when you realize she needs a full-time language therapist ( trying to teach someone to say ‘are you the only one who came?’ instead of ‘na only you waka come?’ can take forever!); an anger-management specialist( since she’s known to fly off the handle frequently); a travel-sickness specialist( since she spent most of her tenure as First Lady frequently jetting between Britain, Germany, Abuja and Bayelsa); an etiquette specialist and a relationship expert(after all she’s married to ex-President Jonathan Goodluck, PhD).

Now how she came about the money in the first place is still a mystery since the First Lady doesn’t earn anything and being a Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa state civil service, at the same time (she was a superwoman who held down two jobs, one in Abuja and the other one two hundred kilometres away!) doesn’t pay that much. But yet again she could have dipped into her husband’s savings since she wore (and still wears!) the trousers in the house.

The EFCC claims the monies found in her account are the proceeds of gratification – a gentle term to describe the proceeds of fraud, money laundering and bribes.
Considering the fact she believes that if ‘somebody come dash you something shay na payment be dat?’ she’ll have a hard time explaining to the EFCC boys who actually ‘dashed’ her such a colossal sum that enabled her to own a magnificent hotel and several luxurious properties. And what could she have done for this person or persons that they were so grateful to ‘dash’ her so much to spend on her health. As the First Lady of Nigeria wasn’t she entitled to free medical care anywhere in the world? Why did she have to, allegedly, pay for it out of her own pocket? And what treatment was she receiving abroad that cost so much? With the money found in her account she could easily buy a clinic in London or Bonn!
If she was ‘dashed’ this money she could have put it to good use since she obviously didn’t need it being the President’s wife. She goes on about how charitable she is and she could have donated this money to the under-funded IDP camps or to the Nigerian Health service.
If $31 million dollars has been found in accounts belonging to her meant for her medical expenses how much is going to found in other accounts, yet to be found or unearthed, for her travelling expenses?

Evil Spirits, the Nigerian Culture and The Rule of Law | By : Isaac Aluko Ademoroti

                       
Nowadays, even children are aware of the existence of the supernatural realm.  There is indeed more to the physical world than meets the eye.  Frighteningly, it is not unusual to find young people queuing up to join cults, secret societies and other esoteric groups.  

This shows that it is not just adults who know what is going on in our world.  Most people have realised that in order to be relevant or be able to wield some sort of influence in the physical world you need to have access to the supernatural world.  This brings us to the issue of evil spirits who are supposed to power the so-called supernatural world.  It is now fairly common knowledge that billions of evil spirits, beings without physical bodies, live on earth as we humans do.  It has been estimated that humans are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by these spirits.  However, the last thing the spirits would want you to know is that they exist.  Some ‘educated’ people actually believe that they do not exist.

You do not need to be told about the mission of evil spirits.  As foot soldiers of Satan, these spirits are out to tempt people to steal, to kill and to destroy.  Most, if not all, accidents, armed robberies, disasters, wars, crimes and killings that we hear of, or read about are directly perpetrated by these fiendish spirits who have taken abode in humans.  Referring to these bellicose spirits, Paul, a prominent bible writer, refers to them as principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this age and spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Although evil spirits have won the legal right to operate freely on earth and dabble in human affairs as a result of the fall of man, they are often hampered by their lack of physical bodies.  As they need physical bodies to operate effectively on earth, they find unwitting and sometimes willing allies in humans whose minds and bodies they use to perpetrate their evils.  Therefore you should not be surprised by the murderous activities of cultists in our cities, colleges and universities.  

You should no longer be shocked when you hear of the exploits of kidnappers who kill people for money rituals.  You must also understand what is happening when you read about our military officers and politicians stealing our common patrimony so that they can fund their hedonistic lifestyles.  Knowingly or unknowingly, most of these people are controlled by these nefarious spirits.  Evil spirits operate more freely through people in lawless societies where they create.

You must have noticed that the kind of madness we referred to above where people empty the nation’s resources into their personal coffers, where people disappear without trace and where unexplained deaths happen are daily occurrences in certain places.  These things have become commonplace in Africa, Asia and the banana republics of South America where voodoo is still practised.  

One thing that is common to all these places is the absence of the rule of law.  Sadly, this is despite the countries in these continents having parliaments, police forces and executors of the law in place.  The main difference between what happens in the places mentioned above and what takes place in advanced societies is the rule of law.  What I’m saying is that there is no difference between a man or a woman who lives in London or New York and his/her counterpart who walks the streets of Abuja, Lagos, Enugu and Ibadan.  The one who lives in London or New York generally fears the law and is at his/her best behaviour.  

The one who lives in Ibadan, Enugu or Abuja knows that, in most cases, he or she can get away with anything either by bribing their way out or by pulling rank.  The one who lives in London is less likely to commit a crime because he/she knows that he/she may not be able to get away with it.  I’m not saying that there are no evils or crimes in advanced societies, what I’m saying is that the scale of evil in advanced societies is considerably smaller compared to what happens in our societies in Africa.

This again confirms that in most situations, evil spirits cannot force or compel people to do their bidding. They move in and operate wherever they are allowed.  Therefore, societies that are ruled by fear, that is, the fear of the law are more likely to witness fewer crimes, for instance, fewer killings than a society where anything goes.  Most Nigerians suffer and live in fear, not because the country lacks resources, it is easily because of the absence of the rule of law…
Hence, my argument is that those who make the laws in Nigeria, those who are tasked with executing the laws and those who are mandated to enforce these laws hold the future of the country.  Unless and until we get the right people to make the right laws, people who would execute the laws without fear or favour and people who would enforce the laws, Nigeria may be in for a long night.

Mary Njoku’s Nollywood Film Studio, Rok, Launches Sky TV Channel in the UK

Nollywood actress and producer Mary Njoku, founder of Nollywood Film Studio, Rok Studios has launched a brand new channel on Sky TV in the UK. This new channel for Sky customers in the UK will bring the latest and best Rok Studios produced TV shows, movies and magazine shows to Sky customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Rok on Sky will be available as a free-to-view channel for all Sky subscribers – that’s around 10 million homes in the UK. Showing awesome originals, such as Single Ladies, Banks Chronicles and Bloodline, as well as some of the most recent smash hit movies including Walking Away, Aso Ebi and Forever, the channel will be programmed and scheduled in-house from the teams in Lagos and London. 

Mary Njoku, Rok CEO says: “I am so happy to finally be able to share the news of this UK Sky channel with Rok fans. We have been working towards this for some time, and now we are launching in just a few weeks – we are all super excited. As a production house, we are obsessed with curating amazing African content and telling African stories our way – and with this next big chapter in the Rok story, we can give millions more people the chance to enjoy our movies and TV series. 

Rok is fortunate to have worked with so many of the screen greats – the likes of, Mercy Johnson, Mercy Aigbe Gentry, Ini Edo, Desmond Elliot, John Dumelo, to name but a few. These actors are instrumental in bringing our storytelling to life. We are also blessed to have a dedicated, hard working and creative production team, who work tirelessly to ensure we release amazing content. Together, as the Rok family, we are now bringing our beloved Nollywood content onto its biggest platform yet – Sky”.

Timed to celebrate Nigeria’s 56th Independence Day anniversary, Rok on Sky will launch with a bang on the 29th September, followed by a Gala launch in London at 8 Northumberland on 30th September. Nollywood glitterati, including Alexx Ekubo, Chioma Chukwuka-Akpotha, John Dumelo, Oge Okoye, Mercy Aigbe Gentry, Ini Edo, Annie Idibia, Yul Edochie, Jackie Appiah, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Patience Ozokwor, Segun Arinze, Funke Akindele and many more have already been confirmed on the guestlist, with a red carpet hosted by presenter Denrele Edun.

Mary adds, “We have so many Nollywood stars travelling to London to celebrate the launch of our new channel; this is unheard of until now. London won’t know what has hit it – Nollywood is going to take over the city. We’re also hoping to see many of our fans at the Rok on Sky gala launch as well – we are eternally grateful to all the Rok fans who’ve been with us along the way”.