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Actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu gets new political appointment

Nollywood actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu who was appointed Special Adviser on Entertainment to the immediate past Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi has gotten a higher post. The former Gulder Ultimate search anchor has just been made the Senior Special Assistant on Entertainment to the incumbent Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano.

“The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has appointed me Bob-Manuel Udokwu (FCAI) his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on the Movie/Entertainment Industry with immediate effect.” he announced.

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"I'm very disappointed but life goes on". Brown Ideye on World Cup exclusion

Nigerian/ Dynamo Kiev forward, Brown Ideye has taken to his twitter account to vent his disappointment after he was excluded in the provisional squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

“I’m very disappointed, but life does not end here. Life goes on.” He tweeted.

Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu took the exclusion in good faith. He didn’t only wish the squad the best in the tournament, he also implored Nigerians to support and pray for them.

“Gutted I didn’t make the preliminary Squad. Nigeria is blessed with a lot of players. We all can’t make the list. Every player wants to be at the World Cup.

I want to thank Coach Keshi for opportunities he gave me. I remain grateful for all, for he made my dream come true as a player to serve my great nation, which I’m always proud of. Thanks everyone for your support. Please let’s pray for the lads. Let’s support the team as much as we can because I believe in the managers and the squad selected. We are family. I’ll come back stronger. And also thanks to the Football Federation NFF for their support to the Countries Football… God Bless the Super Eagles”.

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Real Madrid tops Forbes' list of world's most valuable football teams+ Top 5 teams.

The richest football team in the world, Real Madrid has topped Forbes’ list of the most valuable football teams in the world. The nine-time champions of Europe are reportedly worth $3.44 billion. And for the first time since Forbes began ranking, two Spanish teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona, have occupied the top two spots.

Top 5 teams

(1) Real Madrid ($3.44 billion)

(2) Barcelona ($3.28 billion)

(3) Manchester United ($2.81 billion)

(4) Bayern Munich ($1.85 billion)

(5) Arsenal ($1.33 billion)

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Short Story: The Man Who slept away his tomorrow | By: Ticia Towns

One of the things I love about my job as an online
editor is because I do not have to deal with paper, most people around me think
it’s centred on my asthmatic condition and while I enjoy letting them think
that, the truth remains that my success is tied to my phobia for paper.

After a terribly lazy weekend, where the work I took home wasn’t even looked at not to dignify it with the word attended to, here I
was scurrying around on a Monday morning to make up for lost time, I had a
deadline to meet and not just that I needed a masterpiece.

“Ugo, what’s causing the nuisance out there?” I called
out to my secretary after 15 minutes of which my expectations for calmness to
be restored were brought to nought. It also seemed my question to her was
misunderstood to mean “Open Sesame” for Eucharia; as I would later reluctantly
learn her name to be came barging into my office and unknown to me she was
carrying the masterpiece I was trying to create all along.

“He killed my baby and has ruined my life. I want him
to pay for it” but just before the words “you need a lawyer” could be formed in
my confused brain and uttered through my quivering lips, with a teary and
broken down voice she added “I want the whole world to hear my story, please
help me tell it”. All I could do was sit and stare at this lady who was now a
shadow of herself; a cocktail of pain and anger masking what used to be a young
beautiful sanguine.
I don’t remember how many seconds or perhaps hours
went by while I was lost in thought but that window was my decision period and
I was going to listen to her lament. “My name is Ebun, I am the…” “I know who
you are; I didn’t come here by mistake. Other magazines have offered to pay me
but I chose you so let’s get to destroy that SOB”

Such arrogance! I thought to myself, but I got to this
point in my career by tolerating people worse than her so I wasn’t going to let
miss-I-don’t-need-your- sympathy here to stop me.
“Tega has a sleeping problem that he has refused to
admit to even now that it has caused us the life of our baby” she let out more
calmly this time, obviously in control of her emotions. “This lady has multiple
personality and it’s quite difficult to tolerate” I muttered between clutched teeth
to myself.
“I noticed it for the 1st time while we
were still dating, I had spent the weekend at his place and he took me to
church and promised to come pick me when service was over” she paused and
smiled to herself, as if remembering the loving side of this monster she was
trying to tear down.

“Even though he knew what time service ended, I still
sent him a text message when pastor was rounding up his sermon to be sure he
hadn’t forgotten. I think I may have OCD, I always like to double and even
triple check things” and with that she started chewing on her nails like was
typical of a nervous wreck, I took my phone and quickly texted Ugo “please get
a doctor on standby; we may have a medical emergency soon”. After chewing to
her satisfaction she started blowing out the contents of her mouth across the
table towards my direction “it’s this stupid OCD that made me check on tammy
again for the 12th time that night to discover she wasn’t herself,
something was off but I couldn’t tell exactly what it was” she hurled out like
someone who was relapsing from cocaine abuse.

“I tried waking Tega to take us to the hospital,
screaming and hitting him for 45mins did not achieve that”

“What!! I have only known you for about 2 hours now
but I believe your screams can even resurrect the dead. Are you sure it took
that much effort and time to wake him up?”


“Ebun, the day my husband was meant to pick me from
church I ended up going home myself because not only were my messages not being
replied; he also wasn’t answering his phone. I was worried something might have
gone wrong so it wasn’t even any relief finding his car still parked in its
usual spot.” She got up and walked to the window as if in search of more air,
while I was almost freezing from this AC that didn’t seem to cool the heat of
anger that was boiling from within her.

“I stood at the door banging and calling his name
while also dialling his number for over 30 minutes. Even his neighbours were
drawn to my now angry and terrified screams. What if he had died inside? To my
relief I heard the door open from within, overcome with more relief than anger,
we made fun of it as he claimed Jesus gives sleep to his beloveth. Then it was
cute to laugh about but looking back at what it has caused me now, I should have
sort for a lasting solution.”

“Wow!” was all I managed to say, for the first time in
my life I was short for words. I knew about insomnia but this? It sounded very
surreal, that it would take 45 whole minutes to wake up a sleeping person who
was not sleeping beauty.

“My baby died before we even got to the car” her voice
came interrupting my thoughts and awakening me back to this unbelievable story.
“I sued him but the lawyers said technically he couldn’t be held responsible
for poor tammy’s death as an autopsy had revealed she died from a heart problem
that had never been detected before.”
“Most women worry their husbands are with other women
when their phones go into voicemail, I wish that was the case with my own
husband but no, he’s too busy sleeping”. After about a second she continued “ I
have filled for a divorce and I want to tell every woman to stay clear else the
next woman who marries him might be killed in a burning room with Tega sound asleep.
I want to ruin his life, but I am also hoping my story can attract doctors to
find a name and solution to his problem”.

She still loved her husband, I detected from the last
sentence she had made. That was the cherry I needed on the cake and with that in
place, I drew out my laptop.
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2014 World Cup: John Dumelo, Jackie Appiah, Becca, 10 others named Ghana's official ambassadors

13 Ghana celebrities have been unveiled as Ghana’s official ambassadors for the 2014 Brazil World Cup. They include Becca, John Dumelo, Jackie Appiah, Grace Ashy CK Akonnor, Tony Baffoe, Abedi ‘Pele’ Ayew, Kwame Ayew, Augustine Ahinful, Samuel Osei Kuffour, Tony Yeboah, Azumah Nelson and Ali Jarrah.
As ambassadors, they are expected to make several campaigns ranging from getting the corporate world and the general public to lend their support to Ghana for the World Cup as well as raising funds to enable the supporters union of Ghana to travel to Brazil.
Photocredit: Ameyaw Debrah
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Comic Relief: As far as I'm concerned, every Nigerian is bleaching | By: Daniel Teinye Boyle

Nb: This is just for laffs

In the 1940s, some Africans made attempts to change their complexion from our default dark skin to a fairer one, Over the years, more women and recently men have found discomfort in owning an extremely dark skin. It is so funny that the aunt you grew up seeing or referred to as “my dark aunt” is now “my fair aunt”. She probably bleached or “toned” as most people would like to put it (to reduce its scorn). Apparently, everyone these days “was born fair”. Nowadays, you go through a lady’s dresser and you see the container of almost all her toiletries having the word “whitening” on them, yet she claims “I was born fair”…if possible her perfume is a lightening one, even her hair cream, now……does it mean the “fairness” you had when you were smaller ran into the wind? (Who you offend?)
Another case is some people claim they were fair-skinned from birth, lost the colour to adolescence and now they are gaining it back by “toning”. These set of people would never agree to you telling them they are bleaching, You are a girl, your boo buys you lightening shower gel? My dear, he likes them fair! ; you are a guy, your babe gets you a whitening cream? “She wan dey see you from 800miles away” some na una parents dey buy am because they feel you are getting too dark? #LegalBleaching

Now bleaching per se, is a strong word (that is why no one agrees to be called a “bleaching” person, so let’s stick with “Rubbing” hehehe. Now, whether it is a lotion, a pill, a soap or a routine that actually lightens your skin, my dear? You are “rubbing”
Whether na ghana red and black soap (that our mothers used in the 90s) or TURA that they used in the early 2000s….or Bio-claire in the mid 2000s or the recent “mixing” of cream craze that starts from the “washing” of skin stage to the actual “change in colour”. The thing is “YOU DEY RUB!”….
Now Nollywood has even made matters worse by putting up the invisible banner “NO RUB, NO SCRIPT”, its so bad that there aren’t any dark skinned actresses again, I grew up knowing Kate Henshaw, Uche Jumbo and Geneveive Nnaji as dark skinned actresses, but today what do you see? (Nor be my mouth una go hear say Queen elizabeth na Isoko-woman)..onwards. Biko. My friend chucks will say, “if you no rub, camera no go see you”..toh, well that being said, let us all be seen then loool.
My point is, most of the people who are quick to calling others out as “bleachers”, are gradually getting fair or have gotten a couple of shades lighter than their default complexion, theirs is “toning” ba? Issorai….. Just know that from the moment you look at your skin and feel “I’m too dark” or “I could get lighter” you are on the train already, so whether its “I avoid the sun”/”I am always indoors” as long as something is making you lighter, YOU DE RUB! Shikena
If you feel am incorrect, please retire to the good old DUDU-OSUN soap and IMBI-OLO (palm-kennel extract) from now on because any foreign chemical that “smoothens” the skin has every tendency to lighten it a bit.
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@Teinyeboyle

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5 Relationship Killers and How to Avoid Them

Relationships do fail. That’s the fact. However, we ask many times why they don’t work out. Over the years, there have been five major relationship killers:

(1) CONTROLLING BEHAVIOUR: Most people enter a relationship with a deep fear of rejection, and this fear motivates various forms of controlling behaviour. Controlling behaviour falls into two major categories – overt control and covert control. Overt control includes many forms of attack, such as blaming anger, rage, violence, judgment, criticism and ridicule. Covert control includes compliance, enabling, withdrawal, defending, explaining, lying and denying. Often a person at the other end of attack will respond with some form of covert control in an attempt to have control over not being attacked.
Controlling behaviour always results in resentment and emotional distance, bringing about the very rejection that it is meant to avoid.

(2) RESISTANCE: Many people enter a relationship with a deep fear of being engulfed and controlled – of losing themselves. The moment they experience their partner wanting control over them, they respond with resistance – withdrawal, unconsciousness, numbness, forgetfulness, and procrastination.

When one partner is controlling and the other is resistant – which is really an attempt to have control over not being controlled – the relationship becomes immobilized. Partners in this relationship system feel frustrated, stagnant, and resentful.

(3) NEEDINESS: Many people enter a relationship believing that it is their partner’s job to fill their emptiness, take away their aloneness, and make them feel good about themselves. When people have not learned how to take responsibility for their own feelings and needs, and to define their own self-worth, they may pull on their partner and others to fill them with the love they need.

(4) SUBSTANCE AND PROCESS ADDICTIONS: Most people who feel empty inside turn to substance and process addictions in an attempt to fill their emptiness and take away the pain of their aloneness and loneliness. Alcohol and drug abuse, food, spending, gambling, busyness, Internet sex and pornography, affairs, work, TV, accumulating things, beautifying, and so on, can all be used as ways to fill emptiness and avoid fears of failure, inadequacy, rejection and engulfment. And they are all ways of shutting out your partner.

(5) EYES ON PARTNER’S PLATE: Many people are acutely aware of what their partner is doing that is causing relationship problems, but completely unaware of what they are doing. For example, you might be very aware of your partner’s resistance or withdrawal, but totally unaware of your own judgmental behaviour. You might be very aware of your partner’s anger, but completely unaware of your own compliance. You might be very aware of your partner’s addictive behaviour, but very unaware of your own enabling. As long as your eyes are on your partner instead of on yourself, you will continue to believe that if only your partner changed, everything would be okay.


RESOLVING RELATIONSHIP KILLERS

All relationship killers come from fear – of inadequacy, of failure, of rejection and of engulfment. As long as you are coming from any of these fears, you will be behaving in one or more of the above ways. The way out is to develop a loving adult self who knows how to take full responsibility for your own feelings and needs. You will move beyond controlling, needy and addictive behaviour only when you learn how to fill yourself with love and define your own inner worth.
When you are willing to take your eyes off your partner’s plate and turn your eyes fully on yourself, you can begin to do the inner healing work necessary to heal yourself and your relationship. To learn more, register for the Single Ladies Conference here and be part of this great event. www.goo.gl/KWi6BP

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In Cameroon Boko Haram Is Preached As A Religion | By: Odimegwu Onwumere

The authorities and well-meaning people of Nigeria are yet worried about stopping the trashy activities of the Islamic sect popularly known and called Boko Haram in the country, but the sect is concerned about recruiting as many youths as possible in Cameroon into accepting the sect activities as a religion. As the sect holds influence in the North-East of Nigeria since 1999 killing over 4,000 people and damaging property worth millions of naira, government officials in Cameroon are worried that the apparent activities of the sect in Cameroon’s Far North Region is becoming bothersome. This is coming barely a fortnight the Ghanaian former President Jerry John Rawlings reportedly disclosed at the 70th birthday of Nigeria’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi in Igueben, Edo State that, Nigeria should not be somnolent in the fight against Boko Haram, but suggested that tactful measures in the fight would benefit.
From Rawlings’ comment, it has become incommodious that Boko Haram might take over the continent of Africa if urgent measures are not taken and earnestly put in place to curb the activities of the group. After Nigeria, the fight against the dreaded sect without doubt has also become a thorn in the flesh of Cameroon as over 200 suspected Boko Haram members have been arrested in that country and were later set free for what authorities said was because of lack of adequate evidence to prosecute the arrested. When this reporter made a journey of Lake Chad through Maiduguri recently, a young man who introduced himself to this reporter as Adamu and warned that pictures of him should not be taken, said that his worry in the country (Cameroon) is that members of the Islamic sect are preaching about their activities as a religion and not as terrorism.

“I can conveniently tell you that youths in our country Cameroon are being indoctrinated into believing that Boko Haram is a religion and not a terrorism organization. Many youths who refused to accept the volatile teachings of the group are missing today. Few of them who narrowly escaped from their captors narrated their ordeals, saying that they were being given military training in undisclosed areas so that they would be deployed to fight in Nigeria,” the source said.
It was also noted that in Mayo-Sava area and Mora District in Far North Region of Cameroon the residents are apprehensive of the surge of the sect in their areas. When this reporter questioned his informant if he was aware of the news making the rounds that Boko Haram preachers are going around the areas luring youths with monetary promises that they would be rich and better Muslims if they become Boko Haram members, he did not waste time to affirm the suspicion:

“I’ve heard of a thing like that. I also know that Boko Haram members are now dreaded in Cameroon like a scourge because their offer to the unsuspecting youths is tempting. I’ve noted that some parents give out their children to join the sect so that ‘they could become rich and better Muslims than they were.”
Investigations revealed that Boko Haram members do not waste time to send back any injured youth that was training in their camps back home, although blind-folded, perhaps to avert a trace of their training camp. According to sources, Boko Haram preachers kidnap young Cameroonians and take them to Nigeria for training. Some of the affected youths were noted to be those from Banki, Kolofata and Ngeshawa in Cameroon. Apart from the so-called military training that the preachers give to their victims, they also preach the ‘favourable’ side of the Koran that invariably promote violence and tell them that they are fighting a ‘just’ fight to defend the Muslim faith.
A government official interviewed who spoke under anonymity for the fear that he might be attacked should he give his name, said: “I’m not too sure that Cameroonian youths are being preached into accepting Boko Haram as a religion, but I cannot rule out the fact that it might be truth since Nigeria and Cameroon share common ethnic and cultural affinities. This is exemplified in the Cameroon’s Far North and Nigeria’s North-East. It is a common knowledge that these areas share not only semblance of culture, but, also, speak the same language.”
According to sources, many of the youths who joined the Boko Haram-initiated Islamic school have not been seen by their family members since 2012 they were declared ‘missing’. Whether they are alive or dead, no one could give an account of their whereabouts. All the hope of the affected families is that the ‘missing’ persons are with Boko Haram and are expected to come back in the event that they are alive, better Muslims and rich. Asked why the group is in the Cameroon’s Far North; it was gathered that the neo-presence of Boko Haram members in the villages neighbouring North-Eastern Nigeria was not unconnected with the May 2013 offensive that was launched by the Nigerian military that invariably compelled the surviving members of the group to look for safety in the neighbouring Far North of Cameroon.
Notwithstanding, it was gathered that security officials in Cameroon are doing everything within their reach to send the constituents of the group packing from the country. According to an account credited to Emmanuel Bob-Iga, head of the police division at the Far North governor’s office said: “We strongly believe that Boko Haram has elements in Cameroon and the authorities are doing everything possible to track them down.”
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Odimegwu Onwumere is a Poet/Writer and a social commentator. He writes from Rivers State.
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