Monday 29 February 2016
Emir Sanusi orders immediate release of Ese Oruru after Ben Bruce Contacted Him
VIDEO+ TEXT of Leonardo Dicaprio's Epic Speech at the Oscar
Below is the text of his well-crafted acceptance speech at the Oscars:
"Making The Revenant was about man's relationship
Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins An Oscar. See How The Internet Breaks...
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar on February 28, 2016, after five nominations and 27 Years in Hollywood! This time, as "Best Leading Actor" in the survival epic, ‘The Revenant’.
His acceptance speech was on point too. My
Olusegun Obasanjo’s Son In a Ghastly Motor Accident
Oba, son of the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was reportedly involved in a ghastly motor accident yesterday, Sunday 28th February, 2016.
He was on his way from Ilesha in Osun state where he
Sunday 28 February 2016
LOL: Governor Ambode & Friends In School Uniform At FGC, Warri
Hahaha ...okay, so I saw this picture of the Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode alongside his old classmates in school uniform, online, and I simply laughed and laughed.
My first thought when I saw the beer-bellies all
Saturday 27 February 2016
Meet Man Who Turns 15 on Monday While His Son Turns 5.
But they are!
Shekoufeh and son, who live in La Mesa, California were both born on February 29, an event that has a 1 in 2.1 million chance of happening, according to Time.com.
Eric will be celebrating his 5th official birthday while his dad will be celebrating his 15th on the same day.
Eric said his favorite Feb. 29th birthday was in 2012, when he turned "four."
"Everyone and their mother made a joke about me turning four, and that four-year-olds shouldn't be able to drive cars. Well, evidently I could," he said. "I was glad to have an actual birthday on such on emphatic year: getting a license. No confusion at the DMV. I hope I can say the same when I'm going out for my 21st."
This year, Eric Shekoufeh, a student at UCLA, plans to do more of his celebrating at Big Bear over the weekend.
"I don't plan to push it over to March 1st," he said.
He said he is more excited about next year when he will officially turn 21 and can legally drink alcohol.
"Legally, I should be able to drink on the 28th, but I'm expecting a bouncer to look at my license and tell me it's a fake," he said.
Duh! Got you there! 60 years and 20 years, that's their real age.
Fred Amata Emerges DGN President After 3 Attempts + Result of The Votes
The prolific actor cum director was declared President-elect of the guild after the election conducted yesterday, February 26, 2016, in Asaba,
See Facebook Post That Costs Lady Civil Service Job At Nassarawa State
She shared the alleged post and the termination letter she received from her employer, the Nassarawa State Civil Service Commission.
According to her, she was summoned by the
Friday 26 February 2016
Full Text of Sunday Oliseh’s Resignation Letter As Super Eagle's Coach
Dear General Secretary of NFF,
Object: Letter of Resignation.
Due to incessant Violations of our signed agreement (Contract) I am hereby informing you of my decision to terminate our working collaboration signed in July 2015
The most important objective is for the Super Eagles
Oliseh's Reasons For Resigning as Eagles Coach + Nigerians' Reactions
Thursday 25 February 2016
Reasons Why Wike Discontinued Overseas Scholarship for Rivers Students
Meet Herbalist Who Lives With 17 Giant Pythons As Link To His Ancestors
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Police Withdraws Tompolo’s Security Aides. See reasons here...
The Nigerian police has withdrawn the security aides approved for Government Ekpemupolo - Tompolo by the Federal Government since 2009 under the
Customs’ Prohibition List- Paracetamol, Lizards, Water and Others
Here are 10 items forbidden for importation:
1) PARACETAMOL AND OTHERS
I Am Not Afraid - Breadseller-Olajumoke's Husband Speaks
Burial Date Fixed For Comedian Bovi's Mum
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Photos: Youngest Nigerian King, Obi Chukwuka, Meets With Gov. Okowa
The 17 year-old who is also the youngest monarch in
Domain Change: The Long, Hard Road to the Permanent Site...
Domain migration is not a kid's game at all but a big decision that requires a great deal of planning. And
CELINE DION Plans 10-Minute Tribute to Rene During Opening Show
TMZ has reported how Celine's completely changing her show at Caesars Colosseum. It now begins with a
Breadseller ‘Olajumoke Orisaguna: The Nigerian Cinderella’ By Reuben Abati
"About three weeks ago, 27-year old Olajumoke Orisaguna was a complete unknown on the streets of Lagos, hawking bread.
A loaf of bread is about N100, and even with a full tray such as she carried in her first public embrace of fame, her whole ware for a day may not be more than N3,000, with daily profit between N300-N700.
She had trained as a hair stylist, got married but had to leave her husband and a daughter back home in Ire, Osun state, to “hustle” as it were in Lagos.
The life of a bread seller in Lagos is easily imaginable: exposure to the elements, to sundry abuse, including the possibility of being raped by unruly artisans and bachelors, who will offer to buy bread and something else along with it, if the hawker is willing.
This was Olajumoke Orisaguna’s reality until she ran into TY Bello and Tinie Tempah and her life changed.
Today, she has been enrolled as a model. Her story has appeared in all newspapers, on CNN, Huffington Post, and virtually everywhere online.
Two companies: StanbicIBTC and PayPorte have made her their brand ambassador. The former even awarded her two daughters scholarships up to university level. Her face has appeared on the cover of magazines.
She is now a student at Poise Finishing School, an intern with two beauty salons, and a motivational speaker, even if she reportedly can’t speak English. When she went to the office of the National Identity Management Commission to get an identity card, NIMC also cashed in on her new found fame to use her to promote the agency: “Olajumoke knows she needs to NIMC. She walked into a NIMC centre yesterday unsolicited. Olajumoke is smart. Be like her.”
This must be the most saccharine endorsement of Olajumoke so far.
To crown it all, a construction company has given her a luxury apartment in Lagos. From hawking bread in Agege, she is now within weeks, the darling of corporate Nigeria, the poster girl for corporate social responsibility, a landlady, and a role model. She had probably never seen the inside of an aircraft, but a few days ago, she was on a flight to Abuja to give a speech!
Mrs Orisaguna is Nigeria’s Cinderella. Hers is a sudden, unplanned, unexpected, unprepared for grass to grace, rags to riches story, a kind of I–just-dey-waka-my-own-jeje-luck-come-jam-me-tale. It doesn’t happen everyday. It is the kind of accident that many Nigerians seek: accidental fame and fortune. It is perhaps the magical, miraculous, I-don’t believe-it-but-it-is-true quality of this story that has captured the public imagination.
Olajumoke was hawking her bread innocently in Sabo, when she stumbled upon a photo session by that gifted mother of twins, artist and photographer, TY Bello, working on a series of shots for the international hip hop star, Tinie Tempah. We have been told that Olajumoke Orisaguna “photobombed” herself into the activity. I guess she just happened to walk by trying to sell bread, and TY Bello who is a spirit in action when she is at work, had a brain wave and took her picture. Enormously creative, T Y Bello thinks on her feet. When she has that her big camera in her hands, she is an agile, inventive artist.
Her camera is a weapon for interpreting space and reality, and for discovering new meanings. It must have occurred to her that asking the international musician to pose with a bread seller would give the picture a much deeper meaning, inherent in the open contrasts and auto-suggestions. It is that split second decision that has turned Jumoke Orisaguna into a superstar. The shot was brilliant, the result was impressive with people asking: “Who is that girl? She will make a good model.” TY Bello took on the challenge, and became Olajumoke Orisaguna’s promoter, mentor, adviser, godmother, and supporter, taking her to new heights within three weeks. Nobody is talking about Tempah, the main subject of the photo shoot; the focus is on the wanderer who walked onto the set, the bread seller who has taken the bread of the show, the waka-pass who became the star. I understand Tempah is quite happy; don’t be surprised then if he composes a special song soon, titled “The Bread Seller!” or “Photobombed” or simply “Olajumoke.”
The Olajumoke Orisaguna story is a perfect demonstration of the witchcraft quality of photography and that single shot that has changed a life may well be one of TY Bello’s most remarkable efforts in her chosen genre. But I find around Olajumoke’s sudden transformation from person to brand, too much capitalist hypocrisy and opportunism.
The brand is selling like hot cake, but the person needs protection. I feel for her. I fear for her. There is a sense in which she is a potential victim. The brand experts now taking her from place to place probably would not have even patronized her. They don’t eat the kind of bread that she sold.
Many of them don’t even know what part of Lagos is called Sabo. They don’t buy their bread from hawkers; they would rather go to supermarkets or confectionery stores. Before luck smiled on this young lady, many of those now posing for photos with her would never have noticed her presence. There are definitely many of her type, still hawking bread, or some other items, some even sitting in front of the bank, with a baby strapped to the back, but they may never be noticed or helped. The same companies that are using Olajumoke to talk about corporate social responsibility, are actually joking, they know that this is not CSR; it is brand exploitation!
And it may not last. There is nothing in Olajumoke’s background or exposure that has prepared her for the life of glitz being imposed on her. The skills she has acquired as a bread seller and hair stylist may not carry her far in the cruel world of modeling. When this blitz is over, she will need to compete for jobs and attention, if she must remain a model. She will have to learn sooner or later, to survive on her own. She will have to maintain the luxury apartment that she has been given. She has been taught fancy dressing, including the magic of make up and those magical colours that change a dull face into a phallus-teasing one do not come cheap.
She is at best an art work that other people have created: she has been made up into a siren, her hitherto dull skin now glows, in one photo, her hair had a queenly allure, they have given her new clothes, jazzing her up, to look feminine and sensual, and they have taught her how to smile in a tempting manner. Wow. That smile! The sorry part of it all is that her narrative is quite innocent and hauntingly brief, as is the case with all overnight sensations. The capitalist hypocrites will soon find something else to excite them, just as the media will find a new story. It probably would have been much better to help Olajumoke Orisaguna set up a small-scale business, to take her off the street-life of hawking, rather than this world of sharks into which she has been thrown. Perhaps the best that has been done for her is sending her on internship at beauty salons. She could at least set up a beauty salon of her own and live happily thereafter.
In a normal society, no young woman should be on the streets hawking bread in order to survive. In a normal society, Olajumoke Orisaguna would have been given the opportunity to go to school, and have a proper career. She is being given, all within three weeks, the kind of empowerment that society has denied her and many like her, but how about all the other Olajumokes who may never “photobomb” their way to luck? Her new life is a reminder of what she could have been but which she could not become because of the kind of society in which she has found herself. She should never have had to hawk bread to support her husband and children.
Her husband! Yes, Mr. Sunday Orisaguna. I have seen him in the photographs, either carrying their baby, or just putting up appearance. He looks lost, confused, overwhelmed, harassed and uncertain. He must be wondering what has happened or is happening to the woman he married. There is a clear difference between Olajumoke, the wife and bread seller, and Olajumoke, the model and celebrity. While Olajumoke is beginning to wear designer clothes, her humble husband is still managing his one-day-me-too-go-jam-luck attires. His wife has been sent to finishing school. By the time she finishes, I hope her new persona will not finish her marriage.
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| The life-changing shot by TY Bello |
Olajumoke is now learning to speak English, but her husband is a humble, sliding door installer who probably speaks only Yoruba. In our kind of society, given the social level and cultural background of the parties involved, it won’t be long before the demons will begin to crawl out of the woods, from in-laws who may begin to psycho-analyse Olajumoke, to family members who will scrutinize her every gesture, and friends with whom she hawked bread and has now left behind.
Lack of clarity over role interpretation and the new persona could also confuse the young mother. She needs a different set of skills to manage new relationships, especially the new friends coming her way, including those lecherous uncles who may show up and seek to exploit her innocence. The people turning her into a sex symbol should also tarry a while, and remember that she is a married mother of two. She needs counseling. And her sliding door installer husband, who has featured in her fairytale so far as a hanger-on, no matter what happens, should not be made to slide away. Sunday Orisaguna should also be counseled, given new clothes, taught English and sent to finishing school. He should not be left behind".
LASU Students Close Down Major Roads Over Clash With 'Agberos'
Monday 22 February 2016
Clement Ogudu: A Young Webdesigner, Developer, SEO Adviser Per Excellence
Heartbreaking: How Aid Worker Rescues 2-yr-old 'Abandoned For Being a Wizard'
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| Anja giving water and food to an abandoned child |
The malnourished, all skin-and-bones child pictured above is a two-year old Nigerian child reportedly accused of 'being a wizard' by his family and
Sunday 21 February 2016
PHOTOS: Ewheyae-Isoko Holds Annual JCF Meeting+ Donates Notebooks to Schools in Isoko
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| The President General, Chief Mrs Josephine Ovuorie giving her Welcome Address |
Friday 12 February 2016
Photos of Dazzling Valentine Beads for Bae
Love is in the air, they say.
It is a season of showing love, they say.
Sometimes, you don't have the words to say all you
Wednesday 10 February 2016
See Pastor Fatoyinbo's 'Robust' Birthday Cake During All White Party on Yacht in Dubai
Tuesday 9 February 2016
Sad: See How Dad Of Man Killed By Ibadan lawyer Died...
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| The late Lowo. Before he was finally stabbed to death on his neck |
Pa Oyewole Ajanaku, foster father of late Oyelowo Oyediran Ajanaku, man allegedly murdered by his lawyer- wife in Ibadan last Tuesday, died in the early
Sunday 7 February 2016
Ibadan 'Husband Killer' Is Niece to Minister; Daughter To Anglican Venerable And More...
It has been revealed that Yewande Oyediran, Nigerian female lawyer who reportedly murdered her husband, Mr. Oyelowo Oyediran, in his sleep in Ibadan earier this week, is niece to Minister of Solid
Monday 1 February 2016
Royal Abduction: Huge Ransom Demanded on Olomoro Monarch
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