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Music star Asa is set to hold her first ever concert in Lagos this May and we are pretty excited about it. The concert will hold on May 1, 2016 at the Eko Convention Center of Eko Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos. Asa, who has three (3) internationally released studio albums – Live in Paris and Live in Tokyo DVDs and chart- topping singles to her credit, will perform her most popular hits as well as tracks from her three albums including latest album “Bed of Stone”. Are you ready for the amazing night? Date : Sunday, May 1, 2016 Time : 6 PM Venue : Eko Convention Center, Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos Ticket: Regular – N10,000 | Premium – N15,000 | VIP – N30,000 | VVIP – N2,000,000 For more information contact 08127687266 | 09058344488

1. The little opportunity given to a monkey to wear cloths, does not guarantee it to join the dinning table. 2. Girls are like mangoes, while you are waiting for them to be ripe, others are eating them with salt. 3. Whoever presents his own head to break coconut would not be able to partake in the eating of it. 4. A man who hangs around a beautiful girl without saying a word ends up fetching water for guests at her wedding. 5. A man who counts his money after withdrawing from the ATM has trust issues. 6. If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful. 7. When a girl has beauty without Brains, the Private parts suffer the most. 8. Having a Female as a Best friend is like having Chicken for a pet, You will eat it some day. 9. The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill. 10. Never let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent & kick them out. 11. Life goes on, Even if you do

√5 Reasons Why the Big Nigerian Men of God Are Silent About the Evil Hanging Over Nigeria ¶After Enugu, any remaining doubt that you have no hope in your "elected" officials - governors, senators, reps and all the clowns of abuja - has been finally obliterated. Take a deeper look at that photo-op of the Enugu State governor in a handshake with President Buhari, his asymmetric grin and submissive stoop. President offered one hand, he gripped with two, an unforgivable etiquette bomb. In intelligence circles (and among body language experts), that handshake is called the weakling. South East governors… who among them will save you? Alhaji Okorocha? Others? Forget it. Just photoshop each of them into that Ugwuanyi handshake photo-op. ••• Analyze Fr. Mbaka’s handshake or Tunde Bakare’s more intimate version in those pictures. You can also photoshop any Nigerian big man of God into the Buhari-Mbaka or Bakare picture and you won’t go wrong. The song in the land now is every

Tiwa savage dropped this about her Husband: When I woke up, I thought they found him dead. My first thought was that we need to find him, he is suicidal, and we need to make sure he is alive. I didn’t even know what he had said. Someone took my phone from me, they don’t want me to see what was said online. I was just sacred for his life. 2. At around 10 and 11, Banky W’s Mum and his family were praying, and we got the call that he was found in Lekki, and that he has been taken to Banky’s House. 3. For the past two months, TJ and I have not been together, it was something we were working through, but I knew this marriage would not work. 4. I haven’t spoke to TJ in about a week, and we were supposed to get some passports for my son. He was reading the messages and he wasn’t responding. I begged him to be friends, and let’s be good parents to Jamil. He didn’t respond. 5. I covered up for a lot of hurt in our relationship. Just before I went to Jamaica, I found out that I was pre

Still on Favour: Fulani Herdsmen, Optics, & Other Blues By Pius Adesanmi Bukola Saraki, the enormously corrupt and filthy rogue who rose to the position of Nigeria’s number three citizen after robbing a bank and a state blind, managed to summon enough human feeling to beat President Buhari to a reaction to the recent massacre committed by Fulani herdsmen in Enugu. Bukola Saraki expressed sadness over the Enugu tragedy and urged expedited action on the escalating terrorism of Fulani herdsmen. Here is a portrait of Saraki. He is facing a mountain of corruption charges. His undivided attention is now focused on a vast architecture of bribery as he moves insane amounts of money through the system to bribe the judiciary, the media, and every bribeable Nigerian in the vain hope of scuttling his trial and retaining his seat as Senate President. A crook this busy should not be more alive to the duties, obligations, and responsibilities of the Nigerian president than the Nigerian pr

Lady Gaga - When she was finally signed onto a major record label, Gaga was dropped and only after three months of being signed. Walt Disney - Was fired from the Kansas City Star in 1919 because, his editor said, he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” Elvis Presley - After a performance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Elvis was told by the concert hall manager that he was better off returning to Memphis and driving trucks (his former career). JK Rowling - She got fired when working at the London office of Amnesty International because she would write stories on her work computer all day long. Michael Bloomberg - Was let go when he was working as a partner at Salomon Brothers, an investment bank. Specifically, it was after the company was bought out by the company that eventually became Citigroup in 1998. His severance check is what he used to jump start his career, which has now led him to become the 18th richest person. Anna Wintour - While a junior fashion editor

Ben Murray-Bruce and the Glamour of Favour By Pius Adesanmi A national teachable moment happened recently on Twitter between Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, Nigeria’s Area Father Plenipotentiary of commonsense, and Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, who needs no introduction. There is a background to that Twitter spat that most commentators have not critically examined. The said background is wholly rooted in the tragedy of our collective definition of Nigeria and our stubborn persistence to clinch to an understanding of nationhood and statehood in the 21st century that is inferior to how Askia the Great understood those notions in the late 15th century. We must sympathize with Ben Murray-Bruce before exploring the background of his spat with Mrs. Ezekwesili. These are not the best of times to be Ben Murray-Bruce. The Bayelsa Senator is finding out in a very harsh way that it is impossible to be a national crusader for ethics, morality, and commonsense from the belly of the cesspool that is Nigeria’

UNILAG mis-MANAGEMENT – A LEGAL ANALYSIS Joshua Omenga Contrary to opinions and speculations, the Vice Chancellor and the Senate of the University of Lagos have not acted outside their ‘power’ in vacating the students and setting draconian policies in the school. Their (in)actions are firmly rooted in the University of Lagos Act 1962. Section 8 of the Act empowers the Senate to oversee the ‘welfare’, conduct and DISCIPLINE of the students; and Section 12 empowers the University to make regulations to that effect. Section 20 provides for the discipline of the students by the VC, which may be in the form of restriction, suspension or even expulsion on the basis of misconduct. Misconduct although not defined in the Act, seems to mean academic misconduct, as you may infer from your docket. But the Act empowers the school to discipline on other basis other than misconduct. In essence, vacating the students from the hostels and ‘purporting to expel them’ on the basis of their protest may

Confessions After Holy Communion, whose commandment? Much as I hold that the Catholic Church makes the most Christian sense to me, it's still annoying that a number of the observances are mundane. You can't teach me that after crucifixion when Jesus hung on the cross the veil of the temple was rented into two symbolizing direct access to God the Father and then turn around to tell me someone needs to absolve me of my sins when I can easily go to God the Father in prayers, confess sins and receive pardon. Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) says when he was confronted with ignorance, the first instruction he received from Allah was iqra. I Q R A - - - - - READ. Why not leave dogma to joko jeje and read your Bible to know what God expects from you.

Greatest Akokites!!! We wish to sympathize with everyone on the recent homicide on our Human rights. The school has decided to kill the students' voice. They have suspended the Union. We sympathize. There are certain issues that however need to be addressed. But first, we acknowledge that we all want to resume. We promised that we'll bring everyone back to school. And that's what we did but not on terms and conditions...definitely not an Indemnity form! As the management did not communicate with the UNION at all to deliberate or discuss the students' welfare. We would NEVER agree to such. But was anyone expelled? Were you suspended? Was there any notice to the effect that the closure of the school meant suspension of all students; or would "suspension of all academic activities" be tantamount to "suspension of all students"? Obviously you'll agree that the answers to these questions are in the negative. Capital NO!!! So why should we

Nelson Pelumi assertions on the Unilag crisis.  Just now,on TVC, I listened to the current S.U.G president in UNILAG and he so sounds like a student who is campaigning for an untimely and unripe personality aggrandizement...very impulsive and void of decorum. He just made a ridicule of himself and referring to Ayo Dada is another paradidm he did not consider before employing in his rather vague lamentation. Does he have the purpose to rewrite the Book of Lamentation? From experience,I would respectfully request a meeting with the Vice Chancellor and that was with the consultation of my Oga's in the Council of Faculty Presidents,during my set. I was so pained to watch Mrs. Bukola Samuel Wemimo  add that SUG president's speecless speech to her news bulletin. Thanks to her though,for exposing the lapses of the SUG arrow head. Well,the president should recall that history is the memory of his era,as a student and leader. I am sure that many level-headed students,who have

"If my son ends up supporting Arsenal, it means I've failed as a father" Arsenal ten years wait for a premier league title summed up in ten minutes against the Hammers. Cresol Gist @ www.cresolgist.blogspot.com.ng

"If my son ends up supporting Arsenal, it means I've failed as a father" Arsenal ten years wait for a premier league title summed up in ten minutes against the Hammers. Cresol Gist @ www.cresolgist.blogspot.com.ng

Thankfully under President Goodluck Jonathan the Igbo managed to do better than at any other time in our history. As a matter of fact this was so much the case that Nigerians from other parts of the country, particularly the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani, often sulked about it and openly complained. Jonathan had a soft spot for the Igbo and I have little doubt that that partiality was borne out of his innate sensitivity to their historical trials and tribulations. It may have been sub- conscious but I have no doubt that it was there. Unlike others he viewed the Igbo as equals and regarded them as human beings: he treated them with respect and decorum and he gave them their due. Consequently it was under Jonathan that Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika the first Igbo Chief of Army Staff since the civil war was appointed. It was also under Jonathan that Senator Pius Anyim, the first Igbo Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria since independence was appointe