Thursday, April 11, 2013

Cancer Patient Funmi Lawal Dies



Funmi Lawal is the UNILAG law graduate who was diagnosed with malignant sarcoma, a kind of cancer at the shoulder region last year.
She's the same lady music producer, Don Jazzy donated N2million to.
Funmi's left arm had to be amputated in January 2013 to save her life, unfortunately she still didn't make it. She died this morning in Lagos.
The cancer had spread to her lungs and she had completely lost the ability to breathe without a respirator.
May her soul rest in peace.

Popular Actor Hafiz Oyetoro’s Secret Fantasy Exposed.


Hafiz Oyetoro, also known as Saka due to his hilarious role in popular TV sitcom House Apart has revealed his secret fantasies to fans.
Here is what the slimly built father of three disclosed:
My name is Hafeez Oyetoro. I am from Iseyin, Oyo State. My primary and secondary education was in Iseyin and I had my first degree in Dramatic Arts at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). I had my Masters’ degree in University of Ibadan (UI); I am presently running my PHD at the University of Ibadan at the Institute of African Studies. I lecture at Adeniran Ogunsaya College of Education, teaching Theatre Arts. I am married with kids.
Do you really like s3x?
Every man likes s3x. A man who does not have s3x is not a man; that means something is wrong with him. But I am not obsessed with s3x. I am very faithful to my wife. Since I married her, I have not had any extra marital affair. Of course I have children and you cannot have children without s3x, which means that I do have s3x.
I just have s3x when I feel like. Sometimes once a week; at other times I may not have anything for one month. Sometimes I have it every day but I’m not really addicted to it.

Google snaps Australian couple ‘having sex on road’



SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian couple shot to fame on social media Thursday after an image of them having sex by the side of a rural highway made it onto Google Street View, sparking speculation it was a stunt.

The image, which has since been censored by Google, shows the couple bent over the hood of a silver sedan alongside the Dukes Highway outside the town of Keith in South Australia state.

The man has his shorts down; the woman appears to be waving to the Street View car as it passes.

A user on the social media site Reddit first posted the image, with Australian news outlets concluding the steamy scene was probably posed.

Another user, benxology, claimed the couple was “me and my missus”.

We saw the Google car on the way to Adelaide a couple of years ago. I sped up, overtook the car then posed with a Corona (beer) in hand,” he said.

I pinned the location in Maps to remember where it was to later check but never found it … Hilarious!!”

Gunmen kill businessman during robbery


Shattered rear screen. Inset, bullet found inside the car

A businessman , Mr. Caleb Nwaozuru, has met an untimely death during an armed robbery attack at Ishaga, Surulere.

The husband and father of four, had allegedly gone to buy fuel when he was attacked by robbers at Ishaga, near Itire.

Nwaozuru was said to have last spoken with his wife Chikaodi at about 7.49pm on the day (March 24) while leaving Agboju, Festac after a prayer meeting.

He had driven himself in his ML 430 SUV and was headed for his office at Jibowu to pick up some money before coming home.

“By 9pm when Nwaozuru had neither returned home nor called, Chikaodi called him. When he didn’t answer, she initially assumed he was driving. She then called his office and a worker confirmed that Nwaozuru stopped by the office but had left for Ishaga, Surulere, to buy fuel.

A family source, which requested anonymity said, “With that Chikaodi waited a while, hoping Nwaozuru would call back. When he didn’t after several hours, she called his number again but the phone rang without an answer. Chikaodi made several failed attempts up till 12 midnight.”

As Nwaozuru was not known for keeping late nights, Chikaodi was alarmed. Despite the risk, she was said to have boarded a cab at about 12.20am in search of her husband.

The cab was said to have driven through all his usual routes from the house to the office and then Ishaga but there was no trace of him.

Distressed, Chikaodi returned home at 1.30am. By this time, Nwaozuru’s number was no longer available.

The following day, she informed the pastor of their local church of her husband’s disappearance. The pastor accompanied her to the Aguda Police Division to make a report. After the report, Chikaodi was said to have been advised by the officers on duty to write down her contact number in the event of any update.

“About an hour later, she got a call from the police asking for her pastor’s number. Shortly after this, her pastor came over to her house to inform Chikaodi that Nwaozuru’s body had been discovered at Ishaga near Itire.

The source said, “It seemed an armed robbery attack had taken place the night before, causing the residents to place a distress call to the Area C Command, Surulere.”

Nwaozuru’s family was told that he had been dragged out of his car by the robbers and shot before they made away with his car. The body had already been deposited at the mortuary of the Lagos Mainland Hospital, Yaba.

The police had allegedly given chase and fired at the robbers who escaped and later abandoned the car at Victoria Island, Lagos.

The family source said, “We went to the mortuary to identify the body. Nwaozuru was shot at the lower part of the two thighs and on the waist. The bullet came out through the front of the lower abdomen, leaving a hole. An autopsy has already being performed on Nwaozuru at the request of the police and we are waiting for the report.”

Nwaozuru’s car, which was later handed over to his family by the police, had several bullet holes with a shattered back shield. Some weapons supposedly belonging to the robbers were also found in the car; a sledgehammer and two cutters.

There was no response from the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide. Her phone rang out, while text messages to her phone were not replied.

Those Achebe left stranded


ONE of the most profound interventions during the controversy provoked by ethnic jingoists following the publication of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s valedictory commentary on Nigeria, There Was A Country, was made by the Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN.

While others jumped into the fray even without reading the book, Governor Fashola reminded everybody that his generation has moved on from the era of national madness that formed the basis of Achebe’s book.

He also said that both Awolowo, whose unflattering mention in the book produced a herd of wannabe Awo defenders, and Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, have decided to move on too. On Thursday 21 March, 2013, Prof. Achebe himself moved on. But there are some people Achebe left stranded in their ethnic hate.

The Igbo say that if, while having your bath, a mad man carries your clothes and dashes off and you run after him naked, what the world would see are two mad men. Achebe’s death seems to have provided a peg for some cowards, ethnic jingoists and literary revisionists on ethnic revenge mission to attempt a futile denigration of Achebe and his legacy.

Some of us have deliberately refrained from swallowing the bait to join such ethnic militants and literary insurgents in reducing the debate to ethnic brickbat. But some of these cowards have sustained their literary intifada since There Was A Country, masked with what is neither a critique nor obituary but clearly an exhibition of what Jonathan Raban, called a “massive personal disintegration”.

In any case, such foibles were well foretold by Achebe whose attitude was that an author has no control over the interpretation people choose to give a literary work or what they choose to do with it, including the bizarre and the ridiculous.

In his triumphalism, Odia Ofeimun gloated: “For me, especially after the publication of There Was A Country, nothing could be more painful than a man dying just when you were learning to argue and debate with him” It is clear that everything Ofeimun has to say, even when he has nothing worthwhile to say, about Achebe, flows from his angst over There Was A Country. And he believes that putting words into someone’s mouth, imputing your own motive, or visiting other people’s failings on someone and proceeding to abuse the person on those accounts is how to “argue” and “debate” with him? Ofeimun is stranded in arguing and debating with himself! And he seems rather narcissistically obsessed with his imagined place as a repository of Nigerian political history.

He believes he is the enfant terrible of Nigerian literature who takes on the high and mighty. Anybody astonished by Ofeimun’s obsessive swipes at Achebe needs to recall that more than being Chief Awolowo’s clerk, taking on the foremost poet J.P Clark in his book, The Poet Lied, gained him some undeserved attention. Yet, I doubt if any of Ofeimun’s books has ever sold 5,000 copies even in Ekpoma or elsewhere in the world! I will be glad to be corrected.

While trying to drag Achebe to his level, Ofeimun took liberty with facts, or believed that savaging Achebe permitted literary recklessness. In his eight-page masturbation in The News (Vol. 39 No 19 of 12 November 2012) titled: Achebe’s Lies, he drifted, drooled and pranced all over the pages on virtually every political issue in Nigeria that had nothing to do with Achebe or There Was A Country. When he was eventually pinned down to specifics with this question: “Let’s have the facts he [Achebe] misrepresented”, Odia mentioned just one point which he himself admitted as “simple typographical errors” and veered off wildly like a car driven by a drunk.

Ofeimun said he read Things Fall Apart at age 13. But it was not until Achebe published There Was A Country that Ofeimun made the earth-shaking discovery that TFA is an undeserving literary work! And without exhausting the subject at hand, Ofeimun, as usual, drifted into history according to his own whims.

Whereas “Five Majors”, as Nigerians have always known, planned the coup of 15 January 1966, Ofeimun emphatically asserts: “Look, five Igbo majors carried out a coup”! (The News Vol. 40, No 13 of 8 April 2013) So, for the purpose of transferring the sins of the soldiers to Achebe and the Igbo, Major Adewal eAdemoyega, one of the famous Five Majors, is Igbo! No! The poet simply lied!

Ofeimun’s insinuation, echoed by one Ibrahim Bello-Kano, is that Achebe was lucky that TFA was ever published because of an unknown publisher “who wanted to move into this new era of African literature” and because Achebe was the editor of African Writers Series. Bello-Kano parroted the same nonsense that “the timing, 1960-1966 was fortunate because there was, then, a large literate international English-speaking reading public eager to get access to the new African writing, not to speak of publishers such as Heinemann, which was looking to cash in on it all”.

So the logic of these revisionists is that Achebe had to wait for that opportunistic moment to write TFA or that without such opportunistic timing Achebe would not have written TFA? Were there no other writers that wrote at that opportunistic moment? What happened to those writers touted by Bello-Kano as more deserving, in his estimation, than Achebe to be called “Fathers of African literature”? I suspect that next time, Ofeimun and Bello-Kano will tell us that TFA was translated into 50 different languages because it was the gregarious Igbo scattered in those 50 countries of the world that bought off all the 10 million copies! That is what is left of the Nigerian intellectuals!

Like Ofeimun, Bello-Kano was simply out, not to do any scholarly criticism of Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah. He would have done so since 1987 when the book was published. He was out to vent his pique and petulance. Most of the issues he inelegantly dredged up about Anthills are not even original.

At least, Ofeimun can be credited as saying immediately the book was published that the plot was thin and I took Achebe up on that during my interaction with him at Nsukka in 1987. He simply said he achieved what he set out to do with the book. It was obvious that Bello-Kano pique which he had to cowardly express only after Achebe’s death is due to how Achebe represented the North in the book.

The intellectual challenge faced by the stone-thrower was to prove that such representations were false. He did not do that, except to resort to childish abuses. That they are unpalatable truths do not change the reality.

Then there was my fellow columnist in this paper, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed who did himself unexpected injury by going to the internet to dredge up the grime that goes on in that cesspool where cowards hide their identity and holding them out as Achebe’s People! (Vanguard Wednesday 3 April 2013) Haba!

The Igbo say that once you wander into the bush, you are likely to get a faecal welcome. Who does not know that the internet has today become a meeting place for the unserious and fellows feeding gluttonously on carrion? It is shocking that Baba-Ahmed could hold Achebe responsible for such putrid offerings in the internet while posing as an unjustly injured Awusa.

Oh please! Another unfortunate culture in the media is for hangers on to provoke needless controversy and attribute them to innocent people and start a war on their behalf. That was how we came to the Ashiwaju and Ogbuefi of African literature controversy immediately Prof. Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize. Neither Soyinka nor Achebe had ever indulged in such silly comparison. Both would be irritated by such inanities as my friend Sam Omatseye attempted to re-enact lately (The Nation Monday 1 April 2013).

Omatseye, as far as I know, is not a member of the Nobel Academy! Thank goodness that Soyinka and J.P Clark quickly issued their tribute to Achebe as soon as he died. A day late would have given sensation mongers room for some mischief that could provoke needless controversy!

Danger! Cocaine sells for N100 on Lagos streets




Cocaine is sold behind this wooden kiosk on Ilo Street, Ikeja

Contrary to popular belief, cocaine and heroin are no longer out of the reach of the common man,

One afternoon in March, our correspondent set off in search of joints where hard drugs were sold and consumed in parts of Lagos. Along the line, the search led to a narrow street, just off the busy Olowu Street and adjacent to the popular Ipodo Market. Known as Ilo Street, it is lined on both sides with crowded shops on most days of the week.

On this particular afternoon, a number of people, idle men from the look of it, sat at the back of a wooden kioks in front of a storey building. One of the men occasionally passed tiny wraps to the others in exchange for money.

Our correspondent observed the transactions for a while and then, without being noticed by the others, beckoned to one of the men – a gaunt and wrinkled fellow whose bloodshot eyes darted a quick and suspicious glance.

The man gave his name as Yakubu Mohammed. Obviously guessing that our correspondent desired some of the stuff wrapped in paper, he offered to help him get it.

“If you want Charlie or Thailand, I can assist you to get some. Alaye won’t sell to you because you are new here,” Yakubu said in Pidgin English.

Alaye was the fellow who had been passing the wraps to the other men. As it turned out, he was a dealer in hard drugs and the words ‘Charlie’ and ‘Thailand’ stood for the street names of cocaine and heroin.

Our correspondent was able to buy two tiny wraps of cocaine and heroin at N100, but not without attracting curious stares from the other drug users.

“They suspect you may be a policeman or NDLEA official,” Yakubu explained. He cut the picture of a young man whose whole existence revolved around hard drugs. He had just had a fix that afternoon and was clearly a shade too excited.

Like Ikeja, like Mushin

After combing the area for a while, our correspondent discovered more addicted drug users and not less than six dinghy drug joints between Ilo Street and Ipodo Road, obviously the hub of a thriving illicit trade in narcotics in Ikeja.

Further investigation showed that most of the joints were located in filthy surroundings, often near crowded and busy streets, especially in densely parts of Lagos, such as Ikeja, Ogba, Agege, Mushin and Somolu.

Young men and women, some barely in their teens, often loiter around such places, eager to grab an opportunity for a quick fix. In a particular joint on Akala Street, Mushin, a nursing mother sitting on a mat quietly sniffed from a substance in a piece of paper, while her baby yelled for her attention.

“Some of these people you see here have no homes. This place is their home. Day and night, you will find them here. This is where they always hang out. The only time they leave here is when they need money desperately for another fix,” a resident of the street said, on condition of anonymity.

When asked why he had not bothered to report to the police or NDLEA, the man said, “It is risky. Some law enforcement agents are practically on the pay roll of these people. Some come here in disguise to buy drugs, too. What if I go to a police station to report and somebody leaks my identity to them? That will be too risky. Most drug addicts are criminals. They are capable of anything. They could kill or maim if they suspect that you are a threat to them.”

Also, in the Mushin area, Igbarere, Anifowoshe, Umoru, Akinbiyi and Alhaji Lasisi Streets, among others, are dreaded and avoided by many law-abiding Lagosians because of their collective role in the wider trade in hard drugs.

A resident once described the area as the “unofficial hard drugs market. Illicit transactions between drug pushers and their customers take place in many of the shops found on the streets. You can easily tell a drug joint by the filthy curtain hanging at the entrance. When our correspondent visited there, a few young men could be seen openly smoking Indian hemp, now a common ‘food’ in many parts of the city, as it is in many others in the country.

Normally, influential Nigerians are associated with cocaine, heroin and other related narcotics. While children of the rich, for instance, flaunt the drugs in schools, it is said that some wealthy people go as far as sharing cocaine and heroine to their guests at some social functions. But most of the addicts encountered on the streets of Lagos were clearly from poor backgrounds.

Methamphetamine factories

Sometime in January, Governor Babtunde Fashola expressed concern over the discovery of illegal methamphetamine production plants in parts of the state. This added another dimension to the general awareness of a looming drug crisis.

“The discovery of clandestine laboratories for methamphetamine production in Lagos is the first alarm of insecurity in the state,” the governor was quoted as saying during a meeting with the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Ahmadu Giade, in Lagos.

“Since crimes like armed robbery and rape are often committed under the influence of drugs, we must first fight drugs in order to fight crime. At this time of high security challenges, drug control should be a high priority issue. Every society that wants to promote peace and security must fight drugs,” Fashola said.

Earlier, news reports had indicated that the discovery of such illegal plants posed a serious obstacle to the current campaign to rid the country of the menace of drug addiction.

Almost every week, traffickers in hard drugs are caught trying to smuggle in narcotics at the Murtala International Airport and other airports across the country. The development confirmed the suspicion held in certain quarters that despite the efforts of the NDLEA and other law enforcement at curbing the trend, Nigeria might be on the brink of a major social disaster.

The three major drugs in popular demand among drug users in Lagos are cocaine (known as ‘Charlie’), heroin (‘Thailand’) and Methamphetamine ( ‘Meth’ or ‘Fast-track’).

“Meth is relatively new in Nigeria. But it is the most powerful, addictive and dangerous. It is three times as potent as cocaine. That is why those who are addicted to it are always hyperactive and restless,” says Pastor Ade Adeleye, the founder of the Word of Life Rehabilitation Centre.

Often referred to as the ‘poor man’s cocained’ Meth is a whitish, odourless and bitter substance that easily dissolves in water or alcohol. It can be taken orally, intravenously or by smoking and snorting.

In 2010, the drug became central to the Federal Government’s campaign to rid the country of narcotics after eagle-eyed NDLEA officials observed an outward flow of the drug from Nigeria to Western and Asian countries. This was the warning bell that foretold the possibility of illegal meth factories flourishing within the country.

Before then, Meth became popular for its capacity to enhance sexual performance and for its medical property as a pain killer.

For some time, it was imported into the country by drug barons perpetually on the lookout for quick profits.

Our correspondent tried in vain to obtain the drug, which sells for N50 per capsule. He was informed that it could only be purchased over the counter. Even then, most retailers will not sell to a buyer they hardly know, not until he is identified by a regular and trusted customer.

But a tip-off from a former drug addict compelled an unsuccessful search for an unidentified meth production plant in Oregun.

“I heard the plant is run by some Oriental people and they are very discreet,” the source said.

In terms of street value, meth is cheaper to buy than cocaine or heroin. But sources say drug barons are prepared to invest a lot of money on it because of the high profit margin. Perhaps this explains why it is relatively easily available.

Other drugs often abused by users in this part of the world include Indian hemp (also known as marijuana or cannabis), amphetamines, glues and hallucinogens, such as LSD.

Journey to self destruction

Stakeholders cannot stop worrying about the effects of drug addiction. Apart from the implication on the crime rate, the environmental and health consequences seem to be endless. But for the person involved too, drug abuse is a quick ticket to the land of self destruction.

While many people the world over have fallen from grace to grass because of their involvement with drugs, the case of a popular Nigerian reggae star, Majek Fasek, who was apparently destined for the very top, but who took to drugs and has become a shadow of his glory, is a glaring example. The artiste, is now a regular guest at rehab homes. All efforts to reinvent him vis-avis his music have not yielded fruits because the man, is still mentally, physically and psychologically stranded in drug holes.

The case of another financial top shot, who got lost in the drug groove, is instructive. He was introduced into the world of cocaine by some girls. Since he tasted the first shot, he could not stop asking for more. Although he had a wife and kid, he eventually sold off everything he had – including his car – to satisfy his craving for more drugs.

A Lagos-based elite family also reaped the bitter fruit of addiction through one of these children, not long ago. The youth was sent abroad for university education. It was there he turned an addict, forcing the parents to lure him back home. Unfortunately, it was during one of his mental fits that he shot his mother dead, plunging the family into further tragedy.

In a report published in SATURDAY PUNCH on January 12, 2013, NDLEA boss, Ahmadu Giade, said the production of meth had deadly consequences for human health. He said, “The gases that are released from the production of meth are deadly, if inhaled. For every pound of meth produced, five to six pounds of waste products are generated. They can also cause skin cancer if exposed to the human skin.

“Then there is the matter of the solid waste that is released after meth has been produced. Some of the suspects had drilled holes into their fence through which they disposed of this waste on empty parcels of land near their homes. This waste kills everything around it; the soil and grass. Now if that waste percolates into the ground, it can equally pollute the ground water.”

Similarly, recalling his days as an addicted drug user, Phillip Agadi, said, “When you are under the influence of hard drugs, you are usually so useless that you are not in control of your actions. Your judgment becomes twisted. Even if your child is dying, you won’t even be touched. When I was addicted to cocaine, I was always completely detached from reality. I thought of nothing else other than where to get money for the next fix and I was ready to do anything, even kill for it. I would day sit in one place for a whole and do nothing. I couldn’t work for a living because I felt there was no need to do so.”

The Helpguide.org, an online resource portal, describes addiction as a complex disorder characterised by compulsive drug use. A statement posted on the website says that repeated use of a substance can alter the way the brain looks and functions.

It says, “Taking a recreational drug causes a surge in levels of dopamine in your brain, which triggers feelings of pleasure. Your brain remembers these feelings and wants them repeated. If you become addicted, the substance takes on the same significance as other survival behaviors, such as eating and drinking.”

“Changes in your brain interfere with your ability to think clearly, exercise good judgment, control your behavior, and feel normal without drugs. Whether you’re addicted to inhalants, heroin, Xanax, speed, or Vicodin, the uncontrollable craving to use grows more important than anything else, including family, friends, career, and even your own health and happiness.

“The urge to use is so strong that your mind finds many ways to deny or rationalize the addiction. You may drastically underestimate the quantity of drugs you’re taking, how much it impacts your life, and the level of control you have over your drug use.”

Saved from themselves

While the war against drug trafficking continues to rage across the globe, some drug users in Lagos have been fortunate enough to be saved. Our correspondent, for instance, encountered such people, including Adewale Adebambo, Tope Taiwo and Osagie Aisien, at the WLRC in Akute, a community in Ogun State. At different times in their lives, they were all addicted to hard drugs. All three were residents of Lagos and got entangled with narcotics in Ikeja, right in the heart of the Mainland.

For more than 30 years, Adebambo, for example, abandoned his family to walk a strange and tortuous path defined by an endless yearning for cocaine, heroin and crack, known locally as ‘Gbana’. He lived like a vagrant, without a home and a thought of the future, and was virtually at the mercy of nature.

In rain or shine, Adebambo (now almost 72 years old) walked the streets of Ikeja and Agege begging for alms to satisfy a perpetual hunger for drugs and food.

In an interview with our correspondent, the old man recounted, with a hint of deep regret, how he got hooked on cocaine and heroin in all those years, as well as how he desperately struggled to overcome drug addiction and start a new life.

He said, “I have no one else to blame except myself. I lived on the streets. Looking back at the past, I can say there is no gain in street life. I gained nothing and was clearly on the path of self-destruction. I depended heavily on cocaine and heroin. I would beg alms from morning till night and do odd jobs just to make some money. In the end, I spent all the money on hard drugs. Sometimes I made about N10,000 from begging in a day and I would spend all the money on drugs the same day.”

Incidentally, Adebambo confessed that he got his regular dose of narcotics from a discreet joint on the same Ipodo Road in Ikeja. “I was only one among many men and women, even teenagers, that got their supplies from the joint,” he said.

Before he got completely hooked on drugs, he had worked with Guinness Plc for about 27 years. Although he was not rich, he was reasonably comfortable and actually owned a commercial bus from which he earned extra money.

“I used the vehicle for transportation. One day I decided to sell it. I spent the proceeds on hard drugs. That was how I was able to sustain my habit until I started begging on the streets,” he added.

Reluctantly and almost tearfully, Taiwo narrated how he was lured into addiction and how he kept up the habit for 15 years. He said, “It is not a good thing to remember the unpleasant past. I lived a very miserable life. I was lost, battered by hard drugs, homeless and hopeless for a long time. Everything about me was upside down. I was addicted to hard drugs for 15 years. A girlfriend of mine introduced me to cocaine in 1987. Before I met her, I worked with a dairy company known as Samco and I was doing very well.”

Also, hard drugs cost Aisien the opportunity to make history as a member of the national football team that won the maiden FIFA Under-16 World Cup in China in 1985.

“I was a member of that YSFON team that transited into the National Under-16 squad in 1984. Although I wasn’t hooked on drugs at the time, I was already involved as a courier. There was this man who always paid me to ferry some packages abroad for him whenever we were travelling out of the country for a match or for camping. I did that successfully for a while before I got booted out for breaking camp rules just before the China tournament,” he said.

With his exit from the football team, Aisien, who claims to be the nephew of a former coach of Bendel Insurance Football Club, decided to drop out of school. The result is that he found himself getting deeply involved with hard drugs.

“I was addicted to drugs for over 20 years,” he told our correspondent.”

Family, friends gather for Esiri



There was no dry eye at Catholic Church of the Ascension, Lagos, yesterday, as family, friends and colleagues of late Justus Esiri gathered at a service of songs held in honour of the veteran actor.

The officiating Priest, Rev. Father Michael Etegene said: “We are gathered here today to have a service of songs for our friend, father and colleague whom God chose to take home some weeks ago.”

The first reading at the ceremony was taken by the deceased’s first son, Justus Esiri Jnr, while the second was by his second son, Andrew.

The actor’s last son, Sidney Esiri, popularly known by his stage name, Dr. Sid, took the third reading from 2 Thessalonians 4:13-15.

While taking the homily, the cleric said that death was an inevitable phenomenon that must occur.

He said: “When we speak at services such as this, whether it is for five minutes or one hour, we are obviously not speaking to the one who is gone, but to ourselves.

“At birth and at death, we don’t take people for granted. We must learn to treasure people all the time. We must always remember, just as St. Augustine said, that our lives are a gift from God.”

About 200 gathered at the church to honour Esiri, including Nollywood stars such as Norbert Young, and Eku Edewor.

Born in November 1942 in Oria, Abraka, Delta State, Esiri had his early education at the Catholic School, Warri, before proceeding to Maximillan University in Munich, Germany.

While in Germany, Esiri, who is survived by a wife and six children, attended Prof. Weners Institute of Engineering, West Berlin, and was later trained at the Ahrens School of Performing Arts.

Tribute to Justus Esiri: Justus was larger than life itself 

When without any preparation, I jumped out of regular employment around 1978, it was clear I was headed for deep waters. At 29, it didn’t really matter, as I foolishly believed I could conquer the world even with my bare hands! But the reality was vastly different.

With less than five years experience in journalism, and an inchoate portfolio of business ideas, I certainly did not look the part of a millionaire in the making. But some relief came in the shape of an Avant Garde motor company based in Benin. It offered me a consultancy!

Atari Motors owned by Theo Boyo was not merely interested in merchandising. It was also a fashion statement as it brought together a number of men and women, all of them fashionistas, and many of them, fluent in English and German. Atari flew the flag of exotica and Justus Esiri was one of its more expressive icons.

It was at Atari that I met Justus. But having attended Hussey College I was myself quite familiar with the legendary visibility of the Esiri family in the Warri urban spread. I had no direct links with Justus, but my late mother, Mrs Julie Ikomi, taught Justus Esiri at Township School, Warri. As my friendship grew with Justus, teacher and pupil would meet now and again, with my mum often chorusing his name in her special way Ejustusuuu! The meetings were often drenched in animation.

While serving at Atari where he was the Manager, Justus often gave the impression that he had his gaze on other things. He was a natural entertainer and regaled us with stories of his career in European theatres.

He sang songs in different languages and till date, I can’t recall anyone, living or dead, who can sing the song entitled ‘The End’ with the professional dexterity Justus Esiri would deploy. If I also recall rightly, he also told me, his wife had been a member of his theatre group in Lagos, before their sojourn in Benin.

After Atari Justus relocated to Lagos and I believe he met Peter Igho through me. Peter it was who threw the opportunity at him, to reignite his expressive genius. He starred in Village Headmaster and the rest is history.

He is a household name and has made a huge success of his career in Nollywood. Nollywood is one of the most enduring Nigerian triumphs, owing nothing to government and it’s stultifying influence. It is surely one of the truly unmixed blessings of the Nigerian condition. And Justus Esiri is arguably one of the great purveyors of this huge revolution.

But Justus was not just an actor. Or let us say he was an actor of many parts. He was deeply religious and his Catholic faith remained somewhere in his heart. To hear him execute the gregorian chant, was always a uniquely uplifting experience. He was free with his time and freer still with his money.

A younger friend of mine from Etsako was put through university and law school by Justus Esiri. In fact, Justus adopted him as his son. Justus was a good mixer, an enthusiastic friend, a party animal and recognized the joys which came from entertainment.

He was also a great husband and a caring father. Justus was a well-known face at Olosha Market, to which I accompanied him on ocassional Saturdays. He would chop meat with butchers, haggle with fish vendors, banter with bread sellers, and eventually haul his unwieldy harvest into his vehicle amidst singing and dancing!

As a visiting guest, I enjoyed his hospitality frequently. Omiata, his left handed wife, was the artisan in the house. No power problem was beyond her ken. And her cooking, even though closely mimicked by Justus himself, was unrivaled. The Esiris are a cohesive family. God has blessed this family.

The goodwill left by Justus whom I saw last when my mum was interred in February 2012, is huge. Justus is truly larger than life. One of my private regrets is that again one is left feeling, it is death which often serves as the sympathetic artist, giving true dimension to the gifts of the deceased.

As we bask in the afterglow of this illustrious career, let us resolve to honour greatness more loquaciously, even when it is on its two legs! RIP Justus.

Battle for Glo’s N24m on as X-Factor auditions begin



Auditions will begin this weekend in Port Harcourt in the world’s number one music singing talent reality TV show, “The X Factor”, brought to Africa for the first time by leading telecommunications company, Globacom.

Head of Reality Shows of Globacom, Sulyman Bello, said in a statement issued in Lagos that auditions to select those who would participate in the show would be held at the Presidential Hotel, Aba Road, Port Harcourt, from April 13, to Sunday, April 14, 2013.

The X-Factor crew will move to the Federal Capital City the following week for the Abuja auditions which will take place at Ladi Kwali Hall of Sheraton Hotel, on Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21.

Bello stated that the Lagos auditions would come up on the weekend of May 25 and 26. It will be held at Dream Studio, No.1 Bamako Street, Omole Estate, Ojodu. All the auditions will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the stated days.

X-Factor is a Reality TV singing competition designed to find new talents. It is contested by aspiring singers, drawn from public auditions and is open to all ages, sex, styles, solo acts or groups.

The other stages of the competition include the auditions, in front of an audience; the evictions; the judge’s day and the grand finale. It has been successfully launched in major countries including UK, the United States, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Spain.

Glo is making history as the first company to bring the show to Africa. The ultimate winner of the show will cart home a princely sum of $150,000 (N24million), the biggest purse among current music reality TV shows.

The winner will also get a recording contract with the internationally acclaimed Sony Music for the recording of an album and professional management of the winning individual or group.

A major difference between the show and others is that the judges also double as coaches for the various groups. It is peculiarly split in stages, following the contestants from auditions through to the boot camp, the judges’ homes; to the grand finale.

According to Bello, “This year marks the 10th anniversary of our operations and this programme is, in part, our modest way of thanking our subscribers for their loyalty and patronage”.

Accra and Kumasi in Ghana are also scheduled to host the auditions. The X Factor, a Syco-owned format, is produced and distributed worldwide by FremantleMedia.

Stupid song came by mistake – Bez



Bezhiwa Idakula, simply known as Bez, is an explosive soul singer with a truly unique voice and playful stage presence. In addition to an amazing performance at the 2012 ‘Super Sun Concert’ held at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, the Soul and Rock star had an outstanding year in 2012, from being inducted into the MTV Iggy Hall of Fame and premiering ‘Stupid Song’ ft Praiz on BET International to being honoured at the ‘Top 40 Personalities Under 40’ by Applause Africa magazine, amongst others.

He begins year 2013 with his European and American tour and an upcoming album. As he prepares for the release of his second album, the Nasarawa State-born star says fans should expect a bit more of African sound in his music, shielding it with a bit of mainstream Rock while keeping the Soul genre very much present in the music.

Sitting casually in his studio, Bez talks to Allure about the beginning, his meteoric rise and fame, expectations for the second album and more.

First of all, congratulations on the success of your ‘Super Sun Concert’.

Thank you.

How would you describe the experience?

It was very exciting to have my own mega-concert in Lagos. I’ve been doing a lot of mini-concerts around Lagos and Nigeria. It was amazing to have it. The turn up was great and we had great sound. The whole thing was just really amazing. It was the first and you know how it is with first (time out). So, it was really exciting.

What were your early musical influences?

My dad used to play the guitar. He was a politician, late Honourable Amos Idakula. He taught me how to play the guitar when I was 9. I just kept practicing because I have this love for the instrument and I love music. I grew up in a very musical home. My sister sang; my dad used to sing and record stuff with my mum and my mum will back up for him.

Really?

Yes. Just for the fun of it. They will hit the record button, sit down and create their own tape. So, it was amazing to grow up in that kind of environment. It sort of just set the path for me automatically. I did some plays and musicals in primary school. When I got to secondary school, I joined the choir and I was there for like six years; the whole (time I spent in) my secondary school.

When I got to the university, I joined the choir for one year and left because it wasn’t just for me.

Why?

I think I had my own style of music by then and the choir was more like playing worship and praise songs. I started to create my own style of music and started to practice a lot more by myself. Eventually, when I left the university in 2007, I started playing somewhere named Taruwa. That was where my sister started. Taruwa is mainly for spoken word poetry, music. It’s somewhere in Ikoyi, Lagos. It was a platform for people to express themselves. I played there every two weeks for years.


*Bez

In 2009, I was picked for Hennessey Artistry, through Cobhams Asuqwo. That was where it started really growing. So, I released some songs in 2009 and in 2011, I released an album.

At what point did you decide to do music full time?

It was when I was in my 2nd or 3rd year in the university. One of my friends, Dr Frabs, had left school and was working with KUSH. They had a gig in some church and called me to put a young band together. So, he called me and a couple of my friends in school; that we should put a band together and play for them.

It was great to have that kind of experience with KUSH because I was a huge fan. So, we played for them and Emem asked me if I was really thinking of going into music? I said I wasn’t really sure and she said: “Well, I think you are in music already because I can just tell you are in it already”.

I think that stirred me and I started reading a lot about purpose. I started reading a lot about why I’m here on earth; what I’m going to do career-wise. I figured that I was created to create music and then to add value to people, using music as my tool. So, it came together for me recently. But before then, I just did music for fun. I never knew I was going to flow into it professionally.

The ‘Stupid Song’, whose idea was it? How did you get it together with Praiz?

We were in the studio and needed to create a song that was going to resonate with people. Now, it came by mistake, totally by mistake. Somebody stepped into the studio and said he wanted to do a stupid song because Nigerians really like stupid songs (laughs). Cobhams was like: “Ha, which kind of stupid do you want to do now?”

Then, he started thinking in a more creative way and the guy said: “No, I don’t want all those ‘oyinbo’ kind of songs. I want a proper stupid song”. At that moment, the idea came to Cobhams to create a song that was a mixture of different songs that we sang back in the day. So, we got into the studio and he created music almost immediately. Then, I started giving him the different songs that we sang and so we added some things and removed some. It was amazing.

One of our friends, Omolara, came and heard it and was like “Wow. I think you should bring in somebody who has the same voice texture with you in this song; just do collaboration and create something really nice.” So, we got in Praiz the next day. He was supposed to be travelling but he came really early, did his part of the song and we had it done in two days.

So, did you think it was going to be this big? Did you think it was going to be well received?

I knew it was going to be well received because of the way the Nigerian market is and how the Nigerian market relates to certain things in music. But I did not actually know it will be loved this much. I didn’t know it was going to blow like it did but I knew it was going to be well received.

Your induction into the MTV Iggy Hall of fame, how does that make you feel?

MTV Iggy is all about discovering talents around the world; talents that are not mainstream at the moment. They go round the world like Asia, Africa, discovering talents. When they do that, they induct them into the hall of fame; all that is saying is watch out for these people next year and these people are really going to be huge. So, it was amazing for MTV Iggy to discover me in whatever way they did and to induct me into their hall of fame.

I think it was just more of a confirmation that we are doing the right thing and we are in the right path, so we’ll just keep going and keep moving. The way MTV Iggy will discover you, that is the way a lot of us people around the world will discover you as well. So, with time, you will be really huge. I think it was really important for me.

Do you write your songs?

Yeah. I write most of my music. For my Super Sun Album, I had one song that wasn’t written by me and then two or three other songs that I co-wrote with some of my friends. But I do write most of my songs. For my new album, I have been doing a lot of writing with a great artiste called Simi. It will be more like 50-50 writing for my new album. I really believe in two heads being better than one. When you have a partner in writing, you can come up with really great ideas.

Tell us about growing up. What was it like for you?

I grew up in Jos. Jos is now really different from the way it was back then. It was really nice growing up in Jos. It has very cool weather and during Harmattan, it could get really cold so, sometimes, you find us sitting outside, burning wood to keep warm. Not that you can’t be warm inside, but it was fun; just like burn fire night. It was like an oyinbo town. It was really great growing up in Jos. We used to have family gathering burn fire night. We go to my sister’s school and perform as a family. I would play the guitar and the rest of my family would sing. These days, if you are not so well to do, you don’t have a house with a large compound. Even if you are well to do, you probably live in a flat in Lagos.

Then, in the north, you have a large compound; you have space to play and ride your bicycle in the house; you have trees to climb. It was just fun growing up as a kid in Jos. Musically, a lot of people would play music for the fun of it. You hear of a new guy in town, you go check out the guy; go back home and practice to sing like him. Sometimes, you go to a garden and some musicians are playing, and you hang out with them. With time, you find out that you are building your social circle around musicians and you are just honing your skills continuously. Eventually, you discover that you have honed perfectly and can go commercial. I think, that is one of the most important things about artistes that come from Jos.

You are from Nasarawa State. What fond memories do you have of it?

A lot of people do not know much about Nasarawa State. When I go around the world and people ask me where I’m from, I tell them I’m a Nigerian from Nasarawa State. First of all, Nasarawa State is the next-big-thing when it comes to resources. It’s the next big thing after oil and the more people start focusing on solid minerals, we can have alternative means of income for the country. There are loads of things I want to do with the youth in Nasarawa State; adding more value to their lives by creating more opportunities for the youth in school and more.

If you have a word for the governor, what would that be?

The governor has been doing a lot and it’s great to see somebody coming in, seeing the way things are and trying to create something amazing from it. We have a university in Nasarawa State which is really great. I think there are more things to be done and people like us, sons of the soil, can join hands with the government to create something really amazing for the state.

Let’s talk about your Europe/America tour. What is it all about?

Most of the time, musicians just want to play around the world. It’s great to be able to be invited for a couple of gigs. We were invited to play at the Colombia University, New York for their African Economic Forum. There is a place called the Rock Wood Music Hall. That’s a great venue in New York that has booking agents coming through with a lot of booking; we will be playing there as well.

That usually turns out into more gigs. There was a time we played in South Africa. We went there for one gig and when we got in on Sunday and played that Sunday. By the time we finished, we were booked for like three or four more gigs during the week. So, it is a process; you go, you do two or three and find doors open for you to do more and you keep going.

I will also be recording my new album in New York, shooting a video and then recording with an artiste, Ambassador, who is a rapper from Ghana but lives in Brooklyn. So, there is a lot to do.

What should your fans expect from your new album?

My new album is taking a bit of departure from the sound that they know Bez for. First of all, I have evolved into another level, so it’s not a complete departure. It’s just a small evolution. I think I’ve found a stronger voice, so that will be very prominent in my music. I’m putting a more African sound in my music as well, shielding it with a bit of mainstream and Rock while keeping the Soul genre very much present in the music. So, it will be much more exciting. The album and the new music will be very exciting for my fans.

Musically, is there any musician you look up to? Who do you admire? Who would you have actually learnt from?

There are a lot of musicians that are my colleagues in the industry that I admire. For example, Tu Face, who is first of all, a really humble person; but this is somebody who knew exactly what he wanted to do from the word go and he pursued it. I’m sure he had loads and loads of setbacks but he just kept on. It’s amazing to see his growth over the years and he is growing stronger and stronger.

Those are the kind of people I admire; that you can look up to them and say: ‘This person was able to do it and he wasn’t able to do it in just a year or two’. You could see that there is a period of paying dues; there was a period of growth and there was this period when he became a mega super star. So, those are the kind of people I look up to.

You always wear a fedora. Is that your style signature?

Apart from the fact that I think sometimes it makes me look cooler (laughs). First of all, I wear prescription lenses (medicated lenses) so, I thought if I am going to wear glasses, why not make it look really nice. I thought to use fashionable frames and then the Fedora; I used to wear face caps before. I had different types of caps but at a point, I just settled with the Fedora.

It works for me and it gives me that extra look. My style could be very laid back; sometimes, jeans with t-shirts, beads, hats with glasses. I just jazz it up to make it look interesting. To me, it’s just how I feel like expressing myself. I am not so fussy about wearing too many things.

Do you have a designer that makes clothes for the red carpet for you?

In Lagos, I am very good friends with MAI so, he does a lot of stuff for me. Orange Culture does for me as well. I have a lot of people that I have worked with randomly but these are the more consistent ones I use.

You were one of those honoured at the ‘40 Personalities Under 40’. What was it all about?

By Applause Africa magazine; they had an edition on the ‘Top 40 Personalities Under 40’ making a mark in the society and I was on the cover for that edition. Once again, to be recognized in an industry as one of the leaders is amazing. That way, you know you are doing the right thing and people are noticing. They flew us over to New York for the launch and I performed as well at the show.

Apart from music, what else do you do?

Music is (not) the only thing I do. I do advocacy as well for Friends Africa. I am working with them; teaching people how to protect themselves against malaria, tuberculoses and AIDS. I am also working as a board member of Ovie Brume Foundation. Again, I have great passion for education because, when I was in secondary school, I lost my dad and somebody paid my fees throughout secondary school and also part of university (a lot of people assisted). So, I thought to myself, where would I be now if people didn’t give me that opportunity to finish my education. So, I always think of working with people to give back to society and help when it comes to education. That is what I do with education.

Paul Okoye welcomes baby boy



True to Peter Okoye’s prediction in November last year when he tweeted that his twin brother Paul and girlfriend Anita would have a boy like him, Paul and Anita now have baby Andre Okoye in their arms.


Paul and son

Anita gave birth in faraway Atlanta USA and her boyfriend; proud father Paul showed off his bundle of joy.

Congrats to the new parents.

From Benue, another singer wants to ‘Superfly’


                                                  Steverock

Since Tuface became a goldmine on the Nigerian entertainment scene, many people tend to give any artiste from Benue, his home state, attention. This is apart from the fact that the Benue culture has produced other artistes that have also proved their worth.

R&B singer, Stephen Edoka, is another chap dreaming for stardom from Benue. The Idoma offspring, with Steverock as his stage name, is a graduate of English from the University of Maiduguri . Some eight years ago when he started out, he romanced with rap, but his taste has since changed.

He says, “ A lot of people were doing rap and were beginning to make it look too easy. So, I decided to do something a bit more challenging. I went into RnB/hip hop. So, I am an RnB artist today, with a little bit of hip hop. “

Steverock notes that music has for long being part of him because his dad is a music lover, making him to grow up listening to a lot of sounds. He is influenced by works of Michael Jackson, R.Kelly, Tuface and several other artistes.

“I have been singing and recording professionally since seven years ago,” Steverock adds. “Every day I write choruses /hooks up to 10 a day. I have worked with a lot of people Ice Prince, Vector, Terry the Rap man, Pherowshuz Morel and Tuface, who I am currently working with on a project.”

The video for his song, Superfly, in which he features Ice Prince, has enjoyed a good share of air waves. Shot by Clarence Peters, it has been on Channel O, among other stations.

The artiste, who relocated from Abuja to Lagos – aiming at catching the rosier Lagos music scene - at present manages a music video outfit on Allen Avenue in the highly commercial city.

The remix of his another song, due out soon, also features several artistes.

Lightning strikes SS3 pupil dead on exam day




Christiana’s school. Inset, ID card

The family of a Senior Secondary School 3 female pupil of Muslim College Oworonsoki, Lagos, has been thrown into mourning after lightning struck and killed 19-year-old Celestina Farotide, who was about to start her final examination the same morning.

The victim’s father was said to be in shock and disbelief and had refused to show up to collect the corpse, saying, “It cannot be my daughter”.

The aunt of the deceased, Christiana Idowu, who described her as gentle, quiet and respectful said she saw her corpse in the hospital after the family received an emergency call from one of Celestina’s friends.

An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity because she was not permitted to talk to journalists, said the incident occurred on Monday.

She said, “We had finished with the morning assembly, but some students were still coming in. Celestina had prepared her desk in readiness for the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination’s practical they were to have that morning.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that she later went to buy the food she would eat and when she was returning to her class in company with other students, tragedy struck.

The eyewitness said, “The lightning came in their direction and immediately three of the school girls fell down.

“Two of them rose up and ran and Celestina rose up too. Then the lighteningt struck the second time, and she (Celestine) fell finally on the floor and did not rise again.

‘She was immediately taken to the teachers’ staff room, where a teacher was asked to take her to the Gbagada General Hospital. It was there she was confirmed dead.”

The principal of the school was said to be away on a week-long conference in Makurdi when the incident happened but authorities of the school contacted Celestina’s grandmother at New Garage area of Lagos.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Education with her entourage were said to have visited the school on Tuesday morning.

A resident of the area, Mr. Kabiawu Babajide, who also claimed to be an alumnus of the school told our correspondent the lightning also wreaked havoc in the area.

The monarch of Oworonsoki land, Oba Bashir Oloruntodupefun, said the gods were angry because Oworosoki land had been desecrated by strangers and the government was taking over ancestral lands and selling them to non-indigenes.

He said, “It’s a pity the girl died. The circumstances surrounding her death are mysterious because the girl was never sick. From what happened, we can all see the gods are making demands.

“The shrines that should be used for sacrifices have been swept away in water. And the land we have is being sold by government officials to their friends and they send military men to threaten us.

“Government needs to give us our land back. The real Oworo is submerged in waters. We want them to help sand fill those places taken over by water because many cultural heritage has been lost. If this is done, evil will no longer occur.”

The Chairman of a community development association in the area, Chief Jelili Lawal, told PUNCH Metro that Celestina would be buried after necessary sacrifices and atonement had been made to appease the gods.

Diddy Dating Sports Illustrated Model Kate Upton?


Diddy has always been linked to a bevy of beautiful women, from J. Lo to most recently, singer/model Cassie. Now, according to the NY Daily News, the 43-year old mogul has been hooking up with 20-year-old Sports Illustrated cover girl Kate Upton.

Sources tell the newspaper that the strange duo have been seen partying together at Club Liv in Miami and recently, “were having dinner together" at the Bowery Hotel in NYC.

Kate was most recently linked to Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander while Diddy and longtime rumored boo Cassie finally went public last year. Cassie tweeted out a shirtless photo of her beau, making her and Diddy’s relationship social media official last fall. Diddy later Instagrammed a photo of Cassie writing, “I’m a very lucky man #knowthat."

Diddy and Cassie were seen this week in NYC together at Meek Mill's Dreams Come True concert at Roseland Ballroom.

Chris Brown's Mystery Woman Speaks Out About Rihanna Affair Rumors



Chris Brown caused all sorts of drama this weekend when he was spotted at LA's Playhouse nightclub, holding hands with and staring into the eyes of a mystery blonde. Fans wondered who the blonde woman was and if Chris was cheating on his official girl Rihanna.

TMZ has uncovered that the Breezy's alleged sidepiece is a waitress at the club. 22-year-old Keisha Kimball told the site that she and Chris are merely friends and it was a professional exchange. “I am always Chris’ waitress. I know him and am friends with his friends. Nothing has ever happened. I just work there. In the photos, he was handing me a bottle to drink out of. Of course people are going to twist it another way."

She adds, "Whatever is going on between Rihanna and Chris Brown is between them. I’m not trying to be a home wrecker."

Good to hear because Rihanna is clearly head over heels for her former boo. She told Rolling Stone she couldn't "bury" her love for him. "I wasn't going to let anybody's opinion get in the way of that. Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake,” she said about getting back together with Breezy. “After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I'd rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it."

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

RIDICULOUS CHURCH NAMES IN NIGERIA



Here we go:
-Jesus Of God Mission ( Imo State )
-God's Mennonite Church
-Guided Missiles Church
-Jesus in the new global Ministry
-Healing Has Begun Ministry
-God's Own Ministry
-The True Assemblies of God Church
-Jehovah Sharp Sharp (Festac, Lagos )
-Hurricane Miracle Ministry
-Healing Tsunami Ministry
-Satan in Trouble Ministry
-Fire for Fire Ministry
-FIST OF FURY (NTA road, Port Harcourt )
-Run For Your Life Ministry
-The Yoke Must Broke Ministry
-Jesus Heal Ministry
-Face to face ministry
-Angels on Fire Chapel of Peace
-Liquid Fire Ministries ( Suleja , Niger State)
-By fire By Fire Ministry
-HOLY FIRE OVERFLOW MINISTRIES
-David Killed Goliath Ministry ( Kaduna)
-House of Jehova's Padawans
(TransAmadi, PH)
-JESUS IN HIS MIGHTINESS GLOBAL
MINISTRY
-OPM - Other people's money (PH) (I have
to be sure my source is right about this,
but if Run for Your Life Ministry exists,
why not OPM?)
-God in action ministry
-Moving mountain gospel church
-MY BROTHER IS A CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF
GOD
-Fellowship of the Wings - Ajah
(Lamgbasa)
-Power Foundation Ministry, Aba .
-HOLY GHOST ON FIRE MINISTRY ( Abuja )
-HIGH TENSION MINISTRY
-JESUS NEVER bleep UP MINISTRY ( Benin )
-Devil go hear am Jesus Ministry
-Accredited Church of God
-Chukwudi & Son evangelical ministry, Aba
-Power pass power church of the
mountain ministry incorporated
-Ministry Of The unclad Wire - Bayelsa
State
-LABORATORY CHURCH OF GOD
-Go and tell Ahab that Elijah is here
Ministry - Benin
-God is Real Ministry. Motto: "Jesus no get
muscle but he get power"
-Fire burn ministry
-JESUS THE LANDLORD, WE THE RELAXING
PEW MINISTRY - Portharcourt
-Happy Go Lucky Church of God Almighty
In Jesus Name Amen - Abeokuta
-Old time religion ministry
-Strong Hand of God ministry
-Best Spot In The Land of God Church -
Apapa.
-Trigger happy ministry. (Motto- always
firing the devil)
-KASABUBU CHURCH OF GOD - Ibadan
-Jesus knows his children ministry - Benin
-SEVEN THUNDERS OF JESUS
-Perfect Christianity Ministry
-Elshaddai Shall Not Die Ministry
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