Accident on Third Mainland Bridge

An accident occurred today on 3rd Mainland Bridge today. However, thereis no report yet as to if there are any casualties. The dented car has been towed off the bridge.

Check out what Tiwa Savage wore to Toolz and Captain Tunde Demuren's wedding

Iconic, talented music diva Tiwa Savage was magnificently dressed in a lovely gown at the wedding of popular OAP, Toolz and Captain Tunde Demuren which  took place in Dubai yesterday.

Bridget  Awosike, a Nigerian fashion designer was the one that made the spectacular dress. Tiwa wore a beautiful makeup which complemented the dress.

Check out the picture below.

Nigerian boy's classmates surprise him by donating money to fly his mother to America for his graduation

Mike Tertsea, a Nigerian boy got the most amazing surprise of his life during his graduation as his classmates at John Carroll School in Bel Air donated $1,763 to fly his mom in from Benue State, Nigeria to attend his graduation from highschool.

After 4-years of being apart, Felicia Ikpum, his 56-year old mom could barely recognise her son when she got picked up from the airport last Friday, May 20th.

Mike, who plays basketball at John Carroll and plans to further his education at the University of Rhode Island, was surprised when he learnt on Wednesday that the entire senior class, including faculty members, had contributed towards making sure his mom was in attendance for his graduation.

Toward the end of the school’s annual ceremony and Mass, the principal of the school Madelyn Ball told the friends and relatives who were gathered in the gym that one student had asked, "Is Mike's mum coming for graduation?"

Mike and his mother Felicia received a standing ovation as they were asked to come up on the stage during the graduation ceremony. They thanked the entire senior class for bringing them together after 4-years. Some of his classmates were teary-eyed as Mike and his mother made their way to the stage.

Mike said he is an only child and his mother is his only immediate relative, adding that he would like to pursue a career in economics or business management.

Kitchen tips that will blow your mind

Let's learn some KITCHEN tips, your kitchen is the most important room in your home. A lot comes out from there, so let's learn some few tricks. Works wonders.

1. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.

2. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking.

3. Never put citrus fruits(Oranges,Lemons, limes, etc) or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperatures degrade the aroma and flavor of these fruits.(That's why our tomatoes don't last in the fridge)

4. To clean iron cookl-ware, don’t use detergents. Just scrub them with salt and a clean, dry paper towel.

5. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky.

6. If you are making gravy(stew) and accidentally burn it, just pour it into a clean pan and continue cooking it. Add sugar a little at a time, tasting as you go to avoid 'over-sugaring'it. The sugar will cancel out the burned taste.

7. Burned a pot of rice? Just place a piece of white bread on top of the rice for 5-10 minutes to draw out the burned flavour. Be careful not to scrape the burned pieces off of the bottom of the pan when serving the rice.

8. Before you chop fresh red peppers, rub a little vegetable oil into your hands and your skin won't absorb the spiciness.

9. If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.

10. To banish ants from the kitchen, find out where they are coming in and cover the hole with petroleum jelly(Vaseline). Ants won’t trek through the jelly. If they are coming under a door, draw a line on the floor with chalk. The little bugs also won’t cross a line of chalk.

11. Don’t store your bananas in a bunch or in a fruit bowl with other fruits. Separate your bananas and place each in a different location. Bananas release gases which cause fruits (including other bananas) to ripen quickly. Separating them will keep them fresh longer.

12. To keep potatoes from budding in the bag, put an apple in with them.

13. If you manage to have some leftover wine, cocktail drinks at the end of the evening, freeze it in ice cube trays for easy addition to sauces (white wine works wonders in sauces, i don't joke with them) in the future.
14. After boiling pasta or potatoes, cool the water and use it to water your house plants. The water contains nutrients that your plants will love.

15. When defrosting meat from the freezer, pour some vinegar over it. Not only does it tenderize the meat; it will also bring down the freezing temperature of the meat and cause it to thaw quicker. # Note: every woman should have vinegar
in her kitchen.

16. Do you cry while peeling off onions, then try this. After peeling off your onions, refrigerate the onions for atleast 5minutes, then dice it. You will be glad you did.

17. For aluminium pans that are looking dull, just boil some apple peels in them. This will brighten up the aluminum and make your house smell yummy.

18. If your salt is becoming lumpy, put a few grains of rice in with it to absorb excess moisture.

19. Always keep an aloe vera plant in your
kitchen. It’s invaluable when you scrape your arm or burn your finger. Just break off a leaf and rub the gel from the inside on the injury.

20. When making a soup, sauce, that ends up too fatty or greasy, drop in an ice cube. The ice will attract the fat, which you can then scoop out. This works wonders

21. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a 1/4″ piece of ginger in the oil. It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.

22. If your milk always goes bad before you can finish it, try adding a pinch of salt to the carton when you first open it. It will stay fresh days longer.

23. If two drinking glasses become stuck together after stacking, it’s not impossible to unstuck them. Just put ice in the inner glass and dunk the outer glass in warm water. The warm glass will expand and the cold glass will contract, making the glasses separate easily.

Prolific music video director Clarence Peters robbed heavily

Prolific award-winning music video director Clarence Peters was robbed of his production equipment and other belongings estimated to worth $60,000 in Accra Ghana. He is currently in Ghana shooting music videos for Patoranking, Stonebwoy and VVIP's Reggie Rockstone.

Reggie Rockstone confirmed the incident  while speaking on Accra-based Radio Gold. He described it as unfortunate and a big disgrace to Ghana. He also narrated how it happened. He said the thief was captured on CCTV.

Chris Brown upset with his baby mama

American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor, Christopher Maurice Brown, popularly known as Chris Brown is upset because Nia Guzman, his baby mama dressed their 2 year old daughter (Royalty) indecently.

Tuface shows his new honorary masters degree

Veteran Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia (Tuface), popular for his hit single ‘African Queen’ yesterday bagged a masters degree in music from the prestigious Igbinedion University in Benin.

Tubaba, as he is fondly referred to by fans, who dropped out of university due to financial troubles, is now being appreciated with a masters degree for his
contribution to the Nigerian music industry.

The elated musician showed his appreciation to the university and its environs while displaying his new degree to fans online.

Tuface has been a blessing to the Nigerian
entertainment industry as a whole dishing out good music that stand out not only in the continent but also all over the world.

Best way to transition to natural hair

The trend now is keep natural hair. Most people do not want the breaking relaxed hair again, but prefer healthy looking natural hair, thereby making many
people do the big chop, cutting off their relaxed hair. Whereas what many people don’t know is that there is a stage before the big chop called TRANSITION.

Transitioning is a gradual process of going
natural. Transitioning to natural hair is a simple process of growing out your natural texture before cutting off the processed or damaged ends. When you transition, you coddle along your tresses,
both natural and damaged, growing out your hair until you are ready to cut the ends off. Transitioners enjoy the benefit of added length for styles, and avoiding
those awkward growth stages that can frustrate many big choppers. Transitioning is the way to go if you don’t want to sacrifice your hair length and go natural
all at once. There are ways you can do your transition without the big chop and that is what we are looking at today.

Stop using chemical relaxer and all forms of chemical treatment: This includes texturizers, keratin treatments, and permanent hair dyes. All of these products alter the structure of your hair and will
prolong the transitioning process even further. They can also add extra fragility to your hair which is something you don’t need.

Good trim: This means you need to get rid of all those dead, thin and split ends. The longer you transition, the more brittle they will become so you might as well let them go now because they will break anyway.

Avoid heat: You want to avoid heat usage (flat irons & hot combs) because your hair is already in a fragile state and because if you encounter heat damage this could also potentially permanently straighten your hair, which is what you are trying to avoid.

Protect your edges: Avoid transitioning styles that put too much tension on your temples and the nape of your neck. The hair there is usually finer, thinner and
more delicate. Strengthen your hair with protein treatments and frequent deep conditioning: Where your relaxed hair meets your natural roots there is going to be some weakness in this area due to the texture differences. This is pretty much unavoidable, but what you can do is keep your hair in tip top shape by deep conditioning with every wash that you do, and doing protein treatments every 6 to 8 weeks.

Wear low manipulation or protective styles: A low manipulation style, is simply a style that does not require daily styling and maintenance, hence less strain on you hair. A good example of a low manipulation style would be a roller set, twist out, or braid out. Being that your texture is not going to be consistent while you are transitioning you will probably like the results of roller sets better or combing twists with rollers on the end (this way the ends of your hair will look nice and curly). protective style, is a style in which the ends of your hair protected by being tucked away and the style doesn’t require daily maintenance other than moisturizing. Good examples of protective styles include buns, box braid extensions, or even wigs.

Trim: How long the transitioning process will take will depend on the current length of your hair, if your hair is shoulder length or longer and the majority of your hair is relaxed it could take up to a year or more before your natural hair reaches a length that you are okay with. You don’t have to rush into a big chop, that’s the beauty of this method, but you must have patience.

Eat a balanced diet: What you eat also applies to hair growth. Eat lots of fruits and veggies, take vitamins and mineral supplements. Oh and garlic too it helps.

Lady gets swollen lip from lipstick

See what happened to this woman named Lily Cleopatra Maurice. She shared pictures of her lips on her Facebook account from her hospital bed. She said she woke up choking only for her to discover that her lip was extremely swollen as a result of a Queen Cover Girl lipstick that she used.

"Please be aware of the queen collection cover girl lipstick. Purchased lip this week woke up choking with huge swollen lips. I had to be rushed to the ER! Could’ve died in my sleep. Plz be careful with the harmful products in lipsticks. Share this to save your love ones fron a fatal lipstick reaction CovergirlQueenCollection!"

She continued in a second post:

“I know everyone is laughing and people can be so cruel even on my way to the ER people can be so hurtful with their stears and whispering. I am a mother of 4 and my kids could’ve woke up without me over a lipstick… I am trembling thinking about how lucky I was to have choked enough to awake for who know what could’ve happend to be. I all my family have. No uncles no aunties just me and hubby. Thankful to be alive and spend this day with my family. All this because of a lipstick. Peace and love everyone”

Funke Akindele calls a fan mad attention seeker

Recently, the news of Tiwa Savage and Teebillz marriage breakup has taken over the media to the extent that people find ways of bringing news about them to any gist on the social media.

Funke Akindele the producer of Jenifa's Diary posted a picture of Marvins artiste, dentist turned musician, Dr Sid on Instagram to wish him a happy birthday. Nevertheless, a fan commented on the picture by blaming Dr Sid as the cause of the break up of Tiwa Savage and Teebillz's marriage. Remember that Tiwa and Dr Sid belong to the same record label Marvins.

Funke Akindele was so unhappy with the comment by calling the fan "a mad attention seeker" and blocked the fan.

Reuben Abati ridicules Tiwa Savage and Teebillz

I chose not to blog about the Tiwa Savage et Teebillz marriage saga because I don't enjoy blogging about marriage breakups. I was hoping that it was all a rumour and that Teebillz's account was hacked because I enjoy seeing both of them together. Hence, I was sad when I realized the news is true.

However, I found Reuben Abati's perspective spectacular and sarcastic. I decided to blog about it because I enjoyed reading it.

Enjoy!

“Ol’boy, man don see something oh.”

“Wetin you see?”

“My eyes don see something. My ears don
hear, and my mouth sef, I for talk something join.”

“Talk make I hear”

“No be dis Tiwa Savage and him husband
matter? The husband wey say him wife
offend am, he no gi am food, him wife dey
form for house but him dey open leg for
other men, and na another woman they give am edible catering, and the man come vex he wan jump inside river for Lekki-Ikoyi bridge”

“Who the hell are you talking about?”

“Tiwa Savage and her husband”

“And who are those?”

“Tiwa, now. Marvin First Lady. She is one
of Nigeria’s topmost female artistes. And her husband. They are quarrelling. The husband tried to commit suicide. She says her husband prefers to follow other women, take cocaine and ignore his responsibilities as a man and a husband. Social media is agog with the news. Mainstream media is feeding on it too. The man even tried to jump into the Lagoon.”

“And has he done so?”

“No. He was restrained by Banky W and
Peter Okoye.”

“And who are those? Red Cross Officials?”

“You are in this country and you don’t know Banky W and Peter Okoye?”

“There is no way anyone can possibly know all the members of the Red Cross? ”

“They are musicians, not Red Cross, not
NEMA”

“Oh, I see”

“Don’t tell me you are one of those dumb
ones who do not know what is going on in
this country?”

“I don’t get it. Am I supposed to worry about how Tiwa Savage and her husband are savaging the public space with their dirty linen and turning their marriage into a
subject for beer parlour gossip?”

“It is a serious matter.”

“Oh really? So, how has their matter affected the supply of petrol, the price of foodstuffs and the payment of salaries?”

“It is the biggest news of the week.”

“Of course, because the media does not know what to prioritise anymore”

“There are issues involved. Tiwa Savage’s
husband wanted to commit suicide. The same week, there was a report about a man who killed his target of amorous desire and stabbed her mother in Ilorin because the lady refused to love or marry him.”

“Love is the most potent poison in the world. The graveyard is a prison yard of unrequited love.”

“Tiwa Savage’s husband says…”

“You keep mentioning the wife. That
husband doesn’t have a name? They should have allowed him to jump into the Lagoon, and have his wife do a special song at his funeral and go home on the left arm of another man.”

“They call him em em. actually that is the
problem if you would listen to the wife. She is the breadwinner, she says and the man likes to squander money and so on and so forth.”

“Look, I am not interested in that story. I
don’t want a taste of Tiwa Savage’s
#Lemonade. I don’t want any tales about the #Becky-with-the-Big-Hair that served her husband “edible catering”. Or do you want the National Assembly to have a special session on a derailed marriage, or may be you want President Muhammadu Buhari to issue a statement on it? One of these days, Nigerians will start insisting that the Nigerian President should become a marriage counselor and he will be blamed for marital squabbles.”

“We are talking about celebrities. And come to think of it, in a normal country, Tiwa Savage’s husband will not have to depend on his wife. He will have a proper means of income.”

“E ma gba mi ke. Doro Tiwa and husband
fight and Nigeria no go hear word? E joor
oh. As you lay your bed, you lie on it. These things happen every day. Human beings pay for the choices that they make. They learn from the outcomes of their choices. Can we have the media focus on serious matters beyond sex, infidelity, cocaine and the poverty of matrimonial matters in the household of Tiwa and Tee Blliz? Which kin name be that sef?”

“Today is May Day for example”

“Nigerian workers should actually carry
placards tomorrow, screaming May Day, May Day, May Day!!”

“You want them to scream for help?”

“Yes, because the Nigerian worker today is
hungry, angry, sinking, helpless, jobless,
over-used, under-paid and in despair. State
governments are not paying salaries.
Companies are retrenching staff. The latest I read is that First Bank is planning to sack 1,000 workers, Aero Contractors, 100. I know a couple, who have both just lost their jobs and they have five children. Some other companies are closing shop. Massive divestiture in the economy.”

“Incidentally, you know the people who
caused the melt down. “

“Tell me”

“I don’t know.”

“If you don’t know, then you don’t know,
before you say something that will make me give you a punch in the face. But I think all that President Buhari needs to do tomorrow is to give the people hope. In a situation like this, you give the people hope, you reassure them.”

“You are recommending rhetoric. Speaking for speaking sake.”

“No. I am saying hope is a strong weapon.
When a leader gives the people hope, he
calms down their blood pressure. It is a
strong pill.”

“The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are not asking for hope. Nigerian workers know what they want. They are asking for N56, 000 minimum wage.”

“Chai”

“You heard me. N56, 000”

“Chai. Do they live in this country at all? Do
they have economists among them? Does it make sense to ask for what you know you cannot get?”

“You can ask for what you think you
deserve.”

“But in matters like this, you look at the
economy too. What they are asking for is
called wage indexation. That is not sound
economics. Wage indexation is a self-
fulfilling prophecy. If you base your
calculations on it, there will never be an end to it, and it will undermine the economy.”

“Which economy? An economy where some people grab N2 billion, and millions of dollars all in the line of a day's arrangement, and workers cannot get the
existing N18, 000 minimum wage?”

“If I were the NLC or TUC leader, I’ll be
more interested in giving the government
ideas about how to pay the current minimum wage and ensure that the welfare of the people is properly the concern of government. NLC should be pragmatic. Get all salary arrears paid to start with, and get government to pay all emoluments as at when due. Uncommon sense.”

“Sorry, Labour leaders don’t claim that they are economists. They just want the best for the Nigerian worker. That is their mandate.”

“Don’t speak for them. When they meet the President and the Governors tomorrow, let them say so. I wonder if anybody even reads those long speeches on Labour Day. Nigerian workers are looking for unpaid salaries, but their leaders ride exotic SUVs, and live in
mansions. I beg.”

“You are beginning to sound like a government spokesperson. Come, are you
still one of us?”

“I beg”

“By the way, what do you think is likely to
happen in the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP), now that the party leadership says
the Chairman of the party must come from the North East, and the South West members are threatening to pull out?”

“Are you sure anybody in the South West is threatening to pull out?”

“Yes. You don’t read the papers? Na one of
your brothers even talk am”

“Who?”

“The Lion himself”

“A lion in my family?”

“Have you forgotten so soon? Abi as your
phone no ring again, your brain no ring too? You no know the attack dog, the Lion?”

“Lion. Attack dog.”

“Hen hen now. Him say if they don’t make
somebody from South West the Chairman of the PDP, the South West wing of the PDP will leave the party.”

“I’ll advise you not to lose sleep over what
politicians say. What you can be sure of
though, is that before 2019, there is likely to be interesting re-alignments. Nigerian
politics may not be the same again before
and after 2019.”

“Na dem sabi. Make they just give us the
mekunnu, power, good roads, jobs and our
salaries at the end of the month. Me, talking for meself, I don see say e no matter which party win election, as long as the economy dey kampe and man fit chop, pay school fees and get light to do welle for night. My broda, na the better thing wey matter pass be dat.”

“What is welle?”

“You no know Welle?”

“No”

“Kai. Lord of Heaven. No be the thing wey
dey cause problem between Tiwa Savage and her husband be dat?”

“I still don’t get it.”

“You no watch her interview? As the girl
they talk, dey cry, without make up, looking like an angel, doing her eye like this, her shoulder like that, e just dey pain me say dem no allow the husband jump for inside river. If I see Banky W and Peter Okoye, hen, the kine slap wey I go give dem.”

“Are you alright? Have you been sniffing
cocaine?”

“C’ommot there. You just carry book for
head, you no know how life be?”

“I am sorry for you.”

“Sorry for yourself.”

“Na you go sorry for yourself. And why your head dey always shine like this? You no get hair? You never reach old age, your head don become desert. Na people like you women dey look for?”

“This is a special haircut, you can see that
the shaving of the hair is completely clean.”

“This is not a haircut. This is called desert
encroachment, or the desertification of the
human skull”

“I did it this way, in the shape of a shining
mirror, in solidarity with the people of the
Edo Kingdom who have just lost their
revered monarch, the Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Erediauwa I”

“Only Benin sons are required to do
gorimapa in honour of the great king that
has ascended to the rafters.”

“There is no law that says other Nigerians
cannot honour a revered monarch who kept the dignity of the throne and left behind a legacy of honour, character, royal grace, and dignity.”

“You don spake my broda. Make I add my
own; Oba gha to kpere”

“Ise-ee”

“May his path to the great Beyond be one of illumination and grace.”

“So let it be.”

“So mote it be.”

How black tea minimizes hair shedding

I am concerned with your hair growth and I have discovered easy and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) ways whereby you can ensure that your hair grows healthily. In case you are wondering what black tea is…

It’s simply tea that comes in bags e.g. Lipton, Top Tea and so on. The caffeine contained in black tea removes DHT (dihydrotesterone) from the scalp, thereby limiting shedding.

Basically, it is healthy to shed hair from time-to-time. Nevertheless, by rinsing your hair with cold black tea, you can minimize shedding to a large extent. Research shows that black tea also darkens the hair and gives the hair strength and shine. The caffeine in the tea is responsible for all these.

Doctors say that caffeine intake causes nervousness, nausea, stomach irritation, insomnia and so on. Notwithstanding, you can use the caffeine to your hair’s advantage.

Here’s the procedure:

v  Depending on the volume of your hair, drop 2-8 tea bags in hot water (in a bowl) leave to cool. You can even leave the bags in the water to cool overnight in order for the “solution” to be concentrated, or you could use it once it is cool. At this point, it is important that I bring your attention to some crucial facts; black hair rinse has the tendency to harden your hair. Also, there are different ways to do the black hair rinse. Overtime, you will discover which one works best for you. In addition, you need to wear some old clothes when doing the rinse because the tea could trickle down your body and stain your cloth.

v  You need to apply the tea slowly on your scalp by pouring it with a container that has a pointed tip. Once done, leave the tea in hair and wear a shower cap on it for between ten minutes to one hour. Once the time elapses, shampoo the hair, rinse it and apply a deep conditioner afterwards.

v  Another method to use especially if you do not want your hair to be excessively hard afterwards is to apply shampoo immediately after apply the black tea to your hair and then deep condition it. Better still, you could shampoo your hair and dry it. Afterwards, apply tea slowly, cover your hair with a shower cap for between ten minutes to one hour, rinse out and apply deep conditioner. Leave the deep conditioner in the hair for five minutes and the rinse out.

NOTE: if you do not want to get all messy, you could use a spray bottle to gently spray tea on scalp and ensure that there is a towel around your neck. Please do not use your favourite towel.

Ensure that you deep condition your hair after or during the rinse so that your hair does not become dry.

Black tea rinse reduces shedding to its barest minimum but it does not eliminate it, since shedding is a natural occurrence.