Did Denrele and Charly Boy Kiss?

Pls! people, help me look at these pix. is it photoshopped cos I can't tell from where I am sitting.
The Punch Newspapers published this two days ago. below is the report from The Punch....

Area Fada, Charley Boy, has been associated with a lot of negative – and positive – things, but never before has he been called a homosexual. That is up until now.

A romantic picture of Charley Boy kissing Denrele has been circulating on the Internet for a while, and it has made many believe that both of them are involved in a sexual relationship.

But Denrele told Life and Beat that he didn‘t owe anybody any explanation.

“If not that I know you, I would have told you I don’t owe you any explanation. I just think that some people are out to tarnish my image. Call it Photoshop, call it publicity stunt or whatever the picture is, people just want to tarnish my image.”

But to those who he feels are out to tarnish his image, Denrele said, “I’m not bothered in anyway. They are just making me popular. The story is not affecting me in anyway. I have been receiving calls from all over the world about this same picture. I’m not gay, but I don‘t think I owe anybody any explanation.”

Charley Boy’s phone was unreachable when Life and Beat tried to contact him.

MHH! Na wa o!

Today's Photo

I see a lot of rides... this is one of them. u like?

DELETE ALL!!!!

Early this morning, about 6am I got a text message from my mom that was not even meant for me, but for my brother. I was still groggy with sleep...what my people call "sleep-eye" I used the track pad to scroll to "DELETE".
A minute later, I got another text message from my fiance, and there my inbox was saying MESSAGE(S) INBOX (1) instead of MESSAGE(S) INBOX (457).
I was confused and all that sleep-eye left me....
Apparently, the time I thought I deleted my mom's message, I had actually scrolled to DELETE ALL and wiped out all my messages!! I miss old school phone buttons! That track pad can be too fast sometimes.

Atomic Tom and Their iPhone Subway Concert Video

Atomic Tom has made music for roughly three years, but the Brooklyn four-piece only started making headlines over the past three days. In a video posted to YouTube last Friday (Oct. 15), the group performed its single "Take Me Out" on a New York subway using just iPhones. Since then, the clip has earned nearly 1.3 million YouTube hits and helped the song jump to No. 86 on the iTunes singles chart.

"Since this video launched, it immediately became the most intense thing this band has ever experienced press-wise," says lead singer Luke White. "The response has been incredible, and beyond our wildest expectations."

White says that guitarist Eric Espiritu's brother Ben originally came up with the idea for the performance over a month ago. Treating the project as another entry in the band's series of video blogs, Atomic Tom used four different iPhone applications (Shred, Drum Meister, Pocket Guitar and Microphone) to recreate their respective instruments.

After rehearsing for nearly a month, the group filmed the performance on three different iPhones on Oct. 8 as the B train crossed the Manhattan Bridge. "We were on the last take, and people started getting out of their seats and crowding around," says White.

To see the video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAllFWSl998


Although White swears that the project was "completely top-secret," with no label or publicity involvement whatsoever, he has no problem admitting that the performance was a calculated publicity stunt. "We're a band that is trying to reach out to new fans," he says. "Of course it was intentional. Of course we rehearsed it. We're creating our own story and get ourselves out there."

The singer says that Atomic Tom's label, Universal Republic, was approached by Apple soon after the "Take Me Out" clip began earning thousands of YouTube views over the weekend, and a partnership is being discussed. The group's debut album, "The Moment," was featured on the iTunes Store home page and hit No. 11 on the iTunes albums chart.

"That's been so meaningful to us, to see that people actually appreciate the performance enough to go buy the record," says White. "The Moment" was released digitally in July, but White says that Universal Republic will give the album a physical release in the next few months.

Before the release, Atomic Tom will capitalize on the video's success by heading out on the road this fall. Although the group will play "Take Me Out," and the rest of "The Moment," using real instruments, White would not be opposed to the group performing on their iPhones in concert. "I'm sure we'll be requested to do so, and we'd be happy to oblige," says White.
(culled from http://www.billboard.com/news/atomic-tom-iphone-subway-concert-video-was-1004121630.story#/news/atomic-tom-iphone-subway-concert-video-was-1004121630.story)

Chile miners' resue begins

Workers test the escape capsule being used to rescue the 33 trapped miners.

For over 2 months, 33 miners have been trapped about half a mile underground...that's far! The 1st of the miners is expected to be rescued today (tues.) via this capsule-like machine...away from the camera flashes of the press. The Chilean government is taking this seriously and the miners' family members have camped in the area all this while. Kudos to the people of Chile and the miners for remaining calm for this long.
It made me wonder what the case would have been if 33 miners got trapped in some other countries (I won't call names..lol).

Today's pic

The bus looks like there's still room for one or two people...heeey!

 Though not taken today, this is a photo from my all-time Weird and Wonderful photos on FB.
How do you think these people fit into this bus? Took this in the commercial city of Aba

Anchor Baby! The movie to look out for...

Anchor Baby is a movie movie to watch out for, not just cos the producer is my brother but also cos for a fact, it's an excellent production with an amazing story line.

The movie is about a married, illegal immigrant couple Joyce (Omoni Oboli) and Paul Unanga (Sam Sarpong) have been ordered by the U.S. immigration to leave the country. They decide that they will leave, but only after Joyce, who is five months pregnant, delivers her baby in the U.S. This will guarantee automatic U.S. citizenship for their child. Ignoring the deportation order the couple goes into hiding. Later, Paul is caught and deported by a team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, led by agent Mark Castello (Michael Scratch). This leaves Joyce to struggle on her own to accomplish their dream.

  But bureaucracy keeps getting in the way of Joyce achieving her goal and just as she is about to give up hope, she meets Susan Backley (Terri Oliver), a married freelance writer who offers to help in the form of safe, free accommodation until the baby is born. With the help of her newfound friend, Joyce sets out to make the ‘American Dream’ come true for her unborn child.

Anchor Baby highlights the struggles of many immigrants in the United States and other developed countries across the world, and features Nigerian “Nollywood” star Omoni Oboli (Figurine, Guilty Pleasures), Ghanaian-raised LA-based Sam Sarpong (Street Kings, The Dedd Brothers, Keeping Up with the Steins) and Canadian actress/songwriter Terri Oliver. 

The movie was recently entered for the Harlem International Film Festival and it scooped the Best Film Award and the Best Actress Award went to Omoni Oboli for her outstanding performance. So, obviously, this is not a "joke-joke" movie.

Another award is the one won by my big bro, Lonzo, who was selected by Reel World Film Festival as one of the Emerging 20 Filmmakers in Canada...

That's something.... more so, we should all be set to go and watch the movie when it hits the cinemas in Nigeria, U.K. etc.

Back on the Blog!

Well, it's not like loads of people missed me for the long time I didn't know what i was doing on blogger.... but I'm back anyway and I intend to have fun with it. So please read my blog, pls pls!!! and leave ur comments and follow me, I follow u (I learnt about that too...lol!). cheers!!

AND THEN, YARDI DIED & I DIDN'T CRY......

6th May 10, 2010, 6.30 am. Port Harcourt.
I woke up this morning to the news of President Yar’ Adua’s death and all I could say was “: eh yaaah! Ok”.
I can’t possibly say that I was saddened or devastated at the news. So does that then justify my reaction to the news as “indifference”, “send-less-ness”, or “it’s high time”. Whichever term you may choose to describe my reaction to the news of the President’s death, I’ll justify it.
INDIFFERENCE – I’m indifferent because somewhere in my heart, I have already mourned the president, I have thought there was trouble since over 8 months ago. When I saw him on TV, looking really worn out and speaking in muffled tones, I knew there was trouble. I felt sad then because I could not begin to imagine what he was going through. I had more reason to mourn him also when the “Hide and Seek Yardi Game” started, and I rounded up the mourning when it was obvious we were never going to know the true state of our president’s health. So now, they think it’s the right time to tell us Yardi is dead, and ….humph! I can’t cry! So I’m indifferent and I “send-less”.
“IT’S HIGH TIME!”- Don’t get me wrong, I still think President Yar’ Adua was a nice man who stood for the right things for his country (amnesty, due-process), but he was surrounded by bad (Turai) people who are ever so greedy (Turai), with so much “bad-belle” (Turai) for the Nigerian nation, and are power-crazy (Turai).
These Turai people are the ones that tied the scepter of power on a sick and unfit president and smuggled him out to Saudi Arabia for months and never told us a thing despite all the accusations we laid on them, they didn’t budge. The only person that had the power to fling them out of Saudi Arabia was the king of Saudi himself and he did so when he sensed danger. So they smuggled the same sick and unfit president into the country in the thick of the night. They then told us that he was so strong and healthy that he could even jog, play tennis and fight karate, still they refused him any visits from even his own mother and the then vice president, Mr. Goodluck – what’s in a name – Jonathan. Sadly, the only people that got to visit him were the Muslim and Christian Clergy, who I’m still ashamed of till today (they came out with different reports of who/what they saw).
There’s also the scoop that these Turai people were advised to take the ailing president back to his hometown in Katsina state for an easier transition, thereby declaring the president unfit to rule the nation, but “she” shook her head furiously to that, exhibiting all her fangs. These same Turai people fought so hard when Mr. Goodluck was made the Acting President – funny they wanted him to remain Vice President. Thanks to them, my little 4 year old friend can now quote section 144 and 145 of the Nigerian constitution. Oh! The art with which they evaded those two sections!
If the Turai people had taken president Yar’ Adua back to Katsina and he died there, they/she would have some family support and I would probably be sad now, but instead they chose to drag a sick man up and down so much because of their selfish desires. Yes, “it’s high time” the man rested in peace.
Mr. Goodluck will cease to be Acting President and become president. The Turai people will vacate the Aso Villa for the Niger Zeta man whose name is working.
Today is work-free day. A day we are supposed to mourn the President’s death. So I stepped out of the house finally by 10 am, on this work-free day and people are wearing sad faces. One man at the bank near my house is struggling with the Nigerian flag, he actually took the whole flag down, “half-mast” obviously cannot describe his sorrow.
I could hear the lady selling recharge cards calling someone on her phone and saying “Eh! When did they “confirm” him dead? This morning?”
Then, the mama-put lady walks pushes her truck right next to me and asks “Sista, this work-free day go affect me?”, and before I could reply, and man walks up to her, plate in hand and grunted “Madam, abeg, put Rice, Spaghetti, Plantain and two meat for me jare…”
Well, I guess I’m not the only one that has already mourned.

A Dye That Restores Color of Vag.......ina?!

WOnders, they say will never end!

I was reading an article in an online Newspaper about a wonder dye manufactured in Sacramento, California, and I thought I should share it.
It's about a product that's got so many women blushing pink down there.
This product is called My New Pink Button, a cosmetic dye kit specially designed to restore the color of a woman’s vagina.
Well, according Esthetician and co-creator Karan Mari, Women worldwide suffer from discoloration down there, though it’s often unspoken.
Women all over the world had in times past embraced the gradual discoloration of their Labia from pink to somewhat brown or grey, and this is usually due to the stress of childbirth, bodily stress and wear and tear of sex.
Now, this special dye is directly applied to the vagina, left to stay on for a few minutes and rinsed off in the shower, therefore it does not rub off in panties or on one's partner. The developers have assured that the special stain blends with the skin’s natural color and get the pink back safely and easily. (I hope)
The color lasts for about three days – quite perfect for a romantic weekend.
The makers say they’ve gotten many orders from curious husbands who want their ladies to give it a go.
wow! hope for the Mamas huh?

Just in case you want to know where I got this from,
Source: http://nigeriamasterweb.com/paperfrmes.html

Lunch time

having lunch.........

The Nigerian Child is what He Eats

By Nzekwe Obianuju

In your lifetime, you will eat about 76,650 meals and more than 60 tons of food, that is if you eat 3 times a day and live up to 70 years.

My grandmother thinks that one should eat at least two bowls of Eba (ground fermented and pounded cassava) everyday. My mother thinks you can skip the Eba once or twice a week but Yam and Rice are constants. My Sister cannot live without Biscuits and my 6 year old cousin would not touch anything but Noodles. So when the topic of nutrition is being discussed, there are various slants to it depending on what set of people are discussing it.

The Council on Food and Nutrition of the American Medical Association defines nutrition as “The science of food, the nutrients and substances therein, their action, interaction, and balance in relation to health and disease, and the process by which the organism ingests, digests, absorbs, transports, utilizes, and excretes food substances.” Nutrition therefore simply means that one does not have to just eat but has to maintain a balanced diet in order to remain healthy and build body tissues from the nutrients (nourishing substances) contained in the food. If the foods we eat build up our body tissues, then it can be said that we are what we eat.
Nutrition has as long a history as man himself. Every human being has been eating right from birth but most times, we still finding it difficult to maintain a good nutrition pattern and be in a good state of health at all times. So many individuals have ignorantly ended up with so many chronic diseases such as heart diseases, stroke, hypertension, osteoporosis, anemia, diabetes and some forms of cancer because they lived on a poor diet coupled with a sedentary lifestyle. Currently, about half of the 4 million African children under 5 years of age who die annually are undernourished. Undernutrition is the most common form of malnutrition in both developing and developed countries. Undernutrition is also responsible for specific nutrient deficiencies that can result in muscle wasting, beriberi, anemia, rickets, goiter and a host of other problems. (Perspectives in Nutrition, 1999).

In Nigeria, a healthy person is generally seen as that person who has the ability to eat and can show signs by putting on weight. What this individual consumes is disregarded as long as he is alive and looks healthy but we all need to understand that eating is so different from being nourished. Ignorance and nonchalance have been the key reasons why most Nigerians do not even pay attention the six classes of food and how important it is to include them in our daily diets. Carbohydrates, Lipids (Fats and Oils), Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals and Water all make up the six classes of nutrients found in food.
There are basically 3 functional categories of these nutrients: (1). those that primarily provide us with energy (Carbohydrate, Proteins, and Lipids or Fats and Oils), (2). Those that promote growth and development (Proteins, Lipids, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water); and (3). those that act to keep the body functions running smoothly (Proteins, Lipids, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water). It is very encouraging to know that our nation has a wide variety of foods that are very rich in the aforementioned nutrients. Some of the most common foods in Nigeria and the nutrients they supply are:


1
Carbohydrates
Garri (Eba), Yam, Cereals, Rice, Maize
2
Proteins
Fish, Eggs, Milk, Beans, Soya beans
3
Fats and Oils (Lipids)
Groundnuts, Fried and baked foods (these foods should be consumed moderately to avoid having fats clog the valves of the heart)
4
Minerals
Plantain, Cereals, Iodized Salts
5
Vitamins
Pumpkins (Ugu), and other leafy vegetables, Pineapple, Pawpaw, Oranges and other fruits, Beverages. The cod oil in fish is also known to be very rich in vitamin A which is very good for the eyes.
6
Water
This moisturizes and cleanses the system. 1.5 litres (7 glasses) of water should be drunk daily to maintain a cleansed system.

The Nigerian child has become a primary victim or target when it comes to nutritional health problems. Originally, a typical Nigerian food like our soups will surely contain leafy vegetables (good vitamin source) but these days, a good number of families can count how many times they have eaten vegetables or consumed fruits in a week! Some mothers believe in cooking their leafy vegetables for too long or washing already cut vegetables. These practices do not help in maintaining the nutritional contents of such foods because most of the nutrients contained therein are lost in the process. Vitamin A deficiency rates in children are higher than 29% in some regions of Nigeria.
Anemia affects 25% of Nigerian women of reproductive age, as many as 61% of women are affected in some regions of the country. During pregnancy is the most vulnerable period when undernutrition poses the greatest health risk. A pregnant woman needs extra nutrients to meet both her needs and that of her developing fetus. Nourishing the fetus is likely to deplete stores of maternal nutrients such as iron. Anemia is therefore one possible consequence in the mother and sometimes the fetus faces major health risks from undernutrition during gestation. The fetus requires a rich supply of Protein, Vitamins and Minerals in order to support growth and development of the brain and other body tissues. If these needs are not met, the infant is often born before 37 weeks of gestation, well before the 40 weeks of gestation period that is considered ideal. The consequences of premature birth include a weakened immune system and a reduced lung function, if the infant survives.
In the past, nutritional diseases were automatically related to poverty. Even though this view holds water, it cannot be said to be the only factor why the Nigerian child is undernourished in recent years. The introduction of foods-on-the-run (fast foods) has reduced the number of hours many Nigerian mothers spend in their kitchens but has also exposed their young ones to eating unbalanced diets. Most of our children are living on Noodles and processed foods from eateries, sometimes as soon as they stop breast feeding and with time the child finds it difficult to be attracted to any other type of good quality food, all due to poor eating habits picked up from the adults around them.
Poor infant feeding and caring practices also contribute to problems of nutrition. Right from birth, poor breastfeeding practices are a major cause of neonatal and infant mortality in Nigeria. UNICEF, The World Health Organization, and Nigeria’s National Breastfeeding Policy recommend that infants be exclusively breastfed from birth to 6 months. Unfortunately, only 17% of infants under the age of six months are exclusively breastfed in Nigeria. The PROFILES analysis shows that 21 % of infant deaths are related to poor breastfeeding practices in Nigeria.

Poor nutrition has drastically affected education in Nigeria. Adequate nutrition is essential for physical and mental development. Iron deficiency anemia limits children’s intellectual development and learning capacity. The effects of iron deficiency anemia are particularly detrimental to the cognitive development of infants and young children. In Nigeria, 29% of children under the age of 5 years are anemic. It is even more disturbing that anemic rates in children in some regions are as high as 50%2. This situation therefore restricts the intellectual development of our children whose optimal school performance is vital for the future of our country. Iron deficiency in children, which is more common in poor children than in less deprived children, can also lead to fatigue, reduced stamina, and stunted growth.
Evidence from different countries has shown that malnutrition reduces children’s learning ability, school performance, and retention capacities. Even before birth, the consequences of malnutrition on children’s development can manifest themselves. Iodine is essential for the development of a child’s brain from conception. Results from several studies show that 3% of babies born to iodine deficient women suffer from cretinism and present severe mental and physical retardation, 10% suffer from moderate-to-severe mental retardation and the remaining 87% suffer from some form of mental impairment. It is also well known that in populations where iodine deficiency is endemic, the average IQ rate is reduced by 13.5 points1. The damage to cognitive development in children caused by iodine deficiency is permanent. Available data on iodine deficiency showed that in Nigeria, 20% of the total population suffered from goiter, the most severe manifestation of iodine deficiency.

The average Nigerian child should therefore be provided with the essential nutrients at all times, seeing that most of the damage done to the cognitive tissues may not be undone in later years. Foods rich in protein and fiber, such as milk and cereals should always be available to growing children of school age especially at breakfast because the brain needs to be vitalized after a whole night of fasting during sleep. At school, the child is faced with subjects that require the applied use of the brain. In such cases, as always, a child who eats unbalanced foods will be uncompetitive in school.
The questions then are- What and how are Nigerian children eating? Are they consuming the right foods in the right amounts?

Voila! New Blogger! NO LONG THING

yes..... I'm as lost as can be in this blog thingy but trust me, I'll get the hang of it, maybe when I finally let it sink in. I'm kind of not too sure of what particularly will make up my blog content. being a science student and a computer graphic designer, a poet in my own right..., a friend, a daughter, and a person... I guess my blog might be crowded if I don't take my time. so "No Long thing" will be featured here aight...
pls if you have great ideas about how I can make this blog all the more cool and in good time, please go ahead.