Sosoliso Air Crash survivor Kachi Okwuchi has bared it all in her interview with Linda Ikeji in On The Interview show.
Kachi speaks about how she’s journeyed through life and how she’s learned to accept that your scars don’t define you.
She also talked about how it felt waking up after 5 weeks of being in a coma to realize everyone from her school on the flight with her had died. She also talked about her experience as a contestant at America’s Got Talen
Media personality, Gbemi Olateru has been trending online after her insightful tweets on marriage went viral.
She said: “Our generation has a lot of work to do. We need to understand that being a good wife /Mom goes beyond cooking great meals and having a low body count. Being a good husband /Dad doesn’t just stop at being able to provide. There’s so much more.
Let’s say your father was a great provider – He paid for EVERYTHING – it still doesn’t make him a great father. What if he used his money to bully you , your siblings or your mom into doing the things that HE WANTED?”
See her full tweets below
some of you are so hopelessly dense and every little thing has to be explained to you ….*sigh*
Let’s say your father was a great provider – He paid for EVERYTHING – it still doesn’t make him a great father . What if he used his money to bully you , your siblings or your mom into doing the things that HE WANTED?
Let’s say your father was a great provider – He paid for EVERYTHING – it still doesn’t make him a great father . What if he used his money to bully you , your siblings or your mom into doing the things that HE WANTED?
Or let’s say your mom was the best cook EVER! From Naija to continental dishes – she was the best ! But she was emotionally abusive to you/ your siblings and made you feel worthless with her words? Being a great cook does not a great mother make .
Or let’s say your mom was the best cook EVER! From Naija to continental dishes – she was the best ! But she was emotionally abusive to you/ your siblings and made you feel worthless with her words? Being a great cook does not a great mother make .
That’s what I meant by being a great provider / great cook isn’t enough . Why does there have to be a thread for some people to grasp things
. *sigh*
Pakistan has elected its first female senator from the lowest Dalit caste in weekend polls which also saw the ruling party strengthen its hand ahead of a general election in the Muslim-majority country.
The surprise victory of opposition candidate Krishna Kumari Kohli in the Senate election stirred a wave of optimism on social media, as Pakistanis celebrated the rare success for a woman from a marginalised community at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy.
“I feel proud, I am thankful to Pakistan People’s Party that they nominated me,” Kohli told AFP Sunday.
“Kudos to PPP for electing #KrishnaKohli…. Our parliament should have representatives of all religions, classes & genders in pursuit of true democracy,” tweeted rights activist Jibran Nasir.
Pakistan’s Hindus, who make up around two percent of the country’s 200 million people, have long faced economic and social discrimination.
Members of parliament and of provincial assemblies voted Saturday to fill half the seats in the Senate, or upper house, before elections due this summer for the lower house of parliament.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 15 of the 52 seats up for election to secure a total of 33 spots in the 104-seat upper house. Support from allies is likely to give it a dominating majority.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) won 12 and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of former cricket star Imran Khan came third with six.
“Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has secured a clear majority in the Senate polls,” the party announced late Saturday on its official Twitter account.
The victory came despite legal setbacks.
Last July the Supreme Court toppled PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif from the premiership over corruption allegations.
Ahead of the Senate vote, the court also barred Sharif from leading his party, forcing all PML-N candidates officially to stand as independents because they had been selected by the axed chief.
Following the win, Sharif called on his supporters to keep fighting at the ballot box in the face of pressure from the courts.
“First they removed my name and then they removed the Muslim League’s name but members of parliament and provincial assemblies rejected that decision,” he told thousands of supporters at a rally in the eastern city of Gujrat Sunday.
Despite the court rulings, the PML-N has won a string of by-elections following the ousting of Sharif.
The Sharif clan and their supporters have repeatedly denied corruption, suggesting Nawaz is the victim of a conspiracy driven by Pakistan’s powerful military establishment.
Uche Onyekwelu, the brain behind the business, Stuch Beddings, has taken to her Instagram page to share her inspiring success story.
She started her business in 2014 as a youth corper who knew she loved good beddings and wanted to make a lucrative business out of it. It looked like it was never going to pay as no body was willing to invest in the business but all that is history today as her business is extremely successful.
See her Instagram post below
The #BlackPantherChallenge is an ongoing online challenge created by a New York resident Frederick Joseph. The aim of the challenge is to take more kids to watch Black Panther in the cinemas in the bid to expose them to all the representation in the film.
Many celebrities have taken up the challenge, and Lupita took it a notch further by sponsoring 600 students in her hometown: Kisumu, Kenya to watch the film.
(Photo: Lupita Nyongo/Instagram)
Black Panther is a celebration of blackness that both powerfully pays homage to African heritage, while showcasing what Africa could be through the highly advanced Wakanda. Young children all over the world don’t usually see black superheroes in films, and Black Panther is one the first movies that offer this.
It is important for young black children all over the world to see this movie, as more than just a fun superhero movie, it’s a chance for black people to see themselves reflected on the big screen without being whitewashed or diluted.
Speaking about why she sponsored children from her hometown on Instagram, Lupita said:
“I joined the #BlackPantherChallenge and sponsored 600 schoolchildren to watch the film in Kisumu, Kenya with my mother’s help.
I wanted kids from my hometown to see the positive images reflected in the film and superheroes that they can relate to on the big screen.
No matter where you live, you can help make this happen for more children who can’t afford to see the movie.”
After seeing what not just the titular superhero can do, but also the bevy of ass-kicking ladies who help him save Wakanda, it’s hard not to leave Black Panther feeling like you too can save the world!
Culled from konbini.com
Veteran actress, Eucharia Anunobi has taken to her Instagram page on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, to share a number of photos for her fans as she graduates from RCCG’s School of Disciples.
In one of her photos, she made reference to her ability to finish her exams despite being in the process of burying her son.
“If you keep looking at the mountain, it becomes overwhelming, go to the base and start climbing, don’t look down and don’t look up, just keep at it, before you know it, you are at the top.
“If I could finish my exams while burying my son, what is stopping you from completing your studies. I prophesy as commanded may all satanic agenda put in place to stagnate your destiny be truncated now in JESUS name,” she wrote.
This is coming barely a couple of days after Eucharia Anunobi had revealed that her son, Raymond was mistakenly killed by doctors. The veteran actress revealed this while granting an interview with Saturday Beats and also talked about why she celebrated her son’s posthumous birthday.
In the interview, Ibidunni opened up about her own fertility journey which led to the birth of her foundation. From personally going through IVF 11 times, the societal pressure from in-laws and friends, to finding happiness in the joys of women who passed through her foundation as well as in her daughter Keke, Ibidunni’s interview is emotional and so powerful.
We have a few excerpts of the interview below
It was born out of pain. When you’ve waited… when you get married you expect to just have children and everything just works out fine for you. But, when you start to wait… First year you’re not pregnant. I honestly thought, first six months I would be pregnant. I just thought, ‘ok, ok, it will come it will come’. I waited a year, two years and then I started getting worried.
No he wasn’t. He still isn’t. He keeps saying, ‘God is going to do it and whatever God is going to do, let it be left undone’. So I held onto that.
You know as a woman you never want to sit down and not do anything. So I started… I got worried, I’d go to the hospital, and I’ve been on this journey for 11 years now. It’s been tough. Especially because, in our society, they don’t spare you. They. Society. I mean, in-laws, friends. Sometimes it’s not intentional. It’s not on purpose.
But when you are waiting on God for a child, you’re so sensitive that the little things that people do gets to you. They might not even know that it’s getting to you. And everybody is running around, doing school runs… your friends that you got married together, you guys are together, their kids are coming to yours and you get back home at night and it’s just you alone.
Yes. (Adesuwa: But you’ve forgotten the waiting). Oh, totally. I’m not waiting anymore. I’m a mother of many. My foundation has twins… I have three kids from my foundation, I have a daughter, a beautiful daughter God has blessed me with. (Adesuwa: So you adopted a daughter). Yes. My goodness she’s a gift. She’s beautiful.
It gets to a point where you just really want children. You want company. I mean your husband is your friend, he’s your best friend, but you guys go to work together, you guys come back… After a while you want to plan a family. You just want people. You want kids around you.
Like I said, it was out of pain. After going through IVF 11 times. 11 times is not a joke when you’re doing IVF and I just woke up one morning on my birthday (I usually have this thing I do on my birthdays, I sit down, I pray, I have a conversation with God… ‘Last year of my life, I achieved this, I’ll love this to happen’… I write things down and we talk) and I said to him, ‘You know what, I am not doing this IVF again. How you’re going to do it, I do not know and I do not care but I am trusting you completely. And I heard something, ‘In the meantime, just go ahead and help as many people as you can’.
I thought I didn’t hear properly and I thought to myself, ‘I should help other people while I wait’ and honestly, I felt life. I felt like, this is why I was born. And the meaning of my name is Ibi dunni, “sweet to give birth”, “sweet to have” and for the first time it was as though my life was playing in front of me. And I said ‘ok, I will obey this voice’.
And I didn’t know how I was gonna do it, I didn’t have a clue, it’s never been done before, so I just said to God, ‘I’m trusting you on this journey, and I’m going to obey you completely and totally. You have to promise me something, that every single woman and every single couple that walks through this foundation, mentions this foundation, sees this foundation, you must give them a child’.”
Watch the full interview below
DJ Cuppy is set to have her own radio show called Cuppy Currency which would be starting in March.
Cuppy posted on her Instagram that she is going to start her new radio show on an online radio Touchhd Online from March 1st.
The online radio is new but we are happy for Cuppy and she keeps breaking her limit.
See the photo of her announcement.
Source: stargist.com
Being the richest woman in Nigeria is certainly not what Folorunso Alakija thought she would achieve but the woman has shown with perseverance and determination you can get to the top.
Alakija is revealing how her faith and belief got her where she wanted and used this to encourage people.
she wrote,
“I would like to encourage you on my encounter with the Glory of God.
It happened almost 27 years ago when I gave my life to Christ at the age of 40 and my life has not been the same ever since, I pray your life too, will experience a total turn around.
I was born almost 67 years ago, into a large and illustrious polygamous Muslim family as number 8 out of 52 children through a father who had 8 wives.Back then large families were common, but what was unusual was that I was one of the very first few Nigerian children who left it’s shores to go and study abroad at such a tender age of 7.
Even at that age, I knew I could not afford to let my family down cause I was seen as an ambassador.My desire was to study law but my Daddy did not believe in investing in girls at that time.
Today, I have no university degree, but God’s glory lifted me up and I have received numerous Honorary Doctorate Degrees at home and abroad.
All of what you now see today has taken almost two and a half decades, so I am not an overnight success. On the contrary. Through God’s grace, I am a blood bought totally forgiven, absolutely redeemed, heaven bound child of God.
I have had to make sacrifices like everyone else, faced challenges but never given up.
I have not compromised myself, my values or my faith.”
She continued her postand in her part two she wrote,
“My encounter with the glory of God. When I got to my wit’s end, I covenanted with God for blessings in return for a life long work and walk with Him.
To say that I did not see HIS Glory come into my life would mean I have turned God into a liar.It is only God who could have brought me from the back burner to the front burner.
He Himself orchestrated and organized by divine intervention, the beginning and continuation of our delving into the oil industry.
The oil block allocated and licensed to us was not wanted by any oil company; we accepted it by faith and it has become the chief cornerstone in West African and Africa as a whole.
The Government came back to “take” 50% out of our 60%, but after a 12 year battle in court, all was restored to the glory of God.
God has continued to be faithful as to be expected and I am here today as part of my fulfillment of my obligations to that covenant.
Therefore Receive the anointing to prosper.
Receive the anointing for God’s Glory.Receive the anointing for God to single you out for upliftment and promotion.
Don’t lose heart, don’t lose hope……………Await that coming glory upon you in Jesus Name. AMEN!”
Nigerian actress Foluke Daramola Salako is telling it all on how it has not been easy keeping her sanity for the past 40 years.
The actress, who sat down with Punch’s Saturday Beats reveals how she has managed to keep herself all these years. She said,
“The turbulent thing I have faced especially in a place like Nigeria is that we are practically under pressure as celebrities. People keep demanding things from us and they don’t care how we meet their demands. They put a lot of pressure on me. Being psychologically and emotionally stable in Nigeria for over 40 years has not been an easy task. People see the glamour on the television screen and believe that is how we live in reality. Being psychologically stable despite all odds like living up to expectation, the pressure of living the way you want to and also even differentiating reality from showbiz has not been easy. Those are my turbulent times. A good thing about being a celebrity, however, is that when you are known, you are celebrated and it opens doors for you. Being known gives you a voice when others are struggling to get a voice.”
She said, “Another turbulent time for me was when I had to leave my first marriage. I would say I left the marriage as a shadow of myself. When I left that marriage, I felt less than myself and I felt the world had come to an end. That was a time in my life that was very turbulent. What I dread most in my life is to have a broken home and I experienced it with my first marriage. So I would say that was a time in my life that was really turbulent. But a very lovely and good time in my life was when I met the man I am married to. It was a wonderful time in my life.”
Foluke Daramola and second husband,Kayode Salako
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