Trick-or-Treating......... boooooo Sandy.

   Sandy ruined a very cherished holiday for kids in America and even adults. HALLOWEEENNNN.hahaahahahahaha.

Take a look at this lovely pictures of kids checking their costume out for the Halloween which is to be celebrated Today,31st october 2012.
     Unfortunately for some of these trick-or-treating kids, the Halloween parade has been cancelled (that means no more candy) until further notice. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey promised to reschedule the Halloween trick-or-treating in New Jersey.Hurray!!!. i hope other children in other states are been considered too.

I WISH Y'ALL A

Sandy's Fury

Update: Sandy has caused a lot of problems and it is high time to take some swift actions. President Obama and Governor Andrew Cuomo of New york are not sleep niether are they slumbering. This so called Sandy has denied lot of people access to their place of work. President in cooperation with some other Governors have consulted their expertise to find a way possible to put the MTA system back to service.There are now free mass transit buses to move residents within the city. Subways are stil flooded ,so train service is not active yet.
Some worst case scinerio of flood in New York:

Lot of  houses,stores,warehouse and the likes got burnt as a result of this Hurricane. Power outages caused people to start using candles,this breeze makes it flame up and it becomes another story.
DEATH TOLL:
About:
US TOTAL: 55
CT (Conneticut): 3
NY (New York): 27
NJ (New Jersey): 6
POWER OUTAGE IN SOME TRI-STATES:
NYC WESTCHESTER COUNTY: 766,000
LONG ISLAND: 885,050
NEW JERSEY: 900,00
N.B: These are just estimations

Here are some pictures: Some comparion can be made with the first picture. The lower part is a picture of those buildings before the storm and the upper part is a picture of the same buildings during the storm.
The second picture is a picture of a city in total black out (who said they don't take light in America.lol)

Day 3:Hurricane Sandy or Hurricane Problem?

Reporting from New York: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is actually confused on weather  to face the issue of tracking the Hurricane Sandy or the issue of the problems this disaster has caused.
Those with private cars were considered lucky at first because all mass transit were suspended,but now not only those with private cars but all private cab drivers were warned not to drive. More than 13,500 flight were been cancelled on Monday,28th of October 2012 and there is tendency that  500 flight will be cancelled for Wednesday,31st of October 2012. These dangerous Hurricane brought down huge trees that are as old as 180 years,ripped out roofs,flooded the popular Brooklyn Battery tunnel with water, caused bridges to be closed due to high winds, the funniest of all, Brooklyn emergency shelters allowing pets in during sandy  (Americans dont joke with their pets.lol). To make matters worst, there was a curfew for all residents and drivers until 6 p.m.(ok now,dat doesn't apply wiv me cos i gotta take pics.)
    I tried updating some few funny status on Twitter and i saw a very touching update i will like to share with you.
        Re:   "I just got back to my house after managing to check on my mum who was stranded in a nursing home.The elevators were evacuated and the generator was covered with flood"
We that live in New York know what it means to be stranded in a nursing home,these old women and men were left unattended to. *sighs* hmmm.wetin man pikin go do,nurses sef go run now.
    MTA system said,they have never faced disaster as threatening and devastating as this year's Hurricane Sandy.
Here are what i mean by threatening:
* at least 16 deaths
* 5 million power outages
* fires burning
* 7 subway tunnels flooded
* a crane dangling above a high-rise on West 57th street.
* High Tides and waves in the Ocean
ESTIMATION OF POWER OUTAGES IN OTHER STATES:
NJ(New Jersey): 2,325,070 consumers without power supply.
LI(Long Island):866,365 consumers without power supply.
NYC:545,063 consumers without power supply
CONNETICUT:623,953 consumers without power supply
 As long as i am concerned,i didn't even make any attempt to get off my bed.no school,no work.i am on my own.

A "Life Threatening" Storm

Whatever you want to call it............. call it a MonStorm (monster storm).
New York (east new york especially) is really bracing an epic hurricane sandy,a hybrid and life threatening storm that has taken over America. Sometimes,I wonder what the cause of natural disasters such as hurricane,earthquake,volcano and the likes is, but that will be a topic for another day.
      America, "a land of opportunity" as it is popularly known all over the world is still puzzled on what to do about the natural disasters that attacks her annually and researches made it clear that natural disasters occurs as a result of human activities such as mining i.e tilling of the earth for mineral and natural resources and also disturbances at d bottom of seas.(wait ! chill,most countries rely on these natural and mineral resources:ikr...hmmm) i guess we can't do anything about that. Below are some pictures of Hurricane Sandy in America:

N.B:my mum got soaked in the rain,and in addition she loosed her beautiful pink umbrella lol.she got back home looking like a bag of money.hahahahahaha

Bishop David Oyedepo accused of exploiting British worshippers

This is a story published by UK Daily Mail this morning. They are accusing Bishop Oyedepo's Winners Chapel of exploiting their worshipers and receiving over £16 million in donations from them. See it below...

A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return.

Followers are ferried in double-decker shuttle buses to the church, handed slips inviting them to make debit card payments, and are even told obeying the ministry’s teachings will make them immune from illness.

Today’s Mail on Sunday revelations about the Winners’ Chapel movement have prompted the Charity Commission to review the charitable status  of the church – one of the fastest-growing in the UK.

Winners’ Chapel is part of a worldwide empire of evangelical ministries run by Nigeria’s wealthiest preacher David Oyedepo, who has an estimated £93 million fortune, a fleet of private jets and a Rolls-Royce Phantom. 

Dubbed ‘The Pastorpreneur’, he was accused earlier this year of slapping the face of a young woman he said was a witch. The assault case was struck out but is being appealed.

Branches of the church have sprung up in major UK cities in a huge recruitment drive centred on Mr Oyedepo’s ‘prosperity gospel’. This claims that congregants who make regular donations and pay tithes – a ten per cent levy on their income – will be rewarded financially by God. 

Followers are urged to target vulnerable people such as the lonely, the sick, the homeless and the suicidal as potential candidates for conversion. 

Last night, Labour MP Paul Flynn said Winners’ Chapel was cynically exploiting supporters. ‘They [Winners’ Chapel] are making clearly spurious claims and it seems to be a cynical exploitation of the gullible,’ he said.

Referring to the slapping incident, Mr Flynn added: ‘What is also alarming is the reported violence and the lack of respect for the status of women. It’s taking us back to a previous age of ignorance and prejudice that we all thought the church had escaped.’



This newspaper’s investigation can further disclose:

• Congregants are handed a payment slip requesting payments using cheque, cash or debit card when they enter London’s Winners’ Chapel.

• Donations to the ministry in England almost doubled from £2.21 million to £4.37 million between 2006 and 2010.

• Mr Oyedepo’s superchurch in Nigeria received £794,000 or 73 per cent of the charitable donations paid out by the British Winners’ Chapel between 2007 and 2010. This was despite claims in Africa that he is enriching himself at the expense of his devotees.

• The registered charity has spent £6.81 million on evangelism and ‘praise, worship and fellowship’.

• The church’s ‘Joseph Squad’ preaches in British prisons and has a weekly broadcast named ‘Liberation Hour’ on satellite and cable TV here.

In the past three years, Winners’ Chapel churches have been established in Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford, adding to those in London, Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow. 

An undercover Mail on Sunday reporter attended Sunday services  at Winners’ Chapel’s ‘London HQ’  in Dartford, Kent, which attracts 1,000 congregants – chiefly African and Caribbean immigrants. It is run like ‘a business conference’ by Mr Oyedepo’s son, David Oyedepo Jnr. Packed buses deliver singing worshippers from South-East London, Essex and Kent to the huge auditorium.

The reporter saw a payment slip being given to every person entering the church encouraging them to donate money by cheque or cash or to fill in a form with their debit card details. The slip said tithes should be paid separately using a ‘Kingdom Investment Booklet’ and the reporter was informed that payments could also be made by phone. A pastor told the worshippers: ‘You shall be financially promoted after this service in Jesus’s name if you are ready to honour the Lord therefore with all your givings, your tithes, your offerings, your Kingdom investment, your sacrifices.’

Congregants were told to fill in their slips and hold them above their heads while the donations were blessed

A jet belong to Bishop Oyedepo

The service was interspersed with testimonies. ‘I received a bill from  the bank that I didn’t understand, so I prayed,’ said one congregant. ‘A few days later, the bank wrote to apologise for their mistake – Hallelujah!’ ‘Hallelujah,’ the audience shouted back.

Congregants were told they could gain favour by persuading others to follow Mr Oyedepo’s teachings. His son said: ‘Look around you. Someone is sick and already wishing he or she were dead, that is a fruit ripe to harvest. Someone is confounded and considering suicide as an option, that is another fruit that is ripe to harvest.

‘Someone else is lonely and wondering if there is any future for him, that is another fruit ripe to harvest. 

‘Also there are many men and women, young and old that are homeless, these are fruits ripe to harvest.’

The reporter was taken, with 20 other new recruits, to a room where preachers gave sermons claiming acceptance of the Lord would prevent them ever being ill or suffering misfortune.

The Mail on Sunday has seen video footage of Mr Oyedepo striking a woman across the face and condemning her to hell after she said she was a ‘witch for Jesus’. He attacked her in a Winners’ Chapel superchurch, believed to be in Nigeria, in front of worshippers. A separate video shows him saying: ‘I slapped a witch here last year!’

In May, he was sued for £800,000 over the alleged assault. The case was struck out – a decision which is now reported to have been appealed.

The Winners’ Chapel movement, also known as the Living Faith Church, has hundreds of churches in Nigeria and across Africa, the Middle East, the UK and the US.

Mr Oyedepo has received fierce criticism in Africa. One Nigerian journalist accused him of ‘leading a growing list of pastorpreneurs – church founders exploiting the passion and emotion that Christianity commands to feather their nests’.

Catholic Cardinal Anthony Okogie criticised such preachers for placing materialism above Jesus’s message. He reportedly said: ‘They have been skinning the flock, taking out of the milk of the flock.’

Among Mr Oyedepo’s fleet of aircraft are said to be a Gulfstream 1 and Gulfstream 4 private jets. It is also claimed he and his wife, Faith, travel in expensive Jeeps flanked by convoys of siren-blaring vehicles. He is the senior pastor of Faith Tabernacle, a 50,000-seat auditorium in Lagos reputed to be the largest church in the world, and runs a publishing company that distributes books carrying his message across the world.
His other business interests span manufacturing, petrol stations,  bakeries, water purification factories, recruitment, a university, restaurants, supermarkets and real estate. The latest addition is a commercial airline named Dominion Airlines. 

A Charity Commission spokesman said: ‘The Charity Commission is  currently assessing what, if any,  regulatory role there is to play with regard to the complaints made against the World Mission Agency. It is important to clarify that this does not constitute an investigation at this stage.’

Winners’ Chapel administrator Tunde Disu declined to comment.

CMB: Exclusive Headies 2012 Review

 

Quite unfortunately i was not in town to cover the just concluded Hip Hop World Awards “The Headies” 2012 that held at the Expo Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites on the 20th of October 2012. From the number of artistes who turned up at the event to the quality of their performances, here’s how we rated the event:

TIMING: Like the culture with a lot of things in Nigeria, “African time” reared it’s ugly head again with the event not kicking till a little after midnight.
PERFORMANCES: Chidinma was the first performer on the night that saw a lot of average performances. The much anticipated performance of Davido had a lot of energy but lacked the much desired “spark”. Burna Boy and Dammy Krane stood out though and the duo were CMB‘s star performers on the night. Gaga Crazy Crooner Chuddy K failed to light up the stage with his hit single but he did a lot better with his other single “Brazilian Hair” which got the crowd lively.
AUDIENCE: The Headies is arguably the biggest music award in Nigeria. The tables at the event were totally sold out. However, the same cannot be said of the regular side with loads of empty seats.
MISSING IN ACTION: 2face, D’banj, Psquare, Mavin Stars, Ice Prince, Sound Sultan, MayD and Sarkodie were just a few of the notable absentees at the award. It was quite disappointing that the giants of the industry didn’t turn up even as some of them picked up awards.
HOSTS: MI and Omawumi did great justice to their roles as they took control of the event from start to finish. They engaged the crowd with games, banter and even had their own mock awards that cracked up the crowd.
BEZ: CMB had to single Bez out because of his nominations and his active role at the Headies. He sang his heart out when he performed his hit track “stupid song” with Praiz which was the only positive on a night. He wouldn’t want to forget as he didn’t pick up an award from his amazing six nominations.

Man dumped by girlfriend wins $30 million lottery

Massachusetts man wins $30 million lottery after losing girlfriend

Sandeep Singh at a press conference after winning a $30.5 million lottery.  Sandeep Singh has been working two jobs to help support his family and was recently dumped by his girlfriend. But the 22-year-old Massachusetts man nicknamed "Sunny," can console himself with a $30.5 million winning lottery ticket.


"My mom needs the help and my family could use it, so God definitely helped us out at the right time," Singh said at a press conference on Wednesday to accept the winning check.

When asked if he had any children, spouse or girlfriend, Singh noted his girlfriend had just left him.

"She broke up with me, but right now, I'm not really worried about it," Singh said, eliciting laughter from the audience. "I was heartbroken at first, but now I'm getting over it."

When asked if he thinks the ex-girlfriend will call him back, Singh said, "Doesn't matter. I hope not."

For most of the press conference, Singh acknowledged that he was feeling "overwhelmed," continually taking deep breaths while answering questions from reporters. But he shared a heartwarming story of how he has worked two jobs from the age of 14 to help his mother and sister pay the bills after his father passed away.

"Helping my mom with the mortgage, helping my family and, like, donating some money to the community. Aside from that, nothing that I want to do, really," Singh said of what he plans to do with his winnings.

Just a week ago, Singh was working at both a local Best Buy and a Citizens Bank.

"I'm giving my two weeks notice, yeah," he said.

Sing had initially won $4 on a lotto scratch ticket and used the winnings to purchase four quick-pick Mega Millions tickets. He's decided to take the $30.5 million in a lump sum, which the Boston Globe says will equal about $16.1 million after taxes.

"I was in my sister's room on the computer reading the numbers," Sing said about how he found out he had won. "I didn't know what to do. I dropped the ticket."

Okay, since yu have finished reading, u can now close this. Well, am sendin u on an errand.
Please go tell ma gurlfwend (wish i had one), that she should still stick to me o, even if i no get money, bcuz the day she leaves, Haa.. Oti fi Ori gbagi plus O si ti fi Ori gbe isho

Chris Brown Announces He’s Dumped His Girlfriend… Cites Rihanna Factor

Chris Brown has publicly revealed he has dumped his girlfriend Karrueche Tran after being pictured with ex Rihanna for the third night in a row. Karrueche, a 23-year-old model who has been dating the singer since earlier last year, posted a tweet last night which read: ‘Bye baby.’ But justifying the break up, CB admitted his close bond with the Umbrella pop star was the reason for the split, but stopped short of saying the exes had reconciled.

He said in a statement: ‘I have decided to be single to focus on my career. I love Karrueche very much but I don’t want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna.’

He continued: ‘I’d rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.’

It was just a matter of time before this happened as every discerning mind knew CB & Rihanna were still madly in love but were just bidding their time.

Venus and Serena Williams in Lagos: Amstel Malta Breaks the Mould

Here’s another great reason to get excited over the Williams Sisters tour, coming to Lagos from 30^th October to 2^nd November – Amstel Malta becomes the Official Drink for Breaking the Mould Williams Sisters Tour. Now, fans of Venus and Serena Williams are guaranteed refreshing vitality as they enjoy the wonderful sport of Tennis with a companion that leaves them feeling renewed with every sip. 

Like seriously, these chicks are coming tu Lasgidi...

Someone said Cubaze Mykelz aint gonna be there live.....#If i hear

Final US Presidential Debate

I'm not asking who won this time, we all know Obama did. Mr Romney got served. Haha! Election day is two weeks today...vote for Obama Abeg!!

K Solo gets engaged to another woman, flaunts her on Facebook

It's my job to bring you all the gossip...so enjoy...lol. Singer and producer K Solo is flaunting another woman on his Facebook page as his love and new fiancee, less than two months after he and pregnant wife, Kikelomo Oyeniyi came out to say their very public BREAK UP was just a publicity STUNT.

The new lady's name is Bimbo and they got engaged yesterday October 22nd. #dramathingz :-)

The newly engaged couple, K Solo and Bimbo

Tonto Dike Fires Back at Burna Boy

For those who don't understand why Tonto would Tweet and mention Burna Boy, let me explain. The day Tonto released her two singles, Burna Boy Tweeted that all wack artists deserve death, though he specifically said he wasn't referring to Ms Dike. Well, Tonto apparently didn't believe him, and after watching Burna Boy's fall from the stage at the Headies Awards, the vivacious actress/singer fired back...and in true Tonto Dike fashion, she mentioned his name...hehe!

Now we all know Charles Novia, the renowned movie director/producer, recently, he also talked about the foolishness in Tonto's musical ideas...buh as it stands, goin by what happened to Burnaboy, Be very afraid, Mr Novia. Lol. (Just having fun!)

Sultry Actress, Oge Okoye Bags Doctorate Degree, Becomes Dr Oge Okoye [Pictures]

Nollywood actress, Oge Okoye has been honoured with a doctorate degree by Wisconsin International University, USA. The beautiful actress was awarded today, Friday, October 19, 2012 at an event held at The Auditorium, NECA House, Central Business District, Ikeja, Lagos.

In a chat with Nigeriafilms.com, Oge disclosed to us that her movie role in the film 'Fulani' gave her the honour being bestowed on her today. She revealed that she is very happy to be honoured by the American university.

A belated Oge was all smile today at the ceremony. When Nigeriafilms.com asked Oge how she would preferred to be addressed; either Oge Okoye or Dr Oge Okoye, the actress said she would prefer both.

Oge Okoye presently at the peak of her acting career in Nigeria.

Mavin Boss, Don Jazzy Gives Out NEA 2012 Award Plaque

 


No wonder they call him the 'Don'. Eldee announced yesterday on twitter that Don jazzy has handed over his NEA 2012 best producer award too Sarz who is also a music producer under Eldee's record label.  Remember last year when he got nominated at the Headies, the Don also said he believed he shouldn't have been nominated at all and he thinks Samklef deserves the best producer that year.  Selflessness and humility of a true leader.