OSCAR PISTORIUS MURDER CHARGE

Oscar Pistorius with girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2012 

Oscar Pistorius fought his disabilities and became a super star and now he could not fight his greatest disability and that is his temper. Why not let her go, why do the thing you know you will regret. You would have as well shot yourself than to be alive to face this global shame and might end up hanged or spend the rest of your life in jail. You are just a victim of self inflicted wound and you deserve no pity. 

BOMB BLAST IN LAGOS

BOMB BLAST IN LAGOS

Explosion Rocks Amuwo/Festac Town Bridge In Lagos.

There is a reported explosion suspected to be an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at the Festac Town and Amuwo Odofin Link Bridge in Lagos. This is about 5 Minutes walk from Either Mile 2 or Dubar Hotel from Rasaki Estate end of Lagos.

A man, Mr Oladele Pius, a sand seller was confirmed killed by the explosion, while a police officer was injured.

The explosive was reportedly planted in a car.Sources said 

the sand sellers association has been engulfed in crisis in 

the last few months.

THE SUN SET ON OUR GOLDIE

GOLDIE

As I woke up this morning and after praying I decided to open my facebook page to know what is going on,never was I expecting this rude shock that our Goldie is gone.Initially I was thinking it was a mere rumour, until I heard her music in my car stereo as i was racing to my office and looking around if I will see a vendor on traffic because I was looking for a contrary news that our Goldie is alive after all.But to my greatest dismay it was true that the sun has set on our golden Goldie.This is a young girl that have carved a niche for her life through her unique kind of music.Baby we are already missing you.What a sad end of a song Diva.May God remember you on the last day.

"Candle In The Wind"

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe. by Elton John Lyrics   
...... BY 

The Evolution of Nollywood

The Evolution of Nollywood

THE BURKINA FASO MONKEY

BANCE

The Burkina Faso monkey claims that super Eagles were lucky, what an insult. Why couldn't you reply in 94 minutes, when you busy jumping from one corner of the field to the other, instead you guys would have been embarrassed with goal s if not Emenike’s injury.

You are a learner.

ONIONS! I HAD NEVER HEARD OF

ONIONS! I HAD NEVER HEARD OF

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu...

Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser. She said that several years ago, many of her employees were coming down with the flu, and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmer's story...but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia, and, needless to say, I was very ill... I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put it into an empty jar, and place the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough it happened just like that...the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

This is the other note. Lots of times when we have stomach problems we don't know what to blame. Maybe it's the onions that are to blame. Onions absorb bacteria is the reason they are so good at preventing us from getting colds and flu and is the very reason we shouldn't eat an onion that has been sitting for a time after it has been cut open.

LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, Makers of mayonnaise. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.

Ed, who was our tour guide, is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe.

"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the summer picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table, and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that, when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as it's not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the ONIONS, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.

He explained onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It's already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!). Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you'll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you're asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

— with Adonain Danny Rivera.

BRITISH COUNCIL ANNOUNCES FIRST EDITION OF LAGOS THEATRE FESTIVAL

BRITISH COUNCIL ANNOUNCES FIRST EDITION OF LAGOS THEATRE FESTIVAL

British Council Nigeria, in conjunction with three of Nigeria's most

exciting theatre companies, and award-winning British-Nigerian actor,

Inua Ellams, presents the Lagos Theatre Festival 2013.

For 2 days, on the 16th and 17th of February, 2013, Renegade Theatre,

Black Soul Performance Company, House of Tales and Fuel Theatre will

bring to life amazing performances across a number of unconventional

spaces - the Presidential Suite, Car Park, Petanque Area, and Casa

Chianti Restaurant - at the Eko Hotel & Suites.

"We're infusing cutting-edge techniques and tools to bring theatre,

historically a rich part of Nigerian culture, to an even wider range of

arts consumers," says Ojoma Ochai, Assistant Director of the British

Council. "The idea is to create a platform for theatre away from

conventional theatre spaces, which sadly are in short supply in these

parts."

Renegade Theatre's 'The Waiting Room' (Directed by Wole Oguntokun) is a place where luck will save no one; where natural cunning and innate

intelligence must be put to the ultimate test. In it, even the most

street-wise will come face-to-face with frail mortality. An exciting,

thought-provoking performance on the meaning of existence and

pre-destination, it was the Festival play for the Lagos Book and Arts

Festival, The Festival of Nigerian Plays (FESTINA) and the Lagos State

Government-sponsored Black Heritage Festival all in 2011.

In the pidgin English comedy Grip Am (Directed by Deleke Gbolade), an

experimental reworking of Ola Rotimi's classic, revolving around a

scatter-brained trickster who uses his wits to con death into giving him

and his ever-belligerent wife eternal reprieve. Black Soul Performance

Company's production, strewn with brazenly loud eccentric action, has

gripped audiences into frenzied laughter over a dozen times since 2012.

The magic continues at the Lagos Theatre Festival where this rebellious

production will be transformed in a unique way, leaving only chuckles

and smiles in its aftertaste.

House of Tales (led by Ifeanyi Dibia) makes an ambitious debut with Bode

Asiyanbi's 2011 BBC African Performance winning play 'Shattered', a

deeply moving story which exposes in a powerful way the silence that

often surrounds the issue of rape, when victims are often reluctant to

come forward and disclose what has happened to them - especially when

the perpetrator is someone very close. Without preaching or

condescension, Shattered sheds generous light and heart on what is,

across and beyond Africa, a truly complex issue.

To complete the line-up will be the Nigeria premiere of The 14th Tale,

by British-Nigerian playwright, poet and actor, Inua Ellams. Ellams, who

was born in Nigeria and moved to the UK as a child, describes himself as

being "from a long line of troublemakers, of ash-skinned Africans, born

with clenched fists and a natural thirst for battle, only quenched by

breast milk."

Tickets for the Lagos Theatre Festival will go on sale on Tuesday 5th

February 2013 at British Council Office (Ikoyi), Terra Kulture (VI) and

Bogobiri (Ikoyi)

"If you want to see Nigerian theatre in ways you have never seen it

performed before, then you want to be hanging out with us at Eko Hotel

on the 16th and 17th of February, 2013," says Ochai.

For more information, and to stand a chance to win free tickets: Follow

the Lagos Theatre Festival on Twitter @LagosTheatre13

Like the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/BritishCouncilNigeriaArts

Call us: Toyin - 07067061972, Bukky - 08107803938 or Fusi - 08035250515

Ticket Price: N2,000 (Students: N1,000)

The inaugural edition of the Lagos Theatre Festival is produced on

behalf of the British Council by Ben Evans for BeCreative, and in

partnership with Eko Hotel & Suites, BEAT FM and Classic FM.

*UK-based Inua Ellams and the Lagos-based Directors (Wole Oguntokun,

Ifeanyi Dibia and Deleke Gbolade) will be available for interviews, on

request.

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