THERE WERE THREE BROTHERS - YEMISI OKUNOWO

The love we once shared,
The pain we all beared.
The strength in our thighs,
The dreams in our eyes.
There were three brothers…

In our dependence, we became independent,
Oh together, what a great trident,
Power! Power! Power!
We wanted to prove we were greater,
There were three brothers…

Who is going to lead?
Who is going to bleed?
Unity, Where art thou?
Harmony, I guess down.
There were three brothers…

“We” became stool,
“I” became the new cool,
Our minds got separated,
Our bones; Emaciated,
There were three brothers…

The only bond left is our name (Nigeria)
Our forefathers probably bow their heads in shame,
We have become a bloody cadaver,
Which needs a miracle sub-woofer,
There were three brothers…

Hausa,Igbo and Yoruba.
Where do we go from here,
To our better past of regionalism?
Or renegotiate our togetherness?
The time is now!

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY - 1 CORINTHIANS 12:8

"For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit;" - 1 Corinthians 12:8

'I wanted to do something special because he's been there for my son since day one' - Nicole Bennett.

Deonta wanted to have a beautiful Maternity Shoot with his wife, Nicole Bennett and their 4-year-old son Landen before her March 25 due date.

'I wanted to do something special because he's been there for my son since day one,' she told ABC News. 

Nicole told her photographer, Sidney Conley, her late husband's idea and she decided to incorporate Deonta in the pictures after losing him two months before her due date. Nicole hopes that these pictures will remind her children of the wonderful man they lost.

'It's memories for my son of his father and for my daughter who will never meet her father, it's memories for her as well.'

Nicole said that the photos were 'perfect', reminding her of the man who made everyone laugh at their engagement shoot.

Conley then digitally added images of Deonta to the photos. He said the effect brought him to tears.
'Just how I edited [the photos] with him looking down on them, it's showing that he's making sure they're okay'.

The photos have since been shared nearly 100,000 thousand times on Conley's Facebook page. He also shared the photos on Instagram - @sidney_conley

REST IN PEACE, DEONTA!!

My Woman of the Week - Shirley B. Eniang

Name: Shirley B. Eniang

Nickname: Shirley-Shirls or Shirls

Date of Birth: January 19, 1990

Age: 26

Provenance: London

Shirley B. Eniang is one of the most fashionable women on Instagram.  She is a Nigerian born blogger and content creator from London who loves to express herself through her love for fashion, her personal style, photography and in writing. She is very beautiful. She started out as a vlog lover. One day while aimlessly searching through YouTube, she came across Lauren Luke (Panacea81). She was her first subscription! It all went from there. She would spend endless amount of time watching her videos and educating herself, from how to apply eyeliner, right through to blending eye shadow.

She later discovered other channels, and she became hooked! She wanted to be part of the YouTube community and so she decided to give it a try. Now she has her own channel and blog. She has over 665,000 YouTube subscribers under her belt. She specializes in a variety of videos from to make up tutorials to hair tutorials.

Her blog is a fashion and lifestyle blog that showcases her flawless outfits, her inspiring look books and her wish list. Her blog is called Shirley's Wardrobe - www.shirleyswardobe.com.In August 2014, she posted joint videos with fellow beauty vlogger and friend, Patricia Bright.

Apart from being a fashion blogger, 'Shirls' has a degree in Mathematics and would love to be a pilot. Such dreams and aspirations!!

YouTube - shirleybeniang

Facebook - Shirley B. Eniang

Twitter - ShirleyBEniang

Instagram - shirleybeniang

Snapchat - shirleybeniang

Arewa & Aisosa - My Favourite Coke and Fanta

This is one of my favorite love stories. This is a tale of two lovers, Arewa and Aisosa. Their love journey started on Monday, 15 June, 2015 and ever since then they have crossed so many oceans and they have broken down so many barriers together. Their relationship has shown that distance is not for the fearful but for the bold. 

                                                                                       FINE  FANTA



Aisosa waited for a very long time for the right person to come and she finally came.  When they started talking, she didn't answer him but he continued to express his feelings. He didn't give up, he showed one characteristic of true love which is patience. The truth is that some people spend their entire lives searching for what they have and never find it but he found his and he didn't give up, he fought for her.

                                                                                        UGLY  COKE

He was patient enough to wait for her and he was consistent. Then one day they facetimed (that word is not correct but I don't know English so please manage it like that) and talked for a very long time and that was how it all started. They found out that the feelings were mutual and since then their relationship has shown that in true love the smallest  distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.


Aisosa has shown her that guys are like stars, there is a million of them but only one can make her dreams come true. Their relationship has had so many Ups and Downs but they have not given up because true love is largely the art of persistence. When they have an argument, they can't go to bed without sorting it out.


Their relationship is such a large number of individual's relationship goals. Aisosa adores Arewa so much that he actually wants it to end in marriage 'cause he wants to spend the rest of his life with the person that makes him happy. He sees a very long future with her and obviously their children are going to be so beautiful.
 

         COKE  AND  FANTA

So if you're a boy and you're reading this please stop acting like a Yoruba Demon, an Igbo Snake or  a Hausa Rabbit and go and do the right thing.

If you're a girl, please stop forming before the right person comes and goes. If you're heart broken, pick up the pieces, trust the new person and love him with the broken pieces. There's no harm in trying.

 "Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary" - Oscar Wilde

Kardashian Family Banned From Oscar Party Over ‘Drunk,’ Messy Behavior

Wollup!! Did the Kardashians get banned from one of the greatest Oscar pre-parties of the year?! A stunning new report asserts that the celebrities were really banned from entering the Raleigh Studios' 'Night Before' event this year in the wake of getting stuck in an unfortunate situation for their "drunk," untidy conduct in years past. Ouch!

At the point when Hollywood's greatest stars hit celebrity lane at the Oscar pre-parties on Feb. 27, we really wanted to notice that a couple popular countenances were discernibly lost from the A-rundown lineup: obviously, we're discussing the Kardashian/Jenner clan! The Internet-breaking family was absent at the Raleigh Studios yearly pre-party, and things being what they are, it had nothing to do with their bustling schedule. Indeed, a stunning new report guarantees that the ladies were really BANNED from the VIP merriments in the wake of raising eyebrows with their "drunk" behavior in years past! All things considered, this surely doesn't search useful for the brand!

Regardless of being a portion of the greatest names in Hollywood, the Kardashians were apparently not welcome at the yearly "Night Before" gathering at Raleigh Studios in the wake of showing what some guaranteed was some really inadmissible conduct, as indicated by another Star magazine report. The unscripted television stars were professedly all denied a welcome to the elegant occasion — Leonardo DiCaprio, Sylvester Stalone, Kerry Washington and Alicia Vikander were among the individuals who made the cut, in the event that you were pondering — after a source tells the outlet Kris Jenner annoyed a few individuals with her messy conduct at a past gathering. “Kris Jenner went years ago and got drunk and no one liked that,” an insider tells the magazine.

So now the children are paying for their mother's past sins. But do you think it's right?

Olajumoke Orisaguna: The Nigerian Cinderella

Do you know Olajumoke Orisaguna? Yes, the ex bread seller who became a model over night. Have you ever wondered how it all happened? You don't need to bother yourself because I'm here to save the day. Lol. So, just sit down, relax and get ready for one of the best fairy tales ever.

It all started during Tinie Tempah's photo shoot with Ty Bello. Ty Bello was asked to meet with Tinie Tempah at his hotel but she disagreed saying that they should bring Tinie Tempah to Yaba to have the photo shoot.

                   "I love Lagos..I won't lie..The streets are a literal Photographer's paradise. Everywhere you turn there's a story waiting to be told..,textures waiting to be shot and characters waiting to be explored..it's hard for me to make a bad picture when my spirit is really opened on the streets..I can just stand there and magic walks into my frame. The beautiful bread seller in the red dress is one of my edits..You know her Abi?..That one that every one on the street wants to marry.. She's fine and she knows it..its all over how she walks and I know you've seen her before." Ty Bello said on her official Instagram page.

She walked unto their set and magic happened. It wasn't planned at all. Olajumoke was a bread hawker from the Sabo Market Bakery, she walked entirely by coincidence unto their set of their THIS DAY style shoot for Tinie Tempah . She agreed to take a picture with Tinie Tempah on the set of the photo shoot and she moved on. Unknowingly to her, she was moving on to greater things. 

Olajumoke, 27, the mother of two beautiful girls used to be a hair stylist at Ire in Osun State but she was not making enough profit so she relocated to Lagos with her 14 month old daughter to give bread hawking a try, leaving her husband and older 5 year old daughter behind. She was a trained hairdresser back in Osun State but her family could not afford the necessarily 'freedom' ceremony; a passing out ritual that gives a trainee an unwritten permission to start a full fledged salon.

They all decided that that the make over would be incomplete if it ended at the studio. Every one started to reach out to their contacts and through Bimpe Onakoya, one of Nigerian's leading makeup artist who was present at the studio,they were able to get her a meeting with Ugo the pioneer of Make Me Salon. 

As a result of the buzz she generated from the THIS DAY cover, Olajumoke Orisaguna is now close to starting an internship at Make Me Salon and has been offered an additional internship with Sari Hair Studio, a famous Lebanese Salon on the Lagos Island. She has also been offered a modelling contract with the help of Godson Ukaegbu from Few Model Management. She has also had PayPorte reach out to her to be a model on their next billboard campaign.

 

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Her Official Instagram Page is @olajumoke__o