A Nigerian doctor who waded into the conversation ignited by a Twitter influencer’s disclosure of her marriage plans being crashed by her Igbo boyfriend’s mother because she is Yoruba, has defended Igbo parents who stop their children from marrying outside their ethnic group. According to @urchilla01, these parents are the ones who experienced the civil war and the deep hatred and divide which was fostered by other tribes after the war. He also pointed out that there is a lot of difference …
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Cameroonian Football legend, Samuel Eto’o has revealed how a local game in his city convinced his parents to allow him to play football. During his stellar career, Eto’o, who played for Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Chelsea, and Everton amassed three Champions League titles, three La Liga crowns, two Copa del Reys, Serie A, the Coppa Italia twice and the FIFA Club World Cup. But while growing up, he used to hide from his parents to go play football because …
Singer Djinee has said parents need to do better in raising their sons after 22-year-old UNIBEN student, Uwa Omozuwa, was brutalized, raped, and murdered while reading inside a church. Uwa’s assault in Benin has been condemned by Nigerians all over the country. With the hashtag, #JusticeForUwa, Nigerians are calling for Uwa’s attackers, who are still walking free, to be found and prosecuted. Reacting to Uwa’s death, Ego singer, Djinee wrote: “Uwa’s story breaks me. We all have to …
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enroll their children in the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and two years imprisonment. The governor stated this when he visited 200 Almajiri children repatriated from Nasarawa State and undergoing rehabilitation and optical screening at Government College, Kurmin Mashi, Kaduna, on Monday May 25. Almajiri is ideally a system of Islamic education practiced in northern Nigeria, where young children leave their homes to live with Islamic …
An African woman who has been spending lockdown at her boyfriend’s parent’s house revealed she is devastated after overhearing them make racist remarks about her. Writing anonymously on Reddit ‘s Relationship Advice forum, the 23-year-old Kenyan woman who has been in a year long relationship with her white Canadian boyfriend, 25, explained that they made a decision to spend lockdown in his hometown after their offices closed dues to the Coronavirus pandemic. She said it was the first …
Jude Okoye has finally reacted to his former record label act, Cynthia Morgan’s claim of losing all she had including her name, VEVO account, Instagram account and royalties after they had some issues centered on her contract. In an Instalive chat with Tunde Ednut, the music executive averred that he doesn’t have the right to take Cynthia Morgan’s name because it is her birth name. He also disclosed that the dancehall artiste who has been free since 2017, changed …