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Oba of Lagos publicly Humiliates - Ooni - Ife

Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Aremu Akiolu humiliating the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi at a public function has gone viral. The video which lasted for 27 seconds showed the Ooni of Ife arriving at the venue of an event. Whilst exchanged pleasantries with the Obi of Onitsha Igwe Alfred Achebe; Oba Akiolu who was seated next to the Igbo king, sunbed the Ooni of Ife as he attempted to greet him by simply waved his hand and ignored the Ooni.  Oba of Lagos State, Oba Rilwan Aremu Akiolu It is not clear what prompted Oba Akiolu's reaction. Last year, both monarchs attended the birthday celebration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja in the company of each other. Ooni of Ife Watch the video It is not clear what prompted Oba Akiolu's reaction. Last year, both monarchs attended the birthday celebration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja in the company of each other. Read more: https://entertainment.naij.com/1101345-oba-lagos...
  ON 2016 MAVROS: (WHY YOU SEE REDUCTION IN YOUR 2016 MAVROS) When you log into your MMM PO and Notice Significant reduction in your 2016 Mavros, do not be alarmed Or vexed in spirit. It was done in absolute good fate for you and the community at large... HOW DID THEY ARRIVE IN WHAT YOU NOW HAVE: The calculation is simply 30% of whatever amount that you initially PHed in 2016,before we went on Pause Dec 13, 2016, plus the amount donated. The Excess amount that has accumulated over time on it, has been removed. Meaning that, what will be left will be ,what was supposed to accrued to you after the 30days that you PHed Example: Gerald PHed #50,000 in Nov,2016.... And the Money has grown to #135,000 since 2016 to date... But when Gerald check his Mavros this Morning, What he saw was #65,000....You may ask how come? The #65,000 is ( 30% of #50,000) =  #15,000 + #50,000. Remember this is the accrued amount after 30days ,when you make #50,000 Donation.... Mea...
Nigerians have been shocked and bemused after huge piles of cash have been unearthed in various parts of the country in recent months. Journalist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at what is going on. In February, $9.2m and £750,000 were discovered by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the EFCC, in a property belonging to Andrew Yakubu, a former director of the national oil company, NNPC. In March, large sacks containing bundles of "crispy" banknotes worth a total of $155,000 (£130,000) were found in Kaduna airport. In April, a stash containing $43.4m, £27,800 and 23.2m naira were recovered from a Lagos apartment with its owner yet to be identified. And these are just the tip of the iceberg. Whistle-blowers rewarded EFCC head Ibrahim Magu was quoted in the local media as saying that the total amount recovered by the agency in the past few months was about $53m, £120m and €547m, on top of hundreds of millions of Nigerian naira. He credited ...

Yinka Shonibare, artist Cultural Life

Yinka Shonibare Books: 'Flash of the Spirit' by Robert Farris Thompson is a book I am reading now. It's about African and African-American art and philosophy. I often express ideas in my work related to current affairs and on a weekly basis I tend to read 'The Economist' and the weekend 'Financial Times'. For 'Crash Willy, a piece on show in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, I was influenced by the credit crunch and drew from both non-fiction resources as well as fictional tales, such as 'Death of a Salesman'. Television: My guilty pleasure used to be 'Desperate Housewives'. I was fascinated by it because it is a window into suburbia, a way of knowing and relating the most banal kind of existence. I was also touched by the resourcefulness of the people featured in the BBC's 'Welcome to Lagos'. They seemed to make a lot from the little that they had. Yinka Shonibare MBE: Looking Up is at Nouveau Musé...