2 years ago, Nigerian photographer, Ayo Akinwande, started shooting his photo series, Orekelewa, the first of his long-term project, ‘Women of Africa’.
In this series, Ayo captured these beautiful Nigerian grandmas with the aim of portraying their beauty, strength and values.
Check out more pictures from the series below:
Just look at her fleeking brows. Their makeup was done by Desmond Soso.
They were all styled by Adeniji Opeyemi and Seyi Kafi.
Jamming to music via Beats headphones will make anyone smile like this.
Just see how peng they look with their geles and heels.
Not every time form serious, sometimes pout for a selfie.
She looks amazing with her beach hat.
If you want to view more pictures from Ayo, head to his Instagram page via @Iamayoakinwande.
According to a statement by the Nigerian Police regarding its recruitment, it won’t be business as usual in the Force.
Successful applicants to the Force will now be required to undergo lie detector tests, to ensure all applicants are not shady individuals.
This is great in so many ways, because we actually did not expect such initiative from the Nigerian Police.
So if you lied on your application, we are really, truly sorry for you; because unless you have strong juju, you’ll be caught.
Other compulsory tests will include background checks, biometrics, medical and physical examinations, aptitude tests as well as oral and psychological tests.
The NPF plans to make things easy for applicants; all Police Training Colleges across the country will be equipped to carry out the tests.
We hope the tests are effective and the Nigerian Police Force recruits policemen and women who will face their work and not be a pain in our necks.
Not long ago, this video of controversial Ghanaian pastor, Reverend Obinim, flogging two teenagers in his church for having sex went viral.
But that’s not why we’re here sha. Gist just broke that this unpopular pastor was arrested for fraud.
According to the report, he’s currently in jail for being involved in an alleged 11.6 million Ghana Cedis fraud.
The complainant claimed that he gave Pastor Obinim the large amount of money as payment for spiritual assistance. Unfortunately, the pastor didn’t deliver.
In addition to this fraud wahala, he’s also being charged for physical assault of the two people he flogged in his church.
We’re not going to say anything sha. Just let us know what you think in the comments section.
The Nigerian power situation has been especially bad this year, due to militants’ sabotaging gas pipelines up east of the country. In March, power generation capacity actually fell from 5000 MW to a miserable 1,580.6 MW. With the help of the Japanese government however, light, it seems is now at the end of this very dark tunnel.
Brethren, it looks like our situation is finally about to change for the better! Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola is seen here inspecting the brand new solar-panels at Usman Dam, Abuja.
The panels were donated by the Japanese government, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, and are worth a whooping $9.7 million dollars!
We think it’s time to actually fast and pray for this country called Japan, because these guys must be angels of the good Lord.
The newly donated solar panels are expected to generate 1,496WH of power, and reduce electricity payment by N31.5 million per year.
The implication is that you and I will now pay less for more electricity-we hope!
To be honest, we are getting really tired of the NEPA wahala! Every time no light! We can’t charge phones, we can’t iron clothes for work and we can’t even watch Telemundo in peace!
So we really hope this donation translates to tangible, visible results; a lot of companies are finding it difficult to continue operations in Nigeria because of the mess that is our power situation.
We can’t wait for a time when we get to use clean, stable energy, and finally throw these annoyingly loud, pollution-inducing demons away.
If you’re Nigerian, and you don’t live under a rock then you are most likely aware of the Nigerian government’s poor treatment of Nigerian athletes. It was actually quite surprising that our U-23 team was able to bag a bronze at the Rio Olympics. Considering that, it’s no wonder these athletes of Nigerian descent did not represent the country.
1. Kemi Adekoya
23-year-old Adekoya switched nationalities in 2014, after failing to qualify to represent Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics. She represented Bahrain in 400m at the Rio Olympics, although she didn’t make it to the finals.
2. Femi Ogunode
Born in 1991, Femi moved to Qatar in 2009, and began competing for the oil-rich nation in 2010. He previously ran for University of Ibadan, and even qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. For unknown reasons, he never actually went on to the event. He represented Qatar in both 100m and 200m races in Rio. Femi is currently Asia’s fastest man.
3. Morolake Akinosun
Born in Lagos in 1994, Akinosun represented and won gold for America in the 2015 Pan-African Games in Toronto. She also represented the country in 4x100m relay in Rio, winning another gold.
4. Ezinne Okpaerebo
Ezinne represented Norway at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and again in the 2012 London Olympics. The 28-year-old Norwegian who was born in Nigeria and who originally hails from Imo State, is currently Norway’s fastest woman.
5. Ayomide Folorunsho
Born in Abeokuta in 1996, Folorunsho represented Italy in the World Championships in Beijing (2015), and the European Championships in Amsterdam (2016). She competed for Italy in the 400m hurdles and 400 x 100m in Rio.
6. Abubakar Abass
Born in Kano State in 1996, Abbas has won a silver medal in 400m for his adopted country Bahrain. He also represented the country in 400m race at the Rio Olympics.
7. Francis Obilekwu
This sprinter got injured representing Nigeria at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, but didn’t get any support from the government for his surgery in Canada. However, he went on to represent Portugal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and won a silver medal for his adopted country.
8. Marlilyn Okoro
Born to Igbo parents, Okoro is a British track and field athlete. She represented Britain in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as at the IAAF and World Athletic Championships.
9. Edidion Efonime Odiong
This incredibly fast Nigerian sprinter represents Bahrain, and won the 200m race at the IAAF
U-20 Championships, 2016. The 19 year old was also at Rio to represent Bahrain, but unfortunately did not make it to the finals.
10. Barbara Udoezi Nwaba
Born to Igbo parents in 1987, Barbara ran track for her school: University of California, Santa Barbara. She represented America at the Rio Olympics in Shot put, javelin and 800m race.
In April 2014, 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno state, were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists and till date, many of them remain in captivity. Although some of the girls managed to escape, including those rescued by Nigerian soldiers over time, the current plight of the other girls yet to be rescued remains a cause for concern.
Knowing the relevance of telling Nigerian stories as a way of spreading awareness, Nigerian filmmaker, Uche Aguh, wrote and directed ‘Sambisa’.
‘Sambisa’, a short film based on the short play titled, ‘Into The Sambisa’, narrates the story of the unfortunate kidnapping in 2014.
This short film will premiere across Nigeria later during the year.
In the mean time, you can watch the trailer below:
1. When you hear someone say it’s your turn to cook.
Oh no, not again!
2. When you’re done making a Nigerian meal.
If you don’t sweat after cooking , that food can never be sweet!
3. How the kitchen looks like a battlefield when you’re done with it.
The more scattered, the better!
4. Your mum’s reaction when she eats your food.
Ahn ahn mummy, its just a little salt now!
5. When you finally discover a Nigerian recipe App.
Yesss! Time to shame all the people who think I’m a bad cook!
6. When you’re making the food exactly as you saw it on Youtube, but the food is just not having any sense.
I think this egusi has malaria!
7. You, when you finish making swallow.
I hate this life so much right now!
8. After all the turning and gyrating, the swallow will now be looking like stone.
I’m done. Just done.
9. When you’re using your recipe app to cook and your phone dies.
Kuku kill me!
10. When your mum starts telling all her friends how you don’t know how to cook.
Mummy you’re the one that taught me! So Kontinu!
11. When that amebo aunty comes at you with that ‘You must cook for your man so he won’t leave you’ advice.
Keep wallowing in your backward thinking ma!
12. When the food decides to burn itself a second time, so you start thinking of dating a chef.
At this point, that’s the only option!
13. How you pack cartons of Indomie when shopping, because it’s the only thing saving you from yourself.
I cannot come and die!
14. When you finally meet a fine boy, but he says he only can only marry a good cook like his mother, so you have to package like:
Hello overnight chef!
15. The pep talk you give yourself when you’re about to cook.
‘You will not burn this rice today.’
16. When you finally get the food done after much wahala, and someone says it’s not sweet.
My fren keep quiet!
17. How your in-laws look at you when you serve them croissants and coffee because you’re not trying to embarrass yourself.
Please ma, manage it like that o! If not stay in your house!
18. When you finally meet a bae who doesn’t mind your cooking skills and people are having headaches about it.
Haters gon hate!
1. How you pray to God before going for any event
God abeg!
2. How you tell yourself you’re not going to eat too much
I must behave myself.
3. How you actually lose your hometraining when you see food
YASS LORD!
4. You, eating everything you see
Including those oversabi that tell you to watch what you’re eating.
5. When an ITK tries to tell you to watch what you’re eating
Face your front!
6. How your relationship with food really looks like:
Your worst enemy and best friend.
7. When your stomach tries to disgrace you and starts making noise in public
So disrespectful!
8. You hoping no one heard the loud rumble in your stomach
“Hay God, hope my crush didn’t hear that”.
9. You looking for the nearest toilet around.
This thing must not drop oh!
10. When you’re still forming ajebutter and looking for a clean toilet
Cleanliness is next to godliness abeg!
11. You, when the only available toilet is a public latrine
Father be a sanitiser!
12. How you poop when there’s no clean toilet in sight.
Can’t be catching disease on top ordinary poop.
13. How you hang your head in shame after destroying the toilet
My stomach needs help.
14. What you use to wash your body so you can forget the whole experience
Scrub all the embarrassment away!
15. How you look at your stomach after it stressed you so much
So rude.
16. You, promising not to go out when you get home
You kuku know you’re going to do it again
1. How they call you to ask for money
Every time, ‘Abeg I need your epp’.
2. How they react when you ask them for money
They’re never ‘on seat’.
3. Them, immediately you start talking about yourself
How dare you stop talking about them?
4. How they look at you when you’re slaying
So much hate!
5. The only way they know to give you a compliment
They can’t see anything good.
6. This is basically how they describe your friendship with them
As per, it’s not that deep.
7. How they end every sentence now that they’ve hammered
As if God won’t do it for the rest of us.
8. Whenever you tell them to invite you to an event
Because they don’t want you to win at life.
9. How they wish you happy birthday every year
That’s if they remember sef.
10. How they react when you try to borrow something from them
As if you asked them to give you one kidney.
11. How they act when you stylishly ask them to return what you lent them
On top your own thing o!
12. Them, when you try to talk about your life problems
Just carry your problems to Jesus.
13. When you correct them for doing something wrong
Sorry is not in their dictionary.
14. The only thing they talk about all the time
The haters are kuku invisible.
15. You, when you realise they’re just a bad belle person
Carry your wahala and go abeg!
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The U-23 team finally clinched a medal in the Rio 2016 Olympics and we still can’t believe it.
The team faced Honduras in a battle for the Bronze title after loosing 2-0 to Germany in the semi-finals.
The Nigerian team dominated the game for the first 80 minutes with 3 goals from Sadiq Umar and Aminu Umar.
We seriously thought we had the bronze in the bag until Anthony Lozano and Marcelo Pereira won 2 goals for Team Honduras in the final 20 minutes.
This was us when we saw they had added 4 minutes of extra time to the game.
Mercifully, the whistle was blown and Team Nigeria WON!
Nigeria’s football bronze was the only medal the country managed to clinch in Rio. A tiny step-up from the London 2012 Summer Olympics performance where we had zero medals.
Nigeria is the first African country to have completed a sweep of Olympic medals: Atlanta ’96 Gold, Beijing ’08 Silver and now Rio ’16 Bronze.
Meanwhile, the Japanese plastic surgeon who promised the team a whooping $390,000 if they won actually came through!
And get this, this good Samaritan actually traveled down to Brazil from Tokyo, to cheer the boys during their game against Honduras.
Takasu said he was deeply moved by the Dream team’s financial challenges and extremely resilient spirit.
His actions are in sharp contrast to that of Nigerian billionaires, who were not able to assist Nigerian athletes, after the government had shown little or no support for them.
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man promised the Super Eagles $1 million after their 2013 African Cup of Nations win, but the money has not been disbursed to date.
As Tokyo 2020 closes in, we hope there’ll be a complete overhaul of the Nigerian Sports ministries and its agencies, so real heroes like these can be properly motivated and compensated.
