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Entertainment: Henrontion, the new voice in Nigeria music Industry.

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Henry Aniakor Chigozie a.k.a HENROTION, Hails from  Ezeagu local government of Enugu state, Nigeria.  He was born on the 30th of December to the family of Mr. and Mrs. EMMANUEL ANIAKOR, and the last born of five. He is presently a student of Enugu state university of science and technology (ESUTECH) where he studies computer engineering as a course. HENROTION is a Singer/Songwriter and also an Entertainer who over 300 hundreds yet to record songs , as he possesses Talents on other parts of Entertainment. He is presently signed under BRAN NEW WE Record Label. He has recorded a single, Titled: OLUCHI which is presently making waves all over the country and also on the internet like, NAIJA PALS, UPLOADMP3, BLOGGER and many more. He is at the verge of releasing his first debut album, and he has been interviewed in most media stations here in Nigeria. The R&B and Soul singer has been inspired by the likes of 2FACE, P SQUARE, FAZE, AKON, MARC ANTHONY, R KELLY and ma...

Tell the world Adebolaji is not a Nigerian now...

Nigerians all over the world should speak out and condemn the beheading of a citizen yesterday in UK. The beheading was done by a British citizen and not a Nigerian as speculated, his name does not confirm his nationality. British born Michael 'Mujahid' Adeboloja with an accomplice yesterday beheaded a British Soldier on a street in Woolwich, London. It is now being made to look like Nigeria has "shown itself again" in the action of this British boy who beheaded a soldier yesterday. This lunatic was born in the United Kingdom, never been to Nigeria, issued a birth certificate in the UK and held a British passport. He now commits a barbaric act and suddenly he is now a Nigerian? Is it because he is not Gabriel Agbonlahor playing for Aston Villa and Three Lions, or Andrew Osagie, UK's reigning 800m champion, or Lawrence Okoye, British Discus Record Holder (68.24m), or Abiodun oyepitan, British Olympic Silver and Gold Medalist, or Christine Ohuruogu, Beijing O...

SONGS FROM MY SOUL

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(For all the poor, homeless and orphaned children) This violin is my pen, I am the player.. I use this tune to ink my teary words.. I peel my haunted soul each layer.. As I make my song on these chords.. See not my tears as salt waters.. They are but rivers of seasoned grief.. They flow from me, for sons and daughters.. Silent but pregnant with unbirthed grief.. I have seen thirst standing in the river.. Hungry I've been, standing in the barn.. Where some have smiled, there I quiver.. Orphan I am, I look for my father's arm.. I slow no tune to make you somnolent.. But my voice shall tear down walls.. I am a knight, I string my lance, my instrument.. Listen! A needy soul, for help, he calls.. By Ikirigo Jerrypet, Edited by Adedoyin Adetutu

Femi Aribisala: Every pastor who collects tithes is a thief

 As far as many pastors are concerned, the most important scripture of all is not to be found in the word of Jesus.  Neither is it even in the New Testament.  That scripture says: “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.’” (Malachi 3:10). This scripture is drummed repeatedly into Christians on Sundays.  However, the only time Jesus mentioned tithing in scripture, he pointed out that it was not a weighty matter of the law. (Matthew 23:23).  Hebrews says people only receive tithes “according to the law.” (Hebrews 7:5).  It then insists tithing (and everything else under the law) has been annulled: “The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless.” (Hebrews 7:18-19).  Nevertheless, mercenary pastors continue t...

TALK: Of tin gods, holy dictators and anointed tyrants 2 By Dr Douglas Anele

Now, Nigerian pastors have taken their arrogance, aggression and presumptuous megalomania to dangerous heights. Aside from cruel infliction of physical pain on the faithful who came for “deliverance” in the absurd belief that doing so will exorcise their demonic powers and witchcraft, some pastors actually assault worshippers physically. If we can remember sometime ago the video of a girl who claim to a witch for Christ and a popular bishop of one of those mage church that went viral on the internet. In another video, “the man of God” boasted about the incident, claiming that the girl he assaulted later came to apologise to him! Now, what can we make of this incident? For me as a humanist and hater of all forms of authoritarianism, the bishop’s conduct embodies all that is hideous, despicable and irrational in contemporary Christian clergy. Belief in witchcraft is one of the wicked delusions which have been used for centuries to maim and kill innocent people who happen to be di...

Open Letter To 7 Governor By Wale Adegboyega Mandela

You've not done well with your oil wealth at all. To paraphrase one of the best known world president - Nigeria has so many of her citizens as one of the best in many countries the world over in various fields. Those brains ought to be brought back to develop the nation rather than playing second fiddle in their host countries. President Clinton declared this on Nigerian soil; right there in the heart of Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria when he visited in the early part of 2013. I make bold to say he is right on the money! There are legitimate questions to be asked though. Why are Nigerians all over the world? In the Punch Newspapers of Tues March 19, 2013, a thief caught while robbing the company he works for said; Senators are worse than robbers; Senators and House members are the real thieves." The suspect, Garba Sanni, Security Guard with Honda Place Co., Apapa Oshodi, Lagos said his salary of #12,000 (less than $100) per month is too meager so he had no ...

TALK: Of tin gods, holy dictators and anointed tyrants by Dr Douglas Anele

Sometimes when I watch pastors and imams on television or listen to them on radio preaching, I cannot help but be simultaneously amused and disgusted at the braggadocio, arrogance and soap-box histrionics with which these so-called “men and women of God” deliver their sermons. Put differently, brazen manifestations of spiritual megalomania can be found in both Christianity and Islam. But, especially in the new Pentecostal churches, noisy aggressive preaching has been taken to unprecedented levels of absurdity and banality. Every Sunday, and other days when pastors, general overseers or bishops of the new-fangled Pentecostal churches preach, there is an unmistakable air of arrogance, power and I-know-it-all attitude about them. Even those with little formal education and professional training before they “were called by God” speak confidently on matters which their untrained intellects cannot fathom. Nigerian pastors nowadays ascribe to themselves omnipotence, and prey on th...

There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy By Debo Adejugbe

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I finally read Chinua Achebe’s “There Was a Country” and I have to admit it really is a work of art. The master storyteller, as we have come to know Achebe, did not disappoint – taking us through his life, childhood, struggles as a writer, the Nigeria we never knew (at least for my generation) and the most contentious issues of all, Biafra and the roles played by several actors. This is Achebe’s story and the contribution to a very important national discourse – “his story”. Let’s take, as an example, the tale of the proverbial “six blind men” who went on an excursion to feel what an Elephant “looked like”; they came back with different stories, waxing lyrical about the part they were able to feel. In the end, they were all right but the ‘assemblage’ of their descriptions was what clearly depicted an Elephant. Achebe has written from his perspective; others should write theirs for us to form an informed opinion. The tone for the book is set from the very beginning but A...