Thrills And Frills At Laff 4 Christ Sake

Julius Agwu’s Reel Laif pulled off another edition of gospel comedy gig ‘Laff 4 Christ’s Sake’ at the MUSON Centre on Sunday, October 23. Performers included Basketmouth, Kenny St. Brown, and Agwu himself…

Julius Agwu

Guide To Writing A Great Profile

OK…the time has come. You have joined an online dating service or two. Now you must write that all-important profile… the one that will attract attention and reel in the man of your dreams… but where to start? Maybe writing isn’t even something you think you do all that well. Even so, you can do this.
The first thing is to be absolutely honest about yourself. You are looking for that man who will like…maybe someday love…YOU….THE REAL YOU! Examine past relationships and list the things that you liked and the things you did not like. If he smoked in the house and you hated it, you won’t like it any better the next time. If you love cats and will always want to own one or more, say that you are an animal lover and want indoor pets. Someone who hates cats or is allergic to them is not the guy for you.
Accent the things that make you unique. If you play the piano well, you really want Mr. Right to appreciate it. If you run in marathons, a couch potato is not a good match. If you love art, you really don’t want a man who thinks Picasso is an ice cream flavor.
Describe the things that are vital in your life. If volunteering is the one thing that makes you feel useful and worthwhile, you want someone who would, at the very least, support you if not join you in your volunteer projects. When you get beyond superficial things, you will attract men who share your values.
Invest in your online profile by hiring a professional photographer for your first online picture. This is so important. The picture is the FIRST thing men see.

Show Dem Camp: The Dreamer Project [Album Review]

Just as their moniker implies, the duo of Ghost and Tec are straight up exhibitionists. On their debut album which has taken some time to drop, Show Dem Camp gladly show you what their blend of rap is with no reservation and little embellishment. If you like your rap music raw and straight from the heart then The Dreamer Project is your cup of tea.
They belong to that school of Hip-Hop music that is revered and respected and are smart enough not to fall into the same trap that many rappers before them have fallen into, which is the notorious pit of rapping just for rap sake. With solid production backing them up throughout the LP, they deliver tracks that are very layered and well thought out.
On ‘Talk About It’ which features 2face, while Ghost talks about the nation’s woes and change ‘what’s the use of our natural resource when people never get to use it/we claim Africa’s giant of course, I still say that we need to prove it, Tec ends his commendable verse with these lines ‘so I ask 2face how he deals with the fame/trying to take the advice ‘cos we are new to the game/how he deals with the haters, how he deals with the snakes/and we put in a song so that you can relate’ . Of course 2face delivers on the hook. Another heavy collabo on the set is All Eyes On Me features Nneka and MayD. MayD has another scene stealing verse (the first being on SDC’s single Farabale), Nneka’s soul singing style permeates all over the track while the boys deliver verses that differ from today’s rambling free form verses which sound flashy but with little meaning.
Being kids of parents in Nigeria’s upper class they chronicle their struggle and love for Hip-Hop on ‘Once Upon A Time’. On this track Tec spits the most poignant lines, ‘there’s nothing worse than when your family doesn’t believe in you/and your girl loses faith and she’s leaving you/you feel you should have locked that omo long time/but when you are broke every moment is the wrong time’ and finally getting the better of Ghost.

Robbers Raid Police Station, Rob Bank In Calabar

Gunmen on Monday attacked the Akamkpa Divisional Police station on the outskirts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, South-South Nigeria, and made away with arms and ammunition with which they robbed an old generation bank in the area.

Hafiz Ringim, Inspector-General of Police.

The gang reportedly carted away millions of naira from the bank.
The robbers numbering seven, eye witnesses said, invaded the police station in a jeep at about 3 p.m. and shot indiscriminately.
The policemen on duty were reported to have fled, leaving the station open for the robbers to make away with arms and ammunition.
“After the police ran away, the robbers took their guns and from there drove straight to the premises of the bank where they blew up the bank’s gate with explosive.
“The policemen guarding the bank also escaped along with the bank staff and the robbers then went in and packed the money in bags into their car and drove off,” a teacher in Akamkpa Secondary School, told P.M.NEWS.
Witnesses said millions of naira was carted away by the robbers in what one of them described as the “first successful bank robbery in the state”.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the Cross River Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Michael Bassey confirmed the robbery incident.
The police, he said, were yet to make any arrest but investigations are in progress towards apprehending the hoodlums.
The Legal Officer at the affected bank’s headquarters in Calabar, Mr. Andy Oni said the amount stolen by the robbers was yet to be ascertained until complete investigations are made by the team that would be sent down from Lagos.

Car names and their meaning

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose! By any other name would smell as sweet" said the lines from Shakespeare's quotes. Exactly, it's actually all in the name! Imagine you without a name? Similarly, imagine a car without a name? Naming a car is akin to naming a child and a car name with a meaning is equally important. Here are a few auto aliases that have a meaning behind their names. Take a look!

Toyota Corolla: The name Corolla is part of Toyota's naming tradition of using the name Crown for primary models: the Corona, for example, gets its name from the Latin word crown; Corolla in Latin means small crown; and Camry is an Anglicized pronunciation of the Japanese for crown, kanmuri.


Hyundai Elantra: The Hyundai Elantra or Hyundai Avante in South Korea, is a compact car from Hyundai of South Korea launched in October 1990 for the 1991 model year, and now is in its fifth generation. The Elantra was formerly marketed as the Lantra in Australia and some European markets. In Australia, this was due to the similarly named Mitsubishi Magna Elante model. This gave rise to disagreement from other motor manufacturers, and the name was standardized as ‘Elantra’ worldwide in 2001 (with the exception being Korea and Malaysia still selling under the name ‘Avante’).


Toyota Etios: The Etios nameplate comes from the Greek ‘Ethos’, meaning spirit, character, and ideas and this is exactly what the car echoes too. With apt space, refinement, comfort, price and interior plastics, the Toyota Etios is a product at a killer price.


Hyundai Santa Fe: The Hyundai Santa Fe is a mid-size crossover SUV based on the Hyundai Sonata platform. Named after the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, it was introduced for the 2001 model year as Hyundai's first SUV, released at the same time as the Ford Escape/Mazda Tribute and Pontiac Aztek. The SUV was so popular that at times, Hyundai had trouble supplying the demand. The Santa Fe quickly became Hyundai’s best seller and contributed to Hyundai’s success in the United States. The Santa Fe came to India later in the year 2010.

Skoda Superb: The Skoda Superb is a large family car primarily built by the Czech car manufacturer Skoda Auto as its flagship car. The versions produced from 2001 to 2008 are based on the platform of the Volkswagen Passat, but are elongated by 10 centimetres (3.9 in), and shares its major mechanicals and powertrain with the Passat. It is currently the largest and most luxurious model in Škoda’s model range. The Superb name is a resurrection, originally used by Škoda for similar large models, between 1934 and 1942.

Mercedes-Benz E-Class: The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a range of executive-size cars manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in various engine and body configurations. The E initially stood for Einspritzmotor, (German for fuel injection engine); a new feature in volume production vehicles at the time that the E-Class first appeared, with the E as a suffix to the engine nomenclature (e.g. 230E) in the 1950s. It was not until the launch of the facelifted W124 that the E was used as a prefix (i.e. E220) and the model referred to officially as the E-Class (or E-Klasse).

Honda Jazz: The Honda Jazz nameplate has been used by Honda of Japan to denote several different motorized vehicles since 1982:
•    A 50 cc motorcycle introduced in 1986. Such a scooter (CHF50) still exists, and is currently on sale in Canada.
•    The Japanese-market name for the badge-engineered version of the Isuzu Mu ( Isuzu Amigo ) short-wheelbase version, known elsewhere as the Opel Frontera, Holden Frontera, or Vauxhall Frontera.
•    The European-market name for the Honda City Mk I from 1982 to 1986, as City was already trademarked by Opel.
•    Honda Fit - A five-door hatchback automobile introduced in June 2001. The vehicle is known as the Fit in Japan, China, as well as in Americas. It is called the Jazz in Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, South East Asia, India and Africa.

The other names which we think denote strong meanings are that of Mahindra Logan now renamed as Verito in which Verito is derived from the Latin word 'Veritas', meaning ‘truth’. On the other hand, the new Ford Fiesta with its sharp and sleek lines gives a feeling of partying hard, really hard.

Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

MUSIC DUO,KC PRESH END RIFT.STEP OUT TOGETHER @ JULIUS AGWU'S SHOW

Popular hip-hop acts,Kingsley Okonkwo and Precious John of the defunct music group,KC Presh have ended their 6 months rift and this is authoritative. The duo who for over 6 months now don’t see eye to eye,nor attend the same events together following their break up which led to them deserting the group KC Presh coined from their names,a group through which they shot to limelight after they emerged winner at the maiden edition of the Nigerian Breweries sponsored musical talent hunt show,Star Quest,have settled their differences and are an inseparable pair like they used to be. It took many by surprise penultimate Sunday when the 2 arrived together in their usual convoy of exotic cars and in the company of E-Money,Dili Motors boss and some of their few friends whom they are known to always hang out with. The fact that they came in together,sat together and were seen chatting happily together further proved that the talented music acts have sheathed their swords and embraced harmony,especially since they avoided each other like a plague even whenever they met at events,after the news of their break up filled the air months back.

THE UNVEILING OF NFC FACE OF THE MONTH.BASKETMOUTH AND I GO DYE

BASKETMOUTH An opinion poll carried out by Nigeriafilms.com on who deserves to be NFC face of the month(November), we are glad to inform you that Basketmouth and I Go Dye pull the highest votes of (170) ,Teju Babyface(70),AY(40), and Koffi(20). It must be noted that the result was based on the votes cast on NFC comment box and from the emails we received. Basketmouth and I Go Dye automatically become NFC face of the month.