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- Omo Baba Olowo VS Baddest Guy Ever Liveth! Who Rocked The Native Attire Best?? [PHOTOS]
- [MUST READ] Popular Nollywood Actor Finally Reveals Why he Married a White British Woman!
- MEET The Pastor Who Uses Deadly Serpents To Preach! [PHOTOS]
- WOW! I BET YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS PHOTO OF TIWA SAVAGE BEFORE! [PHOTOS]
- ”Why I Left Acting To be a Pastor's Wife” – Liz Benson Talks About Her New Life as a Pastor's Wife!
- SAD! Popular Nollywood Actress Died During Childbirth! [photo]
- MUST SEE! Popular Actor Emeka Ike’s Properties Taken Over By Court! [PHOTOS]
- What Money Can Do! SEE Dr Sid before and after photo!
- Awww! SEE Iyabo Ojo and Her Lovely Kids Having Fun on the streets of Lagos! [PHOTOS]
- Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Is Now a Pastor! [PHOTO]
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| Omo Baba Olowo VS Baddest Guy Ever Liveth! Who Rocked The Native Attire Best?? [PHOTOS] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 09:53 AM PST |
| [MUST READ] Popular Nollywood Actor Finally Reveals Why he Married a White British Woman! Posted: 02 Feb 2014 09:19 AM PST  Two Years Ago, Popular Nollywood actor cum movie producer, Yomi Fabiyi wedded his British wife Fran Fabiyi here in Nigeria. Only for rumours to later go viral that the actor's marriage had crashed irreconcilably. He said his marriage has not crashed, that is just a mere rumour. "my marriage has not crashed. I don't know why people are saying that. It's just a frivolous talk. I am still in good terms with my wife. There is nothing wrong with our marriage." "That's not true, people are only saying rubbish. There was nothing like that in our agreement when we got married. A lot of people have that wrong impression that the reason for marrying a white woman is to secure Green card or British passport as the case may be. In the UK, they can't issue you British passport like that. Everything has stages. After marriage, they will issue your spouse visa which allows you to stay there for five years. After that, they will give you indefinite visa, which lasts forever. During which you can be moving in and out of the UK and still maintain your citizenship. British passport can only be issued based on request. They don't just issue it like that. When you discover that your marriage has worked and you need British passport, they can give you. Meanwhile, that wasn't my priority for marrying her. Since we got married, I have never collected money from my wife. Everybody has reason or reasons for marrying whoever he marries. I didn't marry Fran because of British passport and I have not applied for it. So, that can't be an issue between the two of us. People are just speculating because they don't see her around me since we married. We had an agreement that we will be living in Nigeria but after a while, she couldn't cope again due to the way area boys used to harass us and collect money. She said we had to go back to UK but I told her I can't leave my job. Nigeria is the best place for me because of my career. That was just the issue between us, and that has been resolved. Now we have both agreed that I can come to the UK anytime. Left to me, the weather there is not good for me. That's another reason I can't live there, and she agreed with me. She also agreed that she will be coming to Nigeria to see me. So, why are people peddling unnecessary rumour?"  |
| MEET The Pastor Who Uses Deadly Serpents To Preach! [PHOTOS] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 09:04 AM PST  A grand jury in Tennessee has exonerated Pastor Andrew Hamblin, the star of the National Geographic reality show "Snake Salvation," but wildlife officials say that doesn't mean he will get back the 53 snakes they seized from his church last November. A grand jury may have decided not to indict Pastor Hamblin of the Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, but the snakes are illegal, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Matt Cameron tells the Knoxville News Sentinel. "So we can't return them."  Comparing the snakes with drugs, Cameron adds, "If they confiscated drugs from a drug dealer and he was exonerated, he wouldn't be getting his drugs back." A grand jury in Campbell County on Wednesday exonerated Hamblin, who was charged in November with violating Tennessee's ban on snake-handling.  "Prosecutor Lori Phillips Jones said officials didn't see the matter as a religious freedom case but public safety. She said she respects the grand jury's decision," News Channel 5 reported. The snakes were not healthy when official seized them, and many of them have died, according to Cameron. The reptiles that are still alive are being cared for at a Knoxville zoo.  In November, wildlife officials cited the pastor with 53 counts of violating the state's ban, after confiscating the reptiles, including rattlesnakes and copperheads, from his church. Each count carried a possible punishment of nearly a year in prison. The pastor, however, pleaded not guilty, and argued that handling snakes is about his religious freedom. "That is my God given right in the United States; if God moves on me to take up a serpent, I can take up a serpent," Hamblin said at the time. "They came right into the house of God and just ripped them [snakes] away. That would be no different if they just came and ripped your Bible out of First Baptist."  In December, a judge decided to send the case to a grand jury, which chose not to indict him. Pastor Jamie Coots of Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name church of Middlesboro, Ky., who serves as a mentor of sorts for Hamblin, came out in support of the Tabernacle Church pastor. "I've called Andrew a son since he started coming around. I've seen him take up serpents for the first time in my church," Coots was earlier quoted as saying. "I hope at the least that they can make a law that he can keep five of each snake, which is the law in Kentucky. It all has to start somewhere." The adherents of the 100-year-old practice, which is common among a sect of Pentecostal Christians that number about 1,000, believe they are instructed by Jesus Christ in Mark 16:15-18, specifically verses 17 and 18 in the King James Version, to pick up serpents. The "Snake Salvation" show, which debuted in early September, has fascinated, repulsed and confused readers over the practice of serpent handling. Christianpost  |
| WOW! I BET YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS PHOTO OF TIWA SAVAGE BEFORE! [PHOTOS] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 08:55 AM PST |
| ”Why I Left Acting To be a Pastor's Wife” – Liz Benson Talks About Her New Life as a Pastor's Wife! Posted: 02 Feb 2014 08:42 AM PST  She is one of the most talented and gracious actresses to have come out of the Nigerian movie industry. Liz Benson rode the movie industry from the 90s like a colossus. Having featured in countless of movies, the beautiful thespian and mother was one of those that made the Nollywood brand what it is today. Now a minister of God and married to Bishop Great Ameye of Freedom Family Assembly in 2009, Liz spoke to tribune on her new world of reaching souls for God, meeting her hubby and her new movie project. How is Liz Benson-Ameye doing? To God be the Glory. My husband has made the home comfortable for me. But the joy of people coming to you and saying pastor this is what is going on, this is what is happening and I counsel them with the word of God and they put it to practise. Oh my God, it gives me joy! And I tell them when you are doing well, when you are prospering, when you have answers to questions, I'm filled with joy. I'm fulfilled serving people and changing lives. Apart from these when you are filled with God and God is working in your life and you are in total obedience to God your maker, the assurance in heaven is something you can't quantify. For me, I'm very comfortable with it. Did you ever imagine being a pastor's wife? I tell you what? No one knows what tomorrow holds for him or her. I carried the heart of someone that wants to serve God but I never thought it will turn out this way. In 2001, I was in a thanksgiving service at Faith Foundation Church, made a testimony and I left although I had the mind of a minister of the gospel then. Bishop Sam Amaga and his wife came to my house one day and said, 'Do you know there is a call of God in your life?' I looked at them and responded, 'God has made those he wants to use and I don't think I'm part of them.' I found out later that many of the servants of God that God wants to use never said I want to be this, I want to be that. But they just find out that the more you love God, the more you get closer to him, God will want to use you and qualify you for his work. And for someone like me, you just find out that God moves you from place to place. I was just preaching in places like Allen Avenue back then. Two ladies saw me then and bore witness of my early days preaching around the place. One of them who acted in Twinkle sometime ago reminded me when she saw me at the airport sometime ago. She said she remembered that I came to her shop at Emporium Plaza at Allen, Ikeja to preach to her customers. So I used to do that a lot in those days when God started with me. So how did you meet your husband, Bishop Ameye? God did it. It was by divine arrangement. God was speaking through many people just like he used the donkey in the Bible. God used different witnesses to guide me. I was there waiting and he was there also waiting. I never expected such. And even after we met and he proposed, I still was running (She laughs). I still was running and where I was running to, a woman of God stopped me and asked me where I was running to. 'You are running from your husband?' The things of God eh, they are such that if you run from it, it doesn't make it go away. When God takes a hold of you and you run away from it a million times, he will still ask you to do the assignment. The calling of God is such that you will have to surrender and all that. How fulfilling are you now compared to your days as an actress? I can't put it in a box. I can't really describe how it feels now but it is one of the most fulfilling times of my life. Being available to God, to humanity and doing something that is touching lives. In one way or another, you are investing in the lives of people and seeing that effect on them is most fulfilling. Doing what pleases your maker is fulfilling both to you and God. You may not have the billions but God has his own reward system and it surpasses the way of the world. God is most gracious and most sufficient. Did you ever see yourself different from being a star actress? Let me put it this way, a lot see the other side of me as a celebrity, star actress but two people that I call friends knew that I was always close to God. They knew Liz Benson as that kind of a person. In all the parties, I always go out and excuse myself to pray. We gather here, I live whatever we are doing to pray. So, it's been like that for me. I know it couldn't go on for a very long time. I had to do things my own way not conforming to their standards. I think that was why my friends saw me a bit strange because I couldn't do certain things and fit into some area of our activities. And there are so many of us like that. There are a lot of people who are hiding under the cover of activities, showbiz and all that but they know that they have a personal relationship with God and are hiding this. But I know God will catch up with them the way He did to me. Between yesterday's Nollywood and today's Nollywood, how will you rate it? We now have the wherewithal, the financial wherewithal; some of the equipment we have now we never had before. When I look at the directing, even the editing, I feel that a thorough job is done. The directors are doing well. In terms of movie production, there is still a lot of infrastructure that we don't have yet. What attracted you to be part of the Living Funeral movie? The movie is about breast cancer and it is a disease that its awareness has not reached home yet. I have been in a situation where the people are very religious and they talk about which side of the bed they slept last night. And I called someone, 'let them check her blood pressure. It was 200 over! I told her, mama what you need is rest.' Another woman came to me and she had pain in her breast. Immediately, I swung into action and this was before I became involved in this project. I took her to the teaching hospital so that they could find out what was wrong with her. I told her not to deceive them and tell them exactly what was wrong with her. And they operated on her and now she is living well. She came in about three years ago to thank me. 'Mama I thank God for you oh. Ignorance fit kill me person oh.' If not that I was involved in her life, maybe we will be saying something else. So it's not just preaching the word, preaching the word, preaching the word. But being able to reach out to people and save lives. And things like this movie project, Living Funeral, are also a means by which I can reach people and impact lives. So I've not gone out of acting completely. It's just that when you have a ministry, we are all gifted in different ways and when things like this come. It is something that makes me to do a lot of good to my fellow brethren and women especially. So when situations like this happen it is not only the patient or victim of cancer that suffers it but the whole family, the whole community. So, I'm here to promote a worthy cause. If I say something here, I mean it and when my assistance is needed to propagate a just cause, I will gladly do. When it comes to your movies what are your fond memories? I always have the movies that I fancy based on experience but it is the viewer that can judge that because they all have their favourite. But for me, every production brings its own challenges that come with it. I deal with them in their own way. I can't place a hand. But if I want to take into account, Living Funeral is it because I'm doing something as a minister of the gospel that projects my faith and tells a good moral story. I was moved and shaken by the movie. Some of the lines of the scripts are killing. I can't even place what it is about the movie but the story line is touching and the movie has fetched us eight nominations in Africa Magic Video Choice Awards AMVCA including Liz Benson-Ameye being nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. So viewers should go to www.amvcaawards.com/nomineeslist to vote us in. I just thank God for giving me the grace to act in such movies. Life itself has its challenges. Even if there are some hurdles there, you will always survive them. I have so much work to do in God's vineyard. To God be the glory, Now I can only appear in movies that have to do with humanity and preach good tidings. For me, the moral standard is what I deal in right now. The best, depth and height of every human being and endeavour are all in the Bible. Even the most spoken words in history are taken from the Word of God. For me it is God because movie roles, boyfriend, girlfriend, romance and all that are no longer for me. The most recent one that we are projecting is in the bible. That's why I'm saying that it just have to be God standard or nothing. What are the things people don't know about Liz Ameye? I don't know, it is for the people to say not me. I think one of the issues is being able to deal with issue the way it comes and allow God to have control of your life.  |
| SAD! Popular Nollywood Actress Died During Childbirth! [photo] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 08:28 AM PST  This is not good news at all..when the process of bringing another being(s) to life turns to be the one that takes the mother's life away. It is such a sad news coming from the stable of Actors Guild of Nigeria AGN, Rivers state chapter, when one of their member, Ijeoma Okori died, she was said to have died during childbirth. Not only did she die, her twin babies also died.  |
| MUST SEE! Popular Actor Emeka Ike’s Properties Taken Over By Court! [PHOTOS] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 08:19 AM PST  We Gave you the story here yesterday about how Emeka Ike was ejected out of the building that housed the school (St. Nicholas College) he was managing before now when the property owners took him to court.    |
| What Money Can Do! SEE Dr Sid before and after photo! Posted: 02 Feb 2014 07:35 AM PST |
| Awww! SEE Iyabo Ojo and Her Lovely Kids Having Fun on the streets of Lagos! [PHOTOS] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 06:59 AM PST |
| Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Is Now a Pastor! [PHOTO] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 06:58 AM PST |
| Back And Better! 2face, Blackface and Faze re-unites on stage! [PHOTOS] Posted: 02 Feb 2014 06:57 AM PST |
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