Sunday, 22 April 2012

Barcelona versus Real Madrid:1-2


I LOVE THIS GAME!

Barcelona 1-2 Real Madrid: Ronaldo the match-winner as Jose Mourinho's side take significant step towards La Liga title
Barcelona’s hopes of a fourth successive primera Division title were dealt a potentially fatal blow after a 2-1 defeat at Camp Nou against Real Madrid in the Classico on Saturday.

To most people football is more than a game..... a friend of mine refused to have his dinner and not say a word to his wife, not till this morning he muttered a word to her because his team Barcelona lost the match......she's quite worried.....if you were in this situation what can you do to console such a person or are you one of those that act like this when you lose a match?

WED Magazine the organizers of WED Expo 2012



We must learn to embrace our very own....... your wedding gowns can be designed by most of these Nigerian designers instead of pumping in money in another man's country, flying out to buy them.....Peeps dont you thinks so?


DVD of the exhibition will be packaged with every copy of their 1 Year Anniversary Mega Edition. See the video trailer to know what to expect.
The WED Couture Bridal Show hosted by Koffi was state of the art as 4 major designers Yemi Osunkoya (Kosibah), Frank Osodi, Ade Bakare and Mai Atafo showcased their new collections.



Anyways,the point I'm trying to make is that it's always good to embarce our own.It's your day you can choose to patronise whoever you like whether foreign/local designer...most importantly is that you are happy with your choice but it's a concern to spend so much on your wedding day on a loan which has become part of the trend in our society today....TRYING SO HARD TO IMPRESS just for that day...instead of focusing more on the core value of what marriage is all about 'that happily ever after'

Morris Chestnut –Hollywood actor confirms part of what Nigerians are concerned about-Standing a test of time


 This has just confirmed a part of what Xpressurselfshow is about….. Maintenance,credibility, accountability. It’s easy to start up anything but the real test is the ability to sustain the quality and original plan of what you have begun……This is one of the greatest problem in Nigeria Today…..a classic example is this one where a foreigner goes into a five star hotel in Nigeria “claimed to be one of the best in the nation” and calls it crappy, not only that, he check out too and went to a newer hotel.
 Eko hotel has been existing for years…back in the day…it had the best that foreigners come, stay and leave good compliments about the hotel but today it’s opposite.

The question is the place he relocated to is new Radisson Blu Hotel) will it make a difference? Maintain the standard it has now, given the test of time? Or it will be like any other good thing that comes to Nigeria within few years it crumbles?

 
Hollywood actor Morris Chestnut, who is presently in the country as a special guest of the 2012 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) has allegedly refused to reside in his Eko Hotel and Suites accommodation.
A local newspaper quoted Morris Chestnut as saying, “…it is crappy…I am displeased at the standard of the hotel”.
Meanwhile, a top level representative of the organizers of the awards, billed to hold on Sunday April 22, 2012, stated that the stars are not staying at the Eko Hotel for reasons bordering on privacy.
‘I can confirm that they are not staying in Eko Hotel, but this is to avoid them being mobbed. I will however not disclose where they are staying now’, the source said.
However, other sources have confirmed that the actor, in company of colleague Rockmond Dunbar, is staying at the Radisson Blu Hotel.

Appalling right? …..if you think otherwise and you have seen an organization that has been existing for 20years in Nigeria and the standard of that organization still has its maintenance,credibility, accountability or it has gone beyond that send us an email with details on:
lavivonline@gmail.com……
Trust us will definitely make news on every social network you can think of on that …..hmmmm! In Nigeria,  an organization that has stood a test of time?

Photos of Superstar Stephanie Okereke’s Wedding in Paris

This took place in France on the 21/04/2012.........Steph looks so happy.



Mannie  DJ of Cool FM 96.9 was the MC, we also learnt that  the President was not present.We are yet to confirm if the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah  was there.



The couple look so good together,congratulations!!!

Mannie ,Monalisa Chinda,and Lilian Bach

Traditional wedding pictures of Actor Chidi Mokeme& Jean Chinwe Olumba


On the 21/04/2012 Chidi Mokeme has left bachelorhood. 


  He took Jean his sweetheart,not Jane Oduah,as ealier reported......apologies.
Their church wedding is next Saturday April 28th.They do lookalike,don't they?




 Happy married life to Mrs&mrs Mokeme!


Saturday, 21 April 2012

British McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton at the qualifying for Bahrain's Grand Prix on Saturday.


For a moment I thought this guy at the right was seeking for attention, but meant business.

A protester,holds a molotov cocktail bomb next to a barricade on fire during clashes with the police on Friday night when an anti-government activist was killed.


Oh well, the the show must go on:F1 teams begin qualifying for Bahrain Grand Prix despite death of protester in clashes with police.



Husband assaults wife with hot pressing Iron

Is this spiritual or frustration? 

A 36 year-old Mrs Mercy Nnamdi, the woman whose one-year-old son was allegedly killed by her husband recently in Ago, Okota area of Lagos, over her husband’s allegation that she was sleeping with his father, life could never have been more cruel.


This is because never in her wildest imagination had she envisaged that a man she had known almost all her life could mete such inhuman treatment on her.

  Mercy is going through excruciating pains in a private hospital in Okota where doctors are battling to save her life.
I’m still trying to comprehend this.....
 

In fact, the once bubbling woman looks a shadow of herself, as medical report showed that she sustained a third degree burns from the hot iron her husband of two years used on her on Saturday, April 7 2012, which was exclusively reported by Vanguard. Presently, the badly burnt woman maintains a particular position, by sleeping on her back. She wears an adult pampers when she eases herself, with a tissue paper by her side, with which she cleans the fluid coming out from the burns.

 Help, as gathered, was far from the Imo state-born woman, as none of her neighbours attempted to go and find out what was happening when she was desperately shouting for help. It was learnt that their neighbours failed to respond to her cries for help because it has become a daily occurrence. Crime Guard gathered also that on several occasions, some of the neighbours invited policemen from Ago division who cautioned her husband after which he was made to sign an undertaking never to raise his hands on his wife. Family sources hinted that signs of danger in the marriage reared its ugly face early after the two love birds fell in love 16 years ago, when Mary was barely 22 years old. But she was apparently blinded by love, hoping that her heartthrob would outgrow his anger someday, This was where the incident happened, 3, Lambe Street, Ago-Okota, Lagos
which was never to be. Narrating what led to her being a patient in the hospital, Mary stated, “It all happened on a Saturday. I had prepared boiled yam, awaiting the arrival of my husband. After a long wait, I decided to eat mine and left his on the table. He came back few minutes to 11pm and went straight to bed. Then at about 1 a.m., power was restored and he went to put off the power generating set and switched over to electricity. After that, he started ironing his customers’ clothes because he is a dry cleaner. I was later woken up by the cry of our one-year-old baby who apparently needed breast milk.
 All the while, we were outside before power was restored. Before retiring inside, I took my bath and fetched water for him to have his. I was fast asleep when I was woken up by a sharp pain on my back. I thought it was a night mare. But when I opened my eyes, lo and behold, my husband was planting the hot iron he was using on the clothes on me. Immediately I turned, he planted it on my chest. When I raised my hand to prevent it, he planted it on one of my hands . By then I did not know what to do. I started screaming and calling on my neighbours for help. I raised my leg to prevent him, again, he landed the hot iron on me. As he planted the hot iron hard on my flesh, he would use a screw driver to peel off the flesh.

At a point, I became too weak to shout. I begged him to stop but he would not. Rather, he would ask me to tell him how many times his father slept with me. Even in pains, I begged him to listen to himself and imagine what he was saying. My response seemed to anger him the more because he would plant it harder, leaving it on my skin and at the same time, asked me to tell him the truth.” At this point, Crime Guard asked if she was guilty of the claim. She grimaced and replied, “How can that be? The father already has a wife.” Pausing for a while and staring at the ceiling, a position she has been maintaining for several hours, she continued, “ at that point, my baby woke up and started crying. I begged him to allow me breast feed the baby. But before I could finish the statement, he placed the hot iron on my breasts, threatening to kill me if I shout. As he lifted the iron, I saw that the flesh from my breast had stuck to the iron surface.

Again he pressed it harder on my stomach, leaving it there. I managed to turn, only for the iron to land on my lap. He told me there was no way of escape for me that night, that members of his gang were outside to take my corpse to an unknown destination by the time he finished with me. At that point, I knew the end had come for me. I managed to shout out for help with all the strength in me but I could not. At that point, he forcefully took Ebuka from the bed and went outside. I decided to go out because I did not know what he would do next when he came back. I cannot tell how I crawled out of the room. But I found myself in the kitchen naked, from where two men who saw me gave new rapper to cover myself. “As I was there, trying to fathom how I would escape from the compound, somebody shouted that my husband had killed my child.

That was the last thing I heard. I guessed I passed out because I later opened my eyes and found myself in the hospital.” Residents of Number 3, Lambe street, Ago confirmed to Crime Guard that they simply refused to go to Mary’s rescue that night because it was late and also that her shout for help had been one too many. One of them said, “ Since they started living as husband and wife, there had never been a time we did not experience shout or crisis from their one-room apartment. It is worse any time the man came home drunk. We have even gone to report to the police when it became too much because we did not want a situation where he would kill her one day and we would be held responsible.

 Even at that, he did not stop. “Several times, the woman had wanted to go back to her family but she wouldn’t. Even her father-in-law had advised her to leave when she travelled home last December because he was tired of the endless reports of his son battering his daughter in-law.” Weeping, after pausing for a while, Mary recalled how he met her 37-year-old husband. “We knew each other since 1996. The relationship blossomed until 2010, when he went for introduction in my village. I left my hair dressing skill and moved in with him with the hope of continuing later.” But that was never to be as she revealed that rather than continuing learning hair dressing, she started selling pap, all in a bid to make ends meet and apparently as a demonstration of her love for Henry. “He started showing his real colour later. He started by refusing to drop money for house keep and even when I begged him to rent a shop for me, he didn’t. Rather, he used the money to drink beer and smoke. When I advised him against his drinking and smoking habit, he would flare up and the next thing would be to hit me. Several times I have begged the police to help me beg him not to raise his hands on me but he wouldn’t”Another predicament befalls Mary Sadly, the anguished woman is faced with another predicament which is her inability to pay her medical bills.

 Already, Crime Guard gathered that her bill had amounted to N200,000. Following this development, the hospital is threatening to stop treatment. Presently, the dressing of the burns which ought to be done on daily basis has been extended to once in two or three days, as a daily dressing cost s N10,000. Sobbing uncontrollably and at the same time questioning her choice of partner, she revealed that her family members had not shown up since the incident occurred, as none of them, according to her, was aware of the incident. “My mother must not hear of this because it will kill her. She is presently taking care of my sister who just put to bed in Owerri. I can not reach my relatives either because my phone is not with me and I do not have their phone numbers off hand.”

Crime Guard learnt that since the incident took place, her father in-law had been responsible for the hospital bills. But there is little Pa Nnamdi could do as the bill, as gathered, had gone beyond his capacity. Hospital sources disclosed that though their management had tried to attend to Mary’s case, there are indications that it might discharge her if the accrued bill is not cleared.

 One of the doctors who identified himself simply as Eze explained that “she had a third degree burn and her case may deteriorate if she does not receive adequate care. She even fainted last Tuesday because she was not given food and her people lacked the fund to bring her back to normal state.” He further disclosed that Mary was rushed to the hospital in a state of coma, adding that, “The husband used pliers on her skin and decimated her. Then a hot iron was applied on her face, body chest, and her two breasts. Meanwhile, she has not been informed of the demise of her one-year-old son considering her present state.” However, the alleged perpetrator of this dastardly act, Mr Henry Nnamdi who was arrested by neighbours, is currently at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba. Efforts to speak with him proved abortive.

Extracted from Vanguard.

I tell you this is sheer madness.


Friday, 20 April 2012

Colour blocking..hey ladies-time - DO it Urself

Do you like what you see?

Mixing of different colors doesn’t restrict you to a particular look.
Color blocking in simple words is an attempt to combine different colors to get a colorful look in your dress, shoes, bags and even hair.


Color blocking maybe loud but it sure gives you a dynamic and confident look.
Complimentary Colors
o Team colors of the same family together. It will give that harmonious look.
o Keep warm tones like red and orange closer together as well.
o And to keep it simple, use a neutral colored shoe.
Here are some combination mixes
• Lime green, melon, with rosebud pinks, to give that jarring combination.
• You can contrast it yet again with your shoes, or your handbag.
Think contrasting colors like fiery orange with purples.




Stephanie Okereke's wedding tomorrow in Paris


See who are already there for the big day, Genevieve Nnaji, Ini Edo, Monalisa Chinda .
 
We also learnt the president  Jonathan will be attending the wedding…oh well ! 2morow is here!!!!!! Xpressurselfshow,will keep updated on this.


This sounds like a fairy tale wedding……congrats Steph!

Is this the reason why they say Africans live on trees?


Recently, what has been making news is that the residents  in this slum will be evacuating this place, the question is where do they intend to live? what will become of them in the next future if this evacuation takes place?
Toyin Oluwatobi wakes up at 6am and cooks a variety of food enough to feed 50 people. After, she prepares her paddle and canoe for the day’s work; the only means of transport for her goods and it also serves as her shop.
One thing is sure though, by 3pm when she retires to her wooden house, the food would be completely sold, Oluwatobi told PUNCH Metro.
Life in Makoko, a Lagos riverine community in Yaba Local Government Area of the state, is different from what is obtainable in other parts of the metropolis.
The majority of the residents of this fishing community depend on food vendors like Oluwatobi to eat daily.
When our correspondent visited the fishing community, it was noticed that the residents rely on the goods sold by women and girls who paddle around the community in their canoes.

Let me rephase the question is the reason why they say Africans live in the forest? 



By morning, most of Makoko’s men would be off to their fishing spots, while the boys would either be away to a small school built with wood, or at the loading dock, waiting for passengers to ferry around the community.
 Makoko traders, who are mostly women, do not have the luxury of shops. So, they load their items on their canoes and paddle around the community until they or their goods are exhausted. Sweating as they rigorously paddle their canoes around the community, these women provide the main economic sustenance, which the residents of Makoko depends on.

While they move about, anxious residents wait at the entrances or windows of their wooden houses on the water and beckon on them. A food vendor, Mrs. Seun Okueso, told PUNCH Metro, “What we cook is what the people eat. They do not have a choice because the majority of the people here cannot afford to cook in their homes.

You can see the reason why. If they do, what if they forget to put out the fire and it burns down the wooden house? “Apart from that, the way things are around here, it is easier for the people to buy the food from us than to cook in their houses. We save them a lot of stress. Cooking in our kind of houses is not as easy as it is in normal buildings.” As our correspondent moved round the community, different canoes were encountered laden with either food or household commodities that one would find in normal shops.

Explaining why the traders prefer to hawk the goods in canoes instead of setting up wooden shops at the homes, a woman selling beans cake, told our correspondent, “who do you think the residents would prefer to buy from; a trader who brings the goods to their doorsteps or the trader who expects them to get into their canoes and come to her house?”

Even though the traders seemed to be the only source of meals for the residents of Makoko, they said business is not as rosy for them as it seemed. “I have eight children and I have to feed them all. I need to send some of them to school as well. Children are treasures in this community. The little I get as profit I use to feed my children. My husband is a fisherman. He takes care of the education of those who are schooling,” Okueso said. Another trader, Mrs. Elizabeth Bajowa, said the trade was the only way she could support her five children. Bajowa said, “Two of them are schooling in Benue State and I have to send them money.

The work starts by 6am and I don’t close till 5pm. I sell a lot because the people don’t cook or have the time to go outside the community and buy these things we sell. “Despite all these, livelihood is still a challenge here. What we get as profit from this trade is barely enough to feed us.” Our correspondent also noticed that the girls, who take part in the business activities of the community, have become masters of the paddle. Paddling with dexterity, some of them were seen in canoes laden with liquid soap, condiments and other goods. A girl, who identified herself simply as Kate (not English), said she did not go to school. “I am six years old. I have two elder brothers who are in school. I’m helping my mother with her trading. She has two canoes. I take one to hawk condiment while she uses the other to hawk food,” she said in her native Egun dialect, while our correspondent’s guide interpreted.

In Makoko, the residents buy water from vendors, who get it from boreholes in the neighbouring communities and brought to the riverine community. The water vendors put the water in big plastic tanks, load them into canoes and move around the community. Some Makoko residents buy and store the water in tanks in their wooden houses and resell to other residents. The scarcity of potable water has to do with absence of pipe borne water in the community. For a community where all household wastes go into the water on which their houses are built, a leaky pipe can be hazardous. One of the Baales (village heads) of the community, Chief Abraham Mesu, told PUNCH Metro, that the traders needed help from the government.

“We depend so much on these women daily but their business has not been that good. I think it would help them a lot if they can get loans from the government to improve their trades. “Even their husbands who are mostly fishermen still use the old fishing method that was transferred to them through many generations. Most of these men fish through the night and catch fish worth N150,000 sometimes. “So, you can imagine how much fish they would catch if they are using modern fishing method. Another problem is that there is no storage system here. So, even if they catch fish worth N200,000.

They have to sell them that day or it would get spoilt.” Mesu appealed to the government to come to the aid of the traders and fishermen of Makoko in order to make life worthwhile for them.

So what aid can the government give to these people when they are evacuated?


Thursday, 19 April 2012

Mariah Carey is that you?

Nice.....nice!



Photo of the day

Could this be a role in one of the home movies or it's for real? this has been on facebook for months now.

Good news, the baby boy born with six legs has had a successful operation


The parents of this baby must be the happiest couple, their  baby boy born with six legs has had a successful operation to remove his four extra limbs, doctors from Karachi in Pakistan said today. He was believed to have had a parasitic twin, that had not developed properly in the womb, resulting in the extra legs.