Ali Baba Letter to Pastors Living Large;Fund Enterpreneurs in Church

About a week ago, comedian ALi Baba shared some tweets where he suggested that the pastors of large churches needed to have development funds for their church members instead of using the church tithes and offerings to enrich themselves and stock up on more exotic cars for their garages. He received a lot of blowback from his followers defending the practice. Today on his facebook page, he shared the reason for his tweets. I wish he had named and shamed. Anyway, read his account below…

Now that I have permission to post the inbox message that angered me I will now post it and leave you to your judgement. (names have been removed and other pointers to the church in question) But before I do, I would like to say I have been called different names by the staunch followers of these pastors that are living off the tithes,offerings and donations of the suffering congregations.

Like I asked one of them loyalists, no, I told one of them, if such venom of anger and filthy language of abuse could be coming from a member of a church with a pastor you so believe in, just because someone is SUGGESTING HOW TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR A CONGREGATION THAT YOU BELONG TO, It says a lot about your Christianity and your understanding of same. Not to mention calling to question the kind of teachings that your pastor has been passing on to you. Or is it that you are not born again?

Because, To still have vulgarity and anger spewing from your person, means you need a visit to the deliverance department.

Ooops!!! Sorry, I forgot you are in the DEFENCE department. The department that promotes and protects the infallibility of the pastor. You all need Christ!!

And this is the inbox message;

“Alibabs, long time. Calvary greetings. Congratulations on your wife’s new assignment. Saw you at Tiwa’s wedding. You looked good.

I wanted to come talk to you about joining a team of 4 non denominational Christian group who are trying to make a difference in the lives of youths in every church. We are not a church. We just want to make an impact. We do not mind a meeting to tell you how far we have gone and how much further we wish to go. We are careful in choosing partners. We don’t want people who a bitter with their pastors, we just want people who have agape love.
Sometime back, while working in the benevolence department of…. (His) church. We got requests from people who needed 50k to buy sewing machines, 65k to acquire compressors for vulcanizing, 100k to rent stalls, 60k to lease above ground tanks for selling kerosine…

And we submitted these requests to our supervising Asst Pastor, but after waiting for about 7 months, no answer and our Pastor bought a G-wagon of 28m, we knew we had to step in ourselves. Lets do what we can just like the early CHRISTIANS did. Lets not wait. Let us make these men financially stable, so they be the heads of the home as should be.

Lets empower our Christian youths, especially the men, so they can be great fathers. The issues they battle with today are gettingworse by the day.
So, please join us, lets leverage on your reach and God’s blessings to help our brothers.

Starboy Wizzy showcase his Bedroom

That is a classy bedroom i guess...

Dr.Sid then & now

If he didn’t post the pix himself, I won’t have believe he’s truly the one in the pix….lol…levels don change now it's all green.

Mercy Johnson looks so cheap,spend some dosh on your style - Emmy Collins

This is what fashion designer and critic Emmy Collins wrote about Mercy Johnson’s look above..,,Read
below

Okay, so I got this from a reader this morning, “ehen small aproko

…Emmy, I saw pics of Mercy Johnson looking tacky on other blogs and they tagged her sexy. I confuse o”

My understanding of the mood of the author of this comment was that of someone gob-smacked by either a blatant lie or blatant ignorance.

Mercy Johnson looks so cheap here that if cheap were to be animated today, it would most definitely not want to be associated with Mercy Jonnson. Yes, she seemed so hideously dressed in that hideous dress (haha, playing with words, na me biko). I don`t even know where to start or end, the N3k tejusho dress, akpola shoes, the “mgbekerish” pose, the walls behind her(background), foot mat, et al, yet some blogger deemed it appropriate to tag this picture right here “sexy”. Kai, sexy don suffer ni. Abasi mbo, Chineke no n’eluigwe, Oluwa! What did we do to deserve this?

Okay, I know what we did. We became too hypocritical. I can imagine cheap (I mean animated version) blurting out words like –

“abeg, abeg, I know say I cheap, but no be like that nah,kai! No put me near that cheap looking woman, biko” – when compared to Mercy Johnson in this ensembles of hers. On a very positive note, we should all be thankful to the almighty God that she didn`t venture putting on those sunnies in her hands, because if she did, kai, egbe for gas, lol.

More often than not, I wonder if these sort of classless half-baked celebrities that we are bedevilled with aren`t God`s idea of punishment for all the iniquities we commit against him daily. We have “afọ anu” celebrities that are ineffective in all spheres of life, be it politics, fashion, etc. Tell me a Naija celebrity that has influenced any fashion trend? Perhaps just about 2% of them have pet projects, except when they surround themselves with cameramen while visiting motherless babies homes. In another clime, these are supposedly the innovative bunch, but it’s sad that the last word a well meaning and well-informed individual would use to describe any Nigerian actress or actor today is “innovative”. How did we get here? It has become a nonsensical game of ‘please find out where Genevieve or Omotola has visited, me too I wan go there nah and make sure all the blogs will post the pictures’.”Well, you guys know what I think about this image, what do you think?Okay, Mercy, here is the deal. If you gonna be showing your mansion in Ajah, shouldn`t you be spending some dosh on your style as well?

PS: I concluded a long time ago that some bloggers must be on some cheap crack if they are gonna be seeing white and calling it black. I will only do my best to call them out when I can afford the time.

Wande Coal and Olamide on warpath?

Wande Coal and rap rave of the moment Olamide are currently not on speaking terms. The brouhaha is believed to have started back in late 2012 when Olamide released his YBNL album. On the track titled ‘Picture’, Olamide rapped about not letting his guard down when it comes to interacting with obsessed female fans. ‘Oloso (prostitutes) thinking of how to ruin me, but I know what I’m doing/they want to Wande Coal me, they want to Davido me,’ he rapped. Both Wande Coal and Davido have been involved in controversies over nude/half nude photos purportedly leaked by women. (Photo below) Wande Coal, we are told, was not impressed by Olamide’s reference to the incident.
Months later, when Ice Prince was recording songs for his Fire of Zamani album, he called on Wande Coal, Yung L and Olamide to feature on a track called ‘Gimme dat’. Wande Coal had wrapped up his verse when he found out Olamide would also be featured on the song. Sources say Wande wasn’t pleased with that and asked that he should not be featured on the same track with Olamide. Ice Prince, we are told, was forced to take Wande Coal’s verse off the song and replace it with a verse from Burna Boy. The song, produced by Chopstix, was released for digital download on April 24, 2013. Interestingly, a previous version of the song, which featured Wande Coal’s verse, leaked on the internet four months later, August 23, 2013.
Both parties Are yet to respond as at the time this report was filed…

Memorial Service held for Presenter Komla Dumor in London

BBC Presenter Komla Dumor who was describe as the future of Africa, who pass on recently, may his soul rest in perfect peace

Genevieve Nnaji & Omotola Jolade Ekeinde are Brand -Obi Emelonye.

The current Nollywood has not really seen the 2 screen goddesses Genny and Omotola on its screen in recent times….(except in some few recent movies…i know of ”last flight to Abuja”, i’ve forgotten the name of the other movie).well the reason is not really far fetched, its because they are not readily affordable. their charges are sometimes like half of the entire budget earmarked for a movie(wow)….

Obi Emelonye spoke on the issue, and this is was he said…“Genevieve and Omotola are the two biggest actresses we have in Nollywood, they cannot afford to charge less than their status and that is where the problem comes in. Their charges are probably above what the industry can afford. Their charges are like half of the entire production budget so which producer can afford that?”What they can do now as it is with other big stars all over the world, is that they should begin to fund their own productions and act in them, they can act whatever role will enhance their brand, they need to start a production company now, and push themselves because they need to remain relevant and must not be seen as jobless. If corporate bodies perceive them as jobless they won’t want to do business with them, they might even price them cheap.” Hmnnn, do you agree? i really do not believe they are jobless..