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❦ ꗃ⋆࣪. Introduction.

hey diva dolls! It’s larra darling, your fav diva & your girlfriend’s fav diva!

here are some divalicious things about me!

❦ I’m a 18 year old, girly! my birthday is July 5th & I’m a cancer. ♋︎ #moonchild ☾ ⋆ ˚｡⋆

❦ I’m african american + nigerian 🇳🇬 & congolese! 🇨🇩

❦ pink, black, & gold are my favs! + I love shimmer & glitter!

❦ I loveee vanilla & fruity smells, smelling like a treat is my specialty!

❦ I’m also extremely introverted, my alone time is sacred to me.

❦ my favorite eras are the 50s-2016 for fashion, music, films, I’m obsessed!

❦ my spirit animals are definitely a fawn & then a leopard! I find myself having so much similarities to them personality wise & also look wise!

❦ hibiscus 🌺 & cherry blossoms are my fav flowers! 🌸

❦ I love peace signs ☮︎ music notes ♫ & swirls ꩜ they’re my ultimate fav!

❦ I’m a sucker for mythical creatures but my #1 would have to be vampires! #teamdamon #teamklaus & #teamedward

❦ I love physiological horror, mystery, romance, drama, & comedy films!!

❦ my music taste is so diverse, I love music to the core, some artists I’ve been listening to recently would have to be sade, kali uchis, a$ap rocky, rihanna, ciara, chief keef, sexy red, deftones, cocteau twins, childish gambino, whew chile… the list goes on.

now that we’ve handle the basics, let’s get to the juicy stuff!

❦ ꗃ⋆࣪. what inspired me to start this blog?

I love creating it’s been a passion since I was little & honestly, having so much free time, I feel like I have a purpose, to spread my word, & to inspire people! after reflecting I notice how im usually the therapist friend (which we know has it’s cons & pros) but it really made me want to help others, & also showcase my mindset! I’ve been like this since a kid, & as I get older, it embraces.

❦ ꗃ⋆࣪. what to expect?

I have so many ideas for this blog, you guys are going to be fed! I have so many different series I want to do, I want to keep it girly, & positive! so stay in tuned, diva dolls!

❦ ily! & I’m always so grateful for the support, you cuties have shown me!

that’s all for now!

- kisses from, diva.💋

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Book recs masterpost

y’all really came through here, thanks! Here’s a collected version, I will continue to update it if recs keep coming. Format will be a little inconsistent but I will try to keep books by the same author together and give the summary if it exists and who provided the rec.

Under a cut cause it gets long:

Gene Wolfe:

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Three interconnected novellas about life on an authoritarian twin planet system where humans have apparently wiped out the natives. Superbly well written and thoughtful imo

rec by @femmenietzsche

Book of the New Sun 

rec by @napoleonchingon

Octavia Butler:

Dawn, rec by @empresszo, @typicalacademic

Parable of the Sower, rec by @st-just

Kindred, rec by @squareallworthy

Angelica Gorodischer:

Kalpa Imperial

epic fantasy in the style of conan the barbarian, we see the stories of an old empire in some nondescript country, a nondescript amount of millenia ago. small vignettes of different time periods within the country. very light in fantasy, basically an entire book of nothing but lore for a D&D campaign

Trafalgar

comedy sci fi. the life stories of a sales man, a guy who goes door to door selling whatever he can, except IN SPACE. all the stories are framed as him in his little bar in rosario with his friends or drinking mate, telling his latests adventures through space.

La saga de los confines by  Liliana Bodoc

lord of the rings except instead of taking inspiration from nordic folk tales is based on the american conquest. see fantasy races and cultures based on the native american population from south america. lots of poetry, lots of cool classic fantasy with a fresh new flavor

(Already read)

la batalla del calentamiento by marcelo figueras

the fantasy here is very understated to the point of it being magical realism but still my top three favourite book of all time. it starts with a man who suffers gigantism receiving a message from heaven delivered by a wolf speaking in latin. the most colorful and endearing little town with the most wacky of habitants open their arms to the guy who is desperatly in search of redemption

homestuck (by Andrew Hussie)

there is really nothing i can say about this that you havent already heard, so im not even going to bother. just give the first arc (which is about a hundred pages long) a change and see where it goes from there

All of the above suggestions by @fipindustries

Ada Palmer. Terra Ignota series (starts with Too Like the Lightning) (seconded by @youzicha)

(read the first one, have the second one but haven’t read it yet)

Jo Walton, Thessaly series (starts with The Just City)

Yoon Ha Lee, Machinaries of Empire series (starts with Ninefox Gambit) (seconded by @terminallyuninspired)

Ann Leckie:

Imperial Radch series (Starts with Ancillary Justice) (seconded by @youzicha and @squareallworthy)

Raven Tower

N. K. Jemisin:

Broken Earth trilogy (starts with The Fifth Season) (seconded by @typicalacademic)

Dreamblood duology (starts with The Killing Moon)

Seth Dickinson, Masquerade series (starts with The Traitor Baru Cormorant)

(Good rec, already read the first one)

Jeff Vandermeer, Southern Reach series (starts with Annihilation)

Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

M. R. Carey, The Girl With All The Gifts

All of the above by @st-just

Le guin:

The Dispossessed, rec by @st-just, @youzicha

The Left Hand of Darkness, rec by @youzicha and @typicalacademic

both also seconded by @squareallworthy

(I love Le Guin, read both of these)

Zelazny: Lord of Light, rec by @st-just

Charles Stross:

Missile Gap.

A Colder War.

Peter Watts, Blindsight

Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather. (I assume. There are multiple books named such)

All of the above by @youzicha

Fonda Lee, Jade City

Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

Shining Path, more thorough rec here.

all by @typicalacademic

Lois McMaster Bujold:

the Vorkosigan Saga

(rec by @omnidistance, seconded by @squareallworthy. Already read all of them, excellent choice)

The Curse of Chalion, rec by @theorem-sorry

Greg Egan:

Permutation City

Orthogonal

above two and “anything else” by him, rec by @saelf

Diaspora, rec by @squareallworthy

The Clockwork Rocket

Physicist discovers relativity in a Riemannian (as opposed to Minkovskian) universe. Also the world is ending.

rec by @jackhkeynes

Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

Dick, The Man in the High Castle

Gaiman, American Gods

Gibson, Count Zero

Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Liu, The Three Body Problem

Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

Niven and Pournelle, Footfall

North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Powers, The Anubis Gates

Wilson, Spin.

All of the above by @squareallworthy

Pratchett, Discworld books (going postal, thud!, unseen academicals, or the wee free men recommended by @acertainaccountofevents, Wyrd Sisters rec’d by @squareallworthy)

Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon & D.O.D.O.

Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life and anything else by him

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (also suggesting this review)

 C.J. Cherryh – The Faded Sun Trilogy.

Honestly not sure there’s anything groundbreaking or unique about it but a solid scifi tale with aliens and politics and it really fleshed out and made me empathize with all the opposing and strikingly different factions.

Taiyao Fujii – Orbital Cloud

A space-related technothriller, quite fun! If you liked the first 2/3rds of Seveneves you’ll probably like this.

Gwynneth Jones – Life.

Story of a woman trying to be the best biologist she can despite a lot of setbacks, bascially. Barely counts as science fiction, really, but I just really like Anna and Spence as characters and their relationship. This a very feminist book, at times quite preachy–but personally it came across as characters being preachy not the author, and therefore much less annoying, but ymmv.

Katherine Addison – The Goblin Emperor.

Fantasy high politics but nice? Like also pretty level headed but not grimdark like fantasy high politics usually is. Also love the worldbuilding, the linguistics, and my precious cinnamon role Maia who deserves good things.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

the most tumblr print book I have ever read. TBH the cover blurb is better than the book but it’s a quick read and enjoyable.

Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl.

Ian MacDonald – The Dervish House.

The twenty-minutes-into-the-future setting has aged weirdly since it was written back when Turkey was trying to join the EU, but I reread it recently and the plot and characters are still compelling.

All of the above by @businesstiramisu

"James S. A. Corey", The Expanse series (rec by @justjohn-jj)

Mariam Petrosyan’s The Grey House

kids and minders in a boarding school for the disabled, their relationships and their setting. Mostly a coming-of-age thing but with a lot of weirdness and some fantastic elements. Extremely readable

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky:

Hard to be a God

Inhabited Island

Roadside Picnic

Stanisław Lem:

Fiasco

Cyberiad

Karim Berrouka’s Fées, Weed & Guillotines

what it says on the tin. Pretty fun. I would suspect his other fantasy mystery novel comedies are good too.

The Invisible Planets anthology

extremely hit or miss, but definitely has its hits.

Bernard Weber’s Les Fourmis

All of the above by @napoleonchingon

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Sarcastic cyborg tries to avoid humans and watch entertainment media all day and perpetually ends up saving some. With all the snark.

rec by @rhetoricandlogic

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North

Guy is born in 1910s, dies at 80 or so… and is born again in the 1910s, and so on. Also the world is ending.

The End and Afterwards, Andy Cooke

A probe to Alpha Centauri, an idealist Nigerian biotechnician, a humdrum English family – and then the world ends.

Against Peace and Freedom, Mark Rosenfelder

50th century interstellar humanity is mostly doing okay. But socionomics doesn’t cover crises, such as the dictatorship that’s taken over Okura, or the unscrupulous tycoon who’s plotting something over on New Bharat. For that we have Diplomatic Agents. Like you.

all of the above by @jackhkeynes

Meta-recommendations:

worldswithoutend.com, their list of lists, and in particular, defining science fiction books of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

@squareallworthy

Jo Walton’s Revisiting the Hugos series. (by @businesstiramisu)

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Davido’s lookalike sparks reactions, fans shocked in disbelief despite having his voice

Davido’s lookalike sparks reactions, fans shocked in disbelief despite having his voice

A popular Nigerian comedian, Cute Abiola has left many people amazed after he struck a pose with a young man who bears a striking resemblance to Davido, Nigerian music superstar. Popularly known as Twin OBO, Cute Abiola stirred opinions after he featured him in one of his comedy skits that saw him disguise as Davido. Most interestingly, apart from the resemblance, the young man’s voice is…

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This is not O.B.O: Davido’s lookalike leaves fans wide-eyed in disbelief amid also having his voice

This is not O.B.O: Davido’s lookalike leaves fans wide-eyed in disbelief amid also having his voice.

A popular Nigerian comedian, Cute Abiola has left many people amazed after he struck a pose with a young man who bears a striking resemblance to Davido, Nigerian music superstar. Popularly known as Twin OBO, Cute Abiola stirred opinions after he featured him in one of his comedy skits that saw him disguise as Davido. Most interestingly, apart from the resemblance, the young man’s voice is almost…

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How WandaVision Acknowledges the Scope of Wanda Maximoff’s Grief

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This article contains WandaVision spoilers.

Marvel’s WandaVision is many things: The story of one of comics’ most iconic couples, a love letter to the American sitcom, and a bizarre, genre-hopping mystery through an alternate – or altered, none of this is super clear just yet – reality.

It’s also the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first real story about grief. Sure, sad things have happened in this franchise before: Multiple characters have died, in satisfyingly heroic (Tony Stark) and frustratingly sexist (Natasha Romanoff, Gamora) ways. Others bear lingering scars from the things that have happened to them, both physical (James  Rhodes) and mental (Bucky Barnes). To put it bluntly: Tragedy is nothing new in this universe. But realistic, extended fallout from it is.

WandaVision is the first time the MCU is actively exploring the consequences – emotional and otherwise – of what it means to be a superhero and doing so by focusing on the Avenger who has ostensibly suffered most of all. From a childhood spent being manipulated by Hydra to an adulthood in which she had to kill the man she loved in the name of saving the universe, Wanda Maximoff has been asked to endure a heck of a lot, often with little reward.

Basically, if anybody deserves the right to hide from their personal trauma in what is essentially a comfort marathon of classic comedies, it’s Wanda, the woman whose entire life has been shaped around her powers and who has paid the price for it over and over again. But WandaVision has shown us repeatedly that its real story isn’t one of escapism, but reckoning.

And in it, we’re finally getting the chance to see the true impact of everything she’s been through – something that goes well beyond just her grief over Vision’s death.

This is a woman who has been erased and ignored, and though she’s appeared in four Marvel feature films, her story has never been centered in any significant way. WandaVision not only acknowledges that fact but attempts to correct it, depicting the scope of her personal trauma in a way that the films have never attempted and doing so in a way that doesn’t judge her for her choices. 

The result is heartbreaking and horrifying by turns, as Wanda gives herself the life she’s always wanted but does so at the expense of everyone around her, including the man she loves.

Most of us went into WandaVision assuming that the show would somehow involve Wanda messing with or otherwise altering reality in response to the events of the last two Avengers movies, essentially so she could resurrect her dead boyfriend. But the reality that Wanda has created is about so much more than Vision, subtly incorporating multiple elements of the dark things that clearly linger in her psyche and have never had the chance to heal.

Throughout the season we’ve seen hints that Westview is about Wanda processing a lifetime’s worth of heartache through the medium with which she apparently feels most comfortable: The safe coziness of television sitcoms. A world where there’s no problem so big that it can’t be solved in thirty minutes, where family really is forever, and in which a happy ending is virtually guaranteed.

But ignoring trauma is not the same thing as facing it, and we see Wanda’s inner turmoil bubble to the surface in the form of the strange commercials that pop up during her broadcasts, featuring products like Stark Industries toasters, Strucker watches, and Hydra Soak bath powder. Not only are these items just downright weird, they all reflect dark elements of Wanda’s own past that she’s apparently still struggling to come to terms with.

What is Lagos?

The ad spot in WandaVision’s fifth installment, however, is a next-level gut-punch. “On a Very Special Episode” features an 80s-style commercial for Lagos paper towels, a brand that markets itself as “For when you make a mess you didn’t mean to.” It’s clearly a reference to the events of Captain America: Civil War, when Wanda accidentally killed a number of innocent civilians while trying to save Steve Rogers – and a bunch of other innocent people – in the Nigerian city of Lagos. Her disastrous mistake is the reason the Sokovia Accords were introduced, and her guilt over this event is one of the few times the MCU has actually attached real consequences to any of its heroes’ actions.

Given how many people blamed Wanda for what happened – and the fact that no one other than Steve has ever really bothered to talk to her about how she felt about it – it makes sense that this is something she’s still carrying with her, and that remorse and sorrow have clearly affected how she’s behaved as an Avenger ever since. Could one reason that everyone is so shocked by the scope of the power that Wanda’s displaying now be because she’s subconsciously tamped down her abilities in the wake of what happened in Lagos? At this point, it would likely make more sense than not. (This is a woman who basically beat Thanos by herself, after all.)

The Return of Pietro

WandaVision also represents the first time we’ve gotten to see Wanda really grieve for her lost twin brother. The MCU’s original Pietro Maximoff was killed during Avengers: Age of Ultron and though we got to see Wanda react to his death in that film, none of the sequels that followed touched on how it impacted her life going forward. In fact, Pietro is pretty much never mentioned again, unless you count the part where Clint Barton names one of his kids after him. Until now, anyway.

Not only does WandaVision allow Wanda to both acknowledge and mourn the absence of her sibling – particularly poignant when she herself gives birth to twins – but it also gives him back to her. Just perhaps not a way she likely would have ever wanted. Because while this is a Pietro, it’s most likely not her Pietro, and Wanda has somehow directly or indirectly ripped a hole in the multiverse and ported the Evan Peters version of Quicksilver over from the FOX X-Men film franchise.

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This would certainly provide a rather obvious lead-in to upcoming Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but it also heaps another pile of potential pain on a woman with more than her share already. If Wanda’s still struggling to make peace with everything from the accident in Laos to Vision’s death, what’s going to happen when she finally realizes the true cost of this picture-perfect world she’s living in?

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Stephen K Amos: ‘The way Modern Family weaves storylines is a masterclass’ | Stage

Stephen K Amos: ‘The way Modern Family weaves storylines is a masterclass’ | Stage

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The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …

The sheer quality of the sketches by Irish comedy troupe Foil Arms & Hog make it hard to single one out.

The funniest book I’ve ever read …

I love a good murder documentary, I love comedy, I have a twin sister and I’m of Nigerian heritage. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite may have been written just for me.

The funniest TV show I’ve…

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Funke Akindele

Full Name: Funke Akindele Ayotunde                         Short biography Funke Akindele is a Nigerian actress and producer. Funke starred in the sitcom I Need to Know from 1998 to 2002, and in 2009 she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She plays the lead character in the show Jenifa's Diary, for which she was named Best Actress in a Comedy at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. Funkee has over 100 movies to her credit as actress, writer, and producer. Background information Born: August 24, 1977(age 41) Birth place: Ikorodu, Lagos, State, Nigeria Nationality: Nigerian Attend: Moshood Abiola Polytechnic        University of Lagos Famous As: Actress, Film Producer Known As: Jenifa Years Active: 1998-present

             Early life and education Akindele was born on August 24, 1977, in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. Funke is the second of three children (two girls and one boy). Akindele's mother is a Medical Doctor while her father is a retired School Principal. Funke obtained an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Mass Communication from the former Ogun State Polytechnic, now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, and got a Law degree from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba.                        Movie Career Akindele came into the limelight after starring in popular United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)-sponsored sitcom I Need to Know, which ran from 1998 to 2002. Funke played Bisi, a curious but highly intelligent secondary school student. Funke Akindele's big break came in 2008 when she appeared in the movie Jenifa. In January 2018, there was a controversy when it was reported that Akindele would get her Hollywood debut in Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War as she was listed as a member of the cast on IMDb. Mainstream Nigerian press reported that she was set to star in Infinity War as the guard Dora Milaje, citing IMDb. Some weeks later her name was replaced with that of fellow Nigerian actress Genevieve Nnaji, with Akindele's upload shown to have been a hack. In February 2018, it was reported that Senate President and Chairman of the National Assembly, Dr Bukola Saraki has advised Marvel Studios to feature Akindele in Infinity War. In July 2016, in an interview she stated she was acting less in the Yoruba film industry at that time because of piracy. Akindele plays the lead character in the ongoing hit TV show Jenifa's Diary, alongside Fisayo Ajisola, Falz, Juliana Olayode, and Aderounmu Adejumoke. The show is a spin-off from the movie Jenifa. The 2018 comedy film Moms at Warstars Akindele and Michelle Dede. She is the CEO of Scene One Film Production.

                     Charity initiative Funke Akindele runs a non-governmental organization known as the Jenifa Foundation, which aims at providing young people with vocational skills.                   Endorsements Funke Akindele has endorsement deals such as her being signed as an Ambassador to Irokotv. Also in 2018, she was signed as brand ambassador for Keystone Bank.

Family and Personal life On May 26, 2012, Akindele married Adeola Kehinde Oloyede. Citing irreconcilable differences, the couple divorced in July 2013. Akindele married Nigerian rapper Abdul Rasheed Bello, known as JJC Skillz, in London in May 2016. Google said that for the week of August 2017, "Funke Akindele pregnancy" dominated search phrases in Nigeria. Through JJC, she has several step-children. With JJC Skillz, she gave birth to twin boys in December 2018.                 Awards and Nominations 2009: Africa Movie Academy Award Nigerian Entertainment Awards for best actress (Jenifa). 2012: Nigerian Entertainment awards best actress ( Troj) Nollywood Movies Awards for best actress (Emi abata) Zulu African Film Academy Awards for best actress (Maami and the return of Jenifa) 2013: Nollywood Movies Awards for best actress,indigenous (Maami) 2014: Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Best Actress in lead role (Agnetta O’Mpa). Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for Best Actress, Comedy (Return of Sheri Koko respectively ). ELOY Awards for Brand Ambassador of the Year (Omo detergent) 2016: Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for best actress in Comedy Role (Jenifa’s Diary) Naija FM awards for sitcom of the year and best actress in comedy (Jenifa’s Diary). In the same year, she also won the Africa Entertainment Legend Awards for Best Actress of the Year (Jenifa’s Diary) Ghana Movies Awards for Best Actress Africa Collaboration ( A trip to Jamaica). 2017: Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for Best TV Series (Jenifa’s Diary). Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Best Lead Actress ( A trip to Jamaica)

       List of Funke Akindele’s Movies Funke Akindele has featured in many Nigerian films both in the Yoruba and English speaking movies. Here’s a list of Movies featuring Funke Akindele Final whistle 1&2 Atlanta 1& 2 Ojo Ketala 1&2 Agbara ife Osuwon Eda Kosefowora Agbefo 1&2 Oba Irawo OKun Ife Yi Edunjobi 1&2 Maku Egun Akandu OmopupaTaiwo Taiwo 1&2 Kakeileku Jenifa Apoti Orogun Atanpako Meta Aje Meta 1&2 Ija Ola 1&2 Iro fun fun Farayola Anointed Liars 1&2 Maami New Horizon Ladies Gang 1&2 Blood is Money A trip to Jamaica Isoken Jenifa’s Diary Read the full article

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President Muhammadu Buhari has played guest to MC Tagwaye who is known to mimic the President in his comedy shows.

the President in his comedy shows. Nigerian Comedian, MC Tagwaye Nigerian comedian popularly known as MC Tagwaye who is known for mimicking President Muhammadu Buhari has finally met with the leader in Daura, Katsina state.

The comedian who is also called Buhari’s doppelganger met Buhari with his twin brother to felicitate with the president in the spirit of the Sallah season. Mc Tagwaye revealed…

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Aki and Paw Paw remake set to hit the cinemas

Nigerian filmmaker, Charles Okpaleke, has revealed that a remake of the 2002 classic comedy film, Aki Na Ukwa, starring Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme, is about to hit cinemas in Nigeria. The Filmmaker in a post on his Instagram page announced the remake, on Wednesday with a poster that read, “Aki & Paw Paw… coming to cinemas soon.” READ ALSO: 2face Idibia and Annie’s daughters, Olivia and Isabella set to launch their clothing line However, Okpaleke did not reveal the cast or when the movie would be released. The original film, Aki na Ukwa, directed by Amayo Philips, starred Iheme as Paw paw and Ikedieze as Aki. The pair featured as mischievous twin brothers on a mission to ruin their father’s attempts at remarrying after their mother’s death. The movie maker’s announcement comes a few days after actors, Iheme and Ikedieze, hinted that they were considering working on a new joint project. https://www.instagram.com/p/COxatyIH2Sq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Read the full article

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Nigeria Comedian Senator Arrives In Accra For Easter Comedy On Saturday At AICC

Nigeria Comedian Senator Arrives In Accra For Easter Comedy On Saturday At AICC

Ace stand-up comedian, Senator has touched down in the capital city of Ghana ahead of the major comedy show on Saturday, April 20 dubbed Easter Comedy. The Nigerian comic arrived with his crew at the plush Kotoka International Airport and was welcomed by a group of media men and celebrity photographers, Twins Don’t Beg of Swag of Africa. Accra is about to experience the best of comedy this Easter…

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Mystery snake and the nation’s comedy of errors By Tayo Ogunbiyi

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Mystery snake and the nation’s comedy of errors By Tayo Ogunbiyi

  The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The play tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth but were eventually united after a series of witty events. Today, the phrase ‘a comedy of errors’ is often used to describe a situation that is so full of mistakes and problems that it seems funny. On that premise, it won’t be out of place to tag our nation as a ‘Land of Comedy of Errors’. Things happen in our clime that you cannot but remember the famous ‘Charley Boy Show’ where anything can happen. Ours is a land of lots of comedies. Hardly have you finished savouring the amusing effect of a particular national humour than you are faced with the prospect of another rib-cracking one. So, it is more of a one day, one comedy scenario. Few months back, the whole world was given a dose of our characteristic hilarious shows when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) discovered a large sum of money in a house in Ikoyi, Lagos. EFCC operatives allegedly found the cash during a sting operation. Specifically, the operatives uncovered about $38m, N23m and £27,000 from the apartment. This comes two days after EFCC operatives recovered €547,730 and £21,090 as well as N5, 648,500 from a Bureau de Change operator in Balogun Market, Lagos. Six days earlier, the EFCC had recovered N449, 000, 860 hidden in an abandoned shop also in Lagos. Prior to these discoveries, several millions of cash in different denominations have been discovered in bizarre places such as water tanks, burial grounds, farmlands among others. While the foregoing scenario might look odd to those in other climes, it isn’t to us here. It simply follows a well known tradition of carefully keeping government fund in ‘choice’ places. Years ago, during the Second Republic, a huge amount of money was discovered at the Government House, Kano. It was then such a big scandal. But, typically, the man at the centre of it all, Barkin Zuwo, the then Kano governor never saw anything strange about the discovery. In his words: “It is simply a case of safe-keeping government money in government house.” As if to authenticate the high rating of the country as a land of plenty comedy, new kid on the block, a sales clerk in the JAMB office, Makurdi, recently added to our long list of rich comedies when she could not account for N36 million she made in previous years before the abolition of scratch cards. While trying to exonerate herself of any claim of complicity in respect of the missing money, she alleged that her housemaid connived with another JAMB staff to steal the money from the vault in the account office through a weird snake. Now, while it is true that ours is a land of bountiful comedy, this latest episode seems to have been a joke taken too far. How did the snake manage to swallow such a huge amount of money? How did it unlock the vault? How did it move the money away from JAMB office? Did it crawl or fly? These are logical questions that every sane mind would want to ask. But then, the situation is an illogical one. It is one that defies logic. This is because a ‘spiritual snake’ is involved, and in the spiritual realm anything can happen! It is, perhaps, in order to confront the issue using the appropriate spiritual approach that the senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, visited JAMB office accompanied by distinguished ‘snake charmers’. Speaking about his mission to the office, Sani said: “I believe that the contribution I can make is to bring snake charmers from my constituency to the JAMB office and to help them fish out the snake and weed out snakes from their premises.” Sani further said that if a snake could actually swallow N36 million, one day Nigerians may wake up to say that a snake had swallowed the country’s foreign reserve. In an obvious response to the weird Makurdi snake event, the EFCC on its official twitter page @officialEFCC added its own colourful dimension to the issue when it twitted that: “an eagle (EFCC) shows no mercy for money swallowing snake(s)”. What the EFCC might, however, have to be really cautious of is that a spiritual snake that is so audacious to have defied a ‘safe’ JAMB vault and could swallow N36 million in one fell swoop would be a tough one for any ‘natural’ eagle to contend with. Since ours is one huge comedy enclave, before long, we shall have another hilarious funny story to deal with. Gradually, the world seems to be taking note of our breathtaking brand of comedy. This is partly why we were once ranked the happiest people on earth.

Ogunbiyi writes from Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos

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Alibaba Is A Proud Father At His Twins Graduation Ceremony

Alibaba Is A Proud Father At His Twins Graduation Ceremony

Acclaimed Nigerian king of comedy and actor, Alibaba, took to Instagram to celebrate his charming twins, Ejiro and Tejiri who graduated from their pre-degree programme.

The day’s celebration is even more special because the young champs crowned it all with with various awards.

True to his nature, the proud father teased that the cost of their graduation gowns are equivalent to his school fees…