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  • Burna Boy reveals how his grand mother inspired his song ‘Thanks’

    Burna Boy reveals how his grand mother inspired his song ‘Thanks’

    Nigerian popular singer, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, fondly called Burna Boy, has revealed that his grandmother is the motivation for his song titled ‘Thanks.’

    ‘Thanks’ is one of the tracks on the singer’s seventh studio album, “I Told Them.”

    In a post via his official X on Sunday, the he said he recorded the song because of his grandmother, who always wanted him to come home but was quick to ask him to leave anytime he visited.

    Speaking of his plans for this year’s Yuletide season, Burna Boy informed his followers that he would be spending December with his grandma.

    “My grandma used to be crying for me to come back home; now she’s on edge, every time I come back home and is already asking when I’m leaving.

    “This is why I made ‘Thanks’. I’m rolling with only her this December for peace to reign.”

     

  • Burna Boy reflects on break-up with Stefflon Don, appreciates grandmother

    Burna Boy reflects on break-up with Stefflon Don, appreciates grandmother

    Afropop singer Burna Boy has announced that no woman loves her as much as his grandmother.

    Burna Boy, who is presently in Amsterdam for his Space Drift concert, took to Twitter to pen a heartwarming note showering love on his grandma.

    Burna as he’s fondly called by fans reflected on his love life with women from his present base in Amsterdam.

    According to him, his grandmother is the reason he believes no girl loves him.

    Burna Boy wrote: “She’s the reason I don’t believe any girl loves me.

    “My Everything!! She is probably the reason I don’t believe any girl loves me. I know what true love feels like.. Grandma’s Love,” he wrote in a tweet.

    “In Amsterdam doing sound check and all I can think of is I just need my grandmother everywhere I go but she cannot understand/handle fans screaming and touching me, or seeing me stressed without crying so hard out of genuine fear and love.”

    Recall that Burna Boy in December 2021 announced he was single, confirming his break up with girlfriend, Stefflon Don.

    Confirming the break-up Burna Boy’s ex-girlfriend Stefflon Don had tweeted in December,2021

    Her tweet reads:

    No matter how much love, Loyalty or how good you treat someone, people are just not solid and scream real but are the fakest. Fame & money changes some ppl. When people show you who they are believe them. As hard as that may be. God sees and knows. People genuinely need prayers.

    — 1DON (@stefflondon) December 21, 2021

  • England forward Bukayo Saka reveals origin of Yoruba name

    England forward Bukayo Saka reveals origin of Yoruba name

    England and Arsenal forward, Bukayo Saka has revealed the reasons his Nigerian grandmother christened him Bukayo

    Saka who was born to Nigerian parents said his grandmother named him Bukayo because she wanted him to bring joy to the family.

    Saka, who graduated from the Arsenal’s Hale End Academy, said his father contributed immensely to his success story in football.

    “My grandma gave it to me because of its meaning,” he told GQ Magazine when asked about his Yoruba name ‘Bukayo’.

    “It means ‘God has added joy to my life.’ She wanted me to add joy to the family, so she named me that…Every time she called me, that’s probably what I meant to her,” he said.

    Saka who has been instrumental to the winnings so far recorded by Arsenal is full of hopes that the London club will make top 4 at the end of the season and play in the UEFA champions League.

  • The shame of a grandmother pimp! – Ozioma Onyenweaku

    The shame of a grandmother pimp! – Ozioma Onyenweaku

    Ozioma Onyenweaku

    When it comes to child sexual abuse we have always maintained that it is those whom the child isclose to and conversant with that turn around to invade the child’s privacy and violate her. While pointing the searchlight at those close to the children as being the child molesters, the searchlight was never expected to spot parents in the picture.

    Even when the searchlight spotted some fathers as violating their children, we never expected grandparents to be part of it. We know we have had cases where fathers raped and impregnated their own daughters; and some even procured abortions for the daughters. Some mothers have also played active role in concealing and covering up such sexual abuses in their homes; all in a bid to ‘protect’ their marriages, and not bring the family to disrepute. I always have issues with women who embark on such a child destruction mission in the name of saving face and marriage.

    The closest I have come to the role of grandmothers in this wicked act of child sexual molestation was the story of the man who was arrested by the police in Delta State who impregnated his 15 year old daughter. We still remember that case, right? The man did not just rape the girl, but impregnated her and procured abortion for her in connivance of his wife, the girl victim’s mother, and grandparents.

    The foul point for me in that event is that the girl victim’s grandparents were aware of the abuse. The girl told her mother, the mother did nothing but only told the girl to keep shut and not say it out to anyone. The girl told her grandmother. Her grandmother also warned her never to say it out to anyone. When pregnancy resulted from the continuous abuse , both parents and grandparents procured abortion for the girl who almost lost her life in the process.

    I have always seen grandparents as the upgraded and lovelier version of parents; having tons of love for their grandchildren. Grandparents are known to be over protective of their grandchildren; they would rather offend their children than offend their grandchildren.

    That was why it was with great pain that I received the news of the 7 year-old girl whose grandmother was using as sex slave. The news actually drew a sharp pain in my heart.

    Members of a vigilante group in a community in Imo State of Nigeria were the ones that arrested one of the molesters of the girl. The accursed grandmother had been collecting money from young men and giving the 7 year old girl to them to have sex with. She has been collecting between one thousand (1000) and one thousand five hundred (1500) Naira from each person she allowed to sleep with the little girl. A 7 year old girl! A grandmother! Who then is a child safe with?

    On which time of the day was this devil of a grandmother created! Why on earth was this devil given the blessing of being a grandmother!

    I have always said it that many children are actually going through a lot in their homes the pains of which only them know and would ever know. How did we get here?

    Quite unknown to many, many girls you see on the streets at night, and hanging out in hotels are victims of several years of sexual abuse from relatives, from a place they called ‘home’. What children encounter at home, in the family, and in the environment shapes and moulds them into who they turn out to be. Deviant parents raise deviant children. Deviant society breeds deviant citizens. It is only the grace of God that is saving so many children in our society.

    I have read about drunkard and gambler fathers who use their minor girls to service their debts. I have also read about a grandmother who indirectly led her granddaughter into prostitution by not being involved in the child’s life as the only parent the child had. She was having a hard time herself and trying to make ends meet. The girl was always alone at home as the grandmother would be at work even at times till late night. So the grandmother was never there herself when the visitors to their home kept taking advantage of the girl being alone at home to sexually abuse the girl. The girl later got wild.

    But this direct involvement, this direct pimping of a 7-year old girl by her own grandmother really got me badly. Some parents really don’t deserve to be called parents. May this grandmother from the pit of hell rot in jail! She simply does not deserve to live.

  • Ex-U.S. President, Barrack Obama loses grandmother ‘Mama Sarah’ in Kenya

    Ex-U.S. President, Barrack Obama loses grandmother ‘Mama Sarah’ in Kenya

    Former US President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama passed away Monday while receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at a hospital in Kisumu, Western Kenya, authorities said in a statement.

    She was 99.

    “The passing away of Mama Sarah is a big blow to our nation. We’ve lost a strong, virtuous woman. A matriarch who held together the Obama family and was an icon of family values,” said Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement.
    ‘Mama Sarah’ as she was popularly known, was the third wife of the former US leader’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama and helped raise the former president’s father, Barack Sr.
    President Obama called her ‘Granny,’ in his book ‘Dreams from My Father,’ and she rose to national prominence in 2006 after the then US senator visited Kenya.
    Obama was received by Mama Sarah in subsequent visits in 2015, when he became the first US president to visit Kenya, and in 2018 after he left office.
    She worked in the past as a cook for British missionaries in Kenya and didn’t own a TV the first time her step-grandson was elected
    The former US president has commiserated with his Kenyan kinsmen over the loss of the matriarch, members of the Obama family said, according to local media reports.
    The late nonagenarian was a devout Muslim, and will be remembered for her philanthropy.
    President Obama’s half sister Auma paid tribute to their grandmother on Twitter.
    “Just lost the most important person in my life – my gran, Mama Sarah,” she wrote. “My heart is broken! But as I write, not able to stop the tears from pouring, I know I was blessed to have her for so long! My inspiration, my rock, my comfort zone, my safe space. Rest in peace Dani! “
    Obama was also renowned for her strides in helping indigent children acquire education in Kenyan communities through her foundation.
    In 2014, she also received the United Nations’ Pioneer Award for her foundation’s efforts in education.
    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that President Obama lost his American maternal grandmother, Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, to cancer in 2008. She was aged 86.
  • Swiss newspaper apologises to Okonjo-Iweala for labelling her ‘grandmother’

    Swiss newspaper apologises to Okonjo-Iweala for labelling her ‘grandmother’

    Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Nigerian Finance Minister and the first woman and African to be appointed as Director-General of the World Trade Organization on Monday welcomed an apology from a Swiss newspaper that had labelled her as a ‘grandmother’ at expense of her professional status.

    “It is important & timely that they’ve apologised,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a tweet.

    The development economist took over as the new WTO chief on Monday after a long, high-powered career serving as minister of finance and foreign affairs in her native Nigeria and 25 years at the World Bank.

    But when several Swiss newspapers announced her appointment last month, they decided the most noteworthy thing to mention about the new WTO chief was as a matriarch.

    “This grandmother will become the boss of the WTO,” read the headline of the article published by the Aargauer Zeitung and several other papers on February 9.

    After a number of women heads of UN agencies and more than 120 ambassadors in Geneva last week signed a petition calling out the headline as racist and sexist, the paper apologised.

    “This headline was inappropriate and unsuitable… We apologise for this editorial mistake,” the paper’s foreign editor-in-chief Samuel Schumacher said in a statement on Friday.

    In her tweet, Ngozi welcomed the apology and said she was “thankful to all my sisters, UN Women Leaders and the 124 Ambassadors in Geneva who signed the petition on calling out the racist & sexist remarks in this newspaper.”

    “We need to call out this behaviour when it happens,” she insisted, decrying “the stereotypes women face when they take on leadership positions.

    She said the headline debacle reflected the problems raised in a book she co-authored with former Australian prime minister Julie Gillard called “Women and Leadership.”

  • Man arraigned for raping grandmother

    Man arraigned for raping grandmother

    The Ondo State Police Command on Tuesday arraigned a 24-year old farmer, Haruna Mohammed, for allegedly raping a 50-year old woman identified as Ibukun Akinlo.

    Haruna was arraigned at an Akure Magistrate Court on a one count charge of rape.

    He was said to have committed the offence on July 8, 2020 along Lalepa/Akinfosile road at Igbotako area of Ondo State.

    Police Prosecutor, Inspector Augustine Omhenimhen, said the offences were punishable under section 358 of the Criminal Code CAP 37 Volume 1 Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria 2006.

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    Inspector Omhenihen urged the court to remand the accused person pending legal advise of the Department of Public Prosecution.

    The plea of Haruna was not taken.

    Presiding Magistrate, Rasheedat Yakubu, remanded Haruna to the custody of the State Criminal Investigation Department pending legal advice from DPP.

  • Ooni of Ife loses grandmother

    Ooni of Ife loses grandmother

    Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has announced the passing away of Madam Comfort Olasoji (Soji-Opa), his maternal grandmother.

    She was 103 years old.

    Ooni’s Spokesman, Moses Olafare said the woman died Saturday night in her home in Ile-Ife.

    “Mama Agba’, as fondly called, gave up the ghost at her residence in Ile-Ife last night Saturday 7th, 2020 at the ripe age of 103 years.

    “The industrious old woman during her lifetime was a prominent trader who majored in food stuffs at Oja Itaakogun, Oja Titun and other markets in Ile-Ife and environs during her active days.

    “Her uprightness and goodness as a genuine family woman and disciplined Christian earned her the enviable position of Iyaale-Opa (Matriarch of Opa’s Compound) and Alatunse of Ethiopian Church, Ile-Ife through which she meritoriously served her creator and humanity.

    “Mama would be greatly missed by all, especially her immediate family, relatives, members of Opa’ Compound (Ile Opa) members of the church, the market women all of whom she devoted her whole lifetime to in service till she took her last breath last night”. he said.

    Madam Olasoji was born in 1907 to Chief and Mrs Aina Akinyemi of the Ajigbayin Compound of Ile-Ife.

    She is survived by many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

    The late Ooni’s grandmother is scheduled to be buried on Saturday, 13th June, 2020 at her residence in Ile-Ife.

  • I sold my daughter’s child to reduce her burden, pregnant grandmother reveals

    I sold my daughter’s child to reduce her burden, pregnant grandmother reveals

  • [Video] Obama visits Kenya, dances with his grandmother, half sister

    [Video] Obama visits Kenya, dances with his grandmother, half sister

    Immediate past President of the United States of America, Barack Obama visited his father’s ancestral village in Kenya’s south-western Siaya county on Monday and danced to some traditional music with his grandmother in his first visit to the country since leaving office.

    Obama is in Kenya to launch a youth centre set up by his half-sister Auma Obama.

    Kenyan television showed the former U.S. president pulling his grandmother, Sarah Obama, clad in traditional garb, onto the dance floor and getting down to some music.

    Obama, America’s first black president and a favourite in Africa, was also shown touring the Sauti Kuu Centre, sporting a casual white shirt and a pair of shades.

    Locals hoping to get a glimpse of Obama lined the roads near the centre, with one school girl telling Kenya’s NTV “I’m happy to see our elder brother come today.”

    After Obama arrived in the country on Sunday, he met with President Uhuru Kenyatta, who tweeted “It was great to welcome you back @BarackObama.”

    The former president will head to South Africa on Tuesday to give a key speech for Nelson Mandela’s centenary – his first major public address since leaving office.