Bulletproof blankets are now being marketed at American school kids to help them survive massacres 

• UPDATED 12:48, 7 DEC 2015
• BY SIMON CARR

The Bodyguard Blanket, made by ProTecht, comes in different sizes and gives youngsters something to cower behind during shooting attacks

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Bodyguard Blanket

Killing: New blanket aims to protect children from school shootings

This is a chilling indictment of modern society.

Regular mass shootings in schools and a powerful gun lobby can make the US a scary place.

The answer, for one firm, has been to make bulletproof pads for pupils harnessing materials used by the military.

The Bodyguard Blanket, made by ProTecht, comes in different sizes and gives youngsters something to cower behind when the next disaffected killer goes on a murderous rampage.

The company said on its website: "Bodyguard blanket can be easily fastened around a child or adult, and is amazingly lightweight.

The Brazilian billionaire living in a rat-infested jail

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© Reuters Andre Esteves, July 2014

Twelve days ago, Andre Esteves moved into a cell with concrete beds. His head was shaved. Some of his fellow lodgers are rats, attracted by the landfill next door.

The 47-year-old is still a billionaire, but one using a collective squat toilet in a unit of the notorious Bangu penitentiary complex on the edge of Rio de Janeiro. Outside, smells from sewage ditches blend with whiffs of deep-fried tidbits women buy for their incarcerated husbands from a clutch of vendors near the entrance. Inside, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Grupo BTG Pactual, Latin America’s largest independent investment bank, washes with bar soap cut into slices by guards looking for contraband.

Esteves’s detention, along with the incarceration in June of the head of Brazil’s largest construction conglomerate, has spread more than a little schadenfreude in a country accustomed to impunity for white-collar offenders. The executives are symbols of a generation of corporate leaders who profited from a boom that turned Brazil into the largest developing economy after China. A corruption probe sent them to prison to await trial, helped throw the country into a deep recession and left President Dilma Rousseff fighting for her political survival.

Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, a lawyer representing Esteves, said the reaction isn’t surprising. “People usually hate bankers,” he said. He’s confident about his client, who has denied charges that he obstructed the corruption probe.

“He has a very steady character,” Castro said, “but of course no one wakes up normal at Bangu 8 if one is innocent.”

Esteves -- who once joked that BTG stood for Better than Goldman -- was arrested on Nov. 25 as part of a pay-to-play corruption probe called Operation Carwash that has engulfed state-run oil giant Petrobras and some of the country’s largest builders. The alleged scheme inflated prices for construction projects and kicked money back to Petrobras officials and others.

There have been more than 110 arrests since March 2014, including of Senator Delcidio do Amaral, the first of a sitting federal lawmaker since the military dictatorship that ruled the country until 1984. Four former top Petrobras officials have spent months in a six-cell temporary federal jail.

Before Esteves, the most prominent executive taken into custody was Marcelo Odebrecht, the CEO of Odebrecht SA, a family-owned construction company that has thrived on government contracts. The 47-year-old Odebrecht is incarcerated in a district close to Curitiba, the capital of Parana state, in a prison with space set aside for Carwash defendants. Among the personal possessions he’s allowed to keep in his cell are four pieces of underwear, three white T-shirts, six chocolate bars and eight sheets of letter-size paper, according to local government officials. (A judge accused him of using one sheet of the paper to pen a note asking his lawyers to erase an e-mail about oil-rig contract that mentioned BTG. Odebrecht has denied doing so.)

At the penitentiary in Bangu, famous for bloody gang violence featured in Brazilian movies including “Tropa de Elite,” Esteves is in a unit called Bangu 8 that is reserved for inmates with college degrees. Unlike the men and women in the 26 other units, he might be alone in his cell, which has more than 12 beds. There are typically no more than 60 inmates in Bangu 8 at any one time, according to prison officials, and the facility was built for more than 200.

There are other perks: There’s a canteen, where a liter of Coca-Cola sells for 10 reais, about twice as much as on the outside. But visitors can’t bring inmates containers of farofa, a traditional dish of flour, bacon and eggs, because they can too easily hide rocks of crack cocaine. And while men locked up in Bangu 8 usually aren’t subjected to head-shaving, something regularly done in overcrowded sections for sanitary reasons, Esteves’s locks were shorn a few days ago, according to Castro, his lawyer.

He said it happened after reports Esteves was getting special treatment. Local media outlets said Lilian Esteves, his wife, had been allowed to bring him a favorite codfish dish from Antiquarius, an upscale restaurant across from Rio’s Leblon beach. Castro said that was incorrect, describing Lilian Esteves’ prison-visiting drudgery as like any other inmate’s relative.

All items brought into Bangu are carefully inspected, with oranges peeled and sectioned, strawberries cut in half and cakes into pieces. If someone gives Esteves a tube of toothpaste, it’s squeezed out into a see-through plastic bag, to ensure nothing forbidden is hidden in the goop.

“He deserves it,” said Roberto Duarte, 25, who sells beverages and snacks on the beach in Ipanema where Esteves has an ocean-view apartment. “Rich people have the power in this country. Don’t you think he has air-conditioning in there?”

There are skeptics about how hard he has it, among them Joana Pereira, a 43-year-old secretary who tried last week to visit her boyfriend, who was in Bangu 8 for failing to pay child support. She said she couldn’t get in, because she didn’t have a visitor’s badge, which can take up to a month to obtain, or a signed authorization from the prison director. There were no roadblocks for Lilian Esteves, Pereira said in disgust. “The banker’s wife got in a day later.”

However Esteves is being treated, just the fact he’s behind bars is enough for some. “I wouldn’t say Brazil is changing, but showing a new face,” said Paulo Machado, 58, who works with Duarte on the beach in Impanema. “Rich people are going to jail now, and before that wouldn’t happen.”

See the faces of the bastards , the murderers, who killed Tourism in Jos ! By wale Ojo Lanre

See the faces of the bastards , the murderers, who killed Tourism in Jos !
By wale Ojo Lanre
Culled from Tourism Movement of Nigeria
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Can you see the faces of murderers ? 
They thought that they have done a great thing
For killing a Lion
A spectacle that has kept the tourism spirit alive in
At Jos Wildlife for decades
Who escaped due to carelessness or negligence
From its 20 something years enclave
Dangerous its escape was
Yes .
Dangerous it would be as envisaged
But killing is not the remedy
And if killed
Not to celebrate
Yes it is an animal
A carnivore of first grade
Known to be one with its ferociousness
But had it been we are serious
We should have made a
Preparatory providence
For the day of eventuality
Like this case
Tranquillizers should have been made available
To sleep in the adventurer Lion
Back to its enclave
And continue his acts
But just because of negligence
Which is the symbol of the nation
A national systemic malaise
They killed tourism
And the bastards rejoice , flaunt their
Murderous gallantry
Insulting our sensibilities
And killed the passion
Of Tourism in Jos
They must be tried
Murderers
They are all
Not heroes
They should be tried
The bastards
( Sorry for the use of the words ....i am weeping )

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AUDU ABUBAKAR ! The God's refusal of evil to triumph . By wale Ojo Lanre

AUDU ABUBAKAR ! The God's refusal of evil to triumph 
NO one can cheat God 
THE LORD IS ON THE THRONE 
I fear God .
I awe HIM 
He is a just God
Though patience and slow in dishing reward
But , HE , God our Lord is alive
Like he said , He will reward everyone according to deeds
He is never a Liar
God does not deceive .
He does not live up to our expectation
Except his own expectation
He cannot be stampeded
He does whatever at his own time .
Our heavy laden propaganda is not not his
Our deceptive outlook and norms
Has nothing to do with his judgement
He will do it at his own time .
No evil man will go unpunished
The norm that " the good that men do should live after them "
Has encouraged the preponderance of evil men to thrive
For you don't talk ill of the dead
Even , if he had committed blue murder
A sainthood status is hung on him
But that is for us human
Not for God
The almighty , who punishes on Earth
And dumps evil does into dungeon of fire in hell .
The death of Abubakar Audu
Should be a lesson to all
All of us in Nigeria
A bitter lesson to all the politicians
Who believe they are commanders of commanders
Who are of the illusion that they can do and undo
Just because of ill-gotten gains and sleaze fortunes
Which has transformed them to political and economic Mahoganies
Four days to the election in Kogi
Which would have ushered in Late Audu Abubakar
As a third time Governor of Kogi State
In a discussion with some friends
I wondered aloud ' If God would allowed Governor Abubakar to rule the state again ? '
Prince Segun Akanni , Otunba Femi Davies who thought I share the same political affiliation with the late Audu Abubakar were shocked .
I reeled out my opinion of the man
And I wished that such 'EVIL would never be enthroned in Kogi again'
As the results from the voting centre were trickling in the subsequent days
I never doubted the Lord .
He never disappointed the nation
Like he did of Mohammed Abacha
Like the fate of MKO Abiola
a lesson for all
bitter lesson for that particular one
who think he has the aces now
God cannot be mocked
whatever we sowed , we shall reap
....and to tell us his mightiness in the case of Abubakar Audu
his innocent son who should have reaped the ill deserving gain
Has been shoved out of the way .
The Lord liveth .
May God forgive us all
particularly
Me a hopeless sinner !
Happy Sunday !

Lead City University ,Ibadan , Law Students Association EXCO emerges

 Lead City University ,Ibadan , Law Students Association EXCO emerges !
The Executive Council of the Law Students Association , Lead City University , Ibadan , Oyo state has emerged .
The names of the successful students who have been found competent in knowledge , culture , deeds and character were made known today by the Sub - Dean , Mrs Ajayi.
Those who emerged are Engineer Akinyele Abiodun, - President
Oluwo Tolu -Vice - President
Bamigbade Atinuke -General Secretary
Aina Ebuun -Treasurer
Babawibe Gbenga - Social Director
Adepoju Maltida -Welfare Director
Olaolu Oluwaji Assistant General - Secretary
Barde Frank Financial Secretary

Wale Ojo Lanre Public Relation Director

Mrs Ajayi revealed that , the process of emergence was put into motion since the last session when those in 300 .
" we have to rigidly follow the rules as laid down by the faculty and dictated by the Legal profession . The successful candidates have been sieved and passed through the benchmark of excellence according to the rules of emergence "

The shameful act of ex - Donald Duke !

The shameful act of Donald Duke 

Donald Duke: When I See Public Office Holders Misbehaving, Probably, They Do Not Have a Good Wife or a Good Marriage

As governor, I was on call 24/7 sometimes. I got very angry and could take my anger on anyone. So, my chief of protocol bore the brunt one day. I had a reception for guests, and he placed them in rooms not the way I would have done it, but he didn’t do anything wrong. He used his own judgment. I would have done it the other way, but I over reacted, I spoke ve ry harsh to him. While I was doing this, my wife walked in, and didn’t say a word. She goes in, does some other things in my office and leaves. When I got back home in the evening, I’ve forgotten about it. It’s just a normal event in the day. And she said to me the way I spoke to this guy was wrong and that I have to go and apologise to him. She said I had no reason to speak to anyone like that. I said what! He did this and she said ‘yes, I heard everything. The way you would have done it was different, but he didn’t do a bad thing. He used his discretion. So, what are you going to do? You have destroyed that. Tomorrow he is not going to do anything discretionally.
He would wait for others and then you will get irritated at that. You have made him lose his self-confidence and that is wrong. You need to go and apologise to him. Why should you speak to someone like that? Because you are governor?’ I ignored her. I was in my room still fuming and she came back, and said I had to do it that night and not tomorrow because I kept saying I would do it tomorrow. She said no, tonight. That he was not going to sleep well and so I did not have the right to sleep well when he was not sleeping well.
I said ok. We got into the car and we drove to his house. I knocked on the door. His wife turned in. They were about to go to bed. She was in her night gown. She saw me and was scared with the expression of ‘Okay you have come to fire my husband finally’. The guy came down stairs petrified. My wife and I walked in. The wife wanted to get up and leave. I told the guy I was sorry. They all got emotional but I got relief. It was like a load had been taken off me. I still get upset with things going up wrong, but I don’t get to a point I don’t feel I am too big to say sorry.

Sonbeam Prep school , Ibadan visits South West Tourism Sites

Sonbeam Prep school  , Ibadan visits South West Tourism Sites

October 21, 2015

By Wale Ojo Lanre 

Nigerian Tribune 

   

Pupils of Sonbean Prep School at Idanre Hills

 For students to be well educated, they must have not only passed through the school, but also allowed the school to pass through them.

Education is incomplete if it is restricted to the curriculum without a full dose or half a dose of extra-curricular activities and engagements.

And no institution or educational body worth its salt will ever plan educational programme without injection of extra –curricular activities for total development of the students.

Although, some privately-owned institutions particularly in the primary and secondary sectors are not in tune with the stated opinion above as they consider extra-curricular activities as waste of time thus end up producing one way traffic students who are sound in academic, but deficit and deficient in mannerism, cosmopolitanism, civil responsibility and obligation and absolutely oblivion of essential history sites and stories of societal importance.

However, there are a few private institutions which tenaciously ensure that whoever passes through their walls will not only be found worthy in academics, but fit and proper in extracurricular, values and ethics and civil responsibilities.

 Sonbeam Preparatory School , New Bodija, Ibadan is one  which has distinguished itself from others  by ensuring that any pupil passing through it is sound  in academics and well grounded  in extra-curricular activities.

It is one school which fervently believes in the testament that ‘Travelling is not only part of education, but an integral part of the educational system which must be religiously embraced and experienced by its students.

Hence, since its inception, the school has made it a policy of conducting their students on both local and international tour not just for the fun of it, but in furtherance of knowledge acquisition and environmental awareness.

In line with  the policy,   the Proprietor of the School, Mrs Bunmi O, Obajimi accompanied by  two medical doctors, security officers and a parent,  led some students of the school on a “Tour for Knowledge “to Ooni of Ife’s palace, a national museum and Obafemi Awolowo University Museum, all in, Ile-Ife,  State of Osun, Erin-Ijesa Waterfall, Erin-Ijesa, State of Osun, Ikogosi Warm and Cold Spring, Ikogosi-Ekiti State and Idanre hills, Idanre, Ondo State. The tour facilitated a robust interaction between the students and some scenic and cultural heritage sites of the South-West part of the country.

The young stars were taken round the Ooni of Ife’s palace where they were informed with support of historical relics why Ile-Ife is being credited as the Cradle of Civilisation and the source of the world.

They also fed their eyes with antiquities and historical monuments being protected at the National Museum, Ile Ife as well as the precious ones being stored at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife respectively.

Having being grounded in  History  of Yoruba land and seeing with their own eyes evidential materials which supported the glory of the Yoruba race, the students also travelled to Erin-Ijesa, the State of Osun where they had a fascinating moment at the site of Erin Ijesa Waterfall.

 The students were dazzled at The Ikogosi Warm and Cold Spring Resort in Ekiti State as they touched and felt with their own hands warm water and cold spring flowing side by side and converged at a point.

The geographical knowledge of the students were broadened and enriched by the time they got to Idanre Hills in Ondo State when they saw the relics of the old Idanre and heard the story of how the people lived on the hills for several years

Acknowledging the benefit of the tour, Master Demilade Ogunbode said “I specially thank Mummy (Mrs Obajimi) for creating this unique opportunity of visiting these wonderful places which we only got to read in books. But now, I am privileged not only to have read them, but to have visited them and seen them with my own eyes. I can now write with vivid description and speak boldly of these places if and whenever the time arises. I have learnt a lot and fed my eyes with spectacular things which will remain in my memory forever”

To Enifeolorun Pinheiro “The whole package was not only educative, informative but also inspiring. It is learning and having fun all the way from Ibadan to Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states. We cannot quantify what we gained during the tour. We had interaction with theory and reality. We went, we saw and we are happy... We resumed to school, refreshed, lively and better exposed. Kudos to Sonbeam School, kudos to Mummy Obajimi and kudos to our parents who strive hard to put us in a school where total education is the watchword!  

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S/West Hoteliers will change the face of hospitality service —Jamiu Talabi by Wale Ojo lanre

S/West Hoteliers will change the face of hospitality service —Jamiu Talabi

October 21, 2015

   

Mr Talabi  Bosede Jamiu the Public Relations Officer, (PRO) South-West Hoteliers Association is a thorough bred hotelier who is not only grounded in the business, but has exposed himself to the cosmopolitanism of service delivery in hospitality business . His two hotels, Onas Hotel and Bose Talabi Guest House, all in Lagos have been identified as centre of excellence in service delivery. Talabi in an interview with WALE OJO-LANRE laid bare some of the challenges facing hotel business in Nigeria at the maiden Retreat  of South West Hoteliers Association held in Abeokuta last week.

Programmes like these are designed for a purpose.  Can you tell us what you intend to achieve with the retreat organised for hoteliers in the Southwest?

One of the reasons we formed the association is to ensure unity of purpose, have a common vision and pursue the vision from a coordinated platform recognised by all.  Secondly, we believe having an association which is legally recognised in law and by law will provide and facilitate quick access to the government at all levels. You will agree with me that it will also earn   us the needed visibility which we needed to assert the association   as a strong player on the economic field of the nation. Most importantly is the fact that we are coming together to change the face of hospitality service in the South West.

Why the South West? 

The South west is the major gateway to Nigeria either by air, sea or land. After the plane and the taxi, the next connect of a visitor is the hotel. The hotel to us is the country’s first impression manager after the airport. The hotel tells it all. It tells the visitors what the country is without asking anybody. Thus we are emboldened not only to make more money, but to set the pace in service delivery and image improvement of the country.

Do you think you can achieve this?

Yes, we can  and we have started. Going by the turn out for this programme  which planning kicked off just a few weeks ago via a suggestion at a gathering , and the turnout is as populous as this? This is the maiden edition.  Even, going by the responses to posers on the frequency of such retreat, going by the presence of government officials from almost all the states in the South West, Lagos did not only come to warm the seats, but offered meaningful goodwill messages, all these are pointers to the fact that the association has come to stay.  You heard the response when the question was asked how often they want this retreat. Despite my personal belief that it should be once in two years, but the response was, no, it should not be once in a year, just to show the popularity of the retreat. It showed that despite the fact that it is a maiden edition; the majority has seen the import and usefulness of such an association and holding a retreat.

 It is also an indication that those that have attended the programme are going home more learned, more enlightened and of course they won’t go home the same and of course many of them won’t mind having this kind of event every month.

Don’t you think it is almost too late for you coming together now?

I don’t think so. Nothing is too late. It  is not that we do not have platform where we meet, we have this association in the states. But we believe we can achieve better having a regional platform and a powerful regional voice which can and should encourage regional integration, development and growth in the hospitality sector. It will also accentuate regional business networking and wealth. This is the time for us to pool our efforts together for sustainable growth.

But do you agree with the opinion that Nigerian hotels are sub-standard? 

I will shock you here, I am sure you are expecting me to say with anger or passion that yes it is true or false, far from this. However, I don’t want you to fall into the fallacy of generalisation and stigmatisation neither do I want you to go away with the notion of unbridled patriotism nor selfish economic patronage.  98.5 per cent hotels in Nigeria are run by Nigerians. Are you now telling me that all the hotels in Nigeria are sub-standard? All these depend on taste, perception, indoctrination and propaganda. I am a well travelled person and I stay in hotels for variety and experience. I have been to the four points, five stars, the rated and unrated just for me to feel the service and I came to the conclusion that Nigerian—run hotels are not on the lower part of the ladder. Yes. Though we are not just there yet, but we are not at the back seat. The problem that militated against us being there yet is infrastructure—sourcing for water, and security. Then, tell me why you will be in my hotel that I should ration supply of light or water? I am not saying that happens in my hotel, but I am telling you the rating indices adopted or assumed by the so called rating agency. Yet, we are not in the deep. I was in Ghana, and I slept in four hotels in two weeks and my experience is .......so Nigerian hotels are not bad after all.  Yet I agree there is room for improvement. This is one of the reasons why we came up with this regional formation.

From observation some of the giants in the industry are not here, why? Are they not aware or they are not members of Hoteliers Association of Nigeria?

What do you mean by the giants? Let me first inform you that we have two associations. We have Hoteliers Association of Nigeria and Hotel Employers Association of Nigeria, the so called giants belong to that group. Obviously majority of us here considered ourselves to be medium and small scale hoteliers.

The issue of multiple taxation and other challenges facing hospitality sector were addressed at the conference and solutions are being proffered, how you will ensure that the resolutions not end on the paper?

Yes, we are going to come out with a communiqué that will be forwarded to all the state governors in the Southwest and luckily for us particularly those of us from Lagos State we had the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Arts Culture and Tourism here. In a couple of days apart from presenting the communiqué to the governor through her, we will pressurise her to look into the communiqué and see what they can do for us on multiple taxation and help the industry to grow.

We started barely two years ago, various states have started more than 10 years ago and we cannot just start one day and the following day we put up a programme. We need to take one step after the other and that is what we have done and thank God for the outcome of this event programme.

What is the membership strength of the southwest Hoteliers Association?

 The membership strength for now is over 10, 000, and we still have a whole lot outside the fence and I am sure by the time we have the outcome of this, many of those out there will start calling us.

What do you think will attract other people in the industry to join the association?

 The attraction is the fact we have been able to bring ourselves together which will attract those outside the fence. The fact that we are poise to enhance their service delivery and network business for them, bear part of their burden in respect of challenges, care and advocate for those values that will ensure them making more business in a less cumbersome way than before. The fact that they now belong to a regional association which they can cry to when depressed. The fact that there is an umbrella association where they can run to during rain and hotter sunshine, that South West Hoteliers Association is about their business growth, welfare and development on a practical mode will lure them. Hotel service and delivery in the South West is in for a revolution.

La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort ,Nigeria , hosts Felabration with London Afrobeat Collectives : By Wale Ojo Lanre

La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort , hosts Felabration with London Afrobeat Collectives

October 21, 2015 , By Wale Ojo Lanre 

Nigerian Tribune 

Ambassador Wanle Akinboboye dancing with some of the foreign visitors

The Coconut trees which sprout happily  on  the sandy beach of Atlantic Ocean in,  Ikegun  Village, Ibeju Lekki, Area, Lagos State were, on Saturday, 17 October, 2015,  rustled by the vibes and beats bellowing  from the hi-tech musical instrument compacted by ZMirage to blow the vibes from the corps of artistes  arranged to commemorate the death of Afro beat ‘gospeller’ Fela Anikulapo Kuti at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort.

The President,  La Campagne  Tropicana Beach Resort, Ambassador Wanle Akinboboye, a pan – African  who believed that Africans should use her enormous cultural – tourism potentialities to retrieve and reinstate whatever the years of colonialism must have taken away invited eminent and distinguished Nigerians, diplomats, tourism buffs  to the resort to celebrate the golden human of Afrobeat late Fela Anikulapo, packaged as “FELABRATION TOURISM ‘Ambassador Akinboboye   ensured that the set up for the programme showcased indigenous inputs and materials. The stage hosted several carvings, effigies,  masks  and other materials which sell the cultural heritage of Africa.

He pointed out that late Fela Anikulapo was one of the most foremost cultural – tourism ambassadors “who unfortunately we could not celebrate while alive, but who suffered persecution. Thus we spare nothing today in packaging a befitting remembrance and commemorations.

True to his words, the Felabration Tourism Night will stay a long while in the memories of those who partook of the night.

The stage  was carved out from the epicentre  of a building planted inside a colony of Coconut trees which shot out in a rectangular form  on which were foisted the musical instruments for churning wonderful performance.

The flood gate of the night of fun was opened by Olo Omoge Onibata, from the Atunda Musical Group who thrashed the bata as if there was a deep seated hatred between her and the drum which the night provided an avenue of revenge.

“I cannot believe this. I have never seen a lady beating the bata in this form.  Not only did she beat the bata skilfully and masterly, she danced, sang and controlled the stage perfectly well with non-verbal gestures which ensured seamless synchronisation of vocal, instrument and stagecraft. This is sheer talents on parade,” said Thompson Sean, a Briton who was a guest.

The night was spiced by two comedian and stand up artistes, MC Kirikiri who ensured spewed out rib-cracking jokes, which was fuelled by Koko, a Port Harcourt-based Comedian who had to leave his Garden City to spice the night in Lagos for Felabration Tourism.

As Olo Omoge Onibata was  wildly applauded out of the  stage for a scintillating and exciting tall  performance, the guests were  dazzled by the sonorous voice of a tall, beautiful Anu, the only girl who beat the Ikwue musical instrument  as if  she was there when the instrument was designated for festival.

The artistes from the stable of Atunda Entertainment Group raised the bar of the night mood so high by their spectacular performance and stagecraft wizardry which was however lifted up by the visiting London Afrobeat Collectives.

The London Afrobeat Collectives is the world renowned Afrobeat dispenser based in the UK which is made up of eight whites and a black lady, Funke Akindele from Ibadan, Oyo State, who is the lead singer.

This group rendered effectively some of late Fela’s songs with passion and dexterity which lured some of the guests jumping up doing the songs Fela’s way.

As the music was hitting the waves and the cool breeze from the Atlantic Ocean was tending the nerves of the guests, the bonfire put in place moderated the environment which engendered the total consummation of fun on a grand style.

By the time it was getting hotter, the cloud was brightened with sporadic, colourful and fascinating fireworks which spread unto the sky like a canopy of many colours spread on bare ground, a memory which all went with to sleep.

As if the night event was not enough, Ambassador Akinboboye on the morning of Sunday 18, October woke up the guests on a tour of the African resort and offered a superlative breakfast beside the swimming pool facing the beach.

Ambassador Akinboboye beat the imagination of the guests who were, having sumptuous meals when their breakfast was neatly interlude by a cultural group whose songs and music lured the men and women on the tables to their side.

The Ondo State Cultural Group treated the visitors and guests to a wonderful and soul lifting indigenous music and songs which the foreigners could not ignore as they took over the dancing floor.

Zabaka Thompson, one of the foreign visitors declared “This has been one of my best of time on earth. I am happy to be here. I am happy to be at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort. I am happy I witnessed the colourful FELABRATION Tourism which was packaged by Ambassador Akinboboye and most intriguing is the spectacular breakfast spiced with the group from Ondo State. I am happy to be in Nigeria, I am happy.”

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Wisdom from Usi Ekiti !

Wale Ojo Lanre

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Wisdom from Usi Ekiti !
Wale Ojo Lanre @ Lara Wise , that is why in Usi Ekiti , our parents always advice us not to 'marry 'a girl on a festival day . kete omo li suan lojo oro ( all ladies are presentable on festival days ) !
I can now see the reason
Thank you my Late grandmother Eye Oluru , Usi
I realised better now 
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Lara Wise, ( Originality from Lara Wise )
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Pix 1 lady sits beside you at a social function., in a public bus or train, in a cafe, church, or is even a colleague at work.
Scenario 2.
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Chances are the pix 2 will get more heads turning, will get more requests for phone, BBM, email contact requests than pix 1.
Reality check.. Pix 1 is the real person.
This is how she sleep, shower, cook, do our laundry...
Pix 1 is the product.
Pix 2 is the 'gift bag'.
Testosterone, pix 1 is what you are going to live with. 😁
Guys and gentlemen.... Make your choice!!!