Gospel Singer Yinka Ayefele Narrates How His Father Died

The sad news broke out weeks after the famous musician and his wife had welcomed their third child.
Speaking recently with City People, Yinka said that his father, a renowned teacher in Ipoti Ekiti who rose to the post of Headmaster before his demise, knew he would die soon, which happened on the day of his 76th birthday.
When asked about how it happened, the singer said:

“I believe Baba (father) had premonition of his death, he knew he was going to die because he called me a week before his demise that he wanted to celebrate his birthday. I was very happy because he had never celebrated his birthday before. Even when he clocked 70, I wanted to celebrate his birthday for him, and I told him I want to put something together for him, and stopped me from doing it, because he was of the belief that anybody who celebrates birthday won’t live long. So I was very surprised when he called me to tell me that he is planning to celebrate his 76th birthday.”
Yinka disclosed that his father also called his siblings to invite them and called him again October 11, a day before the birthday.
The artiste continued narrating in detail everything that happened already on Sunday:
“I got to Ipoti around 12 noon and he was already in the church, so I just went straight to my own house and waited for him to come back from church. I called him few minutes later to tell him that I am around and he was so excited. Usually, my father comes to my house whenever I am in Ipoti, even if I didn’t tell him that I am around, once he sees that the there is light in my house , he will know that I am around and he will just come over . So I asked him that where are we going to meet , because my car cannot get to his house , and he told me to park anywhere that he will come and meet me , and I said I am going to park on the main road close to his house .When I got there I saw him waiting for me already on the main road .When I saw him , he was looking very good and very healthy.”
They exchanged some jokes, which Yinka said they usually did, after which Pa Ayefele squeezed his son’s hand showing Yinka his arm.
“And I said Baba , you are looking smaller , and he said this is how I am going to go back to my creator, and I was like what are you saying ? Before I went to Ekiti , I told my tailor to do him a heavy Agbada, so I took it home and gave it to him and he was so happy . When he received it he prayed for me and said “you are our father now, you are our leader and we are all happy with you”. I gave everybody around money, and I left .About seven minutes after I had left Ipoti, they called me that Baba Ayefele is gone, I was like this can’t be true. They rushed him to Federal Medical Centre, Ido . I asked them to give the phone to the doctor, and the doctor said they are waiting for me because they want to pack him. I said pack who ?, I just left him not quite long. That was how it happened.”
He confessed that the news was a big shock for him; his father was believed to be  in good health and had never suffered from serious sicknesses before his passing.

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Nollywood Actor Jim Iyke Declares His Political Ambitions.

Nollywood Actor Jim Iyke has revealed he’s nursing a political ambition. Speaking with the Daily Independent Newspaper, Jim Iyke he has


joined the Young Democratic Party as its Director General in the Diaspora.
He told the Us about his intentions, saying;

‘We just want to say enough is enough. It is time power and our policies shift hands to fresher minds, to stronger fortes, to people that are ready to move with the momentum of time, tide and changes. But it cannot be conceivable if you are saddled in that position for over two decades? How can you grow? How can you go with the tide of time? Biologically too, time will catch up with you because you are growing old in that position.
“Look at advanced countries of the world, and take a close look at people that have moved forward, these are people who have put things in place so that changes will be constant. Refreshment of minds, ideas, psychology, idiosyncrasies will be constant except for Nigeria.
“The same circle of people that governed us 20 years ago are the same people who are still ruling us, what are they still doing there? So many of them are in their 80s, grandfathers by all rights! Are they not tired? Suffering and smiling has become our motto, our slogan”, Iyke lamented.
“There are black men of strong background and strong voice abroad. We have them everywhere. There is a rippling effect, that whatsoever resonates here touches the whole world. This is the strongest economy, the most populous black nation in the world. You cannot say that what we are doing concerns Nigerians alone. It concerns Africa, in the weight of what we are doing, we are carrying everybody along.”

Jim Iyke said

“I fell in love with a president and he broke my heart”-Actress Ella Martins

In July,she said people thought her president boyfriend was Olusegun Obasanjo..now, she told Vanguard the unnamed president broke her heart …

Yes, a president broke my heart. The relationship I had with the president is a long story. I fell in love with him because he was attentive and mature. In fact the relationship made me mature. It’s not easy dating a president. I am even working on a movie based on that experience. Since dating the president, I found it difficult to date an ordinary person.

On her major influence  

“My major influence is Rihanna; she inspires me. We have a lot in common; she has talents, beauty and also possesses delightful sex appeals.

On her most embarrassing moment 

There are two accounts of most embarrassing moments as an artiste. First one was when I was performing with DJ Arafat and during the performance he stopped to kiss me. Second one was during a performance with Orezi. After the performance, the crowd carried me and tried to have a feel of my back side. I was really embarrassed. A lot of people think I did a surgery on my hips but I didn’t. A man once said he will give his life to touch my bum.

WORDS FROM A FATHER TO A SON ABOUT MARRIAGE

1. My son, if you keep spending on a woman
and she never asked you if you’re saving or
investing, and she keeps enjoying the
attention, don’t marry her.
2. My son, a woman could be a good wife to
you, some could be a good mother to your
children but if you’ve found a woman like a
mother to you, your children and your family,
please don’t let her go.
3. My son, don’t confine the position of your
wife to the kitchen, where did you get that
from? Even in our days, we had farm-lands
where they worked every morning . . . that was
our office.
4. My son, if I tell you that you’re the head of
the house, don’t look at your pocket; look if
you will see a smile on your wife’s face.
5. My son, if you want to have a long life, let
your wife be in-charge of your salary, it will be
difficult for her to spend it when she’s aware
of the home needs and bills to pay but if it’s
in your care, she will keep you asking even
when all has been spent.
6. My son, don’t ever beat your woman, the
pain in her body is nothing to be compared to
the wound on her heart and that means you
may be in trouble living with a wounded
woman.
7. My son, now that you’re married, if you live
a bachelor kind of life with your wife, you will
soon be single again.
8. My son, in our days, we had many wives
and many children because of our large farm-
lands and many harvests, there are hardly any
land for farming anymore, so embrace your
woman closely.
9. My son, under the cocoa tree that I did
meet your mother could be your eateries and
restaurants of nowadays, but remember, the
closet thing we did there was to embrace each
other.
10. My son, don’t be carried away when you
start making more money, instead of spending
on those tiny legs that never knew how hard
you worked to get it, spend it on that woman
that stood by you all along.
11. My son, when I threw little stones or
whistled at the window of your mother father’s
house, to call her out, it was not for sex, it
was because I missed her so much.
12. My son, remember, when you say your wife
has changed, there could be something you’ve
stopped doing too.
13. My son, your mother, Asake rode the
bicycle with me before I bought that tortoise
car outside there, any woman that won’t
endure with you in your little beginning
should not enjoy your riches.
14. My son, don’t compare your wife to any
woman, there are ways she’s enduring you too
and has she ever compared you to any man?
15. My son, there is this thing you people call
feminism, well, if a woman claim to have
equal right with you in the house, divide all
the bills into two equal parts, take one part
and ask her to start paying the other part.
16. My son, I met your mother a virgin and I
took more yams to her father, if you don’t
meet your wife a virgin, don’t blame her, what
I didn’t tell you is that our women had
prestige.
17. My son, I didn’t send your sisters to
school because I was foolish like many to
think a female child won’t extend my family
name, please don’t make that mistake, the
kind of female achievers I see nowadays has
made the male-gender an ordinary tag.
18. My son, your mother have once locked up
the cloth I was wearing and almost tore it
because she was angry, I did not raise my
hand to beat her because of a day like this, so
that I can be proud to tell you that I never for
once beat your mother.
19. My son, in our days, our women had more
of natural beauty, though I wouldn’t lie to you,
some had minor painting of their appellation
mostly on their arms, the ones you people
now call tattoo, but don’t forget that they
didn’t expose any part of their body like your
women of nowadays.
20. My son, your mother and I are not
interested in what happens in your marriage,
try to handle issues without always coming to
us.
21. My son, remember I bought your mother’s
first sewing machine for her, help your wife
achieve her dreams just as you’re pursuing
yours.
22. My son, don’t stop taking care of me and
your mother, it’s a secret of growing old and
having children to take care of you too.
23. My son, pray with your family, there is a
tomorrow you don’t know, talk to God that
knows everything, everyday.

ADVICE TO YOUTH

      



    by Mercy Johnson Okojie
Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth--something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends--and I say it beseechingly, urgingly--
              Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
       Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn’t mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
   G o to bed early, get up early--this is wise. Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another. But a lark is really the best thing to get up with. It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time--it’s no trick at all.
      Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be in the eyes to the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill finished lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail--these are requirements; these in time, will make the student perfect; upon these only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence. Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience, went to the equipment of that peerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world the lofty and sounding maxim that “Truth is mighty and will prevail”--the most majestic compound fracture of fact which any of woman born has yet achieved. For the history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sewn thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is immortal. There is in Boston a monument of the man who discovered anesthesia; many people are aware, in these latter days, that that man didn’t discover it at all, but stole the discovery from another man. Is this truth mighty, and will it prevail? Ah no, my hearers, the monument is made of hardy material, but the lie it tells will outlast it a million years. An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth. Why, you might as well tell the truth at once and be done with it. A feeble, stupid, preposterous lie will not live two years--except it be a slander upon somebody. It is indestructible, then of course, but that is no merit of yours. A final word: begin your practice of this gracious and beautiful art early--begin now. If I had begun earlier, I could have learned how.   
           Never handle firearms carelessly. The sorrow and suffering that have been caused through the innocent but heedless handling of firearms by the young! Only four days ago, right in the next farm house to the one where I am spending the summer, a grandmother, old and gray and sweet, one of the loveliest spirits in the land, was sitting at her work, when her young grandson crept in and got down an old, battered, rusty gun which had not been touched for many years and was supposed not to be loaded, and pointed it at her, laughing and threatening to shoot. In her fright she ran screaming and pleading toward the door on the other side of the room; but as she passed him he placed the gun almost against her very breast and pulled the trigger! He had supposed it was not loaded. And he was right--it wasn’t. 
    So there wasn’t any harm done. It is the only case of that kind I ever heard of. Therefore, just the same, don’t you meddle with old unloaded firearms; they are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You don’t have to take any pains at all with them; you don’t have to have a rest, you don’t have to have any sights on the gun, you don’t have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who can’t hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time, at a hundred. Think what Waterloo would have been if one of the armies had been boys armed with old muskets supposed not to be loaded, and the other army had been composed of their female relations. The very thought of it make one shudder.

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Boko Haram breaks ceasefire

…Attacks two Borno communities, kill15
Residents doubt truce
In what appears like a breach of ceasefire reportedly reached with Boko Haram by the Federal Government, some insurgents have unleashed more terror on two communities in northeast Borno State, killing no fewer than 15 people. More than 10 Boko Haram fighter  in Hilux vehicles stormed Abadam on Friday on feet or rage, “shooting anybody on sight,” a police source said. Abadam is located on Nigeria-Niger border in the northern part of Borno. Sources said the father of a prominent politician was among those killed in Abadam.
“They also sacked the community” the source added. The insurgency also moved to Dzur village near Shaffa in Hawul Local Government south of Borno where they killed eight villagers and sacked the community. A residence of Shaffa who did not want his name in print told Sunday Sun several villagers where compelled to flee into the bush following sporadic gunshots by Boko Haram. “Boko Haram has attacked Dzur near Shaffa. They invaded the area, shooting and burning houses. They slaughtered eight people. Many people in Shaffa have fled into the bush in fear,” the source said.
Shaffa similarly witnessed orgy of violence on October 24 when Boko Haram killed at least 18 people including a pastor.
The insurgence also burnt down houses in the two-hour attack, even as Nigerian Military troups later intercepted and killed many of the attackers.
Meanwhile, residence of Borno has expressed skepticism about the ceasefire announced by government last Friday, saying they had heard such announcement in the past, which turned out to be untrue, “Did the Federal Government actually hold discussion with the real Boko Haram leaders. Is the man who clai ed to be Boko Haram’s secretary really speaking for the sect?  These are the concern of many in Borno residents because Boko Haram had not been using ‘secretary’  in their order of hierarchy. We only heard and knew them to have Amir, Shura group, commanders, spokesman and fighters not secretary. We’ve heard such ceasefire in the past only for Boko Haram to deny it or those negotiating with government. We just pray it is true,” Aliyu Mohammed a Maiduguri resident said.
Head, Mass Communication department at the University of Maidugurim Dr. Mohammed Gujbawu said it was a welcome development “If it a a genuine one,” noting that nothing could be compared to peace. “We’ve seen war and we are desperately in need to peace. We welcome the ceasefire if it is a genuine one,” he told Sunday Sun.