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“Igbos, You Are Targets o!”, Kanayo O. Kanayo cries out
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Legendary Nollywood actor Kanayo O. Kanayo has stated that he thinks Nigeria will advance as a country if an Igbo person holds the presidency.
He claimed that the idea that “Igbophobia,” or fear or prejudice towards Igbo people, keeps them from running for president is untrue.
The actor talked about the importance of his Nigerian and Igbo identities on a recent episode of the podcast “The Honest Bunch.”
Kanayo stated, “Being an Igbo means that I come from a side of the country that speaks a dialect just like the Hausas, Fulani, and others.
“It also means to me that I’m a special person created that everything I touch prospers. When we [Igbos] are called the Jews of this part of the world, it means a lot.
And much is required of those who receive much. The tree with the knife wound is the one by the road.
“We’re in the market place always and we dance beautiful dances. That’s who the Igbos are. So we become the envy of other people.
“An Igbo man starts his business with kiosk today, give him the next one year, he turns it to a shop. From a kiosk to a shop.
“It’s here. Spit into our hands by a force we call Chukwu Abiama. You can’t take it away. So we would continue to be the envy of other people.
“I remember during the elections last year, some people said the Igbos want to take over Lagos. How can we take over Lagos? For what when we have an ancestral home we come from?
“But then most of us don’t want to go back. And it’s only in Nigeria that it happens. A New Yorker is a New Yorker regardless of where they come from.
“So if we abolish state of origin in Nigeria, we will be better as a country. What has it got to do with state of origin when you’re employing somebody? It’s the IQ we’re looking for.
“So being Igbo has become an endangered specie. Because I’m now judged by where I come from, not by what I have to offer.
“The content is what should be looked at. So in the larger entity called Nigeria, there has been a division, nepotism orchestrated by many people for political, economic and religious purposes.
“Being Igbo and being a Nigerian to me, is like running at opposite courses. It looks like the [civil] war never ended.
“For instance, Prof Yusuf formerly of the NHIS granted an interview I watched on Arise TV a few months ago.
“He said, ‘these our Igbo brothers, why are they not talking? Why are they not joining the protest?’ And I replied him the next day, I said, ‘Prof, during the elections, you said we didn’t have the capacity to be president, so we don’t have the capacity to protest.
“You said we can’t be trusted with power.’ I mean, these are statements that are on papers so I’m not saying it out of context.
“When other Nigerians were protesting from region to region, I said, ‘Igbos, you are targets o!’ Igbos are the only people who come to every community in Nigeria and build houses.
“We are the only people. Give it to us because we call every place we come home. We are not looking for an Igbo president. We are looking for a president of Igbo extraction who will give Nigeria with what he has and what God has given him.
“The fear of the Igbo man that ‘in 1967, Ojukwu declared a succession, if you give them that opportunity again they will secede,’ is only imaginary.
“Like I said, we are the only people who own properties even in the remotest areas in Nigeria. So that fear is induced.
“The day you give an Igbo man the presidency of this country, that is the day Nigeria will discover why it is Nigeria. Economically, people would begin to say Hallelujah.”
Entertainment
‘Men Dey’ – Bovi stirs reactions as he gifts wife brand new Benz ahead of her birthday celebration
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Kris Asimonye, the wife of Nigerian comedian Bovi Ugbomma, announced her new Mercedes Benz on social media.
She shared a captivating video on her official Instagram from the Mercedes Benz dealership in Derby.
In the video, Kris was warmly guided to her new car, with her name displayed on posters as part of the welcome.
According to the comedian’s wife, Bovi Ugbomma had told her she would get a Benz as a reward for passing her driving test, and she went above and beyond his expectations.
The comedian bought her a brand new GLE 450d 4Matic.
In the comment section, Bovi Ugbomma mentioned that his wife still found a reason to argue just one day after getting her new car.
He wrote, “You won’t write how you still managed to quarrel one day after collecting it o. Yeye dey smell.”
Source: www.gistlover.com
Entertainment
Husband Murders Wife, Takes Own Life
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By Mario Deepromoter
A former reality TV star has allegedly been shot de@d by her husband in their luxury home before he turned the gun on himself.
Police reportedly found the body of Paulina Lerch, 33, who appeared on Top Model in her native Poland twice, after her family failed to get in touch with her for over a week.
Police suspect her husband Sławomir, 47, shot her dead before k!lling himself at their home near Poznan City, Poland, on Sunday, September 1. He was reportedly found lying next to Lerch with fatal self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
The house was locked from the inside and a revolver was discovered next to the young couple’s dead bodies.
Sławomir was an alleged drug trafficker and was arrested, along with 30 other suspects, in April and May this year after 60kg of drugs were found stashed in a warehouse. He was released from custody at the beginning of August.
Lerch kept her marriage to Sławomir away from the public eye.
It remains unclear whether Paulina’s de@th was mu¥der or a suicide pact between the pair.
Paulina’s family said they hadn’t heard from her for over a week before her body was found. They then called the authorities out of concern for her wellbeing.
An investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
Entertainment
I’ll give 10% of prize money to Onyeka if i win, BBNaija Ozee promises
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By Francesca Hangeior.
Big Brother Naija ‘No Loose Guard’ housemate Ozee has promised to give his colleague, Onyeka 10 per cent of the reality show’s prize money if he emerges as the winner.
It could be recalled that the organisers dissolved the pairs on Sunday, leaving the housemates to compete solo for the grand prize.
During a conversation with Onyeka on Monday, Ozee pledged to give 10 percent of the prize money to her should he emerge winner by the end of the season.
“When I win, do you know what will happen? Because you will be part of my journey, so automatically I’ll give you 10 per cent,” he said.
The grand prize remains N100 million, including a cash prize and an SUV, plus additional sponsored prizes.
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