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I Love Children, I Live And Breathe Everything Children- Onyinye Nana Igwe

Onyinye Nana Igwe currently works with 92.3 Inspiration FM but went on a self imposed hiatus in 2009 after hosting the Future Awards alongside Darey Art Alade.  Subsequently she stayed back at Soundcity and Spice TV for a couple more years working as a Senior Producer and Creative Director.

She is back as an OAP with Inspiration FM and making waves again. In this no holds bared Interview with Stella Dimokokorkus, Onyinye who now goes by the name Nana King tells us why she 'ran' and why she is back. Click below to read her interesting interview.

Where have you been?

Around.out and about. Living life beautifully albeit privately.

In 2009 you hosted the Future Awards alongside Darey Art Alade. Right after that, you completely disappeared just when your name and beautiful face was starting to get out there. Why?

A lot of people found it difficult to comprehend the fact that I was and still am media shy. I hate undue publicity. I'm an extremely private person. No one knows anything about me. And I want it to stay that way. So when the Future Awards hosting gig came up in 2009, I felt blessed But at the same time, I did it for the fun of it. The number of media offers I got after hosting the awards was quite shocking. Overwhelming, I tell you. I wasn't prepared for it at all. I wanted to be behind the cameras, not in front of it.


Between 2009 and 2013, it's been 4 years. Where have you been, what have you been doing and Why did you decide to resurface?

Resurface? I was never completely away. I was just behind the cameras working passionately but quietly as a Producer and Creative Director in and outside Nigeria. The only difference now is that recently, Inspiration FM offered me an Afternoon time slot on Radio. Obviously I can't hide anymore because people are gradually starting to put a face to the voice they hear on radio everyday.

You  say you are a very private person?what have you been up to privately?

oh dear! (Pauses - Takes deep breath - giggles)
Well, I've only told two people about this, so I guess I can share it with you. But you must pinky swear you won't tell anyone (Laughs).
I recently adopted a little girl. She's my heart beat. She's my joy, she's the very essence of my being. Every time I hold her in my arms, she gives me the strength to live and fight through my struggles. I'm not married and I still live in my family home. So I can't take my baby out of the orphanage and bring her home with me. So instead of a full adoption, I opted for a virtual adoption. Which means I get to play mummy to her everyday and care for her financially whilst still in the guardianship of the orphanage matrons.

WHY ADOPTION? Most married couples struggling to have kids haven't considered adoption. Why a single unmarried girl?

I love children. I live and breathe everything children. I've been a junior church worker since I was 18. I'm a Sunday School Teacher in church. I teach the toddlers class (laughs). On weekday evenings or weekends, I go to the orphanage to play with the kids. Every time I leave the orphanage to go home, I always feel burdened. I always wish I can take all of them home with me.

Have you considered what your future husband might think about this?

My man has to be a lover of children because I would love to have 5 kids in total - 3 biological and 2 adopted or 2 biological and 3 adopted - depending on what my body permits (laughs). But if my man is generous enough to let me bring home more babies, trust me, I'm going all out! I'm adopting an entire continent.

You used to go by your Ibo name Onyinye Igwe. Where did Nana King come from?

Nana is a pet name I got when I was a baby. I've been called Nana all my life by friends, family, everyone. My last name when translated to english, means King. I sincerely did try to revert to my Ibo name. But it was a bit of a drag trying to get people to call me Onyinye as opposed to the Nana they'd been used to calling me. On the name thing, I just couldn't win (Laughs)

You talk with so much strenght and confidence.Have you always been like this?

NO because, It took a certain degree of pain in my life, to find my feet and understand my purpose on earth. Way back when; I used to think I knew it all. Fast forward today, I realize I was pretty much clueless. Now I know better, so I act wisely.

How would you describe yourself

I'm a happy, bubbly, go-lucky kid who believes Life is for the living. I want to live, I want to love, I want to laugh. I'm completely oblivious and mute to negativity. Right now I'm all about embracing positive people who bring forth positive words into my life.

Final words for ur fans

Hugs and Kisses to you, my booboos!

IK Ogbonna Speaks About His Daughter

I'm sure most people didn't know he had a daughter last year. Yes it's true he is not married, but hey ladies, he's got a babymama and anything can still happen, lol. Don't start dreaming and screaming, well 'he is still available', lol. IK is a model and actor and recently signed a multi naira deal with Rakkaan Perfume in Dubai. Here is what he said;

I’m not married yet but I have a daughter, her name is Makila and she’s a year old. I try my best to provide for her so obviously my work has to pay the bills. I try as often as possible to see her when I’m less busy. There’s this love between a father and his daughter that cannot be broken. With every little space I have I make sure I spend it with her.
I feed her, when she cries I comfort her, I change her diapers. When she’s in a good mood to play I put cartoons for her to watch and then she starts dancing around the place. She plays with her toys and then tries as much as possible to destroy everything. It’s a beautiful thing watching her grow up.

Another pic of the yummy daddy below.

13-year-old Girl Dies In Egypt After Circumcision

Thirteen-year-old Soher died Thursday evening while being circumcised at a private clinic in a village of governorate of Daqahliya, north east of Cairo.
Image Credit: victim’s family

The death of a 13-year-old girl at a private clinic while undergoing a circumcision operation has once again highlighted that female private part mutilation continues to endanger lives in Egypt despite laws forbidding the practice.

The family of the girl, identified as Soher, filed an official complaint, accusing the doctor who performed the operation of having caused her death.

The girl died on Thursday evening in a village in the Daqahliya governorate, north-east of Cairo.
Doctors and nurses in Egypt have been banned from performing procedures involving female private part mutilation (FGM) since 2007 following the death of two young girls after being subjected to such surgeries at public hospitals. The procedure was subsequently declared illegal in 2008.

The ban notwithstanding, poorer families continue to put youngsters at grave risk. According to
national statistics, around 80 per cent of girls born to poor families become victims of FGM, as against only 30 per cent of girls from wealthy, educated backgrounds.

“We left our daughter with the doctor and the nurse. Fifteen minutes later, the nurse took my daughter out of the operation room to a nearby room, along with three other girls whom the doctor was circumcising,” Soher’s father, Mohammad Ebrahim, a farmer, told the Al Masry Al Youm newspaper.
“I waited half an hour hoping that my daughter would wake up but, unfortunately, unlike the rest of the girls, she did not,” Ebrahim said.

“The doctor brought her back to the operation room and then we were surprised when an ambulance transferred her out of the clinic. When we asked the doctor what was going on, he told us that she was weak and that the clinic did not have the necessary [medical] equipment to treat her. When we reached Aga Central Hospital, they told us she was dead. If I had known the operation was going to kill her, I would never have [allowed] her to have it. The same doctor conducted a similar operation on her elder sister two years ago, and villagers visit this doctor because he has a remedy for everything at low prices,” the distraught father said.

“The doctor does everything and the nurse helps him. Doctors at the Aga Hospital told me that she died of an anaesthesia overdose,” the girl’s mother, Hasanat Naeem Fawzi, said.

“I want nothing but to hold the doctor accountable and to have justice for my daughter,” Hasanat said.

The girl’s uncle, Mohammad, said that the doctor had offered the family 20,000 Egyptian pounds (Dh10,299) in return for an assurance that they would not file a complaint against him.
Tareq Hamouda, head of the Aga prosecution in Daqahliya, summoned the doctor for an interrogation and ordered that an autopsy be conducted on the girl to find the cause of death.

Abdul Salam, the family’s lawyer, said that although most forensic doctors were on vacation, the prosecutor was able to call on one to conduct the autopsy. The health inspector’s report, he added, confirmed that the cause of death was a sharp drop in blood pressure resulting from shock trauma.
Abdul Wahab Sulaiman, undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Daqahlia, said that the Health Directorate had not yet been notified of the incident. He stressed that FGM is strictly prohibited and that the doctor had violated the law. [Gulf News]

Kuwaiti Court Sentences Woman To 11 Years Imprisonment For Insulting The Emir

Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad 

Al Sabah

A female teacher was on Monday sentenced to a total of 11 years in jail by a Kuwaiti court, for insulting the emir, inciting regime change and insulting a religious sect via Twitter, two sources close to the case said.

Huda Al Ajmi, 37, is the first woman known to have been convicted for criticising the US-allied state’s ruler, described as “immune and inviolable” in the constitution.

Kuwait has penalised several Twitter users in recent months for slurs against the emir, Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah. The political trials have drawn rebuke abroad and anger at home.

The sources said the court had given Huda two consecutive five-year terms for insulting the emir and one year for insulting an unspecified religious sect. “This is the highest sentence of its kind in these kinds of cases,” one source said.

Huda has not yet been taken into custody and can appeal the sentences, the sources said. It is rare for a woman to serve jail time for political crimes in Kuwait, which allows more freedom of speech than some other Gulf states.

In April a Kuwaiti court gave an opposition politician five years in jail for insulting the emir, but an appeals court overturned the sentence.

In February, US-based Human Rights Watch said prosecutors had charged nearly 25 people with offending the emir, sentencing at least six to jail terms, since October.

The United States has called on Kuwait to respect freedom of expression.

World's most expensive motorhome goes on sale for £2m and comes complete with cocktail bar and roof terrace

The world's most expensive motorhome has gone on sale in Dubai - covered in gold and worth a cool £2 million.The space-age eleMMent Palazzo comes complete with a colossal master bedroom, 40-inch TV, on-board bar, fireplace and even its own rooftop terrace. But the most impressive piece of luxury is the 'Sky Lounge' - at the press of a button the 40ft home transforms into a personal retreat with pop up cocktail bar, underfloor heating and extravagant marble lighting. The success of the vehicle has been a hit among oil-rich Arab Sheikhs - the state-of-the-art homes even wash themselves after a day's driving through the Middle Eastern desert. Although the 40ft vehicle comes in a stunning gold, it is also available in white. A spokesman for Marchi Mobile said: 'People never fail to notice innovation, but rarely does the excitement for it last. 'That is how it began for us. But now - after many years of development - we sparked a fire in luxury mobility. 'The eleMMent series from Marchi Mobile is a new class within the premium segment of vehicles, targeted to enthuse lovers of the extraordinary. 'Our goal has not only been to introduce a new line of luxury vehicles - but usher in a new era. This is done by a perfect masterpiece that sets itself apart at first sight.' The private jet on wheels is designed to cater for businessmen on the road, wealthy families on their travels or global superstars on tour.Despite living space banishing stereotypical pokey caravans, the cost per sq ft comes at a pocket-busting premium - costing double the equivalent amount of some of London's finest homes.

Why It Was Impossible to Finance Bash Ali’s Proposed Fight - Sports Minister Explains

The Sports Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has announced the commission's plans to collaborate with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Ministry of Justice in a bid to curb match-fixing in the Nigerian League. He also spoke on the reason his ministry cannot fund a proposed boxing match involving Bash Ali. "We are going to work with the EFCC and the ministry of Justice to punish whoever is guilty of Match fixing in the country, we want to develop the Football league in Nigeria," Mr. Abdullahi said, while outlining the successes and functions of his ministry at the ministerial platform in Abuja. He added that his ministry plans to develop the league so that home-based players will receive not less than N250, 000 monthly. The minister also used the opportunity to address fervid calls by boxer, Bash Ali, on the government to sponsor a world title match in Nigeria that may see Ali becoming the oldest title winning boxer. "The ministry doesn't have a budget to fund such sports. Boxing matches are always funded by private individuals not government," Mr. Abdullahi said. He, however, did not comment on allegations of assault leveled against his aides by Ali. The boxer had allegedly been manhandled by the Minister's aides during an attempt by Ali to personally take his appeal to Mr. Abdullahi. A video showing security details of the minister manhandling the boxer has gone viral on social media. The minister's spokesperson, Julius Ogunro, had earlier told the press that the minister was not and did not give any instruction for the boxer to be manhandled. "Bash Ali came and wanted to enter the meeting. As he wasn't invited, he was denied entry and he wanted to impose himself on the minister by forcing his way in, so the security men escorted him out of the venue," Mr. Ogunro said.