Hollywood's Whitewashing & Blackballing

Chronicled by Afronuts @ Saturday, February 27, 2016

I recently saw this funny commentary done on the Last Week Tonight Show with John Oliver. Smart way of questioning controversies in a comical manner, if you ask me.

A white dude playing a blackman - Uugh!

If you never saw it watch the video below, its very expository and eye-opening!

Wow...I guess there's really a lot more than meets the eye. Even the news didn't seem to say it this much!

Michael Jackson's Day Today...

Chronicled by Afronuts @ Friday, August 29, 2014

What a way for me to come back after some weeks hiatus from blogosphere! And I choose to start blogging back on no other day than Michael Jackson's birthday. Well, I'll leave this Friday post in his memory and come back blogging lots more.

Michael left an unforgettable music legacy and made the secret attempt to expose the evil behind the music industry before he 'passed' on. The world thinks he died of wrong drug use but truth seekers know he was killed. His botched 'This is it' tour was said to have been the concert in which he would reveal insider info on the strange stuff going on in the industry.

MJ would have been 56 years old today. 

Bring Back Our Girls - Across the Globe [Photos]

Chronicled by Afronuts @ Thursday, May 08, 2014

One of my readers asked me why I haven't done anything on the missing school girls of Chibok and I tolk her I hadn't thought of what to actually do concerning that. This is because I usually want to do something that's not usual but just couldn't think of anything. Besides, the whole world is already making the noise so I was thinking was there any use of me doing likewise too?

While there is an campaign that's crying out and spreading across the globe like wildfire, there are still questions that bug me about the missing girls...questions that poke holes in the stories surrounding their disappearance. It is loopholes like this that makes some people wonder the authenticity of the story but then a lot of other things have confirmed that the girls were really abducted. Out of the numerous questions asked, there is one that I'll always echo..

Why are there no photos displayed of the missing girls yet?

I guess we may never know why...

Ibrahim Abdullahi

The #BringBackOurGirls campaign was started by Ibrahim Abdullahi who was part of the audience for a speech in Port Harcourt by Obiageli Ezekwesili - a Nigerian former minister who called for the government to take action to "bring back our daughters".

The statement caught on and tweets calling for the government to #BringBackOurDaughters emerged but Ibrahim had a brainwave and thought that not everyone may have a daughter and that the afore hashtagged statement may limit people expressing it across. According to him "we may all not have daughters but everyone has a girl". Thus he made the modification which he reflected in his tweet that began the trend.

Later human rights activists and organisations began to thread along and gradually it spread across the globe till it gathered a life of its own. It was not a campaign that was marshaled for others to rise up and do the same; it just became a phenomenon that was further helped by Nigerians and sympathizers based abroad who also staged protests.

Across the world, its buzzing and the photos are numerous....

Celebrities such as the US first lady and hollywood stars and artistes also joined 'chorus' by instagramming or tweeting pictures in solidarity call for the girls to be found. 

This is probably the most trended pic for the campaign...Michelle Obama carrying her own card

Leona Lewis

P Diddy

Actors and artistes like Ashtom Kutcher, Drake, Justin Timberlake, John Legend, Jamie Fox, Ludacriss etc...focused mainly on hitting back at the Boko Haram leader's threat to sell the girls. They all waded into a campaign that was an offshoot of the #bringbackourgirls trend which said, 'Real Men Don't Buy Girls'. I guess that was targeted at discouraging anyone from purchasing the girls.

More pictures from Nigeria and across the globe...

Sierra Leone Rally

Nigerian women rally be-crying the girls

  

South African Rally

Ogilvy one Africa 

The campaign is on her shirt

The campaign has been yielding results as the World Powers are standing up to help Nigeria with the situation. Social media helped herald the information with the likes of tweets from John Kerry of the US

And as we speak, the forces from the US are already arriving in Naija.

Let's all hope and pray that this marks the end for the Boko Haram menace and the safe rescue and return of the girls.

The Harrowing Experiences of Boko Haram Victims [Video]

Chronicled by Afronuts @ Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Many heard about this news or read about it but never saw the video report. Sometimes I wonder how BBC is able to get reports that our local news channels can't seem to access. 

Boko Haram victims that escaped? How come no Naija news reported anything like this? Its shocking that we get to hear about this from a foreign news network. 

Check out the video if you never saw it:

Though I won't say not all our local News networks are not capable of bringing such coverage. I know Channels TV is able to such; its no wonder they are the only station to have lost a reporter on the scene of an insurgent attack.

Photos of the Day: Controversial Letters For Sale

Chronicled by Afronuts @ Monday, January 20, 2014

Nigerians can cash in on any opportunity to make money oh!

I remember listening to a radio broadcast one morning last week and the anchor of the show in the middle of reviewing papers and news for that morning stated that we are in the 'season of letters' - she was referring to the controversial letters written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and also by his daughter Iyabo Obasanjo. The damning letters created a furor all ober the media, both electronic, press and social; debates sparked up over the matter, response letters where written adding to the influx of the 'season of open

letters'...

But I guess nobody was prepared for how far this open letter phenomena would go. Before you knew it, they were being peddled on the streets! After the 'Oga at the top' saga, Naija hustlers have come to cash in on any opportunity to make money from scandals and buzzes from news and social media. The letters where bonded and titled - both for Obasanjo's letter and Iyabo's letter.

What can I say? Anything to make some small change...shey?  

Randoms: Skuki's nonsense video, The Magnus Abe Deception, Afrocandy's movie flop, Kola Boof goofs, Phyno's baby mama wahala, MTN's issues

Chronicled by Afronuts @ Thursday, January 16, 2014

That sick duo called Skuki have come out with a rotten music video titled 'Silifa' which is nothing but a 'bakassi' shake-fest.

Lyrics nko? Dirty explicitly suggestive lyrics that ref nothing but sex all through. Apparently these guys have nothing to sing about anymore.

Yes...that's a woman's behind not a piece of rock.
I don't want to imagine how the camera was positioned!

They carried themselves off to South Africa to go and gather a bunch of ladies (or was it just one lady?) with big behinds - one of which look like it has been enhanced with numerous butt injections - to come frolick about in their video. 

Unless NBC is as blind as a bat, it is something that must end up getting banned.

Skuki and video vixen...using nyansh to market tasteless music with lewd lyrics

Ahn ahn! There was just nothing but 'nyansh' all over the place. Clarence Peters who directed the video had the tenacity to film a massive shaking butt in slow-mo. That was just plain heartless and tasteless.

It seems Skuki is struggling to stay relevant on the music scene and are desperate about it...even if it meant shooting risque videos and singing filthy songs. 

Unfortuantely it only proves one thing - they won't last; they will soon fade...like Bigiano.

Err...Please don't ask me who Bigiano is...

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We heard the news of Police firing rubber bullets at a rally and Senator Magnus Ibe getting shot.
The news carried videos of the senator lying on a bed recieving treatment at the Kelsey Harrison Hospital, Port Harcourt after the incident.
He looked more like someone recieving treatment for malaria rather than the victim of a gunshot wound. I was skeptical about the report; it sounded bogus and exaggerated and got me doubting the level of seriousness of the incident.

Then we hear of the senator being flown abroad for treatment....

What???

For common rubber bullet injury? This people must think all Nigerians are downright stupid. According to an interesting report;

There was also no physical injury or scratch suggesting a bullet hit. Caught in their own web of self-deceit and precarious falsehood, the propaganda stunt changed to sustaining serious internal injury which required cardiac operation to clear the clot of blood in one of his heart's ventricles.The state government is yet to disclose its reasons for disregarding a specialist hospital of Kesley Harrison status that has earned so much praises for Gov Amaechi as one of its kind in Africa yet it could not attend to  a mere 'rubber bullet' hit victim as claimed by same government.

There are many loopholes in the story sef...the police are claiming that its a lie, that they never fired any rubber bullets at anyone.
This is no doubt a propaganda or a dramatised event...for what purpose was this?

Is this really a hospital?

And was I pissed to see blogs reporting and pasting a picture of Tinubu's visit to Senator Magnus Abe at a Hospital in London as if it was a legit story.

For all I care the London hospital picture could also be a fake.

These politicians should stop screwing with us...haba!

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And Afrocandy is angry because marketers are spoiling market for her 'mojo' titled 'Destructive Instinct'.

Nice.

Somebody's prayer that her soft-porn production shouldn't circulate in Naija, is being answered!

But seriously, is it really because the marketers inflated the price from N300 to N500 or N1000 that the movie did not sell?

I don''t believe that.

There's more to it than that. She probably wouldn't know how Naija market moves...how many films she don shoot and successfully market for this country?

If you siddon for US come dey send Alaba or Idumota boys to sell your films, they will rip you off and cash in on your ignorance big time.

And then...maybe people are not buying the film because its crap and its dirty content of sex doesn't make a difference.

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The first time I saw and listened to Kola Boof talk, only one thing came to my mind - She no normal at all.
And when I saw her barrage of tweets following the anti-gay law passed in Naija, I had to put of seal on it that she's totally loco...and dangerous.
Or how do you describe a woman who advocates genocide for anybody who's a Christian?
Check out these insane tweets...

I'm not sure where that tweet is but I think she must have insulted islam at one time and had a 'Fatwa' pronounced on her head.

Na wah oh...the liberty to write fit put person for trouble but this crazy woman doesn't give a hoot as she curses and blocks out people who do not agree with her sentiments. 

But seriously...wetin concern oyinbo man with our way of life? Them get law wey dey send person wey marry more than one wife to jail, we no talk. We pass law wey no allow homos to marry, dem blow kasala. They should leave us alone! Naija no be small pikin.

Wait oh...I said 'oyinbo' right? This woman is not even oyinbo...she's a migrant from Africa, an akata claiming to fight for black women, a black race advocate...but our black race culture for Naija does not condone man on man relationship nah.

She should stop sipping on pointless kool aid and quit insulting Nigerians abeg.
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Is the act of becoming a celebrity's baby mama the latest fad now? 

Yes I think so.

But one chick refuses to 'join chorus' after getting pregnant for a celebrity.

Phyno...that yellow igbo boy that looks like an albino cockrel with that im hairstyle don give pesin belle and he's okay with it and wants the baby.
But the girl wey carry the belle, one upcoming artiste called Rita Edmond (?) does not want the pregnancy and wants to abort it.
The two are said to go far back as 6 years in Enugu. The girl feels the pregnancy will scatter her music career and doesn't want to keep it.

That's the story...but I'm not so sure how truthfully accurate it is.

Phyno wants to keep the baby without any marital committment as reported...oh yeah, he's in on the fad of keeping baby mamas. I wonder what his plans are on the number of illegal pikins he wants to scatter around.

He was with the chick for six years? And it was reported that she even helped him out when he was struggling? 

Why can't he marry the chick? Abi he's still a small boy? How old is he sef?
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Please can somebody tell me if something is happening to MTN Nigeria...?

Okay, first I had a visit from a friend who works there and she tells me they are laying people off. 

Then some of my friends that use the network are pissed at MTN's 'stinginess' (This is actually derived from the fact that MTN is not giving freebies as much as the other networks - airtel, etisalat...I'm not sure of Glo though). Some (including wifey) are already contemplating porting to other networks.

Then again there is the issue of MTN recharge cards now costing more - for a N200 worth of recharge, you have to pay N220!

Is there something wrong with MTN?

Someone I know speculated that it must probably be because they had spent so much money during the anniversary that its affecting business afterwards.
But that's just a speculation, not the true story. I can't even see myself considering the thought of buying an MTN SIM package with all I'm seeing.

So MTN...please tell us...what happen???

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I need to get off the randoms and start doing my proper writing...lol.

Nice week y'all!