A stage adaptation of African Queen

Music Meets theatre is an adaptation of songs into stage play by the Grand Living Legend of Nigerian Theatre Fred Agbeyegbe.
The project is aimed at promoting good musics that have contents relating to the people and the society at large.

The maiden Edition which will take place on the 28th of March 2016 (Easter Monday) at the Shell Hall, Muson Center will be featuring Innocent Idibia aka 2Baba, with his award winning song African Queen, also on stage is his wife Annie Idibia who portrays the story of an African Queen.

Dates: 28th of March 2016
Time: 4PM
Ticket Price: Standard N5,000, VIP N10,000 and Table for six (6) N500,000
Venue: Shell hall, Muson Center, Onikan, Lagos
 To get ticket,visit www.naijaticketshop.com

Brooklyn killer stabs woman because she was white

The psycho wearing an American flag bandana over his face who slashed Janina Popko,a 53-year-old woman in the neck on a Brooklyn street targeted her for being white, officials said Wednesday.
“I cut her because she was white,” suspect Gregory Alfred, 25, told police after he was picked up at his mother’s home in Sayreville, N.J., over the weekend, officials said.
According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce  “He’s a very disturbed young man,".
Alfred, who has over 20 prior arrests, is expected to be extradited to New York to face assault and hate crime charges.

8 Things You Should Never Pay For

That old saying that you get what you pay for isn’t always true. Sometimes there is such a thing as a free lunch. Here are 11 things you should never pay for. Not paying for some of them may require a little work on your part but that’s often the case when we want to save money. So as long as you aren’t too lazy or too busy, there are some things you should never pay for.

1. Your Credit Report And ScoreYou might see commercials or ads offering a free credit report. They’re all paid services, usually, they are actually credit monitoring services which charge a monthly fee. You can request a free report at annualcreditreport.com. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, you are entitled to one copy every twelve months from each of the three credit reporting bureaus, TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian.
Ideally, you would order one from a different company every four months, that way you can monitor your credit more closely. This is especially important if there has been fraud on one your accounts. It’s also helpful to order all three because they won’t all have the same information which increases the chance of mistakes.
Your credit report is not the same thing as your credit score, and the report may not include the score. There are a few places to get your score for free. Some American Express and Discover credit cards include scores on your statements. You can get a pretty good estimate of your score at sites like Credit Karma or Credit Sesame. Using these sites does not count as a hard pull and won’t affect your score at all.

2. Credit RepairOkay, you ordered your report, and there are mistakes. Or you looked at your score, and it’s in the toilet. Is there anything you can do? There is! You can fork over money to a credit repair company. Don’t do this. This is one of the things you should never pay for as long as you don’t mind spending a little time to do it yourself.
There are plenty of companies out there offering this service that are outright scams who are doing illegal things like offering you file segregation or a CPN. File segregation means applying for an Employer Identification Number in your name and using that instead of your Social Security Number to open new credit accounts. A CPN is a credit profile number and is probably a stolen Social Security Number. Both of these practices are illegal.
Other companies offer to clean up mistakes on your credit report and while that is perfectly legal, provided the mistakes are legitimate mistakes, it’s nothing you can’t do yourself for free. If there is a mistake, gather the documentation confirming that and include it with a letter to the credit reporting agency. Mistakes are required to be investigated within thirty days of receiving a complaint.

3. Debt Consolidation And Debt SettlementIf your credit card debt has gotten out of control, you might consider working with a debt management company. What these companies offer can be valuable, having only one payment a month or negotiating to settle a debt for less than you owe. But much like their cousins, the credit repair companies, these companies don’t offer anything you can’t do for yourself.
Debt consolidation will take your various credit cards and combine all the payments into one, sometimes at an interest rate that has been negotiated down. You can call up your credit card companies at any time and ask them to lower your rates. You can consolidate by rolling balances over to a 0% APR card (but you must pay the full balance before the 0% rate offer expires), you can take out a home equity loan, or a personal loan through a bank or peer-to-peer lender like Lending Club and use the money to pay off your cards.
Debt settlement is making an agreement with creditors to settle for less than the total amount owed. This will not be done through monthly payments but by paying a one-time lump sum. So if you use a service, you will send them money each month. But they won’t send it to your creditors until you have sent a certain amount of money. But that entire time, you may be paying them a monthly service fee.
There is no law that says you can’t call up your creditors yourself and negotiate a settlement on your own behalf. You can save up a chunk of money while not having to fork over a monthly fee. Don’t call and ask about a debt settlement until you have money to negotiate with, though. If your creditor makes an offer, you have to be ready to accept it and make the payment.

4. Apartment BrokerTrying to find a new apartment is high on life’s list of things that suck. So you might be tempted just to let someone else do it for you. And depending on where you live and how much time and money you have, this might be a great idea.
If you live in a city that has expensive housing and where the renter pays the broker, this is a terrible idea. In New York City, the renter pays the broker fee. Not the case in New Orleans, one of the many reasons I’m moving there.
A broker gets 10-15% of a year’s rent, up front. In a high-rent city, that is a big chunk of change. There are plenty of no fee apartments. The only reason to pay a broker is if you have no time to look for a place on your own and need a broker to do the legwork for you. But it’s going to be an expensive time saver.

5. Bank FeesEspecially bank fees, they may not be the most expensive but they are the most galling.
Galling because while your money is sitting in their bank collecting the princely sum of less than 1% interest, some banks will charge you ATM fees, monthly maintenance fees, overdraft fees and probably some fees Jamie Dimon is making up at this very moment to cover his 35% raise. Jackal.
You can avoid ATM fees by only taking out cash at your own bank’s ATM. Not always convenient, though. Some on-line banks like Ally don’t charge ATM fees for any machine nationwide, and if another bank charges you, Ally will reimburse the charge. Some banks will reimburse the charges depending on the type of account you have. If you use out of network machines a lot, check with your bank to find out if they offer such an account.
Maintenance fees can be avoided by keeping a minimum balance, usually about $1500. But if you’re a student, you might not have that much money. Some banks, including Chase and Bank of America, waive fees for students. If you have your paycheck direct deposited, most banks will waive this fee.
Prior to 2010, many banks would provide automatic overdraft protection when you opened a checking account. This sounds great! Your card won’t be declined when you charge that $5 coffee. Until you realize that allowing that $5 transaction to go through when you didn’t have $5 in your account might be as much as $35! I would rather be embarrassed in Starbucks, thanks.
You can avoid this by opting out of overdraft protection and by setting up a Mint account and creating an alert if your checking balance dips below a certain amount.

6. Extended WarrantiesWhen you buy a big ticket item, an appliance or a computer, paying for an extended warranty might seem like a good financial decision. What if your brand new i-Phone craps out the 366th day you own it? Disaster!
But you don’t have to fork out for that extended warranty to have some extra protection. Nearly all credit cards offer an extra year of warranty when you charge a purchase. You have to file a claim and provide documentation like an original receipt and a copy of the original warranty, but credit card companies generally have better customer service than the store you bought something from. Depending on what happened to make the item stop working, your renter’s or home owner’s insurance may pay to replace it too.

7. ShippingI’ve had Amazon Prime for ten years, so I just order everything that way and never pay for shipping. But not everything can be had via Amazon but there is still no reason to pay for shipping.
Most on-line retailers will offer free shipping if you spend over a certain amount. This isn’t a reason to buy more of the Carine Roitfeld Collection from Uniqlo (I just did that) but if you’re buying things that you often use and don’t have a short shelf life, stock up. Fresh Direct has a $35 minimum for free delivery, so you don’t have to buy extra lobster tails to reach that but you could buy extra paper towels.
If you want to buy something from a brick and mortar store that is out of stock, they may order it for you and waive the shipping fee. If they won’t waive the fee, you may be able to order on-line and have the order sent to the store for pick up without charge.
Some coupon sites like Retail Me Not have free shipping codes, so it’s worth checking before you place your order.
8 Love Well, depending on how you define it I guess. I don’t judge. Whether or not gifts and things equal love to some people is not so black and white as the old gold digger argument would suggest, though.
For a person who grew up without a lot of material things, gifts can seem like love because getting material things was not a common occurrence and when it happened, it was special and likely meant a sacrifice on the giver’s part. To these people, things can also equal security which is an important component of feeling loved.
For someone who grew up with lots of gifts but not a lot of love, extravagant gifts don’t feel like love. They might feel like a substitute for love. These people are unlikely to be impressed by fancy vacations and dinners at Per Se.
But one thing both types have in common is that time is a better indicator of love. It’s green where you water it as the saying goes. You can make either of these types feel loved for free if you’re willing to spend time rather than dollars.

Written by Candice Elliot

Syrian refugees rescue neo-Nazi German politician after car crash

Men who had fled war and persecution in their home country rush to the aid of politician who has previously made statements including 'the boat is full', 'stop the asylum flood' and 'integration is genocide'
Syrian refugees rescued a seriously injured neo-Nazi German politician following a serious traffic accident.
Stefan Jagsch from the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) had swerved off the road and collided with a tree in the central German town of Büdingen, near Frankfurt.
A coach of Syrian refugees happened to be passing the accident scene in a bus and two rushed to the stricken man's aid.
 They managed to pull the badly hurt politician from the wreckage and administered first aid, according to reports.

MR IDEAL NIGERIA 2016

House of Twitch , organizers of MR IDEAL NIGERIA, one of the big THREE male pageants in West Africa have released the pictures of their top 30 finalists. Early February, the organizers released pictures of the 60 semi finalists, and based on many tasks and challenges, a top 30 was selected.
The coronation night will take place at the Bespoke Centre, Lekki at 5pm on Easter Sunday 27th of March, 2016.
The winner will get signed to Hadja Models , Africa’s biggest modelling agency, represent Nigeria in London at the Mister Africa International. And just like those before him, start his own business. Also ambassadorial deals and gifts worth more than 2 million Naira.
Regular tickets are sold out. Discounted VIP and Premium table tickets are available by calling Victor on +2348096630454
 For more info visit www.houseoftwitch.com

Check out the Top 30 below:

1. Abia

2. Abuja

3. Adamawa

4. Akwa Ibom

5. Anambra

6. Bauchi

7. Bayelsa

8. Benue

9. Borno

10. Cross River

11. Delta

12. Ebonyi

13. Edo

14. Ekiti

15. Enugu

16. FCT

17. Imo

18. Kaduna

19. Kwara

20. Lagos

21. Nassarawa

22. Niger

23. Ogun

24. Ondo

25. Osun

26. Oyo

27. Plateau

28. Rivers

29. Taraba

30. Yobe

Dubai bans pregnant women from shisha cafes

Dubai has banned pregnant women from entering shisha cafes, even if they have no intention of smoking themselves, it's reported.

The move is part of a new public health campaign aimed at restricting expectant mothers to smoke-free areas. Door-sized posters publicising the campaign have been plastered on cafe entrances across the emirate where people go to smoke the distinctive hookah pipes, and feature a pregnant women being told by her unborn baby: "Smoking is your choice! Not mine". The posters  also make clear under-18s and mothers with young children are not allowed inside.

"America’s Next Top Model” Auditions

Do you wanna be on TOP?  America’s Next Top Model is NOW casting  guys + girls.  Email 2 current pics (close-up + swimsuit), contact info, age, height + weight to VH1TopModel@gmail.com
 On FaceBook And Twitter and Instagram just HashTag your favorite Photo #ANTMisBACK