You think Nollywood movies are predictable? Scenes that have shown that Hollywood Movies are also predictable

Just as it is with products that are imported from European, Asian countries and the USA are always highly rated in comparison to those that are produced in Nigeria even if they may have same quality and may even be cheaper - the Nollywood movies are always thought of as inferior when compared to Hollywood movies and we find all kinds of name to kill the brand like there's no story line, It's predictable from the beginning of the movie, but we forget that the budget on Hollywood movies may be as high as 150,000,000 USD which is because they are funded by various banks, companies and investors. What would have happened if the Nigeria movie industry could have even less than 20% of the kind of sponsorship they receive - It would have been revolutionary considering what they achieve with the little they have currently.

SCENES THAT ALSO SHOW THAT HOLLYWOOD MOVIES ARE PREDICTABLE



This lock down period have made me watch many Hollywood movies and i noticed similarities in movies, scenes, plot and predicted some scenes which always are repeated.

1. The American cop suddenly becomes more informed and lethal about a case which they've been pursing for a while without any progress or success mostly when they've been suspended and asked to go home or on forced vacation for some weeks, months, indefinitely suspended or even fired and are called back or asked to rejoin the force after they must have burst or cracked a big crime syndicate, cartel or drug lord with lots of applause and celebration

2. Most Music or dance group always have one person in the group that dances better or sings better but will leave the group close to a very important competition with no hope in sight the group will still push to partake in the competition only for the star boy or girl to appear from no where at the last minute and welcomed back by the group which in most cases become the cynosure of all eyes and wins the competition for the group with a lot of celebration.

3. During combat scenes the protagonist or actor as we like to call it in trying to rescue is family member(s) that have been held captive, wife or girl friend, the protagonist would've beaten everyone and killed the enemies who are now on the floor seemingly dead only for him or her to be shot or the person(s) he rescued because the person was yet to die and in most cases that's when several bullets will be riddled on the villain or boss that now dies and surrenders.

4. Most times any family member that the Protagonist visit when being searched after by the villain(boss) end up dying which then suddenly spurs the Protagonist to action as he becomes more prepared to win the next battle scene

5. The girl friend to the protagonist will only realize that she can't do without him and she's in love with him when he is about to leave for another country and in most cases that's when she will run under heavy rain fall to meet him in the airport or take a cab to stop him from leaving

6. There's always exist a wicked bully to a freshman in high school who after many beating will become friends because he fought back or was able to win the heart of the students for being too intelligent or making a striking discovery.

7. Bullets in the Gun most of time finishes when the people left are the protagonist(actor) and the Villain(boss) so that they can have the long awaited fisticuffs and combat each other to the death

LIST THE PREDICTABLE SCENES YOU'VE NOTICED... LIST YOURS...

Two Months Free Electricity - Have government paid for the Postpaid Bills And Prepaid Meter electricty consumption as a result of the Lock down?

Were you rejoicing that bill hasn't been delivered to your residence and probably you are claiming that government have paid for free electricity supply as a results of the lock down announced to slow and contain the spread of the Corona virus Pandemic - this is a mere happenstance that might have been caused due to the marketers delay in getting a bill across to your residence perhaps because of the Lock down, I have received my bills and plans to pay, because the DISCOs are private owned.

When I first heard of the palliative measure to make possible free Electricity. I wasn't optimistic because this is what we know we can truly feel and will support the poor, middle-class and the rich - With no will, plan, finance or provision to back it up and here it won't be a fable of conditional cash transfer we keep hearing.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE POWER SECTOR

The Electricity value chain consist of the Generating companies(GENCOs), Transmission Companies (TCN) and the distribution companies (DISCOs).

We all are more concerned about the DISCOs because they are the ones that distribute power to the households, offices and companies after it must have been stepped down power to 33kv and 11kv from electricity from TCN.

The government only owns the TCN and partly some GENCOs and have privitized the DISCOs and some GENCOs.

Some GENCOs need gas to power their stations before Generating to TCN and transmit to DISCOs, the DISCOs are the bottom of the value chain and they are the ones that go after the money and pays the NBET who then pays the return to GENCOs and TCN.


DID GOVERNMENT PAY FOR FREE ELECTRICITY

The NBET is paid by the DISCOs after customers might have paid for Electricity, that's when you pay your bills before and after disconnection or when you recharge your prepaid Meyers and the NBET get across payment to the GENCOs and TCN.

What government paid was ₦200 billion for the gas that is supplied to GENCOs to wheel power the country - which has Always been the norm as the money generated by DISCOs after remittance to NBET is always poor as majority of Nigerians have huge outstanding debts and some refuse to pay their bills and also they have issues with cost reflective tariffs. When we stop paying our bills there's a chance that we may stop getting power supply, because the private companies (DISCOs) will not be able to continue rendering service.

VERDICTS: Government can't just make order for free Electricity - the government must first raise the necessary fund to pay the Distribution companies because they are private owned and will need to do capital expenditures to keep distributing power.

So far it's just propaganda - it will take within 120 - 180 billion Naira paid to the DISCOs before free supply can be achieved. That wasn't budgeted for in our 2020 budget and no provision have been made by the House of representatives on this and we've not heard of any sitting on this.

That's why when I saw the staff that was beaten I felt bad for him. We should avoid this. It's the money paid for Electricity to DISCOs that will end up being paid through NBET to TCN and GENCOs.

If you don't have money then there's no need beating staffs that have families waiting for them to come home and we are still the people that will complain when there's no power supply and we have refused to pay because of a sensational headline of we shall, we will and we may do.

Government haven't paid for free Electricity and so far there's no hope of it in sight. If it happens it will be a miracle - as we've not even taken care of the poor who are hungry and are still having donors aid our fight on COVID-19

FIFA Best: Messi Voted Ronaldo, Ronaldo didn't and other surprises from the voters

The FIFA Best award 2019 held at Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Italy and to the surprise of many and likewise the expectation of many Lionel Andres Messi won the highly coveted award of the FIFA Best 2019 which is not far-fetched from his amazing goal scoring record - that saw him win the golden boot award, the pinchinchi and the highest goal scorer in the UEFA Champions league 2018/2019 Season

MESSI VOTED FOR RONALDO AS SECOND CHOICE FOR FIFA BEST BUT RONALDO DIDN'T VOTE MESSI AT ALL

Surprised! It was suppose to be a competition but Lionel Messi voted for Ronaldo as his second choice but Cristiano Ronaldo didn't vote for Lionel Messi in his first, second and third choice.

Instead Cristiano Ronaldo as the captain of Portugal voted for De Ligt Matthijs as his First choice(5 points), De Jong Frenkie was his second choice(3 points) and Mbappe Kylian his third choice(1 points) while Lionel Messi considered Cristiano Ronaldo fit to be in the top three of FIFA best with Ronaldo voted as his second choice(3 points), Sadio Mane was his first choice and De Jong Frenkie his third choice.

• Belgium, Captain. - Eden Hazard
• first: Sadio Mane
• Second: Virgil Van Dijk
• third: Lionel Messi

•  Bosnia and Herzegovania - Edin Dzeko
• first: Lionel Messi
• second: Cristiano Ronaldo
• thrid: Virgil Van Dijk

•  Croatia, Captain - Luka Modric
• The previous holder of the FIFA Best award after his amazing performance in the 2018 world cup vote was not much of a surprise - he voted his former team mate as first choice.
• first: Cristiano Ronaldo
• second: Eden Hazard
• third: Lionel Messi

• England, Captain - Harry Kane
• First: Lionel Messi
• second: Virgil Van Dijk
• third: Cristiano Ronaldo 

• Gabon, Captain - Aubameyang Pierre Emeric Francois Emiliano
• first: Cristiano Ronaldo
• second: Eden Hazard
• third: Lionel Messi 

•  France, Captain - Hugo Lloris
• You would want to think that the captain of France and a goal keeper will have a goal keeper in any of his top three selection but the reverse is the case here.
• first: Lionel Messi
• second: Cristiano Ronaldo
• third: Kylian Mbappe

• Netherlands, Captain - Virgil Van Dijk
• With his earlier statement that Lionel Messi deserves the award so far he plays on the football pitch and if he wins it he will take it. He voted messi as his first choice
• first: Lionel Messi
• second: Mohammed Salah
• third: Sadio Mane

•  France, Coach - Didier Deschamps
• Not surprising that the coach of France voted for the player from his Nationality
• first: Kylian Mbappe
• second: Cristiano Ronaldo
• third: Lionel Messi

•  England, Coach - Gareth Southgate
• first: Lionel Messi
• second: Cristiano Ronaldo
• third: Virgil Van Dijk

The England coach was among the first set of important personality who graced the award ceremony in Milan that rose to their feet to applaud Lionel Messi when he was named the 2019 FIFA Best player.

•   Germany, Coach - Joachim Low
• The German coach didn't consider the highly proclaimed GOAT in the person of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in his first, Second and third choice, he voted in this line
• first: Eden Hazard
• second: Kylian Mbappe
• third: Sadio Mane

It was Messi Illustrious season of 2018/2019 that gave him the coveted FIFA Best Award 2019 and here we have another season, the competition is here again and Ignited for who wins the award next year. Lionel Messi had an amazing performance against Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United in the UEFA Champions league and superb performance against Valencia, Real betis, Sevilla, Villareal, Real Madrid in La liga to mention but a few.

Messi took the the top honour with 46 percent of the vote, followed by Virgil Van Dijk with 38 percent and Cristiano Ronaldo with 36 percent.

Shocking revelations why the PCP presidential candidate - Felix Nicolas came third in the 2019 Election

The 2019 presidential election that took place on the 23rd of February, came with lot of surprises and its outcome further beam light on what determines how votes are won with the Nigerian voters, this will be a good lesson and case study for future election planning and preparation. Many anticipated better performance in terms of number of votes that will be gotten by the likes of the candidates of the Africa Action Congress (AAC), Young Progressives Party (YPP), Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Social Democratic party (SDP), and the Peoples Trust (PT) whose candidate were Omoyele Sowere, Kingsley Moghalu, Durotoye Olufela, Donald Duke and  Gbenga Olawepo-Ashim respectively.

The famous third force movement had a lot of support, especially on social media, that you will think they could get huge number of votes and put up a good fight against the big two -  the APC and the PDP. Alas! The final result saw an unknown candidate of the People's Coalition Party (PCP), Felix Nicolas with a total votes of 110,196 emerge as the second runner up and the sum of the votes garnered by the AAC - 33,953, YPP - 21,886, ANN - 16,779, SDP - 34,746 and the PT - 2,613 wasn't up to the votes of the PCP candidate in the 2019 presidential election.

The only reason the candidate of the PCP came third can only be the making of Luck by chance. YES! Nothing more. The party and the candidate would have been more surprised of those numbers!

The Campaign of the PCP candidate and social Media Penetration

The candidate of the PCP and the party PCP would have been more surprised that the party was able to garner that number of votes, the party didn't do any intensive campaigning, the likes of AAC, YPP, and ANN would have not gotten the number of votes they got if not for the impact of their aggressive social media campaign.

The Candidate and the party PCP




Felix Nicolas is a New York based pastor and hails from Esan south in Edo state, he has an associate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from federal polytechnic, Auchi Edo state and also, CEO of Zoe Homecare Agency, and Adiel Real estate and development company AAC. I and many Nigerians alike didn't come across any of his campaign train either on social media or in the cities or villages. The PCP was among the newly registered 23, newly registered parties by INEC in August, 2018.

The votes the PCP and Felix Nicolas got was as a result of chance

The arrangement of the political parties on the ballot papers is always done alphabetically in ascending order and it happens that the PCP will come first before the PDP and the colours are almost similar, except for the hammer on the logo of the PCP. The logo of the PDP and the PCP both had green, white and red.
 

The INEC only started voters education on how to vote and the boxes to print fingers on barely two weeks into the presidential election. The boxes to print the ink on was misinterpreted by the voters as the box for the PCP was very close to that of the PDP and some that voted for PDP thought it was the box at the top and ended up voting for the PCP. The PDP can as well claim this votes - though it won't close up on the gap the APC won the elections.

If you doubt all this, aren't you surprised that the PCP had a spread of vote across all state in the country, which was not so for the likes of AAC, PT, YPP who where only massively voted in their state of Origin and Major cities with high literacy rates.

Why didn't the PCP put up this same show in other position they contested in the 2019, in politics any chess move is allowed, we can also infer that the PCP was registered to cause this kind of confusion for voters, since the PCP are among the 23 newly registered political parties - though this may not be true.

Lastly, The PCP presidential candidate endorsed the candidate of the PDP before the February 23rd presidential elections.

The numbers don't just had up, the votes garnered by the PCP and their candidate, Felix Nicolas was by the mercies of chance and luck!

AAC Omoyele Sowore

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/presidential-election-result-parties/

AAC Omoyele Sowore

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/presidential-election-result-parties/

The beautiful ones by Njideka Akunyili crosby sold for 2.5 million pounds

The Beautiful Ones by Njideka Akunyili Crosby sold £2.5 million (inc. buyer’s premium) at yesterday's Christie Postwar Sale. The Nigerian - born visual artist born in Enugu and works in Los Angeles, Carlifornia sold this beautiful art work at the Christie postwar sale.

Why Are Nigerians scared of marrying a more successful lady? Can you marry one?

Why Are Nigerians scared of marrying a more successful lady? Can you marry one?

Can you marry a more successful lady? Is there any condition attached?

 

Its baffles me when I see a very successful lady in her late thirties still in the league of singles and searching (even leading on the league table with a wide margin of point) with almost no date or proposal forthcoming. Based on my observation I think it’s more prevalent in our society and I begin to wonder if it’s a crime for a lady to be successful or dare to be.

IT’S BECAUSE OF THE ILLITERACY LEVEL OF OUR MEN

I could remember a conversion I had with a successful Nigerian man who is having a great career in the banking industry, in our discourse he told me without mincing words that he can never marry a lady that is more successful than he is even the lady is his last option, and I was like (perhaps this guy has married one in the world before if there is anything like that) so it’s not a case of the illiteracy level in our society because he is a chartered accountant and almost rounding up his second Masters degree. 

Some men back their believe in a lie that men are naturally meant to be the head of the house so in any situation that the woman is wealthier or more famous that the marriage will never work because it means that they are two captains in the ship.

IT’S BECAUSE MOST WEALTHY LADIES ARE NOT READY TO DATE AN AVERAGE GUY

Though this assertion may want to seem true because of what we are meant to believe that at every point in time in our life time we always want to look up instead of looking down for the things we want. The very successful rich lady if you confides in her will tell you that she is ready to accept a guy that may not be wealthy but he should at least have a career he is pursuing or want to pursue but she will tell you that she hasn’t seen any forthcoming.

THEY ARE NEVER SUBMISSIVE AND WILL NEVER BE WELL TAKEN CARE OF

You find out that people that have not tried an endeavour or a venture tends to give you a thousand and one reasons why it will fail when compared to those that actually try. You can’t tell me that every successful lady have this attribute and that’s the major reason why they remain unmarried. The best gift is not a function of the price but a function of what it means to the receiver. Even a bracelet that is not expensive but was given in connection to what matters to a lady will forever remain the best gift she has received.

So what’s the problem? Why is it that the very successful ladies in our society remain unmarried?

What’s the condition that will make you marry a very successful lady? Someone once told me that she must not be the type that will be leaving for business meetings week in week out and must be ready to do what every wife do at home when it comes to house chores and… what’s yours if there’s any

HAVE YOU ACTIVATED THE MTN MISSED CALL ALERT SERVICE? HOW EFFECTIVE IS IT?

The many benefits of the free MTN missed call alert service. 

Following the introduction of the MTN missed call alert service into the Nigeria telecommunication industry, a move that is first of its kind and particularly plausible is the fact that the service is free for all MTN subscribers. With the Nigerian power industry still in the state where you cannot trust to give you battery power that will last through the day and the possibility that you may switch off your phone late in the night without the believe that any late call might reach your line – switching it on and being able to see your missed calls ASAP and being able to reach the caller at the quickest possible time is a good service that is worth applauding. The many benefits of this service can’t be overemphasized.

1.       MTN keeps you up to speed with calls you have missed while your phone was switched off or out of reach.

You may want to think that you have your car, office and your home that has 24 hours power supply to keep your battery fully charged at all times, but when you reach areas where your network is bad and your line unreachable the MTN missed call service would make you receive messages that quickly show you calls that you missed when your phone was switched off or out of reach. All this are possible with the MTN who called service.

2.       If you want to reach a person and the line is switched off or out of reach you get alert notifying you that the person’s line is available when it is switched on or available.

There are times when we urgently want to reach a person even when we know we are already having a flat battery we still find ourselves trying the number many times to verify if the Number is now available or switched on, but with this service you may want to stop dialing any number you want to call after the first try and its switched off or unavailable because you will get alert that will notify you of the availability through the MTN notify me service.

HOW TO ACTIVATE THIS SERVICE

To activate who called with notify me service send SET 01 TO 100 by SMS

To activate who called service send SET 02 TO 100 BY SMS

To check your status send STATUS to 100 by SMS.

The service is free and currently only on MTN network alone. We wish other network can take a cue from this. please note that you will not receive alert for numbers that have their number or caller identity hidden when they call.