Join Mr Boku aka “The Travel Doctor” For a low cost Discover Africa Adventure – as he wishes you Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day Nigeria! Enjoy a vacation getaway from N50, 000! 

Quick question… How many historic places have you visited in Nigeria or even in Africa? Do you even travel? No? Why Not? I understand how tough the economic environment is nonetheless you can still live a balanced life that includes your vacation holidays...

We all just need to be smarter on how we spend our Naira and Kobo to make sure we are getting the best value for our money! This is where “Mr Boku” comes in aka “The Travel Doctor”. You just might have been going around in circles. However, did you know that travelling broadens your mind and exposes you to a lot of relaxation, new discoveries and creativity?  Did you also know that traveling is a good source of motivation for your work and personal lives? Well then, now that you know, it’s time to start living an adventurous life! And you do not have to go to London and America to do it!

Money shouldn’t stop you from living a happy and adventurous life. Come to think of it, you need not travel far or break the bank. There are so many amazing places around you that can change your perception of life forever and they are affordable. I’ll tell you about some I’ve visited and still hold unforgettable memories of.

I visited a very special place in Nigeria I call it the “magic land” because of the mystic fascination of Agboogun Footprints, which is widely believed to enlarge or contract to accommodate every foot during a climb to view a spectacular ancient carving, nicknamed Noah’s Ark at Idanre Hills. Oh how invigorating it felt to have been there! A lasting cure from all the aches and pains of boredom and monotony. It was really fascinating!

Then guess what happened to me on my trip to Southern Africa? My jaw dropped when I caught a glimpse of a Nubian Queen getting drenched in a glistening waterfall, thick mist rising high into the air coupled with a thundering sound emanating from the largest single sheet of flowing water. This, my friends, was one of the most breath-taking sights ever, and that’s what makes the Victoria Falls-separating Zimbabwe from Zambia-one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

Africa is embedded with so many secrets, hidden treasures, and cool resorts that need to be discovered. As an example, Zanzibar Island is the charming locale that comes to mind.  Did you know that the cultures, beaches, hotels and meals of the island are simply phenomenal and makes a visit to the destination a must? Also, guess what? You can experience the island's pleasant ambience and save more when you book your visit with friends and loved ones on www.Flyboku.com. You can enjoy all of the above plus discounts on our protocol service and an itinerary that covers your return-flight, visa on arrival, airport pick-up & drop-off. All these amazing packages will definitely make your experience an exceptional one.

There is so much yet to see and I’d like for you to join me on this journey to discover the mysteries and beauty of Africa! Oh, yes you can! With the unbelievably affordable packages on the Discover Africa with Flyboku.com campaign, I repeat, yes you can. #MrBokuWillTakeYouThere.

Create memorable stories with your friends and families NOW!!!

Take advantage of Boku deals starting from:

·         Picturesque Ikogosi Resort & Erin-Ijesha Waterfall                    N50,000

·         Inagbe Grand Resort            offshore Lagos                                             N53,400

·         Ride on the hills at Obudu Resort                                                      N80,000

·         Discover the amazing warmth of the Gambia                                N113,475

·         Exotic  Beach Resort  in Zanzibar                                                     N250,000

·         Beach Hang-out in Durban, South Africa                                        N556,250

INTRODUCING BOKU CREDIT: Remember if you cannot make full payment upfront, Mr Boku has a special instalment payment program just for you. BOKU CREDIT allows you to apply and pay for your holiday package in instalments.

https://www.flyboku.com/boku-credit .  Terms and Conditions apply.

Most deals include Flights, Hotels, Sight-seeing activities tour and Protocol Services. Call US NOW! 0700FLYBOKU (07000352658 OR 07046204682) and visit www.FlyBoku.com to DIY (DO IT YOURSELF) and tell us where you will like to go. You can also join the conversation online.

Take a picture of yourself in any location you travel to within Africa and post it with the #DiscoverAfricawithFlyBoku for a chance to win a prize. Please mention us on Instagram/Twitter: @MrBoku @Flyboku and on Facebook:

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So where would you like to go today?  #MrBokuWillTakeYouThere!

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.

Scottish boxer who was knocked unconscious in the ring has died

25-year-old Mike Towell who was left with severe injuries after being knocked out in the fifth round on Thursday night by Dale Evans has passed away. He was taken from the ring on a stretcher and transported to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he had been fighting for his life. His management said he passed away yesterday with his family at his bedside. He's a survived by a child.

The boxer had been undefeated going into the fight, with 11 previous wins and one draw on his professional record.

Members of the boxing community have been paying their respects to a man they fondly referred to as 'Iron Mike'.

His partner, Chloe Ross took to her Facebook page to say she was "absolutely heartbroken" to announce that he passed away peacefully shortly after 11pm on Friday evening, 12 hours after he was taken off life support. She wrote:

Evans is yet to comment on his opponent's death.

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.

Catch AY and Bovi at Genesis Cinemas, Sangotedo, Lekki

Independence Day just got a whole better as Genesis Cinemas, Nigeria's leading premium cinema chain launched its 7th Cinema at the newly opened Novare Mall, Sangotedo Lekki yesterday 30th September 2016. Catch AY Makun live as he is set to grace the Cinema today 1st October and Bovi as well as other Nollywood stars are set to have a meet and greet with their fans on Sunday 2nd Oct.

Come experience a Sensational cinema experience like never before, withe latest Hollywood and Nollywood tittles like Magnificent 7, A Trip to Jamaica, Nine Lives, It's Her Day, When the Bough Breaks and lots more. Don't be told, be there !!!

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.

Man spends $26,000 on surgery to look like David Beckham

An unemployed 19-year-old British man, Jack Johnson, says he has spent £20,000 (about $26,000) of Benefits money, on surgery to look like soccer star David Beckham. Johnson says he spent the money on procedures for his cheeks, chin, eyebrows, lips, teeth and tanning injections to try to look like Beckham.
He says even though he knows he doesn't yet look like Beckham, it will cost him another £30,000 in procedures to help him reach his goal.
Johnson who admits to being in a lot of debt says Doctors have shot down some of his requests.

In an interview with This Morning on ITV, he said:

"Obviously, I know I don't look like him," Johnson said. “I'm not that stupid but I've got a long way to go to get my goals to look like him.”

Watch the video below:

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.

Nigeria at 56 and the worship of BAAL by Femi Fani Kayode

Nigeria is 56 years old today. Consequently it is time to speak some home-truths and look at where we are in the scheme of things. 

It is time to consider how well our governnent has fared since coming to power and to compare their record of service to previous governments that were in the saddle before them. Sadly the score sheet does not look too good.

The rigging of elections, the persecution of opposition figures, the demonisation of dissenters, the destruction of the economy, the pauperisation of our people, the introduction of famine, the humiliation of Nigerians coupled with violence, impunity, aggression, intolerance and tyranny: that is all President Muhammadu Buhari and his government have served our people since he was sworn in on May 29th 2015.  

The last one year and four months have been the worst since independence in terms of the violation of human rights, civil liberties and court orders by our government. 

We have witnessed unprecedented mass murder, butchery, carnage and barbarity by well-armed and highly favored Fulani herdsmen and ethnic militias coupled with genocide and unprecedented extra-judicial killings by our military personnel and state security forces. 

We  have witnessed the resurrection of Abubakar Shekau and the mutation of Boko Haram into two powerful new factions. We have seen them re-take towns and communities that they lost years ago and hoist their dirty black flag in parts of the north-east. 

Our government have given up on the Chibok girls and we witnessed the humiliation, insults and physical harassment by security forces that those who have fought for their return in the BBOG group have been subjected to in the last few months.  

We have have seen the rapid depreciation of the naira, the total decimation of our industrial, agricultural and manufacturing sector and the destruction and decay of virtually all our roads, airports, power generating facilities and infra-structures. 

Our government has squandered our foreign reserves. Driven away local and foreign investment. Caused the dollar to fly away. Created an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in the markets. 

Forced people to spend their life savings and capital just to survive. Reduced many Nigerians to eating just one meal a day. Caused many to withdraw their children from school simply because they cannot afford to pay fees. And they have driven many to depression, suicide and despair. 

Unemployment is at a record high. The banks and indeed the entire financial sector is dying because there is no liquidity. The naira is approaching 500 naira to one US dollar which represents an over 100 per cent depreciation in the space of one year. 

We are in the middle of the worst economic recession that we have suffered in our 56 years of exsitence as an independent nation-state.

Thousands are being laid off on a daily basis. Graduate and non-graduate unemployment is at a record high.  Food prices, the price of transport and the price of fuel, diesal and kerosene have shot up.

Finally we have witnesed the total and complete dashing of the hopes, aspirations and dreams of the Nigerian people. 

Our government is corrupt, weak, paranoid, incompetent, cowardly, fearful of criticism, terrified of a strong opposition, unable to cope with dissent, insensitive, delusional, wicked, sociopathic and psycopathic. 

Worse still they have attracted the opprobium, contempt, derision and scorn of the entire international community and the derision of major corporate investors and multi-national corporations. 

The only thing that they are good at doing is blaming President Jonathan and indeed all past PDP Presidents and governments, including President Obasanjo, for their failures and inability to perform. 

They are also pretty good at conducting media trials and witchunts and indulging in Soviet-style propaganda and the demonisation of their perceived enemies.

Yet most frightening of all is the fact that our President is out of touch with reality. He does not appear to be living in the 21st century. 

His solutions and remedies to the complex economic problems of a modern-nation state in 2016 are the same ones that he proffered and which failed him woefully when he was military Head of State between 1983 and 1985. We really appear to be going down the drain under his leadership. 

I pray that God intervenes soon and does something extraordinary because this accursed government simply has to go. 

They have divided us along religious and ethnic lines more than any government in our entire history. They have come to spread poverty and distribute shame. 

They have sought to islamise our country, demean our faith, disgrace the Church and undermine our Christian leaders and clerics. 

They have destabilised our nation and undermined our unity to such an extent that the majority of our people secretly despise and covertly pray against the continuation of a united Nigeria. 

They have brought us to our very knees, turned us into a nation of beggars and paupers and reduced us to cowardly and timid slaves. 

They seek to break us, cause us to crawl, crush our spirits, torment our souls and compel us to accept a North Korean-style system of government with its cultic worship of a maximum ruler who sees himself as a demi-god and deity that must be obeyed and worshipped  by all. 

Such is Mr. Presidents desire and craving for worship and such has the spirit if narcissus seized and possessed him that he even had a man arrested, detained and prosecuted for daring to name his dog after him. 

Yet thankfully they will fail in their quest because the Living God, from whom nothing is hidden, will not allow them to succeed. They will fail because ultimately good will always prevail over evil. 

They will fail because no matter what they do they cannot separate us from the love of the Lord. They will fail because the God that we serve is mighty and He is faithful to His own. 

Permit me to digress. I have been reliably informed that my life and liberty has become a major source of irritation and anger for the maximum ruler. 

I have been told that he hates me so much that he has issued orders that his gestapo should come for me again and this time around to torture me or even poison me whilst I am in their custody. Yet I count it all as joy. 

I laugh them all to scorn. If only they knew the God that I serve. If only they could comprehend the nature of He who sent me and who works through me. 

If only they knew the source of their numerous problems and why they are going through all that they are going through. If only they knew why they are groping in hopelessness, dancing with failure and hobbling in the dark. 

If only they knew that you cannot fight against the Holy Spirit or battle against the Lord. If only they knew the power of God and the efficacy and power of the scripture that says "touch not my annointed and do my prophets no harm".

As long as they seek to do nothing but pursue, demean, misrepresent, destroy and kill the defenceless and innocent who have done no wrong, the Angel of the Lord will continue to pursue them along a dark and slippery path. 

He will frustrate all their efforts, plagues shall torment them, failure shall trail them and peace shall continue to elude them. 

For the record the bottom line is as follows: yours truly would rather die than be silenced or be compelled to bow down and worship Baal and his accursed disciples. 

As long as there is breath in me, no matter what, I will exercise my God-given right of expression and I will fight and oppose the evil soul that presides over the affairs of our nation because he has brought nothing but suffering, hardship, pain, shame and tears to our people and to our land. 

He is the proverbial "darkness that seeks the darkness". Yet, in the end, his own darkness will overwhelm him and the light and power of the Living God will bring him down to his knees and remove him from his exalted and dizzy heights.  

And if I should fall before that time, posterity will be kind to me and men will know that there once lived a man who spoke the bitter truth about the powers that once were and who saw tomorrow. 

Yet the beast remains as relentless as ever because, like satan, his time is short. Worse still he has turned on his own.

It is no longer Goodluck Jonathan, his wife, his loyalists and leading members of the PDP that are being targetted anymore. 

Now the erstwhile allies and friends of Baal's tiny cabal within the ruling party itself have also been listed for "special attention" and the torments of the evil eye in the next few months and years even if they don't know it yet. 

Such is the nature and way of Baal. He simply does not know when to stop. Like Pharaoh his heart has been hardened unto destruction so that, at the end of the day, when nemesis catches up with him,  the name of the Lord will be glorified. 

Like Nebuchadnezzar, he will be brought to his knees and he will crawl like a grass-eating beast in the forest until his eyes are opened and he acknowldges the majesty and awesome  power of the Lord God of Hosts and the Ancient of Days. 

Happy independence day.

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.

Dutch Dreams Records presents ATHI - Pretty BumBum ft. Patoranking

Dutch Dreams Records signed artist, Athenkosi Zintle Mgoqo is a singer and song writer that goes by the name ATHI. 

She's not new in the industry, in 2013 she began to write her own music, her first original track was "Wall of Steel" and 2014 she wrote the song "Lost" which received positive reviews from producers and fellow up and coming musicians.

In 2015 Athi decided to take a break from music. Now in 2016, ATHI returns with her highly anticipated single titled "Pretty Bum Bum" featuring Nigeria's reggae dancehall king, Patotanking and produced by Kiddominant.

She is cultivating and perfecting her craft and plans on releasing more singles later this year.

Listen, Download and Enjoy!

SONG LINK: https://my.notjustok.com/track/134550/athi-pretty-bum-bum-ft-patoranking-prod-by-kiddominant

SONG DOWNLOAD LINK: https://my.notjustok.com/track/download/id/134550

FOLLOW ON TWITTER: 

- https://twitter.com/Official_Athi

- https://twitter.com/patorankingfire

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.

Lol..See this ridiculous note and the replies from his colleagues (photo)

A BBC worker has been ridiculed for leaving a note on a water cooler asking his colleagues not to plug the cooler because he likes his water at Room temperature. The worker stuck the A4 printed note on the water cooler at New Broadcasting House in central London this week. The note reads:

“A polite request – Please Do not plug in the water cooler. I like my water at room temperature. I am fed up with having to bend over to unplug the machine, so please do not plug it back in.”

His colleagues who were left bemused by his note, replied with their own message on the water cooler:

“But 90 per cent of everyone else likes it CHILLED!!!”. Another wrote; “two taps” on the water cooler – one which provided chilled water and the other with “room temperature water” – and that it should be left plugged in at all times.

Another wrote: “Middle class problems huh! Another colleague wrote “With the machine plugged in and switched on the right tap is chilled water and the left is room temperature. “This you’d realise if you spent a little less time trying to bend the entire world to your will.” Another co-worker scrawled on the note; “get over yourself”, while another wrote; “health alert, SOS mayday”.

Source : BBC

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