For the past two weeks, I’ve been sharing the same room with my mom. I sleep next to her on the same bed. I only have one job, that’s to ensure that she’s alright and she doesn’t do anything funny to herself. She hardly sleeps. She might close her eyes and pretend she’s sleeping but I see through the pretence. When she sleeps she snores gently. When she’s pretending to sleep, that snore is absent. Instead, she’ll turn around and around until morning. Some nights, she sneaks out of the room to the hall and cries. I see her going…
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Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, popularly known and called ‘Jenifa’ is the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, thegazellenews.com can exclusively revealed. This medium confirmed exclusively from multiple sources close to the party’s Governorship Candidate in the state, Dr Abdul Azeez Olajide Adediran aka Jandor and leadership of the party in the state.The gazellenews.com learnt further that the official presentation of Akindele would be made public very soon. Our correspondent learnt that four major reasons were responsible for her choice as for the covered position. “She is from Ikorodu and Lagos East Senatorial District…
A Nigerian pastor has been seen in a viral video compelling male members of his congregation to send money to their partners.He directed the married men to stand up during a church service and asked them to bring out their phones. The clergyman also asked men who have girlfriends that they are committed relationships with, to stand up and bring out their phones. He then directed everyone one of them to transfer money to their wife and girlfriends on the spot. He said that they can ask the women for account numbers of they do not have it.
A grandmother’s childhood lesson serves a young woman well when life brings an abusive man into her life. Silvie Jasper was a pretty vivacious, energetic woman. Or at least she used to be. There wasn’t much left of her vivacity or her bubbly outgoing nature since her marriage.What had started out as what Silvie had believed was a marriage between soulmates had turned into a nightmare. She was trapped, she couldn’t get away from Kyle. She hadn’t the strength or the courage. Or so she believed… Silvie was nervously adding the last touches to dinner when her husband arrived home.…
When Pierce and Cassandra got married, they barely made ends meet. Although both were college graduates, juggling their careers while raising kids at a young age seemed impossible. Still, they overcame challenges and gave their children great lives.Years later, Pierce started his own business, which imported products from other countries. At first, he went on frequent business trips to other countries until his company was stable and generating income. When their kids had families of their own, Pierce and Cassandra moved into a gated subdivision in California. Pierce’s business grew into an empire, and he became busier each day.On the…
Love blinds all the negative things about a person until one day; all the red flags start making sense. Loraine, 34, never saw her husband’s red flags despite her mother’s warnings until one day, he broke her heart.When Loraine’s first husband, Johnny, passed away, she met a man five years her junior who consoled and cared for her. Within a year, Max proposed to Loraine and moved in with the woman. The couple made significant progress within their first few months together — they started a business that Max ran and planned to have a child. Loraine was head over…
A former Nigerian soldier, Musa Dawa who resigned from the Nigeria Army Over his decision to vigorously campaign for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has now issued stern warning to Peter Obi.Musa Dawaad a few months ago, before Peter Obi made a switch from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to Labour party, announced that his request to the Army authority to be granted approval for voluntary resignation from the force, was approved. He disclosed that his decision to quit his service to the force was for him to vigorously campaign for Mr. Peter Obi. “I wish…
It all started when I met Prince while I was working in a restaurant. He was a regular customer and we chit-chat whenever he came in. The more we talked the more we shared with each other. He explained that he was going through a divorce. He didn’t give me details of what was going on and I didn’t ask. I just decided to be there for him as a friend. In the course of our friendship, he expressed love interest in me. From the little I came to know, he was a nice guy. However, I was sceptical about…
Abuja-based Daddy G.O. and son arrested for allegedly k#lling a lady, c#tting her body into pieces, and d¥mping her in a canal Two Ministers of a Church in Kubwa, Freedom Chapel Intl., a father, Bishop Amadi & his son, Apostle Kelechi Amadi, have been arrested by the Police in connection with the k#lling and m#tilating of a lady simply identified as Anita. Police operatives attached to the Federal Capital Territory Command arrested the suspects hours after a tricycle rider reported that he conveyed the three sacks used in concealing the remains of the victim and those of the animals. A…
A video of a nurse on a night shift dancing during her quick break has got people’s attention on TikTok. Before her performance, she made sure nobody was coming; an act that many people found amusing. Among those who reacted to her video were people who said she should not be bothered about other staff for having funA nurse known as Beth Pearcey has got people talking online as she danced during her night shift break. Before the nurse started dancing in a video, she had to take a quick look around to make sure that nobody was watching her.