Theophilus Afe

It was a gathering of the biggest personalities, comedians, Nollywood producers, directors and superstars at the 2018 edition of the Memento End of Year Festival held at 18 Oyekan Road, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, December 29, 2018. M. C.Marcarty, D. J. Kelivnator, M. C. Desk Talker, Papa Nothing Spoil and D.J. Smooth joined the likes of Mellamby, and Erasmus on stage at the 2018 Memento End of Year Festival. The Memento End of year festival which is in appreciation of Memento customers both the regular and the V.I.P. It was well organized to inspire social activism with the aim of bringing customers and staff together by 2019 leveraging on the star power of celebrities from around the Nigeria to make a difference in the lives of youth. The sharing of Memento Faze Caps followed immediately. The highlights of the events was when Mr Mellamby came on stage to give a touchy vote of thanks to the customers by breaking it category by category. Th...

I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, that is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice could be sold for the national minimum wage. With 87million extremely poor people and 13million children out of school in 2018, the mighty has indeed fallen and change has come. Now I know ‘all things’ are possible in a country ruled by incompetent ‘saints’. We have mass starvation in the North East, yet a clan of ‘Grass cutters’ are making their billions and smiling to the bank with the blood of hungry, homeless children, and internally displaced people in their hands. We hear rumors of ‘Bama Initiatives’ yet the fraternity in power manufactures internal solutions and our conniving cabinet of ‘saints’ watch in silence. They seek another term for their inaction, they call out the nation to pray for God to bless their cluelessness while we wait forever, for just anyone to answer the ‘grass cutter’s’ question; ‘who is the presidency?’ There ar...

The moment of the decision CREDIT: AP Gareth A Davies, boxing correspondent, at the staples center (report and live updates) Molly McElwee, (live updates) Telegraph Sport Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury fought to a split draw Saturday night, with the Alabaman retaining his WBC heavyweight title for an eighth time after knocking down his British challenger twice. But it was a dramatic contest, and a bewildering performance from the self-proclaimed Gypsy King, whose movement and footwork, slipping and sliding allowed him to win most of the rounds. But when Wilder landed, he was dangerous, flooring Fury in the ninth and twelfth rounds. Fury did well to recover from the second knockdown as Jack Reiss counted him. Somehow, Fury got back to his feet and even had an exhausted Wilder in trouble. Judge Robert Tapper scored the fight 114-112 for Fury, while Alejandro Rochin favored Wilder 115-111. Judge Phil Edwards, the only British judge, scored it a 113-113 draw. Your correspondent had ...