Yeni Kuti, daughter of Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti has mentioned that, the late singer was not a good father.
Her father, according to Yeni always was at loggerheads with his first son, Femi. She never confronted her dad about not being a good father because she thinks it was obvious to all in their family and himself too.
“He [Fela] was not quite a good father. No [I never told him that he isn’t a good father]. Maybe Femi, not me. Femi and Fela used to have battles. And Femi will give it to him straight,” she said in an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo.
“Shola and I, we were like timid. You know, they said, ‘When two elephants are fighting, the grass will keep quiet.”
“I can remember one day, Fela just came and said, three of you are useless children. Femi just said, for what? Femi just started facing him and then they started facing each other. Shola and I will say it’s okay. Fela will say, No. And Femi just said, let him go.”
“I don’t think I have ever had that kind of confrontation with my father. Maybe because I was a woman” Yeni added.
It’s the question which has stumped dietitians for decades — just what is the best weight loss diet?
Advocates of trendy ‘keto’ regimes have spent years insisting they know best, praising the strict, carb-free lifestyle for keeping them slim. Others point to the ever-growing pile of studies demonstrating the health benefits achieved through intermittent-fasting
Yet, according to AI, neither diet can claim the top spot. Instead, MailOnline can reveal that accolade belongs to the Mediterranean diet — if you believe ChatGPT, the powerful chatbot that has become an online sensation due to its rapid research abilities.
MailOnline asked the chatbot: ‘Can you please recommend me a singular diet plan and write me a dietary plan following this diet to help me lose weight? It must incorporate a specific regime for breakfast, lunch and dinner.’
The Mediterranean — packed with vegetables, wholegrains and nuts and credited with keeping the Italians in good health— trumped them all.
The AI bot provided an extensive seven-day food diary loosely based on the diet.
Chat GPT’s recommended diet plan:
Day One
Breakfast: Greek yogurt topped with fresh berries and a sprinkle of almonds. As well as a side of whole-grain toast with a small amount of avocado spread.
Lunch: Grilled chicken breast salad with mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, and feta cheese. Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice as dressing.
Dinner: Baked salmon seasoned with herbs and served with roasted asparagus and quinoa. Add a squeeze of lemon juice for extra flavour.
Day Two
Breakfast: Veggie omelette made with egg whites, spinach, tomatoes, and onions. Serve with a side of whole-grain bread.
Lunch: Whole-grain wrap filled with grilled vegetables, hummus, and grilled chicken strips. Add a side of mixed green salad.
Dinner: Baked chicken breast with lemon and herbs, served with a side of roasted sweet potatoes and steamed broccoli.
Day Three
Breakfast: Overnight oats made with rolled oats, almond milk, chia seeds and topped with sliced bananas and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Lunch: Quinoa salad with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, Kalamata olives, and feta cheese. Drizzle with a simple dressing made of olive oil, lemon juice, and herbs.
Dinner: Grilled shrimp skewers with a variety of colourful bell peppers and onions. Serve with a side of whole-grain couscous and a green salad.
Day Four
Breakfast: Smashed avocado on whole-grain toast topped with sliced tomatoes and a poached egg.
Lunch: Lentil soup with a side of mixed green salad dressed with olive oil and vinegar.
Dinner: Grilled lean steak with roasted brussels sprouts and a small portion of wholegrain pasta tossed with olive oil and garlic.
Day Five
Breakfast: Spinach and mushroom frittata made with egg whites. Enjoy with a side of sliced melon.
Lunch: Mediterranean-style salad with mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, chickpeas, olives, and feta cheese. Dress with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Dinner: Baked cod with a tomato and olive tapenade, served with sautéed courgette and quinoa.
Day Six
Breakfast: Spinach and mushroom frittata made with egg whites. Enjoy with a side of sliced melon.
Lunch: Mediterranean-style salad with mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, chickpeas, olives, and feta cheese. Dress with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Dinner: Baked cod with a tomato and olive tapenade, served with sautéed courgette and quinoa.
Nigerian singer Joseph Akinfenwa Donus, popularly known as Joeboy, has revealed that he has spent nearly 50 million Naira (US$108,542) on his girlfriend in the last two years.
The 26-year-old ‘Alcohol’ hitmaker disclosed this in a recent interview with ‘The Beat 99.9 FM’ in Lagos, Nigeria. According to him, he is a big spender on his partner and he doesn’t mind going all out for the person he is in love with, thus, spending nearly N50m which is equivalent to US$108,542 on his girlfriend in the last 2 years
He further asserted that he might not be accurate on the figure, but suggested that it could be far more than the stated figure.
Even though he is not ready to mention the name of his partner, Joeboy revealed that he is in a committed relationship and enjoys lavishing his partner with gifts.
“That was a rough estimate. I said at least N50m. I don’t know for sure. It’s not like I’m counting [it could be more]. She [my girlfriend] has to enjoy. I’m enjoying too,” he said.
The singer recently released his sophomore album ‘Body & Soul’ which featured guest appearances from American superstars, Ludacris, BNXN and Odumodublvck.
The Premier League season is now done and dusted following a dramatic finale on Sunday afternoon.
Manchester City are champions for the third season in a row, having been pushed pretty close by Arsenal, while Manchester United and Newcastle returned to the Champions League.
Liverpool, Brighton and Aston Villa will all be playing European football next season but it has been a calamitous nine months for Chelsea, who could only finish 12th.
At the bottom, Southampton, Leeds United and Leicester City will be playing Championship football next season, while Everton avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth on the last day.
Following the conclusion of the campaign, we assess all 20 clubs;
There’s never a dull moment at the City Ground. What a bonkers season but the upshot is that Nottingham Forest will be a Premier League club next term against all odds.
The team that comes up via the play-offs is generally the favourite to drop straight back down but Forest tried to counter this by signing 22 new players last summer plus seven more in January.
That only created a major headache for manager Steve Cooper, who couldn’t possibly hope to know his strongest team but was expected to get results anyway. Cooper sailed close to the wind when it came to the sack but keeping faith in him proved a masterstroke as Forest secured their survival with a game to spare.
There were always going to be hits and misses. Jesse Lingard didn’t work out as a signing, but the likes of Morgan Gibbs-White, Danilo and Taiwo Awoniyi most certainly did.
Goodness knows what’ll happen this summer but it surely can’t be quite as madcap. Can it?
An absolutely risible season of relegation that had probably been on the cards for some time.
If Southampton fans thought they’d bottomed out under Ralph Hasenhuttl in those opening weeks of the season, they were very sadly mistaken.
The Nathan Jones 14-match tenure was like a living nightmare and Ruben Selles presided over further abject failure despite winning two of his first three games.
Mohammed Salisu, Southampton
Finishing 11 points adrift of safety, Southampton were resigned to their grim fate very early on indeed and they really contributed precious little to the top-flight.
It’ll now fall to Russell Martin, who gained a positive reputation for his brand of football with Swansea, to try and gets Saints back into the Premier League at the first time of asking.
LEICESTER CITY Finished – 18th (relegated); 2021-22 finish – 8th
It really is astonishing to see Leicester in this position just seven years after they won the greatest of all Premier League titles and just two years after a famous FA Cup win.
They can certainly be accused of a kind of arrogance that they’d just remain a comfortable top-half club without having to renew and refresh. Their much-lauded owners took the eye off the ball and as things became stale under Brendan Rodgers, they waited too long to pull the trigger.
Leicester City players
That’s easy to say with hindsight with Dean Smith ultimately unable to pick up enough points in the final eight games to save their skins.
Too many players underachieved and underperformed but many of them will still be playing Premier League football next season as the carcass is picked post-relegation.
Bookmakers will have Leicester among the favourites to bounce straight back but the financial implications are huge.
LIVERPOOLFinished – 5th; 2021-22 finish – 2nd
At the beginning of the season, everybody expected Liverpool to be the only ones capable of properly challenging Manchester City in the title race.
They’ve fallen well short of that and finishing outside the top four will come as a crushing disappointment in what quickly became a transitional season for Jurgen Klopp.
Liverpool players
There were certainly some memorable scorelines, not least the 7-0 demolition of Manchester United and the 9-0 against Bournemouth, but the Reds looked weak and vulnerable too often.
They only really found their winning form towards the end, but it proved too little, too late to make the Champions League for next season. Unlike the season before, they also fell short in the cups.
Reinforcements will again be required this summer, especially in midfield, if Klopp wishes to construct another top class side. They’ll certainly come again.
MANCHESTER CITYFinished – 1st;2021-22 finish – 1st
It has already been another truly outstanding season for Pep Guardiola’s City – but it could yet be historic.
Erling Haaland, Manchester City
A third consecutive Premier League title is in the bag – and it was achieved with a real swagger in the end as City ruthlessly clambered over a faltering Arsenal in the final weeks.
Add the FA Cup and the Champions League to win the Treble and Guardiola has a very strong claim to be the greatest ever. We all knew Erling Haaland would be good, but nobody expected him to be 52-goals-and-counting good. But it’s so much more than a one-man team with pretty much everyone excelling.
Who knows how much longer Guardiola will stick around in Manchester but the way his team continues to evolve, to push the boundaries and take the breath away is just phenomenal.
We can’t escape the fact these triumphs come with an asterisk following those Premier League charges but, for now, we are witnessing one of English football’s greatest-ever teams.
MANCHESTER UNITEDFinished – 3rd; 2021-22 finish – 6th
A season of undoubted progress – especially if Erik ten Hag’s side can add the FA Cup to the Carabao Cup and a third-place finish, happily wrecking City’s Treble dreams in the process.
Erik ten Hag
The positives of the Dutchman’s first season in charge include ending that silverware wait after six years, making Old Trafford a fortress again, forging a brilliant midfield out of Casemiro, Christian Eriksen and Bruno Fernandes, and getting Marcus Rashford firing on all cylinders.
But equally, United also have a long road to travel yet before they can truly compete for the top honours as they used to.
There have been too many capitulations – City, Liverpool, Brentford, Sevilla to name but a few – and it’s clear two or three more top quality players are needed. A centre forward to reduce the goalscoring burden on Rashford is top priority.
The protracted takeover saga also hangs over Old Trafford, making long-term planning very difficult.
But Ten Hag, whose jettisoning of Cristiano Ronaldo seems a very long time ago now, finally has the club moving in the right direction.
What a joyous season it’s been on Tyneside with Champions League football secured for the first time in two decades.
Newcastle players
It is very easy to forget the Toon were fighting for their Premier League lives when the Saudis and Eddie Howe came in the autumn of 2021.
Their rapid progress owes so much to Howe, whose appointment has been inspired. He has, quite simply, improved all of the players in his squad and made Newcastle darn tough to play against.
Of course there has been money to spend – not that it’s been anywhere near what some predicted when the takeover happened – but you still feel this project is running well ahead of schedule.
Newcastle have smashed the ‘big six’ apart and are clearly here to stay, with their day out at Wembley for the Carabao Cup final a nice bonus despite defeat.
Those Champions League nights at St James’ Park will be cherished by a long-suffering support next season but it should be just the start for a club whose trajectory is now very much upwards.
TOTTENHAM HOTSPURFinished – 8th;2021-22 finish – 4th
What a grim season down on White Hart Lane. Missing out on Europe and falling short in every competition was probably always written in the stars for Spurs this season.
Harry Kane
Antonio Conte was never really a good fit and inevitably everything blew up with that rant of home truths after the draw at Southampton – every one of which had merit.
The hapless Cristian Stellini and then Ryan Mason tried to salvage something from the season but Tottenham were worthy of their lowly eighth-place finish, a woeful regression. It’s frightening to think where they’d have finished without Harry Kane, who somehow scored 32 times in a team that put in sub-standard performances most weeks.
With Kane surely leaving over the summer, the Spurs job becomes even more unattractive without European football and there’s definitely a sense of deja-vu from two years back when it comes to their calamitous manager search.
With the fans raging against Daniel Levy, whoever accepts this most depressing of missions had better be a miracle-worker.
WEST HAM UNITEDFinished – 14th; 2021-22 finish – 7th
West Ham’s achievement in reaching a first European final since 1976 should not disguise the fact they looked doomed for the drop for large chunks of the season.
Declan Rice, West Ham
The supporters wanted David Moyes out not so long ago but that obviously isn’t going to happen if they beat Fiorentina to win the Europa Conference League next week.
Moyes looked short of fresh ideas at times but they got the results they needed in the pressure games to secure survival while maintaining a European run they could easily have sacked off. Lifting that trophy would be a superb way for Declan Rice to sign off and the Hammers must invest what money they get for him wisely.
Having spent £160m last summer, there’s surely more to come from Lucas Paqueta and Gianluca Scamacca, who has been plagued by injury. They can’t struggle as badly again, surely?
One of the transformations of the season by Julen Lopetegui at Molineux. Wolves looked doomed to relegation after registering just one win in their opening 10 games.
Julen Lopetegui and Lemina
Once Bruno Lage was axed, things didn’t exactly improve when Steve Davis was in caretaker charge. But fortunes changed when Lopetegui got down to work after the World Cup. Against all expectations, safety was secured with three games to spare and nobody expected that.
Ruben Neves rose to the occasion in many crunch games but Wolves will do well to keep him with Barcelona sniffing around. There’s plenty of speculation around the manager, too.
Whoever is in charge, serious squad investment to build on the significant January buys will be needed to avoid such a relegation scare again.
ASTON VILLAFinished – 7th;2021-22 finish – 14th
How very different it could have been. It seems an eternity ago now but Villa started the season disastrously under Steven Gerrard and could easily have been bound for relegation.
The easy option would have been to appoint a firefighter or safe pair of hands to make absolutely sure they didn’t go down. But they went for Unai Emery and expectations have been smashed. To qualify for Europe for the first time in 13 years by beating Brighton on the final day was the icing on the cake of an astonishing transformation.
Emery got a new lease of life out of the likes of Tyrone Mings and John McGinn, while Ollie Watkins and Douglas Luiz have been brilliant.
Having been through so much stress in recent seasons, you sense Villa fans will genuinely enjoy the Europa Conference League. As for Emery, he’ll insist he’s only just getting started.
Aston Villa players
BRIGHTONFinished – 6th; 2021-22 finish – 9th
Graham who? Any fears Brighton would regress rapidly when Potter was spirited away to Chelsea back in September have been made to look silly.
Brighton fans who thought it couldn’t get any better following their 9th place finish last season were mistaken as Roberto De Zerbi’s fire and brimstone took them into the Europa League.
Even Pep Guardiola has hailed the Italian’s brand of football and De Zerbi’s passion has energised the entire club and the city. They were also a penalty kick away from the FA Cup final.
Brighton’s first priority is to ensure De Zerbi doesn’t go anywhere, then they’ll need to find replacements for Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo if they leave, as expected.
But they’ve become adept at finding stars out of nowhere and the good times just keep on rolling at the Amex. Their European adventure will be very much relished by the fans.
It has been one of those seasons that seems to have gone on for so long – having been punctuated by the World Cup – that you forget certain things did actually happen this season.
One of them was the 9-0 pasting Bournemouth took at Liverpool back on August 27, a result that led to Scott Parker being shown the door just three months after guiding the Cherries to promotion.
At that point, Bournemouth had conceded 16 goals in four games and looked on to not only go straight back down but potentially set a few unwanted records too. Even under their saviour Gary O’Neil, there were many moments when they looked Championship-bound but ultimately Bournemouth survived pretty comfortably.
O’Neil deserves immense credit for that achievement, extracting the maximum from his players while embarking on his own personal learning curve in an unforgiving first managerial job.
Bournemouth survived and that was the primary objective – but it won’t get any easier.
Wiyaala has called out founder of a non-governmental organisation, Inspire Today, Rita Etornam Sey for claiming that girls in the Northern Region use clay as a substitute for menstrual pad.
Ghanaian Afro-pop singer-songwriter who hails from the Northern Region appears not happy with the untruth told by the NGO Founder who in an interview on GTV to commemorate World Menstrual Hygiene Day, said girls in the Northern Region, use all manner of materials including clay as a substitute for menstrual pad.
Reacting to the development, Wiyaala described the claim by Madam Sey as false and denigrating.
“Please to the whole Ghana and wherever you will see this video, it’s a lie, our sister, I am not attacking you but I don’t know why you said that and what you are trying to achieve.”
“I am not going to ask you to prove it because it’s a lie so please stop it, any platform that interviewed her know that it’s a lie,” Wiyaala said.
Sey had earlier said in the interview that; “It is important that we pay attention to good menstrual hygiene, knowing very well what some of the girls use when they are menstruating,” she said.
She added: “For Inspire Today, over the period the places we have been to, the girls use all manner of materials for menstruation, some use newspapers, we went to the North, some of the girls use clay as substitute for sanitary pad.”
One of Africa’s most-celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81.
A renowned feminist, she depicted and celebrated the condition of African women in works such as The Dilemma of a Ghost, Our Sister Killjoy and Changes.
She opposed what she described as a “Western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch”.
She also served as education minister in the early 1980s but resigned when she could not make education free.
In a statement, her family said “our beloved relative and writer” passed away after a short illness, requesting privacy to allow them to grieve.
A university professor, Ata Aidoo won many literary awards for her novels, plays and poems, including the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Changes, a love story about a statistician who divorces her first husband and enters into a polygamous marriage.
Her work, including plays like ‘Anowa’ have been read in schools across West Africa, along with works of other greats like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe.
Ama Ata Aidoo was born in a small village in Ghana’s central Fanti-speaking region in 1942.
Her father had opened the first school in the village and was a strong influence on her.
At the age of 15 she decided that she wanted to be a writer and within just four years, had achieved that ambition after she was encouraged to enter a competition.
She went on to study literature at the University of Ghana and became a lecturer, publishing her first play in 1964.
After her 18 month-foray into politics she went into self-imposed exile in Zimbabwe for a time and became a full-time writer.
An Indian official who made headlines after he drained a dam to retrieve his phone has been fined by the government.
Rajesh Vishwas has been ordered to pay 53,092 rupees ($642; £519) for pumping out millions of litres of water without seeking permission from authorities.
He had dropped the device while taking a selfie and claimed it needed retrieving as it contained sensitive government data.
But he has been accused of misusing his position.
The food inspector dropped his Samsung phone, worth about 100,000 rupees, into Kherkatta Dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh last week.
After local divers couldn’t find the phone, he paid for a diesel pump to be brought in, Mr Vishwas said in a video statement quoted in the media. The pump ran for several days, emptying out thousands of litres of water, but by the time the phone was found, it was too waterlogged to work.
A Sudanese doctor who criticised the army for diverting aid from the World Health Organization to a hospital it has converted into a barracks has been arrested by intelligence officers.
Alaaeldin Nugud, a surgeon who is well known locally, was taken from his home in Omdurman’s al-Manar neighbourhood on Saturday. He had previously told the Saudi-owned al-Hadath TV station about how aid was being diverted by the army from those who needed it.
“A WHO shipment arrived in Port Sudan and the army got hold of it,” Nugud said. “They took it to the army hospital in Omdurman, but when doctors arrived to transport it to other facilities they were denied entry.” He said doctors were told the hospital had become a barracks.
Nugud’s wife, Ridab Idres, who has fled to Egypt with their daughter, said he was taken by armed plainclothes officers and that his younger brother was beaten up. “They took all his library, computer, an iPad, mobile phone and him,” she said, adding that she believed he was being targeted because of his activism.
The United Arab Emirates has withdrawn from a United States-led maritime coalition after an extensive evaluation of its security needs, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.
“As a result of our ongoing evaluation of effective security cooperation with all partners, two months ago, the UAE withdrew its participation in the Combined Maritime Forces,” the ministry said on Wednesday in a statement quoted by state news agency WAM.
The UAE also said it was committed to dialogue and diplomatic engagement to advance regional security and stability as well as ensuring navigation safety near its shores in accordance with international law.
The decision marks a pivotal moment in the region’s geopolitical landscape, altering the dynamics of international cooperation in maritime security.
The 34-nation task force headquartered at the US naval base in Bahrain was formed to counter terrorism and piracy in the Red Sea and Gulf areas.
The region contains some of the world’s most important shipping routes, and since 2019, there have been a series of attacks on vessels at times of tension between the US and Iran.
Faustin-Archange Touadera, President of Central African Repub
President Faustin-Archange Touadera has set July 30 as the date for a proposed referendum on a new constitution for the Central African Republic that would allow him to seek a new term in 2025.
“I have decided … to submit this project for a new constitution to a referendum,” the president said in an address to the nation, posted on Facebook, on Tuesday.
Touadera was elected in 2016 and was returned for a second term in 2020 despite widespread accusations of electoral flaws and an ongoing rebellion against his rule after years of civil war.
Currently, a president can serve only two four-year terms.
His allies proposed the rule change in May last year, arguing that presidential term limits were uncommon in many neighbouring countries.
Critics and opposition parties held protests last year as the reform would allow Touadera to run again in 2025 for a third term. The president installed a commission to draft the proposed changes in September.
But the country’s top court ruled the committee unconstitutional and annulled it.
