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I was slapped for speaking in tongues – 14-yr-old gospel singer Great Daniel recounts ordeal with record label


14-year-old gospel artiste, Daniel Monday Akpan who goes by the stage name, Great Daniel has revealed how he was slapped four times for speaking in tongues on stage by an executive of his former record label, EeZee Concept.
Great Daniel had recently announced his separation from the record label on his Facebook page without disclosing the reason.


However, in an exclusive interview with VANGUARD, the Akwa-Ibom-born singer disclosed that unfair treatment from the record label led him to part ways with them.


He said, “I went for a programme at Abia state, I spoke in tongues while on stage, and when we got to our hotel room, he [vice-president of the record label] was asking me why I spoke in tongues on stage. He shouted at me. I was trying to explain to him that it was not my fault, I was led by the Holy Spirit, the next thing, he gave me the first slap, the second slap, the third slap, the fourth slap, and I started crying because my parents weren’t with me, they were in Lagos state. I didn’t have anyone, so I came back to Lagos state.”


He also revealed that as a result of the fallout, the record label who had been sponsoring his education, cut him off from school and instead employed a home lesson teacher who taught him only three subjects out of nine he takes in school.
He said, “It was my first term in SS2, I dropped out from school, and I stayed at home for four months while my classmates were at school studying. They [record label] just stopped me from going to school, saying they will be bringing a home lesson teacher to take me at home because of security reasons.”
Daniel added he believed that God is going to take him places, especially now that he is about to embark on an independent music journey.

Great Daniel

“What matters to me is Nyesom Wike ” Governor Wike says as he names a block in the new magistrate court after his wife

Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has named a block in the newly-inaugurated Justice Iche Ndu Magistrates Court Complex in the state after his wife, Justice Eberechi Nyesom Wike.
 
Wike, who disclosed this during the inauguration of the complex on Thursday, May 4, also named other blocks after some top judges in the state.

Wike revealed he decided to name one block after his wife so as not to leave office ’empty-handed’.
 

“The first building by my immediate left has to be named Justice Chibuzor Amadi Block. And then we remembered one of our own who is late, Justice Elizabeth Membre. Block B is named after her. The President of the Customary Court of Appeal was also a Magistrate before, so the third block is named after the President of the Customary Court of Appeal.

“And then the last block, I said I will not go empty-handed. Every day, people say Wike you are generous. If I’m generous to myself, is it bad? So as I am leaving, let me also name that one after my wife. So, it will be named after Justice Suzzette Eberechi Nyesom Wike. What matters to me is Nyesom Wike, so my name is there and that block is for my dear wife,” Wike said.

“Why did we name this place after Justice Ndu? During his tenure as Chief Judge, he did very well – it was the period I was the Chief of Staff. You see a Chief Judge coming with dignity. You see a Chief Judge and you know that he is a Chief Judge and he contributed to the growth of the judiciary.

“We felt like, now that he is alive, let us remember that he has done his own work; that is why we have to name this complex, Justice Iche Ndu Magistrates Court Complex,” he explained.

GOVERNOR WIKE WELCOMES PRESIDENT-ELECT SEN BOLA AHMED TINUBU AS HE DECLARES PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN RIVERS STATE – MAY 3RD 2023

The Governor of Rivers State, Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike makes welcome President-Elect Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Rivers State, on this day May 13 2023.

He urged all citizens of his state to come out in masses to celebrate Sen Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his coming to commission the Rumuola/Rumuokwuta flyover and the magistrate court complex.

May God bless the citizens of Nigeria.

Wike welcomes Sen Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Rivers State – 3rd May 2023

BREAKING: ASUU STRIKE LATEST UPDATES

BREAKING: ASUU STRIKE UPDATE

ASUU MAY CONSIDER FGS OFFER AT NEC MEETING NEXT WEEK MONDAY

The National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will hold on Monday next week to decide on the offers by the Federal Government for it to end its ongoing strike.

The meeting promises to be a decisive one and may determine whether the government would axe the union as being contemplated.

This is just as a member of the NEC told Vanguard in confidence that whatever would be the decision of the union, would be in the best interest of the university system.

However, when contacted, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said his union was yet to officially get any offer from the government’s side.

“We have been negotiating with them through collective bargaining and whatever they have should not be made to us on the pages of newspapers. It should be done the way it is expected to be done. Our main problem with the government is that there is trust deficit. They will say something and will do another thing.

“After the Memorandum of Action was signed last year with them, they were supposed to pay some money in two tranches starting from August last year, but they did not do the needful.

As for other unions suspending their actions, ASUU is not a one man show, we will look collectively at whatever is presented to us. But as at now, nothing has been officially offered,” he said.

However, checks by Vanguard revealed that the coming NEC meeting could lead to the FG coming down hard on the union if it decides to continue with the strike.

Vanguard reported on Monday that the FG is ready to release money to revitalise the universities, pay Earned Academic Allowance and also jerk up the salaries of the workers a bit.

It is hoped that the union would accept the offers and avoid being proscribed as being contemplated.

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