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27 Dec 2013

Justin Bieber Sets To Quit Music

At the tender age of 19, Justin Bieber has apparently had his fill of the music business.

Bieber tweeted to his 48 million plus followers, "My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring," on Christmas Eve. The announcement was retweeted well over 200,000 times while the youngster continued with more posts.

"The media talks a lot about me," he wrote. "They make up a lot of lies and want me to fail but I'm never leaving you, being a belieber is a lifestyle."

He ended the confession session with a promise to be "here forever."

Ironically, the Canadian teen's tweets came just in time to promote his new movie, Justin Bieber's Believe, released on Wednesday (Dec. 25), and he spent much of the holiday retweeeting comments and mini-reviews from fans and friends about the documentary, which faced stiff competition from the likes of Anchorman 2, The Hobbit and the Martin Scorsese-directed flick The Wolf of Wall Street, which took first place with a $10 million Christmas Day gross.

Figures for Believe — his second documentary in two years — have yet to be released.

As far as retiring goes, the teen crooner may be too young to remember all of the recording artists who pulled the retirement card long before he snagged his first hit single. Among the list includes Jay Z, who famously proclaimed an end to his rap career a decade ago with The Black Album and accompanying documentary Fade to Black.

On the flip side, Bieber does seem adamant, saying during an interview last week with L.A.'s Power 106 that he was throwing in the towel.

Retirement may be the only way he can get some peace and quiet these days. The singer has had a tumultuous year, one that changed him from being revered to reviled, what with all the partying, fast driving, alleged weed smoking, urinating in a bucket and outbursts against the paparazzi.

We'll just have to wait and see how long his retirement actually lasts.

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INCREDIBLE! Christians At Aliko Dangote’s Office Cry Out Against Marginalisation

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is a well-known personality in Nigeria and even across the shores of Africa. The business mogul of repute has several thousand staff working under his conglomerate. The Christian work force within the richest man in Africa’s business empire, Dangote Groups Head office are said to be crying out against religious marginalization this much we gathered.

According to information at our disposal, Alhaji Dangote, has never withheld his support to the Muslim faithful in his company from the lower cadre to the senior level of the management, thus making it a norm.
“Every Ramadan season, Alhaji will give the junior staff even up to the cleaner Ramadan bonus. The senior management staff receives more financial support including gifts running into thousands of Naira to encourage them as they observe the religious tenets. Before now, he has been supporting the Christian faithful within the organisation with money during the Easter or Christmas period until recently when he stopped extending his hand of fellowship towards the Christians and solely focused on the Muslim staff alone,” a source whispered to us.

We also gathered from another staff that, there is high-level of ill-treatment meted on the staff as they are not really enjoying the best of time as perceived by people from the outside.
As you read this, the Christian faithful at the Falomo-Ikoyi, Lagos based head office of the business tycoon will protest upon their resumption from the Christmas break as we learnt that the last Ramadan favoured the Muslim brothers who allegedly said to have received enormously from the philanthropist business mogul only for them, Christians, to be sidelined this Christmas.

In an effort to get the truth, an SMS message was sent to Sunday Esan, the image launderer of Dangote Groups and he replied thus: “outright Balderdash!”. That was all he said before we published this story.
Meanwhile, Dangote Pasta based in Ikorodu was said to have laid off all the staff without pay, the reason is because the company has been sold to some foreign investors….We shall file in the full details shortly.