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Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson has thrown her critics into ‘dustbin, saying that she will continue to move on in life ahead of them.  Mercy Johnson The (Ebira) Kogi State-born star in an interview with City People said ‘People will keep criticising when they want exactly what you have. They hate and they talk, but they want what you have. They crave to have what you have. So when they talk, the only way to shut them up is to even do better and up your game.’ She went on to add: ‘We are in an environment where people who have boils all over their faces will look at me that has just 1 pimple on my cheek and try to tell me what cream to use. People hide in the shadow and say stuff.’ She made it clear that nobody can make her to go back now, adding: “So it’s like hate all you want, I am moving. So you are just going to stay there and keep talking and I am ahead of you.” Read more...

Eihuri came from a large and prominent homestead in Ahacheche village... It was very clear that Eihuri was extensively schooled in cookery by her parent, right from her tender age till the time she got married to Abaukaka of Omoyeye clan. She possessed the ability to prepare pounded yam that was fluffy and yet retained enough texture which made it amendable for it to be moulded into desirable size, for swallowing. This was greatly complemented by her ingenious way of preparing melon soup with Grass cutter meat. Eihuri had distinguished herself as a celebrity of a kind when she was 12 years of age. Elderly people talked loudly about her emerging beauty. The hair, skin legs, teeth, her courtesy were taken one by one and analyzed by the young men in her village and even beyond with avid admiration. Everybody dreamed to posses her when she would have become an adult.... The oracle had earlier revealed that some white skinned people would set foot on Bura land. It also caut