Popular comedian Basketmouth has unveiled a bold new look going completely bald for the first time in 30 years.
Sharing photos of his clean-shaven head on social media, the funnyman playfully announced the change, sparking a wave of reactions from fans and colleagues.
Many praised his confidence and fresh look, while others couldn’t stop joking about the transformation.
In other news…. Nollywood actress Sarah Martins has accused Lagos KAI officials of assaulting her and seizing food meant for 200 street children.
She admitted she was wrong to cook on the walkway but criticised the officers for lacking empathy. Martins said she only cooks for the kids “to make them feel loved,” not for social media content or money.
“Yes I was wrong to cook on the walkway but KAI operatives were mean enough to carry away food meant for poor street children without empathy!
What happens to empathy???
Not for me but for the vulnerable people I was cooking for.
These are people who were already excited about having a taste of a good meal for that day; these were children who probably hadn’t eaten the entire day and the meal I was making for them was their only hope for the day.
You cut their hopes short!
You traumatised them!
You took away a big cooler of rice meant for 200 street kids.
I wasn’t crying because you took all my cooking utensils including the entire food meant for poor people;, I cried because hungry children depended on that meal for dinner.
And I ask again, what happens to empathy???
I do not cook on the street for content or for financial benefits because my social media platforms are NOT even monetised.
I cook on the street to bond with the street kids, making them feel loved, appreciated, valued and cared for by watching me cook for them with so much love and care.
They watch me cook from start to finish and they see the amount of love I pour into each meal I make for them and that’s what makes my own style of charity different.
There’s a difference between watching a loved one cook for you with so much love and admiration and seeing someone bring food to share with you.
The bond I’ve created with the street kids is what has kept me going for the past 7 years in this outreach.
For the fact that I wasn’t cooking to sell, I feel I should have been allowed to finish the particular meal, share with the kids and then be advised to discontinue for safety reasons instead of being treated like an animal.
I chose not to wail at the government and blame them for everything but rather support the government by feeding the póor from my hard-earned money as an advocate of peace and humanity that I am.
This is our Nigeria, and together we shall make it great again by impacting one another in our own little way.
The tiny voices of those poor kids with the tears in their eyes still echo in my head.
It is well.
It can only get better”.
