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Yvonne Nelson started her movie career from way back and she actually became one of the hottest commodities in the Ghana movie industry until she was banned for her arrogance and her indecent behaviour on set.
She didn't let that shake her, she moved to Nigeria to pursue her career she was accepted by Nigerians and Nigeria became her second home. Yvonne Nelson is noted for her obsession with social media and also her love for music and the men in music. Her relationships always tend to turn heads and eventually become the talk of the town.
Check out some of the famous men Yvonne Nelson has dated. Some are alleged and mere rumours but as they say, there is a little truth in every rumour. Sit back and relax.
Derek Boateng:
Derek Boateng is a Ghanaian footballer and so far rumours had it that he was smashing Yvonne Nelson. We all know how girls love to hang with the 'ballers' as they have the cash to actually 'ball'. It was alleged that after smashing, he sponsored Yvonne Nelson's high budget movies that is how Yvonne Nelson broke into the movie production scene. Derek Boateng however refuted it.
Jon German:
According to sources, Jon German was Yvonne Nelson's first love right after her fame. They both kept denying it but 99% of people in the showbiz know that the two were smashing and Trigmatic could vouch.
Chase:
They didn't actually date but Yvonne Nelson confessed to having a huge crush on singer Chase back in High School Days, if Chase had done his homework well, he could have 'smashed' before Iyanya broke her heart. The two are good friends.
Ice Prince:
Well during the shooting of her 'House Of Gold' movie, Ice Prince was called to be a part of the movie, rumours had it that Ice Prince didn't just take the role but also took off Yvonne Nelson's 'dress'. They both came out to deny it as usual. They were spotted in night clubs, hanging out at malls and various places … who knows, it could have been part of the movie.
Davido:
This one is actually a secret, according to reliable sources Davido is the reason why Iyanya left Yvonne Nelson.
Iyanya:
Finally the most popular of them all. When reports first came out that they were dating, they both refuted the claims, actually Yvonne did being it as Iyanya was a nobody back then. Till date she still talks about the breakup.
Isn't it obvious that Yvonne Nelson has got a soft spot for guys in music?
Why do so many people who have had a near death experience describe hauntingly similar visions? Intensive care nurse PENNY SARTORI has spent years investigating them. On Saturday she told how such experiences defy rational explanation. Here, in part two of a special series she reveals the stories of those who have foreseen the death of relatives - and how we may be able to control the timing of our own deaths
Four years ago, children’s author Shelley E. Parker suddenly had a strong premonition that her fiancé was about to die. This made no sense at all. If anyone was going to die, it was more likely to be Shelley herself, as she was seriously ill with cancer.
But that night in hospital, her premonition was reinforced by a bizarre dream in which she met God.
She recalled every moment of it when she woke: how God had told her that it was time for Steven to go, and turned down her plea to take her instead.
At noon the next day, Steven, who was a helicopter pilot, was killed in a crash.
‘I now wonder whether I could have stopped him dying if I’d told him,’ says Shelley, 41, who lives in Farnworth, Lancashire. ‘But I don’t think I could have.’
There was no doubt in Shelley’s mind that she’d somehow tuned in to the future. Ten years before, she’d had another premonition — this time about a little girl. The healthy three-year-old was the child of friends and Shelley had seen her only a few times. One night, she had a ‘very vivid’ dream about her.
‘I was walking along a path and in front of me was this little girl with her auntie,’ Shelley recalled. ‘I’m not sure how accurate the image of the auntie was, as I’d never met her or seen photographs of her — I just knew that she’d died about 20 years previously.
'The aunt said she was there to take the little girl to heaven. The child was dressed in pink and had a pink bucket and spade and glitter make-up on the side of her face. She was very happy and dancing around.
'I woke up the next day and felt really unsettled. I thought about phoning the little girl’s father but then thought better of it, trying to rationalise that it was just a dream. That feeling of anxiety lasted all day.’
That evening, Shelley went to dinner with relatives. At one point, she glanced at her watch. It was 10.10pm.
‘Suddenly, all of the unsettled feeling and anxiety just fell away and I thought: at last I’m starting to relax.’
The next day, she learned that the little girl had died the night before — soon after 10pm. The cause of her death was a mystery.
Should we dismiss Shelley’s premonitions — and many others I’ve been told — as macabre coincidences? Or could they be a genuine phenomenon, experienced far more than people imagine?
Consider the case of Janice Wright, a British woman who was visiting friends in Virginia, USA. In the middle of the night, she told me, she’d suddenly snapped wide awake.
In her bedroom was her childhood nanny, whom she hadn’t seen in years, though they still corresponded.
‘In real life, she was well over 80,’ said Janice. ‘But in the vision, she was ageless and surrounded by an immensely bright light. She smiled at me, put her hand out and telepathically told me all was well.
‘I was shocked and stayed awake. The next morning, I told my hosts I thought my old nanny had died.
‘Later that day, a cousin called from England to tell me that’s exactly what had happened.’
How can we explain such accurate premonitions? Sadly, science has not even begun to find answers.
Similarly, no scientific theory has yet come close to explaining why a few people have near-death experiences — which can include visions of tunnels, bright lights and meetings with dead relatives.
Indeed, that was one of the problems facing me when I embarked on a PhD on the subject. Throughout my research, I was also working as a nurse in the intensive care ward of a British hospital. I was therefore able to learn at firsthand about some of the seemingly inexplicable events that can occur just before death.
To my mind, however, it’s too easy to label these as paranormal or supernatural.
Instead, I’m increasingly open to the possibility that our brains are separate from our consciousness. In other words, the brain may be channelling what some people call the soul, rather than responsible for creating it.
As a theory, it deserves scientific investigation. If proved, it would explain, for instance, why enhanced consciousness can be experienced separately from the body.
And it would also help account for the extraordinary phenomenon known as ‘shared death experience’.
This is admittedly rare, but two separate cases have been reported to me by relatives who were present at a deathbed.
The first took place in 2004 in the north of England. A dying woman in her 70s was unconscious in a hospital, with her family around her bed. Her husband, Peter, and son, Harry, were holding her hands, and her daughter, Gail, had placed a hand on her forehead.
Subsequently, I interviewed both Peter and Gail separately about what they’d seen. According to Peter, he suddenly noticed a bright light a little distance away. As he watched, a tall man stepped forward from the light with his hands outstretched. Then his unconscious wife seemed to rise from her bed and walk towards the man.
‘He was waiting there as if to give her a welcoming hug; there was a sense of peace and love,’ Peter recalled.
His daughter, Gail, appears to have had a fuller experience of the same vision. ‘All of a sudden, I could see Mum walking into the distance on a path,’ she said. ‘Around her head was like a sun, and on her right-hand side, I could see the silhouette of some people.
‘ I saw this tall person — I don’t know who he was. When she reached him, he took her into his arms as if in a warm embrace that was full of love.
‘Mum’s breaths got shallower. And then there were no further breaths and the scene disappeared.’
Naturally, the family was devastated at their loss. But, unlike Harry, who’d seen nothing at all, father and daughter had what Peter described as ‘big smiles on our faces’.
‘There’d been such sadness leading up to my wife’s death — then this happened,’ he said. ‘The nurses and ward sister must have thought we were very insensitive because we felt this sense of elation and happiness.’
In the second case, a woman in her 40s called Laura was holding her mother’s hand as she started slipping into a coma. Then, suddenly, Laura said, her mother rose from her bed and began walking away. After just one pace, though, she turned around.
‘She looked so happy and well,’ said Laura. ‘Then she said: “Go back now — it’s not your turn.”’
When Laura next looked at her mother on the bed, she was in a deep coma. She died three days later, without regaining consciousness.
I’ve since been told of several such experiences. What makes them particularly fascinating is that they can’t simply be dismissed by cynics as the product of a malfunctioning brain.
Why? Because, unlike conventional near-death experiences, they happen to people who aren’t close to death themselves.
But what about Laura and Gail’s mothers — the people who actually died? Were they, too, experiencing the vision? Evidence from other cases seems to suggest they were.
My first encounter with deathbed visions in hospital was when I was a student nurse arriving for a morning shift.
‘Billy’s in bed six — he’s been talking to his dead mother since three o’clock this morning,’ said the night-shift nurse. ‘He’ll be gone by the end of the day.’
After the handover, I kept my eye on Billy Jones, who was 78. He appeared to be asleep, but throughout the morning, he was making gestures to some invisible person and seemed to be speaking to his mother.
The last time I saw him, he was asleep with a big smile on his face. He died a few hours later.
This was my first encounter with death in a hospital — and it wasn’t long before I, too, could sometimes predict when patients were about to die. Like Billy, they’d start calling out and gesturing to some invisible presence.
Sometimes, a patient is able to describe his vision before dying. A hospice nurse in Wales told me about a 65-year-old man, Ernest, who kept seeing people he knew to be dead at his bedside.
The medical team put this down to hallucinations and reduced his medication — but it made no difference. The figures kept appearing.
In the end, the hospice staff seemed more concerned about them than he was. According to Ernest, he felt no fear yet knew perfectly well that his visitors signified approaching death.
I imagine that this is what my own paternal grandfather must have felt. In the days leading up to his death 18 years ago, he often used to point to the doorway and whisper: ‘Look who’s here — they’re at the door.’ He told my grandmother that his dead father had been visiting him. But whenever he tried to talk to her about this, she’d have to walk out of the room.
She knew that the vision presaged imminent death and she didn’t want him to see her upset.
Older generations, who had far more experience of seeing loved ones die at home, often knew all about death-bed visions and what they signified. Indeed, they have been documented since Victorian times.
More recently, in the 1970s, death-bed visions were the subject of a large survey conducted in both the U.S. and India. This concluded that patients usually died within two to five days of the start of a vision.
Other research suggests that such visions result in a peaceful acceptance of death — whereas drug-induced hallucinations tend to cause anxiety or confusion.
But conversations with invisible people aren’t the only signs that have been widely noted at the bedside of a dying person.
Numerous reports by healthcare workers have recorded other bizarre phenomena, including: a change in temperature, a light around the body, the malfunctioning of electrical equipment and the stopping of clocks. There have also been incidents of glasses smashing — without human intervention — at the moment of death.
In addition, I’ve come to realise during my 17 years as an intensive care staff nurse that some patients actually have control over the timing of their deaths.
The first time I noticed this was one Sunday morning, when I was looking after an elderly woman called Jean Hunt. She’d been suffering from heart failure and her husband had visited her religiously every day for a week.
Unused to being separated from Jean, who’d been chronically ill for ten years, he was very anxious. But, that morning, her condition was stable so he’d been persuaded to accompany his mother on a day trip.
An hour after he left the ward, Jean’s blood pressure suddenly began to drop. She died not long afterwards, and we all blamed ourselves for encouraging her husband to go on the day trip.
That’s when it occurred to me that Jean may have chosen her time of death. And, since then, I’ve known many patients to die while their families were taking ‘a quick break’.
One I particularly remember is Sam, who was in his 80s. His family had been with him almost constantly for a week, and one day I suggested they have a break in the canteen. It was 2pm and they’d been keeping vigil since 8am.
Within minutes of their departure, Sam was dying. I ran to fetch his family in the canteen, but he’d gone before we reached his bedside.
Why would anyone deliberately choose to die alone? It may be that love is sometimes the only thing keeping a seriously-ill patient alive — and the absence of loved ones makes it easier to let go.
I’m by no means the only person who’s noticed this. Hospice and palliative-care consultant Dr John Lerma has reported that 70 to 80 per cent of his patients waited for their loved ones to leave the room before dying.
Some patients, on the other hand, appear to be waiting for a specific event to take place before they can permit themselves to die. This could be a wedding or birthday, or the arrival of an estranged family member.
In one memorable case, a male patient was expected to die very soon, yet lingered for days longer than expected. Finally, he died on the day that a crucial insurance policy became valid, thus ensuring his wife was financially secure.
Even people who appear to be incapable of understanding what’s happening to them can regain some control on their deathbeds.
Recently, researchers in Britain and Germany have started investigating reports of people with late-stage Alzheimer’s disease or dementia suddenly becoming coherent just before they die.
This case comes directly from a good friend.
‘My mother, Peggy, while in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s, was no longer able to converse with any coherency at all,’ said Lyon White, who lives in Sussex. ‘Her conversation consisted of what could only be described as ‘gobbledygook.’
As Peggy’s condition deteriorated, she had to be admitted to hospital. One day, Lyon heard her speaking as he entered the ward. She was having a conversation with her father, a much-loved policeman in Kent who’d been murdered while on duty. Among the things she told him was that she knew that her husband — also deceased — had loved her very much.
Lyon was astounded. It had been a long time since his mother had even been able to form a word, let alone a sentence. But as soon as he interrupted her vision, she once again lost the power to speak.
Why do such remarkable events occur at the end of life? Naturally, some of the people who’ve witnessed them invoke religion and the after-life. But, equally, many remain agnostic.
Whatever our beliefs, we should keep an open mind. And when death comes — as it must — it may not be as fearful as we imagine.
Have YOU had a near death experience? We want to hear your story. Please email DM.femail@dailymail.co.uk
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Mrs. Mary Abah is a lawyer, banker and wife of a former Minister of Interior, Mr. Humphrey Abah. She shares her experience with FRIDAY OLOKOR on her challenge of being in marriage for 23 years without a child and the support she got from her husband
Congratulations on the arrival of your baby 23 years after marriage. Did you ever think it was going to be like this?
Before I got married, my view of the marriage institution was that marriage was a sanctuary; a place where a woman could actualise her dream together with her partner. I understood very early that marriage usually gives some form of security and the expectation was that in it, one should blossom, be fruitful and multiply generally as the Bible says. That was basically how I saw marriage in my youthful age because I finally married at the age of 27 and I was still quite young.
In essence, you did not anticipate the challenge of having a baby…
No, I didn’t anticipate it, the truth is that as a young child who was brought up by a very strict mother, I saw life as a bit of calculation: a sort of ‘1+1 =2 and 2+2=4.’ So if you get married, you expect that after nine months, as they say, you will have a child or children. My challenge has made me very sensitive to what parents and well wishers normally do at wedding ceremonies. During a wedding, people start talking about gathering again for a naming ceremony after nine months. They say it as a joke but that is the genesis of pressure on married women. So, if yours doesn’t happen after nine months, there is a question mark there and you begin to fret and other problems come in.
Did you have any health challenge when you were growing up that could have delayed your giving birth?
Not really, it was much later in life that the health challenge came. I have been a banker since 1987 when I undertook my National Youth Service Corps. I served in a bank as a lawyer. I continued to work in the bank thereafter. Because I ended up in the banking industry, I decided to update myself in everything related to the industry.
During these trying moments in your life, did you feel that somebody somewhere was responsible for your predicament?
The truth is that in the whole of the 23 years, I refused to focus on such things. I didn’t worry about who it was, what it was, where it was or how it was. I did not want to get myself involved in what would cause me anguish for the rest of my life.
You are from Cross River State while your husband is from Kogi State. Was there resistance from your parents when you initially wanted to marry Mr. Humphrey Abbah?
The way we met each other was very peculiar and our marriage was also peculiar. Our families did not actually affect us. They were not there when we met and when we started courting. Our families were not so involved and when it came to the decision of marriage, we took that decision on our own but involved our families later. My husband is not somebody that you can force to do something which he doesn’t believe in. So, even when we got married, that was already established in his family . When he said this was the young lady he wanted to marry, I don’t think he had too much opposition. If there was any at all, it was very insignificant. The truth is that my father-in-law was a very lovely person; a gentleman who had a lot of respect for his son. By the time we got married, his mother was late and my parents were late too. So, his father was the focal point and the cordial relationship they had made it easy. The rest of my family and the elders gave us a little bit of tough time as you would expect in inter-cultural marriages. But it didn’t take us time to be able to woo them to our side and that was it.
At what stage did you begin to get worried?
My first signal was when I was 30 years and three years in my marriage. At first, it didn’t really worry me because as a career person, I felt we should take it in our stride. I was already beginning to make waves in the banking industry and the demands of the job were already telling on me. Also in my innocence, I didn’t really feel it was an issue. But by the time I was 30 and nothing had happened, I asked myself, ‘what’s going on here?’ Then I began to be conscious of it and started making deliberate efforts to get pregnant. Before this time, there was no real effort. When the pregnancy was not forthcoming, I began to suspect that there was a real problem. But as usual, I went to the doctors, they said there was no problem and suggested that I should give myself time because I was a busy lady. But after about a year, I went back and they gave me one or two interpretations as to what could be wrong and we started tackling it from there and it came to the point that by 2011, the doctors were saying nothing could be done.
Which was your first point of call, church or hospital?
By 1991 when we got married, we became born again and the church had become a focal point and integral part of our lives. We were praying and fasting; good relationship with the leadership of the church had become part of our daily lives and so the church was always there for us. The church was never against consulting orthodox doctors. The only no-go area for us was to seek help outside God. So I think that was why very early in the journey of this crisis, we knew that anything outside God was not an alternative to take at all.
During these periods, did the idea of stealing a baby come to you?
I can say that I never really had the thought of doing that. The advice I had was different; it had to do with visiting witchdoctors. But the idea of stealing a baby never came to me; it never crossed my mind. I think sometimes the friends that you have determine the kind of advice you get. For me, I never had that category of friends. I did not even have a lot of friends. I can actually count them on my fingers. But the rest of them were my professional colleagues and church members. I surrounded myself critically with those I felt could help me in my journey in life. I didn’t have that crowd that could really derail me in that sense. But there were general advice of ‘a Baba somewhere,’ ‘a doctor somewhere’ and many others. There were times, through text messages, out of their concern for me, some of the women politicians would make suggestions that one Baba somewhere could do it. Most of the time, I would politely decline and smile. But I would never take it against those people because somehow I felt they were just trying to help. But I needed to communicate to them that such help didn’t suit me. When they realised that it was ‘a no-go area’ for us, most of them backed off. For us, we knew that we needed to shut out the world to be able to succeed in this journey.
Did you try IVF?
Yes, I did it many times. By the sixth time, it was very obvious that it could only be God that would help us. If you look at the Bible, you will realise that God uses what he has created to solve problems. At first, it was a problem for me coming to terms even with IVF and particularly when I had done it once, twice and three times and it failed, I was thinking that maybe that was how God wanted me to go. Sometimes I would agonise over it, sometimes I would pray and sometimes I would even face the battle with my God because I also understood that faith was also very important and faith also involves work. I understood clearly that you needed to activate your faith and so when I began to see the failure of IVF, I felt that was part of it. I would pray and I would move, but each time it failed. I was actually confused because in your journey as a Christian, you grow little by little; you don’t just become a mighty woman overnight. It is from the experiences and how you exercise the word of God that you become confident in what you are doing.
During these times, did you lose interest in having sex with your husband as most women who had faced similar experiences in the past would do?
You see, if you read the Bible clearly, there was only one woman who had a baby without sex and that is Mary, the mother of Jesus. I only said there is only one Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. All of us can’t be like Mary. So where is your action and where is your faith? You must work with your faith; there’s nothing about faith that is easy. Because you understand spiritually that the physical aspect must be part of that journey, then you must keep that fire burning, you must keep trying because without it, you cannot be pregnant. So you will find ways to make sure that it keeps going and with that, what you are asking from God will materialise. If not, you are wasting your time and you cannot blame God who had said ‘I have made man, I have made woman for creation’. Out of it, the next generation will come and you are sitting down to say you have lost interest, then don’t blame God at the end of the day. You will work and whether you like it or not, find time to make way and the Lord will see you through. I think He has shown us that it is good not to give up.
There have been cases where, due to pressures from in-laws, some women are forced to marry wives for their husbands. Did you contemplate this?
No, not at all. As beautiful as child adoption is, my husband refused it. That is the only area of thought that came to me. Not because I felt I needed to give up hope but I felt it might calm the atmosphere because I had also read situations where adoption preceded the gift of children in families. For me, adoption was not a problem; I was willing to do that if it was going to calm the atmosphere. I also understood that the atmosphere that you are in could either help you or scatter everything. You needed to be calm, have a good home and you needed to enjoy marriage for these things to happen. If you are in a tense situation, it would only prolong matters. It was only adoption that we considered, but my husband said no and kept saying, ‘ours will come.’ We didn’t think of another woman. But the beautiful thing about it is that God kept him away from that decision. I am an Efik woman from Cross River State and my husband is from Igalla in Kogi State. We used to joke that he crossed many rivers before he could find me. But a lot then believed that I probably gave him ‘love potion’ to be able to keep him and his faith surprised me.
Was there pressure from your in-laws to get another wife for your husband?
As I said, there was no room for that. Nobody could look into Humphrey Abah’s face, whether in my family or his and make such suggestion. The only person who could do that was my father-in-law. He backed off after bringing up the issue of the delay initially in our marriage. It will be a lie for me to say there was no pressure from my family or his family. They were only concerned about how things would be better for us through the efforts we were putting in. Outside of that, there was no pressure at all.
How did you feel when you were told that you were pregnant?
When they told me I was pregnant, I screamed and cried in the hospital and everyone present rose up and gave thanks to the Lord. Since then, the story has been one testimony after another. But that was not all, when I was to put to bed, I was told there might be complications as a result of all the operations I had done. They said that might make it a very difficult and dangerous birth. Yet, the Lord saw me through. It feels great and I thank the Lord for wiping away my tears and making me a mother at last. It is a dream I have had since I married at the age of 27. Now, I am more than 49 years old, it has taken a long time but the Lord has done it for me. I have shed a lot of tears. Our story is like that of Abraham and Sarah. I am already in menopause but I told God that if He did it for Sarah and gave her womb the strength to conceive, then He would give my womb the same strength. Even when doctors in London told me in 2011 that nothing could be done, I knew that it is only Him (the Lord) that could help me. I focussed on the Lord and He did it for me.
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The Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, western Nigeria , Prof. John Obafunwa, on Friday told members of the state House of Assembly that he was only saved from protesting students of the institution by the grace of God.
The students had embarked on a violent protest on Thursday in which they vandalised school property as well as some cars belonging the Vice Chancellor and other top staff of the institution. They were aggrieved that they were not allowed to write the second semester examination with their colleagues for not completing their registration.
“If certain things had worked out, we would certainly have been talking about obituary by now because they said so many things that I would not want to repeat here. ”
But the President of the Students’ Union Government of the institution , Mojirade Hassan, told the lawmakers , during her presentation , that the SUG had alerted the VC of an impending protest that could turn violent.
She said the VC told her team that he was fully prepared for any of the students ’ protests .
The House had summoned the management of the institution, the Governing Council led by Bode Augusto, the state Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye , and members of the institution ’s SUG over the protest .
Mr . Augusto and other members of management told the House how the
management beat its rules to open the portal for registration but that the students stubbornly refused to register .
A female management staff also said they were “in the valley of the shadows of death ” while the protest lasted adding that some of the
protesters were masked as they carried out the destruction . “ They were masked and planned to kill,” she said .
She said it became impossible to re-open the portal as the date of the examination approached since everything was digitalised and the lecturers needed to know how many students they should plan for .
Miss Mojirade Hassan told the lawmakers that it was a peaceful protest when the action of the aggrieved students began , but that it was hijacked by outsiders who used the opportunity to steal people ’s belongings .
She said days before the protest , the aggrieved students complained about their inability to register. Some said they had paid their tuition but that the portal failed as they tried to register.
She blamed the institution’s management for allowing students to continue paying their tuition when the same management had shut the portal, as according to her , this was a primary reason for the protest .
Miss Hassan said she made concerted efforts to make the VC change his decision to no avail. “If the VC had listened to me and taken my word and even my appeal.
She said at a town hall meeting to iron out the issue , “the students were surprised to hear Mr . Bode Augusto telling them of the financial problems being encountered by the school and how the school generates its revenue .
“ I told the VC that we want to meet with him and he told me that if it is about the re- opening of the portal, he would disappoint me.
“ I begged the VC to re-open the portal for at least just two hours and I informed him that the affected students had threatened to protest if the portal is not re-opened but he said ‘they should go ahead, they will meet there ’.”
She said on Wednesday , the students had waited patiently with placards at the front of the senate building after learning that the VC was meeting with other management staff .
She said she was called and that, from a distance, she saw the VC and the other management staff coming out of the senate building and that when the students saw him , they knelt down and were begging that the portal be opened for even two hours, but that he called their bluff and walked away .
She was however able to pacify the angry students after informing them that the VC had promised to open it the next day .
But on Thursday, the students had thronged the institution only to discover they were deceived.
She said as the tension rose, she called the VC who said he was on top of the situation . “ The VC later came , spoke with the Dean of Student Affairs and left , and this was what provoked the students. They had expected the VC to address them but he didn’ t.
“ The students then took to the streets and I still called the VC to let him know that the issue had gone out of hand but he told me to pacify the
students . I told him it has gone beyond what I can handle. It was then he told me that he had invited the State Security Service, SSS . If the VC had addressed the students , the issue wouldn ’t have degenerated to violence ,” she said .
While some of the lawmakers berated the students , others blamed the management team for refusing to act on the SUG president ’ s advice.
They also blamed the management for allowing the students to pay their fees when management had decided to close the portal.
The Speaker , Adeyemi Ikuforiji , who said leaders of the All Progressives Congress and the state were watching to see how the issue was resolved, later adjourned for about one hour.
The Speaker , on resumption , said the House had agreed that the management of the institution carry out immediate assessment and repairs of the damaged school property for the students to resume.
He also said the SUG must write a letter of apology on behalf of the students who protested.
Apart from these , the House said each of the affected students must sign an undertaking to be of good behaviour.
He pleaded on behalf of the House that the portal be re-opened for two days while the lawmakers would pay an on- the- spot visit to the institution.
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Angela Redd had cared for thousands of medically fragile children in her position as a developmental specialist in Valhalla, N.Y. at Blythedale Children's Hospital. But in July 2000, when a 2-month-old infant named Saliman with webbed legs and fingers and tubes running into his body stared at her with his soulful, brown eyes, she was changed forever – she knew he was hers.
"I can't even describe it," says Angela, 52. "I just gravitated toward him."
Little Saliman wasn't expected to live beyond his second birthday because of a rare medical condition known as Bartsocas-Papas Syndrome that causes severe physical malformations.
"During my free time, I was there by his bedside," remembers Angela. "I would take his clothes home to wash them, I would go out and buy him bibs."
Sad that Saliman didn't often have visitors, Angela, who has a grown daughter from a previous relationship, quickly spotted "the regular, normal kid" beneath little Saliman's devastating physical deformities.
"He would light up when he saw her," recalls Lisa Henry, 51, also a developmental specialist at Blythedale. "You could see the chemistry between them."
When it became clear that his biological parents couldn't care for him, she convinced her husband Rashid, a postal worker, that they were meant to be his parents and together, they brought Saliman home from the hospital at 17 months, cleaned his feeding and breathing tubes, cared for him through dozens of operations – including two leg amputations – and eventually adopted him.
Today, Saliman, 13, gets around on prosthetic legs and is an active eighth-grader who loves baseball, soccer, wrestling and rock-wall climbing. A fan of Glee, he recently auditioned for his school play, Guys and Dolls.
"I like being the center of attention," he says. "I want to be a famous actor when I grow up."
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He says he knows how much his life changed when Angela and Rashid adopted him.
"If they hadn't," says Saliman, "I'd probably be in an orphanage or in the ground."
Watching him undergo painful surgeries, fittings for prosthetic legs starting at 16 months and years of physical, speech and occupational therapy, the couple were amazed at Saliman's unbreakable spirit.
"He was always curious and rambunctious – he wants to try everything and do everything," says Angela of Saliman, who would take off his prosthetics to do gymnastics at age 7. "Saliman has taught us so much. When he puts on those prosthetics and goes to school, it makes me feel like I can do anything."
Though Saliman has to undergo a jaw-realignment surgery to help correct a speech impediment, he says he's not worrying.
"My parents have taught me to keep going forward, never stop and never give up," Saliman says. "The more different we are, the more special we are."
BY CAITLIN KEATING AND JOHNNY DODD
A 25-year-old man has been arrested for biting and chewing his four-month-old baby boy.
He allegedly attacked the boy after he told the mother of the child that his teeth were itching.
“He said he wanted something to chew on,” the mother said.
The woman said her lover, the father of the child, acted strangely when they came back from a marathon session at church at about 10pm on Sunday night.
“I gave the baby his formula, but my boyfriend grabbed it from him.
“He said I shouldn’t make his child enjoy things of the world,” she said.
“When I looked at him, his eyes turned red. He squeezed the baby to his chest until it started screaming.”
The terrified woman, fearing the man’s abusive behaviour, locked herself in her mother’s bedroom - but he hit the door with his fist and she was forced to come out.
“That was when I found him biting the child,” she said.
The woman ran outside and phoned her mother in Kuruman, North West, and told her to call the police.
Then her boyfriend came out of the house and started choking her.
She ended up running down the street wearing only panties, until she was rescued by a neighbour.
According to the mother of the baby, on that morning they went to church at Rabboni Centre Ministries in Zone 2, Ga-Rankuwa, where they were urged to eat grass.
“I suspect my boyfriend was possessed by demons,” she said.
The child was rushed to Odi Hospital and later transferred to Dr George Mukhari Hospital in Ga-Rankuwa.
The grandmother of the baby said she doesn’t want to see the man again.
The baby underwent an operation yesterday to reconstruct his left hand.
The man appeared briefly in the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrates Court and his case was postponed until next Tuesday for a formal bail application.
By: TEBOGO THAMAGE
MMETJA Mashakwe (36) wants all nine of her panties back.
She claims her ex-lover, Morena Seete (32) stole her panties and she wants them returned.
Mmetja, from Zebediela in Limpopo, told Daily Sun: “I can’t have sex with other men.
“When I try, my periods come for more than a month at a time.
“But when I used to sleep with Morena I was fine.”
She said she does not know what he did with her panties.
“I want them back immediately,” she said.
Mmetja, who is currently in hiding, fears for her life because Morena is violent and abusive.
They started having an affair in December 2012 and moved in together the next month.
“That is when he started beating me,” said Mmetja.
She said he would lock her in the room and beat her up.
“I don’t have plates or glasses and my TV is damaged because of him,” she said.
Mmetja said he also took her friend’s passport and car permit.
She said she left the room they were renting together last week because she is afraid of him.
Mmetja has no family in Gauteng.
“I cannot afford to die like a dog,” she said.
“I don’t want him to know where I am.”
She said the Tembisa Police Station had failed to help her.
“Each time I went to open a case against him, the police would refuse to help me,” said Mmetja.
“They said they are tired of me.”
Morena told Daily Sun he never took her panties.
“I just told her that I took them because I wanted to scare her,” said Morena.
He admitted that he took her friend’s documents and would return them when he got his belongings from Mmetja.
“I want my shoes, but I will never repair her TV because she is the one who pushed it and broke it,” he said.
By: TEBOGO THAMAGE
SINDISWA Machabela (23) can’t sleep and she can’t get on with her life.
Thirteen years ago, when Sindiswa was only 10 years old, her uncle was arrested for raping her and he was given a life sentence in jail.
But now the young woman from Petrusburg, in the Free State, claims she was forced by her mother, who died in 2006, to say that her uncle, Jackson Thobela (55), had raped her.
“I can’t live with myself, knowing my uncle is suffering in jail for a crime he did not commit,” she said.
When the SunTeam visited Jackson in prison he said he was happy that his niece had finally told the truth.
“I forgive her and my late sister for the trauma they caused me,” he said.
Sindiswa told Daily Sun her mother hated Jackson and told her they should lie to have him sent to jail for rape.
She said Jackson never harmed her.
He was sentenced in 2002 and sent to Mangaung Prison, a maximum security facility in Bloemfontein.
He was transferred to Grootvlei Prison in January last year.
Sindiswa said she had been living with the guilt ever since the day she and her uncle went looking for her mother, who had gone out to drink.
“We found my mother with her boyfriend. She screamed at my uncle and told him to stop looking for her,” said Sindiswa.
“The next day my mother told me to lie about my uncle or she would beat me.”
She said her uncle went to jail for a crime he did not commit.
“I will only be free if he gets out,” cried Sindiswa.
Jackson’s attorney, Lawrence Tshabalala, said: “I have seen an affidavit the woman wrote. Everything is in Jackson’s favour.
“Now we must wait for the law to take its course,” he said.
Regional head of correctional services in the Free State and Northern Cape, Langa Bikane, said the woman should make a statement at a court or a police station. He said an inmate also has the right to lodge an appeal.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Frank Lesenyego said they would first need to investigate the case again from the start.
By: KABELO TLHABANELO
Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode seems to always have a say on every matter and this time, he is expressing his opinion on Stella Oduah's forgery of certificate.
He took to his Facebook page to blast the government, President Jonathan, Stella Oduah and all her supporters.
See what he said:
I wonder if our igbo brothers and sisters will allege that all those that condemn Stella Oduah's shameless lies and false declarations, under oath, before the Nigerian Senate that she acquired a masters degree from some second rate American university are nothing but "igbo haters" who have a hidden agenda?
Honestly, this woman, this government, this President and all those that support them are an utter disgrace to Nigeria and to Africa. Even with all this I assure you that our President will not be able to muster the courage and decency to be firm and decisive and to fire this vampire Minister. And we all know why though we dare not say it.
We are a nation that is being governed by a bunch of scammers, cheats, liars, rogues, 419ner's, adulterers and ritualists. May God rid us of this evil and shameless government with it's inner circle and tiny cabal of desperate, heartless and greedy Jezebels.
In recent times, Ghanaian Couples have started something rather intriguing: husbands have started sponsoring their wives to go in for better shaped and firmer breasts with straight-pointed nipples just like those of the Umoja Dancers of South Africa, News-One has gathered.
The information reveals that the “in-thing” now is that apart from the search for firmer boobs, men are also sponsoring their partners to reshape their buttocks, make their stomach flatter and generally enhance their body shape.
The practice, known as liposuction, is done right here in Ghana and is said to be the secret of several Ghanaian ladies who seem to be grown younger and sexier than their actual ages.
Men generally enjoy an ego boost when told how pretty their partners appear and this may be why they are willing to pay for this new body enhancement phenomenon.
Checks from the only hospital in Ghana where liposuction is done showed that most of the women returned to give enviable testimonies of how their marriages had become better, with their husbands loving them even more, after going through procedure.
Dr. Dominic Obeng-Andoh of the Obengfo Hospital at Weija in Accra told News-One that “this has actually saved many marriages from collapse. There are many women who are crying silently that they do not like the shape of their body and this is eating them up but after the procedure we do here, they get some self-confidence, inner satisfaction and are very proud of how they look.
Nothing shows they have done lipo and no one can see. So yes, couples have confirmed they are happier after the procedure.”
Asked if the procedure was done for only women. Dr. Obeng-Andoh said it could be done for men also.
“Even men with breasts that look that those of women can now have treatment to make them look normal. People no longer have to worry and have nightmares about the size and shape of their body because we now have the treatment in Ghana. It takes some maximum of four hours and you remain awake all through the procedure.
He said his facility now has some of the most modern equipment in liposuction and that he performs buttocks lifts, advanced body sculpt, thigh/hips lifts, liposuction, scaleless, boob enhancement and could even make pot bellies disappear for both men and women.
“We sit here in Ghana and watch others on TV appearing very fit with flat tummy although they have children and we wonder what they have done to their bodies. It is not all about exercises. Many of them have done some of these things but until recently it was not possible to do it here.
“This is good. If you do not like the shape of your body and it is bothering you, change it. It can be changed within one to four hours. You would be awake through the pain-free procedure and walk home with very minimal and hard to recognize traces that you have even done something.
Source: Daily Guide
For years researchers in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia have puzzled over dozens of ancient grave sites containing bodies buried face to face, some seemingly with hands clasped as if in an eternal embrace.
But soon DNA tests may help provide an answer to the key question: Are these the graves of star-crossed lovers, or could the remains be evidence of a gruesome ancient custom?
The bodies are part of a massive burial ground located in the Siberian village of Staryi Tartas, the Siberian Times reported. Altogether, close to 600 tombs have been discovered in the area, dozens of which contain the so-called “embracing” couples.
The graves are believed to belong to the Andronovo culture, which existed in the area during the second and first millennia B.C.E., according to Britannica. Yet many of the bodies in the graves are believed to be from the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries B.C.E., the Siberian Times reported.
So, what gives?
“We can fantasize a lot about all this,” Vyacheslav Molodin, an archaeology and ethnography expert at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the Siberian Times. “We can allege that husband died and the wife was killed to be interred with him as we see in some Scythian burials, or maybe the grave stood open for some time and they buried the other person or persons later, or maybe it was really simultaneous death.”
Molodin said he ultimately hopes new rounds of DNA testing will help determine the relationship between the buried couples. For example if it turns out some of the bodies are parents and children, the burials might be an example of an emerging family unit in Adronovo culture, he explained.
“We need to firstly establish unequivocally the kinship of those who were buried,” Molodin told the Times. “Until recently archaeologists had no such opportunity, they could establish only the gender and age. But now as we have at our disposal the tools of paleogenetics, we could speak about establishing the kinship.”
However, the couples buried in Siberia aren’t the only ones that have sparked debate.
In 2007, the bones of a man and a woman from 6100 B.C.E., seemingly locked in a loving embrace, were unearthed in a Turkish grave. While some researchers claimed the remains belonged to a pair of lovers, other scientists scoffed at the notion.
“We don’t know what happened there,” Yossi Garfinkel, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology, told National Geographic at the time. “Maybe they are just two people who died on the same day and were buried together. Maybe it’s a brother and sister who died in a plague. Maybe it was two men.”
A similar couple was unearthed several years ago in Italy. That Neolithic couple, believed to have lived between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, caused an international sensation when the two were discovered near the city of Verona, the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Reuters reported.
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The Ifeomas of this world simply develop the hives at the mere thought of smooching with a stranger
“What! Let a guy bang me on a first date? That is sick! Really sick! Honestly Julie, give me a break! Don’t tell me you go for such perverted behaviour!,” Ifeoma screamed.
Let’s face it, most ladies are like Ifeoma…ladies who can’t possibly, on a first date, allow a guy go as far as to take a peep into their bra, let alone to feel what those sexy dream dresses that send guys adrenaline pumping, cover.
The Ifeomas of this world simply develop the hives at the mere thought of smooching with a stranger.
How well one does really needs to know one’s date before going to bed with the person?
Tough question?
Most ladies have phobia for first date sex because of what they feel the guy may think of them. Not as if they don’t want to. Some guys have arrogated to themselves the position of jury.
They judge ladies, perhaps, because they are so blessed with balls and testicles.
They are quick to condemn and call ladies who express their mutual attraction on a first date, tramps!
They indirectly compel ladies to develop inhibitions. It makes one want to bawl at the injustices of life.
They call it a man’s world.
A guy bangs a babe on a first, he is called a stud, with a pat on his shoulder. While a lady that has the effrontery to do the same is tagged a slut! Quite unfair!
Just the other day, my humble friend, Bashiru, who is very religious, said he couldn’t imagine himself having sex with a lady on a first date.
He thinks that kind of lady is wacko or suffers from nymphomania! He said he would never get serious with such a girl.
His reason was not unconnected with the belief that the babe would still behave amorously given the time and chance with another guy.
The problem here lies in our African heritage, which sees virtue and moral decorum as twin sisters, thus connoting physical expression in any of its ramification as a flagrant vice.
The ridiculous thing about Africans and Nigerians in particular is that no matter how hard they fight to westernise themselves in accent, behaviour and mode of clothing, situations still exists that make the African in them stick out like a sore thumb.
Listen folks!
There are quite a large number of men out there who think it’s cool to get between the juicy cores of an attractive babe on a first date.
It boosts their ego positively. They even tell you in a point blank poker faced voice that guys who have divergent opinions had been brain washed.
Really sweetheart, one-on-one, do you think it has got a fig to do with illiteracy?
No, not quite!
I think it boils down to principle. What with the church explosion trend in our society. You get to meet people with visibly lofty principles in the day, but who strangely metamorphose into another character with questionable principles at night.
Hmm! So much for Christian virtues. Now, don’t get me wrong. Serving the Almighty God is good, but let’s do it with more sincerity and less hypocrisy.
Some guys would even argue that once the babe is willing on a first date, what the heck is wrong with ramming their shafts into her eagerly waiting centre.
Sex on a first date has been known to happen due to that foreign emotion called love or lust.
It could happen due to love at first sight! A stunning number of people have done one crazy thing or another in the throes of love. At times, it is something one would never have been caught doing alive. Something which, in retrospect, makes you ponder and wonder at your behaviour.
Love is a crazy emotion.
It knows no shame. And it has, on countless occasions, been used to cover many sins.
You might meet in a party… Your spirits are attuned to each other…You both simply want to love each other… What better way to cement such powerful emotions than through the physical fusion of your bodies?
Caught on the wings of love, you’ll turn deaf ears to stealth whispers of getting to know each other better.
Sex is a natural outgrowth of love. That‘s not to say you can’t have lovely relationships devoid of sex. It is no longer a secret that some relationships have collapsed because the partners denied each other of sex. How many ladies and guys have left their spouses or cheated outright because of lack of satisfactory sex life?
If you can sustain your relationship without sex, good for you. You are probably a rare gem, but if you can’t, you best know what to do. A lot of sex on a first date had happened because of that powerful uncontrollable feeling called sexual chemistry.
It hits you with a bang once you clamp your eye on that stranger that had just walked in.
The aura of mystery surrounding the stranger heightens your desire. The ache to possess and be possessed is worse if you have been practicing abstinence for a while.
Then the stranger throws you that burning passion filled look. It simply makes your blood boil. The heart beat goes into a crazy makossa gyration. The core uncoils. Wetness down there becomes an ocean.
The throbbing begs for a panacea and you know you just must have this stranger. A once surreptitious glance becomes fixed. Breathing becomes heavy; you are like a gasoline, waiting for the strike of a match to explode.
If people can be uninhibited enough to admit the truth, they’ll tell you that the thought that races through the track of their minds once they feel an attraction is sex! Take that to the banks!
The basic thing here is that sex on a first date is meant for mature folks. You may tango with the band wagon already indulging in it or you may choose not to, the choice is up to you.
Like I said earlier, you know the love medicine that is good for you. But whatever you do, always carry packs of condoms in your purse and wallets!
To lay off the issue, Benny met Cesca at a friend’s bachelor’s eve in Ibadan. They fell for each other. Before the night ran out, they’d both had fun and were crazy enough to go for a marriage introduction ceremony two weeks later.
Lo and behold, they are happily married and live in the US. No doubt continuing the feat they started at Ibadan.
Hello! Let’s say I stumble upon a guy, I was instantaneously attracted to him, he prayed me to honour him with my presence at dinner…he told me, oh, so softly, that he’d like to feel my cunt. What should I do? Your guess is as good as mine!
Remember, you could be wrong.
Article first published 2002.
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It may take many efforts for the publicists of Nigeria's bright musician, Banky W, to deny that he is the one on this photograph.
You are no longer constant in movies. What is happening to you?
I am still on the screen; I pray for better industry than what we have. We don’t have a proper structure and it is affecting us. It is affecting so many of us because we don’t have a secured future. For instance, some veteran actors passed on and people had to gather just to try and give them a befitting burial. That shouldn’t be the case. We have an industry that just paid you one off. It is not in any way protective of the interest of the practitioners, it is not really helping us. I believe strongly that we need to do a more integrated production, quality production that will last, like when we started at the beginning. All the stories are not encouraging and technicality we are not growing, all these help to slow down the growth of the industry. And without growth there are can never be a future, without dynamics you can’t see the frontier. Basically, that’s what we are suffering right now and there must be changes. The concern of most people shooting now is about making their money back. They don’t have passion or love for the industry like we do. So, that’s the reason why I am not acting. I love doing a good job, something that will benefit the industry, a movie that whenever you pick it up, if it is five or 20 years you can still watch and be happy. I want a situation whereby I will do a job and my great grandchildren will know me by my work. ‘Oh my great grandfather did this, yes he is the one’. That is what I want to do to leave a mark, a legacy, no just a passing face.
Instant noodles have become a favourite food that is often eaten daily because of its yummy taste and extremely easy to make. It has replaced the proper healthy meals. Here we list top 10 Reasons why should we avoid instant noodles.
1. Nutrient Absorption : Noodles inhibit the absorption of nutrients for the children under 5.
2. Cancer Causing : The ingredient in the instant noodles called “Styrofoam’, Which is a cancer causing agent.
3. Miscarriage : Women who are Eating instant noodles during their pregnancy causes miscarriage, because it affect the development of a foetus.
4. Junk Food : instant noodles are enriched with full of carbohydrates,but no vitamins, fibre and minerals. This makes the instant noodles considered as a junk food.
5. Sodium : Instant noodles are power packed with high amounts of sodium. Excess consumption of sodium leads to heart disease, stroke, hypertension and kidney damage.
6. MSG : Monosodium Glutamate is used to enhance the flavour of instant noodles. People who are allergic to MSG consume it as part of their diet, then they end up suffering from headaches, facial flushing, pain, burning sensations.
7. Overweight : Eating Noodles is the leading cause of obesity. Noodles contains fat and large amounts of sodium, which causes water retention in the body and surely it leads to overweight.
8. Digestion : Instant noodles are bad for digestive system. Regular consumption of instant noodles causes irregular bowl movements and bloating.
9. Propylene Glycol : The ingredient in the instant noodles called “Propylene Glycol” which has a anti-freeze property. This ingredient is used because it prevents the noodles from drying by retaining moisture. It weakens the immune system of our body. It is easily absorbed by the body and it accumulates in the kidneys, heart and liver. It causes abnormalities and damage to those areas.
10. Metabolism : Regular consumption of instant noodles affect the body’s metabolism, because of the chemical substances like additives, colouring and preservatives inside the noodles.
A girl may be so used to feeling validated through her looks and sexuality, that she uses this as her primary tool to get what she wants in life. A woman, knows her worth is beyond her physicality.
1. A girl throws tantrums. When displeased, upset or angry, she reacts just as she did as a child when she didn’t get her way with her parents. This often consists of screaming, pouting, giving the silent treatment, being passive aggressive and/or punishing. A woman still feels the emotions of being upset/displeased, but has cultivated the skill of responding versus reacting. She comes to the table as an adult, and communicates clearly what is bothering her.
2. A girl perceives herself as a princess and believes people should treat her like so. She is entitled and feels that she is owed and therefore expects more than she appreciates. A woman, has standards (what she holds herself to) not expectations (what she projects on to others).
3. A girl uses her physical beauty as her currency and basis of value. A girl may be so used to feeling validated through her looks and sexuality, that she uses this as her primary tool to get what she wants in life. A woman, knows her worth is beyond her physicality. A woman bases her value on her intelligence, her strength, her integrity, her values, her contributions, her humanity.
4. A girl banks on a man to be her financial strategy. A woman plans to be financially independent – she banks on… herself. And if she so happens to enter a relationship dynamic where it makes sense for her partner to be the primary breadwinner, it’s considered a bonus, not the expected life line.
5. A girl sees the world from a place of lack and scarcity. She competes and will even tear down another in order to secure resources or a mate. A woman helps other women. She knows that there’s plenty enough to go around and takes the high road of integrity to get what she wants.
6. A girl cannot be bothered with anything domestic and is proud of the fact that she cannot cook or clean. A woman understands that being domestic is not a duty, but understands that it is one way of taking care of herself and others. She also understands that in the event she wants to create a family, having a person in the household who can contribute domestically is important.
7. “A girl wants attention, a woman wants respect. A girl wants to be adored by many. A woman wants to be adored by one.” -anonymous
8. A girl does not respect her body. She has not yet understood that her body and heart are sacred, and that it’s important to be mindful of how she treats it and who she shares it with. “A girl cherishes handbags, diamonds and her shoe collection as her prize possessions. A woman cherishes her health, her sense of self, and her talents as her greatest assets.” – N. Mah
9. A woman takes the time to reflect on the type of human she wants to be, the example she wants to leave and the vision for her life. She has put thought into her values and what she stands for. A girl has not established her moral compass or values and consequently, is often inconsistent. “After spending time with a girl, you feel exhausted because she takes more than she gives. After spending time with a woman, you feel invigorated, because she empowers you with possibility, and a passion for life.” – N. Mah
10. A girl has a checklist that prioritizes superficial qualities above anything else. Here is an example of how this checklist may look: Hot, popular, wears skinny jeans, over 6 feet tall, rich.. This is the checklist of what a woman may look for: High integrity, intelligent, kind, good communicator, emotionally available…
Now, a lot of these differences require taking the time to know someone to figure out if the apple of your eye is indeed a mature woman, or someone with an immature mindset. However, one of the quickest filters that you can notice from the beginning is this:
11. A girl plays games. A woman doesn’t.
Maheeda, the acclaimed gospel musician in Nigeria, is at it again.
we understand she is shooting the video of a song. Now, take your time to see pictures from the video.
Many more revelations would continue to emerge within the new year over the open letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo criticising President Jonathan.
Obasanjo had accused the President of keeping 1000 politicians on his watch list and training snipers in a foreign country, an allegation the President denied.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi had come out days ago to claim he was part of those on the watch list.
Now, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, has said he is number seven on the list.
He was however slammed by presidential spokesman, Reno Omokri, who likened him to a mental patient.
What kind of heart could the President of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, so possess as to, without pity sentence his uncle to be eaten up by dogs which he had starved for three days for the very purpose?
Read this report from Daily Mail
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un sentenced his uncle to be eaten alive by a pack of 120 wild dogs in a savage punishment for treachery, it has been claimed.
Jang Song-Thaek, 67, along with five close aides, was stripped naked and thrown into a cage of hounds which had been starved for three days, according to new details emerging from China.
The pack of animals spent more than an hour mauling the group in a punishment called 'quan jue', or execution by dogs, a report in Chinese newspaper Wen Wei Po said.
The tyranical leader of the communist state had accused his uncle - once seen as North Korea's second most powerful man - of treason and corruption and described him as 'scum' and 'factionalist filth' during his recent New Year message.
Unlike previous executions of political prisoners, which were carried out by firing squads with machine guns, this extraordinary sentence seems to have been specially reserved for the most hated in North Korean society.
The report in the Chinese language newspaper said the entire process was supervised by the supreme leader in North Korea, along with 300 senior officials - a clear warning against anyone challenging Kim's leadership.
The fact details of the barbaric punishment emerged in a newspaper, viewed as Beijing Government's official mouthpiece, in Hong Kong, has been seen as another signal of China's authorities losing patience with its wayward neighbour, according to The Straits Times.
Kim Jong-Un spoke of the execution of his 67-year-old uncle during his New Year address telling the country 'our party took resolute action to remove...scum elements within the party last year.'
The 30-year-old leader appeared on state television for the speech and analysts say the words reflect his feelings towards aides of his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, and other family members who are believed to have been sent to labour camps.
'Our party's timely, accurate decision to purge the anti-party, anti-revolutionary elements helped greatly cement solidarity within our party,' said Kim, adding that 'factionalist filth' had been 'eliminated.'
Although Jang had played a major role in helping the inexperienced Kim after the younger man had taken power following the death of his father, Kim Jong-Il in December 2011, the new leader is believed to have felt threatened by Jang's power.
Observers in neighbouring South Korea agree that Kim has been running a 'reign of terror' in carrying out a 'massive purge' to consolidate his grip.
Kim also used his New Year message to warn that the Korean peninsula would be engulfed by a 'massive nuclear disaster' if war broke out there again - a reference to the Korean war of the early 1950s when South Korea, supported by the United Nations, fought with North Korea which was at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union.
'If the war breaks out again in this land, it will bring about a massive nuclear disaster and the US will never be safe,' he warned.
Before issuing his New Year message, Kim warmly wrapped in a thick coat and a bearskin hat, visited his pet project, the Masik Pass Ski Resort, lauded by state media as having been completed at 'lightning speed'.
Kim took a test ride on a ski lift, rising up over the project that he said during an earlier visit was 'at the centre of the world's attention'.
Kim Jong-Un is no stranger to ordering brutal crackdowns on anyone even suspected of posing a political threat - no matter how close the relationship.
The dictator had his former lover singer Hyon Song-wol, pictured right, executed by machine gun amid claims that she had been appearing in pornographic videos.
Hyon was among a dozen singers, musicians and dancers from two pop groups who were machine-gunned to death on August 20, last year.
The savage death of Kim's uncle sent shock waves through the authoritarian state, showing no one was safe - even family members.
Kim's teenage nephew fled to a university campus in Paris after the execution of Jang Song-Thaek.
The 19-year-old's name was removed from the postbox at prestigious social science university Sciences-Po, which saw South Korean media report that he was hiding for fear of his safety.
Fears also mounted last month that Kim's wife Ri Sol-Ju had fallen out of favour with the tempestuous leader.
She had not been seen publicly for weeks and was not present in an official photograph, provoking speculation
But these were largely eased when a video was released showing her with Kim Jong-Un at a memorial service to mark the second anniversary of his father's death.
Bimbo Akintola, the actress now over 40, says she is not under any pressure to get married.
This is against the rumour that she had in the past few days become desperate for a husband.
Below is an excerpt of an interview she granted Vanguard newspaper:
Are you in a relationship?
Yes, I am. But I don’t talk about my relationships.
So,what is the worst rumour you’ve heard about yourself?
Oh, that I’m looking for a husband, that I’m desperate for a husband. That’s the worst I’ve heard and that’s the latest one. I’m not looking for a husband and I don’t need one.
You don’t need one?
I don’t need anything. I’m a complete person. I only do things that make me happy, because I believe and I understand the reality that this is just one life and you should live it to the maximum, happiness and peace should be the key. I’m not searching for a husband, because the rumour that I’m searching for a husband has given me wahala,- all kinds of people from left, right and centre, looking for me saying they want to marry me. Please, I’m using this opportunity to tell everybody, I am not looking for a husband!