Friday, 31 August 2018

Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke, arrested for slapping Dana Air employee

Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke, was on Monday afternoon arrested at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, for slapping an employee of Dana Air.

It was gathered that the actor arrived late for his 12:15pm Abuja flight and the airline’s security personnel tried to help him to meet up with the flight by searching him.

According to eye witnesses, Iyke refused to be searched and pushed the man away, but the man insisted that he must be searched before boarding.

The man’s insistence was said to have angered Iyke, who slapped the man for ‘wasting his time.’

Iyke was later arrested by officers from the Airport Police Command.

Dana Air’s Media and Communications Manager, Kingsley Ezenwa, who confirmed the incident, said Iyke was, however, released, after he had apologised to the airline employee.

Ezenwa added that the actor eventually missed the flight, which was still on ground when the incident happened.

The Public Relations Officer, Airport Command, Alabi Joseph, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, also confirmed the incident, saying that Iyke was released after he tendered an apology.


She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By The Sink

It seems so unreasonable when you put it that way: My wife left me because sometimes I leave dishes by the sink.

It makes her seem ridiculous; and makes me seem like a victim of unfair expectations.

We like to point fingers at other things to explain why something went wrong, like when Biff Tannen crashed George McFly’s car and spilled beer on his clothes, but it was all George’s fault for not telling him the car had a blind spot.

This bad thing happened because of this, that, and the other thing. Not because of anything I did!

Sometimes I leave used drinking glasses by the kitchen sink, just inches away from the dishwasher.

It isn’t a big deal to me now. It wasn’t a big deal to me when I was married. But it WAS a big deal to her.

Every time she’d walk into the kitchen and find a drinking glass by the sink, she moved incrementally closer to moving out and ending our marriage. I just didn’t know it yet. But even if I had, I fear I wouldn’t have worked as hard to change my behavior as I would have stubbornly tried to get her to see things my way.

The idiom “to cut off your nose to spite your face” was created for such occasions.

Men Are Not Children, Even Though We Behave Like Them

Feeling respected by others is important to men.

Feeling respected by one’s wife is essential to living a purposeful and meaningful life. Maybe I thought my wife should respect me simply because I exchanged vows with her. It wouldn’t be the first time I acted entitled. One thing I know for sure is that I never connected putting a dish in the dishwasher with earning my wife’s respect.

Yesterday I responded to a comment by @insanitybytes22 , in which she suggested things wives and mothers can do to help men as an olive branch instead of blaming men for every marital breakdown. I appreciated her saying so.

But I remember my wife often saying how exhausting it was for her to have to tell me what to do all the time. It’s why the sexiest thing a man can say to his partner is “I got this,” and then take care of whatever needs taken care of.

I always reasoned: “If you just tell me what you want me to do, I’ll gladly do it.”

But she didn’t want to be my mother. She wanted to be my partner, and she wanted me to apply all of my intelligence and learning capabilities to the logistics of managing our lives and household.

She wanted me to figure out all of the things that need done, and devise my own method of task management.

I wish I could remember what seemed so unreasonable to me about that at the time.

Men Can Do Things

Men invented heavy machines that can fly in the air reliably and safely. Men proved the heliocentric model of the solar system, establishing that the Earth orbits the Sun. Men design and build skyscrapers, and take hearts and other human organs from dead people and replace the corresponding failing organs inside of living people, and then those people stay alive afterward. Which is insane.

Men are totally good at stuff.

Men are perfectly capable of doing a lot of these things our wives complain about. What we are not good at is being psychic, or accurately predicting how our wives might feel about any given thing because male and female emotional responses tend to differ pretty dramatically.

‘Hey Matt! Why would you leave a glass by the sink instead of putting it in the dishwasher?’

Several reasons.

I may want to use it again.

I don’t care if a glass is sitting by the sink unless guests are coming over.

I will never care about a glass sitting by the sink. Ever. It’s impossible. It’s like asking me to make myself interested in crocheting, or to enjoy yardwork. I don’t want to crochet things. And it’s hard for me to imagine a scenario in which doing a bunch of work in my yard sounds more appealing than ANY of several thousand less-sucky things which could be done.

There is only ONE reason I will ever stop leaving that glass by the sink. A lesson I learned much too late: Because I love and respect my partner, and it REALLY matters to her. I understand that when I leave that glass there, it hurts her— literally causes her pain—because it feels to her like I just said: “Hey. I don’t respect you or value your thoughts and opinions. Not taking four seconds to put my glass in the dishwasher is more important to me than you are.”

All the sudden, it’s not about something as benign and meaningless as a (quasi) dirty dish.

Now, it’s a meaningful act of love and sacrifice , and really? Four seconds? That doesn’t seem like the kind of thing too big to do for the person who sacrifices daily for me.

I don’t have to understand WHY she cares so much about that stupid glass.

I just have to understand and respect that she DOES. Then caring about her = putting glass in dishwasher.

Caring about her = keeping your laundry off the floor.

Caring about her = thoughtfully not tracking dirt or whatever on the floor she worked hard to clean.

Caring about her = taking care of kid-related things so she can just chill out for a little bit and not worry about anything.

Caring about her = “Hey babe. Is there anything I can do today or pick up on my way home that will make your day better?”

Caring about her = a million little things that say “I love you” more than speaking the words ever can.

Yes, It’s That Simple

The man capable of that behavioral change—even when he doesn’t understand her or agree with her thought-process—can have a great relationship.

Men want to fight for their right to leave that glass there. It might look like this:

“Eat shit, wife,” we think. “I sacrifice a lot for you, and you’re going to get on me about ONE glass by the sink? THAT little bullshit glass that takes a few seconds to put in the dishwasher, which I’ll gladly do when I know I’m done with it, is so important to you that you want to give me crap about it? You want to take an otherwise peaceful evening and have an argument with me, and tell me how I’m getting something wrong and failing you, over this glass? After all of the big things I do to make our life possible—things I never hear a “thank you” for (and don’t ask for)—you’re going to elevate a glass by the sink into a marriage problem? I couldn’t be THAT petty if I tried. And I need to dig my heels in on this one. If you want that glass in the dishwasher, put it in there yourself without telling me about it. Otherwise, I’ll put it away when people are coming over, or when I’m done with it. This is a bullshit fight that feels unfair and I’m not just going to bend over for you.”

The man DOES NOT want to divorce his wife because she’s nagging him about the glass thing which he thinks is totally irrational. He wants her to agree with him that when you put life in perspective, a glass being by the sink when no one is going to see it anyway, and the solution takes four seconds, is just not a big problem. She should recognize how petty and meaningless it is in the grand scheme of life, he thinks, and he keeps waiting for her to agree with him.

She will never agree with him, because it’s not about the glass for her. The glass situation could be ANY situation in which she feels unappreciated and disrespected by her husband.

The wife doesn’t want to divorce her husband because he leaves used drinking glasses by the sink.

She wants to divorce him because she feels like he doesn’t respect or appreciate her, which suggests he doesn’t love her, and she can’t count on him to be her lifelong partner. She can’t trust him. She can’t be safe with him. Thus, she must leave and find a new situation in which she can feel content and secure.

In theory, the man wants to fight this fight, because he thinks he’s right (and I agree with him): The dirty glass is not more important than marital peace.

If his wife thought and felt like him, he’d be right to defend himself. Unfortunately, most guys don’t know that she’s NOT fighting about the glass. She’s fighting for acknowledgment, respect, validation, and his love.

If he KNEW that—if he fully understood this secret she has never explained to him in a way that doesn’t make her sound crazy to him (causing him to dismiss it as an inconsequential passing moment of emo-ness), and that this drinking glass situation and all similar arguments will eventually end his marriage , I believe he WOULD rethink which battles he chose to fight, and would be more apt to take action doing things he understands to make his wife feel loved and safe.

I think a lot of times, wives don’t agree with me. They don’t think it’s possible that their husbands don’t know how their actions make her feel because she has told him, sometimes with tears in her eyes, over and over and over and over again how upset it makes her and how much it hurts.

And this is important: Telling a man something that doesn’t make sense to him once, or a million times, doesn’t make him “know” something. Right or wrong, he would never feel hurt if the same situation were reversed so he doesn’t think his wife SHOULD hurt. It’s like, he doesn’t think she has the right to (and then use it as a weapon against him) because it feels unfair.

“I never get upset with you about things you do that I don’t like!” men reason, as if their wives are INTENTIONALLY choosing to feel hurt and miserable.

When you choose to love someone, it becomes your pleasure to do things that enhance their lives and bring you closer together, rather than a chore.

It’s not: Sonofabitch, I have to do this bullshit thing for my wife again. It’s: I’m grateful for another opportunity to demonstrate to my wife that she comes first and that I can be counted on to be there for her, and needn’t look elsewhere for happiness and fulfillment.

Once someone figures out how to help a man equate the glass situation (which does not, and will never, affect him emotionally) with DEEPLY wounding his wife and making her feel sad, alone, unloved, abandoned, disrespected, afraid, etc. …  Once men really grasp that and accept it as true even though it doesn’t make sense to them?

Everything changes forever.

Will and Guy's Good Jokes

1) A linguistics professor was lecturing his class one day.

In English, he said, A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.

A loud voice from the back of the room piped up, Yeah, right.

2) Robert went to his lawyer and said, I would like to make a will but I dont know exactly how to go about it. The lawyer smiled at Robert and replied, Not a problem, leave it all to me.

Robert looked somewhat upset and said, Well, I knew you were going to take a big portion, but I would like to leave a little to my family too!

3) Two lawyers arrive at the pub and ordered a couple of drinks. They then take sandwiches from their briefcases and began to eat.

Seeing this, the angry publican approaches them and says, Excuse me, but you cannot eat your own sandwiches in here!

The two look at each other, shrug and exchange sandwiches.

4) Brenda and Terry are going out for the evening. The last thing they do is put their cat out.

The taxi arrives, and as the couple walk out of the house, the cat scoots back in.

Terry returns inside to chase it out. Brenda, not wanting it known that the house would be empty, explains to the taxi driver, My husband is just going upstairs to say goodbye to my mother.

Several minutes later, an exhausted Terry arrives and climbs back into the taxi saying, Sorry I took so long, the stupid idiot was hiding under the bed and I had to poke her with a coat hanger several times before I could get her to come out!

5) A policeman spotted a jay walker and decided to challenge him, Why are you trying to cross here when theres a zebra crossing only 20 metres away?

Well, replied the jay walker, I hope its having better luck than me.

Thursday, 30 August 2018

Ethiopian Somali Region Ex-President Abdi Mohammed Omar Arrested After Prisoners Intimidated By Lions, Hyenas


Clashes in the Somali region of Ethiopia led to the burning of churches, looting and rape. Police and PM Abiy Ahmed stepped in, calling the chaos shameful, and arresting a former regional president.

Abdi Mohammed Omar, known as Abdi Illey, was shown on television being led out of his villa in the Ethiopian capital on Monday and into police custody, reportedly on human rights charges.

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) reported that the attorney general said Abdi Illey was allegedly behind the human rights violations as well as ethnic and religious clashes in the Somali region, the second largest in Ethiopia.

Abdi Illey, the former president of Ethiopia’s Somali region is a well-known politician who only resigned at the beginning of August, after 15 years in power. He had owed much of his authority to the military. His Godfather and special adviser was a Somali colonel in the national security services.

In the weeks before his resignation, at least 29 people were reported killed, as government offices were destroyed, businesses looted and churches burned.

Hyenas, lions and tigers

Ethiopian national troops and police were deployed into the state and Abdi Illey was replaced by his former finance minister Ahmed Abdi Mohamed. Ethiopian officials said a para-police force in the region called the "Liyu Police" had carried out attacks, including one which left 41 people dead and 20 others wounded. They were accused of abuse, torture and rape -- and being linked to Abdi Illey.

Events shocked the rest of the east African nation, as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed explained at the weekend: "What happened in the Somali region compares to a scene out of a movie or a fiction book," he told reporters.

"As such, prisoners were held inside prison cells along with animals like hyenas, lions and tigers for intimidation purposes. People were raped, looting was rampant and people were killed," Abiy continued. "What happened there was shameful."

An area of interest

The Somali region was one of the first areas that the 42-year-old reformist leader Abiy had visited after becoming prime minister in April.

He had sought to ease tensions between the Somali and Oromo communities, saying bringing peace to the region was one of his administration's "most important and biggest" challenges. The region is also economically important, with four trillion cubic feet of oil and gas reserves, according to government estimates. China’s GCL-Poly Petroleum Investments has been developing gas fields there since 2013.

Human Rights Watch

The Africa Division of research and advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) which in July had accused Abdi Illey of running a secret jail, welcomed the arrest. Maria Burnett, HRW’s associate director said "Hopefully, today’s arrest of Abdi Illey is a start to justice for victims of serious crimes in Ethiopia's Somali region."

"Other officials, who directed and supported abuses, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, should also be held to account," Burnett said. "The federal authorities should ensure that prosecutions are transparent, rigorous and fair and that victims and witnesses can testify without fear of reprisals."


Ethiopian Somali Region Ex-President Abdi Mohammed Omar Arrested After Prisoners Intimidated By Lions, Hyenas


Clashes in the Somali region of Ethiopia led to the burning of churches, looting and rape. Police and PM Abiy Ahmed stepped in, calling the chaos shameful, and arresting a former regional president.

Abdi Mohammed Omar, known as Abdi Illey, was shown on television being led out of his villa in the Ethiopian capital on Monday and into police custody, reportedly on human rights charges.

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) reported that the attorney general said Abdi Illey was allegedly behind the human rights violations as well as ethnic and religious clashes in the Somali region, the second largest in Ethiopia.

Abdi Illey, the former president of Ethiopia’s Somali region is a well-known politician who only resigned at the beginning of August, after 15 years in power. He had owed much of his authority to the military. His Godfather and special adviser was a Somali colonel in the national security services.

In the weeks before his resignation, at least 29 people were reported killed, as government offices were destroyed, businesses looted and churches burned.

Hyenas, lions and tigers

Ethiopian national troops and police were deployed into the state and Abdi Illey was replaced by his former finance minister Ahmed Abdi Mohamed. Ethiopian officials said a para-police force in the region called the "Liyu Police" had carried out attacks, including one which left 41 people dead and 20 others wounded. They were accused of abuse, torture and rape -- and being linked to Abdi Illey.

Events shocked the rest of the east African nation, as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed explained at the weekend: "What happened in the Somali region compares to a scene out of a movie or a fiction book," he told reporters.

"As such, prisoners were held inside prison cells along with animals like hyenas, lions and tigers for intimidation purposes. People were raped, looting was rampant and people were killed," Abiy continued. "What happened there was shameful."

An area of interest

The Somali region was one of the first areas that the 42-year-old reformist leader Abiy had visited after becoming prime minister in April.

He had sought to ease tensions between the Somali and Oromo communities, saying bringing peace to the region was one of his administration's "most important and biggest" challenges. The region is also economically important, with four trillion cubic feet of oil and gas reserves, according to government estimates. China’s GCL-Poly Petroleum Investments has been developing gas fields there since 2013.

Human Rights Watch

The Africa Division of research and advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) which in July had accused Abdi Illey of running a secret jail, welcomed the arrest. Maria Burnett, HRW’s associate director said "Hopefully, today’s arrest of Abdi Illey is a start to justice for victims of serious crimes in Ethiopia's Somali region."

"Other officials, who directed and supported abuses, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, should also be held to account," Burnett said. "The federal authorities should ensure that prosecutions are transparent, rigorous and fair and that victims and witnesses can testify without fear of reprisals."


Strika of ‘Beasts of No Nation’ cries for justice as his money goes into another man’s pocket


- A young colleague of Abraham Attah, Strika, who also starred in Beasts of No Nation has now turned yam seller

- Strika said his percentage allocated to him after the movie has landed in the pocket of one Kofi Rabbit

- Strika is begging for Kofi to return his money so he could learn a trade

A young boy who was part of the cast for ‘Beast of No Nation’, known only as Strika, has turned a beggar on the streets of Accra, www.eagleee.com has learnt.

Strika is not just a beggar, but also a yam seller in the traffic and at the Agbogbloshi Market in Accra.

This was revealed by Strika himself in an interview with GHONE Newsroom on Monday, August 20, 2018, monitored by www.eagleee.com.

Striker when he starred in Beast of No Nations at age 14. Photo credit: Mashable.

According to striker, they were a group of three boys including himself, Abraham Attah, and one other boy called Justice who shot the Beasts of No Nation movie.

He revealed that they were each given an amount of thirty thousand (30,000) but couldn’t say whether the amount was in dollars or cedis.

That money, he said, was given to one of the casts of the movie called Zowi, an American star.

Striker added that he was told that that thirty thousand is what was being used to cater for him therefore, he has accepted that the thirty thousand no longer exists.

However, the money that he is fighting for now is the one percent (1%) money promised him by the producers after the movie was bought by Netflix.

Striker explained that he was promised one percent while Abraham had two percent because he played a supporting role to Abraham, the main character.

That money, according to the agreement he had with the producers, was to be kept in the bank for him until he turned eighteen years old.

The money, which he said he has no idea how much it was, was deposited at the bank with signatories of one of the Ghanaian actors in the movie, Kofi Rabbit, and Zowi.

However, now that he is eighteen and about to turn nineteen, Kofi Rabbit is refusing to let him have access to the money, and keeps telling him many stories, Striker stated.

He revealed that he does not remember which of the banks his money is being saved at, but he desperately needs the money to learn a trade or start his own business.

“All I want now is for Kofi Rabbit to release my money and let me have access to my bank account. I want to learn a trade or start my own business,” Striker narrated in the interview monitored by www.eagleee.com.

He disclosed also that as part of the promises, he and Abraham Attah and Justice were taken to a Montessori School in Cape Coast but Abraham left later to school in America.

Striker said he left the school in Cape Coast to relocate in Accra, because have lived in Accra all his life, he never found living in Cape Coast comforting.

He also said he realized he couldn’t grasp anything he was being taught in school and so he concluded that his was to learn a trade, for which reason he wants his money back from the ‘pocket’ of Kofi Rabbit.

According to Justice, he and Justice were also picked on the street just like Abraham Attah, and went through two auditions before being selected for their roles in Beast of No Nation.

President Trump Meets Kenyatta at White House

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump at the White House carries symbolic as well as real value.

The two leaders have met once before - on the sidelines of the 2017 G7 meeting in Italy. But this is the first official visit to the White House since Trump's election and since Kenyatta’s highly controversial 2017 re-election.

So why the visit, and why now?

The White House has cast it as an opportunity to deepen the strategic relationship between the two countries, and to advance mutual interests in trade, security and regional leadership by way of reaffirming Kenya's position as a corner stone of peace and stability in Africa.

For Kenyatta, it’s an opportunity to reset Kenya's position as a leading regional actor and Africa’s "ambassador".

From a strategic perspective, Kenya has been a crucial player in the war on terror given its frontier status with Somalia. It has been a central player in the UN African Union Mission to Somalia force that’s seeking defeat the Al-Shabaab terror group.

Kenya has suffered retaliatory action as a result of its role. Twenty years ago it was one of the first countries in Africa to bear the brunt of Al-Qaeda with a lethal terror attack in Nairobi. This placed Kenya firmly in the position of a strategic player, ensuring the success of the war on terror in East and Central Africa for which the US has strategic interests.

So Kenyatta’s visit will seek to consolidate continuing US military support. This will be through various channels, among them the counter terrorism partnership fund and the combating terrorism fellowship programme. He will also want a commitment to the US’s continued military at Manda Bay and Camp Simba, a Kenya naval base for anti-terrorism operations.

Kenyatta has recently played a lead role as regional broker by hosting a number of peace initiatives in the South Sudan peace process. Despite US reservations, the most recent peace accord appears to be holding, with Kenya taking some credit for the tentative success.

The US will seek to ensure that Kenya continues to play a constructive leadership role and a guarantor of the peace process in South Sudan given its tremendous leverage on that country’s leadership.

Other pressing issues will include trade and foreign direct investment. Here Kenyatta will have to tread carefully given Kenya’s increasingly close ties with China.

And Kenyatta will have his work cut out trying to navigate Trump’s world. How he manages to gain meaningful compromise from an unpredictable and beleaguered host will be keenly watched both at home and far beyond.

Banking on trade

In many ways US-Kenya relations is in uncharted territory. And given Trump’s penchant for bilateralism, Kenyatta will hope to master the art of the deal by minimising the negative impact of "America first" agenda on Kenya-US trade relations.

During Barack Obama’s presidency, imports from Kenya more than doubled . In 2015, 12.3% of US AFRICA FDI went to Kenya. But Trump’s "America first" stance has led to a review of Africa partnerships as well as a renegotiation of bilateral trade agreements.

Amid this policy uncertainty, Kenyatta will want to discuss how to boost trade relations to augment Kenya’s domestic economy given the very broad economic agenda he has set himself to transform the country. Kenya’s economy had suffered from electoral volatility and a slowdown in foreign direct investment, particularly from the US. Kenyatta will be keen to explore how to jump start this with his US counterpart in addition to ensuring the continued robustness of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) from which Kenya has greatly benefited.

The Kenyan president can point to the fact that it remains a destination of choice for many US corporations that have established themselves in the domestic economy. These include Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google and IBM.

BREAKING: Saraki Declares For President, Says 'I've Decided To Answer The Call To Run'

Declaring his intention, Saraki said: "I have decided to answer the call to run for the office of the President."

Senate President Bukola Saraki has finally declared his intention to contest the presidency in the 2019 elections.

He made his declaration at the #NotTooYoungToRun Public Dialogue on Youth Candidacy in 2019, where he was a keynote speaker.

At the event, which held at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja on Thursday afternoon, Saraki met with young politicians and aspirants interested in running for public office.

Speaking on the state of the nation, he said: "We need a new generation of leaders".

Declaring his intention, he said: "I have decided to answer the call to run for the office of the President."

Wednesday, 29 August 2018

I’m Sorry I Liked Your Photo From Two Years Ago, Yes I Am Stalking You


I wish there were a more cogent explanation for why I was randomly combing through your photos like a cat-covered bag lady at three in the morning the other night, but there isn’t. In fact, it’s quite lucky that I didn’t manage to accidentally “like” more of your posts and pictures from that era, even further illuminating just how much of a “creeping you” spiral I had gotten myself into while eating hot pockets and listening to mellow, hypnotic electronica. If I were being honest, literally every internet action you’ve taken between 2006-ish and today would have my thumbs up of terrifying approval, and you would realize that my dedicated monitoring of your online activities, past and present, are a sign of true love.

How often do I stalk you on Facebook? Ehh, often. I would pretend here that I’m not constantly clicking over to see what you’re up to and gauge the attractiveness of the various people you’ve been banging who cruelly aren’t me, but that’s what I like doing in my spare time. Some people crochet, some people scuba dive, I harvest pictures of you and show them to my friends like “OH MY GOD I am basically going to get pregnant through my laptop screen just looking at dem cheekbones.” It’s not weird if you understand that I am an anxious pile of incoherent mumbling when it comes to actually speaking to you in person. If you account for how incapable I am of carrying on anything resembling a normal conversation, come face-to-face time, my online activities are simply another way of communicating my wholesome affections!

And honestly, it’s kind of your fault for accepting my friend request in the first place. I mean, after all of the psyching-up it took to send you that request in the first place, all of the hours of agonizing over whether or not to extend that creepy internet hand of familiarity, you basically owe me my stalking time. What do you have hundreds of pictures of yourself for, if not to provide obsessive joy to the girl whose crush on you is beginning to border on the crippling? You are performing a public service, and keeping me off of the streets, where I would normally be hanging out in front of movie theaters, licking life-size posters of Tom Hardy and crying about how no one likes me.

The point is, creeping is a natural part of the internet ecosystem. I’m doing no real harm by being a strange lurker in the recess of your Facebook persona. So what if I amuse myself with a few hours of finding out what you were up to back in ’07? It’s not like I’m throwing bricks through your window with love notes written on them in blood. (Though, come to think of it, there is something vaguely romantic about that.) Just understand that every time you see my activity pop up from something that I have no viable reason to be looking at, it’s not because it popped up on the side of my news feed or some other absurd excuse. It’s because I love your face, and wanted to be around it for a little bit, and marvel at how hot it was back then and how much hotter it’s gotten. I like seeing the “before” and “after” slides of my crush. If that makes me wrong, well, I don’t want to be right.

Read Heartbreaking Story Of A Nigerian Man Who Has Not Left His Bed For The Past 15 Years (Photo)


Daniel Emori has spent nearly half his life on a bed since he was gored by a cow in Onitsha. At 35, his condition shows no sign of improvement as our reporter finds out.

Friday evening is not for clubbing. Not for Daniel Emori. It is not for anything except lying in bed, in his urine. This has been his life since he was 20, when an injury to his spine put him in bed in 2003. Fifteen years later, he’s 35 and still bedridden.

“I thank God for everything, but nothing has changed,” he says. “Nothing has changed. I am still lying down.”

In 2003, Emori had finished secondary school and got a job supplying packaged water in Onitsha, Anambra state. He had his eyes firmly on the future when he stepped out of his delivery truck on one of his supply runs. He never expected that a stray cow would sweep him onto its horn and speed away with him.

“It was running with me on top [of its horns],” he recalls. “People were shouting. It threw me off. From the moment I fell down, I found myself in this condition.”

Bones snapped in his neck, leg and hips, x-rays later showed. Since then, he’s been on his back, in a bed, and has never left a bed in the last 15 years.

He constantly is attached to a catheter that collects his urine

Three years into his injury, his condition worsened. Bed sores ate into his back and buttock. A pressure sore also ate into his Pen!s. An infection left a hole there. And it leaks urine, despite the catheter.

“It disturbs me. Now [the catheter] doesn’t even last a week,” Emori says. “I don’t even know what is happening in that area. It doesn’t last at all. If I just put it in, it starts leaking. Even as I am talking to you, I’m lying on top of urine.”

He’s been through a number of surgeries and treatment for his spine. A local charity funding the surgeries and upkeep relocated him into a single-room apartment in Karu on the outskirts of Abuja to keep him close to Primus Specialty Hospital.

Later he was relocated to Dutse Makaranta and got only two weeks of physiotherapy at Optimal Health. He was billed to undergo years of treatment, according to physiotherapist Chibuike Mbamalu who tended him for two weeks at optimal.

In addition to the infection under his Pen!s, osteoporosis [weakening of the bones] set in, making his bones fragile. His knees and joints are stiff from lack of use. His feet have also swollen as fluid collected there.

A treatment regime was proposed and discussed with hospitals outside the country. It was estimated to cost N7.762 million. He couldn’t afford it in 2015. Three years on, his treatment is now valued at more than N16 million.

The treatment plan is to begin with infection control, followed by a surgery to replace his knees, allowing him to bend his legs to some degrees. A separate procedure will elongate his Achilles’ tendon to give him some movement. Another is to [email protected] away dead tissue from the pressure sores on his buttocks.

Only the last bit of treatment has been done to some extent. The sores have healed, he says. But they open up when he sits on them. And he has to sit in a wheelchair now and again to go to hospital.

Optimal was optimistic about his treatment. Its director Emma Udoji signed a letter enabling Emori to seek public assistance to raise funds. The good news was that Emori still had sensation in his toes.

“So there is very good hope that with proper management and intensive therapy, we hope to see some good changes,” Udoji said then.

That was in 2015. The swelling in his feet got treated. Shortly after, the outfit shut shop and relocated to Port Harcourt.

“In the last two years, I stopped the physiotherapy due to financial challenges,” says Emori.

“They referred me to India. Since there was no sponsor showing up, they just left me.”

The treatment plan developed with India’s Saket Hospital hasn’t changed. Physiotherapy and rehabilitation will depend on how well his bones and muscles respond to surgeries that the hospital has proposed. They were to cost $25,000.

After that, the plan is to ensure he gets some independence. That would mean putting him in a motorized wheelchair, so he can move and stand.

He would need at least six months of physiotherapy—two hours per session three times a day, six days a week—to strengthen his trunk an upper limb muscles before going into rehabilitation to regain mobility. That was to cost $20,500.

The plan also includes a robotic exoskeleton to help him walk but that will depend on how strong his trunk and upper limbs become.

The entire plan remains suspended until he is able to raise funds. His bank details [Daniel Emori, UBA, 2072008766] have been broadcast on television and across social media seeking help for him.

“Presently I am not receiving any treatment or medication. Since last year I have taken any medication or done any check-up,” he says.

He’s fast becoming weary but his hopes haven’t dimmed, he says. A carer lives with him in Garam, Niger State, where he now lives, some 15 minutes from Bwari. A local charity takes care of his rent and feeding. His family pays a carer N15,000 monthly to be with him 24 hours a day. They took that up after the charity stopped paying for carer duty.

The carer helps replace the catheter. But that’s a task the 35-year-old Emori wishes he could one day do for himself. Even better, he wishes he could stand up, walk into the bathroom and take a leak.

But that is not happening any time soon, not if he can’t raise the total $44,250—that’s nearly N16 million—that his treatment is estimated to cost.

“I appeal to fellow Nigerians, NGOs, government agencies to come to my rescue,” he says from his sick bed.

He can’t leave his bed without help from his carer. The catheter running into his Pen!s is changed weekly but isn’t helping much. The collection bag attached to the catheter fills up. The next spout of urine doesn’t go into the bag. It spills out of the infected hole and sprays down his thighs, right onto the bed. Emori remains lying right in it.

Unless something happens, Emori may rot in his own piss while the stray cow that killed his dreams has been since forgotten by most. But in his mind, that terrifying encounter with the animal will live forever.

I Was In Love With Him, He Was Only In Love With The Moment


The only time I ever fell in love was when I was on the road.

I was working doing my passion, playing music each night. You see, I’m a musician, a traveling one. A different city every night. And what comes along with that is the opportunity to see the world on your own terms.

He came with me.

Before we left, I remember my body pressed against his while we whispered secrets to each other, only a thin sheet covered us, tangled between our legs but it was okay because it gave us an excuse to keep touching. Looking back we shouldn’t have needed an excuse.

I told him to come because I wanted to show him the best place to dive into the ocean where there is a tunnel that leads to some pools trapped between rocks, and if you’re lucky, you can see the seals.

I told him to come because there was this older woman I wanted him to meet down in Port St Lucie who was an absolute trip. She would tell you stories even if you didn’t want to hear them, all while eating her crab legs on newspaper, spread out on the table and inviting us to join her. I told him to come because in South Carolina, there was this tree, a tree…bigger than most houses. Its limbs were larger than a car, and being in its presence could simply take your breath away.

Looking back, I should’ve been reason enough for him to come.

He came.

Our lives were filled with non-stop passion; he kissed me at all the perfect moments. There was always an undeniable spark in his eye, when he looked at me, when he looked at other things. We traveled to places no one would bother going but it was an adventure no one would have ever had. He called me Wild.

One night, after we had made love in the shower of some old motel, we laughed and drank cheap wine and he said I was his piece of the Wild; to be with him, to show him how to add meaning to his life. He thanked God for getting the chance to know me. Did he know that you couldn’t keep Wild forever? Did he call me that because he knew I wouldn’t last?

I held his hand one day as we jumped with faith into a pool of water that consisted of all these mini jellyfish.

When we were done scrambling out, he offered to pee on me because he heard somewhere it took away the pain.

I told him that was “true love” and with those words we were both brought back to reality but for only a moment and he replied, “Nah it’s just what friends are for.” My stomach knotted and I promised myself I would never say those words again. We both recovered from it and were shot back into the wild. This lasted for 5 months and 16 days.

I had been on the road before, I had been to a different place every night, I had slept in my car to catch the sunrise over the oceans of the east coast. I knew what to expect when it was all over.

But this was new to him. The light in his eyes started to fade as we began our last long stretch of drive home. I was worried. But also naïve, so I dismissed it. I convinced myself we had shared so many beautiful moments together that it had to last beyond all the thrills. I was holding onto him by anything I could find and I was breaking my own heart doing it. We had been home no longer than 4 days when he called me to tell me he loved everything we had been through together, but he couldn’t force a feeling to come back that just didn’t want to.

My heart was broken. I couldn’t breathe. If this is what it felt like to lose love I never wanted to have it again. I spent weeks trying to figure out where exactly we went wrong, I gave him so much, everything, I was there when he learned how to live life with meaning.

Then it hit me. He was in love with the moments . Not me.

He was in love with living, with life. Could I blame him? He was in love with the thrill, and the spark in my eyes. But I wasn’t the moment for him, I was only a part of it. When that ended, so did I. I wasn’t meant to be in his life forever, even if he was meant to be in mine.

This was a lesson for him and me. Don’t fall in love with the moment and think you’re falling in love with the person.

Misleading a heart is not something you want to have done; how unfair, for someone who is in love…while the other is simply in love with just everything else.

Fist slump Jurgen Klopp jokes he's not proud of his 'criminal' West Ham celebration


LIVERPOOL boss Jurgen Klopp has joked he's not proud of his "criminal" celebration against West Ham.

The German chief, 54, performed a double-handed gesture after Sadio Mane doubled the Reds ' lead over West Ham in their first game of the season .

Sky Sports commentator Hinchcliffe criticised West Ham's defending for the goal, adding: "That celebration is criminal, too."

And looking back, Klopp has revealed he has some regrets over his celebration of choice.

Klopp told Sky Sports: "It’s a GIF. You can send it as a message if someone is crazy celebrating a goal. It’s not too nice.

"When I saw it, I didn’t know it. I didn’t feel it in that moment that it looked that strange. I was a bit surprised.

"I believe it was the second goal. If you’re not happy about 2-0 a second before the half-time whistle then something is wrong with you.

"But if I could decide how to celebrate, it would look constantly completely different.

"So it happens to me still, even if I’m a little bit in an advanced age.

"It still happens. I’m not proud of it. But there are worse things in the world, obviously."

Queen Nwokoye and her husband

We all love watching the exciting movies starring the beautiful Nollywood star Queen Nwokoye. Many people would also like to know the actress off-screen. Who is her husband and what does he do for living? Read about Queen Nwokoye and her husband.


Queen Nwokoye's biography in brief

The charming actress Queen Nwokoye was born on August 11th, 1982. Her place of birth is Lagos State, and she was born in a Catholic family. She is also an entrepreneur, model, philanthropist, and television personality – it is safe to say that she can do anything. Originally, Queen wanted to be a lawyer and was quite ambitious in this field. However, while studying at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, she discovered her passion for acting.

Queen’s debut in Nollywood happened in 2004 when she starred in the movie “Nna Meen”. The producers noticed her talent, and since then, Queen Nwokoye became a highly demanded actress. She has appeared in more than 150 movies and encouraged many people who were not familiar with Nollywood film productions to watch them.

Of course, people are also interested in the eternal question – is Queen Nwokoye married? Checkout Queen Nwokoye husband and her family.

Queen Nwokoye, photo from nollywoodmindspace.blogspot.com

Queen Nwokoye's wedding

The Nollywood superstar got married in 2011. According to Queen Nwokoye, she got married in secret simply because she did not want her own wedding to be the subject of the media attention.

Queen Nwokoye revealed that she likes to spend time with her family, because they treat her as a normal woman, and her husband also treats her as his wife and not a popular movie star. She does not like it when she is perceived as her movie characters in real life. She also says that she has only professional relationships with the men on set, and nothing more.

Photo from gistmania.com

Queen Nwokoye's husband: who is he?

For the first time, Queen Nwokoye and her husband were spotted together in late 2014, on New Year’s Eve Christian party “Cross over night” in South Africa. The love of Queen Nwokoye’s life turned out to be a famous businessman and politician from Imo State. Queen Nwokoye husband name is Oluchi Uzoma. He is an extremely influential person, who has his own successful business. Oluchi Uzoma comes from Isu Njaba, which is in Imo State and is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Recently, Oluchi Uzoma decided to become more than just a business mogul, and join politics under the wings of APC party. He wants to run for the seat in Imo State’s House of Assembly. If he succeeds, he will be a representative of Isu Local Government area. He is plans to run for office in 2019.

Currently, Oluchi Uzoma is working on his campaign to attract the votes of Isu people, and he is also doing a lot of community work. He promises to pay attention to education, healthcare, the empowerment of young people and development of infrastructure.

Queen Nwokoye and her husband have been together for seven years, and they are one of the most recognizable couples in movie and business industry. They have three children together. Their eldest children are two twin boys. Recently, they welcomed a baby girl – the news was shared on the Internet by Queen's friend, the actress Oma Nnadi, who congratulated the couple.

Despite all the fame, Queen Nwokoye and Oluchi Uzoma are not public people, and they do not like showing off their wealth and successful life to the media. In 2011, Queen Nwokoye was even described as “scandal-free actress of the year” because she was not featured in any drama or controversies. It is her motto to keep her private life and her job apart.

However, from time to time she still makes her one million Instagram followers happy by posting photos with her husband and kids, and other updates from her family.

Queen Nwokoye pregnancy, photo from glamtush.com

We wish Queen Nwokoye and her beloved husband Oluchi Uzoma many more years of happy family life and love with each other and their children.


Give us your ‘alawee,’ Davido’s fans plead as singer goes for NYSC



Davido in NYSC ensembles.


Social media followers of ace musician, David Adeleke, aka Davido, have pleaded with him to donate his NYSC stipends, commonly called alawee, to them.

His fans are of the view that the Bentley-riding Omo Baba Olowo has no need for the N19,800 per month that youth corps members are paid.

The richest corper in town took to his Twitter handle to announce his enrollment for the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps, donning complete corper’s gear while perched on his Bentley.

See Davido’s tweet:

Otondo OBO … 🇳🇬 #Nysc .. tying up every loose end ! 😇 pic.twitter.com/TF1oUh3XfH

— Davido (@iam_Davido) August 28, 2018


See his followers’ reactions to the announcement:

Help me tell your tolotolo to forward his allawee to me abeg 😂

— Troublemaker. (@sirtee4632) August 28, 2018


The richest corper… just be sending the monthly allowie

— Mimi💙 (@miracleSomadina) August 28, 2018


 

How the 19800 will drop in your account 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/bWASKhwOMa

— 👑King Luther👑 (@Mathieuogbeh12) August 28, 2018


congrats.. Oyah! how are we doing the allowee thing, less talk.

— BitterSweetJazz (@DutchessAonani) August 28, 2018


Wait, so this guy will also collect 19,800 h’allawee😓😂

— Sixteen (@sarjibreel) August 28, 2018


Lol…I even called my bro to come n see who I saw in NYSC uniform….I pray I get posted where u are….in d main time pls send me ur allowee make I take am hold body together.

— kween Layo (@omolayo_iyanu) August 28, 2018


😩…don’t spoil market for me now…I need d money badly

— kween Layo (@omolayo_iyanu) August 28, 2018


Corper wee!! Abeg bless ur girl with ur alawee…u no too need am na..bless u😥😥😥😥#AZA

— Annie (@Anniepieeh) August 28, 2018


Bros, your allawee abeg🙏

— Old Guard👻 (@Jay_imm_) August 28, 2018


E know go bad if obo fit they reason me hin nysc monthly salary

— Deco (@TroubleXela) August 29, 2018


Just the year @iam_Davido decide to serve Nigeria buhari increase copers alawee. Even politicians they rush us. Biko my question now is David u don already have enough hope I will be the one receiving your alawee 😀😀😍😀😍😀😍

— @fisastara (@Fisadallah1) August 28, 2018


Hi Davido, I’m a thrift collector (Alajo Somolu Twitter street) 😊😊😊.

Your N19,800 alawee, coman be using it to daajo si mi lowo. 😊😂

— Adebola (@ADEB0LA) August 28, 2018


Obo you can direct that 19800 to me o… I know it noting to you @iam_Davido

— OLAJIDE 🇳🇬 (@jidejyde) August 28, 2018


So you would also receive 19,800 too? @iam_Davido

— Omasilachi Amanda Ifeoluwa Chinda 🇳🇬🇫🇷 (@Itz_amandaslife) August 28, 2018


Corper on Bentley chee🔥

— Onatola Damilola (@Lilphresh__) August 28, 2018


Corper on Bentley…… DG sef go wish to dey your Platoon

— CYBORG☻ (@Apholerbee) August 28, 2018


…and giving recommendation letter to himself to be retained with assurance of delivering to the organisation…. Absolutely madddtttttttttttt

— maafy (@maaf05) August 28, 2018


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Three Years After Graduation, Davido Registers For NYSC


In a post on his Instagram story, the “Fia” crooner said “I just registered for NYSC kamming”. 



Three years after obtaining a Bachelors degree in music, popular Nigerian Musician, David Adeleke better known as Davido, is the latest corps member in town as he registered to join the National Youth Service Corp on Tuesday.

In a post on his Instagram story, the 'Fia' crooner said: “I just registered for NYSC kamming.”

Although it is not sure which state he was posted to, Davido expressed delight in serving his fatherland.

Davido graduated from Babcock University, Ilisan- Remo, Ogun State, in 2015 after completing his course in music. His graduation ceremony was graced by Don jazzy and a host of other Nigerian artistes.

The National Youth Service Corp is a one-year mandatory service any Nigerian graduate of tertiary instituition below the age of 30 must go through.

Kenya: The Girl Who Fell in Love With Bananas


Ngorongo is a rustic settlement in Gatundu North, Kiambu County, where farming is the region’s mainstay.

Tabitha Gichiru, 25, hails from the village, and comes from a farming heritage. His grandfather and parents were farming macadamia and coffee, which they milled.

But years later, upon her graduation from the University of Nairobi in 2013 with a degree in nutrition, biochemistry option, Tabitha has chosen a different path.

On her parent’s five acres, she grows bananas on two acres and adds value to the produce.

"I planted the tissue-culture variety that I acquired from Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation Horticultural Research Institute, in Thika, where I did done my attachment, and as the crop grew, I reflected on how well to market the produce for profit," offers Tabitha, who runs the business under the name Tabikon Solutions that she formed in 2016.

At Kalro, she got in-depth insight into the entire banana value chain, from the crop’s suckers development in the laboratories to its harvesting upon maturity.

"I began growing the bananas in late 2016 and initially sold them in the local markets and also in Thika Town, both ripe and green," says Tabitha, who invested into 200 seedlings that she bought at Sh110 each.

The idea of adding value made her enrol at the agribusiness incubation facility, Agriculture Technology Development Centre (ATDC) in Ruiru last November.

The agricultural training centre offered her more, including facilities from where she could put the processing knowledge into practice, as she worked on establishing her own processing plant.

Though nearly exiting the institution, she is currently working with her two siblings and two employees in the processing enterprise, making gluten-free banana flour.

"The two employees work on the farm, tending the bananas and harvesting them when mature, while the rest help with the processing," she says, adding that drying bananas takes up to four days depending on the intensity of the sun and the prevailing weather conditions.

The needed moisture content should be 10--12 per cent, to prevent growth of moulds in the flour and aflatoxin infestation.

To produce the flour, she first cleans the bananas using sufficient water and a detergent specially formulated for that purpose.

"I then cut the bananas into smaller pieces without peeling. The peels contain vital nutrients that should not be discarded. I then dry the before grinding into flour."

The flour is gluten-free, therefore, it comes handy in making flour that can safely be consumed by people who have gluten intolerance.

"The flour controls sugar levels in the body and hence good for diabetics. It is also rich in potassium, several vitamins and magnesium, making the flour a healthy diet component."

She adds that the flour can be used in baking, as an alternative to wheat flour, and can also be used for cooking porridge, and making healthy baby foods.

"I sell the produce through WhatsApp and Facebook at Sh350 a kilo," says Tabitha, who now 350 stems of the Cavendish, Fhia 17, Grande Naine, and Williams varieties.

According to her, the entire process requires high-levels of hygiene, hence the bananas should be thoroughly washed.

"Those working in processing should also have protective and hygienic gear for the job, especially gloves, facial masks and head gear."

In April, during the African Women for Biosciences (AWfB) forum, she was among those acknowledged as creating an impression in agri-biosciences.

Dr Catherine Kunyanga, a food scientist at the University of Nairobi, points out that processing must comply with all food safety regulations so that nutrients in the products are not damaged in the process.

"Acquisition of the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) certification, which is a key requirement in the country’s processing sector and largely depends on satisfying the prerequisites of good manufacturing practices must be done."

Forgotten but nutritious foods

Many people do not know the health and nutritional benefits of banana flour and other foods deemed’forgotten’.

This is one of the factors that played a key role in driving Tabitha Gichiru towards the crop’s processing sector, according to the biochemistry enthusiast.

She is also working on processing amaranth, sweet potatoes, pumpkin and ripe banana flour.

Dr Willis Owino, a senior lecturer at the Department of Food Science and Technology at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, notes that cutting post-harvest losses plays a vital role in ensuring food security.

East African is among the world’s foremost consumers of bananas with an annual consumption rate of 300-400kg per person.

Tuesday, 28 August 2018

The 10 Worst Fictional Boyfriends

You can find the 10 best fictional boyfriends here , and the 10 best fictional girlfriends here .

1. Mr. Big, Sex and the City

I know that a lot of you out there feel some strange attraction to Mr. Big — Mr. Darcy for girls with Rabbits and a prescription for birth control — but I feel safe in my assertion that he is amongst the worst fictional boyfriends of all time. If your idea of a good time is running around Manhattan wearing clothes appropriate for Cruella de Vil’s audition at the Hustler Club, chasing after a guy who could not be less interested in you, I guess he’s ripe for the taking. But given that he spends roughly 700 hours a week at a job that seems to consist of wearing a suit, writing checks, and being an asshole to everyone, you at least won’t have to be exposed to his d-bagginess too often. It could be worse.

2. Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

If only we could freeze time and just enjoy the image of Christian Bale in adorable 80s-preppy garb, dancing to Huey Louis and offering us frozen yogurt for all eternity, it would be perfect. Unfortunately, all of those gorgeous muscles and 50-dollar-an-ounce face mask ultimately go to the act of cutting prostitutes up and hacking his coworkers apart with an axe. (The sexiest axe the Home Depot sells, to be sure, but an axe nonetheless.) He is also, it should be said, what appears to be Bret Easton Ellis’ weird Level 9000 Asshole self-insert, so take that as you will. If you can get over the sociopathy and murdering, though, he has a really sweet apartment.

3. Joffrey Baratheon, Game of Thrones

Listen, I think we all want a castle. No one is judging you for wanting to be a fabulous queen who just gets to drink wine and shit on people all day, à la Cersei Lannister. However, there have to be better ways to achieve that outside of dating/marrying Joffrey — and those ways include rolling around on a pile of acid-covered scorpions. Even Sansa, a girl who by all accounts has the fortitude and personality of a bowl of oatmeal that’s been sitting out on the counter all day, knows better than to settle for him. Come on.

4. John Smith, Pocahontas

Pocahontas , also known as Watch This Hot Blonde Guy Check His White Privilege for An Hour and A Half , is a movie worth noting for its demonstration of a woman’s ability to overlook a guy’s shortcomings in the name of love. Despite his tendency to want to kill/enslave/sprinkle smallpox on everything in a 100-mile radius, Pocahontas is willing to take her time and show him that things have meanings, and that feral raccoons make for the best hangout buddies. The truth is, though, we don’t have time for that. We have neither Pocahontas’ patience, nor her fabulous chunky necklaces. He is just a fixer-upper that is not worth investing in.

5. Walter White, Breaking Bad

Just as much as Jesse is the JNCO-wearing, Michelin-starred meth chef you just want to snuggle with until someone comes to murder your loved ones, Walt is the guy you want to avoid at all costs. Aside having a hilariously soccer-dad-found-a-silly-hat-in-the-attic sense of style, being a completely terrible/absent father, and driving Skyler to be the most disliked character (when she’s really reacting quite rationally to his absurd shenanigans), he’s also just not very fun. He doesn’t have any of the style or charisma that you would imagine defines a criminal of his stature — he’s just a fuddy-duddy science nerd who got mixed in with the wrong crowd. Pass.

6. Craig Manning, Degrassi

Unless your five-year plan includes making terrible music with your high school boyfriend and dying a single lock of your hair blue to show how SXE you are, Manning is probably not your guy. He’s the emo tool who uses his cunning Pokemon-esque “I have feelings” move to woo ever-hotter girls as he treats pretty much all of them like a worn-out guitar pick. With all of the empathetic capacity of a 13-year-old listening to your problems over AIM , there is little hope that Craiggles is ever going to evolve into a more deserving boyfriend.

7. Dean, Blue Valentine

I will forever resent this film, and this character, for having shown me that not only can Ryan Gosling be unattractive when put through the right makeup, he can also be a character whom you actually hate (without even a tinge of, “Oh, but he’s a softy underneath!”). Basically, this guy just spends his time ruining the lives of otherwise-good girls with his selfish antics and inability to control his strange jealousy/anger/feeling of defeat in life. Sure, we’d all love Ryan Gosling to come show up at our work and humiliate us — but not unattractive, balding Ryan Gosling. That guy can stay at home on his barca lounger.

8. Jimmy McNulty, The Wire

While no one is arguing the entertainment factor of watching good ol’ McNulty crash his car into various hilarious locations, nail diner waitresses with increasing levels of inebriation, and be a totally irresponsible cad with his estranged wife/kids/”girlfriends” — it’s clear that no one should ever actually be subjected to this guy. Unless your idea of a good time is waiting up until four in the morning to have a slobbering-drunk detective come home and pass out in the kids’ room while he was trying to steal some diaper rash cream for what he thinks are his herpes, probably best to steer clear of this one.

9. Tom Sloane, Daria

Not only is Tom an elitist fop with a mother who openly looks down on Daria for her life choices/uncertainty about going to a stuffy liberal arts school, not only does he just fundamentally not get our perfect little be-spectacled ball of sarcasm, he came between the golden couple of Girl Crushes. The fact that any man almost ruined the beautiful, perfect friendship between Daria and Jane is an unforgivable sin — the fact that it was such a boring pseudo-intellectual is even worse. No, Tom. We’ll take Trent, thank you very much.

10. Don Draper, Mad Men

I don’t care how hot Don Draper is. Frankly he could be made out of liquid gold and red velvet cake, and it wouldn’t make dating him any less of a walk over a bed of flaming nails. How do you like the idea of constantly wondering who he is having sex with any second in which he is not directly in front of you? How about being treated like you’re a child who couldn’t possibly understand anything because you’re not a Big Strong Man with a Big Smart Penis? Oh, wait, you don’t like that — because that’s a terrible way to go through life, being constantly disrespected to your face? Yeah, you probably shouldn’t date Draper. Date Kenny Cosgrove, he’s adooorable.

Stay Single Until You Meet A Guy Like This


Stay single until you meet a guy who opens every door you walk through.

Stay single until you meet a guy who makes sure you walk on the inside of the sidewalk away from the street.

The guy who holds your hand shamelessly and will kiss you in public.

Stay single until you meet a guy who wants to bring you home to his parents.

Stay single until you meet the guy whose friend’s already know about before you meet them.

Stay single until you meet the guy who will drop whatever to be wherever you need him.

The guy who says, “text me when you’re home safe,” and stays up until he knows you are.

Stay single until you meet the guy you’d proudly introduce to your father.

The one who doesn’t try and change you.

The guy who always texts back no questions asked.

Stay single until you meet a guy who doesn’t have time for games and is brutally honest always.

The one who pulls you close in public and kisses your forehead.

Stay single until you meet the guy pays out of respect for you and doesn’t let you touch your wallet.

Stay single until you meet the guy who keeps his word.

The one who knows when to apologize when he’s wrong.

The one who sends you flowers to your office, just because.

The guys who sends sweet texts in the middle of the meeting he knows you’re stressing over. Stay single until you meet the guy who makes you want to be a better woman.

The one who motivates you to achieve more and be better.

Stay single until you meet a guy who is sure of you and never makes you doubt how he feels.

The one who is certain of you and his career and a future he wants you apart of.

The one who says I love you first just because he wants you to know.

Stay single until you meet the guy who never stops trying to keep you.

Because he knows getting you wasn’t the hard part but constantly giving you a reason to stay is what you deserve. Stay single until you meet the guy who makes you feel more beautiful just standing beside him.

The one who still gives you butterflies when you walk in a room.

Stay single until you meet the guy who makes you not want to be.

The one who changes the standard you once had and suddenly no one can compare.

Stay single until you meet the guy you can’t live without.

Until then. Stay single.

Monday, 27 August 2018

Priest nabbed over death of woman in shrine


Detectives of the Ogun State police command on Sunday arrested one Lekan Olukolu, a priest, over the death of a 25-year-old woman, Idowu Ogunkoya, in his shrine.

According to spokesman of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the priest’s arrest was as a result of a complaint by Lucky Oghenetega who reported at Ago-Iwoye divisional headquarters that the deceased who was his fiancé was taken to the shrine of Ayelala priest by her parents for spiritual cleansing because they suspected her to posses witchcraft spirit.

"When the deceased got to the shrine, the priest shaved her head and gave her a liquid substance to drink in order to deliver her from the alleged witchcraft. The deceased slumped and died immediately after taken the liquid substance.

"On the strength of the report, the DPO Ago-Iwoye division, CSP Adeola Adedoyin, led detectives to the shrine situated at Ojuolota area of Ijesha road in Ago-Iwoye, where the priest was arrested along with father of the deceased, Temitayo Ogunkoya.

"The Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation, and Intelligence Department for proper investigation. The CP also warned members of the public to desist from primitive and barbaric ways of dealing with matters, especially issues that has to do with human life as the command will not tolerate such archaic lifestyle, capable of terminating innocent people’s life unnecessarily."


Sunday, 26 August 2018

Here’s How You Know Your Partner Loves You, Based On Their Birth Order


First Born

Oldest children are the caretakers of the bunch. They’re very comfortable being the ‘mom’ or the ‘dad’ of their group of friends, and that almost always transfers over towards their partner or their special someone.

When you’re with an oldest child, you’re with someone who is always trying to take care of you. They’ll be the boyfriend or the girlfriend who is never worried about catching the cold you have, they’ll just show up with soup and kombucha in hand more than ready to hole up on the couch with you until you feel better. They’re the ones who send ‘good morning’ and ‘sweet dreams’ texts, and who never fail to make sure you KNOW just how much they care. Sometimes their love can feel a little smothering and they can feel like a helicopter partner, but know that it comes from a good place. They just want to make you happy.

Somewhere In The Middle

Middle children grew up with a caretaker, and a show off on either side of them. Because of this they’ve been forced to carve out their own identity and cultivate a personality that’s unique to them in order to get attention. What this means when they’re in love? They’ll stop at nothing to make sure your eyes are always on them.

A middle child will be the partner who’s constantly looking for praise. Don’t think of them as needy or like they’re fishing for compliments, because it’s not about that. It’s because the feeling of you being proud to be with them and wanting to show them off is their favorite feeling in the world. You’ll know a middle child really loves you because they care what you think and they value your opinion above everyone else’s.

Youngest

Youngest children are the life of the party. They’re often very boisterous and have a certain ‘Look at me! Look at me!’ quality about them. When you date a youngest child you’re dating someone who you’ll constantly need to keep up with, or else be left behind.

Which is why when a youngest child loves someone, like truly truly loves them, they’re willing to hit their internal pause button. They will stop and asses the other person’s needs and think about how to include them, rather than just yank them along for the ride. You’ll know that your youngest child partner is really invested in you when they’re looking for ways to make the adventure about the two of you, instead of it simply being their one man show with you as an audience member.

Twin

Twins come with built in best friends, and that can be challenging when dating someone. It becomes really easy for the partner of a twin to feel ‘less than’ or like they’re constantly in someone else’s shadow. It’s understandable when you think about it; but just understanding something doesn’t make it easier to deal with.

When a twin has really fallen in love, it’s because their partner has become something their twin never was and can never be. The relationships are different (one doesn’t replace the other) but you’ll feel an almost overwhelming sense that you complete them in a way. You’ll know a twin is in love when they start coming to you for advice, really consider you a partner , and are trying their hardest to incorporate you into almost every aspect of their life. When you can sense that a twin feels at home with you, that’s when you know they are in it to win it.

Only Child

Only children are very all or nothing people. They’re either head over heels in love, or kind of ambivalent to be honest.

Which is why when an only child falls for someone, it’s a big deal. They don’t take these emotions lightly because they don’t happen very often. Your only child partner will probably be hesitant at first, and will never cease to comment on how they’re ‘never like this.’ It’s absolutely meant as a compliment. You will know that an only child is in love and invested when they open up to you and start being comfortable with their own vulnerability. They’ll tell you about their family (who they’re wildly protective of) and their hopes and dreams without fear of judgement. When an only child trusts you, that’s when they love you.

I’m Not Picky, I Just Know What I Deserve



When I fall in love, I completely shut down my mind and let my heart do all the thinking. I stop being logical. I ignore what the world has to say. When I fall in love, I’m not scared to go all in and give everything that I have.

But the true reason why I’m not in a relationship is because I feel like I haven’t found the right one yet. I haven’t met that one person who fits perfectly into my standards. I haven’t seen the qualities I’m looking for to anyone who shows interest in me.

I’m not in a rush to search for a lover. I’d rather be on my own than be with someone I have no special feelings with. I am not the kind of person who goes into a relationship for the sake of telling everyone that I’m in a relationship.

To me, love is more of an emotional connection rather than a badge of honor you pin proudly to your shirt.

I might appear as someone who’s pretty much selective in picking a person I want to settle down with, but that’s because I know exactly what I deserve.

I know what I want and what I need in a relationship. I have benchmarks and checklists I need to follow before I can commit with somebody.

If I’m going to be love sick for someone, then I have to be one hundred percent sure that they’re worth losing my sanity for. I have to be certain that it’s going to be a long-term partnership and not just another fleeting relationship.

I need someone who’s determined to stick with me until the end.

It’s true that I’m young and I should put myself out there and have fun and not worry about finding the right one at this point. But that’s just not me. I have no interest in wasting my time and playing games with anyone. I don’t like to be involving myself with someone who’s unworthy of my love and affection.

I know what I deserve because I care about myself and I respect myself. I don’t need to put myself in a relationship to know whether or not it’s going to work. I can already tell if something is wrong without necessarily having to experience it. It’s my responsibility to protect myself and provide myself all the good things in the world.

It’s never a selfish deed to declare your love for yourself once in a while.

Because the only person who can ultimately heal your broken heart is you. The only person you can rely on in the middle of the night is you. The only person who can save you at the end of the day is you.

It’s okay to consider yourself first, and put yourself first, before others. I don’t think it’s wrong to go after what I think is right for me. There is no reason to feel sorry for my standards.

I am alone because it’s my choice. I choose to wait. I choose not to settle for someone who I honestly know is not good for me. I choose to be on my own.

And I am genuinely happy to stay this way until I find the perfect one for me.

Whenever You Decide To Leave Me, Do It With Noise


Whenever you decide to leave me, do it with noise. Don’t silently disappear in the dark, allowing my heart to get confused, to get anxious, trying to grasp you and hold on to you while you are slowly slipping away. Don’t let my mind make up a story for myself to comfort me. To tell me that you just need your time and that you will come back to me. So soon. Because my heart knows better.

Whenever you decide to leave me, do it with noise. Tell me you don’t want me anymore. Tell me you met someone else. Tell me I’m just not the one, although you once thought I was. Say it, louder, louder. Let my heart hear it, feel it. Give it what it needs. Whatever promise it may break. Please, don’t leave in silence.

Whenever you decide to leave me, do it with noise. I hear you think: ‘But won’t that be too hard?’ Of course it will be hard. My heart will be broken. I will feel worthless. I will feel anger, I will feel like no happiness will ever enter my life again. But you know what’s even harder? Losing faith in love. Letting my heart forever be confused, thinking ‘What good is love when it just disappears? Did it ever exist? Will it?’.

So, whenever you decide to leave me, will you do it with noise? Show me that the love we had was real. Real enough to put it to an end. Give our ending the same commitment and fire as our start. I know you remember. By leaving me with noise, you’ll let my heart know that love didn’t say ‘I was never there’, but just said ‘See you later’ and my heart will recognize and embrace it with open arms whenever it comes on my path again.

I'm Officially Breaking Up With Writing And Falling In Love With Love



Normally, I’d know exactly how to start this. Usually, my topics come to me randomly. Lately, my mind has just been blank.

Writer’s block is known as being simply an excuse; a made up phenomenon that was created to justify laziness and an inability to focus. As a journalist, there have been plenty of times where I’ve found myself struggling to muster up the energy to put together a story. I’m a self-proclaimed procrastinator who typically doesn’t start pieces until a few hours before deadline. That’s the only way I’m able to write. The pressure pushes me.

Now that I’m nearing the end of my academic career I’m starting to panic. I’m realizing that in less than a year, the pressure of meeting a deadline in order to get a good grade will no longer exist. I will no longer have assignments listed clearly for me on a syllabus. I won’t have other classmates working on the same story as I am to vent to when it’s the day before deadline and I have no idea what I’m going to write.

It’s terrifying. I’ve recently started an internship at an amazing huge publication in New York City and while I should be excited about beginning my professional career, I actually find myself very discouraged.

Sometimes I think that I made a mistake going in to journalism. It takes a certain type of person to be a journalist. It’s more than being able to write well. It takes certain skills. Passion. Inspiration. A desire to write. I have none of these things anymore. I hate to think that I waited until I spent over $100,000 on both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism to figure out that I don’t want a career in that field.

I think a lot of this has stemmed from me “stepping into the real world,” as some people say you do after graduating college. Although I went straight to grad school, I took on a tremendous amount of responsibility in an extremely short amount of time. I got into a serious relationship, moved in with my boyfriend and got a puppy—an English bulldog that I named Buddha.

It’s a strange thing. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my personal life but I’m the most confused I’ve ever been in my professional life. I’ve always referred to journalism as my first love. Since I was a little girl, writing has always brought me the most peace. It’s been my shoulder to cry on. The one thing that set my soul on fire…but now that’s all gone.

I have a theory that the reason I don’t love to write as much as I once did is because I found someone to take its place.

That sounds ridiculous. I know it does. But I really feel like it’s true. Everyone I’ve ever dated in the past has never had any effect on my writing. In fact, they’ve always given me more to write about.

But this one’s different. He’s special to me.

I never write about my current boyfriend. It has always baffled me and I’ve never been able to figure out why I don’t desperately feel the need to write about him like I have with every single person before him.

But I understand now.

I think that it’s because for once in my life, our reality together is something way better than anything I could ever fantastically write.

I feel terrible. I hate feeling this way. I’m conflicted. I feel like an imposter. I’m not truly a journalist. I never was. I’m a fraud.

I no longer think my purpose in this world is to write. I think it’s to love. To be happy and start a family one day. To encourage the people surrounding me to follow their dreams and believe in themselves. That is my dream. That is my purpose. To push those who have a genuine passion for something, whatever it may be.

It’s not you, it’s me, journalism. I’m not right for you. I can’t commit my life to you. Not anymore. Some things aren’t meant to be. Sometimes people outgrow each other and that’s okay. I really hope we can still be friends. And so this is goodbye for now, my old sweet dear friend. I don’t know where life will take me, I mean I’m only 22, but I do know that you’ll always be there should I ever need you again.

To quote one of my biggest inspirations, (who quoted Neil Young), “I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

Things You Should Do Before You Get Married


1. Ask yourself why. Why this person, why right now? Don’t get married because there’s a child on the way or because it makes sense financially or because all of your friends are wifed up and you’re the last man standing — it sounds stupid and obvious, but people hastily marry for the wrong reasons ALL. THE. TIME. And even though divorce appears to be really commonplace, it’s not a walk in the park and it’s definitely not free.


2. Love your body. While it’s true that the media would often convince us that we’ll only feel beautiful in the arms of someone who loves and approves of us physically, when we’re alone in front of an unforgiving mirror, the only thoughts we’re left with are our own. Going into any relationship feeling ugly, unlovable, and as though you should be ashamed of the way you look is a recipe for disaster. If you think you’re not worthy or capable of being touched and admired, even if someone disagrees with you, it’s going to be difficult to feel their love through all the layers of self-loathing. Though no one wakes up one day and goes, “Oh hell yeah I don’t know what I was thinking, I’m f-cking gorgeous,” it wouldn’t hurt to work on becoming happy with your body and finding some balance every day.

3. Accomplish something just for you. It could be graduating from school, starting a challenging job, or just facing a fear you need to prove you can overcome. Frankly, the obstacles and goal posts we have scattered throughout our lives come in all shapes and sizes, and only you should be concerned with the parameters you set for success and accomplishment. But if we don’t do things to make ourselves happy and feel as though we accomplished something, we can easily become complacent, or feel that we shouldn’t even try, because we’ll never reach our goals. The longer we go without achieving something because we want to, the harder it will become to start up that hill.

4. Tell everyone you will never get married. There’s nothing like meeting the right person who will transform you from a commitment-phobe into someone who is willing to tether themselves to someone else for an eternity. (Or until you get divorced, whichever comes first.)

5. Talk about the boring details. Debt. Health. Whether or not the two of you have the same ideas about where to live or if kids are on the table. You don’t want to enter into a legal contract with someone without knowing all of the facts.

6. Live with someone you’re in a relationship with. If it’s the one you eventually marry, fine. The point is that living together changes things.

7. Learn from the time you dated someone and treated them like crap. Everyone has that one relationship where they’re not particularly proud of the way they behaved. They took someone for granted, they picked fights, and acted generally like a jerk. While such behavior is certainly not commendable, you learn a lot about yourself through treating someone badly. Mainly, you realize who you don’t want to be and what kind of relationship you don’t want to have, which makes you more prepared for something like marriage. You can’t ever go back to the way you acted because it made you hate yourself. Your future husband/wife will feel relieved that you got this relationship out of your system.

8. Have a one night stand. Sleep with a stranger just to see if you can do it, just to see if you can feel okay afterwards. After you’re married, you won’t get to do anything, besides the one penis/vagina you’ve committed yourself to, so you might as well sow some wild oats beforehand.

9. Meet the people who raised your potential future husband/ wife. Whether you like their family or not, you’ll be able to pick up on red flags that wouldn’t have come to light otherwise. The issues someone has with their family may not make or break a relationship, but you don’t really know someone until you watch them lose it and go apeshit on their parents at Thanksgiving dinner.

10. Live with a member of your preferred gender identity who you’re not dating. This is the best way to adjust your expectations of who is responsible for what in a household.

11. Get your heart broken. Whether from losing a good friend, having a fight you know you were wrong in, or seeing a love you were sure was forever end prematurely — we all need to know what it feels like to be broken. Perhaps the most essential thing about heartbreak is coming out on the other side and realizing that, no matter how badly you are hurting in the moment, it’s going to pass and you are going to be happy again. Few things manage to put future fights, anger, and sadness into perspective than getting over a real heartbreak at least once.

12. Finish college. Because you’re way too young to be married that early.

13. Learn how to cook, regardless of gender. One of the best parts of stability is the fact that you DON’T have to go out as much anymore. One of the best things you can do to prepare for a simpler lifestyle is to figure out how live more simply.

14. Have an adventure with your friends. One thing that’s noticeable about wonderful romantic relationships is that they can often obscure — and even make us forget — the wonderful relationships we have with our friends. Though these friendships should by no means diminish when we’re married, it’s important to take time to appreciate the love you have with your friends, while it’s front-and-center in your life. Life can take us in many directions — and so can marriage and children — so all the more reason to have the adventures with friends you’ll remember all your life. Go on a road trip, take a vacation, get into way too much trouble in your hometown. Do stuff that reminds you that you’re young, and free, and can afford to make a few mistakes.

15. Live alone/ be alone. People can go their entire lives skipping from relationship to relationship because they’re afraid of being alone. Being alone isn’t always a walk on the beach, but it’s important to develop the capacity to rely on yourself for happiness before you pass off so much of that weight to another human being.

16. Fall in love with a friend. What is this strange idea that only the people you have sex with/ marry are the people you are supposed to fall head-over-heels in love with? What a sad life we would all be living if we were incapable of loving someone just for long car rides, laughing at stupid TV shows, and staying up late eating junk food and drinking straight from the bottle. Take the time to experience love in all the forms that you routinely mistake for being “boring old friendship.”

17. Be good to your parents. Few things in life will be more exciting for your parents than seeing you find someone and get married, likely starting a family of your own, and certainly bringing a new family into theirs. Why would we ever want to taint that with a relationship that’s strained, disrespectful, and full of alternating miscommunication and silence? Our parents deserve to be loved, to be enjoyed for the people they are (not just some abstract idea of being punished for things), and most of all, included in our lives. The beauty of bringing two families together is very much in the love for your own being grown and shared into the love of the whole new family unit. Shouldn’t we be sharing as much of that as possible?

18. Move out of your parents’ house. Learn how to pay bills, manage your money, and live responsibly. The least you can do before moving in with someone FOR ETERNITY is get some exposure about what it’s actually like to take care of yourself.

19. Figure yourself out. Too often people rush into committed monogamy for all the wrong reasons. “Figuring yourself out” is cliche, but that doesn’t mean you can’t work on yourself and prune your crutches, delusions, and self-destructive tendencies. It’s a life-long process, but at least, before you marry, try and have a firm grip on who you are and what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, rather than rushing headlong and blind into an unknown situation.

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