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Every one say a thing or two about this but I just want to bring the memories of the past while you read this article, the moment, that first love, the no commitment, no worries, money free, dirty play, crazy plan (for the future) and that moment we let go because we are grown up, not sharing the same dream, maybe due to the fact that one mind mature faster than the other or we found another which is some cases are prettier or has more money, maybe distance took it apart or death came calling in the relationship.
😉😉😉😉🤔🤙🤙🤙
Young dumb love, we all lived it minus me, I never had the chance to experience this feel but I watch and study my friends which where so into this feeling, watching them give me the experience In which my memories where built on; during those process love was never explained to them has a commitment or a way to secure their future, all what dumb love was doing is give this little kid all the access their full emotional feeling leaving them vulnerable to a critical emotional problem but we do all get over the young dumb love, we always survive after the intense feeling. This is a feeling that must exist, will exist and will continue to exist in time, no matter how it come or when it comes, this feeling should be expected to take effect on every young love anywhere in the world.


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There were online speculations last night that some state governors had held acting President Yemi Osinbajo to ransom, so that they can install Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as President. But President Buhari handed over to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo when he left for the UK last week on a medical vacation.

In a statement released by his media aide, Senate president, Bukola Saraki said this allegation is false and asked to be left out of baseless rumors. Read his statement after the cut..

My attention has been drawn to a speculation on some online media about supposed meeting of some Governors who held Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to ransom and sought for Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to take over the Presidency. My first initial reaction was to ignore this empty rumour but after being inundated with calls from across the country and abroad, it became necessary for me to make clarifications from our own end. It is a good thing that the Presidency had dismissed the speculation and showed that there is no substance to it. However, i feel it should be known that those behind this baseless, empty and unintelligent mischief are those who do not love this country. Such suggestions as contained in the speculation can only bring ill-will, disunity and crisis to the country and i therefore advise the sponsors to desist immediately. More importantly, these trouble makers should refrain from linking Senator Saraki's name to their evil plot.


Government officials in Finland promise to make the country tobacco-free by 2040 as they record recent decline in smokers.

This means they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco in any form by that deadline and more than 98% of the Finnish population saying no to cigarettes, snuff and other forms of smokeless tobacco, cigars, pipes and even e-cigarettes.


Smoking rates in Finland have been on the decline in recent decades due to measures such as bans on advertising and shop displays, and the creation of smoke-free public spaces.

In 2013, 16% of 15- to 64-year-olds in Finland smoked on a daily basis.



An 18-year-old female worker, Sky Juliett Samuel is facing five years in jail after she allegedly licked and smeared her own menstrual blood on a cheeseburger before serving it to a unsuspecting customer at the fast food restaurant where she worked.

The incident occurred on January 7 at a Jack’s Family Restaurant in the town of Columbus. After a heated exchange where insults were traded with a female customer, Sky allegedly spread her bodily fluids on the burger, before handing it over at the drive-thru window around 10 pm.

A co-worker of Samuel’s later told her mother, Tabatha Hollins, who posted about the incident on her Facebook page, writing: "If u went to Jack's between 10:00pm and 10:30pm on 1/7/2017 and u order the big jack with a sprite, u got more then ketchup!"

The customer saw the Facebook post and alerted Columbus police. An arrest warrant was issued and Samuel turned herself. She was arrested on felony charges of selling unwholesome bread or drink and later released on $5,000 bond.

If convicted she could be sentenced to five years in prison

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Eudoxie wife of popular American rapper Ludacris who is from Gabon make the predominantly African dish, Fufu, to her family.

The reaction from her daughters who ate Fufu for the first time really prove how sweet African dishes are.

She shared the video on Instagram with the caption:

“They literally want to eat Fufu every day. Lol Cai likes to eat hers with a spoon or fork while Cadence is straight motherland with it. #Gabonesehouse #Africanbabiesinthemaking”

Watch the refreshing video below:


This is definitely something you don't see every day.

 

The Tanzania government will receive $305 million loan from the World Bank to expand its main port in its main commercial city, Dar es Salaam.

The port has been having congestion and inefficiencies which are hampering ambitions to transform the nation into a regional transport hub.

The port, whose main rival is the bigger but also congested port of Mombasa in Kenya, acts as a trade gateway for landlocked African states.

Such states include Zambia, Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Finance and Planning Minister Philip Mpango said:“The World Bank has agreed to give Tanzania loans for various development projects, including a credit of 305 million dollars for an expansion project at the Dar es Salaam port.”

The World Bank said in a 2014 report that inefficiencies at Dar es Salaam port was costing Tanzania and its neighbours up to 2.6 billion dollars a year.

Tanzania wants to lift capacity at the port to 28 million tonnes a year by 2020 from 15 million tonnes currently.

The loan deal was announced following talks in the capital between Tanzanian President John Magufuli and Makhtar Diop, the World Bank’s Vice President for Africa.

Officials said Tanzania was also in talks with the World Bank for a 425 million dollars additional funding to expand a new public transport system in its commercial capital.

The Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit System inaugurated by Magufuli on Wednesday was built by a 290 million dollars loan from the World Bank.

The project, aimed at easing congestion in Dar es Salaam’s gridlocked streets, is expected to benefit around 500,000 people in the city of four million people.



American hip-hop producer, DJ Khaled who welcomed his first child last year while streaming the birth process live on Snapchat has earned himself  ‘another one’.

The Major Key boss received a letter from the former President of America, Barrack Obama and his wife Michelle wishing DJ Khaled son, Asahd Tuck Khaled well on his birth.

The letter dated 10th January, 2017 before the Obamas left office as the POTUS and FLOTUS was jointly signed by Barack and Michelle Obama.

See the letter below,


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Veteran Nigeria musician, 2face now called 2Baba cried out on Nigerians to join him in a nationwide protest with the aim of demanding answers from President Buhari government over several issues.

He posted online:

“FIRST MASSIVE NATIONWIDE PROTESTS ON THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY, 2017.

A call for good governance.

A call for urgent explanation into the reckless economic downturn nationwide.

A call for nationwide protests as we say No to the Executive, No to legislatures, No to judiciary… You have all failed us.

We the people are tired. We can no longer continue with all of you. All your excuses and mistakes are not funny. We do not wish to continue with a system and government that is not working but afflicting the people.

We the people of this country not living under the privileges of government allowances and remuneration have now accepted to take the bull by the horn to come out and protest this obnoxious and baseless policies and excuses of the government of the day.
Where are the recovered looted funds?

Why do we still have the executive arms and legislatures still enjoying their salaries and allowances while we hear there’s no money to pay workers?

Why do we still see ceaseless power failures with no explanation and hope of getting out of it unlike before?

Why do we keep seeing peace talks in Niger Delta, Fulani herdsmen and ipob without any solutions being reached, while the strategies keep aggravating the people involved as political leaders stage forums to extort funds in the name of addressing their subjects?

Why did we have petrol price rise to 145 for the sake of global oil price crash and removal of subsidy but such price is still being maintained despite significant reawakening of the oil price from $30/barrel to $56/barrel?

Who is to be held accountable for the sudden and continuous hike in price of commodities in the market, where for the first time in history, Nigeria is suddenly selling kerosene at 400 naira per litre as against 50 naira per litre, diesel at 300 naira per litre as against 100 naira per litre and petrol from 87 naira to 145 naira? Yet maintaining the same systems, environment and maybe a lesser money spending government.

There’s need for Nigerians to rise against what is happening in this country having waited patiently for the legislatures that were elected to represent the people all to no avail.”

He has quickly received endorsement from fellow Nigeria celebrities.

 
These adorable baby girls are Kalani and Jarani Dean. Despite their different appearances -- Kalani has light skin and blue eyes, and Jarani has dark skin and brown eyes -- they are actually twins.
The girls' parents are Whitney Meyer and Tomas Dean, from Quincy, Illinois. Meyer has been posting pictures of the unique pair since they were born last April.
 
The couple obviously couldn't believe their luck.
 
"At first when they were born, I wanted to believe it but it's so rare I didn't think it'd happen to my twins!" Meyer told CNN affiliate KHQA. "But sure enough they're biracial twins!"
 
Meyer is white and Dean is black, which explains part of this phenomenon. The twins are dizygotic, which is just the scientific term for fraternal twins. So each baby girl started out as a separate fertilized egg (monozygotic, or identical twins, start off from the same egg and then divide).
 
In a fraternal twin situation, each baby inherits a different combination of genes from mom and dad, so when the parents are of different races, it is possible the inherited genes for skin color can differ.
Still, the striking occurrence is rare. Geneticist Jim Wilson told the BBC that for mixed-race couples in Britain who are expecting twins, there is about a one in 500 chance that their babies will be born with different colored skins.



Widows in Zimbabwe are routinely evicted from their homes and land, and their property is stolen by in-laws when their husbands die, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government of Zimbabwe should urgently take steps to protect widows from this practice.

The 53-page report, “‘You Will Get Nothing,’ Violations of Property and Inheritance Rights of Widows in Zimbabwe,” found that in-laws often tell women shortly after the deaths of their husbands that the relatives intend to take over the homes and lands or other property where the husband and wife had lived for decades. One widow quoted her brother-in-law’s words to her after her husband’s funeral, in front of the family that had gathered: “He said in my face, ‘You are rubbish and you will get nothing. I am taking everything.’”

“The impact of property grabbing on widows is devastating,” said Bethany Brown, a researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. “Women whose property was taken from them spoke of homelessness, destitution, and loss of livelihoods.”

Based on interviews with 59 widows in all 10 provinces of Zimbabwe between May and October 2016, this report documents the human rights vulnerabilities and abuses that widows in Zimbabwe face.

In 2013, Zimbabwe adopted a new constitution that provides for equal rights for women, including for inheritance and property. In practice, however, existing laws only apply to widows in officially registered marriages. Estimates are that most marriages in Zimbabwe are conducted under customary law and are not registered, so, in effect, these laws afford no protection from property-grabbing relatives.

Many widows described how they face insurmountable obstacles defending their property or taking legal steps to reclaim it. Fending off relatives while mourning their husbands and selling off productive assets like cattle to afford court fees and transportation were just some of the challenges. Once in court, widows said they were at a disadvantage without an official record of their marriage if it was a customary union. Courts look to the in-laws – the very people who stand to gain – to confirm the marriage, putting widows at the mercy of their husband’s family.

Nearly all of the widows interviewed for the report who successfully challenged efforts by in-laws to take over their property had benefited from legal services offered by organizations like the Legal Resources Foundation, and Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust, Zimbabwe.

Older widows described feeling that the loss of their homes and the fields they had worked on with their husbands was catastrophic, as they had no time or energy to rebuild a lifetime of work. Many struggled to support themselves when their main source of livelihood, their land, had been taken from them.

Human Rights Watch conducted this research as part of an effort to map the vulnerabilities of older people to human rights abuses. With the rapid growth of older populations worldwide, there is a growing need to understand how discrimination, ageism, neglect, and abuse affect older people and what steps governments should take to protect their rights. By 2050, an estimated two billion people – almost a quarter of the world’s population – will be over age 60. The majority will be women. Widows face varying challenges in different countries and cultural settings. Property grabbing can be common in the Southern Africa region, and many older women have few other economic options. Widows of all ages are at risk of property grabbing and its grave harmful impacts.

Some of those interviewed said their in-laws simply forced them out of their homes immediately after their husbands died. Others said their in-laws threatened, physically intimidated, and insulted them to make them leave. In some cases, distant relatives of the deceased showed up years later and took over their property.

Many women did not know that they had a right to the property they held with their spouses. Others said they were wary of jeopardizing relationships with in-laws with whom they had shared their lives for many years, and who they had hoped would support them and their children.

According to the 2012 census, Zimbabwe is home to about 587,000 widows, and most women 60 and over are widowed. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that at least 70 percent of women in rural areas are in unregistered customary unions and are living under customary law.
“The government should take immediate steps to register all marriages, including customary unions, reform its marriage laws, and raise awareness of the property rights of widows,” said Brown. “That would help protect thousands of women each year against the injustice of being summarily thrown out of their homes when they become widows.”

Selected testimony from interviews:

“He [my brother-in-law] has taken all of my fields and even tilled my yard [to plant crops] up to my doorstep. Now, he says that I cannot walk on “his” fields. He says that I do not belong there. I reported this to the village headman, but he just tells us to live in peace. My brother-in-law is insistent. Maybe he is really happy to see us suffer. At my age, where can I go? I cannot start afresh.”
Deborah, 58 from Mashonaland East

“At the funeral of my brother-in-law, a few years previous to my husband’s passing, they [my in-laws] took everything, and left my sister in-law and kids destitute. I took them in. Now, my mother-in-law sleeps on her son’s [my brother-in-law’s] marital bed, with blankets made as gifts for him and his wife."
Charity, 49, from Mashonaland East

“I didn’t see the will but found out that there was one in court. My brother-in-law was the executor [of my husband’s will]. He mistreated me. Immediately after [his death], I sold household effects to survive for food. My in-laws saw that I sold things to buy food. My brother-in-law had me arrested [for selling things in the estate]. In court I was found not guilty. I served one week in jail [before trial]. It was terrible. One week was like a month.”
Mindy, 54, from Midlands

“Before my husband was even buried, my brother-in-law was making moves. He was running around from [government] office to [government] office. He tried to get my husband’s pension. They [officials] said it wasn’t ready but that he needed the death certificate for it. He got the death certificate by saying that his brother [my husband] was a widower … I learned about three weeks after my husband’s death that I was [being] left out. He took my car. I was surprised that this happened. We were a close family.”
– Bethel, 41, Bulawayo

Source: HRW Org

 
A 37-year-old Zimbabwean woman appeared before Bulawayo magistrate court for attempted murder of her husband of ten years over an infidelity row in Zimbabwe.

Mr Mpotu, 48, is currently battling for life at the United Bulawayo Hospitals after he was allegedly stabbed by Svori. 
Mr Nkathazo Dlodlo, who is representing the state said on Wednesday, January, 18th, Svori stabbed her husband after she suspected he was having an extramarital affair.

"On January 18, this year at around 9PM, the complainant and accused person had a misunderstanding as the accused suspected that the complainant was having extramarital affair," said Dlodlo.

Svori then stabbed Mr Mpotu with a kitchen knife on the chest and on the lower side of the armpit. Neighbours heard screams and rushed to the scene to assist. A police report was made by neighbour, Mr Callmore Shumba, leading to Svori's arrest.

The victim was rushed to the hospital where he is currently admitted. Svori was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody till February 3 while the court is awaiting a medical report on her husband's condition.



Kylie Jenner, 21, was on Sunday spotted walking the streets of Paris with her rumored boyfriend, American rapper, A$ap Rocky, 28. The both of them are yet to spill out anything to confirm their relationship or deny it but there frequent going out on dates together reveal there is a strong bond of relationship between them.

They were seen shopping at flea market in Paris on Sunday, days after Kendall walked the runway at the Givenchy Menswear Fall/Winter 2017-2018.

Hollywood female celebrities including Rihanna, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence were all spotted wearing Dior T-shirt inspired by Nigerian writer and friend of Dior, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerfully resonant essay 'We Should All be Feminist"
On the night before her first couture show for Dior, the recently-appointed Artistic Director of women's collections Maria Grazia Chiuri also joined the movement wearing their 'We Should All be Feminists' T-shirt during the final preparations for the unveiling of tomorrow's highly-anticipated collection.




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