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.
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.
America Bishop, Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church was laid to rest yesterday. He was
reportedly buried in a $100k coffin, wearing a clerical gown.
Also in attendance was former Gov.
Roy
Barnes, Deion Sanders.
Family members delivered tributes during the ceremony.
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
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.
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
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.