A
41-year-old woman, Antinlola Adeyemi, declared missing for about four
days by family members, has been found dead in a deep well on Monday in
Lagos.
The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Fadipe Rasaq, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Rasaq said that the family had been looking for her for about four days before she was discovered on Monday.
“The
family had been looking for her. She was discovered in the well and we
were informed at about 9.30 a.m.; when we got there, she was already
swollen.
“It
was only her back we were seeing. It was difficult to bring her out. At
the time we brought her out, the corpse was handed over to Isheri
Police Division police officers.
“The well is situated in front of
the houses along the power lines where illegal buildings and other
structures were demolished in Ikotun area not too long ago,’’ Rasaq
said.
"Many people feel that they
do not have the power to make major changes in their own lives, and for
that reason could not possibly be creating their own reality. What they
don't realize is that their thoughts, feelings and beliefs simply provide
the energy to send a signal out into the Universe. It is the Universe which
amplifies this signal by adding all the energy required to rearrange a
personal reality and manifest a new life experience.
If people
only knew that they have the power to ask the Universe to change their
reality, they would understand that they are not weak and helpless victims
of circumstances, but empowered Children of Light exercising their
birthright as Creator-Beings. A Being of Light is empowered to ask the
Universe because the Universe is itself made of Light. So in a sense, when
you send a signal out in the Universe, you are sending a signal into the
essence of your own being, and it is because the Universe recognizes you as
a Child of Light, as being one with itself in essence, that it obeys your
request. Thus, manifesting a reality is fundamentally you and the Universe
being as one, and moving as one, and this is the real secret of your own
nature and your own power."
- Angel Alariel (Channeled in the
book "Beyond Limitations - The Power of Conscious Co-Creation")
Barcelona
talismanic forward, Lionel Messi has put the blame of the constant
comparison to Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo on the media, saying
he doesn’t care about it.
He said this in an interview with MBC, adding that he is only concerned with helping his team and becoming a better player.
Messi and Ronaldo have dominated world football’s most prestigious
awards in recent times, combining to win the last eight editions of the
FIFA Ballon D’Or award.
He said: “The press is always looking for comparisons and those kinds of things.
“The only thing I care about is helping my team and to keep on improving each season.
“I am not comparing myself to Cristiano Ronaldo or to anyone else. I
am only thinking about myself and my team-mates and winning games.”
The two players are due to meet in the el clasico, where both players
will have a chance to compete against each other for the second time in
the current season.
Extolling the talent in the rival team, Messi said: “Real Madrid have
some great players. They have always had some impressive stars and are
one of the best teams in the world.”
"You see, the only way you can
guarantee what you want for yourself is to keep your vibration purely on
what it is you want. When you finally understand that you will be free.
What appears in your life experience is solely and only a function of your
thoughts and beliefs. Otherwise, others could create in your experience and
that simply cannot happen. Others creating in your experience is a
violation of universal law. The universe is set up so that each and every
one may receive what is wanted no matter what the others are doing.
Life is a win–win situation. People receive what they are
focused upon. Your thoughts and beliefs precisely establish the content of
your vibration, to which all things in the universe respond. Those who
choose to focus in a disconnected way will live lives of disconnection.
Those who are focused in a positive way will live lives in a positive
condition, connected to the flow of universal energy. The parameters of
your existence may change if others change; but it will still be a positive
existence IF you keep your focus on what you want! It is simply up to you
what you choose; the universe has the capacity to respond. You may live
exactly as you choose to live. That’s the wonderful thing about this
universe –– the desires of everyone may be satisfied.
We want to say to you that you cannot lose, you are always and will
always receive a precise vibrational match to your desires no matter
whether you are a physically focused consciousness in a body, or whether
you are completely in ‘non–physical.’ Whatever you choose
as your place of vibration (thought, belief, and feeling) you will have a
matching experience. That is just the way it is! If you choose abundance
and prosperity you can experience it, in whatever form you envision.
As we have said over and over, you are the molder of your own
experiences! You are in charge, you are the writer and director of your own
life. Our message is 100% empowering because that is the way the universe
is set up. You are focused consciousness, an aspect or extension of
universal consciousness, which created and designed the universe. We want
you to know that the set–up for all life experience is a
win–win. There is no lose; unless, of course, you want to experience
that way.
Lighten up! Life is not supposed to be
‘serious,’ at least that was not what you intended before you
came here. As you lighten up and relax into your connection you will find
(as you have found) that life becomes simpler and more joyful and more
exciting!"
- Conversations with My Higher Self (A book
channeling the same entity known as "Abraham Hicks")
People living in South Asia have DNA from Denisovans, an early hominin, new research finds
The genes we borrowed from ancestor cousins may have helped us adapt to new environments but reduced our fertility
(CNN)Your ancestry can reveal a lot about you, including how related you are to cave men.
If
you have Chinese heritage, you might have slightly more Neanderthal in
your genome, while a new study finds that people from South Asia have
more Denisovan, another type of early human, in their DNA.
Evidence
started to emerge in 2010 that our distant ancestors interbred with
Neanderthals, the Stone Age hominins who populated Europe until around
40,000 years ago. We can all, with the exception of African people,
credit Neanderthals for around 2% of our genome. (Our ancestors
apparently started hooking up with their stocky cousins after moving out
of Africa.)
Now it seems
Neanderthals were not the only interbreeding game in town. The new study
finds that Denisovans interbred with the distant ancestors of people
living in what is now South Asia, including India, Bangladesh and
Pakistan. Previously the only people known to have detectable traces of
Denisovan DNA were in Papua New Guinea, Australia, China and other parts of East Asia.
The inter-hominin mating, both with Neanderthals and Denisovans, seemed to bestow our ancestors with advantageous traits, such as thicker hair (thanks, Neanderthals) and ability to live at high altitudes
(courtesy of Denisovans). However the new study suggests that there
could also have been evolutionary downsides to interbreeding, such as
reduced fertility.
"The
South Asia finding was a bit of a surprise. It is not explainable by
what we know about human history," said Sriram Sankararaman, assistant
professor of computer science and human genetics at the University of
California-Los Angeles. Sankararaman is the lead author of the study, which was published Monday in Current Biology.
Researchers
had been thinking that our ancestors could have picked up Denisovan DNA
just once, when one population of our ancestors intermingled with one
population of Denisovans, and then the descendants moved to East Asia
and the Pacific Islands. Although that still could have happened,
Sankararaman said these findings also raise the possibility that Homo
sapiens made babies with Denisovans in three different areas, including
South Asia.
The current study and
previous research suggest that we can no longer think of our ancestors
as interbreeding with other hominins only once, said John Hawks,
professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. "It is
happening repeatedly, wherever modern humans are coming into contact
with these archaic people," said Hawks, who was not involved in the
current study.
Of all the
nationalities today, Papua New Guineans and Australians can claim the
most Denisovan DNA, about 5% of their genome, followed by South Asians,
and then East Asians and Native Americans, all at around 2%. Europeans
have no detectable Denisovan DNA.
What's in your caveman genes?
Looking
at the kind of Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA we possess "is a first step
to understanding the (genomic) regions which might have been important
for modern humans," Sankararaman said. We can also learn a lot from the
regions of our genome where cave man DNA is glaringly absent.
The current study found some of the most prevalent Neanderthal genes are associated with thicker skin and hair, just as previous research concluded.
"You
have humans that lived in Africa, and now they are going into different
environments in the world and there are already populations (of
Neanderthals and Denisovans) that adapted to those environments. And so,
for the modern humans it almost makes sense that they borrow the genes
from them," Sankararaman said.
The
study also found evidence that our ancestors may not have passed on
certain parts of the genome from their hominin cousins, such as a less
evolutionarily advanced version of the FOXP2 gene, which is thought to
play a role in language and speech.
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"We
all agree there has been positive and negative selection. ... It is
interesting that similar regions in both Neanderthal and Denisovans,
like FOXP2, had negative selection," said Rasmus Nielsen, professor of
evolutionary biology at University of California-Berkeley, who was not
involved in the current research.
Another
group of genes that seems to be avoided by early humans, from an
evolutionary standpoint, is involved in reproduction. This finding
suggests that the offspring of an early human and Neanderthal or
Denisovan pairing could have been less able to procreate and pass on
their genes. If interbreeding reduces fertility, Hawks said, "that
creates the expectation that maybe (these three hominins) were different
species," which has been a matter of debate.
DILMA ROUSSEFF’S difficulties have been deepening for months. The
massive scandal surrounding Petrobras, the state-controlled oil giant of
which she was once chairman, has implicated some of the people closest
to her. She presides over an economy suffering its worst recession since
the 1930s, largely because of mistakes she made during her first term.
Her political weakness has rendered her government almost powerless in
the face of rising unemployment and falling living standards. Her
approval ratings are barely in double digits and millions of Brazilians
have taken to the streets to chant “Fora Dilma!”, or “Dilma out!”
And yet, until now, Brazil’s president could fairly claim that the
legitimacy conferred by her re-election in 2014 was intact, and that
none of the allegations made against her justified her impeachment. Like
the judges and police who are pursuing some of the most senior figures
in her Workers’ Party (PT), she could declare with a straight face her
desire to see justice done.
Now she has cast away that raiment of credibility.
On March 16th Ms Rousseff made the extraordinary decision to appoint
her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to be her chief of staff.
She portrayed this as a shrewd hire. Lula, as he is known to all, is a
canny political operator: he could help the president survive Congress’s
attempt to impeach her and perhaps even stabilise the economy. But just
days before, Lula had been briefly detained for questioning at the
order of Sérgio Moro, the federal judge in charge of the Petrobras
investigation (dubbed lava jato, or “car wash”), who suspects that the former president profited from the bribery scheme.
Prosecutors in the state of São Paulo have accused Lula of hiding his
ownership of a beach-front condominium. He denies these charges. By
acquiring the rank of a government minister, Lula would have partial
immunity: only the country’s supreme court could try him. In the event, a
judge on the court has suspended his appointment.
This newspaper has long argued that either the judicial system or
voters—not self-serving politicians trying to impeach her—should decide
the president’s fate. But Ms Rousseff’s hiring of Lula looks like a
crass attempt to thwart the course of justice. Even if that was not her
intention, it would be its effect. This was the moment when the
president chose the narrow interests of her political tribe over the
rule of law. She has thus rendered herself unfit to remain president.
Three ways to leave the Planalto
How she exits the Planalto, the presidential palace, matters greatly.
We continue to believe that, in the absence of proof of criminality, Ms
Rousseff’s impeachment is unwarranted. The proceeding against her in
Congress is based on unproven allegations that she used accounting
trickery to hide the true size of the budget deficit in 2015. This looks
like a pretext for ousting an unpopular president. The idea, put
forward by the head of the impeachment committee, that congressmen
deliberating Ms Rousseff’s fate will listen to “the street”, would set a
worrying precedent. Representative democracies should not be governed
by protests and opinion polls.
There are three ways of removing Ms Rousseff that rest on more
legitimate foundations. The first would be to show that she obstructed
the Petrobras investigation. Allegations by a PT senator that she did so
may now form the basis of a second impeachment motion, but they are so
far unproven and she denies them; Ms Rousseff’s attempt to shield Lula
from prosecution may provide further grounds. A second option would be a
decision by Brazil’s electoral court to call a new presidential
election. It may do that, if it finds that her re-election campaign in
2014 was financed with bribes channelled through Petrobras executives.
But this investigation will be drawn out. The quickest and best way for
Ms Rousseff to leave the Planalto would be for her to resign before
being pushed out.
Her departure would offer Brazil the chance of a fresh start. But the
president’s resignation would not, of itself, solve Brazil’s many
underlying problems. Her place would initially be taken by the
vice-president, Michel Temer, leader of the Party of the Brazilian
Democratic Movement. Mr Temer could head a national-unity government,
including opposition parties, which, in theory, might be able to embark
on the fiscal reforms needed to stabilise the economy and close a budget
deficit that is close to 11% of GDP.
Sadly, Mr Temer’s party is as deeply enmeshed in the Petrobras
scandal as the PT. Many politicians who would join a unity government,
including some from the opposition, are popularly seen as
representatives of a discredited ruling class. Of Congress’s 594
members, 352 face accusations of criminal wrongdoing. A new presidential
election would give voters an opportunity to entrust reforms to a new
leader. But even this would leave the rotten legislature in place until
2019.
The judiciary, too, has questions to answer. Judges deserve great
credit for holding Brazil’s mightiest businessmen and politicians to
account, but they have undermined their cause by flouting legal norms.
The latest example is Mr Moro’s decision to release recorded telephone
conversations between Lula and his associates, including Ms Rousseff.
Most jurists believe that only the supreme court may divulge
conversations in which one of the parties has legal immunity, as the
president does. This does not justify the claim from government
supporters that the judges are staging a “coup”. But it makes it easy
for lava jato suspects to divert attention from their own misdeeds to the blunders of their pursuers.
Brazil’s war of parties and personalities obscures some of the most
important lessons of the crisis. Both the Petrobras scandal and the
economic crash have their origins in misconceived laws and practices
that are decades old. Getting Brazil out of its mess requires wholesale
change: controlling public spending, including on pensions; overhauling
growth-crushing tax and labour laws; and reforming a political system
that encourages corruption and weakens political parties.
These can no longer be put off. Those chanting “Fora Dilma!” on the streets would claim victory if she was ousted. But for Brazil itself to win it would be just the first step.
When
Aston Martin releases a limited-run of a production car, they make sure
it’s special. From the Bond-themed DB10 auction they’re hosting, or
their highly customizable ‘Q by Aston Martin’ line, they make sure
buyers are treated to a unique automotive experience.
Aston Martin’s latest luxury car twist pays homage to The Blades,
Britain’s acrobatic aircraft display team made up of former RAF fast-jet
pilots, and former members of the Red Arrows.
The aircraft-inspired V8 Vantage S Blades Edition will be extremely
exclusive – just five will go to production. Each car is distinct with a
unique badge linking it directly to one of The Blades’ Extra 300SC and
Extra 300LP aircrafts.
Aston Martin is all about the experience though, so when the $170,000
cars are given to buyers in March, they’ll spend the full day with The
Blades team. British car and aviation hobbyists should act fast; there’s
only one model left for sale.
The details of Luis Suarez’s transfer from Liverpool to Barcelona have been leaked online.
The deal, worth £65 million, took place in July 2014 after the
Uruguayan won the European Golden Shoe, having netted 31 league goals
for Liverpool in the 2013/2014 season.
According to documents leaked online by Football Leaks, the Catalan
club still owe Liverpool the final instalment of the transfer payment.
The European and domestic champions have been paying £13 million
pounds every six months, which is a common practice in transfer deals in
football.
The documents also show that the Anfield side did not ask for any
performance-based add-ons, which is a common practice in the transfer of
high-calibre players such as the 29-year-old.
This is believed to have been caused by the furore generated when
Suarez bit Italian defender, Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup,
which earned him a four-month ban.
The Merseysiders were said to have been relieved to let him go after
the incident, following a series of incidents that also pitched him
against the club.
Football Leaks have on previous occasions leaked transfer documents
of many players in the Spanish league, many of whom are Real Madrid
stars.
Most Christians are unaware that Easter is a pagan festival surreptitiously merged with Christianity.
Easter is not a Christian holiday. The word Easter is not even
scriptural; it does not exist in true translations of the bible. Easter
was smuggled into the King James Bible in Acts 12:4, where it was
substituted for the original word; “Passover:” “When (Herod) had
apprehended (Peter), he put him in prison, and delivered him to four
quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him
forth to the people.
As a matter of fact, the word Easter only appears in the King James
Version of English bible translations. It does not exist in any other
English bible translation. Even the King James Version was forced to
remove it from its revised version, known as the New King James Version.
Queen of Heaven Most Christians are unaware that Easter is a pagan
festival surreptitiously merged with Christianity.
Noah’s son, Ham, married a woman called Ashtoreth. In some cultures,
Ashtoreth is called Ishtar, which is transliterated in English as
Easter. Ashtoreth made herself “the Queen of Heaven;” the goddess of
fertility and became an object of worship. This idol worship of
Ashtoreth, later camouflaged in Christendom as Easter, is specifically
forbidden in the scriptures. God says:
The women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and
they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to
anger. Do they provoke me to anger? Do they not provoke themselves, to
the shame of their own faces? Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold,
my anger and my fury will be poured out on this place.” (Jeremiah
7:17-20).
God punished Israel for succumbing to the worship of Ashtoreth
(Ishtar): “They forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. And
the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. So he delivered them into
the hands of plunderers who despoiled them.” (Judges 2:13-14).
Accordingly, Samuel counselled Israel to forsake Ashtoreth (Ishtar)
worship:
Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, ‘If you return
to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the
Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and
serve him only; and he will deliver you from the hand of the
Philistines.” (1 Samuel 7:3). Sun worship Ham and Ashtoreth gave birth
to a son called Nimrod. After Ham’s death, Nimrod married Ashtoreth; his
own mother, and became a powerful king of ancient Babylon.
When Nimrod was also killed, Ashtoreth deified him as sun-god or
life-giver. Indeed, Easter means “movement towards the rising sun.” It
pertains to the religious rites of people who worship the sun and the
signs of the heavens.
Sun worship is expressly forbidden in the scriptures. Ezekiel says:
“I was then led into the temple’s inner courtyard, where I saw about
twenty-five men standing near the entrance, between the porch and the
altar. Their backs were to the LORD’s temple, and they were bowing down
to the rising sun.
God said, ‘Ezekiel, it’s bad enough that the people of Judah are
doing these disgusting things.’” (Ezekiel 8:16-17). Nevertheless,
following this pagan tradition, “Sunrise Services” are conducted on
Easter Sunday mornings in many Christian denominations. Hot crossed buns
In Western Europe, it is traditional to eat hot-crossed buns on Easter
Sunday morning. This is where we get the limerick: “Hot crossed buns;
hot crossed buns. One a-penny, two a-penny, hot cross buns.
These small sweet buns are usually decorated with solar crosses made
of white icing. They were consecrated in ancient Greece to the goddess
of the sunrise. In ancient Babylon, the buns were offered to the Queen
of Heaven; the goddess of Easter. Pagan Lent After the death of Nimrod,
Ashtoreth (Ishtar) gave birth to Tammuz, a son she claimed was Nimrod
reborn.
When Tammuz was killed by a wild boar, Ashtoreth instituted an annual
ritual of 40 days of mourning for Baal worshippers, when no meat was
allowed to be eaten. This pagan tradition of “weeping for Tammuz” is
specifically proscribed in the scriptures. God said to Ezekiel: “Turn
again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing.
So he brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD’S house;
and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.” (Ezekiel
8:13-14). Nevertheless, weeping for Tammuz has been absorbed into
Christianity by the institution of Lent; a 40-day period of fasting and
prayer observed in some Christian denominations as a prelude to Easter.
Just like Easter, Lent is not scriptural. Neither the word nor the
custom exist in the bible. Lent begins, according to Christian
tradition, on Ash Wednesday; which is also pagan. The ashes were said to
be the seed of the Indian fire god, Agni, deemed to have the power to
forgive sins. Easter egg Because of their prolific nature in
reproduction, rabbits were associated with Ishtar, the goddess of
fertility. This is where Christians borrowed the tradition of the Easter
bunny.
Ancient Babylonians believed an egg fell into the Euphrates River
from the moon. Queen Ishtar was apparently “hatched” from this egg. This
moon egg was called Ishtar’s egg; which became in Christendom Easter
egg. Shifting date Have you noticed that your birthday falls on
different days from year to year? So how come the celebration of Easter
always falls on Friday and on Sunday? Moreover, unlike your birthday,
the date for Easter changes from year to year.
Sometimes it is in March; sometimes in April. Easter moves from year
to year because the date has nothing to do with the death and
resurrection of Jesus but with the changing cycles of the moon. Easter
is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first Vernal Equinox full
moon; which is consecrated by pagans as Ishtar’s Sunday. This signifies
the astronomical arrival of spring. The pagan belief is that the sun
dies at winter (Christmas) and is reborn at spring (Easter).
Good Saturday Good Friday is also a misnomer. Jesus was not crucified
on a Friday. The week in which he was crucified contained two Sabbaths
and he was crucified on a Wednesday. The following Thursday was a high
Sabbath day; the first day of unleavened bread. Jesus did not resurrect
on a Sunday. He resurrected on a Saturday, which was a regular weekly
Sabbath day different from the high Sabbath of the preceding Thursday.
Mary Magdalene discovered the empty tomb on Sunday morning, while it was
still dark.
Christians should realise that from Friday evening to Sunday morning
does not constitute three days and three nights in the grave, but one
day and two nights. The decision to change the day of the resurrection
to Sunday was simply a continuation of the Babylonian tradition. Nimrod
was ostensibly resurrected on a Sunday; a day devoted to worshipping the
sun.
By AD 321, Constantine established Sunday as part of the official
state religion, and the Sabbath was statutorily changed from Saturday to
Sunday. Christians should desist from celebrating Easter: “Thus says
the LORD: ‘Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the
signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the
customs of the peoples are vanity.’” (Jeremiah 10:2-3).
Emeka
Ike, the President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria has voiced out on the
condition of his opposition and past president of the body, Ibinabo
Fiberesima.
In a chat with Saturday Beats, the AGN President warned that the
Actress who has surrounded herself with the wrong set of people could be
back in jail yet again for contempt of court.
Clearing the air on issues, Emeka Ike said; ”My victory at the court
has nothing to do with Ibinabo’s predicament. This case is different and
if Ibinabo is going to go to jail for my own case, they should come and
beg me. Instead of them to come and beg me, they are still going to the
press to say all sorts of rubbish about me. There is still a second
jail term for Ibinabo. It is called contempt of court and it would also
include Segun Arinze. People have threatened to kill me but I am not
scared of them. I am waiting for them and I would look them in the face
and tell them that they are evil and I am righteous.
“I did not take the issue to the police but straight to the court and
I am happy that justice has been served. Anyone that ties Ibinabo’s
plight to my victory is only trying to blackmail me and I know they
would not stop blackmailing me. How can anyone say that I sent Ibinabo
to jail? Am I the Giwa family or the government?
“How can I be happy that Ibinabo has been sentenced to jail? I feel
very bad. The people saying that I am happy about the sentence are
actually Ibinabo’s enemies.
This is a lady that was used because of the powers she could garner
and control. Some people were using her and now that they have messed
her up, they are still using her in prison. Ibinabo would never say that
Emeka Ike sent her to jail, it is impossible.because she knows why she
is there. What I was only telling Nigerians is that people of Ibinabo’s
status do not contest for any public office. Should we stop telling the
truth? She had a criminal issue in court.
“Let’s leave sentiments, we have to be realistic. I cannot be happy
about her predicament because it is rather unfortunate that she is
surrounded by the wrong people and advisers; she was surrounded by
sycophants. Instead of them to tell her how to solve her problem, they
were pushing her to jail and now that she is in jail, they will not
leave her alone.
“Why did they not advise her to form a team and go to Giwa’s family
house and roll on the floor for forgiveness? They could have sent her
away for days but they would not send her away forever. We are a
cultural people, I am sure that after going repeatedly, an elder in the
family would plead on her behalf and say something like, ‘our son is
dead and nothing can bring him back, let us just forgive her.’ She
should have been very remorseful but she wasn’t. We told Nigerians that
some of us would not agree but they began to call us names because we
took the matter to court,”
Apostle
Johnson Suleiman, President of the Omega Fire Ministries, during a
sermon called out the Governor of Kaduna state, stating that his days
were numbered and that he would die.
The Pastor it seems, is taking exception to the proposed bill in
Kaduna that will make it compulsory for preachers to get licences before
they can preach.
A lot of people have already reacted unfavourably to El-Rufai’s plans, with many calling it a plot to Islamize Nigeria.
The pastor took it further in his impassioned sermon, calling the
Governor names, arguing that he was not only against the will of God but
also against the constitution and even referencing the rumor that he
was slapped by his Deputy Barnabas Bantex.
Sex
Doll? Yes Sex Doll, this Chinese man married the sex doll after being
diagnosed with cancer. In a couple of romantic wedding photographs, you
would think the bride is a real person, the man claimed that he doesn’t
want to leave a bereaved widow after his death.
Sijibomi is notably the youngest Nigerian man so far to reach a
billion in earnings from business investments. He is 34 and the CEO of
Sijimoto, a real estate business empire. Sijimoto is a key player in
real estate both in Nigeria and beyond. He currently has over 70 houses
in Ikoyi listed as his own
Sijibomi was not born a success. He worked himself into it. He grew
up in Agege but because of his vision, he decided to push on for a
better life. At a very young age, the young lad would leave his suburb
Agege to be at the Ikoyi Polo Club; his mission then was to be like the
rich and opulent so as to emulate their unique lifestyles.
Today, his lifestyle suits his status as a billionaire. Sijibomi
revealed his affection for fast cars and antique watches. At 33, he
bought a pricey Patek Phillipe wristwatch that costs $150,000 (N23
million) and when asked, he said he procured it so his grandson can one
day use it. Ladi Delano
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At 35, Ladi is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bakrie
Delano Africa – a $1 billion joint venture with the $15 billion Bakrie
Group of Indonesia.
He started the journey to riches from age 22 he founded Solidarnosc
Asia, a Chinese alcoholic beverage company that made Solid XS, a premium
brand of vodka. Forbes Africa listed him as one of Nigeria’s top
earners to watch.
This is an excerpt from the report done on him by Forbes Africa back in 2013 The path may have been well lit, but hardship lurked around the
corner. In his student days, Delano found he suffered from mild dyslexia
and deafness in one ear. Learning became more and more difficult and
the idea of school waned. Despite this, with the help of extra
lessons, Delano made it to a top university on a day he describes as
glorious. The novelty soon wore off and academia became Delano’s
nemesis. In his second year of a political science degree, he made up
his mind. “It became quite clear that I didn’t have a passion for my
course. I think that lead to me being easily distracted and that,
ultimately, culminated in me thinking that rather than flogging
a dead horse, it would make more sense to do something I was more
comfortable with. There are two types of education and each form of
education is equally as valuable. The academic approach to
education is vital, no business can operate and be successful without
those who have spent the time to understand the academic side of
anything. However, that approach to education is not necessarily for
everybody. And in my case, it wasn’t. So, I decided to withdraw from the university,” he says. Delano’s decision didn’t go down well at home, but there was no stopping him. At least, university education had planted the idea of becoming an entrepreneur.“ Igho Sanomi
The 40-year-old Igho Sanomi is the founder and CEO of Taleveras
Group, a Nigerian energy, power and construction conglomerate. Taleveras
is arguably one of Africa’s largest energy trading companies, trading
close to a billion barrels of crude oil and millions of tons of
condensates, gasoline, jet fuel and LPG every year. Taleveras also owns
substantial stakes in two oil blocks in Nigeria as well as lucrative
production sharing contracts (PSCs) in three offshore oil blocks in
Ivory Coast. The group Power subsidiary constructs electrical
substations in Nigeria and also owns a majority stake in the Port
Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company. The towering conglomerate has
an annual turnover of several billions of dollars. Igho Sanomi is the
controlling shareholder of the group.
At 40, Mr Sanomi is arguably one of the youngest kings of oil and gas Nigeria has ever seen.
At
least 41 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself
as trophies were presented after a local football tournament in Iraq.
More than 100 others were wounded in the attack near the village of al Asriya, 25 miles (40km) south of Baghdad.
Video
posted on social media shows a local official speaking in front of a
table covered with trophies and calling out the name of a player before a
huge explosion.
The footage cuts off with a yellow flash of light before resuming with the chaotic scenes afterwards.
Mayor Ahmed Shaker was among the dead, along with one of his bodyguards and at least five members of the security forces.
“The
suicide bomber cut through the crowd to approach the centre of the
gathering and blew himself up as the mayor was presenting awards,” an
18-year-old witness told AFP.
Islamic State said it carried out the attack, which it claimed was targeting Shia militiamen.
It also said it killed three Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a military base in Anbar province.
“Four
suicide bombers this morning infiltrated the military base of Al-Asad
on its northern edge,” said Major General Ali Ibrahim Daboun, head of
the Al-Jazeera Operations Command.
IS
has lost ground in recent months in Iraq and Syria and but has hit back
with a series of attacks, including the Brussels bombings.
On Friday, the US said the group’s second-in-command had been killed in an American raid in Syria.
Defence
Secretary Ash Carter told reporters the “well-known terrorist”, Haji
Imam, also known as Abdul Rahman Mustafa al Qaduli, was the group’s
finance minister.
In Iraq, a military spokesman announced the
country’s troops and Sunni tribal fighters had recaptured the town of
Kubeisa in Anbar from IS.
The day before IS fighters were pushed
out of a string of villages in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province as the
US-led military coalition carried out airstrikes.
Iraqi ground
forces are working to build on recent gains in Anbar and prepare for an
eventual push on Mosul, the largest city held by the militants in their
self-declared “caliphate” in northern Iraq and Syria.
The US estimates IS has lost 40% of the territory it once held in Iraq, as well as around 20% of its territory in Syria.
The YESGrant will provide business training for up to 600 aspiring young entrepreneurs
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 26, 2016/ — Over 1000 Nigerians will this year
be beneficiaries of N500Million Naira Grant seed capital set aside for
young Nigerian entrepreneurs and students.
This was disclosed today during the launch of the YESGrant Scheme
(www.YESGrant.com) by the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF)
(http://www. NYPForum.org) in partnership with Heritage Bank, which took
place at the Four Point Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.
The event which was very well attended by dignitaries, including
representatives from the Nigerian University Commission (NUC), National
Youth Service Corps (NYSC), as well as captains of industries and top
Government Functionaries as part of efforts to grow more indigenous
entrepreneurs among young Nigerians and deliberately create over 50,000
jobs in the next 5 years of the program circle.
Speaking during the launch, Chairman of the Nigerian Young
Professionals Forum (NYPF), Moses Siloko Siasia, said he was inspired by
the big impact small businesses can have on the economy and that was
why the grant was created to provide incubator support to enable young
entrepreneurial postulants with creative ideas in Agriculture, ICT and
creative economy start or expand their business concepts in those areas.
“I have built businesses from the scratch and I understand the
challenges people face and that is why I am optimistic that if given the
necessary support, young Nigerians will not only grow the Nigerian
economy, they will completely revolutionize it”.
Speaking also, the Managing Director of Heritage Bank
(http://www.HBng.com), who was represented by the Head of Marketing
Strategy Mr Obioma Emenike said he was optimistic that the initiative
would lead to start ups and give a boost to economic growth and issued a
call out to entrepreneurs to use their network to encourage their
friends and colleagues apply for it.
The YESGrant will provide business training for up to 600 aspiring
young entrepreneurs spread across all geo-political zones in Nigeria and
will encourage expansion, specialization and spin-offs of existing
businesses, which is to enable young entrepreneurs access a wide
business professional network and improve their visibility, while
entrepreneurs will receive up to 2million Naira annually as grant.
The YESGrant is to enable Nigerian students with extreme financial
need pursue their academic dreams and aspiration in the areas of
research and technological/scientific innovation and it will also help
low income and disadvantage students with their tuition of which over
500 students will benefit from this year’s grant .
Furthermore, Students studying in Nigeria will receive up to 500,000
(Five Hundred Thousand Naira) while those studying in the United Kingdom
will receive up to 3,000pounds and those studying in the United States
will receive up to 5,000dollars annually as grant
To apply for the YESGrant available at www.YESGrant.com prospective
recipients must be between the ages of 18- 40, be registered members of
the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF) and have an account with
Heritage Bank prior to the disbursement of the funds in August 2016.
Student’s award recipients must in addition provide their matriculation
number and academic progression report.
Frances Bean Cobain was spotted at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, just days after news broke that she had filed for divorce from husband Isaiah Silva.
The 23-year-old artist donned dark sunglasses with her hair in a
ponytail as she walked through the airport. She was dressed casually,
wearing a t-shirt and black pants with a tan and brown jacket.
Cobain, the daughter of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and Silva are divorcing after 21 months of marriage, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
In her 50th Easter season as a nun, Sister Antonia Sanchez participated in something new.
For
the past 49 years, since she joined the order of Religious Mary
Immaculate at age 16, Sanchez has watched priests wash the feet of men
on Holy Thursday. This week, Sanchez was before the altar herself at the
nation’s preeminent Catholic shrine. She was the one removing her shoes
and socks. And then the pope’s representative to America washed her
feet.
This was the first Easter since
Pope Francis decreed in January that priests can include women in the
foot-washing ritual, one of the most moving rites of the holiest week on
the church’s calendar. The change had already happened in some
churches, but since Francis made it official, it is now spreading
worldwide.
Sanchez has been waiting
for this for half a century. “I said, ‘Maybe sometime,'” she said. “This
is the first time the pope said this opportunity has to be for ladies
too. In this moment, I feel I’m privileged.”
The change is the most recent of Pope Francis’s slow but symbolically powerful efforts to expand women’s roles in church life.
On
his first Easter after becoming pope in 2013, Francis washed the feet
of women and Muslims at a juvenile detention center in Rome. While he
has disappointed liberals within the church with his reiteration that
women can’t be priests and his decision not to include women in his
recent synods, he has also drawn attention to the gender wage gap, and
he recently ended an inquiry into American nuns that many saw as
anti-women.
As
priests around the world took both women’s and men’s feet in their
hands on Thursday, their gesture of humility represented to many the
progress of inclusion in the Catholic church.
The Easter Week
tradition models Jesus’s call for humility when he washed the feet of
his Apostles at the Last Supper. In the gospel that was read on Thursday
at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,
the country’s largest Catholic church, the apostle Peter asked, “Master,
are you going to wash my feet?” And Jesus responded, “What I am doing,
you do not understand now, but you will understand later.” Jesus also
instructed the apostles at the Last Supper to continue the tradition of
foot-washing.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who is the Vatican’s
ambassador to the United States, spoke about the rite in his homily.
“By cleansing their feet, he demonstrated his desire to cleanse their
souls of sin,” he said. “Only God stooping down to us can lift us up.”
Then
the archbishop removed his peaked hat and left his throne-like seat. As
the choir sang, “Love one another as I have loved you,” each of the 12
people chosen by the Basilica to represent the 12 disciples solemnly
removed their shoes, and Viganò knelt before each of them with a bowl
and pitcher.
For
centuries, foot-washing was done among clergy only, away from the
presence of the laity. Men and women both participated, but most likely
not in mixed company, according to Peter Jeffery, who wrote a book on
the foot-washing tradition. Leaders in monastic communities would wash
the feet of the lower members. Mother superiors would wash the feet of
other nuns.
Then in 1956, Pope Pius XII revised the Holy Week liturgies to make foot-washing part of the Holy Thursday Mass.
The
incorporation of the ritual into the Mass was “to make the Holy Week
liturgies more interesting to the people,” said John Baldovin, a Jesuit
priest who teaches historical and liturgical theology at Boston
College. Pope Pius XII’s document specified that 12 men be chosen.
Pope Francis changed that language
in the Roman Missal, the text which prescribes the format of Catholic
Mass. Now it says instead of “men,” “those chosen from amongst the
people of God.”
In
many American churches, women have been participating in the ritual
alongside men for years. These churches have interpreted the act as
connoting service and humility, not as simply reenacting a gesture
involving 12 male apostles.
The U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, which oversees the American Catholic
Church, declared in 1987 that even though the Roman Missal specified
men, women could also participate “in recognition of the service that
should be given by all the faithful to the Church and to the world.”
The
Rev. Michael J. Flynn, the secretariat of divine worship at the USCCB,
said his organization does not track how many of the tens of thousands
of parishes in the U.S. wash men’s or women’s feet, or include
foot-washing in their Holy Thursday observance.
But
he said that nearly every parish does choose to perform the well-liked
rite, and the new guidelines will likely spur holdouts to start
including women if they did not before.
“Given
the understandable publicity over this recent change, it seems to me
that there will be a certain level of expectation in most areas that
both women and men will be included in the Washing of the Feet,” Flynn
wrote in an email. “Like any change in our rituals, this alteration
invites us to reexamine why we do it to begin with…. Perhaps
part of Pope Francis’s motivation for altering the ritual is to remind
us exactly who our neighbors are, whom we are called to serve.”
Not
all Catholics looked favorably on the change. Some conservatives voiced
disapproval, including the Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a blogger popular among
traditional Catholics. In a blog post,
he said he feared that the change “could be interpreted to mean that
liturgical norms mean very little and, worse, that liturgy means very
little.”
But for many in the church, including women in the foot-washing service was not a tough decision.
“It
was very simple. The pope changed the rules,” said Monsignor Walter
Rossi at the Basilica of the National Shrine. The imposing domed shrine
in Northeast Washington, central to American Catholicism, had never
included women before in the rite. “We quickly said, ‘Oh, this is what
we’re doing now.’”
Rossi
said he recognized that the National Shrine is “a model for liturgy for
the country.” When the cameras that broadcast the Basilica’s Mass online
and on television went live on Thursday night, he knew many eyes would
be on the foot-washing. “People watching on TV will be looking to see if
we do it.”
The more interesting question for the Basilica was whom to invite for the honor of having their feet washed.
The
church picked eight men and four women; members of its staff and two
people who were homeless; lifelong devotees and a recent convert.
Rosie
Armstrong of Gaithersburg became a Catholic last Easter, and this year,
she was in front of hundreds of people who packed the Basilica’s long
nave on Thursday evening.
Raised
Baptist, Armstrong, 64, said felt the Catholic church was the place for
her. “This was my home, where all races are family. It feels like my
life is complete now, because I’m part of the community.”
When Viganò knelt before her and poured water over her right foot, she pushed her hands together in prayer.
“It cleanses the spirit. It cleanses the soul. It cleanses your whole being,” she said.
Lucy
Guevara, 30, said she has trekked across the District to the Basilica
frequently during her four years as a medical student at Georgetown
University. “I felt that this was the place I needed, to recharge and
get my bearings,” she said. “The shrine changed my life in the best way
possible.”
Standing in the sacristy minutes before the Thursday
Mass started, she said she would be praying for the sort of humility
Jesus showed when he washed his disciples’ feet, so that she can connect
with her neediest patients. “It’s going to take a lot in me to try not
to cry.”
Each of Viganò’s 12 foot-washings was brief, about 20
seconds. But they were filled with meaning. Guevara gasped with emotion
as the archbishop rinsed and dried her foot under the Basilica’s
gleaming mosaic ceilings.
Guevara said she found it particularly
potent to be in the first group of women honored in this way at the
national shrine. “It’s such a great stage to show we are open to change
as a faith and accepting of it,” she said.
Eddie
Caparas, who has been one of the people whose feet were washed at the
Basilica every year since 1998, except when he was having bypass surgery
in 2011, said it never before crossed his mind to wonder why women
weren’t there alongside him.
“It never dawned on me. But now that
they’re here, I think it’s welcome. Regardless of who you are and what
you are, it should be both men and women together,” Caparas said in the
sacristy.
And then three bells clanged, his cue to proceed out
onto the altar. And side by side with women and men of faith, he put his
right foot forward.
Romelu
Lukaku must consider leaving Everton for either Manchester United or
Bayern Munich at the end of the season, according to his father.
Roger
Lukaku told Het Laatste Nieuws that his son, who has scored 25 goals
for Roberto Martinez’s side this season, is ready to move on.
The
22-year-old Belgium international joined the Toffees in 2014 for £28
million after failing to make the first-team at Chelsea and has become
the subject of interest for many of Europe’s top clubs with his
performances.
“He’s
ready,” Lukaku Sr. told Het Laatste Nieuws. “I see that there is
interest from Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Chelsea and
Manchester United.
“I think he must choose Manchester United or Bayern Munich. Manchester United is a team under construction with no real focus.
“Bayern Munich is a machine where he can rotate well. The only condition is if Robert Lewandowski leaves.”
On pardons, Obama could go down as one of the most merciless presidents in history
Photographed
through a cell window, President Obama tours a federal prison in El
Reno, Okla., last July.
George
Lardner Jr., a former Post reporter, is scholar in residence at
American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop. P.S. Ruckman Jr.
is a professor of political science and editor of the Pardon Power
Blog.
When the Obama administration’s new acting pardon attorney, Bob Zauzmer,
arrived on the job last month, he ran headlong into a backlog of more
than 9,000 clemency petitions awaiting a decision on whether they
deserve the president’s consideration. Many of those petitions were the
byproduct of the announcement of Clemency Project 2014,
which was established by the Justice Department — to great fanfare — to
process additional applications from federal prisoners seeking
reductions of unjustifiably long drug sentences.
Zauzmer has his work cut out for him — it has been widely reported that his predecessor, Deborah Leff, stepped down in January over frustrations with a lack of resources.
Was
the administration ever serious about Clemency 2014? The rules for
commutation requests even reaching the overburdened pardons office under
the initiative are inexcusably discouraging. The worst is that inmates
must have served at least 10 years of their sentence. Other rules state
they must not have “a significant criminal history” (whatever that
means); they must be nonviolent, low-level offenders; and they must be
serving a sentence harsher than they would have gotten if convicted of
the same offense today. Those who fall “outside of this initiative,”
according to the Justice Department, can still seek clemency under the old rules if their applications are “especially meritorious.”
The
results of this great, unprecedented effort? Obama has a clemency
record comparable to the least merciful presidents in history. He has
granted just 70 pardons,
the lowest mark for any full-term president since John Adams, and 187
commutations of sentence. Meanwhile, 1,629 pardon petitions have been
denied (more than five of the previous six presidents), as well as 8,123
requests for commutations (a new record). An additional 3,444 requests
have been “closed without presidential action.”
Obama’s
record is all the more deplorable because of assurances that he has
made and that have been made on his behalf. On April 21, 2014,
then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. encouraged federal prisoners to
seek relief, noting that, despite sentencing reforms Obama signed into
law in 2010, there were “still too many people . . . sentenced under the old regime”
who needed attention. Holder said the White House had “indicated” that
it wanted to “consider additional clemency applications to restore a
degree of justice, fairness, and proportionality for deserving
individuals who do not pose a threat to public safety.” In addition, the
Justice Department was “committed to recommending as many qualified
applicants as possible for reduced sentences.” Clemency Project 2014
has, however, become a bureaucratic disaster, assigned to volunteer
lawyers and law students with little if any experience in the pitfalls
of dealing with the federal criminal justice system.
In June 2014, the Hill reported that Obama was pushing forward with a review of the clemency system. In March 2015, the president told the Huffington Post
that the pardon process had been “revamped” and that he would be
exercising the pardon power “more aggressively.” Seven months later, he
told the Marshall Project
that clemency applications were being processed “more effectively” and a
“steady ramp up” was in play. The Post recently reported that some
additional grants are expected in the coming weeks, but “big” is hardly a
word that appropriately describes what has gone on to date.
By
now, Obama could have simply signed an amnesty proclamation covering
everyone qualifying for lesser sentences. He could have taken the pardon
process out of the Justice Department and given the job to a commission
or an independent agency that would give him a degree of political
cover if anything went wrong. Just such a move had been proposed by his first White House counsel, Gregory Craig.
Regardless,
seven neglectful years allow for few pretty endings. If current
patterns persist, Obama will go down as one of the most merciless
presidents in history. On the other hand, even a moderate display of
concern about clemency, with a few grants here and there, will almost
certainly be viewed (and dubbed) as “a last-minute gesture,” granted to
avoid any serious political accountability.
Any such grants will
also be greeted with suspicion and exceptional scrutiny by the media and
political opponents. Impressions left by any scandalous reports will be
much deeper than if the president had simply been more merciful more
evenly across the term, and not left everyone to wonder: “Why are these
particular people being pardoned? And why are they being pardoned now?
Why are they any more special than the thousands of applicants deemed
unworthy before them?”
Having waited almost two years before
granting his first presidential pardon, Obama would probably do as much
harm to the general reputation of the pardon power as to his personal
legacy with a controversial, Bill Clintonesque splurge in clemency just
before leaving office. Sadly, many deserving recipients would be
besmirched as well. This is the bed the president has made for himself.
A
prophet of the Royal House of David, Godfrey Gbujie, has predicted that
Nigeria would witness another civil war if the nation’s leader,
President Muhammadu Buhari, did not act swiftly to resolve the national
questions.
He said that part of the national question is, are
Nigerians willing and ready to continue to co-exist in an entity called
Nigeria, adding that much depends on the President to act now in
resolving this issue without further delay.
This is even as the man of God said a serious air disaster would soon be recorded within the airspace of Imo State.
Gbujie,
who gave the revelations in a press briefing held at his Akabo, Ahiara
Mbaise, Imo State country home, yesterday, said that blood sucking
demons were roaring across the six zones of the nation, noting that an
honest approach in handling the affairs of the nation was needed from
Buhari and other leaders of the nation to avert the imminent war.
“God’s
anger on the leaders of Northern Nigeria was enormous in that another
terrible rebellious group in addition to Boko Haram will spring up from
the North very soon,” he said.
According to Gbujie, “this second
rebellious group will be led by two seasoned Nigeria army trained
generals, and soon after, a more terrible and fiercer opposition group
led by a younger trained Nigeria military commander will emerge from the
South.
“This southern force will eventually cause the final disintegration and collapse of the Nigerian nation,” he said.
He
said that two signs would herald his prediction. The first, according
to him, would be a serious air disaster to be recorded within the Imo
airspace soon.
“The nose of the aircraft shall point towards the west and the burning tail, pointing to the east’’, he said.
“Another
sign is that two very prominent Nigerians working and walking in
partnership along a north/south highway shall make history.
“As
they walk along, suddenly, the senior partner will get struck to death
due to circumstance not very clear, and this will result to a serious
commotion and public revolt in Nigeria,” he said.
He said that
Nigeria under the present administration of President Muhammad Buhari
was passing through a gathering storm of God’s anger and pitiable
dangers.
Gbujie said that what informed his public revelation on
the spiritual messages was the need for Nigerians and the world to take
note and possibly apply the solutions to avert the dangers ahead.
“Due
to certain overwhelming development in the spiritual realm over the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, within the last few months, in my Christian
divine ministry as God’s commissioned and covenanted prophetic watchman
over the nation.
”I could not help, but step out on faith to
boldly and courageously open up and deliver to you certain message of
the development for onward dissemination to the public and government
and people of Nigeria’’, he said.
Gbujie, while presenting the solutions to the predictions, urged Buhari to urgently resolve the national question.
According
to him, “for Buhari to resolve the national question, he should convoke
a conference for various parts of Nigeria to state if they still want
to remain one country or not.’’
On the anti-graft campaign, the
man of God stated that the way and manner the anti-graft was going on
was one of the major issues threatening Nigeria’s unity, especially
amongst the nation’s armed forces
A
41-year-old woman, Antinlola Adeyemi, declared missing for about four
days by family members, has been found dead in a deep well on Monday in
Lagos.
The aircraft-inspired V8 Vantage S Blades Edition will be extremely
exclusive – just five will go to production. Each car is distinct with a
unique badge linking it directly to one of The Blades’ Extra 300SC and
Extra 300LP aircrafts.
Sijibomi is notably the youngest Nigerian man so far to reach a
billion in earnings from business investments. He is 34 and the CEO of
Sijimoto, a real estate business empire. Sijimoto is a key player in
real estate both in Nigeria and beyond. He currently has over 70 houses
in Ikoyi listed as his own
At 35, Ladi is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bakrie
Delano Africa – a $1 billion joint venture with the $15 billion Bakrie
Group of Indonesia.
At
least 41 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself
as trophies were presented after a local football tournament in Iraq.
A
prophet of the Royal House of David, Godfrey Gbujie, has predicted that
Nigeria would witness another civil war if the nation’s leader,
President Muhammadu Buhari, did not act swiftly to resolve the national
questions.