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- Oluchi Onweagba Orlandi, Covers August Special Issue of Elle Magazine
- Omowunmi Akinnifesi Speaks On Being ‘World’s Most Beautiful Woman’ & More
- HIV Infection Is A Blessing To Me- Gloria Asuquo
- BREAKING NEWS: Polytechnic Lecturers Calls Off Strike
- Why I Broke Up With Actress Funke Akindele On Facebook ––Husband Speaks
- Take A Look At Ridiculous US-Canada Border (Photo)
- Awww...Restaurant Leaves Inspirational Message On Takeout Container After Customer Is Dumped. (Photo)
- Stanbic IBTC TVC Competition Clue 2
- Eniola Badmus Drops The Bombshell! I Can't Lose Weight For Any Man
- Facial Treatment with Live Snail (MUST SEE) the latest bizarre beauty trend now!
- Lover Set Pregnant Girlfriend On Fire Over False Accusation
- This Lady Needs Husband
- Celebration Of Success: Funke Akindele Sets To Host Media Friends
- I'm A Wife Material --Single & Searching Actress Dayo Amusa
- Chris Brown's probation revoked, but was not taken into custody
- Wizkid Ayo Balogun Celebrates 23 Birthday Today!
- TB Joshua Says "I SEE REVOLUTION COMING"
- Woman Roasts 7-Yr-Old Step-Son’s Hand For Adding Disinfectant Into His Bath Water
- Popular Lagos Reverend Arrested and Detained For Fraud
- B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News! Al-Mustapha Promoted to Brigadiers General.
- Funke Akindele's Husband Says the Marriage Was A Mistake; Breaks Up With Her!
| Oluchi Onweagba Orlandi, Covers August Special Issue of Elle Magazine Posted: 16 Jul 2013 10:36 AM PDT   |
| Omowunmi Akinnifesi Speaks On Being ‘World’s Most Beautiful Woman’ & More Posted: 16 Jul 2013 10:35 AM PDT  Omowunmi Akinnifesi, former MBGN and M.Sc holder from Kings College London is the current cover girl of Y! magazine. We got her to share her reaction to being named the most beautiful woman in the whole wide world, life after the crown and her plans for the immediate future, Enjoy When Gwyneth Paltrow was named the most beautiful woman in the world by People magazine, her response was "It's obviously not true.'' What is your response to Y! magazine's decision? I would say it is a decision that is subjective. I think it's about appreciating a woman who is probably well educated and beautiful at the same time. To an extent I happen to have both qualities and someone has to be given the title. I don't think it's true, I mean so many women are beautiful, the most beautiful are probably in some isolated places that no one has discovered so it's kind of a tall task. But I am humbled and grateful to be considered but I don't think it's true. What was your first reaction when you first saw it? The brief I was given for the shoot was 'smart girls are sexy' and that is what we ran with so when I saw it live, I was shocked. I was like 'when did we change themes?' But I was shocked, humbled and flattered all at once. When did it first occur to you that you are beautiful? That Aha! moment. I don't really think that anybody thinks that they are extremely beautiful but I have been taught to appreciate myself, to carry myself with dignity and to believe that what I believe about me is what I will be so I have always thought I was beautiful, intelligent, well behaved, responsible, the entire package. So when people appreciate you, throw you compliments, you appreciate it and think maybe I do have it, maybe I am really all that. So beauty for you is not limited to physical appearance? Beauty can never ever be only about physical appearances. You graduated from the University of Lagos with a 2.1, must have taken a lot out of you considering the many distractions you obviously faced once you were crowned MBGN. It wasn't easy, was very challenging because I was now like a gold fish that had no hiding place but I made up mind to do what I had to do. I could have travelled abroad but I thought I was almost done here so why don't I just stick it out and then do my Masters abroad. I said to myself, I am the most beautiful girl in Nigeria, I cannot afford to embarrass myself so I had to finish and finish very well. I thank God. Do you miss the life of a beauty queen? To be honest, I am still a beauty queen and I have had a better life after my reign. During my reign I was representing my country all over the world but now I am representing myself which is fine because I am my country so it is still the same thing. I am still celebrated so I cannot miss it, I only miss going out to represent my country and meeting 500 other girls doing the same. Apart from that, I don't really miss anything. I am actually happier now. Heavy is the head that wears the crown so I feel lighter. Can you enlighten us on the camp experience, how are things really at those things. Cat fights, jealousy, rivalry? It is lovely. Challenging but it props you for the pageant because you are mixing with people from different backgrounds and you get to really know who you are. It opened my eyes to see that people are diverse. I enjoyed every moment of it. I understand you do some environmental work with the Lagos state government I don't work with the state government, I was given an award and made an ambassador for the environment. Are there responsibilities that come with it? Not really, it is only what you want to be responsible for. I am an ambassador, it is an honorary award for people that help the environment and have a passion for it and I was picked to be one of those people. I picked the area of tree planting and environmental advocacy before I left the country. You have a business initiative, Elle Poise, tell us more I have Elle tech now which is an environmental consulting agency because my core career is the environment. On the side, are things I enjoy doing like fashion, media so why not? I am coming out with my own fashion line soon. Having maintained a decent reign and with your post-MBGN example, are there young girls interested in pageantry whom you mentor? Yes there are young girls who come up to me and I am always very happy to mentor because society is like a naked wire these days so you have to protect young minds and lead them towards the right path. It is refreshing to meet young ones who want to do things the right way, the hard way. Because at the end of the day that is the only way that is truly satisfying. To read more on why and how Omowunmi Akinnifesi is the most beautiful woman in the world, see the latest issue of Y! magazine. Out in stores and vendors now.  |
| HIV Infection Is A Blessing To Me- Gloria Asuquo Posted: 16 Jul 2013 10:27 AM PDT  In an encounter with Sola Ogundipe in Abuja, the energetic 24-year-old recounted the frustrations of living as a pauper in addition to the ignominy of HIV stigma and discrimination. Today, Gloria who once contemplated death until sheer luck and doggedness turned her fortunes around and brought unhindered access to the elusive, life-saving treatment has undergone a transformation. The same HIV infection that took her to the brink of total despair is today a source of her blessing. How did it happen? She tells it all in this encounter. Excerpts: Living with HIV stigma I'm a young person diagnosed HIV positive at 12. I was in Primary six going to JSS1. I got infected through blood transfusion. The stigma was so much I couldn't bear it. There were drugs at that time, but they were too expensive for my parents to afford. Each time my father raised the money to pay for my drugs, my mother would challenge him. Why are you giving her the money? she would ask. We know that she would soon die. Why is she taking the drugs? Why are we wasting money? My mother went to the Church and told the Reverend who announced my status to the community. He advised I should be taken to one of the General Hospitals and abandoned there to die. But my father refused to heed such advice. Rather, he challenged the Reverend to take one of his four children to the hospital and abandon her there to die first, only then would he obey the instruction. The pressure became too much. My mother separated me from the rest of the family. She demarcated my own part of the house separate from the others. The stigma became too much. Escape from home One day I could not bear it again. The pressure was too much for me to bear. I had to break the window and jumped out to escape from home at the age of 12. I escaped to an unknown village called Oki. I went to Jabi Park in Abuja, I had only N800. I didn't know where to go, but just wanted to leave and even die. Death wish I wanted to die. I was in the bush; I had stopped using my drugs which at that time cost N15, 000 per month. Test for CD4 count was N6, 000, viral load N12, 000. Where was I going to get that kind of money? I wasn't working, I just told God to let me die. Before then, I went to NTA and shared my story. I told them I was HIV positive; I wanted to declare my status to the world. They said I should cover my face, but I said no. I wanted the world to know my story so that if I die, everyone would know what killed me. Breaking the stigma is an individual thing. If you want to come out to testify, nobody can take that away from you Saved Then I met Dr. Anthony Agu, a lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. When he asked about my parents, I burst into tears. He took me to the University and I told him my story. He took me to his house, gave me a room to stay. But he told me not to disclose my status to his family. He enabled me continue my education and in 1996, I finished my school. Back to treatment Dr. Agu then told me that he heard that the drugs were now free that I should go and try. So I went back to Gwagwalada General Hospital where I met Dr. Ajayi. When he asked if I had been taken my drugs, I said yes. I lied to him because I was afraid that if I told him I had not been on drugs, he would send me away. But he placed me on the drugs. That night I went back to Nsukka, but never went back home. Dr. Ajayi got all my details and related to Dr. Pat Matemilola and Professor Babatunde Oshotimehin who were all looking for me. Eventually, it was Godwin Odemije of Radio Nigeria that came to look for me, and brought me back home. In 2006, I developed typhoid and ovarian cyst. Doctors said I would be operated upon because I stopped using my drugs for a number of years. To the glory of God, I'm still on firstline drugs. HIV infection as blessing God first, but the treatment has kept me alive till today. If there were no free drugs, by now, I would have been a forgotten issue. People would have forgotten me, my name would not be written anywhere. HIV has become a blessing to me. I am sitting with important people. If not for HIV, I would not meet Ministers, and Ambassadors and so many important people. If not for HIV, I would not have ever fly in an aircraft. I'm proud to be HIV positive. Today, I'm a testimony in my family, there is no meeting at which they do not seek my opinion. I'm proud that I'm HIV positive. Make treatment available I'm still pleading to the Ambassadors and everyone in the country to make these drugs accessible especially the youths and women. We are the most vulnerable and do not have anywhere to go. We are tomorrow's leaders. We may be driven out when we are diagnosed with HIV because the general belief is that HIV is contracted through promiscuity. But HIV can be contracted through many ways. The three zeros If the drugs are made to be more available, only then can we truly have the three zeros, that is, zero related deaths, zero new infection and zero stigma. As a young person I cannot come out but keep quiet and spread it, but if we provide access to treatment, give free education, employment and there is no stigma, I bet you, these three zeros will be achieved. Ambition I'm dreaming to become a medical doctor. I want to achieve this. HIV has nothing to do with my future. I would match it and overcome it. I need you to help me achieve my dream and also to find a cure to HIV. I want my name to be great, so that it will be said that Gloria Asuquo found a cure to HIV. I want a scholarship so that I can achieve my goal.  |
| BREAKING NEWS: Polytechnic Lecturers Calls Off Strike Posted: 16 Jul 2013 08:54 AM PDT  After about three months of embarking on an industrial action following disagreements with the authorities in the education ministry, Olokunbolablessing.blogspot.Com gathered that lecturers of Nigerian Polytechnics have finally called off their indefinite strike. I hear the strike was called off after the government reached certain agreements with the leaders of the relevant unions, as agreed by all stakeholders. Lets hope that the case with ASUU will also be resolved in the interest of the country.  |
| Why I Broke Up With Actress Funke Akindele On Facebook ––Husband Speaks Posted: 16 Jul 2013 08:30 AM PDT  In his reaction to why he broke up with his wife on Facebook, Mr Oloyede said: "I did so to catch Funke's attention"! So, how come he had to announce their break up on facebook to catch his wife's attention? Could it be that she has not been giving him attention, especially in the bedroom, as his wife? Well, I don't know how true, but a source told Olokunbolablessing.blogspotCom that Funke Akindele actually parked out of their home about two months ago, leaving her husband in the cold.  |
| Take A Look At Ridiculous US-Canada Border (Photo) Posted: 16 Jul 2013 08:11 AM PDT  I always thought America and Canada have a matured relationship till i saw this nonsensical border that gives a lot of insight into the infrastructural problems of both countries. This border got me laughing and i was like...wow....the people in that house in the middle must be very lucky to live in both US and Canada at same time, with dual citizenship and the house address would be a street name on US-Canada border. lol. Weird things are seen everywhere.  |
| Posted: 16 Jul 2013 08:05 AM PDT  After a bad breakup, moral support can be found in the most unlikely places...even on takeouts containers.On Monday, Redditor Icanteven721, whose real name is Sam, shared the message the staff at Truly Vegan in Los Angeles scribbled on her takeout box after she ordered some food online and left some pretty specific directions in the special instructions box: "Please draw something uplifting on the container, I just got dumped," she wrote. "I was very very pleased with the result," Sam told the Huffington Post via email. "I've kept the container. I look at it when I feel particularly down about this relationship, or when some other dude does some other stupid dude thing." Our hats are off to you, staff at Truly Vegan. Underlining "have a nice day" and adding a few extra smiley faces would have sufficed, but this is so much better. What a great customers service. I think i'm gonna need something like that to cheer me up :-)  |
| Stanbic IBTC TVC Competition Clue 2 Posted: 16 Jul 2013 07:48 AM PDT  Here's how to play: Watch the video, note all the differences you can spot within the video and then send in your answer. For example, in a scene the guy's hair could be blond while in the next scene his hair could be blue. Watch out for such differences and submit as many answers as you want. You can submit your answers on any of their social media platforms: comment on the YouTube video; on Twitter, send your answers to @stanbicibtc making sure you also include the hashtag #moveit in your answer. On Facebook, you can submit your answer on their page - http://goo.gl/xJtbF. The competition is still open until 19 July 2013 – time is running out. Terms and conditions apply.  |
| Eniola Badmus Drops The Bombshell! I Can't Lose Weight For Any Man Posted: 16 Jul 2013 07:34 AM PDT  No I can't lose weight for any man. Any man who doesn't like me the way I am can as well keep a distance. Why must I even lose weight for a man? What if I lose weight and I find someone else and he says I want you to add weight for me then I will add weight again for the person. It doesn't make any sense. Everybody can't like you so if you don't like me just stay away.  |
| Facial Treatment with Live Snail (MUST SEE) the latest bizarre beauty trend now! Posted: 16 Jul 2013 07:31 AM PDT  Slimy ... snails slither across customer's face LIVE snails slither across a woman's face as she takes part in the latest bizarre beauty trend in Japan.A salon in the capital Tokyo is offering customers the chance to sign up for a £165 SNAIL FACIAL.All they have to do is lie back and let the molluscs crawl across their skin, leaving a trail of slime as they go.  Slow work ... beautician applies the creatures at the Clinical Salon in Tokyo While many will be too squeamish to get snail mucus on their mugs, adventurous Japanese are queuing up to try the bizarre treatment. One happy customer said: "You can feel the snails moving on your face. At first, it's surprising but it's actually rather nice."  Benefits ... slime contains anti-aging properties  |
| Lover Set Pregnant Girlfriend On Fire Over False Accusation Posted: 16 Jul 2013 07:25 AM PDT  The reason? To prevent the lady from charming other men with her beauty. Nearly a month after, Bidemi still writhes in pain at the Gbagada General Hospital, even as Emeka awaits his date with the law. The reporter met the badly burnt lady on her hospital bed and she narrated what led to the sad incident. "I started dating him last year but my boyfriend is very jealous. Even whenever my sister called me, he would want to call back to be sure it wasn't a man that called me. "He was working before and had his own place but he later lost his job and had no place to stay. I secured a mini-flat in Ayetoro and asked him to join me there. We had been living together since then. "Recently, when I took in, he asked me to stop working and I did. But he drinks a lot. He spends his money on alcohol and I always told him that I was worried that his liver might be destroyed. He doesn't trust me; he thinks I date other men. "He used to work in the night as a bouncer in a hotel. The day before he set me on fire, his former boss had summoned him and I thought maybe the man wanted to offer him a job. So, on the morning of that day, Sunday, June 23, I called him to know if he had gone to the man's place. As we were speaking on the phone, he told me he was already high. And I asked him why he should spend his money on alcohol when I was hungry at home. "I was angry, so I went to report him to his friend. His friend then called him and talked some sense into him. But when he knew that I was with his friend, he became angry and accused his friend of sleeping with me. He said he would suck my blood for sleeping with his friend. I was even explaining to him that I couldn't be sleeping around with my pregnancy but he wasn't convinced. He began to call me names, that I was a useless woman. He later said it was all right, that he wasn't angry again. So, I went back home. "When I got back home, one of my friends told me that Emeka had reported me to her, saying I locked him outside in the rain. So, when I got to our apartment, I begged him and my friend also begged him. He said he was no longer angry but I didn't know he still had plans to deal with me. "After a while, he pretended as if he wanted to go to the toilet and while walking past me, he suddenly gave me a terrible slap. Then he began to beat me. In fact, I had never been so thoroughly beaten since I was born. He had only slapped me on two earlier occasions. That night, I was yelling for help but I guessed people weren't hearing me outside. I was crying and threatening to pack out of the apartment. "Then he said he would destroy my beauty. But I didn't believe he would do anything so devilish. Then he went to the kitchen, brought out the stove and poured the kerosene on me. He lit a match and threw it at me and I was burning. I rushed to the kitchen to get water but he was pushing the buckets of water away. I was yelling and crying. Then after some time, he began to say to me: 'My babe, your face is burnt, I'm sorry.' "I didn't even know that my face was badly burnt. I initially thought my hands were the only parts affected until much later when I saw my face in the mirror. "When he realised the damage he had done, he began to beg me, saying he would marry me. He said I should stay inside, that he would go and get raw pap to apply on the burnt parts of my body. But as he wanted to go out of the apartment, I followed him. He said he wasn't running away, that he just wanted to get the pap and get back. And I said okay, but I was following him. He kept pushing me back but I insisted on following him out. Later, one of our neighbours, a man, knocked on our door and asked what was wrong with me. He replied that there was no problem but I shouted that the man should come in to save my life. I told the man that the door wasn't locked, that he should push it. Eventually other neighbours came and pushed the door open and I immediately ran outside so that everyone could see me. I think that was when I passed out." After she lost consciousness, some of her neighbours quickly rushed her to the nearest hospital from where she was transferred to the Gbagada General Hospital. Meanwhile, the neighbours also alerted the police in Ayobo, who came to arrest Emeka. Bidemi also told the reporter: "He told me it was the devil's handiwork but I know God would repay him. I leave everything to God. I have been hospitalised here now since then, and my people have been spending money on me." "Initially, I thought no man would want me any longer since he had destroyed my face. But my people said no, that they wouldn't allow me near him again. They said he should write an undertaking that he wouldn't come after me but I've been told that, even with an undertaking, he might still try to harm me. I will have the baby but he must never ask for my child. I want him to face the music. I want justice to be done." Bidemi's mother, Mrs. Nike Adeyemi, also spoke with the reporter. Said she: "Some good neighbours took my daughter to a nearby hospital and asked her boyfriend to stay with her there. They then secretly invited policemen to arrest him. We are already in court." "I have spent all I have to treat my daughter. None of Emeka's people has paid a dime out of the heavy hospital bills. We have spent over N200, 000 now and we are still spending. The doctor said we would need, at least, N500, 000 for comprehensive treatment for my daughter because her face and hands have been badly burnt. You can see the wounds are still looking fresh even after over three weeks. I don't even have any money for her treatment any more. I'm so fed up. One of Emeka's sisters came to me with policemen from Ikoyi. She offered to pay me N40, 000 so that the boy would be released. I refused to collect the money because I said it was even an insult for her to offer that little amount when we were being asked to bring N500, 000. "I don't even know where to turn to for help. Please, help me beg compassionate Nigerians to come to our aid. I don't want my daughter to die. I think we will also have to do something about her pregnancy because I don't ever want her to have anything to do with that boy any longer." The reporter spoke with Emeka's sister, who allegedly offered N40, 000 to Bidemi's family. Her words: "I don't know what to do again. I didn't know when Emeka and Bidemi started their friendship. I didn't send him to set the girl ablaze. I'm even tired of everything. I am a widow myself and I don't have money. I have even used the N40, 000 that I offered her to take care of some other issues. I'm tired of the whole issue and I don't know what to do." Source  |
| Posted: 16 Jul 2013 07:19 AM PDT  She needs A God fearing husband with stable Job and fat salary God bless you as you respond.  |
| Celebration Of Success: Funke Akindele Sets To Host Media Friends Posted: 16 Jul 2013 04:34 AM PDT  Jenifa as Funke Akindele is fondly called is set to shake the media industry soon. The sultry actress and Glo Ambassador, as information flying here and there has it that, she is putting up a press parley that will have a pool of media practitioners under one roof. The purpose of this, according to whispers, is to boost her image and continue to enjoy media support and hypes that has kept and sustained her in the business and has made her stay afloat of the game in Nollywood. Mrs. Funke Oloyode is one of the actresses in Nollywood that has the largest numbers of endorsement. The most recent is the multimillion naira Vitaform mattress endosement. Stay glued to this page as you will be constantly updated of the when and where of this media gathering that will be hosted by the sultry actress to take media /celebrity parley to another ground breaking level.  |
| I'm A Wife Material --Single & Searching Actress Dayo Amusa Posted: 16 Jul 2013 04:33 AM PDT  So when should we expect the wedding bell? Very soon because I stand firm on the Lords time for me. I am not in haste to tie the nuptial but when the time is ripe for me, nothing can stop it. I love kids and I hope to raise mine soon. What do look out for in your dream man? First and foremost, nobody is perfect so I am not looking for a perfect man rather; I want a man who will understand me and my job. A man who can't be intimated irrespective of my status in the society, I appreciate a man who can differentiate me from what I do. I bet you I am a wife material and a typical African lady to the core.  |
| Chris Brown's probation revoked, but was not taken into custody Posted: 16 Jul 2013 04:18 AM PDT  TMZ reports: The judge just revoked Chris Brown's probation in the Rihanna beating case, but the singer will remain a free man ... for now. If the judge determines Chris violated his probation, the singer could be sentenced to 4 years in prison. In the meantime, Brown has been released on his own recognizance.  |
| Wizkid Ayo Balogun Celebrates 23 Birthday Today! Posted: 16 Jul 2013 04:04 AM PDT   |
| TB Joshua Says "I SEE REVOLUTION COMING" Posted: 16 Jul 2013 03:16 AM PDT  The prophet, speaking during a live service broadcast on his Emmanuel TV, said: "I am seeing a revolution. I am seeing people take to the street. At the beginning of that protest, it might be stopped. Eventually, it will become so big that it cannot be stopped." In the message entitled 'Carry Your Youth Along' the prophet, however, said there was a way out and cited job creation for the youth and the creation of a new social value system. This, he said, was because 90 percent of the youth have come to believe that it was by becoming political thugs that they could be successful, especially because those in the political offices do not want to retire and become statesmen. He also said the youth should be considered for inclusion in all sectors of the economy as they seem to be more educated than their elders because they are exposed to modern technology. "The youth, no matter the education they have, feel they have no place in politics and there is no job to keep them busy. There must be new orientation," said T.B Joshua who has in recent weeks taken job creation as a pilot project of his ministry. In an indirect chastisement of political leaders who cling to power, the Lagos-based cleric said it was time the youth were considered for important positions such as assistants to the elders. Said he: "While the elders are ministers, the youth could be junior ministers. This little example of being junior ministers can change the situation of things. Tell your presidents - in every department of government or politics, the youth should be junior assistants to the heads of such departments." By doing this, he said, the youth would be groomed to take over tomorrow because they are leaders of tomorrow. "This is a message to the whole world. This is because revolution is a weapon of change that is coming. This is the vision I saw. Revolution is coming when people will take to the street because life has no value anymore to the people out there. "Any nation that will start it now, will avert the coming revolution. Carry your youth along in your politics and administration especially in ruling your country. I have said it; none of these will go without being fulfilled," said the pastor who lamented that his messages right from the beginning of his ministry were never believed until they came to pass. Among some of his predictions that came true were the revolution in Egypt, death of former Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika and recently, the derailing of the train in a french-speaking country, just to name a few. According to the prophet, if the youth are carried along, whenever there is a revolt or situation they will be available to readily speak to their colleagues and peace will be maintained. "The youth want to see themselves represented in every area of life," he said. The pastor who has often been accused of being a prophet of doom for his hard-to-swallow predictions, was quick to warn his world viewers, saying he only speaks what God tells him. "Those who cry peace to us, prophesy nothing but smooth things. Those who cry peace to you, victory be to you, all is well, unlimited favour, prophesy nothing but smooth things. As surely as God lives, I [T.B. Joshua] will tell you only what God says. If I am hated, persecuted and intimidated because of my accurate prophetic utterances - Blessed be to God who gives the prophecy!" Forwarded to Olokunbolablessing.blogspot.Com by Femi Fayini  |
| Woman Roasts 7-Yr-Old Step-Son’s Hand For Adding Disinfectant Into His Bath Water Posted: 16 Jul 2013 04:00 AM PDT  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman, Mrs Aminot Otun, for roasting the right hand of her seven-year-old step-son, Awwal Otun, last Thursday. Awwal's hand was allegedly roasted for adding drops of liquid disinfectant to his bath water. According to Ngozi Ekwerike-Okoro, President, Child to Child Network, a Non Governmental Organisation, NGO, a distressed call from one of Otun's neighbours at 59, Suenu Street, Surulere, Lagos saved Awwal's life. Awwal was rushed to the Mother and Child Hospital at Gbaja where another drama ensued as the doctor on duty refused to treat or admit the boy despite pleas that the hospital was built purposely for mothers and children in the state. According to his teachers, Awwal, who is in primary one, should not be allowed to go back to his step-mother because he is always coming to school with bruises as the neighbours who pleaded anonymity said that had been the normal punishment for the boy's mistakes. Awwal was later taken to a nearby private hospital for treatment and he is currently at Juvenile Welfare Centre of Alakara Police Station. The story According to Ngozi, "On July 11, 2013, Awwal was rushed to the Randle General Hospital, Mother and Child Centre, Gbaja, at about 6:30pm after a distress call from neighbours. "He sustained serious injuries from fire burns inflicted on him by the step-mother who is now in police custody. "At the hospital, we requested to see the welfare officer who we were told had closed for the day but after narrating our mission to one of the staff she referred us to the chief matron. The chief matron issued an emergency card to the boy and directed him to see the doctor. "The doctor, however, refused to attend to the boy, because according to her, the hospital did not have enough space to accommodate the boy, as he would need admission for intensive care. "We pleaded with the doctor to at least administer some first aid on the boy but she refused. We went back to the chief matron who told us after consulting with the doctor that Surulere General Hospital (Mother and Child Centre) does not have the facility to deal with such cases. They said our best chance would be to go to Ikeja General Hospital. "We eventually left in disappointment and went to a private hospital in Mushin, close to the juvenile centre, where he got immediate attention and was treated free of charge. Awwal recounts ordeal The boy said he added small quantity of Izal disinfectant to his bath water and his step mother got angry and put his hand on a burning stove since Sunday and he was not taken to hospital till Thursday when neighbours called the Lagos State Child Protection Network who mobilised the JWC Alakara to rescue him.  |
| Popular Lagos Reverend Arrested and Detained For Fraud Posted: 16 Jul 2013 02:20 AM PDT  Reverend "Bassey told the contractor that the cost of the car was N3m. She was to pay the amount into his Zenith bank account. After the money was paid, Bassey became evasive." Bassey, who runs his church, Household of Destiny, from his three-bedroom apartment at Gani Dabiri Street, Ajao Estate, was said to have collected the money in 2010 under the guise of buying the contractor a 1X35 Hyundai car. A police source told Punch that matters came to a head when Bassey, on collecting the money, could neither provide the car nor refund the money for two years. He said, "The contractor got to know Bassey in 2010 when he visited her home in the company with a family friend. I learnt that Bassey informed the contractor that he lived in Korea and was into car import business." Several months later, the contractor called to ask Bassey the price of a 1X35 Huyundai jeep. The petition, which was referred to the SCID through the Lagos State Commissioner, led to Bassey's arrest. Somehow, Rev. Bassey was able to secure bail the same day he was arrested in 2012. He was said to have informed the police that the money was not given to him to buy a car, but to pray for the contractor's success in her business. He was later given bail after he promised to refund the money. "Part of his bail conditions was that Bassey would refund the money. At first, he paid N1.25m and promised to pay the remaining N1.75m. After securing his bail, Bassey absconded." He was rearrested by SCID operatives who were on his trail for many weeks. From what Olokunbolablessing.blogspot.Com gathered, Rev Bassey is now being processed for prosecution in court.  |
| B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News! Al-Mustapha Promoted to Brigadiers General. Posted: 16 Jul 2013 02:16 AM PDT |
| Funke Akindele's Husband Says the Marriage Was A Mistake; Breaks Up With Her! Posted: 16 Jul 2013 02:15 AM PDT  One of Funke Akindele's people told Olokunbolablessing.blogspot.Com that the estranged couples problems started some months back and that it got to its peak few weeks ago when things got worse... The insider said Funke was actually deceived into the marriage my Mr Oloyede, who didn't revealed all about his (past and present) life to the actress, thus taking advantage of her simple attitude. Anyway, while Funke Akindele was trying to take it cool and go about their divorce quietly so as to avoid any negative reactions, her estranged husband, Mr Oloyede took to the social media to break the unfortunate news to the public. In his words: "It's with heavy heart that am announcing the separation of me and ma wife Mrs olufunke akindele, we've both agreed to go our separate ways coz of irreconcilable differences. we still best of friends nd we 4ever remain gud friends".But he later dropped a very negative line: "Am doing just fine, gettn along without u, don't need u anymore in ma life. u d greatest mistake av made in recent time." Efforts by Olokunbolablessing.blogspot.Com to speak with Funke Akindele was frustrated as she is said to be heart broken and hibernating in her mother's home. Anyway, Funke Akindele has finally changed her name on BB from "Mrs Funke Akindele Oloyede" to "Everybody loves Jenifa". What could have gone wrong just after one year of marriage?  |
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