Yemeni girl's speech against child marriage goes viral

Yemeni girl's speech against child marriage goes viral

Eleven year-old says she escaped forced marriage by fleeing her parents.

A video of an 11-year-old Yemeni girl's account of escaping her arranged marriage has gone viral. In the 3-minute clip, Nada al-Ahdal says she would rather die than get married at her age and calls the potential marriage "criminal."

According to a report in NOW Lebanon, Nada fled to her uncle when her parents agreed to marry her to a Yemeni expatriate living in Saudi Arabia.

A version of the video with English captions received more than 5.6 million views in two days

Pls watch this video and  play this to Yerima and his cohorts!  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201636530463536

Senators who voted “against” prohibition of underage marriage in Nigeria

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■ Here are your senators who voted “against” prohibition of underage marriage in Nigeria

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EXCLUSIVE: What Led To Funke Akindele's Marriage Crash!

It was indeed a shocker when in the early hours of Monday, July 15, 2013 it was widely reported that actress Funke Akindele and her husband Kehinde Almaroof Oloyede are no longer together.What started on blogs and social media soon spread to national newspapers. Akindele remained silent for days, and many fans hoped this was yet another "wicked" rumour.
But to the disappointment of her fans, the actress emerged in the evening of Friday July 19 to confirm she's actually separated from her husband of one year. Nigeria’s most talked-about wedding of 2012 is over. Gone, in one year, and on record as one of the country’s shortest celeb marriages ever.

Below is what NET investigations revealed on how the estranged couple’s problems started:
It started few months ago and got to its peak only a few weeks before the Facebook announcement by Oloyede. While Funke Akindele was trying to achieve a quiet separation and eventual divorce with little or no public coverage, hubby Oloyede took to social media to broadcast the break-up.

Lagbaja's daughter weds

The first daughter of masked Afrobeat musician, Abisade Ologunde, popularly known as Lagbaja, Moyosade Ologunde married her longtime beau, Olamide Obilana, at Motherlan in Opebi recently.

Moyosade attended Pennsylvania State University School of Management where she bagged a Masters in business administration and now works as a change management specialist at a US firm.

Heard that during the wedding, guests were forbidden to take photos so as not to unmask the father of the bride, Lagbaja, who came without his mask.

Patience Jonathan’s mother dies in ghastly car crash

The mother of Mrs. Jonathan was involved in a ghastly motor accident along Elele Road in Rivers State yesterday, while on her way to Bayelsa State when the accident happened - she DIED!
Punch reports that her corpse was taken to Kpaiyama Mortuary by a team of policemen and a member representing Ogu Bolo State Constituency, Mr. Evans Bipi, who is a relative to the deceased.
Bipi’s aide, Mr. Fred Itobo,

Daughter Blames Nigerian Actor Jide Kosoko For Marrying 2 Wives, Yet Another 2

Nollywood actor Prince Jide Kosoko who is popular for saying things as they are has finally spoken up on his two wives.

The actor who lost his first and second wife to untimely death few years back has revealed the names of his 2 living wives and they are Alhaja Kareemat Kosoko and Nollywood actress Henrietta Kosoko.


One of his daughters, Sola Kosoko who married last year recently blamed his dad for marrying two women instead of one after the death of her mother and step-mum.

Policeman drives against traffic, knocks down woman, baby

                                         Taskirat, Ammarah and The vehicle

A police corporal, identified simply as Friday, has been accused of knocking down a teacher, Mrs. Taskirat Anjolaiya, and her baby, Ammarah.

It was learnt that as a result of the incident, the mother and daughter sustained pelvic fracture, brain injury and a broken jaw among others.

According to eyewitness, the policeman, who is attached to FESTAC Police Division, was driving against traffic on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway when he knocked down the victims.

Uses of eggshells

                                          Eggshells

The next time you’re making omelets, don’t toss your shells. Eggshells have nearly as many uses as the eggs themselves. Here are a few ways to get the most from your eggs.

Put them on your face. To restore youthful glow to your skin, pulverise clean, dried eggshells with a mortar and pestle. Mix the powder with some egg white and spread on your skin. Allow the mixture to dry before washing it off.

You could be infected through public swimming pools

                                         Swimming pool

Any hotel worth its salt has a swimming pool that also serves as a marketing tool. In the leaflets introducing the available services, it is common to see photographs of tantalising sky-blue pools that send you to the dreamland, even when you don’t know how to swim.

Of course, inability to swim does not necessarily disqualify anybody from using a swimming pool, as you can laze about on the edge or sit in the shallow point while sipping your favourite drinks or watching those who can swim.

No more free medical services to terminally ill patients – Fashola

LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said the state would no longer provide free medical services to patients suffering terminal diseases, even as he commissioned the first Trauma and Burns Centre in the country.

The Governor, who spoke while commissioning the centre at the Gbagada General Hospital, Kosofe Local Government Area of the state, explained that the state free healthcare policy could not cover terminal diseases like complicated surgeries, child birth, kidney and cancer, among others.

Uproar as four northern governors visit Amaechi •Protesters stoned governors’ convoy – Rivers govt

L-R: Governors Rabi’u Kwankwaso (Kano State); Sule Lamido (Jigawa) Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), during the governors visit to Amaechi in Port Harcourt.

There was commotion again in Rivers State as thousands of youths believed to be loyal to the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, reportedly threw stones and other objects at the convoy of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa.

For Funke Akindele, a kiss too brief

                                                  The estranged couple


 The reported separation of celebrated actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, Kehinde Oloyede, lengthens the list of celebrities with failed marriages,

Some days after pictures that Funke Akindele took on location for a new film – in which she acts as a palmwine tapper – circulated on the social media, the story of her separation from her husband, Kehinde Oloyede, broke on Monday.

The Implication of Money On Politics

Wednesday 17th July 2013

Time: 11.00am

Venue Standard Supper Hotel, 3/5 Ifelodun street Ilasamaja Mushin Lagos

Speakers

Comrade Femi Falana, SAN
Comrade Abiodun Aremu - Secretary, Joint Action Front (JAF)
Comrade Debo Adeniran - Convener, Coalition Against Corrupt Leader
Dr. Joel Okei-Odumakin - President, Campaign for Democracy (CD)

Admission FREE

Don’t fight ageing with creams alone

Many people will spend sack loads of money on anti-ageing creams, facial surgical procedures and other cosmetic processes that claim to restore youthfulness or chunk off some years from their looks.

Well, some people are able to achieve temporary relief from the scrawny lines that wrinkles foist on the face, neck and the forehead — three areas of the body that readily give away, unsolicited, the number of decades someone has spent so far on this part of the divide.

Yet, experts say we can save ourselves from the feelings of helplessness that ageing — especially premature ageing — foist on us. They contend that dietary habits can either delay or speed up the ageing process, depending on what you take into your mouth.

Police parade suspected killer of LAUTECH student

                                         The Suspects

The Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday paraded Alex Akinyemi, an alleged accomplice in the killing of a student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Miss Seun Adaramoye.

The remains of Adaramoye were found by passersby near a guest house at Under-G area of Ogbomosho on June 20, 2013.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyanganku, Ibadan, Dansuki Galadanchi, said upon investigation, the owner of the guest house where the corpse was found told the police that his security guard was involved in the murder.