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"I was raped at the age of 9" - Oprah Winfrey "I didn't even complete my university education" - Bill Gates "I was sexually, mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen" - Joyce Meyer "I struggled academically throughout elementary school" - Dr. Ben Carson "I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training" - Lionel Messi "I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple" - Steve Jobs "My teachers used to call me a failure" - PM Tony Blair "I was in prison for 27 years" - Retired President Nelson Mandela

A growing number of politicians are making moves for a realignment of political power in Nigeria towards a new political party, THISDAY has learnt. This is amid crisis in the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and conflicting interests in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). It was gathered that discussions among politicians from the two leading parties towards the floating of a new party started in earnest some months ago, and it was fast gathering momentum. Insiders said the new political move had the support of some serving governors from both the APC and PDP, key principal officers of the National Assembly, and some aggrieved political leaders across the six geo-political zones. A former senate president, Ken Nnamani, is being prevailed upon to act as the arrow-head of the emerging party, it is gathered. Nnamani announced his resignation from PDP on February 6, saying, the party had abandoned “the path of its noble vision and values”. He was elected Sen...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but i just have to inform you that WhatsApp- A popular messaging app, will be discontinue on Blackberry and Nokia operating system this year 2016 ending to be precised. Earlier this week Whatsapp celebrated its 7th years anniversary with its 1 Billion Active users, instead to break a bad news on such a good day, the team decided to wait till on Friday when they announced that: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company's operating systems. Yes! that include the Blackberry 10 device, Though the new Android-powered Blackberry Priv slider phone might probaly survive this heat because it was built with Android OS. According to WhatApp Announcement As we look ahead to our next seven years, we want to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use. So, by the end of 2016, we will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on the following mobile platforms: 1. BlackBerry, includi...

In spite of the death sentence slammed on the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev. King), one of his diehard godsons, Austin King, has said that it is humanly impossible to hang the condemned cleric. Austin made this claim in an exclusive interview in Ajao Estate, Lagos, Saturday. The claim comes as a swift reaction to the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the death sentence by hanging earlier handed down by the Lagos State High Court and affirmed by the Court of Appeal. Austin said: “I am holding unto what my daddy told us three to four years ago, that he ‘has not come back to this world to be hanged by anybody again except he hangs himself’! I joined this church as a little child; I am now 33 and married. I have no reason to doubt my daddy because I can testify that many of his prophesy concerning my personal circumstances that have come to pass.”

These are Nigerians that has made big names for themselves in the American movie industry.. Check em out here.. http://www.nairaland.com/2947605/15-nigerians-making-us-proud

Is Beauty More Rewarding Than The Brain In Nigeria? By Ishola Kayode In this era where there is an “unjust” pontification on Beauty over the brain, one needs to wonder a little the trends that preceded and made things turn that way. Its a common thing to see people who made success in the fashion, entertainment, modelling and many other relevant industries that will be placed in the “beauty” category being giving more than enough kudos and attention. The story of Bread seller turned model Olajumoke and most recently the first Unilag graduate to have hit the much coveted “perfect distinction” of 5.0. Their cases can be said to be a perfect and the most relevant example of the beauty and the brain. When Olajumoke was discovered, her life took a total turn around. She got the most media attention. She got a new and fresh apartment, was reunited with her hobby, got an interview on CNN, became a motivational speaker, has featured in numerous photo shoots just to remain in the news…and a...

You probably drank some today or maybe over the weekend. It’s sticky body and sour taste doesn’t bother you as you savour the milky juice finding its way out after gentle press. Even more enticing is its reddish inner part. You meticulously remove every flesh on the seed till you see the reddish-brown colour of the seed. It is known by various names but the famous is Agbalumo among the Yoruba people and Udara among the Igbos. It is known among the English man as African Star Apple and its scientific name is Chrysophyllum africanum or Chrysophyllum albidum. When I was a child, we used the seeds (we called it paki) for very interesting games and the girls used it for beautification and adorned themselves with the inner whitish halves of the seed. Let us now discuss the health and nutritional facts about the African star apple. 1 African star apple contains more Vitamin C/ascorbic acid than Orange. This vitamin helps prevent scurvy, a mouth gum disease. 2 If you have sour throat, con...

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has appointed her daughter, Halima Dangote, an Executive Director of Tiger Brand Consumer Goods (TGBC) Plc, which was formerly known as Dangote Flour Mills. This was made known in a letter written to the Nigerian Stock Exchange by the company this week. According to the letter, her appointment is effective from February 15th, 2016. Tiger Brand sold its stakes in its unprofitable Nigerian business to Dangote last year after buying it from him in 2012. Here’s what you didn’t know about Halima Dangote: Halima is the eldest of Aliko Dangote’s three daughters. She is the mother of two and has been married to Suleiman Sani Bello since 2008. She is a “marketing” graduate from the American Intercontinental University London. She proceeded to Webster Business School London immediately after her first degree, where she enrolled and obtained a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree.

There was panic Monday morning at the Railway Post, Umuahia, Abia State when police officers attached to the post allegedly manhandled a man later identified as an Army captain for packing his 18-seater Mitsubishi bus close to the fence of the Police station. According to eye witness accounts, the Divisional Police officer in-charge of the police post was said to be driving into the station when he spotted the bus and ordered the owner to repack the bus claiming that it was blocking his way. Vanguard reports that , the Army captain who was in mufti, was said to have come out, greeted the DPO and quickly wanted to repark his bus. But the police officer was said to have ordered him to come closer and explain why he should block his way to the station. The army officer was said to have continued to plead with the angry police officer when he refused to allow him to remove his vehicle to re-park. Rather, he was alleged to have ordered his men to arrest the man, who at that juncture unvei...

Lagos State is a tourist haven. Of Nigeria’s over 700 km Atlantic sandy beaches, the State has the majority with its 180 km coconut-fringed Atlantic littoral which consists of several beaches rising to about 20 between Badagry in the west and Lekki in the east. Foremost among the State’s beaches, which are glittering beauty of its aquatic splendour, are the following: *.Bar Beach, Victoria Island *.Atlas Cove, Apapa *.Lekki Beach *.Light House, Apapa *.Maiyegun, Victoria Island *.Kuramo Waters, Victoria Island *.Alpha Beach, Eti-Osa *.Hermitage Resort, Tiye, Ibeju-Lekki *.Whispering Palms Resort, Iworo *.Ibeshe, Ikorodu *.Eleko/Akodo, Ibeju-Lekki *.Suntan Resort, Sapo, Badagry *.Tarkwa Bay, Apapa *.Topo Island, Badagry *.Ogogoro Island *.Eko Tourist Beach Resort, Akodo *.Snake Island, Apapa *.Gbethrome, Badagry *.La Campagne Tropicana Resort, *.Okun Folu Aside the above, the State is a tourist delight with regard to its historical and cultural engagements with earl...

Nollywood actress Ebube Nwagbo is a year older today, to mark it, the actress posted this lovely photo collage of hers with the words below.... Happy Birthday To Me!!Thank U Lord For The Gift Of Life!!Thank U Father For Ur Love And Immense Blessings In My Life!!Thank U For Making Me Me!!Thank U For Making Me In Ur Own Split Image!!U Made Me Special And Called Me Ur Glorious Work(OLUEBUBE)And By Ur Grace,I Have Lived Up To My Name!! I Thank U For My Wonderful Family,My Amazing Friends And Le Boo!!Thnk U For Giving Me The Best Fans And Followers On Earth!!Y'all Rock My World!!As I Add Another Year Tdy...My Mouth Is Full Of Thanks To U Father!!If My Body Were Full Of Mouths,It Won't Still Be Enough To Sing Ur Praises And Say Thank U!!Cos Ur SteadFast Love Never Ceaseth In My Life!!Its New Every Morning!!Thnk U For Another Glorious Year And More Glorious Years To Come#OLUEBUBECHUKWU#PiscesWoman#ThankFulMouth#God'sFirstLove#��������������������������������������������❤️❤️❤️����...

16 young teenage girls between the age of 13 and 17 years of age have become pregnant after a pool party went terribly wrong, reports the Tallahassee Herald this morning. A simple weekend pool party turned to tragedy when one of the young men (Tommy Coulter) attending the birthday celebration ejaculated in the pool without warning the house guests, accidentally ending up impregnating half of the girls present at the celebration. “I’m glad I didn’t have my swimsuit that day,” remembers Daliah Jennings, present during the celebration. “It was a surprise party to celebrate my 15th birthday, let’s just say that a baby in my womb is the kind of present I’m glad I didn’t get” she acknowledges, visibly relieved of not getting pregnant. “Nothing like an orgy” Tommy Coulter claims there was no sex at the party at all and that he only ejaculated in the pool by accident. “Some people in town say we had some kind of wild sex orgy going on and that’s how I got all those girls pregnant, but I’m...

1.TEACHER: Akpos, name 10 animals you know. AKPOS: 9 Lions and an Elephant A stranger sent Akpos a text message... . 2."Good evening sir, how was your day? I'm so sorry for disturbing you. I got your number from someone you know. I kindly need your assistance, I need some money which is very paramount to my life and I don't know if you can assist me with any amount sir. You can talk to me through text message because I'm deaf. Akpos quickly replied the message, "Sorry please, I can't see what you wrote. I'm Blind!", . 3.only in African dat pple don't rest even after death,they still work as Ancestors or gods,busy eating kola nuts,demanding schnapps and fowls 4. It is only in Nigeria that you will drive someone to the airport and the person will get to London Before you get home cos of traffic" . 5.spelling mistake can destroy your life. A Husband sent this to his wife, "I'm having a wonderful time, wi...

*A: Easy to fall in love with. *B: You are very funny and friendly. *C: You are really great in evry way. *D: You are fine and stylish. *E: Great in Competition. *F: You love to deceive. *G: You never let people tell you what to do. *H: You are lovely. *I: You are popular with all types of people. ;_; *J: People adore you.._. *K: You are charming and attractive. *L: You are a talkative and & a coward. Lmfaoo *M: You like to drink and misbehave. *N: Best kisser ever and Unbelievably GREAT in bed. *O: You are very broad minded *P: You like Argument. *Q: like to take a notice and good reasoner. ._. *R: You are very good in speaking. O_O *S: You are Genius and like challenges. *T: You are very loyal to the ones you love. *U: You are single and being afraid of Love XD *V: You are judgmental. *W: You surely loves party. *X: You are lazy. *Y: Best boy/girl friend anyone can ask for. *Z: You are very kind and honest.

Check out the Top 20 most beautiful houses in Nigeria via this link. I assure you, these buildings are jaw dropping.. It almost as if they are not even in Nigeria.. Check em out peeps..http://www.lasgidionline.com.ng/2016/02/checkout-top-20-most-beautiful.html

Check out the Top 10 most beautiful houses in Nigeria via this link. I assure you, these buildings are jaw dropping.. It almost as if they are not even in Nigeria.. Check em out peeps..http://www.lasgidionline.com.ng/2016/02/checkout-top-20-most-beautiful.html

Wizkid. The Nigerian talented singer has been on Linda Ikeji. Nigeria's number one blogger's neck for a long time now. He says now that she is single and bitter. Why would he be doing this. Linda Ikeji is yet to reply him. Keep you updated on the latest

Akepne Jacob replies Freeze for his statement to the poor masses.. A very good blogger standing up for the poor.. Read his post below… ‘I read Freeze of Cool Fm Lagos latest piece which he said When Someone Hangs Out With The Poor, He Will Turn Out Poor with anger because I don’t know what he feels like before writing this, maybe he was high or something. How can a man in his right senses wake up and just decide to come on social media and post this kind of rubbish, all I see on your social media pages is flaunting of your wealth as if you are the richest man in Nigeria. You claim to be rich yet you are still working under someone, why don’t you have your own radio station? You said the poor should start hanging out with the rich to become rich right? If Alhaji Aliko Dangote was hanging out with the rich people without working hard, will he be rich today? How do you expect someone who can’t afford a two square meal a day to leave his hustle and go to the Island to hang out with t...

Apkene Jacob.. Owner of Lasgidi online blog fires back at the radio presenter Freeze that said wrong things about the poor.. See his reply http:// www.lasgidionlin e.com.ng/2016/02/reply- to-freeze- post-on-poor.ht ml

Apkene Jacob.. Owner of Lasgidi online blog fires back at the radio presenter Freeze that said wrong things about the poor.. See his reply http:// www.lasgidionlin e.com.ng/2016/ 02/ reply- to-freeze- post-on-poor.ht ml

On the latest edition of ''It's Not You, It's Men'' hosted by Tyrese Gibson and Rev Run, Amber Rose thrilled the audience and the viewers by her speech. She said a man cannot sexually abuse her because of her provocative dressing dressing. Speaking on, she said... "When I walk down the street, people think because I'm famous, or I'm cool and I'm taking pictures, that they can just grab my ass or put their hand under my skirt or, ‘Oh Amber, can I come grab your boobs?' Girls do that to me all the time, and it does get like, I love you girls so much, but it does get like, stop grabbing on my boobs constantly and my butt. And guys, too. This is my privacy." After hearing this, Rev Run offered that maybe this is the case because of ..... "a representation of what you're wearing and stuff and seems like, in their mind, what you're representing. "His co-host, Tyrese, echoed similar sentiments, telling Amber, "I...

No fewer than 25 children have been confirmed dead following an outbreak of the Febrile Rash Illnesses (FRI) in Otodo-Gbame community in Ikate, Lekki. At a news conference in Lagos today February 19th, the Lagos state commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, said though the source of the disease is still unknown, 34 cases of sick children with FRI is currently being treated while the graves of 20 children have been identified by their parents. “The graves of 20 children who died from the FRI since the day of onset of signs and symptoms in the first case on January 6 were identified by their parents. Also, 34 cases have been line listed so far with 17 males and 17 females; 17 dead patients have been identified with nine males and eight females, all are within the age range of eight and 72 months. The source of the infection is still under investigation and until we know the required source, we cannot say for sure, what is causing it.”he said. He disclosed that the first case of the diseas...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered N381m from Mrs. Omolara Amosu, the wife of the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu. Sources within the EFCC said on Saturday that the money was recovered in three tranches: N180m, N101m and N100m. The detective told our correspondent that the money was traced from the account of the Nigeria Air Force to the bank accounts of a company in which Amosu’s wife is a director. He added that Amosu’s wife is a signatory to the accounts. He said, “We recovered N381m from Amosu’s wife, Omolara. Initially, we recovered N180m from her account before another N101m and then N100m. These were monies transferred from Air Force accounts.” Explaining how the money was diverted, the detective added, “They (Air Force officers) sent the money to an account where their wives have interests or are signatories without doing anything.” A second source within the EFCC told our correspondent that more properties belonging to...

Worshippers at St Dominic’s Catholic Church, Adazi Enu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State were shocked on Friday when a US-based Catholic priest, Rev. Father Mike Steve Ezeatu, descended on a 70-year-old man and beat him blue black. Parishioners told Southern City News that the priest had finished celebrating a funeral mass and was about entering his SUV when he sighted the old man identified as Innocent Nwolisa and beckoned on him to come closer. Obeying the call, Nwolisa approached the cleric, who descended on him, accusing the old man of charming him while he was celebrating mass on the pulpit. Narrating the story, the first son of the victim, Ebuka Nwolisa, said his father was about to leave the compound of Ifedigbo in Ugweni Ojii, where the funeral mass of one late Ifeoma Ifedigbo, had just been celebrated by Ezeatu, when he was called back by the priest “I think my father went because we are related to the priest and they know each other. My father thought the pr...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has charged Nigerians to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to purge himself “of the blood and water of dictatorship flowing in his veins”. He stressed that the Federal Government’s attempt to secretly try the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, by using mask-wearing prosecution witnesses is a mockery of democracy. The Governor, in a release issued on Saturday by his spokesman, Lere Olayinka, said “it is shameful that the Federal Government could approach the court for witnesses in a criminal matter it is prosecuting to wear mask and be seen through screen.” He added that even the prosecuting counsel, who filed the application, should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be used as tools to subvert democracy. According to the statement, “They want Kanu tried secretly. They also want the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) tried secretly. What are they afraid of? “How can ...

Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that his position not to approve further devaluation of the Naira President stands. Buhari said that Nigeria, which is not an exporting nation, would be worst hit if the Naira was devalued. He noted that only the Western countries, with lots of items to export, could benefit from the economic measure. Contributing to a Presidential Panel Roundtable on Investment and Growth Opportunities at the opening session of the Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the President asked Nigerians, who have developed taste for foreign luxury goods, to continue to pay for them rather pressure government to devalue the Naira. “Developed countries are competing among themselves and when they devalue they compete better and manufacture and export more. But we are not competing and exporting but importing everything including toothpicks. So, why should we devalue our currency?”, the President said. “We want to be more producti...

“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power.”Saul Bellow. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 124. “Dele how can you Nigerians hand over your country to all those crazy people?” Nigerian-American calling from the US. An old friend called from the United States last week. He is a naturalized Nigerian American who had not been in Nigeria since he left about twenty years ago. He had been following the revelations concerning the arms deal and withdrawals of millions of dollars from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, allegedly purely for the PDP campaign. He went on to inform me, as if I don’t know, that even Nixon’s Watergate scandal, which many still regard as the most shameful event involving an American President was a mere child’s play compared to this. Still thundering, he asked, “You mean the President of Nigeria can...

One of the managing directors sacked on Monday by the Presidency, has played a fast one on the government by approving multi-million loans to his cronies and associates before stepping aside. He is said to have gone into hiding shortly after handing over to one of he top officials of the agency, which has been plunged into huge avoidable debts incurred by reckless spending by the sacked board and management. The man is said to have gone under to avoid being taken in the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which had been trailing him even before his sack last Monday. Among other crimes allegedly committed by the man, was the huge sum of N1 billion, which he claimed to have donated towards the re-election campaign of former President Jonathan and the N300 million bribe he demanded from a popular farming group in Lagos as a condition for approving a N1.5 billion expansion credit to a popular Lagos farming entity recommended by a form...

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has renewed its appeal to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to remove some items from the foreign exchange restriction list. The President of MAN, Mr Frank Udemba, made the appeal in an interview on Friday in Abuja. Udemba said that some of the 41 items in the list were essential raw materials for many manufacturers across key sectors, and could not be presently sourced locally. He said that the affected manufacturers would soon run short of stock of those inputs and be forced to shut down with the attendant social implication of massive job losses. “Information reaching me from our members is that by the end of March, many of those companies will start closing shop, leading to massive job losses. “The 41 items involve a lot of things such that when broken down into the Customs Harmonised Service (HS) Codes, you have a total of 680 products. “Based on our analysis, 95 out of the 680 products are essential industrial raw materials for...

According to the traders, the scarcity has continued to affect their businesses. The traders claimed that they decided to buy from the local markets in order to meet the demands of their customers and to “avoid being pushed out of their sources of livelihood.” The Managing Director, Ziza Cosmetics, Bauchi, Mrs. Christabel Rowland, said the dollar scarcity had almost “ruined” her business before she resorted to buying goods from the Kano market. She said, “Apart from the scarcity of dollar, the exchange rate is just rising with no sign of it dropping. “I can’t buy anything abroad presently. If I should buy, my customers may not afford to buy them because the goods will be very expensive. “Anybody who travels now to buy goods abroad will only waste his money and make losses because it is not advisable to bring imported goods to Nigeria now with the high exchange rate. “It is better to buy in Kano or Lagos in order to minimise cost. I can’t imagine buying goods abroad at this critic...

Several years after she disappeared from the screen, top actress Caroline Ekanem is due to premiere her comeback movie, “Staker” on Saturday, February 27. The beautiful actress is premiering her movie amid reports that her marriage to her billionaire husband, Musa Danjuma has hit the rocks. The movie, which stars Jim Iyke, Nse Ikpe-Etim is produced by Caroline whose marriage allegedly crashed recently. She was said to have refuted claims of battery by her hubby, the buzz was that she couldn’t continue suffering in silence and has run for her life. The mother of 3 recently shared an image of a ‘broken heart’ which she captured ‘no regrets’ among other cryptic messages.

I don't like the Jumoke, the bread-seller-turned-model's story. And I'm sad about how it has become an 'inspiring' story that's circulating all over social media. I'm happy for her & I congratulate her but that's just about it. The way people have gone about it is comical to me & also insults my reasoning. It bugs my mind. First of all, why has it made so much news around here? Because we're a superstitious people under prolonged suffering & oppression. The situation in the country has made people hopeless on what to do to achieve any level of comfort in life. So we've resigned to fate. So when they hear the story of someone that 'achieved' something great (more like 'that something great happened to') without any effort, it touches us in some serious ways. In a country where opportunities abound, this lady's story would've made rounds but not at this intensity. Next thing, everybody has loads of her pictures ...

The Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG) has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, to intervene in an alleged case of brutality meted out to Mrs Adegbite Damilola by officers of Oyo State Police Command. ISDM Executive Director, Mr Chima Amadi, while briefing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, alleged that Damilola lost her first pregnancy after 10 years of marriage due to police brutality. Amadi also appealed to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to ensure that the victim got justice. He said that the incident occurred on August 11, 2015 at Akobo Police Station, Ibadan. ”The actions of the police at all stages breached legally established procedures for arrest and detention. ”The police breached the legal requirement that a person to be arrested must be promptly informed of his or her offence. ”The police also violated the victim’s constitutional right not to be treated in a manner that degrades her human dignity. ”By subjecting her t...

As dollar scarcity worsens in Nigeria, parents who have children aken their frustrations to banks, with some of them weeping openly, as Saturday PUNCH observed. Investigations by our correspondents revealed that the frustrations by some parents who cannot access forex to send to their children abroad have brought out their emotional sides, while affected students have been crying out for help in foreign lands. When one of our correspondents visited some banks along Muritala Muhammed Way, Unity Road and Taiwo Road in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Wednesday and Thursday, some bank customers, who were there to buy dollars, expressed disappointments at the scarcity of the currency. One of the customers, Alhaja Salamatu Ajibola, who practically broke down in tears, lamented that the education of her two children schooling in the United States had been threatened by the development. She added that her children had been going without food due to her inability to send them money for ...

Harper Lee, renowned American novelist widely known for her 1960 novelTo Kill a Mockingbird, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961, has died. She died in her sleep on the morning of February 19, 2016, aged 89, in her home in Alabama. In a statement, Lee's family said, "The family of Nelle Harper Lee, of Monroeville, Alabama, announced today, with great sadness, that Ms. Lee passed away in her sleep early this morning. Her passing was unexpected. She remained in good basic health until her passing. The family is in mourning and there will be a private funeral service in the upcoming days, as she had requested." To Kill a Mockingbird was the only book she wrote but it was enough to immortalize her name. It sold more than 40 million copies and became a mainstay on school syllabuses. It was turned into a movie in 1962, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a lawyer who defends a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. May her soul rest in peace, amen.

A 28-year-old man has been accused of threatening to shoot his wife while she breastfed their baby in a string of abuse going back ten years, police say. Nicholas George Lehmeier, of Cold Springs, faces one felony count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon - a firearm - in connection to an incident in July last year, reported CBS Minnesota. The complaint against Legmeier was held by his wife Monday, who told police that she has been subjected to physical and verbal abuse for over ten years. Deputies were called to their home after reports of child abuse on February 8. In her statement the wife also recalled the incident last year, when Legmeier allegedly took a 12-gauge shotgun, loaded it and pointed it at her while breastfeeding their four-month-old son. She said she remembered him cocking the gun and pulling the trigger about three to four feet from her, but it didn’t go off, says CBS. She believed he was going to kill her but he then fired the gun out of a window....

Two days after completing a 30-year prison sentence for a 1984 murder conviction, a New Jersey man allegedly killed his 64-year-old mother. On Wednesday, Steven Pratt, 47, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, admitting his role in his mother's beating death, police say. A statement from prosecutors obtained by PEOPLE confirms Pratt, an Atlantic City resident who lived with his mother, repeatedly struck his mother Gwendolyn Pratt in the head the morning of Oct. 12, 2014. Police responded to the Pratt home that morning and found Gwendolyn's lifeless body inside. The statement says officers immediately took Pratt into custody and an autopsy later revealed the victim died from blunt force trauma to the head. Pratt faces 25 more years behind bars when he is sentenced within the next few months, police say. On Oct. 10, 2014, Pratt was released from a New Jersey prison, where he'd spent the previous three decades for the fatal shooting of Michael Anderson. When he was 15, Anderso...

Justice John Tsoho of the federal high court, Abuja, has ruled against the application of the federal government to mask its witnesses in the trial of Nnamdi Kanu‎, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and director of Radio Biafra. Tsoho held that masking the witnesses would shield their demeanour from the court.‎ “There is no gain saying that demeanour of witnesses is very crucial in a trial,” he said. He also held that sufficient particulars had not been provided by the prosecution to show that the witnesses were being threatened. ‎ Tsoho stated that the Department of State Services (DSS) had already disclosed the names of its witnesses and addresses, indicating that they reside in Lagos, Enugu and Port Harcourt, away from the locality of Kanu.‎ “It is not correct therefore to assert that many of the witnesses come from the accused persons location,” he said. However, he ruled that names and addresses of the witnesses would not be made public during the trial.‎ He ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is looking for about six lions on the loose from the Nairobi National Park. The lions are believed to have escaped to Lang’ata, which is adjacent to the park today. KWS Corporate Communications Officer Paul Udoto said they were not certain of the number of the lions. "The lions were part of the wild population and we are depending on the public to report if they sight them," he said. The wildlife service has advised any person who spots the lions to call KWS. Mr Udoto said the KWS was aware that a lioness had cubbed on the border of Lang'ata Barracks and the park and was monitoring the situation. "However, this morning we were called at 4am and told that some two lionesses, we believe, including the new mother, had been seen on the road near Lang'ata Hospital. We responded immediately. But we have not been able to track them down," he explained. He said another call was made by a member of the public at around 5am claimin...

4. The Number of People You Will be Employing As started earlier, the richer you become, the more you would be employing (if you are an entrepreneur), and in this way, you would be helping the economy of whichever country you are citizen of. You would also be a blessing to a lot of families, because you would be the reason they have food on their tables, and their kids can go to school. 3. The Number of People You Will Help With Your Goods or Services Also, think of the number of people you would help with your goods or services. Think about all the people Adenuga helps with his GLO Telecommunications company. They can connect with friends and family, and can surf the Internet because of that man's ambition. 2. Innovation Yea, the scientists and the geeks are the ones that come up with world changing innovations like the Radio and the Telephone and the likes, but who do you think funds them? Yea, the rich fund their research centers. They need money for all those equipment and...

From time immemorial, people have always overlooked the importance of money, till they desperately need MONEY. Yea, money might not be everything in this world, but it sure is a very vital element in this life we live in. A woman might confess love to a man and tell him she loves him with all her heart, but let the man's funds run a bit low, and see the nagging side of her come out. Whichever way we look at it, from whichever angle we look at it, money is very important in life, and that is why I feel everyone should strive to get a lot of it and get rich. Yea, I am sounding very materialistic and vain right now, right? Please sit back and read this 10 reasons why I feel EVERYONE MUST GET RICH. 10. Money Equals Value Yup! What is that paper you have in your wallet if it doesn't have value? It would just be any other paper you can throw in the thrash. But because it has value, it can get you things, and be used as an exchange for what you want. So, look at it this way...The mo...

Fayose to FG: Keep your TSA, we are not interested. Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has told the Federal Government to perish the thought of imposing the Treasury Single Account (TSA) on States, pointing out categorically that the Federal Government was not in the position to counsel or force any State to accept policies that are not working for those that introduced them. Governor Fayose said in a press statement issued on Friday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka that “the Federal Government should rather face the dwindling economy of the country instead of going about grandstanding on a TSA policy that was already tainted with fraud. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, had called on States to accept the TSA. Reacting, Governor Fayose likened the Federal Government to a blind man trying to lead people who can see clearly, saying, “The same minister whose office could not prepare a simple budget shou...