'Wearing natural hair is unbearable for many African women ' - Adichie

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While talking about her new novel Americanah, with Kate Kellaway of The Observer, award winning author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said black women should embrace their natural hair. When asked to give an honest description of her hair and what it says about her, Chimamanda replied:

That is the best question! My hair is in tiny cornrows; I have a big ponytail on the top of my head. I quite like it. It is natural. I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair – yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

Four church leaders killed in Borno State

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Four church leaders of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) located in Gwoza village in Borno state were killed on Monday April 8th by gunmen believed to be members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram.  The four men identified as Iliya Tada, Ayuba Yusuf, Idris Dogo and a fourth victim were gunned down while resting near the church premises after a service. Their attackers rode into the church in a bike and opened fire. The dead men were buried today.

New study shows women prefer well-endowed men

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According The NY Post, a new study not only shows that women prefer well-endowed men, but suggests this actually may have contributed to the lengthening of penises over time.

“We found that flaccid penis size had a significant influence on male attractiveness,” the University of Ottawa study says. And, based on that finding, “female mate choice could have played a role in the evolution of the relatively large human male p-enis.”

TRAGEDY: 4-year old shoots wife top police officer accidentally

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A Tennessee deputy's four-year-old nephew shot and killed his wife during a weekend cookout at their home, police said.

Josephine Fanning, 47, and the boy walked into a bedroom where her husband Daniel was showing his personal gun collection to a relative in Lebanon. Unaware that the child entered, the sheriff's deputy left a loaded pistol unattended on the bed.

"Split second, we're talking about seconds for that kid to walk in that room unbeknownst to them, grab that gun and it goes off," said Wilson County Sheriff Robert Bryan.

 

Pregnant woman kidnapped and tortured as she immigrated to U.S.

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For three days, a pregnant Salvadoran woman was held captive in a mobile home in the Texas borderland, her dreams of reuniting with her family on Long Island replaced by fear of violent death.

“They were threatening me with a gun, pointed right to my stomach,” Zoila Figueroa said of the two men who abducted her after she sneaked across the U.S.-Mexico border near Hidalgo, Tex., in March 2012.

“They threatened me. They said if my husband didn’t pay ransom they were going to take out my baby. They were going to take out the baby alive and then they were going to kill me.”

Her captors freed her unharmed after her husband, who lives in Roosevelt, L.I., paid $3,990 in ransom. She later delivered a healthy baby boy, her third child.

Teacher arraigned on raping former student

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The sixth-grade teacher accused of bedding a 14-year-old former student performed his perverse acts in the Queens apartment he shares with his wife and baby daughter, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Daniel Reilly, 36, is accused of having sex at least 10 times with the girl in his Forest Hills apartment over an eight-month period beginning last October and continuing into April — with their most recent illicit hookup just four days ago, according to court documents.

“The defendant planned on keeping the relationship secret,” a prosecutor said, charging he had the girl use a code name for him in her cell phone.

Gov Fashola Commissions Emeka Anyaoku Housing Estate in Ikeja

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Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, yesterday April 9th, commissioned the newly-constructed Ikeja Millemium Housing Estate, which he named after former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku.

Fashola said he named the 76-unit four-bedroom duplexes located on Muiz Banire Street, GRA Ikeja, after Anyaoku because the former Commonwealth Secretary General had contributed tremendously to the development of Lagos State. Find another photo after the break..

Story: Blackmail plots against ODM Publisher uncovered!

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 last post on EXPOSED: PLOTS TO BLACKMAIL OUR DAILY MANNA PUBLISHER!
A prominent national daily newspaper, (Daily Champion) in Nigeria reported that the publisher
of Our Daily Manna, Rev. Dr Chris Kwakpowe, was assassinated at his home by unknown gun
men. His full name was printed in the controversial publication!

Even the CORRECTIONAL VERSION RE-PUBLISHED, STILL CARRIED HIS FULL
NAMES! This has caused panic and tears across the Nigeria nation, especially among ardent
readers and beneficiaries of Our Daily Manna devotional worldwide.

Photo: Indian Family Sets Themselves On Fire Due To Hunger

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Five people set themselves on fire in Gujarat, leaving one man dead as they protested against official plans to raze their home in a drive to remove illegal structures, police said yesterday.
According to GulfTimes

The five people, including three women, belonged to the same family and turned up at a city government office in Rajkot carrying kerosene-filled containers around noon yesterday, the police said.
Ram Sinh, a police official based in Rajkot said the group came to request the officials to stop demolition of illegal encroachments.
But when their request was not granted they poured kerosene on themselves and set themselves on fire,Sinh said.

Driver ra-pès 15year old housemaid ,Blames it on the Devil

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The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a driver, Olusegun Ajayi, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old housemaid in Arepo, Ogun State.

The NSCDC authorities said the suspect had canal knowledge of the girl which caused her to bleed for two days.

Ajayi, however, told PUNCH Metro that his act was not rap-è since the victim consented. The suspect, who claimed to be a devout Christian, said he did not know the victim prior to the incident.

How my wife was rapped, stabbed by Okada rider in Bauchi -Victims Husband

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A 35-year-old man from the Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Isa Umar has appealed to both the state government and the police to assist him by bringing to justice, a person who allegedly raped his wife.
Umar and the officer in charge of the Legal Aid Council, Zubayr Hanbali made the plea, yesterday, at the secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Bauchi.

In his account of the incident, Umar alleged that he asked a commercial motorcyclist, (okada) whose name was simply given as Auwalu to take his wife and two children to a nearby village, but he diverted into the bush at Ball village in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area and raped the woman in front of her two children aged between three and six years, after stabbing her with a knife.

Bayelsa Police Killings : Police Recover 11 Bodies

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Emotions ran high, yesterday, at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa Bayelsa State, as the remains of 11 out of the 12 policemen killed last Friday were deposited at the hospital’s morgue.

Some of the recovered bodies were reportedly burnt and mutilated by their killers who also stripped them of their uniforms and rifles during the attack.The combined team of soldiers drawn from the Joint Task Force, JTF, and operatives of the Nigeria Police, yesterday, recovered the burnt and decomposed bodies of the slain policemen along the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.

NFF cuts Eagles bonus, coaches salaries

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The Nigeria Football Federation has taken a very significant step to curtail overhead cost in the administration of football in the country. The Technical and Development Committee of the federation, which met in Abuja on Tuesday, recommended for immediate implementation, a list of decisions that would substantively cut down the cost of prosecuting games involving the national teams.

One of the major decisions is the review of the salaries of all the national team coaches, including that of Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi. Even though he has a contract still running, The PUNCH learnt that every coach in the employment of the federation would be affected as soon as the implementation begins.

1,074MW drop in Power generation

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The poor supply of electricity being witnessed across the country currently is as a result of a significant drop in power generation from a peak of 4,517 megawatts attained on December 21, 2012 to 3,443MW on Tuesday.

The 1,074MW drop is, however, a slight improvement over the 2,987.6MW peak generation recorded on April 6, 2013, when a whopping 1,529.4MW was lost.

The drop in power generation, our correspondent gathered from the Ministry of Power, was as a result of low gas supply to thermal power plants.

Detained Leadership journalists released, sue IG for ₦10m

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Two journalists with the LeadershipNewspapers, detained by the police on Monday were released on Tuesday evening.

The Group News Editor of LeadershipNewspapers Group, Mr. Tony Amoekedo, and correspondent, Chibuzo Ukaibe, were detained alongside two others at the Force Headquarters following a story their newspaper published on a “presidential directive” to attack key opposition political parties’ leaders.

They were however asked to report at the Force Headquarters daily for further investigation.

North Korea To Launch Missile

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North Korea has completed preparations for a mid-range missile launch tomorrow from its east coast, officials in Seoul have revealed just hours after foreigners living in South Korea were warned to quit the country.  The worrying warning came as speculation heightened that North Korea is planning to pull its ambassador out of the UK after a shipping container was pictured outside the London embassy.

Boxes were seen being loaded onto a large lorry parked outside the pariah state’s embassy – an ordinary home in Ealing, west London.

Lagos committed to quality grass-roots health care – Fashola

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Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said his administration was creating a robust grassroots healthcare.

Fashola spoke during the inauguration of a second comprehensive Primary Health Centre in Mosan-Okunola Local Council Development Area.

The governor, who urged residents to maximise the use of the centres, said PHC facilities in the state had been redesigned to operate a comprehensive 24 hours service to boost grassroot healthcare.

He said, “These new PHCs are designed to make cases of malaria, ante-natal and child delivery a local affair while difficult cases which the PHCs cannot cope with will see such patients referred to general hospitals and teaching hospitals.”

FG budgets N30bn for completion of 2nd Niger Bridge

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Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government has earmarked a total of N30 billion for the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge.

Also, weigh bridges are to be deployed across the country as part of measures to ascertain the weight of goods and materials that are conveyed on roads.

These were part of the disclosures that were made during the presentation of the Ministry of Works’ performance report to the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by Onolememen and the Minister of State, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda.

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, has expressed satisfaction with the performance of the minister, even as he described ministers as “representing a very important link between the government and the governed.

Se-x Bucket List: 10 Places To Have S-ex Before You Kick The Bucket - (Add More To The List)

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1. Get Autoérotic

The bigger the vehicle the more scope there is for s-éxual adventure, but if you don't drive a Bentley have no fear. You'd be surprised at how well you can get down to it in the most cramped of spaces. So, set the sat nav for the local lovers lane or secluded parking lot and start steaming up those windows.

2. Do Some Lengths in the Pool

The water rushes around your genitals, making both of you feel different and more exciting. The buoyancy allows great thrusting with minimum effort and orgasm is reached with ease as the water relaxes and soothes. You can take it slow or re-enact your favorite scene in Showgirls. Beware as water may kill the natural lube and make entry a little difficult, but ultimately worth the effort. Aim for a hotel pool after dark rather than the local Rec centre unless you want a criminal record for your efforts.

Man Sells 6-month- Old Son To Raise Funds For Visa

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One Mr Onyekachi  Ekwelum, who allegedly sold his six-month-old  son to raise funds to process his travel documents, would  be appearing before a magistrate in court to defend his action.

Mr Ekwelum allegedly hatched and executed the act without the consent of the wife, but the lid was blown off by his 20-year-old spouse Ozioma when she could not find their son and reported the matter to the police. Her husband had wanted to travel to Greece.

The Abia State commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Abubakar Tilli, who disclosed this to newsmen in his office on Monday said the police  mounted a man hunt that led to the rescue of the child and the arrest of the suspects.

CP Tilli  warned criminals to stay off the state as there would be no hiding place for them and said the suspects have been charged to court.