RIP ALUU 4

    

Goodnight Pain. "thieves, thieves" he screamed, it was almost funny. Not until more voices joined the chorus as they screamed and shouted on us. We could have ran at least to save our lives, but our intentions were genuine and little did we know how the day would end. From a handful of young men shouting and throwing questions at us, it escalated to a crowd of angry mob. There was no way we could escape this one, so we calmed down. They pushed us around and then stripped us all. These men pulled us pants down, we were more than embarrassed, the whole community watched, I recognized few faces from the crowd. Obviously they were so afraid to say "stop" then the beating started, I wished it to be just a nightmare. But it was real, these men were determined. They dropped heavy rocks on our heads, they pounded our faces with large planks, blood covered our eyes, they matched and kicked us right on our bleeding nostrils, we couldn't breathe.

Moringa oleifera - The solution to Malnutrition.

                                  

                                                                                         Moringa oleifera

LOWELL Fuglie and his wife, Caroline, help craft the pad of the Moringa tree. Thanks Fuglie's pioneer work on the Moringa oleifera, many people can now profit from it.

Malnutrition causes a great deal of human suffering and is associated with more than half of all deaths of children worldwide. Malnutrition severely impacts on the socio-economic development of a nation because a work force that is stunted both mentally and physically may have a reduced work capacity. The interaction of poverty, poor health and poor nutrition has a multiplier effect on the general welfare of the population and also contributes significantly towards keeping a population in a downward trend of poverty and nutritional insecurity. Thus nutrition plays an important role in the reproduction of poverty from one generation to the next.

Ideally, good nutrition is assured by a varied diet rich in meat, root, grain, fruit and vegetable foods. In reality, for a majority of the world’s population such variety in food is unaffordable or seasonally unavailable. If you have a poor diet it makes you less able to resist disease, so the diseases come more frequently and they last longer.

The solution to malnutrition?

 

Photo of the day-Beauty of farming in China.

Wife of Osun Speaker kidnapped.

                   

                         Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Honourable Najeem Salaam

Unknown gunmen in Ejigbo, Osun State, on Tuesday, kidnapped the wife of the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam.

Muiba, the first wife of the Speaker, was kidnapped in the Bamagay Square area of the town shortly after she had left her shop where she sold bags of rice, semovita and groundnut oil.

Her Honda car was overtaken by the vehicle of a six-member gang. The gang reportedly forced her Honda car to stop along Union Baptist Road in the Oke-Oyo area of Ejigbo, the Speaker’s hometown.

KIM & KANYE Hunting for $10 Million Miami Mansion.

The two love birds were said to search for a comfortable house, marriage tinz in activation sha...
         

Kim Kardashian is ready to MOVE IN with Kanye West ... and the two are now officially on the hunt for a home together in Miami ...

Sources connected to the couple tell us ... K&K have been talking about getting their own place for a couple of months ... and believe Miami is the perfect location because they both love the city. 

Plus, Kim will be in town for the next couple of months to shoot a reality show with Kourtney. 

We're told the Ks checked out 4 homes yesterday -- all waterfront properties -- and the mansions all ranged between $7 and $10 MILLION. 

It's good to be rich.


culled from TMZ.

Govt fights flood with N17.6b

           

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday announced that the Federal Government has raised a total of N17.6 billion to tackle the flood currently ravaging the nation.

Speaking in a national broadcast, President Jonathan said that out of the total sum of N17.6 billion, the Federal Government has allocated a total sum of N13.3 to affected states while Federal Government agencies whose activities directly impact on the current flood amelioration programme will receive N4.3 billion. Out of this amount, the government, through it’s agencies, has so far expended the sum of N1.409 billion in providing short gap measures to the flood victims.

Jonathan said: “Based on the present assessment, the states have been categorized into four groups, A to D. 

Aluu 4 killing: Llyod Michael's devastated parents speak

                                                      Llyod"s Parents                                                              Llyod

Mrs. Jane Toku, the mother of Lloyd, one of the four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt that were lynched at Aluu community in Rivers State, says her son’s death will always haunt her.

She also expressed shock that the crowd could watch how her son and his friends were gruesomely murdered. Jane spoke with Punch correspondent amid tears on Monday in Port Harcourt.

Jane said, “When we got there, one of them was still breathing. He was gasping for breath, but the crowd…they were all there watching while my baby (Lloyd) was butchered. Come to my area and ask questions about my child; the child I trained.

“Penultimate Sunday, we went to church, Salvation Ministry; that is where he worshipped. We all went together for the second service. He stayed back for the remaining service. When he came back, he started preparing to go to school. I can still see him as I talk to you.

“He brought out a book; ‘How Faith Works’ by David Ibiyomie and he said ‘Mummy, read this book and you will know what faith is all about. By the time I come back on Friday, you will tell me what faith is all about.’

5 health tips that work

                                     
Let me begin by assuring you that you are not created to fall sick, the bible assures us that we are greater than any sickness.

Health is wealth, yet many of us wait till we are bed ridden or in need of medical attention before we take care of our body.

Let me highlight 5 things you can do daily that can lead to stable health..

• WATER
• AIR
• EXERCISE
• FOOD
• SLEEP

Woman delivers quadruplets at home.

Who said it is impossible to deliver at home, Well testimonies have been shared in the past of successful child deliveries at home, though in this case FOUR children were delivered.

Wednesday, in Bauchi when the wife of a peasant farmer gave birth to quadruplets at home with help from a traditional midwife. The farmer’s wife, 25-year-old Murjinatu Yusuf’s babies, all girls, weighed between 0.6 and 1.2 kilogrammes. They live at Gajin Duguri village in Alkaleri Local Government Area of the state, while the lawmaker’s wife, Aishatu  Abdul-kadir, 31, is from Kirfi Local Government Area.

                            

Murjinatu’s husband, Salisu Yusuf, 30, is however, unhappy as his farmland was washed away during last week’s flood that swept across the state. Yusuf, now a father of nine, said he was at cross-roads on how to provide for his family.

He said: “I thank God for these four children that He has given me. Everybody is surprised because this is the first time that this is happening in my village and even in the state. I pray that God should keep them for us and bless them.

I need govt’s help—Husband
“I am pleading with the government to help me. Flood has swept off my farm from where I feed my family. I used to buy six to seven mudus of corn to feed my family per meal, but now I do not know how we will survive.”

Culled from Vanguard news.

2013- The Fast and the Furious 6.

                                                  
From the inception of its first appearance in 2009, Fast and Furious has come to stay. It is an American street racing action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. After the recently released Fast 5 that blew our mind, well, I for one really enjoyed that movie, The Director and his group has done it again.

Fast and Furious 6 (alternatively known as Fast Six) is the sixth installment in the Fast and the Furious film series. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker,Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, and Luke Evans will star.

Filming locations also include the Canary Islands and Glasgow, Scotland. The film is scheduled for release on May 24, 2013.On February 15, 2012, Johnson confirmed that Fast Six would begin filming in May 2012, with some of the production to take place in the United Kingdom and Germany. Johnson stated that the two intended sequels would no longer be filmed simultaneously because of weather issues in filming locations, and that production on Fast Seven would only begin after the completion of Fast Six. However, filming did not officially begin until July 30, 2012.

 I am keeping my fingers crossed because it promises to be the BOMB.. See the Official Trailer  here..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yvnl0iL8qg&feature=player_detailpage

Photo of the Day..The flood issue at the North

           

The image was released by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and shows the extent of the flooding in the city caused by the overflowing River Niger due to the release of the dam in Cameroon, which is virtually cutting off the Northern part of the country from the South.
Some small villages might be wiped out of nothing is spontaneously done..

Glo- Subscribers to win fleet of luxury buses, cars in Glo Made4Life promo

                         
(l-R) Niyi Olukoya, Ag. Head of Marketing; Tunde Kaitell of Marketing Communications and Titilayo Ebinisi, Head of Gloworld, at the             
                                                      launch in Lagos yesterday of Glo Made4Life Promo
Globacom has taken customer reward scheme to a new dimension with the launch of a new promotion which offers subscribers the opportunity to own a fleet of 52-seater luxury buses, mini buses, luxury taxes and cash prizes.

Called Made4Life, the promotion will reward over 1,500 Glo subscribers with mouth-watering prizes and is the first of its kind in the Nigerian telecommunication industry. It is open to both new and existing subscribers on both the prepaid and postpaid platforms.

SCIENCE: Acne-fighting virus discovered

Phage virus that occurs naturally on human skin found to kill the bacteria that causes the distressing skin condition

 

Acne vulgaris (cystic acne or simply acne) is a common human skin disease, characterized by areas of skin with seborrhea (scaly red skin), comedones (blackheads and whiteheads), papules (pinheads), pustules(pimples), nodules (large papules) and possibly scarring. 

Acne affects mostly skin with the densest population of sebaceous follicles; these areas include the face, the upper part of the chest, and the back. Severe acne isinflammatory, but acne can also manifest in noninflammatory forms. The lesions are caused by changes in pilosebaceous units, skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland, changes that require androgen stimulation (Wikipedia).

US researchers found that the phage virus can kill Propionibacterium acnes - the bacteria that cause acne.They discovered 11 different versions of the virus, which can be used to target the blocked pores that trigger the skin condition.

Hopefully, this discovery may be used as a therapy in the cure or control or prevention of Acne.

NORWAY: Lucky family wins national lottery three times

                                            

Good fortune and having children just seem to go together for Norwegian mother Hege Jeanette Oksnes.

Each time the 29-year old petrol station attendant from tiny Austevoll island off Norway's west coast gives birth, someone in her family wins the national lottery.

"This is completely insane... we don't even play the lottery that often," Oksnes said only days after the family collected 12.2 million crowns ($2.12 million) with their third lottery win in six years.

Oksnes, who serves hot dogs at a petrol station, gave birth to her first child in 2006 just one day after her father Leif won 4.2 million crowns on the national lottery.

The Spirit behind PHONES..

 
I wont start by defining what a phone is or what it is used for, if you dont know then you are probably living in the 17th century.

That being said, every one enjoys introduction of new things, take for example, the purchase of a new car or the birth of a first child or achieving your first million, so was the joy experienced when the mobile phone was invented.
The first mobile telephone call was made on 17 June 1946 from a car in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, using the Bell System's Mobile Telephone Service. This was followed in 1956 by the world’s first partly automatic car phone system, Mobile System A (MTA) in Sweden. The MTA phones were composed of vacuum tubes and relays, and had a weight of 88.2 pounds (40 kg).

Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, led the team that developed the first hand-held mobile telephone for use on a cellular network.  Using a somewhat heavy portable handset, Cooper made the first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973 to his rival, Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

                                                      

              Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first US analogue mobile phone call