Monday 14 September 2015

Popular Pastor Arrested for checking Female Member’s Virginity With His Finger

Popular Pastor Arrested for checking Female Member’s Virginity With His Finger

1 Girl 1cThe spiritual leader at Jesus Is The Way Evangelistic Ministry in the Olorunsogo area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Pastor Adekunle Kayode has been arrested by police over allegations of séxual assault levelled against him.
34-year-old Pastor Kayode was said to have inserted his finger into the v**ina of a female member in a bid to, according to him, check if she is still a virgin. However, it is suspected that his action is a “ritual”.
“There was also a drama when the victim received ‘holy spirit’ which propelled her to reveal the misdeeds of the pastor who has indulged in this ungodly act for years.
“Another suspect arrested for similar offence is Onatade Oluwasegun of 4, Sheriff Onatade Street, Obantoko for conspiring with the said pastor to use the victim for a ritual purpose.
“The father of the victim alleged that the duo were fond of dipping their fingers in the victim’s private part even when she was menstruating for reasons best known to them.
“She also claimed that the pastor recently confirmed her virginity status when she was to take part in a church programme. The victim has also claimed that Oluwasegun used a charm while attempting to r*pe her as directed by the pastor possibly for a ritual but she miraculously escaped.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, the pastor’s arrest was carried out when the lady narrated her ordeal to her father who then informed the police of the incident.
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Police have recovered charms from the pastor within the church premises.
“The Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, Ikemefuna Okoye, has directed that the matter be transferred to the SCID, Eleweran for further investigation,” the PPRO confirmed.

10 Things Only Women With Big B00bs Can Understand

10 Things Only Women With Big B00bs Can Understand

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If you’ve got C-cup or larger-sized bréasts, chances that it feels like you permanently have a toddler attached to your body, and like most demanding children, they dominate your whole life.
Top 10 Big Bóob Problems:
1. Under-bóob sweat
2. Your brás being mistaken for áss-holders and/or hats
3. Budgeting to afford a brá that actually fits
4. Finding the right specialty brá shop with a correctly-trained fitter you actually trust, or at the very least, just finding a store that actually carries your size
5. Packing a larger suitcase just to fit your brás into
6. Figuring out ways to get your insurance to pay for a bréast reduction
7. Demi-cup overspill
8. Shopping for clothes based on whether or not you can wear a brá with them
9. Wondering if a guy is actually looking at you or only interested in your chest
10. How not to look crazy while holding your boóbs to avoid black eyes during a run
Growing Up With Big Boóbs
Oh yeah, you can fill out a sweater like it’s nobody’s business, and you certainly get male eyes on you, but with your giant ta-tas comes a life of watching your boóbs pop out of brás, shirts and dresses like they’re rampaging bulls on the streets of Pamplona.
And if you think bréasts don’t have a mind of their own, well, honey, we really have to beg to differ. Remember when you were 12 and growing mosquito bites for the first time and were so absurdly proud of yourself?
While guys were having shin splints from growing too tall, too fast, the big-títty-committeé éxploded stretch marks over bean-bag boóbs that hurt if you even looked at them.
I went from a training brá to a C-cup at the age of 12 and a D by my 13th birthday. It’s no wonder I was mistaken for an 18-year-old, since no one was bothering to look at my face.
Fast forward through middle school and high school, where many of the less-endowed girls were all glaring daggers at you, and often not-so-quietly calling you slutty and dumb behind your back.
It often seemed everyone else was using complex algorithms dictating that the bigger our cup size, the more likely we were to spread our legs, and the lower our intelligence must be.
Meanwhile, while others were busying judging us, we were left trying to figure out how to find prom dresses that didn’t make us look like pórn stars, b*tton-downs that didn’t póp b*ttóns so fast they take an eye out and attempting to get guys to look above our chin when they talked to us.
As girls with huge bóobs, we are often told by friends and family to “Stop complaining. I only wish I had bóobs like yours.” Jokes aside, there are a lot of drawbacks.
Amidst the obvious clothing issues and drooling stares, there is also back pain, posture issues, hindrancés when it comes to running and working out and postpartum inflation/stretching that we’ve heard only makes the situation worse.
Feeling séxy with boóbs so heavy they really don’t look great without a brá is a feat. I know what you’re thinking — all men love boóbs, right? Well, maybe.
But with a naturally large chest, it can be hard to feel good nakéd, since your comfort in cléavage is strippéd away when the brá comes off. Celebrities and pórn stars post-plastic surgery have created the illusion that big boóbs are perfectly round and stand up on their own.
Wearing a backless dress is not a problem, because gravity doesn’t exist and nipplés are perfectly even. Not true. Even at a young age, the giant girls sag from the sheer weight and flip-flop about in pretty much the least séxy way possible.
Not a great visual, right? We can only fear for how Left and Right will look 20 years from now.
So, the next time you think us ladies who have been blessed (or cursed) with G-cup bréasts need to realize how lucky we are, remember that we are just as insecure with ourselves as women who only need a camisole.
We carry our own (very heavy) insecurities every day, too. Like everyone else, we learn how to cope with our own body image issues.
You either hide behind giant clothing and pretend your bréasts aren’t the first thing anyone sees, or you learn to break the ice, make the first joke and just acknowledge the elephant(s) in the room. Because if you don’t, someone else will.
Source: Huffington Post

[For Married Couples] S*X IS A MEDICINE: 9 Reasons Why You Need To Have Good S*x- Must Read

[For Married Couples] S*X IS A MEDICINE: 9 Reasons Why You Need To Have Good S*x- Must Read


sex_addiction-350x233Yes, it’s midweek and the average worker is gradually preparing for the weekend, which commences on Friday evening.
Weekends are those glorious times of the week when we take care of those things we have pushed off — including, ahem, s*x — during the week because of the pressure of work and also because of the need to wake up early and sleep late.
Now that the weekend stares each of us in the face, it’s also necessary to have a rough idea of what we will do in order to stay focused, healthy and totally revved up to meet the demands of the new week.
One physical activity that can help in this regard, researchers say, is getting down to ‘business,’ not necessarily to make babies, but really to unwind and let your partner feel your presence the right way all over.
Many long-married couples seem to miss out on the benefits of s*x, which they, more often than not, push to the back of family agenda, especially when they are no longer trying for babies. Yet, scientists insist that s*x has so many advantages that affect our health psychologically, mentally, physiologically… name it, and there you are. This part of our social life is so necessary to our overall wellbeing that researchers counsel us to indulge in it for up to three times in a week.
Scientists caution, though, that too much s*x can also be detrimental to health. They warn that having s*x more than thrice a week can weaken the immune system and make us susceptible to infections.
Again, researchers warn that only those in healthy, loving monogamous relationships could hope to reap the health benefits of s*x. They say having risky s*x with lots of partners will definitely do more harm than good.
Now, what are the advantages derivable from this physical gratification? Here…
Boosts circulation, brain power
Scientists at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians note that more blood moves through the blood vessels when you have s*x, expressly cutting your risk of heart attack or stroke as a result. The researchers enthuse that s*x releases certain feel-good hormones such as dehydroepiandrosterone and oxytocin, both of which play a huge role in pair bonding. In fact, because of its importance in love-making, oxytocin is variously referred to as the “love hormone,” or “cuddle hormone” because it is released when people snuggle up or bond socially.
Cuts blood pressure and stress
For some of us, the time of stress is also the period we refrain from s*x. Yet, a study by some scholars at the School of Sciences, University of Paisley, Scotland, reveals that s*x not only lowers blood pressure, it also reduces stress.
The scientists argue that s*x can improve mood and combat anxiety by reducing stress signals in the brain. They counsel that when you have s*x, it lowers the levels of cortisol — the hormone that indicates high stress levels.
Relieves pain
A s*xuality researcher at Rutgers University, Professor Emeritus Beverly Whipple, assures that good coition can relieve physical pain. The magic hormone, again, is oxytocin, which she describes as a natural chemical in the body that surges before and during climax. Again, she says, “the endorphins released during climax block pain signals from reaching the nervous system and thus are critical to maintaining optimum health.”
Goodbye to colds!
A bout of colds can make you miserable for days. Not to worry though, researchers at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, United States of America, found that “having s*x once or twice a week increased the production of the immune-boosting antibody — immunoglobulin — by a third. Again, German scientists say copulation increases the white blood cells. The white blood cells are the cells of the immune system that are involved in defending the body against infectious diseases and foreign materials.
Heart attack? No more!
In 2002, British scientists carried out a study of large population of men, and concluded that frequent s*xual intercourse can “shield you from fatal coronary events.”
The researchers say men who have regular lovemaking are about “45 per cent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions than men who have s*x once a month or less.”
Another research by scientists at the New England Research Institute in Massachusetts and published in theAmerican Journal of Cardiology, shows that “men who made love at least twice a week were much less likely to have heart disease than those whose s*xual encounters were limited to once a month or less.”
So, in addition to healthy eating, rev up your health with this other therapy and you are good to go!
Banish prostate cancer
Experts at the America-based National Cancer Institute counsel that men who successfully conclude a s*xual activity at least five times a week were much less likely to get prostate cancer.
A reproductive endocrinologist, Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, says prostate cancer is the single most common cancer in men; while urologists warn that it’s also the second deadliest cancer, next only to lung cancer. Yet, experts say a simple act of regular s*xual intercourse can serve as a preventive measure.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men who have s*x at least thrice a week reduce by 15 per cent their prostate cancer risk.
Takes care of headaches
It’s not all about men, as women also stand to benefit from this benevolent act. Researchers enthuse that the endorphins and corticosteroids released during s*x have analgesic effects on the body, relieving the pain of headaches, arthritis, cramps and body aches.
“Endorphins are a natural painkiller,” the researchers say; while “the production of oestrogen (which is also released during s*x) in women may also ward off period pain.”
Improves sleep
Those who find it difficult to sleep may also try this therapy, as experts say s*x induces sleep as a result of the oxytocin that is released during the act. Of course, when you are able to obtain a restful sleep, your mental and physical health will improve.
No more incontinence
Incontinence is the inability to control urination. And although urinary incontinence affects both men and women, physicians say women are twice as likely as men to develop incontinence.
But then, you can guard against this embarrassing phenomenon by having s*x. Scientists say this is achievable because the muscles that regulate the bladder receive a “workout” whenever you have s*x, as the entire pelvic floor muscles contract while the exercise lasts.
Again, experts advise post-menopausal women to guard against vaginal atrophy by having regular s*x. It will prevent likely complications and urinary tract infections, we are told.

There was trouble in the Assemblies of God Church, Mount Street, Agbani-Road in Enugu State yesterday, Sunday, September 11.

Trouble In Assemblies Of God Church As Members Did This To Newly Transferred Pastor

There was trouble in the Assemblies of God Church, Mount Street, Agbani-Road in Enugu State yesterday, Sunday, September 11.
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Vanguard reports that trouble started two months ago when a new pastor as transferred to the branch of the church. This, did not go well with a faction of the church branch as they protested and engaged one another in a free-for-all following the alleged transfer of a new pastor to the church.
However, to ward off the impending clash, the worshipers were directed by the police in the state to hold separate services (according to their faction) outside the compound, till the issue will be solved. The church members paired themselves and consequently, divided the church compound into two, where the rival groups erected canopies for the church services while the main church auditorium was locked.
It however seemed that one of the groups got the chance to use the main church auditorium yesterday, for church service. This got members of the other faction angry since it was agreed that no one is eligible to use the auditorium till court delivers judgment on the matter. Talking to journalists, the pastor that was allegedly transferred out from the branch, Rev. Agbo, said trouble started on July 19, ”when one man in my church, who claims to be a lawyer, but is championing illegality and unlawfulness imported Nathan Udeze to come and overthrow me, so we resisted them that day.
“The matter went to police and from there to court; the police advised us to lock the church and we did; we started worshiping outside; they went to court for us to open the church for them; they have not allowed the court to decide the case. They came on last Monday and broke the entrance to our school; then today again, they came and broke the church entrance, contrary to the agreement we reached with the police that we will wait for the court to decide.”
Expressing anger with the way the police handled the matter, Agbo went on: “I called the DPO to inform him that these people have broken into the church, he told me that we should see him by 2 p.m., that we should maintain peace. I don’t know what he means by that. These people broke into the school and today into the church and the police are watching them.”
On the claim that he had been transferred out of the church, he said: “I am still in charge of this place; I came here on April 12, 2013 and till date, I remain the senior pastor in charge of this church branch.”
Meanwhile, hell was let loose recently at the United Methodist Church, in the Oshodi area of Lagos when the church members chased out their pastor from the pulpit.  Also, a South African pastor, Pastor Peniel, is popularly known for a number of strange acts. He had fed his congregation live snake. He had turned human hair into food for the consumption of the church members.
Source: Naij

Wednesday 9 September 2015

MASSOB insists on Sept 13 celebration

MASSOB insists on Sept 13 celebration


… Police arrest members,  for inciting violence
…Court remands 11 in prison
From Paul Osuji, Asaba, Emmanuel Uzor, Abakaliki and Emmanuel Ogoigbe, Warri
Despite police clampdown, Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) has declared there is no going back on the September 13 Biafran Day celebration across Igboland.
Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has ordered the immediate arrest of any person or group inciting violence and social disorder across the country.
Ebonyi South Zonal Leader of MASSOB, Mr. John Nwifuru told newsmen in Abakaliki yesterday, that the movement would not be dissuaded or cowed by various federal might which he said were all aimed at intimidating them to abandon the struggle.
He warned there could be reprisal on the side of MASSOB if the Federal Government did not stop further attack and intimidation of their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and members of MASSOB.
But Arase explained that there is an operational order that empowers the police to arrest anybody fomenting any act of violence or disorder, or any act inimical to the security of the nation. He said: “So far the following arrest have been made; Anambra State – four ; Imo – six ; Delta – 11 and Abia – one.”
The IGP further warned that persons so arrested for inciting violence, irrespective of their class or status in the society would be charged to court accordingly.
Meanwhile, scores of tmembers of the movement, yesterday staged a protest in Warri, demanding for the unconditional release of their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and over 20 members of the body arrested Sunday in Owerri Imo State by security operatives.
The embittered members who marched through some streets in warri metropolis, pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the matter before it gets out of hand.
The protesters who carried placards with several inscriptions “Release our leader (Uwazuruike) and 20 other members arrested along with him”, We are a non-violent group, rather, we are fighting for our right peacefully”, “We detest oppression”, Buhari should intervene in the matter to save an imminent unpleasant situation”.
Addressing newsmen later, leader of the protesters, Joseph Odikpo, condemned the arrest of their members and alleged that they  have been taken to an unknown destination.
Meanwhile, an Asaba Magistrate Court, Delta State yesterday, remanded 11 suspected members of the movement  in prison custody till October 23.
The accused persons were arraigned on a six-count charge bordering on conspiracy, taking arms against government, treasonable felony, unlawful society and publishing rumor to cause false alarm.
Their plea was not taken when the charges were read before the case was adjourned to October 23.
The court directed that the case file should be sent to the state Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice.
Spokesperson of Delta State Police Command, DSP Celestina Kalu said the 11 accused persons were the ring leaders of the unlawful group, adding that other suspects including women and children were cautioned and released.

UNILAG Shut Down Following Electrocution Protests


UNILAG Shut Down Following Electrocution Protests

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University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, has suspended all academic and social activities as scores of students protested the death of one of them, Oluchi Anekwe who was electrocuted.
Anekwe was a 300 level student from the Department of Accountancy who was electrocuted on Tuesday was electrocuted near a female hostel Madam Tinubu Hall, located within the school.
One of the protesting students identified as Abiodun Otukoya from the Faculty of Science told Vanguard that the deceased left her room to await one of her friends who was bringing a course material when suddenly an electricity cable fell on her near a new generation bank.
Reports say the deceased was a First Class student before her untimely death around 7.30pm on Tuesday. Although she was rushed to the hospital, was pronounced dead on arrival.
The protesters carrying placards and singing solidarity songs barricaded the entrance of the school. When the school’s Vice Chancellor Professor Rahaman Bello addressed them, he commiserated with them but said that the incident was not the fault of the school but that of power distribution company.

 

Demi Lovato's 'Take Me To Church' Cover Will Give You Goosebumps

Demi Lovato's 'Take Me To Church' Cover Will Give You Goosebumps

 

  
 
We've always known Demi Lovato had serious pipes, but after hearing her latest cover, we're fully-converted Lovatics.
The singer performed a beautifully haunting cover of Hozier's "Take Me To Church" at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge on Wednesday. With the help of her pared-down band and two backup singers, Lovato made the track her own and gave us major goosebumps in the process.
Lovato told Live Lounge's Clara Amfo, "It's not your typical pop song ... I think I even tweeted, 'Thank God somebody put this on the radio because this is incredible music.'"
To check out the whole performance, just watch the video below. Also, listen to her sing a subdued version of her hit "Cool for the Summer."

 

With No Other Choice, This Student Resorted to Prostitution to Meet NYU's Soaring Price

With No Other Choice, This Student Resorted to Prostitution to Meet NYU's Soaring Price

 

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Last Tuesday, September 1 -- the day before classes started at New York University -- there was an extraordinary rally in Washington Square Park to protest Wall Street's stranglehold on U.S. higher education.
In several ways, this rally was unprecedented. First, it was a massing of communities not only from one threatened university, but several institutions starkly misdirected by their buccaneering boards and pampered managers: NYU, Cooper Union and the New School, three downtown New York City schools severely damaged by their trustees' serial construction plans and other wild investments.
From those three schools, moreover, there were groups that represented all who've been screwed over by the neoliberal seizure of our universities: students -- both undergraduate and graduate -- increasingly ripped off, and crushed by debt; the ever-growing army of untenured faculty, earning fast food pay to do the lion's share of teaching; the tenured faculty, squeezed out of governance, and making ever less (while topmost bureaucrats make more and more); and all those staff who struggle in the trenches every day to keep their institutions functioning, despite the serial slashing of their ranks and budgets.
And while unprecedented in its academic reach, including all essential groups within the university, this rally was unprecedented also in its reach beyond the university, to all those living in the shadows of those three metastasizing campuses -- and countless other towers now lunging skyward citywide. Along with many Greenwich Village neighbors who were in the park that day, there were activists from neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Chinatown, TriBeCa, Chelsea and the Lower East Side, joining to protest those huge construction projects financed, in particular, by
student debt.
Although NYU is a notoriously grasping "not-for-profit" university -- infamous for its eye-popping prices, slim financial aid, and the inordinate debt burden of its graduates, as well as for its bulging real estate portfolio, rampant global 'growth' à la McDonald's, lavish 'compensation' (including summer mansions) for its top executives, and cozy unions with authoritarian regimes -- its sordid reputation shouldn't blind us to the fact that NYU is not essentially unlike most other U.S. universities today, but different from them only in degree.
University professors nationwide are well aware of this relationship. This is why our rally won strong statements of support from campuses beyond downtown Manhattan -- another first, with faculty at several public universities condemning the corruption of three private schools. Thus, along with certain stellar individuals who teach at Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago, those joining us included the faculty unions at Rutgers, the University of Illinois/Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin (now in the cross-hairs of Scott Walker).
Wherever they may teach, the faculty who stood with us last week, in person or in spirit, all recognize that NYU now represents the avant garde of everything that's wrong with U.S. higher education; and that this trend must be opposed, and then reversed, by those of us who know enough to educate our students, and care enough about them to protect them from a system that is eating them alive.
There was a moment at the rally when the nature of that beast was suddenly, and unforgettably, revealed; when "Mandy," an anonymous NYU junior, took the stage (face hidden by a mask from Eyes Wide Shut) to tell exactly how, and why, she had no choice but to become a prostitute to meet NYU's soaring price.
Her story -- of a shattering ordeal that's more widespread at NYU than any other school in the United States (as several media outlets have reported) -- left many standing there in tears. It is below in her own words.
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Good Afternoon, and thank you for attending today's rally.
I would tell you my name, but if I did, I would have to ask which one you wanted.
Are you asking for Alex, the name I had while working in a dominatrix den in Midtown?
Or are you asking for Johanna, the name they gave me while I was a body-rub girl in an Upper East Side Tantra House?
Maybe it's better if I just stay nameless.
There are students here who work two, sometimes three jobs just to get by. There are students here who sleep in the lower levels of Bobst because they have nowhere else to go. And there are those of us, like myself, who have turned to Backpages, Craigslist, and Seeking Arrangement because we felt we were running out of options.
Before I became a prostitute, I was an accomplished student. I had perfect grades. At the end of my first semester at NYU, I had been used as a poster child by the university. I had been asked to attend several events with John Sexton, encouraging alumni to donate to one fund or another. When my only parent was injured and therefore unable to work, my professors rallied behind me and wrote to the administration on my behalf, asking for support. They were ignored.
I managed to keep my situation stable for a year, but this winter things became so bad I found myself homeless, and later, jobless. It took everything I had to pay NYU's fees for the next semester and to settle into a new place. As a first generation college student, I was determined not to let my circumstances prevent me from continuing my education. I didn't care what the cost was.
I explained my situation to the professors and counselors here at NYU. My grades suffered from all the time I had to devote to my new jobs. I missed classes so I could cover shifts. My essays were almost always late. I was losing my grip, exhausted after days that started at seven and ended in the early hours of the morning.
There wasn't much left to do. My counselors were kind but could offer no help. Despite my past academic performance, my contributions to the university, and overwhelming support from the faculty, the school would decidedly do nothing to help me.
So I did my best to find jobs that could support me while I finished my degree, though nothing could pay for both school and rent. I became desperate. I started responding to ads on Craigslist promising hourly payments from $80 to $110. I tried to transfer, but no university I applied to - whether they be public or private - would take NYU's credits. I couldn't just take time off or leave, since I would still have to pay for $20,000 worth of loans. I had exhausted all other resources. I thought if I wanted to finish school, there was nothing else I could do.
By the time I started working as a dominatrix, I had less than two weeks to make rent. I made the money in two days.
I was doing well, but I couldn't stay at the den. Friends and strangers alike asked too many questions about what I was doing, why there were bruises on my arms and legs. I started to work at a Tantra House instead, where they charged higher fees, had less competition, and wouldn't leave marks on my body. The men who visited me there were typically over thirty, married, and involved in business. They were strangely unafraid to talk about themselves and their personal lives. Perhaps they thought I was trustworthy, or maybe they thought I would be too afraid to talk about what I knew, lest I admit to the things I was doing.
But I'm not afraid, at least not anymore. I learned at the dominatrix den and at the Tantra House, almost every single girl who worked there was a student struggling to pay for school or to pay off her crippling student loans. Some were Sarah Lawrence girls, some went to CUNY or Cooper Union, but the vast majority go to or went to NYU.
My story is a common one, and that is why I need to tell it. Student prostitution is not a rarity - an outlier to be dismissed. Many of you know someone who has worked as a dominatrix, a masseuse, a stripper, or as an escort. If you don't, you know someone who does. It is an epidemic. We came to these universities to better ourselves, to work for a better life. No girl should have to sell herself to make that better life a reality.
I did it because I believed I had earned my place here. I did it because I refused to believe that my family's socio-economic status should prevent me from getting the best education I could. I did it because I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could make it through. And I did it because I thought in the end, maybe one day, I could forget.
I was one of the lucky ones. At the start of the summer, I had made enough money to walk away from sex work, at least for a few months. Now school is starting again and the process of looking for a well-paid part-time job starts all over. I am lucky. I am out. But I'm afraid that if things don't go well, I might have to go back.
To some members of the administration of NYU, I am another one of the faceless, nameless students paying for their summer homes and expansion projects, unaware that the money they've taken from me and countless other girls has been earned from prostitution.
To the other members of the administration, I'm Alex. Or maybe some call me Johanna.

 

3 Powerful Questions That Will Uplevel Your Life

3 Powerful Questions That Will Uplevel Your Life

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You don't really know what you want. You are constantly second guessing yourself. Is my job right for me? Am I in the right relationship? What if I am meant to be doing something else?
This not knowing and doubting is confusing and you feel stressed and anxious.
Ever been there? Sounds familiar?
It is not that you aren't trying and doing your best to make things work. You do.
Yet, you still find it hard to enjoy yourself and be happy -- and you feeling this way is likely not only affecting yourself but also people around you.
Chances are that you are simply not asking yourself the right questions and that you are failing to appreciate the good things that are already in your life.
The cool thing is that you can change this quickly. More clarity, confidence and enthusiasm is easily achieved by simply shifting your perception.
Because, the changes that matter most are often changes of perception rather than changes in the world around us.
And we can change the way we perceive the world and ourselves in a heartbeat - through asking ourselves the right questions.
By asking yourself the right questions in the right way you build that connection with yourself.
That is how you create more clarity.
People who are confident and able to make things happen for themselves and others are those people who are very clear on WHO they are, WHAT they want, and HOW they want to RELATE to the people around them.
For the next three days ask yourself the following three questions every day:
  1. What do I want to let go of in life?
  2. What do I want to keep in my life?
  3. What do I want to invite into my life?
When you take the time and ask yourself these questions focus initially more on qualities within you and your habits.
This has two reasons:
  • Your inner qualities, habits and behaviours are within your control to change - other people's not so much.
  • Changing your perception is an internal process
You'll find that through reflection on these questions regularly you start to think, feel, and act differently - for the better.
When change start to happen inside of you this is reflected not only by how you feel but also by changes in the world outside of you.
People start to respond differently to you. Different opportunities start to present themselves.
You uplevel your life by taking consistent positive action and interact with people and the world from a place of knowing who you are, knowing what it is you want and knowing how you want to relate to the people around you.
Let's take a closer look at these questions.
What do I want to let go of in life?
Is there any quality that you want to let go off? Impatience maybe? The tendency to quickly make assumptions and jump to conclusions? Laziness?
What habits are holding you back? Is the way you eat serving you? What about your sleep habits? Do you hydrate enough?
What do I want to keep in my life?
This is a lovely question to look at all the good in your life. And, if unexamined it also reveals what it is you may have been taking for granted.
This question is what leads to cultivating gratitude and appreciation. Two things when present within you are said to lead to a heightened sense of happiness.
Reviewing your life and circumstances and consciously looking for what is already in place and working for you on a regular basis is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself.
Cultivate the feeling and experience of gratitude. Above all, express it!
Share your gratitude with people, write it in a journal or go do a happy dance outside. - don't keep it only in your mind.
Try it, you'll like it.
What do I want to invite into my life?
It is tempting to default to what external things you want to invite into your life. Better job, more money, right partner, etc.
Nothing wrong with that in itself. However, start and really spend time first reviewing what internal things you want to invite into your life.
More health? More acceptance? Confidence? Kindness to yourself and the people around you?
What habits will enrich your life?
Want to feel loved more? Then love more! Remember that love is something that needs to be expressed. What you give is what you receive.
For the next three days focus on the internal things that will help you most.
The more beautiful your inner world becomes the more beauty the outer world will reflect back to you.
The bridge between both are your perception and the actions you take.
Final step -- the key to success
Always, and I mean always! Always create a plan to make your answers to the questions actionable. Act on your insights!
Be persistent in finding ways on how you can practically follow up on your answers.
Put your clarity into action!
To help you I have created a complimentary online program where I take you through this process. Give it a go and let me know how you get along. Success!

 

No. 1 Action to Change Your Personal and Professional Challenges

No. 1 Action to Change Your Personal and Professional Challenges

In a recent interview I was asked for one highly beneficial health advice or tip that the audience can implement immediately.
What I shared was that you have to keep your attention in the present moment. Keep pulling your attention back into the present moment by focusing on what you are doing, feeling, seeing, tasting and hearing.
When you keep your attention in the present moment, you are managing your mind and not letting your mind manage you.
When you space out or become unconscious by letting your mind wander into the past or future, it is a waste of time and energy because neither exist except in your imagination and you can't create anything new from this unconscious state of mind.
The past and future are not where you are powerful and resourceful. The more you can stay in the present moment and make conscious choices about what you desire and express your inspirations, the more authentic you are. The more authentic you are, the more empowered, influential, creative, intuitive, loving, attractive, charismatic, turned ON and happier you are.
Being conscious about how you are experiencing your world will give you valuable information about what you are enjoying and what you'd like to change. With this information you can then make better decisions and new choices to change those things you no longer desire through new thoughts, actions and beliefs.
I'd like to challenge you to COMMIT to doing this inner work on yourself, not TRY to do it, and see how shifts of energy and attention can uplift your life and have tremendous positive impact with your purpose in the world.
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It's Going To Take A Lot To Make America Great Again

It's Going To Take A Lot To Make America Great Again

 

“Shared prosperity is not around the corner.”
That’s the conclusion of a new study out by Harvard Business School that surveyed a wide swath of alumni. Entrepreneurship in America is in particular trouble.
The study says there are structural problems with the American economy, meaning that the economy’s issues aren’t just remnants of the Great Recession, but are underlying, ongoing issues that existed before the recession.
One of these structural issues is that “starting a business may have become less a path to the middle class and more a way that the advantaged become more prosperous.” In other words, if you went to Harvard Business School, you’ll probably be fine. Otherwise, things aren’t looking great.
This is how HBS graduates see the American business climate in 2015. They like the opportunities for entrepreneurship and dislike the tax code.
But the report is not so much about how HBS grads think business is great -- it instead goes out of its way to point out that its results don’t line up with the more general data available on small businesses in the U.S. The authors think it might be because, well, they asked Harvard alumni:
Perhaps entrepreneurship in America has become more accessible for educated, well-connected individuals such as HBS alumni but less accessible to the population as a whole. Declines in household wealth and home equity might have taken away the assets that many individuals used in the past to finance new businesses, and rising student debt might deter those individuals from taking on the risk of a startup. If so, then starting or buying a business may become less a pathway to a middle-class life and more a way that the advantaged become more prosperous. Entrepreneurship might become a source of prosperity but not shared prosperity in the United States.

It’s harder for the average person to get access to the lump of cash that’s often necessary to start a business. The venture capital industry is booming, but it's looking to contribute money to startups looking to take over the world, like Uber, not the more quotidian kind, like a local auto dealership.
As a result, many survey respondents think income inequality is going to continue to be exacerbated. And they see this as a problem as much for businesses of the future as it is for the wage earners of the future.
Rising inequality — respondents explained in open-ended replies — reduces demand for the products of companies that cater to the working- and middle-class, creates a backlash against successful companies, undermines social stability, and makes it hard for individuals to invest in skills that companies need.

A full 71 percent of respondents think that some sort of negative economic outcome, be it rising inequality or higher poverty or lower social mobility, is a business problem.

 

Falling In Love With My Grandson

Falling In Love With My Grandson

 

My daughter, my eldest child, just had her first child -- a baby boy. They live in Israel, and I flew over for his birth and to help afterwards. What was meant to be a two-week trip, became four and I became an integral part of a very important time in my first grand baby's life, and in those first few weeks that my daughter became a mother.
Having spent the past 25 years learning the depths of love from my three children, I was prepared to love the little person we were all waiting for. However, when I held him for the first time and saw her distinct features blended with my eldest son's and my son in law's, on an tiny new face, my heart stopped and I was transported back to those precious early hours when I held my own newborns.
I had the privilege and joy of spending the first 21 days with my grandson: rocking him, singing to him, memorizing his tiny features, and telling him I love him, as we all sought refuge from the intense Tel Aviv summer heat. Nestled in a small apartment, I sang the same Peter, Paul and Mary songs that my own babies loved. He sought comfort in the crook of my neck and I savored the rich smell of his amniotic sweetness. In those 21 days we became a new family, and I promised over and over- in whispered endearments, that I will always be there for him. This is just our beginning.

 

I'm Scared of Gaining Too Much Pregnancy Weight


I'm Scared of Gaining Too Much Pregnancy Weight


I'm 28 weeks pregnant and I have become consumed with the idea that I'm gaining too much weight. I think about how much I'm eating all the time, even though I'm on track for the right amount to gain.  To be honest, I have always thought a lot about my weight, and worried about getting fat, but this is a new level of obsession. I feel bad, like I am hurting my unborn baby by stressing out so much.  Sometimes I try to cut calories all day and then I'm starving at night so I binge on ice cream.  My husband thinks my behavior is strange but he would never believe it if he knew how often I think about food, weight, and mentally calculate the calories in what I eat. Am I truly crazy?
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Dear MCTWA,
No, you're not crazy, but you do show signs of disordered eating. It's not just you, though.
Many women become obsessed with their weight, not only during pregnancy, but throughout their lives. Pregnancy is particularly difficult because there is no way to really diet, since you know doing so would harm the baby, and your body is changing rapidly, dramatically, and, many feel, pretty unattractively.  But honestly, women often feel like crap about their bodies a great percentage of the time, and engage in semi-disordered eating constantly.  What do I mean by semi-disordered? Well, here are the DSM criteria for anorexia:
  • Refusal to maintain a body weight that is at or above the minimum normal weight for your age and height
  • Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though you're underweight
  • Denying the seriousness of having a low body weight, or having a distorted image of your appearance or shape
  • In women who've started having periods, the absence of a period for at least three consecutive menstrual cycles
You're saying, well, I'm a normal weight, I've obviously not anorexic. But if you leave out the criteria that have to do with weight and only focus on the ones that have to do with how you THINK about eating and your body image, do you fit the profile? You exhibit intense fear of gaining weight and I'm betting you have a disordered image of your shape (e.g., you think you look fatter than you do). The book Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem? (The Almost Effect) talks about this issue in detail.  There are so many women (and, increasingly, men) who constantly count calories, feel bad about their bodies on a daily basis, have outsized fears of certain foods (e.g., pizza, ice cream), and who use the number on the scale as an indicator of whether they should feel okay about themselves that day or not. Just because you aren't below a certain weight, vomit up your food, or binge eat, it does not mean you don't have disordered eating.
Was your mother also very focused on being thin or not eating "bad" or high calorie foods? Often poor body image and eating issues are passed from generation to generation. Therefore, sadly, your  poor self-image in regards to your weight may be transmitted to your child, when he/she grows up and is old enough to realize that mommy is always worried about what she eats, or your child notices you looking in the mirror and frowning.  Even if you don't openly call yourself fat or talk about dieting, your child will pick up on the fact that you feel bad about yourself and that it has to do with eating.
However, the good news is that the cycle can end with you. If you focus on self-acceptance and focus on what your body can do (give birth, nurse, exercise, have sex, and so forth) rather than its measurements, this can be a start to changing your almost-eating disorder. A skilled therapist may be able to help you with this, because it is certainly not easy to change how you view your body and food. Read this guest post here about how the book Intuitive Eating changed someone's relationship with food for the better.
Good luck with this, and with your pregnancy.  Till we meet again, I remain, The Blogapist Who Tried to Eat 1000 Calories a Day For Three Months Before Prom And Didn't Think That Was A Problem At The Time.
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Friday 17 July 2015

Glamour Model Stopped From Seeing Pope Because She Wasn’t Wearing A Bra - See Photos




A controversial glamour model was escorted from a public gathering to see the Pope because she was wearing a revealing top without a bra.

Saturday 17 January 2015

Elechi Snubbed, Booed At Jonathan’s Rally In Ebonyi


Elechi Snubbed, Booed At Jonathan’s Rally In Ebonyi

Governor of Ebonyi State, Martin Elechi, was conspicuously left in the cold during the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential campaign rally for President Goodluck Jonathan in Abakaliki, the state capital, on Friday.
The governor, who has lost control of the PDP structure in his state, was not given an opportunity to speak at the rally, which held at the Abakaliki Township Stadium, as is the tradition.
He was slated to speak on item nine of the official programme of the rally, but for undisclosed reasons, he was ignored throughout the event, where the National Chairman of the PDP, Adamu Muazu, handed the flag of the party to the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Dave Umahi, who also happens to be Elechi’s deputy.
Elechi’s loyalists, who did not participate in the primaries that produced Umahi as the governorship candidate of the PDP, had reportedly moved to the Labour Party.
The governor was also booed at the event by a section of the crowd, which turned out for the rally.
But the unruly behavior of the crowd had prompted the immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Sam Egwu, to speak up for Elechi, urging everybody to remember that the governor remained the leader of the party in the state and therefore deserved respect.
Speaking at the rally, Egwu said, “We have a leader in this state and why Ebonyi is one is that they are peaceful people; they are people that respect culture; they are people that respect authority; they are people that when their leaders speak, they hear him.
“I want to ask you please, no matter your personal grievances, we have a governor that is in charge of the state. He is our governor and you must, as a matter of principle and authority, respect him.
“Forget whatever are your personal grievances; the governor is the governor of this state and he is our governor and you must give him all the respect he deserves.
“If you are somebody, who has personal grievances, take it outside this place. We have Nigerians before us here; we have the President of the country before us here. So, please, I plead with you”.
Speaking at the rally, President Jonathan promised that if voted into office for a second term, he would upgrade infrastructure, institutions and industries within the state.
Stating that the Abaliki rice was already popular, the president said “What we want to do is to improve on our farming, the quality of our produce, cassava and so on. It will surely key into our rice revolution.
“We will develop young men and women that will go into commercial agriculture. We must work with people in Ebonyi State to encourage small and medium scale industries. That is the only thing we will do to create to job. Ebonyi State luckily has a lot of minerals. With the drop in the oil price, government will surely diversify the economy. Solid minerals and agriculture are some of these areas that we will go in”.

Thursday 25 December 2014

Why You Must Not Vote For PDP In 2015

Why You Must Not Vote For PDP In 2015


Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole wants Nigerians to reject the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at all levels in next year’s general elections. This is because he believes Nigerians will remain in darkness as long as the PDP remains in power.
Oshiomole, who spoke, yesterday, while receiving about 2,000 members of the PDP from Oredo and Egor Local Government Areas of the state led by Mr. Festus Oviawe and Igbe Kingsley respectively into the APC, said that the choice before the people in the next elections was a very clear one, a choice between darkness and change.
“In the last 16 years, Edo State gained nothing from the PDP besides the resurfacing of the Ofosu-Benin Road and the attempt at the dualisation of the Okene-Benin Road, with all its imperfections, which they were forced to embark on after we cried out that how could they dualise the road from Abuja and stop abruptly in Okene without extending it to Edo.
“In 16 the last years, after spending over $25 billion, we have no light. Now they have shared the electricity companies to their friends and associates. For as long as they remain in power, Nigerians will remain in darkness. Our companies will remain shut and the economy will be subjected to the vagaries of instability of the international oil market,” he said.
The governor, while further giving reasons why the PDP must not be voted in 2015, accused President Goodluck Jonathan of abandoning Edo State after getting the people’s votes.
“He got 95 percent vote from Edo State. What has he done in Edo, what has he done in Benin City? The Queen Edo erosion was caused by the Federal Government and I had written several letters to them to fix their mess, yet they ignored us and gave money to Delta and Kogi states.
“See the newly refurbished airport in Benin. I was there and the roof was leaking during the rain. Is that the kind of government we still want in Nigeria? No way. For too long, across Nigeria, PDP has buffeted us with, lies, empty promises, both at the political level and economic front and every day they have run short of lies and they have run short of excuses,” Oshiomole said.

Sunday 17 August 2014

ATTENTION! A MUST READ,TELL YOUR CONCERNED FRIENDS

NOTE This is for those who did not put ebsu in jamb,but scored upto 180 in jamb.

SCHEDULE FOR EBSU 2014/2015 SUPPLEMENTARY POST UTME SCREENING TEST
AND O/L ONLINE
CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION FOR DIRECT ENTRY
AND OTHER CANDIDATES
This is to invite all candidates who scored
180 and above in the 2014/2015 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME),
but who did NOT choose Ebonyi State
University (EBSU), Abakaliki and those who
chose EBSU but failed to write our first Post
UTME of 1/8/14, to now apply to register/
process for our Supplementary Post-UTME
from Friday, 8th August – Thursday, 28th
August, 2014.This exercise is strictly for
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SOC STD, ENG, REL, IGBO EDU)
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* CROP PRODUCTION &
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* FOOD SCI. & TECH.
* FISHERIES & AQUACULTURE
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CHEM, PHY, INTG. SCI. EDU.)
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EDUCATION
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collect your e-transact print-out that bears
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(3) Payment can be made at any of the
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payments with correct JAMB
Registration Numbers.
For more information Call AMBASSADOR TOCHI ON 07068823942
Candidates should come to the
examination
centres with the following:
* Two clear copies (with clear picture) of
their Post UTME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SLIP
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notification slip and photocopy of O/L level
results to the examination centres for
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Thursday 14 August 2014

Ebola: Nigeria Withdraw Athletes from Youth Olympic Games

Ebola: Nigeria Withdraw Athletes from Youth Olympic Games

Nigeria “have resolved to pull out from the Youth Olympics” in China following the discriminatory treatment to her athletes.
Nigeria have pulled out of the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, after Team Nigeria’s athletes were quarantined, isolated and barred from getting access to training along with other athletes of the world since arriving at the games village.
Games officials have yet to react to the country’s withdrawal, meanwhile, the discrimination and subsequent quarantine of the athletes is believed to be connected to the Ebola virus outbreak in some part of West Africa.
The decision to withdraw Nigeria’s contingent from the Games was taken after a meeting with Sports Minister, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) president, Engr. Sani Ndanusa and the Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye.

Nanjing 2014: Nigeria Pulls Its Athletes from Youth Olympic Games Following Ebola Discrimination.
In a statement on Wednesday the NSC chief, Elegbeleye, protested against the inhumane treatment meted out to the Nigerian athletes, which he termed as “discriminatory”. The athletes and the officials have been directed to leave China and head back home.
The 2014 Youth Olympics is scheduled to hold between August 16 and 18.
Team Nigeria registered twelve athletes slated to participate in three sports: Athletics, Wrestling and Beach Volleyball.
The first edition of the Games- officially known as Summer Youth Games- was held in Singapore in 2010.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Youth Games in July 2007, with the aim of helping to discover fledgling talents for grooming and further development for prospective Olympic Games.

EBOLA: Salt Water Kills Three In Bauchi State

EBOLA: Salt Water Kills Three In Bauchi State

At least three people have been reported to have died, while a pregnant woman also landed in hospital, as a result of excessive intake of salt for the prevention of Ebola Virus in Bauchi State.
According to Vanguard report, an old man in Misau local council and three other adults in Bigi , Gudum Sayawa, and Bayara village, suburbs in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, were the victims of the salt intake exercise.

An unnamed source was quoted to have said that one of the deceased, Mr. Paul Bigi, 74, drank more than two cups of salted water and also rub some on his body after bathing with the salt water as advised by his children.
“Less than one hour after he took the salt water, Baba started deficating non-stop and he died in the morning around 7am,” the source said.
Also in Gumdum Sayawa, it was gathered that one John Ayuba made use of one bag of salt in one drum of water for bathing and one bag of salt in another drum of water for drinking due to large number of people living in his house.
A family source informed that Ayuba died of diarrhea and vomiting moments later.
Meanwhile, a health worker who did not want his name published, at the Bayara Specialist Hospital informed that a hypertensive patient drank three glasses of water filled with salt.
He said: “A hypertensive patient who drank three classes of salt water was brought by his relatives to our hospital. He did not survive the crisis as his blood level has exceeded the normal range”
In Gudum Sayawa, a pregnant woman, Mrs. Hanatu Kushi, was said to have a miscarriage after taking salt solution.
Mrs Kushi is said to be currently being treated at a private hospital in the area.
When contacted, the Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Sani Malami, denied reports of outbreak of Ebola in the state, saying the rumour was to create unnecessary panic.
He advised the citizens of the state to remain vigilant and report any suspected cases of severe fever to the nearest health facility, assuring that adequate measures have been put in place to treat infected persons.

The Ebola virus is believed to have killed no fewer than three people in Lagos since its outbreak in Nigeria in July via Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer.
According to Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, 11 people have been confirmed to have contracted the deadly disease while more than hundred of others are being monitored for symptoms of the Ebola virus.
The World Health Organisation, WHO, says at least 1069 people have died of the virus since February this year.
Nigerians and citizens of Guinea, Sierre Leone and Liberia have been advised to wash their hands regularly and avoid contact with animals like monkey, bats, antelopes e.t.c to avoid contracting the Ebola virus.

Imo 2015: Ararume Sets Campaign Ball Rolling, Appoints Ogunewe Campaign Director

Imo 2015: Ararume Sets Campaign Ball Rolling, Appoints Ogunewe Campaign Director

Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in Imo State, one of the major contestants, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, has appointed Hon. Independence Ogunewe as his campaign director.
Ararume also appointed a former senatorial candidate and businessman, Chief Okey Ikoro, as the deputy director general, to ensure his victory at the 2015 general election.
Ararume, in a statement signed by his political adviser, Mr Chinedu Nwogwugwu and made available to journalists in Abuja yesterday, said the appointment of Mr. Ogunewe had sent shock waves down the spine of other aspirants from Mbaise clan, which comprises three local governments.