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Singer, Jodie, who gave birth in April 2016, took to her Instagram page to write an emotional post about her son with ‘special needs’.

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Lately I’ve been pondering on how my life turned around since God “shocked” me into *Godsciousness* through events in my life – especially by giving me a special son.

My boy is special – not because of what the medical system thinks, but because he actually IS special indeed.

Dear special parent, sometimes, God wraps gifts in cases we may not understand at first, but as the gift unfolds, we are struck by the awesomeness and mercy of God.

I used to ask “Why me?” (in sorrow) months ago, but now, I ask “Why me?” out of deep gratitude.

I don’t care what you think may have happened to cause your child to be the way he/she is at the moment – you may say it’s the hospital that caused it; or the doctors may have said it’s genetic; or maybe a sickness shortly after he/she was born… whether it was avoidable or unavoidable: whatever the case you think it is, remember this, “God has ALLOWED it to happen”. Please submit to Him… the PURPOSE will be accomplished.

Follow Him one day at a time – that is what I am doing o! As you go through, things will be clearer. That child is God’s child FIRST and be assured God loves him/her more than you do. He laid down His life for that child and we are all meant for Him. (Rev 4:11)

This text is not for everyone, but if it is meant for you, please take it to heart.

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Check out beautiful Infinity Ankara Gele styles that you can rock to your next Owambe! Enjoy!

 

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A warrior’s story needs to be told over and over, far and wide. It is the story of survival against the tide of pain, medical bills, and the emotional upheaval of living with sickle cell.

Wana Udobang‘s latest series tells the story of sickle cell warriors. Warriors is an interview series that takes an in-depth look into the lives and experiences of people living with Sickle Cell disease,” Wana Udobang says.

This episode features Greg Emuze, who shared his story of strength and determination.

“It wasn’t exactly easy to say you have sickle cell,” he said, adding that to him, the bane of the disease is having to lose time meant for other things during a crisis.

Greg describes the pain as similar to being hit by a truck. He says while taking painkillers can work, it is only for a while as sometimes, your body can become used to the drugs and it either reduces its effects or stop working for your system entirely.

He said: “Sickle cell pain can be really terrible and could go on for a while.”

Greg further talks about his friends and family who have been really supportive.

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Songwriter and singer, Seyi Shay, took to her Instagram page to show off her two adopted children.

According to her, she adopted them because their future is so bright – she says both of them, a boy and a girl, are in private universities and are just home for the holidays.

 

She wrote:

”I adopted these two because their futures are so bright, I had to wear Ray Bans to talk to them when I met them. Both in private universities and home for the holidays. Proud mum. I have two hearts. Ray of hope.”

 

So I’ve been sitting quietly, studying Nigerians’ reactions ever since Falz made that comment about internet scammers, and was I disappointed? Seriously speaking, do we have problem with English Language or are we just trying to be incredible clowns?? Falz didn’t say that you people shouldn’t do ‘yahoo yahoo’ na..all he said was that ARTISTES should stop GLORIFYING internet scams..are you an artiste ni?? so why bother yourself with what he said or didn’t say?? Why not let them artistes come out to defend their music and their choice of lyrics?? But mbah, we have to show the world that we have issues with understanding and interpreting literal terms and English Language itself *sighs*

Internet scam and credit card frauds are not the only way to make money so dude was just trying to caution his colleagues to stop glorifying ‘yahoo yahoo’ so the younger generations won’t grow up with the staunch belief that internet scam is the only way where the money lies (after all, the young shall grow and they are the leaders of tomorrow..let’s not forget that corruption don full ground already) I really don’t understand why y’all are getting defensive and rude since y’all are doing something ‘right’!

To make matter more interesting, remarkable young Segun Wire, replied ‘Lawyer turned musician’ Falz, and we all went crazy! Jesu! Lemme grab a drink while y’all keep on believing that ‘bird-poop’ story that, that boy actually came up with that interestingly boring, lenghty reply. I was actually enjoying and relating to that post but he lost me totally when he dragged Falz’s dad into the matter..I was like “Mo fo ooo, are we dragging the family tree into this ni??” If you have proof to nail his dad, kuku whistle-blow on him and get him arrested but as long as you don’t have any proof, you have no right whatsoever to drag him into this matter! For all I care, that reply was defensive..now the thing is, since you are right, why are you getting defensive?? You get defensive only when you are wrong and you want to try so hard to justify your wrong act! We all are sinners so there’s really no need to justify your sins..

I told my sis that Tonto Dikeh lost that war against Churchill immediately she granted that first interview..she presented weapons to be used against her(that’s a post for another day) I’m this kind of person that people find it convenient enough to lie against. I can’t even remember the many blatant lies and untrue stories people have concorted about me…simply because I hardly come out to defend myself. I’m always like ”why should I be defensive when I know I’m right and this person is just a dirty, pathetic liar?” I usually let people get away with their lies and false accusations because I know they are unknowingly digging their graves, while I quietly gather evidences to prove my innocence. Once you finish digging your grave, I will let Karma bury you and I will cover you up with my innocence!…Believe me, when you are right, there’s no need for you to get unnecessarily defensive!

I read one comment where this ‘Anti’ was like ”Stop calling yahoo guys, illegal. They are hardworking guys that hustle while lazy guys sleep in the night” I just sighed and rolled my eyes. That post could have been the bomb but she had to go spoil it with that ‘while lazy guys sleep in the night” Like, are you kiddin me right now?? I am not into yahoo yahoo but I have a job…I’ve been working all day and I decide to get my well-deserved rest in the night, and that makes me lazy?? Kuku beat me up na! Defend what you to do without having to degrade someone else na.

Bottom line? Falz didn’t go out of line because he didn’t say you shouldn’t engage in internet scam. All he said was that artistes should stop glorifying ‘yahoo yahoo’ so people don’t get misled! As for me, I will say do whatever makes you sleep peacefully every night..and is at peace with your conscience! Lobatan!

Everyone has the right to his or her own beliefs and opinions..and you don’t have any right whatsoever to attack or be abusive (or even be stupid)while opposing anyone’s opinion.

 

I saw this quote somewhere: ‘Real hustlers don’t talk. They just hustle’

 

*drops pen*

 

– Lydia Oladejo

 

 

Zhou Qunfei is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the major touchscreen maker Lens Technology. After the public listing of her company on the Shenzhen ChiNext market in March 2015, her net worth temporarily reached US$10 billion, making her the richest woman in China.

She was born the youngest of three children in 1970 to a poor family in Xiangxiang, Hunan province, China. Her mother passed away when she was five. As a child she helped her family raise animals for sustenance and small profit. Although she was the only one out of her siblings to attend secondary school and showed promise as a bright student (her former middle-school teacher described her as being a “hard-working and talented student”), she dropped out at age 16 and moved in with her uncle’s family to become a migrant worker in Shenzhen, the special economic zone in Guangdong province. While she briefly considered pursuing a government job for its stability, she discarded the idea as lacking a diploma would make it difficult to do so.

In Shenzhen she deliberately chose to work for companies near Shenzhen University, so she could take part-time courses at the university. She studied many subjects and passed the examinations to be certified for accounting, computer operations, customs processing, and even became licensed for driving commercial vehicles. Her biggest regret is not having studied English.

Zhou got a job working for a small family-run firm making watch parts for about 180 yuan a month. Displeased with the working conditions, she decided to quit after three months and submitted a letter of resignation explaining her reasons, yet expressing gratitude for the working opportunity. The letter moved the factory chief to offer her a promotion instead.

When the factory folded, she established her own company in 1993 at age 22, with her savings of HK$20,000 (USD$3,000). It was her cousin who encouraged her to start on her own business, and the company began with her brother, sister, their spouses, and two cousins all working out of a three bedroom apartment. The company appealed to customers by promising higher-quality watch lenses. Here, she took a hand on approach and involved herself in all parts of the company, including repairs and creating improved designs of factory machinery. In 2001, she caught her big break when her company won a profitable contract to make mobile phone screens for the Chinese electronics giant TCL Corporation.

Zhou Qunfei has stated that over the years she has started a total of 11 companies.

In 2003, while still producing watch faces, Zhou’s company received a request from Motorola to develop glass screens for their Razr V3, during a period when the mobile phone industry was transitioning from plastic to glass display screens.

Following this, Zhou Qunfei started touch-screen maker Lens Technology (named so that it would turn up to potential customers searching “lens” online) In 2003 and the company soon received orders from other mobile-phone makers such as HTC, Nokia, and Samsung Electronics. After producing the touch screens for Apple’s iPhone during its 2007 market entry, Lens developed into the dominant player of the industry. Lens Technology now primarily supplies touch-screens to leading electronics makers such as Apple, Samsung, and Huawei, receiving nearly 75% of its revenue from Apple and Samsung. The upcoming Apple Watches will use her company’s glass and sapphire crystal screens. As of April 2015, the company employs about 60,000 people, was expected to churn out more than a billion glass screens, and has 32 different factory locations.

On 18 March 2015, the 22nd anniversary of the founding of her first start-up, Lens Technology began trading on the ChiNext A-share market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company’s stock price rose by the market’s daily limit of 44% on the first day and 10% every subsequent day for 13 days in a row between 19 March and 2 April. This made Lens Technology China’s largest technology IPO in the first quarter of 2015.
During Lens’ 2015 IPO offering, Zhou’s (who holds 87.9% of the shares, a $7.2 billion stake as of July 2015) net worth rose 452%, dethroning Chen Lihua as China’s richest woman. She also holds the position of the world’s richest self made woman, and is one of the richest women in the technology sector.

As she holds an 87.9% of the company’s shares (having been credited the majority in stakes because she exerts strategic control of the company) worth $6.4 billion as of August 2016, her fortune has been put on par with media tycoon John C. Malone and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay.

Additionally, Zhou is on Forbes lists as #61 in 2016 Power Women, #205 in 2016 Billionaires (#9 out of Hong Kong billionaires), #18 in 2015 China Rich List, and #30 in 2015 Richest in Tech. Fortune ranked her #18 on their 2016 Most Powerful Women of Asia-Pacific list, and she is a newcomer to the list. Bloomberg has ranked her as #211 out of the world’s billionaires.

Zhou Qunfei’s rags-to-riches story has been hailed as an inspiration to the millions of migrant workers in China. In an interview with Gansu Television, she said the secret of her success was the desire to learn.

 

Nigerians have been ‘crucifying’ rapper, Falz, ever since he cautioned artistes to stop glorifying internet fraud ‘yahoo yahoo’ through their music. Well, Nigerian professional footballer, Asisat Oshoala, who plays as a forward in the Chinese Women’s Super league for Dalian Quanjian F.C., has taken to her Instagram page to express deep concern about how people are now proud to be fraudsters. In Falz’ defense, she insisted fraudsters shouldn’t be glorified. See her posts below;

Reality star, Kim Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West have reportedly agreed to use the services of a surrogate agency for a third child.

TMZ reports the couple took this decision because of Kim’s reported condition, placenta accreta which “occurs when the placenta attaches too deep in the uterine wall but it does not penetrate the uterine muscle.” It can be life-threatening when pregnant.

TMZ stated that the couple has agreed to pay monthly instalments of $4,500 for 10 months and an extra $5,000 for an additional child in case of more than one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The agreement places all liabilities of birth abnormalities or defects on Kim and Kanye. This latest development comes after on a new episode of ”Keeping Up With The Kardashians”, the reality star tells her family that she intends to undergo a surgery on her uterus that would allow her get pregnant again.

Best of luck to them!