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It’s wonderful news for Chidiogo Akunyili, daughter of the Late Dora Akunyili, as she gets married to her love, Andrew.

The writer wrote a post on Instagram describing how her relationship with her new hubby has been, writing how blessed she is to have him. She described how she had written down the type of man she wanted and sure enough, 7 months later he appeared.

Read excerpts:

“Celebrating our civil union. Excited for all the white & colourful celebrations with friends and family to come. Thank you Andrew for being a daily reminder of the miracles that exist in this world and the power we have to tap into it.

On a cold February evening in Geneva, I wrote down words that I feel connected our destinies & led our paths to cross 7 months later in the deserts of Nevada. “Monday, 8 Feb 2016. Geneva – Clayton asked that I do a true exercise of what I want. Here goes. I seek a partnership with a strong man, mind, body and spirit. I seek a partnership with a man who will cherish, love and honour me & the life we build together, supporting each other through the journey with kindness, love, a smile & words that put difficulties in perspective. He will not be away from home all the time but have a career that allows for him to assist strongly and sometimes wholly in building a home for us and for the children. He will be conscious and inspire us to grow in consciousness. He will be full of kindness and have a depth of love that leaves us inspired by what two people can achieve together. He will hold me and we will give gratitude. He will be flexible. He is adventurous/open to new experiences. He is happy in himself & together we share happiness in God and Love.”

7 months later after strong guidance came to me to go to Burning Man — I met him. It was a story of the union of souls. I felt I had written him to existence and rejoiced in the connection we shared. One I know started with a decision to focus on the wholeness of my own soul — self love — & from the space of taking time for self I was ready to take time for another’s soul and him mine in turn. I was not looking for a man so save me but a man to hold me up in my own strength. Together we continue to weave a web of care, love, strength, that isn’t without its difficulties but I’m learning & growing with & from them.

I say yes to a life spent together in partnership — to holding each other up outwardly and on the inside — to loving every part of ourselves and each other knowing we have the power to create and re-create from a place of peace with what is & the infinity that can be.”

 

Here Is the post.

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So I just saw a post on YabaLeft about 15 yahoo boys that were arrested by EFCC and coffins and charms were discovered in their house. As usual, people were condemning the guys while some were saying the guys were ritualists and that yahoo boys don’t do rituals. One comment struck my attention… This guy went ahead to say that those condemning yahoo boys are SLAVES and that yahoo boys are kings. Immediately I saw that comment, I said ”Mo fo oo”…. One Aunty even went ahead to place deadly curses on people condemning yahoo boys.

I honestly do not understand why someone would say something like that. If you want to defend yourself or someone else, do so intellectually. Do so without getting aggressive. Why call people names? Personally, I stay away from some discussions because I don’t like arguing with people that just won’t argue intellectually. These days, I just avoid rash arguments because I cannot allow someone to come and give me headache for nothing. I tell people that if what you do makes you sleep so well at night, continue doing it. Everything you do is between you and your Creator.

The moment you get unnecessarily defensive and start calling people names or cursing people because they do not see things from your own point of view, it means your level of stupidity surpasses your level of intelligence.

*drops pen*

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After watching her grandmother struggle to remember her own family members, the young coder Emma Yang decided to figure out how to use AI and facial recognition to help her–and others coping with the illness.

A 14-Year-Old Made An App To Help Alzheimer’s Patients Recognize Their Loved Ones
[Photo: Emma Yang]

Born in Sudan, raised in Australia and now living in New York, top model Ajak Deng broke into the modelling world about a decade ago, when she was scouted while still in secondary school.

She made her runway debut at Melbourne Fashion Week, and has since stormed the runway for the likes of Louis Vuitton, Givenchy and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Growing up was no walk in the park for her, as her family fell victim to the civil war in South Sudan which led them to flee to a refugee camp in Kenya where they spent three years. After losing her mother to malaria, the Australian government moved her family out to Melbourne when she was 11 years old, and that was the beginning of her runway fate.

Although given her sculpted physique, stunning skin tone and striking features, you’d think a career in modelling was predestined for her, however her initial dream was to fight in the army.

Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald about becoming a model, Ajak said:

“I wanted to join the army but my teachers at Kurunjang Secondary College told me no, that it wouldn’t be for me.

They knew I loved to travel and had a thing for fashion and suggested modelling, and since then I haven’t looked back.”

Ajak is very hard to miss, and you’ve probably noticed her in a magazine editorial or storming the runway during fashion week. Despite this, as per usual in any industry, her race poses a problem as she doesn’t get booked as much as other white models do. To protest this, in February 2016, the model announced in a now deleted Instagram post saying:

“I am happy to announce that I am officially done with the fashion industry, I will be moving back to Australia in order to live the life that I fully deserved, which is real life. I can no longer deal with the fakes and the lies… My life is too short for this dramatic life.”

We need more models like this shaking the table so that black models get their coins for their good and hard work!!

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Gloria Oloruntobi, popularly known as Maraji on Instagram gained fame after series of her funny videos went viral on social media. . She has earned more than 650,000 followers creating skits about everything from friendship to gossip to film and television.

Here are some things to know about her:

1. She was born on the 6th of February 1997

2. She studied international relations at Covenant University.

3. Born in Edo State, Nigeria, she has one sister and two brothers.

4. In addition to her Instagram account, she has also been known to create lip sync videos for her maraji_ musical.ly account.

 

5. Maraji’s consistency in delivering highly entertaining content via instagram saw her reach hundreds of thousands of followers and engage with millions in little over 12 months.

6. It was at university she started  making lip sync videos out of boredom.

7. Her greatest fear would be to lose her mum and to lose her spirituality.

8. Her biggest achievement is the ability to make herself a public figure because she never used to be one.

 

 

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Pastor Faith Abiola Oyedepo is the wife of Dr. David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, and Senior Pastor of Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.

In her own way, she has managed to help her husband move his ministry woman in ways that most would imagine a woman cannot.

She is 60 years old and definitely a woman who is worth celebrating. So, we join the world as they celebrate this great icon.

1. She got married to her husband in 1982

2. She was still in school (University of Ife) while her husband was still a student in Kwara polytechnic when they met at a motor  park.

3. Before marrying her, he took her to church and made her sign an agreement to marry him in whatever condition.

4. She propagates the Good News of Jesus Christ along with her husband, in numerous nations of the world, with a mission to liberate the oppressed.

5. Pastor Faith Oyedepo, is the Vice President, Education, of the Living Faith Church Worldwide (the Proprietor of Covenant University) .

6. Pastor Faith is endeared to many in Nigeria, and across the globe, especially for her endless work in strengthening the family unit.

7. She has written several books, and maximized various avenues of communication, such as media outlets, to become an authority in the area of family, youth, and women empowerment, as well as marital success.

8. She has been happily married for over three decades now, with four wonderful grown up children, and grandchildren.

 

 

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You know how they say disappointments are blessings in disguise? Well, Daala Oruwari is living proof of this.

The OAP just took to Instagram to share the story of a chain of disappointments that ended up saving her life.

According to her, she had gone out with her family to apply for their permanent voter’s card (PVC) but were met with one delay of the other.

From the registration itself to car battery issues, everything that could go wrong went wrong. That is until she started feeling dizzy and passed out.

Waking up in the hospital, Daala was told that her blood pressure had been very low and if they had left the premises of the Ikoyi club where they had gone to register for their PVC, she may have died.

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Presently, Daala who is a graduate of Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, works with Ovation TV. She used to be a VJ for Hip TV and prior to that, she worked with Dynamix TV.

Once again, an age-old proverb is proven right and another life saved.

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Instead of begging for alms after she lost her husband, Fatima Abdullahi, a mother of four decided to go into the business of selling bean cake popularly known as “akara.”

Surprisingly, she makes an average of N5000 daily from selling akara and pap, known as “koko”.

Fatima  said she started her business about 10 years ago after the death of her husband because there was no one to help her and her kids, and she hated the idea of begging.

I started with as little as N3000, and gradually expanded the business by adding sweet potato and now I make an average of N5000 daily, about N150,000 monthly. Although the business is stressful and dangerous because you have to seat by the fire every day, it is helping me to pay the bills, take care of my children. At least I can afford to pay school fees for my children and medical bills when the need arises. Whether a widow or housewife, you can start a business, no matter how small, so as to have financial freedom,” she said.

Read more on Punch

 

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In 2015, UNICEF reported that one in four girls and one in ten boys in Nigeria experience sexual violence before the age of 18. And according to a survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access, over 31.4 percent of girls surveyed said their first sexual encounter had been rape or forced sex of some kind. Narrowing it down a little, in Lagos, the number of reported sexual assault victims increased by 100% between 2006 and 2015; and between 2015 and 2017, it went up by 200%.

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But the Lagos State government, thankfully, looks like it is taking a definite stand against sexual assault and related offences. Yesterday, four Special Offences and Sexual Offences courts were commissioned in Lagos by the wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, the state’s Deputy Governor Idiat Adebule, and the Lagos State First Lady, Mrs Bolanle Ambode. Two of the courts will adjudicate on economic and financial crimes, while the other two will try sexual offences. The state is also working on expanding the operations of the DNA and Forensic Centre and Chemistry section.

If you’re wondering why this is huge news, it’s because this is the first of its kind in Nigeria. That’s right, after 58 years of existence, Nigeria (the government) has yet to take sexual offences seriously. Between 2015 and now, the DSVRT and Mirabel Centre (both in Lagos) have handled over 400 cases of sexual offences while 376 cases are being prosecuted in the various courts. And, there are currently about 600 pending sexual offense cases in the high court of Lagos, not including the ones in the Magistrate courts.

Dedicated courts for sexual crimes are now more mandatory than ever. The hope that we all have is that one, the establishment of these courts will facilitate faster hearing and trial of sexual crimes and get survivors justice and closure; two, that this will jumpstart a nationwide establishment of special courts like these; and three (this the most important), that the judges who hear these sexual cases will really not be the kinds who will blame the victim.

But more than anything, thank you, Lagos. Other states need to absolutely follow.

 

Culled from konbini.com

Femi Otedola’s daughter Dj Cuppy, is setting her 2018 plan in motion with supporting 10 students to school.

The billionaire heiress will be paying for the school tuition of 10 students this year. The welfare plan is already in motion as the first student is set to go to school.

Gospel artiste, Nikki Laoye has commended Cuppy for her support. Nikki Laoye is the founder of the Angel4Life Foundation, that helped the first student Akeem Owolabi get his tuition for his studies.

Keep up the good work Cuppy.

See the posts below.

I plan to send 10 people to university this year and I’m so proud to say I have completed with my first student! 🙏🏾🎓 Akeem Owolabi is off to Unilag!

 

 

Source: fabwoman.ng