A Czech woman has beaten staggering odds to become pregnant with quintuplets without using IVF. Alexandra Kinova, 23, is due to give birth by Caesarean section on Sunday to the Czech Republic's first ever set of quins. Ms Kinova, who already has one son, did not realise she was carrying five babies until last month.
However, it was not until the following month that she finally discovered she was having quintuplets. Ms Kinova, from Milovice, about 30 km east of Prague, told Czech news site denik.czthat she was in shock when she was told. She said: 'When we finally found a fifth head, I started to cry.' According to local media, her children will be the country's first set of quins. The odds of conceiving quins naturally is one is several million, according to experts. The mother said both she and her partner have a family history of twins.
Ms Kinova said she plans to breastfeed her quintuplets
She said aside from four months of morning sickness, she has had few complications in the pregnancy. Ms Kinova said she has been able to sleep on her side and has not had any problems with her breathing. And she said she plans to breastfeed all five, as she did with her first-born son. She told denik: 'The first child I nursed for almost a year and a half and I want to breastfeed now. 'While I know that some will be on artificial nutrition.' Ms Kinova said despite the best efforts of the doctors they still do not know the sex of all the babies. Two of the unborn babies are hidden underneath the other three - two boys and a girl, who she plans to call Daniel, Michael and Tereza. She said: 'I very much look forward to seeing how
they will look. It's a great charm, but we cannot see anything properly -
only a head or legs.' The hospital will double the number of doctors and midwives for her Cesarean. They
said they have administered drugs to help speed up the development of
the babies' lungs but they cannot be sure of their condition until they
are born. Dr Alena
Měchurová, head of the hospital, said they hope that all five babies and
the mother will be fine but said they cannot rule out complications.
Nigeria’s former president, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo said on Tuesday that the root causes of the Islamist
insurgency by Boko Haram need to be understood first before the problem
can be resolved. “We
have to identify our problem,” Obasanjo said, speaking on the sidelines
of a conference in Rome on a European Union project against drug
trafficking.
“The first thing is to identify the remote and
immediate cause of that problem,” he said, adding: “I have always
prescribed stick and carrot”.
Obasanjo said there was
“criminality” behind the Boko Haram insurgency — particularly
involvement in drug, arms and human trafficking.
But he said there were also fundamental problems with poverty and unemployment in northern Nigeria.
“This
is not an issue to be solved by a stick alone… These are issues that
you cannot solve overnight,” he said at a press conference.
Violence
linked to Boko Haram’s insurgency in northern and central Nigeria has
led to the deaths of some 3,000 people since 2009, including killings
by the security forces.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
earlier this month imposed a state of emergency in three states menaced
by Boko Haram, saying the level of violence calls for “extraordinary
measures”.
The 35-year-old former Real Madrid defender has agreed a 12-month deal with the newly-promoted Ligue 1 side
Ricardo Carvalho is the latest player to sign for Monaco after agreeing a one-year deal with the French club.
The
35-year-old defender, who spent three seasons at Real Madrid before his
switch to Claudio Ranieri's side, completed his move to the
Principality on Tuesday where he will join Joao Moutinho and James
Rodriguez, who recently completed a €70m switch from Porto.
Carvalho
told the official club website: "I'm very happy to join Monaco and to
be part of the new adventure. This is a new challenge for me."
The
newly-promoted Ligue 1 side backed by Russian billionaire Dmitry
Rybolovlev are also close to finalising a deal for Atletico Madrid
striker Radamel Falcao, who was in Monaco for a medical on Tuesday, and
Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes is reportedly close to sealing a
move.
Carvalho was in the Champions League-winning Porto side which beat Monaco 3-0 in the 2004 final.
Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday tasked political leaders to
adopt practical measures to accelerate effective utilisation of human
and natural resources for sustainable development in the country.
Obasanjo gave the challenge while speaking at the maiden Jigawa Economic and Investment Summit in Dutse.
The summit was organised by the state as part of the activities to mark the 2013 Democracy Day celebration.
The
major highlight of the summit was to encourage investment on
agriculture, information and communication technology (ICT), solid
minerals and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs).
Obasanjo
said that Nigeria was endowed with abundant natural and human
resources, which could be transformed to the social and economic
benefit of the people.
“Nigeria
is a land of opportunities and it is blessed with all it takes to
develop, it has been stagnant for so long, it is about time to change
these opportunities to actuality.
“There
is no reason why we should not do that, we must invest in education to
save the larger population of the country or else our population will
become a liability,” he said.
The
former president said that for Nigeria to attain sustainable
development, children must be trained, educated and be skilled in every
sector to be self-reliant.
Obasanjo
said it was necessary for the government at all levels to adopt
proactive measures to translate the improvement recorded on the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) to the wellbeing of the people.
He
explained that such improvement could be translated to provide
employment opportunities, wealth creation and poverty reduction in the
society.
According to him, a conducive and friendly business environment was necessary to attract investment opportunities.
Obasanjo commended the state government for its developmental stride in education, describing it as vital tool for development.
In
a speech, a member of British Parliament, Lord Boateng, said it was
good for the African countries to address the problem of capacity
building and poor policies to attract investment.
“The
challenge is to build capacity and communicate a message to move
sentiment to strategy and turn dreams into reality,’’ Boateng said.
He
said that for African states to attain sustainable development, they
must invest in agriculture, education and infrastructure.
Thank God, pilot tells Anambra Governor Peter Obi, others after scary flight
Bad weather keeps plane in air for hours Anxiety. Relief. Smiles and thanksgiving. That was the situation yesterday at the Lagos Airport where an Arik Air flight with over 100 Lagos to Asaba passengers aboard were scared. Flight W3788, which was supposed to take off at 8:30am, was delayed in Lagos on account of bad weather. About two hours on board the plane, passengers were asked to return to the departure lounge as the plane could not leave because of what the pilot called “terribly bad weather in Asaba.” After about three hours, the passengers, including Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, boarded the plane again because weather reports showed improvement within the internationally accepted landing standards. By this time, many passengers had cancelled their reservations. On getting to Asaba, the weather became bad again. Attempts at landing were difficult. The pilot promptly returned to Lagos. On reaching Lagos, the weather was also bad –by aviation standard. The plane had to go round for hours amidst dwindling aviation fuel. The plane finally landed at 4:45 pm with signs of relief from the traumatised passengers, who clapped in jubilation. The pilot, Captain Sandy Miller, told the passengers to thank God for His mercies. Speaking to aviation correspondents at the domestic wing , Obi, who travelled to South Africa on Sunday and returned yesterday to Lagos, said he was determined to make the flight to Asaba en route to Awka because he did not like staying outside Awka more than necessary. He said he had planned so many things he would have done yesterday. Obi said he had projects to inspect such as work at Upper-Iweka, the drainage challenge at Ogidi as well as the site for the construction of Agulu Lake Hotel Resort, which, according to him, would take off in a matter of days.
Contrary to some media reports, the Federal Government announced on Monday it had not cancelled any of its activities lined up for the celebration of the 2013 Democracy Day, holding tomorrow, May 29.
Secretary
to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim,
disclosed in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr
Sam Nwaobasi that government only shelved the usual parades held at the Eagle Square, Federal Secretariat, Abuja.
He added that the main event this year would be a presentation of a mid-term report by President Goodluck Jonathan to Nigerians.
He noted that the clarification became imperative in view of conflicting media reports.
The
statemennt reads in part, “This is to inform invited guests and the
general public that the 2013 Democracy Day celebration, at which event,
His Excellency, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, will present the Mid-Term
Report of his administration entitled: ‘Transformation Mid-Term Report: Taking Stock, Moving Forward,’
will hold at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, by 10.00 a.m.
on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 as is being announced in the print and
electronic media.
“Activities for the 2013 Democracy Day
celebration have commenced since Friday, May 24, 2013 with the national
juma’at at the National Mosque, Abuja. This was followed by an
interdenominational church service at the National Christian Centre,
Abuja, on Sunday, May 26, 2013.
“On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, Mr President will present to the nation his administration’s mid-term report as the main event for this year’s Democracy Day celebration. “
Invited
guests are expected to be seated at the International Conference
Centre, Abuja, by 9.30 a.m. Meanwhile, the Federal Government had
already declared the day as a public holiday.
Police in Malaysia have arrested nine
Nigerians suspected of having cheated a beautician of an estimated
$427,000, Borneo Post online has reported.
According to
Commercial Crime Investigation Department head Supt Mohd Firdaus
Abdullah, all suspects stationed at the country’s capital were arrested
last Wednesday, after two local suspects in Kuching were released on
bail following an interrogation.
“We traced these foreigners
through the Internet Protocol Address provided by one of the local
suspects,” he said when contacted yesterday.
Eight of the foreign suspects were students and one a businessman, aged 22 to 31.
They are placed under remand until May 29 to facilitate investigation.
A team from state police headquarters was assigned to go to Kuala Lumpur to investigate.
The
beautician, in her early 30s, is single. She lodged a police report
after realising that she had been conned several times since early this
year.
The victim said she was conned of an estimated RM1.3
million($427,000) that involved seven banks, 16 accounts and 40
transactions in more than three months.
Firdaus advised the public, especially women, not to be taken in by their online contacts to avoid being victims of cyber crime.
He hoped this case would be a lesson to those making friends online.
“We
regret that this kind of case is still happening. We have given lots of
advice and publicity, yet people still fall for these scams,” he said.
The
swindlers used social network connection like Facebook, e-mail and chat
room to establish friendship before sending parcels they claim to be
presents.
They would say the parcels contained valuables and the
victims had to make several payments to Customs and ‘agents’ to claim
their ‘gifts’ as the parcels had been ‘confiscated’ by Customs Malaysia.
Nothing is too strange in the world! Recently, a Huzhou Changxing citizen caught a giant eel weighing about 36 pounds, China.
The
eel’s length is about 1.5 meters. After the eel was caught, someone
offered $1,613 for it. But the owner decided that it's a low price for
such an amazing find.
The Ogun State police command said
on Tuesday that it has dislodged no fewer than 53 student cultists of
Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta,while on their way to the
venue of a nocturnal ritual ceremony in Abeokuta.
It was
gathered that the state branch of the National Association of Seadogs,
popularly called Pyrates’ Confraternity, hinted the police who laid
an ambush for the suspected student cultists at about 11:30pm last
Friday around Lafenwa/Rounda area of the state capital.
Confirming
the development, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi
said that the police received information that some suspected student
cultists were planning to hold a ceremony in a suburb of the state
capital.
Adejobi, however said that suspected student cultists ran away on sighting the police patrol team deployed in the area.
“They
are not a social club. The police will not allow any anti-social group
or organization to operate in the state. If anybody is caught, he would
be made to face the full wrawth of the law,” Adejobi said.
However,
a source told our correspondent that the suspected student cultists
were however said to have left their vehicles as well as other items
and fled in different directions on sighting the police patrol team
deployed to apprehend them.
The source said that, some of the
items recovered from the fleeing suspected student cultists included
coolers filled with already prepared food and assorted drinks meant for
the ceremony.
It was gathered that the student cultists
allegedly who took off from Obantoko area, few kilometers from FUNAAB
were also said to be driving towards the venue of the initiation
ceremony in a convoy of about 50 vehicles when the police patrol team
accosted them.
Also, the President of NAS in Abeokuta, Mr. Yemi
Akintunde warned students not to allow themselves to be deceived into
joining any cult group.
Akintunde stressed that the Pyrates’
Confraternity which he described as a humanitarian and charitable
organization has since the 1980s ceased to exist on the campuses of
higher institutions across the country.
“Anyone interested in
joining NAS must have graduated from school and is also required to
have participated in and have the certificate of the National Youth
Service Corps. The Pyrates’ Confraternity does not exist on the campus
of any higher institution in Nigeria,” he said.
A nice classy double from Gary Hooper
helped Celtic beat Hibernian 3-0 to lift the Scottish Cup for the 36th
time at Hampden Park on Sunday. It was also a classy Scottish double
for Nigeria’s Efe Ambrose and his club having won the league earlier on.
The
success on Sunday completes the trophy run for the Nigerian who was
part of the Super Eagles winning team at the 2013 Africa Nations Cup
concluded in South Africa in February. The UEFA Champions League, which
started on a good run for the Scottish champions, ended with a heavy
defeat to Juventus but before then Ambrose had established himself as a
regular with Celtic and the Eagles. He was allowed to stay back with
his club on account of the cup final and he is now expected to link up
with the Eagles as they prepare for the FIFA Confederations Cup and
Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
On Sunday, he started from the
bench and was brought on as a substitute for Scott Brown in 81st
minute. For the cup final, Hooper broke the deadlock after just eight
minutes with his 30th goal of the season and he doubled his side’s
advantage just after the half hour with another smart finish from close
range. Joe Ledley rounded off the scoring towards the end of the second
half.
The loss means Hibs’ wait for a first Scottish Cup triumph since 1902 continues. It was their 11th final defeat.
Also
on Sunday, Ogenyi Onazi won the Italian Cup with Lazio. Lazio won the
Cup for the sixth time on Sunday beating fierce rivals AS Roma 1-0 in a
day of high tension at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
Senad Lulic
tapped home the winning goal from close range in the 70th minute after
Roma goalkeeper Bogdan Lobont tipped Antonio Candreva’s cross into his
path.
The victory means Lazio will qualify for the Europa
League, salvaging an otherwise disappointing season and rubbing further
salt into the wounds of their old foes, who miss out on European
football despite finishing sixth one place clear of the Biancocelesti.
“I
am really happy for the players who worked so hard this year and
deserved the victory. It’s not easy to win a game like this. We now
have Europe ahead of us,” Lazio manager Vladimir Petkovic told RAI
Sport.
The defeat for Roma makes their manager Andrea
Andreazzoli’s position at the club precarious with speculation in the
lead up to the match suggesting AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri
could be a favourite to take his place.
A resurgence of leprosy has been reported in Gombe state.
According to the Programme Officer, Gombe State Office of the Leprosy
and Tuberculosis Control Programme, new 5 cases were reported within
the first quarter of 2013.
He said the reported cases were in children.
He said the affected areas are in Dukku, Yamaltu-Deba and Shongom Local Government Areas.
According
to him, the discovery suggests a reverse in the graduation reduction in
leprosy prevalence steadily recorded in years before.
“The
cases in the state seem to be dropping. In 2011, there were 120 cases,
in 2012 it dropped to less than 100 and now the reverse is the case and
is manifesting among children,” he said.
He
blamed the infection's re-emergence on poor interest of stakeholders in
the health sector as responsible for outbreak seen in children.
“Leprosy
does not seem to be a public health issue; governments at all levels
should take it seriously because of its devastating effect. Measures
had been taken to track down the source of the new infections and stop
further transmission. There is every possibility that somebody within
the communities where the children live has the micro organism and is
transmitting it,” he said.
He said early detection is central to good outcomes.
The former Chelsea interim boss signed a two-year deal and will replace Walter Mazzarri, who has moved to Inter Milan. Benitez
led the Blues to third place in the Premier League and won the Europa
League after he was appointed manager in November, following the
sacking of Roberto Di Matteo.
Despite his success, the
Spaniard struggled to win over a section of the Chelsea supporters
during his time in charge at Stamford Bridge.
Benitez
is hopeful of a better relationship with the Napoli fans and is
confident of bringing further success to a side who were second last
season - their best finish in Serie A since winning the Scudetto in
1990.
"Now that the agreement is confirmed, I can say
I am very happy and very satisfied for having committed to a great club
with an illustrious heritage like Napoli," he said. "I understand the
history of the city and how the club forms a fundamental part of the
culture and traditions of Naples.
Massive protests trailed the arrival of a British Airways’
flight from London at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport,
Lagos, last night, as passengers aboard the flight could not retrieve
their luggage, following the technical problem suffered by the airliner
on touchdown.
it was gathered that the luggage cabin of the aircraft failed to open after the plane landed at exactly 6:15pm.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that what infuriated the aggrieved passengers was the failure of the crew to empathise with them.
Over
300 hundred passengers on board the flight were reportedly stranded for
hours, as children cried uncontrollably due to the stuffy nature of the
arrival hall, where they were cocooned, waiting for words from the crew.
The crew were said to have left the airport to avoid being manhandled by the passengers, who were getting very restive.
The
eyewitness said: “The situation here right now is chaotic. Hundreds of
passengers are protesting the shabby treatment of British Airways’
flight crew, who appear helpless to enable the passengers retrieve
their luggage.
“The crew members are saying the aircraft
suffered technical problem and it was making it impossible for them to
open the luggage cabin.”
Passenger’s story
As at 9:05pm
last night, the airline crew were said to have abandoned the passengers
and left the airport, saying there was nothing they could do to open
the luggage cabin.
One of the passengers on board, Mr. Crosby
Eribo, confirmed to Vanguard that passengers, who arrived the airport
on board the flight were suffering, with none of the airlines’ staff
addressing them.
He said: “What is happening here is
unfortunate. The airline’s officials have abandoned us here and
children are here crying because of the humid nature of the arrival
hall.
Massive protests trailed the arrival of a British Airways’
flight from London at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport,
Lagos, last night, as passengers aboard the flight could not retrieve
their luggage, following the technical problem suffered by the airliner
on touchdown.
it was gathered that the luggage cabin of the aircraft failed to open after the plane landed at exactly 6:15pm.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that what infuriated the aggrieved passengers was the failure of the crew to empathise with them.
Over
300 hundred passengers on board the flight were reportedly stranded for
hours, as children cried uncontrollably due to the stuffy nature of the
arrival hall, where they were cocooned, waiting for words from the crew.
The crew were said to have left the airport to avoid being manhandled by the passengers, who were getting very restive.
The
eyewitness said: “The situation here right now is chaotic. Hundreds of
passengers are protesting the shabby treatment of British Airways’
flight crew, who appear helpless to enable the passengers retrieve
their luggage.
“The crew members are saying the aircraft
suffered technical problem and it was making it impossible for them to
open the luggage cabin.”
Passenger’s story
As at 9:05pm
last night, the airline crew were said to have abandoned the passengers
and left the airport, saying there was nothing they could do to open
the luggage cabin.
One of the passengers on board, Mr. Crosby
Eribo, confirmed to Vanguard that passengers, who arrived the airport
on board the flight were suffering, with none of the airlines’ staff
addressing them.
He said: “What is happening here is
unfortunate. The airline’s officials have abandoned us here and
children are here crying because of the humid nature of the arrival
hall.
The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram
Islamists said his group has scored several victories against the
military during an ongoing offensive while themselves sustaining little
damage, in a video seen by AFP on Tuesday.
"Since
we started this ongoing war which they call state of emergency ... in
some instances soldiers who faced us turned and ran," Abubakar Shekau
said in the hour-long video.
He claimed Nigerian forces "threw down their arms in flight."
He
called on like-minded Islamists in countries including Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Iraq to join the fight to create an Islamic state in
Nigeria.
"We call to us our brethren in these countries I
mentioned. Oh! Our brethren, come to us," he said in the video, which
alternates between Arabic and the Hausa language spoken across northern
Nigeria.
Nigeria launched an offensive against Boko Haram on May
15, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in
the country's northeast, the Islamist insurgents' stronghold.
The
video was delivered to AFP through an intermediary in a manner similar
to previous Boko Haram messages. The images of Shekau in the vieo are
consistent with those previously released.
The Boko Haram leader was designated a global terrorist by the United states last year.
Nollywood Comic Actor, Adekola Tijani aka Kamilu Kompo is the happiest man on earth as we speak.
After 5 years of waiting on God for the fruit of the womb, his wife gave birth on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 in Ibadan, Oyo state.
According to sources in the know, Kamilu’s family home in the
aforementioned city has become a tourist attraction due to influx of
visitors and well wishers.
Former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC)leader,
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) 12-year ruleas demonic.
Tinubu said this“ demon of the corrupt government in the last12 years must be chased out at the next election.”
In his speech at the 3rd convocation ceremony of the Kano
University of Science and Technology, Wudil where he was conferred with
a doctorate degree, honoriscausa, Tinibusaid the federal government had
made more Nigerians poorer, adding that the current high
unemploymentrate and terrorin the countrycaused by poor leadership of
the PDP was no longer acceptable.
The APC chief said; “There is no shame in wanting democracy to
flourish, there is no shame in wanting prosperity for all Nigerians,
there is no shame for anybody to be poor, but it’s a sin and
unacceptable to keep the people poor at the expense of their enormous
wealth.”
Hetherefore urged Nigerians, especially the youth to defeat
poverty, terror, crime, religious crisis and calls for regional divide
as the PDP national government wasdoing everything possible to divide
the country along regional lines, adding that, “We say no, the country
must triumph.”
He stressed that the political trends under the merger of APC
hadshown the ability to reconstruct Nigeria into a big and proud
country and the political will to chase away the PDP demon.
“Nigerians are tied of complaining as the government at the center
is there for too long, and there is need for change. We must tighten
our belt, but not for corruption or disintegration of the country,
rather for the continuity and prosperity of the country,”he said.
Others awardees were the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk, a
minister in the Second Republic, Senator Hamisu Musa and a post-mortem
doctorate degree on literary icon, Malam Mudi Spikin.
Brazilian striker Neymar has confirmed he will be joining Barcelona next season and will sign his contract on Monday.
The 21-year-old has chosen Barca over their Spanish rivals Real
Madrid, after Santos finally allowed their star forward to leave the
club.
Many felt that Santos would not permit Neymar to quit South America until after next year's World Cup finals in Brazil.
But he will now join the recently-crowned La Liga champions at the conclusion of next month's Confederations Cup.
Neymar said: "On Monday I'm signing a contract with Barcelona.
"My family and friends already know about my decision. I want to
thank Santos' fans for these nine incredible years. My feelings for the
club and the fans will never change.
Santos stressed on Friday they had agreed to transfer Neymar, allowing him to decide between two offers.
The newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo put the latest offer from Barcelona at around $36m.
Latest information about JAMB in the news is that The Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board (Jamb) is to discard the Paper Pencil Test
(PPT) in 2015.
This was made know to news men by the JAMB Registrar/Chief
Executive, Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde, on Saturday, after observing the
maiden Computer Based Testing for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination. While observing the maiden computer base test UTME exam, Prof.
Ojerinde, reveal that he was very exultant with the results of the CBT,
added that other forms of examination would be scrapped by 2015. His
words, “We are thinking of 2015. By 2015 registration, we will be
asking candidates to go fully into Computer Based Testing but that
again depends on availability of centres.
“For now, we have only 70 centres all over the country and this is
not sufficient. We are encouraging as many individuals, who can
participate in this project to go and build their centres then we will
patronise them. But if it has to go beyond it, so be it. We are flexible we want
to see how far everybody is able to cope with it.” Ojerinde also
disclosed that, over 227,000 UTME results withheld for lack of
Biometric Data Verification had been released after scrutiny. He said,
“We have scrutinised the results and we found out that some of the
supervisors were over zealous and some investigators also misbehaved.
They did not allow the children to do the biometrics and they allowed
them to write examination. For those with genuine cases, we have
released their results.
A 25 year old petty trader has been arrested by police in Ibeju Lekki
for allegedly burning her 6 year old son's face for going into their
neighbour's home and licking their soup.
Not only did Sakirat Attah burn her son's face with hot iron after
the neighbour reported her son to her, she also used a broken bottle to
stab young Daniel in the head. You can see the photo above. How you can
do this to your own child is beyond me.
Sakirat took her son into their one room apartment after finding
out what he did, locked the door, lit a stove, put an iron spoon on it
to get hot and used it to burn his face and hands as punishment. And
when that wasn't enough, she broke a bottle and stabbed him in the
head, leaving a deep cut. Daniel later told police he stole the soup
because he was hungry.
Neighbours who heard the little boy screaming for help entered the
room and rescued him from the mother. They rushed him to the hospital
and called the police on the mum.
Shakirat Attah has been charged before an Igbosere Magistrate’s
Court in Lagos on a one count charge of assaulting a minor occasioning
bodily harm. She's currently in Kirikiri Prison, pending when she
fulfills her bail conditions. I hope they take this child away from
her.
No doubt, This Short Superstar is truly The Chairman, Even after he
lost his Mercedes Car in Abuja, The Chairman has kept his Fingers
Crossed for More Greater things to come.
Check out the beauty of a car. MI Abaga just copped a Bentley and we were able to rip a picture courtesy of MIAbaga.com.
Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby
boy lodged in a sewage pipe. The infant was stuck in a pipe directly
beneath a toilet commode, state television reported, in a case which
has sparked anger on social media sites.
There are frequent reports in Chinese media of babies being abandoned, often shortly after birth.
The problem is attributed variously to young mothers unaware they
were pregnant, the birth of an unwanted girl in a society which puts
greater value on boys or China’s strict family planning rules.
In the latest case the infant was found in the sewage pipe in a
residential building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of
Zhejiang on Saturday afternoon.
The harrowing discovery came after residents reported the sound of a baby crying, state television said late on Monday.
The pipe was just four inches wide in diameter the China Daily newspaper said.
Firefighters had to remove the pipe and take it to a nearby
hospital, where doctors carefully cut around it to rescue the baby boy
inside, the report said.
His arms had been pinned to his side, and when the confines of the
pipe had been delicately prised away, he let out a long wail – much to
the relief of doctors who were battling against the clock to rescue
him.
His eyes, face and body were covered in the filth of the pipe. The
child is in a stable condition and the police are looking for his
parents, state television added.
The Associated Press said the child had been named Baby No 59 from the number of his incubator, the Guardian reported.
A number of visitors have donated nappies, baby clothes and
powdered milk to the hospital to help the little boy, the news agency
added.
The case has been widely discussed on China’s Twitter-like service
Sina Weibo due to the graphic nature of the footage, with calls for the
parents to be severely punished.
New Delhi, India — When night falls
in this gritty capital, gangs troll the darkened streets looking for easy prey
among a portion of the city’s vast homeless population; thousands have been
rounded up and carried off in trucks in recent years.
The police say they have increased
patrols and set up roadblocks in an effort to stop the trafficking. In some
cases, officers have infiltrated gangs in hopes of catching them in the act.
But the brutal kidnappings continue, and the victims — scrawny cows, which are
slowly losing their sacred status among some in India — are slaughtered and
sold for meat and leather.
Cattle rustling, called “lifting” here,
is a growing scourge in New Delhi, as increasingly affluent Indians develop a
taste for meat, even the flesh of cows, which are considered sacred in
Hinduism. Criminals round up some of the roughly 40,000 cattle that wander the
streets of this megacity and sell them to illegal slaughterhouses located in
villages not far away.
Many of the cattle in Delhi are part
of dairy operations and their owners have neither the land nor the money to
keep them penned. So the animals graze on grassy medians or ubiquitous piles of
trash. Others too old to be milked are often abandoned and left to wander the
streets until they die — or get picked up by the rustlers.
Posses of police officers give chase
to the outlaws, but the desperados — driving souped-up dump trucks — think
little of ramming police cars and breaking through barricades. They have even
pushed cows into the pathways of their pursuers, forcing horrified officers to
swerve out of the way to avoid what for many is still a grievous sin.
“These gangs mostly go after stray
cattle, but they will also steal motorcycles and scooters,” one police officer,
Bhisham Singh, said in an interview. “They kidnapped a woman recently and
gang-raped her.”
Behind the cattle rustling is a
profound shift in Indian society. Meat consumption — chicken, primarily — is
becoming acceptable even among Hindus. India is now the world’s largest dairy
producer, its largest cattle producer and its largest beef exporter, having
surpassed Brazil last year, according to the United States Department of
Agriculture.
Much of that exported beef is from
buffalo (India has half of the world’s buffalo population), which are not
considered holy. But officials in Andhra Pradesh recently estimated that there
are 3,100 illegal slaughterhouses in the state compared with just six licensed
ones, and a recent newspaper investigation found that tens of thousands of
cattle are sold annually for slaughter from a market in just one of that
state’s 64 districts. Killing cows is illegal in much of India, and some states
outlaw the possession of cow meat.
Much of the illicit beef is probably
sold as buffalo, an easy way to hide a sacrilegious act. But sometimes it makes
its way to meat sellers in Delhi whose cellphone numbers are passed around in
whispers. Steaks can be ordered from these illicit vendors in transactions that
are carried out like drug deals.
Beef from cattle is also widely
consumed by Muslims and Dalits, among India’s most marginalized citizens.
Indeed, meat consumption is growing the most among the poor, government
statistics show, with overall meat eating growing 14 percent from 2010 to 2012.
Anuj Agrawal, 28, said he grew up in
a strictly vegetarian Hindu household but tried chicken for the first time in
his teens when he was at a restaurant with friends. He now eats every kind of
meat, including beef steaks and burgers. “Once you taste meat, you’re not going
back to just fruits and vegetables,” Mr. Agrawal said.
He says many of his friends have
made similar transitions. But he never eats meat with his grandparents: “I
would be excommunicated if I did, so I go pure ‘veg’ when I’m with them. I want
to inherit something.”
To some extent, the growing
acceptance of beef is a result of the government’s intense focus on increasing
milk production, which has led to a proliferation of foreign cattle breeds that
do not elicit the same reverence as indigenous ones, said Clementien Pauws,
president of Karuna Society for Animals and Nature, an animal welfare agency in
Andhra Pradesh.
“Cows are all about business and
money now, not religion,” Ms. Pauws said. “They’re all taken to
slaughterhouses. It’s terrible.” This is not to say that eating beef from
cattle is widely accepted. The vast majority of Hindus still revere cows, and
the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of the country’s two major political parties,
has demanded that laws against cow slaughter be strengthened.
Some landlords even refuse to rent
to those who confess to a taste for meat. But the demand for beef keeps
rising, many here say, and with it the prevalence of cattle rustling. Last
year, the police in Delhi arrested 150 rustlers, a record number. This year,
arrests have continued to surge, Mr. Singh said.
Typically, the rustlers creep into
the city at night. When the criminals spot stray cattle and few onlookers they
stop the truck, push out a ramp and use a rope to lead the cow to its
doom. The thieves can usually fit about 10 cows on a truck, and each
fetches 5,000 rupees — about $94. In a country where more than 800 million
people live on less than $2 a day, a single night’s haul of more than $900
represents serious temptation.
One man who has helped the police in
neighboring Uttar Pradesh said the rustlers were often able to bribe their way
to freedom. “Even if they’re sent to jail, they come out in 10 to 15 days and
commit the same crimes again,” said the man, who did not want his name used for
fear of reprisals.
The unfortunate fate of some of
Delhi’s cattle has led some Hindus to establish cattle shelters on the fringes
of the metropolitan region. One of the largest is Shri Mataji Gaushala, where
thousands of cattle live on about 42 acres.
Sometimes, the rescue comes too
late. Brijinder Sharma, the shelter manager, whose office walls are decorated
with drawings of Lord Krishna hugging a calf, showed a video of a truck packed
with cattle that was seized on its way to an illegal slaughterhouse. Many of
the cows had already died of heat exhaustion.
“The social and religious status of
cows has been under attack in India,” Mr. Sharma said. He hopes that his shelter,
which has an annual budget of $5.4 million, underwritten almost entirely by
wealthy Indians who have emigrated to the United States, will help reverse that
trend.
The afternoon feeding at the shelter
attracted a crowd of happy onlookers. Abhishek, a one-named cowhand, called out
among the lowing throng: “Sakhi! Sakhi!” A large cow with huge horns rushed to
the front of the herd, and Mr. Abhishek kissed her on the nose.
The cow responded by licking one
entire side of his face, and Mr. Abhishek beamed.
This is a good development coming from the Osun State University, UNIOSUN. The University recently approved the appointment of their first set of 1st Class graduates as Graduate Assistants (Lecturers).
The Management of Osun State University has approved the appointment of its first set of first-class graduates. They are eight in number and they have been given employment as Graduate Assistants into the various Colleges of the institution.
These scholars include:
Mr. Adams Kashif Ololade, Mrs Adekunle Adejoke O (Nee Salami), Mr. Durowoju Olufemi Sunday, Miss Fakanbi Oyepeju Ibukunoluwa, Miss Odesanmi Oluwatosin Rachael, Mr. Oladeji David Oluwayomi, Mrs. Olojido Oluwatoyin Esther and Omodunbi Olumide O.
This is a good way to encourage excellence in students. I know some schools that do this every session and we can only hope more schools adopt this in order to get the very best into the lecturing jobs and to encourage students to strive to succeed.
A bus preacher was almost lynched on Saturday morning at Toyota Bus stop, in front of the popular Ladipo Spare parts market, when some condoms allegedly fell out of his bible as he preached the ‘Word of God’.
DailyPost gathered that the self acclaimed Man of God was dragged out of the commercial bus and beaten into a pulp before he was rescued by some policemen.
According to information made available to DailyPost, the Pastor had embarked on his journey from Apapa and proceeded to preach to the people on the bus, using very strong words like “If you wear trouser you’ll go to hell! The Devil invented Make up! Weave-on is from Marine Kingdom! If you have pre-marital sex you will burn in hell and your skin will peel!”
It was learnt that the people in the bus were so moved and some started falling under the anointing.
According to an eye witness, Mr. John Mbakogu, who was on his way to his shop at Ladipo, “People were just falling as he was laying hands. One man almost fell out of the bus under the influence of the Spirit. It was amazing until he raised his hands to cast the demons out of one girl, and 2 Durex condoms fell out”
“The angry men in the bus who had been having pangs of guilt due to the pastor’s preaching about sex suddenly got really angry and pounced on him, who all of a sudden started shouting, I also preach safe sex! Safe sex is good!”
However, Policemen had to be called to the scene to save the pastors life. So far 2 arrests have been made, and the Condoms have been kept as evidence.
“We
have to identify our problem,” Obasanjo said, speaking on the sidelines
of a conference in Rome on a European Union project against drug
trafficking.
Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday tasked political leaders to
adopt practical measures to accelerate effective utilisation of human
and natural resources for sustainable development in the country.
He said the reported cases were in children.
Benitez
led the Blues to third place in the Premier League and won the Europa
League after he was appointed manager in November, following the
sacking of Roberto Di Matteo.
