Mistress Battered By Top Politician In Ogun, Explains How It All Happened

Bayo Awosanya, a prominent member of the All Progressives Coalition in Ogun State, has gone underground after he allegedly battered his mistress who asked to be identified simply as Victoria. According to the victim and a police source, Mr. Awosanya beat his girlfriend over her failure to join him at a social party over the weekend.

The victim, who has a child with her alleged assaulter, told Sahara reporters that she was determined to end the relationship.

Our police source said the APC official had asked Victoria to meet him at a “house warming” party, but got uncontrollably furious when he returned from the event and found her still at home. As the mistress attempted to explain her absence, Mr. Awosanya dealt her several blows to the face and head. Continue after the cut.

The victim, who showed serious head wounds, explained that she had fallen asleep after receiving Mr. Awosanya’s telephone call, waking up only after the party would have been over. Irate, the APC official reportedly pummeled her with punches before bashing her head into a glass-window steel grille, telling her it was time for her to die.

In an interview with SaharaReporters on Friday, the victim, Ms. Victoria, said she had tried to escape the assault, but Mr. Awosanya grabbed her hair weave-on and violently pulled it out. She added that the APC official was fond of physically maltreating her. Ms. Victoria stated that she could no longer remember the number of times Mr. Awosanya battered her. She told a correspondent of the website that the last beating was too gruesome because she feared he was about to kill her. She vowed to end her relationship with the politician.

She said Mr. Awosanya had given her a vicious beating in 2008, two days before their “introduction ceremony,” a prelude to traditional marriage. She explained that she had often postponed their marriage plans due to fear of the politician’s horrible temper and his possible involvement in “fetish” and a dangerous lifestyle.

Mr. Awosanya was in line to become an executive member of the APC after a party congress that held yesterday.

Ms. Victoria accused the APC politician of practicing different kinds of religions out of desperation. She added that he engages in all manner of rituals in a desperate bid to advance his political goals and financial interests.

She disclosed that Mr. Awosanya had once forced her to swear to a “fetish” oath in which she had to pledge never to sleep with another man except after his death.

Ms. Victoria disclosed that she and Mr. Awosanya have a two-year old baby named Jomiloju.

Officials of the Ogun State police command claimed that they could not find Mr. Awosanya to arrest him, but a police source told SaharaReporters that they knew the politician was in town. The source added that the alleged batterer was expected to be present at his party’s state congress where he was going to be inaugurated as the APC’s financial accountant.

“We know where Chief [Awosanya] is, but our commander doesn’t want to be involved in this palaver,” our police source said.

VP Namadi Sambo's younger brother dies in fatal car accident

May his soul rest in perfect peace, amin

From Child Bride to Mayor

What an amazing woman. At the age of 15, Berivan Elif Kilic was taken out of school after only four years of primary school and forced to marry her cousin. Now, she is the mayor of her Turkish town.
"Women have been attending my rallies in droves. They say: ‘If Berivan can do it, so can I.’”

Five years ago, Berivan Elif Kilic was trapped in a nightmare, suffering daily beatings by a husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was just a girl. Today, the former child bride is the freshly elected mayor of her hometown in southeastern Turkey and determined to fight for women’s rights.
“People believe me when I talk about domestic violence,” Kilic said in a telephone interview. “I was beaten up myself; I don’t have my knowledge from books.”

This week, Kilic, 33, officially became the mayor of Kocakoy, a farming town of 17,000 people in Turkey’s Kurdish region about 100 miles north of the border with Syria, after winning municipal elections there on March 30. A member of the Party for Peace and Democracy (BDP), Turkey’s main Kurdish party, Kilic shares the post of mayor with her male running mate, Affullah Kar, a former imam. Under BDP party rules, all top positions are split between a man and a woman, in an effort to promote women’s participation in politics.
At the age of 15, Kilic was taken out of school by her parents after four years of primary education and forced to marry a cousin. Although marrying inside the wider family is common in Turkey, the minimum age for marriage is 17. But thousands of girls below the legal age are married off in Islamic ceremonies not recognized as binding by the state.
Because the practice is illegal, there are no official figures about how many teenagers are married below 17. The Turkish Association of University Women, a pressure group, has put the number of child brides in Turkey at 181,000. The International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), a think tank in Ankara, said in a report in 2011 that one in three women in Turkey was below the legal age when she married.
Kilic said her mother had been married off at a similar age, so she did not think twice about having Berivan marry at 15. “Nobody is questioning why girls are being forced to marry at such a young age,” she said. Kilic became pregnant about a year after her wedding and later moved with her husband to Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish region, where she had another child. Her two sons are 13 and 17 years old today.
At the age of 28, Kilic summoned up the courage to get a divorce. “I couldn’t sleep well for a year after I left my husband, because I was so afraid after all the beatings throughout the years,” she said. She moved back to her parents’ house in Kocakoy and started her political career in the BDP. One of her personal aims is to get a high school diploma and later study sociology or psychology.
One of her sons has a genetic disorder that has paralyzed him. Kilic said the disorder was a result of her having to marry a relative. She said she was looking for treatment for her son abroad.
But meanwhile, she has a town to run. Kilic is one of the first-ever female officials in Kocakoy’s municipality. “There has not been a single woman in the town’s administration so far,” she said. Since the March 30 elections, Kocakoy has Kilic as well as two female town council members.
Boosting women’s rights in Kocakoy will be a challenge, Kilic acknowledged. “Only a few years ago, a girl in this town was killed by her family because she had allegedly exchanged glances with a man,” Kilic said.
In so-called “honor killings” like this, a perceived stain on the family honor caused by an alleged disreputable act by a female family member is purged by murdering the offender. “Honor killings” are often committed by relatives of the victim. In the Kocakoy case, the girl’s brother was convicted of killing his sister but was released after three years in prison. “That is the sort of mentality we are fighting against,” Kilic said.
One of Kilic’s plans as mayor is to organize workshops in Kocakoy to inform women about their rights and to give some basic education to town women. “This is the biggest problem,” she said. “In our society, men can do anything they like. Inferiority of women has been accepted as a fate, but it isn’t. No human is worth more than another.”
In the deeply conservative society of rural south-east Anatolia, that message is likely to be rejected by some, but Kilic said she was optimistic about seeing quick results because her own life provided the perfect example of what a woman could do. Even men in the town had started to support her, she said.
“I am a role model,” Kilic said. Her experience was serving as a spark for women in Kocakoy. “There is a lot of hope here now,” she said. “One woman said I was like somebody from another world. But look at me: I have no education, no job, and yet I am the mayor now. Women have been attending my rallies in droves. They say: ‘If Berivan can do it, so can I.’”

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7 Easy and Healthy Ways to Gain Weight

While the whole world is seemingly killing themselves to remain stick-thin, a few people may actually be worried about their frames being too thin. Gaining weight can be a frustrating and challenging undertaking for those who are too thin. The problem is often that they don’t know the proper way to accelerate the weight gain. To gain weight in a healthy manner, it is important to understand the basics of the body mass index (BMI). Your build and weight are determined by genetics, your general health, food and activity choices that you make, and of course by your body’s unique metabolism. Most skinny people have a high metabolism, and their body burns more calories than they eat.

Here are seven easy ways to gain weight in a healthy way:

Add Carbs to Your Diet

This suggestion may sound like a no-brainer, yet many people believe they should avoid carbs to remain healthy. If you are getting carbs only from veggies, fruits, trace amounts of sugar and legumes, then there is no big surprise that you’re not gaining weight. You need to move to some carb-rich foods for better results, such as sweet potatoes, rice, bread and oats. Carbs are needed especially if you are doing heavy workouts to gain weight, since your body needs a quick supply of energy.

Eat More Protein

Lack of protein in your diet could be one of the reasons you are not gaining body mass, even though you are consuming more calories. Protein is also very important if you are working out to add healthy weight. Post-workout protein consumption will help your body absorb protein better to repair muscles, which will help increase overall body mass. Some of the proteins to consider are boiled soybeans, steak or hamburger, tuna, chicken, soy or protein power, peanuts, etc.

10 Tips To Help You Fall Asleep Faster

Sleep is one of the most important things that we do. If you’re having difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep, it can make for a very long day of feeling groggy and dazed. Everyone needs a minimum of 7 – 9 hours of sleep per night, and it’s important to know how to fall asleep fast. For those who are having chronic and consistent problems falling asleep and staying asleep, it can be frustrating lying in bed, tossing and turning all night. If sleep is eluding you, here are 10 tips to help you to fall asleep fast:

1. Make sure that the temperature of the bedroom is comfortable for you. Some people like a warm room, while others prefer it to be a little bit cooler when they sleep. If it’s summertime and the room is too hot, you can use a ceiling fan or a small table fan to keep the air moving, which may help you fall asleep. Allowing fresh air into your room by opening a window can also be helpful, but make sure you have a screen on the window to keep the bugs out!

2. Use comfortable pillows. Whatever type of pillow you prefer, flat or full, should be available on your bed, and there should be enough pillows you can use to make yourself comfortable. Some choose to use a full-length body pillow for support, while others just want to support the head and neck. Memory foam pillows give the best support, and they adjust to the specific shape of your neck and head. If your head is propped up too high, you can wind up with a very stiff neck and develop headaches, too.

3. Wear something comfortable to bed. If you choose uncomfortable sleepwear (too tight, too scratchy, etc.), it can affect your ability to get to sleep. Choose clothing made from a material that feels good on your skin, whether cotton or silk or something else. Some people prefer to sleep in the nude, so that they are unrestricted and can move around freely. If you do not like to sleep in the buff, try stripping down to your underwear and a tank top. This also helps people who tend to get too hot in the middle of the night and therefore have difficulty sleeping through the night.

200 girls are missing in Nigeria – so why doesn't anybody care?

Soldiers stand guard in front of the school in Chibok, Nigeria, where 200 students were abducted last week. Most of them are still missing. Photograph: Haruna Umar/AP

Where are they?
Every morning for a week the news has been dominated by the South Korean ferry tragedy. The terrible grief of the parents, the shocking response of the crew to the unfolding disaster, and the inexorably rising body count.
Two days before the South Korean students boarded their ferry for a study trip to the nearby island of Jeju, terrorists broke into a girls' school in Chibok, in the remote state of Borno, in north-eastern Nigeria. They shot guards and abducted about 200 students, who were loaded into trucks and, it seems, taken off into the forest. Two groups of the girls, perhaps 30 in all, managed to escape. The rest have simply disappeared.
No one has admitted carrying out the mass kidnapping, although it is assumed to be the work of Boko Haram, the al-Qaida-linked jihadi group. Amnesty International says 1,500 people have been killed this year in the conflict between Boko Haram and Nigerian security forces, more than half of them civilians. The latest bombing by the group was in Abuja, on the same day the girls were abducted, in which at least 70 people died. Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, was soon on the scene. The first appearance of the Borno state governor in Chibok came yesterday, eight days after the attack.

The fate of the Nigerian girls, who had been recalled to class in order to sit a physics exam, when all the other schools in the area were closed by security fears, has not been entirely ignored by the world's media. But it has been overwhelmed by the story of the sinking of the Sewol.
Some of the reasons for that are obvious. The South Korean story has unfolded on camera, in a first-world country with every facility for news reporting. In contrast, the young Nigerians have vanished into the darkness of a dangerous world.
Nigeria is complex and messy and unfamiliar. It is easy to feel that what happens there is not real in the way that what happens on camera in South Korea is real. Watching the images of the almost mad grief of the parents, ready to plunge into the water themselves to find their sons and daughters, is like an awful realisation of one's own worst imaginings.
There is no such vivid expression of suffering from Borno, only the grainy images sent on poor satellite links showing the familiar devastation of catastrophe that could come from any of countless news reports. Yesterday, a group of parents pooled resources to buy fuel and set off on their motorbikes into the forest where the security forces dared not go in a last despairing effort to save their daughters – only to have to turn back as night fell.
No one knows what will befall these young women. In February, Boko Haram – whose founding purpose is to defeat the influence of western education – murdered 59 students. Teachers, schools and children are in the front line. In Abuja, politicians talk of a decade-long war of containment against jihad to come. But already its objective of peace is being undermined by reports of extra-judicial killings by the military. The insecurity exacerbates the poverty and holds back development.
Like the tragedy in South Korea, the crisis in Borno is not some random act of God. It is human made. Yet the loss of the Sewol may result, along with retribution against all of those responsible, in higher standards of seamanship and improvements in ship design. Future lives will be saved. The Seoul government will never again risk being exposed to the humiliation of its failure to protect its own young people.
It is much less likely that lessons will be learned from the abduction of the young Nigerian women from their school. The government in Abuja will ship in more soldiers. The west may contribute, as Tony Blair believes is necessary. Maybe in the end some kind of security will be achieved. But in this northern province there is an ancient legacy of Islamic rule – and high civilisation – that long predates British imperialism. Many, many innocent people will die first. There is scant interest in nuance, no serious debate about what the rest of the world could do to help. That is the real cost of global inattention.

LUPITA NYONG'O - PEOPLE'S MAG MOST BEAUTIFUL 2014

 

 What do you think of PeopleMag's pick for #MostBeautiful person of 2014?

Aftermath of Nyanya blast: Military checkpoint causes traffic

In the wake of the Nyanya bomb blast which occurred on Monday April 14th, which killed scores of people, military checkpoints have been mounted at various strategic road junctions to check human and vehicular activities in the FCT.

 

Motorists/workers say these checkpoints have become a big problem for them as they lose many useful hours in traffic with some of them getting late to work and receiving queries.

 

According to a report on Channels TV, residents in Abuja say their fear is in the manner in which the military men carry out their search operations. They say the traffic opens them to a possible attack from Boko Haram men who can take advantage of the gridlock and strike again. They pleaded with the military to seek more effective ways to carry out their search...

This New Natural Testosterone Booster Has Men Everywhere Raving

Wow... I'm getting old.
It's a disturbing thought, one that usually hits after an unexpected physical challenge. Maybe you've been unable to maintain your usual workout levels, or recovery is taking a lot longer than it used to. Perhaps fixes to the house are just a bit more difficult, or you can't perform in the bedroom the way you used to.
What's most startling about this realization is that you don't normally "feel old" but, nevertheless, you know you don't look or feel like the man you used to be.
And the issue? You might not have enough free testosterone

A person's bloodstream contains two types of testosterone: bonded testosterone and free testosterone. Bonded testosterone attaches to molecules in the body and is mostly ineffective. However, free testosterone can enter your cells easily and plays a vital role in libido, strength, stamina, and vitality—all of which are important to men.
Over the last few years the market has been flooded with questionable options for increasing a man's free testosterone levels: useless pills, questionable supplements, and dangerous or illegal medical treatments. But now a group of researchers in Boston, Massachusetts have developed a dietary supplement that triggers the body to increase its levels of free testosterone naturally and safely.
Called Nugenix, the supplement primarily relies on an ingredient called Testofen®, which comes from the rare Fenugreek plant. Testofen® has been shown in clinical trials to boost free testosterone levels, increase sex drive, and improve libido. Adding to Nugenix's potency are additional key ingredients like zinc and vitamins B12 and B6, which have been shown to improve physical performance and strength, increase drive, and aid in recovery.
Nugenix has no harmful side effects, is manufactured in the United States under FDA Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and has been shown to deliver improvements in strength and endurance in as little as a week.
This isn't product hype delivered by a know-it-all enthusiast from the gym. According to studies held in both Irvine, California and Queensland, Australia, the results from Nugenix are nothing short of spectacular. From greater muscle definition and quicker recovery times, to increased sex drive and feelings of alertness, these users are reporting virtual transformations as a result of safely boosting their free testosterone with Nugenix.
Nugenix is the top selling men’s vitality product in GNC, outselling every other brand —many of which don’t contain the clinically substantiated amounts of Testofen® needed to see actual results.
Best of all, right now the company that manufacturers Nugenix is giving away samples of the products to qualifying customers who request them online.

6 Strong Reasons To Start Eating Avocados

 

 Native to Mexico and Central America, avocados are well known for their numerous health benefits, as well as for their delicious taste. No matter if you eat them raw or juice them, avocados should be part of your daily diet, since they will increase you mineral and vitamin intake, and will also lower the long-term risk for various diseases and ailments – including some that can be fatal. If you are still not sure whether you should start eating avocados regularly, here are six strong reasons to do so:

1. Avocados Are Very Rich in Carotenoids

Avocados contain a plethora of nutrients, and carotenoids (lutein, in particular) are certainly the most important ones, given the fact that they protect you against eye disease. Your sight is by far one of your most valuable assets, and while it is true that it inevitably degrades as we age, there is something we can do to slow down the process and even reverse eye disease, in certain cases. As is often the case, it starts with a good, balanced and nutritious diet – one that involves eating at least one avocado per day, since this is undeniably the best way to get the carotenoids (from lutein and alpha-carotene to beta-carotene, tocopherol and zeaxanthin) that your body so much needs. Besides this, avocados taste great, and you can easily add them to your salad – this is certainly the best way to increase your daily lutein intake, rather than resorting to pills and dietary supplements.

2. Avocados Are Great for Lowering Your Cholesterol

As you may already know, there are two types of cholesterol: the ‘good’ cholesterol and the ‘bad’ cholesterol. The latter can wreak havoc on your arteries and your vital organs, if you don’t do something about it. It often happens that fatty foods and sugar are the main culprits behind high levels of bad cholesterol, but fortunately you can easily keep it under control by simply eating avocados on a regular basis. By consuming avocados, you lower your cholesterol in a fast, efficient, natural and side-effect-free way – mainly due to the high amounts of oleic acid present in this delicious fruit. By lowering your level of LDL cholesterol due to its high folate content, avocados will also lower your risk of developing heart disease.

PHOTOS: Meet World's 1st Married Lesbian Threesome Expecting Baby

Meet the world's first married lesbian threesome that are expecting their first baby daughter.

Three women Doll, Kitten and Brynn, from Massachusetts, USA, married in a ceremony in August 2013. All of them wore wedding dresses and exchanged rings. Their relationships were registered by a specialist family lawyer. And now these unlike-the-rest women are expecting their first baby to be born in July. It is a 27-year-old Kitten who undergone artificial insemination with the help of an anonymous sperm donor.

At the moment mothers-to-be plan that Kitten will bear all three children - one for each of them; but they also consider such option as adoption. The trio claim that their relationships are absolutely normal.
They are having breakfast, watching TV after work and sleeping together like any other couple. The only difference they have is that communication is a little bit more difficult for them than others. As there are three people in the family the responsibilities are thoroughly scheduled and elaborated.
Sharing their experiences the women noted that communication issue is more tricky for them while household chores are a lot easier with three people as they always help each other. Each of the women has their own duties and roles: Brynn is the traditional breadwinner - she makes the majority of the family's income, Doll does the cooking and Kitten does the cleaning.
Speaking on their wedding and relationships with the relatives, the women admitted that the wedding time was hectic, it took a lot more organizing because there were three brides involved. Not to mention the fact that being married to more than one person is not currently legal. They had to combine hand fasting, legally binding documents and legal marriage.

Although some of the relatives were primarily against this marriage when three happy women walked down the aisle, each of their fathers gave them away. Now happily married women make plans for their child's future, they are going to teach her at home to prevent bulling by peers. Future mothers strongly believe that traditional school's tough enough for a normal kid, that is why homeschooling is the best variant for a kid born in an unconventional family.
Brynn said: "The three of us have been brave enough to stand tall and go against what society calls normal. I hope our child will feel free to do the same thing if they wish.
Doll, Kitten and I may not be the norm but we are perfectly normal. We are simply people trying to live the life that we feel is best for us and we deserve the rights afforded to others."
Doll, Kitten and Brynn are committed to each other and didn't want to add anyone else to their family. They hope to show the world that poly fidelity is an acceptable choice of love.

NYANYA SUICIDE BOMBER!!!!

 

This man is ex- Niger Delta militant who bombed Nyanya motor park in Abuja on Monday 14th April, 2014

The #Top12 contestants have been unveiled! #NI4 #Top12 #UnveilingEvent

Driving a $900,000 Porsche 918 Spyder to the future

 

It’s more than just its inherent speed, or the whooshing noise that fills the cabin like a school choir jamming with James Hetfield. It’s what it represents in an industry full of skeptics. It’s a portal into the future – a time capsule left by some mad scientists born decades too soon. It’s something that shouldn’t exist.

And yet it does.

How do you take three independent power units and make them work in harmony? I guess that’s why I’m not an engineer, but I get the impression even the folks in Stuttgart can’t believe what they’ve achieved.

Imagine the memo: “We are going to create a new halo supercar. It will be a plug-in hybrid, capable of traveling further than a Toyota Prius in all-electric mode. And yet it will lap the Nurburgring faster than any production car before it.”

Enter the Porsche 918 Spyder: The most technologically advanced car of our time.

Electrification is a murky word among car enthusiasts. “Instant torque” is a term that’s gaining traction, but the weight shackled to heavy batteries adds a dampener in many purists’ eyes.

Mine too. Mechanical, lightweight, simplistic missiles – like a Ferrari F40 or even a TVR Sagaris – are what I dream of at night, and the 918 isn’t any of those things.

It was once said, “You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.” During the early stages of its development, many – including myself – believed Porsche had gone mad. Why would you focus on plug-in hybrid technology – which adds around 600 lbs. of mass – when aiming to build the ultimate super
 

The speed is biblically fast – 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds; 0-186 mph in 19.9 seconds; and a top speed of 214 mph.

This derives from a 608 hp, 4.6-liter V-8 powering the rear axle, lifted from a Le Mans prototype. A 115 kW electric motor bolted to the transmission, good for 156 hp, works in harmony with the V-8, although it can decouple if necessary (like in all-electric mode). Finally, an independent 95 kW 129 hp electric motor turns the front axle.

The delivery of said power is smooth and consistent, and in Race mode, when both electric motors are used purely to fill torque gaps, there’s no way of deciphering when the electric torque is applied, and to what wheel. It’s just there. Power. All of the time.

Despite this, the throttle isn’t quite as responsive as I’d envisaged. I expected a rush of electricity pulsating through the pedal. Don’t get more wrong, unless you’ve driven a P1, you won’t have experienced a throttle response like it, but it’s not a new world. It merely feels like the power is activated whenever you summon it.

But the gearbox. Never have I been more impressed with a paddle shift transmission. Porsche has taken its 7-speed PDK and turned it upside down (literally) and reworked the coding. The shifts are somehow beyond instantaneous, featuring an engaging yet subtle kick to the head. It’s easy to lament over the loss of the manual, but in the 918, it wouldn’t make sense. It’d be like bringing a keg of beer to the Queen's garden party.

At one point on CoTA’s back straight I hit 180 mph. The next bend was a sharp hairpin. Each time I hit the brakes, I clenched, and expected to be on the edge of adhesion at corner entry. And yet I routinely over-slowed the car. What’s perhaps more amazing about that is, as is typical with hybrids, the car uses regenerative braking to help capture energy to recharge its batteries. This makes for an artificial sensation as the hydraulics and energy recuperation work in tandem. There’s a vague step in the pedal and you feel completely disconnected from the process. But man does it stop well.

At 3,692 lbs. (3,602 lbs. with the Weissach package) the 918 isn’t slim. In fact, for a car made seemingly of carbon fiber and air, it’s decidedly hefty. It’s 600 lbs. heavier than the McLaren P1, and you can sense that mass under a deep synthetic layer of mechanical algorithms. During maximum cornering load, the Michelin tires give way. That’s not to be unexpected, but it’s like the car is connected to a magnetic force field on the outside of the corner. It pulls itself over the tire’s sidewalls, despite the many computers working to mask the fat. But in in the vaguest of senses, you're aware it's there.

However, cornering grip is astounding. The balance borders on oversteer, but its clever rear wheel steer – which turns the rear wheels up to 3 degrees – helps balance high speed situations. Its active aerodynamics push it to the tarmac, and the faster you go, the more it grips. It’s a new level of cornering ability for a production vehicle – at least in terms of the cars I’ve driven.

Only you leave the pit lane in utter silence. You can drive around town in comfort, as if you're behind the wheel of any other hybrid vehicle. You can search the Internet on the infotainment center by swiping the screen as if on an iPad. You can post to Facebook. Or tweet. (You can't do that in your stripped out P1.)And then you switch from Electric mode, to Hybrid, to Sport, to Race and then to Hot Lap. And you explode into dust, like nothing on earth. Your near-$900,000 futuristic spaceship hits hyper drive and does things you never before thought possible.

But it makes you wonder. What would it be like without the 600 lb. electric motors, batteries and various corresponding control units? The V-8 from the RS Spyder Le Mans car is exquisite, and plenty sufficient. Do you really need all this electric madness? Or would a light, fast, simple modern sports car be exactly what this industry needs?

The answer is no. This is the future (the P1 – and to a lesser degree LaFerrari – must be included in that statement too, despite it being less of a serious hybrid). Its technology is applicable to upcoming vehicles in search of fuel efficiency mixed with punishing speed. It’s unimaginably complex, and the 918 is a technological showcase as much as it is an outright performer. But it proves that you can take the technology made famous by the dreaded Prius and create a hypercar that laps the Nurburgring faster than anything before it. And it can take you to work and back without using its engine.

It has over 80 ECUs and 40,000 types of powertrain data, more than three times that of a typical Porsche. It took 50 engineers over five years to create, with most of those years littered with problems trying to get all three motors to work in sync. In the words of the 918’s test driver Timo Kluck, at times, “it was un-drivable.”

And yet here we are. In a car so well sorted you’d never know of its difficult upbringing. Sure, it’s not perfect. Around the Nurburgring, the added weight costs 13 seconds per lap, but the electric motors claw back 17 seconds. What will cars like this be like in 10 years when battery mass drops to a more acceptable level?

Maybe it isn’t as quick as a McLaren – having not driven one, I can’t comment; it's certainly no less a masterpiece. But with the 918, I sense that I was driving something significant. Something that may ultimately shape an entire industry. Something that mattered.

This will be your BMW M3. Your Miata. Your Corvette. No, the 918 is not a closed book. It’s the blueprint that foresees the future.

DOES LIFE MEAN NOTHING ANYMORE?

For some years, there has been a global alert and wave of bad news about how some Philly women go to the extreme of scamming men to get a stay in foreign countries. Then shortly after that, BBC reported how Ugandans are involved in fake HIV certificate. During this discuss with colleagues, our arguments focuses more on how it is easy to be infected with HIV or any other sexually transmitted diseases because some countries are too corrupt and relying on mere paperwork of health certificate should not be relied upon by partners. It was then agreed that “THE BEST AND ONLY WAY TO PROTECT ONE SELF IS TO BE CELIBATE OR USE CONDOMS”-two at a time if need be.
And then in the Nigerian News, we found another extreme read-SO I ASK,
DOES LIFE MEAN NOTHING ANYMORE?


“Shell manager, businessman lured, killed by internet ‘lovers’
  A manager in Shell Development Petroleum Company (SDPC) Nigeria and a businessman have been allegedly killed in Rivers State by fraudsters impersonating as women on a dating site. The corpses of the victims and one other unidentified person have been recovered in a bush by the police in the state.
The late Shell manager, Mr. Progress Benin Disi, went missing on March 7, while Shola Olaseinde, the businessman got missing on March 26. Police, it was gathered, were initially working on kidnap until investigation led them to the discovery of a syndicate said to specialise in luring people, especially rich men through dating sites with a view to ripping them off. The detectives reportedly opened communication with the gang and were able to arrest five of them including a pregnant woman. The expectant mother, it was learnt, was the bait used by the gang to engage their victims in sweet talks by phone. The leader of the group identified as, Micheal Eneji a 27 year- old footballer said they were unaware of Olaseinde’s death until their arrest. Asked how they killed their victims, he said: “We will take their ATM cards and go to the bank with the pin number they gave us and begin to withdraw N100, 000 every day until the account is blocked. “We did not know that Olaseinde and Disi were unable to untie themselves like others before them and escape”. He blamed his involvement in crime on hard times. “When I couldn’t afford to pay my school fees, I decided to go into love dating scam.
I dwell mainly on Badoo that many Nigerian men visit regularly. “I surf the net and select pictures of black models and impersonate them by using them as my own so that the men will think they are dealing with a woman. As soon as they see the picture, some send a message to me and I will respond. “ They will ask for my number and I will give them. I have a Techno phone that has a special voice prompt that allows a man to sound like a woman. “Once I establish contact, I will go to the next step which is to convince them that I will satisfy their sexual urge.
Pretending to be a big girl, I will tell them to meet me at a petrol station on Eleme Road while one of my boys, Chibueze, will go there and meet them as my domestic servant and direct them to my house. “To convince them to come, I will claim that I live in one of the estates alone and it will be safer to meet there so that they will not be caught by their wives or girlfriends. While in their cars, Chibueze will tell them to drive towards a deserted place where we would lay ambush for them, dressed in police uniforms. We will stop them and demand to know what they are doing in such a deserted place. “We will over power them and tie their hands and legs while we take their valuables including their ATM card. “Two of us will go the bank and withdraw money from their account through their ATM.
If there no much money in the account, we will release loosen the rope and disappear this will enable the person to untie himself and go home.” Eneji confessed that the gang had defrauded a lot of men before they were arrested. He said that the gang kept Olaseinde and Disi for several days to enable them (gang) deplete their ‘huge’ accounts. On how Olaseinde was killed,he said: “I told him to come around 7pm and he told me that it was the perfect time to hang out. At about that time, he drove to the spot with his driver and Chibueze who was on ground joined him. “He directed them to the spot and we took over the car, tied him and his driver up. He did not have much cash with unlike the others.
When we got to the bank, I realized that he had about N4.5million naira in his account. “Blindfolded, we took him further into the bush and decided to keep there for some days to enable us empty that account. A few days later we were arrested. I never knew that he did not escape. “The second victim, Mr Disi was not my contract. It was Elijah the leader of another group that contracted me to help execute the job. I became interested when he told me that the maga (late Disi) worked in Shell Petroleum. “All I did was to lure him to visit by promising him good sex. I do not know if they killed him because of the huge amount that was found in his account. The truth is that we do not kill, but rob them of their valuables. We will sell the car, withdraw as much as we can from their accounts and disappear. We know that such crime might not be reported because the man will not tell his family or the police why he was robbed to protect his image. “It is unfortunate that they died; they were still breathing when we left them there.
The only difference is that we did not loosen the rope so that they could easily escape.” On the role of the lady in their midst, Eneji said: “She is my fiancée and I normally use her to further convince our target to assume that we are real. If the target insists that I should come and see him, I will send my girl to go and meet him. She would be the one that will lure them to the spot where we can take over.” He goes by the names Cindy and Empress on Badoo. “Once you search for beautiful models on Goggle search, you will have so many options. If you want so many toasters, select the ones that expose their breast. I am terribly sorry that these men died in the process. We found out that it is easier to collect money in exchange for sex. I dropped out of school because my rich relatives refused to help my mother to train us. I can only get money from them if I send a woman to go and seduce them. I am terribly sorry.”
A member of the gang , Lekia Emmaden Isaac, said his own duty was to tie their victims. He said: “We have done that severally and when we return, we found that they have escaped. “I did not kill Olaseinde. All I did was to tie him up very well so that he would not escape immediately. I was shocked when I heard that he was found dead. It is possible that a snake attacked him since he was kept in a deserted area.” Chibueze, a 17 year-old, who acted as domestic servant said his duty was just to take the victim to a spot where they would be attacked by the other members of the gang. “I did not participate in the main robbery; all I did was to take the suspect to the point where he would be robbed.” Gift Princess, the expectant mother said: “Olaseinde called, requesting that I should direct him. I then told him that my domestic servant would wait for him at the agreed spot. “He later called back complaining that he was not comfortable with the route that they passed through. Unfortunately, he was already at the spot and my fiancé, Eneji and others took over from there. “ I was only helping my husband to raise enough money to pay for my bride price.”
The State Command Commissioner of Police, Tunde Ogunsakin said operatives acted based on a report by the family of one of their victims, Olaseinde that he had been kidnapped. “When his family waited for him and could not reach him, they lodged a complaint and I instructed the officer in charge of Anti-Kidnapping, CSP Akan to hunt for the missing father of two. Through Intelligence gathering, we were able to arrest the gang. They led us to Ebubu, Eleme, in Rivers state at an abandoned Shell pipeline borrowed pit where the corpse of Shola was lying decomposed. Ogunsakin said the suspects posed as women in most of these love dating site. As soon as they lured their victim, they would arrange a meeting. The lady’s duty is to meet with the men who are normally very rich. As soon as they get them, she will lure them to a secluded place and alert members of their gang. They would come and tie the person and then go ahead to withdraw money from his account through ATM”.
And for the living, TRY CELIBACY, IT IS THE BEST WAY TO DISCOVER YOUR TRUE SELF, OR USE CONDOM BECAUSE DYING NEEDLESSLY IS FOOLISH!
May their souls rest in peace.

WHO IS FOOLING WHO?

 

Is it true that Nigeria has I60 milliom Mumu? Or How many millions of Mumu's we still have despite all the obvious?

"On why APC governors were not part of the meeting, Akpabio claimed that the meeting was at the instance of PDP governors and APC governors were not invited. He added that the meeting was convened by Jonathan in order for PDP governors to air their views on the ongoing activities in some parts of the country, saying that the next meeting, which is schedule for Wednesday would have the APC governors in attendance.

Akpabio, however could not give any explanation for the presence of the governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State (LP) and his Anambra State counterpart, Willlie Obiano who belong to All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA".

13 Things that Make Guys Insecure

We're less like Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal and more like Vince Vaughn in real life.

1. Not having enough hair. Are we losing our hair? Can we grow a beard? We need to look like Robin Williams at the start of Jumanjior we are not a man.
2. Having a lame "how we met" story. You're never going to have a meet cute like they do in the movies. Unfortunately, there's no way to spin "we were drunk at a frat party" into something anywhere as good as Jack saving Rose's life, let alone Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore meeting next to a dumpster in The Wedding Singer.That's way too much pressure.
3. Being short on money. Blame the whole hunter/gatherer society aspect, but men still feel like they need to be able to provide for our family. Unless we're making Soulja Boy-buying-a-plane level money, we're always going to feel like we can do more.

4. Aging. No guy wants to get to the point where their whole body has the same texture as their balls and their teeth start falling out. And odds are, we're not going to wind up going out as gracefully as Clooney.
5. Grand gestures of love. We don't have the money saved up to rent hot air balloons, to whisk you away. Hell, if I'm ever in a situation where I have to chase after the love of my life in the airport, I'm not making it past the ticket desk. I have about $8 saved up. That's not enough to buy a ticket to anywhere.
6. Not being able to open a jar. We will try until our hands are slick with blood. This jelly is not getting the best of us. If you've asked us to open it for you, the stakes are even higher.
7. Gross insects/bugs/snakes. Men are expected to be able to defend the house, but sometimes that giant spider is making us want to throw up and hide under the bed and then throw up again while we're under the bed.
8. Guys who have big muscles. "Why can't I gain muscle?" we ask through mouthfuls of pizza. Sure, maybe muscle bound dudes aren't so great for cuddling, but we still hate knowing they could beat us up.
9. Being bad at something. We don't care if this is the first time we've ever played lawn darts. We play to win. Yeah, this might be at a child's birthday party, but if we don't dominate everyone here will think less of us.
10. Every celebrity's abs. Come on, we have real jobs. We do not have the time to work out at the gym eight hours a day. We will never look like the leading men in romcoms and spoiler alert: we will probably die of heart disease.
11. Porn. Guys in porn have full heads of hair and muscles and giant penises and ARE YOU LOOKING AT THEM? WE WILL PUNCH THEM. WE WILL PUNCH THEM RIGHT THROUGH THE SCREEN.
12. Setting our friends up with your friends. In the movies, the leads friends always date each other because you need B and C romantic plot lines so everyone can have a happy ending. This inspires you to set up your best friend with our old college roommate who still wears hemp hoodies and is adamant that Karl Marx had some practical ideas. Somehow, when it ends terribly, we're going to feel awful about it.
13. Bears. Really, anything in the animal kingdom that could kill us. We like always being at the top of the food chain, and knowing we could get eaten at any moment does not make us feel manly.

The Best Way To Inspire Him To Commit

It can be so confusing when a man says he cares for you - even loves you - but is not making any moves to get closer or commit to you.
If you're finding yourself wondering what's going on and what he'll do next instead of just enjoying his attention and affection, you're in good company.
It happens to so many of us women: We attach ourselves to a man and invest our time and hearts in him, yet he feels slightly beyond our reach. And because we are so attached, we start making excuses for him when he's not showering us with the attention we crave.
On the one hand, we're willing to give him his "space" and be understanding about all the other pressures in his life. At the same time, we become angry because we aren't getting what we want and need. It can get so confusing that no matter what we do, we end up feeling awful.

If We Let People Mistreat Us, They Will

I remember how I used to be so forgiving of the men I was dating, even though it would hurt me. There was one man who took time away from me in order to see an old girlfriend who was in town visiting. Yet I kept on seeing him, even though I knew he not only wasn't committing to me, he was humiliating me!
I'm telling you this embarrassing story so that you won't accept any kind of behavior that doesn't feel good to you.
Having learned some hard lessons and cried the tears that go with them, I've gotten very good at expressing my displeasure in a way nearly anyone can hear, and in a way my husband just adores.
Because, believe it or not, the Tools I teach you don't get tossed out the minute you're married. You'll want to use them for life so your man will keep falling in love with you forever.

You Don't Want Him - You Want A Real Relationship

This may sound simple enough, but most of us do just the opposite. Being aware that your priority is a real relationship is something we often forget. We express, sometimes over and over again - with words, our body language and things we do - that he is what we want.

"No man should ever feel like he's your man of choice, he's your "One", or that you're only seeing him. Not until he's committed."

When we get so focused on the need for any one man, it's easy to get blinded. That's when we start making excuses for him that may in fact be relationship deal breakers for us. If what you want is an exclusive relationship, yet you keep seeing him if he wants something else for fear of losing him, you're really only losing yourself and all that is important to you.

How To Get a Commitment Without Asking For It

If, instead, you speak your truth, then you are honoring yourself without putting pressure on him. You could say something like this:
"I don't want a boyfriend. I'm looking for someone to walk off into the sunset with and get married and have a family. And so I don't want to get exclusive with anyone until that guy shows up."
And that’s it. You don’t ask him for anything. You also continue dating other men until you have the commitment that makes you happy. I know this is hard, but trust me when I say you are doing the best thing you possibly can to ensure your happiness. No man should ever feel like he’s your man of choice, he’s your “One”, or that you’re only seeing him. Not until he’s committed.
This is actually the way dating used to work in the old days. Take my aunt, who has been happily married for several decades. She once told me how, when she got engaged to my uncle, she had to write three “Dear John” letters to men she was seeing! And, by the way, she said this to me as my uncle was sitting right beside her with a glint in his eye. My aunt was a smart lady: She was taking care of herself first by making sure she was committing to the right man - someone who completely adored her and wanted to give her his heart forever.

A Calmer Wife Strengthens A Marriage: The Emotionality Of Wedlock

Wives who quickly regain their cool after a spat keep a marriage strong while a husbands' emotional control during a verbal argument makes little difference. 

Researchers find that a wife's - but not husband's - temperament plays a significant role in marriage satisfaction while in a separate study they find a genetic link to how emotional people are to the state of their relationship.

Specifically, the willingness and ability of wives to control their emotions and harness “constructive communication” to keep arguments grounded were strongly linked to marital fulfillment. Conversely, the way husbands kept their emotions in check apparently had “little or no bearing in long-term marital satisfaction,” the study authors write.
This discrepancy could reflect generational differences in how marriage and gender-roles are viewed, as well as how arguments negatively impact a relationship. Northwestern University assistant professor and study co-author, Claudia Haase, noted “middle-aged and older couples in our study grew up in a world that treated men and women very differently. It will be interesting to see how these gender dynamics play out in younger couples.”

Does Marriage Make Men Fatter?

 

While many may think it’s the women who “let themselves go” when they get married, they could be wrong. It’s actually men who pack on pounds post-marriage, and they are 25 percent more likely to be overweight than single people, a new study suggests.

The study was published in the journal Families, Systems & Health. The researchers reviewed the participants’ diets, physical activity, and weight using information from Project EAT. They studied some 2,300 young people in the Midwest, with 35 percent being single or casually dating, 42 percent in a committed relationship, and 23 percent being married. The average age of the young adults was 25.3 years old, with 45 percent male and 55 percent female.

Married men were 25 percent more likely to be overweight or obese than men in committed relationships, or single men, the study found.  Anyone who had a body mass index (BMI) over 25 was marked as overweight. “Results indicated that married men were more likely to be overweight/obese … compared with single/casually dating and committed dating/engaged men,” the authors of the study wrote in the abstract. “Married women were more likely to eat breakfast [more than] 5 times per week compared with women in other relationship categories.” But people's relationship status had little to no effect on other health behaviors, such as eating vegetables and fruit, eating less fast food, and exercising.

Gut Feelings Predict Whether A Marriage Will Last

“[F]indings suggest that being married may be a risk factor for overweight/obesity in young adult men and may be a protective factor for health-related behaviors associated with overweight/obesity such as breakfast intake for young adult women,” the authors wrote.

Indeed, the topic has been studied in the past. It may be common to assume that marriage may lead to a wider waistline, as people in long-term relationships tend to become more comfortable with their lifestyle and appearances. Single people in particular may spend more time keeping themselves fit to appear attractive, “But once they get married they let themselves go,” Dimitris Kiortsis, the president of the Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity, told the Daily Mail. “The need to hunt for a partner is reduced.” A study completed in 2013 also found that after reviewing some 160 married couples, the more content people were in their marriage, the more weight they gained.

Third Year Of Marriage Is The Happiest; Which Year Is The Hardest?

But is marriage a poor health factor overall? Probably not, and if it were, it’d be extremely difficult to measure. Some research, in fact, suggests that marriage can actually be healthy for you. For example, a study published last year in the American Heart Journal found that married people recovered more quickly after a heart procedure called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Likewise, Kiortsis notes that though marriage may expand the waistline, it can also reduce stress and anxiety.

“We often think about the aging process as something we can treat medically with a pill or more exercise, but working on your marriage also might benefit your health as you age,” Christine Proulx, assistant professor at the University of Missouri Department of Human Development and Family Studies, said in a press release about the American Heart Journal study. “Engaging with your spouse is not going to cure cancer, but building stronger relationships can improve both people’s spirits and well-being and lower their stress.” So while a widening waistline may seem distressing to some, it could also be a sign that you are in a happy and stable relationship.

PHOTO OF THE DAY!!!

 

A devotee playing the role of Jesus Christ carries a cross during a Good Friday procession in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati April 18, 2014. 

PHOTO OF THE DAY

 

Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, talks to junior surf lifesavers during a visit to Sydney's Manly beach April 18, 2014. Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate are undertaking a 19-day official visit to New Zealand and Australia with their son George.

Ohio teacher fired over comment on black president!!!

An Ohio teacher has been fired after a black student who said he wanted to become president claimed the teacher told him the nation didn't need another black commander in chief.

The Fairfield Board of Education voted 4-0 on Thursday night to fire science teacher Gil Voigt from Fairfield Freshman School, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/1kIkFmQ ).

"The district felt that the evidence was sufficient to support the termination of Mr. Voigt's employment," Superintendent Paul Otten said in statement.

Voigt did not immediately return a call seeking comment Friday but has said the student misquoted him.

Voigt, who is white, told school officials that what he actually told the teen was that he doesn't think the nation can afford another president like Barack Obama, "whether he's black or white."

A state referee investigating Voigt found that explanation was not credible.

The referee also found Voigt had made other offensive comments in class over the years, including an accusation that in 2008, he trained his laser pointer at a black student and said he looked like "an African-American Rudolph."

Voigt told school officials that he was only repeating what another student had said but later acknowledged his conduct had been inappropriate.

In 2012, Voigt was accused of calling a student stupid and implying that he and some of his classmates were gay.

In that incident, Voigt denied making any insulting comments to students and told school officials that a group of students in his class were colluding against him.

The state referee found Voigt's explanation for those two incidents to also be not credible.

"Voigt repeatedly engaged in conduct that is harmful to the well-being of his students," the state referee wrote in an April 11 report given to the board of education. "He has made race-based, culturally based and insulting comments to students over a period of years. He was warned on multiple occasions that if his behavior continued that he would be subject to termination. Unfortunately, for both Voigt and his students, he did not alter his conduct."

Voigt may appeal his firing to a Butler County court. The Ohio Department of Education will investigate to decide what to do about his teaching license.

Voigt taught in Fairfield schools since 2000. He had been on unpaid leave since December following a parent's complaint about the Obama remark.

For the Thrill of the Affair: Why Married Women Cheat

When women cheat, it’s often considered a scandal, and never has cheating been as easy as it is now, when finding a willing partner is click or a phone tap away.

But what drives women to cheat? And do they stray as much and for the same reasons as men?

Katherine, whose name has been changed, said she and her husband were married for 14 years. After undergoing major weight loss and multiple plastic surgeries, she began looking for excitement outside of what she said was a stale marriage and turned to AshleyMadison.com, the notorious dating website for “casual encounters.”

“I was feeling very lonely one night,” Katherine said. “I was bored, on my phone in the parking lot, sitting in my car, pulled up AshleyMadison, and decided to open my first profile to see what would happen.”

AshleyMadison.com’s motto is “life is short, have an affair.” Noel Biderman, the author of "Adultropology: The Cyber-Anthropology Behind Infidelity," started the site more than 10 years ago. He said he makes more than $40 million a month from it.

“We’re the second-biggest dating service on the planet,” Biderman said. “This is not a kid’s game. This is an enterprise of significance.”

Biderman and his wife Amanda Biderman, who rarely gives interviews, agreed to sit down with “Nightline” to discuss his website and their marriage. She said when he first told her about the idea for the site, she was leery.

“I wanted to make sure he wasn’t having a mid-life crisis,” Amanda Biderman said. “Then I got to understand it more and thought it was interesting.”

Noel Biderman said he has built a billion dollar business betting on infidelity, and now has 25 million members in 37 countries, but doesn’t believe he is encouraging people to cheat, just providing one outlet.

“Long before I launched AshleyMadison there were affairs, and long after I’m gone there will be affairs,” Biderman said. “What I’m trying to do is help people have the more perfect affair.”

“I’m encouraging secrecy, yes,” he added, “but I’m not necessarily encouraging infidelity. I don’t think it needs all that much encouragement.”

Wendy Plump knows all about the elusive allure of an affair: keeping secrets. She said she strayed with three different men during her 18-year marriage.

“It is like a drug, a rush,” Plump said. “You know what it’s like when you fall in love with someone or your spouse? It’s like that when you have an affair, all over again.”

But it turned out that she wasn’t the only one in her marriage who was cheating. The final betrayal, she said, was discovering her husband had fathered a child with his long-term mistress.

“I remember having everything crash in at the time,” Plump said. “Something incomprehensible as to how you could get around that. ... I don't want to make it seem like he was terrible and I was good because we both let the marriage down.”

Plump, a veteran reporter, turned her failed marriage into the subject of her memoir, “The Vow.” She and her husband are now divorced.

“I got many letter from women who had affairs or whose husbands had had affairs,” she said. “This is a lot more common than I would have imagined.”

Some statistics show that 21 percent of married men have had an affair, compared to 15 percent of married woman, according to the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey. But that number for women has spiked in the last two decades, up nearly 40 percent.

Plump said society still judges cheating wives much more harshly than cheating husbands.

“There’s a much bigger stigma for women who cheat than for men,” she said. “Women are expected to be more chaste and proper, more faithful to the home and when women cheat it’s viewed as having cheated on the family, whereas when men cheat, they cheat on their wife, and I suppose that it’s viewed as not a big deal.”

According to AshleyMadison.com, a woman is more prone to cheat at certain stress points in her life, notably right before turning 40.

“Women cheat because they believe that they're missing something -- don't feel loved,” Plump said. “For men, seems like they want to cheat because they want to sleep with someone else, less an emotional thing.”

That’s what Katherine said happened to her.

I "didn't even want a physical relationship with anyone else, I wanted to be wanted,” she said. “I wanted to be adored, wanted to be chased, wanted every man to think, I have got to have her.”

But for both Plump and Katherine, the aftermath of cheating on their spouses was devastating. After Katherine confessed her affair, her husband said it left him crushed.

“She said, ‘whatever vows we made, I’m breaking them right here,’” said Katherine's husband, who asked not to be named. “I asked her, how dare she? How could she? ... I was furious with her.”

But Katherine’s husband had a secret of his own -- he started having an affair long before his wife ever turned to AshleyMadison.com.

“I really don’t have a good reason why I cheated,” he said. “I can come up with all the excuses ... but it was my decision alone. ... It was something new and exciting. And I don’t know why I did it.”

Though AshleyMadsion.com markets infidelity, ironically, Noel Biderman said he and his wife Amanda are happily married and completely faithful. Both said they would be devastated if the other cheated, but still did not agree with the accusation that Biderman’s website encourages cheating.

“I don’t see it as encouragement or enabling,” Amanda Biderman said. “It’s going to happen. It happens regardless of the business.”

Noel Biderman insisted that his business does people more good than harm because the threat of infidelity can be a martial wake-up call.

“I see it as a platform that helps people stay married. Millions of people have affairs because they want to stay married,” he said. “I help millions of people find contentment, passion and happiness through my service.”

But that is not how marriage counselors Jim and Elizabeth Carroll see it.

“I don’t think infidelity helps any marriage,” Jim Carroll said. “People should work through their problems before it gets to infidelity.”

The Carrolls run marriage retreats all across the country for embattled couples, forcing them to talk and even fight out their issues, as seen on WeTV’s “Marriage Boot Camp.”

“I think the AshleyMadison site is a brilliant marketing attempt to capitalize on the basest human behavior, the least disciplined human behavior, and I think it plays directly into things that will destroy our culture,” Elizabeth Carroll said.

Even for those couples like Katherine and her husband, who have both broken their vows, the Carrolls believe there is hope.

“The key to the solution is learning how to forgive, truly forgive, truly saying I will never hold this against you, ever,” Elizabeth said. “It’s a long road.”

Today, Katherine has deleted her AshleyMadison.com profile, but is estranged from her husband and kids. She said she has turned to her faith for healing.

“It doesn't matter how bad it is right now ... how gross it is, how much horrible darkness is in your life ... you can always turn your back on it, can always let it go,” Katherine said.

And her husband holds fast to his own faith –- that his wife will come home.

“I don’t believe my marriage is over. ... To me, this is just another chapter,” he said. “I see my wife as someone who’s struggling internally. ... She’s someone I made a vow to and a promise to. ... If things don’t get resolved, I want to know that I put forth every effort and I went out swinging, and I supported her the best I can. I don’t want to just walk away and give up.”

"At Easter, we must imbibe the spirit of love, wherever we may come from" -Atiku Abubakar

As we celebrate the Christian season of Easter, I would love to enjoin Christians, and indeed all Nigerians, to internalize the spiritual gains and benefits of the season for an improved society. This is the only path to enthroning a Nigeria where the basic human rights of the rich and poor are respected and upheld, and where citizens can dwell in peace and safety.
We need to be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers and, above all, make sacrifice an integral part of our existence. That is the only way the sacrifice and life’s lessons of Jesus Christ will make meaning in our own daily lives and the life of our nation.
The message of Easter is love. Unconditional love for each other, not as people from different tribes or places of birth, not as Christians or Muslims, but as members of a commonwealth of humanity. We must love each other as Nigerians first.
The ongoing security challenges in our country are saddening, but they also provide an opportunity for us to come out as one people and one nation, to stand together against any persons or forces, which may seek to divide us.
As Nigerians, we must continue to contribute our quota to national security, by reporting any suspicious activity to the police.
Until we begin to care for one another and to realize that every single human life is precious in the eyes of God, Nigeria will never actualize its destiny as a great nation capable of playing a leading role in the world.

PRESIDENT GEJ EASTER MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS

          Dear Compatriots,

I greet you all, especially our Christian brothers and sisters who are celebrating Easter and commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ today. 

As we join Christians in other countries of the world in celebrating Easter this year, I urge all Nigerians to reflect on the significance of its lessons of piety, obedience to higher authorities, self sacrifice for the good of others, redemption, salvation, deliverance, renewal and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.

These lessons of Easter and other injunctions on brotherly love, peaceful co-existence, tolerance, honesty, humility, justice, equity and fairness to all without discrimination contained in the Gospels are of particular importance to us as a nation as we continue to contend with the challenges of nation-building and development.

As our Christian compatriots celebrate the Messiah’s   triumph over death and all that it connotes, let us all renew our faith and confidence in our ability as a people to overcome all obstacles, challenges and threats to national progress and well-being, including terrorism and other criminal attacks on our people in some parts of the country.

My belief in our ability to overcome all retrogressive and divisive forces in our midst and build a strong, united and prosperous nation by turning our unique diversity into a source of strength remains unshaken and we will continue to work with all interest groups and stakeholders in the country to achieve the peaceful, secure and politically stable conditions essential for rapid socio-economic development.

In spite of the evil machinations of terrorists, criminals and their collaborators, our Administration remains ardently focused on efforts to successfully execute the Federal Government’s Agenda for National Transformation and achieve sustained development.

We have already made notable advances in this regard. As a result of our efforts and those of previous administrations, the Nigeria economy is now the largest in Africa and the 26^th largest in the world.

But we cannot afford to rest on our oars. Much remains to be done and we will continue to count on the patriotic support of all Nigerians as we strive to achieve more inclusive economic growth, generate more national wealth and create more employment opportunities to meet the demands of our increasingly youthful population.

I commend the leadership and delegates to the ongoing National Conference, the vast majority of who have shown a patriotic and praiseworthy commitment to national unity, peace and progress built on justice, fairness and equity for all component parts of the country.

As the Conference breaks into committees to continue its deliberations, it remains our hope and expectation that the end result will be meaningful and enduring contributions towards strengthening national unity and fulfilling our collective desire for a better and greater nation.

Once again, I extend heartfelt commiserations to all the families who have sadly lost loved relatives in recent terrorist attacks.

Our thoughts and sympathies remain with all those who have suffered injuries from the heinous attacks. We  pray for their speedy recovery and shall keep on doing everything possible to assist them with required medical services and material support.

Our Armed Forces and security agencies will continue to do their very best to curb such attacks and restore full security to all parts of our beloved country.

But we must all become more alert and vigilant, and do all that we can to give them the fullest possible assistance, support and cooperation they require to achieve more effective protection of lives and property across the country.

We shall continue to count on your support and prayers for greater peace, harmony, progress and prosperity in Nigeria.

May God Almighty bless our dear nation and guide us, always.
Happy Easter to you all.
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
President, Federal Republic of Nigeria

NYANYA BOMB BLAST VICTIMS IN ABUJA FACE HUNGER IN HOSPITAL

According to a report by Premium Times, some victims of Monday's bomb blast receiving medical attention at the Asokoro General Hospital in Abuja are currently facing hunger as no one is providing them with food.

One of the survivors, Salome Jim, told Premium Times that she's only received drugs and drips from the hospital management but no one has given her anything to eat.

"I have been sitting down here waiting for surgery. I am in pain, I am very hungry. No one has come here to give me food, I can neither walk nor move, the nurses and doctors are nice to me but they didn’t give me food. The nurse said she will come and attend to me at 9:30 am this morning and this is 9 o’ clock so I am waiting, but when I came here yesterday they took care of me, I didn’t pay for anything, but they didn’t give us food. I went to bed with an empty stomach, the woman inside the ward over there (she pointed) shared her food with me at midnight, as I am here my relatives don't know I am here as I couldn’t find my phone.” She said. Continue...

Another survivor, Shuaibu Abubakar, who suffers psychological imbalance and pains in his legs said he had not eaten since Monday when he was brought to the hospital.

"I did not eat anything I was too weak to eat but at midnight I couldn’t sleep out of hunger. The last time I ate was on Sunday evening, but there was no food provision. Some people from the mosque came here to give me bread and tea this morning, the hospital only gave us injections and drips. I am still hungry, broke and with no money.” he said

The Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu during his visit to the Asokoro Hospital was asked by reporters why the victims had not been fed by the hospital. He denied knowledge of that and said the Hospital management would look into it

"The management of the hospitals will go back after my departure to find the true situation and sort it out. All hospitals have been very cooperative this is the main situation.” he said.

An official of the Asokoro General Hospital who spoke anonymously to Premium Times confirmed that the victims were being administered drugs on empty stomachs 

“Some of the victims cannot eat just yet, but some of them who can eat do not have the money to eat, the government can’t only be administering drugs on empty stomachs it can lead to other serious cases. We all tried yesterday but not even a single word of commendations from the government. You people should let Nigerians know the bomb blast victims are hungry and are not fed,” the official said.

Photos From Abba and Mariana's Wedding...CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Pic 1: Abba Atiku Abubakar and his Bride Mariana.

 Pic 2: Interim National President of the All Progressive Congress - APC, Chief Bisi Akande flanked by the Groom's Father, His Excellency Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with the National Leader of the APC and Fmr Gov. of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Pic 3: The groom Abba Atiku Abubakar and his mother Hajiya Ladi Atiku Abubakar

Pic 4: Hajiya Titi Atiku Abubakar the couple, and Hajiya Rukayya Atiku Abubakar

Pic 5: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (r) introducing the parents of his son's wife, Mrs Margarita, (1st r) and Mr Nadim Saleby to National leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu