Baloogg's Blog : 2015-01-18

Saturday, January 24, 2015

When I Was Broke, I Almost Killed Myself – Halima Abubakar

Halima Abubakar has once again opened up on her past and talked about having suicidal thoughts.

In an interview she granted Punch, she said that when she got broke, she was tired of life and how people lied with her name coupled with betrayal .

She said: “There were a lot of things that were wrong with me and led to my depression. I was angry, broke, people lied against me and they were also using my name to lie. I was deceived by the people I loved. I was seriously broke at the time and I had lots of responsibilities.

Yes, it is true that great confessions help the relationship but sadly, not all confessions enhances the self esteem of your partner.

Staying in a relationship requires a little extra of every efforts. It is true that being happy in a relationship requires lots of openness and all…but hey! there are some things you should not tell husband. He does not even have to know. According to Simi Kuriakose, here are 7 things you need not let your husband know:

Heartbreaking photos appeared yesterday on the official Twitter account of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).

All the people pictured became victims of unrest in the North-East of Nigeria ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency.
Many of those who survived, lost their relatives and were deprived of homes, having to flee their own country in fear for life.

The Guardian UK profiles an NGO in Uganda helping HIV-positive female s ex workers to access healthcare and their daughters to access education to break the cycle of mother-to-daughter prostitution.

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Bishops

The Association of Niger Delta Bishops on Saturday ended a three-day prayer conference in Yenagoa for the success of the 2015 general elections.

The conference tagged, ''The Hand of God'', was attended by over 50 bishops, 30 archbishops and other clergymen from different denominations in the South-South zone.

Syria

Syrian government air raids have killed at least 42 people in a rebel-held village near Damascus, activists and a group monitoring the violence have said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported a "massacre" against the village of Hamoriyah in eastern Ghouta area on Friday, as at least 42 people, including six children were killed.

138 Golfers Taking Part In First Maritime Golf Championships

Golf

One hundred and thirty-eight golfers are participating in the maiden edition of the Maritime Golf Championships which teed off in Lagos on Saturday.

The championships which is holding at the Ikoyi Club is organised by the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
The one-day championships was teed-off by Hassan Bello, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), at the Ikoyi Golf Course.

Chelsea were dumped out of the FA Cup by Bradford in sensational style at Stamford Bridge with the League One side coming back from 2-0 down to stun the Premier League leaders 4-2.

First-half goals from Gary Cahill and Ramires looked to have put the Premier League leaders on course for a comfortable victory on Saturday, but the visitors had other ideas.

NOA

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Sokoto State has commenced the training of its staff to curb election-related violence and voter apathy during the forthcoming general polls.

The State Director of the agency, Alhaji Abubakar Danchadi, said this in Sokoto on Saturday.

Danchadi spoke at the opening of a one-day train-the-trainer workshop for its Chief Orientation and Mobilisation Officers across the state.

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic solidified his position as Australian Open favorite with a straight sets victory over Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco on Saturday.

The world No. 1 didn't have it all his own way, forced to overcome a first-set tiebreaker against Verdasco, but he failed to have his serve broken throughout the match and eventually eased to a 7-6 (10-8), 6-3, 6-4 win.

NPF

The Police in Rivers on Saturday confirmed an attack on the National School Field, Okrika, venue of the All Progressives Congress governorship rally in Okrika local Government Area of the state.

The Police Commissioner, Mr Dan Bature, told newsmen in Port Harcourt that unidentified assailants on Saturday at about 4.30 a.m., attacked the venue with an explosive device suspected to be a dynamite.
"Podium and public address system were damaged. No life was lost.

MTN

The MTN Business, the business-to-business division of MTN Nigeria, is embarking on series of awareness campaign in major open markets across Nigeria.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Communication Officer of XLR8 Corporate Communications, Miss Muola Awolowo, and made available to newsmen in Lagos on Saturday.

Valentin Maslakov

Valentin Maslakov, head coach of Russia athletics team has resigned from his role amid series of doping scandals that have plagued the country over the years.

An online portal, the Insidegames on Saturday said that the 70-year- old Maslakov offered his resignation after a German television documentary that reported a systematic doping within the team.
According to the portal, the coach came on board as the head of Russian athletics team in 2007 with a coaching career spanning to 40 years.

Photo Credit:reuters

U.S. President Barack Obama will cut short his visit to India on Tuesday to fly to Saudi Arabia following the death of King Abdullah, sources in the Indian capital familiar with the matter said on Saturday,Reuters reports.

The White House could not immediately be reached for comment. Obama was due to arrive in New Delhi on Sunday for a three-day trip, and will attend the Republic Day parade at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sani Lulu

The former head of the Nigeria Football Federation has maintained that he is innocent of groundless charges leveled against him by the country’s anti-graft agency

Former president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi has upheld his innocence in the corruption charges leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) which has stayed behind in a Federal High Court in Abuja for the past five years.

At least 34 people have died in Bangladesh and scores have been injured, most of them in firebomb attacks, amid rising political unrest fuelled by a stand-off between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the main opposition leader.

Begum Khaleda Zia, whose opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) boycotted the election in 2014, has demanded that Ms. Hasina and her government step down for a new vote under a caretaker administration.

Kara Mbodji

Senegal need a point from their last Group C tie to reach the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals after coming behind to draw 1-1 with South Africa in the African Nations Cup on Friday to go top of Group C.

Kara Mbodji's header on the hour cancelled out the lead that South Africa secured straight after halftime through Oupa Manyisa.
Senegal are top with four points followed by Algeria and Ghana on three and South Africa on one with one match to go.

The fate of Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa – the two hostages held by Islamic State (Isis) – remains unknown, after the deadline for paying a $200m (£133.4m) ransom expired.

The Islamist organisation has not made any announcement after the deadline ended Friday afternoon local time.
Japanese officials continue their efforts in seeking a safe release of the captives.
Yasuhide Nakayama, the senior Japanese diplomat who is overseeing the operation, told reporters that the Japanese government remains "focused on gathering information and combing through it. We in the government will pull through this together and put priority on saving human lives".

UN Force Not Needed To Tackle Boko Haram Terrorists

Nigeria's National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, a former army colonel, said wider assistance would not be necessary, Yahoo News reported

"It's something that we can do. It's absolutely something we can do," he added.

"I think as it is we are in good shape to address the issue with those partners, Niger, Chad and Cameroon," he added.
Representatives from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon met this week to thrash out details of a new regional force to counter the rising threat from the Takfiri militants.

BAGA: Military Set For Final Comprehensive Operation Against Boko Haram

Nigerian Military

The Nigerian military is now set to conduct a “once and for all comprehensive operation” to eliminate Boko Haram terrorists in the troubled parts of the North East region.
Even as Chad, Cameroun, Niger and Nigeria could be attacking Boko Haram at the same time in a renewed effort to flush out the insurgents.

A statement issued by PRNigeria in Abuja Friday disclosed that political authorities, who now feel so disturbed by the activities of the terrorists especially after viewing the latest video released from the terror group (which claimed that it already has enough weapons to take on Nigeria and its neighbours), have endorsed the military plan and expressed full support for it.

The U.S. and Iraq have begun preparations for an assault by summer to retake Mosul, selecting and training military units and cutting supply lines to Islamic State militants who control Iraq’s second-largest city, the top American commander in the Middle East said.

Gen. Lloyd Austin, the head of the military’s Central Command, told The Wall Street Journal that the international campaign against Islamic State has inflicted significant damage. Opposing forces have reclaimed about 300 square miles of territory in Iraq and killed some 6,000 members of the Sunni radical group, eliminating about half its leadership.

Manchester United were embarrassingly held to a 0-0 draw at fourth tier Cambridge United in the FA Cup fourth round on Friday after another harsh lesson against lower league opposition.

Cambridge, promoted from the minor leagues into the professional pyramid last season, had studied hard and gave the visitors a lesson in terms of desire and defensive organisation.

Waec Exams

There are thousands of unclaimed certificates in the custody of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), an official of the council has said, according to Tribune reports

According to this official (who preferred not to be named because he was not authorised to speak with the press), WAEC has printed certificates up to November/December 2013.

                   Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has predicted the end of the Internet .

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he was asked for his prediction on the future of the Web. He explained, according to Hollywood Reporter.....

    'I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear,''There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won't even sense it,'
    'It will be part of your presence all the time.'Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic.'And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.'A highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world emerges.'

On millions losing jobs,he said

    'It's the same thing that happened when people stopped farming and started using tractors.'They find new skills and services.'So while there is an enormous assumption that this time it's different.

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Nurse Killed Three Patients, Poisoned 18 Others and Nobody Knows Why

Nurse Victorino Chua is alleged to have killed three and poisoned 18 others

A person who was supposed to save people’s lives deliberately poisoned and murdered them instead.

Victorino Chua who worked as a nurse killed three patients and poisoned 18 more by contaminating medication at their hospital at Stockport, Great Manchester, UK. A massive police investigation revealed that Chua had secretly injected insulin into droppers and vials.

Dave O’Callaghan and Jane Hammond were born on the same day in the same hospital and later got married

A couple born on the same day in the same hospital and married each other 22 years later, now about to celebrate their 60th birthdays together, Exeter, Devon, UK.
Dave O’Callaghan and Jane Hammond were both born on January 26, 1955, in the same hospital but didn’t meet again until they were 17. And although Dave dated one of Jane’s friends for a while, the couple soon fall in love with each other.

Late Kin Abdullah(right) New King Salman(left)

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz - the powerful U.S. ally has died aged 90.The royal had been in the hospital since December, battling pneumonia.Abdullah will be buried today following Muslim tradition that aburial should take place within 24 hours of death.
King Abdullah's half-brother Salman, 79, has become king.A statement released by the new king read:

Like father like son. ..The adorable duo prepared for soccer this evening...Psquare were good footballers before they branched into music. His son would probably be a soccer star someday...

Nine dogs have been found abandoned in such a poor state they were unable to see or stand properly.

The nine animals were found in such a poor state - with long matted fur covering their faces - that at first RSPCAofficers in Winchester didn't even realise they were dogs.

The pets were found across the city yesterday, Each dog took around three hours to shave. Winchester City Council's senior animal welfare officer, Dave Griffiths, said:

Mr. Ife Oyedele, who is the Campaign Coordinator for Buhari in Ondo state has raised an alarm that the Peoples Democratic Party in the state has a plot to attack Rtd. Gen. Buhari’s convoy.

According to Punch, the Buhari Campaign Co-ordinator for Ondo State, Mr. Ife Oyedele, alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party in the state has an evil plan to make sure youths attack the convoy of Maj.-Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress, during his planned campaign in Akure scheduled for tomorrow, 24th January, 2015.

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

Just 24 hours after the principal of the Government College, Katsina, Mallam Isyaku Bello released the West African School Certificate (WASC) results of the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Rtd. Gen. Muhammad Buhari, new reports are here!
The Nation reports that the principal, Mallam Isyaku Bello has been receiving death threats for releasing the controversial, much-awaited WASC result. Although as at last night, the exact place where the threats are coming from cannot be ascertained directly.

Rihanna was the centre of attention in the middle of a star-studded fashion pack at The Daily Front Row Fashion Los Angeles Awards in West Hollywood, California, on Thursday.
The singer who took Jeremy Scott as her date was dressed in one of his sparkling Moschino creations

Kanye,Miley Cyrus,Katty Perry also sat front row..Riri

Olamide

Rumour going around social media this evening suggest that YBNL boss and rapper Olamide has been kidnapped.

The rumour states that Olamide was on his way to a video shoot when the incident occurred.
Well Olamide quickly went online and denied it, stating that he is safe and hard at work.
In a recent post her wrote: Real recognize real.. Don’t knock another niggas hustle lol

The Bayelsa Police Command on Friday urged members of the public to be vigilant and report any strange object suspected to be explosive device.

The command made the appeal in a statement signed by its spokesman, ASP Asinim Butswat, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa on Friday.

Di Maria

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he would have signed Angel Di Maria at 17-years-old if not for work permit issues.

The Arsenal manager is frustrated by the limits on bringing foreign youngsters to the Premier League as it cost him the chance to sign the now-Manchester United midfielder.

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Greg Rutherford carried the deer to his Woburn Sands home

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford carried an injured deer about two miles to his home in a bid to save its life.
The athlete, who lives in Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire, tweeted thatthe "poor little thing" had a broken leg and he was waiting for the RSPCA to help.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said his sister, late Madam Nancy Oleic- Jonathan died of a heart related ailment.

The Oleic-Jonathan died on Jan. 4 at the age of 52.

Jonathan and his wife, Patience, made the remarks when they led other members of the family to a funeral service in honour of the deceased at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Otuoke, Bayelsa.

Liberia, once the epicentre of West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country's success in halting new infections.

The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 8,600 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Earlier this year at the height of the outbreak in Liberia, hospitals without beds for new patients were forced to turn away victims and bodies were left in the streets.

In the early hours of Friday at the Ketu end of the popular Ikorodu Road in Lagos unidentified woman and her son lost their lives when a truck crashed into three commercial buses.

Eyewitnesses said that the truck was carrying two fully loaded containers and lost control before ramming into the buses which were picking passengers on the road.

Capital Market Operators Seek Increase In Domestic Investors' Participation On NSE

The Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria (ASHON) on Friday said that the nation's capital market would experience stability with increased participation of domestic investors.

The ASHON President, Mr Emeka Madubuike, said this in Lagos during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Madubuike said that the association would partner market regulators and operators to ensure more investor education in 2015 to engender domestic investors' confidence in the market.

A 31-year-old woman, Omoronike Ishola, on Friday prayed an Alakuko Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her six-year old marriage over alleged battery and threat to life.
The petitioner, an hair dresser, who lives at 29, Ifalokun Owode St., Ajegunle, a suburb of Lagos told the court that her husband, Wasiu Ishola, is not responsible.
Ishola, however, denied being irresponsible, adding, ``I don't strangle her; I only beat her whenever she grabs my scrotum.
Omoronike had narrated her ordeal in the hands of her Arabic teacher before she met Wasiu.

Mr Qudus Onikeku, the Artistic Director, Qdance Centre, Lagos, on Friday called on the Federal Government to build theatres in the six geo-political zones of the country to boost the entertainment industry.

Onikeku told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the nonavailability of theatres in the six zones was affecting the
growth of the sector.

Two Rwandan police officers have been jailed for 20 years for killing an anti-corruption activist who was investigating mineral smuggling from Democratic Republic of Congo.
Gustave Makonene, who worked for anti-graft body, Transparency International, was found dead in July 2013 in Rubavu.
The Judge, Esron Gashyende, said the two men convicted by the court on Friday in Kinshasa, were both police corporals, Isaac Ndabarinze and Nelson Iyakaremye.

90-year-old Priscilla Sitienei

A woman who has served her rural Kenyan village as a midwife for the past 65 years has returned to primary school along with six of her great-great-grandchildren.

Priscilla Sitienei, 90, is believed to be the oldest primary school pupil in the world. She enrolled at Leaders Vision Preparatory School in the Rift Valley village of Ndalat five years ago, with the intention of finally learning to read and write.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Ogun chapter, on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to intensify efforts in tackling incidences of multiple taxation.

Mr Wale Adegbite, the President of the association, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, Ado-Odo Local Government Area of Ogun.
He said that payment of multiple taxes had been hindering the development of the manufacturing sector.

The Rural Water and Sanitation Initiative, a Non-Governmental Organisation, on Friday urged all stakeholders to provide water and basic sanitation facilities in rural areas to reduce preventable deaths.

Mr Chika Okeke, the organisation’s Executive Director, made the call in Abuja in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that basic water intervention projects were needed as majority of rural areas were worst hit by drinking from unsafe water points.

Mr Nkereuwem Ukpong, the Deputy Director, Federal Highway (South West), Federal Ministry of Works, said the reconstruction work on Section 2 of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway had reached 16 per cent completion.

Ukpong, who is the engineer representative in charge of Section 2 of the expressway, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that other aspects of the reconstruction work so far completed included drains and culverts.

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has promised to tackle insecurity, poverty, unemployment, bribery and corruption, if elected in February.

Buhari made the promise during campaign in Sokoto on Thursday.

"These are the major problems bedeviling Nigeria now and the moment they are fully tackled, Nigeria will be a better place’’, he added.

Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington’s fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernise the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom with incremental but significant reforms, including nudging open greater opportunities for women, has died, he was 90.

Throngs of mourners gathered in Mecca early Friday just hours after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud died. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was the fifth of his brothers to take the throne and became king in 2005, reports Caroline Hawley

NMA Urges Nigerians To Elect Leaders With Priority For Improved Healthcare

NMA

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), on Thursday in Lagos urged Nigerians to elect leaders that would give priority to the development of the healthcare sector.

Its National President, Dr Osahon Enabulele, said that it was the duty of elective office holders to transform the health sector in the interest of the citizens.

"I expect that people will now shine their eyes in such a way as to know those who truly believe in their health rights.

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