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“Ladies, If Your Boyfriend Cheats On You, Add Your Menstruation Blood To His Stew”- Nigerian Lady

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A Nigerian Lady identified as Sophia Gold, has urged all her friends and females in general to add menstruation blood to their boyfriend’s food if he cheats on them. Sophia who feels cheaters aren’t meant to go scotfree has berated all females to try and put their period bloods in his stew. This of course made most of her male friends angry, and she was forced to delete the post.. Not until we got a screenshot of course. Though many of her female friends thought she was playing around but others did not infact they even supported the idea. See the screen shot below;

BREAKING: Another meeting between Nigerian govt, ASUU deadlocked

A meeting between the Nigerian government and university lecturers has ended without a resolution of the nationwide strike called by the union on Monday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, began a nationwide strike this week, over demands for improved funding of universities and welfare of lecturers. An earlier meeting with the government was also unsuccessful. Thursday’s meeting began at exactly 3:42 p.m. in Abuja. In his opening remark, the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, said ASUU did not follow the proper procedure before starting the strike. “There must be a mandatory letter of 15 days to labour, to education before going on strike,” he said, referring to the ministries of labour and education. “All agreements are supposed to be domiciled in ministry of labour in order to track implementation as agreement gives room to renegotiation,” Mr. Ngige. In his response, the president of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, said Mr. Ngige had taken side with his education ...

Nigerian 400-level Unilag student allegedly rapes female student

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A 22-year-old 400 level student of the University of Lagos identified as Oluwaseyi Anyiam, has been dragged before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling a fellow student. Anyiam is studying Actuarial Sciences and lives at Ogundare Street in Aguda, Surulere, Lagos. The police officer in charge of the matter, Inspector Simeon Imhonwa, told the court earlier that the accused committed the offence at Alaogomeji area of Ebute-Meta, Lagos on August 3 around 2pm. He explained, “The accused had forceful carnal knowledge of the victim, without her consent. “The accused had earlier invited the victim to an eatery at Alaogomeji, but on getting there, he told her that he forgot something at his house and they should both go to pick it. “When they got to the house, they met some of Anyiam’s friends at home playing loud music; so, they excused themselves and went into the room.” The prosecutor said that the accused offered the victim a drink wh...

A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years

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THE SONGS WE KNOW BEST John Ashbery’s Early Life By Karin Roffman Illustrated. 316 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. “My own autobiography has never interested me very much,” John Ashbery once told an interviewer. “Whenever I try to think about it, I seem to draw a complete blank.” Over the course of his long career as one of America’s most celebrated poets, Ashbery has fiercely defied a central premise of the lyric poetic tradition: that a poem should be a “song of myself,” an utterance that springs from the circumstances of the writer’s life and gives insight into the author’s mind and feelings. “I have always been averse to talking about myself and so I don’t write about my life the way the confessional poets do,” he has said. Instead, Ashbery aims to create “paradigms of common experience which I hope other peopl...

MATIC SIGNS FOR MAN UTD

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  A picture has surfaced from Serbia purporting to show Nemanja Matic in Manchester United training attire. If real, the picture is proof that the defensive midfielder is on the brink of being announced as a United player with the Premier League two weeks away. Goal understands that Matic has been training alone this month ahead of his expected transfer and with Tiemoue Bakayoko having joined Chelsea from Monaco.

I looked down and saw red': Dowsett battles on despite neck injuries in Poland

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1 / 5 Alex Dowsett (Movistar) (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com) The fresh wounds on Alex Dowsett's neck – a series of neatly spaced horizontal and vertical lines – make the Movistar man look like he's been attacked by a vampire-inspired designer, rather than slashed by a chainring in a pile-up at the end of stage 1 of Tour de Pologne. As he put it on his Twitter account next to a photo of his neck: "Campag, Shimano or Sram spacing anyone?" Dowsett was one of several riders that went down in a stage one pile-up around 300 metres from the finish in a fraught bunch sprint, with the series of cuts causing concern because he is a haemophiliac and they came close to several major arteries. Two days on, he's battling through, the...

Transfer oil revenue savings to Sovereign Wealth Fund – NEITI

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  — 26th July 2017 The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has called for the transfer of all the country’s oil revenue savings into the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA). Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, the Director, Communications of NEITI, made the call in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Orji said that the position was made known in NEITI’s paper  titled: “The case for a robust oil savings fund for Nigeria’’, adding that position was informed by the transparency rating of the NSIA by the global Sovereign Wealth Institute.’’ He said that NSIA had been scored nine out of 10 on the Sovereign Wealth Institute’s transparency index, the highest score by any African Sovereign Wealth Fund. He said that the Nigeria Sovereign Wealth Fund was set up in 2011 to build a savings base, develop infrastructure and provide stabilisation in times of economic stress for the country. He said that the fund was struct...

Will they shut down the Internet during Kenyan poll?

By MUTHONI WANYEKI More by this Author Will our access to the Internet be shut down during the post-polling period? If so, will it be a full or partial shutdown, and how? What are the likely costs and trade-offs? We are increasingly agitated about these questions given that we’re not getting clear signals from the Communications Authority about its intentions. At the National Elections Conference, it (sort of) said it wouldn’t. More recently, it (sort of) said it may. There’s no doubt that sensible people are worried about the sentiments flying around social media platforms in this electoral season. Under the guise of political partisanship, outrageously sexist and xenophobic slurs have become the norm. Even though everybody and their dog publicly condemns “hate speech,” there doesn’t seem to be a legal and public consensus on what it actually is. Is it speech that propagates prejudices and stereotypes of people are based on their gender or ethnicity or religion?...

New multi-role ‘Rafale’ fighters arrive in Egypt

    Two French multi-role ‘Rafale’ fighters joined the Air Force Wednesday, Spokesperson of the Armed Forces Col. Tamer el-Refaei said in a statement. Refaei clarified that France has sent 11 out of 24 Rafale fighters to Egypt, between mid-2015 and 2017, as per the Egyptian-French agreement of strategic partnership, which includes multi- cooperation in armament and various military industries. The hope is that the new French fighters will strengthen the Egyptian Air Forces’ capabilities, because they are equipped with advanced combating and fire systems, Reaei noted. They can implement large-scale tasks on different strategic directions and deal with air and ground threats in a high efficiency. He added that Rafale fighters are capable of tracking and dealing with multiple targets simultaneously, along with implementing air control tasks, fighting off the hostile attacks air control tasks and dealing with long-distance targets in difficult ...

How high is air pollution in your city and how does it compare to the most polluted cities in the world?

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P ollution is a greater global threat than Ebola and HIV, according to warnings by the World Health Organisation. According to its recent report, one in four deaths among children aged under five are now due to environmental hazards such as air pollution and contaminated water. Previously this year, air pollution levels in London were worse than those in Beijing for a brief period - with the UK capital's pollutants frequently breaking UK limits. Now, the UK Government plans to tackle such dangers by banning diesel and petrol cars by 2040. But how bad is air pollution in other areas of the UK? How does the UK compare to the world? A ccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), London is just a mid-table city when it comes to the international league table of polluted places. London only ranked 1,389th out of the nearly  3,000 cities and towns around the world monitored in the WHO's database of annual air pollution readings. W HO guidel...

Russia warns of ‘painful’ response if Donald Trump backs US sanctions

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Moscow: Russia threatened to retaliate against new sanctions passed by the US House of Representatives, saying they made it all but impossible to achieve the Trump administration’s goal of improved relations. The measures push US-Russia ties into uncharted territory and “don’t leave room for the normalization of relations” in the foreseeable future, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday, according to the Interfax news service. Hope “is dying” for improved relations because the scale of “the anti-Russian consensus in Congress makes dialogue impossible and for a long time”, Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the international affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said on Facebook. Russia should prepare a response to the sanctions that’s “painful for the Americans”, he said. The bill passed by a vote of 419-3 on Tuesday strengthens sanctions against Russia less than three weeks after President Donald Trump and his Russian...

Link welfare standards to subsidies following Brexit

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The BVA has called on the government to maintain strict animal welfare standards and link them to continued farming subsidies following Brexit. Michael Gove, Secretary of State for the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said in a speech this morning that "farm subsidies will have to be earned rather than just handed out in future." He said farmers will get only get payouts if they agree to protect the environment and enhance rural life. Responding to the speech, British Veterinary Association president Gudrun Ravetz said: “We welcome the focus on good environmental practice in the government’s early plans to replace the EU Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP payments, however there must be greater emphasis placed on animal health and welfare as part of a comprehensive policy moving forwards. After all, as the Secretary of State acknowledged, the success of our agri-food sector is built on the UK’s reputation for high animal welfa...