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Friday, September 5, 2014

5 Friends Every Girl Should Have

Life is hard enough with worries about Boko haram, ebola, getting promoted at work, or passing exams. Everyone needs friends to walk the journey of life with. Some are actually just friends for specific occasions (office buddy, lesson buddy, lunch buddy or giving a ride to work buddies), while others may blossom into family. Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to find one friend that meets all your friendship needs.

Here’s my own list of the 5 most important friends a girl needs:

The Hangout Buddie
If you’re a socialite like me (in my mind) or just the fun type who loves going out then this is likely to be your number one bestie. She’s the Robin to your Batman. You guys attend all the social gatherings together including weddings where you’re the groom’s sisters’ friends. She’s the one you call up to accompany you on a date with the new man you have no interest in dating but wish to spend his money. She’s the one who goes on a 5-hour road trip with you to attend your brother’s wedding. She may even double as your makeup artist and stylist – even better if she’s good at it. You get to attend all the events looking like a million bucks. You never have to miss a social event because you have no one to go with.

The Confidante

Following rumours of a split between Christ Embassy pastor, Chris Oyakhilome and his wife pastor Anita Oyakhilome things have finally come to a head with a divorce notification.
Pastor Anita who heads the London, United Kingdom branch of the church has told anyone who cares to listen that there’s no going back on her decision to move away from pastor.

Emma Sulkowicz is a senior visual arts student at Columbia University. On the first day of her sophomore year, she says, she was raped by a classmate on her mattress.
"Rape can happen anywhere," she explains in the video above. "For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then."
Sulkowicz' senior thesis, titled "Mattress Performance" or "Carry That Weight," is a literal expression of that emotional weight. In what she calls an endurance art piece, she will drag her mattress everywhere she goes on campus until her rapist is expelled or leaves. The project, she says, could extend for one day or for the entire remainder of her time at Columbia.

American comic, Joan Rivers gave up the ghost on Thursday, 4 September, after suffering a cardiac arrest during throat surgery on her vocal cords at an outpatient clinic in New York on 28 August.
Over the course of her life and career, the legendary comedian was hilarious, blunt, brash and brutally expressive with her quotes,comments and utterances.
Here are ten of Joan Rivers’ funniest quotes.

“My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.”
“Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say ‘My wife makes a delicious cake’ to some hooker?”
“I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer’s. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.”

Twin boys stabbed to death by their brother who then killed himself

9 year old twin brothers Patrick and Thomas O'Driscoll were stabbed to death yesterday September 4th by their older half brother Jonathan, 20, who then killed himself about an hour later. Read the full story below...

Nine-year-old Patrick and Thomas O’Driscoll were dressed in their school uniforms when found dead in separate bedrooms by their younger brothers, aged three and five.

Their half-sibling Jonathan, 20, sped from the scene in Charleville, Co Cork, and was discovered hanged 15km away.

The tragic boys’ parents Tom and Ellen were shopping in nearby Kilmallock, Limerick, at the time.A security source told the Irish Mirror : “It was a frenzied attack, the boys were stabbed multiple times. It’s understood there are psychological issues involved.”

Rapper Ruggedman has a clothing line called TSW (Twentieth Sept Wear) named after his birthday. He has been talking about relaunching it in a few weeks, starting with 8Figures snap backs, hoodies and varsity jackets.

The first photo-shoot for the clothing line took place yesterday at Troy Lagos with actress Monalisa Chinda modeling the 8figures tops. See the photos after the cut...

15 Reasons Why Beyonce Totally Rocks

Throughout a career spanning 16 years, she has won 17 Grammy Awards and sold over 75 million records as a solo artist and a further 60 million with former group Destiny's Child.

Gospel acts, Emmanuel Benjamin aka Eben and his wife Jahdiel Peter welcomed their first child, a son, today September 3rd in a hospital in Atlanta. The gospel couple got married in November, 2013. Big congrats to them.

'Our sons rape us on a daily basis' - Imo Christian mothers cry out

Christian Mothers in Mgbishii, a rural community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area in Imo state have cried out to the government and the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiatical Province, Dr. Anthony Obinna, over alleged atrocities being committed by their sons and daughters in the area.

According to Vanguard, the women made this appeal during a recent visit to the Catholic Archbishop at the Maria Assumpta Catholic Cathedral in Owerri.

"We are raped and molested by our own children. You cannot come to Mgbuishii and return home safely because of the crime rate" the women said. Continue...

Another American Doctor Contracts Ebola Virus

An American missionary doctor working in Liberia has reportedly tested positive for Ebola.
The unidentified doctor, who works with missionary group, SIM USA, is the third US aid worker to have contracted Ebola in Liberia, USA Today reports.
According to reports, the doctor had been treating pregnant women in Monrovia. Other missionary workers say he had not been treating any Ebola patients in the hospital’s isolation unit, and so it is unclear how he got infected.