Accident victim at St Nicholas Hospital reunites with his mum

After over 2 weeks of being admitted at St Nicholas Hospital following a vehicle accident, Owolabi Akindujoye has finally reunited with his mother. The mum showed up today and St Nicholas Hospital says they will not be asking for any payment of medical bills. How kind. Continue ..

St Nicholas posted the full story on their Facebook page this afternoon. Read below...

A member of SNH staff went to Oshodi area last week Thursday in search of Owolabi's family. After a long and difficult search, he was able to locate a relative of Mrs Akindujoye. Ms Adeola contacted Owolabi's mum and informed her of his recent accident and confirmed that he's being treated at St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos. Mrs Akindujoye also heard about her son on the radio after her relative's contact.

Owolabi Akindujoye whose mum lives in Ibadan, left home on the 4th of January, 2015 to go to Ilesha in search of work to pay for his WAEC exams. Unknown to his mum, he came to Lagos and ended up at Oshodi where he was working as a bus conductor.

The mother visited the hospital this morning accompanied by Ms Adeola. The family has reunited with Owolabi.

The hospital will not be asking for his family to pay any medical bills.

Kim Kardashian’s Waist Training: Safe or Not?

We all know if Kim Kardashian is spotting using a product, the rest of the world will soon follow suit. So what’s the latest Kim K. craze? Ask the selfie…

Kim has recently posted a couple of selfies wearing a waist training corset, touting in one of them “I’m really obsessed with waist training.”
Now, we would hope you all know by now to take anything celebs say with a grain of salt. For all we know, Kim was paid to say this, and only wore the corset for the selfie purposes. Or maybe she does really use them…Jessica Alba told Net-a-Porter that she wore a double corset day and night for three months following her pregnancy. “It was brutal; it’s not for everyone.”

But before you get excited and scramble to buy one, let us burst your bubble- POP! For the love of all that is holy, get it through your pretty little heads that there are no easy fixes to weight loss. Aside from cardio and strength training, you can’t actually reshape your body by wearing a tight garment.
In fact, these corsets come with instructions that tell you that exercising and eating a balanced diet is a mandatory part of corset training…psst- you would see results from diet & exercise changes without wearing an uncomfy corset. Another reason you’ll lose weight? Wearing a gut-smashing girdle (literally) is obviously going to reduce your appetite- how can you eat if you can barely breathe? This can’t be healthy.
Our favorite best selling celebrity fitness and health expert JJ Virgin told Fox News “People should know better. This is so ridiculous. You are blocking oxygen, reducing flow to your lungs, heart and other organs, which in turn slows metabolism as your cells become deprived of oxygen. Organ failure can also occur. In a word: don’t.”
Is there any truth to these corsets? Kind of. The corset would make your midsection sweat, which helps cause the shed of water weight, but there are healthier ways to do this. We instead recommend a waist trimmer belt. Made of non-breathable materials to trap the heat, they are worn around your midsection during workouts only, and aren’t unbearably tight- no smashing of organs or restriction to the lungs.

Sorry Kim K, this one is a “don’t.”

Bobbi Kristina Brown's Aunt Reveals She Is 'Opening Her Eyes' And 'Doing Well'

Leolah Brown has said that her niece is showing signs of improvement, despite remaining on life support.

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Bobbi Kristina Brown's aunt has spoken out to reveal that despite remaining on life support, her niece is "doing well" after being found unconscious and face-down in her bathtub.

Although it was reported that the family could turn off Bobbi's life support on the anniversary of her mum Whitney Houston's death (yesterday), Leolah Brown said that Bobbi was showing encouraging signs that "she will be ok."
 
Bobbi Kristina Brown's aunt says she's doing well.
 
Bobby Brown's sister spoke to Fox 5 Atlanta about her 21-year-old niece, dismissing claims that the family had been told to prepare for the worst.
She said: “There are so many signs showing us that she will be ok, despite what people are saying over the internet, Krissy is fine.
“She’s opening her eyes and there’s a few more things that she’s doing. Krissy is doing well right now.”

She said that the family remained "hopeful" for Bobbi's health, before continuing: “It’s been very, very painful for everybody. Mainly Bobby, because that’s his baby.”

Quick recovery i pray for bobbi kristina.

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Christina Aguilera Shares First Photos of Baby Girl Summer Rain

There's no smell more pleasant than summer rain except, maybe, that of a newborn baby. Which is why it's so apt that Christina Aguilera is on the cover of the latest People magazine taking a big ole whiff of her 5-month-old baby daughter, Summer Rain Rutler.

It's the first time we're seeing the 34-year-old's daughter's face, though she did share a photo of her "lil diva" diaper in January.
 
Such a cute little one...

Emir Sanusi, His Wives & Kids Stun In New Photo

Check out this too beautiful photo of the Emir of Kano’s royal family I just received, guys. The coronation ceremony as Emir of Kano for former CBN governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi held three days ago and pictured above are him, his gorgeous 3 wives and their kids. Long live the Emir!
 
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Pictures of Celebrities That Aged Terribly…Could This Be Due To Too Much Money To Play Around With?

A lot of pressure comes along with living your life in the spotlight, and celebrities are known for fighting age with everything they’ve got. Here are 20 celebrities that aged terribly.

Keith Richards

Keith is 70 years old now, and he was an original member of the English band, The Rolling Stones.

John Travolta

John is 60 years old, and he is best known for his roles in the box office hits Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

Janice Dickinson

Janice has been a model for decades, but at 59 years old, it looks like her career might be over.

Steven Tyler

Steven is 66 years old, and he is best known as the front man for the band Aerosmith.

Matthew Perry

Matthew is 44 years old and is best known for his role in the long standing TV series, Friends.

Kirstie Alley

Kirstie is 63 years old, and she is an American actress and comedian best known for her role on the TV series Cheers.

Haley Joel Osment

Haley is 26 years old and is best known for his roles in the movies Forrest Gump and The Sixth Sense.

Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy is 65 years old now, and he’s best known for his vocal contribution to the band Black Sabbath.

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce is a 61 year old actor and film producer, and he’s recently become a huge environmental activist.

Pamela Anderson

This 46 year old former showgirl is best known for her role in Baywatch, but over the years, she’s made her mark as an author, producer, and model.

Macaulay Culkin

Macaulay is 33 years old and best known for his role as Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone movies.

Goldie Hawn

Goldie is 68 years old now, and she’s been an actress, director, producer, and occasional singer.

Neil Young

Neil is a notorious musician still rocking out at 68 years old. He’s been in several bands since the 60s, and he’s done a lot of solo work.

Kathleen Turner

This American Film and Stage Actress is 59 years old now, and she’s also tried her hand at directing films.

Marlon Brando

Marlon was 80 years old when he died in 2004, but he is known to be one of the most influential actors of all time.

Carrie Fisher

Carrie is a 57 year old American Actress with experience as a screenwriter and novelist.

Mickey Rourke

Mickey is 61 years old and is known for his acting and boxing careers.

Beyoncé, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, John Legend & Chrissy Teigen Posed Together and the World Didn't Explode

Have we died and gone to photo heaven? We think so.
Or maybe this was just an attempt to break the internet again.
In between performances at tonight's Grammys, basically all of hip hop royalty decided to pose for a snap together. Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Beyoncé, John Legend, and Chrissy Teigen all piled into the frame, and camera lenses everywhere shattered out of pure awesomeness.
We haven't yet heard exactly what caused all of these power couples (minus Jay Z!) to team up, but we suspect it's just to make the rest of us fawn over the group.

And, it seems that this pic wasn't the only snapping that Kim and Chrissy did—they fit a few selfies in as well.

 

We think everyone can agree that these two are becoming fast friends. Here's hoping that the Grammys after parties bring even more goodies.

Update on Bobbi kristina-Police are looking into the possibility of a pre-meditated attack

Police are reportedly looking into claims that Bobbi Kristina Brown was attacked before she was found unresponsive in the bath.

The 21-year-old allegedly had "suspicious injuries" when she was discovered by her husband, Nick Gordon, and a friend, Maxwell Lomas, claim US reports, with detectives now investigating whether Whitney Houston's daughter was involved in an altercation before she was found.

 

Bobbi Kristina Brown's cousin shared this photo on Instagram. Copyright [Instagram]

Details of the new allegations come to light just one day after it was reported that Bobbi-Kristina is approaching her final hours, with the star remaining in a coma and on a life support machine as her brain function is said to be "significantly diminishing".
Bobbi Kristina's father, Bobby Brown, has refused to switch off his daughter's life support and has urged America to "Pray for a miracle."
Doctors treating the aspiring singer are said to have told her family that there is little more that they can do for her, with Bobby saying in a statement: "Bobbi is not dead, if America think she's dead then they won't pray for her.

 

Bobbi with her partner, Nick.

"Please pray for her."
Bobbi Kristina's cousin, Jerod Brown, also shared that her chance of survival is very small, saying: "Though it seems the odds are against her, though doctors don't see any hope for change, though we might want to pay a detective and find out how she got there, it looks impossible for her to stand again."
Just days before Bobbi Kristina was found, her family were said to be at loggerheads over Whitney Houston's estate, with Bobbi set to inherit it all when she turned thirty.

 

Bobbi's mother, Whitney Houston, was found dead in a bathtub

 

However, her grandmother was worried that she would waste the money, and her partner, Nick, who was taken in by Whitney when he was aged nine, claimed that she told him she would leave him some of her fortune.
A family source revealed: “This is almost certainly going to be messy. There is a lot of money at stake here and it isn’t rightfully anybody’s apart from Krissy’s.
"Should she die, there will be a battle to win it.

Bobbi previously shared this throwback of herself and her mum. Copyright: [Instagram]

“Nick believes that it should be his because Whitney promised him many years ago, and also as partner of Krissy, he should get it.

“The Houstons will be determined to fight to keep their beloved Whitney’s fortune in the family. That seems the right thing to do."

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British chocolate to be banned from America after trademark dispute between Hershey and Cadbury

America and the UK have been allies for many years, however that relationship could be about to melt (like a nice bar of chocolate in your mouth) as Cadbury has been banned from importing its products to the shores of the US.
Hershey, one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in America, was behind the ban after claiming trademark infringement as they have a licence which enables them to make Cadbury’s chocolate in the US (but with a different, and presumably worse, recipe).
British ex-pats, and people who just enjoy some good old fashioned Cadbury chocolate bars, have reportedly been rushing to the shops across America to stock up on supplies of the British made chocolate.

Several other British candies (or as we call them – sweeties) have been blacklisted from the states because their packaging or design resembles American goodies too closely, including Toffee Crisps and Maltesers (their loss, surely?).

However if there is one thing that can bring people back together after corporations try to split them apart, it’s a mutual love of chocolate.
People from both sides of the pond have been tweeting their intention to #BoycottHershey for depriving many Americans of their favourite chocolate.

Speaking to the NYPost, a Hershey spokesperson said the move was ‘to prevent consumers from being confused or misled’.

‘It’s important for [the company] to protect its trademark rights,’ they added.

Nigerian opposition candidate urges calm after election postponement

Nigerian opposition presidential candidate general Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress …

 

By Julia Payne

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari called for calm in the country and cautioned against any violence following the election postponement, which he said was engineered by the ruling People's Democratic Party.

Foreign powers are closely following events in Africa's biggest economy and have voiced concerns there could be a repetition of violence that followed 2011 elections when 800 people died and that a delay would stoke unrest in opposition strongholds.

The poll will pit incumbent Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP against former military ruler Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in what is likely to be the most hotly contested election since the end of military rule in 1999.
"Any act of violence can only complicate the security challenges in the country and provide further justification to those who would want to exploit every situation to frustrate the democratic process," Buhari said.
The decision to postpone was widely viewed as the Independent Electoral National Commission (INEC) yielding to pressure by the PDP, which the opposition said feared it could lose.
Nigeria's electoral commission said it postponed the Feb. 14 elections to March 28, after security chiefs told INEC that it could not guarantee security owing to operations to combat the Sunni jihadist group Boko Haram.
"It is important to note that although INEC acted within its constitutional powers, it is clear that it has been boxed into a situation where it has had to bow to pressure," Buhari said.

"What they (security forces) cannot do in 6 years, they cannot do in 6 weeks."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington was deeply disappointed by the postponement and criticised "political interference" in the election process. Britain also voiced concern.

The insurgents have taken over swathes of territory in the northeast an attempt to establish an Islamic state. Nigeria's army has been lagging in the fight, with Chad now sending in troops to assist while Cameroon has been pushing back incursions into its territory. 

Buhari said the presidential and state level elections on March 28 and April 11 must now be sacrosanct and that the party would not tolerate any further interference in the vote.
Earlier on Sunday, President Goodluck Jonathan said he was committed to May 29 as the terminal date of his first term in office and also called for calm.

"President Jonathan believes that this is not a time to trade blames or make statements that may overheat the polity," Reuben Abati, presidency spokesman, said in a statement.

Plane carrying Chile soccer stars found, 50 years on

Climbers in Chile's Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board (AFP Photo/Pablo Porciuncula)

Santiago (AFP) - Climbers in Chile's Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board.

Images of the twisted wreck of the LAN Chile Douglas DC-3 that went down April 3, 1961 were shown on Chilean television Sunday, released by the climbers who said the find was in Maule, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) south of Santiago.

"The plane is more than 3,200 meters (10,000 feet) up the mountain. Quite a bit of the fuselage is still there, a lot of things scattered over the area including human bones. So this story is getting a rewrite since this is not where original accounts said," one of the mountaineers, Leonardo Albornoz, explained.

The plane was carrying 34 people when it crashed, with all presumed dead.
They included eight members of the Green Cross football squad, team coach Arnaldo Vasquez, and other team staff and friends who were coming back to Santiago from a match in Osorno.
The plane has been missing ever since, but the story until now had been that a LAN pilot had spotted something he said was the footballers' plane in another location -- near the city of Linares.

The mountaineers declined to give the exact location to Chilean media, saying they feared the crash site could be desecrated, even though it is remote.

Photos: Wife Tragically Stabs Lawyer Husband to Death in Bayelsa

The life of a legal practitioner, Mr. Henry Gagariga, was last week Thursday cut short by his wife Victoria who tragically stabbed him to death in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Victoria, 28, sent the 33-year-old Gagariga to his untimely grave at their residence along Ebisam Road in Akenfa.

She allegedly stabbed him on the neck with a kitchen knife following a quarrel caused by “a minor domestic disagreement.”

Sources said the duo cohabited for some years before legalizing their union in Yenagoa last June.
It was gathered that their union had yet to produce children. Gagariga was said to have lost a lot of
blood and later died at a hospital where he was rushed to for treatment. His body had been deposited at an undisclosed mortuary in the state.

Victoria was identified as a daughter of a retired director in the state Ministry of Information from Brass local government area of the state. She is said to be an employee of the Bayelsa State Council for Arts and Culture. Her deceased husband was an indigene of Sagbama local government area of the state.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the incident.

Nigeria elections: No delay to poll, says council of state

 

 

 Millions of voters still do not have their biometric ID cards

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Nigeria's influential council of state has decided to press ahead with presidential elections on 14 February, rejecting calls for a postponement.

Nigeria's national security adviser had called for a delay to allow more time for voter card distribution.
The country is also facing mounting attacks from the Boko Haram militant group.
But Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha said election officials had insisted they were "very ready".
President Goodluck Jonathan is facing a strong challenge from former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari in the vote, expected to be the most tightly contested since military rule ended in 1999.
The council of state - including the main presidential candidates, ex-leaders, state governors and election officials - met in the capital, Abuja, on Thursday to discuss the election.
"No decision was taken to change the date. The date remains February 14. INEC (the Independent National Electoral Commission) reassured us that they are prepared to conduct the election," Mr Okorocha told journalists.
Several of Nigeria's smaller opposition parties, as well as national security adviser Sambo Dasuki, had been urging a postponement of the poll.
But Mr Buhari's APC party opposed the delay.
APC campaign media head Malam Garba Shehu said a delay would have caused a crisis and "made Nigeria the laughing stock of the civilised world", in a statement seen by Reuters.
Polling will not be conducted in Boko Haram-controlled areas. Some 69 million Nigerians out of a population of 177 million are eligable to vote.

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Family Says Their Final Goodbyes

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family says their final goodbyes as doctors broke the news yesterday that there’s little more they’re able to do for the 21-year-old.

The realization of Bobbi Kristina’s death hasn’t set in for her family members. Bobby Brown is especially devastated after hearing that he must say goodbye to his daughter.
“Bobby has been crying nonstop since yesterday,” a source told People. “We are grieving.”
Doctors feared for Bobbi Kristina’s life earlier this week. They continued to keep her on life support, and transferred her from North Fulton Hospital to Emory Hospital in Atlanta yesterday, but now, they’re positive there’s little left they can do to save her.

Hope prevails in the hearts of some of Bobbi Kristina’s family members, as they continue to pray for a miracle.
“It’s sinking in that this is it, but we’re all still praying that God will intervene and heal her body,” a family member told People.
More to follow on Bobbi Kristina.

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Three reasons Nigeria's elections next week could turn violent

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REUTERS Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan

Nigerian elections are just ten days away, and things are getting tense. 

The country has a couple of things going on that make its political situation tenuous, even without an election. This year they're all coming together to create a particularly explosive election cycle.

Religion

The country is populated largely but Muslims in the north and Christians in the south, so there's occasionally religious conflict. The election, pretty tightly contested between the Christian incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, of the People's Democratic Party, and the former dictator of the country Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, who ruled the country back in the 1980s, is Muslim and represents the All Progressives Congress.

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RBC

The election in 2011, which Goodluck Jonathan won by a pretty hefty margin, led to violence in the Muslim north. This race is much closer. 

RBC Capital Markets sent out a note outlining the stakes of the election on Wednesday. This is a key detail:

" Holding the presidency is particularly important because it often entails the redistribution of government patronage and contracts to the incumbent’s home region. Given that the North lacks natural resources and suffers from some of the highest rates of poverty, the economic costs of being locked out of power are substantial." 

Terrorism bookends the country

The terrorist organization Boko Haram is wreaking havoc in the north of the country, laying siege to the largely rural and sparsely populated region. Nigeria just doesn't have, or won't commit, the resources to fight Boko Haram properly. From Emad Mostaque's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in late January: 

Boko Haram’s initial strategy was to try to undermine and gain control of the Kanuri ethnic regions of northeast Nigeria while looking to polarize society by attacking states along the Christian-Muslim divide known as the Middle Belt region. The Nigerian government response to this push has been slow, with only 25,000 poorly equipped troops deployed against Boko Haram in the country’s northeast. Nigeria’s whole defense budget for 2014 was only a third of the $5.8 billion security budget, small for a country with a GDP of more than $500 billion and facing an insurgency.

The worry is that Boko Haram, which now more or less rules a part of the north, will keep people from going to the polls. If enough people are kept away, that could swing the election in favor of Jonathan.

Meanwhile, the ceasefire with the southern rebel group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), ends this year. There's a fear from MEND " that if Jonathan is defeated,  the large annual cash payments that accompanied the 2009 amnesty agreement will cease," according to RBC. So if  Buhari wins, there could be bloodshed in the south that the military, with its focus on Boko Haram, is ill-equip to defend against.

Oil

If these two things weren't bad enough, the collapsing price of oil puts the country in a tough situation economically. The pinch has caused the Nigerian currency, the naira, to crash. Thanks to a devaluation in December and central bank intervention since then, the naira stayed sort of stable throughout the month of January, but it's still seeing a lot of volatility. 

But even with a stable currency, Nigeria is a big oil exporter, and it relies heavily on high prices to balance its budget.

Worse, Nigerian leaders often steal oil. This includes candidates trying to bolster their campaign coffers. RBC writes, "n ot only does crude theft spike around elections,  but additionally, more production is shut-in because of the infrastructure damage that  accompanies both the theft itself and the increase in generalized election-related violence  around production facilities."
RBC thinks that because the price of oil is so low, crude theft could be much worse than in previous election cycles.

On top of that, an audit of the country's oil revenues is expected this week, and it probably won't look good for Jonathan, the incumbent. 

According to the FT, " PwC, the international accountancy firm, was commissioned to carry out the audit last March after Lamido Sanusi, then governor of the Central Bank, publicly questioned discrepancies of more than $1bn per month between oil sales and income."

The budget shortfalls in the 18 months between January 2012 and July 2013 alone were about $20 billion, according to Sanusi (who was promptly fired after making those allegations).

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Bobby Brown Baby on the Way As Fears Grow About Losing Bobbi Kristina

 

Bobby Brown is in emotional turmoil ... as he deals with the prospect of losing a daughter, he celebrates something that he's telling his grieving family ... his wife is pregnant.
We've learned Bobby's wife, Alicia Etheredge, is 4 months pregnant ... something he hasn't shared with many of his relatives. The timing is awful, but it can't be hidden as they sit in hospital waiting rooms.
We're told Bobby and Alicia have shared the happy news as they sit vigil for Bobbi Kristina, whose brain function has perilously diminished.
There's lots of stress ... as we reported there's a feud brewing between Bobby's family and Whitney's. But we're told so far Alicia is handling it well.
Tough situation

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Report: Bobbi Kristina Brown's Doctors Say There's Little They Can Do to Save Her Life

The prognosis does not look good for Bobbi Kristina Brown.

The daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston was found unconscious and face down in a bathtub on Saturday, and doctors have allegedly told family members that there's little they can do to save her life, Fox News reports.

Bobby Brown requests privacy while his daughter is in the hospital
"It's now a matter of when the family wants to let go and accept that she's pretty much not going to make it," a source told Fox News. "[Doctors] have left it up to the family as to how long they want to keep her alive."

Brown, 21, was placed in a medically induced coma and connected to a ventilator after her live-in partner Nick Gordon and a friend found her unresponsive in a bathtub. No drugs were found in an initial search of her home, but TMZ reports that a second search did turn up unspecified drugs.

In an eerie coincidence, Brown's mother Whitney Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills Hotel room almost three years to the day that Brown was found in an almost identical situation.

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