Thursday 4 October 2012

Nigeria police make arrests after students massacre

Police hunting for the killers of 26 people in a college residence in northeast Nigeria said they had raided houses and made a number of arrests on Wednesday.

          
The attackers went from room to room in the building in the town of Mubi, in remote Adamawa state, on Tuesday morning and killed the people they found there with guns and machetes.
Adamawa state, like much of the north, has been targeted by Islamist insurgents, but police said were also investigating whether the killings were the result of a feud inside the college.
The police commissioner for Adamawa state Mohammed Ibrahim told Reuters by telephone his officers had made a number of arrests, but declined to give any further details.

          
He said the force was still keeping an open mind on whether the killings were carried out by militants or rival students, but there were signs of an "inside job".
"Relatives of the slain students said the assailants called their names out before killing them. The majority were killed with gun shots or slaughtered like goats," he added.
One possibility was that the killings were related to a dispute between rival political groups at the Federal Polytechnic Mubi following a student union election on Sunday, Ibrahim said.
"The second day after the election winners were declared, you have the killings ... Really we cannot rule out possibility that the attacks may have been carried out by either the Boko Haram or a ... gang," he added.
Boko Haram, which is fighting to carve out an Islamic state in the north of the country, usually targets politicians or security forces but has also attacked students. Security sources say it has cells in Adamawa.

                                                  
Nigeria's Senate on Wednesday, in a rare resolution on the country's violence, called for a speedy arrest of the perpetrators.
"The Senate does condemn in strongest terms the killing of innocent students ... we urge the Federal Government to expeditiously apprehend the perpetrators of this act," it said.
In the northern city of Zaria on Tuesday, security forces arrested 21 Boko Haram suspects, part of an ongoing crackdown against the Islamist sect, army spokesman Captain Ibrahim Abdullahi said by telephone.

Tuesday 2 October 2012

HOW I ALMOST GOT HIT BY A TRAIN.





Kryss d’boss whose blog am writing on is one of my good buddies and I kept saying I would splash my writing skills on his blog, but after almost one year I finally decided it is time. How come am just getting the quietness of mind to write ?

 Well, maybe after the hurricane of heart break I’d been going through lately made me more settled and quiet .

Guess, you would like to know more about that than how I graduated with straight A’s in university (that s a lie though) “wink” .Well, lets start this way  cos from hence forth I hope never to be a stranger any more here on my friends blog.

First of all, what you need to know about me is that am a broadcaster , and you can call me GD(meaning the grand duchess).Ok so there we go spelling all out for you.
Now let me unburden myself on you as I share with you how I got hit by a train .And ,wow ! am I still alive to tell?Tthe truth is am surviving.

It all started almost a year and a half ago and I met this guy on the job. He wasn’t what some will actually call Mr Wonderful in terms of look ,neither was he bad bad looking .He was very talented as a broadcaster, and producer, a fantastic editor ,but at the same time an impatient person, quick to conclude.
Hmmm this part i hate to confess it to you , but since I want to get real on my friend’s blog right ?  I must say he’s aaaam (stammering ) kinda tell small small lies (well when needed lol) whatever that meant don’t worry about it. Yet I still love (oh should have been loved) him. But I still have feeling fr him despite what he’s done.

Like I said it started almost a year ago and I met him on the job  and we began our little friendship that grew into a warm relationship. Then at some point he called me one evening for us to take a drive round town and while he drove said, “I have something to tell you (with all seriousness)

And I said , “am listening “

He continued not looking at me “I have come to love you and I would love to marry you” ,I went all smiling sheepishly.

And as I wanted to speak he said “shhh ,just listen “ and he continued “I love you and would have loved to marry you ,but the problem is am Hausa and you Yoruba besides we do not share same faith and all this makes it complicated for us to be together’’

So I said ,”what do  you want us to do about it? He was silent and I responded ,” you now what lets just think it all through. And , not rush into things”

Yea, we both agreed and we continued with the relationship .one year passed and we break up and made up but I did more of the breaking ups than him. And before the final crush I told him, please if you don’t see us working it out in the long run don’t come back. Yet he came back and there we went ahead .
                                                            

Well, finally he told me “GD ,am getting married and my parents have chosen a date for us to get married. Am sorry it has come to this ” .

I was calm as he dropped the bomb on me, and I said why are you just telling me as I turned to leave .He said, “wait don’t go ,sit down lets talk it through and I went dead for a few seconds.

“Talk through? You’re sorry? ,I screamed . Talk about what? I asked.  Don’t worry I’ll be fine I wish you the best”  I  spat those words at him and I ran away because I didn’t want him to see me break down in tears  .

But I cried my life out once I was in the confinement of my apartment .

Oh it’s really painful and humiliating as I also knew the lady he was planning to get married to. I asked my self what has culture, religion, got to do with love and marriage? A lot you’ll say and I agreed a lot.But my heart is soooo crushed I feel like a trailer ran over me or better to say I got hit by a train.

3 Months have passed now and am moving on ,but I miss him the way we drive round town,his smile ,his touch and his ideas.But I’ll be just fine “with tears in my eyes” guess I don’t sound convincing .Shhhh, I still miss him .                                                                                                     
...............................................................................................................Memoirs of GD 1                                                                                                                      


Shocking Images of Extreme Child Training in Asia and Russia




It's enough to make any parent grimace as these children are contorted into the most uncomfortable positions. Aged between four and seven, the young gymnasts are put through a rigorous stretching routine by their coaches during a training session. 



The pains-- is it really worth it?
Her face etched with pain, a child trains for Olympic glory while her gymnastics trainer stands on her legs. 



Another young asian blood bending to her limit




Boys hang from a bar for five minutes as part of a physical training exercise at the Gymnastics Hall of the Shanghai University of Sports.


Cry for help



Nir Elias. Reuters. 2007



Torture at the Xiantao sports school in Hubei province, China. For five-and-six-year-olds the joints of the boys are bent beyond their limits in order to create a permanent joint stretch. If this is not done at an early age, certain gymnastic moves are not possible when they are older.



A young gymnast in Russia is forced to be flexible. Picture courtesy of Aleksei N. (Link)



I want my Mommy




Please wake me up when this is over



Sorry, how long are we supposed to stay here?



A girl from the Nanjing children's gymnastic team, with her hands tied on the horizontal bar, prepares for her practice during a training session at a sports center in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, July 6, 2012. The team with about thirty young gymnasts, between the ages of four to eight, is the representative of Nanjing city for the provincial gymnastic games.

Radical Nigeria sect threatens wives of leaders

 
The leader of a radical Islamist sect has threatened the wives of Nigerian security agents and government officials in a new Internet video, while denying his group is in any peace talks to end the violence that has killed hundreds in the country's north.
In a video uploaded Sunday to YouTube, Abubakar Shekau also denied claims that the spokesman for the sect known as Boko Haram had been killed by Nigeria's military. He said the group would continue to "follow our religion" and carry out attacks in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north.
The Associated Press could not immediately authenticate the video Monday, but it appeared to be from the sect and followed the pattern of other videos previously released by the group. In it, Shekau appears relaxed, wearing a checkered red-and-white Keffiyeh scarf. A Kalashnikov assault rifle leans against the wall behind him.

Abubakar Shekau                                                                                   
                                                  
Speaking in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, Shekau said that the nation's military and security agencies have seized 10 women who are wives of Boko Haram members. He claimed the women had been raped by the captors, though he did not elaborate on how he knew that. Those arrested by police in Nigeria often face torture, sexual abuse and the potential of being killed "extrajudicially," human rights groups have repeatedly charged.
At one point in the video, Shekau laughed and said: "You should wait and see what's going to happen to your own wives."
Shekau repeatedly denied that the group is in peace talks with Nigeria's weak central government and promised more attacks. Officials representing Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan have made that claim several times in recent weeks, but the only attempt at talks through intermediaries failed several months ago when details leaked out in local newspaper reports.
The sect leader also claimed that the group's spokesman, known as Abul Qaqa, was still alive. Shekau did not give any details on that claim, which comes after soldiers in Nigeria's north said they killed the spokesman and another of the sect's operational leaders outside of the city of Kano.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in Hausa, has been blamed for killing more than 690 people this year alone, according to an AP count. The group wants the federal government to release its imprisoned members and implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, which is largely divided into a Christian south and a Muslim north.
The timing of the video's release coincides with the celebration Monday of Nigeria's Independence Day. Speaking earlier on state-run broadcasters, President Jonathan told the nation that Nigeria had "refused to be broken by sectarian crises."
"Our security agencies are constantly being strengthened and repositioned for greater efficiency," Jonathan said. However, Nigeria's military and police remain almost daily targets of the sect's guerrilla insurgency.
On Monday in Maiduguri, the spiritual home of Boko Haram, a bomb targeting a military patrol vehicle exploded in the northeastern city. A witness later told the AP he saw one dead soldier and several others injured in the blast. A military spokesman confirmed the attack happened, but declined to immediately provide details about it.
Meanwhile, another bomb exploded at mobile phone tower in Maiduguri. Boko Haram recently claimed responsibility for the destruction of more than 30 of the phone towers across Nigeria's north, which has created communications chaos in a nation that relies on mobile phones.

10 Most Incredible Sex Facts




The average frequency for sex is two times per week

A Durex survey outlined that the average number of times people have sex is 103 times per year, 1.98 times per week and 0.28 times per day! Incorporating sex into your life does have its benefits, including stress relief and increased energy, but there is no right or wrong quota you need to hit – we're not all bunny rabbits!
                                                
Heavier men last longer in bed

Put down the weights and grab a hamburger: Researchers in Turkey have finished a yearlong study that correlated body mass index with male sexual performance. Their findings may surprise you: Heavier men were able to make love for an average of 7.3 minutes, while slender men lasted an average of 108 seconds. The study, published in Nature, showed that overweight men had higher levels of the female estradiol hormone, which blocks male hormones and delays the climax.

Oral sex could be a cure for morning sickness

One academic is proposing a cure for morning sickness that some moms-to-be might find in bad taste — sperm. Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at SUNY-Albany has a theory that pregnant women who are continually exposed to the father's semen are less likely to suffer from AM nausea. Gallup, who specializes in human reproductive competition and behavior, offers the theory that expectant women become ill and vomit because their bodies are rejecting the semen's genetic material as something foreign and unfamiliar. The theory could feasibly quell their queasiness by ingesting the same sperm in order to allow the body to build up a tolerance. The idea, while likely appealing to dads, is only a theory and has yet to be tested.
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Sex cures headaches

If you think sex can't be had due to a headache, how wrong you are, at least according to headache specialist Dr. Vincent Martin. Amazingly, it's just the opposite. Martin stated that the increase in serotonin levels which happens during sex eases the pathways in the brain that can lead to and sustain a headache.

Now, this isn't to say that sex is the answer to all headaches or there would be massive tardiness in the corporate world every day. However, with the act itself being quite a bit more powerful than popping a few ibuprofen or aspirin, perhaps this new headachecure will be tested soon by, well, many.


Scratching your ankle feels as good as sex

The old phrase ‘You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' may need updating. The ankle has overtaken the back as the most satisfying spot to scratch, according to researchers at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina. In the study, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, healthy volunteers were made to itch on the forearm, ankle and back by rubbing them with cowhage, a plant with tiny hairs that irritate the skin. Professor Francis McGlone, a member of the International Forum for the Study of Itch, said, "It was interesting that the ankle was the itchiest site and that the most pleasure came from scratching it, because the back has been well-known as a preferred site for scratching."
Men think about sleep & food as much as sex

Men think about sex every seven seconds, right? Not according to a new study that finds men ponder sleep and food as much as they do sex. The study found that the median number of thoughts about sex by college-age men was 18 times a day to women's 10 times a day. But the men also thought about food and sleep proportionately more.

Finger length may indicate penis size


Hold up your right hand. Are your index and ring fingers mismatched? Congratulations, you're more likely than men with matching digits to have a long penis. A smaller ratio between the second and fourth fingers is linked to a longer stretched penis size, researchers report in the Asian Journal of Andrology. The findings go beyond providing a new finger ratio-based pick-up line for men in bars, however; researchers say that a quick look at a man's fingers could reveal his exposure to male hormones in the womb, providing a hint about his risk for hormone-driven diseases like prostate cancer.

Female orgasm is a form of natural selection

Orgasm is an evolutionary function of nature. In 1967, a man named Desmond Morris wrote a controversial book called "The Naked Ape." The book looked at the female orgasm, suggesting that its purpose was to not only encourage interest in sexual activity, but also to promote exhaustion to encourage her to remain in the horizontal position (preventing sperm from leaking out). He also suggested that women's difficulty in attaining orgasm with men was, in fact, a form of natural selection. Only the most patient, caring, and imaginative men (considered preferred traits) would have the best chance of eliciting an orgasm, and thus successfully conceiving a child.
Vibrators were used as medical treatment during the 19th century

According to the Museum of Sex, the vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th century. The vibrator-induced orgasms helped doctors dissipate hysteria's anxiety-related symptoms.

25% of men over 65 use the magic blue pill

According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, approximately 5 percent of 40-year-old men and between 15 to 25 percent of 65-year-old men experience erectile dysfunction.

Another interesting fact about middle age sex is that 46 percent of people over 50 claim to have sex once a week. 85 per cent feel that sex at a more mature age is less pressurized than when they were teens or young adults, suggesting that sex can get better with age (like many things in life).