THANK GOD FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Loneliness is a terrible kind of poverty. The love of family and friends is better than riches. Learn to appreciated those that mattered most in your life. Be a friend to get a friend.

MAN SENTENCED FOR MAKING SON WALK A MILE HOME FROM SCHOOL.

A Hawaii man, Robert Demond was sentenced to one year of probation and a $200 fine for making his son walk a mile home from school as a form of discipline for an offense he committed in school.

The judge who passed this sentence, said it's an old fashioned way of disciplining a child.

The African Union takes up campaign aganist child marriage

Recently, The African Union lunched a major campaign to end child marriage across African. It is a well known fact that Africa has the highest rates of child marriage in the world.

According to experts, underage marriage cuts short the childhood of millions of girls and forced them into responsibilities they were ill-prepared to carry.

It"s a very commendable move by A.U.  We hope that by the Union stepping into this war against child marriage, it will yield positive result.

 In Nigeria it seems like a lost battle, when those who are supposed to protect the rights of the girl child are the very ones clamoring for the legalization of child marriage.

Emir Shehu Mustapha laid to rest

The Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Shehu Mustapha Idrisa Timta, who was killed by Boko Haram gunmen on Friday, was buried yesterday in his domain amidst tears from family and friends

It's Big Brother Time once again

Osun Defender

Africa's biggest TV reality show is around the corner once again. it is billed to hit the screen from Sept. 7. Its a program many love to hate, but then its one that attracts high viewership in Africa.

7 Reasons Why Men Leave Women in a Relationship

Knowing This Will Save You a Lot of Pain & Trouble

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| by Russell Jackson //

The feeling of being “dumped” is devastating and painful. No woman likes being left for another! If you are wondering how to keep your man, you should first know why men leave women in a relationship. Here are some of the most common reasons that you should be aware of.

Bored to death
Boredom can cause havoc in a relationship. Though it takes two to clap and both partners are responsible to keep their relationship alive and exciting, sometimes women can cause the major damage! Have you allowed your relationship to become predictable and boring? Does your man hate to come home to you? Ask your self these questions and put right the wrongs immediately.

Incompatibility
This means that after a while he has realized that you are not compatible and have nothing in common. This also means that there was a whole lot of pretense and lies involved to keep each other interested in the beginning. Once the honeymoon period is over – the real character is revealed and familiarity now breeds a lot of contempt for each other.

Nagging and fighting
A man can only take that much! No woman who nags and argues incessantly can hope to keep her man. He will refuse to stay with a nit picker who constantly fights, argues and nags at him. His interest will naturally fade!

No sexual satisfaction
It is extremely important for a man to be sexually satisfied in his home. Have you been too tired or have too many headaches lately? If you have not been keeping your man physically satisfied then he is bound to look elsewhere for satisfaction.

Temptation to cheat
If a woman stops taking care of her looks, body and appearance and turns dowdy, sloppy and fat, her man will be easily fall to temptation! A prettier female colleague at the office who pays him attention will become more attractive. Stop this from happening by being as attractive and beautiful as ever!

Too much responsibility
Sometimes the man is roped into a relationship without being actually ready for it. This immaturity and unwillingness to commit that is underlying makes him want to pull out of the relationship later on. Besides if the woman is expecting too much from him he will find it difficult to shoulder all the responsibility and will withdraw from the relationship.

No respect
No matter who the real breadwinner is in the family, the woman has to pay her man respect and honor. A man who is being ignored and taken for granted will slowly but surely begin to lose interest and will want to leave

BOKO HARAM AND THEIR REIGN OF TERROR

 

The name Boko Haram need no introduction, neither do the story of their many infamous acts need to be enumerated, but they left us no choice, day by day, they made world headlines with their daring and heartless offensives on the populace.

When it all started, we thought it was mere child’s play, and so looked down on them as a purposeless, barbaric, and uneducated group of hoodlums out to deal with Christians. We thought that like every other insurgent group that rose from the North, it would run its course and die a natural death. Little did we know we were wrong, from pocket of attacks here and there, they became bodacious and dare devils in their malicious terror assaults.

They come, they bomb, they kill, they maim, and they kidnap, leaving behind tales of deaths, tears, anguish, sorrow and heartbreak on victims, survivors, families and the nation as a whole.

They seemed well informed, well armed, well equipped with sophisticated weapons, well funded and well focused in their dastardly acts. All these combined gave them an invincible aura and a larger than life image.

Boko Haram is not a group made up of spirits or out of space aliens; they are human beings living among us and operating within us. However, they are a group of evil genius; (I have to call them that), who over the years has built a band of loyalist with tentacles all over the main frame of the country’s fort.

 Though, even if we try to deny it or fail to acknowledge it as a nation, we know individually that they have members in every strategic position in Nigeria, that’s why they thrive successfully in every of their operations.

Maybe the initiators and sponsors of Boko Haram never knew they were hatching a monster when they formed the sect to perpetuate Islamist ideals and tenets. Today that little monster has grown so monstrous that they could neither tame nor control it any more. Yes, the monster is threatening to consume its creators and they have no choice than to cringe and shiver in fear.

There is no gainsaying that the Northern leaders and elders have no hand in the rise and sustenance of Boko Haram in Nigeria, that’s why they cannot come out boldly to condemn their evil acts initially. Now because more than 200 school girls were kidnapped last month and the ire of the whole world is upon them, most of their core supporters are scurrying out with feeble condemnations.

If truly and honestly they want an end to this evil called Boko Haram, let them fish out the perpetrators; they know who they are and where they are, by keeping quiet, they are elongating their reign terror. 200 girls could not have vanished into thin air like that, we were not told they were flown out with private jets, they were driven out with trucks which passed through roads manned by gun holding policemen and soldiers with road blocks to boot, yet they passed through with the girls undetected.

This month, the city of Jos has been bombed thrice, they came and left with no hindrance and no harassment, they slipped through the network of heavy securities, all the stop and search by men of the security forces couldn’t detect them. And as usually life were lost, properties destroyed, blood of the innocents spilled.

Three final year medical students of the university of Jos, youths, workers, etc, died for no just reason other than that some misguided bigots are allowed to run amok among us.