Wole Soyinka revealed of being diagnosed with prostrate cancer

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has revealed he was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in 2014.

Speaking to BBC, Soyinka revealed how his doctor helped him get rid of it with a great assistance from his wife.

He said “It hadn’t yet gotten to the stage where it was non-reversible and so (the doctor) gave us a number of guidelines. I say us because he wanted to make sure that my wife made sure that I followed it. He sensed that I wasn’t going to be a very good patient. So he spoke to her most of the time rather than me,” he said.

”There is no disease in the world any human being needs to be ashamed. I don’t see why people need to go to Canada, Europe to receive treatment which is affordable in this nation, it is a shame. The options I compared to other treatment I know about and I have seen in operation. Mine for me was an easy ride, uncomfortable in many ways but it is painless.”

Celebrity personality of the year Halima Abubakar

Popular Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar has bagged Nigeria’s Gold face award as the celebrity personality of the year, 2019.
 Halima Abubakar is an optimist who, despite her drawbacks and health challenges refuses to relent on achieving her dreams.
Recall that fans of the bubbly actress, Halima Abubakar, were deeply worried when pictures of her looking emaciated with her head shaved clean surfaced on the Internet sometime last year.
The pictures were accompanied by dire rumors, with some saying Abubakar was battling with cancer. However, the actress later confirmed to Sunday Scoop that she was only suffering from complications of a fibroid removal surgery she had earlier. Thankfully, it seems the worst of the storm is over for Halima and she is back to her bubbly self. She has also been recognized as the celebrity of the year.

James Faleke says Proposed death penalty for hate speech too extreme

A member of the House of Representatives, Rep James Faleke (APC-Lagos), has disagreed with the death sentence for hate speech as proposed by a bill currently before the Senate.

In an interview with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, Faleke said though there was need to curb hate speech, the death penalty was, however, taking it to the extreme.

The lawmaker, who represents Ikoyi Federal Constituency of Lagos State, however, threw his weight behind the death penalty for terrorism and kidnapping.

“It is the area of punishment that we should be concerned about.

I’m not afraid of death, Obasanjo says

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he would not act like a a coward for fear of death, saying, he would continue to raise the alarm when things are not right in the country.

Obasanjo said this at the two- day interactive session of the Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat held at the Youth Development Centre, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta.


The former president stated that his major concern was to build leaders who would lead Africa to her promised land.

He said God has favored him to live long after serving as military head of state and as democratically-elected president of the country.

The former president explained that the purpose of the Presidential Mentorship Retreat was to facilitate the release of creative energies of young people.

Sinach shares lovely photo of husband

Gospel singer, Sinach has shared a loved up photo with her husband to thank her fans for the outpouring of love they showed her as she welcomed her first child. Sharing the photo on her instagram page, she wrote;

"Thank you for the outpouring of love!! We love you too"

Kim Kardashian West has shares photo of her youngest children

Kim Kardashian West has shared a photo of her two youngest children Chicago, aged one, and Psalm, six months on instragram simply captioning it, 'My Heart'.

In the photo, Psalm is seen laying on his back while looking up at the the camera as Chicago rests her head on her brother's stomach while smiling for the camera.

Married stars Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz guest speaker at harvard

Married stars Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz headed back to Harvard Business School on Friday, November 15 to stage a presentation all about the success of their personal and professional partnership.

Hip-hop superproducer Swizz graduated from prestigious Massachusetts institution's Owner/President Management Program in 2017, but he returned to the school last week - this time as a special guest speaker alongside his wife, Alicia.

The "Girl On Fire" hitmaker shared the news on social media when she uploaded photos of the pair in class, as well as images of course case studies, in which they were hailed as "a power couple."

"Friday was a powerful day," she wrote alongside the Instagram images. "My baby @therealswizzz and I presented our case study on our lives and business at @HarvardHBS."

Burna boy got his first grammy nomination

Burna Boy has bagged his first Grammy nomination. He bagged it in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards with his album African Giant.

Is album is nominated in the category of Best World Music Album, containing at least 51% playing time of new vocal or instrumental World Music recordings.

The nominees for the 2020 Grammy Awards were announced by President/CEO Deborah Dugan and Academy Chair of the Board of Trustees and producer Harvey Mason Jr., along with host Alicia Keys and Bebe Rexha.

Burna Boy’s African Giant is in the same category with Grammy Award winner, Angelique Kidjo’s CELIA; GECE by Altin Gün, WHAT HEAT by Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley and FANM D’AYITI by Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet.

BBnaija: Tacha wishes twitter CEO happy birthday on a video call

BBNaija reality star Tacha has taken to her Instagram page to celebrate Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey who turned a year older today.
Recall that Tacha couldn’t hide her joy when the tech entrepreneur followed her on Twitter some days ago,.
Tacha posted a short snippet of the video call she had with the tech giant and she seemed very excited to be on a call with him, even though their conversation was muted.
The reality star also penned down a short birthday note for Jack on her page. She thanked him for making Twitter what it is today and also urged her fans to vote the app to win best application of the year.
In her words:
“Happy birthday to one of the greatest minds in the world, thanks to him, we’re able to use this social media platform called @twitter More initiatives to come! Once again Happy birthday Jack! By the way, Twitter has to WIN best APP of the year. I’m obsessed”

How to advertise your blog

 Article from the BLOGSTARTER.COM

Promoting your blog is where I see the majority of bloggers fail. There are lots of great bloggers out there that no one has ever heard about, simply because they don’t know how, or just don’t want, to promote their blog.
The most important tip I can give you about promoting your blog is to not be shy about telling people about your blog!
I have heard from many bloggers who tell me that they don’t promote their blog simply because they don’t feel it is worthy of promotion. They say things like “I don’t have enough posts yet” or “I need to work on my site design first”.
Don’t do this to yourself! If you have put in the time to setup a great site and with great content, then you need to tell people about it. Be proud of the work you have put in.
So just how do you promote your blog? Well, it turns out the most effective methods of promotion are free!

1. Email marketing

A lot of the other tips on this list are about getting new readers to your blog. But if you want to build a real following you not only need new readers, you also have to keep first-time readers coming back!
This is where email marketing plays a big role. By collecting the email addresses of your visitors (with their permission of course), you can then notify them when you post something new on your blog. This keeps people coming back to your blog, which not only gives you more readers over time, it also allows you to build a closer relationship with your readers.
Email marketing is too big a topic to cover well here, so I created a separate guide to email marketing for those who are interested (hint: every blogger who wants more readers needs to read this guide).

2. Social networks

Chances are that you already have a Facebook account, and maybe even a Twitter account as well. So when you post something on your blog, make sure that you also post a link to your blog post on your social accounts.
It also helps to connect with other people interested in your topic. Send a friend request to the top bloggers in your niche and make sure to follow them on Twitter as well.
You may be surprised at just how many people will find your post interesting and then share the link with their friends.

3. Commenting on other blogs

On many blogs you can leave a comment along with a link back to your own blog. If you make useful comments on blogs related to your topic you will be putting your blog right in front of people who you know are interested in your topic.
Caution! Do not abuse this method.
If you are leaving terrible comments on posts just to get your name out there this will only hurt your blog. Furthermore, poor quality comments are likely to be deleted by the blog owner anyway.
If you make a useful comment people are more likely to visit your site, since they will want to hear more about what you have to say on the topic.

4. Link to other blogs

One the best ideas for writing a blog post is to write a response to a post from another blog. This could be a blog post you disagree with, or simply a topic that you have something else to add to.
When you do this, make sure to link to the blog you are responding to. On most blogs this creates what is known as a “trackback”.
A trackback simply means that the blog you linked to will also post a link (automatically) to your blog. This means that anyone reading the other person’s blog post will also see the link to your blog, and hopefully click on it to visit your site.

5. Guest posting

Another way to get readers of other blogs to hear about your blog is to write guest posts.
To write a guest post you simply need to contact other blog owners and offer to write a post for their site.
Not all bloggers are open to this idea, but if you can find a few who are it is a great deal for everyone. You provide them with quality content, and in return you put a link to your blog in your post. If people enjoy your guest post then they are likely to visit your blog for more great content.

6. Online forums

If you haven’t already, you should join popular online forums related to your topic. For example, if your blog is about dog training, join a couple of the most popular dog training forums.
Many forums will allow you to post a link to your site in the signature that goes at the bottom of every post you write. Some forums may require you to make a few posts before letting you do this.
Once you have joined a forum, make helpful posts. Just as with blog commenting, the content of your forum posts needs to be high quality and helpful. People are not going to want to read your blog if they don’t find your forum posts to be helpful and interesting.

7. Frequent posting

The promotion methods above all focus on getting new readers to your blog. This is usually the most difficult step for any blog. However, you also need to make sure that once readers find your blog they come back!
Making new posts frequently (at least once a week, but preferably every 1-2 days), is the key to building up and keeping a large following.
Your content may be fantastic, but if you only post once a month people are likely to forget all about your blog. You have to strike a balance between high quality and high quantity. This is a difficult balance for any blogger to achieve, as it is not always easy to write a high quality post once a day or even once a week.
If you are struggling with finding ideas to write about, make sure to re-read the previous step in this guide.

What’s next?

By now you have learned what you need to know about getting your blog started and getting readers to your site. For some bloggers this is the end goal. They simply want people to read their ideas and have the opportunity to participate in a community of like-minded people.
However, once you have developed a decent following, you can start to make some money from your blog if you so choose. Check out the next, and final, step now to learn how to make money blogging.

A man who fell from a storey building saved

The man was said to be working at a construction site when he fell from a story building.
A bricklayer’s life has reportedly been saved after he was successfully operated upon by a group of surgeons at Federal Medical Centre Owerri in IMO.
The 35-year-old, according to Vanguard, accidentally fell off from a story building while at work and landed with the left the lateral anterior neck on a hammer standing on the ground with the handle facing upwards.

Describing the awful incident, the Senior Registrar on call in Ear, Nose, Throat, Head and Neck Surgeon Ear, Dr. Ibekwe Nnaemeka, stated that the sledgehammer pierced through the bricklayer’s anterior and exited through his posterior.
Nnaemeka said, “however, as God may have it, he was not in any respiratory distress and vitals are relatively stable on presentation.”
Narrating how the bricklayer’s life was saved, Nnaemeka said he quickly called out the 2 ENT Consultants, and at the same time raised alarm as he invited the Vascular Surgeons, Burns, and plastic, Traumatologist / Spine Surgeons, Anesthetist, and Theatre Peri-op Nurses who acted promptly to save the man’s life.
Nnaemeka’s words were; “necessary urgent Investigations were done, thanks to our Med. Laboratory Scientist Friends, who acted promptly as the urgency demands, gave us 4 units of screened / cross-matched blood and provided the results needed as fast as possible.
“Within a a short while, all the invited Surgeons stormed the Casualty, we quickly wheeled the patient to the theatre and Neck Exploration with foreign body removal was done.
“Miraculous intra-Op Findings: The hammer neatly passed *medial* to the Carotid vessel and IJV and *lateral* to the Oesophagus, Trachea and the Vertebral column.”
The doctor added that the patient who had been transferred to the ICU by the Anesthetist for observation is stable and doing well.

Delay is not denial a female student bags best student with a first class

A Nigerian lady, Toun Banjo has taken to her twitter handle to express her joy at becoming a first-class graduate and best graduating student of her department despite failing the JAMB examination on her first attempt. Posting photos from her graduation online, Toun wrote

''Delay is not denial! I failed my First JAMB, scored a 279 at second trial & now I'm the Best graduating Student of my department with a total of 7 awards. I am also the only First-class student from the Department of Geography, University of Ibadan. Hello World!

I'm most grateful for the gap year, it helped put things in perspective, I got a degree in Software engineering at NIIT and met the most amazing people during that period. Failures are opportunities to reflect and restrategize. You only lose when you give up!''

Genital Ulcers

 

What are genital ulcers?

They are sores usually found on the vagina or penis. They can also be found in the anus or on the skin around it. They sometimes hurt or leak fluid.

What causes them?

They are usually caused by sexually transmitted infections, or STIs. These include herpes, syphilis, and chancroid. Genital ulcers may also be caused by inflammatory diseases, trauma, or a bad reaction to skin care products.

Who can get genital ulcers?

Risk factors for genital ulcers are the same as those for STIs. They include unprotected sex, lack of male circumcision, and more than one sex partner. Genital ulcers caused by inflammatory diseases may run in families.

How can I lower my risk?

If you have sex, use a condom or dental dam. Although this decreases the risk, it is possible to get STIs from infected skin not covered by the condom or dental dam.

How do I know if I have genital ulcers?

Genital ulcers may show up in different ways. They sometimes start out as bumps or a rash and may or may not hurt. You may also have swollen glands in the groin area or a fever. Your doctor can test the area to see if you have an STI.

How are they treated?

Treatment depends on the cause of the ulcers. STIs are usually treated with antibiotic or antiviral pills or shots. If you have an inflammatory disease, you may need a shot or ointment to put on the ulcers. Some genital ulcers go away on their own, but may still lead to more serious infection. Your doctor may only treat your pain or take care of the wound, but testing for STI is usually needed.

Where can I get more information?

Your doctor

A beautician kills client with hips injection

An American judge said a British beautician got away with murder when jailing her for a year for killing a TV producer in a botched butt lift.

Donna Francis, 39, gave Kelly Mayhew three injections of silicone she bought off eBay in the basement of her house in New York in May 2015.

But on the third dose, the 34-year-old turned purple and immediately went into shock, dying shortly afterward.

Part of the extradition deal which saw Francis return to the US from Britain meant she could only be sentenced to a maximum of one year in prison.


According to Mail Online, Judge Kenneth Holder said the phrase 'getting away with murder' applied to Francis as he was sentencing her.

She wept in court as she was sentenced.

The judge added: "What (the family) is not getting, in my opinion, is justice. If you have a conscience, this is going to haunt you much longer than the one-year sentence you’re going to serve."

Latrice, the mother of the victim, who was with her for the procedure, begged Francis for help when her daughter stopped breathing but Francis simply packed up her equipment and fled the scene.

Kelly's last words to her mum, who also said Francis got away with murder, were 'mommy, hold my hand'.

The mum and daughter had traveled to see Francis from their home in Maryland, US, and the victim's mother said her daughter had five previous plastic surgeries.

Emergency services found Kelly unconscious at the home in Mayhew and rushed her to hospital, but she died.

Helicopter crashes at enugu

A training helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed in the NAF Base in Enugu after returning from a routine training exercise.

According to NAF twitter account on Friday in Enugu, the crash occurred on Thursday after a routine training.

It said that although there were no casualties, the cause of the incident was still sketchy and unknown.

@NigAirForce twitter that was re-tweeted by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola‏, reads; “NAF helicopter suffers mishap upon landing in Enugu.


“Helicopter has crashed on landing in Enugu after a routine flight today. Fortunately, there were no fatalities or injuries to any crew member or persons on the ground.

“@CAS_AMSadique has directed that a Board of Inquiry be constituted to determine the causes of the accident.

“@NigAirForce continues to solicit the understanding and support of the general public as it daily strives to ensure the security of Nigeria and Nigerians. Details later’’.

Dismiss of hospital workers for stealing blood

The Management of Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia, Nasarawa State, says it has dismissed 10 of its staff over financial misconduct, sabotage and selling blood meant for patients.

Dr Hassan Ikrama, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lafia.

“Some of them were engaging in stealing of blood from blood bank and selling same to private hospitals and diverting money meant for the hospital.

“Some are using the facilities of the hospital to carry out investigation in the laboratory and put the money for the charges in their private pockets,” he added.

He noted that all the dismissed staff were investigated and found culpable by a committee that looked into the matter.

Stop biting of finger nails

Onychophagia, or nail biting, is a pretty common habit, affecting an estimated 30 percent of adults, 45 percent of teens, and 30 percent of children.
Nail biting can be caused by stress, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, or just being bored and fidgety and all these can seem harmless, but you should know that it can invite bacteria or fungi infections to enter into the body and blood stream, increasing your chances of contracting a cold or the flu.
1. How nail biting leads to cold and flu

According to the CDC, there are more than 200 cold viruses floating around at any given time. Even though the risk factors for acquiring one include a weakened immune system and/or exposure to someone sick, you can significantly reduce your chances of catching a virus by keeping your hands away from your mouth.
Viruses that cause the flu also flourish on your skin, so wash your hands frequently with soap and water (or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer), and discourage nail biting by chewing gum.
2. How nail biting can harm your teeth
Nail biting can also damage your teeth and gums. The Academy of General Dentistry has found that nail biting can crack, chip, or wear down the front teeth, and also potentially lead to sore gums and gum tissue damage.
You may want to ask your dentist about having a mouth guard which can help you to stop biting your nails—or at least minimize some of the damage it can cause. They may also help to suggest some other techniques to help you quit the habit for good.

5 Fantastic Health Benefit Of Cashew

1. It Prevents Anemia
Cashews are good source of dietary iron which is essential for carrying oxygen around the body and also helps in making the immune system stronger and functioning of enzymes.
Deficiency of iron in our body can lead to many health issues like anemia, increased accessibility to infection, fatigue and increased risk of getting sick. Eating of cashew aids in preventing health problems due presence of iron in it.
2. Prevents Cancer
 Moderate and regular eating of cashew fruits is very beneficial for lowering the risk cancer development because of the presence of compounds like flavonoids and antioxidants found in them.
The compounds are capable of fighting against the tumor cells and prevent them for further dividing. Cashew fruits help also in fighting against cancerous cells due to presence of copper and very effective in reducing the risk of any cancer.

3. Promotes Healthy Bones
Cashew nuts contain magnesium which helps to maintain healthy bones, muscles, tissues and other important organs.
Constant consuming of cashew nuts is very essential for development of healthy bones because of presence of phosphorus which plays a good role in making our bones healthy, adequate absorption of carbohydrates and fats and promotes overall cellular health. Therefore consume cashew regularly for a stronger bone.

Notorious drug dealers arrested by NDLEA

The Imo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confirmed the arrest of one Uzochi Agbakwuru, an alleged notorious drug dealer in the state.

A statement issued in Owerri on Wednesday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Uche Sampson, said Agbakwuru was arrested on October 18 and was in the agency’s custody.

 Sampson described as “spurious,” a petition by one Frank Agbakwuruibe, urging Governor Emeka Ihedioha to order the “unconditional” release of Agbakwuru by the agency. He described the suspect, who hails from Umuemeri Ogwu, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo, as “a notorious drug peddler.” He said the