jay2pee:
Please where can I get free visa to some of these countries above.....

Smartjeezy:
Unbelievable! Just like Tiv people of benue state. One offer me his wife to have sex with and i rejected the offer...

Sex is one of the staples of human existence. Although the importance attached to it varies from one place to another, its centrality to human existence cannot however be overemphasized.
Sex basically serves two functions which are for procreation and for gratification.

Here we take a look at ten weird sexual traditions from around the world. Variety didn’t they say is the spice of life? A norm in a place can be an abomination in your own society.
10. Semen Drinking

This is a tradition among the Sambians, a semen-drinking tribe in Papua New Guinea.
To become a man among this primitive tribe, young boys are removed from the presence of all females at the age of seven and made to live with other males for ten years. During these ten years, the skin is pierced to remove any contamination brought upon by women. For the same reason, they also regularly incur nose-bleeding and vomiting caused by consuming large amounts of sugarcane.
To top it off, they are required to ingest the semen of their elders, which is believed to sustain growth and strength. When they are finally introduced back into the tribe, they continue to engage in nose-bleeding at the same time as their wives’ menstrual cycles.

9. Wife Stealing

In the Wodaabe tribe of Niger in West Africa, men are known to steal each other’s wives. The Wodaabe’s first marriage is arranged by their parents in infancy and must be between cousins of the same lineage. However, at the yearly Gerewol Festival, Wodaabe men wear elaborate makeup and costumes and dance to impress the women – and of course hopefully steal a new wife. If the new couple is able to steal or sneak away undetected (especially from a current husband who may not want to part with his wife), then they become socially recognized. These subsequent marriages are called love marriages.

8. Wife Sharing

This is a very common practice among the Himalayans in Nepal. The Himalayans practice what is referred to in Psychology as ‘fraternal polyandry’ in which a group of brothers share a wife.

There is little land available for farming and agriculture due to the topography, and families with more than one son would be faced with dividing up their land were each son to start his own family. The solution? Find one wife for all of their sons so that they can live together as one family and keep their family plot intact.

7. Older Women Teaching Young Boys Sex

In Mangaia , an island in the South Pacific, people are encouraged to have many sexual partners before they marry and boys undergo what is known as a superincision – that’s cutting the foreskin — at the age of 13.

Even more weird is that older women are told to have sex with young boys so they can learn about sex and how to properly please their partner.

Will you call those women cougars?

6. Sex From Age Six

This can be found among the Trobrianders in Papua, New Guinea. Sounding familiar already? Well these islanders from a remote tribe in Papua Guinea believe girls want sex just as much as guys, and kids start having sex at a very young age — 6-8 for the girls and 10-12 for the guys — with no social stigma. There are few customs about dating to inhibit “hooking up” and, of course, revealing clothing has been taken to its limit, with girls actually going topless.
However, while everybody is having sex whenever they want, premarital meal-sharing is a big no-no. You’re not supposed to go out for dinner together until after you get married.

5 . Love Huts For Girls To Sample Different Men And Choose The Best

This is a practice among the Kreung Tribe in Cambodia. Here, the elders build a love-hut for their teenage daughters. Different boys spend the night here day after day, until she finds a suitable partner, who is then with her for life.

4. Festival Of Infidelity

During a festival known as the celebration of Pon in Indonesia, participants have to spend the night and have intercourse with someone other than their wife or husband. It is said that their wishes of good luck will only come true if they have sex with the same person at all seven celebrations throughout the year.

3. Capturing Men For Sex
In the Kiriwina islands, tribes celebrate the “Yam festival.” What sets this festival apart from the oneo you’re used to is that during the celebrations the women can capture any man they want and have sex with him. Tribal chiefs grant their permission for this weird practice, so women can enjoy sex without the fear of punishment. However, they are not allowed to capture a man from their own tribe. Usually, men do not roam alone during the Yam festival season since they are aware of the custom. If a man is not able to perform well during intercourse, the unsatisfied partner can urinate on his face.

2. Wife Swapping

Namibia’s nomadic tribes have been practicing “okujepisa omukazendu” and they are happy about it. The literal meaning of “okujepisa omukazendu” is “offering a wife to a guest,” or in even simpler terms, you can just call it “wife swapping.” Women are often asked to sleep with their husband’s friends. These tribes live in the northwestern Kunene region near the Angolan border, and far away from mainstream society. The modern lifestyle is totally an alien concept to them and they continue to obediently practice what they have learned from their ancestors. Educated individuals as well as international and local organizations have raised their voice against the custom of wife swapping. However, the practice seems destined to go on for the foreseeable future.

1. Sex With Donkeys

Boys have sex with donkeys in the northern Colombian town of Cartagena. Yes, it sounds awkward, but it is true. It is practiced as a socially approved tradition that helps young boys transition into manhood. Kids are trained by their fathers before they have sex with an unsuspecting donkey. Apparently they can get addicted to this weird and unhealthy form of sex. But the followers have a different opinion about this form of donkey love. According to the tradition, a man will possess great sexual potential to satisfy his future wife by having multiple sexual experiences with a donkey. It will make their penis bigger and also stop them from indulging in homosexual relationship, which is not accepted in the predominantly Catholic community

For several days now global attention has been focused on the fast burning Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world. For weeks now the Amazon has been burning at an alarming rate with large swathes of rainforest being depleted.

The importance of the Amazon to the global ecosystem as well as the economy and living in South America cannot be overemphasized. However, regardless of the magnitude and the importance, it is not the only place on earth that is burning. In fact, some have been burning for several years.

Earlier this week, we took a look at the Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning since 1971- a whopping forty-eight years with no idea when the fire is going to stop.

Here we take a look at other locations around the world where fires have been soldering for ages. This might look like a page out of a book of fiction but it is actually real.

1. Yanar Dag
You might have heard of Azerbaijan being referred to as the land of fire, this Yanar Dag is a principal reason for that appellation.

The Yanar Dag which in Azerbaijani means “burning mountain” or “fire mountain” is located in the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku, the country’s capital. Azerbaijan is known for its large reserves of natural gas and over the centuries there have been fires burning at different areas around the country due to natural gas leaking out from crevices to the surface.

Legendary explorer Marco Polo wrote of the mysterious phenomena when he passed through the country in the 13th century. Other Silk Road merchants brought news of the flames as they would travel to other lands. It’s why the country earned itself the moniker the “land of fire.” The Yanar Dag is one of the last of those fires. Five hundred years after Marco Polo, French writer Alexandre Dumas witnessed natural flames in a mysterious fire temple.
The Yanar Dag is believed to have been burning for over 4,000 years and despite the seasonal rain, wind and snow, it has never stopped burning.

One can easily understand how these natural flames must have amazed and terrified people in history, and it doesn’t come as a surprise that the natural fires of Azerbaijan are considered to have played a crucial part in the creation of Zoroastrianism — a mystical faith, centered around ceremonial fire cults, which appeared in the region around 2,000 years ago.

The natural flames of Azerbaijan can be attributed to its enormous gas reserves. When exploitation of these reserves began, most of the natural fires burned out, due to a reduction in underground pressure. Of the natural fires that burn today in Azerbaijan, Yanar Dağ is arguably the most impressive.
A 10m long wall of fire, that never extinguishes, is burning continuously alongside the edge of the hill, which naturally is at its most spectacular at night, when tourists and locals alike view the fire from a nearby teahouse. Local lore states that it was a shepherd that accidentally ignited the fire in the 1950s by tossing a cigarette, and that it has burnt ever since.
It was declared a state protected conservation area in 2007.

2. The Burning Mountain of Australia
Real name Mount Wingen, the mountain is located in New South Wales Australia. It has been burning for 6000 years without stop. Just below the surface of the earth in New South Wales, a coal seam has been burning and slowly moving south along the mountain at a rate of one meter per year. In its history, the seam has covered a total area of 6.5 km, making it the oldest continuous coal fire in the world.

Coal seams are extremely common across the world, and at any time there are more than 1000 burning. They happen frequently in lesser-developed mineral rich countries, but are often put out within a few days or at most a month. Considering the average duration of a coal seam fire, Mount Wingen’s fiery longevity has become something of a wonder across the globe and tourists have flocked to see the sulfur-tinged smoke emanating from the mountain.

The aborigines called the mountain Wingen, which means ‘fire’, and used its heat for warmth in the winter months, for cooking and for the manufacture of tools. They believed that the mountain was set on fire by a tribesman to warn others when the Devil carried him off deep into the earth. European explorers and early settlers knew of the Burning Mountain but they thought the smoke coming out of the ground was volcanic in origin. It was not until 1829 that a geologist identified it as a coal seam fire.

Although Mount Wingen has attracted tourists in droves, it has also caused massive ecological damage to the area’s vegetation. The path of the fire has left a barren and rocky trail, with no traces of life. Most assumed the fire was caused by volcanic activity, but it is now clear coal was ignited by a lightning strike or brush fire thousands of years earlier. The area is administered by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and is a natural reserve.

3. Baba Gurgur Oil Field
Baba Gurgur is an oil and gas field, located in the city of Kirkuk in Northern Iraq. It was entitled the world’s largest oil field till the discovery of Ghawar in Saudi Arabia. As per reports, the field has been burning for over 4000 years now.
The field was first discovered by Turkish Petroleum Company, the predecessor of the Iraq Petroleum Company, on October 15 1927, in an attempt to strike oil. This was the first modern oil well in Iraq. When oil was struck, it flowed uncontrollably for several days, thus endangering the environment and habitation in and around the city of Kirkuk. But with time, the oil reservoir proved to have an immensely high producing capacity.

According to the American Journal of Science (1939)
”Near to the wells is a pool of muddy stagnant water, covered with a thick scum deeply tinged with sulphur. A few hundred yards to the east of the top of the same hill is a flat circular spot, 50 feet in diameter, perforated by 100 or more small holes, whence issue clear smokeless flames, smelling strongly of sulphur. In fact, the whole surface of this perforated spot of ground appeared as a crust of sulphur over a body of fire within; the surface being perforated by a dagger, a flame instantly issued, rising, sometimes even higher than the others.”

The Baba Gurgur oil field was described as far back as Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), the ancient Greek author, and some believe it to be the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel, of Old Testament, into which King Nebuchadnezzar (630-562 BC), King of Babylon, threw three Jews for refusing to worship his golden idol. The flames have a significant symbolic value for residents of Kirkuk. It is believed that the heat of the eternal flames was used by shepherds to warm their flocks during winter, and women would visit Baba Gurgur, asking to have a baby boy. This ancient practice probably goes back to the time of fire worshipping.

What are your thoughts?

The movie industry in the United States of America popularly known as Hollywood has over the years metamorphosed into a multi-billion dollar industry.
It has over several years produced global screen gods and goddesses with thousands of blockbusters.

As the movie industry continues to grow so does the renumeration of actors and actresses with many being paid millions of dollars for a starring role.

Here we take a look at the Top Ten highest paid actresses for the year 2019.
The world’s 10 highest-paid actresses collectively earned about $315 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, before fees and taxes. That’s up 69% since last year, but still far less than the almost $600 million the top 10 leading men pulled in.

10. Ellen Pompeo
Estimated earnings: $22 million
The actress who starred in Grey’s Anatomy proves network television isn’t dead quite yet. She earns about $575,000 per episode to star in and produce the ABC hit show.

9. Charlize Theron
Estimated earnings: $23 million
Theron’s production company, Denver and Delilah Productions, produced her 2019 film
Long Shot and is also behind the Netflix series Mindhunter. The South African born 44-year old is also set to star with fellow listees Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie in the December film Bombshell.

8. Margot Robbie
Estimated earnings: $23.5 million
Robbie is expected to serve as producer for the upcoming Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) while also reprising her role of Harley Quinn. The rumour is that she has been paid an eight-figure sum upfront for the project.

7. Elisabeth Moss
Estimated earnings: $24 million
The two time Emmy and Globe awards winner serves as executive producer on her Hulu star-vehicle The Handmaid’s Tale.

6. Kaley Cuoco
Earnings: $25 million
Until The Big Bang Theory ended earlier this year, Cuoco was part of the highest-paid cast on network television, earning $900,000 per episode.

5. Jennifer Aniston
Estimated earnings: $28 million
The 50-year old daughter of actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow is coming back to television. The Friends actress is set to star in and produce Apple TV+’s The Morning Show.

4. Nicole Kidman
Estimated earnings: $34 million
After wrapping up season two of Big Little Lies, the Australian-American multi-award winning actress continues her busy year with starring roles in Bombshell and The Goldfinch.

3. Reese Witherspoon
Estimated Earnings: $35 million
Witherspoon has embraced the title of producer. She will produce, though not star in, upcoming films Lucy in the Sky and The Dry. The “Morning Show” star was rumoured to be earning $1.25 million per episode on the hit show.

2. Sofia Vergara
Estimated Earnings: $44.1 million
The eleventh and final season of Modern Family premieres this fall, but the Colombian-American actress, model, and comedian’s wallet will be just fine: she still has her lucrative entrepreneurial ventures, including Sofia Jeans and a furniture line at Rooms To Go.

1. Scarlett Johansson
Estimated Earnings: $56 million
For the second year in a row, Johansson is the world’s highest-paid actress thanks to her lucrative role as Black Widow, for which she earns an eight-figure sum. The screen goddesses turns head everywhere whether on the red carpet or when kicking butts in Avengers.

What are your thoughts on this list?

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There must be a way to put it off

At different times in history, different places have been referred to as the Gate To Hell. These places have at different periods acquired legendary reputation for being the gateway to hell or the underworld.

They were oftentimes found in regions of unusual geological activity, particularly volcanic areas, or sometimes at lakes, caves, or mountains.

These places include but not limited to the cave at the edge of Lake Avernus on the Bay of Naples through which Hercules was believed to have entered the Underworld.

There was also the Lacus Curtius, where according to legend, a Roman soldier, named Curtius, bravely rode his horse into the entrance in a successful effort to close it, although both he and his horse perished in the courageous deed.

Lerna Lake also got a reputation as one of the entrances to the Underworld.Odysseus in Homer’s popular poem also visited the Underworld, entering through river Acheron in northwest Greece.

Orpheus was believed to have traveled to the Greek underworld in search of Eurydice by entering a cave at Taenarumor Cape Tenaron on the southern tip of the Peloponnese.

Pluto’s Gate know as Ploutonion in Greek and Plutonium in Latin located in modern day Turkey was unearthed by Italian archaeologists and is believed to be the entry gate to the Underworld.

The famous Mount Etna in Sicily had the reputation not being the doorway to hell in Medieval times probably due to its volcanic nature.

Urban legend believes Hellam township in Pennsylvania contains the Seven Gates to Hell, while Fengdu in China and Mount Osore in Japan are other places that have enjoyed the unenviable reputation of being the Gate to Hell.

However in modern times, the most popular place to have gained reputation as the gate to hell is the Darvaza Crater, located in the Karakum Desert in the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan.
It has been variously called Door to Hell, Gates of Hell or Gateway to Hell. It is a natural gas field that collapsed into an underground cavern in 1971 and has been burning since then.

The crater is a 5,350 m 2 natural gas field with a diameter of 69 m and a depth of 30 m. After it collapsed into an underground crater, scientists set it on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas and has been burning continuously since then- 48 years and counting.

History

Though technically called the Darvaza gas crater, locals know the crater as “The Gates of Hell.” Its fiery and blazing glow can be seen for miles around.
The Gates of Hell crater was created in 1971 when a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the entire drilling rig to fall in. Having punctured a pocket of gas, poisonous fumes began leaking at an alarming rate.
To head off a potential environmental catastrophe, the Soviets set the hole alight, figuring it would stop burning within a few weeks. Decades later, and the fiery pit is still going strong. The Soviet drilling rig is believed to still be down there somewhere, on the other side of the “Gates of Hell.”

Efforts To Put Out The Fire ‌‏

Given that the blaze started in the 1970s when awareness was still low about Methane’s role in climate change and its potency as a greenhouse gas, the Soviet scientists who were there prospecting for oil thought that the burning field posed a huge danger to the environment and the surrounding villages to have poisonous gas leaking from the ground in huge quantities.

They decided that their best option would be to burn off the gas by lighting the crater. Their expectation being that the gas would burn off within a week. They tossed a grenade into the hole and for almost five decades, the crater still continues to burn.

Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov issued orders for local officials to find a way to put out the fire after he visited the crater in 2010.

The president expressed fears that the fire would draw gas from other nearby drilling sites, damaging Turkmenistan’s vital energy exports as the country exports natural gas to Europe, Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.

In 2004 while flying over Darvaza, former president Saparmurat Niyazov was struck by the magnitude of the fiery fire below. “I don’t want to see this next time I fly over,” he reportedly said. Bulldozers would soon move in, giving the about 3,000 villagers an hour or so to evacuate. Forcibly displaced by soldiers, they knew better than to argue at the time, but a handful of villagers later built another encampment away from the president’s flight path—the new Darvaza village.

Tourist Center

Despite turning out to be a slow-burning ecological disaster, the crater has also become one of Turkmenistan’s few tourist attractions. The crater is slowly but steadily drawing adventurous souls out into the Karakum (meaning dark) Desert, where summer temperatures can reach 50ºC (122ºF) even without any contribution from the Darvaza fire.

The Turkmen government hopes it’ll soon become a huge tourist site as the nearby Karakum Desert itself has already become a popular place to wild camp.

President Took A Spin Close To It To Dispel Death Rumours

Turkmenistan eccentric and stunt loving president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, earlier this month took a car for a spin close to the gas crater to dispel death rumours which had been flying around for weeks.

South-West tops domestic debtors’ list with N1.04tn

S’East least indebted with N303bn

The South-West has more domestic debt than other regions of the country.

Statistics obtained from the Debt Management Office on Monday showed that the geopolitical zone was exposed to a domestic debt of N1.04tn as of March 31.

The statistics also showed that the six geopolitical zones of the country were exposed to a total domestic debt of N3.97tn as of March 31.

This means that the South-West geopolitical zone of the country accounts for 26.2 per cent of the country’s total subnational domestic debt.

The geopolitical zone is made up of six states – Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Lagos and Osun. Lagos, the commercial capital of the country accounts for much of the indebtedness of the zone as it has domestic debt of N542.23bn.

Thus, the state, which is the largest subnational economy in the country, accounts for 51.92 per cent of the domestic debt owed by the six states in the South-West.


Osun State with N147.7bn accounts for 14.2 per cent of the indebtedness of the South-West region while Ekiti State with N118.01bn accounts for 11.35 per cent of the domestic debt owed by the South-West geopolitical zone.

Ogun State accounts for 9.34 per cent of the domestic indebtedness of the region with a total of N97.09bn while Oyo with N94.14bn accounts for 9.03 per cent of the domestic debt of the region.

Ondo which has the least domestic debt in the region accounts for 5.48 per cent with N56.96bn.

The South-South region has a domestic debt burden of N949.4bn. This accounts for 23.91 per cent of the country’s subnational domestic debt.

Among the six states that make up the South-South region, Rivers State has the highest domestic debt. It has a domestic debt of N225.59bn and therefore accounts for 23.76 per cent of the regional domestic debt.

Delta State with N233.44bn accounts for 23.53 per cent of the domestic debt burden of the region. Akwa Ibom with N199.77bn accounts for 21.04 per cent while Cross River with N167.25bn accounts for 17.62 per cent.

Bayelsa State with N133.34bn accounts for 14.04 per cent while Edo State, the least indebted state in the region accounts for 9.1 per cent of the domestic debt commitment of the South-South region.

The North-Central region comprising Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau and Benue States as well as the Federal Capital Territory has a domestic debt burden of N648.63bn, accounting for 16.34 per cent of the country’s subnational domestic debt.

The FCT Administration has a debt of N163.52bn, accounting for 25.21 per cent of the North-Central’s domestic debt. Plateau State accounts for 15.2 per cent of the regional domestic debt while Benue State with N96.91bn accounts 14.94 per cent.

Kogi State with N96.68bn accounts for 14.91 per cent; Nasarawa State with N89.95bn accounts for 13.87 per cent; Kwara State with N59.58bn accounts for 9.19 per cent while the least burdened state, Niger, accounts for 6.69 per cent of the region’s domestic debt with N43.41bn.

The North-West comprising Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and Jigawa States has a domestic debt burden of N485.39bn, accounting for 12.23 per cent of subnational local debt.

In the region, Kano has the highest domestic debt burden of N121.31bn accounting for 24.99 per cent of the domestic debt of the region. It is followed by Kaduna State with N93.2bn, accounting for 19.2 per cent.

Katsina State has a domestic debt burden of N67.1bn, accounting for 13.82 per cent of the region’s debt while Kebbi State accounts for 13.81 per cent with a burden of N67.04bn.

Zamfara has a domestic debt burden of N61.95bn, accounting for 12.76 per cent. Kebbi accounts for 7.88 per cent with a total domestic debt of N38.23bn.

Sokoto, on the other hand, is the least indebted in the region with a debt of N36.57bn, accounting for 7.53 per cent.

The North-East geopolitical zone comprising Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states has a debt burden of N441.19bn, accounting for 11.11 per cent of the country’s subnational debt.

Adamawa tops the zone with N97.15bn, accounting for 22.02 per cent of the domestic debt of the region. Bauchi has N93.32bn, accounting for 21.15 per cent. Borno has N78.26bn, accounting for 17.74 per cent while Gombe has N76.89bn, accounting for 17.43 per cent.

Taraba with N68.57bn accounts for 15.54 per cent while the least indebted, Yobe, with N26.99bn accounts for 6.12 per cent.

The South-East geopolitical zone comprising Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi and Anambra is the least indebted zone with N305.67bn local debt accounting for 7.7 per cent of the country’s subnational debt.

Imo tops the region with N97.85bn, accounting for 32.01 per cent of the regional local debt; Abia has N62.85bn, accounting for 20.56 per cent.

Enugu has N55.88bn, accounting for 18.28 per cent while Ebonyi has N55.6bn, accounting for 18.18 per cent. Anambra is the least indebted state in the region with N33.49bn, accounting for 10.96 per cent.

.6bn, accounting for 18.18 per cent. Anambra is the least indebted state in the region with N33.49bn, accounting for 10.96 per cent.

Longtime Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson came out as gay in a column in the Ottawa Citizen on Saturday, writing that the announcement was “better late than never.”
The 58-year-old wrote he had long struggled with the decision to be open about his sexuality, and considered whether the revelation would affect his relationships with family, friends and constituents.
Watson’s announcement came just a day before the start of Ottawa’s Capital Pride 2019, a weeklong festival.
“As I look back over my life, and in hindsight, not coming out sooner was a big mistake on my part,” he wrote.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has led the capital city of Ontario, Canada, since 2010. He also served as mayor from 1997 to 2000.

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I was elected to Ottawa City Council when I was 30, and for most of my public life, my sexuality was not an issue. But in hindsight, not coming out sooner was a big mistake.

Watson recalled being bullied in grade school and how his father’s frequent relocation for work made it difficult to make friends in high school. There were virtually no resources for LGBTQ students to seek guidance or help, he wrote, and he couldn’t remember ever meeting an openly gay student before college.

Though his university environment was more liberal, Watson said he was still too shy and reluctant to come to terms with that part of his identity. After graduation, he busied himself with his career.
Watson, who has led Ottawa since 2010 and previously served as mayor from 1997 to 2000, said he was proud of his track record on LGBTQ issues. He voted in favor of same-sex marriage and as a provincial cabinet minister in the early 2000s, he made it easier for same-sex couples to get married. He was also the first Ottawa mayor to march in city’s Pride Parade.
Still, he said he had some regret — and some words of wisdom for others in similar situations.
“But if I can be so bold as to offer one bit of advice to those still in the closet: Don’t feel pressured or rushed to come out, but don’t wait 40 years either,” he wrote. “My reluctance has not allowed me to live my life as full of love and adventure as my gay friends who were bolder and braver than I ever was.”

The governor of Tanzania’s largest city wants to create a database that tracks married men in the East African region in order to crack down on infidelity and “humiliating” women, he said this week.
Women have been complaining that men are deceiving them by making false promises of marriage, Dar es Salaam regional commissioner Paul Makonda said at a news conference on Monday.
“Our main aim is to relieve pain from these women who are suffering from these cheaters — As a governor, I am not happy to lead women who are sad and heartbroken,” Makonda said, according to The Daily Telegraph .
“If possible, we will set up a database in the regional commissioner’s office in each region that every man who promises a woman marriage, this should be registered in the database which will allow women to check to see whether the person asking is married,” he explained.
The government-run public database would include all married men’s’ names and photos, but other details of such a database — including its legality — remain unclear.
“I have received a lot of complaints from young women. Many women from Dar es Salaam region have been deceived many times, and they have had enough,” Makonda said , according to The Independent. “These charming men have been promising to marry them, then ditch the women after using them. This is something that is humiliating.”

“These cunning men have left many women nursing heartbreaks and emotional bruises,” Makonda added. “You’ll find a young man successfully wooing a woman, making her leave every other thing that she does and follows you, hoping that the man will marry her only to realize he is just using her.”
This would not be the first time Makonda has made a controversial suggestion. Last year he called for citizens to start reporting gay people in Tanzania, where same-sex relationships are illegal.

He said a team of police and other authorities would target gay people, The Guardian reported at the time — but the national government distanced itself from Makonda’s proposal.
“The government of the United Republic of Tanzania would like to clarify that these are [Makonda’s] personal views and not the position of the government,” the foreign affairs ministry had said at the time.
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Popular actor Adeniyi Johnson took to his Instagram page to congratulate ex-wife Toyin Abraham who recently got married to fellow actor Kolawole Ajeyemi on the birth of her new baby.

Adeniyi Johnson who went through an acrimonious divorce with Toyin Abraham a couple of years ago wrote on his Instagram page “Congrats on the arrival of your baby.. Mr & Mrs Ajeyemi… He shall be a source of joy to you….. God bless the baby, the mother and the dad…"

Woman Who Locked Boy in Dog’s Kernel Gives Reason For Her ActionPublished 5 mins ago on August 15, 2019 By Afolabi Dolapo


A 24-year old lady, Onyinye Mbadike, who was arrested by the Lagos state police command over the viral video showing her assaulting and locking up a 10-year old boy, Chibike Eziamaka, in a dog’s cage has opened up.

Spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Bala Elkana said Chibike who is an orphan was brought to Lagos by his aunt who is Onyinye’s mother.

The suspect told the police that she assaulted and mistreated the victim because she was misbehaving after drinking a liquor in their fridge. According to her, Chibike smashed her car’s side mirror with a stone, at their residence in no 7, Trimnell Street, Aguda.

She revealed that she only locked the boy in an empty dog kernel for a few hours before bringing him out. The young victim has since been rescued and taken to a secured shelter while the suspect will soon be charged to court

Chinese credit accounts for 80% of all bilateral lending to Nigeria, data from the West Africa nation’s debt management office show. China provides loans to build railways, power plants and airports, helping to bridge a huge infrastructure gap in Africa’s largest oil producer. However, lending from China makes up only 3% of Nigeria’s total debt stock of $81 billion.

The video shows a Jamaican singer entertaining fans at a gig and just out of nowhere the sultry singer decided to send the fans into overdrive when she pulls of her pant on stage and dangles it in front of them.
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A Zimbabwean man, Clemency Gurwe, has been charged to court for allegedly killing his one-year-old baby.

He reportedly slapped and strangled the baby for making a noise.

According to iHarare, the beating incident happened in April.

It was reported that Gurwe had been in the company with his wife, Mitchell Manyangadze, at their home when the little boy started crying.

Gurwe reportedly lifted the baby with one hand and started slapping and strangling him until the boy started bleeding from the nose.

The baby was taken to the hospital, the next morning. Health workers advised Manyangadze to report the case to the police.

She did and Gurwe was arrested.

He had been in prison custody until June 26, charged for attempted murder while the child was referred to Silveira Hospital where he was admitted.

From there, the baby was moved to Masvingo Provincial Hospital where he was discharged days later and put on weekly reviews.

The little boy died on July 07 and Gurwe is now facing murder charges.

Masvingo provincial police spokesperson, Chief Inspector Charity Mazula, confirmed the incident.