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An 81-year-old woman has discover that her 103-year-old mother is still alive after she had spent 61 years trying to find her.

Born in the Bethany Home and moved to Kirwan House at age two, Eileen Macken was given someone else’s birth certificate at 16 and lived under that identity for 60 years, Yahoo Style UK has reported.

She found out, after DNA, that the family she thought was hers was not.

Mrs. Macken first started trying to find her biological mother when she was 19, but was beginning to lose all hope of finding her after searching for more than six decades.

But with the help of a genealogist who offered to assist when she opened up about her story on a radio show last year, Mrs. Macken was able to track down her elderly mum earlier this month.

“I can’t believe it, when I got the word that she was alive, all I want to do is to meet her,” Mrs. Macken said.

She said she found her mother after taking a DNA test.

The 61-year-old who grew up in an orphanage in Dublin hasn’t yet met her mother, but has spoken to her on the phone and is hoping to make the trip “across the water,” when she recovers from a recent eye operation.

“I spoke to her on the phone but she couldn’t hear me,” she said. “She’s a bit like myself, I’ve only one good ear. “She kept saying, “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you.

“All I want is to see her.”

Mrs. Macken also found out she had two half-brothers who were still alive and were in their 70s.

Speaking about how the years of searching had affected her, Mrs. Macken continued: “The sadness that goes with being alone, even to this day, different things would set me off, I’d say, ‘if only I had a brother, if only I had a sister.’

“I think it’s just within you that you have no blood relatives. But I have now.”

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Davido's girlfriend, Chioma and bbnaija's Uriel goes shop together.

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Nigerian lady narrates how her pastor's wife slept with her boyfriend after stepping in to settle a dispute between them.

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The police in Niger State have apprehended four suspected thugs who allegedly stabbed a man simply identified as Shuaibu.

The victim, who lives in Maitumbi in the Bosso Local Government Area of the state, was stabbed for allegedly exposing the hoodlums’ illicit activities to residents of the area.

The suspects, Hassan Mohammed, 20; Buhari Hassan, 19; Nura Hassan, 22; and Mudasuru Abdullahi, 25, all from Maitumbi, were arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad following a tip-off.

Shuaibu was said to have been beaten up by the thugs, who also stabbed him in the stomach and left him in a pool of his blood.

It was gathered that the SARS operatives arrested the suspects at their meeting point and recovered the knife used in stabbing their victim.

One of the suspects, who gave his name simply as Abdullahi, told our correspondent that he and his accomplices made a living from thuggery.

“We engage in thuggery within and outside the state in order to make a living since jobs are not easy to come by; we do it to make ends meet,” he stated.

The Niger State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammad Abubakar, said the suspects had been charged to court.

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Yoruba actress Mojisola acquires brand new car. She wrote;

Alhamdullai,God will make this the beginning of good things in 2019,more to come insha Allah. Goodness will come in everybody's way

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Nigerian footballer, Obafemi Martins acquires brand new ferrari spider, poses with it in adorable photo.

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Daredevil armed robbers, on Thursday, attacked a branch of Polaris Bank located in the Oke Ejigbo area of Ila Orangun, Osun State.

The robbers reportedly killed a policeman, simply identified as Oloke Mewa, who was one of the security guards working at the bank, and a medical doctor, who was simply identified as Moshood.

Two other people were also injured during the robbery.

A resident of Ila Orangun, who gave his name as Alhaji Animasahun and whose vehicle was parked few metres away from the bank premises when the robbery began, told our correspondent that the robbers, who were armed with dangerous weapons, stormed the bank around 3pm and left after about 30 minutes.

He said the residents of the area ran in different directions as the robbers shot continuously in the air before gaining entrance into the bank premises.

An eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, also told our correspondent that the robbers shot at one of the security doors in the bank and destroyed it.

The source stated, “I could not count their number, but they were between eight and 10. They might have been more. Before they entered the bank, they shot at the building from a close range and destroyed the security door.

“They managed to escape through the Ayegun Road, which leads to Ikoro-Ekiti and Okemesi, both in Ekiti State. From where I was hiding, I saw the robbers carting away money in three bags.”

A security source, who volunteered information on the development to our correspondent, said the robbers were still trying to find an escape route out of Osun State as of 6.30pm, adding that policemen were still on their trail.

“The robbers abandoned one of the vehicles they brought for the operation in a village called Onipanu. We are still on their trail,” the security source said.

When contacted, the spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, Folasade Odoro, confirmed the incident and promised to provide details as soon as more information was available.

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Singer Mr 2kay shows off all his muscles on IG. He wrote;

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A 25-year-old man has been prevented from plunging into the lagoon in an apparent suicide attempt, on Wednesday, in Lagos.

The man, identified as Mohammed Jafar, was rescued by the officials of Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) while trying to jump off the Carter bridge and later handed over to the police.

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The Nigeria Immigration Service will on March 4 unveil the new 64-page passport booklet with a 10-year validity.

The passport booklet, which is said to have over 20 features, will cost N70,000 while the other category of the passport with five-year validity period goes for N35,000.

The NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday.

The statement said, “The 32-page five-year standard passport goes for N25,000 or $130 while the 32-page five-year official passport will cost N15,000.”

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N'Golo Kanté is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national team.

He joins the Trent of '10 years challenge' as he shares then vs now photos.

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Concerted efforts by the Management of the NNPC and security agencies to combat the menace of oil theft and pipeline vandalism received a major boost with the capture of Shuaibu Ogunmola.

He is an alleged notorious oil pipeline kingpin, whose illegal activities through the years, led to loss of millions of litres of products along the Lagos Atlas Cove strip in the strategic System 2B pipeline network.

Shuaibu was captured recently at his luxury hotel in Ilashe, along the Badagry Creek. He had operated a thriving oil theft racket for decades, hacking pipelines.

The Shuaibu-led syndicate executed their illegal trade by digging boles metres away from the corporation’s products pipeline, which essentially serve as storage tanks for products directly siphoned from the lines at a hack point.

These holes which are cast in drums, receive products simultaneously from the labyrinth of pipelines connected to the trunk line directly linked to the ruptured NNPC line.

The products so harvested are later scoped or transferred into jerrycans and drums and are sold to ready buyers who usually throng the beachside.

From that point, the products were shipped to Coutonou which has a firmly established market for smuggled Nigerian fuel.

The suspect was the ultimate godfather of oil thieves in Ilashe and adjoining settlements, where he consigned portions of his territory and offered operating rights to other thieves to operate and bring in returns at agreed rates and terms.

Investigation revealed that the Ilashe pipeline axis have been divided into three ‘oil fields’ by the criminals under the operating titles of Shuaibu Point, Dele Point and Bashiru Point.

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Harrysong might be an orphan but having been raised by his grandma, the singer cannot sing her praises enough.

He took to his Instagram page on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, to fish over her, recalling the scarified she made to raise him.

According to him, his grandma lost her husband at the age of 28 and has refused to remarry since then.

Sharing a fun photo of himself and his grandma, Harrysong wrote;

“This woman lived for me, sold rappers to pay my fees, farm, fish for me to survive, she was just 28 years old wen my grand father passed on, according to my tradition,she was suppose to get married to some else in the family as the tradition demands,but she refused getting married to any one else ,and chose to stay with us alone, bond with us, her love for me is heavenly,she won’t leave this village no matter the gift and money, she’s my grandmother,I call her miloskey , I love her so much, MY JOURNEY "

This is hardly the first time Harrysong has taken time to celebrate his grandma for all she has done and is doing for him, seeing as she turned out to be his only parent.

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