Innalillahi wa innailihirajiun �� I can't believe you are gone. I lost my elder sister with 3 of her children in fire outbreak in her resident at damaturu, their janaiza will be conducted by 11 am. ��� Allah ya muku rahama.

"Limpopo is mourning after a brutal murder of one of our own. A well known Transgender Woman from Ga- Matlala Prospect, Nare Prince Mphela was found locked in a shack on Sunday in the Mokopane area where she worked. It appears her body has been lying there for some days, with multiple wounds of stabbings. The case is under investigation as we await further details and no arrests were made yet. She will be burried on Saturday 10 January, Further details will be updated. It is a painful loss to the Limpopo LGBTIQ+ Community and Society as a whole. May her Soul Rest in Power" it said

Mom shares grief after New Year's crash that killed 3 children

A community is bonding together to help a family after a tragic car crash claimed the lives of three children on New Year's Day.

Uche Osagie was driving back to Sudbury, Ont. when the car left Highway 17 and crashed into a rock cut. Her sons Destiny, 11, and Flourish, 10, died on that snowy highway.

Her daughter Britney, 6, died later in hospital.

Police said a 10-year-old boy, not related to the other children, was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries. His 45-year-old mother was also a passenger in the car and suffered minor injuries.

Pastor Christian Mgbokwere, who has been attending to Uche Osagie since the crash, said the community has been more than supportive.

Funeral home operator Gerry Lougheed has been in daily contact with the pastor, and has helped set funeral arrangements for the three children. Mgbokwere said Glad Tidings Church has been "ready to give us every assistance."

"I've received calls from people I don't know," he said. "From the time [Osagie] was in the hospital...everybody's really tried."

"The whole community's devastated," he said. "So they are trying in any way to assist the family through these trying times. So I appreciate that so much."

A GoFundMe page has also been set up to help ease some of the financial pressures. It's so far raised over $17,000.

Destiny, Flourish and Britney
Osagie said her children were musical, a trait they inherited from her.

"My daughter Britney likes to dance and Destiny loved to sing a lot," Osagie said. "He told me he was going to be a rapper."

"And my son Flourish loved to play basketball."

The school the kids attended– Chelmsford Public School– flew the Canadian flag at half-mast today.

A spokesperson for the Rainbow District School Board said in a release that the board's mental health team will be at the school today to help.

"We extend our deepest sympathy to all those who have been touched by this tragedy," said the release.

"We will offer supportive talks with caring adults and more assistance, as needed," it continued. "Students will have an opportunity to pay tribute to their classmates through a book of remembrance in the foyer... We will share the book with the family."

The road back from Toronto
Osagie, who recently fled Nigeria, said she received a letter from Immigration Canada on December 23, saying her application to stay in the country had been rejected.

She said she was given 15 days to respond at the risk of deportation.

Osagie drove to Toronto, spending the Christmas holidays searching for a lawyer to appeal the case. She finally found a lawyer to represent her family, and was making the 400 kilometre trip back.

"My son Destiny said 'no, I'm not going back to Nigeria," Osagie said. "I want to live in Canada. I would rather die than be deported."

"Today, my son is going to be buried in Canada."

Mgbokwere added that fears of deportation plague the Nigerian community in Canada.

"Most of us here are facing the same situation, our individual claims had been rejected, most of us are awaiting their removal from here," he said.

"We are only asking the Immigration….please if they can be able to allow us to stay here," he said.

"A lot of families are in trauma here. If we deport them now when they get to Nigeria they face the same situation. Most of them would die of different ways."

The funeral for the Osagie family is expected to be on January 18.

A 58-year-old woman, Mrs Dorcas Osiebo, who stopped menstruating in 2006 without a trace of pregnancy, has been delivered of a baby boy.

Dorcas, who delivered the baby on Dec. 13, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja that she was confused and excited when her Pastor’s wife, a nurse confirmed her pregnancy.

“She (nurse) looked at my face and said, ‘Mummy, to God be the glory, you are pregnant. I was very surprised”.

NAN reports that Dorcas got married to Mr Christopher Osiebo, 64, and have been hoping of having child in their 35-year-old union.

“But early this year (2019), I just felt in my body as if I was pregnant, but I thought how can that be especially when I have not seen my period since 2006,” she said.

“I got married in January 1984, but there was no child at all; people who got married the same year with us have children; even my immediate younger sister has grand-children,” Dorcas said.

She said they sought help from both the traditional and orthodox medical practices but there was no respite.

According to her, she entered menopause in 2006, and her younger sister, which got married after her, is already a grand-mother.

“I drank a lot of concoctions (herbal mixtures) in my effort to get pregnant.

“One of the concoctions, I cannot withstand the smell; to drink it; I will block my nose, and close my eyes before I can drink it.

“I did all these to make things better for me but nothing good came out of it,” she said.

“We have gone to many places and hospitals that we cannot even number them all. In 2006, my husband took me for scanning at a hospital in Jos and an obstruction was discovered (not fibroid).

“An operation was carried out at the hospital and I came back home but no solution, rather, since the operation was carried out, I didn’t see my period again.

“When I told my husband, he didn’t belief I was pregnant. But I discovered that I no longer like to eat my best foods and my clothes no longer size me,” she explained.

While her period of waiting for a child lasted, she said: “None of my in-laws disturbed me. My late father in-law did not disturb me, although he once asked why we were just folding our arms and doing nothing about the situation.

“We then told him that we were not folding our arms but trying our best, but that the thing never worked out.

“But I and my husband were worried. My husband is the first born of his father and I am the first of mine also.

“We have younger ones who already have good number of children but it is only us that did not have children of our own. Whenever we remembered all these, we were not happy,” she said.

However, Mr Osiebo said after a long period of marriage and prayer without a child he decided to depend on God for a miracle.

“But by the grace of God today, a baby boy has entered this family; that is the cause of my joy. I am very happy, thank God,” said the excited husband.

(NAN)

"What type of world are we bringing our kids into? Where they are not accepted in "Africa" by Africans for being dark skinned. She wrote

The State Coordinator, Mr Adegoke Adewale said Vincent was honoured for returning a wallet he found during the orientation while Damilola was honoured for her productivity and entrepreneurship.

He captioned it: "Rare photo of my Dad & I, Mazi Alex Ekubo Snr. .Dear Unborn Son, i'll be patient with you, & teach you everything i know. your Grandad was patient with me.