Medics told his mother to let him starve to death after he was born with a rare condition of the joints that left him with severely deformed limbs … and an upside-down head. But despite his physical limitations, Claudio,37, from Monte Santo, Brazil, has defied doctors’ doubts to become an accountant and inspirational public speaker.

‘Since I was a child I’ve always liked to keep myself busy and work – I don’t like to depend totally on other people,’ he said. ‘I do a bit of accounting, research for clients and consulting. I have learned to turn on the TV, pick up my cell phone, turn on the radio, use the internet, my computer – I do it all by myself.’ Doctors have recently diagnosed him with a rare condition called congenital arthrogryposis. They believe he has multiple joint contractions in his legs and arms which mean they cannot extend properly.Claudio said: ‘Throughout my life I was able to adapt my body to the world. Right now, I don’t see myself as being different. I am a normal person. I don’t see things upside-down. This is one of the things I always talk about in my interventions as a public speaker. Nowadays it’s much easier to deal with the public, I’m not afraid of it anymore and I can say that I am a professional, international public speaker and that I receive invitations from all over the world.’

He is not the only person with the disease who has refuse to let it overcome his life. Leanne Beetham who became a celebrated photographer and artist whose paintings of wildlife – which she creates by holding a paintbrush in her mouth – have sold for hundreds of pounds.

http://.com/2014/09/01/meet-the-man-born-with-head-upside-down-he-is-an-accountant-a-motivational-speaker/

What is the best caption for this photo?

http://.com/2014/08/27/celebration-of-love/

This is the shocking moment paramedics were called to treat a Chinese man after a thick metal bar impaled his head while he was carrying out DIY work at his former home.The man, identified only as Mr Ho, was dismantling the property when a large metal bar fell from above - impaling the right side of his forehead and exiting through the left side of his jaw.

Miraculously Mr Ho, 50, survived his dramatic injury and, following successful emergency surgery at a nearby hospital, is now expected to make a full recovery. Hospital staff say Mr Ho is now recovering well and is considered to be out of danger.Had the bar entered at a fractionally different angle, it would have almost certainly penetrated Mr Ho's brain or eyeball, causing serious injury or death.

We hope he recovers fully

http://.com/2014/08/26/graphic-photos-metal-bar-goes-right-through-mans-head-in-china-but-he-survives/

:-)

http://.com/2014/08/20/with-these-two-iran-don-die/

Rip Maám

Popular Nigerian celebrity stylist’s, Toyin Lawani’s, 31,relationship with her 22-year-old boy toy may have hit the rocks a year after getting engaged. Both parties have remained silent on the matter but close friends tell us that they are currently not in talking terms. Pulse learn’t that Trigg who is a rapper, allegedly tried absconding with the couple’s eight-month old baby. Lawani however discovered and allegedly had him arrested. The couple who are well known to put up photos of themselves on social media, stopped doing so over a month ago.

‘It’s over between them, Trigg can’t stand her anymore. It’s like he woke up from a long sleep’, a mutual friend said.

Another source says Lawani must have done something really bad to piss her fiancé off. ‘He went to her house and burnt her closet full of clothes. It’s that serious’.


http://.com/2014/08/20/celebrity-stylist-toyin-lawani-fiance-split/

According to the Telegraph,

To prevent an outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), the Federal Government yesterday approved the extension of the current holiday of primary and secondary schools across the country until further notice.

The development, government stated, is part of measures to curb the spread of Ebola. Also, the National Council on Health (NCH) has banned the inter-state transportation of corpses with immediate effect.

To address the global emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday approved the use of untested experimental drugs to treat the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Matters, Comrade Jude Imagwe, who disclosed the postponement of school resumption in Abuja yesterday did not state how long the students would be on holiday. He said that President Goodluck Jonathan was wary of the danger of the disease to the nation’s future generation and as a result ordered that the schools remained on holiday till the country find a way out of the outbreak.

“He advised that as a President, he did not desire that our secondary and primary schools should be opened at this time because we have high population of young brothers and sisters who want to see themselves grow from primary and graduate tomorrow. “We cannot have what it takes to have eye on each of these brothers and sisters: the future of this country in their classes,” he said.

He spoke at a one-day forum on Tertiary Institutions Students Health Insurance Programme organised by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and NHIS. Imagwe, who charged Nigerians to be conscious of their environment as well as maintain healthy lifestyle in the face of Ebola outbreak, also cautioned against the use of untested and unscientific drugs as a prevention or cure to the virus.

While advising Nigerians to value their life and those of others around them, Imagwe also berated those suspected to have the virus and had been put under surveillance but escaped.

This, he noted, constitutes great health risk to many unsuspecting Nigerians. The WHO said at a news conference in Geneva yesterday that the use of untested drugs was ethical, provided certain conditions were met.

The drug, ZMapp, has only been tested on monkeys and has not yet been evaluated for safety in humans.

The organisation had on August 11 convened a consultation of experts to consider and assess the ethical implications for clinical decision-making of the potential use of unregistered interventions.

The panel said any provision of experimental Ebola medicines would require “informed consent, freedom of choice, confidentiality, respect for the person, preservation of dignity and involvement of the community.”

The WHO statement said: “In the particular circumstances of this outbreak, and provided certain conditions are met, the panel reached consensus that it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects, as potential treatment or prevention.”

The ethics meeting was called after experimental Ebola drug ZMapp, made by U.S. biotech company Mapp Biopharmaceutical, was given to two American health workers infected with Ebola in Liberia.

Two batches of experimental treatments were reported to be heading to Liberia yesterday, the first delivery of untested Ebola drugs in Africa. The UN health agency said more than 1000 people had died so far from the illness in West Africa, with authorities recording 1,848 suspected or confirmed cases.

The virus, spread by direct contact with bodily fluids, was detected in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and possibly Nigeria.

Two Americans and a Spanish priest, who contracted Ebola in Liberia, had received a dose of the treatment never tested in humans. The Americans have showed signs of improvement but the priest died yesterday.

Meanwhile, the National Council on Health (NCH) has banned the transportation of corpses from one state to another with immediate effect. This decision was reached yesterday during an emergency meeting of NCH held in Abuja which lasted for about 10 hours.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who is the chairman of the council, said the ban is to curtail further spread of the virus.

The minister said that any person wishing to transport the remains of the family member must get approval from the Federal Ministry of Health and all the necessary test must be done on the corpse to make sure that the dead is free of Ebola.

The resolution of the NCH, read by the minister, states: “Council directed the transportation of corpses into Nigeria as well as inter-state transportation be banned until further notice except with the approved waivers that may be issued by the Federal Ministry of Health.

“Council directed federal, state ministries of health as well as health and human service secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to provide adequate incentives to health workers who participate in the management of EVD patients to encourage them to be active in the containment of the EVD.

“The Council further directed that they should be provided with life insurance coverage. Council directed that the Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) should re-circulate protocols and SOPs for management of EVD victims while Federal Government should provide specifications and support states with special Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

“Council directed Navy, Customs and Immigration services to collaborate with the Port Health Services to strengthen boarder monitoring and patrol for EVD.

“Council directed the Federal Government to make whole body scanners available at all the designated Port of Entry; it also directed that the Federal Government should assist states to establish isolation tents that should cater for at least 20 people.

“Council urges the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to suspend its strike forthwith and contribute its quota in the ongoing response to this national health emergency.”

Director, Port Health Service at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Sani Gwarzo, disclosed that they have strengthened all the border areas with adequate equipment and also health workers for screening.

“The Port Health Service is providing equal level of surveillance services in all the entering points; land, air and sea. We have a thermometer which we use in screening.

This thermometer can detect people with high temperature which when we probe further we can know if it is probable case of Ebola virus or any other sickness,” he explained. Gwarzo lamented the shortage of health workers in the Port and said that the agency is in deficit of above 1000 workers.

President Jonathan has called on West African leaders to evolve collaborative strategies that would help control and contain Ebola within the sub-region.

He said through such deliberate effort can help in checking its spread and further threat to human lives.

The President stated this yesterday while receiving the new Ambassador of Guinea to Nigeria, Mr. Gaoussou Toure, who presented his letters of credence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He commended the containment measures so far taken by West African countries that have been affected by the disease, stressing that more concerted intra-regional cooperation and action needs to be developed.

“A problem that affects one of us affects all. We may need to come together as a region to strengthen our containment measures. I am however pleased that serious measures are being taken to control the spread of the disease,” Jonathan said.

Also speaking at separate audience after receiving letters of credence from the new Ambassador of Germany, Michael Peter Zenner, and Torben Antonio Gettermann, the new Ambassador of Denmark, President Jonathan stated that the days of electoral violence in Nigeria are over and that the 2015 general election will be free and fair.

http://.com/2014/08/16/ebola-fg-postpones-resumption-of-schools/

http://newtelegraphonline.com/ebola-fg-postpones-resumption-of-schools/

Controversial actress, Judith Mazagwu, popularly known as Afrocandy shared the photos with us. Do you think she is sexy or not?

See more here: http://.com/2014/08/13/afrocandy-sizzles-in-new-photos/

Peter Okoye posted these three pictures of himself today. Which is your favourite one? Look 1, 2 or 3?

http://.com/2014/08/13/which-of-these-three-peter-okoyes-pictures-is-your-favourite/

Attackers cut off two of the doctor’s fingers and hacked at her ovaries and womb in a revenge attack after she left work at a hospital in the city of Zamora in Mexico. Police believe the attack is linked to the death of a baby boy, who the gynaecologist delivered stillborn, with relatives of the baby’s mother the prime suspects in the case.

‘She was forced to take muscle relaxant drugs which made it impossible for her to fight back. ‘Then she was tortured and mutilated in her own home for several hours by people we believe are related to a former patient. ‘She had severe injuries and nearly bled to death’.

People often threaten doctors when things go wrong forgetting that they are humans like us


http://.com/2014/08/13/mexican-doctor-drugged-tortured-by-relatives-of-patient-she-delivered-of-still-born/#more-16458

Rukky looks stunning. She captioned the photo #EncomiumBlk&Wht 5th Edition… #DressBy Kae… #MakeUpBy BA Photo&Faces…

Which is your favorite look?

http://.com/2014/08/11/see-rukky-sanda-ebube-nwagbos-outfit-to-encomium-black-white-party-the-5th-edition/

Imagine opening the refrigerator to see this wow! ... How nice is this?

http://.com/2014/08/11/check-out-this-beautiful-coke-proposal/

According to reports, the Diamonds singer,Rihanna,26, has her eyes firmly fixed on buying a UK football club, after she’s set up a soccer academy in her native Barbados.A source said: ‘At first we thought Rihanna’s desire to be involved with soccer on a business level would soon blow over. We figured she was still on a high from the World Cup.

‘But now it’s becoming clear she really is serious. She’s talking about setting up a football academy in her native Barbados. Then her big dream is to be involved with a UK club.

A source told the Daily Star she may do something with an LA team.

http://.com/2014/08/08/rihanna-set-to-buy-a-football-club-in-the-uk/#more-16264

That's our Pres. Jonathan with the power couple, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during a photo session with African leaders during the US-Africa Summit held on Tuesday 5th August 2014.


http://.com/2014/08/06/pres-jonathan-pose-with-the-obamas-at-the-white-house/

Lol! What do you think?

http://.com/2014/08/05/photo-this-womans-babies-look-like-tiger-woods-and-jay-z/

This is what Dencia wrote on her twitter page

“Wait so the African Summit in DC will focus on Trade & investment,pls investing in which country?Investment is when 50 presidents pay. There’s hungry kids,people sick in the hospital,Ebola,missing girls in Africa yet u are talking abt trade & investment,Who u investing 4? Why couldn’t the summit be held in a peaceful African country?a whole continent flies to 1 count in the name of trade & investment?”

“Fly private jets,spend millions on a 3 day summit,hotel etc pls that’s investing in America & oh the shipping sprees smh Africa.”
“America sent medication to cure 2 American Dr’s with Ebola,why couldn’t they give it to others?why couldn’t these Africans use The money on the flights & hotels for this damn summit to buy the meds and help people dying from Ebola?Africans are quick to blame “

“Shit I am sure I could give the damn African leaders better advice on trade & investment cuz all this up & down is for the Gram!! Lol”
“With everything currently going on in Africa?they will come out with No benefits to the average joe & zero knowledge.”

Do you agree with her?

Read more: http://.com/2014/08/05/singer-dencia-calls-us-africa-summit-useless/

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Genevieve never disappoints with her style. You like?

Read more: http://.com/2014/08/04/check-out-genevieve-nnajis-outfit-to-amstel-malta-showtime-press-event/

You will agree with me if I say this woman is beautiful. Wow! Sexy or not?

See more here: http://.com/2014/08/03/nicki-minaj-in-another-rauchy-photo/

The California parents of a stillborn baby chose to remember their little girl by having a professional photographer capture her on film.
When Richard, 29, and Emily Staley’s daughter Monroe was stillborn, they wanted to honour her memory and to acknowledge her as a member of their family. This is so sad … yet so beautiful.

Read more here: http://.com/2014/08/03/touching-photos-us-parents-conduct-photoshoot-for-stillborn-daughter/

Is it wrong to call your spouse by his name? Read this lady's story below:

"I called my husband by his name and a woman who heard me said in hushed voices that it is wrong that I should call him Daddy. I told her he is my husband that I have a Dad....."

What do you think ladies, can you call your spouse 'Daddy'? Guys, would you like your wife to call you Daddy?

Source: http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/guys-would-you-like-your-wife-to-call.html

Sources close to the couple say the Koko Master may pop the question if things go as planned and that couple are open to the idea of having a D’banj or Gene Jnr soon.

I really hope they make this work and soon too :-). Don't they make a lovely couple?

Read more: http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/wedding-bells-dbanj-genevieve-nnajis.html

Who does this? What kind of Mother-In-Law will go out of her way to write this uninviting invitation letter for her son’s wedding.

"You are regretfully invited to the wedding between my Perfect Son, The Doctor & Cheap Two-Bit Tramp, Whose name escapes me right now.

The biggest disaster in my family history will take place at 9pm on Saturday, September 8th

And no doubt end in divorce. Hopefully in time to still be eligible for an annulment. The overwhelming disappointing heartbreak of a ceremony will be followed by dinner where nuts will be served because whatsherface has an allergy."

Would you go for the wedding if you were invited? What would you do if you were the bride?

Read more: http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/bitter-mother-in-law-who-doesnt-like.html

The image shows a transparent figure dressed in modern clothing gazing out over the Thames near Westminster Bridge in London. Professional photographer Jules Annan took the image on New Year's Eve - but only noticed the ghostly apparition when he got home. He insists he did not use double or long exposure to create the image. Paranormal experts say the figure is either a ghost, or someone tampering with the image with editing software

What do you think?See more photos below ...

http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/photos-is-this-ghost-outside-parliament.html#more

Annie and 2face Idibia just welcomed a baby girl today 3rd Jan 2014 in the USA. The couple already have a 4 year old daughter Isabel. Congrats to them!

Read more: http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/annie-2face-idibia-welcome-baby-girl.html

Wow! According to the actress:

"I made well over a million yes Lil a million book for students.Not for sale doe Selfless deed gives me life...dz book was a hit 19 state has dz in der sch. I love books hence my desire to share what I read by making it available to my fans all over Nigeria.. We have coverd 9states n das not ok ! see ya soon in ur schs"

We need more people like this. God bless you Halima!

Source: http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/photos-halima-abubakar-gives-free.html

Cute

http://trendysturvs..com/2014/01/kerry-washington-tweets-in-igbo.html

I got this mail from a guy professing his undying love for Waje's beautiful daughter. Dreams they say come true. Read the letter below:


Dear Emerald

My name is Opeyemi, but i call myself Opepwince (@Opepwinc_Nelson On Twitter) because I think I've got some vibes to be a future King which means if you accept to be my future pwincess you might also be my future Queen. LOL! 'I WISH'. Though I don't know much about you but I what I know for sure is that your name is Emerald Iruobe from Edo state, am I correct?! Don't bother to answer now, I'm sure we'll talk more when we eventually see. Just read on darl'


I'm taking this bold move and making this very first step to capture your heart. Reason is, I need the heavens to smile down on us because we practice what the heavens require. Before I move on, I'm sure you won't believe if I tell you I've started telling my friends and my brothers about you.

So before I fall too deep without finding anyone to help me out, let me quickly lay it out straight to you that I am looking at you as a rib of my ribs.

Can you imagine the picture I'm painting?

Anyway, I hope it will also interest you to know I've been a devout listener of your mom's songs. In reality, she makes love sound so real and special and just because I'm a lover of her songs, I want to make you Real and Special.

I don't want to stress you into listening to the numerous songs of your mom, but heyyy, listen to her first line out of her 'Na The Way' ft Sarkodie and understand the perfect image I'm talking about.

Just before you listen to de song, read from here, she said "Remember, the first time I saw your face, you have a twinkle in your eye and you made me smile, every other day, I had tears rolling down my face, you held my hand and said it'll be okay..."

That's just a snippet.

I'm sure you know your name - Emerald is one of the few precious stones that the Earth possess.

You're a pearl and I wish to keep you as though you've just been rooted out and I wish to keep you and refine you - if only you give me a chance.

The Question is: Will you be my Lover, Yes/No?


Source: http://trendysturvs..com/2013/12/an-open-love-letter-to-wajes-daughter.html

I am sure you have never seen anything like this before. Sarah Massey, 33, says she is proud to have one of the world's largest posteriors.The mother-of-two's derriere measures 7ft in diameter and sometimes proves too large to fit through doorways. She has to wear extra large trousers and once managed to crack a toilet bowl just by sitting on it.

'Everyday I get some kind of comment thrown at me, both good and bad - I used to be ashamed but now I hold my head high.At school I was teased and called Dump Truck Butt by the other kids, but the condition is hereditary - there's nothing I can do about it. I went through a stage of worrying what people think, but now I want to show the world I am proud to be me.'

More photos when you continue: http://trendysturvs..com/2013/12/my-buttocks-is-7ft-wide-i-am-proud-of.html

Up-and-coming rapper Doe B, a member of Grand Hustle's Hustle Gang, was shot and killed in his home town of Montgomery, Ala. early Saturday. He was 22. His management confirmed the MC's death on Twitter.
Doe B -- born Glenn Thomas -- and Kimberle Johnson were fatally shot during an incident at the Centennial Bar and Grill on Highland Avenue in Montgomery. Kim Johnson turned 21 this week

May their souls rest in peace..amen!

Watch Doe B's musical video after the break: http://trendysturvs..com/2013/12/photos-rapper-doe-b-kim-johnson-killed.html

Media personality and Soundcity VJ Moet Abebe shows off her butt. She feels the need to let the whole world know that she's got it. Hot or not?

Source: http://trendysturvs..com/2013/12/photos-moet-abebe-shows-off-butt.html

This was what the Nigerian media personality/actress tweeted. Karen had previously been treated when lumps were found in her breast before entering the BBA house in 2011.She said she has been diagnosed with cancer and will undergo treatment soon.

Read her tweets below and say a prayer for her: http://trendysturvs..com/2013/12/i-have-cancer-karen-igho.html