Angelina Jolie Encounters God!

Actress-turned-director, Angelina Jolie, has been open about her disbelief in God.  In 2000, she said: "There doesn't need to be a God for me. There is something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike." But recently, Angelina has had a serious change of heart.

She has been directing the film 'Unbroken', a story about the life of WWII hero, Olympic athlete, and devout Christina Louis Zamperini. Angelina spent lots of time with Louis discussing his testimony and how he came to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and saviour. Then God sent her a miracle on-set!

Angelina desperately needed sun to shoot the very last scene of the movie, but the rain would not stop. That's when something truly amazing happened.

Louis Zamperini's daughter, Cynthia said, "She (Angelina) was not a person of faith and had never prayed before, but she found herself at the very last scene of the movie... they needed sunlight to shoot this very important scene and there had been a storm that had been going for a while.

Angelina said, 'I don't know what I'm going to do so I will do what Louie would do.' She got on her knees and she prayed for a miracle ... everybody saw it ... It stopped raining. The sun came out, a rainbow came out. She said, 'Let's get this take' and they shot the take. When she said 'cut', it started to rain again." 

This was not the only sign that a seed was planted in Angelina's heart.  When she heard that Louis Zamperini was on his deathbed, she rushed to the hospital. Sadly, she did not make it before the hero passed. But when she saw Louis' family, she "pointed above saying 'I know he's with us, I know he's there with God'."

Source: GodVine

Indian Tycoon Throws Mass Wedding for Fatherless Women

An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding ceremony for 111 fatherless women and given each one gifts worth thousands of dollars, saying giving a bride away was "sacred".

Mahesh Savani said the women, whose families were all too poor to finance their weddings, saw him as their foster father.

The 44-year-old said he had given each one gifts of gold and other items worth 450,000 rupees ($7,250) to start their married lives, as well as paying for the wedding.

"Material gifts are not important, but I have given my name to them and will fulfil all my responsibilities as a father of the bride for the rest of my life," he told AFP before the ceremony was held at a school in Gujarat state on Sunday.

Savani, who has now organised the weddings of 251 women, said he began his charitable campaign in 2008 when one of his own staff members died.

"I was very shocked when one of my employees died just 12 days before he could marry off his two daughters. It was very difficult for the family to arrange for marriage," he said.

"So I decided that I would become their foster father and marry them off. This is how it began," Savani said.

It is not known how much the giant ceremony wedding cost, but Indian weddings are famous for their grand scale with multi-course feasts, decorated horses, brass bands and huge tents arranged to entertain hundreds or even thousands of guests.

Source: Yahoo!

14 Signs He's Only Interested in Sex

1. He only texts you after 1 a.m. It’s a scientific fact that all booty calls happen after 1 a.m. All those cars you see driving around after 12:59? People out in the streets past 1? They’re all on their way to a booty call. 

2. He gets frustrated when you invite him over to watch a movie and actually just want to watch a movie. Most guys would be like, “Alright, cool. If I can’t have sex, I guess actually getting to watch the entirety of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a pretty good consolation prize.” But when you swat away his thigh-climbing hand he’s suddenly tired and has to go home. 

3. You never meet his friends. The less information you have about him, the easier it is for him to ghost you. If you don’t know who he hangs out with, or where he lives, or what his last name is, he can disappear like a phantom into the night. A phantom who banged you a bunch of times and then stopped answering texts, which would make for a shittier Broadway play than the kind of phantom that hangs out in operas. But a phantom nonetheless. 

4. He makes it really hard for you to sleep over. He never straight-up says you have to leave (That wouldn’t get him a next hookup!) but he always has a “thing” really early the next morning. A “thing with friends” or “a work thing” or “some family thing.” You know families don’t have picnics at 5 a.m. though. 

5. He always hands you everything before you leave. Did you forget your bra? Some lipstick? Your purse? A single bobby pin? If you never forget anything there, you can never have an excuse to show up when he doesn’t want you to. If you tried to show up unsolicited anyway, you’d probably find the place abandoned and boarded up, and some neighbor would tell you, “Why, that place has been abandoned for years!” like some episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark. 

6. You’ve never been on a real date.Dates are for men who consider themselves boyfriends, not men who consider themselves fuck buddies. 

7. He always insists on splitting the cost of the post-coital pizza you ordered. If one of you doesn’t pay for the pizza, it can’t be considered a date. He will follow #6 if it kills him. 

8. He’s “busy” whenever you text him about something personal or emotional. Who has time to pause his game of Madden to talk to you about things like how you feel? If your text about your grandma passing away isn’t attached to a sexy picture, he won’t even bother opening it. Guys who just want you for sex aren’t going to spend time playing the boyfriend.

9. He always tries to initiate sex when you hang out. An easy way to tell the difference between guys who like having sex with you a lot and guys who only like having sex with you is this: Think back to a time when the two of you were together but weren’t having sex for more than an hour. If you can’t do that, he only wants you for sex.

10. The only thing he’s ever bought you that could be considered romantic is a vibrating cock ring. He was like, “Hey, I have a surprise for you,” and you could hear a faint vibration, and he dropped his pants and honestly expected you to be pumped about it.

11. Every conversation turns flirty/sexual. Every time you talk or text, it immediately turns into a conversation about having sex. He’s stopped even trying to be witty about it. “Oh, you’re at the grocery store right now? I sure would like to have sex with you … at the grocery store ;-)” 

12. He texts you to meet up with a group, but wants to go back to your place/his place as soon as you get there. You might think you’re about to meet all of his friends at some bar, but when you get there, he’s already waiting outside with his coat and some condoms.

13. He only compliments your looks. He loves your ass but not your sense of humor. You always look “hot” but never “gorgeous.” If his compliments are superficial at best and gross at worst, he’s Just Not That Into You Starring Justin Long and Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Aniston and Ben Affleck and That Chick From Once Upon a Time.

14. When he comes over, he heads straight for the bedroom. There’s no loitering in the kitchen or hanging out in the living room with this guy. He has streamlined the process of sex-having by eliminating or minimizing the chitchat or talk about your day. He’s like the Philip Glass of booty calls (that was a joke about the minimalist art movement that someone’s dad will probably find funny). 

– Frank Kobola/Cosmopolitan US

11 Tips to Prolong Your Smartphone Battery Life

Unarguably, longer battery life is one of the biggest challenges facing smartphone manufacturers. While software and computer chips get faster and more powerful, the technology in batteries lags far behind. As a result, batteries struggle to supply the power needed to run all the complex operations that smartphones require.

Below are some tips to ensure your smartphone does not run out of battery halfway through the day.

1. DIM YOUR PHONE'S SCREEN

Try to set your screen to a level that is visible, but not unnecessarily bright because the brighter you screen is, the more battery power is consumed.

2. TURN OFF BLUETOOTH 

Bluetooth is a system that enables devices to connect to each other wirelessly over short distances. This should be turned off at all times and only turn on when you need to use it.

3. DON'T LEAVE YOUR PHONE IN THE SUN

Heat makes battery drain faster.  Always keep your phone in a cool, well-ventilated place.

4. SWITCH OFF YOUR NOTIFICATIONS

Disable as many notifications as possible. This is one of great battery drainers. Today, most of us have smartphones that are constantly checking whether we have email, or if a friend has tweeted something about us, or posted something on Facebook and so on.

5. UNPLUG THE BATTERY CHARGER AT 100%

Leaving your phone to charge after it reaches 100 per cent can degrade its battery’s life. So as soon as your phone hits maximum charge, unplug the charger. This means you can’t leave it to charge overnight.

6. TURN DOWN THE VOLUME 

Turn down/off vibrations and ringtones. The louder your ring tone, the more energy your smartphone will use. The same thing applies if your keyboard makes noises and vibrates when you type.

7. GO INTO PLANE MODE 

If you are travelling and enter an off-network zone, don’t let your smartphone use up loads of battery life as it seeks to find a signal or a strong data connection. Put your handset into ‘Airplane Mode’, which cuts it off from the outside world and saves lots of energy.

8. KEEP YOUR APPS UPDATED 

A smartphone will often say various apps need updating. As well as ironing out bugs, programs often have new features that save energy.

9. STOP APPS IN THE BACKGROUND 

Quit as many apps as you can to save battery life as smartphones like to keep apps going, e.g., email, a web browser, a messaging app, Facebook, Twitter, a mapping app, a music player, etc. 

10. DISCONNECT YOUR MOBILE DATA

Turn off your mobile data connection if you have no need to use the internet so as to save battery.

11. FINALLY... TAKE A BREAK; TURN IT OFF! 

It does sound obvious, but seriously, do you really need your phone on 24 hours?

Xenia Ignatyeva's Last Selfie Before Death Came Calling

On April 22, 2014, Xenia Ignatyeva, a 17-year-old girl, took a selfie from a bridge 28 feet off the ground to impress her friends. Ignatyeva went to the bridge in Krasnogvardeysky to take a photograph of herself at night with the railway line in the background to give "the most dramatic effect". She went with her friend but was taking the selfie herself so she went up there on her own. Her friend, Oksana Zhankova, also 17, waited below.

Ignatyeva lost her balance and as she fell from the bridge in Saint Petersburg grabbed a high voltage cable, in an effort to save herself, and was tragically electrocuted in the process.

Syrian Woman Secretly Films Life in Raqqa Under ISIS

A mystery woman has covertly provided the world with a rare glimpse of life in the heartland of the Islamic State using a camera concealed beneath her niqab.

The extraordinary footage was taken in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the 'capital' of the militant regime since March.

She is forced to wear the traditional Islamic clothing, which covers the entire face except for the eyes, under the strict Sharia law imposed by IS, which has taken vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in a bloody campaign.

The footage covertly shows men wielding Kalashnikov assault rifles everywhere in the city which is about 100 miles from Aleppo, Syria's largest city.

It is not just men who have taken up arms to defend IS nascent regime as a niqab-garbed woman, taking her children to the park, is seen with a Kalashnikov assault rifle slung over her shoulder.

There is also a heart-stopping moment when an armed man in a car calls over the woman filming, telling her she has to 'behave better' in public.

Her crime? Her face can be seen, something forbidden by the militants' interpretation of Islam.

She apologises for the transparency of her veil, to which the man responds: 'You have to pay attention by covering up. God loves women who are covered.' 

The report, aired on a French TV channel, describes forced prayer times and how there is no music and no entertainment.

It also features some of the estimated 150 women who have chosen to leave France to live in the Islamic State.

The camerawoman enters an internet cafe where women are seen talking in French and contacting family members they have left behind.

One woman tells her mother: 'I am not going back, mom. I am telling it to you bluntly. You have to get it through your head that I am not returning.

'I did not take the risk by coming here to go back to France. I do not want to return because I am doing well here mom. There is nothing to gain from weeping or being afraid.'

The daughter, defends her new homeland, adding: 'All I see on TV is false. They exaggerate everything on TV.'

Her mother's anguish is justified. Raqqa was targeted by the U.S. and its Arabic allies in a series of air strikes this week.

Adapted from: Daily Mail UK

Muslim Clergymen Begin Miracle Healing Crusades

AFRICAN Muslim clergymen have begun performing miracle healing crusades like their Christian counterparts in an new development that recently saw Sheikh Salawatiya Rashid Imam hold an open air session near Accra. 

Taking a leaf from his Christian brethren, Sheikh Imam held a healing crusade at the Kawokudi Park at Mamobi, just outside Accra. During the event, thousands of sick, infirm and needy people gathered to be prayed for and blessed by him in the hope that they would be healed.

Among those who turned up were the blind and cripple, who queued desperately to be blessed with holy water and be touched by the sheikh. To ensure there was enough water for them, Sheikh Imam hired a water tanker and its contents were used to wash the faces of the crowd as well as given to them to drink.

Sheikh Imam said: "Prophet Mohammed said this is the best way to go. If you eat of this and get money from this it is one of the best types of money. "Our Prophet Mohammed used to use water from absolutions and give it to sick people to drink. He also used to recite verses from the Koran and give it to sick people and they became healed." 

Ghana and Nigeria are the two countries with the fastest growing evangelical movements in the world as thousands of pentecostal churches have sprung up in both nations recently. It is mainly Nigerian pastors who have exported their trade to Ghana where they have found a lucrative market as the needy throng to such churches in search of help. Given the cultural and linguistical similarity between both countries, it is easy to adopt whatever work in one nation to the other. With Islamic miracle healing crusades haven taken off in Ghana, it is now only a matter of time before the practise gets exported to Nigeria.

Source: Nigerian Watch

10 Reasons to Not Date a Married Man

There are no positive reasons for dating a married man. Even the good reasons don't stand the test of time and turn out to be bad ideas in good ideas' clothing. He’ll NEVER stay that into you, regardless of what you foolish women believe. If you find yourself on the brink of temptation, look at these 10 truths before you leap:

1. He won't commit to a future with you. A man who is in a very unhappy or unsatisfying marriage can feel swept away by how wonderful you make him feel. He may even blurt out, "I've never felt this way before and I can see spending the rest of my life with you." This may sound like a commitment to a future with you. It's not. Don't confuse his loving the way you make him feel with his loving you and making a commitment to you.

2. Cheating on his wife tells you how he deals with any situation he doesn't like. You are evidence of his avoiding dealing with unpleasant situations head on. This means that he's likely to resort to some devious behavior with you if the two of you encounter relationship problems.

3. Hiding is exhausting. Having to keep your relationship a secret can attack your self-esteem and cause you to miss out on one of the wonderful aspects of a relationship. Walking together freely and radiantly through the world can fill you with the glow of being with someone who is proud to be with you.

4. He's got his cake and is eating it, too. He has a legitimate married relationship that helps his public persona and he has an illegitimate one with you to make up for what hes missing in his marriage. As appreciative as he sounds, many women who are involved with married men come to resent his having the best of both worlds, when she has the least.

5. Can you love someone who is so disrespectful of his wife? The existence of your relationship with a married man tells you how little he respects his wife by lying to her instead of being a man and telling her he wants out.

6. Lose his respect and it's over. Even though he's the one who pursued you. Even though he's the one that made it difficult to say "No." And even though he tells you how wonderful you are. At some level, he's going to have trouble respecting you for settling for such a flawed relationship. What kind of woman would demean herself that way and why would anyone ever keep such an obviously flawed individual in their life? Think about it ladies, you will always be the one to come off looking cheap and not worth keeping.

7. You're a home wrecker, and an accomplice. Like it or not, you are a willing participant in a man violating his vows and betraying the trust of his wife -- not to mention grossly disappointing his children and making it difficult for them to see him as a role model.

8. You're kidding yourself. Despite his reassuring you how much you mean to him, his not ending his relationship with his wife in an above-board and respectful way -- and not beginning a legitimate relationship with you -- are actions that speak louder than words.

9. Beware the guilt boomerang. Many men (and women) have difficulty accepting full responsibility for their deceitful actions. Human nature finds it easier to blame than to accept shame. If he is caught by his wife or conscience, don't be surprised if he tries to blame you and get you to take the fall.

10. Time is too precious to waste. Ever notice how quickly the years go as you get older? Because it's convenient and comfortable, a relationship with a married man can go on for a long time -- and before you know it, eat up the precious time you might have had in a healthy relationship with a chance of flourishing. When people who have been involved with married men finally move on, they often regret having wasted the time in a dead-end affair.

By Mark Goulston, M.D., F.A.P.A. 

5 Unbelievable Wedding Traditions from Around the World

CHINA

If You Thought You Were a Crier ...

Brides and females of the Tujia people in China take wedding tears to a whole different level. Starting one month in advance the bride starts to cry for one hour everyday. Ten days into the waterworks extravaganza her mother joins the picture, and 10 days after that grandma does the same. By the end of the month every female in the family is crying alongside the bride. The tradition is believed to be an expression of joy, as the women weep in different tones, reminiscent of a song. Coincidentally enough, this is exactly how we sound when listening to Joni Mitchell.

SWEDEN

Hope You're Not the Jealous Type ...

In Sweden, whenever the bride leaves the table to run to the powder room, all the ladies at the reception are free to steal a kiss from the groom! Luckily (we guess?), Sweden keeps the tradition gender-neutral so whenever the groom leaves the room, all surrounding gentleman are free to plant a peck on the bride. If you think this sounds like an episode of The Bachelor you're not alone.

IRELAND

Better Keep Those Feet Firmly Planted ...

In Ireland when the bride and groom are dancing the bride must keep both feet on the floor at all times. Irish folklore states that if they don't, evil fairies will come and sweep her away. We imagine that this might make dancing slightly difficult ...

MARQUESAS ISLANDS

Here's Hoping the Bride and Groom Were Shedding for the Wedding ...

On the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, once the wedding has come to an end the relatives of the bride lay side-by-side face down on the ground whilst the bride and groom walk over them like a human rug. Just, ouch.

INDIA

If You're Shoe-Crazy This One's for You ...

In parts of India, there is a wedding tradition called "Joota Chupai" or "hiding the shoes." Initially this sounds like something we could get behind - some shoes are worth lusting after - but the tradition is a little more complicated than your simple Winona Ryder grab and go. While walking to the altar the groom is required to take off his shoes. Once they're off, everyone from the groom's side of the family is expected to protect the shoe as the bride's family tries to steal and hide them. The tradition is said to be a playful bonding experience between the families. We say, if the shoes are cute, game on.

An Ebola Survivor Describes What It's Like To Have The Horrifying Disease

This year's Ebola outbreak is the worst that the world has seen, full of horrifying scenes The Washington Post described as reminiscent of "post-apocalyptic films."

The virus has killed at least 961 people so far, with 1,779 suspected and confirmed cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria.

There is no cure for the virus, but it is possible to beat. The fatality rate for this year's Ebola outbreak hovers just under 60%, though that rate is expected to rise.

Saa Sabas, a former medical worker from Guinea, has spoken to various news outlets about his experience with the virus.

Sabas told Vice that he contracted the virus while caring for another Ebola patient. He went to the hospital when he came down with a persistent fever of up to 104 degrees and was told that he tested positive for Ebola.

Here's how he described it in the Vice interview:

This fever lasted two days; then the third day I got a diarrhea. That lasted four days, until, on the seventh day, I got dysentery. Then finally I had hiccups for four days. I was very worried at that point.

... I remember also that my throat was so sore that I couldn’t eat. I’ve had fever before, and I’ve had diarrhea before. All of that, of course, made me weak. But the hiccuping stage really scared me. I’ve heard that lots of people die at this stage of the illness.

Ebola can easily be mistaken for the flu at first, but it progresses quickly, often causing internal and external bleeding, organ damage, and death.

Sabas told the Nigerian Tribune that he was treated with oral medications and infusions and fed well. Over time, he started to feel better.

This kind of supportive care — replenishing patients' fluids, fighting secondary infections when necessary, and keeping a patient alive long enough for the immune system to fight back against Ebola — is thought to greatly improve outcomes. In the end, after about 13 days of sickness, Sabas survived a disease that many people see as a death sentence.

Once he left the hospital, doctors gave him a certificate noting that he was no longer sick so that other people would not fear him. Ebola is highly stigmatized in Africa because people fear contamination.

Culled from Yahoo! Finace

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Attack Israeli Football Team

Pro-Palestinian protesters attack Israeli football players in Austria. 

Pro-Palestinian protesters, said to be of Turkish origin ran into the football pitch in the Austrian stadium where the game was played and headed for the Israeli players sparking ugly incidences.  The Israeli football team Maccabi Haifa were playing a friendly game against French side Lille.  The game had to be stopped, with Lille leading 2-0, after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the pitch and attacked the Israelis with flying kicks.

Some Maccabi players reportedly fought back as did coach Aleksander Stanojevic.

A Maccabi player hitting back.

Mother and Daughter Fight Over Boyfriend in Delta State, Nigeria

Like, seriously?

A middle aged woman, identified simply as Monica, and her daughter have engaged in what can only be described as a show of shame after they fought in public over a man.

The trouble was said to have started when the mother was caught in bed with her 17-year-old daughter’s boyfriend.

The mother allegedly snatched the daughter's boyfriend who is said to be working in one of the oil companies in Warri.

The situation, which happened around the St. Brigid's Girls' College axis of Asaba, the Delta State capital, then deteriorated into a public fight with the duo creating a scene.

The mother and daughter were said to have exchanged blows and engaged in name calling in an incident which was witnessed by passers-by and deemed an embarrassment by a family member of the duo involved.

Little Known Fact About Cristiano Ronaldo

Real Madrid star striker Cristiano Ronaldo has confessed that he does not have tattoos in order to be able to donate blood, which he does twice a year.

Now that's awesome!

It is worth mentioning that this precaution is taken by medics against the possible cross-contamination and diseases like Hepatitis. 

Netanyahu's Speech to Hamas' Prime Minister

Binyamin Netanyahu just made the following speech in front of the Knesset:

To Ismail Haniya, and the leaders and operatives of Hamas:

We, the people of Israel, owe you a huge debt of gratitude. You have succeeded where we have failed. Because never before, in the history of the modern State of Israel, has the Jewish people been so united, like one person with one heart. You stole three of our most precious children, and slaughtered them in cold blood. But before we could discover the horrible truth, we had 18 days of pain and anxiety while we searched for them, during which our nation united as never before, in prayer, in hopes, in mutual support.

And now, as you continue to launch deadly missiles indiscriminately, intended to maim and murder as many civilians as possible, while you take cowardly refuge behind your own civilians - you continue to

inspire us to hold strongly onto our newly discovered unity. Whatever disputes we Jews may have with each other, we now know that we have one common goal: we will defeat you. But we are offering you now one last chance. Within 24 hours , all rocket fire - and I mean all rocket fire - will cease. Completely. Forever.

I give you formal notice that our tanks are massed at the Gaza border, with artillery and air support at the ready. We have already dropped leaflets over the northern parts of the Gaza strip, warning civilians of

our impending arrival, and that they should evacuate southward, forthwith. If you fail to meet our ultimatum, we are coming in, and, with God's help, this time we will not leave. Every centimetre of land

that we conquer will be annexed to Israel, so that there will never be another attack launched at our civilians from there.

Even so, we will continue to keep the door open to allow you to surrender gracefully. The moment you announce that you are laying down arms, we will halt our advance, and there we will draw our new borders. If you continue to attack our citizens, we will continue to roll southwards, driving you out of territory that you will never again contaminate with your evil presence.

It pains me deeply that your civilians will be made homeless. But we did not choose this war; you did. And if our choice is between allowing our citizens to be targeted mercilessly by your genocidal savagery, versus turning your civilians into refugees, I regret that we must choose the latter. If only you loved your people as much as you hate ours, this war would never have happened.

To the rest of the world: Israel has tired of your ceaseless chidings that we should "show restraint". When you have your entire population under constant missile fire from an implacable enemy whose stated goal is to murder every man, woman and child in your

land, then you may come and talk to us about "restraint". Until then, we respectfully suggest that you keep your double standards to yourselves. This time, Hamas has gone too far, and we will do whatever we have to in order to protect our population.

Hamas, once again, I thank you for bringing our people together with such clarity of mind and unity of purpose. The people of Israel do not fear the long road ahead.

Am Yisrael Chai. — with Ruthie McGee.

Source: Savannah Reports

Crucial Things ALL Men Need to Know About Women

THE POWER OF A WOMAN

Women are a precious gift from God but there are some things that all men need to know. Women are by far the deeper and more powerful of the two sexes. No matter how strong a man thinks he is, he is like butter in the hands of a woman that he loves. It is only a woman that can carry a child for nine months and raise that child to adulthood and yet until the day that that woman dies only she will know the real father of that child. Women are more discerning than men, more calculating, more thoughtful, more spiritual, more loyal, and more disciplined and they can handle emotional pain and psychological torture far better than men. A woman can suffer trauma, deprivation, shame, sheer cruelty and beatings from a man and still stay with him simply for the sake of the children. A woman can do anything and take anything for, or from, a man that she truly loves. A woman can be the most vicious and dangerous of all God's creatures when she is hurt and scorned and when her love is not returned.

A woman in a position of power can be a dangerous thing because more often than not she is motivated by emotion and not reason or logic. If wars were to be fought by women they would never end. The greatest weapon that the devil has in his armoury are the daughters of Jezebel and Dalilah, those beautiful yet evil seducers whose mission in life is to destroy men that are called to greatness by God. The greatest weapon that God has in his arsenal are the daughters of Zion, those beautiful, wise, prayerful, discerning, prudent, patient, kind, loyal women who are faithful unto death and who are the enforcers and guardians of God's purpose in the lives of men.

A woman can kill a man that she has lived with all her life, simply because he never returned her love and a woman can kill for or die for a man who loves her and stands by her through thick and thin. If you are rich, pretend that you are poor to a woman and you will know her true nature. If you are poor, pretend that you are rich to a woman and you will know what she is really after. A woman that abandons a man when he is going through difficulties is not worth taking back when those challenges have been overcome. Beware of a woman's love, for at the slightest hurt, it can turn to hate. Women gossip and talk, yet a woman keeps deeper secrets than any man.

When a woman says "no" she actually means "maybe" and when she says "maybe" she actually means "yes". A woman that betrays or seeks to destroy, ridicule or shame her husband or lover destroys and diminishes her own spirit and wounds her own soul; not only is she not worthy of being loved by any, but she is not the material for a man of destiny, she is not of the stuff that true women are made. A great king with a great army can overrun nations and yet can be mastered and overwhelmed by the mere touch and whisperings of a loving woman. The love of Helen of Troy caused the launch of a thousand ships and the love of any woman can cause a man to slaughter. Women are a gift from God to men, but like all gifts they must be pampered, loved and given all your attention otherwise they begin to look elsewhere for such nourishment and care. Out of every specie of animal ever created by God, it is always the female gender of that animal that is the most vicious and dangerous and yet it is also the female of that specie that protects and raises the offspring in loving care.

You cannot police a woman or really know her movements for she can be the greatest deceiver: if she really wants to play, she will go ahead and play and no matter the efforts that her man makes, it is only by divine intervention that he will ever know. A woman is moved by touch whilst a man is moved by sight. A woman will die for her children and guard her home with all she has. A woman craves for security and commitment above all else and without these two she cannot truly be happy. A woman gives, a woman takes, a woman laughs, a woman cries, yet through all this only she alone knows what is really in her heart. A woman can heave and moan in the throes of orgasmic passion, yet deep down she feels nothing at all but pity and contempt for the lover that she is deceiving. A woman can lie still and say she feels nothing yet her heart trembles and races and her senses come alive and quiver deeply just at the sound and by the touch of the man that she truly desires. That is a woman for you: they can be a snare or a blessing. They can bring joy or pain. They can wound or they can heal. They are a beautiful contradiction of love and hate and we men simply cannot live without them.

A woman can only appreciate a man after she has been with another. A woman will make you feel that you are in charge yet with sweet words and with guile and cunning she silently controls everything and everyone around you. Women are the shield, the defender and the foundation of the home. Even as the man is the head, the woman is the neck without which it would fall. The greatest mistake that any man could ever make is to underestimate or treat with levity the power of a woman. For it is only a dullard or a fool that could honestly believe that he can confine a woman to having babies and to simply cooking in the kitchen. A woman is irrepressable, unbeatable,unfathomable, irresistable and unknowable and my advice to every man is to cherish her, to love her and to grant her, her hearts deepest desires. That is the secret to a woman's heart and what more is there to say, other than for us to admit that the woman is the true hero of our lives and to simply agree that we must appease and worship them and do all we can to keep those pretty smiles on their beautiful yet dangerous faces.

By Femi Fani-Kayode

Lagos State Police Rescue a 9-year-old from Child Traffickers

Blessing

The Lagos state Police Command yesterday, July 10, 2014, presented 9-year-old Blessing a.k.a. Iyabo Farouk (pictured above) who they rescued from being sold by a three female child trafficking syndicate in Lagos.

Lagos state Police Commissioner Umaru Abubakar Manko while presenting the little girl to newsmen at the Ikeja Headquarters of the command said she was abducted from her parents about 3 years ago and has been sold to different people where she has served as a maid.

Her Abductors

How female kidnapper strangled & tied neighbor's 6-year old son in a box

Photo Source: misspetitenigeria.blogspot.com

A six-year-old boy, Emmanuel Emeka, who was rescued from a suspected kidnapper on Wednesday in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, has recounted how he was lured, seized and tied up by his abductor.

Emmanuel said the suspect, identified as Mama Ifunaya, who was a neighbour, lured him into her room, strangled him,covered his mouth with clothes before tying him up with rope to prevent him from screaming.

He said, “I wanted to draw water and take my bath before going to school when she told me to come. I went because I know her; she is Mama Ifunnaya. But when I got to her side, she threw me inside her room… she closed her net. She then tied me and put me inside a box. I wanted to shout, but I could not shout properly. I heard my mummy’s voice when she was looking for me, but I could not shout. She (pointing to the suspect) is a wicked person.” Our correspondent observed that Emmanuel’s neck had marks, while his eyes were bloodshot. PUNCH Metro on Thursday spoke with the victim’s mother, Mrs. Gloria Emeka, who explained that she never suspected her neighbour because while she was searching for her child, the suspect was in her room with her children praying and shouting “holy ghost fire.”She said she later discovered it was a ploy to prevent her from hearing Emmanuel’s screams.

She said, “On Tuesday morning, I was preparing Emmanuel to go to school. He told me he wanted to fetch the water from the well. I left him and went inside the kitchen where I was cooking. But what I heard next was the muffled voice of my child and I ran out. I began shouting his name, but I didn’t see him. I, however, observed that my neighbour’s door was slightly opened and I entered. I met her children and asked them if they saw Emmanuel, but they said no.I looked everywhere without a trace of my son. People joined me and we searched the surroundings, but we couldn’t find him.My landlady’s son entered the well to see if he fell into the well, but he came out and said he couldn’t find anything.”While this was on, Mama Ifunaya was said to have sent her four kids out of the house.

PUNCH Metro gathered that more people joined the search party, while Mama Ifunaya stayed in her mini-flat apartment.

“Later, we saw her leaving the house with a box on her head. She said she was travelling. It was my landlady that challenged her why she could go out when everybody was busy searching for Emmanuel.

“The landlady asked her to stop, but she suddenly increased her pace and started running. That was how the landlady shouted, ‘kidnapper, kidnapper’, and people ran after her.”The box was said to have fallen, and when it was opened, the missing boy was found in it.

Our correspondent learnt that a mob would have lynched her but for the intervention of policemen from the Ipakodo Police Division, Ikorodu.

She reportedly confessed that a prophet sent her to bring the child.

A police source told our correspondent some witnesses said more than 15 receipts were recovered from the victim. The receipts were said to have shown payment for some past unidentified jobs.

Mysterious snakes, bees attack Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest(?)

If reports going round are anything to go by, it seems snakes and bees are fed up of playing host to Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest.

Some members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, arrested yesterday at Mairi ward behind University of Maiduguri by members of the Civilian JTF vigilante group, have confessed that most of them are fleeing the Sambisa Forest to areas across Borno State owing to what they believe is spiritual attacks from mysterious snakes and bees, which had killed many of their leaders.

According to Kolo Mustapha, one of the arrested insurgents, “most of us are fleeing because there are too many snakes and bees now in the forest. Once they bite, they disappear and the victims do not last for 24 hours.

“We were told that the aggrieved people who had suffered from our deadly mission, including the ghosts of some of those we killed, are the ones turning into the snake and bees.”

‘Our leaders fled, too’

He said some of their leaders have escaped to Cameroon because they are known to the Nigerian authorities and could be easily identified. According to him, those of them who lived all their lives in Maiduguri have nowhere to run to. So they returned and tried to sneak into town.

He said they came in last night and were trying to hide in some uncompleted buildings, when some members of the Civilian JTF saw them.

He said: “We are pleading with them to spare our lives. We were forced into the sect. But we know that it is not the right way. I personally have never killed anyone, but I have my friend here who had killed many people.”

Umar Abor, the other arrested sect member said Kolo Mustapha was lying as they had participated in all heinous acts of the sect.

He said: “We have fought together since 2010. We have fought in Marte, Bama, Buni Yadima and Gwoza. We were not in Chibok. We have not seen the girls, but we heard about the issue.

“Our leaders have been talking about it and we have been following all news from the radio. We decided to flee when almost all our comrades are leaving the Sambisa because of constant attacks by snakes and bees, which we were told was as a result of Chibok abducted schoolgirls.

“They (our leaders) told us that it was our enemies and aggrieved people that are hunting us through diabolical means. We were in the forest in 2010 and 2011. We left and came back last year but we have never experienced such attacks.

“That is why they believe the Chibok people are using juju to pursue us because of their children said to have been taken by our leaders.”

‘We‘ll reveal our hiding place’

According to him, they have realised their mistakes and repented, promising that if they are spared they would help the community in fishing out some of their comrades and will lead security agents where their comrades had fled.

One of the leaders of the Civilian JTF said many of the sect members had been fleeing the Sambisa Forest in the past two weeks and that most of them are being arrested and taken to the authorities, except when they resist arrest, in which case they are left with no option but to kill them.

He said: “These ones have not attempted to run or do anything bad. They promise to take us to where they hide their weapons. We are taking them to the chairman of our sector command before they are handed to security operatives.”

Source: Vanguard

It's Love...! Okay, No, It's Lust...! Oh, No, It's Love...(?)!

Lust and love are two completely different emotions that come to play interchangeably in relationships.  It is common to think one is in love while in fact one is in lust. Are you confused and don't know whether it's love or lust? Below is how to find out.

1. YOU LIKE BEING AROUND THEM

It's likely to be love than lust if, when you’re together, you’re on "cloud nine". You just love and enjoy spending time together and you crave their company. Being around them makes you happy, even if you’re just sitting at home on the couch watching a movie.

2. TIME TOGETHER ISN'T SO IMPORTANT

It's not so far from lust if you only spend time with them when it’s convenient for you. When you get spend time together it’s just whatever. There’s no substance behind the time you spend together, and if anything you’re only in it for the physicality of it all. While you may enjoy time with them, you don’t enjoy it for the right reasons.

3. PHYSICAL ATTRACTION, ALWAYS

It's love if you find them attractive no matter what they are wearing or how they've been. When they're dressed up for work or wearing sweats and a t-shirt and lounging on the couch, you find them just as attractive. When you love someone, you also love their looks no matter what time it is or what they’re wearing.

4. THEY ARE ONLY EYE CANDY

It's definitely lust if you only find him to be attractive on the days they are dressed up and looking to impress. Other days you know that you want them strictly for their body and nothing more. They are good looking, toned, and fit, and that’s what you really like most about them.

5. YOU PAY GREAT ATTENTION WHEN THEY TALK

It's love when you two are at dinner or at home having a conversation you’re tuned in 100%. You take in all of their words, thoughts, and feelings, digest and take them into consideration. When you really care about a someone, you’ll notice that you become a great listener and communicator when around them.

6. YOU COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THEIR EMOTIONS AND THOUGHTS

It's lust if, when they talk to you about their day or a recent rough patch that they've hit, your ears and mind quickly go elsewhere. When the talk about things aside from you and the time you spend together, you’re just completely uninterested. You don’t make effort to communicate with them or listen to what they have to say because you’re more than likely in lust.

7. YOU FEEL OTHER THINGS FOR THEM

Love and lust are both emotions but when you’re in lust, there’s an absence of other emotions. When you’re in love you care about the person you’re with. You worry about their safety and you start trusting and confiding in them. When other emotions begin to take centre stage, definitely love is in the air.

8. IT’S ALL PHYSICAL

When it all comes down to it, you realize that everything is pretty much physical. You don’t have a lot of feelings for them. You don’t care how their day went at work. You’re most worried about when they’ll be in your bed next or when you’ll be in theirs. This is a pure sign of lust.

9. YOU ARE IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION

It's love if you love to keep in touch with them. Whenever you are apart, you find yourself reaching out to them throughout the day in order to check up on them and see how things are going. Staying in constant communication with them during the day is extremely important to you. If talking to them really makes your day, then it's love.

10. TALKING TO THEM ISN'T THAT ESSENTIAL

It's lust if you only talk to them when it’s convenient for you or if going without talking for a couple of days or even a week is no big deal to you. You like seeing them but it’s not extremely important to you at the end of the day. If you don’t feel the need to reach out to them or say a word to them throughout the day then you’re simply in lust.