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Ebola: Sierra Leone Vice President Quarantined After One Of His Bodyguards Died From The Disease

Sierra Leone vice-president Samuel Sam-Sumana
Sierra Leone vice-president Samuel Sam-Sumana

News of the deadly virus has gone on the down low for a while now, but for those in the affected countries it remains a very real threat they are battling every day.

It seems now even those in the very upper echelons of government are not safe from its clutches.

Sierra Leone Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has had himself placed in quarantine after one of his bodyguards died from Ebola.

The Vice President would thus be placed under close observation, away from any other contact for the next 21 days. His staff would also undergo the strict quarantine procedures.

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A Nanny In Zimbabwe Jailed For Murder After She Put The Baby She Was Supposed To Take Care Of In A Drawer Where He Suffocated To Death

Crying Baby
Crying Baby

These instances of Nanny brutality seems to be on a scale, where each newest one seems more wicked than the one that came before.

You would recall the Ugandan nanny who assaulted a kid so badly; the video was terrible to watch. She was jailed, and now another nanny who committed a terrible crime against the baby she was supposed to be guarding receives her just deserts.

Violet Boyo, 22 years old and from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, received a 22 year jail sentence after being found guilty of murder, MailOnline reports.

Violet was hired as a nanny to a 10 month old baby as his parents had to work during the day. After bathing and feeding the child and putting him to bed, she sat down to enjoy some TV.

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A Woman Defends Sending Over $1.5 Million to A Man She Met Online in Africa | Saying They Are in Love & He Will Come to Her Soon…

Sarah
Sarah

Technology has changed the way we find love but for this particular woman, this is costing her a lot of money—and she still thinks she is doing the right thing.

A woman who has so far sent about $1.4 million to her online lover she has never met in Africa says, she is confident they will be together soon.

“Twice-divorced Sarah met Chris Olsen online 18 months ago. Though the mysterious man’s accent has changed over time, and he keeps asking for money to be wired to various different countries, Sarah insists she is ’95 per cent certain’ that he is telling her the truth. Despite his numerous attempts to come home so they can be together, she says, he keeps getting arrested on false charges” reports MailOnline.

Obviously, this is a clear case of fraud but it’s difficult to understand why this woman cannot see it—and even when told, she doesn’t seem to believe anything else apart from her man being real.

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4 People in Tanzania Charged With Murdering An Albino Woman And Cutting Off Her Legs And An Arm For Black Magic Rituals

Albino
Albino

For many years, Albinos have been hunted down in different parts of Africa like animals—and often murdered with their ‘special’ parts being cut off for black magic rituals.

Believing in black magic is the fountainhead of many African superstitions—and even if you see such beliefs as non-harmful, the fact that someone must be killed for some rituals to be done for the magic to work shows we should start cutting through all superstitious hogwash.

“Four people have been charged with murdering an albino woman in Tanzania and cutting off her legs and an arm for black magic rituals.  Zawadi Magindu was killed at Nyamalulu village in the north western Geita region of the African country in November 2008. The four people accused of killing the 22-year-old have pleaded not guilty with a hearing set to continue next week,” reports MailOnline.

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American Atheist Bloggger Butchered to Death in Bangladesh | I Will Be Totally Insane to Ever Support Religion

Avijit Roy
Avijit Roy

Interestingly for me, I am currently writing my LLM research on the clash between Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion—and even though extensive liberalist-Sam Harris argues that there is no way a person’s free speech can affect one’s freedom to practice his or her religion, we cannot ignore the increasing physical attacks on individuals who take pride in free speech by various religious zealots.

Recently, several journalists at the satirical magazine-Charlie Hebdo were killed by radical islamists, followed by another attack in Copenhagen during a free speech and Islam debate—and now a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin- Avijit Roy has been buttered to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka for just expressing secular views which many found offensive.

“The body of Avijit Roy, founder of Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site – which champions liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation – was found covered in blood after an attack that also left his wife critically wounded,” reports the Guardian.

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Google Struggles to Break Even On Youtube 9 Years On…Which Was Bought for $1.7billion

YouTube
YouTube

Google purchased the video sharing website-Youtube for $1.7 billion about 9 years ago—and today it has emerged that the tech giant is struggling to break even each year.

Even though Youtube is making a lot of content creators huge sums of money each year, the company begin the running of the website hardly makes any profit. Analysts say Google’s inability to rack in profit on Youtube is due to the fact that there is ‘a lot of junk’ on YouTube and that the large number of young users do not buy anything from the adverts.

Youtube is making some money—the website makes good money but its vast infrastructure wipes out the $3.8billion revenue that it brings in each year. It definitely costs a lot to run the website and as such, Google is on a look out for profit maximizing schemes…

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Adulterous South African Couple Gets Stuck After Seks

WTF
WTF

A South African man and woman who ignored the numerous warnings of the ladies’ husband to stop cheating found themselves in dire straits when they were unable to disengage after doing the deed.

I’m sure we’ve all seen dogs in this situation before, well if you live in Ghana anyway. I cannot begin to fathom how embarrassing it must be for a man and woman to be caught in this situation.

South Africa’s Daily Sun reported this happened in Yeoville, Johannesburg and attracted a large crowd of onlookers. Police were needed to disperse the crowd on site whilst paramedics were needed to cart the unlucky couple away for treatment.

Residents told the daily the woman was heard screaming, and that initially everyone thought it was just the normal screams of s*xual pleasure. After it went on for a while, they realised it must be screams for help.

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Ten-Year-Old-Esther Okade Is Accepted To Study Maths Degree in UK’s University Despite NOT Been To School…

Esther and her mother
Esther and her mother

Esther Okade is 10 years old and she has never been to school—in the sense that, she has never stepped in the class room, she is taught at home (home schooling) by her mathematician mother.

Just like kids of her age, Esther is said to use her spare time playing with Barbie dolls and making loom bands. But the key difference between Esther Okade and other children her age is that she has been accepted to study for a university maths degree – despite not going to school.

Esther Okade is from Walsall, West Midlands in USA—and she has been enrolled on an Open University course after she passed her A-levels .

“The girl, who gained a C grade in her maths GCSE aged six, has joined the course which started this month. Her younger brother Isiah is already studying for his A-levels – also aged six.

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British Woman Trashed Husband’s £100,000 Porsche, Put Laxatives In His Drink, Cut Up His Clothes – And Fought Him Tooth And Nail For Control Of Her Bra Company Because He Cheated…

Michelle Mone
Michelle Mone

One of Britain’s business tycoon women-Michelle Mone has revealed what she did when she found her husband cheating in her book; My Fight To The Top—and what she did is pretty shocking.

Cheating men (husband or boyfriend) is not no news but the way some women react is where the news lies—and in Michelle Mone case, she even went CRIMINAL.

The Ultimo bra tycoon writes; “Back in Scotland my grief turned to anger. After texting Michael to tell him that he had been caught red-handed, I grabbed a knife and went to town on his beloved Porsche, scratching it to shreds.

Then I charged round to the guesthouse where Sam was living — thanks to the kindness which she had betrayed — and threw all of her possessions into the garden, the dressing table along with them. I was like a banshee. I then kept calling Sam’s phone until she picked up

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Birdman Wins Oscar For Best Picture + Full List Of Winners From The 87th Academy Awards

Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The 87th Academy Awards was held last night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, to celebrate the best in movies for the calender year 2014.

Hosted by the hilarious Neil Patrick Harris, this year’s awards had come under closer scrutiny for the lack of diversity of the nominees. Most especially, the snub of the impressive Martin Luther King biopic Selma, and its equally impressive protagonist David Oyelewo.

Still, the ceremony went ahead with no hitches, and by the end of the night Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel were the big winners, amassing four Oscars each. But Birdman picked the Best Picture award, making them undisputed winners on the night.

Common and John Legend’s Glory, the soundtrack for Selma, was able to grab the Oscar for Best Original Song.

Below is the full list of winners from the 87th Academy Awards…

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US Rabbi Pleads Guilty to Filming Women Who Came To the Synagogue To Have Religious Baths

What the hell
What the hell

The thing about us humans is quite often our worse sides take over, and in those instances it doesn’t matter if you’re a pastor, or a rabbi or a doctor; you are capable of the worst, just as any other human being.

Which is why it’s laughable when people come up with absurd defences when a person in high position is caught doing the wrong thing. People refuse to believe that a pastor would do this or that (Pastor Chris, T.B Joshua etc); of course he would, he is just a human being.

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New Oklahoma Law Would Require Couples to Have STD Test Before Marriage

STD
STD

All around the world, couples are advised to take STD test before they get married—and some even advocate for regular test while still in the marriage because some partners can be dodgy.

But it seems the state of Oklahoma wants to take this further—and make it a legal requirement for couples getting married in its jurisdiction.

“Under a proposed bill introduced in Oklahoma, couples in the state who want to get married would be required to prove they don’t have any sexually transmitted infections before they’re allowed to say “I do.”

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Bride In India Marries Guest At Her Wedding After The Groom Suffered A Seizure And Had To Be Rushed To Hospital

India bride

 

Imagine collapsing on your wedding day, waking up in hospital only to be told your bride-to-be had married someone else; not just anyone but a random guest she picked out of the crowd at your own wedding!

That must really hurt.

BBC reports a groom at a wedding in Rampur town in Northern India, Jugal Kishore collapsed during his wedding ceremony, just when he was going to hang the wedding garland on his intended bride, Indira.

Apparently Jugal suffered from epilepsy, and had hidden the condition from the woman he was supposed to marry. Angry at the deception, Indira asked a member of her brother-in-law’s family, a guest at the wedding, if he wanted to step in for the groom!

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New York City Sets Record | Goes 11 Days Without Anyone Killing Another

NYC
NYC

This may not sound like a big deal if you live at a place where homicide is not really rampant but for New York City, this is worth celebrating—as the city has gone 11 straight days without any reported homicide.

As CNN puts it “New York City  has gone 11 days without a homicide, its longest stretch without any on modern record, the New York Police Department said Friday.

The record was broken midnight Thursday. It was the 11th full day without a reported homicide. The last reported homicide was February 1, or Super Bowl Sunday, in Upper Manhattan, a police representative said Friday.”

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Woman Kills Herself Because She Was Approaching Thirty And Was Childless And Unmarried

Rachel Gow
Rachel Gow

There is certainly a lot of pressure of ladies to conform to the expectations society places on them- see Gifty Anti: but this British lady took it to the extreme when she took her life.

Her reason, having gotten to the ripe old age of 30, without being married or having had kids, according to the Telegraph.

Rachel Gowe, 29, drank poison at her home in Haslingden, Lancashire. An inquest into her death heard she felt troubled she was approaching thirty and had been unable to get married or have kids. She was worried other members of her family were doing better than her and that her boyfriend would leave her.

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