FURIOUS - MY HUBBY SAYS NO TO A HOUSE MAID.

Good day Lori bloggers, My name is Christiana and I have been married for 1 year 6 months. I have a 7 months old baby and I work in one of the banks in Lagos,Nigeria.

Lately, I have been having issues with my hubby concerning house chores and am worried as I love him so much and want to keep my home. I live on the mainland and work on the island....Lekki precisely which we all know about the traffic condition in this part of Lagos.
I wake up at 4 am everyday do the arrangement and preparation for my child and leave home at 6:30am so as to resume at 7:30am which is resumption time for staff at the bank. I drop off my child at a day care center close to my office each day.
On good days I get home at about 8:30 as I leave the office at about 6:30 on very good days but most time I get home late about 9:30 ( when we balance our cash late). My hubby works at Ikeja ( on the mainland ) and leaves home at 7am as his resumption time is 8am and he is always against traffic.
Lately, he has been complaining about me not cooking dinner during week days and being tired every night. I expect him to understand cos he know we need both of us working. He gets home around 6 pm cos he closes by 5pm....so why cant he cook dinner and help with the house chores? He was angry and said I was not fulfilling my duties as a wife and that I am giving him the opportunity to look outside. Can you imagine that ...should I kill myself? I try...I really do! I prepare various soups and meals and put them in the freezer...is it too much for him to bring out the meal and heat it up to eat???
To make matters worse, I discussed with him, that we should get an housemaid to help in the chores at home , at least this will  reduce the stress on me  but to my amazement he vehemently refused the idea of a maid....saying he will not allow a maid in the house! What does he want me to do? Resign from the job? Sit at home? or work myself to death? please advice me...cos he is really complaining and this is killing our peace and love! Help me ...what should I do? I care for my child, do the house chores( he doesn't help...always glued to the television watching  football or reading the papers) get back from work, prepare dinner late into the night and perform my marital duties....and am still not doing enough?
Please tell me what to do!!!!!

APC Should Let Buhari Seek Medicare Abroad - Ayo Fayose

This is hilarious! The unrelenting ,controversial Governor of Ekiti state Ayo Fayose of has teasingly demanded that The All Progressives Congress (APC) grant Buhari the opportunity to travel abroad for media checkup.
It was reported that the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has pleaded with leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC, especially former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu to be human enough to allow the party’s presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) embark on his planned medical trip abroad.
The governor was reported to have said Buhari was being prevented from traveling abroad for medical treatment, despite his ill-health so as to avoid controversies.
When will all this character maligning stop! We should be listening to manifesto now and not character defamation....are these the leaders we choose to lead us? Please face your work and govern us well!

FORMER WORLD BEST ,BARCELONA AND REAL MADRID STAR LUIS FIGO TO CONTEST FOR FIFA PRESIDENCY

Luis Figo has entered the race to become FIFA president determined to change an organization he describes as all too often associated with "scandal."

The former Real Madrid and Barcelona star revealed his intention to run against Sepp Blatter in an exclusive interview with CNN Wednesday.

The 42-year-old is renowned the world over after a distinguished 20-year playing career and arguably counts as the most credible threat yet to Blatter's 17-year stranglehold on soccer's top job.

Figo was twice voted world player of the year and represented Portugal 127 times, featuring at the World Cup in 2002 and 2006, as well as playing in three European Championships.

"I care about football, so what I'm seeing regarding the image of FIFA -- not only now but in the past years -- I don't like it," he told Alex Thomas in Madrid.

"If you search FIFA on the internet you see the first word that comes out: scandal -- not positive words. It's that we have to change first and try to improve the image of FIFA. Football deserves much better than this.

 Figo joins former Paris Saint-Germain star David Ginola, independent candidate Jerome Champagne, Asian Football Confederation vice-president Prince Ali and Michael van Praag, the head of Dutch football, in the running to become president.

Well, this is good news for the footballing world as I am always of the opinion that the prestigious position of the Fifa presidency should be keenly contested for.

BIRD FLU SPREAD TO MORE STATES IN NIGERIA

   THE Federal Government Wednesday announced that the outbreak of Avian Influenza also known as bird flu has spread to 11 states of Lagos, Kano, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Ogun, Rivers, Delta and Oyo.
  According to the government, a total of 232,385 birds have been exposed with a mortality rate of 51,444 recorded. “The worst hit state is Kano as a total of 136,905 birds have been exposed to the infection with a mortality rate of 17,987 representing 13 percent. The cases were found in Gwale, Kunbotso, Tofa, Gaya and Ungogo local governments.”
To this effect, the government said with the increasing number of states and birds exposed as well as the level of mortality, it has become necessary to trigger additional emergency measures to rapidly contain the spread of the virus.
Initially the government had reported the case in two states of Lagos and Kano.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, who announced this yesterday in Abuja during an Emergency Meeting on Avian Influenza with all Commissioners of Agriculture said the emergency measures would include intensified surveillance, depopulation, quarantine and decontamination of the infected farms and live birds markets.
 Assuring the public that there is no cause for alarm as poultry products are still safe for consumption, he said: “I wish to assure Nigerians that Nigeria will successfully control the bird flu outbreak. We have successfully controlled it in the past. I have directed the immediate trigger of all the protocols under the Emergency Response Plan for the Avian Influenza used during the last outbreak in 2006.”
(CULLED: guardian news)
 Measures should be deployed to stop the spread of this disease quickly.

Fashola accuses Jimi Agbaje of owing Lagos N1.6m in Tax!

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has accused the Gov­ernorship candidate of Peo­ples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, of tax evasion by owing the state over N1.6 million in Land Use charges for four years just as the governor praised his ad­ministration’s foresight in en­throning effective tax regime in the state.
Fashola, who disclosed this Wednesday in Lagos at the state’s 8th Annual Taxation Stakeholders’ Conference, or­ganised by the Lagos State In­ternal Revenue Service (LIRS), warned Lagosians to beware of a tax evader aspiring to be their next governor.
On how the debt was in­curred, the governor explained that Agbaje refused to pay Land Use charges for his business out­fit, JK Pharmacy, from 2009 to 2012.
His words: “The Land Use charge is ground rents and tene­ment rate that we have consoli­dated together for tax administra­tion. These are the aggregate of the money that constitute income to our state. Now, I want to tell you about the candidate that wants to take my job because you are going to vote next month. He has deceived you for eight years that he was in Democratic Party Alliance (DPA), whereas he was an agent of PDP.He runs a business called JK Pharmacy. It is at No 9, Randle Close, Apapa. JK Pharmacy has not paid Land Use charge for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He paid in 2013 and 2014, I think as election was close. They are owing this government, they are owing our state N1,639, 064.62. Now, do the mathematics. How many books would that money have bought in our schools? How many drugs will it have provided in the hospitals? How many children of the poor that candidate said are failures in schools, because he was com­plaining that we spent only 3 per cent on primary education.

Hmn, expecting a reply from the PDP or Jimi Agbaje on this matter. The elections are drawing near!

Georgia mother kills three children in murder-suicide

The bodies of a mother and her three children ranging in age from 9 months to 10 years old were discovered in a suburban Atlanta apartment on Tuesday in what was an apparent murder-suicide carried out by the mother, authorities said.

A maintenance man discovered the four bodies inside the Austell, Georgia apartment when he went there to work on a clothes dryer, Cobb County police spokesman Dana Pierce said.

Authorities identified the mother as Kisha Holmes, 35. Police believe Holmes "first took the lives of her three children and then her own," a police statement said.

The children were a girl, aged 9 months, and two boys, ages 4 and 10, police said.

Authorities are not yet releasing the exact cause of death and have not said when the killings are believed to have occurred.
(culled: yahoonews)
What could have made a mother kill her 3 children and herself? This is abnormal?? Or where they murdered by some one else?
Will keep you posted as the investigations reveals findings.

Tanzania's albinos hacked apart by witchdoctors !

Albinos in Tanzania are hunted down like animals and sold by their own families for £50,000: Tanzania's albinos hacked apart by witchdoctors who believe their body parts 'bring luck' in sick trade 'fuelled by the country's elite'.

Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people.

It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth, or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole body.People with albinism are regularly attacked by people who chop their limbs off - an act which either leaves them severely mutilated, or dead.

A few days before, 15-year-old Pendo Sengerema was attacked as she ate dinner at home with her family.

They hacked off her right arm just below the elbow, before running off into the dark.

According to Under the Same Sun, a witch doctor had received an order from a wealthy client indicating that if Pendo’s arm could be provided, it would garner a price of $600.

The attack left Pendo terrified, begging to be sent away from her village. 

'I am asking the police to move me to a safer place and protect me because bad men might come back to kill me,' she pleaded.

These 'safer places' are the centres set up around the country, where large number of people with albinism are living behind high walls for their own protection. 

The camps were established after the first high profile waves of attacks, a knee-jerk response to a terrifying situation. Years later, they still exist - and now are not just for children: adults are kept behind the camps' high walls as well.Children who are there, they are living there maybe for seven years without going back to their families.

(culled: mailonline)

This is so sad and should be stopped. The hunting and killing should stop! The Government should pass a law against killing of Albinos and the United Nations should intervene.