Being A First Born Girl Means You More Likely To Succeed-Study

Successful: Both novelist JK Rowling and singer Beyoncé Knowles are firstborn children

A new study has revealed that first born females are more likely to succeed than other children and even first born males.
Researchers have claimed that if you are female and the eldest child among your siblings then you are likely to be more ambitious.
Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, JK Rowling and Beyoncé are all firstborn children.
They are also according to Forbes among the most powerful women in the world.

The study was carried out by researchers at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the
University of Essex.
 It found that if a child is the eldest female then she is most likely to be the most ambitious and
well-qualified of all of her family.
Firstborn boys were next in line for success.
The study also found that parents were more likely to have high achieving children if they leave a gap of at least four years between each child.
  
          Feifei Bu, who led the study, at the University of Essex

The wider the gap, the greater the chances of higher qualifications.
According to the research, firstborn children were seven per cent more likely to want to stay on in higher education than their younger siblings.
Firstborn girls were 13 per cent more ambitious than firstborn boys.
The probability of attending further education for firstborns is 16 per cent higher than their younger siblings while girls are four per cent more likely to have further education qualifications.
Feifei Bu, who led the study, said there could be many explanations as to why the eldest has greater ambitions.

Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton (left), Oprah Winfrey (right), JK Rowling and Beyoncé were all firstborn children

 

One could be that parents simply give more time to them.
She told The Observer: 'It is interesting that we observer a distinct firstborn advantage in education even though parents in modern society are more than likely to be egalitarian in the way they treat their children.

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Cossy Ojiakor With Mother To Do Music Collabo Soon

Forget about all the notoriety that actress and singer Cosy Ojiakor has garnered over the years, she is also a passionate human being who wants to love and be loved.

The light-skinned act who embraced controversy with her half erotic show in Fuji artiste Obesere’s, music video, Apple Juice, has not been active in Nollywood in recent years.

She delved into music and says she is doing well despite the fact that she has not been featuring in big shows. She adds that she shares music experience with her mother.

“My mum actually has a first degree in music from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a master’s degree in Mass Communication. I grew up amidst pianos and guitars in my parents’ house and more so, my mum sings,” Cossy says.

“I have a studio in the house and I have been told I have a good voice. My mum did not contribute to the scoring of the songs on my album even though we were supposed to work on a song together. She works with the Immigration Service so she has no time. But when we eventually do, it has to be a very good song, probably a mother and daughter song.”

Tragedy! As Nollywood loses 3 practitioners in 1 week!

It’s another gloomy week in Nollywood as three practitioners pass away after suffering from varied health issues.

Practitioners in Nollywood are currently mourning the deaths of Chris Nkulor, who lost the battle of life after suffering from kidney related issues, Greg Inawodoh and Chrisphina Adinusor.

While Chris and Chrisphina were acted in various home vidoes before their deaths, Greg was known for his directing skills in movies like Munachi, The heart of men, Bleeding tree, Egwonga, Ugomma goes to school, and Make me a widow.

Further investigations showed that Chrisphina Adinusor died of a cardiac arrest during a visit to Lagos last month.

‘It is sad that we have lost another actress. We are trying our best to help her family in whatever way we can,’ Ugochukwu Orikoha, Chairman of the Port Harcourt chapter of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria sadly noted.

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Lagos chapter of the guild, Moji Oyetayo, also confirmed the deaths while mourning the acts.

8-Year-Old Girl Found Unconscious In Mobile Policeman’s Apartment

Punch Metro reports that the policeman, Augustine Gbuchenge, with Force number 400823, lived in the same compound with Amarachi’s family.

The father of the victim, Patrick, told PUNCH Metro that on the fateful day he had been looking everywhere for his daughter until they discovered her under Gbuchenge’s bed.
Patrick said:

“Last Thursday, I returned from work around 7.30pm and met my children and wife outside. There was power failure on that day so everywhere was dark. I asked after Amarachi but my wife said she was probably in our apartment sleeping. 

I was not satisfied with this explanation because my children don’t usually sleep early.
When I went up, I did not see my daughter so we started asking around. Some little children in the compound then told me that Gbuchenge had called my daughter earlier to help him buy akara. 

I went to the policeman’s room to challenge him but he denied seeing my daughter so we continued looking everywhere. After sometime, the whole compound got involved in the search and all clues pointed to the policeman.”

Patrick told PUNCH Metro that he and the other neighbours challenged Gbuchenge again and an argument ensued. He said Gbuchenge immediately stood up and threatened to go and tell his colleagues at the Ketu Police Division that he was being wrongly accused of abduction.

“Some moments later, I also stood up and headed for the police station to go and report the matter thinking I would meet the policeman there as well but I did not. After reporting the matter, a police corporal accompanied me back to my house,” Patrick said.

It was learnt that when they returned to the house, Gbuchenge was nowhere to be found and his room was locked.

“We were able to beam a torchlight through his window where we saw my daughter’s legs pointing out from under the bed,” Patrick said.

Neighbours were said to have rallied around and broken Gbuchenge’s door open. PUNCH Metro learnt that when the little girl was finally pulled out from under the bed, she was bound by her hands and feet while a piece of cloth had been stuffed in her mouth.

Amarachi was said to have been bleeding profusely as she had sustained a broken skull. She was subsequently taken to Gbagada General Hospital but due to the severity of her wound, she was referred to the Lagos Island General Hospital.

When Punch's correspondent visited the victim at the hospital, she was seen wearing a neck brace while her head had been bandaged.
Narrating her ordeal, Amarachi said:

“On that day, he (Gbuchenge) asked me to buy akara for him. After I returned, my mum asked me to go upstairs to do the dishes. As I was going, the man pulled me from behind and took me into his room. 

He then tied me up. He did not rape me. After sometime, my parents started shouting my name and calling me, the policeman used an iron to hit me in the head repeatedly and then pushed me under the bed and used clothes to cover me. Under the bed, I saw little children’s clothes. 

He then turned on his generator so that even if I tried to shout, no one would hear. After sometime, he left. I continued to hear my father’s voice and I struggled to push my leg from under the bed. That was how they saw me and rescued me.”

Amara described the policeman as a very friendly person who usually bought sweets and biscuits for children in the compound. She said she was surprised that he would do such a thing.

A neighbour, who did not identify himself, described Gbuchenge as a very strange person who usually carried a large bag around.

The man (Gbuchenge) has been living in this compound for over three years. He is married with children but his family lives in Alapere, Ketu. He has two buses but on the day of the incident, he did not bring his vehicles home, it seems he had planned to escape on that day. 

We believe he wanted to use the girl for ritual. What were little children’s clothes doing under the bed?”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident in a text message sent to Punch's correspondent. She said efforts were on to determine if the suspect was indeed a policeman.
She said:

“I heard of the wicked act. MOPOL 22, which is where the complainant claims the suspect works has been contacted

. However, the commander in charge of MOPOL 22 said there was no person with such a name or identity in his squadron.

“Meanwhile, we have sent signals to other police departments and stations to ascertain if the man is actually a serving policeman. The act is inhuman and the suspect will never go unpunished.” (Naij)
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Ngozi Ezeonu Shares New Photos

Looking good is one of celebrities priority, apart from their business with show biz, because many look up to them in everything.

veteran Nollywood actress Ngozi Ezeonu has reiterated to fans that her rapid weight loss was due to shear hardwork and dedication and not due to any other thing. Because many of them think she is sick. She shared new photos of herself.

T.B. JOSHUA DECLARES DIVINE RESCUE OPERATION UNDERWAY FOR ABDUCTED SCHOOLGIRLS

 
Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua proclaimed to his congregation on Sunday 27th April 2014 that the abducted schoolgirls in Borno State were on the verge of being released by ‘God’, adding that almost half had already escaped their kidnappers clutches.

Amid mounting public fury and an international outcry over the fate of 230 kidnapped Nigerian teenage girls - now missing for nearly two weeks – the cleric declared, “They have to be released. That is the voice of God!”

He proceeded to describe a revelation he claimed God had shown him. “I saw a vision where some of these girls have escaped and they are trying to find their way from the forest to the town.”

He added that the remaining children under custody would also be released soon. “God has spoken – these children must be released,” Joshua authoritatively declared. “We can’t wait to see them.”

In a message broadcast live via Joshua’s widely viewed station Emmanuel TV and subsequently posted on his official Facebook page followed by close to 1,000,000, he counseled the girl’s parents to know that people felt their pain. “It is not your battle alone but the battle of all people of God all over the world. They are also our children.”

Joshua, however, warned that security forces involved in rescue efforts should be careful not to be drawn into unnecessary confrontation. “God has promised all of them will come out free, without harm and hurt. However, if there is unnecessary confrontation, it may affect them,” the pastor, whose recent YouTube clip showing a prophecy of the ill-fated MH370 plane went viral and garnered international media attention, cautioned.

“Let us be prayerful and at the same time be tactical and strategic, so they will not harm our dear schoolgirls,” he advised. “Their captors are in a place where they cannot move forward or backwards. Confrontation is dangerous.”

Joshua then led the 30,000 strong congregation at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in prayer. “Pray for the protection of these girls. Remember our security forces too in prayer. Ask God to give them more wisdom and a clean and clear strategy, so that their approach will not be attack for attack. No matter what the militants do, even if they attack, they should not attack back in order not to harm our girls.”

The Nigerian cleric, who is touted to be one of Africa’s 50 most influential people and was the recent focus of an Associated Press interview, concluded by advising his supporters to observe Tuesday as a day of prayer. “With God, all things are possible.”

His Facebook post was signed off with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls which has come to characterize the voice of concern from social media users as to seemingly lackluster response from the Nigerian government to the crisis.

On Monday 14th April 2014, insurgents suspected of belonging to the jihadi group Boko Haram abducted the girls, who were students at Chibok Government Girls' Secondary School, from their dormitories, loading them onto trucks, before setting the boarding school ablaze.

The girls, who are all aged between 16 and 18 and mostly come from Christian families, are thought to be held captive in a notorious region called the Sembisa Forest, a known jungle hideout of Boko Haram in Borno State. The search and rescue operation for the remaining captive teenagers has yielded no positive results so far, and to mounting public frustration, has also been shrouded in secrecy.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he is "appalled" by the abductions. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he too was in contact with the Nigerian authorities and had offered assistance. "The world must wake up to the escalating tragedy now engulfing Nigeria,” he said.

Wole Soyinka and other human rights activists have expressed the widely-held fear that the girls could be held for years to be used as sex slaves. There is also speculation in Borno State that they are being used as human shields to deter military action against Boko Haram camps.  (Nigeriafilms.com)

MUST READ!!! Charles Novia blasts celebrities who live fake lives

Charles Novia is pissed with celebrities who live fake life, he shared this post on his blog.Read it below and let me know if you agree with him?

Among the present crop of Nigerian musicians, I would vote for Tuface Idibia as the most humble of the lot.  

His humility is well-known by a lot of people as one of his greatest assets added to a very warm and friendly disposition. Apart from his humility, one appreciable virtue he has is his sense of modesty even when he is easily one of the richest musicians in Nigeria. You don’t really see Tuface going on Instagram or other social networks to flaunt a new watch or new car or some material possession. Not because he cannot afford them but because he has sense of proprietary.

I had an informal conversation with him in Atlanta, USA in October 2013 one evening when we were both hanging out with a bosom friend and brother, Chris Ikpefua of Vogue Entertainment, USA and Tuface told me something profound and touching. [He said]:

You know what? Sometimes I look back and remember how I started, who I started with, the other musical groups we had when we started and the solo artistes then. I look around now and for some reason God has made me still relevant till now for close to twenty years in the music industry. It humbles and chills me.  

I feel sad that most of my peers are not where I am too. Artistes who struggled with us to build the music industry to this level with their talent when there was no structure. I feel very sad for them, Bros.  

I am also aware that many of the young and even the established artistes look up to me as a role model of sorts.  If I screw up, they too might screw up. So, Bros, I went into properties. Immediately I started buying houses, the others looking up to me slowed down and began to invest in properties too. It made me happy because they would have something to fall back to later in life. Bros, I get properties but nor be wetin dem dey shout about.’

I was impressed by his sense of acumen and again modesty in wealth. But Tuface is an exception. I wish I could say the same for the crop of  Nigerian artistes who love flaunting their material possessions for all to see.

More often than not, those things being flaunted are part of a hype culture. There is a need to ‘belong’ and most of those acts, wracked by a poverty mentality, believe a $300,000 designer wristwatch or an expensive car or SUV are the yardstick to measure their wealth. No, they are not. Maturity and moderation matters. A rich person does not need to tell the world he or she is loaded. The world perceives it.
Our musicians and actresses  deluding themselves on social media with this flaunting fad are not being true to themselves. The entertainment industry is a coterie community and the statistics of income are not hidden. When you try to hoodwink the public that you bought a house or a diamond watch just from the singing and prancing on stage in an industry where CD sales are dropping, or that you bought some house in Ikoyi just by being an unmarried actress when we all know how much an actor is paid for a role, is stretching the story a bit too far.

Granted, these artistes might have other legitimate sources of income but such sources are negligible in turnover. One day, very soon, those wealthy shady barons and pimps using the artistes in the industry as cannon fodder might just move to another area of interest.

And don’t get me wrong, how people make their money is entirely their own business.

What I am pissed about is the deception; the whole stinking deception. These artistes hoodwinking the public that they made their money through their art when there is more to it. Others who are not in the entertainment sector make money through these same avenues these artistes use but they don’t come out shouting about it as such.

In essence, what I am saying here is:

Guys, make una cool down. Make your money as codedly as una don dey make am. Make your work dey speak for you for one side and your money dey quietly answer you for the other side. 

The fake life and lies don dey too much for many of una. Shikena!

Ladies, What Would You Do If this Happened to You?

A male passenger was caught groping a woman's breast for five minutes while she slept on a recent British Airways flight from London to San Francisco.

DailMail reports that the woman, who hasn't been identified, was napping when Vinay Pochampally, reached over from behind, placed his hand down her shirt and made 'skin-to-skin contact' while other passengers watched, according to a U.S. District Court criminal complaint.

The incident occurred about two hours into BA Flight 285 on April 15 and Pochampally was allegedly intoxicated at the time. The victim was sitting in row 37, which on a Boeing 747 has a 'bulkhead of the galley and restroom area' behind it.

Pochampally, who was assigned to seat 36G, positioned himself in the gap behind row 37 and in front of the bulkhead, FBI Agent Bianca Betz wrote in a sworn affidavit, obtained by The Smoking Gun.

'While in that gap, Pochampally inserted his hand, palm-side down, into the shirt of the sleeping female passenger,' Betz said.

The man's hand was 'underneath the passenger's shirt and undergarments for approximately four to five minutes, making skin-to-skin contact in the breast and upper chest area.' When the victim woke up to find Pochampally fondling her, he quickly removed his hand and fled down the aisle of the aircraft.






According to the criminal complaint, 'multiple passengers witnessed the incident' and told attendants what had happened. It appears no one attempted to stop the alleged assault as it occurred, however.
British Airways staff confronted Pochampally upon learning of the molestation from passengers, police said.

They ordered him to move to a different seat for the remainder of the 10-hour trip and contacted law enforcement upon landing at San Francisco International airport. Pochampally was charged with simple assault in a misdemeanor complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court. It's not clear if Pochampally is a U.S. citizen.

A spokeswoman for BA told MailOnline: 'Police officers were called to meet flight BA285 on its arrival in San Francisco after a report of an incident on board.
'Due to the Data Protection Act we do not comment on matters relating to individual customers.'

She added: 'The welfare and security of our customers is always of paramount importance.'

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