So Touching: A Man Took Poison and Died Because He Did Not Want to Become a Burden on Loved Ones

Jeffrey Spector feared that at any moment he could become paralysed from the neck down. He did not want to become a burden on loved ones so, despite the pleas of his wife and children, the businessman, 54, decided to kill himself.

 

Before he took his life at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic, the keep-fit fanatic said:

“I am going before my time but I am not scared.I believe what I am doing is in the best long-term interests of my family.They disagree with that of course but they accept I have my own opinion.”

His wife, Elaine, 53, and daughters Keleigh, 21, Courtney, 19, and Camryn, 15, were with him at the clinic near the Swiss city of Zurich.In a statement, the family said they backed Jeffrey’s decision to die “100%”.
They were all pictured together, smiling through the pain, as they shared a final meal with friends, the day before he swallowed the poison that killed him.
His final days were captured by a film crew, which will produce a video tribute for his wife and girls.

 

Hours before his death, the dad-of-three, who had lived with the tumour for six years, said:

 “I wanted control of the final stages of my life.I was a fit and healthy person and my life has been turned upside down.What started as backache in 2008 soon developed into an illness which led me to having to make this most awful decision.Friends and, most of all, my family have urged me not to go through with it.”

He added:

“I was always a very fit person and loved sport.It was when I collapsed at a London hotel with a sore back and stiff neck I should have realised something was badly wrong.I just thought I had overdone things.I had gone to London for a retirement party and my legs went in the hotel room. I got back home and booked in for an MRI scan.The phone call from the clinic afterwards asked me to go back for another scan which revealed a large tumour high up in my spine.It was in and around the spinal cord.My surgeon was confident he could remove the tumour but tests revealed it would be too dangerous.

“I looked at different forms of radiotherapy and finally underwent surgery in 2009.He did not even attempt to remove the tumour because it was too dangerous.I woke up thinking it would be out but he told me he could not even take a biopsy.”

The tumour, which could not be removed, meant Jeffrey faced the prospect of being paralysed.
He told friends that he was a “walking timebomb” because paralysis could strike at any time. Jeffrey had surgery to relieve some pressure from his spine.It offered a little relief but the tumour had continued to grow.Jeffrey said:

“Had it been lower down the spine and I lost the use of my legs I would have been distraught but I could cope.Where it was meant total paralysis from my neck down.The condition got worse and I made my decision to go to Dignitas. I know I am going too early but I had consistent thoughts without peer pressure.It had to be a settled decision by a sound mind. If I am paralysed and cannot speak what hope is there?Send me to the spirit world. I am a proud person, a dignified person, independent and self-motivated. It is me who is doing this.”

The director of several advertising and internet companies said:

“I want my family to have a good life.I want them to move forwards. If they cared for me and I got better – fine. But I won’t.Some people will criticise me but do not judge me. Never judge anyone unless you have worn their shoes.
“I believe in my human right to dignity. I want the ability to have a cup of tea and hold a phone. I want to be able to do those things myself.”

After saying goodbye to his heartbroken family, his final moments swallowing a dose of barbiturate were filmed at Dignitas as evidence it was not administered by staff.

Within five minutes he lapsed into a coma then died. He was cremated in Switzerland.
His wife and daughters flew back to Britain after his death on Friday.

Culled fromUK Mirror.

Adorable: North West Beautiful in Those Butterfly Clips

Kim Kardashian shared an adorable picture of her 23-month-old daughter, North West, on Instagram.

And it looks like little Nori is throwing it back old school style with none other than some butterfly hair clips
 

Of course, these aren’t your normal butterfly clips done in 90s style twisted-cornrows. North is too fabulous for that.....lol

Instead, she is donning a long-sleeved black leotard and tights, with her tiny double bun 'do accented with large, colorful butterflies.

The picture doesn’t give a view of her face, but it is an adorable photo snapped from above, looking down on her as she walks through a lawn. Kim captioned the photo, “My little butterfly.”

North West is often the canvas for her mother’s costumes. 

But not all of her costumes are as cute... or appropriate. Kim Kardashian once posted a drawing her herself and North dressed as Playboy bunnies. That's not cute.

And at New York Fashion Week, Nori was wearing a bulletproof vest. Safety first. We guess.

Kim Kardashian Kisses Kanye, Celebrates Anniversary

Nope, their marriage did not last just 58 days.
And, despite lots of claims to the controversy, there has been no $250 million Kim and Kanye divorce proceedings.

Indeed, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have defied the odds and made it through one year of marriage.

In honor of that milestone, Kim shared a couple romantic throwback photos on Instagram Sunday (above) and addressed the rapper with the following message:
"I love this man so much! Happy Anniversary baby!”

Kardashian went on to caption various snapshots of the couple with words such as "Forever," "Love" and "Sexy."

Kim and Kanye got married in Florence on May 24, 2014. The reception allegedly featured gold toilets and cost an obscene amount of money.

They are the parents to a very cute girl named North, who turns two years old this summer.

Say what you want about the reality star and the rapper (and we often do!), but they actually do seem very much in love.

Happy anniversary, Kim and Kanye!

Nigerian bank announces early closing due to fuel crisis

One of Nigeria’s biggest banks on Monday announced it was shutting branches early due to a lack of fuel, in the latest sign of shortages hitting businesses.

“The current shortage of petroleum products in the country has limited our ability to supply diesel to all our branches in order to continue normal branch operations,” GT Bank said in a statement on Twitter.

“Due to this we unavoidably have to close our branches nationwide at 1pm (1200 GMT) from Monday 25th May, 2015.”

Guaranty Trust Bank plc has branches across Nigeria, as well as Anglophone and Francophone West Africa, East Africa and Britain, with an overall staff of more than 10,000.

Nigeria has been brought to a virtual standstill by fuel shortages, caused by a row between the outgoing government and importers, as well as strikes by petrol tanker drivers and oil and gas workers.

Despite being Africa’s biggest oil producer, petroleum products have to be imported to Nigeria because of a lack of functioning domestic refineries.

The government keeps the price at the pumps below the market rate for consumers and pays the difference to importers and marketers.

But they say they are owed $2 billion in arrears and have shut fuel depots until the balance is paid.

The government maintains the money has been paid and the importers are holding the country to ransom by demanding losses from the slump in the naira currency caused by the global drop in oil prices.

Telecoms operators said at the weekend they may be forced to shut down networks if no fuel supplies are found for generators that power base stations and switches.

Nigerian homes and businesses are forced to use generators because of poor to non-existent grid supply.

Sad: 24yr Old Graduate Murdered in Port Harcourt

24 year old Anita Oluchi Okore, a graduate of Banking and Finance from Abia state University was murdered a few weeks ago in Port Harcourt by men believed to be ritualists. 

 
According to a family member, Ada, who is based in Ebonyi, had gone to see her older sister in Port Harcourt when she unfortunately ran into these men. Ada had called her dad to tell him she was about to enter a bus that will take her from the park to her sister's house. She later called her dad, informing him that she was the only woman in the bus with three men and they were taking her somewhere other than her destination. Her father said he asked to speak with the men which he did and pleaded with them to free his daughter but all his plea fell on deaf ears as the men told him that they were not looking for a ransom and returned the phone back to his daughter. That was the last anyone heard from Anita...

Many weeks later, investigations by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), in Port Harcourt and the police, using Anita's call log, led to the arrest of the three men in a hotel where they were lavishing N1.5 million paid by their clients for the body parts of Anita. They led the investigating team to the dump site where they kept the body of Anita with her vital body organs cut off.

She was buried on Thursday, May 7th, 2015, in Eziobasi, Amodu Ututu, in Arochukwu LGA of Abia State, after a funeral service held at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Umule Parish, Aba.

May her soul rest in peace.

The wicked will never know peace in Jesus Name!!

Fuel Scarcity: Check Out The Queue For Fuel At Capital Oil This Monday Morning

Capital oil boss Ifeanyi Uba, announced last night that it will release 13 million litres of fuel

Well, this is what Capital Oil station at Ojodu Berger, Omole Phase 2 looks like this morning. Fuel is selling at N87. Nigerians are there to get some fuel.

Photo after the cut...
 

Fuel Scarcity: Nollywood Actress, Funke Akindele Rides a Bicycle to Church

The nollywood screen goddess posted the above picture yesterday on her instagram page informing her numerous fans that she will always attend church service with/without fuel.

And later in the evening, the same funny lady posted another picture letting us know that she rolled out with a ladies motorcycle because according to her, riding the bicycle to church wasn't beans at all.

See it below...

Celebreties Storm Uche Ogbodo's Champagne Birthday Party (PHOTOS)

Nollywood actress and mum of one, Uche Ogbodo's birthday was last Sunday, May 17th but the actress had a party yesterday to celebrate. Singer Iyanya, her Nollywood colleagues Anita Joseph, Adaora Ukoh, Uche Elendu, Uchenna Nnnana, Benedict Johnson and more turned up for the party. 

 

See more pics below...

Florida Man Dies After Winning Cockroach-Eating Contest

Edward Archbold was, according to those who met him on Friday night, the life of the party – a bit of a showoff who was up for anything, even a giant cockroach-eating contest.

He won. And then, tragically, he died.
Now police from Deerfield Beach, Fla., about 40 miles north of Miami, are investigating the death of the 32 year old, who on Facebook went by Edward William Barry.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Archbold, of West Palm Beach, and several other contestants signed up to eat a variety of insects at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach. After eating dozens of giant cockroaches, Archbold was declared the winner of an ivory-ball python. (The prizes, Archbold indicated on his Facebook page that night, were less significant than the glory. His plan was to give the python to a friend.)
He had also entered a superworm-eating contest earlier in the night.
But after winning, Archbold felt sick and started vomiting. He then collapsed in the store and was later pronounced dead. The medical examiner’s office is conducting tests to determine a cause of death, according to the sheriff’s office statement.

On Facebook, Ben Siegel Reptiles wrote that staff met Archbold the night of the Midnight Madness sale: “We all liked him right away. All of us here at Ben Siegel Reptiles are sad that we will not get to know Eddie better, for in the short time we knew him, he was very well liked by all.”
In the comments beneath the statement, the reptile store wrote that the prize “now belongs to his estate.”

In another Facebook comment, an attorney claiming to represent Ben Siegel Reptiles wrote that contest participants had signed waivers accepting their participation in this “unique and unorthodox contest.”
“The consumption of insects is widely accepted throughout the world, and the insects presented as part of the contest were taken from an inventory of insects that are safely and domestically raised in a controlled environment as food for reptiles,” wrote attorney Luke Lirot.

No other contestants felt sick, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

And Archbold seemed to be doing all right earlier in the night, according to his own account on Facebook. He took photos of the superworms and wrote: " Also side note im NOW in a super worm eating comp now.......what ever the hell a super worm is?"

Eating the bugs yielded valuable rewards, according to the store's Facebook page: “Eat the most bugs in 4 minutes, win the ball morph. That’s it. Oh yeah, any vomiting is an automatic DQ,” the advertisement stated. “Eat the most crickets, win a male lesser. Eat the most superworms, win a female orange belly. Eat the most discoid roaches, win a female graphite sired ivory!”

Michael Adams, a professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, told The Associated Press that he has never heard of someone dying after eating roaches.

"Unless the roaches were contaminated with some bacteria or other pathogens, I don't think that cockroaches would be unsafe to eat," Adams said. "Some people do have allergies to roaches but there are no toxins in roaches or related insects."

Meanwhile, Archbold's friends took to his Facebook page to remember him. Wrote one: "This goes out to one of the most funnest, craziest, and most energetic person I have ever met!!! I will never ever forget u Eddie... I don't think anyone could!!"

Dangote's People Rubbish Sylvia Nduka in New Statement

According to insiders in Dangote’s office, the billionaire is upset because they can’t understand how someone will wake up one morning and cook up marriage stories.

According to Yes International, The alleged romance tale involving Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and ex-beauty queen, Sylvia Nduka has been described by some insiders at the billionaire’s office as both untrue and unfounded.

According to one of them, the story is nothing but ‘arrant nonsense and total falsehood’.
“Nothing like that exists. In fact, if at all it exists, it does in the imagination of whoever cooked up the story.

We are still investigating the original source of the mischievous and misleading story and will definitely take it up with them once we are done with that. We shall also issue an official statement, rebutting the cock and bull story.

“We just can’t understand how someone will wake up in the morning and begin to fabricate and spread falsehood aimed at tarnishing someone’s hard-earned reputation. The story is totally false. Totally false”.