A Nigerian lady has narrated how she was treated by her parents after she was labeled a witch by a Pastor when she was barely 10-years-old.
According to @Chika_Blairseen, the Pastor accused her of holding back her father's progress all because she had big eyeballs.
She disclosed that her mother was the one who took her father to the church. She said he kept shouting at her to "release his business".
She tweeted;
I was barely 10 years old when my dad was shouting at me to 'release his business!!!' at a deliverance ground with so much anger and disgust in his eyes Why? The pastor had said I was a witch who was holding back my dad's progress. All because I had big eyeballs
Incase you're wondering where my mum was when it was happening and why didn't she defend me. Who do you think took my dad to the church??
Ghana has been chosen as the location for Germany's West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention.
German ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff disclosed this in a tweet he shared on Thursday April 15. He added that the Ghanaian centre is one of eighth others worldwide.
The announcement came days after social media giant, Twitter also announced that it will siting its African headquarters in Ghana.
The tweet read;
“Excellent news: Germany will support launch of a new “German-West African Center for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention.
“It will be located in Ghana and be part of 8 new centers worldwide to fight global challenges.”
The attack on a bank in Anambra state yesterday, April 15, resulted in the death of two secondary school students.
Recall that unknown gunmen on Thursday attacked a first generation bank’s branch located at Ogbunike, in Oyi local government area of Anambra State (read here).
Vehicles were set ablaze by the gunmen and stray bullets hit two students returning from school.
A video shared online shows one student lying on the road, the contents of his brains splattered on the floor. Another student is seen lying lifeless in the arms of a young man who tries to rush him to a hospital to get help.
Rev Emeka Evans Unaegbu has reportedly died after being attacked by unknown assailants while conducting a lone vigil in his Goodnews Power Assembly International in Nyanya Jikwoyi area of Abuja.
The cleric was attacked on Tuesday night and was barely alive when he was discovered on Wednesday April 14.
Rev Emeka Evans Unaegbu died while being rushed to the hospital. Friends and family have taken to Facebook to pen down their tributes.
Prophet T.B Joshua's YouTube account has been suspended over some videos shared on the channel.
Premium Times had reported that between 2016 and January 2020, the channel posted at least seven clips showing the charismatic Christian televangelist engaging in violent exorcism to ‘cure’ gay and lesbian congregants of their sexual orientation by casting out “the demon of homosexuality”.
YouTube suspended the channel which had more than 1.8 million subscribers on April 12, after openDemocracy contacted it to ask whether some of the contents violated the platform’s community guidelines.
A YouTube spokesperson told openDemocracy;
“YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit hate speech and we remove flagged videos and comments that violate these policies. In this case we have terminated the channel.
"YouTube prohibits content which alleges that someone is mentally ill, diseased, or inferior because of their membership in a protected group including sexual orientation.”
Daina Rudusa, spokesperson for OutRight Action International, the global LGBTIQ human rights organisation also said;
“It is great to see social media platforms take a greater role in tackling these harmful practices by banning accounts spouting hate speech and promoting conversion practices.
“So-called conversion therapy is neither therapy, nor does it result in conversion” and it has been recognised as being “tantamount to torture."
It was also learnt that Facebook took action against some of T.B Joshua's contents. Unlike YouTube which suspended the ministries’ entire channel, Facebook said it “removed a number of pieces of content from this page for violating these policies”.
Facebook company spokesperson said;
“We don’t allow attacks against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, including content promoting conversion therapy services.
“We take attacks on the LGBT+ community incredibly seriously and encourage people to report this kind of content when they see it so we can investigate.”
When openDemocracy asked TB Joshua Ministries to comment on its pastor’s actions towards LGBT people, and on its YouTube channel being terminated for hate speech, the ministry did not respond. However, it has launched a social media campaign to contest the decision which it claims was “made in haste.”
TB Joshua however confirmed that his YouTube channel was suspended in a tweet he shared. He wrote;
EMMANUEL TV YOUTUBE SUSPENSION: Our mission is to share the love of God with everyone - irrespective of race or religion - and we strongly oppose all forms of hate speech! We have had a long and fruitful relationship with YouTube and believe this decision was made in haste.
On Facebook, he urged his church members to raise their concerns over his channel’s suspension on other social media platforms.
TB Joshua wrote;
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Emmanuel TV YouTube Channel Suspension!!!
Emmanuel TV’s mission is to share the love of God with everyone - irrespective of race or religion - and we strongly oppose all forms of hate speech! We have had a long and fruitful relationship with YouTube and believe this decision was made in haste. We appreciate your prayers and support as we are making every effort to appeal this decision and see the channel restored.
She’s size 102 ZZZ ..8ft 6in round the chest & each boob weighs 3st. If she gets behind the wheel of a car they set off the horn.
She can’t walk down steps unaided, she can’t sleep on her back and she can’t fit into a normal plane seat.
But the woman with the biggest breasts in the world has vowed never to have them reduced.
This is the 10th year running that mum of two Norma Stitz – that’s her stage name – has been in the Guinness Book of Records with her enormous Size 102ZZZ chest.
And she has turned the boobs she once hated into a money-spinning asset. They have won her fame on TV and in movies around the world, earning enough to put her daughter through college.
But having breasts which weigh nearly 3st each – equivalent to carrying around TWO cases of wine – is a heavy burden. Norma (real name Annie Hawkins-Turner) admits she was once so ashamed of them that she refused to leave her home and was too afraid to have sex.
She has to have bras specially made and she can only wear stretchy clothes. She needs help on steps because she can’t see anything in front. She can’t sleep on her back because the weight might crush her airways.
And she can only drive a 4×4 with extra room in the front because her breasts set off steering wheel horns on smaller cars. Norma, 50, started wearing a bra at the age of nine and as a teenager couldn’t walk down the street without strangers staring at her.
“Even in primary school I had problems,” she says. “They had desks with the tops attached to the chairs and I couldn’t fit in them. I had to have a separate desk and chair.
“Then when I got to secondary school I wasn’t allowed to do physical education. My PE teacher was great. She wouldn’t let me do anything that would hurt my boobs. I wasn’t allowed to do star jumps at all and with the other exercises, if the rest of the class were doing 10, I would only have to do three. Masked Singer – Hedgehog revealed.
“I couldn’t wear the leotard everyone else did – I had to wear shorts and a top and a different uniform.”
Norma said having good friends ensured she was never bullied, but she was short of admirers from the opposite sex.
“Boys were ashamed to be seen with me,” she says. “I became ashamed of my breasts and my body.
“Then I started to get attention from men on the street. Old men, complete strangers, would stop me and offer me sweets if I showed them my boobs.
“Even in my early teens my breasts were 42DD. I was so self-conscious.”
These days Norma weighs 25 stone and her bust – that 102ZZZ measurement means that her chest is 8ft 6ins around – simply swamps her 5ft 6ins frame.
Her size made it tough to find a man who wanted her for the right reasons.
She says: “I had my first boyfriend in college but we never had sex. I didn’t want to take my clothes off in front of him. We never had sex in the four years that we dated.
“I then had another boyfriend who made me realize that I didn’t need to be ashamed of my body. When the time came for us to have sex, I turned off the lights and got under the covers before I took my clothes off.
“He waited patiently while I did that. Then he came over to the bed and pulled me out of it. He put the lights back on and made me walk over to a mirror and made me look at myself in that mirror.
“He told me I was beautiful just the way I was.”
But Norma, of Virginia, USA, says it wasn’t until she met her husband Allen that she got over her poor body image. The couple met at a bus stop one day and it was love at first sight.
“Allen turned me into a very sexual being,” she says. “He loved my boobs and made me see them in a different light. Every day he would tell me I was the sexiest woman alive.”
Norma was 22 when she lost her virginity. But she says: “I can only have sex lying on my side.”
When she had their two children she didn’t breastfeed as she couldn’t reach out far enough to put her babies on her nipple.
Norma says Allen – who died of cancer five years ago – always talked her out of having a breast reduction.
“Every doctor I went to would try and talk me into getting a boob reduction,” she says. “Now and then I would come home with paperwork from the doctor about a reduction and Allen would tell me off.
“One time he sulked and wouldn’t speak to me for two weeks. He loved my boobs and believed that I should embrace them and thank God for giving them to me.
“I have no regrets about not having a breast reduction because I’m healthy. If they were so big that I couldn’t breathe then that’s a totally different story.”
Norma admits that her breasts may have got in the way of a traditional career, but Allen encouraged her to send pictures of herself to magazines and by 1997 she was making her own movies.
“I run an adult production company and that is where I’ve made my money,” she says. “I’m paying to put my girl through college. She’s a smart girl.”
Norma’s daughter Clara is 19 and her son Darius 22.
“They think I am the coolest mum in the world,” says Norma.
“They are very proud of me. But they do get embarrassed because I am all over the internet and on TV in the US.
“My son gets offended when people stare at me. But I tell him don’t get upset – my breasts are what draws people to me.”
And now she has a new boyfriend, Lee, who she met on the internet a year ago.
“He had already heard of me so my breasts didn’t come as a shock. It’s wonderful – he loves me, not just my breasts.”
Manchester City footballer, Phil Foden has revealed he is set to become a dad for the second time, according to a new report.
He and childhood sweetheart Rebecca Cooke, both now 20, had their son Ronnie in January 2019 when Foden was just 18.
Now the midfielder who is in the best form of his career has told friends they are expecting a baby girl to join them in their £3.25million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire.
According to the Sun UK, the new arrival is expected in late summer or early autumn.
A source said of Foden and his team Manchester City: “City can’t stop scoring at the moment — both on and off the pitch.
“They’ve hit the back of the net more times than any of the teams and are now celebrating another kid.
“It couldn’t be a better way to cap off such a great season.”
Oakridge Schools is one of the top private schools in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. It is a modern school with lots of facilities. At Oakridge School, we have high expectations of our children and set challenging targets for them. Every child is encouraged to reach their full potential and we recognize that every child is special and has their own contributions to make.
Our staff are dedicated, hardworking and experienced. We provide a safe, calm and caring atmosphere in school and foster a hardworking ethos based on an enjoyment of learning within a stable environment. We expect a great deal from our children and they do not disappoint us. We are pleased to offer a varied selection of enrichment and enhancement opportunities and possess excellent links with our diverse community – we are very proud of our reputation as a warm, welcoming, family school.
Our Vision
To provide a warm welcoming secure environment for all children
To encourage, value and extend every child’s contribution to the school
To recognise and celebrate success in everyone
To provide a broad, balanced, carefully planned curriculum
To build strong collaborative partnerships with families and the local community
To encourage and enable the continuous professional development of all staff.
Aims & Objectives
Below are some of our aims and objectives:
To care for and support all children equally regardless of race, sex, ethnic group, religion or special needs
To enable every child to achieve their full potential and to demonstrate excellence
To offer a broad, exciting and relevant curriculum that recognizes and supports individual learning needs
To promote high standards of learning and achievement
To expect high quality academic work
To equip every child with the personal resources they will need for the future
To have high personal and social expectations of all children
To promote high standards of behavior through firm but fair relationships
To encourage respect for others
To encourage children to take responsibility for their own actions
To work in partnership with parents
To work in partnership with the community
To operate in a happy, well maintained, safe, clean and attractive school
Our Core Values
Below are some of the values that we hold high:
We have high expectations
We put people first
We value everyone
We are excited when children learn
We encourage through praise and reward
We enable everyone to believe in themselves
We are a mutually supportive community
We love learning new things and we enjoy sharing our successes
We enjoy finding new ways of thinking and we enjoy challenges
We take care of, enjoy and respect our environment
It is important that we feel successful
We get excited when we learn something new
We all feel good about ourselves
We enjoy working as a team and also learn to become independent
Former US first lady, Melania Trump made her second public appearance in a week on Wednesday night, April 14 after shying away from the spotlight for months since her husband Donald left the White House back in January.
Melania was spotted enjoying dinner with her husband Donald Trump at a private roped-off table at Mar-a-Lago.
The dinner outing marks the seventh occasion the 50-year-old former First Lady has been seen out and about since their departure from the White House.
The photos, which were taken by guests at the Palm Beach resort and shared online show Melania and Donald, 74, sitting side-by-side at a round table outdoors at one of Mar-a-Lago's restaurants.
For the outing, the mother-of-one rocked an elegant sleeveless dress, while her husband wore a navy suit, white button-up shirt, and a striped tie.
The public dinner comes just days after Melania and Donald stepped out for a fundraiser held at the Florida club - where she and former President Trump have been living since leaving Washington, D.C. in January.
