Sad: A Turkish Woman Dies From Mosquito Bite In Nigeria

One Selda Durmaz, a Turkish Airlines flight attendant has reportedly lost her life on Friday night in an Istanbul hospital as a result of a mosquito bite in Nigeria, while she was on duty.

Shortly after her trip to Nigeria, she got sick.

On her return to Istanbul, she went to the hospital because of a persistent high fever.

 

Twice she was diagnosed with the flu, according to allegations, but the third hospital diagnosed her with malaria which she picked up in Nigeria.

 

Durmaz was later given medical treatment in Istanbul at a private hospital, but she lost her life on Friday night at around 2 a.m.

Hurray!!!! Pokello and Elikem Weds - See Pictures

Former Big Brother Africa lovebirds, Pokello Elikem is married.

Ghanaian actor and tailor, Elikem Kumordzie and his Zimbabwean damsel, Pokello Nare have finally tied the knot.

It all happened at the family home in Harare where the Ghanaian is said to have paid USD16,000 for his lovely woman. That is for the bride price.

See their locely pictures below:

My Life After Death: Man Recounts His Scary Odeal

Okwudili Pictured above recounts his scary experience in after life. He claims he went to bed one night and ‘died’. And in his death, he experienced life in the after-life.

 

Read below;

How I Died Last Night

Several times in conversations I have always heard people asking questions bordering on the facts of afterlife, but I’m more concerned with life now not the after; to be a master of myself here and now, a true doer of GOOD, daily striving in self conquest and to bear witness to the truth as little or as much as possible as I realize daily.

But…Last Night, I Died!

It was just like every other night, I took my night shower, wore my usual night wear and went to bed. The moment I closed my eyes in sleep, I became aware of a great darkness that lasted for just a heartbeat and I awoke into a great light. I was aware of my house, I was in my room but somehow I wasn’t in it because I moved by thought, I saw my body as it lay on the bed just as I left it, looking so peaceful.

I was aware of some presence around me but I wasn’t interested in whatever it was because I was still fascinated with being here, being more alive than dead, unlimited except by my mind while I watch my body lay there. Several times I have said in conversations that “I am not my body” but now, I can see the reality of that statement. With thought I was running around the house just like a kid will joyfully run around with a new found toy to play with.

I remembered my mum and siblings, I thought of the last one Nonye who is taking her exams right now and immediately I was in her room and God saved her soul that she was studying and not elsewhere doing God knows what. I was impressed by her studiousness that it reminded me of those days in Unizik days and right that moment I was in the past, watching myself studying alongside Joe and Sammer, I stood beside myself as though an angel and touched my youngself on the head and he felt shivers run from his head through his spine. He looked up at Joe and Sammer for they noticed his shiver.

I remembered that day very well because I did it felt that shiver that day several years ago. Joe sang at a gig that night and because it was a planned revision, he had to join us. I remember Sammer telling Joe that the future of the Nigerian music industry lies with his likes and that we can’t wait to watch him on the screen while Joe told him not to fail us in taking Nigeria further up the scale of technological inventions and improvements.

As they started talking to me of what they believed that the future held for me my thought drifted to Joe, how the engineering world swallowed him up and obscured his music genius, right that moment I was in his house up in PortHarcourt and I was glad to see that he is not lost entirely to Engineering because he appears to be working on music in his spare time, I hope we get to hear and watch him soon.

I thought of Sammer and right there I was with him in his bedroom, it was 2:22am according to his laptop time, it appears that he dozed of not long ago because his laptop was still on rather than asleep or hibernated when it stays on for long without use. He is indeed working hard to give the world, fruits of his beautiful creative mind. He had a beautiful damsel laying right beside him whom I intuitively knew to be his fiancé and I wondered how he never mentioned this girl to me before… she seemed familiar but couldn’t place her face.

I had to gather myself away from my friends back to my family, I was immediately in Onyi’s house watching her sleep beside her husband, I smiled while I watched them sleep, I had spoken with her earlier in the day about things I want her to help me get in her town. I had to check my other sister Jane and there she was with her son Keto, they looked so fine as they slept without any worries… a young widow who has shown the kind of strength I never knew she had, she reminded me of the words of Saint James Allen, “Circumstances does not make a man, it reveals him to himself”, indeed her sudden widowhood has revealed the strength in her.

Then I had to see the latest mum in town who had taken my mum hostage, the most amazing medical doctor I know and there she was… awake in that hour of the morning trying hard to console her crying baby. I watched her as she took the baby to my mum who advised her to feed the baby and as she did, her cry seized and she gradually slept. It was so beautiful and amazing to watch, I felt good.

“My people are happy”, I thought to myself. So why will the realization of my departure take away their happiness and joy, I wished there was a way I could tell them that death is okay and that I am actually alive. But then the truth is, the pain of the bereaved is generated by the fact that they won’t see their loved one ever again in the flesh and communicate with them… it’s a painful thought.

I was immediately back to my house where my body lay in stillness and serenity as I had left it. I became aware again of the great light I felt when I woke out of my body earlier. I turned my attention to it and realized something quite intriguing. The concentration of great light emanates from the presence of a few ascended souls whom I couldn’t make out their faces but as I moved swiftly towards them, the closer in proximity I was to them, the clearer I seem to see the outline of their faces. I realized the personalities they were, the answer came to me as though they spoke to me without speaking, I don’t know if that makes sense but that’s how I knew who they were.

I am writing this experience not because I died but because of the souls that welcomed me into the other side. Souls that inspired wisdom and the greatest of values, People popularly known and some unknown, people that shook history, people that affected my life both directly and indirectly. I am writing this story because I know you will be interested in what they had to say to me and to you in extension. I am writing for you.

This is not the end of the story.

I am Okwudili! Last Night I Died

He Also Added…

“You have heard it said that death is an enemy, the last to be destroyed but I say unto you ‘death is not an enemy, the fear of death is!’ And you have to destroy this fear by yourself with the weapon of truth & understanding… Death is vital to human existence on earth, fear it not!”

“Dying for someone you love doesn’t happen unless you have to lie to take their place which will be a dishonorable way to die and that won’t be love.

“Love doesn’t absolve people from their due responsibility, rather it supports them in being responsible even when it hurts.

“The people we love do not need that we die for them, they need that we stand with them.”

 

Culled from CCNA

Actress Yvonne Nelson Celebrates Mum on Fathers Day

Yvonne Nelson has decided to celebrate her mum on Sunday, June 21, 2015 – a day set aside for the celebrations of fathers.

Ghanaian movie star took to her social media accounts to celebrate her mum in commemoration of the Father’s Day celebrations.

Yvonne shared some pictures with her mother on her Instagram page and captioned them,

‘Happiness is seeing your MOTHER smile Happy Father’s Day Mama ‘ and ‘Mother- someone who will love you unconditionally till her last breath. Happy Father’s Day MUM.’

Does it mean that the super actress didn’t have a father figure while growing up as her mum seem to have filled up the space in her heart.

Your view on the comment box below............................

How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are)

Understand that life is not a straight line. Life is not a set timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don't finish school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or that age. It’s okay if you do, as long as you understand that if you’re not married by 25, or a Vice President by 30 — or even happy, for that matter — the world isn’t going to condemn you. 

 

You are allowed to backtrack. You are allowed to figure out what inspires you. You are allowed time, and I think we often forget that. We choose a program right out of high school because the proper thing to do is to go straight to University. We choose a job right out of University, even if we didn’t love our program, because we just invested time into it. We go to that job every morning because we feel the need to support ourselves abundantly. We take the next step, and the next step, and the next step, thinking that we are fulfilling some checklist for life, and one day we wake up depressed. We wake up stressed out. We feel pressured and don’t know why. That is how you ruin your life.

You ruin your life by choosing the wrong person. What is it with our need to fast-track relationships? Why are we so enamored with the idea of first becoming somebody’s rather than somebodies? Trust me when I say that a love bred out of convenience, a love that blossoms from the need to sleep beside someone, a love that caters to our need for attention rather than passion, is a love that will not inspire you at 6am when you roll over and embrace it. Strive to discover foundational love, the kind of relationship that motivates you to be a better man or woman, the kind of intimacy that is rare rather than right there. “But I don’t want to be alone,” we often exclaim. Be alone. Eat alone, take yourself on dates, sleep alone. In the midst of this you will learn about yourself. You will grow, you will figure out what inspires you, you will curate your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own stunning clarity, and when you do meet the person who makes your cells dance, you will be sure of it, because you are sure of yourself. Wait for it. Please, I urge you to wait for it, to fight for it, to make an effort for it if you have already found it, because it is the most beautiful thing your heart will experience.

You ruin your life by letting your past govern it. It is common for certain things in life to happen to you. There will be heartbreak, confusion, days where you feel like you aren’t special or purposeful. There are moments that will stay with you, words that will stick. You cannot let these define you – they were simply moments, they were simply words. If you allow for every negative event in your life to outline how you view yourself, you will view the world around you negatively. You will miss out on opportunities because you didn’t get that promotion five years ago, convincing yourself that you were stupid. You will miss out on affection because you assumed your past love left you because you weren’t good enough, and now you don’t believe the man or the woman who urges you to believe you are. This is a cyclic, self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don’t allow yourself to move past what happened, what was said, what was felt, you will look at your future with that lens, and nothing will be able to breach that judgment. You will keep on justifying, reliving, and fueling a perception that shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

You ruin your life when you compare yourself to others. The amount of Instagram followers you have does not decrease or increase your value. The amount of money in your bank account will not influence your compassion, your intelligence, or your happiness. The person who has two times more possessions than you does not have double the bliss, or double the merit. We get caught up in what our friends are liking, who our significant others are following, and at the end of the day this not only ruins our lives, but it also ruins us. It creates within us this need to feel important, and in many cases we often put others down to achieve that.

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how, you love. There is courage in that.

You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential. The next Michelangelo could be sitting behind a Macbook right now writing an invoice for paperclips, because it pays the bills, or because it is comfortable, or because he can tolerate it. Do not let this happen to you. Do not ruin your life this way. Life and work, and life and love, are not irrespective of each other. They are intrinsically linked. We have to strive to do extraordinary work, we have to strive to find extraordinary love. Only then will we tap into an extraordinarily blissful life.

Here’s What To Do When Everybody You Know Is Getting Married, Except You

You always know when the next one is upon you. You log into Facebook and your newsfeed displays a picture of somebody’s hand on her boyfriend’s chest. Otherwise known to single people as the Hand of Death. You don’t have to read the caption. You don’t need to see the “Congratulations!” posts. You know what this hand means.

So these people you know or sorta-know are engaged, and your typical post-engagement behaviors start to kick in. Zooming in on the picture, checking out the ring, texting your friends, resisting the temptation to leave a comment that says, “So you agree, you think you’re really pretty?”, making a list of the reasons why you’ll be forever alone, etc etc.

But when you think about it, you can’t really remember when you decided that marriage was something you wanted. There was no day where you just magically knew that an engagement should be the next step on your path to adulthood.

Rather, a switch flipped at one point and suddenly everybody was pairing off, getting engaged, planning weddings, and then actually having them. What was once an insane and unbelievable thing – “What? They’re engaged?! How? We’re all so young!” – has suddenly become the standard thing amongst people your age, because you’re not twenty-two anymore and this is just what happens.

You don’t feel like that much time has passed since the start of all this, since the first peers, that you knew personally, got engaged. But now everybody’s doing it. In your childhood, it was all about Tomagotchi’s. In your teens, your life was about braces and uncomfortable group dates to see Pirates of the Caribbean. 

But now, in your twenties, the focus has shifted to finding a partner with whom you can make a serious, lifelong commitment. It sounds romantic, but if you’re alone, sometimes you’d rather still be an awkward teenager, sitting in that movie theater while the kid with the spiked hair tries to touch your non-existent boobs.

It’s an overwhelming thing to experience – everybody rushing to pair off and start a life together – and it often makes you feel like that’s what you need to do next. You don’t even have time to think about whether or not it’s what you want right now, because the feelings of urgency and panic have erased any sense of logical thinking in your mind.

Often, the only thought you’re left with is This happening for everybody else, except me. I’m screwed.

It’s hard not to be consumed by it – by the never-ending what-if’s and the worry that you’re going to end up alone. You forget to live and instead start revolving your life around the happenings of other people. You feel hopeless, lost, listless. You feel like you no longer have a chance at happiness in this game.

But here’s the thing: this is not a game.

Nobody is going to win. Nobody is better than you for getting married. And you’re not better than anybody else for not getting married. Marriage doesn’t make you needy and dependent, and being single doesn’t make you independent. Measuring your life up against anybody else is a waste of time because you will never be them and they will never be you.

It will be tempting to try to find something that makes you feel superior to others. You’ll want to label people. They got married too young or That couple will be divorced in less than ten years or Well they’re married, but I’m out living it up or At least I’m having fun. 

You’re allowed to feel weird about the fact that it feels like everyone else is getting married except for you. But you’re not allowed to use another person’s situation as the bar against which you should measure yourself and your life.

Marriage changes a lot of things, but it also doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t validate your existence. It doesn’t officially make you an adult. It doesn’t mean you’re successful. But it also doesn’t mean you’ve succumbed to society’s norms, or you’ve given up your independence, or you’ve decided to to become boring.

Marriage is a beautiful thing, but it will not complete you, and it will not fix you. Right now, it seems like all these newly engaged and newly married people are oozing with happiness, and they probably are. But just like all other adult things, marriage is hard. Marriage is work. The rosy glow will fade into something that – while still special and sacred – eventually just becomes part of everyday life.

Accept that sometimes you’ll feel weird, or uncomfortable, or uneasy. Accept that this is a hard time for you. And then move on. Because it’s not like all the single people are on one side of the fence, unhappy and depressed and worthless, and all the married people are on the other side of the fence, blissful and free of worry and completely at peace.

Married or not, everybody has issues, everyone has worries, everybody has things that keep them up at night. Marriage, for the most part, will provide you with a partner that can support you, but it will not fix your problems. It will not validate your life and your purpose. It will not give you meaning.

You must find that meaning in yourself. You must learn to love your own company, learn to appreciate the simple joy of existing, learn that you have dignity that exists with or without another person’s love.

Learn to love yourself. Learn to love existing. Watch how much joy will come into your life the minute you stop trying to copy someone else’s life path. Perhaps, when you do this, love will come. Perhaps not. But either way, the minute you learn to stop measuring your life up against ridiculous and pointless standards, happiness will show up. Maybe not in the form you expected. But it will be there. 

Aww!!! Check Out What a Young Girl Did to her Dad’s Car for Father’s Days

Yesterday was father’s day and people were showing love to the men in their lives.

This Innocent child could not wait to show her love for her Daddy, so she expressed hers in a 'harmless' manner.

Imagine if you wake up and your child had this ‘Surprise Gift’ on your car.

What would be your reaction, if u were the Father?

Remember she did it out of her love for you…

Kim Kardashian Sends Kanye West Father's Day Wishes, Confirms Baby Gender

In a recent social media rant, Kim laughed at various baby rumors and told fans to only listen to her if they wanted the truth.

So here it is: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are having a boy!!!

"Precious moments like this when we were traveling on tour with you are what I live for," Kim wrote on Facebook Sunday night, along with a picture of Kanye reading to daughter North.
 
She then dropped the gender bomb and added:
"You're such a good daddy to North & you will be the best daddy to our new son too!"

Earlier in the day, Kardashian had included a different picture on Facebook and penned her husband a sweet Father's Day message:

"I'm so lucky to be married to a man who is so in love with his daughter, your bond is so irreplaceable!
"Thank you for being such a good dad! We love and appreciate you so much! We're so blessed to have you!"


After facing many problems with conception, this famous couple announced its second pregnancy in May.

The latest addition to the West family will arrive in December.

A previous report had claimed Kim and Kanye were having a boy, while other online chatter alleged she was having twins and one outlet somehow wrote she was lying about the pregnancy in general.

But now we know for sure and now we can send Kimye our best wishes... while resuming our hunt for the Kim's baby bump.

See Rick Ross Amazing Weight Loss In New Photo

Remember fat Rick Ross?
 
Well below is picture of him standing next to label mate Meek Mil.


Who on earth would imagine that the celebrity will ever be this good looking? This is to say that hard work really pays......he is now better and healthier!!!

Awesome transformation!!! What do you think?

Kylie Jenner Shows Off New Mansion: Picture of Her Shoe Closet Will Shock You

Back in February, Kylie bought her first home.

Now, a 17-year-old buying a house anywhere in the world for any price is impressive, but Ms Jenner picked up a $1.7 million mansion in the ritzy suburb of Calabasas, CA, and we're guessing the whole thing is already paid off.

So what's Kylie gonna do with all those square feet? Set up a work out room? Storage area? Maybe a play space for her boyfriend's son?

Gawd, you sound totally poor right now, hypothetical reader. You can do whatever lame stuff you want with your house, but Kylie's 'bout dat walk-in shoe closet life:
 
Yes, that's where Kylie stores her shoes, and the really crazy part is that it's probably not even big enough to house all of her Manolos, Louboutins, and other footwear so expensive, peasants like us haven't even heard of it.

How can Kylie afford all this? Well her family just got paid $100 million for four more seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, but that's not even Kylie main source of revenue these days.

The girl has an astonishing 26 million Instagram followers, and they listen to her advice on how to drop their dollars, whether it's on a detox tea she's paid to endorse, or on her own line of brightly-colored hair extensions.

Say what you will about the girl, but she's found a way to make her selfies pay off.