If Virginity Is The Pride Of A Lady, What Is A Guy's Pride?

If virginity is the Pride of lady, What is the Pride Of a Guy?..

Pls i want the guys to comment

Girls comment only if u know the answer

Charly Boy Releases New Pictures

SSS seeks Jonathan’s approval to demolish Abuja’s Amigo Supermarket

The detained Lebanese’ lawyer seeks respect for the constitution.

President Goodluck Jonathan is in receipt of a forceful request by state security agents recommending the immediate demolishing of one of Abuja’s most popular supermarket, Amigos, but has surprisingly withheld an approval more than a week after investigators sealed the supermarket for its Lebanese owners alleged terrorism link.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported how officials excavated ‘boxes’ from minor excavation works within Amigo. A security official involved in the activities however said no major weapons were recovered from the boxes, contrary to rumours, with only a pistol found in one of them.

Sources at the Department of State Security Service, SSS, told PREMIUM TIMES that the president has refused to communicate his decision on the matter to the Service, more than 72 hours, as is usual with reports sent by the department; stalling further work on the case, and raising concerns he may veto the proposal.

While the department recommends, in the report sent on Monday, that the sprawling mall, estimated at more than N5 billion be bulldozed and the area thoroughly frisked for concealed arms, it suggests Abuja’s biggest amusement park, Wonderland, also owned by the Lebanese, be immediately revoked by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA.

The property hosting the park is said to be owned by the Abuja administration and was only leased to the group for 10 years, our sources say.

With days passing and without a firm response from the president to what the SSS believes is need of urgent attention, investigators fear the proposal may be turned down by the president.

“We have sent in our report, but we can’t proceed without an approval by the president on such a matter of National Security,” a senior official of the SSS involved in the investigations said.

SSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, did not respond to phone calls seeking to get the agency’s official reaction and next line of action.

The president’s office did not also respond to request for response to this story. Emailed request for comments to presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati, on why the president has not decided, was unanswered; while his mobile telephone number was not available as at the time of this report.

Reasons for seeking demolition

Officials well briefed about Amigos / Wonderland investigations say the SSS’ recommendation that the supermarket be pulled down is based on three reasons: first, the security agency believes the place was used for stockpiling weapons.

Also, investigators they have evidence that proceeds of sales from the multi-billion enterprise have been used in funding terrorism; and lastly, the SSS is concerned a new administration after Jonathan’s may reallocate the property to the Lebanese group.

The last scenario is reflected upon the well-known case of the Indian business group, Vaswani brothers, who were deported by the Obasanjo administration for money laundering but were ushered back into the country at the advent of a successor administration of Umaru Yar’Adua in 2007.

The Jonathan administration has already faced criticisms for its response to what investigators say is a clear terrorism case, after the authorities took more than 24 hours since the discovery of weapons in Kano last week, before shutting down property linked to the suspects, including Amigos and Wonderland, both in the heart of the Nigerian capital. The Abuja property were sealed on Friday night while the Nigerian military had revealed the discovered weapons in a Kano property on Thursday evening.

The raids

In a raid that followed months of investigations, the military’s Joint Task Force and the SSS, last week Thursday, announced the discovery of huge amount of weapons, including rocket launchers and grenades, concealed in a bunker in the home of one of the co-owners of the two businesses after months of investigation.

According to the Joint Task Force, weapons found include 17 AK 47 rifles, 44 magazines, four land mines and 12 RPG bombs, 14 RPG charger, 11 66 mm anti-tanks weapons, one SMG magazine, one pistol and magazine.

Also, 11, 433 rounds of 7.26 mm special, 76 hand grenade, rocket propelled guns, 122 calibre artillery and anti mines weapons were recovered.

Fauzi Fawaz, one of the owners of Amigo Supermarket and Wonderland Amusement Park, was named as part of a Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist cell in Nigeria, who kept the weapons.

The JTF said Mr. Fawaz’ name was mentioned by “all those arrested,” for being in possession of the heavy weapons, and other terrorism related activities. Mr. Fawaz is now on the run.

According to the task force, three other Lebanese suspected of owning the weapons were arrested- one suspect arrested at a house on Gaya Road in Bompai area of Kano, while another in Abuja, and a third suspect apprehended since May 16, at Aminu Kano International Airport, on his way to Beirut, Lebanon.

After the arrest and Kano raid, SSS officials told to PREMIUM TIMES of “boxes” unearthed at the supermarket in Abuja, raising concerns of a broad terrorist network that had operated for years exposing millions of customers to danger.

Counsel seeks due process

A lawyer for the arrested suspects, Bamidele Aturu, however, questioned any rationale behind seeking for a demolition of the Amigo building.

Mr. Aturu had threatened legal action against the federal government if those arrested were not charged to court on Wednesday as required by law.

“What law allows the demolition? Nobody supports terrorism, but what we are asking is that they follow the laws of the land,” the lawyer told PREMIUM TIMES on phone.

Mr. Aturu said he has not been allowed to speak to his detained clients (the three Lebanese arrested) including a co-owner of the two Abuja companies, Mustapha Fawaz, since their incarceration. He said the SSS was yet to respond to his letter and they barred him from entering their Abuja headquarters when he went there to see his clients.

“They (the SSS) said they would contact me, but I’ve not heard anything from them,” the lawyer said.

Mr. Aturu said he wants the government to strongly fight terrorism, but not violate people’s right and the constitution in doing so.

NIGERIAN Trapped for three days under the sea

Durban - In what has been described as an incredible feat, a team of South African divers, including at least four from Durban, has rescued a man who spent almost three days in an air bubble - 30m under the sea - after the tugboat he was on capsized off the coast of Nigeria.

Ten other crew members died and one is still missing. Many of them were locked in their cabins as a precaution against pirates.

But Nigerian Harrison Okene had just got up when the ship rolled. He was able to get himself into an air

bubble just 1.5m by 3m, where he perched on a table to keep himself alive, drinking softdrinks out of cans that were floating around him.

According to the owners of the boat, West Africa Ventures, the vessel capsized, but did not sink to the bottom. It floated 30m below the surface, with Okene trapped inside. The vessel had been towing a tanker to a mooring buoy on May 26 when it was flipped by heavy swells.

The South African divers were on a different expedition on the West Coast of Africa when they responded to a May Day call. A 100km away the Chevron-chartered tugboat, AHT Jascon 4, had capsized. It was 27km off Escaros in the oil rich Delta state of Nigeria.

What was meant to be a body recovery mission for the South African divers turned into an underwater rescue when, after 60 hours alone in the wreck, Okene grabbed a diver as he swam past, having earlier failed to attract the attention of the first diver down.

Divers were shocked to have found Okene alive and said they were amazed by how calm he was during the rescue. Because he had been 30m underwater his body had filled with nitrogen and divers had to put him into a decompression helmet before he could be safely brought to the surface.

Okene’s incredible feat and the divers’ effort to bring him to the surface safely has caught the attention of maritime experts and international film-makers who want to turn the rescue into a documentary.

Writing on the Facebook page of a maritime website, Paul McDonald, a “dynamic positioning officer” on board the dive support vessel involved with the recovery and rescue mission, said: “All on board could not believe how cool he was when being rescued. The divers put a diving helmet and harness on to him and he followed the diver to the bell where he was then taken to deck level and kept in the chamber and decompressed for 2 days. It was amazing to be part of this rescue and my sympathy is with the families who lost (their) loved ones.”

Rob Almeida, an accomplished sailor and partner at gCaptain, in an article written for the company’s website, had spoken to former US Navy Salvage Officer Patrick Keenan about the amazing rescue

“The fact this person survived is incredible,” commented Keenan. “After spending two days at 30 meters of depth, he had become saturated, meaning his body had absorbed all the pressurised gases and equalised with the surrounding water pressure. Bringing him to surface from that depth, and after having been saturated at 3 or 4 atmospheres, could easily have killed him.” In saturation diving, divers are brought to the surface from depth using a pressurised diving bell, which mates up to a pressurised chamber on deck. This allows the “saturated” divers to live and work above and below the surface at a steady pressure state for an indefinite period of time, and most importantly, to be brought to the surface safely,” Keenan wrote.

Specialist deep sea diver Patrick Voorma, who owns Calypso Dive Centre at uShaka Marine World, said it was incredible that Harrison was able to survive at those depths for such a long period.

“When you are under water, your internal body pressure will become the same pressure as the water pressure surrounding you. If you go down to 30m there is four bars of pressure - double the pressure in your car tyres - being exerted in your body,” he said.

“By staying under water for such a long time, your body becomes saturated and you will have four bars worth of gas pressure in your body of which the nitrogen will be the problem.”

“It will be like opening up a can of Coke. All that nitrogen will just rush out of your body and will give you a gas embolism which can kill you instantly.”

Corrie van Kessel, spokeswoman for West Africa Ventures, said on Thursday that the divers had yet to find the body of the 12th crew member.

“The search and rescue operation that has been under way since 26 May 2013 has had to be stopped for safety reasons.

The vessel, Jascon 4, which is located some 30 metres under water in an upside down position, has become so unstable that the risk of injury to our rescue divers has become unacceptably high,” Van Kessel said in a statement.

“Our divers performed an extremely difficult and dangerous task in the most testing of conditions and we are grateful for their professional service as well as the contributions of many other personnel who gave all their efforts to this challenging recovery operation.”

Tonto Dikeh's VIP Birthday In London (Pictures)

I told y'all I was going to bring you the pictures from her Cokobar hosted VIP birthday parry.

Here they are.

Tonto's birthday is actually tomorrow, same day she will be co-hosting Iyanya's Kukere London concert. 

Bomb Blast Averted In Kaduna

Kaduna Police Avert Bomb Crisis

There was uproar in Kaduna City around KeffI Road/Junction road Today when passers-by suspect a package to be bomb. This occurred around 3pm and it petrified people in that area and which made businessmen and women to lock shops while civil servants and hurried back home so as to avoid post bomb blast horror.

The object was obscured in a leather without knowing who place it there. It was the nature of the package that make it look suspicious and made passer-by alert the police, thereafter it was detonated.

Meanwhile, road blocked make it difficult for vehicle and pedestrians to move freely along the area.

Source: Kaduna

Saka Porting To MTN Was A Mistake - Etisalat Boss

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria, Steven Evans, yesterday described the decision of one of the brand’s artiste, Afeez Oyetoro, popularly known as Saka, to dump its competitor and acclaimed “dominant operator,” MTN, as a “mistake.”
Evans disclosed this at an interactive session with reporters on Mobile Number Portability (MNP) at Raddison Blue Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. He said Saka’s decision was a mistake, arguing that it is not uncommon for people to make mistakes once in a while in life.
“Saka made a mistake. Sometimes in life, people make mistakes. He is still coming back,” he quipped without further explanation.
He was responding to a question bothering on whether the telco will re-examine its policy of not fully converting its artiste to brand ambassadors considering its experience with Saka.
Sources close to the artiste alleged that his promoters had passionately appealed to Etisalat to convert him to its ‘brand ambassador’ after using him for the activation of several ad campaigns that recorded resounding successes but the mobile operator turned deaf ears to these appeals. The source said it made the suggestion to the telco several times without success, lamenting that rather than weigh the option on altar of reasoning, Etisalat preferred to pay him between N200,000 and N250,000 for each campaign and let him go.
The source said when MTN dangled the carrot of N20 million at Saka, he did not wait for any further consultation before jumping at the offer.

Service year of 158 corps members extended

The National Youth Service Corps has sanctioned over 158 corps members for various offences, The Punch gathered on Thursday.

While some of them would repeat the service year, others had theirs extended for between two weeks and five months.

The culprits were part of the 2012 Batch ‘B’ corps members, who passed out across the country on Thursday.

This came as seven corps members died within the period in Rivers and Nasarawa states.

In Osun State, the NYSC state Coordinator, Mrs. Mojibola Eboagwu, said 21 corps members, who absconded from service, would be sanctioned.

In an address at the ceremony in the state, Eboagwu added that nine corps members, who absented themselves from duty, would face sanction.

Eboagwu said, “I am glad that the majority of the 3, 797 corps members passing out today have proved to be good ambassadors of the scheme.

“Ten corps members, who have distinguished themselves in various ways shall receive state awards.

“Twenty-five others will be given commendations. Nine corps members, who have committed such offences such as absenteeism and 21 who absconded from service are to be sanctioned.

“Their penalties range from extension to outright repetition of service in the case of absconding.”

The Enugu NYSC Coordinator, Mr. Hilary Nasamu, said three errant corps members had their service year extended.

“One corps member, who absconded from service, will be remobilised to start afresh whenever he resurfaces,” said Nasamu.

Meanwhile, 21 corps members, whose performances were exceptional, were honoured in the state.

The Rivers State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs. Josephine Okuonghae, said 17 corps members were sanctioned for various offences.

According to her, eight of the corps members will repeat the service, while the remaining nine will have theirs extended to between two weeks and five months.

She noted that the state lost four corps members within the period.

In Akwa Ibom State, coordinator of the scheme, Mr. Akinkunmi Martins, said three corps members would repeat the service year, while 49 others had an extension  of between one and four months.

He said, “A total of three corps members will repeat the service, while 49 others will serve extension periods ranging from one month to four months.”

The Ondo State NYSC Director, Mr. Isiaka Kuoye, said 13 corps members would repeat the programme, while 19 others had the service year extended for commiting various offences.

According to him, 13 of the corps members refused to report to their primary places of assignment.

From Nasarawa State, the NYSC Coordinator, Mr Stephen Alabi, who said the ceremony was shelved because of the security challenges, added that 18 corps members would repeat the service, while five others had theirs extended for between two and five months.

The culprits, he said, committed various offences.

Ngozi Nwosu's Sickness Started With Pile

Actress, Ngozi Nwosu, who thankfully has been responding to treatment and actually getting better after she was diagnosed with a kidney and heart related ailment has explained how it all started. 

And according to her, her ailment began with the treatment of pile several months back and she had always known she wasn't going to die because she had faith in God.

Ngozi said:

 “I haven’t been working for 2years. All this problem started with pile, so for almost a year, I couldn’t do anything. I was battling with just pile until finally I had an operation and just when I was getting myself back, I did one or two jobs before the kidney thing started.

Basically nothing runs through the mind of a sick person than you know you will find health one day. I knew I would not die because really there was a time I felt well, it’s over but at one point in time, I just knew that God loves me and I take each day as I see it and so here I am. Everything has to do with faith.

On when she would return to acting, the actress said she would be returning to the UK for her treatment which is still ongoing, thus, she would return only when she is as fit as fiddle.

“I’m going back to the UK because I’m not through with my treatment yet, I’m still getting my treatment. Even if I’ve been having the urge to work, I can’t deceive myself because I know I can’t work now, I have to be fit before I can work….” she rounded off.

Super Eagles FIFA Confederations Cup Squad!

This is the list official list announced by FIFA today:

Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama, Austine Ejide, Chigozie Agbim

Defenders: Godfrey Oboabona, Uwa Echiejile, Efe Ambrose, Azubuike Egwueke, Solomon Kwambe, Francis Benjamin, Kenneth Omeruo

Midfielders: John Ogu, John Obi Mikel, Fegor Ogude, Ogenyi Onaz, Emeka Eze, Sunday Mba

Forwards: Ahmed Musa, Brown Ideye, Joseph Akpala, Muhammad Gambo, Anthony Ujah, Michael Babatunde, Nnamdi Oduamadi

I wish our darling Super Eagles good luck.

MTN replaces 285 expatriates with Nigerian workers

Leading digital mobile operator, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, has replaced 285 expatriates with Nigerian workers in a move to save costs and also encourage local content in the company.

The Corporate Service Executive, MTN, Mr. Wale Goodluck, disclosed this at MTN Leadership Forum in Abuja, where leading management author, Dr. Ram Charan, spoke on the imperatives of growing the Nigerian economy.

Goodluck said at the time MTN entered Nigeria in 2001, the company had expatriate staff of 300, but added that the burden of catering for the large expatriate workers was heavy, thereby informing the decision to replace them with Nigerians.

He said MTN was able to replace the expatriates through the twin policy of poaching Nigerians in the Diaspora and investing in the training of local engineers.

Goodluck added that the investment of the company in training of Nigerian engineers had paid off, with MTN now sending them to work in other countries.

Delivering the lecture, which was attended by key persons in government, including the Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Prof. Nwanze Okidegbe, Charan said it was important for the Federal Government to focus on a few things in order to attract quality Foreign Direct Investments.

Charan said it was difficult for any nation to make it without sufficient FDIs, adding that Nigeria did not need to eliminate corruption before jump-starting the economy.

Positing that corruption was inherent in all countries, he said while Nigeria could put some energy into fighting it, the most important thing to do was to pick a few things to focus on and create the large picture in the minds of the people.

In a similar development, the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Prof. Cleopas Angaye, emphasised the need to raise the human capital to ensure the transformation of the nation.

Angaye, who spoke at the opening of an ICT capacity-building workshop for senators in Abuja on Thursday, said NITDA had embarked on massive investment in ICT capacity-building.

“The development of requisite ICT human capital will enhance the capacities of individuals and working teams, whilst improving organisation systems and process as well as fostering national development, economic growth and global competitiveness,” he said.

The NITDA boss added that well-developed human capital would enhance productivity and provide additional source of foreign exchange for the country.

Police: 5 dead in California shooting, including gunman

Santa Monica, California

The gunman who went on a shooting rampage in Santa Monica, California, killed four people, police spokesman St. Richard Lewis said. Authorities said earlier that six had died, but revised the number to four. The gunman was also killed, bringing the total number of deaths to five.

The shooter began his rampage at a residence near the campus of Santa Monica College, opening fire in a house, where police later found two bodies. He then shot at a passing car before carjacking another vehicle, Lewis said. He forced the driver, a woman, to drive onto the college campus. There he shot two people in a passing vehicle. One died at the scene. The gunman also fatally shot someone outside the campus library, where he engaged police in a gunfight, Lewis said. Officers fatally wounded him.

[Earlier story]
Six people were killed in a shooting rampage in Santa Monica, California, that ended Friday with the gunman clad in tactical gear dead in a college library and a "person of interest" in custody, authorities said.

Students rush to safety after shots were fired.

"We are not convinced 100 percent that the suspect who was killed operated in a solo or alone capacity," Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks told reporters.

The comments came as police and firefighters searched the sprawling campus of Santa Monica College for other possible victims or shooters. By early evening, authorities declared the campus clear

The gunman has not been identified by authorities, Seabrooks said. She described him as a white male between the age of 25 and 35, clad in black and wearing what appeared to be a ballistic vest. He carried a semi-automatic assault rifle, she said.

Seabrooks did not identify the person in custody, nor did she explain why authorities wanted to talk with the individual.

At least three people were wounded in the shootings, which authorities believe began with a house fire and gunshots shortly before noon in a residential neighborhood near the college.

Jerry Cunningham was home when she heard the shots, and stepped out onto her porch to see what happened.

She saw the gunman firing at a neighboring house, and then she noticed it was on fire. She saw the gunman carjack a vehicle.

As he was holding the female motorist at gunpoint, the gunman waved another car by, Cunningham said. That driver, also a woman, hesitated for just a moment, and the gunman "fired three shots directly into her and the car," Cunningham said. The motorist was wounded in the shoulder, she said.

Inside the house, firefighters found the bodies of at least two people, Seabrooks said.

Map: Shooting in Santa Monica

Investigators believe the gunman knew the dead people in the house, but police were unsure of the connection.

The others killed in the rampage were targeted randomly, Seabrooks said.

Investigators did not immediately identify the victims, saying authorities were still making next-of-kin notifications.

It was not immediately clear whether a woman who died from wounds at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was counted among the six deaths. Another woman wounded in the shooting remains in critical condition, Dr. Marshall Morgan, chief of emergency medicine at the medical center, said Friday evening.

Within minutes of the carjacking, authorities said, the gunman targeted a bus in Santa Monica. Two passengers were injured, Suja Lowenthal, a Big Blue Bus spokeswoman, mistaqueens

A short distance later, the gunman opened fire on cars, including a patrol car, adjacent to the college.

"There was an exchange of gunfire at the time, and the suspect tried to evade," Seabrooks said.

The gunman ran on to the campus, where he again exchanged gunfire with police.

Student Joe Orcutt saw the exchange of gunfire and fled, only to come face-to-face later with the gunman near the campus parking lot.

"He was standing there. He looked over at me, and I looked at him. He just panned his gun and trained it on me, and I just jumped behind the building and he shot at me," Orcutt said.

Orcutt said he heard bullets "whiz by my head."

The gunman was "very calm, not running around." He was just "looking around for targets very casually," he said.

"He just looked like he was standing there posing for the cover an ammo magazine or something. It was bizarre."

The gunman exchanged gunfire at least once on the campus with police, Seabrooks said.

As he fled toward the campus library, he shot a woman, she said.

A number of students were in the library building studying for finals when the gunman burst in. More than 30,000 students are enrolled in the two-year community college.

A woman -- who was shaken up by the ordeal and asked not to be identified -- said she was in the building when she heard a noise, realized it was a gunshot, then took off running.

Then, in a hallway, she saw a dark-haired man whom she initially mistook for a police officer but later realized was the shooter. The man -- who she said was wearing black combat boots and what appeared to be a bullet-proof vest -- was quiet and walking casually.

"(He had) a big shotgun," the woman said.

She and a colleague eventually realized something wasn't right and ran in the opposite direction. "Multiple" gunshots rang out at one point, in an exchange of gunfire the woman described as like a war zone.

Priscilla Morales, who was also studying in the library, told us she looked out the window and saw people running.

She and her friends grabbed their books and belongings to leave the study room. "As we open the door, we hear three gunshots," she said.

Morales and the others closed the door and hid.

Still, she could hear the commotion: gunshots and then the gunman screaming

Morales also said she heard police tell the gunman to "drop it."

"I was so scared and thought literally I was going to die," she said

President Barack Obama was in Santa Monica for a fundraiser just a 10-minute drive from the campus, CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBSreported. Obama's schedule was not affected by the shootings or police followup.

SHOOTERS BODY

9 Including Students Arrested For Internet-Scam

Five under-graduates and four other Nigerians were on Monday, June 3, 2013 arrested by Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over internet-related fraud. The undergraduates, who are undergoing different courses in different institutions of higher learning, were rounded up in Ibadan, Oyo State in a sting operation.

They are: Sunkanmi Odewale - 200 level Mechanical Engineering student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State; Olowofola Tolu - 300 level Economics student of Lead City University, Ibadan; Ekundayo Damilola - 300 level Computer Science/Economics student, Lead City University, Ibadan; Adelabu Kolawole – HND II Purchasing and Supply student of Ibadan Polytechnic, Ibadan; Bankole Oluwaseyi Fisayo – OND II Marketing student of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree.

Others are: Okewole Adesesan - Real Estate Manager with Sesan Okewole & Sons Limited; Emmanuel Ubaman – trader; Fisayo Ajibola – Travel Agent with Milleage Travel and Tours; and Oyebisi Femi – a fish farmer.

The suspects who regularly milk their unsuspecting victims via the internet were arrested in different locations at Oluyole Estate extension, Ibadan, Oyo State. Items recovered from them include eight laptops, one mini-laptop, two Ipads; two Honda cars; a Toyota Camry and Toyota Venza cars. The suspects will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is concluded.

Wilson Uwujaren

Ag. Head, Media & Publicity

Facing Facts - 5 Myths About Women and Sex

There is so much misinformation floating around about women's sexual desire. It is built up to be so elusive, it is no wonder women feel restricted in their expression of it.

As a researcher who focuses a lot of my attention on sexual desire, I think it is important to set the record straight when it comes to misinformation regarding women's sexual desire.

Here are five myths decoded based on the science of desire:

Myth One: Women have lower sexual desire than men.

No! Research has found that women and men are equally likely to be the partner less desirous of sex. This hasn't been found in just one study, either. In my own research alone, I've found a non-significant difference between men and women in three different samples of couples.

Myth Two: Sexual response involves desire, then arousal, and then orgasm.


Desire doesn't have to come before arousal. Remember the sexual response cycle you learned in health class? That's right, most of you likely didn't learn about this in school... what a shame... topic for another post, perhaps. The model most commonly taught is Masters & Johnson's model of sexual response. It is linear. It doesn't include desire. And it ends with orgasm followed by resolution (they say women don't have to go through resolution, hence the ability for multiple orgasm). A sex therapist, Helen Singer Kaplan, came along and added desire to the model. But she left the model linear, with desire preceding arousal. A more recent model, created by Basson, allows for sexual desire to happen at any stage; much more accurate to women's experience. Sometimes, you don't have any desire but your partner starts messing around with you, arousal kicks in, and bam -- there's some desire you didn't know you had. Desire doesn't have to come first, and there is not necessarily anything wrong with you if it doesn't.

Myth Three: 43 percent of women suffer from sexual dysfunction.

The still frequently-cited statistic from a study by Laumann and colleagues conducted in 1999 that 43 percent of women suffer from sexual dysfunction is, simply stated, inaccurate. It is based on a yes/no response option, where participants were asked whether they had experienced any of seven problems for two months over the past year. If the women answered 'yes' to any of the problems, they were categorized in that 43 percent statistic. This question didn't give any context to the reason around the experienced problems (such problems included lack of desire for sex, anxiety about sexual performance and difficulties with lubrication). There are a lot of reasons other than 'dysfunction' that may account for those types of problems, such as health concerns, relationship issues or cultural expectations. We don't really know how many people suffer from sexual dysfunction, because to be frank, we don't really know whether it is a real dysfunction or not! But that is another topic for another day (but if you're interested, here is some research and a website that may be of interest).

Myth Four: Women with high sexual desire are anomalies.

A study on what were called 'highly sexual women' was recently published by Wentland and colleagues. Based on the responses of 932 women to their online questionnaire, they found that 52 percent of their sample could be classified as "highly sexual." Although sexual desire itself was not measured here, it does give some insight that women who are highly sexual may not be as rare as one might assume.

Myth Five: Women are vastly different from men when it comes to sexual desire.

In the research I've conducted in the area of sexual desire, the most surprising (and perhaps interesting) result has been that there is just as much variation in desire within men and women as there is between men and women. What I mean by that is, people make assumptions that men and women are so different (not just regarding sexual desire -- it goes beyond that), and this may all stem from the whole (recently debunked) 'Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus' idea. But this focus on differences doesn't bring us closer together; it pushes us further apart. And I don't have any research conducted in the past decade to support this vast gender difference when it comes to sexual desire. I've found that variations in sexual desire are much more of a relationship issue than a gender issue.

Women's sexual desire (and men's, too) is far from simple -- it is more like a complicated puzzle, the pieces of which we are still trying to put together. Having pervasive sex-negative myths like those busted above floating around isn't helping anyone. So, do your part to pass the truth on so we can start to get rid of these harmful messages about women and their expression of sexual desire.

Nigerian Graduates with 4.0CGPA out of 4.0 in University of Texas

A 24 year old Nigerian, Uwa Osamede Imafidon, just graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in the US with Masters degree in Microbiology and made a 4.0 CGPA out of the maximum 4.0 CGPA. 
Before her sojourn abroad, she had earlier bagged a First Class Degree in Crop Science from University of Benin, as the Best Graduating student in her Department. So proud of her! See photos of her when she was in Nigeria for her first degree, after the cut...

Beauty plus brains = great combination!

Rapper Drake gets a $2m Bugatti Veyron from label boss, Birdman

Young Money/Cash Money bosses, Birdman and Lil Wayne each drive a Bugatti. They decided to get one for Drake as a boss man.

Soldiers Flood Anambra Over Massob's Sit-at-home Order

Palpable fear has allegedly gripped the people of Anambra State especially residents of Onitsha, sequel to the reported arrival of group of soldiers in droves for security build up against the alleged Sit-At-Home order being canvassed by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.

As early as 7.30 am, Thursday, lorry loads of soldiers were sited trouping into Onitsha from the River Niger Bridge head.

Reports said they may have come from Delta and other neighbouring States into Onitsha as it is believed to be the operational headquarters of MASSOB, while Okwe, Imo State is the theoretical headquarters.

MASSOB had through its Director and Deputy Director of Information, Uche Madu and Mazi Chris Mocha warned that it would deal ruthlessly with any body who refused to observe the Sit-At-Home order.

According to Mocha, “the Sit-At-Home order remains June 8, 2013 and any group or groups that said it has been postponed said so on their own.”

Meanwhile, the State Police command had in a press release warned MASSOB and other groups agitating for a Sovereign State of Biafra to steer clear of June 8, Sit-At-Home stating that it would invoke some sections of the law to ensure that lives and property of the people are protected.

In a press statement yesterday, the State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka reminded MASSOB and other militant groups that they remain banned in the state.

He urged the citizenry to go about their normal business and forget about the ranting of those he described as miscreants.

It would be recalled that the Association of Igbo Youths Organization, AIYO, had on Tuesday stormed the Anambra State House of Assembly where it revealed that it would assist the security operatives in ensuring that the Sit-At-Home order would not be observed.

Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia

Imagine a lake that's never been affected by climate change or any other man-made influences. Australian scientists say they have found just that—a remote lake whose crystal-clear waters seem to be in the same chemical state as they were about 7,500 years ago.

"It's like God's bathtub," Dr. Cameron Barr told the Australian Associated Press of the body of water now named Blue Lake. "It is beautiful. It is absolutely beautiful."

Barr and his team of researchers from the University of Adelaide say the lake—one of the largest on North Stradbroke Island off the south Queensland coast, according to the AAP—is so pure that you can see more than 30 feet below the surface to its bottom.

"It appears that Blue Lake has been an important climate 'refuge' for the freshwater biota of the region, and is in the same condition now as it was 7,500 years ago," Barr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Barr, who published his findings in the current issue of Freshwater Biology, said it's the only such lake of its kind known to be in Australia.

To reach its conclusion, the team studied the lake’s water quality, fossil pollen and algae, which team members then compared with photos taken of nearby areas on the island over the past 117 years.

Several other nearby former lakes have dried up over the past 40 years due to climate change, Barr noted. In fact, Barr's team was on North Stradbroke to study the effects of those former bodies of water when his team stumbled across the anomaly that is Blue Lake.

The lake’s water has remained unchanged, said Barr, because its waters drain into a nearby swamp and are replaced by an aquifer every 35 days or so.

"Because it's constantly being updated it doesn't suffer from the vagaries of the climate in so far as it doesn't evaporate and become more saline," Barr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "It doesn't fill up and become fresher. It just remains constant."

Barr said something as small as sunscreen samples from tourists could alter the lake’s chemistry.