Next Big Crossover Acts: Genevive Nnaji on Elle Magazine

Genevive Nnaji was featured in Elle Magazine's International Supper stars: The next Big Cross Over act, which was published online yesterday wednesday 21st August.

The list also features former Miss World and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai, English singer Pixie lot and Mexican pop star Anahi other international stars

The fashion lifestyle and magazine wrote:

One of the most powerful actresses working in Africa, Nnaji began her career at age eight, and has been constantly working in commercials and movies ever since. She's credited with putting Nollywood, Nigeria's Hollywood, on the map. In 2005 she was awarded Best Actress at the inaugural African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), and used her fame to launch her clothing line, St. Genevieve, in 2008 with the proceeds from sales supporting orphanages. And she has the Oprah seal of approval—in 2009 Nnaji was profiled on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, with the host referring to her as one of the most popular people around the world and the "Julia Roberts of Africa."

Shocker: Wentworth Millar(Micheal Scofield) of prison break is gay!

Lovers of Prison Break would be shocked at this piece of information which unveils that their beloved Prison Break Star Wentworth Millar is gay. He revealed this yesterday 21st August via an open letter to the Saint Petersburge Film Festival rejecting an invitation to attend a premier there because of Russia's recently passed anti gay laws.

Read what he wrote:

           Thank you for your kind invitation. As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.                                                                                                                         

I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Russian government. The situation is in no way acceptable, and I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

Perhaps, when and if circumstances improve, I'll be free to make a different choice.
Until then. Wentworth Miller

Why am sleeping wih my boyfriend's father --- girl opens up

 I saw this and thought to share it. What money can make us do, the unthinkable.

culled from Date360.net

Something is happening between me and my boyfriend's father that will come out soon but I don't know how to present it to him, because he may not forgive me and even attack me, am really scared.

Date360.net please I want you to share my story with people on your Blog so I can get good advise on what to do and how to do it. My boyfriend is stingy but I love him. He is always doing projects and will say he needs more money for his projects.

So, one day I met his father at a hotel where I went to do supplies:
Since that day my life has not been the same again. The man has been spoiling me with cash and I have been keeping it hot for him in bed, not that am proud about it but I need money and my guy is not helping.

The problem now is that his father wants to marry me since he is separated from my guy's mum and he said I should forget about his son, after I told him about us. He told me his son is not responsible. Truly, I love the father more than his son now. But I've dated my guy for 10 months and most of his friends already know us as lovers.

Pls my headache is how to tell him about me and his dad and our intentions to get married without getting him too angry that he will do something bad to me? I want to go to his house and tell him. Pls help!

Tags: Boyfriend's, Father, I'm, My, Opens, Sleeping, Up, Why, With, Girl

Check this out: Wardrobe malfunction or just plain indecent exposure?

Check her out who leaves their houses looking like this? Little wonder what the world is turning into. Is this Fashion at it's peak or just plain indecent exposure, from the look of things she feels pretty comfortable in what she has on.

Actor Lee Thompson practiced yoruba? an African based religion before his death?

According to E-online news Actor Lee Thompson changed after embracing Yoruba. The actor yesterday committed suicide in his apartment with a gun wound to the head. Now the E-online news is reporting that the actor changed after he began practicing 'yoruba' which has a saying 'iku ya j'esu' meaning 'death is preferable to ignominy'. See the report below....

source: E-online.com

 "The Rizzoli & Isles star, who was 29 at the time of his death, "didn't drink or party," says a source, adding,  "He was the opposite. Lee loved to travel and was always the first to tell everyone to take a breath and enjoy the beauty of life." He was always "gentle and unassuming," despite his early success, and didn't have the typical "look-at-me" attitude.

That said, those close to Young noticed things "really changed" a few years ago when he began practicing Yorùbá, an Africa-based religion which has a saying, "iku ya j'esin", meaning  "death is preferable to ignominy." Some have questioned whether this means that suicide is an acceptable way to preserve personal or family honor in the face of public shame.

However, Yorùbá culture icon and Chief Priest of Osogbo, Araba Ifayemi Osundagbonu Elebuibon, told the National Mirror earlier this year that the religion "[does] not support suicide. Their belief is that if somebody commits suicide, they will be punished in the hereafter."

The Famous Jett Jackson star "took [his religion] to the next level and started wearing white all of the time," says a source, adding, "This religion was everything to him."  Although he reportedly took a break from practicing Yorùbá, he recently returned to the religion. Just before his death, he visited a small village in Africa for something reportedly related to the religion.

Man hacks Zuckerbergs facebook page to prove security flaws

                                                                                                               (CNN) -- He tried to warn them.

A Palestinian researcher posted a message on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's page last week after he says the site's security team didn't take his warnings about a security flaw seriously.

"First, sorry for breaking your privacy and post(ing) to your wall," wrote Khalil Shreateh. "I (have) 

no other choice to make after all the reports I sent to (the) Facebook team."

Shreateh, who describes himself as an unemployed security researcher with a degree in information systems, said he found a hole in Facebook's systems that let him post to any user's page, including users not on his Friends list.

Such an exploit would be a virtual gold mine for spammers, scam artists and others seeking to take advantage of the site's roughly 1 billion users worldwide.

Shreateh said he contacted Facebook security about the vulnerability before using it to post to Mark Zuckerberg's page.

On his blog, Shreateh posted a series of e-mails he said were exchanged between him and Facebook security. After the first one, a Facebook employee responded that the link he attached was bad.

Man exposes Facebook security flaw

Shreateh had included a post -- an Enrique Iglesias video -- he says he posted on the page of a woman 

who went to college with Zuckerberg. He speculated that Facebook's security team couldn't see it because they weren't on her Friends list.

Somebody buy Mark Zuckerberg some clothes

Facebook responded to his second message to say the issue he was reporting was not a bug.

His response: "ok that mean(s) I have no choice other than report this to mark himself on facebook."

Needless to say, that got their attention.

Facebook says the flaw was fixed on Thursday. But over the weekend the episode began making headlines on tech blogs.

On the Hacker News website, Facebook security team member Matt Jones wrote that the language barrier with Shreateh, who is not a native English speaker, and the volume of reports the site receives were partly to blame for the site's slow response.

"Unfortunately, all he submitted was a link to the post he'd already made (on a real account whose consent he did not have) ... saying that 'the bug allow facebook users to share links to other facebook users,' " Jones wrote.

"For background, as a few other commenters have pointed out, we get hundreds of reports every day. Many of our best reports come from people whose English isn't great -- though this can be challenging, it's something we work with just fine and we have paid out over $1 million to hundreds of reporters."

Because he violated Facebook's terms of service by hacking the pages of other users, Shreateh is not eligible to receive a reward under the site's White Hat program designed to find and fix bugs.

Shreateh, who says he has been looking for work for two years, lives in the Palestinian city of Yatta, in a region where the unemployment rate is officially 22% and is higher among men in their 20s, like Shreateh.

"I could sell (information about the flaw) on the black (hat) hackers' websites and I could make more money than Facebook could pay me," he said in an interview with CNN. "But for me -- I am a good guy. I don't deal with the black (hat) stuff."

In hacker circles, "white hat" is a term for people who report exploits they find so they can be fixed, while "black hat" often refers to people who hack to take advantage of those exploits.

He said he's proud that, as a Palestinian using a five-year-old laptop with broken keys and a broken battery, he had the skills to find a problem with one of the world's biggest websites. But he acknowledged hoping his tip would lead to a reward from Facebook.

"I never asked them, 'I want $4,000 or $5,000'," he said. "I didn't deal with them like that ... . (But) I really needed that money."

Security researcher Marc Maiffret launched an online campaign Monday to pay Shreateh the money Facebook denied him and had raised more than $8,800 by early Tuesday. "Let us all send a message to security researchers across the world and say that we appreciate the efforts they make for the good of everyone," Maiffret said on the GoFundMe page.

Facebook's Jones acknowledged that the security team should have asked Shreateh, for more information.

"I have to admit that I have some sympathy with Facebook on this issue," security analyst Graham Cluley wrote on his blog. "Although he was frustrated by the response from Facebook's security team, Shreateh did the wrong thing by using the flaw to post a message on Mark Zuckerberg's wall."

He would have been better served returning to Facebook's security team with more evidence and further explaining it or, if that didn't work, taking the information to a technology journalist to report, Cluley said.

10cm fork removed from man's penis

Doctors in Australia have removed a 10cm fork from inside an elderly mans penis after a sexual mishap.

The 70 year old arrived at the Canbberra  Hospital Emergency Department with a bleeding sexual organ.

He told doctors he had inserted the ten centimetre dining fork into his urethra almost twelve hours earlier in an attempt to achieve sexual gratification.

But the utensil became stuck.

The fork was not visible but doctors where able to feel it from the outside and x-rays showed it's possition

Doctors considered several retrival options before deciding to pull the fork free using forceps and copious lubrication whiles the patient was under a general anaesthetic.

The elderly patient was then sent home.

The medical emergency was so rear the team of three doctors published the case in the international journal of the sugery last month.

The paper titled an "An Unusual Urethral Foreign Body", said it was rear to see objects in the lower urinary tracks.

It went on to list strange objects found inside other parts of the body, including, needle, pencils, wires, allen keys, tooth brushes, light bulbs, thermometres, plants and vegetables, leaches, snakes, cocaine and glue.

"It is appearent that the human mind is uninhabited let alone creative". The authors wrote.
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The real danger has infection leading to death because ashamed patients often delay medical treatments, they said.

Doctors generally try to avoid surgery in such situations, instead choosing an option that would minimize urothelial trauma and preserve erectile fuction.

The authors said self inserted urethral foreign bodies are rare emergencies that urological and general surgeons face on occasion.

While the insertions are unusual the paper said an imaginary object is known to be inplicated.
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                    - Canberra times

Wizkid's reply to a fan who corrected his error on instagram

Wizkid had posted a photo on his instagram page and noted that he was supposed to perform at a wedding but had "an hang" over instead of "a hangover"

A fan called his attention to the error and said "naxo u gbagaun for music sef #20man smh tho... c d reason y u shd go back to sch. lol". Wizkid didn't take it lightly he then replied. "broke people always think they have an opinion." 

His fans took offense over his comments and called him out on twitter.

Some have wondered why Wizkid would call anyone poor or broke. The fans attempt however to correct him with the statement "c d reason y u shd go back to school" isn't particularly a polite thing to write when correcting someone. Two wrongs can't make a right.

Tragic: Former disney star Lee Thompson commites suicide at 29

Actor Lee Thomson has died at age 29 of a possible gunshoot inflicted wound to the head

As reported the stars body was found in his Los Angeles appartment in the 500 block of Tujunga after he failed to show up at work on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, according to TMZ. Show staffers called Young's landlord who made the grim discovery.

Prior to his Rizzoli & Isles role as Boston police detective Barry Frost, Young starred as the lead of disney's The famous Jet Jackson and also in the 2004 flick Friday nights lights. The young Carolina native pursued acting at a young age and graduated with honors from the University of Southern California with a degree in Cinematic Arts. He also went on to appear in hit shows like Scrubs, The Guardian and Smallville.

Young's publicist Jonathan Baruch confirmed to TMZ monday that the actor did take his own life: "It is with great sadness that i announce that Lee Thomson young tragically took his own life this morning... Lee was more than just a brilliant young actor, he was a wonderful and gentle soul who will be truely missed

There is no word yet on if young left a note.

Note: If someone you know exhibits warning signs of suicide. Do not leave the person alone, remove any fire arms, alcohol, drugs or sharp objects that could be used in a suicide attempt and call for help or take the person to an emergency room or seek help from a medical or mental health proffessional

5 year old Lina Madina is worlds youngest mother

Peruvian five year old Lina Madina, accompanied by her 11 month old son Gerardo and doctor Lozardo who attended her childs birth are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima's hospital.

When her son was born by caesarean section in May 1939. Madina made medical history and is still the youngest known mother in the world.

Lina Medina's parents thought their five year old had a huge abdominal and when Shamans in the remote in Peru could not cure her, her father sent her to a hospital.

Just over a month later she gave birth to a baby boy.

Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in the small village of Paurange. She was only five years and eight month old at the birth of her child on mothers day May14, 1993.

Born at full term at Lima's martenity clinic. Her child was taken through a caesarean operation (Dr Lozada and Busallue, operators,  Dr Colretta, Anesthesiologist). The child a boy weighing 2,700 grams, was well formed and in good health child and mother where able to leave the clinic after only a few days.

Doctor Lozada ha conducted very detailed studies since the diagnose of the pregnancy which aroused much curiosity in the country; he took an x-ray of the child her baby, established a diagnose of the fetal situation, observed the state of functionality of the little mother who had began menstration at the age of 8 month. At four years old she had already developed breast and pubic hair, her body proportions where a bit amazing and her bone hardening a bit advanced, things that are often observed in cases of such premature pregnancy.

After taunting from school mates, Madina's son Gerardo who was named after on of the doctors who attended madina and who became their mentor - discovered when he was ten that the person he had grown up believing to be his sister was in fact his mother.

Gerardo died in 1972 at age 40 from a disease that attacks the body's born marrow, but it was said it was not clear there was any link with his illness and the fact his mother was so young during his birth

Medina herself got married and in 1972 had a second son 33 years after her first. Her second child now lives in mexico.

Must read: Former supper falcons forward Iyabo Abade now living as a man

Former supper falcons forward iyabo abade is the most celebrated high profile case of a hermaphrodite in womens football who subsequently had sugery in 2004 and is now living as man with the name James Johnson. He tells 'TANA AIYEJINA' about his travails trying to adjust to his new life as a man, societal discrimination and his aim to help hermaphrodite. he's what he has to say.

Now that you are a man, has it been easy playing men’s football?

I thank God for how far He has brought me. I have made every effort to get to the top as a footballer but there is no support from anywhere, even the Nigeria Football Federation. I am just trying on my own to get to the top but it hasn’t been easy. You go for trials and you do well and you are recruited but after sometime, they will start acting funny; they use my past against me. I try to ensure that I don’t let clubs know who I am.  I don’t like telling them that I am the former Iyabo Abade; I have to go there like every other normal player and fight for a place in the team. But when they hear that former Iyabo Abade has signed for either Crown FC or Plateau United, they start discriminating against me. 

Meanwhile I got there as James Johnson but they keep asking, “Can she cope in the midst of guys?” They have forgotten that I am a man and I met their requirements before they signed me up. Once they now know my past, they won’t allow me to play anymore. Were they blind when they signed me? With that, I feel frustrated and discriminated against so I decided that there was no need disturbing myself and I decided to quit. I am praying that God helps me so that I can continue my career abroad. I think things will be better over there.

Has the society accepted you for who you are?

Some do but some have not. Everybody cannot like you for who you are, so you just have to take life the way it is. My colleagues who we played together in the women’s league all welcome me. Some people want to be my friends even when they don’t know who I am and even when they know that I am the former Iyabo Abade turned James Johnson, they are still happy to be my friends. I am happy with that. There is no need for me to be feeling sad that God created me the way I am. So, I am happy with life but I feel sad because some people are out there to cut short your happiness. I will be happy playing football but some people don’t like it.

 What is your relationship with your Falcons teammates?
 

Some of them still welcome me; they see me just like every other person. They don’t discriminate against me; we grew up together and did things together even though I am no more in their group. I am so happy about that. When the news first came out, a lot of them were shocked because they didn’t even know anything about hermaphrodite. But later, they sympathised with me; they said I am not God and didn’t create myself. That was how it went and we are still friends till now.

Your rehabilitation should be in stages. How far have you gone?

I am still on it. After I went for check-up in 2009, I am due for the next stage, where a surgery will be carried out to enable me become a full man and live a normal and perfect life. But every effort has been futile; nothing is really happening and I am looking up to God to intervene in this issue. I have made every effort and gone to the NSC but they did nothing. I took a letter there and was going there for about seven months. So I have to look elsewhere to enable me complete the surgery. I also wrote to NFF when Sani Lulu was the head and he gave me hope. He said, ‘Bring your letter and we will see what we can do.’ But at the end, they said, ‘We don’t know what happened to your letter.’ When it gets to releasing money, that is when the letter gets missing. Only Family Worship helped me a great deal to go for the check-up.

How much do you need for the surgery?

I will need about N12m for the final surgery. My doctor says I have to stay in the US for one year, so that he can monitor the final process. Aside the surgery, I will have to pay for accommodation for one year and other things like feeding and transportation.

What is your relationship with your Falcons teammates?

Some of them still welcome me; they see me just like every other person. They don’t discriminate against me; we grew up together and did things together even though I am no more in their group. I am so happy about that. When the news first came out, a lot of them were shocked because they didn’t even know anything about hermaphrodite. But later, they sympathised with me; they said I am not God and didn’t create myself. That was how it went and we are still friends till now.

Your rehabilitation should be in stages. How far have you gone?

I am still on it. After I went for check-up in 2009, I am due for the next stage, where a surgery will be carried out to enable me become a full man and live a normal and perfect life. But every effort has been futile; nothing is really happening and I am looking up to God to intervene in this issue. I have made every effort and gone to the NSC but they did nothing. I took a letter there and was going there for about seven months. So I have to look elsewhere to enable me complete the surgery. I also wrote to NFF when Sani Lulu was the head and he gave me hope. He said, ‘Bring your letter and we will see what we can do.’ But at the end, they said, ‘We don’t know what happened to your letter.’ When it gets to releasing money, that is when the letter gets missing. Only Family Worship helped me a great deal to go for the check-up.

How much do you need for the surgery?

I will need about N12m for the final surgery. My doctor says I have to stay in the US for one year, so that he can monitor the final process. Aside the surgery, I will have to pay for accommodation for one year and other things like feeding and transportation.

Now that you haven’t finished the rehabilitation, would you say you are living a man’s life?

I would say I am living happily but my joy will be to complete the whole stages of the rehabilitation. Then I can boast of myself as a real man just like other guys. I will say I still need the final surgery before I can answer your question further.

You once had the ambition of becoming the first person ever to play for the female and male national teams of a country but the dream seems dashed. How do you feel?

I feel rejected and frustrated because football is my life but the NSC and the NFF are not in support of my ambition. If we had a good sports commission, I won’t be in this situation. Do they want me to cry to the US government? That will be a disgrace to Nigeria.

Who are those that stood behind you during your trying times?

I want to thank former FCT ministers Abba Gana and Nasir el-Rufai; they were very helpful. I wrote to the former First Lady, Turai Yar’Adua, and Patience Jonathan, who was then Second Lady. Though I didn’t get money from the First Lady but I was given the opportunity to enter Aso Rock. Unfortunately, her husband fell sick and she couldn’t attend to me. She asked some people to attend to me but I didn’t hear from them. The present First Lady has not done anything to help me despite all the efforts I have made to reach her, a fellow Niger Deltan like her. If northerners can show concern for me, why not her? Family Worship also gave me money for my check-up as well as the Redeemed Christian Church of God. I appreciate all of them.

  Would you accept if the US says you should naturalise and play for them? 

I will accept it with both hands. It’s everybody’s dream to be a US citizen, so I will jump at the opportunity.

What is your advice to other hermaphrodites, who are ashamed to come out or don’t have the opportunity you have? 

I have some already and I have given my doctor in the US their contacts. They are two and they are into female football. They say a problem shared is half solved. If people don’t know your problem, you will die with it, so they just have to come out and let the world know what they are passing through. They need to look unto God. If not for God, I would have been a forgotten issue because at times, I feel like committing suicide. You will want to run into a moving truck but I thank God for being in charge of my life. I am happy today and everybody wants to mingle with me. So, life goes on.

Are you thinking of setting up a foundation for hermaphrodites?

Yes, so that many people with such issues can be treated. I hope to make it a worldwide foundation. There are a lot of hermaphrodites but they are shy or afraid to come out. There was a case that happened in Delta State when they almost killed a hermaphrodite. They said she is a witch. But it is not proper because these people didn’t create themselves. They should use me as a sign of hope. They can also be treated and be happy just like myself. I won’t blame them for not coming out because the support is not there in Nigeria. If they come out, they will be discriminated against.

When ladies you approach realise later that you were once like them, do they run away?

I am loved by women, there’s no doubt about that. They want to be my best friend. Everywhere I go, women always appreciate me because of my looks even when they later get to know about my issue. They always want to grab the opportunity to date someone like me. Some of them are happy to be with me because they have never seen such a person before. Every woman is mixing with James Johnson.

How was your trip to the US in 2012 with the Marasata Soccer Academy?

Marasata Soccer Academy brought me back to life because I felt so frustrated when I was neglected. The academy brought me in to lead the female team because I once played female football. That was how I became head of the coaching crew and with time, I will get to the top. The trip to the US last year was a success.

Aside not having a club side, do you still play football? 

Of course yes. Football is part of me and I play every now and then, even with my boys in the academy. I derive joy in football; I play with Karo All Stars in Abuja and we play so many competitions.

If you look back now, is there a time you will recount with joy while playing female football?

Sometimes I feel sad that I didn’t continue what I know how to do best in the midst of the girls but I ignore it and let go. It’s not over, I still feel I will play for this country one day as a man but whether I play or not, I am happy with life. I was excluded from the 1999 Women’s World Cup but when the team returned home, my club FCT Queens had a match against Pelican Stars, which paraded all the superstars like Ann Agumanu, Mercy Akide, Eberechi Opara and Stella Mbachu. I was the only star in my team. It’s a game people still talk about. We were 2-1 down and I scored an incredible goal from the flank. That goal helped us beat Pelican 3-2 and they were complaining that why did they allow me to play the game after it was discovered that I am a hermaphrodite. People still say it was the best game they saw me play. My goal gingered my teammates to beat them. I will never forget that game. FCT Queens also won the Challenge Cup and I was one of the team’s trainers. That was how I got help to go for surgery. We were hosted in Sheraton and the then FCT Minister Nasir el-Rufai sponsored me to the US for the surgery.

Initially, was it easy blending from a female to male?

It was not easy in the beginning playing with the men but I took up the challenge. I didn’t get support as a male footballer. If I had remained as a female footballer, I knew where I would be now. In men’s football, it’s all about who you know. If you don’t have someone to back you up, forget it, no matter what you play. I felt there was no need going to a club and telling them that I was Iyabo Abade. I wanted to be there on merit but after signing, I faced discrimination.  I played for NEPA and Plateau United. At Plateau, they brought me in always as a late substitute because they didn’t believe I could play. But we were five they selected out of over 100 players that came for trials. If I was not good, why did they pick me from such a large number of players?

Do you sometimes feel like being a woman?

I chose to become a man because it is what God wants me to be. I didn’t use money as my priority in opting to be a man. If it was for money reasons, I would have remained as a woman because I was getting to the top of female football in Nigeria. I am happy with the decision I took. If I became a female, I probably wouldn’t have been happy with my life. So I just decided to move on. I am not regretting the step I made. I can tell you, women are running after me like Usain Bolt and I think it is better for me. I like it that way. I never expected it that way. Today, I am pleased that people want to know me.

We know you have been very close to Agatha Agu for a very long time. Are you planning to get married to her?

She is a very good person and if God says she is going to be my wife, I will be the happiest man because she deserves it; she has always been there for me right from our days in female football. She has been my backbone even when things are not working well. I know by His grace, we will get there.

Can you tell us your best moment?

I don’t have any yet until I wear the colours of the national team. If I cannot play for the main Eagles, at least I can for the home-based Eagles. I will appreciate if I get the opportunity.

If the home-based Eagles camp is thrown open ahead of the 2014 CHAN, do you think you can make it?

With God, I will make it. I am so sure of myself.

What is your word for coach Stephen Keshi?

I wish him the best. He has won the AFCON trophy, so we should appreciate him even if he is making some mistakes. We shouldn’t be criticising him always. He is a good coach and he needs our support.

Source:  Punch

Akos is winner of mentor7

Roselyn Akosua Mantey aka Akos put up a beautiful inspiring performance on the mentor7 finals yesterday beating Honny, Charity and Gabby thus emerging winner of the nights show. Second runner up was Honny whiles Charity alias 'esu' came forth. The victory makes her the first female winner of the mentor show.