Music star William Orioha, popularly known as 2shotz is one step closer
to being a married man. His introduction ceremony with his girlfriend
Precious Jones held today Tuesday April 9th at the bride's village in
Imo State. The last photo on the right is from their introduction
ceremony today. Friday is their court wedding in Lagos
One Mr Onyekachi Ekwelum, who allegedly sold his six-month-old son
to raise funds to process his travel documents, would be appearing
before a magistrate in court to defend his action.
Mr Ekwelum allegedly hatched and executed the act without the consent
of the wife, but the lid was blown off by his 20-year-old spouse Ozioma
when she could not find their son and reported the matter to the
police. Her husband had wanted to travel to Greece. The Abia State commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Abubakar Tilli, who
disclosed this to newsmen in his office on Monday said the police
mounted a man hunt that led to the rescue of the child and the arrest of
the suspects.
CP Tilli warned criminals to stay off the state as there would be no
hiding place for them and said the suspects have been charged to court.
T he Commissioner who expresses concern over spate of child
trafficking said that on March 4 this year Mr Chidiebere Samuel of
Ovungwu in IsialaNgwa south Local government area that his wife
Odinaka Samuel connived with a nurse Monica Benjamin who delivered her
baby girl and sold the child at N150, 000.
Describing such acts as inhuman, he said the suspects in the
criminal transaction have been apprehended and charged to an Umuahia
Magistrate court.
In a similar incident in Amoji Isiala Ngwa north local
government the commissioner said that a man Mr Oluchukwu Ogidi
reported that his wife Kelechi on March 16 connived with one Dr Williams
Oruwa who delivered her baby and sold the newborn baby boy for N350.He
also said the suspects have been arrested and charged to court even as
he revealed that in the course of investigation three pregnant women
allegedly harboured by the suspect possibly to have their babies sold
after delivery were discovered. Source: Leadership
The gay couple who tied the knot in a traditional Zulu and
Tswana wedding while dressed in traditional attire say they will not be
fazed by the criticism being aimed at them by social network users and
Zulu culture experts. Thoba
Sithole, a Zulu from KwaDukuza, and Tshepo Modisane, a Tswana from
Johannesburg, tied the knot on Saturday in KwaDukuza with about 200
people, including family, friends, onlookers and the media in
attendance.
Sithole and Modisane, both 27, defended their wedding and said there was nothing evil or untraditional about it.
The Gay Couple Took a Kiss Professor Velaphi Mkhize, a Zulu
traditional culture analyst and writer, said Zulu culture did not
recognise homosexuality, therefore, traditionally, Modisane and
Sithole’s marriage was void.
“In the olden days there were homosexuals, but when a gay child was
born the family used to slaughter an animal to plead with the ancestors
to intervene and take the evil spirit away from the child.”
“However, now the constitution recognises homosexuality and gay
marriages and the biggest challenge we are facing is how do we continue
to call something a taboo if it is recognised by the constitution.”
He said the marriage was an insult to Zulu forefathers because
marriage was traditionally a way to expand the family. Wives were
expected to give birth to children who would carry their families’ names
forward. Homosexuality made this impossible, said Mkhize.
However, Sithole, an IT specialist based in Johannesburg, said:
“If being gay is evil, why did God create gay people? Gays are born
gay and according to a Bible scripture we were all created by God, so I
don’t see anything evil about being born gay because it means that God
wanted you to be gay.”
Modisane said they did not need to justify their wedding to the public because it was only between them, and to make them happy.
“We decided to have a traditional wedding because we firstly wanted
to show people that being homosexual can be part of an African culture. “Secondly,
we wanted to celebrate the love we have for each other and show people
that we don’t feel ashamed for the choices we have made in our lives,”
said Modisane, who works as a chartered accountant in Johannesburg.
The couple said the support they had received from their families made it easier for them to tie the knot.
“My family has always been there for me and had always been there for
me even in my previous homosexual relationships,” said Modisane.
Sithole said his mother had always told him how she was looking forward to seeing him getting married to his partner.
They started dating in 2011 after they had been friends for some time.
Modisane said he was attracted to Sithole because he was a
well-grounded man who loved God and was someone who could bring
stability in his life.
Sithole said their next step after the wedding was buying a home and
starting their own family. “We are fully committed to each other and we
believe children form an important foundation in bringing stability in
one’s life,” he said. “We will be adopting two kids – a boy and a girl –
to be part of our family.”
Women
may claim they are attracted to a man for his personality, looks or
even his money, but the naked truth is far simpler and cruder that that:
size matters. New research has shown that 21st century females are far
more similar to their cavewomen ancestors than originally thought,
because the size of a man's penis still plays a key role in deciding how
attractive a woman rates him.
The findings are based on 5,145 computer-generated images of men shown to over 100 adult women of all ages and backgrounds.
Each
image showed a representation of the male form, with varying
combinations of height, shoulder-to-body ratio and, of course, penis
length. Flaccid penis sizes of between two and five inches (five to
13cm) were used because this is the typical size range found in Western
men, according to the study carried out by researchers at the University
of Ottawa, Canada. Women were then asked to rate the attractiveness of
each man, according to the research published in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The results showed
that while women's opinions were influenced by a variety of physical
features - tall and broad-shouldered men tended to be favoured over
shorter men with bigger waistlines - the size of a man's penis reigned
supreme in the attractiveness stakes. The findings contradict previous
studies suggesting that the size of male genitalia was of no importance
to women.
While researchers were unable to find the perfect penis
size, proportion is crucial, they say. In what may come as a relief to
many men, manhood must not be so large that it appears out of proportion
to the rest of his body. The researchers also believe that the female
preference for a larger penis may have influenced the evolution of its
shape and size today.
They said: 'Our results directly contradict
claims that penis size is unimportant to most females. They show that
female mate choice could have played a role in the evolution of the
relatively large human male penis.' 'Males with a larger penis were
rated as being relatively more attractive, but, the proportional
increase [in size] begins to decrease [in attractiveness] after a
certain size,' said the report.
The Canadian study comes after
another investigation carried out by the University of the West of
Scotland found that a larger than average penis is more likely to bring
women to orgasm. In the Scottish study, an average length penis was
defined as being 5.8 inches (14.7 cm) long when erect - the same length
as a ten pound note.