The oldest person living with sickle cell turns 91 - Asiata Adupe Onikoyi Laguda

Wow Asiata Adupe Onikoyi Laguda turned 91 November 1st 2016.

At the time Alhaja Asiata Adupe Onikoyi Laguda was born in 1925 into the Onikoyi Chieftaincy family of Lagos, there was no immunization, no new-born screening, no hydroxyurea, no inkling that
hydration with just water could go a long way in dealing with sickle cell disease.

At that time, the average life expectancy of children born with sickle cell disorder was just five years.

Due to the high level of illiteracy at the time of her birth, she was never diagnosed with sickle cell. She endured years of pain, which kept her away from school till she was 12 years old. Her pain was so severe and frequent that she would beg God to let her die.

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But she defied the odds... She survived sickle cell and , she is still bubbling with health and proof that sickle cell disease can be conquered! ,says her granddaughter, Moyo Asekun - CEO Pérola Moda

Runaway Bride at their wedding reception in Delta state

This is what I call story………any ways take a read…………………………… ……………….

Her close friend told Vanguard that the bride saw her true love at the reception venue and decided to follow her heartthrob.

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The would-be bride, Roseline, 32, has since disappeared into thin air and all efforts to trace her whereabouts had yielded no result at press time. It was a pandemonium as the wife ran out of the wedding reception and rejected her husband, saying “I am no longer interested,” forcing the wedding reception to end abruptly. A close female confidante of the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Vanguard: “I believe she did what she did because she saw the previous man in her life at the reception.

We heard that he had earlier promised to marry the bride, but he later traveled to Lagos and never showed up again. “When the bride waited for a long time and he (former suitor) was nowhere to be found, she decided to marry another man, who was ready although she still loved her former suitor. “So when her true love showed up at the reception without notice, the woman saw him and decided to call it quits with her husband to follow her heartthrob.”

Despite ex-beauty queen, Chidinma Okeke’s involvement in a series of sex tapes,she was given Miss Diva Award

See the reason Organizers of Miss Diva Awards gave for  honouring Chidinma Okeke who was allegedly involved in a series of sex tapes which have been buzzing the internet for weeks now.

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“Chidinma didn’t have to meet any criteria to receive this award. It was solely the decision of the brand to honour her,” Chijioke “Mr. Decency” Awugosi, project coordinator of DIVA Queens award, said. “We are aware of the controversy that will come with it. But we hope that in due time, every well-meaning and reasonable individual will see the reasons behind the award.” Mr. Chijioke, also said the award’s organisers were supporting the ex-beauty queen to curb the exploitation of young girls by the “high and mighty” in the modelling industry, who allegedly use blackmail to tarnish the image and dreams of young girls and bring the modelling industry as a whole into disrepute.

“We chose to stand with Chidinma right till the very end. We’ll give her every support we have at our disposal; morally, psychologically, legally. She is an icon and through her we can reach out to thousands of girls who have or are on the verge of being sexually exploited. It is a civilized world, we shouldn’t be so judgmental,” he said. Meanwhile, the decision to honour Chidinma has drawn both criticism and applause on the social media. However, the implications of this scandal for Chidinma are growing direr. After losing her title, the former Miss Anambra was also condemned by Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), the organizers of the pageant. In a recent development, The National Coordinator of the Association for Universal Moral Education Nigeria, Therese Nwodo, blamed failed parenting for the alleged sex scandal. The Catholic sister called on the Nigerian public not to traumatize the beauty queen the more by dramatizing her situation but to offer her psychological and spiritual succor to overcome the crisis.

“The lesbianism story about the beauty queen is unfortunate; it is symptomatic of what is going on in the society now. Our values have gone down; parents are no longer available to teach their children what is socially acceptable”, she told News Agency of Nigeria.

 

Ali and husband, Dr. Vaughn Rasberry, welcomed their first child, Edward Aszard Rasberry, on Sept. 16.

"We're completely swooning over this kid," Ali writes. "When I kiss him in his sleep, soundly in REM, dreaming his baby dreams, he smiles and my heart explodes out of my body and into all of the space surrounding us."

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The 37-year-old actress goes on to detail how strenuous her labor was. "After a long labor -- 24 hours -- I heard my baby before I saw him," she writes. "By the time he was in my arms, I had just enough energy, with my husband and our doula's help, to have him latch. I fell asleep knowing that he had safely arrived." Ali and Rasberry wed during an intimate ceremony on July 17 after a four-month engagement. Entertainment tonight cullage.