A FIGHTING CHANCE WITH LEUKEMIA

 

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia  is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many immature lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). leukaemia) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. This type of cancer usually gets worse quickly if it is not treated.

• Leukaemia may affect red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
• Past treatment for cancer and certain genetic conditions affect the risk of having childhood ALL.
• Signs of childhood ALL include fever and bruising.
• Tests that examine the blood and bone marrow are used to diagnose childhood ALL.

• In a healthy child, the bone marrow makes immature cells that become mature blood cells over time. A blood stem cell may become a myeloid stem cell or a lymphoid stem cell.

• Patients fighting Leukaemia are already having it rough as it is. if they are to have a fighting chance what they need should be readily available at anytime. its always disheartening if their is a shortage of blood which is very important to a leukaemia patient. this could drastically change the situation to life or death. there are many organisations out there trying to up the chances of survival of such patients. one of such organization is Timilehin Leukaemia foundation. The founder who lost her only child to this ailment due to lack of blood decided to turn her pain into something positive.  when next you pass a blood bank take a minute to donate blood you will be saving someone's life. Not all heroes wear a cape.                                                                                      You can reach out to this organization by following this link and can also make your donations to the bank account bellow to help fight the cause.

  • www.timilehinleukaemiafoundation.org

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Virginia family arrives home to walls splattered with BLOOD

A Virginia family came home to find their floors and walls splattered with blood after their German Shepherd attacked an intruder while they were out. 

At first Tristan Murrin and his mother didn't notice anything out of the ordinary when they walked into their Richmond home on Thursday night.  

But when Murrin saw his beloved dog Oden waiting to greet them at the front door, he knew something was wrong.

hat's when he saw the drops of blood on the first floor. And when they looked upstairs, they found a scene straight out of a horror film. 

'We looked upstairs and you could see trails of blood coming from upstairs, going all the way down,' he told WRIC. 

Huge amounts of blood were also splattered all over the walls upstairs.

Murrin said nothing was stolen from the home, and the intruder was no longer inside by the time he and his mother arrived.

Hmmm brave dog. my dog is too playful will probably show them where the juicy stuff are kept.

CULLED FROM DAILY MAIL

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4790502/Family-returns-bloodied-home-dog-attacks-intruder.html#ixzz4poJaBXGJ

US importing Nigeria crude-oil

America has turned again to Nigeria for crude oil. The new twist in the US quest for Nigeria toThe US oil production has fallen by about 600,000 barrels a day since peaking in 2015, and imports have filled the gap. The news looks cheering going by the fact that several tons of Nigerian crude have been on the high sea looking for buyers. According to the report, refineries along the US coasts are choosing to buy imports instead of local crude. “One of the biggest winners is Nigeria, which is regaining lost market share. Imports from Nigeria surged to 559,000 barrels a day in mid-March, compared with an average of 52,000 for all of 2015. The opening up of the US market is giving Nigeria a new beginning with the US in oil trade. However, it is because the price of crude has dropped so low that it is no longer profitable for the US shale producers to continue in business. The current price of crude has made oil recovery from shale far more expensive than imported oil 
Culled from vanguard 

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/us-importing-nigeria-crude-oil/ 

star Mackenzie Phillips, 56, returns to Oprah seven years after revealing incestuous affair with her father

Mackenzie Phillips shocked the world in 2009 when she told Oprah Winfrey that she had engaged in a 'consensual' sexual relationship with her father, Mamas And Papas frontman John Phillips, for 10 years.

Mackenzie chronicled their incestuous relationship in her tell-all book High On Arrival, published in 2009. 

She revealed she was first raped by her father in a hotel room when she was 18 while passed out after a drug binge.

But she continued to use drugs and have sex with him until she was 29, only stopping when she fell pregnant and feared the baby was his.

'The implications, the reality, of that…I had an abortion. And I never let him touch me again,' she said.

The former teen star of 1975 sitcom, One Day at a Time, is now sober and working as a rehab counsellor at the Pasadena Recovery Center in California.

But she believes she never would have been able to stay sober had she held on to her dark secret.

Wow!!  A whole new level of deprivation. I pray the get the strength to overcome this physiological trauma. 

Culled from daily mail 

Olam invests N30bn in integrated animal farms

Olam International, a leading agribusiness operating across the value chain in 70 countries, says it is setting up Nigeria’s largest integrated animal feed mills, breeding farms and hatchery with an investment of $150m (N30bn).

The ground-breaking programme was attended by Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State; and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, a statement by the company said.

The Chief Executive Officer, Olam Africa, Mr. Venkataramani Srivathsan, was quoted as saying, “This is the latest investment by Olam in Nigeria’s domestic food and agricultural production sector after our recent investments in wheat milling assets and the ongoing development of our 10,000-hectare rice farm and mill in Nasarawa State.”

Of the $150m investment, about $100m (N20bn) has been committed to building and operating the facilities in Kaduna, while $50m (N10bn) is for a second investment in an integrated poultry and fish feed mill located in Kwara State.

The statement by the Head, Corporate and Government Relations, Olam Nigeria, Mr. Ade Adefeko, said, “At full capacity, both feed mills are expected to produce in excess of 600,000 tonnes per annum of high-quality poultry and fish feed, with the Kaduna facility supplying mainly to the northern markets and the Kwara facility to the South-West region.

“The poultry breeding farm in Kaduna is expected to produce over one million hatching eggs every week for the hatchery.”

If this  works out well, it could mean a lot of jobs for people.  Anything that creates job opportunities for Nigerians is a plus as far as am concerned. 

Culled from The Punch 

24yrs old beheads man after stealing his 4000 naira

Cyril Ojango Etim, beheaded 34-year-old Ubong Asuquo, after stealing N4000 from him.

Cross River State Police Commissioner further explained, he had strangled his girlfriend in 2013, for aborting a two-month pregnancy. He was arrested for the crime in Akamkpa, charged to court and remanded in custody at Afokang Prison, Calabar.

But was released during a visit by the State Chief Judge in 2014.

“I have raped ladies and also stolen various things from people. Yes, it is true that one lady I tried to rape escaped from me and told the youths in my area. The youths beat me. I had a girlfriend, Esther, who became pregnant after I raped her. She told me that she was pregnant and that it had reached two months. I told her to keep the preg­nancy. She refused and aborted it. When she told me that she aborted the pregnancy, I strangled her. I was arrested by police men at Akamkpa. They took me to court, and kept me in Afokang Prison in Calabar. It was when the chief judge visited the prison yard that I was released in 2014.”

He recounted how the incident happened: “I stole money from the house of Asuquo two times. The first time I stole N3000. When I went the second time, I took N4000, but the man saw me leaving his house and I ran away to the bush. He pursued me with his motocycle. In the bush we fought and I used his cutlass to cut off his head. I ran to my village in Akwa Ibom State in February 2015. The police came there to arrest me in July 2015.”

Hmmmm he should have remained in jail the first time.

Culled from Sunnewsonline

Amber Rose breaks down in tears after stripping off for female empowerment walk

The 31-year-old model took to the stage to emotionally describe the negative comments she received at various times during her life.

'I’ve decided to have this Slut Walk for women who have been through sh*t. Even though I am up here crying I want to be the strong person you all look up to and do apologize for all guys.

In February this year, Kanye slammed his ex-girlfriend Amber while appearing on Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club.

'It's very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that's with Amber Rose...I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim [Kardashian],' the Gold Digger rapper said.

t has since become a movement to empower women, encourage people to not judge a female how they chose to express their sexuality - also known as 's**t-shaming' - and to also fight back against victim blaming.

The star told VH1 on Friday, she was 'around 14' and naive when a boy and his friends tricked her and spread rumours around her high school. 

Hmm kanye not cool. I dont think you traded up. There is still a certain video of certain someone out there. Me thinks you still got the hots for Amber. Just trying to cover it up.

Culled From Daily Mail

World Moustache Championships

 

More than 300 contestants in teams from across the globe gathered in the Alpine village of Leogang in Austria on Saturday to compare and contrast their elaborate beards.

The event, first held in 1990, takes place every few years at different locations worldwide and this years attracted folk in top hats, suede dungarees and even full military gear. 

The gentleman displayed their facial fuzz by competing in 16 different categories in three vital groups - moustache, partial beard and full beard .

Lol wow. I can only imagine what other kinds of competitions there  are out there.

Culled from Daily Mail

Nigeria defeats polio

 last week, World Health Organisation, WHO, removed Nigeria from the list of countries where the polio virus is endemic. This was a major victory for the nation’s polio eradication efforts, and the world has acknowledged the significance. At last, Nigeria is on the last lap to certification as a polio-free country.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last two countries in the world where the wild polio virus is still circulating, nevertheless, the last days of polio are at hand.
Nigeria’s victory has put the world on track to ensure that polio is the second infection to be eradicated from the planet after smallpox.

Welcoming news.

Culled from Vanguard

He was burned alive': Paul Walker's daughter

The 16-year-old, whose father died in 2013, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche claiming that the 2005 Carrera GT Walker was riding in had specific design flaws that contributed to his untimely demise.

The lawsuit claims that the Fast & Furious star was not killed on impact after the driver of the vehicle hit a concrete lamppost and two trees but was in fact alive when the sports car caught fire, report.

Lawyers representing Meadow claim that when the Carrera GT crashed, Walker's seat belt 'snapped Walker's torso back with thousands of pounds of force, thereby breaking his ribs and pelvis,'

The suit then claims the actor was trapped in the car when nearly a minute and a half later the Porsche caught fire while he was still alive.

The lawsuit further alleges: 'Paul Walker breathed soot into his trachea while the Porsche Carrera GT burned.' 

Culled from Daily Mail

Kris Jenner breaks down in tears as she and Kim Kardashian go through Bruce's old clothes

Bruce now called caitlyn hugging his daughter

Former dude

Kris Jenner breaks down in tears as she goes through Bruce Jenner's old clothes in an emotional clip ahead of Sunday's Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 

The items were being thrown out by Caitlyn jenner, and Kim took some of the clothes to give to her mother and siblings as a memento of Bruce.

However, Kris, 59, soon begins crying as the clothes stir up painful memories.

My husband is now a woman. Its just too weird. The devil must be laughing his butt off for this prank. Just my thought.

Culled from Daily mail

worst wedding guest

Popular Singapore blogger, Juli 'Bun Bun', decided to live blog a family friend's nuptials to her fans, tearing apart each element of the day as it unfolded - from the gown style to the seating arrangements.

The beauty blogger shot to fame in 2013 after sharing a shocking photo diary of what happened when she suffered a severe reaction to a salon facial.  After comparing the couples' car to her own wedding vehicle, she then continue to share the emerging issues with seating, explaining how the parents of the bride and groom were fighting over the tables and how people had to be uninvited. 

She then aired further complications of the morning - including the groom locking himself out of the room by mistake.Juli then clarified her well wishes for the couple and that she meant no ill will against them.

'I'm not suggesting superiority over another couple's decision. Please don't get me wrong. I'm just sad that the groom has so much burden to bear...I'm also sad that they kinda got RIPPED OFF [sic]!'

'I don't think the couple didn't make the effort, rather, they didn't get a good deal and the quality is bad.' 

That's is too bad. If  you ain't got nothing good to write about, Then don'ts.

Culled from Daily Mail

miracle baby born with most of his skull missing, is celebrating his first birthday

Born with most of his brain and skull missing, baby Jaxon Emmett Buell was not expected to live. In fact his parents had been told to abort him when doctors discovered his condition.

But he has defied all odds - and now he has just celebrated his first birthday.

Baby Jaxon's devout Christian parents, Brandon and Brittany Buell, were told by doctors that he had an extreme brain malformation, which meant he would probably not survive the pregnancy.

But Jax Strong – a nickname he has earned on social media - is now one years old. His inspirational story has captivated families across the U.S., with nearly 90,000 people 'liking' his page on Facebook and 18,000 people sharing his story. Doctors gave them the option to terminate the pregnancy at 23 weeks but the young couple, who are against abortion, believed it was not their decision to make.

Brandon, who is an assistant to the CEO of a small community bank in Florida, said: 'We went home that night thinking if you are telling us to abort, we would never know what Jaxon could have been, if he could have survived.'

'Who are we to decide? We were given a child, we are given a chance and we have to be his voice.'

'We did everything we could to give him a fighting chance and all he's done since being born is fight right back.'They went in with the unknown and came out with a burst of hope: a true diagnosis – Microhydranencephaly - and new medicine that has since eased Jaxon's condition and made him a lot happier.

Yet Brittany and Brandon still wake up everyday knowing the reality they face - that Jaxon may not be here tomorrow.

Brittany said: 'It is always in the back of my mind. I'm very aware that today maybe his last day. I'm aware tomorrow he may not be here.'

God is good. Never give up on your loved ones

Culled from Daily Mail

Saudi's hajj chief blames African pilgrims for stampede that killed 700

The head of the committee which oversees the hajj pilgrimage has sparked outrage by blaming pilgrims of 'African nationalities' for the stampede which killed more than 700 people.

In what was the worst disaster in a quarter-century to strike the annual event, 769 people died when the stampede broke out in Mina, about three miles from Mecca, during the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual.

The inflammatory comments come as authorities were heavily criticised for a perceived lapse in safety measures at what is one of the world's largest pilgrimages.The comment provoked a storm of condemnation, with critics describing it as 'more obscene than racism' while others said authorities should focus on determining what went wrong, rather than blaming ethnic groups.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh has told Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef: 'You are not responsible for what happened', the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

He added: 'As for the things that humans cannot control, you are not blamed for them. Fate and destiny are inevitable.'

Mohammed chairs the Saudi hajj committee and has ordered an investigation into Thursday's stampede during a symbolic stoning of the devil ritual by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at Jamarat Bridge in Mina, just outside the holy city of Mecca.

May their soul rest in peace.

Culled from Daily mail