13-YR-OLD GIRL’S HORROR: ‘My stepfather serially raped, impregnated me!’

By Favour Nnabugwu and Leo
Aligwo

Parents and adults generally have responsibility to care for, educate, and discipline children but when the children begin to detest the parents, then the situation calls for concern.
13 -year-old Blessing Chia allegedly fell victim to regular beating by his step father, Mr Benjamin Richard, 35, who, as she claimed, later lusted after her.
The allegation by the girl that the step father serially raped her to the point of her getting pregnant is a subject of police investigations.
Blessing told Sunday Vanguard, “The first time my mother was not around, he took cane and was beating me and told me that if I messed up, he would kill me, that if I shouted or if my mummy heard anything about it, he was going to kill me.
“So the one that happened on Thursday, November 13, 2014,   I told him that I would tell my mummy and I dared to see if he would kill me. So l told my mummy.

Richard,the suspect, strongly denies allegation
He raped me four times, the first time was when my mother travelled to Makurdi, Benue State.’’
Blessing’s mother, Mrs Grace Richard, 30, said her daughter reported to her that the stepfather raped her but her husband denied it when she confronted him.
She confirmed that it was during the period she traveled to her home state (Benue) and left her daughter in the care of her stepfather that he first allegedly raped her.
‘’That was two months ago when I travelled to Makurdi and she told me immediately I came back,” the mother said.
“My husband denied and even threatened to beat me black and blue if l ever asked him such a question again”.
Grace said she was not, in the real sense of it, married to the father of Blessing whom she had at the age of 17 before the father died in a motor accident last year.
Blessing’s mother said she and her current husband have been together for four years during which she had a boy child for him. The boy, she said, lives with her mother-in-law.
Mrs Martina Moses, Grace’s elder sister, told Blessing’s story to Sunday Vanguard.
‘’I was in Gwagalape on Thursday when my sister called me around 5pm to help settle an issue Blessing had with a neighbour over SIM card.’’
She continued: ‘’While in their house, I saw my sister’s husband and I asked him where my sister was. He said my sister was on her way to home, that he sent her to collect money from a friend.
‘’I then asked after my niece, Blessing. Richard got angry and said the girl was very stubborn, that he was going to tie her up in a room before dropping me off . He said if he didn’t tie the girl up, she would run away. He tied the girl’s hands and feet in my presence. I pleaded on my niece’s behalf with his stepfather to no avail.

‘’Later that night, my sister came to my house around 11pm and I asked her what she was doing outside that late. She told me that her husband was threatening her.
‘’Grace was afraid to go back home because she was sure Richard would beat her up. That prompted her to go to her elder sister, Martina’s house, so that Martina could follow her back home in order to stop Richard carrying out his threat of beating her. And because it was late in the night, Grace was forced to pass the night at the elder sister’s place.
‘’The following day, being Friday, Martina sent somebody to Richard’s place to bring Blessing. But rather releasing Blessing to the man Martina sent, Richard took the girl on his motorcycle to Martina’s house himself.
‘’On getting to Martina’s house, Blessing ran into her aunty’s arms, and wept profusely after which she claimed that her mother’s husband raped her four times.
‘’After listening to Blessing, Martina said she took the girl to Richard and asked her to repeat what she told her inside in the presence of the stepfather and Blessing repeated everything.
“Right there, l told my sister and her husband that the rape issue will not be swept under the carpet. l asked my brother to go and report the issue at a police station, but my brother advised that we first report the matter to Richard’s mother. It was then that Richard’s mother said we should take Blessing for test, and that took us to Aso police station where we were referred to Nyanya police station since the alleged rape took place in Nyanya.
“When we got to Nyanya police station, the police interrogated the stepfather and he denied yet again. It was at that point the police locked him up.
‘’The police told Richard that the only thing that could save him was if the result of the test indicated that Blessing was still a virgin, but the test showed that Blessing had not only been deflowered but also pregnant. Meanwhile, the police that had the hospital report with them did not disclose the number of weeks Blessing has been pregnant.
‘’We went back to the police station the following day after Richard was detained, only to be told that his father had bailed him.
‘’On getting back to Richard’s house after he was bailed, he tried to convince his neighbours to accept that Blessing was wayward, but his neighbours refused to play along with him. Rather they claimed they heard Blessing screaming on that Thursday but did know the reason.’’
The investigating police officer, IPO, in charge of the case, who did not want her name mentioned, told Sunday Vanguard that Blessing was indeed pregnant but that investigations were in progress.
At press time, Richard had been re-arrested by the police God help Us and save us !!!

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Top 5 most Richest People in the world 2014

5) LARRY ELLISON – $49.3 BILLION



Heavily involved in the tech industry, Larry Ellison is the chief executive officer of Oracle, an American multinational computer technology corporation based out of California that specializes in computer hardware systems. Ellison is worth $48 billion, a whopping $8 billion more than the two Koch brothers. Named the third wealthiest man in America last year, Ellison also has large stakes in companies such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Astex Pharmaceuticals and Quark Biotechnology. Ellison was, along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, one of the billionaires to sign the “The Giving Pledge,” where most of his wealth will be given to philanthropic causes.

4) WARREN BUFFET – $63.3 BILLION



The fourth richest man in the world has amassed a total net worth of $58.2 billion, over $10 billion more than Ellison. Buffett has long been known as one of the world’s wealthiest individuals and has been praised for his sound financial investing and advice. Buffett is the CEO, chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, an American multinational conglomerate holding company based out of Omaha, Nebraska, and has famously pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune.

3) AMANCIO ORTEGA – $63.8 BILLION



Thanks to his success in the retail industry, this Spanish businessman is worth $64 billion. Ortega is the founder of the famous Spanish clothing company, the Inditex fashion group, which is headquartered in Arteixo, Spain. Perhaps his best known chain is the Zara clothing and accessories shops. Since 2013, Ortega’s wealth has increased by $7 billion.

2) CARLOS SLIM HELU – $68.8 BILLION



Holding the title of the world’s richest person from 2010 to 2013, this Mexican businessman dropped in rank this year. Via his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, Helu is involved in many Mexican companies in the fields of communication, retailing, technology, and finance. He is also the chairman and chief executive of popular telecommunication companies Telmex and América Móvil. Helu has also been named as one of the world’s biggest charitable givers, donating a total of $4 billion to his foundation.

1) BILL GATES – $77.1 BILLION



Perhaps the most famous icon for wealth and philanthropy in the world, after holding down the second place spot for three years, Bill Gates reclaimed his position in 2014 as the world’s richest person. Gates is known as a prominent American investor, philanthropist, inventor and programmer. He co-founded Microsoft, and also held positions of CEO, chairman and chief software architect at the company before retiring. Through his charitable organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has donated more than $26 billion dollars to philanthropic causes such as enhancing healthcare and reducing extreme poverty worldwide.

So there you have it, the ten richest people in the world for 2014. Luckily for the world, the richest people in the world, by and large, are heavily involved in philanthropic pursuits that help those who are less fortunate. Many in the above list have signed a pledge to actually donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy, which will drastically change and improve many lives in the years and decades to come.

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101 Interesting facts

1.Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game. 

2.The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
3.Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
4.It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
5.When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
6.Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
7.Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
8.Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
9.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
10.The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
11.Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
12.The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
13.In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
14.Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas once in a while.
15.Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
16.You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
17.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
18.12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
19.123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S’s highways.
20.160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
21.A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
22.A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
23.A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
24.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
25.A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
26.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
27.A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
28.A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
29.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
30.A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
31.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
32.A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
33.A whale’s penis is called a dork.
34.America once issued a 5-cent bill.
35.An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
36.An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
37.Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
38.Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
39.Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
40.Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
41.If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
42.If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
43.In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
44.It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don’t try this at home!)
45.More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
46.More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
47.More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
48.Mosquitoes have teeth.
49.Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
50.Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

51.Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
52.Most lipstick contains fish scales.
53.Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
54.Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
55.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
56.The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
57.The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
58.The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
59.The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
60.The only nation whose name begins with an “A” but doesn’t end in an “A” is Afghanistan.
61.The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
62.There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
63.There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
64.There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
65.There are more chickens than people in the world.
66.There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
67.There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
68.There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
69.When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
70.Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
71.You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
72.You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
73.Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
74.The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
75.The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.
76.The state of Florida is bigger than England.
77.The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
78.The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
79.The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.
80.The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
81.The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
82.The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
83.The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
84.The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
85.The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
86.The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
87.The “L.L.” in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
88.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
89.The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
90.The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
91.The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
92.The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
93.The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”.
94.The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the early 1500s.
95.The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
96.The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
97.The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
98.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
99.The Elephant is the only mammal that can't jump
100.The first forged cars had no engine

101.Shark is the only fish that is immune to all diseases

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Obama unveils new immigration plan USA

updated 15:50 GMT 11.21.14
Obama: 'You can come out of the shadows'
By Jim Acosta and Stephen Collinson, CNN live
 

Obama unveils new immigrationWashington (CNN) - President Barack Obama is ordering the most sweeping overhaul of the immigration system in decades, despite Republican claims he is acting illegally by moving unilaterally to shield five million undocumented immigrants.

Obama rejected accusations by conservatives that he is offering a free pass to undocumented immigrants and warned in a prime-time address that he would bolster border security and make it harder for unauthorized outsiders to get into the country.

"Today our immigration system is broken and everybody knows it," Obama said. "It's been this way for decades and for decades we haven't done much about it."

Obama is pressing ahead and making broad changes to the immigration system without the consent of Congress, which has failed to pass a comprehensive reform bill. The announcement prompted an angry response from House Speaker John Boehner.

"By ignoring the will of the American people, President Obama has cemented his legacy of lawlessness and squandered what little credibility he had left," Boehner said. "Republicans are left with the serious responsibility of upholding our oath of office."

A key element of Obama's plan is to instruct immigration authorities to target those undocumented immigrants who are dangerous rather than law-abiding undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and residents and others.

He said they will go after "felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a Mom who's working hard to provide for her kids."

"We'll prioritize, just like law enforcement does every day," he said.

The changes will offer those who qualify the chance to stay temporarily in the country for three years, as long as they pass background checks and pay back taxes. But they will not be offered a path to eventual citizenship or be eligible for federal benefits or health care programs. And, in theory, the measures could be reversed by a future president.

"If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up," Obama said.

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Chris Hemsworth id People magazine's Sexiest man Alive for 2014

By Bruna

The wait is finally over! Jimmy Kimmel had the honor of announcing this year's handsome Hollywood hunk that snagged the title of People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2014, and it's Chris Hemsworth! After playing a fun game of Q&A with the audience, Hemsworth answered their yes or no questions with a voice changer and mask via Skype, until they finally guessed hisidentity (thanks to some superhero questions)."Thank you very much for the trophy. I'm most excited about the alive portion of that statement. I'm flattered. Thank you, Jimmy," Hemsworth said, and added that there is no hard feelings from his also-hot brother, Liam Hemsworth."Liam is good. We've been throwing sexy looks back and forth all week. So he's been a real team player through this." He continued, "I like everything there is about being sexy, to pursing the lips the right way to squinting at the essentialtime. Thank you, Matt [Damon], and all the other previous intelligent men. This is based on an IQ test, not just the physical appearance." As for who Chris would like to thank--"My parents, I guess, for putting this together." "Thank you for being here tonight. I'm glad you're excited. You're here on a very big night. Tonight I am going to reveal the identity of People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. I want you to know I withdrew myself from consideration. I didn't think it would be fair since I'm the one making the announcement," Kimmel joked at the top of the show. "Not only am I going to reveal the sexiest man alive, we're going to beam him in here via Skype to officially anoint him. I never felt more powerful or less attractive than I do today. I had to keep this a secret for like a week. As you know, sexy secrets are even harder to keep than regular secrets. What an honor to be trusted with this information. Sexiest man alive is the nuclear launch code of magazine covers." "Last year it was Adam Levine. The year before that was Channing Tatum and the year before that was Bradley Cooper. I actually know way too much about this, I think. The criteria for sexiest man alive is very strict. First of all, you must be sexy. Secondly, you must be alive. If you're ugly or dead, forget about it, you're not going to win. We will see who does win in about ten minutes. Is it awin? I hope it's somebody fat this year, I really do." Speaking of Levine, he was shocked to be given the honor. "As a musician, you have fantasies that you want to win Grammys, but I didn't really think that this was on the table," the singer told the mag at the time. "I was just amazed and stunned and it almost seemed like they were kidding, but they weren't, so that's cool." This extremely hot list includes previous winners George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp, Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Affleck, to name a few

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