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EDITORIAL THE AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL IS ABOUT TO BE BORN THE AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL IS ABOUT TO BE BORN

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THE AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL IS ABOUT TO BE BORN I remember our usual procedure for subsistence faming back home.

Depending on the soil to be planted on. If the soil has been busy in the last farming season, there will be need for manure and even the system of crop rotation. Here the soil is prepared for the onerous task of food production.

However, virgin lands or forests take different cue.

Now it is my pleasure to announce to you the advent of ‘The African International’, a pan-African magazine from the stable of Uyokanjo Media. The new magazine targets the global reader particularly followers of the political and economic life of the African continent. It will also dwell on social issues and women empowerment.

The African International will be launched in Dublin next April and followed up with similar launch in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya.

We shall keep you posted on developments. Stay tuned.

Come inside.

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AFRICAWORLD & MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Editor Ukachukwu Okorie News Director Abdul Yusuf

Graphic Design Mirco Mascarin Leandro Tonetto Oliveira Jana Veverkova

Secretary / TV Director Koketso Mohotloane

Photography Alex Cavalcante da Silva

Chief Reporter Paul Kelly

The Editorial team at AfricaWorld would like to point out that it is aware of the Millennium Development Goals and seeks to Published by Uyokanjo Media Services Ltd. 46 Parnel Square West

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synergise its work in accordance with those aims wherever possible. Those goals are to improve issues of Education,

Health, HIV/AIDS, Gender Equalit y, Environmental Sustainability and Global Partnerships.

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By Asdrubal Santana

ALGERIA

A l g e r i a ’s C o n s t i t u t i o n a l Council has approved six candidates to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is one of the candidates who suffered a mini stroke last year, when he was rushed to a hospital in Paris.

FUNERAL MASS FOR LILIAN NKECHI AZU HELD IN LU C A N The faithful of the African Catholic Chaplaincy, family and friends of late Lilian Azu gathered in a concelebrated mass service to bid her farewell to mother earth.

ANGOLA

Australia’s Lucapa Diamond Company has been authorised to sell 371.35 carats of diamonds valued at US$3.16 million. This is the second time that Angola authorises this company, which is prospecting for diamonds at the Lulo project in Angola’s Lunda Norte province.

BENIN

T h e Wo r l d B a n k ( W B ) h a s approved US$30 million to B e n i n t o “ s c a l e u p e ff o r t s t o bring essential services to communities under the existing Decentralized Community Driven Services Project”, WB has said.

This project is expected to benefit about 270,000 people by 2017.

BOTSWANA

An American non-government organization ranked Botswana number 1 in Africa in terms of the rule of law. According to the Rule of Law Index 2014 by the World Justice Project, Botswana has shown effective systems of checks and balances during the recent years.

BURKINA FASO

Africa’s first hospital to offer free clitoral repair for victims of female genital mutilation has opened its doors in Burkina Faso.

However, no patients were admitted because the government refused to allow foreign doctors to perform the surgery, local media reported.

BURUNDI

Burundi’s authorities have ordered the arrest of an opposition leader after clashes between his party members and police, Reuters reported. More than a dozen members of the opposition Movement for Solidarity and Democracy (MSD) party were injured in clashes with police recently.

CAMEROON

Cameroon has said that the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram is suspected in an attack on one of its markets near Kousseri - with at least one soldier killed. The latest incident also provoked panic in a convoy of guarded Chadian refugees , local media reported.

CAPE VERDE

Cape Verde appears on track to e n t e r t h e Wo r l d Tr a d e Organization (WTO) by the end of the year, WTO members have said. The country still has to resolve some minor issues relating to trading rights, investment rules, taxes and export subsidies to be a full member, AP reported.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC : Urgent action is needed to avert more carnage and deaths from hunger and disease in the CAR, United Nations (UN) has warned.

The UN Security Council is considering sending a peacekeeping force to the country, but any troops will not arrive for six months, UN authorities said.

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RETURN OF THE NATIVE UKACHUKWU OKORIE We often forget the labour of our heroes in the past and present. Although many have continue to distinguish themselves for the progress of Africa and humanity. This column excavates positives in the toils and vicissitudes of men and women of great character, thereby helping to ignite a new flame in our champions today. It is as hot as the basic menu in the Irish Chipper.

Get addicted to it.

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TECH_PILOT - UCHENNA ONYENAGUBO “A prophet has no regard in his town”, they usually say but that is balderdash. Here is our IT Columnist who brings to you the often neglected, yet basic tech. solutions. From your gadgets to external soft/hardware accessories, our Tech_Pilot will help you understand with ease as if you are loosening a bolt.

This is an important column for all.

AFRICAWORLD CHIEF REPORTER - PAUL KELLY

AGONY CORNER: Are you heartbroken or seeking love? Do you need the tips to make him/her stay with you? A great charmer yet uncelebrated like the Dublin Spire that connects many especially new love birds that see it as meeting or melting point. Agony Corner is all you need if you are a Lover Boy/Girl. Let the contents serve as your romance liturgy.

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AFRICAWORLD CARTOON MAX CHIJIOKE OKAFOR As they said that ‘the teacher was once a pupil’, so you could say about Max who runs our cartoon section. Unlike the hazy Irish weather, Max has predictably grown from strength to strength. Our Award-winning teenage cartoonist is on the rise and should be followed up on our Facebook cartoon page and AfricaWorld Newspaper. You will be impressed if you check it out.

THE ERA OF NU UCHENNA ACHEBE

Get down to the business of Health & Fitness Regime with Uchenna, our newest Columnist.

Burn the fats, eat healthy and free your mind and soul. Don’t miss any edition of AfricaWorld Newspaper, it’s every two weeks.

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DD’S CUBICLE - DUNSTAN UKAGA Come to think of a writer who writes fearlessly no matter whose ox is gored. Our International Affairs Columnist is a widely traveled guy, leaving you satisfied with his analysis like the manner Didier Drogba left Chelsea fans after slotting in his penalty kick, thereby granting them the audacity to lift the Euro Champions league trophy. Follow his page on AfricaWorld Newspaper.

60 SECONDS WITH THE DUCHESS NENA HUNTAZ Our Celebrity Queen bring to us ‘who is who’ in the African entertainment world from the Elizabethan city of London. “It is up to you”, however our readers who follow her column know the current and upcoming acts in the African celebrity firmament. See your African Stars and know ‘how far’ with them on 60 SECONDS WITH THE DUCHESS. Don’t miss it on AfricaWorld Newspaper every two weeks.

XRAY WITH FR. VIN - VINCENT ARISUKWU A prolific writer in the order of Melchizedek of old. This Columnist brings his daily sermon on social justice to our global readership. The column ‘Xray with Fr. Vin’ is core analysis touching issues affecting all spectrum of life. In as much as it can be religious, it has political and sociocultural underpinnings in lessons. It can also serve as a ‘Mea Culpa’ for existential harmony.

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NEWS

By Asdrubal Santana

KENYA

Kenya has been ranked seventh in military expenditure in Africa importing more weapons in 2012 than Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi combined. Kenya’s military spending in the last five years has grown by more than 300 per cent, according to data from an independent think-tank.

United States and Japan have contributed with a total of US$ 2.5 million to the United Nations Commission for Refugees for a programme which is focused on the voluntary repatriation of Ivorian refugees remaining in Liberia. Figures estimates that more than 46,000 Ivorian refugees are in Liberia.

LIBYA North Korea denied any responsibility for an oil tanker that loaded crude from a rebel-held port in Lybia and eluded attempts to seize it. North Korea said the tanker violated its laws and a contract with the Egyptian company, Golden East Logistics, by carrying contraband cargo.

MADAGASCAR

The World Bank has approved emergency financing to Madagascar to help the country provide food security for 13 million people who are coping with a continuing locust infestation and drought. The first of two emergency support projects approved by the Bank focused on this need.

MALAWI

South African authorities have reported the deportation of 301 malawians who were living in that country illegally. Malawi’s Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala said that al the deportees “either did not have valid work permits or valid travel documents”.

MALI

Leading jihadist militant close to top figures in the West African affiliate of Al Qaeda has been killed in Mali’s desert north, officials said. The militant, Oumar Ould Hamaha was killed on March 8 by French Special Forces in the Timetrine area, northeast of Timbuktu, the officials said.

MAURITANIA Hundreds of protesters threw stones and chanted antigovernment slogans in Mauritania’s capital after local media reported that Qurans were desecrated in a mosque. A young man was killed during the protests AFP news agency reported.

Mother Explains How Son, 2, Left Home At Night to Be Found on N7

By ABDUL YUSUF

A Limerick mother says she was “shocked” after two gardaí woke her in the middle of the night to tell her that her two-year-old son had been found about a mile away from the family home.

said they had him in Henry Street me when he ended up until the young lad station and so they were going to found him.” bring him back to us.”

Two gardaí at Henry Street station, Christine, a single mother, said she Shaun O’Hagan and Orlaith Ryan, returned couldn’t believe what had happened. the little adventurer to his mother at 4am.

“The ifs and buts went through my Garda Ryan said: “It was lovely. We Theo Costelloe, from Aspen Gardens in Limerick, let himself out head all day yesterday (but) I can’t were driving around and we were saying the front door shortly after 2am dwell on that. I haven’t left him out is this where mammy is, and then he started of my sight since,” she said. shouting ‘mammy’, and then he ran yesterday morning. straight into his mam’s arms. It was a “He had ventured out about 2am or lovely (end).”

He was found by a passer-by on the Limerick to Dublin road after he had 2.30am, out the front door and went crossed the N7 wearing only a onesie down the Dublin Road. I didn’t know Garda O’Hagan added: “He was found just off the Dublin Road, on a little byroad pyjama suit and holding onto a anything had happened. leading to the Rhebogue Road. It was by blanket.

“Gardaí said that he was on his way Chererydale Court, after the traffic lights.

Theo’s mother, Christine, told out the road and that a young lad had He went straight across the road. It would reporters in Limerick that she was found him and had brought him to the be roughly a mile. He had crossed the gardaí.

Dublin Road (The N7) at the traffic lights panicked and shocked. and was heading down to Rhebogue.”

That’s all I knew.”

Theo climbed out of his cot, closed Christine and gardaí praised the actions his bedroom door behind him and left The gardaí alerted her at 3.45am. of James Ryan, a University of Limerick his family home by opening the front student, who along with a taxi driver, kept door while his family slept in their “(I felt) panic, shocked, I was trying Theo safe until gardaí arrived on scene. beds unaware he had gone. to think back to how I didn’t hear The intrepid toddler’s little anything, how I didn’t hear a creaking “James Ryan spotted him on the Dublin adventure led to a major garda door. I didn’t know any different. I Road and young Theo wasn’t stopping for had fallen asleep downstairs and woke anyone, so he kept on walking and James investigation. up and went straight to bed, not followed him until a taxi driver pulled up, Theo, who sleeps in his own room, realising I hadn’t double locked the and between the two of them, they were was eventually taken to safety by a front door with the key. You couldn’t able to get in contact with us and we get in from the outside, but you could arrived at the scene. We arrived on the passer-by who alerted gardaí. open it from the inside, so it just had scene at 2.20am. He was (dressed) in his His relieved mother, Christine to be double locked, but I completely pyjamas blue Onesie suit and he had his Costelloe, 26, said: “I’m shocked”. forgot and just went to bed. I was sister’s pink blankey. James (Ryan) had shocked (afterwards),” said Christine. given him his t-shirt as it was cold that night just to keep him that extra bit warm,” “I was asleep. I was unaware of Little Theo, described as “shy” by added garda O’Hagan. anything wrong. I went to bed, and (at about 3.45am) I heard gardaí his mum, was completely unaware he Garda Ryan issued advice to parents that downstairs calling out ‘Is there had sparked a major garda alert. an event like this could happen to anyone anybody there?’, so when I went “He had got out of the cot. He had and that it was no ones fault. downstairs they asked me had I a son. climbed out of the cot a couple of “So I went back upstairs and mornings beforehand, but he had just She added: “It was a complete accident checked their rooms, and I have an come straight downstairs to me. It’s and it could absolutely happen to anybody. older son and he was in his bed, and very unlike him not to come in and Children that age are starting to move I went in Theo’s room and he wasn’t check on me inside in bed or just to about. It wasn’t Christine’s fault. It was make some sort of noise but he didn’t. fortunate he was found so close to his in his cot.”

He just walked straight out of his cot, home. I would advise fathers and mothers The panic-stricken mum of three closed his bedroom door behind him, to take it on board. Just to do safety checks, was then told by gardaí that they had and off (he went) down out the front and make sure doors and windows are locked from the inside.

Theo in protective custody at Henry door,” Christine added.

Street garda station.

“His brother’s school is down int Christine, who has two other children, “So I came back downstairs and the he at direction so he would know that Jack, (6), and Lauren, (1), said: “It could garda showed me a picture of him on route, and the petrol station (is there) have been a completely different outcome. their phone and they said, ‘Is this and he would know that way to I’m very grateful for James staying with him?’, and I said ‘yeah’, and they said venture down that road, would be him until gardaí turned up and I’m very it was OK and that he was safe. They familiar to him, so it didn’t surprise grateful to the gardaí.”

When will the Irish national football team be thrown open for some of us who wants to shine ?

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NEWS / EDITOR’S COLUMN

By Asdrubal Santana

MOROCCO

Morocco has dismantled an Islamist militant cell led by a Spanish citizen that sent fighters to “hotbeds of tension” abroad, the interior ministry said. Hundreds of fighters from Morocco have joined Islamist-dominated rebel forces in Syria’s civil war during the last months.

SOUTH SUDAN

East African states agreed to send troops to South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a cease-fire deal between government forces and rebels, said the chief mediator in peace talks. Ethiopia,Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda will send troops, and Djibouti is also expected to contribute.

NAMIBIA President Hifikepunye Pohamba has called on foreign companies operating in Namibia to assist with the country’s economic growth through infrastructure development. Pohamba made the call when officiating at the inauguration of the N$92 million Keetmanshoop Old Mutual Retail Centre recently.

NIGERIA

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a forensic audit of the state oil firm following claims that $20bn (£12bn) had gone missing.

Suspended central bank governor Lamido Sanusi caused shockwaves last month when he said that $20bn in oil revenue had not been accounted for.

RWANDA

A Paris court has given a Rwandan former soldier a 25year jail sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. It was the first trial in France to punish those responsible for the threemonth wave of violence.

SENEGAL

The World Bank has approved additional 900 million dollars to support the Senegal economic plan tagged: “Emerging Senegal Plan.”

Through the plan, Senegal hopes to become an emerging economy by the year 2035, authorities have said.

SIERRA LEONE Sierra Leone’s ex-president and war-time leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has died at the age of 82 after a long illness. Mr Kabbah was praised for his leadership during and after Sierra’s Leone’s decade-long civil war.

By Ukachukwu Okorie

WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Mother of the Nation Together, hand in hand, with that stick of matches, with our necklace we shall liberate this country.

Many grew up on Hugh Masekela’s famous tune which runs thus - Bring back Nelson Mandela, Bring him back home to Soweto, I want to see him walking hand in hand With Winnie Mandela…no more war.

Winnie Mandela was born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei.

The fourth of eight children. Her father, Columbus, was minister of the Transkei Governments’ Forestry and Agriculture Department during Kaizer Matanzima’s rule. Her mother, Nomathamsanqa Mzaidume (Gertrude), a domestic science teacher, died when Winnie was only eight years old. Winnie Mandela began her primary education in Bizana and post-primary at Shawbury High School, where she distinguished herself as a person with exceptional leadership qualities.

In 1953, she was admitted to the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg.

black education, and won a scholarship in the USA for further studies. However she turned it down and opted for a challenging position as the first qualified Black medical social worker at the Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg instead.

Winnie later earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

As a writer put it, “Winnie is the Mandela that kept Nelson in our consciousness.” She spent most of her marital life championing the cause against minority white rule in South Africa. Winnie Mandela was a thorn in the flesh for the conspirators that jailed her husband that when the later was released from prison, she had become a political figure with a huge following in her own right. It would be said that Winnie did married Mandela young but she grew up politically outside his tentacles.

laws placed hurdles in her life which prevented her from socializing, living and working. She was barred under the Suppression of Communism Act for her part in the struggle and was restricted to the Soweto Orlando Township.

Notwithstanding, she continued to work clandestinely for the ANC, participating in secret meetings and mobilization.

For many of her husband’s time in prison, she was restricted and confined certain locations due to her vibrancy and activism except for the times she was allowed to visit him. At a time Winnie, she spent eighteen months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison.

At different period, she was elected president of the ANC Women’s League, Member of South Africa Parliament, deputy minister of Arts, Culture, and Science and Technology. She was elected to the ANC National Executive Committee at the 52nd ANC conference in Polokwane. Whatever critics say about Winnie Mandela, she identifies with the Starting in 1962, Winnie Mandela yearnings of her people and remain the She completed her degree in social went through an uninterrupted series ‘Mother of the Rainbow Nation’. work in 1955 despite restrictions on of legal restrictions. The Apartheid

SUDAN

A student has been killed in clashes between police and protesters at Khartoum University in Sudan. Witnesses said police used tear gas and batons against around 200 students protesting against escalating violence in the Darfur region.

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FAMILY & LOVE he had been tricked – because he had already become one flesh with her. [Genesis 29:23, 27, 30].

By Abdul Yusuf

VIRGINITY

… ONLY ME?

We live in a generation where being a virgin past a certain age is highly regarded as such a big deal. So that’s pretty much what I did, I made a big deal out of it. I was proudly abstinent and trust me; I didn’t decline any opportunity to announce my “virginal” state.

Then I met Nneka. I had been trying to win her to Christ and then possibly myself.

She is such a beautiful, intelligent, gifted and creative young woman but a little laid back about the things of God. I mean, she does not even go to Church so how responsible could she possibly have been?

I was so concerned about her soul. I thought to myself “if only she could add the Godfactor, her life will make so much sense.”

In time we got pretty close. I secured her confidence and also noticed that she was quite evasive about her romantic life. So I put it to her one day. “Who are you courting”? She mentioned a guy’s name and confidently, I asked my next question, “so how sexually active are you?’’ To my utter amazement, she replied with a look of alarm on her face, “I don’t do that!” To say the least, I was shocked to hear that Nneka was a virgin despite being in a relationship.

This is a lady who could not even remember the last time she was in church.

Now, Cynthia had no moral obligations provided by a pastor, no social scrutiny provided by a church department, and definitely no inclination to being answerable to any God anywhere! She graduated from the University and had been living by herself for years. Yet she wasn’t “doing it”.

Then I got really curious and asked how come. And all she told me was. ‘I have always had sense!’

For her, it is not about God! She is not doing it because of a Supreme Being up there who she is trying to impress or who

is going to judge her. It is about common sense!

Hmm…, Common sense informing her decision.

Forget Cynthia for a second, I have been friends with Edna for awhile. Her courtship was one I had long envied. So it was with excitement that I attended her wedding.

Then while waiting in the car before the glorious entrance into the reception hall, shortly after the Church wedding, I mischievously teased her about the kiss she and her husband shared during the ‘kiss your bride’ segment in Church. Then she said ‘It was so beautiful. That was my first kiss ever’ Again, I was literally slapped with shock!

“Like seriously? ‘You have never kissed?’”

Then she nodded affirmatively. Here is a lady who got married at a year closer to 30 than 25.

To her, that is the right way to live before marriage, the only way acceptable for a daughter of Zion!

‘Never been kissed, never been touched!’

Oh mai God! I just stood there flooded with the image of the guys I had kissed and let kiss me.

Lord have mercy!

Over time, I have met several other virgins who have decided to preserve the gift of their body to the man of their destiny. Then I stopped believing virgins are scarce.

Dearest, you are not the only virgin standing! There are a whole lot out there.

Whatever the devil or the society has made you to believe before now does not matter.

You are not the only one! There could be so many perversion sin the land and countless daughters, who are indiscriminate about sex, but beyond that, virginity is not out of fashion and virgins are definitely not extinct.

In Adebola Deji – Kurunmi’s note SEX, OH MY GOD, SEX!!!, she said ‘Sex is thrilling, amazing and incredibly powerful.

Sex is one of the very few serious, lifedefining experiences that are yet coated in sugary appeal. It as the fire in your bed, flame in your soul, melting body, heights of passion, muffled whisper and ruffled sheet. Yet, it is a covenant, a spiritual exchange, souls poured into one, a bond that binds and handwriting on the future. It is amazing how God has made a deeply spiritual transaction so pleasurable.’

I understand that being a virgin can be a real drag. Especially when your association is wrong and all your girlfriends swap stories of passionate lovemaking, scandalous screwing and one-night-stands, leaving you with nothing to contribute to the conversation; it’s easy to feel like you are the odd woman out. It’s also easy to feel like you are missing out.

Combine the two and you might start to feel like you should just hurry up and lose your virginity!

Being a virgin in this day and age is quite difficult because you are literally swimming against the current of the modern times, but it’s a choice at the end of the day. Virginity also tends to scare off a lot of people that would want to be in a relationship with you, but also in the end, it usually turns out to be a blessing because it eliminates crappy and toxic people out of your life.

As a virgin, your ability to rock someone’s world doesn’t come from how you perform in bed.

Virginity is a gift, to be honourably saved for that one person you decide to spend your lifetime with (i.e. marriage partner.) It is the greatest emotional/physical treasure a person can GIVE. You don’t take it. You don’t lose it. You give it. Isn’t that what true love is about?

Chaste woman, I dare to call you a UNICORN. And this is not just about the biological virgins, but as well about those who have been bought and washed with hyssop. It applies to daughters who despite their past have run back to the cross and initiated a new Covenant of purity with God. You are as well covered! What a woman you are!

Now listen up, I want you to add these points to whatever reasons have kept you a virgin till now. “You are ‘married’ to whoever you have sex with! In the Bible, it’s not really the wedding that does the ‘joining together’; it is the sex— the welding. The Bible makes no distinction between marriage and sex.

After Abraham slept with Hagar (his servant girl), she also became HIS WIFE .From that point forward, scriptures had to specify when referring to Sarah by using the phrase “…your wife Sarah.” (Gen. 18:910, 20:2, 23:19).

In Genesis 24:67, Rebecca became Isaac’s wife as soon as she was taken to his tent.

The real marriage covenant is two people engaging in sexual intercourse.

Jacob could not return Leah the day after the wedding ceremony – even after realizing

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In Genesis 29:21, we see that Jacob, when later demanding for Rachael, asked her father to give her over that ‘I may lie with her’. That is what matters! Sex is what turns Miss. Rachael into Mrs. Jacob—not a golden ring!”

It is also interesting to note that one of the first questions asked by judges handling divorce cases is “Was this Marriage consummated?” (I.e. have you had sex?). If yes, the marriage cannot be ANNULLED, there can only be a DIVORCE. You may have also noticed that couples who have been together for a while begin to resemble each other. This is because there has been a three-fold mixing: Spirits have mixed; Souls have been tied and bodies have communicated with each other deeply!

What is the point? The female leaves the bed with A PART OF ANOTHER MAN inside of her (in every sense of the word) and vice versa!

Spare me a minute though, are you sure you are not just a technical virgin? Huh! We know you have done pretty much everything but penis-in-vagina. But if you don’t want to mess up this journey don’t start what you can’t handle! The skin is only a few centimetres deep and beneath that skin; there are 18million nerves passing information round. Whenever someone touches you sexually, your nerves send information that is stored somewhere in your brain. That’s why when you see the person later you remember the touch! You have imprints of people on your life through sexual relationships.

My father once said, “In a generation where standards are generally zero… you need to put yourself inside some standards. …policies… and refuse to go out of it…

NO… not for anything or anyone.’’

We refuse to be kissed, touched, smooched, romanced….and we won’t allow any strange objects into our bodies till we are given in marriage! Yes, the way down the road maybe tough and temptations may lie here and there, but we are resolute about this because we have UNDERSTANDING! We will not only be pure in our bodies, but in our hearts, words, dressing and actions. We will be an epitome of what grace can do and we will be the standard for all women to follow! And we don’t mind being called ”old-school.” In-fact, we proudly answer to that.

Men desire a woman who can say No! This is the mother of all attractions.

Can I get a witness?

Always remember, the pleasure of sex is nothing compared to the pleasure of a manifested destiny!

God has seen your entire life even before you were born. How he longs for you to fulfill purpose and the prophecies that have gone ahead of you!

Prophecies do not just happen but by the consistent discipline of those who have received them!

Tarry in this groove TILL a man dares sign his life to you. Remember, the heaven is proud of you.

Sex is good; it is better with the right person BUT best served at the right time…

MARRIAGE! Period!

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PSYCHIATRY

ReConnect Africa (RCA): Can you tell us about yourself and your background?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: I was born in Koforidua in the Eastern Region of Ghana to parents who very much cherished and invested in our education. I was the second child and the only son of five siblings. I also have four half-sisters and a half-brother. I am married to beautiful Belinda and we are blessed with three lovely children; Gerald who is 11, Nadine who is 9 and Felix who is 7.

RCA: What did you study and what were your initial intentions for your career?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: I attended Madona International School for my primary education and Pope John Secondary School for my secondary education. Both institutions are in Koforidua in the Eastern region of Ghana. I then proceeded to the School of Medical Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, where I completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology and also my undergraduate medical degree.

I completed my internship at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi where I undertook rotations in Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

I then travelled to Europe but with plans initially to pursue postgraduate studies in International Public Health in the United States of America, where I had secured admission at Tulane University. However, I did not secure the expected funding to be able to undertake this programme of study, so ended up remaining in Europe where I completed both basic and higher specialist training in General Adult and Academic Psychiatry in Dublin, Ireland.

In addition, I completed a research doctorate in psychiatry and postgraduate certifications in forensic medicine, statistics and health services management and I am currently completing a PhD in Global Health at the Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

RCA: What were the key influences in your choice of career?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: I entered both the

medical profession and the mental health profession somewhat unwillingly. I was forced by my father to read biology for my A-Levels rather than Mathematics, which was my preference. I wanted to study engineering, while he wanted me to read medicine, so I had to give up my ambition to do what my father thought was right for me.

Again, after failing to secure a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies in International Health, I decided to work in any specialty in Europe for a year or two to accrue enough funds so that I could go to Tulane University. I settled on Psychiatry because it was easier to get a job in this specialty as an international medical graduate. However, after working in psychiatry for one month, I became convinced that it was fulfilling to work in this specialty and so I made the decision to focus on making the best out of the opportunities that working as a trainee psychiatrist presented.

RCA: What would you say have been the highlights of your career to date?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: I was the first Senior Registrar in Psychiatry ever to be appointed to St Patrick’s University Hospital, the largest tertiary referral center for mental health patients in the Republic of Ireland, and probably the oldest independent mental health hospital in Europe.

In addition to being a Senior Registrar at St Patrick’s University Hospital from 2009 to 2011, I served as a Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of Dublin. I was privileged to have worked with many supportive mentors including Professor Declan McLaughlin, Professor James Lucey, Dr Connor Farren and Professor Michael Gill. I was promoted to Clinical Senior Lecturer in 2012.

“After working in psychiatry for one month, I became convinced that it was fulfilling to work in this specialty and so I made the decision to focus on making the best out of the opportunities that working as a trainee psychiatrist presented.”

During my training, I engaged in active service development and patient centered research and other clinical governance activities which have so far led to about forty publications in national and international peer reviewed journals.

I have also made about twenty-six national and international conference presentations, including at the World Psychiatric Association International Congress, the European Congress of Psychiatry, the annual conference of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and the Royal College of Psychiatrist Congress of the Faculty of Addictions.

In addition, I frequently review journal articles for international journals, including the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, the International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Journal of Research in

Peace, Gender and Development and I serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospital Administration.

I have been a visiting scholar to the School of Medical Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi since 2009 and have been going to Ghana to teach medical students annually at no cost to the university.

As part of my ongoing commitment to psychiatric education in Ghana, I established the annual inter-medical school public speaking competition in 2010 to promote psychiatry as a fulfilling career option for Ghanaian medical students. This programme has ongoing sponsorship from St Patrick’s University Hospital and St John of God Development Company in Dublin. So far, through this programme, 8 Ghanaian medical students have undertaken four weeks each of sponsored elective placements at the two world-renowned mental health hospitals in Dublin.

I have won several academic and social awards including Best NCHD Research Prize from the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, the Henry Hutchinson Scholarship from the University of Dublin and the Outstanding Innovation in Health Award from the Royal Power Magazine. In September 2011, I was named by the Royal Power Magazine as one of the top ten most influential Africans living in Ireland.

Against all the odds, I attended a competitive interview for a permanent consultant post in Ireland and was recommended for appointment, having placed first at the interview ahead of a dozen other applicants most of whom were indigenous Irish citizens. However, by divine providence, I was simultaneously offered and accepted a position in Canada as a psychiatrist with the Northern Lights Regional Centre in Fort McMurray and as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. I moved to Canada with my family to assume these positions in August 2013 RCA: Where did you train and what technical skills do you need in order to do what you are doing?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: I first enrolled on the Royal College of Surgeons Rotational Training scheme in Psychiatry in July 2005.

I worked in various hospitals in Dunlin as part of the basic specialist training, including St Brendan’s Hospital, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Connolly Hospital and Beaumont Hospital. I obtained Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrist in three years and proceeded to complete my higher specialist training at St Patrick’s University Hospital and Connolly Hospital.

As a psychiatrist, I am patient centered and recovery focused in my approach to the care of those with mental health difficulties.

Everything I do as psychiatrist is therefore centered on how I can help the patient to recover and lead a productive life that will be beneficial to themselves, their families and to society at large.

As a researcher, I am interested in exploring and evaluating new cost effective preventative and treatment strategies and ensuring that they are evidence based and beneficial to my patients, their families and to society at large. As a teacher, I am interested in impacting knowledge to the next generation of doctors and allied health care professionals in a meaningful and practical way that stimulates their interest in the field of mental health.

RCA: What have been your biggest challenges so far in your career?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: The biggest challenge for my career so far was my recent

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decision to move to Canada from Ireland.

With the support I received from many of my colleagues in Ireland over the years and the steady progress I was making, it was difficult to just leave it all for another foreign country.

I had always thought that if I were to leave Ireland, then I would be returning to Ghana.

However, the opportunities that Canada presented were hard to resist, which have put back my plans to return to Ghana by a few years.

RCA: How do you think your African heritage has impacted on what you do and how you are perceived?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: As an African who grew up as part of a large family of 10 children, at an early age I learnt the skills needed to survive in a competitive world. This has helped me to aspire to succeed, no matter the environment in which I find myself.

Training in Ireland, my African heritage came with some challenges which I had to navigate.

It also presented me with some opportunities as I was easily recognized and singled out from among my peers for my numerous contributions to the many hospitals I worked in Dublin. It has always been my aspiration to prove that given the same opportunities, the black African is capable of achieving excellence at the same level and rate as our European and North American counterparts and I am satisfied with the progress I made so far in this regard.

“I will advise all African patriots in diaspora, regardless of their trade or profession, to consider making a contribution to the growth and development of the African continent.”

RCA: What have been the biggest lessons for you along the way?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: The biggest lesson for me has been that selfless hard work and trust in God always open opportunities for people. I believe I have been highly favored

by God in most of the places I have worked in partly because I have availed myself of opportunities and have been selfless in my dealings with my superiors, work colleagues, patients and their relatives.

Certainly working hard to create opportunities for other people has opened opportunities for me without that being my original intention.

RCA: What advice can you offer to others who would like to take the path you have chosen?

Dr Vincent Agyapong: I will advise all African patriots in diaspora, regardless of their trade or profession, to consider making a contribution to the growth and development of the African continent. We should all let the continent’s problems be our problems, because we have all in one way or the other shared and benefited from its richness.

I will encourage my fellow Africans in diaspora to consider visiting the continent at least once annually and identify a specific project they can embark on that can better the lot of the continent.

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COLUMN/ NEWS

By Asdrubal Santana

WESTERN SAHARA A Moroccan attack against Sahrawi students at the university campus of Settat (Morocco) left several wounded, according to the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Community Abroad, the Sahara Press Service reported.

TOGO The European Union has financed three projects initiated by Togolese ONGs “to support Togo in promoting the respect of human rights”.

According to the EU by “working together with public institutions, civil company and

MOZAMBIQUE

Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza announced a mini-reshuffle of his cabinet dropping his defence minister, who has been chosen as the ruling party’s presidential candidate for the October general election.

SOMALIA

A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber accidentally detonated his explosives near a popular hotel in the Somali capital. National authorities said the bomber appeared to have prematurely detonated his explosives-laden car as he tried

ZAMBIA Zambia is expected to sign a 26.3 million U. S. dollars loan agreement with the International Fund for Agricultural Development aimed at supporting a rural finance expansion program, local media reported. The program is an extension of the rural finance project which officially ended last year.

ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe with immediate effect capped the salaries of heads of state-owned enterprises to $6,000 per month including allowances. This year Zimbabwe’s state-controlled newspapers have exposed alleged fraud and inflated salaries at government-owned companies,

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IT/NEWS

Stay connected on-board your Flight…

with UCHENNA ONYENAGUBO When we board the plane from one point to the other, there is a procedure that is constantly repeated as regulation permits.

Purchase your ticket, get your boarding pass and arrive at the airport to check-in, wait at the Gates for boarding time. Once you get on the aircraft, on-board proceedings commence with a demonstration regarding flight safety and what to do in case of emergencies.

At the end of the display by the

air hostess, the next repetitive announcement is adherence to the seat belt lights and most importantly, turns off all mobile devices. This is the area of concentration for today’s Tech_ Pilot edition.

As we know, the use of mobile devices is prohibited on planes, especially during take-off and landing, because these two instances are crucial. Different country boundaries have the same policy imposed on their Aviation

on during flights, even illicitly use them to call or send text messages.

And we are yet to record any aeronautical disaster relating to flyers using their mobile devices so, it’s more or less a cautious exercise.

The trains, coaches and even local buses now have on-board WiFi for the comfort of passengers. So, the services have now been extended to some major airlines. During a long haul flight, it is amazing to see an advert by the airline about

an on-board WiFi services in one of my trips. In fact, a text message alert was delivered before the advert came on, advising that you are presently on-board and advised to switch off mobile device during takeoff and landing. . The services do not come free like in most of the land transportation mentioned but you will not break a bank to avail the services. It is reasonable if the Internet is essential to you especially if you run an online business.

Now, the benefit of it is the opportunity to avail Internet connection on your mobile device.

The advantage to watch movies, play online games, above all read your emails; make Internet phone calls to loved ones and business partners. Some of this journey takes over twelve hours or thereabout, therefore having the Internet with you will be handy. From the advert, cost plan is hourly or twenty (24) hour service which was reasonably priced. The next time you are on board a long haul flight, do ask for the Wi-Fi, it’s no longer restricted but make sure bring earphones for comfort.

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authorities. The law off course was stipulated to avoid interference on ground with the network connecting the airplane pilot and control tower. It is believed that network interfere with one another and the last time anyone wants to risk is to interfere with communication of the Pilot and control tower to take-off or land a plane. Technology advances have solved that interference issues. I read from a survey which indicate that most airline passenger about 40% do leave their cell and tablets

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FINANCE/ NEWS

The Pledge Of Success INCOME PLAN

PROJECTION

On your journey to achieve financial freedom or freedom in any category that matters, realize that you must give in order to receive, you must learn in order to teach, and that it takes a conditioned mindset, a burning desire to change an existing state of affairs to achieve that which you seek.

The first step to get what you want is to know exactly what you want, and give others the opportunity to achieve the same.

Devoid of an end destination in mind, your thoughts will wonder aimlessly without direction like a smoke on a windless day; let figure out how much you desire your monthly income to be.

1. How much is your rent or mortgage? (Accommodation) 2. How much do you spend every month for you and your family upkeep? (Basic Necessity)

3. How much do you spend every month to maintain your family and your lifestyle? (luxury) 4. Your miscellaneous expenses equal 10% of all your expenses; add 1, 2, and 3 above and multiply the result by 10% 5. Your gross expenses equal the addition of 1, 2, 3, and 4 above multiply result by 100 6. Your projected retirement or monthly residual income equals the result of number five?

If you are not currently incurring any of the mentioned expenses, then how much would you want each and every one of them to be?

The result of all your added expenses was multiplied by 100 to create a maximum output for your mind; even if at the end of your projected time period you managed to generate 10% of the required projected monthly residual income, you will

have generated ten times of all your estimated expenses.

Now that you have arrived at a definite income target, let create a daily pledge that will provide your mind the needed focus to achieve whatever you desire effortlessly. The daily pledge of success will activate your creative and productive mind; help guide your daily conduct to be one with the universe so the universe can be one with you.

People will find you appealing to associate and or do business because you bring fulfillment to all. Remember, people will provide you the opportunity to acquire riches if you are a creative, productive unassuming force; and if your daily conduct brings credit to you and those with whom you associate. Say the daily pledge every morning to set a good footing for your day and every time before making a decision that involve others.

DR CONGO WARLORD GERMAIN KATANGA FOUND GUILTY AT ICC

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Everything I am today and will become tomorrow, I owe to the influence of others.

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I ask for knowledge, skill, and wisdom to share my source of wealth with those who seek to know how.

I continue to amass wealth daily, and I continue to share my source of income with every man or woman who needs answers.

I am grateful for the gift

Katanga, who was transferred to The Hague by the Congolese authorities in 2007, had denied the charges.

The fighting in Ituri, which broke out in 1999 and continued until 2003, started as a struggle for control of land and resources.

But it escalated into an inter-ethnic conflict, exacerbated by the presence of Uganda troops, that killed an estimated 50,000 people.

‘Shot while sleeping’ Katanga was convicted of being an accessory to an attack on Bogoro that took place on 24 February 2003, killing more than 200 people.

Home truths He was found guilty of complicity in the 2003 massacre of villagers in the gold-rich Ituri province of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Time for peace Too rich for its own good He becomes just the second person to be convicted by the court since it was set up in The Hague in 2002.

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He would have been the first convicted of sexual crimes.

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According to the prosecution, the attack happened early in the morning and some villagers were shot while they slept, while others were cut up with machetes to save bullets.

Without the “supply of weapons... commanders would not have been able to carry out the attack with such efficiency,” said presiding judge Bruno Cotte.

At the time Katanga was 24 years old and the alleged commander of the Patriotic Resistance Force of Ituri (FRPI), which had the support of the Lendu ethnic group.

Germain Katanga’s ICC charges Convicted of accessory to one crime against humanity (murder) and four war crimes (murder, attacking a civilian population, destruction of property and pillaging)

The judges found that women who survived the massacre had been raped or kept as sex slaves but they did not find enough evidence to convict Katanga of carrying out these crimes.

In a majority verdict, the judges said he had helped plan the attack, and procure the weapons used, but they acquitted him of direct involvement.

Another person was charged by the ICC in connection with the Bogoro attack.

He was also cleared of using child soldiers.

The International Criminal Court has found Congo militia leader Germain Katanga guilty of war crimes but acquitted him of sexual offences.

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Oh! Divine providence, the supreme and infinite intelligence endow me with humility to serve all with dignity, admiration, and affection all the days of my life.

The prosecution said that as the FRPI’s leader, he was to blame for the atrocities committed by his fighters against the villagers from the Hema ethnic group.

Acquitted of one crime against humanity (sexual slavery) and threecounts of war crimes (using child soldiers, sexual slavery, rape)

The court acquitted Germain Katanga of direct involvement in the 2003 massacre

of financial freedom, sound health, and the ability to enrich the life of others.

Q&A: International Criminal Court In total, he was convicted of being an accessory to four counts of war crimes and one crime against humanity.

Will Africa pull out of the ICC? Will trials bring peace to Ituri?

He will be sentenced at a future hearing.

ICC prosecutors at The Hague say the assault was designed to “wipe out” the entire strategically important village, which is close to the Ugandan border.

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But in December 2012 Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was acquitted as judges found there was insufficient evidence to show that he was the commander of National Integrationist Front (FNI), which also took part in the raid.

The BBC’s Maud Jullien in DR Congo says Katanga was known to his men as “Simba”, meaning lion.

Those who knew him describe him as a discreet man but ruthless on the battlefield, she says.

After the end of the Ituri conflict, peace deals were signed and Katanga was given a position in the Congolese army.

But a year after joining the military he was imprisoned for bad behaviour and was still in prison when the ICC issued its arrest warrant for him.

His is one of the longest-running cases at the ICC. In July 2012, Thomas Lubanga, a rival militia leader in Ituri, was sentenced to 14 years in jail by the ICC for recruiting and using child soldiers.

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