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It is not an easy thing to do, but to escape an abusive partner you first have to first gain control over your own emotions. You loved him once and have had some good years together, but over the years he has insulted you and abused you and you no longer feel the same about him. Your feelings are bruised. He is jealous and insecure and monitors your every movement, tells you what to wear, when to eat, and who you can go out with. If you don’t do as he says, he stays out the whole night or withholds the food allowance. No matter what you say, he always manages to convince you that you are wrong. Preparing to Escape Have a plan. Put a bag of clothes in the boot of the car. Call your mother and tell her that you might need a place to stay that night. Make a list of everything to be discussed, and in the right order. Don’t deviate from what has to be said, no matter how painful. Feel confident and worthy, and never stop valuing yourself. You must be strong and reflect independe...

An angry mother whose son racked up a £4,000 bill on FIFA 14 claims games companies are making money out of the “misfortune of others”. The 13 year-old boy’s mother, called Sue, spoke out on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Breakfast show about the staggering amount blown by her son. In one game-fuelled spending spree he spent £1,000 in 24 hours on “Player Packs” to get an “Ultimate Team” on the hit EA Sports game. Speaking to the BBC, Sue said: “They must be making an awful lot of money out of the misfortune of other people. “I think they make it too easy.” The audibly upset mother was challenged on the fact of her son’s age, with the presenter implying he should have acted responsibly. But Sue dismissed the suggestion and added: “To them they are just caught up in the excitement. “It’s ‘I want more points’, press a button and ‘I’ve got more points’. “They can’t see the consequences of what they are doing. “He was and still is totally devastated because he can now see what ha...

What causes belly fat? Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones. You don’t have to watch your weight, you eat what you like, you brag about not having to work out, and you shake your head in pity at your chronically-dieting friends. But if you’re like most people, you are very aware of your weight with its ups and downs, and every time a pair of jeans feels suddenly tighter you know deep down inside they didn’t shrink in the dryer. Every day we make small choices that make a big difference to your weight. Because we hardly think about these small choices, the weight creeps up until it’s time for a full plan of weight loss action. Instead of waiting until it gets to that point, start spotting these six diet saboteurs that may be slowly but surely adding inches to your waistline. Uninhibited Weekends Researchers have found that people eat significantly more on weekends without even noticing it; especially on Saturdays when fat consumption is at its highest. Those extra weekend calori...

The Auditor General for the Federation (AGF), Mr Samuel Ukura on Thursday said that 20 auditors trained in gas and oil auditing were examining the accounts of the NNPC. Ukura said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts in Abuja to defend the 2013 and 2014 budgets. The Senate had called for a forensic auditing of the NNPC’s account to unravel the alleged missing 20 billion dollars. “We had a budget of N60 million for training and we were able to train 20 officers who are presently on the field auditing the accounts of the NNPC,” he said. The AGF also said that his office mopped up about N100 million unspent funds for the purchase of vehicles for his office. Ukura said the contractors, Innoson Motors, failed to supply the vehicles as at Dec. 31, 2013. He said that the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) had issued his office with a “Letter of No Objection”, directing him to award the said contract for the purchase of vehi...

The ex-girlfriend of Samuel Eto’o has weighed in on the furor regarding the age of the Chelsea striker, claiming he is actually 39. There has been rumors of a bust-up between the Cameroon striker and Stamford Bridge boss Jose Mourinho after the Portuguese coach was overheard joking about his age. The player’s ex, 43-year old Anna Barranca, who now works a part-time job at a store that sells hair extensions, has now weighed in; telling The Sun that the forward is not 32. “It was evident Samuel was older than the age he said he was when he first came to Europe. I think Samuel is not 35 he is more 39. Samuel was born in 1974 and so that makes him 39 now.” She also claimed Eto’o has abandoned her and his daughter who was conceived about 11 years ago. Source

Have you ever been in a conversation with a lady and you just feel something isn’t just right? And you feel you are just wasting your time trying to get to know a lady? These are 7 signs that shows she might not be interested in you. She complains that she’s tired When we meet someone we might be interested in, our energy levels tend to spike. We get a second wind that lifts us up and makes us completely forget the fact that we’re tired, hungover, or in a bad mood. And even if we’re feeling any of those things, we do our best to hide it. If a woman continues to point out that she’s tired or in a bad mood, it is probably just her way of hinting to you that she doesn’t want to keep talking to you. Women who complain about anything have a way of sucking the energy out of a conversation and should be avoided if possible. The Rule Of Thumb Here is a rule of thumb, if a woman is interested in you at some point she’ll ask you your name. Simple as that. Women are very conscious of avoi...

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 32 people in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, including at a theological college, a local government official and residents said on Thursday. The coordinated attacks in Adamawa state late on Wednesday came just a day after Islamist militant fighters were blamed for killing 43 people, most of them students, as they slept at a boarding school in Yobe state. The chairman of the Madagali local government area in Adamawa, Maina Ularamu, said “a large number of militants carried out three separate attacks on Shuwa and Kirchinga in my local government area and on Michika in neighbouring Michika (district)”. “The gunmen divided themselves into three groups and separately attacked the three locations,” he told AFP. In Shuwa, several buildings were burnt, including a Christian theological college and a section of a secondary school. A local resident, Kwaje Bitrus, said three bodies were recovered from the seminary and a ...

Apple and Gorilla Glass will be parting ways with the release of their iPhone 6, as the Cupertino-based tech giant will be switching to sapphire screen-coating for their next line of smartphones. Sapphire coating has been used in high-end watches for a while due to its high-durability and scratch-resistance. Currently, sapphire coating has only been used on iPhone camera lenses and the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor. The upcoming iWatch will supposedly enjoy sapphire coating as well. And the company behind Apple’s sapphire coating, GT Advanced, stands to make a pretty penny from their deal. They are looking at $500-$700 Million for the first six months, since coating a display with sapphire costs 3-4 times more than coating it with Gorilla Glass (which only costs $3 per screen). Although the specific number of displays GT Advanced will be producing isn’t known, we do know they haven’t produced enough to make a May shipment date of the iPhone 6. Analysts believe that, based ...

Senate President David Mark on Wednesday condemned the gruesome murder in cold blood of students of the Federal Government College, Buni, Yadi, in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Paul Mumeh, in Abuja, the Senate President noted that the insurgents have no justification to kill students, who neither offended them nor committed any crime, saying that “even in war situations, children and women were always spared”. Mark described the killings as an open declaration of war on Nigerians which he said cannot be justified. Scores of students were gruesomely murdered as they slept in the hostels by gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect in the wee hours of Monday. Mark said, “This open declaration of war on everybody especially defenseless students cannot be justified. This is inhuman, it is animalistic and barbaric. It is unthinkable that this is happening in Nigeria. “It is also curious that under a...

The Senate on Wednesday aligned itself with the position of the House of Representatives and directed the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah to deploy troops and relocate temporarily to the 7th Infantry Division, Maiduguri, Borno State, in order to checkmate the Boko Haram sect, which has recently stepped up attacks in the state and Yobe. The Green Chamber had on 17th February passed a resolution directing the Army Chief to relocate to Maiduguri after the insurgents massacred over 100 people in Borno state. The Senate Committee on Defence and Army, which gave the orders today at a meeting with General Minimah and commanders of divisions at the National Assembly, also urged them to come up with new strategies on how to curtail the excesses of the Boko Haram sect and step up intelligence gathering so as to pre-empt potential attacks even as it decried the killing of innocent students in cold blood. Chairman of the committee, Sen. George Thompson Sekibo also called on ...

More than 12 Heads of State arrived at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s (today) centenary, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The visiting Heads of State were received at the airport by some members of the Federal Executive Council. Those that were received at the airport include Presidents Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia; Paul Kagame of Rwanda; Yahya Jammeh of Gambia and Prosper Bazombaza of Burundi. President Helen Sirleaf of Liberia and the former Secretary-General of Organisation for African Union, Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, who led the Tanzanian delegation, also arrived in Abuja on Wednesday for the celebration. Also arrived in Abuja were the President of Mauritania, Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz; Ethiopian President, Mr. Hailemarian Desalegh; and the European Union President, Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso. The Zambian Minister of Defence, Mr. Edgar Lungu, will represent the Zambian President, Micheal Saata. ...

If you’ve ever wanted to know how the iPhone 5s’ Touch ID fingerprint security works beyond a basic overview, you’ll be glad to hear Apple has just delivered a motherlode of new details. An updated version of its iOS Security white paper (PDF) explains much of what happens to your finger data after you touch the sensor. In short, your information may be more hack-resistant than it seems at first glance. Each A7 chip has a unique secure space that neither the A7 nor Apple can read, and every authentication session is encrypted end-to-end. The company is also offering a deeper explanation of what it does with your fingerprint image, noting that the print only lasts in memory until it’s turned into a decryption key. As we’ve known for a while, there are safeguards that wipe out that key after 48 hours of inactivity, a reboot or five failed login attempts. While the new insights will only have so much usefulness when developers can’t use Touch ID for their own apps, they suggest that t...

Ijaw national leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark has appealed to the federal government to declare a state of emergency on corruption. He disclosed this on Wednesday at a lecture organised by the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic (formerly Pan-African) University, Lagos. The elder statesman said this was also crucial to the development of the country in all ramifications, saying it was disheartening that corruption had become a way of life not only among the political class, but also in other facets of human endeavours, including families. “So, something has to be done fast to arrest the situation and reduce the rate of corruption on the land to a tolerance level if Nigeria wants to join the emerging economies around the world in the nearest future”, he added. On the recent gale of defections of elected political officers, especially federal lawmakers from one party to another, Clark fumed at the development. Accordin...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said that he broke down in tears when he got wind of news of the death of dozens of pupils of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Gujiba Local Government Area of Yobe State in the hands of gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram. The former VP noted that efforts being made by the Federal Government and the security agencies in the fight against insurgency in the Northeast appear to be ineffective and wondered if the strategies being used are not mere ‘chasing of shadows’. The heavily armed assailants were reported to have stormed the school’s hostels in a pre-dawn attack that lasted a few hours, leaving tears, blood and sorrow in their tail. A statement issued by his media office in Abuja said in part: “All the Federal Government had been doing about addressing the security situation in the North-east region of the country amounts to mere chasing of shadows if school walls cannot be protected from armed attacks. “This will...