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Saturday 16 July 2016

I wasn't born poor, love made me journey down poverty- actress Iyabo Ojo says


In a post on her IG page this afternoon, actress Iyabo Ojo, shared her story of humble beginnings. She disclosed how in the past, all she got from her ex was N100 to feed her son, her unborn daughter and other relatives living with her. According to her, she wasn't born poor, love made her journey down the lane of poverty and hardship. Read her post after the cut...


Be grateful! It helps u appreciate d little u have knowing fully well that there are better days ahead! A time had been when all i got on a gud day in our one room apartment where 2 of my inlaws also lived with us was 100 naira daily to feed my son, my unborn daugther n my self which didnt even come regularly but with love n gratitude i managed it knowing that i was still in a better place than someone who was suffering from one deadly disease that had no cure n i also believed that oneday i will have more than enough to go round bcos i deeply believed in my self. i blamed no one 4 my mistakes, i took out my pain n frustation on no one, i refuse to be lazy, i refuse to allow my mistake n situation rule n take d better part of me 'yes! sometimes i break down,most especially when my babies fell ill n i know say no money, hummm d tears where so uncontrollable but i never gave up! I got a job, worked as a sales girl 4 a while, sent my self to school doing part time, later got a better job n worked as a secretary, i was so hard working that in few months i was promoted to a site manager with a salary of then 18k monthly until oneday i lost my job bcos they felt a male was better off. tho they did gud by paying me a 3months salary upfront still i was very unhappy, i had 2 babies! i remember crying all d way home that i missed my bus stop, again i blamed no one n i never lost hope i then decided to start trading, i went into d business of buying n selling clothes, i started my own business with just 30k chai i lost alot of weight o bcos of d stress, dont be mistaken i wasnt born poor, love made me journey down that lane but now am glad i did bcos i understand what it is to be poor n appreciate every little thing i have achieved! Thank u Lord! Now am telling part of my story to help encourage any poor mother who feels she cant make it bcos she has kids n u ask ur self where do i start from, d society is bad, am too much 4 this job, i have failed so i give up, No No No u can be d best of u, never give up on ur self, start anyhow, even if u have to sell pure water or do odd jobs. #proudmothers #strongwomen#mytruelifestory #bemotivated #beinspired #begrateful

Pregnant Stephanie Davis reveals her bare baby bump in all its glory for first time

STEPHANIE Davis has revealed her bare baby bump for the first time.
The star – who only unveiled growing tum for this week after months of speculation, proudly showed it off in all its glory.
Sharing two shots – which showed her cradling her tattooed baby bump – she touchingly wrote: “Hey baby babyy???????? hello little one all comfy in mummy???? I love u & can’t wait to meet you???? #watchingfriends #snuggles.”
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Stephanie proudly showed off her baby bump
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She made a heart around her belly button in the lovely image
The 23-year-old, who is embroiled in a bitter row with ex Jeremy McConnell over whether he is the father, also told fans that she was having her next scan tomorrow.
She tweeted:  “Night time is my fave.all snuggled up knowing my baba is chillin like the cool baba it is!Next Scan tomorrow,aghh#cantwaittosseuwriggle”
Just hours earlier she delighted fans with the second ever shot of her bump – taken a few weeks ago.
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Steph gave her fans a covered glimpse earlier in the day

She captioned the image, which sees her tenderly touching it while dressed in a cute playsuit: “ Few weeks ago, how my bump is growing and fast!!!”
The star, who is set to give birth in January, looks likely to document most of her pregnancy from here on in and even revealed she’s hoping to film her birth.

Turkey coup attempt: Erdoğan demands US arrest exiled cleric Gülen amid crackdown on army

Defense minister: government has total control

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‘Petrified’ British students caught in Turkey chaos as beaches lie empty after bloody coup

A GROUP of British schoolchildren threw themselves to the ground when they were caught in the Turkish coup chaos at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
The students, from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, were told to “get down” when someone shouted “gun” on Friday night, a parent claimed.
Children from Arthur Terry School board a bus as they left school to go to Turkey
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Children from Arthur Terry School board a bus as they left school to go to Turkey
Parent Lisa Ledbury, 43, said the students from Arthur Terry School were “petrified” and had seen tanks on the runway and heard explosions.
Writing on Facebook, she said: “The longest night of our lives. All the Arthur Terry South Africa trip kids arrived at Ataturk airport just before the news reported a military coup. All flights were grounded.
“They have seen tanks on the runway, fighter jets flying over and heard the explosion that was reported as a bomb.
“At one point all chaos ensued when someone shouted ‘gun’ and everyone started to run with people shouting ‘get down, get down’.
“They are so scared and getting absolutely no information whatsoever from Turkish Airlines. The British embassy cannot even get hold of anyone from the airline.
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The students were told to “get down” when someone shouted “gun!” at the airport
They are now stuck in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport awaiting a connecting flight to South Africa
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They are now stuck in Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport awaiting a connecting flight to South Africa
“The airline staff have vanished, they have not had food or drinks and are petrified. Turkish airlines are not answering their phones, messages or tweets.
“PLEASE COPY AND PASTE TO YOUR STATUS in the hope that they can get help and we can get our kids out of this Godforsaken place.”
It comes as holidaymakers described gunfire and explosions rattling their hotels as the Turkish military last night tried to overthrow its government.
Others say normally busy resorts are now empty as hundreds await an opportunity to leave after disruptions to airports and international flights.
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Tourists leave a Turkish airport carrying their luggage after it was overrun by the military
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Passengers leave the Ataturk Airport as Turkish army tanks enter
A beach in Hisaronu, western Turkey, lies empty with Brits warned to stay indoors
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A beach in Hisaronu, western Turkey, lies empty with Brits warned to stay indoors
This beach was filled with tourists yesterday - but today it lies almost deserted
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This beach was filled with tourists yesterday – but today few people were willing to swim
Jonny Hogg, a former British journalist, tweeted he could hear loud explosions shaking his apartment in Ankara.
He later said he could hear “sporadic” gunfire, but by the morning things had quietened down.
“Large explosion close to us here,” he tweeted. “Windows shook. Constant overflights from jets now, in northern #Ankara, and explosions still audible in distance.”

Fethullah Gülen: who is the man Turkey's president blames for coup attempt?

Cleric who leads global Hizmet movement from exile in Pennyslvania, US, is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and remains influential in Turkish affairs.

Fethullah Gülen in a 2014 photograph taken at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

 Fethullah Gülen in a 2014 photograph taken at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
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The accusation by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen is behind Friday night’s attempted coup is part of a familiar rhetoric and a long-running rivalry. So is there any truth in it?
It is probably worth pointing out in the first instance that the traditional rivalry in Turkish society has been between secularists (including those in the army) who look to the modern state’s founder, Kemal Atatürk, and Islamists – not least Erdogan’s AKP party.
The AKP has itself provoked a number of coups or attempts in Turkish history. And in many respects, Friday night looked to be another event in that tradition: a military coup driven from within Turkey’s armed forces. By Saturday morning Erdoğan had reasserted power and it was announced dozens of senior colonels and generals had been removed.
The military has long seen itself as the guardian of modern Turkey, and the movement lead by Gülen occupies a sort of murky gap between the two sides, secularist and Islamist.
Gülen, a cleric living in reclusive exile in Pennsylvania, leads a popular movement called Hizmet. It is a hodge-podge that at times has appeared cultish – spawning thinktanks, businesses, schools and publications across the globe, while building up substantial wealth and influence in the process.
According to some reports, 10% of the Turkish population is estimated to support Hizmet.
The centre of growing tension in recent years between the Gülenists, Erdoğan and the AKP has been Erdoğan’s blaming of Gülenists in the police and judiciary for anti-corruption allegations in 2013 that targeted senior supporters of the president, including his son Bilal.
The allegations were seen as retaliation for Erdoğan’s moves against Gülenist schools as the president attempted to limit the growth of the movement (an effort that had also seen Erdoğan invite Gülen to return from exile to Turkey).
The rivalry culminated in a purge of perceived Gülenists including senior army and police officers, as well as those in the media accused of Gülenist links.
As the coup attempt unfolded on Friday night, a lawyer for the Turkish government, Robert Amsterdam, said there were “indications of direct involvement” of the Gülenists, adding that he and his firm had “attempted repeatedly to warn the US government of the threat posed” by Gülen and his movement. Amsterdam cited Turkish intelligence sources in claiming that “there are signs that Gülen is working closely with certain members of military leadership against the elected civilian government”.
The Alliance for Shared Values, the US arm of Gülen’s Hizmet movement, was quick to deny any involvement in the coup, calling such claims “highly irresponsible” and insisting that the group did not support the military intervention.
“Events on the ground are moving quickly and it would be irresponsible for us to speculate on them,” the group said in a statement. “We remain concerned about the safety and security of Turkish citizens and those in Turkey right now.

“We have consistently denounced military interventions in domestic politics. These are core values of Hizmet participants. We condemn any military intervention in domestic politics of Turkey.”“For more than 40 years, Fethullah Gülen and Hizmet participants have advocated for, and demonstrated their commitment to, peace and democracy.
So what is the truth? Critics point to a video that emerged in 1999 in which Gülen seemed to suggest that his followers should infiltrate mainstream institutions.
“You must move within the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centres … You must wait until such time as you have got all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institution in Turkey.”
Gülen claimed, though, that the recording had been altered.
Speaking to France 24 in the midst of the 2013 tensions between Erdoğan and Gülen, Dorothée Schmid, a Turkey analyst at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), summed up the contradictions in the feud.
“Turkish democracy is in danger if we’re counting on a movement without any transparency or political legitimacy, when it comes to contesting the authoritarian tendencies of the power in place,” said Schmid.
On Friday night – thousands of miles away from the upheaval in Turkey – all was quiet outside the gated complex in sleepy Saylorsburg, the small Pennsylvania town where Fethullah Gülen resides in his sprawling Golden Generation Worship and Retreat Center.
Security guards refused access to the complex and said Gülen was not available – telling reporters to return in the morning.

See photos of Torture of soldiers involved in the thwarted coup


A group of anti-government rebels have commandeered a warship and taken Turkey's head of navy hostage at country's Golcuk naval base as the government struggles to maintain control

TURKISH citizens are preparing for another night of violence as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warns the country to prepare to crush another coup just hours after a failed rebellion left 265 people dead.
Authorities have now ordered the arrest of 2745 judges and prosecutors in connection to the attempted military coup.

Putting the boot in...soldiers involved in the coup have been attacked by angry mobs loyal Erdogans government
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Putting the boot in…soldiers involved in the coup have been attacked by angry mobs loyal Erdogans government
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Authorities have stripped captured soldiers of their uniforms and are holding them in a courthouse in Istanbul
Fists of fury...A civilian beats a soldier who was captured after Fridays failed coup attempt
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Fists of fury…A civilian beats a soldier who was captured after Fridays failed coup attempt

In a speech to gathered crowds in Istanbul Saturday evening Erdoğan said that his government was in charge again, saying they were “back at work”.
“You went out in to the squares, that’s what ruined their plot. And for the next week we need to continue this solidarity, we must keep up these meetings.”
A group of anti-government rebels have reportedly commandeered a warship and taken the head of the Turkish navy hostage at the country’s Golcuk naval base as the government struggles to maintain control of rebels leading an uprising.
The rebellion comes as the government admitted “many” military commanders have been taken hostage at the country’s army HQ and eight men landed a Turkish military helicopter in Greece and asked for asylum.

Mob's revenge...An unidentified man uses his belt to hit Turkish soldiers involved in the coup
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Mob’s revenge…An unidentified man uses his belt to hit Turkish soldiers involved in the coup

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Surrendered Turkish soldiers who were involved in the coup are beaten by a supported of Erdogan

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People have gathered to celbrate the end of the coup..but the president has warned them to be prepared for more violence
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Turkish police, loyal to the regime, remain on high alert ahead of a news that a second coup is expected
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Turkish police have seized control of the tanks used in last nights failed coup
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Rebels have captured a warship and taken the head of the navy hostage as the coup continues
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Police in Greece check out a Turkish military helicopter after it lands with eight men on board who request political asylum
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A group of anti-government rebels have commandeered a warship and taken the head of the Turkish navy hostage at the country’s Golcuk naval base
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A police siege is ongoing around the building of the General Staff, where senior members of the military are reportedly being held hostage
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Armed officers remain at the scene of the army HQ as they try to take back control of the coup

Turkish rebels are thought to be holding Admiral Bülent Bostanoğlu, one of several senior military figures allegedly caught in the ongoing coup attempt, Russia Today reports.
Chaos erupted across the country last night as a bloody military coup in the streets of Ankara and Istanbul saw more than 160 killed and 1,400 injured - and President Erdogan has warned more bloodshed could be on the horizon tonight.