See Some Beautiful Pictures From The Osun Osogbo Festival

Osogbo went agog as it Celebrate 2016 Osun Osogbo Festival Grand Finale
Osogbo, the capital of the State of Osun, was agog today, Friday 19th August for the grand finale of the annual Osun Osogbo festival.

Decorations adorned the length and breadth of the Osun-Osogbo grove, surrounded by traditionalists offering prayers.

Tourists were seen at the stream and within the grove, taking pictures in front and beside statues and structures, symbolising the Osun goddess.
The shrine declared as UNESCO heritage, is also filled with people filling their plastic bottles and kegs with water from the Osun stream.
Traders and residents of Osogbo equally took advantage of the festival to display their wares while food vendors, souvenir sellers, photographers among others made brisk business.
History has it that Osun festival started over 700 years ago when a group of settlers, led by a great hunter, Olutimehin, settled at the bank of the river to escape the famine in his former dwelling place.

Osun, the water goddess, was said to have appeared to Olutimehin and requested him and his group to move up some a bit to higher ground to the present Osogbo town.
Osun revealed herself as the goddess of the groove and of the river and pledged to protect the group as well as make women fruitful.
However, the women would have to offer the annual sacrifice to her in return.
The group agreed and vowed to sacrifice annually to the goddess if she would honour her vows.
Historians believe that the annual sacrifice has gone beyond offering sacrifices to a river goddess as it has become an international celebration of cultural events attracting thousands of people from all over the world.

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A Beekeeper Covers Himself With 1.1 Million Bees To Set A New Guiness World Record (Pictures)

A beekeeper covered himself with almost 1.1 million bees weighing 109kg and withstood being stung more than 2000 times to set a new Guinness World Record.
Gao Bingguo has caused a buzz as his body temperature rose to a dangerous 60C — the average norm being 37C — to reclaim the world record for “most bees on a human body” in Liangzhuang, Tai’an city in China’s Shandong province, on Monday.
The 55-year-old beekeeper, smoking a cigarette to keep the bees from stinging his lips, began his Guiness World Record attempt by placing about a dozen queen bees on his body in order to ­attract the other bees brought by more than 20 beekeepers to him.

Took three hours for bees to swarm all over body ... Chinese beekeeper Gao Bingguo sets a new Guinness World Record for most bees on a human body. Picture: Liu hongjie

Boxes of bees were later dumped at his feet in increasingly large numbers as the bees crawled on to his body.
After three hours before his body was totally covered with bees, with just his nose and mouth evidence that there was a human being ­beneath the mass of bees.

Only lit cigarette and glasses visible ... An assistant dumps bees on the bee-covered body of beekeeper Gao Bingguo as sets a new Guinness World Record for most bees on a human body. Picture: Liu hongjie

The almost 1.1 million bees weighed a total of 109.1kg, smashing the previous record of 85.5kg.
Each kilo of weight amounts to about 10,000 bees.
After shedding his “bee jacket”, Gao was delighted with his success.
For such an apparently niche world record “the number of bees on a human body” is keenly contested.
Gao reclaimed the world record after his ­previous best — set last June — was broken by another bee fanatic.

Stung more than 2000 times in record breaking attempt ... Assistants dump bees on the bee-covered body of Chinese beekeeper Gao Bingguo. Picture: Liu hongjie

Last May beekeeper named Ruan Liangming set the separate record for the longest time spent cloaked in bees — he managed to stay in his bee suit for 53 minutes and 34 seconds.

Man Marries His Smartphone In Church Ceremony (PHOTOS)

A Los Angeles man has taken his cellphone love to a whole new bizarre level by marrying it in a church ceremony.
34-year-old Aaron Chervenak married his cellphone at The Little Vegas Chapel in Nevada last month in an attempt to make a point about society’s growing reliance on their smartphones.



Chervenak, an artist-director, drove for 4 hours from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to take part in a typical Las Vegas wedding.
‘If we’re gonna be honest with ourselves, we connect with our phones on so many emotional levels,’ Aaron said.
‘We look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds, and to me, that’s also what a relationship is about.’
‘So in a sense my smartphone has been my longest relationship.’
‘That’s why I decided to see what it was like to actually marry a phone,’ he added.
During the ceremony, Michael Kelly who officiated the wedding asked: “Do you, Aaron, take this smartphone to be your lawfully wedded wife, and do you also promise to love her, honor her, comfort and keep her, and be faithful to her?”
“I do,” Aaron replied, and then the groom placed his wife on his left ring finger.

Uniosun Student Wins Coren Overall Best Student Award (Photo)

A student of the department of Civil Engineering, Osun State University, Osogbo, Adeyemo Kazeem Adekunle has emerged the winner of the 2016 edition of Council for the Regulation of Engineering’s Award for the overall best student in the State-owned Universities in Nigeria.

The Chairman of Committee of Deans of Engineering and Technology of Nigerian Universities (CODET), Professor Emmanuel Ajav announced Adeyemo of Osun State University as the winner of the award and lauded UNIOSUN for the outstanding achievement.

The award was presented to Adeyemo at the 25th edition of COREN Assembly held in Akure, Ondo State between 8th and 10th of August.

Adeyemo Kazeem received a plaque with a cheque of one hundred thousand naira (N100,000), and also COREN presented a laptop to the Faculty of Engineering, Osun State University as a symbolic means of appreciation for producing the student.

Speaking on the feat of UNIOSUN during the COREN Assembly in Akure, the Acting Vice Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Oguntola Jelil Alamu expressed delight and assured that the university would not rest on its oar.

It was also revealed that Adeyemo Kazeem Adekunle was the overall student for the 2013/2014 session.

Escaped Chibok Girl Amina Ali siad "I miss my Boko Haram Husband"

Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months after escaping the militants' camp.

Amina Ali, who was held hostage by the terrorist group for more than two years, says she was married off a year into her ordeal and later had a baby girl, Safiya.

The couple and their daughter were found on the outskirts of Nigeria's Sambisa Forest in May. She says they fled the camp by themselves and were not rescued by the Nigerian military, contrary to reports.

Her husband, identified as Mohammed Hayatu at the time of their escape, told a witness that he too had been kidnapped by Boko Haram.

He was placed in military detention for interrogation by Nigeria's joint intelligence center.

Amina Ali was found with a suspected Boko Haram terrorist named Mohammed Hayatu.

Amina Ali says she has no idea where he is now and is keen to be reunited with him.

"I'm not comfortable with the way I'm being kept from him," the painfully shy 21-year-old told CNN in her first worldwide interview, at an undisclosed location in Abuja Tuesday.

Addressing the father of her child directly, she says: "I want you to know that I'm still thinking about you, and just because we are separated doesn't mean I have forgotten about you." 

Amina Ali refuses to talk about the attack, saying only she cannot remember what happened that fateful day.

For a year after they were taken, the abducted girls were kept together, she says. Then some of the teenagers -- including her -- were "given" to the terrorists as wives.

Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki (in red), who was kidnapped by Boko Haram, with her baby daughter.

She says she was desperate to see her mother again and that the thought gave her the courage and strength to flee the camp.

Asked how she felt about becoming a mother herself while in captivity, her face clouds over and, speaking through an interpreter, she insists: "I don't want to answer."

Her mother has spent the past two months staying with her in the capital. But Amina Ali has still not been back to Chibok and says she wants to go home and return to school.

"I'm not scared of Boko Haram. They are not my God," she said.

Kidnapped Chibok girl meets the President of Nigeria

The whereabouts of the rest of the girls remain a mystery, though they are believed to be somewhere in the Sambisa Forest, a Boko Haram stronghold in the country's northeast.

The current Nigerian government has said via Facebook that it is in touch with Boko Haram and working to secure the girls' release.

Over the past two years, successive Nigerian governments have been criticized for failing to recover the young hostages.

This is a government which is not only in denial mentally, but in denial about certain obvious steps to take

Wole Soyinka

"This is a government which is not only in denial mentally, but in denial about certain obvious steps to take," Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate who is often referred to as the conscience of his nation, told CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour in May 2014.

"It's one of those rather child-like situations that if you shut your eyes, if you don't exhibit the tactile evidence of the missing humanity here, that somehow the problem will go away," he said.

Amina Ali remains the only long-held hostage who has escaped.

But she has a defiant message for her "sisters" still being held: Don't lose hope. She managed to get away, she says, and one day they will be able to return to their families too.

"Be patient and prayerful," she said. "The way God rescued me from Sambisa Forest, he will rescue you too."

Source CNN

 

You Won't Believe How Much an Olympic Gold Medal is Worth

You Won't Believe How Much an Olympic Gold Medal is Worth

 

An Olympic medal is worth glory and fame, just not very much cash.The 500-gram gold medals earned by Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles are nearly 99 percent recycled silver. They contain just 1.2 percent gold, mostly used as plating,Daily Mail reports.

They are worth about $587 in current market prices.


Victor Hugo Berbert, head of medal-making at Brazil's National Mint in Rio de Janeiro,said



It's a great honor and a great responsibility,' Each of the 5,130 Olympic and Paralympic medals took about 48 hours to make

Much of the silver is recycled from old mirrors and X-ray plates. The gold is free of mercury, which is often used to separate gold from ore and can poison local ecosystems if not carefully disposed of.

The last time athletes earned medals made of pure gold was at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.

2Face Conferred As Youth Ambassador By National Youth Council of Nigeria

2Face Conferred As Youth Ambassador By National Youth Council of Nigeria

Legendary singer , 2Face has been conferred as the Youth Ambassador for the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN). This was presented to the  singer n friday, 12th August, 2016 which marked the celebration of youths all around the nation.
Tu Baba has been in Edo State to preach the gospel and cheer the Vote Not Fight campaign as the state draws nearer to its gubernatorial elections in September.


The legend spoke with the youths  and explained why they needed to embrace peace during elections and not indulge in violent acts during elections.

The certificate was presented to Mr. Idibia at the Samuel Ogebemudia Stadium, Edo State. See photo below;