Saturday, 9 May 2015
Toni Payne Set For Baby No.2
Hilarious: Woman discovered her twins were of different father
Jersey
only discovered that her twins have different fathers after she had DNA
testing done to establish paternity when the children were 20 months
old. This is not a photo of the twins in question.
One New Jersey woman got the surprise of a lifetime when she discovered that her 2-year-old twins have two different fathers.
The
mother (identified as “T.M.” in court documents) got the news this
winter, when she received the results of a paternity test mandated by
family court as part of her application for public assistance, The New Jersey Law Journal reported
on Thursday. The Passaic County Board of Social Services had required
the mother to establish paternity of the twins — in order to make the
toddlers’ father pay child support — because she revealed that she’d
been intimate with another man during the same week in which she
believed her children were conceived with her former partner. DNA test
results revealed in November that T.M.’s partner was the father of only one of her children.
Karl-Hans
Wurzinger, the laboratory director of the Identity Testing Division at
Laboratory Corporation of America where the DNA was tested, reportedly
testified at the subsequent child-support hearing that, “The twins born
to T.M. were born from two eggs that were fertilized from different
fathers during the same menstrual cycle.”
According
to Passaic County Superior Court judge Sohail Mohammed’s ruling, “An
article Wurzinger published in 1997 said approximately one in every
13,000 reported paternity cases involved twins with separate fathers,”
reports the New Jersey Law Journal. (Wurzinger declined Yahoo
Parenting’s request to comment on the case). The phenomenon, known as “heteropaternal superfecundation” is so rare, a rep for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologistsconfirms to Yahoo Parenting that they don’t even have statistics on it, though a couple of instances have been chronicled in years past on the talk show Maury, previously called the The Maury Povich Show.
“This is definitely one of those, ‘Wow,” stories,” Shari Brasner, an obstetrician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in
New York City, tells Yahoo Parenting. But it may occur more often than
we realize, she adds, because “paternity isn’t always contested so there
are probably scenarios in which this has happened but nobody knows. You
don’t blink an eye at fraternal twins looking different after all.”
How
it happens isn’t all that complicated actually. “Twins in general,
especially fraternal twins, result from two different eggs being
fertilized by two different sperm,” says Brasner. “But ovulation doesn’t
necessarily happen in the same moment.” Sperm is viable for up to five
days, says Brasner, so if a woman has sex with a man, ovulates, then has
sex with another man within that five-day window, it could result in
twins from two different men. “It’s not the most common thing I see in
my practice,” she adds. “But I could see scenarios where that happens.
It’s definitely possible.”
And
with the use of reproductive technology on the rise, it may happen more
often in years to come. “Fertility drugs are designed to stimulate
ovaries to produce more than one egg in ovulation cycles,” says Brasner,
noting that there are also instances in which another man’s sperm is
deliberately added to the mix. “Combining donor and spouse sperm
improves the chances of conceiving in general,” she says, “and that
creates yet another scenario that could result in twins from two
different men.”
I party with fans and friends after my election loss says Funke Adesiyan
Popular Yoruba actress, Funke Adesiyan,
didn’t go home to sulk after losing in the last election. The reverse is
just the case for her.
Funke, who fought for a legislative seat in Oyo State under the Peoples Democratic Party, said she is not feeling bad at all.
“I threw a party immediately after the
election. Didn’t you hear about it? Ah! I don’t feel bad at all. I threw
a big bash where I invited my fans and friends to come and celebrate
with me. There was no need for me to feel bad in any way,” she said.
The actress said she is going back to her acting career and nothing is going to dampen her mood.
Court to decides Kashamu’s extradition suit May 27
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has
fixed May 27, 2015 to decide on a fundamental rights enforcement suit
filed by the senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial District, Mr. Buruji
Kashamu, seeking protection against the alleged plot to extradite him
to the United States.
Kashamu, in the said suit, accused the
Inspector-General of Police and 11 others of plotting to abduct and
forcibly transport him to the US to face trial on alleged drug-related
offences.
He alleged that he had uncovered plans by
the defendants doing the bidding of former President Olusegun Obasanjo
to arrest him during his swearing in as a senator and to transport him
to the US in a private plane to face trial before Judge Norgle.
He therefore prayed the court to declare
the alleged abduction and extradition plot as an infringement on his
fundamental human right to liberty, freedom of association and freedom
of movement as provided by sections 35, 40 and 41 of the Constitution.
Moving the application on Friday,
Kashamu’s lawyer, Dr. Alex Izinyon, said his client had rushed to court
to seek protection because “when you see a danger coming, you don’t have
to wait until it takes place.”
He said the law allowed an applicant to
seek the court’s protection when he sees that a danger “has been, is
being or is likely to be” unleashed on him, adding that Kashamu fell
within the perimeter of “likely to be.”
Besides, Izinyon argued that none of the 12 respondents sued had controverted the alleged plot to abduct his client.
But counsel to the Inspector-General of
Police and the Interpol National Central Bureau, Mr. David Igbodo, said
Kashamu failed to show any proof of the alleged move to abduct and
extradite him.
Igbodo, who described Kashamu’s action as speculative, urged the court to dismiss the suit.
“My Lord, what the 1st and 5th
respondents are simply saying is that this application is speculative.
The 1st and 5th respondents have not made, are not making and are not
likely to make any attempt to abduct the applicant as alleged by the
applicant.”
Igbodo added that abduction is a criminal
offence, which the IGP, as the foremost law enforcement agent in the
country, would never engage in.
The other respondents who, through their
counsel, urged the court to dismiss Kashamu’s suit were the Chairman,
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Chairman, Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission; Director General, Department of State Service; and
the Attorney General of the Federation.
Others were the Clerk of the National
Assembly; the National Security Adviser to the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria; Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related
Offences Commission; Nigeria Customs Services; the Nigeria Immigration
Service; and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Earlier, Justice Okon Abang refused an
application by the counsel for the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr.
Joshua Okah, to join Obasanjo as a respondent in the suit.
Okah said, “My Lord, we have perused the
affidavit in support of the applicant’s originating summons and we
observed that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo featured prominently and serious
allegations were levelled against him; we have brought this application
that he should be joined as a necessary respondent for the complete and
effective determination of this matter.”
But Izinyon, who described the
application as an abuse of court processes, said it was an aberration
for a respondent in a suit to seek to join another respondent.
Ruling on the arguments, Abang upheld
Izinyon’s argument and dismissed the application to join Obasanjo as a
respondent in Kashamu’s suit.
Kashamu is seeking, among other reliefs,
an order of the court directing the IGP to “provide a security detail of
at least six armed police officers to protect the applicant at all
times of the day and to prevent (him from) any attack or abduction.”
He also prayed for an order directing the
Clerk of the National Assembly “to accord the applicant every facility,
right and privileges due to a senator-elect of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria until he takes his oath of office and thereafter as is due to a
senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
He prayed the court to restrain all the
respondents and their agents from preventing him from entering the
National Assembly hall.
Four Nigerians win in UK election
In one of the most keenly contested
general elections in British history, four Nigerians won seats to the
revered parliament, making it the first time such feat would be recorded
Against all odds, David Cameron has won his re-election bid in one of the fiercest polls in British history.
Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, led
the Conservatives to almost a landslide victory against the Labour Party
– a development that forced arch-rival – Ed Miliband to step down as
head of the opposition.
With the victory, Cameron returns to the
iconic Number 10 Downing Street, the official residence of British
Prime Ministers to continue with his work of massive reforms and making
Britain greater.
But it is not only Cameron that has been
left smiling following the announcement of winners – four politicians
of Nigerian descent also tasted victory during the general elections in
the Queen’s land.
Before Thursday’s keenly contested polls
in Britain, not many within and outside it were familiar with Chuka
Umunna, Helen Grant, Chi Onwurah and Kate Osamor. But by mid-day Friday,
the four have almost become celebrities of sort after an elaborate
media focus on them.
The four Nigerians won seats into the
British parliament, making it the first time such would be happening in
the highly conservative United Kingdom. While Umunna, a Labour Party
politician who has served Streatham as Member of Parliament since 2010
and has enjoyed a meteoric political rise in recent years is a
relatively known face outside Britain, the profile of the other three
was largely unknown until Friday, a day after the keenly contested
elections, even though Grant and Onwurah had been Members of Parliament
over the last five years.
Umunna
Born on October 17, 1978 to a Nigerian
father – Bennett and British mother – Patricia, Umunna began his
education at Hitherfield Primary School in Streatham, South London, and
the Christ Church Primary School in Brixton Hill. He later moved to St.
Dunstan’s College, Catford, Southeast London where he played the cello
and became a respected prefect in the school.
Pursuing higher education, the eloquent
Umunna bagged an upper second class in English and French Law from the
University of Manchester before going to study for one term at the
University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. He would later pick up an MA at
the Nottingham Law School.
Umunna did not just get to the top all
of a sudden – he slowly but vigorously climbed his way to the
centerpiece of British politics. In 2002, after graduating from the
university, the 37-year-old began working as a solicitor for Herbert
Smith, a law firm based in the heart of London. Four years later he
joined Rochman Landau, specialising in Employment Law.
However, he soon began writing and
providing commentary on the Labour Party, as well as broader social and
economic issues, usually in his capacity as a member of the Management
Committee of the Labour-aligned Compass pressure group. He also wrote
articles for the Financial Times, Tribune, The Voice, The Guardian and the New Statesman,
and began to appear on various radio and television programmes as a
commentator. Umunna would later go on to establish and edited an online
political magazine, The Multicultural Politic.
In early April 2013, his law firm was
linked to favourable updates made on his Wikipedia page in 2007, which
included a reference to him being tipped as the “British Barack Obama”.
Earlier in June 2010, he was elected a member of the Treasury Select
Committee while in October of that year, he was appointed to serve as a
Parliamentary Private Secretary and, in May 2011 rose to the position of
Shadow Minister for Small Business and Enterprise until his promotion
to the Shadow Cabinet.
Grant
Grant, born on September 28, 1961, is a
Conservative Party politician and solicitor who was first elected into
the British parliament in 2010. By that feat, she became the first black
woman to be selected to defend a Tory seat and the Conservatives’ first
female black parliamentarian. She has served as Minister for Sport,
Tourism and Equalities.
In September 2012, Grant received her
first government appointment when she earned the dual roles of
Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Under-Secretary for Women and
Equalities. She was born in Willesden, North London to an English mother
and Nigerian father but grew up with her mother’s family after her
parents separated. She lived with her mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother.
Onwurah
Onwurah, born on April 12, 1965, is a
Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as
the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central. Onwurah is
Newcastle’s first black MP.
During the depression of the 1930s, her
maternal grandfather was a sheet metal worker in Tyneside shipyards. Her
mother grew up in poverty in Garth Heads on Newcastle’s quayside. Her
father, from Nigeria, was working as a dentist while he studied at
Newcastle Medical School when they met and married in the 1950s.
After Chi’s arrival in 1965, her family
moved to Anambra State when she was still a baby, only two years before
the Nigerian Civil War. The situation forced her mother to take the
children back to England while her father stayed back to fight for the
Biafran army. She had been a strong voice in the parliament and her
victory this time around only goes to confirm her rising reputation in
British politics.
Osamor
Osamor, a National Health Service
manager, would be representing Edmonton constituency in London on the
platform of the Labour Party. A respected trade union activist and
women’s charity trustee, she made funding the NHS and standing up to
government cuts the main theme of her campaign.
Emerging one of the Labour Party’s
shining lights during a generally poor election outing, Osamor was
declared winner in the North London seat with 25,388 votes. Her closest
rival, Gonul Daniels of the Conservative Party ended up with 9,969
votes, making it an overwhelming victory for her.
The triumph of the four parliamentarians
is seen as a major boost to Nigeria’s international image especially at
a time when leadership has also changed hands at the centre in the
oil-rich country. The victory is also viewed as cheering news for
Nigerians resident in the United Kingdom who are often the subject of
racism and segregation in the highly conservative region.
Denrele Edun about to wed
It really came as a surprise when the news
broke that weird presenter, Denrele Edun, is set to wed especially when
his sexuality is unclear to so many people.
In an exclusive interview earlier granted, the entertainer had said that although he had a
lady in his life, he was not fully committed.
“There is somebody in the picture but we
are not so sure of our status right now. We have been tossing it back
and forth for a while. We are still deliberating. The person is fully
committed but I am not really ready. I feel like I have frustrated her
to a large extent and she has tolerated me for a very long time. We have
been friends for a while. I am a very inconsistent person; she could
call or send a message and I will not reply until after five days. I
will not use my job as an excuse because it would be a wrong thing to
do,” he said.
It seems he has changed his mind and is
ready to walk his lady down the aisle. In a telephone conversation during the week, Denrele said that he would get married
this year.
“It is true that I am about to get
married but it is not now. I would get married later this year. It was
meant to be a secret but I don’t know how everybody has heard. I just
hope ‘bad bele’ people would not jinx the marriage for me and make the
girl that wants to marry me change her mind. She is the same girl I
spoke about with you during our last interview. I cannot explain how the
girl captured my heart but everyone would find out on the D-Day. I
don’t want to share the identity of my wife now. When the time comes,
people would know who she is,” Denrele said.
Pacquiao is a coward and sore loser says Flody Mayweather
Floyd Mayweather has branded Manny
Pacquiao a “sore loser” and a coward and says he won’t delay his planned
retirement to grant the Philippine icon a rematch next year, in an
apparent U-turn, AFP reports.
And he dismissed Pacquiao’s claim that
he had been carrying an injury in Saturday’s one-sided win for
Mayweather, the American calling it “Excuses, excuses, excuses.”
Mayweather took his unbeaten record to
48-0 in Las Vegas with a 12-round unanimous decision over Pacquiao in a
welterweight world title bout that will go down as the most lucrative in
boxing history.
In an interview recorded this week to be aired on Showtime television on Saturday, Mayweather says he did text ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith that he would grant Pacquiao a rematch — but he has changed his mind. Now it is a No! No!!
The 38-year-old says he couldn’t detect
any physical problem for Pacquiao during the bout, after which the
Filipino and his camp said he was suffering from a right shoulder
injury.
“Absolutely not,” Mayweather said. “He
was fast. His left hand was fast. His right hand was fast and he was
throwing them both fast and strong.”
Although Pacquiao had arthroscopic
surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in Los Angeles on Wednesday,
Mayweather said his plea of injury was nonsense.
“He lost. He knows he lost. I lost a lot of respect for him after all of this,” said Mayweather.
As to the flip-flop on a possible rematch, Mayweather said, “I change my mind.
“At this particular time, no, because
he’s a sore loser and he’s a coward… If you lost, accept the loss and
say, ‘Mayweather, you were the better fighter.’”
Pacquiao, 57-6-2 with 38 knockouts, is expected to be out of the ring for nine months to a year.
Mayweather has said his last fight will be in September, when he will complete his six-fight deal with Showtime and then retire.
With a victory in that fight against a
still-to-be-named opponent, Mayweather would match Rocky Marciano’s
iconic 49-0 ring record.
He has insisted he would be happy to
retire with that mark and wouldn’t be tempted to stay around and try to
make it a round 50 victories.
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