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Christmas is almost here!! This year has gone by sooo quickly. Some ups and downs but defiantly more ups than downs. Today on Christmas Eve I am very happy. I am around most of the people that I care for. I wish my sisters, nieces, nephews, and brother were also here to enjoy the holidays with me and and the rest of the family. Hopefully, next year we can all be in the same country.

Have a Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Cash rain for Akpabio Cup winners

Winners at the maiden Godswill Akpabio U-17 boys and girls competition at the Uyo Township Stadium on Tuesday were all smiles as the deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Engr. Patrick Ekpotu, who stood in for Governor Godswill Akpabio, announced mouth watering cash gifts for them.

He doled out the sum of N1.5 million each to Akwa Ibom State boys and girls teams, the winners in both categories and rewarded the runners up, Kano male team and Oyo female team with N1million each.

Reacting to the cash rewards, the organizers of the nine-day football extravaganza, YSFON, praised the efforts of Governor Akpabio at keeping the youths busy with this kind of tournament and asked him not to rest on his oars until grassroots football development was enshrined in the programmes of every state in the federation.

The highpoint of the occasion was the presentation of awards to deserving indigenes of the state, who had contributed to the development of sports in general and football in particular.

On world rights day, women, others urge new focus

From Lemmy Ughegbe (Abuja), Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna)

In pertinent parts:

AS the world yesterday marked International Day of Human Rights, members of International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Abuja have demonstrated against all cases of abuse and violence meted out on women, calling on Nigerians to lend their supports on new focus against such practices.
Also, the Coalition of Civil Society in the North yesterday cautioned the Federal Government on the increase cases of human rights violations in the country. It urged President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to immediately put adequate security measures on ground to avoid the kind of Jos mayhem in any part of the country.

Speaking during the campaign rally, the Abuja Chairperson of FIDA, Mrs. Chinelo Iriele, who cited some statistics credited to the United Nation's Population Fund (UNFPA), claimed that between 700,000 and two million women are trafficked across international borders yearly for prostitution and slave labour.
Iriele further added that about six Nigerian girls are killed monthly in Italy by serial killers just as 30 per cent of Nigerians trafficked through the Sahara desert, who were mostly girls, die in transit.

The FIDA chairperson said at least 60 per cent of foreign prostitutes in Italy hail from African countries, adding that majority from Nigeria were between 10,000 and 15,000.
She alleged that women in Nigeria are being abused and treated wickedly in the areas of disinheritance, disempowerment, rape, incest, domestic servitude, harmful traditional practices, assault, abduction, trafficking, forced marriage, female genital cutting, forced prostitution and female infanticide.

The rally, which kicked off at Maitama office of the women lawyers through the Federal Secretariat, ended at the United Nations House where the Country Representative of UNFPA, Coulibaly Sidiki, pledged the support of the global body towards the fight against gender-based violence.
The lawmaker spoke yesterday at the NHRC auditorium in Abuja during a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and International Human rights Day.

To underscore his call for genuine independence of the rights body, Inang cited the controversial sack of the commission's former executive secretary, Bukhari Bello, by Obasanjo.
He said that there is need for government to see human rights as a global issue rather than a personal matter, adding that it was high time government paid much attention to issues of human rights, considering their inalienable nature.

How ironic. She found out that he is getting married on January 3rd on December 3rd. Do you know to who? The same chick that he has been denying for 3 years. He said they were friends, ladadada. You know the same ol' stuff they tell you. I feel bad for her. The good and the bad is that she had that infamous woman's intuition, and she knew something was up. She ended it with enough time to heal. Unfortunately, this news has reopened her healing broken heart. When do you really heal? Its a wonder people go through this more than once. Meet a great person, fall in love, break up, heal.... then the cycle starts again. Maybe, you are mistaking infatuation for love and need to check your infatuation before you assume it is love. I just don't know. I am assuming this part of life for most of us. Optimism is the key. It go beta. I know that for sure:)

Thoughts..

He would come home around 45 minutes after midnight. A long day at work. I barely worked. So my days included waiting for him to come home. I would call him to ask if he wanted his favorite scrambled egg with cheese and raisin toast. I would make it and put it in the microwave for him. Unfortunately, I was juggling him and another man. Nothing physical, just alot of phone time. Late night talks that normally ended about 12:15 so that I can sleep or wait for him to come. If sleep had taken over me, he would come in and kiss me as I am sleeping and I would wake up smiling. We would stay up and watch all his favorite shows that he recorded on the DVR. I would fall asleep around 2am.
I miss that now. I think about recording shows, and I think of him. He has moved on. He is actually playing the field. Has a daughter, baby momma, and a girlfriend. Alot going on but I cannot help but think about him....
When does the heart really heal?