Edeson Online News: 07/03/15

Friday 3 July 2015

WORLD NEWS: Chinese Government bans Ramadan fasting

Students and civil servants in China's Muslim northwest have been ordered by the state to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Statements posted in the past week on websites of schools, government agencies and local party organisations in the Xinjiang region said the ban would protect students' wellbeing and prevent the use of schools and government offices to promote religion, the AP news agency reported on Thursday. Statements

The Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode has come to the aid of the mother of a new set of twins whom had welcomed two earlier which made her husband fled home and left her to cater for the kids alone. A 34 year old man named Citizen Emeka Benjamin Uche fled his home & remained incommunicado after his wife, Ruth, informed him that her third pregnancy was a set of twins - the couple's third set. A distraught Uche upon hearing the news left their home

The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has said he will gladly appoint illiterates such as Okada riders, farmers into his cabinet without looking back because they voted massively for him which in turn made him a governor today. He says not being educated does not make them less intelligent. He also says he is not someone who will ‘use’ people and then dump ‘them’. Below is what the Governor said on Twitter this afternoon.

Port Harcourt “First Son”, Duncan Mighty and his beautiful fiancee Vivien are going to get married this July. The loving couples have set their wedding date for July 25th and wedding invites has been sent out to invitees. Duncan and Vivien’s wedding is expected to be star-studded and the theme is “African Royal wedding”. Duncan Mighty proposed late last year. We look forward to their big day. Music star Duncan Mighty is set to wed his fiancee Vivien on July 25th.

What’s currently trending on social media are men asking for equal pregnancy rights as women using the ‪#‎transpregnancy‬ ‪#‎Pregnancyforall‬. These ‘men’ displayed photos of their pregnant selves on social media. They are demanding equal rights just like real pregnant women. Just in case you’re wondering, these are men that used to be women.

He’s been condemned by other Muslim leaders, and some local imams have even refused to greet him. But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam in the Americas – is proud of his story. He was born and raised in Detroit, where his parents were Southern Baptists. At age 15, he came out to them. At 33, while studying in China, Abdullah converted to Islam, and went on to study the religion in Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

For the first time in 5 years, two of Nigeria’s leading Fuji stars, Pasuma and Saheed Osupa were photographed together at a recent 2015 Ramadan lecture in Lagos. For many years, the two stars were close allies before being torn apart by the rivalry and posture of superiority often seen on the Fuji scene. The growing apart worsened with abusive jabs in songs, confrontations and violence among the teeming fans of each of them. However, this new photograph of both together is a significant sign of peace

If you just buy MTN airtime from any vendor, you might be surprised to notice the digits are no longer 12 like they used to be. Fears of it being fake might make you return it back to the vendor. It seems we have exhausted the 12 digit PINs and MTN have migrated to using 16 digits. The company confirmed through twitter that the new 16 digits is genuine. "We wish to confirm that the 16 digit logical PINs currently in circulation are genuine.