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Woman throws epic tantrum in a street in China after her BF dumps her by text (photos)

This Chinese woman had a public meltdown and threw an epic tantrum for 90 minutes on a street after she received a text message from her boyfriend ending their relationship. She was walking on a busy Hong Kong street when the text came in and she immediately threw herself down on the floor, screaming. A few people tried to intervene but she refused help and seemed inconsolable. After about an hour and a half of the display, paramedics were called to the scene and she was restrained and taken away on a stretcher. Watch and see more photos after the cut..

 

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Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian getting back together?

I won't be surprised if the whole break up story was a plot for their reality show. According to TMZ Scott is back at his and Kourtney's family home and he's posting photos online. TMZ reports below..

There are signs of a possible reconciliation between Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick. Scott has been posting pics of him back at the family home in Calabasas, chilling at the pool and lording over his brood.

Scott wrote, "Love coming home and seeing my little girl napping and looking this cute." The post could simply signal visitation, but he certainly made himself at home.

Is Mariah Carey pregnant with James Packer's child?

 Unconfirmed reports from New Idea magazine claim that 45 year old Mariah Carey who already has 2 children and her Australian billionaire James Packer are expecting their first child together after going public with their relationship in June.

'Mariah found out the baby news recently and they're overjoyed at the prospect of being parents,' the publication reports an 'insider' as saying.

They already have five children between them from previous relationships, but a new magazine report suggests they are set to add another bundle of joy to their blended family. 

Saraki Must Show Remorse Before He Can Get Forgiveness

The Senate Unity Forum has said that it would abide by the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the APC on the crisis over the Senate principal offices.

The group, which canvassed for the emergence of Senator Ahmad Lawan as President of the Senate, said that it would only withdraw it court cases challenging the election of the presiding officers of the Senate, if the party leaders directed them to do so.

The forum said that at present the group had decided to pursue the court cases to their logical conclusion.

They insisted that Bukola Saraki and his group must show remorse, before the crisis could be resolved.

The comments of the group came on the heels of the peace moves by the Senator Saraki and his group.

Saraki’s loyalists, including the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, Adamu Aliero and Danjuma Goje, were reported to have begged Buhari, who had been shunning Saraki since the crisis in the upper chamber of the National Assembly started.

But some of the SUF members, who spoke with PUNCH on Sunday, said there was no way peace would be achieved if Saraki failed to respect party supremacy by announcing senators Ahmad Lawan, George Akume, Sola Adeyeye and Abu Ibrahim as principal officers.

The spokesperson for the SUF, Senator Kabir Marafa, said that his group would defend the party discipline and its supremacy over all members of the APC in the upper chamber at all times.

He also explained that the Saraki-led Senate went against both the party’s directive and the rule of ranking in the announcement of the principal officers who were elected by the zonal caucuses.

He said, “Our position has not changed. Those who were appointed as principal officers must vacate their seats first because their appointments contradicted the Senate rule and the position of the party which is supreme.

“The court should determine whether or not the management of the National Assembly was right to have used the Senate Standing Order 2015 which was not amended through due process.”

Marafa, however, said that his colleagues would abide by the directive of Buhari and other leaders of the party in case the Saraki camp showed remorse and pledged to respect the party.

Naija actresses as glorified prostitutes? Bimbo Thomas Speaks

Yoruba actress Bombo Thomas in a chat with Potpourri spoke about the actors she would love to kiss, why she can never be friends with benefits to any man and insinuations that some Nollywood babes are glorified prostitutes. Read her perspective below:

Have you ever been friends with benefit with anybody?
No, I don’t subscribe to it. I’ve always had a smooth arrangement with everybody I’ve come in contact with. However, like the Kumi guy I told you about, we started out as friends, and you know we ladies always know when guys like us. But I, as a person, don’t like to drag it out of you. I’ll act as if I can’t read between the lines. Anyway, we gradually began a relationship, but I won’t even peck an ordinary friend; it’s that bad.

It is believed that many actresses these days are glorified prostitutes, what’s your take on that?

When people say things like that, I feel it’s their opinion, which they have a right to. I have a lot of guys as friends and I know that they like actresses, maybe because they can boast with it that they’re dating famous people. There are many girls out there who can do whatever they like without public scrutiny, but it’s not so for actresses. But why would someone who is famous be prostituting when the attention of the whole world is on her? It doesn’t make sense. Being famous deprives one of doing certain things.

If anyone calls me with a strange number and starts saying funny things like I like you, or I have so and so uncle I want you to meet, I just block the person’s line straight away. I’m not cut out for things like that. It takes a lot of effort for any member of the opposite sex to be my friend. For whoever is hiding under this umbrella to tarnish other people’s image, I think they should be checked.

Which actor would you like to kiss?
It’s Idris Elba, but lately I’ve had a crush on Terrence Howard. Locally, it’s John Dumelo (Blushes). 

This Is For Only Those People Who Truly Want To Be Rich

- Robert Kiyosaki is the author of the very popular motivational book - Rich Dad, Poor Dad!

The Decisions You Need to Make to Get Rich
I sat quietly one night and my lessons began all over again. I could hear my rich dad talking. “The only difference between the rich, poor and middle class,” he said, “is the kind of lifestyle they want. You don’t have to be psychic to tell a person’s future. If you listen to the words a person uses, they will tell you their future.”

Rich Dad believed that words were a person’s most important tool. He constantly reminded me to watch the words I spoke, simply because he believed that the words you speak and what you think ultimately become the world you live in. He often quoted the Old Testament: “And the word became flesh”.

So that night, I remembered Rich Dad reminding me to listen to different people’s words. I noticed that poor people often said:

“I just want enough money to pay the rent.”
“I need money to get to the next pay day.”
“After I pay my bills, I don't know how my family can afford to eat.”

People who used words such as these, often focused only on financial survival. Rich Dad often referred to these people as “poor” people, because they were poor managers of money. So a person who thought or spoke words such as these was constantly fighting for financial survival, regardless of how much money they made.

I noticed that the middle class focused on comfort. That is why so many of them say, “I don’t want to be rich. I just want to be comfortable.”

The rich used the vocabulary found in the asset column. Rich Dad said, “The rich are rich because they are not focused on day-to-day short-term survival, or the expense column as the poor are. Nor are the rich focused on comfort and the acquisition of liabilities using credit, as the middle class is.

The rich are rich because they focus on the long-term acquisition of assets... assets such as stocks, bonds, businesses and income producing real estate. Many times the rich will forsake meals, a steady pay check, a vacation, or the comfort of a nice home, to build or acquire real assets.”

So decide to be rich, even if you are broke today. Being poor is eternal but being broke is temporary.

Whether you have money or not, it is important to “Be” rich if you decide to do so, which means being willing to make being rich more important than merely surviving financially or being comfortable.

Choose Your Friends and Partners Wisely 
Most of my best investments come from my rich friends, not from my stock brokers or real estate brokers. It is important to know if a person’s aspirations are to be rich, comfortable or simply survive.

Friends who merely want to be comfortable or survive will not understand why you want to be rich and may unconsciously pull you down. The most important investment you can make is in your financial education and financial experience. Invest in that and soon you will live the life of your dreams.

Omotola and Husband Loved Up at Their Son's Birthday Party

If a lady is submissive to her husband, no matter her status, he will love her and their love will be sweet.

Their first son, CaptainE, just clocked 17 and the couple where at hand to celebrate with the young man.

Mammoth Crowd at Abuja as Wada Picks Nomination Form for Second Term

In what could be best described as a carnival like event, mammoth crowd of party supporters, political associates and well wishers accompaniedthe incumbent Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada to Abuja on Thursday as he stormed the PDP headquarters to pick the nomination form of his party to run for a second term in office.

The huge crowd is a testimony that Capt. Idris Wada has the unflinching support of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) both at the state and the national level contrary to sponsored propaganda to the contrary.

Addressing the teeming supporters shortly after picking his nomination form for the November 2015 gubernatorial election in the state, Capt. Idris Wada assured the people of Kogi state of his readiness to offer himself for service for a second term in office.

“It is my wish to continue to be a leader with the fear of God and not a ruler, demonstrate the democratic tenet and deploy dividends of democracy to all areas in the state. Lets join hands as this project needs a collective resolve from all of us,” he said.

Some of the party stalwart who spoke at the occasion disclosed that the party elders and the different groups endorsed the candidacy of Captain Idris Wada because of his unprecedented track record of achievements in the state inspite of the glaring challenges.

Saraki's Reconcilatory Move With Tinubu: A Comportment Of True Nationalist

Politics de facto, is a game of wit which qualifies some of its triumphant players into crackerjack while those at the losing ends remain amateur in the eyes of the public. I ordinarily would not have revisited some of the political twists that were at the front burner before and after June 9 National Assembly Inauguration which nearly shattered the change which our angelic party represents, since majority of the aggrieved lawmakers are now in a smooth rapport with the Senate President and Chairman of the 8th National Assembly.

As a patriotic Nigerian, it is high time one told ill informed that a nation filled with perpetual politicking or games of wit will either be in moribund or decline in Progress. So that forms the basis for my short tutorial for the wailers wailing over a black-eyeing news on Punch and other anti-Saraki platforms claiming Saraki is begging some of his antagonists. 

Peace reigning is apparently, one of the reasons why the fearless and independent Senate President, Sen. Saraki sounded a reconciliatory melody to former Governor of Lagos state and a national leader of APC, Sen. Bola Tinubu popularly called, who was the strongest antagonist to Saraki's senate presidential ambition.

To put the record straight, Saraki has always been an overpass architect as far as our Nigeria politics is concerned. Senator Bukola Saraki's pedigree and antecedents on this harmonious step, speak volumes for him. Verily, his move towards Jagaban in this milieu, couldn't have been as an antic of cowardice but somewhat should be viewed from the angle of his being a decent, civilised and nationalistic person who has the love of the Nation at heart and is ready to do everything possible at all times, to move Nigeria forward. He is has demonstrated that he is a true Nationalist who after being a victor in his ambition, is lower himself for the powers that be so that Nigeria can work as expected by Nigerians. 

Begging as they referred to it as, amused me when i saw it flying media this morning. The questions i asked myself were, is Tinubu a Senator? Haven't Unity Forum Senators that supported Lawan been lobbying and accepting Committees and leadership positions? Will Tinubu ask his nominees for ministerial appointments and others like the newly appointed acting FIRS boss, Fowler, not to be screened and bow before Saraki as constitution provided? May be until the answers to those questions tuned 'YES', the word 'Begging' can then be aptly used.

Despite severe distractions orchestrated by external and influential politicians from APC since his in-house NASS poll triumph, he has demonstrated several rare qualities by the way and manner he was able to run the Senate, such that within a short period of his assumption of the leadership of the Senate, he was able to get hold of over two third of majority votes of the Senators in the vote of confidence passed by the 81 Members. In fact, it was that vote of confidence that vindicated Saraki as his proclaimed 35 APC supporting Senators later surfaced out of the 81 remaining 46 PDP Senators. 

So, the anti-Saraki advocates who make the ground seems hot for him to the outside world should know that they are holding the wrong end of the stick. Meanwhile, the Senate is fully at work and some giant and monumental achievements like electricity fixed charge regulation, NorthEast mayhem's oversight function and federal government agencies' regulations among others are made already, in spite of President Buhari's hold-up of Cabinets and Executive setting till perhaps later this year. To some of the chief ignorant Nigerians who spite gibberish on NASS's recesses, they should now learn easily that apart from lawmaking, Legislators also check executive not civil servants headed by permanent secretaries, as we have now.

Nonetheless, it is hoped that with the hands of brotherhood Saraki is extending to Tinubu, he should rather take it as a courageous act from a humble and descent man who would like to make peace with him, despite all the precedent calumnious campaigns and instigated oppositions from different digs against him by Asiwaju Tinubu, his paid dogs and others paid by Saraki's perceived opponents to blackmail him. It will be of Nigeria's interest for Tinubu to accept the Senate President's overtures and agree to support and cooperate with him henceforth, in his zeal to lead National Assembly, in partnership with President Muhammad Buhari and the APC to move Nigeria forward towards copious prosperity. 

If this harmonious move by Saraki is not curtailed by Tinubu and Co and Nigeria is free of politicking for dominance of all times, perhaps we have an excellently working Nigeria under president Buhari and Saraki.

By @BashirAkanbi