LASU LATEST: Female STudent Dies After Attending A Send Forth Party. Another In Critical Condition

A female student of Lagos State University has been reported dead after attending a dinner party while another Male student is in a critical condition.

The male student as at the time of this report is still in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

According to reports, the deceased 200 Level student of the Department of History and International Relations started foaming in the mouth and vomiting blood after returning from the dinner party where she ate and drank. She died afterwards.

The male student however was diagnosed with same symptoms. He is currently under the Doctor's watch at the University Teaching Hospital.

THE INCURABLE OPTIMIST

Optimism is the conviction that no matter the situation, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. It is the determination to be positive minded in the face of declining options. It is the surety that every setback is a setup for a comback. 

The Incurable Optimist will never be swayed to concede too easily. He is a dogged fighter. He is like Odysseus who creates something out of nothing. He is a brave warrior who crafts the idea of the Trojan Horse as the only way to penetrate the impregnable walls of Troy.

Our world is in dire need of such people. Those who will hope against hope and hold on to that tiny shred of hope in a sinking Titanic. The World is what it is today because men and women with the spirit of incurable optimism stood their ground when it mattered and have become glowing tributes for others to emulate.

Steve Hawking, a renowned Professor Of Physics and a man who is paralyzed from the neck to the heels due to a disorder in the nervous system, has always remained fiercely independent and unwilling to accept help or make concessions for his disabilities.

He preferred to be regarded as a scientist first, popular science writer second, and, in all the ways that matter, a normal human being with the same desires, drives, dreams, and ambitions as the next person. His wife Jane Hawking later noted that

 "Some people would call it determination, some obstinacy."

 What will you call it? If your condition has not reached this level, then all hope is not lost.

By Rev Fr Thaddeus Apka

Happy Sunday!

I AM NOT A FAN OF POPE FRANCIS: It Is Mercy That This Age Needs More Than Ever Before

I was born to hear of only one Pope, he was Pope John Paul II, he was my little idea of a Pope, in fact I thought his other name was Pope. It was later as a growing child and a young adolescent, I realized that the Pope was elected and could leave the office. I heard of the Marian Pius IX, the Most Beloved John XIII and the Smiling John Paul I who lasted for only 30 days as Pope. When John Paul II died, I followed every moment of it in 2005 to his very last minute. It was like the end of the World, I had read and digested many of his encyclicals, and he was a great and passionate writer.

Benedict XVI arose in the shoes of JPII and he was a scholar per excellence. He was the quintessence of orthodoxy and the Pope at my Ordination as a priest 7 years ago. His Encyclicals, Deus Caritas Est, Spe Salvi and Caritate Et Veritate are indeed classics, but we woke up one morning to the news that we was retiring, it shook the world to its foundations. Can a pope retire?

Then arose a relatively not so known cardinal who chose a name that was never known to historians as a papal name. Pope Francis, became Pope and was quite elderly, I did not know much about him, he was not like the charismatic and many languages speaking, John Paul II nor the Scholarly Benedict XVI. I was not so enthusiastic about reading his works as I did the others.

Then he wrote his encyclical on Climate Change, Environmental Conservation and Care of the Earth, Laudato Si. He struck a chord in me. I was an advocate of tree planting and environmental conservation for some years now, hmmm, a Pope wrote an encyclical on that? It was and still is a topical issue and matters on the care of the earth, our common home. Yes, care goes beyond the care of the sick, the poor and the down trodden, the depletion of mother earth was also a crime that cries to heaven. Kudos to Pope Francis.

I was just reading his works on that and the commentaries on it, and then he struck again: The Extra Ordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. What!!! A Year of Mercy, O Pope Francis got me there.

There is nothing the world needs now than a message of mercy. Mercy is the greatest attribute of God. It His mercy that wakes up this morning, it is His Mercy that makes the Sun to Shine and sustain the air we breathe. It is His mercy that has led us to this time of the year and we trust in His mercy to lead us to the end of the year and into 2016.

By Rev Fr Thaddeus Apka

Thief Dies Inside Well While Trying to Steal Pumping Machine

How tragic could a man's death ever be than this?
This man met his end in an attempt to steal a pumping machine in the early hours of today.
This event took place at 3/5 Modupe Ajayi Close, Alagbodo, Lagos State.

According to Mr Adeboye, a 67yr old who is the owner of the well, said that a mobile police man woke him up around 12 midnight, saying he heard a loud sound of an object that fell into the well.

He continued by saying that...

When we rushed out to see what it was, we heard a man's voice inside the well crying for help, so we quickly put a call across to the DPO of Alagbodo Police Station, who immediately called in the fire service, but the man died before they could rescue him.

Foluke Daramola Weds Husband, Kayode Salako Legally Today. (Photos)

Stunning Yoruba Nollywood actress, Foluke Daramola legally got married to her husband,Kayode Salako at the Kosofe Local Government Registry, today, Saturday, Feb. 13th, 2016.

Her stunning actress, friend, Mojisola Olaiya shared the lovely photos. Congrats to the newly married couples.

More photos below:

Man Trying to Enter Europe by Hiding in A Car's Bumper (PHOTO)

Two Morocans were arrested in Melila, Spain during attempts to smuggle a 29 year old man into Europe.
Their vehicle was stopped when a police officer noticed a heartbeat in the back bumper of the vehicle with the aid of the hightech heartbeat sensor.

The 29 old Guinean was tied underneath with a rope. Photo after the cut...

Hillary Clinton Shares Her Statement On The Passing of Supreme Court Justice

The U.S female Presidential aspirant, Hillary Clinton took to her Twitter handle to upload her statement on the passing of supreme court justice today...

She's considdered the front-runner and if successful would become the first woman to earn the nomination for a major party's presidential bid.

In her statement she wrote that;

My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of  Justice Scalia as they mourn his sudden passing. I did not hold Justice Scalia's views , but he was a dedicated public servant who brought energy and passion to the bench.

The Republicans in the Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for justice Scalia's seat to remain vacant dishonors our constitution. the Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons,

 Photo of her twitter update after the cut;