Obasanjo is a father to me and I am his first political son - GEJ

President Jonathan says despite former Pres. Obasanjo's recent verbal attacks on his administration, he still sees him as his father and his first Political son. GEJ said God used people, including the former president to make him become the President of Nigeria. President Jonathan said this in an interview with Tribune in Lagos

This is why she doesn't want to have sex with you

Abuja - Testosterone and other reproductive hormones do play a role - but probably a small one - in women's feelings of sexual desire during menopause, according to a new study.

Factors like emotional wellbeing and quality of the intimate relationship may be more important, says lead author Dr. John F. Randolph, Jr., of the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.

Hormones don't play a big role 

"The big thing that came out of this is it has long been assumed or theorised that hormones played a big role, but it's been hard to prove," Randolph told Reuters Health. "Hormones definitely do play a role but it's not a big one."

For the new study, researchers studied data from more than 3,000 middle-aged women participating for at least 10 years in an ongoing study that included annual questionnaires about sexuality and blood tests to measure hormone levels.

The women were between 42 and 52 years old at the beginning of the study. By the 10th year, 77 percent were post-menopausal and 7 percent were using hormone replacement therapy.

Yearly questionnaires addressed how often the women felt desire in the past six months to engage in any form of sexual activity either alone or with a partner, and how frequently they had done so. 

Those who reported having sexual activities with a partner were asked about their levels of arousal, ability to climax, frequency of vaginal or pelvic pain during intercourse and lubricant use.

Women with higher levels of testosterone tended to report more frequent masturbation, more sexual desire and arousal than those with lower levels, according to the results published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Women who had higher levels of follicle stimulating hormone, which rises during menopause, tended to report masturbating, feeling arousal and experiencing orgasm less often than others.

Hormones not linked to painful intercourse

Hormones did not appear to be linked to pain with intercourse. Even for the other measures of sexual function, hormones only accounted for part of the picture, Randolph said.

Those who said they had fewer sad moods and higher levels of satisfaction in their relationships also reported better sexual function.

"Women's sexual function is pretty complicated and it would be naïve to assume only one factor is important," Randolph said.

Men have 10 times as much testosterone as women, so it's harder to measure the influence of the hormone for females, he said. And it's new to consider a metric like masturbation frequency, which hasn't been studied much for this age group of women but is an important indicator of sexual function, he said.

"Our work shows that there are a lot of other things that are equally or more likely to be important, the big ones are partner relationship and mood," Randolph said.

"This is an article confirming the potential role of testosterone in women's sexuality independently from a partner and it adds a piece to the story that sexual function is driven by androgen but sexual behaviour is related to the context, especially the partner," said Dr. Rossella Nappi of the Research Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Unit of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Menopause at the University of Pavia in Italy.

Nappi was not involved in the new research.

Some women retain sexdrive across menopause

"Some women retain the ability to masturbate and climax across menopause because of higher androgen levels but maybe their sexual function with a partner is impaired due to many other reasons," she told Reuters Health by email.

Testosterone seems to have a modest effect on sexual health for menopausal women, but it remains to be seen how it affects women at older ages, and whether or not testosterone therapy will at some point be a viable therapy, Randolph said.

"It's a really hot topic with men right now because more people are asking for it and doctors are prescribing it," he said. "From a treatment perspective, we really don't know what the long term effects of giving testosterone are, and we need more information."

REVEALED: Kano mosque attack done by two suicide bombers, gunmen – police

Two suicide bombers and gunmen who opened fire on people trying to flee to safety carried out the attack during Friday prayers at one of Nigeria’s most prominent mosques, police said.

After the assailants blew themselves up in succession at the Grand Mosque in Kano, “gunmen opened fire on those who were trying to escape”, national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told AFP.

He could not give the exact number of gunmen involved but they were estimated to be fewer than 15. Ojukwu said a mob killed four of the attackers while the rest escaped in the chaotic aftermath.
Bombs kill 64 during prayers at prominent Nigeria mosque

At least 64 people were killed and 126 injured when two bombs exploded during prayers at a mosque of one of Nigeria’s top Islamic leaders Friday, a week after he issued a call to arms against Boko Haram.

The blasts happened at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the Muslim north of the country, just as Friday prayers had got under way at about 2:00 pm (1300 GMT).

The mosque is attached to the palace of the Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II, Nigeria’s second most senior Muslim cleric.

The blasts came after a bomb attack was foiled against a mosque in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday morning, five days after two female suicide bombers killed over 45 people in the city.

“Two bombs exploded, one after the other, in the premises of the Grand Mosque seconds after the prayers had started,” worshipper Aminu Abdullahi told AFP.

“A third one went off in a nearby road close to the Qadiriyya Sufi order. The blasts were followed by gunshots by the police to scare off potential attacks.”

His account was backed up by another witness, Hajara Tukur, who said she lives nearby.
A senior rescue official said 64 bodies had been brought to just one Kano area hospital, while 126 people had been admitted with injuries at three facilities.

“Those figures are going to climb,” he told AFP on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorised to speak to the media.

The Emir of Kano last week told worshippers at the same mosque that northerners should take up arms against Boko Haram, which has been fighting for a hardline Islamic state since 2009.
He also cast doubt on Nigerian troops’ ability to protect civilians and end the insurgency, in rare public comments by a cleric on political and military affairs.

– Influential figure –

The Emir of Kano is a hugely influential figure in Nigeria, which is home to more than 80 million Muslims, most of whom live in the north.

Officially the emir is the country’s number two cleric, behind the Sultan of Sokoto, and any attack could inflame tensions in Nigeria’s second city, which is an ancient seat of Islamic study.
Sanusi was named emir earlier this year and is a prominent figure in his own right, having previously served as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

During his time in charge of the CBN, he spoke out against massive government fraud and was suspended from his post in February just as his term of office was drawing to a close.
Boko Haram has repeatedly attacked Kano before. On November 14, a suicide bomb attack at a petrol station killed six people, including three police.

The Islamists have a record of attacking prominent clerics and in July 2012, a suicide bomber killed five people leaving Friday prayers at the home of the Shehu of Borno in the northeast city of Maiduguri.

The Shehu is Nigeria’s number three Islamic leader.

Boko Haram threatened Sanusi’s predecessor and the Sultan of Sokoto for allegedly betraying the faith by submitting to the authority of the secular government in Abuja.
In early 2013, the convoy of Sanusi’s predecessor was also attacked.

– Maiduguri targeted –
In Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, civilian vigilantes said they had discovered a suspected remote-controlled device planted in the Gamboru Market area of the city.

It was successfully defused by the police bomb squad but as the bomb was being made safe, another device exploded nearby. There were no casualties, as the area had been cordoned off.
“Our assumption is that the bombs were planted ahead of Friday prayers in the mosque just nearby,” civilian vigilante Babakura Adam said.

“Of course, it’s Boko Haram’s handiwork because in the last few days several arrests have been made of suspected female suicide bombers.”

Adam said the arrests were made on Wednesday and Thursday.

Fears have grown in Maiduguri about an upsurge in Boko Haram attacks, after the militant Islamists took over more than two dozen towns in Borno and two neighbouring states in recent months.

Jonathan vows to hunt those behind 'heinous' mosque attacks

 President Goodluck Jonathan vowed Saturday to hunt down those behind "heinous" attacks which left at least 120 dead at the mosque of an Islamic leader who had issued a call to arms against Boko Haram.

At least 270 others were also wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers on Friday at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north of the country.

Jonathan had "directed the security agencies to launch a full-scale investigation and to leave no stone unturned until all agents of terror ... are tracked down and brought to justice," said a statement from his office on Saturday.

"The president reaffirms that terrorism in all forms ... is a despicable and unjustifiable threat to our society."

The mosque is attached to the palace of the Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II, Nigeria's second most senior Muslim cleric, who last week made a call at the same mosque, urging civilians to take up arms against Islamist extremists Boko Haram. The Emir was out of the country during the attacks.

The attack was widely seen as revenge for the call.

"It was death and blood all over. People lay dead and others shrieked in horror and pain," one survivor, Muhammad Inuwa Balarabe, told AFP from his hospital bed on Saturday.

"I was inside the premises of the mosque. As soon as the prayer started, a bomb went off. They just started shooting people," said the 32-year-old tailor, who received serious burns to his thighs.

Jonathan urged Nigerians "not to despair in this moment of great trial in our nation's history but to remain united to confront the common enemy."\

Intensifying attacks"One wonders what kind of religion these people practise," said survivor Maikudi Musa, who lost one sibling in the blast and saw another badly hurt.

"You can't justify attacking and killing defenceless people at will in the name of religion."

Just hours before the Kano massacre, a suspected remote-controlled roadside bomb near another mosque nearly 600 kilometres (375 miles) away in Maiduguri, was defused.

Maiduguri, where Boko Haram was founded in 2002, was already tense after two women female suicide bombers wreaked havoc at a crowded market on Tuesday, killing more than 45 shoppers and traders.

Mass casualties from Boko Haram attacks are not however a new phenomenon in the extremists' five-year insurgency. More than 13,000 people are thought to have died in total since 2009.

Are You Shy Or Nervous? 7 Tips for Successful Dating If You’re Shy and Nervous

If you’re shy and nervous, it might be difficult for you to successfully go through your first date. Most shy guys don’t be able to make a good impression toward their date, and as a result, they keep being single again and again. If you want to avoid this scenario, you have to build a courage to shatter your shyness and nervousness around women. Here are 7 simple dating tips for shy and nervous guys:

Shocking! Man Thought To Have Died From Ebola Comes Back To Life

A burial team in Liberia was sent to remove the body of man thought to have died from Ebola. As the team was wrapping the body, the man just came back life.
The team flagged down and ambulance and moved him to it, where might be able to get treatment.

Church Building Collapses in Edo State

A one-storey building belonging to Christ Chosen Church of God in Edo State collapsed today.

The building housed offices and residences of church officials, The Nation reports.

According to reports, there were six people trapped in the building. Three were rescued and sustained severe injuries, and one of the individuals died. Efforts are currently being made to rescue the other two, who are still trapped in the debris.