Man heartbroken as fire guts Mercedes Benz days after purchase (Video)The owner of a new Mercedes Benz is left with a scar as his newly acquired millions of naira worth of vehicle catches fire. A video making rounds on social media captured the horrifying moment a luxury vehicle caught fire in broad daylight without a rescue. The car worth millions of naira was said to have been acquired some days before the incident which rendered the car worthless.The owner who may have captured the event stared helplessly as the new Mercedes Benz burn beyond recognition. Watch the video below …
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My husband, Cameron, and I got married in September of 2017. He was active-duty Air Force and I was a personal trainer. When we got together, I had to take my business fully online so I could move to Montana to be with him. When we got married, we were both crystal-clear on never having babies the old-fashioned way. We were open to fostering but not for several years, and only older children. Over the course of our first year of marriage, I built my online business and my husband was finishing up his career in the Air Force. He…
This is Sharon, my mother-in-law.She taught me it’s important work to see someone for who they are and not what you expect.When I first met my mother-in-law I had a hard time understanding her thick south Virginia accent. And she seemed a little bossy in that southern passive-aggressive polite way. But I knew she was important to the love of my life, so I accepted her grudgingly as some of us do when family is forced on us. After 5 years I still didn’t really know her.When my wife got leukemia at 30. When our world was shattered and changed…
Autism is a word describing millions of different people and millions of different journeys. My name is Amanda, and I am a single mother to an amazing 15-year-old boy named Ajay. Ajay is funny, caring, sweet, loving, and busy; he loves to repeat the phrases ‘ready, set, go’ and ‘3, 2, 1, go.’ Ajay has autism and uses a combination of signs, gestures, vocal approximations, and his communication device to communicate. When I first heard the word ‘autism’ as a parent, so many thoughts ran through my mind: Will he ever talk? Will he have friends? What will life look…
From the countless magazine covers plastered with waif models to web ads oozing with the next revolutionary weight-loss hack, it’s hard to get away from the cultural narrative that screams “skinny is BETTER” especially when you are dealing with a postpartum body. Reportedly, “a total of 75 percent of all American women endorse some unhealthy thoughts, feelings or behaviors related to food or their bodies”…and those are just the ones who admitted to it in a survey.If we’re being honest with ourselves, we’ve ALL probably had those thoughts at some point in our lives. In the era of Photoshopped thighs…
Please stop judging me for leaving the office at exactly 5 p.m., but my kids are waiting to be picked up from the sitter.I know I’m missing this meeting, but my kid’s preschool graduation is more important.I know I was late today, but I can’t drop the baby off at daycare until 7:45 a.m. I know I seem distracted, because I am distracted. I have a sick toddler and I am waiting to find out when I can get him into the pediatrician.I don’t want to look exhausted when I show up to the office, but I have been awake…
A Chinese man identified as Geng Quangrong has allegedly stabbed his lover, a 23-year-old woman, Ummu Kulthum to death at Janbulo quarters, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano.The police in Kano confirmed the incident through its spokesman SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who explained that the suspect, Geng, 47, committed the crime on Friday after scaling the fence of the deceased residence to gain access where he stabbed her severally until she gave up the spirit. Geng alleged that he was deceived by Ummu who was his girlfriend and promised to marry him but betrayed him even after he had spent…
As someone who personally struggles with anxiety, I know that thing can be a monster. Though invisible, it can range from nerves about an upcoming meeting to crawl-out-of-my-skin-lions-thrashing-from-within for NO apparent reason at all.And particularly when the latter version hits in full force, it’s always comforting to have that one person who can be the calm in your storm.For Nikki Pennington, that person was her mom. The day her mom died, piled on top of the grief, was the fear that she had lost the person who understood her best and who she could pour her heart out to when…
Amidst a culture at war over race, politics, and the pandemic, it’s absolutely refreshing to hear stories like the one Cameron Leigh Phillips recently shared to her Facebook page this weekend.The proud Memphis, Tennessee mama was left teary-eyed over an unexpected blessing at a local grocery store where she went to pick up a cake for her soon-to-be 3-year-old son, Ridge.When Cameron went to the bakery section to pick up the cake, the employees told her that it was already paid for, much to her surprise. They explained that a total stranger who comes in every year to pay for…
Padina is what you would call your “model Muslim.” The young Iranian woman was born and raised on the Quran—studying and memorizing its scripture every day before school. She learned to hate Christians and even believed in the promise that killing a Christian would get her a one-way ticket to heaven—and who wouldn’t want that?Following the daily rituals and prayers, Padina did everything in her power to be the Muslim she needed to be in order to get to life after this. But serving a false god was exhausting, and it left her feeling empty, hopeless and depressed. After her…