8,000 Women Protest Over Scarcity Of Husbands

8,000 Women Protest Over Scarcity Of Husband

No fewer than 8,000 women on Thursday [Sept. 26] matched to the Zamfara Hisbah Commission, seeking the state government’s assistance to enable them to get married.

Led by the Chairperson of the Zamfara Widows Association, Hajiya Suwaiba Isa, and the patron, Alhaji Sa’idu Goshe, the women said they were not living a normal life and needed husbands to become whole.

“Many of us cannot afford two meals in a day because there are no men to support us,” they said.
The patron said the association had over 8,000 women, comprising 5,380 divorcees, 2,200 widows, 1,200 orphans and 80 others, whom he said, were looking for men to marry.
He said the women also needed assistance to purchase household items such as beds,mattresses and other basic necessities needed to move to their husbands’ houses.
Goshe appealed to the commission to assist the association in screening suitors for the women. He said the screening would determine the suitors’ health status, source of livelihood and ability to maintain a family.

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Vampire Woman: Lawyer Turns Herself Into A Vampire After Separation From Abusive Husband

 

Meet 35-year-old Maria Jose Cristerna also known as “Vampire Woman.”

She was an attorney who began tattooing her body after divorcing her abusive husband.

The name Vampire Woman started out as an insult but it has now "opened doors" for her.

“I am thankful for the nickname because, well, I overcame and can pass on my message. My transformation is, above everything, a consequence of loving tattoos and body modification,” she said.

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7 Things You Didn’t Know Were Invented by Kids

Check out brilliant everyday inventions that came from children

By Olivia Putnal

Anyone who’s gotten to know a child knows how incredible they can be. Sure, they blurt out embarrassing observations in public, but that’s because they don’t filter their thoughts. And yes, they occasionally ruin wallpaper with crayons or finger paint, but that’s because their creativity knows no bounds. Here are seven examples of children whose imagination and ingenuity produced something extraordinary.
 

Toy Truck

In 1963, 6-year-old child inventor Robert Patch created a convertible toy truck. Patch had two goals for his truck: one, that it could easily be taken apart and put back together; two, that it could transform into all sorts of different vehicles. After drawing up a sketch, the boy got a patent for his idea, and the rest was playtime history. Photo by Shutterstock.
 

Trampoline

In 1930, when George Nissen was a 16-year-old high school gymnast, he began tinkering with an idea for a bouncing apparatus to train on. But it wasn’t until 1934 that Nissen and his University of Iowa tumbling coach Larry Griswold built a device that actually worked. Then, in 1937, when Nissen was traveling the carnival circuit, he came across the Spanish word
trampolin, which means “diving board.” Adding an “e” to the end, he trademarked the name for what was to become a backyard family favorite. Photo by Shutterstock.
 

Snow Mobile

In 1922, when Canadian Joseph-Armand Bombardier was 15 years old, he was tinkering around with his dad’s old Ford Model T motor and decided to attach it to a sled to see if the machine could power through the snow. He enlisted the help of his brother to steer while he took control of the motor, and the first inklings of a powered snow machine were born. Fifteen years later his device, the B-7, was the first snowmobile to hit stores. Photo by Shutterstock.
 

Television

Just about everyone owns a TV, but did you ever dream that a teenager came up with the idea? In 1920, 14-year-old Philo Farnsworth first conceived of it, supposedly while he was plowing a potato field. In 1926, he and his business partner founded Crocker Research Laboratories (later named Farnsworth Radio and Television Corporation); only one year after that, the first-ever transmitted images were sent. Photo by Shutterstock.
 

Popsicles  

 In 1905, when Frank Epperson was 11 years old, he was trying to concoct his own version of soda pop. One particularly cold night, he left his beverage—a glass filled with soda water powder and water—outside on the porch by accident, with the mixing stick still in it. The ingredients froze overnight and Epperson was inspired. In 1924, after the young inventor had some success in the real estate business, he applied for a patent, naming his creation the Epsicle. Later, it was changed it to the now well-known Popsicle. Photo by Michael Rosenfeld / Getty.
 

Earmuffs

Chester Greenwood grew up ice skating in his native Maine. One day in 1873, the 15-year-old finally became so annoyed with how cold his ears became outdoors that he asked his grandmother to sew fur onto a two-loop wire he created. Soon he had a patented and approved model of what he originally called ear protectors. The state of Maine is so thankful for his invention that every December 21 is celebrated as “Chester Greenwood Day.” Photo by iStockphoto.
 

Braille

Born in France in 1809, Louis Braille was blinded by an injury when he was only 3 years old. In 1824, while he was a 15-year-old student at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, he created a type of reading that involved raised, imprinted dots organized in a pattern to facilitate learning. The first Braille book was released in 1829—and Louis Braille went on to become an instructor at the school where he had once been a student. Photo by Shutterstock.

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SHELL RECRUITMENT DAY 2013

A shell recruitment day is one of two routes into shell:

Step One- Online application

• create an account, or login via an existing account
• Next, search for available opportunities s by selecting the region and country of work locations
• Apply and upload the latest version of your CV/resume
• Before submitting your application, you will asked to submit an online questionnaire

*When searching for opportunities, please check your work eligibility in that location

Step two- Online assessment
There are two parts to the online assessment.
*Note that each part must be competed and submitted within 7 working days before the links within the email you receive will expire
Part one: a series of competency-based questions
This will take approximately 20mins to complete and will not be timed. once completed you will receive an email notification with the outcome.
part two: consists of two tasks: a decision-making and a problem-solving task. you will need to complete both
*Note that the decision-making task is not timed, but the problem-solving task is timed and you will have 18mins to complete it
The decision-making task assesses how you respond to common situations that shell graduates may face, and the problem-solving tasks assesses your capacity for solving numerical reasoning problems.
In total, part 2 of the online assessment should take approximately 45mins to complete.

Step 3: An interview
The interview will take place either face to face or over the telephone. This is an opportunity for you to tell us more about your motivations for applying, your achievements, the challenges you've faced and how you've demonstrated the qualities we're looking for.

Step Four: Shell Recruitment Day
Following success in the first-stage interview, you will attend an afternoon of non-assessed, interactive activities where you will be given further insights into our global businesses.
The next day you will complete a range of assessed exercises which includes an online simulation exercise, a written task, group discussion, self-reflection interview, presentation-based case study and final interview.

Step 5: An offer
Upon completion of assessment, Shell will let you know on the final outcome for suitable places on their Graduate programme.

*note that an email notification would be sent to you for every stage completed.

To apply now, click here