4 IMPORTANT BLOOD TESTS FOR WOMEN-AND WHAT THE RESULTS MEAN

Here's why every woman needs to know her numbers.

When your doctor orders blood tests during a routine check-up, the goal is to learn how well your body is working and to diagnose diseases such as diabetes or heart disease that might not have obvious symptoms. A blood test is like a gauge, revealing measures of disease inside your body.

You might have any number of different blood tests during your check-up. Four blood tests in particular are important to determine the state of your health. If your doctor hasn't recommended one or more of these blood tests, ask whether you need to have them done.

1. Blood sugar test

What it measures: The level of glucose (sugar) in your blood. Elevated blood sugar is a sign that your body either isn't making enough insulin—the hormone that moves sugar into the cells to be used for energy—or isn't using insulin efficiently. High blood sugar levels can indicate that you have diabetes or prediabetes.

How often you need it tested: Your doctor should check your fasting glucose level or your HbA1C—an average of your blood sugar over the last three months—once a year, or more often if your blood pressure is high.

What's healthy: Less than 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) on a blood sugar test and an HbA1C of less than 5.7%.

What to do if your levels are high: If you're in the borderline, prediabetes range of 100 to 125 mg/dL, lifestyle changes can prevent you from progressing to full-blown diabetes. Eating a healthy diet, losing weight, plus getting at least 150 minutes of exercise per week can cut your risk of getting type 2 diabetes in half.

2. Lipid panel

What it measures: Levels of unhealthy cholesterol and triglycerides to assess your heart disease risk.

How often you need it tested: Women who are at increased risk for heart disease or who have diabetes should get tested once a year. Those who are at normal risk should ask their doctors about testing frequency.

What's healthy: total cholesterol of less than 200 mg/dL; HDL cholesterol of more than 50 mg/dL; LDL cholesterol of less than 130 mg/dL (less than 100 mg/dL for women at high risk for heart disease); and triglycerides of less than 150 mg/dL.

What to do if your levels are high/low: Limit unhealthy fats from red meat, whole-fat dairy products, and fried foods. Also watch high-cholesterol foods such as egg yolks, cheese, and shellfish. Eat more of foods that lower unhealthy cholesterol—including nuts, fish, oatmeal, and vegetable oils.

3. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and T4 test

What it measures: The thyroid is a gland in the neck that produces hormones that regulate metabolism. Women are more likely than men to have an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) or overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). The TSH and T4 tests measure hormone levels to make sure your thyroid is working correctly.

How often you need it tested: If you're over 60, talk to your doctor about getting tested. Also get your levels checked if you have symptoms of hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, which include

fatigue

fast heartbeat

increased appetite

greater sensitivity to cold

muscle weakness

brittle hair and nails

weight gain or loss.

What's healthy: TSH of 0.4 to 4.0 milli-international units per liter (mIU/L) and T4 of 4.5 to 11.2 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL).

What to do if your levels are high/low: Hypothyroidism is treated with synthetic thyroid hormone taken daily by mouth. Hyperthyroidism is treated with radioactive iodine, antithyroid medicine, or surgery.

4. Vitamin D (25 hydroxyvitamin D) test

What it measures: Levels of vitamin D in your blood. Vitamin D is essential for bone strength and other important functions in the body. Older women are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency, because our skin doesn't produce this vitamin as efficiently from sun exposure as we age, and because we spend less time outdoors.

How often you need it tested: Ask your doctor whether you need this test based on your age, diet, and level of sun exposure.

What's healthy: More than 30 nanograms/milliliters (ng/mL)

What to do if your levels are low: Eat more foods containing vitamin D, such as dairy and fortified orange juice. Ask your doctor if you need to add a vitamin D supplement.

Source: www.health.harvard.edu

16 AMAZING HEALTH BENEFITS OF TIGER NUTS

Do you want to protect yourself from cardiovascular diseases? Or want to enjoy the benefits of fiber? Well, there is just one ingredient that can give you all these, in addition to many other benefits.

Tiger nuts are what we are talking about! Would you like to know the many benefits of tiger nuts? Go ahead and read this post!

What Are Tiger Nuts?

Tiger nuts aren’t really nuts; they are tubers that grow under the soil’s surface. Also known as yellow nutsedge, tiger nutsedge or earth almond, tiger nuts have been used for many centuries and remain extremely popular all over the western hemisphere. Archaeologists conclude that evidence hints at this food being used in the Paleolithic era.

Tiger Nuts Benefits

1. Rich In Fiber

Tiger Nuts are packed with high fiber content – around 33%, which is indeed a considerable amount. In a study conducted in 2009 by the University of Miguel Hernandez, Orihuela, Spain, it was found out that 100g tiger nut flour contains around 60 g dietary fiber, especially the insoluble dietary fiber which is much higher than other popular fiber sources such as rice bran, oats, apple, cabbage, carrots, pears, Chia seeds and jack beans.

2. A Healthy Substitute For Lactose Intolerance

Milk derived from Tiger nut is a healthy option for those who cannot drink cow’s milk due to lactose intolerance. Tiger nut milk is free from lactose, and hence anyone can drink this milk, which is rich in calcium and supports bone building and growth in young children. This milk contains highest nutrition and fat content among all the other non-milk substitutes.

3. Rich In Vitamins E And C

Recent studies suggest that tiger nuts are loaded with vitamins and minerals, especially vitamins C and E and potassium and phosphorus. Yogurt made by mixing cow’s milk with tiger nut milk has been found to be exceptionally high in these vitamins and other nutrients.

4. Good Source Of Magnesium

According to the Office of Dietary Supplements, magnesium is highly vital for the normal functioning of the body, as it is required to carry out more than 300 biochemical reactions in the human body. Recent studies have revealed that 100 g flour of tiger nuts contains between 13 to 17 percent of magnesium, which helps to promote normal nerve and muscle function, regulates sugar, maintains blood pressure levels to normalcy, and strengthen bones, process protein and keep you healthy.

5. Plentiful Arginine

Tiger nuts are also loaded with plentiful of amino acids of various types, especially Arginine. The Mayo Foundation suggests arginine as the nitric oxide precursor, which maintains the width of blood vessels to ensure normal blood flow. Arginine is helpful in providing solutions in conditions caused due to restricted blood vessels, including clogged arteries, chest pain, erectile dysfunction, heart disease or failure, artery diseases, muscle cramps, and headaches.

6. Protects Against Cardiovascular Disease

The Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Health Institute has stated that vitamin E acts as a catchall reference for different fat-soluble compounds that are rich in antioxidant qualities. Since tiger nuts are rich in vitamin E, all these qualities are present in tiger nut milk and tiger nut flour.

7. Potassium Booster

Tiger nuts are rich in potassium, which, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, is one of the few essential minerals that contribute to the proper functioning of the cell and body organs, especially the heart. Potassium is essential to maintain proper regulation of muscle contraction, digestive functions and to control the blood pressure levels.

8. Cures Erectile Dysfunction

Here comes one of the major health benefits of tiger nuts. Tiger nuts are indirectly beneficial in improving the problem of erectile dysfunction (ED). Although there is no medical evidence to support this claim, natives of Ghana have been using this traditional medicine for decades in the form of palliative for treating ED.

9. Rich Non-Meat Protein Source

Protein plays an important role in building bones, muscles, cartilage, skin and blood, and hence is one of the major nutrients of the body. Tiger nuts are one of the richest sources of non-meat protein that supplies plentiful of energy essential for carrying out heavy work all through the day.

10. Controls Diabetes

The high insoluble dietary fiber present in tiger nut flour regulates blood sugar levels and helps the diabetic patients remain healthy.

11. Non-Inflammatory

Tiger nut doesn’t contain omega-6 fatty acids, whose high ratio with omega-3 fatty acids in other nuts might lead to inflammatory conditions. Tiger nut milk is thus better and safer to consume than other nut-based milks and offers similar levels of essential nutrients.

12. Rich In MUFA

Tiger nut milk is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids or MUFAs. This makes it an excellent anti-diabetic agent, as MUFA diets boost glycemic tolerance.

13. Boosts ‘Good’ (HDL) Cholesterol

Tiger nuts contain a fair amount of oleic acid. Oleic acid is a MUFA (monounsaturated fatty acid) that helps increase your body’s HDL cholesterol.

14. Digestion

Tiger nuts have many nutritional and health benefits, which make them an amazing food for anyone. Traditionally, tiger nuts were used to treat stomach upsets, irritable bowels, and other digestive issues. They have been used in folk medicine as a remedy for many ailments, including flatulence and diarrhea.

15. Probiotics

Tiger nut milk is a good source of probiotics (gut-healthy bacteria that aid digestion; usually found in curd).

16. Creamy Flavor

Tiger nut milk is quite creamy and offers a slick, smooth, nutty and rich flavor.

Source: stylecraze.com

MIRACLE NAMED WINNER OF BBNAIJA 2018

By Saminu Machunga

After eleven weeks of intense drama, Miracle has emerged winner of the 2018 edition of the Big Brother Naija reality show.

The pilot will take home the N45 million grand prize and will be presented a sports utility vehicle when he returns to Nigeria.

Cee-C was the first runner-up while Tobi Bakre emerged second runner-up. The other two finalists were Nina and Alex.

Miracle won the most tasks and emerged head of house on multiple occasions.

For the finale, he got 38.18 percent of the votes, Cee-C had 28.04, Tobi secured 22.53 while Alex and Nina had 7.07 and 4.18 respectively.

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, host of the show, announced that Big Brother Naija recorded 170 million votes throughout the season.

A tweet by Japheth Omojuwa, a social commentator, explains why Miracle may have won

The 2018 edition of Big Brother Naija started quite different from the norm through the pairing of the housemates with strategic partners.

Pairing the housemates meant that two people will suffer the consequences of the actions of one person and vice versa.

Over the course of the 82-day show, viewers witnessed budding romances between Teddy A and BamBam, Lolu and Anto, Nina and Miracle, and Tobi and Cee-C/Alex.

The show also opened doors for evicted housemates like Teddy A, who caught the attention of Iyanya and Rico Swavey who got an investment commitment from IGoDye.

Efe Ejeba won the 2017 edition of the Big Brother Naija show which paved the way for the music career he currently pursues.

The building where the contestants are housed is situated in South Africa.

Source: thecable.ng

SIFAX GROUP CONSORTIUM WINS WARRI PORT TERMINAL CONCESSION

  The SIFAX Group-led consortium, Ocean and Cargo Terminal Services Limited, has been declared the preferred bidder of Terminal B, Warri Old Port.

At a well-attended meeting today at the Conference Room of the Bureau of Public Enterprises at Abuja, SIFAX Group-led consortium beat other bidders to emerge the preferred bidder of the port. The event had in attendance the representatives of the National Council for Privatisation (NCP), the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Infrastructural Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), among others.

The Expression of Interest for the port was advertised in 2014. At the deadline for the submission, of the EOIs, 13 applications were received.  Out of the 13 applications, seven were pre-qualified. Out of these pre-qualified bidders, five were able to submit their technical and financial proposals on 31st January 2017, the deadline for submission of the proposals.
These five companies are Marine Infrastructure Consortium, Bright Ocean Integrated Services Limited, Ecomarine Consortium, Ocean and Cargo Terminal Services Limited and Neon Warri Ports Consortium. At the end of the evaluation of the technical proposal, Ecomarine Consortium and Ocean and Cargo Terminal Services Limited’s financial bids were qualified for the financial bid opening stage.
After the open transparent competitive bid process which is in line with international best practices, Ocean and Cargo Terminal Services Limited was declared the concessionaire of Terminal B, Old Warrri Port. The concession is for a period of 25 years.
Speaking immediately after the announcement, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Group Executive Vice Chairman, SIFAX Group, expressed his appreciation to both the BPE and NCP for the transparent exercise, adding that the concession will enjoy the same midas touch that has now become the hallmark of SIFAX Group’s businesses.

He said: “This is a great news for us as a company to have led this consortium to win this very competitive bid. While we are glad that we have emerged the preferred bidder, we are not unaware of the enormous responsibility this victory has conferred on us. However, it is a familiar territory for us having operated the Terminal C at the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos successfully in the last 12 years. We will fall back on the experience and expertise we have developed running the terminal to make a difference at the Warri Port.”
On his own part, Mr. John Jenkins, Group Managing Director, SIFAX Group, said the company, which is noted for its adherence to international best practices, will set new standards with the management of the new terminal.
He said: “BPE, NPA and other relevant government agencies should look forward to an efficient port management system when we formally take over the control of the terminal while the clients are in for an unparalleled customer-focused service delivery that will put them at the heart of our operations.”

ADEWALE TEMITOPE ADEDEJI AGREES TO REPRESENT IFAKO-IJAIYE

Aide to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Adewale Temitope has finally succumbed to the wish of his people by accepting to represent Ifako-Ijaiye constituency 1 the State House of Assembly come 2019.

Popularly referred to as ATA by in political sphere, Adewale Temitope Adedeji believes that Politics is dirty because of the heartbreaks and the antics that comes with it as he categorically stated that politics does not does not and should not involve diabolism.

When asked, he simply described Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as not just a boss but also as a mentor, political genius, master strategist and above all, a leader with a golden heart. To him, the Asiwaju is simple, unique man, first among equals and one of a kind to reckon with.

Adewale was one of those who started the not too young to run campaign in 2009, with a mission to sensitise Nigerian youths to get involved in politics. He was one of the pioneering members of the Young Achievers Campaign Organisation of Nigeria (YACOON), a group that massively worked to sensitise the youths about the need to participate in the affairs that concern the citizenry coupled with the fact that he is presently the Special Assistant to the National Leader of APC , Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Youths, Politics and Policy, Mr. Adewale believes that the youths are gradually getting aware more than ever before of their important roles and responsibilities in the society.

Besides being a current Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Leader of All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Adewale who was also former SSA to former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola on Works and Infrastructure has learnt from the masters of the game. His early years in public service saw serving with the former Governors of Abia and Borno State at different times and at various capacity.

A respected public servant and successful entrepreneur, Adewale is of the belief that he has what it takes to appropriately represent his constituency. Born and bred in Ifako-Ijaiye, he is very conversant with every nooks and crannies of the local government.

His father, a medical doctor, who joined the police force and rose to the position of Assistant Commissioner of Police before veering into politics and represented his constituency at the National Assembly before his demise in 2016 had ingrained in him the virtue of service to the people. This he found himself doing even when his father was alive.

“My politics is not a social media experiment,” he explains. “l am a grassroots politician. My politics goes as far as into the wards level.

 On what he considers his greatest achievement in life so far, he says with philosophical calmness: “Putting smiles on the faces of people. Sometimes people come to me with their problems. My little contributions have gone a long way. This makes me happy.”

WINNIE MANDELA - THE YOUNG MOTHER WHO REFUSED TO BE BROKEN

By Milton Nkosi

The death of South Africa's veteran anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the age of 81 has sparked a national debate about how she should be remembered.

The more traditional sections of society, including her staunch supporters, want us to remember her as a faultless woman.

Others, particularly those who are still in the trenches fighting the old battles in favour of white supremacy, want us to remember Mrs Madikizela-Mandela as a violent and deeply flawed individual.

But anyone who wants to truly understand the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela I knew needs to go back in time and trace the steps of humiliation she suffered under the racist system of apartheid.

She was a freedom fighter; a revolutionary who was at the coalface of the anti-

apartheid struggle - not an armchair activist who waged a revolution on Twitter or Facebook.

She was left to raise two young daughters when her husband of four years, Nelson Mandela, was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to life in prison on the notorious Robben Island prison.

An activist in her own right, Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was once arrested in her pyjamas. The police refused to grant her permission to get her relative, who lived a block away, to come and stay with her children.

Torture chamber

In 1969, she was locked in solitary confinement for 491 days. She was even left in her cell when she was on her period, without sanitary towels.

Her cell was adjacent to a torture chamber.

"Prisoner number 1323/69" wrote in her diary, which was later published in a book entitled 491 Days, that the screams of women being beaten from across the walls will never leave her mind.

Later, at a time when many other anti-apartheid leaders were languishing in jail or in exile, she not only represented the liberation movement. She was The Movement.

When she moved, the frontline moved with her. She did not fill the vacuum left by Mr Mandela. She simply took her rightful place at the centre of the battle for the freedom of black people.

When the apartheid regime found her to be too powerful to handle, it resorted to banishing her from her home in the commercial capital, Johannesburg, to the small rural town of Brandfort in what was then the Orange Free State, a bastion of white supremacy.

She was not allowed to receive visitors, but she travelled daily to the local post office to make phone calls telling the world about the brutality of the apartheid system.

Beautiful and charismatic

Having read and listened to the many comments since her passing on Monday, it became clear to me that some people either do not know history or they have selective amnesia.

One example is the reaction of former newspaper columnist David Bullard who wrote on Twitter: "So, after an educational night on Twitter, we're all agreed then. Winnie was a saint who fought bravely against apartheid and only set fire to people or had kids murdered when it was absolutely necessary."

Such people seem to have forgotten the trauma Mrs Madikizela-Mandela experienced at the hands of those who enforced some of the most racist and sexist laws the world has ever seen.

However, her character, sheer strength and willpower could not be suppressed.

In January 1985, US Senator Edward Kennedy visited her in Brandfort, describing her as someone who was "very courageous and was very concerned for her country".

It was a poignant moment - an African woman, removed from society as punishment for asking for basic human rights, getting a visit from one of the most powerful politicians in the US. This sent a clear message that she - and black people - were not alone in the struggle against apartheid.

Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was not just a fearless freedom fighter, she was incredibly beautiful. Even if you were an apartheid-era policeman who met her, you would not forget her face, eyes, and beautiful smile. She also had a unique charisma, and was in many ways, regal.

But she was not perfect. She had her flaws.

She was convicted of fraud and being an accessory to kidnapping.

Any fair-minded person cannot reflect on Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's life without mentioning 14-year-old Stompie Sepei. He died at the hands of her scandal-prone football club, bodyguards and driver, after being falsely accused of being an apartheid spy.

Her support for "necklacing" suspected traitors by putting a tyre around their necks, dousing them with petrol and setting them alight also put her in direct conflict with her comrades.

'Apartheid's legacy'

Following her death, anti-apartheid activist and opposition politician Mosiuoa Lekota said: "Those who did nothing under apartheid never made mistakes."

All these experiences and more left her traumatised. Some suspect she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, which was never treated because she went from one brutal treatment to the next without delay.

I will never forget the day Archbishop Desmond Tutu pleaded with her at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, formed to heal the wounds of apartheid, to say "sorry" for all the things that had gone wrong. She only agreed to acknowledge that sometimes things "went horribly wrong."

Author Charlene Smith, who knew Mrs Madikizela-Mandela from the mid-1970s, could not have put it more succinctly when she posted on Facebook:

"Winnie is the Conscience of a Nation that has already forgotten the tragedy of apartheid history; even in her death, people do not realize how she suffered, how damaged she became and how it hurt her and those who cared for her most.

"South Africa today has one of the worst crime rates in the world, it has millions of damaged people - they are apartheid's legacy. It is in remembering and healing a wounded people that we honor the legacy of Winnie Madikizela Mandela. Sleep with the angels Nomzamo."

Source: BBC

REMEMBERING MAYA ANGELOU

Her birthday is the same date as the assassination of her friend and colleague in the US civil rights movement, Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Maya Angelou, who would have been 90 today 4 April, remains one of America’s most influential writers, artists and cultural figureheads.

Her series of seven autobiographical works, beginning with the seminal coming of age story, I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings, overhauled the memoir genre, tackling rape, racism and trauma and catapulted Angelou to international acclaim.

Her birthday is the same date as the assassination of her friend and colleague in the US civil rights movement,  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, whom she met in 1960 after hearing him speak.

Following the meeting, Angelou, who was already a successful singer, organised the Cabaret for Freedom to support Dr King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1968 Dr King asked her to organise a civil rights march, to which she agreed, but it came shortly before he was assassinated.

She had also become friends with Malcolm X, who she met in Ghana, where she lived during the early 1960s, working as a writer and editor as well as broadcasting on radio. In 1965 she returned to the US to help him create a new civil rights organisation - the Organisation of Afro-American Unity, but he was assassinated shortly afterwards.

While living a life full enough to write seven acclaimed autobiographies makes condensing Angelou’s extraordinary life into a short article an impossible task, here are five things you may not have known about her.

She was a professional dancer

In her early 20s, recently married and with a young son, Angelou began studying modern dance in San Francisco. She formed the dance team Al and Rita, before Angelou decided to move to New York in order to study African dance with Trinidadian dancer Pearl Primus. She went on to dance professionally in clubs in San Francisco, including at the famous beat-era nightclub, The Purple Onion.

Her success as a calypso dancer paved the way for Angelou to record her first album as a singer, Miss Calypso.

She won a Grammy award

Though Angelou saw success as a singer, she won a Grammy award in 1995 not for her many musical works, but for a recording of her poem On The Pulse of Morning, which she recited at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993.

The recitation was the first at a presidential inauguration since Robert Frost at President John F Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration.

She directed a film starring Wesley Snipes

Wesley Snipes, whose more famous roles are for action films such as Demolition Man and the Blade trilogy, was among the cast in Angelou’s 1996 film Down in the Delta.

The film explored family tragedy, drugs, race and prejudice, and redemption.

Her writing routine involved sherry, the bible and a deck of cards

Angelou’s writing routine remains the stuff of legends.

According to several sources, in later life when already a successful writer, Angelou would get up at 5am and check into a hotel room where staff had been told to take down any pictures from the walls.

She would then lie on the bed with a bottle of sherry, Roget’s Thesaurus and the Bible, as well as a deck of cards to play Solitaire with. She wrote on yellow legal pads and reportedly averaged 10-12 pages a day, which she then edited down to three or four pages in the evening.

She wrote about working in the sex trade to help people speak about their experiences

According to her autobiographies, Angelou worked as a prostitute and also as a madame for lesbian prostitutes.

In a 1995 interview, she explained the importance of writing about these subjects.

She said: “I wrote about my experiences because I thought too many people tell young folks, 'I never did anything wrong. Who, Moi? - never I. I have no skeletons in my closet. In fact, I have no closet.' They lie like that and then young people find themselves in situations and they think, 'Damn I must be a pretty bad guy. My mom or dad never did anything wrong.' They can’t forgive themselves and go on with their lives.”

Source: Independent

POPE BAPTISES ILLEGAL NIGERIAN MIGRANT WHO FOILED ROBBERY AT ITALIAN SHOP

John Ogah, an illegal Nigerian migrant adjudged a hero after foiling a robbery at an Italian shop, has been baptised by Pope Francis.

In September 2017, Ogah earned the admiration of many after he confronted an armed robber who had stolen some money from a supermarket located in Rome’s Centocelle neighbourhood.

Prior to that, the 31-year-old left Nigeria for Libya, in 2014, while attempting to escape a criminal gang that wanted to recruit him, according to Italian media.

He later found his way to Italy and after his request for asylum was rejected in 2016 but he decided to stay on as an undocumented migrant.

As what had become his normal routine, he was outside the supermarket begging for money when a masked thief armed with a meat cleaver tried to escape with €400 he had stolen from the supermarket’s cashiers.

But Ogah confronted him — with bare hands and wrestled him down till the police arrived the scene.

“I wouldn’t have cared if he had killed me that day, what he did was not good.” John told the BBC, adding: “The Bible says thou shalt not steal. Yes, thou shalt not steal.”

He later got three jobs offers after the incident and was able secure an Italian residency permit, with the help of the police.

As part of Easter service at the Vatican, he was baptised by the Pope alongside seven others from across the world.

Ogah described the experience to BBC as a “great surprise” to him and the “happiest” in his life.

“To be baptised by the Pope, it means a great future, a great blessing,” he was quoted to have said. “I was nobody before, but now I become somebody.

“I feel so happy right now. The Pope laid his hand on me.…and believed I am somebody.”

Source: thecable.ng