Ijeomah Chinonso

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR NIGERIA...WE HAVE REALLY GONE A LONG WAY AND STOPING HERE WOULD BE A TRAGEDY TOO HARD TO BEHOLD...I KNOW THE JOURNEY HAS NOT BEEN SO MUCH OF A BED OF ROSES WITH THE UPs AND DOWN,BUT STILL WE ARE STILL INLOVE EVEN WHEN SO MANY HATERS TRY ENDING OUR JOY BUT WE STILL PESIST....AM SO SO SURE OF THE FACT THAT WE WILL MAKE IT EVEN IF I YET DON'T SEE ANY LIGHT IN THIS ENDLESS TURNEL OF 52 YEARS,I JUST SO BELIEVE WE WILL GET TO THE END OF THESE LONG OVERDUE SORROWS NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES...... AND WE WOULD LOOK BACK WITH SMILES ON OUR FACE AND SCREAM OUT 'WE MADE IT!' .GOD BLESS NIGERIA,GOD BLESS NIGERIANS,GOD BLESS LINDA,GOD BLESS ME. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION NIGERIA

A young girl in India badly burned as a toddler, her fingers had fused together and curled into a knotted ball. Her shepherd family could not afford surgery, but they had heard of a remarkable young boy being called the child surgeon. Akrit Jaswal was only seven years old when he operated, successfully, on the eight year old girl to release her fingers. Akrit Jaswal had a reputation, in the region, for being a medical genius. He has been shown to have an I.Q. of 146, the highest I.Q. of any boy his age in India, a country of over one billion people. He has focussed this phenomenal intelligence on medicine and now, at the age of twelve, claims to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer. An early developer, Akrit was walking and talking by the time he was 10 months old. He was reading and writing by two, and reading Shakespeare, in English, by the time he was five, and is now talking about his theories for oral gene therapy in the fight against cancer. He has been sponsored and ...

Budhia Singh lives in Orissa, India where a third of the population live in slums and the state has the highest child mortality rate in India. Since the age of three Budhia has been running 20 miles a day and is currently preparing to run a half marathon, his fifth in seven weeks. Is Budhia's story an account of exceptional child talent or a darker tale of child exploitation. His coach Biranchi Das, a local judo instructor, aims to train Budhia to become India's greatest marathon runner who will go on to win Olympic glory. His training regime begins at 4 o'clock in the morning in a typical blazing, misty dawn in Orissa. His mother who worked as a maid for £3 a month has four children, of whom Budhia is the youngest. She was unable to feed and clothe them so took the heartbreaking decision to sell Budhia to a travelling peddler for £10. The peddler was a drunk who would beat the boy regularly. When Biranchi found him he was naked, wounded, and seriously underfed. Budhia'...