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Carrie Kosinski of Racine, Wisconsin and her husband, Craig Kosinski had always wanted a huge family because Carrie herself was adopted and she imagined she would have her own kids and adopt as well. She said: “I grew up in a big family. Growing up, I had always wanted, like, 18 children was my number”. “I had been seeing a doctor and they said it was going to be very difficult for us to get pregnant on our own.”                                                                                                                                         Read more »  Follow @cool_jist

Journalist, Emeka Anuforo, posted these photos he took at Gongolog/Old Maiduguri village in Borno State over the weekend. According to him, one bag costs N3000 and these ones are headed to Umuahia. The farmers are supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO.                                                                                                                         Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Angry fans of Kano Pillars attacked players and officials of Akwa Ibom Football Club of Uyo after the match played at the Sani Abacha Stadium on Sunday, April 9th. Akwa United dominated the match with better tactical play and at the end of end beat hosts Kano Pillars 1-0 on the match day 18 of the Nigerian Professional Football League. However, some home fans were not happy with the game's outcome.                                                                                                                                                            Read more » Follow @cool_jist ...

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  today arraigned Patrick Shanchi Nwokike, Managing Director of a wonder bank, ‘Let’s Partner With You’ alongside his wife, Rosemary Ifeoma Nwokike, before Justice Dugbo Aghoghorie of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, Enugu State on a 10-count charge bordering on Advanced Fee Fraud and carrying out banking business without valid License.                                                                   Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Celebrity English Chef, Gordon Ramsay was born in Scotland to a 'violent alcoholic father', Gordon Senior, who worked as a newsagent, swimming instructor and welder, and Helen, a nurse. He had to earn every penny of his £113million fortune. He has disclosed his children won't get their hands on all that money because he fears it will ruin them. He has rather instilled in them the work ethic that made him the man he is today. Follow @cool_jist

Caitlyn Jenner, 67, who was married 3 times and has 6 children and some Grandchildren, revealed in her upcoming memoir that she has undergone gender reassignment surgery. She revealed that the surgery was done in January of this year, almost two years after she revealed her decision to transition into a woman.                                                                                               Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Stephen Belafonte's brother blamed the failure of his marriage to Mel B on 'a very fun loose open kind of relationship' and now a stripper claims they really did have an open relationship. Siara Dianda, 32, has come forward to claim she had a threesome with the couple. Speaking to Sunday Mirror she said the night had been 'wild', before noting that she felt Mel, had been 'the boss' in their relationship.                                                                                                                                                  Read more » Follow @cool_jist

One of the executives at Spotify, 41 year old British National, Chris Bevington, was among the victims killed in Friday’s truck attack in Stockholm. The founder of the streaming service, Daniel Ek, confirmed the incident with a Facebook post on Sunday.                                                                                                  Read more » Follow @cool_jist

No fewer than 37 Egyptian christians have been confirmed dead with 100 others seriously injured in two bomb attacks at Coptic Christian churches in Egypt Sunday morning. The first blast happened at St. George church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, where at least 26 people were killed and 71 others wounde                                                                                                                                       Read more » Follow @cool_jist

A 43-year-old father killed his 22-year-old man after they shot each other during an argument over who would walk their dog. The men argued over the pet before drawing weapons at each other and shooting each other in the Burnside area of Chicago on Sunday (house pictured).                                                                                                                                                                   Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Four people were killed in a fire which broke out at an Oakland apartment building in 2551 San Pablo Ave, Oakland on Monday, March 27th. Four others were taken to the hospital for treatment, including two children. One of the victims has been identified as a 36-year-old Nigerian man, who stayed in Room 223. The coroner said his name is not being released until the victim's family is notified.                                                                                                                                                Read more » Follow @cool_jist

A disgruntled former gym employee and trainer, Abeku Wilson, 33, shot two of his former co-workers in an Equinox gym, located in a highbrow Florida mall, before turning the gun on himself inside the Equinox Fitness Club in Coral Gables on Saturday afternoon.                                                                                       Read more » Follow @cool_jist

SaharaReporters has obtained new evidence that Apostle Johnson Suleman, the leader of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, made several monetary deposits into the Nigerian account of Stephanie Otobo, the Canada-based Nigerian musician who was arrested by the police in Lagos in cooperation with the pastor.                                                                                                                             Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Bolarinde Damilola who won the Face of Amber pageant two years ago, has called out the organizers of the beauty competition for never fulfilling their promise to her. In  a post she shared on IG, Bolarinde who is set to hand over to another queen today, alleged that she was promised a trip to California, a car, modeling contracts and more but she never got them. According to her, she only received N10,000 from the organizers.                                                     Read her post here » Follow @cool_jist

Last week, Facebook user, Ikenna Adol Madu, shared a post and photos on his page, which claimed that a male and a female corps member were attacked by some locals who accused them of committing fornication in their compound in Sabuwa Unguwa, Kofar Kaura in Katsina Local Government Area of the state. Madu in his post, alleged that the indigenes of the community, attacked the corp members for living in the same accommodation without being married. He also alleged that the locals chopped off the thumb of the female corp member and caused a bi gash on the head of the male corper.                                                                                    Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Earlier today, two female suicide bombers were killed while attempting to forcefully gain entrance into a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno state.                                                                       More photos» Follow @cool_jist

Rapper, Bobby Shmurda, who is already serving 7 years for his murder conspiracy conviction, appeared in court with his attorney, Paul London Friday April 7, 2017 and pled guilty to the crime of attempting to promote prison contraband. The good news for the rapper is that the new 4 years sentence will run concurrently with his 7 year sentence. Bobby has been in jail since December 2014. Follow @cool_jist

Janet Jackson has split from her multi-millionaire husband, Qatari business Tycoon, Wissam Al Mana, just months after giving birth to her first child at the age of 50, Daily Mail reports. Janet Jackson wed her husband in 2012 in a glamourous, but quiet wedding and in Jan 2017, their first child, Eissa, a son, was born.                                                                                                          Read more » Follow @cool_jist

US President, Donald Trump, in a tweet, congratulated men and women of the United States military over the recent attack on Syria. Even though the attack has been met with mixed reactions of glee and criticism, Trump nevertheless sees it as victory for his administration. He also joked that the airfield the US attacked could be easily fixed.                                                                                                                                             Read his tweets  »                               ...

Perhaps the most outlandish thing I have heard this year, other than the fact that one set of President Buhari's aides told us he was not sick while another set simultaneously asked us to pray for his recovery, is the claim by the All Progressive Congress governor of    Zamfara state that the outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria is as a result of our sins.  His exact words were as follows                                                                                                                                                                       ...