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Nigerian author and founder of Genevieve Magazine, Betty Irabor, has courageously shared her personal struggle with depression and a near-suicide attempt in a recent tweet.
She revealed that years ago, she tried to end her life due to the overwhelming pain of depression, but deep down, she was still hoping someone would intervene and save her.
Fortunately, with the help of nine psychiatrists, supportive family and friends, and her own determination to live, she was able to overcome her struggles and regain her will to live.
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Police operatives in Kano State have arrested one Shafi’u Abubakar, 38, who allegedly set a mosque abl@ze and tr@pped worshipers inside the building at Laraba Abasawa in Gezawa LGA of the state.
It was gathered that about 40 worshippers were praying when Shafi’u used petrol to ignite the fire, tr@pping them inside the mosque by locking the door of the building to prevent them from escaping the inferno.
The att@ck which occurred on Wednesday morning, May 15, left 24 persons with different degrees of b¥rns.
The rescued victims were later rushed to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano, where they were receiving treatment.
The State’s Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Haruna Kiyawa, in a statement on Wednesday, said Shafi’u willingly submitted himself to the Police after committing the act.
According to the statement, “The principal suspect has been identified and arrested, he is Shafi’u Abubakar aged 38 years who said his action was purely in hostility following prolonged family disagreement over sharing of inheritance of which those that he alleged to have ch£ated on him were in the mosque at that moment and he did that for his voice to be heard.”
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A philanthropic man has expressed his sadness about a destitute woman whom he helped take off the streets, after she returned back to start begging.
According to him, he and some Good Samaritans raised some money 5 months ago to open a business for her after she was discovered begging on the streets with her child, only for her to return back to a different location and continue begging for alms.
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An important deadline has been extended for borrowers with older federal student loans who might be eligible to have them forgiven.Borrowers with Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL) not held by the federal government now have until June 30, 2024, to consolidate their student debt into federal loans in order to take advantage of a program that gives borrowers extra credit toward having forgiveness. Borrowers previously faced a deadline of April 30 to consolidate those loans to gain eligibility for a one-time account adjustment scheduled to take effect in September.The adjustment will change the payment counts for borrowers to have their loans forgiven under income-driven repayment plans, which forgive the remaining balances of borrowers after they make regular payments for 20 or 25 years. The adjustment will also apply to people eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which forgives the loans of people who have worked for government or nonprofit organizations for 10 years.The payment adjustment will add credit for payments that previously didn’t count, including time spent in deferment for military service, economic hardship, or for payments made on repayment plans that were previously ineligible among other circumstances. The adjustment is also meant to correct for past errors by the companies that administer student loans on behalf of the government, and has resulted in $49.2 billion in forgiveness for more than 996,000 borrowers so far, the department said.
Crucially, the adjustment applies to borrowers whether or not they are currently enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan, meaning that some people who have had student loans for a long time could get their loans canceled even if they previously weren’t on track for forgiveness.
“FFEL borrowers should consolidate as soon as possible in order to receive this benefit that has already provided forgiveness to nearly 1 million borrowers,” U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal said in a press release.
FFEL loans are a type of federal student loan, no longer given out, which can be held either by the government or by a private lender. Privately held loans must be combined into federal loans to qualify for the payment count adjustment.
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