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Some married women in Imo State recently protested in Owerri against female students in tertiary institutions whom they accused of using “indecent dressing and big buttocks” to snatch their husbands. The protest is captured in a clip that is circulating on Facebook and Instagram Women, over ten of them, could be seen in the clip marching across female hostels, warning the female students to desist from wearing indecent dress or be ready to face punishment. PREMIUM TIMES could not confirm the exact date of the protest, but people said it must have happened on Friday. The protesting women said women…
A couple in the Indian state of Uttarakhand has taken their son to court, asking him to either pay back the $650,000 they claim to have invested in him or give them a grandchild within a year. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad filed a highly unusual lawsuit against their own son on the grounds of “mental harassment”. They claim to have invested substantial sums of money into his education and professional training over the years, helped him financially when he couldn’t find a job, and arranged and paid for his wedding in 2016. In return, they were expecting a “grandchild to…
The woman was involved in a 'friends with benefits' relationship with a man She wanted more from the relationship and sabotaged her condom supply The woman told the man that she had nobbled the condoms and was pregnant He reported her to the authorities who convicted her of of sexual assault A German woman has been jailed for six months after she was convicted of stealing her partner's sperm by poking holes in his condoms. The woman, who wished to become pregnant, sabotaged her partner's condoms without his permission so she could harvest his genetic material. The court in western…
Walter Orthmann, a 100-year-old man from Brazil has been working for the same company since 1938, which officially makes his career worthy of the Guinness Book of Records. Orthman began working for Industrias Renaux S.A., a textile company in Brusque, on January 17, 1938, when he was only 15-years-old. He began as an assistant in the shipping department, but over the years, he was promoted to administrative assistant and, eventually, sales manager. During his 84-year-long career, Walter went on sales trips all over the world, received his paycheck in nine different currency denominations, and used nearly every commercial airline in…
Imagine going from having nothing to your name to winning over a quarter of a million dollars only to be unable to claim it due to a lack of ID. That’s exactly the problem an Algerian undocumented immigrant in Belgium is facing right now. A few days ago, the lottery winner, whose name has not been disclosed for obvious reasons, went into a shop in Zeebrugge, a Belgian port city and popular transit point for migrants and refugees, and bought a lottery scratchcard. He paid 5 euros for it and ended up winning a whopping 250,000 euros ($270,000). He was…
Taylor A. Humphrey, a 33-year-old woman from New York, works as a professional baby namer, charging people thousands of dollars for helping them pick out the perfect names for their offspring. It’s hard to believe that someone could make a living helping expecting parents select a suitable name for their child, but Taylor A. Humphrey is living proof that it can be done. She has been a full-time baby namer for years, charging clients between $1,500 and $10,000 for providing suitable baby names based on a variety of factors. Her services range from a simple phone call and a list…
An unnamed 61-year-old man in German reportedly got 90 doses of Covid-19 vaccine injected into his body so he could make money selling vaccination certificates to people who didn’t want to get vaccinated. The man from the eastern German city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released, allegedly managed to receive up to 90 shots of Covid-19 vaccine at various vaccination centers in the eastern state of Saxony for months, before being caught earlier this month. He was finally discovered when he came to a vaccination center in Eilenburg, Saxony for the second day in a row, asking to get…
Food technology company Primeval Foods plans to launch an entire menagerie of exotic meats that didn’t actually come from animals, including lion burgers, tiger nuggets or giraffe ham. As the meat-alternatives market becomes increasingly competitive, food tech companies are coming up with new and ingenious ways of making their products stand out. Primeval Foods, a London-based startup specializing in cellular agriculture, plans to start selling exotic meats cultivated in a laboratory. And we’re not talking expensive and hard-to-come-by beef either, but the types of meat most people never even imagined were edible, like lion or tiger meat. No animals are…
A Lagos-Ibadan train, on Thursday, stopped abruptly after “running out of diesel”. According to a Twitter user, King Isaiah Obadore, who was reportedly on the train, the crew members said the train stopped moving because it had exhausted diesel. “Boarded Train from Ibadan to Lagos. We’re still stuck in the forest with unknown Chinese Men,” Obadore said. “They said fuel finished. What a beautiful country, Nigeria.” In a trending video, another passenger was seen commenting about the situation while some passengers were seen hanging around the train. When contacted, Mahmood Yakubu, spokesperson of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), said he…
A Florida man, who was pulled over for speeding last week, attempted to place blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin during the traffic stop, authorities said. The unidentified driver was pulled over by a Flagler County deputy in Palm Coast last Thursday for allegedly running a stop sign and going 50 mph in a 30 mph zone, the deputy said in bodycam footage released by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday. According to the footage, the man gave the deputy a myriad of reasons as to why he was spending, including that he had just got the car and…
February 17, 2025

Naira depreciation pushes Nigerian Breweries into highest annual loss ever

The local unit of Heineken NV, Nigerian Breweries, continued its FX-induced lossmaking for the second…
February 16, 2025

With Tinubu’s glaring failures, only self-interest makes politicians defect to APC - Tambuwal

Aminu Tambuwal, a former Sokoto State governor and currently a senator, has condemned the recent…
February 17, 2025

‘Harsh truths’ that can help you build wealth, says financial psychologist

For much of my twenties, while earning a modest journalist’s salary in pricey Washington, D.C.,…
February 15, 2025

Company offers free drinks and hangover leave to attract new workers

Unable to offer attractive wages, a Japanese tech company has been trying to attract new…
February 16, 2025

Coalition reports widespread killings in parts of Benue state

The Coalition of Sankera Elites (CSE) has reported widespread violence in Benue state's Sankera region,…
February 17, 2025

What to know after Day 1089 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine must pay Americans back – top Trump aide Washington expects Kiev to…
February 12, 2025

2 uses of AI in healthcare that may be reducing the burden on doctors

Renee Onque Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, there has been a…
January 08, 2025

NFF appoints new Super Eagles head coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Éric Sékou Chelle as the new Head Coach…

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