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Sunday, 28 October 2018 04:05

Celebrity holds mock wedding to pay Oxford University fees

A radio presenter in Uganda is to hold a mock ceremony to marry a friend on Friday - the catch is that guests have to pay to attend.That is because the wedding is a stunt to raise money for Ugandan writer Lulu Jemimah to go to Oxford University. Lulu, 32, hit the headlines recently when she "married herself" in a white dress.She says, in her mind, it is preferable to further her education rather than settle down into married life. Why did she marry herself?"As young as 21 or 22, people start asking you when you are getting married," she…

Thursday, 25 October 2018 04:49

Professor found dead, suicide suspected

A lecturer at Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Mr Frank Onyezili, has alleged committed suicide, official told our correspondent. Onyezili, who was a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences in the institution, died last Friday. Malik Abdullahi, a student of his department, who spoke with our correspondent in a telephone interview, said that the news became popular on campus on Monday. “Many of the students at the department and school generally got to know about his death on Monday. It is a painful thing because he was one of the better heads in the department,” he said.…

Tuesday, 23 October 2018 04:08

Why did this lioness kill the father of her cubs?

A lioness at a US zoo has killed the father of her three cubs in their pen - an incident experts say is shocking and unprecedented. The pair had lived in the same enclosure at Indianapolis Zoo for eight years. According to the zoo, there had never been any unusual aggression between the pair before the attack last week. BBC asked lion researchers for their theories on what could have sparked the attack. What happened? Zuri, 12, attacked Nyack, 10, and staff could not separate the pair. Nyack died of suffocation, while Zuri was uninjured. The zoo said it is…

Monday, 22 October 2018 04:06

Zoo lioness kills father of her three cubs

A lioness has killed the father of her three cubs in their pen at a zoo in the US, officials say. Zuri, 12, attacked 10-year-old Nyack and staff at Indianapolis Zoo could not separate the pair. He died of suffocation. The pair had lived in the same enclosure for eight years, and had three cubs together in 2015.In a Facebook post the zoo said staff would conduct a "thorough review" to try to find out what happened. "Nyack was a magnificent lion and he will be greatly missed," it read. Staff said they were alerted by "an unusual amount of…

Sunday, 21 October 2018 04:34

Prof’s wife delivers first child at 67

For 39 years, a Nigerian couple prayed and hoped fervently for a child of their own. The wife, 67, went from one hospital to another in Nigeria and India to have the fruit of the womb. The couple consulted doctor after doctor. They went through various tests and procedures. But they refused to give up. Yesterday, Mr Samuel Olu Otunbusin, a professor and his wife Ajibola got their hearts’ desire: a baby at last. And a boy, too. Mrs. Otunbusin delivered at Atoke Medical Centre, Abeokuta, making her the latest in a long line of women who have benefited from…

Thursday, 18 October 2018 05:26

Mother, four children die from electrocution

A mother, Asmau Shehu and her four children, Yusuf, Rabiat, Ummul, and Hadi have been electrocuted in Anguwan Sarkin Hausawa, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger state. Mr Ibrahim Husssaini, Public Relations Officer, State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), confirmed the tragedy in Minna on Wednesday. Husssaini said that Asmau and three of the children died immediately during a power surge while one of them later gave up of the ghost at General Hospital, Minna. He said that two other children, Hussana Shehu and Maryam Shehu, who sustained various degrees of injury had been receiving treatment at Minna General Hospital. The…

Wednesday, 03 October 2018 05:12

Thunder kills 23 cows in Ekiti

No fewer than 23 cows have been killed by thunder in Ekiti State. The deafening thunder was accompanied by a downpour recorded in parts of the state in last couple of days. The incident, which occurred at Okeowa Eluju, a farmstead in Iloro-Ekiti, Ijero Local Government Area of the state, caused apprehension among local residents. While confirming the incident, a Fulani herder and owner of the dead cows, Mr Abdulkadri Kadiri, said he was devastated by the development. Kadiri described the incident as a strange occurrence. “I went to farm after about six hours heavy downpour on Monday morning, only…

Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:51

Secrets from basement of France’s presidential palace shared

The French presidential wine collection holds 14,000 bottles deemed so precious, few people are allowed to enter the cellar where they are stored. The president’s chefs use 150-year-old copper pans. But the flowers displayed at the presidential palace have a shelf life of a couple of hours, lest the blooms appear past their peak freshness. These and other behind-the-scenes quirks of the Elysee Palace had a rare public airing Saturday, when the home of French presidents since 1848 opened its heavy and typically closed doors to a small, but lucky group of ordinary citizens. A few hundred people were invited…

Friday, 14 September 2018 04:16

Police arrest 2 men who kidnapped corpse for N5m ransom

One Chukwudi Chukwu, a 28-year-old man from Okwu, and Bethel Ibeh, from Ugiri Ike, both of Ikeduru Local Government Area in Imo State, who allegedly stole a female corpse from Jesus Hospital Mortuary in Ikeduru, were, yesterday, paraded at Imo Police Command headquarters alongside 29 other suspects. The suspects were said to have demanded a ransom of N5 million from manager of the mortuary, Mr Charles Nwanshi, who reported the matter to the Police before they were arrested. According to Nwanshi, “they broke into my mortuary and collected the corpse. One of them is my former staff. They asked me…

Thursday, 13 September 2018 04:39

Man climbs telecom mast to protest poor economy

A 28-year-old man, Mr Nurudeen Lliyasu, has climbed a telecommunication mast in Abuja, to protest the poor economy in the country. The man was seen on top of the mast at about noon on Wednesday at AYA, Abuja. Posters with different inscriptions were seen along the AYA road and at the foot of the mast, which read: `Another hope betrayed battered, mutilated with collapsed economy. Others include, ‘inflation and hunger is killing Nigerians’, ‘unemployment continues unabated’, and ‘Nigeria is on the precipice of collapse’ among others. Lliyasu said he would remain on the mast for the next seven days, adding…

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Saturday, 01 September 2018 03:55

Predicting Trump: Chinese turn to fortune tellers to divine trade war

As analysts crunch trade data and political commentators dissect official statements for signs of how the Sino-American trade war will develop, some ordinary Chinese are using different sources to predict U.S. President Donald Trump’s next moves: fortune tellers. Armed with photos of Trump and his date of birth, the superstitious in China are turning to the divine - from masters on cosmic energy to experts on ancient spirits - for tips on what the president has got up his sleeve in the escalating trade spat between the world’s two largest economies. The trade dispute has not only raised uncertainty over…

Tuesday, 07 August 2018 04:20

3 in 4 babies not exclusively breastfed in Nigeria

Are the mothers angry? Have Nigerian babies offended the gods or the society? Is this the apocalypse? These were some of the posers that advocates of exclusive breastfeeding sought answers to; Thursday, August 2, 2018, when experts revealed that less than 25 per cent of Nigerian children are breastfed exclusively in the first six months of life.Not only were the statistics disturbing, the latest story of the booming breast milk substitute left many who were in Abuja at the 2018 flag-off of World Breastfeeding Week with the theme: Breastfeeding; Foundation of Life, worried. They fear that the estimated 823,000 child…

Monday, 30 July 2018 03:50

Where it’s rude to be on time

Thanks to an unhurried ‘life’s a beach’ attitude, Brazilians – especially those from Rio de Janeiro – have learned neither to expect nor appreciate punctuality. I still cringe when I remember the evening I arrived on time to a house party in Rio de Janeiro.Three months after I moved to Rio from Manchester, I was invited to a Saturday night churrasco – an informal barbecue – by a casual acquaintance with whom I’d crossed paths socially enough times that a friendship had begun to develop. But when I turned up on her doorstep a couple of minutes after the time…

Saturday, 21 July 2018 04:32

Boat accident kills 17, including nine from one family

Divers on Friday recovered the last bodies from the wreckage of a "duck boat" that sank on Thursday during a storm on a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, including nine members of the same family. The World War Two-style amphibious vehicle was carrying 31 passengers including children when a storm hit Table Rock Lake outside Branson, raising waves that caused it to capsize in one of the deadliest U.S. tourist tragedies in years. More than three dozen people have died in incidents involving duck boats on land and water in the United States over the past two decades. Tia Coleman…

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