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An American girl that speaks Yoruba fluently and even choose to be called a Yoruba name Titilayo. She went to the market in Nigeria and spoke the language to the locals around there. People were amazed to see a white girl who is not based in Nigeria speaking the local language so fluently. Watch video below Source:  Information Nigeria

A corps member, Emmanuel Oyelara serving in Ohaozara Local government area of the state was weekend, stabbed in his left eye by one of his girl friends for allegedly having an affair with another lady within the area of his place of primary assignment. Oyelara who is now lying in a critical condition at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, because of the injuries he sustained might never see again as it was reported that before the unfortunate incident his right eye were already defective. It was gathered that a fight broke-out when one Happiness and Maria, whom the "lover boy” Corps member was said to have been dating, eventually met in his house on the faithful day. Investigation revealed that the fight was the fourth time the ladies were fighting in Corper Oyelara’s house over who would take over the “lover boy” corps member. It was learnt that Happiness who hailed from Umuchima in Uburu town of the LGA, havi...

The human body is an incredibly complex and intricate system and it still baffles researchers regularly despite thousands of years of medical knowledge.   As a result, it shouldn't be a surprise that even body parts we deal with everyday have unexpected facts and explanations behind them.  Here are 40 wacky facts about the human body 1. The brain is more active at night than during the day. Scientists don't know yet why this is. 2. The higher your IQ, the more you dream. 3. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. 4. The nail on the middle finger grows faster than the other fingernails. 5. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails. 6. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. 7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve zinc. It doesn't destroy the stomach because the stomach walls constantly renews itself. 8. Women's hearts beat faster than men's. 9. Women blink twice as man...

Residents of Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront in Yaba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, will soon begin to enjoy the luxury of a floating school jointly built by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP and NLE Works, Nigeria. The three storey floating building is part of the regeneration plan for the coastal community. According to the builders the construction of the school is aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, Goal II, which is to boost universal primary education. This came barely eight months after the Lagos State government demolished hundreds of ‘illegal structures in the area. The residents of the community anticipate that many of their children will now have access to sound education. The new primary school named ‘Makoko floating School’, was built on a foundation of 256 plastic drums and powered by solar panels suspended on the roof. Investigation further revealed that, many residents are praying that the design will be approved by govern...

Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered a manhunt for the killers of 12 policemen, who were murdered in Bayelsa State last Friday. Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta had claimed that its fighters killed the policemen, whose boat was ambushed in Azuzama, Southern Ijaw. The group said the deaths were to teach the security forces a lesson for scorning its warning. The militant group had last week announced that it would resume attacks on the oil rich Niger Delta by Friday to avenge alleged collaboration between the Federal Government and South Africa to jail its former leader, Henry Okah. But Police commissioner in Bayelsa, Kingsley Omire, said the killing of his men had nothing to do with MEND’s threat, noting that  the policemen were only missing and their whereabouts were still a subject of intense search. Omire had blamed the fate of the policemen on a dispute between the gunmen and the government over their amnesty payments. T...

Emotion ran high, yesterday, when practitioners in the movie industry gathered to pay their last respect to Justus Esiri, who died on the February 17.   The event was a candle light procession in honour, which took place at Ojez at the National Stadium complex, Surulere. In attendance were some of the prominent nollywood stars, Ini Edo, Rita Dominic, Kate Henshaw, Segun Arinze, Olu Jacobs and his wife, Joke Silver, Julius Agwu, Oke Bakassi, Fidelis Duke, Ernest Obi, Ifeanyi Dike, amongst others. Paying tribute to late Esiri, AGN President, Ibinabo Fiberesima, who was represented at the occasion by Ini Edo said: “Late Esiri lived a fulfilled life,” adding that Esiri made AGN what it is today and he wanted a positive change for the industry which of course was achieved before his death. Speaking on behalf of the bereaved family, pop singer and second son of the deceased, Dr. Sid, described his father as a perfectionist and enigma of sort. According to him, there...

Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Dan Orbih, on Monday, called for Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s removal over alleged perjury. Obih, at a press briefing in Benin City claimed the governor swore to an affidavit in May 2012, indicating that he was born April 4, 1952. Committee of Friends of Governor Oshiomhole last week Thursday, organised a lecture to mark the governor’s 60th birthday. This, according to Orbih, portrays Oshiomhole as lying on oath. But Special Adviser (Media) to the governor, Kassim Afegbua, in a reaction labeled the PDP leaders in the state as jobless. Orbih said, “The governor said that he was born April 4, 1953. Even last year here, he celebrated 59 years and since he was sworn into office, he has consistently maintained that he was born April 4, 1953. “If you go to the official website of Edo State, you will see it clearly; it is on Wikipedia, but on Monday (April 4), fellow governors were celebrating him on the...

A joint team of the Nigerian Army and Navy on Monday uncovered 23 illegal bunkering sites in Anambra State and impounded equipment worth over N500m.   General Officer Commanding, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Adebayo Olaniyi, said illegal bunkering amounted to economic sabotage. He promised that the Army and other security agencies would work at ending it. “I am short of words because what I saw here is very alarming and I make bold to say that this is at variance with the developmental agenda of Mr. President because where illegal bunkerers continue to sabotage our economy, it is very bad. “We are going to take over the equipment, hand them over to the NSCDC after which both the equipments and the products will be destroyed,” he said. The GOC added that the Chiefs of Army and Naval Staff had concluded plans to increase surveillance on Nigerian waterways to reduce illegal oil bunkering in the country as well as increase security of lives and property. ...

Malaysia - A Nigerian, caught at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with a stash of drugs in his stomach, pleaded guilty to having 389.8gm of methamphetamine and slapped with 18 years jail by the High Court here. Francis Ikenna Nwannochie, 27, was also ordered to be given 10 strokes of the cane by Justice Datuk Abdul Alim Abdullah after he pleaded guilty to drug possession at the Customs inspection counter at the KLIA arrival hall in Sepang between 11pm on Feb 29, 2012 and 6.55pm on March 2, 2012. The judge, who ordered Nwannochie's jail term to run effective from the date of arrest, said the latter was lucky to get away with an alternative charge of drug possession instead of the initial drug trafficking charge that carried the death sentence upon conviction. According to the facts of the case, Nwannochie was detained on Feb 29, 2012 when Customs authorities noticed him walking in a suspicious manner. On March 1, 2012, he was brought to the Serdang Hospital...

Ritual killers on Monday struck in Jos, killing and removing the eyes and tongue of a young lady in Twanchit Village at Tudun Wada in the Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau. The police in Jos confirmed the incident but said they had no details yet. Residents who woke up to the ugly sight, said that the crime took place around 1:00 a.m. and that the victim could not be identified. They said, however, that the area had a lot of drinking spots that operated late into the night and that the assailants could have hidden under that to carryout the crime. The corpse had no visible mark or injury an indication that the assailants had strangled her before plucking out her eyes and tongue. The corpse, dumped by the riverside was neatly dressed in a blue jean trousers and T-shirt at the time of discovery before security operatives took it away at about 8:45 a.m. The murder threw Twanchit residents into pensive mood as most of the people who trooped to the scene to see th...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- A Nigerian man was arrested just after his arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) during a special operation, and drugs worth RM300,000 (N 15,442,771 ) were seized. The success came after police traced him at the airport on Sunday. Federal Narcotics director, Comm Datuk Nor Rashid Ibrahim, said the arrest occured at 7.30pm. The police arrested a 42-year-old Nigerian man who flew in from Cairo. Police checked his bags and found 1.5kg of Syabu  [Methamphetamine] ,  worth RM300,000 (N15,442,771), in a specially modified compartment. "He has been remanded until Sunday to facilitate police in their investigation," Federal Narcotics director added at a press conference. Source:  the star

Soldiers, yesterday, laid siege to Okpara community in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State and allegedly killed two persons, including Phillip Ekeh, who won silver medal for Delta State at the last National Sports Festival, held in Lagos. It was gathered that eight other persons were injured in the raid said to have been carried out by the Joint Military Task Force. There was confusion in the community because of the incident, but it was not clear why soldiers invaded the community. A source, however, hinted that youths purportedly killed two soldiers, last Friday, and the JTF was in search of the killers. However, Vanguard could not corroborate the information on alleged killing of soldiers from military sources, yesterday. The Ekeh family and sympathizers marched to the Ethiope East Local Government Council, yesterday, to protest the killing of the sportsman. Speaking to reporters at Isiokolo after the protest, elder brother of one of the deceased person...

This past weekend, a white woman, a citizen of the United States of American who married a native of Abia state was kidnapped and killed in Onicha Ngwa, Obingwa LGA of the state. Following the incident, soldiers were said to have stormed the area, arrested some of those directly or indirectly involved in the abduction and death of the woman and set buildings believed to belong to the hoodlums and other criminals on fire. Daily Sun gathered that the woman who came to Nigeria on vacation, was travelling in company with the children to see the husband’s relatives when on getting to a point in a community in Obingwa Local Government, the vehicle they were riding in was attacked by hoodlums who killed her driver and abducted her. The kidnappers took the woman to their hideout from where they made a demand of N25 million ransom. Soldiers were alerted to the incident and traced the hideout of the criminals to Onicha Ngwa where they made some arrests including a woman simply identi...

A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20 passengers, an official and a hospital source said. The bus had set off from Nigeria’s second city of Kano and was headed to Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state. Potiskum has been attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram Islamists, and the insurgency has forced state officials to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in several areas. The bus was reportedly speeding towards the city in order to beat the curfew when it crashed at roughly 5:00 pm (1600 GMT). “A commercial bus carrying 22 passengers ran into a stationary truck” just outside Potiskum, said Sani Umar, an official with the state drivers union, noting that the vehicle was intended to carry just 17 people. “The truck somersaulted several times on impact. We evacuated 20 dead bodies from the bus, with two seriously injured,” he added. He described speeding as the “likely cause,” as drivers typically increas...

The security and intelligence community chiefs that talked about the vigilance that prevented the planned attack of Lagos three weeks ago failed to disclose to the public the magnitude of weapons the masterminds of the terror act had deployed for the failed operation and the main target. At the weekend from the authorities concerned that apart from the deadly weapons uncovered, the arrested attackers’ main target was the strategic Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. According to revelations at the weekend, the attackers surreptitiously conveyed the weapons to Lagos inside some of the numerous fuel tankers that ply major roads to Nigeria’s former capital and indeed Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre. At the weekend that indeed the Federal and Lagos State authorities were quite startled that the masterminds of the planned terror act could pile up weapons of mass destruction in Lagos, generally considered the safest haven for investment at the moment in Nigeria. It was lear...