Women are incomplete without marriage — Charly Boy

Maverick artiste, Charles Oputa, who is fondly called Charly Boy, has shared his opinion on the way women are viewed in Nigeria as incomplete when they are yet to get married.

 

Area Fada, as the former PMAN president is also called, stated that the society puts pressure on women of marriageable age to settle down with a man, not minding if it would eventually work or not.

Doctors discover tapeworm in woman's brain

A woman who had been suffering from severe headaches was horrified to discover they were due to tapeworm larvae sacs growing in her brain. Yadira Rostro first started to notice bad headaches nine months ago and finally sought medical help after they continued to get worse.

Mum kills child with Down's Syndrome with hand sanitiser

A mother, Erika Wigstrom, has pleaded guilty to killing her Down’s syndrome child, 17 month old, Lucas Ruiz by injecting hand sanitiser into his feeding tube. She was sentenced to 40 years in jail yesterday. The tragic 17-month-old was born with Down's syndrome and another condition that left him with holes in his heart.

Former Senate Leader, Ndoma-Egba, dumps PDP

After six months of speculation, former Senate leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), formally resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday.

In a resignation letter dated September 14 and personally signed and addressed to the PDP chairman in his Akparabong Ward in Ikom local government area of Cross River State, Ndoma-Egba cited factors which necessitated his exit from the party on which platform he contested election and was in the Senate for 12 years.

Mentally-challenged woman gives birth on Ebute Metta Street

Yesterday, September 16th, people heard the agonizing cries of a mentally challenged woman, begging people not to let her die.

She was on the streets and in labour. Good spirited Nigerians heard her cries and helped her deliver her baby on Ayodele street in Ebute Metta around 4 am before calling the Lagos State Emergency number, who came and carried her and the baby to Lagos State Island Maternity hospital where she and the bouncing baby boy are doing well.

Oscar Pistorius cannot afford another murder trial, say his lawyers

Lawyers to Oscar Pistorius say he cannot afford another murder trial. The athlete was found guilty of culpable homicide - a similar charge to manslaughter - by a judge and was sentenced to five years in prison last year for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home on Val's Day 2013.

However, South African prosecutors have appealed the conviction  and say Pistorius should be jailed for murder. His lawyer Barry Roux filed fresh evidence to the Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday arguing the runner cannot afford a new trial - and he would be unable to get a fair hearing anyway.

Muslim boy arrested over clock that resembles bomb invited to White House

US President Barack Obama has issued a White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.

Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after his teachers reported him to the police for making a clock, which they said resembled a bomb.

The arrest prompted outrage with thousands expressing their anger at authorities for arresting a 14-year-old boy over his school project.