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Thursday, 15 August 2019 05:59

A teen went viral for tweeting from her family's LG smart fridge after her mom confiscated her phone

Bill Bostock * A teen went viral after she tweeted from her family smart fridge, a desperate move to stay online after her mom took away her other devices. * 15-year-old Twitter user Dorothy sent tweets using her iPhone, Nintendo Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS, but they were all confiscated. * On August 8 a tweet sent from her LG Smart Refrigerator went viral. The hashtag #FreeDorothy began circulating widely. * "I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again," Dorothy tweeted…

Monday, 12 August 2019 05:26

The dance parties where men are banned

A team behind a new night in Nairobi argues all women's dance parties can create safe nightlife spaces for women. On a warm evening in a suburb of the Kenyan capital, a residential outdoor space has been hired out to be used as a dance floor. Music is playing loudly and women are dancing. "You have to be so strict in a place with men. You just want to go out with your friends and men interfere," says Jane, 26, who's come to the party with her best friend Shani. "So having a space where it's all women immediately feels…

Saturday, 10 August 2019 04:23

Speaker calls for emergency air fresheners as farting politician shuts down parliament

A farting politician shut down a session of parliament in Kenya as members blamed each other for the offending smell. The row broke out in the Homa Bay county assembly on Wednesday after one lawmaker accused a colleague of 'polluting the air'. The MP in question denied the claims and insisted that 'I cannot do such a thing in front of my colleagues', according to Kenyan media. The speaker hurriedly ordered air fresheners to be brought to the chamber to tackle the problem. 'Get whatever flavor you will find in any office, whether it’s vanilla or strawberry,' the speaker demanded.…

Thursday, 08 August 2019 06:35

Kaduna govt insists on written guarantees from FG, Indian govt before obeying court order on El-Zakzaky

Kaduna State government has given conditions to be met by Shiites leader, Mr Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, before they would be allowed to travel to India for medical treatment. In a statement issued in Kaduna, yesterday, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, said though the state government will appeal the Kaduna High Court ruling allowing El-Zakzaky to travel to India for treatment, it will not seek a stay of execution because it believed that people should have access to treatment. Leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and his wife are facing an eight-count…

Sunday, 04 August 2019 06:16

Only 100 pairs of the designers sunglasses exist worldwide. Wife of a gov in Nigeria wore a pair to a funeral. Here it’s

Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, wife of Anambra State governor, caused a stir when she donned a pair of Gucci glasses valued at $2,755 (about N995, 932.50). Mrs Obiano wore the shades to the funeral mass of the father of CEO of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Mbosi, Ihiala, Anambra State on Friday. Mrs. Obiano’s limited-edition mask sunglasses which is laced with 1,600 multi-colour Swarovski crystals stole the show at the ceremony. The governor’s wife is one of the 100 people in the world that own the limited-edition glasses which is now sold out. Fashionable and…

Sunday, 04 August 2019 06:12

The woman who rose from refugee to president

The little girl who fled from war-torn Latvia spent more than 50 years in exile - but soon after returning she became president. Not only that, Vaira Vike-Freiberga became the first female head of a former Soviet bloc state. "My parents never let me forget that I am Latvian," she told BBC. The Baltic state was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War Two. She has vivid memories of that chaotic time, especially 1944, when Russian troops - the communist Red Army - marched back into Latvia. "I was impressed by the ones with the red…

Saturday, 03 August 2019 04:18

Shock as plane lands on busy road

Authorities say a small plane landed on a busy stretch of road in Washington state, stunning drivers but hurting no one. Washington State Patrol says the single-propeller KR2 aircraft landed Thursday on the street in the city of Parkland, south of Tacoma. Trooper Johnna Batiste says the pilot was able to land during a break in traffic after a fuel system malfunction caused the plane to stall. Video shows it stopping just before an intersection. Driver Dennis Diessner told Seattle TV station KOMO that the plane came so close to his car that he thought he could have reached out…

Friday, 02 August 2019 04:59

Woman is publicly whipped 100 times for having pre-marital sex

Rights groups have slammed public caning as cruel, and Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has called for it to end, but the practice has wide support among Aceh's population Sharia law in Banda Aceh: Public lashings in Indonesia Aceh is the only province in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, which implements Islamic law, or Sharia. Last year, two gay men who admitted having sex were flogged in Aceh, with each receiving 100 strokes of the cane, drawing heavy criticism from rights groups. Gay sex is not illegal in the rest of Indonesia, which mainly follows a criminal code inherited…

Tuesday, 30 July 2019 03:44

Man chews snake to pieces in revenge after it bit him

An Indian man was bitten by a snake at his home in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday He sought revenge on the reptile and killed the snake by chewing it into pieces The incident comes two days after Indian man suffered heart attack & died after snake coiled itself around him An Indian man who was bitten by a snake got his revenge on the reptile by biting it back and killing it, the man's father said today. The man, Raj Kumar, was relaxing at home, enjoying a drink on Sunday, when a snake slithered into his house in the northern…

Sunday, 28 July 2019 05:10

This university dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself

Doug Lindsay was 21 and starting his senior year at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri, when his world imploded. After his first day of classes, the biology major collapsed at home on the dining room table, the room spinning around him. It was 1999. The symptoms soon became intense and untreatable. His heart would race, he felt weak and he frequently got dizzy. Lindsay could walk only about 50 feet at a time and couldn't stand for more than a few minutes. "Even lying on the floor didn't feel like it was low enough," he said.…

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Sunday, 28 July 2019 05:08

Judge orders man’s mouth taped for interrupting him during court proceedings

Court logs show a Louisiana district court judge ordered a man’s mouth be taped shut for repeatedly interrupting proceedings. The Acadiana Advocate reports Michael C. Duhon was being sentenced July 18 for theft and money laundering. Court minutes show Duhon objected when Judge Marilyn Castle asked him to stop submitting motions on his own behalf instead of through his attorney. After repeatedly requesting for Duhon to be quiet, Castle ordered the bailiff to tape Duhon’s mouth shut. The tape was removed after an objection from Duhon’s public defense attorney, Aaron Adams, who requested the judge remove his client from the…

Friday, 26 July 2019 05:33

You’re handsome, female senator says of Buhari’s ministerial nominee

Senator representing Anambra Central, Mrs Uche Ekwunife, during the ministerial screening at Senate on Thursday asked a nominee, Mr Abdullahi Hassan of Nasarawa State, what he would do as Minister of Women Affairs. Ekwunife, amid chuckles from her colleagues, asked Hassan what he would do if President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him to lead the women affairs. She said, “Looking at you, a young handsome guy from Nasarawa State, we are in a world of innovation today in the way we do things to proffer solutions, in the way we even handle our phones. Now, as a nominee, you don’t know…

Thursday, 25 July 2019 06:24

Boris Johnson's first task as prime minister was to write this terrifying letter

• Boris Johnson won a landslide in the UK's Conservative Party leadership election Tuesday • Johnson took office will as prime minister Wednesday, and one of the first tasks he will have to fulfill will be among the most scary. • Upon taking office, every new prime minister must write a letter to the Royal Navy, telling the commander of its nuclear submarine fleet what to do in the event that the entirety of the UK government is killed by a nuclear weapon. • Johnson will have to decide whether he wants the UK to retaliate to any nuclear strike,…

Tuesday, 23 July 2019 04:48

Junior Air Force man returns N15.5m cash found in Kano market

An Aircraftman of Nigerian Air Force, Mr Bashir Umar, has returned the sum of €37,000 (about N15.54m) found in a parcel at Hajj Camp Market in Kano State to the owner. Umar, who is a member of NAF Mobile Air Defence Team deployed for airport security duties, found the parcel on last Tuesday during a routine patrol with some of his colleagues, according to the air force in a statement on Sunday. The Aircraftman, however, returned the money, which was said to belong to one Mr Ahmad, after calling a phone number he found on the parcel. NAF Director of…

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