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Men spend hours obsessing about grooming the hair on their head but tend to ignore their pubic hair. It is only when they are going to have s£x that they begin to groom their privates. The fact remains that ungroomed privates are not only a complete turn off, but are also unhygienic. Here are five reasons why men should groom their privates. Cleanliness Heat, sweat and bacteria form around the crotch and remain there for a long time if it gets entangled in the pubic hair. Trimming or shaving it off will help keep that area clean and free from any unwanted infections.

Kim Jong-Un is forcing all male students in North Korea to get the same haircut as his own. About two weeks ago, the government announced that the only haircut allowed would be the Dear Leader haircut favoured by Kim Jong-Un. Taking the ‘short back and sides’ to the extreme, the Dear Leader is a shaved undercut and floppy curtains. The hairstyle, popular among western-boybands in the mid-1990s and certain male stars of British reality TV-show The Only Way Is Essex, is less favoured in North Korea.  

Some Nigerian celebrities like to put on display the luxurious life they are living by showing off expensive cars, sophisticated mansions and endless jewelry collections. Popular "Skelewu" performer, Davido, took to his Instagram page to show the pack of American dollars in his possession. The photo went under the caption "Rich nigga face!!!"

The Senate has confirmed Godwin Emefiele as the next Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Mr. Emefiele will resume in June when the tenure of the suspended Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, expires. The Senate’s confirmation of Mr. Emefiele on Wednesday follows his nomination by President Goodluck Jonathan in February. The president nominated Mr. Emefiele, current Managing Director of Zenith Bank, as the new CBN boss hours after suspending Mr. Sanusi in February. Mr. Sanusi was suspended for alleged financial recklessness although many believe his suspension is due to his exposure of corruption in the petroleum industry. Below is Mr. Emefiele’s profile as published on Zenith Bank’s website.

Owerri – The Imo House Assembly on Wednesday denied hatching any plot to impeach the Speaker, Dr Benjamin Uwajumogu. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Dr Acho Ihim told newsmen in the premises of the assembly in Owerri that the claims were “false, malicious and unfounded”. According to him, the speaker has not contravened any law to warrant his impeachment.   Ihim accused some politicians and a section of the media of spreading the rumour to “witch-hunt and tarnish the image of the House”. “It should be noted that the impeachment speculations only exist in the wildest and skewed imaginations if their sponsors.  

ABUJA- THERE was a mild drama Wednesday at the venue of the on- going National Conference, when a traditional ruler, the Lamido of Adamawa, His Royal Highness, Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha told his fellow delegates that he was prepared to secede from the present Nigeria if the country disintegrates. According to him, if Nigeria breaks, some people in the country would have no where to run to, but for him and his people in Adamawa Kingdom, they would pack their luggage and whatever they have and join their kith and kin in thr Republic of Cameroun The Lamido of Adamawa who is one of the thirteen persons and number three on the list of traditional rulers representing the group tagged, National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria Traditional Rulers Council of Nigeria, also said before the very eyes of other 491 delegates, 6 officers of the Conference and Journalists that he was also ready to lead his people on a walk-out from the conference.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State spent $10 million over a twenty-five trips or 600 hours of service. The governor hired a private jet, a Canadian Challenger 604 from Swiss-based Vista jet, an investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed. Mr. Akpabio paid the sum to the jet charter company owned in part by Kola Aluko. Mr. Aluko is known to be quite close to Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and has been described as one of a few fronts for the minister’s extensive money laundering schemes.

A further 122 objects potentially from the missing Malaysian plane have been identified by satellite, the country's acting transport minister has said. The images, taken on 23 March, showed objects up to 23m (75ft) in length, Hishammuddin Hussein said. All aircraft taking part in Wednesday's search have now left the area without identifying debris from the plane. Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board.

I'm beginning to look at this guy in a different type of way. He was cute before but he's beginning to look like a hunk now. Who agrees with me? 

Lol! Olamide is really mad at popular blogger Linda Ikeji, after she reported on her blog that Olamide’s girlfriend Aisha Suleiman is pregnant. Well, I guess the story is false cos Olamide denied the story to the extent that he seriously insulted Linda Ikeji, he even called her “Oloshi”, claiming she never supported him or his music but only to write false news about him. Less I forget, Wizkid also joined in the conversation too referring to Linda has Oloshi too. See tweets below…

Say what, big monster?! Lady Gaga has complete control on stage and on camera, but back home she's willing to let her man take charge. The "Applause" singer admitted during a radio interview on Sirius XM's The Morning Mash Up on Monday, March 24 that she's submissive to boyfriend Taylor Kinney. "Yes, actually," the 27-year-old Grammy winner said. "He's totally in charge. I mean, when I am home, I am like, shoes are off, I'm making him dinner. He has a job, too, and he is really busy!" "I'm in charge all day long, the last thing I want to do is tell him what to do," she explained. "It's not good for relationships to tell men what to do."  Gaga and the Chicago Fire hunk, 32, have been dating since first meeting on set of her 2011 "You and I" music video, where he in fact made the first move.

According to  DAILY TRUST ,Okorocha through his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, described reports about his intention to leave APC as false.  The governor said there is nothing that would make him abandon a vibrant party like APC having been one of the leading lights in the information of APC and what it is today. "The truth of the matter is that I cannot leave APC for any reason with a lot of people across the nation looking up to me in APC. He blamed the opposition for the rumor saying they were envious of his achievements. 

IBADAN— Barely four days after the discovery of mysterious forest where over 19 human skulls were found in Ibadan, another horror was discovered in the ancient city, yesterday. A man, who feigned lunacy, was allegedly caught with human tongue, gun and cutlass around the popular Ring Road area of the city. According to reports, residents of Ibadan rushed to catch a glimpse of the suspected human eater. The suspect was, however, whisked away by armed policemen to avert jungle justice. Also, another man was mobbed by angry crowd after a price list of human parts was allegedly found on him.   This came as a man, who was about being dispossessed of the large sum of money he withdrew from a commercial bank at Mokola area of the city jumped down from a flyover with his money. Vanguard gathered that the suspect caught with human tongues was arrested at Oni and Son Memorial Hospital area of Ring Road.  

More than Three Nigerian dailies have reported on the apparent use of helicopters by terrorists operating in the burning north of Nigeria. A March 18th article in Tribune, a March 23rd article in THISDAY, a March 21st DailyTrust report of a Senate hearing in which Senator Abu Ibrahim detailed the use of helicopters to drop supplies and attackers to attack Katsina; and another March 25th investigative report in DailyTrust all presented shocking details of how helicopters have allegedly been used to ferry terrorists and ammunitions in the recent terror incidents in the north, the attack on 21 Armoured Brigade, Giwa barracks precisely and the massacres in Katsina. In these cases, helicopters are described to have been seen by locals hovering above prior to the attacks and dropping materials and reinforcements in thick forests. DailyTrust queried Nigeria’s Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, about the possibility of such unnoticed air flight, despite the acquirement of 60 million Euros wor...

Tears of joy were shed on Tuesday at the Adeoyo State Hospital, Ibadan , where eight victims of the Ibadan horror forest were being treated. The relatives of one of the victims, Wale Atoyebi, came to identify him. Atoyebi, who could only say his name, was recognised by his uncle. The senior Atoyebi said his nephew left home many years ago, adding that there had been no hint about his whereabouts.

Fresh revelations indicated on Tuesday that Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, maintained a second jet. The jet, a  Global Express XRS plane, is  allegedly chartered specifically for her private and official trips overseas. A return trip on  the  XRS plane is said to cost taxpayers €600,000. The   jet  is different from the Challenger 850, which the House of Representatives said gulped N10bn  in the last two years to fly the minister. Investigation by The PUNCH showed that the House Committee on Public Accounts stumbled on the second jet in the course of the ongoing probe into the N10bn expenditure on Challenger 850.  

A former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has denied reports that she is critically ill of an unknown life-threatening ailment, which has kept her bedridden abroad. In a post she made on her Facebook page on Tuesday, Akunyili, who was nominated to represent Anambra State at the ongoing National Conference in Abuja, said she had since recovered from her illness and had been declared fit for the conference by her doctors.    She, however, did not disclose what kind of illness that befell her , but she admitted that it made her “shed much weight,” but she needed to “regrow.”