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Article written by Charly Boy. Find it below...  Hey! come and see Nigerians all over the world, holding Oputa Panel on top of my fathers burial. Kassala deyooooo.  My father's burial may have come and gone, but tongues are still wagging about all the drama that went down. No be The CharlyBoy Show? I must confess that my pop's burial was the biggest show I ever put together in all my years as an event organizer; it also turned out the biggest burial show across the Niger. Who wan try. Abegi! 3Gbosa for the man wey sabi.  From New York to London, Sweden to Helsinki, India to China, the trending topic was how "CharlyBoy snatched the microphone from Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of the state of Imo". Comments flying in different directions about what happened, the people involved, the controversies, the virgins...Kai. People ask why CharlyBoy is who he is. Why have two days of musical concerts after the death of his iconic father? Why argue or...

Most people who find a spider in their bedroom quickly try to get rid of it. But new research shows that one arachnid might actually be best kept by your bedside. A single bite from the Brazilian wandering spider has been shown to have side-effects including four-hour long erections. The eight-legged creature - also known as the armed spider, banana spider or Phoneutria nigriventer - is native to South and Central America. Scientists at the Medical College of Georgia believe the species contains a possible breakthrough for erectile dysfunction. Dr Kenia Nunes, a physiologist at the college, said: ‘The venom of the Phoneutria nigriventer spider is a very rich mixture of several molecules. ‘These molecules are called toxins, and then we have various toxins in this venom with different activity. ‘Because of this, when a human is bitten by this spider, we can observe many different symptoms including priapism, a condition in which the penis is continually erect.' ...

Four armed robbers who specialize in robbing with police uniforms have been arrested and paraded by the Lagos state Police command. The four men named Julius George, Samuel Orgah, Lucky Oliseh and Lucky  Friday  were arrested by the police force at the Ile Zik area on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on the 22nd of June Punch reports. From their confessions, it was gathered that other operations carried out by the gang included robbing a trailer load of rice at Oju-Elegba area worth N4.5m and a tanker carrying engine oil worth N11m. They were arrested during the Ile Zik area operation, which was said to be their fourth operation, and involving about N8m. Continue... Ring leader of the gang, 34 year old Julius George from Benue state who is married with children in his confessional statement said he led the other men into the act by deceiving them that he was a police man. He said he bought the police uniform materials in the market, made them into the uniforms and gave...

This is so wrong and heartbreaking to see. A 16 year old Texas girl named Jada (pictured left) has spoken out for the first time after photos of her unconscious naked body went viral online after she was drugged and raped at a party with her fellow high-schoolers. Some sick people mimicked Jada's pose by taking photos copying the position of her limp body splayed out on the floor and posting them to Twitter and Vine using the hashtag '#jadapose'. (pictured right). How sick is this? The victim decided to talk about the attack in an interview with   KHOU   on Tuesday night; "I’m just angry,” Jada said. According to Jada, she was invited to a party at a fellow high schooler’s house. The boy who was hosting the party gave her a drink that she believes was spiked with a drug that made her lose consciousness. She passed out and doesn’t remember what happened next. Continue... But then she started seeing evidence of her sexual assault circulated on...

Made in Nigeria or assembled in Nigeria? Segun Awolowo, the Executive Director/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), said this is a made in Nigeria SUV, manufactured by Innoson. He shared the photos on his instagram page. For real? See more pics below

Little Iyabo Farouk (renamed Blessing) was abducted at the age of 6, and the last 3 years of her life have been traumatic. She was rescued from a three female child trafficking syndicate in Lagos recently by the Lagos state Police Command. Please watch as fearless Iyabo confronts her abductors

A 17-year-old girl from Turkey who stands at 7ft tall has been officially declared the world's tallest female teenager. Rumeysa Gelgi who has a standing height of 213.6 cm (7ft 0.09 in), received the Guinness World Record award in a special presentation in her hometown of Safranbolu, Karabük. Rumeysa is an 11th grade high school student and lives at home with her parents and older siblings, who are all ‘normal’ height. Her height is caused by a condition called Weaver Syndrome - a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid growth. In addition to her height, Rumeysa’s hands have grown measure 24.5 cm and feet 30.5 cm - the equivalent of a 12 in men's shoe sizes. Her size causes her mobility problems, and she has a custom-built wheelchair and walking frame to help her get around.  Rumeysa's shoes are also custom made in America for her. She said while she has been subject to cruel taunts about her appearance in the past, people’s negativity no longer upsets her,...

From the cliffs of a village in Papua New Guinea's Morobe highlands, charred corpses leer at passers-by. Their flesh is stained red, and they seem to be imprisoned within cages of bamboo, as if to keep them from leaping down and devouring any explorer who strays too close. But this macabre practise is not (only) a way to scare away strangers. For the Anga people in these remote parts of the country, it is the highest honour they can bestow on their dead. Dead men, women and children are effectively smoke cured, in much the same way as a kipper. Their flesh is stained red, and they seem to be imprisoned within cages of bamboo, as if to keep them in But this macabre practise is not (only) a way to scare away strangers. For the Anga people in these remote parts of the country, it is the highest honour they can bestow on their dead First, experienced embalmers make cuts in the feet, knees and elbows of the cadavers, to allow body fa...

This is everywhere but it seems to be more rampant in the movie industry due to the high number of ladies who want to appear in movies at all cost. A Ghanaian movie producer who has been sleeping with young girls  has been nabbed by the Police. His bubble busted when he deceived a 17-year old girl that he can get her a movie role in an upcoming talk of the town movie. He kept deceiving the girl for a while and later asked for séx, so he could get her on the final list, an act she consented to and he enjoyed himself with the girl...  Sadly the girl never got featured in the said movie. Her father later got to know what happened to his daughter and went to the producer's house with the police to arrest the rough rider and deal with him.  To the surprise of many, when they got to his house, police caught the randy producer red handed sleéping with yet another young girl before he would give her a movie role. Wife catches husband e...

The Senate, on Thursday, unanimously rejected the recommendation of its Committee on Finance, which asked the Federal Government to remove the   subsidy on petroleum products. “If subsidy has to be removed, there must be public enlightenment and education so that facts would be made available to the people and then public opinion at the end of the day will count. “If we sit here now and said remove subsidy, I think those who are benefitting from subsidy are very powerful and tomorrow they would influence media report and twist it to create an impression that the Senate is anti-people,” President of the Senate said in his remarks after the Senate had rejected the proposal for subsidy removal. The finance committee had recommended the removal of subsidy on fuel because of the alleged misapplication of the billions of dollars being voted annually for that purpose. The Senate rejected the recommendation while adopting the report of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led committee. ...

THE National Conference was, yesterday, thrown into confusion as moves to reach a compromise on recommendations ended in deadlock sparking off chaos at the plenary session. The rowdy situation forced the house to adjourn abruptly till Monday to prevent the exchanges from degenerating to fisticuffs. To stem the tide, Chairman of the conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, his deputy, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and other leaders will meet with elders of the confab also known as ‘50 wise men’, chairmen of the 20 standing committees and their deputies at 11 am today. Disagreement started immediately after the inauguration by President Goodluck Jonathan on modalities of voting. The ’50 wise men’ intervened and the problem was resolved. The contentious revenue sharing formula and derivation principle split delegates along regional lines as they failed to reach agreement on what percentage should go to each region. For the third day, yesterday, delegates failed to conclude voting ...