Female Student Whipped Into Coma in Lagos

A Chemistry teacher at Iponri Estate Senior High School, Surulere, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, identified as Mr. Sebastine, has reportedly beaten a female student to stupor.The victim, who is in SS 1, Abigail Chidinma Enyenwa, passed out after she was allegedly whipped by the teacher for insubordination.
The incident, P.M NEWS reliably gathered, happened on Tuesday during school hours.
Sebastine was subsequently arrested at the school premises the following day by policemen from Iponri Police Station for interrogation over the matter.
It was gathered that Abigail incurred the wrath of her teacher when she allegedly behaved rudely and acted contrary to his instructions during class session on the fateful day.

•Iponri High School where a student was beaten to coma

‘I only need fresh air’: Meet the Sri Lankan man who claims to have lived without eating for 5 year

A Sri Lankan man claims he has survived  without food for the last five years.

Although experts believe humans can only live  for two months without a meal, Kirby de Lanerolle insists he has only needed  fresh air as nourishment.
The breatharian also claims his lifestyle -  which he says harnesses light, wind and the ‘vibrations of God’ – can reverse  the ageing process and make him immortal.

‘In a new state of consciousness’: Sri Lankan Kirby de  Lanerolle claims he has survived without eating food for the last five years

Woman gives birth to twins at 53 after 20 years of childlessness

Chief Medical Director of St Ives Hospital, Babatunde Okewale

It was boundless joy in St Ives Hospital Lagos when a 53-year-old woman, (names withheld) was recently delivered of two bouncing baby boys. Thewoman was conceived through Invitro Fertilisation (IVF), having waited for over 20 years in humiliation and agony.


IVF is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body. The process involves monitoring a woman’s ovulatory process, removing ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from the woman’s ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a fluid medium in a laboratory.

The fertilised egg (zygote) is then transferred to the patient’s uterus (womb) after three to five days of being in the incubator, with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy.

Photographer drags TuFace, wife to court over wedding pictures

Justice Mohammed Idris of  the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed  October 16, 2013 for the commencement of trial in a N120 million copyright suit filed against popular music  star, Innocent Idibia, a.k.a. TuFace, his wife, Annie Idibia and their manager, Anthonio Anifite over  photographs allegedly taken at the recent traditional wedding of the musician and his wife in Akwa Ibom State.

Mandela family sues grandson over burial site

 As former South African President, Nelson Mandela, remained in a critical condition in hospital on Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts. 

Mandela’s oldest daughter, Makaziwe, and 15 other family members have pressed a court application to get Mandela’s grandson to return the bodies of three of Mandela’s children to their original graves in the eastern rural village of Qunu, according to the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

The grandson, Mandla Mandela, acknowledges having reburied the three bodies 20 kilometers (13 miles) away in the Mvezo village, where he plans to create a Mandela shrine, hotel and soccer stadium, according to the South African Press Association.

Grandson Mandla Mandela has until Saturday to respond to the court filing, reports said.

The anti-apartheid leader built his retirement home in Qunu and was living there until his repeated hospitalisations which started at the end of last year. Nelson Mandela attended the burial of his son at the family plot in Qunu in 2005, and it was widely expected that the leader himself would be buried there.

But his grandson exhumed the bodies of Mandela’s three children and moved them to nearby Mvezo, where he holds authority as chief.

Eldest daughter Makaziwe and other Mandela family members want the family bodies returned to their original graves in Qunu, according to the reports.

The family court struggle came as Mandela’s ex-wife said that he had improved in recent days, but remained critical.

CHILEAN GIRL CRIES TEARS OF BLOOD

Yaritza Oliva was terrified when the strange condition appeared earlier this month.

Ever since, with no warning, the 20-year-old bleeds from her eyes several times a day.

Yaritza visited her doctor but when no evidence of an infection could be found she was sent home with eye drops to help her cope with the pain, which she says is "indescribable".

Doctors believe it may be a case of haemolacria, a condition that has only been diagnosed three times before

WHAT IS HAEMOLACRIA?

Haemolacria is the condition that makes sufferers cry tears of blood.

The tears can either have a red tinge or appear as though they are entirely made of blood.

While the visual impact of haemolacria is powerful and may be very scary, it is not always cause for concern

It is a symptom of many diseases and may be indicative of a tumour in the system that produces tears.

It can also be provoked by conjunctivitis, environmental damage or injuries.

There have been cases of Haemolacria induced by hormones in grown women.

Some researchers suggest that it is connected to extreme stress or psychological upset.

JSS students caught donating blood illegally in Lagos

Culled from NigeriaTribune
ABOUT nine junior secondary school students were, on Tuesday, caught donating blood illegally to a man identified as Mr Sola, in Agege area of Lagos.

According to a reliable source, members of the community had noticed how students regularly visited a certain shop located on Owoloabi Omotoye street, Orile Agege, during and after school hours. After a little investigation, it was discovered that the studentshad been donating their blood for money.

One of the students caught at the shop, identified as Emeka, a JSS2 pupil, confessed to having donated his blood thrice and that Sola paid a sum of N1, 500 for every donation, asking them “not to tell anyone about it.”

Some of the students, according to reports gathered, had donated their blood up to 17 times .

The Parent-Teachers’ Association chairman, State Junior High School, Mr Adeyemi, who confirmed the  incident, said some of thestudents, who seemed very sickly as a result of the continuous blood donation, had been taken to the hospital for care, while the rest had been released to their parents.

He said not only the students caught were involved in this act, as several of them later admitted to having donated their blood at one point or the other, adding that the case had been reported to the education district 1 for further address.

Some of the students were from Oke Odo High School; State Senior High School,Oyewole; State Junior High School, Oyewole; State High School, Mulero; Keke High school, Agege and others.