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An Igbo man in the UK received the shock of his life when an old white lady came up to him to speak fluent Igbo to him. During their conversation, he made an interesting discovery about her. Uche Anyanwagu said the lady, whose name he later discovered is Nkechi Rosalind Colwell, tapped him, then asked him for his state of origin in fluent Igbo. When he replied, she told him she worked in his state, Abia state. The rest of her story gets even more interesting as you read. Anyanwagu wrote: Precisely three weeks ago, I had a tap on my back shortly after a Church service in London. As I turned to behold at whose behest, I saw an elderly lady on a wheel chair.  Her words were simple, straight and shocking - “I bu onye Igbo?" (Are you Igbo?) I stared at her with my mouth agape, not sure if she was the one who asked. I felt I had some auditory hallucination but I managed to reluctantly nod in affirmation.  She gave a toothy smile and probed further - “...

The shocking moment a lion climbed into a zoo shuttle car occupied by tourists was filmed and has been shared online. The tourists were visiting a Crimean Safari when Filya, a 2-year-old lion at the Taigan Safari Park in Crimea, took time out of her nap to join them. The video is both scary and adorable. Watch below.

Former United Nations Secretary-General,  Kofi Annan  has died. According to Ghanaian media, he died in Switzerland, this morning August 18th after a brief illness. Mr. Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations. Born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938, Annan was UN secretary General from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize

e-m According to mailonline this is the moment panicking police officers surround a Ukrainian man who had been left holding a 'live' hand grenade after a fight with his friend. The man's friend, a soldier in the Ukrainian army, had pulled the pin out of the grenade and given it to him before running off.  The pair, whose names have not been released, had fallen out and been fighting in the city of Dnipro in south-eastern Ukarine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region. Video playing bottom right . . . Loaded : 0% Progress : 0% 0:41 Pause Mute Current Time 0:41 / Duration Time 1:13 Fullscreen Expand Close +4 Drama: The man lies on the ground with his own and a policeman's hand taped around the 'live grenade' in Dnipro, southeastern Ukraine  The soldier, who had just returned from active duty in the War in Donbass in eastern Ukraine, allegedly said to ...

Chilling photos showing ISIS Jihadists laughing as the made the bombs used for last year's deadly Barcelona attack has emerged. The previously unseen pictures were reportedly leaked from the Spanish police investigation into the terror attack that left 16 people dead. In the photos, the terrorists can be seen in a room manufacturing up to 500kg of explosives - known as the Mother of Satan - in the city of Alcanar. Police say the bombs were packed into pillowcases along with homemade grenades and a suicide vest, but, fortunately, they exploded before they could be used. The group was prompted to switch tactics after the explosion in Alcanar on August 16 and instead launched a van attack on Las Ramblas the next day, killing 13 and injuring more than 100. A man was stabbed to death the same day and his car was used to ram a police barricade. The following day, another car attack was carried out in Cambrils, which left one woman dead...

A team of surgical staff got suspended for taking selfies mid-operation and posting them on social media. The group of medical professionals, including the surgeon, anaesthesiologist, two surgical assistants and a surgical nurse, work at the Hospital San Jose de Capilla del Senor in Argentina.   The images were taken during an operation and shared on the social media account of one of the surgeons, Lorena Olguin , who works in the gastroenterology area of the hospital. The photos show the medical team looking at the camera with their surgical masks and gowns on.   One of them shows three of them standing over the patient lying on the operating table, and another with the whole team showing the equipment used in the surgery and bits of gauze with blood on it. The hospital authorities say they have suspended all of those shown in the photo because they consider it irresponsible behaviour. The image was deleted from social media by Olguin, who...

The Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu says that Nigeria needs N4 billion to tackle infectious diseases.   Ihekweazu said this at the launch of Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (A4EPR) in Lagos. The launch of A4EPR is aimed at getting major stakeholders in the health sector to combat infectious diseases. The alliance is an initiative of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The PHN is in alliance with NCDC and a coalition of private sector which has in its fold: Dangote Group Plc., MTN Nigeria, Total Nigeria, Shell Foundation and Tony Elumelu Foundation. The mission of the group is to seek a way forward in bringing intervention to the risk of infectious diseases, draw attention to the need of innovative partnerships in health emergency. The group also seeks to introduce to the private sector and key stakeholders to the alliance of A4EPR and secure forw...