Indian hospital builds new unit to operate on '500kg' Egyptian woman

Mumbai's Saifee Hospital in India is currently building a special facility to contain an Egyptian woman, believed to be the World's heaviest at 500kg. The facility will have an operating theatre and an intensive care unit for the woman to undergo a weight reduction surgery and will be treated by a team of doctors led by well-known bariatric surgeon, Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala.

The 36-year-old woman identified as Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, is expected to arrive in the city on a chartered plane at the end of January and will remain at the hospital for at least six months. Eman who has not been able to leave home for twenty-five years (25), weighed 5kg (11lb) at birth and was diagnosed with elephantiasis, but Doctor Lakdawala believes she does not have elephantiasis but suffers from obesity-related lymphoedema, which causes gigantic swelling of legs.

Federal Government grants Nigeria's citizenship to 335 foreigners

The Federal Government has granted Nigeria’s citizenship to 335 foreigners who met stipulated conditions for such rights, in line with the provisions of the constitution. Minister of Interior AbdulRahman Dambazau announced this to Newsmen Thursday after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Buhari. Dambazau said the people were carefully selected out of those who applied to the nation’s authorities to become Nigerian citizens for various reasons

Plane carrying $1 million worth of gold crashes in Zimbabwe

Authorities in Zimbabwe has announced that a small aircraft transporting $1 million worth of 22 kg gold from Bulawayo to Harare on Tuesday crash-landed due to engine failure. The Cessna 206 aircraft, which had two people on board, crash-landed in Kennilworth, Bubi District in Matabeleland North. According to the authorities, the two persons were rescued but one of them suffered minor injuries.

Source: Zim News

Chioma Akphotha Slams Gideon Okeke For Calling Out An Older Actor, Tells Him YOU ARE RUDE

Yesterday younger actor, Gideon Okeke called out a senior colleague; call him his grandfather in the movie world and you will not be wrong, claiming some of the languages used by the older actor in movies are vulgar. A lot of his fans however came for him saying he shouldn’t have called out Elder Chiwetalu Agu like that publicly. He then took down the post. 

Tonto Dikeh Takes To Instagram, To Apologise For Branding Mercy Johnson’s First Child A Witch In 2013

Tonto Dikeh has taken to instagram this morning to apologise to her senior colleague for calling her daughter a witch in 2013. Tonto says now that she is a mother, she has realized her mistake and she gets reminded of the word she used all the time. She openly posted a photo of the actress, tagged her and apologised. She ended up telling the senior colleague that she has found God and would like to tell her about him soon. What she wrote after the cut…

Woman caught while trying to sneak her boyfriend out of jail in a suitcase

A 25 year old woman, Antonieta Robles Saouda was arrested after she tried to break her boyfriend out of prison by stuffing him into a pink suitcase and trying to wheel him out. Saouda took her 6-year-old daughter to visit her boyfriend, Ibrain Jose Vargas Garcia at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui prison in Venezuela with the plan to smuggle him out of the facility and live happily ever after as a happy family.

Photos of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu in court

The trial of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, continued Thursday at the Abuja High Court. He is standing trial for treasonable offences leveled against him by the Federal government. The presiding judge adjourned his trial till February 10th. More photos of him in court after the cut...