A young man who mistakenly swallowed his earphone pooped it out, washed and tested it to discover it still worked. The young man became popular online after viral video showed him searching his poop to pull out the earphone.
The Taiwanese man, known online only as Mr Hsu, went viral this past week, for reasons someone should never become famous. He gained attention online after filming himself sifting through his poop, reports India Times.
Hsu says he fell asleep with the earphones in, and couldn’t find the one for his right ear when he woke up. The ‘Find My AirPods’ feature indicated the earphone was still in the room with him, but he couldn’t spot it anywhere. “The map showed that my AirPod was at home, and I could hear the ‘beep, beep’ sound, which seemed to follow me around the room,” Hsu wrote on social media.
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A 95-year-old woman, Melita Gordon has been smoking weed for 85 years. The substance has become part of her life to the extent that even her doctor is encouraging her not to quit.

Gordon, lives Maroon Town, Jamaica, has no intention of quitting a habit that has stayed with her for a major portion of her life, smoking marijuana. Even with the protestation of her children and other relatives, the senior citizen insists that her life is not going up in smoke.

The diminutive Gordon, who stands at four feet, eight inches, reinforced her point by relating the view of her medical practitioner that her journey to 100 would have been cut short had she thrown down her loyal pipe and marijuana long ago.
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This is the scary but trending story of how witches in Romania use the internet to recruit members and keep them spellbound. If you use the internet often then you should be interested in this story.
“Repeat after me! To be together with who I want,” a family of Romanian witches chant via a video call to a client in India paying for a love spell.

The session, in a decorated shed in a back yard 15 km (9 miles) north of Bucharest, is one of many consultations the family holds online, alternating them with rituals livestreamed on Facebook to build up their digital following.

“A truly powerful witch can solve problems from a distance,” explains 20-year-old witch Cassandra Buzea.

“It’s not the phone or Facebook that are doing the magic. It’s the words that we’re saying, the rituals that we’re doing and it’s enough to look each other in the eye for the ritual to work.”
The power of the Internet has allowed Romania’s busy witch community to gradually migrate their ancient practices onto the Web.
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Watch Exclusive Video Of Drunk Wayne Rooney Arrested After He Triggered An Alarm At Airport, Spoke “Broken English”

This video was obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com. It shows the moment a drunk Wayne Rooney walked through a secure door he thought was a lift at a Washington Airport before he was arrested.

The former England international is seen with a baseball cap on and his head down peering down a corridor at Washington Dulles International Airport after opening the door and risking a security scare.
After trying to get through the door and finding out he was going the wrong way, he started leaning on a rail.

Cops later found him, handcuffed him when he started swearing at them, led him to a cell and locked him up for four hours so he could sober up.
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If you want your body to look cute with nice six-pack abs, then checkout this story.
A hospital in Thailand does a masterpiece job in using surgeries to give young men six-pack abs. The aptly-named Masterpiece Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, recently went viral for offering a plastic surgery procedure that gives patients instant six-pack abs.
Despite what many gym-addicts will tell you, getting defined six-pack abs is really hard, and for some of us downright impossible. No matter how much we work out, we just can’t seem to get that layer of fat on our abdomen to go away, so those well-developed ab muscles remain concealed underneath. That’s where the plastic surgeons at Masterpiece Hospital come in. By performing a procedure called abdominal etching, they remove some of the fat on your abdomen to make that hidden six-pack visible.
There are no plastic or silicone implants involved, just some abs-focused liposuction.
“We don’t do implants because they don’t look good and don’t last long,” Masterpiece Hospital CEO, Raweewat “Sae” Maschamadol, told Coconuts Bangkok. “We’ve been doing this for about three to four years now, we get anywhere from 20 to 30 customers requesting a six-pack every month.”
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Everyone one wants to make history. Some men have become the first to win coffins as prizes in a sports competition now confirmed as the World’s Most Depressing Sports Competition. Guess what! Only undertakers participate in the game.
Copa Ataúdes or Coffin Cup, a yearly futsal tournament hosted by the Peruvian city of Juliaca, has been dubbed the world’s most depressing sports competition for offering coffins as prizes to the three best teams, reports Oddity Central.

The Juliaca Coffin Cup is a competition between teams representing the twelve largest funeral houses in the Puno Region of southeastern Peru, so it kind of makes sense that the main prizes be something representative of the funeral business. Still, fighting your heart out on the pitch for an expensive casket you have to share with five other teammates doesn’t exactly sound worthwhile. That didn’t stop the winning team from parading their $1,300 luxury coffin on their shoulders and singing “Olé, olé, campeon!” at the end of the final match, though.
Even the names of the teams that participated in the competition are as depressing as the competition itself. The 12 teams competing in Coffin Cup 2019 chose names for themselves, such as “Last Goodbye”, “Eternal Dream”, “Rest and Peace”, “Los Angeles” or “Road to Paradise”.
The top prize for the winning team was a luxury coffin valued at 4,500 soles (about $1,300) while the second and third place teams received cheaper models. Organizers declared themselves proud of being the first to offer coffins as prizes in a sports competition, and promised to put even more expensive ones on the line next year.
“I want to thank God. Never at an international level has there been an inter-hospitality championship with coffins as prizes,” a Coffin Cup official told reporters.
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Former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be kicked out of Parliament by voters after almost 20,000 signed petition demanding she be booted out after being jailed for lying to police.
Onasanya made history as the first politician to be booted out of the Commons by voters using a recall petition.
Almost 20,000 people in Peterborough signed the petition to kick her out reports Daily Mail Online.
It came after she was jailed in January for perverting the course of justice
Onasanya, 35, refused to quit and continued to collect her £77,379 salary
Criminal former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya has become the first politician to be booted out of the Commons by voters using a recall petition.

A spokeswoman for Peterborough Council, which ran the petition, said that it had been signed by 19,261 people, far above the 7,000 signatures required to get rid of her.

‘This means that the petition is successful and the Peterborough parliamentary seat is now vacant,’ she added.

The decision sets up a mouthwatering by-election prospect in an area which voted 60-40 to Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.
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People experience sex dreams which oftentimes they seem not to understand why it happened. Some others become worried that the sex dream could be a sign of an intention or impending act they would not like to happen. The dream could be a sexual experience with an ex, your boss, your colleague, a celebrity or any other person you ordinarily would not consider having sex with. If you’ve ever experienced sex dream you really need to read this piece. Experienced and grounded dream experts gave explanation of what having sex in the dream with certain persons could mean. This interesting piece provides answers you’ve always searched for.
7 Common Sex Dreams and What They Mean

Sex dreams are a perfectly normal part of life. Sure, sometimes they might make us feel a little uncomfortable (dreaming about the coworker you see every morning is definitely awkward). But remember, it’s just a dream. Holly Richmond, PhD, a sex therapist in New York City, says people often worry that if they dream about something, it means they want to do it IRL, but that isn’t the case. “It almost never has anything to do with actual desire or arousal,” Richmond says. What happens in dreamland is often meant to stay in dreamland.

Still, like any other kind of dream, sex dreams can have deeper meanings. We asked experts to explain what some of the most common sex dreams reallymean (yes, dreaming about your ex is one of them).

Having sex with your boss
No, just because you dreamed about getting busy with your boss doesn’t mean you actually want to sleep with them. Instead, it can indicate that you’re not 100% comfortable with the power dynamic between the two of you, Richmond says. There are two ways this dream can go. One, you’re dominating your boss, which likely means you want to push back against them somehow. Or two, you’re being submissive, which means you’re feeling passive aggressive towards your boss, rather than straight up defiant.
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The news making the rounds that Professor Okechukwu Ezeugwu has emerged as the New Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) is fake, as no new Vice Chancellor has been selected by the institution.

Massmediang gathered from reliable sources at UNN that the process is still on-going and may not end in the next one month. A professor who spoke to massmediang on the basis of anonymity said; "Please ignore that story. People have been calling me on that. It is not true. I am a member of the selection process and I can tell you that the process is still ongoing. We only narrowed the number but no one has emerged as New VC."

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A church that allows members to smoke cannabis during services to ‘meditate and uplift their spirit’ has recorded membership surge as 6,000 people have joined in just a month. The church says it uses marijuana as sacrament.

The church, the Lion of Judah House of Rastafari in Madison, Wisconsin, opened a month ago.

Church leaders Jesse Schworck and Dylan Bangert say that while cannabis is illegal in Wisconsin, members are allowed to smoke during services under the US Freedom Restoration act.
“This is a non-profit church,” Schworck told Channel 3000.

“We all use cannabis to meditate and also for the religious purpose for uplifting our mind and our body and our spirit.”

Schworck says he hopes the new members are sincere in their faith.
He said: ”We just want people to be sincere in that aspect of the religion.

“We don’t have to agree on everything. We are open. We are all denominational so you can come as you are. Be yourself, share your stories and the things you know.

“We don’t have a monopoly on knowledge or anything like that. We just try to encourage people to talk and have fellowship together and break bread.”

To join, new members have to fill out an online form. Schwork says the church welcomes anyone who wants to learn about the Rastafari religion, read books on the religion and meditate.

It’s unclear who long the religious boom will be allowed to continue. There are legal moves afoot to close the church down.

Madison Assistant City Attorney Jennifer Zilavy said: “They are claiming to be a church.

“I have not seen any documentation or anything that supports they are, in fact, a church. Even if they are a church, marijuana is illegal in this state. You can’t sell it. It can’t just be 24/7 and you can smoke weed and that’s our religion.”
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Some wallets that are so expensive it will probably take your breath away. In fact, it might leave you wondering how on earth anything could possibly cost so much. Obviously, you have to like a wallet a lot if you’re willing to pay a little over $825 (about N297,000) for it. This is Biometric Wallet (Dunhill) with unique qualities.

All things considered, this one does offer a lot of unique features that most wallets simply don’t incorporate. For instance, you can link the wallet and your smartphone via Bluetooth technology. The idea is that anytime your wallet gets more than a few feet away from the phone, an alarm goes off. This is a great idea if you have a tendency to lose your wallet from time to time or if you don’t want someone picking your pocket while you’re walking around in public. The wallet also features RFID technology as well as a fingerprint sensor, giving you the capability of locking anyone out of it that you don’t want rummaging through it.
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Game of Thrones could arguably be described as the most popular TV show in the world today. Evidence exists in the fact that works leaders are citing the show in meetings to make points in international political arena. No Nigerian leader has cited the Game of Thrones in any setting, making someone to wonder whether the nations leaders follow major TV series as their counterparts in the western world. Does it mean that Nigerian leaders do not find the need to keep in touch with emerging trends in international arena so as to understand what such citations mean in politics?

This interesting piece posted on Quartz provides insight on how world leaders are citing Game of Thrones in meetings.
The whole world loves Game of Thrones. Everyone is betting on who will die next in the treacherous tale of life in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, where any character might be felled at any moment. The fantasy show seems to be influencing everything from baby naming to fashion to office dramas—and now global politics.

This month marked the start of the HBO show’s eighth and final season, and references to the tale by George RR Martin have been proliferating among politicians. In the US, Donald Trump tweeted a GoT meme ahead of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian meddling in US elections. Meanwhile, 2020 presidential contender Elizabeth Warren wrote an essay entitled “The World Needs Fewer Cersei Lannisters” in The Cut (paywall) about why the character Danaerys Targeryn—aka Mother of Dragons and Breaker of Chains—should sit in the iron throne and rule the fictional kingdom.
In India, the government is posting GoT-themed memes on social media to encourage voting in the ongoing parliamentary elections. And in China, president Xi Jinping is earnestly referencing the show in talks with foreign leaders.
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This is top quality advice from one of the best movie journalists in the US.
Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3 was commended enormously as one of the best episodes the classic movie has produced. But one major downside on the lips of viewers across the world is that the scenes were too dark for anyone to see exactly what was happening. The Battle of Winterfell which took 55 nights to shoot has been described as the most fantastic battle scene throughout the movie so far. But viewers hardly saw what transpired as clearly as they would have loved to. They complained that the images where too dark and muddy for anyone to enjoy what they were watching.

According to Chris Welch while reviewing this episode, “The Battle of Winterfell, playing out in the season 8 episode “The Long Night,” took an arduous 55 nights to shoot, and was the largest-scale battle sequence in Thrones history. It was meant to be a final-season flex of epic proportions.”

Welch in his article further explains that Miguel Sapochnik’s close-up directing choices and the battle’s nighttime setting were a perfect combination to expose the weaknesses of the streaming world we live in today.
There was a barrage of complains by many fans about constant pixelation and an extreme difficulty following what was transpiring on-screen.

The main option for getting the pictures improved is compression. Welch has this to say about compression and improved quality of Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3: “By the time Game of Thrones reaches your TV or mobile device each Sunday night, it has been thoroughly compressed — both by HBO and by your cable / satellite / streaming provider of choice. This is a necessity to make the show accessible to a wide range of people with different internet connection speeds. Compression is also applied on the fly for everyone tuning in over cable, where the downsides can be more severe and noticeable.” So compression even makes the dark picture look great.
How to fix your TV settings to re-watch Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3

Here are some ways you can try addressing the problem:

Find the best-quality stream
Video bandwidth is king when finding the best stream or download of a TV show. You want the show delivered to your device at the highest-possible quality. No cable or streaming box will be able to fix up a noisy, pixelated video stream if that’s the source material it’s given from the start.
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“Game Of Thrones” Seasons 8 Episode 3 has featured what is described as the best battle scene ever seen in any movie. Don’t doubt that until you see this episode. You might only say it is an understatement for lack of a better word to describe captivating scenes as trained soldiers battle with the white walkers and brainless zombies. A number of popular characters you love seeing have been killed. Checkout the list of those that have fallen in the battle field.

This is the gut-wrenching encounter of main characters after all the backstabbing, battles, and scheming that heralded previous edition. Some of these main characters die in the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones.

The people behind the show warned that many the players we’ve watched over the years will die as the Seven Kingdoms confront the White Walkers and fight among themselves for the Iron Throne. Who will perish as Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow rally against the White Walkers? Or as Cersei Lannister stops at nothing to retain control of the Iron Throne?

As the answers to those questions unfold, we’ll be updating this list of main characters who don’t survive the great game:

Beric Dondarrion, Episode 3
Lord Beric Dondarrion, head of House Dondarrion, led the Brotherhood Without Banners resistance group and after he died and was brought back to life by the Red Priest, he adopted a belief in the Lord of Light and grew close to Melisandre.

Beric was stabbed to death in the crypts during the Battle of Winterfell by the White Walkers when he and The Hound went to save Arya. “The Lord brought him back for a purpose, and now that purpose has been served,” Melisandre said to Arya and the Hound after Beric died.

While some of Beric’s past choices were questionable, mainly concerning his belief in the Red God, he died defending Arya Stark and fighting for the greater good, which is admirable.

Eddison Tollett, Episode 3

Theon Greyjoy, Episode 3
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While others have been acting their Good Friday reflections, this man has been getting nailed to the cross for real, for the past 33 years.

A Filipino Catholic man playing the role of Jesus Christ in a yearly Good Friday reenactment of his crucifixion has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 33rd consecutive time last week.

58-year-old Ruben Enaje, from the barangay of San Pedro Cutud, in San Fernando City, has been volunteering to get nailed to a cross on Good Friday since the 80s, but recently announced that next year will be his last impersonating Jesus Christ. He is currently looking for a successor willing to have four-inch nails driven into his hands and feet and get lifted on a large wooden cross for about five minutes, every Good Friday. He also wants that person to be humble and not brag about their special role.

“I want to only do this until next year,” Enaje told Reuters. “What I’m looking for in my successor is that he serves as a good role model in his community and a person with good manners and values, not someone who would boast about the role or be too proud.”

The tradition of reenacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in San Pedro Cutud dates back to 1962, and is believed to have been inspired by the a play written by a local playwright. It has become one of the most popular religious festivals in the Philippines, attracting thousands of Christian onlookers every year. However, it’s also a very controversial event.

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You might have watched a movie which aroused your emotions to extent of shedding real tears. For one Chinese fan, the emotions became so much that she cried herself into serious health challenges and ended up in the hospital. She was watching Avengers Endgame.
The movie which is described as one of the most anticipated movies of this generation, is finally in cinemas, reports Mirror UK.

Avengers Endgame brings an end to the first age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the founding members of the Avengers – including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow – tackle the wreckage that is the universe after Thanos obtained all of the Infinity Stones in Avengers: Infinity War.
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The Australian government is to tackle its wild cat problem by preparing a delicious ‘last meal’ for the cats and garnishing it with deadly poison. This move has enraged animal rights activists in that country but the government says the wild cats have caused serious problem to the animal landscape in the country and intend to kill about 10 million by 2020.
Poisonous sausages are being airdropped into the bush to kill feral cats as the Australian government pushes to cull two million by 2020, reports Daily Mail.

Shooting and poisoning are methods used to kill wild cats across 10 million hectares in a move that has sparked outrage among animal rights groups.

Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) has criticised the government for not using methods like sterilisation.

Cats kill 377million birds and 649million reptiles per year, which makes the soil less fertile and productive.
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A famous sex doll is currently buzzing the internet after responding to questions about Donald Trump while engaging fans in a rare interview. The sex doll named Harmony Ianthe first talking sex doll in the world.
The sex doll seems to be very popular as video shows the Artificial Intelligence (AI) doll answering questions from fans.

One of the fans asked questions on Donald Trump and the sex doll’s response is now very popular on the internet.

The upgraded sex robot was filmed answering questions off the cuff to scores of fans in a breakthrough Facebook Live session, reports Daily Star.
Sex doll-tester Brick Dollbanger demonstrated the upgraded Harmony model online.

During the Q&A session, Harmony was able to hold an “unscripted conversation” with fans tuning in.
Brick put questions to the doll from the audience, who were viewing the demonstration in San Diego, California.
After saying hello, the robot responded with: “Good afternoon, baby.”

Brick asked: “Do you like me?” Harmony then responded with: “I like you so much baby.”
One fan asked the doll what she thought about US president Donald Trump.
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A Indian woman contesting election in that country on the platform of the ruling BJP has been mocked by opposition party for claiming she cured breast cancer by drinking cow urine.

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi mocked the BJP on Thursday over Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur’s claim that she cured her breast cancer with cow products like urine. He is the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, a political party in India.

Owaisi pointed to a newspaper report that said oncologists in Mumbai had refuted Sadhvi Pragya’s claim.
“Looks like BJP has found its candidate for Ministry of Health, with additional charge of Science & Technology!” Asadduddin Owaisi wrote on Twitter. “Unfortunately, soon-to-be former Prime Minister Modi won’t be getting a chance to see it through,” he said.
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A telegraph dubbed “Hitler’s suicide note” containing a defiant final message from the Nazi leader is expected to fetch up to £70,000 (about N32,620,000) at auction.

The historic memo was sent just days before Hitler’s death to one of his favourite commanders, Ferdinand Schörner, who had urged him to flee the besieged capital of the German Third Reich.
It states: “I shall remain in Berlin, so as to take part, in honourable fashion, in the decisive battle for Germany, and to set a good example to all those remaining.

“I believe that in this way I shall be rendering Germany the best service.

“For the rest of you, every effort must be made to win the struggle for Berlin. You can there help decisively, by pushing northwards as early as possible.”
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A photo has emerged of what a park ranger claims to be a selfie with two gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ranger Mathieu Shamavu says the picture was taken at Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A spokesperson for the park told Sky News the pair both lived in a specially designed unit which cares for gorilla orphans who have been victimised by poachers or animal traffickers.

Mr Shamavu described his captivating composition as just “another day in the office”.
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The atmosphere within which the press operate in Nigeria reflects growing incidents of brutality and harassment of journalists and media houses creating a disturbing picture of freedom of the press in Nigeria. The infamous quote of former military ruler of Uganda, Idi Amin “There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech” may not yet be entirely a reality in Nigeria but whether the nation’s media landscape is sliding towards that part might not be completely disputed. There is no certainty of freedom for journalists in the country especially after reporting on subjects that are deemed sensitive, depending on who is angered by such report.

Nigeria is among the worst 70 countries to practice journalism in the world. The 2019 edition of World Press Freedom Ranking has shown that Nigeria is still among the most unsafe countries to practice journalism. The country’s ranking dropped to 120 from 119 it was placed in 2018. This is out of a total of 180 countries ranked in the survey.

The world press freedom index is published by Reporters Without Borders, also known as Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF).

A total of 180 countries were captured in the survey with Norway ranked as the best country in terms of press freedom, and Turkmenistan, the worst, reports icir.

The survey noted that Nigeria, “Africa’s most populous nation has more than 100 independent newspapers and yet covering stories involving politics, terrorism or financial embezzlement by the powerful proves problematic”.

“Journalists are often threatened, subjected to physical violence or denied access to information by government officials, police and sometimes the public itself,” the report read.

The “unprecedented level of disinformation” spread by officials within Nigeria’s two major political parties during the 2019 general election was also cited as one of the reasons Nigeria dropped to 120th position.

A report released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) captured the difficulty experienced by journalists working in Nigeria. “In Nigeria, it is difficult to cover stories involving politics, terrorism, and financial embezzlement by the powerful. Journalists are often threatened, subjected to physical violence, or denied access to information by government officials, police, and sometimes the public itself…. The all-powerful regional governors are often the media’s most determined persecutors and act with complete impunity,” the report said.

According to the RSF survey, Nigeria is ranked 35th in Africa behind countries such as Congo Brazzaville, Mozambique, and Angola.

Ghana lost its spot as Africa’s best in terms of press freedom following the murder of Ahmed Suale, an investigative journalist working with Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Ghana’s popular masked investigative reporter.

Namibia, ranked 23rd on the list, is now the best-ranked country in Africa, followed by Cape Verde (ranked 25th in the world), Ghana (27), South Africa (31) and Burkina Faso (44).

The top ten countries where the press is most free, according to the survey, are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Netherland, Denmark, Switzerland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Belgium, and Costa Rica.

The case of Jones Abiri was among terrifying developments that may have contributed to Nigeria’s worsening press freedom index as observed by RSF. On March 30, 2019, Jones Abiri, the editor and publisher of the Weekly Source newspaper based in the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa, was reportedly arrested a second time by the Department of State Services (DSS).
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A Wisconsin man, Steve Ruppel, who has gone to see “Captain Marvel” 116 times since it was released, has broken the world record for seeing a single movie.
Ruppel’s valiant efforts did not go in vain. He did it in order to break a Guinness World Record.

“I thought it was the most insane thing ever, I thought it was impossible. I wasn’t even sure why it was even a record, but I thought after a while, ‘I should probably do that’,” Ruppel told WSAW.

Every single time he watched the film, he did it at the same place — the Marcus Cedar Creek Cinema in Rothschild, Wisconsin.
“The amount of time that it takes, I’ve had to take time off work, I would take long lunch breaks to accommodate watching an entire movie in that particular time frame. And then just time on the weekends where I’m not doing other things.”

Ruppel has seen the film seven times in one day — the most in one sitting.

That breaks down to 14 hours and 35 minutes.

A general admission ticket costs $11.61 at his theater. If that’s what he paid each time, Ruppel spent about $1,350 for the experience.

In order to verify he actually had seen the film as much, Ruppel had to take pictures at the theater and present written witness statements.
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For more than one month a team of Chinese cardboard modelling experts were busy painstakingly building a masterpiece to be presented in a show. What they came up with has stunned the internet community – a life-size replica of Israeli war tank.
The team of Chinese cardboard modelling experts stole the show at this year’s Hobby Expo China (HEC) International Model Expo, in Beijing, with a 1:1 cardboard replica of the Merkava MK4 Israeli battle tank.
Photos of this awe-inspiring masterpiece of cardboard modelling have been doing the rounds on Chinese social media for the last five days, drawing the admiration of millions in the Asian country.
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Mass Communication is one of the courses most Universities in Nigeria want to offer from inception. In most parts of the World especially Western societies, this course is offered in the Media and Communication department, a title adopted basically to accommodate the dynamics of increasing sophistication of the society.

Whether the course is called Media and Communication, Communication and Multi-media Studies, Communication Arts, or related names, the fact is that this discipline has basic requirements which Universities should have before offering the course to the public. But guess what, that’s not always the case. In fact, in most cases it is not so. Some universities that have National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation are also guilty of providing below par training in Mass Communication due to lack of basic facilities.

So here is a list of 15 top characteristics that you can use to know whether you are wasting your time in a particular institution thinking you are studying Mass Communication, Media and Communication or Communication Arts. I guess you were hoping to see an actual list of Universities that are guilty of this ‘scam’. Well, this is a safe presentation of those names. You may decide to mention your own school when you see these features. This list is based on a study conducted among some lecturers of Nigerian universities, including the use of NUC benchmark for departments of Mass Communication. If you notice some of these features in any department of Mass Communication, note that students in that department are victims of an official scam! Here are 15 characteristics of the worst places in Nigeria to study Mass Communication.



1. Absence of Functional Studio

2. Absence of Functional Lab

3. No Meaningful Practical Exercise

4. Lecturers Are Not ICT Compliant

5. Lecture Notes Are Virtually The same Every Year

See details here to know which school is scamming Mass Comm students:
https://massmediang.com/worst-universities-in-nigeria-to-study-mass-communication/

This is not just an ordinary bathtub. It is made of very special wood which is 180 million years old. Having your bath inside this bathtub can never be same as doing so in the usual bathroom or bathtub. You will definitely feel a transformation into some form of paradise you can hardly explain. This is why the rich don’t waste time to buy such priceless property once they are available.
Found deep within the Indonesian rainforest, designer Nigel Fenwick transformed an ancient, petrified log into a ultra-rare bathtub.

The price tops a similar bathtub, which sold for $1.7 million in the Emirate back in 2011.

“The story behind this beautiful and extremely rare bathtub reveals a dramatic and risky journey in pursuit of the most perfect piece of art,” says designer and explorer Nigel Fenwick.
See details:
https://wakkinews.com/2019/04/22/world-most-expensive-bathub-costs-2-million/

A man who has been dating a robot for two has revealed they were planning on getting married. He said he knew it was love “because it made my heart feel right”.

Joey Morris fell head over heels with RoboTroll almost two years ago after being drawn to his ‘satisfied smile’ and ‘popping’ pink hair.
The 29-year-old’s previous lovers include a lamp, a transformer truck and even a Halloween figurine.

But the relationships didn’t last as Joey’s attention waned.

He began dating RoboTroll in December 2017 after feeling ‘nostalgic’ and rekindled his love for the BattleTrollz collection online.

Smitten Joey, from Taneytown, Maryland, US, was aged 10 when he realised he was objectum – meaning attracted to objects.
Read details here:
https://wakkinews.com/2019/04/22/man-29-in-love-with-robot-reveals-they-plan-on-getting-married/

A bride is getting ‘roasted’ online for insisting on strict wedding guests demands which have been branded unrealistic.

One her demands which has made social media users to brand her an ‘unreasonable tyrant’ is that wedding gifts must be worth $300 (about N108,000). Any guest who does not abide by the rules would sent out of the wedding venue.
The bride-to-be from the US seems to have let things go to her head, according to her sister anyway.

And things have gotten so intense that the sister no longer even wants to attend the wedding, let alone be involved with the planning, reports Mirror UK.

The unnamed sister revealed all in a post on Reddit, where she claimed to have just received a list of “attendance requirements” for the wedding.

Initially she thought the strict list of demands were a “joke” – but her mother soon confirmed they were very serious.

This list included some ridiculous rules – such as men will not be allowed to have facial hair at the wedding and gifts must be worth at least $300 (about £230).
See details:
https://wakkinews.com/2019/04/22/bride-insists-wedding-guests-must-come-with-gifts-worth-above-n100k-see-reactions/

The 2019 edition of World Press Freedom Ranking has shown that Nigeria is still among the most unsafe countries to practice journalism. The counry’s ranking dropped to 120 from 119 it was placed in 2018.
The world press freedom index is published by Reporters Without Borders, also known as Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF).

A total of 180 countries were captured in the survey with Norway ranked as the best country in terms of press freedom, and Turkmenistan, the worst.
“Journalists are often threatened, subjected to physical violence or denied access to information by government officials, police and sometimes the public itself,” the report read.

The “unprecedented level of disinformation” spread by officials within Nigeria’s two major political parties during the 2019 general election was also cited as one of the reasons Nigeria dropped to 120th position.
See details:
https://massmediang.com/nigerias-global-press-freedom-ranking-worsens/

Don’t let the name of the school distract you from the seriousness of the story.

Fire suspected to have been caused by electrical fault has gutted two blocks that housed six Guinea Fowl High School teachers and their families.

The school is located just outside Gweru, a city in central Zimbabwe.
This comes as a fire, also suspected to have started from an electrical fault, gutted part of Hatzell High School blocks in Mutare two weeks ago.

No one was injured in the Guinea Fowl High School fire incident which broke out at around 5PM on Tuesday.

Gweru City Council public relations officer, Mr Manford Gambiza told the Chronicle that the local authority’s Fire Brigade quickly responded and managed to put out the fire.

“We were quite responsive as it took us 10 minutes to go and put out the fire. There was extensive damage to property. We suspect an electric fault.”

The six teachers and their families have since been allocated temporary shelter in the school dormitories since they are vacant as learners are on holiday.

Midlands Provincial Education Director, Reverend Tedious Matienga said no one was injured in the incident.

The fire broke out at around 5PM on Tuesday.

Rev Matienga said they were still assessing the extent of the damage caused by the fire.
Read details here:
https://massmediang.com/fire-destroys-guinea-fowl-high-school-teachers-blocks/

A woman has ended up in a hospital after attempting to remove fish bone stuck in her throat in the most bizarre way. She swallowed a spoon she was using to remove the bone.
Doctors in Shenzen, China recently performed an emergency endoscopy to remove a 13-centimeter metal spoon from a woman’s duodenum, after she accidentally swallowed it while trying to dislodge a fish bone from her throat, reports Oddity Central.
The patient, known only as Lily, reportedly swallowed the stainless steel spoon before the Qingming Festival on April 5, but didn’t bother going to the hospital until four days later, because she didn’t feel any pain in her stomach. She had apparently tried to use the metal spoon to remove a fish bone that had become lodged in her throat, but it accidentally slipped from her fingers and she ended up swallowing it.
The woman only went to the hospital to complain about her problem four days after the incident.
She told doctors at Shenzhen Nanshan Hospital last Monday what had happened, they ordered an X-ray and saw the large metal spoon stuck in her duodenum.
Read bizarre details here:
https://wakkinews.com/2019/04/18/woman-swallows-5-inch-spoon-while-attempting-to-remove-fish-bone-stuck-in-her-throat/