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It was gathered that family comprising of Vitalis Nwosu, his wife, Obianuju, and their three children, Chinonso, Chinasa and Odimnobi, who hailed from Umuokpara Umanu, Obollo community in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state, had eaten the meal served for dinner by the wife. Soon after eating, they started complaining of stomach pain and began stooling and vomiting. The children were said to be the first ones to begin to experience the symptoms and while being rushed to a hospital, they all gave up the ghost.

Some of these strange customs still exist many years after civilization. These ethnic communities practice certain traditions that will shock you. 1. Stealing each other's wives - Niger In the Wodaabe tribe of Niger in West Africa, men are known to steal each other's wives. The Wodaabe's first marriage is arranged by their parents in infancy and must be between cousins of the same lineage. However, at the yearly Gerewol Festival, Wodaabe men wear elaborate makeup and costumes and dance to impress the women – and hopefully steal a new wife.

According to 'Elevator Baby' producer, Niyi Akinmolayan, an Indian producer contacted him in 2020 to remake the film starring Toyin Abraham and Timini Egbuson. "I got a call from a film producer in India, @raparthyr. He had fallen in love with the story and wanted to buy the rights for a remake. I thought it was a joke o...until dollars entered my akant!!! They have made a really beautiful Indian version and I can’t wait to watch it myself,"

If you’re trying to wind down after a long day, wine may help you relax, a new study suggests. But if you’re more in the mood to feel sexy and confident, order spirits instead. A group of researchers in the U.K. set out to determine whether different types of alcohol prompt different emotional responses among drinkers. They used data from almost 30,000 people who responded to the Global Drug Survey, a yearly international poll about drug and alcohol habits around the world, and published their results in the British Medical Journal.

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THERE is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia,” Willem de Kooning once noted, with an artist’s lordly disregard for details of engineering. “Duchamp is on it. Cézanne is on it.” An imposing retrospective of his work, opening at the Museum of Modern Art this week, demonstrates that De Kooning, still hale and heartily turning out landscapes at 64, has already established his place along that main line.

“Historic.” “Unprecedented.” The “worst” natural disaster to hit the U.S. since Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Eastern Seaboard nearly four years ago, according to the Red Cross. These are part of the chorus of descriptions about the floodwaters in the Baton Rouge area after some days of heavy rains. Agence France-Presse photographer Brendan Smialowski had been following the coverage as he prepared to travel to the region earlier in the week.

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Profession: Boxer Biography: Billy Conn was an Irish-American boxer, known as "The Pittsburgh Kid," who was renowned for his fights with Joe Louis. He won the World Light Heavyweight Championship in 1939, beating the reigning champion, Melio Bettina, in New York. Conn put aside his World Light Heavyweight Championship title in 1941 so that he could challenged the Joe Louis, then the World Heavyweight Champion. They fought in June of 1941, in which Conn was ahead for most of the fight until he attempted an unsuccessful knockout and then was, in the same round, himself knocked out.