"How My Dad Died" - Chinedu Ikedieze

It is usually devastating losing loved ones, especially those you have shared strong intimacy and affinity with over the years.
In fact, watching such persons die could be very heart breaking and demoralizing.

Such was the fate of Nollywood star Chinedu Ikedieze, famously known as Aki, who cried, cursed and wailed endlessly upon hearing the sad news of his father’s exit, a couple of days ago.

If tears could bring back the dead, Aki’s immeasurable sobs would have done that the day his septuagenarian father, Pa Michael Ikedieze Ogbonna, passed on at the age of 73.


Recounting the painful episode of how his dear dad breathed his last in an exclusive chat with ACTION!, the happily married entertainer, who struggled to hold back tears, affirmed it was a destructive demise.

3 Cancer Scares that You Need to Know About

.We've all encountered cancer in some way: Whether we've lost a loved one or have battled it ourselves, the big C looms all around us. And, sometimes it feels like the media loves to capitalize on our fear - hardly a week goes by without the news telling us about part of our daily routine that might be slowly be killing us. Between the media constantly hyping cancer scares and the reality of so many people in our lives actually facing cancer, it's getting increasingly more difficult to have perspective on what should realistically concern us.

So, to find out more about the current buzzy cancer scares, we caught up with some experts to separate the facts from the fiction. Read on to peek behind the curtain of three cancer scares - this is need-to-know stuff.

Oral Sex, HPV, and Throat Cancer
By now, we've all heard about Michael Douglas blaming his throat cancer on cunnilingus. We love safe sex, and think the more it's discussed, the better, but we were also suspicious. After all, if the link between oral sex, HPV (human papilloma virus), and throat cancer is so concrete, why is it that so few people know about it? And what's up with blaming cunnilingus, of all things? Honestly, the last thing we want is for female pleasure to get yet another stigma.

Doctor Mutilates Baby’s Corpse, Removes Eyes, Tongue & Private Part

The Ogun State Police Command, Sunday, said it has arrested one Dr. Babawale Joshua who owned Ajike Medical Centre at 11, Adeyemi Street, Saka, Sango Ota, for suspected ritual activities and disrespect to the corpse of a 13-month-old baby who died in his hospital.

According the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, for the state, Mr Muyiwa Ogunjobi, the police discovered that the boy’s corpse was mutilated. He told Vanguard that  the eyes, tongue, two lips, two ears, private part, nails and the left hand and veins were cut off at the hospital.

Father’s account

Koko Master D'Banj Adds A Year

Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, aka D'Banj, the Koko Master, one of Africa's greatest entertainers adds a year today.

He clocks 33 today and

Woman Stabs Man To Death With Her Shoe

A man is dead and a woman is facing murder charges for a bizarre stabbing incident in Texas - the suspected murder weapon is a stiletto shoe.

Police in Houston say the suspect, 44-year-old Ana Lilia Trujillo, used one of the pointy-heeled shoes to stab the 59-year-old victim in a high-rise luxury condominium building inhabited primarily by faculty and staff at the University of Houston.

Girl Circumcision Leads To Death

According to Egyptian media, a 13-year-old Egyptian girl, Suhair al-Bata’a, has died undergoing circumcision at a village in the Daqahliya governorate northeast of Cairo.

"We left our daughter with the doctor and the nurse. 15 minutes later, the nurse took my daughter out of the operation room to a nearby room, along with three other girls whom the doctor was circumcising,"

Mohammed Ibrahim said.

Boko Haram Hide Guns In Coffin, Kill 13

Suspected Islamist insurgents who hid weapons inside a coffin have shot dead 13 people in an attack targeting informants in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, two witnesses said on Sunday.
 

Friday's attack came as Nigeria's military makes its most concerted effort yet to end a four-year insurgency by Boko Haram, a sect that has killed thousands in a campaign to create a state governed by Islamic law in Nigeria's northeast.