Man Spends N15 Million On Surgery To Look Like Bieber

A young man from Los Angeles aged 33 has spent £60 000 (N15 470 925) on plastic surgery in order to look like the celebrity Justin Bieber.

Within the period of 5 years Toby Sheldon has gone through several cosmetic procedures in attempt to look like the 19-year-old singer. What is more, he had gone under the knife for the so-called "smile surgery" to copy  the Beauty and a Beat hitmaker's image.

He explained to the journalists:

"It's Justin's smile that gives him his youthful look.

"My smile surgery took more than a month to recover from," Sheldon added.

It took Sheldon more than a month to recover from the surgery, and during the first week he couldn't even open his eyes.

But now he is happy about his new look. The man says:

"My friends shower me with compliments. They even call me Toby Bieber."

ASUU strike ‘ll be over in few months – Wike

Minister of State for Eduction, Barrister Esenwo Nyesom Wike

The Federal Government, yesterday, assured Nigerian students that the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be over in a few months.

The Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike stated this at the anniversary lecture of National Universities Commission, NUC, in Abuja.

The minister who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Macjohn Nwaobiala, reiterated Federal Government commitment in resolving the ongoing strike of ASUU.

Minister of State for Eduction, Barrister Esenwo Nyesom Wike
According to Wike, “The Federal Government is very concerned about the state of public tertiary institutions in the country. The Federal Government is really worried about the ongoing strike of ASUU and the strike would be resolved in a few months.”

Professor John Daniel in his paper presentation titled, ‘Turbulent and Testing Times for Global Higher Education: Lessons for Nigeria’, said “online teaching and learning is now part of the future of most universities. Nigeria should be very good at this because without embarrassing you by pressing the point, I note that your country, through 419 scams, is a world leader in the use of the internet for less desirable purposes.”

He said higher education all over the world is facing lot of challenges that included youth unemployment and the current changes in the university system.

“These are indeed turbulent times, not only for United States of America but also for much of higher education globally”, he said.

A former Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Jubril Munzali, in his goodwill message, said the education sector for 21 years have been under funded and the significant increase in the funding of tertiary institutions were done through the struggle of ASUU.

He blamed the Federal Government lingering crisis rocking the nation’s university system.

He said it is time Federal Government listened to its agencies and allow NUC perform its statutory role and fund universities based on the advice of its agencies like NUC.

“Successive administrations in the country never paid adequate attention to university education”. He said the Federal Government process of direct funding of universities, have over the years resulted in mismanagement of the funds allocated to the institutions.

Police stop ASUU rally in Bayelsa

Meanwhile, the police authorities in Bayelsa State, yesterday, stopped the planned public protest by lecturers of the state owned Niger Delta University, NDU, Amassoma in the prolonged strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The police order, issued against the planned public procession by the ASUU, NDU chapter, was reportedly signed by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hillary Okpara.

But the undaunted lecturers converged at the Yenagoa campus of the university to stage solidarity rally and also held a prayer session to seek the face of God over the lingering crisis.

Turkey Man Opens First Online S*x Shop For Muslims Only

A first online sex shop for Muslims was recently launched in Turkey, where a variety of sex items, such as lubricants or herbal aphrodisiacs, is available; also, the shop offers advice on how to have 'halal' sex.

Haluk Murat Demirel, a 38-year-old Turkish entrepreneur says the idea of the shop was inspired by his friends who would often complain the content on such websites and in special stores is too explicit.

Demirel explains pornographic images make Muslims uncomfortable, and vibrators "are not approved by Islam". The site provides information on which sexual practices are banned by Islam, and which are not.

The website, according to its owner, has proved extremely popular since its launch a week ago, and had drawn over 30,000 visitors on Sunday alone.

Turkey is a majority Muslim but constitutionally secular country, and there are relatively few sex shops, even in major cities. Last year Islamic conservative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested the existing shops rename themselves "love shops."

Catholic Nun Kills Her Newborn Baby In The Seminary

A woman studying to become a Catholic nun has been charged in the District of Columbia with smothering her newborn son, police said.

The woman, 26-year-old Sosefina Amoa, gave birth to the boy Oct. 10 in her room at the Little Sisters of the Poor elderly care facility, police said. Afraid the nuns would hear the newborn's cries and discover she lied about sexual activity, police say Amoa told investigators she smothered him by placing a wool garment over the child's mouth and nose and applying pressure.

A day later she and a nun took his body, in a small black luggage bag, to a hospital, police said.

Investigators interviewed Amoa after she arrived at the hospital and say they found bloody clothing and small traces of blood during a search of the convent room where she had been staying.

Amoa was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder after the death was ruled a homicide by asphyxiation. Her attorney declined to comment on the case Friday.

The order said in a statement that they are praying for everyone involved.

"We all feel that this is a tragic situation," said Sister Constance Veit, communications director at Little Sisters of the Poor.

Amoa arrived from the island of Samoa on Oct. 5 and was considered a postulant, someone who wants to be admitted to the order.

She initially told investigators that she did not know she was pregnant but that she experienced significant bleeding just prior to delivering the baby, whom she named Joseph.

She later said she had not told the convent about her past sexual activity and that after the child stopped breathing, she contemplated putting it in the trash but decided against it, police said.

Police say they interviewed a nun at the convent who said Amoa showed her the child and initially told her that she had found the body outside. The nun says Amoa later told her that she had given birth to the child, and police say the two of them together took the body to the hospital.

Man Arrested In Anambra State For Killing His Mother For Money Rituals

Detectives attached to the Obosi Police Division in Anambra State have arrested a man, Tonna Enedo from the Umuezeshime royal family in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area, for allegedly killing his mother.

Enedo spoke yesterday on why he killed his mother.

He blamed the incident on his quest to make money at all cost, adding that he was lured into a fraternity.

He said he has slept in the mortuary for seven hours as part of the money-making rituals.

Tonna said: “I was asked by the chief priest of the society that if I wanted to be rich, I should go and have fun with a mad woman. I should also go and sleep with a body for seven hours; I should fast for seven days dry; I was told that I would first kill my father and the last stage is that I will go mad and after I might have completed all the condition, I will become the richest man in Africa, if not in the whole world.”

He said he met all other conditions and was planning to kill his father when he mistakenly killed his mother.

He said it was after he hit a metal on her head that he realized he had killed the woman he loved most.

Tonna is a first-born from a divorced home. The parents divorced in 1984. He behaved like a mentally-challenged person in and around Obosi before the incident.