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The Lekki Suicidal Man has finally been rescued. According to Twitter user @AlmunsurE, who shared the photos, officials from Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and Lagos Fire Service rescued the man when they arrived at the scene. He tried to cut himself but was stopped and taken to Eti-Osa primary health care centre where he is currently being treated by doctors. When questioned, He said his name is Fredrick Gino from Cameroon and he doesn't know how he got to Nigeria.

According to the person who shared these photos, the man pictured was caught while trying to steal in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, today. He was beaten up by those who caught him and then handed over to the police. Photo Credit: Twitter | @Roland_speaks

It is said that a bad workman blames his tools but how about one who blames cartoon characters? The head of Egypt's Information Service, Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadek has placed the blame for the rise of ISIS squarely at the paws of a well-known cat and mouse. Speaking at Cairo University, he said that the characters encourage extremism and teach children that you can blow people up. He opined that the cartoon as well as video games and 'violent' movies helped to spark violence and extremism across the Arab world. Speaking to the academic audience, he said that Tom and Jerry contributed to the notion that violence was a 'natural' part of life. According to local media, he said: '[The cartoon] portrays the violence in a funny manner and sends the message that, yes, I can hit him…and I can blow him up with explosives. It becomes set in [the viewers’] mind that this is natural.' He added that it h

Lab-on-a-chip PHOTO: google.com/search Highly sensitive and rapid detection of blood glucose is a diagnostic necessity in medicine. For instance, lack of insulin and too much blood sugar are two main causes of diabetes, both of which can be detected by measuring blood glucose. Now, using fiber optics and microfluidics, researchers are developing a cheap, ultra-sensitive lab-on-a-chip device that can quickly measure glucose in just a drop of sweat. The team, from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Zhejiang University in China, is developing the device to help earlier diagnosis and prevention of diabetes. The technology behind it belongs to a new field called “optofluidics” that brings together photonic sensing (using the properties of light to detect chemicals) and microfluidics (precise control of tiny amounts of fluid along microchannels) What is unique about the new device, according to a paper in the Biomedical Optics Express, is that it uses fib

Former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim A witness,  Mr. Abu Sule, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that he collected $2.29m cash in Ghana-Must-Go’ bag from a former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, to help the former governor to buy a property in Asokoro, Abuja. Sule, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s second prosecution witness in Ohakim’s ongoing trial, said this while he was being cross-examined by the former governor’s lead counsel, Awa Kalu (SAN). The witness said he collected the $2.29m, which was an equivalent of N270m, from Ohakim in $100 bills at night sometimes in November 2008 and handed it over to the then owner of the property, Alhaji Isah Maidabino, the next day. The witness, an architect and Managing Director of Tweenex Consociates H.D Ltd., said he kept the money in the boot of his car overnight before handing it over to Maidabino, now a director in the office of the Head of Service of the Federation