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A Facebook user, Kadiri Ismaila, has recounted how an old woman was spotted with a kidnapped dead baby in the Oshodi area of Lagos. After the old woman was apprehended, she was made to walk around with the baby corpse still straddled on her back before being handed over to the police.

What started as a normal protest over entitlements by ex-militants went out of hand as the militants attempted to take over the Akwa Ibom State government house. At the time of the report, police have succeeded to pull back the first wave of Strikes by the militants.

Swollen rivers in Louisiana are expected to keep rising Monday as deadly floodwaters have displaced tens of thousands of people and prompted a state of emergency. The floodwaters have claimed at least five lives — one in Tangipahoa Parish, two in East Baton Rouge Parish and two in St. Helena Parish, CNN reports.

Truck drivers and social service workers have something in common: The people who work in these two occupations are more likely to have heart conditions, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the study, researchers looked at seven measures of heart health in more than 66,000 employees across 22 occupations in 21 states. To determine how heart healthy people were, the researchers counted up how many of the American Heart Association's seven "ideal" metrics of heart health each person met: whether they refrained from smoking, were physically active, had normal blood pressure and  normal blood glucose, were an ideal weight, registered normal cholesterol levels and ate a healthy diet.

The Nigerian military says releasing Boko Haram fighters in exchange for abducted Chibok schoolgirls is a “political decision” beyond its powers. The defence chief, Abayomi Olonishakin, said on Monday that the military was “going ahead” with its operations against the sect.

Many who heard the story of 43-year-old Gafar Hamza, who had allegedly been having s*x with his own daughter, 20-year-old Barakat (real name withheld), wondered what could make a man to choose his own blood for s*xual pleasure.

Earlier this year, some video surfaced of a model version of an intriguing Chinese invention: a giant elevated bus on tracks that would actually be able to drive over traffic on the road instead of adding to it. Now it is finally real, at least insofar as any full-sized functional prototype can be. Which is to say “more real than you ever would have thought it would be.”