The Most Epic Wedding Proposals In Nigeria

Sometimes wedding proposals can be extremely cute and sometimes they are just too weird… 

 1. Nigerian guy proposed to his girlfriend after 16 years of dating.

Atlanta-based Nigerian lovers Bukky and Samuel just capped their relationship

They started dating in high-school. Like any relationship, especially one started so young, they went through some troubles but God always brought them back together stronger and closer than before. The couple lives in Atlanta USA. The proposal was made on the Atlanta Skyview.

2. Man Proposed To Girlfriend Using Police In Port Harcourt Rivers State

Epic proposal at the police station

A guy used a police stop to make propose to his cute girlfriend in Port Harcourt. The man identified had earlier arranged for a stop and search on the road as he and his girlfriend were going to the restaurant. While the police were harassing the him, his girl was very upset, he asked her to look up to the billboard displaying her photos. Family and friends of the couple from Lagos emerged and a table was setup outside the restaurant, he went down on one knee, a 5-man orchestra played and the proposal was made.

 3. Twitter Proposal
Richards Ugochukwu proposed to his Twitter beau, Oma Ezeagwu in a strange way.
The couple met on Twitter in October 2012. The man chose to pop the question in a unique way and he got a reply “yes”  from the beautiful lady.

4. Italian Couple Wed According to Igbo Tradition

The Italians, Kevin Prattico and Carmola Guardsch

While some Nigerian couples are dreaming about weddings in New York or Dubai, an Italian couple decided to have traditional Igbo wedding. Kevin Prattico and Carmola Guardsch, chose to celebrate it in the community of Umuduruzo, Amaigbo in Imo state, Nigeria. They decided to have their wedding in the Igbo community because of their love for African culture.

5. Mall proposal

Proposal at the mall

A creative Nigerian guy made a proposal to his girlfriend in Ikeja shopping mall in Lagos. May be to be surrounded by dozens of shoppers is not extremely good idea, but girl said “yes”.
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Boy Born With 8 Limbs Hailed As God's Baby

A baby boy who was born with four arms and four legs is being hailed as “God’s baby”, Baruipar, West Bengal State, India.

Boy who was born with four extra limbs, is being hailed as a miracle, India

The eight-limbed baby has attracted thousands of visitors desirous to take a glance of the blessed child. The yet-to-be-named baby has been dubbed “God Boy” by his family due to his resemblance to Hindu god Brahma.

One of the relatives said: “When he first came out we couldn’t believe it. The nurses said he was badly deformed but I could see that this was a sign from God. In fact, this is a miracle, it’s God’s baby. Indian God’s have extra limbs just like this.” 

People from all over the country are clamouring to see the child. Hundreds are crying in the streets, others are praying and setting up camp here. Some are even panicking and believe this is a sign of the end of the world.
Meanwhile medics say that the baby’s deformity is the result of the arms and legs of a twin joining on to the foetus in the womb. Polymelia is a birth defect involving limbs, in which the affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs.

The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed. Sometimes an embryo started as conjoined twins, but one twin degenerated completely except for one or more limbs, which end up attached to the other twin.

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Tallest Man Meet Shortest For Guinness World Record Day

The world’s tallest and shortest men in the world met for the first time today to commemorate Guinness World Record Day in London, UK.

Mr Dangi and Mr Kosen meet in London today

Today is The Guinness Book of Records’ 60th anniversary. In 2004 the annual publication became the world’s best-selling copyright book. Guinness World Record Day was set up to commemorate the date.

Mr Kosen’s hand on the head of Mr Dangi

Today hundreds of men including Sultan Kösen, who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at 2.51 m, and Chandra Dangi, the shortest man in history measuring only 0.546 m, met to celebrate the occasion.
The tallest man in the world
Mr Kösen from Ankara, Turkey, became the world’s tallest living man in 2009, when he took the title from 63-year-old Xi Shun, from China, who measured 2.361 m in 2005.

They met to commemorate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day

His growth resulted from a tumor affecting his pituitary gland. His stature is such that he must use crutches in order to walk. Kösen lives with his parents, three brothers and sister, who are all of normal height.
He was unable to complete his education because of his height and his job as a part-time farmer. Despite his height he claims to enjoy a normal lifestyle. He describes the advantages of being tall as seeing a great distance and being able to help his family with domestic tasks such as changing light bulbs and hanging curtains.

The shortest man in history
Mr Dangi is a primordial dwarf. Chandra came to news highlights of local media when a wood contractor saw him in his village. All of his family members are of usual size. He was awarded the title of shortest adult human ever recorded after his height was measured in 24 hours. He was subsequently enrolled in the Guinness World Record book.

Mr Kosen, pictured with Mr Dangi also holds the record for the largest hands of a living person

Dangi lives with his nephews in a remote village of Nepal which is some 400 km away from the country’s capital. He wishes to travel all parts of his country and the world. He stated that with him being the shortest man of the world and belonging toNepal, he wants to popularize his village and his country through the medium of this title.

Today in London

373 people dressed as penguins gathered near Tower Bridge to be counted by Guinness

Other world record attempts that are taking place today include the farthest basketball shot backwards and the most people eating breakfast in bed. Last night, hundreds of people took part in the record breaking charity event, they gathered near London’s Tower Bridge to set the record of the largest gathering of people (373 persons) dressed as penguins.

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Nigerians Lament in Benin Prison!!

He was one of those Nigerians who eke out a living at Seme border. Every morning, he strolls from his house at Badagry to Seme border for his daily bread and by the close of the day, Joseph Datti, would go home with nothing less than N4,000, he realises from carrying loads across the Nigerian side of the border to Benin Republic. One day, mother luck ran out of him; he was arrested by the Benin Republic police. Few hours later, Datti was in Cotonou’s premier jail house. That was in 2005. Since then, the 65-year- old man has been held incommunicado without trial.
Datti told a fellow Nigerian who was released recently that the has spent 15 years without trial in that French-speaking West African country. His condition has deteriorated to the level of lunacy. He could only remember his son Abdullahi. He said Abdullahi is a practising lawyer in Lagos State.
This is one of the cases of about 2,500 Nigerians languishingin various prisons in Benin Republic for minor offences ranging from wandering to illegal entry. However, some are being held for drug trafficking, child trafficking, money laundering, armed robbery,kidnapping and advance fee frauds (419)and other sundry crimes.
Jude Okoroafor, a driver, with an international organization in Lagos, was recently released by Benin Republic police authorities after sharing a cell-room with Datti. He toldDaily Signpostthe agonies, pains and injustice Nigerians in Benin Republic prisons go through on daily basis. According to him, many of the detainees are awaiting trial, while others are convicts. Last year, two Nigerians, Ogbonna Ikechukwu Igwe and Kalu Dimgba Onwuka, were released after spending a year inside one of Cotonou’s foremost prisons.
According to Okoroafor, he was arrested after Seme on his way to Cotonou, Benin Republic when the Beninoise gendarmes accosted him and seized his company vehicle. It was gathered that the vehicle was not properly registered to operate in Cotonou. He was arrested and sent straight to jail.Daily signpostgathered that he was prosecuted immediately at the State High court. He was later remanded in prison custody for five days without bail. Our source said it took a diplomatic intervention and his company’s intervention for the man to be released yet the vehicle was later released after two months.
In Lokossa, Cotonou, Parakou, Abomey and Porto Novo as well as other Beninoise towns serving as detention centres, Nigerians account for a substantial percentage of the inmates.
Okoroafor revealed activities that go on inside the Cotonou prisons. On arrival at the reception of PCC, which is located near the headquarters of Benin Republic’s Ministry of Youth, Sports and Leisure, Okoroafor said he was shocked by the number of Nigerians, particularly Igbo and Yoruba men and women in prison.
Okoroafor revealed that Cotonou’s prison congestion is worst in Africa. According to him, there are about 400 people locked up in one cell and they are mostly Nigerians. Datti who claimed to be an indigene of Ogun State has lost memory due to the hard times in prison. Okoroafor said Datti is in poor health condition and may die if nothing is done quickly to rescue him from the Cotonou prison. Okoroafor said they sleep in batches to enable other inmates sleep and each batch sleeps for four hours and gives others time to come and sleep. “I slept like that for five days. It was difficult to sleep because of lack of space and throughout my five days there, we slept on the bare floor,” he stated. Okoroafor said there is no difference between the practice in Nigerian prisons and what obtains in Cotonou prisons. According to him, a new prisoner coughs out an initiation fee of 8,000CFA (N2000). One is subjected to dirty jobs inside the cell if he fails to pay his fee. “You will be asked to be carrying buckets of urine daily, sweeping and other routine duties”, He stated that he spent up to N5,000 inside the prison before he was released after a period of five days. According to Okoroafor, Datti’s case got wedged when he could not hire the services of a lawyer — over alleged wandering offence. And he is still in prison. Okoroafor is hoping the Nigerian authorities will wade in to free the other Nigerians wallowing in Benin Republic prisons.