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In Nigeria, thousands of young people are addicted to codeine cough syrup – a medicine that’s become a street drug. But who makes this syrup? And who sells it to Nigeria’s students? The BBC has gone undercover to investigate.

Nigeria's university commission has dismissed a senator's PhD certificate as invalid, saying the institution where he claims to have earned it is in fact an "illegal university". Senator Foster Ogola of Bayelsa West district in the Niger Delta region said he completed his doctoral studies at Gospel Missionary Foundation, a theological university, in 2012. He said his PhD was on the topic of Christian leadership. However no research paper or thesis by the senator exists online. But Senator Ogola insists

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Pennsylvania wife ambushes husband's lover and kills herself An ex-political candidate was shot dead by her lover's wife in a suburban Philadelphia home before the attacker turned the gun on herself, police say. Jennair Gerardot, 48, broke into the house of Meredith Chapman, 33, and ambushed her as she returned home on Monday evening. Investigators say Mrs Gerardot may have worn a disguise. She sent her husband texts revealing her revenge plan. Both women were dead when police arrived in response to 911 calls. Detectives said the gunwoman's body was found by the kitchen, not far from Mrs Chapman's. Two bullets had been fired. "There's blood everywhere," said a 911 dispatcher in a police scanner communication, according to the Delaware News Journal . Officers encountered Mark Gerardot, the husband, outside the property. Having read the disturbing texts from Mrs Gerardot, he told police: "My wife might be inside." He had planned to meet ...

A woman who murdered her sister while having an affair with her husband has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years. More

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/04/18/health/broken-bananah-penile-fracture-ross-asdourian/index.html *"Penile fracture" refers to the rupture of a sponge-like tissue in the penis* (CNN) — What may be every man's worst medical nightmare happened to 32-year-old Ross Asdourian. "I think that all men in the depths of their brain know that this is possible. And I will go a step further and say that most men have probably had scares where maybe it bent a little bit, myself included," Asdourian said. About three years ago, Asdourian, a New York-based comedian and filmmaker, met up with an old friend at a bar. He took her back to his apartment in Manhattan's East Village. "We were basically approaching the finish line ... and I came out, and when I went to go back in, she was pushing back, and basically it just popped," he said. Asdourian suffered a severe case of penile fracture -- what in medical terms would be referred to as a "corpus ca...

By the time her mother received the doctor’s email, Yuna Lee was already 2 years old, a child with a frightening medical mystery. Plagued with body-rattling seizures and inconsolable crying, she could not speak, walk or stand. “Why is she suffering so much?” her mother, Soo-Kyung Lee, anguished. Brain scans, genetic tests and neurological exams yielded no answers. But when an email popped up suggesting that Yuna might have a mutation on a gene called FOXG1, Soo-Kyung froze.