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Sannakji  Sannakji is the ultimate food dare for risk takers wandering through Korea. This delicacy consists of wriggling pieces of live baby octopus drizzled with sesame oil. After minimal preparation, it is served immediately and yep, in case you’ve wondered, there have been people who have choked to death from it. Ying Yang fish The Ying Yang fish is a sea food dish in which the fish is deep fried but remains alive after cooking. The dish is particularly popular in Taiwan and China. However, this dish has received condemnation and much criticism for its cruelty. Witchetty Grub One of the best-known bush foods is also one of the more elusive. The grub is the larva of a moth and generally only found in central Australia. Southern-fried rattlesnake A favorite in the Southwest United States, Southern-fried rattlesnake is said to taste a little like frog legs. Experts advise that before cooking the meat, you boil it off the bones. Then di...

By Ebuka Onyeji As the DJ carefully dishes out mostly Nigerian hit songs, female dancers enchant guests with suggestive steps. There are few, if any, empty seats around. Those uncomfortable with the choking air, peppered by burning cigarettes, carouse outside. It is Chris Garden, a popular commercial sex spot in Abuja, where women of sizes, ages and shapes compete for attention. Provocative in their outfits and weird makeup, the ladies of the night show the stuff they are made of, and would do the unthinkable to woo a man. “Bros feel bobby wey still stand, bobby wey never fall,” one quipped in pidgin English on a recent evening, summoning a prospective customer to have a feel of her bosom. Chris Garden is a drinking shop, and also arguably one of the biggest – and perhaps oldest – sex centres in Abuja. Located in Jabi district, it is a prostitute’s haven; a place where men and women converge to exchange sex and money. A tour of Abuja nightlife zones shows jus...

Attacks by Fulani herdsmen in the North-central Nigerian state of Benue has led to the killing of at least escalated 1, 269 persons, investigations by PREMIUM TIMES have shown. Out of the 23 local government areas in the state, the rampaging herdsmen have invaded and occupied 14 and may invade the remaining nine unless urgent measures are taken to curb the menace, authorities said. Our findings, confirmed by residents, security officials and the state governor, also showed that in the North-east Senatorial District of the state, the herdsmen have invaded Katsina-Ala, Kwande, Logo, Ukum; leaving out Vandeikya, Konshisha and Ushongo. In Benue North-east Senatorial District, the killer herdsmen have attacked all the other local government councils except Gboko. The council areas invaded and occupied by the killer herdsmen include Guma, Gwer-West, Gwer-East, Buruku, Tarka and Makurdi local government councils. The invasion of Ogbadibo, Agatu and Apa local governm...

The Niger Delta Avengers wednesday disowned a statement to the effect that the militant group had agreed to negotiate with the federal government to end the current crisis in the Niger Delta region. Yesterday’s rebuttal was sequel to a statement released earlier in Abuja by a purported spokesman for the Dialogue Group, one Mr. Ballantyne Agiri, which said the group had agreed to renounce its violent approach to resolving the under-development of the oil-rich region. Agiri said the NDA had constituted a contact and dialogue group to engage the federal government in dialogue as part of the initiatives to resolve the crisis, adding that the group was determined to come out with results that would yield lasting peace, equity, justice and harmony among all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. However, while accusing members of the so-called contact group of being impostors, the NDA which commenced the destruction of oil and gas platforms in the region earlier this year, ma...

Amina Ali The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity, said yesterday in her first interview that she just wants to go home. Amina Ali and her four-month-old baby were rescued in May near Damboa in Borno state by soldiers and a civilian vigilante group, more than two years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents from the Government Secondary School (GSS) in Chibok. The 21-year-old and her child have since been hidden away in a house in Abuja for what the Nigerian government called a “restoration process”. “I just want to go home – I don’t know about school,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an exclusive interview. “I will decide about school when I get back, but I have no idea when I will be going home,” Ali said, speaking softly while staring at the ground. Boko Haram kidnapped 219 girls from their secondary school in Chibok in April 2014, as part of an insurgency...

ByToyin Akinosho Four months after he was shunted to a position that was far less influential than his previous post, Maikanti Baru emerged, July 4, 2016, to take the top job at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state hydrocarbon company. His appointment as Group Managing Director (GMD) spelt victory for the old guard at the corporation, who considered the appointment of Ibe Kachikwu as an imposition from outside. This group of NNPC apparatchiks, who’ve spent between 25 and 30 years at the company, generally saw Kachikwu’s sweeping March 2016 re-organisation as largely a plot to oust Baru, until then the Group Executive Director of Exploration and Production, arguably the most powerful position after the GMD. Mr. Kachikwu was vice-president of the local subsidiary of ExxonMobil when he was appointed GMD of NNPC in August 2015, to wide public acclaim. He became the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources three months after. In those two roles, he pe...