IKENGA BLOG

The next French President is 39 years old. But that is not the news. He is married to a 64 year-old, that is still not the news. His wife was his class teacher 24 years ago...not still the news. His then class teacher had a daughter who was his class-mate...everybody including his parents thought this teacher's daughter was his girlfriend...nope they were wrong. He fell in love with his class teacher when he was 15...she was "happily married" with 3 kids...now the "happily married" is relative in this context. At 17, he promised to marry her. She was at the time 42 years. They got married in 2007 with our man now 30...well she was almost 55. Next month he is going to be sworn-in as the President of France 6 months to his 40th birthday while his lovely wife who has 3 adult kids and 7 grandchildren (her first child is two years older than her husband while her second child, the former classmate/sweetheart is the same age as him). His name is Emmanuel Macr...

Sen Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu: THE BIGGEST SURPRISE OF THE 8TH SENATE. There is a saying among the Igbos mostly of Anambra extraction which says that " Enenia nwa ite, ogbonyuo oku, this literally means that if you underestimate a small pot, it will cause stir and quench the fire. This is the summary of the phenomenal Senator fondly called, Samdaddy by his teeming admirers. Prior to the 2015 general elections and even during the electioneering I was in Imo state so I have first hand information and experience of what it means to run for an elective positions in the state. Imo state politics I would say is the most advanced and dynamic amongst all the states of the federation and so therefore, not usually open for political neophytes and inexperienced. During one of those campaign period I met Samdaddy who was then house of Assembly member in imo state and I was told that he was running for an election to represent the people of Owerri at the red Chamber of the National Assembly. I f...

Chinese man stuns world after marrying robot wife A Chinese man is making international headlines after marrying a robot that he built himself. Zheng Jiajia, 31, is an artificial intelligence (AI) expert from southeast China’s city of Hangzhou. He decided to build his would-be wife after a recent heartbreak. “He was rejected by a woman he had a crush on, and he’s been single since. But his relatives were constantly nagging him about his marital status,” one of Zheng’s friends told local newspaper Qianjiang Evening News. Zheng dismissed his friend’s comment as a joke. Zheng graduated from Zhejiang University in 2011 with a master’s degree in artificial intelligence. He started his own AI business last year. His first masterpiece is his one-year-old robot wife, Yingying. Yingying is capable of identifying images and Chinese characters. She also recognizes people she has met and can say a few words to communicate. After two months of “d...