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DIRTIEST MAN THAT EVER LIVETH

An 80-year-old Iranian man has been tagged as the world's dirtiest man. It is claimed that the man who lives in isolation hasn't taken a bath in six decades, according to the Huffington Post. Amou Haji is also known to eat rotten porcupine meat with relish and smoking animal poop. The old man claims he started living away from society after he went through emotional setbacks when he was a young man. The man living in southern Iran is scared of taking a bath as he thinks it might make him ill, the Huffington Post says. To relax, he likes to sit down and have a smoke, from a pipe packed with animal faeces. Haji, says he chose this way of life after going through some emotional setbacks in his youth and since then - perhaps unsurprisingly - he has become a bit isolated. His home is in Dejgah village in the southern province of Fars in Iran where, once, a group of young men offered to give him a shower - but luckily he managed to escape. At night, he either sleeps in

IT'S NAIJA AGAIN

Forbes magazine has released its 2014 list of The 10 Most Powerful Men In Africa and 3 Nigerians made it. They are; 1. Simdul Shagaya: Tech Entrepreneur and Founder of Konga.com and DealDey.com 2. Chinedu Echeruo: Tech Entrepreneur & Founder of Hopstop.com and Tripology.com 3. Kola Karim, Nigeria, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Shoreline Energy International. See the others after the cut... 4. January Makamba, Tanzania, Deputy Minister of Communication, Science & Technology and Member of Parliament 5. Ashish Thakkar, Uganda, Founder and Managing Director of Mara Group, Mara Foundation and Mara Online 6. Mamadou Toure, Cameroon, Founder and Executive Director of Africa 2.0 7. Amadou Mahtar Ba, Senegal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the African Media Initiative 8. Ben Magara, Zimbabwe, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Lonmin 9. Komla Dumor, Ghana, Lead Presenter on "Focus On Africa" and BBC World News' Europe