Hamza Ali is feared dead after his mother’s boyfriend, Ummad Rushdi, took the boy, police said. A central Pennsylvania man admitted killing his girlfriend’s 7-month-old son, shaking the crying boy to death before he hid the body, according to a search warrant affidavit. Ummad Rushdi, 30, currently faces kidnapping charges as cops continue to search... Read More
by Alison Bryant You need to practice. This is particularly important if you want to take shots at a special event, such as a wedding, where you won’t have time to take dozens of the same shot to get it just right. Take your camera out and just try taking lots of pictures. If you’re... Read More
by Akan Ido Rapper, Nicki Minaj has posted a new photo of herself wearing nothing but her long hair covering her breasts. Minaj has been known to show a lot of skin teasing her loyal followers on social media. Some might express reservations over this but we don’t see her fans complaining.
Imprisoned by her own body and slowly dying, Sherri Muzher wants to choose when to exit this life so she can help others to live. The 43-year-old Michigan woman has launched a one-woman campaign from her wheelchair to get her home state to reconsider its ban against physician-assisted suicide because she wants to donate her... Read More
STEVE READ/GETTY IMAGES Bossa no-no: Accused hooker peddler Hilda Maria Mallo, 62, was charged with felony promoting prostitution after a Midtown sting ensnared one of her ‘girls,’ waiting naked on the bed for her meeting with an undercover cop. A Brazilian madam and at least four of her hookers were busted in a Midtown East... Read More
The Texas teen suspected of raping and murdering a 6-year-old girl from his neighborhood was transferred Wednesday from the hospital to jail where he is still receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to the head. Tyler Holder, 17, will only interact with medical personnel at Tarrant County Jail. “It is common for accused child offenders... Read More
Shocking surveillance video from an Iowa mall shows cops beating a mother in front of her 1-year-old daughter after she was caught shoplifting at a department store. Brandie Redell, 34, admits that she was caught red-handed stuffing $388 worth of clothes into her 1-year-old daughter’s stroller at the Von Maur department store in Davenport on... Read More
by Isi Esene Mrtin Elechi, the governor of Ebonyi state has ordered the immediate sack of the state commissioner for environment, Paul Okorie. Okorie’s sack was made public in a release signed by the commissioner for information and state orientation, Emmanuel Chike Onwe. In the statement, Okorie was said to have been engaging in “acts... Read More
by Adanna Chukwuma By the end of 2015, with concerted global action, we could bring quality health care to the doorsteps of 650 million Africans, many of whom would be excluded otherwise. Now that’s a no-brainer. Three years ago I was working as a medical doctor in one of the poorest states in Northern Nigeria, with... Read More
by Femi Fani-Kayode It is the igbo people more than any other that have complained about marginalisation in Nigeria, forgetting that there is no other country in the world in which there was a major civil war and yet only 10 years after that war ended the losing side produced the Vice President… Permit me... Read More
by Jibrin Ibrahim The Professor Jega led INEC has always shown concern for a party system that expressed scant regard to democratic rules in their internal affairs. INEC, I believe, has also been concerned about the high number of non-functional parties that only serve to clog the ballot during elections, which explain their eagerness to... Read More
These images show the incredible transformation of a scorpion, simply by switching from daylight to UV light. The scorpion is better known as the Laos Black Forest Scorpion and is a particularly aggressive species when threatened. Scientists are not sure why the predatory arthropod glows blue, but there are various theories as to why it... Read More
A female vicar yesterday insisted she has not sinned against God by putting an obscene bumper sticker reading ‘WTFWJD’ on the back of her car. The Reverend Alice Goodman stuck the sticker, standing for ‘What The F*** Would Jesus Do?’, on the back of her red Subaru Legacy – sparking outrage from members of her parish. But the... Read More
26-year-old Pastor Rodney Wills was fired from his position at a North Carolina church after he was spotted at a Rick Ross concert. Wills was a pastor at Mt. Salem Baptist Church in North Carolina for almost four years when he was unexpectedly fired. The deacon board voted 11 to 3 when they met to vote whether Wills should... Read More
by Akan Ido Mohammed Abubakar, the Inspector General of Police has stated that he would not run a corrupt police system. The IGP was reacting to criticisms from several quarters considering the dismissal of a police officer who was caught receiving a bribe in Lagos as too harsh. Abubakar said this today at the State... Read More
by Akan Imoh Our students are at home, our poor lecturers are hungry, yet it is the least of worries for those in power. How can the education of our future leaders be important when there are other important issues like the Rivers State Crisis, PDP, APC and the others, a permanent secretary on sabbatical... Read More
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) yesterday released the full results of 1,543,683 candidates who sat for its May/June 2013 Secondary Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). The Head of National Office (HNO) of WAEC, Dr Charles Eguridu, announced the results yesterday when he addressed a news conference in Lagos The number represents 91.38 per cent... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang Luis Suarez’s interview with the UK Telegraph was brutal, revealing and emphatic. He went in hard. He showed that he can bark and bite. Compared to the early noises he made this summer, this was thunder. The former Ajax man accused Liverpool of broken promises and demanded loyalty. Arsenal fans were sent... Read More
This Monday on the ABC talk show “The View” Brittni Ruiz, a former p0rn star, appeared with Pastor Craig Gross of XXXchuch.com and said that she could never go back to her old lifestyle now that she had found God in her life and had encountered His love for her. One of the hosts of the show,... Read More
by Ochereome Nnanna If the Governors’ Forum focused on the right things, Mr Peter Obi of Anambra State would answer the phone when Fashola calls him. Obi would not only come to Lagos and join with Fashola when he wants a grand national burial for Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and shut his phone on Fashola... Read More
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by Rotimi Fasan It must be realised that patience is wearing thin among those most affected by the activities of these terrorists and their bottled anger might boil over in a manner that might be fateful for Nigeria’s existence. The era of using religion to foment trouble or excuse abominable acts against innocents should no... Read More
A migrant worker in China kidnapped and repeatedly raped teenage woman over 11 days in a cellar he dug under his rented home. Chen Xiaolong, 36, faces kidnap and multiple rape charges after holding the 18-year-old captive in the cramped basement beneath his single-room house in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Chen confessed to imprisoning the woman... Read More
by Akan Ido Dr. Sid yesterday proposed to his beautiful girlfriend, Simi Osomo in Venice, Italy. Both of them have been having swell time out of the country culminating into this romantic proposal. We say congratulations to the couple.
by Abimbola Adelakun But then, given Obasanjo’s antecedents and his role in engendering the culture of do-or-die elections in Nigeria, precisely what qualifies him to be a lead election monitor to Zimbabwe? Is the choice of Obasanjo the AU’s way of preempting their politics to us? There are two positions Africans usually take in discourses:... Read More
Pauline Hosein, 35, pleaded guilty to first-degree rape and child endangerment and was promised six years in prison, plus five years of supervised release. A Queens mom copped to an unthinkable crime Tuesday, admitting she pushed her 11-year-old daughter to have sex with a 24-year-old man, officials said. Pauline Hosein, 35, pleaded guilty to first-degree... Read More
by Oge Okonkwo The Military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe state has relaxed the 24-hour curfew earlier imposed on Potiskum town. This was announced in a press release issued by the Spokesman of the Task Force in the state, Captain Eli Lazarus, saying that the relaxation of curfew is due to the completion of the of... Read More
Oh, snip! Hair thieves known as “piranhas” are causing mass hysteria among long-haired beauties in parts of Venezuela, where men armed with scissors are attacking women for their tresses. The thieves sell the lopped-off hair to beauty salons for a pretty penny. It’s a terrifying threat to women in a country where long, shiny hair... Read More
by Chisom Ukaegbu Six young men got more than they bargained for when they were set ablaze by a neighbor for incessant gambling and smoking of Indian Hemp. The incident occurred in Ago-Oko area, Abeokuta, Ogun State late on Tuesday night when the man identified as Agba got fed up with their habit after warning... Read More