An Arizona woman is behind bars after she faked having breast cancer to raise money for a boob job. Jami Lynn Toler has landed a one-year stint in jail for conning family and friends into donating over $8,000 for a mastectomy she never needed. The 27-year-old told her mother and grandmother that she had to... Read More
A man fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor’s house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary and then discovered it was his son, state police said. Police identified the dead boy as 15-year-old Tyler Giuliano, who was shot at about 1 a.m. Thursday in New Fairfield, a town along... Read More
A group of teenage girls were charged Friday with viciously attacking a mentally challenged Pennsylvania woman and then posting a video of the beating on Facebook. A concerned neighbor alerted police in Chester, Pa. to the video Thursday and law enforcement mobilized a dragnet for the six girls seen on the recording. Four girls, between... Read More
The brother of the former EastEnders actress found dead in a canal has admitted he killed her, the Old Bailey heard today. Tony McCluskie, 35, now faces a trial to determine whether Gemma McCluskie’s death was murder or manslaughter, a judge said. Miss McCluskie vanished in March after attending the £650million opening of the new... Read More
The Ryder Cup has begun, but not in the way the organizers hoped that it would. A shot taken by golf great Tiger Woods flew out of bounds and whacked one of the fans in the head. The fan was knocked out cold, to the shock of everyone watching. Tiger was just practicing when he... Read More
If you don’t mind a little profanity, this ad is entertaining. As a spin-off to the bedtime story, “Go the F*ck to Sleep,” Samuel is now in the business of campaigning for President Obama in ways that only he is allowed to do. As a megastar and A-list actor, Jackson has built his career on... Read More
It seems that Rihanna has been partying really hard lately. The 24 year old singer was spotted enjoying herself on a yacht this summer and even had the media speculating if she was on a secret rendezvous with ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown. Sadly, she was recently spotted looking overly drunk at 1 OAK in Las Vegas... Read More
When Major John Tulloch retraced the steps of Allied prisoners of war and their infamous ‘death march’ from 1945, he thought his photographs would bare only a vague resemblance to the tortuous route PoWs took 70 years ago. The retired army officer had revisited the muddy track in Borneo where thousands of World War Two... Read More
A drunk businessman started handing passengers €50 notes during a flight before breaking up a mobile phone Sim card and eating it. Leon Quarless, who had been drinking before boarding the flight from Palma to Blackpool, also dished out sterling from a bag containing thousands in both currencies. But when people refused to accept the... Read More
Love affairs between musicians and models are a common occurrence in the showbiz world. But 24-year-old Chinese pop star Zhang Muyi has caused controversy after publicly declaring his love for a baby-faced model who is just 12-years-old. Despite the fact that Canada-based Akama Miki is not yet in her teens, the pair have exchanged romantic... Read More
A 20-year-old Brazilian woman student is auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder to raise cash to build homes for poverty-stricken families, the Daily Mail reported. Catarina Migliorini, a physical education student of Italian descent, has till now been offered $155,000. She hopes to pump in the money into a non-governmental organisation that will... Read More
by Isi Esene There are indications that doctors attending to the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, who is generally believed to be receiving treatment in a German hospital might soon be on her way back home. Reports say her doctors in Wiesbaden, Germany have given her a clean bill of health to return back to... Read More
by Akin Akintayo Social media can at once be both aggressive and effective. Many have put it to good use and organisations are slowly relearning the hard lesson of the customer being king. It is important Looking at issues to do with Problem Management some things are becoming quite evident. Seth Godin in his short blog a... Read More
by Nomalanga Mhlauli-Moses She still seemed to be stuck in that weird place where intellectually, she knows that she should not re-enter a romantic relationship with Chris Brown but is going through an emotional process that is pulling her in the opposite direction of her logic. Rihanna is back in the headlines and this time... Read More
Johnny Lewis, the actor who played Kip “Half Sack” Epps on the cable TV show “Sons of Anarchy,” fell to his death Wednesday after apparently beating his elderly landlady to death, authorities said. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Thursday identified the bodies as those of Lewis, 28, and Catherine Davis, 81. Coroner’s Watch... Read More
The Inspector-General of Police, M.D Abubakar, has set up a high-powered team from the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), to take over the investigation of the shooting death of Ugochukwu Ozuah on September, 2012 to find his killers. According to various accounts, newly-wed Ozuah, who had returned from his honeymoon only a few days earlier,... Read More
by Dan Hind Central banking is unavoidably political, no matter how much bankers and elected politicians tell us, and themselves, that it isn’t. At the moment claims that do not bear serious examination routinely pass unchallenged in the circuits of widely publicised speech. The lack of anything like an uninhibited critique of the claims of... Read More
The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested Thursday for violating terms of his probation, authorities said. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, has been on probation for a 2010 federal check fraud conviction that brought a 21-month prison sentence. Under terms of his probation, he... Read More
by Reuben Daba His last single – Gidi Lights – was an underground success. Now, talented upcoming rapper, PayBac, has released another single, Nothing in My Way, a very danceable song certain to be a club favourite. The single was produced by Zimbocrix. Enjoy the audio by just clicking on the link below: Paybac –... Read More
My name is Lilian, and I am fifteen years old. I am from the type of family most of you would call “broken” “confused”, or “complicated” What defines a family? What defines me? Who am I? I asked myself these questions as I sat cross-legged on my Oga’s well laid bed, staring at the family... Read More
by Reuben Daba Lagos State, and indeed Nigeria would not be too impressed by the kind of pictures the world has been viewing recently. First, Rick Ross released his very controversial Hold Me Back video set in the slums of Lagos, and now, popular British paper The Daily Mail, has published a piece captioned The floating slum on... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola An ex-police corporal, Ikechukwu Nwabueze was sentenced to death by hanging, by an Ikeja High Court in Lagos, on Thursday for killing a three-year-old girl, Kasufara Muritala. The presiding judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade, found the 35-year-old former policeman guilty of the crime which was brought before the court by the Lagos State... Read More
by Isi Esene The Saudi Arabia government Wednesday disregarded the 24 hour ultimatum given by the Nigerian government through Vice President Namadi Sambo to release the women who were in the holy land for religious pilgrimage. In defiance to the ultimatum, the Saudi Arabia government deported 510 female pilgrims mainly from Sokoto, Jigawa, and Kano... Read More
by Azuka Onwuka In the final analysis, do we then describe Jonathan as a failure or a success? Hardliners hardly change their positions, no matter the strength of evidence before them. The detractors of President Goodluck Jonathan will retort scornfully that he is a total failure, while his ardent supporters will scream that he is... Read More
by Isi Esene Amos Sijo, a 28-year-old man living in Abuja was on Thursday sentenced to three months imprisonment by a Gudu District Upper Area Court for stealing three bottles of Benylin cough syrup. The judge however gave the accused and option of coughing out N3,000 or serve the prison sentence. According to the police... Read More
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter If change feels like walking off a cliff blindfolded, then people will reject it. People will often prefer to remain mired in misery than to head toward an unknown. Leadership is about change, but what is a leader to do when faced with ubiquitous resistance? Resistance to change manifests itself in... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola On Thursday, in the United States of America, at a forum themed – Nigeria-Africa’s Frontier in the Global Economy, the Nigerian government gave what qualifies as its first rebuttal of claims by International Oil Companies (IOCs) that the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) does not give them a fair shake. At the roundtable,... Read More
by Isi Esene David ‘Davido’ Adeleke, the undisputed Omo baba Olowo has hit the big leagues if reports going the rounds is anything to go by. The Dami duro crooner is reported to have acquired a building in Lekki, Lagos, worth a whopping N140m in a deal rumoured to have been finalized in the past... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola On the issue of Boko Haram, President Goodluck Jonathan’s official position at the United Nations General Assembly is that Nigeria’s three-prong strategy of a “robust” approach to neutralizing Boko Haram, holding indirect talks with the group and improving education in the North is working, and Nigeria is winning the war. When one... Read More
An Australian teenage boy is fighting for his life after being bitten by a taipan snake – the venom of which can kill 100 men in a single drop. The 17-year-old took himself to hospital north of Sydney after being bitten on his left hand by the snake, the most dangerous in the world. But... Read More