Police say a western Pennsylvania woman blamed her nonexistent twin sister for stealing items from a hotel room. The Beaver County Times (http://bit.ly/Sm5XDv ) reports Wednesday that police charged 31-year-old Jennifer Brown, of Rochester, with false reports and theft. State police say Brown took some bed clothes, an alarm clock, coffee pot, basket and a... Read More
Long lines formed at some petrol stations in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos on Wednesday after the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) threatened to strike over fuel subsidies, with the government having denounced a similar move as blackmail. The government has pledged to carefully vet fuel subsidy payments after investigations revealed massive... Read More
A Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced an employee of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ibrahim Fasasi, to one month imprisonment for stabbing a man, he suspected to be a thief, with a knife. Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya, who gave the judgment, said the sentence should be served with hard labour. Fasasi had... Read More
by Doyin Jaiyesimi The Got Talent train moved to Lagos as auditions were held in the city on Saturday and Sunday August 18 and 19. As expected, the Mega-city of Lagos, had the highest turnout of hopefuls, coming on the heels of, after impressive outings in Abuja. Some of Nigeria’s hottest undiscovered acts, as... Read More
Miss World Winner Comes Under Fire, The pageant, which Halle Berry has competed in, is less well-known than Miss Universe. Miss World Pageant Winner Slammed as Fake. Beauty Contest Gets Political., This past weekend 116 contestants gathered in the remote town Odros City in China’s Inner Mongolia district for the annual Miss World Pageant. Representatives... Read More
A woman accused of butchering, cooking and eating her two sons last week is believed to have done so because she hallucinated that they were pigs, Mental Health Department deputy director general Kiattiphum Wongrachit said on Tuesday. “The woman killed her children because she didn’t continue her treatment and didn’t take her medication,” Dr Kiattiphum said. He... Read More
The recent West Nile virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in the United States, according to new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of cases so far this year is the highest recorded through August since the disease was first detected in the United States in 1999. As of... Read More
An Italian man has been arrested over the murder of a Nigerian prostitute after police searching her apartment found a short story he wrote with close similarities to the killing. Police in the northern Italian city of Turin discovered the nine-page story entitled “The Rose and the Lion” among the belongings of Anthonia Egbuna, whose... Read More
Henry Wyndham, 58, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, is believed to have been injured after a gun was accidentally fired towards him while he stood at his post. It sprayed shot into his arm, throat and face. Doctors believed yesterday his vision has been spared because he was wearing a sturdy pair of spectacles which protected... Read More
Arsenal defender Andre Santos was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a car chase the day before the club’s first Premier League game of the season, police said. The Brazil international left-back, 29, was detained near the north London club’s training ground in the county of Hertfordshire, north of the British capital, last Friday... Read More
by Akan Ido Sheng Fi, a woman in southern China, tried to commit suicide by jumping from the roof of a 100ft tall nine storey building in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province. A UK daily newspaper reported yesterday that Sheng had earlier smothered her nephew to death and thrown his body off the roof. She was said... Read More
At least 48 Kenyans were hacked or burnt to death in ethnic clashes between two rival groups, the worst single attack since deadly post-election violence four years ago, police said Wednesday. “It is a very bad incident…. They include 31 women, 11 children and six men,” regional deputy police chief Joseph Kitur said of the... Read More
Lately I’ve been curious about what makes a man or woman decide that someone is “The One”. I think there is a defining moment in every relationship when you realize this person is it! But before we get to that point something or some things attract us to the other person in the first place... Read More
by Akan Ido The Boko Haram militant sect apparently did not halt attacks on targets during the recently passed Eid-el-Fitr celebrations as widely expected. There were reports of two separate killings at different Mosques in Biu, Borno State on Monday and Tuesday. Observers had expected the militant group to halt its attacks due to the... Read More
by Isi Esene It’s here again, the longest running annual gathering of Nigerians in the UK according to those who make it a yearly ritual: the Nigerian Corner at Notting Hill Carnival. Since 1986, this has been the meeting point for Nigerians at the world famous Notting Hill Carnival, to celebrate Nigeria, network, re-connect, eat,... Read More
by Akin Osuntokun It is not fashionable to hold brief for the Peoples Democratic People (PDP). It is a vocation that is guaranteed a hostile reception by a phalanx of active Nigeria public intelligentsia complemented by the impression that the party itself believes it does not need anybody’s advocacy or does not deserve it or both.... Read More
The generation that left town provoked an opportunity to put straight the blame for my generation. Richard Branson is one of the world’s most highly regarded entrepreneurs. His call can colour a lot of judgment in making investment choices. He recently gave a verdict on Nigeria, especially its leaders. As if the effects of... Read More
Oklahoma’s Prague High School takes its curse words very seriously. The school is holding back their valedictorian’s diploma because the teen uttered the word “hell” during her speech at the school’s commencement ceremony. Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Prague High School and was awarded the title of valedictorian and the honor of delivering a speech at the school’s... Read More
Driving down West Front Street on Monday, two city residents leaped from their car to help a woman they thought was being assaulted by a man, authorities said. There was just one problem: The woman actually had just robbed the man with whom she was tussling, and the would-be good Samaritans inadvertently allowed her to... Read More
At least 48 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in south-eastern Kenya, officials say. The clashes in Tana River district, Coast Province, took place late on Tuesday between the Orma and Pokomo groups, the region’s police chief said. Most of the dead were women and children, he said. Police have been deployed to the... Read More
Twelve people, dressed in bowler hats and smart suits, carried their own toilets down to the beach, placing them in a line on the beach front before dropping their trousers and sitting. The protesters said they were demanding public toilet facilities, of which there are currently none, in the local area. A local photographer Andrew... Read More
When Jessie Gravatt hailed a cab recently, she didn’t expect much more than a safe ride, a clean taxi and a driver that wore pants. She got two out of three of those criteria, but midway through the ride, Gravatt, 21, a resident of Perth, Australia, looked over and saw the driver was pantsless and... Read More
by Doyin Jaiyesimi Well, he did tell her the ‘L’ word, no? Big Brother Stargame finalist, Kenyan Prezzo, is currently in Nigeria and no, he is not here because of Goldie. The One Campaign ambassador has been touring Lagos and Abuja since he arrived and has a press conference to attend today holding at The... Read More
They had their cake and ate it, too — but it tasted horrible. Two Florida swingers got into a battle royale after they solicited guests for sex, and stayed naked even as cops arrived to arrest them, the Hernando Daily reports. Tina Michelle Norris, 39, and her boyfriend, James Albert Barfield, 56, each brought home... Read More
by Doyin Jaiyesimi This is an iconic back-in-the-day photo. Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and Pastor Tunde Bakare, Senior Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos (and vice presidential candidate for General Buhari in the April 2011 elections, convener of Save Nigeria Group, and opposition politician) appear here in... Read More
by Akan Ido The outrage which followed the tweet below attributed to the comedian, Klint da drunk, has finally died down when funny man denied the ownership of the said Twitter account. The tweet, which understandably, raised a storm of emotion and criticism and fans of the comedian were relieved to find out that the... Read More
Lindsay Lohan must be having a bad case of déjà vu. The actress is reportedly caught up in yet another theft, this time involving the robbery of jewelry from a Hollywood Hills home. TMZ first reported that Lohan was being questioned by police about the Hollywood Hills robbery, which occurred Sunday night (E! online reports... Read More
Rapes are “horrible,” but sometimes they produce “extraordinary” people, one-time GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told Missouri Rep. Todd Akin during his radio show yesterday. “Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the late singer. “I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s. He leads... Read More
Whoa, Canada! Avril Lavigne and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger’s relationship has been so quiet that few even knew they were dating. Now, after a six-month courtship, the Canadian rockers are engaged to be married, Lavigne’s rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. Lavigne, 27, and Kroeger, 37, first got together in February to co-write a song for Lavigne’s... Read More