A 21-year-old man allegedly beat his month-old daughter to death and murdered her mother with a machete before setting their Bronx apartment on fire, police sources said Friday. Elgidio Lind was being grilled by detectives after firefighters found the bodies of his girlfriend, Louisa Rodriguez, 32, and their baby, Angela, stuffed under a smoldering mattress... Read More
by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to locate the whereabouts of the $26.5m plea bargain money paid by the construction company, Julius Berger, and returned to the police by next week. It was gathered that there were conflicting signals coming out... Read More
by Isi Esene Fire has gutted the multi-storey Euro-Asia Plaza in the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island. The cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained but huge smoke was seen billowing from the building located on Breadfruit street. Traders were also seen hurling their goods from adjoining buildings to prevent them from... Read More
by Isi Esene If the courts were to sentence suspects on the basis of their mugshots, then James Holmes, would have been long found guilty and sentenced to life in jail. Of all the weird mugshots we’ve seen, from the odd to the awkward, to the extremely insane, this is certainly one of the most... Read More
by Isi Esene Oluyinka Akinadewo, 39, was on Friday sentenced to 46 months in jail for his involvement in the use of compromised identity information to commit bank fraud in the Washington DC area of the United States of America. His co-defendant, Adebimpe Olejiya, was earlier in the month sentenced to 35 months in jail... Read More
by Dr. Boyce Watkins Another thing that most business school faculty don’t understand is struggle. Most of the faculty at Harvard University or any other business school would not have been able to start where Jay-Z began and make it to adulthood as a healthy individual who wasn’t either dead or in jail. Maria Lloyd... Read More
by Isi Esene In honour of Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State – and easily the world’s most powerful female – on her 65th birthday, here is a compiled list, courtesy of the Huffington Post, of what we love and admire about her — from the small things that make us smile to the... Read More
by Isi Esene A 33-year-old man in South África has been accused of raping his 55-year-old mother. The suspect who was not named so as to protect the identity of the victim allegedly forced his way into her bedroom and threatened her with a knife before dragging her to a neighbour’s house, where the alleged... Read More
About a month ago, I was carjacked and robbed on a Lagos highway and a motorcycle played a significant role in this horror. My story is the norm, motorcycles are dangerous in Lagos, and we all know this. Public policy is an art and a science and those who are entrusted with this responsibility must... Read More
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