TICKER: Japanese man pays $780K for virginity of 20-year-old Brazil woman

A Brazilian student is set to sell her virginity for a staggering $780,000 after she put it up for auction online. A man called Natsu, from Japan, fended off strong competition from American bidders Jack Miller and Jack Right, and a big-spender from India, Rudra Chatterjee, to secure a date with 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini. The... Read More

auction, Business, virginity

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Heartbreaking: 70-year-old woman assaulted and violated inside a church

A Tampa woman experienced something that is simply unthinkable for the rest of us. Police say that the woman was in church when she was assaulted by an unidentified man. The woman was at the Living Word Fellowship Church when the incident occurred. Police say that the man told the victim that he wanted to... Read More

Living Word Fellowship Church, Violence against women

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Bank of America sued for $1 billion by US govt for mortgage fraud

The Justice Department is seeking $1 billion from Bank of America, alleging the bank committed fraud by selling defective mortgages from a program it says was known within the bank as “the Hustle.” Those mortgages were purchased by government-backed mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, resulting in over $1 billion in losses for... Read More

bank of america, justice department, mortgage fraud

October 24, 2012

Just amazing! Motorcycles made of human beings (PHOTOS)

by Rachel Ogbu Advertising and branding studio i.d.e.a. created a series of human motorcycles from the contorted bodies of yoga experts and circus performers to promote the upcoming Progressive International Motorcycle Show. We’ve seen impressive body-painting and displays of yoga skills before, but these human motorcycles are in a category of their own. “We sought... Read More

body contortion, motorcycle show, yoga

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Really? Men, not women are better at multitasking – New study

Working mothers may have to juggle more tasks than their husbands, but the long-held belief that women are better than men at multitasking is a myth, according to new Swedish research. “On the contrary, the results of our study show that men are better at multitasking than women,” Timo Maentylae, a psychology professor at Stockholm... Read More

multitasking, research, study

October 24, 2012

Photo of the Day: This is the highway to heaven… take it

by Isi Esene Everyone wants to die peacefully and see the Lord one day, but this sign is proposing a much faster way – a highway to heaven! Anyone up for this offer?! We think not. A reader sent this in.

land, Lord, Photo, Trespassing

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Miracles: Dog saves the life of a 9-week-old baby

A family in Portland is thanking their rescue dog for saving their infant daughter’s life. “If Duke hadn’t been so scared, we would have just gone to sleep,” said Jenna Brousseau. On Sunday night, Duke, who was adopted nearly six years ago, jumped on the Brousseau’s bed and was shaking uncontrollably, enough to wake them... Read More

baby, Duke, Jenna Brousseau

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Hero Alert: Meet the 12-year-old boy who risked his life to save his grandmother from raging fire

A 12-year-old boy carried his grandmother to safety after a propane heater exploded in their home and started a fire on Friday. Seth Cutright said he smelled the leaking gas just before his grandmother, Rose Cutright, lit a cigarette and their home exploded in flames. “It was like ‘boom.’ A flash before your eyes,” said... Read More

Fire, grandmother, Roger Cutright, Seth Cutright

October 24, 2012

Oh, please: ‘We are yet to enforce the new Lagos traffic law’ – Lagos State govt

by Isi Esene This might surprise a lot of Lagosians, but the attorney-general of Lagos and commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye, along with his predecessor, Prof. Yemi Osibajo have told a Lagos High Court that the state government is yet to commence the enforcement of the new traffic law. They disclosed this on Wednesday saying... Read More

Ade Ipaye, Bamidele Aturu, highways, lagos, Lagos High Court, motocyclists, okada, Yemi Osibajo

October 24, 2012

TICKER: FG to keep N276 million of the N1.1 billion found with man at airport – Court

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered Tijjani Sherif, the man caught at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, while traveling with $7 million (about N1.1 billion) to forfeit 25 percent of the undeclared cash to the Federal Government. Justice C.J Aneke gave the order after the 25-year-old man pleaded guilty to a... Read More

airport, CJ Aneke, court, forfeit, money laundering, Tijjani Sherif

October 24, 2012

#SleevesUp Nigeria: Nigerians say “Never Again” to mob justice

by Rachel Ogbu The bloody Friday incident that occurred on October 5, 2012, in which four students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) were brutally murdered by a mob for alleged robbery continues to spark reactions across the country. SleevesUp Nigeria is now mobilising Nigerians and encouraging them to be united in one voice... Read More

#Aluu4, #Sleeves up Nigeria, advocacy, crinal code, Jungle justice

October 24, 2012

Teacher flogs pupil to death in Anambra State, school shut down by govt

by Isi Esene A 12-year-old pupil, Chidimma Ukachukwu, reportedly died while being flogged by her school teacher for not doing her homework. Sources say the secondary school student fainted in the process of being flogged by a female teacher and later died while being rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Awka, Anambra State. The... Read More

anambra, awka, Chidinma Ukachkwu, Simeon Ukachukwu, teacher, Uju Okeke

October 24, 2012

TICKER: After stinging debate loss, US Republicans spread nasty rumour that Obama sold cocaine in Harvard

Donal Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday that he has some dirt on President Obama which he plans to release before wednesday. “Something very, very big concerning the president of the United States,” Trump said. “It’s going to be very big. I know one thing — you will cover it in a very... Read More

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Meet Marina Chapman, who claims she was raised by monkeys

Marina Chapman may live a quiet life now, but the story of her childhood is more akin to a wild fairytale: Chapman claims she was raised by monkeys. The British housewife alleges that capuchin monkeys raised her after she was kidnapped in Colombia and abandoned in a remote jungle, according to The Sunday Times via... Read More

Andrew Lownie, Marina Chapman, monkey, Oxana Malaya

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Bizzare Twist: Police say woman who says KKK set her on fire actually did it to herself

In a bizarre twist to the case of Sharmeka Moffitt, police are now saying that the woman wasn’t set on fire by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Instead, they say that she actually did it all to herself. The woman in Winnsboro is being accused of making up a story in which she said that... Read More

October 24, 2012

TICKER: ‘Dead’ man turns up at his own funeral

A Brazilian family was stunned when their relative arrived at his own funeral after a mix-up when the dead body was identified. The funeral of car washer Gilberto Araujo, 41, was being held in the town of Alagoinhas in north-east Brazil when Gilberto himself walked in. His brother Jose Marcos, had identified a body at the... Read More

brazilian, funeral

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Teen brothers arrested in 12-year-old’s murder

Two teenage brothers were charged Tuesday with murdering a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since the weekend, prompting a frantic search by her small hometown until her body was found stuffed into a home recycling bin. The boys’ mother played a part in cracking the case involving Autumn Pasquale, Gloucester County prosecutor Sean Dalton... Read More

Corey Hewes, Crime Investigators, Gloucester County, Jodie Robinson, Na'eem Williams

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Virgin Atlantic employs 10-year-old as manager

British mega carrier, Virgin Atlantic, has appointed a 10-year-old boy to test and approve its newly refurbished Boeing 747 jumbo plane. A statement by the airline office in Nigeria said the pint-sized primary school pupil, Billy Yeomans, was chosen from over 600 applicants to become the airline’s first Junior Approvals Manager in an initiative spearheaded... Read More

Virgin Atlantic

October 24, 2012

The return of cassava bread: UTC launches new bread – with even more cassava

by Rachel Ogbu This is one premier no one is eager to attend. The repackaging of UTC’s Starloaf cassava bread will be officially launched on Thursday, November 26, 2012- this time with even more cassava. Foluso Olaniyan, Managing Director of UTC, said the company will officially launch the rebranded, improved and export-quality cassava bread, with higher... Read More

cassava bread, economy, export, repackaging

October 24, 2012

Report: SSS says man behind Arik scare is a mental patient (and insists he did not have a bomb)

by Rachel Ogbu Earlier we reported the State Security Services, SSS, took into custody a man, Aminu Galadima who scared passengers on an Arik Air flight to Abuja yesterday when he started acting weird, standing and shouting “God is great!” Passengers landed safely and the SSS, Ministry of Aviation and Arik in different statements Tuesday, dismissed rumours that the plane... Read More

arik air, bomb scare, sss, terrorism

October 24, 2012

The wages of porn: Posh wedding hotel refuses to host wedding of adult TV star

by Rachel Ogbu A five star hotel based in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom turned away adult TV star and glamour model, Pauline Bailey who goes by the name of Rachel T when she went to make inquries about holding her wedding there. The 27-year-old medical law graduate who works at Red Light Central TV was branded ‘not... Read More

adult tv, discrimination, wedding

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Bank security guard steals N1m from ATM

A security guard, Danjuma Abutu, 36, attached to Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, GTB, Lagos has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, on a three-count charge of breaking into the bank’s Automated Teller Machine, ATM, to steal N1 million. The police at the Bar Beach Division, Victoria Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, alleged in the charge... Read More

atm, bank

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Fight breaks out in Edo community over “manhood initiation”

Many residents of South Ibie Kingdom, near Auchi, Etsako East Local Government, Edo State on Tuesday fled the community as fighting broke out between youths and the police. The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that the fight broke out following a dispute between the monarch and some sections of the kingdom on whether to hold... Read More

Edo, Manhood

October 24, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: The US, Nigeria’s oil and signs of the last days (YNaija Frontpage)

It is good news for the world, it is a disaster for oil dependent mono-economies. A country cannot be more dependent on one source of income like Nigeria is on oil. One Newspaper headline had it like this yesterday ‘Anxiety as Nigeria’s crude oil export to U.S. slumps.’ This is not what those in... Read More

China, economy, Germany, nigeria, Oil, Petroleum, Shell, Vitol

October 24, 2012

Who’s your choice? Dangote, Elumelu make final list for Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2012

by Isi Esene Forbes is out with its shortlist of nominees for Person of the Year. The list includes two Nigerians, Aliko Dangote and Tony Elumelu; a South African, Stephen Saad; a Kenyan, James Mwangi and the Malawian President, Joyce Banda. Read their profiles and let’s have your preference. Tony Elumelu, Founder and Chairman of... Read More

aliko dangote, forbes, James Mwangi, Joyce Banda, Person of the Year, Stephen Saad, Tony Elumelu, vote

October 24, 2012

12-year-old flogged to death in Awka for failing to do her homework

by Hauwa Gambo An awful story. In Awka, the Anambra capital, a 12-year-old second school pupil, Chidimma Ukachukwu, has died after her teacher caned her, purportedly for not doing her homework. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the girl died on Thursday last week after she was caned. She had fainted following the beating... Read More

anambra, awka, homework, teacher

October 24, 2012

Man who caused scare on Arik flight in SSS custody

by Rachel Ogbu The Ministry of Aviation and Arik Air have both denied that there was a suicide bomber on a domestic flight on Tuesday after reports that a male passenger screaming “Allahu Akbar” in an air-borne Arik plane scared passengers. Eye witnesses were quick to react and soon afterwards, news about the occurrence was all over social... Read More

airk air, aviation, boko haram, bomb scare, hijacking, stella oduah

October 24, 2012

Danger ahead: Boko Haram plans to “launch massive attacks” during Sallah – JTF

by Hauwa Gambo The spokesperson of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in Borno, Colonel Sagir Musa, has announced that the Boko Haram sect plans to launch an attack during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration starting tomorrow. “Information available to the JTF indicates that the Boko Haram terrorists are planning massive attacks on military and civilian targets... Read More

boko haram, Borno, JTF, sallah, yobe

October 23, 2012

TICKER: Donald Trump’s “big announcement” tomorrow is about “Michelle and Barack Obama divorce”

Donald Trump is to claim that he has unearthed divorce papers of Michelle Obama and the President, according to a respected financial pundit with links to the tycoon. It is alleged that the eccentric real estate mogul will claim that the documents show the First Lady and the President were at one point in their... Read More

divorce, obama, papers, trump

October 23, 2012

TICKER: #InCaseYouMissedIt: Fashola and Obasanjo battle over vehicles

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola are at loggerheads following the seizure of one of Obasanjo Farms’ utility vehicles by men of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA). Sources close to Obasanjo Farms in Ota, Ogun state explained that one of the utility vehicles allegedly committed a traffic offence... Read More

Fashola, Obasanjo

TICKER: Japanese man pays $780K for virginity of 20-year-old Brazil woman

TICKER: Heartbreaking: 70-year-old woman assaulted and violated inside a church

TICKER: Bank of America sued for $1 billion by US govt for mortgage fraud

Just amazing! Motorcycles made of human beings (PHOTOS)

TICKER: Really? Men, not women are better at multitasking – New study

Photo of the Day: This is the highway to heaven… take it

TICKER: Miracles: Dog saves the life of a 9-week-old baby

TICKER: Hero Alert: Meet the 12-year-old boy who risked his life to save his grandmother from raging fire

Oh, please: ‘We are yet to enforce the new Lagos traffic law’ – Lagos State govt

TICKER: FG to keep N276 million of the N1.1 billion found with man at airport – Court

#SleevesUp Nigeria: Nigerians say “Never Again” to mob justice

Teacher flogs pupil to death in Anambra State, school shut down by govt

TICKER: After stinging debate loss, US Republicans spread nasty rumour that Obama sold cocaine in Harvard

TICKER: Meet Marina Chapman, who claims she was raised by monkeys

TICKER: Bizzare Twist: Police say woman who says KKK set her on fire actually did it to herself

TICKER: ‘Dead’ man turns up at his own funeral

TICKER: Teen brothers arrested in 12-year-old’s murder

TICKER: Virgin Atlantic employs 10-year-old as manager

The return of cassava bread: UTC launches new bread – with even more cassava

Report: SSS says man behind Arik scare is a mental patient (and insists he did not have a bomb)

The wages of porn: Posh wedding hotel refuses to host wedding of adult TV star

TICKER: Bank security guard steals N1m from ATM

TICKER: Fight breaks out in Edo community over “manhood initiation”

Japheth Omojuwa: The US, Nigeria’s oil and signs of the last days (YNaija Frontpage)

Who’s your choice? Dangote, Elumelu make final list for Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2012

12-year-old flogged to death in Awka for failing to do her homework

Man who caused scare on Arik flight in SSS custody

Danger ahead: Boko Haram plans to “launch massive attacks” during Sallah – JTF

TICKER: Donald Trump’s “big announcement” tomorrow is about “Michelle and Barack Obama divorce”

TICKER: #InCaseYouMissedIt: Fashola and Obasanjo battle over vehicles

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