Sunday 6 April 2014

Video: Arik Air Keeps Passengers Hostage

Passengers on a New York bound Arik Air trip were subjected to untold hardship occasioned by delays in checking in and excruciating heat after boarding the aircraft. After enduring the airline's shenanigan for while they took to protesting on board.

Emissions from diesel can damage children's brains

 
DIESEL emissions can damage the brains of children living near busy roads, altering the way they develop and raising their risk of developing schizophrenia, autism and other diseases.

Woman sentenced to 41 years after brutally stabbing her mother-in-law to

Ellyzabeth Rainey was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of mother-in-law Deborah Rainey 


20-year-old Colorado Springs woman Ellyzabeth Rainey has been sentenced to 41 years in prison for the horrific 2013 stabbing murder of her mother-in-law. 
Rainey pled guilty in January to second-degree murder of Deborah Rainey, 59. 

10 Gunmen Kill Businessman Inside A Church

 
Pandemonium struck this morning in the western Nigerian city of Ijebu-Igbo in Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State when 10 gunmen stormed a church and shot dead a 70 year-old man.
The assailants killed the popular furniture maker, Otunba Tola Okuneye,a.k.a. Ajagajigi.

Girl, 11 shot, killed by 2-year-old brother

Investigators say 11-year-old Jamara Stevens was killed when she was shot by her  2-year-old brother, who was playing with a gun.
An 11-year-old girl was killed by a 2 year-old in Philadelphia Saturday after the children were left unsupervised with a gun in the room.

Photos: Men Go Crazy Over My Figure – Actress Evia Simon

The curvy Nollywood actress in a recent interview talked on how men react when they come in contact with her.
“ I find their reaction annoying sometimes and embarrassing. Some even go as far as screaming and they let me know I am the reason they are screaming. Some go out of their ways to do the craziest things.
One of the craziest things a guy ever did was to leave his car parked along the roadside and entered the same cab with me just to have a word with me because if he had kept on driving he would have missed me.
And it was so funny when I found out he parked his car along the roadside to follow me down to my house just to have a word with me”

  


Graphic Photos: APC Chieftain Brutally Attacked By Thugs In Lagos

 


Via metronaija:
A man identified as Soji Alayinla, a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ilamose ward of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos was allegedly attacked by thugs during a council meeting.

Fulani herdsmen kill 30 in Zamfara

Gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen stormed a meeting in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state and killed 30 people, police said Sunday.
“Thirty people were killed and several others injured,” Zamfara state police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi told AFP.

APC congresses: Amosun, Osoba avert bloody clashes in Ogun

But for the intervention of Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and a former governor of the state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, there would have been bloodletting during the ward congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

‘How God saved me from Yugoslavian witch’ — Taribo West

taribo west 

SITTING face-to-face with Taribo West, flamboyant erstwhile Super Eagles defender, a mere breathe away surely evokes memory and emotion.
 
Friendly and good-natured, the former strongman in the heart of Super Eagles defence in the 1990s quickly sized up the reporter without been offensive as he sauntered into the visitor’s lounge of his impressive duplex. The four walls of the lounge abound with pictures of people dear to the footballer turned preacher. His mother’s portrait, (who died three months ago) is striking among the lot, with that of his two daughters as well as his with notable career highlights in the colours of Inter Milan, Derby County, Super Eagles, Julius Berger and Kaiserslautern.

Don Jazzy To Produce D’Banj’s New Album

 

D’Banj, has revealed that he will involve his former producer, Don Jazzy, to produce his next album. The award-winning musician disclosed this in an interview with UK radio and TV personality, Tim Westwood, recently that he is planning to do a “Best of D’Banj” album for his forthcoming 10th anniversary.

Football Transfer Talk

PSG to bid €60m for Hazard

Paris Saint-Germain are set to bid a club-record €60 million for Chelsea's Eden Hazard.


Atletico Mineiro sign Anelka on a free transfer

Atletico Mineiro sign Anelka on a free transfer
The 35-year-old striker has been without a club since being sacked by West Bromwich Albion in relation to his use of the allegedly anti-Semitic gesture, the 'quenelle'
Atletico Mineiro have confirmed the signing of former France international Nicolas Anelka on a free transfer.

Nigerian Medical Doctor Shot Dead By Her Husband In America

I read an article few years back about the growing trending of Nigerian men killing their nurse/doctor partners in America. Click here to read the article 

Now this again:
A 63-year-old Nigerian  man was charged with murder after he confessed to the shooting death of his wife around 3 a.m. Saturday in west Harris County, Texas in the United States.

Nollywood Actor, Uche Odoputa Turns To Driver In Port Harcourt

 


Popular Nollywood actor, Uche Odoputa who was convicted and sentenced to eight months imprisonment for trafficking in illicitdrugs in 2007 has turned to a private driver in Port Harcourt.

I don’t charge less than N3m for a show now” – Oritse

 

Last time, Oritse Femi said his first fee as an artiste was 5 million naira in 2004/2005..Now, he says he charges nothing less than 3 million for a show..He told Punch

How a woman I trusted stole & sold my baby for N600,000-Victim tells her story

 
The Imo State Police Command through its Anti-kidnapping Squad has arrested a 50-year old woman, Anne  Soronnade who allegedly bought a day-old baby boy for N600,000.The original mother of the baby  gave birth in a woman called Madam Nnena's house who asked to bring 30,000 to cover the expenses of taking care of her during pregnancy.

Photos: Inside The Abeokuta Ritual House in Ogun State

 

It is no longer news that a terrible kidnappers' building was recently discovered in Adigbe area of Abeokuta, Ogun State. 

Woman robs shop…forgets daughter inside the shop

A woman stole a clothes shop in a mall in Saudi Arabia and fled before realizing she had forgotten her three-year-old daughter inside the shop.

Senegalese law bars 10-year-old rape victim from aborting twins

MDG : Senegal women's legal aid : Fatou Kiné Camara, president of the Senegalese women lawyers 


It was a lost battle for the human rights campaigners in  Senegal in a bid to secure a legal route to abortion using the case of a 10-year-old girl pregnant with twins after she was raped by a neighbor.