Sunday, October 14, 2012

Animal Kingdom By Pelumi Olatinpo




I am afraid. I am deeply afraid. You see, when you are young, somewhere in your teen years, the world allows you a level of ignorance, a level of naïveté in most things.

Canada: Staff at XL Foods shocked by layoffs



Staff and union officials attached to the embattled XL Foods meat processing plant in Alberta expressed shock after the company said Saturday it is temporarily laying off almost all of its employees

— 2,000 out of approximately 2,200.
"The employees have a fear, they don't understand what is going on," said Abdi Nasir Guir, a worker at the Brooks, Alta. plant which remains at the centre of an international beef recall because of E. coli contamination. "So many people today were crying because they have car payments,

How Single Mother, 4 Other Drug Suspects Swallowed 398 Wraps of Narcotics.



A 28 year old single mother and four other suspected drug traffickers have been apprehended over alleged ingestion of 398 wraps of narcotics. The drugs weighing 7.1kg consist of 1.1kg of methamphetamine and 6kg of cocaine. The suspects were caught by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja.

NDLEA Commander at the Abuja Airport, Mr Hamisu Lawan gave the names of the suspects as Udoka Peace Egbuchelam, 28 year old single mother who ingested 73 wraps of methamphetamine weighing 1.1kg; Ezechi Chinedu Nwabueze, 45 years old who ingested 95 wraps of cocaine weighing 2kg and Uzoukwu Uzomba Joel, 54 years old who ingested 85 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.5kg.Others are Obiora Boniface Okechukwu 36 years old who ingested 91 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.6kg and Eze Onyebuchi Everest 32 years old who swallowed 54 wraps of cocaine weighing 900 grammes.

NDLEA Nabs Man Who Concealed 2.4 Kg Of Cocaine In Female Belts





Oluigboka Chukwuemeka Emmanuel thought he had cleverly concealed about 2.4 kilogrammes of cocaine in pendants and female belts.But his luck ran out when he was intercepted by Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement officials.The 33-year old suspect had just disembarked from a flight from Brazil when he was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed international airport in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.

Illegal Donk Injections Leave Woman With No Legs!!




Teased by her family and friends about her flat “pancake” Donk, Apryl Michelle Brown had always been insecure about her backside. Once she got enough money, she told herself, she’d buy herself a better one. “I didn’t know if I wanted to look like Janet Jackson or J. Lo,” the Los Angeles cosmetologist, 46, says in an exclusive interview featured in the November issue of ESSENCE magazine.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Another Lynching In Warri, Thief Burnt To Death In Broad Day Light




Although things have now changed because people now have camera phones and websites like youtube and twitter to share the stories, but days after the infamous lynching and gruesome murder of the four innocent students at Aluu community in port harcourt rivers state. A supposed thieve was burnt to death in Warri, Delta state. It is not a new phenomenom, the only thing new is that it people can record and share it, Nigeria has always been in this state of Dismal-Abysmal and barbarism which I can only regard as totally Lugubrious at its best.

Video:Angry Bus Driver Uppercut and Punches Woman on Bus in Cleveland






Angry bus driver has been suspended after uppercutting, punching and throwing a 25 year old woman off his bus in Cleveland. The video shows the woman being irate while cursing out the bus driver before hitting him while he was driving. The bus driver then stops the bus and assaults the woman - saying ‘She want to be a man, I’m going to treat you like a man', after a passenger on the bus yells, ‘That’s a f-ck*** female’

An investigation into the incident has been launched

Police shoot sales girl dead, injure 3 others



A 20-year old sales girl identified simply as Lucy, was on Friday shot dead by policemen in the Apo area of Abuja.
The girl was hit in the chest by bullets fired into a photography shop where she worked as a sales girl.
Three other people sustained gunshot injuries when policemen from the FCT Police Command fired bullets indiscriminately in an attempt to enforce the demolition order of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.
The policemen had stormed the area around 7 am with officials of Development Control Department, who had come to demolish illegal structures.But residents and indigenes,

Friday, October 12, 2012

UNILAG student jailed for defrauding an American lady




UNILAG student jailed for defrauding an American lady
For allegedly defrauding an American lady, Kathy Lunsford through the internet under the pretext of marriage, a University of Lagos student, Michael Opaleye has been sent to jail by a Lagos State High Court
Opaleye was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment yesterday by Justice Aishat Opesanwo for defrauding Miss Kathy Lunsford, of 9,200 US dollars under the pretext of getting married to her.
The convict who is studying computer science at UNILAG had pleaded guilty to the charge of obtaining by false pretence and forgery.
He had entered into a plea bargain deal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) and offered to pay back the money to his victim.The judge in her judgment, said the sentence would commence on 15 March when he was first arraigned before the court.

Nollywood Actress: Dino Melaye Is A Potential HIV Carrier, He Gave Me Syphilis




Nollywood Actress: Dino Melaye Is A Potential HIV Carrier, He Gave Me Syphilis
The ‘dirty water’ controversial former Kogi State federal lawmaker, Dino Melaye may have found himself swimming in has taken a new turn. If what we are now getting is anything to go by, then, more troubles await the husband of Tokunbo Melaye.
This is because the ‘activist’ has now been dragged into another controversy, which may be messier than the pregnancy mess he is in with beautiful Yoruba actress, Bisi Ibidapo Obe.
According to what BON reported, an up and coming Yoruba actress has accused the father of three of infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease called Syphilis. She also alleged Dino to be a potential carrier of the dreaded STD called HIV.BON reported that a budding actress (name withheld) sent a mail to them. A copy of the mail is presented below.

Lawmakers Ask For Life Imprisonment For Homosexuals In African Countries




Lawmakers Ask For Life Imprisonment For Homosexuals In African Countries
In many African countries, it is illegal to be gay. 25 out of 38 African nations have passed laws that give varying degrees of prison sentences to people caught practicing homosexual acts. In Nigeria, a 14-year jail term is prescribed for convicted offenders under the Same Sex Marriage (prohibition) bill which was passed into law in 2011.
These laws have received mixed reactions from Africans across the continent. While some have lauded it in countries where they have been passed, others have said there are more important things to focus on and an individual’s sexuality should not be subject to scrutiny and punishment.
At the recent Pan African Parliament in Johannesburg on 9th October, 2012, the topic of imprisonment of homosexuals in Africa was again raised.A Ugandan lawmaker, Atim Ogwal Cecilia Barbara called

Man Finds Wife In Bed With Her Boss




This woman's husband was said to have begged the man on the bed to employ his wife so they could have money to feed until he could sort out his financial problems. The man accepted after several pleas.

But unfortunately, because her husband no longer has money the woman started disrespecting him and keeping late nights. Acting on a tip off, the husband and his friends caught her live in the act with her boss.
The worst is that she didn't even look for a handsome man to sleep with but one who's "uglier" than her husband.
Since she already has a job, is it right for her to sleep with a man for money?

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Marya Rosales, 1000-Pound Woman Charged With Murder, Discusses Her Trial On TLC




When Sergio Valdez saw his 1000-pound client, Marya Rosales, in bed for the first time, he almost mistook some of her folds of fat for pillows.
"We've all seen obese, heavyset people. You have not seen obesity at this level," Valdez said in "Half-Ton Killer?" a TLC special airing Oct. 10 about Rosales, a woman bedridden from obesity, who claimed she accidently crushed and killed her two-year-old nephew
Rosales reportedly weighs nearly 1,100 pounds, enough to qualify her as one of the world's fattest women, but Valdez says even knowing she weighs more than five average men, doesn't prepare anyone for her sheer massiveness.

Judge Sentences Two Students To Death By Firing Squad For Stealing Phones




Judge Sentences Two Students To Death By Firing Squad For Stealing Phones
Justice Theresa Igoche of the Makurdi High Court, on Tuesday sentenced two students, Vershima Kaachi and Akaazua Akpen, to death by firing squad for armed robbery.
The convicts were arrested on the eve of Christmas in 2007 for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery, contrary to Sections 5(b) and 1(2) of the Robbery and Firearms Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990.
In his testimony, the victim of the offence, Jonathan Usenge, told the court that five armed men came to his house, attacked and robbed him of some valuable items on that day.
He stated that the robbers collected his Nokia 1600 phone valued N12,700.00, two torch lights valued N350.00 and a sum of N16,500.

4,000 Nigerians in Turkey prisons – IG



By Albert Akpor, Evelyn Usman & Daniel Eteghe.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday, in Lagos, said that no fewer than  4,000 Nigerians  are in Turkey prisons over drug related and human  trafficking cases.
The IG who arrived from Turkey,  vowed to fish out killers of the four students of University of Port Harcourt and those at Mubi, in Adamawa State.Briefing  journalists on arrival at the Police Air Wing, Ikeja, Abubakar  explained that  his

Meet Africa's Sexiest Man. Adonis O'Holi



 Adonis O'Holi is an actor, writer and model from Sierra Leone. On Saturday 7th October, he beat 16 other country delegates to win Mr Africa International 2012. Is he hot or hot?

UNIPORT Killings: Policemen said they should burn them alive - Tekena’s sister



A sister of one of the four University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) students brutally murdered last Friday in Umuokiri village, Aluu, Rivers State, has narrated how her younger brother and his friends were lynched. Miss Ibisobia Elkanah, elder sister of Tekena Friday Elkanah (both pictured above), revealed yesterday that policemen visited the scene where the students were burnt to death after they
were severely injured and that one of the law enforcement agents told the perpetrators of the dastardly act “to burn them alive” The murdered students,

OMG!! 6 Million Nigerian School Age Girls Are Not In School - Report



As the world marks the International Day of the Girl Child with the theme ‘Ending Child Marriage’, the Action Aid Group in Nigeria is advocating the ratification and full implementation of the Child Right Act in all 36 states of the federation.

 Deputy Country Director, of the Action Aid Group, Mrs Ifeoma Charles-Monwuba said the weak implementation of the Child Right Act which was enacted in 2003 has encouraged the continued practice of child marriages in Nigeria. Only 23 states of the federation have ratified the Act while 12 states especially in the northern region are yet to.  A recent report by Action Aid says that 36 million girls of school age are not in school globally

A 36-year old woman, Ngozi who was arrested kidnapping




A 36-year old woman, Ngozi Onuonwu who was arrested in Lagos for her alleged involvement in kidnapping has opened up and said that frustration led her into it because she did not see any man to marry her. The remorseful Ngozi said if she had married like her mates she would not have lived with her younger brother, Chibuzor who got her involved in kidnapping.

She narrated how the youths in her community at Umuleri in Anambra State engaged in a communal war with their neighboring community, Aguleri which lasted for several years.She said many youths died and this affected many girls including her as they could not get married.She said her fiancée died in the war and she did not get another man and so she had to move to Lagos and started living with Chibuzor.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Biden, Ryan squabble in vice-presidential debate



United States Vice-President Joe Biden and Republican vice-presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), late Thursday squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and other issues in a contentious, interruption-filled debate.
“That is a bunch of malarkey,” the vice-president retorted after a particularly tough Ryan attack on the administration’s foreign policy, the Associated Press reports.
“Not a single thing he said is accurate,” Democrat Biden declared after Ryan said U.S Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, had been denied sufficient security by administration officials.
Stevens died in a terrorist attack on the U.S Consulate in Benghazi on September 11.

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