Woman shot to death for declining a man’s advances at a local bar

A Pittsburgh mother of two was shot and killed on Friday (Jan. 22) after declining a man’s advances at a local bar. Janese Talton-Jackson, 29, was found lying in the street on North Lang Avenue at approximately 2 a.m., after a shooting was reported in the Homewood area.

Graphic photos: Dead bodies found buried in building site in Enugu

Three corpses were found and exhumed from a building site at Ugwuaji area of Enugu on the Enugu - Portharcourt Expressway yesterday Monday Jan. 25th. The corpses were buried inside the foundation of the building allegedly owned by a church which is under construction and totally covered with concrete.

According to unconfirmed sources, one of the workers at the site who heard about what had happened to the three men alerted the police, who came to exhume the bodies. The building is allegedly owned, according to residents in the area, by a ritualist who disguised to be a man of God. More photos...

Nigeria Shi’a group releases 705 names, photos of its missing members since the Dec clash with Nigeria Army

The Nigeria Shi'a group has released a list of its members that have gone missing since the December 12th clash they hard with the Nigerian Army.

The Islamic group had a fatal face-off with the Nigerian Army after some members of the group allegedly barricaded a road in Kaduna, preventing the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, from passing through the road. Over 300 people were reportedly killed.

Police find two-year-old boy stuck in the toilet crying after his parents left him alone to shop

A 2 year old's parents have been arrested on Thursday after he was found stuck in a toilet while left home alone.

Police say that neighbors in a building on Kingston Drive in Canton, Ohio called after hearing a child crying for at least half an hour at the Skyline Terrace apartments, according to IndeOnline.

The superintendent allowed cops inside the building where they reportedly found a two-year-old boy stuck in the toilet.

The poor tyke had apparently used the toilet and fell inside and got trapped.

Meet skinny model who earns £125,000 being squashed by plus-size models for a living

Student, Odette Delacroix had to find an extra source of income to support her through her degree course when she started studying English, four years ago.
But while many students turn to bar work or waitressing to earn a few extra quid, Odette stumbled on something completely different – and it’s now become her full-time job. 5ft tall Odette earns her living from men paying to watch her get squashed by other people.

GEJ to hold world press conference in Switzerland on January 27th

Former President Goodluck Jonathan will hold a world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday January 27th as part of activities planned by a group of diplomats to host him in the country. According to a statement by the executive director of the Geneva Press Club, Guy Mettan, Jonathan will be hosted to a dinner at Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva, on the same day.

EFCC files 22 fresh charges against Tompolo over alleged N22.7bn fraud

Eight days after a judge ordered the arrest of former Niger Delta militant leader Tompolo over his refusal to appear in court on a 40-count charge of alleged N34bn fraud earlier filed against him and nine others, the EFCC on Friday January 22nd, filed 22 fresh charges at the Federal High court Abuja, against the ex-Niger Delta militant leader and 12 others over allegations of stealing, advanced fee fraud and money laundering to the tune of N22,765,900,000.

'We are far from where we are hoping to get to' - Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh

Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh has indicated his worry at the form of the home based Super Eagles in the ongoing African Cup of Natiopns for home based players (CHAN). Sunday Oliseh's team will take on Guinea tomorrow in their last Group C match of the CAF Africa Nations Championship in Rwanda but says he and the technical crew are wary of injuries as the players are feeling the effects of playing on a synthetic turf.

Those who stole from Nigeria have newspapers, radio & TV stations - Lai Mohammed

While speaking at a meeting with Nigerian entertainers in Lagos over the weekend, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said those who stole Nigeria dry have newspapers, Radio and Television stations and are very powerful people in the society. He added that the fight against corruption by the Buhari administration is already getting global attention ...

Photos: Lai Mohammed meets with Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy, MI, other entertainers in Lagos

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, met with entertainers including Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy, MI, Paul and Jude Okoye, Sunny Ade, Mo Abudu and others at the Southern Sun Hotel in Lagos yesterday January 24th. The meeting was to sensitize the entertainers on the 'Change Begins With Me' project that is to be launched by this administration.

Group questions Chief of Army Staff, Buratai’s non-inclusion in arms deal probe

The Save The Nation Movement has queried the exclusion of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai from the $2.1 billion arms deal investigation because he served as the Defence Headquarters Director of Procurement between 2012 and 2015.

In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday January 24th, and signed by its National Secretary, Mazi Steven O. Chilaka, the group said it was concerned that only Air Force chiefs were listed among those recommended for probe by the committee established to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and defense sector from 2007 to 2015.

Pics: ISIS releases video of Paris attackers executing & beheading prisoners before they headed to Europe

The video posted on jihadist websites titled "Kill wherever you find them" shows the Paris attackers - four Belgians, three French citizens and two Iraqis carrying out atrocities, including beheading and shooting ISIS hostages at camps in Syria and Iraq before they headed to Paris to carry out the attacks that left 130 people dead.

R.Kelly opens up on relationship with the late Aaliyah and child pornography charges

R&B singer R.Kelly has opened up on the controversial stories that turned him into a tabloid regular.

The singer was alleged to be in a relationship with the late Aaliyah who was 15 year old at the time, and in 2008 he was also accused of filming himself having sex with a minor, a case he won in court.

 

He revealed in an interview with GQ that he doesn't regret the 'best friend' relationship he had with Aaliyah and that once you are found not guilty of charges in a law court be it murder or whatever,t hen you are not guilty.

"I will never have that conversation with anyone. Out of respect for Aaliyah, and her mother and father who has asked me not to personally. But I can tell you I loved her, I can tell you she loved me, we was very close. We were, you know, best best best best friends."

L.A. to pay $24 million to 2 men who spent decades in jail for murders they did not commit

Los Angeles will pay more than $24 million to two men who spent decades in prison after they were wrongfully convicted of murder, officials said.  

Kash Delano Register won his freedom in 2013 after lawyers and students from Loyola Law School doubted a key prosecution witness’s testimony.

Check out Footballer Obafemi Martins kids

He has three kids...these are the two youngest ones..so cute!

Alleged fake syrup producer arrested by NAFDAC (Parents beware)

A Federal High Court in Lagos has remanded Mr. Kenneth Chiokwe, an alleged fake codeine cough syrup maker in prison following his arraignment by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC for producing fake cough syrup.

Driver in Fatal Las Vegas Strip Crash Faces 1,000 Years in Prison

The woman who allegedly plowed her vehicle into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip last month, killing one person and injuring dozens more, has been hit with a total of 71 charges, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding up to more than a millennium worth of jail time

Vatican offers homeless new mother a place to live after she gives birth nearby

Vatican officials offered to house a homeless woman who gave birth near St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday.
Italian police found the woman while patrolling the area—she had given birth on a piece of cardboard around 2 a.m. Wednesday, according to CBS News.

Neighbour (Family friend) sells 3 year old girl for N20,000

A three-year-old girl, Success Onyeisi was kidnapped from her home on December 22, 2015 and hasn't been seen since then.

The toddler was allegedly kidnapped by a neighbour and supposed family friend, Emmanuel Okpara, who during the search of missing 3 year old, helped the toddler's father,  Godwin Onyeisi, look for the girl, until he was accused by people who saw him with the child about the time she reportedly went missing.

Her father, a commercial motorcyclist said he has spent all his savings, about N60,000, on police investigations and other logistics to no avail.

Army Chief, Buratai, orders all officers to declare their assets

Press statement from the Nigerian Army...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has directed all officers of the Nigerian Army who have not declared their assets to do so immediately. He gave the directive on Tuesday during a conference with Principal Staff Officers and Directors serving at the Army Headquarters.