Thursday, 28 July 2016

Nigerian man who posed as a UN officer arrested in Malaysia for 'black money' scam





A Nigerian man who operates a 'black money" was arrested in a hotel in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, July 22 while impersonating as a United Nations officer.

Beautiful new photos of Blue Ivy with her hair in a bun



In Bauchi Mentally challenged woman regains sanity at Deeper Life crusade





The elderly woman pictured left who was mentally challenged for seven years,

PSquare is back together


He fought for custody of his son for almost a year



Dillon Wyckoff who had been in a year-long custody battle over his two-year-old son, Mason Wyckoff got a tragic news on Friday that his little boy had passed away possibly at the hands of his mother. Emergency crews were called to his baby mama's apartment where they found the deceased toddler alongside his unconscious mother, Stephenie Erickson.

Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern?




Near the end of his interview with Bill Murray, Howard Stern turned an already somber discussion about missed career opportunities into an existential grilling.

Apple’s historic stock surge could confirm what Buffett already knew


Apple’s historic stock surge could confirm what Buffett already knew

The historic surge in Apple Inc.’s stock on Wednesday is finally giving investors something other than declining iPhone sales to talk about, and could confirm what Warren Buffett may have believed several months ago, that a bottom has already been seen.

Researchers seeing more sharks up and down the East Coast


In this Tuesday, July 25, 2016 photo released by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, a great white shark swims close to the Cape Cod shore in Chatham, Mass. A Massachusetts state biologist said shark sightings are up slightly along the East Coast this summer. (Wayne Davis/Atlantic White Shark Conservancy via AP)


BOSTON — It's shark season on the East Coast.
Shark sightings have prompted authorities to temporarily close popular beaches in New England, New York and elsewhere this month. And 13 people have been bitten by sharks in Florida this year.

How the ice bucket challenge led to an ALS research breakthrough


In this image from video posted on Facebook, George W. Bush participates in the ice bucket challenge with the help of his wife, Laura Bush.


When Bill Gates pulled on a red and white-striped cord to upturn a bucket of iced water positioned delicately over his head, the most immediate thought for many was not, perhaps, of motor neurone disease.

Coast Guard Finds Four Missing After Key West Snorkeling Trip






The Coast Guard found four people Wednesday afternoon about 24 hours after their boat was reported missing off Key West, Fla., the service said.

Photos: Japan knife attacker laughs before news cameras, says he wants all disabled people to 'disappear'




With a blue jacket draped over his head, Satoshi Uematsu was escorted out of a police station into a waiting van before a crowd of flashing cameras. Inside the vehicle with the jacket removed, he smiled broadly in footage broadcast on morning news shows.

The N500 billion, June allocation was generated from non-oil sector – FIRS boss Tunde Fowler says




Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Tunde Fowler, has disclosed that 70% of the N500 billion generated in the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, in June,

Metro police put UK churches on terror alert after ISIS warn that London and Washington D.C 'next to be attacked'




Terrorist organization ISIS, responsible for most of the terror attacks on European and American soil in the last 2 years has warned that London and Washington D.C will be the next attack targets after a catholic priest in France was forced to kneel in church, before his throat was slit by ISIS Knife men on Tuesday morning.

Mariah Carey's billionaire fiance grabs her boobs (photos)






Mariah Carey, 46, and her billionaire fiance, James Parker hit the dancefloor at the Vv Night Club in Capri, Italy on Sunday and James couldn't keep his hands off his woman. He was papped getting very hands on as Mariah danced to the music. See more photos after the cut...




Village heads suspended for diverting IDPs food





Two Village Heads and one Sarkin Fulani have been suspended by the Emirate council in Yobe state over the diversion of food meant for Internally displaced people in Buni-Yadi in the state. Their suspension letter was sent to them on July 22nd after the emirate council had done their investigation and found them guilty.

TY Bello shares new photos of baby Hadiza who was severly malnourished after Boko Haram attacked her parents home in Borno





KHADIJAH MODU (BABY HADIZA ) AND HER MOTHER INNA GANA. 

Few of us will forget the first images we saw of baby Hadiza on the Internet . Her body broken and severely malnourished .. She didn't look like she was going to make it .

FactChecking Day 2 of the DNC


  • Former US President Bill Clinton delivers remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Philadelphia, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Democratic National Convention kicked off July 25.

PHILADELPHIA — On a night headlined by President Bill Clinton’s admiration for his wife — the now official Democratic nominee — there was a less-than-glowing treatment of some facts.

Sanders loyalists bash Clinton nomination, clash with police


A protester climbs over the fence near the AT&T Station in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)


PHILADELPHIA — Bernie Sanders loyalists protested inside and outside the Democratic National Convention site and clashed with police on Tuesday after Hillary Clinton won the party's presidential nomination.

Two South Carolina Soldiers Killed Defending Woman at Bar, Suspect Charged


Credit: Photo: 1st Brigade Combat Team "Bastogne" via Facebook


The military was mourning two soldiers Tuesday who were fatally shot while trying to protect a woman from a gun-toting man in a South Carolina bar.

Winners and losers from the 2nd night of the Democratic convention

Bill Clinton

We've now officially passed the halfway point of the Democratic National Convention. Former president Bill Clinton was the main attraction of Tuesday night's speaking lineup, but I managed to pick some other winners and losers too.  They're below.

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Trump Revels in DNC Disunity: 'What a Mess They Have'

Image: Donald Trump Begins Post-Convention Campaign Swing in Roanoke, VA

Five hundred miles from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Donald Trump continued on his joy ride down the East Coast, highlighting from afar the Democrats' "mess," where

N. Korea warns US of 'terrifying price' over nuke tensions


FILE - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un listens during the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, May 9, 2016.

VIENTIANE, Laos — North Korea warned the United States on Tuesday that it will pay a "terrifying price" if the Korean Peninsula sinks into deeper tensions, stepping up its rhetoric hours after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry blasted Pyongyang for its nuclear program.

Japan stabbing spree: country's worst mass killings


Journalists gather in front of Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a facility for the handicapped where a number of people were killed and dozens injured in a knife attack in Sagamihara, outside Tokyo Tuesday, July 26, 2016.

At least 19 people died Tuesday when a knife-wielding man went on the rampage at a Japanese care centre for the mentally disabled, the country's worst mass killing in decades.

Letter foretold Japan rampage that killed 19 disabled people

SAMIGAHARA, JAPAN - JULY 26 : Members of family of people killed are seen on the site where Satoshi Uematsu, 26, killed 19 and wounding 25 in a knife attack in a residential care for people with disabilities on July 26, 2016, in Sagimahara city, Kanagawa

SAGAMIHARA, Japan (AP) — A young Japanese man went on a stabbing rampage Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired, officials said, killing 19 people months after he gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all disabled people should be put to death.

Police: 4 soldiers arrested for Colo. home invasion, threatening family

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Police say four Fort Carson soldiers have been arrested in connection with a home invasion involving a family they knew.

Patient kills doctor, commits suicide at Berlin hospital

A police officer walks in front of the Benjamin-Franklin Hospital in the southwestern district of Steglitz in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. German police say a patient has apparently shot at a doctor and killed himself at a hospital in Berlin.


A patient shot a doctor before committing suicide at a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, police said, adding there was no sign the incident was a terrorist attack.

Winners and losers from the first night of the Democratic convention

First Lady Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama: An absolute home run. Period. It will be difficult for anyone in the next three days to deliver a better speech than the first lady did on Monday night. She used her personal story of raising two young African American girls in the White House to tie her husband's history-making presidency to the history-making bid of Hillary Clinton.

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Islamic State tightens grip on captives held as sex slaves


Nuri Murat, a Yazidi woman, speaks to The Associated Press at Kankhe Camp for the internally displaced in Dahuk, northern Iraq, in this May 18, 2016, photo. When Islamic State group militants overran Yazidi villages and towns in August 2014, they killed her husband and abducted her daughter, Nazdar, one of thousands of Yazidi girls and women enslaved by the group. Nazdar was about 16 at the time. Her fate remains unknown.

KHANKE, Iraq — The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."