Three brothers recreates childhood photo

Siblings recreating childhood photos is now a popular trend on social media. These three brothers didn't want to be left out so they recreated this bath tub photo taken in 1995.

Floyd Mayweather splashes $1.1m on Hublot diamond wristwatch

The retired boxing champion who got about $300m from fights this year, splashed about $1.1m on a diamond wristwatch during his trip to Dubai. Mayweather, 38, posed alongside staff members at a Hublot store in Dubai to celebrate his new diamond encrusted wristwatch and Hublot posted the picture on their official Twitter handle. See another photo after the jump.

EFCC alleges Dasuki used part of the arms deal fund to buy properties in Dubai and London

Counsel to EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs told the Federal High Court yesterday during the bail hearing of Dasuki and 2 others that investigations by the anti-graft agency showed that the former National Security Adviser used some of the loots from the N32 billion arms deal fund to acquire properties in Dubai and London. Rotimi stated this in the counter-affidavit he presented before the court while opposing Dasuki's bail application. The counter-affidavit in part reads

“That our investigation also revealed that the applicant transferred large sums of monies outside Nigeria and he acquired several assets in Dubai and London with these funds.”.

Nigerian woman who burnt a man's private parts with hot iron sentenced to 9yrs in prison in the UK

Kenya Alozie, 31, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on December 14, after being found guilty of GBH with intent. This followed an investigation by police in Greenwich. On 15 May, Alozie and the victim, a man in his thirties, were having sex at an address in Plumstead when she took a hot iron to burn his legs and genitals. She also used a broken bottle to attack him.

The victim sustained a number of serious injuries including deep cuts and burns. He has since undergone a number of hospital treatments and surgery.

Alozie arrived in the UK to study at Coventry University. She was residing in Plumstead where she had found accommodation with friends.

At the time of the attack, Alozie's visa was due to expire and she was due to return to her family in Nigeria at the end of May.

Alozie was arrested on 24 May on an aircraft at Heathrow Airport after police in Plumstead launched an investigation into the attack and managed to stop her before leaving the UK. She was charged with GBH with intent on May 25.

     "Alozie committed a calculated and pre-planned attack. She ensured she had a broken bottle to hand and a hot iron to strike the victim and seriously harm him," Detective Constable Duncan Clark from Greenwich police said. "The sentence imposed clearly reflects the seriousness of this extremely violent attack." he added.

30 killed in Boko Haram attack on three villages in Borno

No fewer than 30 people were killed after Boko Haram members attacked Warwara, Mangari and Bura-Shika villages in Borno state over the weekend. Mustapha Karimbe, a member of the state vigilante group said many of the injured persons had machete cuts on them.

"Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded (had suffered) machete cuts,"he told AFP

Worst hit in the attack is ‎Warwara village where 20 people were killed. Six people were reportedly killed in Bura-Shika while four were killed in Mangari.

Nigeria's house rent collecting system must change - Fashola

Minister for Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Fashola has called for a review in the way Nigerians pay two years house rent whenever they are seeking to get an apartment. He stated this while speaking at a press conference in Abuja recently

“The way we collect rent is something that must change. If we are collecting two years rent in advance from a salary that is going to be earned in arrears monthly, there’s an accounting mismatch. This is something many of us have experienced, you pay two years rent in advance money you haven’t earned.
Something is distorted somewhere in our accounting model. We must all resolve, property owners alike, that maybe if we changed the way we collected rent alone many houses that are unoccupied, will be occupied. I am inclined to think that if we just change the payment system for housing we will accommodate a significant number of people.” he said

Project Alert rescues 9yr old Onyinyechi from the hands of her aunt (photos)

Remember the 9 year old girl Onyiyechi Nkerem who was badly beaten by her aunt? (read here), well, she's been rescued from the hands of her aunt, Chioma Okereke with whom she lived for just 4 months by Lagos based NGO, Project Alert 

According to the founder of the NGO, Mrs  Josephine Effah-Chukwuma, after the story was brought to her attention, they rescued the girl and were able to reunite Oyinyechi with her parents in Umunoha village in Mbaitoli Ikeduru LGA in Imo State. See more photos after the cut...

But for the intervention of Project Alert representative in Owerri, Chinedu Ifeanyi Anyanwu the youths in the village would have mobbed Chioma, Obinna her husband and Obinna's mum for maltreating the little girl.

Pictures below show little Onyiyechi; her head with wound scars; her back; her grandmother and father Bernard standing; and angry youths outside their home.

National Human Rights Commission to investigate the Army/Shiite clash

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC on Tuesday, has set up a Special Investigative Panel to investigate the circumstances that led to the bloody clash between the Nigerian Army and the Shiite Muslim sect in Northern Nigeria.

The clash, which took place during the weekend, took the lives of seven people and injured 10 others.
A statement by the commission, said the panel was set up by the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof. Bem Angwe, following a petition lodged against the Muslim sect by the Nigerian Army and some concerned citizens.
The statement signed on behalf of Prof. Angwe  by Mr. Lambert Okpara read:

“In setting the panel, Prof. Angwe stressed the need for all the parties in the dispute to sheath their swords and assured that the commission will get to the root of the matter

“The Executive Secretary noted that the country is operating a democracy which demands that institutions must act within the ambit of the law and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

“In a democracy, the rule of law is supreme and it is important that we continue to remind everyone about the need to respect each others’ right.”

Angwe said the commission will thoroughly investigate the incident with a view to find ways to address the current issues and preventing future occurrence.

The panel made up of top management staff in legal, investigations and monitoring departments of the NHRC is headed by Mr Tony Ojukwu, Director, Monitoring Department.

High court sacks PDP Acting Chairman, Secondus

A High Court in Abuja, yesterday,  chaired by Justice Hussein Baba sacked PDP's Acting National Chairman, Chief Uche Secondus ordering him to vacate the Chairmanship seat of the PDP within 14 days.

The court order followed a suit filed by the erstwhile Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak.
The court said that Secondus assumed the headship of the party through an illegitimate process.

Justice Baba agreed with the plaintiff that the position of the Acting National Chairman of the PDP was originally zoned to the North-East geo-political zone of the country hence, cannot be occupied by Secondus.

Gulak had in his suit, challenged the emergence of Chief Secondus as the interim leader of the party.
He prayed the court to sack the defendant, contending that by the provision of the PDP constitution and its zoning principle, he (Gulak), was the proper person to replace the last Chairman of the party, Adamu Muazu, who hailed from the North East geopolitical zone.

The defendants had challenged the competence of the suit, even as they queried the locus standi of the plaintiff to file same.
The defendants equally challenged the jurisdiction of the high court to meddle in the domestic affairs of a political party.

Counsel to the PDP, Mr. Paul Isaiah responded by saying:

“We are going to appeal this judgement. Apart from the appeal, we are also going to file a stay of execution of the judgement because the National Convention of the party is in March next year”.

Man blocks busy highway traffic with marriage proposal, now faces criminal charges

A man who stopped traffic on one of Houston's busiest highways to propose to his girlfriend may not get the happy ending he was hoping for.

Houston Police Department spokeswoman Jodi Silva confirmed 24-year-old Vidal Valladares will be charged with obstruction of highway, which is a Class B misdemeanor.

Silva said the charge is now winding its way through the Harris County court system. He will have the option of turning himself in, filling out the paperwork and immediately getting bonded out, she said.

It was unclear if the soon-to-be-wife or the friends who helped block traffic will be charged, as well.

In a video posted on Instagram, Valladares enlisted his friends to stand in front of lanes of traffic while he proposed to his girlfriend Michelle Wycoff in the middle of the highway near downtown Houston.

"I just wanted to do something different," Valladares said.

To get to a party Valladares made up as a ruse, the couple took the highway, which is one of Wycoff's favorite spots. Valladares took her on a motorcycle ride on freeway on their second date.

That's when Valladares told his girlfriend of a year and half to get out of the car.

"I said, 'Are you serious?'" Wycoff said. "Then I saw all my family and friends with cameras and I looked where Vidal was and he was down on one knee.

"Honestly, I didn't think about if it was a good idea or a bad idea. I was just so happy in the moment. I love him so much."

Valladares said his friends and family, who were following closely behind, stopped traffic for about 35 seconds while he popped the question

"I never really thought about causing an accident. I thought about my girlfriend," he said.

The hopeless romantic posted a photo of the proposal to Instagram with the caption, "When you shut down one of the biggest and busiest freeways in the entire country (I45) and you ask your girl if she wants to marry u, That moment is priceless love u #shesaidyes."

While the hashtag implies she said "yes" and a hug quickly ensued after he dropped to one knee, The video can be viewed on Instagram.

The charge came hours after Houston Police Department said they would not seek charges against the couple because police were not called to the scene and the situation was cleared before police could see it on patrol. 

"It appears we were not called to the scene and it more than likely happened quickly before our officers saw it on patrol," HPD spokesman Victor Senties said. "While we're happy for the couple, this is not something we would want to encourage anyone to do. People could have lost their lives stopping on the freeway like that."

However, that won't necessarily be the case for any copy-cats.

"If there was a similar scenario and the officers were called to the scene to witness it, the officers would tell them to clear the roadway and if they refused, they could be arrested with blocking a roadway, which is a Class B misdemeanor," Senties said.

Texas Department of Transportation agreed that the act was both against the law and dangerous.

Teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher found guilty

A teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher while at school faces life in prison after being convicted. A Massachusetts jury on Tuesday found him guilty of raping and murdering his 24 year old teacher, Colleen Ritzer, at his suburban high school in 2013, after about nine hours of deliberations.

The teenager’s defence lawyers claimed he was in the midst of a psychotic episode when he stabbed her 16 times in the neck in the women's bathroom.
Prosecutors said the schoolboy, who was 14 at the time, used a box cutter to brutally stab the 24-year-old, before using a recycling bin to take her body into the woods.





In finding 16-year-old Philip Chism guilty, the jury rejected the defense's argument that he was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time of the 2013 attack and therefore not criminally responsible for his actions.

Chism was 14 when he committed the killing at his high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, but he was tried as an adult and could be sentenced to life in prison.

Prosecutors presented voluminous evidence during the month-long trial, including school surveillance videos, to support allegations that Chism followed his teacher, Colleen Ritzer, into a bathroom after school, strangled and raped her, and carted her body in a recycling bin to a wooded area off campus.

The trial at Essex County Superior Court in Salem, Massachusetts, was occasionally delayed by Chism, who at one point refused to return to the courtroom after a break telling his attorney that he was "about to explode."

President Buhari says Democracy has come to stay in Africa

During the inauguration of President Alpha Conde’s of Guinea Conakry for the  second term in office on Monday, President Buhari, who was represented by his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, expressed happiness over the sustenance of democratic rule in Africa.

President Buhari said with the conduct of peaceful elections and transitions from one government to the other on the continent, it was clear that democracy has come to stay in Africa.

“It shows that democracy has come of age in Africa. All over, you can see the demonstration of peaceful elections, peaceful transitions from one government to another,” the Vice President said in Conakry, Guinea at the inauguration of Prof. Alpha Conde’s second term in office.

He also noted that peaceful elections were producing the right leaders in Africa, saying that it points to the fact that democratic elections in Africa can produce leadership in the right way and that it is happening everywhere in Africa.

Kylie Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Lottie Moss pose for Vogue mag

Kylie Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Lottie Moss- Kate all posed for the January issue of Vogue mag, themed 'Little sisters'. All 3 younger sisters of famous sisters who are models. Kylie- Kendall Jenner, Bella-Gigi Hadid, Lottie- Kate Moss. More photos after the cut...