World football governing body, FIFA and France Football, have announced Barcelona’s duo of Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s as the final three nominees for the 2012 FIFA Ballon d’Or.
Messi, who is the current holder of the award, has already scored 82 times this year, just three shy of Gerd Muller’s record of goals scored for both club and country in a calender year.
Ronaldo was an integral part of the Madrid team that won the La Liga crown last season and reached the semi-finals of Euro 2012 with Portugal.
Iniesta won both the Copa del Rey and European Championships.
Zulai Buhari, the first daughter of former Nigerian Military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has died.
According to our sources Ms. Buhari died earlier today from sickle cell anemia, a source disclosed that she developed complications after having a baby two days ago at Chasel Hospital, a private clinic in Ungwar Sarki area of Kaduna in North West Nigeria.
Today she passed away despite all medical efforts to save her life. However, the new born baby is healthy and doing well.
Zulai's father General Buhari has been a candidate in several of Nigeria's presidential elections under the platform of the ANPP.
General Buhari currently leads opposition party CPC in Nigeria and is likely to contest for the post of Nigerian president in 2015.
Zulia will be buried later today according to Islamic rights.
Olaleye Sunday Olanrewaju known as Honorable LAS is a final year Accounting student of DLI in Unilag.
He was hit by a stray bullet on Saturday, 24th of Nov. on his way to church at Sango Ota during a robbery incident.
His family members have described him as a gentle, easy going man Miss. Titilayo, one of his course mates said he was a fine, small but very intelligent and vibrant man.
He will be greatly missed by all, she said. He was laid to rest today in his hometown. May his soul rest in peace.
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A gang of gunmen this evening invaded the town of Auchi in Edo state, attacking three major banks.
Sources say the banks, namely; First Bank, GuarantyTrust and Access bank, may have received huge deposits earlier in the day as they were specifically targeted.
The robbers it was learnt used large cache of dynamites to blow open the doors and strongrooms of the banks.
The country has literally been under seige since last week when the Nigerian military declared 19 leaders of the Boko Haram sect wanted.
Monday evening attack which seems like a well-planned robbery operation, saw free use of assorted rifles and various sophisticated weapons by the assailants.
Blood is seen on the floor of a mosque as Indian Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves during a holy procession.Shi’a Muslims all over the world pay their respects with the flowing of their blood as they mourn the slaying and martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad.
He was killed by his political rivals along with 72 companions in the seventh century battle of Kerbala where some of the bodies of the dead were then mutilated.
A former Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Professor Ilochi Okafor (SAN) was on Sunday kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
Okafor was accosted and taken away in front of his residence at the Independence Layout in Enugu. He was said to be on his way to church for Sunday morning service.
Eyewitness said that the gang sped off with the Professor in a Honda Sedan car with registration number AQ 347 ABC.
The kidnappers are yet to contact the family or make their demands known.
Meanwhile, the Enugu State police command is yet to make any statement on the incident.
Barely 24 hours after over ten people were slaughtered in Maiduguri, twenty ladies who were prone of wearing mini skirts and trousers were Friday slaughtered in their separate homes in Maiduguri Metropolis by yet to be identified gunmen.
This ugly development is one of its kind, as many believed that most of the daily killing in Borno are only targeted at men and security agencies.
The slaughtering of about twenty different ladies our Correspondent gathered took place in the early hours of Friday precisely at about 1 to 2am when most of residents were still asleep in their houses due to 6am to 9pm Curfew imposed on the state in the past five months.
More details soon
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Well, here is a citizen’s report on how soldiers have been dealing with graduates, who are undergoing the mandatory one-year youth service:
“Here in Delta state, we have been subjected to undeserve punishment from these so called soldiers. A girl lost her wedding ring in her hostel, she reported to OBS (orientation broadcasting service) before we knew it everybody were asked to kneel down under the sun like nursery school student. We call it “buying job”. Every little offence here na frog jump we go dey do…ehhh!!! double! double!…I tire ooo”
A Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officer, Thursday, narrowly escaped being lynched by commercial motorcyclists (popularly known as Okada riders) at Mile 2, Lagos.
It was not clear what enraged the Okada riders but a group, numbering about seven, parked their motorcycles and pursued the uniformed officer.
The officer barely missed being knocked down by a vehicle as he dashed, blindly, across the expressway and disappeared into the nearby Jakande Estate.
The new Lagos Traffic Law bans the activities of commercial motorcyclists at the, under construction, Lagos-Badagry Expressway including Mile 2.
The Okada riders are the worst hit on the traffic law as the police and LASTMA officers continue a strict enforcement of the law across the state.
The motorcyclists are already in court challenging the law.
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Churchgoers found a sign from above when they arrived at their North Carolina congregation on Sunday -- a hole in the ceiling.
But in this case the man upstairs turned out to be a naked transient who fell through the ceiling at the Resurrection International Church in HIckory, according to the Hickory Daily Record.
A church member discovered James Albert Kimrey, Jr., 46, in the restroom without any clothes on, the Associated Press reported.
Kimrey had been removed from the church on Saturday, WHKY reported. He wanted to spend the night in the place of worship, but reports said he was incoherent and there was concern he'd harm children rehearsing in the choir.
Three persons were yesterday crushed to death when a 40-feet containerized vehicle fell on a Mazda car on the Badagry-Seme Expressway.
The accident which occurred at about 1.15 p.m., was attributed to the bad road which has been a nightmare to commuters and other users of the road.
The containerized vehicle with registration number XT 339 AKD was said to be conveying some goods when it lost control and fell on the car, with four occupants. Three of the passengers died instantly, while the driver was in a critical condition.
The accident caused a heavy traffic while passers-by went on an immediate rescue mission of the trapped persons, before officials of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, came to the scene of the accident.
A week-old baby boy has tragically died after being bitten by a pet Jack Russell dog.
West Mercia Police said the child died in hospital yesterday morning after paramedics were called to an address in Telford, Shropshire at around 8am.
A police spokesman said officers were awaiting the result of a post-mortem examination, and have launched an investigation to establish the precise circumstances of the death.
The spokesman said: 'Police and ambulance were called to an address in Woodside Road, Ketley, about a young baby that was unwell.
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Masked gunmen publicly shot dead six suspected collaborators with Israel at a large Gaza City intersection Tuesday, witnesses said. An Associated Press reporter saw a mob surrounding five of the bloodied corpses shortly after the killing.
Some in the crowd stomped and spit on the bodies. A sixth corpse was tied to a motorcycle and dragged through the streets as people screamed, "Spy! Spy!"
The Hamas military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, claimed responsibility in a large handwritten note attached to a nearby electricity pole. Hamas said the six were killed because they gave Israel information about fighters and rocket launching sites. Hamas did not provide any proof of the alleged collaboration.
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A Swedish woman was charged with possession of human skulls and bones, which the prosecution claimed she used for sexual purposes.
The 37 year-old woman kept at least six skulls, one spine, and “a large number of other bones” in her Gothenburg apartment, according to the prosecution’s charge sheet.
It said she had used the human body parts “for various sexual activities”. The evidence included two CDs entitled “My necrophilia” and “My first experience”.
Pictures from a morgue, also included in the evidence, were found in a secret compartment in the woman’s home, along with a drill and body bags.
Police in India have arrested a woman they say criticised the shutdown of the city of Mumbai on Facebook after the death of politician Bal Thackeray.
A woman friend who “liked” the comment was also arrested, they said.
The women, accused of “hurting religious sentiments”, were released on bail after appearing in court in the town of Palghar, police told the BBC.
The death of the controversial Hindu nationalist politician on Saturday afternoon brought Mumbai to a halt.
Thackeray, one of the most divisive figures in Indian politics, was blamed for inciting tensions between Hindus and Muslims and was revered by his followers.
Men, run for cover! Just when you think there could actually be real virgins out there not minding the prevalent rate at which young and unmarried couples are having s*x, the ‘white’ man has devised a means of turning all girls back to their ‘original’ state of virginity – for a little over N4700. Yes, That cheap!
How do we now differentiate the original virgins from the ‘artificial’ ones? Not like there are no good girls out there who are no virgins but then what this portends is you might end up with a commercial s*x worker and think, ‘Oh! this is her first time!’ Think carefully guys but sorry, we don’t know yet how to tell the difference – we’ll soon as we know anything new but till then, good luck!
This 17-year-old teenager from North Fayette, Pa., has a rare condition called Kleine-Levin Syndrome -- or "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome" -- that makes her sleep 18 to 19 hours a day.
And when she does wake up, she is often so tuckered out that she is in a sleepwalking state and doesn't remember doing basic things like eating, according to KDKA-TV.
Nicole's somnambulant state has been so severe that she once slept through the holidays, awaking one day in January when she finally opened Christmas gifts alongside her family, according to ChartiersValley.Patch.com.
"She's never really adjusted to it," her mother, Vicki Delien told the website. "She's 17 now and it really upsets her. She's missed out on a lot."
The University of Abuja has been ordered to shut down by its authorities. The University was shut Monday morning following students’ unrest.
Reports from Gwagwalada, where the University is situated, said trouble started when some students of the Faculty of Engineering protested the inability of the school authority to bring out a timetable for their exams, even when students in other faculties have started theirs.
A University source said there is a problem with Engineering courses with regards to accreditation, as those who graduated from the faculty were yet to get their results.
“The authorities felt there is no point writing exams for courses that have no accreditation until the issue is resolved, but the students feel shortchanged by the management. That is why they started protesting today,” the source said.
It is really something to be worried about these days as ladies go about almost looking like they were tired of clothes.
If that is even the case things can managed; the big problem is they still go around snapping pictures of these obscene displays.
It is really the time for parents to wake up on these girls that seem to have lost the the moral values of being young and energetic, and striving to be something one should be proud of.
As the conflict in Gaza escalated this week, hacker group Anonymous launched a series of attacks on websites owned by the Israeli military, government and other institutions within Israel.
Dubbed "OpIsrael," the mass disruption began early Thursday with hundreds of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in which websites are flooded with traffic until they crash.
Since then, the scope of attacks has widened to include the deletion of government and financial databases, and the posting of more than 2,000 email addresses and passwords from an Israeli real estate website.
A series of tweets from @YourAnonNews, a Twitter account associated with the hacktivist group, claimed that databases belonging to Bank Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been deleted. Echoing a famous meme originated from the video game "Zero Wing," the account declared Friday:
A horrified mum today described how her 16-month old daughter was savaged by a foot-long rat as she lay sleeping in her cot. Lindsey Molyneux, 30, heard her daughter Lolly wake up screaming and went to check on her.
But she was stunned to see the little girl covered in blood with deep bite marks on her hand.
Her husband Michael, 41 then spotted the rodent scurrying around their one bedroom flat in Camden, north London.
Mrs Molyneux, 30, says the rat also chewed through Lolly’s pyjama pants.
She said: 'They went down to bed at about 8.15pm and it was about 9pm because I’m a Celebrity was just about to come on.
'So we were waiting for that and she just started crying through the monitor. I went in because I didn’t want her to wake her twin Lily up.
'I went in there and she was shaking and I thought maybe she was just having one of her nightmares.
Former Plantashun boy , faze has moved on to greater things, he just released the video of his song ‘Akachukwu’. The video was produced by Red Nello and the instrument was produced by upcoming producer, Spellz.
The song is a mix of English, Pidgin and Igbo.
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A sombre atmosphere last week engulfed the court as a seven-year-old girl gave a heart-rending account on how she was forced by her stepmother to eat faeces as punishment for soiling blankets.
The 19-year-old stepmother is facing charges of ill-treating a minor under provisions of the Children's Act.
The girl gave evidence in the victim friendly court, on a closed circuit television screened from a separate room. Harare magistrate Ms Anita Tshuma is presiding over the case.
The girl said her father threatened her if she gave incriminating evidence against his wife. Ms Tshuma was forced to briefly adjourn the court after many people watching proceedings from the closed circuit television could be seen shedding tears. In her testimony, the girl said she had a running stomach when the stepmother forced her to eat her faeces.
Doctors were stunned after an 11-year-old schoolgirl was admitted to a hospital in China with a third arm sprouting out of her back.
The large mass was revealed to be part of an identical twin that had failed to develop and had been enveloped into the body of its sister. Further investigation found it consisted of a breast and an arm which included a shoulder blade and two fingers.
The case came to the attention of the medical world after it was highlighted by Professor Baogan Peng, of the General Hospital of Armed Police Force in Beijing.
Writing in the journal BMJ Case Reports, Prof Peng said: 'Based on physical examination and imaging findings, a diagnosis of fetus in fetu was made preoperatively.'
Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, was named “The Sexiest Player of the Year” of People magazine and he was the only football player in the top ten.
After all the not so cheering incidence that has been happening to CR7 lately in the game of football, his Club, Real Madrid are eight points behind the table leaders Barcelona, their old rival, on the scoreboard of La Liga and the Portuguese national team got a draw with Gabon in friendly match this week. To make matters worse, Cristiano Ronaldo got an injury in eyebrow bone after an horrible clash with Levante Defender in last league game and he had been suspended to receive treatment for the present.
The police in Owerri on Friday said a mob killed two suspected members of a four-man robbery gang, believed to have been terrorising residents of Spibat area of Akwakuma, Owerri.
The Public Relations Officer of the state Police Command, Mr Vitalis Onugu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the suspects were arrested by members of the Special Anti-Robbery squad at the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) who responded to a distress call.
He said the two suspects were first arrested by the local vigilance group operating in Spibat area in Akwakuma and about to be lynched by the mob when the police arrived at the scene and rescued them.
When it comes to sex, there's a difference between pulling a train and delaying a train.
An amorous young couple in Morrum, Sweden, did the latter recently when they decided to get busy in a car right next to a train track.
Their lovemaking got derailed when the driver of a passing train slowed down because he feared someone in the car was attempting suicide, according to train dispatcher Mattias Hellberg.
"Often when cars are sitting near the tracks, it can be copper thieves at work or unfortunately a person who has tired of life," Hellberg said, according to DigitalSpy.
Barely few days after the NCC placed a ban on promos by telecom networks, MTN Nigeria was quick to announce the winner of their Ultimate Wonder Promo which saw one miss Ebube Essien-Garricks emerging as the winner of the promo as reported by Punch.
Facebook says Ebube doesn't exist, but she's got a fanPage to celebrate her victory.
To fulfill all righteousness and kill-off our suspicion of fraud, we did a random search of Ebube Essien-Garricks on Facebook; the world largest social media with over 1billion users. To our greatest shock, Ebube was no where to be found. At her age as MTN claims, 27 and a student of Uniport, we can argue till eternity that she must be on Facebook. Unfortunately, MTN Nigeria has become victims of their own fraud and manipulation as they forgot to create a profile for her.
All Vhuhwavho Ravhuhali wants is to lead a normal life, with a normal right arm, not one that keeps growing, and growing . . . and growing!
For 10 years poor Vhu, aged 13, has watched his arm become more and more swollen and elongated until today it hangs painfully by his side. He dreams of becoming a doctor.
But he doesn't go to school. Nor does he go out of the yard of his home in Tshivulani Village, near Thohoyandou, Limpopo. He's afraid the other boys will touch his arm and give him more pain.
His mother Betty is desperate to cure her son. But hospitals, doctors, spiritual healers, pastors, prophets and sangomas have not been able to help. Now there is hope in the form of Limpopo's MEC for Health, Norman Mabasa a doctor himself. Mabasa has promised to meet Vhuhwavho and his mum personally.
"I'll make sure Vhu gets the help he needs and a proper diagnosis at a hospital," he promised Daily Sun.
Said Betty: "It's hard for a mother to see her son, who is a sweet, bright child, suffering like this for so many years, sitting at home, crying with the pain. I don't know what to do any more."
Her family cannot afford to buy her toys so this this six-month-old plays with snakes instead.
Sidhi Siddharth Sinune crawls behind the python and shrieks in delight as it weaves through her tiny legs.
While her parents are away working in the fields in a rural Indian village in Maharashtra, the baby girl pats the reptile and even playfully bites its tail.
The non-venomous snake could easily squeeze Sidhi to death or swallow her whole.
But her father, Siddharth Sinune, said he cannot afford to buy her toys – instead bringing home his prey from his job as a snake catcher.
Before putting them back in the forests, he keeps them at home for his only daughter’s amusement.
They must have thought life in camp is Heaven; more so as they are in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT). Wake Up!!!
Members of the 2012 Batch C at NYSC FCT camp in Kubwa, are apparently very disappointed with the poor state of the camp facilities. They have therefore called on the FCT authority to assist in providing facilities, especially toilets to assist the thousands of corps members posted to the territory. Some of the corps members have resorted to using the near-by bush as toilets.
The FCT NYSC Coordinator, Mr Frank Ekpunobi, was said to have made several appeals for the rehabilitation of the camps. Ekpunobi said that the camp required urgent attention to reduce the stress corps members cope with, which includes road network, and poor toilets and bathrooms.
At least three Igbo traders have been killed in a fresh violence that erupted in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Thursday. The incident which took place at Bulabulin ward of Biafara area started around 11am.
According to an eyewitness who is also a resident of Bulabulin ward, the gunmen stormed the traders’ shops in a tricycle, chanting God is great and started firing gunshots into the air to scare people away from the area.
The eyewitness said: “we were just opening our shops for the day when we started hearing gunshots towards Ahmadu Bello Way and people started running into several directions for safety. Some of us run into our shops and market stalls, while others fled into their houses for safety. But I saw three dead bodies lying in front of three different shops. I cannot tell you whether the bodies are of gunmen or some of our colleagues shot this morning (Thursday).” He said the gunmen came in two tricycles in trailing the Igbo traders, before three people were killed.
This is taking place even as unknown gunmen were reported to have allegedly burnt about six members of the same household in another part of the north – Kaduna.
Source: Vanguard
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According to the source, Pete Eneh died few moments ago at Park Lane hospital in Enugu. The actor, who lost one of his legs to amputation few days ago, has been battling with his infected leg after being unable to get proper medical attention when he first had pains in the leg.
We would update you with more detailed report on his death.
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Fernando Torres was presented with the Golden Boot for finishing as top scorer at Euro 2012 - and the Blues No9 revealed he might never have made it in the game but for a serious injury in his teenage years.
The striker netted three times in just 189 minutes of action as his country retained the European Championship and he is currently the Chelsea's joint-top scorer this term with seven strikes from 18 appearances.
After being presented with his prize, Torres took us back to his formative years to reveal how he used a nasty injury to his benefit, shaping him into the player he is today.
A 28-year old suspected Facebook fraudster, Benjamin Asuahor, of Eleko town in Lagos State was on Thursday arraigned before an Abuja Magistrates’ Court, Life Camp for alleged cheating.
The accused, who appeared before Chief Magistrate Rahmatu Gulma, was also charged with criminal breach of trust and criminal intimidation, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The Police prosecutor, Cpl. John Ijagbemi, told the court that one Amaka Okoye of No. 2, Gafia Street, Nasarawa State reported the accused at the FCT Police Command headquarters, Abuja.
BlackBerry have introduced the ability to make voice calls between BBM contacts. The Service which is called BBM voice lets you make voice calls over wifi to BBM contacts by simply tapping the call button while in a chat and you’ll start a voice call. BBM Voice will add some great depth to BBM, providing you the ability to escalate a chat to a voice call when the situation calls for it. This feature should be huge in emerging markets or for anyone calling long distance as there will be no long-distance charges.
Additionally, in BBM you’ll be able to see each users status as well so you’ll know who is available for a call and who isn’t. When on a call you’ll see a split-screen view and can still use any other apps on your device. So you can still use the chat function as well as send pictures within BBM or even check email or use the browser.
Source: TechSuplex
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Monju Begum, a 40-year-old Bangladesh woman stopped an alleged rapist in his tracks when she reportedly cut off his penis and then took it to police as evidence.
According to police, Begam’s neighbor, Mozammel Haq Mazi, forced his way into her shanty and began sexually assaulting her.
Investigators say Begum stopped the attack by cutting off his penis She then placed the evidence into a polythene bag and took it into police as proof that Mazi had attempted to rape her.
Begum, a married mother of three, told police that Mazi had been harassing her for the past six months. Mazi is reportedly also married and has five children.
We’ve all been there: a late night at the office, then straight to the bar to drown the sorrows, briefcase and all. The “drunk businessman” in this video, however, takes things to a new level — or rather, doesn’t, given his intoxicated inability to traverse the proper escalator.
The alcohol-induced incident, allegedly recorded Nov. 9, took place in London’s Tottenham Court Road tube station, according to The Telegraph.
“At first I thought he was playing silly buggers,” Sam Napper, the recording author, told The Sun, “but when we saw his dogged stagger and realized he was alone, I knew we were about to witness something truly brilliant.”
Brilliant or belligerent? Hard to say. But the moving-sidewalk stumbler carried on for several minutes, according to The Sun, before a good samaritan helped him out.
“Eventually, we let the poor sod out of his hamster wheel-like hell and pushed the emergency stop button,” Napper said. “After pausing for a few seconds, he turned around and walked out, as if nothing ever happened, saying nothing, leaving us stunned.”
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of zone 10, comprising Sokoto,Kebbi and Zamfara States, Alhaji M. J. Abubakar, has ordered the redeployment of all police officers in Dansadau emirate within seven days, saying a police officer’s wife was cooking for the robbers in the forest.
Abubakar, who gave the order while on a familiarization tour of the command, said he had earlier mobilized men to go and arrest the police officer’s wife, but that some bad eggs among the policemen tipped the woman off and she escaped.
“We mobilized our men to go and arrest that woman so that useful information can be tapped from her, but the devils among us revealed our plans to her and she fled thereby undermining our operational abilities,’’ he said.
This 21 year old Ukrainian lady Aleria Lukyonova, is now an Internet sensation after undergoing epic plastic surgery procedures to transform into a real-life Mattel doll.
At first,many thought it was just a case of Photoshop until she recently posed for V magazine. (photo below)
A suspicious husband used the GPS capability on his wife’s cellphone to find the 38-year-old teacher having sex with a 16-year-old boy.
Amie Neely now faces a felony sexual assault charge after being arrested by Port St. Lucie, Fla. police early Sunday morning, according to TC Palm.
WPBF reports that the boy was an exchange student living with Neely and her husband at the time of the alleged assault. There is also another exchange student still taking up residence there, according to the station.
There is no indication that Neely, who teaches at Community Christian Academy, ever taught the student she's accused of assaulting.
Argentina traveled to Saudi Arabia for Wednesday's friendly and the team's televised reception at the airport at first appeared to be a rather typical welcoming of a team that includes Leo Messi. But while his teammates made their way through the crowded terminal with relatively little trouble, Messi himself instantly had an armed entourage.
Messi's armed guards come up against a crush of people trying to get near him, which pushed one guard's assault rifle right up against Messi's shoulder. It's moments like this when Leo just has to detach from reality and go to Legoland in his mind.
If you were Messi, what would you tell the guy with the rifle?
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