Showing posts with label SOCIETY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOCIETY. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

"WE HAVE RESCUED 11,595 PERSONS FROM BOKO HARAM IN ONE MONTH' - NIGERIA'S ARMY



Troops of the Nigerian Army reports that no fewer than 11, 595 persons have been freed from the net of the Boko Haram insurgents withing the last one month.

A statement released on Wednesday by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations said:

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

MAN BEAT TRANSGENDER WOMAN TO DEATH AFTER GETTING TO KNOW SHE WAS ONCE A MAN




A transgender woman was viciously battered to death by a man who had chatted her up in the middle of the street - before realizing she was once a man.

James Dixon, 25, admitted to first-degree manslaughter just moments before he was due to stand trial over the death of 21-year-old Islan Nettles.

Monday, 4 April 2016

RELIGIOUS BILL: 'OF COURSE, I WILL DIE' - GOVERNOR NASIR EL RUFAI




Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has defended the proposed bill seeking to regulate religion in his state.

El-Rufai, in an interview with Punch Newspapers, stated that the law is in good faith and is meant to protect citizens and not vicitmise them as erroneously postulated by the opponents of the bill.

Saturday, 5 March 2016

PRESIDENT BUHARI EXPLAINS WHY HE WILL NOT PAY PROMISED N5000 TO UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES



President Muhammadu Buhari, says he would not renege on the social intervention programme promised to Nigerians by his administration.

The Presidency said on Friday, that the federal government has no intention of abandoning the free school feeding scheme, the training of unemployed graduates and the payment of monthly stipend to ‘poor and extremely vulnerable’ Nigerians.

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

WOMAN SUFFERS HORRIFIC BURNS AFTER EX-BOYFRIEND DOUSED HER SKIN WITH HOT WATER



- Suzanne Thomas, Mother of two doused with hot water by ex-boyfriend

- She got burns on her arms, legs, stomach and crotch

- Boyfriend, Jason McLean, 36, jailed for 14years




A mother-of-two suffered life-changing burns after her ex-boyfriend tortured her at home in one of the worst domestic violence cases ever seen by police in Britain.

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

THE BEGGAR WHO EARNS UP TO £500 A DAY DESPITE HAVING A HOME


An unnamed street beggar who has been begging for alms in Wolverhampton city centre, in the West Midlands is said to be raking in up to £500 a day targeting shoppers and commuters by pretending to be homeless despite living in a 'reasonable property'.


Source: Dailymail

He is said to be earning the equivalent of £2,500 a week. His takings amount to a pre-tax annual income of around £130,000 - only £12,000 less than Prime Minister David Cameron's yearly wage. 

EFCC, DSS, OTHERS INVITED FOR QUESTIONING OVER DIVERSION OF N1TRILLION RAILWAY CONTRACTS


- Federeal House of Representatives adhoc Committee commences investigations into alleged diversion of railway contracts.

- The committee invites DSS, EFCC, Former Minister, and 27 contractors for questioning

- Office of the SGF to explain the whereabouts of the investigative report submitted to it by DSS



WOMAN MURDERS DEFENCELESS FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL, CUTS OFF HER HEAD IN BROAD DAYLIGHT



Gyulchekhra Bobokulova Image source: Dailymail

- Nanny gruesomely murders a defenceless four-year-old girl

- Reports says she was irked by the news that her husband had married another wife

- She went about in the middle of the day brandishing the head of the dead girl

Monday, 29 February 2016