Gunmen abducted some people in Anambra state and proceeded to throw them off a bridge, leaving them to land on the cemented base of a drainage channel.The incident happened over the weekend in Alor, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.The victims were said to have been abducted along Nnobi—Nnewi Road and taken to Alor where they were thrown from a bridge top along the Obiaja River. A video from the scene is going viral online. It shows one of the abductees narrating his experience, while being interviewed by some men of Tiger Squad local vigilante, Alor. One of…
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The report below says that Yaser Said was enraged with his daughters Amina and Sarah because they were dating American boys. That’s not quite accurate. WFAA was more honest in June 2021, when it reported that “police believe Yaser Said was angry his daughters were dating boys who were non-Muslim and killed them.” That’s in accord with Islamic law, which forbids Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men. This was no new revelation: back in January 2008, the Dallas Morning News reported that the girls’ mother Patricia had said (regarding Amina) that “since they are Muslim that the daughter was only…
On January 30, 2016, Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Lovén was photographed giving water to a severely emaciated 2-year-old boy, whom she rescued after he was branded a witch by his family and left to starve to death in Akwa Ibom. The boy had wandered the streets for months when Anja got a phone call and immediately led a rescue team including her husband David Emmanuel Umem, to bring the child to the Children’s Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF) aka “Land of Hope”. Taking to Facebook page on Monday, August 1, 2022, Lovén revealed that Hope finally met his father…
Big Brother Naija Level up 2 housemate, Beauty has become a viral sensation after revealing how much she spends on her skincare monthly. The ex-beauty queen and 43rd Miss Nigeria mentioned in the house that she spends nothing less than #1.2 million on skin care monthly. Her recent revelation has caused a stir on all socials, as the majority are of the opinion that she said it solely for the purpose of clout. See post below; In other news, Beauty received a strike from Biggie yesterday, after attacking fellow level 2 housemate, Ilebaye.The attack was based on the fact that…
“You don’t have to worry. The very day this marriage stops working for me I will tell you.” “What?” I asked as I watched him walk away from me. At my age, how does my husband expect me to someday accept that our marriage is no longer working? The more I think about it, the more confusing it gets. Who would have thought that he would change this much after marriage? When I met Ofori four years ago he was gentle and effortlessly kind. He didn’t have a lot going for him on the financial front but I saw his…
Ace Comedian, Okey Bakassi has explained why he is publicly throwing in his support for Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Okey Bakassi in a tweet he shared, said he’s supporting Peter Obi to fix Nigeria so Buhari and Tinubu won’t be going to London for medical treatment and Atiku won’t live in Dubai. He also stated that he doesn’t want Atiku or Tinubu to fail, but only wants Nigeria to succeed. Okey tweeted; I don’t want Atiku or Tinubu to fail, I just want Nigeria to succeed. I’ll support and vote for @PeterObi to fix Nigeria, so in their…
A Nigerian lady has revealed how suspicious of her boyfriend she is to the point that she decided to secretly follow him out.She boarded a bike and followed him at a close distance to see if he was going to see another girl or his friends. According to her, the guy informed her that he was going out with his guys, but she chose to follow him to the location without his knowledge. She shared a video of herself on an okada while rain was falling and wrote; ”Me following my boyfriend to know where he is going after telling…
There was confusion at a branch of a leading commercial bank in Osogbo, Osun State recently when Awoyemi Joel Oluleye, an elderly customer with the bank was allegedly duped by an impersonator.The suspected impersonator, namely Idris Balogun, 38, had reportedly disguised as a bank staff in charge of deposits.Balogun, who dressed corporately, was said to have approached his victim and introduced himself as a cashier with the bank. He reportedly asked Oluleye to hand him the deposit after filling a bank teller. Few minutes after handing over the sum of N2, 204,850, to Balogun, the bank customer became worried as…
Benedict Johnson, the Nollywood actor, has pleaded with the Igbo people to vote for Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election.Tinubu is contesting for president under the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform. In a now-viral video, the actor said the “Igbos won’t suffer for the next eight years” if the former Lagos governor is elected president.“I don’t want us Igbo people making the mistake we made in 2015. At the time, we all stood together and voted for one candidate. As a result, Igbos failed and suffered for eight years. Let’s all find it in us to vote for others,” he…
A Nigerian woman has sought the counsel of social media users regarding her husband’s decision to not consider giving her family any allowance.She revealed that her hubby whom she’s been married to for six months earns N280,000 salary per month and gives her N150,000 allowance out of the money. But what she is disturbed about is the fact that he gives his family members N80k to share but he has never given her own family. She confronted him about it but he told her to be giving her family money from the N150k he gives her every month.Read her write-up…