Organised labour has commended the recent measures of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) aimed at shoring up the value of the Naira. The naira recently reversed its depreciation trend in the parallel market, recording N20 gain against the United States Dollar closing at N470 per dollar. Experts attributed the naira appreciation to the new rules introduced by the CBN, which Read More
A lady whose name was simply identified as Ada awka has lost her life after suffering severe burns while answering a phone call close to her cooking gas. Her close friends posted on Facebook while they prayed for her survival. Unfortunately, she lost her life after her health condition deteriorated. This sad development was shared via Facebook, by Okechukwu Christabel Read More
The Presidency said Sunday that proscription of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shi’ites, had nothing to do with banning the larger numbers of peaceful and law abiding Shi’ites in the country from practicing their religion. In a statement issued in Abuja, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu said the proscription was Read More
Virgil van Dijk has beaten Raheem Sterling to become the PFA Players’ Player of the Year for 2019. The official announcement is due on Thursday but the Liverpool centre-half has won the backing of his fellow professionals for his outstanding contribution in the best defence in the Premier League this season. The Dutchman was on a six-man shortlist that included his Anfield team-mate Sadio Read More
A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a row caused by a passenger who refused to stop The two Dutchmen sitting next to him didn’t take very well to his flatulence, but the unashamed man was apparently not put off and refused to hold back. Members of the crew on the Dutch low-cost airline were apparently less Read More
A Phoenix father is facing second degree murder charges for allegedly killing a man who allegedly harassed his young daughter. Police say Melvin Harris, 40, admitted to beating Leon Armstrong, 26, to death after he attempted to break into the teenage girl’s stall at a QuikTrip convenience store bathroom. Harris was waiting for his daughter and her two friends in Read More
Two men used a stolen dump truck to rip an ATM out of a supermarket in Pennsylvania. The men pulled up to a Bill’s ShopRite store wearing ski masks and gloves and attached a chain to the ATM at about 1:53 a.m. on Tuesday, according to The TimesTribune. The men then used the chain to drag the ATM out of Read More
How do you get away with murder? Maybe don’t write a blog post about getting away with murder. Last week, police in Portland arrested 68-year-old Nancy Crampton-Brophy. She is charged with the murder in the death of her 63-year-old husband, chef Daniel Brophy. At 8:30 a.m. on June 2, police and medics arrived at the Oregon Culinary Institute, after students Read More
A Utah toddler’s parents are in disbelief after they discovered their 2-year-old son sent more than $1,000 through a shredder Leo Belnap’s parents, Ben and Jackee, tore through their home over the weekend, desperate to find the $1,060 they had saved to pay back Ben’s parents. The couple had borrowed the money to purchase season tickets to the University of Read More
A worker in East China has found an unusual way to pass the time and rid his office of mosquitoes. The man, surnamed Man, grossed out Chinese net users recently with photos of rows of squished bugs taped to a piece of paper. The Qingdao, Shandong Province graphic designer said his swat operation began while working long hours late on Read More
A father and son in Rhode Island who disagree about President Donald Trump are running for the same office, one as a Republican, the other as an independent. David Quiroa Sr., 47, and David Quiroa Jr., 22, both filed Tuesday to run for a state House seat currently held by a Democrat. Both live at the same address in Newport. Read More
For months, Kayla Rahn of Montgomery, Ala., had unexplained stomach pain and was unable to lose weight. The situation was taking a toll on her life and well-being. “I couldn’t even walk to my car without losing my breath,” Rahn recalled to NBC12, adding that she was once asked if she was pregnant with twins. In May, Rahn finally got Read More
A Colorado man achieved a distinction last week that few people would probably want to match. When Dylan McWilliams was bitten by a shark Thursday in Hawaii, it meant he had been bitten by a shark, a bear and a rattlesnake – all in less than four years. “I don’t know,” McWilliams told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on Friday. “I’m either Read More
A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The couple, who died in 2013, had frozen several embryos hoping to have a child through IVF. After the accident, their parents fought a protracted legal battle to be allowed to use the embryos. The boy Read More
A 16-year-old boy who pleaded with police to rescue him from being crushed by a folding seat in a van has died. Lying trapped in his vehicle parked outside his school in Ohio, Kyle Plush told 911 operators “Send officers immediately. I’m almost dead.” “I probably don’t have much time left, so tell my mom that I love her if Read More
The Obafemi Awolowo University, IThe Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, is in the news for the wrong reason after a leaked raunchy telephone conversation allegedly between a ‘mystery lady’ and one Rev. Richard Akindele, a professor in the management and accounting department of the Faculty of Administration appeared on social media. In the audio recording, the erudite Professor of ‘the other Read More
A kungfu master in China showed off his strength in a highly unusual way — using his genitals to pull an entire bus. The video, filmed recently shows the kung fu master in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, using a rope attached to his nether regions to pull the bus, which reportedly weighs more than 13 tons. The martial artist pulled the Read More
A professional big-game hunter was crushed to death by an elephant that had been shot, according to reports in South Africa. The Netwerk24 website said an elephant cow stormed a group headed by Theunis Botha in Zimbabwe on Friday. The elephant was reportedly shot as she picked him up with her trunk, before she fell and died, crushing Mr Botha. Read More
An absent “Oxford comma” will cost a Maine dairy company $5 million. The suit, brought against Oakhurst Dairy by the company’s drivers in 2014, sought $10 million in a dispute about overtime payment. A federal appeals court decided to keep the drivers’ lawsuit, concerning an exemption from Maine’s overtime law, alive last year. Court documents filed Thursday show that the Read More
A Colorado man accused of killing 19-year-old Natalie Marie Bollinger told police he shot her after he replied to her Craigslist ad seeking a hitman — for herself, investigators said in court documents obtained Monday. But before the killing, the man, Joseph Michael Lopez, 22, tried to talk her out of suicide, he told Adams County deputies, according to an Read More
An Alaska Airlines flight to Seattle was forced to return to Anchorage early Wednesday after a passenger locked himself in the bathroom, took off all his clothes, and refused to follow crew instructions. Kate Danyluk, a passenger on the flight, told The Associated Press she knew something was wrong because the flight attendants kept going back and forth in the Read More
The moment a large block of ice fell from the sky and landed just metres from a street cleaner in London has been caught on camera. CCTV showed the man’s narrow escape after the ice crashed to the ground at speed and smashed into pieces in North Road, Kew. The incident on Wednesday morning is believed to have been caused Read More
An online adjunct professor incorrectly told a student that Australia isn’t a country and gave her a failing grade, prompting Southern New Hampshire University to replace the instructor. Buzzfeed News reports that the 27-year-old student in Idaho was assigned to compare American social norms to that of another country. She chose to study social media use in Australia, but the Read More
A county near Chicago has recorded four deaths related to moving snow in the 48 hours following a major winter storm. Lake County, Indiana, Coroner Merrilee Frey, said on Saturday that the deaths were related to shoveling or snowblowing. She issued an urgent message asking residents to be careful while moving snow. The Chicago Tribune said the four deaths included Read More
A dairy in Maine has settled a class-action suit to pay 127 workers $5 million in owed overtime pay because of a missing Oxford comma in state law. Portland’s Oakhurst Dairy and the workers reached a settlement nearly a year after a federal appeals court decision. On March 13, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled 3-0 that Read More
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