Saturday, March 31, 2012

Hunch back killed for rituals in ghana

Hunchback Yaw Botchway might have been killed for rituals

Hunchback killed for ritual purpose

The Twifo Praso District Police Command is investigating the circumstances that led to the gruesome murder of a 25-year-old hunchback, Yaw Botchway, at Twifo Praso in the Twifo-Hermang-Lower-Denkyira District of the Central Region.

The body of Botchway has been deposited at the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Morgue for autopsy.

The District Police Commander, Nana Ofori, said his outfit received a call on Friday that somebody had been killed around palm plantation, a situation which compelled him to dispatch his men to the scene.

He stated that when they got to the scene, they saw Botchway lying in a pool of blood as his shirt and trouser had been tied around his neck.

The commander revealed that upon inspection, they saw a deep cut at Botchway’s back and they took the body to the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Morgue.

DSP Nana Ofori said after they had taken the body to the morgue, a man stormed the police station claiming Botchway was his son.

The Police Commander suspected the hunch was removed from the back and said a postmortem would be conducted to ascertain the fact.

When DAILY GUIDE visited the area, people were speculating that Botchway might have been killed for rituals.


Senior high school students in sex video

Kumasi base d Senior High School (SHS) students in sex video

Senior High School (SHS) girls showing their body

An interesting video that captures female students of a Kumasi-based Senior High School (SHS) exposing their genitals for the cameras is still causing a stir after the video was released last month.
Two of the girls were vividly captured in the video and reports say these two are residents of Madina and Asylum Down in the Greater Accra Region but attend the Kumasi-based SHS.

The school’s uniform is white and green and the students’ track suit is green-coloured with white stripes running from the shoulders, through the sleeves to the wrist.
The video showed the girls dancing on the school compound in front of a dormitory. Some of them were in sexy pants and at a point removed the pants to expose their naked buttocks to the cameras.
One particular student, a light-skinned beautiful teenager was so excited about the video recording that she removed her pants and showed her vagina to the cameras. It was bushy.

While the girls were dancing for the camera, some other students were perching on the corridors of the dormitory from where they cheered the dancing girls and kept calling their names: Richlove, Linda, Muni and Mommie.

It is not immediately clear the reason for which the young girls shot the sexually explicit video but it was recorded with a camera phone by a colleague student who directed the girls on what to do.
The one recording the video made sure her face was not captured.
This is not the first time such a video recording that captures the nakedness ofstudents is reaching the media and it is apparently becoming a trend for Ghanaian youth to capture their nakedness and sometimes sexual intercourse on videos.


NBA: Dwyane Wade’s Nephew 1 of 13 Shot in Chicago Shooting


A nephew of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was one of 13 men shot – two fatally – during a violent six-hour stretch in Chicago, another indication that violence is on the rise in the nation’s third-largest city.

Wade learned of the situation with his nephew after Miami defeated Dallas on Thursday night. On Friday, Wade said he played “with a heavy heart” when the Heat visited Toronto. Wade scored 30 points in Miami’s 113-101 victory, and afterward said he expected his nephew to recover.

“I played for him and with him in mind,” Wade said. “I was 9 years old when he was born. I was an uncle at 9 years old. A lot of thoughts go through your mind. … My prayers go out to all the families involved, especially the one family who lost a child. My prayers go out to them. It’s tough.”

Wade’s nephew was one of six males shot at a store on Chicago’s South Side about 6 p.m. Thursday by hooded men who police said fled the scene in an SUV. One man was dead at the scene and four others – ranging in age from 16 to 24 – were hospitalized in critical condition. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the slain man as Shawndell Harris, 22.

The Wade family has not released their injured relative’s name, nor has Chicago police. The eight-time NBA All-Star said his Wade’s World Foundation has made curbing violence, particularly gun violence, a top priority for several years.

For Wade, a Chicago native, that made the news of these shootings even more troubling.

“It’s very concerning,” Wade said. “A lot of work that I do in the community in Chicago is about (gun violence) and to have a family member, my nephew, be involved in it, it’s sad. It hurts your heart to think about not only your family but other families going through it. I’m just glad that he’s fine and hopefully he recovers. … You never expect to get a call like that.”

The news of the shooting involving Wade’s nephew comes one week after Heat players including Wade and LeBron James spoke out about last month’s shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. A neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot the 17-year-old in the Orlando suburb of Sanford, Fla. No arrest has been made; the volunteer has claimed self-defense.

Of the Martin shooting, Wade said that, “as a father, this hits home.”

With regard to his nephew, Wade indicated surgery had taken place. Wade was still collecting details.

“My family tried to keep me out of it while I was playing the game,” Wade said. “So now that the game is over hopefully I can call and get a chance to talk to them.”

Police in Chicago said there were three other shootings during Thursday’s stretch of violence.

- Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, David Gully, 31, was fatally shot in the head across the street from his South Side home. Suspects have been questioned and several weapons have been recovered, police said.

- About 10:30 p.m. Thursday, four people standing in a parking lot on Chicago’s West Side were wounded when a gunman fired at them from a moving vehicle, police said.

- Two other men were wounded in separate shootings on the South Side – one in the leg and one in the buttocks.

The shootings are part of a larger uptick in violence across the city this year. From Jan. 1 to March 29 of this year, there were 474 shootings, 101 of them fatal, according to the Chicago Police Department. During the same time period last year, there were 346 shootings, 55 fatal.

Tio Hardiman, director of the anti-violence group CeaseFire, said he believes clashes are increasing because the city is dealing with violence as a crime problem and not as a public health epidemic.

“You cannot arrest your way out of this problem,” Hardiman said. “You have to meet people where they are and change the way they think.”


Whitney Houston’s Daughter Bobbi Kristina Cast In Tyler Perry TV Show

BobbiKristinaWhitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown is moving on with her life with the help of family friend Tyler Perry. The writer-actor-director-producer has cast the 19-year-old in his upcoming TBS sitcom For Better Or Worse, which is based off the premise of his 2007 film Why Did I Get Married? and its 2010 sequel.

Brown will play the daughter of one of the stylists at a salon in the show, which premieres this July. Though she has never professionally acted before, Bobbi Kristina fancied herself a singer like her mother, uploading a video of herself covering Adele’s “Someone Like You” in September 2011.

This news comes after reports emerged that Brown got engaged to Nicholas Gordon, her adopted brother, and was wearing her late mother’s $250,000 ring as an engagement ring.


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Singer Timi Dakolo weds today

Timi, Busola and Alex Dakolo
The 2007 West Africa Idol winner is getting married or has already married his girlfriend, Busola, an ex-Zenith bank staff, in Ilorin today. The two already have a son, Alex, who born in September 2010. Timi wanted to keep his wedding away from the press, but then he announced it on Twitter, so now we all know :-). Big congrats to Timi and Busola.

Tragedy As Tenant Stabs Landlord's Son To Death




WHEN Mukaila Ajadi was ejected from the house he was living in by his landlord's children, little did the landlord's family know that this directive did not go down well with their tenant, as a fight resulting from a reaction to the quit notice ended the dreams and aspirations of one of the lanlord's son, 42-year-old Musiliu Sogunro on February 8, 2012.
Ajadi, a 51-year-old father of three was reported to have packed into the house at Sanyo area of Ibadan, Oyo State in 2007. His landlord died in January 2011 and since then, he was alleged to have refused to pay his house rent, owing the landlord's family a year's rent. Not only this, another female tenant who was brought into the house by Ajadi was also owing some rent.

When all overtures to make the two tenants pay up the money failed, the landlord's children decided to give them quit notice but Ajadi was alleged to have refused to quit the one room he was living in with his wife and three children, saying that he would remain there until he would be able to secure another accommodation.

The female tenant however decided to comply with the landlord's children's directive and started packing her things in bits. At a point, she had moved all her belongings from the room she occupied, leaving behind her mattress. Miffed by the action of the woman who continued to lock the room she occupied, Sogunro, on sighting her in evening of thed fateful day, challenged her on this, demanding to know why she locked the room up, unknown to him that her mattress was still in the room.

Tempers flared between Sogunro the woman and in no time, they started exchanging hot words with each other. It was at that point that Ajadi, who was around at the time, interjected the quarrel. However, his contribution did not go down well with Sogunro and before anyone knew what was happening, a fight ensued between the duo. The outcome was that Sogunro slumped, covered with his own blood which was flowing from different stab wounds on his body.

According to information gathered by Sunday Tribune, Ajadi claimed that it was Sogunro who brought a bottle, broke it and injured him on the back of his hand with it. In annoyance, Ajadi claimed he wrested the broken bottle from Sogunro but did not know that he stabbed him until he saw his picture with the different points where he was stabbed on his body.

When Ajadi saw that his landlord's son had slumped, he went to Sanyo Police Station to report that he and someone fought and stabbed themselves. He was advised to go and treat himself. It was after he left that the deceased's wife came to report at the station that Ajadi had killed her husband. The woman was said to have informed the police that she received a call from an unknown person who told her to come and see her injured husband. On getting home, she was shocked when she met her husband on the ground, stone dead.

The police at Sanyo police station had reportedly traced Ajadi to the hospital where he went to treat himself and promptly arrested him. Sunday Tribune further gathered that his case was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, for further investigations, after which he was charged to court. He is currently being remanded in Agodi prisons while his case has been adjourned.

Twin blasts rock Thai city

An injured fireman is helped from the scene of a car bomb blast in Yala, Thailand.
An injured fireman is helped from the scene of a car bomb blast in Yala,

(CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded following a pair of explosions Saturday in the southern Thai city of Yala, Thai media reported.

The two blasts were the result of bombs stashed in stolen trucks, Police Lt. Gen. Paitoon Chuchaiya told CNN affiliate MCOT.

Video from the scene showed damage to buildings, cars and motorcycles on the street.

The blasts set fires to nearby vehicles, including a van, which itself exploded, leading to initial reports of a third bomb, Chuchaiya said.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she has been informed of the Yala bombings and has instructed national police chief Gen. Prewpan Dhamapong to investigate the crime scene immediately, according to MCOT. Police investigators believe suspected insurgents are behind the attacks, MCOT said.

Last month, a series of bombs detonated in Bangkok. No one was killed in those blasts, and an Iranian suspect was arrested in connection with the incident.


Cruise ship stranded off Indonesia by engine fire

(CNN) -- Engineers are battling to restore power to a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 people after it was left adrift off Indonesia by an engine fire, cruise company Azamara Club Cruises said.

All of the nearly 600 passengers on board the Azamara Quest are safe but five crew members suffered smoke inhalation during the fire, the company said in an online statement.

One of the injured crew needs urgent medical care and will be taken to a hospital as soon as the ship reaches shore, it said.

The cruise liner is expected to head straight to Sandakan in Malaysia once propulsion is restored, the company said.

"The damage caused by the fire will require us to cancel the rest of Azamara Quest's voyage once the ship arrives in Sandakan," it said.

As of Saturday morning local time, the ship was located 200 miles off the port city of Balikpapan, on the Indonesian island of Borneo, in calm seas, the company said.

The fire broke out at about 8:20 p.m. local time in one of the ship's engine rooms, where it was contained and quickly extinguished, the company said.

Power was restored to one of the engines late Friday, allowing the ship to restart its air conditioning, running water, plumbing and refrigeration, Azamara Club Cruises said.

The fire broke out after the Azamara Quest had set sail from Manila, in the Philippines, Officer Francis Wong, chief of communications for the Philippines Navy, told CNN.

The ship's captain reported the fire to the Philippine naval authorities, who sent a Cessna aircraft and two patrol gun boats to the cruise ship in response, he said.

As of noon Friday Philippine time the fire was under control, he said.

Wong said he did not know where the ship was headed next.

"When we left the ship was safe and close to Palawan," he said, referring to an island province in the Philippines.

The Azamara Quest was on a 17-night sailing voyage that departed Hong Kong, China, on March 26, and was due to include port calls in the Philippines, Borneo and Indonesia before concluding in Singapore on April 12.

Azamara Club Cruises, which operates two cruise liners, is part of the giant Royal Caribbean Cruises group.


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‘Titanic’ Song Makes Kate Winslet Wanna Puke  Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” remains, to this day, one of the best-selling singles EVER. This tune was epic, groundbreaking, a total tearjerker. Sadly, the Titanicsong makes Kate Winslet wanna puke. No, really.

The Daily Mail quotes her telling MTV News, “I feel like throwing up when I hear it. No, I shouldn’t say that. No, actually, I do feel like throwing up…I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll.”

Before all the Titanic and Celine Dion fans go and get all offended, I’m sure Kate’s disgust with the song comes from having to listen to it probably a buhjillion times. Stars often get sick of their own films, songs that played during it, certain characters, etc. For example, Zac Efron once made some comment about how if he had to sing another High School Musical song, he was going to throw himself off a cliff or something.

Lol.

No worries, Kate. We still love you even though “My Heart Will Go On” makes you totes nauseous. xoxo

'Step Up Revolution' Trailer Debuts (Video)

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Fans worried that the Step Upfilms reached the pinnacle of their ambitions with 3D were reassured that the series still has plenty of life left in it when Summit Entertainment premiered the trailer Friday forStep Up Revolution. Summit, taking over the franchise from previous distributor Buena Vista Pictures, offered a full-length clip showcasing a new location (Miami) and a focus on group routines – from “performance art” to “protest

Step Up 2 The Streets and Step Up 3D helmer Jon M. Chuvacates the director’s chair for the latest installment, instead serving as executive producer while he puts the finishing touches on a different sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Scott Speer, who worked with Chu on the web series The LXD, directs the film, which focuses on dancers whose routines resemble “flash mobs” – coordinated efforts involving large groups of people hijacking public locations.

The story revolves around a young woman named Emily (Kathryn McCormick) who moves to Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. After she gets involved with Sean (Ryan Guzman), the leader of a local dance crew, they band together to stop a greedy developer who threatens to buy up the Miami strip and turn it into high-rise condominiums. Consequently, the dancers jump into action, using their routines to raise awareness of the area’s history, save their homes, and of course, provide some exciting dance numbers for viewers.

Although it’s disappointing that the filmmakers chose not to go with the much better – if much more obvious – title Step Up 4 Eva, the footage promises plenty of exciting dancefloor action. Step Up Revolution arrives in theaters nationwide on July 27, 2012.


'Spartacus: Vengeance' Finale Postmortem: Creator Addresses Its Bloody Death Toll

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with series creatorSteven S. DeKnight about the decisions he and his team made for the finale episode.
Liam McIntyre Spartacus Vengeance Finale 2012

It didn’t look good for the rebellion going in to Friday’s season finale of Starz’s Spartacus: Vengeance. Trapped on Vesuvius and surrounded by Roman soldiers, Spartacus (Liam McIntyre) would have to once again do something no one expected in order to get his band of rebel slaves off the

Surrounded by Glaber’s (Craig Parker) men waiting at the foot of the mountain with just the one path leading up and down, Spartacus found inspiration in his former lover Mira’s (Katrina Law) death and led the group down by vines. The surprise attack would give the rebels the advantage and ultimately Spartacus would get his revenge on the man who ordered his wife to her death. But, the win wouldn’t come without casualties for characters whom the show’s viewers have become very attached to.

The Hollywood Reporter: There was a huge and bloody shift for Lucretia, but was it really a big change?

Steven S. DeKnight: Once you go back with Lucretia you’ll realize, ‘Oh, she was actually insane the whole time. She never really recovered.”

THR: Lucretia was marked for death once before. When did you decide this was how she’d ultimately go out?

Spartacus Vengeance Finale Lucy Lawless StarzDeKnight: I had originally planned that she was going to die with Batiatus at the end of Season 1. [Executive producer] Rob Tapertpassed along the message from Starz that they were very interested in bringing Lucy back. And I loved Lucy; I loved her performance. But I was adamant, “No, she has to die.” And then the next day I called up Rob and said, “I had a thought this morning in the shower of a cool thing to do with Lucy next season.” And it was all based on that she wanted the baby and how it would end. So before we started the season, that’s the reason I brought her back to end it just like that. Because I had this image in my head of revealing why she wanted the baby. Because I think a lot of people have obviously picked up on she’s very obsessed with Olivia’s baby. But most people think she’s going to take the baby and run away with it, which she kind of does. But in her mind, she’s fulfilling what she’s always wanted. And what her husband always wanted, which I found operatic and grand and twisted. And I’m still shocked that Starz actually let me do that.

THR: Why did you choose to kill off Mira the way you did and with so little fanfare?

DeKnight: It was the one death I think we probably talked about the most, because we went back and forth. I love the character. I love what Katrina did with the character. People always ask me, why do you kill people? And it’s mostly due to story and then the other part of it is looking forward to the next season and the dynamics and how everything fits together. With killing her off you know we wanted to make a statement at the beginning of the episode that all bets were off and anybody could get it. And sometimes that people die and you don’t get a magnificent final death scene with your last words. Sometimes, you just get it. And it’s violent and horrible. And I also really needed an emotional connection for Spartacus throughout this. An emotional loss that led him to the idea of how to get off the mountain. So, they’re out of firewood and the rock is too hard to bury the body and he has to wrap her in these vines. And that’s what leads him to the idea of creating these vine ropes to get off the mountain.

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THR: Mira gets killed on the finale and, for a lack of a better word, dumped by Spartacus on the last episode. Don’t you think fans will feel like she got a raw deal?

DeKnight: Yeah, she got a raw deal all around. I mean she fell for a man that will never be able to give his heart. On the plus side, she went from basically a third level sex slave into a very powerful woman. And I just hope people don’t get the wrong impression that, oh, I’m going to build up a powerful woman and then kill her -- not at all my intention. It was purely a product of the story and where we’re headed with the story.

THR: Speaking of raw deals, Glaber pretty much sent Ashur (Nick E. Tarabay) to his sure death. Why would he go on such a suicide mission?

DeKnight: You know what I love about Ashur, and I try to do this with all the villains, but Ashur especially. Ashur thinks he’s the hero. He doesn’t think he’s a villain at all really. And I’ve had many conversations with Nick about this. And I think it’s one of the keys to the Ashur character. Is that he continually thinks he’s in the right no matter what he does. He honestly believes he’s in the right, which is why his ending kind of surprises him -- that he got screwed this way. It’s funny because how Ashur dies I had planned towards the end of Season 1. I’d figured that out. And I remember I had bumped into Nick and Lesley-Ann Brandt, who at the time was playing Naevia. And I excitedly told them how Ashur was going to finally meet his demise. And, of course, Lesley-Ann Brandt thought it was a fantastic idea and Nick was like “What? What are you talking about?” And then of course Lesley-Ann Brandt wasn’t available due to scheduling problems. So we had to recast to Cynthia Addai-Robinson -- who I think when you get to that final moment with her and Ashur will be the moment that the audience can really get behind Naevia and see her transformation from the broken shattered woman she was into something powerful and deadly.

THR: After all that Oenomaus (Peter Mensah) has survived, the Egyptian was finally the one to do him in. Can you talk about your thought process on Oenomaus’ death?

DeKnight: Historically, Oenomaus was the first one to fall out of Spartacus’ people by some accounts at the battle of Vesuvius. So, we do try to stay historically adjacent as I like to call it. We always knew that Oenomaus would die at Vesuvius. And I wanted that moment to have a little more emotional resonance. Because I wanted to build to Oenomaus finally forgiving Gannicus with his last dying words. And to get the sense of loss through Gannicus. Loss, but also having that burden lifted from his conscious that his brother forgave him for what he did.

And I’m sure I’ll also get many angry emails about killing Oenomaus. I’ve read a lot of comments recently after Episode 9 about people asking ‘This Egyptian character, how could he beat Oenomaus who’s supposed to be the greatest ever? And I have to keep reminding people that way back in Season 1 in Episode 5 he tells Crixus and Spartacus when they’re going to fight Theokoles that his day is past. He’s a great trainer and he is a great fighter, but he is at the end of that line. He’s not the great warrior he once was. He can still fight like hell. And that’s why we created this Egyptian character. We wanted an unstoppable character that never says anything that’s just a force of nature. My ultimate plan was that it would take Gannicus and Oenomaus both to stop this guy and one ends up sacrificing his life.

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Craig Parker Spartacus Vengeance finaleTHR: While there are a lot of loose ends tied up in this finale, there’s also a sense of impermanence about the victory. Is that how you set it up?

DeKnight: That’s another thing that I love about the show and something I’ve really tried to do since the beginning. When we get to the season ending I like an ending -- not a cliffhanger -- especially considering how long you have to wait before the next season. I don’t want to do a cliffhanger and have everybody wait nine months to see what happened. It kind of deflates it. So, I like to put an exclamation point on the endings, but still have that feel that more is coming, which we did at the end of season one. And, of course, at the end of this season.

THR: What’s the final moral message on the idea of vengeance after this season?

DeKnight: When I suggested the subtitle of Vengeance --- and doing each season with a different subtitle has proven to be my best worst idea because I love the concept, but getting everybody to agree on the subtitle is just a monstrous task. And we went round and round about Vengeance. There was a faction among Starz -- and the executive producers and I agree with them -- that vengeance is not a heroic ideal. It’s a dark very treacherous path.

For me that is exactly what I wanted, practically everybody this season has an axe to grind with someone. And I also wanted that idea, that when you get to the end and you look back, that Spartacus really slowly moves away from the concept of vengeance and starts to put the group ahead of his own passions. Of his own thirst to kill Glaber, which you especially see in Episode 8 where he decides instead of killing Ilithyia or making an attempt on Glaber’s life instead he’s going to trade her for the weapons they need to continue their fight. So yeah, vengeance ultimately is very empty once you have it. And next season one of the things we’re going to be talking about is Spartacus has killed Glaber. He’s killed Batiatus. The two people really responsible for his wife’s death but it’s not enough. It’s never enough. Once you exact that vengeance it is a hollow feeling.

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