Kenyans youths allegedly now sleep in coffin for rituals (photo)

According to the Facebook user, Youths in Kenya now visit a place in Westland Nairobi where they sleep in coffins as part of a ritual to make money. The post has been shared over 900 times. See the full picture below..

Why I Dumped MMMG For Mavin - Iyanya

Latest addition to Mavin Records, Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk has revealed the reason he decided to join Don Jazzy’s crew despite numerous offers.

The 30-year-old entertainer on Monday announced he was joining the Mavin family and also released a new single “Up to Something’’ featuring Don Jazzy and Dr. Sid.

In an exclusive interview with Premium Times, the ‘Kukere’ singer revealed why he joined Mavin records and link up with Don Jazzy, one of Nigeria’s foremost music producers.

According to him, he chose Don Jazzy because he needed to work with someone who can help him fulfil his music ambition.

“We needed the Iyanya brand to work with somebody who understands the music industry and can help me fulfill that dream. Making sure that I get my music right is the most important thing.

Barack Obama Tells The Scariest Halloween Story Ever (And Yes, It’s About Donald Trump)

President Barack Obama seriously spooked Samantha Bee with a scary Halloween tale.

On Monday’s episode of “Full Frontal,” Bee asked POTUS to recount a “story about what happens if people don’t vote.”

Obama’s response? Let’s just say it involved GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump inside the White House.

Absolutely terrifying, right?

Bee made history with the show as she became the first female late-night host to interview a U.S. president.

City attorney sues Millennium developer — says buyers duped

City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the developer of the sinking Millennium condominium tower Thursday, alleging the builder violated the law by failing to disclose the building’s settlement issues despite knowing of the problem more than a year before the units came to market.

Herrera’s lawsuit, a cross-complaint of a previous lawsuit filed by building homeowners against the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which is building the new Transbay Transit Center next door, alleges developer Millennium Partners knew by 2008 — a year before it started selling condominiums — that the building had sunk almost six inches, well in excess of projections.

Millennium Partners had a legal obligation to tell prospective buyers about the sinking, Herrera said. In not doing so, the developer gained an unfair advantage over other developers it was competing against for sales. The lack of information also put buyers at an unfair disadvantage as they weighed the pros and cons of investing in the tower. Essentially, Millennium Tower buyers were sold a lemon, Herrera said.

m not a monster’: A teen horror blogger explains why she killed her parents

In prison, 18-year-old Ashlee Martinson said she feels freer than she did at home in Wisconsin.

It was there, she said, that a lifetime of physical, sexual and psychological abuse culminated into one horrific moment last year — the moment she fatally shot her stepfather, Thomas Ayers, 37, and fatally stabbed her mother, Jennifer Ayers, 40, more than 30 times. Then she locked her three younger siblings in a bedroom in their home in the tiny town of Piehl, in northern Wisconsin, and ran, police said.

Following a multistate manhunt, police arrested Martinson in Indiana, where she fled with her boyfriend. In March, she ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree homicide and is serving 23 years in prison.

“I’m happy,” Martinson said during an exclusive interview with Crime Watch Daily, which aired Tuesday. “I know that sounds crazy, because I’m in prison, but I feel like I’m free. I can wake up every day and know that I am safe.”

Seemingly for the first time since she was sent to prison, Martinson is telling her own story — one about a teenage girl, abused for years by her mother’s boyfriends as her mother stood by them.

“I’m not a monster,” she told Crime Watch Daily. “I never meant any of this to happen. It doesn’t make it right, what happened. But I was just a girl, an abused girl, who was forced to make a really bad decision.

“I’m not the monster that they portrayed me to be.”

Accounts from Martinson and professionals who interviewed her after the incident portray a teenage girl who, after years of alleged abuse, suffered severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, The Washington Post reported earlier this year.

Her online presence, it seems, revealed the darker side.

Martinson, who went by the pseudonym “Vampchick” on her blog titled Nightmare, purportedly posted a poem days before her parents’ deaths about torturing and killing people, according to People.

“I clean the dry blood off my tools from a previous session,” she wrote in a poem called “Unworthy,” according the Daily Mail. “The last body has been disposed of just hours before, yet I have not been satisfied with the pain, agony and blood.

“I bend down as they start to wake.

” ‘Welcome to hell.’ I whisper in her ear. ‘Never again will you see the light of day.’ ”

Authorities confirmed last year that the blog that had been linked to Martinson was indeed associated with her; but they did not know whether the content posted under the pseudonym “Vampchick” was her original work.

The blog has since been taken offline.

Obama says FBI investigations shouldn’t ‘operate on innuendo’

President Obama defended Hillary Clinton’s “integrity” as she faces a renewed FBI investigation of emails sent from her private server.

In a NowThis News interview released Wednesday, the president ducked a question about whether he was upset that FBI Director James Comey had announced the new twist in the long-running probe so close to Election Day. However, he did say the FBI should not operate on innuendo.

“I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo, and we don’t operate on incomplete information, and we don’t operate on leaks,” he said. “We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”

Obama pointed to Comey’s conclusion in July, following months of investigation into whether Clinton or her aides mishandled classified information, that he would not recommend bringing charges. But in a cryptic letter to Congress last Friday, Comey said new emails, reportedly found on a computer used by her aide Huma Abedin, would be investigated.

“When this was investigated thoroughly last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was she had made some mistakes but that there wasn’t anything there that was prosecutable,” Obama said.

I don’t know how $32.5m Escrow Account was opened, says Adoke

A former Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), yesterday said he knew nothing about how an Escrow Account was opened and $32.5 million fines from Halliburton Energy Services paid into it.

He said he was not briefed about the existent of any Escrow Account at any time by a member of the legal team of the Federal Government, Mr. Roland Ewubare, who was National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) former Executive Secretary.

He explained that the team was constituted to initiate criminal proceedings against the five companies involved in the Halliburton bribe scandal.

The five firms, which later settled for plea bargain, were: Julius Berger ($35m); Siemens (Euros 30m); Snamprogetti ($30m); Halliburton Energy Services ($32,500,000) and Japan Gasoline Corporation ($26, 500,000).

Adoke, who spoke exclusively with The Nation on the telephone, said he did his best for the nation.

He said: “On assumption of office in 2010, I was approached by then chairperson of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, that she has a request from some American lawyers to sue, on behalf of Nigeria, Halliburton and associated companies involved in the $180 million bribe scandal.

Gawker settles Hulk Hogan privacy case for $31m

The defunct US news website Gawker has settled a lawsuit won by retired US professional wrestler Hulk Hogan for $31m (£25m).

The privacy case forced Gawker to declare bankruptcy earlier this year, after a jury awarded Mr Hogan $140m over a leaked sex tape.

Mr Hogan's legal bill was paid by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who said he wanted to curb Gawker's "bullying".

Gawker shut down in August following the judgement.

The website, launched in the early 2000s, was known for its acerbic tone and aggressive coverage of celebrities.

The case involved a video posted by Gawker in 2012 after Mr Hogan was secretly recorded having sex with his friend's wife.

The settlement was announced on Wednesday in a blog post by Gawker founder Nick Denton, who called the conclusion of the case "a hard peace".

Footballer Andy Carroll threatened at gunpoint on way home from training

West Ham and England footballer Andy Carroll, 27, was on Wednesday threatened at gunpoint on his way home from training while driving his £100,000 Mercedes -Benz G-Class.

Just minutes after leaving West Ham's Essex training ground, two bikers pulled up alongside the striker and then one of them pointed a gun at him.

The striker, then immediately sped off in panic with the two bikers in heavy pursuit, but he managed to lose them. He immediately returned to the well secured Essex training ground.

His team-mates were alarmed as they struggled to grasp his word while the club staff immediately rushed to his aid. 

The incident left the striker 'shaken' and the club have now confirmed the incident with plans to beef up security around the striker already underway.

Young accident survivor meets with Cristiano Ronaldo 2 years after the footballer 'woke him up from coma' @akposcomedian1

A boy from Poland had the time of his life on Tuesday as he met up with his idol Cristiano Ronaldo, who helped him 'wake up from coma' back in 2014.

David, a young Real Madrid/Cristiano Ronaldo fan in 2013, had a bad accident while riding a bike and was in coma for three months.

His family enlisted him in a hospital that tested a new method of recovery from coma leading the doctors in the hospital to suggest that David should listen to commentaries of Real Madrid's games and Ronaldo's voice since everyone knew he was a huge Ronaldo supporter.

Three months later, David miraculously woke up at the exact moment he was listening to Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his third goal for Portugal against Sweden in a World Cup playoff.

Ronaldo invited David to Madrid as his special guest to watch a Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund in April 2014, on Tuesday the football star showed his kind side once again as he invited the young lad and his parents to Real Madrid's team hotel in Poland where Real Madrid will face Legia Warsaw (a Polish club) in the Champions League .

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Corpse of woman who died 4 years ago allegedly found fresh. Graphic Photos

According to Facebook user Atidade Hassan Abioye, the corpse of a woman that was recently dug out of her grave 4 years after she was buried in 2012, due to the demolition of buildings in the area where the woman had been buried, to allow proper road construction of the said area, was reportedly found fresh, with no stains on her cloths and her body well preserved.

Atidade shared this on his page and wrote:

“What a wonderful surprise, allah is great.there is a woman who has been dead since 2012 and buried in the same year,in year 2016 the government decide to rehabilitate some area around Ojoo and there is going to be a lot of demolition of houses and shop. but to my greatest surprise there is a particular woman buried that need to be dug out in other to construct the road properly, the greatest surprise there is that they dug the ground and met the woman how they buried her,no stains on her cloth,the rope is unloose and all part of her body is well preserved by Almighty Allah. There is heaven and there is hell, always be truthful in life and have a good mind to your other neighbor. It is a wonderful surprise at Ojoo Ibadan.ALLAH is great and believe in him and his messenger (saw)”

FG To Purchase 2 Additional Satellites For Nigcomsat At $550m – Shittu

The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, says the Federal Government plans to purchase two additional satellites for Nigeria Communication Satellite (NigComSat)  at the cost of $550 million.

Shittu disclosed this on Saturday while speaking with newsmen at the end of the 4th National Council on Communication Technology meeting in Kaduna.

He said that the Federal Government was already negotiating with China EXIM Bank for the purchase of the two additional satellites for storage of Data.

According to him, efforts are being made to procure two additional communication satellites to complement the existing NigComSat as a means of reaching areas that cannot easily be covered by terrestrial fibre.

“We need just about 550 million dollars to acquire two new satellites; we are already negotiating with China EXIM Bank, who had assured us that they will deliver the money.

“We will negotiate and procure extra satellites for NigComSat,  so that there will be adequate back up for and once this done whatever data is stored in one satellite will equally be shared by the two or three satellites.

“With that, there will not be fear of any problem because there will be enough data collection centre and there will be reliability.

South Africa set to pass a bill that could see comedians serve 10 years in jail for sarcastic jokes

Following the prevention and combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill that was released by the Justice Minister Micheal Masutha last week, South African government is reviewing a proposed bill that could see comedians hit with a 10 year sentence for making sarcastic jokes.
According to BuzzSA, the provisions of the bill, will carry heavy fines and a maximum jail term of 10 years for anyone convicted of showing bias, prejudice or intolerance on the grounds of race, colour, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, belief,  culture, language, nationality, birth, disability, HIV status, occupation or trade, albinism and ethnic or social origin.
Reacting to the proposed bill on City Press, popular comedian, Jason Goliath criticized the bill saying:

‘What comedians do on stage compared with what people like Penny Sparrow, for example, say, shows a definite difference between freedom of speech and hate speech. We do it in the name of fun’

Niger Delta Stakeholders Present 16-Point Demands To President Buhari

stakeholders in the Niger Delta region on Tuesday presented a 16-point demand to President Muhammadu Buhari on issues that bordered on the socio-economic development, security and restoration of peace in the region.

Chief Alfred Diete-Spiff, the Chairman of Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers’ Council, confirmed this development to State House correspondents in Abuja after the meeting between Buhari and stakeholders from the Niger Delta region.

According to him, the demands include the need to fast-track interventions on some of the  regional infrastructure, Presidential Amnesty programme, law and justice issues and the effect of increased military presence in the Niger Delta.

He said that the plight of Internally Displaced Persons, the Ogoni Clean-up and Environmental Remediation, the issue of Maritime University, Okerenkoko, and security surveillance and protection of oil and gas infrastructure were part of the demands.

Diete-Spiff said the stakeholders also presented the issues of the relocation of administrative and operational headquarters of oil companies to the region, power supply, inclusive participation in oil industry and ownership.

Algeria name 'killer squad' to face Nigeria, that includes Player of the year, Riyad Mahrez

Ahead of the must win Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Algeria slated for November 12 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Algeria has named it's 'killer squad' to face the Super Eagles and it includes big names like Islam Slimani, Hilal Soudani, Yacine Brahimi, Sofiane Feghouli and PFA player of the year, Riyad Mahrez.

Nigeria must win this game if we are to stand a chance of topping the qualifiers in a group that contains Cameroon, Zambia and Algeria and has been labelled the 'group of death'.

See the full List of invited players below. Do you think the Super Eagles have what it takes to defeat the Algerians man to man?

SQUAD LIST

Goalkeepers: Rais M'Bolhi (Antalyaspor, Turkey)