Mark Cuban calls Donald Trump a 'jagoff,' says he's voting for Hillary Clinton

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton toured the U.S. Rust Belt on Saturday, promising to reject bad international trade deals during a factory visit and securing the endorsement of investor Mark Cuban at a Pittsburgh rally.

The Dallas Mavericks owner, who said as recently as last month that there was a "good chance" he would vote for Donald Trump, instead criticized the Republican nominee's leadership in front of an energetic crowd.

"Leadership is not yelling and screaming and intimidating," Cuban said.

"You know what we call a person like that in Pittsburgh? A jagoff!" Cuban added, using disparaging Pittsburgh slang.

Cuban had spoken with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta several times in recent weeks and called him on Thursday to say he was ready to endorse Clinton, a campaign aide said.

Notorious paedophile burnt alive in Lagos

Notorious paedophile who raped an eight year-old girl at church premises in Ikorodu area of Lagos and has been terrorizing the neighbourhood for months was on Sunday burnt  alive by the residents.

The yet-to-be identified man, known only as “Badoo” was apprehended by some members of vigilante group in the area who detained and punished for several hours after raping an 8-year-old girl before they stone him and set ablased.

It was reliably gathered that the sexual abuse crime was reportedly took place during a celestial church vigil on Sunday, July 24 and the locals hunted for the criminal immediately after one of the church members found the young victim helplessly lying at the church premises.
The criminal who was learnt to belong to one of the notorious cult group that has been terrorizing Ikorodu township and neighboring towns was nabbed while hiding inside a primary school.

A Police source who confirmed the incident said Jungle justice is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group.

He said, “It is most often used to characterise informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor. This form of justice frequently occurs in Africa where people still believe in the old method of taking justice into their own hands”.

4 Nigerian sisters, all medical doctors got married on the same day (photos)

Four beautiful Nigerian sisters, who are all medical doctors got married on the same day. The daughters of one Alhaji Bade, Drs Hauwa, Hajir, Fatima, and Sadiya tied the knots in Jigawa  state. Congrats to all of them. More photos after the cut...

"It was a traumatic experience" says Catholic priest who spoke to the executed Nigerians at the shooting place in Indonesia

A Catholic priest who was present at Nusakambangan prison in Indonesia during last Thursday's executions of three Nigerian drug convicts and one local drug lord, has described the experience as 'traumatic'

Father Charles Burrows, who is based in Cilacap near the prison, was called there to speak with two of of the three Nigerians, who were among 4 death row prisoners executed by firing squad. 

Father Burrows said he doesn't know if the executed prisoners suffered. He said he had been present in the past when it has taken several minutes for prisoners to die.

"The first time, it was seven to eight minutes, and then there were some of the other times it was 15 minutes and they still weren't, hadn't expired," he said. "And the captain has to wait with a pistol and shoot into the brain." he told Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Father Burrows said he went with the other ministers from different spiritualities to the "shooting place", because there was no time to speak with them in their cells, with great confusion in the lead-up to the execution. He said it was a "traumatic experience". The ministers prayed together while four ministers spoke to the four men who were executed.

Bill Clinton goes after Donald Trump for calling out the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq

Hillary Clinton's top surrogates are taking aim at rival Donald Trump for criticizing the bereaved mother of a Muslim Army captain, a comment that sparked outrage across the political spectrum on Saturday.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine expressed shock that the GOP nominee would attack Ghazala Khan for not speaking during her husband's address to the Democratic convention.

"He was kind of trying to turn that into some kind of ridicule," Kaine said after a campaign event in Pittsburgh. "It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness. If you don't have any more sense of empathy than that, then I'm not sure you can learn it."

Former President Bill Clinton, who joined his wife and Kaine at the event, agreed: "I cannot conceive how you can say that about a Gold Star mother."

Nigerian Military attacks Ijaw militants in Ogun State

The Nigerian Military has continued the aerial bombardment of Fatola, the hideout of militants and pipeline vandals in the Arepo area of Ogun State. According to online reports, the air raid happened in yesterday afternoon and was said to have lasted 30 minutes. A fighter jet fired missiles at the Iroko creeks, leaving no fewer than 100 suspected militants dead and their camps/shanties destroyed.

Residents were caught unawares and had to run from their homes to avoid being hit during the bombardment.


The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar confirmed the air strikes. According to him, the joint operation will continue until the area is secure and free from all criminal gangs, either militants or vandals. However, he didn't ascertain the number of casualties from the strike.

1 woman dead and 4 people seriously injured after multiple shootings in Austin, Texas

One woman has died and multiple people were hospitalised after two shootings in downtown Austin, Texas.

Emergency services were called to Sixth Street at 2:17 a.m on Sunday. Police on Twitter urged locals to stay away from the area.

Seven minutes later, emergency services responded to another call on nearby Trinity Street where the victim was being assaulted by an individual with a firearm near a parking garage.

Police later confirmed that the two incidents were isolated and not related.

The incident on Sixth Street was believed to have begun after a disagreement between two individuals led one of them to fire shots into the crowd. Paramedics at the scene said bodies with gunshot wounds were spread across the area.

A woman in her 30s was pronounced dead at the scene and four other people were injured, according to the Austin-County Emergency Medical Services.

Eyewitness Dorian Santiago told Sky News: "We heard fired shots, and people started running crazy ... I was trying to figure out what happened."

"One victim ... they were trying to do CPR to help her, but it looked like she was already dead."

Austin police chief, Bryan Manley, stressed that the incidents were not related, saying: "What we had was two separate incidents that occurred in very close proximity to each other both in location and time that made us initially believe it was an active shooter."