photos from the violence at yesterday evening Oshodi

There was violence in the Oshodi area of Lagos this evening but I don't have much details. According to an eye-witness, the fight was between two rival gangs. One person was killed and two buses burnt. The police has since brought back calmness to the area. See the photos after the cut...

Just Killed this afternoon; Imo State Commissioner, see photo

Report from Owerri Imo State has it that the Commissioner to the state House of Assembly Service Commission, Hon. Tobby Onyekele has just been assassinated by some unknown gunmen

The Remains of Hon. Tobby Onyekele in pool of his blood

THE VICTIM’S CAR AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

He was killed at the MRS filling station, Ugwu-Orji along Okigwe road, Owerri.

Hon. Tobby Onyekele, who served during the Ohakim administration as a local government chairman, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen.

Before his gruesome murder this afternoon, Onyekele was the Commissioner to the House of Assembly Service Commission, Hon. Tobby 

Will Smith: 'After Earth' was 'the most painful failure in my career'

Will Smith's last film, "After Earth," was a domestic flop when it debuted in May 2013. 

The $130 million sci-fi flick from director M. Night Shyamalan, made just $60 million domestically. 

While the movie, also starring Smith's son, Jaden, went on to make $243.8 million worldwide, the Sony and Columbia Pictures film received terrible reviews for Smith's wasted talent and references to Scientology that seemed a little too strong in a mostly generic, slow-moving, and boring film.

In a new interview with Esquire, Smith acknowledges that "After Earth" "was the most painful failure" in his career.

Smith says "After Earth" hit him harder than the critically-panned 1999 film "Wild Wild West," because his now 16-year-old son Jaden was in it with him. 

The film's failure led him to go on a hiatus for a year and a half to evaluate the sorts of movies he was putting out and contemplate why it was important for him to have a number-one movie at the box office.

Via Esquire:

Wild Wild West was less painful than After Earth because my son was involved in After Earth and I led him into it. That was excruciating. What I learned from that failure is how you win. I got reinvigorated after the failure of After Earth. I stopped working for a year and a half. I had to dive into why it was so important for me to have number-one movies. And I never would have looked at myself in that way. I was a guy who, when I was fifteen my girlfriend cheated on me, and I decided that if I was number one, no woman would ever cheat on me. All I have to do is make sure that no one's ever better than me and I'll have the love that my heart yearns for. And I never released that and moved into a mature way of looking at the world and my artistry and love until the failure of After Earth, when I had to accept that it's not a good source of creation.

Smith adds that the weekend after "After Earth" came out was a difficult time. Not only did he find out how poorly his film performed at theaters, but he also received bad news about his father.

"I get the box-office numbers on Monday and I was devastated for about twenty-four minutes, and then my phone rang and I found out my father had cancer," said Smith. "That put it in perspective—viciously. And I went right downstairs and got on the treadmill. And I was on the treadmill for about ninety minutes."

"And that Monday started the new phase of my life, a new concept: Only love is going to fill that hole. You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have." 

Paris Hilton Boob JOB: OK, My Giant Boobs Are an Illusion

Paris Hilton's ENORMOUS boobs are fake, but not surgically fake. 

Paris will not speak out publicly about her breasts, but we know the deal. Paris says privately she's had no surgery, no stem cell treatment, no artificial enhancements whatsoever, and she's annoyed people think she'd mess with her breasts. 

So what is it? The new "Paris Hilton Push-Up Bra" ... and after meticulous research, our photo dept. analyzed Paris' boob pics -- and it appears she's a truth teller.

Despite that weird photoshoot eye makeup, Paris Hilton is so much hotter in her 30s than she was in her 20s.

Yeah, it's not all that hard to be sultry in a robe and cleavage, but all the same -- she pulls it off (or will eventually ... you're welcome), right?

The only thing that seems a bit different is the size of her breasts ... they are a little bit bigger than we're accustomed to seeing, and it doesn't look like she's in the position to be squeezing them together to simulate more than what's actually happening, does it?

We'll never know, guys ... and she probably wouldn't tell one way or the other. 

Madonna Says More Things That No One Wants to Hear

"It's pulp fiction. It's not very sexy, maybe for someone who has never had sex before. I kept waiting for something exciting and crazy to happen in that red room thing, and I was like, 'Hmm, a lot of spanking.' I also thought, 'This is so unrealistic because no guy goes down on a girl that much.' I'm sorry, but no one eats p---- as much as the guy in that book."

--Madonna discusses the ridiculous tale that is "50 Shades of Grey," make us all feel real weird.

It's just ... Madonna, honey, you're going to have to stop. We get that you're into sex and sex-related things, and that's great, it really is. You can be into whatever you want to be into, and we're so happy for you about it. But we don't need to hear about it like this. We don't need to see pictures or sketches, we don't need to hear you talk about spanking and, oh god, "going down." It's just not necessary or good or even remotely tolerable.

These are 15 of the most notorious hackers ever

Thanks to a few prominent attacks, the word "hacker" has likely shown up in your news feed pretty often in the last year. And it's likely to pop up a lot more.

Hackers can target bank information, PIN numbers, passwords—like they did with Target and other retail giants—but they also can stroke mayhem by shutting down a widely-used site or service.

There's others types of sensitive information that can also be targeted: last year Hollywood celebrities had their iCloud accounts hacked, and their nude photos were released to the public.

Additionally, Sony's emails and other documents were leaked, allegedly by hackers from North Korea. These types of attacks were done by "Black hat" hackers. Why the nickname? Because not all hackers are in it for the destruction. "Black hat" hackers hack to exploit data, "White hat" hackers hack to make systems more secure (and make money legally), and "Grey hat" hackers fall somewhere in between. The ones that make the 5 o'clock news are likely going to be black hat.

Here are 15 of the most skilled hackers and accused hackers to have taunted governments, brought down websites, and made millions for themselves—before finally getting caught.

1. Adrian Lamo

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Alias: The Homeless Hacker

Age: 33

Adrian Lamo gained recognition by breaking into the computer networks of The New York Times, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft before he was arrested in 2003. He was known as the "Homeless Hacker" because of his habit of using coffee shops and libraries as his command centers. His hacking caught up to him when he attacked the Times in 2002, gaining access to the personal information of people who've written for the paper, and adding his name to their database of expert sources. After a 15-month investigation by prosecutors, a warrant was placed for his arrest and Lamo surrendered in California. He negotiated a plea bargain that gave him six months of house arrest, and he avoided serving jail time. 

His life after this point hasn't been pretty. He was accused of using a gun on a girlfriend, and was placed in a psychiatric hold in an unrelated incident and was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. But the biggest controversy of all is that Lamo was the one who reported Chelsea Manning to U.S. authorities after she leaked hundreds of thousands of government documents. His nickname amongst hackers after that was "snitch."

2. Jeanson James Ancheta

The Register/Complex

Alias: Resilient

Age: 30

The California native became the first hacker to be charged with controlling an army of hijacked computers—called botnets—to send large quantities of spam across the Internet. He used the worm "rxbot" in 2004 to take control of 500,000 computers (which included U.S. military computers) and used their combined strength to take down major sites. He then put out ads for his services, and offered clients the opportunity to take down any website they wanted, for a price. Ancheta​ was caught in 2005 when one of his clients turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. He had to give up the $58,000 he made from hacking, pay back $16,000, give up his BMW, and serve 60 months in prison.

3. ASTRA

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Age: 58

The hacker known as "ASTRA" was never publicly identified, but is said to have been a 58-year-old mathematician when he was arrested in 2008. Greek authorities said that he hacked into the systems of the aviation company, Dassault Group, for about half a decade. In that time, he stole weapons technology information about the company's jet fighters and other military aircraft, and sold it to different countries. It's said that he sold this data to nearly 250 people in the Middle East, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, and South Africa, all for $1,000 a pop. The damages to Dassault amounted to more than $360 million.

4. Owen Thor Walker

Complex

Alias: AKILL

Age: 25

In 2008, 18-year-old Owen Thor Walker pleaded guilty to six charges of cyber crime. He led an international hacker network that broke into 1.3 million computers, and infiltrated bank accounts to take more than $20 million. He was only 17 when the thefts began, but because he was homeschooled starting at 13, this left him time to learn programming and encryption. Overall he only made $32,000 from his hacking efforts, since he only wrote the code that the other members in the network used to steal the money. He pleaded guilty, wasn't convicted, and only had to payback $11,000. He's now advising companies on online security. 

5. Kevin Poulsen

Complex

Alias: Dark Dante

Age: 49

Kevin Poulsen was the first American to be banned from the Internet and computers after being released from prison. In the late '80s and early '90s, Poulsen hacked into phone lines. He became famous when he hacked into the lines of L.A. radio station KIIS FM so that he would be the 102nd caller—winning him a Porsche. When the FBI went looking for him, he went on the run (and when he appeared on the show Unsolved Mysteries, the phone lines for the television station crashed by, you know, coincidence). When he was caught, he served five years in prison and was banned for three years from using the Internet or computers.

He's now a writer for Wired, and wrote an article about sex offenders on MySpace that got one person arrested. Tweet him here.

6. Albert Gonzalez

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Alias: CumbaJohnny, Segvec, SoupNazi, KingChilli

Age: 33

Albert Gonzalez founded Shadowcrew.com, which amassed some 4,000 members. Members of the site could buy or sell stolen bank account numbers or fakepassports, drivers’ licenses, Social Security cards, credit cards, debit cards, birth certificates, college student identification cards, and health insurance cards. It's said that more than 170 million credit and debit cards were swapped on the site from 2005 to 2007.

Gonzalez, from Florida, wasn't low-key about spending his money; he was known for booking stays in high-class hotels for days and once throwing a $75,000 party. He was charged with having 15 fake bank cards while in New Jersey, but avoided serving time when he gave evidence to the Secret Service about 19 other ShadowCrew members.

He then returned to Miami and, with a team of 10 others, hacked TJX Companies (which own T.J. Maxx and a bunch of other stores), and stole 45 million credit and debit card numbers over 18 months until 2007. He was arrested in May 2008 and won't be out of prison until 2025. There's a great The New York Times Magazine profile of him here.

7. Kevin Mitnick

Wikimedia CommonsAdrian Lamo, Kevin Mitnick, and Kevin Poulsen in 2001.

Alias: The Condor, The Darkside Hacker

Age: 51

Kevin Mitnick didn't refer to what he was doing as hacking—instead, he liked to call it "social engineering."

He started "social engineering" when he was 15, when he learned how to bypass the punch card system for Los Angeles city buses by finding tickets in a dumpster and getting a bus driver to tell him where he could buy his own ticket punch. Later he graduated to the big time by breaking into the networks of Pacific Bell, Nokia, IBM, Motorola, and a few other companies.

When he was arrested in 1995, his skills were so threatening to the judge ruling over his case that he was placed in solitary confinement because it was thought he could start a nuclear war by whistling codes into a payphone. After serving 12 months in prison and going on three years of supervised release, he continued hacking, and went on the run for almost three years using cloned cell phones to hide his location. He was sentenced to prison for four years in 1999, and was the most-wanted computer criminal in the country at the time.

Now he's a security consultant (aka: White hat) and is the author of two books. You can tweet him here.

8. Jonathan James

Complex

Alias: c0mrade

Age: 24 (at the time of his death)

Jonathan James was the first juvenile to be convicted and jailed for hacking in the United States. Starting at 15, he hacked into Bell South, the Miami-Dade school system, NASA, and the Department of Defense, and stole software said to have been worth $1.7 million from the government. He intercepted the source code of the International Space Station, which, when discovered, caused NASA to shut down its computers for three weeks, costing $41,000. He was sentenced to six months of house arrest and probation until he turned 18. Even worse? The court required him to write letters of apology to NASA and the Department of Defense. 

After Albert Gonzalez's hacker team stole credit and debit card information from TJX in 2007, the Secret Service investigated James, who claimed he had nothing to do with the thefts. Out of fear of being prosecuted for crimes he didn't commit, James killed himself in his shower in May 2008. “I have no faith in the ‘justice’ system," his suicide note said. "Perhaps my actions today, and this letter, will send a stronger message to the public. Either way, I have lost control over this situation, and this is my only way to regain control."

9. Vladimir Levin

Complex

Alias: Unknown

Age: Unknown

Levin's story is like Casino Royale in real life; working with three others, the hacker transferred a portion of $10.7M to his bank account from a handful of large Citibank accounts from all over the world—all while sitting in his apartment in St. Petersburg. Yet, he didn't use the Internet; instead he usedtelecommunications systems, and listened to customers phone calls to get their account numbers and PINs. Authorities were able to recover only $400,000 from Levin's theft after his accomplices gave him up when they were arrested. In 1998 he was ordered to pay back $240,000 to Citibank and sentenced to three years in jail. His whereabouts are unknown today.

10. Gary McKinnon

Complex

Alias: Solo

Age: 46

Gary McKinnon hacked nearly 100 American military and NASA servers from February 2001 to March 2002. What's even crazier is he did it all from his girlfriend’s aunt’s house in London. He managed to delete sensitive data, software, and files, and the U.S. government spent over $700,000 to recover from the damage. He taunted the military while he was at it, posting this message to their website: “Your security system is crap. I am Solo. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.”

McKinnon is an interesting guy. He's said his main inspiration for the attack was The Hacker's Handbook by Hugo Cornwall. While hacking NASA, he purposely looked for files that contained evidence of extraterrestrials. He told Wired in 2006 that he found them, too. "A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging," he said. "I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files." He currently still lives in Britain.

11. Michael Calce

Complex

Alias: Mafiaboy

Age: 30

To ring in the new millennium, Michael Calce launched denial-of-services attacks against Amazon, CNN, eBay, Yahoo!, and Dell. Back then, Yahoo! was the world's leading search engine before Google, and Calce's attack—which he dubbed ProjectRivolta—caused it to go down for about an hour. President Bill Clinton convened acybersecurity task force and the country was on the hunt for "Mafiaboy." He was caught a short time later after he bragged about the attacks in a chat room. In 2001, he was sentenced to eight months of open custody, restricted use of the Internet, and a small fine. A little lenient for such a big attack, no? Well, yeah it was, because Calce was still in high school at the time. "The sense of power I felt was overwhelming," he wrote. "It was also addictive."

12. Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce

Complex

Alias: Kuji (Bevan) and Datastream Cowboy (Pryce)

Age: 41 (Bevan) and 35 (Pryce)

This British hacking duo took the U.S. government for a ride when they attacked the Pentagon's network for several weeks in 1994. They copied battlefield simulations from Griffiss Air Force Base in New York, intercepted messages from U.S. agents in North Korea, and got access into a Korean nuclear facility. Pryce was a 16-year-old then, and Bevan was 21 (he's thought to have been tutoring Pryce).

The hacking attacks were especially troublesome for the U.S. government because they couldn't tell if the duo was using their system to hack into a South or North Korea—if it were North Korea, the attacks could've been seen as an act of war. Luckily, South Korea was the hackers' target, and after an international investigation, they were arrested in the following year. 

13. Syrian Electronic Army

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The Syrian Electronic Army is a unique group. They sprung up in 2011, and backed the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (it's thought they could be supported by the Syrian government). While the group isn't very sophisticated, they've attacked a large number of high-profile organizations and hundreds of websites. They primarily use spamming, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks. Their first two years of existence saw just a handful of attacks, but in 2013 and 2014 the group launched dozens each year.

Of course, they even have their own Twitter account.

14. Lizard Squad

Twitter

If you're a gamer, you're likely familiar with Lizard Squad. The Black hat group took down both the PlayStation and Xbox gaming networks on Christmas Day last year. The crew formed in August 2014, and claimed to be behind outages of gaming networks that support League of Legends and Destiny, by using denial-of-service attacks (if you can't tell, this happens to be most hacker groups' favorite kind of attack.) In fact, they're currently selling the DDoS attack on their website for use by anyone willing to shell out the money.

Lizard Squad is as well known for making false hacking claims as they are for taking down video game networks. They've claimed to have taken down Tinder, Facebook, and Instagram, and have said they would release nude pictures of Taylor Swift. Two people have been arrested as alleged members of the group, Vinnie Omari, a 22-year-old from Britain, and a 17-year-old known as "Ryan."

15. Anonymous

Flickr/Brian Klug

By far the best hacking group to have gotten its style cues from a comic book character, Anonymous is comprised of "hacktivists" who get involved in political and international events. The group originated on 4chan around 2003, when members posting under the alias "anonymous" started the joke that there was a single person with the name Anonymous who's been talking to himself the whole time.

The collective was associated with pranks and trolling until 2008, when they launched a coordinated attack on the Church of Scientology under the name "Project Chanology." They've since gotten involved with the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Charlie Hebdo, by leaking documents or taking down the websites. They launched an attack on the KKK in November, which saw them releasing identities and taking down their social media accounts.

Thumbprinted ballot boxes allegedly intercepted in Niger state Bida

According to twitter user, Sir Rollin, a J5 bus full of thumb printed ballout papers was intercepted by the Nigerian Police in Bida 

JUSTICE SERVED:Monster who raped & burned 8 year old boy found guilty of murder

In 1998, Don Collins (pictured left), then just 13 years old doused 8 year old Robbie Middleton (pictured right) with gasoline and lit him on fire. Prosecutors said yesterday Feb. 9th that Collins carried out the horrific attack, which happened on Robbie's 8th birthday - to stop him from reporting sexual abuse. Robbie suffered burns over 99% of his body.

Collins wasn't arrested immediately even though Robbie had identified him as his attacker. There wasn't much evidence against him, and especially because of his age. Robbie endured over 150 surgeries before finally succumbing to skin cancer after a life of agony. But before he died in 2011, he told the police that Collins had raped him two weeks before the attack.

Don Collins, now 29, was convicted of murder yesterday Monday. 9th, more than 16 years after the incident. He was charged as an adult for the crime.

Robbie before the attack

The victim’s mother, who testified during the trial, rejoiced following the verdict.

“It’s a long time coming,” Colleen Middleton told KPRC TV. “I’m happy today’s here.”

Nick Gordon explains the bruises found on Bobbi Kristina's face

Last week it was revealed that Bobbi Kristina's live-in boyfriend Nick Gordon was the target of a criminal investigation after the 21 year old was found submerged in a bathtub with mysterious bruises to her mouth, face and chest. Police said the injuries raised their concerns, especially after they heard that Bobbi and Nick had a history of violence in their relationship. The couple's friend Max Lomas also told police that Nick was acting strangely before they found Bobbi Kristina.

Nick has kinda explained how the injuries got on Bobbi Kristina. A friend told Radar Online Nick claims the bruises came from his CPR efforts after she was found unresponsive.

It's also being reported that police were called to Bobbi Kristina's residence about a week before the incident for a domestic disturbance but when police arrived no one was home.

Bruce Jenner Crash Fatality Victim Identified as the Kardashians' Neighbor Kim Howe

The sole fatality from the four-car accident involvingBruce Jenner on Saturday, Feb. 7 has been identified as Kim Howe, The Los Angeles Timesreports. Howe was a neighbor of the famous Kardashian-Jenner clan, who live in Calabasas, Calif. 

She was 69 at the time of her death. 

Howe was driving her Lexus when she collided with a Toyota Prius that had slowed down, and Jenner then rear-ended her Lexus with his Cadillac Escalade, causing Howe’s car to go into oncoming traffic. 

The former Olympian, 65, issued a statement following the accident, saying, “My heartfelt and deepest sympathies go out to the family and loved ones, and to all of those who were involved or injured in this terrible accident. It is a devastating tragedy and I cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. I am praying for them. I will continue to cooperate in every way possible."

As was previously reported, Jenner took an on-site breathalyzer test, which he passed, and since then a search warrant was issued for the reality star’s phone to see if he was texting at the time of the crash. 

"The evidence will show that Bruce was not texting at the time of the accident," Jenner’s publicist Alan Nierob told the AP late Sunday.