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A 36-year-old man, Segun Odihiri has allegedly beheaded his 83-year-old mother, Maria Odihiri in Uzzeba, Owan West Local Government Area of Edo for raising alarm over his attempt to rape his own daughter. The incident was said to have occurred in the area yesterday even as residents of the town were said to have trooped to the scene of the gory incident to catch a glimpse of the lifeless body of the woman covered with her blood. An eyewitness, Mr Ekemeiren Ojekhugbo, told journalists that Odihiri killed his mother for alerting the public while he was raping his own daughter. Ojekhugbo said nemesis however caught up with the suspect while he was trying to dispose the body of his late mother adding that he had always threatened to kill her whenever there was a misunderstanding between them. According to the eyewitness, “trouble started when Segun was about sleeping with his own daughter and his late mother caught him in the act and started screaming. In order to cover his shame, he t...

Former Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd), has dragged Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo into a bribery allegation in which the retired General accused him of having protected Justice Ade Alabi, who was accused of demanding a N10 million bribe from the accused persons standing trial before his court. Gen. Bamaiyi, in his book, “Vindication of A General,” alleged that Prof. Osinbajo and Justice Alabi, had been summoned to Abuja and given a directive to convict him and others within six months. He also alleged that Justice Alabi demanded a N10 million bribe from him to grant his bail application, which was pending before the judge. Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/n10m-bribe-osinbajo-used-bamiyi/ Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/n10m-bribe-osinbajo-used-bamiyi/

“The use of chemical weapons against innocent people will not be tolerated,” the statement said, adding the attack is in retaliation for the Syrian dictator for using banned chemical agents in the April 4 attack. Trump, in a statement to the nation on the Syrian gas attack, had described the incident as deplorable.

President Donald Trump, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, said the chemical attack against Syrian civilians "crossed a lot of lines for me" and changed the way he views Syria and leader Bashar al-Assad. "I now have responsibility, and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly," Trump said responding to a question about a White House statement Tuesday that blamed the attack in part on President Barack Obama.

"We're building a community that has made us brand ambassadors for the entire continent," says Abudu. "As a black person sitting here today, I know how important it is to have people I can look up to that represent me in media." In eleven years, this female entrepreneur has transitioned from simply hosting a television show to owning a multimedia empire. The 52-year-old has been labeled as Africa's most successful woman by Forbes.

President Muhamamadu Buhari, has on Wednesday, cancelled his planned medical trip to the United Kingdom, UK, following the advice from the Aso Rock cabals.

"I'm happy that I'm victorious and we've alerted Nigerians and the entire world to what is happening in Nigeria," the businessman told CNN. "What the court fined NAFDAC is not one tenth of the amount I've spent on litigation ... We should have been awarded at least the amount that we spent in purchasing that product and in exporting it to UK. We are entitled to special damages for what we have gone through." Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Consumers of Sprite and Fanta have more to worry about than rotting teeth according to a Lagos High Court judge, who ruled that the Coca-Cola products could be "poisonous." The court held that high levels of benzoic acid and sunset additives in the popular soft drinks could pose a health risk to consumers when mixed with ascorbic acid, commonly known as vitamin C, according to local media.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was freed Friday after a six-year imprisonment following his overthrow during the Arab Spring. Mubarak, 88, was released from a military hospital in Maadi and is now back at his home in a Cairo suburb, his attorney, Farid El Deeb. Mubarak dominated the nation for three decades as President but went through a series of criminal trials after being forced from office in 2011. He was sentenced in 2012 to life in prison for complicity in the killings of protesters during the January 2011 revolt. Amnesty International said at least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured during 18 days of street protests in Egypt.-Aj Arthurjnr

"I want my mommy," Hawra' mumbles while cradled in the arms of her grandmother, Aliya. The four-and-a-half-year-old's lips barely move to form the weak but desperate plea. Her face is etched with small wounds, gauze wrapped around her throat and leg over burns that have yet to heal. She can't open her eyes; there is shrapnel in one of them, the other painfully closed. Doctors don't know if she will be able to see properly again. Her grandmother is lost for words. Tears start to fall. "I am thinking it's better to be dead. I am thinking to die, rather than a life like this. (Hawra') was like a little flower. She would play and run. Now, she how has no mother, no eyes," Aliya says. Hawra's mother was killed, we are told, in an airstrike on March 17. There were multiple US coalition-led strikes that day in their west Mosul neighborhood, where allegations of civilian casualties have since emerged.

Say goodbye to the Galaxy's home button and hello to an infinity display. Samsung ( SSNLF ) unveiled the Galaxy S8 and S8+ at an event in New York on Wednesday. The new phone displays are bigger than the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge and they have curved screens that flow onto the sides. For the first time on a Samsung phone, the physical home button is removed entirely. (This is already the case on most other Android devices.) The S8 will be the first phone to feature Bixby, Samsung's new AI assistant. Despite a crowded voice assistant market, Samsung insists Bixby is "fundamentally" different from competitors like Apple's ( AAPL , Tech30 ) Siri and Amazon's ( AMZN , Tech30 ) Alexa. It remains to be seen how this will play out. Samsung touts the assistant as being able to "see, remind and recommend," but much of this functionality is already available with rival assistants. One potentially interesting feature is the ability t...

"Jeff Bezos passes Warren Buffet to become the world's second riches person." Move over Warren Buffett! Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now the second richest person on Earth. The latest tally by Bloomberg's Billionaires Index shows Bezos is now worth about $75.6 billion. Another ranking compiled by Forbes has Bezos' value at "just" $75.2 billion. He added $1.5 billion to his net worth after Amazon ( AMZN , Tech30 ) gained $9 billion in market value during trading hours Wednesday. The company received a generous stock bump after a Barclay's ( AGRPY ) analyst declared Amazon will "likely to be one of the first trillion-dollar market cap companies." Its shares hit a record high shortly after. Amazon's stock has been on fire lately -- it's grown more than 16% over the last year. Investors were pleased with the company's decision, announced yesterday, to buy Souq , an e-commerce giant in the Middle East. ...

"Cristiano Ronald gets airport named in his honour.......and a dubuos burst." Cristiano Ronaldo now has an international airport named after him. The Real Madrid striker was joined on Wednesday by dozens of guests and hundreds of fans in his native Maderia Islands for an official ceremony renaming the local airport as Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo.

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A seven-metre python had to be cut open by local citizens to retrieve a missing man's body. An Indonesian man, who had not been seen since the weekend, was found inside a 23ft (7m)-long python. Villagers on the island of West Sulawesi had the horrific task of cutting open the giant snake's stomach to retrieve the body. Akbar was last seen on Sunday (26 March) before he left to harvest palm oil in the remote village. When his friends and neighbours realised he did not return home by the end of the day, they began searching for him. They eventually reported the matter to the local police, according to Mashura, a spokesperson for the police in West Sulawesi province. A day later, when the police conducted a search they found a python had sprawled out in Akbar's garden, the BBC noted. Police said they feared the snake had swallowed the 25-year-old whole. "They didn't find him [Akbar], but the villagers saw an unmoving python in the dit...

“For the public there is a certain frisson in seeing it [the darker objects],” Janice Murray, the director-general said. “And there is a robust attitude in the army. You learn to deal with things, and people are not fazed by things the ordinary civilian might be.” Bronco Lane, a paratrooper, donated his frostbitten toes to the National Army Museum after he lost them on the descent from an Army Mountaineering Association expedition to Mount Everest

"It is going to be a close race" Lewis Hamilton is confident he can beat Sebastian Vettel to the title this year".-Formula 1 2017 Season.

" She attempted suicide by attempting to jump into the Lagoon around Oworonshoki inward Mainland on Third Mainland Bridge. Unfortunately for her, she was rescued. The woman was in a taxi and alighted on the bridge and wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the Lagoon."-Fatai Owoseni