Project Alert rescues 9yr old Onyinyechi from the hands of her aunt (photos)

Project Alert rescues 9yr old Onyinyechi from the hands of her aunt (photos)

Remember the 9 year old girl Onyiyechi Nkerem who was badly beaten by her aunt? (read here), well, she's been rescued from the hands of her aunt, Chioma Okereke with whom she lived for just 4 months by Lagos based NGO, Project Alert 

According to the founder of the NGO, Mrs  Josephine Effah-Chukwuma, after the story was brought to her attention, they rescued the girl and were able to reunite Oyinyechi with her parents in Umunoha village in Mbaitoli Ikeduru LGA in Imo State. See more photos after the cut...

But for the intervention of Project Alert representative in Owerri, Chinedu Ifeanyi Anyanwu the youths in the village would have mobbed Chioma, Obinna her husband and Obinna's mum for maltreating the little girl.

Pictures below show little Onyiyechi; her head with wound scars; her back; her grandmother and father Bernard standing; and angry youths outside their home.

National Human Rights Commission to investigate the Army/Shiite clash

National Human Rights Commission to investigate the Army/Shiite clash

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC on Tuesday, has set up a Special Investigative Panel to investigate the circumstances that led to the bloody clash between the Nigerian Army and the Shiite Muslim sect in Northern Nigeria.

The clash, which took place during the weekend, took the lives of seven people and injured 10 others.
A statement by the commission, said the panel was set up by the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof. Bem Angwe, following a petition lodged against the Muslim sect by the Nigerian Army and some concerned citizens.
The statement signed on behalf of Prof. Angwe  by Mr. Lambert Okpara read:

“In setting the panel, Prof. Angwe stressed the need for all the parties in the dispute to sheath their swords and assured that the commission will get to the root of the matter

“The Executive Secretary noted that the country is operating a democracy which demands that institutions must act within the ambit of the law and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

“In a democracy, the rule of law is supreme and it is important that we continue to remind everyone about the need to respect each others’ right.”

Angwe said the commission will thoroughly investigate the incident with a view to find ways to address the current issues and preventing future occurrence.

The panel made up of top management staff in legal, investigations and monitoring departments of the NHRC is headed by Mr Tony Ojukwu, Director, Monitoring Department.

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Bella Hadid in racy Love advent photos

Bella Hadid in racy Love advent photos

19 year old model, Bella Hadid whet her fans' appetites with a sexy snap from her upcoming LOVE Video Advent on Monday. She gave her fans the ultimate Christmas gift following the release of the full clip which comes as part of the Advent's fifteenth day on Tuesday. Another photo after the cut... 

High court sacks PDP Acting Chairman, Secondus

High court sacks PDP Acting Chairman, Secondus

A High Court in Abuja, yesterday,  chaired by Justice Hussein Baba sacked PDP's Acting National Chairman, Chief Uche Secondus ordering him to vacate the Chairmanship seat of the PDP within 14 days.

The court order followed a suit filed by the erstwhile Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak.
The court said that Secondus assumed the headship of the party through an illegitimate process.

Justice Baba agreed with the plaintiff that the position of the Acting National Chairman of the PDP was originally zoned to the North-East geo-political zone of the country hence, cannot be occupied by Secondus.

Gulak had in his suit, challenged the emergence of Chief Secondus as the interim leader of the party.
He prayed the court to sack the defendant, contending that by the provision of the PDP constitution and its zoning principle, he (Gulak), was the proper person to replace the last Chairman of the party, Adamu Muazu, who hailed from the North East geopolitical zone.

The defendants had challenged the competence of the suit, even as they queried the locus standi of the plaintiff to file same.
The defendants equally challenged the jurisdiction of the high court to meddle in the domestic affairs of a political party.

Counsel to the PDP, Mr. Paul Isaiah responded by saying:

“We are going to appeal this judgement. Apart from the appeal, we are also going to file a stay of execution of the judgement because the National Convention of the party is in March next year”.

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Serena Williams stuns at the Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson Of the Year induction

Serena Williams stuns at the Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson Of the Year induction

Serena Williams stepped out in a sheer gown for her induction as Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson Of the Year in Manhattan, NY on Tuesday. Her older sister, Venus Williams was also present to render her support. More photos after the cut...

Man blocks busy highway traffic with marriage proposal, now faces criminal charges

Man blocks busy highway traffic with marriage proposal, now faces criminal charges

A man who stopped traffic on one of Houston's busiest highways to propose to his girlfriend may not get the happy ending he was hoping for.

Houston Police Department spokeswoman Jodi Silva confirmed 24-year-old Vidal Valladares will be charged with obstruction of highway, which is a Class B misdemeanor.

Silva said the charge is now winding its way through the Harris County court system. He will have the option of turning himself in, filling out the paperwork and immediately getting bonded out, she said.

It was unclear if the soon-to-be-wife or the friends who helped block traffic will be charged, as well.

In a video posted on Instagram, Valladares enlisted his friends to stand in front of lanes of traffic while he proposed to his girlfriend Michelle Wycoff in the middle of the highway near downtown Houston.

"I just wanted to do something different," Valladares said.

To get to a party Valladares made up as a ruse, the couple took the highway, which is one of Wycoff's favorite spots. Valladares took her on a motorcycle ride on freeway on their second date.

That's when Valladares told his girlfriend of a year and half to get out of the car.

"I said, 'Are you serious?'" Wycoff said. "Then I saw all my family and friends with cameras and I looked where Vidal was and he was down on one knee.

"Honestly, I didn't think about if it was a good idea or a bad idea. I was just so happy in the moment. I love him so much."

Valladares said his friends and family, who were following closely behind, stopped traffic for about 35 seconds while he popped the question

"I never really thought about causing an accident. I thought about my girlfriend," he said.

The hopeless romantic posted a photo of the proposal to Instagram with the caption, "When you shut down one of the biggest and busiest freeways in the entire country (I45) and you ask your girl if she wants to marry u, That moment is priceless love u #shesaidyes."

While the hashtag implies she said "yes" and a hug quickly ensued after he dropped to one knee, The video can be viewed on Instagram.

The charge came hours after Houston Police Department said they would not seek charges against the couple because police were not called to the scene and the situation was cleared before police could see it on patrol. 

"It appears we were not called to the scene and it more than likely happened quickly before our officers saw it on patrol," HPD spokesman Victor Senties said. "While we're happy for the couple, this is not something we would want to encourage anyone to do. People could have lost their lives stopping on the freeway like that."

However, that won't necessarily be the case for any copy-cats.

"If there was a similar scenario and the officers were called to the scene to witness it, the officers would tell them to clear the roadway and if they refused, they could be arrested with blocking a roadway, which is a Class B misdemeanor," Senties said.

Texas Department of Transportation agreed that the act was both against the law and dangerous.

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Teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher found guilty

Teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher found guilty

A teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher while at school faces life in prison after being convicted. A Massachusetts jury on Tuesday found him guilty of raping and murdering his 24 year old teacher, Colleen Ritzer, at his suburban high school in 2013, after about nine hours of deliberations.

The teenager’s defence lawyers claimed he was in the midst of a psychotic episode when he stabbed her 16 times in the neck in the women's bathroom.
Prosecutors said the schoolboy, who was 14 at the time, used a box cutter to brutally stab the 24-year-old, before using a recycling bin to take her body into the woods.

In finding 16-year-old Philip Chism guilty, the jury rejected the defense's argument that he was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time of the 2013 attack and therefore not criminally responsible for his actions.

Chism was 14 when he committed the killing at his high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, but he was tried as an adult and could be sentenced to life in prison.

Prosecutors presented voluminous evidence during the month-long trial, including school surveillance videos, to support allegations that Chism followed his teacher, Colleen Ritzer, into a bathroom after school, strangled and raped her, and carted her body in a recycling bin to a wooded area off campus.

The trial at Essex County Superior Court in Salem, Massachusetts, was occasionally delayed by Chism, who at one point refused to return to the courtroom after a break telling his attorney that he was "about to explode."

President Buhari says Democracy has come to stay in Africa

President Buhari says Democracy has come to stay in Africa

During the inauguration of President Alpha Conde’s of Guinea Conakry for the  second term in office on Monday, President Buhari, who was represented by his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, expressed happiness over the sustenance of democratic rule in Africa.

President Buhari said with the conduct of peaceful elections and transitions from one government to the other on the continent, it was clear that democracy has come to stay in Africa.

“It shows that democracy has come of age in Africa. All over, you can see the demonstration of peaceful elections, peaceful transitions from one government to another,” the Vice President said in Conakry, Guinea at the inauguration of Prof. Alpha Conde’s second term in office.

He also noted that peaceful elections were producing the right leaders in Africa, saying that it points to the fact that democratic elections in Africa can produce leadership in the right way and that it is happening everywhere in Africa.

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Mom who says her job is 'Being The Best Mom' arrested after children were found dead in a storage

Mom who says her job is 'Being The Best Mom' arrested after children were found dead in a storage

6 year old boy and 3 year old girl, deadA woman who was arrested after the bodies of a three-year-old girl and six-year-old boy were found shoved inside plastic tote containers hidden a storage locker said her career was: 'Being The Best Mom I Can Be'.

Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, are behind bars and facing charges of felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem, after the gruesome discovery in Redding, California, on Monday night.

Police were led to the remains after they discovered a 'severely abused' nine-year-old girl at an apartment Huntsman was taken. The youngster was taken into surgery suffering multiple injuries.

 

Sheriff Greg Hagwood said she weighed about 40 pounds, had broken bones in her shoulder, broken fingers, a dislocated jaw, and teeth that were missing or loose. 

 

Neither them or the nine-year-old girl had been enrolled in local schools.

Huntsman is a relative of the two homicide victims but not their mother. Her Facebook page lists her work as "Being the Best Mom I Can Be."

When Huntsman, Curiel, and the young children moved from Salinas to a friend's house in Quincy, Calif., Plumas County Child Protective Services alerted the sheriff because agents found a tortured 9-year-old girl. The girl was starving and dying.  

"Due to the circumstances surrounding the incident, further investigation was required for possible additional victims. This led to the discovery of two deceased (kids) inside a storage unit in the city of Redding," Peay said.

Autopsies are pending, and it was not immediately clear where or when the two children died.

 

Robinson's Monterey County office filed death reports for the two children, indicating that the kids may have died in Salinas.

The two homicide victims and the abused 9-year-old girl were siblings. Friends said Huntsman was caring for the children who were slain because their mother died after she was struck by a car while walking, and the father gave up custody.

Huntsman's 12-year-old twins (a boy and a girl) were taken by Child Protective Services agents when she was arrested.

Curiel and Huntsman remain  jailed with bail set at $1 million each. Curiel will be tried as an adult, prosecutors said Tuesday.

 

According to Plumas News, Curiel tipped off investigators that they would find the missing children's bodies in the storage locker.

 

Tami Huntsman and her brother, Wayne Huntsman, grew up in Santa Cruz. Wayne Huntsman is currently in prison and accused of intentionally igniting a massive wildfire in a national forest.

The Plumas County Sheriff's Office, Redding Police Department, and Salinas Police Department are investigating further circumstances surrounding the children's death.

 

"We are still deep into the investigation," Salinas Police Chief Kelly McMillin said.

Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood said:

"This is an unspeakable tragedy. I don't understand. And I don't think anybody can fully appreciate the measure of suffering and pain and terror that people inflict on one another."

Elliott Robinson, director of social services for Monterey County, told KBSW that Huntsman and her family had been investigated for the last year, suspected of abusing their children.

 

Curiel and Huntsman remain jailed with bail set at $1 million each. Prosecutors said on Tuesday that Curiel will be tried as an adult.

 

The identities of the children have not yet been released. Their cause of death is also not yet known.

Ben Bruce says he'll stone any Governor that sends him Christmas hamper and has not paid state civil servants...

Ben Bruce says he'll stone any Governor that sends him Christmas hamper and has not paid state civil servants

The commonsense senator thinks it's absurd for state governors to send hampers when they're finding it difficult to pay salaries.. But let's be factual, can he dare do it ? Na mouth you get senator Bruce

Photos of El-Rufai with embattled Islamic leader, El-Zakzaky in Jan.

Photos of El-Rufai with embattled Islamic leader, El-Zakzaky in Jan.

Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir E-lrufai visited the Sheikh at his residence in Zaria during his governorship campaign in January, 2015. Another photo after the cut...

Buhari should hand over to Osinbajo if he has no clue to solving Nigeria's problems- Fayose

Buhari should hand over to Osinbajo if he has no clue to solving Nigeria's problems- Fayose

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose has called on President Buhari to handover to Vice President Osinbajo if he does not have any clue to solving Nigeria's problems. He said this while signing the N67.04 billion 2016 appropriation bill of the state into law today December 15th

“Enough of these flimsy excuses. President Buhari has to fulfill all his electoral promises to the people. If he has no clues to all these problems, he should hand over to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo or whoever and bow out honourably. 
What President Buhari promised us is change but what we have under this government is dwindling economy, low power generation, proposed subsidy removal, high level poverty and naira devaluation. For the president to have told Nigerians to brace up for more hardship in 2016 is the most callous of a man who promised Nigerians change.” the Cable quotes him as saying

Photos: Shi'a protesters in Kashmir demand release of Sheikh Zakzaky

Photos: Shi'a protesters in Kashmir demand release of Sheikh Zakzaky

Members of the Shi'a Sect took to the street in Kashmir to protest the killing of their members in Zaria and to demand release of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky.

Femi Otedola and wife show their daughter DJ Cuppy some love

Femi Otedola and wife show their daughter DJ Cuppy some love

The popular DJ's parents, billionaire businessman Femi Otedola and his stunning wife showed off a card-board saying they love their daughter

Nigerian court sentence 9 foreign nationals to 20yrs in prison for crude Oil theft

Nigerian court sentence 9 foreign nationals to 20yrs in prison for crude Oil theft

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today sentenced 5 Filipinos identified as Axel Joseph Gibo Jabone, Juanito Camireno Infantado, Suarin Fernado Alave, Gatila Jaypee Gadayan and Rolando Jose Commendador and four Bangladeshis identified as Md Zahirul Islam, Islam Shahinul, Islam Rafiqul and Shaikn Shibli Nomany, to 20 years imprisonment each, with fine options of N20million per person for crimes relating to crude oil theft in Nigeria.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had dragged the 9 foreigners before the court alleging that on or about March 27, 2015 in Lagos they conspired to commit an offence involving dealing in 3423.097metric tons of crude oil without lawful authority or appropriate license, contrary to Section 1(19)(6) of the Miscellaneous Offence Act, Cap M17.‎

The antigraft agency also alleged that the accused on the same day and time, stored 3,423. 097 metric tons of crude oil in MT Asteris' cargo tanks, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 4 of the Petroleum Act of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, in his ruling, found them guilty of the crime despite them stating that they were not guilty. Justice Buba granted them bail in the sum of N50 million each, with one surety who must be a Nigerian, provide evidence of means, and deposit his passport with the registrar of the court. ‎

He also ordered their vessel, MT Asteri, to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria, together with the crude oil on board. ‎ He described the convicted foreigners as the saboteurs who have turned Nigeria into the laughing stock in the comity of Nations, warning that Nigerians and non-Nigerians must respect Nigeria and its laws.

He sentenced each convict to five years on each of the four counts, with an option of five million Naira fine on each of them. While the sentences are to run concurrently, the option of fine is not

Urgent Message To All Who Work In A Financial Institution

Urgent Message To All Who Work In A Financial Institution

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Urgent Message To All Who Work In A Financial Institution

Urgent Message To All Who Work In A Financial Institution

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This is a time for us to Come together and create our own economy. Time to brainstorm on the way forward. 

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Presidency denies claims that Buhari receivied $300k from Dasuki, admits collecting 2 cars, not 5!

Presidency denies claims that Buhari receivied $300k from Dasuki, admits collecting 2 cars, not 5!

Press statement from the Presidency...they admit the president collected one armoured SUV and one untreated SUV but deny he received three hundred thousand dollars. Read below...

Our attention has been drawn to reports making the rounds, especially on internet-based media, that President Muhammadu Buhari received $300,000.00 and up to five armoured SUVs from the Office of the National Security Adviser in the aftermath of the attack on his convoy in Kaduna last year. We unequivocally deny that President Buhari received $300,000.00 or any monetary compensation whatsoever from the Jonathan Presidency or any of its officials, in the aftermath of that attack, or at any other time since then.
While it is true that one armoured SUV and one untreated SUV were sent to the President in the aftermath of the attack, the vehicles were in keeping with his entitlements as a former Head of State under the Remuneration of Former Presidents and Heads of State (And other Ancillary Matters) Decree of 1999. Section 3, Sub Section 1 of that Decree provides that three vehicles will be provided for former heads of state and replaced every four years. There was therefore nothing untoward, illegal or tending to corruption in former Head of State Buhari and Presidential aspirant, as he then was, receiving vehicles, to which he was statutorily entitled , from the Federal Government of Nigeria. President Buhari had in keeping with his austere, spartan and frugal disposition shunned most of his entitlements as a former Head of State, but was prevailed upon by his supporters to accept the two vehicles for his personal safety in the aftermath of the dastardly attempt to assassinate him. It is preposterous to think that the President will allow his acclaimed reputation of honesty and incorruptibility to be tarnished by accepting a questionable monetary compensation from a discredited regime.

Femi Adesina Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity)
December 15, 2015‎