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Is she the mother of the year or what? You sexually assault a 7 year old girl and you deserve to be set on fire... Wxyz.com   reports A man who was badly burned after his wife allegedly set him on fire is now facing sex crime charges involving his 7-year-old stepdaughter. Police in Washington state said Tatanysha Hedman, 40, doused her sleeping husband in gasoline before setting him on fire. Hedman, 40, was arrested and told police she set her husband, Vincent Phillips, 52, on fire because he hurt her 7-year-old daughter, who is his stepdaughter. She said she did it because shooting him "was too nice,"  Phillips is hospitalized and faces first-degree child molestation charges. Hedman remains in jail, facing assault and arson charges. Wonder why she's still in jail...she was protecting her child and other children this alleged paedophile would have molested. Footage from a security camera shows Phillips stumble into a Skyway convenience store screaming ...

Viewer Discretion is strongly advised. Amnesty International claims that the Nigerian military has committed atrocities in the North-East in its fight against Boko Haram. In the video released today, the military is recorded on camera abusing civilians who are believed to be suspected members of the Islamist militant sect. The video was obtained by numerous sources during a visit by a rep for Amnesty International. It provides fresh evidence of war crimes including extra-judicial executions, and other serious human rights violations In one part of the video, detainees are seen having their throats slit one by one and dumped in mass graves by men who appear to be members of the Nigerian military and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information has sent out a press release: Gentlemen of the Press, Welcome to this press briefing which was compelled by the urgent need to clarify some developments arising from our counter-...

20-year-old Morgan Udama, a member of a 4-man robbery gang arrested yesterday August 4th by police officers attached to Okota Isolo Police Station in Lagos, while confessing, said he was recruited into criminal life by his own older brother, Oche, who is the leader of the robbery gang. Morgan, a native of Oju in Benue State said he came into Lagos last week Monday July 28th to live with his brother who had promised him a better job which unknown to him was armed robbery “I finished Senior Secondary School 3 (SSS3) in 2010 at Otupo, after which I was riding commercial motorcycle (Okada) before my brother, Oche, phoned me to come to Lagos, pledging that he would find me a better work that would fetch me enough saving for my university education. He also told me he was living in a three-bedroom flat, unknown to me that the one-room apartment he inhabited with his elder brother belonged to the latter. When I arrived last Monday, he asked me to follow...

Photo on the left is an alleged female suicide bomber but I can’t verify that she’s any of the ones that blew herself up during an attack in Kano last week….and the pic on the right is one of the missing Chibok girls. You know how some sources have fingered Chibok girls as the suicide bombers? (read  here ) though the Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, has denied the girls involvement in the attacks….but it makes you wonder…the resemblance is strong but hopefully they are two totally different women.

A 5.3 earthquake this morning August 5th shook buildings in Johannesburg and surrounding areas.. killing one person and injuring at least 3 people. The tremor which lasted just one minute reportedly broke glasses, cracked walls and aftershocks were felt by many. According to Werner Vermaak, a spokesman for emergency responders, at least one person was killed and three people injured. The man was reportedly killed when a wall of a disused mining building fell on him in the Orkney area of Johannesburg, which is where the quake was centred. The other three people were hurt when the quake damaged a training center at a mine, said Phoka Sefali, a receptionist at a hospital in Orkney. "The roof fell on them, but they haven't got serious injuries," he told Associated Press. The quake was also felt in Pretoria and Hartbeespoort, a nearby resort town.

The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja inaugurated a six-man Working Group to carry out research on the treatment of Ebola virus. The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, inaugurated the committee co-chaired by Prof. Karniyus Gamanie, Director-General, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRID), Abuja. The other co-chair is the Director-General of Nigerian Institute for Medical Research, Prof Innocent Ujah. Mr. Chukwu said there was no known cure for the Ebola infection nationwide at present, adding that there was “no scientific evidence’’ that eating `bitter kola’, could cure Ebola infection. The minister was referring to media reports that suggested bitter kola could cure Ebola infection based on a research conducted by a Pharmacognosist and former Chairman of INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu. The minister, who acknowledged the internationally acclaimed research of Iwu, also named him as one of the members of the committee. “We have taken note t...

Wow, what a resemblance. it is obvious that the jigger man had a baby outside wedlock. We all know that this is a carbon copy of Jay Z and this is not Blue Ivy in anyway. So i guess, this explains the elevator fight.

A dozen men were seized and stripped naked before they were forced to undergo circumcisions in western Kenya as part of a 'ceremony', it has been reported. The 12 men, from the Luo, Turkana, Iteso and Luhyia communities, were reportedly subjected to the procedure after their wives revealed they had not had it done previously. A number of women in the town of Moi's Bridge, in western Kenya, where the incident took place, said they were pleased the men went through the procedure because it made them cleaner and perform better in bed. According to Kenyan radio station West FM, the men who underwent the procedure had either previously avoided having it done or had come from a Luhyia sub-tribe which did not carry it out. A crowd reportedly sung circumcision songs as they gathered the men up before taking them to a nearby medical centre where the operations were carried out. One of the wives, Anne Njeri, who witnessed the incident on Friday, told the radio stati...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Washington DC, USA, said the days when a few politicians, acting in concert with their hirelings and thugs, could hijack voter cards and other electoral materials to manipulate the outcome of elections were gone forever in Nigeria. The President also said the Federal Government would take all necessary steps to ensure that no individual, group or political party would be able to thwart the legitimate choice of voters in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State. A statement by Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, said the President spoke at a meeting he had with Nigerian professionals in the US. Jonathan was quoted as saying that he remained fully committed to keeping the promise he made in 2011 that he would do everything possible to ensure that elections in Nigeria become very free, fair and credible. He said the promise had been fulfilled in recent elections in Edo, Ondo and Ekiti States. The President was quoted to have...

The Amnesty International yesterday implicated the Nigerian military in the extra-judicial killing of over 600 in the North-East, especially Maiduguri and Bama. The AI also said it is in possession of video footage, images and testimonies to back up its claim. The organization also indicted the military for the killing of 33 people, including the children of a Shiite cleric, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, during a procession some days ago in Zaria. It demanded impartial and independent probe of extra-judicial executions in the country. But the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday faulted the findings of the AI. The AI however gave its verdict in a statement in Abuja on what appeared about a four-month survey of the North East. The statement said: “Gruesome video footage, images and testimonies gathered by Amnesty International provide fresh evidence of war crimes, including extrajudicial executions, and other serious human rights violations being carried out in North-Eastern...

A 38 year-old woman, Charity Atoe has called on the police to help her unravel the location of a woman whom she alleged eloped with funds donated for the surgery of her three years old son, Timothy, who was born without genitals. Charity who gave the name of the woman as Blessing Asatu said the total money donated was about N5m. She was at the premises of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists to narrate her story. Charity said doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital demanded for N900,000 to perform a corrective surgery and that efforts to raise the money in Edo state failed which made her to go to Lagos State to seek for help. It was on her way to Redeemed Christian Church of God that she claimed to have met Blessing who offered to help her by calling journalists who made her son’s plight public. “My husband ran away after he has spent lots of money on this condition. He is a bricklayer and I used to sell. I have children for two husbands...

So wait, the US may have found a cure to Ebola? And if they have, will they come help patients of this dreaded disease in Africa? The article below was written by Dr. Sanjay Gupta for  CNN  and they are saying an experimental drug called ZMapp likely saved the lives of 2 US missionary doctors (pictured above) who contracted the disease while working in Liberia...see report below from CNN.. Three vials containing an experimental drug stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment. The drug appears to have worked, sources say. Dr. Kent Brantly's and Nancy Writebol's conditions significantly improved after receiving the medication, sources say. Brantly was able to walk into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being evacuated to the United States last week, and Writebol is expected to arrive in ...

“Captain Sule was killed in a battle launched by Boko Haram fighters against our troops between Saturday and Sunday,” said his military friend who is based in the Ikom Barracks in Cross River State. Insurgents belonging to the dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram, have killed Captain Benjamin Sule, a Nigerian army officer who just wedded eight months ago. A close military friend of the late Captain Sule told SaharaReporters that Boko Haram gunmen killed the young, newly wed officer in an attack on a military contingent over the weekend. “Captain Sule was killed in a battle launched by Boko Haram fighters against our troops between Saturday and Sunday,” said his military friend who is based in the Ikom Barracks in Cross River State. The officer, who provided wedding photos of Captain Sule, added that he and other friends of the deceased officer “received the news with utmost shock. He was killed between Saturday and Sunday, but we only got the information today [Monday].” ...