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A two-month-old Indian baby girl was branded with a hot knife by a local healer attempting to cure her pneumonia. Shivani Seheriya had caught the life-threatening infection last month.In desperation, her poverty-stricken mother turned to her village tantric, a traditional therapist used in rural India, for help. Somvati Seheriya, 22, had lost her first daughter to pneumonia a year earlier, and had refused to take her to see the healer at the time. After this, she was convinced he could cure her newborn baby.Mrs Seheriya and her husband Giru, 23, from Sheopur, in Madhya Pradesh, central India, took Shivani to the healer on December 2nd. He then burnt the child's abdomen with the hot knife over 40 times, convinced it would cure her illness. However, Shivani's situation only got worse. After she returned home she developed severe fever. Desperately worried, Mrs Seheriya and her husband rushed Shivani to the district government hospital whe...

  50cent has called out Trey Songz after the death of  Stephanie Moseley who was shot dead by her husband for allegedly cheating on him.Trey Songz has been fingered by TMZ as the famous singer she was having an affair with. His tribute to her fuelled the rumours even further and 50cent had to call him out. "R.I.P babygirl. Once an angel on earth, now watching over us from Heaven. You’ll b missed but never forgotten. Love" Checkout 50cent's reply TMZ reports  .. around 2 years ago he separated from Stephanie because of what he says was her affair with Songz. They got back together but, as one friend put it, "He was crushed and never got over it." We're told he frequently brought up Songz. Hayes accused Moseley of having multiple affairs with various other entertainers. She was a backup dancer who worked with numerous famous singers, including Chris Brown and Usher, but we're told Hayes never mentio...

This is the current state of the Federal inter state  road  in Kwara state. The bridge is called Moro bridge, situated in Moro LGA of Kwara state. Drivers who ply the road say it's a nightmare for them and are asking the state government or agencies whose responsibility it is to look into the road. .

That's former governor of Cross River state, Donald Duke with his beautiful daughters, Xenora and her sister, years before he became governor. The girls are all grown now.

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President Jonathan  today Tuesday  Dec. 9th called on politicians to shun “ceaseless quarreling” and engage in robust political debates that would strengthen the country’s democracy. Jonathan made the call at the public presentation and official launch of the Kukah Centre, founded by prominent cleric and Catholic Bishop‎ of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah. ‎‎Among other aims, the centre was established to strengthen national debate, improve governance and encourage Nigerians to take an active role in the country’s leadership. Jonathan ‎said that the nation’s democracy should be deepened by robust debates, stimulation of innovative ideas and healthy engagements by all actors. “I call on everyone, the political class, our citizens and more importantly, the academic community to rise up to these challenges posed by this initiative (centre). “I think we are over defining our democracy today by quarreling as if democracy is about compet...

The former actress turned preacher released these photos on her Facebook page a few days ago.

 Some groupies want to kill two of our top musicians. And yes, they are both single men. I censored their names for privacy...hehe!

Karrueche is soaking up the limelight as much as she can. Unlike the past when she would go into hiding during breakup, she is putting her body on display, hanging out by the beach and laughing like she's happy. We all know this is what Chris Brown hates lol

The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro (pictured) has approved the suspension of the Comptroller General of  the Niger state Prison Command, Musa Maiyaki,   the Officer-in-Charge of Medium Security Prison Minna- ACP Mohammed Ibena and all other officers on duty during the jailbreak  on Saturday December 6th  in which over 200 prisoners escaped from the prison  According to a statement by the National Public Relations Officer, Nigerian Prisons Service, Mr Ope Fatinikun, the suspension of the officers was based on recommendations by the new Prison's Comptroller General, Dr Peter Ekpendu. The Comptroller General had recommended the immediate removal and suspension of the officers present at the Maximum Security prison during the jailbreak pending the outcome of investigations. The statement stated that the incident was a jailbreak and not a terrorist attack as was widely speculated in some quarters. It also stated that 108 of the inmates ...

O ritsefemi 's Head Management, Adepitan 'Danku' Yusuf, who was driving the singer's new Range Rover Evogue when it  crashed  in the early hours of Saturday Dec. 6th finally talks from hospital bed "I give glory to Almighty that protects my life. I thank my fans home and abroad that have been calling, sending quick recovery messages to me. May you never be chased by armed robbers as we are approaching festive period.", he said from his hospital bed. Danku, whose legs & hands were hit at the spot of the accident, is said to be responding to treatment.

A suspected gay, Mohammed Snu, has been murdered by his partner, Mohammed Umar, inside a room of a hotel in Garki, Abuja. It was gathered that Snu died after he was stabbed multiple times in the ribs with a screw driver by Umar last Thursday. The deceased, who was a regular guest at the hotel, was said to have invited Umar for sex, but their romance went sour when Snu refused to pay his partner for the second round of sex. A source in the hotel told  Punch  Metro that the two men had sex twice, but Snu allegedly refused to pay for the second round, which led to a scuffle.The source said, “The man had just come back from a mosque where he went for prayers with his partner when we heard a loud noise from his room and a voice saying ‘ya kuri (please, don’t be angry)’. By the time we forced the door open, we saw Umar standing naked and Snu lying dead on the bed with stab injuries on his body. We immediately called the police and Umar was arrest...

9ice is not happy about the APC Primary election that held this past Sunday and has petitioned APC Oyo state. Find his press statement below... I Abolore Adegbola Akande an aspirant under All Progressive Congress party contest against the inconclusive primary election that was carried out at Soun Stadium in Ogbomosho North L.G.A. Area of Oyo State. There were no ballot boxes, the electoral officers came to the venue  5:45pm  same time an aspirant (Oye Oyewunmi) arrived at the  venue, there were no delegate passes, there was no accreditation, Ogbomosho North Local Government Delegates were not allowed to vote and just two local government participates during the election, Orire local government and Ogbomosho south local government, the election was carried out without preparation for lights and other necessaries to ensure smooth election at night. I am using this medium to appeal to the appeal committee to render this elect...

British royalty met pop royalty at the Brooklyn Nets Game in NewYork.Jay Z and Beyonce walked in to meet Prince Willimas and Kate already seated ..They exchanged pleasantries to the delight of the cheering crowd, before both taking their seats opposite eachother.. Now these are power couples..Can't wait for Kim and Kanye to met the royal couple too.. Images-Uk mail

MTO is so sure about this story that they bet $10k on it. Lol. Read their report below... MediaTakeOut.com just received a blockbuster report yesterday - Rihanna is pregnant. This is not rumors y'all . . . it's 100% certificate We spoke with two separate sources that told us that Rihanna is working on a new song on her albumM - where she will talk about being pregnant. One tipster explained, "The song is a ballad, where Rihanna talks about the "baby growing inside me." And there's more. Rihanna has banned ALL WEED SMOKING inside the studio while she records - a VERY unusual step for Rihanna, who is known for smoking weed like a CHIMNEY!! We're told that Rihanna is EXTREMELY happy about having a baby, and that she JUST FOUND OUT about her pregnancy a FEW DAYS AGO!! Congratulations to Rih - we LOVE HER TO DEATH and are so HAPPY about her new family. As for the father - we have NO IDEA WHO IT CAN BE - some folks are speculating tha...

If Mrs Helen Okoro, a widow and mother of two had known that picking a quarrel with a neighbor who had stabbed her son would also land her and daughter in hospital, she probably would have just reported the case and allowed the law to do justice. She told  Leadership “We live at Adidas street, Tolu, at the shores of Tolu- Tin can lagoon. Last year, Babalawo had a problem with my son, Godwin who is just 15 -years-old. One day, Godwin was carrying sand for somebody and Babalawo saw him, picked up a bottle and attempted to break my son’s head with it but he was able to escape and ran away from him. When I heard about the incident, I confronted him but instead of making peace he threatened to kill me and my children. So since then we have avoided him. What led to the problem on November 14th was that I found a pair of slippers in the dustbin and wanted to use it to make a fire. Babalawo saw the slippers with Godwin and challenged him.  My son told him they belonged ...

ISIS have beheaded four Christian children in Iraq for refusing to convert to Islam, according to a British vicar based in Baghdad.(Photos too gruesome to be published) Cannon Andrew White claims the beheadings took place in a Christian enclave close to Baghdad which has been recently overrun by Islamic State. According to UK  Mirror , Cannon White, who has been ordered by the Archbishop of Canterbury to leave Iraq for his own safety, is one of only a handful of Christian leaders in the country.He said:  “Things were bad in Baghdad, there were bombs and shootings and our people were being killed, so many of our people fled back to Nineveh, their traditional home.“It was safer, but then one day, ISIS – Islamic State. They came in and they hounded all of them out. They killed huge numbers, they chopped their children in half, they chopped their heads off, and they moved north and it was so terrible what happened.” Islamic State forced Christians...

The Nigerian military says it has recovered some documents including sketches and a list of communities for possible attack from Boko Haram members during an operation in Hildi, Balmo and Lame forest in  Adamawa state. They revealed this in a series of tweet.

Tayo Faniran Nigeria's male representative at the 2015 Big Brother house posed with his son for the first time since his birth.His baby was born in South Africa while he was in the BBA house in October  . Meanwhile there are viral unconfirmed reports that Warri billionaire gave him $350k as compensation for not winning .

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo launched his controversial autobiography 'My Watch' at the Lagos Country club Ikeja, Lagos today Dec. 9th. Guest at the event included former VC of the University of Lagos, Prof. Ibidapo Obe and former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili. According to reports, one of the chapters of the book titled "To be or not to be, Jonathan" Obasanjo said he was deceived by late President Umaru Yar'Adua about his health status before facilitating his emergence as the PDP flag bearer in 2007.  In the book, Obasanjo was quoted to have said;  " As can be expected, I was heavily involved in the transition and exit process that saw me leaving office for my successor, Umaru Yar’Adua, as recounted in Chapter Thirty-seven, the ninth chapter of the second volume of this book. The unprepared and unplanned transition from Yar’Adua to Jonathan was a more difficult exercise in some respects. One reason was the ‘cloak a...