Tosan Thompson
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SOUTH AFRICAN MAN HAS BEEN KILLED WHILE TRYING TO DEFEND HIS GIRLFRIEND FROM GANG OF RAPISTS
A man has died while trying to defend his 21-year-old girlfriend from being gang-raped by 6 men in Durban, South Africa.The heroic boyfriend, whose identify has not yet been disclosed, died at the scene and his girlfriend was taken to an undisclosed local hospital with severe injuries.The incident unfolded when the woman and her boyfriend were walking near the Umgeni River Bird Park on last Friday evening. It is a popular walking and cycle trail. Her boyfriend did his best to defend his girlfrie...
YAYA TOUR AND HIS AGENT HAVE DECIDED TO DONATE 100,000 TO VICTIMS OF MANCHESTER ARENA BOMBING ATTACK
Ivory Coast and Manchester City football star, Yaya Toure and his agent, Dimitri Seluk, have agreed to donate £100 000 to help victims of Monday's suicide bomb attack in Manchester. Toure, alongside several football stars on Tuesday took to their social media pages to mourn the victims who died in the blast. They all poured out their condolences and hearting messages to the family and friends of the victims. 22 people, including many children, were killed and dozens more were...
TOM CRUISE HAS CONFIRMED THAT A TOP GUN SEQUEL IS IN THE WORKS
Tom Cruise himself confirmed the exciting movie news while promoting his upcoming flick, The Mummy, in an interview with Australia's Sunrise earlier today."It's true, yeah it's true," he said while beaming from ear-to-ear. "You know what? I'm going to start filming it probably in the next year. I know, it's happening, it is definitely happening."Just last year, during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, the A-list actor admitted that he was still in t...
KATY PERRY'S CARPOOL KARAOKE ADDRESSES FEUD WITH TAYLOR SWIFT: "SHE STARTED IT AND IT'S TIME FOR HER TO FINISH IT"
Katy Perry was not holding back when, during her Carpool Karaoke that aired during tonight's Late Late Show Primetime Special, James Corden followed up a jam sesh to "Swish Swish" with a question about the alleged beef between her and Taylor Swift."There's a situation," Perry said. "Honestly, it's really like she started it, and it's time for her to finish it."In case you've been a bit out of the Perry/Swift loop, the two have been publicly feudi...
ACTOR FEMI BRANCH SET TO REMARRY FOR THE THIRD TIME JUST A YEAR AFTER SEPARATING FROM SECOND WIFE, IBITOLA
Nigerian Actor Femi Branch is set to marry for the third time, just a year after separating from his second wife Ibitola Branch. Before Ibitoye, who has two kids for the actor, he was married to another woman for just a few months.Femi Branch is best known for his role in a popular television series Domino where he acted as a husband that despised and maltreated his wife. Ibitola left Femi in 2016 after it was alleged that she was suffering from domestic violence at the hands of Femi and sh...
JETBLUE KICKS FAMILY OFF PLANE OVER CAKE
A New Jersey man says he and his family were kicked off a JetBlue flight in New York over a birthday cake, marking the latest in a series of recent controversial incidents involving passengers on a variety of airlines.An airline spokesperson said they refused to remove their items by request of the crew members and then "cursed and yelled" at them.Minta Burke and husband Cameron Burke were flying with their two children to Las Vegas for a surprise trip earlier this month and had brough...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN TELLS SCOTT DISICK THEY ARE "NEVER" GETTING BACK TOGETHER: "WE JUST NEED TO MOVE ON"
Kourtney Kardashian ultimately pulled the plug on any hopes of rekindling her relationship with ex Scott Disick in Sunday night's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.In the aftermath of learning Scott had secretly flown a woman out on the family vacation, Kourtney decided it was finally time to end that chapter once and for all. "I think after everything that's happened here in Costa Rica, Scott knows it's done," she said, "But just saying those words just lets ...
MISS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA KRA MCCULLOUGH CROWNED MISS USA 2017
Miss District of Columbia Kára McCullough was crowned Miss USA 2017 on Sunday night. Competing against 50 other women, Kára wowed the judges with her beauty, bikini, talents and intelligence at the annual beauty pageant broadcast live from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.While there was plenty to celebrate in the final moments, the final three ladies went through several big tasks before a winner was crowned, but Kara was the one who walked away with the crown.Miss Minn...
KEVIN HART AND WE ENIKO PARRISH EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD TOGETHER
Kevin Hart and his wife Eniko Parrish took to Instagram on Mother's Day to announce that they were expecting their first baby together.The funny family man posted a series of photos announcing the good news to his 51.8 million followers earlier today.In one pic of the happy couple, the Central Intelligence actor wrote, "Celebrating Mother's Day with my beautiful wife. We are laughing at the fact that this time next year we will be celebrating her 1st actual Mother's Day. #Harts ...
CAITLYN JENNER REVEALS SHE HAD MASSIVE PANIC AFTER FIRST GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY
One of the revelations Caitlyn Jenner made in her new memoir is that she suffered a massive panic attack after her first gender reassignment surgery. The star opened up about her struggles with gender issues in her memoir, The Secrets Of My Life."In the book, Caitlyn wrote about what it was like the first time she had surgery to make her face more feminine and get breast implants. She disclosed that after struggling to catch some real sleep thanks to the drugs in her system from the su...
EFCC To Appeal Dismissal Of Corruption Charges Against Oronsaye
EFCC is to appeal the ruling upholding a no-case submission by Mr. Stephen Oronsaye on the charges levelled against him by the commission.
POLICE ARREST COUPLE FOR ALLEGEDLY SELLING DAUGHTER FOR N400, 000
The Cross River Police Command on Wednesday said it had arrested a couple, [names withheld], for allegedly selling their six-year-old daughter for N400,000. Presenting the couple before newsmen, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, the state Commissioner of Police, said the suspects were arrested at Ikom Local Government area on April 26 following a tip-off.According to Inuwa, the couple sold the child to enable them offset their house rent and open up a small provision shop. “On April 26, 2017, following a ti...
POLICE ARREST COUPLE FOR ALLEGEDLY SELLING DAUGHTER FOR N400, 000
The Cross River Police Command on Wednesday said it had arrested a couple, [names withheld], for allegedly selling their six-year-old daughter for N400,000. Presenting the couple before newsmen, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, the state Commissioner of Police, said the suspects were arrested at Ikom Local Government area on April 26 following a tip-off.According to Inuwa, the couple sold the child to enable them offset their house rent and open up a small provision shop. “On April 26, 2017, following a ti...
GRAMMY AWARDS LEAVES LOS ANGELES FOR NEW YORK IN 2018
The 60th Grammy Awards will take place on Jan. 28 at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden arena, where the ceremony was last held in 2003.The development was made known by the Recording Academy and CBS Corp, which televises the live event, in a statement. The move to bring the prestigious event, staged at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles for the past 14 years, to New York was largely championed by the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, the statement said. It said the show is estima...
FAYOSE BERATES DSS OVER ARREST, DETENTION OF IFEANYI UBAH
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the Department of State Services (DSS) arrest and detention of the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, lamenting that “the DSS is becoming law unto itself and dragging Nigeria back to 1984 when Decree 2 was used by the National Security Organisation (NSO) to dump Nigerians in detention without trial under flimsy excuses.”The governor, who described the DSS claim that it arrested and detained Ubah for in...
I DESIRE BIAFRA, I WANT BIAFRA, I WANT NOTHING ELSE OTHER THAN BIAFRA SAYS NNAMDI KANU
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, said he would never give up his agitation for the restoration of Biafra Republic, noting that he wants the reward for his agitation in this world and not when he dies and goes to heaven. He also vowed to challenge his stringent bail conditions, saying they were unconstitutional. Kanu spoke in Enugu when he paid a thank you visit to the leadership of the Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA. The ECA appointed Kanu its lead...
EX-FCT MINISTER, BALA MOHAMMED REMANDED IN PRISON OVER ALLEGED N864M FRAUD
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Bala A. Mohammed before Justice A. M. Talba of the Federal Capital Territory, High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja, on a 6-count charge bordering on abuse of office, false declaration of assets and fraud to the tune of N864million.Bala, while in office as minister, allegedly received N550million as bribe from the Aso Savings and Loans Limited with respect to some properties in...
ESPN BROADCASTER CHRIS BERMAN'S WIFE DIES IN CAR CRASH
The wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman died in a traffic crash in Connecticut yesterday Late Katherine Ann Berman was 67 at the time of her death and was one of two victims in the two-vehicle crash at about 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday in Woodbury. The other victim was identified by police as Edward Bertulis, 87, of Waterbury.ESPN President John Skipper in a statement said "This is a devastating tragedy and difficult to comprehend. Chris is beloved by all his ESPN colleagues and for good r...
MEL B'S HUSBAND GETS SUPERVISED VISITATION RIGHTS TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER, LOSES APPEAL TO VISIT MEL B'S DAUGHTER WITH EDDIE MURPHY
Mel B's estranged husband, Stephen Belafonte has lost his appeal to visit Mel B's daughter with Eddie Murphy. He also was granted only supervised visitation rights to his daughter, Madison.According to TMZ, Belafonte and his lawyers appeared in court on Monday where they asked the judge to grant him an unmonitored visitation with his 5 year old daughterand also requested that he be allowed to maintain contact with Mel B and Eddie Murphy's daughter who was born few months before he go...
COURT GRANTS EX-FIRST LADY, PATIENCE JONATHAN, UNRESTRAINED ACCESS TO HER $5.9M SKYE BANK ACCOUNT
The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted former First lady, Patience Jonathan, unrestrained access to her recently unfrozen $5.9 million. The court had on April 6th unfrozen the money which was earlier seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, who suspected that the funds found in a Skye bank account were proceeds from financial crimes.The EFCC had applied for a stay of execution on the court order unfreezing her account. However at the court hearing today, counsel to EFCC...
Emir of Kano Sanusi to be investigated
The Kano State Emirate Council on Monday defended itself over an allegation of financial recklessness, saying it is not true that it has spent over N6 billion in less than three years since former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Muhammadu Sanusi, became the Emir of Kano. At a press conference in Kano, the Emirate Council said it has only spent N4.314 billion, and gave account of its expenditures under the new emir. Mr. Sanusi became emir in June 2014 that year, following the death of his pr...
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