Three brothers recreates childhood photo

Siblings recreating childhood photos is now a popular trend on social media. These three brothers didn't want to be left out so they recreated this bath tub photo taken in 1995.

Floyd Mayweather splashes $1.1m on Hublot diamond wristwatch

The retired boxing champion who got about $300m from fights this year, splashed about $1.1m on a diamond wristwatch during his trip to Dubai. Mayweather, 38, posed alongside staff members at a Hublot store in Dubai to celebrate his new diamond encrusted wristwatch and Hublot posted the picture on their official Twitter handle. See another photo after the jump.

EFCC alleges Dasuki used part of the arms deal fund to buy properties in Dubai and London

Counsel to EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs told the Federal High Court yesterday during the bail hearing of Dasuki and 2 others that investigations by the anti-graft agency showed that the former National Security Adviser used some of the loots from the N32 billion arms deal fund to acquire properties in Dubai and London. Rotimi stated this in the counter-affidavit he presented before the court while opposing Dasuki's bail application. The counter-affidavit in part reads

“That our investigation also revealed that the applicant transferred large sums of monies outside Nigeria and he acquired several assets in Dubai and London with these funds.”.

Nigerian woman who burnt a man's private parts with hot iron sentenced to 9yrs in prison in the UK

Kenya Alozie, 31, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on December 14, after being found guilty of GBH with intent. This followed an investigation by police in Greenwich. On 15 May, Alozie and the victim, a man in his thirties, were having sex at an address in Plumstead when she took a hot iron to burn his legs and genitals. She also used a broken bottle to attack him.

The victim sustained a number of serious injuries including deep cuts and burns. He has since undergone a number of hospital treatments and surgery.

Alozie arrived in the UK to study at Coventry University. She was residing in Plumstead where she had found accommodation with friends.

At the time of the attack, Alozie's visa was due to expire and she was due to return to her family in Nigeria at the end of May.

Alozie was arrested on 24 May on an aircraft at Heathrow Airport after police in Plumstead launched an investigation into the attack and managed to stop her before leaving the UK. She was charged with GBH with intent on May 25.

     "Alozie committed a calculated and pre-planned attack. She ensured she had a broken bottle to hand and a hot iron to strike the victim and seriously harm him," Detective Constable Duncan Clark from Greenwich police said. "The sentence imposed clearly reflects the seriousness of this extremely violent attack." he added.

30 killed in Boko Haram attack on three villages in Borno

No fewer than 30 people were killed after Boko Haram members attacked Warwara, Mangari and Bura-Shika villages in Borno state over the weekend. Mustapha Karimbe, a member of the state vigilante group said many of the injured persons had machete cuts on them.

"Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded (had suffered) machete cuts,"he told AFP

Worst hit in the attack is ‎Warwara village where 20 people were killed. Six people were reportedly killed in Bura-Shika while four were killed in Mangari.

Nigeria's house rent collecting system must change - Fashola

Minister for Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Fashola has called for a review in the way Nigerians pay two years house rent whenever they are seeking to get an apartment. He stated this while speaking at a press conference in Abuja recently

“The way we collect rent is something that must change. If we are collecting two years rent in advance from a salary that is going to be earned in arrears monthly, there’s an accounting mismatch. This is something many of us have experienced, you pay two years rent in advance money you haven’t earned.
Something is distorted somewhere in our accounting model. We must all resolve, property owners alike, that maybe if we changed the way we collected rent alone many houses that are unoccupied, will be occupied. I am inclined to think that if we just change the payment system for housing we will accommodate a significant number of people.” he said

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.