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118 sex offences charged against a Doctor

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Family doctor has appeared in court charged with 118 sexual offences on 54 victims, including a girl under 13. Manish Shah, 47, is accused of assaulting his victims at his surgery in Romford, Essex, United Kingdom, between 2004 and 2013. An investigation was launched after several people went to police in July and August 2013, when he was finally arrested. He faces 65 counts of assault by penetration, 52 counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual assault on a girl under 13. Shah appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Thursday where it was indicated that he denied all charges against him. Judge Richard Hawgood said: “I hear what your indication is. These are matters that can only be dealt with in the crown court, or they are matters that are linked to matters that can only be heard at crown court.” Shah is suspended from practising as a doctor by the General Medical Council and barred from accessing any NHS medical records. He was granted bail ahead of his

U.S President Trump to donate $1 million to flood relief: White House

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Houston on August 30, 2017, fourth largest city in the US battles with tropical storm Harvey and resulting floods. Monster storm Harvey made landfall again Wednesday in Louisiana, evoking painful memories of Hurricane Katrina’s deadly strike 12 years ago, as time was running out in Texas to find survivors in the raging floodwaters.<br />Thomas B. Shea / AFP US President Donald Trump will donate $1 million to flood relief efforts in Texas and Louisiana after the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, the White House said Thursday. “He’ll pledge, proudly, $1 million of his own personal money to help the people of Texas and Louisiana,” spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters. The White House did not say whether the money would come from Trump or his foundation. During the 2016 presidential campaign Trump came under fire for repeatedly announcing charitable donations but not following through. Sanders said Trump wanted suggestions from the White House press co

Pastor arrested with human (baby) heart in Calabar paraded by Police

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The Cross River State police command will soon charged to court the pastor of Royal God’s Commandments Ministry, one Mr. Tony Obo-Ekpeyong, for allegedly abducting and killing a 19-month-old baby girl, Success, for ritual purposes. Following the incident, a branch of the church, along Abua Street in Calabar, was demolished by an angry mob at the weekend. The pastor was arrested last week Thursday by the police and items recovered from him included a human heart suspected to be that of the abducted baby, some charms, fetish items and pictures of various persons among others. While parading the suspect with six others in Calabar on Tuesday, the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said it was not true that the suspects in the crime have been freed. The spokesperson of the command, Irene Ugbo, said they were arrested when the parents of the deceased raised an alarm that their child had been abducted by some masked men who stormed their house. She sai

Kanye West is being countersued over his canceled tour

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West ’s insurance company are refusing to pay him because they believe the rapper abused drugs and alcohol prior to his 2016 mental breakdown. As previously reported, the 40-year-old  filed a $10 million lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London  this year for failing to pay the money he’s allegedly owed following the  cancellation of the Saint Pablo Tour . Via  Revolt TV : He claimed that Lloyd’s of London failed to pay him money owed after his Saint Pablo Tour cancellation, despite being informed “with sworn testimony from his primary physician…that [he] suffered a debilitating medical condition that required he not tour.” However, now Lloyd’s has countersued citing insurance policy exclusions that include “pre-existing psychological conditions, possession of illegal drugs, prescription drugs not taken as medically prescribed, and the consumption of alcohol rendering the insured unfit to perform.” Still, they won’t give specifics “in order to protect the privacy of Mr. West fro

Fayose It says is too late for Nigeria to disintegrate

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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said it is too late for Nigeria to break up, calling for dialogue to resolve various agitations in the country. Fayose said this while reacting to the Wednesday meeting of Governors of the South-East states with leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. He said the meeting had provided a veritable platform, which all Igbos must key into otherwise they would remain guinea pig in Nigeria. The governor, who appealed to the Federal Government to allow political solutions to agitations by Nigerians as against the use of brute force, said he remained “committed to the call for full and total restructuring of Nigeria through dialogue and negotiation because it is too late for Nigeria to disintegrate.” According to a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said he was “particularly glad that Southeast governors have come to the realisation

Ooni and I are no longer together, says Olori Wuraola

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Olori Wuraola Ogunwusi, the estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, yesterday confirmed her separation from the monarch. In a statement on her Instagram page, the queen, who has already reverted to her maiden name, Queen Zaynab-Otiti Obanor, said there is absolutely no truth in the report of infidelity and infertility published about her. Wuraola’s marriage to the Ooni lasted 17 months. The statement reads: “We have got to stop this culture of shaming and vilifying women with false stories of infidelity and nefarious behaviour. The spread of false information (through ‘sources’ afraid to be identified) is the mark of cowards and a cover up for guilty parties to justify their horrific actions. There is absolutely no truth to the media circulated lies of infidelity and infertility from my end. “What I can confirm is that the Ooni and I are no more. I inhale love and exhale gratitude. My journey continues as humanitarian ambassador aiding women and victims

ASUU tells government We are tired of meetings, act on our demands.

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Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige expressed disappointment with the union leaders  Govt, union to meet Thursday, says Ngige  The leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday stayed away from a meeting called by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to find a solution to the strike embarked upon by the union on August 13, 2017. The meeting was expected to be a follow-up to the August 17 meeting Ngige held with the government and ASUU delegation. But the minister expressed disappointment with the union leaders whom he said had promised during the last meeting to take the offer of the Federal Government back to its members and revert within a week. The minister said a meeting had been slated to take place on Thursday between the Federal Government and members of ASUU. Ngige also denied insinuations that ASUU shunned a meeting with the Federal Government team saying, “government as you know has made an offer to ASUU through t

In Memories of Diana Princess of Wales, a Vast Generational Divide

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                                                                                  Princess Diana  Twenty years ago on August 31, 1997, Britain’s Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. For the next week, leading up to her spectacular funeral, Britain was plunged into an unprecedented outpouring of popular grief which shook the monarchy. Here is how the week unfolded: High-speed crash Divorced for the past year from heir to the throne Prince Charles, Diana, 36, and her wealthy new lover, Egyptian playboy Dodi Fayed, are stalked by press photographers over their summer holiday in the Mediterranean. They arrive in Paris in the afternoon of August 30 and dine that evening at the Hotel Ritz, owned by Fayed’s father Mohamed Al-Fayed. They try to leave discreetly from a back entrance shortly after midnight, in a Mercedes. Chased by paparazzi on motorcycles, the car careers at high speed into a pillar in an underpass near the Alma Bridge opposite the

Evans the kidnapper pleads guilty and remanded in custody

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Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans and five others were on Wednesday hauled up before an Ikeja High Court in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Evans was arraigned alongside Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba on a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping. Evans, Amadi and Nwachukwu pleaded guilty to the charges while Uchechukwu, the only female defendant, Ifeanyi and Aduba pleaded innocence of the offences of the charges. According to the prosecution led by Mr Adeniji Kazeem, the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Evans and his accomplices committed the offence of conspiracy at 7.45 p.m. on Feb. 14 on Obokun Street, Ilupeju, Lagos. The prosecution said the defendants between Feb. 14 and April 12 on Obokun Street, Ilupeju, while armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, captured and detained Mr Duru Donatius. According to Kazeem, the defe

11 kidnapped as Gunmen ambush commercial bus in Rivers,

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Gunmen abducted 11 people from a bus as they travelled close to Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, on Monday a passenger who escaped from the attack told AFP. The region near Port Harcourt is a known hotspot for kidnappings by groups looking to receive ransom payoffs and was the scene of an abduction that saw 16 people snatched earlier this month. “They ambushed us at about 9.00 pm… and after asking us to come out from the bus, they tried to take us inside the bush. But five of us escaped before police and military personnel arrived,” said Amiekro Princewill. Security forces searched the area following the attack, according to another passenger who managed to escape the gunmen. “They had gone far into the forest with the victims before the security operatives arrived,” said the escapee, Bright Belekwe. “Hoodlums ambushed us and tried to take us inside the bush. I and four others escaped before police personnel arrived at the scene.” The kidnapping is the third

Bieber Hospitalized for Swollen Testicle

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Justin Bieber ’s got his eyes on his balls. The “Sorry” singer checked into Long Island’s Northwell Health this May for what he believed to be testicular torsion, triggering a bizarre chain of events that led to the firing of a hospital employee. While the 23-year-old was ultimately diagnosed and treated for a swollen testicle, his hospitalization became the center for a wrongful termination lawsuit when the fired staffer was accused of improperly handling the Canadian crooner’s health documents. Justin made an emergency run to Northwell Health in Long Island New York, and a staffer named  Kelly Lombardo  found out about it. The hospital claims Lombardo illegally accessed Justin’s medical file in one of the computers … this after hearing rumors Justin had been admitted for an STD. According to the lawsuit, the hospital fired Lombardo for being “an immoral employee” who violated Bieber’s privacy rights. Lombardo has just filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, claiming she n

Zinox donates N50m to victims of Demolished market :and sues for peace

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                                                                           Ekeukwu Market The Chairman, Zinox Group, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, on Monday appealed to those affected in the demolition of Ekeukwu Market in Owerri, Imo, to allow peace to reign. Ekeh also announced a N50-million donation to be disbursed to those directly affected by the exercise as well as the families of the victims who allegedly lost their lives from it. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that residents of the state had continued to condemn the demolition of the market and the alleged loss of lives. Ekeh said that he hoped the donation would help cushion the effect of the loss on the affected. He also pleaded with those affected not to allow themselves to be used to cause trouble in the state. “Everyone directly affected by the demolition including those trading in the market, whether indigenes of Owerri, Orlu, Okigwe or from neighboring states are to benefit from the donation’’ he said. He

North Korea launches missile over Japan

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Tokyo (CNN) A North Korean missile fired over Japan Tuesday was denounced by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a "most serious and grave" threat. The missile was fired just before 6 a.m. in Japan. The launch set off warnings in the northern part of the country urging people to seek shelter. The unidentified missile flew over Erimomisaki, on the northern island of Hokkaido, and broke into three pieces before falling into the Pacific Ocean, about 1,180 kilometers (733 miles) off the Japanese coast. The missile was in flight for about 15 minutes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at an emergency press conference. "There is no immediate report of the fallen objects and no damage to the ships and aircraft," he added. Tuesday's launch is the first time North Korea has successfully fired a ballistic missile over Japan. Various stages of launch vehicles have overflown Japan during Pyongang's attempts to launch satellites into space in 1998

A Cannibal man was arrested while preparing ‘pepper’ soup with human intestines

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MEN of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a suspected cannibal and member of a notorious kidnap gang, Roland Peter, for killing, beheading and using the liver and intestines of his victim to prepare ‘pepper’ soup and plantain pottage for himself and his gang. The suspect was among the kidnappers that abducted, killed and beheaded one Pastor Samuel Okpara from Edoha in Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state on August 15, 2017. State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zaki Ahmed, who spoke with newsmen while parading Peter and 22 other suspects at the State Command in Port Harcourt, explained that the suspect was also in possession of riffles belonging to the gang. He disclosed that the kidnap gang, including the leader, who was simply identified as Justus and also known as High Tension, had been terrorising some part of Ahoada East LGA. Ahmed said, “The Command, in continuation of her onslaught against kidnapping, arrested one Roland Peter, a member of a notorio

US Truth report about on Boko Haram

The United States’ latest report on the state of the anti-terror war in Nigeria bears a strikingly true reflection of the current situation in the country, though the focus was on last year. It is a story of the resurgence of a deadly group that was once driven to the fringes, but is now bouncing back with a vengeance, especially in its well-known tactics of unconventional warfare. Despite Nigeria’s claims of technically defeating Boko Haram, the terror group that has been waging Islamist insurgency against the government since 2009, the US Department of State report said the group’s killings, bombings and attacks on civilian and military targets have not relented. This worrying situation is reaffirmed by another report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which in May expressed concerns about the alarming rate of deployment of Improvised Explosive Devices by the extremist group in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and its environs. Among other things, the US re