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Sunday, 21 July 2019 03:37

Zamfara villagers dump corpse at Govt House in protest of killings

Over 100 villagers from Jirrawa community in Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara on Saturday besieged Government House, Gusau, with the body of a community member they said was killed by “bandits.” Spokespersons of the community, Messers Muntari Abdullahi and Muhammadu Sani, said the assailants invaded the village around 10 a.m. and began to shoot in the air. “We later realised that they have already killed Shafiu Inusa on his farm while he was trying to apply fertilizer on his plants after the rains of last night,” Abdullahi narrated. He said the deceased was just recovering from a gunshot wound…

Sunday, 07 July 2019 05:28

Poverty. Frustration. To buy mobile phones. Here are heart-wrenching reasons parents sell their babies for as low as N150k in Nigeria

Giving bizarre reasons such as using the proceeds to buy smartphones to the absurd like using them as collateral, no fewer than 15 parents sold out their babies between February last year to June this year. The proceeds realized from the sales, as captured in this report, amounted to N5.4 million. Days after selling her six month-old baby for N200,000 in July last year, Miracle Omovuokpor, a 23-years-old mother of two, surrendered herself to the police in Edo State. Interestingly, the suspect had sold the baby, whose name was given as Greatness, to an orphanage in Onitsha, Anambra State, and…

Saturday, 06 July 2019 05:20

Slap on the law as criminals grow cannabis inside a disused police station

With brazen contempt for the law, criminals set up a sprawling £1.5 million cannabis factory in a disused police station. Remnants of the massive drugs farm, made up of more than 1,000 plants, were discovered when officers found the building unlocked. But they arrived too late to catch the culprits, who had cleared out the lucrative crop just hours before. Campaigners last night said the discovery was a humiliation for Greater Manchester Police, which closed the Failsworth station and four others three years ago. Critics accused the force of encouraging professional cannabis gangs by effectively 'decriminalising' the drug through their…

Friday, 05 July 2019 04:17

Clever cat correctly guesses which cup a ball is in as his owner mixes them up

This is the adorable moment a cat puts its paw out to pick the cup with the ball in as it plays a game with its owner. Snow the cat is filmed as he plays a cup and ball guessing game with his owner in Tokyo, . When his owner puts a ball inside one cup, and lines three others next to it, Snow is able to watch and pick the cup the ball is inside. And after his owner switches the cups and muddles them up the cat is able to follow the one with the ball inside. When…

Thursday, 04 July 2019 05:49

Flight crew arrest 'God' aboard Delta flight

Delta Air Lines flight attendants restrained a passenger on a flight from Puerto Rico to New York after he shouted “I am God!” and claimed he would save the world, forcing the plane to return to the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rican police and the airline said on Wednesday. Delta credited passengers with helping subdue the man who “became unruly on board.” Puerto Rican police then took custody of a man identified as Carlos Ramirez, 30, and the case was taken over by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, police said in a statement. The suspect “was aggressive and…

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 04:55

Man wakes up just before being buried at his funeral

Mourners were left stunned when an Indian man started moving just before his funeral - a day after he was declared dead by a hospital. Mohammad Furqan, 20, was taken to a private infirmary in Lucknow on June 21 after an accident on Sultanpur Road and was pronounced dead on Monday. An ambulance took him home to Indiranagar where preparations were being made for his funeral. But just before Mr Furqan was buried, he started twitching and his surprised relatives rushed him to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi where he was put on oxygen. He later had…

Thursday, 27 June 2019 05:11

How your wrist watch is eight times dirtier than a toilet. And this is what you should do

Shocking new research has revealed that watches can be up to eight times more dirty than a toilet, with a quarter of Brits never having cleaned their time piece. Tic Watches swabbed ten different types of watches, testing for aerobic bacteria, yeast and mould to find out how much of a hotspot they are for germs. The research found that each watch had a worrying amount of bacteria, yeast, and mould, with watches scoring an average of three times dirtier than a toilet seat. The worst culprit was a fitness watch, with the Fitbit testing a staggering eight times dirtier…

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 05:34

The town where rent hasn't gone up in 500 years

If you’re being stung with extortionate rental fees you may wish to look away now. In there’s a walled enclave called Fuggerei where the rent has remained one Rheinischer Gulden per year – equivalent to 0.88 euros/80p – since 1521. Fuggerei is a city-within-a-city in Augsburg, Bavaria, that comprises 67 houses split into 142 apartments, a church called St Mark’s and an administrative building. Plus around 150 residents. It seems too good to be true – but it really is an inflation-free Shangri-La. Fuggerei was founded in 1521 by Jakob Fugger the Rich (1459-1525) for needy Augsburgers – and it…

Tuesday, 25 June 2019 05:40

Man dresses up in cuddly lion costume so zookeepers can practice what to do if a real big cat escapes

Staff at Tobe Zoo in Ehime, south, Japan, took part in an emergency drill on Saturday to make sure they could cope if one of their big cats escape. A side-splitting video shows zoo workers staging an attempted lion escape in case one of the beasts managed to get out during an earthquake or other disaster. At one point the camera cuts to a pair of real lions looking on bemused. The clip begins with a group of workers erecting a net to block the 'creature' inside the site. The camera then cuts to a man stumbling around dressed up…

Monday, 24 June 2019 05:25

Woman fell asleep during flight, but crew failed to wake her up after landing. What happened next was terrifying

A woman has said she was left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight. Tiffani Adams said she fell asleep while flying from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June. When she woke up, she was freezing cold and still buckled into her seat, but the aircraft was parked. She said she had experienced "reoccurring night terrors" since the incident took place. Air Canada has confirmed the incident occurred and is investigating. Ms Adams said on Facebook that she woke up "around midnight [a few hours after the flight landed] freezing cold still trapped in my…

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Monday, 24 June 2019 05:24

Dangerous animal falls asleep in wardrobe after entering home

A black bear has been found sleeping in a wardrobe after apparently locking itself into a room in a home in the US state of Montana. Alerted to the intrusion in Butler Creek, police said the large mammal just yawned when officers knocked on the window to wake it up. It eventually had to be tranquilised and removed. Police warned people to lock up their homes as the bear reportedly tried at least two other doors in the area. They said the bear had somehow entered a laundry room in the house and managed to bolt the door from the…

Friday, 21 June 2019 05:33

Lost a wallet? The more cash in it, the higher the likelihood of getting it back - Report

People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money — and the more cash, the better. That’s the surprising conclusion from researchers who planted more than 17,000 “lost wallets” across 355 cities in 40 countries, and kept track of how often somebody contacted the supposed owners. The presence of money — the equivalent of about $13 in local currency — boosted this response rate to about 51%, versus 40% for wallets with no cash. That trend showed up in virtually every nation, although the actual numbers varied. Researchers raised the stakes in the U.S., the United…

Monday, 17 June 2019 05:22

Man filmed 'sleeping' behind the wheel of his moving car in rush hour traffic

Motorists were horrified after witnessing a man seemingly asleep at the wheel during heavy rush hour traffic Friday. Video footage shows the vehicle traveling down the freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. The white Tesla is seen moving at a steady speed while a man appears to snooze with his head turned towards the driver's side window. The car is seen cruising under overpasses as various motorist breeze by him. Tesla vehicles have an autopilot function, which keeps it traveling at an appropriate speed compared to other traffic, and centers the vehicle in its lane. But it also requires…

Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:36

Slippery suspect: Police remove snake from patrol car engine

How do you handcuff a snake? Police in Park Forest, a Chicago suburb, spent 30 minutes removing a snake from the engine of a patrol car Wednesday night. Chief Chris Mannino and another officer stopped their car when they spotted the 3-foot-long (0.9 meter) snake in the road. But the slippery serpent didn’t surrender; it escaped under the car and into the engine area. Mannino says he finally was able to grab the snake behind its head and safely remove it. After police posted photos on Twitter, readers recognized it as a snake that’s native to northern Illinois. The snake…

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