A man has been sentenced to 24 weeks in jail after admitting to engaging in inappropriate acts involving an animal while holding a baby seagull. David Lee, aged 40, captured the seabird and took it to a secluded area in Sunderland, where he proceeded to remove his trousers and engage in sexual activity with the…
Uchenna Christian Nlemchi, a 31-year-old Nigerian national, has been extradited from Hungary to the United States to face charges of fraud. The extradition was announced by Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office. Nlemchi made his initial…
Tinubu receives praise from the President of AfreximBank for bold actions on fuel subsidy removal and exchange rate unification. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during his visit to Paris, expressed his commitment to sustaining ongoing reforms in Nigeria. These reforms aim to create a more competitive economy, attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and provide genuine investment…
South African musician and dancer, Costa Titch is dead. Titch, whose name is Costa Tsobanoglou, reportedly collapsed while performing at the Ultra music festival on Saturday. The news of Titch’s death was confirmed by entertainment commentator Phil Mphela on his Twitter handle just before midnight and was followed by a string of sad reactions from…
A Nigerian woman, Joy Jeff, who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including running a prostitution ring, Italian police said on Wednesday. The 48-year-old was one of the few women on Italy’s most-wanted list,…
French football legend Just Fontaine has passed away at the age of 89. Fontaine – who was born in Morocco but represented France internationally – is best known for scoring the most goals in a single World Cup after he netted 13 times in just six matches in the 1958 tournament in Sweden. After making…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Wednesday that his government still intends to hold elections a month earlier than scheduled despite an earthquake last month that devastated parts of southern Turkey. In an address to legislators of his ruling party, Erdogan chided critics of the government’s handling of the earthquake’s aftermath and said the…
A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to at least 60 years in prison for the 2019 killing of Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle after a chance encounter in the south Los Angeles neighborhood where the men grew up. A jury had found Eric Holder Jr, 32, guilty of first-degree murder in July 2022 for fatally…
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced R. Kelly to 20 years in prison for child s3x crimes, after a jury found that he had produced three videos of himself s3xually abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter. In a victory for the defense, the judge ruled that all but one year of the prison sentence would be served…
The death toll on Saturday rose to more than 44,000 from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria with the body of former Ghana international footballer Christian Atsu also found beneath a collapsed building in Antakya. The number of people found alive under the rubble have dropped to only a handful in recent days and the head…
