Bangladesh on Wednesday executed banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his two associates for a 2004 attack on a shrine that killed three people and wounded the British high commissioner at the time. Hannan was hanged at Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur along with his accomplice Sharif Shahedul alias Bipul at 10:01 PM (local time), Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said. His associate Delwar Hossain Ripon was executed in Sylhet jail, the minister added. Gazipur Superintendent of Police Harun Ur Rashid said the autopsies of Hannan and Bipul have been completed and their bodies will be sent to their village homes amid tight security. President Abdul Hamid had rejected their mercy petitions this week. Earlier, the authorities beefed up security in and around the Kashimpur jail. The family members of Hannan – his wife, two daughters and elder brother – met him in the jail this morning. Ripon’s family members also met him at the Sylhet jail. On March 19, the Suprem...
A woman has said that surgery for incontinence left her unable to have sex with her partner because her vagina ‘bit’ his penis. Theresa Bartram, 50, had the operation to lift her bladder using a plastic mesh, but it was fitted too low and eroded through her vaginal wall. Mrs Bartram, from Brighton, said that she had not had sex for seven years until she had the operation that involved the use of a plastic mesh sling called a transvaginal tape(TVT) to stop her leaking. She said that the sex was better until two years later in 2009.She said: ‘It was like it had grown teeth. His willy was bright red and spouting blood. There was a big red stain spreading between us on the sheets. ‘After that he was scared of my lady garden and approached it as if it was a Venus flytrap and he was a fly.’ She was adamant that that the injury was caused by the mesh but doctors assured her everything was fine. They avoided sex and six months later they split up. She stopped eating as her confi...
MOTHER THROWS HER NEWLY BORN BABY INSIDE SOAKAWAY A mother of six from Guru village in outskirt of Bauchi, Bauchi State has confessed that she threw her one day old infant into the soak -away shortly after delivering her at home because of hardship. Juliana James, an indigene of Shendan LGA of Plateau State, wept profusely as she spoke with journalists at the Police Command Headquarters in Bauchi, saying she loved her child. The housewife who lives with her husband James and her six children-five girls and a boy in a one room apartment – claimed that things were so rough for her family that she decided that the way out was to sacrifice the new born. “Things are hard. My husband has no job. He had an accident three months ago he is still in the hospital ago and the situation became worse for us. We don’t see food to eat. We were dying of starvation. I delivered at home and threw the baby in the toilet because I don’t know how we are going to take care of it. I didn’t...
TERRORIST LEADER SHEKAU An “alarming” number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday. The Islamists have increasingly been using children to attack crowded markets, mosques and camps for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria and the broader Lake Chad region. Experts said the number of children used in suicide attacks by Boko Haram surged to 27 in the first quarter of this year, compared to nine over the same period in 2016. Since 2014, 117 children — the “vast majority” of them girls — have been used to carry out attacks in public places across Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, said the report by the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF. Four children were used to carry out bomb attacks in 2014, 56 in 2015, 30 in 2016 and 27 in the first three months of 2017, reported UNICEF. “The increase reflects an alarming tactic by the insurgents,” said the report. “This is the...
PHOTO USED STRICTLY FOR ILLUSTRATION A man covered in blood and carrying what appeared to be a decapitated human head walked into an Estacada, Oregon, grocery store on Sunday and stabbed an employee, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. The man, whose name has not yet been released, is also a suspect in the death of a woman, whose body was found inside a nearby residence. According to the sheriff’s office, the bizarre case began to unfold Sunday afternoon, when a witness called 911 call from an Estacada store. The caller reported a man, “covered in blood” and holding “a knife and what looked like a human head,” had walked into the Harvest Market Thriftway. While police were responding to the scene, a second individual called 911 to report that the same man had stabbed an employee of the store. “We saw panicking people rushing for their vehicles, trying to get out all at one time,” witness Kristin Courtain told KOIN 6 News. The suspect was subdued by other sto...
Iran has announced sanctions against 15 US companies, alleging they support "terrorism", repression and Israel's occupation of Palestine, in retaliation for measures earlier announced by Washington. A foreign ministry statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency on Sunday said the sanctions barred companies from any agreements with Iranian firms, and that former and current directors would not be eligible for visas into Iran.It also said any of the company's assets in Iran could be seized. "The sanctioned companies have, directly and/or indirectly, been involved in the brutal atrocities committed by the Zionist regime in the occupied Palestinian territories, or they have supported the regime's terrorist activities and Israel's development of Zionist settlements on the Palestinian soil," the IRNA report said.The report referred to the sanctions as a "reciprocal act," without elaborating. Iran's new sanctions come after US...
The Edo state Police command have arrest three lectures of the Ambrole Ali University, Ekopma for allegedly involving themselves in cult-related activities. Haliru Gwandu, the state’s Commissioner of Police disclosed the development to journalists in Benin on Tuesday, adding that firearms were recovered from the arrested lecturers.Among those arrested was a professor, from whom a double-barrel gun, single-barrel gun and one pump action gun were allegedly recovered. Punch Reports. The police commissioner said, “The professor was arrested. He was granted bail. The case is under investigation.”Gwandu’s statement came less than a week after the command refuted reports that its operatives allegedly brutalised the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the university, Prof. Sunday Edeko. The commissioner expressed displeasure over the high rate of cultism around the institution located in Esan West Local Government Area, which he said had claimed many lives. He said there had been distress...
Fayose,Wike free to leave PDP — Sheriff WIKE,SHERIFF AND FAYOSE WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff,has said the party is ready to call the bluff of its governors that are not ready to accept him. He also said the party was not ready to collect money from the governors to fund the party, saying the former ruling party would not collect what he called “stolen money from the governors.” He added that the party would not defend any of the governors when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission came after them on how they spent state money while in office. Sheriff, who spoke to our correspondent through his deputy, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, on the telephone in Abuja on Saturday, said the party was ready to move on without the governors who refused to join hands in rebuilding the party. Ojougboh, who said he was already in the South-East, where he said the party was going to commence its nationwide mobilisation,...
FIRST MASSIVE NATIONWIDE PROTESTS ON THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY, 2017. A call for good governance. A call for urgent explanation into the reckless economic downturn nationwide. A call for nationwide protests as we say No to the Executive, No to legislatures, No to judiciary... You have all failed us. We the people are tired. We can no longer continue with all of you. All your excuses and mistakes are not funny. We do not wish to continue with a system and government that is not working but afflicting the people. We the people of this country not living under the privileges of government allowances and remuneration have now accepted to take the bull by the horn to come out and protest this obnoxious and baseless policies and excuses of the government of the day. Where are the recovered looted funds? Why do we still have the executive arms and legislatures still enjoying their salaries and allowances while we hear there's no money to pay workers? Why do we still see ceaseless ...
Kidnappers beat lecturer to death after collecting N1.1m ransom 23rd Feb 2017; Two men, Patrick Koyi and Chituru Ferdinand, have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a lecturer,Emmanuel Chinasa Obi,working with the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) in September 2016. The suspects also beat the victim to death after collecting N1.1 ransom. A police source said: “The lecturer was murdered by his kidnappers after a ransom of N1.1m was paid in two installments to them.The kidnappers first received a ransom of N700,000 from his family while he was alive,then they paid an additional N400,000 after he was killed. When the kidnappers refused to release the lecturer, the family became worried and informed the police.”Koyi was arrested in Port Harcourt in possession of Obi’s Techno phone.He confessed to the crime and led operatives to his home,where Ferdinand whom he fingered as the mastermind of the abduction, was arrested. The lecturer attracted the suspects’ att...
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