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           It is common knowledge that civilians,especially innocent ones are killed on almost daily basis in Nigeria,did I say almost,maybe daily.The ill trained Nigerian police force has uncountable cases of civilian killings to it's credit,thanks to the police authorities who always come out to defend such acts,or turn a blind eye or play deaf to such cases.            The Special Anti Robbery Squad,SARS for short is another notorious wing of the police force known to track down deadly robbers and such related issues but also known for illegal arrests,extra judicial killings and many other alleged criminal acts,this time,another innocent life has been cut short.            Family sources, friends and neighbours revealed that the tortured man was arrested on Friday, April 21, 2017 alongside four others during a raid at a spot for allegedly smoking Indian hemp.(Even so,is that criminal en...

Unconfirmed news has it that this vehicle was involved in a ghastly motor accident around Kubwa axis in Abuja in the early hours of today and all 7 occupants of the vehicle lost their lives,details to come, see photos below;

Diving down into a hole of sludge with his bare hands, spare a thought for this poor sewer cleaner in Bangladesh who has one of the world’s least desirable jobs. The man, who is an employee of the Dhaka City Corporation, has to unblock the city’s sewer lines without any proper safety equipment. He often has to go dig around underground with only a long stick to help him and with no mask to protect him from the poisonous fumes the sewage emits. Scooping out liquid filth with his bare hands, the hardy worker has the thankless task of clawing out blockages in the bustling Bangladeshi capital. Dhaka has a population in excess of 14 million and has recently been hit by major floods caused by heavy rains and an insufficient storm drainage system. Despite the alarming rise in the number of deaths of manhole workers, cleaners are still not supplied with sufficient equipment and regularly have to enter the dirty sludge topless. More Photos:

CHARITY THILZA The life of a 25-year-old corps member, Charity Thilza, has been brought to an abrupt end  three days to the completion of her National Youth Service Corps programme in Abuja . The Borno State indigene was killed by some robbers along Wuse 2 Road while she was returning home from a nightclub in Carribean, Wuse 2 around 3 am on Monday. The passing out parade,’ which marked the completion of her one-year programme would hold on Thursday (today). She studied Linguistics and English at the University of Maiduguri . PUNCH Metro learnt that Thilza and four friends identified simply as Lola, Bisi, Pooja (an Indian) and a man had attended a show at the club where a hip hop artiste, Chibuzor Azubuike, popularly called Phyno performed on Sunday. They were said to be returning home from the party in a car the following day when the robbers gave them a chase. The assailants reportedly shot at the car repeatedly and some of the bullets pierced through the windscreen...

A key witness who came forward more than a decade after a teenage dad-to-be was murdered is expected to give evidence in the trial of two men accused of killing him. Paul Croft, 19, died in hospital a week after he was found seriously injured in an alleyway in Salford in 2005. Now James Wilde, who would have been 16 at the time of events, and Paul O’Neill, 23 at the time, both deny murder in a Manchester Crown Court trial where it is alleged Paul was attacked with a golf club and a baseball bat. A woman who claims to have information about the case is expected to give evidence to the jury this afternoon. The prosecution say the woman, who will testify via videolink, overheard conversations pointing to the defendant's guilt, but was 'frightened' to provide information at the time of the killing. Paul was attacked in a ginnell known as the Black Path next to the Lord Nelson pub in Pendlebury, on March 24, 2005. But despite an extensive investigation no charges ...

The family of a 10-year-old boy who died after he was decapitated on a giant waterslide at a Kansas water park will receive nearly $20 million in settlement payments, according to court documents. The largest payment to Caleb Schwab's family, $14 million, will come from SVV 1 and KC Water Park, two companies associated with the Texas-based water park operator Schlitterbahn, The Kansas City Star reports. The rest of the money will come from the general contractor, the raft manufacturer and a company that consulted on the 17-story 'Verruckt' waterslide that was dubbed the tallest in the world. Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old boy pictured above, died during an ill-fated ride on the 168-foot Verruckt ride, which was billed the world's tallest water slide Caleb's father is Republican Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab (seen second from left). The family received $20million in settlements from the water park operator The waterslide at the park in Kansas City has...

Ignazio Frailis, 46, from Sardinia, lay in wait for Maria Bonaria Contu, 60, (pictured) when she was out walking with friends Ignazio Frailis, 46, (pictured) allegedly stabbed his neighbour 11 times after he became incensed by her pet parrot which he claimed had been trained to hurl insults at her ITALY -A mother-of-two was allegedly stabbed to death by her next-door neighbour after she trained her parrot to insult him. Ignazio Frailis, 46, from Sardinia, reportedly lay in wait for Maria Bonaria Contu, 60, when she was out walking with friends. He then allegedly stabbed her 11 times and wounded a friend who tried to defend her. Investigators claim he was driven to kill because of Mrs Contu's pet parrot, which hurled insults at him whenever he walked past.  The 46-year-old had previously claimed Mrs Contu trained the bird to provoke him with insults, L'Unione Sarda reported. According to local reports, unemployed Mr Frailis spent much of his time at home playing v...

Police released this CCTV footage of a suspect they want to question in relation to the incident outside a shopping centre  A teenager was raped in the doorway of a shopping centre after two men tried to force her to drink vodka. The 17-year-old victim and her friend were approached by two men while they were shopping in Westfield, west London. After spending some time together, police say the group made their way to central London before returning to Shepherd's Bush Green by bus. The men - who called themselves 'Mohamed Saif' and 'Ahmed' - tried to make the women drink from a bottle of vodka, but they refused. The women were split up by the men and 'Ahmed' forced the victim towards an entrance to West 12 Shopping Centre where he raped her at around 3.45am the following morning on October 28 last year. The two women quickly left the area and made their way home, where they called police. It is not known if the men gave their real names to the two g...

Grigore Paladi, 40, who was jailed for five years, is pictured at one of the cash machines Two Romanian gangsters who stole £1.6million from cash machines across Britain by infecting them with a sophisticated computer virus have been jailed for a total of seven years. Emanual Leahu, 30, and Gheorge Mirzac, 32, were members of an Eastern European gang who raided 51 ATMs on the May Bank Holiday weekend in 2014. Targeting stand-alone Cardtronic ATMs, they gained access to the machines and infected them with malware. Once they had got into the operating system they were able to methodically empty its contents, 40 notes at a time. After the fraudsters had taken what they wanted, the malware deleted itself - removing any trace it had ever existed. Leahu and Mirzac were part of a team behind raids in Bognor Regis, Brighton, Liverpool, London and Portsmouth, Inner London Crown Court heard. Leahu was arrested by City of London Police officers in Bacau, Romania, last September and extr...

IRVING, Texas (AP) --A math tutor at a suburban Dallas community college says she saw a man shoot a woman three times in the hallway of a campus building. Nasrin Nanbakhsh says the woman was sitting in a chair at North Lake College in Irving when the gunman approached her Wednesday and fired. Nanbakhsh said she ran into a room, locked the doors, turned off the lights and waited for help to arrive. She said she also emailed her supervisors to let them know what was happening. Irving police spokesman James McLellan says the gunman took his own life after killing the woman. The school northwest of Dallas was closed for the rest of the day. North Lake College is a two-year public school that's part of the Dallas County Community College District. Copyright 2017: Associated Press ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRVING, Texas (AP) --A police spokesman says the suspected gunman and a second person are dead in an appa...

ROUND LAKE BEACH.– Three teens have been charged after a suburban Illinois father was killed while trying to sell his iPhone using the popular app OfferUp, according to WGN-TV. Police say 43-year-old Trinidad Bueno-Sanchez of North Chicago, a married man with a 6-year-old child, did everything right when trying to sell his cellphone. Using OfferUp, he found a potential buyer who expressed interest in purchasing his iPhone 6 for $450, and agreed to meet them in the parking lot of a Meijer store in Round Lake Beach the evening of April 24. Five teens met him in the lot. Police said Bueno-Sanchez leaned inside the suspects’ vehicle during the exchange. “They asked to see the phone so he handed them the phone,” Deputy Chief Mike Scott of Round Lake Beach Police said. “Then they handed him an envelope that was supposed to be the money for the phone. But (it) turned out there was just a few dollars in there.” At that point, police said, the teens tried to speed off with the phon...

SAPULPA, Okla. - Police say an elementary school teacher was arrested on multiple charges after accidentally leaving her Facebook page open on a school computer. Officers were called to Holmes Park Elementary School on Monday after a teacher found Megan Sloan's Facebook page open on a computer, according to KOKI-TV. Authorities say the page featured a conversation where Sloan reportedly asked about using and selling heroin. Detectives told KOKI that during the investigation, Sloan allegedly admitted to pawning two iPads that belonged to the school district. She also reportedly admitted to using money from field trips for gas and drugs. When officers searched Sloan's purse, they allegedly found syringes and substances that tested positive for meth and heroin. Sloan was arrested on embezzlement, three counts of possession of controlled drugs within 1,000 feet of a public institution and possession of drug paraphernalia. Sapulpa Public Schools assistant superintende...

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh LONDON — Prince Philip, 95-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, is to step down from public life, Buckingham Palace has announced. The prince, who has been at the Queen’s side for her 65-year reign and is also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, will stop accepting public engagements from September, the palace said. Queen Elizabeth II sits with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh The Queen, who is 91 and has gradually scaled back her public appearances in recent years, will continue to carry out her duties supported by other members of the royal family. “His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has decided that he will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year. In taking this decision, The Duke has the full support of The Queen,” the Buckingham Palace statement said. “Prince Philip will attend previously scheduled engagements between now and August, both individually and accompanying The Queen,” the statement...

Martre Lamonte Coles, Denise Monique Gay and Latoya Shantice Gay HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- Two women were charged with second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Martre Lamonte Coles. The Highland Springs graduate's body was found April 2 in a plastic storage container stashed behind an electrical box near the Mondelez International Inc. plant, on Gorman Road, in eastern Henrico. Coles had been reported missing March 12. Denise Monique Gay, 48, and Latoya Shantice Gay, 21, were arrested and charged with Coles' murder. Denise is Latoya's mother. Martre Lamonte Coles, Denise Monique Gay and Latoya Shantice Gay Denise Gay was in a relationship with Coles' dad and Coles' sister, Michelle Coles, says she has a theory on why Gay allegedly killed her brother. "She just didn't like him, I think it had a lot to do with jealousy as far as her position with my father and wanting to be more," she said. Family members said they will remember h...

The Dallas suburb where a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager as he left a party has a population that's just 20 percent white but a police department that's 80 percent white. Balch Springs now confronts the same issues of race and law enforcement as Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore and other cities that have been thrust into the spotlight because of police killings of African-Americans. Officer Roy Oliver was fired three days after the Saturday night shooting. But lawyers for 15-year-old Jordan Edwards' family said Wednesday that the city must answer for more than Oliver, including a racial slur allegedly yelled at one of Edwards' brothers moments after the shooting. The family also wants the officer to be charged with a crime. Edwards , his two brothers and two other teenagers were driving away from an unruly house party when the officer opened fire on their vehicle with a rifle. The bullets shattered the front passenger-side window and struc...

Photo of Alton Sterling after been killed and the other is a photo of him(RIP) Federal prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge either police officer involved in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, shooting death of Alton Sterling, the U.S. Justice Department announced today, as it laid out in a detailed statement how the department came to that decision. This is the actual photo showing Alton Sterling been killed after been pinned to the ground This federal investigation came after Sterling, an armed black man, was shot and killed on July 5, 2016, during an altercation with white police officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II outside Baton Rouge's Triple S Convenience Store. Parts of the shooting were captured on video and Sterling's death sparked protests nationwide. Protesters demonstrate outside the Triple S Food Mart where Alton Sterling was shot dead by police in Baton Rouge        The confrontation began when a 911 caller said a man wearing a...