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Two young men were on Thursday stoned to death in Aliede area of Benue State for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. One of the victims was identified as Labister, a native of Tiv tribe, while the other whose identity could not be ascertained at the moment hailed from Idoma speaking part of the state. We learnt that the suspects were caught with a stolen motorcycle Thursday afternoon and were killed by angry community youths. An eyewitness said that efforts by the community elders to rescue the young men and hand them over to the police were futile as the mob insisted on killing them so it could serve as a deterrent to others. Several efforts to reach the Benue Police PRO failed as his phones rang endlessly and unanswered.

50 CENTS Rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has claimed that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign offered him half a million dollars to support him during the election. In an interview with New York radio station Hot 97, Jackson said that during Trump’s campaign, he was offered $500,000 in what the rapper claimed was an effort to reach out to black voters. “I was like, nah, that’s not good money,” the rapper said on the program. “Yeah I’m not gonna do that … that’s not worth it.” The rapper, who was promoting “Power,” his television show on Starz, also called Trump’s election an “accident.” –– ADVERTISEMENT –– “If you were president by accident, you might do some of the things Donald Trump is doing,” 50 Cent said. “I think he was [campaigning] to build his profile for a bigger deal on television, and everything else.” The rapper continued: “I don’t think anything has divided people as fast” as Trump has. The White House redirected a request for comment ...

RUNNING BATTLE Police officers react during a demonstration of Kenya's National Super Alliance coalition of opposition parties against the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi Kenyan police used teargas and batons on Tuesday to disperse protesters calling for election officials to be sacked before the rerun of a contested presidential vote. Volleys of teargas were fired near the election commission headquarters in Nairobi. When they regrouped, officers fired more teargas and beat some of them with batons. Raila Odinga, who lost his presidential bid on August 8, will get another chance, after the Supreme C...

The Spanish man accused of murdering his twin toddlers in Cape Town was denied bail on Thursday after he offered to pay R150‚000. Magistrate Goolam Bowa agreed with the state that Mario-Ceasar Yela was a flight risk and that releasing him on bail was not in the interest of justice. Yela is accused of murdering the children while visiting them in South Africa. The Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard that on April 6 he had been involved in a car accident. The children were allegedly in the vehicle. He refused medical help from Neighbourhood Watch members who were first on the scene. He returned to the Hout Bay flat he was renting and dismissed the au pair. The state also put it to the court that Yela contacted his ex-wife to tell her that the children had died. He locked her in the room where he left the bodies of three-year-old Maximo and Octavia. He then stole her car. According to t...

Seven men accused of eating human flesh appeared in the Estcourt magistrate's court on Thursday. Allegations of cannibalism in Estcourt have set the normally quiet KwaZulu-Natal Midlands town back several decades‚ its mayor‚ Jabu Mbhele‚ said on Thursday. She was speaking after seven men appeared in court on Thursday on charges of murder‚ conspiracy to commit murder and possession of human body parts. The grisly story broke in August when alleged traditional healer Nino Mbatha walked into the Estcourt po...

The drain in which little Shaynice Talla's body was found.   Seventeen years after Samantha Talla’s six-year-old niece‚ Makayla Lee‚ was found murdered‚ on a koppie in Eldorado Park‚ Extension 2‚ Johannesburg‚ her daughter was found in the same spot after being murdered. The lifeless body of Shaynice Talla‚ who was just four years old‚ was found tossed in a drain on Wednesday evening. She had been reported missing in the afternoon. Nita Mackay‚ Shaynice’s aunt‚ lives with her siste...