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A former Temple University student has been charged in the death of a current student whose remains were found over the weekend. Joshua Hupperterz, 29, was taken into custody Friday and charged with murder after authorities found a body, confirmed to be missing college student Jenna Burleigh, 22. Burleigh’s body was found on property belonging to Hupperterz’s grandmother. Burleigh was reported missing on Thursday night, and was last seen on surveillance footage leaving a bar near campus in north Philadelphia, with a man police identified as Hupperterz. Hupperterz was charged with murder, and faces charges of possession of an instrument of crime, evidence-tampering and abuse of a corpse. Hupperterz last took classes as a junior at Temple last spring, Philly.com reported. ...

A woman who was sleeping rough in a tent is the third homeless death this week. The woman, aged in her thirties, has been named locally as Jennifer 'Jenny' Dennehy. She is understood to have been a client of Simon Community services in Cork, according to the Irish Independent. It is believed she may have accessed the services for assistance after she was evicted from her rented flat earlier this year. She was discovered in a tent near Gilabbey Rock, in the south-west of the city, in the early hours of Friday morning. Ms Dennehy's death is not being treated as suspicious at this stage by gardaí. Gardaí said their investigation will be directed by the post-mortem findings. The woman's death brings to three the number of homeless people who have died this week in Ireland. A mother-of-two (25) died tragically in emergency accommodation in Kildare, while a man (aged in his 50s) who was found unconscious on Suffolk Street in Dublin later passed away...

What is wrong with Nigerians?Why do we like jungle justice?According to a social media user who shared the story,the armed robber pictured below was caught and stoned to death by angry mob. What he stole was not mentioned but he said the deceased was one of the thieves that robbed him in January.It is unclear where it happened in the Southeast but the mob were pictured shouting kill him 'Onye osi' meaning he is a robber. I wouldn't like to share the horrible video here.I can not stop crying after watching it. See more photos:-

A taxi driver has revealed how he was left “terrified and traumatised”, after a gang of teenage thugs beat him up, stole his money and smashed up his car earlier this month. Ali Raza (37), originally from Pakistan, but living in Ireland for the last 15 years, was punched in the head and face, repeatedly kicked in the body and had €100 stolen from him, when a gang of four youths attacked him when he went to collect a fare in the Tor An Rí estate in Lucan over the August bank holiday weekend. He told the Sunday World: “I got a call to go to Tor An Rí around 9.50 on the Saturday night. When I got there a guy came out of the house and told me he was the one who had booked a taxi. “He got in the passenger seat and next thing I knew there was three more lads in the back. They were all aged between 15 and 18, but at first they all seemed okay to me. “Then the one sitting behind me started pulling on my seat belt, tightening it around my neck and being...

Gardai investigating the murder of Patricia O'Connor have announced that they have arrested three people. According to gardai, a 73 year-old-man was arrested in Co Meath earlier today. Gardai have also confirmed that two women, aged 19 and 38, were arrested in Dublin by officer's investigating O'Connor's death. The three are currently detained at Bray and Wicklow Garda stations under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984. A 32-year old man previously arrested and charged in relation to the case is currently before the courts. O'Connor's dismembered remains were found scattered across a 30km area of the Wicklow mountains in June. The investigation is ongoing.

A business woman, Mercy​ Segun, 42, was on Wednesday arraigned at a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja for allegedly beating her daughter and pouring pepper into her vagina. Segun, who resides at Idu Gbagyi, Karmo, is facing a three-count charge of criminal force, assault and causing hurt to a minor. The Prosecutor, Mrs Florence Auhioboh, told court that the defendant's neighbour, one Gift Afegua, reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station on Aug. 22. She alleged that Segun, knowing her daughter to be a minor, ill-treated her by pouring grinded pepper into the girl's vagina. Auhioboh told the court that the defendant's action caused the minor serious pain. The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 246, 265 and 238 and of the Penal Code. The defendant, however, denied the charges. The Judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, granted Segun bail in the sum of N30, 000 with a surety in like sum. He ordered that the surety must reside within the court's jurisdictio...

This young man decided to steal a ram instead of buying one.He was caught in Osun state and paraded with 'his' Ram...

A 35-year-old Estate agent, Francis Kulungu, has impregnated a 31-year-old seamstress, Salamatu Maka, who is the wife of his bosom friend, Danladi Funtuwa, a 38-year-old auto mechanic. Danladi and Salamatu got married in 2014, but have been experiencing fertility challenges ever since. Now Salamatu is carrying a three-month-old pregnancy for his best friend, Francis in Lafia, Nassarawa State. In an interview with Saturday Sun, Danladi revealed how he started suspecting his friend's affair with his wife when he started frequenting his house, on the pretext of paying a friendly visit, even when he (Danladi) was not around. On Sunday, July 30, 2017 Danladi drew a cutlass and threatened to kill Salamatu right in their bedroom if she refused to open up. Having been so cornered, Salamatu opened up. She confessed that she was actually the one who seduced Francis into the secret love affair and she did that to know whether her inability to conceive for the past three years they'd been ...

Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike Evans (L) and other members of his gang/NAN Suspected kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans has revealed that he made a covenant with God not to lie against the police or victims in court. Evans who  pleaded guilty  to some charges earlier this week, claimed he is now a changed man hoping he is given a second chance to live right. Evans in an interview with The Sun, said: "I already have a covenant with God. If police take me to court, I told God that I will not tell lies against the police or victims. "I promise to tell the court the truth about any crime that I am guilty of. Please, people of Nigeria should forgive me. "I just believe in God for a miracle. I will serve God all my life. I also promised the police that I will help them to fight crime," Evans said he had already become a pastor and that he never meant to kill anyone in his criminal endeavours. He said: "The only time t...

A two-year-old baby boy, Ikechukwu Nwachukwu, has been stolen from his parents' home in Umuihim village in Umuozu Ugiri Community in Isiala Mbano LGA of Imo State, Punchng reports. According to Remigus Nwachukwu, an uncle of the stolen child, Ikechukwu was allegedly stolen by one Ifeanyi Anyanwu, a tailor in the village. He said, "The child woke up that Saturday morning and was strolling within the compound around 7.00am when this Ifeanyi came and held Ikechukwu by the hand. People who saw him thought it was normal until about 9.30 that morning when the boy's mother started looking for him to eat his breakfast. The woman didn't suspect anything when she learnt that her son was with Ifeanyi. But when the time started pushing towards 10 and 11 that morning, everybody was alarmed and we eventually learnt that Ifeanyi was not at home. His wife and only daughter who had been at home since Monday were not at home either. It was then that people started looking for Ifeanyi an...

The Nigerian Police said it has mobilized more officers to the South Eastern and the South South part of the country According to the police, this was in a bid to prevent a breach of the peace, which may result from the activities of Biafran agitators ahead of the upcoming Anambra State governorship election. The police also said it was waiting for the court to give a go ahead for the arrest of the Indigenous People of Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Nigerian Government had last week demanded that the Federal High Court in Abuja revoke the bail granted to Kanu. Speaking to Punch, the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, said "We have made additional deployments, particularly in Anambra State, because of the upcoming governorship election and also to other South-East and South- South states to ensure that IPOB did not actualise its threat of stopping the election. "So also, any pronouncement from the court would be strictly enforced, irrespective of the persons involved....

Abike Dabiri -Erewa The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Abike Dabiri-Erewa has condemned the incessant extra judicial killings of Nigerians living in South Africa. She made this known in a statement released by her Special Assistant on Media, Abdurrahman Balogun. Unacceptable killings The presidential aide said in spite of diplomatic talks between Nigeria and South Africa to put an early warning signal in place, "it doesn't seem to be working." The Nigeria Union in South Africa had confirmed the  killing  of another member, Kingsley Ikeri, at Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa on August 30. Dabiri-Erewa said that the latest killing of Ikeri by the Police in South Africa is unacceptable to the people and government of Nigeria. She reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari's calls to Nigerians to avoid crimes like drug peddling which attracts stiff penalties. Extrajudicial killings The former House of Representat...

Officers surrounded a VW Golf on Manchester Street in Oldham after shots were fired at a house nearby. This is the dramatic moment armed police dragged a suspect in a shooting from a car and handcuffed him. Officers surrounded the VW Golf on Manchester Street in Oldham outside Old Mother Hubbard's chip shop shortly after shots were fired at a house nearby. Video footage shows four armed police officers surround the parked car and point their weapons towards the windows. Moments later witnesses said they saw the officers dragging a man out of the car, placing him on the floor and handcuffing him. Two others were also arrested during the drama on Thursday night. Police revealed on Saturday morning that Sarfraz Nazir, 33, of no fixed abode, has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear, possession of an offensive weapon, possession of class A drugs and affray. He was due to appear before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court today (Saturday). A boy of...

An aggressive busker, two 14-year-old girls assaulted in Piccadilly Gardens, and an allegation of homophobic hate crime are just a few of the many incidents city centre officers faced on Friday night. Assault, theft, and drugs mis-use were all part of the huge amount of calls officers received last night. As part of an all-night Tweetathon which involved GMP sharing every single call that came from 9pm until 6am - it showed the extent of what police tackle across Manchester. In the space of nine hours there were 13 incidents of assault and nine incidents of theft. There were also three reported incidents involving drugs. Just after 9.30pm a report was made that two 14-year-old girls were assaulted in Piccadilly Gardens . Officers are investigating the incident and making 'assessments of any vulnerability'. At 11.15pm there was a call to a 'loud and aggressive busker' on Canal Street. Police said a resident had tried to reason with the busker, but they apparently abused ...

As gunfire and screams rang out in her Nairobi neighborhood after last month's disputed presidential election , Lucy Anyango stepped outdoors and across a tense ethnic divide. The member of Kenya's Luo minority went to her friend Sheila Kariuki, an ethnic Kikuyu, and walked Kariuki's two daughters to the safety of her own home amid threats of rape and violence. Angry Luo were rampaging in the streets in protest over the loss of their opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, to President Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. As calm began to return the next day, Kariuki thanked her friend in a heartfelt Facebook post. "I will forever be grateful," she wrote. "As I write this my eyes are full of tears. Dear God, when will this madness ever stop?" It is a question Kenya has been asking for decades. The threat of further violence fueled by ethnic tensions lingered as the opposition challenged the election's results. On Friday, to the country's shock, the Supreme Cour...

A battle line has been drawn between Delta State former ex-convict Governor, James Ibori and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over Thursday's dissolution of Moses Ogbe's led Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) by the State House of Assembly, SaharaReporters can authoritatively report. A battle line has been drawn between Delta State former ex-convict Governor, James Ibori and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over Thursday's dissolution of Moses Ogbe's led Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) by the State House of Assembly, SaharaReporters can authoritatively report. A personal aide to former Governor Ibori who confided in SaharaReporters disclosed that Ibori has drawn a battle line with incumbent Governor Okowa for using the legislature to dissolve the commission without any consultation before sacking his nominee, who is the chairman of the commission. "Though I am not permitted to speak on the issue, I can authoritatively tell you that my boss felt s...

The Joint Task (JTF), Operation Delta Safe, a special security outfit fighting criminalities in the Niger Delta yesterday confirmed that a soldier and one civilian lost their lives when they were ambushed by suspected militants in Ekeremor Local Government, Bayelsa State on Monday. However, the military's clarification was in contrast to earlier reports that four soldiers and one civilian, a member of staff of the JTF, were shot during the incident which resulted in claims and counterclaims by sources in the know of the incident. The Bayelsa government had also in a statement confirmed that three soldiers died while the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) said four soldiers and a non-uniformed man were killed during the attack. But the Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre (JMCC) of the outfit in the Niger Delta, Major Ibrahim Abdullahi, disclosed on Friday that the losses were exaggerated, stressing that one soldier and a civilian were killed during the ambush. He added that during the at...

Three unemployed men, who allegedly sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl, were yesterday brought before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrate's Court. Michael Fadipe, 28, Sunday Chukwunero, 26 and Dotun Obajuluwa, 22, were arraigned before Mrs Oluyemisi Adelaja on a three-count charge of conspiracy, indecent assault and rape. Prosecuting Inspector Chinalu Uwadione told the court that the defendants committed the alleged offences on May 25 around 8pm, at Fagba area in Agege. He said they conspired with two others at large and one Fela Domeh, who accosted and threatened her with a knife. According to the prosecutor, the teenager was on her way to buy noodles for her mother from the next street, but they led her to Domeh's room and had carnal knowledge of her. "The victim was threatened with a knife and forced into a hidden dark room where she was raped in turns by the trio," Uwadione said. Chief Magistrate Adelaja admitted each defendant to N500,000 bail with two sureties in ...

Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, has commended Ibrahim Attahiru, theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, for "coming very close" to achieving the directive to capture Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect. On July 21, Buratai asked Attahiru to lead the operation to capture Shekau dead or alive within 40 days. But from then until August 30 when the deadline elapsed, Boko Haram became more ferocious. Sani Usman, director of army public relations, has now disclosed that based on a request by Attahiru, Buratai has approved an extension of the deadline. Usman did not state how long the army chief gave his men to nab the militant leader. "Although the leader (of Boko Haram) has not been captured, the COAS noted with satisfaction the zeal and determination with which the directive was pursued," Usman said in a statement. "Within the same period, 82 of the Boko Haram terrorists were eliminated. Therefore, the commander was very close to achieving the di...