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Mr Richard Taylor, father of 11 year old Damilola who was killed in Peckham, South London in 2000, has said that African children, mostly Nigerians, are continually being killed in London because they refuse to join gangs and deal in drugs. In an interview with the Daily Trust in London, Mr Taylor explained that the callous killings of black children are mostly carried out by teenage gangs who are into drugs and are jealous of the academic performance of Nigerian and other African children in the UK. He, however, lamented that the ugly situation may continue for some time because UK laws on capital crimes are seemingly “weak” as they tend to protect the accused rather than the victim. Mr Taylor opined that only when criminals are meted punishment commensurate with their crimes that the spate of teenage killings in London would abate, and advocated the reintroduction of capital punishment in the UK. “It is only when the right form of justice is meted out to perpetrators of crime –...

MAIDUGURI -  Confusion has crept into the camp of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram which has unleashed a reign of terror in the northern part of the country for several months as the sect has split into two factions. One faction, the Yusufiyya Islamic Movement, YIM, has vowed to expose the other faceless group, which it described as evil group.   The Yusufiyya group is made up of followers of slain leader of the Islamic sect, Mallam Mohammed Yusuf.  This development came as President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, held  talks with elders from Borno State, over growing insecurity in the state, which is believed to be the abode of the sect.   The Yusufiyya Islamic Movement, in a two-page statement contained in leaflets yesterday, condemned the attacks and bombing of residences and places of worship by the other sect that claimed to be fighting a Jihad in the North. The leaflets were distributed on Tuesday to the various wards, Post Office Area and media houses i...

Uyo — In Akwa Ibom State a man may have to marry the corpse of his girlfriend, if the culture demands this. After several fruitless efforts to see the Eberefiak Oku Uyo (Clan head of Uyo and custodian of Ibibio culture) in his palace for comments on the matter, one of the Uyo chiefs met at the palace, Chief Effiong Udoh Akpan told Daily Trust "Such marriages are conducted between a boy friend that sees a girl that he likes, invites the girl to his house and decides to live with her in the house without initiating the process of traditional marriage up to the time the girl died while living with him. After fulfilling all the traditional marriage rites, the boy friend is then given the permission by her parents to go ahead and bury her. That is entirely a different procedure. "The corpse of the lady will be laid in state and the boy friend will come and lie down beside the corpse. He must lie down beside the corpse for a whole night because she is his wife. The boy friend wi...

Over 20 people died on Monday in a multiple accident involving about 10 vehicles around the  Kugbo  Furniture Market on the busy  Abuja-Keffi  expressway. The accident occurred at about 4pm on Monday  , July 18. Eye witnesses say the accident occurred when the driver of a trailer loaded with iron rods lost control of the vehicle and crashed into two commuter   buses   fully loaded with passengers, killing everyone. Other cars crashed into the scene, worsening the casualty rate.  A lot of people were injured and taken to the hospital.

The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) yesterday warned members of Boko Haram against destabilizing the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. In a statement yesterday by the President, Nelly Emma; Secretary, John Sailor and Public Relations Officer, Mukoro Stanley, the group condemned worsening security situation in the country, saying it was a calculated attempt to discredit the administration of President Jonathan. The group accused a prominent royal father in the north for sponsoring members of Boko Haram in order to create crisis in the country, saying that any plot against President Jonathan by the North would be resisted. On its part, the National Secretariat of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) yesterday canvassed constructive dialogue as the only means of resolving the security challenge orchestrated by Boko Haram. In a statement he personally signed and made available to reporters in Abuja, the National Chairman of the party, Dr....

The other party involved in the accident that almost claimed Uche Jumbo's life has opened the lid that the actress was  heavily drunk and driving alone  on the day of the accident. "The incident occurred  Friday June 24, around 12 midnight. The FJ Cruiser which was being driven by the actress hit another car head-on along the Lekki/Chevron area of Lagos. Fortunately, no lives were lost. But Uche had to go to the hospital, though she's since returned home." Uche tweeted the next day: "Thank U lord 4 d gift of life! Only U lord did this! Thank U my rock!" However, the driver and owner of the Range Rover she crashed with had this to say "Bloody liar, you were drunk"

You know back then, I saw Don Jazzy, I knew he will make it. Fast forward 5 years, he is producing track for one of the world's richest musician, sean carter, popularly known as Jay Z, or Hov, or Camel mouth. Here is the tracklisting of his upcoming album (the throne) with Kanye west with due credits given to OUR OWN Don Jazzy for production and voice over credit. 1. No Church In The Wild (Feat. Frank Ocean) (Prod. By Kanye West, Mike Dean & Ken Lewis) 2. Lift Off (Feat. Beyoncé) (Prod. By Kanye West, Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker, Q-Tip &  Don Jazzy ) (Add Vocals. By Seal, Mr Hudson,  Don Jazzy , Bankulli and Ricardo Louis) 3. Niggas In Paris (Produced by Hit-Boy) 4.Otis (Feat. Otis Redding) (Produced by Kanye West) 5. Gotta Have It (Produced by The Neptunes) 6. New Day (Produced by The RZA) 7. That's My Bitch (Produced by Q-Tip & Kanye West) 8. Who Gon Stop Me (Produced by Sham "Sak Pase" Joseph & Kanye West) 9.Murder To Excellence ...

To global search giant, Google, Africa is the next Internet hotspot. Globally, there are 94 domains registered per 10 000 users. However, in Africa, there is only one domain per 10 000 users. As such, there is tremendous potential for growth on the continent in the web space. Through its Africa programs focused on getting more Africans online, the company is betting that by developing an accessible, vibrant and self sufficient Internet ecosystem on the continent many more Africans would come online. Key among its strategies to develop the continent’s Internet ecosystem is to increase the amount of local African content online. “If you want to be successful you have to do a good job at localising content,” said Nelson Mattos, Google’s VP of Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at a Google event in South Africa. To do this effectively, the company has launched initiatives such as the Get African Business Online (GABO) initiative last year as a pilot to a select number...

There was pandemonium in the sleepy town of Ikorodu, outskirt of Lagos, yesterday, as a woman suspected to be conveying some substance suspected to be a bomb was arrested at the weekend near a filling station. The Fulani woman, according to our correspondents, was arrested by the police when a fuel attendant raised an alarm. The woman, (names withheld) who was said to be carrying a baby, the source told Nigerian Pilot, had approached a filling station attendant to allow her keep in his custody a black cellophane bag containing the suspected deadly substance that has now been transferred to bomb experts in an undisclosed location for test and analysis. Nigerian Pilot gathered that drama started when the petrol attendant refused to grant the suspected bomb messenger her request, and in an argument that ensued between him and the woman, unsuspecting passers-by including security operatives stationed few metres from the filling station intervened and upon search of the content in t...

Parents of Kolawole Arowolo, the jobless graduate, who was alleged to have murdered and mutilated his wife, Titilayo, opens up in a recent interview. They maintained that Kolawole and Titilayo were hot-tempered and have been fighting two months after their marriage. His mother, a trader, also confirmed that Kolawole at a time suffered insanity that was treated. She also said that she told Titilayo to stay in her father’s house when she realized they were incompatible, but denied that her son was a ritualist. She equally used the opportunity to beg for mercy from Oyakhire’s family. Excerpts from the interview; Mummy, do you think this can be a spiritual attack as claimed? Ki Olorun Ogbawa Lowo Ogun Aye (May God save us from spiritual attacks). Since they got married it was misunderstanding and fights everyday. There was no month that we didn’t settle a quarrel between them. I was fed up to the point that in January this year, I told Omo(Titilayo) to go to their house,...

AT least, 13 family homes and properties, worth millions of naira, have been swallowed up in a gorge measuring about three hundred metres deep and 300m wide, in Amachalla village, Awka, the Anambra State capital. The lawmaker representing Awka South 1 Constituency in the State Assembly, Engr Kenechukwu Chukwuemeka, who was invited to the location by residents, was short of words when he saw the extent of damage. Chukwuemeka, who fought back tears while consoling wailing mothers, toddlers and youth, whose homes and belongings were swept away by torrential rains, urged for calm, assuring them that “something urgent is going to be done by the state government.” Chukwuemeka urged Governor Peter Obi, the State’s Ministries of Environment, Special Duties, Senator Chris Ngige, the Federal Government and Representative Emeka Nwogbo to come to the aid of the residents. He urged them to pool efforts together through the instrumentality of their offices to resettle them and see how some of th...

A memorable day, June 20, 2011, would forever remain fresh in the mind of the family members of Mr. Boniface Ugwu, an ex – official of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Benue State as it was the day their daughter, Adaora Ugwu, who was believed to have died after a fatal accident and deposited at one of the mortuaries in Enugu State, resurrected. The 21-year-old Adaora, had gone to Markurdi for her JAMB’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on the fateful day and was returning to Enugu to prepare for the last Army recruitment exercise when a mini commercial bus belonging to the Enugu State Transport Company (ENTRANCO) marked, XL812 UWN which was returning from Markurdi to Enugu city , collided with an Nsukka bound mini bus marked XB504 TKP belonging to Peace Mass Transit, leaving over 20 passengers of the two vehicles dead, including Adaora and four recently discharged members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The accident, which occurred at Udi Local Gov...