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HOUSTON (AP) — An attorney who persuaded a Texas jury to award one of the largest civil verdicts ever says he and his clients don't expect to collect any of the $150 billion judgment, but they hope it helps persuade prosecutors to seek charges against a man they say doused a boy with gasoline and set him on fire. Robbie Middleton survived his horrific injuries for 12 years before dying last year of a rare form of skin cancer, which attorneys argued was related to the extensive burns he suffered on his eighth birthday. Lawyer Craig Sico and Middleton's family said they now hope for a renewed investigation of Don Wilburn Collins, who Middleton accused of setting him on fire. Collins never faced criminal charges in Middleton's case, in part, prosecutors said, because of inconsistencies in the evidence and difficulty obtaining information from such a young victim. Now 26, Collins is in prison for an unrelated sexual assault conviction against another 8-year-ol...

A Federal High Court sitting at Ikeja, this morning sentenced the General Overseer of Christ Redemption Apostolic Church, Pastor Eunice Owoyele to 14 years imprisonment for child trafficking. Others sentenced along with the 40-year-old pastor is one of her accomplices, Mariam Mohammed, 50, who will stay behind bars for 14 years. They were jailed for luring an 18-year old girl from Nigeria to Libya for prostitution. Having committed the offense in August last year, the two convicts were arraigned before the court on 4 February this year on a three count criminal charge of organizing foreign travels for young girls for prostitution abroad especially in Libya, procurement for prostitution and deceitful inducement to go from place to place contrary to section 15a, 16 and 19b of NAPTIP Act. The prosecuting lawyer, Mr. Kehinde Falade called four witnesses while the convicts who testified for themselves were led in evidence by their lawyer, Mr. R.O. Akande. The mother of the victim reporte...

The story of ‘Omo Night Club’ (1&2) appears simple enough even though it covers many disks: Adesewa (Ireti Osayemi) can get whatever she wants from any man she desires and she milks these men to emptiness, even death. She takes no prisoners and is like ‘she who must be obeyed’. It’s also simple enough to understand that she derives all her powers from ‘agboluaje’, a powerful medicine man who she summons at will through the special mirror hanging inside her wardrobe. Her first victim is Jide Kosoko’s character who is addressed both as Chief Bolajoko and Banjoko. However, the story gets rather ambitious and complicated when club girls - including Kemi (Mosun Filani) - convince Adesewa as their ‘chairlady’ to introduce them to her source of wealth and power. It’s at this point the women all appear to forget the rules of the game and bite more than they can chew with disastrous consequences. As far as stories go, this one uses a sledgehammer to make the point about dangerous club g...

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo lied when he denied writing a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan on the performance of some agencies and the changes he wanted him to effect. According to the lead story of The Nation newspaper of yesterday, Obasanjo, in the letter, advised Jonathan to sack five heads of Federal Government agencies. The men are of Northern origin. The leadership of the North expressed disappointment at the letter and recommendation of the former president alleging marginalization and victimisaiton. The protest of the North perhaps motivated Obasanjo’s denial of the letter. Speaking with airport correspondents in Lagos yesterday, Obasanjo denied writing the offensive letter. He threatened to institute legal action against The Nation newspaper. However, the newspaper reacted to the threat this morning by publishing the photocopy of the controversial letter on its front page. In the letter, Obasanjo wrote inter alia: “I have observed with deep concern the con...

A Federal High Court sitting at Asaba, Delta State, southsouth Nigeria, has ordered that self-acclaimed Pastor, Glory Okeoghene Abrefera, alleged to have swindled 492 unsuspecting members of the public to the tune of N1.2 billion should be remanded in prison custody.  Also to be remanded in prison custody alongside the accused pastor is one of his accomplices, Reverend Vincent Okpogo. The wife of the pastor involved in the scam is currently at large. Pastor Abrefera owns a wonder bank called Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited, while his co-accused Reverend Vincent Okpogo is the managing director of the bank. The bank has branches around Asaba-Port Harcourt axis with customers virtually in all towns and villages in Delta State. The accused pastor allegedly lured unsuspecting members of the public by giving them mouth watering interest on their investment. This generous deceptive interest made customers make huge deposits tagged investment. But it got to a stage the company fail...

A farmer was at work in the afternoon on Thursday when he heard a baby crying.  He followed the sound to discover  a baby girl, who seemed to have been buried alive. She had managed to push her head above the ground.   The farmer, who is from Madhya Pradesh's Bodna village in India, rushed the child to a local hospital.  Doctors believe she was 48 hours old before she was rescued. She is now recovering well. Minister for Education Archana Chitnis has visited the child and ordered the hospital to monitor the baby carefully.  The police is trying to locate her parents.  But the baby is unlikely to be returned to them. Madhya Pradesh had the highest number of recorded cases of both female feticide and infanticide in 2009.

New Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Best African Act award winner, Ayo Balogun, who is popularly known as Wizkid, has recently made his mind known on his winning of the just concluded 2011 edition of the awards held in Glasgow, Scotland on October 5. Wizkid won the coveted award in the category where D Banj, Seun Kuti, Smod, Cheikh Lo, Liquideep, Owiny Sigoma band, Fatoumata Diawara, Vieux Farka Toure and Spoek Mathambo were also nominated in. Though Wizkid has recently been in the news for the negative reasons when he was alleged to have impregnated a University of Legon undergraduate student named Sola, but this MOBO awards news will now come as a nerve soother to his faithful fans. Just some weeks ago, he was involved in an alleged leaked sex tape that went wild on the internet like an hamattan fire. Not long afterwards, it was an alleged assault on a female fan at an eatery around Opebi area of Lagos. In a reaction to his winning of the award, the Holla At Your Boy crooner ...

Although he is one of the biggest and most influential musicians in Africa, King Sunny has one regret, his l ack of University education. Pained by this short -coming, he has forbidden his daughters from getting married without acquiring a University degree. He bared his mind to Saturday Vanguard at the wedding of one his daughters’ Ruth, last Sunday in Ondo, Ondo State and advised would- be suitors to steer clear of his daughters who are yet to meet his expectations. Why did you decide to make your daughter wed in a low- key event? The request was hers. She told me that she just wanted to go to the registry and have a small reception. I had to start calling my friends and apologising that we are not having an elaborate wedding. Besides, I have other things to celebrate , like my 65th birthday and my mum’s one year remembrance. So, there was no need to invite the whole world to the wedding and call them again a few days later to come for my mum’s anniversary and my birthday. How mu...

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Plx rebroadcast and save lives!!!! Chisco Transport is a blood-sucking transport Company. The owner Chief Chidi Anyaegbu is the Vice President of a deadly cult. He wants to be d President and to be d president, he must deliver a heavy quantity of blood över a period of seven years. The various accidents that Chisco has been involved in and sö called armed robbery attacks are all ochestrated by Chidi Anyaegbu. He connives with his long serving drivers to arrange these incidences. Chisco Transport has d highest råte of accidents and robbery attcks in the country. And recently, one of his buses was attacked on the Okene-Abuja road by Armed robbers he ståge managed and supervised. The robbers asked all d passengers to lie on the road while another Chisco bus came out from nowhere and crushed d över fifty passengers to death. Please pass dis to friends and loved ones and save many more lives that have been programmed för sacrifice by Chidi Anyaegbu's Chisc...

Really don't know why we Nigerians kill ourselves over our accent, CNN has just given a list of top 5 most sexiest  accent and my own naija took the 5th spot, e no easy naw, abi na beans.  check the 1st to the 5th   1.Italian accent 2.French accent 3.Spanish accent 4.Czech accent 5.Nigeria accent CNN Note ;Some Nigerians are actually worth giving your bank account information to Famous tongues;King suny Ade Omotola jalade ekehinde,  Dignified, with just a hint of willful naiveté, the deep, rich “oh’s” and “eh’s” of Naija bend the English language without breaking it, arousing tremors in places other languages can’t reach. Kinda makes the occasional phone scam worth the swindle. Sounds like: The THX intro with teeth

Have you always dreamt about going to America? Many Nigerians envision America as a land of gold and honey. A land where the government showers you daily with piles of cash, and a land where everything is free. Well, they are wrong. There is nothing of that sort in America, and recent studies and accounts have shown that it is actually   better   for you to stay in Nigeria than it is to go to America. Here are five reasons why. 1.   Debt : The mirage that anything and everything is possible in America is a lie. Worst of all, to new immigrants, the amount of credit offered in America is so attractive that by the time you know it, you will be chin deep in Debt.  Debt that will most likely take you the rest of your natural life, and half of your children's to pay off. 2.   Stress : America is the capital of stress. With 12 hour shifts and continuos work, the labour takes a heavy toll on its people, unlike in Nigeria. In Nigeria,   you are the ...

A man, Micah Monday, has been charged to Apapa magistrate’s court Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria for allegedly fondling a pregnant woman’s breasts. He has now been remanded in Kirikiri Prison Apapa, Lagos because he could not meet the bail conditions. The 30-year old Monday was alleged to have fondled Mrs Helen Tamukunu’s breasts in his workshop without her consent. The incident happened at Igbologun area of Snake Island, Lagos. P.M.NEWS gathered that the bitter woman engaged the services of Monday to work for her and she paid him in advance. But Monday allegedly did not do the work as he promised. When Helen went to Monday’s shop to know why he did not do the job as he promised. Instead of explaining to the woman what happened, he began to tease her. He reportedly told her how he loves her. Monday thought that he had convinced her and he started fondling her breasts. Shocked by Monday’s action, she attempted to remove his hand from her breasts and her bra got torn in the...

In a rather dramatic twist, cosmetologist and emerging artiste manager, Toni Payne, might have moved back into the expansive Abule-Egba, Lagos, home of estranged husband - afro hip hop singer, 9ice. Her unexpected return to the house she left in unwieldy circumstances late 2009 came as a shock to neighbours, aides, close friends and relatives of the singer who thought she had moved on for good. According to several impeccable sources, Payne’s startling about-face happened last Thursday when she came to the house demanding to see the father of her child but was prevented from entering. “She called 9ice several times but he didn’t pick the call because he had been told she was at the gate. He came with a male friend even. What angered 9ice was that she didn’t pre-inform him of her visit, source says. She left without blowing a fuse, only to return the following day. This time, Payne brought along with her the only product of the short-lived marriage, Zion, and she was allo...

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...