The 21-year-old white man who opened fire and killed nine black people during a prayer service at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been captured and taken into custody after one of the deadliest attacks on an American place of worship in years. Police said on Thursday that 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof had been captured during a traffic stop in [...]
Policeman Killed Himself, His Colleague, And A Recharge Card Girl Over Love Dispute
A Police Officer shot himself, his colleague and their girlfriend, named Chidimna, a recharge card seller over love dispute. According to eyewitnesses, the incident happened at Karu town near CBN quarters in Abuja on Thursday April 30th. The policeman who had been dating the recharge card seller, went to see her on that fateful day and met her in company of another police [...]
Swedish Nobel laureate Tranströmer dies aged, 83
Swedish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Tomas Tranströmer has passed away at the age of 83, his publishers confirmed on Friday. Swedish publishing house Albert Bonniers Förlag confirmed his death on Friday afternoon in a press release. "We have today, by the Tranströmer family, been given the sad task of announcing that Tomas Tranströmer passed away on [...]
French prosecutor: Co-pilot wanted to ‘destroy’ the plane
The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing 150 people, appears to have deliberately flown it into a mountain after locking the flight commander out of the cockpit. During the last eight minutes of the flight, the co-pilot “voluntarily” carried out actions that led to the destruction of the aircraft, Brice Robin, a French public [...]
Plane carrying 142 passengers and six crew has crashed in French Alps
A plane carrying 142 passengers and six crew has crashed in the southern French Alps en route from Spain to Germany. The Airbus A320 disappeared from radar in the Alpes de Hautes Provence after sending a distress signal at 10.47am local time (9.47am GMT). Debris from the jet, operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline, has been found scattered over a wide area near [...]
NURTW Chief killed by unknown gunmen in Lagos
Market women, friends and sympathizers on Wednesday converged on Queen Street in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State to mourn the Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Yaba Unit, Babajide Dosunmu, a.k.a Mados, who was killed by some yet-to-be identified gunmen. Forty six-year-old Mados, who was also said to be the Vice Chairman, Lagos Mainland branch of the NURTW, [...]
Woman who set husband on fire defend herself
A woman who allegedly set her husband on fire on Valentine day in Ekiti state, defends herself saying she didn't know how the fire started. The 36-year-old woman, Mrs Bukola Olusegun Ogidiolu, in an interview with Tribune explained how it all happened. “I don’t know how it happened. We had a quarrel and he left me and went home. I went to meet him at home and by the time I [...]
A model and TV star dies of depression few hours he posted he was lonely on Facebook
A model and budding TV star has been found dead at a popular holiday park after battling depression. Grant Clarey, 21, who was a keen surfer, was found hanged at a holiday park in Newquay, Cornwall, in the early hours of Monday. The lifeguard, who also worked as a model and was lined up to feature on a Channel 4 show in the summer, told his hundreds of Facebook friends he was [...]
Woman Crushed To Death While Trying To Stop A Digger Driver
A woman was crushed to death while trying to stop a digger driver near her property by blocking the vehicle with her body. The woman, Zhen Chung, 48, was attempting to stop the man from removing his machine from her property after allegedly damaging her home The string of events leading to the tragedy began when the owner of the digger was sent to dig a trench as part of [...]