Nigerian twitter reacts to "Baba Go Slow" report on Bloomberg

Nigerians on twitter have reacted to yesterday's report on Bloomberg referring to President Buhari as 'Baba Go Slow'. More of their reactions after the cut...

13 & 14yr old girls stopped to take selfies as they battered woman to death

2 teenage girls took selfies and posted them on Snapchat while they battered a woman to death with a television set, computer printer and a kettle, a court heard yesterday, July 1st.

Angela Wrightson, 39, was subjected to a 'sustained and brutal' assault before her half-naked body was found at her home in Hartlepool, in December 2014.

Two teenage girls, who were aged 13 and 14 at the time of the killing, are accused of carrying out the attack, while the younger girl is said to have published a selfie taken at Ms Wrightson's home after the violence began on social media app Snapchat.

Ms Wrightson and the other girl, her best friend, could be seen in the picture and the older woman already had marks on her face, the court heard.

Both girls were grinning, but Ms Wrightson was not. 

The jury had heard how Ms Wrightson, an alcoholic who would buy cigarettes and drink for underage youths, was found dead by her landlord.

'The body was sitting on a sofa in her front room, she was naked from the waist down,'Mr Campbell said.

The landlord dialled 999, and emergency services were called to the property. Forensic experts found shards of glass and gravel around the victim's 'private parts', and ash in her right ear.

Mr Campbell said: 'It became clear that Angela Wrightson had been the victim of a sustained and brutal assault.

'There were well over 100 injuries. The evidence at the scene of the crime showed she had been struck in 12 separate locations within that room.

'A number of implements were used as weapons. They included a wooden stick with screws standing proud of the surface, a TV set, a printer from a home computer, a coffee table and a shovel.

'Smaller items such as a kettle and a metal pan were used together with a glass vase and other ornaments.'

Later, the younger girl rang a friend using Facebook, jurors heard, and that witness went on to tell police that during the call she heard the defendant shout: 'Go on (names older defendant), smash her head in, bray her, f****** kill her.'

The witness told police she thought she then heard laughing in the background. The friend thought the defendant sounded drunk.

Now aged 14 and 15, the defendants had formed an 'intense' relationship, the court heard.

'The prosecution case is that they were in it together and that they are jointly responsible for this fatal act,' Mr Campbell said.

Both defendants deny murder, with the older girl saying she did not intend serious harm, and her co-accused claiming she did not encourage or take part in the violence.

The younger girl took selfies at the crime scene after the violence had started and published one on social media, the court heard.

One taken at 9pm showed her co-accused in the background, and further back, Ms Wrightson. Both girls were smiling, but the woman was not, Mr Campbell said.

And there were already marks on her face.

Further selfies that the younger girl took showed the girls drinking cider from a bottle.

The girls had let themselves in through Miss Wrightson's unlocked front door at around 7.30pm and left after 11pm, jurors heard. They came back at around 2am the next morning before leaving a final time at 4am. Ms Wrightson may already have been dead by 11pm, the court was told.

Between 11pm and 2am they chatted with a local teenager who asked why they had blood on their clothes, jurors heard. They told him they had both fallen over.

He heard the older girl say: 'We have to get back to the house, check if she is dead.'

The younger girl was staying with foster parents while the older one was in a local authority home, the jury was told.

The older girl had visited her mother on the day of the attack, the jury heard. 'You will be hearing that theirs is not a constructive relationship,' Mr Campbell said.

The girl was seen to be upset and when a relative asked why, she said her mother 'had told her to go and kill herself', the court heard. 

'It is the prosecution case that each was a bad influence on the other and at night, they would often run off together causing the police to be involved in bringing them back to their respective homes,' Mr Campbell said.

The younger girl confided in a friend the next day how a terrified Ms Wrightson begged for them to stop, the court heard.

'She said it had all started when Angela Wrightson had threatened her with a knife and when (she) retaliated, (the other girl) joined in as well,' Mr Campbell said, as he told the jury what the witness said the defendant had told her. 'Thereafter (the older girl) had done most of the stuff, they had smashed up the house and they had smashed the bits over Angela Wrightson.'

The girl told her friend that the TV was smashed over their victim and they had 'stamped all over her head'.

Mr Campbell said the defendant told her friend 'Angela Wrightson had been saying "please don't, stop, I'm scared"' but they carried on.

Mr Campbell said the friend will say the younger defendant wanted Ms Wrightson dead and 'had a hate for Angie, but she didn't know why'.

After news of the murder spread the next day, the older girl told a support worker it was 'shocking'.

During a shopping trip, she asked the adult: 'How do you think it feels to kill someone? Do you think you feel empty? Do you think you would feel bad?' 

The trial was adjourned until today. 

Source: Daily Mail UK

More pics of the young Boko Haram victim Osinbajo visited yesterday

More heart-wrenching photos of the little child who got deformed after a Boko haram attack in the North. VP President Osinbajo visited her and her mum Aisha Ibrahimat at the Maiduguri Teaching Hospital Borno state yesterday July 1st. More pics after the cut...

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Photos: Sammie Okposo buys wife brand new LR3 SUV as they celebrate 5th wedding anniversary

Gospel artist, Sammie Okposo last night surprised his beautiful wife, Ozy, with a brand new silver colored LR3, in celebration of their 5th year wedding anniversary which was yesterday July 1st. Congrats to them and a special congratulations to her. See more photos after the cut...

Grandmother made desperate 999 call while she & her husband were being murdered by her son but Police didnt show up

A disabled grandmother killed alongside her husband by their debt-ridden son made a desperate 999 call begging for help - but the emergency operator did not transfer the call because her voice was 'too muffled'.  

Former bouncer Martin Ruddy, 29, beat father Eric, 64, to death with a brick then strangled mother Carol, 54, with a television cable to get his hands on their £90,000 savings. Amid the brutal attack at their home in Elswick, Newcastle, on December 12 2014, Mrs Ruddy managed to dial 999, but her son cut the call off after three seconds.

 

Ruddy had been begging his parents for money before he launched his attack and had already been handed £4,000, but still had more than £5,000 in debt.

Prosecutor John Elvidge QC said Ruddy's life was 'running out of control' around the time of the killings, and that his marriage was also on the verge of breaking down. The court was told that Ruddy's behaviour had been 'erratic', and he had been prescribed anti-depressants by his doctor after falsely claiming his father had died.

On the day of the murders Ruddy claimed he went shopping with his mother in Asda before going back to her house to watch an Olly Murs programme on TV. He had claimed that during the programme there was a knock at the door which his father went to answer, and that two men broke in before knocking him unconscious.

He said he awoke to find both of them dead, before going to a neighbour's house with a pair of scissors sticking out of his shoulder to ask for help.

During Ruddy's trial, Newcastle Crown Court heard that Mrs Ruddy had managed to utter the words 'please, can you hurry up' before her son ended the call and strangled his mother with a wire cord.

But a BT spokesman told the court that Mrs Ruddy's words were indistinguishable, and there was no sign of distress during the call so it was not passed on to police.

She added that police forces have asked that inaudible calls are not forwarded to them and insisted the operator 'followed the call-handling process'. The spokesman said: 'I can confirm that a three-second 999 call was received by a BT operator.

'There were no signs of disturbance or distress and although a muffled, unclear voice can be briefly heard on the recording, what was said was unfortunately indistinguishable.

'Following the process agreed with the police, the operator remained on the line after the handset was replaced for a further 45 seconds before then ending the call as the handset is not picked up again.

'Police forces have requested that we do not connect such calls to them and our operator correctly followed the call-handling process.'

Ruddy had drugged the pair before launching his attack, then lied to police, saying they had been killed during a violent burglary.

To make his story seem more plausible, Ruddy cut his father's face with a serrated knife as he lay dying, then stabbed himself in the chest and shoulder with nail scissors.

Officers were not sent to the address until more than an hour later after Ruddy returned home with a neighbour who called an ambulance, but the couple were pronounced dead at the scene.

The court heard during the trial that Mrs Ruddy's voice was unclear and audio experts had to use specialised equipment to decipher her words. 

Northumbria Police confirmed the 999 call had not been put through to them.

'The call was made to the 999 BT Exchange which is based in the south of England.

'However, the call was not put through to emergency services in the North East area and Northumbria Police did not receive the call.'  

In fact Judge Paul Sloan QC said Ruddy had gone to the family home with the intention of extracting more money from his parents, who had refused.

Former bin man Eric Ruddy suffered blunt force trauma to the head, and had also been cut with a knife or knives,while his wife Carol, an ex Newcastle University employee, had two bruised lines around her neck from ligature strangulation.

At the time of the deaths, Mrs Martin had £342 in her bank account, while her husband had £87,019. Ruddy stood to inherit everything if they both died. 

After murdering his parents, he staged a burglary, trashed the house, attacked himself with a brick and nail scissors and tried to pin the blame on intruders. 

However, a jury rejected his account and convicted him of murder last week.

The 29-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years. 

Source: UK Daily Mail

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Photos: VP Osinbajo arrives Adamawa to visit IDP camps in the state

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Karrueche says she had bodyguards at this year's BET to keep Chris Brown away

A few weeks ago, Chris Brown forced his way into Karrueche's SUV after an outing at a nightclub in an ill-fated attempt to reconcile with her. Karrueche, who seems totally done with Chris Brown, got herself a bodyguard when she attended the BET this past Sunday.

In a new interview with Madam Noir, the budding actress admitted that she had the bodyguards to keep Chris Brown at bay

"This weekend I did have security just because as you know things got a little crazy a few weeks ago..."

Pastor Anselm Madubuko and Kenyan wife expecting first child

Popular Lagos pastor, Anselm Madubuko of the Revival Assembly Church of God, in Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos and his Kenyan wife Emmy Kosgei are expecting their first child together.

Confirming the pregnancy, Emmy told gospel magazine, Word Is  "Yes yes! A child is coming very soon!"

The couple got married in August 2013, one year after Pastor Madubuko lost his first wife Pastor (Mrs) Connie Madubuko, to cancer. Congrats to them.

Photos: EFCC arraigns two men for defrauding American of $64,000

Read the press statement below...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday July 1, 2015, arraigned the duo of Osaze Akhigbe and Ndekwu Jindu before Justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on an 11-count charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain goods and money by false pretence. The defendants, Akhigbe and Jindu were arrested by the EFCC sometime in 2013 based on a petition from one Jolanta K, an American. Jolanta alleged that she met jindu, who introduced himself as a self-employed Caucasian pharmacist, online in June 2012.

Impressed by his profile she “fell in love” with him, and both agreed to get married. She further alleged that in the course of the relationship, the defendant at different times hoodwinked her into parting with over Sixty Four Thousand United States Dollars ($64,000 USD).

Count 2 of the charge reads; “That you, Osaze Akhigbe on or about the 6th of September 2012 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with the intent to defraud obtained a total sum of $1,900 (One Thousand Nine Hundred United States Dollars) from one Jolanta K. through western union money transfer under the false pretence that the money represent payment for marriage engagement processes between you and her in Nigeria and which pretence you knew was false”.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to them. In view of the plea of the defendants the prosecution counsel, A. A Akujo asked for a trial date and prayed the court to remand them in prison custody. Justice Akapo adjourned the case till September 21, 2015 for hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendants be remanded in Kirikiri Maximum Prison.

Rihanna shows her nipple piercing as she goes out without a bra.. with her brother by her side (photos)

Rihanna went to dinner with her younger brother Rorrey Fenty last night wearing a see-through tank top that showed her nipple piercing. The young man must have been embarrassed. Lol. More pics after the cut...

Awww! Don Jazzy Is A Proud Dad (PHOTO)

Don Jazzy is a very very happy father today. 

The hit producer who signed 3 new artistes to his MAVIN label just a year or two ago, is now expressing how proud he is of his "kids".

See what Don Jazzy had to say after the jump:

The message reads "Congrats to my 3 Mavin kids @ReekadoBanks @KoredeBello @AphroDija on their endorsements. Welcome 2 d multi million side of life #SMD". "Now I can proudly say Mavin builds brands and not just artists. #Na Godwin #SMD"

The endorsement Don Jazzy is referring to is the Glo Ambassador endorsements all 3 Mavin kids have acquired.

Proud of you Don Jazzy for breeding these new ones well, and congratulations again to all 3 Mavin kids!

- See more at: http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/07/awww-don-jazzy-is-proud-dad-photo.html#sthash.sg0yQHWA.dpuf