Photo: Borno govt awards scholarship to girls who got orphaned by boko haram activities

Borno State Government yesterday Tuesday sent fifty girls whose parents were killed by Boko Haram on full junior and senior secondary school scholarship ‎at Zaria Academy, in Kaduna State, a famous institution said to have with records of excellence in academics.

Miley Cyrus steps out in baggy denim on denim

Miley was spotted in a baggy denim jumpsuit with a heavily embroidered denim jacket as she walked to her home after dinner. You like? More photos after the cut...

Megan Fox's estranged Husband files for divorce, asks for spousal support

Brian Austin Green, 42, is finally responding to his estranged wife 29 year old Megan Fox‘s request for a divorce. More than a month after the actress, 29, filed for legal separation, Brian has officially filed for a divorce. He filed for the divorce yesterday and requested spousal support from her, along with joint custody of their two children.


In the docs filed Tuesday, Green checks the box for spousal support.
Green has barely worked since last December when he and Megan were in a car wreck. Megan was not injured but Brian now has a serious medical condition called vertigo, which affects his balance and ability to work.
According to the document obtained by TMZ

He seems like his character, Sean, on Charlie Sheen's show, 'Anger Management', lol

Georgia's only woman on death row in 70 years is executed

After several last ditch effort to keep their client alive, Georgia has executed its only female death row inmate.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner died by lethal injection of pentobarbital today, Wednesday at 12:21 a.m. at the state prison in Jackson. She was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.
Gissendaner was the first woman executed in the state in 70 years.

The United States Supreme court denied Gissendaner, 47, three stays of execution on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of Georgia also denied her a stay of execution Tuesday and the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to grant her clemency after it met on earlier on Tuesday to consider new testimony from supporters. The board didn't give a reason for the denial, but said it had carefully considered her request for reconsideration.

Gissendaner was previously scheduled for execution Feb. 25, but that was delayed because of a threat of winter weather. Her execution was reset for March 2, but corrections officials postponed that execution "out of an abundance of caution" because the execution drug appeared "cloudy."
The parole board, which is the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, also declined to spare Gissendaner's life after a clemency hearing in February. Her lawyers asked the board to reconsider its decision before the second execution date, but the board stood by its decision to deny clemency.
Gissendaner's lawyers last Thursday submitted a second request to reconsider the denial of clemency, and the board agreed to review new documents and hear from her representatives.
Pope Francis' diplomatic representative in the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, on Tuesday sent a letter to the parole board on behalf of the pontiff asking for a commutation of Gissendaner's sentence "to one that would better express both justice and mercy." He cited an address the pope made to a joint session of Congress last week in which he called for the abolition of the death penalty.

Two of Gissendaner's three children already asked the board earlier this year to spare their mother's life. Her oldest child, Brandon, who had not previously addressed the board, wanted to make a plea for his mother's life, said Susan Casey, an attorney for Gissendaner.

In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner's lawyers cited a statement from former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, who argued Gissendaner's death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime. Her lover, Gregory Owen, who did the killing, is serving a life prison sentence and will become eligible for parole in 2022.

Fletcher said he has now decided he was wrong in his decision to deny Gissendaner's appeal in 2000 when he sat on the state Supreme Court, the statement says. He also notes that Georgia hasn't executed a person who didn't actually carry out a killing since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Gissendaner's lawyers also argued she was a seriously damaged woman who has undergone a spiritual transformation in prison and has been a model prisoner who has shown remorse and provided hope to other inmates in their personal struggles. The new request included testimony from several women who were locked up as teens and who said Gissendaner counseled them through moments when they felt scared, lost or on the verge of giving up hope.

Two of her three children, Dakota and Kayla, previously addressed the board and earlier this month released a video pleading for their mother's life to be spared. They detailed their own journeys to forgiving her and said they would suffer terribly from having a second parent taken from them.
Douglas Gissendaner's family said in a statement Monday that he is the victim and that Kelly Gissendaner received an appropriate sentence.

"As the murderer, she's been given more rights and opportunity over the last 18 years than she ever afforded to Doug who, again, is the victim here," the statement says. "She had no mercy, gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to live his life."

Kelly Gissendaner repeatedly pushed Owen in late 1996 to kill her husband rather than just divorcing him as Owen suggested, prosecutors have said. Acting on her instructions, Owen ambushed Douglas Gissendaner at Gissendaner's home, forced him to drive to a remote area and stabbed him multiple times, prosecutors said.

Investigators looking into the killing zeroed in on Owen once they learned of his affair with Kelly Gissendaner. He initially denied involvement but eventually confessed and implicated Kelly Gissendaner.

Stranger's act of kindness towards new mom with crying baby on a plane goes viral

When Rebekka Garvison boarded her flight with a newborn baby from Chicago to Atlanta last week, her fear of being judged became a reality.

Garvison noted how quiet the flight was when she got on. She took her seat next to a couple who did not look happy that her baby Rylee would be sitting with them. Already stressed out from traveling, Rylee started crying immediately.

 

Rebekka Garvison

To avoid any issues, she moved two rows ahead where there were two empty seats instead of one. This way, Garvison would have more room to tend to her baby.

As Rylee continued to cry despite her mother's efforts to calm her, the woman in the seat next to her, Nyfesha Miller​, asked if she could try calming the baby. 

 

As soon as Miller held Rylee in her arms, the little one stopped crying. By the time the flight took off, she was sound asleep in the stranger's arms. Miller even carried her off the flight so Gavin could get all of her belongings together. Miller said "it wasn't a problem."

Nyfesha Miller

 

Gavin was so thankful to Miller that she shared her appreciation in a Facebook status. The grateful mother openly told Miller that she will "never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family. You could have just rolled your eyes and been irritated like everyone else, but you took her and held her the entire flight and let me get some rest and peace of mind."

 

 

Michael Jackson's teenage daughter steps out in red hair

Paris Jackson, 17, showed her new red hairdo as she and a male friend enjoyed a stroll in Calabasas on Sunday after having lunch. She's beautiful. More photos after the cut...

 

Photos: Okada rider electrocuted in Otukpo, Benue State

According to Idoma Voice, the incident happened on Thursday morning, September 24. He fell into a puddle of water on the road, close to a poorly insulated electric pole & was immediately electrocuted. The two passengers he was carrying were however unharmed. See the graphic pic after the cut...

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady

90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady

90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady

90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady

90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

Australian officials move on plans to block Chris Brown's entry into the country

Chris Brown took to his instagram page to deny reports that he's been denied visa to enter Australia for his December show after a government official announced her intention to block his entry into the country because of his 2009 domestic violence conviction. He's since deleted the post above...

Chris Brown's One Hell of Night Tour is scheduled to kick off Dec. 9 in Perth and end Dec. 16 in Brisbane, Australia but he may not enter the country. According to new reports, immigration officials have moved forward with their plans to block him. Just yesterday, he was given an official “notice of intention to consider refusal” of his visa application and he has 28 days to appeal.