My mother is almost 83 years old and she has dementia. Her dementia began when she turned 65years; she was forgetting things, incidents, people. You now dementia, don’t you? My siblings and I took her from one hospital to another,…
Three feared killed as APC begins campaign in Lagos (Guardian)
Three persons were feared killed while others sustained injuries as the All Progressives Congress (APC) began its gubernatorial campaign in Lagos yesterday.Trouble started around 1:30 p.m. as Governor Akinwunmi Ambode delivered his speech, which was interrupted by gunshots from hoodlums…
Sentinel tribe thought to have killed American ‘world’s most isolated’ (CNN)
The tribe that appears to have killed American John Allen Chau on remote North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal is one of a number of vanishing peoples sealed off from the rest of the world. The Sentinelese, as they’re known,…
BREAKING: Kenyan priest killed in Cameroon’s anglophone region (Punch)
A Kenyan priest was killed in francophone Cameroon’s volatile English-speaking Southwest region where violence has surged after separatists declared an independent state, church sources told AFP on Thursday. “A Kenyan priest was shot dead in Kembong yesterday,” one source said. “There was…
A Young Woman Who Killed Her Abusive Fiancé Said She Tried To Leave Him (Buzzfeed)
A 27-year-old Irish woman has told a Sydney court she tried to leave her fiancé multiple times over the course of their abusive relationship before she killed him in February 2017. On Tuesday, Cathrina Ann Cahill, who has pleaded guilty…
I feel empty, says mother of 16-year-old killed by suspected cultists (Punch)
“I feel empty; I feel empty,” these were the words of the mother of 16-year-old Seiyefa Fred, who was killed by suspected cultists on Thursday in the Amarata area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. In a telephone conversation with our correspondent…
I killed my mother, slept with her corpse for money ritual – Suspect (Punch)
An 18-year-old man, Samuel Akpobome, who was arrested by the police in Edo State for allegedly killing his mother for money rituals, has explained how he committed the act. Akpobome told PUNCH Metro on Wednesday that he strangled the victim, Christiana Ighoyivwi,…
Islamists killed 260 Christians, 100 Muslims in October’ (Guardian)
Islamic extremists killed no fewer than 360 defenseless civilians, including 260 Christians and 100 Muslims in the country in the month of October 2018. A report, released yesterday by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, was…