An anti-racism campaign by Serie A featuring monkeys was “too provocative”, Lazio president Claudio Lotito said Wednesday, stressing however that the league was not racist. Monday’s launch of the campaign was aimed at promoting “integration, multiculturalism and fraternity” but immediately…
Serie A uses monkeys in anti-racism posters (BBC)
Serie A has used images of monkeys in an anti-racism campaign less than three weeks after its clubs pledged to combat Italian football’s “serious problem”. The ‘No To Racism’ posters show three monkeys with painted faces and will be shown…
Chinese scientists create super-intelligent monkeys by injecting human DNA into their brains (Metro)
Chinese scientists have created a strain of super-intelligent monkeys by implanting human DNA into their brains. Researchers took a gene called MCPH1, which is believed to play a role in the development of the human brain, and inserted it into…
Monkeys invade hospital, steal food from patients (Punch)
Monkeys, who were displaced after a hospital was built in the forest, that they inhabited in South Africa, have invaded the hospital. It was reported that the monkeys steal food from patients. Daily Mail reveals that the troop of vervet monkeys…
Simon Cowell is to launch a pop band of monkeys (Metro)
Simon Cowell seems to have exhausted the human talent pool because he’s moving onto the animal kingdom. The Britain’s Got Talent judge is reportedly embarking on ‘the most bizarre entertainment project of the decade’ as he attempts to sell a…
Police declare monkeys wanted for stoning man to death (Punch)
The police in India have declared a troop of monkeys wanted for stoning a man to death in the northern part of the country. The deceased’s relatives have demanded that criminal charges be laid against the “culprits”, reports Times of…
Man stoned to death by group of aggressive monkeys up a tree
A man has been stoned to death by a group of monkeys who hurled bricks at him from a tree. Dharampal Singh, 72, was hit in the head and chest and was taken to hospital, where he died, according to…
Residents flee as monkeys invade Lagos community (Nation)
Invasion by monkeys from natural habitat is forcing many residents of Soluyi/Sosanya Community in Gbagada, Lagos State, to flee. Some of the residents told the News men in Lagos on Monday that they could no longer withstand the situation. They called on…
* Monkeys, the thieves of Lagos posh estate (Punch) * Estate agent, 37, bolts with “Suya” man’s N.5m in Lagos (Vanguard)
THISISLAGOS MIDDAY NEWS UPDATE MARCH 24, 2018 Monkeys, the thieves of Lagos posh estate (Punch) It looks serene: sitting quietly at the boundary of Lagos and Ogun states, tucked in the middle of the chaos offered by Lagos, the…