Seventh Day Adventist building on fire in Lagos

The Seventh Day Adventist Church building located at Maryland Lagos is currently on fire. It's been on fire for a few hours now as they await help from the fire service. See more pics after the cut..

Ex-Gov Orji Uzor Kalu reportedly acquires most expensive private jet in Nigeria

 

According to Encomium mag, former Governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, now has the most expensive private jet in Nigeria. The jet, which is the latest edition of the Gulfstream G650, is said to be worth about N12billion and arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos on Thursday September 18th from New York.

Described as the fastest civilian jet in the world, the PJ boasts of a basketball court, 8,000 statute-mile range, some of the most sophisticated avionics rivaling nearly anything in the sky and uses two Rolls Royce BR725 engines. The main price of the aircraft is put at $65 million but other charges could have raised it to $75m. According to Forbes, the Gulfstream G650 has an order book of 200 customers throughout the world.

US soldier beats his 2 year old daughter to death

20 year old Texas soldier, Dartarious Graham, (pictured centre) has been charged with capital murder after his 2 year old daughter Peyton was found unresponsive with ‘suspicious’ injuries in his home in Fort Bliss, Texas. According to police, the young father beat his 2-year-old daughter to death after he became upset that she had soiled her diaper.

They also arrested Graham’s cousin Robert Franklin, 19 (pictured left), for witnessing the attack and not doing anything to help the little girl. The child's mother Elizabeth Graham, 23 (pictured right) was charged with injury to a child by omission for no protecting the child and failing to report the abuse which had been constant before the fatal beating...


According to reports, Graham, who is a US army specialist, became very angry after his daughter soiled her diaper. He then took her to his room where he beat her for several minutes with a belt.

According to police, his cousin Franklin saw him take the child to his room, looked through the door and saw Graham beating the little girl but did nothing to stop him. He reportedly walked back to the sitting room to watch TV.

Franklin later told police that Graham continued to attack the girl until she became limp. They called 911 in panic and Peyton was transported to El Paso Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later.

The police learned the father had a history of beating the child and nobody ever did anything to protect her. All three are being held in El Paso County jail. Dartarious Graham could face the death penalty or life without parole if convicted.  

EFCC press release: Man arraigned for duping another of N100k

Below is the EFCC press release

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on September 22, 2014 arraigned one Musa Yunusa alias Yassa Mustapha Aliyu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on one count charge of obtaining money by false pretense. The accused allegedly obtained the sum of N100, 000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from one Abdulkadir Abbas under the guise that he had power voltage regulators to sell to him.

The charge reads, “that you Musa Yunusa a.k.a Yassa Mustapha Aliyu sometime in March 2012 in Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kaduna State with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira only) from one Abdulkadir Abbas by falsely representing that you have a power voltage regulator (PVR) and capable of securing and delivering same to him which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.

The accused pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him.

The accused was remanded in prison custody while the case was adjourned to October 9, 2014 for consideration of bail application

Retired Police boss kills self, wife and son in Ogun state

A retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sunday Isokpehi, who at one time served at the Lagos state police command anti-robbery squad, on Saturday September 20th, killed himself, his wife Gladys and their son at their Sango Ota, Ogun state residence after a heated argument with his wife.

According to reports, the former police boss and his wife began fighting when they returned home from a wedding on Saturday after he accused her of disgracing him at the wedding by getting drunk.

 

The woman reportedly denied being drunk and before anyone could stop the couple, they started fighting. Seeing that his wife was overpowering him, the retired police boss went for his pump action riffle and shot his wife and then shot their son who had been trying to separate them. Seeing the gravity of the crime he'd committed, Isokpehi reportedly turned the gun on himself.

After the unfortunate incident, neighbours told police that the couple fought regularly.

Confirming the sad incident, the Ogun state Police spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the bodies of the all three have been deposited at the hospital for autopsy. He said the police will carry out a detailed investigation.

Russian student covers her Mercedes in one million Swarovski crystals

21 year old Russian student Daria Radionova spent £20,000 to cover her £25,000 2011 Mercedes CLS 350 with one million Swarovski crystals. After blinging her car, she parked it outside the Levin Hotel near Harrods in Knightsbridge, London for the world to see it.

Explaining why she did it, the business student said

"I wanted to have something unique and do something special. The people who did it came over from Russia and worked for 12 hours a day for two months on the car. I am really happy with it and I am looking forward to driving it around. It has only just been finished and everywhere I go people stop to have a look at it. It gets lots of attention from people walking by and in cars. Sometimes I think they might crash. Everyone is taking pictures of it. When I sell the car I will give the money to charity."

See more pics of the car after the cut...

 

Women protest half naked against Kaduna state governor

Women in Fadan Karshi in Sanga local government in Kaduna yesterday protested half naked when the governor of the state, Mukhtar Yero, came to pay them a condolence visit. Their grievance? Well, according to the indigene of the state who sent the pics to Sahara Reporters, over a thousand people have been killed in the area and neighboring towns and villages by terrorists since March this year, and the governor never came to see them until yesterday when he showed up with hundreds of security personnel following last week's attack that left over 40 people dead.

The angry women, who felt they'd been abandoned, lay on the ground crying as the governor and his team came through their town. See more photos after the cut..