ABUJA RESIDENTS: OKADA THIEVES GIVE US NIGHTMARE

SOME men of the underworld would not yet rest, or decide to engage in legal business. Moving round on motorcycles and snatching bags from unsuspecting members of the public which is their stock in trade is yet to abate.It is becoming common to find them operate in satellite towns in Abuja with their victims lamenting their losses. tribune reports

Recently, a lady who was on a motorcycle

JUNGLE JUSTICE: TRAGIC STORIES OF NIGERIANS CONDEMNED BY MOBS

The resort to self help by mobs continues to wreak havoc in the country, even as the concerned authorities warn of the grave consequences of mob justice, ABIODUN AWOLAJA and OLALEKAN OLABULO report. ALHAJI Kassimu Umar, a lecturer at  the Taraba State College of Education (COE), Zing, was, three weeks ago, burnt to death in a mob action after he allegedly hit and killed five primary school pupils with his car. Mr Joseph Kwaji, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Taraba Police Command, told Sunday Tribune that the mob had forcefully removed Umar from the  Pupule Police Outpost, where he had gone to report the incident, and  burnt him to death.

WIFE: HE INFLICTED SICKNESS THAT MADE ME MENSTRUATE FOR ONE YEAR

A housewife, Opeyemi Jimoh, has pleaded with an Osogbo Grade II Customary Court, Osun State, to  dissolve her 17-year-old marriage to her husband, Mudashiru, lamenting that “he inflicted me with sickness that made menstruate for a year.”Opeyemi, who said the marriage was blessed with four children, approached the court to dissolve her marriage because her husband would not give her rest of mind.

WIFE: MY HUSBAND WANTED TO USE ME FOR MONEY RITUALS

She agreed to follow me —Husband A 27-year-old woman, Folashade Adebayo, has prayed an  Alakuko Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve her five-month marriage to her husband, Mathew, whom she accused of being fetish. Folashade, an advert manager in a private company, said, “a month after we got married, my husband forced me to swear that I would not tell anyone that he took me to a herbalist. I was given a black soap from a calabash, while my husband’s soap was in a white container.

STOP CALLING JONATHAN AN IDIOT – PRESIDENCY

Henceforth, anyone who describes President Goodluck Jonathan with ridiculous and unprintable names such as “idiot” and “drunkard” will not be spared, the Presidency has warned. Stating that the decay in societal norms in Nigeria was assuming an alarming dimension, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said his office would take it as a responsibility to correct the trend.

MAN STABS FRIEND TO DEATH FOR CORRECTING HIM

A 25-year old lottery agent, Olawale Salau, has been stabbed to death by his childhood friend, Kamoru Kushimo. The incident happened on Wednesday, last week on Alafia Street, in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State. source learnt that the suspect had been released on bail through the efforts of the late Salau, after he was detained for attacking someone in the neighbourhood. It was gathered that the deceased had after the bail been talking to his jobless friend to change his aggressive behaviour.

NY EBOLA DOCTOR IS CURED BUT CAN'T HAVE SEX FOR THREE MONTHS

New York Ebola patient Dr Craig Spencer is heading home to see his girlfriend today after being cleared, but will not be able to have sex for three months because the virus can survive in semen. according to  dailymail reports Dr Spencer, 33, was isolated in Belleview Hospital after reporting Ebola symptoms following his return from helping to treat the deadly infection in Guinea.

24-YR-OLD MAN KILLED MOTHER AND DISMEMBERED HER BODY AFTER SHE REMOVED HIM FROM HER WILL

A 24-year-man accused of poisoning and dismembering his mother after she removed him from her will has been found guilty of first-degree murder. mailonline reports, Ari Liggett, 25, of Centennial, Colorado, was charged following the death of 56-year-old Beverly Liggett in October 2012. Police found Liggett driving around with his mother's remains in two plastic storage bins in the back of an SUV days after he killed her.

TEACHER AND EX-HUSBAND FACE 78 COUNTS OVER RAPE OF 12-YR-OLD

An elementary school teacher and her husband have been accused of a combined total of 78 charges over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old boy. mailonline reports, Lori Ann Anderson, 50 was arrested Friday on multiple charges including rape of a child under the age of 13, sexual battery, gross sexual imposition, obstructing justice, and obstructing official business.

SCIENTISTS WARN: SMOKING CANNABIS EVERYDAY ''WARPS YOUR BRAIN ANS SHRINKS GREY MATTER''

Smoking cannabis every day warps key structures of the brain, a scientific study suggests. Regular use of the drug seems to shrink the brain’s ‘grey matter’ - the cells that crunch information - according to head scans of heavy drug users.The wiring of the brain – the ‘white matter’ that connects different parts - grows to compensate for the loss of the vital cells, scientists found.

STEVIE WONDER TO GET PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM

Stevie Wonder is to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom fromBarack Obama.The 64 year-old singer will join 15 other recipients, including actress Meryl Streep and composer Stephen Sondheim, at a White House ceremony on November 24. Obama has called Wonder his "musical hero" and Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours was performed live on the final night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

ALICIA KEYS: TWEETING ABOUT SOCIAL INJUSTICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR ME, IT IS SADDEN THAT ABDUCTION OF CHIBOK GIRLS HAD FALLEN OFF THE NEWS

This year I spent my son’s sixth birthday protesting outside the Nigerian consulate in New York. Not the most conventional way to spend your child’s special day, I agree, but it was also the six-month anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and it didn’t seem right that this important story had fallen off the news. I am overwhelmed with sympathy for the parents – I don’t know what I would do or how I would be feeling if I were in their shoes. Eleven parents have since died and several are in hospital suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of this awful experience.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER VIRUS THAT CAUSES HUMAN STUPIDITY

We’ve often wondered what exactly is responsible for unspeakable stupidity. US scientists might have the answer, Metro reports, having discovered a virus that infects human brains and makes us more stupid. The algae virus has never before been observed in healthy people and was discovered to affect cognitive functions such as visual processing and spatial awareness.

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THE WORLD'S BEST SOMMELIER SHARES HIS TIPS FOR DRINKING WINE

Aldo Sohm, the aptly named wine director of Le Bernardin, was the 2008 winner of the “Best Sommelier in the World” award given by the World Sommelier Association. He is the man. We talked to Aldo to ask for some basic tips for the person who wants to buy a bottle of wine at the store and doesn't know anything beyond “it should cost more than $15.” (Which, by the way, is not bad advice as far as it goes.)

HOW TO SELL YOUR STUFF ON EBAY AND MAKE SOME EXTRA CASH

1. Do your research

Before you list an item on eBay, check if there's actually a market for it. Search for the item you're selling, whether it's an old phone or a vintage dress, and see if similar items are getting bids. You can select 'completed listings' in the left sidebar to see what prices similar items ended at. This way you can see whether a product is likely to make much money and whether it's worth the effort.

2 MEN IN PRISON FOR RAPING WIDOW

Two men Yaro Juham and Anthony Danjuma  have been remanded in prison by a Kaduna Chief Magistrate Court for raping a 32-year widow. The culprits according to police took turns to rape the helpless widow (name withheld) while her 10-year son cried and pleaded to no avail. After they were arrested on Thursday, October 16, the suspects were charged to court by the state police command.

WIFE OF MURDERED CONDUCTOR MOURNS LATE HUSBAND

The widow of the Danfo bus conductor allegedly killed by policemen attached to the Lagos Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway two weeks ago, Mrs. Ini Abasirim, has revealed that life has not been easy for her and her four children who have been rendered fatherless by the mindless government officials.

The 30-year-old woman who is pregnant with her fifth child, says she is yet to come to terms with the fact that her husband and father of her children is no more.

ADAEZE YOBO: GUYS SHOULD ALWAYS READ THE MANUAL BEFORE MARRIAGE

Ex-Super Eagles defender Joseph Yobo's model wife gets in the news once again and this time, she is speaking out on how close she came to ending her own marriage after just two years. Adaeze Yobo took to her instagram page, Saturday Nov. 8, to express how much she loves her family but also dishes advice on how to maintain a blissfull marriage especially for young couples. According to an except posted by the ex-beauty queen, communication is key for marriage survival and it has to be a two-way thing... not from the man alone.

10 THINGS ABOUT WOMEN THAT MEN SECRETLY FIND SEXY

1.That awkward look you do when we pay you a compliment Sometimes you have no idea how hot you are, so we take it upon ourselves to remind you. At that moment you're so surprised that you almost recoil with embarrassment, but it's utterly enchanting and reveals your vulnerable side. Magic.