American Swimmers Banned From Leaving Brazil After Authorities Claim They 'Lied About Being Robbed'

An order has been made to seize American swimmer Ryan Lochte's passport by Brazilian authorities after claims he 'lied about being robbed.
Earlier police had further questions for the swimmer - a 12-time Olympic medallist - about the robbery and found 'little evidence' that it had taken place.
Lochte revealed on Sunday that he was robbed along with Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, Jimmy Feigen. All were left unharmed.
But police say the swimmers were unable to provide key details in police interviews.
Lochte’s attorney, Jeff Ostrow, said there was no question the robbery happened and that the swimmer had 24-hour security hired after the incident.
He had been staying in his hotel room and intended to go back to the US soon.
“This happened the way he described it,” Ostrow told the NY Post.
Pictures and CCTV have emerged of the swimmer returning to the Olympic complex and passing security on the night of the alleged robbery - with the wallets and watches the men claim were stolen.
But images contradict the version of the swimmers and because of this Judge Keyla Blank, the Special Court of the Fan and Major Events banned the athletes from leaving the country.

Photos: PDP Bus Conveying People To National Convention Involved In Accident

A vehicle conveying people to the PDP National Convention was involved in an accident earlier today along Abak enroute Port Harcourt. Thankfully, no life was lost. More photos below...

Tonto Dikeh yet to show baby's face, celebrates his 6-months today | Fans blasts her for hidding baby's face

Since Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh gave birth to her son on February 17, 2016 , she has not shown his full face, only glimpses of him.

Today, he turns 6-months-old and the excited mother took to her Instagram page to celebrate the first fruit of her womb but fans are not smiling as they slammed her always showing parts of the baby's body.

See how most of them reacted....

Breaking News:3 Kwara Pilgrims Arrested In Saudi Arabia Over Drug Trafficking

The Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested three pilgrims from Kwara for alleged possession of substance suspected to be cocaine.
Hajia Fatima Abolore-Jimoh, the Executive Secretary, Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, confirmed the arrest on Wednesday from Saudi Arabia in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

She said the three pilgrims, who were among the first batch of 505 Pilgrims from Kwara, were arrested in Madina by Saudi Arabia security operatives.
The executive secretary, who did not disclose the identities of the three suspects, said they were still in the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities.
Abolore-Jimoh said the Saudi Arabian law would certainly take its course on the three suspected drug traffickers.
She described the arrest as unfortunate and painful in spite of several appeals to them to be good ambassadors of Kwara and Nigeria.
The executive secretary said that other pilgrims from the state were still in Madinnah, hale, healthy and in good spirit in spite of the unfortunate incident.

BUSTED! Suspected Burglars Arrested While Sharing Their Loot In Ikoyi, Lagos - Photos

According to Punch, the suspects were sharing their loot when they were arrested by police operatives.

It was gathered that the men, identified as Friday Eze, Stanley Ejiofor, Femi Miracle, Raphael Ijoha, Emmanuel Omojuwa and Daniel Thomas, were arrested by men of the Ikoyi Police Division on Tuesday, August 9.

The police said the gang, which was notorious for breaking into houses and stealing valuables, had other members who escaped arrest.

Punch learnt that around 10pm, the gang members allegedly burgled some houses on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, and drove away in a car to a junction in the area to share the loot.

Fulani Herd-Boy Spotted Studying His Books While Out With ‘His’ Cows For Grazing

The little boy was seen studying his maths tex book "Understanding Mathematics" while out with some cows for grazing. He will become great someday…mark my words.

Playboy Mansion Owner Finally Gets A Buyer For His House + He Gets To Live There Till He Dies

The Playboy Mansion has officially been sold for $100million and the buyer has agreed that former owner and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner can live there until he dies.
The Holmby Hills estate - owned by Playboy Enterprises - was bought by Daren Metropoulos, who lives next door to the property.
efner, 90, had put the estate on the market for $200 million - twice the final sale price.
Daren, whose father is billionaire C. Dean Metropoulos, bought the home next door to the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles for $18 million in 2009.
He said Hefner's home had a "rich and storied legacy" and is a "masterpiece in design."

Louisiana Flood: Taylor Swift To Donate $1m

Taylor Swift is donating $1 million to Louisiana flood relief after torrential rains caused massive flooding in the state and killed at least 11 people.
Swift said yesterday that Louisiana residents graciously welcomed her when she kicked off the U.S. dates of her '1989 World Tour' in the state last year.
'We began The 1989 World Tour in Louisiana, and the wonderful fans there made us feel completely at home. The fact that so many people in Louisiana have been forced out of their own homes this week is heartbreaking,' the 26-year-old said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the death toll from the historic flooding climbed to 11 as the expanding flood zone prompted authorities to declare disasters in 20 parishes of the southeastern US state.
The flooding has damaged at least 40,000 homes.
More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' office.

Neighbour Arrested After Bride-To-Be Was Murdered In Her Home

A bride-to-be was strangled and then had her mouth taped shut in her own home before it was set on fire.

A post-mortem on Amanda Strous revealed she suffered significant burns and was subjected to blunt force injuries before she died on June 18.

The 27-year-old, from Charlotte, North Carolina, in the US, was found with only a pair of bikini bottoms on and her mouth covered with duct tape.

Her neighbour, Matthew Thomas Benner, has been charged with her murder and first-degree arson.


Authorities believe the 28-year-old, who lived in the same apartment complex, had been stalking Strous.

The autopsy was carried out by Mecklenburg County Medical Examiners Office, and investigators are also looking at the results of a rape kit to determine if she was also sexually assaulted before her death.

According to  WSOC-TV, released search warrants suggest Benner had expressed interest in dating Strous and a friend of hers.

Benner fled Charlotte after she was killed, but confessed to her murder two days later when he was arrested near Las Vegas.

Witnesses had seen him outside the apartment on the night of the killing with blood on his hands.

Strous was working as a college counselor at Central Piedmont Community College, and was set to marry to her fiancé, Cory McCleaf, at the end of last month.

Her partner had been on his stag weekend when she was killed.

McCleaf said he was devastated by his fiancee's death.

He told the Charlotte Observer: "She lit up a room when she walked in.

"Her smile was just one of those things that people had to be with.

"When she smiled they smiled.

"She was the light of my world.

"She was one of the most positive people I've ever been around."

Neighbours alerted emergency services on the night of Strous's murder after seeing smoke coming from her apartment.

They said they heard a chilling scream before the smoke alarm went off.

Her mother, Crystal said: "It's a parent's worst nightmare.

"You never think it's going to happen to you."

Her father, Eric, speaking to Channel 9,  said: "I would tell you I'm broken, shattered, but as (my wife) said, love hope and faith are the foundational properties that we have raised our children to young adults that are productive in giving back."

20-Year Old Student Dating Man, 60, Tells The World We Are Completely In Love

A 20-year-old student has defended her relationship with a man old enough to be her grandfather, saying they are “soul mates.”

Leah Senibaldi, from Nashville, in Tennessee has been dating Ress Benson, 60, for two years – they met for the first time three years ago and the attraction was “instant.”

The couple are so smitten they are talking about tying the knot, and Leah believes older women are jealous of their love affair.

They met when Ress was onstage with Leah’s father’s band – but they did not get romantically involved for 12 months when Leah confessed her feelings.


She told Dailymail.com: “We get a lot of stares, but we’re never offended, we play up to it and have a lot of fun by giving people something to stare at.

“Quite often if we know people are staring we will kiss to try and wind them up, it shocks them but we don’t care because we’re not doing anything wrong.”
Their feelings for each other grew stronger as they saw each other at her father’s band practice:

“When we first met three years ago, our eyes just locked and I don’t know why but I ran up and hugged him – it just felt right.

“After my parents found out I was talking to Ress online, they assumed the worst, they didn’t want us talking and thought he was just trying to groom or use me.

“I was forbidden from talking to him, but after a year my feelings towards him hadn’t changed and we started chatting again.”

When they again met in person, Leah says she knew instantly they were supposed to be together: “I knew I loved him and since then nothing’s changed, my feelings have only grown with time.

“It was obvious that we had feelings for one another, we were meant to be together and since we started dating last year we’ve been completely inseparable.”

Woman allegedly brutalizes her 6-year-old house-help after she labeled her a witch (photo)

According to an embittered Facebook user, Rita Ifeoma Anyim, her little cousin has been brutalized by her guardian who labeled her witch and made her a punching bag.
She shared the picture above and captioned it: "Am still trying to understand this inhumane treatment that was meted out to my lil cousin(Miss Precious Nwole) by her supposed guardian(Mrs Chinelo Ifediora) who allegedly claimed the lil girl(she's just 6yrs old) was confirmed to be a witch... She claimed that ever since the lil girl started living with them she and her husband started experiencing setbacks and that was the reason she almost snuffed life out of the lil girl."

Ifeoma added that the alleged wicked woman sent the little girl back to the village with all the bruises.

"She even had the guts to send the girl back to Awka with all the injuries on her body.. CHINELO IFEDIORA must not go unpunished!", she added.

Adamawa doctor arrested for removing patient’s kidney

The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a medical doctor, Hassan Yakubu, for his alleged role in the removal of the kidney of a 24-year-old male patient in his clinic.

The arrest of the medical doctor, the police said, was to help with their investigations into the alleged theft of the kidney of the 24-year-old male patient levelled against the doctor.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Othman Abubakar, confirmed the arrest of the doctor on Tuesday in Yola.
Othman said the doctor was interrogated by officers of the criminal investigations department of the command.
The incident, which The PUNCH gathered had now left the 24-year-old victim, Isa Hamma, in a life – threatening condition, followed alleged medical lapses on the part of the medical doctor who treated him for stomach complications.
Isa, whose kidney, according to his relative, Umaru Hammanseyo, was allegedly removed, owing to medical errors on the part of the doctor, had been placed on a weekly dialysis at the Federal Medical Centre, Gombe.
According to Hammanseyo, the victim’s uncle, Yakubu, who treated Isa, at his Jimeta Clinic, for stomach complications, ended up operating the victim on July 8 but allegedly removed his kidney in the process.
Three days after the operation, Umaru said Isa could not urinate.
The complications further degenerated with the face and legs of the victim becoming swollen which prompted the family to return to the accused doctor who later referred them to the Federal Medical Centre in Gombe.
Hammanseyo said it was at the Gombe hospital that medical officials working with the Federal Medical Centre told them that Isa’s kidney had been “removed.”

After the backlash he got from his recent message about marriage, Pastor Adeboye warns that his messages aren't for everybody

Against the background of the criticisms that greeted one of his sermons at the yearly convention of the Redeem Christian Church of God, its General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said his messages are not for everybody.

The social media was awash a couple of weeks ago on the sermon of Adeboye to the youth members of the church at the Redemption Camp where the message bordered on the choice of marriage partners.
The widely circulated footage had shown Adeboye telling the men not to marry a woman who could not cook or pray for a minimum of an hour.
In the same video, he warned the spinsters not to marry a man who had no job or who could not show concrete evidence of his means of livelihood.
But the world renowned preacher on his Facebook page on Tuesday , in apparent reaction to the criticisms, said his messages were not for everybody.
Adeboye said, “My message are not for everybody. So, I plead with you, ask God to speak to you specifically.”

Trader arrested for naming pet dog ‘Buhari

A 30-year-old trader has been arrested by the police in Ogun state for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’ The trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, of No 10, Omikunle Street, Sango-Ota, Ogun State, was reportedly arrested last weekend, after one of his neighbours of Northern extraction complained bitterly that he named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.

Vanguard learned that the complainant reported the case at Sango Police Station, last Saturday, after which the trader was arrested and detained. However, it was gathered that efforts by the police to recover the dog, which they intended using as evidence failed following a clever move by the suspect. The trader, said to be trading in female wears at a popular market in Sango, allegedly directed his friends secretly to kill the dog and possibly eat the meat in order to avoid being implicated. It was gathered that consistent appeals by his friends and relations for the police to grant him bail failed as the complainant and his kinsmen reportedly threatened to kill the trader if he was released on bail.

The case, however, took a different dimension two days later when Chinakwe’s relatives went to Sango police station to further plead for his bail only to be informed that the case file and the suspect have been transferred to Ogun State Police Command headquarters at Eleweran.

A relation to the suspect, who simply identified himself as Chiedozie, told Vanguard that his brother was being persecuted for no just cause and expressed fears that he may either be poisoned inside police cell or thrown into jail. Chiedozie said: “Chinakwe is a lover of dogs and he names them after things that tickle him. He bought this dog a year ago and named it Buhari. Unfortunately, some Northerners, who dominate the vicinity where he resides misconstrued his intention and connived to take him up.

The complainant then claimed it was derogatory because his father answers Buhari.” Police sources, however, told Vanguard that the actions of the suspect “were very provocative.” The source said: “he not only named the dog Buhari but boldly wrote it on the body of both sides of the dog and was seen parading the neighbourhood dominated by Northerners with it.” As at press time, relations to the suspect were still making frantic efforts to effect his bail while his accusers are insisting that he must be prosecuted.

When contacted around 8pm yesterday, the acting Police spokesman in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, ASP, said he was still trying to get the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Sango for details. Oyeyemi later called, stating that: “I have made enquiries. The man bought a dog and inscribed Buhari on both sides of its body. One Mallam lodged a complaint and when our men got there, we found out that it was true. You know such thing can cause serious breach of the peace and ethnic or religious unrest. We are charging him to court for conduct likely to cause a breach of peace.”

Continuing, he said: “He was arrested last Saturday and we are taking him to court later today (Tuesday) or tomorrow morning (today). You know an average Northerner will feel bad over such a thing. It can cause serious ethnic crisis or religious confrontation because when you are relegating such a name to a certain person, you are indirectly insulting him.” When asked about the whereabouts of the dog that will be used as evidence against the suspect, the police spokesman said: “The dog cannot follow anybody except the owner. We will use him as our evidence because he did not deny it.”

The Inspiring story of Bisi, the Primary 5 school dropout who's a scientist & inventor

You are about to read now, the inspiring story of Bisi, a primary 5 school dropout who hustles for himself and his poor mother by making fans from soap case, aluminium sheet, wood, viju milk containers, plastic pipe, paper and other materials he picks around his environment.

A Good Samaritan who recently encountered him in Ekiti state shared his story below:
 While in Otun-Ekiti a month ago, I met Bisi a young scientist, innovator and inventor. Bisi is from a poor family in Aiyegbaju-Ekiti, his mother operates a grounding machine and sells goods harvested from her farm. His father is a mechanic, he repairs motor cycles (Okada).

Where I sat at the ceremony I went for, I saw Bisi trying to call attention of people he believed could give him money by using his hand made fans to genarate cool breeze for them.

What drew my attention to him was the material he used to make the fans. The fans were made from Soap Case, Aluminum sheet, Wood, VijuMilk Containers, Plastic Pipe, Paper, Wire and other materials he picked around and assembled. The fans are operated with small tiger batteries and are perfectly working.

Later that day I spoke with Bisi mother who told us that Bisi is out of school. He stopped going to school in primary five and walks around the town picking materials for his hand inventions and take them to ceremonies to raise money for his poor mother. This is evidence in the fact that Bisi trekked from Aiyegbaju-Ekiti to Otun-Ekiti where myself and Ibukun met him.

Bisi is no doubt a child with so much potential and can be a great scientist and inventor in nearest future if given opportunity to go back to school.