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A young Nigerian who was prevented from buying fuel in a keg stripped naked in protest in public. An apparently frustrated man caused quite a scene at a filling station in Lagos State as he did the unthinkable by stripping himself naked in protest as the attendants refused to sell to people carrying jerry cans. According to eyewitnesses, the man identified as an artisan, told everyone that cared to listen that he would rather die than go away without fuel as the  present hardship  in the country occasioned by  fuel scarcity , incessant electricity blackout and the economic turn down has caused his family to suffer untold hardship as he has not been able to fend for them. The young man had reportedly waited patiently in a very long queue only for the announcement to come that fuel will not be sold in kegs and he went into an overdrive and stripped naked in protest. Even a team of policemen filling station could not stop the man as he screamed at the top of his voice and

A Dutchman dubbed the "dentist of horror" has been sentenced to eight years in jail in France for mutilating the mouths of some 120 patients. Jacobus van Nierop, 51, "took pleasure" in causing horrific injuries to patients in the small central town of Chateau-Chinon, prosecutors said. He was banned from practising dentistry and fined €10,500 (£8,140; $11,900). Van Nierop fled to Canada when suspicions arose and strongly fought extradition to France in 2014. The court in the central French town of Nevers heard that patients had suffered broken jaws, recurrent abscesses and septicaemia from van Nierop's work. He had drugged patients then mutilated them as they slept in his dentist's chair. Prosecutor Lucile Jaillon-Bru said van Nierop had carried out "useless and painful procedures". She said his aim had been to earn money through claiming on patients' medical insurance schemes and to take "pleasure at causing pain".

The 96 Liverpool fans who died in Britain’s 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster were unlawfully killed, a jury found on Tuesday following the longest-running inquest in English legal history. After hearing more than two years of evidence, the jury also concluded that the behaviour of Liverpool supporters on the day did not cause or contribute to Britain’s worst sports stadium tragedy. The jury also found that there were errors in police planning for the match and on the day of the match which caused or contributed to the dangerous situation. Relatives of the victims have fought a long campaign to get to the heart of what happened during the disaster. Some emerged from the courtroom hugging and in tears. The jury has been sitting since March 2014 in a purpose-built courtroom in Warrington, northwest England, 15 miles (25 kilometres) outside Liverpool. The disaster occurred on April 15, 1989 during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest

A commercial bus driver, Ademola Ibrahim, has been arrested by the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly removing the rails under and above the Eko Bridge. The RRS on Monday said Ibrahim had conspired with one Kampo to commit the crime on April 24, 2015, at about 7pm. A police source said the suspects had pretended that their vehicle, a Volkswagen Vanagon, with number plate, MUS 457 XK, broke down on the bridge, while actually packing the rails into the bus. He added that when the RRS policemen appeared at the scene, Kampo took to his heels. The source said, “The RRS operatives actually acted on reliable information that some miscreants were removing the bridge’s rails. “When Ibrahim was arrested and questioned on how he came about the rails, he said Kampo contacted him to come and pack the rails for him. “Based on that, the patrol team arrested him. From our investigation, the theft was a conspiracy between him and Kampo. Our investigati

An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 men accused of homosexuality to jail terms of between three and 12 years, legal sources said. The defendants were arrested in a flat in the leafy Cairo suburb of Agouza in September last year. The court convicted them of “debauchery and incitement to debauchery”, the charges generally used to prosecute alleged homosexuals in Egypt as the law does not formally prohibit same-sex relations. Late on Sunday, it sentenced three of them to 12 years, three to nine years, one to six years and four to three years. Egypt’s use of the debauchery law to prosecute and jail gay men has drawn condemnation from human rights groups.

A deputy chief of the Samara Region police in southern Russia has been found murdered alongside with five of his relatives in their village house. They were reportedly beaten to death. The only survivor of the attack, a 7-year-old girl, is in a coma. The incident took place in the Ivashovka village in Samara Region on Sunday. Forty-nine year-old Andrey Gosht and members of his family died of multiple injuries. According to the local media, the victims were beaten to deaths by clubs. The killed family members were identified as Gosht’s parents, his brother, the brother’s wife and their daughter. The only survivor of the attack is a 7-year-old girl. She was taken to hospital with injuries to her head and other parts of the body. She is now in a coma, officials said. Gosht was deputy head of police of Samara region. Before that he had served as police chief of Syzran, the third largest city in Samara region. Russia’s Investigative Committee has started investigating

A senior editor at Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine Roopbaan and leading gay rights activist has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka. He was killed today Monday, April 25, Dhaka. Julhaz Mannan, 35, (pictured with ambassador Dan Mozena) was the founder and editor of the magazine and also worked at the US development agency USAID. The killing comes two days after a university lecturer was hacked to death by suspected Islamist militant. According to Dhaka Tribune, armed militants disguised as courier workers entered the flat where Mannan lived and killed him along with his friend Tanay Mojumdar. A security guard told the Dhaka Tribune that five to six youths got into the house claiming they had parcels for the activist. But half an hour later he heard shouting and shooting from the flat and rushed into the scene. "The assailants then attacked me with knives," he said from Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he's being treated for inj

Ronaldo will be back in Manchester today a nd Zidane told Manuel Pellegrini and his Etihad troops the star of the Real squad is once again in the frame of mind to show he is the finest on the planet. Ronaldo’s hat-trick in the quarter-final comeback triumph over Wolfsburg took him to 16 goals in the Champions League this season — just one behind the record he set as Real completed their tenth triumph in 2014. He has now scored nine in the six most important matches since Zidane’s appointment in January. In what appeared a deliberate sideswipe at Benitez’s handling of Ronaldo, Zidane said: “Cristiano has always been like this with me. “There may have been moments where he didn’t score but you never have to worry about Cristiano. He is very happy and very comfortable with everyone here not just with me.

Top rated musician, D’banj has opened up in a chat with South African radio host, Anele Mdoda, that his mother’s been pressuring him to get married. “She’s told me, `Listen‚ I don’t care about your success. Maybe it’s this success that’s preventing you from getting married’” the energetic performer opened up. Banga Lee, who’s currently co-hosting the MTV-produced show, “LipSync battle Africa” also revealed that he would be storming Hollywood soon. “Once you say you’re an entertainer‚ you don’t want to limit yourself” the singer said. “So yes‚ I’m going into Hollywood. It might be here in South Africa where I’ll be having a reality show about me. I tell you, I may be on Isidingo soon.”

Deputy   Governor of Edo State, Dr. Pius Odubu, yesterday, denied allegations that he  sponsored native doctors to kill his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, saying that the allegation was being fuelled by mischief makers and blackmailers who are bent on destroying his cordial relationship with the governor. Odubu also raised alarm over alleged plots by some persons to circulate fliers in Benin City with a view to further destroying his image and compounding the crisis between him and the governor. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Odubu said: “As a devout Catholic, I will not do anything that is unbecoming of a true Christian in the name of politics. God knows that I never had any pact with any witch/native doctor to kill anyone or avenge for me and I will never condescend to that extent as long as God lives. It is against my faith. “The Bible teaches that even when the innocent suffers and mischief makers and traducers appear to triumph in their blackmail, it is