Emmanuel Adebayor shows off his customized Rolls Royce

The footballer showed off his Rolls Royce with a customized plate number. The plate number which reads '0004-SEA' stands for the number on his Togo football jersey and his full name, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor. He shared the photo on Instagram and captioned it Silence is very accurate.

10-year-old boy, 2 others indicted in the rape of 7 year-old-girl

A 10-year-old boy, a 17-year-old, and a 22-year-old man have been arraigned before an Ikorordu magistrate court for the alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl.

According to Vanguard, the incident occurred last Friday in Adaraloye area of Ikorodu where 22-year-old Samuel Osholo and a 17-year old, both in the business of tiling and Plaster of Paris settling, were employed to do some renovations. 

The boy who lives in the same compound with the victim was said to have been convinced by his older counterparts to lure the girl into a room where all three took turns in raping her. The girl and the 10-year-old boy were allegedly given money to buy their silence, but on getting home the girl told her younger sister who went on to inform their mother.

Samuel and the 17-year-old both denied the allegations brought against them and claim to have left Adaraloye hours before the incident. They pleaded not guilty to the seven-count charge of conspiracy, indecent assault and unlawful sexual intercourse.

On his part, the 10-year-old boy who pleaded guilty recounted how the incident occurred in Yoruba. “They came to work in the house. They fix POP. The girl lives in our compound. They told me to invite her to meet them in the room and I did. Then they asked me to go and get a cloth and paper. They set the paper on the floor and laid the cloth on it. Then they ordered me to take off her pant and do my own (have canal knowledge of her). So, I took off her pant and did my own. Then they began to do their own with the girl.”

The father of the victim revealed he and his wife were away when the crime happened and has called on the police to come to his aid, alleging that he has been threatened with eviction if he doesn’t drop the case.

All three defendants have been remanded - with the 22-year-old in Kirikiri prison and the minors in different Homes - while the case was adjourned till the 26^th of January, 2016.

'With which arms did the military rescue Amina Nkeki?' - PDP asks

While commending the Nigerian Army for the rescue of one of the missing Chibok girls, Amina Nkeki, the opposition party, PDP, questioned what arms was used for the rescue. According to PDP, the rescue of the girl shows that while they were in power, they bought weapons for the military. See more of their tweets after the cut..

Egypt Air releases list of nationalities of passengers on board crashed flight #MS804

An Egypt Air flight that was heading to Cairo from Paris crashed into the Mediterranean Sea halfway between Egypt and Greece yesterday night. The plane which was declared missing was later discovered to have crashed. 56 passengers were on board.

Hunger, ill health, forced alleged Husband of rescued missing Chibok girl, Amina Nkeki, to surrender

Mohammed Hayatu, the husband of the Chibok girl, Amina Nkeki, who was rescued yesterday  reportedly surrendered himself, his wife and their baby to members of the Borno state Civilian Joint Task Force due to lack of food and poor health care.

According to Channels TV, Hayatu who is said to be one of the Boko Haram commanders also known as “Amir”, reportedly escaped with his wife, Amina and their baby from Sambisa forest and surrendered to some members of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Balle, a village in Damboa.

Hayatu told the vigilante group members that hunger and ill health forced him to surrender as they were starving to death following the blocking of Boko Haram's food supply routes by the military.

Ali Gwoza and Apagu Chibok are some of the vigilante members who identified Amina, when Hayatu surrendered.

Graphic photo of a young lady stabbed to death and dumped along the road in Benue

A young unidentified lady was stabbed to death and her corpse left at Vandeikya junction, close to Zande lodge in Kwande local government area of Benue State yesterday May 18th. She was spotted with stab wounds on her neck.

Photo credit: Zinga Boywan...

EgyptAir flight MS804 crash may have been caused by an explosive device, experts say

Aviation and security experts have suggested that the disappearance of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo may have been caused by an explosive device. There have been conflicting reports about whether the plane sent an emergency distress signal.

 

Air travel expert Julian Bray said no alert being made could mean the airliner suffered a "catastrophic failure" possibly as a result of an explosion.

He told the Press Association: "It has to be a catastrophic failure because everything went dead and they wouldn't have had time to get a message out.

"It's gone into the deepest part of the Mediterranean."

Will Geddes, managing director of private security firm International Corporate Protection, urged people to be "cautious" about assuming the disappearance was caused by terrorism because the flight had departed from Paris, which has suffered several attacks in recent years.

"There's a lot of concentrated focus on terrorist issues around Paris but one has to be cautious about drawing conclusions," he said.

But Mr Geddes added that even if it is confirmed the plane did give an emergency signal, that would not rule out terrorism as a possibility because an explosion would not necessarily have caused the immediate destruction of the plane.

"It would not have needed to be a large device - if it was a terrorist-related failure - to lose cabin pressure," he said.

Commercial airline pilot Chris McGee told Sky News there were only two circumstances that would prevent a pilot from contacting air traffic control.

"One would be if there was human intervention, if you are prevented from doing so by someone preventing you from doing that, which is a very, very, very unusual situation indeed," she said.

"The second possibility, which is also very unprecedented, is that something has occurred on the flight deck which means we are simply too busy, we have got to handle what is happening to the aircraft at that point in time and we do that first.

"The first thing you are taught is fly the airplane first, handle the problem, and then communicate. So if you have got your hands full that is potentially why you wouldn't talk to air traffic.

Source: The Independent/Press Association