Monthly Archives: May 2013
Hapless car thieves handed stiff sentence
Three car thieves who stole a van in Germany and drove it across the border to Poland received the shock of their lives when...
Baby survives being flushed down toilet
Firefighters in Jinhua have had to be called in to rescue a newborn baby stuck inside a sewage pipe after neighbours heard its anguished...
More than 100 free schools applications approved
By Milton Tella
Over 130,000 extra school places has been made available with the approval by Education Secretary Michael Gove of 102 new free school...
Reggae Reggae Sauce magnate promotes New Enterprise Allowance for jobseekers
By Milton Tella
Dragons’ Den star Levi Roots is teaming up with Jobcentre Plus to encourage jobseekers to consider setting up their own businesses with...
Ruinous debt is more drama than Mary J needs
Jailed tax-debtor Lauryn Hill may soon be able to form a prison duet if reports of Mary J. Blige’s financial woes prove correct.
According to...
Police seal off and search newspaper HQ
Police have closed the offices of Kampala-based newspaper, The Daily Monitor, declaring it a crime scene following publication of a series of stories about...
Student protesters set free as Sata yields to pressure
Zambia’s President Michael Sata has bowed to international pressure and released hundreds of students who were arrested after protesting against a government decision to...
Tafida parleys BCA on Nigeria’s business climate
By Peter Olorunnisomo
The gathering of people of the business hub in the Banking Hall of the Nigeria High Commission (NHC) on the April, 16...
President declares state of emergency in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria wielded extra-Ordinary powers by invoking Section 305, Sub section 1 of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria to declare a...
Jail for crooked judge who destroyed kids’ lives
A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced a former colleague to 28 years in prison following revelations of serious corruption spanning six years. Investigations have been...
