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No fewer than 180 Roghinya refugees have gone missing after a boat carrying them was stepped away by the wind. The wind had whipped the waves to nearly three times the height of a passenger when her panicked voice crackled over the phone. “Our boat has sunk!” Setera Begum shouted, as a storm threatened to spill her and around 180 others into the inky black sea south of Bangladesh. “Only half of it is still afloat!” On the other end of the line, hundreds of miles away in Malaysia, was her husband, Muhammed Rashid, who picked up the phone at…
Dozens of bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries, are yet to be identified and claimed by relatives days after 275 people were killed in the India’s deadliest rail crash in at least two decades. The Indian authorities have, therefore made fervent appeals to families to help identify the dead. The disaster struck on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Till Monday evening, about 100 bodies were yet to be identified, a senior…
A 35-year-old woman, Ajike Owens, based in Florida was fatally shot through the front door of her neighbor’s home while her 9-year-old son stood next to her. Owens was shot over a violent culmination of what Police said was a 2 year and a half feud. She was fatally shot after going to the Ocala apartment of her neighbor, who earlier had yelled at Owens’ children as they played nearby and threw a pair of skates that hit one of them, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said at a news conference Monday. Deputies responding to a trespassing call at the…
French footballer Karim Benzema has joined Al Ittihad from Real Madrid on a two-year-deal with option for further season. Benzema will earn almost €200m per season net salary, commercial deals included. According to reports, the 35-year-old will be joining Hélder Costa & Hegazy who play at the Saudi club. Nuno Espirito Santon is the manager. READ ALSO: Karim Benzema Signs Deal To Join Ronaldo In Saudi League Benzema’s final game for Real Madrid had seen him break Cristiano Ronaldo’s record for most goals scored against Athletic Bilbao in the history of La Liga. Benzema made his final appearance for Real…
A woman in Kenya named Agnes Nespondi, has reportedly given birth to eleven blind children despite medical reports telling her all was well during pregnancy. The story of her life was published by Afrimax English who shared the heartbreaking account of her life on their YouTube page. It was gathered that she had given birth to her first child which turned out to be blind and the other ten followed suit in the same condition. The video showed how she goes about caring for all eleven kids who cannot help themselves without her aide. All Agnes’s children are all grown up except the last…
The oldest known burial site in the world has been reportedly discovered by paleontologists in South Africa, voiceofnaija.ng has gathered. The burial site contain remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour, according to paleontologists on Monday. Led by renowned palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said they discovered several specimens of Homo naledi – a tree-climbing, Stone Age hominid – buried about 30 metres (100 feet) underground in a cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO world heritage site near Johannesburg. “These are the most ancient interments yet recorded in the hominin record,…
A local education official on Sunday, confirmed that nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan. The attacks took place in Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday. He said the person who orchestrated the poisoning had a personal grudge but did not elaborate. It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls. Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university,…
A video of Zamfara State liaison office in Abuja which was allegedly looted is trending on social media on Monday, 5 June. Governor Dauda Lawal had accused his predecessor, Bello Matawalle and officials in his administration of looting items in the property. It was alleged that everything in the facility was looted including furniture, TV sets, among other valuables. In a statement released earlier on Saturday, 3 June, Governor Lawal had also alleged that none of the vehicles his predecessor, Bello Matawalle, purchased for N2.79 billion was left behind after his exit from office last Monday. Governor Dauda Lawal gave…
American actor Tyler James Williams who is popularly know for his role in ‘Everybody Hates Chris” is addressing the “dangerous message” speculating his sexuality. The Abbott Elementary star, 30, spoke out on Sunday against people speculating his sexual identity, given the perpetual harm it causes for those actually questioning how they identify. “Usually I wouldn’t address stuff like this, but I feel like it as a conversation is bigger than me. I’m not gay, but I think the culture of trying to ‘find’ some kind of hidden trait or behavior that a closed person ‘let slip’ is very dangerous,” began…
Facts have emerged about Banyankole tribe, an ethnic group in Uganda, where the bride’s aunt must have sex with the groom before marriage, to test his sexual prowess. Ankole is situated across the equator in south-western Uganda, about 100 kilometers west ofLake Victoria and immediately south of Lakes Edward and George. Its size is about 16,182 square kilometers. The people of Ankole are called “Banyankole” and speak “Runyankole”, one of the majorBantu dialects in Uganda. Virginity is highly respected in the Banyankole tribe of South Uganda. Since, she must be a virgin, the man must also be great in bed.…