Confusion As Residents Find Baby's Placenta With Muslim Cleric

The discovery of a baby placenta in the residence of a man, identified simply as Alfa Gani, is causing confusion in the Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, Kwara State.

It was gathered on Thursday that the discovery was made when some volunteers went round the Laduba community to appeal for financial contributions from residents for the repair of a faulty transformer in the area.

It was said that the volunteers perceived offensive odour at Gani’s residence, which they later reported to other members of the community.

It was said that curious to know what smelled, some members of the community rushed to Gani’s residence and demanded an explanation for the offensive odour oozing from his house.

An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said that Gani initially accused the community members of intruding into his privacy.

He was said to have rushed to the Oloje Police Station to report the community members.

The source added that before Gani could come back with the police, the community members had entered his house and discovered a boy with a baby placenta.

The enraged community members were said to have beaten up the boy, making him to confess that he was asked to prepare a charm by Gani, who allegedly exhumed the placenta.

While this was going on, our correspondent gathered that a woman, whose baby naming ceremony was recently held near Gani’s house, arrived at the scene.

On seeing the placenta, she was said to have rushed to where the placenta of her new-born baby was buried, only to discover that it was missing. She was said to have raised the alarm, alerting the community members to the ugly development.

When he came back with the policemen to arrest the community members, the commotion was still in progress.

The source said, “The residents narrated their discovery to the policemen. It was at that point that the policemen decided to search the entire house including an uncompleted building behind the suspect’s house, after which they discovered some human parts.”

It was gathered that the enraged mob vandalised Gani’s house and set it on fire.

Policemen, who were overwhelmed by the crowd, managed to prevent them from lynching the suspect as they whisked Gani away to their station.

It was learnt that the incident fuelled speculations that there were dens of ritual killers and markets where human parts were traded in Ilorin.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Command, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, however, told our correspondent that there was no den of ritual killers in the state capital.

He said, “That is not true. What was discovered was not a den of ritual killers, but a suspected criminal who was used to performing fetish activities.

“The man was looking for a placenta of a new baby, exhumed the buried placenta and used it for whatever yet-to-be identified purpose.

“He just came back from jail. He went to where a placenta was just buried about three days ago before the incident. He dug up the placenta and while he was doing that, people saw him and tried to do things their own way.

In the process of damaging his house by the youth, the police got there and arrested the suspect with the exhibit.

“The police have started investigation to get to the root of the matter.”

Alicia Keys Is Pregnant Again With Baby No. 2

The Grammy-winning singer, 33, announced the news on her Instagram account, with her and her husband since 2010 Kasseem Dean aka Swizz Beatz both wearing white and embracing her baby bump.

"Happy Anniversary to the love of my life @therealswizzz !! And to make it even sweeter we've been blessed with another angel on the way!!" she revealed.

Thursday is also the couple's fourth wedding anniversary.

Keys continued to gush, "You make me happier than I have ever known! Here's to many many more years of the best parts of life!"

Keys and Beatz have a 3-year-old son Egypt. Beatz has three more children from previous relationships.

Last October, Keys told ABC News that she would wait a bit to have her second child.

“That’s down the road, definitely down the road,” she said.

Well, her and her husband waited long enough. Congrats to the happy couple!

Soldiers Arrest Bomber Disguised As A Woman in Kaduna

Nigerian Troops are holding a man suspected to be connected with the explosion targeted at General Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.

The young man who was apprehended by military patrol team that swooped on the area immediately after the explosion, had disguised as a woman clad in female garb to exude femininity with a brazier affixed to his chest.

The suspect was arrested while trying to fizzle into a crowd of onlookers when the patrol team arrived the scene. Youths in the area attempted to mob him while he was being arrested but were restrained by troops who quickly whisked him away in an armoured personnel carrier.

He is currently being interrogated by security agencies in a bid to ascertain his links.

Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield Gets Together After Their Controversial Fight!!!

Mike Tyson will present fellow former boxing heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield with a trophy commemorating his induction the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame Aug. 9, according to a new report.

The two rivals have come a long way since their bitter in-ring feud that culminated in Tyson twice biting Holyfield's ear during a fight in 1997, resulting in his disqualification.

The fight was a rematch of their 1996 bout, which Holyfield won via stoppage.

Tyson called the opportunity to meet with Holyfield again and help induct him into the Nevada Hall a "privilege and high honor." Holyfield was seemingly more subdued but no-doubt sincere in saying, of Tyson's involvement, "that's great."

Holyfield will be inducted in the non-resident category of Nevada's boxing hall, along with former champs George Foreman and Roberto Duran.

Additionally, many other fighters are being inducted in various categories this year, including Sonny Liston, Archie Moore and Jack Dempsey.

Tyson himself was inducted last year in the resident category. Tyson last fought in 2005, losing to Kevin McBride.

Holyfield last fought and won in 2011, scoring a TKO win over Brian Nielsen.

'Dead' Three Year Old Girl Wakes Up At Her Own Funeral In Philippines

A toddler who ‘woke up’ at her own funeral is reportedly dead.

Startled mourners thought they had caught a miracle on camera when the toddler they were about to bury ‘woke up’.

The three-year-old from Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur in the Philippines, was pronounced dead at 9am on Friday and was set for burial at 1pm on Saturday.

But during the funeral her family, friends and loved ones got the surprise of their lives when the little girl came back to life.

People started recording the unbelievable scenes after a priest was preparing to administer the last sacrament and someone noticed the toddler move before she suddenly opened her eyes.

The moment shocked onlookers realise the toddler is alive (Picture: YouTube)

Hollywood Celebs Go Bra-less

They are daring and fearless. We give you a list of celebs who love going bra-less while out on the town.

When the Jenner Sisters entered the much Music Award Show, they looked pretty and proper. But while Kylie decided to go wild and wore a revealing stop and white slacks during the hosting of the show. Kylie's turned up in a blue, white and black blouse that featured a large cut out down the front which she teamed with a pair of white slacks.

Our very own reality star Kim Kardashian recently stepped out in a black outfit in New York. But looks like she forgot her bra back home. Kim was seen unfazed by her revealing outfit as she headed to her home with daughter North.

Rihanna wears a sheer sparkling outfit at the CFDA awards 2014 of course letting go of her bra. Well, this isn't the first time. Rihanna steals the spotlight wearing a long cream cardign and just that during Chanel show. She also chose to avoid a brassiere during a Nets game in Brooklyn.

Miranda Kerr was attending the Stella McCartney show but she displayed quite a show herself. She flashed plenty of cleavage at Paris Fashion Week.

Miley Cyrus opts for a Itsy bitsy white crop and nothing underneath.

Mariah Carey dons a dangerously cut black outfit looking stunning and bra-less.

Gwyneth Paltrow looks jaw dropping stunning in a black tuxedo.

The lists goes on.....

Man Commits Suicide After Fiancee Dumps Him

Tragedy struck at the Onikolobo area of Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday when a 33-year-old man, Oluwatosin Otaiku, stabbed himself to death after his fiancee, Olaogun Oluwatoyin, discontinued the relationship.

It was gathered that Otaiku killed himself after his woman told him she was no longer interested in the relationship.

After the girlfriend made a U-turn, the deceased was said to have become worried, and this made neighbours, who were aware of the development, to intervene. Efforts were made to reconcile them.

On one of such occasions, an eyewitness said the duo was invited to discuss in privacy inside a shop at Safari junction in Onikolobo.

Otaiku was said to have hid a knife in his pocket, prepared to end it all if there was no truce.

It was further gathered that Olaogun stood her ground and maintained that she could not continue with the relationship.

On hearing this unfavourable verdict, the deceased reportedly brought out the knife from his pocket which made Olaogun to run out of the shop, thinking she was the target.

Olaogun was said to have immediately alerted neighbours who rushed into the shop and met the deceased stabbing himself.

He was said to have been rushed to the Mercy Hospital in the Panseke area of Abeokuta.

From there, he was referred to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, also in Abeokuta, but he died on the way to the hospital.

The case was said to have been reported at the Adigbe Police Division and policemen were sent to the scene for investigation.

While they took the remains of Otaiku to the Ijaye General Hospital mortuary, three other people were whisked away in a Hilux Van marked, NPF 7092 C.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, confirmed the incident, adding that the police were still holding on to Otaiku’s remains until a postmortem examination would be carried out.

Adejobi explained that the command was still examining the statements by the suspects and eyewitnesses.

He said, “The lady is still with us, she is still our suspect for now until we carry out a proper investigation on the corpse.

“We need some time to study the statements, but the expert’s opinion is to carry out a postmortem on the body which we are going to do. I can assure you that the command will do the needful in order to get to the root of the incident.”

National Confab Delegates Receives Threat Messages From Boko-Haram

A revelation by a member of the National Conference that he had received a threat message from terrorists caused a scare at the confab on Monday.

The delegate, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), told the conference that he received a message on his telephone threatening an “attack bigger than Nyanya blast” and sought the permission of the Chairman of the confab, Justice Idris Kutigi (retd.), to read the message.

Kutigi granted the permission and Ozekhome accordingly read the text.

The message, which Ozekhome also forwarded to our correspondent later, read, “News got to us that our enemy is planning something bigger than Nyanya blast between Tuesday and Wednesday, in Abuja. Mind your movement and be careful. The date is still unknown. Please, pass it around to save loved ones.”

After listening to the text of the message, one of the delegates, who asked not to be named, shouted, “We are in trouble in this country. Bombing everywhere; when will this stop? Even here, we don’t know what is going to happen. Things are so bad in the country. Things are so bad.”

Many of the delegates were seeing discussing the development in hushed tones but with panic on their faces.

Another delegate, Obi Onoliefo, had on Thursday last week, raised the issue of safety of delegates when, having looked at the perimeter of the National Judicial Institute, observed that there were no security operatives manning them.

Onoliefo, therefore, called for security operatives to be drafted to the perimeter fences to forestall insurgents from breaking into the premises and causing bloodshed.

Meanwhile, some hoodlums suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect invaded the Shani Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday and torched the Divisional Police Station, houses and shops.

It was learnt that the insurgents used Improvised Explosive Devices and petrol bombs.

The Caretaker Chairman of the council, Alhaji Modu Walama, who was said to have escaped a series of attacks by assassins and terrorists in recent past, narrowly escaped being killed by the terrorists.

The insurgents were said to have attacked the family house of Walama in Walama and killed one of his sons.

It was learnt that the terrorists invaded Shani on motorcycles and bombed the divisional police headquarters at about 2:45pm on Monday.

The policemen on duty had fled before the attackers reached the station.

They were said to have snatched one of the patrol vehicles belonging to the police and set it ablaze after they discovered that the vehicle’s engine was faulty.

The gunmen reportedly moved from the police station into the town and shot sporadically before fleeing towards the Gwaskara village.

Shani is the southern part of the troubled Borno State and about 245 kilometres drive from Maiduguri, the state capital. It shares boundary with some parts of Adamawa State.

A resident of Shani, Mallam Aliyu Usman, who was among those who fled the town during the attack, told journalists that they got news of the terrorists lurking around the town at about 8am.

He said some women sighted the criminals on their farmlands around Walama, on the outskirts of the town.

The terrorists were said to have scared the women off their farms, telling them that they had a deadly mission to execute in some places in Shani.

All efforts to get the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Gideon Jubrin, for confirmation was not successful as his phone line was inaccessible as of the time of filing this report.