Suspect’s hand chopped off in Lagos for allegedly stealing car headlight

Lagos – A Surulere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday heard with consternation how an accused had his right hand chopped off with a cutlass by a complainant for allegedly stealing the headlight of a Honda car.

The accused, Collins Okeke, 30, told the court that the complainant, Tunde Osubu, chopped off his hand, put it inside a black bag and buried it before reporting the alleged theft to the police.

Police elevate 2 AIGs, 8,600 officers

BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI

ABUJA – The Police Service Commission, Wednesday, announced the promotion of two senior officers, CP John O. Morenike and CP (Dr.) Stephen D. Hart, to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police. Both Promotions are with effect from August 3, 2011.

Presidential Hotel workers protest salary arrears

By Tony Edike

ENUGU – STAFF of Presidential Hotel, Enugu, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest over the non-payment of their salaries and allowances in the past 24 months.

The aggrieved workers, who bore placards, green leaves and chanted solidarity songs as they marched round the hotel premises, called for the dissolution of the hotel’s management board led by Mr. Sam Onyishi, as well as probe the activities and finances of the establishment from December 2009 to date.

...May split Nigeria like Darfur –Gambari

　From YINKA FABOWALE, Ibadan
Tuesday, Nigeria can not afford to ignore the festering terrorist attacks by Boko Haram sect and other internal security threats, but had better tackle it headlong to prevent the nation going the way of war-torn Sudan and Darfur.

Is Sharia Really Benign? Wake up.

by Robert Spencer
Posted 06/21/2011 ET

Now that 20 states are considering legislation to outlaw Islamic law (Sharia), Islamic supremacist advocacy groups in the U.S—particularly the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—have launched an energetic media campaign to whitewash Sharia and gull Americans into believing that it is as benign as a game of dominoes.

In South Africa, Obama family meets Nelson Mandela



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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Darlene Superville, Associated Press – 38 mins ago

JOHANNESBURG – Michelle Obama heard stories of South Africa's racist past Tuesday from Nelson Mandela, the country's first black president, who was imprisoned for 27 years in his struggle against brutal apartheid rule.
Now 92 and largely retired from public life, Mandela sent word he wanted to meet with the first lady at his home while she was at his foundation viewing some of his personal papers.

AP – In this photo provided by the Nelson Mandel
Foundation on Tuesday, June 21, 2011,
US First Lady Michelle 


The first lady was joined by her daughters, Malia, 12, and Sasha, 10, her mother, Marian Robinson, and Mrs. Obama's niece and nephew, Leslie Robinson, 15, and Avery Robinson, 19. Mandela was accompanied by his wife, Graca Machel, a former first lady of both South Africa and Mozambique.

.Study: Women dig dudes driving hot cars

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By Jim Forsyth Jim Forsyth – 2 hrs 8 mins ago

  By engaging in splashy personal spending, men are sending a signal to women that they want a "short term relationship," much like peacocks trying to woo a mating partner using "wasteful, elaborate displays," Sundie said.

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A recent study by Texas researchers proves what single men have known for a long time: Chicks dig hot cars.
Men who wear expensive clothes and drive flashy cars are more successful at having flings and staying single than their financially conservative counterparts, researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio said.
And while it's not exactly groundbreaking information that some women are more likely to go from the bar with a guy in a Porsche rather than a Geo, the project found the phenomenon is less about gold-digging and more about "signals," University of Texas at San Antonio marketing professor Dr. Jill Sundie told Reuters on Monday.
"Basically, they're just trying to convince a female that, 'Hey, if all you're looking for is genes, I have the best genes, so you should choose me,'" she said.