As Kim Kardashian arrived in Utah with Kanye West, the duo understandably went straight to the mountains for some skiing and snowboarding.
But before they made their way down any mountain, Kardashian had to try on a few new accessories she's not used to working.
"My friends made me wear a helmet & I wasn't happy about it," she joked on Twitter. "But I feel it's more safe & I'm into it if you can't tell." At least she could wear a fashionable fur coat that kept her ears and head warm.
The power couple were riding on the streets of LA yesterday... Looks like they don't have any other friends...Bonnie and Clyde
A 60-year-old bricklayer, Segun Benson, has been accused of raping and damaging the private parts of a primary six pupil on Mommoh Street in the Agege area of Lagos State.
Benson, who has an aged mother, was said to have never been married, while attempts by his mother to get him a wife had continually been turned down.
After he allegedly ravished the victim, he was said to have sent her out, despite the flow of blood from her private parts.
Residents had sighted the victim in a public bathroom writhing in pain. After bleeding from her private parts for a while, the 14-year-old was said to have collapsed.
She reportedly told concerned residents that Segun tricked her into his room with N50 and raped her.
When PUNCH Metro visited the area on Wednesday, he met a group of relatives still discussing the incident.
A resident and an eyewitness, who identified herself simply as Iya Egun, told PUNCH Metro she initially thought the victim was having her menstrual flow. She said:
“I saw her writhing in pain in a bathroom. She said she wanted to defecate, but I saw blood coming out of her private parts. I raised the alarm and when other people arrived at the scene, she said it was Segun that raped her.”
A relative, Okunloye Kehinde, said the victim’s private parts had been damaged. He said:
“I got a call around 2pm that fateful Saturday. When I got there, I saw a crowd of people around her. I saw a container filled with blood. Even her clothes were drenched in blood.”
Kehinde said he went with the victim’s father to report the incident at the Elere Police Division. The police, in company with some relatives of the victim, arrested the suspect in his house. The victim who walked with some difficulty said:
“I am in primary six. On Friday, he gave me N50 to buy sweet for myself. He then asked me to caress his private parts. When I told him I would tell my daddy, he said I should not go home.
“He took me to his house around Railway Line where he raped me. I was there from 3pm till around 7pm. I started bleeding from his house and when I got home the blood did not stop. But I kept it secret until Saturday when people saw it.”
Her mother, Taibat, said she had never met the suspect before,
“I have seven kids and she is the third child. I was sleeping when people called me that my daughter had been raped. I have never met the man before though he lives on the street. The government should take over the case and do what is right,” she said.
The suspect’s mother, Mrs. Tinuke Benson, who is in her nineties was also reached to talk about the incident. The woman, while fighting back tears, pleaded with PUNCH Metro to intervene on her behalf because the suspect was her only son. She said:
“Segun is my only child. I had four other children and they are all dead. He is the reason for my living. I don’t know why he did what he did.
“Each time I tried to get him a wife, he refused and told me he was old enough to look for a woman for himself. He said that many times without getting a wife. Please help me because he’s my hope.”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, said the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.
He said, “The victim has also been taken to the hospital for necessary tests and the suspect is in custody.”
APC presidential candidate Gen Buhari says the cancer medical report that surfaced online yesterday January 18th is fake and has also been refuted by the authorities of the Ahmadu Bello Teaching hospital who purportedly issued the medical report.
Buhari addressed the issue while speaking to journalist yesterday
"The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital said the documents are forged. This desperation is beyond my comprehension. The issue we are letting Nigerians know is that there has been much corruption in this country in the last 16 years. The Peoples Democratic Party has literally destroyed this country. There were reports that I was to jet out for medical check-up yesterday (Saturday) but here I am. I was in Nasarawa and Benue states yesterday (Saturday) and tomorrow January 19th, I will be in two states. The day after tomorrow, Tuesday January 20th, I will be in two more states. I sincerely don’t know how they got the impression that I was sick. I had a cold but it did not stop me from going through my schedule' he said
He also addressed the debate on his educational qualification
“I have contested three times under the same rules set by INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) where there is a basic educational qualification you must have. I was allowed to contest all these elections because my certificate was in order and there were individuals that wrote to the United States War College and the college answered them and they were published in the newspapers. So, I really don’t understand this desperation or misinformation that is being passed around. They will do nobody any good because our minds are being taken away from the serious issues of corruption and incompetence by the PDP.” he said
Source: Punch.com
Renowned TV and radio host, Ryan Seacrest has revealed just how he recruited the famous Kardashian family and inevitably launched their careers..In a new interview with Haute Living
“I loved watching The Osbournes, which was really the first show of this [reality] genre. I started thinking about what another show could be like or who another show could be about, which is how [The Kardashians] started,” he recalls. “We went to some casting directors in L.A. and said, ‘We’re interested in meeting families who want to be on a series or are interested in being in the world of television. The Kardashians were interested.
“We got linked up through a casting director. I had met the girls before, but I didn’t know the family well,” he continues. “So I said to a guy in my office,..
‘Why don’t you buy a video camera and go out to their house on a Sunday when they’re having a family barbeque, shoot it, and then we’ll watch it and see what we think.’ I remember perfectly: he called me from their house Sunday afternoon and said, ‘It’s absolutely golden; you’re going to die when you see this tape. They’re so funny, they’re so fun, there is so much love in this family and they’re so chaotic—they throw each other in the pool!’ We watched it and rushed the tape to E! immediately, and that was the beginning.
Though he says he can't pick a favorite of the clan, he admits
“I admire Kris, because she has done an amazing job at taking what was just a television show and building it into a massive empire for the family,”
Newly wedded actress Ibinabo and hubby Uche are celebrating their 1 month wedding anniversary today and she is going through her wedding photos all over again. She is blessed she who finds true love jare.
The dream of pretty fifteen-year-old Abigail John, a senior secondary two student of Government Day Secondary School, Jang, Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, was temporarily dashed on October 29, 2014 at 11.00am when the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists attacked Mubi and caught her in her house alongside others.
It will be recalled that after Mubi was overran by the terrorists, they changed its name to Madinatul Islam (City of Islam).
In this telephone conversation with Sunday Vanguard, Abigail recounts her ordeal.
Yes, it is very lengthy. I couldn't cut out any part of the story as I find all very necessary
Read Excerpts:
According to Abigail, the terrorists abducted her from her home and took her alongside other victims to their hideout.
Corpses littered the ground: “As we were being taken to the place, we saw so many corpses of men littering the ground. They took us across the road to another house where we were kept. In the night, they brought bread and drinks for us to eat for supper. There was no serious event that night until the following day. In the morning, we were given bread and other things for breakfast and later, they cooked and served us. Thereafter, one of the Boko Harm members started preaching Islam to us.”
Military intervention: “While this preaching was going on, a military jet came in and dropped a bomb very close to the house. Moments later, they dropped a second bomb which hit the building where we were kept. When the aircraft was approaching to drop the second bomb, the terrorists forced us into the main house while they escaped. Only one of the terrorists was struck by the bomb, the rest ran away. Some of the abducted people in the house – five women and a child – died but most of the people were injured. Those who were not affected by the bomb managed to escape.”
Treating the injured: Abigail was not lucky enough to escape as she was injured. She continues: “I was among the injured so we were put in Keke Napep (tricycles) and taken to a clinic. At the clinic, I saw one woman whose leg was amputated, they gave her anesthesia and sleeping tablets to reduce the pain and enable her sleep. Various treatments were administered to the injured. We were then taken to a house close to the clinic.”
Change of name: “The following day, October 31, we were served breakfast and they did not try to Islamize those of us who were injured although they kept preaching to us and changed our names. My name was changed from Abigail to Zainab. Those who were recaptured after the bomb blast that were not injured had to do the ablutions and forced to profess Islam. Their names were also changed. They made new attires and long scarves for each of us. So we all had to wear that as a sign that we were living under an Islamic caliphate.”
Relocation: “Because so many people (Boko Haram members) kept coming to that house where we were kept, the Boko Haram commanders decided it was not safe to leave us there so we were relocated to another house, both the injured and those who were recaptured in Mubi.
“We were taught how to recite some verses of the Koran. Those who were slightly injured were taught how to say the Moslem prayer five times a day.”
Terrorists flee: “On the first Sunday of December when the terrorists got wind of the fact that soldiers were advancing towards Mubi, the terrorists and some of their female members that came along with the registered members ran away and left us in that house. When some of the abducted ladies who were not injured discovered that the terrorists were gone, they also escaped and left those of us that were injured.”
It is said that what a man can do, a woman can do even better. One of the female terrorists proved that to be true. According to Abigail, while the men and other female terrorists escaped, one female terrorist remained behind to guard the victims.
Said Abigail: “There was a female Boko Haram member who was stubborn enough to stay back to guard us. She started relocating some of the foodstuff in that house to another house. She also left and locked us in so we could not leave the compound at all.”
Escape: “Two girls among us who were not too badly injured, scaled the fence to go and report to the military that we were held hostage in that house. That was how the military got to know that there were people in the house. When those girls scaled the wall, they saw a little boy passing by and convinced him to break the door open for them before the military arrived. So after the boy got the door open, we were able to send message to the soldiers and informed them of our plight. We also informed the soldiers that a Boko Haram woman had been guarding the house. Unfortunately, the woman didn’t come back that day because she must have got wind of the fact that soldiers had come around that area.
“A few days later, she felt the soldiers would not come back to the place again so she came to see how we were faring. The soldiers couldn’t move us out immediately because of our injuries. So they arrested her and took her to the military base in Yola.”
“I have a broken arm and honestly, I don’t know how it got broken but it was after the bomb attack that I discovered I had a broken arm. While in captivity, the terrorists brought a traditional healer to treat the hand. I have been in great pains,” said Abigail.
Abigail is now undergoing treatment with the help of the Catholic Diocese of Yola.
Abigail counts herself somehow lucky as she noted that if not for the injury, perhaps she would have been raped and taken to Sambisa forest. “They surrounded the house where we were kept but thank God, they did not rape us, especially those of us who were captured in Mubi.”
Asked if she will want to go back to school, Abigail who wants to become a lawyer and practise in Lagos or Abuja, said: “I am scared to go back to Jang or Mubi but I want to continue my education.”
Abigail’s mother: Mrs Rebecca John had this to say about her daughter’s abduction and eventual escape: “I was not in town when she was abducted. I had gone to see my sister in a nearby town. My son, Lucky also got missing at the same time. He is really lucky because he was found on January 7. Nobody knew his whereabouts in the past eight weeks.”
