Chinua Achebe is Dead

Foremost novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe, is dead. He was 82.
Sources say Achebe died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
It was gathered that the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalized in an undisclosed hospital in Boston.
Achebe is best known for his classical novel Things fall Apart.
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Man Accused Of Raping Daughters, Granddaughter

A seven-year-old girl (name withheld), has accused her 49-year-old father of rape.

The girl said her father, Sylvester Ehijele, had on numerous occasions had sex with her, adding that he used to promise to buy her goodies and toys before the actions.

She said he usually had sex with her on a daily basis whenever her mother was not home.

She said, “Whenever my mum is not at home, he grabs me, forces his hand over my mouth and then inserts his penis into my private part. He promises to buy me a car, cake and biscuit but he doesn’t buy anything for me.

Sea mammal goes walkabout in Brazil

An elephant seal up close: The big beasts can grow to be 16ft long and weigh over 6,000lbs, the smaller females are normally about 10ft long and weighing in at around 2,000lbs

A massive elephant seal held up traffic for more than an hour after going on walkabout in Brazil. But at least the animal politely using the pedestrian crossing when it waddled out of the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday afternoon.The surprising sight attracted a large crowd in the coastal city of Balneario Camboriu in the southern state of Santa Catarina. 

Survivor of the Kano Bomb Blast Speaks out

survivor

As the smoke cleared from the New Road Luxury Bus Motor Park, in Sabon Gari Kano, victims of    the terror attack, who were lucky to be alive to tell their stories, on Tuesday recalled moments before the bomb went off.

Up to 166 persons feared dead as Boat Capsized of Calabar Coast

not the actual bodies

At least 166 Nigerians were feared dead when a boat they were travelling in sank about 40 nautical miles off the coast of Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
Eyewitnesses said that the passengers were travelling in a large wooden boat, which departed from Oron, Akwa Ibom State on Friday and was heading for Gabon when it capsized off Malabo, near the coast of Equatorial Guinea.
A marine transporter at the Calabar Inland Waterways, also confirmed the incident. He added that the two known survivors were a young boy and a woman who had clung to a gas cylinder and were rescued by fishermen.
He said that the passengers of the boat were mostly Igbo traders who were heading for Gabon. He said that the traders were mostly from the South-East states and headed to Oron in Akwa Ibom to board the wooden boat because it was cheap.
 45 corpses of some of the victims have been depositedthe mood at the morgue of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, and people thronged the hospital to try to identify the remains of loved ones.
Official sources said the victims’ corpses were brought to Calabar instead of Malabo, where the mishap occurred, because they were believed to be Nigerians.