MMM: LASEMA sends out emergency number as suicide fears increase

With up to three million Nigerians exposed to losses due to their “investment” in MMM, there are fears that the suicide rate in the country might rise.
Following the collapse of MMM in Russia in the 90s, up to 50 people reportedly committed suicide and there are expectation such a situation may arise if as expected the Ponzi scheme has collapsed in Nigeria. The illegal scheme receives a lot of patronage with its website being visited more often than Facebook in country.
And the announcement on Tuesday by

Man drinks insecticide as MMM ‘crashes’ two weeks to wedding

A man has attempted to commit suicide in Benue State by ingesting insecticide after Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox froze accounts of participants in the Ponzi scheme, two weeks to his wedding.
The development which has led to panic among millions in the country hit the man, identified as

Sobbing teen shoots herself dead in front of horrified family after being driven to suicide by ‘relentless cyber-bullies’ who set-up sex profiles for her

Brandy Vela, 18, from Texas City, US, sent a final text to her devastated loved ones, which read: “I love you so much just remember that please and I’m so sorry for everything.”
As her parents and grandparents rushed to see what was wrong, they found her standing in her bedroom and could do nothing as she shot herself in

200,000 Indonesian Muslims protest against Christian governor

More than 200,000 Indonesian Muslims prayed in unison and chanted Koranic verses Friday in the second major demonstration against Jakarta's Christian governor, as conservative groups push for his arrest for allegedly insulting Islam.

People in white Islamic robes and

Theo Walcott breaks world record once held by Messi

The England international took part in a challenge during training, competing against team-mates Laurent Koscielny, Francis Coquelin and Nacho Monreal.
The quartet were challenged to stop a ball being dropped from a crane, with Walcott showing his skills by controlling it superbly after

BREAKING: Court orders immediate release of Nigeria Shi’a leader, El-Zakzaky. DSS to pay him N50 Million

An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Friday ordered the release of the leader of the Shi’a Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Mr. El-Zakzaky was arrested by the military on December 14, 2015, after a clash between the movement and officers of the Nigerian army. The army killed at least

. I will not make any statement on the economy or corruption or politics; No! - Muhammadu Sanusi II

Muhammadu Sanusi, former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria visited Osemawe of Ondo State to felicitate with him. He spoke and said; I came here to felicitate with the Osemawe of Ondo State on

Ozil refuses to rule out Real Madrid return

Arsenal star Mesut Ozil has refused to rule out a return to Real Madrid amid speculation about his future at the Emirates Stadium.
The Germany international left Madrid for Arsenal in 2013 and has since developed into a key figure for the Premier League side.
His contract with Arsenal is due to expire in

Europol warns of IS attacks, says dozens of militants may be in Europe

Islamic State is likely to launch more attacks in Europe, the EU police agency Europol warned on Friday, with several dozen militants already in place and more possibly arriving as IS faces setbacks in Syria and Iraq.
In a report on the threat the Islamist group poses to the 28-nation bloc, Europol said the most probable forms of attack would be those used in recent years, from the mass shootings and

Selena Gomez becomes Instagram's most-followed celebrity

Selena Gomez overtook Taylor Swift as the most-followed celebrity on Instagram, as two of pop's leading women once again dominated the social networking site in 2016.
In Instagram's annual rankings released Thursday, Gomez was the most-followed celebrity with

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A mother has described the heartbreak of watching her two starving sons who are 'dead already' after days without food in the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Iraq.

A mother has described the heartbreak of watching her two starving sons who are 'dead already' after days without food in the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Iraq.
The boys were already emaciated when they arrived at the Hasansham refugee camp near Mosul this week and they do not seem to be responding to treatment by UNICEF, who run the camp.
Their mother told

Wike Has Paid $1.5m To Produce Video Clips To Pull Down Buhari Govt - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pull down the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and weaken

I’ve destroyed my US Green Card, says Soyinka

Nobel prize-winning author, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Thursday he had fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Shortlybefore the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration.

AFP reported that Soyinka said

EXCLUSIVE: Colombian crash plane missed its crucial refuelling stop after it took off 20 minutes late - because the crew were looking for a player's video game

The plane which crashed in Colombia, wiping out a Brazilian football team, was late taking off because crew had to search for one of the players' lost video games, it was revealed today. Demerson Costa (pictured, left), a defender and one of seven players who did not travel with the team to Medellin, said

Breaking News: Gambia's Jammeh loses Banjul votes to opposition, heavy security deployed

Official results from Gambia’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) indicates that opposition leader Adama Barrow has beaten incumbent President Yahya Jammeh in the capital Banjul.
Barrow took nearly 50 percent of the vote in Banjul’s three constituencies followed by

Gambia election: Officials engage in a count of marbles to determine the winner

Gambia’s election Polls closed at 1700 on Thursday when officials began the process of counting the marbles that voters had cast for one of three presidential candidates.

Voters on Thursday queued at polling stations all day to place a marble in one of three coloured ballot drums – green for President Yahya Jammeh, grey for Barrow and purple for the third candidate – former ruling party deputy Mama Kandeh.
Gambian officials say the system is designed to avoid

Boko Haram attacks destroy farm communities, bring famine risk

An internally displaced person, Fati Adamu, said she has not seen three of her six children nor her husband since Boko Haram militants attacked her hometown in northeast Nigeria in an hail of bullets.
She is among thousands of refugees at the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the city worst hit by a seven-year-old insurgency that has forced more than two million

Drinking too much water is dangerous, warn doctors after woman, 59, is admitted to hospital after overdosing on it

Telling people to 'drink plenty of fluids' when unwell could be dangerous, doctors have warned.

Experts at King's College Hospital in south London questioned the recommendation after treating a 59-year-old woman who drank so much water that she became gravely ill.

The woman, who is not

Breaking: Bomb hoax rocks UN Ave. building

Bomb threat sa Physicians Tower,UN Ave.,Maynila - Col.Desiderio, MPD Station 5 Chief 
Police swooped down at a diagnostics clinic in United Avenue, Manila Thursday after receiving a bomb threat, just three days after authorities foiled a bomb attack by Islamic