Prostitute dispossess businessman of briefcase, money, driving licence

 

A businessman has lost his valuables including hard currency to a prostitute in a brothel in Delta.

A businessman who was passing through Umunede in Delta State, on his way to the eastern parts of the country during the last Easter celebration, is currently biting his fingers as his decision to quench his sexual thirst with a prostitute at a roadside brothel, ended with him losing his briefcase, huge sum of money and drivers' licence after the lady cleaned him off.

Brothel worker

 Read: "In Delta: Prostitutes reportedly beat male customers for paying less than agreed price" It was gathered that the man who got stuck in the snarling traffic along the way, decided to cool it off before continuing on his journey and made his way to the brothel where he allegedly engaged the lady identified as Ebere, and negotiated for an all night sex with her. But by the time he woke up the next morning, the lady said to be 31-years-old, had made away with the items and he had to report the incident to the police.

A police source at the Umunede Division, narrated that after the man who is said to be a very highly placed business mogul, had bargained for an all night sex, called till-day-break, with the prostitute and after the first round of sex, asked for a drink which the prostitute allegedly laced with a drug that made him sleep off. Read: "Shame: Prostitutes hold top politician hostage in Asaba" After he had gone into a deep slumber, the commercial sex worker took off with the man's property including hard currency. Another prostitute at the brothel who identified herself as Gloria, said the man had lodged in with the girl while carrying a big brief case, only to wake up the following morning screaming for help after the girl had disappeared into the thin air. The police source said: “We are investigating a report of a stolen briefcase containing huge sums of money and a driving licence and we hope to bring the girl to book.”

culled from pulse.ng

Angolan rapper jailed for rebellion

Angolan rapper Luaty Beirao jailed for rebellion

The bespectacled rapper has been an outspoken critic of the president

A prominent Angolan rapper has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for planning a rebellion against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

Luaty Beirao was sentenced by a court in the capital, Luanda, along with 16 other activists who were given jail terms of between two and eight years. Amnesty International said they had been sentenced by a "kangaroo court".

The 17 were arrested in June after discussing a book about non-violent resistance at their book club.
Mr dos Santos has ruled oil-rich Angola since 1979.

Beirao, also known by his stage name Ikonoklasta, has been an outspoken critic of the government, calling for a fairer distribution of the southern African state's oil wealth.
He embarked on a five-week hunger strike in September in protest at his detention.
The judge convicted him of "rebellion against the president of the republic, criminal association and falsifying documents", AFP news agency reports.

Mr Dos Santos is one of Africa's longest-serving rulers

The trial had prompted global outrage, with rights groups saying it showed that Mr dos Santos' government was becoming increasingly repressive in its attempts to remain in power. 
Human Rights Watch said the verdict was "a ridiculous scandal", while Amnesty International described the defendants on Twitter as "prisoners of conscience" who had been subjected to a "kangaroo court trial [which] violated international standards".

Prosecutors defended the arrests, arguing that the 17 were planning an uprising among students and workers "with incalculable consequences". The jailed activists, who belonged to a youth movement, had previously held demonstrations demanding the resignation of Mr dos Santos, who has been in power for 36 years.

Their book club had discussed the 1993 book by Gene Sharp called From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation. Angola is Africa's second-largest oil producer, and has witnessed an economic boom since the end of a civil war in 2002. However, critics of the elected government say the wealth has only benefited a small elite.

Fidel Castro blasts Obama's trip to Cuba

Fidel Castro blasts Obama's trip: Says, Cuba doesn't need 'empire' for anything

Havana, Cuba (CNN)

 As Cubans debate the impact of President Barack Obama's historic trip to the island last week, one prominent figure is lambasting the visit: Fidel Castro.

In a full page column titled "Brother Obama," published in the Cuban communist-party newspaper Granma, the former Cuban president rejected Obama's visit and words of reconciliation. "We don't need the empire to give us anything," Castro wrote, referring to the United States, in his acidly critical and rambling column. In 2008, Fidel Castro turned power over to his brother Raul following a mystery intestinal illness that nearly killed him. While officially retired, Fidel Castro, 89, still wields enormous influence in Cuba and observers study his sporadic columns and appearances for insights into Cuba's opaque political system.

 

During his two-day visit, the first of any U.S. president to Cuba in 88 years, Obama was seen frequently with Cuban President Raul Castro. In addition to a bilateral meeting and a joint news conference, the men dined together at a state dinner and attended a U.S.-Cuba baseball game.

Obama did not meet with Fidel Castro during the trip. Cubans applauded when the American leader said both countries should move beyond decades of mistrust and animosity.

 

"It is time for us to look forward to the future together -- a future of hope," Obama said in a speech that was carried on Cuban state-TV. "And it won't be easy, and there will be setbacks. It will take time. But my time here in Cuba renews my hope and my confidence in what the Cuban people will do. We can make this journey as friends, and as neighbors, and as family -- together."

 

But apparently Fidel Castro isn't so eager to bury the past.

That section of Obama's speech "risked giving one a heart attack," Castro wrote, before listing a litany of what he said were abuses the United States had perpetuated against Cuba.

 

 

 

Man claims he saw Christ in garden on Easter Sunday

Can you see Jesus in this shrub? Man claims he saw Christ in garden on Easter Sunday 

Gobsmacked Michael Coughlan, 55, was peering out his back window when he says he saw the image of in his shrubbery

Michael Coughlan's back garden hedge - seen through a window in his house - which appears to show the face of Jesus

A man claims he had a religious experience on Easter Sunday when the 'face of Jesus appeared' in his garden bush.Gobsmacked Michael Coughlan, 55, was peering out his back window when he says he saw the image in his shrubbery. Michael claims to have witnessed the holy face looking back at him yesterday, the day that celebrates the son of God's return from the dead. Dad-of-four Michael, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, said: "I went into the room on Sunday and looked out the window and saw this face."

The hedge Mr Coughlan claims looks like Jesus

"I joked about it being Jesus but in the afternoon my friend came round and said it looked more like Rick Parfitt from Status Quo," he continued. "Hand on my heart I had never noticed it before.
"I'm not even religious."

Mr Coughlan said he isn't even religious but couldn't believe what he saw

Michael, who is a full-time carer for his wife, noticed that later when he went outside the face had disappeared. He said: "It just looks like a normal bush when you go outside. "It's all very strange."