10:35:00
A man who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit has been released after police found his lookalike. Richard Anthony Jones from Kansas City, Kansas, was freed on Thursday after a judge declared there was no longer sufficient evidence to convict him.
Richard was jailed in 1999 for armed robbery based on an eyewitness account. During a new hearing into his case, witnesses who testified against him said they couldn't tell Richard from  his look alike, Ricky.

10:19:00
 
The younger brother to the late Isiaka Adeleke, Ademola Adeleke has emerged unopposed as the candidate to represent All Progressive Congress( APC), in Osun West Senatorial District  in the July 8 by-election.
Adeleke was declared unopposed to grab the party’s ticket, following the disqualification of his only opponent in the race, senator Mudashir Husein, who is a serving commissioner in the state.

09:57:00
 
The Bolgatanga Police Command in the Upper East Region of Ghana, have arrested 63 suspects in connection with the lynching of a 67-year old woman at Penlugu market who was accused of being a witch.
The 63  suspects were picked up in a raid on Saturday at Pelungu and Tindongo, and are currently in custody, where they would be screened for identification.
The victim, Yenboka Kenna, age 67, was accused of witchcraft by some residents of the area and was sent to the Chief of Pelungu Naab Sobil Sore (IV) who later discharged her of not being guilty. 

15:47:00
 
A newborn baby was found wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a Jonas Brothers backpack, then left in a shopping trolley outside a grocery store in the car park in Tempe, Arizona. The baby was wearing a purple flowered onesie with a stuffed animal laying beside her. Fortunately, a passerby found the baby and called 911. In a recording of the call released by police the good Samaritan said:

15:20:00
Earlier this week, the CCTV footage of a robbery attack at a Zenith bank branch in Owerri, Imo state sometime in February this year, surfaced online.

In the video, one police officers who was inside the security room in the bank, put up a good fight with the robbers as he engaged them in a gun battle and was able to kill one of them. After shooting one of the robbers dead, the gallant officer identified as Sergeant Chukwudi Iboko,

18:26:00
Tanzanian Swahili gospel singer, Rose Muhando, was on Sunday arrested for defrauding members of a church choir.
According to Debora Mgiligimba, the police commander of Singida in Tanzania, she said the arrest was made after the choir members, whose money was obtained fraudulently by the East African singer, reported the case.

18:18:00
The common advice for women in abusive relationships is to leave before it's too late but what's the advice for women whose boyfriends turn deadly when they try to end the abusive relationship? Go to the police maybe? For Zama Sishi, her effort to end things with her abusive partner ended in death.

A few weeks ago, 31-year-old Zama was allegedly assisted by a passerby to escape when her boyfriend, Ayanda Nkosi, 32, tried to throw her over the bridge at Jozini Dam in South Africa,

11:06:00
A court has ordered 46-year-old singer Mary J. Blige to pay her estranged husband, Martin Isaacs, $30,000 a month in temporary spousal support.
The singer filed for divorce in July 2016 after 12 years of marriage and insisted that  their prenuptial agreement waived any spousal support. She challenged his demand, saying that she had been the only bread-winner in their family and is burdened with more than $10,000,000 in debt.

11:03:00

7 former cover girls for the popular Playboy magazine re-created their iconic covers decades after and it's surprising how little some of them aged. Recent photo of some of the models makes you wonder if they stopped time.

One of the cover models includes Candace Collins, who worked as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club. When she was first approached to do the shoot, Candace wrote in a blog post that she was both excited and afraid, but decided to do it to show that women still have a lot in them even after their prime.

10:48:00
 
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested 40 year old Prince Momoh Enema pictured above, a member of a fraud syndicate that specialize in defrauding prominent citizens using the name of the Minister of Interior, Abdulraman Dambazau.

The native of Olamaboro Local Council of Kogi State was arrested in Abuja after himself and members of his syndicate posed as Minister of Interior and his Chief of Staff,

10:28:00
Khloe Kardashian, 32, whose divorce from troubled ex-husband, Lamar Odom, 37, was finalized last year, revealed in Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians that she didn't really try to get pregnant with her husband, because she was so concerned about her turbulent marriage. In a clip of the season finale from the show, Khloe visited a fertility clinic to see if she could be a surrogate for her sister Kim K, who has said she wanted to have a third child with husband Kanye West.
When the doctor asked Khloe, if she'd ever tried to get pregnant, she said:

10:24:00
 
A Kenyan woman based in Germany appeared in court Wednesday for the alleged murder of her German husband in September 2016.
The suspects, Armina A. a mother of two and her lover, Jan D  conspired and killed her husband, Ekkehart H while she was making love with him at their home in Ebersdorf.
German newspaper Bild reports that the court documents show how Armina A. planned the murder of her husband Ekkehart H, carefully laying down the plans with her lover who was identified as Jan D.

16:41:00
Some people have no chill sha. And this man had absolutely no pity for a married woman he slept with because minutes after it happened, he posted a photo of her butt on his bed on Facebook and started tagging men, asking if they were looking for their wives. He wrote;
"Serio! .. I Am Curious – Who’s Wife Didn’t Make It Home Last Night? She Ready For Pickup – #SheAThotThotThot #NameThatCrack#SheNeedUber”

15:47:00

The video of the robbery attack on Wednesday, February 23, 2017, at Zenith Bank, Owerri, Imo state, that left 5 people dead and several injured, has been released.

The robbers had trailed a customer who came in to deposit a huge sum of money to the Zenith bank branch located along Wetheral Road, opposite Dan Anyiam Stadium in the city.

13:33:00

A 32-year-old Nigerian man was on Monday, June 5th, sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2015 murder of a 30-year-old woman on a Hollywood sidewalk.

Ezeoma Chigozie Obioha received the sentence after tearful statements were read by the victim's relatives in court. He was convicted last December for fatally shooting Carrie Melvin. The two had worked together.

13:29:00
 
A police dog has been fired from his job because he did not have the intimidating personality needed to carry out his job effectively.
1-year-old Gavel is a German Shepherd who is just too friendly and rolls around with everyone. He would rather roll around and have his belly robbed than stand at attention and look menacing.
Because of these attributes, Gavel failed to make the final cut for Queensland Police Service in Australia, despite having a prestigious family bloodline which saw him related to five current working QPS dogs.

18:22:00
Pieces of a Myanmar military plane which went missing with more than 100 soldiers and family members aboard have been  found in the Andaman Sea.
Navy ships and aircraft have been searching all afternoon after the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers. More than a dozen children were believed to be among the passengers on the plane.

18:13:00
Parents and relatives of the six male students of the Igbonla Model School in Igbonla, Epe Lagos state, this morning staged a protest at the Lagos state government house in Ikeja.

Weeping mothers of the students called on the state government to intensify efforts towards the rescue of their wards.
The six male students namely Pelumi Philips, Farouq Yusuf, Isiaq Rahmon, Adebayo George, Judah Agbausi and Peter Jonah, were abducted on Thursday May 25th. One of the mothers, Mrs Toyin Philips, said

17:11:00
A military plane has disappeared over Myanmar with 116 people on board. The plane left the southern coastal town of Myeik in the afternoon and was bound for Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon, but it lost contact about 20 miles west of the town of Dawei and has been declared missing, the military said.

17:04:00
The Kogi state police command have arrested one 30-year-old man, identified as Garuba, for stabbing his wife to death over N2, 000 feeding money.

According to the Sun, Garuba who is a commercial driver from Ihima in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State, was paraded alongside other criminals in the state. Garuba told journalists that his wife of 15 years, Falilat, picked up a quarrel with him over his inability to cater for the family.

10:04:00
Apparently, asides singing and dancing, Tiwa also has other talents. The mother of one gave herself a face beat after she got an impromptu call for an appearance, then shared the result online. A lot of people think she did a great job. More photos after the cut.
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