A man has been gored to death by a bull during a festival in central Spain, officials said.
The 62-year-old was killed during a bull run in Cuellar on Thursday.
The man suffered "several deadly horn blows" in the chest and neck and could not be saved, town mayor Carlos Fraile told local media.
The victim was only a spectator at the festival but was rammed into a field and gored. Another spectator climbed onto a wall to avoid being gored.
Spain is famous for its summer bull runs and there are many casualties every year. Eight people were gored and 35 injured at the famed San Fermin festival in Pamplona this year.
Jidenna is opening up about homosexuality in African culture. The singer, who partially grew up in Nigeria and never hesitates to represent his background, is now speaking about myths concerning same-sex relationships in Africa.
During an interview he said,
“The whole idea that Black people, and our tradition to be Black… You hear these African leaders who are dressed in three-piece suits, got an iPhone, speaking in English and not their native tongue are saying, ‘it’s unafrican to be homosexual, it’s unafrican… we don’t have it. That was brought as a European import.’ It’s not true. It’s not true at all.”
He added,
“You got Uganda, the kingdom of Buganda at the time… Before Uganda, there was an openly gay king. If you go to Zimbabwe… the bushmen as they call them, you’ll see homosexual acts in the Cape paintings. If you go to different communities in Africa, there was different rights of passage where if a woman was with a woman, or a man was with a man, they were thought to be mower powerful. There was never a time where this didn’t exist, or where it was just hands down that homosexuals were wrong. That’s not actual an African thing, which means it’s not a Black thing.”
Yvonne Jegede has taking to instagram to plead to her toasters who she once told she was in a relationship to come back, saying ''ati lo atti de''. She made the plea in what she termed 'shoot your shot'', she concluded by saying everyone knows her story.
Yvonne was briefly married to Olakunle 'Abounce' Fawole. She got pregnant, but before she even had their child she and her husband had gone their separate ways.
A teenager in India was discovered to have a bizarre mass of bone, teeth and "hairy cheesy material" in her abdomen, according to a new report of the case. It was her own "twin" growing inside her, the result of an extremely rare condition called "fetus in fetu."
The 17-year-old went to the doctor after developing a lump in her abdomen that had been gradually increasing in size over the last five years, according to the report, published Aug. 12 in the journal BMJ Case Reports. The teen told doctors that she sometimes experienced abdominal pain and a feeling of fullness, even when she had not eaten much food.
A CT scan revealed that the teen had a large mass in her abdomen that appeared to contain multiple bones "resembling the shape of vertebrae, ribs and long bones," the authors wrote.
Doctors diagnosed the teen with fetus in fetu, a condition that is estimated to occur in only about 1 in 500,000 people worldwide.
The new case is even more unusual because it was diagnosed in a teenager, whereas most previous cases have been found in infancy or early childhood, the authors said. What's more, the mass appears to be the largest one ever discovered in a case like this, they said.
When doctors took it out, the mass was about two-thirds the size of a full-term baby: It measured 14 by 6 by 4 inches (36 by 16 by 10 centimeters) "and was composed of hairy cheesy material, multiple teeth and structures resembling limb buds". It also contained skin, hair and fat tissue, they said.
The Inspector- General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has directed commissioners of police across the country to pay special attention to the clergy and increase security around worship centres nationwide.
The Force Public Relation Officer, DCP Frank Mba, announced the decision in a statement in Abuja, saying the directive followed the murder of Rev. Fr. David Tanko by unknown persons in the early hours of Thursday.
Mba said the priest was gruesomely murdered in the most inhuman and barbaric manner at Kpankufu Village along Wukari Road in Taraba on his way to Kofai Amadu village.
He said the IGP had given marching orders to the commissioner of police in-charge of Taraba Command to fish out the killers.
Mba said the IGP also directed the deputy inspector-general of police in-charge of Force Criminal Investigation Department to provide additional forensic and other investigative assets to the Police Command in Taraba to aid investigations into the incident.
He said the IGP had expressed deep concern over the recent incidents of attacks on clergymen in some parts of the country.
Mba said the IGP had condoled with the Catholic family in Nigeria over the unfortunate incident and urged the people to be calm.
He, however, called for maximum support for the police in the bid to unravel perpetrators of the crime, their motives and circumstances surrounding the killing.
He said the IGP had pledged to ensure that perpetrators of the act would not go undetected and unpunished.
The nine-year-old daughter of former Barcelona manager Luis Enrique has died after a five-month battle with cancer.
Enrique, 49, paid tribute to Xana in a heartbreaking post on Thursday afternoon, describing her as 'the star that guides our family'.
Xana had fought osteosarcoma - or bone cancer - for 'five intense months', the Spaniard revealed on Twitter.
Xana was the youngest of three children born to Enrique and wife Elena Cullell. The couple also have a 19-year-old son named Pacho and an 18-year-old daughter, Sira.
Enrique, who also coached the Spanish national team, thanked those who had sent well wishes over recent months and medical staff for their 'dedication'.
In a statement from his official account, he wrote: 'Our daughter Xana has passed away this afternoon at the age of 9, after fighting for 5 intense months against osteosarcoma.
'We thank you for all the love received during these months and we appreciate the discretion and understanding.
'Also, we thank the staff of the Sant Joan de Deu and Sant Pau hospitals for their dedication and treatment, to the medical nurses and all the volunteers.
'With a special mention to the team of palliative priests of Sant Joan de Deu. We will miss you very much but we will remember you every day of our lives in the hope that in the future we will meet again.
'You will be the star that guides our family. Rest Xanita. Martinez Cullell family.'
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was among those to pay tribute to Xana, writing on Twitter: 'There are no words that that can go along with this pain.
'My heartfelt wishes to Luis Enrique and all his family, after the loss of his little Xana.'
The Nigerian government on Thursday said it has taken delivery of a calibration aircraft worth $8.5m to make the air space safer.
Hadi Sirika, country’s Aviation Minister said on his twitter account on Thursday evening that he just received new calibration aircraft for the country.
He said the make of the aircraft is King Air 350i and cost $8.5m.
According to him, the acquisition of the aircraft had saved the nation the agony of contracting it to South Africa or Niger at about $500K every 6 months.
Sirika said the nation’s airspace is safer now and thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for purchasing the aircraft/
“Just received new calibration aircraft for the country. Make is King Air 350i. Cost $8.5M. The agony of contracting it to South Africa or Niger at about $500K every 6 months is over. Our airspace is safer. Thanks Mr President, we started & finished during your regime,” he wrote on his twitter page.
Missy Elliott misplaced her diamond necklace at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards on Monday, and she's offering a pretty penny to the person who finds it.
Elliott won the network's coveted MTV Video Vanguard Award that night, and two days following she took to her Instagram Stories to report that a diamond necklace she was wearing backstage had gone missing.
The 48-year-old rapper wrote: 'Anyone found this necklace at the VMAs backstage or know anything about it there’s a reward.'
She mentioned in the caption that the piece missing is 'the shorter of her multiple chains.'
Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte went on a boat trip in the south of France ahead of welcoming world leaders to Biarritz for the G7 summit.
The 41-year-old French president showed off his summer body while jet skiing near Fort de Bregançon just a day before meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Putin met with Macron for talks last Monday at the fortress on France's Mediterranean coast a week before the start of the G7 conference.
Annie Idibia has replied a follower who asked her to cover the scars she got from child bearing, advising she could wear a bikini that covers that part. Annie however felt offended by the advise and told her she was proud of her imperfection and the lady can decide to cover hers.
An official of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has said Nigerians pay an estimated N400bn annually as bribes to obtain public services.
The Principal Investigator at the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), the research and training arm of ICPC, Suleiman Suleiman, said this on Tuesday.
He spoke at the stakeholders meeting on Nigeria Corruption Index (NCI), and presentation of a policy brief on Eradication of Electoral Corruption Awareness Survey in Abuja.
He quoted the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) 2016 data that estimated that corruption will wipe off 37 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP by 2030.
He further quoted PWC findings that Nigeria’s GDP would rise as high as $534 billion if it reduces corruption to a minimal level.
According to him, many Nigerians do not have any direct contact with many public institutions where a lot of corruption occurs.
The latest Nigerian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report by the National Bureau of Statistics shows that the Nigerian economy grew by 2.01 per cent (year-on-year) in real terms.
Compared to the growth rate of 1.89 per cent recorded in the first quarter of 2018, the NBS said real GDP in the first quarter of 2019 grew by 0.12 per cent points.
”In 2016, PWC conducted research with the aims of finding what Nigeria’s GDP would be by 2030. Based on their forecast they discovered that Nigeria GDP would be around $1,457billion.
”Also, they wanted to know what would be the cost of corruption during that period. That is, if they did the research in 2015, that is 15 years ahead. They found that if Nigeria is able to reduce corruption by that 2030, it would even be higher than that $1457 billion by up to $534 billion.
”It is like saying if you spend money unwisely you would have N20 but when the money is spent carefully, you would have N35. So the figure of $534billion is what Nigeria can have if we reduce corruption.
”The PWC found that 32. 3 per cent of service users are asked to pay a bribe, which is quite high. If the average bribe is N5,300 and you have up to 83 million bribes a year, multiplied by N5,300 and it gives you 4000billion,” Mr Suleiman explained.
The embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, will soon embark on another medical trip.
Like the botched trip to Delhi, India, the Shiite leader would be accompanied by security operatives, The Nation reports.
A top member of the IMN, who spoke with a correspondent of The Nation in confidence, said the Department of State Services (DSS) is preventing El-Zakzaky’s family members and close associate from visiting, adding that they have since collected their phones.
El-Zakzaky and wife were taken to the DSS facility in Kaduna on arrival aboard an Ethiopian Airline flight E 9-11 by noon on August 16, at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.
Chris Brown has unfollowed his fellow singer, Davido on instagram. He started following him after Davido approached him for a collaboration, which birthed 'Blow your mind' single and video. But a quick look at Chris' page shows he is no longer following the Nigerian super star.
The son of Bauchi state Governor, Abdullah Mohammed has shared a photo of his Rolls-Royce and expensive wristwatch. He shared the photo on instagram showing a glimpse of the super machine and his well expensive wristwatch.
Ubi Franklin has left a note for beggars on his Instagram page telling them he can’t help everyone. The singer rolled out the warning after a boy sent him a message saying his dad gave him Ubi’s number. According to Ubi, he was rude and he blocked him on whatsapp. He found him on Instagram and almost the same thing happened. He then rolled out the note making it general and telling people, he owes no one a penny. He also revealed he gets turned down too and moves on afterwards. What he said;
Legendary singer Sade Adu's transgender son, Izaak Theo has undergone an organ change. Izaak who was born a female but prefers the life of a man revealed this on his instagram page. He posted a shirtless photo and revealed his new organ.
Sharing the photo, he captioned it;
''After 5 months of living the commando life, ya boy can wear underwear yaaaaaas 🤘🏾 #ftm #trans #transman #phalloplasty''
Many of his followers, however praised him, with some saying the pen!s looks amazing on him.
Teenage Jamaican sprint sensation Briana Williams has tested positive for a banned substance.
The 17-year-old double under-20 world champion, who is sixth fastest over 100m outdoors in the world this year, was found to have the diuretic Hydrochlorothiazide in her system during competition.
Williams, who is widely considered one of the most exciting up-and-coming track and field stars, reportedly tested positive for the substance at June's Jamaican championships, where she clocked 10.94secs.
She has already qualified for the 100m at the World Championships in Doha next month and has spoken of her aim of winning Olympic gold as early as Tokyo 2020.
Her coach Ato Boldon, who won 100m silver at Sydney 2000 and tested positive for a banned stimulant in 2001 but was cleared, has blamed 'contaminated tablets'. It is understood that Williams's defence rests on her taking medication for a cold.
Boldon remains the only person to receive a statement from top American sprinter Christian Coleman about his charge for missing three drugs tests, which was revealed last week by Sportsmail.
The Kaduna State Police Command said its operatives have rescued three students of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria abducted on Monday along Abuja-Kaduna highway.
The Command’s Public Relations Officers, Yakubu Sabo, however, said in a press statement issued on Wednesday in Kaduna, that three other persons were still being held by the kidnappers.
“The Command wishes to state that, on the said date, August 26, at about 18:50hrs, armed men in military uniform intercepted some commuters near Masari Village along Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, opened fire on the vehicles, in the process kidnapped six persons.
“However, due to the prompt response of the police and other security agents to the scene, three people were later released by the hoodlums due to intensive combing within the general area.”
The statement said the three students alongside the abandoned vehicles at the scene of the incident, were moved to the police station.
It said efforts were being coordinated by the joint teams of Anti-Kidnapping Unit, PMF and the IRT to rescue the remaining three victims and apprehend the perpetrators.
