Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary.
The stowaways also threatened to kill crew members with metal poles when they broke free from quarantine on the 78,000-tonne Italian merchant ship on 21 December 2018. They said they would steer it to the UK.
Helicopters with specialist sailors were sent to rescue the Grande Tema’s crew and arrest the men while the ship floated off the Essex coast.
Samuel Jolumi, 27, Ishola Sunday, 28, Toheeb Popoola, 27, and Joberto McGee, 21, were all found guilty of affray after an eight-week trial in the Old Bailey. Popoola and McGee were also found guilty of making threats to kill.
All were cleared of attempting to hijack the ship.
Popoola was jailed for 31 months, while McGee was sentenced to 32 months behind bars. Sunday and Popoola were each jailed for 16 months.
They will serve half of their sentences behind bars, and may be detained for deportation proceedings.
A dad reportedly gunned down his daughter and her new husband on New Year's Eve before turning the gun on himself.
The gunman, thought to be the estranged father of Lindita Musai, is under police guard in hospital after the festive horror which saw the 25-year-old woman and her new husband shot dead at an address in Melbourne, Australia.
The suspected killer, who police said was a 55-year-old man, was said to have blasted 29-year-old Veton Musai and his wife at around 10.30am on Tuesday.
A witness then reportedly saw him jump out of a bush and put a gun to his chin before pulling the trigger.
Veton's cousin Jetmir Lumani today posted on Facebook : "Today we lost my beautiful baby cousin Veton Musai and his angel wife Lindita Musai..... I can't even begin to explain how I feel.
"The only thing keeping us strong is belief in God.
"How a father can take his own daughters (sic) life is beyond comprehension.. but the devil truly is among us."
Nine News reports the couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
The killing reportedly took place on Salisbury Street in Yarraville, Melbourne, Daily Star reports.
Lindita died at the scene and Veton has since passed away in hospital.Veton's cousin Jetmir Lumani today posted on Facebook : "Today we lost my beautiful baby cousin Veton Musai and his angel wife Lindita Musai..... I can't even begin to explain how I feel.
"The only thing keeping us strong is belief in God.
"How a father can take his own daughters (sic) life is beyond comprehension.. but the devil truly is among us."
Nine News reports the couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
The killing reportedly took place on Salisbury Street in Yarraville, Melbourne, Daily Star reports.
Lindita died at the scene and Veton has since passed away in hospital.
The gunman is thought to be Lindita's estranged dad, Australian media reports.
A 55-year-old man from Altona North, who was known to the couple, has been taken to hospital under police guard.
The Musais had just arrived at the Salisbury Street property when they were ambushed by the shooter, according to reports.
British rock singer Sir Rod Stewart has been charged after allegedly punching a hotel security guard outside a children’s party in Florida.
The singer of “Maggie May”, who will be 76 on 10 January, was with his family at Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, on New Year’s Eve when he was refused access to a party in the children’s section of the resort, according to a police report obtained.
Stewart was attempting to enter the event with his 39-year-old son.
The ex-singer of the Faces — recognisable by his hoarse voice and blond mop of hair — was charged with simple battery, a minor offence which is generally punishable by a fine.
He is scheduled to appear in a Palm Beach court on February 5.
Kylie Jenner is teaming up with her 21-month-old daughter for her latest makeup collaboration.
The 22-year-old mogul, who recently sold a majority stake of her Kylie Cosmetics business to Coty Inc. for $600 million, revealed she is working with daughter Stormi Webster for her upcoming Valentine’s Day makeup collection.
Jenner took to her Instagram on Thursday to post a picture of little Stormi looking at concept art for the upcoming collection.
The images show pink packaging that reads “Stormi” decorated with colorful butterflies while Stormi leans over a table and examines the mock-ups for the brand's upcoming collection.
One notable feature is a lilac box for a matte liquid lipstick, which was clad with butterflies.
The cute snap was also shared on the Kylie Cosmetics’ Instagram, where the caption states that this is the brand’s first collaboration of 2020.
Lol, so it's a year men want to fool ladies right? 😂😂😂??
So men have started padding to fool ladies its BIG down there? Hian! This 2020 let's all be careful o. What's that! Leave your thing the way it is. Shior x3 😂😂😂
Dakore Egbuson Akande is rumoured to be having issues in her marriage. And the actress almost didn't help matters when she ushered in the New Year in a red number, captioning the image; ''This 2020, Do no harm and take no shit! Simple''.
Just hours ago, she released a banging photo of her self looking very hot in a bikini. Happy 2020!
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party to concentrate on strengthening the main opposition platform before the 2023 election cycle.
“Our preoccupation at this point in the @OfficialPDPNig should not focus on elections, but on rebuilding and strengthening our party for the challenges ahead of us,” Mr Abubakar, who was the party’s presidential candidate in 2019, said in a tweet this morning.
Mr Abubakar said rather than playing politics when campaign season was still at least 30 months away, resources should be channelled towards bolstering the PDP structure, which has weakened consistently since it lost the centre after 16 years in 2015.
Mr Abubakar challenged President Muhammadu Buhari at the February general election, but lost by a few million votes.
Over the past few days, he has faced rumours of taking desperate measures to get the PDP’s presidential ticket again in 2023, when Buhari would step down.
On Friday, media reports quoted Walid Jibrin, chairman of the PDP board of trustees, an advisory body of party elders, as alleging threats to his life because he declined to support an automatic ticket for Abubakar in 2023.
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are set to reunite at the Golden Globes on Sunday. The 77th Golden Globe Awards will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, with Ricky Gervais set to host but all eyes may be on the former glamour couple of Hollywood.
Since Jennifer, 50, and Brad, 56, split in 2005, they have never crossed paths at an awards ceremony or bumped into each other on the red carpet.
This might be set to change this year though, as the exes are reportedly being sat just feet away from each other.
A dad and his nine-year-old daughter have been accidentally shot dead after hunters mistook them for deer.
Kim Drawdy, 30, and his daughter Lauren, were targeted by mistake during a hunting trip in South Carolina on Wednesday, New Year's Day.
Four hunters were attempting to move deer when the tragedy happened, the SC Department of Natural Resources said.
Both father and daughter sadly died of their injuries at the scene, the Post and Courier reports.
Their autopsies are due to take place on Sunday.
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is investigating the incident, which happened in a wooded area.
Kim’s brother Benny told Live 5 WCSC the family is having a difficult time.
He said: "I was devastated. I couldn’t believe it when I first got the news.
"I said,'It couldn’t be.' It broke my heart and I couldn’t believe it, a twin brother and now there’s only one left."
A Facebook fundraising page was set up which says: "Kim Drawdy and his daughter Lauren where both tragically killed in a hunting accident on New Year's Day.
"We are trying to raise money to help with funeral costs for both of these precious souls. Anything helps, and all prayers are appreciated."
David Strickland, founder of the Carolina Wildlife Syndicate, think many of accidents happen because of a failure to teach firearm safety.
He said: "We live in a hunting culture. Gun safety is something that absolutely needs to be ingrained in the public education system."
Mr Strickland, who is a hunter himself, added: "Your two rules are, never point your barrel at something you don’t want to shoot, and always identify your target before you shoot.
"It’s also important to know what’s behind your target."
Youtube stars, Tana Mongeau and Jake Paul have ended their 'open marriage' just five months after tying the knot in Las Vegas.
The social media stars, aged 21 and 22 respectively, announced they had called time on their eight-month relationship via their Instagram pages on Thursday, insisting they will remain friends and 'always love' each other.
The split comes just days after Tana admitted she was 'so unhappy' about certain aspects of the marriage and said 'so many things keep hurting her'.
'OK i don't rly know how to do a 'we're taking a break' post & this is weird as f***... i'm happy to still be able to sit with Jake and laugh as we do this- but for right now we both are taking a break to focus on our own very crazy lives,' Mongeau began.
'I'll never know what the future holds and i will always love Jake and everything we did. I'm grateful to know throughout this I've made a best friend for life & found someone to do life with when no one understood me,' she added.
'Here's to 2020, working on us, and my new Lamborghini since i get half of everything! No need for crazy speculations- this is coming from a place of nothing but love. I love u Jakey. thank u for this past year,' she concluded.
Paul took to Instagram to share the same photo with his own caption about the divorce, saying he would get custody of their golden retriever Thor, while Tana will get their Lamborghini.
'As Tana and I sit next to each other writing captions about taking a break we're literally laughing at how crazy and stupid the past couple months have been and cracking jokes at how silly this all seems,' he began.
'I'm keeping custody of Thor but Tana unfortunately gets my Lamborghini. I wouldn't change anything that happened.. we're best friends and right now it's best for us to focus on our lives & see what the future holds,' he said.
Paul added: 'our friends started playing sad music while we were writing these captions and we all started laughing our a**es off.. this is bitter sweet but it's what's best for us right now).'
Like Mongeau stated in her post, Paul said, 'the last thing we wanna see is fan pages speculating 'what happened' we truly just need a second to focus on our own lives and ourselves. luv u mongeau. (sic)'.
In July, Tana made headlines for her shotgun wedding to Jake, which was later revealed to not be legally binding.
People accused the couple of getting married for views and money, but they claimed their love was real. The wedding was livestreamed and fans could pay $50 to watch the nuptials.
An actress who had a small role in Captain America: The First Avenger has been arrested after she allegedly fatally stabbed her own mother.
Mollie Fitzgerald, a 38-year-old actress and director, is accused of attacking her mother in her own house. Patricia “Tee” Fitzgerald, 68, was found dead on Dec. 20 inside her home in Olathe, Kansas.
Mollie Fitzgerald has been charged with second-degree murder, PEOPLE confirms. She is being held on $500,000 bond at the Johnson County Jail.
According to the Kansas City Star, the victim was in the process of moving back to Kansas City from Texas when she was killed. Police have not released a motive for the killing.
According to the IMDb, Mollie Fitzgerald has worked as a director and producer, mostly on independent short films. In 2011, she played Stark Girl in Captain America: The First Avenger.
Tee Fitzgerald’s family plans a funeral on Friday, according to an online obituary.
“Tee was one of the kindest people you could ever meet, she was always helping people and animals in need,” the family wrote in her obituary. “She loved sports and was an avid tennis player and was a huge fan of the Rockets and the NBA.”
She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Terry Fitzgerald.
Her brother Gary Hunziker told the Kansas City Star that he knew few details about the circumstances surrounding his sister’s death.
“We were shocked,” he told the newspaper. “It doesn’t matter the circumstances — the loss of a sister is what it’s all about.”
Six tigers have been rescued from horrible conditions after being left to starve to death by their owner.
Animal rights activists in Ukraine were tipped off about the tigers on December 30 and discovered the beasts kept in a makeshift cage on Vodnikov Island in Kiev.
Evgheniya Prokopenko, one of the activists who joined the operation, shared video and pictures of the rescue operation.
According to local media, the tigers were locked in a private club that had apparently fallen into disuse.
It's understood that the owner, who has not been named, is a well-known Ukrainian but has moved abroad.
Evgheniya explained: "Almost half of the staff of the Holosiivskyi police department visited the site of the 'Tiger Club' together with rescue workers where we found six tigers in terrible conditions.
"We got a call saying they are being kept in a tiny aviary and that they are keeping people awake by roaring day and night.
"The aviaries where they are being housed were made of improvised materials.
"The conditions were shocking, three tigers lived in an 86-square-foot aviary in mud and their own waste, with no possibility to find a dry place."
According to the lawyer, the animals were so thirsty they were even drinking the liquid from the floor.
She added: "Another mature tiger lived in a 32-square-foot aviary while another two stayed in another one just a little larger."
When police arrived they found security guards looking after the place but nobody caring for the tigers.
Lawyer Prokopenko added: "We have launched criminal proceedings according to the first part of Article 299 (Cruelty to animals) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Dr Albert Akhidenor, a dentist says it is proven that poor hygiene of pregnant mothers can lead to delivering of premature babies and to low weight baby.
Akhidenor, who is the Chief Executive Officer, Community Oral Health Initiative, an NGO, disclosed this in Abuja.
He said that mothers with poor hygiene could easily transfer diseases to their babies through kisses.
According to him, the oral health of mothers will directly improve the health of their newborn babies.
In addition, Akhidenor said poor nutrition could also cause poor oral hygiene.
“For the teeth to develop very well, you need a balance diet.
“Diet filled with refined sugar and sweet is not healthy for the teeth. With poor diet, the whole formation of teeth is affected,’’ he said.
Akhidenor, however, expressed optimism that the 2020 National Oral Health Policy, formulated by the Federal Ministry of Health would address the burden of oral diseases in the country.
“An oral health policy helps to harness political, economic and socio-cultural factors at the individual, family, community, national and international levels.’’
He said that the policy would address poor access to oral care service if well implemented.
“By 2025, at least 50 per cent of the population should be able to have access to oral care.
“We are looking at a situation where all the Primary Health Care Centres in the country will have a dentist at that time.
“We are looking at all women having ante-natal clinic, have access to oral care information.
“We are also looking at the situation where oral health education is included in the science curriculum in schools so that children can be educated.’’
Orlando Bloom has kept the skeleton of his dog as an ornament after he passed away. The Pirate's Of The Caribbean star was so distraught after losing his beloved canine friend, he took measures into his own hands in order to keep him in his life.
Following the death of his former stray dog Sidi, the 42-year-old sent his body to a company that would strip his remains down to bones.
Speaking about the loss of his furry friend, Bloom admitted that he felt compelled to keep Sidi in his life somehow, and saw this as the most aesthetically pleasing option.
"I just couldn't stand the fact that he was just not going to be around anymore."
According to The Daily Star, Bloom was also asked by the company if he wanted to keep his pooch's penis.
And not wanting to let any part of Sidi go, the 42-year-old decided to keep it and use it as an ornament.
"They asked me if I wanted to keep the penis. What do you think I said?"
"Yes! Actually aesthetically it didn't look quite right, so I have it on the side" he revealed.
Meanwhile, the Pirates of the Caribbean star says he and Katy Perry can’t wait to have a little treasure of their own.
Sparks are said to have flown between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie from the minute they started filming Mr and Mrs Smith in 2004.
Rumours of an affair began to circulate before Brad's marriage to Jennifer Aniston hit the rocks and ended in divorce less than 12 months later.
Brad initially denied there had been some "dastardly affair" but later both her and Angelina admitted they had "fallen in love" during filming.
Indeed, Angelina's former bodyguard Mark Behar previously claimed he caught the pair "making out" in their trailers and that he helped pass x-rated notes between them.
"[Angelina] and Brad were constantly laughing and flirting with each other and acting like two school kids who had the hots for each other, and it was so cute," he told Us Weekly.
"I caught them several times in each other’s trailers making out. I wasn't shocked at all when they got married years later."
However, other on-set sources claimed Angelina was the temptress, with one insider claiming she secretly removed her flesh-coloured underwear during one love scene.
"In the end, she shunned the suit and climbed in bed with him naked! It’s the biggest thing we all remember from that film," the source told Us Weekly.
Angelina opened up about her courtship with Brad in 2006, insisting she had no intention of stealing him from Jennifer.
The actress - who shares six children with Brad - said that when they first met, "it was clear he was with his best friend, someone he loves and respects."
She told Vogue: "And so we were both living, I suppose, very full lives... I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mum."
According to Angelina, she and Brad quickly "became a pair", finding "joy" in everything they did together.
Admitting she "couldn't wait" to get to work each day, she insisted it wasn't until filming ended that they began to contemplate a relationship.
“It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe. And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration," she said.
Ghanaian actress and author Juliet Ibrahim shares a prayer and encouragement note to fans this 2020.
The mum of one urged everyone to make plans and work harder to achieve them, while also stating that there is nothing impossible with God.
She wrote:
''Happy New Year guys! 2020 has been declared the YES year. The God of YES is already in your life hence this year is a year of YES. When God says YES nobody can say NO, remember?! There is nothing God can Not do. Abide and trust in God and everything you pray for and work towards shall come to pass. Everything you need is already available through Christ. Another 365 days to go; set goals, make plans and as a new day begins, work harder than ever to achieve those goals. I am a living testimony of God’s wonders, miracles as well as blessings and most of these stories I have shared with you in my book #atoasttolife @atoasttolifebook because God is with me and my God said YES Juliet in every experience! I wish you a happy fulfilled YES YES YES year in Jesus Name. Amen #atoasttolife #happynewyear #2020''
