Ex-Premier League star Thibaut Courtois fathered a secret love child with a married former neighbour, it has been claimed.
Courtois, 27, is believed to have engaged in a romantic relationship with Elsa Izac just weeks after moving into a new property with his then-girlfriend Marta Dominguez.
The romance, which occurred during Courtois' spell in England with west London club Chelsea , is believed to have blossomed after the mother-of-four took in parcels for him.
And The Daily Star has also reported that the pair, who lived next door to each other, enjoyed romps in the Chelsea team hotel before matches.
However the relationship came to an end after fashion designer Elsa, who has since split from her banker husband, got pregnant with Courtois' baby.
It has been claimed that Courtois asked the former model to get an abortion - something Elsa refused to do and their son Enzo was born in September 2017.
Courtois quit Chelsea to join Spanish giants Real Madrid in August last year but, after receiving a visit from Elsa and his son, he has cut ties with the youngster and doesn’t send him birthday or Christmas cards.
A source told the Daily Star: "She wants him to acknowledge Enzo is his son publicly. He had never denied to her that he is the father.
“If ever Elsa had Thibaut’s parcels, he would come and ring the bell to say thank you. She thought he was so polite. Then he would ask her for coffee and she thought, ‘Why not?’
“Then one day she noticed the way he was looking at her. Marta Dominguez, his girlfriend, was pregnant at the time. Elsa did not appreciate it.
“He looked like he wanted something from her, physical not emotional.”
The pair soon started a romantic relationship but Courtois then moved out of the £3million six-bedroom house in Wimbledon following his move to Madrid.
Elsa is now bringing him up as a single parent in Wimbledon, south London.
The source added: “They did not plan to have a baby but she was planning on going to Madrid with him.
“She told him she was pregnant. He was saying it wasn’t good for his career and people are going to find out.
“He asked her to have an abortion. She told him she was not going to do that. Then he told her she was free to see somebody else if she wanted to.
“But he didn’t say he didn’t want to see her any more.
“Elsa felt like he wanted just a fling. It was just awful. They broke up when she was five months pregnant. He gave her a choice. She had to choose between the baby and him.”
A man has been found dead with his head and arms cut off on the grounds of an derelict house, it is reported.
The gruesome scene was discovered by a neighbour who was looking for their cat at about 4pm on Saturday.
After the alarm was raised, officers found the man's head and arms in a different location on the property in Cork, Ireland.
Efforts to identify the man were initially hampered because his head and limbs were missing, but detectives now believe the man was a rough sleeper in his 50s who was last seen alive on Friday, the Irish Mirror reports.
A report by the Irish Times said the man's head and arms had been cut off, but it was unclear whether the man died at Castlegreina House or if he died elsewhere and his body dumped there.
It is believed the body had been there for some time.
The death was being treated as suspicious and a murder probe was expected to be launched after a post-mortem was carried out.
Investigators have been checking with local agencies to find out if any homeless people were reported missing recently.
A Garda spokesperson said in a statement: "The Coroner has been notified and the services of the State Pathologist has been requested.
"A post-mortem will take place at a later date and this will determine the course of the investigation."
The Home Office has said it will "leave no stone unturned" in its bid to tackle child sexual grooming after it was reported that nearly 19,000 minors in England were exploited in the past year.
Latest figures show a sharp increase in the number of child grooming victims over the last five years, according to The Independent.
Local authorities identified around 18,700 suspected victims in 2018-19, up from 3,300 five years ago, the website reported.
A spokesman for the Home Office said the department "is committed to tackling child sexual abuse and will leave no stone unturned in tackling this abhorrent behaviour".
Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, which has been targeted by grooming gangs, told The Independent the figures show this type of exploitation "remains one of the largest forms of child abuse in the country".
She added: "Too many times, Government has said it will 'learn lessons', yet 19,000 children are still at risk of sexual exploitation."
Last weekend, a Telford abuse victim told the Sunday Mirror of her relief at seeing justice finally served.
She became the first Telford victim to see her abusers jailed after the newspaper revealed how paedophile gangs groomed girls for sex.
The woman, who is going by the name 'Sarah,' was targeted at 12 and prosecutors said she was treated “like a piece of meat”.
Four men in the West Midlands were jailed for abusing her after she was sold for sex and raped.
The offences took place between 2000 and 2003 and started when Sarah, who is now an adult, was 13.
She said after her tormentors were finally jailed a total of 22 years over the sex crimes against her: “I just sobbed. I was relieved, happy and sad, all at the same time.”
The Sunday Mirror campaigned for a public inquiry in Telford after finding authorities failed to act on warning signs.
A public inquiry was finally commissioned by Telford and Wrekin Council in April 2018.
The figures reported by the Independent today, obtained from the Department for Education, showed that Lancashire recorded the highest number of children who were victims of grooming of any local authority (624).
It was followed by Birmingham (490), Surrey (447), Bradford (414) and Gloucestershire (409).
The Home Office spokesman added that the department launched the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse "to get to the truth, expose what has gone wrong and learn lessons for the future".
He added: "The inquiry operates independently of government and, within its terms of reference, decides for itself what it investigates.
"The inquiry is investigating institutional responses to child sexual exploitation by organised criminal networks with public hearings set for the spring of 2020."
The Zamfara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested one Shuaibu Abdullahi, 27, for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl.
Confirming the incident to Punch correspondent on Sunday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Aminu Ismail-Maru said, “The mother of the girl, Rabi Ibrahim, reported the case to the command.
“A complaint was lodged by one Rabi Ibrahim to the Intelligence Investigations Department of the NSCDC, Zamfara State, that one Shuaibu Abdullahi, 27, of the Kofar Mani area of Gusau forcefully had carnal knowledge of her five-year-old daughter of the same area.”
The mother of the victim also told the NSCDC detectives that the alleged rapist forcefully took her daughter into an uncompleted building, where he perpetrated the act.
Rabi said her daughter returned home crying and when she asked what was amiss, the little girl narrated her ordeal in the hands of the suspect.
The mother stated that a close examination of her private parts showed residue of semen and she was then rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, for medical examination and treatment.
The PRO explained that investigation into the matter was ongoing, adding that the suspect had been taken into custody and would be arraigned after the Christmas break.
A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Olumide Babalola, has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to declare as anti-people the N50 quarterly card maintenance fee recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The lawyer, through the suit, is urging the court to nullify the December 20, 2019 circular issued by the CBN to all banks and non-bank commercial institutions for the enforcement of the card maintenance charge.
Babalola contended that the N50 card maintenance charge was in bad faith, against public interest and urged the court to declare it null and void.
He prayed for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the CBN and others from charging the N50 card maintenance fee, saying it was “merely an avenue to generate income for commercial banks at the expense of the public.”
The lawyer said, “I know that the provision at Page 20, Clause 10.4 on the Card Maintenance Fee of the Guides is exploitative, unreasonable, done in bad faith and against public interest.
“I know and believe that the N50 quarterly card maintenance fee is against public interest because the cards are never maintained by the banks as they remain in the customer’s physical custody until they expire or get lost or damaged.
“The banks always charge card replacement fee in the event of damage, loss or expiry of the cards.
“The cards are maintained and kept by respective customers who keep and ensure their safety.
“Once a card malfunctions, the bank charges an additional fee for its replacement and I have never heard of a case of repair of a debit card and the defendant is put to the strictest proof of same.
“I know as a fact that the card maintenance fee is another money-making channel devised by the defendant for the benefit of commercial banks.”
Civil rights icon and US Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, his office has announced.
Lewis, 79, said he was diagnosed following a routine medical visit with subsequent tests that reconfirmed the diagnosis. The long-time Georgia congressman will undergo treatment for the cancer.
"I have been in some kind of fight -- for freedom, equality, basic human rights -- for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now," Lewis, who in March 1965 joined forces with Martin Luther King Jr. to lead a voting rights march out out Selma, Alabama, said in a statement.
He continued: "While I am clear-eyed about the prognosis, doctors have told me that recent medical advances have made this type of cancer treatable in many cases, that treatment options are no longer as debilitating as they once were, and that I have a fighting chance."
Pancreatic cancer was the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States in 2018, after lung and colorectal cancers, according to the National Cancer Institute. The cancer, on average and across all stages, has a five-year survival rate of 9%, according to the American Cancer Society.
Michael Jackson's three children have been spotted enjoying some quality time together on a city break to Rome.
Paris, 21, Prince, 22, and the rarely seen youngest 17-year-old Bigi, who changed his name from Blanket in 2015, were pictured mingling among tourists at the Italian holiday destination.
The siblings all lead very different lives but came together to enjoy the Christmas holidays together.
The trio were joined on the family holiday by Prince's girlfriend, Molly Schirmang, and Paris' musician boyfriend, Gabriel Glenn.
Gunmen who abducted the six-year-old son of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr Nengi Talbot, have demanded N50m ransom to release the little boy.
Talbot disclosed this in on Saturday.
The victim, Antonio, spent Christmas Day in the custody of the assailants following his kidnap on Monday, December 23.
The hoodlums had invaded the commissioner’s residence at the New Commissioners’ Quarter in Opolo area of Yenagoa and took their target away at gunpoint.
Talbot said the bandits made the N50m ransom demand on Friday when they called him on his mobile phone for the second time since the incident happened.
He said he did not have such an amount of money to secure the freedom of his little son.
The commissioner said he had not seen such a huge sum of money in his entire life and pleaded with the kidnappers to release Antonio unconditionally on humanitarian grounds.
Talbot said, “They have not released my son. They contacted me yesterday (Friday) and asked for N50m. Where do I get that kind of money? I have not even seen that kind of money in my life.”
A student of Crown Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has been arrested by the Ekiti Police Command over the alleged gang-rape of two fellow students of the private institution.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Amba Asuquo, said on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti that the suspect in the company of an accomplice committed the crime on December 9.
According to him, the duo accosted the two students with dangerous weapons and forcefully took them to an abandoned building where they r3ped them.
The police boss said the suspects would be charged to court upon completion of investigations.
He added that efforts had been put in place to arrest the other fleeing suspect as a manhunt had been launched to identify his hiding place.
Uche Nwosu, governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) during the 2019 general election in Imo state, has returned to the the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Nwosu, son-in-law to Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo, had defected from the APC to AA when he could not secure the ruling party’s ticket.
Earlier in the month, the supreme court had ruled that Nwosu was not qualified to contest the governorship election in the state.
The apex court held that Nwosu doubled as the candidate of the APC and that of AA which is against the electoral laws.
Speaking with journalists during the weekend, he said the supreme court’s ruling on his double candidature confirms that he is still a member of the APC.
The Lagos state Government has appealed to all health care providers to stop demanding police report before treating gun wounds. It also appealed that patients who need emergency treatment should also be treated without asking for evidence of funds.
The State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi made the appeal yesterday while reacting to investigations by the Ministry of Health.
He revealed that some health facilities in the State are in the habit of rejecting or delaying care to trauma victims which has in some cases resulted in avoidable loss of lives and must be stopped.
Nollywood actress Dayo Amusa has just stirred controversy on social media after she stated that she enjoys having s.e.x and she doesn’t care what people say about that.
In her post, the actress further stated that a woman should not be judged by the number of people she has sex with, as everyone has the right to enjoy themselves.
Read her full post below;
''I enjoy having sex. I mean good Sexual intercourse. You know the thing that people do that is acceptable in society if you’re married,
or if you’re trying to conceive a baby or if you’ve been in a partnership with somebody for some time but most definitely not acceptable if you have sex with somebody on the first date or if you have sex with somebody that you don’t know all that well. Why can’t people just have sex for the sake of having sex?
Why the actual fuck does a woman that enjoys having sexual relationships with a partner or partners automatically make people jump to the conclusion that the woman doesn’t respect herself?
Why does a woman have to justify herself? I don’t give a fuck if you sleep with 200 people or you’ve only ever been with 1 or none.
I don’t give a fuck if you’re sleeping with one partner, or you’re sleeping with two, three or twenty partners.
I don’t give a fuck if you have sex on the first date or wait until the 30th date. Want to know why I don’t give a fuck? Because it’s none of my fucking business.
You know your body, and at the end of the day it’s your body therefore you make the rules.
Why are women being shamed for having sexual relationships? The sad part is majority of it is women shaming other women.
SUPPORT EACH OTHER FOR FUCK SAKES. SEX IS A NATURAL HUMAN INTERACTION. Fuck who you want, when you want, where you want. You don’t owe an explanation to anybody.
And you surely are not “disrespecting yourself” because you enjoy having sex. Be transparent, and educate yourself before expressing such stupidity.
But make sure you are playing safe o Make safe choices
Catch up with me later tonight on my live video, let’s trash this matter. No insults intended nor accepted.''
The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has declared three-days of fasting and prayer for the unity, peace and progress of Nigeria.
NYCN National President, Mr Solomon Adodo said that the prayer session would hold from Jan. 1 to Jan. 3, 2020.
Adodo urged youths well meaning Nigerians and religious leaders to participate in the three-day exercise.
He also advised them to turn away from all misdeeds and truly seek God’s face.
“The National Youth Council of Nigeria hereby calls on all Nigerian youths and indeed every Nigerian to humbly, sincerely, soberly and solemnly seek the face of God in utter repentance as we embark on three days of prayer and fasting.
“It is a known fact that Nigeria has been a highly religious nation across faith lines and denominations.
“However, we have all been significantly steeped in hypocrisy as a people, rarely practising what we preach. It is, therefore, time for us to turn away from all our misdeeds and truly seek God’s face.
“All the nations that have truthfully sought the face of God while working on their developmental goals have been able to achieve very significant progress.
“We strongly believe that Nigeria’s problems can be addressed if we sincerely seek the help of God, while assiduously working to address same.
“It is on this note that NYCN is calling on all Nigerians to embark on this sessions of fasting and prayers to seek God’s guidance in all our national affairs in 2020,” Adodo said.
A 36-year-old woman was trampled to death by an elephant at Ol Arabel Forest, which is located on the borders of Baringo and Laikipia counties.
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has identified the woman as Stella Chebii.
According to the agency, Chebii had gone into the forest to look for her livestock.
The woman’s body was taken to Nyahururu Hospital mortuary, says the KWS.
“We are reaching out to the family of the deceased to condole with them,” said the KWS in a Friday statement whose undersigned is Paul Udoto, the agency’s communications director.
Udoto says to avert such incidents in the future, KWS has “mobilised problem animal control teams to monitor elephant movement in Baringo and Laikipia counties”.
“Members of the public are cautioned to be vigilant, particularly when they approach forest areas,” advised KWS in their statement.
Jose Mourinho has revealed his sadness after his family dog, Leya, died on Christmas Day.
The Spurs manager arrived at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium ahead of his side's clash with Brighton , before revealing the news to broadcasters Amazon Prime.
When asked by presenter Jim Rosenthal how his Christmas was, Mourinho replied: "To be honest, it was very sad because my dog died and my dog is my family.
"But we have to move on."
Mourinho was visibly upset at the loss of his pet Yorkshire Terrier.
He did not give further details of the passing of Leya, but was appreciative of Rosenthal's commiserations.
It is not known how old Leya was, but she had been with Mourinho since before 2007.
George Michael ’s sister Melanie Panayiotou will reportedly be buried next to his unmarked grave in north London.
Melanie, 55, died on Christmas Day exactly three years after her superstar brother.
Now the Daily Star Sunday reports she will be laid to rest next to George and their mother at Highgate Cemetery in north London.
The singer's grave does not have a headstone as the family were concerned about it turning into a shrine for fans.
There are still reportedly no plans to honour the singer with a marker.
A source told the publication: "George still doesn’t have a gravestone three years after his death, and it’s going to stay that way.
"Now that they will also have to visit the family plot to mourn Melanie, they don’t want to be wading through fans and their tributes just to pay respect to the growing number of their tragic loved ones.
Finding the perfect Christmas gift for a loved one can prove impossible sometimes. But one couple thought they'd found the ideal present for their son.
However, his wife wasn't quite so sure about it.
The woman, who has been married to her partner for seven years, took to social media to share her thoughts on the unusual gift.
In a post on Reddit's Am I The A**hole forum, the wife explained that her husband had received a beautiful photo album from his parents, which was intended to tell the story of his life, through pictures.
But there was one crucial part of his life missing from the pages.
According to the woman, her in-laws didn't include any pictures of her in the album.
Instead they put in several photos of her sister and of her husband's ex-girlfriend.
Awkward!
She wrote: "My husband got a beautiful present from his parents: a photo album with printed pictures telling his story from the very beginning. Very emotional... except from a little detail - I only appear in one of these pictures - a picture featuring four people where my face is not even visible.
My husband and I have been married for seven years and have been together for eleven. We are still madly in love.
"They have never shown any kind of hostility towards me and they have been always very kind."
She continued: "The present was only for my husband. Still there are a lot pictures with friends - there are even pictures of his ex-girlfriend - Including one portrait of her alone. I understand that she’s part his story and I’m not jealous at all.
"My husband’s older brother was given a similar photo album for himself and in that case it featured several pictures of his wife and his marriage.
"In my husband’s album there is even a single picture of my sister’s wedding which they attended."
he added: "I was there when the album was given and explored page by page and frankly I was totally embarrassed when the last page was turned and I found out that I wasn’t in any of the pictures."
The woman went on to ask fellow Reddit users for advice on whether she was overreacting.
Kano State Taskforce on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs and Unwholesome Processing Foods, Miscellaneous Committee, under the State Ministry of Health, on Saturday impounded 147 cartons of fake and expired drugs concealed in an uncompleted within Kano metropolis.
The state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, who briefed reporters on the seizure, said the illicit drugs worth hundreds of millions of naira were about 147 cartoons.
He added that the expired drugs were stored in an uncompleted house located at Unguwar Dabai in Dala local government area of the state.
According to him, “the committee got a tip from a good Samaritan who briefed the committee about the drug syndicate and unusual movements within the area by unknown persons which triggered the attention of people in the area.”
The commissioner who was represented by the Director Pharmaceutical Services of the Hospital Management Board, Pharm. Ghali Sule, restated government willingness to sanitise the state of fake, illicit drugs and drug abuse syndrome, which he regretted has negatively affected youths and women.
