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The wife of the police chief in a central Florida community accidentally ran over a family friend’s 22-month-old son with an SUV in a parking lot, authorities said. Pamela Bodenheimer, 51, was backing up from a parking spot Friday night at Titusville High School when she drove over Brady Hutto. She told police she did not see the boy and ...

By Evelyn Usman Never in the wildest imagination could Peter Opara had envisaged the tragedy that befell him and members of his family last Sunday. The father of one, who occupied a one-room apartment at 9 Ogundade Street, Ejigbo area of Lagos, returned earlier that day from church with his family. After taking their evening meal of boiled rice and ...

Activists who stripped to their bras protesting the alleged sexual assault of Ingrid Turnawe are not satisfied. Suspending the police officer who groped the opposition politician is not enough, they say. By Marlies Pilon, Kampala Last Friday a helmeted police officer was captured on film arresting Turnawe of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party at an opposition rally just ...

More ex-gover-nors who allegedly looted public funds and laundered them in the United Kingdom, are in trouble, as the authorities there are buoyed by their success in the trial of a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to activate their files. Ibori was on April 17, sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for money laundering and theft of $250m. ...