A Florida mom who was found guilty of strangling her daughter with a bra has been sentenced to life in prison. After a little more than two hours of deliberations, a jury found Nioshka Bello, 24, guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday, the Orlando Sentinel reported. A judge sentenced Bello, who has a history of mental illness going back to when ...
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A Nigerian man whose wife was among 153 people killed Sunday when a MD-83 aircraft crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, has filed suit against the manufacturer of the plane and its engines, and against the estate of the American who was piloting the aircraft. In a 56-page lawsuit, David Chukwunonso Allison alleges that the plane and its engines were defective and ...
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A new president of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU was made known on Thursday as Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge of Bayero University Kano emerged President. This was revealed at the 17th National Delegates’ Conference of the union. The Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Rufa’I, while making this known in Abuja, congratulated and urged the new executive to improve on the ...
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A boy performs the weekly Friday prayers on a pavement fence during an anti-government rally in Sanaa. Photo by Reuters
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