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According to Anambra state online Facebook page, Obiamaka was at home for the holidays when she met her untimely death. She was at home alone when some Indian Hemp smoking boys who had asked her out and she refused, scaled her family’s compound fence and gained access to their apartment in Abule Ado area of Lagos state. They raped her and left her in the pool of her own blood. Some residents living in the area who saw the boys as they scaled the fence out of the compound, alerted the mother of the deceased who returned home from her workplace immediately. She got home to find her 14 year old daughter with blood stains on her vagina and gasping for air. She rushed her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. The distraught mother, Mrs Orakwue, told friends and family members who were on a condolence visit: “I was at work when I got a call from our neighbor that they saw some boys jumping out from the fence of our compound and that my daughter was not responding to the k...

25 killed, 12 vehicles burnt to ashes in Kogi (Felele) fatal accident No fewer than 25 people have just lost their lives in a fatal accident that occurred Kogi State involving a tanker conveying fuel and an eighteen seater bus coming from the North. DAILY POST reports that both vehicles got burnt to ashes. The accident which occurred between Fefele-Okene Abuja Road at about 1:30pm Friday saw residents of the area scampering for safety. When DAILY POST reporter visited the scene at exactly 2:05pm, officers of the Fire Service were yet to arrive at the scene. But when they later came at about 2:20pm to salvage the situation, they could only help for a few minutes as their water got finished while fighting the ranging fire. Our reporter who is currently at the scene of the incident observed that 18 unidentified bodies were seen lifeless on the ground. Equally consumed in the inferno were about 10 cars parked by the road side. Sympathizers watching helplessly expressed shoc...

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A luxury Hermes handbag fetched a jaw-dropping $380,000, shattering the world auction record in Hong Kong on Wednesday, Christie's said. The auction house didn't identify the buyer of the matte white "Himalaya" crocodile skin Hermes Birkin bag. . . The handbag was produced in 2014 and has 18 karat gold buckles and strap loops encrusted with 205 diamonds. It fetched 2.94 million Hong Kong dollars ($380,000), which Christie's says is a record for any handbag sold at auction. . . The price flew past the presale estimate of HK 1.5 million-2 million ($193,000-$258,000) during 10 to 15 minutes of intense bidding in the auction room and from phone and online buyers, Christie's spokeswoman Gigi Ho said. . . The price surpasses the record set a year ago when Christie's auctioned a similar Birkin bag for $300,000. It had identical specifications but was produced in 2008.

CNN has fired Kathy Griffin after she was pictured holding a likeness of President Donald Trump's severed head. Ms Griffin has been dismissed from her annual gig co-hosting the television network’s New Year's Eve program with network anchor Anderson Cooper, the network announced. . . CNN’s PR department tweeted: “CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program,” The gruesome photos were taken in a shoot with celebrity photographer Tyler Shields, who is known for work depicting violence.

A Hispanic man died after developing sepsis when his fresh tattoo wound became infected from swimming in the sea. The unidentified 31-year-old ignored advice given to those with new inkings that they should wait for two weeks before venturing into pools or oceans. . . Instead, he decided to venture into the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico just five days after obtaining a religious cross on his right calf. According to Daily Mail, because his wound was still fresh, it became contaminated with a flesh-eating bacteria that tore chunks out of his skin and ultimately led to his death. . . The day after he went swimming, he developed a fever, chills and a red rash close to his tattoo, experts wrote in the BMJ Case Reports. His condition continued to worsen over the next two days, before he was eventually admitted to hospital, they said.