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Daughters From Hell: Meet Two Evil Sisters Who Shot Their Own Mother Dead According to a report by the New York Post, a 14-year-old and her 12-year-old sister were arrested for stabbing and shooting their mother to death — a brutal payback after they were punished for trying to run her over with the family car, neighbors and officials in Mississippi, USA have said. The teen, Amariyona Hall, and her younger sister were taken into custody late Friday after deputies in Pike County responded to the family’s mobile home in Magnolia, where Erica Hall, a 32-year-old mother of four, was found stabbed multiple times and shot once in the chest with a handgun, authorities said. Emergency workers tried to resuscitate Hall, whose relatives found her bloodied outside her home just minutes earlier, but she could not be saved. Investigators then zeroed in on Hall’s daughters, Pike County Sheriff Kenny Cotton told the McComb Enterprise Journal. “They found out the daughters — two teenager...

World Bank forecasts 2.2% growth for Nigeria in 2019 By Peter Egwuatu *Reverses oil price forecast to $67 for 2019-2020 World Bank has put the estimated growth rate for Nigeria’s economy in 2019 at 2.2 percent with its forecast oil price at average $67 per barrel for the current year and next year, down $2 from its projections last June. The bank in its Global Economic Prospects report said, growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to pick up to 3.4 percent in 2019, rising to an average of 3.7 percent in 2020-21 . According to the report, this is predicated on diminished policy uncertainty and improved investment in large economies, together with continued robust growth in non-resource intensive countries. However, it noted that external headwinds have intensified as growth among main trading partners moderates, global financial conditions tighten, and trade policy uncertainty persists. The report further stated: “Growth in Nigeria is projected to rebound t...

World Bank begins selection process for new president The World Bank, yesterday, said it has commenced a process that will lead to the selection of a new president. The commencement of the process follows the sudden exit, last Monday, of the incumbent president, Jim Yong Kim, who announced he would be stepping down from his position effective February 1. Mr Kim’s announcement came more than three years ahead of the scheduled end of his tenure in 2022. wold bank Since the announcement, World Bank’s CEO, Kristalina Georgieva, was announced as the person to assume the role of the interim president effective February 1. The bank in a statement, said its Board of Executive Directors met on Wednesday, January 9, under the chairmanship of its dean, Merza Hasan, to discuss the selection process for the next President. While expressing appreciation to Kim for his leadership of the World Bank Group and the significant accomplishments of the Bank during his tenure, Exe...

Genevieve Nnaji: From Lion Heart To Billionaire Status Everything you need to live well Genevieve Nnaji is definitely pushing the needle in Nollywood. The actress has become Nollywood’s first billionaire as Netflix buys Lion Heart for N1,385,100,000($3.8 million). The Netflix movie which as everyone buzzing as definitely brought the spotlight to Nigeria. The Nigerian actress, film producer and director took to Instagram to appreciate the support for Lion Heart : Lion Heart movie is Genevieve Nnaji’s directorial debut. Stars like Phyno, Nkem Owoh, Peter Okoye(Psquare), Pete Edochie and Onyeka Onwenu featured in the acclaimed movie. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/01/genevieve-nnaji-from-lion-heart-to.html

Presidency in fresh moves to ease Magu out of EFCC up date by Vanguard  By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Edito r ABUJA—Indications emerged, yesterday, that chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, may lose his position unless President Muhammadu Buhari changes his mind. Magu It was learned that the EFCC boss may be asked to pursue further studies in order to advance his career in the Nigeria Police Force where he is already a commissioner, as the Presidency has vetted two top police chiefs as replacement. One of the very reliable sources confirmed to Vanguard that the EFCC chairman who had defied all odds to cling to his job, despite being denied confirmation by the Senate, is likely to be given a dignified exit out of the job by the Presidency so as not to be seen as having been ‘used and dumped’ by the Buhari administration. A Presidency top official, who is privy to the plan, told Vanguard that Magu was likely to be as...

How robbers disguise as beggars in Lagos By Arjiromanus Victor Their dejected look will bring tears rolling down your cheeks. They are on every street of Lagos, corners, flyovers, and hideouts; you see them swarm around vehicles on traffic, chasing passersby. Indigent, many in their deformed states, out of pity, you stretch a giving hand to them, hardly suspecting some of these dejected looking fellows could ever think of,  let alone commit it. The guns Criminals as beggars They are masters in their shenanigans and in disguise. They commit hideous crimes at the peril of their unsuspecting benefactors who bear the brunt after their good deeds. Some, fraudsters collaborate with high profile criminals as kidnappers, armed robbers and ritualists, while others are drug carriers and takers, who choose to pose as beggars to easily escape the heavy hands of the Law. Such is the case of a deaf mute, Emeka Uche, from Anambra state who disguise as a beggar to steal...

Sanwo-Olu, vows to partner private school owners to boost quality education By Olasunkanmi Akoni The All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship candidate in Lagos, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has assured Private School Proprietors Association of Nigeria, Lagos chapter of the will to partner with them aimed at boosting the quality of education in the state if elected in the governorship poll in March, 2019. Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his running mate, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat at a seminar, organized by the state Ministry of Education, Office of the Quality Assurance, yesterday, in Alausa, Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu Hamzat, who expressed plans of to have a robust relationship with their school administrators, urged  the private school owners to vote Sanwo-Olu and himself, saying, “there is a ready made modalities  to meet with the delegates of the private school owners in the state to iron out your needs.” According to him, “If we must improve the s...