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Nigerians in America: Unnecessary Segregation?

Alert Naija — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:43:26 +0000

Apparently, there’s a divide of some sorts between the 2 sets of Nigerians in America. The people in Category #1 feel that the folks in Category #2 tend to act like because they were born and raised in the homeland, they are the tried and true Nigerians. Meanwhile, the folks in Category #2 feel that the [...]

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Man Kills Girlfriend: Receives Jail Sentence

Alert Naija — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:32:57 +0000

A man who pleaded guilty to murder in the beheading of his pregnant girlfriend on a New York City rooftop in 1989 was sentenced Friday to 18 years to life in prison. Philip Ward apologized tearfully for killing Veronica Bowen, who was six weeks pregnant. The 46-year-old Ward, who pleaded guilty on March 22, is [...]

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Sex Slavery: 14-Year-Old Girl Lured To Couples Hotel Room and Converted To Sex Slave

Alert Naija — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:15:45 +0000

A young sadistic couple acted out dark sexual fantasies on a 14-year-old girl after grooming her on internet chat rooms, a court heard today. Married engineer Christopher Zeb, 26, and his deviant mistress Poppy Knight, 22, blindfolded, bit and bruised their teenage victim in a seedy 24-hour sex session in a hotel. The schoolgirl, whose [...]

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Rick Warren (Purpose Driven Life’s Author) Loses Son After Prolonged Depression

Alert Naija — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:54:12 +0000

Matthew Warren, the youngest son of evangelist Rick Warren has committed suicide after a long struggle with mental illness, the pastor’s church said Saturday. Matthew Warren, 27, died on Friday following years of battling depression, a statement from the Saddleback Valley Community Church said. The statement paid tribute to Matthew Warren as “an incredibly kind, [...]

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New Pope Elected: Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina

Alert Naija — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:35:29 +0000

Following the sudden resignation of Pope Bennedict XVI in early 2013, the catholic church has just elected a new pope who chose to go by the name of Pope Francisco and whose real name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina. Bergoglio, 76, has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and [...]

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Benny Hinn Wedding: Remarries Former Wife

Alert Naija — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:47:13 +0000

Benny Hinn, one of the most popular televangelist has remarried his former wife and mother of his four children, Suzanne Harthern. Hinn married Suzanne in 1979 and divorced her 31 years later in 2010. He claimed at the time that the split came about because of Suzanne’s addiction to prescription drugs. In 2012, Hinn announced [...]

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Lady With Longest Legs Ever [Pictures]

Alert Naija — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:47:38 +0000

How long do you think a girl’s legs should be? Check out Svetlana Pankratova, a Russian woman who holds the world record for longest legs ever on a lady. It took Pankratova six years to clinch the title. But with stems that measure a lengthy four feet, four inches, the 6”5 giant has made history [...]

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New Pope Election: Cardinals’ First Day Of Voting Ends Without A Pope

Alert Naija — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:16:10 +0000

First black smoke from Sistine Chapel signals no new pope. The famous smoke from a chimney to indicate whether cardinals locked away in the Sistine Chapel have elected a pope is not created just by burning used ballots, the Vatican said Tuesday. “We use smoke flares,” Paolo Sagretti, who was in charge of setting up [...]

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Man Spent N5 Million On Tattoo and Cannot Now Find A Job

Alert Naija — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:02:34 +0000

Meet Britain’s most tattooed man who has spent more than £20,000 pounds on tattoos. The 33-year-old Mathew Whelan is now struggling to find work as a result of his devotion to body art. After spending 300 hours in the tattooist’s chair and having paid more than £20,000 for designs, Mr Whelan is currently volunteering in the office of a Liberal [...]

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Top British Cardinal Quits With Immediate Effect

Alert Naija — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:53:28 +0000

Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric resigned as head of the Catholic Church in Scotland with immediate effect yesterday in the wake of claims that he made sexual advances towards priests. Cardinal Keith O’Brien — who steps down as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh — denies the allegations, which date back to the 1980s, but [...]

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Ja Rule Leaves Prison

Alert Naija — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:45:17 +0000

Ja Rule was released from an upstate New York prison over the weekend after serving nearly two years for an illegal gun possession charge. The former Murder Inc. superstar now awaits word from the federal government on when he will begin his 28-month sentence for tax evasion. The rapper, born Jeffrey Atkins, owed US$1,1 million [...]

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Pope’s Strange Tweet Before His Resignation – We Are All Sinners

Alert Naija — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:11:02 +0000

The world is still shocked at the annunciation of Pope’s resignation of which the last such announcement was made about 700 years ago. Pope Benedict will retire on February 28th after almost 8 years in the Vatican. A Vatican statement said the pope was unable to continue in office due to his age and diminishing strength, he [...]

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Protesting Jobless Frenchman sets himself on fire

Alert Naija — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:09:50 +0000

A 43 year old protesting jobless French man set himself on fire yesterday in the city of Nantes right in front of an unemployment bureau. The man who was no longer receiving welfare, set him self on fire while he was protesting over the employment agency’s demand which stated that he would have to repay [...]

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Lightning Strikes St. Peter’s Basilica Hours After Pope Benedict XVI Announced Resignation

Alert Naija — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:55:40 +0000

Some few hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, a lightning bolt appeared to strike St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Monday. AFP photographer Filippo Monteforte, caught the amazing bolt on camera during a storm. “It was icy cold and the rain was falling in sheets,” Monteforte said. “When the storm started, I [...]

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Meet the “Tree Man” That Grows Branches on His Body (HPV Infection)

Alert Naija — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:13:10 +0000

Dede Koswara, known in his native Indonesia as “Tree Man,” has lived for years with rapidly spreading warts that have covered his entire body in a case that has baffled doctors. The man has been undergoing a radical transformation at a tropical hospital in Bandung and in the time it takes to conceive and give [...]

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