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An Indian man drunkenly slipped into a pothole at an under-construction road in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh and was buried alive. He was covered in molten tar and would have gone unnoticed had residents not discovered the man's arm sticking out from the tarred road.

Saudi Arabia is to execute Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, a Shi’ite Muslim over his role in anti-government protests in 2012, despite protests that he was a minor when arrested. Activists say he could be beheaded and crucified as early as his week.

No fewer than 150 pilgrims were killed today September 24th in a stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. According to reports, 400 other pilgrims were injured in the stampede which happened in Mina, on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca.

An elderly man's sweet serenade to his dying wife while in hospice care is warming the hearts of viewers across the globe. Erin Solari recorded her grandfather Howard Serena, 92, singing "You'll Never Know" by Rosemary Clooney and Harry James to his wife Laura, 93, on Sept. 12. Laura currently suffers from dementia.

18 year old Uzbek national Jafar al-Tayyar is pictured crying as he's told to drive an armoured vehicle packed with explosives into a village in Syria. He was obviously unwilling and not ready to die but knowing he had no choice, he drove into the village and the vehicle up, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air (bottom right). Moments later, his fellow jihadis in the Uzbek-led Imam Bukhari Jamaat militant group - which fights alongside Al Qaeda in Syria - stormed the villages & unleashed terror.

  For many of us, mozzie bites are an unavoidable part of life if we want the luxury of having our balcony door open on a summer’s night or evening drinks on the harbour. But apart from not scratching them at all - and come on now, let’s not get too crazy - what’s the most effective way of minimising the itch? The key is in how our immune system responds to a mosquito bite in the first place.

A female Corrections officer was brutally beaten by a Rikers Island inmate, leaving her bruised with two black eyes, according to a report by NY Daily News

A police man was beaten up by people in Ogbomoso road in Oyo state this morning after the police vehicle he was riding in was accused of causing an accident in the area. The eye witness who spoke to LIB said the police van was chasing a taxi for reasons he doesn't know and the taxi crashed into another car and into the bush and burst into flames. People then descended on the policemen who managed to escape in their van except for one. (pictured above). More photos after the cut...

Many Chinese have joked about selling their kidneys for Apple products but it seems there is a better and less riskier alternative. A sperm bank in Shanghai, China is inviting qualified college graduates over 5’5 tall and free of disease to donate sperm in exchange for money to buy an iPhone 6S.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor-designate of Fountain University, Osogbo, Prof. Abdul Hakeem Mobolaji, his 14 year old son, Muhammad and four others died in a car crash along the Lagos Ibadan expressway on Sunday September 20th.

‎A trailer conductor was killed this morning at Coker along the Badagry expressway in Lagos. Eyewitnesses say the unidentified conductor had called on a trailer driver to help him move his own trailer forward so he can offload the goods in his trailer. As the driver tried moving the vehicle, he suffered brake failure and pressed the conductor against another trailer. The deceased died instantly.

The 78-year-old pontiff landed in Washington today for his first visit to the US. President Barack Obama arrived the tarmac with his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha to welcome the pontiff when his plane landed minutes ago at Joint Base Andrews. More photos after the cut...

Press statement below from the Nigerian army. Advancing troops along Banki axis today afternoon cleared more terrorist camps and captured weapons, flags and improvised explosives (IEDs) making devices at Jangolori and Bulaburma villages. The recovered items have confirmed earlier intelligence that the terrorists often used corrugated metal roofing sheets and bathroom slippers in making improvised explosive devices which affects troops

A man, Martin Pistorius, who slipped into a coma aged 12, has revealed the living nightmare of waking up from the coma only to find out that he was unable to move or communicate or do anything for himself for 12 years. And to his horror, when he did awake, he was unable to communicate his return. The South African man was diagnosed with a debilitating form of meningitis in the late 1980s and was left unable to move, speak or even make eye contact.

A suspected member of the Boko Haram sect identified as  Abdullahi Adamu has been arrested by  Security operatives attached to Operation Mesa (OP Mesa) in Ijora area of Lagos State following a tip-off by residents of the community. 

John and Adrie, parents of a little girl who died on Saturday, September 19, after being knocked over by a drunk driver, has donated her organs to three children.

  A South African prison where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated is being evacuated after two people died from a disease caused by exposure to rat urine. Over 4,000 inmates are in the process of being moved from Pollsmoor to nearby prisons to avoid more infections.

Another interesting piece by two-time former Nigerian minister, Femi Fani-Kayode. Read below...

Martin Shkreli, 32, founder and chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals who was a former hedge fund manager, purchased the rights to Daraprim - a drug which is used to treat life-threatening parasitic infections - in August for $55million. Sho rtly thereafter, the price of the drug, which costs roughly $1 to produce, was increased to $750 per tablet. The drug cost only $13.50 per tablet and you needed only 100 tablets to treat yourself and be well.

The Catholic Church of Annunciation, Kubwa, was upgraded as a Parish by the Archdiocese of Abuja and less than 3 months after the upgrade, suspected armed robbers stormed it and carted away valuable equipment and a Toyota Camry.  The robbers forced their way into compounds and carted away whatever they could lay their hands on.

'Clock' boy withdraws from school that suspended him over clock, Engineer says boy didnt invent the clock The family of the 14-year-old Muslim student who got in trouble over a homemade clock mistaken for a possible bomb withdrew the boy Monday from his suburban Dallas high school. Ahmed Mohamed's father, Mohamed El-Hassan Mohamed, said he has pulled all of his children from their schools. Mohamed said the family is still deciding where to send the children to school. Ahmed has said he brought the clock he made to MacArthur High School in Irving last week to show a teacher. Officials say he was arrested after another teacher saw it and became concerned. Ahmed wasn't charged, but he was suspended from school for three days.

Grace Jones of Broadway, Worcestershire who celebrated her 109th birthday revealed in an interview with BBC that the secret to her longevity is whiskey.

At least seven people were killed and more than ten wounded after a car bomb exploded near the entrance of Somalia palace in Mogadishu, Somalia. The explosion reportedly happened as delegates and journalists were gathering for a ceremony. Alshabaab terrorist group have claimed responsibility for the attack. It says in a statement that the targets were "enemies of Islam"

Lenovo Technologies West Africa persistently engages the Nigerian Mobile Industry with their overwhelming Smartphone devices. Like we’ve not heard enough of their awesomeness, Lenovo has ensured that the Lenovo P70 and Lenovo A5000 Smartphones are now within the reach of all of us!.

Samantha Kudeweh (left) was on Sunday, September 20 attacked by one of Hamilton Zoo's Sumatran tigers in New Zealand. According to local reports, the tiger attacked the 43-year-old mother of two while the animal's enclosure was being cleaned. The Zoo will be closed until Thursday Sept. 24th.

A father of 2, 58 year old Danish man was arrested in South Africa after pieces of female genitalia were found in a freezer in his home. Police spokesman, Hangwani Mulaudzi said that 21 pieces of women’s genitalia were found stored in plastic bags in a freezer. Police also discovered anaesthetic and other surgical implements in his home. Mulaudzi said: “We are not sure how many victims there are; we are in the process of tracing them’ The spokesman said police were alerted by one of the man’s victims. The man was arrested on Thursday in the city of Bloemfontein in the central Free State province. They are asking women who have been assaulted by the man to come forward.  Mulaudzi couldn’t identify the man’s motive. It is not known if the body parts are from 21 different women. It is not known how the man committed the assaults or if the women are dead or alive. The Danish citizen owns a gun shop in the city of Bloemfontein in the central Free State prov...

Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has adopted a new system of booking traffic offenders rather than impounding their vehicles.

  Tragedy struck in llesa, Osun State on Sunday when a driver of a police Armoured Personnel Carrier crushed two kids of the same parents to death. ADVERTISEMENT Our correspondent gathered that the kids were playing in front of their parents ‘ residence when the driver of the APC rammed into an electric pole before crushing the kids to death.

  The United States will increase the number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two years, bringing the total to 100,000 in 2017, John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has said.

Press statement from Nigeria military on yesterday's multiple bomb attacks in Maiduguri, Borno state.

Lazard Ltd announced today that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has joined the Firm as a Senior Advisor, with a focus on sovereign advisory. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, a global leader in economic development and international finance, was until May 2015 the Coordinating Minister for the Economy & Honourable Minister of Finance of Nigeria, Business Wire reports.

  The transparent car of ZF company equipped with different security systems is presented on the second press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA Frankfurt, Germany.

  4. They take responsibility Instead of feeling like a victim of their circumstances, confident people take ownership of their situation and do something about it. They don't blame their parents or others, they take responsibility and change the things that are getting in their way of their goals

  3. They watch their language Confident people don't speak badly about themselves, instead, they question their self-doubt. Instead of believing that something is 100% true, such as feeling like a loser, they realize that they bought into something that's not certain and they attach feelings to new belief.