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Inside The Baghdad Tower Taken Over By Protesters

November 7, 2019 3:35 pm

Baghdad, Iraq – Dark and narrow, the stairway that leads to the top floor of Baghdad’s “Turkish Restaurant” building is teeming with people. Once home to a popular rooftop restaurant, the ramshackle structure in the centre of the Iraqi capital has become a landmark of the ongoing mass protests against the country’s political establishment.

The high-rise was evacuated in 2003 when it was bombed by invading US forces, leaving in its wake an empty concrete carcass. For over a decade, the tower remained uninhabited, until a group of demonstrators claimed it as their own on October 25 and made it

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Inside Bola Shagaya’s Double-Barrelled Diamond Celebration

October 19, 2019 6:36 am

Literally, Lagos was shut down on Saturday, October 12. Virtually, everybody who was somebody all came to honour the stylish high society doyenne and billionaire, Hajia Bola Muinat Shagaya who turned 60 a few days earlier, as the prestigious Eko Convention Centre was filled to the brim with power brokers.

For months, the diamond woman plotted to make her diamond milestone a huge celebration of friendship. And the oil titan had so many of her friends in torrents strutting the walkway of the Eko Hotels into the grand ballroom to be part of what has been described as a classy …

Human parts thieves caught inside church’s cemetery in Ogun

April 26, 2019 8:34 pm

A bricklayer, Kunle Adewunmi, an alleged specialist in breaking into cemeteries to steal human body parts, and his two accomplices have been arrested in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

They were arrested penultimate Saturday after allegedly Istealing human body parts from no fewer than 35 tombs in recent times.

It was said that nemesis caught up with the trio while they were digging up graves at a cemetery belonging to a parish of the Methodist Church at Ogbe,Abeokuta.

They were said to have been sighted by a female member of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC), who was attracted to the scene by …