Darkness:Residents jubilate after crash of four electric poles

Traders and residents living around Shonola Street, opposite, Excellent Hotel Aguda Titun, Ogba Ikeja, on Tuesday danced for joy after four electrical poles crashed to the ground, plunging the community into darkness.

Sack corrupt, partisan service chiefs, group urges Buhari

The Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN), a nongovernmental organization, yesterday urged the president, General Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the sack of service chiefs found to be partisan and corrupt.

THE HELL OF WOMEN:Sitting next to the man who raped and made her pregnant, Afghan victim - who was forced to MARRY attacker to avoid prison - says she gave up all her 'wishes in life to buy my daughter's future

Victim: Known only by the name Gulnaz (left), the woman was only 16-years-old when she fell pregnant with Smile (centre) - the child of her rapist  Asadullah (right)

An Afghan woman who was forced to marry her rapist and have his baby has revealed how she gave up all of her hopes and dreams to 'buy' her daughter's future.

Teenage girl's shock at discovering 6ft albino SNAKE curled up on top of the radiator in her bathroom

A teenage girl was shocked to discover a huge albino snake curled up on top of the radiator in her bathroom.

Father of three who died in police custody was repeatedly punched in the head, handcuffed for six hours and not allowed to use the toilet, inquest hears

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A mentally ill father-of-three who died in police custody was handcuffed for six hours, wet himself after being denied access to a toilet, and was repeatedly punched by officers, it was claimed today.

Nine year old boy whipped ruthlessly for not knowing the story of Pinocchio

A nine-year-old boy was whipped with skipping ropes by his adoptive mother – for not knowing the story of Pinocchio.

Photographs of the child, who was also beaten with metal rods and water pipes, have sparked outrage across China after they were shared online.

Cop who shot fleeing black man five times in the back before handcuffing his lifeless body is charged with murder

This is the moment a police officer shot a fleeing unarmed black man five times in the back, then handcuffed his body after he crumpled lifeless on the ground.