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Photo: Lagos Chief Judge grants amnesty to 153 inmates

The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade today granted amnesty to 153 inmates of the Kirikiri Maximum and Medium prison. 24 of the inmates were released from the Maximum prison while 129 of them were from the Medium prison.

Three of the inmates granted amnesty have been standing trial for over 15 years. Among the 129 inmates released from the Medium prison, 79 were standing trial for capital offences while 50 were standing trial for minor offences.

Watch: Footage shows woman stealing ring from a corpse in a funeral home

Police have arrested a woman suspected of stealing a ring from a corpse at a Texas funeral home in an incident captured on surveillance video. Odessa police on Tuesday, April 12 arrested 41-year-old Kalynn Homfeld on a charge of theft from a human corpse. Police said the ring stolen last Friday was worth about $10. Watch the video after the cut...

Investigators did not immediately say what led them to Homfeld or whether the ring was recovered. Police on Monday released security video of a woman seen entering a viewing room at Sunset Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home, reaching into an open casket and fumbling to remove something from the female corpse.

The suspect drove off in a car. The theft was discovered Saturday. Online Ector County jail records didn’t yet list custody or attorney information for Homfeld.

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Peter Okoye shares pics of his wife, calls her his woman crush anytime

The singer gushed over his wife and mother of his two children, in an instagram post this morning...

'Mario Balotelli regrets choosing Italy over Ghana'- his Biological dad who abandoned him as a child says

AC Milan of Italy striker Mario Balotelli regrets choosing to represent the Azurri of Italy over the Black Star of Ghana according to his biological father, Thomas Barwuah. Thomas Barwuah is the man who gave Balotelli up for adoption while he was a child, before he was adopted by his now Italian parents, who the Italian striker refers to as his 'real parents'.

The Ghanaian FA tried to convince him to represent the West African country back in 2011, but he opted to represent Italy instead, a decision the father says he striker regrets due to the constant racist abuse he endures in Italy.

Himself [Balotelli] has started realising he made a big mistake playing for the Italian national team and he has told friends about it,” Barwuah told GazzettaGhana.

“He is not being treated well, true they don’t show him the love he deserves for his great talent and skill. I think that all he gets is abuse, especially from the media here and that is because he is black”.

“They don’t like him and it started from the beginning, they didn’t want to see a black boy like himself taking glory of the Italian national team.”

His biological dad was a Ghanaian immigrant who lived in Italy with wife Rose. They had Mario in Sicily, only to give him up for adoption at the age of three in 1993 to the Balotellis, a family of Italian Jews, for unexplained health reasons.

Mario with the Balotellis

Sad photo of two orphan boys laying on their parents' grave

A Malaysian page shared this photo of two siblings whose parents died in road accident. Whenever the boys miss their parents, they visit the graveyard, lay on their tomb and cry. "For those who still have both my mother and father...Cherish them" the page wrote. Source: Durian/Facebook

We packed the arena full back to back - Sound Sultan on ABL games

It is no longer news the African Basketball League is the biggest Sports entertainment event in Nigeria. Last weekend, it was a roll call of celebrities at the ABL rematch games as the Stallions played against the Lagos Warriors while the Lagos Islanders took on the Ramblers to end the games for the night. M.I, Toolz, Sound Sultan, Niyola, Chairman HKN, B Red, Emma Nyra, Noble Igwe, Sasha, Zaniab Balogun, Fade Ogunro and a host other celebs stormed the venue to support their teams.

The Lagos Islanders will take on Libreville Izobe of Gabon on Friday 15th April at Landmark Centre by 7pm.

The half-time will go down with an electrifying performance, watch out.

For tickets reservation, visit https://abltickets.com/.

The ABL is proudly supported by TRACE, Union Bank, Wakanow, Cornerstone Insurance, Cruz Vodka, Pulse.ng THE BEAT 99.9FM and the Lagos State Government.

ABL, More Than a Game

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