Hong Kong man who salted and cooked parents jailed for life
A Hong Kong man who killed, dismembered, salted and cooked his parents was sent to prison for life on Monday after being found guilty of double murder. The conviction of Henry Chau, 31, on Friday concluded a gruesome case that shocked the city in 2013 when the severed heads of Chau's elderly parents were found stuffed into two refrigerators. During the 20-day trial at the city's high court, the jury heard how Chau had dismembered his elderly parents before salting, cooking and packing their body parts into lunchboxes "like barbecued pork".
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone ripe for measles outbreak
The people of Monrovia’s Peace Island ghetto, refugees of civil war who found themselves suddenly overwhelmed and outmanoeuvred by the deadly Ebola epidemic, are used to life under siege.
Ikuru’s defection: More APC govs, deputies to join PDP soon — Secondus
NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, disclosed, yesterday, that following his nationwide consultations and discussions in the last couple of weeks, some governors and their deputies on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, would in the next few days return to the PDP.
2 killed, others injured as hoodlums unleash mayhem in Mushin
LAGOS — Two persons have been reportedly killed, while 14 others were injured as some hoodlums went on the rampage at Idi Iroko, Mushin area of Lagos, last Friday.
Bar election offenders from public office – SERAP
Five days to the 2015 general elections, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called for a legislation barring anyone found guilty of violating electoral laws from holding public office in the country. SERAP, in a statement by its executive director, Tokunbo Mumuni said it is mandatory to establish a law to: “Explicitly bar for life anyone found guilty of electoral-law violations, including hate speech and violence before, during and after the general elections from being elected to or appointed to public office.”
Tough times ahead after elections
The 2015 election will certainly come and go but the after effect may linger for a long time. Whether it is PDP or APC that eventually wins the presidential election, the party that will come to power post-election, had better get prepared for the handling of the economy. As it stands, the nation is on a financial cliff that can fall off any time except a miracle happens. The one commodity that provides life support for the economy has seen its price at the international market fall to as low as $58 per barrel.
