Thailand furious at Lady Gaga's fake Rolex tweet

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government is up in arms over a tweet by pop sensation Lady Gaga about buying a fake designer watch in a Bangkok street market and has complained to the United States. Bangkok's sprawling outdoor markets and some of its big shopping malls are widely...

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Drug dealer mistakenly sends officer text messages

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Police say a drug dealer mistakenly sent messages to a California central coast police officer in an attempt to sell methamphetamines. The Santa Maria officer notified Santa Barbara County sheriff's detectives about the errant...

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Michael Jackson's sleepless note pulled from auction

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A note written by Michael Jackson in which he complains of being unable to sleep has been withdrawn from auction at the request of the late singer's ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley, the auction house said on Wednesday. Jackson, who died in 2009 after asking...

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Woman nabbed with cocaine at P/Harcourt airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a woman identified as Mrs. Adaba Onitemi for allegedly taking in 839 grams of substance believed to be cocaine at the Port Harcourt International Airport. The 54-year-old woman, believed to be a...

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BREAKING NEWS: Kidnapped German killed in JTF raid - Source

News reaching Todaysgist (TG) confirms that the German, Raufach Edgar, who was kidnapped in Kano on January 26 this year was killed by his captors this morning before he could be rescued by men of the JTF. The JTF had conducted a raid at Danbare area opposite the new campus...

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Zimbabwe Police Label TB Joshua A Sorcerer

Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity are powerful forces in sub-Saharan politics. So, too, is the belief in prophecy and sorcery.In Zimbabwe, it is tense times, with uncertainty about President Robert Mugabe’s health, the dates of the next election, and whether constitutional...

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Men who have an extramarital affair more likely to die of a heart attack

Researchers in Italy examined monogamy among men and discovered an interesting correlation -- having an extramarital affair increases men’s risk of having a deadly heart attack. It’s almost cliché: a middle-age man having s*x with a woman who is not his wife keels over in flagrante...

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Liberia’s Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years

A UN-backed war crimes court sentenced Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor to 50 years in jail Wednesday for arming rebels in Sierra Leone in return for “blood diamonds”. Taylor, 64, was convicted last month of all 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for...

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Fashola insists he can’t reabsorb sacked doctors

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, urged the sacked striking doctors in the state to channel their appeal through the Health Service Commission, to clear any issue that might have led to their sack, if they were still interested in getting reinstated and put...

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D'banj aka Mr Oliver Twist -former security guard in London now international African artiste(VIDEO)

D'banj aka Koko Master or Mr Oliver Twist - former security guard in London now international African artiste. The boy from 9JA who left UK 9 Years ago And Return To Number 9 In UK Charts.He shouted "We did it" referring to himself and his mum. ...

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FRSC recovers corpse from river

The Bayelsa State command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says it has recovered one dead body from a vehicle that plunged into Okoso river along the east-west road axis of the state. Sector commander, Vincent Jack, said in Yenagoa yesterday that a Mitsubishi Gallant...

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FG cuts meal subsidy for students

Funds allocated for students’ feeding in 104 unity schools have been cut in the 2012 budget, Education Minister Professor Ruqayattu Ahmed Rufa’i has said. The minister said the shortfall followed the reduction in the overhead costs and meal subsidy allocations of the schools....

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Justin Bieber accused of battering man taking photos

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies are investigating a complaint that Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber roughed up a man who was taking pictures of the performer at a suburban shopping center, police said on Monday.  Deputies were called on Sunday to an outdoor...

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"Idol" finale slumps, but Phillips tops iTunes

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "American Idol" finale audience slumped to a record low, but the show's newly crowned champion Phillip Phillips hit No.1 on iTunes on Thursday with his first single "Home." The 11-year-old Fox singing contest, once a TV industry juggernaut whose...

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Court extradites Nigerian to US over $30m scam

A Lagos Federal High Court yesterday acceded to the request of the Attorney General of the Federation that one Godwin Chiedo Nzeocha be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges over alleged Health Care Benefit Fund fraud worth $30 million. Ruling, Justice Tsoho...

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Oshiomhole sues magazine, late journalist over libel

Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole has sued a dead journalist Ahmed  Asekome and his soft sell  news magazine, News of the People, over libel. In the case No. B/556/2011, between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Dockland Communications Limited, publishers of News of...

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Italy doctors save baby with smallest artificial heart

ROME: Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world's smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant.  The doctors at Rome's Bambino Gesu hospital said the operation was carried out last month...

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Nigerian appointed London police first black commander

Victor Olisa, a UK-based Nigerian and a Chief Superintendent with the London Metropolitan Police has been appointed as the first black commander for Bexley local council in London. "Policing runs in the family and I have always wanted to be a police officer and ethnicity...

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34 Lagos doctors get their jobs back

On monday thirty four of the sacked 788 Lagos doctors were reabsorbed. According to reports, the  doctors applied for a  review of their cases, hence they  are recalled by the Health Service Commission. Their recall was approved by the  Governor of Lagos State,...

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Pope's butler arrested in Vatican leaks scandal

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican confirmed Saturday that the pope's butler had been arrested in its embarrassing leaks scandal, adding a Hollywood twist to a sordid tale of power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance. Paolo...

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Hyvinkaa shooting: Finland gunman in deadly rampage

Police recovered a rifle from the roof where the gunfire came from  A gunman fired from the rooftop of a house in a southern Finnish town, killing two people and injuring seven others, the authorities have said. Police arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of the shootings...

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Airtel NG and others should stop the indiscriminate sending of text messages to Subscribers

Todaysgist(TG)-Airtel Ng subscribers in the country have been complaining for some time now about the number of text messages they received from the telecoms giant.Todaysgist went round to get responses from GSM users and the result is not very pleasant as 9 out of 10 users...

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Terrorists plan to attack Maiduguri on Democracy Day

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Friday that it had uncovered plots by some terrorists to cause havoc during the democracy day in Maiduguri. JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col.Sagir Musa, made this known in a statement in Maiduguri.Information...

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NestOil, Oilserve win deal to build $400m gas pipeline

NestOil and Oilserve, two indigenous companies have been awarded the $400 million East-West evacuation gas pipeline project by the Federal Government. This project is part of a network of gas pipelines underway around the country, expected to bring about the springing up of...

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