20 corpses uncovered,18 men & 5 women rescued from Ritual dungeon in Oyo(Photo)

About 20 bodies of people believed to have been killed for ritual purposes were discovered, yesterday, in Soka, Oluyole local government area of Oyo State. Also, 18 men and five women, believed to have been bewitched and bound with fetters in a dungeon, were found and rescued. The rescued victims looked emaciated. One of the women was said to have been delivered of a baby who was sold to a waiting buyer among those who always thronged the secluded area at night to buy human parts.Some of the captives were too weak to tell their stories. It was gathered that some Fulani cattle rearers grazed their cattle in the bush around the area. A suspect identified as Akeem Isiaka (38) was arrested in connection with the incident and taken to Sanyo Police Station.Containers and wells containing human parts including skulls were also discovered in the bush. A woman, Titi Adeniyi, who managed to speak, said she had been held captive for more than two years.Another captive, Tunji Alabi, who said he was a bus conductor before he became a victim of the ritualists,could not say much. Rescued grandmother

Asylum family stranded in Paris airport for a week

An Eritrean woman and her eight children have been trapped at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport for more than a week after being deported by the Norwegian government. Norway's immigration services deported Simreth Wolbgeber and her family on March 12 to France, the European country responsible for processing their asylum claim under European Union rules. The family arrived in France early last year, after fleeing the repressive government in Eritrea, and it was there that they were first fingerprinted and registered as asylum seekers.

The French authorities claim to be unable to find temporary accommodation for such a large family, and as a result have left Wolbgeber and her children stranded, sleeping on uncomfortable plastic seats in the airport lounge and depending on charity from the Red Cross as they wait for a place.

"To sit for so many days at an airport with eight children is inhuman. It is outrageous," Ranveig Kaldhol, a church social worker in Ulsteinvik, where Wolbgeber had been living, told The Local.

"It's terrible," Kaldhol added. "They are innocent children and they haven't had one decent meal. They have been living on drinks, cup cakes and yoghurt given to them by the Red Cross, and they haven't had beds, or even a shower. The youngest is only five months old."

She argued that when children are involved the Norwegian authorities had a duty to liaise with a receiving country's immigration agencies.

"The Norwegian government, before they send children, they should know that there is someone to take care of them to give them at least the minimal protection," she said. "They haven't done anything criminal, they have just asked for protection from Eritrea. That's their sin."

Geir Bang Danielsen, the deputy director of Norway's immigration police, told NRK that the responsibility for the family now lay with France's authorities.

"France is responsible for the family according to their duties under the Dublin cooperation," he said. "The aim is to ensure that an asylum seeker get his application processed, but at the same time to ensure that no one travels from country to country and applies for asylum in several Schengen countries."

Here is a picture a friend of Simreth Wolbgeber's took of her in the airport:

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Malaysia police searches house of missing plane's captain

Malaysia's authorities said Sunday that the police searched the home of the missing MH370 flight's captain on Saturday but they had not publicized the result yet.

Malaysia's Ministry of Transport said in the statement released on Sunday that officers spoke to family members of the pilot named Zaharie Ahmad Shah and experts are examining the pilot' s flight simulator kept in his house.

On Saturday, the police also searched the home of the co-pilot Fariq Ab Hamid.

The statement said, as per normal procedure, the Royal Malaysia Police are investigating all crew and passengers on board MH370, as well as engineers who may have had contact with the aircraft before take-off.

"We appeal to the public not to jump to conclusions regarding the police investigation," the ministry added.

The statement also said the search and rescue continues to be a multi-national effort, led by Malaysia. Malaysian officials are contacting countries along two corridors -- a northern one from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, and a southern one stretching from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean where the missing plane might fly to according to Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak.

These countries include: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France. Officials are requesting assistance from these countries.

The statement said Malaysian officials are currently discussing with all partners how best to deploy assets along the two corridors. Malaysian officials are also asking countries to provide further assistance in the search for the aircraft, including: satellite data and analysis; ground-search capabilities; radar data; and maritime and air assets.

Both the northern and southern corridors are being treated with equal importance, it added.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday in a media conference that the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner was likely to be a deliberate act, and authorities had refocused their investigation on its crew members and passengers.

He said the last satellite contact with the missing flight was at 8:11 a.m. local time (0011 GMT) last Saturday, nearly seven hours after it disappeared from air traffic control radar.

Citing Malaysian air force radar data, the prime minister confirmed previous speculation the missing flight did turn back westward, recrossing the Malaysian peninsula before turning northwest.

But he did not confirm speculation the plane had been hijacked.

Meanwhile, the prime minister said the search in the South China Sea would end and authorities were reassessing the redeployment of assets.

Focus of the search for the missing Malaysian plane has shifted westward to the Indian Ocean, seven days after it lost contact with ground control.

Flight MH370 went missing early last Saturday morning with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sparking a massive search involving more than a dozen nations.

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Lupita's mom and brother.

Is this the world's stupidest car thief?

A car thief has been nabbed by police in Norway after he stole a Saab convertible, almost immediately ran out of petrol, and then called the owner from her own car phone to ask where the fuel card was. The owner, Anne Kristin Korsfur, promptly went looking for the man, finding him at the spot where he had broken down, and then kept him chatting until the police arrived.

"He was a nice guy, but it was good that the police arrived so quickly and arrested him," Korsfur told Norway's Nordlys newspaper. "I'll never yell at my partner when he doesn't get around to filling up the car again: sometimes you want to start the day with an empty tank."

The young man had been staying at the guest house Korsfur runs with her partner Johnny Henriksen, and had managed to snatch the car keys as he brought an empty teacup into their kitchen.

When she arrived at work the next morning, Korsfur spotted a missed call from the mobile phone the couple keep in the car, and, wondering who it could be, rang back.

The man picked up the phone and told her that the car had run out of petrol and that he wanted to know where they kept the card used for paying for fuel. Korsfur pretended he had dialled a wrong number, and then set out to track the man down.

"I guessed that he had driven south, partly because the night before he had asked Johnny how to get from Sørkjosen to Finnsnes, and quite right, I got no further than the turn that goes up Sørkjosfjellet when I saw our car standing by the roadside," Korsfur told the newspaper. "He was wearing a reflective vest, and had the warning triangle set out -- he had done everything by the book."

Before approaching the man, she called her husband, who called the police. She then parked her car and offered to help the man, who had no idea who she was, having only met her partner the previous night.

After calling her son and asking him to bring a jerry can of petrol, Korsfur then chatted to the man for twenty minutes as the police made their way to the scene.

"The situation was so relaxed that I was not in the least bit afraid," she said. "I was about to crack up in laughter the whole time. I had to try really hard to keep a straight face."

It was only when two police officers arrived, that she asked the man to introduce himself to her. He claimed to be her partner, adopting the identity in the car's registration documents.

Then she told him: "I am the person who owns the car you are driving."

The man has been charged with theft and driving without a licence.
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Paul Walker leaves entire fortune to his 15years old daughter

Paul Walker was worth $25million when he died tragically at a young age in November 2013 and he left every single dime to his 15 year old daughter, Meadow Rain Walker. No kobo for his mum, dad, siblings and even longtime girlfriend, Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell

According to TMZ, the late actor appointed his father Paul Sr. as the executor of the will, who has since filed the will with a probate court, and his mum, Cheryl Walker, as Meadow's legal guardian and the guardian of the teenager's $25 million fortune.

Carlsen: Norway's chess superstar

As a prodigal genius and fashion model, newly-crowned world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has already lit up the game and has now added the world crown to his list of achievements.

The Norwegian world number one earned his maiden world title on Friday when he defeated reigning champion Viswanathan Anand of India in the 12-game challenge match in Chennai.

Carlsen, who turns 23 on November 30, missed out on becoming the youngest world champion by a few weeks, a record set by his one-time coach and Russian legend Garry Kasparov in 1985.

Kasparov, the undisputed world champion from 1985 to 1993, described Carlsen as a Harry Potter-type "super-talent" who is the first Westerner to hold the world title since America's Bobby Fischer in 1975.

"Magnus rocketed to the top of the rating list almost without pause, displaying a consistency and tenacity rare in a young player to accompany his limitless talent," Kasparov wrote in the Business Insider earlier this month.

Carlsen has dominated the World Chess Federation's list of top players in the last three years, with a top rating of 2,870 points that broke Kasparov's best of 2,851 points achieved in 1999.

"Magnus is a very different player and his approach is refreshingly new," American chess grandmaster and former Olympic champion Susan Polgar told AFP, with his aggressive tactics on show throughout the bouts with Anand.

Introduced to chess by his father, Carlsen showed off his genius as a toddler.

At the age of two, the self-taught prodigy knew by heart all the car brands and later memorised the long list of all Norway's municipalities, with their flags and administrative centres.

Sibling rivalry with one of his older sisters sparked his interest in chess, which soon led to his first competition at the age of eight.

The breakthrough came in 2004, when the 13-year-old defeated Russian former world champion Anatoly Karpov, forced Kasparov to a draw and became a grandmaster.

The dishevelled and serious looking teenager was once described by the Washington Post as the "Mozart of chess".

A fashion model in his spare time, Carlsen made it to the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.

He also won the Chess Oscars, awarded by Russian chess magazine '64' to the world's best player, for four consecutive years from 2009 to 2012.

Carlsen admits two weaknesses: not being a good winner or a good loser.

"You cannot be a number one in the world and be a good loser," he told reporters in Oslo last month. "I'm not a good winner either. I try not to rub it in to my opponents. Unless they deserve it, of course."

Worried he may fall sick in India during the title bout, Carlsen and his team visited Chennai in August to check out the facilities in the southern coastal city.

By the end of the three-day visit, Carlsen's team had forced organisers to insert an "illness" clause in the contract by which a player can take a two-day break if he fell sick.

All-India Chess Federation secretary V. Hariharan said it was the first time an illness clause had been included for a world championship match.

Despite his overwhelming dominance over the last few years, Carlsen warned rivals his best was yet to come.

"I still have so many ways to improve," he said. "In every tournament, in almost every game, I find that I make mistakes.

"I definitely have some kind of talent but I don't know exactly what it consists of."

Source: TheLocal.no