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Beauty queen Pushpika De Silva, 31, was awarded the 2020/2021 Mrs World title during a televised ceremony at Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre, Colombo, on Sunday, April 4. Just moments after being announced as the winner of the pageant only meant for married women, Pushpika faced humiliation as last year’s winner and current Mrs.World, Caroline Jurie, took the microphone and announced that the first runner-up should take the title instead. “There is a rule that you all have to be married and not divorced,” Jurie told the audience. “The crown goes to the first runner-up.” The crown was then forcibly…

Unknown person has stabbed to death one of Britain’s richest men worth £301million in his country mansion. Sir Richard Lexington Sutton, an 83-year-old Baronet, was attacked inside his £2 million home in Higher Langham, near Gillingham, Dorset on Wednesday, April 7.  A woman, believed to be his second wife, named Anne Schreiber, 60, is also believed to have suffered knife injuries in the attack at Moorhill home.  The female victim, who is aged in her 60s, was airlifted to the Southmead Hospital in Bristol. Her condition was today described as ‘critical’. Police reportedly rushed to the scene after receiving a…

Some scientists, serving as adviser to the British government over the handling of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, have warned that regardless of vaccination, lifting restrictions “may lead to a small surge of cases and deaths” in the coming weeks. Minutes from a meeting with members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) published on Tuesday warned that there could be a rise in cases “of a similar scale to January 2021 after later stages” of the route out of lockdown. The warning was made amid Britain’s success with its vaccine rollout, which has seen more than 31.5 million people…

Police operatives have taken over Ntak Ikot Akpan community in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state following fierce air and ground offensive launched Tuesday by the military joint operation. The military and other security agencies had succeeded in dislodging armed hoodlums suspected to be militia forces of the disbanded Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Checks by our correspondent who visited the scene on Wednesday revealed a deserted community, with virtually all homes shut. Okon Ududo, a local games hunter, who pried from a nearby farm, said he spent the night in the bush following heavy bombardments around…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of DIG Usman Alkali Baba as the acting Inspector General of Police in the country. The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Maigari Dangyadi, announced this on Tuesday, while briefing State House reporters. He said Baba’s appointment is with immediate effect. Buhari had on February 4, 2021, extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) for three months. Adamu had, however, spent two months and three days out of the three month extension before Baba’s appointment. The appointment of the acting IGP is subject to the approval of the…

In a manner reminiscent of war front, some Essien Udim communities in Akwa Ibom State have become desolate as the military pounded the serene villages to comb out suspected criminal elements responsible for spate of attacks on security operatives in the local government area. Though the actual casualties could not be ascertained in the affected communities, the military operation was led by Nigeria Air Force using three jet fighter planes in bombarding the suspected hoodlums’ hideouts in the area on Tuesday, April 6. Eye witness account said the military operation was severe as sounds of gunshots and heavy artillery were…

Gun-wielding bandits allegedly killed nine commuters and abducted 28 persons along Kaduna-Kachia Highway on Tuesday morning. The recent attack occurred few days after bandits kidnapped church members along the axis. Peoples Gazette gathered that the gun-wielding criminals attacked in the early morning of Tuesday, few metres away from Kasuwan Magani. A resident, Tanko Makeri, told The Gazette on the telephone that the bandits blocked the highway’s two lanes and shot at travellers. “They attacked those coming from Kaduna and people heading to Kachia. Nine people were killed on the spot why some sustained gunshot wounds. The bandits kidnapped over 20…

A 49-year-old man caught for allegedly defiling his teenage child has given reason that prompted him to have committed the misdemeanour. Ubong Williams Akpan was arrested by men of Ogun state police command for unlawfully having carnal knowledge of his 12-year-old daughter (name withheld). Akpan claimed that he defiled his daughter because his wife was old and was no longer looking attractive. ”On interrogation, he confessed to the commission of the crime claiming that his wife is appearing too old, and she is no longer looking attractive to him,” a statement by the police read. The suspect was arrested following…

President Muhammadu Buhari jetted out of Nigeria to United Kingdom for the sixth time in six years for routine medical check-up on Tuesday, March 30. Buhari’s aide on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu who broke the news said the President is expected back in the country in the second week of April. However, some Nigerians have expressed anger that Buhari left without resolving the nationwide strike by resident doctors and without caring to fix the country’s ailing health-care system for the common people. Reno Omokri, a former Presidential aide to Goodluck Jonathan, had to fly into London on April 2…

Torrential rains accompanied by heavy floods in eastern Indonesia have killed more than 55 people and displaced thousands, according to the country’s disaster relief agency said Monday. More than 40 other people are missing. Police and soldiers used rope to help people in Namaila village cross fast flowing waters higher than knee-deep. Namaila village is in the Melaka District in East Nusa Tenggara province, near the border with Timor Leste (formally East Timor.) Some villagers used tractors to move through the floods. Flash flooding killed at least 17 people elsewhere and at least 42 are missing, according to the National…