Photos and Video: Gunman kills 26, including 20 children, at Connecticut school....Pupils describe hearing shots.

A heavily armed gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, killing 26 people, including 20 children, in the latest in a series of shooting rampages across the United States this year, U.S. media reported.

The gunman was dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, state police Lieutenant Paul Vance told a news conference.

Vance said the gunman killed 18 children and six adults at the school and two wounded children died later in the hospital. Another person connected to the suspect was found dead at a house in Newtown, bringing the death toll to 28.

One of the dead was the shooter's mother, a teacher at the school, The New York Times reported, citing a law enforcement official. The New York Times also reported that the gunman killed himself at the scene.

The suspected gunman entered the school as children were gathered in their classrooms for morning meeting. He was armed with four weapons and wore a bullet-proof vest, WABC reported.

If confirmed, it would be one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. The holiday season tragedy was the second shooting rampage in the United States this week and was certain to revive a debate about U.S. gun laws.

President Barack Obama, wiping away tears and pausing to collect his emotions, mourned the "beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old" who were killed.

Manager and Housemaid kill boss, take over business

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a manager and a housemaid for killing their boss, Alhaja Sikirat Eko, in Omole Phase 1, Lagos State.

Eko was said to be running a restaurant and bar in her compound, where she lived alone with the maid.

According to the police authorities, the suspects allegedly killed Eko at her home located on 5, Babatunde Ladega Street and kept her corpse within the premises.

The suspects were said to have continued to run the restaurant, giving neighbours and customers the impression that the deceased had travelled.

The two were said to have run out of luck when relatives of the deceased came on a visit. When the suspects could not provide a satisfactory answer, the matter was said to have been reported at Area G Command, in Ogba.

A police source who preferred to remain anonymous, told our correspondent that the manager threw Eko into a well inside the compound along with a generator.

The manager was said to have taken her phone which he used in impersonating her.

“The manager was using the deceased’s phone and assumed her identity. Sometimes, he would send text messages with her phone, telling people that all was well”, he said.

It was learnt that when the house was thoroughly searched, Eko’s corpse was found in a decomposing state.

A family friend, who preferred to remain anonymous, said, “Mummy (Eko) has just one child and she lives in the United Kingdom. When she could not get her mother on the telephone, she called relatives to help her find out what was wrong.

“When the relatives got there, the manager told them that she had travelled. The relatives became suspicious because the house was left open and the manager behaved as if he was the owner of the house. The relatives then reported the matter to the police.”

Our correspondent, who visited the area on Thursday, observed that the gate of the premises was locked.

A security guard in the area said Eko hadn’t been seen by neighbours in over two months.

The security guard described the deceased as a very nice but strict woman.

He said, “The last time we saw madam (Eko) was during Sallah. When we asked the housemaid her whereabouts, she said she had travelled to Abuja. I became suspicious because her vehicle was still parked outside the compound.

“It wasn’t until Saturday when policemen stormed the area that we knew what had happened. Policemen arrested about five of us, thinking that we were among but fortunately, the manager and the maid confessed.

“The incident is very sad because madam (Eko) was a very nice person. There was one time that my motorcycle was seized. She was the one that urged the police to give it back to me.”

When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.

Braide said the manager was the one who planned the killing. She added that the two would be paraded before journalists on Friday (today).

“The two suspects have confessed to the crime and they will be paraded before journalists on Friday,” she said.

 

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Red Carpet pictures from 'Turning Point' movie premiere in London

On December 12, 2012 (12/12/12), London's Indig02 Arena hosted some of Nollywood's top stars who were present for the premiere of the much anticipated Nollywood flick 'Turning Point'.
Some of the stars present were Jackie Appiah, Rita Nzelu, Obi Emelonye, Sam Sodje as well as some Hollywood stars.
Check out some of the red carpet pictures ....

Nigerian Prostitute Gruesomely Murdered In Italy

A Nigerian commercial sex worker identified as Franca Abumen, who lives in Rome, Italy, reportedly met her untimely death in the hands of yet to be identified men who brutally murdered her by tying her ankles and strangling her to death with a black cord, tied around her neck.

Franca Abumen

 

Franca, 27, was killed in the woods of Stifone, between Narni Waters, in Rome but her body was not found until after 24 hours on Sunday 10th of December, 2012 after her friends called reported her missing at the police station when she failed to return home from a night of work.
The police commands Carabinieri in Rome and Viterbo are working together to unmask the identities of Franca’s killers.

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Malawian Defense Minister Ken Kandodo collapses during s*x with teenager

According to a post on ‘Malawi Gossip-The Buzz of Malawi’- a Facebook group, Malawian Minister of Defence, Ken Kandodo Banda is said to have collapsed due to an overdose of Viagra pills which he took. According to the post, Kandodo is said to have taken many Viagra tablets in preparation for ‘sex business’ with his teenage girlfriend who is a pupil at Namitete Secondary School.

Investigations reveal that indeed Kandodo had checked in at Capital Hotel in Lilongwe with the teenage girl, who later alerted hotel management that the minister had fainted after much Viagra pills to keep him going on and on. Kandodo was “found in the room face down and naked, and fully charged”, reports the post. Kandodo refused to grant the media a telephone interview when he was contacted.

 

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