A mentally ill woman who is believed to be in her 40s – gave birth to a beautiful baby girl inside a bush she calls home at Effiakuma, Sekondi Metropolis, Ghana.

In the early hours of Friday, residents and passers-by saw the madwoman cuddling the baby and feeding her water from a gutter!

It’s unclear who the father of the baby is, but locals say this is not the first time the mad woman has given birth in the area.

Apparently, anytime she gives birth some unidentified people suspected to be her relatives would come and take the baby away.

Eyewitnesses said it’s perhaps the reason why she held on very tightly to this baby she just gave birth to and refused for anyone to touch her.

But the crowd that gathered eventually chased after her and forcefully intercepted the baby. The newborn was immediately taken to a maternity home for medical attention.

The mentally ill woman has reportedly been living in the bush for over four years.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State on Monday sentenced  a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Gabriel Daudu, to 154 years imprisonment for N1.4 billion fraud and money laundering.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment found Daudu guilty on 77 out of the 208 count charged preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) through its prosecutor, Wahab Shittu.

Daudu, who once served as the Caretaker Chairman of the Ogori/Mangogo Local Government Area of Kogi State between January and July 2008, had been standing trial  alongside a former Commissioner for Agriculture in Kogi State, Albert Adesina since  April, 2010.

The EFCC had charged the defendants for offences bordering on conspiracy, advanced fee fraud and money laundering to the tune of  N1.4billion.

While co-defendant, Adesina was discharged and acquitted, Justice Ekwo sentenced Daudu to two years imprisonment on 77 counts.

The convict Gabriel Daudu, will however spend two years in jail as the sentence on each of the 77 count will run concurrently.

At least 23 people have died after eating sweets police suspect were laced with pesticides. Dozens more fell ill after eating the sweets in the Karor Lal Esan area of Pakistan last week.

The sweets were reportedly purchased from a bakery then distributed among friends and family at a party celebrating the birth of a baby boy.

Police say 10 people died on the same day and 13 more have since passed away. Local police officer Munir Ahmed told AFP: “The death toll from consumption of the sweets has now risen to 23, and 52 people are still being treated at various hospitals.”

Police added that three people – two bakery owners and a worker – have been arrested in connection with the incident.

Senior officer Rameez Bukhari said: “There was a pesticide shop close by which was being renovated, and the owner had left his pesticides at the bakery for safe keeping. A baker may have used a small packet in the sweet mixture.”

The Lagos State government has ordered the reopening of the residences of Lekki Gardens which was shut on the instructions of Governor Akinwumi Ambode over one month ago.

The reopening order followed a series of protests embarked upon by Lekki Garden Residents’ and Homeowners’ Associations in the aftermath of an advertorial in some Newspaper inviting investors in the estate to engage the services of a law firm to file a class action to seek judicial reprieve.

After a meeting from which a communiqué entitled: “Committee of Lekki Garden Residents’ and Homeowners’ Associations,” emanated, the association marched on the office of the Lagos State Governor, Alausa. Realising that the governor was out of the office at the time of their arrival, they moved on to the neighbouring Lagos State House of Assembly where they submitted a copy of their communiqué for onward transmission to the governor.

In the communiqué, members contradicted the position canvassed in the publication sponsored by Ms Funke Aboyade that the investors suspected that the buildings being built by Lekki Gardens were defective and that the class action suggested by Ms Aboyade was not in the interest of the residents and owners of Lekki Gardens buildings.

They further informed that : “houses developed by Lekki Gardens already belong to investors as the homes are sold ‘off plan’ and that amongst owners of the buildings were very experienced  lawyers who have all decided to “identify with and  actively work together with the various Resident and Homeowners Associations and the Home Owners and Residents Forum of Lekki Gardens Estates  in the various steps being taken by them to protect the investments of all the Home Owners, Residents and Investors without exception.”

Governor Ambode ordered that the entire Lekki Gardens estate be evacuated within 14 days, on March 15 following the collapse of the five-storey building under construction in the estate, Leadership reports.

This is the disgusting moment a maid was allegedly caught pouring urine into a cup of juice. The drink was requested by the head of the family the woman works for in Kuwait.

According to local media reports the family had become suspicious of the maid, for undisclosed reasons, and installed a secret camera in the kitchen.

The camera captured two domestic staff going about their daily chores while one of them prepared a drink. She is seen stirring it and then heading away before the second maid walks over to the juice.

Before she gets there however she quickly pulls a beaker of what purportedly contains her own urine from her trousers.

She is then clearly seen topping up the drink with the liquid. The video concludes with the woman returning to carry on with her job. She can be seen preparing food in the background.

Speaking to local news outlets, the head of the family, who chose to keep the identity of his employee secret, revealed his shock when watching the footage back.

He also sent a message of warning for other local people to be cautious of the behaviour of their maids.

It is unclear whether the maid was fired by the family following the incident, DailyMail reports.

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A fire tragedy was today averted in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state after a car carrying a drum in its boot went up in flames at the NNPC Mega Filling Station and at first, creating serious panic among bystanders.

The driver of the vehicle was reportedly about to buy fuel when the car exploded. He had stepped out of his car and was beside the fuel attendant when the car gave a bang and exploded.

The fire incident was brought under control by courageous Nigerians around the vicinity who poured sand and water on the car. The car was eventually pushed away from the filling station into a field some meters away.

The driver and the fuel attendant were wounded by sparks of fire from the car however the extent of the injury is not clear.