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On Friday, December 16th, 2016, South African Police, the Hawks, rescued 26 females aged between 14 and 37 from a brothel in Klerksdorp following a tip-off alleging that the premises is being used as a brothel run by Nigerians. The females are South Africans and come from different parts of the country; Northern Cape, KZN, Free state, Johannesburg and Eastern Cape.                                                                                          Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Two Nigerian men and a Guinean were arrested in Bang Na, Thailand on Wednesday, 14th and charged with possession of Category 1 drugs and staying in the country illegally. According to officers from the Crime Suppression Division, the three men were under surveillance following a tip off foreigners were selling drugs in the area.                                                                           Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Nigerian Army with the help of Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) on Thursday, December 15th, thwarted an attempt by a female suicide bomber to launch a suicide attack at Rann, in Kala Bage Local Government Area of Borno State.                                                                                                         Read more » Follow @cool_jist

A joint operation by Hong Kong, Malaysian and Nigerian authorities have smashed a syndicate operating online romance scams which swindled almost 90 women out of HK$60 million, local officials said on Friday, December 16th The transnational racket, based in Malaysia and headed by a 36-year-old Nigerian man and his 46-year-old Malaysian lover, had allegedly duped 73 Hong Kong women out of HK$58 million since 2014, according to Hong Kong police. The gang also cheated 13 Malaysian women out of HK$2 million.                                                                                                                                     Read ...

Dead body of a baby was found inside a black bag left at a dumpster in Thailand.   Maintenance workers who arrived to pick up trash found the baby early this morning.                                                                            See More Photos>> Follow @cool_jist

Two weeks after a plane crash in Colombia killed 71 people, a Brazilian soccer player, who was one of the few survivors, woke from coma over the weekend but has no idea of what happened. Helio Hermito Zampier Neto, 31, was one of the six survivors of LaMia Flight 2933 that crashed in Colombia on November 28. Neto however has no memory of the accident. He and his teammates (19 of them died) were on their way to play the championship of a South American tournament when the crash happened, and he asked about the outcome of the game when he awoke from coma.                                                                                                                          ...

The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has arrested the 10th gang member in the CBN Governor’s wife kidnap  saga of September 2016, Umar Abubakar. Mrs Margaret Emefiele was kidnapped with her three aides on  September 29th  at Oquneki hills along Benin-Agbor road in Delta State.                                                                             Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Nigerians woke up this morning to the news that accounts of Nigerian MMM users, have been frozen for a month. The site in a statement released, said the accounts will be frozen till January. Many have interpreted it to mean the site has crashed.                                                                        See more twitter reactions» Follow @cool_jist

Justice Jude Okeke of a High Court in Abuja has granted bail to embattled Federal High Court judge, Justice Ademola Adeniyi and his wife Olubowale, N50 million each. Justice Ademola and his wife were arraigned before the court this money on allegations of corruption and bribery. When the charges filed against them by the Federal government was read to the accused persons, they both pleaded not guilty. The case has been adjourned to January 18th 2017. Follow @cool_jist

Rapper, Kanye West met briefly with Donald Trump, at Trump Tower in New York today. The Rapper reportedly requested a meeting with the president-elect and they had a 15-minute sit-down. Trump then escorted him out, addressing the press in the lobby together.                                                                                                                                   Watch the video HERE>> Follow @cool_jist

Read the statement below... Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti has ordered that Governor Ayodele Fayose's accounts in Zenith Bank be defrozen with immediate effect. The accounts were frozen by the EFCC in June, this year. However, in his landmark judgment today, Justice Taiwo Taiwo described the EFCC action as illegal, wrongful, unlawful and unconstitutional.                                                                              Read more » Follow @cool_jist

President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d'Ivoire and President Johnson-Sirleaf, recently bestowed their National Honors on Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for her works on development supporting the two countries and Africa. Congrats to her.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ...

Press release by the South African Police Service issued today, Monday December 12th: The Gauteng Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Major General Prince Mokotedi has welcomed the judgement handed down by the Benoni Magistrates Court against the seven suspects for drug dealing.                                                                                                                                                                                                     ...

Gunmen who came in as thieves, kidnapped 5 year old Miss Anibe Alexandra Odoma at her parents' home at Fun Stone Estate Gwarinpa, Abuja yesterday at about 8pm. The men attacked the security guard and then forced their way into the home and went straight for the girl who they took with them.                                                                                                                                   Read more » Follow @cool_jist

It was a beautiful gathering of the rich and famous in the society on the 4th of December as Umu-Aba Connect Organization celebrated their end of year party at the prestigious Civic Center in Ozumba Mbadiwe, Victoria island Lagos.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       See more p...

Anthony Joshua emerged victorious in the fight against Eric Molina after only three rounds, with Anthony dominating the fight in all the rounds. All through the fight Eric was mostly on the defensive and rarely succeeded in throwing a punch, making the fight look like a mismatch.                                                                                                                                                                                                         ...

Senator Danjuma La’ah, the Senator representing the good people of Southern Kaduna continued. He said that according to the Leadership Newspaper of 4th December, 2016 under the headline: “Foreigners Behind Southern Kaduna Massacre", Governor Nasir El-Rufai stated that some of them (Killer Fulani) were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal, adding                                                                                                                                                                                     ...

Super diva, Mariah Carey shared this lovely photo with Queen Bey on her IG page and thanked her for being at her show. She wrote:                                                                                     Read more » Follow @cool_jist

A male and female suicide bomber died from their explosive before they could reach the popular  Monday  market in Maiduguri, Borno State. No innocent life was lost. Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) confirmed that 17 persons who were injured while escaping the scene are being treated in a specialist hospital in Maiduguri.                                                                                                                         More photos>> Follow @cool_jist