Man gets 15 years for recording a homeless man get set on fire

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday for standing by and recording as his boss set a homeless man on fire. (above if Fonerin's mum being wheeled our after her son's verdict) The boss Ahmed, whose case is still pending, allegedly instructed Fonerin to use his cellphone to record him setting fire to the 38-year-old man. Ahmed, 24, allegedly used lighter fluid and a box of matches to start the fire, and is allegedly heard on the video saying "do that s---," according to the criminal complaint. Lorenzo Fonerin, 23, was working at a bodega with Suliman Ahmed on September 23, 2012, in East New York where Hand, who suffers from a severe mental illness, was sleeping on the sidewalk. Hand was woken up by bystanders telling him he was on fire, and Fonerin then tried to put out the blaze with water. "I was asleep when I found out my son was on fire ... the burns on his lower back were so bad it looked like leather," said Tasheen Hand's mother Priscilla during her victim impact statement in Brooklyn Supreme Court, where she urged the judge to throw the book at Lorenzo Fonerin. "The defendant poured water on my son, but I would have been happier if he just asked him to leave or just used that same cellphone to call police. Pouring water didn't save him," Hand said. Her son suffered severe burns on over 30 percent of his body, and was in a medically induced coma for two weeks. Hand said her son, who was not present at the sentencing, is stared at by strangers on the street for his "alligator-like skin." Prosecutor Cary Fischer asked Justice Deborah Dowling to sentence Fonerin to 20 years because this was the "most horrific" case he’d worked on in 12 years on the job, aside from one child abuse case.

Photos: Two students get Eunisell 2015 scholarship

Two students from Nkpogwu community in Rivers state have been awardedthe Eunisell 2015 scholarship. Vincent Nbinye, a JSS1 student of Stella Maris College andVictoria Dede, 100 level student of UniPortwill bothenjoy a full tuition scholarship throughout their stay in school. Eunisell Chemicals isthe largest distributor of additives in Africa,distributing oil field chemicals, additives, lubricants, industrial chemicals as well as petrochemical and refinery products in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africasince 1996.

They say this handsome man was kidnapped in Rivers State

From the SOS sent out on social media, this man was kidnapped in Rivers state on Saturday...

South Africa bans Sudan president from leaving the country after arrest call

A South African judge yesterday Sunday June 14th barred Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested at the AU summit in Johannesburg. Bashir, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the Darfur conflict, mostly travels to countries that have not joined the ICC, but South Africa is a signatory of the court's statutes. The ruling was the first time any court has prevented a head of state from leaving a country following a request by the ICC, but Sudanese officials remained defiant, insisting Bashir would return home on schedule. The Southern African Litigation Centre, a legal rights group, had launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to force authorities to arrest Bashir on the opening day of the African Union summit. "President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan is prohibited from leaving the Republic of South Africa until the final order is made in this application," Judge Hans Fabricius said in his ruling. "The respondents are directed to take all necessary steps to prevent him from doing so." Despite the arrest calls, Bashir joined a group photograph of leaders at the summit. Wearing a blue suit, he stood in the front row for the photograph along with South African host President Jacob Zuma and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who is the chair of the 54-member group. "We will leave on time as scheduled," Sudan Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters. "We are not abiding with any... decision of any court. We are here as guests of the government of South Africa. Assurances have been made by that government." Ghandour joined other critics of the ICC, saying it was a court that targets African leaders. "President Bashir is a leading president, a member of the summit of the African Union and will continue attending the summits wherever they are being held inside Africa," he said. The ICC called on South Africa "to spare no effort in ensuring the execution of the arrest warrants" against Bashir. It added that South Africa diplomats had been pressed last month to arrest Bashir if he attended the summit, but that they had replied they faced "competing obligations" over the issue. Bashir, 71, seized power in Sudan in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989. The ICC indictments relate to the western Sudanese region of Darfur, which erupted into conflict in 2003 when ethnic insurgents launched a campaign against Bashir's Arab-dominated government, complaining of marginalisation. Khartoum unleashed a bloody counter-insurgency using the armed forces and allied militia.The United Nations says 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict and another 2.5 million forced to flee their homes. Khartoum, however, disputes the figures, estimating the death toll at no more than 10,000. "South Africa has an obligation to arrest him," Johannesburg-based rights lawyer Gabriel Shumba said. "Failure to do so puts them in the same bracket as other African regimes who have no respect for human rights. It's actually a test for South Africa." As Judge Fabricius gave his ruling and said the court would meet again on Monday, the summit opened five hours late with Zuma not mentioning the issue in his opening remarks. "As a member of the International Criminal Court, (South Africa) has committed to cooperate with that court," Elise Keppler of Human Rights Watch told the ENCA news channel. "This is an incredible moment for South Africa to do the right thing and to render al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court. "It's quite possible that al-Bashir could in fact be taken into custody before he leaves the country." The South African government and African Union officials made no comment on the court ruling. The summit is meeting for two days in the upmarket business and retail district of Sandton under the official theme of the "Year of Women's Empowerment and Development".

Hospital worker takes Snapchat picture of a 'ghost' outside children's ward

A hospital worker says he took this spooky picture of what appears to be a ghostly figure near a children's ward. Andrew Milburn was texting his girlfriend at Leeds General Infirmary on Friday night just before starting his night shift. To prove he was at work, he sent her a Snapchat image of a corridor on the hospital's Clarendon Wing. He said: "Unbeknown at the time it appears that I captured a ghost figure in the corridors. "I have since put this picture on Facebook, it has received thousands of likes and comments and has been shared as far as America. "It has also been shared on to paranormal investigator groups, many of which believe the picture is real." Andrew, who has recently returned to work after a career break, says the room the ghostly figure appears to be walking into is where the switchboard works. He said a number of colleagues at the hospital have heard footsteps at the spot when no-one is there. "There have been a few odd things," he said. "Now people are a bit scared, and apprehensive about going to the loo." He said not everyone believes him though, he said some people think the picture was photoshopped but he said he didn't make it up. Daily Mirror

Tyga is accused of still owing model $25,000 from sexual assault settlement

Kylie Jenner's 'boyfriend' was spotted on Friday test driving a bright red Bugatti, a luxury vehicle which can retail in excess of $1.5 million and his photo in the car was posted in the media, which I guess made the woman who sued him for sexual assault in 2011 remind him that he still owed her $25,000. Model and video vixen AllisonBrown sued Tyga over a wild 2011 music video shoot for his single Make It Nasty where she claimed she was plied with alcohol, forced to appear topless on camera, and dry humped by some dude in a rabbit suit. They settled the case out of court and Tyga promised to pay her $50,000. Allison Brown is now alleging that the 25-year-old has failed to pay the full $50,000 that he owes her. Brown claims she received half in February, and has now filed documents asking judges to have Tyga pay the other $25,000 in addition to a financial penalty.

EFCC charges former Bayelsa Gov. Sylva with 50 money laundering charges

Disappointed by the dismissal of the money laundering charges it charged against former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva, by Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Abuja Federal High Court, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, released 50 fresh charges against him. The charges were increased from the initial 42 to 50 by the anti-graft agency and this has already been filed and will probably be assigned to a new judge. The charges, according to a document were prepared and filed in court by the Director of Legal of the EFCC, Mr. Chile Okoroma. In the new charges, EFCC listed acts of looting allegedly carried out by Sylva when he was the governor of the state. He is also alleged to have connived with three companies to commit the offences charged against him between 2007 and 2011. The filing of fresh charges against Sylva came barely a week after Justice A.R. Mohammed dismissed the 42-count charge against the former governor on account of abuse of court processes. However, the commission immediately faulted the action of the judge for dismissing the case without it being heard. It noted that the dismissal of the charge by Justice Mohammed following the application of the commission to consolidate the charges against the former governor and his accomplices, did not amount to a discharge or an acquittal, and it did not preclude the power of the agency to bring fresh charges against the defendants. Vanguard