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Gay Wedding Disrupted in Abuja(See Photo)
Last Saturday, February 6th, the police in Abuja disrupted a gay wedding between the two men pictured above. The wedding between Abdul Lawal (right) who is supposed to be the husband and Umar Tahir (left) the wife, was supposed to hold at a popular hotel in Jiwa Community of Abuja, King’s Land Hotel in Abuja. Acting on a tip off, the police laid siege at the venue of the wedding.
Guests had already started arriving the venue of their wedding which was well decorated and as soon as the bride and groom, both from Kaduna state, arrived the venue, they were immediately arrested and taken to the Gwagwa Police Station where they were detained.
Eyewitnesses say that other people, including the sponsors of the wedding, chairman of the occasion and the owner of the hotel were also arrested during the raid.
The sponsors of the marriage were named as Abubakar Tahir and Mohammed Sani.
Photos From Imo AGN’s Candle Night For Late Nollywood Star Dede-One-Day
Members of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria(AGN) stormed the streets of Owerri last night for the candle night of late actor, Peter Onwuzurike Onyehidelam popularly known as Dede One Day.
Held at Imo Freedom Square in Owerri, the candle night was hosted by the Imo state chapter of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria. It witnessed the presence of top Nollywood acts like Nkem Owoh, John Okafor-Mr. Ibu, Charles Inojie, Victor Osuagwu, Tom Njemanze, Nneoma Ukpabia,
Iheme Nancy, Dauda, Mc Ash, Saraphina Amechi, Klint D’Drunk and many others. Meanwhile, the burial of the late actor who died of High Blood pressure related issue is holding today in his country home, Umuduruori Umuarusilam Umuagwuru Mbieri, Imo state.
Shocking : Two 15-year-old Girls Fatally Shoot Each Other in Phoenix-area School
Two 15-year-old girls died Friday in a shooting at a suburban Phoenix high school that initially caused panic among parents who could not reach their children but later emerged as a murder-suicide.
However, officers did not reveal any details of what the note said, and did not discuss what they believe the motivation for the killings may have been.
Officers also refused to name the pair, though school teacher Phong Kieu earlier named one of the victims as her sister, May Kieu.
Phong, who teaches science at the school, told ABC 15 she put on the news in her classroom after hearing about the shooting.
'We were watching the live footage and it first said two students,and after half an hour it said two female students, and then it said two sophomore students,' she said.
'My students were on their phones and were friends with her. And one of the students said it was May and her friend.
'That's when I called attendance and I asked for my sister's schedule. They put me on hold for 10 minutes and that's when I knew something was wrong.
'I was escorted from my classroom with one of the vice principals. He held my hand and told me we had to go upstairs. I walked up and I walked past so many people looking at me and they knew what happened.
'That's when they told me. My sister's gone. They confirmed it and she's not coming back.'
Police announced that a suicide note was found at the shooting scene near the cafeteria area of Independence High School in Glendale. They said the girls each were shot once, were declared dead at the scene and a weapon was found near the bodies.
"Information gathered by detectives reveal the two girls were very close friends, appeared to also be in a relationship," Glendale police spokeswoman Tracey Breeden said in a statement Friday afternoon.
Breeden said it is believed nobody witnessed the shooting.
Both teens have been identified, but Breeden said "their names will not be confirmed or released at this time by the police department due to their juvenile status."
Hours before the lockdown of the school was lifted, hundreds of worried parents crowded the parking lots of nearby discount and convenience stores.
Parents were bused to the school to be reunited with their children. Some cut through a nearby field as they rushed toward their kids in emotional reunions. Other students who got permission from their parents left campus on their own.
The Glendale Union High School District alerted parents to the shooting through emails and automatic phone calls and released information on social media, Superintendent Brian Capistran said.
Students typically are not allowed to use their cellphones during lockdowns, but as calls from parents flooded the district, officials asked teachers to have students call family, Capistran said.
Social workers and counselors will be available to students and staff when school resumes Tuesday, the superintendent said.
Minnie Kramer, mother of a 15-year-old student, said she rushed out of work when she got a text from her son right after the shooting, telling her that he was OK.
Teen Who killed His Entire Family Could be Released From Custody When he Turns 21 - Judge
A judge has cleared the way for a New Mexico teenager who shot and killed his parents and three younger siblings to be sentenced as a juvenile and released from state custody by the time he turns 21 after the teen's attorneys argued he could be psychologically rehabilitated.
Nehemiah Griego was 15 when he opened fire in his family's home south of Albuquerque, killing his mother as she slept and then his nine-year-old brother and two sisters, ages five and two, authorities said.
Griego's father was the last to die in the family. The teen waited in a bathroom and ambushed the gang member turned pastor after he returned home, sheriff's officials said.
Now 18, Griego has undergone nearly two years of therapy at a state adolescent treatment center — where his teachers, psychiatrists and others say he has made significant progress after being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and some learning disabilities.
'It all points in the same direction,' said Jeffrey Buckels, Griego's public defender. 'He's getting better and deserves a chance.'
Judge John Romero ruled on Griego's treatment after a lengthy hearing in children's court to determine whether he could be psychologically rehabilitated and sentenced as a juvenile, which allows his release from state custody in just more than two years. Griego turns 21 in March 2018.
He pleaded guilty in October to two counts of second-degree murder for his parents' deaths and three counts of child abuse resulting in death, which his attorney said showed he had taken responsibility for the crime.
Prosecutor Michelle Pato countered that assertion, recalling testimony in the hearing from some who said Griego seemed matter of fact and emotionless the day after the shooting and during a psychiatrist's interview last year.
After the 2013 killings, authorities alleged that Griego reloaded his parents' two semi-automatic rifles and put them in the family van and planned to gun down Wal-Mart shoppers, though investigators had no information that Griego actually went to a Wal-Mart the day of the shooting.
A security official said in the days after the shooting, Griego spent much of the day wandering the campus at Calvary Church, an Albuquerque megachurch where his father had been a pastor.
In closing arguments, Pato described the January 2013 killings as predatory and cold-blooded, with Griego waking his younger brother to show him his mother's body before shooting the 9-year-old too. Griego took a photo of the two victims before shooting his younger sisters in their beds, Pato said.
'He played with his brother that day knowing he was going to kill him,' Pato said. 'This was very much planned, very thought out and cruel.'
As chilling as details of the crime may have been, Judge Romero, however, said state law called for the hearing and his findings to focus on Griego and his prospects for rehabilitation, not the offense.
Defense attorneys' case presented a narrative of a teen who grew up in a chaotic environment, enduring emotional abuse by his mother and physical abuse at the hands of his father that likely led to a traumatic brain injury.
A residential supervisor at Sequoyah Lodge, where Griego is undergoing treatment, said the 18-year-old had matured into a role model for other troubled boys, while one teacher described the teen as a thoughtful student despite having expressed racist viewpoints, a fascination with war and Nazi Germany, and the notion of absolute power.
A forensic psychologist for the defense said he recommended Griego receive five more years of treatment, despite the likeliness that Griego's treatment at Sequoyah Lodge would likely end in 2018.
The judge didn't rule Thursday on continuing Griego's treatment after he turns 21.
A hearing will be held to sentence Griego as a juvenile in three to six weeks.
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