The internet responds to team's humiliating 5-3 defeat to Leicester City

With Manchester United's short-lived revival put on the back-burner, rival fans were out in force to mock Louis van Gaal's side.

'The world's sexiest criminal' charged with 114 offences

Stéphanie Boudoin of Victoriaville, Canada was arrested last month and charged with 114 counts including burglary and owning an illegal cache of weapons.

Mother dies after being beaten in the street in front of her two young children

A mother has died after she was attacked in the street in front of her two young children.

Nicola McKenzie, 37, suffered serious head injuries when she was beaten in Manchester's Moss Side district last Wednesday.

Nigerian retired police boss kills wife, son, self

Tragedy struck at the weekend when a retired Assistant Com­missioner of Police (ACP) (names withheld) shot himself dead after killing his wife and son at the Sango Ota area of Ogun State. The ACP, his wife and other family members had attended a wedding of a friend’s son and arrived home safely.

The retired police officer was alleged to have accused his wife of disgracing him by being drunk in the public.

African town where use of Umbrella is forbidden

It may sound strange, but it is real! In Iwoye-Ketu, a border town in Imeko/Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State, the use of umbrella is not only forbidden, it is consid­ered a taboo.

Under no circumstance; whether it is drizzling, rain­ing heavily or even under the scorching sun, should any living being spread an umbrella over his or her head without incurring the wrath of “Orisa Nla”, one of the town’s revered deities.

Daily Voice NG Editor, Mr Fejiro Oliver ‘Missing’

A journalist with Daily Voice NG, Mr Fejiro Oliver has been declared missing by family and friends. According to his people, he was last heard of on Friday, 19th of Sept., 2014 while in Abuja to honour an appointment at the instance of the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Alhaji Saidu Idris Ndako and that was the last time they ever heard from him.

His friends have been tweeting online calling for his release, insisting he has done nothing wrong, but innocently did what was right, by doing his job rightly as expected. Find the press statement they issued yesterday and also read some of their tweets 

Nigerian governor reportedly orders student detained for criticizing him on Facebook

A student of the National Open University of Nigeria, Abdulmalik Sa’idu, has been languishing in a police cell for over 20 days on the orders of the Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, for posting details of an alleged fertilizer scam in the state on his Facebook wall, Premium Times reports

This was disclosed to Premium Times by Mr. Sa’idu’s family and lawyer. Abdulmalik was first invited to the Katsina Government House on August 28 by a phone caller who claimed he had a message for him. But when Abdulmalik arrived at the governor’s office, he was promptly arrested, handcuffed and taken to Batagarawa Police Station just outside the state capital, Katsina, and detained on the orders of Mr. Shema’s aide-de-camp, Shehu Koko, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP.