Lionel Messi appeared in his 500th match in all competitions for Barcelona, scoring once in a 4-0 win over Real Betis on Wednesday.
Messi is the sixth player to reach the landmark for the club and the first non-Spanish player to reach this milestone. Here's a look at Messi's march to his historic accomplishment.
New details have emerged over the death of the 17-year-old Austrian who ran away to join ISIS in Syria
One of the two Austrian teenagers who disappeared from their
homes to join ISIS in Syria was forced into sexual slavery before her
death, a new witness claims.
Police released this image of a man who is accused of
putting his hand down his trousers and performing the sex act on himself
as he looked at the 29-year-old woma.
Police want to speak to a man who allegedly performed a sex act on himself for THIRTY MINUTES as he stared at a woman on a subway train.
The struggling Villans' new boss worked with the striker while he was No 2 at Lyon and is desperate for a cutting edge up front to help relegation fight.
Chelsea coach Guus Hiddink has slammed Aston Villa counterpartRemi Gardefor publicly invitingLoic Remyto join the Premier League's bottom club.
A Nigerian national has been held at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here for allegedly possessing and smuggling narcotics worth Rs 30 lakh.
The incident occurred yesterday around 1 PM when CISF officials
found the activities of a foreign national, identified as Chinazor F
Mbalughi (38), as suspicious following which he was taken for a thorough
frisking.
Police in the canton of Vaud have arrested a dozen people linked
to an African smuggling ring suspected of bringing dozens of kilograms
of cocaine into Switzerland.
Drug squad inspectors arrested 11 men and one woman between December
2014 and September this year, cantonal police said in a news release
issued on Thursday.
Barcelona star Lionel Messi clinched another award after
winning the Best Player Award at the Globe Soccer Awards at the Madinat
Jumeirah Resort, on Sunday.
Barcelona was adjudged the Best Club of the Year.
"Obviously, I am very thrilled. But, full credit goes to my teammates
at Barcelona and the club supporters and members," Messi enthused.
A Pakistani woman was so desperate to live and work in Dubai that she
agreed to smuggle heroin to the UAE after a Nigerian drug trafficker promised
her a good job in Dubai.
The 39-year-old woman and her African accomplice
were arrested red-handed by the Dubai Police recently.
A Nigerian national was arrested from the outskirts of New Delhi for the possession of banned drugs worth around Rs. 5 Crore in the International market.
A team of Narcotics Control Bureau or NCB's Delhi zonal unit seized
about 2 kg of heroin from the Greater Noida residence of the 29-year-old
foreign national late on Sunday.
The suspect, Ezeabata Uju Gloria, was arrested during the screening of
passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight on her way to Malaysia at the
departure hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
Experts in the Nigerian aviation industry have warned that security
must be improved at the country’s airports to forestall terrorist
attacks and security breaches.
One of the experts, a former Assistant Secretary General of the
Airline Operators of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammed Tukur, said there are
obvious vulnerabilities in the nation’s aviation industry.
A Malaysian High Court has sentenced a 37-year-old Nigerian,
one Ekene Collins Isaac, to death by hanging after he was found guilty
of trafficking 915.6 grammes of Methamphetamine three years ago in
Malaysia.
In a swift reaction, the acting Chairman of the National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mrs. Roli Bode-George has decried the
reported death sentence passed on Isaac.
Kourtney Kardashian and Justin Bieberjust started hooking up and it's so random and out of nowhere, right?! Wrong.
The duo was spotted leaving The Nice Guy together in West Hollywood, California a full two months ago, on October 10. Sure, we thought it was interesting at the time, but now things are really interesting.
An arrest warrant has been issued for entertainer Bill Cosby for allegedly drugging and sexually assaultingformer Temple employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania mansion in January 2004, Montgomery County District Attorney-Elect Kevin Steele said at a Wednesday press conference.
According to Premium Times, Ebonyi Police Command said it has arrested a middle-aged man for allegedly raping nine children aged between six and 10.
The suspect, a father of three, allegedly carried out the act at Ezza South Local Government Area of the state, where he lived in the same compound with the victims.
After the death of the 47-year old professor of communications at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State in November 2014, his wife, Emilienne, has turned his Facebook page into a memorial, posting several emotive poems she wrote in honour of her late husband.
Mrs. Emilienne has so far posted about 24 poems on Facebook, dedicated to her late husband, besides several beautiful quotes she posted on the page.
A trans-border robbery suspect has told the Lagos State Police that it was easier for him to operate in Ghana than in Nigeria because citizens of the latter are more security conscious.
Dennis Wasami, 32, was arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad in his hideout at Agbonle Orile on Saturday, the police said in a statement Tuesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, and several other prominent Nigerians have been named among “100 most influential Africans of 2015”.
The list and profiles of the continent’s top game changers published by the pan-African news magazine, “New African”, covers top players in eight different professional fields.
A federal High Court judge has refused himself from hearing
treason charges brought by the government against Nnamdi Kanu, the
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed announced the decision on Wednesday
in Abuja after Mr. Kanu objected to the case, saying it was needless, as
the federal government had repeatedly disobeyed previous court rulings.
Somalia’s government has banned celebrations of Christmas and New
Year in the Muslim majority country, saying the festivities might
attract Islamist attacks.
“All events related to Christmas and New Year
celebrations are contrary to Islamic culture, which could damage the
faith of the Muslim community,” the director general of the religious
affairs ministry told reporters on Tuesday.
Jose Mourinho and
his merry band of Portu-geezers (as no doubt Once and Forever Geezer
King David Luiz would've called them) are gone, off to go house hunting
in Manchester.
Except Jose Morais, who might be house hunting in
Southern Wales instead, as he's rumored to be a candidate for the Swansea City
job.
Mum-of-four Tracy was shocked to discover that hubby of 10yrs left his two kids to secretly marry another woman on Boxing Day.
When her hubby of ten years had to spend Christmas with his relatives
in Nigeria, Tracy Akingbogun hoped he’d return with a special gift to
make up for their time apart.
Four
militants detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of
locals on a Lake Chad island, killing them but no one else, official and
security sources said on Wednesday.
The bombers were part of a group of seven male and female militants
going from Chad's Yogo island to a weekly market in the lakeside town of
Bol in a motorised canoe late on Tuesday, the sources said.
A WOMAN allegedly bit off her husbands ear after yelling at him over a pint- then said she didn’t know what happened to it.
Jamie Elrod was caught by coppers on the scene after biting off her hubby’s ear. Her husband later told Police that she “went off at him” in an argument over a pint.
An infected shamless woman posted her STD test results on social media to inform her lovers she has gonorrhoea.
The anonymous Snapchat user shared a pic of the document next to a clip of her crossed legs.
The caption told any blokes who had slept with her in the “last month” to get themselves checked.
A suspected bomb went off at Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in
Istanbul, Turkey, at about 2am local time midnight GMT on Wednesday.
A
30-year-old woman reportedly died of head wounds and another person was
injured after the blast which is believed to have been on a plane
near one of the buildings.
According to French publication BuzzSport, Real Madrid are more than happy to meet Chelsea's £74m valuation of the Ballon d'Or nominee.
A number of Europe's elite including Paris St-Germain have also expressed interest in Hazard.
But with Cristiano Ronaldo expected to leave in the summer - Real are considered front-runners.
Consumer Protection Western Australia is warning tourism operators to be
wary of international scammers after a Perth holiday letting agency was
defrauded of more than $50,000.
David Hillyard, acting commissioner of Consumer Protection WA, told 720 ABC Perth
the scammers believed to be operating from Nigeria used stolen
credit cards and a complex story about arranging a Greek wedding to
obtain the money.
Barbara Segura
pleaded guilty Thursday to participating in the same Nigerian money scam
to which she had fallen victim, she told a federal judge.
In the U.S.
District Court, Rock Island, the 58-year-old East Moline woman entered
guilty pleas to counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire
fraud.
A 26-year-old man, Taiwo Oluwatobi, has been arrested by the Lagos State
Police Command, for allegedly luring his Facebook lover to his house,
and raping her.
It was learnt that Oluwatobi had met the 24-year-old victim, identified
only as Temitope, on Facebook. He had allegedly lured her to his house
in the Alagomeji, Yaba area of the state to collect N15,000, during
which he raped her.
According to News Agency of Nigeria, a 32 year old James Adamu, who allegedly raped an 18-year-old
woman in Ota, Ogun, on Monday appeared before an Ota Magistrates’ Court.
The suspected rapist has, however, been admitted to a bail of N100, 000 with one surety in like sum.
Adamu, who resides at No. 10, Bello Close, Olokomeji Ijoko in Ota, is facing a charge of rape.
Suspected gang rapists currently operating at the Delta State-owned
University town, Abraka, at the weekend allegedly raped a female
undergraduate of the university.
It was reliably gathered that the
victim identified as Cecilia (surname withheld), an undergraduate in
the department of Sociology, was among four other girls who surrendered
themselves to be raped by the suspected rapists.
Foreign media is reporting that a former Nigerian Minister of
Petroleum Resources, who is now the subject of a corruption probe, was
planning to flee to Dominica before her arrest.
But the island’s Prime
Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says Dominica neither encouraged nor offered
Diezani Alison-Madueke residency there.
A London druglord who smuggled millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK through the post has been jailed for 15 years
Nigerian national Patrick Udensi, 34, from Enfield, was arrested in
January after Border Force staff at the Heathrow Worldwide Distribution
Centre found cocaine in a package that had been sent to an address in
north London.
This holiday season, Emmanuel Ngene is spending his sixth year inside
a South Eastern United States penitentiary.
At 56, he has 225 years,
five months and ten days left to serve for first degree rape of his
daughter, a crime he continues to deny, supported by members of his
network of friends and family.