(AP) – Hero chicken: A Wisconsin couple says a pet chicken named Cluck Cluck saved them from a fire. Dennis Murawska, 59, said Cluck Cluck woke his wife with loud clucking from its cage in the basement two floors below about 6:15am yesterday.
They got out in time,…
A 20-year-old man, Matthew Iroko, was on Thursday sentenced to two years in prison by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for stealing a chicken, valued at N1,000.
The sentence, followed a plea of guilty by Iroko, after he was arraigned before Magistrate Idowu Olayinka.
Olayinka sentenced Iroko to two years in prison without an option of…
The unnamed young was apprehended by residents of the Garden city, while trapping vultures with snuff in Onne, Port Harcourt.
The man, a grilled meat seller from the North East region of Nigeria later confessed that wanted to use them as roasted chicken for his Suya business.
He also claimed that he has been…
Jack Wilshere is set to hand Arsenal a timely boost by returning to full training before the end of January.
The England international has missed the entire season with an ankle injury aggravated in the pre-season Emirates Cup tournament. Wilshere is on a strict rehabilitation programme and has stepped his training regime ahead of his first-team return.
And the Gunners medical team hope to have the central midfielder…
Gary Cahill should finally become a Chelsea player after his £7million move from Bolton was settled on Friday night.
The England defender, aged 26, agreed to sign a £23m contract that runs until 2017 after talks with Blues' chief executive Ron Gourlay, who travelled north to break the impasse. He will put pen to paper on a five-year contract worth believed to be worth £80,000 a week…
She is the newborn of music royalty. So it's a given that Blue Ivy Carter, the progeny of award-winning singer Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z will want for nothing. And with multi-millionaires for parents, nothing she wants will ever be unobtainable.
As befits the King and Queen of Bling, the couple have already reportedly spent an astonishing £1million on their newborn daughter.
The superstar couple are…
They're a 21st century super power with super computers and a super economy that's the envy of the world.
Now China can claim another title – the fastest builders on the planet after putting up a 30-storey 183,000-square-foot hotel in just 15 days, or 360 hours.
A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha completed this remarkable achievement with no injuries to any worker.
The…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) listened to President Goodluck Jonathan’s broadcast to the nation.
The speech is undoubtedly due to the resistance of Nigerians to the unreasonable increase in PMS (petrol) prices and the planned national strikes scheduled to begin on Monday January 9, 2012. So the Presiden having to address Nigerians, is the first gain of the planned protests.
But the President’s address follows the pattern of…
President Goodluck Jonathan with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs , Special Adviser to the UN's Sec Gen. United Nations, UN has commended President Jonathan for withdrawing the subsidy on petroleum products, describing it as “a bold and correct policy”.
Speaking during a visit to President Jonathan at the State House, Abuja, the Special Adviser to the United Nations’ Secretary General, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, said the funds from the removal…
Arsene Wenger will enter phase two of his quest to offload Arsenal's dead wood in January.
Andrey Arshavin, Marouane Chamakh and Sebastien Squillaci are among the players to be put up for sale, while Manuel Almunia and fellow goalkeeper Vito Mannone will also be allowed to leave.
Arsenal will listen to offers for Tomas Rosicky, although the club are wary of leaving themselves short of options in midfield as…