HOW TRANSGENDER JAMAICAN TEEN, DWAYNE JONES, WAS KILLED BY MOB

Dwayne Jones, a 16-year-old Jamaican was savagely murdered by a mob in July 2013 after they found out he was attending a street dance party in women's clothing, a wig and heavy makeup. Really sad story. Read below;

Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up. By age 16, the teenager was dead - beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.

NIKE OSINOWO TALS ON CROWNING A BEAUTY QUEEN WHO WOULD REIGN FOREVER

In a recent interview with PUNCH, the former beauty queen talks about why she left the Miss Nigeria Beauty Pageant franchise and the project she's currently working. Read excerpts from the interview below;

 

You are not done with pageants…

Currently, I am working on a huge project which is the Centenary Pageant. We want to find one lucky young lady who will be a visual living symbol of Nigeria’s amalgamation. She will be a representative of all things good and patriotic about Nigeria. She will reign for a hundred years and for the rest of her life. This pageant will take place every hundred years and it’s quite a phenomenon. We want someone who is versed in our culture and embodies everything Nigerian.

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WE DRINK OUR VICTIMS' BLOOD - CHILLING CONFESSIONS OF A BOKO HARAM MEMBER

Culled from the HeraldNG;
This is a shocking testimony of Isiaku (A former Boko Haram member )as he told it himself. It was slightly edited to preserve its narrative purity.Wole Balogun was there:

“I joined the Bafarawa Arabic Islamic Centre in 2010 and they were teaching us Arabic language. Every year, we take about 20 people to Iran for special training because our zonal headquarters is in Iran. Our own group is called Shitte but we have the same agenda with the Boko Haram sect. You people have only been hearing of Boko Haram, but there are other deadly Islamic groups that are also part of Boko Haram sect. I can count up to six of them that I’m very much aware of. Whenever we heard that any of the sects was fighting Christians, we always joined them. My own group has been an Islamic movement for a long time, even before I was born. It reigned in the north during the Abacha military regime and it has many branches in the north. We are in major northern states such as Kastina, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kano, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Zaria among others.