A man who was arraigned before a Mombasa Law Court left court, left everyone in speechless after he complimented the magistrate.

Wycliffe Mungo was charged with the offense of stealing. The police report alleges that on December 1, 2022, he reportedly stole academic transcripts, degree certificate, KCB ATM card, and a HP laptop valued at Ksh45,000.

However, defending himself in court, he began by asking the Mombasa principal magistrate Vincent Adet where he bought his suit.

Mungo said;

“Your honour first of all good afternoon and secondly allow me to compliment you for being so handsome. Your black suit seems to be from Nairobi and yourself l believe you are from there too.

“You appear smart and handsome. I trust you are from Nairobi. Those from Nairobi look like you. Your black suit and tie must be expensive.”

He further caused more laughter by informing the court that there was no way charges of stealing would have been levelled against him since the complainant was his girlfriend.

To prove that the lady was indeed his girlfriend, he urged the Judge to ask her why she left her panties in his house. Mungo said;

“The complainant in this matter is my girlfriend. The items were found in my possession since we used to live together and we have been dating since we were in the university.

“Infact when the police came into my house l informed them they should take her clothes and shoes to court.”I have seen how you conduct your proceedings. Ask them why they left the inner pants in my house. This is part of the evidence that should be used to acquit me.”

The matter will be mentioned on January 31 for pretrial purposes.

Pope Francis has said his final farewell to his predecessor as he bowed his head and touched the coffin of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at his funeral service in St Peter’s Square.

The former pope died on December 31 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery inside the Vatican.

At the funeral’s end, the coffin was carried by 12 white-gloved pallbearers back into St. Peter’s Basilica for interment in a crypt below the main floor, where Benedict’s coffin will be buried inside two other coffins, along with papal regalia.

Twelve pallbearers, known as the ‘Papal Gentlemen’ who are lay attendants of the papal household, carried the coffin in and out of the basilica to the sound of applause and tolling bolls.

The body of Pope Emeritus was taken from the basilica and rested before the altar in the piazza as red-robed cardinals looked on, while Benedict’s longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, bent down and kissed a book of the Gospels that was left open on the coffin.

Pope Francis who presided over the funeral asked that the angels lead the late pope into paradise and grant him eternal rest. He further asked that God grants unto the living faithful the assurance of hope and faith.

“Benedict, faithful friend of the Bridegroom, may your joy be complete as you hear his voice, now and forever,”

Pope Francis said.

“The Lord quietly bestows the spirit of meekness that is ready to understand, accept, hope and risk. It is the source of an unseen and elusive fruitfulness, born of his knowing the One in whom he has placed his trust.”

Prince Harry has claimed that his brother Prince William physically attacked him, according to the Guardian, which says it has seen a copy of the duke’s upcoming memoir, Spare.

The newspaper reported that the book sets out an argument between the pair over Prince Harry’s wife Meghan.

“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” the Guardian quotes Prince Harry as writing.

BBC News has not seen a copy of Spare.The memoir will not be published until next Tuesday, but the Guardian said it obtained a copy amid what it called “stringent pre-launch security”.

Kensington Palace said it “has no comment to make” while Buckingham Palace has yet to respond to a request for comment.

According to the Guardian, the book says the row was sparked by comments Prince William made to Prince Harry at his London home in 2019.

Prince Harry, the paper says, writes that his brother was critical of his marriage to Meghan Markle – and that Prince William described her as “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.

The Duke of Sussex reportedly writes that his brother was “parrot[ing] the press narrative” as the confrontation escalated.Prince Harry is said to describe what happened next, including an alleged physical altercation.

“He set down [a glass of] water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast.“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.

“I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”

Martin Pengelly, a journalist for the Guardian’s US website who wrote its story, said he did not approach Prince William’s communication team.The reporter said that his article is “a report on Harry’s book, which he’s written, it’s Harry’s account”.

Mr Pengelly told BBC Radio 5 Live:

“We carefully, obviously in reporting it, didn’t call it a fight because Harry says he didn’t fight back.”

Prince Harry writes that his brother urged him to hit back and he refused to do so, according to the Guardian, but Prince William later looked “regretful, and apologised”.

Photographs suggest Prince Harry regularly wore a dark necklace at events such as the Invictus Games, and on foreign tours with Meghan, as recently as September 2019.

While publishers at Penguin Random House are yet to confirm whether the leaked excerpts from the book are genuine, Prince Harry has recently spoken of his troubled relationship with his brother.In the couple’s Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary, Prince Harry describes a meeting he attended with his brother, and father, the now King.

Prince Harry described the conference in early 2020, which was also attended by the late Queen, as “terrifying”.“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in,” he said.

The Guardian says Prince Harry details a meeting with Charles, then Prince of Wales, and Prince William after the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Phillip, in April 2021.

According to the paper, Prince Harry writes his father stood between him and Prince William, and said “please, boys, don’t make my final years a misery”.

In a trailer for a sit-down interview, which will be broadcast on 8 January ahead of the book release, the prince said:

“I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back”.

However, Prince Harry told ITV’s Tom Bradby “they’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,” although it was not clear who he was referring to.Buckingham Palace declined to comment on this.

Spare, ghostwritten by memoirist JR Moehringer and part of a multi-million dollar book deal, was previously believed to be subject to the upmost secrecy with few details known about its content.

“For Harry, this is his story at last,” Penguin Random House said in a publicity statement back in October.

“With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.”

The Vatican on Thursday revealed how Pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, will be buried today.

In an update on its Twitter handle, the Vatican said the coffin of Pope emeritus was closed on Wednesday based on tradition.

Part of the statement read, “Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s coffin was closed in a ritual held Wednesday evening.

As per tradition, the Pope Emeritus’ pallia, coins and medals minted during his pontificate, and a ‘rogito’ summarizing the highlights of his papacy, were also placed inside the casket.

“Following the Requiem Mass, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s coffin will be transported through the Basilica and to the Vatican crypt for burial, in the first tomb of John Paul II.

“He will be buried in the traditional triple coffin, with caskets made of cypress wood, zinc, and oak.”

The police in Ogun state have arrested a 35-year-old man identified as Eluyera Wasiu for allegedly contracting his friend, Adeniyi Samuel, to kill his 29-year-old pregnant wife.

Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect and his accomplice were arrested following a distress call received by the DPO Ogijo Police Division in Sagamu Local Government Area of the state.

He stated that the police got information from concerned members of the public on January 2, that the two men were engaged in a very serious fight at Oponuwa Area of Ogijo which could lead to grievous injury or death if they were not separated.

He added that following the distress call, the DPO, CSP Muhammed Baba, detailed his men to the scene where the two suspects were arrested.

He said that during interrogation, Adeniyi Samuel told the police that Eluyera Wasiu had contracted him to kill his pregnant wife, one Bola Taiwo.

According to him, the suspect said Wasiu promised to give him N10,000 for the job, out of which he had already given him N5,000, with a balance to be paid “on completion of the job.”

“Preliminary investigation revealed that Wasiu Eluyera was married to Bola Taiwo but they got separated due to irreconcilable differences. Wasiu later got married to another woman who is presently living with him.

76 dogs ranging from three-weeks-old to seniors have been removed from a Dyer, Tennessee home by police and animal rescue workers.

The residence was home to 76 dogs, which were removed from the dwelling by local authorities on Monday, according to reports on Wednesday, December 28.

A nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C, The Animal Rescue Corps, or ARC, were sent to the home to help the Dyer City Police Department with what the organization described in a Facebook post as “a large and urgent cruelty case.”

The organization said there were 75 or more dogs and puppies left behind in “a filthy, rotting house.”

“The property owners moved away and returned only to feed the animals,” ARC said.

“The dogs have been left alone, facing overcrowding, fighting, and some of the worst ammonia levels ARC has recorded to date.”Inside the home were dogs of all ages and sizes.

There were puppies as young as three-weeks-old, pregnant mothers, and elderly dogs with dementia.

“They have all been severely neglected for some time and have numerous untreated injuries and conditions,” ARC’s post read.

“This is a cruelty case, the animals have been seized and ARC is documenting the cruelties and creating evidence packets, with all animals headed to ARC’s Rescue Center outside Nashville for urgent care.

“The organization said the dogs also suffered from other things like emaciation, dental disease, fur loss, parasites, numerous infections and skin inflammation.

The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has ordered the immediate arrest and prosecution of the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha.

The governor also ordered the arrest of the APC candidate for Afikpo North/Afikpo South Federal Constituency, Chief Eni Uduma Chima over the killing of three persons in the Ekoli Edda area of the state.

It was gathered that Umahi gave the order when he embarked on a visit to the area to assess the level of damage caused by the violence earlier experienced there.

He directed the state police commissioner, CP Aliyu Garba, to arrest all those connected with the killing and ensure they are brought to justice.

Announcing the suspension of all social gatherings in Edda until normalcy returns to the area, Governor Umahi urged the police boss to beef up security in the area to forestall further breakdown of law and order.

It was gathered that as of Tuesday evening, the whole Ekoli Edda had been overtaken by the combined team of the police, the army and operatives of the South-East security outfit, codenamed Ebubeagu.

Sahara Reporters earlier reported how a clash between Ebubeagu operatives and some youths in Ekoli Edda community led to the death of three persons including a middle-aged man identified as Eseni Kalu Egwu.

It was reported that the incident occurred when Okoro-Emegha arrived in the community with Ebubeagu operatives. A few hours after the clash, some hoodlums marched to the APC chairman’s home and set it on fire.