Juniper Bryson, a 21-year-old woman in Texas, United States, has been arrested by the police.

The young woman was nabbed after she allegedly tried to sell her newborn baby boy to the "highest bidder" on Facebook.

Juniper Bryson was arrested and taken into custody last week after she allegedly attempted to pawn her baby off on Facebook, seeking a minimum of $150 from prospective buyers before even going into labor.

Bryson has been charged with one count of felony sale or purchase of a child.

Law & Crime, citing a probable cause affidavit, reports that on September 23, the Houston Police Department received a report claiming Bryson was attempting to sell her unborn child on Facebook.

The day prior, she allegedly posted in a Facebook Group named, "Birthing Mothers looking for adoptive parent(s)."

In her post, authorities say she wrote, "I am in Houston, TX but willing to travel if we can arrange that. I do have a lot of pain and am contracting so it needs to be soon."

Bryson also allegedly reached out to a family member, asking if she knew anyone who was trying to adopt a child, informing them that the baby would test positive for drugs.

The family member also allegedly posted to Facebook, saying a relative was seeking adoptive parents because she didn't want the child to end up in the foster care system. Per the affidavit, several people responded to the post.

Bryson's relative also informed police that Bryson also said anyone who wanted to adopt the child "was gonna have to compensate" her.

"What do you mean compensate? Like, pay you $ for the baby? You want $$ for your baby?!" the relative allegedly asked Bryson, adding, "That's illegal, that's human trafficking."

"No it's not, it's surrogacy," Bryson allegedly responded. "Just enough to move into an apartment so I can work a job and get [my daughter] back, or a cheap down payment, or any car to get to different places to DoorDash. Nothing crazy at all."

The relative said they stopped trying to help Bryson, telling police she was at the hospital with the baby "while she waits for the highest bidder."

Police searching Bryson's phone allegedly found she had sent several people, including an interested same-sex couple who were traveling from Louisiana to the hospital, messages about payment.

In one conversation, Bryson allegedly told the couple, "I'm not waiting to get paid until after [giving birth]," saying she would "ask for a minimum of 150 bucks up front."

That same couple also sent her $25 via Apple Pay "to complete a food delivery," per the affidavit.

"[The prospective parent] stated that 3.5 hours into their trip to Houston, she asked them to send her $150," the document notes.

The couple also allegedly mentioned running the adoption through an attorney -- which Bryson reportedly refused, before asking for $150 and eventually blocking them saying, "If her baby wasn't worth $200 to them, then screw y'all."

Another woman named Wendy Williams also told ABC 13 she was with Bryson at the hospital while in labor. The child did test positive for drugs after birth, according to court documents. Williams and her husband reportedly named the child, while they and Bryson allegedly signed notarized legal documents giving Williams the ability to make decisions for the baby.

Williams claimed she never discussed paying for the child but was inundated with "really ugly" messages when Bryson posted to Facebook that the baby had a home, and tagged Williams. It's Williams who then contacted CPS after she says she confronted Bryson about the messages she was getting from people asking, "How dare you buy this baby?"

Police then got involved and Bryson was allegedly taken from the hospital in handcuffs, after revoking custody of the child from Williams.

Bryson is currently being held in the Harris County Jail on a $30,000 bond. She is scheduled to appear in court again on November 7.

The baby, meanwhile, is reportedly with one of Bryson's friends, according to Williams.

The World Bank says it has approved $50 million to support Nigeria’s food nutrition challenges.

Ndiame Diop, country director of the World Bank, spoke during a meeting with Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.

Diop said the fund was earmarked under the accelerating nutrition results in Nigeria (ANRiN) project 2.0 programme which is a crisis response window.

Speaking also at the meeting, Trina Haque, practice manager for health, nutrition and population at the World Bank, said there was a need for nutrition education for children and adolescents as it is important for early child development.

Responding, Shettima reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to addressing its growing nutrition challenges through a community-driven strategy aimed at transforming nutrition outcomes across Nigeria’s 774 local government areas (LGAs).

He presented the comprehensive N-774 initiative, which builds on successful outcomes from ANRiN project.

Shettima added that the N-774 initiative comes at a crucial time considering the ANRiN project closeout.

“The administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is pioneering a paradigm shift in nutrition programmes through locally owned solutions,” he said.

“The N-774 Initiative represents our commitment to community-driven development and sustainable nutrition outcomes.”

Shettima said the N-774 initiative is a localised, community-driven solution tailored towards the unique needs of each LGA and aims to bring nutrition interventions directly to communities while encouraging local ownership and ensuring sustainability.

“Malnutrition is a Nigerian problem that needs a Nigerian solution and president Bola Ahmed Tinubu is very much willing to support such an initiative,” Shettima added.

“The project integrates nutrition goals across education, agriculture, health and social protection sectors.”

On project implementation strategy, he said it was important to leverage current political will to reverse the country’s negative nutrition indicators.

“The renewed hope administration is committed to swift, impactful results through this innovative approach to nutrition intervention,” he said.

“With sustained collaboration between the federal and sub-national governments and international partners, we are confident this initiative will yield significant improvements in our community health outcomes.”

On September 30, the World Bank approved three new financing totalling $1.57 billion to support key sectors in Nigeria.

The approved funds, according to the international lender, were geared towards supporting the federal government in strengthening human capital through better health for women, children and adolescents.

The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI), has said the economic reforms of President Bola Tinubu’s administration are based on a clear plan to salvage Nigeria’s economy.

Chairman of IMPI, Dr. Omoniyi Akinsiju, who stated this in a statement he signed, said years of populist macroeconomic policies sunk the country to a level that it had to change course or be doomed.

The group said though attacks on the ongoing reforms are natural if viewed from the relatively narrow and subjective context of the steep change in the country’s cost of living, the reality of the nation’s current macroeconomic situation was a consequence of its past.

“We have observed with interest the criticisms that continue to trail the reforms implemented by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Of particular interest are two opinions that gained some traction. One of the critics finds the reforms to be a: ‘wreckage of the past 15 months, from which the country is reeling.’

“The other viewpoint, an editorial, brands the ‘government as insensitive and strategy-deficient.’ It also sees the government as incompetent to perform its primary duty of delivering welfare and security to the people.’

“These attacks on the ongoing reforms are natural if viewed from the relatively narrow and subjective context of the steep change in the country’s cost of living,” the group said. Insisting that the reality of the nation’s current macroeconomic situation is a consequence of its past, IMPI said:

“When the premise and predicates of the nation’s economic trajectory are reviewed and aggregated, the apparent conclusion will be that we are where we are because this affliction of economic malaise at this point is predetermined.

“Since 1972, the Nigerian economy has been characterized by an unpredictable circle of bust and boom. In layperson’s terms, it means that one moment, we are deemed rich and able to buy whatever catches our fancy, and everybody, including the media, is happy.

The next, we are flat broke. “We lament the difficulties encountered in sating our basic needs, whining and criticising the government in power as the source of our decimated existence.”

IMPI cited similarities between Nigeria and Venezuela, another oilrich country to drive home its position, saying: “Like Venezuela, oil has taken Nigeria on an exhilarating but dangerous boom-and-bust ride.

“Again, like Nigeria, decades of poor governance have driven what was once one of Latin America’s most prosperous countries to economic and political ruin.

“In 2008, crude oil production in Venezuela was the tenth-highest in the world at 2,394,020 barrels per day, and the country was also the eighth-largest net oil exporter in the world.”

It said Venezuelan leaders implemented the wrong macroeconomic policy between 2000 and early 2010 when Venezuela’s economy, like that of Nigeria, was booming due to a prolonged period of high and rising grain, metal, oil and gas prices.

“Between 2000 and 2015, government spending in Nigeria, like Venezuela, was deeply pro-cyclical. Instead of saving at least some money for bad times during the good times – as Norway, Saudi Arabia, and virtually all other oil exporters have done – Nigeria established the Excess Crude Account (ECA) by fiat in 2004 without legislative backing.

“In May 2007, the ECA had up to $20 billion. Still, like the Venezuelan government, which ran a double-digit fiscal deficits as the economy boomed, spending far outpaced income from taxes and other revenues.

Both countries were on record for raising their external debts sixfold to finance these unnecessary shortfalls.” IMPI said while Venezuela saddled the state-owned oil company with over $100 billion in obligations, it noted the Nigerian government depleted the ECA by more than 80 per cent, from $20 billion to $2.4 billion.

Quoting a World Bank report, the said like Venezuela, which lost $300 billion to corruption through its foreign currency system, Nigeria incurred a loss of N13.2 trillion implementing its foreign exchange subsidy policy between 2021 and 2023.

The policy group noted that it was against this backdrop that the Tinubu administration introduced reforms targeted at preventing the country from going the path of Venezuela.

It said: “The Venezuelan economic crisis scenario remains a possible reality for Nigeria if the Tinubu administration had adopted the Maduro option in 2023.

Our estimation of his decision to scrap the populism macroeconomic template is that the President has salvaged Nigeria’s national economy from a whirlwind of economic turbulence and total collapse.

“As expected, the trailing effects of the stoppage of fuel subsidy and harmonization of the multiple foreign exchange windows, being the principal reforms orchestrated by the administration, are upending the ways of life and threatening the basis of the sustenance of Nigerians,” said IMPI.”

However, it said as the World Bank noted, though fiscal reforms were painful, they were needed to save the country from imminent collapse.

“Given the comparative analysis we have conducted in this Policy Statement, we fully adopt the World Bank submission and subscribe to the fact that the Tinubu reforms have started yielding results. “However, what we consider bewildering is the accusation against President Tinubu from critics,

The former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has revealed lessons Nigeria ought to learn from the just concluded US election.

Former President, Donald Trump of the Republican party is currently the US President-elect after defeating his opponent in the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris.

Reacting, Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate in 2023 said in a statement that Nigeria has lessons to learn ahead of future elections.

According to him, “the lesson for us in Nigeria is the integrity of the process that ensures a credible outcome”.

He said it is the expectation of every Nigerian that the Trump administration would “stand resolute in ensuring free and fair elections in Nigeria and other places in the world”.

Atiku also extended his “warm congratulations to the people of the United States, whose unwavering faith in the power of democracy and the sanctity of the ballot has once again shown the world the true might of the people’s voice”.

Some minors detained during the #EndBadGovernance protest have recounted their experiences while in custody in Abuja for two months.

The minors narrated their harrowing experiences in an interview with Punch at the Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital in Kano upon their return on Tuesday night, revealing there were periods of isolation and enduring extended spells without food.

A 15-year-old detainee, Umar Ali, said he was arrested while on his way to the market for menial work, insisting he had no involvement in any protest.

He explained they often spent days without adequate food or sunlight, which impaired their vision.

Ali urged young people to avoid participating in any form of protest, noting that they endured severe treatment despite his lack of involvement.

He said, “We suffered greatly in detention. Sometimes we went up to three days without food, and when food was available, it was barely enough to sustain us.

“We rarely saw sunlight in our holding area, which is why some of us struggled to see clearly when we appeared in court.”

Another detainee, 16-year-old Ibrahim Aliyu Musa, revealed the trauma of being held alongside hardened criminals and frequently going without adequate food.

He said, “They served us beans in the morning, rice for lunch, and gabza for dinner. Gabza is a type of tuwo made from unwashed corn, known as ‘from sack to pot’ due to its crude preparation.” 

A 13-year-old boy detained in Gadon Kaya, Gwale Local Government Area, said he was wrongfully accused of waving the Russian flags, adding they were held alongside criminals.

He said, “I was arrested on August 15 and taken to Abuja the next day, where we were held at the Abattoir SARS facility, mixed with criminals.” 

The minors thanked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for his intervention and cautioned other youths against actions that might endanger their futures.

The President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, will be sworn in as president after an inauguration on Monday, 20 January 2025.

 Trump will take over from the administration of the 46th president, Joe Biden.

Trump, earlier in the day had assumed leadership in the electoral process after clearing the threshold of the 270 Electoral College votes required to clinch the White House.

The victory of the 45th President in those swing states currently sees him with 277 electoral votes against 224 for the Vice President of US, Kamala Harris.

Polls had predicted a much tighter race, but it appears that anger fuelled the Republican’s remarkable comeback from defeat in 2020 and widespread condemnation of his refusal to accept the result.

Meanwhile, at the time of filing this report, Harris, who contested on the platform of the Democratic Party, is yet to accept defeat in the presidential election.

The campaign co-chair for Harris, Cedric Richmond had announced early on Wednesday that Harris would not speak to supporters gathered at Howard University as the campaign awaited additional election results.

According to Richmond, more votes count are still expected, and concentration is on fighting to make sure all votes are counted.

Attendees at Howard University were then advised to leave, though many remained optimistic for a Harris victory.

Controversial Nigerian actress, Sarah Martins has reacted to the viral video of Equatorial Guinea Finance Minister, Baltasar Engonga’s sexual scandal, noting why he’s every woman’s dream.

New Telegraph recalls that the internet went agog over numerous explicit videos, about 400 of which were leaked involving the Baltasar Engonga.

The scandal has stirred a lot of reactions around the globe, eliciting different opinions from netizens, but reacting to the viral video, Sarah opined that despite the controversy surrounding him, the guy is still a lot of ladies’ dream man.

According to the movie star, the reason for this is because of his prowess in bed and she considers this a full package in a man.

Speaking further, Sarah added that some women had given themselves up to be used by him, while others probably offered themselves as settlement to clear their husband’s corruption.

She said; “Jokes aside, That Equatorial Guinea guy is every woman’s dream man… Man is so skilled, very soft. very much in charge in bed, top-notch energy, understands every mood, plays Naija song on every Omo he’s a full spec make we no lie.

“Some women willingly gave themselves to him for exploitation while some women were given to him as a settlement to wipe off their husband’s bad records from the system. man’s so hot”

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The Omoluabi Progressives, a caucus within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, has called on residents and Nigerians to dismissed a circulating poster portraying former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, as a senatorial candidate for the 2027 election under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

In a statement issued on Tuesday in Osogbo, Oluwaseun Abosede, the Organising and Publicity Secretary of the caucus, labeled the poster as fake, describing those spreading it as “Moschievous agents of doom.”

According to Abosede, Aregbesola remains a dedicated member of the APC and has not switched allegiance to the PDP.

“It is not true and a fake poster. Aregbesola is still a member of the All Progressives Congress and has at no time decamped to the People’s Democratic Party,” he said.

The statement added that those who are jittery about Aregbesola’s soaring popularity and the success recorded by the caucus were behind the fake poster.

“It is not true and a fake poster. Aregbesola is still a member of the All Progressives Congress and as no time decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party.

“The fake poster is the handwork of those who are jittery about Aregbesola’s soaring popularity. They are looking for all means to run him down, forgotting that who God as blessed cannot be cursed.

“I want to urged Osun people, Nigerians and members of Omoluabi Progressives to disregard the fake poster as it has nothing to do with our principal, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.”

In a mark of deep respect for the late Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, who tragically passed away on Tuesday night, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has postponed the scheduled Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting until a future date.

The postponement was communicated in a statement issued on Wednesday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Tinubu.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Lagbaja, served the Nigerian Armed Forces with dedication from June 19, 2023, until his untimely death.

His passing has left a void in the nation’s military leadership and has prompted a nationwide period of mourning.

Also, President Tinubu, who serves as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff across Nigeria for seven days as a tribute to the late general.

The FEC meeting, originally scheduled for today, will be rescheduled to allow the nation to pay its respects to the decorated army officer.

President Tinubu also reached out to the family of General Lagbaja and the Nigerian Armed Forces.

He offered his heartfelt condolences while acknowledging the critical role the general played in safeguarding national security.

The president expressed his admiration for Lagbaja’s commitment to duty.

Lagbaja was described as a patriotic and exemplary leader whose contributions to the Nigerian military will not be forgotten.

The passing of General Lagbaja, who led the Nigerian Army during a period of both challenges and successes, has sent ripples across the country.

His leadership was marked by a steadfast commitment to strengthening national defence, countering security threats, and modernizing the armed forces.

In honour of his service, the Nigerian government and military are commemorating his life and legacy, with President Tinubu emphasizing the need for unity and strength within the Armed Forces during this period of transition.

The rescheduled date for the FEC meeting will be announced in the coming days, as the government continues to honour General Lagbaja’s memory.

Nigerian-born British heavyweight boxer, Anthony Joshua has been put on notice with a tight 48-hour ultimatum to accept a highly anticipated rematch against Daniel Dubois, scheduled for February.

Failing to accept the offer would mean Anthony Joshua forfeits his opportunity to reclaim the championship belts that he lost after a surprising defeat to the young heavyweight in September at Wembley Stadium.

In that shocking bout, Dubois, who is just 27 years old, sent Joshua to the canvas four times before his corner decided to throw in the towel during the fifth round. This loss for Joshua was particularly harrowing, occurring in front of a massive crowd of 96,000 fans at Wembley.

Initially, plans were set for a rematch to take place in Saudi Arabia next February. However, Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has voiced concerns that the timeline for a rematch may be too ambitious given the circumstances surrounding Joshua’s previous performance.

Frank Warren, Dubois’ promoter, is pushing for a swift resolution and has made it clear that if Joshua does not respond within the next 48 hours, the rematch would likely be off the table.

Warren expressed his urgency when speaking to iFLTV, stating, “Unless AJ gets back to us in the next 48 hours, yes,” in response to whether the rematch was in jeopardy.

Warren is eager to announce the fight and hopes to have clarity by tomorrow, even hinting that there may be no progress on the matter for at least another week after that.

Meanwhile, Barry Hearn, the father of Joshua’s promoter, offered his perspective on the impending rematch. He believes that, with a different strategy, Joshua could potentially find success against Dubois in a second encounter.

However, he also cautioned against hasty decisions, advocating for a more measured approach. “I think Dubois is dangerous, and he’s going to be super confident after the last job. I still believe AJ would probably beat him in a rematch if he boxed differently, but that’s just my opinion,” he told The Mirror.