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A 4-year-old girl was found dead on a school bus in Qatar, on Sunday, September 11, hours after she was supposed to be dropped off at her private kindergarten.    The deceased, Minsa Maryam Jacob fell asleep on the bus travelling to her school in the eastern city of Al Wakrah and the bus staff did not notice that she did not get off with her fellow students.   The bus was reportedly parked in the open during the heat of the day, which can soar to more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) at noon, without anyone realizing the child was missing.   In the afternoon, when the school staff entered the bus prior to the return trip, they saw the girl lying unconscious. She was taken to hospital but doctors were unable to save her.   The daughter of Kochuparambil Abhilash Chacko, a designer-cum-artist and Soumya, from India, was a kindergarten student of Springfield Kindergarten at Al Vakra in Doha.   The news of the Mariam’s d...

A self-appointed Nigerian football coach who was found guilty of abusing his position by sexually assaulting seven teenage boys has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. 35-year-old Emmanuel Igwebuike was also given a lifelong sexual harm prevention order and will also be on the Sex Offenders Register for life.   The Inner London Crown Court sentenced him after the same court found him guilty in April of 22 counts of sexual assault following a five-week trial.   His victims who were aged between 14 and 18 years at the time the offences were committed between June 2019 and April 2021. The sexual assaults were said to have taken place at his former addresses in Lambeth and Putney, as well as at a hotel in Birmingham.   Several allegations naming Igwebuike were made to the police on June 15, 2021, 15 days before he was arrested by officers from the complex investigation team and the central specialist crime command.   According to ...