Nigerian athletes have taken to social media, to solicit for funds
in order to compete at next month’s Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.
American-born sprinter, Regina George, who participated at the 2012
Olympics, has opened a page on gofundme.com and is seeking to raise
$4,000. Her plea is ‘Help me get to the Olympics’.
She wrote: “To all my family friends and fans thanks for being here
for me through the good times and bad times. This year it’s been hard
financially for me but it wouldn’t have been possible without your
support. I just been told that we will have to pay our own way to the
Olympics this year . Sadly this is such short notice for me to come up
with the money. They also promised a refund but I’m still waiting for
many refunds promised in the past. I been through a lot of obstacles
this year and through it all I made my SECOND Olympic team. I don’t want
to stop now after I earned a spot to represent my country in the
Olympics. Any donation will help my situation. This will not go
unnoticed and I’m truly grateful for my supporters. Help spread the
word!”
Regina only began to compete in Nigerian colours in 2012, after
anchoring the US 4x400m team to gold at the 2010 World Junior
Championships. She is expected to run at the same event in Rio next
month.
Antwon Hick, a Nigerian hurdler, has also set up a GoFundMe campaign as well. He is trying to raise $5000.
He said: “I’ve battled nagging injuries, missed teams by one
thousandth of a second, and have slept on many a friend’s couch to
pursue my dream.
“Every dime will go towards training, vaccinations (I’m sure you’ve heard of the current situation in Brazil) rehab and travel.”
Militant
group, Niger Delta Avengers, has denied claims by President Muhammadu
Buhari that his administration was holding talks with the militants to
ensure peace reigns in the region.
In a statement issued on Friday
by the group’s spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, the Avengers said it was not
aware of any ongoing peace talks.
It read, “Our attention has
been drawn to media report that the President is in touch with Niger
Delta agitators including the Niger Delta Avengers but the truth is that
we are not aware of any peace talk.
“If there is any such peace
talk, it means the President is talking to their mercenaries set to
disturb the genuine struggle of the agitators.
“President Buhari led government is not sincere to the Nigeria people and their foreign allies.
“If
we are to engage in any peace talk we made it clear that the
international community must be part of it. The President knows our
demands. So they should stop deceiving the international oil companies,
the general public and the international community.”
Lagos
State Ministry of Youth and Social Development Monitoring Team have
arrested about four women who were begging for alms with babies less
than a month old that weren’t their own.
The women, Hadiza Nosiru and Salamotu Salisu, both from Jigawa State were arrested at the Oyingbo area of the State.
Preliminary
investigation showed that the two women apprehended are not the
biological mothers of the babies but were given to them by their parents
who later got paid for each baby.
40-year-old Aregbesola is one
of the women arrested for using her children to beg for alms in return
for stipends. According to her , the person who hires her child always
pays her between N1,000 and N1,500 daily.
The woman claimed she
had four other children. According to her , the first two children
attend school somewhere in Ikotun area. She said: “I stay at Ijora Olopa
though I am from Ibadan in Oyo State. I work with a food vendor, who
pays me N 300 daily.
The eldest of my children is 11 years old. ”
Aregbesola,
who was the only Yoruba woman among the suspects, interpreted for
others, who spoke in Hausa and couldn’t explain why they ventured into
the illegal business. She claimed that she and other women only release
their babies around 5pm. and get them back with money by 7pm. daily.
But
when asked if it was possible for the beggars to pay her N1,500 daily
for using the baby for two hours, she kept mum. Two of the women, Hadiza
Nosiru and Salamotu Salisu, hail from Jigawa State.
Aregbeshola is now being detained in Alausa Police Station alongside other four women.
Two of the women are biological mothers of the rescued infants, while
two others were commercial beggars from northern part of the country.
The
infants were taken to the Rehabilitation and Training Centre at
Majidun, Ikorodu for shelter as the government vowed to immediately
commence investigation and possibly prosecute the women.
The
Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, on Thursday enumerated no less than a
dozen policies the Buhari administration is putting in place to reverse
the reverse the worrisome trend of the nation’s economy.
Mrs. Adeosun mentioned the policies as she fielded questions from senators during her appearance before the Senate.
The
key areas Mrs. Adeosun highlighted as being of immediate concerns to
federal government with regards to tackling the alarming economic
situation are as follows:
1. We would streamline the cost of
government and improve efficiency of public service delivery across the
Federal and Sub-national Governments.
2. Targeted spending on innovative social programmes and infrastructure, including social infrastructure.
3.
Direct and model economic policies away from oil and towards non-oil
revenues as global demand for oil decreases and supply increases
4.
Focus on delivery of basic services to the Nigerian population upon
which business can be built and improved standard of living can be
achieved.
5. Build revenue capacity across Sub-national Governments by increasing IGRs to reduce dependence on the Federal Government.
6. Alignment of fiscal and monetary policies across medium and long-term goals. 7. Increase investor confidence in Nigeria.
7. Increased revenue mobilization and plugging of leakages.
8. Greater focus on Power, Transport, and Housing because these areas help to create wealth.
9.strengthen institutions of government across board including tackling corruption.
10. A financial sector that is strong, resilient and able to support the real economy.
11. Inclusive and sustainable growth – mobile communication, film industry, financial inclusion, among others.
Eleven
people have been burnt to death in a ghastly motor accident that
occurred on Otedola Bridge, Berger area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on
Thursday evening.
Those who died in the accident include eight
males and three females, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency,
LASEMA, has confirmed.
General Manager, LASEMA, Michael Akindele said the accident occurred around 6:10pm on Thursday.
He said the 14-seater passenger Volkswagen commercial bus with Lagos colour lost its brake, somersaulted and busted into fire.
“Eleven
persons, which include three females and eight males were burnt dead.
Three persons were rescued alive and were taken to the accident and
emergency unit at toll gate,” he confirmed.
Akindele said the bus was moving inward Berger before the accident occurred on Otedola Bridge around 6.10 pm.
LASEMA’s response team, Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Fire Service and the Nigerian Police were involved in the rescue.
Police
Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Dolapo Badmos also confirmed the
tragedy, saying it occurred around 6.00pm, adding that the command’s
operatives from Isheri-Berger Division received a call that an 18-seater
bus heading towards Berger from Mushin was involved in a lone accident
and caught fire.
“A total number of 11 people comprising three
women and eight men were burnt to death instantly, while four others
have been rushed to the hospital. The vehicle which was on speed, the
police learnt, suddenly lost control when the tyre busted and
subsequently tumbled three times before it went up in flame.
Popular Nollywood actor, Leo Mezie is currently battling kidney failure and is in dire need of a kidney transplant.
Mezie
is currently battling to survive collapsed kidneys after he allegedly
took medications following wrong medical diagnosis. He was diagnosed
wrongly with malaria, typhoid and pneumonia for over a year and the
medications collapsed his kidneys.
His colleagues have, however
been making frantic effort to raise N10 million, estimated for an
immediate kidney transplant abroad, while N80, 000 is being expended
weekly for his daily dialysis.
The campaign, headed by renowned
movie director, Lancelot Imasuen, is tagged ‘We can raise Ten Milion to
Save our friend and colleague’s life God helping Us.”
Rotimi Amaechi, The Minister of Transportation on Thursday said passengers will not pay more
than N500 per trip on the economy class from Abuja to Kaduna or vice
versa, when the project is finally flagged off by next week Tuesday.
Disclosing
this on Thursday while answering questions during a tour of the rail
project in Abuja to ascertain its readiness for public use, Amaechi
said:
“The passengers have asked me to bring the fare down to N500 and I think I can do that.”
Originally the government had planned to collect N900 for business class and N600 for economy class.
Another drama in the Nigerian music industry, the entertainment sector fans is set to witness yet another beef between an old skool veteran and a new skool singer.
The Punch’s interview with the, veteran reggae singer, Majek Fashek, has revealed that R&B singer, Timi Dakolo capitalised on his state of health and stole his evergreen hit song, ‘Send Down the Rain’,adding that he remade his song without taking permission from him.
In 2013, Timi Dakolo had done a remix of the song, but Fashek said Timi never took permission from him before doing the song.
“He broke the rules of copyright. He is a thief because in music business, he must take permission before he works on someone’s song. That is why we have COSON. I did not give anyone the right to do anything with my song. I have a management team I work with headed by Omenka Uzoma. Dakolo never bothered to look for me before stealing my song.
He has infringed on the laws of copyright and he is not an original artiste. It is only people like Tuface, Wizkid, Olamide that are original.
“I felt bad when I learnt that he worked on my song without my consent. He did not even give me credit. He is a very bad artiste and he took advantage of the circumstance that I was facing during that time. The song is not a normal song; it is a spiritual hit song.
I partook in three days ‘white’ fasting before the song came to me. Timi Dakolo did not go through that. I did not fight him because I do not have time. Let God judge us,”Majek Fashek said.
The Punch stated that Timi Dakolo, was quick to cut short the conversation even before the correspondent could explain reasons for calling. “I am not in the country. There is no allegation levelled against me.
Go ahead and write a better story. I am not in Nigeria,” he said before he rudely ended the call.
Few hours later, Timi Dakolo took to his Instagram page to react to the story which has already gone viral online and social media. Below is what he posted;
Kim K showed off her curves in a white swimsuit while
striking different poses in the closet of her step-mum Caitlyn Jenner.
She went to get Caitlyn ready for the 2016 Excellence
in Sports Performance Yearly Awards and decided to flaunt her banging
body when she was less busy.
The
Enugu state government recently set up a local government audit panel
to look into worker payrolls for the state. According to Today the audit
panel has discovered nearly 4,000 ghost workers in the 17 local
government councils of the state.
The panel revealed
that 3,916 workers whose names were in the payment vouchers could not be
traced. They submitted their report to the state governor, Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi, adding that this would save the state about N161, 494, 570
monthly or N1.938 billion annually.
Hon. Edward Ubosi,
who is the chairman of the panel and Speaker of the state House of
Assembly, while presenting the report said that the money would be the
difference in the wage bill now that the exercise had been completed.
Ubosi
said: “From the above, N64, 882, 033 and N96, 612, 337.20 from local
government staff gross salaries and teachers’ salaries respectively
should be regarded as monthly savings.” Governor Ugwuanyi, after he
received the report, commended the panel for a job well done. He also
said that the report would go a long way in helping the state government
in the on-going efforts to track down ghost workers in the state public
service.
The committee also recommended that more
teachers be engaged in the primary schools in the state. They also made
26 recommendations for consideration by the government among which is
the removal of all staff in the system found out to have falsified their
ages; impersonators, those in-capacitated by ill-health as well as
those employed contrary to civil service rules.
To curb
the ghost worker trend, the committee also suggested general posting of
local government staff after a bio-metric capturing exercise to ensure
discipline in the system. Meanwhile, only recently despite the dwindling
allocation from the Federal government, the Bauchi state government
says it has discovered 6,065 ghost workers on its payroll.
The
state’s governor, Mohammed Abubakar, revealed this to newsmen during an
interactive session with members of the correspondents’ chapel, Nigeria
Union of Journalists, Bauchi state council.
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) has banned indecent dressing in all its branches worldwide.
MFM stated this when the church’s media committee, led by its chairman, Pastor Oladele Bank-Olemoh, visited the headquarters of The Punch at Magboro, Ogun state.
The church on Tuesday, July 12, said its major standard was holiness and that informed its decision to preoccupy itself with the preaching of the gospel.
According to Bank-Olemoh, the general overseer, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, had warned that indecent dressing would no longer be tolerated in the church.
He said: “The G.O. had warned that if those who dress indecently do not change, they will not be allowed into the church.
And today, if anybody is not properly dressed, the person will be not be allowed into the church; we will politely tell the person that he or she cannot enter, that is the standard.”
Bank-Olemoh, however, said it was lamentable that some people hid under Christianity to perpetrate evil.
About a year ago, Dr. Becky Enenche, the wife of the senior pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja officially banned kissing, hugging and pecking in the church. The pastor’s wife said such act would no longer be tolerated in the church.
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has disclosed details about Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai’s $1.5m mansions in Dubai. The bureau stated that army boss declared the mansions in his wife’s name, The Nation reports.
It said in reply to an FOI request: “Tukur Yusuf Buratai, after his appointment as the Chief of Army Staff, declared his assets as required by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The request inquired if Buratai declared the mansions or not. The CCB added that Buratai was served the Form CCB-I on July 21, 2015, which he returned on August 21, 2015.
“We also wish to confirm that his property at Dubai was declared in the wife’s name.
Please, accept the warmest regards of the chairman,” it added. On June 29 letter of the chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Osuagwu sought explanation on whether or not army boss declared the controversial houses.
The letter said: “We request that the CCB, pursuant to the FOI Act 2011, avail us the following concerning the declarations of Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai.
“On July 13, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Gen.
Buratai as Chief of Army Staff. The newspapers are awash that Gen. Buratai and his two wives in 2013 paid 1,498,534.00 AED (N120 million/ $419,000) for a Dubai property, Project TFG Marina Hotel, Unit 2711.” Nigeria’s anti-graft commission has been under pressure to begin probe into how Tuku Buratai bought the Dubai mansions.
Some prominent Nigerians have begun to pressure President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the chief army staff after the revelation that he bought two houses in Dubai, worth $1.5m.
The Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, celebrated one of his wives on her birthday today, July 14. The proud husband shared a picture of his second wife Sadiya posing beside him, and boldly declared that her birthday should have been declared ‘a national holiday’.
Here’s what he wrote on his Instagram page below: “Happy Birthday! Wishing you a wonderful year ahead. Your birthday deserves to be a national holiday, because you’re a special, national treasure.” The Emir currently has three wives and many children. Happy birthday to her.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye today paid a condolence visit to the family of Mrs Mojisola Elisha Olawale, who was hacked to death in the early hours of Saturday around Gbazango-West area of Kubwa. See more photos after the cut..
Over 100 lawyers turned out to help this guy – for free
Scores of lawyers turned out in force today offering their services to a pastor who has been leading protests in Zimbabwe.
They joined supporters of protest leader Evan Mawarire outside the
court where he was set to appear after being arrested during a surge of
unrest against President Robert Mugabe’s government.
Mawarire,
a pastor who has been charged with inciting public violence, was an
organiser of a one-day nationwide shutdown last week when offices,
shops, schools and some government departments stayed closed.
Protest organisers had appealed for Zimbabweans to hold another
strike starting on Wednesday, but their calls were largely unsuccessful
with businesses and schools open as usual.
Police were on patrol in the capital Harare after Mawarire, who
founded the internet ThisFlag protest movement, was arrested on Tuesday.
Anti-riot police guarded the entrance to Harare magistrate’s court (Picture: Getty)
A series of demonstrations in Zimbabwe, where protests are rare under
Mugabe’s authoritarian rule, have been driven by an economic crisis
that left banks short of cash and the government struggling to pay its
workers.The end is coming for Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe looks to be on the brink of revolution‘They
made sure that they arrested the people who are most vocal and fearless
– that is why the response is not as good as it was last week,’ Onias
Marongwa, who works in a grocery store, told AFP.
More than 150 mainly young supporters, many carrying the Zimbabwean
flag that has become a symbol of the protests, sang and chanted outside
the magistrate’s court in Harare.
Mawarire was brought into court through a back entrance, as scores of
lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights group offered to
represent him.
Our only weapon is our voices, our flags and bibles.We love peace!
@MMlilo1 @Makil @PastorEvanLive @NewsDayZimbabwe
pic.twitter.com/uPjzNaJvcg
— Wellington Mahohoma (@WellieMahohoma) July 13, 2016
— Wellington Mahohoma (@WellieMahohoma) July 13, 2016
Zimbabwean
protesters wait outside the Harare Magistrates court before the arrival
of arrested Pastor Evan Mawarire, in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe July
13, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
‘The arrest of Pastor Evan Mawarire appears to be a well-calculated
plan to intimidate him and other activists ahead of the national
shutdown,’ Muleya Mwananyanda of Amnesty International said in a
statement.
‘Instead of suppressing dissenting voices, Zimbabwean authorities should be listening to protesters.’
Amnesty said about 300 people had been arrested for participating in protests around the country since they started last week.
The recent demonstrations have revealed long-bubbling frustration in a
country where 90 percent of the population are not in formal
employment.
Mugabe, 92, has overseen years of economic decline, repression of
dissent, allegedly rigged elections and mass emigration since he came to
power in 1980.
Last week security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse
violent protests outside Harare that erupted over police officers
allegedly using road blocks to extort cash from motorists.
Television footage showed police beating protesters with sticks.
The savage exploitation of girls and young women is, unfortunately, a
cross-cultural phenomenon, but only in Islamic law does it carry divine
sanction.
“Allah allows Muslims to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them, claims Islamic professor,” Zee News, January 17, 2016:
"Washington: A female Islamic professor has claimed that
Allah has allowed Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women in order to
‘humiliate’ them, report stated.
Suad Saleh, who is a professor from the renowned Al-Azhar University
in Cairo, Egypt, made the claims during an interview to a TV channel.
According to The Inquisitr News report, in the video posted by
LiveLeak, Saleh says that Allah has given the Muslim men a way to have
sexual relations with slave women that is ‘legitimate’.
Saleh suggests that the only time it is acceptable for Muslim men to
enslave a woman for sexual purposes is during a ‘legitimate war’ between
Muslims and their enemies such as that with Israel.
Therefore, the female Islamic professor says that enslaving Israeli
women and raping them would be entirely acceptable and encouraged,
states The Inquistr News report.
“The female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own.’ In order to
humiliate them, they become the property of the army commander, or of a
Muslim, and he can have sex with them just like he has sex with his
wives,” reads the transcript of the interview provided by The Middle
East Media Research Institute.
However, after her interview went viral many including members of
Muslim community condemned her claims and termed them false propaganda
of Islam."
On May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also spoke out
in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women,
emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the
parameters of Islamic morality.
A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex
slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam
permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up
[this man’s] situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a
question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and
what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex
slaves?”
The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim
nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the
religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of
war.”
“Is this forbidden by Islam?” I asked.
“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the
contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The
free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But
the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from
the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the
sex slave does not—she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and
that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHOULD THE MUSLIM MEN IN YOUR AREA START RAPING LADIES FROM OTHER RELIGION IN THE NAME OF ISLAMIC LAW WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL BE THE OUT COME....????
IS SUCH LAW REALLY FROM GOD OR FROM MAN TO SATISFY THEIR LUST?.
Kim K showed off her curves in a white swimsuit while
striking different poses in the closet of her step-mum Caitlyn Jenner.
She went to get Caitlyn ready for the 2016 Excellence
in Sports Performance Yearly Awards and decided to flaunt her banging
body when she was less busy.
Indonesia plans to put 16 death-row convicts to death this year,
including a Nigerian and a Zimbabwean, Attorney-General H.M. Presetyo
said on Wednesday.
Asked if there were any foreigners among the convicts to be executed,
Prasetyo told reporters:
"We have foreigners, among them from Nigeria and Zimbabwe." he said.
Mr. Prasetyo also disclosed that no convicts from the United States,
Europe or Australia were on the list to be executed.
A 59-year-old British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, was sentenced to death
after being convicted in 2013 of trying to smuggle cocaine worth $2.5
million into the country.
A Philippine maid, Mary Jane Veloso, got a last-minute reprieve last
year in response to a request from Manila after an employment recruiter,
whom Ms. Veloso had accused of planting drugs in her luggage, gave
herself up to police in the Philippines.
The death row convicts will be executed "immediately after" the Islamic
holy month of Ramadan, Mr Mohammad Rum, a spokesman for the
attorney-general's office, told AFP, last month but he did not give a
precise date.
Mr Rum did not say who would face the firing squad, but Indonesia has
been waging a campaign against narcotics and in 2015 executed 14 drug
convicts, mostly foreigners, sparking international outrage.
Miss World 1993 and former Minister of Youth and Culture in Jamaica, Lisa Hanna has revealed the secrets to her youthful looks.
"Get
your protein on ...People ask me all the time how after Miss World (23
years ago) I manage," she wrote on Instagram. "Well the short answer is discipline. I don't drink
alcohol ...never have, I have never smoked, I stay away from fried foods, excessive starches, sodas and excessive sugar and I exercise. Now
that I'm over 40 it's much harder to stay in control and my body doesn't
respond to exercise as fast as it used to so I have to stay focused
and change it up constantly. It's a struggle but it's important"
Hanan
is the youngest woman to be elected to the Jamaican Parliament. The
beauty, who currently serves as MP for Saint Ann South East was the
Minister of Youth and Culture from 2012-March 7, 2016.
Nigerian man was arrested on Tuesday, July 12 by joint elements of the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency Region 3 (PDEA RO-3) and PDEA-National Capital Region
(PDEA-NCR) in a drug sting inside a resto bar along Don Juan Sumulong
Highway in Barangay Sto. Niῆo, Marikina City, Philipine.
According to Manila Bulletin, the 33-year-old
Nigerian identified as Ejike Okoye (alias "Martin") is believed to be a
member of West African Drug Syndicate operating in Metro Manila and
nearby provinces of Central Luzon.
PDEA RO-3 director Emerson Margate revealed that PDEA RO-3 agents
were able to secure a drug deal from Okoye to purchase of 300 grams of
shabu for PHP360,000. They agreed to meet inside the resto bar in
Marikina City. That was where they arrested the suspect.
Confiscated from the Nigerian were six
medium-sized resealable transparent plastic sachets containing a white
crystalline substance suspected to be shabu with a street value of
PHP1,050,000 and the marked money used in the anti-drug operation.
The suspect was brought in PDEA Jail Facility in Camp Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga for further investigation.
Once again I am compelled to voice out my bewilderment at the
stumbling and wobbly kind of governance we have had since you came
onboard.
I wonder what you are doing right now.
I wonder if our tears, pains and hopelessness affect you in anyway.
I wonder if you are the one in charge or some other people.
You have tasted leadership before and you know what it entails. I
understand that. However, then and now are two different scenarios, two
separate dispensations.
We know you.
We know about your war against indiscipline.
We hear about your no-nonsense stand against corruption.
We have read so much about our stolen monies which you have managed to recover. Well done sha.
Meanwhile, the nagging questions that leave me sleepless most nights remain unanswered…
How much money have you collected from the looters so far?
To what use have the monies been put?
From where I stand, it seems you’re the only one in your cabinet
fighting corruption while your praise singers are busy washing you all
over town trying to convince us that you’re a good man.
I, CharlyBoy, know that you are a “good” man: someone who loves the
country, a patriot with a high sense of morals perhaps. But na that one
we go chop? Is that all that is needed to fix the rot of over 40yrs.?
I don’t think so!
To a great degree, Nigeria has become a terribly dysfunctional society.....
I didn’t vote in the last elections because I just tire with the
kalokalo leadership so far. Even when a lot of people wanted change, I
wondered what manner of change could come when in our history we never
really struggled for anything.
Before you sat on that chair, I proclaimed that Nigeria would only
survive under a benevolent dictator; one with lots of selfless love for
the country and is willing to lay down his life, one who would deal
mercilessly with all those who have ruined our land.
A lot of people thought I was talking about you.
Comedian Kevin Hart, the highest earning black actor of 2016 at No. 6 on
Forbes list with $87.5m and Lebron James, the highest earning black
athlete at No.11 on 2016 Forbes list with $77million, put their hot bods
on display on instagram...
Emmanuel Ibekwe left his residence since Saturday night July 9th and has not
returned. All efforts to reach him has been unsuccessful as his phone
has been switched off. Anyone with any info should please contact any of
the following numbers: 0809 062 0989, 0806 604 5271
How will you feel, if you happen to be celebrated like this young lady above, A group of photos showing a unique birthday celebration was
shared by Chinese Media outlet, People Daily Online. In the photos,
hundreds of male students gathered to hold a birthday party for their
colleague, a girl named Wu Xun.
According to the report, Wu Xun is the
only female student among all her classmates majoring in marine
engineering at Shanghai's Merchant Marine College and is the first
female marine engineering major in the history of the college, in a
department that had only ever admitted male students before her. See
more photos after the cut...
Washington
(AFP) - US naval forces in the Arabian Sea seized a shipment of weapons
that the United States believes was sent from Iran and was bound for
Huthi rebels in Yemen, the Navy said.
The patrol ship USS Sirocco intercepted and seized the shipment hidden aboard a small dhow on March 28.
The illicit cargo included 1,500 AK-47s, 200 RPG launchers and 21 .50 caliber machine guns, the Navy said in a statement.
The dhow and its crew were allowed to sail on after the weapons were seized.
The Navy said it was the latest in a series of illicit weapons shipments which the United States believes originated in Iran.
Pro-government
Yemeni forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have been battling the
Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels for more than a year.
The
warring parties are preparing for a UN-brokered ceasefire due to take
effect on April 10 and intended to pave the way for peace talks in
Kuwait a week later.
Four Men Accused of Raping 9-Year-Old While Her Mother Was Away Smoking Meth: Cops
Four men were arrested last week after police say they raped a 9-year-old girl in her Utah home.
According to the Uintah County Sheriff's Department, the men found the girl asleep on the couch while her mom was in the garage smoking methamphetamine on March 27.
"During
that time, the child was taken into another room in the home where she
was raped by the four men," reads the sheriff's statement.
Authorities first took a report on the incident March 29.
Sheriff’s investigators conducted interviews which led to a search warrant being executed at the alleged scene of the crime.
Larson RonDeau, 36, was detained while police executed the warrant. He was later arrested on March 29.
Also
arrested on March 31 and April 1 were 20-year-old Josiah RonDeau,
29-year-old Jerry Flatlip, and 26-year-old Randall Flatlip.
All
four suspects were booked into jail on first degree felony rape of a
child and first degree felony sodomy on a child, according to the Uintah
County Sheriff's Dept.
A team of the Lagos state Rapid Response Squad and the
Department of Petroleum Resources Taskforce this morning arrested the
manager and deputy manager of Oando Fuel station at Otedola Bridge,
Lagos for hoarding fuel and selling into Jerry cans at exorbitant
prices. More photos after the cut..
Scores of lawyers turned out in force today offering their services to a pastor who has been leading protests in Zimbabwe.
