Sir Boj and friends to set Apapa on fire on October 09, 2015

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SENSATIONAL crooner, Sir Boj  is billed to  storm Apapa, Lagos, tomorrow in a show that promises to leave the fun loving residents of the area with lingering memories of the event.

Tagged “Sir Boj & Friends”, the show is being organized by Gold Strings Production in conjunction with Command

A Wikedness in a high places when3 Nursing School Students Gang-R@pe 6 year old Girl in Benin

 

Three final year Nursing Students of Edo State School of Nursing, have reportedly gang-r@ped a six-year old girl in Benin.

Already, the police have arrested two of the students while the third suspect in crime is said to have absconded.
The suspects had allegedly committed the crime after luring the little girl from a makeshift store within the school hostel, while her mother was away.

Mother of the victim was said to have discovered the defilement of her daughter following complaints of stomach pain, just as she was said to have also stooled and urinated profusely. Following the discovery, the victim’s mother promptly reported the incident at the Aideyan police division, which led to the arrest of the two students, while the third suspect allegedly absconded.
Besides, the incident was also reported to the Principal of the school and the Edo State Commissioner for Health.

PM News reports that a source close to the family of the victim told journalists in Benin that the the girl is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed medical facility.
“The little girl said that when they (suspects) took her there (hostel), they tied her hands and mouth. But she was able to identify the three

Teacher Sentenced to Death by Hanging For S3xually Abusing His Students

A death penalty was handed to school teacher Li Jishun for S3xually abusing his students.

According to a statement by the Supreme People’s Court, Jishun had abused 26 girls while teaching at a school in the Gansu province.
The girls were said to be aged between 4 and 11 in when the crimes were committed between 2011 and 2012.

Man Commits Suicide After His Wife Still Did Not Like His Penis After Getting an Enlargement this mystery.

 

A worker at a horse track in Chiang Mai hanged himself in front of the ticket booth yesterday, a suicide his friends say was brought on by his S3xless marriage caused by a p*n*s enlargement gone wrong.
The 45-year-old Bangkok native, identified only as “Suea,” was found hanged by a nylon thread from the awning yesterday morning at the Nong Ho Horse Track. Bottles of water and liquor were found by his side.

According to bangkok.coconuts.co – friends of the deceased, said Suea had argued with his wife and cut himself on Wednesday before being found dead Thursday morning.
The friends told police Suea had recently had an injection into his p*n*s which left it very large.

Ghastly Accident at Lekki 6th roundabout under inflence of hot drink

There was a ghastly accident about two hours ago at Lekki 6th Roundabout by Mobile. A white Toyota Camry skidded off the road into the roundabout…a large concrete stopped the car just before the billboard.
Eyewitnesses say the car was speeding, and narrowly hit another car.
When you continue, you will find pics from the scene. The driver is the one in a green shirt/white inner shirt &blue jeans. He is motionless, the light skinned guy sat at the front and the other guy sat behind with the girl in yellow (pictured below).
 
                                         


                          

Policeman shoots 34 year old man over N2,000 what a calamity in a high places.

A mobile policeman in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, allegedly shot a 34-year-old Adamu Mohammed, over an argument of N2,000 unpaid fees for a menial job.

According to Mohammed’s family, the victim was shot last Tuesday by the mobile policeman after an argument with a woman who hired him to clear a portion of land close to her home at Erepa Road and dumped at the Federal Medical Centre.
Residents who claimed to have witnessed

Gov. Amaechi Speaks On His Fight With Patience Jonathan And Jonathan it sound funy but amazing to hear.

Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi says despite the effort by First Lady Patience Jonathan and the president to remove him from office, they are all leaving government at the same time.

He said the president and his wife had wanted him to leave office before the end of his tenure but he is now seeing the end of his administration.
While speaking at the presentation of a special documentary titled ‘The Amaechi Years’, the governor said Patience Jonathan interfered with operations of the military apparatus in the state, ordering the transfer of military officers in the state just because they greeted him.

“People have asked me why I opposed President Goodluck Jonathan. When the fight started, instead of receiving money from the Federal government, we were sending money to the Federal Government.
Have you seen a country where the Commissioner of Police reports to the wife of the President? That is happening in Rivers State.

Phyno acquires multi million property in lekki

 

The Nigerian rapper and record producer, Azubike Chibuzo Nelson, popularly known as Phyno has joined the league of showbiz stars acquiring properties on the island.

The rapper just acquired a multi-million naira house at Shelvey View Estate, located at Chevron Drive, Lekki. The property is a three-flat duplex.
Phyno has been working on the acquisition for some time now, and he has finally scaled the hurdle.

Since Phyno made his first hit, he has become one of the most consistent artistes, churning out one hit after the other. His vocal and lyrical prowess has also ranked him among the most featured artistes in the country.
Like Bracket, J Martins and May D, Phyno is another artiste mentored by the P-Square brothers and their elder brother, Jude Engees Okoye.

In 2014, he acquired a brand new Bentley Gt Coupe automobile worth N30million.
The artiste, who sports a Mohawk hairstyle, initially started up as a producer in 2003, and did beats for artistes like 2Shotz, J Martins, Mr. Raw, Flavour, Timaya, Ruggedman and Bracket. In 2010, he then decided to try his hands on the

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All National calls, SMS and Data will be charged from the customer’s main account as soon as the bonus airtime is exhausted or expires.
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Satchmo’s Jazzfest 2015: Celebrating our roots in jazz on May 08, 2015

 

                Chris Onuoha

In line with UNESCO’s setting of April 30 aside as World Jazz Day, Nigeria joined other countries across the world this year to be part of the celebration. Tagged “Satchmo Jazz festival” the show which rounded off on May 3rd after a four day memorable outing redefined the place of jazz music in Nigeria with International jazz, R&B, and soul musicians taking turns to display their skills on stage.
Setting the tune for one of the evenings at Eko Hotels Ocean View marquee venue of the four-day event was the talented home idol, Yemi Sax. This multiple award-winning saxophonist did not disappoint fans while rendering the very best he’s known for.

UK elections: Jonathan congratulates Cameron on victory on May 08, 2015

           By Ben Agande, Abuja

President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservative Party of Great Britain on their victory in the country’s general elections.
A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati quoted the president as saying that as Prime Minister Cameron and the Conservative Party prepare to form a new British Government backed by the clear majority in Parliament, he assured them of the best wishes of the Government and people of Nigeria.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s

Prime Minister David Cameron’s

Prime Minister David Cameron’s“The President expects that the historic relationship between Nigeria and Britain which received a significant boost during the past five years of his Presidency in Nigeria and Mr. Cameron’s first term in office, will continue to blossom in coming years for the benefit of both countries and their citizens. 

Congratulations: Olamide Wins Afrima 2014 Best Alb’u’m

Prolific Rapper and CEO of YBNL;Olamide, on Wednesday, April 29 added to his long list of awards and accolades by becoming a recipient of the prestigious All Africa Music Awards held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he won the ‘AFRIMA 2014 Best Alb’u’m’ award with his BADDEST GUY EVER LIVETH alb’u’m.

The AFRIMA 2014 event hosted in partnership with The African Union Commission (AUC), unveiled its 2015 AFRIMA calendar at the African Union Secretariat, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where Olamide received his award alongside other notable African acts and a host of Nigerian journalists.

In addition to the World Press Conference and 2015

Prophet Jailed 7 Years For Running Out Of Court During Trial

Prophet Destiny Onwudinjo of Heaven Divine Ministry, Shasha, a suburb of Lagos in western Nigeria, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine for absconding from court to evade trial.
Presiding Magistrate P.E. Nwaka of Ejigbo Court handed the sentence to Onwudinjo after he pleaded guilty to attempt to escape after he was brought to court for trial.

Prophet Onwudinjo caused a stir at the court recently when he suddenly jumped from the dock and ran out of the court where he was facing criminal charge of fraud and assault.
The prosecutor, Mr Femi Adeleye, and some of the court officials ran after him and re-arrested him along the street of Lagos.

His action disrupted the court’s proceedings as the litigants rushed out of the court due to the rowdiness that ensued.
Prophet Onwudinjo was facing trial in the court after he was arrested by the police at Shasha Division for brutalizing a commercial motorcycle rider called Chika Izuogu for refusing to pay him N120,000 for deliverance prayer.

The incident happened at Olukosi Street, Shasha, Lagos where both of them reside.
According to Izuogu, Onwudinjo told him that he had a revelation from God that he needed to embark on seven days deliverance prayer so that his condition would improve for the better.

He said the Enugu State-born Onwudinjo explained to him that the money he asked him to pay covered the fasting and other spiritual materials he

BREAKING NEWS: Nollywood Actress “Moji Olaiya” loses brother

Sources disclosed that Alfred Olaiya was announced dead on Monday, May 4, 2015 while the actress celebrated her mother’s birthday

Popular Yoruba actress, Mojisola Olaiya is currently mourning the death of her big brother, Alfred Abidemi Olaiya.

Sources disclosed that the 38-year old Alfred Olaiya was announced dead on Monday, May 4, 2015 while the actress celebrated her mother’s birthday.
The cause of the late Olaiya’s death is yet to be ascertained as at  the time of filing this report but the actress confirmed her brother’s death with an Instagram post where she shared his obituary.

Devilish Nigerian Nurse Arrested In The USA After Allegedly Killing Baby With Hot Water.

 

Cold-hearted Oluyemisi Adebayo,Queens nurse was nabbed Wednesday as she was about to board a plane out of the country and leave behind her horrific crime — the killing of a 22-month-old girl from a bath so scalding-hot the child’s skin peeled off, police said.

 It was the second day that Oluyemisi Adebayo, 54, was caring for Naomi Mondesire at the child’s home on Memphis Ave. near 145th Ave. in Rosedale. The premature toddler was born at just 25 weeks and needed a tracheotomy tube to breathe. Naomi spent her first year in the hospital, her grandmother said, and still needed to be fed through a tube.

Around 7:25 p.m. on Saturday, Adebayo, a licensed practical nurse, submerged little Naomi in water so hot that it actually burned pieces of skin off the child, according to authorities. The young girl died Monday
“She couldn’t even scream,” said Naomi’s grandmother Gardite Mondesire, 54, who was at a nearby library when a tenant called her with the terrible news.

“When I got home, my tenant was running around picking up pieces of skin. It was all over the floor. It was all over the tub,” she said.
Mondesire called Adebayo and asked her what happened. “She said ‘It’s bad. I did something bad. The baby got burned,’” Mondesire said. “But she said she didn’t know how.”

Adebayo was arrested around 7a.m. Wednesday at Kennedy Airport as she tried to board a flight for Nigeria, where she is from, authorities said. She was charged with murder.
The toddler was rushed to Nassau

Despite Death Sentence, 19 Nigerians Try To Ship Drugs To Asia – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it saved 20 people from the death penalty in Asia by preventing them from smuggling drugs out of Nigeria.

In a statement Thursday, the agency said since January 2014, 19 Nigerians and a Ghanaian have been arrested in Nigerian airports attempting to smuggle 106,914 kilogrammes of narcotics.
“Sixteen of the suspects were apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos while four others including a Ghanaian were caught at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu,” said Ahmadu Giade, NDLEA’s Chairman.
“Their final destinations are Malaysia, China and Thailand where drug trafficking is punishable by death.”

On Tuesday, four Nigerians were among eight people executed by Indonesian authorities over drug-related offences.
While commiserating with the deceased families, the NDLEA urged relevant authorities to intensify anti-drug abuse campaign efforts.
“I sincerely sympathise with the families of the executed drug convicts,” Mr. Giade said.

“This is a moment of sober reflection on the illicit activities of drug trafficking syndicates. This brings to the fore the bigger picture of those in foreign prisons, those arrested here and others preparing to smuggle drugs.
“It is a wake-up call for stakeholders to step up their counter-narcotics efforts. Apart from drug trafficking being a criminal act, narcotic smuggling poses a serious threat to public health and safety.”

‘Highest criminal convictions’

According to Mr. Giade, the NDLEA has one of the highest criminal convictions in the country, winning 2,054 cases against alleged drug offenders.
“As we work very hard to reduce

Popular Abuja Runs Girl Allegedly Slept With A Politician And Found Worms In Her Private Part this is end of the wickizzzd

 A lady who confesses about how she slept with a Politician during the election period, now have worms in her private part.

 She says:

” He took me for a night which he promise to give me 300k for a night stand without using condoms which I agreed because I needed money to buy my handout, as a student you will understand what am saying… I took the offer after when

‘My Wife Tried To Kill Me After I Caught Her Having S-ex With 2 Women’ – John Fashanu

 

John Fashanu says wife tried to KILL him after ‘walking in on raunchy S3x party’
The former Gladiators host is now at the centre of a bitter divorce battle with Abigail – and also insists SHE cheated on him with a woman

 Soccer legend John Fashanu has accused his wife of trying to kill him – after she allegedly found him bedding two women at the same time.
The retired former Wimbledon and England striker said estranged Abigail Onyekwelu went for him with a knife during a furious row at their home.

Fashanu, also a former Gladiators host, is now at the centre of a bitter divorce battle with Abigail – and insists SHE cheated on him with a woman.
She denies his claims and the ­astonishing battle – which includes the ­accusation that he bedded their maid – is to be played out in the high court in Abuja, Nigeria.

Furious Abigail, 48, said last night: “Good riddance to bad rubbish! I’ve left him and washed my hands.”
But Fashanu, 52 – dubbed Fash the Bash for his hardman reputation in Wimbledon’s famous “Crazy Gang” – hit back with an extraordinary series of allegations.
He said he had to call in police to protect him from knife-wielding Abigail and was devastated to find her in bed with another woman.

S-ex Starved Brother Slept With Blood Sister, Gets Her Pregnant

In Malawi, two siblings, Zione Jere, 17 and Nelson Jere, 21, have been detained for engaging in incest, Mzimba Police PRO, Constable Gabriel Chiona confirms.“Yes I can confirm that we have arrested the two, who are brother and sister on suspicion that they committed incest,” Chiona was quoted as saying.

Xenophobic: Nigerian Men Are Snatching Our Wives – South African Politician

South African politician, Makashule Gana, has said some of his compatriots have complained to him that they are angry with Nigerians and other immigrants because they snatched their girlfriends.
Gana, a Deputy Federal Chairperson of Democratic Alliance, made this disclosure in at an anti-xenophobia rally, held at Constitution Hill.

South African newspaper, City Press, reported that Gana advised that rather than get angry and take the anger out on foreigners, South African men should “provide” properly for women, rather than lash out at non-nationals for “stealing” women away. Gana urged the crowd at the rally to spread the message of not taking part in xenophobic attacks to “our wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, makhwaphenis (secret lovers), neighbours and brothers”.

I dedicate my victory to all Imo people – Okorocha on April 26, 2015 /in News 9:42 pm

By Chidi Nkwopara

 OWERRI—Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, said Sunday, that he was dedicating his victory at the polls to the citizenry who remained the pillars of his success.
Chief Okorocha stated this while speaking at a thanksgiving service held at Government House Chapel, Owerri.
“I dedicate my victory at the polls to the entire Imo people. They are the main victors as they had stood by me in the last four years and never wavered in their support for my administration,” Okorocha said.
The governor said he had always  asked God to bless him so he could bless others, adding that he also asked God to give him leadership position to positively impact on the people.

U.S VP hails Jonathan’s leadership as good example on April 21, 2015 / in News 3:20 pm

U.S Vice-President Joe Biden on Tuesday commended President Goodluck Jonathan’s acceptance of the elections results and show of statesmanship by congratulating the President-elect, retired Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. A statement issued by the U.S Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria stated that Biden spoke with Jonathan in a telephone conversation from Washington D.C.
“Vice-President Joe Biden spoke today with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, to commend him for his leadership in ensuring Nigeria’s recent elections were peaceful and orderly.

Emenike to quit Fenerbahce on April 07, 2015 / in Sports 9:13 pm

Last week’s armed attack on the Fenerbahce team bus has further convinced Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike that he has to walk away from the Turkish champions where he earns 2.5 million Euros a year.
Top sources informed that Emenike, like most other Fenerbahce stars, was devastated by the attack in which the team bus driver was hurt

Emenike has not hidden the fact that he wants out at Fenerbahce after he lost the support of the fans as he struggles to score goals.
The armed attack has now been described as “the final straw that broke the camel’s back” as the big striker is more than convinced he needs to quit the Istanbul giants if he were to be back at his best.

              Emmanuel Emenike

PSG make Marseille pay with quickfire double to return to top of Ligue 1

latan Ibrahimovic celebrates with team-mates in the background after an own-goal from Jérémy Morel gave PSG a 3-2 lead away to Marseille. Photograph:

Two goals in three minutes earned Paris St Germain a thrilling win against their bitter rivals Marseille as the French champions regained the Ligue 1 lead on Sunday.

André-Pierre Gignac scored twice as Marseille reached the interval with a 2-1 advantage after Blaise Matuidi had equalised, only for the visitors to score through Marquinhos and Jérémy Morel’s own-goal in the 49th and 51st minutes.

PSG have 62 points with seven games left and lead Lyon, who beat Guingamp 3-1 away on Saturday, by one point with Marseille in third on 57.
Marseille, who had lost only one of their last eight league games, were on the back foot early on but they went ahead on the half-hour when Gignac sent a powerful header past Salvatore Sirigu from Dimitri Payet’s cross.
In the 35th minute PSG hit back with Matuidi

Seek divine wisdom before choosing people who will work with you, Mbaka tells Buhari on April 03, 2015 / in News 12:41 am

BY FRANCIS IGATA

ENUGU – Firebrand cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu has congratulated General Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the presidential election and worn him to seek divine wisdom before choosing  people he would work with.

Mbaka, whose New Year Message entitled “From Goodluck to Badluck” elicited mixed reactions across the country, described Buhari’s emergence as a divine victory for Nigerians.
The priest, in a press briefing, through the spokesman of the ministry, Barr. Maximus Ike Ugwuoke, urged the President-Elect to devote attention in tackling the myriads of problems facing the country.

“It is with vindictive joy and glory to God that Adoration ministry, the nation and indeed the 
worldsaw the fulfillment of Fr Mbaka’s New Year prophesy of Change with the miraculous victorious emergence of General Muhammed Buhari

Google could be fined £4.4bn as Brussels signals legal challenge in offing

Margrethe Vestager, European competition commissioner, appears to be taking forward complaints of 30 online firms that Google is harming their businesses



Google could be fined up to 10% of its worldwide revenues, which were $66bn (£44bn) in 2014. Photograph: Chris Ison

 Google could face a fine of up to $6.6bn (£4.4bn) after the European Commission began to update its evidence against the search engine – signalling that Brussels has decided to launch a full-blown legal challenge into its dominance.

The newly installed competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, whose political career inspired the blockbuster television series Borgen in her native Denmark, has begun updating evidence against Google and weighing whether to ramp up Europe’s five-year probe into Google’s search practices by releasing a new statement of objections.
More than 30 companies from Europe and the United States, including travel websites Expedia and Trip Advisor, price-comparison sites Nextag and Foundem, and the software group Microsoft, have complained that Google is harming their businesses.

The suggestion from Brussels is that Vestager has decided to take their cases forward, which could result in Google being fined up to 10% of its worldwide revenues, which were $66bn in 2014. The commission has in recent days contacted most of the complainants

Iran nuclear talks: Obama hails 'historic' agreement as Iranians celebrate

On Thursday, news of the framework announcement broke as Iranians celebrated the final night of the new year holidays, Nowruz
Iranians celebrate the new year in March, to coincide with the spring vernal equinox. This year, Nowruz began on March 21, marking the beginning of the year 1393 in the Persian calendar. Nowruz is a secular festival that is also celebrated in neighboring countries, like Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

           The Guardian’s Tehran Bureau wrote recently of Nowruz:

    The time and date of Nowruz varies every year but the same traditions are always observed – beginning with fire jumping on the last Tuesday of the old year and ending with a national picnic on the 13th day of the new year. The festival centres around the Haft Sin arrangement, where seven items, all beginning with the sound of ‘S’ in Persian, are placed on a table or the floor to symbolise health, prosperity and renewed life.

Obama phoned Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday to discuss the latest breakthrough in nuclear negotiations, according to a statement provided by the White House, reports Sabrina Siddiqui:

    The President emphasized that, while nothing is agreed until everything is, the framework represents significant progress towards a lasting, comprehensive solution that cuts off all of Iran’s pathways to a bomb and verifiably ensures the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program going forward. He underscored that progress on the nuclear issue in no way diminishes our concerns with respect to Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and threats towards Israel and emphasized that the United States remains steadfast in our commitment to the security of Israel. The President told the Prime Minister that he has directed his national security team to increase consultations with the new Israeli government about how we can further strengthen our long-term security cooperation with Israel and remain vigilant in countering Iran’s threats.”
    Earlier in the day, Obama acknowledged in public remarks that he and the Israeli prime minister disagree on the US efforts to secure a nuclear deal with Iran. Tension between the two world leaders has escalated in recent weeks amid the negotiations, but Obama reiterated his commitment to Israel when addressing the tentative framework.

 Many Iranians bypassed the state’s strict internet filter system, to post celebratory pictures on social media sites. 

            

Here’s a round-up of some of the night’s vines, tweets and instagrams from the streets of Tehra.
Reuters is reporting that President Obama called Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Thursday to discuss the deal international negotiators reached with Iran on its nuclear program.

Obama invited Salman and the Gulf Cooperation Council to Camp David for a summit to continue conversations on Iran, the White House said.
Saudi Arabi, Iran’s main regional rival, has long made clear its unhappiness with the emerging deal, the Guardian’s Middle East editor Ian Black wrote on Monday:
    Still, unlike Israel, which flatly opposes any agreement, Saudi Arabia has adopted a more subtle approach. [...]

    The Saudis have hinted for years that they would turn to Pakistan if they felt threatened by a nuclear Iran. Last year they displayed their Chinese-made intermediate-range ballistic missiles — capable of reaching Tehran — at a parade attended by the general who controls Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. It was, said the Brookings Institution analyst Bruce Riedel, “ a very calculated signal”.

    But the Saudis have wider concerns: an American-Iranian rapprochement, they fear, will undermine their own influence and security. Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, warned in London earlier this month that the romance was now “nearing consummation”.
For more than 10 years, diplomatic attempts have been made to address Iran’s nuclear policy. Here’s a useful timeline of the nuclear talks so far, going back to August 2002.

 
    Women sitting in a car flash the “V for Victory” sign as they celebrate on Valiasr street. Photograph: Atta Kenare

The arms-proliferation experts at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are giving Thursday’s nuclear deal with Iran a passing grade, reports the Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman:  They have pronounced themselves pleasantly surprised by the strength of the deal’s restrictions and verification measures and sanguine about some of its areas of technical vagueness.

    George Perkovich, Carnegie’s vice-president, said the deal’s provisions to monitor the entire Iranian nuclear supply chain will give the US and its allies enhanced visibility to prevent a so-called “sneak-out” – a surreptitious Iranian path to a bomb. “It’s a very positive development and represents significant progress,” Perkovich said on a conference call with reporters.

    Carnegie analyst James Acton, a physicist, said the framework deal’s lack of specificity on what happens to Iran’s stockpile of 9,700 kg of low-enriched uranium was not a significant proliferation risk. Either Iran will have to “down-blend” it to natural uranium or, as has been suggested in the past, it will ship it out to Russia. “My guess is they haven’t decided,” Acton said. (Under the framework, Iran will retain 300 kg of low-enriched uranium.)

Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari – the man who jailed Fela Kuti

The newly elected leader of Nigeria was once a military dictator who jailed the musician on trumped-up charges. But the Afrobeat hero and fierce critic of corruption was not easily silenced.

                                          Fela Kuti, onstage in Detroit, 1986. Photograph:

Fela Kuti would surely have been delighted at the first peaceful handover of power in Africa’s biggest democracy, but horrified by the return of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s new president. Fela, Nigeria’s greatest and most influential musician, was a brave and outrageous political campaigner who spent much of his life furiously attacking his country’s successive military leaders. He was arrested 200 times by different regimes, but only kept in jail for a lengthy period of time by (then) Major-General Buhari, who first came to power in a military coup in December 1983.Fela was sentenced by a military tribunal to five years’ imprisonment on what he always insisted were trumped-up currency charges, but he was released after a year and a half, following another change of military regime.

Fela’s musician son Seun Kuti has since attacked Buhari, saying: “For you to jail that man you must be inherently evil.” Buhari was something of a quirky authoritarian: he became notorious for his “war against indiscipline” in which soldiers whipped commuters to make sure they formed orderly queues at bus stops, and civil servants who arrived late for work were ordered to perform frog squats. As for the charge that led to Fela’s imprisonment, it seems like a petty matter in which the musician was indeed innocent, but which was used by the authorities to keep him quiet. In September 1984, he and his band were at Lagos

Ultra-traditional Catholics rebel against pope in Brazil: ‘He is less Catholic than us’

 A ceremony at the monastery outside Nova Friburgo in south-eastern Brazil. Photograph: 

In a secluded monastery in south-eastern Brazil, a breakaway group of ultra-conservative Catholics gathered to participate in an act of rebellion against the pope.
The setting could hardly have been more tranquil: rolling green hills, purple-glory trees, palm leaves swaying in the wind and a temporary chapel made of breeze block walls and a tin roof left partially open to the elements.
But the 50 or so priests, Benedictine monks, nuns and other worshippers who file into Santa Cruz monastery on Saturday were no ordinary congregation. Hailing from Europe, the US and Latin America, they described themselves as a “resistance” movement against  reforms.
In favour of Latin services – and fiercely

Record number of migrants expected to drown in Mediterranean this year

In the first quarter of 2015, nearly 500 migrants have drowned, ten times as many as in the same period of 2014, leading to fears of a record death rate this year

A motor boat from the Italian frigate Grecale approaches a boat overcrowded with migrants in the Mediterranean. Photograph: Italian Navy

A record number of migrants will drown in the Mediterranean this year if the current death rate remains unchecked, after 10 times as many migrants lost their lives during the first three months of 2015 as during the equivalent period in 2014.

Made in Britain? The Saudi-led attack on a Yemeni refugee camp

 David Cameron watches a Eurofighter Typhoon during a visit to BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire. Photograph.

Wednesday 1 April 2015 13.28 BST

On Monday, a Saudi-led coalition apparently dropped bombs on a refugee camp in northern Yemen. It’s perfectly likely that, as they have admitted before, the Saudis may have used jet fighters that were made in the UK. After all, Saudi Arabia is the UK defence industry’s largest export market. More than 40 innocent people died. Around 200 were injured, many seriously. The Yemeni state news agency showed pictures of dead children laid out on the floor.

Apparently, the Saudis were trying to hit a nearby Houthi rebel position. “It could have been that the fighter jets replied to fire, and we cannot confirm that it was a refugee camp,” said a spokesman for the Saudi regime, lamely. Well yes, it was a refugee camp, confirmed the UN. And if the Saudis invade Yemen, thus further extending the widening gyre of Sunni/Shia conflict, expect a lot more of the same. For if you think the Middle East could not get any worse, think again. And if you think it has little to do with us, that’s because

Nigeria elections: Muhammadu Buhari hails peaceful handover of power Goodluck Jonathan said he have embraced peace election is not do or die affaire.

Election winner congratulates outgoing president for peacefully relinquishing power and says move shows world that Nigeria has embraced democracy

Nigeria’s president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, says Goodluck Jonathan was a ‘worthy opponent and I extend the hand of fellowship

 Nigeria’s election winner, Muhammadu Buhari, congratulated the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan, for peacefully relinquishing power on Wednesday, a day after becoming the first Nigerian politician to unseat a sitting leader at the ballot box.
In an unprecedented step, Jonathan phoned Buhari to concede defeat and issued a statement urging his supporters to accept the result, a signal of deepening democracy in Africa’s most populous nation that few had expected.

“President Jonathan was a worthy opponent and I extend the hand of fellowship to him,” Buhari told journalists and supporters. “We have proven

The Common Transformation President Jonathan inaugurates Development Bank of Nigeria on March 23, 2015 /in News 7:38 pm

 

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday in Abuja inaugurated the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) in furtherance of his administration’s desire to revolutionise small businesses in the country.

Speaking at the event, Jonathan expressed optimism that the bank would eliminate all obstacles hindering the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and their ability to generate the much needed jobs for the country.
According to him, the DBN, which is a private sector driven financial institution, is meant alleviate the financial constraints being experienced by operators of small businesses for rapid and

sustainable national development.

“This launch of a brand new financial institution, the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), represents a defining milestone in our administration’s efforts to empower more micro, small and medium enterprises across our land‎.
“MSMEs form the backbone of the Nigerian economy; the men and women who own and operate them are true reflections of the strong Nigerian spirit

What a wickid world Hong Kong man who salted and cooked parents jailed for life on March 23, 2015 / in News 1:09 pm

A Hong Kong man who killed, dismembered, salted and cooked his parents was sent to prison for life on Monday after being found guilty of double murder. The conviction of Henry Chau, 31, on Friday concluded a gruesome case that shocked the city in 2013 when the severed heads of Chau’s elderly parents were found stuffed into two refrigerators.

During the 20-day trial at the city’s high court, the jury heard how Chau had dismembered his elderly parents before salting, cooking and packing their body parts into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork”.
“Your sentence on Count 1 and Count 2 is that you go to prison for life,” judge Michael Stuart-Moore told Chau, referring to the double murder charges. Sitting in the defendant’s dock, Chau, who wore a loose-fitting grey suit, looked impassive

Tunisian president says security failures helped museum killers

 Tunisian police stand guard at Carthage international airport in Tunis, after security was stepped up. Photograph:

The Tunisian president, Beji Caid Essebsi, said security “failures” facilitated the deadly attack claimed by Isis on the country’s national museum, which killed 20 foreign tourists.

“There were failures” which meant that “the police and intelligence were not systematic enough to ensure the safety of the museum”, Essebsi told the Paris Match weekly in an interview published on Saturday.
Twenty-one people, all but one of them foreign tourists, were killed when two gunmen stormed the National Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis on Wednesday.

Afghan woman killed by mob in Kabul was innocent, says investigator

Women’s rights activists carry Farkhunda’s coffin. Photograph:

A woman killed by an angry mob in front of police in the Afghan capital last week for allegedly burning a copy of Islam’s holy book was wrongly accused, Afghanistan’s top criminal investigator has said.

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media shows police at the scene did not save the 27-year-old woman, Farkhunda, who was beaten

Buhari certificate saga: Tension in APC camp over court case on March 22, 2015 / in News 10:48 am

There is tension in the opposition All Progressives Congress as a Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Abdu Kafarati, has given an order for accelerated hearing in a suit brought by a non-governmental organisation, Global Center for Conscious Living Against Corruption, asking for an order of mandamus to compel the Inspector General of Police to investigate allegations of forgery and perjury against the party’s presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari.

In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/172/2015, filed by Professor Andrew Chukwuemerie, SAN, the plaintiffs are seeking the order of the court to order police investigation into the “alleged acquisition and possession

Wonderful thing Amaechi’s deputy dumps APC on March 22, 2015 / in News 6:44 pm

The deputy to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Mr Tele Ikuru, Sunday, dumped his All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing the APC “As a party of rebels, insurgents and anarchists, clothed in robes

‘World’s worst team’ Bhutan aim to make history against Sri Lanka

Bhutan have won only four games in 33 years and once lost a match 20–0 – but the tiny Himalayan country now stand on the brink of an unimaginable success against Sri Lanka in the 2018 World Cup qualifers

 
Bhutanese football player Tshering Dorji, far left, celebrates after scoring the winner in the first leg against Sri Lanka. Photograph:

Nick Ames

Monday 16 March 2015 15.16 GMT.
Thimphu is hard to reach and, as the world’s third-highest capital city at 2,648m, even tougher for the unacclimatised to play a potential 120 minutes of football in. But it is safe to say that Sri Lanka’s footballers were not expecting a task of the gravity they will face on Tuesday, when they must overturn a 1-0 deficit in Bhutan against a team that sit bottom – at 209 – of Fifa’s world rankings and are inevitable dubbed the world’s worst as a consequence.
Nobody gave the tiny Himalayan country a chance in their first-ever World Cup qualifier last Thursday but a late winner from Tshering Dorji gave them a hitherto-unthinkable lead that they feel optimistic of retaining in the rarefied air of Changlimithang Stadium.

“Everyone was talking about us being at the bottom but we didn’t feel any pressure because you can only go one way from there and that’s upwards,” the Bhutan captain, Karma Shedrup Tshering, tells the Guardian. “All the expectation was on Sri Lanka and they were talking a lot about beating us, but we kept our calm and let our football talk for us.”
The Fifa rankings are not always the most accurate barometer and teams can be blessed or cursed by playing a smaller number of games than others – with some strange-looking changes resulting. Tuesday’s match will only be Bhutan’s 60th official fixture since 1982, and the remarkable win in Colombo was only their fourth. They have not played a game in Thimphu since April 2003.

Such a record gives little scope for a leap in the other direction and what publicity Bhutan’s team have attracted owes entirely to their lowly position. In 2002 they participated in the ‘Other Final’ against Montserrat, winning 4-0 in a game arranged between the two lowest teams in the rankings (Montserrat were bottom) and marketed to provide an alternative to the World Cup final. Less positively, a then-world record 20-0 defeat in Kuwait received inevitable attention in 2000.
“Our coach, Chokey Nima, played in that game but most of our players were hardly old enough to walk or talk when it happened,” says Tshering. “None

Jordan Henderson’s luck brings Liverpool victory at Swansea

Jordan Henderson, right, opens the scoring for Liverpool against Swansea City. Photograph

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Manchester United are back in view as the Liverpool bandwagon rolls on, courtesy of a huge slice of good fortune on what could prove to be a critical night in their quest for a place in the top four. Jordan Henderson knew little about the goal that settled this contest but that will matter little to a Liverpool side who racked up a fifth successive Premier League victory to close the gap to United to two points before Sunday’s pivotal meeting at Anfield.
Steven Gerrard had been thrown into the fray four minutes earlier as he made his comeback from injury from the bench, but it was the man who has taken over the captaincy from him who struck the critical blow. Jordi Amat got to the ball first as Henderson burst through the middle in the 68th minute but the Spaniard, making his first start in the league since September, inadvertently knocked the ball off the England international and Lukasz Fabianski was left stranded as it sailed over his head.

Spanish convents use social media to recruit new nuns

Dwindling numbers of women joining religious orders has prompted convents to modernise their marketing methods

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

Monday 16 March 2015 15.50 GMT

Visitors to the Spanish website buscoalgomas.com are greeted by a woman asking if they feel their lives are empty and if they’ve ever considered the religious life. “Don’t run away,” she says. “You may have a vocation without even knowing it.”
The woman is Noemí Saiz, and the website, which translates as “I’m looking for something more”, is used by dozens of Spanish convents to try to recruit nuns. Spain’s religious orders, which are also turning to Facebook, WhatsApp and other social networks as recruitment tools, are facing an uphill struggle: their numbers have slumped from 6,695 in 1966 to barely 250 today.
“The website serves as an intermediary between religious orders and young people,” says Saiz, who spent a year as a nun before deciding she didn’t have what it takes. “Religious institutions need to learn about marketing.”
Convents are learning fast and some have even taken advice on search engine optimisation in order to top Google rankings for terms such as “how to become a nun”.
In 2012 Olga María, the prioress of the barefoot Carmelite convent in Valladolid in north-east Spain, went to Rome to ask for two things: permission to let would-be nuns join the convent for a trial period to see if it suited them and also permission to use social networks to recruit young women.

Nurul Izzah Anwar's arrest criticised as attempt to silence Malaysian opposition

People’s Justice party vice president, and daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, detained over parliament speech – where she has immunity.

Malaysian police have arrested the eldest daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for alleged sedition on Monday, in a move slammed by critics as a clampdown on dissent.
Nurul Izzah Anwar was detained to assist police in their investigation of an opposition rally and also for making “contemptuous remarks that those in the judiciary system had sold their souls to the devil,” national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement.

A lawmaker and a vice president of her father’s People’s Justice party, Nurul Izzah was detained because of a speech she made last week in parliament, said

Democratic Republic of Congo wants to explore for oil in Virunga national park

A natural stream of running water in the Virunga national park. Oil companies want to explore for oil in the park. Photograph: Brent Stirton/WWF-Canon/Getty Images 

Reported By Melanie Gouby

Monday 16 March 2015 16.51 GMT

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s prime minister has said that his government wants to find a way to explore for oil in the Virunga national park, a Unesco world heritage site , and will engage in negotiations with the UN body to “explore judiciously”.
Virunga, Africa’s oldest and most biodiverse park, has been on the list of ‘world heritage in danger’ since 1994, as two decades of armed conflict and intense poaching by militias has taken its toll on the park’s ecosystem.

In 2007, the Congolese ministry of hydrocarbons awarded two oil concessions straddling Virunga’s boundaries to the French major Total, as well as Soco International, a British oil company registered on the London Stock Exchange.
While Total quickly agreed to never explore within the current limits of the park – even in the event of a boundaries change – Soco has carried out exploratory activities in Virunga, concluding a seismic study

UTME: Two Arrested for malpractices on March 16, 2015 / in News 1:17 pm

BY GBENGA OLARINOYE, OSOGBO.

Two candidates that sat, weekend, for the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME computer base test have been arrested by the security agents for alleged malpractices during the test.
The candidates were arrested at Esa-Oke, in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State. The candidates were alleged to have conspired with one Mr. Adebayo a.k.a Awolowo, the owner of Awolism Educational Consultant to perpetrate the unlawful act.

It was learnt that the candidates committed the offense during the computer based test at Osun




State College of Technology, Esa-Oke.
Speaking with journalists on the incident, the Coordinator of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Osun state, Mr. Johnson Adebiyi decried the attitude of the candidates, saying the board would continue to do everything within its limit to eradicate examination

Burnley’s George Boyd deals blow to Manchester City’s title hopes

  Burnley's George Boyd celebrates after scoring the only goal of the game against Manchester CIty. Photograph:

Saturday 14 March 2015 19.40 GMT

Burnley have Sunderland in their sights after this deserved win, and quite possibly Hull City and Everton too. Sean Dyche’s side were unable to climb out of the bottom three with victory over Manchester City, but they are now just a point behind the side in 17th place and in no danger of changing their manager.
City will now be officially concentrating on making progress in Europe, where they must overcome a 2-1 deficit from the first leg against Barcelona to survive at Camp Nou on Wednesday. In truth this was such a lethargic, uninspired display

Elderly nun gang-raped by robbers in eastern India:

The alleged gang-rape is the latest incident to focus attention on the scourge of sexual violence in India. Photograph

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A nun in her 70s has been gang-raped by a group of robbers when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in

John Terry: putting pressure on referee does not look good … but PSG make it

John Terry, third from right, is part of a group of Chelsea players remonstrating with the referee, Bjorn Kuipers, middle, just before he showed a red card to PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Photograph

Thursday 12 March 2015 12.00 GMT Last modified on Thursday 12 March 2015
John Terry has admitted Chelsea’s willingness to surround referees “does not look good at all” but he and his team-mates will continue to support each other in that way if they feel opponents, such as Paris Saint-Germain, are attempting to exert their own influence on the officials.

Nine of the London club’s outfield players had crowded around the Dutch referee, Bjorn Kuipers, following Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s challenge on Oscar just after the half-hour mark in the second leg of the teams’ Champions League knockout tie on Wednesday with the Brazilian prone on the turf. That reaction was branded “disgraceful” at the time by the former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher in his capacity as a pundit for Sky.

Ibrahimovic suggested the Chelsea players had reacted “like babies” yet Terry argued that PSG, who prevailed on away goals after extra time despite having

At least four dead and many trapped in Bangladesh factory collapse

  A man wipes the face of one of the workers injured in the cement factory collapse at Khulna hospital, Bangladesh. Photograph

At least four people have been killed and more than 100 are feared trapped after the roof of a cement factory under construction in Bangladesh collapsed.
Rescuers pulled about 40 survivors from the debris of the factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladesh army, in the port town of Mongla, 335km (210 miles) south-west of the

Ivory Coast court sentences wife of ex-president to 20 years in prison

Laurent and Simone Gbagbo pictured in 2009. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters 

Reuters in Abidjan

Tuesday 10 March 2015 09.46 GMT

A court in Ivory Coast has sentenced Simone Gbagbo, the wife of the former president, to 20 years in prison for her role in a 2011 post-election crisis in which around 3,000 people were killed, her lawyer said.
Gbagbo, who is also wanted by the international criminal court,

Children killed in attack on UN Mali base

Two children from nomadic Arab Kunta tribe killed along with peacekeeper in shelling of base by militants



UN peacekeeper police officers in Bamako. Two civilians and a UN peacekeeper were killed as militants attacked a barracks used by the UN Minusma force in northern Mali. Photograph: HABIBOU KOUYATE/AFP/Getty Images

A peacekeeper and two children were killed

Tanzania police arrest 32 witch-doctors over ritual albino killings

Friday 9 March 2015 20.53 GMT Last modified on Friday 6 March 2015 21.36 GMT

Police in Tanzania said on Friday they had arrested 32 witch-doctors this week as part of a campaign against ritual killings of albinos.

Activists say attackers have killed at least 75 albinos in the east African country since 2000 to use their limbs and other body parts as charms meant to guarantee success in love, life and business.
President Jakaya Kikwete last week vowed to stamp out the practice he said brought shame on to the east African country, and albino campaigners

It was a bloody weekend in P-Harcourt as gunmen kill 11 on March 09, 2015 / in News 8:34 am

PORT HARCOURT— It was a bloody weekend in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital as 11 persons were shot dead at different locations by unknown gunmen. Six of the victims were killed on Worlu Street in D Line close to Oroworoku community when the assailants stormed a spot near a mechanic workshop at about 7.15 pm demanding to see the owner of a vehicle parked outside.

It could not be confirmed if they saw the person they were looking for but the assailants, numbering about four, suddenly dashed