University Professor Murdered In Maiduguri

A popular Mass Communication professor of the University of Maiduguri, Murtala Mohammed, has been killed by yet-to-be identified gunmen in Maiduguri today.

Didier Drogba comes off the bench to score on debut for Galatasaray

Didier Drogba scored the opening goal for Galatasaray as a substitute on his debut. Photograph: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images

Didier Drogba wasted no time announcing his arrival in Turkish football as he struck the opening goal in Galatasaray's 2-1 win at Akhisar Belediye on Friday night.

Meteor Strikes Russia While Asteroid Misses Earth

A meteor crashed into a community in Russia’s Ural mountains earlier today, injuring at least 950 people, according to the BBC. The meteor didn’t strike the community directly – it landed in a nearby lake – but the shockwave itself caused damaged to buildings and smashed windows. Most of the people affected suffered only cuts and bruises, though about 46 are still hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

SEAL who shot bin Laden speaks out

The U.S. Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden is speaking out for the first time since the May 1, 2011, raid on the al-Qaida leader's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

In an interview with Esquire, the former SEAL—identified as "The Shooter" due to what the magazine described as "safety" reasons—said he's been largely abandoned by the U.S. government since leaving the military last fall.

Pictures: Farouk Lawan Caught Sleeping During His Court Hearing

 




Convicted Speaker, Hon. Farouk lawan suprised the jury and other members of the court when he fell asleep during the hearing.

Bomb scare paralyses economic activites in Abuja

ABUJA—Bomb scare, Monday, caused a stir and halted all business activities at Area 10, Garki Abuja as the Anti Bomb Squad unit of the Nigeria Police was reported to have detonated two parcels suspected to be bombs at the gate of Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST office

FCT Police Commissioner, Aderenle Shinaba however dismissed the bomb scare noting that the Police Explosion Ordinance Device Squad of the command, only disarmed a 40 ton object made up of sand and tiles.

Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter confirmed Friday that it had become the latest victim in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks against media companies, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users.

The social media giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.

EFCC Re-arrests Pension Thief For False Declaration Of Assets

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today re- arrested Mr. John Yusuf, a former director of the Police Pension fund who had earlier been set free by an Abuja high court for stealing $203 million from the Police pension fund.

A  High Court at the Federal Capital Territory had set Mr. Yesufu free after a controversial plea bargain yesterday leading to a major outrage across the world.

The plea deal saw Yesufu  paying N750,000 ($4,500) fine in lieu of a six year prison sentence for conniving with others to defraud the office and pensioners of N27.2bn.

EFCC spokesperson Mr. Wilson Uwujaren  said Mr. Yesufu is currently being detained at the Abuja office of the the EFCC for false declaration of assets. He stated that the former pension administrator will soon face fresh charges.

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Nigeria Secret Police Says Ex-policeman, Ram Traders Kidnapped Nollywood Actress, Nkiruka Sylvanus-PREMIUM TIMES

     Two of the people that kidnapped Nollywood actress, Nkiruka Sylvanus, in Imo State, were former cattle traders from the Northern part of Nigeria, security officials have said.



The leader of the gang that carried out the kidnap is from Imo State and was a police officer with the mobile police unit.

NEMA Advises Lagos Residents In Oil Spill Area Not To Breathe Contaminated Air

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised Nigerians who live in the areas affected by the spilling of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) against inhaling the product.

In a statement by Information Officer Ibrahim Farinloye of NEMA South West in Lagos, the agency said that the spillage is a result of the indiscriminate activities of vandals who left the product to spill into the surrounded areas.

Ay Comedy Skit - A Lonely Night

You cannot afford to miss this. AY is at it again!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=-RD6bR_NvsU

There's No '2015' in Nigeria. Nigeria's Election Will be in 2014 - Pastor Bakare

Do you think this is possible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PgCHYh3xk3w

Obasanjo: I would have died

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said
yesterday that he would have died in the fire that gutted parts of his Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, last week.
Obasanjo, who said he had had the grace of
escaping many near death situations in the past, added that if the fire that gutted his home during the Yuletide had occurred at night, he would have died. Said he: "The fire, which occurred in the office of my private secretary, resulted in a thick smoke that covered my bedroom. If it had happened at
night, I would have been a dead person now." The inferno occurred about 4:30pm and it disrupted an evening merriment as panic- stricken members of the Obasanjo household, including his daughter, Funke, wife, Bola and visitors scampered for safety.
His grandchildren, who had come to spend the Christmas holiday with him, were hurriedly evacuated to a safe place, while calls for water, ladder and fire fighters filled the air. Sympathisers, who were attracted by billowing smokes, rushed to the scene to help, but were prevented from entering the compound, as the fire, helped by the harmattan breeze, spread. It took the security agencies – members of the
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC), Nigeria Police, State Security Service and close friends of the President nearly an hour before they prevented the fire from spreading to other parts of Obasanjo's sprawling estate. Efforts were made to salvage some furniture from
being destroyed by the fire, which started 20
minutes after the former President had left for
another of his residence at Ita-Eko, Abeokuta. At least two persons, including an NSCDC operative identified as Kunle Famakinwa, sustained injuries in the course of putting out the fire.
While Famakinwa suffered a cut in his index
finger and was treated by the doctors attached to the NSCDC Ambulance marked CD 1041 A01, another said to be one of Obasanjo's drivers sustained injury in his foot.
Ogun State Fire Service truck with registration number OG 122 AO9, which arrived the compound an hour after the fire was detected, was joined by another 10 minutes later. Narrating the incident to the executive members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State chapter, who had come to commiserate
with him, the ex-President said the fire, which
occurred inside the office of his private secretary, destroyed many items and resulted in a thick smoke in his bedroom that could suffocate a person.
Obasanjo said he was full of praise to God for sparing his life. He said he had been receiving telephone calls from sympathisers, friends and associates within and outside the country. Said he: "I thank those who have called me on the phone within and outside the country. Let us appreciate the mercy and kindness of God. There are many we started last year together, but they are no more today. We are not mocking them, but
only thanking God. "In fact, that I'm able to stand erect is God's blessing. Many of my age mates cannot stand well again. I'm not mocking them, I'm only thanking God. My hope and prayer is that 2013 will be a glorious year." Obasanjo thanked his guests for their concern. Addressing reporters, Mr. Tunji Shelle, the Chairman of Lagos State PDP, said they were in Abeokuta to commiserate with Chief Obasanjo on
the recent fire that gutted parts of his home.
The Nation
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Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore

A female student gang-raped on a bus in India's capital Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.

"The patient passed away peacefully at 4:45am on 29 Dec 2012," a statement from the hospital said. The patient's family had been by her side, it added.

The 23-year-old had arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.

The attack earlier this month triggered violent public protests in India that left one police officer dead.

Six men have been arrested and two police officers have been suspended following the 16 December attack.

"The patient had remained in an extremely critical condition since admission to Mount Elizabeth Hospital," a statement from hospital chief executive Kelvin Loh said.

"She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain. She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome," the statement went on.

"We are humbled by the privilege of being tasked to care for her in her final struggle," Mr Loh said.

A team of eight specialists had tried to keep the patient stable, but her condition continued to deteriorate over the two days she was at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, he added.

Officials from the High Commission of India had also been present when the patient passed away. The Indian home minister said the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.

Arrangements are being made to take her body back to India, Indian high commissioner to Singapore TCA Raghavan told reporters, according to the Associated Press.

Rising anger

The victim and her friend had been to see a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area of Delhi, intending to travel to Dwarka in the south-west of the city.

Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, and both she and her companion were beaten with iron bars and thrown out of the moving bus and into the street.

On arrival at the hospital in Singapore, doctors said that as well as a "prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury".

The government has tried to halt rising public anger by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.

These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.

The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them.

It has set up two committees - one looking into speeding up trials of cases involving sexual assaults on women, and the other to examine the lapses that might have led to the incident in Delhi.

But the protesters say the government's pledge to seek life sentences for the attackers is not enough - many are calling for the death penalty.

Since the Delhi incident, several cases have been highlighted of authorities failing to respond to reported rapes.

On Wednesday, a woman committed suicide in the state of Punjab, after having tried to report to police an rape which allegedly took place last month, local media reports said.

At least one police officer involved in the case has been sacked, according to local officials.

Source: BBC
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Wole Soyinka: Gays, lesbians and legislative zealotry

LET us go back a little, nearly a year ago, to that earlier attempt to interfere in, and legislate on sexual conduct between consenting adults. Profiting from that experience, I would like to caution – yet again – that it is high time we learnt to ignore what we conveniently designate and react to as ‘foreign interference’.  By now, we should be able to restrict ourselves to the a priori  position that, as rational beings, we make pronouncements on choices of ethical directions from our own collective and/or majority will, independent of what is described as ‘external dictation’. The noisome emissions that surged from a handful of foreign governments last year should not be permitted to obscure the fundamental issue of the right to private choices of the free, adult citizen in any land – Asian, African, European etc. Those external responses were of such a nature – hysterical, hypocritical and disproportionate – that, speaking for myself at least, I could only wonder if they had not been generated by a desperate need for distraction away from the economic crisis that confronted, at that very time, those parts of the world.

The forgotten girls: By 2020, there will be 50m child brides under the age of 15

This week's international 'Day of the Girl' offers governments, the UN, and charities an opportunity to address a shocking - and growing - trend
When 12-year-old Nargis was woken up, one morning in Bangladesh, by two women she did not know, she was confused. She did not understand when they told her she would be marrying their brother in just a few weeks, or that she would be leaving her parents' home. When she became a mother two years later, losing her son after only 16 days, the pangs of fear were familiar. Now, with a
frail child to bring up, she is much more resolute: "I don't think girls should marry before they're 18 years old." Today, days before the first internationally recognised

John Mahama declared Winner of Ghana’s Presidential Election

Ghana's electoral commission has
announced President John Mahama as the winner of presidential election.
The announcement came hours after the opposition accused the governing party of conspiring with commission staff to fix Friday's poll. The electoral commission said that Mr Mahama had won 50.7% against his NPP rival Nana Akufo-Addo on 47.74%.
"Ladies and gentlemen, based on the results given, I declare John Dramani Mahama president-elect," electoral commission chief Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told journalists.
Ghana, one of the world's fastest growing economies, is regarded as one of Africa's most stable democracies.
Source: CP Africa
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Get Yourself Cracked Up

This is the funniest video I have come across so far. On the other hand I feel sorry for this little child because this shows how bad the Nigerian educational system is. But for now get cracked up!!!

Click to watch

http://m.youtube.com/#/
watch?v=nJpzw8i7XzY

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Get Yourself Cracked Up

This is the funniest video I have come across so far. On the other hand I feel sorry for this little child because this shows how bad the Nigerian educational system is. But for now get cracked up!!!

@taiofishizzle
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The Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, has tasked the National Association of Seadogs, popularly called Pyrates Confraternity, to
adopt more practical means of checking the worsening problems of cultism in the nation's higher institutions of learning. Oba Gbadebo said it had become imperative for the
Pyrates Confraternity to urgently arrest the current trend where various amorphous groups now terrorise students on campuses. The paramount ruler of Egbaland stated this on Thursday when the Chairman of the Abeokuta Branch of the Pyrates Confraternity, Mr. Yemi Akintunde, led other members including the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, on a visit to his Ake Palace
on the seventh anniversary of his coronation.
The Alake, who recalled that he joined the Pyrates Confraternity in October 1965 as a student at the University of Ibadan, stated that because of the lofty humanitarian ideals and discipline exhibited by all the members then, the group was the most liked of all clubs on the campus by both students and staff. He said, "I joined the Pyrates Confraternity in October 1965 at the University of Ibadan. Many of us were
interviewed then at Kuti Hall but very few of us eventually made it. I'm happy that the problem of illegal initiation is being tackled by the current leadership but you have to
do more. "I'm happy something is being done to separate the wheat from the chaff but you still need to do more to make it different from all these cult groups and you also
need to find better means of combating this problem on our campuses."
Chairman of NAS in Abeokuta, Mr. Yemi Akintunde, told the traditional ruler that the Pyrates Confraternity, which pulled out from the campuses of the various higher
institutions of learning across the country since the 1980s, had written to the authorities of the various schools informing them about the illegal activities of
some students parading themselves as members of NAS. Meanwhile, President, National Congress of Nigerian Students, Mr. Abdulfatah Abdulsalam, has urged the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to beam its searchlight on the management of resources in Nigeria's
tertiary institutions.

Source: Punch
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