October 1st 2014, our beloved country Nigeria celebrates her 54th Independence anniversary.
In the past 54 years, Nigeria has been through its ups and downs, and
many will say we are not yet where we are supposed to be but we are
relentless, and we are still forging ahead.
Let us do our best to contribute in our own little
way to the growth of our Nation. Everyone has a role to play, and
together, we can make great changes in our nation.
She may be devastated over her split from 27 year old Wiz Khalifa,but
Amber Rose who would be 31 next month would be smiling to the bank by
virtue of her prenup agreement.TMZ reports
Amber Rose will score more than a million bucks from Wiz Khalifa … based on a long prenup she demanded before getting married … Amber made numerous demands in the prenup … which is more than 8 pages long. We’re told it’s because she will get more money in her 1-year-marriage than she would without a prenup.
She does have a problem. According to her legal docs, Amber wants spousal support
in addition to her million bucks. Our sources say the prenup
specifically denies her the right to spousal support, in return for
getting the 1-time payout.
Model Danii Phae wrote on her Tumblr page that she was battered by her
ex-boyfriend, a struggling rapper named Justin Joseph aka J$tash. Below
is what she said happened to her...in her own words.
"This is very hard for me at this moment in my life to express my
heart/mind to the world, but I will say these last few months have been
the worst months of my life. I was dating someone (J$tash) that abused
me verbally, emotionally and physically throughout the end duration of
our relationship. Monday morning on September 15th 2014 my life was
forever, changed. A person I thought and believed I could trust, whom I
gave my love/time/energy to brutally punched me in my face repeatedly
with his fists while I became slowly unconscious covered in blood in his
brooklyn apartment bed.
"After he was done he told me to not tell anyone
to not tell my friends, He also started to prepare legal action to
protect himself in case I pressed charges against him. He cried and
became unstable within his emotions and was apologetic towards his
actions, but would continue to say i did this to myself.
He then boarded a flight to Japan a few hours after and has been
sending me text messages claiming he will destroy me even more than he
already did. He said he will ruin my life! I got brutally beaten for
confronting him on infidelity which caused him to become violent in an
instant.
Do not interpret this as a cry for help this is honestly a decision
to speak up against domestic violence for those who cant due to the
manipulative acts our abusers inflict on us to never speak up and for
those who didn’t survive because of brutal domestic violence.
I will not allow myself to sit in the shadows of darkness and disrespect myself for not taking a stand.
I am speaking out for all my women!
Be brave this is what bravery looks like.
President Obama has faced three times as many threats as previous presidents, reports the Washington Post.
The number comes from "people briefed on the Secret Service's threat
assessment" — and it makes the rest of the Post's story all the more
disturbing. President Obama has faced three times as many threats as previous presidents
On November 11, 2011, Oscar Ortega-Hernandez pulled up to the front
gate of the White House, aimed a Romanian-made Cugir semiautomatic rifle
at the residence, and fired. At least seven of his shots hit the White
House. Sasha Obama was in the residence at the time. Malia Obama was on her way home. The
attack was brazen enough that it was literally live-tweeted. "Driver in
front of my cab, STOPPED and fired 5 gun shots at the White House,"
wrote one bystander.
But, as the Post reports, the Secret Service's response was a
disaster. Agents were told to stand down, that it was just a car
backfiring. Later, the story was changed to gang members shooting at
each other just outside the White House. Agents who believed the shots
had been fired at the residence were afraid to contradict their
superiors. The truth was only discovered when a housekeeper noticed
broken glass on the Truman Balcony. Ortega-Hernandez was only captured
because he crashed his car.
As Carol Leonnig reports in a searing reconstruction:
A subsequent internal security review found that the incident illustrated serious gaps.
The Secret Service, for instance, could not use any of the dozens of
ShotSpotter sensors installed across the city to help police pinpoint
and trace gunshots. The closest sensor was more than a mile away, too
far to track Ortega's shots.
Sullivan acknowledged in closed congressional briefings that the
agency lacked basic camera surveillance that could have helped agents
see the attack and swarm the gunman immediately.
Ortega-Hernandez was a lone lunatic. But what if he wasn't? What if
the attack had been more expertly planned, using more serious weaponry,
by people with more expertise?
The Secret Service's surveillance cameras have been upgraded. But the
article makes clear that it's the agency's culture, not just its
technology, that needs to be fixed. Secret Service Officer Carrie
Johnson has chosen a job where she might need to lay down her life — but
even though she was right about the White House being fired at, she
said she didn't contradict her superiors "for fear of being criticized."
Read Leonnig's full story here. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on "new concerns about the Secret Service" on Tuesday.
(NaturalNews) A patient suspected of harboring Ebola is now in isolation at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
in Dallas. According to breaking news reports, the patient is suspected
of carrying Ebola because of his medical symptoms and travel history.
This means the patient recently visited areas where Ebola has been
actively circulating such as Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea.
A statement released by the hospital reads:
Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has admitted a patient into strict
isolation to be evaluated for potential Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) based
on the patient's symptoms and recent travel history. The hospital is
following all Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath
recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, hospital staff,
volunteers, physicians and visitors. The CDC anticipates preliminary
results tomorrow.
CBS News has been covering the breaking story and reports speaking with a county HHS official: [1]
CBS
11 News spoke with Dallas County Health and Human Services Director
Zachary Thompson who confirmed the patient had been in an area where the
Ebola virus exists. "Looking at the travel history is the first
indicator and then the next step is [treatment or non-treatment] once we
get lab results," he said.
If Ebola appears in the USA, people will panic
Whether
or not this patient turns out to have Ebola, the likelihood of Ebola
making its way into the continental United States increases with each
passing day that it spreads unabated across African nations.
I
have publicly predicted the possibility of Ebola arriving in the United
States and unleashing a public panic. This scenario was covered in
detail in chapter 8 of my free online course Pandemic Preparedness found at www.BioDefense.com
In anticipation of an expected Ebola outbreak in the United States, the U.S. government has already ordered 160,000 hazmat suits, and the Governor of Kansas just declared October to be Zombie Preparedness Month in the hopes that the theme will nudge more Kansas citizens into taking action on preparedness.
Millions of people already under quarantine due to Ebola
Currently, two million residents of Sierra Leone are living under government quarantines,
with food shortages already widely reported. If an Ebola outbreak
begins to spread in the United States, there is little question that the
federal government will declare and enforce quarantines of cities or
even entire regions.
Once those quarantines go into place,
routine deliveries of food and other supplies are likely to be sharply
restricted or disrupted.
The question on everyone's mind right
now is "If this patient in Dallas turned out to be carrying Ebola, did
he infect anyone else?" And for how long was he able to mingle with
other patients or medical staff before he was isolated?
In
Africa, hospital staff were among the very first people infected. The
continued, persistent spread of MRSA and other superbugs across U.S.
hospitals proves that even first-world medical staff are unable to prevent the spread of infectious disease in their own hospitals.
Chris
Brown may be in trouble with the law again after shoving a female fan
who tried to kiss him during a nightclub appearance in Houston, Texas.
Brown pled guilty to simple assault earlier this month to settle a case
related to a sidewalk fight last October with a man at hotel in
Washington, D.C.
Brown had another close encounter over the weekend while
performing at Limelight Houston. While he was walking through the crowd
with his girlfriend, 26-year-old model Karrueche Tran, an unidentified woman
stepped in front of Brown and reached out apparently to kiss him. Brown
shoved the woman with his right forearm, brushing her out of the way.
TMZ said the woman didn't appear to be hurt.
Brown has a history of violence, stemming from his attack on
then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. Most recently, in September, Brown
pled guilty to misdemeanor assault for punching photograph-seeking fan
Parker Adams, 25, of Beltsville, Maryland. "I would like to tell the
court I'm sorry," Brown said in the D.C. Superior Court, according to
the Washington Post.
Brown, 25, was sentenced to time served after he spent two days in a
D.C. jail following his arrest and was ordered to pay $150 in court
costs. Brown previously pleaded guilty in the case and his trial had
been set for April, but was delayed, according to the Associated Press.
Brown was initially arrested for felony assault after allegedly punching Adams in the face, TMZ reports. Brown was posing for a photo with two fans when Adams and another man rushed to get into the picture. The performer,
who didn't appear to be under the influence of alcohol, reportedly
said, “I’m not into this gay s--t, I’m into boxing,” before punching
Adams in the face. The fight allegedly continued on the ground.
According to "a rock solid source," Porsha is actually dating
Bashorun Jide Omokore, a billionaire oil tycoon who is the chairman and
CEO of several oil companies. He's so rich that he had no problem
gifting Porsha a half a million dollar custom Rolls Royce. Not only is
Bashorun rich, he's also powerful, with strong political ties in
Nigeria.
The problem for Porsha, however, is that he's married to a woman who
doesn't like her husband having a mistress. His wife is Angela Ebagua, a
Nigerian bank executive. According to the source, Angela knows about
Porsha and has sent a warning that she's not afraid to get physical to
protect her marriage. "His wife said that if Porsha comes back to
Nigeria, she's gonna beat her ass," the source said.
Interestingly enough, Porsha is not the only Atlanta housewife to be
accused of seeing a rich and married Nigerian businessman. Her co-star
Kenya Moore, who talked quite a bit about being in a relationship with
an "African prince" last season, was accused of being romantically involved with billionaire Tonye Cole, a married man with three kids. There was also a report that her man was actually Nigerian singer D’Banj.
For the past couple of months however, Kenya hasn't made much mention
of her African prince on her social media accounts. Perhaps it was all
just made up?
The reality star and her 15-month-old daughter show off their similar tastes in fashion.
It's never too early to start molding your infant child in your own image, or at least Kim Kardashian seems to think so.
The
reality star posted this Instagram photo of her and her little girl
North West that showed off their similar fashion tastes. That is,
assuming a 15-month-old baby has the capacity for rational decision
making and a prodigious eye for fashion and chose that outfit.
Kim was in a revealing sheer
number, and she had decked North out in a similar sheer black-laced top
with black pants and adorable black boots.
The 33-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashians star sat in the front row of the Givenchy runway show at Paris Fashion Week with North and her husband Kanye.
Despite all of her worldliness, we learned something new about Kris
Jenner last night. “This is the first fashion show that I’ve ever been
to,” she confessed to Yahoo Style at the Balmain
after-party. “I was telling Olivier [Rousteing], ‘I am so excited that
your show is my first show because I felt like a princess.’ It was an
amazing experience and Kendall was walking the show and I got to sit front row, and they dressed me, and I’m in Paris. I had one of the best days of my life.”
And a good day it was, marking the matriarch’s first outing since finalizing her divorce, and though Kim and Kanye were
long gone from the chic fête at Le Marois, Jenner was clearly having a
delightful time. “I’m sitting here and getting a chance to think about
how great Kendall did for the first time today,” she said. “I’m so
proud.”
Ever the pro, she brushed off the day’s earlier media scrum (when Kim was jostled by a ravenous crowd).
“It was a little nuts, but you know, we’re here. We made it. We’re
inParis until the end of fashion week. We want to go to Givenchy and
Chanel.” Soon she was off again, this time to hit the dance floor with Kendall while fellow catwalkers Issa Lish, Hanne Gaby Odiele, and Kasia Struss bopped along nearby. Oh to be young and free!
A popular Atlanta dancer/stripper named Reign is claiming Chris Brown is the father of her 3 year old son.
The 32 year old woman, who used to work at popular club Doa, filed
paperwork at Fulton County Court in Atlanta this week against Chris
asking a judge to mandate him to take a paternity test. Chris has so far
not reacted to the allegation...
This summer has not been easy for Kendra Wilkinson Baskett.
The Kendra on Top star, who just welcomed her second child in May, has opened up to E! News' Giuliana Rancic about her marriage in the wake of rumors that Hank Baskett, her husband of five years, had cheated on her with a transsexual woman.
A person who reportedly passed a polygraph test meant to ensure she wasn't lying about her side of the story.
"I
get a call one night, from my agent, and he said to me, ‘Hey Kendra,
you know there's a rumor going around, about you and Hank'. The story is
about the husband cheating on his wife with a transsexual," Kendra
recalled during an exclusive sit-down for the upcoming interview
special, Beyond Candid With Giuliana: Kendra Wilkinson Baskett.
"This happened five weeks after giving birth to my daughter, and here we are with our newborn baby, and little Hank, and we get a call saying, ‘Hank cheated on me with a transsexual?' I just laughed about it," the former Girls Next Door star continued, remembering the details of what ended up being a life-altering day.
Moreover, Hank was right there next to her when she got the first call, Kendra said.
She asked Hank, "'Did you do something?' And he says no, so I believed him."
Not long after the cheating rumor first made headlines, Kendra
started leaving the house without her wedding ring—because she had
flushed it down the toilet.
"I went looking for evidence, I found
nothing," she told Giuliana, noting that she had also heard about
photographs that made the rounds of Hank's jeep supposedly parked
outside the woman's apartment.
Asked if the rumor involving a
transsexual woman made her feel any differently than it if had been more
of a run-of-the-mill story, Kendra said, "It would have been the same
feeling, cheating is cheating. I take my wedding rings off, right in
front of him. I drop them in the toilet, he's flipping out, and I just
flush the rings down the toilet.
"I'm yelling at him, saying, 'Get out of my house!'"
Kendra further recalled telling Hank—"he's still a great
father"—to take their kids to New Mexico with him to get them out of the
media glare.
Speaking of which, Kendra also responded to those
who have wondered whether she and Hank drummed up some drama for their
show's ratings, considering they kept shooting the new season of Kendra on Topthroughout the summer.
"I
wish we did," she sighed. "It is the most insulting thing out of all
this, that people think that this is fate. Iw ould never do this to
myself. You know, I would never degrade myself like that."
As for Hank, "Overall he was denying the whole thing. I don't know what to believe. Yes, I'm seriously mad at Hank because I know something happened. I've come very close to divorcing him already."
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman
punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol officer on the side of
a freeway in an incident caught on video will receive $1.5 million
under a settlement, and the officer has agreed to resign.
CHP
Commissioner Joe Farrow confirmed the settlement in an emailed statement
and an attorney for Marlene Pinnock confirmed the dollar amount for The
Associated Press.
The
punching occurred after motorists' 911 calls reported that Pinnock, who
is bipolar, was walking along the freeway and the responding officer
pulled her from traffic, according to a legal document in the case.
Wednesday's settlement agreement came after a nine-hour mediation session in Los Angeles.
"When
this incident occurred, I promised that I would look into it and vowed a
swift resolution," Farrow's statement said. "Today, we have worked
constructively to reach a settlement agreement that is satisfactory to
all parties involved."
The
statement said that Officer Daniel Andrew, who joined the CHP in 2012
and has been on paid administrative leave since the incident, "has
elected to resign."
Andrew
could still be charged criminally in the case. The CHP forwarded the
results of its investigation of the incident to Los Angeles County
prosecutors last month, saying he could face serious charges but none
have been filed yet.
The bulk of the settlement will take the form of a special needs trust for Pinnock, the CHP said.
Pinnock's attorney Caree Harper said the settlement fulfilled the two elements her side was looking for.
"One
of the things we wanted to make sure of was that she was provided for
in a manner that accommodated her unique situation in life," Harper
said, "and that the officer was not going to be an officer anymore and
we secured those things."
Harper said Pinnock will be interviewed by the district attorney's office within a few weeks.
The July 1 video of Andrew punching Pinnock was recorded by a passing driver on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles.
According
to a search warrant made public in court documents last month, Andrew
had just pulled Pinnock from oncoming traffic and she resisted by
pushing him after multiple drivers called 911 to report her walking
barefoot along the side of the freeway.
Andrew
then straddled her on the ground as Pinnock resisted by "kicking her
legs, grabbing the officer's uniform and twisting her body," the warrant
said. Andrew "struck her in the upper torso and head several times with
a closed right fist," the records say.
The
warrant said Pinnock suffered no signs of physical injury and refused
medical treatment. She was placed on a psychiatric hold for two weeks.
Pinnock has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been off her medication for two to three months before the altercation.
In an interview with the AP last month, Pinnock said she believed the officer was trying to kill her.
"He grabbed me, he threw me down, he started beating me," she said. "I felt like he was trying to kill me, beat me to death."
Nick Cannon’s camp says don’t put his name in the divorce drama between Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa.
The America’s Got Talent host, who is going through his own split from wife Mariah Carey, was rumored to have had a fling with Rose outside of taking her on as a client in his management firm.
But sources close to Nick tell TMZ that his relationship with Amber is strictly professional. Nick insists nothing happened in the cheating department.
Amber Rose has filed for divorce from her husband, Wiz Khalifa, after just one year of marriage. According to TMZ, Rose filed divorce papers on Monday, citing those ever-popular irreconcilable differences
as her reason for the split. Amber has requested full custody of the
couple’s son, 1-year-old Sebastian. As far as other details about the
split, Amber and Wiz did have a prenup, and the terms will likely stand.
“Amber acknowledges there’s a prenup, which you would
think would work in Wiz’ favor, but she says it’s valid… presumably,
she’s not challenging it. The docs say the prenup provides spousal
support.”
Rumors that Amber Rose has been hooking up with Mariah Carey’s soon-to-be ex-husband (presumably) Nick Cannon have exploded all over the internet. As previously reported by The Inquisitr,
Amber has hired her long time friend as her business manager. Sources
say that Amber has had a crush on Nick for years… and that the two are
leaning on each other during their respective splits.
Now, Mariah Carey has yet to file for divorce from Nick Cannon, but
if there is any truth to these rumors, papers could be filed by month’s
end.
Amber Rose has not made mention of her divorce from Wiz Khalifa
directly, but she has posted a couple of interesting things on her
Twitter and Instagram accounts since filing.
The Minister of Health in Nigeria, Onyebuchi
Chukwu has revealed that Nigeria is completely free of active Ebola
cases, adding that all contacts of the deadly disease have been released
from surveillance.
Chukwu made this disclosure on Tuesday, 23 September, 2014, at the United Nations General Assembly holding in New York, USA.
The UN meeting, comprising of all 193 members of the UN met in New
York to among other things discuss on ways to halt the spread of the
deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) ravaging West African countries.
This is more than two months since the index case, the late Patrick
Sawyer, a Liberian-America imported the deadly virus into Lagos while on
a trip for a meeting of the Economic Commission of West African States
(ECOWAS) in Calabar on 23 July.
According to the minister: “Presently, there is no single case of
Ebola virus disease in Nigeria – none. No cases are under treatment, no
suspected cases. There are no contacts in Lagos that are still under
surveillance, having completed a minimum of 21 days of observation.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu
“None of them are showing any symptoms. Monday (22 September
2014) will mark the end of their 21 days of observation and the plan is
to get them discharged from surveillance yesterday (Tuesday 23 September
2014). Nigeria will be as clean as any other country as far as Ebola
virus disease is concerned.”
Prior to Chukwu’s revelation, Rivers State had been home to over 400
contacts under medical surveillance. As of Monday night, only 25
contacts remained. The deadly disease was contained in Lagos, Nigeria’s
commercial hub and Port Harcourt.
Nigeria suffered only 21 Ebola cases with seven deaths recorded after
the late Sawyer imported the deadly virus into the country.
Meanwhile, Chukwu added that as Nigeria has been able to successfully
contain the virus, preventing stigmatization of Ebola survivors is
still a challenge.
“Three terms became part of our lexicon: surveillance,
quarantine, and isolation. Surveillance is sort of like house arrest.
You don’t criminalize them. The person is actually a victim, not a
criminal. We monitor their movements, the rest of the family are
counselled about what contact can and can’t be done. We have contact
with them every day. You can imagine what this effort must have been
like when we had 300 in Lagos and over 400 in Port Harcourt. “That is the first time we are denying that individual the
comfort of his own bed. We put him in separately from the isolation ward
from those who are confirmed. If malaria, we discharge them to their
doctor to be treated for malaria,” the minister explained.
Chukwu also praised the Director General of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Margaret Chan for sending physicians to Nigeria.
Dan Nwomeh
“We only knew about Ebola virus through our medical books. We’ve
never seen a single case of Ebola virus until this year. So we needed
someone with practical experience who had seen the virus to come and
train our doctors what to do and the rest, and then we took over. “It is important that we let the world know that WHO did well in
sending us doctors with practical experience. But we also worked with
the CDC, UNICEF, and MSF in managing the disease,” he said.
Also speaking on the matter, the Special Assistant on Media and
Communication to the minister, Dan Mwomeh confirm the cheery news on his
official twitter handle @DanNwomeh .
Below are some of his tweets:
In a related development, two leading public-health agencies on
Tuesday issued dire warnings about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa,
estimating that the number of cases could grow exponentially unless
measures to tame the outbreak are implemented on a large scale soon.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said that from 550,000 people to as many as 1.4 million
people could be infected by mid-January in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
After
15-plus years sharing an 8,500-square-foot mansion in a gated Palm
Beach Gardens enclave in Florida, and amid tabloid reports of a rift
that their reps say is all hooey, celebrated professional tennis sisters
Venus and Serena Williams
— now in their 30s and still forces to be reckoned with on the court —
will soon move into their own custom-built mansions in guard-gated golf
developments about five miles apart.
It was Venus who bit the real
estate bullet first, in December 2013, with the $825,000 purchase of a
1.03-acre parcel near the end of a cul-de-sac in a quiet corner of the
Old Palm Golf Club where she’s in the process of building a contemporary
residence. Younger sister Serena volleyed a huge return, shelling out
$4.125 million on a privately situated 2.4 acre lot in the super-swank
Bear’s Club enclave in neighboring Jupiter, where some of the other
estates are owned by golfer Ernie Els, Band-Aid heiress Libet Johnson
and Michael Jordan.
After Serena won the 2014 U.S.
Open in September, she joked with reporters that she needed the $4
million in prize money to complete her new house, reported in Tennis
magazine to be a European-style villa designed by a San Francisco
architect with plans for trophy, purse and karaoke rooms. Venus sold her
house in L.A.’s Nichols Canyon in March for $1.775 million to Ellen
Page. Multilingual Serena owns an apartment in Paris, as well as a
mini-estate in Bel Air’s Stone Canyon that she picked up in 2006 for
$6.612 million.
If
you know any diehard Barbz or Beygency members then don’t bother
contacting them today, because they have some serious revenge to
organize. Shi Wisdom, the songwriter behind many of Drake’s most famous verses, recently spoke to Noisey about allegedly being the female ghostwriter who sued Drizzy for unpaid work and homegirl also dropped some truth bombs about Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé not writing their own songs.
Wisdom was apparently not the woman who sued, and isn’t too
interested in whether he writes his all his own stuff because that,
friends, is just how things work.
To be honest with you, who cares if he doesn’t write his
own stuff? It’s very evident that he’s an intelligent business person.
Who in this industry writes their stuff all the time? I don’t know
anybody who writes their stuff all the time that is a big artist, not
one person. When you go into these meetings with these labels they tell
you who is looking for songs, and it’s a bunch of people who you thought
wrote their own songs.
And when she says nobody, you better believe she means it.
Everybody has writers, everybody has a team of people to
put it together. Some of these people do write some of their songs, but
do you really believe that Nicki Minaj writes all of her songs, with no
help? To be a songwriter on a song all you have to do is contribute one
word. By the time the “R.I.P.” record I did with Drake was finished, six
writers including myself and him touched that song. That wasn’t the
plan, but that’s what happens: Somebody comes in and says, “instead of
saying ‘boy’ say ‘you.’” Now they’re a writer on the song, but that’s
access. For the longest time Beyoncé didn’t write any of her records. I
personally still don’t believe she’s written any of her records.
Hoo boy. Wisdom isn’t exactly the first person to ever point out that Bey doesn’t write all her own songs (here’s a fairly extensive summary.) Linda Perry
slammed her just two months ago for stealing song credits. But
implicating Minaj proves she’s not in the game to make friends. Talk
about throwing a spanner in the cogs of the industry machine.
A version of this post appeared in Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author's own.
With
only government-controlled communication from northeastern Nigeria,
there is a dearth of information about what territory Boko Haram
actually controls.
However, Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops in
Nigeria often are better informed about reality on the ground than
anybody else because their networks of local parishes staffed by priests
cover most of the country.
He lists 25 towns in Borno, Yobe, and
Adamawa as under Boko Haram control. With respect to Bama, possibly the
second largest city in Borno, he acknowledges that the government and
Boko Haram both claim control, but observes that the exodus of people
from the city indicates that the Islamists have the upper hand.
The archbishop states that Boko Haram has armored tanks, armored personnel carriers, rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank weapons, sub-machine guns, “new and latest guns AK47,” and “inexhaustible boxes of ammunitions and bullets.”
The
archbishop denounces the behavior of the security forces: “In the face
of these attacks, they flee and ask civilians to do the same.”
He
is also highly critical of the Jonathan administration: “The near
inaction of the government, the lukewarm attitude and the silence of the
government is very disturbing. There is a total disconnection between
what our so called leaders in Abuja report in the media and reality on
the ground. We wish they have the courage to fly into these areas and
see things for themselves.
While the archbishop acknowledges that
Boko Haram has killed many Muslims, he places Boko Haram firmly in the
context of efforts to Islamicize northeast Nigeria, and that it has “an
international face and connection.
If the bishop's statement is accurate, where do the armored vehicles and other weapons come from?
Given their size, it is unlikely that Boko Haram procured them from Libya or some other place outside Nigeria.
More likely is that they come from Nigerian armories, presumably stolen or supplied by Boko Haram sympathizers
It’s that time when she needs to visit her doctor for touch ups! The
singer’s fake but t looked like a bag of gravel as she performed on
Friday night, at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden
Arena in Las Vegas. Yikes! it looked all the silicone accumulated on her
left side of yansh…lol…
Is there any famous man Kola Boof hasn’t slept with?She broke
Kimora Lee Simon’s marriage to Djimon Honsou after declaring she had
been sleeping with him while they were married.Now, she boastfully added
Hollywood star actor,Gerald Butler and Mike Tyson to the list..
Kola who is a celebrated author and Osama Bin laden’s former mistress is
now married to a white man but that hasn’t stopped her from revealing
her secrets.
Looks like there is something about her which attracts powerful men
A fan of Ivory coast holds a sign with a message against Ebola during the 2015 African Nations Cup qualifying …
ADDIS
ABABA (Reuters) - Bans on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone hosting any
international football because of fears of spreading Ebola were kept in
place by the Confederation of African Football, its executive committee
decided on Saturday. The three west African countries -- at the
epicentre of the outbreak of the highly contagious disease -- had
originally been banned from hosting all games until mid-September but
has now been extended indefinitely, CAF announced. It means Guinea
and Sierra Leone must again move scheduled African Nations Cup
qualifiers to alternate venues next month. Guinea had to play their
opening group game against Togo in Morocco earlier this month and also
last weekend staged an under-17 qualifying tie in Casablanca. Sierra
Leone could not find an alternate venue for their qualifier against the
Democratic Republic of Congo 10 days ago and instead ceded home
advantage to their opponents. Liberia have no scheduled international
matches in the near future. Ebola has infected at least 5,357 people
in West Africa this year, mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia,
killing 2,630 of those, according to the World Health Organization. The
disease has also been reported in Nigeria and Senegal but these two
countries have not been banned from holding games by CAF. The
epidemic has brought sport to complete standstill in both Liberia and
Sierra Leone.
Guinea were ironically on Saturday
named as a future host of the Nations Cup finals in 2023 at the same
meeting of CAF’s executive committee in the Ethiopian capital. Teams
from the affected countries were also subjected to vigorous checks
before being allowed to play matches in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Ivory Coast and Uganda earlier this month.
Freetown (AFP) - Millions of Sierra Leoneans emerged from
their homes on Monday after a controversial nationwide lockdown during
which scores of dead bodies and new cases of Ebola infections were
uncovered.
The
west African country had confined its six million people to their homes
for 72 hours in a bid to stem a deadly outbreak which has claimed more
than 2,600 lives there and in neighbouring Liberia and Guinea this year.
"We
have an overflow of bodies which we still need to bury but this has
been an everyday occurence since the Ebola outbreak... Now at least we
have about 150 new cases," Steven Gaojia, head of the country's
emergency operation centre, said late Sunday.
The country's chief
medical officer earlier said up to 70 bodies had been uncovered, but
these were in and around the capital, and results for the whole country
are likely to push up the figures significantly.
Only essential
workers such as health professionals were exempt from the shutdown, and
some 30,000 volunteers who went door-to-door to hand out soap and give
advice on halting the contagion.
- Begging for their lives -
Sierra Leone's controversial 72-hour lockdown has uncovered some 150 new cases of the deadly Ebo …
Independent observers have voiced concerns over the
quality of advice being given out, deeming the shutdown a "mixed
success" and complaining about the poor training of the door-to-door
education teams.
Meanwhile aid organisations and medical experts
questioned the feasibility of reaching 1.5 million households in three
days and argued that confining people to their homes could erode trust
between the government and the people.
But Health Minister
Abubakarr Fofanah told AFP volunteers had managed to reach around 80
percent of homes, deeming the action a success.
"We have learnt a
lot from the campaign. Although this campaign has ended, there is a
possibility we would have a similar one some other time," he said.
"I
cannot as of now give you statistics about the total corpses collected
during the three-day period as we are now awaiting returns from other
parts of the country and this will be made known as soon as the full
report is compiled."
The deadly Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,600 lives in West Africa (AFP Photo/Zoom Dosso)
Ebola fever can fell its victims within days, causing severe
muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and -- in many cases -- unstoppable
internal and external bleeding.
Fears of contagion have crippled
the economies of affected nations, as wary workers stay home and cross
border trade is disrupted.
The scale of the challenge is most
evident in Liberia, where health workers at Ebola units have spoken of
turning away people begging for their lives because they don't have the
beds or staff to treat them.
The country said on Sunday there
would be a four-fold increase in hospital beds to 1,000 for patients in
the capital Monrovia by the end of October.
- 'In denial' -
Only essential workers such as health professionals were exempt from the 72-hour shutdown in Siere
"Patients are being rejected... because there is no space. So
the government is trying its best to finish the 1,000 beds so we can
accommodate all the patients," Information Minister Lewis Brown told
AFP.
The move comes two weeks after the World Health Organization
(WHO) warned the country, worst-hit in the outbreak with more than 1,450
deaths, was about to see a huge spike in infections, with thousands of
new cases imminent.
The WHO was due on Monday to publish the
latest findings of its Ebola emergency committee charged with deciding
on what other temporary measures should be taken to reduce the risk of
the deadly virus spreading further.
A second deployment of US
troops arrived on Sunday at Liberia's international airport, 55
kilometres (35 miles) east of Monrovia, as part of an eventual
3,000-strong mission to help tackle the outbreak.
The team will
set up a headquarters for Major General Darryl Williams, who will
oversee the US mission to train local health workers and establish
additional medical facilities, he said.
Ebola fever can fell its victims within days, causing severe muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea
Liberian health officials said action to stop the spread of the
disease was also being hampered by traditional communities still
ignoring advice on staying away from highly infectious dead bodies.
"Some
people are still in denial. Because of that they are not listening to
the rules," said Gabriel Gorbee Logan, a health officer in Bomi County,
northwest of Monrovia.
If there's one thing to know about Queen Bey and Hov, it's that they're
obsessed with the number 4. So when else would they get married but
April 4, 2008? The pair wed at the rapper's Tribeca penthouse before 40
guests, including Gwyneth Paltrow, but didn't confirm the nuptials — not
even after their marriage license was filed. Beyonce finally addressed
it six months later when she revealed footage of the night in a montage
at a listening party.
Kate Winslet and Ned Rocknroll
The Oscar winner tied the knot for the third time in early December 2012
to Richard Branson's nephew and managed to keep it hush-hush for
several weeks. The couple's parents reportedly didn't know about the
wedding either. One person who did know? Leonardo DiCaprio, who walked
Winslet down the aisle.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively
The Green Lantern co-stars secretly tied the knot at Boone Hall
Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., on Sept. 9, 2012, less than a year
after they started dating. Photos from the wedding were published in Martha Stewart Weddings that December.
Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz
The Oscar winners, who first met on the set of 1992's Jamón, jamón,
got married in early July 2010 at a friend's house in the Bahamas
before family members. They announced the wedding a few weeks later.
Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig
Seven months after announcing her split from Darren Aronofsky, her
partner of nine years, Weisz secretly wed James Bond himself on June 22,
2011, before four guests, including her son, Henry, and his daughter,
Ella.
Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford
After eight years together, the couple got married in Santa Fe, N.M., on June 15, 2010, in a ceremony presided by Gov. Bill
Richardson and New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles W. Daniels
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon
Weeks after meeting on the set of her music video for "Bye Bye," the
couple married at her estate in the Bahamas on April 30, 2008. Carey
gave birth to fraternal twins, Monroe and Moroccan, exactly three years
later.
Julia Roberts and Danny Moder
The Oscar winner secretly wed Moder,a cinematographer whom she met on the set of The Mexican,
on July 4, 2002, at her New Mexico ranch. The couple pulled a fast one
on their guests: They had told everyone they were hosting a Fourth of
July bash.
Who knew these two worked together?
In today's random headline news, it was revealed that Nick Cannon is Amber Rose's manager (really!). Following the initial reports, Cannon's rep confirmed to E! News that the America's Got Talent host does indeed manage Rose's career along with a team of others.
"Amber Rose is indeed a client under Nick's NCredible Entertainment Management Team," the rep told E!.
The partnership between Cannon and Rose is reportedly new. Rose was, at one time, repped by Ford Models.
Kim Kardashian's "casual" look is anything but casual.
The reality star stepped out in a white tank top tied at the waist,
a tight black skirt and strappy sandals for a visit to Bunim/Murray
Productions in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Photographers got snapshots of
the 33-year-old walking through the parking lot, looking as camera-ready
as ever.
Kardashian shared two of the paparazzi shots via Instagram. "#Casual," she wrote.
26 year old Russian man Serger Kirilov (pictured above) wanted to commit
suicide and so he went on Skype and announced that he planned to commit
suicide and said anyone who wanted to see it could link to him on
Skype.
Shockingly, many people linked up to him and watched him hang himself without trying to stop him. One spectator even allegedly
said 'a real man would have killed himself more quickly.' Another said
'If a man says he's going to do something, he needs to do it.' Only one
person tried to stop him.
Russian police are now trying to trace
all the people who watched the suicide through their internet service
providers. A Russian police spokesman said 'It is beyond belief that
people could watch this as a form of entertainment. We
will be investigating everyone who watched this incident, especially
those who urged him to carry it out who may be guilty of negligent
homicide.'
Kendall's in Italy for Milan Fashion Week, but it looks like this
trip isn't all about work! The model appears to be making time for a new
romance! The handsome mystery man is pictured walking with Kendall and a
friend on a night out in Milan. Since they're in Milan for Fashion
Week, do you think this mystery man is a model?
Avril Lavigne, Chad Kroeger Headed For a Split After One Year of Marriage
This rockstar romance may be coming to an end. Avril Lavigne and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger are headed for a split after a year of marriage, insiders reveal exclusively in the new issue of
"It's over," a source tells Us. "He has been going around L.A. telling people that they are divorcing."
Kroeger, 39, popped the question
to Lavigne, 29, in August 2012 after dating for a month. They wed in an
intimate ceremony in the South of France in July 2013.
Who knew these two worked together?
