Four sisters, all medical doctors, gets married on the same day

Four beautiful Nigerian sisters, Hauwa, Hajir, Fatima and Sadiya, got married on the same day, and another sweet thing is that they are all medical doctors. The four lovely brides who are the daughters of one Alhaji Bade, had their weddings in Jigawa state..simply cute.

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Catholic priest who spoke to executed Nigerians In indonesia said "it was a traumatic experience"

A Catholic priest who was present at Nusakambangan prison in Indonesia during last Thursday's executions of three Nigerian drug convicts and one local drug lord, has described the experience as 'traumatic'

Father Charles Burrows, who is based in Cilacap near the prison, was called there to speak with two of of the three Nigerians, who were among 4 death row prisoners executed by firing squad. 

Father Burrows said he doesn't know if the executed prisoners suffered. He said he had been present in the past when it has taken several minutes for prisoners to die.

"The first time, it was seven to eight minutes, and then there were some of the other times it was 15 minutes and they still weren't, hadn't expired," he said. "And the captain has to wait with a pistol and shoot into the brain." he told Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Father Burrows said he went with the other ministers from different spiritualities to the "shooting place", because there was no time to speak with them in their cells, with great confusion in the lead-up to the execution. He said it was a "traumatic experience". The ministers prayed together while four ministers spoke to the four men who were executed.

"They were given some minutes to talk to the prisoners or console them somewhat. Then they came back and the prisoners were tied to the stakes. And then they went, were given another few minutes. They were shot pretty quickly after that."

Father Burrows said the executed prisoners were "seemingly" blindfolded first, and remained dignified until the end.

"There was a lot of anger in the first state (last year's execution) not last night," Father Burrows said of the latest executions. But eventually … they realise they're going to die, so you best try and die with dignity."

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Attorney General has refused to explain why 10 prisoners, including one Indonesian woman, received an 11th hour reprieve from the firing squad.

Authorities are set to return the bodies of the executed Nigerian death row convicts to the country, Tempo Jakarta reports.

Bright okpocha Aka Basket mouth takes Aliko Dangote shopping

Davido shows of on instagram

The singer @davidoofficial shared the photo on instagram...with the
caption "From the chopper to the jet !! New York traffic can't hold me down!! E MA DAMI DURO!! ATL"

Kemi Olunloyo Apologizes to Jide Kosoko

aughter of former Oyo State governor, controversial snitchlady, journalist, gun violence activist and social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo is in the news again, but this time for trying to make peace with the Kosokos.

Kemi Olunloyo has come on social media to tender her apologies to the Kosokos over her comments on the death of Jide Kosoko’s third wife, Henrietta Kosoko.

After she made allegations that Prince Jide Kosoko may have used his wife for ritual, noting that it was a rare coincidence for a man to lose three wives consecutively, a mild drama played out on the social media yesterday as Ms. Olunloyo engaged in war of words with Taiwo Olowu, one of the twin sons of the deceased.

Her accusations led to comments from members of the public including a Morenike Kosoko, who called Olunloyo a prostitute. In response, Olunloyo said she hoped the late Henrietta would end up in hell.

Morenike, in a direct tweet to the social critic wrote: “Not married and you have two children. You be olosho asewo.”

In a swift response, Ms. Olunloyo, whose public criticism of people apparently knows no bounds, tweeted: “Hope your Henrietta goes straight to hell.

“I left a domestic abusive situation not like you ritualist kinds that die I it.

“How many kids did she have for another man?” she tweeted.

In his reaction, the deceased’s son, a songster popularly known as LT wrote: “Kemi did not confirm who the children of Henrietta Kosoko are before insulting my mum, saying she will go to hell.”

Barely 24 hours after, Ms. Olunloyo apologized over her ‘rest in hell’ comment.

She then took to her Facebook page, apologizing for her statements about Henrietta going to hell stemmed from her anger at Morenike.

She wrote, “I sincerely apologize to Taiwo the son of Henrietta Kosoko and Jide Kosoko. My reaction from Morenike Kosoko angered me. Calling me the wizard of prostitutes Olosho Asewo is uncalled for. I had my two children out of wedlock because of domestic violence at 27yo and late Henrietta also had the twins for another man she left too. I have learned not to engage Nigerians on social media who say such. I had a right to be angry at the time but anger is not the answer. May Henrietta rest in peace and not hell and to Jide Kosoko stay strong.
Sincerely,

source: pm news

Tips that will lower your cholestrol

Good health is everyone  top priority. And when it comes to cholesterol levels, one might not see it coming until it’s too late. Almost anyone can have an unhealthy cholesterol level. In fact, one in five people has high cholesterol. It’s a very common problem and, in many cases, it may be inherited. So even though having high cholesterol may not be your fault, it’s still very important you treat it now.

So when was the last time you got your cholesterol level checked? High cholesterol levels lead to various heart diseases and can be extremely dangerous and life-threatening. Cardiologists suggests one to have their cholesterol levels checked every five years.

It is also not very difficult to control the levels with some basic precautions. So, if you have a high cholesterol level, here are tips to help you bring it down.

Minimize meat eating: Do not take it as your primary meal. Absolutely avoid the fat of beef, pork, lamb, etc. You may also choose to have fish instead. Also, boiled, grilled or roasted meat contains much lesser fat than meat cooked in any other manner.

Deciding on snacks: Avoid high-fat snacks such as potato chips and most other bakery products. Instead, go for low-fat ones such as popcorn, dry fruits, etc.

Healthy desserts: Never opt for those high-fat, high-calorie desserts and ice-creams. Instead, go for a low-fat fruit smoothie or fruit cake, etc.

Oil in your food: While most vegetable oil contains unsaturated fat, palm and coconut oil is filled with highly saturated fat. Hence, avoid these two, and instead choose sunflower, soybean, olive, corn or safflower oil.

Moderate alcohol intake: If you are already an alcoholic, it is recommended that you take no more than one drink a day. It is beneficial, and can reduce the risk of any heart disease. That being said, if you aren’t already an alcoholic, do not opt to be one. The minimum benefits are definitely not worth it and it will only cause you harm.

fruits and vegetables: Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Nothing can be more healthy. It releases toxins in your body and keeps you fit.

Regular exercise: Exercising regularly will not only help to burn down the excess fat in your body, but also improve blood circulation and gift you with a healthier heart.

Professional advice: Even after three months of healthy eating if there is no change in your cholesterol level, it is time to consult a physician or dietitian. If that too doesn’t help, do not delay any longer and consult a doctor immediately and start medication.

Source: greennews.ng

Quotes by Donald Trump, that is getting republicans worried, ahead of U.S presidential election

The Republican party began the 2016 U.S Presidential campaign with 17 candidates, 16 of whom have dropped out of the race, leaving only billionaire businessman. Donald Trump.

Whether he is representing their will and intentions is a big question as many see him has not having a ‘President’s qualities’.

Below are quotes and pictures, people are judging him by:

It is widely accepted as imperative for a President-to-be to have attributes worth emulating, but with Donald Trump, he has not shown the world how capable he could be if elected in the upcoming November 8, 2016, elections in the United State of America.

Source: Greennews.ng

Singer diamondz shares photos of his baby mama and daughter

 the singer shared the photo of his daughter and baby mama having a good time with him...they look really cute....

Condemnation as indonesia execute 3 Nigerians

Indonesia Friday executed four drug convicts, three of them foreigners, by firing squad, an official said, drawing swift condemnation from rights groups as Jakarta pushes on with its campaign of capital punishment. Ten others expected to have faced the firing squad, including nationals from Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe as well as Indonesians, were not put to death but officials said they would be executed at a later stage. Authorities did not give a reason for the reprieve, but the prison island where they were expected to be executed in outdoor clearings was hit by a major storm as the other sentences were carried out. “This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking,” Noor Rachmad, deputy attorney general for general crimes, told reporters. He added that “the rest (of the executions) will be carried out in stages”, saying that the timings had not yet been decided. Amnesty International condemned the executions with the group’s Rafendi Djamin labelling them “a deplorable act”. “Any executions that are still to take place must be halted immediately. The injustice already done cannot be reversed, but there is still hope that it won’t be compounded.” The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union had also voiced opposition to the plan in recent days. It was the first round of executions in Indonesia since April last year when authorities put to death eight drug convicts, including two Australians, which sparked international outrage. Friday’s executions came after a day of frenetic activity, with distraught relatives travelling to Nusakambangan island to say farewells to their loved ones and ambulances carrying coffins over to the heavily guarded penal colony. – Execution drive – The executed Indonesian was named as Freddy Budiman, while the three others, Nigerians, were: Seck Osmane, Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and Michael Titus Igweh. Eleweke’s lawyer, Afif Abdul Qoyim, told AFP the execution should not have gone ahead as his client this week filed a legal appeal. “When this process in not respected, that means that this is no longer a country that upholds the law, nor human rights,” he said. Two people whose cases had raised high-profile international concern among rights groups were not executed. The first was Pakistani Zulfiqar Ali, whom rights groups say was beaten into confessing to the crime of heroin possession, leading to his 2005 death sentence. Syed Zahid Raza, the deputy Pakistani ambassador in Indonesia, hailed his reprieve as a victory and said it was due to diplomatic efforts in Jakarta and Islamabad. The other was Indonesian woman Merri Utami, who was caught with heroin in her bag as she came through Jakarta airport and claims she was duped into becoming a drug mule. At Cilacap, the city closest to Nusakambangan, family members were initially shocked to learn on Thursday morning their relatives would be executed in a matter of hours, having initially thought it would take place a day later. Some distressed relatives protested their loved ones’ innocence, while 10 women’s rights activists rallying in support of Utami were detained. It was the third batch of executions under President Joko Widodo, and means 18 drug convicts — mostly foreigners — have been put to death since he became leader in 2014. Widodo has defended dramatically ramping up the use of capital punishment, saying that Indonesia is fighting a war on drugs and traffickers must be heavily punished. But his execution drive has shocked the international community and disappointed activists, particularly as hopes were high that Widodo, seen as a fresh face in a political world dominated by figures from Indonesia’s authoritarian past, would improve the country’s rights record.

facebook user calls out a richman who abadoned wife to die

:"Distraught man lambasts husband who allegedly abandoned his wife and child till her death . . According to Ben Eziefule, the husband, an oil worker based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, abandoned his wife, last year, after she suffered a complication during the birth of their first child. . . In the Facebook post, he continued by saying: "U Mr. Benue man, u did dis cos she is not from Benue state and u work in the oil company in Port Harcourt and u have money, but let me without fear tell you that Vangers is coming cos God is ready to Avange. . . U beat up the innocent girl even on clutches just for her to go, I ask when u married her, was she disabled? U abandoned an innocent girl that is not up to a year cos u want to have nothing to do with ur wife. . . Legally married and wedded in the church. hahahahahaha I see the God of Vangers striking. Man u are very stupid for saying u can only give the family #30,000 for the burial of ur own wife. Where have the love u both shared gone to? . . Why are u heartless, y did u kill ur wife and abandoned a girl that will 1 year by Saturday to wonder in dis wicked world without the care of a mother. the people of Owerri west LGA of Imo state and the entire imolites must rise to get justice. . . I will make sure justice is gotten. Above all u refused her to be buried in ur place, man I want to ask u, what on earth has this small girl done that can't be corrected or resolved or settled or forgiven? . . Why must u surfer her to die at this age? Finished university in 2014, served and married u in the same year 2015 and u wickedly killed her in 2016. Vangers is coming and God must Arrange her death. . . Rip MRS. Olachi and I wish your Dad is alive to prevent this insult and injustice to ur family,. My prayers are that the God of Vangers should Avenge ur death. Rip, I write with a heavy heart .good night Olachi Mandarina Emmanuel.""

Source: @instablog9ja 

father of two, killed by police in kano

The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the death of a man who was shot dead in the state.

Reports had made the rounds that the deceased, Ugochukwu Augustine, was allegedly shot dead by a policeman in Kano.

DAILY POST reports that Augustine, a father of two, was shot by an officer of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, on Wednesday during a stop and search by the operatives.

They were said to have received a tip off of drug dealers and were mandated to stop and search anyone coming out of the Sabon Gari market.

However, when Augustine was stopped by the operatives, he declined.

This made one of the operatives, whose name was not ascertained as at press time, to fire a shot at him. He was rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Musa Magaji, confirmed the report to DAILY POST on Friday saying the command has detained all the operatives on duty at the area the incident happened.

Speaking with our reporter on phone, the PPRO said, “It is true. It happened two days ago in the afternoon along France Road, Sabon Gari, around the popular market.

“There is a particular area in the market where people indulge in the use and sale of hard drugs. We have arrested many of them including drug barons with cocaine and other drugs. So whenever we get tip off, we do a stop and search any one coming out of the market.

“SARS operatives who were deployed to the area got a tip off and they conducted a stop and search.

“The deceased, Ugochukwu Augustine, was stopped but he refused. The SARS operatives then chased him and one off the operatives in the process used his firearm and shot at him.

“The bullet met him on his hip bone, he fell down. So operatives took him to the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano and eventually he died.

“As soon as the information reached the Kano State Police Commissioner, CP, Rabi’u Yusuf, he directed that the team leader and his men be arrested and investigated.

“He quickly summoned a meeting with the Igbo elders’ community as well as drug sellers in Sabon Gari market. He assured them that justice will be done.”

The PPRO added that at the moment, the team leader and his men are all in detention at the Police Criminal Investigation Department, CID, and full investigation has commenced.

Speaking further, he said, “The firearms given to the policemen are not meant to kill innocent people. It is for protection of lives. The CP will not condone any happy-trigger policeman who uses the firearm against any innocent person.

“The reports from the investigation would be made public on completion,” the PPRO told DAILY POST.

Award winning Nollywood actress reveals her father refuse to sponsor her education

Actress-turned-evangelist, Eucharia Anunobi has shared how being in Christ helped her through the years.

The ‘Nneka the serpent’ thespian now preacher opened up in an interview with Vanguard on how her wealthy father stopped her university education because she is a female child.

She disclosed the bold steps she took as a girl at age 16 to get to her present position in life.

According to her, “I come from a privileged home, I’m ajebo.

” I’m the first born, we lived at no 5, Musa Yaradua,Victoria Island.

” In fact we were the last set at Federal School of Arts and Science.

” I have As in English, Government, Literature etc.

” At the end, I wanted to go to University but my father said he had no interest in training the female gender in his family after secondary school.

” With all his riches and my brilliant result he refused to sponsor me to University except the boys.”

Anunobi said that her colleagues made a mockery of her back then because she chose to go to church while her mates were involved with aristos and went to the big clubs on the island.

She added however that by the grace of God “I have a degree in English Language, a Masters in Social Work and I’m a Doctor in waiting.

“Where I go or sit they can’t.”

“I went back to school six years ago, I paid my way through the university through modelling. It is never too late to go back to school, age is not a limitation, there is need to get education,” the actress said.

Speaking further, Anunobi said that she is a movie legend because she gave her life to Christ and made him the master planner of her life.

The actress said that perhaps there’s a reason why God allowed her father to turn his back on her and her sisters.

“If I had it all maybe I wouldn’t have discovered who I am and wouldn’t have been as successful as I am today.

“In everything, I make my boast in Jesus Christ,” she said.

Source:dailypost

Reuben Abati: Bleaching Chamleon

I wrote a piece recently, a tribute to the late veteran actress Bukky Ajayi and the multi-instrumentalist OJB Jezreel, in which I raised a number of issues, including how in Nollywood today, there is an obsession with the whitening of skin, an anti-Negritude yellowing, what I referred to as “the bleaching, chameleon crowd of Nollywood beauties.”

The various reactions to the piece conveniently ignored this subject; two young ladies who felt that I was probing an unpopular theme drew my attention to this. I was reminded that being light-skinned is now the in-thing, indeed the socially acceptable norm, because there is now a universalization of the concept of beauty and self-esteem. 

     The more light-skinned you are, the more acceptable you are in various circumstances, that is. I thought if this was true, then it is a tragedy indeed for the black world. For, once upon a time in the history of the black race, being black was a thing of joy and an instrument of protest. When Jesse Evans gave the black salute at the 1939 Olympics, after winning four gold medals, he was making a racially loaded statement about black pride and achievement. Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Ali are key historical figures in the struggle for the black identity in the United States not to talk of various moments  and efforts culminating in the Obama phenomenon eight years ago.  

         None of these historical figures would ever have contemplated a globalized notion of beauty and self-esteem, which superiorizes and imposes the idea of being white in 2016, and for same to be validated by blacks, living in the black world’s most populous country- Nigeria.  Closer home, the independence struggles across Africa were fuelled by ideas of racial pride, and indeed in the 1960s, the coalescing of that around the negritude movement projected confidence and faith in the black colour, the people’s culture and identity. To be added to this is the expressed faith that black people all over the world can contribute meaningfully and significantly to the march of human history. Being black was nothing to be ashamed of. Cultural workers used their art and narratives to promote black culture.

     Writers identified with their natal roots.  James Ngugi for example, became Ngugi wa Thio’ngo. Albert Achebe dropped his Albert and became Chinua Achebe. Wole Soyinka argued that “a tiger does not proclaim its tigritude”; it should act and in his writings, he proved the point.  Black activists like W.E.B. DuBois left the United States and traced their roots to Africa. But today, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that movement are turning back the hand of the clock. They want to be white! They may in the long run constitute a minority, but artificial beauty is a growing trend among black people. I was once asked to buy Brazilian hair, during a trip to Brazil. I went dutifully to a shopping mall asking for Brazilian hair.

      Nobody could figure out what I wanted.  Brazilian hair is what a lot of Nigerian women wear, or attach to their natural hair to achieve the effect of a straight, Oyinbo-ishhair and to hide their own natural, curly hair. It took me two days of trying to buy Brazilian hair in Brazil before it occurred to me that Brazilian women are not likely to be selling Brazilian hair in their own country since in any case, every one of them is born with it. But here in Nigeria, Brazilian hair is a big deal: it is one of those items a bridegroom must budget for, otherwise, no wedding and I understand, this could be in the range of N350, 000 per hair. The final cost could also be determined by the adopted style: normal leave-out, closure or frontal, all designed to create an artificial effect. Even the eyelashes you see on our ladies these days may not be real: eyeballs are replaced with contact lenses, and there is a new craze now called eyebrow wig: a wig on the eyebrow!  

     The new global culture of beauty has also imposed on our women what is called acrylic nails, or plastic nails. With those cat-like nails, women find it difficult to wear sanitary pads, jewellery, button their shirts, eat dollops of swallow with their hands, type on their phones or wash clothes and plates, and yet every young lady out there is wearing strange nails in the name of beauty.

    Check out the faces too. Make up has been turned into such an art of deception; you could marry your ex-girlfriend and not know she is the one because she has changed colour, changed face and changed everything about her. Make-up and making up are associated with success, but it is pure 419 as many may have discovered.  Women talk about laying a foundation on their faces as if they are bricklayers, they also talk about contouring and highlighting the face to look different: the effect is that every ugly girl is contoured and highlighted to become a stunning beauty. We are also in the age of breast implants, breast reconstruction, liposuction, pumping of bum-bum and lip lightening (there is cream method or peeling with machine!) and the use of body pads and slimming girdles and all kinds of borrowed gadgets to make a woman look prettier than she is.

        The idea of the “African Queen” celebrated over the years, and more famously by Tu Face Idibia in a song of the same title has thus undergone a transformation.  Women and men (yes men also) in Africa’s most populous black nation, and quite a significant number, are all struggling to become either light-skinned or copy the Kadarshian/Kanye West effect. I have been made to understand that in Nollywood for example, dark-skinned actors and actresses are ignored by producers: they say they don’t look good on camera and that only light skinned actors sell movies. So, there is a marketing side to it but it must be crazy if true. Celebrities are also expected to be glamorous all the time. This is why public figures don’t step out of their homes or take pictures unless they are properly made up. And to worsen the story, I am told you need to look clean, and fresh to be considered successful and the black colour does not project success.

        Here we are confronted with many men and women who are bleaching their skins, to look fresh and successful. The prostitution angle to it is buried in the argument that men are naturally attracted to light-skinned ladies. And it is a big industry, one of the most lucrative businesses in Nigeria today.  The minimum cost of a bleaching cream is N15, 000 per week. These include Egyptian milk, Arabian milk, Snow White and steroid creams like Movate, which is used to bleach the scalp. Yes, the scalp!  They bleach the scalp too. There is also a bleaching tablet, which costs as much as $500; four tablets are usually taken per dose. Some people opt for what is called bleaching injection to peel off the melanin, and one injection is a tidy N250, 000. There are special creams for old women and men with resistant skin, at higher cost.  The madness is across all age brackets, and may God help you if you have a bleaching wife or girlfriend.  

       I am not making this up. The various creams and services are hawked daily at Ikeja roundabout, under the bridge. The merchants also advertise tattooing, hips enlargement, penis enlargement and breast reconstruction services. And in Yaba, Lagos, you’d find the biggest cosmetics store run by a certain Mama Tega who is said to be the oldest and the most trusted in the business.  The irony is that she, herself, is interestingly dark-complexioned! The girls who work for her and her patrons are not.

       The stress and risks involved in bleaching and looking white by all means possible are so much, but the people involved do not care. The knuckles and the lips do not bleach easily, so people go about looking patched up and they have to buy a different chemical to lighten their knuckles, elbows and knees. The side effect of the chemicals used includes bad body odour and stretch marks, the skin is thinner and more sensitive, and the chemicals expose the person to enormous health risks.  It is also a lot of work. If you are bleaching your skin, you have to use the cream everyday, morning and night. If you miss the cream for a week, you’d look different, and you have to stick to the same supplier and mixture: so much needless stress.

      I am aware that every individual is entitled to a freedom of choice including the choice to look the way they want. But I see the spread of a bleaching culture as a display of so much insecurity and lack of self-esteem, and an assault on the legacy of all the men and women who fought and are still fighting to ensure that black identity matters. It is also shocking that many mothers are now in the habit of introducing their children to bleaching creams very early. They don’t want dark-skinned daughters and sons! And the ones who fail to do this feel terribly embarrassed when they are photographed with their children and the skin colours do not match. Check family photographs these days. And worry about the many ladies out there living a life of pretense engaged in“coded waka runs” (euphemism for underground prostitution) just so they can buy skin whitening creams.

    This is a sad story about the way we now live, even as I recall the antiphonal lyrics of James Brown’s “Say it Loud – I’m Black and Proud” (1968) - one of the greatest songs of all time.  In Nigeria’s entertainment industry today, being black is almost a taboo. The women want to look like Kim Kardashian and the men seem to think that to be a celebrity is to be light-skinned.  In the larger society, a “faworaja” (fake appearance) culture is on the rise.  The people are deliberately re-colonizing themselves mentally and physically.  What can anyone say to such persons who are ashamed of their own identity?  I speak for myself: “I’m Black and Proud”. But even if I wan bleach sef, I black so tay, cream go finish for market…

Indonesia rejects international plea, insist on executing Nigeria and others over drugs related offences

Indonesia Thursday rejected appeals from the UN and EU to halt the execution of 14 drug convicts including foreigners, as speculation mounted they could face the firing squad in a matter of hours. The group, including foreigners from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe as well as Indonesians, have been placed in isolation on a prison island where Jakarta carries out executions. Authorities stepped up preparations with ambulances carrying coffins seen crossing over to Nusakambangan island. Family members say they have been told the convicts will be executed Thursday night, according to a lawyer and diplomat — who were angry as it was earlier than they thought was allowed. The attorney general’s office, which oversees executions, could not be reached for comment. Indonesia last carried out executions in April 2015 when it put to death eight drug convicts, including two Australians, sparking international outrage. But President Joko Widodo has defended the use of the death penalty to combat rising narcotics use. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday called on Indonesia to end the “unjust” use of the death penalty, while the European Union urged Jakarta to stop the “cruel and inhumane punishment, which fails to act as a deterrent”. Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir defended the looming executions as “pure law enforcement”. “I need to emphasise that all the legal processes of the convicts have been completed, all their rights have been fulfilled — we target the drug traffickers and not users,” he said. Jakarta faced accusations of breaking its own laws by apparently planning to hold the executions on Thursday. Diplomats and lawyers say they were given the legally required three days notice of the plan on Tuesday afternoon and believed the earliest it could happen was Friday. – “This cannot happen” – “I am very concerned — this cannot happen,” Ricky Gunawan, a lawyer for a Nigerian convict set to face the firing squad, told AFP. “It is clearly against the law. This execution has been completely under secrecy from the start.” Four citizens from Indonesia and ten others from Nigeria, India, South Africa, Pakistan and Zimbabwe would be executed, said lawyers from the Jakarta-based Community Legal Aid Institute, who had visited some of the inmates in prison this week. Syed Zahid Raza, deputy Pakistani ambassador in Jakarta, said the family of a Pakistani man, Zulfiqar Ali, had been informed he would be executed Thursday night. Spokesman Nasir said his ministry had fulfilled all their obligations by notifying foreign representatives. But Amnesty International outlined Wednesday “systematic flaws” in the trials of several of the death row inmates, and warned the executions could not proceed while appeals for clemency were pending. Family members of Michael Titus Igweh, a Nigerian prisoner, said his case was still under review. “I don’t think this is fair. They should fulfil his legal rights first,” Igweh’s sister-in-law Nila, who gave just one name, told reporters in Cilacap. Pakistan is angry about the planned execution of Ali — whom rights groups claim was beaten into confessing — and summoned Indonesia’s ambassador in Islamabad this week. Ali’s claims of innocence were backed by a senior Indonesian official, who found numerous “inconsistencies” during an internal investigation into his arrest and trial for heroin possession in the late 2000s. Hafid Abbas, former director-general of Indonesia’s Ministry of Justice, told AFP that he had recommended the now 52-year-old receive clemency as he was an “innocent person”. A candlelit vigil will be held outside the presidential palace in Jakarta on Thursday evening, just hours before the 14 prisoners are expected to face a midnight firing squad.

Source: vanguard

Naira Crashes,Dangote drops from word richest list

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has dropped out of the list of top 100 richest people in the world. This is largely due to the devaluation of the Naira. Dangote who owns the second largest sugar-refinery in the world, remains richer than American billionaires, Donald Trump, and Oprah Winfrey who ranks as the second richest black woman in the world.

Dangote is now worth $11.1 billion, while Trump and Oprah are estimated at $4.5 billion and $3.1 billion, respectively.

The devaluation of the Naira against the dollar from about 198 to about 300, has eroded about a quarter of Dangote’s wealth as he continues to invest heavily in Nigeria. At the launch of the new foreign exchange regime on June 23rd, Dangote fell from number 46 on the world billionaire list to 71 and has continued to drop as the Naira continues to crash.

According to Bloomberg billionaires, Dangote, who was worth $15.4 billion (N3.05 trillion) in March, is now worth $11.1 billion (N3.3 trillion) - richer in naira but poorer in dollars.

source: linda ikeji

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Liverpool star Kicked out of pre-season tour over indiscipline issue

Liverpool defender, Mamadou Sakho has been sent packing from the club’s pre-season training camp in California, United States.Latest reports have it that he was expelled for disciplinary issues because the French defender’s attitude in training had caused concern. Although it is also reported that he had sustained an Achilles injury and will miss start of the season.The French defender was on same flight with left-back Brad Smith, who is joining the Bournemouth for a medical ahead of a £6m move.
However, Liverpool has not issued any official statement on the reason why Sakho was been sent back early. The sanction could a latest misfortune for Mamadou Sakho, after he was earlier being investigated for failing a drugs test following the Europa league clash with Manchester United in March and was suspended for 30 days. His legal team later argued that the substance (fat burning product) he took, should not be on the banned list.
Liverpool will Chelsea tomorrow in a pre-season friendly as it continues its pre-season campaign towards a crucial premier league season.

Source:greennews

father who chained, starved his 9year old son opens

In his statement, he confessed to the act while noting that Korede’s mother was late. ”I was ordained a pastor in the CCC in 2012. I had divorced two wives, including Korede’s mother, Maria; she is late now.
”She had four children for me, two boys and two girls before she divorced me in 2007 after she gave birth to Korede. I chained Korede because he is possessed. An evil spirit makes him to steal. He needs deliverance. His siblings are not living with me.”

In his statement, he confessed to the act while noting that Korede’s mother was late. ”I was ordained a pastor in the CCC in 2012. I had divorced two wives, including Korede’s mother, Maria; she is late now. ”She had four children for me, two boys and two girls before she divorced me in 2007 after she gave birth to Korede. I chained Korede because he is possessed. An evil spirit makes him to steal. He needs deliverance. His siblings are not living with me.”
It will be recalled that the boy was rescued on Friday by men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps alongside officers from the Ogun State Command attached to the Onipanu Division, Ota, inside a room where he was chained by the neck to a heavy log of wood in a room by his biological father, Pastor Francis Taiwo, for more than a month.
Also, Korede’s stepmother, Kehinde, had also been arrested for allegedly aiding the cruelty meted out to the boy.
The Ogun State police spokesperson, SP Muyiwa Adejobi, stated that the case had been transferred to the child labour unit of the command for further investigation while the two suspects are in the Police custody.
The boy, however, noted that he would like to return to school. ”I want to be a doctor in the future. I also do not want to go back to my father’s house,” the boy added.

source : greennewsng

Good news: No more boko-haram camp in the north east...Army Declares

The Nigerian Army said there were no longer Boko Haram camps in the North-Eastern part of the country.

Army spokesperson, Colonel Sani Usman made the claim on Monday while addressing newsmen at the inauguration of Strategic Communication Course for senior officers at the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information, Bonny Camp, Lagos.

Usman assured Nigerians that the military was winning the war against terrorism, adding that there were no more terrorists clustered in a particular place in the area.

"The situation in the North-East has tremendously improved. The military operations or the fight against terrorism and insurgency in the North-East is hinged on three things.

"First, defeating the Boko Haram terrorists which have been accomplished and making room to facilitate humanitarian assistance which is also ongoing. Then restoration of law and order for good governance to take place. We no longer have camps of Boko Haram terrorists and we no longer have them conveyed in the territories.

"Those that were hitherto close are now open to the extent that we have trans-border trade. Take for instance; just recently, the important road that links Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon was just re-opened. We have come to the point that we can beat our chest and decisively say we have dealt with Boko Haram." he said.

Speaking on the inauguration of the communication course, Usman said that training of personnel was paramount, which would enhance proficiency.

"It is in this regard that the Directorate of Army Public Relations places high premium on training of officers and soldiers. The Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information must remain focused in the training of officers and soldiers to meet the need of well trained and skilled manpower. This is the first of its kind to further enhance further joint operations of the armed forces and possibly international military engagement," Usman said.

"It is my hope that this course will make the desired impact on all of you and explicit growth fertilisation of ideas among the participants. It is also our desire to see that at the end of the course, we turn out better informed senior officers. Also, they should be well-equipped to partake in making or taking strategic decision for the Nigerian army information and dissemination management,"  he said.

The Army spokesperson thanked the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai for improving the Nigerian Army formations.

Man having sex with donkey

@ninoromey south african twitter user, shared these photos but without  stories. The pics however gives the full details and it has been trending on twitter..this pathetic

today mancity vs Man-united Match cancelled..

The hotly-anticipated reunion between Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola has been delayed after Monday's International Champions Cup game between Manchester United and Manchester City was cancelled.

United boss Mourinho and new City manager Guardiola, who were fierce rivals while coaching Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively, were due to face off for the first time in almost three years when the Manchester clubs met in a friendly fixture at Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium.

But heavy rain in the Chinese capital has rendered the pitch unplayable, with United revealing on Twitter that "tournament organisers and participating clubs have decided to cancel" the encounter

Pope Francis, Condemns Munich and Kabul Shootings

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has condemned.“deplorable acts of terrorism and violence” in Munich and Kabul that have left dozens dead in recent days. Addressing a crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Francis urged believers to join his prayers, saying “as much as the difficulties seem insurmountable and dark (for) the prospects of peace and security, our prayers must be that much more insistent.”A German-Iranian 18-year-old who police said was obsessed with mass shootings killed nine people, mostly teens, in a shopping mall shooting spree in Munich on Friday, while a suicide bomber killed at least 80 people during a peaceful demonstration in Kabul on Saturday.

Oliseh Speaks out, blast Pinnick,mikel, enyeama

The former Super Eagles captain and midfielder still feels angry at the way he left the coaching role of the Super Eagles in February and the negative perception Nigerian football lovers have of him and has now blasted the NFF president Amaju Pinnick , executive committee member Christopher Green and players like Mikel Obi and Vincent Enyeama.

In a long revealing article written on his website Sundayoliseh.tv and  titled “My Recent Near Death Experience As Coach Of Nigeria,' the FIFA technical committee member said his mind in it's entirety. Very revealing! Read more after the cut.

“One day whilst coaching the super Eagles in Abuja stadium prior to the Burkina Faso game I all of a sudden felt dizziness, light headedness, headache and could barely stand,” Oliseh narrated. “I managed to finish the session before calling on the doctor into my room who was clueless to what was happening.

“From then on it was sleepless nights, loss of appetite, high blood pressure and before I knew it I started losing weight.
“After several visits to doctors abroad nothing was found though the doctors found anomalies they couldn’t pin point the actual illness to.

“Prior to the away trip to Burkina Faso for the final CHAN qualifier game in Port Harcourt after lunch I was struck with the worst feat of this illness again. Could not walk, talk, dizzy and felt like I was going to pass out.
“I quickly demanded to be rushed to the airport and with the evening flight travelled to Germany to see specialists .After 2 days of nonstop tests I was diagnosed to have narrowly escaped a total collapse in Nigeria.

“For weeks I was bed ridden, lost 7 kilos and could barely walk 5 metres without sitting down. My family was petrified and all feared the worst. One thing was for sure though: had I not taking that evening flight to Germany when I did, there was a strong possibility of a far worse outcome. Thank God for his mercies.
“All through the last 4 months of my tenure as coach I was far from my complete healthy self and coached the team and stayed in my bedroom. Often on my bed or sofa.

“Imagine how betrayed and pained I must have felt with the lack of support at these life threatening times from my employers the NFF and the shady pressmen who made it a duty not to report the gravity of the illnesses that befell me and my assistant to the Nigerian people and kind of like wished us the worst!
“On the day I put in my resignation letter I was still far from my best health wise and I guess it is better staying alive than getting embroiled with these people who have no interest of Nigeria at heart.”

Oliseh added: “A day after the Late Stephen Keshi was relieved of his duties as coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, I got a phone call from the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) offering me the job which I immediately rejected. The call lasted just 2 minutes!
“I was to further refuse the offer twice again in the next 2 days that followed as they kept on calling. Their argument: With the new president Muhammadu Buhari in place, the Nff was ready for a change and was abandoning their old ‘Shady’ ways!

“It took the intervention of a phone call from a highly ranked federal government official for me to budge. His point was simple “your country is in dire need of your services and the NFF promised me a change, put your terms in writing and if they do not accept it, let them go elsewhere”.
“Which is what I did and we all eventually signed a working agreement. Thus began the adventure to coach the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Sometimes I wish I stood my grounds and refused their offer, but I guess the urge to help my country was just too much to ignore.”

Oliseh, then narrated how he and players Enyeama, Mikel and Victor Moses got off on the wrong foot and how Mikel snubbed his messages.
He wrote: “My first official act was to call the team Captain Vincent Enyeama (Lille OSC, France) to rub minds and fix an appointment to see him. Same act was accorded to John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses of Chelsea. All except for Obi Mikel picked up my call and Mikel even ignored my eventual sms.

“Spent a lovely day at Lille with Enyeama, took him to lunch and shared my Philosophy with him and he seemed genuinely inspired to work together but kept on talking about pending retirement which we agreed he would shelve aside till after AFCON 2017 at least.

“Went to London to see Mikel & Moses but could only see Moses as Mikel did not reply my calls & we could not get a hold of him.
“Moses came 2 ½ half hours late to our meeting but none the less we had a productive talk in company of my assistant, Jean Francois Losciuto.
“Three weeks to my first official game in charge of the Super Eagles, vs Tanzania, and the invitations were sent out to the clubs, 2 weeks to the game Victor Moses opted out citing fear of contracting an injury whilst playing for Nigeria in favour of his club via a written letter to the Team manager of the super eagles.

“Most players reported to camp on Monday prior to the Tanzania game, Vincent Enyeama was supposed to fly in Tuesday Morning, only for me to be surprisingly informed via sms that he was skipping the game because he lost the mum some weeks earlier.
“I called him up and made an agreement with him, as I needed not only my captain and such a good goalkeeper for my opening game, that if he came for the game on Friday I would release him to go to the village after the game and skip the friendly game versus Niger scheduled for 3 days later after the Tanzania encounter, which he agreed.

“The team was scheduled to fly out on Thursday. On Wednesday afternoon Enyeama called to say he was not coming for the game, definitively.
“I was shocked as we had an agreement, we needed his experience, leadership and I was aware he was yet to miss a training session for his club side talk less of a league game.

“As faith will have it, with a brand new team that trained only for two days we were able to come out of the Tanzania game with a point and my newly discovered and talented goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme of Wolverhampton was the man of the match. A 2-0 resounding victory over Niger 3 days later gave a successful look to the first camping but cast questions on if we could count on the three above named players to help us proceed. I chose to build alternatives!”

“On the day I was unveiled, the very vocal president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick boasted to the world that he was going to pay me 6 months’ salary in advance, we were never ever going to be owed as he had procured sponsorship from Zenith bank, that he knows I am the African Guardiola etc.
declarations that not only added unnecessary pressure on us but made us hated by certain quarters as ‘prima Donnas’. Far from smart at all!

“We now know that, that was a ploy to make the world falsely believe that I was giving all the tools to succeed whilst intending to eventually starve us of tools to succeed in reality to have a scape goat and employ his dream foreign coach for obvious reasons, as was tried failingly recently!
“This false claim was repeated often by the Nff and Mr Pinnick often in the following months whilst I was not only u paid but so were my assistants too.

“In October 2015, with the belief that I had millions from the Nff, kidnappers attacked a family member of mine’s home in Lagos, but thanks to God the intended victim was not at home.
“Shaken at the news, I called Mr Amaju to inform him of my displeasure of his false public declarations in my regard and there and then the seed of Resignation started to grow in me. Is this worth my peaceful family suffering?

“I signed my contract as Chief Coach Of the super Eagles in July 2015 and was paid in August for July and August but did no longer get any payments till January 2016.My assistants were worse off as they received just a month’s pay as at January 2016.The Nff and its allies in public claimed otherwise!
“Whilst this was the case, president Pinnick still kept on telling the world I was paid in advance several months.

“All equipment’s I used to coach, even as down to simple cones and tactics boards, I had to buy them all myself as the super eagles had none available!
“In February 2016 I wrote an official demand letter to the Nff asking for payment of my owed wages otherwise I would act as the international law demands.
“The International law states that if after serving your employer as a coach a demand letter of payment and they refuse to pay, you are still entitled to the total sum of the remaining totality of your contract should you resign!

“As at today by my reckoning, I am still being owed wages and should it come up to CAS (The international Court of Arbitration of sports) the NFF will be forced to pay me the sum of the contractual remaining 28 months’ salary in addition to the owed wages. I leave you to calculate how much that is. In my place what would you do today?

“Super Eagles’ Assistant Coach Jean François Losciuto’s near death experience.
“After the first round of CHAN training preparations in Abuja Nigeria, the team landed Pretoria for the final stage of the CHAN preparations.

“Two days later my assistant coach Jean Francois Losciuto collapsed in the lobby of the hotel and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors refused to operate unless payment was paid in advance.
“The Nff had failed to inform the Embassy of Nigeria in South Africa of our presence hence we were all on our own and jean François was facing probable death.

“I therefore had to put up a deposit payment that allowed the hotel to admit and stabilize him before operation. Eventually he was operated on and what was dug out from his stomach was the scariest experience we ever saw till then. The metal was 4.8centimeters long!

“Had he not been timely operated on he would have died and how that 4.8 centimeters piece of metal got into his stomach was a mystery to the doctors and still is to us till date, but the most painful part of it was barely was this made public knowledge to our country we were serving by our so called sports editors.
“Imagine near death and the people you serve are not intentionally well informed by the press? Scary no?”

The former Coach also talked more on his  clashes with the NFF technical committee.
Oliseh wrote:

“In my entire 23 years of involvement with the Super Eagles, never has the working conditions and player welfare been as bad as it was when I was in charge. The team stood out like beggars!

“For a team like the legendary super eagles, our players were not furnished with as little as bathroom slippers from NIKE. The training equipment’s had to be bought from local stores in Aba and Lagos.
“Football shoes were not available and on the camp in South Africa during CHAN, I had to buy 2 football shoes for my players.
“Even the barest minimum like food was lacking. Feeding was unsuitable to put it lightly and had to pay for the feeding of the team. Little did I know that not only will I not be reimbursed, it would be contested by the Nff and I would be criticized for it?

“The Nigerian ambassador to South Africa was rightfully incensed as to why the Nff failed to notify him of the team’s arrival to south Africa and be left to fender in such a sorry state!
“I had organized via my South African friends the world standard performance centre in Pretoria for the super eagles and the on the only thing the Nff was left to do was the accommodation and transportation, and those were the areas we saw hell!

“The camping and tournament proper of CHAN lasted more or less 5 weeks, first stage in Nigeria, to South Africa (Pretoria) and then finally, Rwanda. All through this period not only were the coaches, players and staff unpaid and uncared for but we were completely abandoned. In a 2 star hotel, poor nutrition, room states and dangerous conditions.
“When as a coach I tried to enquire for a change we were instructed not to share this with the public as the Nff was cash strapped.

“That would have been acceptable if the whole federation were not at the same period on a paid holiday trip of over 60 officials for over a week to expensive London hotels whilst we barely had food to eat on a national mission 6,000 kilometres away from home.
“The training equipment’s were all lacking, 2 sets of jerseys and though Nff is sponsored by NIKE, the players barely had bathroom slippers to walk around in but also no football shoes.
“I had no choice seeing the sorry state of these poor boys but to arrange for feeding at my own expense and buy football shoes for some of the players whose shoes became damaged.

“The accommodating conditions chosen by the federation were worse in Rwanda and though we were leading the Group heading off to the Final group game versus Guinea, the boys awaited some form of aid financially from the Nff to ease up but all promises were never honoured.
“The disappointing Phone call from the Nff President Pinnick just hours to the game that he would be coming over with the player’s remunerations only when the team got to the finals broke down the morale of the boys and obviously we lost the game and faced elimination.

“Till date these boys are yet to be paid their owed allowances in full 6 months later.
“It should be noted that Nigeria was the only team at this tournament without leading federation members present. Only Mr Chris Green of the technical committee stayed behind but he lodged in a 500 dollars a night 5 star hotel and we barely ever saw him!

“Having played, captained and now coached the super Eagles I could read the Nff easily .The crisis that now exists today I saw it coming way back as in November 2015 when we camped and beat Swaziland to qualify into the world cup qualifiers group stage in port Harcourt.
“The moment Ayansi was replaced as head of the infamous technical committee by Mr Chris Green, we all knew that disaster and chaos was on the way.

“Chris Green is a man who late Stephen Keshi almost beat up just midway into the 2013 AFCON adventure in South Africa and eventually was going around all of Rwanda telling all who cared to listen that he won the 2013 AFCON for Nigeria and the 2014 world cup qualification and not Keshi.
“How? I leave you to guess as I don’t remember him ever scoring one goal or being a player or coach at these events.”