2015-01-09 16:09
Lagos - The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Muhammadu Buhari got an usual support in his quest to win the
February 14 presidential election, reports Daily Post.
Commercial sex workers in the country on Thursday threw their weight behind him against President Goodluck Jonathan.
The
sex workers under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian
Prostitutes (NANP) said they are supporting Buhari because they are not
happy with Jonathan’s government over the way commercial sex workers
were being treated in the country since he assumed office as the first
citizen.
Jessica Elvis, the group’s General Secretary, said members of the group recorded the lowest income during Jonathan’s tenure.
To
show their support for Buhari, she said members of the group have
agreed to declare a-three day free sex across the country if Buhari
eventually wins the elections.
Read more at Daily Post.
Friday, 9 January 2015
PDP governors give Jonathan fresh conditions
2015-01-09 16:09
Abuja - As the clock ticks towards the February 14 presidential election, governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP have given President Goodluck Jonathan fresh conditions if he wants their total support in the election, reports NewsDay.
The fresh conditions were handed President Jonathan two days before the President kick started his re-election campaign on Thursday.
They want assurances from President Jonathan that they will not be left in the lurch since most of them will be completing their second term in office and would not be contesting for any office in the next dispensation.
The governors have also come up with a Plan B for those of them who will be contesting for senatorial seats.
They also want assurances that President Jonathan will accommodate them should they lose at the polls.
The PDP governors contesting senatorial seat include Governors Godswill Akpabio, Jonah Jang; Isa Yuguda; Aliyu Babangida; Theodore Orji, Gabriel Suswam, Saidu Dakingari, and Ibrahim Shema.
Read more at NewsDay
Abuja - As the clock ticks towards the February 14 presidential election, governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP have given President Goodluck Jonathan fresh conditions if he wants their total support in the election, reports NewsDay.
The fresh conditions were handed President Jonathan two days before the President kick started his re-election campaign on Thursday.
They want assurances from President Jonathan that they will not be left in the lurch since most of them will be completing their second term in office and would not be contesting for any office in the next dispensation.
The governors have also come up with a Plan B for those of them who will be contesting for senatorial seats.
They also want assurances that President Jonathan will accommodate them should they lose at the polls.
The PDP governors contesting senatorial seat include Governors Godswill Akpabio, Jonah Jang; Isa Yuguda; Aliyu Babangida; Theodore Orji, Gabriel Suswam, Saidu Dakingari, and Ibrahim Shema.
Read more at NewsDay
Hundreds slaughtered in South Sudan atrocities - UN
2015-01-09 13:27
Juba - Rebels in South Sudan have slaughtered at least 353 civilians in April last year, including people sheltering in a mosque, hospital and a United Nations base, UN rights investigators said on Friday.
The report is the first detailed account of two incidents that have highlighted a pattern of gross abuses and atrocities committed during the year-old civil war in the world's youngest nation.
The UN also noted that nearly nine months after the events, "no perpetrator has been held accountable" for the killings.
In the 15 April attack on the northern oil-town of Bentiu, fighters backing South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar murdered at least 287 civilians sheltering in a mosque, many of them traders and their families from neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
Later that day, 19 civilians were killed in the town's hospital, UN investigators said.
Fighters also took to the radio urging rival groups to be forced from the town and for men to rape women from the rival tribe.
"Victims were deliberately targeted on the basis of their ethnicity, nationality or perceived support for one of the parties to the conflict," the UN said in a 33-page report.
Two days later on 17 April, in the eastern town of Bor, a gang of heavily-armed men marched on the UN base, where hundreds of civilians had fled to for protection.
The "mob forcibly entered the protection site and went on a rampage of killing, looting and abductions", the report by the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) said, adding the assault left at least 47 dead and was likely to have been "planned in advance".
The attack on Bentiu and the UN base in Bor are two of the most high profile massacres in a long list of atrocities carried out in the more than a year-long civil war.
At least 353 civilians were killed and another 250 were wounded in the two attacks, the UN said.
No overall death toll for the war has been kept, either by the government, rebels or the UN, although the International Crisis Group says it estimates that at least 50 000 people have been killed.
Some diplomats suggest it could be double that figure, while hunger and disease have killed thousands more.
Fighting broke out in South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, in December 2013 when President Kiir accused his sacked deputy Riek Machar of attempting a coup.
The fighting in the capital Juba set off a cycle of retaliatory massacres across the country, pushing it to the brink of famine. Both government forces loyal to Kiir and rebels loyal to Machar continue to fight, despite numerous ceasefire deals.
Juba - Rebels in South Sudan have slaughtered at least 353 civilians in April last year, including people sheltering in a mosque, hospital and a United Nations base, UN rights investigators said on Friday.
The report is the first detailed account of two incidents that have highlighted a pattern of gross abuses and atrocities committed during the year-old civil war in the world's youngest nation.
The UN also noted that nearly nine months after the events, "no perpetrator has been held accountable" for the killings.
In the 15 April attack on the northern oil-town of Bentiu, fighters backing South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar murdered at least 287 civilians sheltering in a mosque, many of them traders and their families from neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
Fighters also took to the radio urging rival groups to be forced from the town and for men to rape women from the rival tribe.
"Victims were deliberately targeted on the basis of their ethnicity, nationality or perceived support for one of the parties to the conflict," the UN said in a 33-page report.
Two days later on 17 April, in the eastern town of Bor, a gang of heavily-armed men marched on the UN base, where hundreds of civilians had fled to for protection.
The "mob forcibly entered the protection site and went on a rampage of killing, looting and abductions", the report by the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) said, adding the assault left at least 47 dead and was likely to have been "planned in advance".
The attack on Bentiu and the UN base in Bor are two of the most high profile massacres in a long list of atrocities carried out in the more than a year-long civil war.
At least 353 civilians were killed and another 250 were wounded in the two attacks, the UN said.
No overall death toll for the war has been kept, either by the government, rebels or the UN, although the International Crisis Group says it estimates that at least 50 000 people have been killed.
Some diplomats suggest it could be double that figure, while hunger and disease have killed thousands more.
Fighting broke out in South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, in December 2013 when President Kiir accused his sacked deputy Riek Machar of attempting a coup.
The fighting in the capital Juba set off a cycle of retaliatory massacres across the country, pushing it to the brink of famine. Both government forces loyal to Kiir and rebels loyal to Machar continue to fight, despite numerous ceasefire deals.
Masturbating man steals a dog and gets shot – all in one day
2015-01-09 13:28
Lagos – An American man is being formally charged after he was caught masturbating on the deck of an apartment before stealing a dog, jumping out of a window, and attacked two people in a nearby apartment, Huffington Post reports.
Angel Suarez Medero, 21, from Pennsylvania, USA, was spotted on the deck, pleasuring himself by a woman who called 911. Medero then stole one of the two dogs in the apartment, jumped out of a second story window and then entered a nearby apartment. In the apartment he allegedly attacked two people and was shot twice.
Medero was taken to hospital in a critical condition. No one else was seriously injured.
Read more at Huffington Post
Lagos – An American man is being formally charged after he was caught masturbating on the deck of an apartment before stealing a dog, jumping out of a window, and attacked two people in a nearby apartment, Huffington Post reports.
Angel Suarez Medero, 21, from Pennsylvania, USA, was spotted on the deck, pleasuring himself by a woman who called 911. Medero then stole one of the two dogs in the apartment, jumped out of a second story window and then entered a nearby apartment. In the apartment he allegedly attacked two people and was shot twice.
Medero was taken to hospital in a critical condition. No one else was seriously injured.
Read more at Huffington Post
Al Shabaab praise 'heroic' Charlie Hebdo massacre
2015-01-09 16:14
Mogadishu - Somalia's Al Shabaab militants, Al-Qaeda's main affiliate in Africa, on Friday praised the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris as a "heroic" act.
"They made millions of Muslims happy by taking action. Some misguided people claim that freedom of expression was attacked, but that is not the case, and the two heroic people acted accordingly," Radio Andalus, the official mouthpiece of the militants, said in a commentary.
"They cut the head of non-believers who insulted our beloved prophet," the radio said, adding that Osama Bin Laden had "told the West that if freedom of expression has no limit, then you have to expect your blood to be shed."
It said the satirical magazine had "insulted our prophet and annoyed millions of Muslims", and described the attackers as "our two brothers (who) were the first to take revenge".
Alluding to early eyewitness accounts, the radio also noted that the two brothers suspected of carrying out the killings had "declared that they are part of Al-Qaeda", the Islamist network to which the Al Shabaab are also affiliated.
Also read: African Union says military still weakening Somalia's al Shabaab
The Al Shabaab, who control large areas of rural Somalia, are reported to have close links with Al-Qaeda fighters in neighbouring Yemen, where one of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack is believed to have trained.
The Al Shabaab were also linked to Mohamed Geele, a Somali man who was convicted of a 2010 axe attack against Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who had faced numerous death threats since his caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005.
Geele is serving a 10-year sentence for the attack.
The Al Shabaab sprang out of the Islamic Courts Union that controlled Mogadishu in 2006 before being pushed out by Ethiopian forces.
The group were finally driven from fixed positions in Mogadishu in 2011, and have lost several strongholds in the south and centre of the country in a recent offensive by the African Union's AMISOM force, which is fighting in support of Somalia's internationally-backed government.
The group, however, still controls large parts of the south and centre of the country, and have expanded their reach with a string of major attacks in neighbouring Kenya, including the September 2013 siege of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left at least 67 dead.
Mogadishu - Somalia's Al Shabaab militants, Al-Qaeda's main affiliate in Africa, on Friday praised the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris as a "heroic" act.
"They made millions of Muslims happy by taking action. Some misguided people claim that freedom of expression was attacked, but that is not the case, and the two heroic people acted accordingly," Radio Andalus, the official mouthpiece of the militants, said in a commentary.
"They cut the head of non-believers who insulted our beloved prophet," the radio said, adding that Osama Bin Laden had "told the West that if freedom of expression has no limit, then you have to expect your blood to be shed."
It said the satirical magazine had "insulted our prophet and annoyed millions of Muslims", and described the attackers as "our two brothers (who) were the first to take revenge".
Alluding to early eyewitness accounts, the radio also noted that the two brothers suspected of carrying out the killings had "declared that they are part of Al-Qaeda", the Islamist network to which the Al Shabaab are also affiliated.
Also read: African Union says military still weakening Somalia's al Shabaab
The Al Shabaab, who control large areas of rural Somalia, are reported to have close links with Al-Qaeda fighters in neighbouring Yemen, where one of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack is believed to have trained.
The Al Shabaab were also linked to Mohamed Geele, a Somali man who was convicted of a 2010 axe attack against Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who had faced numerous death threats since his caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005.
Geele is serving a 10-year sentence for the attack.
The Al Shabaab sprang out of the Islamic Courts Union that controlled Mogadishu in 2006 before being pushed out by Ethiopian forces.
The group were finally driven from fixed positions in Mogadishu in 2011, and have lost several strongholds in the south and centre of the country in a recent offensive by the African Union's AMISOM force, which is fighting in support of Somalia's internationally-backed government.
The group, however, still controls large parts of the south and centre of the country, and have expanded their reach with a string of major attacks in neighbouring Kenya, including the September 2013 siege of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left at least 67 dead.
Northern leaders blast Jonathan
2015-01-09 10:08
Kaduna - A day after President Goodluck Jonathan described some Nigerian elders as touts, Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Thursday hit back at him, reports The Nation.
The Maitama Sule-led NEF replied him, saying most sitting leaders today are worse than pickpockets in motor parks.
The forum in a press statement by its spokesperson, Professor Ango Abdullahi in Kaduna, noted that President Jonathan’s abusive comments against elders who fought for the unity of the country was un- called for.
He stated that President Jonathan should be reminded that in a motor park, there are touts and there are pick-pockets, noting that if some past leaders are touts, then some sitting leaders are pick-pockets and thieves.
Read more at The Nation.
Kaduna - A day after President Goodluck Jonathan described some Nigerian elders as touts, Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Thursday hit back at him, reports The Nation.
The Maitama Sule-led NEF replied him, saying most sitting leaders today are worse than pickpockets in motor parks.
The forum in a press statement by its spokesperson, Professor Ango Abdullahi in Kaduna, noted that President Jonathan’s abusive comments against elders who fought for the unity of the country was un- called for.
He stated that President Jonathan should be reminded that in a motor park, there are touts and there are pick-pockets, noting that if some past leaders are touts, then some sitting leaders are pick-pockets and thieves.
Read more at The Nation.
Jonathan holds campaign in Enugu
2015-01-09 13:21
Enugu - President Goodluck Jonathan is expected in Engu State on Friday in continuation of his re-election campaign rally.
Prominent leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) including Jonathan's Vice, Namadi Sambo, the National Chairman of the party, Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), DG of the campaign committee among others are expected at the rally.
The president would also use the opportunity to formally present the party’s flag to the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in the state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu, who doubles as the coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Committee in the state,is expected to host the party leaders.
The President had on Thursday kick started his re-election campaign in Lagos with a promise to consolidate on his previous achievements.
Enugu - President Goodluck Jonathan is expected in Engu State on Friday in continuation of his re-election campaign rally.
Prominent leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) including Jonathan's Vice, Namadi Sambo, the National Chairman of the party, Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), DG of the campaign committee among others are expected at the rally.
The president would also use the opportunity to formally present the party’s flag to the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in the state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu, who doubles as the coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Committee in the state,is expected to host the party leaders.
The President had on Thursday kick started his re-election campaign in Lagos with a promise to consolidate on his previous achievements.
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