Actor Neil Patrick Harris takes it all off for Rolling Stone magazine

He plays for the other team so #BBnotintestedface! :-). The actor pictured right with his partner, actor and chef, David Burtka.

Trader hides drugs in crayfish, melon, others

A 38year old trader, Jude Izuchukwu, (pictured above) has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, while trying to smuggle a 9.375 kilogramme of compressed cannabis out of the country, Punch reports.

 

The trader was arrested on Monday night while attempting to board an Ethiopian flight to China. the drug was found inside the suspect’s foodstuff. 

 

Izuchukwu who claims to be selling clothes at Lagos Island said he got into the business after he was duped;

"I sell clothes on Lagos Island. My business was doing well until I was duped of N5m. Since then, I have been living from hand to mouth. I bought the hemp for N104, 000 and I learnt that I could sell it for $9,000 in China. That was the reason I decided to smuggle drugs" he said

Parading him before newsmen,  the NDLEA Airport Commander, Hamza Umar said officers detected the drug when the suspect came to check in his luggage. The cannabis was concealed in dried fish, dried bitter leaf, crayfish, melon and other local food spices. The weight of the cannabis is 9.375kg".

Photos: Nicki Minaj stunning on set of wine beverage commercial

The rapper looked sexy in a peach Norma Kamali two-piece & Gucci heels, on set of her commercial for Myx Fusion, the fruit-infused, single serve moscato wine beverage, which she also partly owns. Continue to see more photos...

Graphic photos: Another mob killing in Akure, Ondo State

OK you know what, if the government doesn't do something about jungle justice then I will be forced to think they approve. This is getting out of hand and the sooner we deal with it, the better.

Yesterday a woman was set ablaze in Abule Egba, Lagos and today another mob killing took place in Akure, Ondo state. The man they burnt to death at Adegbola junction in Akure was allegedly found with a child...some claimed the child was found dead, others said the child wasn't dead, but everyone agreed that the man was either mad or pretended to be mad. They beat him and set him ablaze.

See graphic pics after the cut...

Dramatic images of Chibok girls who escaped from Boko Haram

SaharaReporters has obtained photos of some of the girls who managed to escape from Boko Haram men after they were kidnapped (pictured above with their mothers/relatives) with many of them weeping as they publicly re-tell the horrors of the late night raid on April 14th.

The photos were taken in front of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, in Chibok according to SR, with the remains of the burned out building seen in the background. These images tell a dramatic story of a tiny, and isolated village, Chibok, that the world has now come to know as the site of a mass and disturbing kidnapping. See more photos after the cut...

Man dies while having marathon sex with varsity student in Ebonyi

A middle-aged man (pictured above) allegedly died while having sex with a female student at the Ebonyi State University's Presco female campus located at Goddy Ogbaga Avenue in Abakaliki the state capital.

Reports say the lover girl upon finding out that the man had died, moved his body to his car and then proceeded to the nearest police station to report the incident. She was later arrested and investigations is currently ongoing.

Police spokesperson in the state, Chris Anyanwu, confirmed the report to Tribune, but said he had not been fully briefed on the incident. "I have no details about the incident. I just made enquiry and I was told it happened at Goddy Ogbaga Avenue. I have not gotten any other information about it,” she said

2face, T-pain To Perform At AFRIMMA

Organisers of African Muzik Magazine Awards [AFRIMMA], Big A Entertainment, have confirmed the acceptance of another set of music super stars who will be performing at the award show, scheduled to take place on July 2, at the Eisemann Center, Richardson, Texas, United States.
The new addition; Nigerian singer, song writer and record producer, Innocent Idibia a.k.a 2face, and multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning American rapper, Faheem Najm, better known as T-Pain, will be thrilling the crowd individually and collectively, especially on the remix to 2face’s song, Rainbow, which features the American star.
The song is 2face’s popular single, which debuted on his 2012 album release Away & Beyond.
No doubt, 2face will be the cynosure of all eyes at the event, having raised the bar of international collaboration with the success of Rainbow, and featuring on T-Pain‘s new single, If I Got It, which also has Senegalese-American artiste, Akon.
Founder/CEO of Big A Entertainment, Mr Anderson Obiagwu said his company is determined to sustain the drive towards a world class African award show, through its “crossing boundaries with music” mission.
“This event will not only celebrate the music of Africa, but celebrate the unique sounds, culture and artistes that tell the stories of our continent as a whole,” said Obiagwu.
“AFRIMMA represents growth, celebration and pushing the culture and music of Africa continuously forward for the better. It will be an amazing night celebrating the artistes who have influenced and impacted the culture as well as the pioneers who laid the framework for the music of today,” he added.
The much publicised event will be hosted by celebrity comedian, Basketmouth and Nollywood actress, Juliet Ibrahim.
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Chidinma Wraps Flavour In Oh Baby

Samuel Abulude

— May 7, 2014

It’s a fresh video from Ms Kedike, Chidinma. The petite singer celebrated her birthday on Saturday, May 3, 2014 and to crown her joy, she released Oh Baby (You & I) and what a singer to collabo with her but highlife crooner, Flavour N’abania.
It’s a romantic song. Oh Baby was produced by Yung D and to bring out the beauty and spice in the song, ace video director, Clarence Peters was at work with his unique touch.
Chidinma is releasing singles upon singles for her debut album. The singles include Emi ni baller, Bless my hustle, Carry u go, Run dia mouth and not forgetting Jankoliko, her first single with Sound Sultan featuring. All these make her self-titled studio album ‘Chidinma’ on music platform spinlet.

Rihanna shows off butt cleavage in very low slung dress at Met Gala afterparty

I'm sure she thinks we are all already bored with seeing her titties and wants to give us something else to talk about. The singer wore this very low slung gold dress that showed her butt cleavage to last night's Met Gala after-party. No bra, no pata. Rihanna, dia iz God oooo. See more photos after the cut...

Graphic pics: Suspected female ritualist set ablaze by a mob in Abule Egba

Graphic pics: Suspected female ritualist set ablaze by a mob in Abule Egba

Can the Lagos State government please make jungle justice a crime punishable by many years in prison? This can't continue happening. We as citizens can't keep taking the laws into our hands. Other wise innocent people will suffer too. The pics from this scene is so gory, I don't know if I should share it.

The woman pictured above was accused of attempting to kidnap three primary school pupils in the Ekoro area of Abule-Egba, Lagos yesterday May 6th. Eye-witnesses claim the woman stopped the kids, who were aged 7-10 years as they were going to school, and asked to take them to school.

Then a female hawker in the area, suspecting the woman was up to no good, alerted others in the area who then surrounded the woman and started asking her questions. They say the woman claimed they were her children but couldn't give their names and the direction she was taking them wasn't where their school was...plus the children said they didn't know her and before anyone could stop it, they descended on the woman. Beating her to a stupor and then setting her ablaze.

 See the gory pics from the scene after the cut...will take it down in a bit...

Cholera Outbreak: Plateau Confirms 10 Deaths

Cholera Outbreak: Plateau Confirms 10 Deaths

— May 7, 2014

No fewer than 10 lives have been lost to cholera in Plateau State  out of the 205 cases recorded from April to date, Plateau State government confirmed yesterday.
Dr Raymond Juryit, the state’s epidemologist in the Ministry of Health, made this known in Jos, the state capital, while flagging off the public health enlightenment and sanitation exercise in Jos North and Jos South local government areas.
Juryit listed the affected areas as  Nasarawa Gwom, Rikkos, Angwan Rogo and Angwan Rimi.
According to him, the disease was caused by contaminated water, food and poor sanitary conditions.
“The suspected cases of vomiting and diarrhoea are mostly caused by water and food contamination as well as poor sanitation, such as improper disposal of waste and  open defecation,” he said.
Juryit stressed the need to control the outbreak of cholera through preventive measures of adhering to basic hygiene and ensuring that people consume only clean food and water.
In the same vein, Dr Fom Dakwak, the state commissioner for health, who was represented by Dr Elias Pede, the permanent secretary, Ministry of Health, said that the ministry in collaboration with the ministries of environment and information would continue to enlighten the public on the importance of keeping their environments clean, drinking clean water, and eating fruits and vegetables that are properly washed.
Also speaking, the commissioner for environment, Mr Silvanus Dantu, said that the areas worst hit by the outbreak have been defaulting in the regular monthly sanitation exercise.
“The areas which have recorded high cases of suspected cholera in the state, Nasarawa Gwom, Angwan Rogo, Angwan Rimi and Rikkos have defaulted in the monthly sanitation exercise,” he said.
He disclosed that henceforth, community leaders will be held responsible if their subjects fail to clean their environments or participate in the monthly sanitation exercise.
According to him, Plateau State Environment and Sanitation Agency (PESA) would begin enforcement to ensure that every house owns a toilet and keeps its environment clean.
Dr Danjuma Sanda, the Caretaker Chairman, Jos North Local Government Council, commended the efforts of the various ministries involved in the enlightenment programme and pledged the council’s support.

Police arrest suspects of Nyanya school bus theft, recover the bus

This morning, gunmen snatched a school bus belonging to Vines International Academy from the driver of the bus while he cleaning it at the gate of the school (in case you missed it, read here)

The Nigerian police released a statement some hours ago, saying that not only have they recovered the bus, they have also arrested two suspects (pictured above).

Nosike Ogbuenyi, the Special Assistant to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, in a statement, said the vehicle with registration number XG 246 GWA was recovered this afternoon in Lafia in Nasarawa. He said that the two suspects who were arrested were found in the bus.

Missing girls: Police offer N50million reward for credible information

The Nigerian police has announced a cash prize of N50million to anyone who comes forward with credible information that would help in locating and rescuing abducted Chibok school girls. This was announced in a statement released on their website this morning. Find the statement after the cut...

The Nigeria Police hereby announce a cash reward of Fifty Million Naira

(N50, 000, 000.00) to anyone who volunteers credible information that will lead to the location and rescue of the female students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

The Force urges all patriotic citizens with such useful information to contact the following numbers:

09-2914649
08081777309
08055547536
08032125050
08034617591
08035969731

While calling on the general public to be part of the solution to the present security challenge, the Police High Command also reassures all citizens that any information given would be treated anonymously and with utmost confidentiality. 
CSP FRANK MBA
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FORCE HEADQUARTERS,
ABUJA.

Boko Haram kill 300 people in fresh attack in Borno State

According to reports, Boko Haram men struck again on Monday night May 5th, killing 300 people and burning several houses in Gamboru Ngala, in Borno state. The men reportedly came into town in armored personnel carrier and armed with Improvised Explosive Devices, petrol bombs, assault rifles and Rocket Propelled Launchers. They targeted the market in the town, shooting people and then proceeded to set ablaze houses and properties in the area.

 

Confirming the incident to BBC Hausa service in Maiduguri, Senator Ahmed Zannah who represents the area at the national assembly said the 12 hour attack happened in the night when the people were sleeping. Continue...

"The attackers stormed the communities in the night when residents were still sleeping, setting ablaze houses and shooting residents who tried to escape from the fire. About 300 persons were confirmed dead after the incident, with several others injured. Almost all the houses in the communities were destroyed by the hoodlums who threw IEDs at the buildings. My brother who was at the scene of the attack told me that the actual number of the dead cannot be ascertained but at least they are up to 300. In fact, as he spoke he wept following the high number of the dead bodies which littered the market.” he said

According to him, the Islamic sect men gained access to the town after the military men stationed there moved out to pursue the sect men following intelligence report that they were sighted at the Lake chad axis with some abducted girls

"It was just an hour after their withdrawal that the terrorists invaded the town, shooting everyone at sight and setting buildings on fire. So far 200 vehicles and thousands of houses, shops and an outfit of the Nigerian Customs Service, (NCS) were all burnt”, he explained

Suspected rapist drugs, attacks pupil inside bush

A suspected rapist in Osun state drugged and attacked a 15 year old secondary school student of Young Tajudeen Middle School, Ede, Osun for supposedly refusing him sex, Punch reports.

 

According to reports, on Wednesday April 30th, the victim who lived with her grandmother, had gone to the bush to pick mangoes when she was accosted by the alleged rapist who begged her for some mangoes. She said she obliged him but afterwards the man demanded for sex which refused. She said the man immediately forced a pill into her mouth which made her unconscious. By the time she woke up, there were machete cuts on her head, legs and wrist.

 

Explaining what happened, the girl said

"I went to the farm to pick mangoes on the day I was attacked. As I was heading for home, I met a man who asked me to give him some mangoes and I did. The man asked me of my name and I told him my name is Suweba, but my real name is (withheld). The man later said  he wanted to have sex with me, but I told him I was too young for that. The man threatened to cut off my head if I didn’t oblige him. He held my head, forced my mouth open and dropped a white pill inside my mouth. I fell down and I became unconscious. I was attacked around 2pm and I woke up when it was getting dark maybe around 7pm. I managed to crawl to the footpath and shouted for help, but none came until the following morning.” she said

 

Passersby the next morning found the girl on the pathway and then immediately rushed her to the hospital where it was discovered that the wounds she sustained had already started decaying with maggots coming out from it. 

 

Hospital staff, who described the attack as callous, believe the girl could have been attacked 48 hours before she was brought into the hospital and not the previous day as she said because of the maggot  infested wound.

 

Hospital staff say they would conduct test on her to ascertain if she was truly raped

'I will sell them' - Boko Haram claims responsibility for kidnapping Chibok girls

Monday, May 5, 2014

'I will sell them' - Boko Haram claims responsibility for kidnapping Chibok girls

"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah. There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women." alleged Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video (he spoke in Hausa) that was released today.

There were reports about a week ago that some of the girls have been sold or married off for N2,000 each. With this new declaration from Boko Haram, it means the report is close to the truth. If they haven't been sold already, then they will soon...unless the Commander-In-Chief of the Armes Forces does something and does it fast. If you want to watch the Boko Haram video, go here

One of the Chibok women protesters allegedly arrested by the police

One of the Chibok women protesters allegedly arrested by the police

"Where are the parents/guardians of missing girls?" Osita Iheme asks

"Where are the parents/guardians of missing girls?" Osita Iheme asks

I guess he's one of the few who have their reservations about this case...

Photos: Mum accused of beating her children with knife and cutlass

Photos: Mum accused of beating her children with knife and cutlass

A woman who cooks, washes, bathes and defecates in a single room which she shares with her four young children has been accused of brutally assaulting them. According to a report by the The Nation, Mrs Toyin Abiodun beats her children with knife, cutlass, belt and iron. The boy pictured right is her first son and you can all the marks on his head and face, and his dislocated arm..all thanks to the woman he calls mother. Read the sad full story after the cut...

From The Nation

Mrs. Toyin  Abiodun lives with her four children in a one-room apartment at Number 24, Adekunle  Street, Akute- Odo ,  Ogun State. In her room she cooks, eats, washes her clothes and dishes. She and her four children defecate, and have their bath in the same room.

According to her co-tenants, Toyin abuses her children by locking them up and using cutlass, knife and belt to beat them. Evidence of this is on their bodies. Their heads and bodies are full of scars while their hands are dislocated.The eldest of the kids , Dejitade,11, in  Z  I Primary School , Akute School Two!

When The Nation got to the school, the teachers (who begged for anonymity ) described the situation of  the three children as pathetic, "we are so afraid and full of pity for these kids and we had to report the incident to our community head , Oba Aleeh Idowu Akindele.”

According to the children, their mother would give them caps to cover their heads in order to avoid the scars from being seen or discovered. The other girl has a strange big Bob Marley strands of over 500 woven on her head to cover the scars on her head. The hair looked weird as it is too heavy for such a small girl of four!

One of the teachers with misty eyes  said, “The eldest one is in Primary Two at age 11, yet he cannot read or identify numbers one to four, he is always afraid and his speech is blurred  and  could no longer reason  well, this is as a result of abuse from her mother.” Another teacher who was full of pity said “The children are always afraid to go home when it is time for them to go.They said their mother used to beat them with any object from knife, cutlass, belt to iron. These kids need to be rescued before it is too late.”

However, at school the  first born is said to have been affected psychologically as he does not know how to identify numbers and cannot identify any of the alphabets. Another teacher said “these children’s bodies are full of scars, the first born Dejitade is about 11years old but he said he is nine, he is in Primary Two. He does not speak properly while his hands have broken as he has dislocation. How can an 11-year-old boy be in Primary Two and still does not speak properly? I believe this has affected his brain.”

Dejitade said his mother uses stick, cutlass, and knife to beat them. He said it is true that she maltreats them always. He said she does not care. “She would put knife in the fire and use it to cut our body.”

Emmanuel said he is in KG Two, he said his mother used to beat them with cutlass, belts , sticks and knives.

Damilola, 4, said she does not want to live with their mother again. “My mother is wicked”, she kept on repeating the statement.

The landlord of the house, Samuel Soyemi, said the woman (pictured above) was her late mother’s tenant. ” I asked of her husband but she  said  she was no longer with her husband. When I called the husband he said he is no longer interested in their relationship. This woman is weird, she would lock up the children and leave home till evening while they would be crying. She has done like that four times locking the children in the room. She does not cooperate with anybody. It’s  like she has psychological problem .One day  she locked up the children and used  a knife she brought from the fire and  cut their scalps, their  heads  are full of scars. She gave them caps to be wearing and tutored  them to tell whoever asked about their scars that they  were involved in  motor accidents. That is why they wear caps .She baths for them in the room, cooks, wash clothes and defecates in the same room they live.”

When The Nation visited Toyin  at her residence  she was met with a belt in her hand with eyes frowned, possibly she had just finished beating one of the kids. While the last one was on a potty defecating and at the same time eating along with his brothers and sister from same plate!

When asked about  her life, she said she had the eldest child for her husband and later had another for another man but both are not serious men .On the last baby , she denied she is the mother and said the baby belongs to her sister, when asked where the sister lives, she kept quiet and started challenging the reporter on his mission. However, she confessed that she at present has no man in her life as she  had divorced her  first  and  second husband who did not care for her. She added that all the tenants in the house hated her including the landlord , "they all hate me here and do not mind their business. In fact, I suspect it is either the landlord who had wanted me to befriend him and I refused or my former husband who came to report me in your office.”

Her four kids are in a terrible condition as their bodies are full of scars. The head of the first born is full of scars, while their bodies are full of sores and scars as well,  no wonder the  first born wears cap like the  fabled Alade  in Yoruba  folktales who had horn on his head and wear cap always to cover the horn.

Asked why she use to beat the children, she denied and claimed that the belt she was holding was just to discipline them at that moment. She said “the scars on them had been there for long. The first born had all those marks as a result of the beatings he had when he was with my brother in law in Lagos Island.” Asked about the second one with scars and dislocation, she could not say a word but insisted that her enemies had sent the reporter to her.

When the interrogations continued  she confessed that she has been to the Welfare office. She then called a number to inform the woman who spoke with this reporter.

The Welfare Officer spoke with this reporter on phone and confirmed the scars on the children’s bodies and she asked the reporter "has she started bullying the kids again? We once took the custody of the kids.”

Oba Aleeh Idowu Akindele, the Alakute of Akute said the case has been reported to him from the school the children attend. He said ” I have called the landlord to confirm what was happening in the  house and he said it is true. I have instructed them to call the human rights organization to wade into the matter. I don’t believe we can allow the children to still be under the mother’s care. We need to rescue the children.”

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As U.S. Climate Changes, White House Embraces the Science Like Never Before

6 May 2014 9:45 am

The White House

The White House.

The White House has just released its new National Climate Assessment (NCA), and its central scientific message will be familiar to climate scientists and the White House press corps. Climate impacts are already apparent in the United States, they are likely to worsen, and communities should begin factoring climate change into all kinds of decisions. From Hawaii to Maine, from the fishing industry to manufacturing, the report’s 30 chapters emphasize that “evidence of human-induced climate change continues to strengthen and that impacts are increasing across the country.”
What’s new, however, is that after putting climate issues somewhat on the back burner prior to the 2012 elections, the Obama Administration is now giving a full-throated, multiday endorsement to the 1300-page document. Top White House advisor John Podesta and several climate scientists are briefing the press this morning, and President Barack Obama iwill be sitting down today with TV meteorologists in a series of interviews pegged to the report. This afternoon, visiting "stakeholders" from around the country will gather for a high-profile White House briefing and listening session, the first of a series planned around the country in coming months.
Today’s report is the fourth produced under a 1990 law that instituted the National Climate Assessment. “Hundreds of the best climate scientists from across the U.S., not just in the public sector but in the private sector as well, have worked over the last four years to produce this report,”  Podesta told the White House press corps during yesterday’s daily press briefing. “It will contain a huge amount of practical, useable knowledge that state and local decision-makers can take advantage of as they plan for the impacts of climate change.”
White House science advisor John Holdren told reporters this morning that the report would "reinforce" all three parts of Obama's 2013 Climate Action Plan: cutting greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to impacts, and leading internationally. Whether or not that happens, this is by far the fullest embrace of the assessment process in its tumultuous 24 year history. President Bill Clinton had to fight Congress for years to publish the first National Assessment, which came out in 2000. A conservative group sued to stop President George W. Bush from publishing a second one. That administration also scrubbed mention of the 2000 report from official documents, angering climate advocates. An environmental group even sued in 2006 to force Bush to publish the report, then two years late; it is supposed to be quadrennial. (Here’s a historical blow by blow, by a former federal climate office official.) Insiders consider the third report, published with little fanfare in 2009 during the early days of Obama’s first term, as a “stillborn” effort.
Still, some Washington science policy veterans consider the assessment a rather unique effort for a scientific endeavor, since it includes input from local groups and industries facing possible climate impacts in the future. For instance, scientists and activists involved in the original massive effort that produced the initial 2000 report, say the 2014 version also has a strong “bottom up” flavor. The dozen or so federal agencies that assembled today’s report sponsored some 70 workshops and “listening sessions” over the past four years, allowing local groups to not only give input but shape the report’s form. In addition, small federal grants to state and local nonprofit groups, policymakers, business owners and academics allowed them to submit formal “input reports” that gave federal official access to local know-how.
The overall message: “We have enough information on climate to act and we know it’s happening,” says climatologist Victoria Keener, among the recipients of the grants. Keener works for the Honolulu-based East-West center, a nonprofit. As part of her group’s contribution to the NCA she led a diverse group in 2012 in publishing a 170-page report called Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts. (It’s part of a project called the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment, or PIRCA). Several of PIRCA’s findings, touching on fishing, sea level rise, disaster planning and much else, “made it into the final report,” she says. So did one of her document’s anecdotes:  It relates how Steve Jacobs, the vice president of a landfill in Waianae, Hawaii, used climate prediction information on La Nina in 2010 to drive a decision to spend $300,000 to upgrade his facility’s storm water system. “When the rain hit we were ready,” he says.
Keener and others are hopeful that the NCA has catalyzed a process that doesn’t stop with the publication of the massive document today. And to keep the buzz going, a federal climate office has created discussion boards, planned follow on meetings, and organized local organizing committees to follow up on the report with meaningful climate adaptation and resilience planning.
For her part, Keener says that the White House effort has helped drive local regulatory decisions and government interest, including a ruling by a local water board to alter policies in light of predictions of future dry conditions. (See these minutes, page 5.) And Jacobs says he’s expecting more extreme events in the coming years, and has helped lead local efforts to improve planning for hurricanes on the islands. “We believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” he says.
The White House and its hundreds of scientist allies are hoping that kind of thinking makes the National Climate Assessment the rare report in Washington – one that has a real-world impact.
But some outsiders say the report could have gone further. The World Wildlife Fund's Nicky Sundt, a former federal official with the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), lauds the new report as part of "a permanent process" to spin out subsequent updates and reports as the nation prepares for climate change. But he says the federal advisory committee that oversees the report, which includes both government and non-government members, prevented the process from including “some of the most important policy issues… There's nothing in the report on budgets, nothing on national security."