LIVINGSTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie announced he's running for President of the United States.
Christie kicked off his bid for the Republican nomination for president at his old high school on Tuesday.
Christie, who's been stumping heavily in early voting New Hampshire ahead of a 2016 campaign for the White House, addressed supporters at Livingston High School, where he served as class president.
CBN extends deadline for BVN enrolment
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has extended the registration for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) till 31st October, 2015.
Customers besiege banks as BVN registration deadlines expires
Recalled that chaotic situations were recorded in most banks’ premises in Nigeria, Monday, as hundreds of customers besieged banks in a bid to beat the deadline for the BVN enrolment which was earlier billed to expire on Tuesday, 30th June, 2015.
Customers besiege banks as BVN registration deadlines expires
Recalled that chaotic situations were recorded in most banks’ premises in Nigeria, Monday, as hundreds of customers besieged banks in a bid to beat the deadline for the BVN enrolment which was earlier billed to expire on Tuesday, 30th June, 2015.
Govs to probe NNPC over alleged unremitted N3.8trn scam
Nigerian state governors are to look into why potentially billions of dollars in oil revenue were allegedly not paid into government coffers, as part of a wider probe into the state-run oil firm. A four-man panel will seek answers from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) about apparent discrepancies in its accounts, as well as alleged plundering from a reserve account.


4-car crash kills driver in upper Manhattan
A four-car collision in upper Manhattan left the driver who caused it dead and injured seven other people, including a 12-year-old boy, police and passengers involved in the wreck said.
A silver Volkswagen GTI came barreling southbound down Marble Hill Ave. when its driver apparently tried to squeeze between two cars stopped at a red light at W. 228th St. in Marble Hill shortly after 5 a.m., police and a driver of one of the stopped car

A silver Volkswagen GTI came barreling southbound down Marble Hill Ave. when its driver apparently tried to squeeze between two cars stopped at a red light at W. 228th St. in Marble Hill shortly after 5 a.m., police and a driver of one of the stopped car

Sierra Leone will jail Ebola law violators
One of the three districts of Sierra Leone where new cases of Ebola have been recorded will jail those who break a new emergency by-law designed to prevent the spread of the disease, an official said Sunday.
The District Ebola Response Centre Coordinator, Raymond Kabia said “a high-level stakeholders meeting” on Friday decided that “violators of the by-laws would no longer be fined but will go to jail for six months instead”.
“People caught in sacred burials and washing bodies, transporting sick people in vehicles, traditional healers treating the sick and those hiding sick people in homes will be jailed for six months without the option of fines”, he told local reporters in Port Loko, 74 miles north of the capital.
The District Ebola Response Centre Coordinator, Raymond Kabia said “a high-level stakeholders meeting” on Friday decided that “violators of the by-laws would no longer be fined but will go to jail for six months instead”.
“People caught in sacred burials and washing bodies, transporting sick people in vehicles, traditional healers treating the sick and those hiding sick people in homes will be jailed for six months without the option of fines”, he told local reporters in Port Loko, 74 miles north of the capital.
Oregon couple found in freezer; son charged with murder
An Oregon man killed his parents and hid their bodies in a freezer, authorities say.
Jeremy Ringquist, 38, was charged with aggravated murder on Thursday after cops in Springfield forced their way into the home he shared with his parents and found two frozen corpses, police said.
Jeremy Ringquist, 38, was charged with aggravated murder on Thursday after cops in Springfield forced their way into the home he shared with his parents and found two frozen corpses, police said.
list of countries without Visa
See the List Of Countries You Can Visit Without Any Visa As A Nigerian

AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Benin Republic (visa free)
Burkina Faso (visa Free)
Burundi (visa on arrival for 30days)
Cape Verde (visa on arrival )
Cameroon (visa free)

AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Benin Republic (visa free)
Burkina Faso (visa Free)
Burundi (visa on arrival for 30days)
Cape Verde (visa on arrival )
Cameroon (visa free)
Mexican meteorologist receiving Internet attention
A jaw-dropping Mexican meteorologist is becoming an Internet star after making the weather "must watch television" for many viewers.
Yanet Garcia reveals more than just the temperatures as she delivers the news in an assortment of short skin tight dresses. She also posts her forecasts on the Televisa Monterrey newscasts on her very own YouTube page.
Yanet Garcia reveals more than just the temperatures as she delivers the news in an assortment of short skin tight dresses. She also posts her forecasts on the Televisa Monterrey newscasts on her very own YouTube page.
Hammerhead shark spotted along Maryland beach
A hammerhead was spotted body surfing Maryland's waves reportedly for a second day straight Thursday, leading to a feeding frenzy of camera-toting beachgoers.
The estimated 8-foot-long, 300-pound carnivore was last spotted along Ocean City's bay Thursday evening, the state's Natural Resources Police said.
That follows previous sightings on Wednesday, NBC Washington reported.
Officers said that its condition may improve if "people back off and leave it alone."
The estimated 8-foot-long, 300-pound carnivore was last spotted along Ocean City's bay Thursday evening, the state's Natural Resources Police said.
That follows previous sightings on Wednesday, NBC Washington reported.
Officers said that its condition may improve if "people back off and leave it alone."
Conservative crooner Pat Boone says Obama wrong about racism
Pat Boone, the former 1950s crooner and an ultra-conservative fundamentalist, is asking President Obama to stop using the r-word.
"Mr. President! For God's sake, and America's sake, quit so often calling crimes that involve a black person 'racist'! Boone wrote Thursday on the conservative site WorldNetDaily.
"Mr. President! For God's sake, and America's sake, quit so often calling crimes that involve a black person 'racist'! Boone wrote Thursday on the conservative site WorldNetDaily.
Ibadan NURTW members on rampage over alleged extortion by leaders
COMMERCIAL banks in some parts of Ibadan, yesterday, hurriedly shut their gates to prevent invasion by hoodlums who might capitalise on the protest by members of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, over alleged extortion by their union leaders.
The protest, which started at Sango-Ojoo Road, later spread to other parts of the city, compelling several commuters, including workers in the private and public sectors, to resort to trekking to their places of work.
During the protest, several commercial vehicles were vandalised.
Vanguard gathered that the drivers had long been complaining about excesses of their leaders, who wait at every bus stop to extort outrageous levies.
Destruction
The protest, which started at Sango-Ojoo Road, later spread to other parts of the city, compelling several commuters, including workers in the private and public sectors, to resort to trekking to their places of work.
During the protest, several commercial vehicles were vandalised.
Vanguard gathered that the drivers had long been complaining about excesses of their leaders, who wait at every bus stop to extort outrageous levies.
Destruction
S-West Election Petition Tribunals: Much motion, little movement
By Dapo Akinrefon
WITH the conduct of the 2015 general elections over, the losers have sought redress at the respective Election Petition Tribunals set up across the federation.
It has been argued that the electoral process in Nigeria is generally characterised and fraught with fraudulent practices.
Political parties in the country have been fingered as been the culprits of the fraudulent antics.
WITH the conduct of the 2015 general elections over, the losers have sought redress at the respective Election Petition Tribunals set up across the federation.
It has been argued that the electoral process in Nigeria is generally characterised and fraught with fraudulent practices.
Political parties in the country have been fingered as been the culprits of the fraudulent antics.
Voted for trouble?
The House of Reps.
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA—Bad blood flowing from the unresolved leadership tussle in the House of Representatives literally flowed in the chambers of the House, yesterday, as members charged on one another for supremacy.
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA—Bad blood flowing from the unresolved leadership tussle in the House of Representatives literally flowed in the chambers of the House, yesterday, as members charged on one another for supremacy.
You will sack yourself if proven positive.
Top official Iyke Igbokwe has disclosed that the NFF disciplinary committee will recommend for the dismissal of coach Stephen Keshi if it were proven he applied to handle African champions Cote d’Ivoire.
Buhari’s ADC formally writes to withdraw DSS personnel from villa
Contrary to denial by the Presidency that operatives of the Department of State Services were not ordered out of the villa, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal that the Aide-de-Camp, ADC, to the President has formally informed the DSS that its personnel would no longer provide close body protection for the President as they are being replaced with men of the Nigerian Army and Police personnel “who were trained as Presidential Bodyguards.”
It will be recalled that Vanguard reported, yesterday, that ADC to the President, Lt. Col Abubakar Lawal, ordered personnel of the DSS out of the villa and replaced them with men of the Nigerian Army.
It will be recalled that Vanguard reported, yesterday, that ADC to the President, Lt. Col Abubakar Lawal, ordered personnel of the DSS out of the villa and replaced them with men of the Nigerian Army.
N.C. woman using cellphone causes car crash that kills dad
A North Carolina driver who was tapping an address into her cellphone caused a bad car wreck that killed her father, police said.
Tequila Cherry, 35, has been arrested on one count of driving with a revoked license, the Charlotte Observer reported Wednesday.
Tequila Cherry, 35, has been arrested on one count of driving with a revoked license, the Charlotte Observer reported Wednesday.
Federal agents find $12M of cocaine inside frozen shrimp
Federal agents have discovered a new delicacy from Guyana — shrimp coketail.
A drug-sniffing dog noticed something fishy about a shipping container that arrived at the Red Hook Terminal from Guyana last week and hunted down 268 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shrimp, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The whale of a catch has an estimated street value of more than $12 million.
A drug-sniffing dog noticed something fishy about a shipping container that arrived at the Red Hook Terminal from Guyana last week and hunted down 268 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shrimp, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The whale of a catch has an estimated street value of more than $12 million.
2 shot, 1 fatally, after gunman opens fire on Bronx street
Heartbroken loved ones of a murdered Bronx man dipped their fingers in his blood and wrote his name on their shirts in a bizarre ritual to honor the man’s memory Thursday.
Hours after Daquan Cooper, 23, was shot and killed in Parkchester, a group of women wrote “Day Day” on the white shirts they wore. They also smeared the blood on a nearby memorial that read “Rest In Peace Dolo” — another nickname for the murdered man, family members said.
Hours after Daquan Cooper, 23, was shot and killed in Parkchester, a group of women wrote “Day Day” on the white shirts they wore. They also smeared the blood on a nearby memorial that read “Rest In Peace Dolo” — another nickname for the murdered man, family members said.
No nation can tolerate Nigeria’s level of poverty – Prof Osibanjo
By Emma Una
NIGERIA’S VICE PRESIDENT, Professor Yomi Osibanjo says no decent nation can tolerate the level of poverty currently ravaging the country and unless there is a functional social system where the highly vulnerable are assisted to survive, vast majority of the population would die before long.
NIGERIA’S VICE PRESIDENT, Professor Yomi Osibanjo says no decent nation can tolerate the level of poverty currently ravaging the country and unless there is a functional social system where the highly vulnerable are assisted to survive, vast majority of the population would die before long.
APC, a party of strange bed fellows — Former minister
By Peter Duru
Prof. Jerry Agada was a former Minister of State for Education in the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Adviser to former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Secretary of the party’s Elders Committee in Benue State. In this interview, he spoke on why his party suffered a massive defeat at the last general elections and several other issues. Excerpts:
Do you fear that the APC could crumble upon the crisis arising from the National Assembly leadership contest?
Prof. Jerry Agada was a former Minister of State for Education in the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Adviser to former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Secretary of the party’s Elders Committee in Benue State. In this interview, he spoke on why his party suffered a massive defeat at the last general elections and several other issues. Excerpts:
Do you fear that the APC could crumble upon the crisis arising from the National Assembly leadership contest?
Saraki set up committee to slash senators’ salaries o
The senate president, Bukola Saraki, has set up the Committee on Financial review with a mandate to review its own salaries, allowances, and the overhead cost of running the Senate with a view to realigning them to reflect the present economic situation in the country.
The senate also set up another committee on Legislative Agenda; the two committees were given one-week to submit their reports, according to a statement from the Media Office of the Senate President.
“The Senate’s Ad-hoc Committee on Financial review is the first time the Senate is setting up a body to review its own salaries, allowances, and the overhead cost of running the Senate with a view to realigning them to reflect the present economic situation in the country,” the statement reads.

The senate also set up another committee on Legislative Agenda; the two committees were given one-week to submit their reports, according to a statement from the Media Office of the Senate President.
“The Senate’s Ad-hoc Committee on Financial review is the first time the Senate is setting up a body to review its own salaries, allowances, and the overhead cost of running the Senate with a view to realigning them to reflect the present economic situation in the country,” the statement reads.

N/Assembly crisis: APC talks tough, says we stand by our list of principal officers
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Thursday, condemned what transpired at both chambers of the National Assembly.
In a statement, by its National Secretary, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, the party said it stands by the list sent to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives over the choice of principal officers of the National Assembly.
According to the statement, the National Caucus, BoT and NEC of the party will meet in a few days to discuss the developments in the National Assembly.
In a statement, by its National Secretary, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, the party said it stands by the list sent to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives over the choice of principal officers of the National Assembly.
According to the statement, the National Caucus, BoT and NEC of the party will meet in a few days to discuss the developments in the National Assembly.
A double blow in his hopes to win Britain a new EU deal
David Cameron’s hopes of winning a new deal for Britain in the European Union have suffered a double setback as he prepares to outline his proposals to fellow EU leaders at a summit today. EU diplomats predicted that France would prove a major stumbling block to the Prime Minister’s demands and would not join Germany in “going the extra mile” to keep Britain in the 28-member EU club.
New legislation 'will cover space, the deep sea, polar regions'
China will add its assets and activities in space, the deep sea and polar regions to its pending national security law, state media has said – the latest changes to the sweeping and controversial draft legislation.
Edo APC defends Oyegun against bribery allegation
EDO State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed, as a figment of the imagination of the authors, reports of bribery allegations, purportedly levelled against the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie- Oyegun, by governors of the party.

Chairman of APC Odigie-Oyegun at APC National Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan.

Transgender students face harassment in NY schools: report
A scathing New York Civil Liberties Union report published Wednesday revealed harassment of transgender students in classrooms statewide.
In the 2012-13 school year, New York schools reported 24,478 incidents to state education officials, including 19 percent related to gender stereotypes.
NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said the figures point to pervasive discrimination. "Transgender and gender nonconforming children as young as five face relentless harassment," she said.
City school officials said the agency provides clear guidelines to support transgender students. State officials said they would issue new guidelines this summer.
In the 2012-13 school year, New York schools reported 24,478 incidents to state education officials, including 19 percent related to gender stereotypes.
NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said the figures point to pervasive discrimination. "Transgender and gender nonconforming children as young as five face relentless harassment," she said.
City school officials said the agency provides clear guidelines to support transgender students. State officials said they would issue new guidelines this summer.
Pregnant Michigan mom killed, boyfriend ‘person of interest’
A pregnant Michigan mother was killed early Wednesday — and police are questioning her boyfriend as a “person of interest,” authorities said.
Dominique O’Neal, 21, had a puncture wound to her body, but investigators haven’t confirmed the cause of death, Muskegon Township Police Chief Kenneth Sanford told the Daily News.
Dominique O’Neal, 21, had a puncture wound to her body, but investigators haven’t confirmed the cause of death, Muskegon Township Police Chief Kenneth Sanford told the Daily News.
'You're in my house!' Obama slams White House heckler
He's not the commander in chief for nothin'.
President Obama shut down a heckler during the White House's LGBT Pride Month celebration Wednesday, telling her to shut up or get out to cheers all around.
"You're in my house. It's not respectful when you get invited to somebody's..." the president informed her before getting cut off.
President Obama shut down a heckler during the White House's LGBT Pride Month celebration Wednesday, telling her to shut up or get out to cheers all around.
"You're in my house. It's not respectful when you get invited to somebody's..." the president informed her before getting cut off.
Queens nursing home workers accused of abusing patient
A trio of medical professionals allegedly abused a disabled patient at a Queens nursing home and neglected to treat him as he lay on the floor bleeding from his head for more than 20 minutes.
Video surveillance footage obtained by the Daily News caught one of them heartlessly dragging the patient across a floor and at least one nurse failing to lift a finger to help.
Video surveillance footage obtained by the Daily News caught one of them heartlessly dragging the patient across a floor and at least one nurse failing to lift a finger to help.
Corrections officer Gene Palmer charged in prison break
A second upstate prison worker was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the daring escape of two killers.
State corrections officer Gene Palmer was busted after investigators discovered he smuggled a package of frozen hamburger containing hidden tools to convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat, ABC News reported.
State corrections officer Gene Palmer was busted after investigators discovered he smuggled a package of frozen hamburger containing hidden tools to convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat, ABC News reported.
UNPAID SALARIES: FG should take over governance in Osun, Benue — LP scribe
By Dapo Akinrefon
THE National Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Kayode Ajulo has urged the Federal Government to take over administrations in Osun and Benue States following the inability of the states to pay workers salaries.
In a statement, Ajulo argued that the Federal Government should not shy away from taking over the administration of those two states immediately noting that the actions of the governors contravened Sections 128 and 129 of the 1999 constitution.
THE National Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Kayode Ajulo has urged the Federal Government to take over administrations in Osun and Benue States following the inability of the states to pay workers salaries.
In a statement, Ajulo argued that the Federal Government should not shy away from taking over the administration of those two states immediately noting that the actions of the governors contravened Sections 128 and 129 of the 1999 constitution.
I did not shun NFF – Enyeama
Vincent Enyeama has explained that he was not officially asked to attend a Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) disciplinary committee sitting on Tuesday.
The NFF feels that Enyeama was in breach of its code of conduct.

Vincent Enyeama
The NFF feels that Enyeama was in breach of its code of conduct.

It’s shameful to import toothpick, fish, eggs, sugar, wheat —CBN
Gives reasons for excluding rice, others from forex
Says importers can’t access forex in any market
By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief
ABUJA — The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday said that importers of rice, cement and other products will no longer access Foreign Exchange from CBN, banks and bureaux de change for such importation.
The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, who disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja, said the measure would prevent further depletion of the country’s foreign reserve.
He said the country was spending huge amount to import things that could be produced locally, adding that the apex bank would not continue to support the importation of such items through the use of the hard earned foreign exchange.
Some of the products include margarine, palm kernel, palm oil products, meat and processed meat products, vegetables, private airplanes and jets, Indian incense, tinned fish, galvanised steel sheet, roofing sheet and furniture.
He said: “Importers who may want to continue importing these goods would have to sort their foreign exchange from their own private sources. The CBN will continue to be vigilant around this policy, keep reviewing the list of items as it becomes comfortable that these items can be produced locally if we apply ourselves sufficiently.
Emefiele said the CBN was forced to come up with the new policy to exclude importers of rice and 40 other items from the foreign exchange market in order to save the nation’s economy.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, he said the time has come for Nigerians to decide what must be done to realise the much-desired economic development, rather than making the nation a dumping ground for other economies of the world.
Warns banks, bureaux de change

Emefiele CBN Governor
Says importers can’t access forex in any market
By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief
ABUJA — The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday said that importers of rice, cement and other products will no longer access Foreign Exchange from CBN, banks and bureaux de change for such importation.
The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, who disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja, said the measure would prevent further depletion of the country’s foreign reserve.
He said the country was spending huge amount to import things that could be produced locally, adding that the apex bank would not continue to support the importation of such items through the use of the hard earned foreign exchange.
Some of the products include margarine, palm kernel, palm oil products, meat and processed meat products, vegetables, private airplanes and jets, Indian incense, tinned fish, galvanised steel sheet, roofing sheet and furniture.
He said: “Importers who may want to continue importing these goods would have to sort their foreign exchange from their own private sources. The CBN will continue to be vigilant around this policy, keep reviewing the list of items as it becomes comfortable that these items can be produced locally if we apply ourselves sufficiently.
Emefiele said the CBN was forced to come up with the new policy to exclude importers of rice and 40 other items from the foreign exchange market in order to save the nation’s economy.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, he said the time has come for Nigerians to decide what must be done to realise the much-desired economic development, rather than making the nation a dumping ground for other economies of the world.
Warns banks, bureaux de change

Itsekiri oil producing communities in Edo allege marginalisation
By Ikenna Asomba
LEADERS of Itsekiri oil producing communities in Edo State, namely, Ajamimogha, Ajoki, Kolokolo, Ajatiton and Ikara, yesterday, lamented what they described as their continued marginalisation over the years by successive administrations in the stata, despite being the major area that makes the state one of the oil producing states in the country.
Leaders of the communities, under the aegis of Leaders Forum of Itsekiri Oil and Gas Producing Communities, LFIOGPC, have meanwhile called on the state governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to change their situation, urging him to compel the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to give urgent attention to their communities in terms of infrastructural development.
LEADERS of Itsekiri oil producing communities in Edo State, namely, Ajamimogha, Ajoki, Kolokolo, Ajatiton and Ikara, yesterday, lamented what they described as their continued marginalisation over the years by successive administrations in the stata, despite being the major area that makes the state one of the oil producing states in the country.
Leaders of the communities, under the aegis of Leaders Forum of Itsekiri Oil and Gas Producing Communities, LFIOGPC, have meanwhile called on the state governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to change their situation, urging him to compel the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to give urgent attention to their communities in terms of infrastructural development.
Hospital seizes 6 corpses of crisis victims over unpaid N13.5m mortuary bill
By Ochuko Akuopha
OLEH—A private hospital in Oleh, headquarters of Isoko Local Government Area of Delta State, (identity withheld), has seized the corpses of six persons who died in Irri inter-communal crisis in 2002 over unpaid N13.5 million mortuary debt.
This development came as remains of five others who were killed in the crisis were laid to rest yesterday amid tears and lamentation.
Addressing newsmen shortly after the funeral service of those buried, chairman of Irri Development Union, Mr. Goddey Igorigo, said the deceased had been in mortuary since 2002.
OLEH—A private hospital in Oleh, headquarters of Isoko Local Government Area of Delta State, (identity withheld), has seized the corpses of six persons who died in Irri inter-communal crisis in 2002 over unpaid N13.5 million mortuary debt.
This development came as remains of five others who were killed in the crisis were laid to rest yesterday amid tears and lamentation.
Addressing newsmen shortly after the funeral service of those buried, chairman of Irri Development Union, Mr. Goddey Igorigo, said the deceased had been in mortuary since 2002.
Banks lose millions in daring robbery attack
Lady with snake tied round her waist leads robbery gang
By Evelyn Usman, Bose Adelaja & Jane Echewodo
LAGOS—Dare-devil armed robbers, in commando-style, yesterday, held residents of Ipakodo area of Ikorodu in Lagos hostage for about two hours as they robbed two major banks in the area. The scene of the robbery operation was just a stone’s throw to Ipakodo Divisional Police station. The policemen, who engaged the armed robbers, were, however, overwhelmed.
By Evelyn Usman, Bose Adelaja & Jane Echewodo
LAGOS—Dare-devil armed robbers, in commando-style, yesterday, held residents of Ipakodo area of Ikorodu in Lagos hostage for about two hours as they robbed two major banks in the area. The scene of the robbery operation was just a stone’s throw to Ipakodo Divisional Police station. The policemen, who engaged the armed robbers, were, however, overwhelmed.
Little hope for Bobbi Kristina Brown's recovery: family
The family of Whitney Houston’s only child says the young woman’s five-month fight for survival is nearing the end.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, never awoke after she was found facedown in a water-filled bathtub at her Georgia home on Jan. 31. A statement from her aunt indicated there’s little hope for recovery.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, never awoke after she was found facedown in a water-filled bathtub at her Georgia home on Jan. 31. A statement from her aunt indicated there’s little hope for recovery.
East Harlem gunplay leaves 3 men, 1 woman wounded
A broad daylight burst of gunfire in East Harlem Wednesday pierced the calm of an otherwise routine summer afternoon and left three men and a woman wounded, including one critically, authorities said.
S.I. man struck, killed by car while on park bench
A 57-year-old man sitting on a bench near a park on Staten Island was struck and killed by a vehicle that jumped the curb, police sources said Wednesday.
The incident happened just before 2 p.m. at Bay St. and Victory Boulevard, near where Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground in a confrontation that led to his death.
The man was sitting by Tompkinsville Park when two vehicles collided at the intersection, sources said.
One of the drivers lost control as the vehicle flipped onto its side, jumped the curb and hit the victim.
He died at Richmond University Medical Center at 2:39 p.m.
The incident happened just before 2 p.m. at Bay St. and Victory Boulevard, near where Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground in a confrontation that led to his death.
The man was sitting by Tompkinsville Park when two vehicles collided at the intersection, sources said.
One of the drivers lost control as the vehicle flipped onto its side, jumped the curb and hit the victim.
He died at Richmond University Medical Center at 2:39 p.m.
Shun divisive reports, Delta SSG urges journalists
The Secretary to the Delta State Government, Mr Ovie Agas, has tasked journalists to shun divisive reports and give prominence to issues that would promote peace and unity among the people.
Agas, a Mass Communications graduate and trained journalist, said sensationalism and falsehood have no place in journalism as an agent of social renaissance.
Speaking during a visit by the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, led by its chairman, Norbert Chiazor, the SSG said negative reporting was detrimental to a multi -ethnic state like Delta, which required cohesiveness, tolerance and spirit of oneness to thrive.
Agas, a Mass Communications graduate and trained journalist, said sensationalism and falsehood have no place in journalism as an agent of social renaissance.
Speaking during a visit by the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, led by its chairman, Norbert Chiazor, the SSG said negative reporting was detrimental to a multi -ethnic state like Delta, which required cohesiveness, tolerance and spirit of oneness to thrive.
Court restrains Wike from sacking 23 LG chairmen
By Jimitota Onoyume & Gbenga Oke
The National Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has restrained Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, the state House of Assembly and their agents from dissolving or, in any manner whatsoever, interfering with the tenure of office of the 23 local government council chairmen in Rivers State.
The National Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has restrained Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, the state House of Assembly and their agents from dissolving or, in any manner whatsoever, interfering with the tenure of office of the 23 local government council chairmen in Rivers State.
Osakwe Industrial Cluster gives EEDC 30 days ultimatum to improve power supply
By Chimaobi Nwaiwu
Nnewi — Osakwe Industrial Cluster, also known as Association of Small / Medium Scale Industries, Awada Obosi, near Onitsha, Anambra State, has given Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, 30-day ultimatum to address its complaints about poor power supply and crazy bills or face legal action.
The cluster alleged that it had written severally to the Managing Director of EEDC over what it called poor and erratic power supply to the cluster, but regretted that its complaints were ignored.
Nnewi — Osakwe Industrial Cluster, also known as Association of Small / Medium Scale Industries, Awada Obosi, near Onitsha, Anambra State, has given Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, 30-day ultimatum to address its complaints about poor power supply and crazy bills or face legal action.
The cluster alleged that it had written severally to the Managing Director of EEDC over what it called poor and erratic power supply to the cluster, but regretted that its complaints were ignored.
AIT Workers Shut Down Activities In Benin Station Again
After shutting down activities earlier this month at the Benin Station of AIT/Ray Power, the members of staff of DAAR Communications have again shut down activities. Why did they do that? Still on the same issue of their unpaid 17 months salaries. The stations (Tv and radio) are currently off air, as their numerous listeners awaits what’s next.

A migrant sits under the trailer of a lorry
Calais crisis: Migrants striving to reach England grateful for a 'traffic jam sent from heaven'
A 'dougar' has long been migrants' best chance to cross the Channel
Omar and his friends, stood on a motorway verge in Calais, called it "dougar". The word translates as "traffic jam" and it has long been their best chance of crossing the Channel to a new life in Britain. The last 24 hours has, for them at least, been a "dougar sent from heaven".
The aftermath of the ferry workers' strike which brought the French ferry port and the adjoining Channel Tunnel to a grinding, chaotic halt on Tuesday has continued to cause long queues - offering a second day of opportunity for some of the 3,000 migrants caught in Calais's grim limbo to try and board trucks heading for the UK.
Omar, a rangy 22-year-old with a crooked smile from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, had tried for most of Tuesday night to perform the perilous trick of the "dougar" specialists by attaching himself to the underside of a stationary truck with a belt fashioned from webbing and a steel hook.

 Migrants jump out of a lorry after being discovered by French gendarmerie officers (AP)
He had succeeded twice but each time was spotted by French CRS riot control officers who ushered him back out from under the wheels and sent him once more on his way. Other received less gentle treatment - one British motorist caught in the queues described seeing CRS officers spraying the trucks with pepper spray and watching migrants "drop off like flies".
Undismayed by his failure, Omar told The Independent: "It is the way it works. You try one hundred times, two hundred times, and one day you will get through the checks and the sniffer dogs to England. This dougar is sent from heaven - we can try many more times."

The reason the long lines of stationary HGVs are regarded as a celestial gift is not that this week's industrial dispute has increased the chance of success for Omar and his colleagues - most migrants seemed to be being spotted immediately or later removed during security checks. It is instead that the conveniently slowed traffic offers a decreased chance of death.
Read more: Calais strikes likely to happen again, warns Government
Eurostar and P&O services resume following Calais strikes
Aerial video shows migrants trying to board lorry
At least 15 migrants died last year in and around Calais as they spent months in squalid camps, playing a nightly - and, increasingly, daily - lethal game of cat and mouse to board the trucks. The most recent victim - a 25-year-old Eritrean man - was killed a fortnight ago. He died as he fell from the moving truck to which he had failed to attach himself securely close to the Tunnel entrance at Coquelles.
Omar, who like many others transiting through Calais is only here after surviving the even more treacherous ordeal of crossing the Mediterranean in an overloaded boat from Libya, said: "A stopped lorry is better than a moving one. This strike helps. But it is still tough - who wants to travel or live like this? Inshallah, I will get across soon and do something better in England. A singer maybe - I'm told I sound pretty good."
The uneasy coexistence between migrants - many of them refugees from bestial conflicts and regimes in places such as Syria or Eritrea; others simply seeking a better life - and their often reluctant hosts in Calais has reached a new nadir of mutual frustration in recent weeks.
The numbers estimated to be living rough in the town have increased from 2,000 to around 3,000 in the last year. One aid worker said he expected the total to reach closer to 4,000 before the end of the summer. The Home Office has said the number of interceptions of "clandestine entrants" to the UK has reached 19,000 so far this year - more than double the number during the same period in 2014.
 A lorry driver shouts at migrants after they try and board a UK bound lorry on the main road into Calais ferry port (PA)
The result is the existence of the "New Jungle" or "Jungle Deux" - a shanty town of tarpaulin-swathed tents and ad hoc huts which has appeared on the edge of Calais since hundreds of migrants were cleared from the city centre earlier in the year and is now home to most of its transitory population.
The French government this week announced plans to spend 500,000 euros (£360,000) to make "official" the New Jungle, which is named after a previous camp in the Calais hinterland which became associated with lawlessness in the face of official indifference. Electricity, running water and buildings will be provided after the United Nations and aid groups described the present situation, under which the camp is also divided into different and often rival nationalities, as an "intolerable humanitarian scandal".
Read more: Calais crisis - in pictures
Calais build-up 'directly connected' to migrant boat crossings
Calais crisis: How militancy and desperation collided
The Calais authorities have sought to lay blame for their status as a bottle neck in the tide of human aspiration and desperation flowing from the Mediterranean squarely at Britain's door. The deputy mayor, Philippe Mignonet this week called for all border controls to moved back to the other side of the Channel, threatening to "block the port" unless action is taken.
It is an atmosphere in which extremists are increasingly seeking to prosper. A far-right group calling itself "Sauvons Calais!" or "Let's Save Calais!" held a demonstration last week, waving a banner proclaiming that the town had been "dirtied" by immigration.
 Migrants sleep along a motorway leading to the ferry port in Calais (AP)
Few will concur publicly but many of in the port proclaimed themselves weary of the constant ebb and flow of migrants and police vans, whose occupants have been the subject of accusations of brutality.
Jean-Claude Wascat, collecting mussels in the harbour next to the ferry terminal with his wife, said: "We wish them well but we would like to have nothing more to do with the migrant problem now. They are not here to contribute to our town and I think people struggle to see why we should help much more."
Such fatigued disdain is far from universal. The migrants are sustained by hand outs from local charities and the skinheads of Sauvons Calais! were outnumbered ten to one by a counter-demonstration calling for tolerance. One placard, carried by an immigrant, read: "We live in the jungle but we are not animals."
In the meantime, even as the traffic eased last night, the deadly serious game of "dougar" shows no signs of abating.
Mahmood Hafeez, a 35-year-old teacher from the Syrian city of Aleppo, who has spent three months trying to make the final leg of his journey to Britain, said: "It's a routine. You spend one day of 'dougar' and then have one day of rest. It's exhausting but the alternative is to pay 1,000 euros to smugglers. I don't have 1,000 euros. I don't have much choice."
A migrant sits under the trailer of a lorry
Calais crisis: Migrants striving to reach England grateful for a 'traffic jam sent from heaven'
A 'dougar' has long been migrants' best chance to cross the Channel
Omar and his friends, stood on a motorway verge in Calais, called it "dougar". The word translates as "traffic jam" and it has long been their best chance of crossing the Channel to a new life in Britain. The last 24 hours has, for them at least, been a "dougar sent from heaven".
The aftermath of the ferry workers' strike which brought the French ferry port and the adjoining Channel Tunnel to a grinding, chaotic halt on Tuesday has continued to cause long queues - offering a second day of opportunity for some of the 3,000 migrants caught in Calais's grim limbo to try and board trucks heading for the UK.
Omar, a rangy 22-year-old with a crooked smile from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, had tried for most of Tuesday night to perform the perilous trick of the "dougar" specialists by attaching himself to the underside of a stationary truck with a belt fashioned from webbing and a steel hook.

 Migrants jump out of a lorry after being discovered by French gendarmerie officers (AP)
He had succeeded twice but each time was spotted by French CRS riot control officers who ushered him back out from under the wheels and sent him once more on his way. Other received less gentle treatment - one British motorist caught in the queues described seeing CRS officers spraying the trucks with pepper spray and watching migrants "drop off like flies".
Undismayed by his failure, Omar told The Independent: "It is the way it works. You try one hundred times, two hundred times, and one day you will get through the checks and the sniffer dogs to England. This dougar is sent from heaven - we can try many more times."

The reason the long lines of stationary HGVs are regarded as a celestial gift is not that this week's industrial dispute has increased the chance of success for Omar and his colleagues - most migrants seemed to be being spotted immediately or later removed during security checks. It is instead that the conveniently slowed traffic offers a decreased chance of death.
Read more: Calais strikes likely to happen again, warns Government
Eurostar and P&O services resume following Calais strikes
Aerial video shows migrants trying to board lorry
At least 15 migrants died last year in and around Calais as they spent months in squalid camps, playing a nightly - and, increasingly, daily - lethal game of cat and mouse to board the trucks. The most recent victim - a 25-year-old Eritrean man - was killed a fortnight ago. He died as he fell from the moving truck to which he had failed to attach himself securely close to the Tunnel entrance at Coquelles.
Omar, who like many others transiting through Calais is only here after surviving the even more treacherous ordeal of crossing the Mediterranean in an overloaded boat from Libya, said: "A stopped lorry is better than a moving one. This strike helps. But it is still tough - who wants to travel or live like this? Inshallah, I will get across soon and do something better in England. A singer maybe - I'm told I sound pretty good."
The uneasy coexistence between migrants - many of them refugees from bestial conflicts and regimes in places such as Syria or Eritrea; others simply seeking a better life - and their often reluctant hosts in Calais has reached a new nadir of mutual frustration in recent weeks.
The numbers estimated to be living rough in the town have increased from 2,000 to around 3,000 in the last year. One aid worker said he expected the total to reach closer to 4,000 before the end of the summer. The Home Office has said the number of interceptions of "clandestine entrants" to the UK has reached 19,000 so far this year - more than double the number during the same period in 2014.
 A lorry driver shouts at migrants after they try and board a UK bound lorry on the main road into Calais ferry port (PA)
The result is the existence of the "New Jungle" or "Jungle Deux" - a shanty town of tarpaulin-swathed tents and ad hoc huts which has appeared on the edge of Calais since hundreds of migrants were cleared from the city centre earlier in the year and is now home to most of its transitory population.
The French government this week announced plans to spend 500,000 euros (£360,000) to make "official" the New Jungle, which is named after a previous camp in the Calais hinterland which became associated with lawlessness in the face of official indifference. Electricity, running water and buildings will be provided after the United Nations and aid groups described the present situation, under which the camp is also divided into different and often rival nationalities, as an "intolerable humanitarian scandal".
Read more: Calais crisis - in pictures
Calais build-up 'directly connected' to migrant boat crossings
Calais crisis: How militancy and desperation collided
The Calais authorities have sought to lay blame for their status as a bottle neck in the tide of human aspiration and desperation flowing from the Mediterranean squarely at Britain's door. The deputy mayor, Philippe Mignonet this week called for all border controls to moved back to the other side of the Channel, threatening to "block the port" unless action is taken.
It is an atmosphere in which extremists are increasingly seeking to prosper. A far-right group calling itself "Sauvons Calais!" or "Let's Save Calais!" held a demonstration last week, waving a banner proclaiming that the town had been "dirtied" by immigration.
 Migrants sleep along a motorway leading to the ferry port in Calais (AP)
Few will concur publicly but many of in the port proclaimed themselves weary of the constant ebb and flow of migrants and police vans, whose occupants have been the subject of accusations of brutality.
Jean-Claude Wascat, collecting mussels in the harbour next to the ferry terminal with his wife, said: "We wish them well but we would like to have nothing more to do with the migrant problem now. They are not here to contribute to our town and I think people struggle to see why we should help much more."
Such fatigued disdain is far from universal. The migrants are sustained by hand outs from local charities and the skinheads of Sauvons Calais! were outnumbered ten to one by a counter-demonstration calling for tolerance. One placard, carried by an immigrant, read: "We live in the jungle but we are not animals."
In the meantime, even as the traffic eased last night, the deadly serious game of "dougar" shows no signs of abating.
Mahmood Hafeez, a 35-year-old teacher from the Syrian city of Aleppo, who has spent three months trying to make the final leg of his journey to Britain, said: "It's a routine. You spend one day of 'dougar' and then have one day of rest. It's exhausting but the alternative is to pay 1,000 euros to smugglers. I don't have 1,000 euros. I don't have much choice."
Extend Right To Buy to the tenants of private landlords, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn says
The ‘Right To Buy’ policy that lets council tenants buy their homes at a big discount should be extended to the tenants of private landlords, a Labour leadership contender has said.
Jeremy Corbyn said Labour needed to go further in tackling the housing crisis and that extending Right To Buy could help more people find a secure place to live.
Jeremy Corbyn said Labour needed to go further in tackling the housing crisis and that extending Right To Buy could help more people find a secure place to live.
Unpaid salaries: SERAP drags states, FG to ILO
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged state and the Federal Governments to International Labour Organisation (ILO), “requesting its Governing Body to, suo motu, and in its own capacity, establish without delay a commission of inquiry to examine systematic and egregious non-observance of Convention No 29 on Forced Labour and other international standards on the right of workers to timely payment of salaries.”
The organisation said the complaint was brought pursuant to Articles 26-34 of the ILO Constitution.
The complaint dated June 19, 2015 and signed by SERAP Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, was addressed to Guy Ryder, Director General, ILO. The complaint was copied to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The organisation said the complaint was brought pursuant to Articles 26-34 of the ILO Constitution.
The complaint dated June 19, 2015 and signed by SERAP Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, was addressed to Guy Ryder, Director General, ILO. The complaint was copied to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Could the European Union end up going the way of Arab unity?
Arab unity has been the most hopeless aspiration of the Middle East. The idea that the Arab world – the Arabic-speaking, largely Muslim land mass between the Atlantic and the borders of Iraq and Iran – could turn into one confederated nation whose wealth, political power and armies would dominate the most strategic area of the globe, has proved to be as delusional as the European Union has turned out to be real. Until now.
Game of Thrones, season 5 episode 10 review: From the cathartic to the heart-breaking – will anyone survive?
This week’s noble Westerosi body count: One Lannister, one Trant, two Baratheons, a wannabe Bolton, a Stark, a Greyjoy and a bastard.
Some of the deaths in this gory Game of Thrones finale were cathartic, such as Arya Stark’s stabby dispatchment of Sir Meryn Trant, or Ramsay’s girlfriend taking a long walk off a short battlement. Some were provisional: while Theon/Reek and Sansa seemed to agree silently on a suicide pact, it seems safe to assume their fall was broken by a snowdrift. At least one was heart-breaking – but more on Jon Snow later.

Some of the deaths in this gory Game of Thrones finale were cathartic, such as Arya Stark’s stabby dispatchment of Sir Meryn Trant, or Ramsay’s girlfriend taking a long walk off a short battlement. Some were provisional: while Theon/Reek and Sansa seemed to agree silently on a suicide pact, it seems safe to assume their fall was broken by a snowdrift. At least one was heart-breaking – but more on Jon Snow later.

New migrant rules will cost NHS thousands of nurses, says union
New stringent immigration rules will fuel a critical shortage of nurses in Britain, “cause chaos” in hospitals and cost the NHS millions, according to alarming projections carried out by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
Up to 3,365 nurses currently working in Britain are likely to be affected by a policy which says migrants from outside Europe must earn £35,000 or more if they are to be allowed to stay on after six years working here. Nurses rarely receive such salaries – particularly not within six years of starting work in the NHS.
Up to 3,365 nurses currently working in Britain are likely to be affected by a policy which says migrants from outside Europe must earn £35,000 or more if they are to be allowed to stay on after six years working here. Nurses rarely receive such salaries – particularly not within six years of starting work in the NHS.
N30 billion suit on GTBank
Nigeria’s first indigenous automobile manufacturer, Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited, has slammed a N30 billion suit against Guarantee Trust Bank, GTB, as a result of damages the company suffered following an ex parte order of Mareva Injunction, which GTB applied and obtained, freezing Innoson’s accounts in all the banks in Nigeria.
Sultan made my victory possible – Dogara
SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, attributed his emergence despite the stiff opposition from his All Progressives Congress, APC, party to the backing of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III.
Dogara defeated his opponent, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who was the party’s preferred candidate in the June 9 House of Representatives speakership election.

Dogara defeated his opponent, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who was the party’s preferred candidate in the June 9 House of Representatives speakership election.

Tax holidays require sanitisation — FIRS boss
By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief & Emmanuel Elebeke
Many Nigerians are looking up to the Federal Inland Revenue Service to bail the country out of the current revenue crisis, owing to the fall in oil revenue, what strategies have you put in place to raise your tax collection?
It is all about our common interest because we are all affected. If Nigeria does not have enough revenue, it would not be able to execute government programmes. But you know that the life line of the revenue source of this country is oil. If it does well, you would not know there is problem in all the other sectors. But how do you do effective tax administration in the face of the present tax system? A good tax system is based on the law, the policy and the administration.

Samuel-Ogugbesan
Many Nigerians are looking up to the Federal Inland Revenue Service to bail the country out of the current revenue crisis, owing to the fall in oil revenue, what strategies have you put in place to raise your tax collection?
It is all about our common interest because we are all affected. If Nigeria does not have enough revenue, it would not be able to execute government programmes. But you know that the life line of the revenue source of this country is oil. If it does well, you would not know there is problem in all the other sectors. But how do you do effective tax administration in the face of the present tax system? A good tax system is based on the law, the policy and the administration.

Guide to investing in Treasury Bills
My last article about Fixed Income Investment was very well received and it did in fact bring up more questions. A lot of folks wanted to know more about Treasury Bills and how to invest in it. I have therefore compiled this guide to assist anyone who may be interested in investing.
What are T-Bills?
T-Bills are government guaranteed debt instruments issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria to control money supply in the economy.
What are T-Bills?
T-Bills are government guaranteed debt instruments issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria to control money supply in the economy.
Buhari to provide free education, social welfare for unemployment with subsidy removal
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North
Nigeria’s naked Lawmakers
By Tonnie Iredia
In July 2010, renowned law Professor, Itse Sagay, raised an alarm that Nigerian lawmakers were the highest paid in the globe. Sagay found that a Nigerian Senator earns N240 million ($1.7 million) in salaries and allowances while his counterpart in the House of Representatives earns about N204 million ($1.45 million) per annum. Realizing that an American senator earns $174, 000 while a UK parliamentarian earns about $64, 000 per annum, Sagay condemned the Nigerian situation as “a breach of public trust”.
No one in authority took on the legal guru to reveal his source or defend his allegation. At about the same time, an organization-the Global Coordinators Champions for Nigerian Organizations-published all the allowances of a Nigerian legislator inclusive of ‘recess allowance’ which explains why our legislators are always on recess. Public outcry over the subject lingered for another three months until the then celebrated Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido, now Emir of Kano publicly ignited the fire the more with his assertion that 25% of our budget was being consumed by the National Assembly. Lamido who spoke on the topic ‘Growth Prospects for the Nigerian Economy’ at the convocation of the Igbinedion University Okada frowned at the exploitation of the wealth of the nation by a few people and called on Nigerians “to stop complaining about these people and do something about them”. But nothing was done.

In July 2010, renowned law Professor, Itse Sagay, raised an alarm that Nigerian lawmakers were the highest paid in the globe. Sagay found that a Nigerian Senator earns N240 million ($1.7 million) in salaries and allowances while his counterpart in the House of Representatives earns about N204 million ($1.45 million) per annum. Realizing that an American senator earns $174, 000 while a UK parliamentarian earns about $64, 000 per annum, Sagay condemned the Nigerian situation as “a breach of public trust”.
No one in authority took on the legal guru to reveal his source or defend his allegation. At about the same time, an organization-the Global Coordinators Champions for Nigerian Organizations-published all the allowances of a Nigerian legislator inclusive of ‘recess allowance’ which explains why our legislators are always on recess. Public outcry over the subject lingered for another three months until the then celebrated Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido, now Emir of Kano publicly ignited the fire the more with his assertion that 25% of our budget was being consumed by the National Assembly. Lamido who spoke on the topic ‘Growth Prospects for the Nigerian Economy’ at the convocation of the Igbinedion University Okada frowned at the exploitation of the wealth of the nation by a few people and called on Nigerians “to stop complaining about these people and do something about them”. But nothing was done.

Dylann Storm Roof: 'Manifesto' appears on website showing new pictures of Charleston gunman

Dylann Roof pictured on the website that also featured a rambling 'manifesto'
Dylann Storm Roof: 'Manifesto' appears on website showing new pictures of Charleston gunman
Document was found on website registered in suspect's name earlier this ye
Federal agents are investigating a website containing new images of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof and a racist manifesto that may have been written by him. The images show Mr Roof posing in front of Confederate civil war sites and former slave plantations, and burning the American flag.
Dylann Roof pictured on the website that also featured a rambling 'manifesto'
Dylann Storm Roof: 'Manifesto' appears on website showing new pictures of Charleston gunman
Document was found on website registered in suspect's name earlier this ye
Federal agents are investigating a website containing new images of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof and a racist manifesto that may have been written by him. The images show Mr Roof posing in front of Confederate civil war sites and former slave plantations, and burning the American flag.
I cannot rest when the world is being terrorised — Prof. Ibrahim Gambari
The odds against Boko Haram amnesty’
Professor Ibrahim Gambari was Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs during General Muhammadu Buhari’s first coming as Head of State in 1984. He moved on to serve at the United Nations as Nigeria’s Permanent Representative and was the Chairman of the National Anti-Apartheid Committee for over 20 years. He served as the first black Political Secretary of the United Nations under Dr. Kofi Annan and was UN envoy to Myammar and Dafur, Sudan before he retired in 2012 to set up the Savannah Centre.
In this interview, Prof. Gambari speaks on global terrorism, and why the concept of amnesty and Boko Haram may not synch.
Professor Ibrahim Gambari was Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs during General Muhammadu Buhari’s first coming as Head of State in 1984. He moved on to serve at the United Nations as Nigeria’s Permanent Representative and was the Chairman of the National Anti-Apartheid Committee for over 20 years. He served as the first black Political Secretary of the United Nations under Dr. Kofi Annan and was UN envoy to Myammar and Dafur, Sudan before he retired in 2012 to set up the Savannah Centre.
In this interview, Prof. Gambari speaks on global terrorism, and why the concept of amnesty and Boko Haram may not synch.
Buhari merge EFCC, ICPC; 42 ministries reduced to 19
50 agencies of govt to be scrapped
By Soni Daniel,
Regional Editor, North
After three weeks of consultations with international and Nigeria’s political leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to effect major changes in the administration of the country in a bid to translate the ‘change’ mantra of his party into reality. To start with, the President is said to have accepted the recommendation of the transition committee he raised a few weeks ago to slash the number of ministries from the present 42 to 19 with a view to saving cost and making them more effective and responsive to the needs of Nigerians.
In the same vein, many of the ministries have been merged to ensure proper coordination of duties and ensure greater efficiency and service delivery.

By Soni Daniel,
Regional Editor, North
After three weeks of consultations with international and Nigeria’s political leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to effect major changes in the administration of the country in a bid to translate the ‘change’ mantra of his party into reality. To start with, the President is said to have accepted the recommendation of the transition committee he raised a few weeks ago to slash the number of ministries from the present 42 to 19 with a view to saving cost and making them more effective and responsive to the needs of Nigerians.
In the same vein, many of the ministries have been merged to ensure proper coordination of duties and ensure greater efficiency and service delivery.

Senate President: APC could not match Saraki’s political sagacity – Senator Ben Obi
By Vincent Ujumadu
SENATOR Ben Ndii Obi is the immediate past Presidential Adviser on Inter Party Affairs. Before then, he had held many political positions, including being the National Secretary of the defunct All Peoples Party, APP, vice presidential candidate and the senator for Anambra Central. In this interview, Obi speaks on Senate President Bukola Saraki and why there is need for the executive and the legislative arms of government to work together.
You were close to the Saraki family. What can you say about the new Senate President?
In 1999, I was the Adviser in the office of the National Security Adviser and, soon after, President Obasanjo appointed Bukola Saraki a Special Assistant. Bukola didn’t want to accept it. It took almost three months for him to make up his mind. One day I called him and he came to my office and I said, ‘if you don’t accept this appointment, you may run into trouble with the president and your bank may also suffer serious consequences’. So he had to take leave of the bank.
The father had said to me to talk to him because he knew that his son would listen to me and I am happy that I convinced him. I told him he could still oversee the affairs of the bank without playing the day to day role. That was how he assumed office as Special Assistant to the President.
SENATOR Ben Ndii Obi is the immediate past Presidential Adviser on Inter Party Affairs. Before then, he had held many political positions, including being the National Secretary of the defunct All Peoples Party, APP, vice presidential candidate and the senator for Anambra Central. In this interview, Obi speaks on Senate President Bukola Saraki and why there is need for the executive and the legislative arms of government to work together.
You were close to the Saraki family. What can you say about the new Senate President?
In 1999, I was the Adviser in the office of the National Security Adviser and, soon after, President Obasanjo appointed Bukola Saraki a Special Assistant. Bukola didn’t want to accept it. It took almost three months for him to make up his mind. One day I called him and he came to my office and I said, ‘if you don’t accept this appointment, you may run into trouble with the president and your bank may also suffer serious consequences’. So he had to take leave of the bank.
The father had said to me to talk to him because he knew that his son would listen to me and I am happy that I convinced him. I told him he could still oversee the affairs of the bank without playing the day to day role. That was how he assumed office as Special Assistant to the President.
North Korea: we have cure for Ebola, cancer.
North Korea has created a wonder drug which they say it only does not cure Aids, but also eradicates Ebola and cancer. According to them, the miracle cure consists of ginseng grown from fertiliser and a mix of other ingredients- but did not reveal the special combination.
The dictatorship, which is known for making far-fetched claims about its achievements, says that the medicine will apparently be injectable and will be known by the name of Kumdang-2. But reports according to international media have doubted the claims
The dictatorship, which is known for making far-fetched claims about its achievements, says that the medicine will apparently be injectable and will be known by the name of Kumdang-2. But reports according to international media have doubted the claims
Pastor calls for jail term for women who call God's name during sex
Dr. John Hagee, the founder and senior pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, not only agrees with what the Bible says, but also takes the faith to a higher level.
One of the things that the Bible has consistently denounced is the taking of the Lord’s name in vain. Speaking exclusively with Newslo, Hagee stated that ;in this world of crimes and deaths that
surround us, a simple blasphemy does not get that much attention when it should.”
One of the things that the Bible has consistently denounced is the taking of the Lord’s name in vain. Speaking exclusively with Newslo, Hagee stated that ;in this world of crimes and deaths that
surround us, a simple blasphemy does not get that much attention when it should.”
Warning of Likelihood of MERS Outbreak in Nigeria
An unverified circular which has gone viral on social media purported to emanate from the office of the National security adviser and addressed to the permanent secretary of the federal ministry of health (Ref No: NSA/A/208/C) has warned of the likelihood of MERS outbreak in Nigeria
Dated 10th June 2015 and signed by Rtd Brigadier General TT WAYA reads:
On 20 May 2015, Republic of korea's index case of the middle east respiratory syndrome
Dated 10th June 2015 and signed by Rtd Brigadier General TT WAYA reads:
Rwandan Nurses Get Specialised Training in India
Three Rwandan nurses from Butaro Hospital in Burera District are undergoing specialised training in various fields at SevenHills Hospital, one of India's major specialist healthcare service providers.
Dr. Jitendradas Maganti, the SevenHills Hospital chairman and managing director, said the nurses will receive both classroom training as well as a practical orientation in the various departments.
Areas of specialisation being offered include oncology, dialysis, cardiology, emergency, outpatient department and day care during the four-week intensive training in Mumbai.
Dr. Jitendradas Maganti, the SevenHills Hospital chairman and managing director, said the nurses will receive both classroom training as well as a practical orientation in the various departments.
Areas of specialisation being offered include oncology, dialysis, cardiology, emergency, outpatient department and day care during the four-week intensive training in Mumbai.
Red Devil caught mid-air by team-mate after his parachute failed to open
Dramatic scenes unfolded yesterday after a Red Devil parachutist’s chute failed to open – before a team-mate caught him mid-air.
The incident took place at the Whitehaven Air Show in Cumbria on Friday night.
Both men crashed into harbour waters below and no injuries were sustained
In a message on the show’s Facebook page, the parachute display team said: “We can confirm that the Red Devil parachutists are both safe and sound. For the first time in 25 years they had a parachute fail.”
The incident took place at the Whitehaven Air Show in Cumbria on Friday night.
Both men crashed into harbour waters below and no injuries were sustained
In a message on the show’s Facebook page, the parachute display team said: “We can confirm that the Red Devil parachutists are both safe and sound. For the first time in 25 years they had a parachute fail.”
Charleston shooting: Dylann Roof 'wanted to target university but couldn't get past security'
The man accused of massacring nine people at a church in Charleston intended to target a local university but could not get past security, friends have claimed.
Dylann Roof has been charged with murdering six women and three men at a Bible study meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Wednesday.
Investigators have called it a “hate crime” and suggested the 21-year-old chose the predominantly black institution because of his racism.

Dylann Roof has been charged with murdering six women and three men at a Bible study meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Wednesday.
Investigators have called it a “hate crime” and suggested the 21-year-old chose the predominantly black institution because of his racism.

Earth is entering sixth extinction phase with many species – including our own – labelled 'the walking dead'
The plant is entering a new period of extinction with top scientists warning that species all over the world are “essentially the walking dead” – including our own.
The report, authored by scientists at Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley universities, found that vertebrates were vanishing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.
In the damning report, published in the Science Advances journal, researchers note that the last similar event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs disappeared, most probably as a result of an asteroid.

The report, authored by scientists at Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley universities, found that vertebrates were vanishing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.
In the damning report, published in the Science Advances journal, researchers note that the last similar event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs disappeared, most probably as a result of an asteroid.
FG to shut down benin airport for runway repairs
The Federal Government yesterday said that it will shut down the Benin airport’s runway on Saturday, June 20 to Friday, July 10, 2015 the purpose of repair and maintenance.
Disclosing this development to newsmen, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Onyekwere Nnaekpe pointed out that the temporary closure was to facilitate rehabilitation work on the airport’s runway.
Mr. Nnaekpe however added that the agency NOTAM had been sent to adequately inform airlines’ operators and passengers of the development.
Disclosing this development to newsmen, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Onyekwere Nnaekpe pointed out that the temporary closure was to facilitate rehabilitation work on the airport’s runway.
Mr. Nnaekpe however added that the agency NOTAM had been sent to adequately inform airlines’ operators and passengers of the development.
Oxford’s Professor of poetry: Wole Soyinka loses race to British poet, Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
Prof. Wole Soyinka has lost the race to be Oxford’s Professor of poetry to British poet, Simon Armitage.
Armitage, the popular poet and broadcaster, secured 1,221 votes – 301 more than his closest rival, Wole Soyinka.
Buhari will determine SURE-P’s future of , says Chairman
The Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Mr Ishaya Akau, on Friday, said its future and fate were with the new administration.
Akau said this while exchanging views with the Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, in Abuja.
Akau said this while exchanging views with the Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, in Abuja.
How to Nurture your Baby's Spine Development
“Stand up straight!” We have all heard this at some point in our lives. And while the intention of encouraging proper spinal alignment is good, our spines are actually not straight, nor should they ever be to properly balance us through day-to-day activity and to support our muscles and organs. A properly developed spine is actually shaped like an elongated S. The first year of life and the movement experiences you provide your baby are key to the proper spinal development.
The Primary Curve: C shape
Russia warns Sweden it will face military action if it joins Nato
Russia would take military "countermeasures" if Sweden were to join Nato, according to the Russian ambassodor.
In an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Viktor Tatarinstev warned against joining the Nato alliance, saying there would be "consequences".
Decrying what he called an "aggressive propaganda campaign" by the media, Tatarinstev stressed that "Sweden is not a target for our armed troops".

NRA board member blames deceased pastor for the death
A National Rifle Association board member has blamed the political position of South Carolina State Senator — and pastor — Clementa Pinckney for the church massacre in Charleston that left nine people dead.
Charleston shooting: Dylann Roof charged with nine counts of murder and one weapons offence - live updates
'I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country,' he reportedly told a survivor as he gunned down black women and men'
The US is in mourning today for the nine people shot dead at a church in Charleston on Wednesday night as the suspected gunman remains in custody. Here are the latest updates:
The US is in mourning today for the nine people shot dead at a church in Charleston on Wednesday night as the suspected gunman remains in custody. Here are the latest updates:
Children raped, castrated, thrown into fires in South Sudan – UN
Warring forces in South Sudan have carried out horrific crimes against children, including castration, rape and tying them together before slitting their throats, the UN has said.
“Survivors report that boys have been castrated and left to bleed to death… girls as young as eight have been gang raped and murdered,” UN children’s agency chief Anthony Lake said in a statement released earlier this week.
“Survivors report that boys have been castrated and left to bleed to death… girls as young as eight have been gang raped and murdered,” UN children’s agency chief Anthony Lake said in a statement released earlier this week.
Diaspora groups hail Oye’s victory as new APGA chairman
By Emeka Aginam
While commending the Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano for the peaceful conduct of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) national convention held recently in Awka, Anambra State, members of the party living in the United Kingdom and South Africa respectively have congratulated the National chairman elect, Dr. Victor K. Oye and the General Secretary Labaran Maku for their victories.
In a statement jointly signed by the diaspora group representatives, Engr. Henry Onyekumnaru.
While commending the Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano for the peaceful conduct of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) national convention held recently in Awka, Anambra State, members of the party living in the United Kingdom and South Africa respectively have congratulated the National chairman elect, Dr. Victor K. Oye and the General Secretary Labaran Maku for their victories.
In a statement jointly signed by the diaspora group representatives, Engr. Henry Onyekumnaru.
LAGOS TRAFFIC: Ambode assesses flashpoints, relocates bus terminals
By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Lagos — Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday, visited some of the major traffic flaspoints in the metropolis, stating that his administration will provide solutions to traffic snarls in the state just as he approved the construction of a pedestrian bridge at Ojodu Berger Bus Stop.
Lagos — Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday, visited some of the major traffic flaspoints in the metropolis, stating that his administration will provide solutions to traffic snarls in the state just as he approved the construction of a pedestrian bridge at Ojodu Berger Bus Stop.
Ben Bruce to Osun govt: I will not respond to your attack during Ramadan
THE lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has said that in the spirit of the month of Ramadan observed by Muslim faithfuls, he will not respond to critics over his decision to donate half of his wardrobe allowance to the unpaid workers in Osun state.

Ben Bruce



APC, federal lawmakers in fresh face-off
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, & Henry Umoru
ABUJA—A sequel to the still unsettled crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, arising from last week’s National Assembly leadership contest, another crisis may be in the offing as lawmakers take up battle with national officers of the party over the appointment of principal officers of the legislature.
ABUJA—A sequel to the still unsettled crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, arising from last week’s National Assembly leadership contest, another crisis may be in the offing as lawmakers take up battle with national officers of the party over the appointment of principal officers of the legislature.
Hungary proposes 110-mile long barrier along entire Serbian border to keep migrants out
Hungary is proposing a 110-mile long barrier along its border with Serbia to keep out desperate migrants fleeing conflict and persecution.
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, claimed the 13ft tall fence would not contravene international law and was necessary to “defend” his country.
“The Hungarian government is committed to defending Hungary and defending the Hungarian people from the immigration pressure,” he said on Wednesday.

“Hungary cannot allow itself to wait any longer. Naturally, we hope there will be a joint European solution.”
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, claimed the 13ft tall fence would not contravene international law and was necessary to “defend” his country.
“The Hungarian government is committed to defending Hungary and defending the Hungarian people from the immigration pressure,” he said on Wednesday.

Move out of Parliament or repairs will cost taxpayers £7bn and take up to 40 years, MPs are told
Repairing the crumbling Houses of Parliament could take as long as 40 years and cost taxpayers £7 billion if MPs refuse to temporarily decamp elsewhere, a report has concluded.
An independent appraisal by industry experts set out the options for refurbishing the 150-year-old Grade I listed building, with the cheapest option - costing £3.5 billion - requiring MPs and peers to decamp to an alternative location for six years while repairs are carried out.
An independent appraisal by industry experts set out the options for refurbishing the 150-year-old Grade I listed building, with the cheapest option - costing £3.5 billion - requiring MPs and peers to decamp to an alternative location for six years while repairs are carried out.
United States set to store heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe as deterrent to Russia
The United States is set to put heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe in an attempt to deter Russian aggression, American and allied officials say.
The Pentagon's plans include storing battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries.
Russia calls investigation into whether US moon landings happened
The increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Russia might be about to face a new challenge: a Russian investigation into American moon landings.
In an op-ed published by Russian newspaper Izvestia, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the government's official Investigative Committee, argued that such an investigation could reveal new insights into the historical space journeys.
According to a translation by the Moscow Times, Markin would support an inquiry into the disappearance of original footage from the first moon landing in 1969 and the whereabouts of lunar rock, which was brought back to Earth during several missions.

In an op-ed published by Russian newspaper Izvestia, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the government's official Investigative Committee, argued that such an investigation could reveal new insights into the historical space journeys.
According to a translation by the Moscow Times, Markin would support an inquiry into the disappearance of original footage from the first moon landing in 1969 and the whereabouts of lunar rock, which was brought back to Earth during several missions.

Police searching for woman with 'pink nails and heavy make-up' after attack on London Tube
Police are trying to trace a woman with “long pink nails and heavy make-up” after a passenger was attacked on the London Underground.
Northern Line trains had to be temporarily stopped on Wednesday morning during the incident in rush hour.
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