US Government condemns Jonathan's pardon for Alams and others ( What Do You Think?)

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The United States Government is deeply disappointed over the recent pardons of corrupt officials by the Government of Nigeria. We see this as a setback in the fight against corruption." US Mission in Nigeria.
Meanwhile presidential spokesman Doyin Okupe has said the the Presidential Pardon granted the former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, can be equated to the same pardon accorded late Emeka Ojukwu and Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

CHOP OUR MONEY: See The Names of Nigerians with Oil Blocks

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S/No	Name of Operator	LicenCe	Year of Award	Names of Directors/shareholders
1	Alfred James Petroleum	OPL 302	1991	Adewunmi Sijuade, Goke Sijuade, Adedeji Sijuade, Olayinka Sijude, Adeyemi Osiyemi and Femisola Awosika, with A.O Adeyinka as Chairman
2	Soglas Nigeria Limited	OPL 226	1991	Oscar P. Udoji, P.E Udoji, E.E. Nwosu, with J.O. Udoji as Chairman
3	NorthEast Petroleum	OPL 215, 840 &902	1991	Kommer Complex Limited, Nwokema Ngozi Mbu, Abubakar Jubril and Ashiru B. Aliu, A. Ayankoya with Saleh Jambo as Chairman

HEARTLESS: Woman Commits Suicide and Takes her Baby with her as She Jumps From Building

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The scratches on a 10-month-old’s face are the only sign of his terrifying eight-story plunge from a Harlem window after his mom took him on her fatal leap.

The baby boy, Keston, showed no signs of any major injuries while under observation at Harlem Hospital on Thursday. It was just a day after lawyer Cynthia Wachenheim strapped the baby to her chest and jumped from her Bradhurst Ave. apartment window, sources said.

Wachenheim, 44, landed on her back, absorbing the impact of the fatal fall. An autopsy found that she suffered a fractured skull and broken bones in her wrist and right leg.

Sources said she jumped nearly three hours after her husband, Hal Bacharach, 48, stormed out of the apartment during an argument.

TROUBLESOME: N Korea testfires tactical missiles

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The North Korean military has fired a salvo of tactical surface-to-surface missiles into the Sea of Japan.

The missiles were KN-02s, capable of hitting targets at distances of up to 120 kilometers.

South Korean defence officials have described the exercises as division-level.

Voice of Russia, Interfax

Another Yahoo Boy: EFCC Arraigns Akinluyi Akintunde for 1.1 Billion Naira Scam

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 arraigned Akinluyi Akintunde (a.k.a Akin Cindy) before Justice Bolaji Yusuf of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan on a two count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of documents containing false pretence contrary to Sections 6, 8(b) and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 0f 2006. 

Akintunde allegedly obtained the sum of $450.00(Four Hundred and Fifty USD) from one Robert Jackson via Western Union Money Transfer and another $6,450,000.00 (Six million, Four Hundred and Forty UDS) about 1.1 billion naira through false documents.

Woman Shot Dead by Sheriff For Shoplifting At the Store

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Shelly Frey, 27, was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy at a Houston, TX., Walmart. The deputy was suspicious of Frey, saying he thought she was stealing from the store, reports UK Daily Mail. Harris County Sheriff’s deputies said that Shelly Frey, Tisa Andrews and Yolanda Craig were shoplifting when they were stopped by Louis Campbell, a 26-year veteran of the force, who is employed as a security guard at Walmart.

Campbell said that the women dashed to their car, and when he went to open their car door, they drove away.

PhotoShop Angel-Shaped Cloud Appears In Florida Sky After New Pope Is Announced (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Some say it's nothing. Others believe it's a message from heaven on a big day for the Roman Catholic Church.

Just hours after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio made his first appearance as Pope Francis at the Vatican, Florida resident Jodi Guthrie snapped a photo of a stunning cloud shaped like an angel hovering in the sky over Royal Palm Beach. 

The photo, which was first posted by WPTV, quickly went viral as others who spotted the cloud also sent in their own images. Another stunning angle was posted by WFLX weatherman Steve Weagle.

Pastor Chris Okotie Scammed Conned

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Scammers have cloned the Facebook account of Nigeria’s celebrity pastor and three-time presidential candidate, Rev. Chris Okotie, and are using it to extort money from the public, his spokesman warned in a statement on Thursday.

Account cloning is when scammers copy a user’s Facebook profile picture onto a new account along with the user’s name and use the new account for various scams.

Ladi Ayodeji, Director of Media and Communications Strategy at Household of God Church, Okotie’s church, disclosed that at least two of such accounts have been created.

What Happens When US Is After You: $2 trillion spent and 190,000 lives lost to kill one dictator

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On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, the Costs of War Project of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University released a report on the casualties and expenditures of the Iraq war.

The preamble of the report states, "The United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003 on the false pretext that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. The mass destruction of the invasion, occupation, and civil war followed, and amplified the societal and health disintegration caused by the previous decade of sanctions. Iraqi lives and communities remain war-devastated ten years on. American military and contractor families struggle with the loss of loved ones as well as the emotional and economic burdens of living with long-term injuries and illnesses. Total US federal spending associated with the Iraq war has been $1.7 trillion through FY2013. In addition, future health and disability payments for veterans will total $590 billion and interest accrued to pay for the war will add up to $3.9 trillion."

Man Rapes His Daughter While Wife Was Asleep

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A 31-year-old man accused of raping his 10-year-old daughter in the kitchen while the mother was sleeping in the bedroom, has appeared in court.

The man appeared before regional magistrate Ms Estere Chivasa who deferred the matter to today for trial continuation. In his defence, the man told the court that it was impossible to leave his wife sleeping in the bedroom and go on to rape his step-daughter in the kitchen.

He also said that the allegations he is facing were fabricated on the basis that he has been having problems with the girl's mother for the past four years. This was allegedly after the girl's mother found out an illicit affair with another girl he intended to marry, so she promised to fix him.

Photos: 8 Perfectly Preserved Dead World Leaders You Can Visit

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Traditions aren’t traditions if they’re not a little weird, right?

“We have decided to prepare the body of our “Comandante President,” to embalm it so that it remains open for all time for the people,” Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro declared on Thursday, in announcing plans to preserve Hugo Chávez’s body and showcase it in a glass tomb at a military museum near the presidential palace.

“Just like Ho Chi Minh. Just like Lenin. Just like Mao Zedong.”

In fact, it turns out Maduro was missing a few names. The practice of embalming national (mainly communist) leaders and boxing their bodies in glass for posterity may have gone out of vogue with the end of the Cold War, but Chávez still has distinguished company.

Here are the most notable members of the exclusive club:

Vladimir Lenin, Russia. Died: Jan. 21, 1924

50,000 – 100,000 Babies Born With HIV in Nigeria Annually – Report

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A recent report has shown that between 50,000 and 100,000 of babies born in the country yearly are carriers of HIV.

The report was released on Tuesday in Abuja, when the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, hosted the National Steering Group of the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive.

The group was constituted by President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2012 to help mobilise national leadership for global plan on eliminating mother-to-child transmission, implementation and keeping their mothers alive.

The NSG has since been working across states of the federation, seeking to end transmission of the scourge.

Oscar Leaves Inspiration FM, Joins City FM As Head Of Programmes

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Popular broadcaster and On-air-personality Gbemileke Oyinsan otherwise known as Oscar has left Inspiration FM 92.3 after four years. The ever cheerful OAP has picked up a new job at another Lagos based radio station City FM 105.1 as Head of Programmes. Oscar says there were a couple of reasons he left Inspiration FM in December 2012, one of them being his recent marriage to another Inspiration FM radio presenter Titi who he tied the knot On April 30, 2012.

‘Their marriage doesn’t really follow the company’s poilicies, if you understand‘, a worker at Inspiration tells us.

‘Well, I got married to Titi in April then there was also my Master Degree I had to get done‘, Oscar told NET in a telephone chat. ‘I also fully setup my media com Amber 11‘, he added Oscar resumed at City FM as Head of Programmes in January and currently hosts the ‘Breakfast in the City‘ show.