Wednesday, December 18, 2013
15,316 Nigerians in various prisons abroad – official
Dankano on Monday in Abuja said that many of the prisoners were in the Asian-pacific region for drug-trafficking related offences.
6 soldiers from the US-led NATO mission Died in Afghan helicopter.
However the Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the deaths, using their main Twitter account to report that their fighters had shot down a US helicopter in the province of Zabul.
The incident was the single biggest loss of life for the NATO mission in Afghanistan since seven Georgian soldiers died when a suicide bomber blew up a truck loaded with explosives outside a base in Helmand province in June.
Hundreds dead, up to 20 thousands flee South Sudan clashes to UN
The United States ordered non-essential embassy staff out of the country, the world’s youngest nation and awash with guns after decades of war, amid fears of a descent into wider ethnic violence.
In the capital Juba, gunfire still rang out into the early hours of Wednesday morning, an AFP reporter said.
“There are people walking in the city this morning, but it would be premature to say things are back to normal,” he said.
PDP Crisis deepens: 37 PDP Lawmakers Defect To APC
37 members of the House of Representatives who were
formerly under the umbrella of the Peoples’ Democratic Party have
defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
The lawmakers said that they are joining the APC due to “division and factionalisation” within the ruling party. Decampees also said that their defection to the APC is in obedience to section 68, subsection 1G of the constitution.
NSA's goal is elimination of everyone's privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU.
The NSA’s ultimate goal along with its UK partner, the GCHQ, is to eliminate individual privacy worldwide, journalist Glenn Greenwald has told an EU inquiry.
Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament over NSA
Glenn
Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward
Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s
Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection. He
is participating in an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU
citizens. Follow live updates here.
The inquiry was set up to discuss ratcheting up the security of the internet and telephone networks in the European Union.
Snowden is also expected to testify before the Civil Liberties Committee in January as part of the inquiry.
RTEx-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies on NSA spying before EU parliament. LIVE UPDATES
Greenwald, the former Guardian
journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying
before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home
Affairs via video connection, contributing to an inquiry into the NSA’s
surveillance on EU citizens.
- Free press: it is hard to overstate how important it was for me to speek out on surveillance. But UK gov't threatens journalists who cover surveillance prog - Greenwald
West continues to put "overt pressure" on Ukrainian gov't - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
Russia is "surprised by attempts to put overt pressure on the Ukrainian government, which continue despite the decisions made in Moscow yesterday," Lavrov said in remarks to Russia's upper house of parliament.
Reuters
Russian-Ukrainian action plan 'provides President Yanukovych and his government with breathing space' - expert
Gazprom will sell gas to Ukraine at
268.5 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters, Russian President Vladimir Putin
said on Tuesday. Also, Russia will convert 15 billion dollars worth of
its National Welfare Fund - a rainy day fund - into Ukrainian securities
to help it stave off financial crisis. The deal was signed after talks
in Moscow between Mr Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor
Yanukovych. The issue of Ukraine joining the Customs Union was not
discussed during the talks. The two presidents met in Moscow to chair
the Russian-Ukrainian inter-governmental commission. Our source
discussed it with Lilit Gevorgyan, Commonwealth of Independent States and Russia analyst at UK-based economic organization IHS Global Insight.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Barbaric: Commercial Bus Driver Rápes Passenger From 7p.m To 10a.m
According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was one of his passengers.
On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was remaining in the bus and drove to an uncompleted building beside the Mayor Market and started ráping the victim.
Explosion Rocks Rivers state Deputy Governor’s office
Ms. Semenitari said the explosion is suspected to have occurred after a dynamite was thrown into the building at about 3 am Tuesday.
Sweet Yoruba Actress,Lola Ajibola Loses Mum To Cancer!
Crime: Lagos Pastor Beats Accused Witch Woman To Death In Lagos Church [Phot'd]
Reportedly, Mrs. Oluranti Adesina, Tawakalitu’s mother said that Razak, his father and the leader of a white garment church where her daughter died, know something about the young woman’s strange death.
Heartless: Ghanaian Man In UK Stabs Wife to death For Flirting With A Nigerian [PICTURED]
Minta Adiddo sent Akua Agyeman a Christmas card as she was being treated in hospital, blaming the attack on 'devils', the Old Bailey heard.
The 32-year-old mother of two died two months after the brutal stabbing, which was witnessed by her five-year-old daughter. Adiddo, 38, was today given a life sentence after being convicted of murder, with a minimum term of 17 years.
60-Yr-Old Man Nabbed in Bed Making Love With 11-Yr-Old Girl Freed Bcos They Are in Love
Culled from coloradonewsday
A court has annulled a five-year jail term for a 60-year-old man who was caught having sex with an 11-year-old-girl because they have a ‘romantic relationship’. The supreme court in the southern Italian town of Catanzaro ruled that it was a ‘real relationship’.
The young girl is said to be from a disadvantaged background and was in the care of a man who works for the town’s social services department. However, police raided the man’s seaside villa to find the pair unclad in bed together.
SHOCKER: Commercial Bus Driver Rapes Passenger From 7p.M To 10a.M
According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was one of his passengers.
On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was remaining in the bus and drove to an uncompleted building beside the Mayor Market and started defiling the victim.
Israel sends 150 protesting African migrants back to jail
Aided by rights groups, the migrants had travelled to Jerusalem to demonstrate outside the Israeli parliament, which last week passed a law allowing authorities to hold illegal migrants in an "open facility" until they leave the country. The Israeli government says that most of the 50,000 African migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean, who have since 2006 crossed over the Egyptian border into its territory, are illegal job-seekers who threaten the Jewish state's social makeup.
Reuters
9/11 suspect removed from Guantanamo Bay prison hearing after outburst
One of the men accused of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks was removed from a US military court on Tuesday after making an outburst about a secret CIA prison. Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, accused of helping the hijackers enter the United States and of financing the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, was ejected from a pre-trial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on the judge's orders.
His
removal came shortly after Binalshibh's lawyer suggested that guards at
the US military prison in Cuba were deliberately depriving his client
of sleep.
"He
could not sleep at all last night because of the noise he is exposed
to," said Navy Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki. "He is too tired to
pay attention."
Ukraine-China: 'third alternative'
The Europe-Ukraine-Russia triangle may turn into a quadruple if China enters the game. Faced with a contracting labor market and limited credit resources, East and Central European countries approach Ukraine’s associated membership in the European Union with caution, fearing that it all may end up in Kiev claiming its fair share of the pie.
EU
strategists are racking their brains over how to lure Kiev, while
keeping East European member states less concerned about it. Ukraine’s
hopes to negotiate more favorable terms failed. When President Viktor
Yanukovych requested 150 billion euros in aid to speed up the economy’s
transition to the European technical standards, even “senior” EU members
got scared. Europe just can’t afford it.
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