Crocodile Snatches 9-Year-Old Boy

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Police are searching for a 9-year-old boy who was snatched by a crocodile as he was swimming in the mouth of a river in northern Australia. Northern Territory police say the boy was swimming with a group of people at Port Bradshaw on Saturday when he was grabbed by the crocodile. Nearby people attempted to kill the crocodile with spears, but it then dragged the boy farther into the water.

Police planned to continue searching on Monday but expressed pessimism about the chances of finding the boy alive. Two weeks ago, another crocodile snatched a 7-year-old girl who was swimming at a Northern Territory waterhole. The crocodile was fatally shot the next day and the girl's remains were found inside it.

Photo: Prank Error as Magician’s Head Set On Fire By Television Host

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U.S. magician Wayne Houchin is recovering in a Dominican Republic hospital after a TV host lit his head on fire with a flammable liquid. Houchin was a guest on the Dominican Republic’s “Approach  the Stars” TV program Nov. 26 when, he says, host Franklin Barazarte unexpectedly poured flammable cologne on his head. A video of the incident shows the magician’s head bursting into flames as Barazarte runs his hands over Houchin’s hair. A warrant has been issued for Barazarte’s arrest.

Niger Set To Become Oil And Gas Producing State

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When the Niger State government recently took the risky path of funding the search for oil and gas in the Bida Basin, the administration of Governor Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu must have had at the back of its mind that the regime will be open to criticism from within and outside if the venture failed. Instead of seeking help from outside, the government decided to commission its own Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University at Lapai to handle the project, a step which served twin purposes of strengthening the capacity of the university in the area of oil and gas research and at the same time reducing the amount the project would have cost if commissioned to outsiders. There is no doubt that dedication to the project was also achieved because the university team that handled it see the job as ‘our own’ which must not fail and they put all they had into it .

Noam Chomsky: What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel

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The savage punishment of Gaza traces back to decades ago.

The Israeli air force struck a UN building during the assault on Gaza in 2008-09.

Photo Credit: ISM Palestine/Wikimedia Commons.

 An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”

Muhammad Ali Crowned King Of Boxing-Gulfnews

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Heavyweight boxing icon Muhammad Ali was officially crowned the “King of Boxing” on Monday during the 50th convention of the World Boxing Council in the Mexican city of Cancun. Ali, who was accompanied by his wife Lonnie and who wore dark glasses, was led to a red velvet throne.

21 Ex-Militant Return After Completing Non-Violence Training In South Africa

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Twenty-one leaders of former agitators in the Niger-Delta region on Tuesday returned from South Africa after completing a non-violence and leadership and business development training. The leaders returned aboard a South African Airways flight, along with the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta  and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr Kingsley Kuku.

Shonekan Wants Jonathan To Address Nigeria's Infrastructure Deficiency

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Chief Ernest Shonekan, the Chairman, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), on Tuesday called for the setting up of Infrastructure Investment Programme to address the nation’s infrastructure deficiency. Shonekan made the call after presenting the 2011 Annual Report and Audited Financial Statement of the Commission to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

U.S. And Nigeria Express Satisfaction With Trade Success Under TIFA

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The United States and the Nigerian governments have expressed satisfaction with the  progress so far made in their Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). The U.S. Consul-General, in a statement issued in Lagos after a meeting of both countries’ representatives in Abuja on Monday, stated that the agreement had since inception promoted trade relations between them.

Part 1: 42-Year-Old Teacher Has Unprotected Cex With 5 Underage Students By Luring Them With Nakéd Pictures

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Part 2: 42-Year-Old Teacher Has Unprotected Cex With 5 Underage Students By Luring Them With Nakéd Pictures

A teaching assistant had unprotected cex/séx with five teenage boys in her care and sent them pictures of herself playing with cextoys. Married Emma Webb, 42, performed cex acts on the pupils - aged 15 to 17 - during free period and detention at the Berkshire school. She groomed them by taking them out for meals at Kentucky Fried Chicken and giving them lifts to school, Reading Crown Court heard.

The supply teacher and mentor, who admitted a total of 30 charges relating to the offences involving five boys at the secondary school, even joked with one boy about having his baby.

Part 2: 42-Year-Old Teacher Has Unprotected Cex With 5 Underage Students By Luring Them With Nakéd Pictures

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Part 1: 42-Year-Old Teacher Has Unprotected Cex With 5 Underage Students By Luring Them With Nakéd Pictures

'She continued séxual texting when her husband was not around and texted him saying, "fancy a play?".'

The court heard that Webb told the boy if he told anyone about the texts she would lose her job and that her plumber husband Andy 'had a history of violence', so the youngster would 'end up with no kneecaps.'

Webb started asking the boy to visit her and said he was 'a special boy', said Mr Heptonstall.

FG slashes EFCC’s budget by 50%

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ABUJA— Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, may be crippled next year if the Federal Government’s slashing of its 2013 budget proposal by N11.7 billion sails through the National Assembly.
Already, EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Larmode, has expressed concern that the development might prevent the agency from meeting its personnel cost in 2013.  The anti-graft agency had proposed N21,028,488,772 billion to fund its operations in 2013, but the Budget Office approved N9,328,159,022 billion, less than half of the commission’s request to meet capital, personnel and overhead expenditure items next year.

Part 1: Inside The Lion’s Den of Nigeria’s Boko Haram

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Yvonne Ndege is a British-Kenyan journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria. She is the West Africa Correspondent for the English-language news channel, Al Jazeera English. Here, she shares her experience of visiting Boko-Haram-torn Maiduguri. My five days in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria – the epicentre of violence perpetrated by the armed group, Boko Haram – was fraught with danger. I had been trying to get access to report from the city for over a year.

Part 2: Inside The Lion’s Den of Nigeria’s Boko Haram

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Part 1: Inside The Lion’s Den of Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Before the chaos took hold, I remembered Maiduguri as a surprisingly cosmopolitan and peaceful town, with an eclectic mix of people of different faiths, ethnicities, and subcultures; as well as different types of food and music. The people of Maiduguri had struck me as ordinary people, with a somewhat royal air, steeped in their tradition – but at the same time having a somewhat modern and outward look. Borno State shares borders with the former French colonies of Niger to the north and Chad to the north-east – giving one a strange feeling of being in Francophone Africa too.

Top 9 lies women tell their men

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That is the truth. Sometimes (gasp!), we lie. Most of the time, though, these are little white lies, half-truths told to keep the peace. Other times, our lies are a little bigger — say, for example, when the subject is sex.
Ah, women. So mysterious! So enigmatic! We have more layers than an onion. And men, poor, poor men. Left to figure us out all on their own. Sorry! We don’t mean to be confusing. We just are. While many of us strive to be honest, truthful, and forthright, we do not always tell the truth. That is the truth.

Getting naked against HIV/AIDS: Derenle, Karen Igho, Kel, others join the campaign (PHOTOS)

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December 1 marked Worlds AIDS Day celebration and Nigerian/American TV personality, Shei Funmi mobilised Nigerian celebrities to take part in the HIV/AIDS celebrity photo campaign, themed GET NAKED. The photo-shoot took place on Thursday, November, 29 2012 at the Bheerhugz Cafe, in the Ikeja City Mall, Alausa- Lagos.

Celebrities included Karen Igho, Dammy Krane, Eva Alordiah, KEL, Denrele Edun, Yemi Alade, John Njamah, Saeon, Phenom, Ms Iye, Capital F.E.M.I., Adol, Jaywon, Aramide, Tillaman, YQ, Kunle Bello, Kenneth Okolie, Tosyn Bucknor and some others. It wasn’t all just about striking poses and taking photos; there were also performances by DIPP, Sammy, Mtrill, Pelli, Slim T, VON, Temisan and Blue Ice.

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Worrisome !!! 25% of Nigerian Women are Wife Materials

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Money, women and power are three inseparables that form a carnal trinity all over the world. Men of money and power usually end up attracting a flock of the most beautiful women. In a recent chat, popular Lagos Lawyer and human rights activist, Fred Agbaje spoke extensively on how he cope with Nigerian women and why many remain single even at the age of 35.

PDP frets over Jonathan’s feud with Obasanjo

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There are indications that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party is not comfortable with the cold war between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Part 2: VIP ex-convicts still on national honours list Presidential directive on George, Ibru, others igno

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Part 1: VIP ex-convicts still on national honours list Presidential directive on George, Ibru, others igno

The committee which is chaired by a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, it was learnt, had also been unable to meet  because some of its members  were on  other national assignments.

Part 1: VIP ex-convicts still on national honours list • Presidential directive on George, Ibru, others igno

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Part 2: VIP ex-convicts still on national honours list Presidential directive on George, Ibru, others igno

The names of a  former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, and other ex-convicts, are still on the national honours list,  The PUNCH has learnt.

Other prominent convicts whose names are  on the list  are a  former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun;  ex-Managing Director of Oceanic Bank, Cecilia Ibru; her former counterpart in the defunct Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola; and  other ex-managing directors of banks  convicted after they were conferred with the  national honours.

Ibori Update: London police to testify against Babalakin

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OPERATIVES from the London Metropolitan Police are to give evidence when the trial of the Chairman, Bi-Courtney Highway Services, Dr. Wale Babalakin, finally begins at a Lagos High Court, Ikeja.
A senior lawyer privy to the goings-on in the case told our correspondent on Sunday that the Met police investigated the involvement of Babalakin and others in the alleged laundering of N4.7bn on behalf of the convicted former governor of the state, James Ibori.