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Monday 14 November 2016

Shocking: Islamic extremist gang based in the UK 'used aid convoys taking food and medicine to Syrian children as a cover to smuggle cash for guns to terrorists'

A group of UK-based Islamic extremists used charity convoys taking food and medicine to Syria as a cover to smuggle money to terrorists, a court has heard.

The four men allegedly sent £4,500 to a fighter with Al Qaeda-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra so he could buy a sniper rifle and other military equipment.

They also plotted to set up a ‘night team’ of terrorist snipers in the war-torn country, it was claimed.

Syed Hoque, 37, is said to have supplied cash to the terrorist,

Justice Muslim Sule Hassan of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday adjourned the criminal trial of former spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organization in the 2015 presidential election, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, and three others to December 12th, 2016, due to the defendant’s absence in court.

Former Finance Minister Nenadi Esther Usman, Mr. Fani-Kayode and one Danjuma Yusuf Usman, along with a limited liability company, Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited, were arraigned before Justice Hassan by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a 17-count charge of unlawful retention, unlawful use and unlawful payment of money to the tune of about N4.9 billion. They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The meeting is being held behind the closed-doors of the vice president's office.
Sakari and Dogara arrived the vice president's office at exactly 2.00pm.
The meeting is believed to be part of the ongoing consultations aimed at reaching a truce over President Muhammadu Buhari's $29.9 billion loan request recently rejected by the Senate. The Senate had

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A foreign-born, former supermodel who married an eccentric billionaire is about to become the United States' next first lady.

Melania Trump, who will become just the second foreign-born first lady in US history, will assume the very public role after having spent much of her husband's presidential campaign avoiding the campaign trail and the limelight, saying she preferred to remain home in New York to care for the couple's only son, who is 10.

Women are pounding foodstuff. Heavy pestles land in deep mortars. The "food" should soon be ready.
Except the mortars are sitting on a man's chest.

British tourist, 21, falls to her death from ninth floor of a Benidorm hotel 'after night of heavy drinking with her boyfriend'

The 21-year-old, named today as Danielle Hall from Newcastle, died virtually instantly after falling from her balcony after a night out in the Costa Blanca resort in south eastern Spain.

She was staying at the three-star Bermudas apartment hotel with her 23-year-old boyfriend Jordan Bevan and his grandmother who was sleeping in another room.

John Maughan, 65, from County Durham, who was wrongly branded a paedophile after child pornography was found on his laptop, has been awarded £35,000 in damages from police. Mr Maughan (left) was working in Abu Dhabi when he was contacted by detectives ordering him to return home to the UK. Officers

Thomas Mair, 53, allegedly killed the mother-of-two in a 'cowardly attack' outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds. On the opening day of the trial, the court was told the killing was a 'planned murder for a political or ideological cause'. It is alleged Mair shot the politician at point blank range

Dr Unt Tun Maung (pictured left and right with his wife outside Hull Crown Court), 45, was jailed in April last year for attacking a 19-year-old girl when she visited the centre in Teesside complaining of chest pains.

The devout Buddhist was accused of cupping the woman's breasts after telling her to remove her bra. But

Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday that cooperation is only

A 23-year-old unemployed man, Omodolapo IyanuOluwa, was on Monday sentenced to six months imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing an Infinix phone.
The Magistrate, Mr Olusola Aluko, ordered that the convict be locked in Ilesa prison after he pleaded guilty to a three-count-charge bordering on stealing.

Many are feared dead as men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, reportedly blocked the Road and fired teargas at the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the guidance of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky who were trekking for the annual Arbaeen Symbolic Trekking from Kano to Zaria Kaduna state Nigeria.

According to Ibrahim Musa, President Media Forum of IMN, the attack has led to the death of one trekker while others sustained various degrees of injuries.

Tension enveloped the crisis – ridden Federal University of Agriculture(FUNAAB), Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday morning as hundreds of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities(SSANU) from universities in Western Zone blocked the access roads to FUNAAB in protest over the sack of 23 of their colleagues by the institution’s management.

Scores of students, visitors, lecturers and other members of the university community caught unaware

Japan kicked off their FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Papua New Guinea 2016 campaign with a dominant victory against 2014 finalists Nigeria in Group B at Bava Park, Port Moresby. Mami Ueno bagged a hat-trick while Yuka Momiki scored either side of the break as The Young Nadeshiko ran riot in their opening game.

Construction process for the N36 billion Makurdi cargo airport in Benue State has been flagged off, the facilitator has said.
The Managing Director of Pureza Investment International Ltd (PIIL) and facilitator of the project, Barr Brian Mbaya, at the project site along Makurdi - Lafia highway during the ground breaking ceremony, recently, said the airport has the potential of boosting agriculture business in the country.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state on Monday in Benin announced the appointment of Mr Osarodion Ogie as the Secretary to the State Government.
Also appointed were Mr Taiwo Akerele as Chief of Staff and Mr John Mayaki as interim Chief Press Secretary.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Obaseki had before making the announcement, met with

Hope your weekend was as awesome as mine? A huge thank you to you all for liking and sharing details of HEARTBEAT. We go live again on Thursday so once you close from work, come see the show. Don't sit in traffic for hours when you can hang with us, listen to beautiful music and be entertained by some of our finest

Donald J. Trump has not even been sworn in, yet today, he named some members of his cabinet. That is real change, not the reverse change promised by someone who waited for 6 months after his swearing in before

Just two days ago on the 11th of November, 2016, Raji Fashola, Nigeria's super minister of power, works and housing, who is more famous for spending ₦78 million on his website in 2014 (an amount then worth $500,000) said that the 7% GDP growth Nigeria enjoyed under the Jonathan administration was solely the result of high oil prices rather than any policy of that administration.

What will you say to this man if he is your brother and what will be your stand if she is your sister

Steve Crown has a message for someone and I think is you!

The Gospel Artist has been sensational since breaking forth with a hit song "You are Great" which rock the Church world in Nigeria and beyond. He wrote a message which will change your perspective about life. According to the Gospel singer,

My all in one. Thank you for coming into my life, thank you for your understanding and for been a good wife bcos with you I can go extra miles, with you I can fight any Battle, your love they burst my brain. To say I know say naso marriage they sweet I for done marry you since. May God strengthen

Facebook pioneer, Mark Zuckerberg shared the cute photo above of his wife, Priscilla Chan, recounting what happened on their first date, 13 years ago.

(IraqiNews.com) Karbala – Six people were killed and six others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a house at Ain Tamr, west of Karbala, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
“Six suicide bombers had sneaked into al-Jihad district at Ain Tamr precinct, west of Karbala. Security

When Bayern Munich visited Borussia Dortmund last March, Pep Guardiola had an intense conversation with Joshua Kimmich following a 0-0 draw.
The point put Bayern one step closer to winning yet another Bundesliga title under the Spanish head coach, but Guardiola faced criticism for his handling of Kimmich.

Ex-rebel leader missing

David and Daniella. See more photos

This is mind blowing. Some folks complain of recession in the economy, others are having fun as they spend lavishly on ladies and buy whatever they need at anytime.
Above is a trending Whatsapp chat between two bros…
The boyfriend said he paid N500,000 for his girlfriend’s ticket to Dubai.. and

A few weeks ago, Film maker/C.E.O. at LoveSeed Entertainment, Femi Adisa and his beautiful wife welcomed their second set of twins, barely a year after they had the first twin set.
In an interview with Kemi Filani Blog, the beautiful couple shared their story of love, sowing, faith, depression, disappointment, seeing Jesus and the big testimony!
Enjoy their interesting conversation below:

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 has struck northwestern Argentina, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The earthquake struck just after 8 a.m. local time and was centered about 16 miles north of the community of Chilecito in La Rioja province, near the border with Chile. It had a depth of around 62 miles. (See more photos)

The management of the Osun State University, Osogbo, has sacked a lecturer in the Department of Languages and Linguistics, Dr. Olabode Wale Ojoniyi, who engaged in sex with a female student because his act embarrassed the university.
A member of the Governing Council of the university told Daily Trust that the appointment of Ojoniyi was terminated after the conclusion of the investigation on the sex tape that captured the lecturer’s sexual affair with the student.

Gunmen around the creeks of Ishawo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, unleashed terror on Friday, abducting a 61-year-old widow, Mrs. Victoria Falodi, who lives on Iyewa Olorunsogo Estate.
PUNCH Metro learnt that a neighbour, identified only as Baba Ayomide, had gone to the woman’s residence around 8am on that day to charge his mobile phone.

Myanmar's military says at least 28 people have been killed during renewed clashes in western Rakhine state.
The announcement on Sunday came the same day a Human Rights Watch report said satellite images appeared to show three Muslim Rohingya villages had been "burned to the ground" in recent weeks.
In a statement published online, the military said 22 attackers armed with swords were killed near Dar Gyi Zar village after they charged at soldiers, adding another six attackers were killed during clashes elsewhere in the restive state.

One of China's first female fighter pilots and a member of the country's air force aerobatics team was killed in a training accident over the weekend, according to Chinese state-run media.

Capt. Yu Xu, 30, died Saturday during a routine training flight with the aerobatics team, according to the reports.

The Chinese military did not provide details of the accident in Hebei province, but state-run media, citing

Where is the $175,750,000 deposited in an account linked to former First lady Patience Jonathan?
This is the question the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is battling to answer.
The deposits were found in the account of Pluto Property and Investment Limited, one of the firms linked to Mrs. Jonathan.
The EFCC has launched a manhunt for two suspects, Toru Wonyeng Ibuomo and Friday Davies, linked to the curious deposits in four tranches within 14 months — between February 21, 2014 and April 1, 2015.
The anti-graft agency is probing how the cash was withdrawn

Donald Trump matter-of-factly envisioned an America in which women could have to travel to a different state to get an abortion in his first televised interview as president-elect. The interview aired Sunday night on CBS' 60 Minutes, with host Lesley Stahl (pictured left sitting down with Trump and bottom right shaking his hand) grilling him about potential Supreme Court appointees, accusations that his supporters have harassed African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and gay people, and whether he would appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Clintons like he has pledged. The one-hour

The North Africans, who have just a point after two games, are left with a mountain to climb to keep alive their chances of qualifying for the World Cup for the fifth time, having played in the tournament in 1982, 1986, 2010 and 2014.

And the Greens’ Belgian manager Leekens, who vowed the 1990 African champions would strive to get their qualification hopes back on track, believes the result of the Uyo encounter could have been

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has formally inaugurated his youths empowerment programme to provide 40,000 direct jobs for the youths in various vocations in the next four years.
Speaking during the ceremony yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara state, Saraki charged political leaders in the country to empower the youths to be job creators to reduce the high unemployment rate in the country.

State governments are spending billions of naira of public funds on constructing and maintaining presidential lodges that are rarely used by presidents.
This practice has continued in spite of the cash crunch that has left many states unable to pay salaries of their workers.

Presidential lodges in several states have not hosted a sitting president for years, even as they gulp

The Minister of Transportation and leader of Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chibuike Amaechi, has said that his party is sure of winning in Ogoni land and other parts of the state in the forthcoming re-run election.
Amaechi, who spoke at a rally in Bera community, Gokana Local Government Area (LGA), said

The moon rises behind the castle of Almodovar in Cordoba, southern Spain, on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016. The Supermoon on November 14, 2016, will be the closest a full moon has been to Earth since January 26, 1948. (AP Photo/Miguel Morenatti)

Monday 14 November 2016

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