FOOTBALL: ZIDAN Jailed 6yrs for Issuing Dud Cheques!

Egypt striker Mohamed Zidan has been sentenced to six years in jail for writing three bad cheques.

According to Egyptian news reports, a court has ruled that Zidan is to serve six years in prison after he was convicted of issuing three bad cheques to an Egyptian real estate company.

Rihanna in Scissor-Buddy Melissa Forde

 

 Rihanna was spotted rocking a new hair-do (yup, her 18th one this year!) as she left her NYC hotel to go clubbing with BFF/groupie/lesbian-lover Melissa Forde. I don’t think there’s any question about it, but Melissa Forde definitely has one of the best gigs on the planet—she gets to follow Rihanna around the globe, get everything comp’d by RiRi’s promoter & Ri herself only worry about not pissing off or annoying Rihanna. I’m also pretty sure she watches over Rihanna like a hawk, so good luck to all those dudes trying to get into RiRi’s panties. If you want to go Rihanna, it appears you have to first poke your way through Melissa Forde.

Adult Website Sponsors SA Soccer Team Bafana Bafana - 10-Million Rand

Adult website Ashley Madison offered National Soccer Team Bafana Bafana a Sponsorship deal of nearly R10-million,The Star reported on Tuesday.

The site's chief executive and founder Noel Biderman said his website, whose slogan is "life is short, have an affair", could fill the sponsorship gap left after Puma pulled its support for the South African Football Association (Safa).

Biderman reportedly wrote a letter to Safa boss Danny Jordaan.

Poverty has a Race - Lindiwe Mazibuko

The Democratic Alliance's parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko has confirmed that the party will grapple with its policies on black economic empowerment and employment equity at the upcoming federal congress this weekend, and said she was aligned with certain people in the party who believed race mattered.

"Inequality is racialised," she said, calling for a balanced approach. "We can't ignore it, but neither do we want to entrench racial categories as a function of who you are."

She went further, contradicting the party's conservative elements that have told the Mail & Guardian that the DA must stay away from race-based legislation.

"I think over time our goal has to be non-racialism but we have to accept we don't live in a non-racial society," she said. "Poverty has a race, wealth has a race, access to opportunity and education, all those things have a race, and to think that we can just move on without changing any of that proactively is actually illiberal."

OIL & GAS: 2014 to Witness Sale of Oil Refineries - Diezani

NIGERIA, Africa's largest oil producer, plans to begin privatizing its four state-owned oil refineries before the end of the first quarter, Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said.

Alison-Madueke said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Africa in London, "We would like to see major infrastructural entities such as refineries moving out of government hands into the private sector. Government does not want to be in the business of running major infrastructure entities and we haven't done a very good job at it over all these years."

A presidential audit of the facilities last year recommended their sale due to inadequate government funding and "sub-optimal performance." The refineries, which have a combined 445,000 barrel-a-day capacity, should be privatized within 18 months, according to the report submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan in November 2012. Nigeria, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, produced 1.99 million barrels a day of crude in October, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

TRAGEDY: 5 Kids Killed By Water Tanker!

Tears flowed freely in Ajah area of Lagos State yesterday when a vehicle crushed five pupils.

The five deceased, who were pupils of Ikota Primary School were said to be on their way to school when a water tanker ran into them, killing them in the process.

The accident occurred in Ajah, along the Lagos-Epe expressway at about 8am.

Protest trailed the death of the pupils as irate youths barricaded the expressway for many hours, requesting for the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola to visit the scene and appreciate why pedestrian bridge should be built in the area to stop further fatal accident.

It took the Area ‘J’ Elemoro Commander, Mr Obagunde several hours to convince the mammoth crowd to leave the expressway as he appealed with them not to take the law into their hands.

A man, who identified himself as Ibrahim, said the children were crossing the expressway when the accident happened.

Gov. Fashola Orders Demolition of Buildings - About 130 Buildings Collapsed in 5yrs!

Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday, disclosed that he had approved fresh demolition of buildings, just as it was revealed that 130 buildings collapsed in five years in the state.

He made this known when he received the report of the Tribunal of Enquiry on cases of collapsed buildings in the state, even as he called for the revocation of engineers in charge of collapsed buildings.

A statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Hakeem Bello, quoted the governor as also saying that officials of the Ministry of Physical Planning had commenced weekend official duties, designed to tackle those who use the weekend to engage in sub-standard construction and distortion of original construction plans.

The governor, who spoke at the Government House, further said that compensation had been approved and paid some victims of collapsed buildings in the state.

The Tribunal, headed by Architect Abimbola Ajayi, was set up to unravel the reasons behind past collapses in order to avoid future ones.

NORTHERN Nigeria: Police Man Killed in Deadly Attack!

Nigerian police say one officer was killed when gunmen attacked a police station in Gombe state in northern Nigeria.

Police spokesman Fwaji Attajiri said three of the attackers were killed in the shootout early Tuesday about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the state capital, also called Gombe.

Gombe state is relatively peaceful but it borders three northeastern states that have been under emergency rule for more than six months as security forces battle with Islamic extremist rebels from Boko Haram.

Pictures of Storm Devastation - Sardinia Island

The worst affected area was the town of Olbia, in the northeast of the island, which is a ferry port and a popular destination for tourists in the summer months.

The Dreadful Leprosy Vs Armadillo

They look innocent enough, though odd, with their long, pointy snouts, beady eyes, short, scaly legs, all poking out from beneath a leathery carapace. They are a common sight in the American south, especially if you are looking for roadkill along the highways and dirt lanes that crisscross the country from Amarillo, Texas to Apalachicola, Florida.  About the size of a large house cat when fully grown, the humble armadillo has become the prime suspect in a medical mystery that goes back to Biblical times.

It was reported on April 28, 2011 that genetic researchers at the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA)National Hansen's Disease Program (NHDP) in Baton Rouge, LA, had uncovered a potential risk for the transmission of Hansen's Disease, also known as leprosy, from armadillos to humans.

Leprosy is a bacterial infection that is known for its disfiguring and crippling effects. Until the discovery of antibiotics, numbed and rotting limbs and faces, and deep, oozing lesions were common symptoms of this condition. Victims were banished to "colonies" where they were quarantined, having no human contact other than with fellow Lepers. Until the mid-1900's, Leprosy had resulted in the isolation and deaths of millions of people.

 

HEALTH: About 3,500 Nigerians affected by LEPROSY Yearly!

No fewer than 3,500 Nigerians are affected by leprosy annually in the country with about 25 per cent having some degrees of disability, says The Leprosy Mission of Nigeria.

Operations Manager in charge of the Mission, Mr. Pius Ogbu, told journalists on Monday at a press briefing marking the Mission’s Policy Makers Workshop in Minna that the disease was mostly common in  poverty-stricken.

HEALTH: Federal Government Urged to Build Special Diabetes Centres

Federal government has been tasked to focus more attention on tackling the prevalence of diabetes amongst Nigerians by creating a special centre for the testing and treatment of the disease across the country.

Senator Lee Maeba who gave the charge in Abuja at the kick-off of a free diabetes screening exercise for Diabetes to mark this year's World Diabetes Day, expressed worry over the apparent neglect of the disorder while urging government at the top and other relevant stakeholders to commit reasonable resources to diabetes to help in reducing its spread.

MOBILE PHONES: Blackberry Apps Updated for ANDROID & APPLE Devices!

BlackBerry is rolling out new updates for its Android and iOS Messenger apps in order to capitalize on the momentum gained once BBM became a cross-platform service. The latest update includes expansion to the iPad and iPod touch, among other features.

IAEA Report: IRAN SLOWS DOWN on Nuclear PROGAMs

Iran has stopped expanding its uranium enrichment capacity, a UN inspection report showed on Thursday, in a potential boost for diplomacy to end Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West, Reuters reported. 

 

The quarterly report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said that since August no further major components had been added to the Arak heavy water site. 

 

The marked slowdown in the growth of nuclear activities may be intended to back up Rouhani's diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute and strengthen Tehran's hand in talks with world powers due to resume on November 20.

 

The six powers - the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and China - are pressing Iran to curb its nuclear program. 

 

Iran halted a previously rapid increase in its capacity to refine uranium "when their team changed" in August, a senior diplomat familiar with the IAEA report said, referring to Rouhani and his administration.

 

But Iran is still pressing ahead with the enrichment of uranium to a fissile concentration of 20 percent, the report showed. 

 

THISDAY BOMBING: Bomber (Mustapha Umar) Jailed for Life!

A member of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Mustapha Umar, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for throwing explosives into a plaza occupied by Thisday newspaper and two other newspaper publishers in Kaduna, Kaduna State

Delivering the sentence in an Abuja court, Justice Adeniyi Ademola said that the evidence presented by the prosecution showing the convict’s confession and his reasons for committing the crime indicated that he had no dignity for human life and should be removed from the public to forestall future occurrence of the incident.

The Federal High Court Judge also ordered 150 million Naira (about 943, 000 dollars) compensation to the families of the three persons who lost their lives in the incident.

He said the compensation could be handled by the Nigerian government committee on compensation.

Umar, arrested on April 26 2013, was brought before the court for the first time in February 2013 on a one-count charge of terrorism filed by the Nigerian Police Force.

Pleaded Not Guilty

Over 100 Criminals In Custody for Election Fraud !!!

Nigerian police on Friday said they had arrested more than 200 people suspected of "criminal motives" as they prepared to head to a state holding a crunch vote for its next governor.

"We have arrested some 181 strange-looking people loitering around in Owerri", the capital of Imo, state police commissioner Mohammed Katsina said on local Channels television.

"They are suspected of having entered the state with criminal motives."

Imo state police spokeswoman Joy Elomokor later told Agence France Presse that the number of arrests had risen by Friday afternoon.

MAN GIVES FUTURE WIFE $1.5M AS WEDDING GIFT!

Chinese suitor gave his future bride an auspicious 8.88 million yuan ($1.5 million) in cash drew ire Thursday for the extravagant display of wealth in the still-developing country.

Some 18 porters transported baskets and boxes filled with the money, which together weighed more than 102 kilograms (224 pounds), the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.

Photos showed bamboo baskets stacked with bundles of 100 yuan notes, which are red and depict Mao Zedong, communist China's founding father.

WILDLIFE: 7 Elephants KILLED by an India Train!

A passenger train plowed into a herd of elephants in eastern India, killing seven, including two calves, as they lumbered across the tracks in a forest, authorities said Thursday.

The crash was the worst of its kind in recent memory, said Hiten Burman, forestry minister in West Bengal. Ten other elephants were seriously injured and the death toll could rise, he said.

The train was traveling at 80 kilometers (50 miles) an hour through the Chapramari Forest when it struck the herd of 40 elephants crossing the tracks on Wednesday at dusk, Burman said.

"The herd scattered, but returned to the railway tracks and stood there for quite some time before they were driven away by forest guards and railroad workers who rushed to the spot after the accident," he said.

VIDEO: Jean-Claude Van Damme In Volvo Epic Split!

If you love martial arts and action movies, then you are without a doubt familiar with this legendary name that needs no introduction: Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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Kanye West & Lamar Odom Missing During Kardashians' Christmas Special

Christmas came very early for the Kardashian-Jenner family this year, as they filmed scenes for their upcoming holiday special way back in middle of September.

In a preview for "Keeping Up With The Kardashians: A Very Merry Christmas," the whole family gathered together to unwrap fake presents and share previously unreleased family videos with their fans.

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Texas Gas Pipeline Fire Shoot Flames Across Field!

A drilling crew punctured a gas pipeline in North Texas on Thursday and triggered an explosion that led emergency personnel to evacuate a nearby town, according to the Ellis County Sheriff's Office. 

Officials said the explosion occurred about 9:30 a.m. at a rig near Milford, about 40 miles south of Dallas. A Chevron crew punctured a 10-inch line, and company spokesman Justin Higgs said the accident involves a liquefied petroleum gas pipeline.

Flames could be seen shooting into the air and some vehicles at the worksite burned. A column of billowing black smoke could be seen from miles away.

Video of an Emotional Baby And Her Parents Meet Ellen!

It's been less than a month since Mary Lynne Leroux -- better known as the emotional baby who reacted to her mom's singing with real tears -- became an Internet sensation. On Wednesday, she and her parents found themselves on "Ellen."

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Over 100 Children Rescued In Canada Over Child Porn - Police

Canadian police announced this week that a massive child pornography investigation has led to the arrests of more than 300 people across the globe. The three-year investigation, nicknamed Project Spade, has also reportedly led to the rescue of almost 400 children.

Announcing the end of Project Spade during a press conference Thursday, Toronto Police Service Chief William Blair explained that the investigation began in 2010 after undercover officers made contact with a Toronto man suspected of sharing child pornography, per the Agence France-Presse.