Kenyans Fight against HOMOSEXUALITY

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SEX Workers also on LinkedIn

The networking site tried to clamp down on the oldest profession earlier this year, but sex workers are still operating on Linkedin and have no plans to leave, finds Theo Merz 

 
Log on to a social network "for professionals" and you can meet Emma, the self-employed escort and travel companion from London; or Matt, who offers “gay male sensual erotic massage” in New York; or Charlotte, the transexual Latina escort who visits clients across the globe.

This is not a specialist ‘pay-for-play’ listings site, but rather LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking platform. And among the 238 million lawyers, management consultants, journalists, PRs and others with profiles, there are hundreds like Emma, Matt and Charlotte using the network to further their professional interests.

The exact number of sex workers are hard to find, especially since LinkedIn clarified its ban on all prostitutes and escorts having profile pages on the site earlier this year. In an update to their user agreement terms, the company wrote: “Even if it is legal where you are located, [users cannot] create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.”

---Curled from telegraph.co.uk

 

United Nations weapons inspectors shot by snipers in Syria

United Nations weapons inspectors were 'deliberately shot at multiple times' by snipers today as they visited the site on the outskirts of Damascus where hundreds of people died last week in a suspected chemical attack.

The U.S. and its allies say evidence of a chemical attack will have been destroyed by government shelling of the area over the last five days, and the Syrian offer to allow inspectors in came too late. A UN spokesman said: 'The first vehicle of the Chemical Weapons Investigation Team was deliberately shot at multiple times by unidentified snipers in the buffer zone area.' The spokesman added: 'It has to be stressed again that all sides need to extend their cooperation so that the team can safely carry out their important work.'

The car was no longer serviceable and a replacement is being located. An MP called for Parliament to be recalled tomorrow to debate Britain's response to the growing crisis.

Andrew Bridgen, who sent a letter signed by more than 80 of his Conservative  colleagues demanding a vote on any escalation of Britain's involvement earlier this year, said the recall should be announced today and either David Cameron or William Hague should make the case for action. He said: 'In my opinion we need an immediate recall of Parliament to debate any further involvement in this crisis. It's a complicated conflict with potentially worldwide ramifications.' The Labour opposition are also calling for MPs to be summoned back to pre-approve any military action involving UK personnel.

As a military strike moved closer, President Assad said in an interview with a Russian newspaper today that any intervention in his country was doomed to fail.

14yrs old boy with the body of a 110yrs old man.

This might sound ridiculous but a rare disease called Progeria is wrecking havoc in a small family in India. Ali Hussai, 14yrs is suffering from this rare disease which has only 80 cases reported world wide. Two of his brothers and three of his sisters have died of thesame disease. He still has two healthy/ normal sisters alive. His parents Nabi, 50, and Razi, 46, are first cousins.

‘I very much want to live and I hope there is medicine for my condition out there. I’m not scared of death but my parents have suffered a lot,' he said.
'I’d love to live much longer for them. I don’t want to burden them with any more pain.’ Ali’s parents Nabi Hussain Khan, 50, and Razia, 46, are first cousins and were the product of an arranged marriage 32 years ago. 

Ali and his parents are now supported by a Kolkata-based charity called SB Devi Charity.

Pediatrician Dr Chandan Chattopadhyay, from Kolkata, introduced the family to the organisation and now they help Ali pay for his medical needs.

Ali spends all of his time with his mother and sisters, Sanjeeda, 20 and Chanda, ten, and he believes there’s no one else like him in the world.

But when told about the famous annual Progeria Reunion, run by the Sunshine Foundation, he would love to attend.

‘It’s very lonely living this life, especially since my siblings have gone,' he added.

'I don’t know if there’s anyone else like me. I’d like to be in the company of other people like me again. And I know my brother would be proud of me for doing so.’  

----curled from Dailymail.co.uk

NERVE GAS USED IN SYRIA WAR

The first place I heard of nerve gas was in the foxtv sequel "24". I was portrayed as a very dangerous chemical weapon used by terrorists in extreme situations. Now we have heard is has been used in Syrian which means the war is not a joke. Guess who are its casualty! Children.

Over 1,300 people were killed in Syria as a direct result of the exposure of verve gas. UN believes this weapon was used by the Syrian government against the rebels.

Wikipedia - "Nerve agents are a class of phosphorus-containing organic chemicals (organophosphates) that disrupt the mechanism by which nerves transfer messages to organs. The disruption is caused by blocking acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that normally relaxes the activity of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter.
As chemical weapons, they are classified as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN Resolution 687 (passed in April 1991) and their production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993; the Chemical Weapons Convention officially took effect on April 29, 1997. The use of dangerous gases in warfare was forbidden by treaty already in the Geneva Protocol of 1925.
Poisoning by a nerve agent leads to contraction of pupils, profuse salivation, convulsions, involuntary urination and defecation, and eventual death by asphyxiation as control is lost over respiratory muscles. Some nerve agents are readily vaporized or aerosolized and the primary portal of entry into the body is the respiratory system. Nerve agents can also be absorbed through the skin, requiring that those likely to be subjected to such agents wear a full body suit in addition to a respirator".

EGYPT- MUSLIMS MEN PROTECTS A CATHOLIC CHURCH DURING MASS

In what will seem like a reverse of what happened in Scottland (click link) Egyptian Muslims protected catholic church from violence during Mass.Egyptian Muslims hold hands and form a protective circle around a Catholic Church, under threat from Islamist militant supporters of former-President Morsi from the Muslim Brotherhood.


Tensions between Christians and Muslim Brotherhood supporters have run high and grown violent following the ousting of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi earlier in July. Some Islamist militants have blamed the minority Christian population for supporting the ousting of Morsi, and have called on Morsi's supporters to gain revenge and attack their Christian counterparts.

According to multiple sources from organizations working in the region, since last Wednesday, nearly 60 churches across Egypt have been targeted by Islamist radicals, as well as Christian schools, homes, businesses, and an orphanage. Christian businesses in the city of Minya were reportedly marked with an "X" ahead of the attacks to single out the business as Christian. Additionally, The Christian Post reported on Sunday that Islamists in the city of Bani Suef torched a Christian school and paraded three nuns working at the school through the streets like "prisoners of war." The recent attacks in the country have resulted in the death of at least two Christians, including a 10-year-old girl walking home from bible school.

Islamist militants have been blaming Christians for the ousting of Morsi, and the country's security forces have been criticized for not bringing justice to attackers in multiple attacks on Copts. However, more recently the country's military have been using brute force against Morsi loyalists, who have been protesting in major cities such as Cairo, urging for the reinstatement of Morsi as president. Last week, security forces used bulldozers to clear out protest camps, reportedly killing over 100 people. Additionally, on Monday it was reported that at least 25 Egyptian soldiers were killed in northern Sinai by rocket-propelled grenades, allegedly launched by pro-Morsi protesters.

God is truly with us

------curled from http://www.christianpost.com/

Femi Fani Kayode is not fit to talk to the Igbos - Femi Aribisala

The year was 1965. I was an innocent starry-eyed 13 year-old and Nigeria was in turmoil. It was the era of the “wetie,” when the houses of politicians and key public-figures were burnt down in the brouhaha that was then Western Nigeria.

We lived in Oke-Ado in Ibadan and our next-door neighbour was Chief Ogundiran, a minister in the government of Chief S.L. Akintola, the Premier of the Western Region. (Ogundiran was famous for only wearing white.) In the spirit of the times, a mob came early one morning and burnt down his house. He jumped out of the window and managed to escape.

Fani-Power, Fani-igbo: I was having private lessons in Mathematics at the home of a colleague, Enitan Abiodun, when we heard the noise of a crowd outside. We rushed to the veranda to see Chief Remi Fani-Kayode (alias Fani-Power), then Deputy Governor of the Western Region, standing on the seat of a moving convertible. He was surrounded by a mob, which was shouting and hailing him.

On hearing the noise, Enitan’s mother rushed to the veranda shouting “Awo!” only to discover that the people outside were not supporters of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, but those of his arch-enemies. The shout of “Awo!” by Mrs. Abiodun brought the procession to a screeching halt. “Who said that? Who said that?” demanded the mob, enraged.

“Fani-Power” turned and looked up at us. His eyes were the usual blood-shot red. At the time, many claimed it was because he regularly smoked Indian-hemp. Fani-Kayode pointed to our building and identified to his thugs that the offending shout came from our direction. We did not know that the floor of the convertible he was standing in was loaded with empty bottles.

His thugs reached for the bottles and rained them down on us as we all scrambled back inside the house for dear life. Like father, like son: That was 48 years ago. Today, Femi Fani-Kayode, the 53-year-old son of “Fani-Power,” continues in the mischievous tradition of his father: throwing dangerous missiles at the innocent. He recently wrote an incendiary article entitled: “The Bitter Truth About the Igbo,” in which he maligned the Igbos and virtually told them to get out of Lagos and leave Lagos for the Yorubas.

What is peculiar about the article is that Femi Fani-Kayode himself is no more Lagosian than the Igbos he berates. The Fani-Kayodes are not from Lagos. They are from Ile-Ife in OsunState. Femi Fani-Kayode’s only legitimate claim to Lagos is that he was born there. But then so were many Igbos who are, therefore, Lagosians. Moreover, Igbo-Lagosians have one up on Femi Fani-Kayode.

They live in Lagos. Femi Fani-Kayode does not. Igbo-Lagosians work in Lagos and pay taxes to the LagosState government. Femi Fani-Kayode does not. Therefore, what right does he have to write his diatribe against them? What right does he have to maintain Lagos does not belong to Igbo-Lagosians? Having thrown these bottles maliciously, Femi Fani-Kayode decided to throw a few more.

He wrote another invective entitled: “A Word For Those Who Say I Am A Tribalist.” In order to demonstrate that he was not anti-Igbo, he presented the cliché that some of his best friends are Igbos. As proof, he detailed three Igbo women (some of them happily-married) he claims to have had affairs with. Only God knows how this shows he is not biased against the Igbos.

Slave-traders slept with their slaves. Is that proof they were not racist? The jury is out already. Femi Fani-Kayode is a bigoted tribalist. Only a tribalist can say he is not anti-Igbo and then say this about the Igbos: “(They are) collectively unlettered, uncouth, uncultured, unrestrained and crude in all their ways.” “They have no restraining factors because money and the acquisition of wealth is their sole objective and purpose in life.”

Clearly, Femi Fani-Kayode is out of control. He has become something of a train-wreck. He was President Obasanjo’s agent-provocateur for so long, where he maligned elder-statesmen like Yakubu Gowon; he no longer knows how to speak with decorum. The American model: I am Yoruba. Nevertheless, I repeat; the Igbos of Lagos are Lagosians. They are Lagosians whether ethnic jingoists like Femi Fani-Kayode like it or not. The Lagos branch of the old Action Congress of Nigeria acknowledged that no less than 45% of the population of Lagos is Igbo.

That is a fact that cannot be ignored or simply wished-away. It is not improbable that, in a few years time, the majority of people living in Lagos will be Igbos. Short of changing the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that tells me an Igbo man can rightfully become the future Governor of Lagos State. That should give some food-for-thought to the Fani-Kayodes.

The system of government in Nigeria is modeled after that of the United States. In the U.S., Hilary Clinton is a native of Illinois. Nevertheless, in 2000 she contested for election as Senator in New York and won. She was eligible to run for the seat simply because she and her husband moved to New York and lived there for only one year. Similarly, some Ibos have been in Lagos for 50 years.

That should make them eligible to run for office. If they vote the ethnic card, as Yorubas often do, Femi Fani-Kayode might have a heart-attack. An Igbo man might conceivably become the Governor of Lagos State. That is what democracy is all about. The growing political muscle of Igbo-Lagosians has been obscured by electoral malpractices. That cannot last forever. Sooner than later, Igbo-Lagosians will start to pull their political weight in Lagos.

True indigenes of Lagos, as opposed to carpet-baggers like the Fani-Kayodes, have traditionally been open-minded about Igbos and non-indigenes. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a Nigerian nationalist who happened to be Igbo, once won an election in Lagos, before Awolowo appealed to tribal politics to truncate it.

Grudging acknowledgement of the growing political clout of the Igbos led to the appointment of a token Igbo man, Pastor Ben Akabueze, as Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget in Lagos by Governor Babatunde Fashola; a post he has held for six years. Femi Fani-Kayode should have gone to court to challenge that appointment.

Soon, such tokenism will just not cut it. Igbo-Lagosians will demand a more proportionate share of the local political power. If they play their cards right, they will get it. Igbo-Lagosians vote in Lagos. Therefore, they can be voted for in Lagos. No constitutional amendment is required to bring this about. Given his educational background, one would have expected Fani-Kayode to be more enlightened. A Nigerian cannot be an alien in Nigeria. An Igbo man cannot be an alien in Lagos. Igbos are not illegal aliens in Lagos.

They are at home. In Nigeria, a Nigerian is entitled to live wherever he wants. If the resources of the Niger-Delta can be Nigerianised to the benefit of Yoruba-Lagosians, then Lagos cannot be the exclusive preserve of Yoruba-Lagosians. Since Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, then Lagos belongs to all Nigerians. During the census enumeration, some of us insisted that Igbos must stay and be counted in Lagos for that very reason.

Since Igbo-Lagosians are a significant part of the local population who contribute immensely to key sectors of the economy, the national census must reflect the fact that they live and work in Lagos. I recently visited London after a ten-year absence. What I saw was a highly cosmopolitan city with people of different nationalities, including Nigerians. London is no longer a town of the English.

It is now a megalopolis in the true sense of the word. On several occasions, I overheard people speaking Yoruba in the streets of London. On one occasion, I could not resist the urge to interject, even though uninvited. Nigerians are everywhere. On a visit in May 2013 to WashingtonD.C., United States for the Nigerian Development and Finance Forum, under the auspices of Financial Nigeria Limited, I was informed by the Deputy Ambassador of Nigeria to the United States that there are currently five million Nigerians in the U.S.

There are even more Nigerians in Sudan; over eight million. Nigerians constitute a significant percentage of the population of Cote d’Ivoire. There are more Nigerians in Equatorial Guinea than Equatorial-Guineans. There is no country on planet earth where you will not find a sizeable population of Nigerians. U.N. projections predict that Nigeria will soon be the fourth largest country in the world, surpassed by only China, India and the United States. Under such circumstances, a Nigerian like Femi Fani-Kayode should not be hankering after a small real-estate called Lagos.

Nigerians must become citizens of the world. Joseph was a Jewish slave in Egypt. Nevertheless, he rose to become the Egyptian Prime-Minister. That happened in biblical days, and not twenty-first century Egypt. More recently in 2008, Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan, became president of the United States. In 2010, John Abraham Godson, a Nigerian-born Polish citizen became a Member of Parliament in Poland.

In April, 2013, Cecile Kyenge, born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, became the Minister of Integration of the Republic of Italy. Surely, Femi Fani-Kayode cannot discern these signs of the times. Especially, the new Nigeria. M.K.O. Abiola, a Yoruba man, won his famous presidential election in 1993 by relying on Hausa, Fulani, Igbo and other votes. He was not just elected by Yorubas.

Yorubas did not even vote for Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. He became President by relying on northern, eastern and south-south votes. Goodluck Jonathan became president in 2011 by forging a coalition that stretched across the Niger and the Benue to all parts of Nigeria. When Odumegwu Ojukwu died, the entire nation of Nigeria consoled the Igbos.

Collectively, we declared with one voice that the civil war is truly over. We must not allow the Femi Fani-Kayodes to turn back the clock. Next time Femi Fani-Kayode wants to tell us “the bitter truth,” he should tell us about N19.5 billion Aviation Fund mismanaged under his watch as Minister of Aviation under the Obasanjo administration. That is the bitter truth we need to hear from him right now.

•Femi Aribisala, commentator on public policy and faith issues, is the fellowship coordinator of Healing Wings, a pentecostal Christian group.

Source: Premium Times

BRANDY PLAYS TO AN EMPTY STADIUM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Is Brandy that infamous in Africa? She literary played to an empty stadium on the closing day of the Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture Day in Johannesburg, South Africa. This stadium is supposed to seat 90,000 people but no more than 40 people listened to her. T a point, she had to walk out of the staged feeling embarrassed.

"Brandy [just] performed to an empty stadium. With the stadium lights on," tweeted an aghast South African musician, Kabomo. "People didn't know there was a concert after the games. No one knew Brandy was around. Maybe a 40 people audience ... She sulked after two songs and walked off."

The American R&B star was a surprise guest at the Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture Day, held at the 90,000-capacity FNB stadium in Soweto. Although tens of thousands of people filled the arena for football and rugby matches, including a game pitting South African football legends against Italian masters such as Emiliano Salvetti and Marco Ballota, the audience trickled out during the music segment. After performances by David Jenkins, Elvis Blue, Salif Keita and D'Banj, there was almost no one left for Brandy.

Neither Brandy nor the concert promoters have commented on the gig. By most accounts, it wasn't Brandy's fault – her fans simply didn't know she was playing. Brandy is popular in Africa and has performed there before, much like in the UK, where she is due to return on 24 September. Although the singer's newest record, Two Eleven, reached only No 87 on the UK album charts, 1998's Never Say Never remains an R&B classic: it has sold more than 16m copies worldwide.

But dem no try o! dem for just listen to am weda she try or not. Lol!

Why I resigned, Ex-pope Benedict speaks

The former pope Benedict has claimed that his resignation in February was prompted by God, who told him to do it during a "mystical experience". Breaking his silence for the first time since he became the first pope to retire in 600 years, the 86-year-old reportedly said: "God told me to" when asked what had pushed him to retire to a secluded residence in the Vatican gardens. Benedict denied he had been visited by an apparition or had heard God's voice, but said he had undergone a "mystical experience" during which God had inspired in him an "absolute desire" to dedicate his life to prayer rather than push on as pope. The German ex-pontiff's comments, which were allegedly made a few weeks ago, were reported by the Catholic news agency Zenit, which did not name the person Benedict had spoken to.

A senior Vatican source said the report was reliable. "The report seems credible. It accurately explains the spiritual process that brought Benedict to resign," he said. Benedict said his mystical experience had lasted months, building his desire to create a direct and exclusive relationship with God. Now, after witnessing the "charisma" of his successor, Pope Francis, Benedict said he understood to a greater extent how his stepping aside was the "will of God". Benedict's reported remarks contrast with the explanation he gave to cardinals when he announced his resignation on 11 February. "My strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," he said then. At the time, a German journalist who had recently met Benedict reported he was going deaf, appeared to be blind in one eye, and was emaciated and "exhausted-looking".

Speculation also grew that he was depressed after his trusted butler, Paolo Gabriele, was caught leaking his personal correspondence. Italian press reports have recently claimed he was frustrated by a network of influence built up at the Vatican by a pro-gay lobby of prelates. Zenit reported that Benedict has stuck to his plan to live a life of secluded prayer, receiving very few visitors at his house in the Vatican's gardens which enjoys views across Rome to the Apennine mountains beyond. "During these meetings, the ex-pontiff does not comment, does not reveal secrets, does not make statements that could be understood as 'the words of the other pope', but is as reserved as he has always been," wrote Zenit. After concerns were raised that Benedict would exert undue influence at the Vatican as his successor struggled to find his feet, Francis's popular approach and his shakeup of Vatican protocols have relegated Benedict to the sidelines. Francis has even joked about the situation, saying in July: "The last time there were two or three popes, they didn't talk among themselves and they fought over who was the true pope!" Having Benedict living in the Vatican, he added, "is like having a grandfather – a wise grandfather – living at home." Francis's first encyclical, issued in July, was started by Benedict while he was in office and finished by his successor.

Benedict took his first day trip out of the Vatican on 18 August, walking in the gardens at the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome, where he stayed after his retirement while his new house was being refurbished. Benedict did not risk running into Francis, who has preferred to stay at his desk at the Vatican during the summer.

-----curled from http://www.theguardian.com

Muslim prayers conducted in a Church

The Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque was too small to fit everyone in. Church minister Rev Isaac  Poobalan Saw worshipers praying outside so he handed over part of St John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen, Scotland to the Muslims to observe their daily prayers. Bishop says: 'It would be good to think we can change the world' 

The clergy man said: 'Praying is never wrong. My job is to encourage people to pray. The mosque was so full at times, there would be people outside in the wind and rain praying. I knew I couldn't just let this happen - because I would be abandoning what the Bible teaches us about how we should treat our neighbors. When I spoke to people at the church about the situation, someone actually said to me this was not our problem, but I had seen it with my own eyes, so it was a problem. Rev Poobalan said: 'They were out there praying and the snow came on for the first time in winter, it was really hard to watch. 'When they were doing the prayer they had their hands and feet exposed and they were sitting on on the pavement, which is very rough. You could even see them breathing because it was so cold and I think when I saw that, the visual impact was such that I just couldn't walk past. It felt wrong, mainly because the church is next door, it's a big building and it remains empty on a Friday lunchtime which is when they need the place most as that's when they are at their busiest. We had something we could offer and they were just standing out in the cold and I said to my congregation "we need to do something".Rev Poobalan said he wanted the move to help build bridges between Christians and Muslims after some initial resistance from his congregation about the move.

Rev Poobalan, 50, said being surrounded by Islam while growing up in India helped break down the divide for worshippers of two religions praying together in Aberdeen.

Sheikh Ahmed Megharbi of the Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque said: 'What happens here is special and there should be no problem repeating this across the country.

'The relationship is friendly and respectful.'

Can this happen in Naija?

---curled from www.dailymail.co.uk

Chinese man pays 10,000 yuan ($US1,600) fine in Coins

Bank workers in Kunming spent eight hours counting 5,000 yuan in one jiao (0.1 yuan) coins thanks to a Chinese man who paid an assault fine with some serious spite.
Last year, a woman with the surname Wu was eating at a noodle shop where she and her husband reportedly got into an altercation with the owner (from the Shanghaiist via NetEase). The argument turned physical, with Wu suffering a brain contusion and her husband leaving with three broken ribs. A court awarded Wu damages. After paying her the bulk of the 68,000 yuan ($US11,000) fine, the noodle restaurant owner gave the remaining 10,000 yuan ($US1,600) in eight large bags of coins. Wu deposited half of the change, which took 18 peeved bank workers all day. Though, this means that Wu is still chilling with a few hundred bucks of Chinese dimes.

Shey una want money, una go count tire today! Lol!!!

ANAMBRA STATE ELECTIONS - WHO DOES THE CAP FIT?

 

Anambra State Election. Regardless of the recent disqualifications, who do you think can govern us well? A. Soludo  B. Ngige  C. Andy Uba D. Ifeanyi Uba  E. Uche Ekwunife. We need answers followed by constructive criticism/ reasons. Please all responds should be based on facts.

Beauty as a disadvantage

if person ugly na wahala, if you fine na wahala to? 27 year old architect Nina Siahkali Moradi finished 14th among 163candidates in a city council election in Iran but was told a week later that all votes for her were nullified.
According to The Times of London, after news spread that Moradi had been elected, religious conservatives petitioned to have her disqualified because she’s ‘too attractive.’ and would be a cause of distraction. “We don’t want a catwalk model on the council,” a senior official in Qazvin said.
The review board later claimed Nina was disqualified not because she was too attractive but because of her ‘non-observance of Islamic codes’. Some who opposed her election said she had only been elected because she is young and attractive.
A law expert in Qazvin, told Iran Wire that the review board violated election law with its decision to bar Moradi from taking a seat.
---http://oodera.com

Nigerian student caught and jailed while having a "Sham Marrigae"

Nigerian student Chinedu Amadi  (27) was caught and arrested while having a sham wedding with a Hungarian woman, Szilvia Basco-Porkolab (38). Officers suspected the marriage was fake because the couples appeared to be too affectionate. He was to marry another woman until last minute switch was made by the fixer. Chinedu paid the Hungarian lady £5,000 to a "fixer" to arrange this  marriage. Chinedu has been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment while Szilvia was sented to 34 months imprisonment.

 Nigerian Chinedu Amadi arrived at Leicester Registry Office to marry a complete stranger  who donned a traditional white wedding gown for the occasion but  unknown to them Home Office investigators who were tipped off by a suspicious registrar  and lay in wait in a side room for the pair to arrive. After their arrest, investigators discovered Basco-Porkolab was involved in an earlier sham marriage to another Nigerian, Ikechukwu Egbe, at Greta Green in May 2011.

Naija I hail o!!!

Area 51 - US secret UFO Base

The existence of Area 51, the US airbase rumoured to house UFOs, along with details of some of the strange activities that went on there have been officially acknowledged in newly released CIA documents. 

Its existence has been a badly kept secret for decades and it has fuelled the imaginations of conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters around the world. Now the existence of Area 51 has been officially acknowledged by the Central Intelligence Agency and its exact location revealed in Nevada.

Documents released by the CIA also reveal that there really has been some strange occurrences at the secret airbase – however, they are not quite as exciting as UFO hunters would like. Among the jobs that staff at the site had to perform during the 1960s was a routine of vacuuming the runway to allow experimental aircraft to take off without damaging their engines. Previously the US government has provided minimal information about Area 51 and most mentions of it are redacted in documents that are declassified. Official maps usually only show a disused mine at the site or a large area of restricted airspace, however it does not feature on Google Maps and in satellite images. However, in a set of documents released to a researcher studying the history of the U-2 spy plane program, the secret base is officially revealed. A line drawn map contained within the reports show the location of Area 51 and Groom Lake, the salt flat the base is built upon, in relation to the Mojave Desert. They also provide details on how the site was first established as part of a wider Atomic Energy Commission test site. However, the documents make no mention of UFOs nor the secret weapons that many believe are being developed there. Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow at the George Washington University’s National Security Archive who obtained the records, said the new documents seemed to suggest the CIA were becoming less secretive about Area 51’s existence. The documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Request made in 2005. An earlier 2002 request resulted in documents that were heavily redacted. 

In a blog posted on the research organisation’s website, Mr Richelson said: “What the CIA released in response to a 2005 Freedom of Information Act request is a substantially less redacted version of a history of two key aerial reconnaissance programs. “The latest release is notable for the significant amount of newly declassified material with respect to the U-2 — with regard to names of pilots, codenames and cryptonyms, locations, funding and cover arrangements, electronic countermeasures equipment, organisation, cooperation with foreign governments, and operations, particularly in Asia.” The mentions of Area 51 were contained in documents detailing the history of the U-2 and Oxcart spay plane programs were written in 1992 by Gregory Pedlow and Donald Welzenbach, who were historians at the CIA.
A heavily redacted version of the history was published in 1998 with a more detailed version released under the Freedom of Information Act in 2002. 

The latest version to be released shows that Area 51 is mentioned on at least 12 pages, including a map.
One of the first mentions describe how two senior project staff on the U-2 had been flying over Nevada when they spotted an old airstrip near Groom Lake. It describes how the facility had been used during World War Two as an aerial gunnery for the Army Air Corp pilots. President Dwight Eisenhower later approved “this strip of wasteland, known by its map designation as Area 51, to the Atomic Energy Commissions Nevada test site and training range. It also states that to make the facility more attractive to workers there, it was named Paradise Ranch, or sometimes the Ranch. A poor quality photograph of “The Ranch” is also included.The documents also mention how a Military Air Transport Service flight crashed in 1955 at Area 51 killing 14 people.They also provide detailed history about tests and missions of the U-2 plane from Area 51, along with information about the aircrafts use in other parts of the world.
Radar tests of what would later become the SR71 Blackbird were also carried out with a mock up of the plane placed on top of tall pylons. 

Area 51 was later upgraded to assist testing of this aircraft under the Oxcart program.
To transport the aircraft to the site in 1962, a specially designed 35ft wide, 100ft long trailer costing $100,000 was used.Road signs had to be removed, road banks were levelled and trees trimmed to help transport the plane safely – possibly providing an explanation for some of the phenomena attributed to UFOs in the area. There are some amusing mentions of life at the secret US base. During testing of Oxcart in 1963, Area 51 personnel had to “sweep and vacuum the runway” before the aircraft took off to prevent damage to the engine.
There are, however, some mentions of Area 51 that remain blanked out and this will doubtless provide more than enough fuel to conspiracy theorists.According to some conspiracy theorists, Area 51 has served as a research site for a range of exotic weapons and technologies.Most famously, it is said to be the US government’s centre for research on aliens and UFOs.A crashed alien spacecraft, along with other alien material supposedly recovered from Roswell, New Mexico, is widely rumoured to be stored there. Eye-witnesses have regularly reported seeing UFOs that twist and turn in the skies over the base.The site has made many appearances in films about aliens, including Independence Day.A notorious group of government agents known as the Men in Black are also said to be stationed there to help keep UFO sightings secret.

---Curled from dailymail.com

MINE IS BIGGER THAN YOURS - ABRAMOVICH VS SHEIK KHALIFA BIN ZAYED BIN SULTAN AL-NAHYAN YACHT

Roman Abramovich doesn't do second best. Just ask the nine managers he's sacked. And he certainly won't like being knocked off his perch by Manchester City. But unfortunately for the Russian billionaire, that is exactly what has happened after Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan splashed out nearly £390million on the planet's biggest mega-yacht. The Chelsea owner's vessel Eclipse had been the the world leader for the past three years, but it has now been usurped by Azzam which is 54ft (16.5m) longer - an extra 'penalty area' in length. The 590ft (180 metre) super-yacht is set to launch a new round of one-upmanship among the world's super-rich. Ownership of the craft has been shrouded in secrecy, but Yachts France, which creates the annual mega yacht league table, revealed it belongs to the president of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Abu Dhabi. He is the half-brother of City owner Sheikh Mansour. Longer than 12 double-decker buses, not only is Azzam the biggest superyacht, it is also expected to be one of the fastest.
The 94,000 horsepower vessel could reach speeds of more than 30 knots, or 35mph. French interior designer Christophe Leoni was briefed to produce a sophisticated and yet timeless interior with a turn-of-the-century, Empire style. It is likely to match the luxury of Abraovich's Eclipse, which features an armour-plated master suite, two swimming pools, two helipads, a hall, a cinema, a mini-submarine and even its own missile defence system. Abramovich has owned Eclipse, which is valued at £740million, since it was launched in 2010. The size of superyachts has grown as billionaires compete to own the largest and its builders boast that Azzam, which means dedication in Arabic, is the 'most complex and challenging yacht that has ever been built'.
It was designed by Nauta Yachts and constructed in Bremen by Lurssen - she was floated out in April. The firm's Peter Lurssen said: 'She truly represents another milestone in yachting history.' The yacht requires a staff of 50, and interior features include a 29ft salon and a stunning, open-plan interior. It took the title of world's biggest private yacht from the 454ft Rising Sun, owned by American businessman Larry Ellison, which in turn took over from the 414ft Octopus, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Azzam's design suggests it has been built for a buyer in the Middle East as it has about 50 suites but no large open spaces on deck, said TheYachtPhoto's Peter Seyfferth.

ECLIPSE

AZZAM

AZZAM VS ECLIPSE

At 590.6ft long, Azzam is longer than 12 double-decker buses parked end-to-end.
At her widest point, known as the beam, Azzam measures 68.2ft, while her hull is 15.8ft deep.
She's heavier than Eclipse, too, with estimated gross tonnage of 14,000GT - roughly equivalent to 1,750 adult African elephants.
Powered by two gas turbines and two diesel engines, she boasts 94,000 horsepower and a top speed in excess of 30 knots.
Azzam's fuel tank can hold one million litres and she will have a similar top speed.
It took the world's top engineers one year to design Azzam and three years to build her - but this is considered very quick in building terms.
Interior features will include a 29ft salon and a stunning, open-plan interior.
French interior designer Christophe Leoni was briefed to produce a sophisticated and yet timeless interior with a turn-of-the-century, Empire style.
Roman Abramovich's Eclipse is 533.1ft long and 72.2ft wide, and has an estimated gross tonnage of 13,500GT.
She has four diesel engines and a maximum speed of 22 knots, which means Azzam will far outstrip her should the billionaire owners decide to have a race.
The yacht can accommodate 36 guests in comfort, and boasts a cinema, conference facilities, children's playroom, beauty salon, dance floor, swimming pool and sauna.
Built by Blohm +Voss Shipyards and designed inside and out by Terence Disdale, Eclipse was custom-made for the Chelsea oligarch in 2010.
Both ships are so huge, they would have trouble fitting into the majority of the world's marinas.  Only a handful, including Monaco and Antibes on the Riviera would be large enough to accommodate them.
However, despite Azzam eclipsing Eclipse today, neither of them comes close to the Titanic in terms of scale.  Built in 1912, the ill-fated Titanic was 882ft long and 92ft wide.
 ---Curled from Dailymail

Substituting truth for Politics

I have taken a careful look at the ongoing crisis of deportation within the country and have somehow refused to join issues with anybody on it. This is greatly because almost everybody I have heard is speaking from a biased point of view. Reading Fani_kayode’s article on this issue also broke my heart. A supposedly respected citizen like him shouldn’t have written such inciting article especially at this time when tension is rising among all parties involved. The other day Akwa Ibom state allegedly deported people to Lagos, so as Cross River state.

The main issues that needs to be discussed here are “are there laws on these deportations? If there are no laws, what necessitated these deportations? How are the processes of these deportations managed?”. These are issues that need to be addressed instead of politicizing this issue. Some people in my office are of the opinion that the Igbos should go back to their land and leave Lagos alone (none of these persons are from Lagos though they are Yorubas).  Others pray for the splitting of the country into 3 parts i.e. Southwest, North and South-South/ South East. Ironically these people are young men and women who should be the future of this country. And I ask: “Are the many ethnic groups in our country our problem or is separation/ division of the country the solution”?

My answer to the two questions above is “NO”. The reason for my answer to both question is the same. Ethnicity has never been our problem rather it has been our only hope. Separations will never be a solution rather it will be the beginning of a  more complex problem. Let me break it down. Umuleri and Aguleri (border towns) have been up in arms since God knows when. These are two Igbo communities that have almost everything in common. Ijaws and Itshekiris have been enemies for a very long time. Ife and Modakeke are two towns that have been in crises since I was born. Bokoharam which claims to be fighting for the Muslims is bombing mosques and killing Muslims. Rivers state crisis where almost all parties involved (including the first lady) are from Rivers state. These are just some of the intra crisis rocking group of people with the same ethnicity and/or religion. If the country is divided, these groups will undoubtedly remain together and these fights will worsen. Abia state government sacks non-indigenes from their civil service and nobody is making an issue out of it. If any southwest state does the same it will surely become an issue. Does these mean that we select what we want from a group of related bad scenarios?

My good people, our real problem is GREED and SELF-CENTEREDNESS. These vises gave birth of the politics of corruption and bigotism. Let us stop politicizing issues that affect us directly as well as issues that will affect our unborn generation. When we hear young people speaking of dividing the country or supporting deportation of Nigerian citizens or laying more emphasis on their  ethnicity and/or religion than on the good of the whole country, then we know that the future of this country is as oblique as our present state. When you hear young men and women basing their choice of a candidate based on ethnicity/ religion instead of on integrity and a proven record of industriousness; then we know that our problem is far from being solved. Let us learn to treat issues with Nigeria as a whole in mind, with our future and the future of the unborn generation in mind.

10 Hilarious though TRUE facts about Women's BREASTS

 

1. Human breasts are the only breasts that develop in puberty and remain permanently enlarged. Other living creatures’ breasts grow during lactation and disappears afterwards.

2. On average on breast is bigger than the other at 39.7millimeters.

3. Shape of the mother’s breast determines how well the baby speaks. That is, scientists believe that the shape of the human breast influenced the development of our infants’ palates and oral motor skills, which then facilitated our ability to form words.

4. Men can’t think straight after viewing HUGE breasts! Research has shown that men perform poorly on cognitive tests after viewing images of top-heavy women.

5. Breasts are the last organs to develop in the human body.

6. Women with bigger breasts mate more than the ones with smaller breasts.

7. Breast milk can protect against diabetes and cancer.

8. The breast keeps growing new cells throughout our lives.

9. Women will enjoy their breasts if they can keep off gasoline fumes, exhaust fumes and cigarettes.

10. Females are beginning to develop breasts earlier than past generations!

---http://www.entadaplace.com

Indian Baby's Body Burns by itself

 

A three-month-old baby boy is recovering in hospital after allegedly spontaneously catching fire - for the fourth time. Rahul, was admitted for treatment of ten degree burns at an intensive care unit in Chennai, India last week, and doctors at the hospital say he suffers from 'spontaneous human combustion'. Medical staff alleges that - for the fourth time in his short life - Rahul has burst into flames with no external source of ignition. 
According to doctors Rahul may have caught fire due to the excretion of gases through his skin, which has led to him suffering burns on his chest and head.
‘The baby is stable and treatment is on for burn injuries and scars. Life-saving support systems are there for Rahul in the intensive care unit,’ said R. Narayana Babu, head of pediatrics at the hospital. He told IBN Live that the baby will be under observation and may be discharged after two weeks depending on his condition. Rahul, from Villupuram, an area 100miles from Chennai, suffered the first incident when he was just nine days old.

People thought I set him on fire deliberately,’ his mother, Rajeswari told IBN Live.
According to the parents, their community ostracized them, and Rahul’s father, a farm worker, says they have lost everything as a result of his son's condition. Rajeswari alleges that Rahul has suffered four episodes of  spontaneous fire and suffered burn injuries, the last incident taking place last month. However, doctors at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital in Chennai treating Rahul say they only have the mother's version of events to go on as the baby boy does not have any medical records. 'The baby has to be carefully observed. We have to investigate whether the ailment is genetic,' Prof. R. Jayachandran of the department of pediatrics at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital said.
'We will carry out tests to find out the kind of gases generated by the baby’.'
Not all believe the mother's story of self-combustion. 'Spontaneous Human Combustion-syndrome is a hoax theory,' the hospital's burns specialist Dr J Jagan Mohan told The Times of India. 'A baby catching fire spontaneously is not possible.
'Alcoholics have a very small percentage of alcohol secreted in their sweat but even that wouldn't generate a fire.' Until a proper diagnosis is made, Rahul is given treatment that is only symptomatic, with the administration of antibiotics.

-Daily Mail