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A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of Albert Woodfox, the last of the Louisiana inmates dubbed the Angola 3 by supporters protesting their long stints in solitary confinement. Tuesday's order came a day after a U.S. district judge said Woodfox should be released immediately  and that the state cannot try him again for the killing of a prison guard. His two previous convictions were overturned. Woodfox has long maintained his innocence in that death in 1972, when inmates were protesting conditions inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is appealing the judge's order, saying Woodfox is a killer who should remain locked up. The appeals court order blocks the release of Woodfox until at least Friday. Woodfox and Herman Wallace were accused in the 1972 killing of guard Brent Miller at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. A third inmate, Robert King, was linked to Miller's de...

Here's what happened; a lady invited a male friend to go eat dinner at an Italian restaurant. After ordering an expensive dish and eating his fill, the bill came and he asked her to pay for it. Irritated at his behaviour, she requested that they both pay for their respective meals. The guy said he was going out to get money to pay but never returned and what did the lady do? She shared the guy's pic on Facebook and shamed him...

If all goes according to plan, a little Thai girl nicknamed Einz who is now dead will some day read this sentence. That plan, however, requires incredible faith in technological advancements. Elinz's body has been cremated and all that remains is her head - which is now filled with medical-grade antifreeze and stored in a vault in Arizona. Einz, whose formal name is Matheryn Naovaratpong, died from an aggressive strain of brain cancer on January 8th n Bangkok. She was nearly 3 years old.   Two Alcor representatives one a retired neurosurgeon were on standby to perform a "field cryoprotection," which involved injecting her with medical-grade antifreeze and lowering her body temperature to around 80 degrees Celsius below zero. The family didn't just observe this graphic procedure. They participated. "The (neurosurgeon) said, 'Anyone who wants to go should go now,'" says Dararat. "All of us stayed. They said, 'Really?...

A black girl responds to a comment on a social media that described her as a sub human. Her long response will floor you. Continue...

Immediate past speaker of the House of Reps now Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal led past Speakers of the House of Representatives including Patricia Etteh, Ghali Na' Abbah and deputy speakers Emeka Ihedioha on a courtesy call to the new speaker, Hon Yakubu Dogara today June 10th. ..

Sophie Momodu was surprised with a birthday dinner at Eko Hotel & Suites organized by her baby daddy, Davido. Awww, he looks smitten. 

I'm back! *wink*. Ahaji Aliko Dangote paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode.

Facing a huge cash crisis, President Muhammadu Buhari has resorted to unusual strategies for recovering some of the funds stolen from Nigeria’s treasury through a series of shady deals between former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and a group of indigenous oil companies and oil marketers she and former President Goodluck Jonathan favored. Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, brought the part of the illicit deals to public attention when he alerted Nigerians that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to deposit $20 billion of oil revenues with the CBN. In addition, Mrs. Alison-Madueke had inked some deals, with the blessing of former President Jonathan, involving oil swaps and the transfer of certain oil wells reclaimed from multinational oil companies to shady Nigerian operators, including Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko. An investigation by SaharaReporters discovered that President Buhari’s a...

The Presidency on Wednesday, said the Clerk of the National Assembly and Senate President, Bukola Saraki, snubbed President Muhammadu Buhari’s request and conducted the election that produced Saraki as Senate President. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said that there was a request for the National Assembly to move the time of the inauguration in other for the meeting with the All Progressives Congress lawmakers to hold. Shehu, who spoke on Sunrise Daily, a morning programme on Channels TV, explained that Buhari declined to meet the 51 APC lawmakers at the International Conference Centre because election had already been completed by lawmakers who stayed back at the National Assembly complex. According to him, the point of going to the ICC was lost once the process of election had begun. He said: “Well, President Buhari had planned to be there to show support for the party and once the process had began,...

Two suspected armed robbers, who specialise in snatching motorcycles, met their Waterloo in Onitsha on Tuesday. The suspected hoodlums, who have allegedly been terrorizing residents of Nkpor and its environs, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra state, were set ablaze by angry mob. The end came for the robbers when they attempted to rob a Northern trader at gun-point. The trader who came to procure goods at the Nkpor New tyre market was intercepted by the robbers at the road side under the watchful eyes of residents. According to an eyewitness, the robbers operating on their bike, stopped the trader along the Onitsha/Enugu expressway, close to the market, and ordered him to hand over the money he was carrying in a bag to them. The source disclosed that, “As he was about to resist the order, they shot at him for three consecutive times but the bullet did not penetrate his body. “Seeing that the bullet did not penetrate, they sensed danger an...

The base of a multi-national military offensive against Boko Haram will cost some $30 million over the next year, the head of a regional security grouping said Wednesday in Nigeria, appealing for help. His comments came as defence ministers and military chiefs from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin — which will contribute military personnel, police and civilians to the so-called Multi-national Joint Task Force (MNJTF) — met in Abuja to thrash out plans to take on the militants. Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari has made stopping Boko Haram’s bloody, six-year insurgency a top priority, and on Thursday he will meet with his regional counterparts in a high-level summit on the issue in the Nigerian capital. “The total amount required to set up and sustain the MNJTF headquarters for the next 12 months is about $30 million (27 million euros),” said Sanusi Imran Abdullahi, head of the Lake Chad Basin Commission security grouping that includes Nigeria ...

Rev. Father Emmanuel Akingbade, the parish priest in charge of St. Benedict’s Catholic Church in Ido Ekiti, headquarters of Ido/Osi local government area of Ekiti State was abducted by a three-man gang from his residence at about 8.00pm on Tuesday. The kidnappers were said to be demanding for a N20 million ransom. The abduction of the cleric threw the community into confusion as youths poured into the streets to protest the incident. They blocked the highway that passes through the town with used tyres, logs of wood and other objects, demanding for the immediate release of the priest. The irate protesters wondered why the town is being targeted by kidnappers as several people have been kidnapped in the community and its environs in recent time.

A student of Ozar secondary school, Asa in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State, who was sent home by one of her teachers, Mrs Njoku on Monday to cut her hair, returned with her mother and elder siblings to attack teachers and students. The JSS 2 student, Precious Nwadike, had earlier been warned by same teacher two weeks ago to barb her hair but she did not heed to the warning. Thus, on arrival to school on Monday, the student was asked to go home and barb her hair. She left immediately, only to return two hours later with her mother and four of her siblings who marched straight to the staff room and commanded the teachers to come out. The mother, Mrs Nwadike held the teacher, pulled her cloth and ordered the sons to cut her hair. The intervention of another teacher, Mrs Osuagwu provoked the sons and one of them, Uche almost strangled her. The intervention of students led to a free for all fight, which Mrs Nwadike and her children appeared to be fully prepared for. A you...

Many may not agree with her transformation from a man to woman, however,majority can't deny the plastic surgeon did a spectacular job..The 65 year old paid a visit to Dr. Harrison H. Lee, with a personalised copy of her Vanity Fair feature. 'To Harrison, Great Job Thank you so much Caitlyn Jenner,' she wrote on the cover. Lee's specialty is facial feminization for male to female transgender patients.He told the Daily News that though honored to work with Jenner he was a little nervous  'I entered with some trepidation of course,' he said. 'I figured it was gonna be very challenging because of her celebrity status and the fact that she's going to finally expose herself for (who) she is, and it'll be one of the most judged faces on the planet.'

How adorable is this  A fire fighter who rescued a baby finally got to see her during her graduation ceremony 17 years later . Back in 1998,fire fighter ,Mike Hughes was called to the scene of a house fire and found then 9 month old Dawnielle Davison,in her crib, enveloped in smoke. Hughes successfully carried her out to saftey .. 10 years later in 2008, Hughes found  her on Facebook and reached out to then-10-year-old Dawnielle Davison .They had a special connection ,and when she was graduating from High Schoool  seven years later,she invited him. A tearful  Dawnielle told KOMO TV “Really emotional,” “I don’t know really how to describe it, they’re happy tears, to realize some things could have gone wrong.”

A group of four tourists have been arrested in Malaysia after they posed naked by a sacred mountain. They have now been blamed for the 6.0 magnitude earthquake on Friday which sent rocks raining down on trekkers by the mountain in Sabah on Borneo island, killing 18 climbers. The victims were nine Singaporeans, six Malaysians and a Filipino, a Chinese and a Japanese national. The pictures circulated on social media show the men were completely nude, while most, of the women were topless in the photos, Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan has blamed the tragedy on the foreigners for showing 'disrespect to the sacred mountain' by posing naked at the peak. He has said a special ritual will be conducted to 'appease the mountain spirit.'  'We detained all four of them on Tuesday... and yes we are still searching for the other six tourists, and we will catch them,' said Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman, the police commissioner f...

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Multiple Award Winner "P-Square" drops this inspirational single "Bring it On". Africa's biggest duo, teams up with "Dave Scott" for this single off their "Double Trouble" album. The song which infuses R'n'B into cool rock talks about the phases,trials and struggles of life that one goes through before reaching the top and being a winner. Directed by talented Jude 'Engees' Okoye and creative Clarence Peters and produced by multi- faceted Rudeboy (Paul),the video was shot in the beautiful city of Atlanta and also in South Africa and features beautiful beach-side scenery.

The 28.2 kilometer stretch of road from Nkpor to Amawbia, built at over nine billion naira has been commissioned in Anambra state. Governor Willie Obiano, during the commissioning of the road at the Nkpor round about axis, commended the contractor for a quality job done. The road which he says cuts across over seven communities which includes: Ogidi, Ogbunike, Umudioka, Umunnachi, Ukpo, Abagana, Enugwu-ukwu, Nawfia, among others, will bring huge relief for the people as traffic congestion which Nkpor Junction is known for will be a thing of the past. The construction began in 2008, under Former Governor, Peter Obi’s administration which saw to the completion of about 13 kilometer of the road. The governor said the commissioning was in line with his campaign promises of completing, commissioning and commencing new projects in the state. Addressing the people, Governor Willie Obiano urged the surrounding communities and road users to take ownership of ...

Two Nigerian Customs officers who improperly attempted to get on the tarmac of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport without proper accreditation got unruly and began beating up a security officer of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The fracas happened just as officials of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) were at the airport to inspect it for upgrade. The disgraceful altercation which took place on June 3 2015 led to a free-for-all fight as the Customs went to mobilize more of their colleagues to attack FAAN security officials. At least five security officials were injured on the FAAn side. Sahara Reporters

The Senate Unity Forum of led by Senator Ahmed Lawan walked out of plenary in the senate in protest to their non-involvement in the process that produced Senator Bukola Saraki as President and Senator Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President. The group is presently at a press conference addressing journalists on their position. details later… LEGISREPORTS NG 

1. In my journey to success, I discovered when you have a powerful vision, you realize you don't have the power to make the vision happen — Sam Adeyemi (@sam_adeyemi) June 10, 2015 The person who trivializes the importance of principles is in for many struggles in the bid to achieve success Read From Down To Top

In China’s latest child-abuse case, police in a southeastern city are looking into allegations that a kindergarten teacher stapled a toddler’s ear. The incident came to the fore on Monday, when a parent told an online forum that her four year-old son had complained of ear pain when taking a bath. The child later said that his teacher had pricked a staple into his ear during noon break. Pictures on a social medium showed the child crying in pain after doctors removed the staple. A medical record posted on the medium revealed that the child’s left ear had been stabbed by a staple. China’s education bureau confirmed the allegation on Tuesday, adding that the suspect was in police custody. Further investigation is underway as local authorities promised stiff penalties for whoever is found guilty. Representatives of the kindergarten and the local education authorities have apologised to the child’s family, according to the education bureau. (Xi...