Photo: Man and his Vietnamese wife Bag 25 years in prison for drug trafficking in Cambodia

A Nigerian man and his Vietnamese wife were on Thursday, March 24 found guilty at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of smuggling 1.5 kg of heroin from Cambodia to Australia and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Samuel Amechi Okeke, 34, (pictured arriving at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court) and his 26-year-old wife Ho Thi Nhu Thuy, were arrested in July 2014 after customs officials in Australia intercepted 10 backpacks lined with heroin that they had mailed from the Dangkao district post office in May that year, according to police. They were subsequently charged with drug trafficking.

Photos: Troops Nab kidnapping syndicate in Ohafia, Abia State,

Troops of 14 Brigade Garrison based in Ohafia, on Sunday March 10, 2016 conducted an operation aimed and bursting a notorious kidnapping syndicate based in Nkporo community of Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State.

Photos: Dying for the perfect shot: teen girl killed by train while posing for selfie

A teenage girl has died after she was hit by a train as she posed for a selfie just inches from a railway track. Horror photos show the unnamed 19-year-old just seconds before the train hit her after ignoring warnings from other tourists to move back. This happened in the city of Foshan, South China’s Guangdong Province last Saturday.

Tompolo drags FG to court over his N45.9billion trial

Former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemulopo, alias Tompolo who has been declared wanted by the EFCC over his involvement in a N45.9 billion scam at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, has dragged the Federal government before a Federal High Court in Lagos asking that the fraud charges leveled against him be dropped.

In the court paper filed by his counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa yesterday April 11th, Tompolo is seeking for the nullification of sections 221 and 306 Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 (ACJA), which prevents parties in a criminal trial from seeking a stay of proceedings.

NYSC DG explains why March allowance has not been paid

The Director General of NYSC, Brig Gen Olawumi this morning released a statement explaining why the March allowance to Youth Corps members have not been paid. Read his statement below
My dear Corps members, l sincerely regret the late payment of your March allowance. For avoidance of doubt, your allowances do not come to the NYSC as the scheme has no account. Once it is approved by the Federal Ministry of Finance, it goes to the Central Bank account from where it is disbursed directly to Corps members account.

Death of suspected armed robber/recovery of arms & ammunition

On April 11th, 2016 at about 2.30pm, 3 armed hoodlums on motorcycle allegedly entered Matrix Stores, Abule-Ado, Satellite and robbed the owner of phones. However, a patrol team attached to Satellite Div., was quickly mobilized to the scene to engage the hoodlums.

In the process,  one of the robbers was shot in the leg and a double barrel gun with two unexpended cartridges and all the robbed phones were recovered. The wounded hoodlum allegedly fell off the  motorcycle while they were escaping and was burnt to death by angry mob before he could be rescued while others escaped. Meanwhile, effort is in progress to arrest other fleeing hoodlums.

Photos: RRS enforces single lane queue at filling stations for free flow of traffic in the state

In furtherance of the determination of the Lagos State Government to ensure free flow of traffic across the metropolis, the officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Nigerian Police on Monday embarked on massive enforcement of the directive banning indiscriminate queues at petrol stations.

Police took over the headquarters of the NFF (photos)

As the crisis in the Nigeria Football Federation continues, the Nigerian Police earlier today took over the football governing body headquarters in Abuja. Continue to see more photos...

Senate ask Amaechi to resign or apologise to Nigerians over issues arising from the controversy surrounding Lagos-Calabar rail project

The Nigerian Senate has asked the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, to resign his appointment as Minister or apologize to the Senate and Nigerians over the Lagos-Calabar rail project that has generated a lot controversies in the last 48 hours. Members of the National Assembly and the presidency have been at loggerheads after media reports alleged that the National Assembly members had removed the Lagos-Calabar rail project from the budget presented to it by President Buhari.
The reports alleged that the National Assembly members diverted the money meant for the said project to the Lagos-Kano project, favoring the Northern region.  Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and Chairman House Committee on Appropriation Abdulmumin Jibrin, via their twitter handles refuted the claims while the Chairman Senate Committee on Transport, Gbenga Ashafa, in a statement he released, said although the project was not included in the original budget forwarded to the National Assembly by Buhari, Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi approached his committee to include the said project.

Fireworks disaster at Kerala Temple kills 106 people in South India

An explosion caused by fireworks during a religious festival at a temple in India yesterday killed about 106 people and hundreds more injured in the southern Indian state of Kerala according to reports.

P. T. Chacko, a spokesman for Chief Minister Oommen Chandy of Kerala, said that the fireworks display had been forbidden by officials in the coastal district of Kollam but that the temple festival organizers still used the fireworks anyway.

N5.6bn corruption case: Court grants EFCC permission to arraign former Abia state gov, Orji Kalu

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, permission to arraign former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu on May 16 over allegations of misappropriation of N5.6 billion while he was governor of the state.

According to Vanguard, EFCC in its charges filed against Kalu in 2008, alleged that he was involved in money laundering and illegal diversion of public funds to the tune of N5.6billion.

The fraud was allegedly perpetuated while Kalu was governor of Abia State between 1999 and 2007.

Kalu was first arraigned in 2007 but his trial has been stalled over the years following court cases instituted by him, challenging the charges leveled against him by EFCC.

The Supreme court on March 18th dismissed Kalu's appeal challenging the EFCC. On May 16th, he will enter fresh plea to an amended 112-count charge dated ‎February 11, 2008.

Photo: 32yr old woman allegedly murdered by husband in Katsina over her inheritance money

Late Fatima Ibrahim was allegedly killed by her husband over the money she inherited from her father. Her lifeless body was discovered in bed, with blood trickling out from her mouth and bruises on her face at her residence. Until her death, the deceased, a 32-year-old mother of one was a teacher at Zubairu Pilot Primary school in Dutsinma town, Katsina State, where she teaches Basic Science.

Missing mother who went on a date with a man she met online found dead

A 40 year old Seattle mother of 3, Ingrid Lyne, who met a man online, John Charlton went missing on Friday. Lyne was last seen leaving her home to attend the Seattle Mariners opening game on Friday but never went back home. Her friends raised the alarm and contacted the Police when she didn't pick up her children the next morning.
Her friends searched for her, called her phone several times but there was no answer.

Man executed after losing a fight

A horrific footage which shows 2 men fighting in a bare-knuckle fight for survival with the loser of the fight being executed has gone viral.
The video starts with the two men, fighting and surrounded by what seems to be gang members holding guns.


As the two men begin to punch each other in the face, the gang members can be heard whooping and hollering in delight.

The Destiny of Russia or a Secret Thousand Year Plan

by Vladimir Markin

Source: http://vecherka.su/articles/society/119332/

Translated by Alexander Maidan

01.04.2016 00:30

Dear colleagues! Dear fellow editors!

Answers to asked and unasked questions have been piling up. But, please, let us keep this between ourselves. It is not meant for the press here, in the capital. You probably ask yourselves as you watch your screens: why and to what end are they showing all this? Why do self-confessed Russophobes march through the streets of Moscow while the mass media lionizes trendy scandal-mongers and common cads, like Novikov, the lawyer; anyone at all, except people of culture and high professionalism? It begs the question – does Russia have some “cunning plan”, which has considered all these aberrations?

News in Brief April 11th, 2016 by Baaz

“CrossTalk” Bullhorns Incorruptible
The Panama Papers – the huge story that isn’t – a truly pathetic day for Western corporate media. The Dutch voted against the EU’s association agreement with Ukraine. But no worries, Brussels is already looking to overturn this democratic outcome. Also, why is the Syrian ceasefire failing AND is Obama really a realist?
CrossTalking with Mark Sleboda, Stephen Ebert, and Patrick Henningsen.

Ukrainian Nationals Stab Two Indian Students to Death, Leave One Injured

Three Ukrainian citizens have stabbed three Indian students in the medical college of the western Ukraine's city of Uzhhorod, the Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

ICTY Judgments: A New Storm in the Balkans?

by Stefan Karganovic

Two recent judgments handed down at the end of March by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in the Karadzic and Seselj cases, may turn out to have serious implications for peace and stability in the Balkans.

To be sure, most of the Karadzic trial judgment was standard ICTY prose – “victors’ justice” unconvincingly disguised as legal, and even historical, analysis. The defendant Karadzic, first president and wartime leader of the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia between 1992 and 1996, was predictably found guilty on all counts – except for one. But there precisely lies the hidden explosive device built into the decision.

The controversy about Stalin – a “basket” of preliminary considerations

When introducing Jimmie Moglia’s video series about Stalin I promised to share with you my own take on this most controversial personality.  Let me immediately say that what I will write below is most definitely not some seminal analysis of the life and personality of Stalin, but rather few more or less disjointed thoughts on a topic which I still feel that I do not understand.

The figure of Stalin has always been a controversial one.  Some thought of him as the “leader of all times and all nations” (“вождь всех времен и народов”) while other saw him like the epitome of evil, a genocidal maniac who killed more people than any other individual in history.  In reality, that kind of polarization is probably a strong indication of the fact that this issue is a very complex one and that a simple black and white answer is unlikely to correctly evaluate the person of Stalin and his legacy.  The fact that there really was a “personality cult” during Stalin’s life and that it was followed by a emotional denunciation by Khrushchev only made things worse.  Stalin is most definitely a polarizing figure and I myself have been submitted to that polarization from my early childhood.

FG Releases 7,000 Outstanding Petrol Loading Tickets Of Independent Marketers

The federal government has begun to release to members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) trucks of petrol to offset about 7,000 of their loading tickets which they said had been outstanding at products depots in the country. IPMAN said in a statement from the Secretary of their Reconciliation/Interim Management Committee, Mr. Lawson Ngoa in Abuja that some of their have started loading products from some depots in Lagos.

Dauda Adamu Kahutu "Rarara" Kidnapped By Gunmen In Kano

Ever wondered why President Jonathan had so much bad blood in the north Despite building 9 of the 11 federal universities there and empowering millions of almajiri with formal education by building over 400 fully equipped almajiri schools ?

Then look no further as this man Dauda Adamu Kahuta popularly known as Rarara contributed immensely.

He sang a song that painted Buhari in glowing fashion while using very derogatory words for Jonathan and it became the northern national anthem and he bacame an instant millionaire as his CDs sold in millions the consequences is today all history .

Teenage ‘cultist’ arrested for robbery in Lagos

Operatives of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) today arrested 13-year-old Opeyemi Johnson who is believed to be a suspected member of the notorious Awawa cult group for robbery. Opeyemi, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) student, was arrested around Fagba in Agege this morning after he, alongside 20 others attacked some road users and dispossessed them of their belongings.‎ Other gang members fled as RRS men on patrol tried to catch them.


Luck however ran out on Opeyemi who was caught and later led the police to arrest another suspect, Mohammed Korede, 19.

Photos: 11 persons perish in a road accident on the Benin-Ore road

11 people (9 males, 2 females) died and 6 others (4 males, 2 females) in a road crash that occurred after Owena bridge, about 18km from Ore on the Benin-Ore road. The accident that occured in the early hours of today, April 10 involved a truck and a Toyota Hiace bus. According to FRSC, "the crash was an head on collision resulted as a result of driving against traffic on the dual carriageway by the driver of the truck.

FG imposing more hardships on Nigeria with VAT increment - Fayose

Read the press statement below...
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Federal Government was planning to impose more hardships on Nigerians by increasing Value Added Tax (VAT) from the current five per cent to 10 per cent, describing the move as insensitive to the plight of Nigerians who are suffering from the bad economic policies of the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government.

Filling Stations In Awka Sell Petrol For N250 Per Litre

Petrol pump price has risen to between N200 and N250 in Awka, capital of Anambra state, east of Nigeria.

The price rose as the product became scarce in the city .

NAN reports that most stations were under lock and key as a result of unavailability of the product; while few stations that opened were selling for between N200 and N250 per liter.

According to NAN, the only petrol station selling at the official pump price of N86.70 kobo in the city was NNPC mega station with long queue.