ONE YEAR REMEMBRANCE: GOLDIE HARVEY R.I.P

Goldie Harvey

We lost Goldie Harvey shortly after she returned from the US on Valentine's Day 14th February 2013. She was only 31. What a loss!!! May her soul continue to rest in peace...Amen.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

I wish to use this medium to Greet all our fans out there.......................... HAPPY VAL.
try to show some Love to someone. Thank you

Wild Jubilation Among Oghiadomhe's Kinsmen Over His Sack

Ecstatic jubilation today swept Fugar, the home village in Edo State of the fallen Mike Oghiadomhe, and the youth there promise to gather again on Wednesday to pass a formal vote of no confidence on him.

Tuesday’s celebration started when news spread in the area of yesterday’s fall of their kinsman from the highest levels of the federal government as Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Sources in the village told SaharaReporters that a group of youths gathered at a nearby area of the Etsako Central Local Government office to express their 'joy and happiness' over the removal of Oghiadomhe from the cabinet of Mr. Jonathan.

In an instant demonstration of the unpopularity of Oghiadomhe, who previously served as former deputy governor of Edo State, the youths were said to have been joined by market women, artisans, the unemployed, traders, students and motorcyclists, some of them dancing and singing.

Motorists plying the roads were said to have been locked in their cars as the crowds and their jubilations grew.

PDP using $10 Million to Lure back Defected Memebers

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of using public funds to lure back some of the federal lawmakers who defected from the ruling party to the APC. The APC condemned the strategy as political horse trading carried too far.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday, the APC’s interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, said the PDP had, in a show of desperation, rolled out a mouth-watering enticement package that promises two million US dollars to each senator who returns to the PDP and one million dollars to each member of the House of Representatives. In addition, he said the PDP was offering $10 million to each “leader” who abandons the APC and returns to the PDP. The statement alleged that the price tag for the federal legislators from Rivers State was even higher, at five million dollars each.

Even so, the APC spokesman said there was no cause for alarm, asserting that no amount of inducement would stop the change on the horizon since, according to Mr. Mohammed, the long-suffering people of Nigeria were ready and eager to vote out the PDP in next year’s elections.
 

NIGERIA'S MINISTER OF AVIATION SACKED

Nigeria’s Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, has been fired by President Goodluck Jonathan. Ms. Oduah has been caught in a web of certificate scandals and a scandalous purchase of two BMW armored cars for $1.6 million. Both scandals were exposed by Saharareporters.

Our correspondent reported that Ms. Oduah and three other ministers within the Jonathan govt were relieved of their positions on the orders of Mr. Jonathan. However, their sack was passed off as  voluntary resignation from the cabinet.
 

Stephen Keshi Clock 52

 

Keshi, who turned 52 on Thursday, took time to express gratitude for the assistance and support he has received from different quarters since he assumed the head coach role of the Nigerian men's national team in November 2011.

The former Mali and Togo manager was also full of appreciation for the surprise birthday celebration he got at the team's Green Court Hotel lodgings in Cape Town but remained focused on the clash with Morocco."I feel really good to be alive and well, and I'm happy to be here (in South Africa with the team).

The atmosphere has been good and I can't thank God less for what I've achieved with this team."I'm also speechless and at the same time happy with the celebration.

SAMSUNG TO PRODUCE "GALAXY GLASS"

Samsung was early to market with a smartwatch in the Galaxy Gear, and now it looks like it might be one of the first in the mix with a glasses-based computing device. A new report from the Korea Times (via Verge) suggests that Samsung is currently developing a Google Glass competitor, which is in fact provisionally named “Galaxy Glass,” set for launch in September at the annual IFA tech conference.

Google has yet to put a firm timeline on the consumer launch of its own Google Glass wearable computer, which is available to developers and early adopters via Google’s ‘Explorer’ program. Some reports had suggested a general launch for late 2013, but then later information from Google revised the release timeline to sometime in 2014. Samsung could conceivably beat Google to the punch, but as we saw with the Galaxy Gear, that’s not necessarily a good thing.

In China: Li Hao was Executed For Keeping 6 Woman in Dungeon as Sex Slaves

 

Li Hao

A Chinese man was executed on Tuesday for keeping six women in a dungeon as sex slaves and killing two of them, state media reported.

The official Xinhua news agency said that Li Hao had been convicted of murder, rape, illegal detention, organized prostitution and making pornography for profit in 2012.
The 36-year old dug the dungeon in the basement of a residential compound he bought in 2009, Xinhua said.

Li Hao was executed on Tuesday.The six women Li tricked into coming home with him were held there for between two and 21 months.

Li repeatedly raped the women, forced them to appear in pornographic web shows from March to April 2011 and made them have sex with customers for a brief period, it added.
The death penalty had been approved by the Supreme People's Court, Xinhua said, after a higher court upheld the sentence handed down by the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court in November 2012.

George Stinney; The Yongest Person to be executed in America, Family Member want his Name Cleared

 

Almost 70 years ago, South Carolina electrocuted 14-year-old George Stinney, the youngest person to be executed by an American state since the 1800s. Family members today say he's innocent, and while they can't bring him back, they want his name cleared.

A black teen in the Jim Crow South, Stinney was accused of murdering two white girls, ages 7 and 11, as they hunted for wildflowers in Alcolu, about 50 miles southeast of Columbia.

Stinney, according to police, confessed to the crime. No witness or evidence that might vindicate him was presented during a trial that was over in fewer than three hours. An all-white jury convicted him in a flash, 10 minutes, and he was sentenced to "be electrocuted, until your body be dead in accordance with law. And may God have mercy on your soul," court documents say.

Fewer than three months after the girls' deaths, Stinney was escorted to an electric chair at a Columbia penitentiary, built for much larger defendants. The chair's straps were loose on Stinney's 5-foot-1-inch, 95-pound frame, and books were placed on the seat so he would fit in the chair.

Seeking justice 70 years after execution When the switch was flipped, Stinney's body convulsed, dislodging the oversized mask and exposing his face to about 40 witnesses, including the slain girls' fathers, according to James Gamble, son of the Clarendon County sheriff at the time. Gamble recalled the execution for The Herald in Rock Hill a decade ago.
 

homosexuality banning: Nigeria arrests gay 'suspects' under new law

Nigerian authorities arrested 10 people believed to be gay men under a bill signed this week that bans same-sex marriages, a human rights group said.
Police detained men in various states and have dozens of pending arrests based on perceived sexual orientation, according to Amnesty International.

"Those arrested under this draconian new legislation must be released immediately and the charges against them dropped. Locking someone up for their sexual orientation violates the most basic human rights standards," Makmid Kamara, a researcher for the rights group, said in a statement Wednesday.
Nigerian police spokesman Frank Mba angrily suggested no one had been arrested due to the new law.

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