Video: Obama's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

This is a must watch video. This is the funniest I've ever seen of Obama. Watch him poke fun at himself, Jay Z, CNN, Taylor Swift, MSNBC, Michelle Obama, Conan O'Brien, Rush Limbaugh, the History Channel, Fox and many more at the Correspondents' Dinner which held on Saturday night at the White House. Hilarious

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Michael Jordan Marries Model Yvette Prieto

The former NBA star said "I do" to model Yvette Prieto in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday after five years of dating.
The couple made it official in front of a whopping 500 guests, who arrived on tour buses, at Episcopal church Bethesda-by-the Sea, according to people.
The basketball legend then invited another 1,500 friends to join in the celebrations at the Bears Club, in Jupiter, Fla., not far from his 38,000-square-foot home.
Jordan, who met the 35-year-old stunner at a nightclub in Miami back in 2008, popped the question in 2011 over the Christmas holidays.
This will be the second marriage for the former Chicago Bulls star turned Charlotte Bobcats owner, who was previously married to Juanita Vanoy for 17 years.
Congrats to the happy couple!

LASG shuts 30 illegal medicines stores in Ajah, Lekki

The Lagos State Task Force on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods, said on Sunday that it had sealed about 30 illegal patent medicine stores in the Ajah-Lekki area of the state.
A statement in Lagos by the Lagos State Ministry of Health said that the state government was worried about the dangers posed by illegal drug hawkers.
It quoted Dr Yewande Adesina, the Special Adviser to the State Governor on Public Health, as saying that their nefarious activities needed to be urgently curtailed.
The statement alerted members of the public to the risks and dangers of purchasing drugs from hawkers.
``The shops were sealed for offences ranging from sales of drugs without license from the regulatory authorities, to failure to relocate from a market area/adherence to the mandated distance between a patent medicine shop and the market place, among others.
``The drug distribution system in Lagos will get worse if the activities of illegal drug operators are allowed to continue unchecked," the statement quoted Adesina as saying.
It also said that the Special Adviser said that the government would do all it can to stop the inherent dangers associated with the sale of drugs through unauthorised outlets.
The statement also assured the people that the state government was committed to streamlining the drug distribution system in the state to enhance public safety.
It cited the provision of the pharmaceutical laws which prescribed that pharmaceutical premises cannot be located in motor parks or an environment where commercial activities are, and are growing very closely together.
The statement noted that any pharmaceutical premises surrounded or covered completely by a growing market or standing close to it, shall relocate to another suitable location, two years after formal notification to do so.
It, therefore, advised all intending pharmacy operators and patent medicine vendors to liaise with the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria and the Directorate of Pharmaceutical Services, to get a permit.
The statement added that those interested in the importation, distribution and sales of drugs should get their premises licenced by the appropriate authorities.

Katy Perry Files $6.5 Million Countersuit Against UK Haircare Company

Katy Perry's hairy legal mess continues.
Despite U.K.-based beauty company Jemella Group Limited's effort to prevent the singer from taking legal action against them, the famous pop singer has filed a $6.5 million countersuit against Good Hair Day's parent company for not holding their end of the bargain

Jemella Group Limited originally filed a complaint in federal court in California a couple weeks ago, saying that in 2011, they agreed to pay Perry $4.5 million to appear in their ads and be a celebrity spokeswoman for the brand for two years, but the singer's camp said there was an oral agreement extending the contract for another two and a half years and another $6.5 million.

In her counterclaim filed in Federal Court on Monday and obtained by E! News, the "Wide Awake" singer claims that while Good Hair Day (ghd) says they have no current valid deal with her, the company "continues to use Perry's name and image on its website to promote is hair care products. ghd has failed to honor its contractual obligations to Perry, yet it continues to benefit from Perry by using her name and image without compensating her."

The legal documents add that the website still labels the pop singer as the company's "brand ambassador."

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Ice Prince "rebirth": Gimme Dat & VIP

Ice Prince is back with two fresh tracks - “VIP” and “Gimme Dat” off his highly anticipated album due for release later in the year. VIP is Ice Prince doing what he knows how to do best, while on “Gimme Dat” he enlists the support of Burna Boi, Yung L and Olamide to give the track that special vibe.

Listen to Gimme Dat below and VIP after the cut...

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Dortmund DESTROYs Real Madrid

The first leg is over! Borussia Dortmund will travel to the Bernabeu with a 4-1 lead and they're well worth it. Real Madrid can count themselves lucky that they even have an away goal to call their own, as they only scored courtesy of a shocking individual error by Mats Hummels. It was an astonishing team performance crowned by a splendid individual effort by Robert Lewandowski.

Twitter: 2 step sign-in

Twitter’s upcoming two-step sign-in system could prevent the next big hack
When hackers compromised the Associated Press’s Twitter account yesterday, they showed just how much damage one can do with a few scary tweets.
Now, Twitter is finally making it harder for that to happen again. The company is working on a two-factor authentication system for Twitter accounts, which should, in theory, make it harder for hackers to break into them, as Wired reports.
Here’s how it works: Right now when you log into your Twitter account from a new computer or device, Twitter treats that device like any other you’ve used — you just log in and start using the service. With two-factor authentication, that process gets a bit more complicated: Soon, when you try to log in on a new device, Twitter will also send to your phone a random code, which must be entered on you new device before you’re able to use Twitter.
Basically, what two-factor authentication does is add a second layer of security: Hackers may get a hold of your password, but it won’t do them much good if they don’t also have your phone.
While two-factor authentication is new to Twitter, Facebook, Google, and, most recently, Microsoft all already offer it. It’s not perfect, but then again, no security measure really is.

Waje drops 'Na the Way' remix ft Sarkodie,unveils album track listing

Listen to the song below and see the track listing after the cut...

Kanye West Boosts G.O.O.D. Rapper D'Banj's 'Scapegoat' With Two-Verse Remix

Kanye West has mostly been quiet since last year's G.O.O.D. Music album Cruel Summer, but he's been at work on something. At least part of it is for G.O.O.D. Music rapper D'Banj's "Scapegoat," a delightfully sunny song that nudges up against soca. D'Banj is a Nigerian pop star who is the breakout star of Africa's afrobeats scene, which bridges the gap between the sounds and rhythms of Afrobeat to the tempo of dance music. He broke out in Europe last year with the single "Oliver Twist" and appeared on the Cruel Summer track "The Morning," but has mostly been an overseas concern for Kanye's label. "Scapegoat" is a few years old, but has apparently been excavated for a major push worldwide, with West descending from the throne to add two new high-profile verses for a remix.
In his private pursuits, Kanye's reportedly flown various artists to Paris over the past few months, including new Chicago stars King L, Chief Keef, and Young Chop. He's also recorded a few new songs with Daft Punk (via Stereogum), which are apparently slated for his upcoming, allegedly God-making next album.

Princess Dami weds

The comedienne got married today at the Ikoyi registry in Lagos. Her traditional wedding will hold May 8th. Happy married life to her!

Premier League: Manchester United v Aston Villa

"Robin van Persie hat-trick. Man Utd 3-0 and only the formalities to be completed. Could get bad for Aston Villa's goal difference."

Kendra Wilkinson - Speaks Out After Car Accident and Hospitalization

We're relieved Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett is alive and tweeting.
The former Girls Next Door star thanked fans for their support via Twitter after she was taken to the hospital following a car accident in Los Angeles on Sunday, writing, "Thank you for all well wishes. Just really reminded me how fragile life really is and how important love really is."
Wilkinson was seen checking into Providence Tarzana Medical Center early Sunday morning after an accident nearby, per reports. A source was quoted as saying the Playboy alum was "in shock" and "really sore" after the incident.
Luckily, Hank Baskett IV's mom reportedly did not suffer any serious injuries and was discharged soon after arriving at the hospital.

Moses Emerges As First Male Nigerian Idol

Nigerian Idol Season 3 finally reached the climax that millions of viewers, home and abroad, waited for, when Moses Obi Adigwe became the first male contestant to win the competition.
He joins the likes of Mercy Chinwo and Yeka Onka, winners of Seasons 1 and 2. The show was a thrill for all who attended the grand finale last weekend at the Dream Studio in Omole, Lagos.
Etisalat Nigeria, the sponsors of the show delivered, as promised, a brand new SUV to the new Idol, who will also receive a N7.5-million cash prize and a recording contract worth another N7.5 million. First Runner-up, Debbie Rise went home with a brand new Kia Picanto, also courtesy Etisalat Nigeria, and N1.5 million whilst second runner-up Safeeyat was rewarded with a one million naira cash prize. The telecom operator also presented cash rewards and devices to the finalists of the top 12 who joined Moses and Debbie on stage.
Opening guest performance of the night was by Yeka, winner of the first season of Nigerian Idol. The performance was followed by Mercy's captivating rendition of her song - "You Go Remember Today". . Koko Master, D'Banj, graced the stage with his signature electrifying atmosphere, while Omawumi did not disappoint with a delivery of her popular track, 'Bottom Belle'. The star performance of the night was that of multiple Grammy Award nominee and Afrobeat singer, Femi Kuti, who doubled as one of the judges on the show. The afrobeat wonder gave an energetic delivery of his new single, 'No Place for my Dream'.
Speaking at the event, Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria, Steven Evans, who was represented at the event by the Director, PMO and Operational Strategy, Ndidi Okpaluba, said the company recognises Nigerian Idol as a platform for identifying young talented Nigerians and a springboard for showcasing the winners to the international audience.
"The Etisalat brand is youthful, dynamic and innovative. We believe all these qualities are associated with the Nigerian Idol brand. Etisalat's promise to you is that we will continue to provide new products and opportunities such as the Nigerian Idol," Evans said.
CEO, Optima Media Group (OMG), Rotimi Pedro spoke in the same vein, and thanked Etisalat Nigeria for its support over the past three seasons. "We specially appreciate Etisalat Nigeria, who has been with us through the last three years. Without them we wouldn't have had Seasons 1, 2 and 3. Together, we've built Nigerian Idol to become an international brand. Etisalat is a brand that understands the Nigerian youth culture," he said, adding that the quality of talent on Nigerian Idol 3 has revealed the resilient spirit of its youth as portrayed by the contestants. He also thanked the viewers and followers of this season's show, and disclosed that this season which searched through five cities across Nigeria for the Voice of Tomorrow, has enjoyed over 30 million hits on its website and added 96,000 new friends on Facebook.
In his comment, one of the judges, Femi Kuti praised Nigerians for their choice. According to him, "Moses shows there is great potential in Nigeria. I am very impressed. What we need to do is lay the foundation for them to grow upon."

187 dead, 77 wounded in northern Nigeria clashes: Red Cross

A delegation from the state government visited the town on Sunday in the aftermath of the fighting, and a community representative put the death toll at 185, although there was no confirmation from Nigerian authorities of the death toll. Picture taken April 21, 2013.

Baga: Fierce fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected militants has killed 187 people and injured 77 others, a Red Cross spokesman told sources on Monday.

"So far, 187 dead have been buried, while 77 are under admission in hospitals. Over 300 houses were burnt down," Red Cross spokesman Nwakpa O. Nwakpa told sources of the massive gun battles that broke out Friday in the remote northeastern town of Baga.

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Justin Bieber Cuddles Up With Selena Gomez in Instagram Photo

Is Justin Bieber back to being Selena Gomez's boyfriend?
The on-again, off-again duo sure did look coupled up, though, in a new photo the Biebs posted on his Instagram page Saturday night (and then promptly deleted).
In the snap, the "Boyfriend" crooner and Gomez are canoodling, with the Spring Breakers star holding back her hair as she leans in close to the super star singer.

Fear Grips Nigeria Muslims After Threat

Fears have gripped Nigeria’s Muslims after threats by militants in the country’s oil-rich delta to attack mosques, religious leaders and hajj camps on claims of defending Christianity.
“MEND surely has the reputation and means to carry out the threatened terrorist attacks,” Disu Kamor, chief executive at the Muslim Public Affairs Center (MPAC), told OnIslam.net.
“Due to this fact, we call on the Nigerian government to take the threat seriously, to publicly condemn it and make tangible efforts to protect Muslims and their places of worship.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened attacks against mosques, Muslim leaders and hajj camps “in defense of Christianity” against the militant Boko Haram.
The militant group said the attacks will start by May 31 unless the umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Catholic Church order a halt.”The militant group said the attacks will start by May 31 unless the umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Catholic Church order a halt.
"The bombings of mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations in Islamic events and assassinations of clerics that propagate doctrines of hate will form the core mission of this crusade," MEND spokesman Jomo Gbomo has said in an e-mailed statement.
But the threat has sparked fears among Nigerian Muslims over possible attacks by the militant group.
Shakirat Abdulmajeed, spokesperson for The Criterion, an influential group of Muslim women professionals, said Muslims are genuinely apprehensive.
“The Muslim community has repeatedly denounced Boko Haram as not representing Islam and Muslims,” Abdulmajeed told OnIslam.net.
“It would therefore be most unfair for anyone to unleash violence on Muslims for what they know nothing about.”
Operating from oil-rich Niger Delta, MEND is one of Nigeria's foremost terror gangs that seeks to control the region's oil wealth.
The group, which operates in Nigeria's south - especially in oil-rich Niger Delta areas, including Lagos and Ondo, focuses its attacks on Nigerian security forces and facilities.
Boko Haram, a radical Muslim group, has escalated attacks against Nigerian security forces and churches in revenge to what it says injustice done to Muslims.
Muslims have repeatedly denounced Boko Haram attacks as running against the Islamic teachings.
“The Boko Haram violence does not discriminate between Muslims and Christians,” Abdulmajeed said.
“And since their activities are mainly in the Muslim North it is perhaps safe to say Muslims are worst hit in the mayhem.”
Serious Doubts
Muslim leaders, however, say the MEND threats do not represent the general sentiments of Christians in Nigeria.
MEND’s statements “fail to represent the sentiments of most Christians around the country” Kamor told OnIslam.net.
“(The statements) are reprehensible in their attempt to deny history of the most tragic occurrences which have claimed more Muslim lives, mischaracterized the name and message of Islam, and threatened to the very existence of the whole country.”
MEND threat has already invited condemnations from Christian bodies in Nigeria.
The Catholic Church has warned that MEND attacks could sink the country deeper into the precipice.
CAN has not yet commented on the threat, while security agencies have warned the militant group to desist.
Edwin Clark, a prominent leader from the Niger Delta, warned that the threat is aimed at causing “disaffection between the various groups in Nigeria”.
The Catholic Secretariat said any attacks on Muslims could further plunge the country to the edge.
“Any attacks on mosques and other religious places of worship will worsen the problem in the country,” Rev Father Ralph Madu, spokesman of the Catholic Secretariat, told OnIslam.net.
“So we urge MEND to drop their arms and machetes and embrace peace so that there will be a lasting peace in this country.
“All these provoked and unprovoked reactions won’t solve the problems.”
Prof Ishaq Akintola of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) said the timing of MEND’s threat raises serious doubts.
“The fact that MEND’s threat is coming just when lights start to appear at the end of the dark tunnel is quite interesting,” he told OnIslam.net, referring to reports about possible amnesty for Boko Haram militants to help bring peace to the country.
“It raises more questions than answers and it is in the interest of everybody that we end this.”
Nigeria, one of the world's most religiously committed nations, is divided between a Muslim north and a Christian south.
Muslims and Christians, who constitute 55 and 40 percent of Nigeria's 140 million population respectively, have lived in peace for the most part.
But ethnic and religious tensions have bubbled for years, fuelled by decades of resentment between indigenous groups, mostly Christian or animist, who are vying for control of fertile farmlands with migrants and settlers from the Hausa-speaking Muslim north.

D'banj ft Kanye West - Scape Goat Remix

Scape Goat remix featuring Kanye West is finally here. Check it out below and tell us what you think.

 

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New ‘Man Of Steel’ Details Appear in Latest Entertainment Weekly

Looks like this week’s Entertainment Weekly is a must-buy. The cover story is on Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel and it’s chock full of brand-new details, many of which would be considered spoilers. We’ll report on everything once the magazine is out (probably Thursday on iPad at least) but they’ve already posted a few small snippets. Read them below.
Everything that follows are facts about Man of Steel that haven’t been talked about at length yet, so beware of spoilers.

Flooding Displaces Families In SA

One hundred and thirty six people were left homeless when their shacks were destroyed by floods in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg emergency services said on Saturday.

The people were being moved to Khayalethu care centre in the area and supplied with blankets and food, spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi said.

"We are facilitating the relief processes" he said.

The department of social development, housing, Gift of the Givers and South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) were also assisting.

Mulaudzi said the water levels were still high at 1.5m.

No one was injured and process of moving people to the hall started around 15:00.

Earlier on Saturday, several motorists and passengers were rescued after they were trapped in flooded roads in Soweto, emergency services said on Saturday.

"They were rescued at Klipspruit Valley and New Canada roads after their vehicles were trapped as a result of heavy rainfall. The roads remain closed," said City of Joburg emergency services spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi.

Four people from two sedans and a taxi were rescued at New Canada road, opposite New Canada train station.

The vehicles were trapped on the flooded road under a bridge in the morning.

Three other people were also rescued from two vehicles at Klipspruit Valley road in Nancefield.

No injuries were reported

QPR 0-2 Stoke City: Crouch & Walters leave Redknapp’s men on brink

Stoke City all but consigned QPR to certain Premier League relegation after battling to a hard earned 2-0 win at Loftus Road

156 dead, 5,500 injured in China earthquake

BEIJING — A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region.
Saturday’s quake, while not as destructive as the one in 2008, toppled buildings, triggered landslides and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county. The village of Longmen was hit particularly hard, with authorities saying nearly all the buildings there had been destroyed in a frightening minute-long shaking by the quake.
“It was such a big quake that everyone was scared,” said a woman who answered the phone at a kindergarten hours later and declined to give her name. “We all fled for our lives.”
Rescuers turned the square outside the Lushan County Hospital into a triage centre, where medical personnel bandaged bleeding victims, according to footage on China Central Television. Rescuers dynamited boulders that had fallen across roads to reach Longmen and other damaged areas lying farther up the mountain valleys, state media reported.
The China Earthquake Administration said at least 156 people had died, including 96 in Lushan. In the jurisdiction of Ya’an, which administers Lushan, 19 people were reported missing and more than 5,500 people were injured, the administration said.
The quake — measured by the earthquake administration at magnitude-7.0 and by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6.6 — struck the steep hills of Lushan county shortly after 8 a.m., when many people were at home, sleeping or having breakfast. People in their underwear and wrapped in blankets ran into the streets of Ya’an and even the provincial capital of Chengdu, 115 kilometres (70 miles) east of Lushan, according to photos, video and accounts posted online.
The quake’s shallow depth, less than 13 kilometres (8 miles), likely magnified the impact.
Chengdu’s airport shut down for about an hour before reopening, though many flights were cancelled or delayed, and its railway station halted dozens of scheduled train rides Saturday, state media said.
Lushan reported the most deaths, but there was concern that casualties in neighbouring Baoxing county might have been under-reported because of inaccessibility after roads were blocked and power and phone services cut off.
As the region went into the first night after the quake, rain started to fall, slowing rescue work. Forecasts called for more rain in the next several days, and the China Meteorological Administration warned of possible landslides and other geological disasters.
Tens of thousands of people moved into tents or cars, unable to return home or too afraid to go back as aftershocks continued to jolt the region.
Lushan, where the quake struck, lies where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau and sits atop the Longmenshan fault. It was along that fault line that a devastating magnitude-7.9 quake struck on May 12, 2008, leaving more than 90,000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in one of the worst natural disasters to strike China in recent decades.
“It was just like May 12,” Liu Xi, a writer in Ya’an city, who was jolted awake by Saturday’s quake, said via a private message on his account on Sina Corporation’s Twitter-like Weibo service. “All the home decorations fell at once, and the old house cracked.”
The official Xinhua News Agency said the well-known Bifengxia panda preserve, which is near Lushan, was not affected by the quake. Dozens of pandas were moved to Bifengxia from another preserve, Wolong, after its habitat was wrecked by the 2008 quake.
As in most natural disasters, the government mobilized thousands of soldiers and others — 7,000 people by Saturday afternoon — sending excavators and other heavy machinery as well as tents, blankets and other emergency supplies. Two soldiers died after the vehicle that they and more than a dozen others were in slipped off the road and rolled down a cliff, state media reported.
Premier Li Keqiang flew to Ya’an to direct rescue efforts, and he and President Xi Jinping ordered officials and rescuers to make saving people the top priority, Xinhua said.
The Chinese Red Cross said it had deployed relief teams with supplies of food, water, medicine and rescue equipment to the disaster areas.
With roads blocked for several hours after the quake, the military surveyed the disaster area by air. Aerial photos released by the military and shown on state television showed individual houses in ruins in Lushan and outlying villages flattened into rubble. The roofs of some taller buildings appeared to have slipped off, exposing the floors beneath them.
A person whose posts to the micro-blogging account “Qingyi Riverside” on Weibo carried a locator geotag for Lushan said many buildings collapsed and that people could spot helicopters hovering above.
The earthquake administration said there had been at least 712 aftershocks, including two of magnitude-5.0 or higher.
“It’s too dangerous,” said a person with the Weibo account Chengduxinglin and with a Lushan geotag. “Even the aftershocks are scary.”
While rescuers and state media rushed to the disaster scene, China’s active social media users filled the information gap. They posted photos of people fleeing to streets for safety and of buildings flattened by the quake. They shared information on the availability of phone services, apparently through data services.


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2Chainz To Visit Nigeria On D’banj’s Album Launch

American rapper, 2chainz, is expected in Nigeria for a concert tagged “D’kingz Men Concert,” organised by singer D’banj and his DKM Media alongside Ndani TV.The concert is being organised in celebration of D’banj’s birthday which will be held at Eko Hotel on April 23rd.
D’banj earlier gave a hint about bringing 2chainz to Nigeria when he tweeted from his twitter account on April 1 saying: “So I said to someone, @2chains will be at my birthday party in June performing and the person said, April fool”.
It would be recalled that last year December, Idris Elba, Pusha T and Big Sean were all in Nigeria for D’banj’s koko concert. But this time around, some Nigerian singers including Fallyipupa, Kayswitch, Olamide and J-sol are all expected to perform at the event.

Smartwatches: Who Would Take The Crown , Apple, Samsung or Google?

It was indeed true when someone said that with every passing year, technology is getting smaller and cheaper. If it was smartphones and tablets that caught our fancy until last year, 2013 looks all set to take the trend from our palms and onto our wrists with the advent of smartwatches.
We’d first heard of Apple coming out with an iWatch, a wristwatch that could do everything that the iPhone could do, except in a smaller package. Not to be too left behind, then came the archrival Samsung announcing its ambitious project in the similar segment. In addition, we’ve been hearing rumors about LG and Google too busy working on their versions of the smartwatch. Oh, and did we mention that Microsoft too is making an Xbox watch?
Apple’s iWatch is expected to feature a curved glass surface with fingerprint scanning and possibly even Apple’s very own radio service. Maybe the iWatch could be among the first few of Apple’s devices to even come with NFC capabilities. And of course, there’s the health angle too – it can measure your pulse and keep a tab on the number of calories you burn when you workout.
Of course, we can’t say with certainty if any of the other smartwatches except those by Apple and Samsung could actually end up seeing the light of the day. They are indeed futuristic while just how useful these would be still remains to be seen.

Boston bombings: 2nd Suspect Caught

The second Boston Marathon bombing suspect is caught in a Watertown backyard, covered in blood.
WATERTOWN, Mass. — A manhunt that locked down metropolitan Boston for 23 hours ended Friday night when police unleashed a barrage of gunfire and snatched the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings from his hiding place in a covered boat in a backyard.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found huddled and covered in blood by officers who stormed the suburban neighborhood after receiving a tip from a homeowner. The suspect's brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, had died before dawn Friday in a fierce gun battle with police not far from the same section of Watertown.
Only a day earlier, pictures of the two men — wearing baseball caps and carrying backpacks that authorities said held bombs — had been spread across the country in an effort to identify them. Friday night, spectators broke out into applause as an ambulance with the younger brother made its way toward a hospital, and further celebrations broke out in central Boston.
"CAPTURED!!!" the Boston Police Department tweeted. "The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
"The people of Boston will be able to sleep tonight," Mayor Thomas Menino said.
President Obama, who watched the arrests unfold on television from the White House residence, congratulated police and federal agents on the intense, four-day investigation that successfully sifted through countless tips and thousands of photos. He pledged that the federal government would not stop its work with the arrests.
"Obviously, there are still many unanswered questions," he said. "Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive help?"
Friday's events ended an intense dragnet underway since two closely timed bombs went off during Monday's marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 170.
The climactic finale began shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, authorities said, when the brothers shot a police officer to death at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hijacked a sport utility vehicle, then opened fire on pursuing officers with gunshots, explosives and homemade hand grenades, leaving one officer critically wounded.
The furious gun battle — with 200 rounds of ammunition exchanged as residents of a Watertown neighborhood crouched in their homes — ended with the elder Tsarnaev dead and the younger, also apparently wounded, fleeing on foot.
In scenes rare to modern American law enforcement, city authorities shut down the entire Boston transit system, asked businesses to close, searched trains and urged people to stay home and lock their doors. The search rendered bustling Boston eerily empty — a scary snow day, some Bostonians described it.
"Hurricanes, natural disasters — a city shuts down. But nothing like this," said Steven Feldman, a lawyer who works in downtown Boston.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis concurred, pointing to the dizzying array of ammunition and explosives deployed by the two suspects. "This is the stuff that [for] an urban police department, it's almost unheard of," he said.
By nightfall, authorities had decided to lift the advisory to stay indoors, warning that it still might not be entirely safe. But "we cannot continue to lock down an entire city," said Col. Timothy Alben of the Massachusetts State Police.
Residents of a 20-block area of Watertown near the shootout began venturing outside, some to go to the store, some for a short walk.
Outside, one resident noticed something amiss about the small boat in his backyard. When he lifted a tarp covering it, he found a man covered in blood. He quickly retreated and called 911.
A dozen police cars screeched into the neighborhood, witnesses said, followed by hundreds of officers. An FBI hostage rescue team, guided by a helicopter overhead looking for heat signatures, cautiously approached the boat, fearful that the suspect might have more explosives. They used a robotic arm to lift the tarp, officials said.
Within minutes, a new barrage of gunfire and stun grenade volleys erupted.
"It was pow pow pow pow pow, at least 15, 30 shots," said neighbor Deanna Finn, who dragged her 8-year-old son onto the bathroom floor and threw herself on top of him. She kept flushing the toilet to drown out the noise of the volleys outside.
"It felt like my entire life, I swear. I never had anything go so fast and so slow at the same time," she said.

Rihanna Unveils New MAC RiRi Woo Lipstick

Pucker up, pretty ladies, there's a new lipstick shade you need to know about!
Our favorite good girl gone bad, Rihanna has joined forces with MAC Cosmetics to unveil a fierce new collection that really speaks to her style and persona.
Take a peek at her first product launch, the RiRi Woo lipstick, a gorgeous deep red shade that was inspired by the brand's famous Ruby Woo shade she's famously known for wearing.
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Not only is the sexy color seriously stunning on and off stage (she'll be wearing it throughout her Diamonds World Tour, FYI), but it's flattering on all skin tones, too.

Expect the same killer quality and sleek packaging as other MAC products, but this one comes with a cool bonus: RiRi's signature inscription on tube of lipstick.
Loves it!
The RiRi Woo lipstick retails for $16, and officially hits shelves May 4.
Would you buy Rihanna's MAC lipstick?

Man's 116th Birthday: World's Oldest Man to have Ever Lived Celebrates 116 Birthday, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan

Today is the 116^th Birthday of the oldest person to have ever lived, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
Mr. Kimura was born April 19, 1897 and was named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records on December 17, 2012 when American, Dina Manfredini, died.
He is now the oldest man who has ever lived, of those whose ages have been officially verified. He takes the title from a man named Christian Mortensen of California, who died in 1998 at 115 years and 252 days old, Daily Mail reports.
"Mr Kimura, born on 19 April 1897, is believed to be the last known man to have lived across three centuries," writes BBC News. "[And,] He is one of only 12 people in the world still alive who was born before the turn of the 20th century," according to the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, in Tokyo.
The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, sent a video message to Mr. Kimura saying, "I truly congratulate you on your 116th birthday. I'm 58 years old, still a young man at only half your age. Thanks to your generation's efforts, Japan could overcome several difficult times and achieve the prosperity we enjoy today. Your healthy existence becomes our confidence and pride," according to Reuters.
In addition, Mayor Yasushi Nakayama of Kyotango City, where Mr, Kimura lives in western Japan, came to visit for his birthday and to present him with messages from all over the world, according to Reuters.
Mr. Kimura worked as a postman to the age of 65 and then as a farmer until he was 90. He now lives at home and is under the care of his grandson's 60-year-old widow and he has 14 grandchildren as well as dozens of great and great-great grandchildren, reports told BBC.
"He lives a three-meal-a-day diet of rice, pumpkins and sweet potatoes, according to local media," Reuters reports.
Mr. Kimura attributes his impressively long life to having practiced daily "moderation," eating small meals, waking up early and exercising regularly, according to The Telegraph.
Mr Kimura has attributed his impressive longevity to having long practised "moderation" in his daily life, consuming small meals, rising early and exercising regularly.
Japan has a reputation for longevity having a population of over 50,000 people who are 100 or older in 2011 and now it boasts the world's oldest man as well as the world's oldest woman, Misao Okawa, who is 115 years old, according to Reuters.

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries officially divorced

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries officially divorced

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are officially divorced, according to TMZ. A judge in LA dissolved their marriage in today's court hearing...and Kris got nothing from Kim. He had asked for $7 million as divorce settlement and had also asked for an annulment of the marriage based on fraud, but recently dropped his demands. Kim will have her baby now as a single woman. Good for them.

D'banj says-"I have not found the right woman'"

I have not found the right woman' - D'banj says

That's curious...because in his January interview with Toolz on Ndani TV, D'banj said he was happily dating a very special lady who has been with him for a while. Fast forward to his interview today with Seun Apara of Thisday, D'banj says he's still single because he hasn't found the right woman.
D'banj tells Seun:

"I have dated a lot of women but I don't really want to talk about them because most of them have moved on and some are married. I don't have any regret at all because I am still young and I am still a bachelor though my mum wants me to settle down. She is proud of me and I do let her understand that it's not that I don't want to marry, I just haven't found the right woman. If she finds the right one for me, she can call me.

Uncle urges Boston bombing suspect to turn self in

An uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects urged his nephew to turn himself in Friday, saying he had brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen ethnicity.

Ruslan Tsarni, 42, also told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he was not completely shocked when he learned that the older brother was named as a suspect in Monday's deadly bombing.

"It's not a surprise about him," he said. "The younger one, that's something else."
The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers who had lived in the region of Dagestan, which neighbors the region of Chechnya in southern Russia.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who was seen in surveillance footage released Thursday by the FBI in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight in a shootout with police, officials said.

His brother, a 19-year-old college student, escaped. He was seen wearing a white baseball cap in the images from the bombing near the marathon finish line. Three were killed and dozens wounded.

"Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured and from those who left," Tsarni told reporters outside his Maryland home.

The brothers had been in the U.S. for about a decade and lived near Boston. Tsarni said he had not seen them since he visited them in December 2005.

He said the older brother, Tamerlan, had become a devout Muslim about seven or eight years ago.

"When I was speaking to the older one, he started all this religious talk, 'Insh'allah' and all that, and I asked him, 'Where is all that coming from?'" said Tsarni, a corporate lawyer and executive.

Tsarni said his nephews had struggled to settle themselves in the U.S. and ended up "thereby just hating everyone."

Asked what he thought provoked the bombings, Tsarni said: "Being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. These are the only reasons I can imagine of. Anything else, anything else to do with religion, with Islam, it's a fraud, it's a fake."

He later said he was not calling his nephews losers. "I'm saying those who are able to make this atrocity are only losers."

Chechnya has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency. Tsarni, who described himself as Muslim, vehemently denied that Chechnya or Islam had anything to do with the attack.

Tsarni said his brother left the U.S. and he had not talked to him since 2009. He said they had a personal falling out but did not elaborate.

"If somebody radicalized them ... it's not my brother, who just moved back to Russia. Who spent his life bringing bread to that table, fixing cars."

Tsarni offered his condolences to the victims.

"We're sharing with them their grief. I'm ready just to meet with them. I'm ready just to bend in front of them, to kneel in front of them, seeking that forgiveness."

Wande Coal returns! set to drop Album June 6

The Nigerian singer will also release three videos after the album.
After a 5 year break, Black Diamond of Africa and Marvin Record’s jewel, Wande Coal, will on June 6 release his second, and highly anticipated, album.
The first album of the multiple award winning pop singer, Mushin to Mo’Hits, had hit tracks like “Bumper to Bumper”, “ololufe”, amongst others; and was released 5 years ago under the defunct Mo’Hits Records. He earlier dropped singles, The kick, ft Donjazzy, and My Way (Produced by Maleek Berry). .
The album which is a 12-track album will see features from Mavin crew and also collaboration with an undisclosed international act
WC, as he is fondly called by his teeming fans, is currently on tour of some European countries, and plans to release three new videos once the album is released.
Following a fallout between record label Executives, Don Jazzy and D’banj, Wande Coal, alongside Dr SID, D’Prince, and Tiwa Savage signed on to Don Jazzy’s new Record Label, Mavin Records

2 Russian brothers suspected for Boston bombings

Two Russians bothers, 26 year old Tamerlan and 19 year old Dzhokhar, a second-year medical student in the U.S, are suspected to be behind the Boston Marathon bombings. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police last night, Dzhokhar is being intensely pursued. Below is their story...

From Boston Associated Press

In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (pictured above and below right), then a senior at a prestigious high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue higher education. Now, Tsarnaev is on the run, described as "armed and dangerous" and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Two brothers, one now dead, one alive and at large. After hours of only grainy images of two men in baseball caps to go on, a portrait gradually started emerging Friday of the men suspected in the attack.

Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a violent night in Cambridge, had been living together on Norfolk Street in Cambridge. An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade. They came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011, the year he won the scholarship, which was celebrated with a reception at City Hall, according to a news release issued at the time. Before moving to the United States, he attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus that has become an epicenter of the Islamic insurgency that spilled over from Chechnya. On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."

Tsarnaev appeared in the video released by authorities on Thursday, identified as Suspect Number 2, striding down a sidewalk, unnoticed by spectators who were absorbed in the race. He followed Tamerlan by about 10 feet. He wore what appeared to be a gray hoodie under a dark jacket and pants, and a white baseball cap facing backward and pulled down haphazardly.

Tamerlan was stockier, in khaki pants, a light T-shirt, and a dark jacket. The brim of his baseball cap faced forward, and he may have been wearing sunglasses.

According to the website spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was arrested for domestic violence in July 2009, after assaulting his girlfriend.

He was an amateur boxer, listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009

Shakira Sued for $100 Million by Ex-Boyfriend

Shakira's ex-boyfriend believes he deserves a big payout.
The pint-sized singer and Voice coach has been slapped with a $100 million lawsuit in California by Antonio de la Rua, who claims that he built the "Shakira brand" and was brains behind her hits, "Hips Don't Lie" and "Waka Waka," according to court documents.
De la Rua filed the lawsuit on April 12, after initially filing a $250 million lawsuit against the star in New York last November. Shakira filed a motion March 28 asking the court to dismiss that lawsuit because they do not have jurisdiction over her and because de La Rua has failed to state an actionable claim.
Shakira doesn't believe her ex-boyfriend is to thank for her success, and according to legal documents, the new mommy states that when she first met de la Rua at a concert in Argentina in 2000, she was "already a well-known and recognized artist with an established international career."
She does say that her former flame, who is the son of an Argentine president, was one of "numerous advisers," but it wasn't because of his vast knowledge of the business. In fact, the performer stated that "though he lacked experience or knowledge of the music industry," she decided, in 2005, at his request, she decided to involve him in some matters relating to the business because he "was unemployed."

Boston Marathon investigation: FBI has bombing suspect, authorities push back on arrest reports

Authorities have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings and forcefully denied a flurry of news reports that an arrest had been made in the attack Wednesday afternoon.

The Associated Press and the Boston Globe reported a suspect had been arrested and was en route to the Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston. CNN also reported that a suspect was in custody, before backtracking from its earlier report and saying no suspect had been nabbed. The Boston Police Department and the US Attorney's office in Boston denied those reports on Wednesday afternoon, saying no arrest had been made.

The FBI issued a sternly worded rebuke to the press for reporting that a suspect was in custody.

"Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack," Special Agent Greg Comcowich said in the statement. "Over the past day and a half, there have been a number of press reports based on information from unofficial sources that has been inaccurate." He added that the reports cause "unintended consequences," and that the media should verify their information through "official channels."Meanwhile, the Moakley Federal Courthouse was evacuated around 3 p.m. Wednesday after a bomb threat. Hundreds of reporters and court employees--some of whom had gathered out front to see if a suspect would be brought there--calmly evacuated the building and walked across the street. More than a dozen news vans with satellite uplinks lined the street adjacent to the courthouse while news helicopters hovered above.
About 90 minutes after the building was evacuated, a maintenance worker emerged from the courthouse waving a green flag signaling "all clear," and people were allowed back into the building.

A small plaza at the Brigham & Women's Hospital was also evacuated due to an abandoned vehicle in the area, a spokeswoman confirmed, but they've been given the all clear and were let back in the building.

Authorities combed through video footage to find an image of "a suspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the second bombing scene," The Boston Globe reported. CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reported that the video showed a man in a black jacket talking on his cell phone "placing a black bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion." Police used the time stamp on the video to scan all the calls made in the area to try to track him down, Orr reported.

The FBI was scheduled to hold a press conference Wednesday at 5 p.m., but announced it would be postponed until later Wednesday night due to the courthouse bomb threat. The breakthrough in the investigation came from analyzing department store surveillance video and video from a news station.

An FBI spokesman in Boston and a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Tom Menino declined to comment on the reports to Yahoo News.

The twin bombs, which were detonated close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, sent 176 people to the hospital and killed three. Eight-year-old Martin Richard, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell and 23-year-old Lingzi Lu were the three people killed. Several of the injured needed amputations.

Police have said the bombs were fashioned from debris-filled pressure cookers and stuffed in black bags. They were located about 100 yards apart.

Van Persie rescues Manchester United @ West Ham

The finale to Manchester United's season is not turning into the serene victory tour that they might once have hoped it was with a lead of 18 points, rather they are meeting pockets of resistance everywhere. The outcome still feels inevitable, though, and it could still be over by the end of the month.

Another two points dropped to Manchester City, winners at home to Wigan, means that the once-mighty United lead is now down to 13 points with the second-placed team having six games left. Yet having trailed West Ham twice at Upton Park in a game that finally ignited in the second half, this felt like a decent, if imperfect, result for the champions elect.
On another night, in another season, they would have come from 2-1 down, after Mohamed Diamé scored in the 55th minute, and won the game but there is not the necessity to do so this year with the nearest challenger so far behind them. If results go the way of Sir Alex Ferguson's team they could still win the title at the Emirates a week on Sunday, a chastening possibility for all those who will gather there to tell Robin van Persie exactly what they think of him.
Van Persie's equaliser earned a point for United, a goal that should have been ruled offside. The best performer on the pitch – or certainly the most effective – was Andy Carroll, a missile aimed at the heart of United's defence and David de Gea in particular. Carroll was reckless in charging the goalkeeper before half-time and he walked off the pitch at the end with Nemanja Vidic complaining about his use of the elbow.
Vidic may wish to examine his own record in that department before dishing out advice. His team, without the pressure they are accustomed to at this point of a title race, did enough with a first-half goal from Antonio Valencia to level Ricardo Vaz Te's opener.
If ever it felt that the Premier League season was petering out then it was the opening stages of the night when a fixture that has generated some animosity in the past felt like a dead rubber.
It took a no-holds-barred challenge from Carroll at the end of the half, charging directly at De Gea as Manchester United defended a corner to get Ferguson out of his seat and berating fourth official Andre Marriner. To De Gea's credit he stood his ground and kept his eye on the ball, like a vulnerable furry creature in the lights of a speeding juggernaut.
Until that point, the spark had been missing apart from when both teams broke through and scored. Carroll, watched by England manager Roy Hodgson, was a marauding, intimidating presence in the United half but he did not do half as much damage as Sam Allardyce might have hoped.
The West Ham centre-forward's shot brushed a post in the fifth minute after he worked space in the box, with Valencia in particular getting a foot out the way to make sure he did not foul Carroll. Turning on the edge of the area his left-foot shot just crept wide.
Ferguson picked Michael Carrick and Phil Jones in midfield and there was not a surfeit of creativity from that area of the pitch. As for West Ham they broke away to score a wonderfully worked goal in the 17th minute that unfolded quite unexpectedly. Wayne Rooney lost possession on the edge of the West Ham area and Diamé carried the ball forward before moving it out to Matt Jarvis on the left. His smart change of pace left Rio Ferdinand behind and the cross to the back post was headed down by Carroll. Vaz Te met it with a second header to finish the job.
It took United more than 10 minutes to respond. The architect of the equaliser was Shinji Kagawa who, given the ball by Van Persie, dribbled wonderfully past Winston Reid and cut it back for Valencia to score his first league goal of the season. Nevertheless, United by no means took grip of the game and when Carroll came in to charge De Gea, it was West Ham who were once again looking the more dangerous.
The campaign against De Gea, conducted exclusively by Carroll and Kevin Nolan, continued with an elbow into the goalkeeper's ribs soon after half-time from Carroll, earning him a booking. They looked pretty certain that they had located United's weakest point but, in De Gea's defence, he hung onto the ball on that occasion.
In that opening 15 minutes of the half, Carroll looked at his best. He hit a dipping volley just over the bar with the kind of aggression that characterises the best parts of his game.
The second West Ham goal, however, came from that intriguing midfield talent Diamé, who scores few goals but picks high-ranking opposition to score them against. His other two of the season have come against Arsenal and Chelsea and his third was a superb left footed shot from the right after turning away from Rooney to make space.
A very poor night for Rooney ended when Ferguson replaced him with Ryan Giggs with just less than 20 minutes left. A shot from Rooney had been cleared off the line from Gary O'Neil after Jussi Jaaskelainen let it slip through. Otherwise he had seen little of the meaningful action.
The West Ham goalkeeper saved well from Van Persie's header on 68 minutes and he was unlucky with the second equaliser. Kagawa's shot from the edge of the area brushed James Collins and hit both posts. Van Persie, in an offside position when the ball was struck, tidied up neatly and the away side were level. In the end, a point was all the leaders deserved.
Man of the match Carroll.
Match rating 7/10.
Referee L Probert (South Gloucestershire).
Attendance 36,692.
Manchester United require just six points from their remaining five games to claim a 20th top-flight crown. Victory over Aston Villa on Monday will be enough if City lose at Spurs the previous afternoon, otherwise Sir Alex Ferguson's side could reclaim the crown with a win at Arsenal on Sunday week.

Rihanna Not Pregnant in Spite of Speculation

Could Rihanna's next big production be of the baby-bump variety?
The Barbadian songbird sparked rampant rumors that she's pregnant after she was spotted leaving a doctor's office in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
Further fanning the speculation was the fact that the 25-year-old singer canceled her Houston concert earlier this week due to an unspecified illness—a move that celebuspawn conspiracy theorists took to mean that she could possibly be dialing things down in the case of a baby on the way.
Apparently so. Multiple sources close to Rihanna confirms  that the singer is not pregnant.
So there you go.
 However, didn't keep fans guessing about the current state of her love life: Last week she was spotted with on-and-off (and, it seems, on-again) boyfriend Chris Brown. Surprise.

Aliko Dangote 'plans Nigeria refinery'

Nigeria is Africa's main oil producer but has to import more than 75% of its fuel

Africa's wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, says he aims to invest up to $8bn in a major new oil refinery that would almost double Nigeria's oil output.

Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer but lacks refining capacity and has to import most of its fuel.

Mr Dangote, 56, told Reuters news agency that those who should have invested in refineries were benefiting from Nigeria's lack of capacity.

Building a major refinery would help all of sub-Saharan Africa, he said.

The tycoon, who made his fortune in cement, flour and sugar, is worth an estimated $16bn (£10bn; 12bn euros) and has topped the Forbes list of Africa's richest men for the past three years.

Work on constructing the refinery would begin this year and it would eventually have the capacity to produce 450,000 barrels per day, he said.

He stressed that a new refinery was vital for Nigeria: "It has to be done."

"In five years, when our population is over 200 million, we won't have the infrastructure to receive the amount of fuel we use."

The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says it is a scandal that Nigeria has to import more than three-quarters of its fuel despite being the continent's biggest producer.

Although it has two refineries in the Port Harcourt area, neither runs at full capacity.

Previous efforts to repair Nigeria's dilapidated refineries and build new ones have been scuppered to protect the interests of powerful fuel importers, some of whom have been linked to a subsidy scam costing the country billions of dollars a year, our correspondent adds.

Fuel in Nigeria is sold at a subsidised price. A government attempt to remove the subsidy in 2012 led to nationwide protests. The plan was subsequently dropped.

Last year an investigation revealed that in two years, over $6bn was lost in a fuel subsidy scam.

The inquiry into the subsidy scam was then set up but the legislator leading it was later arrested over bribery allegations.

Mr Dangote acknowledged in his interview that his refinery plan may face opposition.

"The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business," he said.

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Figurine & Irapada coming 2 Youtube in English, Spanish & French

Figurine and Irapada will be coming to YouTube for the first time in English, Spanish and French, on April 19, 2013. Join world renowned Nollywood Producer/Director, Kunle Afolayan and the cast of Figurine for a Google+ Hangout as they take fans behind the scenes of one of Nigeria's most successful Nollywood Movie.

To participate in this hangout, please follow Kunle now on Google+ (gplusid.com/kunle) and leave a comment using hashtag #figurine. Otherwise catch the live stream of interview on Kunle's YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/kafolayan) as it's happening.

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Nigerian student facing life imprisonment in Ukraine released today

Nigerian student facing life imprisonment in Ukraine released today

Nigerian student, Olaolu Femi, who has been in detention in the Lungask district of Ukrain for about a year after being arrested for attempted murder has been released. Olaolu was released today.

Ukrainian police charged him with attempted murder, but according to eye witnesses, Olaolu was defending himself against six Ukrainian teenagers who attacked him at the entrance to his apartment block last year. Olaolu was said to have managed to get up and defended himself against the assailants with a glass from a broken bottle.

"It was while he was defending himself that police arrived at the scene and the Nigerian was subsequently arrested and charged with attempted murder of five people" a Nigerian embassy staff who had knowledge of the case said at the time.

New York Senate Passes Resolution On Achebe

The Senate of New York State, in the United States has passed a resolution paying tribute to acclaimed author Chinua Achebe. In the resolution the Senate said , Professor Achebe's global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa along with the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa.
The New York Senate noted that Achebe left behind a legacy which will long endure the passage of time and will remain as a comforting memory to all he served and befriended. The Legislative Body paused in its deliberations to mourn the death of the famous novelist just as it promised to present a copy of its resolution to the Achebe's family. Below is the details of the resolution:
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION mourning the death of paramount novelist Chinua

Achebe, founder and pioneer of African literature

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Apr 10, 2013:

J1186-2013 Text
WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to pay tribute to the lives of those esteemed individuals of international renown who distin guished themselves through their life's work; and WHEREAS, Foremost novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe, died on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at the age of 82; and WHEREAS, Born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, on November 16, 1930, Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic; he was best known for his 1958 novel, THINGS FALL APART, selling over 12 million copies around the world, and having been translated into 50 languages, making him the most paraphrased African writer of all time; and WHEREAS, Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeast ern Nigeria, Chinua Achebe excelled academically and earned a scholar ship for undergraduate studies; he became fascinated with world reli gions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a college student; and WHEREAS, After graduation, Chinua Achebe worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos; he gained worldwide attention for THINGS FALL APART; his later novels include: NO LONGER AT EASE (1960), ARROW OF GOD (1964), A MAN OF THE PEOPLE (1966), and ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH (1987); and WHEREAS, When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Chinua Achebe became a supporter of Biafran independence and acted as ambassador for the people of the new nation; the war ravaged the popu lace, and as starvation and violence took its toll, he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for assistance; and WHEREAS, When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, Chin ua Achebe involved himself in political parties, but soon resigned due to frustration over the corruption and elitism he witnessed, thereby deciding to devote himself to academia; he lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned there in 1990 after a car accident left him partially disabled; and WHEREAS, Chinua Achebe's novels focus on the traditions of Igbo socie ty, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of Western and traditional African values during and after the colonial era; his style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory; he also published a number of short stories, children's books, and essay collections; and WHEREAS, A David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Profes sor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Chinua Achebe worked up until the time of his death; and WHEREAS, New York's Bard College, with a distinguished history of supporting Chinua Achebe's work and legacy, will continue to be a prima ry home for his projects; and WHEREAS, Professor Achebe's global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa along with the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa; and WHEREAS, Chinua Achebe distinguished himself in his profession and by his sincere dedication and substantial contribution to the welfare of his community; and WHEREAS, Chinua Achebe's commitment to excellence, and his spirit of humanity, carried over into all fields of enterprise, including charita ble and civic endeavors; and WHEREAS, Chinua Achebe is survived by his wife, Christie, their chil dren, Chinelo, Ikechukwu, Chidi, and Nwando as well as his grandchil dren, Chochi, Chino, Chidera, C.J. (Chinua Jr.), Nnamdi and Zeal; and WHEREAS, Armed with a humanistic spirit and imbued with a sense of compassion, Chinua Achebe leaves behind a legacy which will long endure the passage of time and will remain as a comforting memory to all he served and befriended; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to mourn the death of paramount novelist Chinua Achebe, founder and pioneer of African literature; and be it further RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran smitted to the family of Chinua Achebe.

Margaret Thatcher laid to rest

More than 250, 000 people lined the streets of London to bid farewell to UK's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who died April 8th at the age of 87.


The Queen of England, Prime Minister David Cameron, 11 serving Prime Ministers from across the globe and 17 serving Foreign Ministers were among important dignitaries who attended the funeral.