Police Arrests 3 Suspected Human Traffickers With 26 Children In Ogun.

Police Arrest 3 Suspected Human Traffickers With 26 Children In Ogun

The Police in Ogun on Monday said it arrested three suspected human traffickers with 26 children.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdulmajid Ali, made this known to newsmen in Abeokuta.

Ali said the suspects, identified as Zainab Ahmed (18), Aisha Abdulahi (55) and Zuliat Abdulmalik (45),were arrested on Sunday at a motor park at Ibafo in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state.

He said the arrest followed a tip-off from some residents of Ibafo while the suspects were trying to transport the victims to Lagos.

“Our attention was called by some people living around the motor park on Sunday that some underage persons were seen at the park.

“Our men left immediately and rounded them up”, he said.

According to the commissioner, the victims comprised 25 girls and one boy whose ages range between eight and 10.

Ali said the suspects claimed that they were taking the children to Lagos for menial jobs.

He, however, said that investigations had commenced into the matter and that the suspects would be arraigned soon.

“The children look innocent and we cannot leave anything to chance.

“We need to investigate very well to avoid unpleasant situation, particularly now that we have been alerted of threats of insurgency.

“We need to carry out due diligence to ensure that they are not intended to be used as suicide bombers”, he said. (NAN).

Man stabbed outside White Hart Lane before Spurs match against West Ham

A 35-year-old man was stabbed outside White Hart Lane ahead of Sunday's Premier League match.

Fans are searched as they enter the ground prior to the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United at White Hart Lane.

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Nov 22, 2015 at 4:16p ET

Reports of a stabbing at White Hart Lane - where Tottenham played West Ham - are being investigated by Metropolitan Police.

Metropolitan Police have confirmed they are investigating a stabbing at White Hart Lane prior to Tottenham's Premier League match against West Ham on Sunday. Officers arrived at the stadium at around 3:00 p.m. GMT - an hour before kick-off - to find a 35-year-old man, who is now stable in hopsital, with a stab wound.

The Met's statement read: "Police are called at approximately 15:00hrs on Sunday, 22 November, to reports of a stabbing in White Hart Lane at the junction with Tottenham High Road. Officers and London Ambulance and London's Air Ambulance attended and found a 35-year-old man with a stab wound to his abdomen. He was taken to an east London hospital where he remains in a stable condition. Detectives from Haringey CID are investigating.  No arrests have been made and enquires continue."

Tottenham won the London derby contest against West Ham 4-1.

female suicide bomber kills eight in maiduguri

Eight People Killed in Suicide Bombing in Nigeria's Maiduguri

 

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A female suicide bomber killed herself and seven others in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday morning as officials screened people fleeing attacks by Boko Haram.

Eight others were injured in the explosion at 10:40 a.m. on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, the state’s police commissioner, Aderemi Opadokun, said in a text message.

“Since the internally displaced persons were coming voluntarily into the town, it was decided that they had to be screened to avoid the insurgents mingling with them,” the chairman of Borno’s emergency agency, Ahmed Satomi, said separately by phone. “Just when the screening was on, one woman with explosive devices strapped on her rammed into others.”

Boko Haram, seeking to impose its version of Islamic law on Africa’s most populous country of about 180 million, has stepped up suicide attacks since President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military to defeat the insurgents by the end of the year. The group has killed tens of thousands of people since its campaign began in 2009.

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8 Killed in NE Nigeria Suicide Bombing: Relief Agency

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KANO, NIGERIA:  Eight people were killed Sunday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives among women and children arriving in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri seeking to escape Boko Haram violence in the countryside.

Mohammed Kanar, a local coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the blast happened on Sunday morning as the group arrived from Dikwa, 90 kilometres (56 miles) to the northeast.

The restive city of Maiduguri has repeatedly been attacked by Boko Haram and the latest bloodshed again underlines the threat posed by the Islamist group, which has been launching guerrilla-style attacks since being pushed out of its captured territory and camps by a Nigerian army offensive.

Kanar said the bomber in Sunday's attack was aged about 20 and struck as the group reached a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maiduguri.

"The IDPs (interally displaced persons), mostly women and children, were stopped for security checks at the checkpoint when the bomber, disguised as an IDP, sneaked in amongst them before setting off her explosives," he told AFP.

"Eight people were killed and seven others were injured in the incident."

Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman gave the same account and toll.

There has been a wave of suicide and home-made bomb attacks against civilians in urban areas recently, particularly Maiduguri, which in October alone was hit six times, killing at least 54 people.

On Saturday, four teenage girls blew themselves up in a village near Fotokol, in Cameroon's far north region near the border with Nigeria, killing five, including a traditional chief.

Similar attacks have happened in Chad and Niger.

Dikwa was recaptured from Boko Haram in July and NEMA's Kanar said the town had seen an influx of people from surrounding villages seeking military protection but the authorities had struggled to cope.

"They had been short of supplies, mostly food and other items, which prompted some of them to move to Maiduguri," he added.

"We intend to make some relief distribution in the coming days."

The six-year Boko Haram insurgency has forced some 2.6 million people from their homes and left at least 17,000 dead.

The United Nations said this week that Maiduguri's population had swollen to 2.6 million following an influx of 1.6 million people fleeing the violence and its aftermath.

Already poor infrastructure in rural areas of Nigeria's northeast has been destroyed by the violence, with services such as healthcare and education devastated and agriculture severely hit by the unrest.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has given his military commanders until next month to end the conflict but has conceded guerrilla-style attacks in urban centres could continue.

[MUSIC] Dj Spinall ft Ice Prince & Mafikizolo - The Way.....Enjoy!!

[Music] DJ Spinall Ft. Ice Prince & Mafikizolo – The Way

The unstoppable DJ Spinall releases his debut album titled “My Story”, the well crafted studio project features the likes of 2Face Idibia, Wande Coal, Mafikizolo, Ice Prince, Tekno & others.

Checkout “The Way” featuring south african kwaito music duo Mafikizolo and chocolate city rapper Ice Prince, produced by Drey beatz.

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MUSIC!! DJ SHABSY FT KISS DANIEL & SUGER BOY..Listen up and enjoy.

G-Worldwide Entertainment presents its new signee/Label Official Disk Jockey, “DJ Shabsy” The deejay most known for his video party mix every friday on Africa’s premier music video station, Soundcity TV in a brand new joint titles “Raba” produced by hit maker “DJ Coublon” NEA Nominee for best Producer of the Year.

Raba is a classic Afropop and Dancehall tune with a gentle mix of R&B tempo, the jam features the record label frontline act, Kiss Daniel and label mate Sugarboy.

The track is an introduction of DJ Shabsy and Sugarboy “Recording/Performing Artiste”, the new additions to the G-Worldwide Entertainment Record label. Sugarboy delivers on this track with his dancehall verses showcasing his unique talent. And as usual, Kiss Daniel reaffirms why there’s so much buzz around this kid who has been burning up the charts all 2015.

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TRAGIC!! Three killed as building collapses in Lagos

Three Killed As Building Collapses in Lagos

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Three persons have been reported killed and scores trapped after a building collapsed at Orisha Street, Isheri, Magodo area of Lagos State today.

It was gathered that dead bodies of the three victims were recovered from the debris. According to reports, the building caved in suddenly, at about 7am, during an early downpour.

The three recovered male teenagers were yet to be identified at the moment.

MTN fined $1,000 for each line uncut – NCC

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Africa’s leading telecommunication outfit, MTN was fined $1,000 for each line uncut by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) resulting to its $5.2 billion fine.

In a meeting with the state security agency and all operators on August 4, the NCC had asked MTN to cut off between 10 and 18.6 million users but MTN told the regulator that it only had 5.2 million users whose identity could not be verified, a NCC source said.

“MTN was under the presumption that it can carry on business as usual because it was still in discussion with the regulators,” the source said.

According to Reuters, the fine on MTN is based on a $1,000 for each phone line MTN failed to cut off.

By September, other operators, which include United Arab Emirates’ Etisalat and India’s Bharti Airtel, had fully verified their users and cut off those they could not verify their identity while MTN had made a “partial attempt”, the NCC said.

Then, on October 22, four weeks after the abduction of Falae and about two months after the August deadline, the NCC, on advice from the state security agency, decided to impose the fine but only made it public four days later.

“These SIM cards with invalid registrations pose a grave security risk to the country,” the NCC memo said. “The recent kidnapping of the former finance minister Chief Olu Falae is one example of this risk.”

MTN also faces a Johannesburg bourse investigation on the timing of its announcement of the penalty. The company declined to comment.

IN MEXICO SMOKING WEED IS NOW A HUMAN RIGHT!......WHAT!!!

In Mexico smoking weed is now a ‘human right

Just exercising his human rights outside the Supreme Court in Mexico (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Mexico could be the latest country to legalise weed following a Supreme Court ruling that outlawing its use is a ‘violation of fundamental human rights.’

A group of citizens went to court after the government denied them permission to start a cannabis club to grow and exchange marijuana among themselves.

Judges ruled 4 to 1 that the ban was unconstitutional and ordered the government’s health agency to legalise the club and allow it to carry on.

People sparked up joints outside court to celebrate the judges’ decision.

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For the moment, the judgement only applies to people in the club but it could eventually extend to the rest of Mexico, allowing everyone to grow and consume the drug.

In its reasoning, the court said pot may cause some degree of harm in large quantities – but so do alcohol and tobacco and they are allowed, subject to regulation. They said prohibition was too heavy handed when compared to the risk.

So could this finally bring about an end to the ‘War on Drugs’ which has proved expensive, bloody and a bit pointless.

If the court rules the same way on five similar petitions, it will be possible to change the law and allow general recreational use.

MORE: Prisoners have been given dogs for cell mates – and the results are beautiful

And if people can grow and smoke their own supply legally it will seem increasingly awkward for the armed forces and police to prosecute people for buying and selling it.

Cannabis laws are relaxing in many places, including Peru, Portugal and Uruguay as well as Colorado and Washington states in the USA where recreational use is legal.

Last month MPs in the UK discussed cannabis in the Houses of Parliament saying they would like to relax laws looking into the medical benefits of cannabis.

Is it time we looked again at cannabis laws?

• Yes, legalise it
• No, it's better to keep it banned

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Sierra Leone Declared Free Of Ebola

Sierra Leone is free of Ebola, 18 months and 11,000 deaths after outbreak

A Red Cross burial team wore protective equipment in 2014. (Pete Muller/Prime for The Washington Post)

NAIROBI — About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended.

More than 11,000 Sierra Leoneans died of the disease and at least 17,000 survived it. It came upon some slums and villages like a wave, infecting scores overnight and posing one of the most significant public health challenges in recent history.

Global health officials and members of the country’s government gathered Saturday in the capital to mark the milestone. The World Health Organization said 42 days had passed since the last recorded case, the agency’s criteria for declaring the end of an outbreak. Sierra Leone now enters at 90-day intensive surveillance period, according to the Associated Press.

“It’s been a very, very long journey,” said Anders Nordström, WHO’s representative in Sierra Leone, said. “People are both relieved, tired and sad. There’s a feeling of ‘Yes, we did it.’ But also recognition of the many people who suffered.”

The outbreak began in December 2013 in Guinea, where efforts continue to eradicate the disease, but quickly crossed into Sierra Leone and Liberia, all among the world’s poorest countries, with limited medical systems. International health organizations were slow to respond, mobilizing only after the disease had spread across vast stretches of West Africa.

Although Liberia was declared Ebola-free in September, neighboring Guinea is still trying to stamp out the virus. WHO recorded seven new cases of the disease in Guinea in the past three weeks, AP reported.

Sierra Leone had only 120 doctors before the epidemic and at least 11 of themdied of the disease. Now, the country will have to rebuild its health-care system as it reels from the economic blow delivered by the virus. Even before the disease struck, Sierra Leone had one of the world’s highest maternal and child mortality rates. International aid organizations have pledged to help the country recover.

Before Ebola arrived, Sierra Leone’s economy was expected to grow by about 11 percent in 2014 — making the country one of West Africa's economic bright spots. The World Bank now estimates that Sierra Leone’s economy will shrink by 23.5 percent this year and will lose $1.4 billion in growth as a result of the disease.

In trying to stem the spread of the virus, officials experimented with quarantines and tracing the contacts of victims. Those practices initially angered rural communities, where residents saw the disease as a kind of curse that tore families apart. As public cemeteries overflowed, many victims went into hiding, causing the virus to expand even further. The government response was widely criticized as ineffective.

“When Ebola proved real enough, political machinations and manipulation needlessly hindered the early response,” said a report released last week by the International Crisis Group, a research organization.

It took roughly a year before public health officials saw the impact of their work and the transmission numbers began to decline. Even then, cases continued to emerge in far-flung parts of the country.

Many treatment centers and labs have already been removed, but others will remain, in case the virus has a resurgence. They may also be used to treat other illnesses.

“We still have to be watchful at all time,” said Ishmael Foday, the paramount chief of Kalahoun district, where the disease first emerged in Sierra Leone. “This can be reversed. The way Ebola comes is forgetfulness.”

Foday, who lost his son to the disease, now walks through the district, scanning the rooms where victims once lived.

“We look at the empty houses where entire families died. They serve as constant reminders to us,” he said

World’s worst disfigurement? Young woman born with NO FACE hopes for surgery

A YOUNG woman who has lived her entire life without a face was told that there was nothing doctors could do to help her.

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This young woman has lived her entire life without a face

Khadija Khatoon has endured 21 years of living with a severe facial deformity that means she doesn't even know if she has eyes or a nose.

Ms Khatoon's mouth is reduced to just a small slit on the left side of her face.

• The young woman, from Kolkata in Eastern India, was born with a facial deformity that has baffled doctors at her local hospital.

She was born with thick eyelids and has never been able to view the world.
As she began to get older, her deformity grew out of control.

Ms Khatoon, who was born into an impoverished family, has never gone to school and has largely been rejected by her community.

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She insists that she is happy with her life

Doctors told her parents that they were unable to treat the mysterious condition and she has never been given a formal diagnosis.

They suspect the woman suffers from a severe form of neurofibromatosis, a rare deformity that causes tumours to grow along nerves.

However, she insists that she is happy with her life.

She said: "I'm made this way and I accept it graciously.

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Khadija Khatoon taking an afternoon nap

"I do what I can. If this is how I’m meant to be then I live with it.

"It’s not a matter of coping, I just live as I am."

"My family is my only friend and I love them dearly. My parents are my world. 

"If only the Government would see my position and help me I would like that.

"I fill my days sitting and thinking, talking to my mother about life and going for walks near my home.

"I like drinking tea. I am happy in this life."

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Ms Khatoon was born into an impoverished family and has never gone to school

Her father Rashid Mulla, 60, and mother Amina Bibi, 50, first realised something was wrong when she hadn’t opened her eyes two months after birth. 

Her mum Amina Bibi, 50, said: "She was born with thick heavy eyelids and she looked different to my other children at birth but we didn’t think anything of it until we realised she couldn’t open her eyes properly.

"When we took her to the hospital she was admitted for six months and they did lots of tests but doctors eventually told us there was nothing they could do.

She added: "Because the doctors told us there was nothing they could do we never went back to them. And as Khadija got older she refused any help."

"Doctors told us when she was a baby that if she attempted surgery she could die, so we have lived with that fear.

"Now that Khadija is much older she has decided herself that she doesn’t want to have surgery. She doesn’t want to risk dying."

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Ms Khatoon's mouth is reduced to just a small slit on the left side of her face

Dr Anirban Deep Banerjee, a neurosurgeon from Apollo Hospital, Kolkata, said that the Ms Ms Khatoon could have a "fatal tumour" inside her face.

He has urged her parents to take her for a gene test.

He added: "If she's willing we would need to do a lot of tests to determine how successful surgery would be."

Local government officer, Rupak Dutta, 52, from Kolkata, has taken on the case to fundraise for a life-changing surgery.

He felt compelled to do something after spotting her on the street.

He said: "I’d never seen such a face. I have a 13-year-old daughter and I thought what if she was my daughter? 

"I didn’t even notice tears were falling down my cheeks. I have limited sources to help but I thought the power of social networking would surely help so I posted her photo on Facebook.

Mr Dutta is now in talks with local NGOs who will help Khadija meet with specialists to discuss possible surgery.