U.S Citizens in Uganda Urged to Stay Home as Anti-terrorism Operation Commences

Uganda (Reuters/NAN) United States officials on Saturday warned
their citizens in Uganda to stay home or go to a safe location as
authorities conducted an “operation” against a suspected terror cell in the
 capital of Kampala.

“All U.S. citizens are advised to stay at home or proceed to a
 safe location,” U.S. mission in Uganda said.

The statement however did not give further details.

Photo Credit: Ug News

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Jay Z announce Beyonce's 2nd pregnancy at Paris concert?

Jay Z may have subtly announced that he and his superstar wife Beyonce are expecting their second child. While performing his new song 'Beach is Better' at the Paris leg of their On The Run tour, Jay Z changed up the lyrics to make the announcement.

The original lyrics is; "Can't take this money with you, Burn this shit up like I'm richer, Nigga's asking, If the oven's on'

Instead he spit; "Can't take this money with you, Burn this shit up like I'm richer, Nigga's asking ...cause she pregnant with another one"

And then check out Beyonce's stomach area in the left pic. Congrats to them if she's really pregnant.

Photos from Florence Ita-Giwa daughter's traditional wedding

Kate Henshaw shared some pics from Senator Florence Ita-Giwa's daughter's traditional happening in Calabar today. Will bring wedding photos later...

I Know Davis, I Worked With Him Under FG – Soyinka

Nobel  Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has in a new piece called Wages of Impunity, described Stephen Davis as a federal government negotiator and they worked together when negotiating with  the Nigeria Delta militants under Late President Umaru Musa Yaar’adua’s administration.

Stephen Davis with MEND, including Asari Dokubo

The well known and respected author wrote:

While await, the Chibok girls, and in that very connection, there is at least an individual whom the nation needs to bring back, and urgently. His name is Stephen Davis, the erstwhile negotiator in the oft aborted efforts to actually bring back the girls. Nigeria needs him back – no, not back to the physical nation space itself, but to a Nigerian induced forum, convoked anywhere that will guarantee his safety and can bring others to join him. I know Stephen Davis, I worked in the background with him during efforts to resolve the insurrection in the Delta region under President Umaru Yar’Adua. I have not been involved in his recent labours for a number of reasons.
The most basic is that my threshold for confronting evil across a table is not as high as his – thanks, perhaps, to his priestly calling. From the very outset, in several lectures and other public statements, I have advocated one response and one response only to the earliest, still putative depredations of Boko Haram and have decried any proceeding that smacked of appeasement. There was a time to act – several times when firm, decisive action, was indicated. There are certain steps which, when taken, place an aggressor beyond the pale of humanity, when we must learn to accept that not all who walk on two legs belong to the community of humans – I view Boko Haram in that light.It is no comfort to watch events demonstrate again and again that one is proved to be right.

Thus, it would be inaccurate to say that I have been detached from the Boko Haram affliction – very much the contrary. As I revealed in earlier statements, I have interacted with the late National Security Adviser, General Azazi, on occasion – among others. I am therefore compelled to warn that anything that Stephen Davis claims to have uncovered cannot be dismissed out of hand.
It cannot be wished away by foul-mouthed abuse and cheap attempts to impugn his integrity – that is an absolute waste of time and effort. Of the complicity of ex-Governor Sheriff in the parturition of Boko Haram, I have no doubt whatsoever, and I believe that the evidence is overwhelming. Femi Falana can safely assume that he has my full backing – and that of a number of civic organizations – if he is compelled to go ahead and invoke the legal recourses available to him to force Sheriff’s prosecution. The evidence in possession of Security Agencies – plus a number of diplomats in Nigeria – is overwhelming, and all that is left is to let the man face criminal persecution. It is certain he will also take many others down with him.

Regarding General Ihejirika, I have my own theories regarding how he may have come under Stephen Davis’ searchlight in the first place, ending up on his list of the inculpated. All I shall propose at this stage is that an international panel be set up to examine all allegations, irrespective of status or office of any accused. The unleashing of a viperous cult like Boko Haram on peaceful citizens qualifies as a crime against humanity, and deserves that very dimension in its resolution. If a people must survive, the reign of impunity must end. Truth – in all available detail – is in the interest, not only of Nigeria, the sub-region and the continent, but of the international community whose aid we so belatedly moved to seek.

From very early beginnings, we warned against the mouthing of empty pride to stem a tide that was assuredly moving to inundate the nation but were dismissed as alarmists. We warned that the nation had moved into a state of war, and that its people must be mobilized accordingly – the warnings were disregarded, even as slaughter surmounted slaughter, entire communities wiped out, and the battle began to strike into the very heart of governance, but all we obtained in return was moaning, whining and hand-wringing up and down the rungs of leadership and governance. But enough of recriminations – at least for now. Later, there must be full accounting.

Finally, Stephen Davis also mentions a Boko Haram financier within the Nigerian Central Bank. Independently we are able to give backing to that claim, even to the extent of naming the individual. In the process of our enquiries, we solicited the help of a foreign embassy whose government, we learnt, was actually on the same trail, thanks to its independent investigation into some money laundering that involved the Central Bank. That name, we confidently learnt, has also been passed on to President Jonathan. When he is ready to abandon his accommodating policy towards the implicated, even the criminalized, an attitude that owes so much to re-election desperation, when he moves from a passive “letting the law to take its course” to galvanizing the law to take its course, we shall gladly supply that name.

Nigeria's Rich Men And Their Sweet Young Wives

 The rich and wealthy in Nigeria all seem to have one thing in common, young and beautiful women who are all worth celebrating.

A good example will have to be Billionaire businessman, Alhaji Rasaq Akanni Okoya who got married to his youngest wife to death and mother of his 4 kids, delectable Sade Thomas Okoya who is now 35.

They got married last year, and Okoye who is now the Eleganza Empire chairman and also the Aare of Lagos.

The couple had a couple of years ago tied the knot but last year they decided to show the world a grand and societal wedding last year.

  

CHIEF EMMANUEL IWUANYANWU & FRANCES CHINONYEREM

72 year old billionaire last year shut down the airways when he decided to marry a woman almost 50 years his junior.

Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu is a politician and elder statesman and well known chairman of the Champion Newspaper and he got married to 26 year old Frances Chinonyerem Enwerem in a traditional ceremony in Owerri, Imo State and in a white wedding ceremony last year.

The wedding was held just two years after the statesman lost his dear wife of over 40 years to cancer.

  

CAROLINE DANJUMA & MUSA DANJUMA

They are said to be heads over heels in love despite their massive age gap and have already three kids together as a couple.

Musa Danjuma is the younger brother of General TY Danjuma (rtd) and Caroline is a former actress.

    

BOLA & REMY TINUBU

Former governor of Lagos state is very much advanced at the age department than his wife, Senator Remy Tinubu.

  

SUSAN HART & SUNNY KUKU

Former most beautiful girl in Nigeria 1994 edition Susan Hart got wedded to Doctor Olorogun Sunny Kuku, the well known medical director who co-owns Eko Hospital, many years back.

They recently talked to journalists about their relationship and the Ijebu high chief said marrying Susan is the best thing that happened to him.

He said: “I don’t wont to tell you how I met my beautiful wife but I can tell you that she is my friend. She is the best thing to have happened to me. As far as I am concerned, our meeting is divine. I don’t have to think about what to wear again. She does all the designs which comes out nice just the way I want it.“

Susan also had some sweet words about her husband and said: “Where I come from in Port-Harcourt, husbands are treated as kings. It’s the woman that makes it work and this is why it’s so hard for people to know how long we have been married. I accord him a lot of respect so he won’t see himself missing anything when he gets outside. It’s the woman who makes the marriage work. We have been married for a couple of years now and I am still enjoying it like yesterday and he makes me really happy. I have a son for him who is over 10 years old“.

Susan also talked about their massive age gap and said:  First of all, age is not a barrier in our marriage. I know you observed us from afar before you came to us, you will know that the age difference is nothing. We are best of friends. My husband’s humility and humbleness also makes us best friends.”

TUNDE SOLOYE & NIKE OSHINOWO

Another former Miss Nigeria Nike tied the knot with popular Dr Tunde Soloye years back at the age of 41 to the consternation of many who felt that Dr Soloye was too old for her.

However, the couple separated a few years back. Not ruling out the chance of coming back together.

 

DIM CHUKWUEMEKA ODIMEGWU OJUKWU & BIANCA OJUKWU

One more former most beautiful girl in Nigeria married her father’s friend, the great Ex war lord, Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu. She had to sacrifice and lose her crown to stay with her man, and they had three boys together.

ROTIMI MAKINDE & BANKE OYELAMI

The 24 year old ex Miss Osun state married N politician, Hon. Rotimi Makinde 48, last year in Osun.

ALAAFIN OF OYO & HIS 4 BEAUTIFUL WIVES

Recently, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi is in his 70′s but has four young pretty wives.

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi and his four wives

APOSTLE ANSELM MADUBUKO & EMMY KOSGEI

The Revival Assembly Church General Overseer had lost his wife some years back and decided to get married to Emmy, his Kenyan born gospel singer wife is 34 even though he is 57.

70 Missing as Ferry Sinks in Phillipines

A ferry sank off the central island of Leyte in the Philippines on Saturday evening in the midst of bad weather.

At least 84 people were on the ferry. However, 14 have been rescued so far, and 70 are missing, Yahoo News reports.

Rescue operations are still ongoing.

According to reports, “the ferry had problems with steering and had also been buffeted by heavy rains, worsened by Typhoon Kalmaegi which is approaching the northern Philippines.”

Photo Credit: Muratcan Karagöz/Dreamstime.com

Struggling to get by in a Mexican slum

Many are forced to move to shantytowns without basic services as Mexico City dwellings become increasingly unaffordable.

From the top of the hill in Ixtapaluca, Mexico City looks attractive: the metropolis of 22 million seats on a valley surrounded by two beautiful volcanoes and mountains. The city still has a shrinking lake, Xochimilco, a legacy from pre Hispanic times, one of the few remaining natural reserves.

New human settlements keep devouring nature by the day, mostly on the hills, as the flat surfaces are mostly occupied or unaffordable.

To kids here airplanes are an attraction, as they fly over one every minute in the afternoons; so is to look at the city’s historic center to identify some of its many landmarks, typically monuments, office towers and Chapultepec Park, the largest green spot inside the concrete jungle.

But going to see the city’s zoo at Chapultepec is a luxury families living here can rarely afford.

It takes about two hours on public transportation to reach the city’s center, and about half of a daily minimum wage for one person to go down there.

Before taking the first collective taxi to the nearest train station people need to walk on the dirt, which during the rainy season becomes sticky mud.

With no water or sewage the only service that works sometimes is electricity coming on a fragile makeshift system with non-professional wiring. This is an informal settlement arranged by a political group which occupies land then pressures the government to provide services, a process that usually takes several years.

Shanties share the hill with corn fields and a few remaining tall trees.

It is a hard life, says Moises Vazquez, who works as a security guard in the city. But better to struggle for a few years living on something you own, rather than to continue paying rent to somebody else’s property under not better conditions in one of the nearby settlements.

Living in Ixtapaluca has a few benefits: The air is cleaner, the view is amazing. Vazquez mother in-law, who lives with him, her two daughters and seven children in two shanties, is proud she can cook a delicious meal for everyone with the cactus she cuts right there on the side of her home.

“Life is good sometimes when we all seat together to have food,” she says.