Bad Boy Actor Explodes: "I Am Who I Am"

Bad Boy actor Jim Iyke feels people do not understand him and has set the record straight.

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A lot has been said about Nollywood notorious actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha, the one popularly known as Jim Iyke, but the bad boy of Nigerian movie industry does not care any longer what people say about him.

Jim seems to have grown a thick skin and do not bother himself with hearsays and back bitters; instead, he believes in who he is and what he says. According to him, he says what he feels and leaves the interpretation to people to make what they think.

Jim who has been vilified, castigated and thrashed on the social media over his several actions, explained that it is human nature for one someone to say something and others would make any sort of meaning they want but he feels he is who he is, and owes no one any apology.

Jim took to his Instagram page to clear the air about his person.

L’Oreal Paris shoots Liya Kebede, Zoe Saldana & More Hollywood Ladies for its Red Lipstick Campaign

We have got some hotness for you to end the day!

Some of the hottest women in Hollywood – Kenyan model Liya Kebede, 

Zoe Saldana, Eva Longoria, Frieda Pinto, Jennifer Moore, 

Jane Fonda, Kirsten Dunst and more have been shot for the 

new campaign featuring different shades of red lipstick for L’Oreal Paris.

The campaign shows the ladies dressed in all white, looking gorgeous 

with sleek hair and wearing bold red lipsticks to celebrate the brand’s 

latest lipstick launch – a collection of “Pure Reds”. There are 285 

shades of red in the world that are visibly different to the naked eye. 

So L’Oreal took many of those shades, named them after Hollywood 

starlets, and created their new collection.

Newborn baby found in toilet pipe after young girl gives birth and runs

A young student in a university in China, who hid her pregnancy throughout, gave birth to a baby girl inside a toilet pipe, hoping the baby would flush down the pipe. Fortunately the pipe wasn't wide enough to take the baby down and so her body became wedged a short way down the pipe. The baby immediately started crying and the new mum fled. Fortunately, the baby's cries was loud enough to attract the attention of other students who immediately raised an alarm.

Firemen were called to the student dormitory in the city of Linyi in China's Shandong Province, and they immediately went to work to free the new born

 

But firemen couldn't free the child from above (pictured during the rescue mission). Fire Brigade spokesman Tao Fang told a local newspaper

"It was impossible to get the baby out from above. She had fallen into the toilet and gone down the pipes were she had got stuck between the third and fourth floors. We used an angle grinder to break open the pipeline on the third floor and we could then push the child up to colleagues on the fourth floor where she was handed to medics who were waiting to take her to hospital."

The police tracked down the child's mother who was a student living in the hotel and they took 

her to the hospita; and who was also taken to hospital. Police say they are waiting to question 

her before deciding what she might be charged with.

Photo : High ranking Boko Haram member captured, 60 members killed by military

A high ranking member of terror group, Boko Haram, was yesterday September 17th captured by the military after a failed attempted attack on Konduga in Borno state. The sect members actually made a second attempt into Konduga after the military celebrated its victory against them yesterday afternoon. 

The captured terror leader is currently at a military facility where he is receiving treatment.

In a related development, one soldier was killed after an ambush was laid by the sect members in Benishek, Borno state. Four motorcycles were captured from the terror group after the attack

Nigeria Police Force refutes Amnesty International report

         

          Read the press release from the Nigeria Police Force below...

The attention of the Nigeria Police has been drawn to an on-line 

publication entitled ‘Welcome to Hell-Fire’: torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria.

While we do not question the freedom of Amnesty International to earn 

its relevance and bread, the Nigeria Police takes serious exceptions to some blatant falsehoods and innuendoes contained in that report.

For one, it smacks of indecency   and intemperate language to liken our dear nation Nigeria, to hell fire. That cannot be true. We believe that Nigeria is a growing nation,

green and largely peaceful.

While the Nigeria Police and other operators in the criminal justice sector are 

undergoing systematic reforms, and aligning themselves with the demands of democracy,

 there is no gain saying the fact that the Nigeria Police Force has since improved 

its operational efficiency and effectiveness. Since the dawn of democracy in 1999, 

the Nigeria Police Force has significantly improved on its human rights records, 

owing largely to training and re-training, community policing, attitudinal 

change and structural transformation.

In its report under reference, Amnesty International did admit in its methodology that it 

visited some Police Formations and interviewed some family members of suspects. 

At no time in its report,

 did Amnesty speak or interface with the Police authorities. This obviously shows 

their disdain and apparent 

lack of character where the democratic tenets of fair hearing are concerned.

The report covered a seven year period of 2007-2014. I dare say that some of the issues

 raised have since been dispensed with and settled.

Of a truth, torture or ill-treatment is not, repeat, NOT an official policy of the Nigeria Police.

The Code of Conduct of Officers, as well as our Regulations prohibit torture and 

incivility to members of the public. We are versed with international best practices,

 and the dictates of the Nigerian Constitution as regards human rights. So the 

Police do not routinely torture suspects. It is not systemic or endemic. Whenever

 instances of human rights abuses are brought to the notice of superintending officers, 

the offending personnel are promptly sanctioned in line with the laws and regulations.

 For the avoidance of doubt, Nigeria Police Force has a zero tolerance for corruption and

 abuse of power. 

There is no Immunity for impunity in Nigeria Police Force.

Besides, the Nigeria Police is women-friendly. We do not target sex workers, 

nor routinely adopt rape as a weapon. Instead, the Police has established a 

family and human trafficking unit to protect the rights of women, children and 

the vulnerable members of our society.

However, the Nigeria Police Force shall meticulously scan through the document, 

and investigate any current human rights abuses linked to any officer or formation.

 Any identified and established case of malfeasance or misconduct shall be treated

 in line with the laws and regulations.

We crave the indulgence of Amnesty International to, for the first time, furnish the 

Police with specific details of its allegations to enable us reach the ends of justice 

for the alleged victims, and to improve our service delivery.

The Nigeria Police Force remains responsive to the yearnings of Nigerians for 

improved safety and security.

The Police is your helper and friend.

PDP adopt Pres. Jonathan as sole candidate for 2015 elections

Every politician looking to contest in next year's presidential election should
 join other parties as President Jonathan has just been chosen as PDP's
 sole candidate for the 2015 election. Members of the National Executive
 Committee, NEC, of the party adopted him this afternoon during a
 meeting (which is still going on) at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja.

The President, VP Sambo, Senate President, and many PDP governors are at the meeting

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

TVC NEWS, GAMBIA - A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Bhaswar Mukhopadhyay visited Banjul from September 4 - 17 2014.
The mission assessed the authorities' progress in implementing policies since its April visit as part of the second review of the government's reform program supported by an Extended Credit Facility arrangement with the IMF.1 The first review was completed in May 2013. Policy slippages in the second half of that year have delayed the completion of the current review.
The mission held discussions with Vice-President Isatou Njie Saidy Finance Minister Kebba S. Touray Central Bank Governor Amadou Colley other senior officials members of parliament senior officials in public enterprises the banking sector and development partners.
At the end of the mission Mr. Mukhopadhyay issued the following statement:
'The macroeconomic environment stabilized in early 2014 with a successful tourism season leading to improved revenues a stable exchange rate and moderate inflation. Government spending was contained and interest rates appeared to be edging downward slowly. Since that time spending pressures have reemerged led by financial difficulties of the public utility provider (NAWEC) as well as some spending in excess of budgeted levels. These borrowing needs have kept interest rates high while putting pressure on the Dalasi. Public debt which stood at more than 80 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of 2013 is projected to exceed 90 percent of GDP by the end of this year.
The burden of government borrowing will exert further pressure on inflation international reserves and the exchange rate.IMF
'The Gambia remains Ebola-free but news from the subregion appears to be deterring tourists and this will pose an additional challenge.
At the same time the delayed start of the rainy season will have a substantial impact on the harvest. Agriculture is The Gambia's largest economic sector and its second largest exporter after tourism. Together the impact of these two external shocks will be felt on economic growth the government budget trade and the banking system though more information is needed to quantify these risks.

- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/imf-staff-concludes-mission-gambia#sthash.UWtNXg2a.dpuf

IMF Staff Concludes Mission To The Gambia

TVC NEWS, GAMBIA - A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Bhaswar Mukhopadhyay visited Banjul from September 4 - 17 2014.
The mission assessed the authorities' progress in implementing policies since its April visit as part of the second review of the government's reform program supported by an Extended Credit Facility arrangement with the IMF.1 The first review was completed in May 2013. Policy slippages in the second half of that year have delayed the completion of the current review.
The mission held discussions with Vice-President Isatou Njie Saidy Finance Minister Kebba S. Touray Central Bank Governor Amadou Colley other senior officials members of parliament senior officials in public enterprises the banking sector and development partners.
At the end of the mission Mr. Mukhopadhyay issued the following statement:
'The macroeconomic environment stabilized in early 2014 with a successful tourism season leading to improved revenues a stable exchange rate and moderate inflation. Government spending was contained and interest rates appeared to be edging downward slowly. Since that time spending pressures have reemerged led by financial difficulties of the public utility provider (NAWEC) as well as some spending in excess of budgeted levels. These borrowing needs have kept interest rates high while putting pressure on the Dalasi. Public debt which stood at more than 80 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of 2013 is projected to exceed 90 percent of GDP by the end of this year.
The burden of government borrowing will exert further pressure on inflation international reserves and the exchange rate.IMF
'The Gambia remains Ebola-free but news from the subregion appears to be deterring tourists and this will pose an additional challenge.
At the same time the delayed start of the rainy season will have a substantial impact on the harvest. Agriculture is The Gambia's largest economic sector and its second largest exporter after tourism. Together the impact of these two external shocks will be felt on economic growth the government budget trade and the banking system though more information is needed to quantify these risks.

- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/imf-staff-concludes-mission-gambia#sthash.UWtNXg2a.dpuf

Police Arrest Plateau Man for Selling Wife to Ritualists for N800,000

Plateau State police authorities have arrested a man named Maimako Shephang for allegedly selling his wife to ritualists for N800,000.

Shephang  lured his wife, Agnes, into the bush and sold her to “two masked men” for ritual purposes Punch reports.

According to reports, the ritualists asked Agnes if she was a spinster, and were shocked when she told them it was her husband that sold her.

They then ordered her to run away, as they had requested to purchase a virgin for the sacrifice.

Upon her release, Agnes reported the incident to the police, who arrested her husband and one of the ritualists.

The case is currently under investigation.

Photo Credit: peaceau.org (*photo is for illustrative purposes only*)