President Barack Obama gives a statement following the killing of US journalist James Foley.
Wednesday 20 August 2014
Teen Held After Mum's Body Was Found In Suitcase
The half-naked body of an American tourist has been discovered in a suitcase on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali - prompting the arrest of her daughter and daughter's boyfriend.
The body of Sheila von Wiese Mack was found stuffed into the blood-smeared suitcase in the boot of a taxi in front of the five-star St Regis hotel in Nusa Dua.
The 62-year-old was found with several wounds to her head and a doctor who examined her said it appeared as if she had put up a struggle.
Police said the suitcase had been wrapped in a bed sheet and sealed up with tape.
Local police chief Djoko Hari Utomo told reporters that Ms Mack had been staying in the hotel with her daughter, Heather, 19, and her daughter's boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21.
Both have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Police investigations have found that Ms Mack was recorded on CCTV arguing with Mr Schaefer in the lobby of the hotel.
The argument was filmed on Monday night, the day Mr Schaefer joined his girlfriend and her mother, who had arrived together several days before.
Mr Utomo said that the next day the couple booked a taxi and loaded all the bags into the boot, asking the taxi driver to wait while they checked out.
When they hadn't returned after a two-hour wait, he alerted hotel security staff who found spots of blood on the suitcase and suggested the taxi driver head to a police station.
It was at the station that he suitcase was opened and the body discovered.
They were later arrested on Wednesday morning at a hotel in Bali's Kuta area, about 10km (six miles) away
Mr Utomo told AFP: "This is murder, and we will decide from our investigation whether it is premeditated or spontaneous."
The victim's body has been taken to the main hospital in Denpasar, the capital of Bali.
A doctor said she had several wounds to the head which appeared to have been caused by "blunt tools".
A spokesman for the US embassy in Jakarta said they were "aware of the death of an American citizen that took place in Bali and we understand that two individuals have been arrested in connection with the case".
Tuesday 19 August 2014
Monday 18 August 2014
Jonathan: Okorocha is an Embarrassment to Democracy
President Goodluck Jonathan has described Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State as an embarrassment to democracy and a disaster waiting to happen.
Jonathan, who was represented by the Foreign Affairs Minister, 1, Professor Viola Onwuliri, at the Iriji Mbaise New Yam Festival, spoke to journalists after the event saying from the conduct of the governor, it was obvious that he was not interested in the festival but just came to create confusion and derail the event.
She said: “Since Okorocha assumed office in 2011, he has never attended the Iriji Mbaise until this one that precedes the election year. This is not the ground for venting personal animosities. He even left before the actual ceremony began. He just brought trouble to the event and this is an embarrassment to the state and its people. I am positive that by 2015, we will all have a chance to redress this anomaly.”
The 2014 Yam Festival, at some point, turned into a political rally of sorts with Okorocha and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, relentlessly fought for supremacy.
It was apparent however that the Mbaise nation was not too receptive to the fact that the governor tried to engage their son in their own soil. Okorocha’s microphone was intermitently switched off for as long as five minutes, as the people jeered the governor.
Ihedioha pointedly told Okorocha that he (Okorocha) would as a matter of necessity hand over to him in 2015, noting that the governor’s exit was not negotiable.
Ihedioha also held the governor to task on what he described as "lack of state government presence in Mbaise."
According to the deputy speaker, “The major projects in Mbaise are those executed by the federal government. In the few areas credited to the state government, we only see projects that are very poorly executed.
“It is evident that the governor has run out of ideas, so as a matter of expediency, it is expected that he would hand over the reins in 2015 so we can help out.”
Responding, an angry Okorocha said: “The green cap (referring to Ihedioha's trademark cap) will not make anybody governor of Imo State and as a matter of fact, there is nobody in the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who is his match in an electoral contest. My three years in office is more productive than the 12 years spent in the state by the PDP. Imo people have rejected PDP because PDP is worse than the Ebola virus.”
Okorocha’s microphone was switched off again when he said he had laid the foundation for a campus of the Imo State University to be sited in Aboh Mbaise/Ngor Okpala federal constituency.
The crowd booed and what they described as a Greek gift that was intended for political convenience.
The confusion degenerated into a free for all between Okorocha’s supporters and those of Ihedioha, but the security personnel on ground contained it in good time before whisking the governor away to safety.
Danagogo Defends Role in The On-going NFF Saga
The NFF crisis has hovered since the beginning of last month. It assumed a new chapter last week when the minister ordered the return of the ‘impeached ’President of the football federation, Aminu Maigari, to office as demanded by FIFA.
Maigari will resume today and preside over a divided house before the expiration of his tenure in about eight days.
Last week, FIFA Deputy Secretary General, Markus Kattner, reacted to the NFF saga by overturning the impeachment of Maigari by a faction led by Mike Umeh. FIFA queried the ground for his removal which it said did not comply with NFF’s statutory provisions on the convocation of meeting and agenda of such meeting.
Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo, has justified his role in the logjam that split the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) into factions ahead of the forthcoming congress scheduled for August 26.
Danagogo told reporters at the weekend that he took those steps because he was bound to always respect orders of a court of competent jurisdiction
Danagogo held a closed door with Maigari and two members of the NFF board on Friday. The minister has been fingered as the one who stoked the Glasshouse crisis by removing the executive committee, after Justice P.L Lot of Jos High Court granted an order of interim injunction on July 2 sacking the board and the management.
Danagogo also attended the Extra Ordinary Meeting summoned by a faction led by Effiong Johnson in Abuja on July 5. The congress dissolved the board and installed an ad-hoc management team to superintend over the affairs of the federation.
With an impending FIFA ban against Nigeria, Danagogo queried Maigari for financial mismanagement and organised a delegation led by Amos Adamu to justify government position to FIFA in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
When asked of his role in the seven-week-old NFF crisis, Danagogo said he acted because the laws of the land asked him to do so.
“It is what the laws of the country enjoined us to do. If by tomorrow a court of competent jurisdiction orders me not to come to office I will comply until I get a contrary directive from the Attorney General. We did the same with NFF until the court decided otherwise. If in the course of that period certain actions were taken in furtherance of that order, it is a court order,’’ Danagogo said.
He said the Federal Ministry of Sports was determined to set up a Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) to resolve disputes among sports stakeholders in Nigeria
“It is what the laws of the country enjoined us to do. If by tomorrow a court of competent jurisdiction orders me not to come to office I will comply until I get a contrary directive from the Attorney General. We did the same with NFF until the court decided otherwise. If in the course of that period certain actions were taken in furtherance of that order, it is a court order,’’ Danagogo said.
He said the Federal Ministry of Sports was determined to set up a Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) to resolve disputes among sports stakeholders in Nigeria
According to Danagogo, the establishment of a court of arbitration for sports will curtail the trend where aggrieved parties approach civil courts for redress arising from disputes in sports administration.
The raging feud could undermine the fortunes of Nigerian football given the nature of the crisis and the criticisms that have dogged the electoral processes before the congress billed of August 26.
“To make sure circumstances like that don’t happen again we have discovered that what causes this problem is that a lot of people are involved in sports, particularly in football. But when there is disagreement we don’t have a Court of Arbitration for Sports in the country where they can seek redress. This explains why you see them always running to ordinary court for relief. If there is one legacy I want to leave as minister it is to bring all federations together to make such we set up a viable court of arbitration so that no one will tomorrow accuse me of obeying one court order while disobeying another order,’’ Danagogo said.
The raging feud could undermine the fortunes of Nigerian football given the nature of the crisis and the criticisms that have dogged the electoral processes before the congress billed of August 26.
“To make sure circumstances like that don’t happen again we have discovered that what causes this problem is that a lot of people are involved in sports, particularly in football. But when there is disagreement we don’t have a Court of Arbitration for Sports in the country where they can seek redress. This explains why you see them always running to ordinary court for relief. If there is one legacy I want to leave as minister it is to bring all federations together to make such we set up a viable court of arbitration so that no one will tomorrow accuse me of obeying one court order while disobeying another order,’’ Danagogo said.
Atiku set to declare for APC presidential ticket
Indications that Atiku would join the race for the party’s ticket emerged in June during APC”s national convention at Eagles Square when he told delegates and his supporters that he would soon “lead the vanguard of unseating the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government of President Goodluck Jonathan.”
Recall that the former vice president was the presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2007 presidential election won by the late president Umaru Yar’Adua.
He returned to PDP in 2010 and lost the presidential ticket for the 2011 presidential election to the incumbent President, Dr. Jonathan.
Further checks by Daily Sun revealed that former presidential candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari and Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, were also contenders for the ticket of the main opposition party in the country.
Daily Sun source further revealed that before his formal declaration of interest, the former vice president would embark on a nationwide tour to meet with religious leaders.
“The former vice president and his newly formed team will be interfacing with diverse religious and professional bodies nationally and internationally. His mission is to gauge the pulse of the people on the many troubles bedevilling the country with the aim of finding genuine and lasting solutions to them.
“To be called Atiku’s Peace Tour, the objective is to take messages of peaceful co-existence, true nationalism and an end to religious fanaticism and extremism that breed rebellion and anarchy.
“Uppermost on the Turaki’s mind, this time around, is the need to foster a harmonious working relationship between Christians, Muslims and traditional believers to have all hands on deck to rebuild our fatherland, Nigeria,” the source said.
Sunday 17 August 2014
Free #CertifiedDopeBeats dropping tomorrow 12 noon prod. by @LegendaryTunes a.k.a L.T
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Saturday 16 August 2014
French Montana admits to capitalizing on Khloe Kardashian's fame
Bad Boy Records super star rapper French Montana has admitted to capitalizing on Khloe Kardashian's fame. He said "I hope to connect with every thing" also stating that his relationship with Khloe will get him a wider fan base.
Flavour and Kimani perform together at Coke Studio Africa
Colorful pictures of Flavour and Kimani performing together at Coke Studio Africa in beautiful attire
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