Beyonce looked stunning in matching floral separates as she and husband, Jay Z, who are currently enjoying a romantic summer holiday in Florence, Italy, went sightseeing with their entourage. They are pictured above at San Miniato al Monte church in the tourist city. More photos after the cut...
Supporters of embattled Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu staged a peaceful protest at the Federal High Court Lagos this morning over the proposed extradition of the businessman following alleged drug charges in the US. Another photo after the cut...
Imagine what their sex life will be like...they once had sex in a first class cabin, according to a story told by Chrissy Teigen. The model and her singer husband spent yesterday Sunday in bed with their dogs. Chrissy shared a series of selfies of herself with John from their lazy Sunday on twitter saying they hadn't showered or 'put on clothing' all day, and they had ordered pizza in because they didn't want to go anywhere. Love! See more photos after the cut...
Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, have reportedly agreed to call off their strike action over unpaid subsidy claims and commence lifting of petroleum products nationwide in the next six hours.
The oil marketers agreed to call off their strike at a meeting with the Chairman, Senate committee on petroleum resources, Magnus Abe, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, MD of NNPC Joseph Dawha and other stakeholders in the oil and gas sector in Abuja today May 25th.
At the meeting, the oil marketers agreed that the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) should immediately revoke the license of any oil marketer that refuses to lift petroleum products across Nigeria.
Members of PENGASSAN, NUPENG, MOMAN, IPMAN and all other officials also addressed the press where they affirmed the resolutions and agreement and called off their strike action as well.
Miley needs a cuddle. The 22-year-old singer and actress, dressed in a unicorn onesie, sang sadly on stage in a video she shared on Facebook. She cried while she sang about her pet fish Pablow.
"Why does everything that I love have to die? If I could do it again, I’d release you to sea because I can’t bear to see someone so wild just die in a tank.”
At the end of the song, she slammed her hands on the keyboard and walked away crying. Her fish died in Feb of this year. She's still morning it three months later. Where are her friends?
Police in Burundi have beaten and tear-gassed protesters in the capital who were demanding President Pierre Nkurunziza reverse a decision to run for a third term in office, a Reuters has reported.
At least eight people were arrested as the police tried to disperse the demonstration in Bujumbura on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Some protesters responded by throwing rocks at police ranks.
The protests began earlier in the day with more than 100 protesters chanting slogans against the president in defiance of the government threats of a crackdown.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reporting from Bujumbura said that the police were stopping journalists from filming the protests.
“People are on edge. They [protesters] seem to be planning something,” Mutasa said.
“We will not stop until he gives up the third term,” the protesters chanted in the flashpoint suburb of Nyakabiga.
“No to the coup, and no to the third term. We will continue until he says no to the third term,” one of the demonstrators, who gave his name as Jean-Paul, told Reuters news agency.
Meanwhile, South African President Jacob Zuma has said that presidential elections scheduled for next month should be postponed indefinitely until political stability returns to Burundi.
He was speaking at a summit in Angola that was convened after last week’s failed coup attempt
.Orphans who survived Ebola virus are starving amid harvest shortages
.Some in Sierra Leone have been forced into sex industry to pay for food
.Ibrahim, 13, and Aminata, 10, starved to death after virus killed parents
Orphans who survived Ebola in Sierra Leone are starving to death amid harvest shortages and some are being forced into the sex industry to pay for food
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Researchers from British charity Street Child warn the situation will deteriorate if seeds are not distributed before the rains begin this month and planting becomes possible.
The charity, which has already received distressing reports of children dying due to a lack of food in rural parts on the country, has estimated there to be 12,000 orphans, many of whom are now forced to look after themselves.
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Migrants found by the BBC last week drifting off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen.
A BBC reporter on the boat, first spotted last Thursday when it was stranded with a broken engine, says it is filthy and covered in insects.
It was one of many boats carrying thousands of Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants adrift in the Andaman Sea.
Amid a mounting humanitarian crisis, Malaysia and Indonesia have said they will offer migrants temporary shelter.
Foreign ministers from the two countries plus Thailand have been holding emergency talks in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpu Speaking after the talks ended, Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said his country and Indonesia would stop towing the boats into other territories as navies have been doing in recent days.
He said we "need to assist these people" and that "because of the conditions they are experiencing we are willing to take them on to our shores
However, he said they would not actively search for migrants, only provide shelter if they came ashore, and then under the condition that the international community would help to repatriate or resettle them within a year.
Thailand was apparently not part of the announcement and has not yet commented.
'Towed out'
The migrant boat which arrived off Indonesia's northern Aceh province on Wednesday, was first spotted last on Thursday.
The migrants said they had been repeatedly towed out to sea by regional navies
Those on board told the BBC's Jonathan Head at the time that they had been abandoned by a people smuggler and had little food and water. The boat then went missing.
The migrants have now told activists they were towed out to sea three times by the Thai and Malaysian navies. They said they had been given food and water by Thai officials.
The BBC's Xinyan Yu, who is on board the trawler, says it is filthy and covered in bottles of pepper sauce, dirty plates and plastic bags of instant noodles. The smell is overwhelming she adds.
More than 400 people were rescued off Aceh on Wednesday. More than 2,000 people have now come to shore in that region alone.
Anidi Reginald pictured above, a 27 year old Computer Science graduate from a University in Cotonou has been arrested by men of the Enugu state police command for working with other members of an armed robbery gang to snatch a car from their victim at Ozalla, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu state on Saturday May 16th.
Punch reports that the robbers had attacked and snatched a Honda Pilot car, with registration number AAA 598 CH from its owner and were heading for Enugu metropolis when the police was alerted about the robbery incident and a hot pursuit ensued. The robbers and the police engaged in a gun battle which led to the arrest of Enugu born Anidi while his other members escaped.
While confirming the incident, the Enugu state Police Public Relations Officer Ebere Amaraizu, said items recovered from the robbers includes an automatic pump action gun, one cut-to-size English-made single barrel gun, and cartridges.
When interrogated, Anidi said unemployment made him go into armed robbery.
On Monday May 18th, the Nigerian police launched 259 customized patrol vehicles at a ceremony at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. IG of Police, Solomon Arase, who unveiled the vehicles said the vehicles are specially designated 'Safer Highway Patrol Vehicles' that will work nationwide. Each vehicle has been customized to specific states.
The Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima says there are indications that missing Chibok girls might be living in Bunkers in Sambisa Forest with Boko Haram members. He called on the military to liberate the girls as they carry out their operations in the forest. The Governor gave the indication in a paper he wrote and was presented by the Secretary, Borno Elders Forum, Dr Bulama Mala at a two-day post election conference on security and governance, organized the GubioSavanna Centre, a Non Governmental Organisation, NGO, in Abuja yesterday May 19th. What he wrote after the cut..
"We are suspecting that Chibok girls are living with the insurgents in bunkers. I think the military must carry out their operations beyond the surface earth. They (Boko Haram) were also known to have dug tunnels to enable them move from house to house. So, having been left unchallenged for such a long time, such possibility cannot be ruled out which poses serious obstacles within the forest. The insurgents used their bases in the Sambisa Forest to launch deadly attacks and make quick retreat to their base which enabled them capture and take over control of all the local government areas bordering Nigeria with Cameroon, Chad and Niger, thus effectively cutting off the three neighbouring countries thereby declaring what they assumed was their independent territory (caliphate). Unless and only if the Sambisa Forest is effectively recovered from the terrorists shall we think of defeating the Boko Haram and begin to embark on a holistic approach for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the North East. In fact, at several stages the Borno State Government had intervened to reconstruct destroyed schools, health centres, homes, markets and so on, only for the insurgents to attack and destroy them again."he said
President elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari paid a visit to his home state, Katsina yesterday May 19th. He was given a rousing welcome by his kinsmen. He later paid a visit to the Emir of Katsina, Alh Abdulmumini Kabiru Usman CFR.
