Judge excuses self from Nnamdi Kanu's Treason case

Judge excuses self from Nnamdi Kanu's Treason case

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja has excused himself from hearing the treason charges filed against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra by the Federal Government. Justice Mohammed's decision comes after Nnamdi Kanu this morning objected to the judge hearing the six count charge filed against him by the Federal government.

Kanu during court hearing argued that the hearing will be an exercise in futility as officials of the Department of State Security will not obey any order in his favor.

“Thank you very much my lordship, but my objection is that I will not receive a fair trial before this court. The information I got is that I will not receive a fair trial before this court. I will not sacrifice the due process of law because of speedy court process over the principle of natural process on the altar of speedy release. In other words, I would rather remain in detention than subject myself to a trial that I know amounts to perversion of justice. Your lordship, previous court rulings have been given by courts of competent jurisdiction in this country, Nigeria which were not carried out by the DSS"he said

Counsel to the Federal government who is also the Federal Director of Prosecution, office of the Attorney General, Mohamed Diri, argued that based on section 396 (2) of the constitution, Kanu had no right to object to being tried by the court until after the plea is heard. However Diri's submission was overruled by the judge because according to him, Kanu had the right to reject the trial, “after all justice is rooted on confidence”.

“If any of the parties has no confidence in the court, he has the right to say so”, the judge said. He added that the prosecution would have done the same thing if they were in Kanu’s shoes. “Assuming it was the prosecution, if they had no confidence in the court of jurisdiction; would they not have done so? I hereby remit the case file to the honorable chief judge of this court to reassign it” the judge said.

Kanu is being tried on a six count charge which treason.

Miss Colombia finally speaks days after the Miss Universe disaster

Miss Colombia finally speaks days after the Miss Universe disaster

Days after Miss Colombia was crowned the Miss Universe...for two minutes, the world's famous runner-up is speaking out. Ariadna Gutierrez took to her Instagram page on Tuesday and wrote:

"After the storm comes the calm. I want to thank each and everyone of you who have sent messages of support and strength. Every one of you has become an incredible human being in my book and I am the most fortunate and thankful for having the support not only from one country but from the whole entire world.

Your destiny is written for you. And my destiny was this. I was able to bring happiness to my country after becoming Miss Universe for only a couple of minutes... Today because of that COLOMBIA and the LATIN COMMUNITY are being talked about in every corner of the world. I also want to congratulate the Philippines for their new Miss Universe. The happiness that you must be feeling must be incredible. Life continues and in the future we will find out why things happen the way they happen. Thank you all for your LOVE SUPPORT and KINDNESS."

From grass to grace

Photos: You should see these inspiring photos

This hardworking young man went from peddling clothes on the streets to owning his own clothing store. The photos were shared on twitter.

Annie needs your urgent help!

Annie needs your urgent help!

Annie was diagnosed of Primary Mediastinal B-cell Lymphoma cancer on November 2nd 2015 & he needs urgent Chemotherapy to stop his cancer from spreading to some sensitive parts of his organs. His family is begging well meaning Nigerians to help save him by donating towards his treatment.

Please donate via his sister - Udonsah Katherine Ekaete - Access bank 0026784829 or Udonsah Katherine Ekaete Eco bank 2652006541. Also u can login on line to donate into a US account on the link belowhttps://www.gofundme.com/gdb93vmx.

College students hold grand funeral for dead cockroach (photos)

College students hold grand funeral for dead cockroach (photos)

Students at a Texas A&M university found a dead cockroach in their lab and what did they do? Give it a befitting funeral. The roach, named "Rosie," was left unattended in the anthropology building for two weeks, according to a post on Imgur by user jimmyevil, presumably lying in state.

Cigarettes, flowers, stones, notes and coins were all placed next to her corpse in the following days. A poster reading "never forget" was also added, while a Post-It note said, "You were always there to say hello to me in the morning, Rosie! We will miss you." Poor Rosie was eventually cremated on a funeral pyre in grand style.

US University students scramble to take a selfie with GEJ in the US

US University students scramble to take a selfie with GEJ in the US

This was after he gave a lecture at the Presidential Precinct in Virginia, USA...

Forbes’ top 10 most overpaid actors in Hollywood 2015

Forbes’ top 10 most overpaid actors in Hollywood 2015

Johnny Depp has been named the most overpaid movie star in Hollywood by Forbes magazine after posting a string of box office turkeys.
Depp, one of the highest-paid actors on the planet with estimated annual earnings of $30m (£20m), returned just $1.20 for every $1 he was paid according to the financial magazine’s metric. 
His poor position is due to the financial failure of movies such as Mortdecai, Transcendence and The Lone Ranger, all of which bombed at the box office on the back of derisive reviews. The Lone Ranger was the biggest turkey, with studio Disney estimated to have lost upwards of $150m on the western, but comedy Mortdecai pulled in just $47.4m at the global box office against a production budget of $60m alone, and sci-fi thriller Transcendence only just recouped its $100m production costs, with marketing and other expenses likely to have put the film well into the red.
All 10 actors on the “most overpaid” list are male.

1. Johnny Depp: $1.20 per $1
2. Denzel Washington: $6.50 per $1
3. Will Ferrell: $6.80 per $1
4. Liam Neeson: $7.80 per $1
5. Will Smith: $8.60 per $1
6. Christian Bale: $9.20 per $1
7. Channing Tatum: $10.80 per $1
8. Brad Pitt: $12.00 per $1
9. Ben Affleck: $12.30 per $1
10. Tom Cruise: $13.60 per $1

FG files fresh charges against Pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu

FG files fresh charges against Pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu

The Federal Government has filed fresh charges including treason against founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Independent People of Briafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu ‎before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja.

The fresh case filed and signed by the Director, Public Prosecution, Mohammed Saidu Diri, for the Attorney-General of the Federation comes barely a week after Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered the unconditional release of the accused since there was no pending charges against him about two months after his detention in October.

The DSS after the court ruling, had kept him in their custody and decided to file fresh charges against him. The new case against him is meant to be heard by the court today December 22nd. Part of the charge against him reads

“That you, Nnamdi Kanu and other unknown persons, now at large, at London, United Kingdom, between 2014 and September, 2015, with intention to levy war against Nigeria in order to force the President to change his measures of being the President of the Federation, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation as defined in Section 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Re- public of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by doing an act to wit: Broadcast on Radio Biafra your preparations for the states in the South- East geo-political zone, South-South geo-political zone, the Igala Community of Kogi State and the Idoma/Igede Community of Benue State to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form themselves into a Republic of Biafra, and thereby committed an offence punish- able under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.”

Source: Punch

Afrocandy reveals racy Christmas photos (18+)

Afrocandy reveals racy Christmas photos (18+)

Mother of 2 and business entrepreneur, Afrocandy, released her Christmas photos and they are really...see for yourself. More photos after the cut...

Breakdown of the 2016 Budget

Breakdown of the 2016 Budget

GDP Growth Rate Projection4.37%Revenue Projection. : 3.86 Naira

Deficit : 2.22 trillion Naira (equivalent to 2.16% of Nigeria’s GDP)

Oil Related Revenues : 820 billion Naira

Non-oil Revenues : 1.45 trillion Naira 

Projected Independent Revenues : 1.51 trillion Naira

Capital Expenditure : 1.8 trillion Naira (30%  of total budget)

Works, Power and Housing : 433.4 billion Naira

Transport : 202.0 billion Naira

Interior : 53.1 billion Naira

Special Intervention Programs : 300 billion Naira

Education : 369.6 billion Naira

Defence : 294.5 billion Naira

Health : 221.7 billion Naira

Ministry of Interior : 145.3 billion Naira

Foreign and Domestic Debt Service : 1.36 trillion Naira

Sinking Fund towards the retirement of maturing loans : 113 billion Naira

Non-debt Recurrent Expenditure : 2.65 trillion Naira

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See the moment dog savagely attacked suspected burglar

See the moment dog savagely attacked suspected burglar

A suspected burglar in South Africa got the fright of his life when a mastiff launched a frenzied attack on him biting him all over. The incident which was captured by security cameras shows the burglar as he scaled a wall and headed towards the house in South Africa's Nkangala District Municipality, in Mpumalanga Province. See the photos after the cut...

As he stood by a trailer close to the property, a huge South African Mastiff launched itself at him in a savage attack that was captured on CCTV. The dog begins tearing at the man's arms and legs as he throws kicks and punches at the relentless hound. The dog follows the man around the compound tearing and biting at his clothes and body before he is able to escape by climbing onto a table.

The man was still at the property screaming for help when the owner returned home an hour later and found the dog guarding the table, preventing the suspect from escaping. The homeowner called the police but the suspect had to be treated for his injuries before he was taken away.

Half of cardiac arrest sufferers ignore potentially life saving warnings

Half of cardiac arrest sufferers ignore potentially life saving warnings

The heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. Blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs, and without treatment, within minutes a person is typically dead.

But, a new study has suggested that sudden cardiac arrest isn't so sudden as half of sufferers experience warning signs hours, days, sometimes even weeks before cardiac arrest strikes, doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles discovered.

However, most people ignore those symptoms – and miss a chance to save their own lives, according to the study.

Study leader Dr Sumeet Chugh said: ‘By the time the 911 call is made, it’s much too late for at least 90 per cent of people.

‘There’s this window of opportunity that we didn’t really know existed.’

 

The study offers the possibility of one day preventing sudden cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest kills nearly 350,000 people in the US alone each year.

Though it’s commonly confused with a heart attack, cardiac arrest is different – and much worse.

It causes the heart’s electrical activity to be knocked out of rhythm, abruptly stopping it from beating.

CPR can buy time before an ambulance arrives, but few patients survive.

As a result it’s been hard for the medical community to tell whether cardiac arrest is a strike with little or no advance warning.

Scientists closely tracked sudden cardiac arrest in Portland, Oregon for more than a decade.

They examined records for nearly 1,100 people aged 35 to 65 who suffered a cardiac arrest between 2002 and 2012.

They also used interviews with family, friends and strangers who witnessed the patient’s collapse.

 

For around a quarter of patients, the scientists couldn’t find any information about whether they experienced symptoms – making it tough to say how common warning signs are.

 

However, of the remaining 839 patients, half had evidence of at least one symptom in the previous month.

Most of those people had symptoms within 24 hours of their collapse – though some came a week before and others up to a month.

 

Chest pain was the most common symptom in men. While women were more likely to experience shortness of breath.

Other symptoms included fainting and heart palpitations.

Furthermore, the study found that only a fraction of patients considered their symptoms bad enough to call 911 before they collapsed and those people were the most likely to survive.

University of Pittsburgh emergency medicine specialist Dr Clifton Callaway, who wasn’t involved in the study but chairs the American Heart Association’s emergency care committee, said: ‘Chest pain, shortness of breath – those are things you should come in the middle of the night to the emergency department and get checked out.‘We strongly recommend you don’t try to ride it out at home.’

 

A person’s chances of experiencing cardiac arrest is also increased if they’ve had previous heart attacks, coronary heart disease and certain inherited disorders that affect heartbeat.

People who know they are at a high risk may receive an implanted defibrillator to shock their heart back into rhythm.

 

But because cardiac arrest is such a public health problem, the Institute of Medicine kicked off a national campaign to teach CPR last summer, so that bystanders know how to help.

 

Dr Chugh and his team weren’t able to determine symptom severity.

 

The patients who called 911 about their symptoms were mostly already diagnosed with heart disease or had recurring symptoms.

Those patients’ survival rate was 32 per cent – compared to six per cent for other patients.

 

That’s because a fifth of the patients who called 911 had their cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital.

This study is just the start of more research to better predict the risk factors for cardiac arrest – and to figure out how to target them without panicking people – Dr Chugh said.

 

The study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Bomb-sniffing dog saves lives after it found buried 100 kg of explosives

Photos: Bomb-sniffing dog saves lives after it found buried 100 kg of explosives

A bomb-sniffing dog named Elma saved lives today when it discovered 100 kilograms of explosives buried deep in the ground in southeastern Mardin province, Turkey. Elma discovered the bomb in the province's Nusaybin district. The explosives were packed inside two shell-like containers attached to a 400-meter long cable cords and detonators.

 

Source: Daily Sabah Turkey

Nicolas Cage returns stolen dinosaur skull he bought

Nicolas Cage returns stolen dinosaur skull he bought

Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to turn over a rare stolen dinosaur skull he bought for $276,000 to U.S. authorities so it can be returned to the Mongolian government.
The office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, filed a civil forfeiture complaint last week to take possession of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull, which will be repatriated to Mongolia.
The lawsuit did not specifically name Cage as the owner, but Cage's publicist confirmed that the actor bought the skull in March 2007 from a Beverly Hills gallery, I.M. Chait.

The "National Treasure" actor is not accused of wrongdoing, and authorities said he voluntarily agreed to turn over the skull after learning of the circumstances.

Alex Schack, a publicist for Cage, said in an email that the actor received a certificate of authenticity from the gallery and was first contacted by U.S. authorities in July 2014, when the Department of Homeland Security informed him that the skull might have been stolen.

Following a determination by investigators that the skull in fact had been taken illegally from Mongolia, Cage agreed to hand it over, Schack said.

Cage outbid fellow movie star Leonardo DiCaprio for the skull, according to prior news reports.

The I.M. Chait gallery had previously purchased and sold an illegally smuggled dinosaur skeleton from convicted paleontologist Eric Prokopi, whom Bharara called a "one-man black market in prehistoric fossils."
The Chait gallery has not been accused of wrongdoing.

It was unclear whether the Nicolas Cage skull was specifically connected to Prokopi, who pleaded guilty in December 2012 to smuggling a Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton out of Mongolia's Gobi desert and was later sentenced to three months in prison.

As part of his guilty plea, Prokopi helped prosecutors recover at least 17 other fossils.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin Bell, who prosecuted Prokopi, was also the lead government lawyer in the Cage case, according to court records.

Source: Reuters

Boko Haram victim ostracized by community for having rapist's baby

Boko Haram victim ostracized by community for having rapist's baby

Aisha Musa was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants who killed her family, and forced her at gunpoint to become a jihadi bride.

"They show you a gun, and then whatever they say you have to follow their command," Musa said.

She told CBS News her captor would lock her in during the day. At night, he would rape her.

"He would go on operations and kill people, and then come home and force me to be with him."

Musa was rescued by the Cameroon military, but the worst of her ordeal was finding out she was pregnant by her rapist.

"I am not enjoying that I have a baby from a Boko Haram man," she said. But she is resigned and there are moments of tenderness between her and her young child.

Musa never saw the Chibok girls but often heard the fighters speak of them. Like many of the other girls, they too were forced to marry the militants.

In a double injustice, many are now stigmatized by their community. Girls like Musa are regarded as spoiled goods, her baby a very public reminder of a cruel and unfair shame.

Aisha Musa has been living in the crowded Minawao refugee camp for seven months. She survives by selling corn meal at the local market.

Source: CBS

Khloe Kardahsian shares more raunchy photos from her St. Barth's photoshoot (18+)

Khloe Kardahsian shares more raunchy photos from her St. Barth's photoshoot (18+)

Khloe Kardashian shared more photos from her impromptu nude photoshoot in St Barths and they're hot! More photos after the cut..

Man found alive after more than 60 hours in China landslide

Man found alive after more than 60 hours in China landslide

Rescuers have pulled a man out alive after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide in southern China
Rao Liangzhong of the Shenzhen Emergency Response Office says that a migrant worker, Tian Zeming, was rescued around dawn on Wednesday (Chinese time).

"He told the soldiers who rescued him, there is another survivor close by," Xinhua said.

Firefighters had to squeeze into a narrow room around Tian and pull debris out by hand, rescuer Zhang Yabin told Xinhua.

Tian has had surgery and is in a stable condition in hospital, the Xinhua report said.
Xinhua later said that another body was also discovered, although it was not clear if that was the person to whom Tian had referred. A body was also recovered from the rubble on Tuesday.

The government has said more than 70 people are missing in China's latest industrial disaster, although this figure continues to be revised down as authorities make contact with people who were believed to have been buried but were not.

A giant deluge of mud and construction waste from the overfull dump site buried 33 buildings at the industrial park on Sunday.
It was the second major man-made disaster in China in four months. At least 160 people were killed in massive chemical blasts in the northern port city of Tianjin in August.

Source: AP/Huff Post