Thursday, 9 March 2017

Barcelona's UCL comeback 'best game of my life' - Neymar

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Neymar says his stunning performance in Barcelona's belief-defying 6-1 win against Paris Saint-Germain was the best he has ever produced.

Sergi Roberto scored the winning goal in stoppage time, but the Brazilian was the driving force as Barca scored three times in the final seven minutes of their Champions League round-of-16 second-leg tie against the French champions en route to the competition's biggest ever comeback.

As well as being his side's biggest threat throughout the match, Neymar scored two goals and created another to knock PSG out of Europe, 6-5 on aggregate, in an exhilarating ending to what developed into an encounter for the history books at Camp Nou.

[PHOTO]:Huge whale measuring at least 9 metres long washes up on Devon beach to leave onlookers stunned



A whale's dead body measuring at least 9 metres long has washed up on a Devon beach.

The mammal's body - said to be a fin or a baleen whale - was first spotted at 4pm yesterday after it was washed ashore near Hartland Quay.

Cheryl Fan Duerden wrote on Facebook: "Back from a BDMLR call out this evening to check on a whale that washed up on Hartland Quay.

Ambode Accusses Fashola’s Works Ministry of Frustrating His Lagos Project’

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has said the the Federal Ministry of Works is frustrating his administration’s plan to carry out a total reconstruction of the International Airport road from Oshodi.

The Lagos Helmsman revealed this on Wednesday, March 8 when speaking to Government House Correspondents at the Lagos House, shortly after carrying out an extensive inspection of some critical projects in the state.

Senators seek Trump wiretap evidence from Justice Department, FBI

A pair of senators are working together from across the aisle to get to the bottom of President Donald Trump's explosive allegation that President Obama wiretapped the phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 election season.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., formally requested information from the Department of Justice and FBI Wednesday on any action taken to listen in on calls from Trump's New York home and offices.

"Congress must get to the bottom of President Trump's recent allegation that President Obama wiretapped President Trump's phones during the 2016 election," wrote Graham and Whitehouse in a letter to FBI director James Comey and Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente.

"As Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, we would take any abuse of wiretapping authorities for political purposes very seriously," the letter adds.

Canada city's water turns bright pink after disinfecting agent seeps into water supply

PHOTO: Pink-colored water flows from a faucet from the home of Victoria Van Zanten in Onoway, Alberta, Canada, March 7, 2017.

Hundreds of people in Canada arrived home Monday evening to an unusual sight: bright pink liquid running out of their faucets.

Despite its unusual hue, the fluid was neither fruit punch nor pink lemonade but city water that had been contaminated during a weekly treatment of the water lines, according to the city of Onoway in Alberta province, about 42 miles northwest of Edmonton.

A disinfecting agent called potassium permanganate likely tainted the city's water supply through a valve that became stuck, allowing the fuchsia water to enter the distribution system, according to a notice posted to the official Onoway website on Monday.

‘If Fayose Was Igbo, Ojukwu Alive, They Would Have Fought For Nnamdi Kanu’s Release’ – MASSOB



The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said the deceased warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would have fought Nigeria for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu if he was alive.

MASSOB also noted that the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, would have waged war against Nigeria if he was an Igbo man.

In a statement issued in Awka, Anambra State, on Wednesday, MASSOB leader, Uchenna wondered why Ohanaeze Ndigbo under the leadership of Nnia Nwodo has not visited Kanu in Kuje Prison.

The statement reads in part, “If truly these men in Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership love our people knowing fully well that 90 percent of Ndigbo prefers Biafra to staying in Nigeria, what has kept Chief Nnia Nwodo, his executive and Ime Obi from visiting or showing solidarity to Nnamdi Kanu, the most loved Igbo man today?

White House says Trump wasn’t target of investigation, despite prior claims implying otherwise

PHOTO: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily press briefing in he White House on March 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.

The White House on Wednesday said that President Trump was not the target of any investigation, even though five days earlier he claimed in a series of tweets that he had indeed been the target of a wiretap initiated by former President Barack Obama.

"There is no reason that we should -- that we have to think that the President is the target of any investigation whatsoever," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during his daily briefing with reporters.

Spicer's comments came several minutes after he had first implied that the White House was unsure whether the president was a target or not.

Two policemen sentenced to death over Apo Six killing



A federal high court in Abuja has delivered judgement on the killing of six traders in Abuja by policemen on June 7, 2005.

Ishaq Bello, a judge, sentenced two policemen in the trial to death, while three others were discharged.

The accused persons, Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami, Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami, were arraigned on a nine-count charge of conspiracy and culpable homicide, which contravened the provisions of sections 97 and 221 (a) of the penal code law.

Their victims were between the ages of 21 and 25.

Latest on french Elections: Le Pen Win Probability Overblown

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Len Pen Still Ahead in The First Round Polls

Opinion polls for the first round of voting the French elections continue to favour far-right candidate Marine Le Pen for victory though En Marche! Candidate Emmanuel Macron now trails by only one point according to polling by PresiTrack OpinionWay / ORPI for Les Echos & Radio Classique.

Le Pen currently holds 25% of the polling while Macron tracks with 24%, Francois Fillon behind at 21% and finally Benoit Hamon, the socialist candidate, coming in last with 16%. Support for Fillon, though diminished somewhat, remains intact despite recent a very public scandal recently regarding him paying his wife for “fake work.” Speaking this week, Fillon declared that he would remain in the Presidential campaign and that reports regarding the alleged scandal were simply “fake assassination” aimed at removing the center-right candidate.

Cambodia: City of Sin where Child Sex Trade Thrives




At first glance, 22-year-old Sokha Chan might seem like your average young California girl. She has a lap dog named Chica, and her own car that she bought herself.

But behind her seemingly charmed life, Sokha hides a dark past from her childhood that still haunts her to this day. And for the first time, she’s decided to travel 8,000 miles to confront that past, going back to where her life started in Cambodia.

Cambodia is often called “The Kingdom of Wonder,” but turn down certain side streets and there is a sordid world where sex is the hot commodity and children are still used as currency. It’s a country that was almost destroyed by civil war and genocide, and experts say it was out of that brutal and lawless period, following the fall of the Khmer Rouge, that prostitution and child sex trafficking began to flourish.

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Why North Korea may be President Trump's greatest foreign policy challenge

PHOTO: This undated picture released by North Koreas Korean Central News Agency on March 7, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un supervising the launching of four ballistic missiles during a military drill at an undisclosed location.

Forget Russia, Iran or even ISIS. North Korea is shaping up to be the Trump administration’s greatest foreign policy challenge and one the United States can’t afford to ignore, some experts say.

Russian cyber-attacks and Islamic terrorism have captured much of the international stage, but they do not pose an "existential threat" to the United States like North Korea does, according to those experts.

North Korea evolved into the nuclear-armed enigma it is today long before President Trump took office. Now, the reclusive, authoritarian state is testing America’s newest commander-in-chief with a round of provocative missile tests. Experts told ABC News that Trump’s administration must come up with a plan to curb North Korea’s missile and nuclear development program -- and it must do so quickly.

BREAKING: One dead as Customs, rice traders clash again in Ogun

BREAKING: One dead as Customs, rice traders clash again in Ogun

The Punch is reporting that at least one person has been allegedly killed by the operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) along Siun-Sagamu-Abeokuta road on Wednesday, March 8.

It quoted unconfirmed reports as saying that NCS operatives had pursued alleged rice smugglers to a certain point along the road around Kobape when the tragic event occurred.

UK Prime Minister: Theresa May's 'Disney villain' laugh before Budget is Horrific


Theresa May has been captured laughing in a disturbing manner at Prime Minister's Questions.

On Wednesday, just before the Budget, May sat back in her chair and feverishly convulsed with laughter in the House of Commons.

Nigerians not affected by Trump’s ban, says US embassy

Nigerians not affected by Trump’s ban, says US embassy

The US embassy in Nigeria says there is no need for Nigerians to cancel travel plans to the United States, dismissing reports about a policy change affecting Nigerians.

Russell K. Brooks, spokesperson of the embassy, said this in response to inquiries by Associated Press.

The agency had requested comment after Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, said some Nigerians with valid multiple-entry US visas were stopped at the airport and put on the next plane home.

EXTRA:Governor Fayose of Ekiti State turns roadside ‘tailor’-Thecable

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Just when people think the “comedy thrills” of Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, is running dry, the fiery politician bounces back in another style.

From sharing cakes on the streets to riding on commercial motorcycles, driving heavy duty trucks, making joke out of a serious business (which civilian governor storms the house of assembly in camoflague and sun shade, to present budget?), Fayose has his own style.