Abdul's Blog: 10/06/17

Friday 6 October 2017

Saudi Arabia arrests 22 for spreading online videos

Saudi Arabia has arrested 22 people, including a Qatari national, for “inciting against public order” on social media, authorities said, following a crackdown on dissent.

Those detained had posted video clips online, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday, adding that authorities were investigating their motives and connections.

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AOL Instant Messenger, one of the pioneering chat applications of the internet’s early days, will be shut down December 15, the company said Friday.

The shutdown comes 20 years after the launch of AIM, which became a wildly popular feature of AOL, the largest internet provider at the time.

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Four Nigerien troops and three U.S. soldiers were killed in an attack earlier this week in southwest Niger near the border with Mali, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.

The ministry updated the casualty figures from the ambush on Thursday, adding the death toll of their own forces to the three soldiers already named by the U.S. side.

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When the Super Eagles class of 1997 qualified for France ’98 World Cup, they did so with a match to spare; and 20 years later history is about to repeat itself.

But for the Super Eagles to qualify the way their illustrious predecessors did in 1997, under the tutelage of Phillipe Troussier, the famed “White Witch Doctor’’; the team must scale the Chipolopolo obstacle.

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Coach Wedson Nyirenda of the Chipolopolo of Zambia says his players are in high spirits to pick the maximum three points in Saturday’s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Nigeria.

Nyirenda spoke on Friday at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo while fielding questions from newsmen on his plans to get the better of Nigeria on Saturday.

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Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe, has hit back at claims by the vice president, her main rival to succeed ageing leader Robert Mugabe, that his ice cream was poisoned at a ruling party event.

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, better known by his nickname “The Crocodile” made the allegations earlier this week but did not name the first lady, Grace Mugabe.

Suge Knight says Dr. Dre was the mastermind behind a plot to have him killed, paying $20k to have it done, but Dre says it's all BS.

In new legal docs, Suge claims in July 2016 he was shown a check made out for $20k by Dr. Dre to a man named Dwayne Johnson. Suge says this was blood money to have him killed the day he fatally ran over a man.

Relationship blogger and IK Ogbonna's wife ,Sonia Ogbonna took to instagram to give her take on the key to a happy marriage. She wrote

. Tammy Abraham with NFF president Pinnick in London

England FA on Friday alleged that Nigeria have been trying to poach a number of young stars from the country. The allegation came on the heel of the recent speculation that Kevin Oghenetega Tamaraebi Bakumo-Abraham, known as Tammy Abraham, had chosen to switch allegiances to Nigeria, which the Chelsea striker had denied.

Shakira and her footballer boyfriend Gerard Pique have been hit by split claims. According to new reports the two are longer living together, with Colombian superstar Shakira the one to instigate the split. ‘It’s something serious and she has been the one who has finally made the decision,’ a source told Spanish websiteCotilleo.

Bobby Brown has lost his legal bid to stop his daughter ,Bobbi Kristina's biopic.

A federal judge in Manhattan threwout the 48-year-old singer's request in a $2 million lawsuit to block Bobbi Kristina - a TV One biopic about his late daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown - from airing Sunday, the New York Post reported .

The Nigeria Football Federation NFF have acquired bottles of champagne ahead of the crucial world cup qualifying match against Zambia on Saturday. The bottles of champagne were gotten to celebrate tomorrow that’s if the Super Eagles officially book the World Cup ticket by winning the Chipolopolo at the Uyo stadium.

Shocking footage has captured Indian women being whipped during a bizarre ritual to free them of ‘evil spirits’. Every year some 2,000 women queue for five hours to be lashed at the ancient Achappan Temple in Trichy, south India. When their turn comes, they kneel on the ground to be ferociously flogged by a priest.

Many wince and writhe in pain as their family members watch on, hoping they will be cured.

Brazilian police have foiled an audacious plot to steal £250m ($331m) from a bank in São Paulo via a 500-metre underground tunnel complete with electric lighting and a ventilation system. Investigators say the gang planned to break into a São Paulo branch of the government-owned Banco do Brasil through the tunnel, which had been dug from a nearby rented property.

If successful, the robbery would have dwarfed the biggest bank heist in the country’s history, when thieves tunneled into the Fortaleza brach of the Central Bank and stole 165m Brazilian reais.

A man has killed his 40-year-old sister for allegedly seeing her with a a younger boyfriend in her house at night.

A Zimbabwean man known as Tichaona Kambarami was alleged to have killed his 40-year-old sister, Letty Kambarami, after seeing her with a younger boyfriend.

Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru in facing another allegation of hiding $629 million (about N226 billion) in various banks without remitting the sum to the Treasury Single Account (TSA). A petition accusing the Nigeria Petroleum corporation boss of insubordination and corruption by Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu is already a subject of global interest.

According to Freedom Online, its refusal to remit the sum, proceeds from its operations, and the interest accruing to appropriate accounts, may soon lead to trouble.

The EFCC Lagos Zonal office, have arrested four suspected Internet fraudsters. They are: Oluwaseun Michael, 28; Igbokwe Chijioke, 27; Felix Chukwudi, 22 and Babajide Goloba. The quartet were arrested in different parts of Lagos, following intelligence report received by the Commission.

A Security man attached to Halogen Security Services Limited, Lagos, Joseph Aba, 27, who allegedly stole a Hyundai Accent Car with Reg. number KJA 260 DS value at N5 million at Phase 3 Communication Nigeria Limited office,Victoria Island, has been arrested at Iyana Oworo area of the state.

Aba allegedly stole the car the same day he was employed. He was arrested at Iyana Oworo bus stop area after the car suddenly stopped on his way to Benue State.

Former president Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said his convening of a National Conference in 2014 was a major factor that doused tensions across Nigeria prior to and after the general elections one year later.

Mr. Jonathan said this while giving his remarks at the opening panel of the Dialogue of Civilisations, ‘Multipolarity and Dialogue in Regional and Global Developments,’ Rhodes Forum’s 15th Anniversary Summit in Greece.

Woman filmed brutally stamping on tiny puppy in elevator (Video)

A savage video has been released showing a woman brutally beat her tiny puppy in an elevator. Keevonna Wilson, of Aventura in Florida, was caught on a surveillance camera repeatedly stamping on Chastity, a Shih-Tzu.

The Anambra State Police Command, has reportedly arrested a metal fabricator Ifeanyi Okpoko popularly known as Anagwanti, for reportedly abducting a 16-year-old boy identified as Chidera Ezeanya from a compound on Sunday, October 1, tying him on a hand-crane and reportedly killing him for ritual.

The EFCC has taken into custody the duo of Kabiru Adamu, and Hashimu Mohammed Zakari for allegedly engaging in employment fraud.

The first suspect who was a former military personnel was picked up by the Nigerian Army following series of complaints against him from several of his victims whom he offered recruitment into the Nigerian Army.

Former Real Madrid defender Ricardo Carvalho became the latest in a series of football stars to be convicted on charges of tax fraud in Spain as he was handed a seven-month jail term, a court filing confirmed on Friday.

Sentences under two years for first time offenders in Spain are habitually suspended so the Portuguese defender, now playing in China for Shanghai SIPG, is likely to avoid prison.

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Andres Iniesta has signed a new “lifetime” contract at Barcelona which will keep him at the club for the remainder of his career.

The midfielder, 33, has made 639 appearances for Barcelona, a number only surpassed by Xavi’s club record of 767.

Pope Francis on Friday, October 6, urged the world, including the Catholic Church, to face up to the devastating effects of online sexual violence on young people, including extreme pornography and sexting.

"We have to keep our eyes open and not hide from an unpleasant truth that we would rather not see," Francis said at a gathering of technology executives and health professionals at the Vatican.

Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to step up his recovery from injury by returning to Carrington full-time at the end of the month, sources have told ESPN FC.

Ibrahimovic has occasionally used the facilities at the club's training base since undergoing a knee operation in the United States in May, and was pictured in the gym with former United striker Andy Cole on Thursday.

At least 19 dead after train slams into broken down bus on level crossing

At least 19 people were killed when a train ploughed into a bus that had broken down on a level crossing. The victims were migrant workers from Uzbekistan who were heading back to their native country, according to the Uzbek foreign ministry.

A study of ancient human remains found in Russia has revealed why humans don’t have sex with their relatives.

The study, led by Cambridge University and the University of Copenhagen, found out that prehistoric humans developed sophisticated social and mating networks that were surprising and deliberately sought partners beyond their families.

China Open: Rafael Nadal sets up Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov semi-final showdown

World number one Rafael Nadal tamed the big-serving American John Isner 6-4, 7-6 (7/0) to surge into the semi-finals of the China Open on Friday.

The brilliant Spaniard, on course for a sixth title this season, faces Bulgaria’s third seed Grigor Dimitrov in the last four on Beijing’s outdoor hard courts.

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Neymar has criticised conditions at Bolivia’s Estadio Hernando Siles in La Paz, describing it as “inhuman” to play at such severe altitude.

Brazil’s players needed oxygen at full-time after they drew 0-0 in their World Cup qualifier in the Bolivian capital, which is 11,932 feet above sea level.

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Arsene Wenger is one of four Premier League bosses nominated for the September Manager of the Month award.

The Arsenal boss, who was the subject of protests throughout last season, steered the Gunners to two wins and one draw last month.

A Lusaka man, Nshinka Kaputo, 34, has been arrested for shooting his girlfriend, Precious Manganisa, 26, last night when she went to pick her daughter in Meanwood, Zambia.

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A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday dissolved the seven years marriage between one Omolara and Abiodun Ojeyemi over attempted scissors attack.

The President of the court, Mr Ademola Odunade, said he had to put an end to the union in the interest of peace and tranquillity.

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Two teenage boys — Taofeek Olorundeji and Shitu Ibrahim — who allegedly stole a mobile phone valued at N45,000 at a bus stop, were on Friday docked at a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

They were, however, released on N100, 000 bail.

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A Magistrate with Kogi State Judiciary, Mr Sam Unwuchola, has been abducted by unknown gunmen on Ajaokuta-Lokoja road.

An eye-witness, who prefers anonymity, said that the magistrate who was returning from Onyedega, his station, in company of a friend, was kidnapped at Jimgbe, near Salem University, Lokoja at about 7pm Thursday.

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old panel beater, Abdullahi Muazu, to four months imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and cheating.

The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option to pay N10,000 fine.

He also ordered Muazu to pay N48,000 as compensation to the complainant.

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The Spanish government has apologised for the first time for the violent crackdown by police during a controversial independence vote in Catalonia.

Police seized ballot boxes, dragged and beat people out of polling stations. Up to 900 were injured during the clashes.

Images and footage of armed officers using batons and rubber bullets on peaceful voters were widely condemned.

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The President of the Ijede Customary Court in Ikorodu, Mrs Omolara Abiola, on Friday urged religious leaders to intensify prayer, against wife battering and other forms of maltreatment against women.

Abiola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) her advice became necessary wives battery and other human rights abuses against women were still prevalent in the society.

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Kenya has issued a directive demanding police clearance certificates from all foreign students and an additional drug enforcement agency clearance certificate from Nigerian students who seek visas to study in Kenya.

The directive announced by Kenya’s Immigration Department is expected to take effect in January next year so as to offer assurance that the students are not entering the country to commit crime, a top immigration official said.

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YouTube has changed its search algorithms to display more reliable and trustworthy sources after the violent attack in Las Vegas saw a spike in misinformation and hateful content appear on the site, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said Australians handed in 51,000 guns during a 3-month amnesty, though he rejected calls to extend it following the weekend’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.

“I am not suggesting we won’t have gun amnesties in the future, but this one has been very effective because it has, as I said, a beginning, middle and an end.

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US investigators have met with a former British spy who compiled a salacious dossier on President Donald Trump’s alleged campaign ties to Russia, CNN reported on Thursday.

The investigators for independent special counsel Robert Mueller met with Christopher Steele this past summer, the news network reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

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The Police in India have arrested a Nigerian national for allegedly defrauding 20 people of Rs 3 crore (about N16.55m) in kidney donation scam.

Reports from India said David Ujma Uba, 32, had promised to help his victims secure kidney donations.