Victims of bomb blast in a bar n Zuma Motor Park.
Source: The Punch newspaper
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Bomb blast at Army Barracks in Bauchi
Bomb blast victims at 33 Artillery Clinic, in Bauchi. The most pathetic sight is an innocent that have to suffer pain without knowing the cause of it all.
Source: The Punch Newspaper
''Egyptian charged with sex assault of NY hotel maid''
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Egyptian businessman and one-time head of a major Egyptian bank has been charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid at a luxury New York City hotel, police said.
The arrest Monday of Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar came two weeks after former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid at another upscale Manhattan hotel.
Omar, 74, is accused of assaulting the maid when she delivered tissues that had been requested to room 1027 about 6 p.m. Sunday at the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, police said.
Omar, a former chairman of the Bank of Alexandria and the Egyptian American Bank, is board chairman of El-Mex Salines Co., according to the salt company's website.
El-Mex Salines Company said it had no comment to make when contacted by Reuters on Tuesday.
An assault was reported to police Monday morning. Omar, of Alexandria, Egypt, was arrested and charged with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching and harassment.''
Source: http://www.aawsat.com/
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Egyptian businessman and one-time head of a major Egyptian bank has been charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid at a luxury New York City hotel, police said.
The arrest Monday of Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar came two weeks after former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid at another upscale Manhattan hotel.
Omar, 74, is accused of assaulting the maid when she delivered tissues that had been requested to room 1027 about 6 p.m. Sunday at the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, police said.
Omar, a former chairman of the Bank of Alexandria and the Egyptian American Bank, is board chairman of El-Mex Salines Co., according to the salt company's website.
El-Mex Salines Company said it had no comment to make when contacted by Reuters on Tuesday.
An assault was reported to police Monday morning. Omar, of Alexandria, Egypt, was arrested and charged with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching and harassment.''
Source: http://www.aawsat.com/
Monday, May 30, 2011
''UN expert says video proves war crimes in Sri Lanka''
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A UN human rights expert says gruesome new footage from the final days of Sri Lanka's civil war is authentic and proves war crimes took place there, challenging the government's claim that videos showing the army executing captured rebels in May 2009 are faked.
The UN’s independent investigator on extrajudicial killings says the five-minute video obtained by Britain's Channel 4 corroborates an earlier, shorter video showing blindfolded, naked men being shot dead at close range.''
Source: theglobeandmail.com
The UN’s independent investigator on extrajudicial killings says the five-minute video obtained by Britain's Channel 4 corroborates an earlier, shorter video showing blindfolded, naked men being shot dead at close range.''
Source: theglobeandmail.com
''Collaboration key for African university revival''
''While much progress has been made in African higher education in the past decade, there is an urgent need for comprehensive transformation to enhance its relevance and responsiveness to the realities of countries, the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education agreed. Delegates called for regional quality assurance, greater collaboration, more differentiated systems and more private funding in stepped-up efforts to develop the continent's universities.
"This new momentum can provide a trajectory in the fight against under-development and poverty in Africa," says the final communiqué of the World Conference. "This will demand greater attention to higher education and research in Africa."
Education ministers from across the world pledged increased support for African higher education''.
Source: universityworldnews
"This new momentum can provide a trajectory in the fight against under-development and poverty in Africa," says the final communiqué of the World Conference. "This will demand greater attention to higher education and research in Africa."
Education ministers from across the world pledged increased support for African higher education''.
Source: universityworldnews
''GLOBAL: Academic bloggers everywhere''
''Tens of thousands of opinionated academics around the world have become internet bloggers while universities are increasingly establishing blogging sites on their web pages. Blogging has moved from being a nerdish undergraduate pastime to an accepted communication medium within the academic community.
According to American market researcher Mark Penn, blogging could have a profound effect on our culture. Penn argues that if journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate. As he says, blogging started in the 1990s as a discussion forum for progressive politics and new technologies but now covers topics as diverse as motherhood, health care, the arts, fashion, dentistry - "and just about every other imaginable area of life...''
Source: universityworldnews
According to American market researcher Mark Penn, blogging could have a profound effect on our culture. Penn argues that if journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate. As he says, blogging started in the 1990s as a discussion forum for progressive politics and new technologies but now covers topics as diverse as motherhood, health care, the arts, fashion, dentistry - "and just about every other imaginable area of life...''
Source: universityworldnews
‘Kidnapping, challenge to medical practice’
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Chairman of Oyo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, Prof. Millicent Obajimi, has described the increasing cases of kidnapping of medical doctors in some parts of the country as one of the greatest challenges currently facing medical practice in Nigeria.
Obajimi disclosed this at a news conference heralding the NMA’s annual delegate meeting/annual general conference in Ibadan, the state capital, on Friday.
The conference tagged “Primary healthcare financing: A key to achieving millennium development goals” expected to attract about 500 doctors across the country, is billed to commence in Ibadan on Sunday.
Apart from kidnapping, Obajimi listed another major challenge facing the association as the failure of some state governments, including that of Oyo State, to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure.
She said that the joy of the organisation was that a new government was coming on board in the state and expressed the hope that the new government would be a listening one.
She said the delegate conference would, among other contemporary medical issues, discuss the National Health Bill just passed into law.''
Source: The Punch Newspaper
Chairman of Oyo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, Prof. Millicent Obajimi, has described the increasing cases of kidnapping of medical doctors in some parts of the country as one of the greatest challenges currently facing medical practice in Nigeria.
Obajimi disclosed this at a news conference heralding the NMA’s annual delegate meeting/annual general conference in Ibadan, the state capital, on Friday.
The conference tagged “Primary healthcare financing: A key to achieving millennium development goals” expected to attract about 500 doctors across the country, is billed to commence in Ibadan on Sunday.
Apart from kidnapping, Obajimi listed another major challenge facing the association as the failure of some state governments, including that of Oyo State, to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure.
She said that the joy of the organisation was that a new government was coming on board in the state and expressed the hope that the new government would be a listening one.
She said the delegate conference would, among other contemporary medical issues, discuss the National Health Bill just passed into law.''
Source: The Punch Newspaper
''How three-year-old boy was bought, sold three times''
''A child is not a commodity that can be bought in the market. But in the case of a three-year-old boy, Godswill Ukpong, he was bought and sold three times. And as he was being sold and bought, his value kept rising.
PUNCH METRO learnt that Ukpong was allegedly kidnapped by his uncle, Israel Asuquo, who stayed with the child’s parents.
The suspect and his friend, Emmanuel Morgan, according to police investigation, sold Ukpong to Mr. Peter Ekanem for N200,000.
Our correspondent gathered that Peter’s wife, Ebere, who was still at large, took the three-year-old boy out of Akwa Ibom State to Abia State and sold him to Mr. Godson Echechi for N400,000. Like a commodity, Echedi now sold Ukpong to another woman, Ethel Chika, for N480,000.
It was learnt that Ukpong, who was kidnapped on April 29, 2011, ended up in the house of a childless couple in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, before he was rescued on May 25, 2011.
It was gathered that the childless couple had applied to the child welfare centre in Umuahia since 2009 seeking to adopt a child.
The mother of the child, Ime Asuquo, told our correspondent that when he went to work, he left Ukpong in care of her younger brothers.
“I left for work and kept the child in the company of my two brothers. When I returned and asked for Ukpong, one of my younger brothers, Edet, told me that Israel took the child away. When I asked Israel, he said he took the child out to buy biscuit for him. But when he could not produce the boy, I raised the alarm,” Ime, a hairdresser, said.
The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Felix Uyanna, said Israel and Morgan paid a clergyman, Evans Eshiet, N20,000 to provide them with spiritual protection that would make it impossible for the police to reveal their identities.
But Uyanna said the suspects’ effort amounted to nothing as they were arrested by the police.
The commissioner of police assured journalists that the matter would not be swept under the carpet, adding that the childless couple would also be investigated to know whether they were culpable or not.
Uyanna, said, “We are witnessing another version of kidnapping. Meanwhile, the parents of the boy were in distress looking for their son who was kidnapped by the very uncle living with them in the same house and the same building, feeding from the same pot of soup.
“You could see the profiteering, as he moved from one hand to another, the price and the value kept going up. We thank God we are on top of the game and we have been able to get all of them.”
Source: The Punch newspaper
PUNCH METRO learnt that Ukpong was allegedly kidnapped by his uncle, Israel Asuquo, who stayed with the child’s parents.
The suspect and his friend, Emmanuel Morgan, according to police investigation, sold Ukpong to Mr. Peter Ekanem for N200,000.
Our correspondent gathered that Peter’s wife, Ebere, who was still at large, took the three-year-old boy out of Akwa Ibom State to Abia State and sold him to Mr. Godson Echechi for N400,000. Like a commodity, Echedi now sold Ukpong to another woman, Ethel Chika, for N480,000.
It was learnt that Ukpong, who was kidnapped on April 29, 2011, ended up in the house of a childless couple in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, before he was rescued on May 25, 2011.
It was gathered that the childless couple had applied to the child welfare centre in Umuahia since 2009 seeking to adopt a child.
The mother of the child, Ime Asuquo, told our correspondent that when he went to work, he left Ukpong in care of her younger brothers.
“I left for work and kept the child in the company of my two brothers. When I returned and asked for Ukpong, one of my younger brothers, Edet, told me that Israel took the child away. When I asked Israel, he said he took the child out to buy biscuit for him. But when he could not produce the boy, I raised the alarm,” Ime, a hairdresser, said.
The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Felix Uyanna, said Israel and Morgan paid a clergyman, Evans Eshiet, N20,000 to provide them with spiritual protection that would make it impossible for the police to reveal their identities.
But Uyanna said the suspects’ effort amounted to nothing as they were arrested by the police.
The commissioner of police assured journalists that the matter would not be swept under the carpet, adding that the childless couple would also be investigated to know whether they were culpable or not.
Uyanna, said, “We are witnessing another version of kidnapping. Meanwhile, the parents of the boy were in distress looking for their son who was kidnapped by the very uncle living with them in the same house and the same building, feeding from the same pot of soup.
“You could see the profiteering, as he moved from one hand to another, the price and the value kept going up. We thank God we are on top of the game and we have been able to get all of them.”
Source: The Punch newspaper
''Four Killed, 20 injured in Bauchi bomb blasts''
''No fewer than four persons were killed while 20 others were injured in three bomb blasts inside an army barracks in Bauchi on Sunday.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack which occured in a Mammy Market inside the barracks around 8p.m, according to AFP.
The Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mr. Abdulkadir Indabawa, told AFP that four bodies had been recovered while 20 were injured.
Other reports said at least 12 people were killed. The injured were said to have been taken to undisclosed hospitals for medical attention.
Indabawa added that the attacks were caused by “locally made devices.”
He said, “There were three blasts at the Mammy market in Bauchi at about eight this evening. So far, we have recovered four dead bodies and a number of injured, close to 20.
“The blasts occured in three separate locations within the same vicinity and within some seconds of each other. There were a few seconds between the first, second and third blast.”
A senior military official who lived in the barracks, said the explosions went off within about five seconds of each other.''
Source: The Punch Newspaper
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack which occured in a Mammy Market inside the barracks around 8p.m, according to AFP.
The Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mr. Abdulkadir Indabawa, told AFP that four bodies had been recovered while 20 were injured.
Other reports said at least 12 people were killed. The injured were said to have been taken to undisclosed hospitals for medical attention.
Indabawa added that the attacks were caused by “locally made devices.”
He said, “There were three blasts at the Mammy market in Bauchi at about eight this evening. So far, we have recovered four dead bodies and a number of injured, close to 20.
“The blasts occured in three separate locations within the same vicinity and within some seconds of each other. There were a few seconds between the first, second and third blast.”
A senior military official who lived in the barracks, said the explosions went off within about five seconds of each other.''
Source: The Punch Newspaper
Sunday, May 29, 2011
''EFCC Discovers $1 billion In Speaker Bankole's Proxy Account In UBA, Jonathan Wades In To Halt His Arrest''
''SaharaReporters’ investigation of the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has unearthed that he owns a startling $1 billion stashed away in a domiciliary account at the United Bank of Africa (UBA). Our investigations revealed that the account is being operated for Mr. Bankole by his Principal Officer, Maurice Ekpeyong.
The account was opened in 2009 and had since been operated on behalf of Bankole by Mr. Ekpeyong.
Our investigation confirms that the 41-year old outgoing Speaker had diverted funds into the account from budgetary allocations to the House of Representatives.
Sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told SaharaReporters that their investigators were stunned by the massive scale of Mr. Bankole’s money laundering activities. Two officials of the anti-corruption agency as well as a source in the Presidency disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan was standing in the way of the EFCC’s plan to arrest Mr. Bankole in response to his latest scandal financial scam as well as a spate of other money laundering activities in their docket...''
Source: http://saharareporters.com
The account was opened in 2009 and had since been operated on behalf of Bankole by Mr. Ekpeyong.
Our investigation confirms that the 41-year old outgoing Speaker had diverted funds into the account from budgetary allocations to the House of Representatives.
Sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told SaharaReporters that their investigators were stunned by the massive scale of Mr. Bankole’s money laundering activities. Two officials of the anti-corruption agency as well as a source in the Presidency disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan was standing in the way of the EFCC’s plan to arrest Mr. Bankole in response to his latest scandal financial scam as well as a spate of other money laundering activities in their docket...''
Source: http://saharareporters.com
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Video conferencing on holocaustremembrance
Please watch this video for more details on the celebration of UN holocaustday
holocaustremembrance/unic_videoconference_15_November.shtml
holocaustremembrance/unic_videoconference_15_November.shtml
''G8 urges an end to violence in Syria, Libya and peace talks between Israel and Palestine''
The Group of Eight (G8) powers urged for an end to violence in Syria and Libya, and called for immediate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The G8 meeting saw a massive security operation involving 12,500 police officers, backed by boats and spotter helicopters, blanketing the chic resort of Deauville on the northern French coast as the leaders arrived at the seafront venue, Agence-France Presse reported.
The Middle East took a good chunk of the G8 discussion in addition to Japan’s ordeal following the March 11 disasters and sought ways of improving global nuclear safety after the Fukushima accident.
The G8 meeting saw a massive security operation involving 12,500 police officers, backed by boats and spotter helicopters, blanketing the chic resort of Deauville on the northern French coast as the leaders arrived at the seafront venue, Agence-France Presse reported.
The Middle East took a good chunk of the G8 discussion in addition to Japan’s ordeal following the March 11 disasters and sought ways of improving global nuclear safety after the Fukushima accident.
Addressing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the leaders urged Damascus to end violent repression and carry out reform, as they sought ways to encourage democracy in their first meeting since the "Arab Spring" uprisings.
Source: alarabiya.net
''NATO air strikes in Libya target area of Qaddafi’s residence''
"Gaddafi forces have specifically targeted the Amazigh (Berber) people in these two cities, threatening to wipe out the entire population," it said, complaining of "an epidemic of ethnic cleansing".
The account, which could not be independently verified, said residents had no electricity and were running out of food, water and medical supplies. It said three civilians had been killed in the past day, and two had died of heart attacks in the past 48 hours.
Source: alarabiya.net
The account, which could not be independently verified, said residents had no electricity and were running out of food, water and medical supplies. It said three civilians had been killed in the past day, and two had died of heart attacks in the past 48 hours.
Source: alarabiya.net
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
'Sit Tight' Leaders Threat to World Peace
When a leader who was once loved by his people turned round to call them names like rats, then the purpose of leading his people just became clear.
Source: www.punchontheweb.comMay232011
Monday, May 23, 2011
''Protest Against Unemployment, Economic Crisis in Spain''
Source:www.punchontheweb.com May232011
'Businessman Stabs female student in the eye'
Source: www.sunnewsonline.com
Friday, May 20, 2011
This is the incredible situation of transportation in lagos Nigeria. Despite the efforts of governemnt to help Make living less difficult Nigerians resident in Lagos are yet to overcome this ugly situation. Who should we blame? The commuters, law enforcement agencies responsible for this or the government?
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
To Begin
The below link and email address will help volunteers to commence work by familiarising with what these days and weeks means to UN and to humanity as a whole. Please visit the site and look for more resources and I shall make available as soon as I can any other useful link that will help our work.
Please use the email for user generated news item before publication in the blog.
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/index.asp
unodays@gmail.com
Please use the email for user generated news item before publication in the blog.
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/index.asp
unodays@gmail.com
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
How This Blog Should Work
United Nations celebrate a total of sixty four days and four weeks each year. These days and weeks are set aside to serve as reminders for government and non-governmental organisations and other interested people on the need to address specific issues and for government to take implementable practical policy steps for which each day was named. The thrust of this project is to mobilize local and global support for UN days, by organizing online and offline workshops, conferences and seminars; and by writing reports which will be posted in this space a week where possible before the actual day of celebration. Reports shall be a summary of issues as reported by volunteers in their press cuttings, website links, photos, video, audio and textual documents posted earlier.
We are dedicated to helping fulfill these laudable UN objectives for marking these days by mobilizing grassroots support for each of these days by:
• Writing a summary document from the reports posted from local print and electronic media and other sources from anywhere in the world.
• Organising online and offline workshops, conferences and seminars targeting the public and especially students from schools, colleges and higher institutions of learning. This is aimed at ‘planting’ the ‘seed’ of UN mission into them ab initio.
How we shall be conducting our work
We welcome volunteer contributors from around the globe to post entries here on issues in their locality or as convenient issues outside their locality that they came across which address the objectives of any of the days.
We welcome especially press cutting, website links, photos, Video, audio and textual documents and user generated news item to be uploaded here. On the actual UN day celebration a summary report of all the contributions so far shall be presented at a public gathering and also published to highlight topical issues of the day in order to draw attention of the global audience to what is important in a locality. For example if a report on child abuse in a locality catches interest as a result of the manner it took place it shall be reported and be given wider publicity through other related networks. This is aimed at drumming support for the eradication of a bad act, funding for project that will address the situation etc.
We are dedicated to helping fulfill these laudable UN objectives for marking these days by mobilizing grassroots support for each of these days by:
• Writing a summary document from the reports posted from local print and electronic media and other sources from anywhere in the world.
• Organising online and offline workshops, conferences and seminars targeting the public and especially students from schools, colleges and higher institutions of learning. This is aimed at ‘planting’ the ‘seed’ of UN mission into them ab initio.
How we shall be conducting our work
We welcome volunteer contributors from around the globe to post entries here on issues in their locality or as convenient issues outside their locality that they came across which address the objectives of any of the days.
We welcome especially press cutting, website links, photos, Video, audio and textual documents and user generated news item to be uploaded here. On the actual UN day celebration a summary report of all the contributions so far shall be presented at a public gathering and also published to highlight topical issues of the day in order to draw attention of the global audience to what is important in a locality. For example if a report on child abuse in a locality catches interest as a result of the manner it took place it shall be reported and be given wider publicity through other related networks. This is aimed at drumming support for the eradication of a bad act, funding for project that will address the situation etc.
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