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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Justin Bieber Is a Wanted Man: Argentine Judge Orders Singer's Arrest Over Assault Claims

This probably isn't the greatest news to kick off Justin Bieber's Coachella weekend.

The singer is currently a wanted man after an Argentine judge issued an order for his arrest the second he sets foot in the country.

Judge Alberto Julio Banos ordered the "immediate detention" of Bieber and bodyguards Hugo Alcides Hesny and Terrence Reche Smalls, stemming from the 21-year-old pop star failing to answer questions about an alleged assault at a Buenos Aires nightclub in 2013, according to reports.

While in the South American country for his Believe tour, the Canadian singer was accused of sending his bodyguard to attack paparazzo Diego Pesosa outside the venue. When Justin was summoned to answer questions about the incident, he didn't show.

Bieber's rep had no comment.

Under Argentine law, the celeb would face from one month to six years in prison if convicted on a charge of causing injuries.

It's currently unclear whether or not the arrest warrant extends beyond Argentina. However, in comments to local station Telefe Noticias, Pesoa's lawyer implied that it would force Bieber to return.

"Now we just need to wait for the police to find him and bring him" to Argentina, lawyer Matias Morla reportedly said. "For us, this is a triumph against all those who said this case was a bluff and that we didn't have anything."

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Nigeria’s abducted schoolgirls: one year in captivity

Here is a timeline of significant events since the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria a year ago on Tuesday.
– April 2014 –
– 14: 276 girls, aged from 12 to 17, are seized from the remote town of Chibok in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria.
Boko Haram gunmen storm the girls’ boarding school, forcing them from their dormitories onto trucks and driving them into the bush. Fifty-seven girls manage to flee.
– 29: Parents lash out at the government’s failure to rescue the girls.
– May –
– 1: Hundreds of parents, many dressed in red, protest in Chibok to demand help from the government and other countries.
– 5: Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau claims responsibility in a video statement for the mass abduction, and vows to sell the girls as slave brides.
– 7: US First Lady Michelle Obama tweets a picture of herself with a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls, joining a social media storm.
The campaign also attracts politicians, actors and other prominent public figures, such as Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and CNN star anchor Christiane Amanpour.
– 9: Amnesty International claims Nigeria’s military was warned of the school attack but failed to take action due to lack of manpower. The military denies the allegation.
The UN Security Council strongly condemns the mass kidnappings which it says “may amount to crimes against humanity” under international law.
– 10: British, French and US experts provide help for the search operation. China and Israel also offer assistance.
– 12: Boko Haram releases a new video showing about 100 of the missing girls, alleging the teenagers have converted to Islam and will not be released until militants are freed in a prisoner exchange.
– 17: Nigeria and its neighbours Benin, Chad, Cameroon and Niger vow to work together to fight Boko Haram in what Cameroon President Paul Biya describes as a “declaration of war”.
– 21: The United States deploys 80 military personnel to Chad to help regional efforts to rescue the schoolgirls.
– 26: Nigeria’s highest ranking military officer, Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badeh, says they have located the missing teenagers but warns a rescue operation would put their lives at risk.
– 27: News emerges that Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo has been in talks with Boko Haram to broker a deal to release the girls.
– June –
– 12: Representatives from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin agree to strengthen joint efforts to find the schoolgirls and defeat Boko Haram.
– July –
– 18: Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima says 176 teachers have been killed and 900 schools destroyed in Borno since Boko Haram began attacking them in 2011, because they are centres of Western education
– 22: First meeting between Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the schoolgirls’ relatives.
– September –
– 25: Nigeria’s police claim that one of the schoolgirls has been found but elders reject the claim.
– October –
– 14: Protesters mark six months since the abduction with a march on the Nigerian presidency but are blocked.
– 17: Nigeria’s chief security spokesman Mike Omeri says no deal is in place to release the girls after the presidency says a ceasefire deal has been reached with Boko Haram.
Boko Haram chief Shekau later dismisses the ceasefire claim and says all the girls have been “married off”.
– November –
– 14: Boko Haram seizes Chibok. The army recaptures it two days later.
– February 2015 –
– 8: Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai calls for global support to demand “urgent action” to release the girls, on their 300th day in captivity.
– March –
– 6: Work begins to rebuild the kidnapped girls’ school in Chibok.
– 17: Nigeria’s army chief admits there is “no news for now” about the girls’ fate, despite military successes in recapturing towns from the insurgents.
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

INEC official takes two card readers away from polling unit

At Unit 023, Zone 9 at Baba-Ewe Junction, Ago-palace, under Oshodi/Isolo LCDA, two card readers failed. INEC officials arrived at the polling unit at 8.15a.m. but could not commence accreditation due to the faulty machines. One of the officials took the card readers away for repair but did not return as at 9.36a.m.
A human rights activist and election observer, Mrs Joe Okei-Odumakin, told journalists that she was satisfied with the early supply of election materials by INEC. Okei-Odumakin, the President of the Campaign for Democracy, said that she had visited 21 polling booths as at 10.30a.m.
Many enthusiastic voters turned out in large numbers in many polling centres in Lagos as early as 8.00a.m.for the governorship and House of Assembly polls on Saturday. Also INEC ad hoc staff and election materials arrived early at  many polling units contrary to what obtained  in the March 28 presidential and national assembly polls.
Security agents also reported early.   These made accreditation to begin early in many polling booths, with smart cards readers working better. In Epe, voters trooped out in large numbers as at 7.45a.m., waiting for electoral officers and materials.
They queued up in some polling units while waiting for the officers and materials. Some of the polling centres visited are Ward A3, Units 2,5, 8 and 12 and Ward A2, Units 7, 10 and 11. At Ward A5, Unit 33, where the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, came out for accreditation, voters turned out in large numbers.
Ambode hailed Epe residents for the impressive turnout. The governorship candidate, who was in company of his wife, Abolanle, also commended INEC for efforts toward hitch-free polls. He urged voters to be calm and vigilant. Alhaji Idris Haruna, Leader of the Hausa Community, told newsmen at the unit, “l have instructed members of the Hausa Community to come out en masse for accreditation and voting.
“We thank Allah for giving us peaceful presidential and National Assembly elections. We hope that these ones will also be peaceful.’’ At Ward 3, Unit 9 in Apapa Local Government Area, the PDP Governorship Candidate, Mr Jimi Agabaje,  was accredited at 10.30a.m.
He commended INEC for early arrival of electoral officers and election materials. Agbaje expressed satisfaction at voters’ turnout. He appealed to voters to shun violence. In Ikorodu, election materials arrived at 8.20a.m at some  polling units, and accreditation started shortly after at Polling Units 003 and 005 at Erunwen and Itamaga, respectively in Erikorodo.
As at 8.37a.m., accreditation began at Polling Units 010, 011 at Arowolo Eluku Junction, Isele 3 and Polling Units 01/007,  Isele 1,Opposite Ayangburen Palace.  At Odoguyan area of Ikorodu, INEC officials and election materials arrived at 7.30a.m. At Polling Units 012, Ojuemuren, Ward E1, accreditation commenced at 8.10 a.m.
Also, at Polling Unit 014, Oduyebo, Ward E1 and PU 015, Farm Settlement, Odoguyan, INEC officials arrived at 7.45 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. respectively. Pressmen observed that large numbers of voters, including the elderly, arrived early for accreditation.
Security operatives advised younger voters to queue up, while the elderly were provided seats and were first attended to by electoral officers. However, as at 9.05a.m, INEC officials and materials had yet to arrive at Polling Units located at the Grammar School, Ota Ona, Ireshe,  Oriwu Road, all in Ikorodu.
There was orderliness at the polling units as voters were taking numbers and forming queues, waiting for the arrival of electoral officers and materials.  Many polling units in Badagry Local Government Area of the state started accreditation of voters at 8.00a.m. as smart cards readers and other election materials arrived at about 7.45a.m.
In Units 15, 16, 17 and 20 of Ward A, there were already queues as at 8.00a.m. Card readers were functioning well. Accreditation began at 8.05a.m at the Unit 9 of Ward F with voters enthusiastic to
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Navy dislodges miscreants from Warri waterways

WARRI- THE Commanding Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, Warri, Delta State, Captain Musa Gemu, said he deployed naval personnel to chase away the troublemakers, who commandeered a section of the Warri waterways, near the disbanded Camp 5 in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Saturday,  harassing travellers.
He said it was in reaction to the lawlessness by the boys that he dispatched his men, saying, “There is calm now, we have driven them away.”
His words,  “Some youths were beaten up people before Camp 5, the reason for their action is not known, we had to dispatch men to ensure that there is peace in the area.”
Captain Gemu, however, said that movement on the waterways was restricted till the period of free movement as ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, asking residents and voters to remain in their respective wards because the same restriction that apply on land also apply in the riverine area.
Former PDP chieftain in Warri, Chief Ayirimi Emami, who defected to APC, few days ago, raised the alarm, this morning, that his step mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Emami, was detained for hours by Ijaw boys at Kurutie, who also harassed and beat up other innocent travelers, yesterday.
But, PDP chairman in Warri South West local government area, Chief Boro Opudu, who acknowledged that Emami spoke to him about his step mother, dismissed the allegation of tension on the waterways, saying there was calm from information available to him.
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B’Haram attacks Borno villages, kills 22

Twenty-two persons were killed on Thursday when Boko Haram insurgents attacked two villages in Borno State.

In Dile, a village in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of the state, a member of the youth vigilante group said 20 people were killed while many were injured when the Boko Haram fighters invaded the village around 2am.

The source said, “Hundreds of suspected Boko Haram militants, who are believed to be fleeing from the Nigerian troops on Thursday, killed at least 20 people in an attack on a remote village in Askira Uba Local Government Area in Borno State.”

“The insurgents stormed Dile village at 2am in several vehicles, burning houses and killing anybody in sight.”

Also a resident, Dauda Ardo who fled to Mubi, told our correspondent on the telephone that 20 persons were killed in the village and many others sustained injuries during the attack.

He said, “Dozens of Boko Haram fighters attacked our village at about 2am and killed 20 people. Many of us fled to the bush. Everybody was running for his life. We don’t know the whereabouts of our family members.”

The other two were killed when Boko Haram fighters on Thursday attacked Buratai village in Biu Local Government Area of the state. At Buratai, they also injured three others.

A security source from Biu town, told our correspondent on the telephone that the insurgents invaded the village on Thursday night, killing two persons and injuring three others.
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