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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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