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The remains of veteran actor, Peter Bunor who died earlier this month following protracted illness will be laid to rest today at his home-town, Ogwash-Uku in Delta State. According to funeral arrangements released by the family, the Service of songs took place yesterday Friday, May 29, 2015 at his residence located along Dominion Hostel, through Nshiagu College, Delta State Polytechnic Road, Ogwash-Uku. Funeral service and internment will hold at the same venue today Saturday, May 30 from 10am while reception follows immediately at the same venue. May his soul rest in Peace.. Amen

A family of five and 6 other individuals were among those who were killed in a gun battle between Boko Haram members and Nigerian troops in Dala, Borno state yesterday May 29th. According to reports, the terrorist, who came in their numbers, had tried to invade Maiduguri, the Borno state capital but met a strong resistance from the troops stationed in the area. Many residents were seriously injured as they tried running to safety. The troops repelled the attack.

Re-elected FIFA chief Sepp Blatter has again insisted he is the man to lead the world football body through its current crisis. Mr Blatter comfortably won his fifth term as president on Friday, two days after seven FIFA officials were arrested on a US corruption indictment in Zurich. The arrests were connected to a bribery scandal being investigated by American, Swiss and other law enforcement agencies. In a stormy Q-and-A session with journalists in the Swiss city, Mr Blatter said he has the backing of the organisation's executive committee going forward. "I am still the man to go into these problems and to solve these problems," he said. FIFA president Sepp Blatter gestures as he speaks during a press conference on May 30, 2015 in Zurich after being re-elected during the FIFA Congress. Blatter said he was 'shocked' at the way the US judiciary has targeted football's world body and slammed what he called a 'hate' campaign by Europe's footbal...

The Parole Board former royal aide Jane Andrews, who was jailed for stabbing her boyfriend to death in 2001, is to be released A former royal aide jailed for stabbing her boyfriend to death when he refused to marry her is to be released from prison. Jane Andrews, a former dresser to the Duchess of York, was given a life sentence after being convicted of murdering wealthy businessman Tom Cressman in 2001. A spokesman for the Parole Board said: "We can confirm that a three-member panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of Jane Andrews. "The decision to release is a matter for the Board, which is independent. Arrangements and the date of the release are a matter for the Ministry of Justice. We are unable to comment further on the details of this case." Andrews was ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years after a jury at the Old Bailey accepted the prosecution case that she killed Mr Cressman, 39, at the home they shared in Fulham, London. They rejected her c...

…PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah Says Judiciary is truly the Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and his APC have again failed in their bid to stop the inauguration of Chief Nyesom Wike as Governor of Rivers State and his Deputy Dr. Mrs Ipalibo. Harry Banigo come May 29, 2015. delivering a ruling in a suit filed by the Attorney General of Rivers State and the APC, Honourable Justice S. M. Shuaibu the Administrative Judge of the Federal High Court sitting in Owerri struck out suit number FHC/OW/CS/100/2015 for want of jurisdiction. The APC and the Attorney-General of Rivers State knowing that the Federal High Court Port Harcourt was unlikely to succumb to their prayers took the case to far away Owerri because as they stated through their Counsel B. E. I. Nwofor SAN, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that was listed as the 3rd Defendant, the Police listed as the 8th Defendant and the SSS listed as the 10th Defendant all had offices in Owerri. Justice Shuaibu did not buy the frivolity. He...

After a cool, dry start to the holiday weekend across the Northeast, warmer weather will greet most Memorial Day cookouts and activities. High temperatures on Memorial Day will be near or above 80 degrees Fahrenheit from New York City to Washington, D.C. The humidity will start to become more noticeable as well, mainly from Philadelphia to the nation's capital. Even with warmer air moving in for the holiday, it will not be as warm or as humid as it has been in recent warm spells. On the flip side, temperatures are expected to stay closer to 70 F around Boston, where the warmer air mass has not quite arrived yet. Humidity levels will remain low across much of New England in this cooler air. The chilly water just off the coast will also help keep many New England beaches from Maine to Cape Cod in the 60s on Memorial Day. Even though water temperatures at the Jersey Shore and Delaware beaches are still only in the 50s and 60s, it should be a nice day to be on the beach as aftern...

WASHINGTON - The U.S government charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage, saying they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. It was the third time in as many years that U.S. authorities have made accusations of economic espionage on behalf of China, a sign that the United States is increasingly focused on what it has termed a top national security concern. One of the suspects, Professor Hao Zhang, 36, was arrested on Saturday in Los Angeles after he arrived on a flight from China, the Justice Department said in a statement. The other five suspects are believed to be in China. Zhang and two other professors from Tianjin University were charged with stealing source code and other proprietary information from chipmakers Avago Technologies Ltd and Skyworks Solutions Inc, where two of them worked. Avago has headquarters in San Jose, California and Singapore, and Skyworks is based i...

The plot to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has now gained momentum after the involvement of a former president. Ekiti state has been engulfed in a political stalemate between the governor and the 19 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state House of Assembly who have vowed to impeach the governor before the end of the current dispensation on May 29. A reliable source has told Thisday newspaper that the renewed plot to oust the governor before May 29 has now been hatched by the 19 APC lawmakers and a former president. According to the source, the APC lawmakers approached the former president, through an ex minister of Ekiti state, to help them dislodge the security agents who have laid siege to the Ekiti assembly complex so as to pave way for their return to the building. “A former minister from Ekiti State sent a senator to a former president. When he met him, the former president asked the 19 lawmakers to see him and they went. A top security per...

DALORI, Nigeria — Hundreds of women and girls captured by Boko Haram have been raped, many repeatedly, in what officials and relief workers describe as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants in Nigeria. In interviews, the women described being locked in houses by the dozen, at the beck and call of fighters who forced them to have sex, sometimes with the specific goal of impregnating them. “They married me,” said Hamsatu, 25, a young woman in a black-and-purple head scarf, looking down at the ground. She said she was four months pregnant, that the father was a Boko Haram member and that she had been forced to have sex with other militants who took control of her town. “They chose the ones they wanted to marry,” added Hamsatu, whose full name was not used to protect her identity. “If anybody shouts, they said they would shoot them.” Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect that has taken over large stretches of te...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Extreme athlete Dean Potter knew the risks every time he flew off a cliff with a parachute. He lost a friend to a BASE jumping accident last year and spoke about the death-defying nature of the sport at that friend's memorial service. "He always recognized how dangerous the sport was and at the same time, how magical it was -- the tension between those two things," fellow climber Chris McNamara said. Potter, renowned for his daring and sometimes rogue climbs and BASE jumps, was one of two men killed after jumping from a 7,500-foot promontory in Yosemite National Park. Someone called for help late Saturday after losing contact with Potter, 43, and his climbing partner, Graham Hunt, 29. Park ranger Scott Gediman said rescuers looked for the men overnight but couldn't find them. On Sunday morning, a helicopter crew spotted their bodies in Yosemite Valley. The men wore wing suits -- skintight suits with batwing sleeves and a flap between their l...

An Egyptian court sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other defendants to death on Saturday over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising. Morsi, sitting in a caged dock, raised his fists in defiance when the judge read his verdict. Many of those sentenced were tried in absentia, including prominent Islamic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who resides in Qatar. Under Egyptian law, death sentences are passed on to the mufti, the government's interpreter of Islamic law, who plays an advisory role. The court will pronounce its final decision on June 2. Morsi was spared the death sentence in the first of two trials that concluded on Thursday, in which the court advised death sentences for 16 defendants on espionage charges. They had been charged with colluding with foreign powers, the Palestinian Hamas and Iran to destabilise Egypt. The court will pronounce the verdicts for Morsi and the remaining 18 defendants in that trial at a later date. The court the...

US special operations forces have killed an Islamic State commander through a dramatic and secretive raid into Syria and have taken a woman prisoner, the first US-held detainee of the war against Isis and a move that places immediate stress on one of Barack Obama’s signature wartime policies. Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, confirmed on Saturday that Obama ordered the elite troops to raid a location in eastern Syria and “capture” an Isis figure, Abu Sayyaf. Unusually, Carter said the raid also targeted the man’s wife, identified as Umm Sayyaf. Abu Sayyaf was killed in the raid, Carter said. Umm Sayyaf was taken prisoner – a rarity for the Obama administration, whose reluctance to add to the complexities of US wartime detentions has often led it to kill battlefield targets instead of capturing them. A White House statement indicated the Iraqi government “contributed” to the operation, involvement that could signal Umm Sayyaf’s ultimate dispensation. Bernadette Meehan, the ...

Big Brother fans were treated to a live twist on Friday night following the public vote for their 'winner' at this stage of the show. Emma Willis announced a shocked Jack, affectionately known as Pie Face, as the viewers' favourite. But his popularity came at a price; Big Brother offered him a new £27,000 BMW, but if he took it, he'd have to leave the show immediately and the £150,000 prize fund would be slashed to zero. Faced with that scenario, Jack turned down the car. But he appeared to bitterly regret his decision later on. Housemates weren't off the hook as Nick then had to nominate two contestants for eviction live on TV and to their face. Shaking and trembling, Nick eventually selected pastor's daughter Adjoa and Sarah. The rest of the housemates will nominate privately in the Diary Room. Who will face the first eviction?

Chief Olusgun Obasanjo, former president, has recommended a way forward for the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in governing a new Nigeria. Ex-president, through his think-tank group, examined critical areas of the economy and submitted a review to Buhari. The group which was launched four months ago under the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library examined five key areas of education, power, the economy, security and infrastructure. READ ALSO: Olusegun Obasanjo Endorses Muhammadu Buhari Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari’s Director of Media and Publicity, told reporters that Kalu Idika Kalu, Vice Chairman of the Committee and former Minister of Finance, presented volumes of the report of the committee to the president-elect during a short ceremony held behind closed doors. Shehu also stated that ex-Chairman of Cadbury Nigeria, Dr. Christopher Kolade who was head of the power committee, gave different stages of the power sector development ...

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Picture above shows residents of Maiduguri, Borno state returning home after running away during Boko Haram attack yesterday night. The army has announced a 24 hour curfew on the town. Another photo after the cut...

JERUSALEM — The Vatican announced a treaty Wednesday that reaffirms Palestinian statehood, a step that immediately drew Israeli criticism and stirred alarm that an activist Pope Francis was advancing the Palestinian cause at Israel’s expense. The agreement, being finalized in Rome by a group called the Bilateral Commission of the Holy See and the State of Palestine, “deals with essential aspects of the life and activity of the Catholic Church in Palestine,” according to a joint statement posted on the Vatican’s Web site. Palestinians said the accord addresses such matters as properties, taxes and protocol at holy sites. Social media and news reports — as well as some pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian voices — seized on the treaty to suggest that the Vatican had newly recognized the “State of Palestine,” although the Vatican had done so shortly after the United Nations granted Palestine “non-member observer status” in 2012. News of the pending agreement triggered conflicting statement...

PHILADELPHIA — Federal investigators have determined that an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, was careening through the city at 106 mph before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 50 mph, but they still don't know why it was going so fast. Emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train derailment, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Philadelphia. The Amtrak train, headed to New York City, derailed and crashed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others. Robert Sumwalt, of the National Transportation Safety Board, said a data recorder and a video camera in the train's front end could yield clues to what happened. Amtrak inspected the stretch of track on Tuesday, just hours before the accident, and found no defects, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. Sumwalt said the engineer applied the emergency brakes moments before the crash but ...

Detectives from Scotland Yard's Homicide and Major Crime Command are carrying out the investigation into the death of a family A father has been found hanging near a reservoir after the bodies of his two twin teenage daughters and their mother were found in a property nearby. Officers attended a house in Grove Road in Chadwell Heath, east London, on Monday evening after concerns were raised about the welfare of the residents but there was no response and no sign of any disturbance. However they returned on Tuesday lunchtime and after forcing their way in, they found the bodies of the mother, believed to be aged 37, and twin daughters, aged 13. The 45-year-old father, who had been reported missing from the address, was found hanged close to Woodford Reservoir in Walthamstow, north east London, on Wednesday morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives from Scotland Yard's Homicide and Major Crime Command are carrying out the investigation into the death of a fa...

Kourtney Kardashian,Scott Disick and their three kids enjoyed a family vacation in Punta Mita, Mexico on Saturday.Kourtney gave birth 5 months ago ...

Gunmen in South Sudan have raped girls, seized boys to become soldiers and torched towns in some of the heaviest fighting seen in the 17-month-long civil war, the United Nations said Tuesday. Over 300,000 civilians have been left without “life-saving aid” in the northern battleground state of Unity, after the UN and aid agencies pulled out due to a surge in fighting, with over 100,000 forced to flee their homes. The UN peacekeeping mission said it was “increasingly concerned” about reports from Guit and Koch counties in Unity state of “towns and villages being burned, killings, abductions of males as young as 10 years of age, rape and abduction of girls and women, and the forced displacement of civilians.” The violence is some of the worst in months, as government forces push south from the state capital Bentiu into an opposition zone around the town of Leer, home to some of the country’s once lucrative oil fields. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also withdrawn staff ...

Gloria, the young lady who is trekking from Abuja to Otuoke, Bayelsa state in honor of President Jonathan this morning shared photos of her leg with blisters. Gloria is on the journey with her fellow male "trekker", Oladele Nihi and they are currently in Edo state. Be safe out there guys...

There are fears that after its inauguration, the Government of Gen Muhammadu Buhari may implement a strict dress code for reporters covering activities of Government House, Aso Villa in Abuja. Some reporters told Nigerian Times that media aides of the President-elect had complained about the dressing of female journalists covering him. A reporter who chooses not to be identified for fear of being victimised said aides of the President-elect warned her and her colleagues that when the General is sworn in they would not tolerate ‘anyhow dressing’ by female journalists. According to her, the aide said they were not comfortable with the manner of dressing by the reporters who cover the activities of the President-elect, explaining that they were not modest. “He said the General would not tolerate indecent dressing. “I don’t know what constitutes indecent dressing. I was well dressed as far as I am concerned. I wore a trouser and a nice top and my cleavages were not exposed. “They probably...

As the Bayelsa State governorship election scheduled for 2016 gets closer, indications have emerged that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has decided to dump her godson and Presidential Aide, Waripamowei Dudafa, for a former chairman of Niger-Delta Development Commission, Timi Alaibe.Dudafa is Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Matters and Social Events. The First Lady’s decision was said to be part of her desperation to kick Governor Henry Seriake Dickson out of the Creek Heaven Government House at all cost in 2016. This was one of the decisions reached during an emergency meeting held in Abuja last night. Some select members of Bayelsa State Council of Elders and top politicians attended the meeting from Kolokuma-Opokuma LGA. Sources at the meeting said the leaders categorically told the First Lady that they were more comfortable with Timi Alaibe instead of her preferred godson, Waripamowei Dudafa, whom they claim is rather too young and lac...

Former president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Peter Esele Monday said that the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which is largely seen as corrupt by most Nigerians will prove a tough nut to crack for General Muhammadu Buhari if he does not already have a properly worked out plan to manage the excesses of the organization. Esele also predicted a hard time overall for the country in 2015 because of the ailing economy and poor oil prices. With such a tough environment, Esele noted that the new administration would have a tough time this year. On the current fuel scarcity, Esele said that the marketers wanted their money from the government because they were not confident of getting the amount they were owed from the incoming administration. According to him, without a strong resolve, the NNPC would absorb him (Buhari) into the same system that Nigerians have been crying against. Esele however, noted that being seen as uncorrupt could work well for the administration if Buh...

President-Elect, General Mohammadu Buhari was reportedly shocked when he visited Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorcha at his Spibath N1 Billion Presidential Mansion in Umuodu Mbieri in Mbaitoli Local Government of Imo State recently, Pointblanknews.com gathered. General Buhari had shortly after the Presidential elections on March 28, paid a visit to Gov. Okorocha in Imo State as part of his “Thank You” tour. Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Okorocha who personally received the President-elect at the Owerri Airport alongside members of his cabinet and chieftains of the APC on April 7, drove General Buhari to his Umuodu Mbieri, his hometown. On arrival at Umuodu Mbieri where his palatial mansion is located, a shocked General Buhari was said to have asked his host “is this the Government House”? An excited Okorocha, beaming with smiles, according to a source who was on the entourage, was said to have responded, “no, this is my house.” Okorocha’s response according to the s...

Kano state Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso has ordered the removal of President Goodluck Jonathan’s portrait from government establishments. This order came few days after he lost to Muhammadu Buhari, who got 1.9 million votes in Kano. Kwankwaso recently said Jonathan lost because his wife disrespected the north with her almajiri jibe. Meanwhile, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone B has condemned the move. According to them , ” it should be noted that this nonchalant attitude of removing a seating President’s portrait is demonic, petty and a coup in a democratic setting. This is celebration taking too far and should be condemned by all sane mind in the country,” the students reacted in a statement signed by Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NAN Zone B, Pedro Obi. The students called on Kwankwaso to immediately revert this negative action, fish out the culprits with an adequate punishment melted out to the overzealous officials and anti-democratic elements in Kan...

Even before the final results of the general election were announced, David Cameron made clear his first priorities of a majority Conservative government: an effort to reinforce the union, immediate work to draft the EU in/out referendum bill and getting the “rollercoaster” £30bn cuts programme under way to tackle the deficit. Scotland bill The pledge to introduce a Scotland bill in the Queen’s speech on 27 May does not appear in Cameron’s key Sunday Telegraph article outlining his priorities for the next 100 days but it does appear in the Conservative manifesto. That Scotland bill will “honour in full our commitments to Scotland to devolve extensive new powers” including giving the Scottish parliament the right to set its own levels of income tax. But that will be coupled with new legislation giving English MPs a veto over matters that only affect England, including the introduction of an England-only income tax by next March’s budget in 2016, on which the new SNP MPs will be bar...

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A South African man has told how he was kidnapped and raped by three women in Cape Town. The 33 year old man, whose identity is being kept away from the media, said the women had stopped him in their car to ask for directions and as he was talking to them, one of the women brought out a gun, and forced him into the back of their black BMW and drove away. He said they drove him to an unknown place far from where they kidnapped him, then they began touching him to get aroused. When he didn't, because the only thing he said he felt then was fear, the women forced him to drink an 'unknown substance' from a bottle to make him hard. He said all three women then took turns on him and when he came, they took his semen in plastic bags, placing them in a cooler box. When they were done with him, they kicked him out of the car around Kwazakhele township, Port Elizabeth, and made off with his sperm. The man reported the incident to the police who are now investigating. A South Afri...