Six Bodies found in AirAsia Search

'Six bodies' found in AirAsia search
Updated 3 minutes ago

The BBC's Alice Budisatrijo said there was no confirmation of the objects yet
At least six bodies have been found and at least three recovered in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials and media say.

The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.

One official said the debris was 95% likely to be from the missing aircraft.

The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday.

The debris is said to be different to other objects spotted during the search

The debris is said to be different to other objects spotted during the search
The search operation is now in its third day, with the area widened to cover 13 zones over land and sea.

During a news conference by the head of the operation, shown live on Indonesian TV, pictures of the debris were shown including a body floating on the water.

Relatives of passengers on the plane watching the pictures were visibly shocked.

Later, reports from officials and media in Pangkalan Bun, a nearby town in Central Kalimantan province, said six bodies had been found and at least three recovered.

AFP news agency later quoted the navy as saying that as many as 40 had been retrieved by one warship, saying the rescuers were "very busy now".

AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes tweeted to the families: "My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501. On behalf of AirAsia my condolences."

Search operation head Bambang Soelistyo said he was 95% certain the objects shown were from the plane, adding that a shadow was spotted under water which appeared to be in the shape of a plane.

All resources were now being sent to the area where the debris was found, and all objects or bodies found would be taken to Pangkalan Bun, he said.

Mr Soelistyo added that ships with more sophisticated technology were being deployed to check whether larger parts of the plane were submerged beneath the debris.

Indonesian civil aviation chief Djoko Murjatmodjo, quoted by AFP news agency, said "significant things" such as a passenger door and cargo door had been found.

He added that the objects had been found 160km (100 miles) south-west of Pangkalan Bun.

At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters joined the operation when it resumed at 06:00 local time on Tuesday (23:00 GMT Monday).

Search and rescue operations are now in their third day

Family and friends of those on board the plane are gathered and awaiting news at Surabaya airport
The operation, led by Indonesia, includes assistance from Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, with other offers of help from South Korea, Thailand, China and France. The US destroyer USS Sampson is on its way to the zone.

Communication lost

Earlier, Indonesian officials said they were investigating reports of smoke seen rising from an island close to Belitung island, one of the focal points of the search, though experts cautioned it could be unrelated to the missing plane.

On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.

Most were Indonesian but the passengers included one UK national, a Malaysian, a Singaporean and three South Koreans.

The plane left Surabaya at 05:35 Jakarta time on Sunday and had been due to arrive in Singapore two hours later.

Safety officials say the captain had asked for permission to take the plane higher but, by the time permission was granted, communication with the plane was lost.

It was officially declared missing at 07:55.

AirAsia previously had an excellent safety record and there were no fatal accidents involving its aircraft.

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Gospel on street

It was fun yesterday Sunday been d 16th day of November 2014, D Royal Ambassadors of Christ went to the streets  asking and interviewing people on christian matters n church issues.... the team that was lead by their MD Don Buchi.... took it as a way of knowing the minds of the people and releasing it on social medias...... speaking with Don Buchi he said it will be a monthly thing.... getting to know the mind of people on issues that matters both in church n d circular world...... he advice youth s to walk in light and run from darkness.....

Don Buchi

Its good 2 know that heaven will always answer when Christ believers call..... Don buchi , who dropped a gospel single few months back, is calling on Nigeria youths to stay away from bad habit and killing of selves in the name of politics..... he said youths shouldn't allow themselves to be used by some unlawful n unfaithful politicians just because they gave them some little cash...... and he called on parents, guildians, cleric people to advice their children...... and he said how much does your integrity or person worth.... few naira notes or.........
Let's make Nigeria a better place to live he said as he conclude his words.......

DENCIA BLASTS NAFDAC DG

"You're A Useless Hypocrite!"
Dencia Blasts NAFDAC Boss
For Threatening To Arrest Her
Over Whitenicious

Onnaedo Okafor | 11:31 | 08.08.2014

In a fresh tirade, Dencia puts the NAFDAC DG
on blast over her controversial Whitenicous
cream

If there's anything we've come to know about
Cameroonian singer, Dencia its that she's not
one who ever backs down from a fight nor does
she tire of saying exactly what's on her mind.
She proved this again today as she had some
very heated words for NAFDAC Director-General,
Paul Orhii. The tirade was supposedly sparked by
a comment earlier credited to the NAFDAC DG
where he had threatened to arrest Dencia over
her Whitenicious cream. The DG had been
allegedly quoted as saying at the Nigerian
Entertainment Industry Health Insurance
Convention which held on July 22nd in Lagos:
“There is this Cameroonian singer that has been
going around with a cream. If I get her, she’ll be
arrested”
Although Dencia had already addressed the
issue » , it would appear that something ticked
off the "Super Girl" singer again as she took to
Instagram to put Orhii on blast calling him a
hypocrite for seemingly endorsing Fair and White
which, according to her does essentially the
same thing as Whitenicious, while disparaging
her product ad even threatening to arrest her.

Read what she wrote above and tell us, was
Dencia right to address the DG in such a
manner?

Accident at jakande round about lekki-ajah road

Breaking News!
Fire Accident At Lekki-Epe
Expressway, Hundreds
Stranded

Joey Akan | 01:41 | 09.08.2014

Lagos Island is on standstill, after a fire
accident on Lekki-Epe Expressway has created a
PULSE TV NEWS!: EXPLOSION AT JAKANDE
ROUNDABOUT LAGOS - PULSE TV EXCLUSIVE
Hundreds of motorists and passengers are
currently stranded in Lagos after a fuel Tanker
burst into flames at the Jakande Roundabout,
Lekki.
The fuel tanker which contained petroleum to be
delivered to the Mobil gas station at the round
about developed a fault which quickly
exacerbated to an inferno.
Many motorists fled the scene, and reports on
ground reveal that there was no casualty from
the fire.
Men from the Lagos State Fire department are
currently on the scene, battling to control the
fire, and their efforts have resulted in a traffic
jam stretching from Ajah, down to Lekki.

Ebola virus(who) fights it and seeks cooperation

W.H.O. Declares Ebola
in West Africa a Health
Emergency
By ALAN COWELL
AUGUST 8, 2014
LONDON — Facing the worst known
outbreak of the Ebola virus, with
almost 1,000 fatalities in West Africa,
the World Health Organization
declared an international public
health emergency on Friday,
demanding an “extraordinary”
response — only the third such
declaration of its kind since
regulations permitting such alarms
were adopted in 2007.
The organization stopped short of
saying there should be general
international travel or trade bans, but
acknowledged that the outbreak,
already in its sixth month, was far
from being contained.
One major international medical
organization, Doctors Without
Borders, responded to the statement
with a renewed call for a “massive
deployment” of health specialists to
the stricken countries. “Lives are
being lost because the response is too
slow,” it said.
Margaret Chan, the World Health
Organization's director general, told a
news conference at the body's Geneva
headquarters: “This is the largest,
most severe, most complex outbreak in
the nearly four-decade history of the
disease.”
“I am declaring the current outbreak
of the Ebola virus disease a public
health emergency of international
concern,” she added. “Countries
affected to date simply don’t have the
capacity to manage an outbreak on
this scale on their own.”
Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the W.H.O.'s head of
health security, said that “things will
get worse for a while,” and, “we are
fully prepared for addressing this for
some months.”
The W.H.O. urged all states where the
disease is spreading to declare a state
of emergency, to screen all people
leaving at international airports,
seaports and land crossings, and to
prevent travel by anyone suspected of
having the Ebola virus. The move is
aimed at containing the disease. But
the organization did not recommend a
ban on travel to or from places with
outbreaks because of the low risk of
infection. “We don’t believe a general
ban on that kind of travel makes any
kind of sense at all,” Dr. Fukuda said.
The declaration was apparently
intended to display a more aggressive
stance by the health organization. In
the past, it has often bent to pressure
from member states demanding that
there be no consequences even as
epidemics have raged inside their
borders and sometimes slipped over
them.
But health specialists remain critical
of the international response.
“Declaring Ebola an international
public health emergency shows how
seriously W.H.O. is taking the current
outbreak; but statements won’t save
lives,” said Bart Janssens, the director
of operations at Doctors Without
Borders, which says it has hundreds of
specialists in the field in West Africa.
“Countries possessing necessary
capacities must immediately dispatch
available infectious disease experts
and disaster relief assets to the
region,” he said in a statement. “It is
clear the epidemic will not be
contained without a massive
deployment on the ground from these
states.”
According to figures released by the
W.H.O. this week, the virus has
claimed 932 lives since March. Most of
the cases are in Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone, but nine cases have also
been reported in Nigeria, where one
person died after traveling there from
Liberia.
The total number of confirmed,
probable and suspected cases,
including the fatalities, was 1,711.
“A coordinated international response
is deemed essential to stop and
reverse the international spread of
Ebola,” the W.H.O. said in a
statement after a two-day meeting of
its emergency committee on the
outbreak.
The statement called the spread of the
disease an “extraordinary event,”
describing the potential consequences
as “particularly serious.” There is no
licensed protocol of treatment or
vaccine to halt the disease.
The W.H.O. listed a series of
worrisome factors in its spread,
including “the virulence of the virus,
the intensive community and health
facility transmission patterns, and the
weak health systems in the currently
affected and most at-risk countries.”
The W.H.O. made similar emergency
declarations to counter swine flu in
2009 and polio in May. But public
health experts say the declaration on
polio has not reversed or slowed its
international spread.
In dealing with the Ebola crisis, the
W.H.O. said on Friday, stricken
countries faced an array of challenges,
with “fragile” health services backed
by few resources, and inexperienced
personnel confronting
“misperceptions” of the disease among
highly mobile populations. “A high
number of infections have been
identified among health care workers,
highlighting inadequate infection
control practices in many facilities,”
the statement said.
But the body also said that the disease
could be contained. “This is not a
mysterious disease,” Dr. Fukuda said
in a telephone briefing with
journalists. “This is an infectious
disease that can be contained. It is not
a virus that is spread through the air.”
Ms. Chan said she hoped that Friday’s
declaration would “galvanize” leaders
of all countries to act. “It cannot be
done by the ministries of health
alone,” she said.
Also on Friday, news reports said a
suspected case of Ebola had been
detected in Uganda, the first such
report from East Africa. A traveler
from South Sudan was isolated with
Ebola-like symptoms of fever, and
physicians were awaiting the results of
tests, airport officials were quoted as
saying. Uganda’s last known outbreak
of Ebola was in 2012. Earlier
suspicions that Ebola had reached
Uganda in late July were dismissed as
a false alarm.
In Europe, a Spanish citizen, the only
known European to contract the
disease, has been flown home from
Liberia for medical attention. The
European Union said on Friday that
the risk to Europeans remained
“extremely low.”

Nigerian Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist, Chika Amalaha, Fails Doping Test

 

After winning the gold medal two days ago in the 53kg category of the women’s weightlifting event, Nigerian athlete Chika Amalaha has failed a doping test.

According to chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Hooper, Amalaha tested positive to diuretics and masking agents, and she has been issued a formal notice of disclosure, “following an adverse analytical finding” as a consequence of the in-competition test.
“That athlete is Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha, who was tested on July 25. That athlete has now been suspended from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow," Hooper said.
“In general terms, these substances are on the prohibited list for two reasons — firstly in weight-category sports, they can be used to unfairly aid weight loss. and secondly, their use has been reported in attempts to mask the presence in the body of other prohibited substances.
“The relevant processes, as detailed in our anti-doping standard for the Games, are now being followed and Ms Amalaha has pursued her right to have her ‘B’ sample tested. This will take place at an accredited laboratory in London tomorrow, July 30. Upon receipt of those results, the process will continue."
If Amalaha tests positive again tomorrow, she will lose her gold medal, which she won by lifting 85kg in the Snatch and 111kg in the Clean and Jerk to set a new Commonwealth Games record total of 196kg.

 

boko haram

www.saharareporters.com

Boko Haram Militants Kill 8 In Yobe State, Destroy Vital Bridge

During the violence, the insurgents also blew up the Katarko Bridge, which links Damaturu to their stronghold; Buni Yadi, the capital of Gujba Local Government Area of the state which connects Yobe and neighbouring Borno and Adamawa states. 

 

Eight people have been confirmed killed by Boko Haram militants in Katarko, 25 kilometers south of Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.

Destroyed student hostel in Yobe, March 2014 Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images Residents say the insurgents stormed the town at about 7:30pm on Monday and first attacked the military base in the town before wreaking havoc on some houses and killing the eight residents in an attack that lasted over seven hours.
“They came here and launched an unsuccessful attack on a military base before embarking on some selective killings within town living us with eight casualties presently being prepared for burial,” a resident told Channels Television in Damaturu.
During the violence, the insurgents also blew up the Katarko Bridge, which links Damaturu to their stronghold; Buni Yadi, the capital of Gujba Local Government Area of the state which connects Yobe and neighbouring Borno and Adamawa states.
This is the first time Boko Haram militants are attacking Katarko since they commenced serious hostilities in 2009.
Meanwhile, two Boko Haram suspects have been arrested in Damaturu metropolis in possession of improvised explosive devices, with the intention of causing havoc in the troubled northeast state of Nigeria

 

ebola disease

Doctor Who Treated More Than 100 Ebola Patients In Sierra Leone Dies From The Virus

The late 39-year old doctor Khan had expressed fears for his life despite wearing protective gear when treating patients

 Sheik Umar Khan, the Sierra Leonean doctor hailed as a “national hero” for treating more than one hundred Ebola patients, died today of the same disease.
According to Sierra Leone’s Chief Medical Officer Brima Kargbo, Sierra Leone has lost its only viral haemorrhagic specialist in the face of this epidemic. The doctor was diagnosed with the virus last week.
In a Reuters interview, the late 39-year old Khan had expressed fears for his life before being diagnosed. This was despite his wearing protective gear when treating patients. His fears corroborate a statement made in a CNN interview by Dr. Peter Piot, the first scientist to discover the virus in the 1970s. The doctor says, “this is an epidemic of dysfunctional health systems.” He then goes on to explain how basic sanitary measures can control the spread of the disease.
According to Dr. Piot, Ebola is not particularly easy to catch. In his interview, he says, one needs “really close contact” in order to get infected. “Just being on a bus with someone with Ebola, that’s not a problem,” he says. The WHO states that the virus spreads from direct contact, "(through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids."
The virus first appeared in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO reports that as of July 23rd, there has been a total of 1,201 cases and 672 deaths between the three West African countries.
Other West African countries are now taking steps to prevent the spread of the disease to their countries. In light of recent events where a Liberian man boarded a flight to Nigeria and died of the Ebola virus in a Lagos hospital, two airlines, Arik Air and Asky, have suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigerian authorities have also stepped up screening at its airports, and claim to be tracking those who came into contact with the Liberian passenger.
The fatality rate is currently 60% though the disease can kill up to 90% of those infected.

Don Buchi

Meet the newest and hottest Nigeria gospel song writter n singer, he hail from ebonyi state, from okpoma in onicha local government, ebonyi state, he's a music director.....
He has a single tittled awesome.... He's working on his album n it will soon come out ...... U can add don Buchi on facebook with d name (don Buchi) or on Twitter @donbuchi1.....
Call him for ur quality gospel songs... On 08035843153, Jesus is lord

Accident in mile2 oke bus/stop,

What a lawless and evil world that we live in.....
An accident just happen this morning along apapa oshodi expressway, at mile2 oke bus/stop.
An okada that was taking one way hit a young man down and a bus that was taking one way too complicated the case by hitting him again and dragging him down the road.....
Eye witness that was there on the time at which it happened said that he was cross to the other side of the road when a motorbike hit him down, and a bus that was taking one way hit him again at the process of avoiding lastman, the lastman bus and the bus that hitted him to unconsciousness ran away, and nobody in the crowd of sympathizers could rush him to the hospital for fear of allegation.....
A bus that was full of police that pass there could not even stop, even when people there to alert them of what happened.....
The people are asking the government to stop buses running one way....
Let's pray that he survives it...

Sports

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Tragedy of life

Today in alaba, some of the market people carried a decayed female body that was domped in one of the waste bin around.......
They body was smelling and was disturbing some of the market people, who had shop around there that's why they brought it out n put a cross fire so that no one can enter from ojo area, or go to ojo area, they did this to alert the government to carry the cops..... They were pleading to the government

Gospel music

Worshiping God has the heart beat of this up coming gospel voice and his wonderful crew........

David Nnabuchi E. O. Popularly known as Don Buchi, he is d director n founder of Don Buchi Gospel Entertainment, He also co-ordinates a worship crew known as D Royal Ambassadors of Christ....... Has from child has the hunger to see all nation worship God.....
Don Buchi n D Royal Ambassadors of Christ just released a musical single Tittled Awesome..... Its going to enter gospel music collection this week, and its already on mp3.com for download........ To have them minister in your programs, concerts and more..... Get the on fb page.. D Ambassadors.... Or connect Don Buchi on email. donbuchi1@gmail.com, emma44luv@yahoo.com, or call 08035843153, 07086604694.  Join in worshiping God......

Robbery

It was horrible yesterday as people in alaba international market ran for safety from deadly gun men......

Yesterday afternoon was bad in alaba market Ojo, as men of the underworld visited mainstreet bank.... And made away with huge some of money, they fired bullets in a careless manner to frighten the people....
An eye witness who after running away to save his head told denonaija that while the robbers fired, lot of people got injured and a police man was brought down by their bullet.........

People of Nigeria let's be security wise, when u see any illegal movement around, please don't hesitate to inform security officers for a prompt check of the case......

Kano n sanusi

Reports emanating from Kano, northern Nigeria
indicate that there was confusion in the ancient
city early this morning as rumors spread that
President Goodluck Jonathan has decided to
arrest newly installed Emir Of Kano, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi.
Premium Times added that rumours have it that
the president has thus effectively nullified the
decision of Governor of Kano State, Rabiu
Kwankwaso, who picked Sanusi for the throne.
It was gathered that when rumour spread on
Tuesday night that Mr. Jonathan had finalized
plans to remove the new traditional ruler and
detain him, some Kano residents who are
displeased by the governor's decision went wild
with jubilation through the city.
While commenting on the current tension in Kano,
a source close to Kano State governor accused
the Presidency of plotting the rumour about Mr.
Sanusi's ostensibly removal.
"This whole rumor was calculated to cause a new
set of rioting in Kano," said the source.
He added that Mr. Jonathan and his cronies had
designed a plot to create destabilization in Kano
in order to give the president a pretext to declare
a state of emergency in Kano.
* Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi
As at the time of compiling this report, President
Jonathan has not congratulated Mr. Sanusi on
his appointment as the new emir.
Prior to Mr. Sanusi's elevation to emir, there had
been rumors that the kingmakers of Kano had
chosen one of the sons of the late Ado Bayero as
the new Emir. Some of the rumors were linked to
Presidency and the People's Democratic Party
(PDP).
It was alleged that the Presidency cloned a
twitter account in the name of the former CBN
governor and used it to create the impression
that Mr. Sanusi had acknowledged the
appointment of a new Emir.
It could be recalled that President Jonathan
suspended Mr. Sanusi from the CBN after the
nation's banker accused officials of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing
to deposit oil revenues worth more than $20
billion in the Central Bank.
Since then, Sanusi is deemed as a political foe of
President Jonathan.

Strike

Strike Paralyses Health Services In Sagamu
By Vanguard, 11 Jun 2014 03:17 PM
By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA-Activities at the
Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital,
Sagamu, Ogun State, were paralysed yesterday,
as the workers began an indefinite strike.
According to the workers under the aegis of
Joint Health Sector Unions, OOUTH, Sagamu, the
industrial action was declared due to neglect by
the state government, unpaid allowances,
delayed promotion and unfavourable working
environment, among others. The JOHESU
consists of National Association of Nigerian
Nurses and Midwives, Medical Health Workers
Union of Nigeria, Non Academic Staff Union of
Educational and Associated Institutions, and the
Senior Staff Association of Teaching Hospitals,
Research Institutes and Associatied Instituitions,
SSAUTHRIAI at OOUTH. Addressing newsmen at
the hospital, the chairman, JOHESU, OOUTH,
Sagamu, Kikelomo Enaholo accused Governor
Ibikunle Amosun, who she claimed visited the
hospital during his campaign three years ago
and promised to improve the facilities and the

Foreign news

Half a million flee Iraq's Mosul

As many as 500,000 people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it, the International Organization for Migration says.

Troops were among those fleeing as hundreds of jihadists from the ISIS group overran the city and much of the surrounding province of Nineveh.

ISIS has now reportedly taken Baiji, home to Iraq's largest oil refinery.

PM Nouri Maliki has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency.

The US said the development showed ISIS was a threat to the entire region.

ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is also known as ISIL - is an offshoot of al-Qaeda.

It now controls considerable territory in eastern Syria and western and central Iraq, in a campaign to set up a militant enclave straddling the border.

'Chaotic situation'

Residents of Mosul - Iraq's second city - said jihadist flags were flying from buildings and that the militants had announced over loudspeakers they had "come to liberate" the city.

"The situation is chaotic inside the city, and there is nobody to help us," said government worker Umm Karam. "We are afraid."

ISIS in Iraq

• The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has 3,000 to 5,000 fighters, and grew out of an al-Qaeda-linked organisation in Iraq

• ISIS has exploited the standoff between the Iraqi government and the minority Sunni Arab community, which complains that Shia PM Nouri Maliki is monopolising power

• It has already taken over Ramadi and Falluja, but taking over Mosul is a far greater feat than anything the movement has achieved so far, and will send shock waves throughout the region

Critical test ahead for Iraq

Many police stations were reported to have been set on fire and hundreds of detainees set free.

"The army forces threw away their weapons, changed their clothes, abandoned their vehicles and left the city," Mahmud Nuri, a resident fleeing Mosul, told the AFP news agency.

The BBC's Jim Muir says the Iraqi security forces appear to have nothing to fight back against the ISIS militants.

Some members of ISIS have also moved on to the nearby town of Baiji, setting the court building and police station on fire and releasing prisoners, according to Reuters news agency.

Baiji resident Jasim al-Qaisi told Reuters that the militants phoned tribal leaders in the town and told them: "We are coming to die or control Baiji, so we advise you to ask your sons in the police and army to lay down their weapons and withdraw."

At Baiji's refinery, which supplies oil products to most Iraqi provinces, many of the guards reportedly agreed to leave and go to another town.

US State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the situation in Iraq was "extremely serious" and that the US supported "a strong, co-ordinated response to push back against this aggression".

A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "gravely concerned" at the situation.

But our correspondent says everything that has happened in Syria indicates that the West would not want to get involved in another Middle East quagmire.

Heading to Kurdistan

Sources have told BBC Arabic that the displaced Mosul residents are heading to three towns in the nearby region of Kurdistan where authorities have set up temporary camps for them.

Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani issued a statement appealing to the UN refugee agency for help.

In a televised announcement, Mr Maliki said that security forces had been placed on a state of "maximum alert".

He also said he had asked parliament to declare a state of emergency - which would broaden arrest powers and allow curfews to be imposed - and a "general mobilisation" of civilians.

Athil al-Nujaifi, the governor of Nineveh province where Mosul is located, has accused Mr Maliki of ignoring his advice on the security situation, and instead relying on information from military in Baghdad.

Mr Nujaifi, a prominent critic of the prime minister, said he had begun steps to rebuild the security forces to retake the city from the militants.

ISIS has significantly increased its reach within the past year.

Parts of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, and much of the nearby city of Falluja have been under its control since late December.

ISIS has also been informally controlling much of Nineveh province for months, and in the past week has attacked other areas of western and northern Iraq, killing scores of people.

The Iraqi government is struggling with a surge in sectarian violence that killed almost 800 people, including 603 civilians, in May alone, according to the UN. Last year, more than 8,860 people died.

Are you in the area? Are you from Mosul? Have you been affected by the situation? You can email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk using 'Mosul' in the subject.

BBC © 2014

June 11, 2014 9:26 AM

"Vital areas" of the city of Mosul have been seized, Iraq's prime minister said

Gospel rhythm

         NEW GOSPEL ARTIST
It's a world that God rules and controls, the gospel world has presented a new art called Don Buchi and his team called D Royal Ambassadors of Christ, with a new a new single dropping from them titled Awesome God...... The worship and praise leader said that he has been singing for God from childhood, from children choir to youth and adult choir, he said he has been leading praise and worship from d age of 13 years in Assemblies of God Church Ilogbo 2, in Ojo........ The Ebonyi state born has been attending program n concert and have been organizing concerts and other program to promote the gospel of Christ Jesus......... Let's join him and worship God with the song Awesome God

What a world

A church in the US has taken to a very unique understanding of the biblical sentiment to come as you are

Some of the parishioners have chosen to attend some of the services completely naked. The logic behind the unconventional form of worship is that possessions are of this world, and not important when coming together for God.
In an interview with WWBT NBC 12 News the pastor, Allen Parker, says that he is "baring" his soul to Christ, the way that we all arrived on this earth, naked. "We're humans, we have scars, we have what we have…it's learning to love and accept that."
The congregation is just as enthusiastic as he is. NBC reports, "Every Sunday in the front few rows of White Tail Chapel, you'll find Katie and Robert Church. Katie wasn't a nudist when they first met, but quickly fell in love with both Robert and the resort."
The couple attest to finding a sense of community at the church.
The congregation says that it is a misconception that they go because they find the idea exciting, or enjoy the attention.
Being naked seems to make them feel closer to God, and able to let go of the notion that human beings should be better than others whether it is financially or physically.

31 children burned to death in Colombia bus accident

Another 25 people - including one adult - were injured and seriously burned in the accident near the town of Fundacion, Cesar Uruena with the Colombian Red Cross told AFP.
"The injured have second and third-degree burns, and many are still in a critical condition" in hospitals in the area and in the city of Santa Marta, Urena said.
The children aboard the bus were between the ages of one and eight and were returning home after a religious service, Fundacion Mayor Luz Stella Duran told reporters.
Department of Magdalena police told AFP that the bus exploded around noon, and that the fire was so severe they had problems determining the number of casualties.
Stella Duran said that - according to survivors - the bus driver had been handling a container with gasoline aboard the vehicle. Police initially blamed the fire on a mechanical problem.
The driver has vanished, and angry locals went to his home and threw rocks at his windows, the mayor said.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos traveled to Fundacion after a final re-election campaign rally Sunday in Bogota ahead of the May 25 presidential vote.
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A 71-year-old retired police officer, Curtis Reeves, has been arrested after he shot a man who used his phone in a Tampa cinema.

The Guardian reports that he asked 43-year-old Chad Oulson to stop texting during the movie, which resulted in an argument and the fatal shooting.
Time reports Oulson's wife was also injured during the shooting.
Reeves has reportedly been charged with second-degree murder

A Kenyan man has given himself up for arrest after allegedly beating his wife to death for selling one of his chickens

 

 

Standard Digital reports that the 70-year-old man beat his 60-year-old wife to death with a piece of firewood after she sold one of his prized hens to buy food.
According to the report, the woman had not eaten in three days.
The man reportedly tried to defend himself when surrounded by Kakamega County villagers by saying that he frequently beat his wife when she did something wrong.

Global protests to Bring Back Our Girls

The "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign to push for the return of over 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls is gaining momentum with protests happening around the world.

The "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign to push for the return of over 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls is gaining momentum with protests happening around the world.

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Serbia and Bosnia appeal for help after worst flooding since records began

Serbia and Bosnia appeal for help after worst flooding since records began

The Balkan states of Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina have called for international help after they experienced their worst flooding since modern records began 120 years ago, with three months’ worth of rain falling in just a few days.
Although waters are now beginning to recede, officials insist dangers remain, with the threat of landslides a problem. At least 35 people have died so far.
The image above shows an aerial view of the flooded city of Brčko in Bosnia. Click or swipe for more

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          A group of traditional hunters have offered to help the government find the more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted in Chibok on 14 April

A group of traditional hunters have offered to help the government find the more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted in Chibok on 14 April.

Fox News reports that the some 500 hunters, armed with homemade weapons, have said they will use mystical powers to find the girls who have been missing for more than a month.
According to the report, the hunters range from 18 to 80 years of age and have been waiting for the military's green light for the past two weeks.
The government and military have yet to find the group of girls abducted from their school hostel by Boko Haram.
The only girls who have been found are the few who managed to escape by themselves

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Hounds to play for District title

Greyhound soccer fans were on their feet during a nail-biting, nerve-wracking District semi-final match-up against Othello last night at Rich Leenhouts Stadium.

SIX DIES IN AMBUSH

Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and eight wounded in an ambush in the eastern Donetsk region, officials say.

A unit was attacked near the town of Kramatorsk by about 30 heavily-armed rebels, the defence ministry said.

Correspondents say this is the most serious loss of life for the government in its operation against separatists.

Donetsk is one of two eastern regions that declared themselves separate from Ukraine after referendums deemed illegal by Kiev, the US and EU.

The defence ministry said an armoured personnel carrier carrying paratroopers was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and exploded.

More soldiers were killed or injured in a firefight which ensued with the insurgents, who were said to be hiding in bushes.

On Monday, the pro-Russian separatists who declared independence in Donetsk said that all Ukrainian troops in the region would be viewed as occupying forces and should leave.

Also on Monday, their leader Denis Pushilin called on Russia to "absorb" Donetsk region.

Meanwhile in the neighbouring Luhansk region, separatists said an attempt was made on the life of a rebel leader.

Self-declared governor Valery Bolotov was shot and had lost a lot of blood, but his life was not in danger, the press office of the "Luhansk People's Republic" said.

'Crucial'

Earlier the Kiev-appointed governor of Donetsk region said Ukraine was planning a national referendum on devolving power to regions.

Speaking at a news conference in Donetsk, Mr Taruta called on parliament to pass legislation which would authorise a vote to help regions get more power while remaining within Ukraine.

Mr Taruta also described Sunday's separatist referendums in Donetsk and Luhansk as "an opinion poll".

He said the self-declared "People's Republic of Donetsk" did not exist legally or politically, and that the Donetsk region could not survive economically as an independent territory.

People in the east "should hear answers to the questions that they are concerned about", he said.

On a visit to Kiev, Germany's foreign minister urged talks between government and rebels.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed support for a national round table which the government is planning to hold on Wednesday.

Ukrainian officials say the meeting will include politicians and civic leaders from the country's east, but armed separatists have already refused to negotiate.

Mr Steinmeier also backed Ukraine's 25 May presidential vote, which he said would be "crucial" in bringing the country out of its crisis.Ukrainian forces are holding positions outside the eastern

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Korea divers finds 48 passengers body

Divers searching a sunken passenger ferry off South Korea found 48 bodies in a single room on the vessel meant to accommodate 38 people, officials say.

The group was crammed into a dormitory and all were wearing lifejackets, a South Korean Navy officer said.

Some 183 bodies have been recovered from the Sewol, but scores of people are missing, presumed drowned.

The head of the operation to retrieve bodies said on Friday he had "no idea" how long the ship search would take.

There were 476 people on board, with many trapped inside as the ferry listed and sank within two hours of distress signals being sent. A total of 174 passengers were rescued.

Many of those who died or are presumed dead were students and teachers from Danwon high school, south of Seoul.

Furious relatives attacked the speed of the recovery operation on Friday in a confrontation with the fisheries minister and the coastguard chief.

'It's very stressful'

In a briefing to reporters on the southern island of Jindo, Navy Captain Kim Jin-Hwang described the difficult conditions that the divers were facing.

He said one group had found the single dormitory room filled with the bodies of 48 students wearing lifejackets. The presence of so many victims in the cabin suggested many had run into the room when the ship tilted, correspondents said.

"It's very stressful," Kim said, adding that the divers were all too aware of criticism over the speed of the search.

Retrieving the bodies was far harder than finding them, he said, with divers unable to spend much longer than 10 minutes inside the ship at a time.

"Just imagine a room that is flipped," one of the divers told the Associated Press news agency. "Everything is floating around, and it's hard to know exactly where they are."

On a visit to Seoul on Friday, US President Barack Obama expressed his condolences for South Korea's "incredible loss" and offered America's solidarity.

"So many were young students with their entire lives ahead of them," Mr Obama said. "I can only imagine what the parents are going through at the moment - the incredible heartache."

Officials said rescuers are retrieving around 30 bodies a day but the bereaved families have demanded that all remaining bodies are removed from the ferry before the weekend.

Search officials said just 35 of the 111 rooms had been searched so far.

The government says it is "mobilising all available resources" towards the rescue effort but bad weather and stronger currents due on Saturday and Sunday are expected to hamper their efforts.

Prosecutors are said to be investigating whether modifications made to the ferry made it more unstable.

Factors under consideration include a turn made around the time the ship began to list, as well as wind, ocean currents and the freight it was carrying.

Reports have emerged indicating that the ship's sleeping cabins were refitted some time between 2012 and 2013, which experts say may have inadvertently affected the balance of the boat.

Investigators on Friday said that life rafts and escape chutes on a sister ship to a sunken ferry were not working properly.

The ferry's captain and 10 crew members have been arrested on charges ranging from criminal negligence to abandoning passengers.

Prosecutors have also raided several businesses affiliated with the ferry operator, the Chonghaejin Marine Company, as part of an overall probe into corrupt management.

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world economic forum

The Nigeria Police Force wishes to once more restate its commitment to
ensuring a peaceful and successful event”.                                 
                                                 
ensuring a peaceful and successful event”.
Today, Wednesday 7th May, 2014 marks the official commencement of the World Economic Forum on Africa taking place at Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. So far, activities and proceedings at the huge economic event have been without any security hitch or breach whatsoever.
The Nigeria Police Force wishes to once more restate its commitment to ensuring a peaceful and successful event. It will along with other security agencies continue to be on full alert so as to provide adequate protection for all delegates and participants throughout the period of the conference.
CSP FRANK MBA
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FORCE HEADQUARTERS,
ABUJA.


                                             

NIGERIA TODAY

                                                  WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

      NIGERIA HOSTS THE WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE IN ABUJA............
     DISCUSING HOW TO CREAT EMPLOYMENT FOR NIGERIA AND AFRICA CITIZENS

                                                         

                    Nigeria today host the world in 80+ countries of the world in the federal capital teritory,
                 discusing in how top better the economic of the nations and the africa continent.... in the speach
                of our good president, he said that they are looking on how to creat job and skill aquiring
                program, which is good and reduce the rate of crime in our nation.
                He also talked about the school sector, knowing that majority of our youths at the age of 20 years
               are still fighting to get a degree or skill......... NIGERIA will be on a better side in the 2020 and so
               on............. get close to your televiosn and get more of the discusion....... one NIGERIA one 
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