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puskin:
. . . . . . and what can't you undestand.

He wants him to be charged with an attempt to tarnish the good image of Nigeria and its inhabitants which carries a sentence of 22 years in prison to be served concurrently.

Lockerbie bombing.

Who is more enchanting?

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Eric Benet

OR

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Lenny Kravitz

The Ghaddaffis are terrorists plz.

Armed gunmen attack Togo bus

Togo national team's bus attacked by armed gunmen at Angola border
At least six were seriously injured and one killed in the attack
Togo is in Angola to compete in African Cup of Nations tournament
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LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Gunmen in a part of Angola plagued by separatist violence opened fire with machine-guns on a bus carrying Togo to the African Cup of Nations on Friday, killing the driver and wounding at least nine people.
Togo's footballers, two of whom were hit, said they wanted to pull out of the 16-nation tournament, though a member of the Angola organizing committee said it will go ahead as planned from Sunday.
Togo's bus in a convoy from Congo was 10 kilometers (six miles) across the border in Angola when it came under fire. The Angolan bus driver died in the 30-minute ambush, according to Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor and his government.
"We were machine-gunned like dogs," Nantes striker Thomas Dossevi told Radio Monte Carlo. "They were armed to the teeth , We spent 20 minutes underneath the seats of the bus."
Dossevi told Infosport television in France: "We were surrounded by police buses. Everything looked fine and we came under heavy fire. Everyone scrambled under the seats trying to protect themselves. It lasted at least a quarter of an hour with the police responding."
The wounded were taken to a hospital in Cabinda, and Portugal's state-run Lusa news agency said it received a communication from the region's main separatist group, FLEC, claiming to have carried out the attack.
Human Rights Watch called the apparent rebel attack "shocking." The New York-based rights group said a 2006 peace agreement between Angola's government and a faction of the separatist Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda was supposed to end conflict in the area, but "sporadic attacks on government forces and expatriate workers have continued."
In Togo, the government put the total number of injured at nine, and said the slain driver was Angolan.
Togo said it was dispatching a delegation to Pointe Noire in Congo, where the Togolese team was holed up.
Togo Football Federation vice president Gabriel Ameyi said the team should have flown to Angola instead of traveling by road.
He said defender Serge Akakpo and backup goalkeeper Obilale Kossi were among those hurt.
FC Vaslui said on its Web site that the 22-year-old Akakpo, who joined the Romanian club from Auxerre last year, was hit by two bullets and lost a lot of blood but was now out of danger.
Midfielder Alaixys Romao believed Togo should return home.
"If we can boycott it, let's do it," Romao told French TV channel Infosport. "It's just not on for us to be shot at because of a football match. All I can think about is stopping this competition and going home."
Dossevi agreed: "We don't want to play this African Cup of Nations," he told Infosport. "We're thinking about our teammates -- to be hit by bullets when you've come to play football is disgusting."
Adebayor told the BBC that "if the security is not sure then we will be leaving tomorrow. I don't think they will be ready to give their life."
"Most of the players want to go back to their family. No one can sleep after what they have seen today. They have seen one of their teammates have a bullet in his body, who is crying, who is losing consciousness and everything."
The African Football Confederation condemned the attack and held an emergency meeting.
"The Angolan authority deployed immediately a team down there to assess the exact situation," CAF said in a statement.
A delegation of Angolan officials and a delegation from CAF will be heading to Cabinda on Saturday while the Angolan Prime Minister will meet CAF president Issa Hayatou "to take decisions to guarantee the smooth running of the competition."
CAF also expressed its "total support as well as sympathy to the entire Togolese delegation."
FIFA also expressed "utmost sympathy" in a statement, and expected a report from CAF.
The tournament will still go ahead as planned, said a senior member of the local organizing committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. He said Ivory Coast, considered the top African team, arrived early Friday in Cabinda, where Togo was also to be based as part of Group B. Burkina Faso had been there since Jan. 2, and Ghana was the other group member.
Togo was due to play in the opening group match on Monday against Ghana.
Even if the tournament goes ahead, the attack was a major blow to host Angola.
Angola has been struggling to climb back from decades of violence, and its government was clearly banking on the tournament as a chance to show the world it was on the way to recovery. A building boom fueled by oil wealth has included new stadiums in Cabinda and three other cities for the tournament.
But Cabinda, Angola's main oil-producing region, has been plagued by unrest. Human rights groups have accused the military of atrocities and claim government officials have embezzled millions of dollars in oil revenue. The government has denied the charges.
The simmering violence in Cabinda is separate from a larger civil war that broke out after independence from Portugal in 1975. An anti-colonial war had begun in the southern African country in the 1960s. Major fighting ended in 2002.
The attack on Togo was the second major gun attack on a sports team in less than a year. Several players were injured and six policemen killed when gunmen fired on the Sri Lanka cricket team's bus in Lahore, Pakistan, in March 2009.
The violence also comes five months before the World Cup in South Africa, the first to be held on the continent. The biggest concern leading to that 32-team tournament has been the security situation in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest crime rates.
Togo, which played at the 2006 World Cup, did not qualify for this year's finals.
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Beyoncé's Gaddafi gig
(Wednesday January 06, 2010 11:09 AM)

Beyoncé played a private gig for the son of Colonel Gaddafi on New Year's Eve, according to reports.

The former Destiny's Child diva apparently pocketed $2 million for the concert, which took place on the Caribbean island of St. Barts.

Motassim Bilal, aka Hannibal, was in the crowd, as was Jon Bon Jovi, Lindsay Lohan, Russell Simmons and models Miranda Kerr and Victoria Silvstedt.

Beyoncé delivered a five-song set for the 300-strong crowd, who paid $12,000 per table to be there, and were also treated to a turn from Usher.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is not thought to have been amongst the audience.

http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/100106/340/iurld.html&e=l_news_dm

FL Gators:
My husband will tell you

Your husband? Now I know you wear Aba made lingeries.

FL Gators:
[color=dodgerblue]eh ehn, ankara and buba. no long thing[/color]

You wear them during the winter?. Do you also wear ankara lingeries?

FL Gators:
[color=dodgerblue]Okay, I admit
Just thought I had the chance to yab Abeokuta

[b]I sometimes wear my native clothes to lectures se[/b]f. Put some jeans on it too. sexy

@Aloy
I see.[/color]

I bet you don't know the name of the native you are wearing.

FL Gators:
So you dont find it bush?

No I don't find it 'bush'. I only think it's not feasible due to some factors.

FL Gators:
[color=dodgerblue]Basically adire is native clothings, right?

And they call Ekiti bush. wow[/color]

Yes; What makes this idea bush this time around?

FL Gators:
[color=dodgerblue]what is adire? [/color]

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Is it cost effective? Washing adire every week will make it look like a rag before the end of the semester besides, will it be comfortable for the kids?. The heat that emanates from the roof in their classroom is enough discomfort already. Adire will not be suitable for exercise as these kids play around during recess. Kids in government primary schools in todays Nigeria come from poor homes, how will their parents who can hardly afford their school fees be paying for routine adire attires?. Let us learn to get our priorities right.

Christmas terror suspect pleads not guilty
Posted To The Web: Friday, January 08, 2010 - ED WHITE and DAVID RUNK
         
DETROIT – A Nigerian man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he tried to blow up a packed U.S. Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab said little during a federal court hearing that lasted less than five minutes. The 23-year-old, who wore a white T-shirt, tennis shoes and light olive pants, said "yes" in English when asked if understood the charges against him.

Authorities say Abdulmutallab was traveling from Amsterdam when he tried to destroy the Northwest Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 people by injecting chemicals into a package of explosives concealed in his underwear. The failed attack caused popping sounds and flames that passengers and crew rushed to extinguish.

A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab on six charges earlier this week. The most severe carries up to life in prison — the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

During Friday's hearing, Abdulmutallab stood at the podium along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel and defense attorney Miriam Siefer and answered a few questions from Magistrate Judge Mark A. Randon.

When the judge asked if he had taken any drugs or alcohol in past 24 hours, he answered, "some pain pills." Siefer then said he was competent to understand the proceedings. Abdulmutallab, who is being held at a federal prison in Milan, Mich., had been treated at a hospital for burns after the attack.

His attorneys then waived the reading of the indictment, and the judge entered not guilty plea enter on his behalf.

http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=12834&z=12

Why you dey laugh na?

[size=16pt]Abeokuta South pupils to wear adire as uniform[/size]
By Segun Adeleye, Reporter, Abeokuta

• Sanitary inspectors begin work




http://odili.net/news/source/2010/jan/8/410.html


School pupils in Abeokuta South Local Government Area, Ogun State, would begin to wear Adire (the popular tie-and-die local fabric) as school uniform, beginning from the current academic session, says council Chairman, Omooba ‘Yanju Lipede.

Besides, the chairman said the council would set some days aside in the council when all workers, across the cadres would be wearing the local fabric.

He explained the essence of the innovation was to ensure continuity in the trade, “which is seen more of a culture and heritage of our people than mere trade.”

According to him, “Everybody that is somebody, including His Excellency, the governor downward would be implored to wear the tie and die on specific days of the months, which are still being worked out.”

The chairman, popularly called ‘‘solution,’’ said the latest efforts to promote the Adire revolution was to prevent reoccurrence what happened to Nigeria, which willfully and brotherly gave palm oil seedlings to Malaysia, thereby innocently empowering the Asian country to become the largest exporter of processed palm products to the rest of the world.

“I am shocked on a visit to China to see factories producing die and die of various designs, colour and attraction and I said to myself if a people can transfer somebody’s technology to here, then, we just have to start a new revolution of sort in what naturally is our heritage,” the council boss said.

He appealed to teachers to bear with his administration, assuring that “all within our powers will be done to make everybody, as individuals and as unions enjoy their labour for democracy,” at a function attended by the chairman of the state Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Sam Idowu.

Idowu, who sought the implementation of 26 per cent salary increase for his members, however, commended the conviviality between Ake Council Secretariat and the Kuto Secretariat of the teachers.

Recalling that “we introduced the school bus to assuage the hardship encountered by our pupils in getting to and from their schools,” the council chairman said on Tuesday, in Abeokuta that “more incentives are still being worked out to make teaching and learning worth the while in our council.”

Meanwhile, the chairman has emphasized the need to make the council the model in terms of cleanliness among the 20 councils in the state, disclosing that sanitary inspectors would be re-introduced.

“When the sanitary inspectors come on board, they shall first educate our people for the first three months on the need to be Godliness by being clean; after which they shall begin to enforce compliance with fines that will be commensurate with their offences.

“You will see with the construction of a fountain in Ake, opposite the palace and equally close to the council secretariat that we are taking the issue of environment serious this year,” Lipede stressed as he unveiled the kits to be adorned by the sanitary inspectors.

He added that stand-by refuse trucks would be stationed in all the markets in the councils, where market women would drop their waste as soon as they are generated to avoid the spilling of waste to the roads on major collecting points, including markets.

Reminded that Kuto market was bad, the chairman said: “I personally supervised the evacuation of the place you mentioned, ditto for Odo-Oyo, near Itoku market and Abiola way.”

On alleged brutalisation of protesting health workers by thugs said to have been engaged by him, the council chairman denied ever sending thugs to harass the protesters.

“What happened was that a section of the health workers embarked on strike, others continued with their job; when we, as the law dictates, went to enforce the no-work no-pay rule, they resorted to protest by holding two doctors hostage, including a corps member.

“We felt their colleagues who actually worked will feel cheated if and when we pay the striking workers. However, we consulted those who did not go on strike on whether to pay them, and they agreed on compassionate grounds.”

“Today, we are best of friends. What we wanted to be seen done is equity, justice and fairness; that we have achieved by seeking the cooperation of their colleagues who stood by us during that testy period,” the scion of the Lipede dynasty in Egbaland cleared the air.

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netpro:
Nigerians and Americans should wait for implementation. Nigeria is very good in making policies - little or no implementation.

Let them show some sense of responsibility first. Implementation is another story.

We should fish out his likes in Northern Nigeria and expel them to their fatherland which are Chad and Niger republic.

udezue:
Aloy,
Why not at least shoot himself?

Lol, it's like asking Obasanjo to sleep with his own biological daughter.

olabowale:
Emeka dont play silly, please. I can tolerate your hatred of Islam, but you are obviously not paying attention to the fact that I said you can do it, after you have done it for yourself, first, say a year before!

No need to get mad. I am slowly learning Islam. So, it only works for the faithful departed meaning that non practicing muslims or kafirs cannot receive the benefits of Hajj  and Umrah if performed for them after their death?. In other words, your Allah supports nepotism in heaven?.

This is also an act of terrorist by a christian and many more of killings like this occur always in american and no one coment on them or call them christian terrorist,this man has just killed innocent people.

How are you so sure the shooter is not a muslim, agnostic or atheist?. America has christians, muslims, atheists, hindus, Buddhists etc

Cowards. They've succeeded in disgracing us more.

Sharia laws must be banned immediately, and the past governors of the nothern states who have contributed little or nothing towards development should be arrested and shot in the head

Gbam

Fulanis are not 100% negroes.

Why not at least aim at the leg instead of the head?. If it was his leg at least, we should be talking about rehabilitating him or something.

Why is she finer than Iyabo Obasanjo? Is it because she is biracial?. Nigerians and inferiority complex.

Haksalam:
As muslims, i think we should start praying for Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab instead of arguing with haters of Islam. I pray Umar ovecomes this trying peroid. The anti islam nairalanders will always try to fight us but we must be courageous. This is a trying period for all muslims and Nigerians. It is only on the Islam forum that i see Aloy emeka, a xtian. Though i am not trying to undermine your freedom but your motives are becoming known day by day. Concerning Farouk, i will always pray for him because el muslim akhul muslim

Its not a trying period because he tried to kill so many people in the name of allah. He should rot in jail and I wish they give him a death sentence. Let him go to hell and finish up his trying period.

sjeezy8:
ohhh whos that fine soyoyo baby with the purple wrapper on her head?

Not life death ohhh sounds better just as they said death for kidnappers death for terrorist also. All mallams teaching hate at quranic schools infact shut them down an install REAL schools.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Kenya 'expels hate cleric Abdullah al-Faisal to Gambia'

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Kenyan authorities said Faisal was on an international terrorist watch-list






Kenya has deported to The Gambia a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred, Kenya's immigration minister says.
Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested last week and there have been conflicting reports about his whereabouts.
"We had problems deporting him because many countries, including the US, declined to have him even on transit," the minister, Otieno Kajwang, said.
Mr Kajwang said Faisal was being expelled for his "terrorist history".
The cleric has served four years in a UK prison after being convicted of soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.

"He chose Gambia and we have deported him there this morning," Mr Kajwang told reporters, AFP news agency reports.
"In fact the information we have is that he has already landed there and Gambia has received him."
There have been protests from Muslim human rights groups about his treatment.
Al-Amin Kimathi, of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, said Faisal should have been sent to Jamaica.
"It was his wish that he be taken to Jamaica, but not any other place," Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper quotes Mr Kimathi as saying.
He alleged Faisal was "being mistreated on the basis of his alleged past record".



Preaching in South Africa
Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica, and left the island for the UK 26 years ago.
His parents were Salvation Army officers and he was raised as a Christian.
At the age of 16 he went to Saudi Arabia - where he is believed to have spent eight years - and became a Muslim.
He took a degree in Islamic Studies in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, before coming back to the UK.
Faisal spent years travelling the UK preaching racial hatred urging his audience to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners.
A year after being deported from the UK in 2007, he was preaching in South Africa.
The Kenyan authorities said Faisal had arrived in Kenya on 24 December after travelling through Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Malawi and Tanzania.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8445844.stm

FG okays life jail for terrorists, sponsors
By Ise Oluwa Ige & Lawani Mikairu with agency reports


ABUJA —Indications emerged, yesterday, that Federal Government might have parted ways with the Senate over its call on the United States of America to delete the name of Nigeria from the terror watch-list within seven days or incur a diplomatic row.
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN) who gave the hint in Abuja, said the Federal Government was poised to embrace dialogue instead of confrontation. The occasion was a World Press Conference at the Conference Room of the Attorney-General’s chambers.  Meantime, a United States grand jury has indicted Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab over a plot to blow up a plane on Christmas Day while it was also revealed that Abdulmuttallab was recruited in London by Al Qaeda.


FG makes U-turn
In revealing government’s latest decision to mellow, Chief Aondoakaa, however, s[b]aid the Federal Government was working closely with the National Assembly to ensure that a bill proposing life jail term for terrorists and their sponsors is passed without further delay. He said the bill was forwarded to the National Assembly in last October.[/b]
The attorney general who noted that the country was not just waking up on the global fight against terrorism because of the Muttallab’s issue, said: “it is pertinent to note that there are about 16 United Nations, UN, and African Union, AU, instruments on counter terrorism, all dealing with related issues ranging from money laundering, drug trafficking, crime to nuclear terrorism .
It is noteworthy that Nigeria has been able to sign and ratify nine of these. Nigeria is also considered to be at a good compliance level with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 of  2001, 1455 of 2003, 1526 of 2004 and 1822 of 2008 on issues related to counter terrorism.”
He said he had got the assurances of the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly to get the bill on terrorism passed into law as soon as they resume for the next legislative session, stressing: “We are not saying we are not in support of the seven day ultimatum by the Senate but we are dialoguing with the US. We are presenting our effort.

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What we are doing is the issue of global fight. If it happens to a brother, a sister country, it is not something that you should have a quarrel with. It is something you should join hands together to create measures with which you combat it.
Friendly country
“This is so because, everyday, terrorists are getting new advanced methods and all countries in the world must join hands to think together to get new methods to deal with the situation. Our position is to deal with the US as a  friendly country, with mutual relationship, cooperate fully and take emergency measures in Nigeria that will complement measures being taken by them and globally.
We have taken steps to pre-empt any future occurrence of this situation in Nigeria and elsewhere. We have proposed a bill to the National Assembly which stipulates that if you conspire to commit an act of terrorism anywhere in the world, but you did not do it on Nigerian soil but the conspiracy took place in Nigeria or aspects of the conspiracy took place in Nigeria you go in for life. The bill before the National Assembly seeks to criminalize and punish all acts of terrorism, terrorists and their associates including their sponsors.


The bill clearly defines and prohibits all acts of terrorism and its support. It makes violation of provisions of the bill an offence and prescribes penalties for such violation. The bill further makes provision for listing and delisting, freezing of funds and financial assets of terrorist groups and prevention of their entry into or transit in Nigeria.”
He said: “We assure Nigerians that the issue of Nigeria being on the list of country of interest will be resolved. We will be transparent and by this mechanism, we will invite our colleagues from the United States. We are going to be very open and transparent in the investigation of this incident. I have assured my colleague, the Attorney-General of the United States that we will give full cooperation and all requests relating to investigation will be granted. We have nothing to hide.
We have visual information at the Murtala Muhammed airport which we expect our counterpart from the United States should come in and have physical inspection that our security agencies did what they were supposed to do.
“The young man came in, he was screened and it is on the visual information. He removed his shoes. He first came, he walked to the right, tried to go to the right screening machine, then suddenly changed his mind and came to the left, removed his shoes and entered. It is there. Our security agencies did all that was required under the law to ensure that Nigeria complied with international standard.
We feel that the long existing relationship between us and the United States will be mutually continued. I am very hopeful that with the fact and what we are placing before the United States government, they will rescind the decision. Nigeria is not a terrorist country. Nigeria will not and cannot be on a list of countries of interest because we have a track record of peace keeper.”


Money  Laundering Act
Aondoakaa who said that the Money Laundering Act 2004 would be amended to curtail terror financing, added that another law which, in his view, would check the incidence of terrorism was the Maritime Security Agency Bill which was also pending before the National Assembly.
He described the Bill as one of the President Umaru Yar’Adua’s commitment to meeting Nigeria’s international obligations as it relates to the war against terrorism. He also disclosed that henceforth, any person or group of persons involved in religious violence would be prosecuted, stressing: “The body of Attorneys-General at its meeting held in Jos, Plateau State resolved that religious based violence should no longer be tolerated in the country. Henceforth, commissioners of police have been instructed to ensure that all religious based violence are properly investigated and prosecuted.
To ensure that there are no hitches in the process, it was resolved that the AGF should give appropriate fiats to state Attorneys-General to prosecute federal offences committed within their jurisdiction. It is hoped that this will streamline the process and enable the prosecution of such offences to be conducted speedily.”


Farouk may get life jail
Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab, 23, was indicted, Wednesday, by a grand jury on six counts arising from a botched Christmas Day plot to blow up an airliner packed with 290 passengers and crew as it approached Detroit, Michigan. The charges included attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction aboard a US plane. Attorney General Eric Holder said a “global” hunt was tracking those who helped the alleged bomber.
If convicted of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, Abdulmuttallab faces life imprisonment. According to US Attorney General, Eric Holder in a statement, “This investigation is fast-paced, global and ongoing, and it has already yielded valuable intelligence that we will follow wherever it leads. Anyone we find responsible for this alleged attack will be brought to justice using every tool – military or judicial – available to our government.”



Al Qaeda ‘recruited Farouk in London’
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab charged with attempted murder over the alleged Christmas Day plot was recruited by al Qaeda in London, according to reports. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23, has been charged with attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction after allegedly trying to blow up a plane. Yemen deputy prime minister had acknowledged that Muttallab had been in his country.


But he said Muttallab had been recruited by al Qaeda in London, adding that he had been equipped and trained in Nigeria. On Thursday, Yemen’s deputy prime minister for defence and security affairs, Rashad al-Aleemi, revealed that Abdulmutallab had met with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi
However, senior Home Office officials have denied that Muttallab was recruited by al Qaeda in the UK, saying they think he was recruited and radicalised abroad. “The Nigerian hid in Shabwa area in Wadi Rafadh (east of Sanaa) where he met Awlaqi and Mohammad Omair, who was killed in the air raid on Wadi Rafadh,” the minister said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/08/fg-okays-life-jail-for-terrorists-sponsors/

Have you ever liked/dated someone outside your creepy age? ((Your age/2)+7))