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A Cairo court on Monday ordered that an Islamist television channel be closed permanently, accusing it of attempting to disrupt the unity of Egypt.

The broadcaster, Al-Hafez, was ordered shut after accusations that it was "inciting hatred" against Coptic Christians and "undermining national unity".

Al-Hafez and some of its presenters have often been accused by Copts and liberals of using harsh language about them in its reports.

The channel was among several other Islamist networks to be taken temporarily off the air soon after the July 3 ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi by the military.

Several human rights organisations in Egypt have said that "holding the inciter accountable is mandatory, but the closure of channels is a form of collective punishment, which constitutes a violation of media freedom".

The court's decision comes a day after Egypt expelled three foreign journalists working as freelancers for Al-Jazeera television's English-language channel.

Al-Jazeera has charged that there is a campaign against it in Egypt as its offices have also been raided several times.

http://news.ng.msn.com/africa-news/egypt-court-orders-closure-of-islamist-channel-1

adepojuot: 50 boko boys!!!!72 virgins x 50 boko boys= 3600.o boy e be like say meself go join boko haram oooo,lol!!!
Quran...Muhammad's Own Words: Qur'an:9:88 "The Messenger and those who believe with him, strive hard and fight with their wealth and lives in Allah's Cause." Qur'an:9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war." Qur'an:9:112 "The Believers fight in Allah's Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed." Qur'an:9:29 "Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission." Ishaq:325 "Muslims, fight in Allah's Cause. Stand firm and you will prosper. Help the Prophet, obey him, give him your allegiance, and your religion will be victorious." Qur'an:8:39 "Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah." Qur'an:8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)." What a
religion..

islam no be here o
the boko boys are indeed helping the prophet to win the war of allah.

I DEY COME BACK.

nawa o

BLAME IT ON ASUU.

No fewer than nine persons were buried alive while many others sustained injuries in a landslide at Edim Otop community in the Calabar metropolis on Wednesday.

Mr David Akate, Information Director, Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Thursday.

NAN reports that landslide occurred after heavy rains which lasted for more than five hours.

Akate, however, said having warned residents of flood-prone communities of impending flood-related crisis, Cross River Government expected them to vacate such areas.

He said: "We have been talking to members of that community for several years now to vacate from there.

"We have been telling them that the place is not only a ravine but a flood-prone area, but they refused to take our advice."

Akate said the government had taken responsibility for the treatment of the survivors, whom he said, were responding to treatment.

According to him, the corpses of the deceased have been deposited at the state General Hospital mortuary.

An eyewitness, Mrs Eno Akpan, said: "We were just sitting outside discussing about the down pour when suddenly we saw trees rolling down from the top of the hill.

"Within a twinkle of an eye, it collapsed on the building and buried the entire occupants.

"Well, at that time there was nothing we could do because everybody started running away in confusion, and we were hearing cries and shouts of some of children from within from the house.

"But by the time help could come, the family was gone and only three were rescued," she said.

http://news.ng.msn.com/national-news/landslide-kills-9-people-in-calabar

A Juvenile Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old security guard, Abubakar Muhammed, to 14 years imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl.

The Magistrate, Mrs E.B. Daudu, handed down the verdict after Muhammed had pleaded guilty to two of the charges preferred against him.

She sentenced the security guard to seven years imprisonment on each of the two counts, and ordered that the sentences should run concurrently.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convict had pleaded guilty to charges of indecent treatment and defiling of a child.

He, however, entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of stealing.

Consequently, the magistrate fixed Oct. 10 to hear the case of stealing.

The prosecution said the accused committed the offences at 6.00 a.m. on Sept. 3 at the home of the girl on Ajao road, off Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja.

Muhammed was alleged to have also stolen N45, 000 at the house after defiling the girl.

The offences contravened Sections 135, 137 and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

http://news.ng.msn.com/national-news/security-guard-bags-14-years-for-defiling-4-year-old

No fewer than nine persons were buried alive while many others sustained injuries in a landslide at Edim Otop community in the Calabar metropolis on Wednesday.

Mr David Akate, Information Director, Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Thursday.

NAN reports that landslide occurred after heavy rains which lasted for more than five hours.

Akate, however, said having warned residents of flood-prone communities of impending flood-related crisis, Cross River Government expected them to vacate such areas.

He said: "We have been talking to members of that community for several years now to vacate from there.

"We have been telling them that the place is not only a ravine but a flood-prone area, but they refused to take our advice."

Akate said the government had taken responsibility for the treatment of the survivors, whom he said, were responding to treatment.

According to him, the corpses of the deceased have been deposited at the state General Hospital mortuary.

An eyewitness, Mrs Eno Akpan, said: "We were just sitting outside discussing about the down pour when suddenly we saw trees rolling down from the top of the hill.

"Within a twinkle of an eye, it collapsed on the building and buried the entire occupants.

"Well, at that time there was nothing we could do because everybody started running away in confusion, and we were hearing cries and shouts of some of children from within from the house.

"But by the time help could come, the family was gone and only three were rescued," she said.

http://news.ng.msn.com/national-news/landslide-kills-9-people-in-calabar

THE THINGS WHICH E DEY HAPPEN FOR THE WORLD NOW, I FEAR O.

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BUT TO ME I DEY SENSE SOMETHING. MOD I NO CALL THE THING

hmmmm! i think i need something like these for my business.

linda_1: she's pretty, I found another pic of her
Miss Cabo Verde

HOW MY BELLE GO FIT BE LIKE THIS ?

ADMIN HOPE SAY NO BE END TIMERS U DEY HIDE THERE POST ?

END TIME THINGS (E.T.T)




DID I JUST SAID THAT.

vladimiros: END TIME TINZ

I WAS EXPECTING THIS FROM THE FIRST TO COMMENT.

Korrection: End time tinz...

THIS END TIME THINGS IS BECOMING A VIRUS IN SOME PEOPLES SYSTEM THAT DESERVES MEDICAL ATTENTION.

St. John's Anglican Church put rather interesting signboard which contains statement against Christians who believe homosexuality is a sin. The photo of this sign gone viral after a local citizen put it online.

The sign for St. John's Anglican Church reads simply, "Jesus had two dads and he turned out just fine!"


Since it was posted to Reddit by user Reebok on Wednesday, the church sign has been viewed by more than 774,271 people.

Although not much is known about the photo, the church's leaders seem to be following in the footsteps of the Gosford Anglican Church in Australia, which posted a similar message a few weeks ago.

Gosford made international headlines early in August after putting up a signboard that read, "Dear Christians, some people are gay, get over it, Love God."

http://news.naij.com/45700.html

A man is jailed for inflicting "unbelievable" suffering on his dog, who was rescued three days after a brutal attack.

A man who shot his dog in the head five times and hit it with a shovel before leaving it to die in a ditch has been jailed.

Marc Turnbull claimed inflicting the injuries in an attempt to kill the dog was his only option after he failed to find it another home.

Magistrates heard Turnbull shot the dog with an air rifle six times in total, battered it with a spade and dumped it on the A5 near Weedon, Northamptonshire, on April 21.

Rocky was found by a member of the public three days later. He had severe head injuries and X-rays showed he had been shot five times in the head and once in the leg.

He also had a large open wound on the back of his head, down to the ridge of the skull, that had been caused by a blow to the head.

Turnbull, who was traced due to Rocky being microchipped, admitted three charges of causing unnecessary suffering to the dog.

He was jailed for 20 weeks at Northampton Magistrates' Court and banned from keeping animals for 20 years.

Rocky survived his injuries and has since been rehomed by the RSPCA.

RSPCA inspector Michelle McNab said: "This was a truly unbelievable case that involved immense suffering to the dog.

"Fortunately, Rocky was found and amazingly he survived. He has since been rehomed to a loving family."

http://news.sky.com/story/1134819/dog-shot-and-beaten-with-spade-owner-jailed

Mobile networks O2 and Vodafone are launching their 4G data services for the first time today .

O2's service will initially be switched on in London, Leeds and Bradford, reaching up to five million people from the launch, while Vodafone will roll its service out in parts of the capital.

Both networks plan to have network coverage in 13 cities by the end of the year - London, Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield - and both plan eventually to provide 4G coverage to 98% of the population.

The launches follow on the heels of EE, which has offered "super-fast" 4G mobile data in the UK since October last year.

4G - fourth generation networks - can provide data to smartphone users on average six times faster than 3G connections, Vodafone said.

Vodafone spent £802 million when it bid for part of the mobile phone spectrum to provide 4G, while O2 spent £550m to buy a proportion of the lowest frequency spectrum.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/networks-launch-4g-data-044429216.html#tbBtMMn

Finding it hard to make ends meet can impoverish the brain and reduce your ability to think, say scientists.

Financial worries tax the brain so much they create a "cognitive deficit" equivalent to a 13-point loss in IQ, a study found.

The problem is distinct from the effects of stress and results from too much "mental bandwidth" being used to fret about money.

Someone overwhelmed with worries about rent, feeding and clothing children, and paying household bills can suffer a genuine mental handicap, the research shows.

This in turn may lead to poor decisions, such as racking up debt, creating even more difficulties in a vicious cycle.

Economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan, from Harvard University in the US, said: "Our results suggest that when you're poor, money is not the only thing in short supply. Cognitive capacity is also stretched thin.

"That's not to say that poor people are less intelligent than others. What we show is that the same person experiencing poverty suffers a cognitive deficit, as opposed to when they're not experiencing poverty.

"What happens is that your effective capacity gets smaller because you have all these other things on your mind. You have less mind to give to everything else.

"Imagine you're sitting in front of a computer and it's just incredibly slow. But then you realise that it's working in the background to play a huge video that's downloading. It's not that the computer is slow, it's that it's doing something else, so it seems slow to you. I think that's the heart of what we're trying to say."

Prof Mullanathan's team carried out a series of experiments in the US and India to highlight the mental cost of poverty.

In the first, conducted in a shopping mall in New Jersey, around 400 people were randomly chosen and asked to ponder how they would solve hypothetical financial problems, such as paying for a car repair.

Some problems were easier, that is, cheaper, to sort out than others. For instance, the car repair bill could be either 150 dollars, or 1,500.

At the same time, the volunteers had to undergo simple computer tests of IQ and mental performance.

They were split into "poor" and "rich" groups based on their income which ranged from 20,000 dollars per year to around 70,000 dollars.

The results, reported in the journal Science, show that when the financial problems were not too severe, both groups performed equally well in the tests. But when they were forced to consider difficult, costly problems, people with lower incomes had significantly worse scores.

In fact, the effect was so strong that for those generally preoccupied with money, merely thinking about a tricky financial problem led to a 13-point dip in IQ. That is on the same scale as losing an entire night's sleep.

The scientists followed up their study with a visit to rural India where they tested a group of sugar cane farmers who rely on the annual harvest for at least 60% of their income.

Since the harvests occur once a year, the farmers find themselves poor before a harvest and rich after it. Given the same tests as the New Jersey shoppers, they did significantly better when they sat them after the harvest.

The impact of poverty on mental capacity reflects a more general phenomenon related to scarcity, say the researchers.

Lacking something, whether it be money, time, social ties or even calories, puts a strain on the brain.

Co-author Jiaying Zhao, from Princeton University in the US, said: "These findings fit in with our story of how scarcity captures attention. It consumes your mental bandwidth.

"Just asking a poor person to think about hypothetical financial problems reduces mental bandwidth. This is an acute, immediate impact and has implications for scarcity of resources of any kind."

Professor Eldar Shafir, another member of the Princeton team, said: "When you're poor you can't say, 'I've had enough, I'm not going to be poor any more, or 'forget it, I just won't give my kids dinner, or pay rent this month'.

"Poverty imposes a much stronger load that's not optional and in very many cases is long lasting. It's not a choice you're making, you're just reduced to a few options. This is not something you see with many other types of scarcity."

Services to the poor should take account of the mental effect of poverty, for instance by providing simpler forms and making it easier to seek assistance, said Prof Shafir.

"The poor, who our research suggests are bound to make more mistakes and pay more dearly for errors, inhabit contexts often not designed to help."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/poverty-creates-cognitive-deficit-180015343.html#m0SswNe

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility for a series of bombings in Baghdad and other areas of Iraq in retaliation for the execution of Sunni Muslim prisoners, according to an Internet statement on Friday.

Hundreds of people have been killed in attacks across Iraq in recent weeks in the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed in the country for at least five years. Just last week, car bombs, roadside bombs and shootings have killed at least 100 people.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said in a statement it had acted in response to the prisoner killings, an apparent reference to the execution of 17 people in Iraq this month, most convicted on terrorism charges.

"We will avenge the blood of our brothers," said the statement, posted on a website used by Islamist militants.

An insurgency by Sunni Islamist militants, including the local branch of al Qaeda, against Iraq's Shi'ite-led government, has been gaining momentum 18 months after the last U.S. troops withdrew.

The Islamic State of Iraq has significantly increased its attacks this year. More than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008, according to the United Nations.

More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions and shaken Iraq's fragile coalition of Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni factions.

The renewed violence has sparked fears of a return to the large-scale sectarian slaughter in 2006 and 2007.

(Reporting By Ali Abdelaty; Writing by Maha El Dahan; editing by Sami Aboudi and Elizabeth Piper)

http://news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-claims-responsibility-iraq-bombings-071252570.html

Akpos farts in the classroom and his teacher
gets really upset and throws
him out. He goes and sits outside the class
and can't stop laughing. The principal walks
by and sees him sitting outside laughing. He
asks, "Akpos what are you doing outside
sitting here laughing?" Akpos replies, "I fartedin
class and the teacher threw me out." The
principal says, "Well then, why are you
laughing?" Akpos replies, "Cause the dumb
idiots are sitting in the class room smelling and enjoying
my
fart while they put me outside in this beautiful, clean air.