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The United Nations will have a special visitor today, when Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousufzai presents the U.N. secretary-general with a petition asking for help to get all children, especially girls, into school by
2015.


Malala will also address youth leaders at the world body’s headquarters in New York. Malala Yousufzai turns 16 today. It will certainly be a special birthday for her, one she almost did not live to see, after Taliban gunmen shot her in the head as she headed home from school nine months ago. Malala was targeted because she spoke out for the right of girls to go to school in her native Pakistan.



But instead of receiving gifts on this birthday, Malala hopes to share one with the world’s youth: universal education.



The education activist will present U.N. chief Ban Ki- moon with a petition signed – as of Thursday – by more than 330,000 people. They are taking a stand with Malala calling on the U.N. General
Assembly to fund new teachers, schools and books, and recommitting to getting every girl and boy into the classroom by
December 2015.



The secretary-general’s spokesman, Martin Nesirky, said Ban is looking forward to welcoming this courageous young woman to the United Nations. He has even declared Friday to be “Malala Day.”



“From the day that terrible shooting – assassination attempt – took place,Malala Yousufzai is a symbol for the rights of girls, and indeed the rights of all young people, to an education.
And she has further underscored that symbolism through her remarkable recovery and her eloquence in explaining her case and her position,” said Nesirky.



Before presenting Ban Ki-moon with the petition, Malala will address more than 500 young people from around the world



http://www.alexoludiya.com/pakistani-school-girl-malala-yousafzai-to-address-un-general-assembly-today-july-12-2013/

As the political chaos in Rivers State edges towards the cliff, about 30 soldiers guarding the Governor's lodge have been summarily withdrawn by the
Brigade Commander in charge of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Port Harcourt at the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan.


SaharaReporters also learnt that the soldiers took with them two Armored Personnel Cars (APC) usually stationed at Government House.


A military source told our correspondent that the removal of the soldiers was ordered from Abuja. He warned that things might get bloodier in the state
capital with the JTF gone from
Government House leaving the security of the governor and his aides in the hands of a few police officers and State Security Services agents.


An eyewitness said a new detachment of soldiers came briefly to inspect a third APC that seems disabled. Saharareporters could not confirm further reports that the soldiers that were removed are being detained and
interrogated at the barracks.


President Jonathan is currently on a state visit to China.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/jtf-soldiers-armored-cars-withdrawn-rivers-governors-lodge

http://www.alexoludiya.com/jtf-soldiers-armored-cars-withdrawn-from-rivers-governors-lodge/

Remarkable

For those who are afraid of police harassment, you may do well to join your local branch of the Red Cross or the Red Crescent as the case may be.

interesting scenario

of joy i suppose

whither Nigeria?

interesting

that some people will 'die' for this bank jobs is what is disconcerting

A test for the courts i think

China is delivering lectures from space, na 2dey make noise all dis politicians sabi.

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waoh

Inefficient Institutions

He is on top of his game

I didn't know they could be caught


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This is getting serious by the day

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Oohrhii: A tactical move..

He can't cash the check..and as par the other change..he would be tracked down. Osogbo no big nah.

The guy get brain sha..now he made the dailies...and would still get a reward..

A very tactical move indeed.

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Police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have pulled out of a square which has become the focus of the largest anti-
government protest in years.

Thousands of people are in Taksim
Square after days of unrest sparked by plans to redevelop nearby Gezi Park.

In recent days police have fired tear gas and water cannon several times to break up the demonstrations.


PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said police may have used excessive force but that the park development will go ahead.


An administrative court had ordered a temporary halt to the demolition work on Friday, but in a defiant speech to the exporters' union on Saturday, Mr Erdogan said an Ottoman era military
barracks on the Gezi Park site would be rebuilt on the site as planned.


Referring to protesters fears that the site was destined to be a shopping mall, he said one "might be built on the ground floor or a city museum" but that
this had not yet been decided.
He called for an end to the protests,
saying Taksim Square "cannot be an
area where extremists are running
wild".
Police 'mistakes'
The protesters say the park is one of the
few green spaces left in Istanbul, and
that the government is ignoring their
appeals for it be saved.
Their protests initially began as a sit-in
in the park, but erupted in clashes on
Friday as police fired tear gas to try to
clear them out.
Correspondents say that what was
initially a local issue has spiralled into
widespread anti-government unrest and
anger over the perceived "Islamisation"
of Turkey.
http://www.alexoludiya.com/turkey-protest-turkey-pm-erdogan-to-proceed-with-gezi-park-development/

but this is from March

tell Pasuma that you have posted it on nairaland then get back to me.

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i sincerely hope so too

A manhunt is on for the attacker
The soldier is hospitalized with non-life threatening wounds


A French soldier was stabbed Saturday by an attacker on the western outskirts of Paris,officials said.


The soldier was on patrol as part of a heightened security plan initiated in certain areas following France's intervention in Mali earlier this year, French President Francois Hollande said.


The attacker fled, triggering a manhunt by law enforcement,Interior Ministry spokesman Marie Murault said.


The soldier, 23, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.


The incident occurred late in the
afternoon in the La Defense neighbourhood where the soldier was on joint patrol with police.

http://www.alexoludiya.com/french-soldier-stabbed-in-paris/