Davido buys N36m cars for manager, producer HKN

Music star and HKN gang boss, Davido (David Adedeji Adeleke) reportedly spent over N35m on brand new cars for both his manager, Kamal Ajiboye and his producer, Sheyi Akerele (Shizzi).
Davido bought a brand new black Mercedes 450 GL which cost N12m for his manager while that of his producer, is a brand new black Porsche Cayenne which cost N24m.
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HKN Boss, Davido yesterday spent almost 30millions of naira on two cars for his manager Kamal Ajiboye and his producer Shizzi for contributing immensely to his success in music this year.

He bought a Mercedes 450 GL for his manager and a Porsche Cayenne for his producer.

It should be noted that 2014 has been a massive success for DAVIDO having won many awards with his hit song, 'AYE'. He recently released a new single titled 'Owo-Ni-Koko' last week which is generating massive airplay.

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Its good to appreciate good works.

BlackBerry will pay iPhone users up to $600 to switch phones

BlackBerry will pay up to $400, plus a $200 top-up to iPhone users who buy Passport phones

BlackBerry CEO John Chen helped announce Monday that the Passport smartphone is now available in red and white. The same day, the Waterloo, Ont.-based company said it would offer iPhone users up to $600 to switch to the Passport. (BlackBerry/Marketwire)

 

BlackBerry is trying a new tactic to lure customers back — by paying them to switch phones.
The Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker says it will pay iPhone users as much as $600 to switch to a BlackBerry Passport phone.
Canadian iPhone users with iPhone 4s or later makes are eligible for up to $400 in trade-in value, depending on the model of the iPhone, plus a $200 top-up from BlackBerry.
U.S. users are eligible for up to the same amount, plus a $150 US top-up. Users with the newest iPhone 6 model are eligible for the highest trade-in value, up to $400.

Only North American users are eligible for the trade-in program, and the iPhone must be in working condition.
Anyone trading in iPhones must purchase a new BlackBerry from ShopBlackBerry.com or from Amazon.com. The money will be provided on a prepaid Visa gift card and mailed to users within six weeks of receiving the iPhone and proof of purchase of a Passport, according to a blog post by BlackBerry.The promotion starts Dec. 1 and runs to Feb. 13, 2015.
On Monday, BlackBerry and CEO John Chen announced the Passport phone is available in new colours, white and red, in addition to black.

only Jonathan can protect and defend their rights as Patience Jonathan plead to women to vote for HER HUSBAND

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The wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Monday pleaded with Nigerian women to vote for her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential election. She said only Jonathan can protect and defend their rights among all the aspirants seeking for the seat.

Asking the electorate not to yield to the advances of other aspirants, saying they could not guarantee their freedom, she said, "I want to once again, urge you to continue to give support to our dear President, who has shown that he is not only gender sensitive but believes in the power and capacity of women to bring about change in society. He has been doing his best to promote the interest of women in Nigeria. It is now time for us to show him our appreciation for all he has been doing as he seeks re-election."

Patience, who was represented by the Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, made the remarks while declaring open a two-day National Conference on Women and Elections in Abuja.

She said, “It is gratifying that more families are today investing in girls’ education and there are pointers to the fact that in the nearest future, more women will be politically and economically independent.

“However, there is the need to create the enabling environment to enhance women active participation in all areas of development. We must as women begin to aggressively unite, network and build alliances across gender divide in order to secure meaningful change.she say

Peter and Paul Okoye, Psquare's Father Is Dead, Died After Surgery

 

Its been 2 years since the twins lost their mum to sudden death, sadly they lost their dad (Nov. 24th, 2014) after a knee surgery  

Mr Okoye died yesterday November 24th. A source close to the family says the late Mr. Okoye recently had a successful knee surgery and was about going for physiotherapy when he just fell and died.

9ice Rides Horse To Submit His Nomination Form For House Of Representatives

Abolore '9ice' Akande has submitted his nomination form for House of Representatives, Ogbomosho North, South and Orire Federal constituency 1, yesterday in Ibadan. According to his Media Manager, Tijani Adegbola, the submission of the form was done at the All Progressives Congress Secretariat, in Yemetu, yesterday 24th November 2014.
There was also a big rally from the Government Secretariat to Yemetu where 9ice rode a horse as his supporters cheered him on. No be play play oo. Something tells me 9ice will make it to the house.

ADIEU-FORMER DC MAYOR MARION BARRY DIES AT 78

 

A controversial and tireless advocate for the nation's capital who created jobs for generations of black families, Marion Barry was the ultimate District of Columbia politician, though his arrest for drug use in the midst of a crack cocaine epidemic often overshadows his accomplishments.

The former four-term mayor will long be remembered for one night in 1990 when he was caught on video lighting a crack pipe in an FBI sting operation. In an instant, the then-mayor of the capital city was exposed as a drug user himself.

Barry died Sunday at 78. His family said Barry died at the United Medical Center, after having been released from Howard University Hospital on Saturday. No cause of death was given, but his spokeswoman LaToya Foster said he collapsed outside his home.

Barry first made a name for himself in the South as a leader in the civil rights movement and brought his fierce advocacy to D.C. to support the fight for local residents to be freed from the rule of Congress to manage their own city affairs. That legacy was remembered Sunday at the White House upon news of Barry's death.

"Marion was born a sharecropper's son, came of age during the Civil Rights movement and became a fixture in D.C. politics for decades," President Barack Obama said. "As a leader with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Marion helped advanced the cause of civil rights for all. During his decades in elected office in D.C., he put in place historic programs to lift working people out of poverty, expand opportunity and begin to make real the promise of home rule."

Washington's new mayor-elect Muriel Bowser called Barry an "inspiration to so many people and a fighter for people."

"He has left a strong legacy for so many young people to follow," Bowser said. "He has left lessons about how he helped people in this city that will carry on for years and years to come."

Barry's name also became synonymous with corruption for many observers. In recent years, he has been cited or censured for failing to file tax returns, steering a government contract to a former girlfriend and accepting cash gifts from city contractors. His accomplishments are often forgotten in light of his arrest for drug abuse when he was caught in a Washington hotel room with a much younger woman.

"Bitch set me up," Barry famously cursed when FBI agents burst in, referring to the woman who helped the FBI set up the sting.

Federal authorities had been investigating him for years for his alleged ties to drug suspects, and while he denied using drugs, his late-night partying was taking a toll on his job performance.

The arrest and subsequent conviction - a jury deadlocked on most counts, convicting him of a single count of drug possession - was a turning point for Barry.

He had been elected to his first term as mayor in 1978 with broad support from across the city. With his good looks, charisma and background in civil rights, he was embraced as the dynamic leader the city's young government needed. The Washington Post endorsed him in his first three mayoral runs.

A six-month term in federal prison was hardly the end of Barry's political career. But it forever changed how it was perceived. To some, he was a pariah and an embarrassment. But to many residents, particularly lower-income blacks, he was still a hero, someone unfairly persecuted for personal failures.

Barry returned to the D.C. Council in 1992, representing the poorest of the city's eight wards. Two years later, he won his fourth and final term as mayor. His political triumph was short-lived. In 1995, with the city flirting with bankruptcy from years of bloated, unaccountable government, much of it under Barry, Congress stripped him of much of his power and installed a financial control board. He decided against seeking a fifth term.

Barry couldn't stay away from politics, though. In 2004, he returned to the D.C. Council, again representing Ward 8, where he remained beloved. He was re-elected in 2008 and 2012.

Linda Cropp, who led the city's legislative body when Barry was mayor and councilmember, credited Barry with spurring development downtown and in areas scarred by race riots of the past. He championed senior housing and programs for the elderly and was an early fighter for gay rights, she said.

"He had a way of making people love him," she said. "You know, he was a brilliant man."

Barry was born March 6, 1936, to Marion and Mattie Barry, in the Mississippi delta and was raised in Memphis, Tennessee, after the death of his father, a sharecropper.

While an undergraduate at LeMoyne College (now LeMoyne-Owen College), Barry picked up the nickname "Shep" in reference to Soviet propagandist Dmitri Shepilov for his ardent support of the civil rights movement. Barry began using Shepilov as his middle name.

Barry completed graduate work in chemistry at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, earning a master's degree. He left school short of a doctorate to work in the civil rights movement.

Barry's political rise began in 1960, when he became the first national chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, which sent young people into the South to register black voters and became known as one of the most militant civil rights groups of that era.

Barry's work with the committee brought him to Washington. He first entered local politics as a member of the school board and then in 1974 as a member of the first elected city council.

He was wounded by a shotgun blast in the Hanafi Muslim takeover of D.C.'s city hall in 1977. The shooting was credited with strengthening him politically. In 1978, Barry defeated incumbent Mayor Walter Washington in the Democratic primary and went on to easily win the general election.

Barry's early years in office were marked by improvement in many city services and a dramatic expansion of the government payroll, creating a thriving black middle class in the nation's capital. He established a summer jobs program that gave many young people their first work experience and earned him political capital.

Outside Union Temple Baptist Church on Sunday near Barry's home, Mallika D. Jefferson, 40, of Washington, said three generations of her family got jobs with Barry's help.

"He was a man of perseverance," she said. "He told it like it is. He didn't care. He wasn't afraid to let people know that he knew this city" better than anybody.

Many noted Barry helped scores of residents get jobs and fought for the city's poorest residents.

"He was a great man," said Pastor Willie Wilson at the church, drawing sustained cheers and applause of parishioners Sunday. "Even at times when the coffers of the city, our budget, were not anywhere near what they are today, he insisted that opportunity be made available."

The city's drug-fueled decline in the 1980s and 1990s mirrored Barry's battles with his personal demons, leading to the infamous hotel room arrest on Jan. 19, 1990. The video of Barry was widely distributed to the media and made him infamous worldwide.

A few months after his arrest, long-time civil rights advocate and educator Roger Wilkins, a past supporter, wrote in The Post: "Marion Barry used the elders and lied to the young. He has manipulated thousands of others with his cynical use of charges of racism to defend his malodorous personal failures."

Barry suffered numerous health problems over the years. In addition to kidney failure, he survived prostate cancer. In early 2014, he spent several weeks in hospitals battling infections and related complications.

Current Mayor Vincent Gray expressed sadness after learning about Barry's death.

"Marion was not just a colleague but also was a friend with whom I shared many fond moments about governing the city," Gray said. "He loved the District of Columbia and so many Washingtonians loved him."

Gray ordered flags in the city lowered in Barry's honor and said he would work with Barry's family and the Council to plan official ceremonies "worthy of a true statesman of the District of Columbia."

Barry was married four times and is survived by his wife, Cora, and one son, Marion Christopher Barry.

Ban Air France from Nigeria Now to Reduce Racist

Putain de merde! I exclaim in absolute contempt as I hand over my passport to the French police officer. That’s an unthinkable vulgarity! It is the father of vulgarities in French, guaranteed to catch the attention of the French policeman who now holds my passport, lost in a few seconds of confusion. His colleagues in the ongoing process of stripping Nigerians of their human dignity also stop sharply in their tracks, all eyes on me. I have them where I want them. I want all four French police officers to hear me use a vulgarity that no White French man or woman can get away with using in the presence of a French policeman in the best of circumstances, let alone an African with a black ass getting off the plane - and from Nigeria of all places!

                                                  Air France A380 

 

In the thirty seconds of their confusion, I can visualize what is going on in their minds. Their job, to stand right at the door of the plane, look mean and unfriendly, and scrutinize the passports of all passengers arriving from Nigeria, before such passengers proceed to face further humiliation at immigration and passport control, has conditioned them psychologically to face docile, frightful, and suppliant Nigerians pouring out of Air France flights weekly from Abuja or Lagos. Only for this six-foot-two-inch-male to hand over his passport with an air of supreme confidence bordering on intolerable arrogance and to ice that cake of hubris with unbelievable pottymouthed vulgarity.
What to do with this pompous Nigerian? Well, he did say “putain de merde”, right? It’s not just that he said it. It’s the way he said it: 100% Parisian French, complete with the accent. Nobody says it like that without being in perfect command of the French language, culture, and civilization. Nobody says it like that without having lived in Paris, without having crawled the streets of Barbes and Chateau d’Eau, without having been a habitual crawler on the platforms of Les Halles. This arrogant chap is one of us. He knows us inside out. He must have once lived here with us. He is us. He is doing this deliberately to provoke a reaction.
If this is the thinking of these French police officers, they are absolutely right on the money. Unfortunately for them, the passport I present while spewing my vulgarity is Canadian, not Nigerian. It works! I can sense their disappointment, their frustration. The only one who has dared to confront them has to go and present the passport of a fellow Western power! I can visualize the one million and one things they would have done to me if I was travelling on my Nigerian passport. Of course, my intention, the moment I saw them on stepping out of the plane, is to hide behind the strong arms of Canada and fight for my Nigerian humanity and dignity. Those of us who live transnational lives often have to do that – much to our displeasure. I shouldn’t have needed the might and power of Canada to shield me from the scorn, humiliation, and racism of these French police officers. My Nigerian passport should have been enough to do the magic. And that is why I am writing this piece in anger.
The officer looks at my Canadian passport, scrutinizes the photo in it to make sure it’s me – black folk have this annoying habit of all looking alike, all looking the same – and smiles in helpless submission to the power of the Western essence of that passport. Then he asks a few friendly questions about my time in France. For a Nigerian, your French isn’t something one encounters every day, he says. How did you learn French? When did you leave France for Canada? Then he waves me on with wide smile. I leave after registering my protest over what he and his colleagues are doing. I am not fooled by the friendliness. I fear for my compatriots still waiting on the line with Nigeria’s notorious passport behind me. Once the good behaviour and amiable mien imposed on these police officers by Canada wears off, they will snarl at first sight of the next Nigerian passport and return to character. They will resume hostilities. Whoever steps up after me with a Nigerian passport will pay the price of my rudeness. Transferred aggression.
Above is a summary of what happened as I stepped off the plane from Abuja last week to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. I was on my way back from a busy week of lectures in Nigeria and was going to take a connecting flight to Ottawa. As the plane taxied to a stop at the gate, the captain announced that there would be an additional police check and passport control just outside the door of the plane. That was the beginning of my anger. I hadn’t flown Air France since the 1990s. In fact, the last time I did business with Air France was back in 1998 and that demeaning, dehumanizing, and patently racist policy of an extra passport check on passengers arriving from Nigeria had just begun. It was a fallout of the draconian racist policies of a French politician and government official called Charles Pasqua who pretty much spent the 1990s hunting and hounding African immigrants and enacting racist policy and racist policy when he served as Minister of Interior. Nicolas Sarkozy’s subsequent hounding of Africans and immigrants – who he called scum – was a Pasqua hangover. The National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen and his loquacious daughter are boy scouts in the province of French racism and intolerance. The real deal was Charles Pasqua and his 1990s laws.
How the French moved from their usual suspects, their usual victims – Malian, Burkinabe, and Senegalese immigrants – to focus on Nigeria as an even greater object of their scorn, contempt, and racism beats me. But the profiling and extra checks began in the 1990s. Since I stopped flying Air France in 1998, all my trips to France, all my holidays, all my summer writing retreats in Paris had been from Canada or the United States, so I had no way of knowing that the practice of profiling Nigerians arriving on Air France from Abuja or Lagos had continued all these years. It was in Abuja that I first got an inkling of what lay ahead. Boarding Air France from Nigeria is like attempting to clear security and see President Obama in the White House. In fact, it is easier to see Obama as you can always scale the fence of the White House these days. Air France officials check and recheck your passport. Layers and layers of checks. Just before you board, they queue you up again and bring electronic passport scanners in big boxes looking like INEC machines. Checks, checks, and checks. They already got on my temper in Abuja. Only to arrive in France and have stern police officers waiting right outside of the door of the plane for – alas – another layer of dehumanizing passport control. Mind you, the passengers whose final destination is France are still going ahead to immigration and passport control!
Just a week earlier, I had used this same airport on my way from Canada to Nigeria. When my plane landed from Montreal, nobody did any additional passport check. Nobody was waiting at the door of the plane. I just entered and went on to the gate of my connecting flight to Abuja – unharrassed, unmolested. Seven days later, I am coming from Abuja – same me, same passports – and everything changes. Checks, checks, checks. What has changed?
That extra passport check of passengers arriving from Nigeria – after all the pre-boarding checks and verification in Nigeria and the regular customs and immigration check they will still face in France - by French police is a flagrant act of racist humiliation and discrimination that should be resisted by the Nigerian Government. That nonsense started in the 1990s and I am surprised that the Nigerian Government has allowed it to last this long. Part of my frustration with the Nigerian authorities is that they don’t always know when and how to wield Nigeria’s immense economic weight against misbehaving European powers. France is of zero economic benefit to Nigeria. How many Nigerian businesses are in France? How many Nigerian conglomerates and multinational corporations are in France? Whatever we make from trade with France is guguru and epa money. On the contrary, Nigeria is of massive economic benefit to France. Total is in Nigeria. Peugeot is in Nigeria. Schlumberger is in Nigeria. So many French corporations are in Nigeria making a killing. Air France operates weekly flights to Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt.
There is nothing France can do to Nigeria because she is of little or no economic value to Nigeria. The sky will not fall if Nigerians don’t consume brie, camembert and other French cheese (we have wara). The sky will not fall if Nigerians don’t consume French wine (which they know zero about anyway. A Nigerian pretending to know French wine is usually just forming). The sky will not fall if we don’t drive Peugeot (Japanese cars are there to ensure that we don’t miss Peugeot). On the contrary, if Nigeria sneezes, France will catch an economic cold. We are that important to the economy of France. In essence, France is in no position to humiliate and discriminate against Nigerians with that nonsensical extra passport check by police waiting outside the door of a plane in Paris – creating the impression that they are about to sort through a bunch of potential and actual criminals. What sort of profiling is this in the 21st century?
I wrote an article praising Viola Onwuliri a few months ago. Minister Onwuliri was handling career profilers of Nigeria at the international level in a way that made one proud to be a Nigerian. I even temporarily suspended my remembrance of her ignominious role in Occupy Nigeria because of the way she was doing the business of Nigeria at Foreign Affairs. The Ambassadors of India and Egypt will not forget her quickly. I think it is time for the Ambassador of France in Nigeria to be summoned to Foreign Affairs for an encounter with whoever has succeeded Viola Onwuliri. A clear, muscular, and unambiguous message needs to be sent to the Elysee in Paris. The message should be backed with threats. If the French do not stop their misbehaviour, we must threaten to ban Air France and even ban Total and Peugeot from operating in Nigeria. Nothing is more important than the human dignity of the Nigerian citizen. If the French state cannot respect that, they have no business doing business in Nigeria and raking in billions.
A note to the Nigerians who have been patronizing Air France since the 1990s. So, this practice has continued since the 1990s when I last flew Air France and una jus keep quiet dey tolerate am? This is why Nigerians dey taya me. This followership thing. This is why your rulers get away with everything they do to you. You just keep taking it. You take it from your rulers. You take it from Air France. You take it from South African Airways. You take it from Egypt Air. That is why Egypt Air felt emboldened to maltreat that Nigerian boy until Viola Onwuliri stepped in to deal with them. If, tomorrow, Air Rwanda starts to profile and maltreat you, you will take it from them.
Yeah, I know. I’ve heard it. If our rulers weren’t as useless and irresponsible as to kill Nigerian Airways, if we had our own national carrier, bla bla, and bla. That, my friend, is a yeye argument. That your system killed Nigerian Airways is no excuse for you to be treated anyhow by other airlines taking your hard-earned money. If they treat your money with dignity, they and the governments which own them must treat your body and person with dignity. End of story!

Source- sahara reports pius Adesanmi

Police Find Mom of Baby Abandoned in Sydney Drain

This photo released by New South Wales Police shows a newborn baby who was found Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014 abandoned in a drain in the Sydney suburb of Quakers Hill, Australia. Police are questioning a 20-year-old woman whose newborn baby was found... View Full CaptionAP

Police in Australia questioned but have not charged a 30-year-old woman whose newborn baby boy was found Sunday abandoned in a drain near a Sydney freeway.

The baby, who is only a few days old, was in serious but stable condition in Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital, police said in a statement.

The mother was taken to Blacktown Hospital in Sydney after being questioned by detectives, police said. There were no details released on her medical condition.

A group of cyclists were riding along a bicycle lane beside the M7 Motorway in the Sydney suburb of Quakers Hill when they heard a baby's cry coming from the drain, police said. They managed to lift the heavy concrete lid off the drain, which is 2.5 meters (8 feet) deep, and saw the baby wrapped in a hospital blanket at the bottom.

"We actually thought it was some kitten or something like that," cyclist David Otte told Ten Network television news. "It was only when he went down there and had a real good look at it that we could hear exactly what it was."

Police reached the scene soon after and rescued the child.

"It was disturbing how the child was placed in the drain," said Quakers Hill Police Inspector David Lagats, who estimated the baby was 2-3 days old.

"We all thought the worst, but the baby was still alive," he added.

The boy had no signs of physical injury, but was malnourished and dehydrated, Lagats said.

Police said they found the mother on Sunday afternoon by checking hospital records and knocking on the doors of homes in the neighborhood. They did not release the mother's name, but said she was from Quakers Hill. She was taken for questioning.

Police suspect the baby was squeezed through the drain's narrow opening and dropped to the bottom.

They did not say how long the child had likely been left there. There has been no rain in Sydney for several days, so the drains are dry. But rain was forecast for Sunday night.

source- abcnews

SO SAD- In ohio 2 kids test positive for EBola

An exterior view of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, pictured May 9, 2013.

Nationwide Children's Hospital/Flickr

Ohio public health officials are testing two children for the Ebola virus after they developed fevers following a trip to West Africa.

"We have two cases that we're testing," Jose Rodriguez, director of public affairs and communications for the Columbus Public Health Department, said today. "We're not in a panic situation."

Two sisters, ages 4 and 6, were taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus early this morning after they showed signs of a fever, Rodriguez said.

They are being kept in isolation and are receiving supportive care, Rodriguez said. Doctors are also testing the girls for other respiratory illnesses, like influenza and enterovirus D68, Rodriguez said.

The girls' mother is not being held in isolation. She was not identified as a high-risk individual, Rodriguez explained, because she was not in Sierra Leone as a health care worker.

The identities of the girls and their number have not been released.

The girls returned from Sierra Leone 17 days ago, Rodriguez said. Since returning, their temperatures have been monitored twice daily.

Rodriguez said the girls will remain in isolation for several days. If they test negative for Ebola, they will likely be tested again.

EMS staff who took the children to the hospital wore protective gear and are not considered to be at risk for contracting the virus. They will be monitored if the children test positive for the virus, according to the Columbus Health Department.

The children's test results were expected later today.

The Columbus Health Department was working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state health department on the situation.

Sierra Leone is one of the four countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

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A man discovered 179 years in India: "Death has forgotten me"

Mahashta Mûrasi

"My grandchildren are dead there for years. Somehow forgot me death "

Mahashta Mûrasi is an Indian who claims to be born in 1835. It is not only the oldest man in the world but also the man who lived the longest since the history of mankind (according to the Guinness World Records ).
According to the information transmitted, the man was born in Bangalore on January 6 1835.De 1903, he lived in Varanasi, where he worked until 1957, until his retirement in 122 years.

According WorldNewsDailyReport.com all official documents to identify this man support his version
My grandchildren have died there a few years, "said Mûrasi." In a way, death has forgotten me. And now I have lost all hope to die! "

Ebola Patient Dr. Martin Salia Has Died in Nebraska

Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon who was diagnosed with Ebola in Sierra Leone and flown to Nebraska over the weekend for treatment, has died, hospital officials said Monday.

Salia, 44, became the second person to die of the disease in the United States. Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia and traveled to Dallas, died last month.

Salia landed Saturday in Omaha. He was the 10th patient to be treated on American soil and the third at Nebraska Medical Center. Hospital officials had said that he was perhaps sicker than any other patient flown to the United States from West Africa.

“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the hospital’s biocontainment unit. “Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren't able to save him.”

The hospital planned to release further details later Monday.

Salia, a native of Sierra Leone and a legal U.S. resident, was living in Sierra Leone and working at a hospital when he was diagnosed last week. The Ebola outbreak, the worst in recorded history, has killed more than 5,000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Salia has a wife and two children who live in the Washington suburb of New Carrollton, Maryland. A son, Maada, told NBC News last week that Salia knew the risk of working in West Africa but wanted to do his part.

“Even though he knows the sickness is already out, he decided to still go and help his people because he wanted to show that he loves his people,” the son said. “He’s really, really a hero to me.”

K1 DENY PASUMA IN HIS "K1 UNUSUAL CONCERT"

The cordial relationship between Fuji legend Wasiu Ayinde Marshal aka K1 De Ultimate and star singer Pasuma Alabi can never be the same again since they broke out two years ago. 

 

As the music legend hits the stage of Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos for a star-studded multi-genre music concert, tagged “K1 Live Unusual” on November 21, 2014, we exclusively gathered that K1 deliberately left Pasuma out of the show consequent upon the lingering cold war between the two Fuji artistes.

According to an inside source, K1 vehemently rebuffed the suggestion by a member of the concert organisation team  that Pasuma be invited for the concert that will parade many A-list artistes in Nigeria.

K1 was said to have taken an offence in Pasuma’s perceived disrespect towards him when the latter failed to attend his daughter’s wedding that took place in his ‘Ule Omo Ojushagbola’ mansion in Ijebu Ode earlier this year.

Prior to Pasuma’s absence at the well-attended wedding ceremony that had Governors Raji Fashola and Rauf Aregbesola among others, Pasuma had dropped his title of ‘Arabambi 2’ when he reportedly heard that K1 was having an amorous affair with his (Pasuma’s) daughter, Wasilat. In protest and in his bid to be his own man outside the K1 shadow (who is Arabambi 1), he renamed himself ‘Oganla of Fuji Music’.

Though he has had to restate his loyalty to K1, Fuji Music analysts are of the opinion that K1 is yet to forgive Pasuma for what he called an affront on him. Meanwhile, Abass Akande Obesere, who had a long running battle with K1, is billed to perform.

Saheed Osupa, who is well noted for his rich philosophical lyrics and also known for his rivalry with Pasuma, will also grace the concert with his performance.Another Fuji act expected at the show is Adewale Ayuba.

K1 De Ultimate, who has been performing for 43 years, will be performing his greatest hits at the Fuji-pop inspired concert. The concert will be hosted by veteran comedian, Alibaba. 

The event is expected to attract over 5,000 fans of Nigerian entertainment with performances by the likes of Tuface Idibia, Lagbaja, Olamide, Sir Shina Peters, Sir Victor Olaiya, Omawumi, Adewale Ayuba, celebrity disc jockey, DJ Jimmy Jatt and others.

 

‘I am not Ebola:’ African immigrants suffer from disease stigma

Charles Cooper of the African Advisory Council of The Bronx, speaks as Amadou Drame, 11, second from left, with his father, Ousmane Drame, and brother Pape Drame, 13, right, listen to him respond to questions during a news interview Oct. 28, in New York. New York City school officials on Nov. 3 warned principals to be on the lookout for bullying of West African students after the two brothers from Senegal reported being taunted with chants of "Ebola" and attacked.
The epicenter of the Ebola scourge is thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, but African immigrants are being stigmatized, targeted, harassed and physically assaulted in the United States.

One case was the cruel beating of Pape and Amadou Drame at a Bronx, N.Y. elementary/intermediate school on Oct. 24. The two 6th and 8th grade brothers emigrated from Senegal to the U.S. weeks earlier. Their father Ousame Drame, a taxi driver, said the boys were bullied and repeatedly called “EBOLA” while being assaulted. Advocates say it is not an isolated incident and part of a mounting climate of hysteria over Ebola.

Rev. Judy L. Brown, executive director of the Africa Refuge Center, discusses the problem of Liberian immigrants being stigmatized due to the current Ebola outbreak in Liberia at the community center in Staten Island, New York, Oct. 23. Staten Island is home to the largest Liberian population of any city outside of Africa, composed of refugees who fl ed the Liberian Civil War in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

“The stigmatization of Ebola is extremely high right now,” said Charles Cooper, chairman of the African Advisory Council of the Bronx, an advocacy group working with families and individuals affected by the hostility.
This issue is “widespread” and “impacting the community from every angle,” Mr. Cooper explained. He has heard reports of people getting evicted from their residences and African-owned businesses losing customers reluctant to be in an environment Africans frequent, erroneously thinking they will get Ebola. The advisory council is doing public awareness and town hall meetings to fight the “ignorance” about Ebola that’s fueling the stigma against Africans.
According to World Health Organization figures the current Ebola pandemic has killed nearly 5,000 people worldwide, including one death in the United States.
At a New York press conference on Oct. 27, U.S. Representative José Serrano (D-N.Y.) and State Senator Bill Perkins (D-N.Y.) denounced stigmatizing African immigrants and called the assault on the Drame brothers a hate crime. There is a call for more elected officials across the nation to speak out against stigmatizing African immigrants.
“This is the one time they can focus on us,” said Sylvie Bello of the Washington, D.C.-based Cameroon American Council to The Final Call.
Ms. Bello credits the N.Y. lawmakers for stepping up, but lays part of the blame for the hysteria on U.S. politicians and their handling of the Ebola crisis.
Ms. Bello has been pushing for better communication with government officials and relevant agencies like the Center for Disease Control and including African immigrants in the national conversation on Ebola.
The negative targeting is unsettling to African immigrants whose numbers have steadily grown over several decades. They count themselves as productive people making a way for themselves in America.
U.S. Census Bureau reports show the African immigrant population in the United States increased from 80,000 in 1970 to around 1.6 million between 2008 and 2012. Africans are among the most educated groups in the country with 41 percent holding a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to a recent census brief.
The economic strength of African immigrants contributes to the overall American economy. For instance, vigorous business and cultural sights and sounds are visible in African enclaves like “Le Petit Senegal” or Little Senegal in Harlem, N.Y., and “Little Ethiopia” in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Despite these positive gains, the Ebola panic indicates that America’s image as a great melting pot and land of immigrants is flawed and a great amount of xenophobia—an intense fear or dislike of foreign people and in this case African people—does exist. Some point to hypocrisy that exports positive cosmopolitan images of American life to Africa while marketing negative images of African famine, chaos, disease and turmoil to Americans. “That image has been repeated over and over,” said Ms. Bello.
When Americans think of Africa, it’s “famine ... diseases ... of folks who are just trying to get into the country,” she said. What isn’t seen is how many underlining issues troubling Africa are rooted in exploitative practices of American corporations as in the Congo and Nigeria’s Niger-Delta region that benefits America financially while Africans languish, said Ms. Bello.
Kofi Agyei, co-chair of the World Afrikan Diaspora Union, said stigmatization is part of a historical context where Black life is devalued by global elites angling for the vast resources of Africa.
“But most of the time the Africans are not aware of what is happening and we receive the brunt of it,” said Mr. Agyei.
Mr. Agyei feels the stigma can’t be adequately dealt with by excluding the view that Ebola is a weaponized virus developed for depopulation. Many Africans are not readily conscious of that reality, he said. “We are always at the receiving end of very great and evil people who have an agenda,” Mr. Agyei said. It’s about letting people know what is going on and having “collective energy to confront this together,” he said.
“The stigmatization that’s happening does not discriminate on what country you’re from. When folks look at a person—Africans, we’re all in the same pot, whether you’re from North, South, East or West,” added Mr. Cooper.
The stigma comes amid heated debates about travel restrictions on people coming from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—the three hardest hit nations with Ebola. It’s also entering the Thanksgiving-Christmas season when Africans tend to travel to Africa and back. Because of the Ebola stigma, there is increased anxiety about overly assertive mistreatment of African travelers and concerns about cultural insensitivity. Some advocates called the current airport handling of Africans an Ebola “inhumane,” especially if travelers are coming from the three main West African countries hit by the disease.
“They are not culturally sensitive,” said Ms. Bello, referring to airport personnel. “Maybe this is the time for them to think ... we should actually hire Sudanese speakers ... Wolof speakers ... Hausa speakers who have African immigrant cultural sensitivity.”
For now African communities are unifying as difficult issues are placed on the table and a chorus calls for tolerance and informed knowledge about African immigrants as a viable community in the United States.
“I’m just hoping after all of this; after we beat Ebola, this synergy that we created continues,” said Mr. Cooper.

Chidinma Acquires Brand New Range Rover

After revealing her untold secret that shocked many fans, Nigeria's talented female singer, Chidinma Ekile, has been able to smile to a car dealer shop where she got herself a Range Rover.

Chidinma who recently released her a new track titled 'MARTHA,' stylishly flaunted her latest ride on her social media but was shy to comment on it. 

Fans as usually did not keep quiet over it as they continued to pray for many more while some beg her for surprises. 

Singer, Timi Dakolo who also rejoiced with the singer, asked her to bring the car to him for test before she drives it. A fan made jest of her by asking her if she can see the road with her small stature, the singer replied that she was going to use pillow to support herself to see the road.

Obama to announce 10-point immigration plan via exec action as early as next week

US PRESIDENT. BARRACK OBAMA

President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action -- including suspending deportations for millions -- as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News. 
The president's plans were contained in a draft proposal from a U.S. government agency. The source said the plan could be announced as early as Nov. 21, though the date might slip a few days pending final White House approval.
Obama was briefed at the White House by Homeland Security officials before leaving on his Asia-Pacific trip last week, Fox News has learned.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters traveling with Obama in Burma Thursday that the president had not made a final decision on any executive actions concerning immigration and would not announce any until he returned to Washington.
The draft plan, though, contains 10 initiatives that span everything from boosting border security to improving pay for immigration officers.
But the most controversial pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as "deferred action."
The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children -- but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates.
Critics in the Senate say those who receive deferred action, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, receive work authorization in the United States, Social Security numbers and government-issued IDs.
Another portion that is sure to cause consternation among anti-"amnesty" lawmakers is a plan to expand deferred action for young people. In June 2012, Obama created such a program for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, entered before June 2007 and were under 31 as of June 2012. The change would expand that to cover anyone who entered before they were 16, and change the cut-off from June 2007 to Jan. 1, 2010. This is estimated to make nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants eligible.
One of the architects for the president's planned executive actions at DHS is Esther Olavarria, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's former top immigration lawyer.
Under the changes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers also would see a pay raise in order to "increase morale" within the ICE workforce.
DHS also is planning to "promote" the new naturalization process by giving a 50 percent discount on the first 10,000 applicants who come forward, with the exception of those who have income levels above 200 percent of the poverty level.
Tech jobs though a State Department immigrant visa program would offer another half-million immigrants a path to citizenship. This would include their spouses as well.
The other measures include calls to revise removal priorities to target serious criminals for deportation and end the program known as "Secure Communities" and start a new program.
The planning comes as immigrant advocates urge Obama to act. As lawmakers returned for a lame-duck session, Democrats in Congress on Wednesday implored Obama to take executive action.
"We're begging the president. Go big. These [illegal immigrants] are a plus to our nation. Mr. President, please. You said you were going to do something. Do it. Act now," said Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Calif.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said: "I join with my colleagues in urging the president to take action. What he needs to do is give immediate relief to families who are being wrenched apart and living in fear."
Angela Maria Kelley, vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, touted deferred action as a "tried and true component of immigration policy used by 11 presidents, 39 times in the last 60 years."
She said for many undocumented immigrants who have been here for years, "there is no line for people to get into."
Obama has vowed to act in the absence of congressional action and has claimed that congressional action could still supersede his executive steps. That claim was restated by Earnest, who said Thursday that if the House approved an immigration reform bill previously passed by the Senate, Obama would "retract" any executive order.
In a recent op-ed in Politico, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Congress would stop Obama from taking executive action by adding language explicitly barring money from being used for that purpose. "Congress has the power of the purse. The president cannot spend a dime unless Congress appropriates it," Sessions wrote. He also pointed out that similar language in the past has prevented the president from closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.