Theresa May will officially step down as the leader of the Conservative Party today

Theresa May will officially step down as the leader of the Conservative Party today but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.  

 May announced her resignation two weeks ago, saying it was a matter of deep regret that she had been unable to deliver Brexit. Eleven Conservative MPs are vying to replace her as party leader and ultimately, prime minister.  

 Nominations open from 10:00 BST on Monday and close at 17:00 BST that day.  Mrs May remains acting leader while the contest takes place. Leadership candidates need eight MPs to back them. MPs will then vote for their preferred candidates in a series of secret ballots to be held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June

14 lions escaped from Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Residents living in and around Phalaborwa have been warned to be very careful after 14 lions escaped from Kruger National Park in South Africa.

The lions reportedly escaped from the Kruger National Park on Thursday June 6th, Limpopo-based radio stations Capricorn FM and 1NationFM reported on Friday morning.  

The Limpopo government confirmed in a tweet that the lions were believed to have escaped and were seen roaming around the Phalaborwa Foskor Mine.

"It is suspected that the lions escaped from Kruger National Park. The Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment, and Tourism (LEDET) has allocated field rangers to closely monitor the pride's movement prior action to be taken," LEDET said. 

"A meeting held between LEDET, The Kruger National Park and Greater Balule concluded that the lions are to be captured and released back at Kruger National Park. Employees at Foskor Mine and members of the public are hereby advised to be alert at all times."

It comes two days after Kruger National Park confirmed one of its staff member's children had been mauled to death by a leopard. The leopard was later tracked and shot in other to prevent the animal from harming another person

Federal High Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue the Certificate of Return to former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha,

An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue the Certificate of Return to former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, who won the March 9th election for the Imo West Senatorial district.

 INEC had withdrawn the Certificate of Return after its resident officer for the election, alleged he made the announcement of Okorocha winning the election under duress.

 Delivering judgement in an appeal filed by Okorocha at the court, Justice Okon Abang this morning, said INEC lacks constitutional jurisdiction to withhold a Certificate of Return. According to Justice Abang, any person declared a winner in an election by the returning officer, remains the winner until petitioners succeed in upturning the declaration at the election tribunal.

 He added that it is only the Federal high court that had exclusive jurisdiction to rule in such a matter.

 Okorocha left office on May 27th.  In his valedictory speech, Okorocha accused some members of his party of working to make him politically redundant. He alleged that the refusal of INEC to issue him his Certificate of Return, was politically motivated.

INEC is yet to react to this judgement

Kaduna State House of Assembly passes bill to ensure Pastors and Imams obtain license before preaching in the state

The Kaduna State House of Assembly today Friday June 7th, passed into law the Religious preaching Regulation law 1984. 

Speaker of the House, Aminu Abdullahi Shagali while reading the bill during plenary,  said a state inter-faith Regulatory council has been established with a chairman to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Secretary to the state Government. He also said  two members representing the Christians and Muslim faith  are to be  appointed by the Governor among others respectively.

 According to Abdullahi, the bill when signed into law, will ensure that in each of the 23 local Government areas of the state, a committee to be known as the Local Government Inter-faith Committee must be established. The bill states that any person who plays religious cassette or uses a loud speaker for religious purposes between the hours of 11pm to 4am in a public place, and uses a loudspeaker for religious purposes other than inside a church or mosque commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than two years or pay a fine of less than N200,000 or both.

 The bill adds that any person who publicly insults or seeks to incite, contempt any religion, by making false statement in such a manner as to be likely to lead to violence and breach of public peace, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than five years,  a fine of not less than N100,000 or both .

The law now awaits the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for his assent

Madrid have agreed on terms with Hazard to double his current wages from £200,000 to £400,000 per week.

Real Madrid has reportedly agreed to double Eden Hazard's Chelsea salary' to a staggering £400,000 per week when he finalises his £130million move.

According to the Evening Standard, Madrid have agreed on terms with Hazard to double his current wages from £200,000 to £400,000 per week.

His imminent big-money transfer to the Bernabeu is expected to be announced within the next 24 hours after an agreement was reached this week between the two clubs, with Madrid agreeing to pay an initial £88m, which will still rise to £130m dependent on various bonuses and incentives for the former Lille player.

The deal will make Hazard is the most expensive signing in their history, ahead of both Cristiano Ronaldoand Gareth Bale. It will also be the second-largest Premier League transfer ever, after Philippe Coutinho's £145m move from Liverpool to Real's arch-rivals Barcelona in January 2018

PDP governors to implement and pay the 30,000 naira minimum wage

We are very eager as PDP governors to implement and pay the 30,000 naira minimum wage that the federal government announced. “We want to do so to alleviate the plight of the long suffering Nigerian workers who have been under-paid for long and the workers who are currently groaning in economic hardship as a result of what has gone wrong with the economy since the All Progressives Congress (APC) government took over. “So, we call on the federal government to expedite the process of presenting a bill to that effect.

FIFA has demanded details of yesterday’s arrest of the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad, fraud allegations leveled against him.

Ahmad was arrested by French police at the Berri Hotel in Paris over alleged fraud.

According to Jeune Afrique, the CAF president was detained at 8:30a.m local time and was expected to face the anti-corruption agency’s Central Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Tax Crimes.

Ahmad was accused of misusing about $830,000 after allegedly ordering equipment via a French intermediary company named Tactical Steel. He had previously denied the accusations and claimed all the decisions were made “collegially”, insisting that the process was “transparent”.

In April, Reuters revealed that CAF Secretary General, Amr Fahmy, had accused Ahmad of bribery and misappropriate 

My first Job exprience with DAG

Odinaka Kingsley Okoli

As an intern with Development Action Group (DAG), I was working under supervision of Josette Cole the Chief Executive officer at DAG. I began my internship program on 14th, May 2012 with DAG. The internship contract was for three (3) months and came to an end on 14th August, 2012. When I first arrived, it was unclear to me exactly what my duties were going to be. However, with the help of Nokukhanya, and immediate supervisor Helen Macgregor and other colleagues within DAG, I was able to understand what my work involved and to what extend I was responsible for doing it. The following were some of the guide that made my work easier during the public event preparation May 2012. Here are my expectations.

 My duties and responsibilities according contract descriptions

• Track DAG media engagements
• Coordinate the printing of DAG letterhead complimentary slip. Business card and annual greeting card as required
• Assist with the logistical arrangement for public event and engagements
• Assist with the preparation of promotional material. This includes assisting with the preparation of media release, dissemination of posters and flyers, invitation to organisation.
• Providing support and assistance to the production of document related to the public event
• Summarising document of interest to organisation and clients
• Preparing educational material for workshop
• Assist in workshops
• Any other activities requested by the chief Executive officer after consultation with the line manager.

 My work Impact: I did work focused more on preparation of ninth of June public event at Good hope centre which I started with Public event programme Calendar, Consolidating personal database on public event, assisting in decoration of Good hope centre for the public event and, Consolidating email list for DAG stakeholders and target audiences. After the public event I contributed in linking the Communities’ commentary on Public Events and communities charter for public events. Another impact is Marketing Report (PHP) project in Khayelitsha which I have already presented and I believe it did have a lot of positive impact towards the achievement of the overall objective of DAG target audience.

My Observations: During the three months in DAG, I realized that DAG is housing and urban development in various communities and them not much into publicity frequent. I did observe that teamwork played quite a huge role in attaining most of the DAG mandates. It was equally important as the ability to work independent. But the goal must be to find a way to combine it in the right way.

 In conclusion: I have to show both of my supervisors (Josette Cole who was my senior supervisor and Helen Macgregor who was my immediate supervisor) at DAG for the good job. I really appreciate the way I have been guided through this internship programme with DAG, beginning from the opportunity to take the time I needed to refresh and expand my knowledge in several issues concerning community relations and housing development. I thank Daggies for everything I wish them all the best.

Julius Malema was found guilty of racial hatred



Julius Malema

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was found guilty of provoking divisions within the ruling party and of bringing the organisation into disrepute on Thursday, and was suspended for five years. He will vacate his position. This was after Malema said earlier this year the ANCYL would send a team to Botswana to consolidate local opposition parties and help bring about regime change there. Malema later apologised for the remarks, but they were widely believed to have caused serious diplomatic embarrassment for the ANC.

Malema was found not guilty on a third charge of inciting racial hatred and inflaming divisions in the country.

Doctor ‘Conrad Murray’ Found Guilty of death of Michael Jackson

Dr Conrad Murray

After 6 weeks of trial, a guilty verdict was returned by the jury yesterday in the Michael Jackson and Conrad Murray’s manslaughter case; meaning Jackson’s doctor (Conrad Murray) was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s death for supplying an insomnia-plagued Jackson with a powerful operating-room anesthetic to help him sleep as he rehearsed for his big comeback. Conrad faces 4 years in jail and was remanded in custody until sentencing on 29th November, 2011. Meanwhile Defense attorney Ed Chernoff said later in the day the verdict was a disappointment and would be appealed.

Lagos conspiracy...

LAGOS-A 70-year- old man and three others have been arraigned before a Surulere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for alleged cutting off the hand and leg of one Tajudeen Ogunbadejo with a machete. Oladun Mannaseh, 70; Dick Ike, 61; Edike Emeka, 49 and Rafiu Olorunmbe, 35, were charged on a two-count charge of conspiracy and causing grievous body harm.

Miss World 2011...

A 21-year-old from Venezuela ‘Ivian Sarcos’ was crowned Miss World 2011 few minutes ago at London’s Earls Court.Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares, a human resources graduate currently works for a broadcasting company. The 2nd place was taken by Philippines while the 3rd spot went to Puerto Rico.

The countries which made it to the top 7 are England, Korea, Venezuela, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Scotland. 122 contestants from across the world took part in this year’s pageant… The pageant is 60 years old today!

Boys who made sex video may be expelled

Cape Town - Western Cape education authorities are considering expelling three Oudtshoorn High School pupils for allegedly making a sex video. "A disciplinary hearing was held and the school governing body has made the recommendation... that the three learners be expelled," provincial education spokesperson Bronagh Casey said on Monday. "The head of department’s office has received the documents from the school governing body and is now processing the recommendation."Casey said the head of department would make the final decision on whether the pupils should be expelled.

Corruption thieves –Nigeria

Nigeria, the white elephant of Africa, Nigeria is the 5th largest oil producer in the world, but these billions of dollars must first pass through the pockets of a handful of ex-general, politicians and the so call chiefs. The number one cause of corruption in this country is lawlessness.

There are laws but they are never enforced. This is a country where you can do whatever you like, particularly if you are wealthy, “If a poor man steals, they say he is a poor man; then they jail him or they can stone him to death in the street. But when a rich man steals, they look for grammar to color it.

However, some of our royal fathers are deep in corruption. They take money from government to do projects but will not do it. Another cause of corruption in the country is that Nigerians prefer the short cut to success. Nigeria educational institutions are riddled with corruption. The academicians too cut corners.

What a shame, impoverished status of Nigerians despite wealth of the country. The people in power allow their citizens to live in squalor while they enriched themselves and their families.

Highest-Paid man in entertainment

Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry earned $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011, which ranks him as the highest-earning man in entertainment for that time period. Perry makes big money from his TV shows as well as his movies. He'll take on the role of detective Alex Cross in a big screen adaptation of the James Patterson books.He often appears dressed in drag as Madea, the wide-hipped, argumentative, no-nonsense character who has starred in six of Perry’s movies. Madea has also shown up in one of Perry’s TV shows, House of Payne.

Secret Gay spread AIDS- Said, Game America Rapper!

Game America Rapper

American rapper, The Game, believes closeted gay (secretly gay) men are spreading AIDS by “fooling” women into having sex with them.  According to Game just gave an interview to VLADTV — saying he doesn’t have a problem with most gay people — just the ones who are “pretending” not to be gay and sleeping with women    Game says, “The #1 issue with that is you could be fooling somebody and you could give them AIDS and they can die … and that s**t spreads because that girl you might be fooling might leave you and go find another dude who is not gay and give him the disease.”

Facebook’s profited $1.6B in the First Half Of 2011

Facebook’s revenue soared to $1.6 billion in the first half of 2011, according to a report by Reuters, as the world’s largest social network continues to expand ahead of its widely anticipated IPO. The social networking giant posted net income of $500 million in the first half of 2011, according to “a source with knowledge of its financials.” Facebook has taken its user base to a whopping 750 million and has established itself as one of the biggest players in the display advertising world, TAKING one-third of all impressions served in the U.S. (more than Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and AOL together).

For more Information: Forbes

Police minister robbed by officer on duty

                   

A South African police officer has been arrested for stealing from his boss, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, who is tasked with bringing down high crime levels, his spokesman said Tuesday.A laptop and cellphone were taken from the minister’s home in Cape Town. “There was no break-in,” said Mthethwa’s spokesman Zweli Mnisi. “The person who took them was a police officer on duty guarding the house.” The items were found and the policeman was arrested with two other people who bought the goods. The three were set to appear in court on Wednesday.

Egyptians gain a lot on “the idea of an internet revolution”

A revolution that is happened at Egypt as I type. My interests in it lie in the fact that it’s an online revolution. Social networking led to change in Tunisia, and caused demonstrations in Yemeni. It’s amazing to behold.

I connect in with a lot of political debates on and offline and everyone agrees that Nigeria is in dire need for a change. However those same people laughed at the idea of an internet revolution...yet here it is! Been up all day and night following all updates, because I am so happy about the possible outcomes of Egyptians.

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