Kim Kardashian playes Tennis in nude bikini

While Kim Kardashian was on her Mexican vacation, she showed off her sporting ability with a game of tennis at the luxurious Casa Aramara Estate where she stayed with friends last week. Kim put on a sexy nude bandeau bikini as she played Tennis against her friend Jasmine Sanders. More photos after the cut...

Touching moment 10-year-old girl is pulled from rubble alive after 17 hours of being buried in Italian Quake

The giant earth quake which struck in the middle of the night on Wednesday, had rescuers working round the clock in a desperate bid to find survivors. Chief firefighter Danilo Dionesei confirmed that a 10 year old girl was pulled alive from the rubble after being trapped for 17 hours in the town of Pescara del Tronto.

The footage shared online shows rescuers appearing to shout “Pietro” down a gap where the young girl was  trapped.

Footage shows just the dust-covered legs of the youngster as emergency crews tried desperately to free her from the rubble.

One rescuer could be heard saying:

'You can hear something under here. Quiet, quiet.' He then urged the child to wriggle free one rescue worker said: 'Come on, Giulia, come on, Giulia. ... Watch your head.'

Cheers broke out when she was pulled out Rescuers frantically pushed away the remains of rubble from the child and eventually, they were able to pull her out alive to the relief and applause of an on-looking crowd.  They rushed her to the hospital but her condition wasn't revealed by Daily Express.

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MAN WHO LED KILLING OF TSARAGI PEOPLE WAS NAB BY KWARA POLICE

THE Kwara State police command has arrested mastermind of alleged killing of five men in Tsaragi, Edu local government area of Kwara State, early this month.

It is recalled that the killing of Nupe and Tsaragi people, resident at Obadare village in Share community, was hitherto described as communal clash killing in some quarters.

The death of the victims, identified as Aliyu Issah, Muhmini, Alhaji Saba, Madu Issa and Kadiri, reportedly, created panic again in the two communities, leading the state government to immediately impose a dusk to dawn curfew on them.

But Commissioner of Police, Mr Olusola Amore, who disclosed the arrest of the mastermind of the killings in Ilorin on Wednesday, said the man, from Share, in Ifelodun local government area, had carried out the act with five of his friends, now at large, in revenge against the killing of his brother and destruction of their property last year during the violent clash between Tsaragi and Share communities.

The police boss, who said his command had established a 12-man Eminent Persons Group from the two communities to handle issues relating to the recurring conflict between them, absolved the people of Share in the latest killings, adding that the suspect in police custody had told investigators that he was on a lone mission to revenge a perceived wrong.

“You people reported recently that five people were killed in Tsaragi. Well we have been able to arrest the ring leader of that dastardly act. We also recovered all the guns they used. Five others are on the run but we have the ring leader with us.

“The person arrested is from Share community. He felt that he was wronged by the killing of his brother and destruction of their property during the December clash between them and the people of Tsaragi. He alone called for his friends and went on the revenge mission. They were never backed by the community and that is why you notice it happened when there was no disagreement between the two communities.

“We have been able to manage the conflict between the two communities to a very considerable level. We have set up a 12-man Eminent Persons Committee; six from each side and they are going to be meeting with the police regularly on issues about the two communities,” he said.

The commissioner who later on inaugurated a larger eminent persons’ forum to fight crime in the state, said security is not the business of the police but that of all stakeholders.

“That is when the first time I came to the state, I said that my style of policing is community oriented police. That members of the community would be involved in the way they are policed and it is for this reasons that I asked all the District Police Officers and myself to write their numbers in all the police stations and the police headquarters,” he added.

#SOGONECHALLENGE GIVES MONICA AND 13-YEAR-OLD HIT A BOOST

BY MESFIN FEKADU

AP MUSIC WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) -- R&B singer Monica says she's happy to see her 13-year-old hit "So Gone" trend heavily on social media, spike in sales and streams, and find a new audience with younger kids.

The Grammy winner's 2003 song, produced by Missy Elliott, has enjoyed a rebirth since the #SoGoneChallenge was introduced, where rappers - or anyone - spit rhymes over the track's slick beat. It reached new heights when Chance the Rapper posted a video of his version earlier this month, which featured the 23-year-old rapping about his pregnant girlfriend.

"It's a humbling experience to have a generation of kids - some weren't born when the original came out - (listen) to the song now and creating their own feeling toward it," Monica, 34, said in a phone interview Monday.

"So Gone" became a No. 1 hit on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart and peaked at No. 10 on the Hot 100 in 2003. After selling a few hundred copies in recent weeks, the song jumped from 224 digital sales to 2,080 through Aug. 12-18, according to Nielsen Music. During that same period, the total on-demand streaming for "So Gone" jumped 289.8 percent, Nielsen said.

And Spotify said there's been about a 140 percent increase in streams for "So Gone" since Aug. 11.

Fans have launched both serious and hilarious videos for the challenge, from wedding proposals to playful fights about sharing boyfriends. NBA player Dwyane Wade, actress Keke Palmer and comedian Kevin Hart - as his rapper alter-ego Chocolate Droppa - also joined the challenge.

Monica said she was inspired to participate after watching Chance show love to his future baby's mother.

She said Elliott called her about how the #SoGoneChallenge had gone viral and later helped her craft her rhymes in the studio.

"I told her I wanted to take a moment and say, 'The same girl that I used to be, I'm her still, I just grew. I grew as a person,'" said Monica, who posted her version last week and earned praise for her lyrics.

Monica said "So Gone," a song about a man's infidelity that samples The Whispers' 1977 tune "You Are Number One," was based on a phone conversation she had with Elliott. It was featured on her third album, "After the Storm."

The album was created after Monica dealt with the suicide of her boyfriend and the deaths of her grandmother and cousin. She remembers feeling inspired and recharged when she recorded "So Gone."

"'So Gone' is a record that's really special to me and always has been," she said. "My real hope is that ... it does make somebody feel like how I felt when I was making it. I felt hopeful, I was refocused, and I was realizing that my test would eventually be my testimony and that I was here for a reason."

She said it's special to share this moment with Elliott, who has produced other songs for her, including the No. 1 R&B hit "Everything to Me."

Monica said they were working on new music the day she filmed her #SoGoneChallenge video, which showed Elliott in the background.

"This definitely sparked something special and ... as soon as we create a record that feels like ('So Gone'), I'm going to put it out," she said.

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Government charged for religious discrimination

A Lagos based human rights activist Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has sued the federal government and the 36 state governments for sponsoring Christians and Moslems pilgrims on their annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia, while not extending the same privileges to other religions.

He said that the action of government was in violation of Section 10 of the 1999 constitution which states that “the government of the federation or of a state shall not accept any religion as State Religion.

Also that the “granting of concessionary exchange rate to the Moslem and Christian pilgrims alone was preferential, double standard, discriminatory, illegal, unconstitutional and a violation of the fundamental rights to freedom of worship as enshrined in section 38 and amounts to discrimination according to section 42 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution.

“Aside Christianity and Islam, there are Nigerians who are practicing other forms of religion such as Paganism, Buddhism, Harri Krishna, Animism, Eckanker, Grail message, Amok Atheism etc,” he said.

“When I secured a visa to visit the United States of America for vacation and approached my bank to procure my Basic Travelling Allowance (BTA) for the trip, I was informed that the exchange rate of the Naira to the Dollar was N318.00 to $1.00. So because of the very high exchange rate, I had to painfully put aside my vacation for the year.

 “Same applies to many Nigerians on daily basis who are in dire need of foreign exchange to do their business, pay for their medical bills, pay for education and vacations, etc. But the prevailing market price makes it impossible to pursue our dreams…”

Omirhobo complained that the establishment of religious commissions throughout the 36 states of the federation and in Abuja by law passed by the State Houses of Assembly was discriminatory to other Nigerian citizens that are not of the Islamic and Christian faiths.

According to him, one of the respondent states is currently devastated by the Boko Haram terror conflict, with many internally displaced persons who are in dire need of food and other basic needs.

“The monies given to the pilgrims by the state governors is a waste of tax payers monies,” he said, which according to him would be better spent, along with donations made by the international community and other concerned persons, “to internally displaced persons in that state.”

Respondents in the suit filed at Federal High Court sitting at Ikoyi are the Federal Government, the Attorney General of the Federation, the 36 states of the federation and their attorneys general, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the National Christian Pilgrim Commission, the National Hajj Commission, Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board and the Christian Pilgrims Welfare board in the 36 states.

Airforce strikes kill 300 Boko Haram members

The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar disclosed yesterday that no fewer than 300 members of the Boko Haram sect were killed in an air strike conducted at night.
This is just as the State Security Service yesterday said it has arrested the alleged mastermind of the 2013 terror attacks on a secondary school in Yobe State, which claimed the lives of forty two (42) people.
Abubakar made this disclosure while addressing men of the Nigerian Air Force deployed for the counter-insurgency operations in Borno state.
He spoke alongside the state Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima shortly after commissioning an emergency hospital and borehole for internally displaced persons in Bama.
He said the Air Force now has the capacity to attack at any time, both day and night, and that the insurgents have no more hiding place.
Addressing the troops, Abubakar said: “I cannot but say thank you, I am very happy to note that since August 16 to now you undertook extensive air operation and on account of that we are able to deal with this terrorists trying to make life difficult for our people.”
He added that: “I want to say from the briefing that I received from the Air component commander that I am satisfy with what you have done, I am satisfy with the outcome of the air operation.
“Of particular note is the operation you conducted on the 19th of this month, it was a night operation and we were very lucky to deal with these guys (insurgents) who had en-massed somewhere and were planning to go out to attack a target. We are very happy to note that about 300 of them will not be available to commit any evil again.”
He said the only way that other insurgents will not suffer the same fate is for them to come out and surrender.
Sadiq said: “We have for once deal with them and we want to urge others in their own interest to surrender their rifles and their weapons and come out to hand over themselves and face justice that is the only thing that will safe them. I want to urge you guys to continue this intensive air operations and continue to make it impossible for them to come out to kill innocent Nigerians.”
He told the officers that: “We are very happy with the progress you have recorded and I want to assure you also that the Air Force will continue to provide for your needs and we will try as much as possible to build your capacity in the area of training, we will try to address aircraft maintenance challenges so that whenever you fly, you fly with the best of airplanes.
“We also want to assure you that we will provide for your welfare needs especially in the area of accommodation, medical needs and then the needs of your family that are there in different barracks across the country.”
He assured them that: “So much is still going to be committed to see that you have the best, to whom much is given much is expected, I am very happy with the progress you have made, the fact that you were able to conduct this night operation has sent a very clear signal to Boko Haram that if they want to continue to live they must come out in their own interest, drop their riffles and face justice.
“If they do not do that, we make sure we get them wherever they hide, with the kind of capacity we have now they have no hiding place. I want to thank you once more and want to tell you to maintain the tempo of this air operation, we will provide you with all that is needed to conduct your operation.”
The Chief of Air Staff requested the unit in Maiduguri to continue to support the IDPs camps both in Maiduguri and in Bama.
In his remarks Governor Shettima thanked the Nigerian Air Force for the demonstration of love not only on the field of war but in the gift of the borehole and the hospital.
He said whenever the history of the sad Boko Haram war is written, the name of the Nigerian Air Force and other Armed Forces and security would be etched in gold.
On the Yobe killing, the State Security Service, SSS, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Tony Opuiyo, gave the name of the alleged mastermind as Mudaisiru Jibrin, a spiritual leader of the Boko Haram sect.
The SSS said he was arrested in Kano, three years after he allegedly coordinated the killing of 42 people in Government Secondary School, Mamudo, Yobe State. The dead were mostly students and a few teachers.
The SSS said Mr. Jibrin was arrested in the Yankaba neighbourhood in Kano, where he was operating as a spiritual leader for a new Boko Haram sleeper cell.
“The Service also arrested one Mudaisiru Jibrin aka Namakele/Alarrama on 17th July, 2016, at Sauna quarters, Yankaba area in Kano. Jibrin was the spiritual leader to a newly uncovered Boko Haram cell in Kano. Preliminary investigation so far conducted revealed that he was also the mastermind of the shooting of some students at Government Secondary School (GSS), Mamudo village near Potiskum, Yobe State, in 2013,” the statement said.
The SSS said the arrest was, “ In furtherance to ongoing tactical and counter-terrorism operations to degrade the capabilities of criminal gangs/syndicates in their hide-outs across the Federation, the Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to apprise the general public of recent successes recorded.”
The SSS also said that, it apprehended one Aikhoje Moses, on 19th August 2016, at Azagha by-pass off the Benin–Asaba Expressway in Edo State. Before his arrest, Moses had threatened the diplomatic community in Nigeria, particularly the Consular-Generals of Switzerland and Denmark and their Embassies in Nigeria, warning them to leave the Country.
According to the SSS, other terrorists were arrested in Kaduna, Auchi, Zamfara, Kebbi . Benue and Port Harcourt

Floods derange thousands in Ethiopia, says UN

No fewer than 600,000 Ethiopians have fled their homes since March, largely due to flooding, United Nation (UN) said on Wednesday, with more rain predicted up to December.

Ethiopia was hit in 2015 by one of the worst droughts in decades, with 10 million requiring emergency aid, which ended when the spring rains arrived in March.

Almost 300,000 people were displaced between March and June due to floods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) said in its latest update.

Others were displaced by inter-communal conflict in Ethiopia’s southern Oromia and Somali regions.

Many of the people who fled the floods had since returned home but no fewer than 10,000 families were still displaced and needed emergency shelter and household basics, it said.

It said heavy rains had delayed emergency food aid deliveries to 85,000 flood affected people in Somali region.

The UN said La Nina weather phenomenon was likely to bring further rain and flooding.

La Nina, which tends to occur unpredictably every two to seven years, is characterised by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Pressure in Bayelsa as Police kill 17-year-old boy

The police in Bayelsa State were, on Wednesday, embroiled in a case of alleged extra-judicial killing of a 17-year-old Ijaw youth, Master Innocent Kokorifa.

Innocent, who hailed from Okpotuari community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, was reportedly shot dead on August 18 by the Anti-Vice/Anti-Kidnapping squad of the police at Air Force Road, Yenagoa.

The incident, which happened at about 11am on the fateful day, has pitted the police against, the deceased family, Ijaw youth groups and activists who accused the law enforcement agency of extra-judicial killing.

The father of the deceased, Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), who broke down in tears while narrating the incident, said Innocent, his first child out of five children, was murdered in cold blood.

He said the victim who was to turn 18 on September 9 was a peacemaker, a non-smoker who had no records of criminality.

Narrating the incident, he said: “On August 18, I received a call from my wife that the police shot my first son, Innocent Kokorifa. I instructed my wife to go to police station at Ekeki to inquire about the condition and whereabouts of Innocent.

“My wife later called to inform me that on getting to the station, she said ‘police shot my son’, but the police retorted ‘do not say police shot your son, so that police will investigate the matter for you’. They admonished and doctored her that if asked, she should say ‘bad boys shot her son’.”

“When I heard this, I left Port Harcourt, where I work, by night bus and arrived Bayelsa at about 11pm the same day. I made efforts to locate the whereabouts and condition of my son to no avail because most police station l reported to claimed ignorance of the case”.

Kokorifa said he went to the crime scene late in the night in company with some of his family members and on getting there he spotted blood stains on the ground.

He said: “The next day, we returned to the same spot and met a woman who told us what really happened at the spot. The woman told us that men of the Anti-Vice squad came out and shot at an unarmed boy.

“She insisted that the environment was peaceful and there was no cause for alarm until the police in Jeans and t-shirts came and shot the boy. When the boy fell down and became lifeless, the police prevented people from having a close look at the lifeless body.

“They shielded the body of the deceased from onlookers and threw it into their van and zoomed off. After hearing this, I went to the office of Anti-Vice squad at Road Safety road to see the O/C Anti-Vice, but was told the O/C was not on seat and was advised to wait for the O/C”.

After waiting in vain for the Officer Commanding Anti-Vice, Kokorifa said he went to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) where he was told by a doctor that a police team brought a lifeless body of a youth to the emergency unit on the fateful day.

“I was told that the Emergency Unit rejected the body since it was already lifeless. I further went to the mortuary unit, where on enquiry, l was told by the mortuary attendant that a body was brought by members of the Anti-Vice squad.

“I was told by the mortuary attendant that the police deposited money for the mortuary bill and signed the mortuary register at exactly 11:59am, about an hour after they killed him. The lifeless body of the deceased was brought out by the mortuary attendant and I identified it as my son.

“I noticed that the deceased was hit by a bullet which perforated his oesophagus. On the day of the incident, my wife told me that Innocent left the house and went out to visit his aunt, Miss Gbasiemokumor Lucky who lives at the street adjacent to our  house”, he said.

He further sobbed: “Innocent was a loving son, the kind of child every father would pray to have. He doesn’t smoke, neither does he keep friends or late night. He had no criminal record whatsoever and until his death, he was not of a questionable character.

“He recently sat for the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) and he was awaiting his result before they killed him. We need justice. Killers of my son must be fished out and brought to justice”.

But the police in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Butswat Asinim, said on the fateful day the squad went to an uncompleted building along Airforce Road to arrest a three-man notorious armed robbery gang.

The statement said: “On sighting the police and in a frantic bid to escape, the robbers fired at the police, the Police returned fire, one of the suspects sustained a bullet injury, while the others escaped, abandoning one locally made single barrel pistol, one live cartridge, one expended cartridge and wraps of substances suspected to be Indian hemp.

“The wounded suspect was arrested and taken to the Federal Medical Centre, for treatment, but died few hours later. The deceased suspect was later identified as one Innocent Kokorifa ‘m’ Efforts have been intensified to arrest the fleeing suspects. Investigation is ongoing”.

But a human rights lawyer from the Faculty of Law, Uyo, Mr. Aluzu Augustine, who was following the matter said the police were economical with the truth.

“It should be noted that the police did not mention where or who was being robbed at the time, before the police intervened.

“The locus in quo (Okaka Estate) is purely a residential area. The O/C Anti-Vice did not state who made the distress call and what time the distress call was received by members of his team and they did not also say who the armed robbers were”.

Investigations revealed that the human rights community and Ijaw youths were not in tandem with the explanations given by the police insisting that the teenager was killed without provocation.

Irked by the development, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Central Zone, was said to be planning a protest to occupy Yenagoa and demand justice for Innocent.

The Treasurer of the zone, Mr. Ebikade Ekerefe, the former Spokesman of IYC, Owoupele Jeremiah and Deputy Speaker of the IYC Parliament, Tare Porri and other stakeholders were said to be mobilising youths against the police.

OBASANJO says ' NIGERIANS BROUGHT BUHARI TO POWER NOT ME'

Ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo has said neither him nor any group of persons can boast of bringing President Mohammadu Buhari to power in 2015.

The former president said this in Jalingo,  the Taraba State capital, when he paid a courtesy call on the Governor Darius Ishaku. Obasanjo was on a five-day tour of the state to inspect his farm and some key projects he initiated while in government.

massively in the last election, saying no single person or group can claim the glory.

His words, “I was shock by media reports quoting me as saying I and a few others brought President Buhari to power to save Nigeria.

“I never said that because it is not true. Nigerians voted overwhelmingly for the president and we are all witnesses to that fact. No single person or group can claim that glory”, he said.