Cossy Orjiakor mentors Next Movie Stars

Cossy Orjaikor joined musicians, Jaywon, LKT and Tony Tetuila to mentor contestants of the ongoing 'Next Movie Stars'
As usual, she's flaunting those boobs.....and Tony T. isn't looking...lol!

Photos: Nollywood comedian, Sanyeri gets married

Popular Nollywood actor, Olaniyi Afonja, a.k.a. Sanyeri, today got married to the mother of his children at the Anchor Events centre on Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.

Congratulations!






Opa Kan star and his wife.

 

British Govt’s Attempt To Deport ‘Near Death’ Nigerian Asylum Seeker, Isa Muazu, Fails

 

caption: Isa Muazu

By Ogala Emmanuel

      

A British government attempt to deport a ‘near death’ Nigerian asylum seeker, Isa Muazu, was thwarted on Friday after the Nigerian government denied the chartered private jet rights to land.
The private jet, hired at huge cost to the British government, returned to the UK, from Malta, with Mr. Muazu after hours in the air, sparking backlash against the UK government.
Mr. Muazu was bundled out of the medical wing of Harmondsworth detention centre, amidst protests calling for his release, on Friday for the flight to Nigeria.
Protesters from the Stop Deportations Network closed Harmondsworth detention centre, earlier on Friday, in an attempt to stop Mr. Muazu’s deportation, with one man supergluing himself to the gates of the detention centre. The man was eventually arrested at 7a.m. by a specialist police team who took several hours to remove him.
Mr. Muazu, said to be only skin and bones fat, has been on hunger strike for 100 days, to protest UK’s refusal to grant him asylum. His medical team declared him unfit to fly or be kept in detention, while rights groups condemned the British government’s desperation to remove him from UK.
Mr. Muazu entered the UK on a valid visa in 2007, but decided to remain in the UK for fears he will be killed by Boko Haram, whom he claimed had killed several of his relatives. After seeking asylum he was put in fast track detention, and his claims expressly rejected.
Mr. Muazu’s lawyers told the BBC he had been returned to the medical wing at Harmondsworth detention centre since returning from the failed deportation.

‘End of life plan’
Before arriving the Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport, Mr. Muazu had health conditions including Hepatitis B, kidney problems and stomach ulcers. He complained that the highly processed food served to detainees was worsening his medical conditions but UK detention officials dismissed him as “behaving like a child”.
In October, his physical and mental health deteriorated. His medical team declared he was unfit for detention and edging towards death, but rather than release him, UK immigration officials drew up an ‘end of life plan,’ an alternative to deporting him.
A British High Court and the Court of Appeal also declared Muazu’s detention lawful, ruling that the UK Home Office had the right to remove a man who its staff accepted was close to death and for whom an ‘end of life plan’ had been drawn up.
But Mr. Muazu would not take a deportation. “I feel devastated. I’d rather die than go back. If they can take my body and bury it, that would be the only thing. I’m not going back, I’m telling you. There’s nothing there for me,” he told Vice Magazine’s Simon Childs and Lord Roberts of Llandudno who later started an e-petition calling for his release.
The ‘end of life’ plan included allowing him die on his mattress in his detention room.

Expensive deportation
Apparently, the UK government would not have an asylum seeker on hunger strike die in its detention centre. An expensive deportation plan, which included hiring a private jet, was drawn up.
The UK Home office hired a private jet, with flight number EDC684, registered with Air Charter Scotland Ltd, the aviation firm that flew Mary J Blige to Lagos, in September. The firm also manages the private jet of British business mogul, Lord Sugar.
The UK Home Office had planned to deport Mr. Muazu on a Virgin Atlantic flight but the plan was called off a night before. Rights campaigners said their pressure forced Virgin Atlantic to back down.
Campaigners also attempted to pressure the private jet company to decline the offer to fly Mr. Muazu to Nigeria. Protesters from Unity Centre Glasgow and Student Action for Refugees gathered outside the company’s East Kilbride offices Thursday afternoon, but the firm went ahead to execute the deportation.
Campaigners said it must have cost the British government between 100 to 188 thousand Great British Pounds to execute the failed deportation.
“How can you spend that much deporting only one person when he is not even a criminal?” Jasmine Sallis, a volunteer caseworker at the Unity Centre in Glasgow said. The Unity Centre have been at the forefront of campaigns to free Mr. Muazu.
The aircraft model used in executing the failed deportation, rights campaigners suspect, is a Legacy 600, the same model of aircraft used in deporting radical preacher, Abu Qatada, to Jordan. Mr. Qatada’s deportation was estimated to have cost the UK Home Office over 50 thousand Great British Pounds.
The UK home office is closed till Monday, while the Nigerian aviation authorities could not explains reasons for the plane’s inability to land in Nigeria.
Yakubu Datti, the spokesperson of the Nigerian aviation industry, told PREMIUM TIMES he would make enquiry and revert. He is yet to do so as at the time of publishing this.

Human Rights
UK’s desperation to deport Mr. Muazu cost it both public funds and social capital. Human rights campaigners condemned UK government’s hardline stance to deport the asylum seeker, saying he might die in the process.
Late November, over a hundred NGOs, actors and lawyers wrote to The Guardian to demand Mr. Muazu’s release.
“Like Isa, many feel that their asylum claims have not been fairly heard and that they are losing their freedom only for the “crime” of seeking safety in the UK,” the signatories said. “We are extremely concerned that Isa may die as a result of a hardened stance being taken towards migrants in the UK. We urgently call for clemency in this case. We ask that the home secretary reconsider Isa’s case and act quickly to release him in the UK, so that another death in immigration detention can be avoided.”
Mr. Muazu is not the only person on hunger strike in the asylum detention centre. Unity Centre claim there are at least three other men in the Medical Centre at Harmondsworth detention centre on hunger strike in the same ward as Mr. Muazu with possibly more hunger strikers in other wards at the detention centre.
“One of the men started his hunger strike on 5 November,” the Unity Centre said.



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One hell of a toothache!....Man Escapes From Swedish Prison, Goes To Dentist, Turns Self Back In

 


A 51-year-old Swedish inmate broke out of prison in November "because he had a toothache and wanted to go the dentist," officials said, the AFP reported Saturday.

The inmate, who was scheduled to be released the next day anyway, turned himself into police after getting his tooth treated. His sentence -- originally one month -- was only increased by one day.

The man told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter he had been complaining to prison officials about the pain for four days and finally busted out because he "just couldn't stand it," according to a translation by The Local.

CCTV captures the horrifying moment French mother calmly pushes her baby girl to drown in the sea because she claimed child was 'incompatible' with her love life

Fabienne Kabou, 36, from Senegal, pushed little Adelaide to the coast of Berck sur Mer on November 19. The next day, Adelaide was found dead. She now faces life imprisonment. The case has sparked outrage as hundreds took to the streets outside the court and on the coast in a White March - a French style of demonstrating against child cruelty.

• Fabienne Kabou, 36, has admitted to police she wanted to kill the child
• In police interview she said baby was 'incompatible' with her and boyfriend
• Checked into hotel in Berck sur Mer with baby Adelaide on November 19
• The next day Adelaide was found dead, strapped in pram, in the water
• Demonstrators have taken to streets calling for crackdown on child cruelty

A mother faces life imprisonment after confessing she drowned her 15-month-old daughter in the English Channel because the child was 'incompatible' with her love life.
CCTV footage has emerged of Fabienne Kabou, 36, from Senegal, pushing little Adelaide to the coast of Berck sur Mer on November 19.
The next day, Adelaide was found dead, strapped in a pushchair submerged in the water, by a fisherman.
After ten days of searching nationwide, police used DNA from the pram to trace Ms Kabou to the home she shares with a 63-year-old man in Paris, where she was arrested.
Ms Kabou, a philosophy student, told police she took the drastic move after deciding motherhood was 'incompatible' with her love life with Adelaide's father.
The case has sparked outrage as hundreds took to the streets outside the court and on the coast in a White March - a French style of demonstrating against child cruelty.
Ms Kabou had told her boyfriend, a sculptor, that she had handed over the little girl to her grandmother who had agreed to look after her in Senegal, police claim.
On Saturday, Kabou was taken under Police guard to Boulogne sur Mer and questioned for four hours by an examining judge in a closed court session.
The judge placed her under investigation for murder. She was remanded in custody pending her trial.
Her lawyer Fabienne Roy-Nansion  who was present during the interrogation said that her client had made a full confession.

Arrested: She was traced to a house in an eastern suburb of Paris where she lives with a 63-year-old man

Demonstrating: A banner reads 'Our thoughts are with you, Princess' held by a teenager as inhabitants of Berck-sur-Mer, northern France take part in a White March to pay homage to little Adelaide

White March: The first White March took place in 1996 in Belgium as people showed their anger towards serial killer and child molester Marc Dutroux who kept girls in his basement

Mourning: People left flowers, toys and messages on the coast as French people express outrage in Berck

Tributes: A bouquet of white roses with a note reading 'rest in peace little angel' is left on the beach

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PHOTOS: Train derails in New York, killing 4

New York (CNN) -- Rail cars flipped over when a passenger train derailed Sunday morning, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more.

Firefighters and emergency rescuers swarmed the scene near Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx, where at least two train cars were turned on their sides. One car was just feet away from the Harlem River.

Three of the dead were thrown "as the train came off the track and was twisting and turning," New York Fire Department Chief Edward Kilduff told reporters.

"The windows broke out. ... The gravel came flying up in our faces," said passenger Amanda Swanson, who put her bag in front of her face to block the rubble.

"I really didn't know if I would survive," she said. "The train felt like it was on its side and dragging for a long time. ... The whole thing felt like slow motion."

Police divers were in the water hours after the crash looking for survivors, and cadaver dogs searched the wreckage. Authorities believe all the passengers have been accounted for, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters.

It was unclear how fast the train was traveling and how many passengers were on board.



"I heard this horrible, whooshing sound. ... It was very disturbing, very loud," said Hank Goldman, who lives near the tracks. "I jumped out of bed and looked out the window and I saw a light-colored object lying down. I thought it was the roadway to the train. Then I got my binoculars, and I couldn't believe my eyes, that the train had jumped the tracks right here."

At least 67 people were injured, 11 seriously, said Joe Bruno, New York's commissioner of emergency management.

"In terms of causes, we don't know exactly what happened," Cuomo said.

Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were headed to the scene, he said.

The train operator -- who is among the injured -- told investigators he applied brakes to the train, but it didn't slow down, a law enforcement official on the scene and familiar with the investigation said.

"That will be a key point of concern, whether this train was moving too quickly," Bruno said.

The train had been traveling from the Hudson Valley town of Poughkeepsie, 100 miles north of New York, to New York's Grand Central Station.

It came off the tracks just as it was coming around a sharp curve shortly after 7 a.m., fire officials told CNN affiliate WCBS.

Of eight train cars, seven were off the tracks.

Passenger Frank Tatulli told WABC he thought the train was traveling "a lot faster" than usual.

He escaped a derailed car on his own and had head and neck injuries, he said. Other passengers were still on the train, he told WABC.

Another survivor told WABC that she climbed out of a train car that had overturned.

Nearby, she said, she heard injured victims moaning and asking for help.

"I almost feel guilty," she said. "I was just in a really safe spot on the train, just the way it fell."

Injured victims were taken to several hospitals in New York.

At St. Barnabas Hospital, doctors treated 12 patients, at least two of whom were in critical condition. One of the victims suffered a spinal cord injury that could leave him paralyzed from the neck down, said Dr. David Listman, director of the hospital's emergency department.

The derailment occurred near where a freight train derailed in July, WCBS reported. No one was injured in that accident.

Federal authorities are still investigating a collision between two Metro-North trains in May, when two passenger trains crashed during rush hour in Connecticut.

Service was suspended Sunday on part of the Hudson Line, Metro-North said on Twitter.

Amtrak said it was suspending service between New York and Albany indefinitely after the derailment.

It's unclear how long the investigation will take, said Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for Metro-North Rail.

"Once the NTSB gives us the all-clear, then we can begin to repair and clean up the tracks," he said.

U.S. President Barack Obama was briefed on the derailment.

"His thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and families who lost a loved one and everyone affected by this incident," the White House said.

Sen. Charles Schumer of New York called on federal authorities to investigate "with speed and certainty."

"We must figure out how this happened," he said.


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Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker dies in car crash

 

When i read about this sad news early this morning i hoped and prayed it was one of those hoax obituaries, but now i'm beginning to see that this one is real....Paul Walker is dead!

The 40-year-old died on Saturday when a Porsche being driven by a friend, who also died, crashed near Los Angeles. The accident happened while Walker was attending an event for his charity Reach Out Worldwide.

Walker starred in five of the six movies in the popular Fast & Furious franchise and had started filming the seventh.


The red Porsche crashed into a lamp post in Valencia, north of Los Angeles



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Mormon bishop goes undercover as homeless man to teach congregation a lesson

Tara Starling via Facebook


The disguise worked so well that David Musselman’s family members didn’t even recognize him.

TAYLORSVILLE, Utah — Members of a Mormon congregation in a Salt Lake City suburb encountered someone they thought was a homeless man at church on Sunday. What they did not know was the man was a bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

At least five people asked David Musselman to leave the church property in Taylorsville, some gave him money and most were indifferent.

He said he disguised himself as a homeless man to teach his congregation a lesson about compassion. To make his appearance more convincing, he contacted a Salt Lake City makeup artist to transform his familiar face to that of a stranger not even his family recognized.




WTSP
Musselman wanted to teach his congregation to be compassionate towards homeless people.


"The main thing I was trying to get across was we don't need to be so quick to judge," Musselman told KUTV-TV (http://bit.ly/1gkeZMw ).

He received varied reactions to his appearance at church, he said.


"Many actually went out of their way to purposefully ignore me, and they wouldn't even make eye contact," he told the Deseret News (http://bit.ly/1aYkBtP ). "I'd approach them and say, 'Happy Thanksgiving.' Many of them I wouldn't ask for any food or any kind of money, and their inability to even acknowledge me being there was very surprising."




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Makeup artist Tara Starling helped Musselman with his disguise.


The reaction that touched Musselman the most was from children.

"I was impressed by the children. I could see in their eyes they wanted to do more," he said.

Musselman, who told only his second counselor that he would be disguised as a homeless man, walked to the pulpit during the service. He finally revealed his true identity and took off his wig, fake beard and glasses.




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David Musselman is the bishop of the Taylorsville Fourth Ward.


"It had a shock value that I did not anticipate," he said. "I really did not have any idea that the members of my ward would gasp as big as they did."

Ward member Jaimi Larsen was among those surprised it was her bishop. "I started feeling ashamed because I didn't say hello to this man ... He was dirty. He was crippled. He was old. He was mumbling to himself," she said.

It wasn't Musselman's goal to embarrass ward members or make them feel ashamed, he said. Instead, he wanted to remind them to be kind to people from all walks of life not just at the holidays, but all year long, he said.

"To be Christ-like, just acknowledge them," he said.

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'I'm not a believer in Facebook for young people': Michelle Obama opens up about social media and her daughters' life in the spotlight

With two growing teenage daughters in the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama has put her foot down when it comes to their social media presence.
Talking to ABC News' Barbara Walters in an interview, the 49-year-old said she doesn't want Malia, 15, and Sasha, 12, to have Facebook accounts just yet.
'I still am not a big believer in Facebook for young people. . . particularly for them, because they're in the public eye,' Mrs Obama said in the interview, her first with the President this year.

Talking to ABC News' Barbara Walters in an interview set to air on 20/20 at 10pm tonight, the 49-year-old said she doesn't want Malia, 15, and Sasha, 12, to have Facebook accounts just yet

'Some of its stuff they don't need to see and be a part of. . . So we try to protect them from too much of the public voice.'

While Sasha isn't old enough to be on Facebook yet, Malia's access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks is still limited.

But with President Obama leaving his post as commander-in-chief in 2016, the parents say they encourage their daughters to grow personally through other avenues.
For example, Malia, a sophomore in high school, is allowed to date and the daughters are given permission to have frequent sleepovers on the White House's third floor.

'I still am not a big believer in Facebook for young people. . . particularly for them, because they're in the public eye,' Mrs Obama said in the interview, her first with the President this year

With President Obama leaving his post as commander-in-chief in 2016, the parents say they encourage their daughters to grow personally through other avenues

Though Mrs Obama won't reveal whether Malia is in fact dating anyone at the moment, she said that the teenager 'can't wait until this light has dimmed to start becoming a person.'
'You know, we think about not just her life here, but her life after,' said Mrs Obama. 'Because she's gotta be an independent, strong, smart, capable woman in the world. So she has to get her training now.'
Touching on family life in the White House, Mrs Obama admitted that their home is a 'sanctuary.'

While Sasha isn't old enough to be on Facebook yet, Malia's access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks is still limited

'The girls are there and they dominate,' she said. 'They're not talking about issues of the day, they're talking about issues of their day, which has nothing to do with what is going on in the rest of the world.
'Everyone has to have their safe haven, a place of peace and calm: that's home for us,' Mrs Obama added, saying that she 'tries to stay out' of the President's ear when he is home. 'He already has enough people in his ear,' she said.
When asked whether the President thinks the First Lady would have made a better president than, the couple laugh.

'I still am not a big believer in Facebook for young people. . . particularly for them, because they're in the public eye,' Mrs Obama said in the interview, her first with the President this year

Though Mrs Obama won't reveal whether Malia (left, pictured with Sasha, right) is in fact dating anyone at the moment, she said that the teenager 'can't wait until this light has dimmed to start becoming a person'

'Of course,' he said. 'That's an easy question. But she's smart enough that she might not want to go through the process.'

Mrs Obama disagreed, saying: 'He has a level of patience and focus and tenactity and calm that doesn't come by with anyone. I definitly dont have that patience.'
 
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A strapless bra that defies gravity!.... New lingerie design founded by Nigerian man, Muyiwa Olumide, features inner cups with magnetic force to keep breasts lifted

A new strapless bra for women with larger breasts is being hailed as a 'revolution in underwear'.
Using two inner cups held by a patent-pending magnetic device, the Kewi Bra, set to launch on Christmas Day for $150, claims to have a lift potential of 11.2lbs.
'A large cup size does not have to mean a lifetime of discomfort and back pain,' said Kewi Bra founder Muyiwa Olumide.

Using two inner cups held by a patent-pending magnetic device, the Kewi Bra, set to launch on Christmas Day for $150, claims to have a lift potential of 11.2lbs

'Because the bra was developed to satisfy a real need following a request from a friend of mine, great pains have been taken to ensure that the fit and comfort are absolutely perfect,' he added.

After four years of research, testing, feedback analysis and working with engineers and designers, the Kewi Bra prototype was created.
Using magentic force to convert the downward pressure of breasts into an upward lift, the Kewi Bra aims to give a customized fit for sizes D and above.

Using magentic force to convert the downward pressure of breasts into an upward lift, the Kewi Bra aims to give a customized fit for sizes D and above

After four years of research, prototype testing, feedback analysis and working with engineers and designers, the Kewi Bra prototype was created

This 'floating support' is designed to relieve pressure on the shoulders, neck and back.
'The breasts are held in two inner cups which mold to the body’s unique contours,' states the Kewi Bra website, which adds that the magnetic process is non-electrical, meaning exposure to water or liquids is safe.
'These devices hold up the inner cups keeping the breasts slightly suspended within the bra. The use of magnetic force also serves as an artificial shock absorber during movement to hold the breasts within and conceal movement,' the website explains.

A transparent view shows how the 'breasts are held in two inner cups which mold to the body's unique contours,' states the Kewi Bra website

Made from a loose, thin, breathable and stretchy fabric, the inner cups are designed to 'perfectly fit each breast like a sock.'
This is supposed to ensure that women with one larger breast feels complete comfort.
Thin padding is used to conceal the inner cups so they are not felt on the body of the user.

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• Kewi Bra

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