Buhari Rakes In ₦54.4m Through 'Crowd Funding Project'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkQCMEpvWz8OTMIg3PPFOTrdp9OHOLTur3w4CSaXLxOQtRNWY0ZLgTZIi2qz5prTe64YzZKsqdmSPcd0gwjcmsBpUiWgexzXdqLXI-LsI3fkTnxLxSGmDXcAilI8WsCoTmsOo2eV0pm0/s1600/Buhari3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkQCMEpvWz8OTMIg3PPFOTrdp9OHOLTur3w4CSaXLxOQtRNWY0ZLgTZIi2qz5prTe64YzZKsqdmSPcd0gwjcmsBpUiWgexzXdqLXI-LsI3fkTnxLxSGmDXcAilI8WsCoTmsOo2eV0pm0/s1600/Buhari3.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015 election, General Mohammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, disclosed that his support base, Buhari Support Organisation, has been able to generate about ₦54 million for his presidential ambition.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The fund, according to him, was generated by the organisation through a crowd funding project he launched to bankroll his election campaigns.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Briefing newsmen in Abuja on the activities of the support group, General Buhari said “so far, so good, we have received donation of ₦54,415,386.70 through direct deposit and sales of cards to the FirstBank account number: 2026724405.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “As I promised during the take-off that I will take responsibility of the account, we are here today to give you an update on the progress made so far.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Currently, 82 support groups have been registered under the Buhari Support Organisations, with over 475,796 coordinators and total membership in the region of 8,492,226 across the length and breadth of this country.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We intend to use the registration and donation cards to enlist the members of the groups as volunteer change agents and also capture the spatial distribution of our donors,” he said.</div>

Buhari Rakes In ₦54.4m Through 'Crowd Funding Project'

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88 Years Old Essebsi Wins Tunisia's Presidential Election

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYckNQ8mvVP9a6lPVO-cdibOcSkmLMiD5Yphd7BZM-ckwFyw0slN-uJG8Szjskc_l8pr28COcWtKYwjMU3CZhX10pvVl1ES0_69i6G-vRHU3j3cpHt0N6a3WnuzBxmcUOf0JJ9gdgFWI/s1600/Tunisia+Pres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYckNQ8mvVP9a6lPVO-cdibOcSkmLMiD5Yphd7BZM-ckwFyw0slN-uJG8Szjskc_l8pr28COcWtKYwjMU3CZhX10pvVl1ES0_69i6G-vRHU3j3cpHt0N6a3WnuzBxmcUOf0JJ9gdgFWI/s1600/Tunisia+Pres.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>This should interest some folks out there criticising the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, and condemning him on account of his age.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Eighty-eight-year-old Tunisian political bigwig Beji Caid Essebsi has won the country’s first free presidential poll since its independence in 1956, 58 years ago. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the <b><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30579662?ocid=socialflow_twitter">BBC</a></b>, Essebsi garnered 55.68 per cent of the vote cast in Sunday’s run-off to defeat caretaker president Moncef Marzouki (44.32 per cent), Chafik Sarsar, head of the electoral commission, confirmed. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking after his victory was declared, the octogenarian urged all Tunisians to work together for stability of the country. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Marzouki initially refuted the results, failing to admit defeat on the grounds that Essebsi was a member of the old order ousted in 2011 by the Arab uprising. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The 67-year-old pointed out that Essebsi served under Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali who fell to the Arab Spring. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Essebsi has been in the country’s political scene since independence, as he was also in the cabinet of Tunisia’s first post-independence leader, Habib Bourguiba. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In Tunisia, groups have been protesting Essebsi’s victory, while policemen have been dispersing them with tear gas. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Essebsi was Tunisia’s prime minister from February to December 2011, having previously served as minister of foreign affairs between 1981 and 1986. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He is the founder of the Nidaa Tounes (Call for Tunisia), a political party, which won a majority in the 2014 parliamentary election, and is soon to become the ruling party of the country upon his inauguration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30579662?ocid=socialflow_twitter">The BBC</a></b></div>

88 Years Old Essebsi Wins Tunisia's Presidential Election

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Police Killed Another Black Teenager In Berkeley

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKstKUSfto9ryKtT9b-c8OjjsGIP6rFyVbMaQBFyXAl71m79iNAY8We7uJbmpEmLPUU4LJ-SSxjn6xFWIWCQ1miW20CdfTuKWlSqkSWdhk0nHfceeG4QaIG5aFASdJw3QfqxUQThCj0zw/s1600/US+Police.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKstKUSfto9ryKtT9b-c8OjjsGIP6rFyVbMaQBFyXAl71m79iNAY8We7uJbmpEmLPUU4LJ-SSxjn6xFWIWCQ1miW20CdfTuKWlSqkSWdhk0nHfceeG4QaIG5aFASdJw3QfqxUQThCj0zw/s1600/US+Police.jpeg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Another black teenager was shot dead in the United States on Tuesday by a police officer. </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The 18-year-old, locally identified as Antonio Martin, was reported by the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/24/black-teenager-shot-dead-by-police-in-st-louis"><b>Guardian UK</b></a> to have been shot at a gas station in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, in New York. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Martin was killed around where Michael Brown, also a teenager, was shot to death in August by another police officer. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Brown’s death provoked anger, particularly within the black community, leading to a nationwide protests and calls for police policy reviews. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However, the police alleged that that the officer who killed Martini did so out of self-defence. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/breaking-news-2-nypd-police-officers.html">READ: 2 NYPD POLICE OFFICERS 'ASSASINATED'</a></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A spokesman for Saint. Louis county police department said the deceased drew a handgun and pointed it at the police. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The Berkeley police officer exited his vehicle and approached the subjects when one of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer,” the spokesman said in a statement. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Fearing for his life, the Berkeley officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The second subject fled the scene … St. Louis County Police Detectives have recovered the deceased subject’s handgun at the scene.” </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The police added that investigations had begun to get to the core of the incident, which occurred at a mobile petrol station around 11:15pm on Tuesday (Local time). </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Martini was said to be in the company of another man at the gas station during the time of the incident. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The development would likely increase existing tension between the blacks and the police in the country. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Over the weekend, <a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/breaking-news-2-nypd-police-officers.html"><b>two police officers were killed</b></a> in connection with Michael Brown’s death. Protests are currently ongoing at the site of the incident and at the county’s police department.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/24/black-teenager-shot-dead-by-police-in-st-louis">Guardian UK</a></b></div>

Police Killed Another Black Teenager In Berkeley

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Angola Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ehmqGUrLzZz49-diq3H5O_hH-XzeArlc7ifIqUj3f6bUBncaTMXEUitWVMrKs-zQsjHt8HjcguZ_qwfhUCub4Y58gqN_e4AnyucbHqiDDBCVOwJ9iJMp5MSblIPUVnesR2sEgXI5aBg/s1600/Angola.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ehmqGUrLzZz49-diq3H5O_hH-XzeArlc7ifIqUj3f6bUBncaTMXEUitWVMrKs-zQsjHt8HjcguZ_qwfhUCub4Y58gqN_e4AnyucbHqiDDBCVOwJ9iJMp5MSblIPUVnesR2sEgXI5aBg/s1600/Angola.JPG" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>This weekend, authorities in Luanda launched a massive crackdown on immigrants, arresting hundreds, most of them from West African countries including Guinea, Ivory Coast and Senegal. Our Observers told us that many immigrants who weren't arrested are now hiding in their homes, terrified at the idea of ending up in an Angolan prison, reports <i><a href="http://observers.france24.com/content/20141223-arrests-foreigners-angola-luanda-prison">France 24</a></i>.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the sparse information relayed by state media, 2,161 people were reportedly stopped by the police this weekend, and 884 of them, who reportedly did not have proper documentation, were arrested. According to Angola’s Interior Ministry, the majority of these people came from other African countries, but not exclusively: 300 Chinese citizens were detained Sunday, though all but 30 of them were quickly freed following negotiations with the Chinese embassy. All those arrested are currently being kept at a detention centre for illegal immigrants called Trinita. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>“I had never seen such a big crackdown!”</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Joao (not his real name) is Angolan and lives in Luanda.</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> On Saturday, I noticed that the police was carrying out a big crackdown in my neighbourhood. I saw a few young foreigners flee to neighbours’ houses and hide there. I would have liked to take photos, but I quickly noticed that there were plainclothes police present. I saw other policemen in uniform arresting foreigners and putting them into Jeeps. All the little stores in my neigbhourhood – which we called “cantinas” – were closed.</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> It’s easy for the police to find strangers here in Luanda, since all the “cantinas” are run by foreigners. In the past, when there have been rumours of crackdowns, we’ve seen the cantinas shut their doors for a couple of days. But I have never seen such a big crackdown!</blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>“Having your papers in order isn’t enough to avoid going to prison”</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mohamed (not his real name) is Ivorian. He has worked as a taxi driver in Luanda for three years.</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> It all started Friday, when most of the West Africans went to the mosque for prayers. There’s one mosque in particular, near the airport, where West Africans like to meet. I was about to head out there when a friend who was already at the mosque called me. He told me not to come, because the police had surrounded the mosque and was starting to arrest people. Even the mosque’s imam was arrested. </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> I listened to his advice and stayed home. I haven’t left the house since. I’m in here with ten of my friends. We’re afraid to go outside and get picked up by the police. Many of our friends were arrested, at the mosque or in the streets. My cousin and his wife were arrested too. Yet they, like me, have their papers in order allowing them to live and work in Angola. But having papers isn’t enough to avoid going to prison here! [Editor’s note: Many other immigrants interviewed by FRANCE 24 complained about this problem.]</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> Here, you have to pay for everything. As a taxi driver, the police are always stopping me and asking me for money. Often, they’ll slap me around. They don’t like foreigners very much, even less so those of us who speak French. </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> We’re in contact with some of the people who have been arrested. Most of them had their mobile phones confiscated, but a few managed to hide theirs and keep them in prison. They told us the prison was badly overcrowded, that men and women were mixed together, and that many of them were forced to sit outside in the yard, under the hot sun. They only get fed once a day. And they say the prison guards hit some of them. </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> We called the Ivorian embassy, but they told us that for now, the ambassador hadn’t been allowed to visit the prisoners. They told us to stay indoors until the situation calms down.</blockquote>

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Sad! Baby Falls Off Mum's Back On Okada, Crushed By Truck

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEKjXvSWrsdrr0ZA3_aXzj1SLV3KXAgWRnTBUh3EpBh3hLILsVY-RPV3oV2C80GndNQMMNKyGF45ih5MMOpH_3VW7XqHfnmKeSZWeafHiCC0Rhovgtyyrae_SrjqOckRZJwUs_hnzudU/s1600/FRSC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEKjXvSWrsdrr0ZA3_aXzj1SLV3KXAgWRnTBUh3EpBh3hLILsVY-RPV3oV2C80GndNQMMNKyGF45ih5MMOpH_3VW7XqHfnmKeSZWeafHiCC0Rhovgtyyrae_SrjqOckRZJwUs_hnzudU/s1600/FRSC.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A heavy duty truck, conveying crates of soft drinks, yesterday, at the Okorodafe Roundabout in Ughelli, Delta State, crushed a four-month-old baby girl, who had fallen off the back of her mother travelling on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to witnesses, the mother of the baby, who is in her 30s and simply identified as Ese, was said to have been struggling to adjust the wrapper with which she strapped the baby to her back, while the Okada was in motion.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> One of the witnesses, identified as Efemena Okiemute, told <i>Vanguard</i> that the baby fell on the middle of the road and was immediately crushed by the truck, which was directly behind the Okada.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When <i>Vanguard</i> visited the scene, officials of Ughelli Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, were seen clearing the remains of the dead baby from the road.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/baby-falls-off-mums-back-okada-crushed-truck/">Vanguard</a></b></div>

Sad! Baby Falls Off Mum's Back On Okada, Crushed By Truck

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[Photo Of The Day] Gov Fashola Meets Class Teacher 38 Years After

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozanuXXImgDLDGEvpQhV9dVjrrLWnLNvuMJQN1Wr1SEU3YZ49xbCo789BIKPkOm85VMTOiqkA9VGNsIAnKwbGVZaFUSfMndxIf11QjbzGBUHyf5_h3BRytlIxTgCEgRAYLi1vLFKKtRM/s1600/Fashola+with+Teacher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozanuXXImgDLDGEvpQhV9dVjrrLWnLNvuMJQN1Wr1SEU3YZ49xbCo789BIKPkOm85VMTOiqkA9VGNsIAnKwbGVZaFUSfMndxIf11QjbzGBUHyf5_h3BRytlIxTgCEgRAYLi1vLFKKtRM/s1600/Fashola+with+Teacher.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola met with his former Bible Knowledge teacher, Mrs. Felicia Iyabode Adefunke Akinola, when he was a student at Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja on December 22.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This reunion comes 38 years after the governor left school.</div> <div> <br /></div>

[Photo Of The Day] Gov Fashola Meets Class Teacher 38 Years After

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola met with his former Bible Knowledge teacher, Mrs. Felicia Iyabode Adefunke Akinola, when he was...

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