#BREAKING The CCT has been adjourned until October 21st 2015. Gives the defense more time to explain charges to their client
#SarakiTrial
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
#Nigerian Ministerial list to be released this week #HNNGov
The Senate may get a letter from the President, requesting the confirmation of the nominees on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Buhari, who was inaugurated the President on May 29, had promised to name members of his cabinet in September.
He had at different times said he was in search of Nigerians with integrity to be part of his team that would reposition the country.
There has been anxiety that the President may not be able to meet the September deadline as he was quoted recently as saying that the month was running to an end too fast for his liking.
There are indications, however, emerged that Buhari, who is currently attending the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York, had concluded work on the list.
The list may be presented to the Senate before October 1.
While reacting to a report on an online medium that Buhari had sent one of his National Assembly Liaison Officers, Senator Ita Enang, back to Nigeria with the list meant for the Senate, presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, told reporters in New York on Monday that he would not be surprised if the list was ready.
He said it was within the timeline given by the President himself.
“I will not be surprised if the list is ready because it is within the timeline that the President gave. He said he will name his cabinet in September. Today (Monday) is September 28, so if it happens that it is ready, it is within the timeline,” Adesina said.
When asked to give an insight into the number of nominees on the list, the presidential spokesman simply said, “The constitution already gives you an idea of the number of people that can be on the cabinet because it stipulates that we must have at least one minister per state.”
#BREAKING Bobbi Kristina's death cause determined but not released yet due to this reason #HNNmemorial
The Fulton County Medical Examiner said in a statement Sunday their office is not releasing details because of a Fulton County Superior Court order to seal the results. The 22-year-old Brown died in hospice care July 26.
Brown was the only daughter between Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston.
The Fulton County district attorney and Roswell Police Department have been notified of the findings.
Brown was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub Jan. 31. She was found in the townhome she shared with Nick Gordon, whom Houston raised as her own.
A police report earlier this year described the incident as a drowning.
I am so scared to hear the cause. I attended Krissy's 13th and 16th birthday and watched these milestones of her life and also had to live to see her die! So pathethic and I hope she was not MURDERED!
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Check out the things BANNED at the #PopeinPhilly events #PopeInUSA #HNNReligion
A list was released containing prohibited items that will not be allowed for any of the events on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 at Independence Mall or on the Parkway.
The full list of prohibited items is below:
Aerosols
Ammunition
Animals other than service/guide animals
Backpacks and bags exceeding the size restrictions (18” x 13” x 7”)
Balloons
Bicycles
Hard Coolers (Soft-sided thermal coolers ARE allowed)
Drones and other unmanned aircraft systems
Explosives
Firearms
Glass, thermal or metal containers
Laser pointers
Mace/Pepper spray
Packages
Selfie Sticks
Signs exceeding the size restrictions (5’ x 3’ x 1/4”) made of any material except cardboard, poster board or cloth
Structures
Supports for signs and placards
Toy guns
Weapons of any kind
Any other items determined to be a potential safety hazard
A Saudi Prince was arrested in #LosAngeles for trying to force worker to perform Oral Sex #HNNCrime
Al Jazeera and Reuters Reports
A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to perform oral sex, Los Angeles police said on Thursday.
Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested on Wednesday and released on $300,000 bond the next day, according to police and online jail records.
The Los Angeles Police Department's special consul division said the prince does not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Los Angeles Times and KCBS-TV.
Police descended on the massive estate after a neighbor saw a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale the property’s surrounding wall on Wednesday, the Times reported.
The $37 million home, in one of the most exclusive enclaves in the world, has been rented for weeks at a time by foreign nationals over the past year, neighbor Tennyson Collins told the Times.
The biggest nuisance attributed to the renters so far have been a few loud parties, Collins told the paper.
The prince is expected to appear in court Oct. 19, court records show. Attempts to reach him by telephone were unsuccessful, and his attorney was not immediately known. A call to the Saudi embassy was not immediately returned.
A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to perform oral sex, Los Angeles police said on Thursday.
Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested on Wednesday and released on $300,000 bond the next day, according to police and online jail records.
The Los Angeles Police Department's special consul division said the prince does not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Los Angeles Times and KCBS-TV.
Police descended on the massive estate after a neighbor saw a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale the property’s surrounding wall on Wednesday, the Times reported.
The $37 million home, in one of the most exclusive enclaves in the world, has been rented for weeks at a time by foreign nationals over the past year, neighbor Tennyson Collins told the Times.
The biggest nuisance attributed to the renters so far have been a few loud parties, Collins told the paper.
The prince is expected to appear in court Oct. 19, court records show. Attempts to reach him by telephone were unsuccessful, and his attorney was not immediately known. A call to the Saudi embassy was not immediately returned.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Chicago station apologizes for using #Nazi image in Yom Kippur story #HNNImpact
A Chicago news station used a graphic of a yellow badge, like those the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust, to illustrate its report on the start of Yom Kippur.
WGN-TV aired the report on Tuesday night, hours into the Jewish Day of Atonement. The badge — shaped like the Star of David and featuring the word “Jude,” German for “Jew” — appeared atop concentration-camp-uniform stripes, and above the caption “Yom Kippur.”
Viewers quickly responded on social media.
WGN sought atonement for the graphic on Wednesday. The anchor who delivered the the Yom Kippur report said on air:
“Major correction tonight: We couldn’t see this from the set here, but in our story about Yom Kippur we apparently used a symbol that is extremely offensive to the Jewish community. We mistakenly showed a symbol used by Nazi Germany to identify Jews. We deeply apologize for that error.”
The station also apologized on Twitter, and at length on its website.
To our WGN News Viewers,
"Last night we ran a story to recognize Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. The artwork chosen to accompany the story came from a graphics image bank.
Regrettably, we failed to recognize that the image was an offensive Nazi symbol.
We are extremely embarrassed and we deeply apologize to our viewers and to the Jewish community for this mistake.
Ignorance is not an excuse.
Please know we are reviewing our in house policies and changes have already been made to make sure a hurtful oversight like this never happens again.
Thank you for your understanding. We promise to do better."
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala celebrates son's book which has been adapted into an award winning movie #HNNeducation
Former Nigerian Minister for Finance Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was estatic when she tweeted this morning congratulating her son Uzodinma on his book which was adapted into an award winning movie. The book is titled Beasts of No Nation.
Uzodinma Iweala is an author, sociologist and physician who hails from Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like Time Magazine, The New York Times,Entertainment Weekly, The Times, and Rolling Stone.
Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and also attended Harvard College atHarvard University earning an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language in 2004. While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003. He is a graduate ofColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 2011. He is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
He won the New York Public Library's 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 best young American novelists.
With files from Wikipedia
Congratulations to my son, Uzodinma Iweala, whose award winning book, Beasts of No Nation, was made into an award... http://t.co/O31tRCzq6F— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (@NOIweala) September 24, 2015
Student 'accused of being a terrorist' for reading book on terrorism #HNNTerror
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Mohammed Umar Farooq, who was enrolled in the Terrorism, crime and global security master’s programme, told the Guardian that he was questioned about attitudes to homosexuality, Islamic State (Isis) and al-Qaida.
Farooq’s replies, he said, were largely “academic” but he stressed his personal opposition to extremist views. However, the conversation in the library was reported by the official to security guards, because it had raised “too many red flags” .
“I could not believe it. I was reading an academic textbook and minding my own business. At first I thought I’d just laugh it off as a joke,” said Farooq, who then instructed a lawyer to help him challenge and rebut the claims.
The 2016 Presidential Debate Calender is set #HNNPolitics #America
Dayton, St. Louis and Las Vegas will each host presidential debates ahead of the 2016 general election.
The non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday announced the dates and sites for the three debates, as well as one that will pit the Democratic and Republican vice presidential candidates against each other. The first is Monday, Sept. 26 at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, followed by debates on Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The vice presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
In case there are problems with those sites, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, will serve as the backup site, the commission said.
"We appreciate the many applications we received and are delighted with the sites we have selected," commission co-chairs Frank Fahrenkopf and Mike McCurry said in a statement announcing the dates. "We look forward to working with these fine universities and their students and communities to bring these important civic events to the nation."
Volkswagen started recalling diesel cars in April but didn't tell anyone #HNNEnvironment
I hear US owners were asked to go in to their dealers for a software update. Should this have been covered up?
Regulators' growing suspicions about the accuracy of the vehicles' emissions tests prompted Volkswagen to issue a recall of its diesel powered cars in April, four months before the emissions scandal that culminated in the firing of the Volkswagen CEO on Wednesday.
Volkswagen's US arm wrote to car owners in the US state telling them of an “emissions service action” needed on their vehicles, Reuters said.
They were asked to go to a dealer for a software update to ensure exhausts were “optimised and operating efficiently”.
#BREAKING UPDATE: 220 people killed, at least 450 injured in a stampede of pilgrims during Hajj outside #Mecca
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Rescue operations were under way, the service said on Twitter, after the stampede in Mina near Mecca, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims were taking part in the last major rite of the hajj.
The Saudi civil defense service said on its Twitter account that i4000 of its personnel are currently sorting out casualties and rerouting pilgims to other routes.
This story is still developing so pls stay tuned @HNNAfrica on twitter--KOO
With files from Ahram Online
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Was Awolowo's daughter referring to Osinbajo as NEXT PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA? #HNNPolitics
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Mrs Tola Oyediran far right
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Mrs. Oyediran said she used to make it a point of duty to pray daily for a descendant of their father, who was the first premier of the old Western Region, to occupy the highest political office in the land, but stopped doing so at a point for reasons she did not know.
She made the declaration while receiving members of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) led by former governor of the old Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.), which paid a condolence visit to the country home of the Awolowos in Ikenne.
The daughter of the late matriarch, however, expressed firm belief that one day her prayer would be answered. Trust her, she was prolly referring to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who will probably be President when Buhari exits due to old age or a 2019 loss. lolz.
AN 'AMERICAN HERO': Yogi Berra, beloved Hall-of-Fame Yankee catcher dead at 90 #HNNSports
For the millions of friends and fans of Yogi Berra, beloved American icon, Hall-of-Fame Yankee catcher and unintentional world philosopher, these are the saddest of possible words: It’s over.
Berra, who played on a record 10 Yankee world championship teams and 14 All-Star teams, won three American League Most Valuable Player awards, had two terms as Yankee manager and one with the Mets and coined dozens of goofy-sounding but aptly true sayings termed “Yogi-isms” such as “When you come to the fork in the road, take it” and “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over," died Tuesday. He was 90.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of a Yankees legend and American hero, Yogi Berra," the Yankees tweetedearly Wednesday morning. Just four months earlier,Berra had celebrated his 90th birthday.
Twitter mocks Brian Williams’ coverage of the Pope #HNNMedia
As Brian Williams returned to TV Tuesday with coverage of Pope Francis’ first U.S. visit, Twitter poked fun of the lying anchor’s history of “misremembering” stories.
With the hashtag #BrianWilliamsPopeStories, users shared exaggerated stories of the news anchor and the pontiff. Meanwhile, Williams kept his real coverage on MSNBC strictly focused on the Pope’s visit, failing to mention the lies that kept him off the air for six months. He nearly fired after an internal investigation found at least 11 instances in which Williams embellished details of stories involving himself — but was instead punished with a suspension.
Pope Francis landed in Washington D.C. Tuesday and will head to New York Thursday. He’ll make a stop in Philadelphia before heading home to Rome on Sunday.
ISIS burns 4 Iraqi men to death after accusing them of being spies #HNNTerror
Sick ISIS terrorists have burned four men to death in their latest graphic video
The brutal militant group released the video of the four Iraqis' deaths after accusing them of spying for rival Shiite militia.
The men are seen stating their names and alleged crimes on camera before being chained around their wrists and ankles and suspended in the air. A line of fuel has been poured underneath the blindfolded men and masked militants set fire to their captives in the Iraq’s western Anbar province. The gruesome video shows slow motion footage as the fire burns up the fuel and the men are agonizingly burnt to death, the Independent reports.
My friend October's very Own @Drake leads the pack at the 2015 BET #HIPHOP awards coming in October! #HNNMusic
Hip-Hop’s fiercest lyricists will come together for the BET Hip-Hop awards to see who will earn the crown and who will go home empty handed.
The nominees were revealed Monday (September 14) with Drake and Big Sean leading the pack with 12 and 10 nominations respectively. Future’s three-peat mixtapes Monster, Beast Mode and 56 Nights all earned the Future Hive leader nods for the “Best Mixtape” category. Bobby Shmurda will compete with Dej Loaf, Tink, Fetty Wap and Rae Sremmurd for the “Who Blew Up Award” and Wale’s The Album About Nothing, will go up against Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, K.Dot’s To Pimp A Butterfly, Nicki Minaj’s The PinkPrint and Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.
The category which will cause the most debate is “Lyricist of The Year.” Kendrick Lamar, J.Cole, Big Sean, Drake and Nicki Minaj will all battle it out for the coveted award, which will most certainly spark many barbershop conversations about “real rap” and inspire a think piece or two from your friendly hip-hop blogger.
Peep the full list of nominees below. The BET Hip-Hop awards airs Tuesday, October 13.
Congrats to all the nominees.
The Happy Birthday Song LOSES it's copyright. We can now all sing it for FREE! #HNNBirthday
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Looks like everyone can now sing the "Happy Birthday" song for free.
In a surprise ruling Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge George H. King granted summary judgment to filmmakers like director Jennifer Nelson who challenged Warner Chappel's decades-old copyright claims to one of the best-known English-language tunes.
Warner Chappel reportedly earns about $2 million annually in royalties on public performances of the song since the company acquired Birch Tree Group, the successor to Clayton Summy Co., the song's original copyright owner.
King ruled that a copyright filed by the Summy Co. in 1935 granted only the rights to specific arrangements of the music, not the actual song itself. "Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.'s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the Happy Birthday lyrics," he said in his opinion.
With files from MSN
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Watch my #video detailing last moments of Mrs HID Awolowo #HNNmemorial
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| With Grandma HID is Mrs Tola Oyediran and my classmate Kemi Oyediran and her daughter. 3 generations |
Below is my initial report when the news broke Saturday September 19th 2015
Watch Former Governor Jesse Ventura rip Kim Davis the anti-gay marriage clerk #HNNGayvoices
WATCH: http://bit.ly/1j4093a
The drama inside the #SarakiTrial as Code of Conduct tribunal case starts with plenty of hitches #HNNGov
The Saraki trial started with a hitch as Bukola the Senate leader was not willing to be docked and drama ensued. the police Chief to the FCT even banned cameras and suddenly national broadcasters NTA and TVC the APC owned station by Ahmed Tinubu were rolling cameras. Channels, AIT and others barred. Anyway. below are my tweets of all the action at this Code of Conduct tribunal. The trial has been adjourned to October 21st 2015. More to come @HNNAfrica on Twitter.
#BREAKING #LIVE @bukolasaraki leaves court dock with smiles. Prosecution seems disgruntled #sarakitrial
#Sarakitrial Bickering in courtroom as prosecution objects to more time for Saraki to understand charges leveled against him.
Contrary to popular belief, the bench warrant for @bukolasaraki is still valid. Judge Umar has not withdrawn it #SarakiTrial
@bukolasaraki's lawyers apply to tribunal to allow him time to be briefed and understand these charges. pic.twitter.com/tGRBcYErcq #Sarakitrial
NO #LIVE broadcast coverage was allowed in the courtroom as FCT Commisioner of @PoliceNG has instructed to all media #Sarakitrial TVC is on
#LIVE #Breaking #sarakiTrial. @bukolasaraki has now plead NOT GUILTY to a 13 count charge read to him by a court clerk
@TVCNigeria is an @APCNigeria station so I answered your questions on why they have exclusive rights to do a LIVE broadcast #SarakiTrial
@bukolasaraki looks tense and has plead NOT GUILTY to all 3 charges leveled against him. pic.twitter.com/c1xDB8HN1p #CCT #sarakitrial
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