Nigeria’s trio of John Obi Mikel, Ahmed Musa and Kelechi Iheanacho were on Saturday named among 30 nominees for the 2016 CAF African Player of the Year Award.

According to the list posted on the website of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the three Nigerians would be in contention at the award ceremony scheduled for Jan. 5, 2017 in Abuja.

The three Super Eagles players will vie for the award with other top African stars like Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon, Andre Ayew of Ghana and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabon.

NAN reports that Mikel, who captains the Eagles and plies his trade at Chelsea of London, led the Nigerian Dream Team to win a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. On his part, Musa helped his former team CSKA Moscow to win the Russian title before moving to England in July to join reigning English champions, Leicester City, while Iheanacho is in Manchester City’s first team.

For the Award of African Player of the year based in Africa, two Nigerians also made the list of 25 nominees for the award. The nominees are Mfom Udo of Enyimba FC of Aba and Chisom Chikatara of Wydad Athletic Club, Casablanca, Moroco. (NAN)


Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/10/2016-caf-african-player-mikel-musa.html

Africans are now alive, alive to their innate capabilities.

A young Nigerian from Bida in Niger State, recently construct a 'convertible' car, which he drove from Bida to Abuja, a distance of about 200km.

Surprisingly, the car engine was constructed using a mini generator set popularly known as 'i pass my neigbour'.

Africa future stars is proud to associate itself with Africans like this. It is an indication that Africa is now ripe and we are taking over.

See more images from the source below;

http://www.africafuturestars.com/2016/09/photos-young-nigerian-built-wooden-car.html

Nnamdi Azikiwe University has scheduled its 2016/2017 Post UTME Screening Exercise for candidates who chose the University as first choice.

The candidates are required to apply for the screening exercise. The details are as outlined below:

1. SCREENING EXERCISE DATES
Applications for screening will start on Wednesday, 14th and end on Friday, 30th September, 2016.

2. ELIGIBILITY
i. Candidates who made Nnamdi Azikiwe University their first choice are eligible to apply.
ii. The general cut-off mark is 180 points scored in the UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination) of 2016.

3. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
i. Candidates are to generate RRR (Remita Retrieval Reference) online by visiting http://portal.unizik.edu.ng and proceed to any Bank of their choice for payment.
ii. Candidates are to go back to the portal for payment verification.
iii. If payment verification is successful, candidate will move on to FILL THE APPLICATION FORM and follow the stages as provided.

4. SCREENING FEE
The screening fee payable is the sum of N2,500.00 (Two Thousand and Five Hundred Naira) only.

5. CAUTION
i. Candidates must have at least five (5) credits which must include English Language at one or two sittings in the School Certificate (WAEC, GCE, NECO, NABTEB).
ii. Candidates must ensure that they have passed the relevant subjects for the discipline they are applying for.
iii. The University will not be liable for any wrong payment/entry.
iv. The University will also not be liable for any fraudulent payments made anywhere that are not in line with the directives of the University.

Source: http://www.anambrablog.ng/2016/09/unizik-admission-screening-registration.html

New York-based Farai Simoyi is one of the rising stars of the catwalk with her self-titled clothing line. Born in London, raised in Zimbabwe and educated in the United States, she has caught the attention of fashion enthusiasts around the world.

When she first moved to New York City, she was hired as a Senior Denim Designer for House of Dereon, the clothing line by mega-artist, Beyonce and her mother, Tina Knowles. Simoyi recalls one day, standing on the 17th floor of a building in Times Square, the heart of Manhattan and having an epiphany; “look at how far I have come and how much I have accomplished; I am a Zimbabwean designer on the design team TISI +1.02% for Beyonce’s clothing line and my parents were raised in huts in Zimbabwe, Africa,” she said, awed by the trajectory of her life.

Having worked with pop star Beyonce, she is currently the senior designer for hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj's fashion collection.

Much like her boss Nicki Minaj, the only woman on the FORBES’ Hip Hop Cash Kings list (since 2011) who once told a Forbes contributor, “I am not going to fall back from something because it’s never been done before by a woman,” Simoyi’s foray into fashion took the same tone and tenacity. “Building my own fashion label from scratch has been a major challenge on it’s own, but building a brand in one of the most unstable industries is even tougher,” said the Zimbabwean fashion designer, “but I don’t see myself doing anything else,” she emphasized, resolutely.

Hear her, "Working with #Beyonce and #NickiMinaj has been such an eye-opener and such an amazing experience because I always tell people, you know, you can't get to that level of stardom without being brilliant and without being a genius".


Source: http://www.africafuturestars.com/2016/09/farai-simoyi-young-zimbabwean-designer.html

A secondary school student won a Pant as a prize from his teacher for his good behaviour.

The teacher who awarded the special prize to him in front of his classmates proudly posed for the camera!

What is really happening in this part of the world?

Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/09/see-what-this-student-got-as-prize-from.html

Wisdom Mbanasor, an Igbo who hails from Orlu in Imo state, Nigeria, is a dedicated young African with passion for excellence.

A master degree holder in Marketing, wizz, as he fondly called, first travelled to Dubai four years ago, rose from being a nobody to becoming one of the most sought after cook/baker in and around Dubai. As a result of this, he won many accolades and even competition.

The last from a family of four, Mbanasor who came from a committed Christian is currently the executive officer of Skinnie Genie, one of the popular restaurant in Dubai. When asked about is skills and what makes him unique, he said it was an act of God and that from day one he prepared himself not to fail. He specializes in bakery, soup and sauce

Wisdom who is also an entrepreneur, in his spare time engages in the delivery of ladies needs such as human hair, weavon, shoes and hand bags. His resourcefulness as endeared him to lots of clients and has brought him immense patronage

Although he enjoys life Dubai, but he still think about home and hopes someday to return to Nigeria and give back to the society. One such dream is to open the biggest restaurant and fashion house.

Source: http://www.africafuturestars.com/2016/08/meet-young-nigerian-who-is-rated-as-one.html

PREMIUM TIMES has obtained an insider account by a whistleblower, who is an operative of the State Security Service.The same whistleblower had reached out and provided vital information to two human rights organization, the Amnesty International and the Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law.

Blowing the whistle
The operative, who was part of the joint security operation but is now disturbed by the manner soldiers “refused to play by the rule”, contacted a trusted human rights activist.
The identity of the whistleblower is being concealed, so he is not punished by the authorities. His recorded narrative is however in the possession of this newspaper.
The whistleblower stated that the operation started with the medium use of force on the night of May 29.
The following morning, the joint task force moved from the Onitsha Army Barracks to the rally venue on Nkpor-Umuoji Road only to find a crowd of pro-Biafra supporters who had been battered the night before by invading soldiers in the premises of St Edmunds Catholic Primary School.
The crowd, joined by newcomers, was by now in a resistance mood.

At that point, the JTF retreated to Onitsha Military Barracks. The retreat infuriated Cantonment Commander, Issah M. Abdullahi, a colonel, who ordered them back to clear the venue and roads of all “miscreants.”
With this firm directive, the JTF, dominated by soldiers and led by Major C.O. Ibrahim of the Nigerian Military Police stormed the streets and the event venue.
The rest is history. The whistleblower said that while other members of the JTF were minimizing the use of force, soldiers recklessly opened fire at crowds, shooting at close range, and “wasting people indiscriminately.”
Passersby and people in their homes and shops were not spared of stray bullets, the SSS operative said.
He said it got to a point where injured pro-Biafra supporters, seeing the countless bodies of their colleagues on the ground, opened their arms wide, advanced towards the soldiers screaming that they too should be killed.

Three military trucks were used to cart away heaps of dead bodies.
According to the whistleblower, there are two cemeteries inside the Onitsha Army Barracks. Though reserved for fallen soldiers, victims of the massacre were buried in the cemetery close to Yahweh Church, inside the barracks.
The whistleblower added that in the evening of the same day when everyone thought the dust had settled, JTF operatives invaded the Nnewi Teaching Hospital and to the fury of nurses, abducted 12 gunshot victims and seven of their relations looking after them.
The 19, including women, were brought before the Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma. He claimed that the commissioner accused the 19 of threatening the security of the state.

He would, however, order that the wounded men be returned to the hospital while their family members be taken away by SARS for interrogation. Human rights activists familiar with police tactics in Nigeria say that interrogation by SARS is a euphemism for torture.
Continuing his narrative, the whistleblower said that on June 2, two days after the massacre, soldiers stormed the Nnewi hospital and arrested eight of the 12 critical injured men the commissioner had earlier sent back to the hospital.
Their whereabouts remain unknown.
PREMIUM TIMES separately gathered that on June 3, five men with serious bullet wounds were transferred by soldiers from Onitsha Army Barracks to the State CID and dumped inside a cell without any medical attention.
We are unable to ascertain if the five men were among the eight abducted from Nnewi Teaching Hospital the day before. The name of one of the abducted men is given as Ugoo K.C.

As the news spread that soldiers had invaded the Nnewi Teaching Hospital, gunshot victims in other hospitals begged their relations to move them to other states.
Among those moved to Abia State were Chidi Nwigwe, Uchenna Odaa, Ezeaka Ejike, Chima Anamuasonye, Nwaowe John, Ifeanyi C. Azubuike and Ugochukwu Nnamu. Those moved to Enugu included Ifeanyi Ogumma and Arinze Aja.
Since the whistleblower’s account, human rights groups have worked their contacts in the various security outfits to check out the story.
A security source, another SSS source, and a military police source individually confirmed that a mass burial occurred in the afternoon of Wednesday, June 1 in a military cemetery, near Yahweh Church, inside the Onitsha Military Barracks.

The military police source added that a total of 15 graves were prepared with some taking as many as 10 bodies while some contained only five.
To hell and back: an escapee experience
‘To hell and back’ is the only way to summarize the experience of Henry Ibebuike Enekwe, the 32-year old electrical engineer who was abducted by soldiers on his way to Enugu.
News of Mr. Enekwe’s abduction was widely circulated by the human rights coalition called the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations.
Recounting his ordeal, Mr. Enekwe, who is not an IPOB member, said he was on his way to Enugu from Onitsha to seal an electrical-installation contract with a Lagos-based businessman. In the morning of the D-Day, May 30, 2016, he was abducted by soldiers and taken to the Onitsha Military Cantonment.

“I live at Nkpor-Agu. The greatest shock of my live was witnessing the killing of three young men returning from the early-morning mass in front of the street leading to St Edmunds Catholic Church Nkpor-Agu (Early-morning mass is a daily ritual for Catholic communities). I was arrested and thrown into a military truck. I think the three young men panicked when they saw the soldiers waving their guns and barking. They attempted to run and right before my very eyes, the soldiers fired at them one after the other. They picked up their corpses and threw them like logs of wood into the same truck I was sitting inside. The soldiers moved from that street to another, arresting people and throwing them inside the same truck and killing others and picking up their bodies. They were acting like hunters on a hunting expedition.

“When we got to the barracks, I saw heaps of bodies on the ground. Those still breathing were dumped together with the dead. Another military vehicle brought in a new set of corpses. Later in the evening, all the corpses were taken in the direction of a nursery and primary school inside the barracks. I never saw anything again because we were taken into a cell,” Mr. Enekwe recounted.
While in captivity, Mr. Enekwe said he and other detainees were tortured every morning by soldiers.
“The soldiers call it morning tea. They force us to lie on a long bench and flog you with koboko (horsewhip) till you begin to bleed. When blood comes out, they pour water on wounds and continue to flog you to bring out more blood. As they flogged us, they rain curses on our mothers, our fathers, and our tribes,” Mr. Enekwe recalled.

In a little office filled with sympathizers, among them a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, Mr. Enekwe told human rights activists that in the night of Wednesday, June 1, about 8.30pm, soldiers guarding his cell crudely announced to the detainees: “We don give your brothers mass burial today, and if you people mess up, you will join them, and nothing will happen.”
The engineer further added that in the early hours of June 3, about 1.30am, soldiers came to his cell and moved some detainees, including six groaning with gunshot wounds. They were never returned to the cell till June 4 when he regained freedom.
Mr. Enekwe said he was lucky to have come out of military detention alive. His rescue was made possible by family contacts within the SSS. It could not be confirmed, but someone in the Ebonyi State Directorate of the SSS is believed to have contacted a senior SSS colleague in Anambra. He was told that his SSS savior came six times to the Onitsha military barracks but was each time told Mr. Enekwe was not in their custody.
Inefficient Human Right Desk

In February this year, the Nigerian Army announced the establishment of what it called the Army Human Right Desk. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Tukur Buratai, represented at the commissioning by the Chief of Civil-Military Affairs (CCMA), Rogers Nicholas, had said the establishment of the desk office was borne out of the increasing interest of the local and international human rights bodies on what the army was doing in the North East and other parts of the country.

He had added that the human right desk was facilitated by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), assuring that the Nigerian Army under his leadership would investigate all cases of human rights complaints brought before it.
That has not happened. The litmus test was the invasion by soldiers same month of a prayer meeting inside the National High School Aba and the shooting dead of 22 unarmed pro-Biafra sympathizers whose bodies were later dumped in a borrow pit. The Army announced it had dispatched an investigation team to Aba, but almost four months after, the outcome of the military investigation is yet to be made public.

Massacre on Heroes Day
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that May 30 every year is set aside since 1966 for remembrance of fallen heroes of Igbo Ethnic nationality. In 2014 and 2015 the day was marked in Enugu and Aba and by Igbo diaspora in Europe, America, Canada and some countries in Africa. Program of events include lectures, church services, and solemn procession. There are no street protests or armed activities.

It was further gathered that Onitsha was chosen for this year’s celebration. An expanse of land along Nkpor-Umuoji Road, close to ALO Aluminum Industry Ltd, was selected as the venue. The land belongs to a cooperative run by a traders’ association which had acquired same for the building of residential houses by its members.
The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) showed this newspaper a copy of a notification letter addressed to and sent to the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma, requesting security protection at the venue.

The letter dated May 23, 2016, was signed on May 24, 2016, by Uchenna Asiegbu of the IPOB’s Directorate of State. A security source said the letter became the “working document” for counter-strategies against the Heroes Day celebration.
In the night of May 29, the eve of the anniversary, blockades were mounted on all roads leading into Onitsha by soldiers, some of whom were said to have come from 82 Division Enugu. The sealed roads were Onitsha-Owerri Expressway to stop IPOB/MASSOB supporters coming in from Imo, Abia, Port Harcourt and the Akwa Ibom States; the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway to prevent travelers coming in from Lagos, Edo and northern part of the country; and the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway to contain those arriving from Enugu, Ebonyi, Cross Rivers, Benue and Kogi States.

Innocent travelers and IPOB sympathizers alike were allegedly pulled out of buses, verbally attacked, flogged with a horsewhip and hit with the butt of the gun.
At the Delta end of the Niger Bridge, some passengers were shot at, arrested and taken away. Some night travelers, who were neither IPOB/MASSOB members nor aware of anything called Heroes Day were equally beaten up by soldiers.
Not a few, including women and teenagers, had to run into the bush and remained there all night.
The whistleblower told a trusted human rights campaigner that to the chagrin of anti-riot police officers and operatives of the SSS, rampaging soldiers “hijacked the security operation” kicking passengers, ordering them to lie face down on the dirt, shooting indiscriminately and mouthing ethnic slurs.

Meanwhile, IPOB/MASSOB supporters who had entered Onitsha before the blockades made their way to the venue of the Heroes Day celebration. In their hundreds they camped out in a primary school close to St. Edmunds Catholic Church at Nkpor-Agu. The pro-Biafra supporters said that minutes before 2 am when most of them were sound asleep, soldiers invaded the school, shooting into the crowd. Those who could run did so but that did not stop the bullets hitting them from behind. The exact number of people killed in the primary school or left with bullet wounds is difficult to tell as most of the victims had arrived from different states and did not particularly know one another.
Survivors said the dead and some of the wounded were taken away in military trucks. Those arrested were packed into the same trucks carrying the dead and taken to the Onitsha Military Barracks.

The D-Day
In the morning of May 30, the D-Day, news of the killings of sleeping men at the school near St. Edmund Catholic Church had been heard in Onitsha, Asaba and different parts of the South East.
In Onitsha, dozens of trucks and vans filled with soldiers in combat gears raced down major roads and streets. Any gathering of three or more people was at risk of being fired upon.
Shootings were recorded at hotspots in Onitsha and environs including Nkpor Junction, Eke-Nkpor –Umuoji road, Afor-Nkpor to Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, Flyover Bridge by New Parts Market, Ojoto- Umuoji road, Ifite-Dunu, Ogbunike, and Ogidi.

Following the blockade of every road leading to the event venue, the pro-Biafra leaders resorted to using mobile phones to coordinate their members. Thousands soon assembled simultaneously at three strategic spots: the Asaba-Abraka Junction by BridgeHead in Delta State, Ifite-Dunu, and Ojoto/Umuoji. From these different spots, the three different crowds began to march into Onitsha with the open-air venue as the destination.
Not everyone made it to the Heroes Day venue. Way before sunset, 14 critically injured citizens were writhing on the floor of the Nnewi Teaching Hospital, 15 at the Multicare Hospital in Nkpor and nine at St Mary’s Hospital, Nnewi.

Several private hospitals, including the Crown Hospital and St Michael Hospitals in Nkpor, were equally recipients of gunshot emergencies. Same for medical facilities in Asaba and Okija.
The Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Delta State, Charles Muka, had in a statement said that five members of the pro-Biafra group were killed by military officers after confrontations along the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway.
But that was only in Delta State. In the push from Delta into Anambra, two policemen were pushed into the River Niger. One drowned, the other was rescued. A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was stabbed to death in Onitsha. His name was given as Genesis Akagha. He was from Umu Ororonjo in Owerri Municipal, Imo State.
Family members told PREMIUM TIMES that the late Mr. Akagha was just transferred to Sapele in Delta State and was to resume at his new post the same week he was killed.

Victims’ identities
IPOB and the human rights organization, the Intersociety, said no less than 29 civilians were killed in Asaba alone. The Asaba victims included Ichoku Ndu, Ebere Obidike, Nwabueze Uzonna, Okey Roland, Chukwudi Ifenna, Isaac Uzochukwu, Eberima Aguh, Henry Gideon, Efion Apani, Abuchi Obi, Ozoemena Chukwuma, Lotenna Ifeajuna, Ifebuchi Okenwa, Wisdom Omota, Ejike Abunchukwu, Ozobu Ogbonna, Emeka Madueke, Paschal Gideon, Afam Onyeburu, Izu Onwubiewe, Okey Agubata, Celestine Nnamdi, Obieke Lotenna, Nwabueze Oti, Chijioke Ozoro, Nwadike Chibuzo, Azuka Ifeake, Chioma Nkemjika and Obiora Okonkwo.

PREMIUM TIMES also gathered that in addition to the Asaba casualties, killings recorded elsewhere in Onitsha and environs were as high as 90 deaths. Intersociety claims a death toll of over 120.
The names of some of the victims were given as Obi Nkemakonam, Ubani Nwenneakonam, NwuzoFriday, Ilo Friday, Olisama Chukwuemeka, Awah Sopuruchi, Okoye Chinedu, Ezeilo Chuka, Onyeduna Ifesinachi, Nnamani Sunday, Chinonso Amadi, Tagbo Chibuzo, Anyanwu Chika, Egbe Johnson, Osukwe Ijeoma, Nkechukwu Ikechukwu, Kenneth Eni, Orjichukwu Chigozie, Solomon Izundu, Ebili Edward, Gabriel Onyedikachi, Ilo Ozoemena, Nwauju Charles, Onuoha Chidozie, Onyemaechi Nwaezeoma, Innocent Obodoekwe, Ifeanyi Azubuike, Adigwe Chukwudi, Ogochukwu Mbam, Obiosa Chukwueme, Ugochukwu Samuel, Onuoha Chigozie, Maduka Egwela, John Onuchukwu, Maduabuchi Onwukanjo, Izuchukwu Nwaogba, Nnamdi Okonkwo, Ibekwe Okechukwu, Felix Odianwu, Okafor Moses Madukasi and Egwu Joseph.

Like Tiananmen Square
Security operation of May 30 in Onitsha has variously been compared to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China, in 1989. IPOB alleges ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Heads of the different security units involved in the Heroes Day operations included Col Isah M. Abdullahi, who is the Onitsha Military Cantonment Commander; Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma; Major C.O. Ibrahim of the Nigerian Military Police at Onitsha Army Barracks; Deputy Commissioner of Police J.B. Kokomo, who is the deputy commissioner in charge of operations in the Anambra State Police Command; DCP Makama, Second–in-command, Anambra State Police Command; Assistant Commissioner of Police H. Ezekiel who is the Onitsha Area Commander; Superintendent of Police Rabiu Garba, the DPO of Fegge Police Station; Superintendent of Police, Mark Ijaradu of Inland Town police unit; CSP Kayode Olabanji of Okpoko Police station.

Officers of the Ogidi Police unit also participated in the security operations but PREMIUM TIMES was unable to confirm the identity of the Head of the unit.
Aside those killed or critically wounded, dozens of others have gone missing. Family members said they initially thought their missing relatives were among the over 100 people arrested and held in various detention facilities including the Onitsha Army Barracks, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) at Awkuzu, the Nigerian Prisons in Onitsha and the State CID at Awka.

They have gone from one detention center to another; visited hospitals and mortuaries yet cannot find their loved ones. Following the Heroes Day rally, soldiers and SARS operatives have routinely invaded homes at midnight, abducting men from their beds. One of them is Chikezie Nwodo, a native of Enugu State.

Human rights organizations working in the South East said that before the rally, over 600 people were documented to have been arrested, tortured and being held without trial in prisons in different parts of the country.

Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/06/how-onitshankpor-massacre-of-pro-biafra.html

THE Niger Delta Avengers in the early hours of today blew up two major oil wells located at Dibi in Warri South West local government area of Delta State.

The oil wells are Well RMP 23 and RMP 24 belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited.

Claiming responsibility for the attack, the Niger Delta Avengers on its twitter handle @Niger Delta Avengers on Wednesday morning, said: “With the heavy presence of 100 gunboats, 4 warships and jet bombers, NDA blew up Chevron Oil Well RMP 23 and RMP 24, 3:44AM this morning.

“This is to show the whole world that the Nigeria military is good in harassing innocent Nigerians.”

Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/06/breaking-avengers-strike-again-blow-up.html

Rumours that militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) are planning to bomb the Ikorodu Police Station, the Atlas Cove, the Third Mainland Bridge and other targets in Lagos state has been dismissed by the Lagos state police command.

The militants who are behind the renewed attacks on pipelines and oil platforms in the Niger Delta had promised to extend their attacks to Lagos and other cities any time soon.

The Nation reports that fears were rife yesterday May, 31, that the group’s threat to extend its attacks to Lagos were likely following huge deployment of policemen in Ikorodu area of Lagos.

However, the Lagos state commissioner of police Fatai Owoseni said the city is safe, adding that the rumours of the impending attacks on the city were unfounded. Owoseni said: “Just as you heard it as a rumour, so I also heard it as a rumour. It is a mere rumour and there is no truth in the rumour. It is just like the rumour we received that the Third Mainland Bridge will be no more on May 29.

“Here we are, the Third Mainland Bridge is still standing. Reports we got about Ikorodu are cases of cultists and the police have arrested about 200 suspects. They are being screened. Security agents are on their toes there.

There is overwhelming presence of policemen because there is a tactical operation going on there since last week. “Ikorodu has been sectioned into four tactical operations points, which are manned between 5am and 9pm. “In fact, the report at our disposal now is that some of the militants who used the waterways to commit heinous crimes, like kidnapping and armed robbery have been relocating.

“There is no threat of bombing of a police station at Ikorodu. However, plain-clothe policemen, officials of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) are on ground and on top of the situation. People should be careful where they go,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army on Tuesday, May 31, ruled out any dialogue with the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, whose operations in the region have cut down ‎daily oil production output.

According The Punch, the army, justifying its recent operations in Gbaramatu, Delta state, said the use of force was for now the only option until leaders of the militant group were apprehended, The Punch reports. Brig.-Gen. J. Hamakim, representing the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, said this at the ‘State of the Nation Conference’, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association and held in Abuja.

Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/06/panic-niger-delta-avenger-picks-target.html

Do you ever get the feeling that the people you follow on social media are more popular and active than you are?

Unfortunately, this is probably not your imagination. Due to a strange social phenomenon, chances are that you’re right. Those you follow on Twitter likely have a larger following than you do, as research recently published in the journals show.

The finding is evidence of a fascinating, broader phenomenon that sociologists call “the friendship paradox.” The basic idea is that people are likely to have fewer friends than their friends do, on average.

Strange as that may seem, the principle is well-established, and it has wide ranging effects. It’s the reason why the people you see in the gym seem to be more in shape than you are and why your sexual partners seem to be more experienced than you are. It’s why people experience both national parks and college classes as more crowded than they actually are on average.

How can this be true? Let’s look at the original example, the idea that your friends are likely, on average, to have more friends than you do.

It sounds strange, but the principle actually has an intuitive explanation. People who have more friends are more likely to be among your friends than people who have fewer friends.

The problem is that, by surveying your friends, you’ve created what statisticians called a “biased sample.” People with few friends are less likely to be among your friends than they are among the general population.

To put it another way, the odds of being friends with someone who has more friends are greater than the odds of being friends with someone who has fewer friends. You can see how this might work out mathematically in the diagram below:

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http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/here-are-mathematical-reasons-why-youre.html

According to a video which has gone viral, a man was made to face an unusual punishment in his community after he was caught cheating with another man’s wife.

The man had reportedly been made to walk through the community (so that people would know what he did) and was thereafter made to lie down on a bench, where they proceeded to flog him mercilessly.

The teeming crowd refused to listen to his pleas to be let go. The incident is said to have happened somewhere in Ghana, as the language being spoken in the video clip sounds like one of the languages spoken in Ghana known as Twi.

watch video here:

http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/see-what-happened-to-man-caught-with.html

A group of Mechanical students from the University of Benin had build a car that looks like a sport car as their joint project.

Nigerian Youths are truly gifted...Government should take note of these

Detail here

http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/gifted-car-made-by-university-of-benin.html

It was 1944, as the World War II raged, when an American bomber took off on a mission with three crew members on board.

Somewhere over the Pacific, the plane came under enemy fire, lost a wing and crashed into the Pacific.

For 72 years, the TBM-1C Avenger lay on the ocean floor and with it, the remains of the crew.
Until this week.

Scientists found the plane in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island of Palau.
It was yet another success for Project RECOVER. an organization that blends old-school archival research with new-school sonar technology to find aircraft of Americans MIA, or missing in action.

"This is more than reconnecting with history; it's about locating the missing to enable the U.S. government to bring them home for a proper burial," said Dr. Eric Terrill, with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, who also co-founded the Project RECOVER group.

The group had been looking for the plane for several years.
The process began, as all the searches do, with intensive research at the National Archives, interviews with veterans, and a dig through old military photographs.

Through the process, the group determined approximately where the plane went down -- but not exact enough to pinpoint the location.

The group then used a side scanner sonar, which is used to detect objects on the seafloor.
"We put that on a underwater robot that is like a torpedo and it continuously goes back and forth over the area, Terrill said. "We essentially mow the lawn with this device."

For two months, the sonar scanned. And then, success.
"I just returned from the site yesterday," Terrill told CNN on Wednesday.
The next step is for the team to turn over its findings to the U.S. government for the recovery of the crew members.

The government will use personal items, such as dog tags, dental records and DNA to identify them.
"It's amazing that even remains 70 years old can have DNA extracted from them," Terrill said.

In the last five years, Project RECOVER has been involved in six recovery missions like this, but there are many more on the horizon.
"We have identified 100 cases worldwide that are suitable for recovery and over 200 families have reached out asking for help with MIA's," he said.

See more stunning images of the bomber here
Source : http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/breaking-news-downed-wwii-bomber-found.html

Global oil benchmark, Brent crude, on Thursday traded above $50 per barrel for the first time in 2016 as supply disruptions and increased global demand continue to fuel a recovery. Brent, against which Nigeria’s oil is priced, hit $50.14 per barrel at 8:30am, data from Energy Intelligence showed.

The rise followed US data on Thursday showing that oil inventories had fallen, largely due to supply disruptions following fires in Canada.
Brent crude has now risen 80 per cent since it hit 13-year lows of below $28 per barrel in January this year.

The difference between the global benchmark and Nigeria’s budget benchmark has now risen a little above $12 per barrel. But the recent disruptions to oil output occasioned by militant attacks have prevented the country from benefitting from the increase in oil price.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had recently said the nation’s oil output had dropped to 1.4 million barrels per day from 2.2 million bpd.
US crude oil inventories fell by 4.2 million barrels to 537.1 million barrels in the week to May 20, according to US Department of Energy data, the BBC reported.

Canada is the biggest supplier to the US and wildfires in the western provinces have knocked out about a million barrels a day.

Talks in recent months between the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia about freezing oil production had already helped prices recover.
Short-term disruptions to oil supplies have also lifted the price, as they have offset higher production from Iran and Saudi Arabia.

As well as the disruption to key oil production facilities in Canada, attacks by militant groups continue to restrict oil pipelines in Nigeria.
Demand has also been better than expected from major economies such as China, India and Russia.
Against this improving backdrop, analysts are starting to modestly raise their forecasts.
Goldman Sachs said earlier this month that it now expected oil prices to consistently hit $50 a barrel in the second half of 2016 and $60 by the end of 2017.

The US bank said, “The oil market continues to deliver its share of surprises, with low prices driving disruptions in Nigeria, higher output in Iran and better demand.
“With each of these shifts significant in magnitude, the oil market has gone from nearing storage saturation to being in deficit much earlier than we expected.”

Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/oil-price-hits-50-for-first-time-this.html

Ultimatum form NDA ends today...commenced bombing...latest was the Chevron site in Delta state this morning...why wont Buhari be sick

http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/tension-in-n-delta-as-ultimatum-to.html

more pic

The little dude is not the only one. He’s just few months old and black as coal. Supposedly he comes from South Africa. However, here is another amazing photo.

This baby is about two years of age. He is black and very black. Possibly the two photographs are of the same child. Only the first one was not laid out on any Internet resource before. So, after all there might be just one blackest champion on our list. These photos have gone viral.

The babies look amazing. There is no reliable information on who they are or if they exist at all. But if there has to be the blackest baby, it’s one of them!

see more photos here...
http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/shocker-see-photos-of-world-blackest.html

see more photo shot with President Obama here...

http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/obama-gives-us-highest-research-award.html

Nigerian professor Deji Akinwande received a 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the US government’s highest honor for scientists and engineers engaged in the early stages of research. Akinwande was awarded by President Barack Obama on May 5 at the White House, where the 105 researchers were hosted.

The latest recipients of PECASE spent two days in Washington, D.C., where they met with administration leaders and shared the insights of their work.

During his visit with these awardees, President Obama congratulated them on their achievements and urged them to continue to lead the way in driving discovery and innovation. He also noted that the recipients, all of whom are either employed or funded by the federal government, underscored the importance of our Nation’s investments in research and development.

Akinwande was awarded for his “outstanding research accomplishments in nanomaterials, graphene device physics, and opto-electronics, and for dedication to the education of future scientists and engineers”.

“These early-career scientists are leading the way in our efforts to confront and understand challenges from climate change to our health and wellness. “We congratulate these accomplished individuals and encourage them to continue to serve as an example of the incredible promise and ingenuity of the American people.”

Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has been named the Barclays Premier League Player of the season. This comes days after he picked up the Football Writers’ Footballer of the Year award.

The Barclays Premier League winner beats teammates N’Golo Kante, Kasper Schmeichel, Wes Morgan and PFA player of the year winner Riyad Mahrez, to the award.

Leicester’s five players were joined on the shortlist for the award with West Ham’s Dimitri Payet, Mesut Ozil of Arsenal and Tottenham trio Harry Kane, Dele Alli and defender Toby Alderweireld.

Source: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/breaking-201516-barclays-premier-league.html

donphilopus:
OP, you're a liar. You edited it about 15mins ago with your Wikipedia Username Oluwa2Chainz and opened a thread about it immediately after you edited it. .Are you hustling to get to the homepage? Or you're just looking for traffic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari

That is the wikipedia link, Judas, confirm it yourself

It happens that some jobless, playful and absolutely hilarious person(s) have tampered with the Wikipedia page of our dear Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

The page which consists of all important information and life history of the 73-year-old president was turned into a something to laugh at.

Read more: http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/hehe-see-what-hacker-did-to-president.html

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, sent an invitation to former spokesperson of Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Organization and erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.

The EFCC, in a letter, sent to Fani-Kayode’s Abuja residence, demanded his presence in their Abuja office by 10.00am on Monday, May 9, 2016, to explain his role in the presidential campaign funds of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2015 presidential elections.


The letter was signed by Mr. Mohammed Umar Abba on behalf of the EFCC acting chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu. Vanguard learnt that Fani-Kayode, in a letter through his lawyer, assured the anti-graft agency that he would duly honour the invitation.

Recall that the ex-Aviation minister has severally insisted that he was not hiding from the EFCC, saying he was yet to be invited for question.


See letter of invitation here : http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/breaking-efcc-invites-fani-kayode-for.html

A man in Israel , David Shoshan, who said he doesn’t want God to answer his prayers, file a restraining order against the Almighty.

Strange but real.

Read why here :http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/isreali-man-sues-god-says-he-should.html

A couple of months back, the heart-wrenching image of a starving toddler,wandering naked through the streets of Nigeria captured the attention of the world.

The little one was abandoned by his family after they believed him to be a witch, and he was forced to survive on whatever being thrown to him by passersby for months, until a Danish aid worker spotted him on the streets.

See more revelation here : http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/how-nigerian-boy-accused-of-being-witch.html

The Federal Government has bluntly told the ECOWAS community court sitting in Abuja not to hear a matter brought before it by the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, over his continued incarceration and trial.

The government, in its written preliminary objection filed by the Federal Ministry of Justice, to Kanu’s suit, No. ECW/CCJ/APP/06/16, submitted that the sub-regional court lacked, “the requisite jurisdiction” to hear and determine the matter before it.

Consequently, it has urged the court to dismiss and/or strike out the action for want of jurisdiction, “stemming from incompetency in initiating the application against the defendants.”


The government noted that instead of waiting for conclusion of his application before the Nigerian Domestic Court of Appeal on his bail, the plaintiff proceeded to the ECOWAS court, a move it stated, amounted to, “an abuse of court process or subjecting the Nigerian law to ridicule.”

It submitted that Kanu, was being tried under existing Nigerian domestic laws and as such cannot properly file the suit before the sub-regional court.

Also, the government stated: “The corporate existence of Nigeria as a united, harmonious, indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation is certainly greater than any citizen’s liberty or right,” adding that once the security of the nation is in jeopardy, “and it survives in pieces rather than in peace”, individual’s liberty or rights may not even exist.”

On the issue of jurisdiction, it averred: “It is trite law that a court cannot assume jurisdiction over ancillary claims when it has no jurisdiction to entertain the main claim, since an ancillary claim can only be properly determined by that court. Thus, it is improper to approach a court which is incompetent to determine only some of the issues in a case if there is a court with jurisdiction to determine all the issues.”

Faulting the inclusion of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Director General of State Security Service as defendants in the suit, the government stated that in the context and framework of ECOWAS, only member states and community institutions can be sued before the sub-regional court for alleged human rights violation.

It submitted that the court has no jurisdiction over the two defendants because they, “are neither member -states or community institutions of ECOWAS and therefore, not amenable to the jurisdiction of the community court of justice”.

The government therefore, urged the court to strike out their names as parties in the matter, stressing that there is neither factual nor documentary evidence to any claim against them.

From Henry Chukwurah

Source : http://www.newstrafficker.com/2016/05/fg-to-ecowas-court-hands-off-kanus-case.html