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Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Suspected ritualists dump baby in Festac swamp. Hands bound, baby organs removed
By: Online Publisher's
The suspected ritualists came in six cars and were about 15 men and a woman.
A source told Daily Sun that he saw the people who arrived the scene in their cars and became curious. “I saw when they carried something and entered into the bush. I wanted to challenge them but I was afraid, because they were many. Immediately they left after some minutes, I entered into the bush, where I saw a little baby whose hands were tied. We later invited policemen from Festac.
Similar sacrifice was performed at the same place, the same period last year. We decided to monitor their activities this year. We are really worried about this ugly development,” he said.
Policemen from Festac later visited the scene and took pictures of the baby.
When the Daily Sun called the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, to comment on the incident, he did not pick his calls.
A source at the Area ‘E’ Police Command Festac, who confirmed the incident said the headquarters had been duly informed.
Who are the parents of the baby girl that was dumped in a swamp by suspected ritualists at 6th Avenue, Festac, Lagos, on Monday?
This is the question agitating the minds of hundreds of people who besieged the area to catch a glimpse of the unfortunate baby. The bizarre act was carried out at about 12noon.
A close look at the baby whose arms were tied, revealed that her upper region was ripped open and some organs removed. Her mouth was also stuffed with some materials or items apparently used for the rituals.The uncensored photo when you continue...but please be warned that the photo is gruesome, heartbreaking, and so painful to look at...if you don't have the heart, don't continue...
The suspected ritualists came in six cars and were about 15 men and a woman.
A source told Daily Sun that he saw the people who arrived the scene in their cars and became curious. “I saw when they carried something and entered into the bush. I wanted to challenge them but I was afraid, because they were many. Immediately they left after some minutes, I entered into the bush, where I saw a little baby whose hands were tied. We later invited policemen from Festac.
Similar sacrifice was performed at the same place, the same period last year. We decided to monitor their activities this year. We are really worried about this ugly development,” he said.
Policemen from Festac later visited the scene and took pictures of the baby.
When the Daily Sun called the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, to comment on the incident, he did not pick his calls.
A source at the Area ‘E’ Police Command Festac, who confirmed the incident said the headquarters had been duly informed.
SON CAUGHT FATHER CHILLING WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE BUSH
By: Online Publisher's
People in Muzarabani under Chief Hwata in Warambwa village were left tongue tied when a woman caught her husband being intimate with his son’s wife in a field on Tuesday last week.
The father was apparently having one hell of a ‘Field Day’ people have said! Promise Chapwanya was caught doing the father-in-law duties but not in the normal way, he was bonking Tendai Mugariri his daughter-in-law from the rear, the so-called doggy-style, while they were in the fields.
The two were taken to Sabhuku (headman) Alexio Mhasvi for the customary law court to answer for their misdeeds as it is taboo. Promise was caught by his wife Abigail Gumbo, who tracked them to the fields after seeing that the two were getting too close for comfort for a relationship between a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law. She is said to have hatched a plan after she suspected that something was happening between the two. Tendai was said to be wearing shorts that were too revealing in front of her father-in-law, raising her mother-in-law’s suspicion.
Sabhuku Alexio also confirmed that Abigail was also suspicious because the two always went to the garden and fields together. On the fateful day Abigail is said to have followed the two from a distance and caught them in the middle of the juicy act and doing the doggy style in the fields. H-Metro caught up with Promise at his home but he ran away before he said anything; he went behind his house and vanished into the bush.
Probably the SAME bush that protected him as he enjoyed the fruits of his son’s courtship skills as he ‘did’ his daughter-in-law. Promise’s lovebird Tendai said, “Zvamakanzwa ndizvozvo but I cannot say anything about that issue (What you heard is true but I cannot say anything about the issue).” Abigail the mother in-law said, “Nyaya iyoyo ine makuva pasi and handisati ndaona zvakadaro. (That story is deadly, but I have never seen anything like that).”
But she could not be drawn to saying much as she was afraid of her husband as she kept saying, “You should talk to my husband. After all he is the HEAD of the house.” Apparently he was giving more HEAD than he was expected to . . . giving his ‘services’ even to the daughters-in-law! Abigail also wanted to say much but she just said; “the matter is under chief Hwata tomorrow”, (Yesterday), “so I cannot say more and if you want more details you can come and listen to the story yourselves at the chiefs court tomorrow.”
However Abigail wanted to tell H-Metro more details and she said, “Let’s meet somewhere not here since ndingazomuka ndakafa zvikazivikanwa kuti ndakuudzai zvimwe (I might end up dead if it’s found out that I gave you more details).” She later changed her mind and did not turn up at the rendezvous, fearing for her life from her husband Promise. Simbarashe, Tendai’s husband and the man whose wife was playing hide-the-sausage with his father could only just shake his head and refused to comment on the issue.
He professed to be devastated. Tendai’s hesitation at the house was so tense that the four seemed not to be in talking terms as witnessed by H-Metro when Abigail refused to call Tendai so that she could be interviewed, Abigail kept saying, “Vadaidzei mega ambuya vangu (call my mother-in-law yourselves),” lamenting that she was now the muroora and not Tendai.
Village head Alexio Mhasvi said, “At my level I handle such cases but later refer them to the Chief.” Village head Mhasvi also said when they were at his court, Promise and Tendai denied that they were caught having sex in the bush, but that she was merely fabricating the whole story. The denial was short-lived as Promise’s brother is said to have also stood up and testified that he caught the two having sex in bush behind a baobab tree....
Monday, 5 December 2011
Putin's Party Suffers Blow in Russia Polls
By: Online Publisher's
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin's ruling party Monday barely won half the vote in legislative polls marred by claims of dirty tricks by the authorities, a major setback for the Russian strongman ahead of his planned Kremlin comeback.
United Russia won just 50.16 percent of the vote, the central election commission said in results based on 85 percent of polling stations, while the Communist Party was second with 19.13 percent, reports AFP.
The poor showing comes after the Russian strongman announced in September he planned to reclaim his old Kremlin job in March presidential polls, reflecting that more and more Russians may be growing disillusioned with his 11-year rule.
The outcome marks a major reversal from the last parliamentary elections in 2007 when United Russia secured a landslide majority of 64.3 percent and won 315 seats in the lower house of parliament, the 450-seat State Duma.
Veteran Communist Party leader, Gennady Zyuganov said the vote was a wake-up call for the Kremlin showing it would have to make more room for the opposition in parliament.
"People have refused to give credence to the authorities, and in the future we will have a dramatically new political layout in the Duma," he said.
Putin sought to put a brave face on the results, saying the polling results reflected the state of affairs in the country.
"Based on these results, we will be able to ensure the stable development of our country," he said in a terse speech standing alongside President, Dmitry Medvedev at United Russia campaign headquarters.
Medvedev rejected the claims of foul play by the authorities, saying the election results showed Russian "democracy in action" and reflected voters' true moods.
Opponents and Moscow-based Western-funded observer group, Golos had said the vote was marred by unprecedented violations as the ruling elite downed websites and harassed monitors to limit dissent.
Putin, who has dominated Russia since 2000, is widely expected to win back his old Kremlin job in March presidential elections after his four-year stint as prime minister.
His protégé, Medvedev is set to step aside and become prime minister, in a job swap that the two men hope will determine Russia's political future and stability for years to come.
The populist A Just Russia group had 12.98 percent of the vote while the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party was fourth with 11.8 percent, the results showed.
"The authorities are losing trust -- it's a new situation for them," said Sergei Lukashevsky, head of the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre.
"The regime's ideology is exhausting itself."
Maria Lipman, an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center, said the ruling party's poor showing will present the Kremlin with a choice. "What to do next?" she said. "To tighten the screws or get adjusted to a new reality in which United Russia no longer has an unchallenged monopoly?"
Moscow Echo radio, citing senior United Russia sources, reported that United Russia chairman, Boris Gryzlov would resign his post as Duma speaker, in a sign that the Kremlin will draw lessons from Sunday's vote. The party refused to confirm the report.
Exit polls all showed United Russia winning less than 50 percent of the vote. The state-controlled All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM) said United Russia was to win 48.5 percent, ahead of the Communist Party with 19.8 percent.
The marathon election process in the world's largest country kicked off in Pacific Ocean regions and concluded 21 hours later when polls closed in the exclave of Kaliningrad bordering the European Union, nine time zones away.
Police detained around 200 protesters including radical opposition leader, Eduard Limonov for holding an unsanctioned protest in Moscow, while another 70 were held at a similar event in Saint Petersburg, police said.
West's Afghan Resolve Tested by Economy, Pakistan, Iran
By: Online Publisher's
For their part the Taliban, in a November 30 statement, reiterated a demand for an end to what it called foreign occupation of the country.
Afghan President, Hamid Karzai
The West wants to use an Afghanistan meeting on Monday to signal enduring support for Kabul as allied troops head home, but economic turmoil in Europe and crises with Pakistan and Iran may prompt doubts about Western resolve, reports Reuters.
The goal of Afghanistan's international partners is to leave behind a government strong enough to escape the fate of its Soviet-era predecessor, which collapsed in 1992 in a civil war, and whose president was eventually captured and executed by the Taliban when they overran Kabul in 1996.
Hosts Germany sought to signal Western staying power on the eve of the gathering of dozens of foreign ministers in the German city of Bonn, promising it will continue to give support even after most foreign combat troops leave in 2014.
"We must not repeat the mistakes of history," German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle told delegates.
"This will not be the end of the international presence in Afghanistan. We will not forget Afghanistan after 2014. Our engagement will last."
Ten years after a similar conference held to rebuild Afghanistan following the West's 2001 invasion after the September 11 attacks, there is no shortage of worries on the horizon, in particular about the Afghan government's ability to provide security for its own people.
But addressing matters such as how to share out the funding of the still-fledgling Afghan police and army, and whether or not to pursue apparently stillborn peace efforts with the Taliban, may have to compete for attention with brewing confrontations pitting Washington against Pakistan and Iran, two of Afghanistan's most influential neighbours.
Pakistan, an insecure but powerful neighbour and perhaps the single most critical player in efforts to end Afghan violence, is boycotting the meeting after NATO aircraft killed 24 of its soldiers in a weekend attack the alliance called a "tragic ... accident".
Many in the West hope Pakistan will use its influence to deliver the Afghan Taliban, whose leadership Washington says is based in Pakistan, to peace talks.
Many worry that an array of militants, in the absence of enough foreign troops and an adequate improvement in local security forces, will plunge Afghanistan back into civil war. Renewed strife might also stir more violence over the border in Pakistan, embroiled in its own anti-government Islamist insurgency.
"There is potentially a perfect storm of problems lying ahead for Afghanistan," said Sajjan Gohel, international security director at the Asia Pacific Foundation think tank in London.
"Afghanistan's security is intrinsically tied to Pakistan. If the problems inside Pakistan worsen that will have a detrimental impact on Afghanistan. The continuing freefall in relations between the U.S. and Pakistan makes the situation even more precarious.
"If relations between the West and Iran also worsen that may be utilised by the clerical regime (in Tehran) to cause problems in Afghanistan."
A U.S. official who travelled to Bonn with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to play down Pakistan's absence.
"I certainly hope that we are not entering a phase with them where they play some sort of spoiler role," the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters on Clinton's plane. "We are not proceeding with that assumption at all."
One bright spot at the conference may be the resumption of aid flowing into a World Bank trust fund for Afghanistan.
The United States and other donors stopped paying in to the trust fund when the International Monetary Fund suspended its programme with Kabul in June, but the IMF's decision to reverse course last month may pave the way to replenish the trust.
Iran moved nearer centre stage in Bonn after Tehran said it shot down a U.S. spy drone in its airspace and threatened to respond outside of its borders to the alleged incursion.
International forces in Kabul said the drone may have been one lost last week while flying over western Afghanistan.
Iranian television quoted a military source as saying Tehran had shot down the drone in eastern Iran.
"The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders," the military source said, without elaborating.
Iran has been accused in the past of providing low-level backing to the Taliban insurgency, and diplomats and analysts have suggested Tehran could ratchet up this support if it wanted to put serious pressure on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
For their part the Taliban, in a November 30 statement, reiterated a demand for an end to what it called foreign occupation of the country.
Sarkozy, Merkel Kick off Week of Euro Crisis Talks
By: Online Publisher's
French President, Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to meet to agree on joint proposals aimed at resolving the eurozone debt crisis, reports the BBC.
They will take their ideas to an EU summit on Friday that is being seen as crucial for the single currency.
Germany favours strict EU central control while France wishes to preserve more national sovereignty.
Meanwhile, two badly-hit Eurozone countries, Italy and Ireland, are preparing tighter austerity measures.
In Italy, Prime Minister Mario Monti is due to seek approval for his government's plans in parliament.
Taxes on the assets of the wealthy will go up, as will pension ages. There will be a major drive to tackle tax evasion.
And Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said the population must prepare for a tough budget this week.
Public spending will be cut by 2.2bn euros (£1.9bn) a year and taxes raised by 1.5bn euros, with VAT increasing to 23%.
Monday's Franco-German meeting in Paris kicks off a week of meetings involving European leaders, the European Central Bank (ECB) and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, culminating in Brussels on Friday with an EU summit.
With financial markets putting pressure on some of the eurozone's largest - and most highly indebted - nations, President Sarkozy said the stakes were high.
"What will remain of Europe if the euro disappears?" he asked. "Nothing."
France and Germany must play a key role to ensure "a zone of stability", he said last week.
"We must confront those who doubt the stability of the euro and speculate on its break-up with total solidarity."
Mrs Merkel has promised "concrete steps towards a fiscal union" - in effect close integration of the tax-and-spend polices of individual eurozone countries, with Brussels imposing penalties on members that break the rules.
"We need budget discipline and an effective crisis management mechanism," she said. "So we need to change the treaties or create new treaties."
Sarkozy faces an election early next year and is under pressure not to cede sovereignty to unelected officials in Brussels.
Mrs Merkel and Sarkozy have been working so closely in recent weeks that commentators have taken to calling the two Merkozy.
Treaty change could take many months, but the hope is that a strong, unified expression of intent on Friday could reassure markets enough to lower borrowing costs for Italy, Spain and other countries with high debt and spluttering economies.
If governments can not pay their debts - if they default - the resulting shock could bring down the banks that lend to them and create another global economic crash.
US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner's presence in Europe this week for several meetings with leaders is a measure of US concern that Europe's woes could spread beyond the continent.
On Thursday the ECB holds its monthly policy meeting. It has come under pressure to do more to ease Europe's debt crisis but has ruled out the idea of "eurobonds" backed by all eurozone members.
Germany is against the notion as is the ECB itself because such a move could lessen pressure on governments to control their spending.
However, ECB head, Mario Draghi has hinted that the bank could take more aggressive action to help governments.
The ECB has been buying modest amounts of government bonds on the secondary market but could step that up, which would stabilise or lower borrowing costs.
Security Chief: China 'Ill-prepared' for Unrest
By: Online Publisher's
Thousands of workers in Shenzhen and Dongguan, two of China's top export centres in the south of the country, went on strike last month protesting cuts in overtime.
Chinese anti-terrorist police in action
China's security chief has warned that the government needs better methods to deal with social unrest due to a slowing economy, reports the BBC.
Zhou Yongkang, a member of the politburo, asked provincial officials for improved "social management".
China has seen an increase in labour unrest in recent weeks.
The comments are a sign that the Chinese government is worried that another slowdown could spark public anger.
"It is an urgent task for us to think how to establish a social management system with Chinese characteristics to suit our socialist market economy," Zhou said in comments published Saturday.
"Especially when facing negative effects of the market economy."
He called for innovative approaches to a large set of policies which could include anything from increased policing to better internet control or better unemployment insurance.
There have been multiple signs of a slowdown in recent months in China.
The economy grew by 9.1% between June and September compared to a year earlier, the slowest rate of expansion in two years.
Last week, manufacturing was showed to have contracted sharply and the government cut the amount of money banks must keep in reserve to spur more lending, reversing recent policy.
There has also been a spike in labour unrest in recent weeks.
Employees of a Singaporean electronics firm Hi-P International in Shanghai went on strike last week over mass job losses.
Thousands of workers in Shenzhen and Dongguan, two of China's top export centres in the south of the country, went on strike last month protesting cuts in overtime.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
3 Zimbabwean Ladies Arrested For Focefully Raping 124 Men @ Gun Point
By: Online Publisher's
This is like a movie script difficult to believe, but anyways it is true. Three Zimbabwean ladies Rosemary Chakwizira, 24, Sophie Nhokwara, 26, and Netsai Nhokwara, 24 are currently in police custody for allegedly kidnapping, raping and collecting semen of men at gun point.
They are always present at bars and fun places to source for their prey, who are mainly men without means of transportation. They offer the unsuspecting men lift, but then drug and drive them to secluded spots to complete their operation.
Midlands police chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Charles Makono said the women came under suspicion after asking officers if they could retrieve the bag of condoms from their car, which had just been involved in an accident.
33 used condoms containing semen was found in the bag.
A police investigator also said: “So far, the three have denied raping men and have said they are prostitutes who find themselves so busy with clients that they do not have time to dispose the used condoms. They said they intended to throw away the condoms.”
Finding shows that semen was “selling like hot cakes” in neighbouring South Africa where a condom full could fetch as much as US$400.....
Business Unusual!
This is like a movie script difficult to believe, but anyways it is true. Three Zimbabwean ladies Rosemary Chakwizira, 24, Sophie Nhokwara, 26, and Netsai Nhokwara, 24 are currently in police custody for allegedly kidnapping, raping and collecting semen of men at gun point.
They are always present at bars and fun places to source for their prey, who are mainly men without means of transportation. They offer the unsuspecting men lift, but then drug and drive them to secluded spots to complete their operation.
Midlands police chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Charles Makono said the women came under suspicion after asking officers if they could retrieve the bag of condoms from their car, which had just been involved in an accident.
33 used condoms containing semen was found in the bag.
A police investigator also said: “So far, the three have denied raping men and have said they are prostitutes who find themselves so busy with clients that they do not have time to dispose the used condoms. They said they intended to throw away the condoms.”
Finding shows that semen was “selling like hot cakes” in neighbouring South Africa where a condom full could fetch as much as US$400.....
Business Unusual!
Friday, 7 October 2011
Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf, Gbowee, Karman win Nobel Peace Prize
By: Online Publisher's
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, the jury said.
The three prizewinners share the 2011 award “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work,” Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said in his announcement.
“We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society,” he added.
Sirleaf, 72, made history when she became Africa’s first elected woman president in 2005. She took power in a nation traumatised by 14 years of brutal civil war that left 250,000 dead and economic devastation, with no electricity, running water or infrastructure.
The Nobel Committee said that “since her inauguration in 2006, she has contributed to securing peace in Liberia, to promoting economic and social development, and to strengthening the position of women.”
Sirleaf’s rise to power might not have been possible without the efforts of Gbowee, 39, an activist who led Liberia’s women to defy feared warlords.
She pushed men toward peace by inspiring a large group of both Christian and Muslim women to wage a sex strike during what was one of Africa’s bloodiest wars.
The Nobel Committee hailed Gbowee for having “organised women across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women’s participation in elections.”
Tawakkul Karman is a 32-year-old Yemeni activist and journalist who has braved several stints in prison in her struggle for women’s rights, press freedom and the release of political prisoners in Yemen.
She is the first Arab woman to the win the Peace Prize.
The Nobel jury hailed her for “in the most trying circumstances, both before and during the ‘Arab Spring’… (playing) a leading part in the struggle for women’s rights and for democracy and peace in Yemen.”
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