The Pope Resigns

Today is the final day of the Pope Benedict XVI  eight year Papacy which took a dramatic turn when he announced two weeks ago that he would step down by the end of the month.  He will meet with 115 cardinals this morning for a final time. The focus of the meeting will be on the election of a new pope.

Most of the cardinals from around the world will meet with Pope Benedict XVI, before he flies out with a helicopter to the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI will stay at Castel Gandolfo for about two weeks, while his apartment inside Vatican City is set up. The apartment is believed to be in a monastery.

With chants of “Benedetto!” erupting from the crowd, the mood was far more buoyant than during the Pope’s final Sunday blessing. Pope Benedict had said he decided to retire after realizing that, at 85, he simply didn’t have the “strength of mind or body” to carry on.

Pope Benedict who becomes the  Bishop of Rome Emeritus from today thanked the people for respecting his decision to resign on grounds of failing strength and ailing health, but more important, reminding them that “it was time for a younger man to lead the Catholic Church into the future.

IBB Backs Political Parties Merger

From his hill top mansion in  Minna Niger state , the former President said as a strong advocate of two political parties for the country, the emerging scenario will surely vindicate him on his stand for  two political party system which he said is the only way out for the country politically. Hs said: 

“ I have been a very good advocate of two party system for the country since I was the president. When I said we need only two parties some years back, they said I am a soldier and I should shut up but now, many are seeing relevance in my agitation,” Gen. Babangida remarked.

“I am happy with the merger talk that is going on; it is a welcome political development in our political experience and if it succeeds, it will surely vindicate me and move the country on politically.”

Candlelight Procession For Goldie Will Hold Tomorrow

Tomorrow Friday 1st March 2013 at 6pm will be the date for the candlelight procession in memorial of Goldie.  All will converge at Parkview Estate gate in Ikoyi and then proceed to walk through Osborne road through to Awolowo way, Barracks then back to Parkview. Come with a candle. Dress Code: Black.

Appalling: Plight of hundreds of Romanian gypsies 'imprisoned' for months in a ghetto so grim the town mayor sealed it off behind a wall

They were promised new apartments away from the biting cold of the Romanian winter.

But eight months on, 500 gypsy families are still marooned in a snow-bound slum in buildings riddled with damp and seeped in raw sewage.

The situation has been made even worse after the mayor of Baia Mare constructed a wall around the settlement, sealing the Roma off from the rest of the town at the end of June last year.

According to Catalin Chereches, this was part of a grand scheme to improve the lives of deeply impoverished families in the northern Romanian town who have been struggling to survive for generations.

However, human rights groups claim that the 33-year-old Vienna-educated economist is racist. They have accused him of imprisoning the population in a ghetto and making their plight even worse.

Photographs shot in the heart of the slum - and at a dilapidated communist-era blocks where some of the families have been rehoused - show scenes of appalling poverty with families struggling to survive in temperatures which can plummet to -26C.

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Nigeria’s Female Banker Steals Customer’s N26m

A staff of a mortgage bank in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Folayemi Oluwayemisi Adedayo, 41, has been charged to court for illegally withdrawing N26 million from a customer’s account.

The banker was arrested by the police at Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos. She was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on an 18-count charge of felony to wit, forgery and stealing.

 

The police alleged in charge suit No. F/7/2013 that the accused was arrested following a complaint by a customer of the finance house, Reverend T.O. Mobolale that the accused forged his signature and withdrew N26.5m from his account, property of Light House International School, Ikorodu, Lagos.

He stated that the accused between 8 January and 15 August 2012 cleverly withdrew N1,525,000 twice, N1,550,000 twice, N1,200,000, N1,650,000 thrice, among others, without his approval.

He further stated that she committed the offence at 54, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The offence, said the police prosecutor, Inspector Marcus Okon, contravenes section 409, 285 (6) and 333 (2) (a) of the criminal laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges, and the presiding magistrate, Mrs. Omotosho admitted her on bail in the sum of N500,000 with one surety in like sum who must show proof of tax payment to the Lagos State government.

She adjourned the matter till 25 March 2013 for mention. The defendant was moved to Kirikiri Prison pending when she would fulfil the bail condition.

Source: PM News

Large Shark Kills Swimmer Off New Zealand

A man has been killed in a rare great white shark attack off the coast of New Zealand.

Police and lifesavers recovered the man's body on Wednesday afternoon at Muriwai, a popular surfing beach near the city of Auckland, on New Zealand's North Island.

Witness Stef McCallum, 18, said about 200 people were on the beach at the time.

She saw a police officer go out in a surf lifesaving boat and fire "about 20" shots into the water at the shark.

"Everybody was evacuated from the water. Word of mouth, 'shark', and everybody left the water," she said.

Another witness Pio Mose claimed he saw three sharks.

He told The New Zealand Herald he saw the swimmer struggle against one "huge" shark. He told the man to swim to the rocks, but it was too late.

"All of a sudden there was blood everywhere," Mr Mose said. "... I was shaking, scared, panicked."

Another witness told television station 3 News NZ that he spotted the lone swimmer while he was fishing at the beach.

What Most Schools Don't Teach! Makinde Adeagbo, Bill Gates And Mark Zuckerberg In Short Film About Code

These It's very important that you watch this short film!

These creators believe that “every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code”, and want you to support Code.org, a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education.

“A lot of the coding that people do is fairly simple”, says Makinde Adeagbo in the short clip.

Makinde is famous for being part of the team that reduced Facebook’s over 1 MB of Javascript to only 2 KB and previously worked at various parts of the Facebook stack on projects including search, new user orientation, photos, performance, events, and client software.

Will Ferrell To Receive First-Ever Comedic Genius Award At Movie Awards

"Will Ferrell epitomizes what it means to be a comedic genius and it's only fitting that he should be the inaugural recipient of this award," said Stephen Friedman, President of MTV. "Over the course of his extraordinary, 17-plus-year career, he has entertained audiences across the globe with an impressive array of laugh-out-loud performances on air, online and in films. Simply put, Will Ferrell is 'kind of a big deal.' "

The California native cut his comedy teeth in the Los Angeles-based improv troupe The Groundlings, before landing his big break on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in 1995. Over the course of seven years, Ferrell honed an impressive repertoire of real and fictitious characters, including Spartan cheerleader Craig, music teacher Marty Culp, Janet Reno, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek and President George W. Bush. 

Clinton Proposes Solutions to Nigeria Challenges

Former President of United States of America, Bill Clinton, said yesterday that the inability to manage the nation’s natural resources well was one of the three major challenges Nigeria was facing as a nation.

He spoke at the 18th Annual Awards of Thisday newspaper, organised to celebrate Nigeria’s best teachers, further tasked Nigerian leaders to tackle unemployment, brain-drain and to maximise the potential of the citizens.

He said Nigerian leaders mismanaged the proceeds from oil, under-utilised technology and failed to retain its best brains.

Clinton said: “When I became President, my Secretary of Commerce did a lot of work in Africa before he was tragically killed in a plane crash in 1995.

“I said he should make a list of 10 most important countries in the world for the 21st century. Nigeria was in the list.

“Imagine the future of the entire continent if Nigeria fails or South Africa fails. So, you are a country of potential. I will say you have about three big challenges.

MIRACLE WORKING GOD: Woman delivered of 25 months pregnancy

Oluwakemi was born into a Baptist family and is very conversant with the word of God. Maybe her greatest assets are that she truly believes in God.

Fortunately also, her husband, Gbenga, belongs to the same Baptist denomination. She and her spouse are from Abeokuta, Ogun State. Their positions in their various families, however, before coming together in holy matrimony on Saturday, April 3rd 1999, seemed to add to the pressure of the need to have children soon after marriage.

Mrs Adeoye is the third of five children, but the first daughter while her husband, Mr Olugbenga Adeoye, is the first of six children and the only son. His five sisters are happily married and blessed with children.

Being a child that was brought up strictly with Christian doctrines, Mrs Adeoye, a graduate of the University of Jos, knew that she would have a baby, more so as God, according to her, had revealed to her in a vision that she would have a baby and gave her the names of the baby on April 6th, 1999, three days after her wedding.

Having met when Oluwakemi was in Form Four, and Gbenga in the polytechnic and had courted for 15 years, both understood each other and did not take the issue of not having a baby immediately after marriage too seriously.

It was not until the fifth year that they considered it a challenge and decided to seek medical and spiritual assistance. They were invited to churches for prayers. Their parents, especially Pa and Ma Adeoye, invited them to meet with pastors who ministered in their church, especially during special programmes. For a while, Mrs Adeoye attended deliverance programme of a church at Aremo area of Ibadan and was also invited by a colleague at work to attend God’s Voice Ministry programmes at Alakia area of Ibadan.

Ladipo Market: Arrested Bakassi Boys To Face Trial

Twelve suspected members of the Bakassi Boys arrested on Monday at Ladipo Market, Mushin in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria will soon be charged to court.

The suspected Bakassi Boys, who were allegedly terrorising traders at the Ladipo Market, were arrested by officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit shortly after the closure of the market due to filth and degradation of the environment on Monday.

Some of the suspects arrested are Chibike Eze, Monday Chukwu, Obinna Ibe, Ndubuisi Ezinwane, Samson Ape and Tochi Kinsley.

The items recovered from the suspects include over 10 cutlasses, knives, charms and rings, among others.

Taskforce Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, Chief Superintendent of Police, said the suspects would be charged to court soon for the law to take its due course.

“They initially dared us by showing us their charms and we are also aware that they have weapons. We are going to charge them to court,” he said.

Chairman of Mushin Local Government, Olatunde Adepintan had told the taskforce that criminals and suspected members of Bakassi Boys were living inside the market.

Miss Nigeria Beauty Pageants Calls International Applicants

Are you a Nigerian based abroad? Would you like the chance to part take in one of the most prestigious pageants held in Nigeria? If you answered YES to the above, then send a two minute video clip of yourself with your name, age, occupation, brief background and state why you want to be the next Miss Nigeria. Once you completed, upload your video to YouTube and send the link to contact@missnigeria.org.ng, deadline for international applicants is 30^th March 2013.



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