GRAPHITTI NEWS : 2014-11-30

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Global Internet Freedoms On Decline – Monitoring Group

AFP Photo / Hoang Dinh Nam

Internet freedom around the world has tumbled for the fourth consecutive year, with 36 out of 65 assessed countries showing negative trends as more governments resort to repressive measures that stifle online use.

The ambulance carrying the Nigeria soldier infected by the Ebola virus arriving in Amsterdam Saturday.

A Nigerian UN peacekeeper infected with Ebola in Liberia arrived Saturday for treatment in The Netherlands, Dutch authorities said.

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Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

Police in Kenya are holding 77 Chinese nationals accused of running a cybercrime network and mysterious "command centre" from upmarket houses in Nairobi, officials and reports said Thursday.

A health worker wearing a protective suit is sprayed down at a Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment centre in Conakry on September 25, 2014 ©Cellou Binani (AFP)

Dozens of youths in the Guinean capital Conakry staged an angry protest against a new Ebola treatment centre on Thursday, halting the launch of the construction project, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.

Tukur

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended the party’s immediate past National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, for one month.

Crude oil streams through the desert in south Israel, near the village of Beer Ora, north of Eilat December 4, 2014. (Reuters / Yehuda Ben Itach)

A pipeline breach near the Israel-Jordan border has flooded a nature reserve in what authorities call one of Israel’s worst environmental disasters, causing large amounts of potentially poisonous gas to be released near Aqaba, raising health concerns.

Reuters/Francois Lenoir

Casa Julio, a restaurant in a small Spanish town on the border between Valencia and Alicante, has announced that it is renouncing its Michelin star to save money, after being in the prestigious culinary guide for four years.

L-R; President Goodluck Jonathan decorating Professor Niyi Osundare, the Awardee during the 2014 Nigerian National Order of Merit Award Investiture at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. Photo: Akin Ladokun.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday decorated Prof. Niyi Osundare as the 71st member of the body of the Nigerian National Order of Merit laureates.

Olusegun Obasanjo (Photo: Africaprogresspanel.org)

… Meets PDP governors

A meeting between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and five Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governors at Obasanjo’s residence, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has ended with the former President saying Nigeria is in a “bad situation.”

AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe

Chinese authorities have announced that starting Jan. 1 executed prisoners will no longer be used as a source of organ transplants.

2015 AFCON FULL DRAWS: South Africa To Mix It Up With Ghana & Senegal In AFCON Group Of Death

Disguised drugs (Photo: Vanguard)

Three South Africa-based Nigerians, among them a mother of seven, have been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with drugs suspected to be methamphetamine, with an estimated street value at N374 million.

House of Representatives minority leader, Femi Gbajabiamila

The House of Representatives minority leader, Femi Gbajabiamila has said that the ‘authentic impeachment list’ of lawmakers plotting to remove President Goodluck Jonathan from office will be published ‘in due course’.

Reuters / Anindito Mukherjee

A probe into the deaths of 13 Indian women as a result of sterilization has revealed that doctors reused the same needles and gloves for all patients. A separate report claimed that medics usually use a bicycle pump for the procedure.

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Opener: Marouane Fellaini headed Manchester United ahead midway through the first half

Juan Mata and Marcos Rojo both claimed the winner as Manchester United survived a nerve-jangling finish to beat Stoke 2-1 at Old Trafford yesterday.

Prof Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem (Photo: facebook.com)

Erstwhile chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Prof Shuaib Abdulraheem has regretted his action on the sacked 49 lecturers of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) during his tenure as the vice chancellor of the institution.

Mont Orgueil Castle, Gorey, Jersey, Channel Islands (Photo: lonelyplanets)

The State of Jersey, the biggest territory in the Channels Island, is set to return £315 million Abacha loot to Nigeria.

Bill Cosby Resigns From Temple University Board

In this Nov. 6, 2014 photo, entertainer Bill Cosby gestures during an interview about the upcoming exhibit, "Conversations: African and African-American Artworks in Dialogue," at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bill Cosby resigned Monday as a trustee of Temple University following string of allegations that accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting women over many years.

Migrants dock at Lampedusa: 13,000 have arrived there so far this year. Photograph: Antonio Parinello/Reuters Stringer/Italy/Reuters

Europe is ageing faster than any other region of the world. It badly needs immigrants. But many Europeans don't want them.

Tambuwal

A Federal High Court in Abuja has given permission to the People’s Democratic Party to apply for a mandatory order compelling either the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives to declare vacant the Kebbe/Tambuwal seat being held by Aminu Tambuwal following his defection to the All Progressive Congress.

Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn attends the opening of the National Legislative Assembly in Bangkok, August 7, 2014

The family of the wife of Thailand's Crown Prince have been stripped of an honorific title, police confirmed Monday, after three of her relatives were caught up in a high-profile corruption scandal.

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has expressed worries over the forthcoming 2015 general election.

The federal government has requested that the United States suspend the training of a Nigerian Army battalion.

In this Nov. 11, 2014 photo, Murshida, 12, helps her mother Marjina lift a sackful of trash for segregation outside their rented shanty on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Six months ago, Marjina stepped off a train in New Delhi with her two children, hoping to find a better life after her husband abandoned them without so much as a goodbye.

Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch

As schools and daycare centers in a Danish town face closure, parents have agreed with local councils to have more sex and thus make more children to improve birth rates, local media report.

Nigerian soldiers patrol in the north of Borno state close to a Islamist extremist group Boko Haram former camp near Maiduguri on June 5, 2013 ©Quentin Leboucher (AFP)

Suspected Islamic extremists struck two state capitals Damaturu and Maiduguri Monday, with twin blasts at a crowded market and the destruction of a police base.

An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding ceremony for 111 fatherless women and given each one gifts worth thousands of dollars, saying giving a bride away was "sacred".

When the Mai-Mai militiamen came, their faces streaked with flour and talismans hanging from their arms, the villagers in the DRC's "triangle of death" ran for their lives.

Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State Main Gate

The Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, will host the 2014 edition of the Client Counselling Competition.

Che Guevara’s Daughter: ‘Ebola Is Beyond Poverty, Health Cannot Be Marketed’

No amount of money can buy a human life, therefore it must never be marketed, Cuban doctor Aleida Guevara told RT, speaking on the Ebola epidemic. Cuba and the world have been racing to conquer the latest outbreak, which has claimed 7,000 lives.

Vincent Enyeama (Photo: The Nation)

Super Eagles captain, Vincent Enyeama, has thanked Nigerians after he made the shortlist of five for the 2014 Confederation of African Football Player of the Year award.

Michael Anyiam-Osigwe, the executive director of Anyiam-Osigwe Group, died in Lagos Sunday afternoon after failing to recover from bullet wounds suffered in a gun attack. The multi-millionaire businessman, who was in his 50s, was on his way to an engagement in Nkwerre, his home town in Imo State, when suspected armed robbers attacked his car between Okada and Benin, Edo state.

Many persons are feared killed in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Monday, after two explosions went off at the Maiduguri main market, where two suicide bombers last week detonated deadly explosives, killing themselves and several other people.

The explosions sounded almost one after the other at about 11:20 am.

Reuters / Stringer

Iraqi Prime Minister vows to stamp out corruption as US administration seeks funding to train Iraqi military.

Explosions and gunfire rocked the north Nigerian city of Damaturu on Monday, in a suspected Boko Haram attack that targeted police, residents told AFP.

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