UK Teenager Jailed For Life In Newcastle Over School Massacre Plot

© Greater Manchester Police / Handout / Reuters

A British teenager has been jailed for life and will serve a minimum of eight years, after being found guilty of plotting a massacre with bombs and semi-automatic weapons at his former college. Liam Lyburd, 19, admitted to nine charges of buying or making home-made explosives and weapons, but denied eight further charges of intending to use them to injure or kill.

Judge Paul Sloan QC said during sentencing, he was in no doubt Lyburd would have carried out the attack had he not been caught.

Shocking Video Shows NY Man Throwing Food On Homeless Vet

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A homeless veteran begs for change on a New York street. Passers-by ignore him, giving their money to a teen begging nearby. One man dumps his takeout on the unfortunate veteran, showing what he thinks of his service. You won’t believe what happened next…

The veteran asks the teen to “watch his stuff” as he cleans up at a nearby shop. A few minutes later he returns, bringing a slice of pizza for the boy. Little did he know that the “homeless teen” was actually part of a social experiment, set up by two brothers from Brooklyn.

Mohammed “Moe” and Etayyim “ET” Etayyim became YouTube celebrities for filming a series of prank videos starting in early 2014. They have also made seven “social experiment” videos highlighting child abuse, bigotry and the treatment of the homeless.

Former PDP Chair Mu’Azu, Kashim Imam, Others Escape Death As 43 Lives Lost On Calabar-Itu Highway In The Past Eight Weeks

Mallam Adamu Mu’azu

Several prominent Nigerians including the immediate past National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mallam Adamu Mu’azu,f ormer Special Adviser on National Assembly, Alhaji Kashim Imam and former National Chairman of the defunct CPC,Senator Rufai Hanga, narrowly escaped death in the Thursday tragedy in Mecca. Multiple eyewitnesses at the scene said Mu’azu, Imam and Hanga had joined millions of other pilgrims in stoning the devil when the stampede started.

Other prominent Nigerians close to the scene were the PDP Youth Leader Abdullahi Maibarisa, Deputy Comptroller General (Operations) of the Nigerian Immigration Service Mr.Muhammad Babandede, and a former member of the House of Representatives.

Greg Dyke: FIFA In 'Disarray' With Sepp Blatter Under Criminal Investigation; Criminal Proceedings Opened By Swiss Prosecutors

Greg Dyke, pictured, says FIFA is in "disarray", with outgoing president Sepp Blatter facing criminal proceedings

FIFA is in "disarray", Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has claimed, after criminal proceedings were opened against outgoing president Sepp Blatter. The Swiss attorney general said Blatter is suspected of criminal mismanagement or misappropriation over a TV rights deal he signed with former Caribbean football chief Jack Warner in 2005.

He is also suspected of "a disloyal payment" in 2011 of two millions Swiss francs (£1.35million) to UEFA president Michel Platini - the favourite to succeed Blatter - for work carried out by the Frenchman more than nine years before between 1999 and 2002.

Blatter and UEFA president Platini both deny wrongdoing but - coming a week after FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was suspended after being implicated in a ticket scandal - it is another momentous development for FIFA.

FOR THE RECORD: President Buhari Addresses The 70th UN Assembly

President Buhari addressing the 70th UN General Assembly (Image source: nairaland)

On Friday, September 25th, President Buhari addressed the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The President who was accompanied by the Governors of Sokoto, Kaduna and Niger States, the National Security Adviser and the Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Finance, Health, Industry, Trade and Investment left for New York on Tuesday.

African Development Bank Head Pushes For Energy Access, Adding Value

Akinwumi Adesina, AfDB Head (Image source: Today.ng)

Africa should push to achieve universal access to electricity within a decade while accelerating its transformation to a continent exporting finished goods, rather than raw materials, the new head of the African Development Bank said on Friday. Akinwumi Adesina, who took over as president of the 50-year-old institution earlier this month, has set an ambitious series of goals to guide it through Africa's increasingly complex financial environment.

He said Africa could achieve full access to power by 2025, sooner than the goal of 2030 set by the United States and other major donor countries, while increasing its infrastructure and industrial capacity.

Nigeria Reaches Polio 'Milestone'

Nigeria will need three years without polio cases to be declared free of the disease (WHO/T.Moran)

Nigeria has been removed from the list of polio endemic countries in what is being regarded as a "milestone" on the quest to eradicate the disease. The announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO), was made at a meeting of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in New York.

It follows Nigeria going more than a year without a case of wild - naturally occurring - polio.

Three years without cases are required before it can be declared polio free.

Insurgency: Borno Elders Sabotaging Our Efforts – Army

Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, sitting (Image source: PREMIUM TIMES-NAN)

The Nigerian Army yesterday alerted the nation that some elders and leaders of Borno state and other States of the North East are working against the resolve by the military and other security agencies to ensure they bring the terrorists activities of Boko Haram group to an end by December this year in accordance with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive.

These persons including top politicians are said to have gone to the extent of employing the services of Marabouts and other unethical means to reverse the gains made so far in the war against insurgency. Consequently, the Army warned that such elders, whose sinister machinations security agencies were aware of, risk arrest and will be dealt with in accordance with the law if caught.

Nigeria, Iran Pressure Saudi Arabia To Take Responsibility For Hajj Deaths

Pressure has mounted on Saudi authorities to take responsibility for Thursday’s death of over 700 pilgrims in the country in a disaster many believe could have been avoided. At least 717 people died during a stampede as nearly 3 million Muslims from around the world rounded off this year’s hajj with an important ceremony in Mina, about four kilometres from Mecca.

The tragedy came about two weeks after a crane collapse killed over 100 pilgrims, among them six Nigerians.

Preliminary details say three Nigerians died in the latest disaster, alongside three Kenyans and eight Egyptians.

Iran has 131 deaths, India: 14, Pakistan: 6, Turkey: 4, Indonesia: 3, Netherlands: 1. Over 800 people were injured.

"THE FIFA CORRUPTION FINALS": FIFA President Blatter To Face Criminal Proceedings - Switzerland's Attorney General

Sepp Blatter © Denis Balibouse / Reuters

The Swiss attorney general's office says it has opened a criminal procedure against FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who is suspected of theft. The FIFA HQ and the president’s office have been searched and data has been seized, it added.

Blatter is suspected of illegally paying the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) President Michel Platini 2 million Swiss francs out of FIFA’s resources, the Swiss statement said.

Platini himself provided evidence of this to the FIFA corruption case investigators, Reuters cites a law enforcement source as saying

Watch Video And Judge For Yourself But Saraki Denies Attack At Prayer Ground (OF COURSE, HE IS EMBARRASSED!)

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has denied being pelted or booed at the Kwara eid ground on Thursday. The denial was despite video evidence and several witnesses’ accounts which proved that the attack indeed occurred.  PREMIUM TIMES had on Thursday broken the story of the pandemonium at the eid praying ground in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, when aggrieved Muslim faithful went on the rampage throwing missiles in the direction of Mr. Saraki, and other dignitaries.

Witnesses said the protesters were angered by the inability of the state government to pay salaries of some workers before the Sallah celebrations, rendering some civil servants unable to buy rams for the Eid-el Kabir festival.

“Shortly after the senate president and other dignitaries arrived, some people started throwing stones and sachet waters in the direction of the Senate President and other important people,” one witness reported.

FIFA SCANDAL: Blatter To Face Media As Scandals Widen At FIFA

Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter attends the opening of the "Sepp Blatter Tournament" on August 22, 2015 in Ulrichen, Blatter's hometown in Switzerland ©Fabrice Coffrini (AFP/File)

FIFA president Sepp Blatter was set to face the media on Friday, as the scandals that surround him widen at a seemingly relentless pace. Blatter's press conference following FIFA's executive committee meeting was always going to be closely watched, with both the US and Swiss justice departments carrying out major investigations into corruption at world football.

But events over the last two weeks have raised the stakes.

On Thursday, Switzerland's Attorney General Michael Lauber's office said FIFA had agreed to hand over the emails of suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke, evidence Lauber had demanded as part of an investigation into World Cup bidding.

Saudi Criticized After Hajj Stampede Kills More Than 700

Hajj pilgrims and emergency personnel carry a woman on a stretcher at the site where hundreds were killed in a stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, on September 24, 2015

Blame shifted towards Saudi authorities on Friday after a stampede at the hajj killed at least 717 people, in the worst tragedy to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in a quarter of a century. The disaster, which also left several hundred people injured, was the second deadly accident to hit worshippers this month, after a crane collapse in the holy city of Mecca killed more than 100.

Tragedy strikes again at the hajj in Mecca ©I.de Véricourt/V.Lefai, vl/abm/jfs (AFP)

At the scene, bodies lay in piles, surrounded by discarded personal belongings and flattened water bottles, while rescue workers laid bodies in long rows on stretchers, limbs protruding from beneath white sheets.

FOR THE RECORD: Nigerian Firms In Trouble As Central Bank Measures Backfire

Nigerian companies making anything from soap to tomato paste could run out of raw materials and be forced to shut down as Africa's top oil producer has effectively banned the import of almost 700 goods to prevent a currency collapse. Selected luxury items such as make-up or brown bread imported from Europe have become scarce in some shops as the central bank denies importers dollars, seeking to stem the fallout from a crash in vital oil revenues hammering Africa's largest economy.

The central bank has restricted access to foreign currency to import 41 categories of items to stop a slide of the naira but the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) said this in fact amounted to about 680 individual items.

World Leaders Set To Adopt Broad U.N. Goals To Tackle Global Woes

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Leaders from nearly 200 nations were poised on Friday to adopt a sweeping plank of global goals to combat poverty, inequality and climate change in the broadest and most comprehensive effort ever by the United Nations to tackle the world's ills. Adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, caps three years of brainstorming and negotiations with input from nearly every corner of the world, organizers say, and provides a roadmap for countries to finance and create change.

The 15-year objectives aim to end poverty, combat inequality, protect human rights, promote gender equality, protect the planet and create conditions for sustainable growth and shared peace and prosperity.

They replace the previous U.N. action plan, the Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000.

Top Goalkeeper Fails In Bid To Become Cameroon FA Boss

Joseph-Antoine Bell, former international goalkeeper

Former international goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell has failed in his bid to be the next president of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT). One of Africa's best ever goalkeepers failed to send in the correct documents when making his application.

Instead Atah Robert Behazah or Tombi A Roko Sidiki will be the next president.

The FECAFOOT elections must be held by Monday if the four-time African champions are to avoid a ban from world governing body FIFA.

Behazah is a former coach while Sidiki is a onetime general secretary of the federation.

Bell, who has been very outspoken about problems within the Cameroonian game, was a surprise candidate for the post.

FOR THE RECORDS: Olu Falae Regains Freedom; Jubilation In Akure But No Arrests By Police

Chief Falae in the middle in white clothes and blue cap

After spending three days and three nights in captivity, Olu Falae, former secretary to the government of the federation regained his freedom on Thursday. His release ame few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari read the riot acts to the Police and ordered the Inspector General of Police,(IGP) Mr Solomon Arase to secure the release of Falae.

Akure, the Ondo state capital was thrown into jubilation on Thursday following the release of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chieftain of the pan Yoruba Socio-cultural organization, Afenifere.

UPDATE Deadliest Hajj Stampede in 25 Years: At Least 717 Killed In Saudi Arabia

At least 717 people taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage have been killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca, officials in Saudi Arabia say. Another 863 people were injured in the incident at Mina, which occurred as two million pilgrims were taking part in the Hajj's last major rite.

There were people from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Senegal among other nationalities.

It is the deadliest incident to occur during the Hajj in 25 years.

After 107 Crane Fall Deaths, Stampede Kills More Than 450 At Hajj Pilgrimage Near Mecca

More than 300 dead after stampede at Hajj pilgrimage

A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca -- has killed more than 450 people and injured 719 others in Saudi Arabia. The stampede occurred Thursday morning during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in the tent city of Mina, about 2 miles from Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

Hundreds have been killed in past years during the same ceremony, and it comes only 13 days after a crane collapse killed more than 100 people at another major Islamic holy site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

"We have a stampede accident in Mina, and civil defense is dealing with it," said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

Civil defense authorities said the latest death toll is 453, but the numbers have been climbing steadily. Officials deployed 4,000 workers, along with 220 ambulances and other vehicles, to Mina to help deal with the disaster.

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