An American photographer ,Spencer Tunick has marked the rise of Donald Trump by taking nude photos of people.
About 20 people have posed for Tunick’s art installation “Inversion”
on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende as part of Mexico’s Day of the
Dead celebrations.
According to Mexico News Daily With the “La Calaca” festival as his
latest backdrop, the New York-based artist said the work would reflect
how Donald Trump had inverted minds and caused hysteria.
Trump is inverting our minds and causing us a nerve racking, internal hysteria,” Tunick told reporters.
“I think we’re living in a tough and turbid world right now . . . where things are turned on its head.”
The volunteer models, Mexicans and foreigners, were positioned upside
down on a hill at Rancho Los Senderos aided by metal rods that had been
driven into the ground to provide support, Mexico News Daily reports.
Ever since the explosive interview of Mrs Aisha Buhari
claiming that her husband’s government has been hijacked by a cabal,
Nigerians have been made to understand that there are some set of people
who influences the president’s decision.
The president’s wife in the BBC Hausa interview said that President
Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been hijacked by cabal who are “behind
presidential appointments”.
These “cabal” serve as close to ears to the president with so much power at their disposal.
Nigeria’s
Senate president, Bukola Saraki during his trial at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal (CCT) alleged that a powerful cabal within the President
Muhammadu Buhari’s government had hijacked power from the retired
general.
In a statement, Saraki alleged that the powerful forces in Buhari’s administration are bent on humiliating him.
However, the presidency said Saraki’s claim was not only ridiculous
and baseless since it was not backed by facts and detailed information.
Naij has compiled a list of powerful cabal that have taken over the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso rock:
1. Abba Kyari, the chief of staff to the president
File photo of Buhari’s chief of staff Abba Kyari
A retired Brigadier general in the Nigerian army and an uncle to the
president. He had been in corridors of power since Yakubu Gowon’s era.
He wielded so much power, loves power and dispenses as he wishes.
He is been
accused of using power for personal gain. Kyari is reported to have a
firm grip on Mr President and is a force to reckon within this
government.
2. Mamman Daura
Mamman Daura and President Buhari
Daura is the nephew of President Buhari, he’s the unofficial vice president, much more than VP Osinbajo.
Although, he
holds no political office in this dispensation, Daura, is often seen
with the president and travels with him. He is believed to have
considerable input in the choice of those who emerged as ministers,
especially those from the North. Between the two they have made this
government nepotic, despotic and lacks focus.
In 1983, when the then General Muhammadu Buhari took over power from
the democratically elected government of Shehu Shagari, Daura became
very influential at the time. He even became the head of African
International Bank and chairman of the board of Nigerian Television
Authority.
3. Babachir Lawal, Secretary to the Government of the Federation
Lawal occupies a powerful position on the ladder of Nigeria’s powerful
rulers. By virtue of his position he serves as secretary to important
government organs such as the Federal Executive Council and the Council
of State.
As government’s scribe, Lawal carries out supervisory functions on
some government departments and agencies. Very outspoken, he does not
hide the big influence he wields in the administration.
At the
commencement of meetings of FEC, the SGF does not shy away from tackling
ministers who do not settle down on time for meetings. He is also said
to have the ears of the President. 4. Kayode Fayemi, Babatunde Fashola and Rotimi Amaechi – Ministers
These ministers are the new mover and shakers of APC-led government.
They are believed to have inputs alongside the APC National Chairman,
John Oyegun at various state primary elections.
They are the young minds of President Buhari and hold powerful ministries at the Federal Executive arm.
5.Ismailia Funtua
Ismaila Isa Funtua is said to be a personal friend of the president and
the Chairman of Bulet International construction. It is reported that he
has Buhari’s ears on national issues, including appointments.
Although Funtua, like Daura, does not hold political office, he has
much influence on the President even more than those who are holding
offices. He has been part of Buhari’s delegation on some of his foreign
trips, including his official visit to the United States last year. 6. Theophilus Danjuma
General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd)
Danjuma who is one of Nigeria’s most influential and respected
senior military officers ever is a power broker. He is always sought
after by successive governments.
That he was one of the major sponsors of Buhari’s Presidency is not
a secret. With an interest in oil blocs, Danjuma, is believed to have
played a major role in the emergence of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, as the Group
Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,
and as the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources.
Goodluck Jonathan addressing UN Swiss press in Geneva
– Former President Goodluck Jonathan recently said there was
no way an amount as huge as $2.2 billion could go missing under his
government – Jonathan defended Sambo Dasuki, his former National Security Adviser (NSA) now at the centre of the scandal – The All Progressives Congress (APC) is now insisting that
Jonathan had knowledge of all the corrupt practices that took place
under his administration
The All
Progressives Congress in Lagos state has demanded the arrest of former
President Goodluck Jonathan for defending Sambo Dasuki, the former
National Security Adviser.
Dasuki is in detention over a $2.2 billion scandal but Jonathan,
while speaking recently at the Oxford Union, said he did not believe
that such an amount could be stolen under him.
Joe Igbokwe, spokesperson of the APC in Lagos
The APC in Lagos insisted that there was no way Jonathan would say he
did not know of the massive corruption under his government.
A statement by the party, through its spokesperson, Joe Igbokwe, and reported by Premium Times, said: “Even
as we concede that Jonathan is on a desperate bid to rehabilitate
himself, we wouldn’t believe that a former president should be so
contemptuous of the intelligence of Nigerians as to give the kind of
defence he gave to Sambo Dasuki. “We wonder what Jonathan makes of the horrid details that are
emanating from the Dasukigate issue with shocking evidences, confessions
and even refunds made by those that participated in that monumental
corruption.”
Jonathan had reportedly said: “I don’t believe somebody can just
steal $2.2 billion. We bought warships, we bought aircraft, we bought
lots of weapons for the army and so on and so forth and you are still
saying 2.2 billion, so where did we get the money to buy all those
things?”
The party warned Jonathan against defending someone who, though his action, compromised the security of the country, adding: “To
claim that Dasuki and his partners did not steal the arms purchase fund
reveals the inner beliefs of Jonathan and explains that he is
intrinsically webbed to corruption. “Even while he is perceived as pathologically corrupt and his
regime seen as the most corrupt in Nigeria’s chequered history, one
would have expected Jonathan to be cautious in seeking to advance very
childish and inadmissible exculpation of his subordinates for glaring
acts of corruption. “We had expected that Jonathan would have striven to water down
the lowly impression held of him by Nigerians and the international
community by not deciding to be so patronising to clear cases of
corruption by his subordinates. But with each day, Jonathan continues to
baffle by his chameleonic acts. “By Jonathan’s cheap defence of Sambo Dasuki, we believe time has
come for the security agencies to pick up Jonathan to tell the nation
all that he knows of the many cases of corruption that happened under
him. “We don’t believe any thing shields Jonathan from prosecution for
corruption as we believe it is becoming indefensible for Jonathan to
pretend he was innocent of the corrupt acts of his subordinates. “While we condemn Jonathan’s cheeky defence of Dasuki, even in
the face of monumental damning evidences, we want to state that the anti
corruption war is incomplete until Jonathan is prosecuted for he
continually proves, by such defence of his corrupt subordinates, that he
knew everything that transpired in his corruption-ridden regime.”https://youtu.be/Il_rNnALpzI
The Niger State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service said on
Wednesday that 53 illegal immigrants have been repatriated to Niger
Republic. Mrs Tamuno Oyedeji, Comptroller of Immigration Service in the
state disclosed this in an interview in Minna.
Adededji said the state government provided vehicles for the
transportation of the illegal immigrants to the border post at Jibia in
Katsina state. “We successfully handed them over to the Niger Republic
Immigration officers at the border post,’’ she said. Adedeji said that
the immigrants were repatriated because their presents constitute
security threats in the state.
She said that most of the illegal immigrants possess expired
documents, while others have no legal documents to back their legitimate
stay in the country. The comptroller said that the command has taken
proactive security measures to ensure only immigrants with proper
documents are allowed into the country through Babana border with Benin
Republic.
Club des chefs des chefs
The chefs who cook for the world’s leaders usually keep a low
profile, leaving the limelight to their bosses. But once a year, it is
their turn to be wined and dined and treated as honoured guests in a
foreign country.
Billed as the world’s most exclusive gastronomic society, the Club des
Chefs des Chefs brings together the men and women who cook for heads of
state to exchange ideas and — presumably — insider information on their
bosses’ tastes.
They have met annually since the club was first established in Paris in
1977 and this year for the first time they are doing so in India, hosted
by the president’s personal chef, Montu Saini.
“The presidents all met each other. I thought it was a good idea to make
a sort of G20 of the chefs,” the club’s founder Gilles Bragard told
journalists in Delhi.
“If politics divides men, a good table will unite them.”
Naturally, the tradition involves trying out local delicacies. But Saini
has left little to chance when it comes to the Indian capital’s most
notorious complaint.
Rather than subjecting the chefs to Delhi street food, he has had the
kitchen of their five-star hotel recreate golgappas and aloo tikkis —
popular fried snacks made of wheat flour and potato and served with
sweet and spicy chutneys.
“I can’t take them to the street because they are foreigners. Their tummies are too sensitive,” said Saini.
“So I am creating a replica in the hotels.”
India excels in the extravagant welcome, and the visiting chefs are treated like the royalty many of them work for.
Arriving in their immaculate chef’s whites at Old Delhi’s chaotic spice
market, even more crowded than usual ahead of the Diwali festival, they
were showered with pink rose petals and garlanded with jasmine.
“This is fantastic,” said Bernard Vaussion, who cooked for six French
presidents before he retired, as he pushed his way through the market’s
packed alleyways.
“I mean it’s dirty and noisy, but who cares. It’s such an experience.”
India takes its toll though. By day three, one of the visiting chefs has
fallen ill, while another is feeling the effects of Indian cuisine.
“After four days of eating spicy (food), you feel it,” said Fabrizio
Boca, chef to the Italian president. “I think it’s only because you have
to get used to it.”
Like most of the visiting chefs — 16 men and one woman, America’s
Cristeta Comerford — Boca is eager to learn more about India’s vast
range of spices.
Comerford, a Filipino-American, said she saw parallels with the cuisine of the Philippines.
“It’s not a recipe driven food, it’s more of a philosophy,” she told AFP.
“I would use the analogy of the Philippines, because each household has their own way of doing a certain dish.”
For the chefs, the annual gatherings are a chance to exchange ideas and get to know each other.
They also have a hotline known as the “blue telephone” that allows them
to consult each other on their bosses’ preferences before a state visit.
None of the chefs gave away much about their bosses’ tastes, although
all agreed on the growing importance of seasonality in food, and of
making state dinners a lighter, healthier affair.
“Looking for more sustainable more local produce has become more
prominent,” said Mark Flanagan, chef to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth.
Given the move towards lighter dishes, it was perhaps doubtful whether
the first recipe they tried on arriving in Delhi — the heart-stoppingly
calorific Indian sweets known as jalebis, made of deep-fried batter
soaked in syrup — would be recreated at home.
But Christian Garcia, the club’s current president and personal chef to
Prince Albert of Monaco, said he might be tempted to ask for the recipe.
Princess Charlene, he said, was a big fan of Indian cuisine.
“I thought I knew how to cook Indian food a bit, but now I realise I was completely wrong,” he said.
“Apart from curry and a few spices, I didn’t know how to cook any of the
dishes that I’ve been able to discover during our stay.”
A Nigerian lady , Victoria, who was told she was going to Italy to
study and work afterwards tells her story of how was forced into
prostitution and how she sufferered in the hands of her traffickers
”They promised me an education. They promised me if I came with them I
could go to school and get a good job” 18-year-old Victoria tells ITV
her story from a small cafe house in Turin, a shelter for rescued
Nigerian prostitutes.
The promise was the slick patter of a modern slave master, who saw
Victoria in her native Lagos back in Nigeria, and realised she was rich
pickings. Her trafficker, whom she trusted, said he could get her to
Italy.
With little to live for in Nigeria, Victoria found the money to pay and
with her head full of teenage dreams of a better life, she went for it.
She is one of thousands of Nigerian women who take the gamble every year
– the numbers have shot up in the past two years as the traffickers
hide their victims in the endless flow of migrants heading to Europe.
Victoria’s 2,500 mile journey became an epic of exploitation and
abuse. By the time they’d got her to Libya, Victoria had been beaten and
forced into prostitution: making money for her trafficker to pay off
her now endless debt to him. Her eyes widen as she tells ITV presenter
she had no choice. Her dismay is heartbreaking.
“I had no choice, I had no choice! I had to pay him… I was like a prisoner”, she said.
But thankfully the shelter we’re chatting in is a place of safety.
Just a few weeks ago she arrived in Italy by boat via the now well worn
route of thousands of Nigerian women. Before the traffickers awaiting
her in Italy could pluck her from the crowd, she was spotted by a
charity run by Princess Inyang Okokon, who was herself trafficked from
Italy to Nigeria, via London, nearly 20 years ago.
Her husband Alberto is happy to admit he was once one of her paying clients.
But when he met Princess, his eyes were opened to the phenomenon of
modern slavery: she was trapped in a life of prostitution in Italy, her
documents kept by her female trafficker – and with massive debts to pay.
He helped her get out. For Princess, Victoria’s story is her story.
She and Alberto now run shelters for women just like her, but are
feeling overwhelmed by the sheer numbers they are dealing with. The
couple took the reporters onto the streets of Turin late at night: in
one suburb there is a sex worker on almost every corner – nearly all of
them we are told, will have been trafficked from Nigeria.
Wearing barely any clothes, they stoke fires they’ve made in small
oil drums to keep warm whilst they wait for the next car to pull up (see
video in the link) Rescuing them is dangerous work: the traffickers
watch their every move.
ITV spoke to many of the women Princess and Alberto care for. All of
them had tales of rape, beatings, enforced servitude. Two of them had
babies with them – thrown onto the boats from Libya to Italy because
their trade value went down when they got pregnant in Libya. Every
single one of them had been bought, sold, used, and resold. They were
treated as goods in transit.
The world’s most famous sportsman Cristiano Ronaldo, set tongues
wagging when he uploaded a photo of him wearing facial mask during a spa
session last week. Now a popular Portuguese gossip magazine have
reported that the footballer allegedly spends thousands of Euros on
cosmetic therapy and botox procedures and prefers spending time on his
looks than his football.
The magazine who used C.Ronaldo on their front page alleged that the
footballer is addicted to botox, but interestingly, used an old photo of
Cristiano Ronaldo to buttress their claims.
The photo Ronaldo posted on his IG page
An unidentified woman has filed in a lawsuit accusing late pop king
Micheal Jackson for sexually assaulting her when she was just 12.
According to the TMZ report, the woman who filed in the lawsuit as a
‘Jane Doe’ said the singer started abusing her in 1986 when she and her
mother had stopped by his Hayvenhurst home as sightseers. She says
Michael invited them into the house to see his candy area. She claims
Michael fondled her genitals and gave her movie kisses tongue kissing
her mouth and body. She also alleges there was vaginal penetration.
In the document provided which includes copies of cheques and love
letters, the woman claimed that she received more than $900,000 in three
years to stay mute, with the first payment of $2,500, followed by a
bumper pay of $600k in 1993.
Meanwhile, a statement from Micheal Jackson’s attorneys has debunked the accusation, saying:
‘This is yet another attempt to hit the lottery by suing the Estate of
Michael Jackson more than seven years after Michael’s death and close to
30 years after these incidents supposedly occurred. We believe this
claim was created from whole cloth and is without any merit. It’s also
no coincidence that this woman is represented by the same attorneys
involved in two other frivolous claims against the Estate.’
See copies of the alleged ‘Cheques and love letters’ below…
Super Eagles defender and FK Haugesund captain William Troost-Ekong
has been nominated for the 2016 Defender of the Year award in the
Norwegian Tippeliga league.
His club FK Haugesund’s confirmed his nomination on their official website on Wednesday.
“FK Haugesund William Troost-Ekong is nominated for the ‘Year
defender’,” . The series is nearing its end and the Norwegian Football
Association (NFF), Norwegian Toppfotball (NTF) and Adult Women (SKF)
invite people to vote on which players, coaches and referees who have
been the best in their field this year;” the club announced
Congrats to him!
Eleven persons, including Nigerians were involved in one of the
biggest sham marriage to be uncovered in West Midlands, UK. They were on
October 21, 2016, jailed for a total of 52 and a half years.
A Nigerian pastor and two other men are regarded as the driving
forces behind the racket that involved at least 45 fake relationships
received the longest sentences. 41-year-old Donald Nwachuckwu, senior
pastor at the Kingdom of Godfire Church in Bilston, was jailed for eight
years .
He used his position to identify West Africans in the country
illegally who were prepared pay up to £6,500 for permission to stay on
the bogus grounds of being married to, or in a long term relationship
with, a person from the European Union living and working in this
country.
An
astonishing £153,000 worth of credits passed through bank accounts run
by the pastor under a false name before he was arrested at his home in
Titford Road, Oldbury.
Nwachukwu and others had joined forces with a Nigerian law student to
cash in a valuable asset -a person’s right to stay in the UK and claim
benefits. The sham marriage gang was busted in 2013, following a tip of
about a dodgy wedding between a 26-year-old Nigerian Edward James and
Czech Julie Ondova, 20, who already had a boyfriend and two children but
had accepted £800 to play the role of bride at Stoke Register Office
with a further £1,000 due on completion of the nuptials. The both
pleaded guilty at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court to facilitating a breach of
immigration law. He was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and
deported on July 29, 2014. She was jailed for 16 months and kicked out
of the country on completion of her sentence.
Clemence Marijeni, aged 43, from Weston Road, Bilston was the master
forger who created the fake documents to support the spurious
applications for European Economic Area (EEA) resident’s cards that
allowed the holder to stay in the UK and claim benefits. He was jailed
for ten years. The graphics expert created fake histories for the West
African and person supposed to be their long term lover – mainly Czech
or Slovakian and promised up to £1,800 each to take part in the plot
which ran from January 2012 to March last year.
False utility bills, rent books, pay slips and employment records
backed the bogus claim of a legitimate marriage or lasting relationship.
Some included pictures of the pair – who were strangers – side by side
in bed, fully clothed or shopping together
Olatunji George, 44, a law student who had completed a module on
immigration law administered the operation. He also got 10 years behind
bars. He claimed to be paid up to £1,000-a-time to prepare packages of
the correct documents and fill in the necessary paperwork for the bogus
resident’s card applications.
His home in Taylor Way, Tividale held an ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of
information when raided by Immigration Enforcement investigators who,
after a tip off, halted the marriage of a 26-year-old Nigerian and a
Czech woman, who both lived in Wolverhampton. She revealed that
Nwachuckwu had been involved in organising the bogus wedding. Checks on
the pastor revealed phone calls between him, George and Marijeni.
Jozef Puzo, aged 28, St Pauls Road, Smethwick, was jailed for five
years. He provided the final piece of the jigsaw by earning up to
£750-a-time finding women and men from the zech and Slovakian
communities prepared to take part in the scam. Both he and George are
now on the run after fleeing during their trial but were convicted and
sentenced in their absence.
Also convicted of conspiracy to facilitate a breach of immigration
law were: Victor Ibeh, 32, Cherene Cotterill,27, and pavel Farbar, 30:
Lenka Jocova, 38, Peter Fredrick, 27, Idris Agia, 31 and Aishatu
Ibrahim, 25.
However, Aishatu Ibrahi has also gone missing but was given three and
a half years while Agia was arrested moments before flying out of the
country to Nigeria just days ago. He was jailed for three and a half
years. The other five defendants were each jailed for between two and
three and a half years. All defendants were found guilty of immigration
offences. Jailing them at Worverhampton Crown Court yesterday, Judge
Amjad Nwas said:
“These were all willing participants in a well organised system operated for profit”
Photos of other convicts below …
Source: Express and Star
Rap mogul and Roc Nation CEO, Jay Z has reportedly bid $40M to
acquire the right to buy the unreleased music of late rock icon Prince.
According to TMZ report, Jayz flew Prince’s sister Tyka and her
husband, Maurice Phillips to NYC to meet with him for further discussion
on the $40M deal. However, it is also believed that Tyka who shares
same parent with the late singer that died in April 2016 will have to
get sign-off from all her half siblings before Jay Z can have full right
to the deal.
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