19 Confirmed Dead And 170 Rescued Yesterday From Islamist militants Attack In Bamako Mali.

Islamist militants killed 19 people in an attack on a top hotel in the capital of Mali before Malian commandos stormed the building and rescued 170 people, many of them foreigners.
Two militants were killed.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced the death toll and said seven people were wounded in the attack, which has been claimed by jihadist group Al Mourabitoun and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Friday's assault on the Radisson Blu hotel comes a week after deadly Islamic State attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Tha Mali attack was the latest in a series of deadly raids this year on high-profile targets in the country, which has battled Islamist rebels based in its desert north for years.

Sylvester Stallone and lovely daugthers at the Creed premiere in Westwood.

Sylvester Stallone made the Creed premiere in Westwood, California on Thursday night a family affair, posing with his wife, Jennifer Flavin, and his three gorgeous daughters. It's safe to say all eyes were on Sophia, 19, Sistine, 17, and 13-year-old Scarlet, who stole the show on the red carpet thanks to their stunning good looks.

Not surprisingly, Sistine, who turned heads in a white minidress, is an aspiring model. The teenager is following in the footsteps of her 47-year-old mother, a former model.

Lucky Man Saved From The Hands Of Ritualists In Anambra, Nigeria.

Anambra state police command has apprehended two members of vigilance group, who allegedly attempted to murder four persons for alleged ritual purposes at Otuocha in Anambra East local government area.

The victims were cut with machete by the nine member gang who kidnapped them in their farm at Igbariam in Anambra East council area.

Reacting to the development, Anambra state police commissioner, Hosea Karma, who confirmed the incident, maintained that anybody pretending to be vigilante operative without the approval of the traditional ruler and the president general of that community under the supervision of the divisional police officer would be seen as illegal and treated like a criminal.

Happening Now ! Dangote Truck Ran Into Many Cars In Asaba And Many Feared Dead

A Dangote trailer collided with several cars along the Asaba-Onitsha expressway and went up in flames this afternoon in Asaba. Many people are feared dead in the accident. Fire service was able to control the fire but the accident is causing serious traffic gridlock coupled with the long line at a close NNPC station due to fuel scarcity. More photos

PDP suffering from hallucination -APC

All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted angrily to the allegation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the party was behind an alleged assassination attempt on deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The party described it as induced hallucination.
The PDP had, through its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, alleged that there was plot to exterminate Ekweremadu and other opposition leaders by the APC, adding that lives of key opposition members were in danger.
Reacting to the allegation, APC Acting National Publicity Secretary, Timi Frank, said it was unfortunate that the PDP resorted to cheap blackmail, adding that the party was yet to purge itself of ‘its cheap and manipulative strategies which only helped it to the doldrums that it is in today.”

Isis Is Not The World Most Deadly Terror Group, Boko-Haram Is.

After three attacks in as many weeks — in Paris, Beirut and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula — in which a total of at least 397 people were killed, the world's attention is fixed on the Islamic State and its horrific brutality.

But in northeastern Nigeria, another group is even deadlier: Boko Haram.

The Nigerian jihadist group was behind the killings of 6,644 people in 2014, compared to 6,073 deaths at the hands of ISIS militants, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace on Wednesday.
The death count in Nigeria rose just as the report was released. At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a busy market in the northern town of Kano; Nigerian authorities blamed Boko Haram for the attacks.

Islamist Gunmen attack luxury hotel in Bamako Mali Today, 170 taken hostage.

Islamist gunmen stormed a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, taking 170 hostages in a former French colony that has been battling rebels allied with al Qaeda for several years.

A senior security source said some of the hostages had been freed after being made to recite verses from the Koran. The French newspaper Le Monde quoted the Malian security ministry as saying at least three hostages had been killed.

The raid on the Radisson Blu hotel, which lies just west of the city center near government ministries and diplomatic offices in the former French colony, comes a week after Islamic State militants killed 129 people in Paris.

Heroic Welcome As Bayelsa State Women Spread Their Wrappers For Gov Seriake Dickson To Walk On. Photos

The Governor Seriake Henry Dickson on a campaign tour was welcomed to Ikolo, an Ijaw community by a group of women who spread their wrappers on the road for him to walk on. See more pictures below…

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,Prof Chukwuma Soludo Urges President Buhari To Dismantle Subsidy

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) Prof Chukwuma Soludo yesterday urged the President Mohammadu Buhari- led administration to dismantle all forms of subsidy in the oil and gas sector to allow for the implementation of free market enterprise.
Soludo who spoke on the theme  “Can a New Buharinomics Save Nigeria’, at a forum organised by Realnews Magazine said that countries like India, China, Russia were fast learners who are trying to beat everyone to the ‘game’. According to him the fuel subsidy which the nigerian government has been funding with tax payers money when it was clear the benefit was going to a neglegible few in the economy has turned out to be a fraud which the Buhari regime must discontinue if it must make real progress.

List Of Nigerian Top Richest Men For 2016 Updated.

Despite a crash in global commodity prices that led to a loss of about $5billion of his total networth between 2014 and this year, Nigerian foremost industrialist and President of Dangote Group, Mr. Aliko Dangote retained his preeminent position as the richest African according to the latest edition of Forbes Magazine released this week.
Mr. Dangote  is retaining his number one spot for the fifth year in a row, with $16.7 billion net worth after losing nearly $5 billion from about $19billion in 2014, due largely to a huge drop in the stock price in his Cement and other commodities businesses coupled with a weakened Nigerian currency.

Former Nigerian President Dr.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Is A Symbol Of Democracy In Action, US Says.

Former United States President Jimmy Carter has  described Nigeria’s former president Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as a symbol of democracy on the African continent.
Carter, the 39th US President, said this when he received  Jonathan yesterday at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum located at the Carter Centre in Atlanta.
In a statement,  the two former presidents held a fruitful meeting at the carter Centre where they held  wide-ranging discussion on global issues and shared views on how to promote peace, democracy and good governance in Africa and the world.

Ritual Killings On The Rise In Liberia.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says increase in ritualistic killings and armed robbery are threatening security ,Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, vowed on Thursday to crack down on those responsible for a rise in ritual killings in the west African country as it seeks to emerge from the shadow of an Ebola epidemic.

See What $800 Million Worth Of Cocaine Looks Like. Photos.

When surveillance aircraft spotted a make-shift submarine in waters off Central America, a boarding team from the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf found more $200 million worth of cocaine.

"Getting the semi-submersible was pretty exciting. Just seeing it for the first time, and seeing the sheer amount of drugs on it -- almost 18,000 pounds."

This year for the Coast Guard, working with the military and U.S. customs, has seized more cocaine in the Pacific than the last three years combined.

Nigeria Army rescue over 60, kill 4 Boko-Haram Members

Nigerian troops killed four suspected Boko Haram suspects and set free 61 people, mainly women and children, held by the jihadist group in the flashpoint north-eastern Borno state, the army said Thursday.
In an operation, troops under air cover cleared Boko Haram camps "and in the process rescued 61 persons abducted and held captive by the Boko Haram terrorists", the army said in a statement.
"The rescued persons were mainly women and children," the military said, adding that troops also "killed four terrorists and arrested one".

NIGERIAN MAN DISPLACED BY BOKO-HARAM TERROR GROUP TURNS REGGAE ARTIST

 Raski Moore was living in Bauchi before he fled his home after a Boko Haram attack. He now produces reggae music to uplift the lives of those who also live with him at the Kuchigoro camp in Abuja.

Abandoning normal life in towns to take up shelter in a refugee camp can be heartbreaking and boring. But having a Reggae star in a refugee camp can spark some fun in the gloom.