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PDP will bounce back in 2019 – President Jonathan declares

PDP will bounce back in 2019 – President Jonathan declares

Read the state House press release below... President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared Thursday in Abuja that if members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) remain committed to the vision of its f…

30 Apr 2015

Janet Jackson and her billionaire husband attend Giorgio Armani's party in Milan

Janet Jackson and her billionaire husband attend Giorgio Armani's party in Milan

Since 48 year old Janet Jackson got married to her Qatar-based business magnate Wissam Al Manaso in 2012, it has become rare to see her in public, so you can imagine the amazement of seeing photos of…

30 Apr 2015

Executed Andrew Chan writes haunting letter to children around the world, warning them about the dangers of drugs

Executed Andrew Chan writes haunting letter to children around the world, warning them about the dangers of drugs

Andrew Chan is one of the 8 people executed in Indonesia two days ago. He was known as the Bali 9 ringleader. Before he was executed by a firing squad, Andrew wrote haunting letter to schoolchildren …

30 Apr 2015

Mu’azu not asked to resign, PDP NWC not in dispute with Governors - PDP

Mu’azu not asked to resign, PDP NWC not in dispute with Governors - PDP

There were reports in some dailies today that PDP Chairman Adamu Mu-Azu has been asked to resign and that he and other PDP National Working Committee members who attended a meeting yesterday were ask…

30 Apr 2015

Lagos government shuts 24 religious buildings over noise pollution

Lagos government shuts 24 religious buildings over noise pollution

Lagos state government says in the last one year it has shut down 24 religious buildings in the state following complaints of noise pollution they produce in areas where they are situated as well as …

30 Apr 2015

Photo of some of the rescued girls; military now says identity of girls still unknown

Photo of some of the rescued girls; military now says identity of girls still unknown

Above is a photo of some of the girls recently rescued by Nigerian troops from Sambisa Forest. Meanwhile Spokesperson of the Defence Headquarters, Major General Chris Olukolade, says identity of the …

30 Apr 2015

resident Zuma calls GEJ over xenophobic attacks

resident Zuma calls GEJ over xenophobic attacks

P President Zuma of South Africa has reportedly put a call across to President Jonathan to express his sadness over the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa. He appealed to President Jonathan no…

30 Apr 2015

FG demands return of corpses of 4 Nigerians executed in Indonesia

FG demands return of corpses of 4 Nigerians executed in Indonesia

The Federal Government has asked for the return of the corpses of 4 Nigerians executed in Indonesia following drug related offences yesterday April 28th.In a statement released by the Public Communic…

30 Apr 2015

FG sacks Director of FAAN over appointment irregularities

FG sacks Director of FAAN over appointment irregularities

The Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka has sacked the Director of finance of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr Tochukwu Bede Uchendu, over allegations of irregularities associated…

30 Apr 2015

Fellow Nigerian slaves: CBN has again decided to limit our freedom to our hard earned money

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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lol. This one affects me o. From $150k a year to $50k year - that's all you can spend now when you travel abroad. Dr Peregrino Brimah of Ends.ng says it's not right. Read his article below...</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
Dear fellow Nigerian masses,<br />In response to the spate of governing cabal looting billions of dollars and laundering this via private jets to South Africa and beyond, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governed by Godwin Emefiele has again decided that we the people must be punished and deprived of all rights to receive and send our hard earned personal little money for the little business and living necessities we manage.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In an unbelievable but expected new move, the CBN sent the below letter to us with the latest restrictions on our financial freedom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has in its circular dated 17th April, 2015 condemned the rising trend of currency substitution and dollarization of the economy. Deposit Money Banks operating in Nigeria have been advised to desist from the collection of foreign currencies for payment of domestic transactions on behalf of their customers and the use of their customers’ domiciliary accounts for making payments for visible and invisible transactions (fees, charges, licenses e.t.c) originating and consummated in Nigeria.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In compliance with this directive, you will be required to provide supporting documentation for all payments to and from your domiciliary accounts as proof that payments are not in breach of this directive. Please note that this applies to payments to or from entities/individuals within Nigeria.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Foreigners, visitors and tourists to Nigeria are allowed to continue to use their cards for payments or exchange their foreign currency for local currency at any of the authorised dealers’ outposts including hotels.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Thank you for banking with Standard Chartered Bank. As always, we remain committed to providing you best-in-class financial solutions.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As with the other new policy revisions, there was no prior warning. The notice was sent to take effect immediately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With this new restriction we must explain every penny our family and friends in America wire to us to help them build their houses in Nigeria or to simply save or invest for them in Nigeria; or to pay school fees of their wife and girl friends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We must explain and defend <b>WITH “PROOF</b>” [<b>supporting documentation</b>] every dollar we wish to send to friends and loved ones abroad or that we receive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This does not happen anywhere in the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are in prison!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They have forced all our cash into the bank in the cash-less imprisonment system only seen in Nigeria and never seen in any developed nation and now they want to give the banker-cabal the right to pry into our every business and seize our little money at will.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But how about those who carted $15 million in suitcases in private jets to South Africa? How about those wives of governors caught in Bayelsa in 2006 laundering millions? How about the cabal given all types of concessions, intervention funds, with billions of dollars import waivers [N234 billion waivers to PHCN in 2013 only], and never monitored?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We mentioned in our alert just this week [ENDS.ng: CBN Governor Mr. Godwin Emefiele Drives Nigerians Like Slaves] that the CBN under Godwin Emefiele had decided with no warning to suddenly decrease to one-third the forex withdrawal limit and forex purchase limit of our naira cards; on a day notice decreased to $300/day and $50,000 per year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This adds to a list of limitations to the financial freedom of the masses since the era of the former governor, now Emir Sanusi Lamido Sansui that are not seen in any nation around the world. Below listed is part of the growing list from our article criticizing the former governor for the impingements to the masses in defense of the wallets of the banks and cabal:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Customers pay N10-50 per sms alert, even for bank error repeat texts; though bulk sms texts are offered to businesses by mobile networks at N1/sms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hardware token for security is issued at N2000 ($12);</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bank statements are charged at about N40/page;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Renewal ATM card is issued at a charge of N1000 ($6);</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">N500 monthly maintenance fee for current accounts ($3);</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First Bank and Keystone Bank even have a N100 monthly ATM card maintenance fee!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You have the Value added tax—lol at “value.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even reference letters are fulfilled at a charge of up to N2000 ($12). Compare this to America for instance, where banks do not make money on COT, deposits or withdrawals and most of these additional bank services are offered for free to customers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Read this article on ENDS.ng: “<a href="http://ends.ng/cbn-the-poverty-in-sanusi-lamido-sanusis-legacy/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CBN: The Poverty In Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Legacy.”</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ENDS warned about Godwin Emefiele when Jonathan first appointed him in February of last year, that being a banker/banks man, expect him to lock us helpless masses in Guantanamo prisons while the banks, cabal and government officials bloat on our misery. Read that on ENDS.ng: “A Banks Man: Expect Higher Charges with Godwin Emefiele as New CBN Gov.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have been proven correct. There is no one ot defend the interests of the masses against these monsters. Godwin meets with bankers and they rise from meetings with new insane and never before seen on the planet, decisions to restrict our freedom and we are never consulted or represented.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Without allowing us adjust to one deprivation and limitation, they add another and another on it. Even communist China is better to its people than these vile, vicious vampires in this kakistocratic republic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Godwin’s tenure comes to an end, he is in a hurry to raise the prison walls and build a moat around it so we the 100 million destitute Nigerian masses living under a dollar a day, and millions other poor and managing small businesses will never see the light of financial stability and opportunities and the little happiness we pursue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because new technology and the expected new Integrity government is anticipated to further inhibit the looting of the Nigerian oil wealth, the thieves who all now own one big corporation or the other in Nigeria are finalizing their systems of stealing from the incapacitated and imprisoned slave masses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>One day we will eat them.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Peregrino Brimah; <a href="http://ends.ng/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://ENDS.ng</a> [Every Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng </span></span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter: @EveryNigerian</span></span></div>
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Fellow Nigerian slaves: CBN has again decided to limit our freedom to our hard earned money

Lol. This one affects me o. From $150k a year to $50k year - that's all you can spend now when you travel abroad. Dr Peregrino Brimah of Ends.ng says it's not right. Read his article below... Dear fe…

30 Apr 2015

South African women narrate discrimination they face for marrying Nigerian men

South African women narrate discrimination they face for marrying Nigerian men

South African women married to Nigerian men have narrated the discrimination they face for marrying men outside their country. Seeing the disaffection their kinsmen show them after finding love in th…

30 Apr 2015

7 Auto Insurance Claims That Seem Too Funny To Be True (#5 will have you in tears!)

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<strong>Auto Insurance Claim #1</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #312f2d;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.1599998474121px;">He told his auto insurance company: “</span></span><strong style="color: #312f2d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.1599998474121px;">I was going at about 70 or 80 mph when my girlfriend reached over and grabbed my testicles so I lost control.” </strong><span style="color: #312f2d;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.1599998474121px;">I have a feeling his insurance didn’t buy that auto insurance claim.</span></span></div>
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This next auto insurance claim was unfortunate because it happened with an expensive Ferrari. It’s no wonder auto insurance quotes are so expensive for sports cars.</div>
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<strong>Auto Insurance Claim #2</strong></div>
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This next auto insurance claim is so ridiculous it just sounds completely made up. This incident doesn’t help the case of luxury vehicle owners who want cheap auto insurance quotes.</div>
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<strong>Auto Insurance Claim #3</strong></div>
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<a href="http://hypedup.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/carcrash2.jpg" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="carcrash2" class="aligncenter  wp-image-461" height="395" src="http://hypedup.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/carcrash2.jpg" style="border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto 0.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="498" /></a>She told her auto insurance company: “<strong>The guard rail was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of the way when I struck the front end.”</strong> Really? Luckily she wasn’t injured. I have a good feeling her insurance company didn’t buy that auto insurance claim though.<br />
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This has to be one of the most expensive auto insurance claims ever. At $2.5 million each, the auto insurance quote for this Bugatti Veyron definitely does not come cheap.</div>
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<strong>Auto Insurance Claim #4</strong></div>
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<a href="http://hypedup.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/veyron-crash.jpg" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="veyron-crash" class="aligncenter  wp-image-464" height="299" src="http://hypedup.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/veyron-crash.jpg" style="border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto 0.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="532" /></a>The excuse he gave for his auto insurance claim? “<strong>A pelican had distracted me and sent me off course, into the water”. </strong>Well that pelican just cost him $2.5 million. I’m sure his auto insurance company disputed this ridiculous claim.</div>
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This auto insurance claim is one that many women may be able to relate to, especially if they’ve ever been late for anything. She can say goodbye to her cheap auto insurance.</div>
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She told her auto insurance company: “<strong>I was late for work, so I had to do my make-up and straighten my hair while I was driving.”</strong> She wasn’t injured, but her auto insurance is likely going to skyrocket after this incident, and for good reason.</div>
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Here’s another auto insurance claim from a sports car driver. It’s no wonder auto insurance companies never have cheap car insurance for these types of vehicles! You’ll never guess what his claim was.</div>
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He told his auto insurance company: <strong>“In an attempt to kill a bee flying around my head, I drove into a telephone pole.”</strong>. This guy must be missing a few screws in his head. He wasn’t injured by the accident nor the bee, but I’m sure his auto insurance quote won’t be cheap.</div>
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These auto insurance claims so far have been pretty ridiculous, but this next one definitely takes the cake. He probably won’t sweat about paying an increased auto insurance though if he’s driving a lambo.</div>
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His auto insurance claim was: <strong>“I caught the other guy in the car banging my wife the other day, so I decided to teach him a lesson”.</strong> While some people may sympathize with that auto insurance claim, I smell a lawsuit coming up. The guy in the lambo better get his attorney ready.</div>
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7 Auto Insurance Claims That Seem Too Funny To Be True (#5 will have you in tears!)

Auto Insurance Claim #1 It’s terrifying to think who we’re sharing the road with as we’re driving in our car. It’s surprising how some people even passed their driver’s license test w…

29 Apr 2015

Jay Z says Tidal is 'doing just fine' with 770k subscribers

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Jay Z is not one for writing a lot of tweets - but he's just put out a "stream of consciousness" defending his music streaming service, Tidal.</div>
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Launched last month with some very high profile backers, critics have said that the company has been a bit of a flop, with low subscriber numbers.</div>
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But Jay Z says: "Tidal is doing just fine. We have over 770,000 subs. We have been in business less than one month.</div>
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"We are here for the long haul."</div>
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Jay Z bought Tidal from a Swedish company, Aspiro, earlier this year, for $56m (£37m).</div>
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There was a spike in interest when he re-launched it on 30 March but then dropped out of the top 50 for downloaded music apps on the US iTunes store.</div>
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The company also got rid of its CEO and announced redundancies earlier this month but also said it was looking for new staff.</div>
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At the launch event, musicians including Beyonce, Madonna and Kanye West were announced as backers of the service.</div>
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Jay Z says Tidal is 'doing just fine' with 770k subscribers

Jay Z is not one for writing a lot of tweets - but he's just put out a "stream of consciousness" defending his music streaming service, Tidal. Launched last month with some very high profile backers,…

29 Apr 2015

Robert Downey Jr opens up on C4 interview walk-out

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Actor Robert Downey Jr has spoken for the first time about <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBwaO-rAsE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">walking out of a UK TV interview</a> earlier this month.</div>
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Quizzed by US DJ Howard Stern, the Avengers star dubbed Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy "a bottom-feeding muckraker" for bringing up his past problems with drugs.</div>
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The actor said he had been "promoting a superhero movie" and suggested his interviewer had a "creepy dark agenda".</div>
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Guru-Murthy himself has insisted he had "no particular agenda".</div>
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"We don't do promotional interviews on Channel 4 News," Guru-Murthy wrote.</div>
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"We agree with PR people that as well as talking about a new movie for a while we want to ask wider ranging questions on relatively serious topics."</div>
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"Social decorum"</h2>
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Downey Jr, however, said Guru-Murthy had been "weirding [him] out" with his "weirdo" line of questioning in his "first interview of the day".</div>
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<a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.howardstern.com/howard-on-air/howard-100-101/2015-04-28?mode=full" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He said he now wished he had left the interview sooner</a> and suggested the Channel 4 newsman had violated "social decorum" by scrutinising him like "a kiddie fiddler who's running for mayor".</div>
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He said he needed "to distance myself from this clown".</div>
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"Otherwise, I'm probably going to put hands on somebody, and then there's a real story," he added.</div>
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Guru-Murthy previously clashed with director Quentin Tarantino, who bridled when asked to discuss the violence in his film Django Unchained.</div>
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"I know he pulled the same garbage on Tarantino, and Tarantino stayed in his chair and lit him up for five minutes," said Downey Jr of <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsJDy8VjZk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that 2013 encounter</a>.</div>
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"I'm a 50-year-old guy, I used fancy words... and yet I'm completely unevolved when it comes down to simple boundaries."</div>
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The actor is currently promoting fantasy sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron, in which he can be seen reprising his role as armour-plated superhero Iron Man.</div>

Robert Downey Jr opens up on C4 interview walk-out

Actor Robert Downey Jr has spoken for the first time about walking out of a UK TV interview earlier this month. Quizzed by US DJ Howard Stern, the Avengers star dubbed Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murth…

29 Apr 2015

Court dissolves 3yr old marriage over wife’s lack of vagina opening

Court dissolves 3yr old marriage over wife’s lack of vagina opening

An Abeokuta Customary Court sitting in Ake on Wednesday April 29th dissolved a three-year-old marriage between Mr Femi Olayiwole and wife, Kemi, due to the absence of vagina, deceit and frequent figh…

29 Apr 2015

The quiet global crisis that scares the State Department

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A big new State Department assessment has identified a major threat to global security. It's not ISIS or Vladimir Putin. It's not a rickety global economy or climate change or the threat of global pandemics.</div>
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Instead, the report argues, these individual problems are symptoms of a much bigger issue — namely, a slow breakdown in global governance. Many of the institutions that were created in the past century to deal with economic and security risks around the world, such as the UN and IMF, may no longer be adequate to the task.</div>
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If the authors of the report are right, then the world's biggest problems are all really about this one big thing.</div>
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The world's institutions are no longer adequate for today's problems</h3>
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The report, called the <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/241429.pdf" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review</a>, was tasked with a broad review of State Department policies. The point was "not looking at the crisis of the day," Tom Perriello, the State Department official tasked with leading the QDDR, said in a press briefing. Instead, the report is "trying to connect the dots across the crises, and then saying what can we learn across the dynamics that we can see."</div>
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Much of what the report's authors saw was quite good. "Seventy years ago, a bipartisan group of visionary Americans forged a system of modern international institutions, as well as economic and security arrangements, aimed at preventing another catastrophic world war and addressing acute human suffering," they write. "This system enabled the peaceful end of the Cold War, a wave of democratization, and unprecedented improvement in the basic human condition around the globe."<br />
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That's all true. But the QDDR worries that these institutions — things like the UN and the IMF — aren't adequate for dealing with the specific kinds of problems we see today. The UN may help the big countries cooperate with each other, but it can't stop ISIS or Syria's civil war. Nor has it been able to lock in a big new international agreement on climate change.<br />
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Together, these problems show that "aspects of that post-World War II system are fraying." Sometimes, it's because a hostile power is actively challenging them — Russia, for example, is actively trying to weaken the NATO-dominated regional order in Europe.</div>
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Other times, it's that these institutions are having trouble developing good answers for particular kind of problems. It's not clear, for example, how global institutions can repair failed states and stop civil wars in places like Libya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo<br />
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Regardless, the basic point is the same: the institutions that have made the world the safest and most prosperous place it's ever been are becoming less capable of following through on their mission. The more they degrade, the argument goes, the more danger the United States — and the world — will be in.</div>
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These arguments aren't new: academics have been making them for years. But what's interesting about their position in the QDDR is that they seem to represent the US government's actual view about the world's biggest problems.<br />
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It's no accident that the QDDR's section on priorities begins with a quote from Obama's 2014 speech to the UN General Assembly — the address was framed around an almost identicaldiagnosis about the need to reform global institutions in light of new challenges. "If we lift our eyes beyond our borders, if we think globally and act cooperatively," Obama said, "we can shape the course of this century as our predecessors shaped the post–World War II age." Sound familiar?<br />
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But the QDDR goes beyond Obama's speech. It identifies four areas — preventing violent conflict and extremism, spreading democracy, promoting global economic growth, and climate change — in which the State Department needs to focus its efforts. "Each of these priorities is based on the need for better governance across the world," Secretary of State John Kerry said at a presser. "They're all linked."<br />
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The QDDR proposes a number of ways to improve its focus on these issues. For instance, it proposes a new investment on data-driven forecasting designed to predict conflicts and mass atrocities. If State Department diplomats have a better way of knowing countries are most at risk of serious violence, the theory goes, they can know where to invest resources in order to prevent those conflicts from getting worse.<br />
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These solutions feel very small-bore compared with the scale of the problems identified by the QDDR. The report doesn't have a big plan for reforming the UN to deal with failed states, nor does it propose a groundbreaking strategy for breaking the global impasse on a climate change agreement.</div>
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That's by design. The QDDR, as an exercise, is designed to improve the way the State Department works <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">as an organization</em>. About one-third of the report, for example, is focused on hiring and personnel management. The whole point of the exercise is to identify what the State Department can do better without radically transforming American foreign policy priorities or proposing pie-in-the-sky new budgets that Congress will never approve<br />
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And that's what makes the QDDR really interesting. A massive amount of government work involves identifying huge problems, like the breakdown of global governance, and then trying to implement a few small-bore strategies to chip away at the big problem. The QDDR is an unusually clear account of how that process actually works: of how small policy proposals and reforms fit into the bigger picture of American foreign policy.</div>

The quiet global crisis that scares the State Department

A big new State Department assessment has identified a major threat to global security. It's not ISIS or Vladimir Putin. It's not a rickety global economy or climate change or the threat of global pa…

29 Apr 2015

American Airlines planes grounded by iPad app error

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A faulty app caused American Airlines to ground dozens of its jets on Tuesday.</div>
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The glitch caused iPad software, used by the planes' pilots and co-pilots to view flight plans, to stop working.</div>
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The firm's cockpits went "paperless" in 2013 to save its staff having to lug heavy paperwork on board. AA estimated the move would save it more than $1.2m (£793,600) <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://ww1.jeppesen.com/company/newsroom/articles.jsp?newsURL=news/newsroom/2013/AAL_EFB_NR.jsp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in fuel every year</a>.</div>
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The company said that it was still investigating the cause of the problem.</div>
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"Some American Airlines flights experienced an issue with a software application on pilot iPads yesterday evening,"</div>
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"In some cases, the flight had to return to the gate to access a wi-fi connection to fix the issue.</div>
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"We apologise for the inconvenience to our customers and we had them on the way to their destinations soon afterwards."</div>
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Serge Gojkovich, chief executive of car parking app-maker Curbstand, was among the passengers affected.</div>
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He tweeted that his San Francisco-to-Los Angeles flight was only able to get airborne after <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/AmericanAir/status/593266435968798720" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the crew had printed off the maps they needed</a>.</div>
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A spokesman for the airline was unable to confirm the report.</div>
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Electronic flight bags</h2>
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American Airlines is not the only carrier whose pilots and cabin crew have switched from using physical charts and paper manuals to tablets.</div>
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United Airlines was also an early adopter of iPads, while Delta has opted for Microsoft's Surface tablets instead.</div>
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British Airways and Ryanair are among others still in the process of shifting to so-called Electronic Flight Bag-based systems.</div>
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In addition to saving on fuel costs, it is also suggested that such kit reduces flight preparation time, reduces the likelihood of injuries and helps staff by offering real-time updates.</div>
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There is competition between several firms to provide the software and support that make the technology possible.</div>
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American Airlines pilots use an app called FliteDeck, which is made by the Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen</div>

American Airlines planes grounded by iPad app error

American Airlines says it is still investigating the cause of the glitch A faulty app caused American Airlines to ground dozens of its jets on Tuesday. The glitch caused iPad software, used by the pl…

29 Apr 2015

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