Thursday, 23 July 2015
VP Osinbajo says there was no bomb threat to his home
Earlier this evening, there were reports that Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo had told members of the National Economic Council that
intelligence reports indicates that Boko Haram were planning to attack
his home. The VP has denied making this statement. What he said is
contained in a statement signed by Laolu Akande, Snr Special
Assistant-Media&Publicity to Osinbajo
Media reports that there was a plan by terrorists to bomb the house of
the Vice President is completely false with no iota of truth. An
unendorsed press briefing note circulated today by some officials of the
National Planning Commission contains a flat-out wrong claim.
That part of the note should read The Vice President
disclosed- security reports that scavengers are now being prepared by
insurgents.… to dump refuse laden with bombs in the houses of VIPs in
the Northeast. The note erroneously said “in the house of the Vice
President. During the NEC meeting earlier today, the Vice President had
mentioned intelligence reports which suggested that the terrorists have
recruited people such as "BABA BOOLA who are known to usually go about
picking things from the dust bins. The plan is to use the "BABA BOOLA"
people to plant bombs in houses of VIPs, offices and government
installations in the Northeast. Please take note of the correction, and
ignore such media reports claiming plans to bomb the VP’s house. Those
reports are unfounded and utterly baseless" the statement read
Media reports that there was a plan by terrorists to bomb the house of the Vice President is completely false with no iota of truth. An unendorsed press briefing note circulated today by some officials of the National Planning Commission contains a flat-out wrong claim.
That part of the note should read The Vice President disclosed- security reports that scavengers are now being prepared by insurgents.… to dump refuse laden with bombs in the houses of VIPs in the Northeast. The note erroneously said “in the house of the Vice President. During the NEC meeting earlier today, the Vice President had mentioned intelligence reports which suggested that the terrorists have recruited people such as "BABA BOOLA who are known to usually go about picking things from the dust bins. The plan is to use the "BABA BOOLA" people to plant bombs in houses of VIPs, offices and government installations in the Northeast. Please take note of the correction, and ignore such media reports claiming plans to bomb the VP’s house. Those reports are unfounded and utterly baseless" the statement read
Eminem takes jabs at Caitlyn Jenner
Eminem was a guest on Sway's show, 'Sway in the morning', earlier today
on Shade 45, a Satellite radio station on Sirius XM which is owned by
Eminem, to promote his new movie with 50 Cent, "Southpaw". He gave an 8
minute freestyle where he took jabs at a lot of celebrities including
Caitlyn Jenner. He said:
"This a true statement, I see the bitch in you Caitlyn," he raps about Caitlyn Jenner. "I keep the pistol tucked like Bruce Jenner’s dick/ No disrespect though, not at all/ No pun intended… that took a lot of balls.”
Kanye West to appear on Caitlyn Jenner's reality show
"Kanye and I have never really been very close but I love his open mindedness and I love how he has helped Kim come to grips with what's going on."
FFK shares cute pic with his fiancee, Precious, and a cute lil boy
Pres. Buhari says he won't treat people who didn't vote for him equally with those who voted for him
"(Going by election results), constituencies that gave me 97% can not in all honesty be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me 5%. I think these are political realities. While, certainly there will be justice for everybody but the people who voted, and made their votes count, they must feel the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place. I think this is really fair." Watch the video after the cut...
Never-before-seen pictures capture the lives of Peruvian nomads who are untouched by civilization
Never-before-seen
photos have emerged of one of the last the last uncontacted Amazon
tribes who the Peru government is trying to approach after they shot and
killed two men in the chest with a bow and arrow.
For
600 years the Mashco Piro clan – also known as Cujareno people – have
lived in the forest in Peru close to the border with Brazil and had no
contact with the outside world.
But
recently – threatened by 21st century logging, drugs cartels and
tourism – the rarely seen indigenous tribe have broken cover from the
forest to raid villages for food, tools and weapons to hunt.
In May, Leonardo Perez, 20, was killed when he was shot with an arrow by tribe members who wanted his tools.
In 2011 local guide Shaco Flores (pictured above), a Matsigenka Indian, was murdered by the tribe.
Shaco had given them machetes, pots and pans for 20 years and had developed a good relationship with the clan.
But
it is believed he was killed with an arrow to the heart after he tried
to persuade them to settle and end to their nomadic hunter-gatherer
life.
‘The
Mashco Piro have been present in this area for as long as anyone can
remember, and have in a way been enticed out of their forest home onto
the riverbanks by missionaries and other missionised indigenous people,’
Rebecca Spooner for campaign group International Survival told
MailOnline.
‘They have been given pots and land and machetes, and are now asking for more.’
The
increasing contact between the Mashco Piro people and other indigenous
communities is slowly peeling back the layers of secrecy that have
shielded them from modern society.
Members
of the tribe have been spotted a record 100 times already this year,
Peru's deputy culture minister Patricia Balbuena said.
While others have even left the forest and now live among the neighbouring Yine Indians, who speak a similar language.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)