US bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on Flights

   The US Department of Transportation has banned Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on flights after reports of the device catching fire.
  Passengers will not be able to take the phones on flights or in their luggage to and from the US from 16:00 GMT on Saturday.
  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had previously advised against packing the phones in luggage.
Samsung permanently stopped Galaxy Note 7 production this week.
  "We recognise that banning these phones from airlines will inconvenience some passengers, but the safety of all those aboard an aircraft must take priority," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement.
  "We are taking this additional step because even one fire incident in-flight poses a high risk of severe personal injury and puts many lives at risk."
  Samsung recalled around 2.5 million phones in September after complaints of exploding batteries.
While it later insisted that all replaced devices were safe, there were reports that those phones were catching fire too.
The company then said it would stop Galaxy Note 7 production.
  "The fire hazard with the original Note 7 and with the replacement Note 7 is simply too great for anyone to risk it and not respond to this official recall," said US Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Elliot Kaye.
  "I would like to remind consumers once again to take advantage of the remedies offered, including a full refund. It's the right thing to do and the safest thing to do."
SOURCE:www.naijacop.com

Nigerian judges out on bail after weekend arrests

Abuja - The Nigerian judges arrested at the weekend as part of a corruption probe have been released on bail, a source said on Monday, after the detention drew sharp rebuke from legal and rights groups.
"They were all released on bail yesterday (Sunday) on self-recognition," the source within the Department of State Services (DSS) told AFP.
"They did report for investigation this morning (Monday) and they have gone back home. And the investigation continues..." the source added.
"Everything went very procedurally well and civil."
At least seven judges were arrested at the weekend on allegations of receiving bribes, leading to an outcry from the bar association and rights groups who described the raids as "unprecedented".
The investigation involves a total of 15 judges.
 DSS said it had seized $800 000 in cash during the nation-wide operation which was prompted by allegations of corruption and professional misconduct made by other judges.
 On Monday, Chief Justice Mahmud Mohammed condemned the arrests as "deeply regrettable."
The DSS said the arrests followed "lack of co-operation by the National Judicial Council, such as refusal by the NJC to allow the affected persons to be questioned by the DSS."
The agency said its investigation started in April.
 The bar association has scheduled an emergency session on the issue on Tuesday.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler, was voted into power last year on an anti-graft platform.
 But critics have claimed his corruption war is being used as a front to sideline political.
SOURCE:www.naijacop.com

Malami, who had on Monday, shunned a valedictory court session the Supreme Court held in honour of one of its retired Justices, Suleiman Galadima, broke his silence on the matter after he inaugurated an Expert Review Committee on implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/breaking-arrest-judges-no-body-law-agf/

WATCH: Turkish man kills himself live on Facebook after girlfriend dumps him

An absolute horrific 40 seconds video was streamed online yesterday, October 10, showing a heartbroken Turkish man shoot himself live on Facebook after getting dumped by girlfriend.

Erdogan Ceren who is only just 22 year old, held a camera alongside a short gun to his chest saying no one believed him, when he said he was going to take his own life, and eventually shot himself.

Before killing himself, Erdogan had initially documented his shattered emotions online, with one of his post on Facebook saying: 'Feeling broken' along with the words, 'Our love saga would be written, ‘Behold, the eyes would not cry, half of you is going to tell you now, my hands do without that side.'

Watch the video below...
 https://youtu.be/SqqVxV7E_VU

‘There Are Major Collaborations On My Album, But It Won’t Be Dropping This Year’ – Davido

  Singer Davido, who recently dropped a new song, ‘Gbagbe Oshi’ two days ago following an eleven months music drought, has opened up on his reasons for the hiatus.
The Sony Music act, in an interview with Thenet.ng, not only spoke about his Sony music deal, he also put to rest rumors about the label behind his delayed comeback.
Read interview below:

Let’s talk about the Sony deal; Do you think you signed the deal at the right time?

 I won’t say I signed it at the wrong time, I signed it at the right time actually.

So why did it take you 11 months to drop a song?

 Adele takes 5 years, there are people who take break for 2 years, but here we are used to dropping songs every 3 months, it got to a point I knew I just had to find myself again.

So do you blame yourself or Sony for the 11-month drought?

 Don’t forget during this 1-months period, I did feature on over 24 songs. And it would have been different if I was dropping songs and they didn’t pop.

At the beginning of this year,m my focus was to pop out international collaborations but then things change and regardless I kept on recording and making new sounds

And as at August, they gave me a date and we planned to drop the record with Tinashe but then I was like why don’t you let me do my own African thing and drop the Tinashe record afterwards.

Tell us about your new song ‘Gbagbe Oshi’

 Gbagbe oshi was one of the songs that was supposed to be on the album, we recorded it last year.

And when  they (Sony) heard it, they really liked it. I like it too, I love the drive.

After the EP, when is the main album dropping?

 I can’t say for now, but not this year.

It shouldn’t be more than 11 songs on the album. They’ll be about 5 major collaborations on it and for now there’s no working title for the album.

SOURCE: www.naijacop.com

Black Monday: Women in Poland go on strike against abortion ban

  
    Women in Poland have gone on strike in protest against proposals for a total ban on abortion.

They marched through the streets wearing black as a sign of mourning for their reproductive rights.
Women who oppose the ban are staying away from work and school and refusing to do domestic chores, in a protest inspired by a women's strike in Iceland in 1975.
  Anti-abortion protests are being held around the country too.
Women took to the streets of the capital city, Warsaw, in a pro-choice march on what they are calling "Black Monday".
It is unclear how many women are taking part in the action and how widespread it will be beyond big cities.
If the law went through, which has cleared one parliamentary hurdle so far, went through it would make Poland's abortion laws as restrictive as those in two other countries in Europe: Malta and the Holy See.
Women found to have had abortions would be punished with a five-year prison term. Doctors found to have assisted in an abortion would also be liable for jail time.
   Critics say the law could mean women who have a miscarriage are also investigated, on suspicion of having had the pregnancy terminated deliberately. At early stages of pregnancy, miscarriages and abortions have indistinguishable symptoms.
   A separate bill seeks to curb in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), allowing only one embryo to be fertilised at any one time, and banning the practice of freezing embryos.


The city hall in Czestochowa in southern Poland allowed female staff to take the day off on Monday, while several businesses have closed for the protests.
But anti-abortion activists are planning counter-protests and the Polish Bishops' Conference asked Catholics to pray for "the conscience and the light of the Holy Spirit on all Poles who protect human life from conception to natural death".
While pro-choice activists marched in black and tweeted pictures of themselves wearing black, anti-abortion activists choice white for the colour of their counter-protests.

 
'If we agree that a mother can even kill her own child, how can we tell other people that they shouldn't kill each other?' wrote one woman.
  
One Polish pro-choice activist tweeted "gosh, how lovely this is" and included images of support messages from around the world.

Abortion is already mostly banned in Poland.
The exceptions are:

• where the woman's life is in danger
• where there is a risk of serious and irreversible damage to the foetus
• where the pregnancy is as a result of rape or incest - this must be confirmed by a prosecutor

As Poland's law currently stands it is one of the most restrictive in Europe for women seeking abortions - the only European countries with stricter laws are Ireland, Andorra, Liechenstein, San Marino and Northern Ireland (a part of the UK whose abortion law differs from England, Scotland and Wales).
As a result, even by conservative estimates there are far more illegal abortions than legal ones in Poland - between 10,000 and 150,000, compared to about 1,000 or 2,000 legal terminations.
SOURCE: www.naijacop.com

Twin sisters who are First Class graduates set to marry on the same day

Twin sisters, Eno and Ekom Ukere, who are first class graduates of the Akwa Ibom State University are set to marry the men in their lives on the same day. Eno Ukere is set to marry Jude while twin sister Ekom Ukere is set to marry Kuyak Michael.  Kuyak Michael wrote on his page:
   "The Journey is about to begin😍😘 #EnoJude2016 & #EkomKuyak2016 😍 #weddingtwins #naijawedding ....Save the dates 20th/22nd & 20th/29th of Oct.👌"

SOURCE: ww.naijacop.com

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo Unveiled Their Baby on Instagram

 The Voice’s Adam Levine and Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo welcomed a baby girl into the world on September 21, but if we haven’t seen pictures of a thing, has it really happened? The couple rectified that today by posting a sweet black-and-white photo on Instagram of their newborn snuggled up with her tattooed dad. The caption simply reads, “Dusty Rose Levine 9/21/16.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKucFQKAGwa/
Levine began dating Prinsloo in 2012. The two briefly broke up before getting engaged in 2013 and tying the knot for good in 2014. It seems like just yesterday that Prinsloo was touching tummies with Levine, who was feeling a little pregnant himself around week 20. Memories.
Source : www.naijacop.com

Photos: African migrant gives birth to twins on rickety boat off the Libyan coast

26-year-old Eritrean Merhawit Tesfamariam gave birth prematurely to twins on board a rickety boat off the Libyan coast in late August. Her twins, Hiyap (1.6 kilos) and Evenezer (1.3 kilos) are currently in incubators in Palermo's Cervello Hospital, Italy.

CNN's Ben Wedeman spent the day with Merhawit in the hospital, trying to learn her story, how she escaped from Eritrea to Libya and managed to get to Italy.

So far this year, 3,165 migrants and refugees have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, often in overcrowded boats and rafts. More than 110,000 others have arrived in Italy, where another 145,000 wait in reception centers for their statuses to be decided upon. According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 275,000 people are waiting in Libya to attempt the perilous journey.

Merhawit, like so many other Eritreans, she fled her country to escape the open-ended mandatory military service that made life in the small East African country unbearable. She served in the military for three years working as a clerk. Fed up, she deserted, but was caught and sentenced to five months in prison. After her release last year, she and her husband paid human traffickers 50,000 nakfa, about $3,300, to be smuggled across the border into Sudan.

Merhawit and her husband managed to scrape together enough funds, around $5,000, for her to continue the journey to Libya, but not enough for him to join. He stayed behind in Khartoum, and once more with the dubious assistance of human traffickers, the expectant mother went to Tripoli. There, Merhawit recounted, she stayed for five months in a walled compound, sleeping on the floor of what sounded, according to her description, like a warehouse.

"The water was dirty, dirty," she said.

The only food she and other migrants and refugees there were ever given was pasta. She never saw a doctor or take medicine. Eventually, she and the others were herded onto a bus and driven to the Libyan coast, where they boarded a boat. They had no food or water. Despite being eight months pregnant, Merhawit assured me she felt no discomfort. But after just two days at sea, labor set in. She was in pain, and her cries drove many of the passengers in the flimsy vessel as far away as they could get.

"I was in such pain I wasn't embarrassed by what was happening to me," she said. Merhawit recalls that women on the boat were supportive through her agony, and helped her deliver her twin boys.

 After they were born, however, she was gripped by fear that the infants would die as they drifted aimlessly on the Mediterranean. "I was worried the twins wouldn't survive, that we wouldn't be rescued."

Rescue did arrive, however, when their boat was spotted by the crew of Dignity 1, a vessel operated by Medecins Sans Frontiere (Doctors Without Borders). Merwahit and the twins were soon transferred to the Italian Navy, which helicoptered them to Palermo. The infants were suffering from malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia, according to doctors at the hospital in Palermo. Merhawit was also suffering from anemia. Their rescue, and rapid recovery since then is nothing short of miraculous, doctors say.

"If they had been on the boat much longer," Dr. Giorgio Sulliotti said, "they would have suffered much more than they did. Merhawit was "very lucky. It was a premature delivery of twins in a crowded boat in the Mediterranean. Any complication could have been grave, with the risk of death for both the mother and the twins. It's the first time I've seen a premature delivery with such a rapid recovery by both the mother and the babies," said Perino.

Once the twins are healthy enough, she will be released from the hospital to a reception center. There she will have to either apply for asylum or seek refuge in another country. She told me she wants to be reunited with her husband as soon as possible -- how, she doesn't know. Then she would like to move to the United Kingdom or, if she can, to the United States, where she says she has relatives.

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Usain Bolt goes on vacation with girlfriend

 
It seems the many controversies surrounding sprint superstar Usain Bolt have not affected his relationship with his girlfriend, Kasi Bennett, as the two have gone on vacation.
Following the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, there were numerous stories about Bolt. First he was pictured embracing and kissing a Brazilian woman on the cheek, and then there was a video of him dancing with another woman in a club on his birthday. And if that wasn’t enough, he was photographed passionately kissing yet another woman in a club.
But it seems those stories are now history, as early today he posted a video and photo showing that he was going on vacation with his girlfriend of more than two years.
First, it was Bennett who posted a picture on her Snapchat page with her feet on a suitcase in the departure lounge of an airport, while her male companion also had his feet on his suitcase. The photo was captioned, “Out.”
man’s face was not shown, but confirmation came later when Bolt made two posts on his Snapchat page.
“Yeah, vacation mode. Shoulda get a haircut,” he said, before turning the camera on Bennett, who smiled and waved.
Bolt then followed with a photo of himself and his companion in an aircraft with a caption, saying, “And it begins.”

Rapper Travis Scott reportedly blasts Rihanna for cheating on him with Drake

 According to a report on MediaTakeOut, rapper Travis Scott yesterday blasted Rihanna on his Apple Music radio show, claiming she cheated with Drake. Read the report below from MTO...
Travis and Rihanna were dating for about a year – until this summer, when he believes that she started cheating on him with Drake. Travis gave a really butt hurt emotional interview this morning on Apple Music’s radio show, where he said the following.


 – Travis said that he hated opening for Rihanna on the ANTi Tour.
– Travis confirmed Rihanna and him were dating exclusively, yet she’d bring Drake on stage and grind against him at multiple shows. He stops short of saying that Rihanna was sleeping with both he and Drake at the same time – but he DEFINITELY implies it.
– Travis claims that Rihanna refused to do any features on his new album. He decided find a female singer that “sounds just like her” for the track “Lose”

So far NO WORD from either Drake or Rihanna.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Africa tour tracks tech’s growing interests on the continent

After a surprise Nigeria visit to meet with techies in Lagos, Mark Zuckerberg took his Africa tour to Kenya this Thursday. There the Facebook CEO visited the iHub innovation space, reviewed the BRCK mobile Wi-Fi device, had lunch with Kenyan ICT Cabinet Secretary Joseph Mucheru, and met with tech leaders Juliana Rotich and Erik Hersman.
Like the Lagos expedition, the trip was unannounced. “Originally, we knew that Facebook’s Ime Archibong was coming in,” said Hersman (a co-founder of iHub), “but we didn’t know about Mark’s visit until the last minute.” Archibong is Facebook’s Strategic Partnerships Director.
Though no formal business commitments are planned on Zuckerberg’s first Kenya visit (something Facebook reps confirmed to TechCrunch), Hersman believes it is likely a precursor.

“Look, these meetings in Nigeria and Kenya, it’s largely PR for everybody right now,” he said. “However, from the interactions I saw…between Facebook’s team and different people within the tech community, I think there’s going to be some real stuff happening soon.”
While Zuckberg’s Nigeria visit was less anticipated—given the country only recently registered in global tech news—his dropping in on Kenya is less of a surprise.
The East African nation of 44 million has become the continent’s unofficial tech capital, dubbed “Silicon Savannah” for its advances in digital finance, tech incubators, and local IT innovations such as BRCK and the Ushahidi crowdsourcing platform.
Local telco Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money product is globally recognized. The company has used its mobile infrastructure to innovate a number of digital products including solar electricity (M-Kopa), online TV, and the recent launch of its M-Pesa integrated ride-hail app (Little), an Uber competitor.
The Kenyan government, which established an ICT authority, is one of the continent’s more proactive in supporting its tech ecosystem. And iHub helped spur Africa’s tech incubator movement, which now includes over 300 innovation spaces across the continent, according to a recent GSMA survey.

From a tech perspective, Zuckberberg’s decision to visit Nairobi is relatively straight forward. Two initiatives he focused on were the BRCK venture and digital prototype startup Gearbox, both outgrowths of the iHub infrastructure Erik Hersman and Juliana Rotich established in 2010. BRCK developed in response to local IT challenges of poor net connectivity and electricity.
The solar powered BRCK Wi-Fi product (about the size of an actual brick) provides device charging capabilities, 3g and 4g internet for up to 20 connections, and now ships to over 60 countries. “He got a demo of the next generation BRCK device, and was pretty intrigued by our Kio devices,” said Hersman, referring to BRCK’s educational tablet for primary school students.
Zuckerberg also reviewed the Gearbox supported Strauss solar energy panel and PayGo Energy home cooking product. “He was really interested in the integration of M-Pesa into other services,” said Hersman, noting the PayGo product allows Kenyans to finance the kit using mobile phones and M-Pesa mobile payments.

Zuckerberg’s Nigeria and Kenya trips coincide with Facebook’s expanding Africa presence and the continent’s growing digital profile. Facebook has 84 million users in Sub-Saharan Africa, 17 million in Nigeria, 14 million in South Africa, and 5.7 million in Kenya, according to spokesperson Sally Aldous.
As previously reported, a particular Facebook Africa play will be tapping the online advertising market that’s rising with the continent’s shift to digital commerce, expected to reach $75 billion by 2025.
Facebook opened its first Africa office in South Africa in 2015, appointing Ogilvy and Mather advertising executive Nunu Ntshingila as Head of Africa. In Kenya, the company has provided financial support to iHub events and workshops (Erik Hersman confirmed).
Kenya is also one of Facebook’s Internet.org Free Basics countries, a program that allows users on Airtel networks to access limited internet services free on mobile. Facebook’s commitment to connect more Africans to the internet suffered a bit of a setback Thursday when the SpaceX rocket carrying the company’s Amos-6 satellite crashed pre-launch.

As for what to expect from Facebook in Africa after Zuckerberg’s trip, company reps would not provide detail. iHub, Gearbox, and BRCK co-founder Erik Hersman sees possibilities to upgrade Facebook’s connectivity efforts, “Free Basics is growing but it’s still not the open internet,” he said. “There could be an opportunity to open it up around a business model that works.”
Hersman also believes the Facebook CEO’s will also draw more attention to Africa from Silicon Valley. “He could have just visited South Africa, which is what more people would have expected,” he said. “Visiting Nigeria and Kenya sends a message that could get other global tech players off the sidelines. If Facebook is putting so time, interest, and money into these markets other will definitely pay attention.”

VIDEO:-“Apart From The Financial Woes, I Lost A Friend And Brother” – Don Jazzy Opens Up On Split From D’banj And Feud With Olamide

Mavin CEO, Don Jazzy, recently sat down for an interview with Forbes Africa Correspondent, Peace Hyde, on the 5 episode of the flagship Forbes Africa TV show, ‘My Worst Day.’
On why he reacted the way he did at this year’;s Headies Awards show, Don Jazzy said it was due to his love for his artistes.
He said:

I learnt a lesson about anger, I don’t really get angry like that. At that particular point, I was angry and emotional about my kids. You have to understand there’s no greater love than the love of a father for his children,“I think that’s the way people should know the amount of love i have for whoever is working for me. Especially those three. I guess I was weak, I was upset, spoke out of tongue. I’m sorry to my fans that expected better from me.

He also spoke on how, he finally made peace with Olamide after the show:

 That’s the beauty about adults. In two seconds after saying all that I regretted my actions. I realised that he did too and we got along. We didn’t want it to escalate.

 On his worst day in business, he said

The decision for myself and my former partner, Dbanj to pursue different path at that point was not the right the decision because it led to a lot of things. ‘Apart from the financial loses, I also lost a friend and brother in D’banj.

Watch Video Below:-

Nigeria Vs Tanzania: Mikel Obi to join Super Eagles team camp in Uyo on Tuesday

Super Eagles captain and Rio 2016 Bronze winner John Mikel Obi will join the Super Eagles training camp in Uyo on Tuesday ahead of the African Cup Of Nations qualifier against Tanzania this Saturday.

Mikel just arrived in London, fresh from his exploits with the under-23 team in Rio but will be coming back to Nigeria to cheer on the boys and also share the $390,000 rewards given to the team by a Japanese billionaire plastic surgeon

Meet Kasi Bennet the lady Usain Bolt Cheated on (PHOTOS)

Sprinter Usain Bolt’s two-year relationship with girlfriend Kasi Bennett may be in jeopardy following his weekend festivities. After ringing in his 30th birthday at Rio hot spot All In on Saturday night, he was caugth in bed with 20-year-old student Jady Duarte.

Duarte, th former paramour of a Brazilian drug lord, shared the sexy snaps on WhatsApp, but later claimed to be mortified by the unwarranted attention."It's very negative I never wanted to be famous,I am dying of shame" She told the Local newspaper Extra.

'I'm devastated'- Japanese pole vaulter who got struck on 'erect' penis blasts foreign media after he's ridiculed (photos/video)

Japanese Pole Vaulter at Rio 2016, Hiroki Ogita has hit back on Twitter at the jests and criticism he's received after his seemingly 'erect' penis and leg hit the bar at 17 feet, 4 inches leading to his disqualification from the men's pole vault competition on Monday.

The video quickly spread online with most people on social media joking that he would have qualified if his erect penis hadn't gotten in the way. The athlete has fired back on Twitter.

 

 

"I never expected the foreign media to take me down like this," the 28-year-old athlete tweeted in Japanese. "It's one thing if it was true, but I have to say I'm pretty devastated that they'd go so far to make something up to mock and ridicule me so much."

"To be honest, it's pretty rough, but I guess I'm in the spotlight so this might be some kind of opportunity. I'll do my best and get the results so that I get the last laugh," he wrote.

 

"It doesn't matter if you do it for a joke or whatever, I ask you to go and watch an actual game at a stadium for once. I hope you appreciate, even a bit, what a great sport pole vaulting is."

 

He eventually tweeted that he was able to see the funny side of the whole episode: "Watching again, this is pretty funny, if I say so myself. LOL."

"He had already pressed on the crossbar so much," pole vaulting coach David Yeo said in Singapore.

"The crossbar was bound to dislodge. I think it was just the crumpling of the fabric which happened at the wrong position."

 

Mr Ogita did clear the bar on his second attempt but as he only managed a height of 5.45m on his final jump, the earlier foul cost him. He finished too far down the field to progress through the qualifying stage.

 

Watch the video of how it happened below. ..