The 45 year old singer and actress flaunted her hot body in a crop top and shorts as she took her 7 year old twins Max and Emme shopping for watches at a sports store in The Hamptons on New York's Long Island on Friday June 12th. More photos after the cut...
Speaking at the 'Thank You' dinner she organized to appreciate APC women at the presidential villa on Saturday June 13th, wife of the President, Aisha Buhari warned Nigerians not to fall into the hands of fraudsters who go about asking for money from Nigerians to arrange a meeting between them and the President or his wife.
"I will like to inform you that in the past regime, whether it is true or false, only God knows, some people were going round and parading themselves as PAs. If you wanted to see the First Lady, you will pay $30,000, $50,000 and if you are seeing the President, you will pay all that you have gathered in your lifetime. This will not happen in our regime. Whoever asks you to give a single penny in the name of coming to see the President or his wife is not our staff. It is a lie, don’t be deceived" she said
Mrs Buhari said a lot of things were said against former president Goodluck Jonathan's administration but that it is not like the former president is a bad man, it was the people around him that gave him a bad representation.
"There was nothing that people did not say about the past administration. It is not Jonathan that is not good, but the people around him. So, the people that are going to be around General Buhari have to be very careful because this election ended peacefully. We are praying and hoping that people around him should know that it took him 12 years to get to that position and they must know that they are coming to serve the masses, not General Buhari in person. It is the people that are around him that will determine the political health of our state"she said
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday for standing by and recording as his boss set a homeless man on fire. (above if Fonerin's mum being wheeled our after her son's verdict)
The boss Ahmed, whose case is still pending, allegedly instructed Fonerin to use his cellphone to record him setting fire to the 38-year-old man.
Ahmed, 24, allegedly used lighter fluid and a box of matches to start the fire, and is allegedly heard on the video saying "do that s---," according to the criminal complaint.
Lorenzo Fonerin, 23, was working at a bodega with Suliman Ahmed on September 23, 2012, in East New York where Hand, who suffers from a severe mental illness, was sleeping on the sidewalk.
Hand was woken up by bystanders telling him he was on fire, and Fonerin then tried to put out the blaze with water.
"I was asleep when I found out my son was on fire ... the burns on his lower back were so bad it looked like leather," said Tasheen Hand's mother Priscilla during her victim impact statement in Brooklyn Supreme Court, where she urged the judge to throw the book at Lorenzo Fonerin.
"The defendant poured water on my son, but I would have been happier if he just asked him to leave or just used that same cellphone to call police. Pouring water didn't save him," Hand said.
Her son suffered severe burns on over 30 percent of his body, and was in a medically induced coma for two weeks.
Hand said her son, who was not present at the sentencing, is stared at by strangers on the street for his "alligator-like skin."
Prosecutor Cary Fischer asked Justice Deborah Dowling to sentence Fonerin to 20 years because this was the "most horrific" case he’d worked on in 12 years on the job, aside from one child abuse case.
Two students from Nkpogwu community in Rivers state have been awardedthe Eunisell 2015 scholarship. Vincent Nbinye, a JSS1 student of Stella Maris College andVictoria Dede, 100 level student of UniPortwill bothenjoy a full tuition scholarship throughout their stay in school.
Eunisell Chemicals isthe largest distributor of additives in Africa,distributing oil field chemicals, additives, lubricants, industrial chemicals as well as petrochemical and refinery products in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africasince 1996.
A South African judge yesterday Sunday June 14th barred Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested at the AU summit in Johannesburg.
Bashir, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the Darfur conflict, mostly travels to countries that have not joined the ICC, but South Africa is a signatory of the court's statutes.
The ruling was the first time any court has prevented a head of state from leaving a country following a request by the ICC, but Sudanese officials remained defiant, insisting Bashir would return home on schedule.
The Southern African Litigation Centre, a legal rights group, had launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to force authorities to arrest Bashir on the opening day of the African Union summit.
"President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan is prohibited from leaving the Republic of South Africa until the final order is made in this application," Judge Hans Fabricius said in his ruling.
"The respondents are directed to take all necessary steps to prevent him from doing so."
Despite the arrest calls, Bashir joined a group photograph of leaders at the summit.
Wearing a blue suit, he stood in the front row for the photograph along with South African host President Jacob Zuma and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who is the chair of the 54-member group.
"We will leave on time as scheduled," Sudan Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters. "We are not abiding with any... decision of any court. We are here as guests of the government of South Africa. Assurances have been made by that government."
Ghandour joined other critics of the ICC, saying it was a court that targets African leaders.
"President Bashir is a leading president, a member of the summit of the African Union and will continue attending the summits wherever they are being held inside Africa," he said.
The ICC called on South Africa "to spare no effort in ensuring the execution of the arrest warrants" against Bashir.
It added that South Africa diplomats had been pressed last month to arrest Bashir if he attended the summit, but that they had replied they faced "competing obligations" over the issue.
Bashir, 71, seized power in Sudan in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989.
The ICC indictments relate to the western Sudanese region of Darfur, which erupted into conflict in 2003 when ethnic insurgents launched a campaign against Bashir's Arab-dominated government, complaining of marginalisation.
Khartoum unleashed a bloody counter-insurgency using the armed forces and allied militia.The United Nations says 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict and another 2.5 million forced to flee their homes.
Khartoum, however, disputes the figures, estimating the death toll at no more than 10,000.
"South Africa has an obligation to arrest him," Johannesburg-based rights lawyer Gabriel Shumba said.
"Failure to do so puts them in the same bracket as other African regimes who have no respect for human rights. It's actually a test for South Africa."
As Judge Fabricius gave his ruling and said the court would meet again on Monday, the summit opened five hours late with Zuma not mentioning the issue in his opening remarks.
"As a member of the International Criminal Court, (South Africa) has committed to cooperate with that court," Elise Keppler of Human Rights Watch told the ENCA news channel.
"This is an incredible moment for South Africa to do the right thing and to render al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court.
"It's quite possible that al-Bashir could in fact be taken into custody before he leaves the country."
The South African government and African Union officials made no comment on the court ruling.
The summit is meeting for two days in the upmarket business and retail district of Sandton under the official theme of the "Year of Women's Empowerment and Development".