Gaddafi's son Saadi 'apologising to the Libyan people from prison'

Gaddafi's son Saadi 'apologising to the Libyan people from prison'

 There has been a TV broadcast showing one of the sons of former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi apologising to the nation from prison in his prison wears.

In his words he said,

"I apologise to the Libyan people, and I apologise to the dear brothers in the Libyan government for all the harm I've caused and for disturbing the security and stability of Libya," he says.
"I admit that these things were wrong, and we should not have perpetrated these acts."
He also says he is being treated well in prison and calls on "those who carry weapons to hand over their weapons".
The conditions surrounding the release of the video are unclear.

Boko Haram insurgency 'affects millions' in Nigeria.

More than three million people are facing a humanitarian crisis in three northern Nigerian states hit by an Islamist-led insurgency, the government's relief agency has said.

The conflict has displaced about 250,000 people since January, it added.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the three states last year to crush the insurgency.

However, the militant Islamist group Boko Haram has stepped up attacks in recent months.
The group operates mostly in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where the state of emergency is in force.

Earlier in a statement, the Nigerian government's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said the "needs of the affected population are increasing by the day and the support of all is urgently required".
Borno was worst affected, with about 1.3 million people - most of them women, children and the elderly - in need of aid, Nema said.
In Adamawa, the number stood at around one million and in Yobe at more than 770,000, it said.

Nigerian Red Cross Society representative Soji Adeniyi said what has happening in the north-east was unprecedented.
"We have never had this kind of displacement caused by conflicts before in the country,'' he is quoted by Nigeria's privately-owned This Day newspaper as saying.
Earlier this month, Boko Haram fighters attacked an army barracks in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.

Its fighters also looted and torched several villages and towns in the state after launching attacks with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.

Last month, the group was accused of killing at least 29 people in an attack on a rural boarding school in Yobe.
Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009 to create a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

Suspended CBN Governor Sanusi Dragged to Court Over Alleged N50 Billion Fraud

Yesterday, shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, dragged the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, before a Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing him of being involved in an alleged N50 billion fraud.

The plaintiffs, including Adaeze Onwuegbusi, Chijioke Ezeikpe, and Abdullahi M. Sani, filed a suit through their lawyer, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, alleging that Sanusi, as the CBN governor, acted contrary to the provisions of sections 12, 32, 35 and 39 of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, Cap B4 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, by deliberately falsifying the actual solvency/financial state of affairs of Intercontinental Bank Plc and subsequently sold it for N50 billion.

Apart from Sanusi, other defendants in the suit were the Security & Exchange Commission and CBN. 

Among other things, they are expecting the court to:

Determine whether Sanusi, “did not act fraudulently in waiving/writing off the sum of N16.2 billion owed by Mr. Aig-Aigboje Imokhuede and Mr. Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of Access Bank and the sum of N8.9 billion owed by Senator Bukola Saraki and other sums so owed, all totalling over N40bn, in a bid to enable the said Access Bank Plc to fraudulently purchase Intercontinental Bank Plc at a ridiculous sum of N50 billion only, even when the quarterly profit of the said bank was more than N50bn and which Bank at the material time was worth more than N1 trillion, to the detriment of the Plaintiffs as shareholders and investors.

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader and 682 others on trial

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 682 other supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are standing trial in central Egypt.

They face charges including the murder of several policemen during a crackdown on the Islamist movement in August.
Most of the defendants are being tried in absentia and an AFW(Africa's Wealth) official said Mr Badie was not in court for security reasons.
The mass trial in Minya province comes a day after the same court sentenced 528 other Morsi supporters to death.
There has been widespread condemnation of the sentences, which were delivered on only the second session of the trial.
The Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the Brotherhood since the military overthrow Mr Morsi in July. More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands of others arrested.
Mr Badie, the Brotherhood's general guide, is being detained along with dozens of other senior leaders of the Islamist movement.
The military stepped in after months of street protests against Mr Morsi - Egypt's first democratically-elected president.
Following Mr Morsi's removal from office the Brotherhood set up protest camps in Cairo, at which Mr Badie was a prominent figure.

Police eventually dispersed the camps, killing hundreds of protesters, and Mr Badie went into hiding. He was detained in August.
Mr Badie's 38-year-old son Ammar was among those killed in the protests.
The Brotherhood and human rights groups denounced Monday's death sentences.
The verdicts must now go to Egypt's supreme religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for approval or rejection.

Kenyan polygamy law

The law is intended to bring civil law, where a man is only allowed one wife, into line with customary law, where some cultures allow multiple partners.

But male MPs voted to amend the new marriage bill to allow men to take as many wives as they like without consulting existing spouses.
Traditionally, first wives are supposed to give prior approval.

About 30 of Kenya's 69 female MPs were in the 349-member chamber for the debate but were outnumbered by their male counterparts.
The women walked out in disgust over the matter.
The marriage bill now passes to the president to sign before it becomes law.

Mugabe caps Zimbabwe's 'fat cat' state salaries

President Robert Mugabe has moved to ease public anger in Zimbabwe by capping the pay of "fat cat" managers of state-owned companies.

The 90-year-old had faced growing pressure to act after it was revealed that many executives were being paid up to $500,000 (£300,000) a month.

His government is to cap the pay of the bosses of parastatals to a maximum of $72,000 a year, including benefits.
The average monthly wage for government employees in Zimbabwe is $370 a month.


It was revealed that the head of the struggling Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) was taking home a $37,050 a month, yet the state-controlled broadcaster had failed to pay its workers for more than six months last year.

Other cases came to light - one health insurance company that covers government employees was paying its chief executive a monthly salary of $230,000 while also giving him monthly benefit payments of $305,499.

The government said it intends to recover money that was used to pay salaries that were unjustified but many questions remain over the investigation.
James Maridadi, an opposition MP with the Movement for Democratic Change, accused several government officials of being linked to the scandal and said this was "just the beginning".

Zimbabwe has recovered from hyperinflation and its economic free-fall of several years ago, but its economy is still fragile and it does not have its own currency - it uses eight others as legal tender.

The country is widely seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, with Transparency International's latest corruption perceptions index ranking it at 157 out of 177 countries.

Cameroon lawyer wins award for defending gay rights

Alice Nkom has spent a decade defending people accused of practising homosexuality.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Cameroon and carry a five-year prison term.

Ms Nkom described the award, which she received from the German branch of Amnesty International in Berlin on Tuesday, as a "prize of hope".

"Being gay in Cameroon is like being in hell," she said"
"Permanent jail, permanent harassment, permanent violence and discrimination. From your family to the workplace to everywhere."

The 69-year-old lawyer became the first black woman to be called to the bar in Cameroon in 1969.

She vowed to continue her work despite being sent death threats and warnings from government officials that she could face imprisonment.

The campaign for gay rights in Africa has been hit in recent weeks by a new law in Uganda which allows life imprisonment for acts of "aggravated homosexuality" and also criminalises the "promotion of homosexuality".
Africa remains the continent with the toughest anti-gay laws, with homosexual acts punishable by death in Mauritania and South Sudan and parts of Nigeria and Somalia.

Emmanuel Adebayor’s Luxurious Lifestyle As He Lives Like A King.

 The 29-year-old father of one is no doubt one of the Richest footballers in the world.
Emmanuel Adebayor who has every reason to be thankful was quoted in an interview as saying “My Family Once Called Me Rubbish Before I Became Successful”.

He has a private jet, LOTS of cars, including a porsche magnum, range rover revere, G-wagon Asma, Lincoln, Ford F350 etc and mansions in several countries including Togo, Ghana, UK and in the US.

He has thousands of sneakers – never repeats his sneakers, he wears them once and gives them out!
“Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator. He gave me the chance to be where I am today and He’s the one that can take it all away from me. There is nothing more important for me than God.” Adebayo says.

[HOW NICE] Cute Amokachi Twins Visit Super Eagles Camp In Atlanta

 Few people know that Former Super Eagles striker, Daniel Amokachi, who is now assistant to coach Stephen keshi, is a father of a grown up twins (two boys) who are mature enough to represent the country any time soon.

Tunisia lifts state of emergency

 Since the 2011 revolution in Tunisia, the state of emergency has been the order of the country , the cradle of the Arab Spring -- the grass-roots movement that toppled autocratic leaders and promoted freedom and democracy across the Arabic-speaking region in North Africa and the Middle East.

The order went into effect Wednesday, and the announcement was made Thursday on the president's official Facebook page The government in November extended the state of emergency to June, but Marzouki ended it earlier.

"It should be noted that lifting the state of emergency does not limit the ability of the various security agencies of law enforcement from seeking the assistance of military forces when appropriate ... including the related areas of military operations and along the border areas," the decree said.

There has been political turmoil and violence in Tunisia after the January 2011 ouster of former leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, instability that threatened to disrupt a democratic transition in a country once seen as a model of post-revolutionary stability in a still volatile region.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that he and his cabinet will take a pay cut to help bring down the government's wage bill.

President Kenyatta said that he and his deputy William Ruto would take a 20% cut while other ministers would have their pay reduced by 10%.
Foreign trips, he said, would be kept to a minimum.

Mr Kenyatta also urged Kenyan MPs, who are among the highest paid in Africa, to accept cuts.
Correspondents say the issue of politicians' pay is a highly sensitive issue in Kenya.
Mr Kenyatta said the government was spending close to $4.6bn (£2.7bn) in salaries, leaving only $2.3bn for development.

"We need to deal with this monster if we are to develop this nation otherwise sooner or later we will become a nation that only collects taxes to pay ourselves," President Kenyatta said.
He was speaking at the end of a cabinet retreat near Mount Kenya that was reviewing progress made one year since he was elected.

Mr Kenyatta announced a month after his election that he would make reducing Kenya's ballooning public sector wage bill a priority.

He said it was "unsustainable" and weighed on the national budget.

World Bank postpones $90m Uganda loan over anti-gay law

The World Bank has postponed a $90m (£54m) loan to Uganda over its tough anti-gay law, which has drawn criticism from around the world.

World Bank officials said they wanted to guarantee the projects the loan was destined to support were not going to be adversely affected by the law.
The loan was intended to boost Uganda's health services.
Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said the World Bank "should not blackmail its members".

The law, enacted on Monday, strengthens already strict legislation relating to homosexuals.
It allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of "aggravated homosexuality" and also criminalises the "promotion of homosexuality"

 A spokesman for the World Bank said: "We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the development objectives would not be adversely affected by the enactment of this new law." 

Ugandan authorities have defended the decision, saying President Museveni wanted "to demonstrate Uganda's independence in the face of Western pressure and provocation".

Uganda is a very conservative society, where many people oppose homosexuality.

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