Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Photos: President Jonathan's Visit To IBB In Minna
Whitney Houston's daughter 'fighting for life'
The late Whitney Houston at the Pre-Grammy Gala & Salute to Industry
Icons with Clive Davis with her daughter Bobbi Kristina. File photo.
Image by: PHIL McCARTEN / REUTERS
Image by: PHIL McCARTEN / REUTERS
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late singing legend Whitney Houston, was fighting for her life Monday after she was pulled unconscious from a bathtub over the weekend, her family said.
The 21-year-old's husband and a friend found her non-responsive in the bathtub of her home near Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday in an incident with eerie echoes of her mother's drowning in a Los Angeles tub in 2012."Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family," the Houston family said in a statement provided to US media.
Chad bombards Boko Haram In Nigerian Villages
Chad sent ground troops into Nigeria for the first time yesterday to fight Boko Haram in a clear sign of increased regional pressure on the Islamist rebels.
For almost an hour Chadian warplanes struck Boko Haram positions, then armoured vehicles rolled across the bridge linking Fotokol town in Cameroon with Gamboru in Nigeria, clearing the way for the infantry.
The move followed the African Union's backing last week of a new five-nation, 7500-strong force to take on Boko Haram because of its threat to regional security.
Monday, 2 February 2015
ISIS and Boko Haram's Online Alliance By Nancy A. Youssef
Boko Haram, which has terrorized Nigeria in its quest to create an Islamic caliphate, appears to mirroring the Islamic State’s online media campaign and potentially laying the groundwork for future coordination between the groups, U.S. government officials and experts told The Daily Beast.
The terrifying prospect that two of the world’s most ruthless, blood thirsty jihadi groups could be moving toward creating an extremist alliance that extends from western Africa to southeast Asia left Washington analysts scrambling to make sense of Boko Haram’s newfound online presence.
Two weeks after Zuckerberg said ‘je suis Charlie,’ Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad
Turkish protesters shout slogans during a rally against the daily paper Cumhuriyet, which printed images of the Prophet Muhammad from Charlie Hebdo’s Jan. 14 issue. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
Only two weeks after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a strongly worded #JeSuisCharlie statement on the importance of free speech, Facebook has agreed to censor images of the prophet Muhammad in Turkey — including the very type of image that precipitated the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Whitney Houston's daughter revived after found unresponsive in tub
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only daughter of the late pop star Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia home on Saturday, but she was revived and rushed to a hospital, police said.
The incident comes nearly three years after Houston, a superstar who battled substance abuse, drowned in a bathtub in Beverly Hills, California, in February 2012. Authorities determined cocaine use and heart disease contributed to her death.
Egypt releases Peter Greste, imprisoned Al-Jazeera reporter
Al-Jazeera English correspondent Peter GresteA reporter for Al-Jazeera English was released from an Egyptian prison and deported Sunday after more than a year behind bars, but his two Egyptian colleagues remained jailed in a case widely condemned as a sham by human-rights groups.
Australian Peter Greste was whisked away on a flight to Cyprus. His release came as a welcome surprise to fellow reporters and activists who spent months pressing for his freedom.
Top Billing Presenter Simba Mhere Dies In Motor Accident In Johannesburg.
Simba
Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere has died in a car accident in Johannesburg in the early hours of Saturday morning.
He and a friend were killed instantly, while his father survived.According to EWN Mhere was on his way to OR Tambo International Airport to fly to Cape Town to attend the J&B Met.
Mugabe officially appointed African Union chairman
THE BOSS: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe took over the post of African Union chairman on Friday, replacing Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
The veteran leader, Africa's oldest president aged 90, shook hands with Abel Aziz in front of fellow leaders to applause at the AU summit in the Ethiopian capital.
Mugabe, is the continent's oldest leader - and one of its most controversial post-colonial figures.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon backs regional African force to fight Boko Haram
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed an African Union proposal to set up a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants.
Support for the initiative, announced at an African Union summit being held in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, came hours after the Chadian military said three soldiers and 123 militants were killed in two days of fighting with a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon.
"I welcome the decision of the AU and regional countries to establish an MJTF (Multinational Joint Task Force) against Boko Haram," he told reporters on the sidelines of the summit.
Photo Of The Day: Chadian Helicopters In Battle Against Boko Haram.
Photos: Nigerian Army And Civilian JTF In Resounding Welcome After Victory Against Boko Haram In Maiduguri.
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