FINALLY: Israel and Palestine agree on 72-hour cease-fire

The Isreali and Palestinian governments have agreed to a 3-day cease-fire beginning from tomorrow August 5th. The 3-day cease fire, which was proposed by Egypt, will be a "pure humanitarian cease-fire," with no military action.

Both governments are expected to sit tomorrow and deliberate on their terms and conditions for a total cease fire.

Earlier today, Egypt which is serving as a mediator, presented the Palestinians' demands to Israel, which includes an end to the blockade on Gaza of goods and people, the release of recently rearrested prisoners who had been freed in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange; the reconstruction of Gaza, including the port and the airport; and the extension of Palestinian fishing rights to 12 nautical miles.

Israel on Sunday began withdrawing troops from areas of Gaza after saying that its military had completed a main objective of the ground assault - the destruction of infiltration tunnels from Gaza into Israeli communities on the border with the coastal strip.

Though both sides have agreed to the cease-fire, they still seem suspicious of one another.

From CNN

"The onus is on Hamas," Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said shortly after announcing on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" that Israel had accepted the Egyptian proposal.

"We are entering this with our eyes open. ...We have been burnt more than once."

The sentiment was similar from Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan, who told CNN as long as Israel honors the agreement, so will the Palestinians.

News of the cease-fire comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to finish the military operation to destroy Hamas' network of tunnels.

"This operation will end only when quiet and security are restored to the citizens of Israel for a lengthy period," he said.

The remaining tunnels are few, according to IDF spokeswoman Lt. Libby Weiss. "Those remaining numbers are in the single digits, between one and three," she said.

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'Hand of God' pictured emerging from the clouds by photographer in UK

38 year old British photographer David Christie said he captured the stunning moment a gigantic 'hand' appeared through the clouds above his home...and he thinks the fist-like wind funnel is the 'Hand of God'.

 "I love weather photography and I've taken a few pictures of small wind funnels in the past. But this was something else. It looked as through there was a huge hand piercing through the clouds - it was phenomenal. It really did seem like the hand of God. My wife and I are both photographers and we've never seen anything like this. This was a very surreal experience." He told reporters

 credits: Linda Ikeji

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“Sex is work too” – Nigerian prostitutes protest on the streets of Lagos [PHOTOS]

A female prostitute, Patoo Abraham has led protests in Lagos to seek a better lot for prostitutes in Nigeria.
The 48-year-old is seeking to ensure that prostitution is legalized in Nigeria and that sex workers be protected and respected.

The mother-of-two, who heads the Nigerian chapter of African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) and the Women of Power Initiative (WOPI) , led protests with the demonstrators wearing T-shirts screaming “Sex work is work, we need our rights”.
“We are tired of dying in silence; we want to be able to practice our profession with pride like every other person. We want an end to name-calling and stigmatisation. We are sex workers and not asawo [a derogatory Yoruba name for prostitutes]“, She told Aljazeera.
“Sex work is normal work and there are sex workers everywhere under one form of disguise or the other. The government should stop criminalising our work”, she further said.
Patoo also stated that she is proud of her profession as it is not different from any other trade.
Controversial musician, Maheeda has also called for the legalization of prostitution in Nigeria.


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30-year-old man rapes 2-year-old girl in Ebonyi

A 30-year-old man, Inya-Okoro from Afikpo North Local Government aAea of Ebonyi, has been arrested for raping a 2-year-old girl identified as Favour.
The suspect allegedly committed the act when Favour returned from school and slept off at the corridor of her parent’s home.

Inya-Okoro who also lives in the same building reportedly pounced on her and defiled her.
In an interview with Crime Watch, he admitted to the crime and blamed it on his sexual urge.
“What happened was that I went to look for a labourer job on the fateful day, but could not get any job and I returned home. As I was washing my cloth, I saw the girl sleeping, only on pant, I rushed and carried her and had sex with her. It was ‘conji’ that caused it and I don’t have money to go for mature girls.”
Favour has since been taken to the hospital for medical examination and treatment.
The state Assistant Superintendent of Police, Chris Anyanwu lamented the high rate of rape in the area and urged parents to be careful.

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SHOCKING: WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO A BABY WITH THREE LEGS IN RIVERS STATE

A middle aged woman has given birth to a baby with three legs in Okrika Local Government area of Rivers State.
Hospital source where the woman delivered the baby, however, told DailyPost that the baby died shortly after its delivery.
A hospital official who does not want to be named confirmed that it was a deformed baby, noting that the deformity may have been caused by congenital anomaly.
She said: “the woman came with a full term pregnancy but on the time of her delivery, even her scan had shown a normal baby, but when she delivered, we saw this extra part of the baby.
“The baby had 3 legs, four arms and 3 ears; even the baby’s stomach was open that one could see the intestines.
“It was so obscure that we don’t know whether she was trying to abort the child”.
Meanwhile, some residents of Aparandeleama community told DailyPost that they were still in shock, adding that they had never seen such thing before.
According to one of them, “I saw things for myself, the child was dead, a male child”.
Another woman said, “It was a shocking sight. I was cold. This has never happened in Okrika. I Just call it end time oo!”

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Four more Chibok Girls parents die of heart failure

Four more parents of the abducted girls from Chibok area of Borno State have been killed of heart attack like the seven others announced by the Borno state government earlier, thus raising the number to eleven.
The National Chairman, Chibok community, Pogu Bitrus, made this known on Tuesday.
Dailypost reports that seven of the parents had earlier died of trauma.
Recall that the Cable online newspaper quoted Bitrus as saying that seven of the parents of the girls abducted by members of the Boko Haram sect on April 14 from their hostel at Government Secondary School, Chibok, died of heart attack and frustration.
Bitrus was said to have made this disclosure on July 5, this year.
“One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of a coma and kept repeating the names of his daughters until life left him,” Bitrus said on Tuesday.
The community leader added that at least, four more parents died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses.
It was gathered that seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari early this month.

 


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Nigerian-born teenager kills brother, maims mother in the US

Mr. Charles Okonkwo jnr, an 18-year-old undergraduate of Medicine in West Virgin University has been arrested and placed under watch by Suffolk County Police Department for killing his brother, and also maiming his mother.
The father of the suspect, Mr Charles Okonkwo confirmed the incident in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Long Island, New York, USA.
Okonkwo said that Emeka his son and Chinwe his wife were in good health when he left them for a visit to the hospital for medical attention and that there was no sign of disagreement among them.
He said that he went to the Huntington Hospital on Thursday July 18 for medical attention where he was admitted and that he spoke with his family on the day of the incident.
Okonkwo said that he put a call across to his house on Friday but that the phone rang without anybody answering the call, adding that on returning on Saturday morning, he found his last son lying dead on his bed.
“I was discharged from my hospital sick bed and I came back to discover that my wife was not in the house and Emeka my son was lying dead.
“I was as confused as anything one can think of, but I called in the police before I made several calls to Igbo community in the neighborhood, it was the police that searched the house and found my wife critically injured, lying in a pool of blood in the garage”, he said.
He said that the police called in the Emergency ambulance and she was air lifted to Stony Brook Medicine in Long Island where she is currently being treated of severe stapes injuries sustained on head and bruises all over her body.
Mr Ifeanyi Arinze, a closest relative to Okonkwo in Long Island said that the incident was unspeakable as the boy’s action caught them unawares.
He said that the action must have been guided by some dysfunctional behaviors of young people as the couple was known to be hardworking.
He said that parenting had remained a major role for families to play and called for more attention to paid to growing kids in terms of the company they keep.
“This boy had all it takes to be happy more than his peers, BMW X5 SUV was bought for him few months ago, and they just came back from Bahamas on a family cruise”, he disclosed.
Venerable Gideon Uzomechina, Priest in charge of Saint Athan’s Church New Jersey, where the couple worship, described the incident as very unfortunate and gave a wake up call on people to always do the needful.
Okonkwo jnr has been arrested by the Police in Suffolk County Police Department and charged for murder and assault, after he admitted to the crime.
As at the time of filling this report, the autopsy of his brother, Emeka is being awaited.
No reason has yet been adduced for his action.

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OH WOW! ALREADY JUDE OKOYE?! See What This Lady Wrote On His Instagram Photo.. And To Think.. He JUST GOT MARRIED!

 

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Female ritualist caught with corpse of a 3-year-old boy in Lagos [PHOTOS]

Just few days after we posted THIS,
a middle-aged woman believed to be insane, was caught in possession of a dead child at Mile-Two, along Oshodi/Apapa expressway, Lagos on Sunday.

She was caught by a Police officer with a corpse of a young boy on the Mile 2 bridge close to Festac.
According to reports, the officer became suspicious of the woman and asked her to empty the “Ghana-Must-Go” bag. It was gathered that some fetish materials were found in the bag as well as a corpse of a young boy.
Though the woman, who gave her name as Florence, claimed that the dead child was hers, angry mob said she could have kidnapped and killed the child for money ritual.
Though news making the round earlier had it that the child’s eyes were plucked, Vanguard reports that the eyeballs were only popped.
Information gathered revealed that the woman had been sighted in the area with the child strapped at her back for three days.

An onlooker said: “One man in a commercial bus alerted us yesterday that the child strapped at the back was motionless. This attracted some curious passengers of commercial buses that were trapped in this unending gridlock. One of the passengers went close to the woman and shook the baby. Before you knew it, people had gathered around the woman, wanting to set her ablaze. But for the timely arrival of policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad, she would have been dead by now.”
Defending herself, the woman said “I am from Umo in Kwale area of Delta State. I was born in Lagos and I have three children. Nothing is wrong with me. This child (pointing to the dead child) is my son. He is the last of my three children. I have a boy and a girl who are in the village. His name is Chidi and he is five years old.
“He has been very sick. In fact, he had fever and needed blood transfusion but I couldn’t afford the money for it. He died three days ago. Before he died, we wanted to travel back to the village. My husband stays in Port Harcourt. I don’t have any relative in Lagos. I was living under a staircase in one of the shops located in Alaba market. A security man allowed my son and I to sleep there at night. I didn’t steal any baby neither did I kill any child.
“I was carrying Chidi on my back after he died, only for people to gather around me this morning and started beating me. What have I done to deserve this kind of beating? If not for these policemen, they would have beaten me to death.” she explained.

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Couple arrested in Lagos for duping victims of over N20m

A Nigerian couple, Danladi Wushishi and Ojuolape Wushishi have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for duping people to the tune of N20 million in fake auction sales in Lagos.
They were apprehended after one of the victims, Chinyere Uzorchukwu sent a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko. She was allegedly duped of N5million by the couple.
According to reports, the Wushishis collected money from unsuspecting victims under false pretext that they had a container of goods meant for customs auction sales at a terminal in Lagos.
Danladi and Ojuolape also took victims to a fake customs warehouse in Ikorodu, Lagos, and showed them containers which were sealed. After making the huge payments, the victims waited for their goods which were never delivered.
Police also revealed that apart from the woman who sent the petition, they duped another woman of N3.5 million and a man of N14million in the fake auction deals.
Ojuolape says her husband dragged her into the fraud mess, while Danladi confessed to collecting money from the victims.

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WeirdMC (@weirdmcofficial) replies News Genesis (@News_Genesis) video titled "Fiesta" #iroanduba

The rapper took to her instagram page after this shoot.
the controversial Rapper replied News Genesis CEO after a tweet.

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