June 12, 2019

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 17

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 17

June 12, 2019 10:36 am

By Nze Ujunwa MarkAnthony

(All Rights Reserved)

 

50. INT. RAY’S RES. DAY.

RAY still in BED as his GUEST sits in front of the MIRROR dressing up to LEAVE.

 

PRISCA

Sleepy! Sleepy! Wakie! wakie!

 RAY

Oh! It’s morning already.

 PRISCA

Yea! Good morning.

 RAY

Good morning dear, how your night?

 PRISCA

Fine and yours?

 RAY

Splendid! You really took me to cloud nine.

 PRISCA

You can say that again, I’m ready to leave right now; can I have my money?

 RAY

Here! Fifty thousand naira!

 PRISCA

Wow! You’re such a darling; you gave me real value for my body.…

Forbes lists Messi as sports world’s highest earner

Forbes lists Messi as sports world’s highest earner

June 12, 2019 10:18 am

Lionel Messi was the world’s highest-paid athlete over the past year, Forbes reported on Tuesday in its annual sporting rich list.

Barcelona and Argentina star Messi dethroned retired boxer Floyd Mayweather as the sports world’s highest earner, raking in $127 million via salary and endorsement deals.

That put Messi ahead of long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo, the Juventus and Portugal star who was second with earnings of $109 million.

Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar completed a sweep of the top three positions by footballers, coming in third with earnings of $105 million.

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Toll from Boko Haram attack in Cameroon rises to 37

Toll from Boko Haram attack in Cameroon rises to 37

June 12, 2019 10:07 am

An attack by Boko Haram jihadists in northern Cameroon last weekend left 37 dead, a security official in the region said Wednesday, revising the toll upward.

“As of today, we have 21 military and 16 civilian fatalities,” the source said.

An earlier toll said at least 26 people — 17 soldiers and nine civilians — had died, in one of the deadliest attacks in Cameroon by the Nigerian-based group.

The jihadists, armed with rocket launchers, attacked military positions on Darak, an island near Lake Chad in Cameroon’s Far North region.

Fierce fighting broke out with the soldiers, which included the …

France’s Le Pen to go on trial for tweeting awful IS images

France’s Le Pen to go on trial for tweeting awful IS images

June 12, 2019 9:54 am

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday.

Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris.

A judge in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre ordered that the National Rally leader stand trial on charges of circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity” and that can be viewed by a minor.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of three years in prison …

Yemen rebel attack injures 26 at Saudi airport

Yemen rebel attack injures 26 at Saudi airport

June 12, 2019 9:14 am

A Yemeni rebel missile attack on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia wounded 26 civilians on Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels said.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels, who have faced persistent coalition bombing since March 2015 that has exacted a heavy civilian death toll, have stepped up missile and drone attacks across the border in recent weeks.

Eight of those wounded at Abha airport were admitted to hospital, coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said.

The other 18 were discharged after receiving first aid, he added in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

The Huthi rebels said earlier that …

Nigeria’s ex-presidents, heads of state shun June 12

Nigeria’s ex-presidents, heads of state shun June 12

June 12, 2019 9:02 am

All Nigeria’s former Presidents including Olusegun Obasanjo, failed to attend the June 12 Democracy Day celebration which held on Wednesday at the Eagle Square, Abuja.

The former presidents and Heads of state were scheduled to be seated at the venue of the event at 9:35 a.m., but they were conspicuously absent at about 10:06 when Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari) arrived the venue.

The event is the first since Jubril (Buhari) approved June 12 as Democracy Day in honour MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election.

It would be recalled that May 29 had been observed as

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Anthony Joshua is ‘finished’ says Tyson Fury

Anthony Joshua is ‘finished’ says Tyson Fury

June 12, 2019 8:45 am
Tyson Fury believes former world champion Anthony Joshua is “finished” after the British heavyweight’s shock defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr in New York.Joshua lost his IBF, WBA and WBO titles on June 1 in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the division.

After the fight, Fury sent a message on Twitter that urged his fellow Briton to “rest up, recover, regroup and come again”.

But this week he told BBC Sport: “When a man doesn’t want to be there once, he will always do it and it’s hard to come back from.

“It’s been done many different

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U.S. ready to lift Iran sanctions – Envoy

Accidentally, Trump reveals more of US-Mexico migrant deal

June 12, 2019 8:26 am
US President Donald Trump accidentally revealed Tuesday that Mexico agreed to take stronger legal action to halt Central American migrants if its initial efforts to stem the flow don’t show results in 45 days.In bright sunshine outside the White House, Trump waved what he said was the text of an agreement Mexican and US officials signed Friday to avert the application of tariffs on their exports to the United States.

Photographs of the document revealed that Mexico appeared to pledge to enact or enforce certain domestic laws if Washington is not satisfied with the results of its first promised efforts

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Woman kidnap baby from housemaid in Onitsha church

Woman kidnap baby from housemaid in Onitsha church

June 12, 2019 2:15 am

An unnamed woman has allegedly abducted an 18-month-old baby at a Catholic Church in Awada, Onitsha, Anambra State.

The victim, Chibuike Ezechukwu, was reportedly stolen from a housemaid during offering.

The Nation gathered that the suspect had pleaded with the housemaid carrying the baby to help her drop her offering, while she held the baby.

A parishioner, who spoke in confidence, said the housemaid innocently handed over the baby to her without an inkling about the woman’s intentions.

She said: “She offered to help her hold the child but before the housemaid returned from the offering, the woman had absconded …

Court summons Okorocha over alleged breach of peace

Eventually, INEC issues Certificate of Return to Okorocha

June 12, 2019 1:52 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will appeal the judgment directing it to issue a Certificate of Return to former Governor of Imo, Rochas Okorocha.

Okorocha received his certificate of return as winner of Imo West Senatorial District election held Feb. 23.

INEC made the disclosure in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC on Tuesday in Abuja.

He said the commission issued the certificate to Okorocha in compliance with an Abuja Federal High Court that directed it to do so.

Okoye said the issuance of the …

Fair Trade USA raises cocoa price minimums

Fair Trade USA raises cocoa price minimums

June 12, 2019 1:34 am

Fair Trade USA will increase the floor price and fixed premium it requires companies to pay cocoa farmers under its certification system, the organization said on Tuesday.

The increase is designed to improve livelihoods in a sector that has long grappled with farmer poverty, child labor and deforestation

The nonprofit will increase its minimum price for conventional cocoa to $2,400 per tonne from $2,000. For organic cocoa, the price will be $300 over this minimum or the market price, whichever is higher at the time. The premium, which is used to fund community projects, will increase to $240 per tonne …

Nigerian youths’ strategies to revolutionise agriculture

June 12, 2019 1:11 am

Youth Advocates Nigeria (YAN) has begun an aggressive move towards revolutionising agriculture in the country by removing the stigma of poverty associated with it. The visionary group of young professionals led by Aina Tolulope, an Agricultural Economics graduate of the University of Ibadan, converged in Ibadan, Oyo State, at the weekend, for a seminar on how to collaborate, synergise and harness the available resources in the agriculture sector, locally, nationally and internationally, to take the youth away from the dense labour market.

YAN comprises enterprising farmers on fish, maize, lettuce, cassava among others.Entrepreneurs who gave motivational talks at the seminar …

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