I will deny my husband sex until he pays his debt — wife

A 39-year-old trader, Mrs Modinat Idowu, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos state on Thursday that she would continue to deny her husband, one Akeem Idowu, sex until he has paid the debt he is owing her.
Idowu said this while responding to a suit filed by her 45-year-old husband whom he had been married to for 12 years.
“I have been denying my husband sex because he borrowed N690,000 from me and has refused to pay, I will continue to starve him of sex until he pays the money,’’ the mother of two said.
“Akeem is in the habit of swearing and cursing me with a charm called `Ishan egungun’: a specially prepared masquerade’s rod and this is affecting my life.’’
She, however, urged the court not to grant her husband’s wish for the dissolution of their marriage, saying that she was still in love with him.
The petitioner: Akeem, a businessman, had asked the court to dissolve the 12-year-old marriage over alleged sex denial by his wife.
“My wife does not want me to touch her nor make love to her, I am tired of the marriage because I am neither a stick nor a stone,’’ he said.
Akeem alleged that his wife loved attending social activities and hardly stayed at home.
Whenever she went out, she would not return home until after five days or seven days, he said.
“My wife will go from one party to another; spending days and neglecting the family.
“I have reported her severally to her father who always calls her to order but there has been no positive change,’’ Akeem told the court.
He described Modinat as a liar, not trustworthy and always inconsistent in her words and actions.
“Modinat lies a lot. One day, she told me that she was going to Mushin in Lagos state; but some hours later, someone called to tell me that she was in Igbo-Ora in Oyo state.
“When I called her and confronted her that she was in Oyo state as against Mushin she claimed she was going to when she left home, she cut her cell phone line.
“She took permission on another day that she was going to Oshodi, but someone saw her at Ijebu-Ode in Ogun, I cannot just account for her movement.’’ Akeem said.
He pleaded with the court to dissolve the union since he was no longer interested and did not love her any more.
The President of the court, Mr Hakeem Oyekan, adjourned the case to July 22 for further hearing.

Bill Cosby admitted he gave woman drugs before sex

US comedian Bill Cosby admitted he obtained sedatives with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with, court papers from 2005 show.
The unsealed files, obtained by the Associated Press news agency, show Mr Cosby made the admission in a sex abuse civil case brought by a woman.
That case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2006.
Mr Cosby, now 77, is facing a series of sexual assault accusations dating back decades. He has denied the claims.
Mr Cosby has never been criminally charged.
The documents came to light after the AP went to court to compel the release of the documents. Mr Cosby's lawyers tried to stop the release of the papers, arguing it would embarrass their client and reveal personal information.
'I gave her Quaaludes. Then we have sex'
In his 2005 testimony, Mr Cosby admitted that he obtained Quaaludes in the 1970s, with the intent of giving it to women he wanted to have sex with.
The case was brought by Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University - the Philadelphia college with which Mr Cosby was once closely associated.
The comedian said he had given the sedatives to at least one woman and "other people".
Later in the deposition, he said: "I meet Ms T (another woman whose name was redacted to preserve her anonymity) in Las Vegas. She meets me back stage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex."
His lawyers said that at least two of those accusing the comedian had knowingly taken the sedative.

Mr Cosby also admitted to offering money to Ms Constand, and other women who had made allegations, in the form of educational trusts.
Testifying later in the case, Mr Cosby said that he had given Ms Constand one and a half pills of the over-the-counter antihistamine drug Benadryl.
Mr Cosby has yet to comment on his released testimony. Timeline of allegations against Bill Cosby
2002: Lachele Covington, a 20-year-old actress, reportedly files a police report saying she had been inappropriately touched. No further action was taken.
2005: Andrea Constand sues Mr Cosby for sexual assault. The case is eventually settled out of court in 2006.
2014: Over the year, dozens of women make public accusations that Mr Cosby sexually assaulted them. Live shows are cancelled across the country amid protests
November 2014: TV network NBC scraps plans for a new show with the comedian following allegations by TV presenter Janice Dickinson that he had assaulted her in 1982. Repeats of the Cosby Show are also pulled from cable TV
December 2014: Judy Huth sues Mr Cosby for molesting her in 1974 when she was 15 years old. Mr Cosby counter-sues, claiming she is trying to extort money from him
May 2015: Mr Cosby speaks publicly about the allegations for the first time. "I can't speak; I just don't want to argue; I don't talk about it," he told ABC News.

Best known as Dr Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show in 1984-92, the comedian is facing a number of allegations dating back to the 1960s.
Most of the claims of sexual assault are barred by statutes of limitations. They restrict the length of time in which legal actions can be taken after an alleged crime has been committed.
The accusations, which Mr Cosby has described as "fantastical" and "uncorroborated", have led to some of his stand-up shows being called off and the cancellation of some TV projects.

F-16 collides mid-air with small plane in South Carolina

A small plane has collided in mid-air with a F-16 fighter jet over South Carolina, sending debris and plane parts into a nearby mobile home park.
Officials at Shaw Air Force Base said the F-16 pilot ejected to safety and was being treated for his injuries.
There were no details on the number of people aboard the two-seat Cessna C150 or whether anyone survived.
The collision happened at about 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) roughly 11 miles (17km) north of Charleston.
The National Transportation Safety has launched an investigation into the crash.

Military jets from Shaw Air Force Base, outside of Columbia, routinely fly training missions over eastern South Carolina and the Atlantic.

Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof given more charges

The gunman who killed nine black churchgoers in the US has been charged with three additional counts of attempted murder.
Dylann Roof, 21, already faced nine counts of murder and one weapons possession charge for the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, on 17 June.
The victims were shot and killed after a Bible study meeting.
The attempted murder charges relate to three people who were present during the attack but survived.
A woman and a small child survived by playing dead. Mr Roof left a third woman alive to tell others about the crime.
Governor Nikki Haley has said Mr Roof should face the death penalty.
Mr Roof reportedly sat with the group for nearly an hour before he pulled out his handgun and started shooting.
One survivor recalled him saying: "You all rape women and you're taking over our country."
After the attack, a friend of Mr Roof's said he had previously complained that "blacks were taking over the world" and "someone needed to do something about it for the white race".
Mr Roof was arrested the day after the shooting more than 200 miles away in North Carolina and then flown back to Charleston.
He is next expected in court in October.

Greece debt crisis: 'No new plan' as eurozone leaders meet

The eurozone says Greece has submitted no new proposals to secure a deal with creditors ahead of a key meeting of the group's leaders which is now under way.
It had urged Greece to submit fresh plans after its people rejected a draft bailout in a referendum.
Greece said it had proposed a few changes and hoped to secure "a mutually beneficial agreement on the basis of the mandate of the referendum".
But Germany said there was "still no basis" for talks on a new bailout.
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The Greek side gave a presentation on Tuesday at a eurozone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels, which preceded the leaders' summit. However, there was no new written plan.
The Greek government said: "Today's Eurogroup was not supposed to take decisions but rather prepare for the summit."

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel stresses that only days are left to secure a deal
It said proposals it had made last week were still on the table with a "few changes" and they would be discussed later on Tuesday and on Wednesday.
Mr Dijsselbloem said Greece would be sending a new letter requesting support from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a pot of money set up in 2012 to fund eurozone members in financial difficulties.
He said the Eurogroup would discuss this on Wednesday but that creditors would have to look at Greece's finances and debt sustainability to see "if we can formally start the negotiations".
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande separately before the leaders' summit.

Analysis: Gavin Lee, BBC News, Europe reporter

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos' accidentally revealed his notes on hotel paper on Tuesday
The first full day at work for Greek finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, and he's already found out what it's like to slip-up with the paparazzi. Mr Tsakalotos was photographed with scribbled notes in hand, face-side up - private notes now open to public scrutiny on social media.
The scribbled notes - written in English, conveniently for the press - may not be legible enough to make full sense of his opening gambit but they certainly reveal the tone. The words 'no triumphalism' can be deciphered, attention is drawn to 'AT' - presumably Alexis Tsipras' message on the night of the referendum, and there's also reference to the proposals being rejected "mostly on viability grounds".
Mr Tsakalotos then writes about yesterday's political deal with all parties except the communist KKE - perhaps to draw attention to the overwhelming mandate he believes the Greek government has.
There may be graphologists already studying his writing to get a sense of the man now a key player in determining the future of Greece. In the interim, Mr Tsakalotos may now be scribbling: "Note to self: keep cards close to chest."
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The result of the referendum had sparked fears of a Greek exit from the eurozone and the lack of a new written plan was criticised by some in the group.
Mrs Merkel said as she arrived for the leaders' summit: "We still do not have the basis for negotiations... it is not a question of weeks anymore, but a question of a few days."
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the leaders' summit was looking like a "waste of time".
His Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, said: "It is really up to the Greek government to come up with far-reaching proposals. If they don't do that, then I think it will be over quickly."
Mr Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi have been more hopeful of a deal.
Mr Renzi said: "A technical solution for Greece can be found. What is more important is to find a political solution for Europe."
Mr Tsipras will address the European Parliament on Wednesday, a Greek government source said.

View from Germany: Jenny Hill, BBC News, Berlin
A picture of Angela Merkel wearing an old Prussian military helmet dominates the front cover of Bild. "Today," the headline reads "we need the

We were not led by a woman: Ikorodu bank robbers

The Ikorodu bank robbery suspects that were paraded at the Lagos state Police command yesterday July 6th , said contrary to what many believed, no woman led their 18-man gang in the robbery attack they conducted on two banks in Ikorordu on June 24th.

The robbers, Omoboye, alias Alarm blow, 39; Bright Agbojule, 25; Ikuesan, 37, and Abiwa, 20. during interrogation said some of their members were recruited from Warri, Delta state and that they planned the robbery incident in about 30 minutes.

25 year old Bright Agbojule who is a married man with two children said a meeting with members of the gang, led by the gang’s leader whom he identified as ‘Million’, was held in Abule area of Lagos same day the operation was carried out. He said they stole N80 million and he was given N2 million

He said:
“Million is our leader. I was introduced to the gang by a friend named Akpan. I joined because I had no means of feeding my family. I am a wood logger, but business has been bad. Akpan took me to the gang’s meeting same day of the operation, on June 24, at Abule Ishawo area of Ikorodu”.
“Those of us from Lagos included myself, M. O., Kelvin, S. K. Careboy and Million, while the rest were recruited from Warri, Delta State, by Million. He also brought eight rifles and two pump action guns from Warri, including the two operational vehicles. He taught us how to aim at our targets during the meeting, which lasted 30 minutes, with each of us instructed on what to do on reaching the venue”.
“My role was to stand outside, with one of the pump action guns, shooting sporadically. I was also instructed to shoot at anyone who dared to intrude, while the boys recruited from Warri confronted the police. I had over 900 cartridges. At the end of the operation, we escaped in a fibre boat and went to the creeks, where the loot was shared”.
“At the creeks, we analysed the operation and Million said we did well, promising to use us for subsequent operations. I was not allowed to go near where the money was counted. Million and other leaders counted the money. But Akpan told me they got N80 million”.
He added:
“I was given N2 million. I bought a Lexus SUV for N1.5 million and I gave my wife N30,000 to enrol for an exam. I also gave some of my friends out of it and also bought jerry cans for my brother, who is a pipeline vandal. Million instructed those from Warri to set the operational vehicles ablaze before leaving the scene. That was after the numbers plates were removed”.
“He collected the cost of the cars from the loot before sharing the rest among us. That was my first time of joining them. I did not go with them to the Lekki and Ijede banks operations.”

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Poland has further fuelled conflict between the two nations as a city took down the brotherhood-in-arms of Polish and Red Army soldiers memorial.

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Russia said on Saturday it was outraged by Poland's destruction of a Soviet war monument, warning Warsaw of the "most negative consequences" after what it said was a flagrant violation of an agreement between the two countries on protecting memorial sites.
Poland has been one of the most vocal critics of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.Russia and Poland share a history of conflicts and the disagreement over war memorials is likely to add to tensions.
"Warsaw must finally understand that the 'war of monuments' unleashed in Poland may have the most negative consequences, for which the responsibility lies squarely with its initiators," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Authorities in the western Polish town of Nowa Sol took down the brotherhood-in-arms of Polish and Red Army soldiers memorial at the end of June, reducing it to a pile of rubble.
"The monument was large (dozen tonnes of concrete), ugly, always dirty with rust leaking out of the abyss of its emptiness, like blood or tears," Wadim Tyszkiewicz, Nowa Sol's mayor said on his Facebook profile earlier this week.
"FLAGRANT VIOLATION"
The Russian ministry described the Polish action as an "unfriendly move" and a "direct and flagrant" violation of a 1994 agreement between Poland and the Russian Federation on memorial sites.
"One gets an impression that the mockery of our memorial sites in Poland has been built into the state policy," the Russian ministry said.
Poland's foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski told Reuters the move in Nowa Sol did not violate the agreement, which Poland believes only concerns cemeteries. Russia says it concerns all war memorials.
"Issues regarding monuments are within the competencies of relevant local authorities," Wojciechowski said.
A monument in Warsaw's Skaryszewski park commemorating Soviet soldiers who died in 1944 is regularly sprayed over with paint, despite close monitoring from the Warsaw police.
Poland was under Soviet occupation for over four decades following the Second World War. The last Russian soldiers left in 1993, 54 years after the first Soviet troops attacked the country in 1939, two weeks after the invasion launched by Nazi Germany.
Many Poles, now national heroes praised for their fight for independence, were persecuted by Soviet authorities after the war. Many were executed.
"Times have changed. We have grown up. The Russians are long gone," Nowa Sol's mayor said. "There is no extraordinary ideology here."

Uganda will begin withdrawal when the East African force is ready for deployment

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Uganda will withdraw its troops from South Sudan when a regional East African force is ready, the Ugandan defense minister said on Saturday.
“We deployed a force to South Sudan whose government invited us to do so and we prevented genocide,” Crispus Kiyonga told Anadolu Agency after a meeting between Ethiopian and Ugandan ministers in Addis Ababa.
“We will withdraw from South Sudan as soon as the IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) Deterrent Force deploys. If invited we will be part of the IGAD force.”
Addressing the meeting, Kiyonga said: “I hope that very soon this East African Stand-by Force will be ready for deployment.”
South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, has been wrecked by fighting that has killed thousands and forced more than 800,000 to flee their homes since December 2013.

Buhari Makes U-Turn On Boko Haram, Willing To Negotiate

President Muhammadu Buhari, has welcomed negotiations with the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists, according to his spokesperson, Femi Adesina.

This seems to be against the earlier stance of Buhari, who during his campaign promised not to negotiate with the insurgents if elected as president.

“Boko Haram is not interested in peace — if they are interested in peace, how can they kill 13,000 Nigerians?”  the former military ruler told BBC News in February. However, in an interview yesterday, July 3, with BBC Africa, the president spokesperson, Adesina said if Boko Haram members are willing, the president will negotiate with them.

It would be recalled that Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in Borno on Friday, killing over 100 people in 48 hours of violence, according to AFP.

Tunisia attack: Sousse police slow to respond

Tunisia's prime minister has told the BBC that the slow response of police to last week's deadly attack on a tourist resort was a major problem.
On Friday Habib Essid took part in a minute's silence to remember the 38 people who were killed in the town of Sousse, south of Tunis, a week ago.
He said he was deeply sorry for the attack, in which 30 Britons died.
Mr Essid said the government believed there was only one gunman, and that he had links to a known terrorist group.
Mr Essid said the attacker had trained in Libya, "probably" with the Ansar al-Sharia group, "who did everything to form him as a terrorist".
Ansar al-Sharia in Libya is thought to be behind the 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, in which the US ambassador was killed.
Islamic State (IS) had earlier said it was behind the Sousse attack.
'Unacceptable'
Reports in the British press said the assault took place over almost 35 minutes, and that the gunman was able to return to kill some of the wounded before the police arrived.
He was eventually shot dead in an alley.
"The time of the reaction - this is the problem," Mr Essid told the BBC's Richard Galpin. Police had been "blocked everywhere", he added.

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Hotel workers have been losing their jobs ever since the attack happened, as Rana Jawad reports
Mr Essid said Tunisia sent its condolences to the British government and to the Queen over the deaths of the British tourists.
"We feel really sorry about what happened," he said. "They were our guests. They came to spend their vacation with us, but what happened is a horror, unacceptable."
The gunman, identified as Seifeddine Rezgui, came onto the beach from the sea either by jet ski or speedboat at about midday.
He started shooting on the beach, entered the Hotel Imperial Marhaba and ran out of the front of the hotel before the police shot him dead.

The gunman has been identified as Seifeddine Rezgui
The attacker had travelled to Libya between December 2014 and January 2015, Mr Essid said.
Police are holding eight suspects in custody on suspicion of being directly linked to the attack. Four others who were held have been released.
The group that planned this attack was also behind the deadly shootings in the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March, Mr Essid added.
As well as the 30 Britons, other victims of the Sousse attack included three Irish citizens, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian national.

President Buhari said the attacks were "the last desperate acts of fleeing agents of terrorism"
Nigeria's president has described as a "heinous atrocity" the latest wave of attacks by Boko Haram militants that left more than 150 people dead.
Muhammadu Buhari also called for a faster deployment of a regional military force to fight the Islamists.
The gunmen have been launching attacks on remote villages in the north-eastern Borno state since Tuesday, targeting people attending evening prayers.
Mr Buhari - who was sworn in in May - sees fighting Boko Haram as a priority.
According to Amnesty International, at least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009, when Boko Haram launched its violent uprising to try to impose militant Islamist rule.
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'They spared nobody'
These are the worst Boko Haram attacks for many weeks, BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross reports.
In a statement on Friday, President Buhari said the recent attacks were "inhuman and barbaric."
He said they were "the last desperate acts of fleeing agents of terrorism".

The assaults began on Tuesday, when the militants shot dead 48 men after they had finished prayers in two villages near the town of Monguno, a resident told BBC Hausa.
He said he had heard gun shots at one of the villages attacked and saw it on fire.
"They were praying in the mosque when Boko Haram attackers descended on the village. They waited till they finished the prayers. They gathered them in one place, separated men from women and opened fire on them," he said.
On Wednesday, more than 50 gunmen killed 97 people in the village of Kukawa, near Lake Chad, eyewitness Babami Alhaji Kolo was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
"The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast [for the Muslim month of Ramadan]," he said.
"They... opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children. They spared nobody."
On Thursday, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in another Borno village, police said.

Analysis: Will Ross, BBC News, Lagos
No-one knows how many people were shot or had their throats slit by the jihadists who targeted several villages on Tuesday and Wednesday - it is impossible for people who are fleeing for their lives or rushing the injured away in wheelbarrows to stay back and count.
The fact that it took as many as 48 hours for any news of the atrocities to reach the main city in Borno State, Maiduguri, points to just how cut off and vulnerable these communities are.
Boko Haram may no longer hold territory but there is little to celebrate when large swathes of the north-east are clearly not under any kind of government control.
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Boko Haram has carried out frequent bombings since it was weakened by a regional military offensive to recapture most of the territory it had controlled.
The group is still holding many women, girls and children captive, including 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped from a school in Chibok in April last year.

Boko Haram at a glance

Founded in 2002, initially focused on opposing Western-style education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
Launched military operations in 2009
Joined Islamic State
Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, abducted hundreds, including at least 200 schoolgirls
Seized large area in north-east, where it declared caliphate
Regional force has retaken most territory

Turkey, Israel enter new era of agreements....

Sources claim that senior Israeli and Turkish officials have held a secret meeting in Rome to renew talks on a reconciliation agreement between the two nations
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It has been revealed after the cooling of relations after the attack on Mavi Marmara, Israel and Tukey have had secret meetings in order to smooth out irregularities between the two nations.
According to Haaretz, Israel's Foreign Minister director general Dore Gold and his Turkish counterpart, Feridun Sinirlioğlu, who is the government person responsible for ties with Israel, met in Rome after Gold left for Rome “secretly.”
Compensation and embargo
According to a claim made in the Sabah newspaper, an agreement has been reached regarding Israel giving Turkey compensation. There has been no statement regarding the amount of the compensation. Meeting at the end of 2013, the nations then said that the original compensation amount would be multiplied 7 times over bringing the amount to $21 million dollars.
The lifting of the embargo has also been decided upon as a condition for agreement. Israel has stated that it will make the path easier for goods coming through Turkey to Gaza as well as not preventing any humanitarian aid that is to be sent to Gaza.
Final round of meetings
Sources have said that under these conditions it seems an agreement will become possible for Israel and Turkey. The draft of agreements will be submitted for government approval. If there will be any changes to conditions from the agreements made in Roma, more meetings will be held in the future to decide upon this. Following these meetings Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahi will seeks approval from the Knesset. Turkey will seek approval through its parliament.


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'Billions' of records at risk from mobile app data flaw

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Researchers havfe said that the flaw leaves data stored by apps vulnerable with almost every category of app considered vulnerable
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Security researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way thousands of popular mobile applications store data online, leaving users' personal information, including passwords, addresses, door codes and location data, vulnerable to hackers.
The team of German researchers found 56 million items of unprotected data in the applications it studied in detail, which included games, social networks, messaging, medical and bank transfer apps.
"In almost every category we found an app which has this vulnerability in it," said Siegfried Rasthofer, part of the team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and Darmstadt University of Technology.
Team leader Eric Bodden said the number of records affected "will likely be in the billions".
Another security researcher working separately, Colombian Jheto Xekri, said he had also found the same flaw.
The problem, Bodden said, is in the way developers - those who write and sell the applications - authenticate users when storing their data in online databases.
Most such apps use services like Amazon's Web Services or Facebook's Parse to store, share or back up users' data.
While such services offer ways for developers to protect the data, most choose the default option, based on a string of letters and numbers embedded in the software's code, called a token.
Attackers, Bodden says, can easily extract and tweak those tokens in the app, which then gives them access to the private data of all users of that app stored on the server.
The researchers said they had no documented evidence that the vulnerability had been exploited.
The vulnerable applications, which they declined to name, number in the tens of thousands, and include some of the most popular on the Apple and Google app stores.
Rasthofer said all four companies had responded to their findings; he said Apple staff had told him on Monday that they would soon incorporate warnings to developers to double check their security settings before uploading apps to its App Store.
Google declined to comment, while Apple and Amazon did not respond to queries.
A Facebook spokesperson said that after researchers notified it of the vulnerability the company had been working with affected developers. She declined to provide details.


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The public prosecutors office has sought life sentences for the suspects that violated Turkey’s national security in 2014 when they searched Turkish intelligence trucks in Adana en route to Syria
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The public prosecutor's office in Tarsus province has demanded aggravated life imprisonment sentences for four Turkish prosecutors and a gendarmerie officer for their alleged involvement in the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) trucks case.
The suspects allegedly violated Turkey’s national security laws in 2014 when they stopped and searched MIT trucks in Adana province that were en route to Syria. The trucks were allegedly loaded with arms and ammunition.
The Tarsus Chief Public Prosecutor's Office prepared and sent an indictment of the five suspects to the Tarsus Second Criminal Court Friday, demanding an aggravated life imprisonment for Adana’s former chief public prosecutor Suleyman Bagriyanik, prosecutors Ozcan Sisman, Aziz Takci and Ahmet Karaca, and Adana's former provincial gendarmerie commander Ozkan Cokay.
The suspects were accused of "attempting to overthrow the Turkish government by using force and violence or attempts to destroy the government's function totally or partly," and "getting intelligence over the politics and security of the state".
Turkey's Interior Ministry at the time denied that the MIT trucks were on a mission to supply arms to groups in northern Syria and said that the trucks in question had in fact been transporting humanitarian aid to the Turkmen community in the war-torn country.

Graduate abducted and killed by father's business client

A 34-year-old graduate of the University of Benin, Enero Ukonga, had just returned home after completing his Masters in Business Administration ,MBA, course in Turkey and was making an attempt to prepare for his PHD in the United States.
While he was in his Opebi, Lagos family home,one Osaretin Enabulele, accompanied by 4 others identified as Elisha Jonah, Kazeem Ibrahim, Charles Timinnemi, a Medical student in Romania who was on holiday and the fourth identified simply as Fred visited him.The lead man, Enabulele , an importer who resides in Benin city, Edo state, was said to have told Uknonga’s father, a retired Customs officer,who is a clearing and forwarding agent, on the phone, that he was bringing the original copy of the bill of laden of a 1 by 40 feet container, to facilitate its clearance from the Apapa Port in Lagos.

Enabulele was said to have requested Ukonga to follow him to the car to get the document for his father who was then in Benin city .

But apprehension reportedly set in after Ukonga’s friend(names withheld) reportedly waited in vain for his return. Curiously, he stepped out of the house to look for him but did not see him and didn't see any of the visitors either.

 However, as he searched for Ukonga, he reportedly stood still with his mouth open in shock, on seeing Ukonga’s pair of slippers in a disarrayed manner. Sensing trouble, he reportedly put a call to Ukonga’s phone only to discover it was switched off. Thereafter, he contacted his father who was in Benin city, to inform him of the ugly development before reporting the matter at the area ‘F’ division.

The police reportedly swung into action but their effort proved abortive. It was gathered that the case was transferred from area ‘’F ‘to the Special Anti Robbery Squad , SARS for further investigation. It was gathered that effort to reach the main suspect , Enabulele failed . Operatives were said to have travelled to the suspect’s home at 4, Ehigie street, off Aiaohan, Dumex road, Benin city, where his girlfriend and his brother were arrested but later released.

 Preliminary investigation by operatives of SARS revealed that the main suspect had bolted to Ghana, following claims by some of his friends that he called them with a foreign number informing that he was in Ghana. But when the number was dialled, he reportedly did not pick his call. Investigation at SARS, lingered for six months without any headway.

Determined to unearth the mystery surrounding his son’s whereabouts, Mr Benjamin further lodged a complaint with the Department of Security Service ,DSS. This action paid off, as one of the men who reportedly visited that fateful day was arrested in January 2015, six months after.

  He is Elisha Jonah. Jonah as gathered, was arrested mid January, through Enero Ukuoga’s stolen Black Berry phone. The phone was said to have been traced to a user in Ikeja, Lagos. By the time the user was arrested, he told the DSS operatives that he bought it from a friend. At the end , it was discovered that five persons had used the phone, with the seller traced to Jonah .

Jonah’s confessional statement reportedly led to the arrest of one Kasim Ibrahim, popularly called big daddy, on March 17, 2015.

During interrogation, the duo gave a starling disclosure of the whereabouts of the missing Ukonga . They revealed that he was dead and had been buried in a shallow grave at Abesan’s estate, Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, close to Kazeem’s house.
When the cat was let out of the bag, Mr Ukuoga reportedly lost balance and slumped on one of the seats in the office of the DSS. By the time he came back, he reportedly gave a blank stare at the suspects , apparently trying to fathom their claim. When he managed to say a word, he reportedly started by asking amid tears “what on earth could have warranted such cruel act on an innocent person?
At this point, the DSS reportedly transferred the case to the Force Criminal

Tehila Records present Alabanza concert 3 - who will grace the mic?

It's back! 20 Artistes, 1 Stage, 1 Venue... Alabanza Concert 3, one of the biggest inspirational music concerts in Nigeria is coming to town once again this year. Powered by Tehila Records in conjunction with City of David (RCCG), the company has kicked off its media campaign as they prepare to unveil the artist line up for the 2015 edition.


Over the years, The ALABANZA concert has played host to a vast collection of Nigerian Artistes but this year's event has been taken a notch higher with its major headline performance by an American Grammy Award-Nominated Inspirational, R&B Singer alongside big names in the Gospel Music Industry.

The concert promises to be an explosive night of Music, Praise, Worship and Dance like never seen before.

The brains behind the ALABANZA concert are CEO of Tehila Records, Tim Ogboruche and his wife, Nkiruka Gift also known as Enkay, a Nigerian Gospel Recording Artist and core member of the label's group, Tehila Crew, with the hit single "Yes! You Are The Lord".

The Suspense is on!! More details will be revealed soon...Which artists do you expect to see at the ALABANZA concert this year?
Stay Tuned!!

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China, Russia say Iran nuclear deal close to agreement

Russian and Chinese officials are positive over the positive outcome of nuclear talks with Iran
World Bulletin / News Desk
Russia and China, participants of P5+1 nuclear talks, say that the world powers and Iran are very close to an agreement.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in Vienna on July 2, "All parties are of the opinion that this matter will be resolved in the coming days."
At the same time Chinese FM Wang Yi notes that there is high possibility to finally have a deal. But added that some final efforts must be made to complete the negotiations successfully, and also said that there are "some important and sensitive issues which no one can shy away from."
Negotiators from Iran, Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States are working to strike a deal under which Tehran would curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
The parties have given themselves until July 7 to reach agreement. The six powers want limits on Iran's nuclear programs that could have a military use. Tehran denies it is pursuing atomic weapons.

UN describes Srebrenica massacre as "genocide"

Despite intense opposition from Russia Bosnian Serbs and Serbia, officials in the UN have referred to the massacre as a "genocide".
World Bulletin / News Desk
In General Assembly debate July 1 over a resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of the killing of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, who were then dumped into an open pit in Europe's worst mass killing since World War II, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon unapologetically used the word genocide.
So did Serge Brammertz, the head of a UN tribunal prosecuting the perpetrators, and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, who was in Bosnia as a freelance journalist at the time of the mass killings in July 1995.
"Those who deny the genocide in Srebrenica today only embarrass and humiliate themselves," said Power. She urged that "the resolve induced by the horror of Srebrenica be extended not only to commemorating the past, but to do far more to prevent genocide and mass atrocities in the present."
Abisada Dudic, said how she was brought tears to bystanders when she addressed the semantical issue after she explained how she fled her home near Srebrenica as a child with memories of "fear, bloodshed and fire."  Her family's hope is that the remains of loved ones will be found, including an uncle last seen running into the forest to escape the Srebrenica slaughter.
Said Dudic: "Calling what happened in Srebrenica by any name other than genocide, be it massacre, tragedy, catastrophe, whatever else, not only thwarts the possibility of reconciliation, it bolsters those denying the genocide and leading the secession efforts" by Bosnian Serbs.
"It trivializes the pain and suffering of genocide victims. It re-victimizes the survivors, and it minimizes the enormity of the crime," she said.
In a report by Radio Free Liberty Bosnia's UN Ambassador Mirsada Colakovic, who was the lead during the commemoration, called denial "the last stage of genocide."
It's "a kind of double-killing in which the victims are first murdered, then the memory of the horrible deeds themselves is being destroyed," she said.
The use of the word genocide comes with  intense opposition from Russia, Bosnian Serbs, and Serbia to refer to the massacre as genocide in a UN Security Council resolution marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica killings.
Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called it "a big, horrific crime," but refuses to call it a genocide.

Three dead as earthquake hits Eastern Turkistan

Three dead, over 20 injured as a result of 6.4 earthquake strike in Uyghur populated region
World Bulletin / News Desk
At least three people were killed and more than 20 injured when a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit a rural part of China's far western Uyghur populated region on Friday, Chinese officials said.
Many traditional houses in the mainly ethnic Uyghur region collapsed when the shallow quake struck about 160 km (100 miles) northwest of the southern city of Hotan in the early morning, according to Chinese emergency officials.
"Currently, the earthquake has resulted in three deaths, including a father and son, and more than 20 injuries," China National Emergency Broadcasting (CNEB) said on it's website.
The quake was initially reported at various magnitudes up to 6.5. Several aftershocks were reported, the strongest measuring magnitude 4.8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Residents of the region expressed shock at the intensity of the quake on social media, although authorities said they were optimistic the death toll would not be high.
"If many people are gathered in one place during an earthquake, it can lead to a serious disaster, but in this case, there were relatively few people so it isn't so serious," China Earthquake Networks Center researcher Sun Shihong told state broadcaster China Central Television.
Pictures on social media and state television showed cracks on the walls of buildings and other minor damage.
Earthquakes frequently strike China. A quake in the southwestern province of Sichuan in 2008 killed almost 70,000 people.
Eastern Turkistan, strategically located on the borders of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, is one of China's most politically sensitive regions following years of violence, blamed by the government on religious rebels.
Exiled Uyghur groups and human rights activists say the government's own repressive policies and religious and cultural restrictions have provoked unrest, an accusation the government denies.

Dozens feared dead in Nigeria's 'mosque massacre'

According to military and local sources, gunmen opened fire at mosques in northeastern Borno state’s Kukawa town. The death toll is feared to be as high as 100
World Bulletin / News Desk
 Dozens of civilians, some fear as high as 100, were killed in a massacre carried out by gunmen allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria on Wednesday night,  military and local sources said Thursday.
According to preliminary reports, gunmen went on a rampage in Borno state’s Kukawa town and specifically targeted mosques in the area.
"Close to 100 people were murdered, especially those killed inside different mosques in the town. Women and children too were not spared," a military source in the Nigerian army in Maiduguri, a city in Borno state, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday evening.
He said the attack occurred around sunset time as Muslims offered the Maghrib prayer just shortly after opening the day's Ramadan fast Wednesday night.
Abba Kyari, one of the hundreds of locals who fled to Maiduguri, capital city of Borno state, said that the attack took place when Muslims were praying.
"Very few of us got away with slight injuries as we made away. But we cannot account for our family members now. The mosques are littered with corpses and our houses have been burnt," Kyari, who spoke in the local Hausa, said.
Kyari said that he knew only five out of the over 50 people who attended the Maghrib prayer at the mosque who survived and were now in Maiduguri.
The attack took place almost at the same time as the one on Kabal Bahram and Mangal villages in Monguno area of the restive state. At least 10 people reportedly died in those attacks.
Nigeria's defense spokesman Chris Olukolade told AA that he could not immediately confirm the Kukawa massacre.

Uganda police blamed for failing to protect slain imam

Muslim leaders in Uganda have blamed police for not protecting Muslim imams.
World Bulletin / News Desk
 Ugandan Muslim leaders on Wednesday voiced anger over the perceived failure of the police to protect Muslim imams following the murder one day earlier of Sheikh Hassan Kirya.
Kirya was gunned down on Tuesday night by unknown assailants, making him the fourth Muslim imam to be killed in Uganda since last December.
Addressing thousands of mourners who gathered at Kampala’s Kibuli Mosque, Sheikh Mahmood Kibaate, the acting supreme mufti, asserted: “We don’t fear dying because it [i.e., death] was meant for us all; but the way we are dying is what scares us.”
“We want to warn those killing our leaders: even if you do it ten times, when we retaliate, you will not enter the courts of law,” he added.
Sheikh Noor Muzaata, another Muslim imam who addressed the crowd, did not mince words.
“The end of Sheikh Kirya should not mean that we stop fighting those who are killing us,” he said.
Lashing out at both the government and police, Muzaata declared: “You say prevention is better than a cure, but nothing is being done to prevent these killings.”
He said Kirya had received death threats before his murder, but the police – who were told – did nothing about it.
 “We gave you all the information, including suspects’ names, but you did nothing,” Muzaata said, addressing police.
“We told you these murderers had a list of people they were targeting, but all we see from the list we gave you are dead bodies,” he added.
Following last December’s murders, Muslim imams provided police with a list of six people they believed would be targeted.
Since then, two of those named on the list have been killed, while a third survived an assassination attempt.
Second Deputy Prime Minister Moses Ali, for his part, drew the ire of the already angry crowd when he said: “I know many sheikhs have been killed, but the government isn’t perfect. If you think the government is too weak and can’t manage, then vote them out during elections.”
In an effort to allay the crowd’s anger, Police Inspector-General Kale Kayihura – who has consistently blamed the murders on Al-Shabaab and the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group – stated: “I have listened to your cries and understand your anger, but I’m also tired of coming here because of deaths.”
Describing Kirya as a “freedom fighter” who opposed extremism, Kayihura added: “We are not perfect. I acknowledge there was laxity with his protection. His bodyguard left him when he was breaking his [Ramadan] fast – that shouldn’t have happened.”
He went on, however, to blame the country’s judicial system for the failure to prosecute the culprits.
“Following the previous murders, we made several arrests,” he said. “But even if the person pleads guilty, the assumption that he is innocent until proven guilty by courts of law is an obstacle.”
Kayihura  went  on to tell mourners that, according to intelligence obtained by police, Kirya had been killed “because he was working with me, so we think those in jail could have done this by sponsoring the murder.”
He added: “We need leads to connect them to the crime scene.”

APC and NASS crises: Atiku says its time to stop the blame game and work together

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on APC members to come together and resolve the issues they’ve been having following the recent crises in the National Assembly.

In a statement released this evening, Atiku who is currently in Saudi Arabia for the lesser Hajj said it is time for members of the party to stop the blame game and work together for the unity, cohesion and harmony of the party. He added that he is concerned that after winning the elections, APC is now engulfed in internal crises. The statement after the cut…

Former Vice President and chieftain of APC, Atiku Abubakar has urged leaders of the APC to shift from extreme positions to a centrist one for the interest of democracy and the party, the new administration and the country at large.

The counsel of the former Vice President comes against the backdrop of the APC NEC meeting in Abuja on Friday, 3 July.

A statement released by his media office in Abuja on Thursday, 2 July quoted the former Vice President as calling for the concentration of positive energies on building unity, cohesion and harmony among party leaders and other stakeholders.

“We can resolve our differences when our leaders individually and collectively shift ground from extreme positions and move to the centre in the interest of our party and our country.”

Atiku, who is unavoidably outside the country to perform Lesser Hajj (Umrah) in Saudi Arabia, said that he is deeply concerned that, soon after capturing power, the APC is torn apart at a time more energy are needed to attend to the objectives of the change agenda for which it was voted into power.
The former Vice President said it was high time the party overcame its current crisis of confidence arising from the National Assembly election of principal officers.

He explained that the current blame games targeted at individuals was an unnecessary diversion of energies at the expense of the urgency of the mission of the party to make life better for Nigerians.
According to the former Vice President, the vilification of individual party leaders and members in the face of challenges facing the country was painful to him, adding that the party should learn the lessons and move ahead.

While restating his commitment to the party and its change agenda, the former Vice President advise the party leaders not to allow people of bad faith to fuel division and acrimony among the party, adding that all positive energies should be directed towards sustaining the morale of the voters who look forward to the APC to make their lives better.

He reminded party leaders that any division could be exploited at the expense of the party. He extended his goodwill to the party for successful deliberations and assured the party of continued support and loyalty at all times.

Atiku Media Office
61 Ebitu Ukiwe Street
Jabi
Abuja
Nigeria.