World Refugee Week - Angelina Jolie visit Kenya

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie

 meets children and siblings of 

vulnerable female refugees in Nairobi.

© UNHCR/Mark Henley

Tuesday, 20 June
World Refugee Day 2017
This is World Refugees week...

Angelina Jolie calls for reflection on the “pain and suffering” of refugee children during a visit to a centre for adolescent girls in Nairobi on World Refugee Day.

"This not about sharing a burden. It is about sharing a global responsibility, based not only the broad idea of our common humanity but also on the very specific obligations of international law. The root problems are war and hatred, not people who flee; refugees are among the first victims of terrorism." — UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Jolie met about 200 refugee girls, who are unaccompanied or separated from their parents and are now living in the Heshima Kenya Safe House in the Kenyan capital, where they participate in a girls’ empowerment programme.

“Not only have they had to flee extreme violence or persecution, lost everything and witnessed the death of family members, but they have also had to face so much abuse and intolerance and hardship.”

“How we treat them is a measure of our humanity as nations.” - Please show some some love not only to the refugees but also the destitute around you. One Love...

Nigeria breaks - New group emerges, calls for secession of Niger Delta from Nigeria

Group seeks secession from Nigeria

- A new group from Niger Delta has demanded that it gains independence from Nigeria

- The Niger Delta group says when it becomes sovereign, it will place power only in the hands of the qualified

- The groups resolution comes after a 6-hour secret meeting A group named Region of the Niger Delta (Rondel) has demanded the sovereignty of the region.

The group in a statement by its spokesman, Efe Edet-Tamuno, said its demands are made on a non-violent struggle. 

The statement reads: "A Demand for the Independence of Rondel from Nigeria in 2018.

SOURCE: NAIJ

Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha's - Purview

Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha's jet-setting life around Nigeria and he is also Nigeria's most nepotistic governor.

Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha travels around Nigeria in private jets with tail numbers listed below. 

Learjet - ZS - KAA

Gulfstream - N605JA

Hawker Beechcraft or Embraer Legacy - 5N - PZE 

Before he became governor, he had put his private jet on the market for sale.

He is also known to staff his cabinet with in-laws, brothers, wife and cronies, the worst in Nigeria apart from President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet.

His son-in-law, Uche Nwosu married to his first daughter is presently his Chief of Staff, whom he is plotting to impose as the Governor of Imo state come 2019. 

The Minister from Imo State Prof. Anthony Anwukah is also his in-law, married to his second daughter, Uju Okorocha. His youngest sister, Ogechi Ololo, is his Deputy Chief of Staff as well as his SA Domestic Affairs. 

His wife Mrs. Nkechi Okorocha is in charge of "Amnesty" in Imo State with a five billion naira budget.

His eldest sister, Mrs. Geraldine Obinali, collects all market fees nd fines in Imo State. His eldest brother Gerald receives the account for all Motor Park tolls in Imo State. His younger brother Okey is in charge at Imo Transport Company. His brother, Jude is in charge of revenue from sand dredging, and any laterite excavation pit in Imo State. 

Gov. Okorocha claims that he has built twenty-Seven General hospitals in Imo State but only twenty-six have been under construction in the last six years. Only one has been completed and that one is being run by a medical doctor as a private hospital. He has never traveled in a commercial flight since he became the Governor of IMO state. 

Sometimes he flies into Abuja two three times in a day. He hops around the country in the privates like riding a bike. 

His second Daughter Mrs. Uju Rochas Anwukah is appointed as Board member from Imo State.

SOURCE: SAHARA REPORTER

Nigeria divides - Igbos asked to leave Northern Nigeria.

Youths in the North vows to attack
the Igbo in the north

 Following reports of a coalition of northern youths ordering Igbos out of the region, the youth arm of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has said that Igbos cannot leave after spending N44trn to develop the region.

A coalition of Northern youth groups had on Tuesday demanded all Igbos staying in the region to leave on or before the 1st of October, after which “major moves” would be made to evict them and assume ownership of their properties.

In a meeting themed “Igbos Mandate Against Genocide” with journalists in Enugu, the National President of the OYC, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro advised the Igbos staying in the north to stay put and prepare to defend themselves against possible attacks.

The National President described the paper issued by the coalition asking all Igbos to leave the region as a call to arms, and should be treated as such by security agencies.

“Igbo cannot leave the North after spending over N44trn to develop the region,” the youth wing declared.

The Kaduna state government had ordered the arrest, investigation, and prosecution of the “Northern Youths” involved in making the declaration.

SOURCE: BELLA NAIJA

Today in History for June 5 - Pope John Paul II was born.

Pope John Paul II

On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice, 35 miles southwest of Krakow.Wojtyla went on to become Pope John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century. After high school, the future pope enrolled at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, where he studied philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group. During World War II, Nazis occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother, father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving member of his family.

Read more about Pope John Paul II


June 5 seems to be very eventful, as at;
1661 Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage

1902 Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842) dies.

History is also made today June 5 2017 as;

Portland protests

Gulf states shakeup - Arab nations rift
London bridge attacked by terrorist - ISIS claims attack

London bridge attacked by ISIS

Terrorist attack London bridge - June 05 2017

 London's trying to return to some sense of normalcy after the United Kingdom suffered its third terror attack in as many months. Seven people were killed Saturday night when three men in a van deliberately ran over pedestrians on London Bridge, then jumped out of the vehicle and stabbed people at random at nearby Borough Market. The attackers were shot dead by police. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack but offered no evidence to back up the claim.

Police have ID'd the three attackers and are expected to name them soon. Police also conducted raids and arrested 11 people. London Mayor Sadiq Khan vowed his city wouldn't be cowed by terrorism, while British Prime Minister Theresa May promised a tougher attitude to fighting homegrown extremism.

Survivors and witnesses described scenes of horror: the van knocking people "nearly 20 feet in the air" on the bridge. One person jumped into the River Thames to escape. In a diner, terrified patrons hid in the back of a restaurant from a man who ran in with a "massive knife."

President Donald Trump stirred controversy with his tweets after the attack. He blasted Khan's response to the attacks and renewed the call for his travel ban before offering more traditional words of support to the people of London. CNN's Chris Cillizza says the tweets show Trump is sort of the "anti-President."

London Bridge attack - everything we know (Read more..)

SOURCE: CNN

4 Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar as rift deepens

In this Friday, June 2, 2017 Saudi King
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, left,
talks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,
 Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince and
Deputy Commander in Chief of the Emirates
 Armed Forces in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Four Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar on Monday over its relations with Iran and support of Islamist groups, isolating the tiny energy rich country by cutting off its land, sea and air routes to the outside world.

Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing their diplomatic staff from Qatar as regional airlines quickly announced they’d suspend service to its capital, Doha.

Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and is home to some 10,000 American troops at a major U.S. military base, criticized the move as a “violation of its sovereignty.” It long has denied supporting militant groups and described the crisis as being fueled by “absolute fabrications” stemming from the recent hack of its state-run news agency.

The countries all ordered their citizens out of Qatar and gave Qataris abroad 14 days to return home to their peninsular nation. The countries also said they would eject Qatar’s diplomats from their territories.

Qatar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said there was “no legitimate justification” for the countries’ decision, though it vowed its citizens wouldn’t be affected by it. “The Qatari Government will take all necessary measures to ensure this and to thwart attempts to influence and harm the Qatari society and economy,” it said.

SOURCE: SEATTLE TIMES