Photos from Buhari and Biya's meeting in Abuja

President Buhari and Cameroonian president, Paul Biya pictured at a Communique Signing /Press Conference at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja today May 4th. More photos after the cut...

 

High School student claims she was ridiculed at school for supposed Indecency

According to Twitter user @nangatse, she was ridiculed in school yesterday by a female teacher for indecency. Narrating her story, she said she had an altercation with her teacher who confronted her for not wearing a bra to school & making male students/teachers uncomfortable. Feeling humiliated, she ran to her principal for help but was surprised when the principal did not support her. See what she wrote after the cut...

According to Twitter user @nangatse, she was ridiculed in school yesterday by a female teacher for indecency. Narrating her story, she said she had an altercation with her teacher who confronted her for not wearing a bra to school & making male students/teachers uncomfortable. Feeling humiliated, she ran to her principal for help but was surprised when the principal did not support her. See what she wrote after the cut...

Bomb run Aleppo

Syria's largest city, Aleppo, is split between government and opposition forces. Since 2013, rebel-held districts have been under siege, battered and bombarded from the ground and the air.
Many if not most aerial attacks come in the form of barrel bombs; crude canisters - often just oil barrels or garbage cans - packed full of high explosives, that President Bashar al-Assad's men roll out of helicopters and transport planes onto the city below.

The impact on Aleppo's densely packed civilian neighbourhoods has been devastating. Homes, business and schools have been obliterated and many thousands of people wounded or killed.
International human rights groups have categorised the use of these weapons as indiscriminate and unlawful, yet the attacks show no signs of slackening. Indeed, recently they seem to be intensifying, with growing numbers of government troops stepping up their efforts to capture this iconic location.
Few know better what the barrel bomb attacks mean in terms of shattered lives, pain and despair, than the makeshift medical teams struggling against impossible odds and great danger to bring help to the victims.
As likely to fall victim to an unannounced attack from the air as any other civilian - and working out of Aleppo's bombed-out hospitals and clinics with the bare minimum of equipment and vehicles - the medics nevertheless perform daily miracles in rescuing and treating the wounded, be they opposition or government supporters.
Earlier this summer journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja spent time with one group of medics as they struggled to do their jobs. He brought back a remarkable report.
Visceral and sometimes raw, it nevertheless paints a harrowing portrait of city and its people struggling to survive

Photo: Metropolitan Police make two new arrests for the 2011 murder of Adeniyi Shode

Police investigating the murder of a young man five years ago has made two new arrests. The arrests today, Wednesday May 4, were made in the investigation into the fatal stabbing of Adeniyi Lateef Shode (known as Aden or Enda - pictured above) in Northoit in 2011.

Detectives from the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command (HMCC) arrested a 23-year-old man and a 24-year-old man on suspicion of murder.

 

They were arrested at addresses in north London by officers acting upon fresh information regarding the killing of the 21-year-old.

Following this new development, officers continue to appeal for witnesses and information and are offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and prosecution of the person or persons responsible.

Adeniyi, of Edgware, was discovered collapsed close to the junction of Rowdell Road, Ealing Road, and Kensington Road, at approximately 20:50hrs on 2 May 2011.

He had suffered stab injuries. He was taken to St Mary's Hospital and died of his injuries later that night. His mother Antonia Francis said in an earlier appeal: "All our family thinks about Aden every day. We remember his laugh and smile and he always remains in our thoughts.

"It still hurts us to think that whoever killed Aden is still out there and we pray that it doesn't happen to anyone else's family. I would ask anyone who may be able to help us to speak to the police. If you are not happy talking to the police then please tell someone and get them to pass the information on. What is important is that the police can track down whoever took my son from us."

Detective Inspector Garry Moncrieff, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said:

"Although five years have passed, officers remain committed to bringing Aden's killers to justice. Allegiances may have changed over this time and those who may know who is responsible for Aden's death may not have the same sense of duty to those involved. We strongly believe that people out there may know who murdered Aden and why. Anyone with any detail, no matter how minor, is urged to contact police. It may provide closure to Aden's family who want to see justice done."

On 6 May 2011 a man [A - 20yrs] and two women [B - 22yrs; C - 18yrs] from the Northolt area were arrested in Berkshire in connection with the murder. On 9 May 2011 a man [D - 19 ys] from the Northolt area was arrested in connection with the murder. They were subsequently released; no one has ever been charged with Aden's murder.

Rebuilding Syria's Aleppo under fire

With barrel bombs, shells and air strikes causing yet more destruction each day, the thought of proposing ways to rebuild the war-battered Syrian city of Aleppo seems distant. Yet, that is exactly what the Aleppo Project aims to do.

The project at the Central European University’s Centre for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) in Budapest, Hungary aims to bring together Syrian citizens and researchers to plot the reconstruction of the historic city, much of which lies in ruins after more than five years of civil war.

The four-person team, headed by Professor Robert Templer, conducts public opinion surveys, maps destruction, examines historical precedents for rebuilding war-ravaged cities and seeks to envision ways to implement an inclusive reconstruction process in the future.

The project invites Aleppo’s citizens - those still in the city and those displaced from it - to participate through providing information about destruction in the city, as well as by submitting blogs and reflections on their memories of and hopes for the city. The researchers work on documentation, public opinion and policy papers.

AlHakam Shaar, a 29-year-old research fellow for the project, originally hails from Aleppo, but he left shortly before fighting reached the city in 2012 to pursue his PhD.

The goal of the open collaboration is to also draw the involvement of Aleppo residents and Syrians from elsewhere “to look at the past and try to collect the memories that, if not captured, would be lost,” he told Al Jazeera. “But we are also trying to capture some vision for the future.”

The Aleppo Project is now working on an interactive mapping programme that will allow users to upload to a database, including text, titles, names of places and photographs. The CCNR also offers a course to 20 graduate students at the Central European University.

Another research fellow on the project, Armenak Tokmajyan, whose family is of Armenian descent and comes from Aleppo, explained: “If you imagine that one or two people in every neighbourhood tries to document the damage in their area and upload to our software, we’ll have an incomplete but good understanding of the damage in the city.”

“Then in the future, when they want to start reconstruction, having these images gathered in one place will help to recreate a vision of the historical buildings.”

While Aleppo’s cultural and architectural heritage was already widely documented long before the war, the thrust of the Aleppo Project is to at once track the destruction and gauge the opinions, hopes and desires of Aleppo’s residents in order to contribute to the future reconstruction of a more inclusive city.

Photos: Awww...check out these young lovebirds!

Aww, how cute! See another photo after the cut...

Beautiful wives of the Emir of Kano (photo)

The Emirs official IG handle shared the photo above and wrote "If you get good wives, you'll become happy; if you get bad ones, you'll become a philosopher. Such a miracle and a gift indeed.". See another picture of him with one of his wives after the cut...