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| Nigerian Artist Iyanya trying yo feature US best Female Rapper Nicki Minaj Thenet.ng report that kukere star, is trying to secure a duet with sexy American rapper, Nicki Minaj. As a matter of fact, talks have allegedly reached an advanced stage between both camps, they say. A top industry source who allegedly spoke to them, confirmed the Project Fame winner is willing to pay as much as $300,000 approximately N50m to jump on a track with him. “It’s an on-going project. He has to now go back to Los Angeles again to try and get her on the track’. Reacting to the report however, Iyanya’s manager, Ubi Franklin said ‘Who said that, where did you hear that? If anything like that would happen, you’ll hear from our publicist.
Minaj, who has won 4 American Music Awards, 8 BET Awards, two MTV Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards among others, has never collaborated with a Nigerian act. A collaboration of some Anaconda and waist shaking moves is certainly not a bad idea |
Saturday, 13 September 2014
CELEBRITY NEWS: Iyanya offers Nicki Minaj $300,000 which is N50million in Nigerian currency for collaboration
FOOTBALL NEWS: ASPIRATIONS I WILL WIN TROPHIES IN MEXICO RONALDINHO VOWS
"I need to win something in Mexico and I've come for that," said the former two-time world footballer of the year as he pulled on his new black and blue stripped jersey with his name and number 49.
The former Barcelona player arrived in Mexico early Friday after a delay receiving his work permit, and will be presented to club fans later in the day, at halftime during a league game against Puebla.
Although the 34-year-old will not play, the 38 000 places for the game have already been sold following news of the new star's arrival at Queretaro.
Ronaldinho, a World Cup winner in 2002, surprised many by signing a two-year deal with the side, known as the White Roosters and from central Mexico, after amicably ending his tenure at Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro in July.
Ronaldinho said he decided to join Queretaro, currently 10th in the league, after discussions with his older brother and agent Roberto, who himself played in Mexico, and club president Olegario Vazquez Rana, a businessman who owns Mexican media group Imagen.
Former Barcelona player "Dinho" insisted he had received offers "from almost all over the world" but "the conversation with my brother and with the group president won me over; I always wanted to live here, that's why I've come, to continue my story".
The 2004 and 2005 world player of the year came to Europe in 2001, joining Paris Saint-Germain from Gremio.
He won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2006, as well as back-to-back La Liga titles in 2005 and 2006. He also added a Serie A crown with Milan in 2011.
Capped 97 times for Brazil, he returned home to Flamengo in 2011 but walked away from the Rio club after a year over a salary dispute.
He then scored 28 goals in 88 matches for Mineiro.
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POLITICAL NEWS: White House makes it official: US "at war" with IS
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| US President Barack Obama speaks at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on September 11, 2014 (AFP Photo/Jim Watson) |
Washington (AFP) - The White House declared Friday the United States was at war with Islamic State radicals, seeking to rub out another semantic flap over its Syria policy.
But pressed to clear up doubts about how President Barack Obama sees the conflict, the White House and Pentagon left little doubt.
"The United States is at war with ISIL in the same way that we are at war with Al-Qaeda and its Al-Qaeda affiliates all around the globe," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said that the US was not fighting the last Iraq war and used similar language to Earnest.
"But make no mistake, we know we are at war with ISIL in the same way we're at war and continue to be at war with Al-Qaida and its affiliates," he said.
Obama is scheduled to be in Tampa, Florida Wednesday to receive a briefing from top commanders at US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East.
In interviews on Thursday, as Kerry toured the Middle East building an anti-IS coalition, he was reluctant to use the term "war" in referring to the US campaign, telling people not to indulge in "war fever."
"I think 'war' is the wrong terminology and analogy but the fact is that we are engaged in a very significant global effort to curb terrorist activity," Kerry said.
- 'Different' from last war -
The dispute over wording may seem trivial when American planes and drones have been pounding Islamic State targets in Iraq for weeks in more than 160 operations.
But it indicates the administration is skittish about using language that could alarm Americans weary of years of foreign conflict and who embraced Obama's vow to "end" the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during two presidential election campaigns.
"The first thing that's important for people to understand is the president has made clear how the strategy that he is pursuing in Iraq and Syria to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL is different than the strategy that was pursued in the previous Iraq War," said Earnest on Friday.
Obama's new strategy, announced in a prime-time televised address on Wednesday, expands US air strikes in Iraq against IS and envisages new action against the group in Syria.
In addition, Obama plans to train "moderate" Syrian rebels to take on IS and to reconstitute the Iraqi army, parts of which fled an IS blitzkreig across northern and western Iraq.
But he has insisted that there will be no deployments of US ground troops in the operation -- especially none that would recall the vast US land armies that were targeted by insurgents in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The debate over the word "war" is only the latest verbal kerfuffle to hamper Obama's attempts to clarify his increasingly under-fire foreign policy.
Two weeks ago, the president sparked a political storm by admitting he did not "yet" have a strategy for combating IS in Syria after the beheading of two US journalists.
Critics also accused the administration of seeking to "manage" the problem of Al-Qaeda rather than seeking to decimate it.
On Wednesday, Obama said that his goal was to "destroy" IS.
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TOP NEWS: DJ apologizes to family of British nurse who killed self after 'royal' prank call
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| Australian DJ Mel Greig leaves the High Court in London September 12, 2014. REUTERS/Daniel Leal-Olivas |
LONDON (Reuters) - An Australian DJ who hoaxed a London hospital treating Prince William's wife Kate made an emotional apology on Friday to the family of the nurse who killed herself days after she answered the prank call.
Indian-born Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was found hanging in December 2012, three days after she answered the call from DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian in which they had pretended to be Queen Elizabeth and William's father, Prince Charles.
Saldanha put the call through to another nurse who disclosed details of Kate's condition during treatment for acute morning sickness she was suffering in the early stages of pregnancy with son Prince George, leading to headlines around the world.
At the inquest into her death, Coroner Fiona Wilcox said the hoax was "clearly pressing on her mind" when Saldanha stunned family, friends and colleagues by committing suicide in her hospital lodgings.
Greig voluntarily flew over from Australia to attend the inquest at London's Royal Courts of Justice, and the coroner allowed her to make a statement after the court ruled Saldanha took her own life.
"I am so deeply sorry for your loss. I have wanted to say this to you for so long," a tearful Greig said directly to Saldanha's husband and two children. 
"This tragedy is always going to stay with me," she added, weeping as she returned to her seat near the family.
The hoax call was made to the Edward VII hospital at about 5:30 a.m. London time when Saldanha, in her role as night sister, was the most senior figure in the hospital and so dealt with any external calls.
It was followed by four more calls from the 2Day FM station seeking permission to broadcast it, which Wilcox said were almost certainly also answered by Saldanha.
"If Miss Saldanha did take those calls I find it inconceivable that she would have consented ... to its broadcast," she said.
The two-day inquest heard Saldanha sent emails to colleagues and senior managers in which she repeatedly apologized and blamed herself for the incident. Hospital protocol was that she should have hung up, even if the queen herself had phoned, to verify the caller's identity.
ASHAMED
"I don't know how to face the bosses tomorrow," she wrote in one email to another night sister which was read to the court. "I feel so ashamed of myself."
The day before the prank call, Saldanha had also learned that a grievance, taken out against her by a junior nurse she had been mentoring over accusations of bullying, had not been upheld.
However, Saldanha's husband of 19 years, Benedict Barboza, said on Thursday his wife had been her usual happy, bubbly self before the incident. He said she was not suffering from stress and had no history of depression.
"The hoax call was clearly pressing upon her mind as were the difficulties she had experienced with her colleague," said Coroner Wilcox. The hospital said there was no question of disciplinary action and Wilcox accepted the support given to Saldanha by the hospital had been appropriate.
She said her suicide had come as a "complete and total surprise" to all and said her ruling could not apportion any criminal or civil liability. Last year, British prosecutors said the two DJs would face no criminal charges over the death.
"To fellow announcers and DJs, I urge you to speak up if don't feel comfortable and to consider the feelings of others when trying to make a joke," Greig said in her court statement. "The joke should always be on us, the DJs."
The inquest was held just days after it was announced that William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their second child, with the duchess once again suffering acute morning sickness.
"We would like to thank the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who publicly and privately have supported the family and always been of concern for their welfare," British lawmaker Keith Vaz, who has been representing the family, told reporters.
(Editing by Alison Williams)
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SHOCKING NEWS: Woman found in Massachusetts home with dead babies may be mentally ill: lawyer
BLACKSTONE Mass. (Reuters) - A 31-year-old Massachusetts woman found living with the bodies of three dead infants in a rodent-infested house in a quiet suburb may be suffering from mental illness, her court-appointed lawyer said on Friday.
The woman, Erika Murray, did not speak during her brief appearance at Worcester District Course in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where a not-guilty plea was entered on her behalf to a series of criminal charges.
Murray, handcuffed and dressed in a striped blue sweater, stared blankly as a judge ordered her held without bail pending trial. The charges include fetal death concealment, witness intimidation and animal cruelty.
Neighbors expressed shock near the beige, one-story home in Blackstone, Massachusetts, about 40 miles southwest of Boston, where police found the bodies of three young infants and the skeletal remains of several animals.
The house, where some windows were open on Friday and the front door was blocked with a cross of red hazard tape, held stacks of garbage and dirty diapers that in places were a foot deep, according to the Blackstone Police Department.
The ages and gender of the deceased infants found at the home have not been made public. Previously, four other children had been removed from the home and taken into state custody.
"Investigators can't go into that house without hazmat suits. She was living in that house. Who would be living in that house unless they were mentally ill?" her court-appointed attorney, Keith Halpern, told reporters.
Lisa McAdam, 52, said she passed Murray's house regularly on her daily walks through the town of 9,000 people on the border with Rhode Island and had never suspected anything amiss.
"When I heard what happened, what can you say? It's just awful that happened to little kids," said McAdam, who works at a nearby theater. "How can you just sit in that filth?"
The judge did not order the woman to undergo a mental health examination, but Halpern said that could take place privately.
Police were first called to the house, a short walk from the town police department, last month after crying children were reported there. They found four children, ranging in age from three months to 13 years, who were taken into state custody.
Two of the children, aged 10 and 13, were determined to be Murray's, police said, but no birth records have been found for the two younger children.
A block from Murray's home, Sarah Martin, 29, was watering her neat garden as her two-year-old daughter picked flowers.
"It's not the sort of thing that anyone expects to happen," Martin said. She said she did not find the two-week gap between the state's first visit to the house and the discovery of the bodies terribly worrying.
"I imagine that they wanted to do all they could for the living children first," Martin said.
Murray could face up to 10 years in state prison if convicted of the most serious charge she faces, intimidation of a witness.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Susan Heavey and James Dalgleish)
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TOP NEWS: More news update from Islamic State extremists
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A screen grab taken from a video released on July 1, 2014, allegedly shows members of the Islamic State parading on top of a tank in the Syrian city of Raqa (AFP Photo/)  |
POLITICS BUSINESS: Germany bans Islamic State in bid to stop attacks, recruitment
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| German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the budget debate in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in Berlin, September 10, 2014. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) |
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany announced a ban on Islamic State on Friday, saying it aimed to prevent the militants from recruiting young jihadists in Germany, especially via the internet, or from using combat-hardened fighters returning to Europe to carry out attacks.
Coinciding with the launch of a broad U.S. campaign against the Sunni militants, which could include air strikes in Syria as well as Iraq, Germany introduced an immediate ban making all IS propaganda, symbols and activities illegal.
To help counter IS military gains in Iraq, Chancellor Angela Merkel has broken with Germany's post-war policy of not sending arms to war zones and has begun to send weapons and equipment to Iraqi Kurds fighting the militants.
"The terrorist organization Islamic State is a threat to public safety in Germany as well," said Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, estimating that over 400 Germans have joined IS in Iraq and Syria and about 40 have died, some in suicide attacks.
More than 100 jihadists are back in Germany including "some with combat experience who have learned to hate", he said.
"We don't know what they are doing, but it could be that they will carry out attacks," said De Maiziere, citing the case of a returning French jihadist arrested in connection with an attack on a Jewish museum in Belgium in May.
Islamic State runs aggressive German-language recruitment campaigns on social media "to get young women and men to join the jihad and fight and murder", the minister said.
But security services alone cannot stop the radicalization of young Muslims, de Maiziere said, urging "parents, siblings, neighbors and friends" to help. He praised the main Muslim community groups for standing up to the "barbaric" organization.
(Reporting by Stephen Brown; Editing by Dominic Evans)
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