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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday
expressed Nigeria’s condemnation of the
forceful seizure of power from the
transitional government of Burkina Faso by
the military.
Buhari, who frowned at the detention of the
Interim President, Prime Minister and other
ministers by the presidential guards since
Wednesday, demanded a return to the
transition timetable that had been planned to
culminate in presidential election next month.
An Aso Rock statement declared that “Buhari
and Nigeria align with  ECOWAS, the African
Union and the United Nations in rejecting the
brazen contravention of the constitution and
transitional charter of Burkina Faso by
elements of the Presidential Guard under the
leadership of General Gilbert Diendere.
“President Buhari and Nigeria urge the
Defense and Security Forces of Burkina
Faso to keep faith with the agreed
transitional programme for the  return of the
country to full democratic rule after
elections, which were due to be held in the
country on October 11, in support of which
Nigeria has donated 20 pick-up vans to the
National Electoral Commission of Burkina
Faso.
“While welcoming the news that the Interim
President, Mr. Michel Kafando has now been
freed, President Buhari and Nigeria also
demand the immediate release of Prime
Minister Isaac Zida and other detained
ministers.
“Nigeria will give the fullest possible support
to ongoing efforts by the ECOWAS mediatory
team of President Macky Sall of Senegal and
President Boni Yayi of Benin Republic to
quickly restore Burkina Faso to the path of
order, democracy and constitutionalism.”
The President further urged the people of
Burkina Faso to remain calm and steadfast
in support of the transitional order, elections
and democratic governance.
He assured them that Nigeria, ECOWAS and
the international community would uphold
their right to peace, freedom, democracy
and good governance.

Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate and its Islamist allies
have executed at least 56 regime troops at a
military airport they recently seized in the
northwest, a monitoring group said Saturday.
Al-Nusra Front and the Islamists shot dead the
regime fighters, who were being held as prisoners,
“execution-style” inside the Abu Duhur airport, said
Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights.
He said the killings in Idlib province had occurred
earlier this week but his monitoring group — which
gathers news from sources on the ground —
confirmed them on Saturday.
Al-Nusra is a leading member of an alliance of
jihadist and Islamist forces called the “Army of
Conquest” that overran the Abu Duhur military
airport on September 9.
When it overran the airbase, the Army of Conquest
killed dozens of regime loyalists and took others
captive.
The powerful coalition has seized almost all of Idlib
province except for Fuaa and Kafraya, two regime-
controlled villages inhabited by Shiite Muslims.
The Army of Conquest ramped up its assault on the
two villages on Friday, detonating at least nine car
bombs, seven of which were suicide bombers, the
Observatory said.
The attack left at least 21 regime loyalists and 17
Army of Conquest militants dead.
One of the suicide bombers managed to enter Fuaa
itself and killed seven civilians, including two
children, Abdel Rahman said.
Fierce clashes and heavy shelling on the two
villages continued on Saturday.
Fuaa, Kafraya and the rebel stronghold of Zabadani
in Damascus province were at the centre of two
failed attempts last month to secure broad
ceasefire deals.

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting
in Abuja has ordered the Nigeria Police and other
relevant security agencies in the country to arrest
the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
In a ruling earlier today, the tribunal headed by
Justice Danladi Umar issued a bench warrant
against Saraki following what it said is his refusal
to appear in court to face a 13-count criminal
charge that was preferred against him by the
Federal Ministry of Justice.
FG had through a deputy director in the office of the
Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. M.S.
Hassan, asked the tribunal to order Saraki’s arrest.
Saraki who was billed for arraignment this morning,
sent his team of lawyers to serve the tribunal with a
copy of the ruling of Justice Ahmed Mohammed of
the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court,
yesterday, which summoned the Ministry of Justice
to appear on Monday to show cause why the trial
should be allowed to proceed.
Equally summoned by the court were the Chairman
of the tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar and that of the
Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, as
well as Mr. Hassan who signed the charge against
Saraki.
Meanwhile, irked by Saraki’s absence at the
tribunal for the commencement of his prosecution
over alleged false declaration of assets, the
Ministry of Justice prayed the Justice Umar-led
panel to order for his arrest, saying “he cannot sit in
the comfort of his chamber and object to his trial in
absentia”.
The prosecution further maintained that Justice
Mohammed lacked the powers to summon the CCT
and CCB chairmen, even as it accused Saraki of
engaging in “forum shopping” in a desperate bid to
scuttle his trial.
Meanwhile, Saraki has through his lawyer, begged
the tribunal to consider his position as the Senate
President and stay the execution of the arrest
warrant, saying he would be available for trial on
Monday.
His plea was refused by Justice Umar who
maintained that the accused person, having sworn
to protect the constitution, ought to have shown
respect to the tribunal by appearing before it today.

The Rivers Police Command on Friday banned the use of siren by private individuals in the State.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt.

The statement said the ban forbids private individuals from using siren in the state.

‘’No private individual is allowed to use siren anywhere in the State.

‘’Bullion vans are also not allowed to use siren, except when piloted by police pilot vehicle,’’ it said.

According to the statement, top government officials- the President, Vice President, Senate President, Speaker House of Representatives and Inspector-General of police (IGP) were exempted from the ban.

Others include Governors, Service Chiefs, General Officer Commanding (GOCs), Assistant Inspector-General of Police and commissioner of police.

The statement added that ambulance vehicles and fire fighting vehicles were also exempted from the ban.

It said that command had given unauthorised users in the State seven days to comply with the directive or face arrest and prosecution. (NAN)

Nigeria’s Super Star John Mikel Obi welcomed twins some four hours ago.
Mikel on his Facebook page wrote
“My whole world in my arms  Welcome to the world my angels

The Nigeria Football Federation is satisfied
with the performance of the Golden Eaglets at
the 2015 edition of the Suwon invitational
tournament even as it has concluded plans to
give the team more friendly games before the
under-17 world cup starts in Chile on October
19.
Director technical in the football house
Emmanuel Ikpeme is confident that the team
can defend the world title won in 2013 if
properly prepared.
Nigeria is the defending champion of the
cadet world cup after beating Mexico to
claim a fourth title in the United Arab
Emirates.

Ahmed Mohamed will be transferring to another high
school, family spokesperson says
Police were notified about a suspected hoax bomb
and arrested the 14-year-old
It started a social media storm, which included an
invitation to the White House
(CNN)— The week started pretty terribly for Texas
high school student Ahmed Mohamed. On Monday,
the teen, who is Muslim, brought to school a clock
that he was proud to have made on his own and
was arrested for what police initially -- and falsely
-- said was a hoax bomb .
But by mid-week, his face and name were
splashed across traditional and social media, and
he'd received thousands of tweets and Facebook
posts of encouragement. President Barack Obama
invited him to the White House and praised his love
of science. Leaders at Reddit and Twitter offered
him internships . Google executives said they were
reserving Ahmed a spot at their weekend science
fair and MIT asked him to visit the campus.
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg invited him to
visit the company's headquarters, posting, "Having
the skill and ambition to build something cool should
lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to
people like Ahmed."
The hashtags #IStandWithAhmed and
#EngineersForAhmed garnered hundreds of
thousands of posts and tweets.
By Thursday, more details of the 14-year-old's
arrest in Irving, Texas, came to light.
In an interview late Wednesday with MSNBC's Chris
Hayes, Ahmed said he was pulled out of class at
MacArthur High School by his principal and five
police officers and taken to a room where he was
questioned for about an hour and a half.
He said he asked the adults if he could call his
parents.
"They told me 'No, you can't call your parents,'"
Ahmed said. "'You're in the middle of an
interrogation at the moment.' They asked me a
couple of times, 'Is it a bomb?' and I answered a
couple of times, 'It's a clock.'"
"I felt like I was a criminal," the teenager said. "I felt
like I was a terrorist. I felt like all the names I was
called."
Hayes asked what he meant.
In middle school, Ahmed said, he had been called
"bombmaker" and a "terrorist."
"Just because of my race and my religion," he said,
adding that when he walked into the room where he
was questioned, an officer reclined in a chair and
remarked, "That's who I thought it was."
"I took it to mean he was pointing at me for what I
am, my race," the freshman explained.
Ahmed is not going back to MacArthur -- he's
transferring to another school, his father Mohamed
Elhassan Mohamed said. The family has not yet
picked a new school for Ahmed, he said, and is
exploring options inside and outside of the country.
'Scared but happy now'
Mohamed, who immigrated to the United States
from Sudan, believes that his son was targeted
because of his brown skin color and his religion.
The teen has never been in trouble, Mohamed told
CNN. "My son's name is Mohamed -- people just
think Muslims are terrorists but we are peaceful,
we are not that way," he said.
He was furious that the school didn't contact him
right away to tell him his son had been arrested.
Instead, he first learned of what happened when
police called him.
Mohamed said he rushed to the station and saw his
son "surrounded by five police and he was
handcuffed."
The school later suspended Ahmed for three days,
his father said.
Mohamed said his son was at first embarrassed by
what happened, but then was lifted and emboldened
by the widespread support he has received.
Ahmed also appeared on ABC's "Good Morning
America" on Thursday.
"I was scared at the moment, but now I feel really
happy," he said. "I'm getting all this support from all
over the world. And the support isn't just for me but
for everyone who has been through this. I will fight
for you if you can't stand up for yourself."
He said he was most excited to hear from MIT. "I
dream of going there," he said.
And he's thrilled to go to the White House.
"I hope to see him soon," Ahmed said of Obama.
Irving police had held onto the clock as evidence,
but on Thursday, they told CNN that it's ready for
Ahmed to pick it up.
Asked what his plans for the future are, he told
GMA, "That clock was part of my future."

A 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested in Texas for
bringing a homemade clock to school has continued
to receive an outpouring of support from scientists,
politicians and celebrities.
Ahmed Mohamed has been invited to visit
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by a
professor who called him an "ideal student".
He also told ABC News he will accept an invitation
to the White House.
His arrest was sharply criticised and the charges
against him were dropped.
Ahmed hopes to one day attend MIT, one of the top
engineering universities in the US. He told ABC he
was more excited about the MIT tour than the White
House invitation.
Some of the biggest names in the world of science
have welcomed Ahmed with open arms.
Nasa, Google Science Fair, Space Camp USA and
astronaut Chris Hadfield were among those
applauding him for his ingenuity.
Officials at MacArthur High School in Irving alerted
police because they thought the device Ahmed built
was a "hoax bomb".
In a news conference on Wednesday, Ahmed said
he plans to transfer schools.
He told reporters it was "very sad" that his teacher
thought his clock was a threat.
"I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I
showed it to her she thought it was a threat to her.
I'm very sad that she got the wrong impression of
it."
Ahmed's father Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who
is originally from Sudan, praised his son's
ingenuity, saying he fixes everything around the
house, including his father's phone and computer.
"He's a very smart, brilliant boy and he said he just
wanted to show himself to the world," he said.
The police have rejected the claim made by
Ahmed's family that he was detained because of his
name.
"We have always had an outstanding relationship
with the Muslim community," Irving Police
Department chief Larry Boyd said on Wednesday.
"Incidents like this present challenges. We want to
learn how we can move forward and turn this into a
positive," Mr Boyd added.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations says it
is investigating the incident.
Under the hashtag #IstandwithAhmed , thousands of
Twitter users - including Nasa scientists, Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack
Obama - praised the boy's initiative and questioned
why he was detained.
"Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White
House? We should inspire more kids like you to like
science. It's what makes America great," Mr
Obama wrote on Twitter .

A three-year-old Iraqi boy has died in an accident
at a welcome party for refugees in western
Germany.
He was swinging on a rope hung between two large
flowerpots when one fell and crushed him, state
prosecutor Jost Schuetzeberg told Reuters news
agency.
Authorities in Eschweiler have ordered a post-
mortem examination but say there is no indication
of a criminal offence.
The boy and his family arrived there four weeks
ago after a journey of more than 4,000km (2,500
miles) from Iraq.
He was taken to hospital but later died of head
injuries, local media reported (in German).
The boy was attending the welcoming party,
organised by local citizens and aid groups, together
with his parents and his nine-year-old brother, city
spokesman Rene Costantini said.
"It was a very tragic accident," he said, adding that
the parents and the brother had been offered
psychological help.

19 year old Kendall Jenner made Forbes' list of
highest-paid models for the first time and she's the
youngest on the list. Kendall is the 8th highest paid
model with her $4 million earnings putting her just
behind top model Kate Moss. Gisele Bunchen, of
course, leads.
Check out the full list below:
1. Gisele Bundchen $44 million
2. Cara Delevingne $9 million
2. Adriana Lima $9 million
3. Doutzen Kroes $7.5 million
4. Natalia Vodianova $7 million
5. Miranda Kerr $5.5 million
5. Joan Smalls $5.5 million
6. Lara Stone $5 million
6. Alessandra Ambrosio $5 million
6. Candice Swanepoel $5 million
6. Karlie Kloss $5 million
7. Carolyn Murphy $4.5 million
7. Kate Moss $4.5 million
7. Liu Wen $4.5 million
7. Daria Werbowy $4.5 million
8. Kendall Jenner $4 million
9. Hilary Rhoda $3.5 million
9. Jourdan Dunn $3.5 million
9. Kate Upton $3.5 million
9. Anja Rubik $3.5 million
9. Edita Vilkeviciute $3.5 million

War on all fronts," thunders the headline in the
conservative daily newspaper, Magyar Nemzet - a
reference to both the battles between desperate
refugees and Hungarian riot police, and to
Hungary's deepening diplomatic isolation.
Csaba Lukacs, the paper's leader writer, depicts a
Hungary under attack from young, stone-throwing
Muslim men: "Hungary's border was besieged by
those who think they have the basic human right to
march across Europe without documents."
Many in Hungary agree with these sentiments.
In Roszke on the Serbian border, through which
tens of thousands of refugees have walked in
recent months, little remains of the refugee camp
constructed last weekend - just in time to help the
last of the migrants.
A few white humanitarian tents, 34 portable toilets,
and some people sifting through the rubbish for
anything of value.
But in the cornfields and sunflower fields nearby,
there are knapsacks, clothes, children's toys and
human excrement in every row. Many patches
where people slept or hid, or fled pursuing
policemen, have been flattened.
"I'm so glad this is all over," local farmer Zoltan
Varga told me, as he inspected his red peppers.
Some of the crop was trampled underfoot, he said,
as people ran through the fields. Some migrants
slept in his greenhouses and caused damage there.
He had watched Wednesday's police intervention at
the Roszke road crossing on television.
"The police acted correctly," he said. But he also
felt sorry for the families with children. "If they had
to come, why couldn't we lay on trains to take them
across the country?"
Hungarian police 'had little choice'
The clashes at the Roszke-Horgos border crossing
divide pro-government and opposition newspapers.
Magyar Idok, a paper launched recently by the
ruling Fidesz party, argues the "determination and
aggressiveness" of the migrants left Hungarian
police with little choice but to use water cannon.
Centre-right Magyar Nemzet says "the Hungarian
border was besieged by those who think that it's
their basic human right to march throughout Europe
without papers."
But centre-left Nepszabadsag reacts sarcastically
that "the strong Hungarian nation can breathe
freely. We no longer have anything to worry about".
And a commentator in centre-left Nepszava
remarks: "We can now get on with our everyday
Hungarian lives surrounded by barbed wire and
shunned by migrants, neighbours, brothers, pals,
close friends and investors."
The government has been anxiously watching
public opinion polls, and commissioning its own
private ones, for any sign of an improvement in
their popularity, which sank drastically last October.
An important factor in its handling of the crisis has
been the loss of a million supporters, and a surge in
the popularity of the radical nationalist Jobbik party,
which shares Fidesz's anti-migrant rhetoric.
The latest poll by the pro-government Szazadveg
think tank gave them some comfort, suggesting that
the popularity of Fidesz grew from 43% in June to
48% in September.
But those figures are challenged by Professor
Gabor Toka, a public opinion specialist at the
Central European University in Budapest.
"I haven't seen any evidence that would support the
claim that the government's handling of the refugee
crisis has increased its popularity," he told the BBC,
pointing to the results of five separate pollsters
since January.
From the opposition side, liberal weekly Magyar
Narancs depicted Prime Minister Viktor Orban with
a curly, Hitler-style moustache made of coils of
barbed wire - prompting a small demonstration
outside its offices by Orban loyalists.
The dispute has further polarised an already
deeply-divided society.

October 11th of this year was slated to hold a nationwide elections and move Burkina Faso into democratic government.Last year Former President Blaise Compare was removed in a coup after more than 27years of being head of state.
      A close ally of the former Burkina Faso President
Blaise Compaore lead a coup which has effectively
deposed the executive leadership of the country
yesterday. The coup, lead by General Gilbert
Diendere, detained interim President Michel Kafano
and interim Prime Minister Isaac Zida during a high
level cabinet meeting in Ouagadougou, the capital
of Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso citizens demonstrating against
military coup in 2015
Media has also reported that in addition to seizing
control of the executive functions of the state,
soldiers raided the offices of Radio Omega and set
them on fire. Radio Omega was central in reporting
events of the 2014 protests and subsequent coup.
The coup was officially confirmed early Thursday
morning when the military spokesman, Lt. Colonel
Mamadou Bamba, made a statement saying that
President Kafando has been removed from power
and the National Transitional Council, which has
been acting as Burkina Faso’s Parliament, has
been dissolved.
The new authorities, calling themselves the
National Counsel for Democracy, have sealed the
boarders of the country, cancelled flights, and
imposed a curfew on citizens.
There has been a wave of protests and
demonstrations across Burkina Faso with labor
unions calling nationwide strikes, and there have
been at least eight people admitted to the hospital
according to reporting by the New York Times.
The whereabouts of Michel Kafando and Isaac Zida
is not presently known. Fanny Noaro, a journalist
speaking with Al Jazeera in Ouagadougou,
confirmed that there “is no information about the
transitional president and prime minister and there
is no information if they are dead or alive.”
October 11th of this year was slated to hold
nationwide elections and move Burkina Faso into a
democratic government. Last year the former
President Blaise Compaore was removed in a coup
after more than 27 years of being head of state.
Members of the international community,
particularly France, have condemned this coup.
International and civil society groups are declaring
this a major setback for Burkina Faso’s democratic
progress.

Soul singer, songwriter and recording artist, Asa
is a year older today!
Born Bukola Elemide, Aṣa was born in Paris,
France to her Nigerian parents on the 17th of
September, 1982. Her family returned to live in
Nigeria when she was two. Aṣa grew up in
Alagbole, a border town in Ogun state near
Lagos, in the south-western part of Nigeria.
Twenty years later, Aṣa returned to Paris where
her life as an artist took off. Her stage name
“Aṣa” means “Hawk” in Yoruba.
Asa developed an interest and inspiration in
music following her fathers fine collection of
records featuring soul classics and Nigerian
music, including Marvin Gaye, Fela Kuti, Bob
Marley, Aretha Franklin, King Sunny Adé,
Ebenezer Obey and Lagbaja.
In 2004, Aṣa met her manager and friend, Janet,
who introduced her to Cobhams Emmanuel
Asuquo, who in turn became her musical
partner and producer.
The release of the album ‘ASA’ saw her win the
prestigious French Constantin Award in 2008,
where she was voted best fresh talent of 10
singers or groups by a jury of 19 music-industry
specialists in Paris.
Her second album, Beautiful Imperfection, was
released on 25 October 2010. The lead single
from Beautiful Imperfection is titled “Be My
Man” and was released in late September. A
video for the song was released in mid-October.
She also performed with Féfé at the Sydney
Festival in 2011.

Ex-beauty queen and rapper Munachi Abii
shared this lovely throwback picture on her
instagram page with a captivating caption to go
with it.
See throwback picture:
Read caption carefully below:

Hey baby girl, I know u had big dreams, I know
u wanted to fly so high,and love so deep, and
laugh so hard. You gave your attention to soo
many things at some point that you forgot what
you truly wanted. You hid your voice so deep
within for fear that that could also be taken from
you.but little did you know that you became
afraid of your own voice. you are so cute.
You choose to experience what you thought you
liked because you were looking for love and you
thought that was love.but it wasn’t.
The world has a judgement for that, but that’s
not you, only your experience. I don’t feel sorry
for you, I applaud you,for now you know what
you do not want. And it’s funny how that wind
has blown you closer to where you’ve always
wanted to be.
For I wouldn’t be here today if you didn’t go
through that, and I wouldn’t have met him or
met her. I believe you choose to go through it all
to find your voice, to find these words, to help
another & help yourself. You fish you.
One can’t speak of freedom with conviction if you
haven’t felt imprisoned by yourself first or by
another. This is your experience & I hold the
certificate for you. I am proud of you no matter
what.
However , I take no pride in self now because I
realize that I am nothing but clay, but my soul
is as deep, as wide , as clear and as blue as the
ocean( with a dash of seasoning).
You wanna see the world Munachi, but you are
the universe. Why focus on a piece of crumb
when you are the whole cake? Let’s look at that
shall we? Here’s a fun fact about the universe.
Nothing is impossible for it and everything it
chooses to become, it becomes. I have chosen to
show you the universe because you deserve it
and I love you. I love you more than enough for
the both of us.
So don’t look without for approval and
validation or attention or affection, I am looking
within, to you, because I love you, and I care
about you. So here’s to you Munachi . Let’s go on
this journey together & may our Nakama enjoy
this adventure as much as I. Peace and Love my
lovely one. & like Luffy would say… YOSH!!!
Ikimashō .

An Air Canada flight had a heating problem in the
cargo hold
That could have put Simba the French bulldog's life
in danger
(CNN)— Simba the French bulldog is probably alive
today because of the attentiveness of an Air
Canada pilot.
Simba was flying via Air Canada Flight 85 from Tel
Aviv to Toronto when the pilot noticed a problem
with the cargo area's heating system, according to
CNN Canadian affiliate City News. (Simba's owner,
German Kontorovich, was in the cabin with his
fellow humans.)
"As soon as the crew became aware of the
temperature issue, the captain grew rightfully
concerned for the dog's comfort and well-being,"
Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick told CNN
via email. "With the altitude it can become very
uncomfortable, and possibly the situation could
have been life-threatening if the flight had
continued."
The aircraft diverted to Frankfurt, Germany, where
Simba, age 7, was boarded onto another flight,
causing a delay of about 75 minutes for the original
flight's passengers.
"Frankfurt was a good choice due to proximity, the
fact there are multiple Air Canada flights (and
flights by our partner Lufthansa) to Canada each
day, and also because the airport can turn aircraft
quickly, meaning there would be little time on the
ground," said Fitzpatrick.
"While we recognize this was an inconvenience for
our customers, the overall reaction was positive,
particularly once people understood the dog was in
potential danger but safe as a result of the
diversion," he said.
Kontorovich was grateful for the pilot's decision.
"It's my dog, it's like (my) child. It's everything,"
he told City News after landing at Toronto Pearson
International Airport.
"It was definitely the right thing to do," a fellow
passenger said.
The diversion could cost the airline thousands of
dollars in fuel costs, aviation expert Phyl Durby
told City News, but he called it the right decision.
"The captain is responsible for all lives on board."