After decades of evading the authorities with almost mythic agility, New York's Eastern District has finally pinned Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán down in a lower Manhattan jail. The Sinaloa cartel kingpin faces what U.S. Attorney Robert L. Capers called "a 17-count, sweeping indictment," including drug distribution, money laundering and most broadly, "leading a continuing criminal enterprise" – which covers his activity from 1989 to present day. If charged with that alone, he faces a mandatory minimum of life in prison.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Thursday, January 26, 2017
LeBron James and Cavs owner Dan Gilbert's relationship is reportedly 'straining' over how much the team is spending
LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert are at odds over the team's spending on payroll, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst.
James, who on Monday publicly blasted the Cavs' roster for not being deep enough, reportedly believes that the team has slowed "new spending" after winning a championship last year.
According to Windhorst, James' public criticisms "angered" Gilbert, who spent an NBA record $161 million in payroll and luxury tax last season and has spent the most of any NBA team over the past three seasons.
The dispute over the Cavs' payroll is reportedly "straining" James and Gilbert's relationship.
According to Windhorst, when James returned to the Cavaliers in 2014, he spoke to Gilbert about his willingness to spend unconditionally to build a championship contender. Gilbert agreed, and James joined the team.
STANDOFF: Mexico's president cancels meeting with Trump
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday canceled his meeting next week with President Donald Trump after Trump warned he should not visit Washington, DC, if Mexico was "unwilling to pay" for a wall on its shared border with the US.
"This morning we have informed the White House that I will not attend the meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with the @POTUS," Peña Nieto tweeted, according to an online translation.
The cancellation of the meeting came after Trump tweeted that Peña Nieto should not meet with him unless Mexico was willing to finance the massive construction project.
"The U.S. has a 60 billion dollar trade deficit with Mexico," Trump wrote on Twitter. "It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers of jobs and companies lost."
Trump continued: "If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting."
Oil subsidy fraud: Court jails Ontario Oil MD 10 years, orders refund of N754m to FG
Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced the Managing Director of Ontario Oil and Gas Limited, Mrs. Ada Ugo-Ngali, to a jail term of 10 years for a fuel subsidy fraud of N754m.
The judge ordered the refund of the N754m to the Federal Government.
Justice Okunnu had on January 13, 2017 convicted Ugo-Ngali, Ontario Oil and Gas Limited and its Chairman, Mr. Walter Wagbatsoma of eight counts pressed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes.
The judge had been unable to pass the sentence on the judgment day as Ugo-Ngali slumped in court after being convicted and just before the judge could pass the sentence.
A doomsday asteroid will hit Earth next month and trigger devastating mega-tsunamis, claims conspiracy theorist
Last year Nasa detected an object, that could be a comet or an asteroid, on a path towards Earth.
The space agency has said the mysterious object will safely pass Earth at a distance of nearly 32 million miles (51 million kilometres) on February 25th.
But one self-proclaimed astronomer has come up with an alternative theory, suggesting the asteroid will crash into Earth on February 16th and trigger a mega-tsunami, according to reports.
Last year Nasa detected an object, that could be a comet or an asteroid, on a path towards Earth. One self-proclaimed astronomer has come up with an alternative theory, suggesting the asteroid will crash into Earth and trigger a mega-tsunami
Male student (Yakubu Muhammad Fannami) sacrifice his life to protect over hundred Muslims targeted by a female suicide bomber in Borno
A student of Darussalam Science and Islamic Academy, Yakubu Muhammad Fannami, died after he sacrificed his life to protect the lives of hundreds of Muslims worshiping at a mosque at Kaleri Borno state who were been targeted by a female suicide bomber.
According to the announcement which was posted on his school's Facebook page, he fought a suicide bomber who trying to force her self into the mosque in order to detonate the explosive device she was carrying. Read what they wrote after the cut...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Trump's executive order on immigration includes a plan to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by 'aliens'
President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order on immigration includes a plan for sanctuary cities to publish a list of crimes committed by "aliens" on a weekly basis.
Under a section on "Sanctuary Jurisdictions," the executive order called for the Department of Homeland Security to put out a "comprehensive list" of crimes committed by "aliens" weekly.
The section of the executive order read:
Brazil yellow fever outbreak kills 40
Public health officials in Brazil are working to stop an outbreak of yellow fever that has killed at least 40 people from becoming an epidemic and urged people in nine states on Thursday to seek vaccinations.
The Health Ministry said 70 cases of the fever and 40 deaths have been confirmed in the outbreak, centered in rural areas of the state of Minas Gerais, and another 47 deaths and 368 suspect cases are under investigation.
That is up from just seven cases last year and the highest number since 2003.
The call for people to get inoculated in nine out of Brazil's 26 states caused public health centers to run out of vaccines as residents of those states rushed to get a shot.
The outbreak roughly covers an area of western Minas Gerais that was hit by Brazil's worst environmental disaster last year when a tailings dam collapsed at the Samarco iron ore mine co-owned by BHP Billiton and Vale SA, polluting the Rio Doce river and heavily impacting the local ecosystem.
Mary Tyler Moore, Star of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' Dies at 80
Mary Tyler Moore, the Oscar-nominated actress best known for her roles in the television sitcoms "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show," has died. She was 80.
"Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine," her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, told ABC News. "A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile."
Moore's portrayal of the single career woman Mary Richards in her eponymous 1970s show arrived alongside the Women's Movement, making her a role model for generations of women, even though Moore didn't consider herself a feminist. The show, which centered on Richards' work as a producer in a fictional Minneapolis newsroom and her life as a single woman, earned 29 Emmy Awards, the most for any scripted series until "Frasier" won its 30th Emmy.
TRUMP: HERE COMES THE WALL
President Donald Trump said he aims to start construction of the wall along the US border with Mexico within months.
He told ABC News' David Muir in an interview published Wednesday that he wanted construction to begin as soon as possible. When Muir asked whether that meant construction would start within months, Trump said, "I would say in months, yeah.
"Certainly planning is starting immediately," Trump said.
Trump on Wednesday at the Department of Homeland Security signed two executive orders related to immigration and the construction of the wall.
When asked whether American taxpayers would pay for the wall, Trump said that the money would "come out of what's happening with Mexico."
5 Warning Signs Your Business Is About To Fail
It is never easy to run a business because you have to give up a lot of things to ensure its smooth running. There will be times when it may seem everything is going fine but unknown to you are not achieving your business’s mission and objectives. Therefore, it is important for you to looking for warning signs that your business is going off tangent or is failing. Jumia travel shared some of them.
You have not spoken interacted with any customer
After your amazing effort ensuring the smooth management of your business for over a month and you have not spoken to any customer or a customer have not patronized you, there must be something wrong. Perhaps, you should rethink your marketing strategy. For this, you can use social media. You don’t need to break the bank.
Cristiano Ronaldo taken home in ambulance
Cristiano Ronaldo had to be taken home in an ambulance, after a jinxed trip to a ski resort near Madrid with his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez.
The Real Madrid forward went with his new £260,000 Lamborghini.However, the fun did not last long, as a tow truck had to remove his luxury sports car, after Ronaldo had to stop the vehicle because of wrist problems.
The incident reportedly took place around 6pm on Sunday, at the ski resort of Navacerrada near Madrid.
Informalia, quoting “well-placed sources”, said sudden wrist pain forced the footballer to park up on a roundabout and call for help.Ronaldo played in Madrid’s 2-1 win over Malaga on Saturday with his right wrist bandaged, after suffering a knock in training the day before.
Police and the local ambulance service were not available to comment on the reports, which have been widely picked up by other Spanish media.
After 2 days of controversial executive actions, Trump goes on tweetstorm about CNN and Chicago 'carnage'
President Donald Trump's personal Twitter account published some threatening and critical tweets Tuesday night, most notably a warning that he would "send in the feds" unless Chicago "fixes its carnage."
In the span of about 20 minutes, the account tweeted messagespraising Fox News while criticizing CNN, threatening to "send in the feds" to Chicago in response to the city's crime problem, and touting Trump's plans for national security.
The tweets about Chicago followed comments from the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who said Monday that Trump should get over his fixation with the size of the audience that witnessed his inauguration.
Missing Person Have you seen this lady?
The family of a 22-year-old lady has declared her missing when she failed to return home after going for a medical check-up.
The family of a 22-year-old lady, Theresa Omowunmi Olofinku has been thrown into confusion and disarray after she went missing on her way to a hospital to treat an ailment.
According to the family, Theresa has been missing since Thursday, January 12, 2017, after she left her family home in the Igando area of Lagos State, and was on her way to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), her routine medical check-up.
A family member who says the case of a missing person has been reported to the police and the Directorate of State Service (DSS), noted that since Theresa left home, her phone has been switched off and no one could tell her whereabouts.
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