Nigeria gosple musician yinka Ayefele reflect back on the accident that put him on wheelchair...but say Thank you God

A lot of people don’t know the full story behind the Yinka Ayefele accident, but I’ll give you a little insight.17 years after a major accident that affected his two legs, gospel artist Yinka Ayefele continues to thank God for saving his life.This morning he took to his Facebook page to share pictures from the accident, as well as a picture of himself before the accident.He also shared pictures from a family thanksgiving gathering as well as a message with his fans.He wrote:REJOICE AND THANK GOD WITHME. the journey started exactly 17yrs ago, it was on Friday December 12th 1997. On my way to Abeokuta where I had that ghastly motor accident. it was indeed MY TURNING POINT. “ODUNMBAKU” I will for ever be grateful to you my Lord. Thank youall for your love, support and encouragement. When there is life there ishope.at the end all I can say is thank you Lord

The beauty of africa wedding.....it awesome to behold

There are numerous activities and event being held on Africa soil and one of such is the popular wedding ceremony which has always be one of numerous way of showcasing the dynamisms of Africa beauty both moderately and extremely wise be it positive or negative . In Africa wedding settings one common truth is that there is never a dull moment and the climax nomally happens at the reception after the marriage vows might have taking place earlier, either in the church, registry or mosque. research shows that there is always a large turnout of people during wedding reception as most people prefers to attend reception were merriment is at it peak, and also because of the glamour involved in terms of celebration and excitement thruly enjoyment as no limit as new dancing steps is being discovered such as the updown acrobash contoto as seen in the pics above....so goes the popular slogan...in Africa if you miss church, registry or mosque wedding you have not miss much but if you miss reception ceremony u never attend wedding at all....in Africa there is never a dull moment

Buhari wins APC primaries

Former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari has emerged the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the party’s presidential primaries that held in Lagos from December 10 – December 11.At the end of delegates’ voting on Thursday, Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, scored a total of 954 votes out of the 7214 ballots.Publisher of The Leadership, Sam Nda-Isaiah had 10 votes. Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso scored 974 votes.Former Head of State, Buhari scored 3,430votes, 47.55 percent of total votes to win the widely followed presidential primaries.

Champions league update: Man City goes through Mancity 2 v As Roman 0

Samir Nasri's second-half thunderbolt and Pablo Zabaleta's late goal secured Manchester City a precious victory in Rome that sealed their place in the last 16 of the Champions League.The Frenchman's 60th-minute strike from 20 yards flicked Morgan De Sanctis' near post before nestling in thecorner and he ran off to celebrate with City's travelling supporters at the Olimpico.Argentine defender Zabaleta then addeda second in the 87th minute to put the icing on the cake for City in Italy. The victory meant Manuel Pellegrini's side finished second in Group E on eight points behind leaders Bayern Munich, who beat CSKA Moscow 3-0 at the Allianz Arena on match day six.There were some nervy moments for City towards the end as they hung onto a crucial win, and they were happy to see Manolas' header in the 71st minute cannon back off the post rather than hit the back of the net. City were without injured captain Vincent Kompany and top scorer SergioAguero for the key clash in Rome, while midfielder Yaya Toure was suspended.But the Premier League champions followed up on their dramatic win over Bayern at the Etihad last time out to move into the knock-out rounds of the Champions League.With Bayern's victory over Russian side CSKA Moscow, City could have affordedto concede a late equaliser and still qualified, but they remained firm and held out for a clean sheet.

complete story on how bin laden location was found

Did waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques that were used on al Qaeda detainees in CIA custody eventually lead to the Navy SEAL operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan early in the morning of May 2, 2011?The Senate Intelligence Committee report releasedTuesday has a simple answer to that: Hell, no!According to the Senate report, the critical pieces of information that led to discovering the identity of the bin Laden courier, Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, (Ahmed the Kuwaiti) whose activities eventually pointed the CIA to bin Laden's hiding place in Pakistan, were provided by an al-Qaeda detainee before he was subjected to CIA coercive interrogation, and was based also upon information that was provided by detainees that were held in the custody of foreign governments. (The report is silent on the interesting question of whether any of these unnamed foreign governments obtained any of their information by using torture.)Further critical information about the Kuwaiti was also provided by conventional intelligence techniques and was not elicited by the interrogations of any of the CIA detainees, according to the report.Even worse for the CIA -- which has consistently defended the supposed utility of the interrogation program, including in the hunt for bin Laden -- a number of CIA prisoners who were subjected to coercive interrogations consistently provided misleading information designed to wave away CIA interrogators from the bin Laden courier who would eventually prove to be the key to finding al Qaeda's leader.The Senate report provides the fullest accounting so far of the exact sequence of intelligence breaks that led the CIA to determine that the courier, the Kuwaiti, was likely to be living with bin Laden in Pakistan.This reads more like a careful Agatha Christie detective story than a story about the efficacy of coercive interrogations, which some have characterized as torture.The report points out that the courier was in touch with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the operational commander of the 9/11 attacks, and that it was SIGINT (signals intelligence) from phones and email traffic that made this link first in 2002, well before any CIA detainees made such a connection.Indeed, in a fascinating footnote, the report makes the case that it was "voice cuts" of the courier that were first collected in 2002 that were matched eight years later to the Kuwaiti and were"geolocated" to an area of Pakistan in 2010 where he was traveling around. This was a crucial lead that helped prompt the CIA to examine the mysterious compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden was hiding.In 2002, reports from four different detainees held by foreign governments provided important information about the courier's age, physical appearance and family, information that was also acquired prior to any information about the courierbeing obtained from CIA detainees. Detainees heldby foreign governments also said that the courier was close to bin Laden.It was Hassan Ghul, an al Qaeda operative captured in Iraqi Kurdistan, who provided the mostdetailed account of bin Laden's courier and his relationship to bin Laden in January 2004, before he entered CIA custody.According to a CIA official cited in the report, Ghul,who was in Kurdish custody, "sang like a tweetie bird. He opened up right away and was cooperative from the outset."Ghul described the courier as bin Laden's "closest assistant" and "one of three individuals likely to be with" al Qaeda's leader. And he correctly surmised that bin Laden would have minimal security and"likely lived in a house with a family somewhere in Pakistan."If there was good intelligence coming from sources that were not in CIA custody, the Senate report demonstrates that the detainees who were in CIA custody and were subjected to coercive interrogations made every effort to hide the significance of bin Laden's courier.Five of the most senior al-Qaeda detainees in CIA custody, all of whom were subjected to some of the most intensive coercive interrogation techniques, variously said that the courier worked only with low level members of al Qaeda; that he was not a courier for bin Laden; that he wasn't close to al Qaeda's leader, and that he was focused only on his family following his marriage in 2002. None of this, of course, was true.The CIA, of course, is not happy about the portrayal of its work in the Senate report, and in a rebuttal on its website on Tuesday the agency pushed back, saying that detainees "in combination with other streams of intelligence" played a role in finding bin Laden.In particular the CIA cites a detainee, Ammar al-Baluchi, who was coercively interrogated and provided what it terms the first information indicating that the Kuwaiti was indeed bin Laden's courier, rather than just someone who was an ordinary member of al Qaeda.The CIA rebuttal is not, however as persuasive as the very detailed history laid out in the Senate report, which is buttressed by copious source notes.And, in any event, were interrogations of al Qaeda detainees really the key to how bin Laden ultimately was found? After all, it still took almost a decade after the first identification of the courier to find bin Laden.Indeed, there were a number of key breaks that had little to do with the interrogations of al Qaeda detainees, which I discovered in the course of reporting my book "Manhunt."A large break, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials, came in 2007, when a foreign intelligence service that they won't identify told the CIA that theKuwaiti's real name was Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed.It would still take three more years for the CIA to find Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed in Pakistan, a country with a population of 180 million. This involved painstaking work going through reams of phone conversations to try to locate him through his family and circle of associates.In June 2010, the Kuwaiti and his brother both made changes in the way they communicated on cell phone, which suddenly opened up the possibility of the "geolocation" of both their phones, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials.Finally, sometime in the late summer of 2010, the Kuwaiti received a call from an old friend in the Persian Gulf, a man whom U.S. intelligence officials were monitoring. "We've missed you. Where have you been?" asked the friend. The Kuwaiti responded elliptically. "I'm back with the people I was with before." There was a tense pause in the conversation as the friend mulled over that response. Likely realizing that the Kuwaiti was back in bin Laden's inner circle, the caller replied after some hesitation, "May God facilitate."The CIA took this call as a confirmation that the Kuwaiti was still working with al Qaeda, a matter that officials were still not entirely sure about.The National Security Agency was listening to this exchange and through geolocation technologies was able to zero in on the Kuwaiti's cell phone in northwestern Pakistan. But the Kuwaiti practiced rigorous operational security and was always careful to insert the battery in his phone and turn iton only when he was at least an hour's drive away from the Abbottabad compound where he and bin Laden were living. To find out where the Kuwaiti lived by monitoring his cell phone would only go so far.In August 2010, a Pakistani "asset" working for theCIA tracked the Kuwaiti to the crowded city of Peshawar, where bin Laden had founded al Qaeda more than two decades earlier. In the years when bin Laden was residing in the Abbottabad compound, the Kuwaiti would regularly transit though Peshawar, as it is the gateway to the Pakistani tribal regions where al Qaeda had regrouped in the years after 9/11.Once the CIA asset had identified the Kuwaiti's distinctive white Suzuki SUV with a spare tire on its back in Peshawar, the CIA was able to follow him as he drove home to Abbottabad, more than two hours' drive to the east.The large compound where the Kuwaiti finally alighted immediately drew interest at the agency because it didn't have phone or Internet service, which implied its owners wanted to stay off the grid.Soon, some CIA officials would come to believe that bin Laden himself was living there.

pictures from APC primaries

The APC Presidential Primaries is currentlygoing at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.There are reports that 12 APC governors have endorsed Buhari. The governors are:Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers). See mor

Photos: Malala Yousafzai receives her Noble Peace Prize

17 year old Pakistani girl rights activis lala Yousafzai received her Nobel PeacePrize today Dec. 10th at the city hall in Oslo, Norway. She won the award in October alongside Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi. Receiving her award, Malala said"I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls. I am pretty certain that I am also the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize who still fights with her younger brothers". More pics from the ceremony
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