Baby factory raided in Nigeria

It has been reported that a baby factory which was located in Nigeria has been discovered and raided. According to sources.......

"We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor," said Bala Hassan, police commissioner for Abia state in the country's southeast.

"We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes."

Some of the girls told police they had

been offered to sell their babies for between 25,000 and 30,000 naira (192 dollars) depending on the sex of the baby.
The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything from 300,000 naira to one million naira (1,920 and 6,400 dollars) each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
The girls were expected to be transferred to the regional NAPTIP offices in Enugu on Wednesday, the regional head Ijeoma Okoronkwo told AFP.
Hassan said the owner of the "illegal baby factory" is likely to face child abuse and human trafficking charges. Buying or selling of babies is illegal in Nigeria and can carry a 14-year jail term.
"We have so many cases going on in court right now," said Okoronkwo.
In 2008, police raids revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby "farms" or "factories" in the local press.
Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour in plantations, mines, factories or as domestic help.
Others are sold into prostitution while a few are either killed or tortured in black magic rituals. NAPTIP says it has also seen a trend of illegal adoption.
"There is a problem of illict adoption and people not knowing the right way to adopt children," said Okoronkwo.
Human trafficking is ranked the third most common crime after economic fraud and drug trafficking in the country, according to UNESCO.



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25 Year Old African To Head French Fashion House 'Balmain'

French born African designer Oliver Rousteing has made news (and probably history) for being  the youngest person to be appinted creative director/ head of an acclaimed fashion house. He is also the first designer of African descent to do this.

 Born in France and

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raised in Bourdeaux, he holds a degree from the Parisian fashion school ESMOD (l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts et techniques de la Mode) and has been in charge of the womenswear design at the label. Prior to his appointment  he was relatively unknown but has worked at Balmain since 2009.

 Before joining Balmain he spent five years at acclaimed fashion house Roberto Cavalli. Oliver will take over from former Balmain designer Christopher Decarnin. 

Zimbabwean Police Sergeant, Jailed For Using President Robert Mugabe's Toilet

 

  As the Guardian reports, Alois Mabhunu, a homicide detective in the western city of Bulawayo, was imprisoned on suspicion of invading the presidential privy after using a toilet reserved for President Robert Mugabe. The incident occurred at the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).
The Guardian quotes local radio station VOP as reporting:
"Mabhunu, due to the call of nature, rushed to the toilets reserved for Mugabe and his guest Ekra, but was
stopped by other officers guarding the toilets," VOP said.
"Under intense pressure from the call of nature, the officer forced his way in and managed to relieve himself. He was arrested on 7 May after a report was made to Mugabe's security men and to senior police officers in the city."
Mabhunu has been held in a police detention barracks in the two weeks since his arrest, and was due to appear at a May 27 disciplinary hearing.

Pius Anyim appointed Secretary To The Government

Former senate president  Ayim Pius Ayim has been announced as the new Secretary

to the government of Nigeria.Anyim’s appointment was announced, Monday, in Abuja.

Anyim,was Senate President under Obasanjo from 2000 to 2003.

Picture Of The Day ....... Rapper Drake's Dad

The guy in the blue shirt is Canadian born rapper Drake's biological dad. He is also a musician and his name is Dennis Graham

Singer Sean Kingston Involved In Accident

Jamaican born musician Kisean Anderson popularly known as Sean Kingston has been rushed to the hospital. The 21 year old and an unidentified female sustained injuries after his Watercraft crashed into the bridge connecting Miami Beach's Palm Island with MacArthur Causeway on sunday May 29. The City of Miami Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and rushed the singer and the female to Jackson memorial hospital. The cause of the accident is not immediately known .

People Fell In Love With The Real Me............Alicia Keys

Singer Alicia Keys is in the latest issue of W magazine. In the interview she talks about the struggles she faced growing up, how she followed her own inspiration instead of listening to others when she was working on her debut album.......

We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn’t want to

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be all dressed up, all made up—I wanted to be myself, which hadn’t been done before.”

. “How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am?” she says. “People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.”

To commemorate Songs in A Minor’s 10th anniversary, Keys has assembled a deluxe edition featuring early demos, alternate takes, and live recordings from the era, including a classical medley and a sultry cover of “Light My Fire.” The package documents the five-year life of this landmark project, which covered most of the singer’s adolescence.

Keys—recently married to producer Swizz Beatz and, as of October, mother to a son, Egypt—recalls the struggle it took to capture the sound in her head and the frustration she felt at being pushed, over and over, toward a more conventional style. “I was a young girl with very strong ideas but no experience,” she says. “I just knew that everything else I was doing was wrong—that all the suggestions weren’t what was in my mind, they weren’t what it was meant to be.”

Ultimately, it took the almost unprecedented step of allowing her to produce her own music for the streetwise elegance of Songs in A Minor to emerge. (Still one of the few female producers in the business, Keys has since helmed sessions for the likes of Whitney Houston and Jennifer Hudson.) As difficult as the delays and setbacks were, Keys maintains that it was all worth it to make the music of which she dreamed.