Jay Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Rihanna and Chris Brown are all being sued for alleged stealing of written songs.

Some of the music industry’s biggest names have been named in a more than $2 billion lawsuit!
Jay Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Rihanna and Chris Brown are all being sued by Richard Dupree, a prisoner in a California jail.

Dupree allegedly believes that the musician stole over 3000 songs he wrote while serving time. They reportedly spied on him via satellite. It is not clear which songs the prisoner is talking about.

U.S. Offers To Help Nigeria In Search For Abducted Students

By SaharaReporters

International focus remains on the fate of the abducted students still missing from a mass kidnapping at a state-run girls school in Northern Nigeria more than two weeks ago. Now, the Americans have offered to lend their assistance to Nigerian military forces in their own continued search.

The abduction took place on the night of April 15th when convoys of heavily armed troops, many wearing unmarked green colored military fatigues stormed the dormitories of the secondary school in Chibok, Borno State.

Developments since then have been murky, from the actual number of students taken at gunpoint, to claims by the Nigerian military of firefights of engaging the militants with claims of rescuing the more than 200 students. Those claims by the Nigerian forces were later recanted. About 40 of the students escaped with the remainder missing.

"We have been engaged with the Nigerian government in discussions on what we might do to help support their efforts to find and free these young women," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a daily briefing in Washington. "We will continue to have those discussions and help in any way we can."

It is unclear as to what the Americans may be offering in terms of assistance. In the circles of Washington politics it is also unclear if statements from one source will push one agency, or government body, to act.

Chibok Schoolgirls: Nigeria Police, SSS Say At Least 276 Still Missing -PREMIUM TIMES

By Ola' Audu

The Police and officials of the Department of State Security, otherwise called SSS, in Borno on Thursday came out with an increased fresh figures on the missing secondary school girls.

The security agencies said the total number of girls abducted and still unaccounted for stands at 276 as against the 234 figure being mentioned.
They said they have compiled an official list of kidnapped students, which is more authentic than that announced by the school management.
Parents of the abducted girls had last week told Borno Governor Kashim Shettima that 234 of their daughters had been discovered missing after they had all registered complaints with the school management.

The school principal had, however, told journalists during the governor’s visit to Chibok that 230 students were still missing with 43 accounted for. Most of those 43 escaped from their abductors, the principal had said.
The police and the SSS, however, addressed a joint press conference on Thursday at the headquarters of the Borno State Police Command.
The state police commissioner, Tanko Lawan, who also said 53 of the girls had escaped so far, explained that their figures were more reliable because they were carefully collated from various members of Chibok community and those in surrounding villages who confirmed not having their daughters back home since after the attack, even though he said the figures could even be more.

“It is really difficult to say the actual number of girls that were abducted. This is because, students from other secondary schools within the catchment area were deployed to GGSS Chibok to write their final year examinations due to the peculiar security challenges in Borno State,” the police boss said.
“The students were drawn from schools in Izge, Lassa, Ashigashiya and Warabe A. and that is why after the unfortunate incident, there were various flying numbers as to the actual number of girls that were taken away.

“The fact is that the number may likely change, especially when parents from some of the villages come forth and report the disappearance of their daughters. Most importantly, it is not the number that matters because all the girls are very important and we have to find them.
”There is serious collaboration between various security agencies at all levels towards rescuing the girls,” Mr. Lawan said.

He, therefore, called on parents and community leaders to submit names and identities of their missing daughters”.
The security agencies said efforts are being made to free the girls, even as they provided special telephone numbers “so that parents and well meaning Nigerians can call and give useful information that will lead to the rescue of the girls.”

He provided the numbers as+2348075897377; +23481777309; and
+2348036121490.

There has been widespread outrage since the kidnap of the girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14 by suspected members of the Boko Haram.

Protests have been held across the country to demand the release of the girls.

Chibok Abduction: Nigeria Military Surrenders Information Management to Borno State Government

By SaharaReporters, New York

Nigeria’s federal authorities on Monday surrendered to the government of Borno State its information responsibilities concerning the abducted Chibok girls.

In a curious statement, Defence Headquarters spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade, who famously made the false announcement two weeks ago that the girls had been rescued, and then rescinded it, said the Borno government “in whose facility the incident occurred” would now provide the public with regular briefing on the matter.

“Accordingly, security agencies on ground in Borno State will continue to interact and support the State Government officials in their efforts to inform the public on the Chibok incident and progress in the search without any prejudice,” he said. “The Nigerian Military has always subscribed to the importance of information flow to the public and will continue to sustain this policy in all its internal security operations.”

Borno and two other states have been under emergency rule in the past year, presumably swamped by federal security agencies, and the DHQ statement seemed to stand Nigeria’s constitutional structure on its head. “The security forces on ground in the state have been directed to coordinate with the State Government and provide them with necessary information on the search for the girls,” the statement said.

It is unclear how federal authorities will handle the supposed search for the girls, while the state government will brief the public about their progress, if any.



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Nigerian Pleads Guilty To Terror Charge In US Court - PM News, Lagos

By PM News, Lagos

A Nigerian has pleaded guilty in New York to charges he took part in a Yemen-based al-Qaida faction’s efforts to spread propaganda intended to encourage terror attacks.
Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi entered the plea on Tuesday to charges of providing material support to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. He faces up to 30 years in prison at his August sentencing in federal court in Brooklyn.
The 33-year-old Babafemi was extradited last year from Nigeria. U.S. prosecutors say he traveled to Yemen in 2010 to help the al-Qaida group recruit English speakers for its media operations.

The operations included publication of an online magazine for aspiring terrorists. The magazine has published recipes for homemade bombs and suggested targets in the United States and elsewhere.

The plea came ahead of a July 14 trial date.
Prosecutors said that, from January 2010 to August 2011, Babafemi traveled from Nigeria to Yemen twice to meet with leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP.
“The defendant traveled to Yemen to put himself at the disposal of a violent terrorist organization that has repeatedly demonstrated its determination to inflict bodily and economic harm on the United States and its citizens,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

The U.S. government said Babafemi worked on AQAP’s media operations, including the publication of its magazine, called “Inspire.”
The group’s leadership, including Anwar al-Awlaki, paid Babafemi almost $9,000 to recruit English-speaking people from Nigeria, prosecutors said. Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

An indictment unsealed in February 2013 charged Babafemi, also known as “Ayatollah Mustapha,” with four counts including conspiracy to provide material support to AQAP, and use of firearms.
U.S. District Judge John Gleeson scheduled sentencing for August 27. Babafemi faces a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Breaking News: President Jonathan Kick-off 2015 Re-Election Campaign In Defiance Of INEC's Embargo when 223 innocents student are kidnapped by Terrorist

In what could be described as the gross violation of the electoral law, President Goodluck Jonathan today kicked off his re-election campaign ahead of 2015 general elections under the guise of “peace rally” organized by the “Goodluck Initiative for Transformation” in Abuja.

The rented crowd gathered at the unity Fountain near Transcorp Hilton Hotel with campaign posters and banners of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The procession of the rally that passed through Federal Secretariat with tight security provided by the Nigeria Police, ironically, the protester enjoyed full police protection at the same spot where the protest striking Polytechnic lecturers was disrupted on Tuesday with tears gas and water cannons by the police.

During yesterday’s pro-Jonathan rally, the Nigerian police pretended as if nothing happen while the protesters have a free day causing heavy traffic jam in the city without hindrance.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned all political parties and aspirants against early campaigns ahead of 2015 general election.

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