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Ilorin - Sen. Gbemisola Saraki and some chieftains of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara and their supporters, on Saturday, moved en masse to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Lola Ashiru, an APC chieftain in Offa, Kwara, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, also of APC and Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the governorship candidate of the CPC in the 2011 elections were among those who defected to the PDP.

Dakar - Mob violence in Central African Republic's capital has escalated to the point where crowds slay Muslims and mutilate their bodies almost daily despite the presence of thousands of French and African peacekeepers. Bangui, the capital, is engulfed in an orgy of bloodshed and looting. "We are in a moment where immediate action is needed to stop the killings," Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch told The Associated Press, calling for a full-fledged United Nations peacekeeping mission. "Otherwise the future of the Muslim community of this country will be gone." Muslims make up about 15% of Central African Republic's 4.6 million people. More than 800 000 people have fled their homes - about half of those from the capital, according to the United Nations. "There are some who don't want Muslims in this country," Prime Minister Andre Nzapayeke said on local radio Saturday.

Lagos - The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), says it has sealed eight more companies for failing to remit N66.7 million personal income tax of their workers to the state government. Folasade Coker-Afolayan, Head of the Distrain Unit of the LIRS, told the media on Sunday in Lagos that the companies were sealed on Wednesday. Coker-Afolayan, who led the enforcement team, said that the affected companies’ tax liabilities ranged for periods between one year and five years.

A woman holds onto a damaged umbrella due to strong winds during a heavy snowfall in Tokyo February 8, 2014 The heaviest snowstorm in nearly half a century in Tokyo and other areas of Japan has caused a rash of snow-linked accidents, resulting in nearly a dozen deaths and injuring more than a thousand people. Up to 27 centimeters (10.6 inches) of snow was recorded in Tokyo by late Saturday, the heaviest fall in the capital for 45 years, according to meteorologists.

The Michael Jackson Estate is in the crosshairs of the IRS for allegedly cheating taxpayers out of a fortune ... and now the taxman wants the Estate to pay the piper -- to the tune of more than $700 million. The allegations are stunning.  According to legal docs -- obtained by the L.A. Times -- when Michael died the executors told the IRS his net worth was around $7 million .  The IRS now says MJ's net worth was actually $1.125 BILLION ! 

An actor who starred on " Queer as Folk " is dealing with some seriously hetero problems ... asking a judge for protection from an ex GF who once aimed a coin jar at his head.  It's gotten so bad they're now arguing about her weight. According to the docs, Gale Harold -- who played Brian Kinney on "Queer as Folk" -- got a restraining order against Danielle Saklofsky after telling a judge point blank, "I am afraid."

The Michael Jackson Estate is insane for trying to value MJ's Beatles collection at ZERO for tax purposes ... so says one of the most prominent Beatles experts in the world ... who also happens to be a tax attorney.

If you search the internet for more than 2 minutes, you’ll find that someone has started a petition regarding just about anything. It seems the popular petition in the news these days is one regarding  Baby singer Justin Bieber. I should also add that if you search the internet for less than 2 minutes, you are almost guaranteed to read something regarding the Biebs. For someone so young, not everyone loves Justin Bieber, though, and this is especially true in the United States. Who doesn’t love him, you ask? Well, his Los Angeles neighbor, for one, who is in the process of suing him for allegedly egging his house and causing upwards of $20,000 worth of damages. So many people, in fact, are so sick and tired of Justin Bieber that they have petitioned the White House with an online petition to do something about it . Just what do they want the President and Co. to do? For starters, they’d like the singer to be deported back to Canada. In case you weren’t aware, Justin...

Google’s executive chairman has been awarded a massive reward package for recognition of the Internet giant’s recent successes.  The Interent giants  have announced a bonus package worth a staggering $106 million, for its former Chief Executive Officer and current Executive Chairman, Eric Schimdt, as a gift offering for the company’s recent performance during the last year. The package is made up of $100 million in restricted stock and a $6 million cash bonus. This bonus marks the second time in a three-year period that Schmidt, who according to Forbes is the 138th-richest person in the world with a fortune amassing $8.3 billion, has received an award of that amount. The award was agreed on 29 January by Google’s board and made known in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . Schmidt will receive the award, in equity, over a four-year period starting in May 2015 and he has received the $6 million bonus already.

Cybercrime is no joke , with security specialist McAfee estimating the cost of illegal cyber activity to be around $300 billion worldwide in 2013. That is more than enough money to feed the world’s poor! While the average person may not be all that concerned with cybercrime, Microsoft is taking on an aggressive stance against it. And why not? The company is probably one of the most “victimized”. Just how serious is Microsoft about fighting cybercrime? As serious as unveiling a new, state-of-the-art Cybercrime Center. If you think this is taking things too far, take a look at some statistics . 50% of online adults were cybercrime victims in the past year 20% of businesses – small and medium – have been targeted by cybercriminals So yes, Microsoft’s new Cybercrime Center is very much real and is based in the Redmond campus. From an article Microsoft itself released about its high tech facility, it seems that the Center is something right out of the movies – smart peop...

The company RevMedx envisages medics treating future gun shot wounds in the same way that we repair a flat tyre. The Xstat dressing, is a new technology that is currently in development and was inspired by the foam that is used to repair a flat tyre. RevMedx’s co-founder, John Steinbaugh told Popular Science : “That’s what we pictured as the perfect solution: something you could spray in, it would expand, and bleeding stops. But we found that blood pressure is so high, blood would wash the foam right out.” To combat this problem, Xstat contains tiny, expandable medical sponges. The sponges are compressed and coated in a hemoststic agent called chitosan, just like regular medical sponges. Once placed in the wound, they expand within 15 seconds, helping to clot the blood and stop blood flow. The sponges are detectable on an X-ray and medics can remove them.

 It has been almost a decade since Given Imaging first unveiled its idea of a miniscule snapshooter but finally it has received approval from the FDA for use in the U.S. Given Imaging understood that for a lot of people procedures like colonoscopies can be a very unpleasant experience. So it developed the PillCam Colon, a tiny camera in the form of a pill that the patient swallows. It can take a series of high-speed photos on its eight-hour journey through the digestive system and instead of having to wait for the pill to be ‘evacuated’, photos are transmitted directly to a device that the patient wears on their belt. Currently PillCam is available to people in 80 countries and now that the FDA has granted approval in the U.S, a possible 750,000 more people could benefit from this treatment.