Malaysian Crown Prince Converts to Catholicism, Shocks Muslim World

The only son and heir of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, Tengku Amir Shah, has sent a shockwave throughout the Muslim community worldwide as what People’s magazine has deemed “the real life Romeo and Juliet story of our time”.

The crown prince of the state of Selangor in Malaysia, has relinquished all his possessions and a chance to succeed to the prestigious throne of Selangor to follow his heart and marry Spanish top model and superstar Cristina Gomez, a 16 year old who was propelled to stardom this year when she was noticed on national television in the crowd of a highly anticipated football match.

The Malaysian prince known for his outlandish sex orgies and drug addiction problems, having been through rehab no less than three times in the past 18 months, has promised to change his ways and claims to be a new man.

The prince is known for his party-loving nature

In an interview this week with Catholic Digest Weekly, the 21 year old man admitted that his encounter with the supermodel basically saved his life. “I was living in a lustful, superficial world, where money and power brought me all the goods of the world: women, cars and drugs. But Cristina changed all that”.  Cristina Gomez who is of catholic faith, asked prince Tengku to convert to Catholicism, as to make their union legal before God and help him achieve righteousness in his life.

The baptism of the former follower of Islam at Santa Maria Cathedral this week in Braga, Portugal, has brought much criticism on the former heir to the Selangor throne by the world muslim community at large.  “This is not a spare of the moment thing. If people cannot accept the choices I’ve made and the new person I have become, then that’s too bad for them” declared the ex-prince in the same interview. “Me and Cristina are happy and that is all that counts” he commented.  The lovers are to be wed this month in San Marco Cathedral in romantic Venice and have not revealed where they are to spend their honeymoon. “That is our little secret” revealed Cristina on a hit Spanish tv talk show this week.

Abdullahi was APC mole in Jonathan’s cabinet — Kwara PDP

Former Minister of Sports Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
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The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday accused a former Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who publicly declared his membership of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday, as being an APC mole in President Goodluck Jonathan’s government.

The PDP Kwara State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Rex Olawoye, in a statement said PDP was not surprised at Abdullahi’s declaration.

He alleged that unknown to many Nigerians, Abdullahi on Saturday, February 8, 2014 secretly registered as a card-carrying member of the APC in Kwara State.

He stated that Abdullahi actually became a member of the APC five months ago, before Jonathan sacked him.

Olawoye said, “His latest ‘open declaration’ was only a façade to deceive unsuspecting members of the public. This development has therefore evidently confirmed the fear of well-meaning Nigerians, who raised the alarm then that Mallam Abdullahi, was planted in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan by the opposition APC to sabotage the government of Nigeria from within. The good news, though, is that he was spotted by the Presidency way before he could do further damage to the government he pretended to be serving.

“On national development, there is no worst case of self-indictment than that of a man who served for an upward of four years as a Commissioner of Education to now turn around to lament over the quality of education in the state, and by extension, the country at large!

“What can Abdullahi point to as his concrete contributions to the socio-economic development of Kwara State in the last eight years that he presided over critical state and federal ministries and parastatals? How has he impacted on the lives of his people within the period that he held sway as both minister in charge of sports and the youths ministries?

Olawoye stated that it was only when Abdullahi and his handlers were able to truthfully answer the above questions that he could have the moral high ground to disparage the claimed impressive achievements recorded over the years by the PDP-led Federal Government.

According to him, Abdullahi is a liability to any political party that he joins. Olawoye alleged that the sacked the former sports minister was a man with a past that was riddled with controversies.

He advised the APC to ensure that Abdullahi was asked to first purge himself of the vestiges of the past   before he could be formally admitted into the APC.

Olawoye said, “Abdullahi should be asked to seek the forgiveness of families of innocent public school teachers, who his obnoxious and draconian policies when he was Kwara State Commissioner of Education, sent to their earlier graves.”

Glasgow 2014: Ebola terror of athlete who was kept in isolation in Glasgow hospital for four days

Moses Sesay

A COMMONWEALTH athlete was tested twice for the deadly Ebola virus after arriving in Scotland.
Cyclist Moses Sesay was kept in isolation in a Glasgow hospital for four days.
Doctors ran tests to rule out the chance he may have carried the disease from Sierra Leone to Scotland.
His terrified team-mates want to stay here until it is safe to return to the west African country.
It’s in the grip of its worst Ebola outbreak, with 233 people dead.
Last night, Sesay – who raced in yesterday’s time trial – said: “We are scared of being sent home.”
UK borders are on high alert to stop travellers bringing the virus here amid fears of a global epidemic.
There is no cure or vaccination for Ebola and it is fatal in up to 90 per cent of cases.
Sesay, who is worried for his wife and baby daughter back home in Sierra Leone, went to hospital feeling weak and listless.
He said: “I was admitted to hospital for four days and they tested me for Ebola but it came back negative.
“They did it again and this time sent it to London and they found that negative too. I was scared.

 

Health worker dealing with Ebola in Guinea

  “All the doctors dressed in special suits to treat me. They dressed like I had Ebola.
“Even just to give me food they had to dress like that.
“After the tests came back negative and the doctors were dressed normally again, I was so happy.
“They told me it was just the change in the environment, reacting to a different atmosphere.
“I would thank the Scottish doctors, they are good doctors.”
Sesay, 32, and his team-mates want to stay in Scotland until the epidemic is contained in Sierra Leone.
He added: “All of us are scared about returning home. We have a three-month visa in our passports and if I have the opportunity I will stay here until this ends.
“The president has spoken about public areas maybe being closed from Saturday.
“I’m worried about my family back home. I have a wife and a baby girl who is five months old.
“I want to talk with them but I haven’t had a chance.
“It’s scary over there. My mum is a nurse so she may have to treat people. My wife also works in the medical
field. So I am scared for them and we are scared to go home.”           

  The World Health Organisation believe Ebola has killed 729 people since the outbreak began in Guinea in February. It has spread into Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Yesterday, WHO and the leaders of west African nations pledged £59million to fight the disease.
It is transmitted by contact with the urine, sweat, blood or saliva of infected people or animals – even after death.
Symptoms including vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding take up to 21 days to show.
Sesay was discharged from hospital just three days before competing.
Riders raced round a punishing 38.4 kilometre course. Sesay came 56th and last, 23 minutes behind English winner Alex Dowsett. Four riders pulled out.
Sesay said: “The wind and rain was too hard for me but I was pleased to finish the race after everything that has happened.
“It was a good day so soon after those many bad days.”

Stephen Keshi set for improved Nigeria deal

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirmed on Wednesday they are finalising a new deal for national coach Stephen Keshi.

Following an executive committee meeting in Abuja the NFF said in a statement they have approved that acting president Mike Umeh call an emergency meeting to ensure Keshi`s re-engagement "within the shortest possible time".

It is believed that Keshi will receive an improved contract of 7 million Naira (over $44,000) a month, up from his current five million Naira.

Keshi took over in 2011 and his first contract ended after the World Cup. The 52-year-old led Nigeria to the round of 16 in Brazil after guiding the Super Eagles to a third Africa Cup of Nations title in South Africa last year.

Keshi`s immediate assignment would be the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, which begin in September.

Defending champions Nigeria are in a qualifying group with South Africa, Sudan and either Congo or Rwanda with the top two advancing to January`s Nations Cup in Morocco.

Meanwhile, the NFF said that an extraordinary congress will no longer take place on Thursday as planned because of "unforeseen circumstances" and promised a new date.

During the executive committee meeting Musa Amadu was confirmed as NFF general secretary, while changes were made to the electoral and appeal committees.

Facebook introduces free internet in Zambia

Facebook launched an app on Thursday that will give users in Zambia free access to its social network as well as other critical internet sites, in a boost to its plan to to extend web access to the 4.25 billion people who lack it.

“The Internet.org app will be available first to Airtel subscribers in Zambia and we’ll continue to improve the experience and roll it out to other parts of the world,” Facebook product manager Guy Rosen said in a blog posting.

He said that the app would offer free access to 13 websites, including AccuWeather; Google Search; Go Zambia Jobs; Wikipedia; WRAPP, a women’s rights app; and of course, Facebook.

Airtel would cover the cost of the free access in the hope that customers would upgrade their plans to allow them even more internet access, Rosen said.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the Internet.org initiative last summer. Last week he announced that similar programs in the Phillipines, Paraguay and Tanzania had added 3 million new internet users. “This is a big step forward in achieving the mission of Facebook and Internet.org,” Zuckerberg said of the Zambia launch. “We’re looking forward to bringing free basic services to more countries soon.”