Boy who turned 12 at 12:12pm on 12/12/12 labelled the Antichrist (PICTURED)

by Hauwa Gambo

When Kiam Moriya turns 12, the whole world will be watching.
The Alabama boy – who loves Krispy Kreme donuts and BMX biking – was born at 12:12 p.m. on December 12, 2000.
His twelfth birthday falls on Wednesday, 12/12/12.
“We’ve joked around that he’s the chosen one,” Kiam’s father, Kazuo Moriya, told Today.com.
Some say his son is lucky, but others fear the boy is a sign of a pending apocalypse.
“There are these weirdos out there online, all these doomsday people, saying he needs to be killed and that he’s the Antichrist,” Moriya said.
“We’re trying to tone it down because it’s a little freaky. It’s just a fun little story.”
The numerically bizarre date has swept the nation into a frenzy, as luck-seekers scoop up lottery tickets and couples seek marriage licenses to wed on Wednesday.
While many people celebrate birthdays on Dec. 12, Kiam’s sparked extra attention because of the exact time he was born. His parents first noticed the strange alignment of twelves while filling out paperwork for his birth certificate.
“The lady who was helping us fill out the forms said, ‘Do you realize your son was born December 12 at 12:12 p.m?” Moriya, originally from Tokyo, told Today.com.
“That’s when it really hit us with all those twelves. I do have to admit that it might mean something, but I have no idea what. It’s definitely a little crazy.”
The Moriyas will celebrate Kiam’s birthday during the sixth-grader’s lunch period at Joseph S. Bruno Montessori Academy in Birmingham. His mom Tamara is bringing Krispy Kreme donuts for the entire school.
They’ll be arranged in the shape of a 12, she told AL.com.
Kiam, who was born premature at a hospital in Bronxville, N.Y., told the website his birthday is “very cool.”
“It’s like one minute out of a lifetime,” he said. “You know, it’s all 12s.”
A similar date won’t happen for 88 years, when 01/01/01 rolls around.

Okada Riders Hurl Stones At Police Over Traffic Laws

Commercial motorcyclists, otherwise known as Okada riders’ protest over the new Lagos State Traffic Laws on Wednesday turned violent in Majidun area of Ikorodu as they clashed with a team of policemen.
Reports say the Okada riders numbering over 300 took to the street at about 8am, wielding dangerous weapons, and in the process attacked a Lagos State Bus, LAGBUS, and also started a bonfire on the road forcing passengers to trek long distances before boarding buses to their respective destinations.
According to an eyewitness, on sighting a team of policemen approaching, the commercial motorcyclists began to hurl stones at them while fleeing in different directions.
In the process, one of them reportedly abandoned his bike and jumped into a lagoon, apparently to avoid being made a scapegoat.
Yesterday’s protest it was learnt was not unconnected with the seizure of several motorbikes by some policemen during Tuesday’s protest.
The new traffic laws bars commercial motorcyclists from plying 475 of the state’s over 9,000 roads.
InformationNigeria.org

Arsene Wenger faces greatest EVER crisis

MAYAN culture has it that the world will end next Friday.

Yet Arsene Wenger’s own world may have come to a conclusion at Bradford on Tuesday night.
Even Wenger loyalists have arrived at the situation where they believe his time is up.
Yes, he has been a brilliant, mould-breaking manager with, at one time, a conveyor-belt of outstanding talent producing the nearest thing to fantasy football.
But seven years of famine at a club like Arsenal is too long, especially when there are few signs that seven years of plenty will follow.
As Alan Shearer argued in these pages recently: Would a club like Chelsea, Manchester United or AC Milan put up with this sort of failure?
Before the rot was temporarily halted by the Gunners’ 2-0 win over West Brom on Saturday, Wenger had used in his defence the fact that the club were still in four competitions. That, though, was being a little economic with the truth.
Arsenal are not in contention for the Premier League and have even less chance of winning the Champions League.
Now, humiliatingly, they are out of the League Cup, humbled by a club from the fourth tier.
The third round of the FA Cup sees them at Swansea, who won 2-0 at the Emirates two weeks ago. No, it doesn’t look good.
Wenger appears like a man in denial. He has loaded the club with some of the poorest players ever to wear the famous red shirt and on Tuesday night, oversaw the worst defeat in his 16 years at Arsenal.
But the most troublesome thing of all is the damage he might be doing himself.
Yes, we have always known how stubborn he is. Yes, we have always joked about his Basil Fawlty impersonations on the touchline.
Except that now he really does appear to have lost the plot. He also looks worryingly gaunt and grey in the face.
On the one hand, he is arguing the whole time with officials and kicking over water bottles. On the other, he’s not talking to the men alongside him.
There certainly doesn’t appear to be much dialogue with Steve Bould. Yes, he promoted Bould to assistant but this increasingly seems to have been merely a sop to his critics.

Wenger speaks following Arsenal's cup humiliation

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GUTTED Arsene Wenger faces up to the Press after his side were humbled by League Two Bradford

As Bould has discovered to his immense frustration.
The former defender is not keen on Arsenal’s zonal marking system and yet manager Wenger — still very much the man who runs training — persists with it.
Despite all this, I cannot see Le Boss resigning.
And a club for whom he makes millions every year in the transfer market, a club for whom he masterminded the hugely successful move to the Emirates, are hardly going to dispense with his services before the end of his contract in 2014.
But in the interests of their supporters they SHOULD think seriously about a parting of ways at the end of the season.
People will say: “But who can replace him?”
Dortmund’s Jurgen Klopp, perhaps. Or Swansea’s Michael Laudrup.
Or Pep Guardiola, slowly but surely being put off by Chelsea’s manic pursual, a man raised at Barcelona, a club with a solid tradition of doing things the right way, a club with many similar attributes to Arsenal.
It would be a job he would relish, overseeing everything at London Colney, including an academy that has gone off the boil. Jack Wilshere, Kieran Gibbs and, er, very little else.
As former Gunner Stewart Robson, one of the most astute commentators on the club, said yesterday, Wenger has lost the knack of not just spotting young talent but improving it. Look at Thomas Vermaelen. Consumed by the responsibilities of captaincy, his game has actually gone into reverse.
Yes, Wilshere is still very young but I can see only positives by him replacing Vermaelen as skipper.
But back to Tuesday night. There comes a moment in any manager’s life when it is apparent he has gone as far as he can.
A week or so ago Wenger was complaining his players were tired. Yet, going totally against time-honoured precedent in the League Cup of fielding hungry youngsters, he sends out practically a first team at Bradford when he could have been resting them.
Still, only a few will have played more than 20 games — whereas it was Bradford’s 31st match of the season.
And still Arsenal didn’t have a shot on target until the 70th minute.
When they finally appeared to have got out of jail with Vermaelen’s 88th-minute equaliser, it seemed they would go on to take their place in the semi-final. But they couldn’t even do that.
How many times have we heard Wenger talk of his trust in his players’ attitude, character and spirit?
On Tuesday night, this was once again exposed as the sham it is, the attempted use of emotive words to cloud what most Arsenal fans know to be the truth. That character is the one quality they lack.
There are all sorts of things that no longer make sense, that suggest Wenger, sadly, no longer has the answers. Yes, players have to shoulder responsibility.
But as I touched on the other day, how on earth did he sign — or have recommended to him by Gilles Grimandi or Steve Rowley — players like Santos, Chamakh, Park, Squillaci, Gervinho and the rest?
Gervinho, judging by his comical miss at Bradford, is getting worse.
As one cynical Gooner blogged: “Gervinho ends up as such a menace to anything we are trying to achieve I’m starting to think he might actually support Spurs... ”
Then there’s all the other transfer-market deadwood like Arshavin, Denilson, Djourou and Bendtner, all on £50,000-plus salaries but who no one seems to want other than on loan. And now poor Aaron Ramsey, never the same since his broken leg, is becoming the fans’ scapegoat like Emmanuel Eboue before him.
And is Lukas Podolski really going to work out? He didn’t at Bayern Munich. And will Abou Diaby, on his day a true performer, ever be fit?
Then we come to Theo Walcott, the only player with any real pace.
Despite Arsenal signing a new £150million deal with Emirates, they can’t appear to find an extra £20,000 a week for Walcott.
And yet Wenger continues to be paid £7.5m a year. While Ivan Gazidis, chief executive of Arsenal Financial Corporation, pocketed £2.1m last year including a £675,000 bonus on top of one the year before of £669,000. For doing what? Selling Arsenal’s best players?
From the very top — from the absent American owner ‘Silent’ Stan Kroenke — we hear precious little.
It seems increasingly that the only way there will be any change will be if Arsenal fail to qualify for the Champions League.
There will then be a massive groundswell of opinion that billionaire Alisher Usmanov be finally admitted to the board along with a transfer fund of £100m and the return of David Dein to administer it.
And the ending of the days when the club shops at Asda rather than Harrods.
This scenario might just save Wenger. Yet an increasing number of Arsenal fans are coming to the conclusion that the manager has no white rabbits left to pluck from his hat. Certainly no Vieiras or Henrys.
On Monday, Arsenal are at Reading. Then on Saturday, December 22 they travel to Wigan.
Poor results in these two games and the end really will be nigh.
Provided, of course, the world hasn’t ended on the Friday.
TheSun

Christian Woman Murdered By Muslim Ex-boyfriend For Challenging Him Over Daughter’s Conversion To Islam

A Muslim man was jailed for life today for stabbing his devout Christian ex-girlfriend 13 times after they split following bitter rows about him wanting their young daughter to convert to Islam.

Esther Arogundade, 32, was attacked by kitchen porter Shola Adebiyi in her own home after she began a relationship with another man.
Adebiyi also drank oven cleaner in an attempt to kill himself and phoned Esther’s new lover to say he would never see her again before confessing to the killing to a friend.
Police broke into the mother-of-two’s home in Salford, Greater Manchester, and found KFC worker Esther lying dead on the kitchen floor with multiple stab wounds to her back and front.
Adebiyi was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for a minimum of 20-and-a-half years after admitting killing her.
The court heard how Esther began dating Adebiyi in 2007 and that they later had a daughter now aged two but split up last year after a series of rows.
Rob Hall prosecuting said: ‘These arguments were ignited by differences of opinion over the religion of their daughter – the defendant wanted her to convert from Christian to Islam, but Esther was a church goer.
‘There were arguments about expenses, bills and childcare.’
Last March Esther, who also had a nine-year-old daughter living in Nigeria from a previous relationship began a friendship with another man named in court as Mr Alabi.
While visiting family in Africa Mr Alabi received a sinister phone call from Adebiyi, claiming he would be killed if he returned to the UK.
Mr Alabi told Esther about the call and she spoke to Adebiyi but he initially denied it.

Mr Hall added: ‘Mr Alabi returned to the UK and the relationship took the next step and it turned into a sexual relationship.

‘They spent a great deal of time talking and texting on their mobile phones – it may well be that it came to the attention of the defendant.’
On June 26, Adebiyi cleared out his locker at work at a conference centre in Manchester then left armed with a large kitchen knife and waited for Esther and their daughter to come home.
Throughout that evening there were phone calls between Mr Alabi and Esther and also a child minder who was booked for the next day.

But the following morning Adebiyi was said to have made ‘frantic arrangements’ to get child care for his daughter and handed her over at 9.50am along with her birth certificate and left in her push chair.He then called Mr Alabi, who asked about the whereabouts and welfare of Esther only to be told he would never see her again. He then called a friend and confessed he had killed Esther, claiming it had happened during a fight.
The friend went to the house and saw Adebiyi come out wearing a blood-stained t-shirt and holding a large black-handled knife.
He saw him throw the knife into nearby bushes.
In mitigation defence counsel Michael Lavery said his client had made a ‘very genuine’ attempt to take his own life by drinking oven cleaner.
He added: ‘He took the knife to kill himself and his partner. He’s lost his daughter as well as a consequence of his own actions.

‘It is tragic for the victim of this murder and a tragedy for the daughter and for the father too. It is his own fault, I know, but that is not going to make it easier for her.’

Passing sentence Judge Andrew Gilbart QC told Adebiyi it was not clear exactly when he had killed Esther.
He added: ‘Your relationship had come to an end with frequent disagreements and rows between the two of you.
‘She formed a relationship with another man. You resented it, and tried to warn him off with threats.
‘She let you know that she no longer wanted to be with you and wanted to pursue a relationship with another man.
‘You were most upset at that prospect. She sought friendship elsewhere, including in an affair with another man. You were understandably upset but let me be clear about this.
‘Many men and women have to endure the discovery that the husband, wife or partner is no longer content with the relationship they have.
‘Many are jealous or unhappy. But what the law cannot and will not permit is the use of violence, which is what you used.
‘I am prepared to accept that you were very upset – and indeed distraught – at what was happening to your relationship.
‘When you acted as you did you were under considerable emotional strain.’
After the case Senior Investigator Andrew Tattersall of Greater Manchester Police said: ‘The biggest tragedy here is that a young girl has now been deprived of both her parents.
‘Her mother was taken from her in a vengeful, violent attack and no sentence today can bring her back.’
InformationNigeria.org

Senator Ndume Contacted Boko Haram Leader 73 Times In One Month Says SSS

Senator Ali Ndume

An embattled Senator, Mohammed Ndume, who is facing charges for alleged links to the militant group, Boko Haram, contacted the group’s spokesperson 73 times within a month, investigators told a federal court on Wednesday.
Mr. Ndume was arrested late 2011 by the State Security Service, SSS, and accused of sponsoring the Islamist sect.
Mr. Ndume claims his contact with the group was necessitated by his membership of the Presidential Committee mandated to help restore peace to the troubled North East of the country.
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for series of bombings and gun attacks that have plagued Northern Nigeria resulting in more than a thousand deaths.
The SSS said Mr. Ndume, who is from Borno State, the hotbed of the crisis, was constantly in touch with an alleged spokesperson of the group, Mohammed Konduga.
Mr. Konduga was convicted and is currently serving a three-year jail term.
Mr. Ndume’s phone call history is central to establishing his relationship with the sect; and on Tuesday, a Federal High Court in Abuja brushed aside the senator’s objection to admit the phone call logs as key evidence in the case.
The SSS told the court that the senator’s call log showed that he spoke with Mr. Konduga 73 times in October 2011.
At the resumed hearing of the case, Aliyu Usman, a forensic expert with the SSS, while giving evidence said the history of the communication contacts was contained in the two mobile telephones obtained from Mr. Ndume and Mr. Konduga.
Mr. Usman said the communication between the two persons took place between October 3, 2011 and November 3, 2011, adding that they were in the form of text messages and voice calls.
The telephone lines used were those of MTN mobile network, and the details of the communication were obtained from the network, he added.
Mr. Usman said adequate forensic analyses were carried out on the data extracted from the two phones before storing them on three DVDs.
Mr. Ndume’s lawyer, Rickey Tarfa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, again objected to the tendering of the DVDs as evidence on Wednesday arguing that they were secondary evidence and should have been accompanied by a statement.
He argued that the items were in violation of the Evidence Act.
“The essence of Section 102 of the Evidence Act is to guide against the tendering of fake computer generated materials,” he said.
But the prosecution lawyer, Thompson Olatigbe, said the items had already been admitted by the court and as such they became primary evidences.
On the absence of certification, Mr. Olatigbe argued that the witness merely transmitted the contents of the two phones into DVDs and produced hard copies, as according to him, the elements would be subjected to further tests by the court.

Saharareporters.com

LOOK: Shouldn’t you get a bigger bikini, Miss? Reality star spills out of her tiny two-piece

by Hauwa Gambo 

She’s the new reality star who has already garnered comparisons to both Kim Kardashian and Jersey Shore’s Snooki.
So it stands to reason that Shahs Of Sunset star Mercedes Javid is following in the footsteps of the pair and attempting to boost her own popularity by wearing as little as possible.
The pretty brunette star was seen spilling out of a blue strapless bikini which appeared to be a couple of sizes too small as she soaked up the sunshine poolside in Santa Barbara.

For Christmas I would like… a bigger bikini! Shahs Of Sunset star Mercedes ‘MJ’ Javid spilled out of her strapless bikini as she soaked up the sun poolside in Santa Barbara earlier this week Mercedes, who is known on the show as MJ, was joined by a female friend as she alternated sunbathing and drinking beer by the pool, but didn’t actually go swimming for fear of ruining her hair and make-up.
And while Mercedes’ fans love her for her curvaceous figure, the 30-something star appeared self-conscious of her lumps and bumps at points.
As she gingerly lowered herself onto the waiting sunlounger, Mercedes did her best to adjust the two-piece to make it as flattering as possible.

A few sizes too small: Mercedes appeared slightly self-conscious of her curves as she reclined on her towel

Best angle for tanning! Mercedes was joined by a female friend as the pair enjoyed their relaxing day

Mercedes’ friend even joined in with the adjustments, pulling her pal’s bottoms away from her body to apparently look at her tan line.
The real estate agent has achieved notoriety through the surprise hit Bravo reality show Shahs of Sunset, produced by Ryan Seacrest.
The show is described by its producers as: ‘A group of friends…who are fervent on the dating and party scene, but seeking approval from their family, face pressures to settle down and marry within the community.

Aren’t you hot? Mercedes teamed her two-piece with a pair of sheepskin boots

Thirsty girl: Mercedes kept herself hydrated with regular swigs from her bottle of beer

‘From outings on Rodeo Drive to traditional Persian feasts at home, this series celebrates the unique lifestyle of a group of friends who have worked hard for what they have and are not afraid to flaunt it.’
But Seacrest recently said that he knew the show would be popular because it’s mainly about friendship.
He told the Daily Beast: ‘The great thing about a show like this is that it promotes something I believe in, which is friendship and family. We like shows about that.’
And the popularity of the show is going from strength to strength, with ratings from the season 2 premiere of the programme showing that 2.3million viewers tuned in to the show.
The figure is a 106% rise from the season 1 debut of the show in March 2011.
YNaija.com

Ailing Governor Suntai’s Family Says Not In Touch With Hospitalized Governor

Danbaba Suntai

By SaharaReporters, New York

Barely one week after Taraba State Commissioner of Information and Tourism, Mr. Emmanuel Bello, claimed that Governor Danbaba Danfulani Suntai was recovering from his head injuries and conversing, the governor’s immediate family has confirmed SaharaReporters reports that all is not as it is being presented by lying government officials.
The governor’s uncle and spokesperson of the family, Alhaji Sule Sutain told a Nigerian national daily Blueprint, that they have been sidelined completely by both Taraba and Federal governments, an indication that Suntai’s health condition is not truly the picture being painted.
The family also accused the Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, of personally abandoning them.
Below is the full report:
The family of the ailing governor of Taraba state, Mr Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, have raised an alarm that the state and the federal governments have side-lined them in the handling of their son’s health crisis.
The spokesman of the family, who is an aged uncle of the governor, Alhaji Sule M. Suntai, disclosed this to Blueprint in his house in Suntai village, saying they are kept in the dark about the whole matter, as no government is briefing them on developments regarding the governor’s health.
Governor Suntai was piloting a small Cessna Grand Caravan C208 aeroplane on October 25, 2012 when it crashed in the bush eight nautical miles from the Yola airport in Adamawa state, critically injuring him and five of his aides.
Suntai was flown to Germany for medical treatment after spending two days at the National Hospital, Abuja.
He has been staying there ever since, with speculations being made about the seriousness of his health condition.
Suntai’s deputy was sworn in as acting governor a few days after the incident.
According to Suntai’s uncle, since their relation’s plane crash, no official of government at any level has deemed it fit to inform them officially about the incident or his state of health so far.
He, however, commended Senator Emmanuel Bwacha for being the only person from government that visited the family, albeit not as a government official but as his friend, and promised them that he was going to travel abroad to visit their ailing son.
Alhaji Sule also lamented that even the governor’s loyalists who used to flood their house with gifts have since turned their back on them.
He described the attitude of the acting governor of the state, Alhaji Garba Umar, towards the family as more shocking. According to him, Umar never thought he would be in government but their son gave him the privilege, “but just like every other person he also turned his back on us.”
When our correspondent visited Suntai village, most projects sited in the village were at a standstill. As a result, the usual booming of businesses in the area has become a thing of the past.”