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Friday 18 July 2014

KATE HENSHAW- VETERAN ACTRESS TURNED POLITICIAN

Kate Henshaw has joined politics.

The veteran actress and Samsung ambassador is contesting for the Federal

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abia State Command, on Thursday arrested two men,

Seyi Shay and Tiwa Savage are sometimes considered rivalries in the music industry because of the fact that they both came from the U.S

Actors’ Guild president, Ibinabo Fiberesima, who has never been married before took many by surprise when news filtered in that her marriage has been fixed

(INSPIRING) UK BASED NIGERIAN TEENAGER BECOMES YOUNGEST COUNCILOR IN THE UK

Published By: Nigerian Monitor

Twin schoolgirls who followed their jihadi brother to Syria were hard-working students who hoped to train as doctors. Sixteen-year-olds Salma and Zahra Halane, who last summer achieved 28 GCSEs between them, left their parents’ home in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border. Police said the pair are thought to have followed their elder brother, who ditched his own ‘excellent’ academic career to join the ISIS terror group around a year ago.

Read more at: [SHOCKING] Meet Twin Sisters Who Wanted To Be Future Doctors But Are Now In Syria Training To Be Killers.. | LATEST NIGERIAN NEWS BREAKING HEADLINES NEWSPAPERS

Friends said the twins had appeared to be typical teenagers, pouting for selfies and shopping at Primark – but they are now feared to be training for battle. Last night a rebel fighter boasted that he was teaching girls as young as 16 how to fight. Yilmaz, a Dutch national who has been in Syria for two years, told Sky News: ‘It’s extremely easy to get here. People go on holiday … they end up in Syria.’ The twins’ parents raised the alarm last month, after finding the girls’ beds empty and their passports and clothes missing. A former neighbour said the couple had been ‘quite strict’, and did not allow the girls to ‘mix with other children on the street’. Others recalled that the twins wore headscarves when they were as young as nine. But Rhea Headlam, who sat next to Zahra in primary school, said they were ‘just normal teenage girls’. ‘I’m really shocked – I used to bump into them at Primark,’ she added. ‘They were both really clever.’ Last summer Salma achieved 13 GCSEs – 11 of them at grades A* to C – while Zahra passed 15, of which 12 were A*-C. The results put them in the top 10 per cent of their year group at Whalley Range High School for Girls in Manchester. They went on to study at Connell Sixth Form College, where fellow students said they hoped to follow in the footsteps of their elder sister Hafsa, 25, who is at medical school in Denmark after graduating from Manchester University. ‘The twins both have aspirations to become doctors – that is their ambition,’ said one. Another claimed it was ‘typical’ of the girls to head to Syria ‘after they had finished term’, adding: ‘They wouldn’t want to mess up their education.‘I’m shocked they have gone. They didn’t seem to be radical or extremist in their views.’ It emerged yesterday that the girls’ devoutly Muslim Somali refugee parents and their 11 children had been moved from an estate made famous by the TV series Shameless to an upmarket suburb, after telling the council they needed more bedrooms. They were given a six-bedroom end-terrace despite the protests of the existing tenant. Yesterday the large back and front gardens were strewn with discarded household items and children’s plastic toys. The house’s previous resident – a 40-year-old Army heroine who served in Bosnia – said last night she had been booted out of the house by Manchester City Council so the twins and their family could move in. Former lance corporal Dawn Benjamin told The Sun she had thought the house – her childhood home – would be ‘going to a good family’. She added: ‘I lost my life, memories, everything I’d grown up with, to house jihadi wannabes’. Ms Benjamin and her young son had to move out after they were served with a court order. The council confirmed the house had been needed for a larger family. Neighbours said the twins’ parents were keen to share elements of Somalian culture with them, taking round dishes of traditional delicacies for them to try. The twins’ father Ibrahim is understood to teach at a nearby mosque, where leaders this week issued a statement repudiating extremism and opposing violence of all kinds. Mohammed Shafiq, of the Ramadan Foundation, said the family were moderate Muslims who know all about the dangers of war-torn countries. ‘They were desperately unhappy to discover [their son] had gone to Syria, and they thought they were keeping a watchful eye on their other children. Then this happens,’ he said. Sources believe Salma and Zahra were inspired by their brother’s transformation into a jihadi fighter, and became radicalised themselves while viewing extremist Islamist material online. According to police sources, their brother also travelled to the family’s native Somalia, where he may have linked up with another Islamist terror group al-Shabab. A friend told The Sun the brother was known for his ability to recite long passages of the Koran. Officers are investigating how the girls funded their own trip, over fears they have been bankrolled by jihadi fighters who want them as their wives.

Read more at: [SHOCKING] Meet Twin Sisters Who Wanted To Be Future Doctors But Are Now In Syria Training To Be Killers.. | LATEST NIGERIAN NEWS BREAKING HEADLINE Twin schoolgirls who followed their jihadi brother to Syria were hard-working students who hoped to train as doctors. Sixteen-year-olds Salma and Zahra Halane, who last summer achieved 28 GCSEs between them, left their parents’ home in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border. Police said the pair […]...

CHRIS ATTOH CHECKS THE MARRIED BOX

Actor and TV star, Chris Attoh has hinted that he is now officially married to his Nigerian fiancee,

The 77-year-old mother of Mr Furoebi Akene, Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and Survey, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
The incident, the latest in the series of high profile kidnappings in the predominantly riverine state, occurred 14 days after the abduction of the mother‑in‑law of the Bayelsa State Speaker

A 19-year-old man from Japan, Kiyuu Oikawa, posted photos on social network

We would recall that Kefee died of lung failure on June 12th 2014 after 15 days in a coma at Desert Spring Hospital, in the US. She was buried a month

Sitting in a romantic restaurant with my newest man friend, I was engrossed in conversation when I felt something slipping onto the third finger of my left hand.
It was a

Little Marlow Adamo is blissfully unaware that she is the owner of — in her mother’s words — ‘the most infamous belly button on the

Emma Hurley, 40, from the Isle of Sheppey, celebrated the end of her marriage with a graveyard cake (left) complete with a coffin containing her wedding ring.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES STAR VANESSA WILLIAMS REVEALS...

Fans of Vanessa Williams will be shocked to learn that for years she has held onto a secret – she was molested when she was a child.
The actress, 49, has written about the disturbing incident for the first time in her memoir You Have

A mother and her two pregnant daughters have all been left tragically widowed after their husbands died in a plane crash in California.
Doug Symiczek, 49, Kyle Parton, 29, and Jacob Griffiths, 32,

SEE THE MBGN 2014 CONTESTANTS ROCK THEIR TRADITIONAL OUTFITS

Every year we wait for the contestants to give us a creative twist to the traditional attires and this year some of the #MBGN delegates brought it!

Check them out and tell us what you think: