North Korea Media Calls Obama A 'Wicked Black Monkey'

North Korea's state news agency KCNA  lashed out at Barack Obama earlier this week, calling the U.S. president "reminiscent of a wicked black monkey."

The editorial, which also called South Korea's President Park Geun-hye an "old prostitute," was published in English on Friday during Obama's tour of Asian nations.

Another KCNA article from that same day -- this one in Korean -- took the ugliness even further. According to North Korea blogger Josh Stanton, the second story said Obama "should live as a monkey in an African natural zoo licking the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators." The article also calls Obama a "crossbreed with unclear blood."

Crazed diatribes are nothing new to KCNA, but as the Washington Post notes, it is rare for the agency to so outrageously savage a U.S. president. The newspaper explains that the articles highlight North Korea's state ideology of racial purity, which leads to forced abortions or infanticide if defectors become pregnant outside Korea.

Despite North Korea's defiant isolation, another recent diatribe in the state press shows some are paying close attention to U.S. politics. In response to a February U.N. report detailing "crimes against humanity" in North Korea, Pyongyang released its own report calling the U.S. "the world's worst human rights abuser." Citing NSA surveillance, unemployment and gun crime, the report boldly asserts that "the U.S. is a living hell."

While Americans are "the grip of famine," the report says, Obama "indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people's wretched life."

The North Korean report also berates the U.S. for the acquittal of George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin's killing, saying the case reveals America's "true colors as a kingdom of racial discrimination.

The task of recovering the girls appeared to grow more complicated with news that U.S. intelligence shows the 276 girls have been split up.They believe the girls "have been broken up into smaller groups,"

U.S. military officials are expected to arrive in Nigeria on Friday to help in the search for hundreds of girls kidnapped by Islamist militants, the Pentagon said. The seven will join a team already advising Nigeria on the search, said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, who serves as Pentagon press secretary.
About 60 U.S. inter agency members have been on the ground since before the kidnappings as part of counter-terrorism efforts with Nigeria, a senior U.S. administration official told us they have been holding meetings, getting resources into the country and making assessments with local authorities.
"Our team is hitting the ground in Nigeria now and they are going to be working ... with President Goodluck Jonathan's government to do everything that we possibly can to return these girls," Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday.

Their tasks include establishing a coordination cell to provide intelligence, investigations and hostage negotiation expertise.
There are no plans to send American combat troops, according to our source

The task of recovering the girls appeared to grow more complicated with news that U.S. intelligence shows the 276 girls have been split up.
Kirby said they believe the girls "have been broken up into smaller groups," but declined to detail how officials came to the conclusion. His sentiment has been echoed by others.
"The search must be in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, to see if we can find information," said Gordon Brown, a former UK Prime Minister and the U.N.'s special envoy for global education.

KESHI’S WORLD CUP LIST: THE SHOCKS & CONTROVERSIES

After much debate and controversy, Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi finally named his provisional 30-man squad for Brazil 2014 World Cup preparation.

THE LIST
1. Vincent Enyeama
2. Austin Ejide
3. Daniel Akpeyi
4. Chigozie Agbim
5. Godfrey Oboabona
6. Juwon Oshaniwa
7. Efe Ambrose
8. Azubuike Egwekwe
9. Kunle Odunlami
10. Kenneth Omeruo
11. Elderson Echiejile
12. Mikel Obi
13. Joel Obi
14. Ogenyi Onazi
15. Ramon Azeez
16. Ejike Uzoenyi
17. Sunday Mba
18. Babatunde Michael
19. Ahmed Musa
20. Victor Moses
21. Obinna Nsofor
22. Michael Uchebo
23. Reuben Gabriel
24. Uche Nwofor
25. Shola Ameobi
26. Nosa Igiebor
27. Emmanuel Emenike
28. Nnamdi Oduamadi
29. Joseph Yobo
30. Osaze Odemwingie.......

...... What do you think? Can Nigeria make it to the semi finals with this team?

African economic forum 2014: Top quotes of the day May 8th 2014

The 24th World Economic Forum on Africa is taking place in Abuja, Nigeria bringing together regional and global leaders to discuss innovative structural reforms and investments that can sustain the continent’s growth while creating jobs and prosperity for all its citizens.

China and Africa face many similar problems and share the same task of growing the economy, raising living standards and promoting social progress.

Li Keqiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China

The African continent is rising. We must ensure that our poorer and vulnerable neighbors are carried along. We must ensure this growth is inclusive. We must ensure there is maximum inclusiveness through creating opportunities for people to create opportunities for themselves.
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, President of Nigeria

Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises and Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on Africa

Social development vulnerabilities are the Achilles heel of “Africa rising”.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance of Nigeria

Africa represents our fastest-growing region in the world. If you want to be relevant, you need to be in this part of the world.

Dominic Barton is Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company and Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on Africa

When it comes to African women, what they need is someone to believe in them.
Marieme Jamme is the Founder of SpotOne Global Solutions and a Young Global Leader

Africa has been rising for a long time. I hope we will eventually get to a point where we have risen.
Albert Kobina Essien is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational

The government of Nigeria has been “somewhat derelict in its responsibility” Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton today called the kidnapping of more than 250 school girls in Nigeria “abominable”, “criminal” and “an act of terrorism.”

The government of Nigeria has been “somewhat derelict in its responsibility” to protect children, she said in a conversation with ABC’s Robin Roberts. “They need to make it a priority.”

The former secretary of state added, “The Nigerian government must accept help.” ( ?)

“It’s horrible," she said.

Clinton’s comments came as global uproar continues to mount over the fate of the hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in mid-April, and just one day after UNICEF confirmed the abduction of 8 more girls.

The White House announced it is sending a team to Nigeria to aid the effort to find the girls and those responsible. 

Wow! Women of Nigeria made the world pay attention.

Women are no longer powerless, let there be no doubt, The reason the United States is sending help, Nigeria is accepting it and the entire world is paying attention is that the women of Nigeria demanded it. Nigerian women from the town of Chibok in the northeastern Borno state, the mothers, sisters, relatives and friends of the schoolgirls, launched their protests and set off the #BringBackOurGirls campaign that swept away weeks of international apathy.
At a rally in Abuja, one woman held up a sign that read "Can Anyone Hear Me?" The long-delayed answer was a most emphatic "Yes," which resonated across the oceans and echoed in the American senate, Nigerian presidential palace. and all over the world.
Sure, the decisions are mostly up to male politicians, but in Washington, all the women members of the Senate, 20 of them, signed a letter to the president of the United States demanding a firm response. They did it without hesitation and without regard to political affiliation.
The tragedy of the Nigerian girls was grotesquely highlighted in a video by a laughing Abubakr Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram. He declared "Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women."
The revolting message encapsulated the distilled essence of women's plight in many corners of the world. And the response shows a phenomenon of both spontaneous and organized pushback from women's groups, from the millions of men who join them, and from the forces that social media can unleash across cyberspace.
It is a movement that begins with the grassroots, moved into cyberspace and powers its way into the halls of power!
Just a few days ago, the world was barely paying attention to Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls. Today, the whole world is watching, help is on the way. That is what the women of Nigeria have accomplished.
Shekau and his men didn't see it coming. All hail Chibok women! all hail the Nigerian women. 

Boko Haram: U.S. military to assist with intelligence, mission planning and hostage

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday offered a reward of about $310,000 for information leading to the rescue of the girls.
"While calling on the general public to be part of the solution to the present security challenge, the Police High Command also reassures all citizens that any information given would be treated anonymously and with utmost confidentiality," the Nigeria Police Force said in a statement.
The federal government also has accepted U.S. and British offers of assistance,
U.S. military officials are to establish a "coordination cell" to provide intelligence, investigations and hostage negotiation expertise, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. The cell will include U.S. military personnel, she said.
The joint coordination cell will be established at the U.S. Embassy in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the work is expected to begin immediately.
The Pentagon has started planning for how it can assist Nigeria against the insurgence,  a senior U.S. military official hinted that U.S. military assistance will likely be limited to intelligence, mission planning and hostage negotiation, U.S officials told CNN, It's unlikely at this point that U.S. troops would be involved in operations, the officials said.
British officials will send a small team of experts to complement the U.S. team, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday. The spokesman didn't specify the nature of the team's expertise.