Anthony Harrison, 32yr old Nigerian, arrested for rape and African black magic rituals in UK

A council caretaker trafficked girls as young as 14 into Britain to work as prostitutes after they had been put under a voodoo spell, a court heard yesterday.

Anthony Harrison, 32, is alleged to have raped two girls in Britain after they had been subjected to an extraordinary African black magic ritual by a people-smuggling gang.

The terrifying ceremony was performed in Nigeria by a Juju priest to trap the girls into a life of sex slavery, it was said.


Anthony Harrison, 32, is alleged to have raped two girls in Britain after they had been subjected to an extraordinary African black magic ritual by a people-smuggling gang.


During the ritual, a 16-year-old girl was taken to a shrine where she was stripped naked by two men and slashed dozens of times with a razor so the priest could collect her blood which was placed in a coffin, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

In a terrifying ordeal 'little short of torture', the girl's body hair was shaved off, her arms were bound behind her back and she was forced to lie naked and covered in blood in another coffin, jurors were told.

The victim also allegedly had to eat the raw heart of a freshly slaughtered chicken as part of the spell by the priest, who told her that he had access to her soul and if she did not obey his commands he could visit her in her dreams and 'kill her from within'.

In another ritual, a 14-year-old girl was made to swear an oath of loyalty to a Juju medicine man who took her to a river and told her to eat some white clay, having passed a rock from his mouth to hers.to read more go.

Michelle Obama, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela….In south Africa

Michelle Obama and Desmond Tutu doing push ups

The visite to Nelson Mandela

Ghanaian Actress Yvonne Nelson, Chased By Killers

ACTOR Majid Michel recently escaped death when he refused to eat his food after he realized it had being poisoned, and while the dust is yet to settle on that issue, the family of actress Yvonne Nelson are troubled about death threats on her life.

Though family members are keeping the issue under wraps, Yvonne Nelson has confirmed to NEWS-ONE that she received information that some persons have concluded a well-planned strategy to kill her and that the operation would soon be carried out.

She was however not told which persons were after her life and for what reasons.

'It was a simple call and the person said ''Yvonne they want to kill you. They are after your life so be careful'. Everything that has to do with life and death should be taken serious and I am treating it like that. I don't know who and I don't know why they want to kill me,' Yvonne noted and revealed that she was on her way to lodge an official complaint with the police.

When asked whether or not she was scared and how it had affected her life, the actress noted: 'I wouldn't say I am scared or not but for a human being to sit down and plan to kill me, another human being, it is serious. It is something that I don't have to play with and I am treating it as such.' to read more go here.

It’s over…..He don’t deserve you!!! Don’t worry Elli…

She is a goddess here in Italy and we love her..
George Clooney, 50, and his Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, 32, have ended their two year relationship.

'We are not together anymore. It’s very difficult and very personal and we hope everyone can respect our privacy.' The ex-couple said in a joint statement to America's Entertainment Tonight.
Elisabetta is a firm believer in marriage, George is not. He doesn't even seem to want children

Forbes: Highest Paid African Soccer Players

Based solely on their annual salaries, these are the highest-paid African soccer players:

Yaya Toure
Country of citizenship: Ivory Coast
Club: Manchester City
Annual salary: $13.5 million

Samuel Eto’o
Country of citizenship: Cameroon
Club: Inter Milan
Annual salary: $12 million



Emmanuel Adebayor
Country of citizenship: Togo
Club: Manchester City
Annual salary: $12 million

Kolo Toure
Country of citizenship: Ivory Coast
Club: Manchester City
Annual salary: $10.3 million


Frederic Kanoute
Country of citizenship: Mali
Club: Sevilla FC
Annual salary: $8.6 million

Didier Drogba
Country of citizenship: Ivory Coast
Club: Chelsea
Annual salary: $8 million

John Mikel Obi
Country of citizenship: Nigeria
Club: Chelsea
Annual salary: $5,800,000,



Michael Essien
Country of citizenship: Ghana
Club: Chelsea
Annual salary: $5,500,000
You can find the rest on forbes

Dutch protesters burn photocopies of Book of Negroes.

A Dutch anti-slavery group has followed through on its threat to symbolically burn a copy of Canadian author Lawrence Hill’s acclaimed Book of Negroes because of its title, wrote The Star
A spokesperson for Amsterdam’s de Telegraaf newspaper confirmed a photocopy of the book’s cover was burned Wednesday afternoon in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam, which has an anti-slavery monument.
The Dutch group, the Federation for Honour and Reparation of Slavery in Suriname, recently announced it would publicly burn the book on June 22 if the title wasn’t changed. The book has only recently been published in the Netherlands under the title, Het Negerboek.

The Book of Negroes is the title of an actual historical document which documents the migration of 3,000 African slaves who supported the British cause in the American Revolution and were allowed to go from New York to Nova Scotia. Many of them later returned to Africa.
“The title is not intended to be offensive, but. . . to shed light on a forgotten document and on a forgotten migration, that of thousands of blacks from the USA to Canada in 1783,” Hill wrote Groenberg in reply.
It’s not the first time the award-winning book’s title has raised controversy. Publishers in the United States and Australia insisted the title be changed to Someone Knows My Name and in Quebec, the book is titled Aminata, the name of a female slave who returned to Sierra Leone after being abducted as an 11-year-old.
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Red moon shines over Sydney...

Early risers in Sydney have been treated to a "spectacular" blood red moon during a total lunar eclipse this morning.
Ash from the eruption of a Chilean volcano, which has disrupted flights over the past few days, turned the usually copper-coloured "deep lunar eclipse" into a reddish colour.
"We were all very concerned with the cloud cover and there was a rain storm about 3am, but we were very fortunate and there were holes in the cover," Sydney Observatory manager Toner Stevenson said.

Everybody got to see totality and that lovely red moon and it was spectacular."
Ms Stevenson said about 130 Sydneysiders watched the eclipse - the first this year and the longest in more than a decade - at the observatory, including one woman dressed up as a vampire.
"We said come as a creature of the night," she said.

"There was [also] a child dressed very elegantly as if she was from another century, [as] a lady astronomer from the past, and a little boy dressed up a red superhuman."
A total lunar eclipse takes place when Earth casts its shadow over the moon. The surface of the moon sometimes turns a copper colour as light from the sun is refracted as it passes through our atmosphere.
Ms Stevenson said the rare occurrence of the reddish-orange moon "made you think about how that red effect occurs and how people in the past might have thought what was happening when the moon turned red".
100-minute period of totality is the longest since July 2000.
"The entire event will be seen from the eastern half of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and western Australia," US space agency NASA's veteran eclipse watcher, Fred Espenak, told Agence France-Presse.
The next total lunar eclipse is on December 10.

There will be partial solar eclipses on July 1 and November 25. The next total solar eclipse will take place on November 13, 2012, in a track running across North Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and southerly South America.
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African asylum seekers in Europe face disillusionment.....

They set off on dangerous roads, abandoning their homeland and crossing first the Sahara and then the Mediterranean on board handmade rafts. Once they reach Europe, African migrants end up behind the walls of centres for asylum seekers. Condemned to living in uncertain, overcrowded conditions, always in fear of being deported. They survive day by day. With little success and few hopes. Charles Nforgang’s report.
Their days are marked by the comings and goings taking place in the asylum seekers centre they live in the suburbs not far from the business centre of a German city. Many of them are moneyless and the few euros they have left are spent in the cybercafè from which they send news of their whereabouts to friends and relatives or search for online encounters that could change their lives. Once the sun goes down they leave the magical internet world to go to the city’s hotspots in the vain hope of finding a kindred spirit or a good Samaritan.
They are Gambian, Togolese, Somali, Guinean, Cameroonian, all escaped from Africa to conquer fortress Europe. They have left their countries without a visa and with no kind of legal residency papers. There are those who, like Alain, it took two years to travel from Cameroon to Europe. to read more go here...

South African actress Terry Pheto Scores A Role In “The Bold & The Beautiful”

South African actress Terry Pheto had tongues flapping over her Oscar win for “Tsotsi”, and now everyone around the country is once again singing her praises after she scored a role in American soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful”.

Pheto was thrilled to be part of the cast, as she has grown up watching the soapie. She had never “in [her] wildest dreams…[imagined herself] acting in the soapie”.

Pheto also admitted that she was head-hunted for the role. She told no one but her friends and family of the opportunity, but everyone found out when she left for Los Angeles to prepare for shooting for the role.

Terry’s role will come alive in 2012 as a South African heart surgeon.

Nigeria's Pastors Rich As Oil Tycoons....

Bishop Oyedepo in private jet

Nigeria's pastors run multi-million dollar businesses which rival that of oil tycoons, a Nigerian blogger who has researched the issue has told the BBC.
Mfonobong Nsehe, who blogs for Forbes business magazine, says pastors own businesses from hotels to fast-food chains.
"Preaching is big business. It's almost as profitable as the oil business," he said.
The joint wealth of five pastors was at least $200m (£121m), he said.
Mr Nsehe said the richest of them, Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry, was worth about $150m.
Bishop Oyedepo owned a publishing company, university, an elite private school, four jets and homes in London and the United States, according to Mr Nsehe.
'Private jets'
The Nigerian blogger said Bishop Oyedepo was followed on the rich list by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of the Believers' Loveworld Ministries. He was worth between $30 and $50m.
"Oyakhilome's diversified interests include newspapers, magazines, a local television station, a record label, satellite TV, hotels and extensive real estate," Mr Nsehe said.
He said three of the other richest pastors were:

• Temitope Joshua Matthew of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (worth between $10m and $15m);

•Matthew Ashimolowo of Kingsway International Christian Centre (worth between $6 million and $10 million) and

•Chris Okotie of the Household of God Church (worth between $3 million and $10 million).
Mr Nsehe said representatives of all the clergymen, except Pastor Ashimolowo, confirmed ownership of the assets he had listed on his blog.
"These pastors are flamboyant. You see them with private jets and expensive cars. This extravagance sends out the wrong message to their followers," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
He said the pastors acquired their wealth from various sources, including their congregations.
"We have Nigerians who are desperate, looking for solutions to their problems. They go to church for salvation, redemption and healing and pastors sometimes take advantage of them," Mr Nsehe said.

PHOTOS OF THE DAY...

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African Fashion

DECO, SS11 Collection
Nigeria… Enjoy....

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African Wedding

Ayo Sofunde & Omoh Igebu Wed
May God Bless Their Marriage Amen..
Church Wedding..

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Waxprint Bikini

It goes without saying that any collaboration between Vogue and The Coveteur is going to provide a stylish glance into the closets of those who "have" so it was fun to see these African bikini tops on the list of summer things a few fashionistas can't do without...

Burberry in the Wax

Can you imagine my surprise to look through the resort 2011 collections and find out that Burberry is living on the wax print edge?! Obviously I love it! Oh so African chic while maintaining all that English cool that goes with Burberry!