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DO IT FIRST! CHRISTIANO RONALDO IN TRADEMARK TROUBLE

An American man is suing Portugal and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo over the ‘CR7’ trademark. Ronaldo, more popularly known as CR7, has an underwear line by the same name. But as it tries to enter the US market, it has hit a roadblock. The reason? There’s already someone in the US with the ‘CR7’ trademark. And he is currently being hassled to give up that trademark. Who owns the CR7 trademark? Christopher Renzi, a 43-year-old fitness enthusiast, first trademarked the CR7 moniker in 2009. He has already used it on jeans and t-shirts, and also has a 7-minute workout under the CR7 name uploaded on his website. He had made the trademark based on his initials (CR) and the his day of birth (October 7). Renzi has now filed a complaint in Rhode Island federal court after JBS Textile Group lawyers sent him letters asking him to give up the trademark so that Ronaldo’s CR7 underwear can be sold in the US. It is learned that JBS even asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Renzi;s trademark. Michael Feldhuhn, Renzi’s attorney, said: “We just want them to leave us alone,” while they sought a court’s declaration stating that he owned the trademark. And JBS state that they hold “exclusive, worldwide license” to market the underwear line and that Renzi trademarked it to profit from Ronaldo’s fame and popularity. Although CR7 has been associated with Ronaldo for years now, Feldhuhn added, “It’s really based on who’s using it first. We can show we were the first use of the CR7 name in commerce in America.” “They don’t really have the trademark rights because they haven’t used it.”
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CONFUSION AS BABY'S PLACENTA IS DISCOVERED WITH ALFA

The discovery of a baby placenta in the residence of a man, identified simply as Alfa Gani, is causing confusion in the Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, Kwara State.

Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that the discovery was made when some volunteers went round the Laduba community to appeal for financial contributions from residents for the repair of a faulty transformer in the area.

It was said that the volunteers perceived offensive odour at Gani’s residence, which they later reported to other members of the community.

It was said that curious to know what smelled, some members of the community rushed to Gani’s residence and demanded an explanation for the offensive odour oozing from his house.

An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said that Gani initially accused the community members of intruding into his privacy.

He was said to have rushed to the Oloje Police Station to report the community members.

The source added that before Gani could come back with the police, the community members had entered his house and discovered a boy with a baby placenta.

The enraged community members were said to have beaten up the boy, making him to confess that he was asked to prepare a charm by Gani, who allegedly exhumed the placenta.

While this was going on, our correspondent gathered that a woman, whose baby naming ceremony was recently held near Gani’s house, arrived at the scene.

On seeing the placenta, she was said to have rushed to where the placenta of her new-born baby was buried, only to discover that it was missing. She was said to have raised the alarm, alerting the community members to the ugly development.

When he came back with the policemen to arrest the community members, the commotion was still in progress.

The source said, “The residents narrated their discovery to the policemen. It was at that point that the policemen decided to search the entire house including an uncompleted building behind the suspect’s house, after which they discovered some human parts.”

It was gathered that the enraged mob vandalised Gani’s house and set it on fire. 

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South Korea ferry: Death toll passes 100 as evidence shows ship did not turn sharply

The death toll from the ferry which sank off the coast of South Korea last week has officially passed 100 for the first time, as new evidence emerged showing it did not turn sharply before capsizing.

The Sewol, which was carrying 476 people, had an inexperienced third mate at the helm at the time of the disaster. On Friday, a government official said data appeared to show that the vessel had made an abrupt turn just before it started listing dangerously.
Yet analysis of the full data from an on-board transponder used for tracking has now shown that the ship in fact made a much more gradual, J-shaped turn before it sank. Today the ministry of ocean and fisheries said its previous data had been incomplete.
At least 104 bodies have now been retrieved from the wreckage of the ferry, but more than 300 are either missing or dead - many teenage pupils from the same high school.
The cause of the disaster is not yet known. Officials said the third mate, who has been arrested, was steering in a challenging area where she had not steered before, and the captain said he was not on the bridge at the time.

Crew committed 'unforgivable, murderous acts,' says President

Families who once dreamed of miraculous rescues now simply hope their loved ones' remains are recovered soon, before the ocean does much more damage.
After the bodies are pulled from the water, police and doctors look for forms of ID and take notes on the body's appearance, clothing and any identifying physical marks.

MH370 UPDATE :Cyclone halts MH370 search after 20 ships and aircrafts are enlisted to help

The search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has had to be
suspended, after a Tropical Cyclone hit the area in which searches were
taking place.

The announcement that the storm, Cyclone Jack, would halt Tuesday’s search, came hours after authorities had announced that 10 military aircraft and 10 ships would be helping with Tuesday’s search efforts.
The searches that are taking place in an area about 990 miles northwest of the coast of Perth, were  stopped for the day, after those coordinating the search said the cyclone would lead to poor visibility and potentially dangerous conditions for searchers.
“It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous,” the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said.
Only four planes were able to set off, but the poor conditions meant any chance of finding evidence of the missing plane were small.
The setback occurred on the day that $4 million U.S Navy drone submarine, Bluefin-21, neared the end of its search mission.
It was announced by those that controlled the drone that it could complete its scaling of the unmapped 1,2000 mile stretch of open ocean as soon as Wednesday.
Despite having covered over two thirds of the plotted area already, the drone is still yet to produce any evidence that the plane had crashed in the area.
It was felt that the Bluefin-21 would be the most promising aid in the search for the plane that went missing nearly seven weeks ago. However, if by the end of its mission, the U.S submarine has not found any evidence of wreckage it would lead to authorities having to decide on what course of action to take next.
With no wreckage being found, and the only evidence of the plane having crashed in the current search area being recorded pings believed to be from the plane’s black box, search organisers may have to re-evaluate the situation and decide on where next to direct their operations.
Earlier, families of the passengers of the Malaysian flight MH370 reacted angrily to the Malaysian authority’s offer of compensation.
In a statement released after the discussions the families’ of the survivors said: until “at least a tiny bit of concrete evidence" that the plane crashed is found, authorities should not try to settle the case with final pay-offs.
"No meaningful report on the progress of the investigation was given" at the meeting, the relatives said, adding that "not a single one" of their questions was answered.

Oscar Pistorius trial: Athlete's family denies he took acting lessons before taking stand

The Pistorius family has denied in the “strongest terms” the athlete took acting classes in preparation for his murder trial, following accusations that he was “coached” by a professional actor.

In an open letter, British-born columnist Jani Allan accused him of faking his courtroom tantrums and described the athlete, who is accused of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year, as a "faux hero".
"I have it from a reliable source that you are taking acting lessons for your days in court," Ms Allan wrote. "Your coach has an impossible task."
She continued: "Oscar, I look at you mewling and puking in the witness stand. You truly represent everything the West loathes about white South Africans who live extravagant lives."
Anneliese Burgess, a spokesperson for the Pistorius family, dismissed Ms Allan's letter as a "mockery of the enormous human tragedy involving the Steenkamp family and our client and his family".
She added: "We deny in the strongest terms the contents of her letter in as far it relates to our client and further deny that our client has undergone any acting lessons or any form of emotional coaching."
Ms Burgess said Ms Allan, who claims to have sources close to the athlete, has never met Pistorius and described any knowledge she professes to have of him as "fictitious".

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10 reasons why you need to eat apples daily

The old adage 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' may be a silly rhyme you heard as a kid, but you might be surprised to learn of apples' serious health benefit

1. Apples are filled with soluble fiber (5 grams). This fiber has been shown to reduce intestinal disorders, including diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and possibly some types of cancer. It helps control insulin levels by releasing sugar slowly into the bloodstream. It cleanses and detoxifies, which helps eliminate heavy metals, such as lead and mercury.
2. Apple pectin helps reduce cholesterol levels by lowering insulin secretion.
3. In two studies researchers found that eating five apples a week lowered the risk for respiratory diseases like asthma.
4. According to Chinese Medicine: Apples strengthen the heart, quench thirst, lubricate the lungs, decrease mucous and increase body fluids.
5. Apple cider vinegar can help prevent the formation of kidney stones.
6. Studies indicate that eating apples daily can reduce skin diseases.
7. According to a Brazilian study, eating an apple before a meal helped women lose 33 percent more weight than those who didn't.
8. An apple has only 50-80 calories and has no fat or sodium.
9. Apples are packed with vitamins C, A, and flavonoids and with smaller amounts of phosphorus, iron and calcium.
10. Apples provide a source of potassium which may promote heart health.
11. So there you have it ... lots of good reasons why it is good for you to eat an apple a day! I like apples so much that when I started living by myself I substituted those sugar laden cereals with an apple.

Interesting apple facts:

• There are more than 7,500 varieties of apples. When I lived in England I tasted many different and delicious apples that I never see in Canada.
• The apple tree is a member of the rose family.
• When you eat an apple you are consuming a lot of air; 25 percent of their volume is air!
• Apples have 5 percent protein.
• Apple trees can live to be 100 years old!
• The largest apple weighed three pounds.
• In ancient Greece when a man proposed to a woman he would toss her an apple and if she decided to catch it, it meant she accepted.
• The original proverb about eating an apple a day, which came about in 1866, was: "Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread."
• It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.

To get the most from eating powerfood apples:

• Eat apples with skin to get the nutrients; many of the nutrients are in the skin or just under the skin (most of the vitamin C and vitamin A are in the skin).
• Apples have been found to be the most heavily pesticide-contaminated produce products according to The Environmental Working Group. The most common pesticides found on apples are Permethrin and DDT. Non organic apples are often waxed which is not digestible. Try to buy organic apples or if you cannot, wash them thoroughly before use preferably with a fruit and vegetable wash or peel them.

Apple cautions:

• As apple seeds are toxic when eaten in high doses, they should be avoided by pregnant or breastfeeding women and children.
• Apple juice concentrate can be full of arsenic when it is not organic according to Dr. Oz in his research. They did not find arsenic in organic apple juice.

"Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed." –Robert Schuller

BIZZARE : More victims of Ibadan evil forest recount ordeals

A big hole might have been dug in the claim by the security operatives met at the site in Soka area, along Lagos/Ibadan expressway in Oluyole Local Government area of Oyo State.
The place was allegedly being operated by a spiritualist for the cure of people with insanity problem as some of the rescued persons on Monday denied ever having anything to do with insanity problem.
On Saturday, the site was discovered at the back of Macmillan Publishers where decomposed bodies, dry skulls and different other human body parts as well as human skeletons were seen and some victims were rescued.
Four of the victims, among those taken to the General Hospital, Adeoyo, Ibadan told journalists on their hospital beds that they were kidnapped from different locations at different times just as they insisted that they were not mad people.
The victims, Nofiu Shittu from Ibadan, Michael Ola from Odeda in Ogun State, and Wale Atoyebi from Ada also in Osun State as well as Titi Adeniyi (nee Dokpesi), who claimed to be a relation of the late Obafemi Awolowo family said that they were each on different occasions picked up or forced out of a vehicle and later found themselves in the evil forest.
Adeniyi, 45 emaciated and malnourished explained that she was sitting in front of her Oke- Bola, Ibadan house when some people just rushed at her, got her arrested and rushed her into a vehicle and eventually driven her away to an unknown place.
According to her, “I am from the compound of Late Baba Awolowo of Oke Bola in Ibadan. Some people came and rushed at me while I was sitting in front of our house. Nobody was around then. My people were in Lagos, they said I was wanted somewhere and that they came to arrest me. They then took me away in their vehicle. Later I found myself in that forest”.
She however claimed ignorance of anything happening around her while in the forest, saying, “I don’t know whether people were being killed or women giving birth. Where they kept us was where I used to be. Once I cover my head with my cloth, I would just sleep off”.
Ola, in his narration said he left Osogbo sometime last year to see his parents in Igboho in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, but that on his return, he was just dumped somewhere which he later realised was the kidnap forest, noting that,  “If anybody calls me a mad person, I will be angry with him”.
Shittu, an Ibadan man and dealer in ‘agbo jedi’ (herbal liquid), who said he was living at Foko and Olodo areas before the misfortune that befell him said, “I was sitting somewhere at the Agodi Gate area of Ibadan when some people just swooped on me and rushed me into a vehicle.
“I had been in that place since four months ago. In the forest, we might not be given food for a whole week. People were dying”.
Another victim, Wale Atoyebi, who said he hailed from Ada, was so incoherent and stammering, that he just succeeded in muttering few words, but managed to say that he was not a mad person.
Many people have continued to throng the hospital from different states to behold the victims in sorry state. As at Monday, nobody had been able to identify any of the rescued persons as relations.
At the General Out-Patient ward of the hospital, where the victims were being attended to, nurses admitted that they had improved tremendously since they were brought there.
“When they arrived here, they smelt awfully. Some of us had to bathe and wash them while some Samaritans donated clothes to them”, the nurses said.
The nurses however explained the reason why the victims’ bushy hair were left untouched, saying, “you know their case is peculiar, if we should cut the hair now and anybody comes around to claim anyone of them and they asked where the hair is, what do you want us to tell them”?
It was gathered that the victims were eating well, even though three of them were just lying down on their beds without speaking to anyone and some were walking in and out under the watch of the hospital staff

Policeman kills self, wife, four others in Ogun

Grief, shock, pandemonium and disbelief could best describe the atmosphere in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Thursday as residents learnt of the killing of six persons by a Police Corporal, Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi.
Among the victims of the berserk policeman was also his wife, a Corporal, Oluwatosin Faremi.
The deceased policeman served with the Ogun State Police Command before the unfortunate incident early Thursday morning.
A statement by the Police Public Relations unit, signed by Muyiwa Adejobi, said the Corporal, who had been having domestic conflicts with his wife, shot and killed his landlady, a two-year-old baby girl and two males and a female.
It was not clear at press time who the parents of the toddler was, as police obliged that other three persons sustained injuries while the killing spree lasted.
The three people are receiving treatment at Federal Medical Centre Idi Aba Abeokuta.
The said Corporal, having killed these persons, shot himself dead immediately.
Commissioner of Police Ogun State, Ikemefuna Okoye, has described the incident unfortunate.
He has visited the scene with other senior police officers in the Command to assess the situation and sympathize with the relations of the deceased and members of Akinbola Ifelodun Estate Eleweran Area Abeokuta, where the incident took place.
The Command has commenced a thorough forensic investigation into the killing and promised to make sure justice is done in the matter.
The Police Commissioner however appealed to the general public to perceive the incident as one of the unfortunate social mishaps and not to judge the police with the incident.
He added that the police is committed to protection of lives and property and will not tolerate any act capable of trampling on fundamental human rights of the citizens in Ogun State.

VERY DARING : SANUSI SHUNS FRC HEARING

Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has shunned the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) probe into the financials of the bank, which began in Lagos on Thursday.
This, however, did not stop the Council from going ahead with the proceedings, as the apex bank was represented by two Deputy Governors and a former Deputy Governor.
The Deputy Governors are Kingsley Moghalu (Administration) and Sulaiman Barau (Corporate Services).
The ex-Deputy Governor of the apex bank at the hearing was Tunde Lemo,
However, newsmen covering the proceedings saw Sanusi zoomed off on sighting them when the proceedings went on break in an ash coloured Lexus Jeep at about 4.00 p.m.
Briefing newsmen during the break, Chief Executive Officer of the FRCN, Jim Obazee, said the probe was part of the Council’s statutory duties to look into financial statements of entities and see whether they complied with the International Financial Report Standards framework or not.
“Don’t forget the process that set up FRC. We are to receive financial statements from entities. Originations are supposed to submit their financial statements to the Financial Reporting Council; they are expected to comply with IFR standards.
“When we receive them, we will now invite them to a formal meeting like this to come and discuss the areas of non-compliance; there after, we will penalise anyone if we see areas where it did not comply.
“If you are a private sector entity, we will report you to the appropriate regulatory body and if you are a public sector entity, we will report you to the appropriate supervisory agencies and ministry which will in turn report them to the President.
“In the case of CBN, the CBN did not report to any supervisory body but to the President and the President receives the report and forward it to us to advise on series of non-compliances.
“So, we looked at the issues that were there and we discovered that the CBN was not reporting based on the financial reporting framework or what we called the Nigerian GAP.
“So, we wanted to know under which frame work the CBN was using, and we also have two questions that the President want clarifications and it is those clarifications that the CBN provided that resulted in the briefing note.
“So, it is an issue that is between the FRC and Mr. President, because it is an advisory role that Section 8 of the FRC Act empowered the FRC to do for the government.
“Now, that government has looked at it, and said rather than just look at the books from outside, it is important to cross check the documentation and we were brought in so that we will be able to advise or liaise with the CBN to have the corrected result for 2012,” Obazee told newsmen.
Highlights of the proceedings included scrutiny of CBN intervention funds to tertiary institutions across the country, the N500 billion intervention funds for the real sector and the N150 million paid to the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILMC).
The President, in the letter to the FRC, accused the CBN under Sanusi of releasing funds without approval of the Presidency and the Board of the CBN in the tertiary institutions intervention fund as well as the IILMC’s N150 million.
The FRC also took up the CBN on where the N500 billion real sector intervention funds was domiciled.
Obazee said, “After checking the books of the CBN, we noticed that the sum of N500 billion was paid to the Bank of Industry but while looking at the books of BoI, we couldn’t find the money and the question now is: Where is the N500 billion domiciled?
Responding, Managing Director of the Bank of Industry, Evelyn Oputu, acknowledged that there were certificates that the CBN released the money to her bank, but that the money was still domiciled with CBN.
After several buck passing, the CBN’s trio of Lemo, Moghalu and Barau accepted that the money was being warehoused at the CBN.
The FRC frowned at the reason why the fund was still with the CBN in total disregard of laid down principle of IFR standards where full disclosure was needed in all financial transactions by any entity in the country.

MALAYSIAN MISSING AIRCRAFT

An Australian plane has spotted two objects in the hunt for the missing Malaysia plane, and a ship has arrived in the area to find them.

The objects could be picked up in the southern Indian Ocean in a few hours, Malaysia's transport minister said.
One object was circular and grey or green, and the other rectangular and orange, Australian PM Tony Abbott said.
Mr Abbott said it was not known whether the objects were from flight MH370, and could be flotsam.
The two objects were different, he said, from several white, square-shaped objects spotted earlier by Chinese military planes.

Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein: "An Australian search aircraft has located two objects"

"The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has advised that objects have been located by a Royal Australian Air Force P3 Orion. And I can advise the House that HMAS Success is on scene and is attempting to locate and recover these objects," Mr Abbott told the Australian parliament.
Investigators could be closer to resolving "one of the great mysteries of our time", he added.
Speaking at a daily news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein confirmed the missing airliner had been carrying wooden pallets, but said there was no connection yet to a reported Australian sighting of pallets floating in the search zone

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