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Apple is glowing (RED) for the holidays. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant launches an unprecedented two-week campaign Monday that involves its app store, retail locations and online store, yet another example of CEO Tim Cook's push to boost the company's corporate image. (RED), the charity started in 2006 by singer Bono with a mission to rid the world of HIV/AIDS, will turn the campaign's proceeds over to The Global Fund for use in providing antiretroviral treatment to AIDS sufferers primarily in Africa. “'This time, it was about getting developers deeply involved. It couldn't just be veneer.'” Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president "We've been involved with (RED) from the beginning and have raised $75 million, but we were convinced there was an opportunity to get people to rediscover this cause," Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of software and services, told USA TODAY. "This time, it was about getting developers dee...

From obscurity in a coastal Thai orphanage, a 13-year-old girl named Pink has become an Internet hero. All she had to do was say "no" to a life with tabloid queen Kim Kardashian. Kardashian grew infatuated with the teenage girl while visiting an orphanage called Home and Life on a TV shoot in Thailand.  Usatoday  reports.

On Sunday night the three ladies reunited onstage to perform their hit single Bang Bang at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, proving once again they are an unstoppable power trio. Jessie J, 26, opened the live performance by entering through the crowd, where she stopped along the way to bump and grind with some of the celebs in attendance. The biggest fan of the stunt, however, was Kendall Jenner as she clearly got a kick out of seeing her older sister Khloe get down with the British singer Mailonline reports. Continue....

The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, who gave the warning yesterday in a statement, said being “Unbiased purveyors of information, the press requires respect and protection from all interest groups. Continue...

Nigeria's main opposition party has condemned a weekend raid of its Lagos offices by state security agents. "We call for an independent commission of inquiry to ascertain the reasons why armed officers raided our office," the All Progressive Congress (APC) deputy chairman Lawal Shuaibu told the BBC. The party said computers were destroyed and documents seized during the raid. The State Security Service said it was investigating alleged cloning of voter cards, ahead of elections in February. "The petition alleged that those behind the activities were cloning Inec [Independent Electoral Commission] permanent voters cards, with the intention of hacking into [the] Inec database, corrupting it and replacing them with their own data," the SSS said. "Based on this information, the Service placed the building under surveillance and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building, it undertook a raid of the premises." It ...

The second annual edition of the Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index has found that globally, almost 36 million people are subject to modern slavery. While incidences of slavery were found in every one of the 167 countries surveyed, five countries -- India, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Russia -- accounted for nearly 22 million people (61%) suffering in bondage. The worst offender, India, accounted for an estimated 14.29 million people. Human slavery, the report states, is defined as "human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, forced or servile marriage, or commercial sexual exploitation." Find more details below! Continue...

Femi Gbajabiamila, House of Representatives Minority Leader, was one of the lawmakers who scaled the National Assembly gate during the pandemonium that took place at the premises last week. Speaking on the incident via a statement signed by his research and media assistant, Gbajabiamila stated that he climbed over the gate to save Nigeria’s democracy, Daily Post reports. Continue...

The video for the remix version of ‘Double Wahala’ is here! Oritse Femi, features D’Banj in a remix of his hit song ‘Double Wahala’ and in this video directed by Moe Musa and shot on location in Los Angele’s, California the two of them show off the good life. Yes D’Banj – we see the studio wireless Beats by Dre headphones and we see the Koko garri. Check it out below!

                           Stephanie Linus is speaking out about rape allegations made about her brother, asking fans and journalists to keep focused on getting justice for the victim and for her brother, Daniel. Read her statement below. Continue...

A private jet that conveyed $9.3 million cash from Nigeria to South Africa for an arms deal between the two countries, had Nigerian crew members, and passengers from Israel and Austria, new documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES in Johannesburg have shown. There were three Nigerians aboard the plane, the documents show. South Africa seized the money early September, accusing the Nigerian government of violating its laws regulating the transfer of cash. Another payment by the Nigerian government for arms to combat the extremist Boko Haram sect, was also confiscated. The second transfer, totalling $5.7 million, was wired through the banks. Continue...

A 55-year-old oil mogul, Alhaji Hammed Fashola, who was kidnapped penultimate Thursday by a gang of kidnappers at Egbeda area of Lagos State has been rescued by the police in Lagos. The kidnappers were said to have escaped with the victim in a blue Toyota Highlander Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, to Iseri-Oshun and demanded a N50 million ransom. Sources at the state Command Headquarters, Ikeja disclosed that SARS operatives led by SP Abba Kyari, trailed the kidnappers to their den at 18, Odeniyi Ishola Street, Off Bola Road, Isheri-Oshun, Lagos, where they rescued the victim and arrested three members of the gang. The victim was said to have been chained in a toilet. Spokesman of Lagos State Police Command, Ken Nwosu, identified two of the suspects as 39-years-old Kelvin Igah and Victor Igah, 35, both said to be brothers from Kwale in Delta State.

The Kenyan military has killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants linked to a deadly attack on a bus, Kenya's deputy president says. William Ruto said the armed forces had carried out two operations in Somalia, destroying equipment and a camp from which the bus attack was planned. However, al-Shabab refuted this, and said that its fighters were safe. In Saturday's attack, gunmen pulled non-Muslims passengers from a bus in northern Kenya, killing 28 of them. Al-Shabab has carried out a series of attacks in Kenya since 2011, the year that Kenya sent troops into Somalia to help battle the Islamist group. Mr Ruto gave details of the military operation after attending a Sunday service at a church in Nyahururu. Continue...

Islamist militants from Nigeria's Boko Haram have reportedly killed 48 people in an attack on fish sellers near the border with Chad. A fish traders' group said some victims had their throats slit whilst others were tied up and drowned in Lake Chad. The attack took place on Thursday, but the news took several days to come to light because Boko Haram has destroyed mobile phone masts in the area. It was the second major attack in two days by Boko Haram. Continue...