lasg demolished half collapse building at Ikeja.

Lasg today have completely demolish half collapsed two story building at Ikeja alausa today.
 According to report this building one  left second floor collapse yesterday leading to a few damages,the residents of this area immediately reported the half collapse building to LASG which lead to its full demolition today
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2016/17 gce result is out today

Good luck to all candidates 

David Friedman to be new American ambassador to isreal

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen lawyer David Friedman to serve as America's ambassador to Israel.

The 57 year old advised Mr Trump on US-Israel issues during the campaign.

A statement by Mr Trump's transition team said Mr Friedman's "strong relationships in Israel will form the foundation of his diplomatic mission".

Mr Friedman said he looked forward to working "from the US Embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem", a move that will anger the Palestinians.

They see East Jerusalem as part of their sovereign territory.

The United Nations does not recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and the US embassy has been located in Tel Aviv for decades.

But Mr Trump had promised during the presidential campaign to move it to Jerusalem, one of several overtures he made to Israel.

J Street, a liberal pro-Israel group based in Washington, said it was "vehemently" opposed to the nomination of Mr Friedman.

"As someone who has been a leading American friend of the settlement movement, who lacks any diplomatic or policy credentials and who has attacked liberal Jews who support two states as 'worse than kapos', Friedman should be beyond the pale for senators considering who should represent the United States in Israel."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has not enjoyed warm relations with Democratic President Barack Obama, has welcomed Mr Trump's election.

Source:bbc

Dylan roof trial

Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who gunned down nine African-American parishioners at a historic church in Charleston last year, could now face the death penalty after being found guilty of all charges.

A federal jury in the southern US port city needed only two hours on Thursday to find Roof, 22, guilty on 33 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death.

"He executed them because he believed they were nothing more than animals," federal prosecutor Nathan Williams said during his closing argument. "His actions in the church are the best reflections of the vastness of his hatred."

The guilty verdict sends the trial into the penalty phase, which begins January 3. Roof, who did not testify during the trial, has chosen to represent himself despite the prosecutors' vow to seek a death sentence.

The defendant showed no emotion and traced his fingers on the table in front of him as the 33 guilty verdicts were read out, the AFP news agency reported.

In a videotaped confession shown in court last week, Roof calmly told FBI agents that he carried out the June 17, 2015 attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in retaliation for what he said were crimes committed by blacks against whites.

No remorse

Roof chuckled during his confession, saying he had not gone to another church "because there could be white people there".

He said he became inspired after reading about a Florida neighbourhood watchman's 2012 killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, a case that sparked widespread protests.

"After I read that, I typed in - for some reason I typed in black on white crime," Roof said. "I had to do it, because somebody had to do something because black people are killing white people every day."

Three people survived the shooting spree. None of the survivors or family members of victims spoke to reporters after the trial concluded Defence attorney David Bruck hinted at mental illness in his closing argument, saying Roof had not grown up in a family with racist beliefs, had no escape plan or money, and had not communicated with white supremacists.

The racist beliefs were "downloaded directly from the internet into his brain ... Everything he's doing is just an imitation," Bruck said.

FBI agent Joseph Hamski testified on Tuesday that Roof had travelled a half-dozen times to the church in the months before the shooting.

Roof documented the trips with photographs in which he posed in front of historic sites linked to the US South during times of slavery, sometimes wearing a jacket with the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

Many of the images were posted in a hate-filled online manifesto that included racist language directed at African Americans and other minorities.

'Evil'

The trial featured heartrending testimony from survivors of the shooting at the church - the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the southern US, dating back to the late 1700s when a handful of slaves gathered to worship with free African Americans.

One survivor had lain in a pool of her son and her aunt's blood, cradling her granddaughter as the massacre unfolded. The young girl also lived.

Felicia Sanders called Roof "evil" and said "there's no place on Earth for him except the pit of hell."

Roof's mother had a heart attack during the emotional testimony and had to be hospitalised.

Roof's lawyers called no witnesses, resting their case after failing to persuade the judge to allow two mental-health experts to testify on behalf of the defendant.

After the jury was dismissed, Roof calmly told Judge Richard Gergel that he still wishes to represent himself during the sentencing phase.

Gergel cautioned against that, telling the young man that his lawyers "zealously defended you".

"It's important to appreciate the gravity of the situation," he said.

Other charges against Roof included hate crimes resulting in an attempt to kill; obstruction of exercise of religion resulting in death or an attempt to kill; and assorted firearms charges with the intent to commit murder or a violent crime.

Roof is also facing state murder charges in South Carolina, though that trial is not due to begin until January 17. State prosecutors also are seeking the death penalty.

Source: AFP news agency

Facebook now get hard investigation on News,abstain fake news

Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network, focusing on the "worst of the worst" offenders.

The online behemoth is partnering with outside fact-checkers to sort honest news reports from made-up stories that play to people's passions and preconceived notions.

Fake news stories touch on a broad range of subjects, from unproven cancer cures to celebrity hoaxes and backyard Bigfoot sightings. But fake political stories have drawn attention because of the possibility they influenced public perceptions and could have swayed the US presidential election.

There have been other dangerous real-world consequences.But he added Facebook also takes its role to provide people an open platform seriously, and it is not the company's place to decide what is true or false.

To start, Facebook is making it easier for users to report fake news when they see it, which they can now do in two steps. If enough people report a story as fake, Facebook will pass it to third-party fact-checking organisations that are part of the nonprofit Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network.

The five fact-checking organisations Facebook is currently working with are ABC News, The Associated Press, FactCheck.org, Politifact and Snopes. Facebook says this group is likely to expand.

Stories that flunk the fact check won't be removed from Facebook. But they'll be publicly flagged as "disputed", which will force them to appear lower down in people's news feed. Users can click on a link to learn why that is. And if people decide they want to share the story with friends anyway, they can - but they'll get another warning.By partnering with respected outside organisations and flagging, rather than removing, fake stories, Facebook is sidestepping some of the biggest concerns experts had raised about it exercising its considerable power in this area.

For instance, some worried Facebook might act as a censor - and not a skillful one, either, being an engineer-led company with little experience making complex media ethics decisions.

"They definitely don't have the expertise," said Robyn Caplan, researcher at Data & Society, a nonprofit research institute funded in part by Microsoft and the National Science Foundation.

In an interview before Facebook's announcement, she urged the company to "engage media professionals and organisations that are working on these issues".

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said fake news constitutes less than one percent of what's on Facebook , but critics say that's wildly misleading. For a site with nearly two billion users tapping out posts by the millisecond, even one percent is a huge number, especially since the total includes everything that's posted on Facebook - photos, videos, and daily updates in addition to news articles.In a study released on Thursday, the Pew Research Center found nearly one-quarter of Americans say they have shared a made-up news story, either knowingly or unknowingly. Forty-five percent said the government, politicians, and elected officials bear responsibility for preventing made-up stories from gaining attention.

Forty-two percent put this responsibility on social networking sites and search engines, and a similar percentage on the public itself.

Fake news stories can be quicker to go viral than news stories from traditional sources. That's because they were created for sharing - they are clickable, often inflammatory, and pander to emotional responses.

Mike Caufield, director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver, tracked whether real or fake news is more likely to be shared on Facebook.

He compared a made-up story from a fake outlet with articles in local newspapers. The fake story, headlined "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide" from the nonexistent Denver Guardian, was shared 1,000 times more than material from the real newspapers.

"To put this in perspective, if you combined the top stories from the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and LA Times, they still had only 5 percent the viewership of an article from a fake news," he wrote in a blog post.Facebook is emphasising it's only going after the most egregious fake news creators and sites, "the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain", wrote Adam Mosseri , vice president of product for Facebook's news feed, in a blog post Thursday.

Depriving scammers of money could be effective.

"Google and Facebook are the single two biggest engines for monetization," said Susan Bidel, a senior analyst at Forrester Research focusing on digital publishers. "I don't think you are ever going to completely eradicate it. But it could get down to a manageable level.

Source:aljazera news