Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile sex-abuse websites in stunning victory for Mail campaign

Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world in a stunning U-turn by Google.
The world's biggest media firm has agreed to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches.
The company's chairman Eric Schmidt, writing in today's Daily Mail ahead of a Downing Street summit on internet pornography, says: 'We've listened.

At last! Google has agreed to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches

'We've fine-tuned Google Search to prevent links to child sexual abuse material from appearing in our results.'
The restrictions, which have been designed to apply in English-speaking countries, will be expanded to cover the rest of the world and 158 other languages in the next six months.
Mr Schmidt also reveals that Google has developed breakthrough technology that will allow illegal videos to be 'tagged' so that all duplicate copies can be removed across the internet.
Microsoft, which operates search engines Bing and powers Yahoo, will confirm at the Downing Street talks that it is introducing similar restrictions. The dramatic developments follow the Daily Mail's concerted fight to force the industry to clean up the internet with its Block Online Porn campaign.
David Cameron, in an interview with this newspaper, said the move represented 'a really significant step forward' but was not enough – and threatened legislation if the firms refuse to do more.
'We learnt from cases like the murder of Tia Sharp and April Jones that people will often start accessing extreme material via a simple search in one of the mainstream search engines,' the Prime Minister said.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt (left) said Google has developed breakthrough technology that will allow illegal videos to be 'tagged'. Prime Minister David Cameron (right) said the move represented 'a really significant step forward'

U-turn: Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world by Google

Mr Cameron said a list of terms had been drawn up by child protection experts which they judged were 'unambiguous'.
'If you used these you were looking for child abuse images online,' he added. 'I challenged the search companies to block these terms, to make sure that no illegal content or pathways to illegal content were returned.

Governor Fashola Rescues Sick Actor Pa Kasunmu

     

He did it for Nollywood actress, Ngozi Nwosu when all her colleagues abandoned her in her time of need as she was down with kidney-related ailment. He footed her medical bills and today she is back to life.

Now it's the turn of veteran actor, Kayode Dosumu, aka Pa Kasunmu, who cried out for help after he was hit with stroke. He needs about N12million to stay alive and his colleagues are not helping matters.

anabelohiolei.blogspot.com gathered that Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State have come to his rescue and has agreed to take care of the ailing actor's medical expenses. Such a kind gesture!

Nicole Scherzinger pulls out all the stops for X Factor results show as she oozes timeless Hollywood glamour in an elegant thigh-split black gown

The first of The X Factor live shows saw her embrace 80s night in a daring fringed dress.
But on Sunday evening, Nicole Scherzinger took it back to basics when it came to her outfit choice, pulling out all the stops as she oozed timeless Hollywood glamour in a striking black gown.
The 35-year-old singer looked effortlessly elegant as she joined fellow judges Sharon Osbourne, Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh on stage to hear the results of the first public vote, while offering a sexy glimpse of her toned and tanned pins with a daring thigh-high split.

Effortless elegance: Nicole Scherzinger pulled out all the stops as she oozed timeless Hollywood glamour in a striking black gown for The X Factor results show on Sunday

Highlighting her envy-inducing hourglass figure, Nicole's velvet gown featured a flattering racer back style, as well as an unusual panel of metal bars running down her spine.
Keeping the rest of her look simple, the Don't Hold Your Breath hitmaker added height to her frame with a pair of fierce pointed stiletto heels, while wearing her tumbling brunette locks pulled back off her face into a chic chignon.
The Hawaian-born beauty accessorised with striking bright purple earrings, while completing her look with relatively low-key make-up and dramatic fluttering false lashes.

The thigh's the limit: The 35-year-old singer offered a sexy glimpse of her toned and tanned pins with a daring thigh-high split

Hollywood glamour: Highlighting her envy-inducing hourglass figure, Nicole's velvet gown featured a flattering racer back style, as well as an unusual panel of metal bars running down her spine

Aviation Minister Stella and Her Stupid Excuse of ‘Act Of God’

When the Dana Airlines plane crashed in Lagos on Sunday, June 3, 2012, the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah called a press conference, broke down and wept. But when the Associated Airlines aircraft plunged to earth on Thursday, October 3, 2013, she made a media appearance, this time defiant.

She waved the sad event that has so far claimed about 15 lives aside as “an act of God”, saying as minister, her job is to provide leadership and ensure that the right policies were in place for the aviation sector to run efficiently. She passed the buck on safety and industry regulation to:

The heads of the agencies in the sector, such as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA; Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN; Nigerian Airspace Management Authority, NAMA and the rest. But if any of them wins an international award she would count it as one of her achievements in office, to be sure!

Her mood change owed to calls in some quarters for her to be replaced because under her watch, Nigeria recorded unprecedented number of air mishaps totaling seven in just two years, with nearly 200 precious lives lost. One of those who put their mouths in this matter was Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation. It was probably his intervention that put Madam Minister on warpath...

Honestly, I am an admirer of the physical impact that Stella Oduah has brought into the aviation sector in just a little over two years. The airport remodelling projects all over the country are modern marvels Nigerians have never seen in this generation. Never was there a time in recent history where government projects were embraced in such a wholesale manner and completed in such record quick time; a pace of achievement only often seen in private sector ventures.

In particular is the fact that two international airports at Owerri and Enugu were taken along and completed, a departure from the past when the South East was always studiously avoided in the establishment of ambitious, economy-stimulating federal projects. I am also enamoured of Oduah’s vision of our airports as areotropolises or commercially oriented mini-cities which we all see in advanced countries when we travel.

House Of Reps Raises Alarm Over $326m Paid To Tompolo

The House of Reps ad-hoc Committee investigating the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund, CVFF, has queried the management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, over $326million it paid to Global West Specialist Vessels Limited, a company purportedly owned by ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo.

The House Committee was set up to ascertain how much has accrued into the CVFF, including the interest, as well as how much the Fund disbursed and to whom it gave the money. It also demanded to know why such huge amount of payment was made to Tompolo's company secretly.

During the investigation, a member of the Committee, Dr Adejare Samuel Babatunde, raised an alarm at the amount of money paid to one single company, and demanded that a detailed bank statement of account of the CVFF be forwarded to the committee immediately.

Complete List Of Winners At The Nollywood Movies Awards

Nollywood Movies Awards, 2013 edition, took place at the newly launched Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos. The event was hosted by Nollywood actor Segun Arinze and Dakore Akande. Surely, Kunle Afolanya's hot movie - Phone Swap - carried the day. Full list of winners below:

17 Fake NYSC Members Arrested: 9 Males, 8 Females

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested total of Seventeen fake members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

They were rounded up and arrested at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Kubwa, Abuja, on Thursday evening while they were posing and taking pictures outside the camp during the passing-out ceremony.

The ICPC, in a statement, said its operatives stormed the camp based on intelligence reports and arrested the suspects comprising eight females and nine males.

It said preliminary investigation revealed that 15 of the suspects claimed to have enrolled in degree courses run by consultancy services in the University of Calabar (6), University of Jos (6), Ebonyi State University (1), Federal University of Technology, Owerri (1) and Crown Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti (1).