37 year old married teacher blackmailed schoolgirls into sending him sexually explicit photos!

This Married physics teacher Zahid Akram, 37, pictured below reportedly posed as a boy online and persuaded schoolgirls and young women to send him explicit pictures.

Zahid Akram

Father-of-two would persuade his victims to send him pictures in their underwear and then threaten to forward them on to their family if they did not send more.

Detectives believe Akram may have contacted hundreds of youngsters on Badoo while posing as a schoolboy.

The teacher was warned he faces a long spell behind bars by a judge at Exeter Crown Court after he admitted four charges of blackmail and one of causing or inciting a child aged 13-17 to prostitution or pornography.

Police believe there are victims in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and in England – but none south of Bristol because Akram was employed as a science teacher at Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis, Dorset.

Officers said his demands were about ‘empowerment rather than sexual gratification’. Akram had a dozen different profiles on Badoo he used to coerce his victims into handing over pictures.

Judge Francis Gilbert QC refused Akram, of Redditch, Worcestershire, bail and said: ‘He knew perfectly well what he was doing. What he was doing was extremely nasty.

‘He persuaded a number of young girls to take off their clothes and show themselves wearing their underwear, bra and knickers.’

The judge said in one case he told a schoolgirl he knew the Christian names of her parents and would show them the pictures unless she sent more sexualised images.

‘It put appalling pressure on her. It is a vile offence,’ the judge said. ‘He is an intelligent man, a teacher, he must have known what he was doing. It was appalling behaviour.’

Detective Constable Steve Harris, of Devon and Cornwall Police who investigated the case, said Akram blackmailed vulnerable girls and young women aged between 13 and 30.

Abuse: Akram, 37, was warned he faces a lengthy spell behind bars when he is sentenced at Exeter Crown Court (pictured) next month

‘I think there are hundreds of victims he has contacted. They are aged between 13 and 30 and they live all other the UK, in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and from Bristol upwards,’ he said.

‘He approached them online using Badoo and other social networking sites. He had at least twelve profiles, mostly young males but one was as a woman.

‘He was getting them to take a picture of themselves, with say no top on. Once he got that he then asked them to so other things that they did not want to do. It was an increase in sexualisation.

‘If they refused he threatened to show the pictures to friends and family or post them online. In some cases he demanded money from them – £20 or £40 to use to top up his phone. It wasn’t a vast amount of money but these were vulnerable victims.

‘He was blackmailing these women. His demands were about empowerment rather than sexual gratification. He had very little control over his life at work or at home.

‘He also had £40,000 debts and he was not very good with money. He needed some way of taking control and this is what he ended up doing.

‘He has no previous convictions. The matter came to us because one of the victims contacted police. She was being blackmailed and bravely came forward.

‘We traced him and seized his computer equipment and realised there were a lot of people to trace all around the country.

‘I believe there are hundreds more victims out there. We have not been able to trace many of them but they can contact us even now.’

The blackmail and incitement started in October 2009 and continued until January 2012.

Akram will be sentenced at Exeter Crown Court on November 14.

The judge warned him that he faces a prison sentence measured in ‘years not months’.

Aviation Crisis deepens!

The Ministry of Aviation has confirmed that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority bought two bulletproof vehicles worth $1.6m (N255m) for the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.

Stella Oduah

According to an online news medium, SaharaReporters on Tuesday, the armored vehicles were delivered to the minister in August.

The medium reported that documents in its possession showed that the transaction for the purchase of the two BMW cars started in June, but the request for the delivery of and payment for them was fast-tracked between August 13 and 15, 2013.

The transaction involved the NCAA, First Bank of Nigeria, and Coscharis Motors Limited, according to the report.

The two black BMW 760 Li HSS vehicles had chasis numbers WBAHP41050DW68032 and WBAHP41010DW68044, and were reportedly delivered to the NCAA on August 13, 2013. They were received by two store managers, F. Onoabhagbe and Y. A. Amzat, who is also the agency’s head of transport.

Meanwhile, two major air crashes have occurred under Oduah’s watch.

These were the Dana Air crash in Lagos on June 3, 2012, in which 163 people died; and the Associated Airlines crash of October 3, 2013, also in Lagos, which claimed 15 lives.

A day after the Associated Airlines’ crash, a Kabo Airlines’ Boeing 747-400 plane carrying 512 pilgrims made an emergency landing at the Sokoto airport with deflated tyres and damaged the airport’s Instrument Landing System.

On Sunday, an IRS Airlines Fokker 100 plane carrying 99 passengers also made an emergency landing at the Kaduna airport, after developing hydraulic problems mid-air.

Four days after the tragic crash involving Associated Airlines’ Embraer 120 plane, Oduah described air accidents as God’s will that were inevitable.

She said notwithstanding this reality, the Federal Government would continue to ensure that there were no accidents.

The minister made the submission while fielding questions from State House correspondents on investigations into the crash.

The minister said, “We do not pray for accidents but they are inevitable. But we will continue to do everything to ensure that we do not have accidents. But an accident is an act of God.

“Again, we do not speculate on the causes of accidents.  Until they happen, you cannot say this is the cause or that is not the cause. But what is obvious and is the truth is that in aviation, there are shared responsibilities, starting from the man that carries your luggage to the man that makes sure that your boarding pass is issued to you.

“And so, the regulatory agency, the operators, the management, everybody has his/her  responsibility and all must work in tandem for there to be an optimal, secure and safe aviation sector in the country. And that is what we have been working on.”

Oduah described those saying that she left the issue of safety in the airspace to dwell on money-making ventures as ignorant.

However, much criticism had since followed her comment.

She had explained that security and safety could not be achieved without proper funding.

However, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Aviation, Mr. Joe Obi, who confirmed the development on Wednesday, said the vehicles were purchased to protect the minister from some external threats.

He said in a telephone conversation with our correspondent, “Yes, it is true that some security vehicles were procured for the use of the office of the honourable minister in response to the clear and imminent threat to her personal security and life following the bold steps she took to reposition the sector.

“When she came on board as the minister, she inherited a lot of baggage in terms of the concession and lease agreements in the sector, which were clearly not in the interest of the government and people of Nigeria.

“And so, she took bold steps and some of these agreements were reviewed and some were terminated, and these moves disturbed some entrenched interests in the sector, and within this period, she began to receive some imminent threats to her life; therefore, the need for the vehicles.

“It should be noted that these vehicles are not personal vehicles and were not procured in the name of the honourable minister; they are utility vehicles and are for the office of the minister, and if she leaves the office, she will not be taking the vehicles along with her.”

On his part, the spokesperson for the NCAA, Mr. Fan Ndubuike, feigned ignorance of the development.

“I am not aware of anything like that,” he told our correspondent at 8.05pm on Wednesday.

The NCAA is the agency charged with ensuring the airworthiness of commercial planes flying within the country’s airspace.

The agency has been under fire lately over a series of mishaps and near crashes involving planes being operated by domestic airlines that were certified fit for flight operations by the NCAA.

There have also been rumours that the NCAA does not have enough funds to upgrade its equipment, send its employees for critical training and hire enough qualified hands, while questions are also being raised by industry watchers on the ability of the cash-strapped agency to procure such expensive vehicles.

However, the Director-General, NCAA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, had on Monday denied the claims of being cash-strapped, saying that the agency was buoyant.

He said, “We are not broke, we have been carrying out all our responsibilities and have been undertaking the training of our staff as and when due.

“I can tell you that right now, some of our staff members are undergoing training abroad and we still have others that are waiting for approval; we do not joke with training here and I challenge anyone to come up with anything otherwise to that effect.”

ex-Education Minister, Ruqayyatu Rufai, joins strike!

The immediate past Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai, who was sacked from the federal cabinet last month, has joined the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which she desperately tried to break while in office.

From Left: Former Minister Of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i; Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (Nuc), Prof. Julius Okojie; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim and Minister of Labour, Chukwuemeka Nwogu, at an ASUU negotiation meeting in Abuja

According to PREMIUM TIMES, enquries at Bayero Universities, Kano, BUK where Mrs Rufai was teaching Education Curriculum before joining the Jigawa State cabinet in 2007 and later the federal cabinet in 2011, revealed that although the former minister had returned to the institution, she was yet to commence work as a result of the ongoing industrial action.

Public Relations Officer of BUK, Mustapha Zaharaddeen, told this newspaper in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the former minister had joined her colleagues in the strike.

“How can she teach? She has joined the strike,” Mr. Zaharaddeen said. “She has no choice. How can anybody teach? Don’t forget, ASUU National President is from BUK.”

When asked if she had joined the ASUU strike,  Mrs Rufai merely retorted, “It is an unfair question. Ask my university.”

Efforts to reach the ASUU President, Mr. Fagge, was unsuccessful, as his mobile telephone number repeatedly indicated it had been switched off.

Mrs Rufai, the first female education minister from the northern part of Nigeria, was sacked from the federal cabinet alongside eight other ministers last September 11.

The other sacked ministers were Olugbenga Ashiru (Foreign Affairs), Hadiza Mailaifa (Environment), Shamsudeen Usman (National Planning), Ama Pepple (Land, Housing and Urban Development), Ita Ewa (Science and Technology).

Ministers of State for Defence, Power and Agriculture, Olusola Obada, Zainab Kuchi and Bukar Tijani, respectively were also relieved of their positions.

Mr. Jonathan is yet to appoint their replacements.

Before she was fired, Mrs Rufai, who became Education minister in 2011, was a member of the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Federal Government negotiation team, which held discussions with ASUU officials led by the Union’s President, Nasiru Fagge, who incidentally teaches at BUK.

However, the government team could not make any head way in resolving the issues that led to the strike which is now entering its third month, until Mrs Rufai left government, unceremoniously.

Mr. Rufai repeatedly blamed her colleagues for failing to call off the strike despite the concessions made by government.

The former minister returned to her home state, Jigawa, two days after her sack and was welcomed by a large crowd which had gathered in Aminu Kano Triangle, Dutse, the state capital.

The crowd repeatedly shouted her name in excitement when she arrived at the venue, accompanied by her husband, Ahmed Rufai.

Responding to questions from journalists during the reception, the former minister, a professor of curriculum studies, promised that she would return to the classroom the following Monday.

“I plan to go back to my university, I am a professor in education in curriculum studies and I will report on Monday and then take a brief leave to have a kind of rest, but I am going back to the university,” she said.

On whether she would join the ASUU strike, which she was negotiating away while in government, Mr Rufai, said “Don’t make me controversial, don’t make me controversial.”

She said she had no regrets that she was relieved of her appointment, saying “This is the fourth time that I am handing over in my life. I have been a commissioner twice and I have been a minister twice and it is really not a surprise and depending on what the circumstances may be.”

Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, under whom she served as commissioner and who nominated her as minister, revealed that a few weeks before her sack, Mr Jonathan told him she (Rufai) “was doing a good job.”

Mr. Lamido, was, however, silent on whether she was fired because he (Lamido) joined six other governors to float the New PDP led by Kawu Baraje. The group is opposed to Mr Jonathan’s bid to contest the 2015 presidential election.

“Ruqayyatu has discharged her responsibilities as minister responsibly and I repeat there is no anger or ill feeling because what the president did is within his constitutional powers. We have no pain, no ill feeling,” the governor said.

“There is need for people to know why we are gathered here. Anything that has a beginning has an end,” the governor said.

“We have no grudge against her removal. We love anybody that loves us. It was the president’s wisdom to appoint her.

“Let me remind us that as Muslims we were very happy when our sister, daughter, mother and grandmother, was picked by our brother President Jonathan.

“Jigawa State is the only state in the North that has two ministers and this is because of the attachment the president has for Jigawa.

“This is not the time for politics, the time will come, the purpose here is to honour our daughter. That time will come.”

4 PDP members dies in Sraki's illorin home!

Four members of the Kwara People’s Democratic Party (PDP) died during the Sallah break at the home of the Saraki’s in Illorin, Kwara state - Nigeria.

Abubakar Bukola Saraki 

The incident was caused by a stampede during an annual distribution of Sallah gift’s at the Saraki’s Charity House.

Alhaji Mas’ud Adebimpe, State spokesperson of PDP confirmed the tragedy in a statement.

The statement reads: “The Kwara State chapter held its annual Sallah celebration at PDP charity house where many party faithful were in attendance.

“The event, which is an annual activity of the party, went on smoothly until the unfortunate incident which led to the death of some people.

“While some are currently responding positively to treatment, we, however, regret to announce that we lost  four of our party members to the unfortunate development.

“Our prayers  go out to the families of the deceased and we wish the injured quick recovery”.

Processed and red Meat lowers sperm count- Studies revealed!

Studies have revealed that just one rasher of bacon a day can damage a man's fertility, while eating a portion of white fish such as cod or halibut every other day can improve it, researchers have suggested.

The study by Harvard University on 156 men in couples suffering problems conceiving examined their diet and the size and shape of their sperm.

Researchers found that men who regularly ate processed meat had significantly lower amounts of normal sperm, compared with those who limited the amount of foods like bacon, sausages, hamburgers, ham and mince.

On average, those who ate the equivalent of less than a rasher of bacon a day had 30 per cent more normal sperm than those who ate higher quantities of processed meats.

Meanwhile, those who ate a portion of white fish every other day had a similar edge over those who ate foods such as cod more rarely.

Dr Myriam Afeiche, from the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, said: "We found that processed meat intake was associated with lower semen quality and fish was to higher semen quality."

Few studies have examined the relationship between processed meat and fertility and Dr Afeiche said it was not clear why such foods might negatively affect sperm quality.

Dr Allan Pacey, a fertility expert at the University of Sheffield, said it was already known that a healthy diet could improve male fertility, but it was less clear whether specific foods could be blamed for a deterioration in sperm quality.

He said: "The relationship between diet and men's fertility is an interesting one and there is convincing evidence that men who eat more fresh fruit and vegetables have better sperm than men who don't. However, less is known about the fertility of men with poor diets."

Dr Pacey said it was extremely difficult to accurately measure the size and shape of sperm. However, he said advice to eat less processed meat and more fish was good health advice, regardless.

"It is already known that high intake of processed meat is linked to other health issues and so advising men to limit their intake of processed food may improve their health generally as well as possibly be good for their fertility," he said.

so men.....take note!

Khloe Kardashian shows off adorable picture with Neice!

Khloe Kardashian posts a photo with her niece, North West on Instagram on Tuesday. 

In an adorable black-and-white snapshot posted to instagram.

It was gathered that the reality starlet, who has been estranged from husband Lamar Odom, has been spending a lot of time wit her family — like sister Kim Kardashian lately.

The youngest of the Kardashian 3 sported a huge diamond encrust watch, 

black manicure and her "Lo" tatto  for estranged husband Lamar odom

Baby North

Death toll in Indian stampede still raising!

Pilgrims mostly women and children, have been killed in a stampede, while visiting a temple for a popular Hindu festival to honor the Hindu mother goddess Durga on the last day of the popular 10-day Navaratra festival. 

Local officials reportedly said that some 89 pilgrims, were killed in the stampede at the Hindu festival in central India 

Many were crushed after panic broke out on a bridge near the Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh state, that the bridge would collapse. Others died when they jumped from the bridge.

Eyewitness Atul Chaudhary: “We saw people jumping into the river”

Officials said the stampede may have been sparked by a rumour that the bridge was about to collapse.

Hundreds of thousands had gathered near the town of Datia for the festival.

Local devotee Atul Chaudhary, who survived the crush, told BBC Hindi there had been a couple of thousand people on the bridge.

He heard screams, and people began rushing to get off the bridge.

Relatives crowded a state-run hospital to take the bodies after the autopsies and searched frantically for loved ones among the injured people being treated there. Volunteers and residents pulled many bodies out of the Sindh River, where people had jumped when the chaos started Sunday.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees had thronged the remote Ratangarh village temple in Madhya Pradesh state's Datia district