Entertainment: American Idol to drop all 4 judges!

By Olumide T. Agunbiade | Nigerian blogger

American Idol judges.

 None of the current American Idol judges are being asked back. AI ratings have dropped by almost 25% from last year. By far the lowest ratings the show has ever had.  
According to The Wrap, “All four are gone,” the insider told TheWrap. “They feel they’ve lost their core audience and they want it back.

According to Fox,: “Yes, we want to do a whole new panel - but, just like last time around, it depends on who we get.” This statement was made in response to a report that all four judges will be leaving after this season because the now 12-year-old show is in need of a massive jolt of new energy.

ARTICLE: A desperate protest by prisoners at Guantánamo has shamed Barack Obama

By Olumide T. Agunbiade| Nigerian Blogger

• Americans dressed as prisoners protesting.

“YOU have to hand it to some of these IRA boys,” Margaret Thatcher once remarked of the republican hunger-strikers who embarrassed her in 1981. “What a terrible waste of human life!” she said of the ten who died. Since some of the hunger-strikers at Guantánamo Bay are being force-fed through nasal tubes, President Barack Obama may be spared Mrs Thatcher’s grief. But he has been shamed by their desperate gambit all the same. The protest is a reminder of one of his most glaring failures in office.

Officials count 100 hunger-strikers; lawyers for the detainees say there are 130; on any reckoning, a majority of the 166 remaining inmates are starving themselves. Through their lawyers, detainees complain of a rougher regime since the army took over guard duties from the navy last autumn. In particular they allege that their Korans were mistreated during an inspection in February, when the hunger-strike began (prison authorities vigorously deny that). A cell-block raid by guards on April 13th (provoked by the covering up of security cameras), during which some prisoners were shot with rubber pellets, hardened rather than broke the strikers.