AMAZING STORIES AROUND THE WORLD: 2015-11-08

Saturday, 14 November 2015

Don't Blame Muslims For Paris Attacks-Heartfelt letter Goes Viral

French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall

An open call on Facebook asking people not to blame Muslims for the Paris terror attacks has gone viral with over 28 thousand likes, 10,000 comments and 26,000 shares .
Leigh Matthews, from Cardiff, posted his feelings about anti-Muslim sentiments on his Facebook page earlier today..It reads
Can I just take this opportunity to remind you all that Mr Mohammed from your local shop wasn't involved in last nights attacks on Paris. Neither was Mrs Azeer from Lloyds Bank or her family. Kamal from down the road has never been to Paris, and his brother Abdul, the taxi driver, was watching the news in horror along with everyone else.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission has traced N292m to the account of one of the permanent secretaries that were retired on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt.

It was gathered on Thursday that the ICPC made the discovery during the discreet investigations into the five months the permanent secretaries presided over ministries in the absence of ministers.

Anti-graft investigators were said to have commenced probe into the permanent secretaries’ reign shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the ministerial list to the Senate.

A bomb disposal squad was called to Gatwick Airport to deal with a 'suspicious article'

Gatwick Airport's North Terminal was evacuated this morning after a Frenchman approached an Easyjet check-in desk carrying two guns.

After being challenged by Easyjet staff the 41-year-old sprinted from the North Terminal into the level-two multi-storey car park where he was seen to throw one of his firearms into a rubbish bin.

Airport staff and police continued to chase the man and when he was arrested moments after, he was found to have a second gun strapped to his body.

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The appointment of Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is unsettling to tainted political and dubious business moguls, writes KUNLE SOMORIN.

Last Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari asked Ibrahim Lamorde, until then the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to proceed on terminal leave. In his place, PMB named the taciturn police intelligence office and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Magu, to step him into his shoes in acting capacity.

Saudi Arabia seize alcohol beer disguised as Pepsi

Imaginative smugglers have been caught attempting to enter Saudi Arabia with thousands of beer cans disguised as Pepsi.

Customs officials in the Middle Eastern country intercepted the shady operation at the al-Batha border crossing with the United Arab Emirates.

The man had covered the Heineken beer cans with pepsi labels and was caught as he attempted to cross the Al Batha border into Saudi Arabia, when border control officers noticed something suspicious about his cargo.

Several officials descended upon the journalist demanding his camera and questioning his right to take photos despite the fact that the pictures were taken outside the court.

10 officers of the Nigerian Prison Service at Kuje Prison on Thursday, brutally beat a reporter for Vanguard Newspaper, Emmanuel Elebeke, outside the FCT High Court in the Maitama District of Abuja.

According to Vanguard, the attack occurred at 2:00PM on the premises of Court 2 of the FCT High Court. Elebeke took several photos of six suspects in the murder case of Anthony Eze.

Yesterday, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, celebrated the wedding ceremony of 3 of his daughters, and the nation’s most powerful men were in attendance.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, APC National leader, Bola Tinubu, attended the Fathia ceremony of Atiku’s brood.

The Comptroller-General of Immigration Service, (CGI) Martin Kure Abeshi has stated that Immigration personnel will be deployed to the new Immigration Control areas at the Murtala Mohammed Airport 2 Ikeja (MM2) in preparedness for the commencement of international flights on the 1st of December, 2015.

According to a statement by Ekpedeme King, deputy comptroller of Immigration who is also the service public relations officer delivered to The Trent by email on Friday, November 13, 2015, this information was made known at a meeting with Mr. Christopher Pennick, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd, the operators of the MM2 Terminal at the Airport which use to be solely for local flights.

Suspected child traffickers who were recently nabbed by the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) at the Delta State police command have said they engage in the business to assist pregnant girls including married couples who don’t have children.
SARS rescued over five children suspected to have been sold by members of the group who operate within Delta, Anambra, Cross River, Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and other states of the country.

PHOTO: A student holds a sign in recognition of the attacks in Paris before the game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the St. Francis Red Flash at the Purcell Pavilion on Nov. 13, 2015, in South Bend, Ind.

International tributes have started pouring in after the deadly attacks in Paris this evening that left more than 120 people dead.

In New York, the spire of One World Trade Center has been lit up in blue, white and red to honor the French flag.

Fellow Nigerians, let me tell you about my James Bond stunts in this season of the sensational SPECTRE movie. Yes. The news of the arrest of the former strong woman of Nigeria’s Petroleum Ministry, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke in London had hit the airwaves like a thunderbolt. No member of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government held the nation spellbound like Madame Diezani. Controversy dogged her every step just as she spawned loads of salacious gossip. She is a newsmaker per excellence.

For starters, Madame Diezani is a paragon of beauty. She’s also very simple but chic and elegant in dressing and appearance. At 54, she would give our much younger ladies a run for their money in the prettiness stakes. She is intelligent to boot and boasts a decent academic pedigree. She is that hot and even her most vociferous critics agree that she combines brains with beauty. Add to that is her marriage to retired Rear Admiral Allison Amaechina Madueke, a former Chief of Naval Staff which boosted her national and political profile.

R. Kelly features Wizkid On New Album “Buffet” (See Tracklist)

American music star R. Kelly recently called Nigeria’s Wizkid for a collaboration in song set to be featured in his album.

Wizkid had shared this with his fan earlier.

”I just did a record with R.Kelly…it is a record for his album,” Wizkid shared with his fans.

R. Kelly today announced his 13th studio album “The Buffet”, featuring Wizkid in “I Just Want To Thank You”.

The Buffet will be released on December 11th. Check out the tracklistings for the standard and deluxe versions below.

Former Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is unrecognizable in a new set of pictures posted by renowned Nigerian journalist and publisher Dele Momodu, who said he visited her two weeks ago.

Mr. Momodu shared the pictures while introducing his newly launched magazine “TheBoss newspaper” Friday night.

Video captures explosions during Paris football match at Stade de France

Chilling footage has emerged as at least one suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the Stade de France, causing thousand of fans to desperately try to flee the stands during the France and Germany game this evening.

Filmed by a fan, the video shows a French player in possession of the ball before a huge explosion can be heard in the background.

At least one terrorist is thought to have detonated a explosive device whilst trying to enter Gate J of the stadium, killing at least three fans.

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Read excerpts from Ovation publisher Dele Momodu speech as he launched his own online newspaper called TheBoss.

I have the pleasure of introducing to you our newest baby within the Ovation Media Group, TheBoss Newspaper, which we are starting as an online publication. It promises to be an instant hit and our vision is to make it one of the top six titles in Nigeria and Africa in the next six months. The main focus of TheBoss is Leadership in Business, Politics, Philanthropy, Entertainment, International Diplomacy, Lifestyle, Sports, etc.

Clients can now leverage on our extensive media coverage and global networks via Ovation International magazine, Ovation Television (a weekly broadcast showing on Silverbird and AIT in Nigeria and on DSTV; GhONE in Ghana; BEN Tv in UK and Europe; Afrotainment on Dish channel in USA and Canada, and more countries coming soon); TheBoss (the most independent and very responsible newspaper), close to 500,000 followers on Twitter, about 90,000 followers on Instagram, one of the biggest followership on Facebook...

Bodies Litter Restaurant Floor After Machine-Gun Wielding Terrorists Screaming 'Allahu Akbar' Open Fire On Diners

At least eleven people were killed when machine gun-wielding terrorists attacked a central Paris restaurant in the first of a series of co-ordinated terror attacks across the French capital last night.
According to a woman who was in the Cambodian restaurant, a gunman shouted 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great in Arabic) before firing.
Terrified customers hid under tables as one diner described seeing a 'pile of bodies' on the ground.
Within hours, at least 140 were massacred in the city in the country’s worst ever terror outrage.
Emergency services were called to the scene after armed terrorists fired at diners in a Paris restaurant

A series of coordinated terror attacks in the heart of Paris have left as many as 142 dead, including 11 at a restaurant on Rue Bichat

Paris was gripped by terror last night following a series of terror attacks which killed more than 150 people across the French capital. As many as 118 were massacred at a rock concert in the Bataclan theatre, where three terrorists were holding hundreds of people hostage. They detonated their explosive vests when police raided the theatre to rescue the hostages (main and bottom right).

Elsewhere, 11 people were killed when fanatics opened fire on a Cambodian restaurant on Rue Bichat and two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the Stade de France where the French football team was playing Germany. President Francois Hollande had to be evacuated from the stadium and eventually declared a national state of emergency. He has deployed 1,500 extra troops in the city in the wake of the terrifying attacks which ISIS supporters have been celebrating online. One suspected attacker was arrested and claimed to have been recruited by the terror group but this has not been independently verified.

Transgender Man Shocked To Find Out “Bloated Tummy” Was Actually 21 Weeks Pregnancy

Everyone’s heard the story of the lady who think she’s put on a bit of weight, and then, woahhh a baby pops out and it’s all a bit of a surprise. But then it makes a great “how I came into the world story” for when baby is a grown-up down the pub.

A little less common however, is Kayden Coleman and husband Elijah’s story. After living as a man for nearly a decade, 29-year-old Kayden went to the doctors as he’d been piling on the pounds and was experiencing back pain.

President Buhari, APC National leader Bola Tinubu, Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara were guests at the wedding of three daughters of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar

The Great Leap Of Raji Babatunde Fashola: How The Rejected Stone Became The Cornerstone

“This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.” Perhaps this biblical verse from the New Testament, offers an apt summation of the circumstances culminating in the nomination and subsequent swearing in of the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola as a minister.
Infighting: The genesis

Recall, the former governor once canonized as the poster boy of good governance – by his immediate folk in the political arena, was vilified, objected and persecuted – by members of his political kindred, in the wake of an apparent falling-out between he (Fashola) and his ‘godfather’ and predecessor, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a popular Abuja socialite who is also a top official of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Dr (Mrs) Imaobong Akon Esu-Nte. The suspect, a Grade Level 14 Officer with the Federal Ministry of Finance seconded to the Nigerian Prison Service as Head, Capital Accounts, was picked up Tuesday May 6 by operatives of the anti graft agency. And for several hours, she was grilled by investigators over allegations bordering on corruption, abuse of office and money laundering

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday held its national conference in an effort to re-brand and reposition the party ahead of 2019 general elections.
However, former President Goodluck Jonathan, his deputy Namadi Sambo, erstwhile national chairman of the party Adamu Mu’azu, and former Senate President David Mark did not attend the event.

A PDP founding member Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, former Vice President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, former Niger State governor Babangida Aliyu and Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, among others, were also conspicuously absent.

Audacious Millennium Dome heist fifteen years on

Last week was the anniversary of the attempted robbery of the Millennium Star at Millennium Dome's diamond exhibition in Greenwich.

On November 7, 2000. A gang attempted to ram-raid the De Beers diamond exhibition which was being held in the dome at the time. The gang had then planned to escape via the Thames in a speedboat.

A 35-year-old Zimbabwean man, Edmore Nyamazana, has been arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly dragged his from from a church and took her to a bush where he used a knife to brutally murder her before dumping her body in a stream, reports The Chronicle. The man from Gokwe district, was arraigned before a Bulawayo High Court for the murder of his wife, Lizzy Mpofu, after they had a quarrel.

ON BAIL: Emma Evans has been warned jail is an option

A 34-year-old woman in the United Kingdom has been warned of a possibility of jail term after she reportedly engaged in a sham wedding with a Nigerian man just so the man could boycott being deported.

Louise Evans reportedly admitted to engaging in a “marriage of convenience” with one Kazeem Kolade, whom she married in July 2012, but denied the charge of bigamy, stating that the marriage had been annulled before she went on to marry one Stephen Akinseye, another Nigerian man, in January 2013.

The Treasury Single Account (TSA) contract that gave out 1% as remittance fee for all government accounts moved to the Central Bank of Nigeria was signed under the regime of Goodluck Jonathan in 2012, a CBN source has revealed.

The Peoples Democratic Party had claimed recently that the TSA policy was formulated under former President Jonathan. However, due to weak regulations and corruption in the system, several ministries, departments and agencies of the Nigerian government refused to conform with the TSA policy.

Very interesting article by former presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati. Read below...

"Have you congratulated our new Ministers?”
“I am still thinking about it, actually. I don’t know whether to congratulate them or to commiserate or to pity some of them. They have merged Ministries that need not be merged. Some Perm Secs are now floating. Six months and this is it?”

“What kind of talk is that? You have come again oh”.

A 25-year-old mother of four, Nkechi Obi, who tried to sell a one-week-old baby boy, who was stolen in Onitsha, Anambra State, to a barren woman in Lagos, has been arrested.
The suspect, who claimed to be a farmer and an apprentice in Onitsha, said she was on her way to hand over the baby to the buyer at Cele Bus Stop, along the Oshodi/Apapa Express-way, when she was arrested.

It was gathered that the baby was stolen from his biological mother, who ran away from home when she found out she was pregnant.

Trouble started for the suspect after the driver of the vehicle she chartered from Asaba, Delta State, became suspicious when he observed that even though the baby cried uncontrollably throughout the 6 hour journey to Lagos, the suspect never breastfed the baby. When he asked her about his observation, she gave some unsatisfactory explanation, the driver who didn't believe her explanation, was said to have stopped at Oshodi, where he alerted some policemen who proceeded to interrogate Obi. It was during that process that they discovered that the baby was not hers.

According to reports, a male student of the University of Professional Studies, Accra stabbed his girlfriend to death late last night/in the early hours of the morning. The unidentified student allegedly stabbed the lady severally in the neck, chest and head after he suspected she was cheating on him. The body of the deceased has been sent to the Alfa Hospital at Madina. While the accused who attempted to commit suicide after the heinous crime is being treated in hospital.

David Oyedepo and his wife Faith arrived Benin city in their private jet this morning. They are in Benin city for the 40th anniversary of Church of God Mission Miracle Center which was founded by late Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa. Oyedepo and his wife were welcomed by Bishop Margaret Benson-Idahosa, her son Feb and daughter in-law Laurie.

Soldier Brother Breaks Down As Deployment Separates Him From Twin [Photo+Video]

Family and friends gathered together for a send-off ceremony for a group of Indiana soldiers who were heading overseas. Among the group was a set of twin brothers — both in the Army, yet one was leaving and the other was staying.

In the following video, the twins explain to the camera what it’s like to have to say goodbye. Their raw emotion reveals the incredible bond between these two hero brothers. One brother is too emotional to answer questions and can only hide his face behind his brother’s shoulder. “I’ve never been gone this long from my brother before… this is tough,” he says with tears in his eyes.

The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, who resumed at the ministry yesterday, has pledged to complete all abandoned rail projects in the country, saying that a fully functional rail system will ease transportation difficulties as well as create employment opportunities.

The minister, who was accompanied by minister of state, Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and the permanent secretary of the ministry, Alhaji Zakari Sabiu, said that he had come to the Transport Ministry to work in accordance with the change agenda of the present administration.

Sandra Bakker's model walks around Hong Kong NAKED from the waist down

A woman has walked around Hong Kong wearing nothing but a t-shirt, gold backpack and pair of boots, and passers-by barely fluttered an eyelid.

The blonde model, who was naked from the waist down, had been painted to make it look like she was wearing a pair of denim skinny jeans.

A video shows the woman walking through shopping centers, riding escalators and crossing busy roads sans pants, before she takes off her backpack to reveal her t-shirt that bears the words: 'No pants are the best pants'.

Residents of Ogunfunmi Street, Akobi Crescent in the Surulere area of Lagos on Tuesday, dragged a school teacher, Benedict Ekpenyong, to a police station for allegedly locking up a female pupil in his room and attempting to rape her.

The 14-year-old pupil, identified only as Blessing, had been lured by Ekpenyong to his apartment at about 12pm, after which he bolted the door to the suspicion of his neighbours.Punch reports .

It was learnt that Ekpenyong, who was a teacher in Akintan Grammar School on Akintan Street, Surulere, and Blessing, also a pupil of the school, were in the room for a few minutes before a mob surrounded the house and tried to force the teacher’s door open.

President Muhammadu Buhari did not assign key portfolios to some ministers following security reports, it was learnt yesterday.

He placed priority on expertise and performance in assigning portfolios to ministers, sources told The Nation.

The President was also said to have disappointed some of those who lobbied for “strategic” ministries.

The Senate on Wednesday alleged that some illegal transactions took place during the recently-concluded transmission of the Federal Government’s revenues into the Treasury Single Account, which was domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The upper chamber has therefore ordered three of its committees to immediately begin the probe of the alleged fraudulent transactions.

Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion and Former Gov. son Lucky Igbindion

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, vowed to publish records of fraud allegedly perpetrated by Chief Lucky Igbinedion, who is a former governor of the state.

Oshiomhole, who disclosed this at the Government House, Benin, while addressing a large crowd of students and civil society groups, also said that he would forward all the files containing alleged fraud to Abuja, next week, for prosecution.

President Buhari To Reward ’85 Eaglets 30 Years After They Won The Maiden Edition Of FIFA Under-17 World Cup In China

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday assured the Golden Eaglets team that won the maiden FIFA Under-17 World Cup in China in 1985 that his administration would fulfil the promises he made to them 30 years ago.

Buhari, who was Head of State, had promised the team houses and scholarships during a reception in honour of the players at Dodan Barracks, Lagos, in celebration of the victory.

PIC.9. PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI (R), CONGRATULATING MR BABATUNDE FASHOLA AFTER HIS OATH OF OFFICE AS THE MINISTER OF POWER, WORKS AND HOUSING, AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA IN ABUJA ON WEDNESDAY (11/11/15). 7116/11/11/2015/ICE/JAU/NAN

Reports according to The Guardian, the former governor of Lagos state did not waste time after being sworn-in as he immediately assumed duty after the inauguration of the federal cabinet by President Muhammadu Buhari.

When he got to the secretariat, he was joyously welcomed with a loud ovation by the staff of the ministry. He stepped into his office at about 3.15 p.m. He was ushered in by Mrs Grace Papka, the director in charge of Human Resources of the ministry.

The almost comatose radio programme of the late boss of Yinka Ayfele, Kola Olawuyi's "Irinkerindo Akolawole" is to berth, on his new radio station Fresh FM.

The once popular radio programme Irinkerindo has been airing on different radio stations before and after the death of the renowned journalist and popular radio and television presenter.

Nigeria on Wednesday finally got a new government after more than five months of waiting, as 36 ministers and junior ministers swore the oath of allegiance and were assigned formal roles.

The ceremony at President Muhammadu Buhari's official residence in the capital, Abuja, brought to an end 166 days in which he has effectively been in sole charge of Africa's leading economy.

The Immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today officially handed over to the newly appointed acting chairman of the anti-graft agency, Ibrahim Mustapha Magu. President Buhari sacked Lamorde on Monday November 9th. Continue to see more photos from the handover ceremony..

The transportation ministry which Rotimi Amechi is to oversee has been expanded. Ministry of Aviation is now under Transportation with Hadi Sirika as a minister of state(Aviation) under transport.
Aviation, NIMASA, Railways, Shipping business etc are under him

Congratulation to Rotimi Amaechi, as transportation is the engine room of commerce in any serious nation.

Hours after he was announced Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachiukwu this afternoon visited the Ministry of Petroleum Resources where he met with the Permanent Secretary and other managers in the ministry. Addressing them, Kachiukwu said efforts will be channeled to ensure that the working environment and perception of the ministry is changed

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