From The Archive(s): Amazing Nigeria's Pre And Post Independence Photos

Photo Credit: The Nigerian Nostalgia 1960 -1980 Project

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE .Date unknown 




Anike Agbaje-Williams (1936- ) Broadcaster: The first person, male or female to appear on Television in the whole of Africa. This was at WNTV-WNBS Ibadan on 31 October 1959.

Man Who Lives With 7 Tigers With His Family (PHOTOS+Video)

Ary Borges, who lives with seven tigers live in his house, swim in his pool and even give his baby granddaughter rides on their back. He rescued two tigers from a circus and breed them bringing the number to 7. The father-of-three refuses to accept being so close to the 35-stone animals is dangerous and insists if he gives them respect, they will respond.

Borges says it all started in 2005 when he first rescued two abused tigers from a travelling circus. He defends his right to breed the animals and says he gives them a better home than they might find elsewhere in Brazil.

"Sadly there are so many animals dying in zoos that have no oversight. My animals are treated extremely well ... we're preserving and conserving the species," he said. "We have a great team of veterinarians. We give them only the best, but we're being persecuted."

'I was never worried about my daughters co-existing with these animals. 'You have to show the animals respect and love - that's how you get it back from them.'

He and his daughters Nayara, 20, Uyara, 23, and Deusanira, 24, walk the tigers on leads and feed meat directly into their mouths.They even allow them into their kitchen during mealtime and let them lounge around the house.

Pack of motorcyclists attack New York Range Rover driver after high-speed chase when he TWICE ran over bikers in bid to escape with wife and child after minor accident

Video has emerged showing the shocking moment a Range Rover driver apparently drove through a crowd of motorbikes as it fled with its family inside for fear of being attacked.

According to police, the bikers started to damage the vehicle after the driver accidentally hit a motorcyclist.

Fearing for the safety of his wife and young child, aged under five, the SUV driver then sped off, hitting several bikers in its path.

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Drowned Just A Short Swim From Shore, The 13 Desperate Migrants Who Plunged From overcrowded Smuggler Ship After It Ran Aground Off Sicily

The bodies of 13 immigrants have washed up on the coast of Sicily after a boat carrying 200 people ran aground as it approached the shore.

When the boat ran into difficulties in rough seas near the coastal town of Scicli this morning, the migrants it was carrying jumped into the sea.

Most made it to shore and ran away, but a number of men were unable to swim strongly enough and drowned.

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ALL the faces of Facebook in one place: Now you can explore the profile pictures of its 1.15 billion members on a single page (and find out if your friends joined before you)

It may just look like a webpage of television static, but the picture below is in fact the profile pictures of every single Facebook member from across the world, in one place. All 1.15 billion of them. 

The Faces of Facebook online app has scanned the public profile images of each member, which equates to one seventh of the Earth's population, and its makers claim that if you were to browse all of them individually it would take 36 years, 5 months, 9 days, 6 hours, 46 minutes and 16 seconds.

Each face has been added to the site in chronological order, based on the date in which they joined the site, and if a user connects their account to the app, it will tell them their Face Number. 

Woman Accountant Son, 21, Charged For Her Murder In UK

Tolu Kalejaiye, Murdered by her son on cold blood

Woman Accountant Son, 21, Charged ForHer  Murder In UK-Oludotun  EmmanuelKalejaiye, the 21 year old son of the Nigerian lady accountant killed in cold blood on Thursday morning has been officially charged for her murder.

Tolu Kalejaiye was killed in her home in Wickford, ,Essex, after suffering  fatal knife attacks to her neck.

Tolu, 44, was discovered by police soaked in her own blood following the stab wounds on Friday morning in Wethersfield Way, Wickford in Essex. She was a native of Abeokuta in Ogun State of Nigeria.

A post mortem was carried out on Friday which confirmed that she suffered  fatal stabs to her neck.

Her son Oludotun Emmanual Kalejaiye, 21, has been made to appear in court charged with murder after being held in custody and questioned overnight by police on Thursday and Friday.

WICKEDNESS: Bodies Of Students Shot in Yobe School On Sunday. [Photos]

As many as 50 students of a Northern Nigeria school weregunned down as suspected Boko HaramIslamic sectstruck in a college of Agriculture culminating in over one thousand  students fleeing the college.

The college provost said the student  were gunned down as  they slept in an early-morning raid attack innortheast Nigeria’s Yobe state College of Agriculture.

Moline Idi Mato, the provost  of the  College of Agriculture told The Associated Press that the gunmen also torched classrooms in the attack at about 1.am on Sunday in rural Gujba. The college is about 40 kilometres(25 miles) from the scene of similar school attacks around Damaturu town.

He said security forces are still recovering bodies so he could not give an exact death toll. He said about 1,000 students had fled.
The situation however has created a state of fear as the Governor of the state visiting the injured on Sunday  at the capital’s specialist hospital went down in tears.

Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam could just not hold-on emotions as  he burst into tears in sympathy of those killed and the injured as he came face to face with bodies in the hospital with five affected students, three of whom have fractures, one has a abdominal injury and another a bullet wound.

Nollywood Actor, Jim Iyke Receives Deliverance At TB Joshua’s Church [PHOTOS]

      

Nollywood star actor, Jim Ikye   fell at his feet and started crying as he was delivered from demonic spirits that had prevented him from finding love and getting married.

During the deliverance session at TB Joshua’s church, the spirit spoke through him, saying, “it was the cause of his setback and disappointment”.

Sony Unveils Two New Android Walkmans Due Out 19th October For $760 No Free Headphones Included

The new flagship Walkman NW-ZX1 have just been announced by Sony Japan.

The Sony Walkman NW-ZX1 and NW-F880 have just been announced by Sony Japan. The NW-ZX1 is a premium Android MP3 player while the NW-F880 comes in three colours.

Both devices run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, sport 4-inch 480 x 854 Triluminous screens and feature Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC.

The NW-F880 continues Sony's F series and offers 24 bit/192 kHz lossless audio for FLAC or WAV files. It also has sports hardware buttons for easy access to playback controls. There will be three models: the 16GB NW-F885, 32GB NW-F886 and the 64GB NW-F887.

The NW-ZX1 is a premium MP3 player that does away with some of the offerings on the NW-F880, such as FM radio and digital noise cancellation, so as to improve audio quality and cram in its 128GB storage. That bulge at the back of the device is a headphone amplifier called S-Master HX which reduces noise distortion. The ZX1 doesn't come with free headphones as Sony recommends using a good pair to enjoy the high-quality audio.
The NW-F880 will come in white, black, blue and pink, although the 64GB model only comes in black and white. The 16GB is priced at $274 (£155), the 32GB at $304, and the 64GB at $405. The NW-ZX1 comes in silver only and costs $760.
The new Android Walkman devices are set to launch in Japan on 19 October with no details of international availability.

A Report Card For Proverty

The MDGs are the best idea for focusing the world on poverty that I’ve ever seen.

This graphic gives you a quick overview of how each country in sub-Saharan Africa is doing: http://b-gat.es/16tyhP0 -  Bill Gates

'F*** Off Back To Your Own Country': What Accountant 'Told Asian Man During Tube Rant That Was Caught On Camera Is Found NOT GUILTY

Rant: Claire Moloney was filmed having a screaming argument with an Asian man on a Tube carriage after going out drinking with colleagues

A commuter who told an Asian man to ‘f*** off back to your own country’ in a rant on a Tube train has been found not guilty of racial harassment .

Accountant Claire Moloney was allowed to sit with her family while the verdict was announced.

A gasp of relief was heard when she was pronounced not guilty, and her husband put his arms around her and gave her a hug.

One family member was heard to say, 'About time.'

Mrs Moloney said during her trial that she was embarrassed to watch film footage in which she screamed at an unidentified man, and which was later uploaded to YouTube, and shown to the court at her trial.

Tomb raider: Man Spends $65,000 on Macabre World Tour of Celebrity Graves

Most people's holiday snaps involve colourful scenery, famous landmarks and smiling tourists.

But not if your morbid Mark Dabbs, his ideal holiday snap involves him standing alongside the tombstones of some of the world's most famous late greats.

In fact, the 38-year-old is so interested in the final resting places of the rich and famous, that he has spent more than £40,000 touring the world to visit as many of them as possible.

From the Seattle grave of the kung-fu legend Bruce Lee to Russian Marxist Leon Trotsky's shrine in Mexico City, Mr Dabbs has trekked across continents to search out cemeteries.

It all began at the age of 18, when he visited the final resting place of John F Kennedy in Virginia, USA.

Since then the staff nurse has dragged his siblings and even a string of girlfriends on his odysseys to seek out star-studded graveyards.

But while some may think his hobby bizarre and find his endless tomb snaps boring, the staff nurse can't think of any better way to spend his summer holidays.

Huangluo – The World’s First Long-Hair Village

Hair is very important to women, who generally use it to highlight their features, but for the women of the ethnic Yao people of Huangluo Village, China, hair is their most prized possession.
Located in the Longji Scenic Are of Gulin, China, Huangluo Village numbers around 82 households of Red Yao ethnics, who get their name from the traditional red clothing. Like many other Chinese villages, Hunagluo enjoys very attractive natural surroundings and has plenty of ancient traditions to keep tourists entertained, but the most fascinating thing about it is the women’s obsession with long hair. 

In fact, the Yao settlement has received a Guinness certification for the “world’s longest hair village” and is also known as the “Long Hair Village” across China. Considering the average hair length of the 120 women in Huangluo is 1,7 meters and the longest locks exceed 2.1 meters, I’d say its reputation is well-deserved.

INTERVIEW: Why we killed Ironsi and installed Gowon — Jeremiah Useni

Lt. General Jeremiah Useni needs no introduction. The prominent role he played during the reign of late Head of State, Sani Abacha, as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is well known. However, there are two things about Jeremiah Useni, who was referred to as ‘Jerry Boy’ at the time. He was indeed a Boy, because he joined the Army at the age of 14. Firstly, he was one of the soldiers who fired shots during the coup against General Ironsi in which the General was killed in Ibadan. Mr. Useni was also the closest person to General Abacha up to his last moments.

This interview, conducted in Hausa by the Hausa language newspaper, Rariya, and translated to English by PREMIUM TIMES’ Sani Tukur, reveals a lot of things many of us didn’t know, including the conspiracies that denied him the opportunity of succeeding Mr. Abacha after he died. Enjoy…

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You joined the Army as a fourteen year old, and you were posted to England for a Course at sixteen, how did you feel at the time?

Honestly, it was like a dream to me because I broke my left leg during a game of football, just one year after I joined the Army. As a young footballer, I had very strong shooting ability with my left leg. Anyone who was unfortunate to be hit with my shots really suffered no matter their size. I spent about four months at the hospital In Kaduna. Most of the hospital staffs at the time were Europeans, and they were very efficient. They joked a lot with their patients and they related with you as if you had known them for ages. One day, they decided to come and test all of us and see those who had made progress, so that they would be discharged. When they came to me, they asked; ‘can you stand up?’ And I said, ‘yes’. Then I was asked to stand up and walk. The whiteman said, ‘this one is ok now, he can be discharged’.

APC Relocates TO London For Tinubu As Buhari, Fayemi, others visit recuperating Tinubu in London home [Photos]

L-R: Gen. Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Governor Fayemi compare notes on a book during a visit to Asiwaju Tinubu in London, Thursday

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, including Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, visited former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu in the United Kingdom, where he is recuperating after a knee surgery.

Mr. Tinubu, who has been out of Nigeria since July, had the surgery in the United States the following month after which he moved to London, to recuperate.

Apart from Mr. Buhari, those who visited the former Lagos State governor, himself a leader of APC, were Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, Senators Babafemi Ojudu, Bunmi Adetumbi, Jide Adesoye, Tony Adeniyi and Kemela Okara. At the end of the visit, Mr. Tinubu posed in a group photograph with his visitors.

War Or Wedding? AK-47 Wedding (PHOTO)

Superhands: Man That Fries Chicken With His Hands, Doesn't Get Burned [Photos+Video]

Kann Trichan at work at his chicken stall on May 11, 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dipping his hands into hot boiling fat this chicken chef takes his cooking to the extreme.

Meet Kann 'Superhands' Trichan who can bury his hands deep into hot boiling fat and sieve fried chicken with his own fingers. Amazingly the 50-year-old walks away with no blisters and completely unharmed. Discovering his unique talent seven years ago when he was accidentally splashed with hot oil but suffered no injury.

Chastising Me For Smoking Weed Is Another Form Of Racism – Jesse Jagz Opens Up On Marijuana Use

At ‘The Jesse Jagz Experience’ free music concert which held last month at the New Afrika Shrine, Lagos,  the music maker took time to explain his weed smoking habit and how it doesn’t concern anybody.

‘This one’s for the blogs. You people keep reporting about me smoking marijuana, chastising me for smoking is just another form of racism’, Jesse Jagz blurted out in between performance.

He then went on a rant about how he did not ‘find it anyone’s business’ because he patronised the green leaf calling it ‘grass’ created by God himself.

It was once reported about Jesse Jagz use of Marijuana but record label Chocolate City denied it.

Well, we guess Jesse’s open statement has proved his former label wrong…

Photos: Damilola Adegbite’s look for the London premiere of Flower Girl

The actress is in London for the premiere of Flower Girl tonight..

Nigerian Idol Season 2 Winner Mercy Chinwo Yet To Receive N7.5m Recording Contract

Over a year after winning the second season of Nigerian Idol, singer Mecry Chinwo is yet to be given her N7.5m recording contract.

‘As I speak to you, I’m one-man standing. I am not in any record label, I am alone. I have to say the truth. I am not or was never tied to nay record label‘, the Port Harcourt-born singer told Encomium Weekly last week. She however confirmed receiving the N7.5m cash prize.

Franchise owners of Nigerian Idol, Optima Media Group (OMG) had announced that the winner of the talent show would go home with the overall prize of a recording contract, an SUV and a mouth-watering cash of prize of $100,000 (N7.5m). The show was sponsored by Etisalat and Pepsi.

We could not establish contact with OMG as a rep for the media company refused to pick our phone calls and reply text messages.

Mercy’s case isn’t the same with season three winner Moses Obi-Adigwe who says everything OMG promised has been delivered. ‘Yes I got the money and my contract, everything is okay‘, Moses told us in a telephone chat. The singer says he has received his N7.5m cash prize and has released three new singles.

Apparently, Moses’ recording contract is with OMG who recently setup their own label. Moses says he is more relaxed working with OMG than any other label as they would ‘have time’ for him.