Sunday, August 9, 2015
Special Olympics Nigeria Athletes Given Rousing Welcome from World Games
Special Olympics Nigeria athletes at the welcome reception held in their honour yesterday in Lagos after participating at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, USA
Team Nigeria’s athletes and officials to the Special Olympics Summer World Games in Los Angeles, USA, were given a rousing reception yesterday in Lagos with all the 41 medalists celebrated like true champions.
At the reception which held at the Vigeo Group headquarters on Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, officials of Special Olympics Nigeria rolled out red carpet to welcome the athletes who won a total of 71 medals in the seven Olympic-type sport the country participated in.
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Florida man kills 2 neighbours, shoots the 3rd one over a long standing beef
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Woodward in Camo sneaking up to shoot his neighbours |
“I kept low crawling. I was on a military mission. I was going to end this war,” Woodward is heard telling Titusville police after the shooting on an interrogation tape.
Bangladesh blogger hacked to death for atheist views. The 4th to be killed in the country this year
Popular blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, 40, was killed yesterday Friday August 7th after a gang armed with machetes broke into his home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was well known for his atheist views and anti-Islamic writings.
"They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," Imran H. Sarker, head of Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network told AFP
'Fantastic Four' director blames studio for the movie's horrid reviews
"Fantastic Four" director Josh Trank took to Twitter on Thursday night and blamed the film's studio, 20th Century Fox, for the film's disappointing reviews.
Trank quickly deleted the tweet, but Variety took a screengrab of it while it was still online:
12 things you shouldn't do when visiting Hawaii
There may not be one single best way to vacation in Hawaii, but there are plenty of ways to do it wrong.
To have a great trip in the Aloha State, avoid these 12 pitfalls.
Then again, if nothing says vacation like speeding tickets, painful stings, and bland food, by all means ignore this advice.
Don't Automatically Opt for a Beachside Hotel
When imagining a perfect Hawaii vacation, many people envision a beachfront hotel with an ocean view.
But staying off the beach has its advantages, too.
Thai man sentenced to 30yrs in prison for Facebook posts insulting monarchy
A 48-year-old man named Pongsak Sriboonpeng was today Friday August 7th handed the lengthy prison sentence by the military court, having been prosecuted under Thailand’s royal defamation law.
His lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan told AFP that his sentence was 60 years - a decade for each six Facebook posts he made but this was halved as he had pleaded guilty.
"It's broken the record," she said about the severe jail term. She further added that because Pongsak was arrested while Thailand was still under martial law there was no right to appeal the sentence passed by the military court.
Under Section 112 of the Criminal Code, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count.
(Photo of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit)
His lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan told AFP that his sentence was 60 years - a decade for each six Facebook posts he made but this was halved as he had pleaded guilty.
"It's broken the record," she said about the severe jail term. She further added that because Pongsak was arrested while Thailand was still under martial law there was no right to appeal the sentence passed by the military court.
Under Section 112 of the Criminal Code, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count.
(Photo of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit)
Inside Asia's largest red light district with hundreds of multi-storey brothels home to prostitutes - from 72-year-old women who can't bring themselves to leave, to wives fleeing violent husbands
They are the residents of Sonagachi, in the western city of Kolkata, an area swamped with hundreds of multi-storey brothels, housing roughly 14,000 prostitutes from all over India.
It is thought as many as 1,000 women arrive every year to work in the brothels, and each of them have their own tale of how they came to live in the sprawling red light district.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Decades after meeting in Nigeria, student and teacher reunite in Charlotte
Because of his name and accent, it’s not unusual for Dr. Yele Aluko’s patients to ask where he’s from.
But in the early 1990s, when he got the question from this new patient – a retired Charlotte principal and Johnson C. Smith University professor – Aluko asked one of his own: Where do you think?
Spencer Durante guessed correctly that his new heart specialist was from Nigeria, in west Africa.
Commercial plane's engine catches fire at US airport


One of the passengers, Phil Cobucci when recounting what happened said "No one heard anything. The plane really just stopped in the middle of the tarmac. The captain said, 'We had a misfire,' which didn't really make it sound like the picture I saw (later) when they started popping up on Twitter. There wasn't any drama. Everyone is fine. It was more like an inconvenience, really,"
Yolanda Foster I Removed My Leaky Implants
According to our sources, the 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star had both implants removed this week. Foster says her doctors discovered one of them was leaking silicone, and they immediately realized it was exacerbating the symptoms of her Lyme disease.
Foster was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012 and her condition became so serious earlier this year, she lost the ability to read, write or even watch TV.
But doctors think Yolanda's condition will become way more manageable ... it won't cure her, but it will help keep the symptoms in check.
How they did it! Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux went to great lengths to hide wedding even using a multimillion dollar home as a secret storage space
It is the wedding of the year that almost remained the biggest secret of the year.
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux managed the impossible - they were able to tie the knot at their Bel Air home without the world knowing.
While fans have waited for years for the two superstars to say 'I do', the couple were able to keep their special night on Wednesday largely to themselves thanks to a myriad of clever tactics - including a hiding all their party set up in a nearby house.
Idris Elba Becomes First Man To Cover Maxim Magazine
For the first time in the publication’s history, a man appears on MAxim’s cover
The summer just got a little hotter for women around the world. British actor Idris Elbagraces the cover of Maxim Magazine‘s September issue, which makes him the first man to cover the mag by himself.
9 Things Doctors Can Tell About Your Health Just By Looking At Your Eyes
But when doctors look into your eyes, they can see a lot more. The eyes might be the proverbial window to the soul, but they are also a clear window to your health, and the amount of information they can reveal is astounding.
‘Excessive drinking of Red Bull is making me blind’- British Mum
A jobless 26 year old British mum of 3 says she is going blind due to drinking too much Red Bull, an addiction she says she spends almost $13,000 of her benefits from the Govt, per year on it.
She says she drinks about 28 cans of the energy drink a day and was unaware of the damage she was doing to her body until she collapsed in June.
“I’m hooked on Red Bull, it’s like a Class A drug,” she said. “Recently I started getting migraines and then black spots in my vision. My gran had the same symptoms and within two years she was dead.
“I’m trying to cut down but I’ve tried before and I always relapse. I can’t let it go.”Ms Lupari has been warned to shed 50 kilograms from her 165-kilogram frame, or risk even more serious health problems.
She believes that Britain’s National Health Service should provide her with a gastric band for free.
“I’ve done this to myself but I deserve surgery on the NHS,” she said.A spokeswoman for Red Bull said the drink should be “consumed in moderation”.
“One 250 ml can of Red Bull Energy Drink contains the same amount of sugar as in the same-sized apple juice, orange juice or conventional soft drink (27g),” she said. “Like any foods or beverages, energy drinks should be consumed in moderation and as part of a balanced and varied diet and healthy lifestyle. Our product is predominantly sold in small cans, which contributes to such moderation.”
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