Dear football fans. Are we just going to sit here and pretend like Leicester City are not using juju?
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Matt LeBlanc to be Top Gear co-presenter
Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is to be one of the new presenters of Top Gear when the motoring programme returns to BBC Two in May.
The US actor will be the show's first non-British host in its 39-year history.
"Matt's a lifelong fellow petrolhead and I'm thrilled he's joining Top Gear," said Chris Evans of his new on-screen colleague.
Additional Top Gear cast members will be confirmed shortly, the BBC said.
"As a car nut and a massive fan of Top Gear, I'm honoured and excited to be a part of this iconic show's new chapter," said LeBlanc. "What a thrill!"
The 48-year-old is best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in Friends and has more recently been seen, as himself, in BBC Two sitcom Episodes.
Reams Food Store Worker in Utah Dies After Getting Dragged Into Industrial Mixer
A 45-year-old grocery store employee in Utah died after she was dragged into an industrial-sized bakery mixing machine, officials said.
Investigators are still trying to determine how Carmen "Jackie" Lindhardt was pulled into the mixer in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy on Wednesday morning, Sandy Police Sgt. Dean Carriger told NBC News.
Lindhardt was using the appliance in the bakery department of a Reams Food Store when she became caught on a moving part that rotates to combine ingredients, Carriger said.
A coworker heard her scream and quickly ran over and shut off the mixer but it was too late.
Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Charged With Selling Dozens of Fakes of American Masters
Eric Ian Spoutz, a well-known Michigan art dealer listed as the donor of paintings by American masters to numerous top galleries, was arrested Wednesday in Hollywood on a federal charge of selling forged artworks.
According to a federal complaint filed last week in New York, Spoutz, 32 — also known as Chad Smith, John Goodman and James Sinclair — sold dozens of works of art that he falsely claimed were by famous artists like Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Joan Mitchell, using forged documents to convince buyers of their authenticity.
Sperm Whale Stranded On Hunstanton Beach
Coastguard and sealife experts are helping a 14m sperm whale that is alive and stranded on the beach at Hunstanton in Norfolk.
Councillor Kate Dunbar says people are pouring water on the mammal to try to make it comfortable, but the high tide is not expected until about 2pm.
"They've used a digger and dug a hole in the sand, the water has been welling in it and people have been back and forth with buckets of water to pour over the whale to make it more comfortable. It's a very sad sight," Ms Dunbar told Sky.
"The tide is about 40ft away perhaps. I think it's on the turn, on its way back... I think the high tide is about two-ish this afternoon... It's probably going to be too shallow for it to swim away safely."
Man Shot Dead In 'Targeted Attack' At Warehouse
A company boss has been shot dead during an attempted robbery at his warehouse in Birmingham.
Officers were called to Direct Source 3 Ltd just before 6.40pm on Wednesday after getting reports that several masked men were robbing the premises.
Response officers were immediately sent to the scene and found Akhtar Javeed, 56, who had suffered a gunshot wound.
Mr Javeed is listed by Companies House as a director of the food distribution business.
Creature from the deep surfaces in Japanese harbor
It isn't every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a giant squid.
The creature swam under fishing boats and close to the surface of Toyama Bay, better known for its firefly squid, and reportedly hung around the bay for several hours before it was ushered back to open water.
It was captured on video by a submersible camera, and even joined by a diver, Akinobu Kimura, owner of Diving Shop Kaiyu, who swam in close proximity to the red-and-white real-life sea monster.
"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it," he told US.
Kelvin Okusanya Wonga? Mastermind of the scam that tricked payday lender of out £3million is jailed for six years after he was caught because he used the same password on 19,000 applications
The mastermind behind a £3million Wonga scam which used the identities of thousands of innocent members of the public to withdraw cash has been jailed for six years.
Kelvin Okusanya, 32, was part of a gang which exploited the company's website algorithms to make more than 19,000 loan applications from April 2012 to June 2013 using the same password 'Bengali90'.
The cash was then laundered through hundreds of bank accounts by the fraudsters while the unsuspecting victims were left facing paying the one per cent a day interest payments.
Okusanya was convicted of fraud after the Old Bailey heard he personally made 82 false applications involving 30 victims.
The judge, Mr Recorder Sells QC, said: 'The names and details of wholly innocent members of the public were used to make fraudulent loan applications on a massive scale.
'Some were even contacted by Wonga for the loans they had not applied for and knew nothing about.
'Such offences are corrosive of the trust which people hold in the financial services sector. They are increasingly prevalent, they are easy to commit and hard to detect.'
The judge told Okusanya: 'You were described during the trial as the mastermind and one of the controlling minds of the whole of this fraud.
'I am satisfied that you were a leading member of a criminal enterprise which intended to get many millions of pounds.'
Eight others were convicted of laundering the proceeds of the cash through bank accounts under their control.
Prosecutor Richard Hearnden told the court: 'The criminals netted over £3million by targeting one of Britain's most controversial institutions, the pay day lender Wonga.
'Wonga paid out on thousands of payday loans. Each of these loans was only for a few hundred pounds but added together these loans amounted to millions.
'The fraud came about by stealing the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and debit card numbers of literally thousands of ordinary members of the public.
'The fraudsters that were operating this scam probably bought ready-made lists of potential victims and their personal financial data. How precisely this data was secured is not known.'
The 13 richest people in tech
Almost one-fourth of the 50 richest people on earth made their extraordinary fortunes founding and building today's largest tech companies.
Together, the 13 billionaires have a net worth of about $450 billion. That includes Microsoft visionary Bill Gates, the richest person on earth with a fortune of $87.4 billion, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest tech CEO in the world with a fortune of $56.6 billion.
This comes from new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, a company that conducts research on the super-wealthy. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model to discern the size of their fortunes.
Although the American tech scene is home to the most billionaires on our list — nine of the top 50 — the emerging economies in China and India are starting to churn out enormously rich tech moguls of their own.
Read on to learn about the richest tech titans in the world.
THE GAME LOSES $10 MILLION SEXUAL ASSAULT CIVIL CASE
It has been reported that The Game has lost the $10 million lawsuit filed against him by VH1reality show She Got Game contestant Priscilla Rainey.
Rainey filed the lawsuit in August 2015, claiming that the Compton rapper inappropriately touched her in May of the same year. She alleged that The Game “forcefully reached his hand inside her dress to rub her bare vagina and buttocks.”
Because he did not attend the hearing to fight the accusations, The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, loses the suit by default and must pay Rainey, but whether he has to pay the $10 million has not been confirmed.
The next hearing is scheduled later this month on the 24th.
US government sources: Al Shabaab was behind a suspected bomb attack on a Somali passenger plane
Investigators believe a bomb most likely caused the explosion aboard a plane that was forced to return to the Somali capital of Mogadishu for an emergency landing on Tuesday, two US government sources said on Wednesday.
Investigators also suspect the Al Shabaab jihadist group was behind the attack, although no organization has taken credit for the apparent bombing.
There was no immediate comment from Al Shabaab, which has waged a gruesome insurgency against the Western-backed Somali government and a multinational African Union military force.
One person died Tuesday when the Daallo Airlines Airbus A321 carrying 74 passengers was forced to return after a blast tore a hole in the fuselage. Local authorities in the Balcad area, about 30 kilometers north of Mogadishu, said the body of a man, believed to have been sucked out of the plane, was found in the area.
Former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed’s 25yr old son, Abdullahi, Buys N800m sports car, evades duties…Sons worth N35 Billion
Abdullahi, the exuberant, unbelievably wealthy 25 year old billionaire son of a former Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed, is in the news again.
Abdullahi Ibrahim, a man with no clear means of livelihood, has cars in his fleet worth over N2 Billion, was recently busted by the Nigeria Customs Service for evasion of duties worth about N124million.
The two children of Bala Mohammed, all under 30 years old, are alleged to have stashed about N35billion in Unity Bank, UBA and an offshore account in Dubai.
The two sons who are said to be notorious for harassing and getting contracts from various agencies and staffers of the FCTA using fronts and proxies.
The first son, Shamsudeen was reported to have crushed a 22 year-old citizen of the FCT, Mark Musa, to death along the Shehu Musa YAr’Adua expressway opposite the National Health Insurance Scheme headquarters. He is fond of sponsoring a ring of his nouveau riche friends in car racing competitions on Abuja streets.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Photos: Top Naija Music Awards
Check out some photos from the just concluded Top Naija Music Awards Presentation Ceremony, Held at Monty Buffet, VI, Lagos on Saturday 30th Jan, 2016.
To God Almighty and Mother Mary Be The Glory!
Plane crash kills 3 in South Africa
Three people have been confirmed dead after a light aircraft crashed into the shacks of Benoni in Johannesburg, South Africa this afternoon. The three victims were the only passengers on the aircraft. "Paramedics found the bodies of three people lying inside the aircraft," ER24 medical service told News24 website
Lagos Crash : Bristow helicopter crashes, all occupants reportedly survive
A Bristow helicopter crashed inward the Murtala Mohammed International Airport this morning Feb. 3rd. All 11 passengers on-board survived as they all floated on water with the help of their life jackets
This incident comes a few months after a Bristow helicopter crashed in August 2015 at the Oworonshoki end of the Lagos Lagoon. That incident claimed 6 lives.
This incident comes a few months after a Bristow helicopter crashed in August 2015 at the Oworonshoki end of the Lagos Lagoon. That incident claimed 6 lives.
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