Thursday, 18 July 2013
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Man becomes the richest in the world as Paypal mistakenly puts $92QUADRILLION in his bank account
Huge sum ... PayPal account showing $92quadrillion
A PR exec was made the richest man in the world when he had $92QUADRILLION deposited in his bank account.
The ridiculous sum of money was accidentally put in his account by website PayPal.
When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
The Pennsylvania man's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800 (the equivalent to £92 thousand billion) - making him the world's only quadrillionaire.
The deposit momentarily made Reynolds more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim - who is worth $67billion.
PayPal unfortunately withdrew the money - but paid Reynolds a fee for his troubles.
Mr Reynolds said "It’s a curious thing; I don’t know maybe someone was having fun."
He continued that if the amount had been genuine he "probably would have paid down the national debt" and then bought the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team.
PayPal admitted: "This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr Reynolds understood that this was the case."
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Tina Turner weds long-term love
What's Love Got To Do With It? ... Tina Turner and Erwin Bach
TINA Turner has married for the second time. She wedded her long-term partner Erwin Bach at a private ceremony in Switzerland, according to local reports.
Municipal official Hannes Friess revealed the couple tied the knot in a quiet civil ceremony on the banks of Lake Zurich “a few days ago”.
The 73-year-old star, who became a Swiss citizen in April, will celebrate the union in a Buddhist ceremony at the couple’s estate in Kusnacht on Sunday, with 120 guests.
Tina has been dating the 57-year-old German record executive since the 1980s.
She left her first husband, musical partner Ike Turner, in 1978 after years of abuse.
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Cory Monteith Cause Of Death Confirmed By Toxicology Report As Lethal Mix Of Heroin, Alcohol
Cory Monteith's cause of death has been revealed as a toxic mix of heroin and alcohol. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Cory Monteith's cause of death has been confirmed as a toxic mix of heroin and alcohol, TMZ reports.
The British Columbia Coroners Service revealed Tuesday that Monteith died of a mixed-drug toxicity involving heroin and alcohol. The investigation into his death is continuing and no other details are available at this time.
In the report, the British Columbia Coroners Service adds, "It should be noted that at this point there is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith's death was anything other than a most-tragic accident."
It was previously reported the toxicology results could take several days. However, the results were expedited because of the extreme public interest in the case, according to E! News.
The "Glee" star was found dead in a hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in downtown Vancouver on July 13 after failing to meet checkout time. Hotel staff called paramedics, who later declared him dead on the scene. He was just 31 years old.
The British Columbia Coroners Service revealed Tuesday that Monteith died of a mixed-drug toxicity involving heroin and alcohol. The investigation into his death is continuing and no other details are available at this time.
In the report, the British Columbia Coroners Service adds, "It should be noted that at this point there is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith's death was anything other than a most-tragic accident."
It was previously reported the toxicology results could take several days. However, the results were expedited because of the extreme public interest in the case, according to E! News.
The "Glee" star was found dead in a hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in downtown Vancouver on July 13 after failing to meet checkout time. Hotel staff called paramedics, who later declared him dead on the scene. He was just 31 years old.
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
"I don’t really need a wheelchair... but I would just love to be disabled" - Rare condition makes Chloe want £16k surgery to stop legs working
- Made pretend splints and tried to get into accidents to end up disabled
- Lets her understanding wife Danielle do all the chores around the home
But wheelchair-using Column Idol winner says 'she is just being lazy'
Setting the wheels in motion ... Chloe Jennings-White
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BEING stuck in a wheelchair and forced to wear leg braces is most people’s idea of hell – but not for Chloe Jennings-White.
The able-bodied 58-year-old longs to be PARAPLEGIC. She even wants to have totally unnecessary spinal surgery to stop her legs working.
Not even Chloe understood her strange, long-held desire until five years ago.
That is when she was diagnosed with Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
It is a very rare psychological condition. BIID makes sufferers feel they want to be disabled.
At home Chloe uses a wheelchair, even though she can walk. But that is not going far enough for her.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Chloe says: “My dream is to find a surgeon who will operate on my spine to stop my legs working.”
In 2010 she found an overseas doctor willing to cut her sciatic and femoral nerves, meaning she would lose all sensation in her legs, but at £16,000 it was way beyond her means.
ABLE-BODIED Chloe Jennings-White reveals rare condition BIID makes her want surgery to stop her walking
She says: “I’ll never be able to afford it, but I know I won’t regret it if I ever can, and I don’t know why it upsets people.
“It’s the same as a transsexual man having his penis cut off. It’s never coming back, but they know it’s what they want.”
Chloe has now bought a wheelchair on the internet and uses it to go about her everyday life.
She says: “When I first sat down in the wheelchair, it just felt so right. It felt like somewhere I belonged.
“Something in my brain tells me my legs are not supposed to work.
“Having any sensation in them just feels wrong.”
London-born Chloe first realised she was not like other kids when she was only four.
She had just visited her Aunt Olive in Thatcham, Berks, who had been in a bike accident and used leg braces.
Chloe recalls: “I wanted them too. I wondered why I wasn’t born needing them and felt something was wrong with me because I didn’t have them.”
She kept this weird wish to herself, but when she turned nine Chloe decided to do something about it.
First she avoided a polio vaccination at school.
“There was an epidemic and some kids ended up in leg braces,” she says.
“I dreamed I might end up like them, but didn’t.”
Roll play ... Chloe with her wheelchair even when preparing for a shower
Chloe then deliberately pedalled her bike off a 4ft acting stage at Hampstead Heath, landing on her neck.
She escaped with bruises, but was suddenly filled with terror over what she had done.
She did not want to die or damage anything other than her legs.
“It was a nine-year-old’s stupidness,” she says. “I could have broken my neck or died.”
Even so, she carried on flirting with danger, playing risky school sports and climbing trees.
She broke five bones between the ages of 12 and 16.
“I felt happy even just risking my legs,” she admits.
She did not dare tell her late parents, Harold and Marjory, who told her off every time she got injured.
In fact, terrified of telling anyone, she lived out her fantasy in secret, pretending to be disabled whenever she was home alone. “I’d bandage up my legs and make pretend splints out of an old metre-ruler and, my favourite, a piece of track from a model railway,” she says.
“I knew it was strange and others didn’t do it, but it was the closest I could get to how I was meant to be.”
Chloe kept these make-believe sessions to herself until she was 22, when she confessed to Ian, her first serious boyfriend. She says: “I’d moved in with Ian and he was so easy-going I decided to show him.
“He asked, ‘Why do you do that?’ I told him I liked it and he just put it down to me being odd. He knew I wasn’t like other people.”
The relationship ended 18 months later when research scientist Chloe, moved to California to work at Stanford University.
By 1991 she had moved to Utah and started skiing at local resorts — heading recklessly down the riskier runs in the hope of damaging her legs.
“It was perfect,” she says. “I sometimes crashed on purpose, but the lesson from my bike stopped me going too far.”
Then in June 2006, bisexual Chloe met future wife Danielle, now 44.
“We fell in love instantly,” she says. “On our second date she proposed and I said yes, although I hadn’t told her about my legs.”
A month before the wedding, in December 2006, a skiing accident really did leave Chloe with a back injury and a perfect excuse to get leg braces.
She admits: “I didn’t really need them, but I decided to use it as a reason to get some. I wouldn’t need my pretend splints any more.”
Flirting with danger ... Chloe Jennings-White skis in Utah, in hope a crash will crock her legs
Scared that Danielle would be shocked when the braces arrived, Chloe finally confessed all.
She says: “I told her it had been going on my whole life, and I couldn’t stop. She was shocked but vowed to stand by me when I told her it was the only way I could be happy.”
While looking for leg braces online, Chloe read about BIID for the first time.
“I knew it was me and it was a huge relief,” she says. “I wasn’t a freak — there are hundreds of others like me.”
Desperate to know for sure, she took part in a BIID research study with psychiatrist Michael First, who diagnosed her in spring 2008, recommending a wheelchair.
At first Chloe was sceptical, saying: “I wanted to really be a paraplegic. I didn’t want to pretend any more.”
She agreed to try and in July 2008 came home from work to a surprise from Danielle, who’d assembled a wheelchair they ordered together on the internet.
“It was magical,” she says. “It changed everything.
“But I was worried about what people would say because I didn’t need it. I decided to use it only in private.” She started living as a paraplegic at home, with Danielle left to do nearly all the household chores.
“Part of her wished I wasn’t in the wheelchair, but she knew it was the only thing that helped, so she played along,” says Chloe.
Even so, at times Danielle got annoyed.
On the road ... Chloe Jennings-White packs her wheelchair in boot of her car
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“Mowing the lawn had always been my job and now she had to do it. She’d say: ‘You’re paraplegic now, so you can’t, can you? I’ll have to do it’.”
Then in July 2009, Chloe was involved in a 70mph car crash, but somehow survived with only cuts and bruises.
She says: “It was a golden opportunity because everyone knew about the crash but didn’t know about my miracle escape.
“I suddenly had a reason to use the wheelchair everywhere, even at work.”
She continued skiing and loved hiking where best friend Dave would push her along trails through the Utah mountains. “I didn’t feel bad because most wheelchair users, like people with multiple sclerosis, are able to get up sometimes,” she says.
“It’s just my chair gives me psychological relief, instead of physical.”
With a new-found confidence, Chloe began writing for BIID support group transabled.org and eventually told friends and family that she had BIID.
She received hate mail and even death threats via the web, but says all but two friends have been completely supportive.
“A woman I dated immediately before I met Danielle stopped our friendship completely, because she said she’d never understand it. I cut her off,” she says.
“I know it sounds crazy to people without BIID, but it’s what we feel. I don’t want to climb Mount Everest but some people do, and I don’t criticise them.
"Chloe is just being lazy" SUN Column Idol winner JESSICA LONG, a wheelchair user, says:
“As someone who has a disability and needs mobility aids and the help of others, I cannot understand why someone would VOLUNTEER for it.
Shocked ... Jessica Long
What Chloe fails to understand is that being in a wheelchair isn’t a disability. Using a wheelchair comes as a result of a disability.
I have no idea how Chloe’s wife even begins to comprehend this. Never mind her selfishness in trying to get into accidents with no regard for anyone who could be involved.
Comparing her “condition” to MS is just plain wrong – although sufferers may not need a wheelchair constantly, they need it at least part of the time.
I understand disability and I understand mental health issues. What I cannot understand is laziness.
This is a case of Chloe being lazy and wanting to be looked after by a poor sod who is too blinded by love to see she is being taken taken for a mug.”
Source: The sun
*Well, its hard for me to understand this "condition" that makes her want to be disabled. But one thing is for sure as the saying goes "you never know what you have until you lose it". By the time she becomes disabled, then she would know what's up...but then it would be too late.
Setting the wheels in motion ... Chloe Jennings-White
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BEING stuck in a wheelchair and forced to wear leg braces is most people’s idea of hell – but not for Chloe Jennings-White.
The able-bodied 58-year-old longs to be PARAPLEGIC. She even wants to have totally unnecessary spinal surgery to stop her legs working.
Not even Chloe understood her strange, long-held desire until five years ago.
That is when she was diagnosed with Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
It is a very rare psychological condition. BIID makes sufferers feel they want to be disabled.
At home Chloe uses a wheelchair, even though she can walk. But that is not going far enough for her.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Chloe says: “My dream is to find a surgeon who will operate on my spine to stop my legs working.”
In 2010 she found an overseas doctor willing to cut her sciatic and femoral nerves, meaning she would lose all sensation in her legs, but at £16,000 it was way beyond her means.
ABLE-BODIED Chloe Jennings-White reveals rare condition BIID makes her want surgery to stop her walking
She says: “I’ll never be able to afford it, but I know I won’t regret it if I ever can, and I don’t know why it upsets people.
“It’s the same as a transsexual man having his penis cut off. It’s never coming back, but they know it’s what they want.”
Chloe has now bought a wheelchair on the internet and uses it to go about her everyday life.
She says: “When I first sat down in the wheelchair, it just felt so right. It felt like somewhere I belonged.
“Something in my brain tells me my legs are not supposed to work.
“Having any sensation in them just feels wrong.”
London-born Chloe first realised she was not like other kids when she was only four.
She had just visited her Aunt Olive in Thatcham, Berks, who had been in a bike accident and used leg braces.
Chloe recalls: “I wanted them too. I wondered why I wasn’t born needing them and felt something was wrong with me because I didn’t have them.”
She kept this weird wish to herself, but when she turned nine Chloe decided to do something about it.
First she avoided a polio vaccination at school.
“There was an epidemic and some kids ended up in leg braces,” she says.
“I dreamed I might end up like them, but didn’t.”
Roll play ... Chloe with her wheelchair even when preparing for a shower
Chloe then deliberately pedalled her bike off a 4ft acting stage at Hampstead Heath, landing on her neck.
She escaped with bruises, but was suddenly filled with terror over what she had done.
She did not want to die or damage anything other than her legs.
“It was a nine-year-old’s stupidness,” she says. “I could have broken my neck or died.”
Even so, she carried on flirting with danger, playing risky school sports and climbing trees.
She broke five bones between the ages of 12 and 16.
“I felt happy even just risking my legs,” she admits.
She did not dare tell her late parents, Harold and Marjory, who told her off every time she got injured.
In fact, terrified of telling anyone, she lived out her fantasy in secret, pretending to be disabled whenever she was home alone. “I’d bandage up my legs and make pretend splints out of an old metre-ruler and, my favourite, a piece of track from a model railway,” she says.
“I knew it was strange and others didn’t do it, but it was the closest I could get to how I was meant to be.”
Chloe kept these make-believe sessions to herself until she was 22, when she confessed to Ian, her first serious boyfriend. She says: “I’d moved in with Ian and he was so easy-going I decided to show him.
“He asked, ‘Why do you do that?’ I told him I liked it and he just put it down to me being odd. He knew I wasn’t like other people.”
The relationship ended 18 months later when research scientist Chloe, moved to California to work at Stanford University.
By 1991 she had moved to Utah and started skiing at local resorts — heading recklessly down the riskier runs in the hope of damaging her legs.
“It was perfect,” she says. “I sometimes crashed on purpose, but the lesson from my bike stopped me going too far.”
Then in June 2006, bisexual Chloe met future wife Danielle, now 44.
“We fell in love instantly,” she says. “On our second date she proposed and I said yes, although I hadn’t told her about my legs.”
A month before the wedding, in December 2006, a skiing accident really did leave Chloe with a back injury and a perfect excuse to get leg braces.
She admits: “I didn’t really need them, but I decided to use it as a reason to get some. I wouldn’t need my pretend splints any more.”
Flirting with danger ... Chloe Jennings-White skis in Utah, in hope a crash will crock her legs
Scared that Danielle would be shocked when the braces arrived, Chloe finally confessed all.
She says: “I told her it had been going on my whole life, and I couldn’t stop. She was shocked but vowed to stand by me when I told her it was the only way I could be happy.”
While looking for leg braces online, Chloe read about BIID for the first time.
“I knew it was me and it was a huge relief,” she says. “I wasn’t a freak — there are hundreds of others like me.”
Desperate to know for sure, she took part in a BIID research study with psychiatrist Michael First, who diagnosed her in spring 2008, recommending a wheelchair.
At first Chloe was sceptical, saying: “I wanted to really be a paraplegic. I didn’t want to pretend any more.”
She agreed to try and in July 2008 came home from work to a surprise from Danielle, who’d assembled a wheelchair they ordered together on the internet.
“It was magical,” she says. “It changed everything.
“But I was worried about what people would say because I didn’t need it. I decided to use it only in private.” She started living as a paraplegic at home, with Danielle left to do nearly all the household chores.
“Part of her wished I wasn’t in the wheelchair, but she knew it was the only thing that helped, so she played along,” says Chloe.
Even so, at times Danielle got annoyed.
On the road ... Chloe Jennings-White packs her wheelchair in boot of her car
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“Mowing the lawn had always been my job and now she had to do it. She’d say: ‘You’re paraplegic now, so you can’t, can you? I’ll have to do it’.”
Then in July 2009, Chloe was involved in a 70mph car crash, but somehow survived with only cuts and bruises.
She says: “It was a golden opportunity because everyone knew about the crash but didn’t know about my miracle escape.
“I suddenly had a reason to use the wheelchair everywhere, even at work.”
She continued skiing and loved hiking where best friend Dave would push her along trails through the Utah mountains. “I didn’t feel bad because most wheelchair users, like people with multiple sclerosis, are able to get up sometimes,” she says.
“It’s just my chair gives me psychological relief, instead of physical.”
With a new-found confidence, Chloe began writing for BIID support group transabled.org and eventually told friends and family that she had BIID.
She received hate mail and even death threats via the web, but says all but two friends have been completely supportive.
“A woman I dated immediately before I met Danielle stopped our friendship completely, because she said she’d never understand it. I cut her off,” she says.
“I know it sounds crazy to people without BIID, but it’s what we feel. I don’t want to climb Mount Everest but some people do, and I don’t criticise them.
"Chloe is just being lazy" SUN Column Idol winner JESSICA LONG, a wheelchair user, says:
“As someone who has a disability and needs mobility aids and the help of others, I cannot understand why someone would VOLUNTEER for it.
Shocked ... Jessica Long
What Chloe fails to understand is that being in a wheelchair isn’t a disability. Using a wheelchair comes as a result of a disability.
I have no idea how Chloe’s wife even begins to comprehend this. Never mind her selfishness in trying to get into accidents with no regard for anyone who could be involved.
Comparing her “condition” to MS is just plain wrong – although sufferers may not need a wheelchair constantly, they need it at least part of the time.
I understand disability and I understand mental health issues. What I cannot understand is laziness.
This is a case of Chloe being lazy and wanting to be looked after by a poor sod who is too blinded by love to see she is being taken taken for a mug.”
Source: The sun
*Well, its hard for me to understand this "condition" that makes her want to be disabled. But one thing is for sure as the saying goes "you never know what you have until you lose it". By the time she becomes disabled, then she would know what's up...but then it would be too late.
Cheeky Big Brother’s Sallie goes topless during Marbella holiday
Busting to get a good tan ... Sallie Axl sunbathes topless in Marbella
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The heavily-tattooed glamour girl, who was the first housemate to be booted out of BB this series, was snapped as she sunbathed in sunny Spain yesterday.
Sallie, who is currently on holiday in Marbella with a group of girl pals, was seen posing poolside in just her bright yellow bikini bottoms, which sported the word smut, and drinking with a friend.
Sallie, 26, who was wearing a chunky Axl necklace and shades, later decided to lapdance the pool's outdoor shower.
And as she continued to cool off in the water, she showed off a rather cheeky amount of her bum.
Posing poolside ... Sallie Axl
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Sallie, who is currently on holiday in Marbella with a group of girl pals, was seen posing poolside in just her bright yellow bikini bottoms, which sported the word smut, and drinking with a friend.
Sallie, 26, who was wearing a chunky Axl necklace and shades, later decided to lapdance the pool's outdoor shower.
Having a ball ... Sallie Axl lapdances the shower
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And as she continued to cool off in the water, she showed off a rather cheeky amount of her bum.
Cheeky ... Sallie Axl cools off in the shower
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Chris Brown has his probation REVOKED .... could face 4 years imprisonment
A US judge has revoked singer Chris Brown’s probation for beating Rihanna — meaning he could now face FOUR YEARS in prison.
Cops in Los Angeles decided to bring the 24-year-old's case back to court in the wake of a new hit-and-run charge that has been brought against him. The new case centres around a car accident in May where Brown is alleged to have left the scene without providing correct licence and insurance details.
Brown was sentenced to five years’ probation in 2009 after beating superstar RiRi and was also banned from contacting her.
But he will now have to go back into the dock in August to learn whether he will face jail for the same offence. He will not be kept in custody in the meantime.
Under the rules of his probation he was required to obey ALL laws without fail, which is why cops are taking a relatively minor offence so seriously.
#sun.co.uk
Vienna adire carnival...uniting the world through fashion
The event was tagged ‘Culture and Trade Summit’ so both came together fine. As you can see my models are multi race, simply to send the message of unity not just to those at the show but beyond.”
That was Mr Omotunde Komolafe, the Chief Executive Officer of Kijiji Africa, a Europe-based fashion outfit founded to create events to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the African culture in general and that of Nigeria specifically, speaking on his first ever Nigerian Adire fashion event he organised in Vienna Austria, last month.
The event was done to promote the Nigerian heritage, he said, with the aim of bringing Nigeria on the world tourism map.
When Komolafe left the shores of Nigeria for Europe, he left with a dream. The dream was to unite the world through fashion. But most importantly, he swore to promote his African heritage in general and specifically his home country’s wherever the tides take him.
Twenty five years later, Komolafe is living his dreams. With a load of events promoting the African culture and uniting the world under his belt, he hosted the first ever Nigerian Adire fashion event in Austria, drawing a huge crowd across the world to see the beauty of the Nigerian people.
The event, which held in Vienna, was tagged Adire Carnival with the aim of promoting the handmade Adire fabric from western part of Nigeria which was visible throughout the event.
Speaking to the Nigerian Tribune few months before the event was hosted, the President, National Association of Nigerian Community Austria (NANCA), Mr Oluyemi Ogundele, said that the Nigerian community in Austria was highly impressed with the programme being that it was designed to showcase the rich cultural heritage of “our great country Nigeria and to foster the friendly relationship between Nigeria and our host country Austria.”The event, which collaborated with the Nigeria Embassy Vienna, Museum of Ethnology Vienna and a host of other organisations, finally berthed in Welt Museum, Vienna on June 29, drawing Nigerians from across the globe, with the likes of the Ogirimadagbo of Ilodo–Ijebu, Oba Isiaka Olajide Ajede, leading the Ogun State delegation and Osun State governor, Mr Rauf
Aregebesola leading the Osun delegation, not to mention the Nollywood stars
and other professionals who graced the event from Nigeria. The Nollywood stars included Odunlade Adekola, Bolaji Amusan (Mister Latin), Saudy Odus, Lagata and Bunmi Onabule.Speaking on the event, Komolafe told the Nigerian Tribune that he organised the carnival, which had received the endorsement of the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Gbenga Ashiru. He said he wanted the world to see that there was more to Nigeria aside the negative reports we hear abroad. “I want the world to see how cultured, beautiful and warm we are as a country. Apart from that, I wanted to put Nigeria on the tourism map of the world.
“My main purpose was to show the Africans and our European friends that our folk fabrics are as good as the western fabrics for urban wear design and as a result promote made in Nigeria garments. I am doing Adire bikini fashion show as part of the carnival and a little bit of fashion expo for Nigeria as part of the image building for Nigeria in Austria. This is the first time such an event will happen in Austria. I have sponsored their Gele Contest twice and this year, I decided to take my art few steps up with the Adire bikini.”
And judging from the outcome of the event, it seems he may have achieved his aim, especially as it regards the Adire promotion in Europe. Ogundele, the president of NANCA, wrote that “weeks after the event, people are still looking for Adire to buy. What a success. To God be the glory.”
As a founding member and the culture/exterior envoy of African Hungarian Union, Komolafe has been involved in promoting Nigeria in whatever capacity he found himself in. Previously, he founded Iroko Award 13 years ago with the aim of supporting the development of the relations between Africa and Hungary on one hand, and on the other, to emphasise those individual achievements, which serve the bilateral networking.“As you know, the iroko in the West African Yoruba tradition is the symbol of greatness, one of the most characteristic and perhaps the most prominent tree species of Africa. Besides being the material of the family furniture, it provides shade and protection for those in need. This is why we chose the name for the award,” he said. He also intimated that the upcoming edition would have two of Nigerian Obas nominated for the Iroko award.
So what is next for the Kijiji man? He told the Nigerian Tribune that his next mega project is in the works. “My next mega project is Vienna-Lagos challenge. The rally will start in Vienna and end in Lagos, Nigeria. I drove to Nigeria in 2008 alone but now, I am doing the trip with close to 40 4x4 cars to Nigeria for the very first time in our history and as a result, we are putting Nigeria on the tourism map of extreme sports and travel pleasure.
“We are making arrangements with travel channel and few European channels to escort us with camera through the Sahara,” he said, adding that “Vienna-Lagos challenge is a rally for the everyday people looking for adventure and friendship. We are using this rally to boost friendship between Nigeria and Austria and at the same time promote tourism to the coastal city of Nigeria, Lagos. The participants of this rally will have the opportunity for the very first time to be part of history.”
#tribune
Driver kidnaps Chinese to avenge colleague’s unjustful sacking
A 33-year-old driver, Taiwo Aduloju, who was recently arrested for kidnapping a Chinese employee of ZTE Nigeria Ltd, has said he took the action to avenge the sacking of his colleague.
Aduloju was arrested alongside nine others-, Jimoh Olalere, Rotimi Segede, Michael Sunday, Chigozie Edeh, Adeyinka Jagbojagbo, Kabiru Jagbojagbo, Adeshina Mutiu, Ope Dada and Ufot Akan- in Ajah area of Lagos State.
Adeloju, a former driver at the company, said, “The head of the drivers, who we call Papa, was sacked unjustly by the company. He was given only N15, 000 as severance package. I decided that I would avenge this injustice meted out to Papa.”
The suspect said with the connivance of 14 others, he was able to kidnap a senior Chinese employee of the company, Mr. Kuang Yingjun. He said the plan was to get a ransom of N35m so that Papa would be given part of the money.
He said, “After I left the company in February, I met with Edeh at Obalende and we planned to kidnap a Chinese employee and demand ransom from the company. We needed an insider, so I involved Akan, who still works with the company. I put together a 13-man gang for the job.
One day, after Akan dropped off the Chinese at home, he called us and gave us the green light. Yingjun was in front of his house when we got there around 6.30pm. We grabbed him and drove off.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the kidnappers initially demanded N35m from the company but after negotiating with the family of the victim, they received N8.5m.
Adeloju said, “I gotN1.5m as my share. Unfortunately, I could not locate Papa so he did not get part of the money.”
Adeyinka, however denied complicity, saying he only helped the gang to prepare charms.
Akan also said he did not kidnap the victim but only gave the kidnappers information because they threatened to harm him if he did not.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the kidnappers were arrested after they kidnapped a cement dealer, Kingsley Ifeanyi, in Ajah .
According to police authorities, the second operation was planned by another member of the gang, Jimoh Olalere.
They called Ifeanyi pretending to be customers and when he went to meet with them, they kidnapped him.
The Commissioner of Police for the state command, Umar Manko, said the suspects were arrested through intelligence gathering. He said kidnapping was usually successful through the connivance of domestic employees.
He therefore warned members of the public to be careful when hiring workers and advised families of victims not to pay ransom but have faith in the police.
Wicked stepmother roasts 7-yr-old step-son’s hand for adding drops of liquid disinfectant to his bath water.
LAGOS — The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman, Mrs Aminot Otun, for roasting the right hand of her seven-year-old step-son, Awwal Otun, last Thursday.
Awwal’s hand was allegedly roasted for adding drops of liquid disinfectant to his bath water.
According to Ngozi Ekwerike-Okoro, President, Child to Child Network, a Non Governmental Organisation, NGO, a distressed call from one of Otun’s neighbours at 59, Suenu Street, Surulere, Lagos saved Awwal’s life.
Awwal and the burnt hand.
Awwal was rushed to the Mother and Child Hospital at Gbaja where another drama ensued as the doctor on duty refused to treat or admit the boy despite pleas that the hospital was built purposely for mothers and children in the state.
According to his teachers, Awwal, who is in primary one, should not be allowed to go back to his step-mother because he is always coming to school with bruises as the neighbours who pleaded anonimity said that had been the normal punishment for the boy’s mistakes.
Awwal was later taken to a nearby private hospital for treatment and he is currently at Juvenile Welfare Centre of Alakara Police Station.
The story:
According to Ngozi, “On July 11, 2013, Awwal was rushed to the Randle General Hospital, Mother and Child Centre, Gbaja, at about 6:30pm after a distress call from neighbours.
“He sustained serious injuries from fire burns inflicted on him by the step-mother who is now in police custody.
“At the hospital, we requested to see the welfare officer who we were told had closed for the day but after narrating our mission to one of the staff she referred us to the chief matron. The chief matron issued an emergency card to the boy and directed him to see the doctor.
“The doctor, however, refused to attend to the boy, because according to her, the hospital did not have enough space to accommodate the boy, as he would need admission for intensive care.
“We pleaded with the doctor to at least administer some first aid on the boy but she refused. We went back to the chief matron who told us after consulting with the doctor that Surulere General Hospital (Mother and Child Centre) does not have the facility to deal with such cases. They said our best chance would be to go to Ikeja General Hospital.
“We eventually left in disappointment and went to a private hospital in Mushin, close to the juvenile centre, where he got immediate attention and was treated free of charge.
Awwal recounts ordeal
Awwal and the burnt hand.
The boy said he added small quantity of Izal disinfectant to his bath water and his step mother got angry and put his hand on a burning stove since Sunday and he was not taken to hospital till Thursday when neighbours called the Lagos State Child Protection Network who mobilised the JWC Alakara to rescue him.
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Monday, 15 July 2013
Kim Kardashian Baby Makes Public Debut on Kris?
Following weeks of speculation and rumors regarding when Kim Kardashian baby photos may hit the Internet, Kris Jenner went ahead and bypassed that step this morning... ... but debuting little North West live and in person on the first episode of her talk show!
Jenner turned up the PR machine to full, exploitive blast by posting the above photo on the official Facebook page of Kris this morning. "You never know who will stop by our show today! #WatchKris," read the caption, taking full ratings advantage of the host's granddaughter.
TMZ claims this is not a photo of North West, but merely a prop baby from a staffer used to trick the audience. We'll confirm when more news breaks.
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Nollywood actress Funke Akindele may have been separated from hubby Almaroof
Nollywood actress Funke Akindele, may have been separated from her husband, Kehinde Oloyede aka Almaroof.
The actress got married barely a year ago to Almaroof who was already married to another woman. Just a month after his wedding to Funke, he got another woman pregnant.
A statement allegedly posted by her husband on facebook this morning reads:
“It is with heavy heart that I am announcing the separation of me and my wife, Mrs. Olufunke Akindele. We have both agreed to go our separate ways because of irreconcilable differences. We are still best of friends and we would forever remain good friends.”
The actress is yet to confirm this development, until then it's just a rumour.
7 Yrs on and still no justice for Rev. Father brutally butchered in church premises
•His throat was slashed and left to die
•Parishioners recount how Catholic priest was killed for preaching against societal ills
Who killed Rev. Fr. Francis Chidiebele Okoye, a Catholic priest attached to St Mary’s Catholic Church, in Afikpo, Ebonyi State? And why was he killed? These are some of the questions agitating the minds of the parishioners and general public, even as the anniversary of the gruesome murder of the priest holds on July 31.
Fr. Okoye was slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb in the premises of the Church on July 31, 2006. The priest, who hailed from Enugwu Ukwu, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State and shared an apartment within the Church premises with a fellow priest, was dragged out of his bedroom by his assailants, who took him to the back of the building and slashed his throat.
A source said he was decapitated. “It was a shocking act of violence. It was a gory sight. There was no doubt that Father Chidiebele’s attackers came with the intention of killing him outright. They butchered an innocent man like an animal. He was almost beheaded. This is the height of wickedness and man’s inhumanity to man,” one of the members of the church stated.
Seven years after, the killers are still walking free, as no arrest had been made in respect of the crime. It was gathered that Fr. Okoye’s murder might not be unconnected with his profound preaching against cultism, political thuggery and corrupt practices, among other social ills.
“He was a thorn in the flesh of evil people in Afikpo. On and off the pulpit, he preached against the unhealthy moral temperature of society. Some politicians, in particular, were unsettled by his ways because he warned them against encouraging young people to be cultists and political thugs. Perhaps, that was why they silenced him permanently,” a parishioner, who simply identified herself as Ugochi said.
It was further gathered that as torrents of tears flowed across the community that day, a heavy downpour washed away the blood of the slain priest. It was one of the heaviest rains ever witnessed in the community.
It was gathered that at the time Father Okoye was being attacked, his neighbour was in the next room. While the former was shouting for help, the later was allegedly praying.
In an exclusive chat in his residence, Mr. Francis Ibe Inyanwachi, head master of St. Mary’s Nursery/Primary School, Afikpo, disclosed that when the reverend father was asked what he did when his colleague was being attacked, he said that he was praying.
“The priest said that he was praying when Father Chidiebele was shouting and calling on him. He said that he knelt down to pray. That was what he told us. Since I was not there, I don’t know what happened but I know that they killed him behind the house because we saw the blood on the ground in the morning,” he said.
Offering insight on the barbarous treatment meted on the priest, Mr. Inyanwachi, who described the deceased as a family friend, said: “After Reverend Father Chidiebele’s ordination, he was posted to Afikpo as assistant priest, to come and help another reverend father. I think normally after one year, they (assistant priests) are usually posted out. So, when his mates were posted out, he was so good I think the reverend father asked the bishop that he (Father Chidiebele) should continue.”
“He was so outspoken that he condemned everything that was bad or evil. I think that day he was killed, he had gone from house to house, cautioning some group of students whom I learnt were cultists. He was trying to tell them to come back, that cultism was not good. They said when he came back, he did not even eat. Then he went to Mgbom (a neighbouring village), where one of them asked him to preach to him. Thereafter, he returned to his apartment at the church. I suspect that his attackers were cultists, who didn’t want their members to be retrieved from cultism.”
Inyanwachi, whose son is also a Catholic priest, added: “The room of the other reverend father was before his own room. I don’t know how they managed to know his room. They came into his room and brought him out from where he was sleeping. He was shouting: Father! Father!! Father!!! They brought him out and cut his throat or so. I think he died while they were rushing him to the hospital.
“That day, I didn’t initially know what happened; it was my daughter who went to Mass at St Patrick’s (at Ndibe) that informed me. They said the Catechist announced that armed robbers attacked Father Chidiebele and that they should be praying for him. On her way to the hospital, she heard that he had died. So, when I was coming back from Mass at St. Patrick’s, I saw the girl, crying. I asked what was wrong and she said they had killed Father Chidiebele. That was all. He was a young man.
“On the day his corpse was buried, it was brought here before being taken to his home town. It was announced that his people said they would retaliate on anybody, coming from Afikpo. I insisted that I must go. It was only the priest, my daughter and I that went there. We had to stay with the family. There were seats kept for the people of Afikpo in the Church but I alone couldn’t have gone to sit there. I went and consoled the mother. In fact, his mother was sitting in the front row and I went and touched her. After the Mass, we took his remains to St. Theresa’s Cathedral, Abakaliki, where he was buried. I’ve gone several times to see his family. He was very fond of coming to my house but he was a priest for the whole parish. He was a special friend of this house.”
Effort to speak with the reverened father, who occupied an apartment next to the late Fr. Chidiebele’s the day he was killed, proved abortive. Our reporter called him several times on telephone but he refused to speak on the matter.
Police sources, which craved anonymity confirmed the incident but said no arrest had been made since it happened on July 31, 2006.
“You know, it is a murder case; so, it remains open. We are still working on it,” said the source at the Ebonyi State Police Command, Abakaliki.
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Tulisa indulges in Champagne and dances in a skimpy bandeau bikini at Ibiza pool party as birthday celebrations continue
After a wild week of partying with her pals on the Spanish party island of Ibiza, the celebrations showed no sign of slowing down as Tulisa and her mates hit Ocean Beach Club on Sunday afternoon.
The former N-Dubz star and X Factor judge was surrounded by friends as she celebrated her 25th birthday with a day in the sunshine
In spite of the recent troubles in both her personal and professional lives, Tulisa looked great for her daytime outfit, flaunting her toned figure in her daring high-cut bikini and large statement necklace.
Ready to parry! Tulisa headed into the venue alongside her pals
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