Check out the Top 16 honest cities in the world...where do you think your city would rank?

The 16 most honest and dishonest cities in the world have been ranked.

The 'Reader's Digest' lost 12 wallets in 16 cities in Europe, America, Asia and South America, each containing a mobile number, a family photo, business card, and the equivalent of $50 (£31). The wallets were left in city parks, pavements and shopping centres.

None of the cities were perfect - even the most honest received 11 out of the 12 wallets.
Where do you think your city would rank?

Here are the results, ranked worst to best:

10. Lisbon, Portugal, was found to be the least honest city in the study - only one wallet was returned out of 12. (Photo by Jo Hale/Getty Images)

9. Just two out of a possible 12 wallets were returned in Madrid, Spain, placing them second to last. (Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)

8. Prague, Czech Republic, is near the bottom of the pack with only three wallets returned to its rightful owner. (Photo by Frank Chmura / isifa/Getty Images)

Joint 7th: Four wallets were returned in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Joint 7th: Just four wallets were returned in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

Joint 7th: Just four of the wallets were returned in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)

Joint 6th. Good Samaritans returned five wallets in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Joint 6th. Warsaw, Poland, was found to be just as (dis)honest as London, with only five wallets returned. (Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images)

Joint 5th: Six out of 12 wallets were returned in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Joint 5th: Six out of 12 wallets were returned in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Joint 4th: Seven out of 12 wallets were returned in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

Joint 4th: Seven out of 12 wallets were returned in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Joint 3rd: New York City, USA, was revealed to be quite honest. Eight out of 12 wallets were returned. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Joint 3rd: Eight wallets were returned to owners in Budapest, Hungary. (PA/Jens Kalaene)

2. Mumbai, India, just missed the top spot. Nine out of 12 wallets were returned. (PA)

1. The most honest city was found to be Helsinki, Finland. 11 out of 12 wallets were returned. (PA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Seven travellers beheaded on Maiduguri/Damaturu road

Seven people were killed in Makintamari village in Kaga Local Government in Borno state along the Damaturu/Maiduguri road.

Eyewitnesses said the travellers were beheaded with their heads placed on their lifeless bodies on the main road.

At the Makintafamari village, in a separate incident, gunmen also cut the throats of four persons on Saturday. They were returning to Maiduguri in the evening.

Borno Police chief Lawal Tanko confirmed the attacks .

Makintamari is a few kilometers from Benishek where over 100 travelers were murdered a week ago by suspected Boko Haram sect members.

Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam said: “We call on Mr. President and all the security chiefs, to intensify security operations through aerial surveillance, to contain the situation before it consumes the region and country.

“On our way from Maiduguri to Damaturu this afternoon (Sunday), we saw a trailer and bus that were burnt, with the occupants slaughtered and their corpses littering the highway.

“Government should rise up to its responsibilities to save the lives and properties of its citizens,” he pleaded.

The governor said that anyone travelling on the Damaturu to Maiduguri highway, was taking a huge risk.

He urged the newly established Seven Division of the Nigerian Army, to intensify surveillance of all flash points in the two states, to flush out the insurgents.




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Woman accused of turning into cat escapes mob lynching in Aba

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A businesswoman in Aba, Abia State, Mrs. Ngozi Okoye narrowly escaped being lynched by mob over the disappearance of a mysterious cat, suspected to be a product of witchcraft.

Narrating her ordeal, Mrs. Okoye said for long, she had observed that money she kept in a firmly locked cardboard in her room at No.1 Obu Street/Obohia Road in Aba was always missing mysteriously.

The woman, who sells fruits near the Aba Shopping Centre, said at a point, she suspected her children and kept a watch on them.

But when she realized that her children were innocent, she reasoned that what was happening to her had spiritual undertone and reported the matter to a man of God.

Mrs. Okoye said after observing some prayer points as directed by the pastor and the problem persisted, she contacted another man of God in her desperate bid to get the problem solved.

This time around, she was told to fast and pray for a given number of days along with the clergy man who would also pray for her over the issue.

The woman said after the fasting session, the problem stopped and on that day of the incident, she was taken aback when she wanted to collect some cash from inside the cardboard and touched a strange object.

When she opened the cardboard properly and pointed a torchlight towards the direction she kept the money, she saw a half dead pussy cat with some naira notes stuffed in its mouth.

Shocked at the strange creature, she raised the alarm and alerted the man of God whom she had met initially over the issue, just as people in the neighbourhood trooped to her house to catch a glimpse of the ‘witch’ pussy cat.

She said the man of God advised her to bring the now dead cat to him before it could be buried.

The crowd insisted that the cat should be burnt, but the woman said that she must take it to the man of God. She then put the cat in a bag and headed for the man of God’s house while the crowd, which caused traffic gridlock on the ever busy Asa/Ehi Road followed her, insisting that she must give them the cat to be burnt.

In the chaos that followed, the cat was said to have disappeared and the crowd turned against the woman, accusing her of being the witch cat and was about lynching her when she ran into a shop close to a commercial bank at the shopping centre.

Despite the pleadings of policemen providing security at the bank, the crowd surged forward and the situation was saved when a group of journalists who came to the scene alerted the police.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Ndiegoro Division, Mr. Crescent Mama, sent his men to the scene, but the crowd which had blocked the entire road, could not let go.

It took police re-enforcement for the woman who had been smuggled into the bank premises to be taken away after the crowd had been reasonably dispersed.

The woman vehemently denied the allegation, cursing whoever that turned into the cat that had been stealing her money mysteriously.

The police at Ndiegoro later released her after being kept in protective custody as investigations were ongoing into the matter.

Jim Iyke Tweets About His Deliverance

Nollywood actor Jim Iyke sent out the above message via twitter a few hours after he got his deliverance at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations.

But there's someone who doesn’t seem impressed by it all.... see below tweet:

 

Governor bursts into tears after another Boko Haram massacre of 40 college students

It was an emotional scene as the Governor of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Yobe visited the capital’s specialist hospital where the injured from another Boko Haram mindless attack were recuperating.

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam could just not hold emotions back: he burst into tears.

He saw the critically injured; five students, three of whom have fractures, one has a abdominal injury and another a bullet wound.

What really burst Gaidam’s dam of emotions was the chilling sight of 40 corpses—all students of the School of Agriculture, Gujba, latest victims of the mindless massacre by Boko Haram gunmen.




Governor of Yobe state, Ibrahim Gaidam



The Medical Director, Damaturu Specialist Hospital, Dr Garba Fika, confirmed that 40 students of the college were killed in the attack early Sunday.

The governor, who spoke in tears, urged security operatives to intensify aerial surveillance of the area.

The state deputy governor, Abubakar Aliyu, the Provost of the College Mulima Mato, and other dignitaries also shed tears at the mortuary when they saw the corpses of the students.

Schools in Yobe re-opened just 13 days ago after 10 weeks of forced closure following unrelenting Boko Haram attacks on schools.

The attacks had led to the death of 29 students and three teachers.

In June this year, seven students and two teachers were killed at Government Secondary School Damaturu. In July, 22 students and two teachers were killed at Government Secondary School Mamudo.

As the government makes arrangement for the burial of the slain students, parents were seen in groups discussing the fate of their children in view of the serial attacks on schools in the state

Speaking in an interview with the NAN, a parent who requested anonymity said that he and other parents were scared of sending their children and wards to school.

“We are shocked, saddened and scared of sending our wards back to school with these ugly incidents of attack on schools in Damaturu, Mamudo and now, Gujba,” he said.

Meanwhile, chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Governor Babangida Aliyu has charged security agencies to do all within their powers to halt the killing of defenceless citizens, and attacks on places of worship and educational facilities especially in the North East, by members of extremist sect, Boko Haram.

Aliyu, said its members were seriously concerned at renewed attacks on innocent people, following Sunday’s killing of 40 students of the College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, as well as the killing of 15 persons in Zangang community in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

“The forum is particularly alarmed that the shooting to dead of 40 students of the College of Education; Gujba, Yobe State followed the same pattern as the killing of 22 students and a teacher at Government Secondary School, Mamudo in the same state last July,” said a statement signed by Mr. Aliyu’s Chief Press Secretary, Danladi Ndayebo.




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