Kevin Abosi Updates

Friday, 11 September 2015

Japan evacuates 100,000 as floods swamp city of Joso

Japan evacuated about 100,000 people from their homes on Thursday, after rare torrential rains unleashed floods that left at least two people missing and stranded many more when rivers surged over their banks.

A couple with their pet dogs on the roof of their house in the flooded city of Joso Photo: AP

A further 800,000 people across eastern Japan have been advised to evacuate after officials issued predawn warnings of unusually harsh rainfall to 5 million people.

People inside houses wait to be rescued as the houses are submerged in water flooded from a river in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo Photo: AP

Japanese military helicopters plucked dozens of residents from the tops of their home, but rescue officials said they were unable to keep up with the pleas for help after raging floodwaters swamped parts of a city north of Tokyo.

Men and boys from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through the Syrian city of Raqqa last year Photo: AP

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have published macabre posters advertising ransoms for a Norwegian and a Chinese prisoner.

The announcements came at the end of the eleventh edition of Dabiq, an online English-language magazine released by Isil’s media arm.
The Norwegian man was identified as Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Oslo. The Chinese man was named as Fan Jinghui, 50, a freelance consultant from Beijing.

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has said that he is hale and hearty, describing his purported collapse and near-death rumour as the handiwork of mischievous elements.

El-Rufai said his rumoured collapse was a mere hoax designed by mischief makers for purposes best known to them.

The governor stated this while receiving the members of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Thursday.

Nigerian governors have rejected the death penalty for looters..The governors, who spoke with The PUNCH, on Thursday, out rightly rejected the suggestion that looters of the nation’s resources be sentenced to death.
This comes as Organised labour- the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress-at the beginning of the week said looters should be given the death sentence in order to serve as deterrence to others.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate sack of the Chairmen of the FCT Internal Revenue Service, Secondary (SEB) and the Universal Basic Education Boards (UBEB).
The sack was contained in a letter with reference sent to the FCT Permanent Secretary, John Obinna Chukwu, on Wednesday, by the Secretary to the Federal Government.

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has warned intending job seekers not to fall prey to fraudsters, as the commission insists that is not conducting any recruitment for now.

This was disclosed in a statement made available yesterday by the FRSC’s spokesperson, Mr Imoh Etuk.

The ststement reads in part, “The management of the FRSC wishes to discountenance itself from this criminal act and advice the general public especially, job seekers to disregard such unauthorised and mischievous antics as the corps is not presently embarking on any recruitment exercise.

The Ebonyi State Police Command said that the kidnapped Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Ebonyi State and the Medical Director, Smile Hospital Abakaliki, Dr Johnson Obuna who was yesterday kidnapped by unknown gunmen, numbering about three, in Abakaliki was yesterday rescued from his abductors.

Dr Obuna, who was the former Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA according to the State Commissioner of Police, CP Peace Ibekwe Abdullah, who confirmed the kidnap, was abducted at about 8pm yesterday.

THE National Examinations Council has released the June/July 2015 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination results. The result showed a remarkable improvement when compared with previous examinations between 2011 and 2014.

The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, on Thursday announced the results at the council’s national headquarters in Minna, Niger State.

Soldiers of the One Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, have killed no fewer than 10 suspected terrorists in various joint operations code-named, “Operation Restore Peace II” in the North-West zone of the country.

Also in the operations, about 64 suspected terrorists and bandits were arrested.

Those arrested had been handed over to the police for further investigation and prosecution, according to the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, One Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Col. Usman Abdul.

Omotola Blasts Buhari, Ambode Over Death of Electrocuted UNILAG Student

Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade, is not happy with the way both the states and Federal government handles matters especially when human lives are involved.
According to her, the current administration keeps clamouring for Change, yet they cannot exhibit what they have been preaching about.

The actress frowned at the how the Lagos State government and the Federal government have kept silent over the sudden death of a 300 level student of the Accounting department of the Lagos University.

An 84-year-old Russian actor famous for more than 140 roles in Soviet and Russian films has announced he plans to start a family with his new wife who is 60 years his junior.

Legendary Russian actor Ivan Krasko married his 24-year-old fiancée Natalia Shevel, a former student of his, in a secret ceremony attended only by close friends and family yesterday in St Petersburg.

Despite criticism from many, the pair described their relationship in an interview with Russian media as a 'match made in heaven'.

Anambra State Police Command has discovered and evacuated four mysterious dead bodies in a room along Olisa Onyeka Crescent, Commissioner’s quarters, Ifite, Awka, the state capital.

The policemen led by the state Commissioner of Police, Hassan Karma invaded the room in a two storey-building Tuesday morning.

There once was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he should hammer a nail in the back fence rather than take it out on other people.

On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into the fence. As the days went by, though, the number of nails gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

The Nigerian military on Wednesday said it has destroyed all known Boko Haram terrorists’ camps and cells in the North East.

The Defence spokesperson, Rabe Abubakar, said this at his maiden news conference, adding that the camps were destroyed by troops operating in the region.

Mr. Abubakar said the terrorists have been “so militarily defeated and weakened” that they can never hold any part of the territory in that part of the country.

Poor genital health seems to have become a major and worsening epidemic round the world. Most men , produce 50 per cent less live semen than 30 years ago. The density drops 2-4 % a year. As much as 40 per cent of 40-year-old men and 50 per cent of 50-year old men suffer from occasional or chronic erectile dysfunctions.

We also know that men all over the world are producing significantly less testosterone now than decades ago. This important male hormone, , keeps up the muscle size and condition, sexual capabilities, and the masculine characters determination and firmness. Testosterone is also needed to maintain the memory in the middle and older age.

An unidentified man jumped to his death Wednesday afternoon from the westbound flyover bridge of Loop 1604 to U.S. 281 on the North Side of San Antonio, Texas.

On Wednesday in Obele Lawanson Community, Surulere, Lagos, a family of seven died in a fire disaster.The victims, who lived on 23, Michael Ogun Street, died because their co-tenants did not make effort to rescue them when they called out for help around 11.30pm on Tuesday.

Those killed were a textile material dealer, 28-year-old Kelechi Onoja; his wife, 18-year-old Nkiru; their one year and eight months old first child, Favour; their three weeks unnamed second baby boy; two yet-to-be-identified family members; and Nkiru’s 80-year-old mother.

A 25-year-old man who attempted to hide under the tyre carriage of a Medview aircraft on a domestic flight was apprehended yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 (MMA2) in Lagos.
He was found by the pilot during his final check on the plane before its departure to Accra, Ghana.
Airport workers hinted that he succeeded in gaining access into the tyre compartment of the aircraft which was ready for taxing on the Tarmac .

He hid himself at the tyre compartment in the under carriage of the aircraft .A source hinted that final inspection round the plane by the pilot drew his attention to some strange movements and object inside the tyre compartment.

Survivor’s story: God was working that night

Agnes Mends-Armstrong is simply not a strong woman - physically. But an unknown arm was strong enough to pull her out of four feet of flood waters Wednesday night during Accra’s twin disasters of fire and floods.

Her story is about how strength is not a requirement for salvation or weakness a sentence for death in times of danger.

As one of the survivors that day, she was a panelist on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Friday for the final series of survivor’s story.

The new smartphones are the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, keeping the same overall dimensions of the last version.

"They look familiar, but we have changed everything about these iPhones," chief executive Tim Cook said at a San Francisco media event.

News24 reports that South Africa's youngest millionaire's partner George van der Riet served time for manslaughter and drug dealing in the UK.

According to the BBC, van der Riet admitted to the crimes during a case at the Old Bailey in London.

He was using the name David van der Riet at the time.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday dismissed the insinuation by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the APC-led Federal Government was dictatorial in nature.

Tinubu, who was fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, said the president had been adhering strictly to rule of law.

According to him, president Buhari should rather be commended for stimulating the economy across the states of the federation.

FILE PHOTO: Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat near Mecca as they perform one of the Hajj rituals on October 3, 2014

(AFP Photo/Mohammed al-Shaikh)

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Wednesday said five Nigerian pilgrims had died in the Holy land

The Head of Madinah Operations of NAHCON, Dr Bello Tambuwal, disclosed this to newsmen in Madinah.

A 20 year old's article of her struggle with being beautiful has caused serious backlash online .Felicia Czochanski has caused an internet storm after sharing a blog post on the Cosmopolitan about her day to day struggles because she is ''too attractive"
Describing herself as a "girly girl" with "blonde hair, big hazel eyes, 34DDs, and toned calves", she says...

A woman has been arrested in western China after she swallowed 78 pellets of heroin, up to 1,700 times the minimum lethal dose.
The woman, who has not been named, was stopped by police at Turpan train station in the Xinjiang autonomous region after police noticed her behaving “erratically” during a routine security check, reported the China News Service on Sunday.

A man in Oakland County was stabbed after he discovered his wife in bed with her own father. The 25-year-old victim came home to find his wife and his father-in-law lying naked in bed together.

He woke his father-in-law up, and the two got into an argument that continued outside. The older man, Henry Allen Michael of Detroit, then allegedly stabbed his son-in-law in the back with a knife and drove away in the victim’s vehicle.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a pastor, Abraham Sunday, for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl, Kike (pseudonym) in Adalemo Estate, in the Toll Gate area, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Sunday, the pastor of Christ In All Nations Church in Adalemo, was arrested by the Ojokoro Police Division last Wednesday, September 2, from where he was taken to the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba.

A Mother who complained of headaches most of her life is to have surgery to remove a needle from her brain.

Liu Kao, 48, always thought the pains – which often came during the cooler months of the year – were related to her heart.
But years of tests revealed nothing unusual.

China overtook the United States and became the world's largest recipient of FDI (foreigndirect investment) in 2014, according to the 2015 Chinese edition of the World InvestmentReport released at the 2015 China International Fair for Investment & Trade in Xiammenon Tuesday.

The report says China attracted 129 billion US dollars of FDI in 2014, 5 billion more thanthe previous year, and exceeded the United States for the first time.

Governor Nyesom Wike

The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has refused to stay proceedings on the suit challenging the victory of Governor Nyesom Wike at the April 11 governorship election.

The new chairman of the tribunal, Justice Suleiman Ambrosa, in his ruling, held that the tribunal would carry out the Court of Appeal judgment at the date appropriate for it.

Former president Goodluck Jonathan

Amidst fanfare, pageantry and endorsement from former president Goodluck Jonathan, Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday declared his intention to contest the forthcoming primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and return for second term as governor of the state.

The Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State graced the occasion, while four other governors sent their deputies.

The troops of the Nigerian Army have intercepted some suspected members of the Boko Haram sect believed to be suppliers of hard drugs and other stimulants to the deadly sect.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on Tuesday that the suspects were arrested at Depchi and Geidam in Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State.

He said that the arrested terrorists were also involved in the supply of fuel aside from the hard drugs in their possession.

A British Airways flight bound for London Gatwick was taxiing on the tarmac at McCarran Airport on Tuesday night when it suddenly caught fire. Those on board were forced to jump down the evacuation slides and run away from the blaze. The plane was preparing for take off and only two people taken to a local hospital for treatment after suffering minor injuries. There were 159 passengers and 13 crew members on board at the time. It is not yet known what caused the fire..

8 UNIZIK lecturers punished for extortion, exam malpractice, misconduct

UNIZIK Vice Chancellor Professor Joseph Ahaneku (Sunnews)

Eight staff of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, have been handed various punishments for offences including extortion, exam malpractice, and misconduct.

According to the Newsletter of the University, the punishments were recommended following investigations by the university's Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee.

Cross River Legalises Death Penalty for Kidnappers

Following the incessant spade of kidnappings in the country ,Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, monday signed into law a bill that prescribes death penalty for convicted kidnappers in the state.

Assorted counterfeit drugs worth over N40 million have been discovered in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC),also arrested a man suspected to be the owner.The suspect, who was identified as Paul Osita Eli, was arrested in the early hours of Monday at Number 2, Charles Edozien Avenue, Asaba, where he was reportedly packaging the counterfeit drugs with mobile authentication number to make it look genuine.

Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) alleged yesterday that the state governor, Nyesom Wike, squandered more than N120 billion in his first 100 days in office.
In a statement released yesterday by Davies Ikanya, state chairman of APC insisted Wike wasted 100 days by merely engaging in falsehood and propaganda.

A tenant, identified simply as Abdullahi, has been arrested for allegedly killing his landlady, Raliat Olasupo, in the Ibafo area of the state.

According to Punch, Abdullahi slaughtered the 85-year-old landlady with a knife during an altercation over N9,000, said to be an amount the landlady was supposed to pay Abdullahi for a service rendered.
Our correspondent learnt that the service was the roofing of one of the rooms in the house, which Abdullahi reportedly coordinated and demanded N9,000 from the landlady.

It was gathered that Olasupo, popularly called Iya Ibadan, had accused Abdullahi of being a trouble maker, and had got the police to arrest the tenant and eject him from the house.

Former chairman of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme, Christopher Kolade, on Monday, said he resigned his position in 2013 because its operations were becoming tainted with corruption and politics, thereby losing its credibility.

He said some officials of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan were practising “something that was lower than the transparency”, expected of an interventionist agency like SURE-P‎.

He said he met resistance when he raised the issues as he was overruled by some powerful forces within the administration.

The Federal Government has issued supplementary import permits to oil marketers for the importation of petrol due to the poor output from the country’s refineries.

It was learnt on Monday that the permits were given to marketers last Thursday by the government, which asked them to bring in the product to supplement domestic production.

Officials of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency told our correspondent that the marketers would import over 400,000 metric tonnes of premium motor spirit, otherwise known as petrol, to augment local production.

It was also learnt that the volume of import was this high because the country’s refineries were still not producing at optimum capacities.

The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission has uncovered fraud at the state Sharia Court of Appeal and Kano Road Traffic Agency (KAROTA).

Speaking to newsmen on Monday, the chairman of the commission, Muhyi Rimingado, said the Sharia court workers diverted state funds to private accounts.

“What the accountants of the Sharia courts do is fraudulent diversion of money into personal accounts. They have personal stamp and bank tellers, which they use in lodging money into their personal accounts,” Mr. Rimingado said.

The Nigerian Immigration Service has directed former Nigerian public office holders to immediately surrender official and diplomatic passports issued to them while they were in office.

The action, officials say, is based on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The categories of officials affected by the directive are former governors, former ministers, former senators, former members of the House of Representatives, and former members of state Houses of Assembly.

A British scientist has been detained at Bangkok airport in a urine-stained holding centre since Thursday and told that he has been blacklisted by the country where has lived for 30 years as a “danger to Thai society”.

The detention of Wyn Ellis, a United Nations environmental consultant, is the latest legal challenge that he has faced since he noted that a senior Thai official had plagiarised his work for a doctoral thesis.

The Swansea-born academic reported death and kidnapping threats to Thai police during a series of court cases brought against him by the civil servant, who ran the science ministry’s National Innovation Agency.

What is prayer?

What is prayer? Prayer is a very simple thing: communication with God. Though often directed heavenward, the reverse can also be true. Therefore, prayer is not a mere repetition of words, a position of the body, or a means to participate in a religious society. Prayer is the human heart before its maker. It is appropriate anytime and ideally, all the time.

FBN Holdings Plc (HoldCo) has announced the establishment of FBN Merchant Bank Ltd, a new addition to the financial services group.

The HoldCo also announced the appointment of Mr U.K. Eke (MFR), currently executive director, South, FirstBank Ltd, as group managing director-designate, while Mr Bello Maccido, pioneer group CEO of the HoldCo, is leaving his position to become pioneer chairman of the newly-licenced FBN Merchant Bank.

“That woman is not my mother…My daddy’s name is Effiong. He is at Air Force Base”

But for the ceaseless crying of a four-month-old baby yesterday, three children may have ended up in a kidnappers’ den.

The cry of the baby, carried by Eno, the suspected kidnapper, who was accompanied by a teenager, inside an Iddo, Lagos-bound Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) vehicle, attracted other passengers.

With the woman and the teenager, a girl, were two other children—Happiness Effiong (four) and her sister, Patience (two). They claimed that all three were Eno’s children.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday told journalists in Accra, Ghana, that he had declared his assets four times since 1975 and challenged the newsmen to investigate the details of his possession.

Buhari asked journalists to use the required law to dig up the records of his four separate asset declarations.

He said, “I recall that in 1975 when late Murtala Mohammed became the Head of State, we were lined up in the corridor – governors, ministers, members of the Supreme Military Council – and officials of the Ministry of Justice were brought and every individual was made to declare his assets.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for
something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think
how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work
or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Reading dispels prejudices which hem our minds within narrow spaces. One of the things that will surprise you as you read good books from all over the world and from all times of man is that human nature is much the same today as it has been ever since writing began to tell us about it.

For any problem, no matter how big or complex it may be, there is a solution. Use these nine steps to find it!
What are the similarities in problem solving, decision making, and goal achievement?

Actually, they're alike in many ways. A decision that must be made is little more than a problem awaiting a solution. We might even call it a simple problem. When we're faced with a decision, we rarely have to choose between more than two or three alternatives, whereas, in solving a problem, we sometimes face what seems to be an endless list of possibilities. And, what about goal achievement? Isn't a goal a point we wish to reach? The problem is to move from where we are now, to where we want to be. So, problem solving, decision making, and goal achievement are all closely related functions of creative thinking. It's important that we keep this in mind.

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