Thursday, December 31, 2015

‘Rat on a plane’ forces Air India flight to turn back

A “suspected rat sighting” in the cabin forced an Air India plane carrying more than 200 passengers to return to Mumbai almost three hours into a flight to London, the airline said Thursday.

People living with diabetes to include vegetables, bitter leaves, cabbage, cucumber, garden egg, garlic, local (unprocessed or whole grain) rice, unripe plantain, crayfish, snails, ground-nuts and soya beans, among others.

Army

Youth Council has condemned what it called molesting of Easterners travelling home for Christmas and new year celebrations at Onitsha Head Bridge, Anambra State allegedly by soldiers from the 302 Battalion of the Nigerian army in Onitsha.

Polymer scientists plead with FG

President Muhammadu Buhari

The Polymer Institute of Nigeria, PIN, has appealed to the Federal Government to religiously pursue the development of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry with a view to providing the needed raw materials for industries that will ultimately create jobs.

The United States, US, government has restated its commitment to help Nigeria and its neighbours to counter terrorism acts by Boko Haram.

A five-month-old baby has been reportedly killed and several others injured after an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority attempted to arrest a commercial bus driver for violating the traffic law around the Awoyokun end of Ikorodu Road.

Shi’ites leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky

The authorities of the Kaduna Prisons on Wednesday distanced itself from purported claim that the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, otherwise known as Shi’ite, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, was in the prison.

One of the smallest surviving babies in the world, born 14 weeks early will soon be heading home from the hospital, her parents who are exceedingly happy announced this week.

Smog-choked Delhi gears up for car ban

Millions of Delhi residents will have to find alternative ways to work from Friday, when authorities launch a trial of draconian traffic restrictions to try to clean up the world's most polluted capital.

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An Indian worker displays a sticker on his vehicle that indicates it runs on compressed natural gas …

Authorities say there was minor leakage of sulphuric acid and diesel fuel spillage at the crash site.

Authorities fear sulphuric acid has leaked from a derailed freight train near the town of Julia Creek in north-west Queensland into a nearby waterway.

3 death row inmates regain freedom

Three death-roW inmates, Kingsley Akhabue, Ismail Fatoki and Fabian Mathew, convicted and sentenced to death on March 29, 2011 a the Lagos High Court, have regained their freedom, after being discharged and acquitted by the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos.

LAUTECH graduate designs flying car

A graduate of Computer Science/Engineering of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Mr. Olaolu Ayoola, has designed a flying car.

A cup of coca tea Photo: Â© Rafa Happke / +55 / Alamy Stock Photo

Italian police have ordered that a Peruvian coca tea be removed from the shelves, after it was found to contain significant levels of cocaine.

Ayelet Shaked has filed a police complaint against a university academic on charges of incitement over a social media post that called her 'a partner to making Israel fascist'

Gionee out with new smartphone

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GIONEE, a Chinese phone manufacturer has introduced a new phone into the Nigerian market.

Eating fish, meat before rice controls blood sugar

THIS information will interest people living with diabetes. The next time you are served a plate of rice, it is advisable to eat the fish or meat before the rice. Japanese researchers say they have established that eating fish and meat before rice can help control blood sugar in people with diabetes because it slows down the stomach.

On a plate of rice, experts say you should eat the fish or meat first.

Kachikwu

THERE will no longer be a uniform price for petroleum products, according to a new regulatory framework released by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) in Abuja, yesterday.

NDLEA operative

The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency disclosed yesterday that it seized over 12,362 kg of hard drugs in Kano in the last 12 months with 676 suspects arrested.

President Muhammadu Buhari will host his first Presidential Media Chat tomorrow, Wednesday, December 30, 2015, a statement by his media aide, Femi Adesina said Tuesday.

Shitte attack: Senate committee to visit Zaria Monday

THE committee set up by the Senate last week to unravel the remote and immediate causes of recent crisis between the Army and Shiite Islamic group, is expected to visit Zaria, scene of the incident, on Monday.

Man, 28, docked over alleged theft, presentation of fake US currency

A 28-year-old man, Musa Bukar, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court over alleged stealing and presentation of fake United States dollars to a customer.

The radicalization of Jews and Muslims is squeezing Christians out of the Holy Land—and ISIS's reported arrival in the biblical city is just the latest sign.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described Sunday and Monday's Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Adamawa states as disheartening and an indictment on the All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government, saying that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed must explain to Nigerians how the same Boko Haram he said had been 'technically defeated' could carry out such daring and deadly attacks.

Iran sends nuclear material to Russia

Will they follow it through to 'Implementation Day'?

Iran sent a major shipment of low-enriched uranium materials to Russia on Monday, a key step in Tehran's implementation of this year's historic nuclear accord with world powers.

A serving Lance Corporal in the Nigerian Army, Emmanuel Ebo, and seven others have been arrested for allegedly selling ammunition to a notorious gang of armed robbers which attacked banks in Lagos and Ogun states.

There are strong indications that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps may have been recruiting personnel secretly through the back door.

A thirty-two-year-old vulcanizer, Jelili Dimeji, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly leading a 30-man gang to rob his neighbour, Oladipupo Audu, of property valued at N 1,750,000.

Seventy-five-year-old Beatrice Oyesolu, the mother of twin brothers shot dead on Saturday by a trigger-happy policeman guarding Paulson Hotel on Anibaba Street, Ketu-Ikosi, Lagos, says the promises her children made to her had been shattered.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Tuesday commended the Federal Government in its plan to recruit 500,000 teachers for the nation’s basic education and secondary schools but warned against using using the policy as a means of compensation for political patronage as it was the practice in the past.

Shi’ites leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky

The leader of the Shi’ite Islamic group in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-zakzaky, has been arraigned at the Chief Magistrate Court 1, Zaria Road, Kaduna and charged with criminal conspiracy and inciting public disturbances.

A woman, identified as Esther Williams, has been arrested by the Isheri division of the Lagos State Police Command for pouring hot water on her neighbour, Mabel Enwongomfon–Umoh, who is a nursing mother.

The National Christian Elders Forum yesterday warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to drag Nigeria into the Saudi Arabia-led Muslim/Arab coalition against ISIS. “Nigeria is neither an Islamic nor an Arab nation.

Protest Continues In Kano Yola, Jalingo, Birnin Kebbi And Sokoto For The Release Of Sheikh Zakzaky, Followers

Protest condemning AMERICAN INTELLIGENT AGENCY (CIA), ISREAL INTELLIGENT AGENCY (MOSSAD) and NIGERIAN SECRET POLICE SSS under the leadership of Lawan Musa Daura's atrocities, through Ngerian Army, continues in Kano Yola, Jalingo, Birnin Kebbi and Sokoto yesterday evening just like in many other places across the world.

Madagali Bombing: Adamawa govt orders free treatment for injured victims

The Adamawa State Government has dispatched an assessment team to Madagali over Monday’s suicide bombing that claimed 17 lives, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

File Photo: Gombe presidential rally Car-Bomb-Blast in 2014

The state Commissioner for Information, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Yola.

Memory:

…40 yrs after massacre by Nigerian soldiers: Tears still flow in C-River community
•Monarch narrates how he escaped death by a hair’s breath
•It’s agonizing particularly as he wasn’t killed by inhabitants
—Prof Odinkalu, chair, National Human Rights Commission

Good News- NUPENG Says Petrol’ll soon be available

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers yesterday, said that petrol would soon be available in filling stations across the country.

Fire sacks 13 families from storey building in Warri

THIRTEEN families residing in a storey building along Ojabugbe Street in Warri were Sunday sacked by fire which destroyed property worth millions of Naira at about 9am.

Nigeria earned N412.983 billion from the export of Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, also known as cooking gas and other gaseous materials in three months, between July and September 2015, according to data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.

Toll gate

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, had at his maiden press briefing announced the intention of the Federal Government to re-introduce toll gates on federal highways across the nation.

Man electrocuted in bid to steal electric cable in Kaduna

An unidentified middle aged man was electrocuted at the early hours of Sunday while trying to steal electric cable at a power supply installation in Kaduna.

NPS officials-Dambazau

There is a growing wave of discontent among some officers and men of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) over the decision of the Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau to effect a change of the current fatigues uniform of the personnel.

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, is Nigeria’s home-grown “Comical Ali.” It would not be unfair to fashion him as “the Minister of FABU.” Barely two months of assuming office, Mohammed has established himself as an instrument of cheap propaganda and disinformation.

Man dies in Germany after blowing up condom machine

The remains of a condom dispenser after explosion in Schöppingen, Germany — Man was reportedly hit in head by flying piece of metal from machine in apparent robbery attempt

Adeboye to Nigerians: help law enforcement agents to defeat terrorists

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged Nigerians to support and cooperate with law enforcement agents to ensure lasting peace.

The Senator pointed out that although the children at the Orphanage Home were orphans, they deserve a future like every other child in the society.

Senator adopts 60 orphans, sends 2 to China for higher education

Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District and Chairman Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Debts,Comrade Shehu Sani yesterday adopted orphans totalling sixty (60) in number in the Adonai Orphanage Home, Kaduna as his children.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said the two Palestinians were relatives, one aged 17 and the other, 23.

A Palestinian protester returns a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah December 26, 2015.

(REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman)

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians who stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the army said, the latest attack in 12 weeks of heightened violence.

Oily fish such as mackerel is good for heart health. Photograph: Alamy

The World Health Organisation found there was enough evidence to say that salted, cured, fermented or smoked meats were indeed carcinogenic.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau pictured on a video in 2014. Attacks by the group contradict government claims that it has been defeated. Photograph: AP

Dozens killed as wild weather sweeps across southern and central US

At least 43 people have been killed after storms hit southern and central US states over the Christmas holiday, unleashing floods and tornadoes, flattening buildings, blowing vehicles off highways and snarling transportation for millions.

Germany recruits 8,500 teachers to teach German to 196,000 child refugees

‘Special classes’ have been created to help children who have fled war and poverty to catch up with their new peers

Refugee mothers and children look through games and books in another initiative by the German education ministry, the reading start for refugee children. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

An eyewitness- Aisha said "An Isis policewoman took the baby, gave it to another woman, and then killed the mother.”

Syria funds suggest IS link to militants arrested in Indonesia

A female member of the dreaded Al-Khansa brigade has killed a mother for breast-feeding her reports say.

The Al-Khansa brigade is a team of enforcers who ensure that people adhere to the strict rules of Islam, as set by ISIS.

Fire outbreak: Wike relocates doctors to guest houses

Nyesom Wike

THE Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has relocated doctors at the state-owned Braithwaite Memorial Hospital to government guest houses in Port Harcourt.

A youth, Anselm Ugwuoke, is currently on the run after killing his father, Paulinus Ugwuoke, 60, on Christmas Day, in Enugu State.

Ericsson launches NuVu subscription video-on-demand service

Ericsson has announced the launch of its first end-to-end subscription video-on-demand content service, NuVu. The service will be marketed in close collaboration with service providers.

Benin prime minister unhurt after helicopter crash

Benin Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou emerged unscathed after a helicopter he was travelling in crash-landed in the country’s northwest, an official said Sunday.

Concept Nova unveils IT sales consultancy programme

One of the Nigeria’s fastest growing information technology service and software development companies, Concept Nova has unveiled an independent consultancy programme that provides opportunity for IT sales consultants to earn extra income while helping small and medium enterprises, SMEs, bridge technological gaps and solve operational issues with the use of the firm’s IT solutions.

Eight months after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, its government has finally opened the way for a reconstruction agency to spend $4.1 billion pledged by foreign donors to help the massive number of people rendered homeless.

Devil introduced lesbianism, homosexuality to destroy marriage – cleric

Rev. Fr Raymond Tyohemba, the Assistant Parish Priest of St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Akwanga, Nassarawa State, has condemned the practice of lesbianism and homosexuality .

Tyohemba, while delivering a sermon on Sunday, also warned people against destroying the marriage institution.

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Thursday, December 31, 2015

People living with diabetes to include vegetables, bitter leaves, cabbage, cucumber, garden egg, garlic, local (unprocessed or whole grain) rice, unripe plantain, crayfish, snails, ground-nuts and soya beans, among others.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015