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An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania.

Steven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the Manta Resort, off Pemba Island.

Footage shows Mr Weber diving underwater to ask Ms Antoine to marry him.

In the video according to the BBC report, Mr Weber presses a hand-written proposal note against the cabin window as Ms Antoine films from inside.

Ms Antoine, confirming Mr Weber’s death in a Facebook post, said he “never emerged from those depths”.

The Manta Resort told the BBC Mr Weber “tragically drowned while free diving alone outside the underwater room” on Thursday afternoon.

“It is with the deepest regret that we inform that a fatal accident occurred at The Manta Resort on Thursday 19 September 2019,” the resort said in a statement.

Matthew Saus, CEO of the resort, said “everyone is shaken to the core” by Mr Weber’s death.

Mr Weber and Ms Antoine had booked four nights at the resort’s underwater room, which lies approximately 250m (820ft) from the shore.

Costing $1,700-a-night (£1,300), the cabin is anchored in water around 10m (32ft) deep.

On the third day of their stay, Mr Weber, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plunged into the water to make his proposal.

Wearing goggles and flippers, he held a note against the cabin’s glass window as Ms Antoine watched on from within.

His note read: “I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you. But… everything I love about you, I love more every day!”

Later in the video, Mr Weber turns over the sheet of paper to reveal the proposal, before pulling an engagement ring from his shorts and swimming out of view.

Mr Saus told the BBC his staff responded to a “problem in the water”, but when they arrived “absolutely nothing could be done”.

In her Facebook post, Ms Antoine said Mr Weber “never got to hear her answer” to his proposal, which would have been “a million times, yes”.

“We never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together, as the best day of our lives turned into the worst, in the cruellest twist of fate imaginable,” she wrote.

“I will try to take solace in the fact that we enjoyed the most amazing bucket list experiences these past few days, and that we both were so happy and absolutely giddy with excitement in our final moments together.”

The US Department of State said it is aware of the death of a US citizen in Tanzania, in East Africa.

“We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,” a spokesperson said. “We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance.”

SLAP44:
Tunde Bakare will replace Osinbaba

If you know you know.

MUMURIC comments

Dannyset:
Lies............
This is just the handwork of a political party that couldn't build its Secretariat for almost 21 years but want to build Nigeria.

Anybody could see Osinbajo as threat for 2023, yes, but don't tell us he's been told to resign. You've been using that same line since 2015, still you go to the back to collect Trader moni in 2019 from him.

Shame no dey catch una?

Exactly! This is just a PDP figment

mrvitalis:
Greed of south west has cost southern nigeria 2023 .. History never forgets

U have ruled for 8 years , u have been vice 8 years
Support igbos that haven't ruled ...u said i want to rule again

North just give igbos vice n carry go ...u can even give south south vice and give us senate president we dont really care ....lets start afresh

But the foolish easterners are calling for ‘break away’, yet they want the president of Nigeria.... undecided mofos!

Dozie32:
Is that not the mbaise destructive governor?

He is

bigpicture001:
Who told u their is aby whistle blower any where....

Govt plant monirs from the CBN..everywhere nd make a show of retrieving it

Yes you’re right, exactly what foolish Ihedioha is doing in Imo

Barondenigeria:

That's the next Governor of our Lagos!

Eko Gbi gbi!! MC lo lé sé o! #Oluomo2023
Ómó wa ni e jeo sé!
#MC4Show
#Eko4MC!

Go back to your foolish state and stop claiming good things

collinsuchendu:
APC can NEVER win any constituency in Imo

Mumu political follower/ranting

tolumizzy:
What's her own?.... Iya Aye

What’s your own that you’re commenting? Aye!

Enyimbamercedes:
Pained sophisticated slowpoke spotted! Enjoy your Next Level... Peace and Love

Mumu lazy ipob family and his deranged kinsmen are all pained

Enyimbamercedes:
Only a matter of time...soon he will be presiding over only his home affairs

Then i wonder how it affect your family

What happened to the former president in 2010 while sidelining the then vp will also happen to the present president

Sirmuel1:
The funny thing is that, Messi always ignore all these childish talks

You mumu small o, anyway it’s part of the recent documentary about him.

FarahAideed:
Did he take permission from the Presidency before doing this ? Abba Kyari says he must take permission

Lazy youth that can’t reason with there heads...

donstan18:
You should rather copy Davido and think of settling down than investing your time watching Tacha on Bbnaija.

Is that the best your brain can think of? Lazy youth

NaijaRoyalty:
Always looking beautiful .



Remi Tinubu and Dolapo Osibanjo put together are no match to our ever glowing Bianca In beauty and brain.

Igbo Amaka

You mean Ffk fucck mate

eTECTIV:
D VP has now finally been restricted to d mere commissioner ... VP will now get approval from Abba Kyari lol.. Even d condolences will now b under d Ministry of Humanitarian affairs lol.. Dis is some next level shit

Nothing good can come out from the east

Sunofgod:
Madness...what experience does she have?

Madness.... what exactly can governments do to satisfy cretine like you

ihatebuhari:
rice farm.


Useless country and useless people

Useless you too

carzola:
Soludo should be the chairman of such committee
cause of his experience.

well...
Nigeria is a sitting duck..
we are a thicking time bomb
i hope the next elections comes faster.

So that una fit explode for east abi.... people with no good intentions

JasonScoolari:
It seems the Op is under Tinubu's payroll....

Which one is "African Political Living Legend"? Do they know him in Gabon or Mauritius?

An "African Political Living Legend" that cannot fork out N300 to buy Toothpaste for his rotten teeth.

You mean the man that destroys the east

ChristianNorth:
But Yorubas said only Igbos are SA

The igbos don’t want to leave SA, they want to stay put and die there.

Zikora1000:
Nigeria female soldiers were once deployed to fight Biko Haram, if you see the way these women were captured, you won't pray to deploy them back there again. the system is corrupt. someone is feeding fat from the crisis in North East. politicians are sponsoring these boko boys and even our soldiers knows this. the fight against bokoharam is compromised and until we start getting it right, don't send people's daughters to a life of eternal torture and rape

So why did they join the military then?

Ceoking6:
Birds of the same feather


Madam sha be careful cos obj is possessed when it comes to stavfing other people's wives.

Ask his daughter in law

Your sister is a living witness

pdppower:
You wrote this because you see him from the outside. I see him from the inside. I stay very close to his famous Ota farm. You need to see the roads leading to the farm and the ones behind it. Having spent 8 years as the president, there's no single federal govt presence felt in his native state.

Lie kii you there

SLAP44:
You mean Nigeria's chief mourner?

Yes. He’s always mourning the people from the east

Natoski5:
Osibaja .. Nigerian dumpest vp

Ipob dumbest

JasonScoolari:
ANGER;


Anger has always been the leading vehicle to self destruction.

An issue that could be resolved peacefully without anyone getting a scratch has now lead one of them to the great beyond.

What stops the foolish man from getting his already exhausted wife a tin of peak milk and a bottle of malt for her to regain strength?

What stop the moronic beast from carrying the baby a little while and allow the mother of his eight kids have a little rest?

All the murderer knows is to reproduce like a tireless Gambia rabbit.

Now she's gone to rest peacefully, he should start breastfeeding the little baby.

PS; Learn how to control the spirit of ANGER.

Please i need to know, does milk and malt gives strength?

Over 1,000 members of the People’s Democratic Party from Ogun East Senatorial district of Ogun state have defected to the All Progressives Congress in the State.

The decampees were said to be loyalists of the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the state during the 2019 general election, Senator Buruji Kashamu.

Leader of the decampees, Otunba Kolawole Akinyemi, said they decided to join the progressives as a result of landmark work done by the Governor so far attest to his sagacity and sincerity of purpose. He added that they would join hands with the Governor in moving the State forward.

Receiving them, Tunji Egbetokun, the Senior Special Adviser on political matters to the State Governor, Dapo Abiodun. Receiving them, Egbetokun who stood in for Gov. Abiodun said the decampees have made the right choice by joining the progressives, assuring them that the party would ensure fairness, equity and justice for all its members at all times, irrespective of when they join the party. Egbetokun said, “our party is open to all, even members of other parties. You have come at the right time. In our party, we do not discriminate as we give due recognition to all members irrespective of how long they have been members or their social standing”. While promising that the Dapo Abiodun’s administration would not disappoint members by formulating and executing policies and programmes that have a positive impact on the socio-economic well-being of the people, he urged the party faithful to remain resolute and not engage in activities that would bring the name of the into disrepute.

He charged the new members to bring in more people into the party, he, however, stressed that the administration would not stifle oppositions, as “competition becomes sweeter when there are opponents”. In his remark, the State Secretary of the Party, Engr. Ayo Olubori appreciated the people for coming on board. He applauded their strong desire to build the future of the State with Prince Dapo Abiodun and urged them to bring in new members to the party and work towards its progress and that of the State.

But, in his reaction, Kashamu dissociated himself from the PDP defectors, saying the action did not get his blessing.

A statement issued by his Media Adviser, Austin Oniyokor, quoted Senator Kashamu as saying that, “I do not have any problem with any one or a group of people exercising their right to freedom of association but such must be done responsibly and not with elements of lies, blackmail and outright subterfuge.

“Kola Akinyemi and his co-travellers should desist from dropping my name in their political prostitution and voyage of anywhere ‘belle face’. I dissociate myself and my genuine followers from this group of desperados.

Their movement to the APC in Ogun State does not have my blessings.” Kashamu further stated that while it is true that he has canvassed support for the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led Administration in the overall interest of the state, such should not be misconstrued to mean that he has defected to the APC or authorised any of his followers and associates to do so.

“It is true that politics is dynamic. If there is going to be any political alignment or movement in the future, it is going to be a collective decision with the buy-in of all stakeholders. And it will be done openly, not in the less than the honourable manner that these characters have done theirs.” The immediate past Senator, who represented Ogun East Senatorial District at the 8th National Assembly, urged all PDP members to keep faith with the party and continue to work for its interest and growth. Vanguard

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/kashamu-clears-air-as-over-1000-pdp-members-defect-to-apc-in-ogun/

Op, is this news about Atiku lost at the tribunal or about the death of Iweala father....

Thursday was September 12th for most African countries including Nigeria but the Horn of Africa nation, Ethiopia marked the beginning of its New Year 2012.

Ethiopia follows a calendar that is about seven years behind the Gregorian calendar, used in much of the rest of the world.

The last day of the year in Ethiopia is referred to as Pagume 6 while the first day of a New Year is Enkutatash.

As a Land of Origin, Ethiopian calendar, unlike the Gregorian’s calendar is composed of 13 Months. While the 12 months have 30 days each, the 13th month named Pagume has regularly five (5) days but changes to six (6) days every leap year, this year it has six (6) days.

As such, the Ethiopian New Year starts in September, or Meskerem in the local language, not in January.

The Ethiopian New Year holiday is known as “Enkutatash” which means the ‘gift of jewels’ as stated in legends. “King Solomon of Jerusalem gave the Queen of Sheba jewelery during her Historic visit to Jerusalem some 3,000 years ago. Her return to Ethiopia after receiving the gift coincided with the New Year celebration in September, and hence the name Enkutatash came to be.”

One of the reasons behind which Ethiopia celebrates its New Year during this month is that the number of daylight hours and nighttime hours happens to be exactly equal “in every part” of the globe once every September and the Sun and the Moon, which are used to count time, each set after 12 hours.

The second reason is derived from Religious believe, which says that the creation of the Heavens and the Earth took place in September.

Ethiopians believe that the month of September shows different signs that explain the beginning of the New Year such as: the time where the blooming flowers are seen everywhere, the rainy and foggy weather leaves and start the pleasant sunny days.

During this holiday, a traditional song called “Abebayehosh” is performed by groups of Ethiopian girls who approach their neighbourhood families to extend best wishes for the New Year and in return they receive blessings from the elders.

Report gathered from BBC Africa and WHO.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/ethiopia-celebrates-2012-new-year-in-2019/