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A stowaway has died after falling from a British Airways jet onto a shop in southwest London.

He and another man are believed to have clung on to the passenger plane as it flew more than 8,000 miles from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow.

The second man, aged between 25 and 30, is in a serious condition in a west London hospital after miraculously surviving the ordeal.

He was discovered alive by staff at Heathrow.

The victim died as the Boeing 747 came into land over Richmond at around 9.30am on Thursday.

He reportedly landed on the roof of NotOnTheHighStreet.com in Kew Road.

A spokesman for the firm said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found the body of male on the roof of the premises.

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but early indications are that the body may be that of an airline stowaway.

"At this time there is no evidence to link the death to the discovery of a stowaway in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport, however this is one line enquiry into identifying the deceased and the circumstances of his death."

British Airways described it as a "very rare case" and said it is working with police in London and Johannesburg to establish the facts.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found the body of a dead man on the roof of a business premises.

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained.

"A post-mortem examination will be held in due course and inquiries are ongoing to establish the male's identity. No arrests have been made."

One flight expert said there were security questions to be answered.

Flight International magazine consulting editor David Learmount said: "If these two were neither airline nor airport staff and somehow managed to get on a flight then it becomes a serious security issue. Just how did they get (on the restricted) airside at the airport?"

There have been previous cases of stowaways falling from planes in the Heathrow flight path area in southwest London.

In September 2012, Jose Matada died after falling from the undercarriage of a Heathrow-bound flight from Angola on to a road in Mortlake, about a mile from Richmond.

The 26-year-old from Mozambique is believed to have survived temperatures of up to minus 60C for most of the 12-hour flight, an inquest heard.

He was "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground.

In July 2013, a suspected stowaway from Turkey was found frozen to death in the undercarriage of a BA jet from Istanbul to Heathrow.

He died after facing temperatures of minus 60C during the four-hour flight.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stowaway-plunges-death-ba-plane-085340141.html#AvR7pT7

#bringbackthechibokgirlsfinders

Oby is a big scammer, she will rot in hell fire

Please Who receives FCT allocation? What is it use for?

babs01:
''if he decides to do so however, he
wouldn’t be in the wrong as his
Islamic faith allows him to have more
than one wife'' argues a very source
close to the former governor.

He would be in the wrong if He failed to follow the normal(Islamic) procedure of doing so

And the wife's faith don't allow sharing of Husband.

is it really important?

Two cooks, who are nationals of the Benin Republic, Victor Hounkpe and David Amusu, have been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly poisoning their employers’ meal in the Lekki area of the state.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the employers ─ Mr. Nwogu Chinaka, and his wife, Omowunmi ─ were taken to a hospital outside the country after eating the poisoned meal.
Our correspondent gathered that apart from the couple, the security guards and other domestic workers who ate the poisoned meal became unconscious and were hospitalised.
It was learnt that on Wednesday, April 22, at about 5pm, Hounkpe, who had stayed for about a month in the house, prepared a vegetable soup for the family.
Our correspondent gathered that all members of the family, including the security personnel in the compound ate the soup which was served by the cook for dinner.
Minutes later, the husband, Nwogu, reportedly developed a severe stomach ache and collapsed, while Omowunmi rushed him to a nearby hospital.
The wife, however, also became unconscious and fell at the gate of the hospital after she allegedly had a severe stomach pain. The couple was treated in the same hospital.
Our correspondent gathered that two security guards in the compound were brought to the hospital later in the day.
It was gathered that Hounkpe and Amusu reportedly fled from the house during the incident.
The police said the couple later wrote a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, on the matter, and after investigation by the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, the runaway cooks were arrested.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, 34-year-old Hounkpe said he put the substance in the family’s soup to make everybody fall asleep so that valuables in the house could be easily carted away.
“I am from the Benin Republic. I came to Nigeria in 2007. I have always worked as a cook in Lagos. David was the agent who brought me to the couples’ house. He was the one who gave me the substance to put inside the soup. He told me the substance was a sleeping pill. The plan was that everyone would fall asleep.
“They wanted to stealGOLD and other valuables. I put the substance inside the vegetable soup. It was a powdery substance. I had worked with them for about a month. The couple did not offend us. They were to pay me N50,000 monthly. We just wanted them to sleep off. I ran to the Ogudu area after the incident to pick up another job. That was where I was arrested.”
Amusu, 33, added that the gang was about raiding the couples’ apartment when the duo became unconscious and was rushed to a hospital.
He said, “I was a former cook in the house. I was the one who brought Victor (Hounkpe). On the fateful day, when Victor finished cooking the soup, he called me to say the job had been done. But then, we learnt that the couple was rushed to a hospital after falling unconscious. So, we fled the area.”
The police added that the plan was to use Hounkpe as an insider to give free access to the robbery gang. Amusu was to lead the gang members into the compound. They added that the plan was foiled.
The CP, Aderanti, who paraded the suspects, advised residents of Lagos to always do background checks on people employed into their homes and places of work.
He said, “They have both confessed to the crime. The couple has been flown abroad for treatment. I want the public to always be careful about the people they bring into their homes. In Lagos, there is no place for criminals to hide.”

VANCOUVER, B.C. — On Tuesday, the U.S. will meet a Nigeria team in the Women’s World Cup that has won new fans with its entertaining play in this tournament. But the Super Falcons have also been affected off the field by their country’s increasingly harsh stance against homosexuality.

Last year, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed a new law that made it a criminal act to be involved in homosexual behavior or be a member of a gay club. Gay marriage is also outlawed. Those who break the law face a jail term of up to 14 years. Several countries and their diplomats have publicly criticized the Nigerian law, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

“Nigeria is a society that’s very conservative and deeply religious,” a Nigerian who’s connected to the women’s soccer team told SI.com this week, requesting anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic. “The north is deeply Muslim. The southeast is deeply Christian, and the southwest is split Muslim and Christian. So you have this very religious country with strong cultural ties and beliefs.”

The Nigerian source named two players in his/her opinion who would be on Nigeria’s current World Cup team if they were not thought to be publicly gay. What’s more, the source estimated that over the years 30 to 40 percent of the Nigerian women’s team has been gay or bisexual—mostly on the down-low—adding that it’s not possible for a player to be publicly gay to the media and wider world in today’s climate.
Upfront and Onside: Dispatches on the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada

“Here’s what might happen to a [Nigerian] player who comes out and says, ‘I’m gay’: You barely can go home anymore,” the Nigerian said. “Even if you have a couple people in your family who say, ‘Don’t worry, we like you and trust you,’ we are still communal at heart. So now your parents, your brothers and sisters are going to go back to village, and people are going to point at them and make snide stories and talk. Your family gets put into songs. That’s a stigma. If a player comes out and says, ‘I’m gay,’ then the trouble doesn’t just start and end with the player. It goes all the way back to the family:
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/06/15/uswnt-nigeria-homosexuality-policy-womens-world-cup

Is Buhari not Old enough to handle any problem thrown at Him?

he was never selected as senate leader so this article is useless

fatdon2:
God of messi, Imo state 11 months How do there staff cope

The cope by answering my governor!!!! my governor !!!! when ever that fool chant my people! my people!!

Kaduna stadium not good for football, let take politics out of the game

The beginning of the end

I remember how in the 90's my father use cardboard with inscription "the devil's box" to blind the screen of the television in the house. When he is away to work, we removed the stuff and watch the television. He caught us one day red-handed and we got some beating. doctrine of men above the word of God was mostly practiced in deeper life of those days. Today I see them flexible a bit with Kumuyi watching television. I still feel this his second wife turn his mentality around.

people are so misinformed in Nigeria and we Nigerians are gullible. Visit the NASS website the bill is there, read for yourself and don't always depend on trash from the media. Soyinka goofed in this one.

like GTB for one thing, I get my cash no matter the amount with the POSin the banking hall. I do that in less than 5 mins

same pattern, don't expect anything new

GOOD JOB

hardywaltz:
Sai Baba
I just love this man's carriage...
Truly Presidential

carriage no b food and unpaid salaries in naija. let this man show working

From this brief Nigerian history below, which day in your opinion is ideal for democracy day celebration in view of the fact that some people are agitating for June 12 to be declared so.

October 1, 1963 - our first date with democracy.
June 12, 1993 - the best election ever in Nigeria.
May 29, 1999 - Start of the longest and stable democratic experience in Nigeria.


1960s
1960
Nigeria became independent on 1 October 1960.
1963
Nigeria became a republic on 1 October 1963 after her first democratic process.

1966
On 16 January 1966, a group of army officers, consisting mostly of the Ibo peoples, and led by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, The coup brought Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to power, terminating the first period of democratic rule.overthrew the central and regional governments, killed the prime minister, took control of the government, and got rid of the federal system of government to replace it with a central government with many Ibos as advisors. This precipitated riots and many Ibos were killed in the process. In July of the same year, a group of northern army officers revolted against the government (beginning a long history of military coups), killed General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and appointed the army chief of staff, General Yakubu Gowon as the head of the new military government.

1967
Gowon moved to split the existing 4 regions of Nigeria into 12 states. However, the military governor of the Eastern Region (Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu) refused to accept the division of the Eastern Region, and declared the Eastern Region an independent republic called Biafra. This led to a civil war between Biafra and the remainder of Nigeria. The war started in June 1967, and continued until Biafra surrendered on January 15, 1970 after over 1 million people had died.

1970s
1970
The Biafra secessionists capitulate in January. Successive governments promise elections but military rule continues. During the early 1970s major reconstruction of the areas that were formerly part of Biafra undertaken.

1979
Nigeria returns to civilian government rule in October, electing Shehu Shagari as President of the Second Republic.

1980s
1983
Shagari regime is deposed in December, as a military coup ousts the democratically elected government.

1985
A second coup ushers in a regime headed by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (picture to right). Babangida later promises new elections.

1990-97

1993
On June 12, 1993, Nigerians went to the polls to elect Social Democratic Party candidate Moshood Abiola as the new president of the country with 58 percent of the vote. On the eve of election results, General Babangida annuls the election. The United States suspends aid as a political crisis ensues. Eleven die in riots protesting military rule.



Babangida steps down in August and chooses interim government. Gen. Sani Abacha seizes power in November.
1994
Nigerian police arrest Abiola in June after he declares himself president of the country. In July, a federal high court charges Abiola with treason for declaring himself president.




1995
In October, General Abacha vows he will step down in three years after reforms are complete.

Nigeria's military government hangs nine political activists in November, including well-known playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was accused of involvement in the killings of four pro-government traditional chiefs in 1994.

Nigeria is suspended from the Commonwealth, the 52-member organization grouping Britain and its former colonies, after the hangings.


1996
Kudirat Abiola, the outspoken wife of detained Nigerian presidential claimant Moshood Abiola, is shot and killed while being driven along a Lagos street in June.

1997
Exiled writer Wole Soyinka is charged in absentia with treason in March by the country's military government.

1998
May 7: Nigeria announces that it has freed 142 prisoners on orders of General Abacha.

June 8: Abacha dies at his villa in the Nigerian capital. He is quickly replaced by a close ally, Maj. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar.

June 9: The Clinton administration offers improved ties with Nigeria's new military government if it frees political prisoners and moves toward democratic reform.

June 12: Hundreds of Nigerians hold scattered protests in Lagos to demand an end to military rule. They are dispersed by troops and police.

July 3: Nigeria's new military government confirms that they intend to release the country's political prisoners, including Moshood Abiola.



July 7: Nigeria's imprisoned political leader, Moshood Abiola, dies of an apparent heart attack as he talks with Nigerian officials and senior U.S. diplomats about how to resolve the country's five-year-old political crisis.

July 20: In a major television address, Maj. Gen. Abubakar promises that free elections will be held in early 1999 and a civilian sworn in as president of Nigeria on May 29.

1999
January 20: Nigerian and international election monitors declared that local elections in December and state elections Jan. 9 were fair. The country enters high campaign season for the election of its first national civilian leadership in 15 years.

February 27: Nigerians vote for a civilian president in an election marred by claims of voter fraud and irregularities. Two days later, Nigeria's election commission confirms the winner: former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo. He was sworn in 29th May, 1999.

Asiwaju9ja:
which kind pitch be this? na home ground them carry this match go for chad o! na bus dem go take from chad. and na familiar grounds. wetin do akwa ibom stadium

Akwa Ibom na PDP state

WHERE ARE THE OTHER MOTHERS?

benefit of bringbackourgirl campaign strategy. I see it as profiting from the girls predicament.

Buhari badluck for sport

in the area of fight against corruption, he has failed. his party man Timipre Sylva has been set free from all corruption cases he was involved in. that is a bad sign

who told you nomination can't be more than two. if PDP wanted ogar nothing would have stopped them.

I see equalizer, but am not watching the match

NgeneUkwenu:
I wouldn't have had problems with Saraki, if he had chosen an APC Deputy just like the House of Rep! This is the height of insensitivity to the same party that gave him, the platform! So Ike Ekweremmadu from nowhere, will reap where he did not sow!

Nonsense!!!

he did not choose his deputy, the house voted. Nigerians like imposition and the word choose

Garba Shehu Media assistant to Buhari said on channels tv this morning that the president did not write any letter to the clerk to shift inauguration time. I don't understand why the APC can't accept their fate.

"He said President Buhari summoned them(APC senators) to a meeting and told the clerk of the National assembly to give a reasonable excuse to hold proceedings(the election)"
the APC members look confused and their stories are not well packaged. This morning the special assistant to president on Media said that the president did not sent any letter to the clerk on the elections maybe the APC leaders sent the letter. when lie Mohammed was asked the same question he said he was not aware of any letter to the clerk. So what is the APC senator saying now. I hope Nigerians have not entered one chance with APC.

Baawaa:
You are senseless,Bukola,Olusola,Gbemisola are Hausa names

they guy talked about region, you talk about tribe. not the same thing.