A friend just called some few minutes ago complaining bitterly about low patronage of his newly established coffin manufacturing outfit.His pastor refused to make his prayer request public because of the nature of his profession.During prayer session in church many members always want to listen to his prayer request.To them he is an outcast and a sadist.
Now this guy is feeling very frustrated and lonely because this is a line of business he loves so much.Please feel free to give your sincere advice on how he can turn this business into a huge success

A military-chartered passenger plane slid off a runway and into a Florida river while landing Friday night, authorities said, forcing scores of passengers onto the aircraft's wings to await rescue.
CNN---The Boeing 737, carrying 136 passengers and seven crew members from the Guantanamo Bay military station in Cuba to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, came to rest in a shallow part of the St. Johns River and was not submerged.
All people aboard survived, and firefighters helped them to safety, officials said. Twenty-one survivors were transported to hospitals in good condition, Jacksonville fire spokesman Tom Francis said.
The flight had passed through thunderstorms, a passenger told CNN.
The safe landing was a miracle, said Capt. Michael Connor, a commanding officer at the Jacksonville station.
"We could be talking about a different story this evening. So, there's a lot to say about the professionalism of the folks that helped the passengers off the airplane," he said early Saturday at a news conference.
The plane was taking active-duty military members, civilian government employees and their dependents back to the US, Connor said.
"Some of them were coming back to see their families, some of them were continuing on travel to their homes outside of Florida," he said.

VIDEO: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/04/us/jacksonville-plane-skids-into-river/index.html

Source:https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/04/us/jacksonville-plane-skids-into-river/index.html

A male model has died after collapsing on the catwalk at Sao Paulo Fashion Week.
Tales Soares, 26, was walking for brand Ocksa in the Brazilian city on Saturday when he fell ill.

Onlookers watched him turn to walk back up the runway but watched on horrified as he stumbled and fell to the ground on his face.

He was initially tended to by members of the front row, before medical staff quickly arrived to help.

Hundreds of people were then pictured watching as Soares was taken away on a stretcher.

Brazilian newspaper Folha Press reported that the model had tripped on his shoelace as he fell.

It has also been claimed he began foaming around the mouth following his tumble.

Later on, it was announced that the model had sadly passed away.
A statement from the organisers of Sao Paulo Fashion Week read: ‘SPFW has just received the news of the death of model Tales Soares, who suddenly took ill during the Ocksa show.’

On Instagram – where he had 15.7k followers – Soares described himself as a “Brazilian model, veggie, graduated in physical education, currently in São Paulo”.

He also listed himself as being signed to Base Mgt and All Models Management.

The cause of his death has not been revealed.
The city’s Fashion Week shared a post on their own Instagram page as a tribute.

On a black background, they wrote: “May God welcome you with open arms! Life is definitely a catwalk, we’re just passing through! Very sad!”

source: https//uk.yahoo.com/style/male-model-dies-collapsing-runway-sao-paulo-fashion-week-151508935.html

A convicted killer beheaded another murderer in their prison cell and removed several of his body parts in a "sadistic" attack, it is alleged.

Jaime Osuna, 31, is accused of repeatedly cutting Luis Romero with a sharp object wrapped in string and attached to a handle at a jail in California.

Authorities believe the victim was alive for at least part of the attack which district attorney Phil Esbenshade described as the "most gruesome case" he had ever seen "in terms of heinousness in the slaying".

Romero, 44, was found dead in his cell by guards at Corcoran state prison near Sacramento on 9 March.

He had bled to death from "multiple sharp force trauma injuries" and his body was mutilated, according to a post-mortem examination.

Osuna has been charged with murder, torture, mayhem and weapons possession.

The torture charge alleges he acted "with the intent to cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic purpose".

Osuna could face the death penalty as the killing "was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity".

He has appeared in court and has denied murder and other charges.

An investigation by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is under way.

Osuna has now been transferred to a prison in Stockton for inmates needing medical or mental health care, but officials have not revealed the reason for the move, citing privacy laws.

He was reportedly sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty in 2017 to killing 37-year-old Yvette Pena at a Bakersfield motel in 2011.

Romero also was serving a life term for a Los Angeles County killing, but with the possibility of parole.

Source: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/killer-beheaded-inmate-removed-body-parts-prison-cell-111500444.html

A Chinese researcher who sparked improved cognitive function in monkeys by implanting human genes into their brains has defended his experiment, which has divided the scientific community.
The research, undertaken by multiple universities and led by the Kunming Institute of Zoology in southwestern China, was intended to shed more light on the evolutionary process which led to human intelligence.
"Brain size and cognitive skills are the most dramatically changed traits in humans during evolution, and yet the genetic mechanisms underlying these human-specific changes remain elusive," said a report published on March 27 in the China-based journal National Science Review.
The research paper said it was the first time such a study had taken place.
One of the lead researchers Su Bing, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Kunming Institute of Zoology, said the experiment has been reviewed by the university's ethics board and had followed not only Chinese and international best scientific practices, but also international animal rights standards.
"In the long run, such basic research will also provide valuable information for the analysis of the etiology and treatment of human brain diseases (such as autism) caused by abnormal brain development," he said in an email to CNN.
But scientists who have long debated the ethics of transgenic experiments on monkeys and apes have said the experiment leads researchers down a "risky road."
It is the second gene-related controversy to hit researchers in China in less than six months. In November a Chinese scientist claimed he had created the world's first gene-edited babies, sparking an international outcry.
He claimed to have used a tool known as CRISPR-cas9 to remove the genes that made the children susceptible to HIV. Chinese authorities took a dim view of the experiment, branding it "illegal" and ordering an investigation.
In Su's 2019 study, 11 rhesus monkeys were successfully implanted with copies of the human MCPH1 gene, an important marker for "brain development and brain evolution."
Analysis of the monkeys' behavior and physiology showed they developed in a more human-like fashion, with better short-term memory and a faster reaction time compared to a control group.
Chinese authorities say world's first gene-edited babies were illegal
Chinese authorities say world's first gene-edited babies were illegal
Their brains also took longer to develop, in a similar fashion to humans.
The research has been criticized by a number of Western scientists. University of Colorado geneticist James Sikela said it was a "very risky road to take."
Sikela and his colleagues had argued in a paper published in 2010 that transgenic experiments on non-human primates raised complicated ethical issues and that enhanced primates would be at greater risk of exploitation and harm.
"These harms render the conduct of this research ethically unacceptable in apes, justifying regulatory barriers between these species and all other non-human primates for transgenic research," the 2010 paper said. The paper did, however, concede the research could be valid in some situations.
In the MIT Technology Review, University of Colorado bioethicist Jacqueline Glover compared the experiment to the sci-fi dystopian movie "Planet of the Apes," in which super-intelligent primates overthrow humans.
"To humanize them is to cause harm. Where would they live and what would they do? Do not create a being that can't have a meaningful life in any context," Glover said.
But Chinese scientist Su accused Western critics, and Sikela in particular, of hypocrisy and recklessness, saying that the project was being unfairly judged by Chinese research "stereotypes."
"Exploring the genetic mechanism of human brain evolution is a major issue in the natural sciences, and we will continue our exploration," he said.

I am apolitical but i can categorically say that an average Nigerians are too poor in discerning the concept of TIME and making sound political decisions as regards the administration of their affairs,because what we are seeing now from Buahri is a clear case of a man who is not in tune with reality and out of touch with his immediate enviroment.
if these gaffes are happening in public glare then one should just imagine the scenario behind closed door.The bigger picture and the consequencies.It's a pity!

When a bankruptcy is filed, it begins with the bankruptcy court entering an order for relief. There is a reason it is called that. Nobody wants to file for bankruptcy, but sometimes it is the only way to get relief from crushing debt.

Most clients who end up filing for bankruptcy, however, would never have thought they were going to file. Here are some signs that you may be on the path to bankruptcy, according to a report by http://bodiebankruptcylaw.com.

[b]1.[/b]Your credit cards balances are near their limits: If you find your credit cards are all about to hit their limit, that is a sign that something is wrong.
[b]2.[/b]You have no way to save: Whether it is for a rainy day, a vacation fund, just in case, or for retirement, we all want to save money. If you find that you have to stop contributing to your retirement account, or are unable to save any money each month, that is a sign that your finances may be in trouble. Debt shouldn’t swallow up so much of your income that nothing is left for savings,
[b]3.[/b]You are unable to earn enough to pay down debt: If you find yourself unable to make any meaningful dent in your balances, that is not a good sign. Credit cards can be a very useful tool. They can also spiral out of control. If you find that the minimum costs each month to maintain the balances is all you can afford, the first step is trying to lean down your monthly budget. You can also try to work overtime. If after leaning down your monthly budget or trying to add overtime you still can’t get any traction paying down debt, then you may have reached a point where it is no longer realistic to ever get out from under your debt without bankruptcy.
[b]4.[/b]You forego needed items to keep up with your debt: Not going shopping as often, or not buying the newest smartphone is not a problem. Those things are all part of smart money management. If you find yourself foregoing necessary items however, such as health insurance coverage, or vehicle repairs, then there may be a problem. When you are skipping on necessities to keep up with debt, that is not a good sign.
[b]5.[/b]You are taking out loans against retirement accounts or life insurance policies to stay current on debt: Raiding your retirement account to try to finally get a hold of debt is never a good idea. Retirement account loans may seem like a solution, but they come with large monthly payments that get automatically deducted right out of your pay cheque. Almost always the retirement account loan is a precursor to being right back where you were, but this time with the added problem of a large retirement account loan payment.
[b]6.[/b]Despite balancing payments, you can’t seem to get new credit any more: If you are current on payments but you still can’t seem to get approved for anything, it is probably because your overall debt load is so high that you look like a big risk to lenders. When they see your debt, they know that the odds of paying it back are not good.
[b]7[/b]Robbing Peter to pay Paul: If you find yourself borrowing from one creditor to make payments on another that’s a sign of a serious cash flow problem. The worst version of this is when people alter their income tax deductions and reduce the amount of income tax deducted from their pay cheques to have a larger amount available each month. That decision always catches up with them when it is tax time. The end result is you probably still owe the other creditors but now you have added one of the most difficult debts to get rid of and one of the most powerful creditors out there.
8.[/b]Your bank account goes negative during a month: Your bank account shouldn’t be going negative. If you find that you are bouncing payments and keep going negative before that next pay cheque, that is a strong sign that the current plan is not working and that bankruptcy is likely on the horizon.
[b]9.[/b]You are behind on your home or vehicle loan: Homes and cars are priorities one and two. A home is most people’s largest lifetime investment and it is the place their family lives. People don’t go into default on their mortgage unless the situation is dire. Similarly, without a car, you can’t get to work. If you are in default on your mortgage or car loan, you are past the point where you need to call a bankruptcy attorney.
[b]10.Creditors are calling and sending letters, or have sued you: Once you are far enough in default that you are being hounded by creditors, it is undoubtedly bankruptcy time. Debt collection starts a cycle that is nearly impossible to get rid of. Creditors calling incessantly and sending harassing letters means things have reached a breaking point. Eventually they will sue and you will face garnishment or levy. If you are at this stage, it is time to get relief – by calling a bankruptcy attorney to see about your bankruptcy options.

Source: https://punchng.com/10-signs-you-are-heading-for-bankruptcy/

You are so insensitive,cruel,animalistic and uneducated to engage in intellectuall discourse.This autistic boy can even be more intelligent than you.infact,imbecility runs in your DNA.you are a slowpoke.

I can't cope with unfortunate/problem children.

Sicklers
Autistic
Cretin

Make God no tempt me to commit crime.

Amen. [/quote]

(CNN)A crew member of Fly Jamaica Airways has been arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the United States, according to a statement by the US Customs and Border Protection.

The drugs were discovered after the man was escorted into a private search room at JFK International Airport in New York on March 17, the statement said. His flight had arrived from Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Federal agents said they discovered four packages taped to his legs. Nine pounds of cocaine was seized, with a reported street value of $160,000.
Photos released by the CBP show the suspect, in his airline uniform, with pants pulled down and white tape around his thighs and ankle.
The suspect has been charged with federal narcotics smuggling and will be prosecuted by the US Attorney's Office.

SOURCE: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/airline-worker-cocaine-bust-trnd/index.html

An extremely important debate is raging online –
This is more complicated than you might think.
Put your politics aside, because people are arguing on Twitter over something else for once.

Do straws have one hole, or two?
At the time of writing, two thirds of the 85,000 or so people who voted in Twitter user Jess Marfisi’s initial poll thought straws had one hole.
But before you jump to conclusions, let’s take a look at the facts.
If a straw really is “just a long plastic donut” then it has just one hole, right?
Well, some people were arguing for two holes, and you can see what they’re getting at.
Straws have an entrance and an exit, which could also mean they have two holes.
If we remove straws from the equation completely, what does that leave us with?
If a wall has a door in it, that just counts as one hole, so surely it’s the same for straws?

It gets even more complicated.

What about adding an extra hole in the middle of the straw? Does that change your mind?
This is a discussion that can turn friend against friend, or at least distract everyone in the office for half an hour.
They were arguing against the very boundaries of the debate itself.
So what is the right answer?

Well, the Oxford English Dictionary definition of a hole is a “hollow place in a solid body or surface”.

That makes it sound like the empty space within the straw is the single hole, rather than there being one at each end.

Rigid dictionary definitions aside, the truly enlightened concluded that really, there was no right answer.

source: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/extremely-important-debate-raging-online-173537074.html

Hello Nairalanders,can someone help me out with estimate cost raft fondation measuring 85 by 54..The bill my contractor gave seems very outrageous.He instisted there nothing he could do about it because he intend using the best materials since it going to be 4 flats of one story building.e.g..16mm,12mm and 10mm iron will be tiger brands(imported).Though i like the idea of best and quality materials.but before going ahead, i still want some estimate from fellow nairalanders.please feel free to give me your opinion.

Hello Nairalanders,can someone help me out with estimate cost raft fondation measuring 85 by 54..The bill my contractor gave seems very outrageous.He instisted there is nothing he could do about it because he intends using the best materials since it going to be 4 flats of one story building.e.g..16mm,12mm and 10mm iron will be tiger brands (imported).
Though i like the idea of best and quality materials.but before going ahead, i still want some estimate from fellow nairalanders.please feel free to give me your opinion.

CNN)Thirty years after the Jamaican bobsled team captured hearts around the world, three women from Nigeria stand on the brink of making history of their own in the same event.

Driver Seun Adigun and brakewomen Akuoma Omeoga, Ngozi Onwumere have qualified for Pyeongchang 2018, ensuring an African nation will be represented in the sport at the Winter Olympics for the first time ever.
Despite numerous success stories in the summer Games -- notably gold in the men's football at Atlanta 1996 -- no Nigerian has ever competed in a Winter Olympic event before.
Now, after completing all five qualifying races, the Nigerian women's bobsled team are on their way to South Korea in February.
"Ecstatic to say the least!" posted the Bobsled & Skeleton Sports Federation of Nigeria (BSFN). "To see a mere dream come to reality is a true blessing."
"Their hard work was inspiring and I hope Nigerians can appreciate what it took for them to achieve this," said BSFN president Solomon Ogba.
Seun Adigun at the London 2012 Olympics.
Seun Adigun at the London 2012 Olympics.
"They are all very successful people in their own right -- in sports and out of it, and somehow they are still motivated and still push for more success.
"I have watched them train and work hard to represent Nigeria at the Winter Olympics in a very technical and high risk sport and they have achieved that."
READ: 2018 Winter Olympics - What you need to know
Away from the ice, all three have been professional track and field athletes in their time.
Adigun, who once dreamed of becoming the first woman in the NBA, enjoyed particular success in the 100m hurdles, winning the national championships on multiple occasions and representing Nigeria at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Now they go where no Nigerians have gone before.
"We are from a continent that would never imagine sliding down ice at 80 or 90 miles per hour," Adigun told the BBC in March. "I find the idea of getting people to take to that inspiring in itself."
Visit CNN.com/winterolympics for more news and features
Compatriot Simi Adeagbo, a four-time NCAA All American and triple jump school record holder, is aiming to compete in the skeleton.
source: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/17/sport/nigeria-bobsled-team-pyeongchang-winter-olympics/index.html

32-year-old woman who was born with two vaginas is now pregnant.

Her pregnancy has continued to baffle her doctors, as she had been told that it would be impossible for her to have children.

Her vaginas lay right next to the other.

Doctors said Krista Schwab would never get pregnant because of complications caused by her rare condition called uterus didelphys.

The horse trainer, who was diagnosed when she was 12, has two vaginas, two cervixes and two wombs.
But as she considered IVF, she suddenly discovered to her amazement that she was expecting.

Krista, from Washington, USA, said: “After being diagnosed with uterine didelphys at 12 years old, I knew I had two uteruses and two cervixes.

“But when I was 30, I found out that I also have two vaginas that are side by side. I always felt the separate sections during intercourse and smear tests, but I just thought that feeling was a normal thing every woman had.

“For so many years, my husband and I cried, prayed and dreamed of having a child. We both had so many breakdowns because we wanted one so much.

“After probably 1,000 negative pregnancy tests, it got to the point where I gave up wishing anymore.

“Last December, I put on weight; so I bought my billionth pregnancy test which my husband and I thought was just now a waste of money.

“I normally pray and hope while I wait, but this time, I lost all hope and didn’t bother. Then I saw it – it was positive. I hit the floor crying.”

Aged just 13, doctors had warned Krista that she could never have children. Then, two years ago, she learned she also had two vaginas as part of the condition.

She added: “It was a massive shock, especially for my husband! Doctors and I couldn’t see it because it was too far inside.

“Sex is extremely sensitive and can hurt – it affects my sex life and my self-confidence.”

She suffered two miscarriages as her and husband Courtney, 33, gave up hope of a child.

“However my husband and I joke around about it all the time.
“I actually got pregnant when I was 15 and 20, but I had miscarriages for both.
“When I met my husband at 20 years old, I told him I couldn’t have kids. So, the whole time I’ve been together with my husband, we didn’t use protection.”

Krista is now five months pregnant and expecting a baby boy, which is growing in her left womb.

Most women with uterine didelphys have to have C-section, but Krista is hopeful she might not need one.

She added: “Because of my two vaginas, the baby will have to come down the left side vagina.

“Doctors think I’ll have to have a C-section, but I’m dreaming of a natural water birth.

“It’s incredible because doctors still don’t understand it. The fact that I’m pregnant on the left side and it’s impossible for the egg to get there.

“I am scared that he will get stuck, one vagina is much smaller, if they were both one vagina it’d be a normal size.

“Ten years of trying to have a baby, it just happened. I want women with uterine didelphys to never let anyone tell them miracles can’t happen, because they do.”

Dr. Nick Raine-Fenning, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said: “The uterus forms in-utero by the fusion of two tubes, which are called the Mullerian ducts.”

Source: http://punchng.com/woman-with-two-vaginas-pregnant-despite-doctors-claim-shes-infertile/

So lovely and cute,seems they were created by God to be a perfect match.I wished them all the best from the bottom of my heart

The funds spended were well spended!All hail the minister of youth under developments and spoil.ye ye dey smell

Technical Drawing all the way!!!...I just cannot understand anything about this course and i keep failing it over and over again.

Good old days!!!,i was a legendary lover boy and vetran love letter writer back then.Had i known such letters will bring back relish of good days.I wouldn't have destroyed them.

Let's say Bill Gates didn't wake up each morning with a net worth of more than $76 billion.

Let's say he had just $2. What would the founder of Microsoft do then?

"Just about anyone who's living in extreme poverty is better off if they have chickens," Gates wrote in a recent Gates Notes blog post.

That's right. He'd raise chickens.

By Gates' calculations, the animals cost just $5 in most West African countries. So by spending $2 a day, he could feasibly assemble a flock of 12 chickens in about a month (if he devoted all his money to that goal). Several months later, he'd have dozens of chicks to raise into full-grown money-making machines — and that would put him above the poverty line by a wide margin.

Gates wants to help families in need do just that. In the blog post, he points to his recent partnership with Heifer International, a charity that donates livestock in an effort to combat poverty around the world.

"Our foundation is betting on chickens," Gates writes. "Our goal: to eventually help 30 percent of the rural families in sub-Saharan Africa raise improved breeds of vaccinated chickens, up from just 5 percent now."

The birds offer a cheap and easy way for poor families to dramatically increase their income, since they can sell, trade, or eat the meat, or use live chickens as currency to pay for tools or services.

"These chickens are multiplying on an ongoing basis, so there's no investment that has a return percentage anything like being able to breed chickens," Gates told reporters at a recent event about the partnership, which is called Coop Dreams.

He references the old parable of teaching a man to fish rather than just giving him one. "The parable could've been stated in terms of giving somebody a chicken," Gates says.

As long as farmers keep their chickens healthy — vaccines for the deadly Newcastle disease cost just 20 cents, Gates points out — they can use the revenue to finance purchases of larger livestock, such as cows or goats.

Like chickens, these animals offer year-round yields. Instead of waiting on crops to come back into season, farmers can use eggs, milk, and meat as steady streams of income — not to mention nutrition. If someone like Gates were raising a family on a very low income, he explains, chickens could provide cognitive benefits to children whose brains are still developing.

"Malnutrition kills more than 3.1 million children a year," he writes. "If a farmer's flock is big enough to give her extra eggs, or if she ends up with a few broken ones, she may decide to cook them for her family."

So while $2 might not sound like much, the right entrepreneurial spirit and training could turn a few chickens into a real shot at self-sufficiency.

Source:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-reveals-lived-2-125500593.html

This is the hair-raising moment an inebriated labourer miraculously survived jumping into the lion enclosure at an Indian zoo singing "Please come to me my darling".
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvf3fw_EzY


Source:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/drunk-man-jumps-lion-enclosure-090000396.html

Five members of the same family were charged with the murder of a prophet who had been called to their their home in the village of Mazonde, Zimbabwe to help them cleanse their house of evil spirits.

According to local newspaper, Zed 24 News, the accused family identified as Leanmore Mutero, Tonderai Muswere, Michael Muchengeti, Manasa Mutero and Nicholas Mutero, appeared at the High Court in Harare facing a murder charge for participating in the death of self-professed Prophet Shamiso Kanyama, who accidentally died during a healing ceremony.

Pastor Kanyama had reportedly asked his followers to bury him alive so that he could summon more cleansing powers to heal the family that had been plagued by mysterious deaths.

Zed 24 News reports that High Court Justice Owen Tagu heard how on that day, the late pastor had been invited to attend the home in the Muzarabani district, which is situated along the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border, by their priest, Zvidzai Muchengeti.

The five men had requested the priest to help them clean their home of evil spirits, because it was causing mysterious deaths in their family.

Responding to their request to perform a healing ceremony, Kanyama had ordered his followers to dig a grave and bury him alive because that was the way he summoned more healing powers to ward off evil spirits. However, the plan backfired on the prophet when instead of being resurrected as he supposed, the men dug up the grave again to find him dead.

Kanyama helped to dig his own grave before praying and jumping inside, Father Zvidzai, who has turned State witness, told the High Court. He continued that after laying face down in the grave, he ordered his followers to start covering him with soil.

“He pegged a grave-shaped pit in front of my hut and asked for help to dig the pit,” Zvidzai continued. “Deceased requested to be buried alive so that he would gain power to drive away the evil forces.”

Fearing for the life of the prophet as the men were in the process of filling the grave, he requested the men to stop what they were doing, Joseph Taderera told Justice Tagu.

However, they ignored his pleas when Kanyama urged them to continue the process of burying him alive, stating that he would rise from the grave unharmed.

“I warned the men about the danger of their actions, but my advice fell on deaf ears because Kanyama shouted, telling me that I am disturbing his angels, and urged them to continue filling the grave, saying that he would later come out alive,” Taderera said.

http://guardian.ng/news/pastor-fails-to-resurrect-after-telling-people-to-bury-him-alive/

Any news about First Bank Plc AGM announcement today...Dividend or Bonus?

(CNN)It was a problem that had baffled mathematicians for centuries -- until British professor Andrew Wiles set his mind to it.

"There are no whole number solutions to the equation xn + yn = zn when n is greater than 2."

Otherwise known as "Fermat's Last Theorem," this equation was first posed by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, and had stumped the world's brightest minds for over 300 years.
Professor Andrew Wiles in front of a version of Fermat's Theorem.

In the 1990s, Oxford professor Andrew Wiles finally solved the problem, and this week was awarded the hugely prestigious 2016 Abel Prize -- including a $700,000 windfall.

The prize, often described as the Nobel of mathematics, was awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, with an official ceremony featuring Crown Prince Haakon of Norway to take place in May.

"Wiles is one of very few mathematicians -- if not the only one -- whose proof of a theorem has made international headline news," said the Abel Committee.

"In 1994 he cracked Fermat's Last Theorem, which at the time was the most famous, and long-running, unsolved problem in the subject's history."
Wiles, 62, first became fascinated with the theorem as a 10 year old growing up in Cambridge, England, after finding a copy of Fermat's Last Theorem at his local library.

"I knew from that moment that I would never let it go," he said. "I had to solve it."

He spent seven years intensively working on the equation in secret while at Princeton University, finally cracking it in 1994 by combining the three complex mathematical fields of modular forms, elliptic curves, and Galois representations.

"I was very lucky that not only did I solve the problem, but I opened the door for a whole new era in my field," said Wiles.

"Problems that had previously seemed inaccessible, now became open."

"You never forget the moment you have these great breakthroughs -- it's what you live for," he added.
SOURCE:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/16/europe/fermats-last-theorem-solved-math-abel-prize/index.html

(CNN)When it comes to crossing international frontiers, there's one travel document that opens more doors than any other.

And it isn't a U.S. passport.

German citizens, it seems, have the potential for the greatest mobility in the travel world.With a German passport, travellers can enter 177 out of 218 countries and territories without a visa, according to the 2016 Visa Restrictions Index.

The list, compiled annually since 2006 by London-based consulting firm Henley and Partners and the International Air Transport Association, ranks nations by how freely their citizens, unencumbered by immigration red tape, can explore the planet.

This year, it shows that citizenship of a superpower doesn't carry the clout it once did.

The United States, which ranked first in 2014 and 2015, has now dropped to fourth place.

Immediately behind Germany, holding its position as runner-up for the second year running, is Sweden with visa-free access to 176 countries.

MORE: World's best city for expats revealed

Finland, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom -- which had topped the list since 2013 -- are now tied for third place, making Northern and Western European citizens the most privileged in international travel.

Japan and South Korea were also among the group in the top three in 2014 and 2015, but have slid down to fifth and sixth place respectively this year.

Belgium, Denmark and Netherlands stand alongside the U.S. in fourth.

At the bottom of the list, labelled countries with the "worst passports," are Afghanistan, at 104, followed by Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Syria.

World's best passports (by number of countries granting visa-free access)
1. Germany -- 177

2. Sweden -- 176

3. Finland, France, Italy, Spain, UK -- 175

4. Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, U.S. -- 174

5. Austria, Japan, Singapore -- 173

6. Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland -- 172

7. Greece, New Zealand -- 171

8. Australia -- 169

9. Malta -- 168

10. Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland -- 167

11. Slovakia -- 165

12. Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Slovenia -- 164

13. Latvia -- 163

14. Estonia, Lithuania -- 162

15. Poland -- 161

16. Monaco -- 160

17. Cyprus -- 159

18. San Marino -- 156

19. Chile -- 155

20. Hong Kong -- 154

World's worst passports
94. Liberia -- 43

95. Burundi, North Korea, Myanmar -- 42

96. Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Sri Lanka -- 39

97. Kosovo, South Sudan, Yemen -- 38

98. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Nepal, Palestinian Territory, Sudan -- 37

99. Libya -- 36

100. Syria -- 32

101. Somalia -- 31

102. Iraq -- 30

103. Pakistan -- 29

104. Afghanistan -- 25

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/01/travel/worlds-best-worst-passports/index.html

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A pastor, Olufade Folayinmi, has reportedly committed suicide on Owakurudu Road, in the Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State.

It was learnt that 70-year-old Folayinmi was found hanging with a rope around his neck, dangling from a ceiling fan in his apartment last Monday.

Our correspondent gathered that some church members found the pastor at about 2pm and alerted policemen from the Igbeba division.

A source in the area said the pastor did not leave any suicide note.

She said, “It was a shocking discovery. The pastor was found hanging to the ceiling fan. Nobody knew why he took that action.

“The family and church members still rushed him to a nearby hospital, but the doctors confirmed him dead.”

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident. He added that the corpse had been released to the family after a post mortem.

He said, “The pastor was found hanging to the ceiling. The corpse has been released to the family after a post mortem. The case was handled by the policemen from Igbeba.”

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