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Nigerian pop star, Wizkid, has finally joined the list of the highest paid performer following his performance at a royal wedding in India.
According to him, to have performed during a royal wedding at one of the world’s top private residences, Umaid Bhawan Palace in India.
He was reported to have been paid 50 million Rupees ($681,200, N245.9 million) to give a live performance, and he got Indians dancing to Soco, Fake Love and more.

According to a post made by @AfricaFactsHub, the Nigerian pop star has joined the list of the highest paid artistes in the world after being paid such huge amount:
“Wizkid becomes one of the Highest Paid Artists for Bookings in the World, as he performs at a Royal Wedding at one of the world’s top private residences, Umaid Bhawan Palace in India.

“He was reportedly paid 50 million Rupees ($681,200, N245.9 million).’’
Meanwhile, Wizkid who confirmed his trip to India on his instagram on Tuesday, stated: “Thank U India! Met some amazing people, performed at an amazing wedding and created some amazing memories with my boys’.
The artists started his recording music at age 11 and in 2009, he signed a record deal with Banky W’s record label, Empire Mates Entertainment, and he rose to prominence in 2010.

Wizkid achieved international recognition following his collaboration with Drake on the global hit, “One Dance”, which reached number one in 15 countries, including th USA, UK, Canada and Australia.
He was ranked fifth on Forbes and Channel O’s 2013 list of the top 10 richest/bankable African artists and in 2014 he became the first Nigerian musician to have over one million twitter followers.
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The pop start also became the first Afrobeats artist to appear in the 2018 Guinness World Records for his contribution to Drake’s hit song, “One Dance”.

Jakarta (CNN)
Indonesia's authorities lifted the wheels of crashed Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 out of the sea Friday, as questions turned to how to retrieve what is left of the body of the aircraft from the seabed.

Investigators located a plane engine turbine on the ocean floor Friday, one of the largest pieces of debris found so far, five days after the flight crashed into the sea off the capital Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.

Divers located the flight data recorder and landing gear on Thursday, but are still looking for the cockpit voice recorder to shed more light on what happened in the final moments of the flight.

Analysts say finding the cockpit voice recorder is imperative to determine if the crash has implications for other airlines collectively operating thousands of Boeing 737 flights around the world each day.

"We need to know whether there is a Lion Air problem, a specific problem to this plane, or whether it is a general wider problem for 737s," said Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of airline rating agency, Airlineratings.com.

Finding the cockpit voice recorder is proving challenging. Chief of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, Muhammad Syauqi Syauqi said his team had not heard pings from the cockpit voice recorder. It is thought to be on the seabed, some 35 meters (114 feet) from the surface, obscured by debris or hidden by mud.

A wheel from the crashed Lion Air Flight JT610 was pulled from the sea by Indonesian authorities on Nov. 2, 2018.

Treacherous conditions

In ideal conditions, analysts said, investigators would try to document the positioning of the aircraft and its parts in the water, so they can determine the cause of impact before the plane is raised. But in Indonesia, divers are battling against treacherous conditions, including fast-moving currents and muddy waters.
"The prudent measure in this case is to take it off the floor of the ocean as it's too dangerous to analyze it where it is sitting at the moment," said Thomas.

A photo from Indonesian media agency "detikcom" shows officials displaying part of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610's flight data recorder, after it was recovered from the Java Sea on Thursday, November 1.

If the plane's fuselage had been found intact, buoyancy devices would have been used to raise the plane body to incur minimal damage. But Thomas said the plane is so shattered "that finding or doing further damage to it now is almost incidental."

Recovery of these smaller items will likely be done by hand or with nets, said David Soucie, an aviation safety analyst for CNN.
A big challenge for divers will be to identify and separate any body parts from other debris. "You look at the insulation and the seat backs, the seat cushions can easily be mistaken for body parts and vice versa," Soucie said.

As well as searching for the cockpit voice recorder, divers will be looking for clues in the debris that could indicate what state the plane was in when it crashed.

"Let's say you have the landing gear and maybe two miles away you find other pieces of the aircraft that are heavy, like engines and that sort of thing, then you would suspect that there was an in-flight break up of the airplane. As opposed to a solid impact of the airplane in one piece," he said.

Soucie said that from the extent of the damage, it appears the Lion Air flight suffered from a "hydraulically-driven explosion" when it hit the water. This means that on impact, the pressurized air hits the water and causes the fuselage to rupture.
"You have to think about this thing hitting the water at 400 miles per hour or faster and it just coming to a sudden stop," Soucie said. "You've heard people say water is like concrete when you dive from a 100 feet up, so you can imagine what it would be like at 400 miles per hour. It's hard to describe the types of damage that occur with that."No answers on cause of Lion Air plane crash 01:59

DNA samples

Flight 610 was supposed to take it passengers on one-hour journey from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka. Instead it crashed 13 minutes after takeoff. The pilots had requested to turn around but didn't transmit an emergency call.
As of Friday, 65 body bags have been gathered since the start of the search and rescue operation, though each bag could contain remains of more than one person.

Investigators will have to rely on DNA samples to identify victims due to the condition and size of the remains found. Police have 181 DNA samples from victims' families and are working to match them to 272 human tissues samples.
Lisda Cancer, head of Disaster Victim Identification, told reporters Friday that only one person has been identified so far -- a female confirmed through a fingerprint.

On Wednesday, authorities started bringing relatives to the port to identify victims' personal belongings, which lay piled up next to cushions and other debris that appeared to be from the aircraft.
Epi Syamsul Qomar, whose 24-year-old son was on the flight, broke down into tears when he recognized his son's shoe.
"I saw my son's black sneaker," he told CNN. "I also saw his bank checkbook."

Officials: Plane experienced flight issues the previous day
The jetliner had experienced technical issues the day before on another route, passengers aboard that flight revealed to CNN.
On Sunday the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft -- a new plane, which only had around 800 flying hours on the clock -- had flown Lion Air's Bali-Jakarta route and had experienced a significant drop in altitude, passenger Robbi Gaharu said.
"I thought maybe it was caused by turbulence. After 10 minutes in the air the plane dropped as if it was losing power. People panicked. It dropped about 400 feet," said Gaharu, adding that he had confirmed the height of the drop on a flight tracker website. He said the drop felt like falling into "a really, really deep hole."

Lion Air confirmed to CNN that the aircraft that crashed on Monday had been used to fly the JT43 Bali-Jakarta route the day before, and Indonesian authorities confirmed that the pilot on Sunday's flight reported a problem with one of the plane's instruments.
Capt. Daniel Putut Kuncoro Adi, managing director of Lion Group, said that all information had been handed over to Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Commission and he could not answer any questions about the fault due to a non-disclosure agreement signed to accommodate the investigation.

Expert: 'Something going on in that cockpit'

While no information has been released yet as to why the brand-new plane crashed into the sea, FlightRadar24 published data that shows the plane behaving erratically during takeoff.
When a plane would normally be ascending in the first few minutes of flight, the Lion Air jet experienced a 726-foot drop over 21 seconds.

Aviation expert Soucie told CNN that the flight's last moments were "outside of the normal manual flight mode.
"There was something going on in that cockpit. Or something they were battling against in the autopilot."

CNN's Eric Levenson, Masrur Jamaluddin, Yosef Riadi and Edi Amin contributed to this report.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/02/asia/lion-air-crash-recovery-efforts-intl/index.html

TODAY ON THE 31ST DAY OF OCTOBER IN HISTORY MARTIN LUTHER POSTED 95 THESES

On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.

In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins. At the time, a Dominican priest named Johann Tetzel, commissioned by the Archbishop of Mainz and Pope Leo X, was in the midst of a major fundraising campaign in Germany to finance the renovation of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had banned the sale of indulgences in Wittenberg, many church members traveled to purchase them. When they returned, they showed the pardons they had bought to Luther, claiming they no longer had to repent for their sins.

Luther’s frustration with this practice led him to write the 95 Theses, which were quickly snapped up, translated from Latin into German and distributed widely. A copy made its way to Rome, and efforts began to convince Luther to change his tune. He refused to keep silent, however, and in 1521 Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church. That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and giving permission for anyone to kill him without consequence. Protected by Prince Frederick, Luther began working on a German translation of the Bible, a task that took 10 years to complete.
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The term “Protestant” first appeared in 1529, when Charles V revoked a provision that allowed the ruler of each German state to choose whether they would enforce the Edict of Worms. A number of princes and other supporters of Luther issued a protest, declaring that their allegiance to God trumped their allegiance to the emperor. They became known to their opponents as Protestants; gradually this name came to apply to all who believed the Church should be reformed, even those outside Germany. By the time Luther died, of natural causes, in 1546, his revolutionary beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation, which would over the next three centuries revolutionize Western civilization.

Hello guys.
joshua best premie, from the prestigious Ambrose Alli University,

just came up with this write up

Is 20 years of democracy in Nigeria worth celebrating at all, considering the palpable failure in many areas by political office holders since the return of democracy in 1999?

To answer the question directly, the celebration of 20 years of democracy is as wrong as celebrating 100 days in office by the president and state governors. On May 29th, some governors even celebrate what they call 730 days in office. Sadly enough, they are not celebrating these empty days in office with their personal resources but with tax payers’ money. Any expenditure made by any public servant on celebration of numbers of numbers of days in office is a waste of public resource, this is the level of vision of those we have as our leaders. THEY ARE SHORT SIGHTED. They are free to celebrate 20 years of looting the nation’s treasury. Most people that have serve in government at any level in the past 20 years came to government poor and left noveau rich, because they never planned to be wealthy in life, they spent the money on scandalous ceremonies, buying both relevant and irrelevant articles.

For instance, why should a single public servant have 80 cars in a nation where I and the rest of the populace made do with less than one dollar a day? What makes him exceptionally great is that he is in power and can steal as much as he wants without anybody raising an eyebrow.
20 years of democracy in Nigeria is 20 years of misery for Nigerians and I. 20 years ago, a liter of petrol was N19 today its over 147 officially but in the south east and south-south, it is cost from 175 upward, these are the two regions that have oil and gas. 20 years ago the inflation rate was at a single digits, but today, we experience galloping inflation. 20 years ago, a bag of cement was less than N500 but today, it is between N2,570 and 2,550 depending on the make. So what are they celebrating? Is it unemployment of our youth who are dropping out of school to a hopeless future? Is it bad road that they are celebrating, or non-creation of infrastructure? 20 years ago, Nigeria was generating over 3,500 maga watts of electricity but at the end of Obasanjo tenure, it slumped to about 2,000 mega watts. Is this what a nation should celebrate?

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE CAUSE OF NON-PERFORMANCE?