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And this made front page? What is Nairaland turning into ?

See shot of the BBC website after the Champions League matches on Wednesday. What is wrong in the picture

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what a movie

so?

NOONSENSE

He has been to the world cup at this stage (remember Japan Korea 2002)....who will not want to marry a [size=58pt]World Cup Star[/size]?

Really?

Hi Op

I have been following this conversation all along. Before I comment, please in which sector do you work? Banking? Oil and gas? Academics?

And which country are you?

Thanks

WHO IS FFK?

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COngrats to Malala

COngrats to Malala

Ebola Outbreak: Senegal Confirms First Case

Senegal's health ministry has confirmed a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country to be affected by the outbreak.

Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man from Guinea was confirmed to have contracted the virus.

The man was immediately placed in quarantine, she added.

The current outbreak, which began in Guinea, has killed more than 1,500 people across the region.

At least 3,000 people have been infected with the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned it could get much worse and infect more than 20,000 people.

Guinea riot
Senegal had previously closed its border with Guinea in an attempt to halt the spread of Ebola, but its frontiers are porous.

It had also banned flights and ships from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three worst-hit countries.

But the Guinean health services reported on Wednesday "the disappearance of a person infected with Ebola who reportedly travelled to Senegal," according to Senegal's health minister.

A young Guinean student later turned up at a hospital in the capital, Dakar, said Ms Seck, but he did not reveal that he had had contact with Ebola patients in his own country.

Senegal, a major transit hub for aid agencies, has a large Guinean population.

Separately on Friday, residents of Guinea's second largest city, Nzerekore, rioted after its main market was sprayed with disinfectant in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus.

The exact cause of the riot is not clear - some people reportedly feared the spray would spread Ebola. Police responded by firing tear gas.

A 24-hour curfew is currently in place in the city, which is the capital of the Forest Region, where the Ebola epidemic has its epicentre.

However the BBC's Alhassan Sillah in Guinea says the town has miraculously remained free of Ebola so far.

There have been relatively few cases in Guinea recently, with far higher infection rates in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and six deaths in Nigeria.

On Thursday, the WHO unveiled a plan aimed at stopping transmission of the virus in the next six to nine months.

Among its recommendations, it said countries affected should conduct exit screening to prevent the disease from spreading to a further 10 countries.

The plan calls for $489m (£295m) to be spent over the next nine months and requires 750 international workers and 12,000 national workers across West Africa.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28983554

13 August 2014

A pilot lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached as he was coming in to land, an accident report has said.

The Flybe flight from Birmingham, with 47 passengers on board, was approaching Belfast City Airport in gusty conditions on 12 February.

It landed heavily but no-one was hurt and the plane was not damaged.

The pilot said he would be more cautious in future about checking his attachment, according to the report.

In a statement, Flybe said the senior captain was one of its "most experienced and trusted pilots", and the safety of passengers and crew had not been compromised in any way.

Shortly before beginning to land the Dash 8 aircraft, the 46-year-old had checked that his prosthetic lower left arm was securely attached to the clamp that he used to fly the aircraft, with the latching device in place.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said the captain had disconnected the autopilot and was manually flying the aircraft.

However, as he made the flare manoeuvre - a stage of the landing shortly before touchdown - "his prosthetic limb became detached from the yoke clamp, depriving him of control of the aircraft".

While he had thought about getting his co-pilot to take control, the time available and the challenging conditions meant his best course of action was to move his right hand from the power levers on to the yoke to regain control.

"He did this, but with power still applied and possibly a gust affecting the aircraft, a normal touchdown was followed by a bounce, from which the aircraft landed heavily," the report found.

The AAIB reported that the captain had said that in future he would be more cautious about checking the attachment on his prosthesis as he may have dislodged the latching mechanism.

He also said he would brief his co-pilots about the possibility of a similar event and that they should be ready to take control at any time.

'Safety checks'
Captain Ian Baston, Flybe's director of flight operations and safety, said it was an equal opportunities employer and "in common with most airlines, means we do employ staff with reduced physical abilities".

"The safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority," he said.

"This means that Flybe not only adheres to the Civil Aviation Authority's strict requirements relating to the employment of staff with a reduced physical ability, but exceeds them to ensure that safety is never compromised.

He said an internal investigation following the incident had "determined a series of additional failsafe safety checks" that had been implemented "immediately to ensure that this type of incident could not happen again".

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-28778728

13 August 2014

China is about to try one of the most notorious murders in recent memory.

In late May a group belonging to a banned cult beat a woman to death in a fast food restaurant. Her only crime was to refuse to give them her telephone number.

The cult in question is called the Church of the Almighty God and claims to have millions of members.

It was an ordinary evening in a small town McDonald's in east China until a family of six arrived trying to recruit new members to their Christian cult.

They moved between the tables asking for phone numbers and when one diner refused they beat her to death, screaming at other diners to keep away or they would face the same fate.

The savage murder was filmed on closed circuit TV and on mobile phones.

It shocked China. Who were these people prepared to kill over a telephone number?

Interviewed in prison later, one of the murderers, Zhang Lidong, showed no remorse and no fear.

He said: "I beat her with all my might and stamped on her too. She was a demon. We had to destroy her."

Fighting 'the big red dragon'
The public face of the Church of the Almighty God is a website full of uplifting hymns and homilies. But its core belief is that God has returned to earth as a Chinese woman to wreak the apocalypse.

The only person who claims direct contact with this god is a former physics teacher, Zhao Weishan, who founded the cult 25 years ago and has since fled to the United States.

No one knows exactly where he is, but much of the website's message of outright hostility to the Chinese government is delivered in English as well as Chinese.

It states: "Since the Communist Party came to power in 1949, religious faith has suffered from full-scale crackdown and persecution by the Communist Party - the red dragon - in mainland China."

Of course it's true that until the late 1970s, Communist China did persecute all religious faith, and even now allows it only within strict guidelines.

There are in fact tens of millions of Chinese Christians whose faith is orthodox but who practice it in illegal underground or "house" churches to escape government interference.

But while complaining of Communist persecution, there's no mention on the Church of the Almighty God website of the murders, mutilations, stabbings and riots that some of its own members have been accused of.

Instead it claims millions of followers and says nearly 400,000 have been arrested in the past three years alone.

Resisting the Communist Party, "the big red dragon", is a key test of fitness for salvation according to the personal testaments on the website.

One states: "Even if they beat me to death my soul is still in God's hands. God's word's made my faith firm... I'll never yield to the devil."

A very different picture emerges from those who have lost family to the cult.

Most don't want to reveal their identity for fear of retribution. We talked to one man who went undercover to rescue his wife and father-in-law.

He said: "The cult is anti-family, anti-human, anti-government. It is constantly training its members to lie to their husbands and wives. They throw away family relationships and encourage each other to do the same."

"Whoever is more resolute in rejecting their family is given a higher rank. It takes people who are kind and makes them crazy and extreme."

We found many victims through family support websites and heard of a shadowy cell structure where false names and identities make it almost impossible to trace relatives.

A picture emerged of recruiters who start by offering support and move on to intimidation, who persuade new members to hand over money in exchange for salvation, and who sometimes resort to seduction and kidnapping.

'Heresies and cults'
Outside a government-sanctioned church in Beijing's university district, there are large black signboards warning congregations to be wary of cult recruiters.

Christianity provides a sense of shared values and community at a time when the Communist Party seems to many Chinese to have stopped trying.

But the cult promises an even closer-knit community and even more direct route to salvation. Its recruiters are skilled at targeting people at times of vulnerability: a major illness in the family, a marriage break up, a job loss.

Already the government-backed church suffers from a steady flow of Christians to the underground churches.

But the cults recruit much more aggressively and Pastor Wu Weiqing said it's hard to hold onto his flock.

He said: "I very seriously believe in the next 10 years the most serious challenge to the growth of the church would be from heresies and cults."

"The cults and the heresies will always have the opportunities to get those people, get their heart and drag them away from us. "

In an east China cemetery on a hill above vineyards and orchards, Wang Jiannan picks his way carefully between the headstones.

He lost his mother and his sister to the cult nearly 20 years ago. But now he's lost his father too.

On 1 October last year, his sister beat their father to death in a grim forerunner of the McDonald's killing. Like those killers, she saw her victim as a demon who must be destroyed.

She then handed herself into police and is now in prison alongside the McDonald's murderers.

"My sister has committed the crime and must be punished. But I just want my mother to see clearly the damage the cult has done to her family," said Mr Wang.

"I want her to leave and become a normal person. This is my biggest hope."

Since the McDonald's murder, public outrage has forced the authorities to increase the pressure on the Church of the Almighty God.

Recent weeks have seen an almost daily drip feed of raids and arrests.

But so far the cult has inflicted its damage on individuals and families. Despite its vocal hostility to the Communist Party, it has mobilised no meaningful political threat.

And a threat to the Party, rather than the people, is what it takes to trigger a crackdown in China.

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-28641008

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You need anything? [size=24pt]JUST GO TO INDIA...![/size]

FIrst to comment....me?

A man from America has claimed a small patch of Africa, because his daughter wants to be a princess.

Jeremy Heaton told BBC Radio 5 live that he had travelled from Virginia with his flag to proclaim the area the "Kingdom of North Sudan".

The area lies between Egypt and Sudan, is 800 square miles of arid desert and doesn't belong to any country.

He says he has put official requests in with both nations but, as yet, neither has responded.

Mr Heaton told 5 live his daughter, Emily, took a "serious tone" and asked "if one day she would be a princess".

"Being a father, I knew she was serious in her request," he said. "I researched pieces of land that were unclaimed and was fortunate to discover it."

To celebrate her seventh birthday he made the journey to what locals call Bir Tawil to make Emily's "dreams come true".

The father of three says he was determined to show his children he'd go to "the ends of the earth for them".

When he arrived on 16 June, he planted the flag his daughter had designed in the ground and insists his claim is legitimate.

A territorial dispute between the two countries means the land is one of the last unclaimed areas on earth.

Now Mr Heaton says he'll try to reach out to the African Union for support.

He argues that over the years many countries, including the United States, were claimed by the simple act of planting a flag.

The difference, he says, is that they were usually acts of war, but in this case he "founded the nation in love for my daughter".

However unlikely it is that Jeremy Heaton will become the new King of North Sudan, he already has development plans in place.

Princess Emily, as she is now called by her family, has ordered her new land to become a centre for agriculture.

She now wears her royal crown at all times and says it's "very cool" being a princess but she doesn't know when she'll visit what she thinks is the world's newest country.

Egypt, Sudan and the United Nations will have to recognise the Kingdom of North Sudan before she's officially the daughter of a king.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28308329

Hi guys.

I intend to travel to Burundi soon to attend an international workshop. I am supposed to travel via Addis Ababa. Now I was told I will get my visa upon arrival at Bujumbura. The questions are:

1. What will I tell the immigration people at MMIA here in Lagos? No visa? Won't they turn me back sharply? I do NOT want any embarrassment from anyone. I am a scientist and simply doing my job.

2. Won't I also face the same hurdle in Addis Ababa when I am transiting through?

Thanks. I need your feedback as soon as possible.

skybimpa: Hello Everyone, My name is Maryann. I'm a theatre Arts student at the University of Ibadan. I'm an Acting Major.

I made this movie during the ASUU break together with some of my friends, its called ROCK BOTTOM.

Enjoy and learn!
[youtube]v=pDQgkTWP7[youtube/]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDQgkTWP7bI&feature=youtu.be

THAT PLACE WHERE THE GIRL WAS RUNNING HAPPENS TO BE CHAPEL ROAD, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN


I caught you !!!!!

Job: 1:6 - One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and satan also came with them