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Kann “Superhands” Trichan got the cool nickname for his incredible ability of scooping pieces of chicken from burning-hot oil with his bare hands.

The 50-year-old Chiang Mai-based street cook can sink his fingers into 480 degrees hot grease without getting so much as a blister on his hands, and his amazing ability has won him international fame. People from all over the world come to his “Fried Chicken Iron Hands Man” food stall to see Kann use his hands to scoop out the chicken and he and his wife travel the globe showing off his gift. Superhands has no idea why he can do what he does, but he’s just happy it brings more and more customers for his business, every day.

Kann Trichan first discovered his unusual gift seven years ago, when he accidentally got hot oil splattered all over his body. While attending his giant woks, he noticed a squirrel eating a mango on a branch just above him. The squirrel dropped the big fruit right in the oil splattering it all over Kann’s body and head. A taxi took him home and when he got up the next day ready to go see a doctor, he took a look in the mirror only to see he had no burns. The redness was fading away and his skin was practically intact, so he just decided to go back to work, to the astonishment of his fellow street vendors.

From there on, his reputation grew, and everyone wanted to see the man who survived a shower of hot oil without a single burn. Trichan began experimenting and noticed he was able to use his bare hands to handle the pieces of chicken in hot oil so he decided to use it to attract customers. They were loving it and business was booming. Seven years later, Kann Trichan is still operating his food stall in front of the Chang Mai technical college, surrounded by curious tourists wanting to see his hands dipped in boiling grease.

Kann Trichan also holds the Guinness Record for picking 20 pieces of chicken from oil heated to 480 degrees Celsisus, in just one minute. He says he can feel the oil is hot when he dips his hands in it, but it simply leaves no mark. Scientists have yet to unravel this peculiar gift.

Source: http://www.odditycentral.com/videos/thai-cook-fries-his-own-hands-doesnt-get-burned.html

Jailed former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, told a Swiss private bank in 2004 that he owned 30 per cent of oil firm, Oando Plc, which allegedly paid $1.2m into his account that year, a prosecutor told a British court on Tuesday.

The court also heard that PKB Privatbank had in an internal document likened Ibori to a scion of the Kennedy dynasty in the United States, according to a report by Reuters.

Ibori was jailed for 13 years in Britain after pleading guilty in February 2012 to 10 counts of fraud and money-laundering worth £50m ($79.5m). Prosecutors said his total wealth was likely to be far greater than that.

Details of his assets and how he kept them hidden from the public gaze through a web of shell companies and foreign bank accounts are being disclosed as part of a three-week confiscation hearing, which began in London on Monday.

One of the biggest embezzlement cases seen in Britain, Ibori’s is also a rare example of a senior politician being held to account for the corruption that has held back Nigeria.

Prosecutor Sasha Wass told Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday that in 2004, Ibori had opened an account at Lugano-based PKB in the name of a shell company called Stanhope Investments.

Quoting from internal PKB documents, Wass told the court that Ibori had presented himself to the bank as the owner of an insurance company, half of a bank and 30 per cent of Oando.

She said that a total of $1.2m flowed into the PKB account from Oando in three payments that year, which had later been channelled to other accounts and were part of funds intended for the purchase of a $20m private jet.

Shares in Oando, Nigeria’s biggest home-grown oil company, fell by 10 per cent in Lagos on Tuesday following the first allegation by Wass on Monday that Ibori had hidden assets in the firm.

Oando said on Monday that Ibori had only an “insignificant” holding in the firm and also said it had sold $2.7m of its foreign exchange earnings for naira in 2004 to a company that later turned out to be controlled by Ibori, but it did not know that at the time.

Wass told the court on Tuesday that despite his assets being restrained in 2008, Ibori had after that date continued to live a lavish lifestyle, travel and pay fees to the English boarding school where his three children were being educated.

Combined with Ibori’s track record of hiding his assets, this led to the “irresistible inference” that he had further hidden assets, which investigators had not yet uncovered, she said, adding that one option of where these might be was Oando.

Wass also quoted from an internal PKB report from 2004, which said Ibori came from one of a few families that had for decades developed the oil industry in the country.

“We could compare these families with the Kennedy dynasty, which also mixed business and politics,” the bank document said.

Another excerpt said Ibori was “an extremely rich man as he was doing a lot of business before becoming governor.”

PKB, which is fully owned by the Luxembourg-listed Compagnie de l’Occident pour la Finance et l’Industrie, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the early 1990s, Ibori worked as a cashier at Wickes, a home improvement chain store in London. He was convicted of theft in 1991 after being caught taking money from the till.

A property he and his wife had bought in a London suburb was repossessed as the couple could not meet mortgage payments.

The Head, Corporate Communications, Oando Plc, Mr. Ainojie Irune, who spoke with The PUNCH over the telephone, said the company’s position on the matter remained the same as stated on Monday that Ibori did not own a large part of the company.



Source:- http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/ibori-claimed-30-ownership-of-oando-british-prosecutor/

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Dollars seem to be raining on fast-rising singer, Inyanya, who is said to have secured a $350,000 (about N56m) endorsement deal with Zinox Computers. As such, Inyanya’s songs and videos will be pre-loaded unto all Zinox computers before they are purchased.

In the same vein, the singer, who shot into limelight as the first ever winner of MTN-sponsored Project Fame competition, will also feature on all Zinox billboards and other commercials across the country. Although the company has yet to make the news public, the singer, who is also an MTN ambassador, took to his Instagram account to announce the deal and display the brand new dollar notes.



Source:- http://www.punchng.com/feature/midweek-revue/that-inyanyas-350000-endorsement/

The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday continued its war of words with the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party over the suitability of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential election.

While the APC believes that fielding Jonathan as a candidate would be suicidal for any party, the Presidency and the PDP argued that he remains the best to contest and win a presidential poll in the country at present.

The latest war of attrition was spurred by Tuesday’s invitation to the President by the APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, to join the newly formed political party if he was fed up with the crises in the PDP.

Akande had said, “We (the APC) don’t even close our door to the PDP. If Jonathan is tired of the crises in the PDP, he is welcome in the APC.”

The Presidency however reacted immediately to the invitation, saying it was an acknowledgment by the APC of Jonathan’s sterling leadership qualities.

But in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was bad that the Presidency did not read the statement credited to Akande before reacting.

According to him, the invitation was not a compliment.

Mohammed said, “When we say the man (Jonathan) should come and join us, we mean that he should come and see how to run a crisis- free party.

“But unfortunately, his handlers like himself, are unable to read between the lines.

“Fielding President Jonathan will be disastrous and it would amount to political suicide. The PDP itself also knows that it would be a double jeopardy if it fields the President in 2015.

“This is because, having lost the moral ground to face the electorate in 2015, the performance of the President since the past years is even appalling.”

But the Presidency on Wednesday reiterated its position that the APC’s invitation of Jonathan was an indication of his national acceptance.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, told one of correspondents that the Presidency viewed the invitation as a compliment.

Abati insisted that the invitation had shown clearly that the leaders of the APC were also aware of the fact that Jonathan was the best man for the job at present.

He, however, ruled out the possibility of Jonathan joining the APC because “he is happy where he is.”

The presidential spokesman said some people formed the new party only to realise that they had no credible candidate for the position of the President.

Abati said, “I think it (the APC’s invitation) is a compliment. What Chief Akande has said in essence is that President Jonathan is the best man for the job.

“They formed a party only to realise they don’t have a candidate. We thank him for his acknowledgment of the President’s leadership qualities, but he (the President) is happy where he is.

“We thank Chief Akande for his expression of confidence in President Jonathan’s credibility but the President is happy where he is, as a member and leader of the PDP to which he remains loyal, and under the umbrella of which he is leading a transformation agenda for the betterment of the lives of Nigerians.”

Also, the PDP hit back at the opposition for asking the President to join it, saying by so doing, it had admitted that it had no presidential material in its fold.

The PDP said the leadership crisis rocking the opposition party just a few days after its registration was an indication that it “is a party of desperate power mongers whose only aim is to satisfy their egocentric interests.”

A statement by the PDP Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Tony Okeke, said the APC had confirmed to Nigerians that it did not believe in the leadership abilities of its prominent leaders, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

It said the call had shown the opposition as a clueless party in dire need of leadership and ideology .

The statement read in part, “By calling on President Jonathan to join it, the APC has shown that it has no confidence in the leadership abilities of its prominent leaders such as Buhari and Tinubu.

“The party has looked inward and has realised the bitter truth that none of those in its fold has the required credentials, charisma and competence to be President, hence, they have been seeking to poach from the PDP.

“The APC has clearly vindicated the PDP by openly showing that it is a confused and clueless party, lacking in ideology and in dire need of leadership. It is only a gathering of confused persons that will at one moment falsely condemn somebody as inept and incompetent and the next moment beg the same person to come and join them.

“Also of particular interest is the statement credited to Buhari who was reported to have said that the APC will push out the PDP in 2015.

“Buhari as a respected military leader should be reminded that in a democracy, the power to vote out a party lies only with the people. He has on many occasions been rejected by the people at the polls and he and his new party will still witness another round of such verdict in 2015.”


Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/any-party-that-fields-jonathanll-lose-apc-%e2%80%a2-opposition-confused-desperate-power-mongers-says-pdp/

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, on Sunday wept while recounting his 15 years ordeal in jail.

Also, Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, also described the former CSO as a hero.

Al-Mustapha broke down at the Kano State Government House while recalling his ordeal at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, Lagos.

The former CSO was detained for about 15 years over the alleged murder of the late Mrs Kudirat Abiola, wife of the late Alhaji Moshood Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

Kwankwaso said, “Hamza Al-Mustapha was taken away in 1999 in tattered clothes and in chains under a pitiable situation; but today, he has returned a hero. We have always insisted that he was unjustly held. We felt concerned and decided to be part of justice.”

The former CSO was in the Government House along with members of his family and close associates, including the Founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun.

He told Kwankwaso that he was a victim of trumped-up charges.

In an emotion-laden speech, Al-Mustapha, who was released via the Court of Appeal judgment on Friday, regretted that he was returning to an empty home.

He said he lost both parents while in detention.

He stated, “I must say that I lost my father and my mother, whom I was forced to see only two times in 15 years.

“Even when the court forced the authorities to allow them to set my eyes on them, the approvals of the court were flagrantly refused. And I was kept and punished the more just as a ploy to ensure that I did not set eyes on my parents.

“I saw my father in 2001, and later in May 2007. My mother, I was allowed to see in 2001 August, and then I was allowed also to see her after a long battle, in 2006 and she died last year, in the month of Ramadan.

“Things we went through are things that I cannot sum up anywhere, but all I can say is that yesterday is gone.

Those who have perpetrated what they did against us have done it in their own deductions, analysis, feelings but to us yesterday is gone. We have drawn a line and we have forgiven them. We are forging ahead to set examples.”

Al-Mustapha commended Fasehun, describing him as a detribalised Nigerian.

He stated, “I have found a father—highly dogmatic, a senior citizen of this country, a detribalised elder, an intellectual, a person that is a father indeed with a wide shoulder and a big heart, a man that is very reliable, responsible, dependable, Dr. Fredrick Fasheun.”


Source:- http://www.punchng.com/news/al-mustapha-a-hero-kwankwaso/

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Some kid suspects released by military authorities in Maiduguri on Friday said the Boko Haram sect paid them N5,000 each to burn primary schools and spy on soldiers.

They were among 23 women and 35 children released to the governors of Borno and Yobe states by the Commander, 21 Armoured Brigade, Maiduguri, Brig-Gen. R.O Bamigboye, on behalf of the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Sa’ad Ibrahim.

The children, whose ages range between nine and 15 years, said they were given kegs of petrol by Boko Haram leaders and sent to burn schools in both states.

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, government officials and journalists listened in bewilderment as the children narrated how they were used by the extremist sect to burn schools and spy on soldiers.

One of them said they were taken to the Yobe State capital, Damaturu, and told to spy on soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force and report back to the Boko Haram commanders.

He said, “We were taken to Damaturu. We watched out for the soldiers at their unit and reported back to them. We were reporting either when soldiers were at ease or enjoying themselves and when they were off guard and we were paid for doing that.”

Another child suspect said, “I usually helped Boko Haram to leak information on military activities so that they could attack them (soldiers). My last job was to travel from Maiduguri to Gashua to spy on soldiers before I was caught.”

Yet another said, “We usually help Boko Haram to carry stolen items each time and sometimes help them to give information about people they want to attack and sometimes even help to hide their guns after attacks. They pay us N5000 after every operation. I regret what I did, I want to go home and ask for forgiveness from my father and mother for what I did; I also want to go to school.”

One of the boys said he was arrested last year after he was overheard talking about the people who burnt a school in Maiduguri and failed to inform the military.

“I was arrested because I know those who burnt the school without telling the soldiers. Some people heard me discussing about the people who burnt the school and reported me to the soldiers who arrested me,” he said.

One of the teenagers said they were paid N5,000 and provided with fuel in kegs to set schools ablaze in Maiduguri.

The release of the suspects was done in line with the Federal Government’s amnesty deal.

In Borno State, 20 detainees, comprising six women and 14 children arrested between 2012 and 2013 were set free and handed over to Shettima for rehabilitation and reintegration.

The 20 detainees were mostly arrested in Maiduguri, Bama in Borno and Damaturu in Yobe State.

Bamigboye, who supervised the handing over, said he was acting on behalf of the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Sa’ad Ibrahim.

This, he said, was in line with the directive of President Goodluck Jonathan to the army.

He explained that the detainees were arrested in connection with the roles they played in the insurgency.

The six freed women were Hajia Zainab Mohammed, 40; Hajia Karagama Mohammed, 55; Hajia Zari Mohammed, 40; Aishatu Mohammed Aji, 62; Hadiza Ahmad, 40; and Yakaka Goni Habib, 16.

The 14 children released were Abba Modu Aji,10; Mohammed Musa, 12; Ibrahim Mohammed, 15; Umar Bukar, 15; Mustapha Umaru, 14; Bashir Ali, 12; Musa Grema, 13; Abba Mohammed, 14; Baba Alhaji, 13; AbdulAziz Umar, 14; Ari Masa’a, 14; Bayi Mustapha, 14; Mohammed Ibrahim, 14 and Alhaji Goni, 14.



Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/boko-haram-paid-us-n5000-each-to-burn-schools-kid-suspects/

he Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen Chris Olukolade, has said that an insurgent described as a close aide to Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, had been found dead.

Olukolade said in an electronic mail on Tuesday that the late insurgent died while running errands for his boss.

Curiously, the statement was silent on the identity of the late terror suspect.

He said that two other suspected terrorists, including a Nigerien had been taken into custody by operatives of Multinational joint Task Force.


Source:- http://www.punchng.com/news/terrorism-jtf-kills-shekaus-close-associate/

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said despite the security challenges in parts of the country, his first name had brought some good luck to Nigeria.

Jonathan said this while granting an interview to a 10-year-old Nigerian girl based in California, Miss Zuriel Oduwole, on the sideline of the ongoing 21st ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Africa Union holding in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Oduwole who was said to have earlier interviewed some other African leaders is working on a documentary on the union’s 50 years of existence.

She had sought to know from Jonathan how much good luck his first name had brought to the country under his leadership.

Jonathan said religion and traditional societies attached some values to names.

This, he said, was why parents select good names for their children.

He said, “Traditional societies attach some values to names. That is why people select good names for their children.

“In the scriptures sometimes, when God sends you on some special assignment, He could even direct, ‘change the name of this child from this to that.’

“But the name in itself does not make much difference because even from my village, there is one of my peers that also answers Goodluck. Another one that is a little older than me answers Lucky from my small village and I didn’t see the good luck and lucky in them.

“In terms of bringing my name to bear in Nigerian affairs, within this period, we have our challenges. Of course, you are aware that we have our security challenges. But in spite of the security challenges, the country is moving on. I will say yes, it brought some good luck to the country.”

On the legacy he would want to leave behind at the expiration of his tenure, Jonathan said he would like to be remembered for sanitising the nation’s electoral system as well as fixing the power poor and security challenges.

“If we can stabilise the electoral process, sanitise the political environment, then we make sure that we have power in this country and of course, security, every other things will take off on its own,” the President said.

Jonathan said he would also like the sanitation going on in the electoral system to be internalised in all sectors of the country.

He said, “People should be allowed to decide who governs them, who represents them at the parliament, who runs their affair at the local government level; the country never had that opportunity and the elite were no longer interested even in voting.

“Democracy was almost left floating in the hands of people who ordinarily have no place there. So, we are sanitising the electoral process. Now, Nigerians can select who they want to be their President, who they want to be their governor, who they want to be their senator, who they want to be their House of Representatives member or even their state House of Assembly member or even chairman of their council.

“We are doing that and I want that to be internalised in all the ways we do things. I want people to remember me for that.”

Jonathan also talked of his desire to put the nation on a better stead in the area of Information Technology.

He said with technological development, power could be stabilised and then, micro, small and medium scale enterprises would be encouraged.

These, he added, are the areas that create jobs for the people, improve the economy and reduce poverty to the barest minimum.

Also, the President said for African countries to come out of the woods and take their rightful positions among the comity of nations, their leaders must deepen democracy by avoiding abuse of power and impunity.

Source:- http://www.punchng.com/news/my-name-has-brought-good-luck-to-nigeria-jonathan/

As the country grapples with the terror activities of the fundamentalist Boko Haram sect, another terror group, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, has emerged.

Our correspondents gathered that the new sect also has a strong presence in Niger Republic.

Currently, two terrorist groups exist in Nigeria — Boko Haram and Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan.

SUNDAY PUNCH reports that there are fears in security circles that MOJAO may infiltrate the country due to the porous nature of Nigeria’s borders.

Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, had last week said there were 1,497 illegal routes into the country.

MOJAO, a splinter group of the international terror group, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is after military operatives and facilities of countries that are complementing France’s efforts in quelling terrorists’ insurgency in Mali.

Besides Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Bukina Faso are involved in military operations in Mali.

On Thursday, the Jihadist group claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing attack at the Nigerian/Nigerien border.

No fewer than 26, mostly Nigerien soldiers, were killed and about 30 injured, in the multiple attacks.

MOJAO spokesman, Abu Walid Sahraoui, said the attacks were targeted at “the enemies of Islam.”

“We attacked Niger Republic because of its co-operation with France in the war against Sharia,” he added.

A highly placed security official told one of our correspondents that the group had been in existence since 2011.

According to the official, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the subject, MOJAO poses a threat to Nigeria’s security.

He said, “We now have to prevent them from infiltrating Nigeria; we have enough Boko Haram challenges. Don’t forget that members of Boko Haram, who were dislodged from Sambisa Games Reserve and other camps in Borno State fled to neigbouring states and the Niger Republic. So many of them from Abadan, Malam Fatori and other villages, are now refugees in Difa, Niger Republic. They can decide to pitch tents with MOJAO.

“MOJAO has attacked barracks in Niger, which is similar to what Boko Haram does in Nigeria. This new group may want to do the same in here majorly because we are also involved in the Malian operation — which is one of their grievances.

“They are also likely to target our soldiers at the border.”

When SUNDAY PUNCH contacted the Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen Chris Olukolade, on Friday about the threat of the new group, he said efforts were on to sensitise all military formations across the country to exhibit a high level of alertness.

Olukolade said the Nigerian troops were at the border with Niger in line with the military’s decision.

He said, “Our troops are everywhere. They have been at the border since the beginning of the operation.

“Military formations are being sensitised on the need to maintain a high level of alertness in all locations whether or not they are involved in any operation or exercises.

“The public is implored to be vigilant and ensure that they report all suspicious movements or activities to security agencies promptly.”

President Goodluck Jonathan had on May 14, 2013, during a national broadcast, declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

This was in response to the activities of suspected terrorists in North-Eastern part of Nigeria.

Some sections of Nigeria’s border with Niger pass through Yobe and Borno states.

Meanwhile, Adamawa State has begun the registration of residents of communities in its domain as a precautionary step against infiltration by militants fleeing military bombardment in Borno State.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that holders of the traditional titles of Sarkin Matasa (youth leaders) in communities across the state were driving the project.

A military source in the state said, “Adamawa State through the emirate council has introduced a house-to-house count of people in the state. This is to enable all wards leaders to know the exact number of persons per household and to check infiltrators in Borno.”

The source, who pleaded anonymity, added that suspected Boko Haram members, who had fled northern Borno, were regrouping at Zumo area of Song Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

The area is believed to have a difficult topography comprising mountains, rocks, and thick forest that extends to the country’s northern border with Cameroon.

The Director, Press and Public Relations of the Adamawa State Government House, Mr. Ahmad Sajoh, confirmed the development.

He said, “What is happening is part of our pro-active measures to mitigate the effects of the state of emergency. The Sarkin Matasa, who are traditional title holders in the state’s Emirate Council, will mobilise people to be pro-active.

“What they are doing is to encourage the people to open registers, either in writing or using indigenous methods, to keep track of residents of a given area.

“You know, counter-insurgency cannot succeed without security winning the hearts and minds of the people. With this method, the people will know one another better and will be able to account for members of the community, in case they go out and do not return.”


Source:- http://www.punchng.com/news/new-terror-group-emerges/