Five hitmen have been jailed for attempted murder after each one avoided carrying out the contract themselves so they could make a profit.

Chinese businessman Tan Youhui was looking for a hitman to take out a competitor, Wei Mou, and was willing to pay 2 million yuan (£218,000) to get the job done.

The hitman that Mr Youhui hired decided to offer the job to another hitman for half the original price.

The second hitman then subcontracted to another hitman, who then subcontracted to a fourth, who gave the job to a fifth.

However, hitman number five was so incensed at how much the value of the contract had fallen, that he told the target to fake his own death, which eventually led to the police finding out about the plot, Beijing News reported.

The businessman and the hapless assassins were all convicted of attempted murder by the court in Nanning, Guangxi, following a trial that lasted three years.

The original dispute occurred in 2013, when Wei decided to sue real estate developer Youhui

Worried he would lose the lengthy court battle, Tan hired a hitman named Xi Guangan to kill Mr Wei.

However, Xi contacted another hitman, Mo Tianxiang offering him half the original sum.

Mo then decided to contact a third hitman, Yang Kangsheng, who quoted an upfront price of 270,000 Yuan (£29,775) to carry out the hit, with 500,000 (£55,140) Yuan to be handed over once it was done.

However, Yang Kangsheng passed it on to another hitman, Yang Guangsheng, for a further reduced fee.

The contract finally came to the fifth hitman, Ling Xiansi, who eventually told the police.

Tan, who hired the original hitman, was jailed for five years, while Xi, the first hitman, was sentenced to three years and six months.

Yang Kangsheng and Yang Guangsheng were sentenced to three years and three months, Mo was sentenced to three years, and Ling was sentenced to two years and seven months.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/23/hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-tells-police-10971438/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Lalasticalla mynd44

Ozil still didn't make the team list

The youths are not disappointed about the state of the nation, they are disappointed about this kiss. Hussle o, so you go run comot for this country for this children

Teebillz should console himself with edible tacha

Resemble mortal kombat character

DaddyNimo:

stop embarrassing your village. no employer will ask you if you've been charged to court before, cos been charged to court ain't a crime. they are only after you been convicted or not. SMH dummy.

Just say you've not applied for jobs in any multinational coy before. Google the question. Once again stop insulting people to make a point

Oya na. In that case the people in anambra that bought some norther kids and convert them to Islam should also apologize since these ones can apologize after slaughtering women and children.

My most embarrassing moment happened at the Archangels parish satellite town Lagos. I attended evening mass with my Lil nephew and during communion, I was looking for the Lil man. But behold the 8 year old monster was bouncing from the alter after receiving holy communion(the copycat did the communion ritual well so they gave him). Everyone was just looking at me judgmentally, I was embarrassed but the Lil monster was laughing. The then parish priest Rev fr csllistus nwachukwu had a long talk with me after the mass. But the boy chop beating as we dey go house.

Alex Don blow be that na. Now you'll export your award selling across West Africa. Go start polishing all the award wey dey inside onitsha warehouse

Another disasterclass incoming

Dying in Longyearbyen has been illegal since 1950. Here's why.

In addition to dealing with round-the-clock darkness in the winter and the constant threat of polar bears, the 2,000 residents in the remote Norwegian town of Longyearbyen must also follow one very strange law: It’s illegal to die there.

Located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, Longyearbyen is so cold that dying has been illegal there since 1950 when locals discovered that bodies weren’t decomposing in the cemetery because of the frigid weather.

In fact, when scientists exhumed corpses of those who died in the 1918 flu pandemic in 1998, they were able to retrieve live samples of the deadly virus.

Inhabited mostly by cole miners, locals became so scared of diseases spreading after they found that bodies weren’t decomposing, they made it illegal for any more people to buried in the local graveyard. While cremation urns are allowed to be buried there, so few people have taken up on this option that the terminally ill must leave the island and fly to the Norwegian mainland to spend their last days.

“If you seem to be about to expire, every effort will be made to send you to the mainland,” Jan Christian Meyer, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told The Sun.

However, there are very few people born here, too. While there is a small hospital in Svalbard, pregnant women are encouraged to travel to the mainland in advance of their due date.

These aren’t the only reason why you probably don’t want to move here anytime soon. The town is so far north that it stays dark in the winter for four months at a time with zero difference between night and day for nearly three of those months. There are also nearly 1,000 polar bears who call the island home, which pose a dangerous threat to locals. But hey, you're basically guaranteed to see the Northern Lights there so maybe it's worth a trip. Just don't die.

https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a19423172/not-allowed-to-die-in-longyearbyen-norway/

Cc lalasticlala mynd44

DaddyNimo:

you're dumb, he went to prison but he wasn't convicted which means his prison time isn't officially a conviction. so to the law he isn't an excon. semi illiterates like you are worst than full illiterates.

hey, never insult people online. Learn how to communicate like an adult. Read my bolded statement again from the text you quoted. CHARGED is the key word.

I'm tired

DarkJeddi:
He is NOT an EXCON,he was NEVER Convicted..

maybe I used the wrong word. The way it works is, they ask if you've ever been charged. Employers don't wanna hear if you didn't do it. They are so discriminatry

But seriously, I don't think they need a university degree, I think they shoud invest more on skill acquisition while they are doing their time. Once they are out, they could set up a workshop. I myself won't even employ an excon. Even in America that tag will render you jobless. Skill acquisition is the way to go.

Note: for those quoting me, we live in a discriminatry world. No one cares whether or not you've been Convicted, once the system has you,
you've been tagged for life. In job application forms or interviews, they don't ask if you've been Convicted, they ask IF YOU'VE BEEN EVER CHARGED WITH A CRIME. They don't wanna hear your explanations, all they wanna know is if you've been charged. You are not close to someone who has been through the system so you won't understand.

omenka:
Lol. The op is probably an atiku supporter, and so are majority of those condemning dele (with exception of you of course).

I'm just saying, as much as pdp supporters frown at the conducts of dele, so should they Atiku because both men are guilty of the same crime.

Since 1999, there hasnt been politicians in the country as consistent as Tinubu and Buhari. These ones are the only two constants I know. Others mostly drift with the wind.

I hope Tinubu doesnt fall for the antics of this two bit fat man sha.

What's my business with atiku? Was he not the same corrupt man under Obasanjo's administration? One can't say his opinion here without being tagged a PDP or an atiku supporter. They are all thieves. Stop assuming shị́t

Abdul05:
All of the Above, Is none of my business .l don't tell people on what to do .if the yorubas want tinubu as their presidential candidate fine good luck to them...And if not ,it's none of my business.l only focus on my own region and my own people.

you reason like a toddler. If Tinubu is voted in as president, will he be president of the yorubas or president of Nigeria? Are yorubas the only occupant of Nigeria? Young man, it's our business. A bad leader at the center affects all. Y'all like divisive politics, that why you voted a man that classified his people as 97percent and 5percent. You can't tell others to focus on their region when we're not practicing regional govt.

Abdul05:
I"m not a ibo hater,l don't just like hate politics. Just imagine,A whole lot of people from the south east condemning One man from the south west and also from the North.

It's not hate. We all want a better country. Use your head. If someone like seyi Makinde or Akinwunmi Adesina becomes president, I'll be very happy because I know what they can achieve. Y'all should stop supporting thieves and say its hate when others criticise. You see how people from other countries are holding their leaders accountable but in Nigeria you worship them. This is the more reason why we need restructuring so everyone will go and fight the respective demons in their region and not one demon holding the entire country back in a fraudulent system.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have detonated his own suicide vest

CNN) ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday, according to a senior US defense official and a source with knowledge. The final confirmation is pending while DNA and biometric testing is conducted, both sources tell CNN.

The defense official said it appears that Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest during the raid.

The raid was carried out by special operations commandos, a source familiar with the operation told CNN.

The CIA assisted in locating the ISIS leader, the defense official said.

Newsweek first reported that Baghdadi was believed to have been killed.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a major announcement Sunday at 9 a.m., White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley announced. An administration official tells CNN that the announcement is foreign policy related.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Baghdadi, the leader of the terror group, has been in hiding for the last five years. In April, a video was published by the ISIS media wing al-Furqan that showed a man purporting to be Baghdadi. It was the first time Baghdadi has been seen since July 2014, when he spoke at the Great Mosque in Mosul.

In February 2018, several US officials said Baghdadi had been wounded in an airstrike in May 2017 and had to relinquish control of the terror group for up to five months because of his injuries.

Baghdadi became the leader of Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2010. In 2013, ISI declared its absorption of an al Qaeda-backed militant group in Syria and Baghdadi said that his group will now be known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS).

White House officials were at the White House late Saturday evening in preparation.

One official told CNN the announcement will be in the Diplomatic Reception Room.

Trump stoked speculation when he tweeted Saturday evening "something very big has just happened!"

CNN: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/26/politics/white-house-trump-announcement-sunday/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

The article he wrote on Buhari. He even drew similarities between him and abiola

Fellow Nigerians, miracles shall never end. That is the only way to describe the incredible story of Major General Muhammadu Buhari at this auspicious moment. No one could have envisaged or foretold the huge drama being enacted before our very eyes. It was not as if his popularity and cult-followership was ever in doubt but the general belief and assumption was that it was dominantly limited and restricted to a particular section or region of Nigeria. What was never expected was a cross-over appeal to all areas and segments of our nation.

Buhari’s fate as a perennial contestant was supposed to have been sealed by many debilitating factors. The first and most crucial till this day is on account of his odoriferous reputation as a coup plotter and rabidly draconian dictator who appeared mercilessly vengeful. Depending on whom you talked to in the past, Buhari conjured different images to varied people. Some saw him as an Angel who represented a sword of Damocles to the wicked and reckless politicians who wreaked havoc on Nigeria’s economy and wrecked the collective future of our citizens. But to others, he was a Luciferous character who must have escaped from the pit of hell to haunt God’s creatures on planet earth.
I will not attempt to bore you with well-rehashed tales of his cardinal sins, both real and imagined. They are in the realm of fables and mythology and already in public domain courtesy of his opponents and unrelenting attackers. But one can never gloss over the allegations of religious bias and intolerance. If possible, many would want us to see and hold Buhari as Nigeria’s version of Osama bin Laden who was regarded as the world’s most notorious terrorist. Buhari would forever bear the cross of ever defending his personal faith and the interests of his Northern people like most of us would normally do. Many quotable quotes have been ascribed to him but most have never been properly validated by his accusers thus casting doubts on the veracity of those vituperations.
The last but not the least albatross against Buhari is the matter of old age. I must confess that I belong in the category of the vociferous proponents of sacking most of our ancient leaders and replacing them with young and vibrant whizzkids.
I must sincerely thank the media and publicity committee of the People’s Democratic Party for finding my past comments and stance on Buhari so important and worthy of sponsored countervailing advertorials in several newspapers and social media platforms. They were generous enough to put me in good company by attaching me to accomplished Nigerians such as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mallam Nasir El Rufai. On a serious note, it was such a great honour seeing all manner of caricatures about me including the one stuffing my brains with noodles.
The truth is that I, like many other Nigerians, was a veritable victim of the almost unprecedented propaganda against Buhari. In my purview, the definition of propaganda is not about telling lies but an attempt to magnify non-fiction until it becomes what the famous author Kole Omotoso called “faction”, when you mix facts with fiction. The demonization of Buhari was therefore a fait accompli emanating from the many years of ferocious regurgitation of his supposed misdemeanours. But, still, I would never have imagined that a day would come when I, and so many former antagonists of Buhari, would not only change my mind about this walking firebrand but actually plunge myself fully into his presidential campaign while not being a member of his political party. Strange are the ways of God indeed.

In my nearly 55 years on earth, this is the second time I would witness a complete transfiguration of a Nigerian from being most hated to most loved. My first recollection was in 1988 as I searched frantically for a job. My dream then had been to get a teaching appointment after concluding a Master’s degree in Literature-in-English at the great Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I was already contributing articles on the opinion pages of The Guardian which was edited by Odia Ofeimun and The Sunday Tribune, edited by Folu Olamiti. I was then subsequently invited by my friend, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, a prodigiously gifted journalist, to try my luck in Lagos. He tried to get me a job at the African Guardian, edited by Nduka Irabor, but wasn’t successful.
Onukaba then suggested that I should try the African Concord magazine, owned by Chief Moshood Abiola and edited by Lewis Obi but I was most reluctant. Just imagine that though I was desperately in need of a job, but I was not very keen about working in the Concord Group. You, like me, will laugh at my reasons now. I was discouraged by so many things I had read or heard about the fabulously wealthy ‘Money Kudi Owo’ Abiola, who was supposed to have been the biggest thief in Africa, courtesy of Fela’s album, ITT, International Thief Thief. That song had done incalculable damage to Chief Abiola as many self-righteous people, including myself, completely tuned off the man.
I remember very vividly how there was a war of words between the Awoists (who believed the support of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba, for the National Party of Nigeria was partly responsioble for robbing Chief Obafemi Awolowo of victory against Alhaji Shehu Shagari who won the Presidential election in 1979) and the Abiola supporters who felt there was nothing wrong in Yorubas belonging to opposing parties. The Nigerian Tribune had fiery writers led by Chief Olabisi Onabanjo, Ebenezer Babatope (aka Ebino Topsy) while The Concord Group assembled some of Nigeria’s finest journalists including Doyin Abiola, Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Muhammed, Duro Onabule, Sina Adedipe and so many others. The columnists of both rival papers tackled themselves endless and joined issues on various national and personal matters. Of particular interest to me was a columnist popularly known as Abiodun Aloba (also known as Ebenezer Williams) who wrote so brilliantly that I asked God for his kind of diction.

In the middle of all this confusion, I would have preferred to work in the less controversial and highly cerebral environment of The Guardian but here I was being asked to try my luck at the African Concord. I had imagined all sorts about having to work in a religious conclave, all the restrictions, prejudices, and so on, but the real fear of hunger was the beginning of wisdom for me. I approached Mr Lewis Obi as suggested by Onukaba who introduced us and was shocked that I got a job on the spot. I had to plead with him to let me resume in another two weeks as I needed to return to Ile-Ife for proper preparation for this journey of a lifetime. The rest is history!
The meat of this story is that I resumed work on May 2, 1988, about fourteen days to my 28th birthday. But contrary to my mortal fears, The Concord Group was one of the most relaxed and pleasant companies I would ever work. It was by far the biggest media conglomerate in Nigeria. Chief Abiola rarely came around but he breezed in every now and then and everyone felt the tremor of his presence as well as the aftershocks after he’s been long gone. The Concord titles did not discriminate against any tribe or religion. I won’t be surprised if most of us were Christians. The most senior employees paraded a galaxy of more Christians than Moslems. We had a bush Canteen within the premises where we were allowed to eat or drink even alcohol as journalists love to do. Our Chairman avoided the News Room as much as possible because he was certain to be welcomed by some whiff of cigarette smoke.
Based on the much vaunted alleged prejudices of the owner, Chief MKO Abiola, I tried very hard to find out any shade of religious intolerance but never found one. He was not a saint but he towered above many of his peers. His love for the poor marked him apart from others. He lived for the needy and touched too many lives. He had attended a Christian school, Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta, and could recite Biblical passages by rote. He attended church services when required to do so and even sang Christian hymns from memory at my wedding in 1992. It was a great lesson for me that we can all misconstrue many things based on rumours and gossip without seeking to ascertain the factual reality.

Chief Abiola worked assiduously at turning around the wrong impressions about him. Not everyone ever gets that lucky. It takes a lot to change human misperceptions. Many are often too rigid and too set in their ways. As Abiola himself used to say, the deaf always repeats the last songs he heard before he lost his hearing. It was one of those miraculous occurrences that Abiola was eventually able to endear himself to Nigerians from all works of lives. The secret of his larger-than-life image was quite simple. He never disconnected himself totally from the poor even as he wined and dined with the rich and famous. It is a lesson I hold very dear. Abiola was ready to fight the cause of the common man despite belonging to the oppressor class himself. The ability to relate to both with equal competence was uncommon. The truth is he never forgot his humble beginnings and made sure that this reflected in the way he related with all manner of people.
I wasn’t surprised when he returned from his self-imposed political sabbatical and jumped into the fray in 1993. He had bided his time and knew when to make the right move. Ordinary Nigerians responded in kind and in sincere appreciation of his genuinely generous gestures. Even the elites who initially viewed him with suspicion and likely disdain finally embraced him warts and all as the most unlikely man became so radicalised that he became a symbol of our struggle for democracy and good governance. Ironically, Fela’s Brother, Beekololari Ransome-Kuti joined in that epic battle, and likewise many who were never fans of Abiola.
As I watch events unfold around Major General Buhari today, I just can’t help but draw some comparison and highlight the similarities between the People’s General and Abiola, the only difference being that Buhari cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called a wealthy man. Both men had powerful enemies. They were assumed to be religious bigots. Although, Abiola was a Yoruba man it was felt that he was too partial to the North as is the wrong perception of General Buhari’s parochial feelings for his home region. They derived their power from the poor. Their passion for Nigeria could never be in doubt. Abiola was rejected by the political class resoundingly just like Buhari has not been able to win the presidential election a record third time. However, like Abiola, Buhari seems to have gotten his groove finally and disabused the Nigerian public of these erroneous views and opinions.

This deal was finally saved and delivered at The Chatham House, London on February 26, 2015. At a public lecture which he delivered at that world renowned venue, Buhari mesmerised the world with his presence, carriage, and childlike innocence. He did not pretend to be who he wasn’t. It was such a glorious moment as he introduced himself as a former dictator turned reformed democrat. He spoke calmly and firmly in front of a distinguished audience. He answered the questions fired at him with candour, sincerity and common-sense. Many were shocked to see a Buhari they thought they knew but didn’t know. Standing before the world was a man whose image was falsely that of a Muslim fundamentalist, stark illiterate, aged and tired soldier, wicked and miserable soul, hypnotising everyone with his carefully chosen but intelligent words coupled with great wit and humour. This was a truly transfigured Buhari, who certainly has a date with history and it is certainly only a matter of time before he gets his well-deserved apotheosis.

Before the 2015 General election, he also wrote an article projecting Buhari as the messiah that we need in the presidency. He titled it "THE TRANSFIGURATION OF GENERAL BUHARI". Incase you missed it, here's the link to the write-up..
https://facesinternationalmagazine.org.ng/?p=2757
https://www.abusidiqu.com/the-transfiguration-of-general-buhari-by-delemomodu/

Now he has come once again with the same progapanda, only this time, Tinubu is the one he's projecting. Man is just a paid propagandist who only cares about his pocket and not his country. I pity anyone that rates this man.

delpee:


So it was when Ese's case trended. We cried for justice and got it. There's nothing wrong if they seek for justice. A crime is a crime..nothing tribal about this. Anyone stealing a child for whatever reasons deserves to be dealt with.

a crime is a crime yes. But people should stop being selective. This happened a month back and recently s look slaving cells have been found up north. But on Twitter they are scream Justin for the Anambra case alone like it's an agenda. Let's condemn all.

Bari22:


Two different cases

1. For the rehabilitation centres, the children were taken by their parents themselves, those rehabilitation centres suppose to be modernize not scrapped because vicious child's were released to the society. You people are calling it Islamic centres to achieve a particular purpose

2. On the abduction and christinisation of kano kids, This is very pathetic because you people that always insult Almajiri are the same people kidnapping them, changing their names, identities religion which is the worst form of child Labour. The perpetrators should be killed

And i still repeat, it's all crime, they are all wrong. The kidnappers of the kids who sold them to Anambra are northern Christians. Now one thing led to the other. You guys up north should stop the amajiri system and embrace western education in tandem with Islamic teachings. Don't just breed children and leave them about like they don't matter. This is where the real problem is, Boko Haram get their recruits from there, bandits gets theirs too there, other kidnappers are plucking them one by one and selling them to those without children. Nobody is supporting the act but report fact and stop being sentimental

nagoma:

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ONWE and PAUL were not NORTHERNERS, you cannot Water down this evil by your suggestions. That is why there should be a detailed inquiry to get all the facts. I have quoted some parts of the reports below for you to read carefully.

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“[b]kidnapped a day earlier on his way back from Islamiyya School at Yankaba Quarters by Messrs Onwe and Paul.
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What leads to the rescue

Between year 2014 to 2019, one Sagir Mohammed Bako of Yankaba quarters and others reported to the commissioner of police that several number of their children whose age are between two and six years have been kidnapped and taken away to unknown destination by unknown persons.

On September 12, at about 11:00am one Paul Owne of Dakata Quarters and Mercy Paul alias Maimuna of same address were arrested while trying to take one of the kidnapped victims, Haruna Sagir Bako, to Onitsha in Anambra State. kidnapped a day earlier on his way back from Islamiyya School at Yankaba Quarters by Messrs Onwe and Paul.

While advising parents to be vigilant, a security source said a number of similar syndicates are operating in the state.

Stop being mischievous boy and drop their full names.

~The kidnappers are not Igbo.
~Their names are;Paul Owne and Mercy Maimuna.

These are not Igbo name. Or y'all wanna deny you don't have Christians up north. Lmaooo.

toye440:
The only reason our virgin hunters cry foul, is simply for the fact they were converted to Christianity as against the traditional plate carrying street urchins. They won't talk about the Islamic sleeper cell for the fear that it would portray or expose the religion of peace.
Truth be told both the kidnappers not minding their good intent of giving the young children a better life at a price, wch involved changing their identity, and the sleeper cell operators deserve the same treatment or judgement.

exactly. Converting them to Christians triggered them. It's all crime but I'll keep reminding them that the actual kidnappers who sold the kids were Northerners. Everyone should be called out and not making it an ịgbo thing

nagoma:


And you think that they should not be disgusted by the audacious Igbo invasion and the criminal abduction of their children?

If this happened to SE children the whole media , electronic and papers will write tons about it. International Criminal Court (ICC) and UN will be bombarded with complaints, there will be shouts of Jihad! Islamization agenda, genocide, and the children of hate on NL will amplify and IPOB call for Biafra will be intensified with demonstrations in Abuja , lagos and Enugu and all European Capitals.

Shameless evil people.

Make no mistake, it's a crime alright and all those involved should face the music. I'll quickly point out that the people who bought them were from ANAMBRA while those who did the kidnapping and sold them were NORTHERNERS. Go read the article again to be clear.

9jaBloke:


Condemn all of them without comparism. I know the government seems selective but we should all stand against evil, irrespective of tribe.

we condemn all bro. But you should go to Twitter and see Northerners still CURRENTLY trending #justiceforkano9, they are not paying any attention to the rehab centers. The Anambra case seems to be utmost important to them. There is an ethnic undertone to it.

It's good. But why is the various Islamic rehabilitation centers being swept under the rug, is it because this one happened in ANAMBRA

Them say make you steal pant, you go steal iya bolaji size pant

danjumakolo:


I used to have a feeling that the money may have come from the proceeds gotten when laundering money for Nigerian politicians. Or from money stolen in Nigeria from corruption/oil bunkering during the pdp regime.

he also launders money too. He's into everything criminal.

bikerboy1:


I'm telling you oh. This gets me puzzled.

that's why you suspect them easily. You see guys like invictus, that even backed theirs with masters degrees and speak polished English, you will never suspect them, them no born EFCC well