Yoighaman: Hmmmm, this dude should know that these confessions have put is life in danger.... because he wants to sell a book? I don't get....
He was tricked into the original confession (I need to find that post),
Basically the police arrested him for a drug charge. They then told him that he would get immunity from the drug charge and Tupac murder if he told them what he knows about Tupac's murder (they suspected that he was involved, but they didn't have enough information). That's why he confessed to the police.
But one of the policemen later retired and then he wrote a book about the investigation and the book contained details of the confession. That's how the confession became public.
I guess he felt that, since the police are making money from his story and the story is already public, then he mght as well make money too.
Large trucks often fall of flyovers in Lagos, especially the Ojuelegba Flyover. Commercial buses often convert the entrances to this flyovers into bus stops and therefore cause traffic jams.
The Lagos State Government has often constructed truck barriers in order to solve this problem, but some truck drivers ram the barriers and NURTW thugs remove them at night. The government had to erect new barriers every time. At a point it just stopped erecting new ones.
After a recent accident involving a truck on the Ojuelegba Flyover, the Lagos State Government decided to erect another truck barrier.
LASG ANNOUNCES TRAFFIC DIVERSION FOR REPAIR OF TRUCK BARRIER AT OJUELEGBA FLYOVER BRIDGE
In line with the plan to repair the truck barrier at Ojuelegba Flyover Bridge which was recently damaged again, the Lagos State Government has announced traffic diversion on the night of Monday, 2nd October, 2023 from 10.00 pm to 6.00 am.
Consequently, the following alternative routes will be available to Motorists during the diversion:
i. Motorists from Eko Bridge/Constain/Iponri inbound Ojuelegba/Alhaji Masha Road will be diverted to the service lane from Alaka via the National Stadium gate to link Barracks or Alhaji Masha Road to continue their journeys.
ii. Motorists from Eko Bridge via Costain and those from Apapa Road going through Iponri will make use of Iponri Estate road to link Bode Thomas via Adeniran Ogunsanya to Shitta Roundabout for their desired destinations.
Motorists are implored to be patient as the brief closure of the bridge is planned for nighttime as part of a traffic management strategy to avert further accidents and loss of lives.
1) Some people from other states are joking that New Yorkers won't be allowed to come to their states as refugees.
2) Venice, just like Amsterdam, is known for its canals and boats.
3) Some people from developing countries are joking that at least it's not only their cities that get flooded.
4) HOV lanes are for vehicles with more than 3 passengers (high occupancy vehicles). It's restricted to such vehicles (just like BRT lanes are restricted to buses) in order to protect the environment by encouraging people to share vehicles. This man is jokingly asking if fish can use the HOV lane.
I'll explain the New Amsterdam joke. Dutch people were among the earliest European settlers in the area and they named the place New Amsterdam (of course the British later took over the area and named it New York). Amsterdam is famous for its canals, which act as streets in some places and its boats which act as taxis.
The 3rd picture: Yes, that is a picture of a man riding a jet-ski on a street. The street is so flooded that he can ride a jet-ski on it (there are also pictures of people paddling boats and rubber rafts.
This was the incident that put the wheels in motion and led to the death of Tupac Shakur. I'll begin with the rumour.
All the main workers at Death Row Records had Death Row neck chains. A rumour spread through Compton that Sean Puffy Combs was willing to pay a lot of money to anyone that could bring him an authentic Death Row chain. Those that told the rumour said that Bad Boy Records was going to do a music video and they wanted to use the Death Row chain in the video.
It was alleged that some members of the South Side Crips, including Orlando "Baby" Lane saw a member of the Bloodz, Treyvon Lane, who also worked at Death Row, in a mall and that they attacked him, beat him up and snatched his chain. Some of the rumours claim that Treyvon Lane was able to get his chain back, while others claimed that he didn't get it back.
Now let's introduce another of our primary witnesses. He is a senior member of the South Side Crips, he was in the car from which the shots that killed Tupac were fired and he is the uncle of Orlando "Baby" Lane. His name is Keefe D.
Keefe claimed that it wasn't true that Bad Boy had a bounty on the chains and according to him, the chains were worthless. He said that it was the Bloodz that caused the altercation.
He said that Orlando Lane and two other Crips got into the mall and they saw Treyvon Lane and another Blood maltreating a Crip, so they went to rescue the Crip. He said that it was in the middle of the altercation that Orlando Lane snatched Treyvon Lane's chain. I'll leave him to tell the rest of the story.
Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas used to be the second home of boxing in the 1980s (after Madison Square Garden). A lot of the Hagler, Sugar Ray and Tommy Hearns fights took place at Caesar's Palace Hotel in Las Vegas and people were able to bet on the fights at the casino in the hotel.
Then in 1993 a new hotel opened that would challenge Caesar's Palace's position. It was the MGM Grand Hotel and if I remember correctly, it was the largest hotel in the world at the time. It was opened with a boxing match that featured Julio Caesar Chavez, but I can't remember who he fought against.
Now, as you'll see later, Mike Tyson was very good friends with Tupac Shakur and he had commissioner Tupac to produce a song that he would use for his ring walk in his fight against Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand in 1996. Tyson said he kept calling Tupac to remind him about the tape because quite often the song arrives very late (he later said that he felt guilty for rushing Tupac like that).
So Tupac came to the MGM Grand for the fight. While he and his Death Row crew were sitting in the foyer, Treyvon Lane suddenly saw Orlando Anderson and he told the rest of the crew that that was the guy that jumped him at the mall and snatched his chain.
Tray Dee, who is a member of the Crips, Mob James, who was a member of the Bloodz and other gangsters have condemned what happened next.
Tupac took off towards Baby Lane, with the rest of the Death Row crew in tow and they beat the hell out of him for jumping Treyvon Lane at the mall.
Mob James said that Suge should have never allowed that to happen. Tupac was an artiste, not a gangster. He said that Suge should have assigned somebody to take Tupac to the car while the hommies handled business. Tray Dee said that Tupac was not a gangster and so he shouldn't have done that. He didn't understand the consequences of doing something like that. Keefe D said that he feels remorse for Tupac, but when he did what he did, he gave them the green light to do whatever they did to him. Mob James said that Tupac did not understand that Orlando Anderson was a gangster and no gangster would allow a rapper who was not a gangster, to beat him and get away with it. There must be consequences.
This is the CCTV footage that shows Tupac and crew beating Orlando "Baby" Lane and it also shows them leaving the hotel afterwards.
naptu2: Keefe D talks about the killing of Tupac and we also hear the police confession tapes
Keefe said that he, Orlando and two other people were in the white Cadillac. They had guns with them. Vlad says that there's a rumour that it was the girls that alerted them to Tupac's presence. He said no.
(Some girls had driven up beside Tupac and Suge's BMW and Tupac had invited them to Suge's club for the after party).
Keefe said that they were driving down the road when they saw the BMW. Tupac was hanging out of the window as if it was a parade. They heard the girls shouting, "Tupac! Tupac"! afterwards. They drove up beside the BMW and Baby Lane reached across the other passenger and opened fire. Keefe D said that he saw a bullet hit Suge in the head and he thought that Suge was dead (the bullet just grazed him). He said that he was on the other side of the Cadillac and if the BMW had been on his side, he would have shot them.
Vlad asked if any of the Death Row crew returned fire and Keefe said that they did. The video cuts to Reggie Wright (more about him later) and he said that Bountry (Mob James' younger brother) and some Death Row people fired back.
Keefe said some women in another car tried to chase their Cadillac, but they shot out the women's windows and they stopped.
Keefe initially didn't want to talk, but Vlad read passages from his book and played the police confession tape and the Keefe told his story.
The reason that Keefe can talk is because he made a deal with the government. They got him on some drug charges, but they wanted more evidence on the Tupac case, so they made a deal with him that granted him immunity on the drugs charges and anything that he might tell them about the killing of Tupac.
In another video Vlad asked him if he is scared that the government can still charge him for something he did that night and he said that he's not scared.
All the other people that were with Keefe D in the Cadillac that night are all dead.
Vlad also interviewed other gangsters who said that they don't respect Keefe D because he snitched on his dead nephew. Vlad asked him if he was worried that gangsters might want to get revenge. He said that he's not worried about anything because he's still the same person that he was and he knows how to protect himself to the fullest.
This is a flash storm, not ordinary rain. What floods Nigeria is ordinary rain.
There's nothing like flash storm. What you mean is flash flood. That's the flood that occurs just after a lot of rain has fallen. It's the exact same thing that happens in Nigeria.
New York: State of emergency declared as 'life-threatening storm' causes widespread flooding
Approximately 23 million people were under flood watches across parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut on Friday morning, as extreme rainfall shut off subway lines and flooded streets.
Friday 29 September 2023
A state of emergency has been declared in New York City and two other surrounding areas after "extreme rainfall" caused widespread flooding in the northeast region.
Up to 13cm (five inches) of rain fell in some areas overnight, and as much as 18cm (seven inches) more was expected throughout the day, New York governor, Kathy Hochul, said.
Writing on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday morning, she declared a state of emergency in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley, due to the weather.
Earlier on Friday, Ms Hochul said: "This is a dangerous, life-threatening storm. Count on this for the next 20 hours."
She said her message to New Yorkers is that the "water is deadly".
The rain shut down large parts of the city's subway system, flooded streets and motorways, and at least one of three terminals at LaGuardia Airport, in East Elmhurst, Queens was closed.
Virtually every subway line was at least partly suspended, rerouted or running with delays, and two of the Metro-North Railroad's three lines were suspended.
Approximately 23 million people were under flood watches across parts of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut on Friday morning, with flash flood warnings in effect for parts of Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and New Jersey, according to NBC.
Footage posted on social media showed water pouring into underground stations and streets that had been turned into small lakes.
Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, warned people against attempting to travel in the conditions until it clears.
Chaos during rush hour saw some drivers abandon their cars as traffic came to a standstill on a stretch of FDR Drive - a major road along the east side of Manhattan.
One driver reported that traffic had not moved on the road for three hours.
"Never seen anything like this in my life," Priscilla Fontallio said.
Ms Hochul said on Friday that extreme weather is something the New York region will have to "get used to" due to the effects of climate change.
According to scientists, as the planet warms, storms are forming in a hotter atmosphere, making extreme rainfall more frequent.
I am delighted to announce the reopening of the General Hospital Amachara and the renovated and retrofitted Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Centre. These facilities have been upgraded and will be driven by a round-the-clock power and water supply. We are determined to combat the threat of modern diseases by providing quality health care for our people.
Our target is to restore all our primary and secondary health institutions in the state to optimal functionality. We want to ensure that no resident of Abia will need to travel out of the state for medical concerns. Expect to see more of these improved facilities in the state in the coming months. I also want to issue a stern warning to vandals who steal medical equipment: you will be dealt with according to the law. My promise to Ndị Abia, which is at the heart of the Labour Party agenda, is that we shall spend our waking hours working for you, using the instruments of government to solve problems.
Special thanks to Dr Ngozi Okoronkwo, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Betty Emeka Obasi, SSA on Special Duties, the executive team of the State's Ministry for Health and the management of the HMB for their tireless contributions in achieving this feat.
SETHARTHUR: I don't understand, like I need further explanation. The Nigerian navy is doing the maritime job of dredging.
Navies around the world engage in hydrographic survey, because they must know the environment in which they are operating. The Nigerian Navy, like other navies around the world, has experts and equipment that enable it engage in such surveys.
The Imo State Government wants to set up an industrial and gas area on the shores of the lake. This includes a port. They want to see if it is possible for ships to sail from Oguta Lake → Oguta River to the Atlantic Ocean. The Nigerian Navy has the personnel and equipment to carry out this investigation, so the Imo State Government contacted them.
The pace at which our commitment to the industrialization of our dear Imo State is yielding projected results is quite impressive as I received the Hydrographic and Comprehensive Bathymetric / Investigative Survey Report of the Charting of the Oguta Lake to the Atlantic Ocean.
I commended the Chief of Naval Staff; Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, the Hydrographer of Nigerian Navy; Rear Admiral Ayo Olugbode, who presented the report and indeed, the Nigerian Navy for this painstaking assignment and their dedication to the success of the project.
As work continues at the Oguta Lake, the State Government will further study the report together with the @NigerianNavy and the consortium partners for professional decisions in the project.
Crime › Re: Keefe D Arrested Over Tupac's Murder by naptu2: 9:45am On Sep 30, 2023
