Another Malaysian airline disaster avoided

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 271 people from Malaysia to South Korea on Monday was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Hong Kong after a technical fault involving an onboard generator, the airline said.

The incident early on Monday came as 26 countries search remote waters off Western Australia for a separate Malaysia Airlines jetliner, MH370, missing with 239 people on board for more than two weeks.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing on March 8.

Flight MH066 departed from Kuala Lumpur at 11.37 p.m. bound for Seoul's Incheon airport. The flight, however, was diverted to Hong Kong's international airport where it landed safely at around 3 a.m., the airline said.

Malaysia Airlines said the Airbus A330-300 jet was diverted because of an inoperative generator. There was no loss of power because an auxiliary generator took over.

All 271 passengers were transferred to other carriers, the airline said, while the return flight from Incheon to Kuala Lumpur was canceled. Passengers have been transferred to other flights for the return leg.

A spokeswoman for the Hong Kong airport said the plane landed safely less than 30 minutes after it notified the airport. She said it was not classified as an emergency landing, although emergency services were put on standby.

MIKE TYSON USED FAKE PENIS TO FOOL THE WORLD

Undisputed Truth. Here are 12 things we now know about the turbulent life and career of the self-styled ‘baddest man on the planet’.
This article contains one example of language that some people may find offensive.

AP Photo-Christian Palma, File

He fought while high on drugs
Recalling his fight with Lou Savarese at Hampden Park in 2000, Tyson confesses to taking “pot” and “coke” before walking to the ring. He also reveals he was taking drugs until shortly before his shock 2004 defeat to Danny Williams and had taken cocaine prior to the infamous 2002 press conference with Lennox Lewis that erupted into a mass brawl where he bit the Briton’s leg.

Even with victory over Antelopes, Eagles can’t rest now –Kanu

BY JOE APU

Despite Nigeria’s 2-1 victory in Addis Ababa over the Ethiopians, former Super Eagles’ captain Kanu Nwankwo has called on Coach Stephen Keshi-led side not to celebrate yet, as the race to Brazil 2014 is just half way.
While congratulating the African champions for their resilience in the encounter that saw the host taking the lead early in the game.

Cannibalism In Africa As Father Devours Daughter

SYDNEY  (AFP) – A Papua New Guinea man described as a vampire has been arrested after allegedly murdering his young daughter by biting her neck, eating her flesh and drinking her blood, a report said Friday.
Police called the grisly incident that occurred on Wednesday at a settlement near Lae “an act of cannibalism”.

The PNG Post Courier cited local councillor John Kenny, who was one of the first on the scene, as saying the three-year-old child and her mother were visiting the father when he grabbed the girl and ran off into nearby bushes.

No one can harm me, my dad saw oratory in me at a young age.

From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna

Niger State Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu has dropped a bombshell on why his perceived enemies cannot disgrace him out of public office.
He disclosed that his aging mother has every spiritual power to protect him and put his enemies to shame.
Aliyu, who is also the chairman, Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF), spoke at the weekend when he commissioned the Kaduna-based Liberty Radio station.
He said there is the need for Nigerians to respect their mothers and women in general because according to him,women are more responsible for the upbringing of children than men.

Cannibalism In Africa As Father Devours Daughter

SYDNEY  (AFP) – A Papua New Guinea man described as a vampire has been arrested after allegedly murdering his young daughter by biting her neck, eating her flesh and drinking her blood, a report said Friday.
Police called the grisly incident that occurred on Wednesday at a settlement near Lae “an act of cannibalism”.

The PNG Post Courier cited local councillor John Kenny, who was one of the first on the scene, as saying the three-year-old child and her mother were visiting the father when he grabbed the girl and ran off into nearby bushes.

Kenny said the man allegedly held the toddler close to him, bit deep into her neck, ate the flesh and sucked her blood.
Two boys who were climbing a coconut tree nearby saw him and ran quickly to raise the alarm.
“He was just laughing at the boys and continued eating the flesh and sucking the blood,” Kenny told the newspaper.
“The boys were scared and ran quickly to alert the people.”

When people arrived to investigate the man reportedly dumped the body in the bushes and ran away before being caught and turned over to police.
PNG is a sprawling nation where black magic, sorcery and cannibalism sometimes occur.
Last year police arrested dozens of people linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises.
There have been several other recent cases linked to cults, witchcraft and cannibalism, with a man in 2011 reportedly found eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony

Can this be true that about 89% of NYSC peeps can't write letters

 From Desmond Mgboh, Kano

Kano State Coordinator of  National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr. Sanusi Abdulrasheed, has lamented that 89 per cent of corps members in the country could neither write good application nor communicate effectively in English Language. 

He stated that the majority of the corps members were more at home with the use of “broken English” as a means of communication.

Mr. Abdulrasheed made the disturbing  disclosure yesterday in Kano during the passing out parade (POP ) of the present batch of corps members, where he noted that the findings were based on a nationwide research facilitated by the management of the scheme.

Is Divorce a curse or a corrective tool..................

D rate at which marriages collapse now is assuming a social status symbol in our society. In no-time, people will be throwing divorce parties and invite friends n well-wishers to celebrate their divorce anniversaries; they will choose aso-ebi, hire a hall and popular musicians & what have you. Even a question like "So when are u getting divorced?" will become common.

Nigerian Universities operate even without accreditation. See themlisted

The lingering problem of unaccredited courses in Nigerian universities is once again on the front burner as the admission process for the next academic year kicks off in many of the nation’s universities. Many of these institutions apparently take advantage of the desperation of applicants to admit them for unaccredited courses.

This is a major cause for concern. Why would our Ivory Towers be involved in conducting Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)  and even admitting students for unaccredited courses? How is this action different from obtaining money under false pretences?  Is admission of students for unaccredited course for pecuniary reasons not sheer insensitivity and opportunism? Is this unfortunate practice just about driving Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in our tertiary institutions or are the varsities taking advantage of the fact that the NUC does not strictly bar them from this unethical practice?

Anambra 2013

Chris Ngige, Nicholas Ukachukwu,Willie Obiano,Ifeanyi Ubah Top INEC List Of Approved Governorship Candidates For Anambra Election. 

Tony Nwoye Is Out

A British Army soldier who collapsed and died on a three-mile moorland run during a training exercise has been named by the Ministry of Defence.

A British Army soldier who collapsed and died on a three-mile moorland run during a training exercise has been named by the Ministry of Defence.

Private Michael Ihemere, 26, from Umuodo, Nigeria, was a member of the 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, who joined fierce fighting while serving in Afghanistan.

He collapsed on Wednesday morning while taking part in an exercise on Army ranges near Leyburn, North Yorkshire.

A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Officers are working with the Army to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death, which is not suspicious, so that a file can be prepared on behalf of the coroner.”

The soldier’s collapse followed the deaths of three reservists in the Brecon Beacons who were undertaking special forces selection when temperatures reached 30C last month. They were carrying fully laden Bergens and belt kit but it was not clear if the soldier in the latest incident was carrying a simliar weight

Girl, 15, Commits Suicide in Kebbi.

Birnin Kebbi — A 15-year-old girl in Jega, Kebbi State has committed suicide by drinking insecticide after a minor squabble with her family, Daily Trust. Close family sources said the incident occurred after the deceased had an argument with her aunt and mother. The deceased, until her death was living with her parents in Sabon Gari, Jega, Daily Trust gathered.

"Her mother, Fatima, a divorcee, scolded her when she heard of the fight between her and her aunt and she threatened to kill herself if the family continues to scold her. She later drank a small bottle of Ota pia-pia (insecticide) and died", a source said.

Sheikh Rimi Jega, who resides close to the girl's home, confirmed the incident to Daily Trust, describing it as unfortunate and un-Islamic.

"Her parents were staying in Ungwan Rimi before they moved to Sabon Gari and they are very responsible people. I do not know what made her to commit suicide. Whoever commits suicide in Islam, according to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) will go to hell. I urge parents to maintain good relationship with their children and observe changes in their behaviour. This is a disaster because only Allah knows what contributions she and her children would have made to the development of the country," he said.

All efforts to get police to comment on the incident proved abortive, as the authorities did not respond to messages sent to them

Forced Marriage: Sharia Court Orders Arrest Of Girl's Father.

A 25-year-old woman, Zainab Shitu of Rafin Guza, Kaduna has dragged her father, Shitu Mohammad, to Magajin-Gari Sharia Court for allegedly preventing her from marrying her ``choice husband''.

She told to court on Thursday that her father, Shitu, had refused to give his consent to enable her marry the person she loved and instead was forcing her to marry someone she never knew.

``My father never wanted me to marry my choice but wanted to force me to marry one Abubakar Umar, just because he is his friend’s son, whom I rejected,” she said.

Zainab urged the court to approve her marriage to her heartthrob, Abdulmalik Umar, threatening to commit suicide if her wishes were not respected.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the court had on Aug. 6, when the case was mentioned, directed the father of the complainant to appear before it on Aug 15.

Shitu was however not in court when the case came up and the presiding officer, Khadi Ibrahim Mohammad, issued a warrant for his arrest, and adjourned the case to Aug. 22 for continuation of hearing. (NAN)

What to do to Avoid marriage failures, A MUST READ

 The rate at which marriages collapse now is assuming a social symbol status in our society. 

In no- time, people will be throwing divorce parties & invite friends & well-wishers to celebrate their divorce anniversaries; they will choose aso-

ebi, hire a hall & popular musicians &

what have you. 

Even a question like "So when are u getting divorced?" will become common place. 

If you know u can't handle the weight & pressures of marriage, please remain single. 

If you don't know what marriage is all about, 

please remain single until you do. 

If you are getting married because of the things you desire or hope to gain from the other person please remain single. 

If you know you can't be faithful, remain single. If you can't endure insults from one another, 

Please remain single. If you can't forgive one another's wrong. please remain single. If u can't place your spouse above every other human being,

please remain single! 

Don't get married out of desperation."All my friends are getting married" is the most foolish reason to get married! 

If you desire a successful home, but choice of friends are forces not to reckon with, think again.

Be very mindful of where u go for

advice, Many would give, but not many mean well! 

Guys, if u know u can't put your wife ahead of your ego, please remain single till you are mature. 

Your wife is your priority & EVERYTHING else including you comes last. 

You are the teacher, the guide, the bodyguard, the role model - you are not a deity or God. 

So do not expect to be worshipped. You need respect, earn it by being responsible! 

Ladies, if u know you can't be sub missive please don't go into marriage! If u know you can't stand being corrected, please remain single. 

Mr/Mrs I know it all!!! Ladies check your domestic scorecard - if your score is zero, pls stay in ur parents' house! Ladies & gentlemen,marriage isn't & won't be a bed of roses, Make Yours work..

I hope this gets to my future wife

What to do to Avoid marriage failures, A MUST READ

 The rate at which marriages collapse now is assuming a social symbol status in our society. 

In no- time, people will be throwing divorce parties & invite friends & well-wishers to celebrate their divorce anniversaries; they will choose aso-

ebi, hire a hall & popular musicians &

what have you. 

Even a question like "So when are u getting divorced?" will become common place. 

If you know u can't handle the weight & pressures of marriage, please remain single. 

If you don't know what marriage is all about, 

please remain single until you do. 

If you are getting married because of the things you desire or hope to gain from the other person please remain single. 

If you know you can't be faithful, remain single. If you can't endure insults from one another, 

Please remain single. If you can't forgive one another's wrong. please remain single. If u can't place your spouse above every other human being,

please remain single! 

Don't get married out of desperation."All my friends are getting married" is the most foolish reason to get married! 

If you desire a successful home, but choice of friends are forces not to reckon with, think again.

Be very mindful of where u go for

advice, Many would give, but not many mean well! 

Guys, if u know u can't put your wife ahead of your ego, please remain single till you are mature. 

Your wife is your priority & EVERYTHING else including you comes last. 

You are the teacher, the guide, the bodyguard, the role model - you are not a deity or God. 

So do not expect to be worshipped. You need respect, earn it by being responsible! 

Ladies, if u know you can't be sub missive please don't go into marriage! If u know you can't stand being corrected, please remain single. 

Mr/Mrs I know it all!!! Ladies check your domestic scorecard - if your score is zero, pls stay in ur parents' house! Ladies & gentlemen,marriage isn't & won't be a bed of roses, Make Yours work..

I hope this gets to my future wife

S-African women married to Nigerians threaten protest.

JOHANNESBURG — South African women married to Nigerians, yesterday, threatened to stage mass protest in Johannesburg to stop discrimination against them, their husbands and children.

Mrs Lindelwa Uche, the chairperson of the United Nigerian Wives in South Africa, UNWISA, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria during the launch of the association, Sunday, in Johannesburg.

Uche said that South African society did not take their marriage to Nigerians as serious relationships. She said: “Our society does not take our marriages serious, they see our marriages as relations of convenience and perceive us as evil to the society.

“All of us are South Africans married to Nigerians living in South Africa, we decided to come together to fight against stigmatisation, discrimination, and humiliation, against our families by government departments and agency and the officials of the government, the community and our-in-laws.”

The chairperson said an earlier protest march by the members of the association had not generated any response from the Home affairs office.

“We protested against discrimination from home affairs officials in March this year, and since after that protest we have not received any response from the government. We felt before we embark on any further action we should come together and form an association registered by law.

“After the official launch of our association, our next action will be more than just a protest march to the city of Johannesburg home affairs office. It is going to be a protest where we will strip on the street of Johannesburg, so that people and government will know that there is an existing body and that we are not happy with the way our non South Africans husband and children are being treated.

“We also plan to carry our protest to Nigeria, we know that some South Africans also have businesses in Nigeria, if it is necessary we will take actions that will stop South Africa businesses operating in Nigeria. Indeed we are ready to go that far.

“We have been quiet for so long but we cannot can’t take it anymore, for the sake of the future of our children, we have to put an end to this discrimination.”

She said there was need for them to collectively tackle the issue of some Nigerians residing in South Africa being unfairly separated from their families due to pending residence permit that eventually lead to deportations.

“If we don’t stand up as daughter of the soil and fight discrimination against our marriages who will, if we don’t stand up and fight for the rights of our husbands when they are being violated and treated shabily by officials of the government and citizens alike who will.

“If we don’t stand up for our children when they are being called derogatory names like “Small lee kwere-kwere” or turning their natives names upside down deliberately by our community in the name of making them feel like aliens, outcast, and unwelcome, or even when their Nigerian aunties and uncles call them bustards, then their future is in jeopardy.

“If we don’t stand up when our countrymen and women, officials and in-law address us as paper wives, gold diggers, stupid and opportunist, who will do that for us, ” Uche queried.

She said the notion that all Nigerians are criminals must be corrected.

“We are in a country of law and order, if anyone is found guilty let the law take its course, we are not saying Nigerians

are good or bad, even in the South Africa society, there are criminals and indeed there is no country in the world that does not have criminals,’’ Uche said.

Teacher Barks,Dies After Dog Bite In Calabar.

CALABAR — A 26-year-old teacher has reportedly died after he was bitten by a dog in the village of Wanikade, northern part of Cross River State.

The teacher, Emmanuel Ogana Ikade, a graduate of political science from the University of Calabar was until the incident teaching at Agba Secondary School, Operikwu in Yala Local Government Area of the state.

According to reports, he had late last week gone to see one of his friends who was ill but as he was approaching the house, a dog came after him, leapt at him and bit him on the right leg.

After the bite, he was said not to have sought proper medical attention immediately.

“I saw him with a bandage on Friday and when I asked what happened, he said he had an accident with his motorcycle but the next day when the thing became serious he told me that he was bitten by a dog,” Dave, a friend of the late teacher said.

According to Dave, “the man rather than go to the hospital for proper medical check up, visited a chemist who gave him some medication which did not help.

“When I asked him if he had visited the hospital, he said a chemist had given him some injection and incidentally it turned out that the chemist is a quack who apparently did not know the right medication for rabies.”

Three days after the bite, the teacher was said to have begun barking like a dog and was rushed to the hospital by his friends “but when we got to the hospital it had become too late and he passed on after some hours,” Dave said.

The death of the young man who is said to be the only child of his parents left them devastated

One killed, two injured as hunters shoot vigilantes in. error.

LOKOJA—It was a case of the hunter being hunted in Yagba West Local Government Area, Kogi State, Monday, as one of two sets of vigilante groups deployed to a crime zone fell to the bullets of another who mistook their colleagues for robbers, leaving one dead and two others badly wounded.

Eye witness accounts of the tragedy which occurred between Okunran and Okoloke communities were unanimous that the incident followed a tip-off that highway robbers were operating along Egbe-Pategi federal road, dispossessing travellers of valuables.

Following the tip-off, it was gathered that a distress call from the local vigilantes in Okoloke was made to the local government council, which responded by mobilizing more vigilantes from neighbouring Odo-Ere, the council headquarters and Egbe, the commercial nerve centre of the council, for reinforcement.

A team of vigilantes, numbering 12, immediately reported to the police divisional office at Odo-Ere before embarking on the rescue mission.

Confirming the incident, Media Assistant to Governor Idris Wada on Research and Documentation, Mr Ralph Agbana, who hails from the council, told newsmen that as part of their strategies, the local government vigilantes, on arrival at the scene, decided to split into two groups of six preparatory to engaging the robbers.

He said: “On their way, they met a car driven by one of the victims of the robbers who narrated his ordeal to them, confirming that the men of the underworld were still operating.

A group of vigilantes then entered the car towards the scene. But as soon as the robbers sighted the car they had robbed, they took to their heels.

The vigilantes came down and fired at the robbers but their efforts were too late as they all disappeared into the bushes.

As the vigilantes re-strategized to ambush the robbers, another set of six hunters from Okoloke, joining forces with the vigilantes to dislodge the robbers but who claimed ignorance of the deployment of vigilantes from the local government, opened fire on the local government vigilantes who were caught off-guard.

One of the victims, whose name was given as Abayomi Sunday, was said to have died instantly from bullets that hit him on the head.

Two of his colleagues, whose names were given as Bamidele Olayemi and Dele Asebiobirin, however, survived with bullet wounds on their leg and thigh and are said to be responding to treatment at the ECWA Hospital, Egbe.

Vice chairman of the council, Hon Omoniyi Adeyemi, also confirmed the incident, saying five of the unregistered hunters who allegedly opened fire on the vigilantes have been arrested and are being detained at the Divisional Police Office, Odo-Ere, while a sixth suspect was still at large.

The council chief further disclosed that although the shooters were identified as hunters who claimed to have joined in the onslaught against the robbers as volunteers, they were not members of the official vigilante group recognized by the council authorities.

Jonathan must stop his Makossa dance – Obiaghagbo [video download]

Honorable Obiaghagbon,the man with bombast words is on the news again,Hear Him as he expressed his view on the River State Imbroglio

This feud between Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers and President Goodluck Jonathan is distracting. What are Amaechi’s political transgressions? That he regularly gives vent to the collective decisions of his brother governors? That he nurses vice presidential ambition which he has even denied? That he habilimented himself with a perfume of recusancy and not

decumbency when he suspected a foul play on the oil wells that he insists belong to Rivers State? That he hobnobs with progressive governors? That he insists on the deepening of the practice of our unitary federalism? That he insists on the exercise of his inalienable right to re-contest as Chairman of the Governors Forum? Is this why the apparatchik and coercive apparatus of state, sustained by tax payers money has been arrayed against him? I see in this malodorous script the hands of Esau though the voice of Jacob and this is certainly an eschewable socio-political asphyxia cascading into a Frankenstein monster that does not dignify the Presidency and this Makossa dance By Jonathan Administration must stop forthwith. 

Bikonu,can anyone tell me what Obiaghagbon is saying?

Academic Activities At River State University Of Technology Despite ASUU Strike.

RIVERS State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) is unfazed by the current nationwide strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over differences with Federal Government.

Prof. Barineme Fakae, Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University who confirmed this yesterday however did not explain why the varsity has defied the nationwide strike by public owned universities.

Investigations revealed that the school is in full academic activities as the end of session examinations are just a week away.

A Marine Engineering student who spoke on the situation said, “RSUST under its current leadership has never taken ASUU seriously since August 2012 when the branch chapter stopped lecturing over perceived unfair reappointment of Fakae as VC by Governor Amaechi

“You are aware the Governor has since ordered a no-work-no-pay punishment for the striking lecturers as the school engaged replacement lecturers to keep lectures going. As it defied the local chapter so has the authorities defied the current general strike. Everything is running normal here.”

Another student, of Mass Communication Department, said, “My father didn’t believe it at first. My elder brother in UNIPORT has been home in Delta due to the strike for over six weeks and my father thought I was playing pranks not to have returned. He had to call a RSUST lecturer to confirm there is no strike in my school.