Saturday 22 September 2012

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What is this monkey doing?

Teenager gets thrown off plane for fighting with DAD

A teenager was left behind in Portugal after he was thrown off a holiday flight for a furious mid-air fight with his stepdad.
Lee Doran, 17, was on his first trip abroad with half-brother Dylan, 14, stepfather David Laughton, 39, his partner Sarah Wilson, 28, and their son Harry, three, when he and David “rolled around the aisle” at 35,000ft.
The Thomson flight from Newcastle to Lanzarote had been in the air for more than three hours when the fracas forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in Porto.
The family was escorted off the plane and Lee was questioned by police.

The plane grounded in Porto


While the rest of his party later boarded another plane to Lanzarote, Lee ended up outside the airport police station where he spent almost 24 hours without food or water.
He was finally taken in by embassy staff after making a frantic phone call to his mum Jannine Bird, 36, in London, who paid for him to fly home.
Unemployed carer Jannine, who is also mum to Dylan and spent eight years with David before they split, said yesterday she was still “in shock”.
She added: “To leave Lee by himself in a foreign country is just appalling.”
David, an asbestos worker from Hartlepool, Cleveland, is not due back from Lanzarote until next Thursday. He has known Lee and Dylan since they were babies and they have spent summers with him since the split. He said last night: “We were 50 minutes from landing and Lee pulled his hood up and I pulled it down.
“The next thing I knew he had his arms around my neck and we ended up in the aisle.
“When we got off in Porto he wouldn’t take any money from me. As far as I knew he was with the police. Lee is 17 and lives on his own in London. This has been blown up out of proportion.”

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David may be in for a shock when he returns – the airline may try to recoup some of the £35,000 bill for the emergency landing from him.
A Thomson spokesman said: “A party of passengers became disruptive and as a last resort the flight had to be diverted to Portugal. In this situation it is the party’s responsibility to organise onward travel arrangements.”

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Divorced almost 50 years ago, 85-year-old couple to remarry

Lena Henderson and Roland Davis got married as teenagers in Chattanooga, Tenn., during World War II. On Saturday, the 85-year-olds are getting re-hitched in Buffalo, nearly 50 years after they divorced, according to Cupid's news cherubs.
"I always thought it might happen," Davis, a military vet whose second wife died in January, told the Buffalo News. "It was always in the back of my mind. We're just thankful that we could get back together."
"I think we just kept thinking about each other all the time, even though we were so far apart," said Henderson, a widow after her second marriage.
After divorcing in 1964 -- nobody is saying why -- they kept in touch, even as Davis moved around the world. His new wife even used to call Henderson for advice. They last saw each other in 1996 at a family funeral.

Lena Henderson and Roland Davis
                                
"The way they would act to each other never indicated there was anything but a friendship between them," their youngest daughter, Renita Chadwick, told the Buffalo paper. "My mother never had a harsh or contrary word to say about my dad, and my dad never had anything but loving remarks to make about my mother."
"Every person I share this story with smiles, cries or laughs," Chadwick said.
Davis proposed over the phone at Easter. He arrived in suburban West Seneca from Colorado Springs with an engagement ring "pinned to my T-shirt" so he wouldn't lose it.
With four generations of family watching, including the four children they had while married, the forever lovers will re-tie the knot at a church, which they didn't do as teens.
A reception will follow, but, once again, no honeymoon trip.
"I'm just happy that we're here," said Davis.
"You don't think people are going to get married at this age," he added. ""We're just thankful we've lived this long and that we're still here. We have a lot to be thankful for."

Nigerian military says alleged Boko Haram spokesman killed

Nigerian soldiers on Monday shot dead a suspected media spokesman for Islamist militant group Boko...

Nigerian soldiers on Monday shot dead a suspected media spokesman for Islamist militant group Boko Haram and another high-ranking member, a military official and a security source said.
Troops involved in the operation on the outskirts of the city of Kano said one of those killed was suspected to have been the Boko Haram spokesman who has used the alias Abul Qaqa.
A second man, believed to be the "field commander" for Kogi and Kaduna states as well as the capital Abuja, was also shot and later died from his wounds, according to a high-ranking security source.
Authorities also located a cache of explosives at a house in the city, the source said.


THE ATTACK ON THIS DAY BUILDING IN ABUJA

"We carried out an operation early this morning in which we killed a media man of Boko Haram terrorists and arrested two field commanders of the sect," said Lieutenant Iweha Ikedichi, spokesman for a military task force, adding that he did not have their exact identities.
The security source said separately that "the field commander of the Boko Haram sect in charge of Kogi, Abuja and Kaduna who was injured in the shootout also died from his wounds while in custody."
"Based on information gathered during interrogation of the field commander, a house used by the sect as an arsenal has been identified in the Rimin Kebe area of the city," said the source on condition of anonymity.
He said that a large quantity of explosives were found in the house and a bomb squad had deployed to clear it.
The operation that led to the shootout occurred at a checkpoint and was carried out with the use of intelligence information, soldiers said.

THE BOKO HARAM ISLAMIST SECT

According to a soldier who spoke on condition of anonymity, the three suspects were coming into Kano early Monday along with a woman they were transporting to receive medical treatment.
The alleged spokesman was said to have resisted and was killed in the shootout. The woman who was with them allegedly told security forces that he was the person who uses the alias Abul Qaqa.
Statements are often issued on behalf of Boko Haram in the name of Abul Qaqa, and someone identifying himself with that name has regularly held phone conferences with journalists.
Earlier this year, security sources said a suspect believed to be a person who goes by the alias Abul Qaqa had been arrested.



At the time, a purported Boko Haram member confirmed one of the group's high-ranking members had been arrested, but refuted reports that the detained person was its spokesman.
Boko Haram has been blamed for more than 1,400 deaths as part of its insurgency in Nigeria's northern and central regions.
Its attacks have grown increasingly deadly and sophisticated, including suicide bombings at UN headquarters in Abuja and an office for one of the country's most prominent newspapers.


THE UN BOMB BLAST IN ABUJA

The deadliest attack yet occurred in Kano in January, when at least 185 people died in a series of coordinated bombings and shootings.

VICTIMS OF BOKO HARAM ATTACKS.
   
Muslims have often been its victims, but it has specifically targeted churches in recent months and President Goodluck Jonathan has warned that the group is seeking to spark a religious conflict.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer, is divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south.
There has been a lull in major attacks in recent weeks, with the government saying it was engaging in back-channel talks in an effort to halt the violence.
A previous attempt at dialogue earlier this year collapsed when a mediator quit over leaks to the media and a Boko Haram spokesman said they could not trust the government.
Boko Haram is believed to include several factions, and criminal gangs and others are thought to have carried out violence under the guise of the group.

Monday 17 September 2012

Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, sworn in.

Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, officially took office in a ceremony in Mogadishu Sunday, days after being elected by the new parliament.


 Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia's new president

Outgoing president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed transferred power by handing over the Somalian flag, the constitution and a briefcase with government documents to Hassan, to whom he lost in the second round of the election on September 10.

Sunday 16 September 2012

James Ibori encounters The Holy Spirit in UK

Holy Spirit Visits Ibori in UK Prison.
**he is full of regrets for his past misdeeds.
**he is no longer as he used to be, as old things have passed away.
**he fast, reads the Bible and prays fervently in his Prison cell.

Former Delta State Gover

nor, James Onanefe ibori is now enjoying the all time truth the Bible preaches “whatever a man soweth, that he shall reap.” James Ibori sowed the seed of corruption in his 8-year rule as Delta State Governor. He escaped conviction in Nigeria, but the law caught up with him in far away United Kingdom where he is serving thirteen years imprisonment. It was alleged that Ibori has become so close to God that he is now branded a prayer warrior.





Now, James Ibori is said to be full of regrets for his past misdeeds. He has also reportedly turned a new leaf. and is an ardent student of the Bible which he now carries always as a companion.
“Ibori has been visited by the Holy Spirit; he is no longer the same. From the way he now talks, it seems old things have passed away and all things have become new. 

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I observed that he said a little prayer when he alighted from the prison van and when he was standing in the dock. I heard something like God is in control from him as he walked away from the court. He was really looking very sober, I think he may have become a born again Christian,” the source said.
The former strong man of Delta politics has now become an avid Bible reader as he recently told a relative in a message that he has been reading and studying the message of the Bible as well as engaged in fervent prayers in the prisons

“Ibori inferred in a censored message he sent to one of his relatives who interacted with me that he spent most of his days in detention reading the Bible and praying fervently. He said he has fasted about four days in prison. He described his prison cell as being okay but not too comfortable,” our sources added.