http://nobledaniel./2014/10/21/oscar-pistorius-given-five-years-for-reeva-steenkamp-death/

Judge Thokozile Masipa hands down the sentence
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been given five years in jail for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Judge Thokozile Masipa also gave Pistorius a three-year suspended sentence for a firearms charge.
The parents of Reeva Steenkamp told the BBC they were happy with the sentence and relieved the case was over. The defence said it expected Pistorius to serve about 10 months in prison.
Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide but cleared of murder.
Prosecutors had called for a minimum 10-year term, and the defence had argued for community service and house arrest.
'Feeling of unease'
Pistorius showed little reaction to the sentence other than to wipe his eyes before being led away.
Defence lawyer Barry Roux said his client was expected to serve 10 months in prison, with the rest under house arrest.
Dup De Bruyn, a lawyer for the Steenkamp family, told Reuters that "justice was served", although he believed Pistorius would probably serve two years.
Pistorius's uncle, Arnold, said: "We accept the judgment. Oscar will embrace the opportunity to pay back to society."
He appealed to the media to "accept the ruling of court and let us move forward in this process and give us some degree of dignity and privacy".
He said the family would support and guide the athlete as he served his sentence.
The BBC's Nomsa Maseko, outside court, says opinion there was divided on the sentence, with some saying it was too light, others that it was fair.
Pistorius was taken away from court in a police van to Pretoria's Kgosi Mampuru prison. Our correspondent says Pistorius will be evaluated over the next few hours to decide where he will stay based on his disability



Reeva Steenkamp's mother, June, said she believed justice has been served

"I hope Oscar will begin his own healing process as he walks down the path of restoration" - Arnold Pistorius
Judge Masipa said she considered her sentence "fair and just, both to society and to the accused".
She said: "A non-custodial sentence would send the wrong message to the community. On the other hand, a long sentence would also not be appropriate either, as it would lack the element of mercy."
Judge Masipa said that nothing she could say or do could bring back Reeva Steenkamp, but "hopefully, this judgment on sentence shall provide some sort of closure for the family".
The judge begun reading her decision by saying there must be a balance between retribution, deterrence and rehabilitation.
In summarising the evidence, she described defence witness and social worker Annette Vergeer as "slapdash and disappointing".


Oscar Pistorius holds the hands of family members as he is led away

He was driven away in a prison van

Judge Masipa has ruled in a trial that has captured public attention in South Africa and beyond
Ms Vergeer had argued Pistorius would be "a lot more vulnerable than the normal man" in jail.
But Judge Masipa said she was sure prisons were equipped to cater for the requirements of a special needs inmate.
She also said she had a "feeling of unease" at what she called an overemphasis on the athlete's vulnerability.
However, she said Pistorius had made an "enormous contribution to society", in his charity work and in changing the public perception of disability.
The judge also said: "It would be a sad day for this country if an impression were to be created that there was one law for the poor and disadvantaged, and another for the rich and famous."
The three-year suspended term was for unlawfully firing a gun in a restaurant, in a separate incident before the Steenkamp killing.


Oscar Pistorius shot dead Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year
The case may not yet be over, as both prosecution and defence have the right to appeal.
The prosecution service said it had not yet decided and the defence has not yet commented.
The International Paralympic Committee told the BBC it would not allow Pistorius to run at any of its events for five years, even if he were released early.
Pistorius, 27, an amputee sprinter who became the first athlete to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, killed Ms Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year.
He says he shot her by mistake, fearing there was an intruder in his house in Pretoria.
Ms Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model, reality TV star and law graduate, was hit three times by bullets fired by Pistorius through a toilet door.


Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains.
Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'.

Bathroom noise

Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police.
The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her.

Shooting

Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet.
He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him.
'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said.
The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp.

Bedroom

Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom.

Toilet door

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Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours.

It’s not everyday archaeologists uncover a lost, ancient city, let alone one of such importance and significance.  A city shrouded in myths and legend, the lost city of Heracleion (Pronounced “Hera-klee-on”… or perhaps “Hera-see-lee-on”… which is more fun, but probably less accurate) has recently been found 30 feet under the surface of the Mediterranean Sea in Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria.

The city was first rediscovered by French Archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and his team who first saw signs of it in 2000, and began a long geophysical survey of the ruins and environment.

Since it’s discovery, many ancient statues and artifacts have been recovered, as well as much information about who we are, and where we came from in our early Greek & Egyptian Origins.


 ”Thonis-Heracleion (the Egyptian and Greek names of the city) is a city lost between legend and reality. Before the foundation of Alexandria in 331 BC, the city knew glorious times as the obligatory port of entry to Egypt for all ships coming from the Greek world. It had also a religious importance because of the temple of Amun, which played an important role in rites associated with dynasty continuity.

The city was founded probably around the 8th century BC, underwent diverse natural catastrophes, and finally sunk entirely into the depths of the Mediterranean in the 8th century AD. Prior to its discovery in 2000 by the IEASM, no trace of Thonis-Heracleion had been found. Its name was almost razed from the memory of mankind, only preserved in ancient classic texts and rare inscriptions found on land by archaeologists.

The Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BC) tells us of a great temple that was built where the famous hero Herakles first set foot on to Egypt. He also reports of Helen’s visit to Heracleion with her lover Paris before the Trojan War. More than four centuries after Herodotus’ visit to Egypt, the geographer Strabo observed that the city of Heracleion, which possessed the temple of Herakles, is located straight to the east of Canopus at the mouth of the Canopic branch of the River Nile.”

Here is another short video depicting one of the incredible statues that still remains intact as archaeologists sweep across it,  thousands of years later.


“The objects recovered from the excavations illustrate the cities’ beauty and glory, the magnificence of their grand temples and the abundance of historic evidence: colossal statues, inscriptions and architectural elements, jewelry and coins, ritual objects and ceramics

The quantity and quality of the archaeological material excavated from the site of Thonis-Heracleion show that this city had known a time of opulence and a peak in its occupation from the 6th to the 4th century BC. This is readily seen in the large quantity of coins and ceramics dated to this period.

The port of Thonis-Heracleion had numerous large basins and functioned as a hub of international trade. The intense activity in the port fostered the city’s prosperity. More than seven hundred ancient anchors of various forms and over 60 wrecks dating from the 6th to the 2nd century BC are also an eloquent testimony to the intensity of maritime activity here.”

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/20/the-lost-city-of-heracleion-discovered/

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/20/boko-haram-kidnaps-another-40-women-in-adamawa/

The terrorist group, Boko Haram has kidnapped no fewer than 40 women in a recent attack carried out in Wagga village, Adamawa State.

reported that one Enoch Mark, whose daughter and niece are among the abducted Chibok girls revealed that the attack was carried out on Saturday

He said since Friday last week that the Nigerian military announced a seized fire with the terrorists; they have continued to launch attacks on several communities.

In a related development, AFP reports that the Nigerian military officers on the epicenter of the troubled states confronting insurgency said they were yet to receive operational order that they should cease fire.

“Honestly, we are yet to receive any operational order on the ceasefire. As such, we are battle-ready and would confront the terrorists if we see them,” a senior military officer said.

It was also reported that another senior intelligence official in the North East had hinted that he had not received word about the ceasefire deal.

Meanwhile, witnesses and security sources on Sunday evening revealed that troops from the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army engaged dozens of suspected members of Boko Haram in a gun duel at Damboa town, Borno state.

It was gathered from a military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity that the terrorists had earlier attacked Sabon Gida town, Borno State.

Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods.
The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC.
The creation of Earth (Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:
When in the height heaven was not named,
And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;
Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being...
Sumerian mythology claims that, in the beginning, human-like gods ruled over Earth. When they came to the Earth, there was much work to be done and these gods toiled the soil, digging to make it habitable and mining its minerals.
The texts mention that at some point the gods mutinied against their labour.
When the gods like men
Bore the work and suffered the toll
The toil of the gods was great,
The work was heavy, the distress was much.
Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labour was too great. His son Enki, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labour, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods.
You have slaughtered a god together
With his personality
I have removed your heavy work
I have imposed your toil on man.
…
In the clay, god and man
Shall be bound,
To a unity brought together;
So that to the end of days
The Flesh and the Soul
Which in a god have ripened –
That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.
This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Sumerian tablet depicting Enki in the creation myth. (world-myth.com)
Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. This ‘modification’ was done without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and a conflict between the gods began. Enlil became the adversary of man, and the Sumerian tablet mentions that men served gods and went through much hardship and suffering.
Adapa, with the help of Enki, ascended to Anu where he failed to answer a question about ‘the bread and water of life’. Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden.

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/20/the-origins-of-human-beings-according-to-ancient-sumerian-texts/

hoyinkansola:
ewww... heavy load

Hope urs no be like dat

With reference with the news we posted on this blog days back accusing Mister Abayomi Isaac Oyebukola of disappearing with money meant for corp member comes out to say they following directly on Noble dee blog.
This is what he has to say.


Aside the tenable fact that I graduated from University of Ibadan; a reputable frontier of knowledge where graduates worthy in character and sound judgment are groomed, I loathe activities capable of negating my integrity and hitherto spiting my father’s hard earned name. In all, I find it difficult to ascertain what individuals tend to gain from wanton damage to one’s reputation.

On Tuesday, the 14th of Oct, a friend of mine called my attention to an infamous viral piece that had spread like wildfire on the internet which detailed clusters of harmful and unjustified allegations about me. I thought it was a joke but after my swift internet view, I became utterly dejected and shocked to my bone marrow with my jaw dropped as I read every line of that shocking news. Shortly, calls came flying in from friends, family and colleagues who knew I’d never ventured into such impish act. After listening to my side of the narration, Many urged me to sue for defamation while others besieged me to write a rejoinder. Apparently, they believed I was incapable of any iota of corrosive tendency. For hours, I couldn’t even document anything but latter I summoned the strength of defending my cherished personality against parlous information on the internet. Thus I have these to reel off:

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http://nobledaniel./2014/10/19/guiness-book-of-records-awards-the-woman-with-the-worlds-largest-natural-brstsphotos/

Annie Hawkins-Turner, who is better known as Norma Stitz, has the largest natural breasts in the world. Her breasts weigh about 56 pounds and require an unbelievable bra size of 102ZZZ. Despite their already massive size, her breasts are believed to be still growing.
See more Photos:

dunkem21:


**inhales***

Do you have any other person in mind?

Help me ask

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/18/the-crimes-of-buhari-by-prof-wole-soyinka/

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change.
What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the- scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order Buhari? Need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc.

Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down

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Smooyis:
We got our own problems to deal with. leave South Africans alone!

Nobody hold dem in

XketchDesigns:
All this Nigerians showing their ignorance.
In the same nigeria, we have areas given only to whites and black people have no business there. I am talking about expatriate in the oil industry, I have forgotten the name of the company. You find them mostly in PH, I am sure in lagos too you will see.

Totally diff from dis...hope u read tru sha

Abbey2sam:


don't you think your the foolish one here, white people dominated a supposed black nation


south africans only knows how to hate on nigerians their black african brothers,...........................say no to xenophobia

They are snitch to other African nation

Natascha:
First of all, u are senseliss. SA is not a black country. Here we have black, white, colored and Indian. Secondly, Orania is what you will call previously white neighborhood. It is cut of from civilization, and yes, they are still hoping for the apartheid days to return. But that will never happen. So let them live in isolation and die.

Wu r and wat are u saying...am senseless and u gat something to say abt it...place take a deep breath..aite u need am wella

acenazt:
what kind of fools are these south Africans? Who gives Racists their own Town in A black Country?

Dunno...was surprise

Orania is an Afrikaner-only South African town located along the Orange River in the arid Karoo region of Northern Cape province. It is a whites only town.

The aim of the town is to create a stronghold for Afrikaans and the Afrikaner identity by keeping their language and culture alive. Anyone who defines themselves as an Afrikaner and identifies with Afrikaner ethnicity is welcome in Orania.In 2004 Orania introduced its own currency, the Ora. Seventy businesses are located in oriana.

The town is split in two halves by the R369 road, and lies halfway between Cape Town and Pretoria.

According to its founders, the purpose of Orania is to create a town where the preservation of Afrikanerdom's cultural heritage is strictly observed and Afrikaner selfwerksaamheid ("self reliance" is an actual practice, not just an idea. All jobs, from management to manual labour, are filled by Afrikaners only; non-Afrikaner workers are not permitted. "We do not want to be governed by people who are not Afrikaners", said Potgieter, the previous chairman. "Our culture is being oppressed and our children are being brainwashed to speak English".

The town's ultimate objective is to create an Afrikaner majority in the north-western Cape, by encouraging the construction of other such towns, with the eventual goal of an Afrikaner majority in the area and an independent Afrikaner state between Orania and the west coast; also known as a Volkstaat.


Carel Boshoff, the founding father of Orania, had originally envisaged a population of 60,000 after 15 years.While Boshoff conceded that most Afrikaners might decide not to move to the volkstaat, he thought that it is nevertheless essential Afrikaners have this option, since this will make them feel more secure, thereby reducing tensions in the rest of South Africa. In this regard he considered it as being analogous with Israel, which serves as a refuge for Jews from all over the world.

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/18/oriana-a-town-in-northern-capesouth-africa-with-97-2-of-white-photos/

Orania is an Afrikaner-only South African town located along the Orange River in the arid Karoo region of Northern Cape province. It is a whites only town.

The aim of the town is to create a stronghold for Afrikaans and the Afrikaner identity by keeping their language and culture alive. Anyone who defines themselves as an Afrikaner and identifies with Afrikaner ethnicity is welcome in Orania.In 2004 Orania introduced its own currency, the Ora. Seventy businesses are located in oriana.

The town is split in two halves by the R369 road, and lies halfway between Cape Town and Pretoria.

According to its founders, the purpose of Orania is to create a town where the preservation of Afrikanerdom's cultural heritage is strictly observed and Afrikaner selfwerksaamheid ("self reliance" is an actual practice, not just an idea. All jobs, from management to manual labour, are filled by Afrikaners only; non-Afrikaner workers are not permitted. "We do not want to be governed by people who are not Afrikaners", said Potgieter, the previous chairman. "Our culture is being oppressed and our children are being brainwashed to speak English".

The town's ultimate objective is to create an Afrikaner majority in the north-western Cape, by encouraging the construction of other such towns, with the eventual goal of an Afrikaner majority in the area and an independent Afrikaner state between Orania and the west coast; also known as a Volkstaat.


Carel Boshoff, the founding father of Orania, had originally envisaged a population of 60,000 after 15 years.While Boshoff conceded that most Afrikaners might decide not to move to the volkstaat, he thought that it is nevertheless essential Afrikaners have this option, since this will make them feel more secure, thereby reducing tensions in the rest of South Africa. In this regard he considered it as being analogous with Israel, which serves as a refuge for Jews from all over the world.

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/18/oriana-a-town-in-northern-capesouth-africa-with-97-2-of-white-photos/

sparklie:
Is that d bride with her gold dress of $300,000. Even a road side tailor in naija can't make that thing for #300. Why she resemble Indian god And y is the broom sorry groom looking like he was born in an Evil foret?

Lol...no mind dem

experimentist:
Na pesin fart like dat!

No oh...nah cloth oh

TV01:

That's not the husband...(it's his younger brother) ,they did the marriage in absentia thingy...her real hubby had problem with his visa and was worried about losing his early morning cleaning job in "outside London" !


TV

Hmmm...can u be eye witness for me...

Merlissa:


The husband looks scared

I was thinking its a statue....

E be like say...lolz

owabor:
If you have the money, spend it but wait o, toilet that is hidden in the house or will this one be fixed in the sitting room?

Lolz..money talks sha

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia gifted a made completely from gold to his daughter on her marriage.
In 2011forbes estimated his and his immediate family's documentable wealth at US $ 21 billion. He has been named the most influential Muslim among 500 Muslims for the past 4 years

The bride's dress was made out of gold which cost $300,000.

He has had over 11 wives and has fathered more than 16 children

http://nobledaniel./2014/10/17/bizarre-gift-of-golden-toilet-by-royal-familymore-photos/

It blasts 1.5 pulses per second up to ten feet (three metres) in every direction to kill viruses including Ebola.

Light that is 25,000 times bright than sunlight is created in each flash.

The robot was first made available in 2010 and each unit costs £65,000 ($104,000).

'Our robot ensures the room is safe for the next patient by destroying germs on high-touch surfaces, and in hard to clean nooks and crannies,' a spokesperson for Xenex said.

Ebola, however, is actually easier to kill than other infectious diseases such as superbugs that mutate and become immune to disinfection.

It takes just two minutes for the robot to destroy Ebola on a surface, while other viruses can be eradicated in five minutes.

Such technology, using UV rays to sterilise a room, has been around for decades, but Little Moe speeds up the process by using xenon in place of mercury.

By comparison, a mercury-based UV machine takes up to an hour to disinfect a room.

'Our mission has always been to eliminate the pathogens that cause the infections that impact the health and lives of millions of patients and their families, and Ebola is no different,' Xenex said in a statement.San Antonia-based Xenex has designed a robot that can kill viruses
It works by using pulses of xenon light to disinfect surfaces in five minutes
Blasts of light are sent out in a 10ft (three metre) radius every 1.5 seconds
This can remove Ebola from surfaces in a room in just two minutes
Called 'Little Moe' the robot costs £65,000 ($104,000) and is already being used in 250 hospitals across the US to stop the spread of the disease
A germ-killing robot designed to rid a room of dangerous viruses in minutes is being used to keep hospitals Ebola-free.

Called 'Little Moe', the robot works by damaging viral DNA using pulses of ultraviolet light.

It is currently being used in 250 hospitals and health facilities across the US, including a Dallas hospital where a patient with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in America is being treated.

Pandemonium broke out in the Asipa community as an apprentice bricklayer, identified as Rasheed Sulaiman, was shot dead while testing the potency of a bullet-proof charm given to him by a herbalist. A resident of Asipa, a community in the Ife North Local Government Area, told PUNCH Metro that Sulaiman, on Saturday called his cousin, Siji, to follow him to a secluded place to test the charm. Sulaiman wore the amulet and gave a gun to his cousin to fire at him. The cousin fired the shot and killed Sulaiman instantly. Residents were unaware of the mission of duo, but the sound of a gunshot was said to have attracted attention of the people of the area to where the incident happened. Siji was said to be found weeping beside the body of the deceased. Siji reportedly explained that the deceased compelled him to shoot at him to test the potency of an amulet. It was gathered that the deceased, who was known to be a tough guy, could be preparing to use the charm for the governorship election in the state. The incident was said to have triggered panic among the elders of the community who believed that some other youths might have similar charms. Punch reports the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of Osun state Police Command, Folasade Odoro, could not be reached to react to the incident.

In a quick chat with a woman, Esther Ogble in Abuja, she said “I need to braid my hair so that I will look beautiful”. The 25-year-old said this while wincing as her hair was being combed, tugged, and woven.

The reporters also made reference to Muma Gee who recently said that she spends half a million Naira on her hair.

According to the report, the boom has attracted global brand likes L’Oreal and Unilever.

37-year-old Josephine Agwa in Wuse, Abuja says “The ones that don’t want to come (to the shop), they call us for home service.”, while a 20-year-old South African student says “I get bored if I have one style for too long.”

The report also says daring styles are part of the reasons for the high price, and hair extensions are mostly gotten from India and China.

The demand for hair products and human hair extensions is constantly growing. The analysis does not include sales from other sub-Saharan countries.
A new market research by Euromonitor International has revealed that last year (2013), women in Nigeria, South Africa and Cameroon alone spent a whopping $1.1 billion on their hair, Reuters reports.

It also includes purchases on shampoos, relaxers and hair lotions.

Morning Money Memo:

Bill Gates is the wealthiest person in America for the 21st straight year, says Forbes magazine. Gates is worth $81 billion, up $9 billion. According to the latest Forbes 400 rankings, the average net worth of each member is $5.7 billion, the highest to date, up from $5 billion last year. Warren Buffett is No. 2 on the list, at $67 billion, up $8.5 billion from last year. At No. 3, Larry Ellison is worth $50 billion, up $9 billion from last year. The combined wealth of the Forbes 400 is $2.29 trillion, compared with $2.02 trillion in 2013 and the highest ever, partly resulting from to the strength of the U.S. stock market. Net worth increased for 303 members, and decreased for 36 members. Cost of admission to the 2014 list is the highest ever at $1.55 billion, up from $1.3 billion a year ago. Twenty-seven newcomers made it into the ranks, including Jan Koum (No. 62) of WhatsApp at $7.6 billion, Russ Weiner (No. 249) of Rockstar Energy at $2.5 billion, Travis Kalanick (No. 190) of Uber Technologies at $3 billion and David Walentas (No. 368), a real estate developer who made his fortune by rebuilding the Dumbo area in Brooklyn, New York, at $1.7 billion. The biggest gainer is Mark Zuckerberg (No. 11), whose net worth grew $15 billion since last year. He is worth $34 billion. Twenty years ago, more than half of the Forbes 400 came via inherited wealth. This year, more than two-thirds are self-made.

Americans boosted spending in August, with about half the increase coming from auto sales. Income rose by a modest amount. The Commerce Department today says consumer spending rose 0.5 percent last month after showing no gain in July. It was the best result since spending also expanded 0.5 percent in June. Helped by strength in wages and salaries, income rose 0.3 percent in August. Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of economic activity, and the slowdown in July had raised concerns about whether the economy would retain the momentum it showed in the spring after a harsh winter.

A new survey finds banks are cashing in on fees even more than before. The survey released today by Bankrate.com finds the average fee for using an out-of-network ATM climbed 5 percent over the past year to a new high of $4.35 per transaction. The average fee for using an out-of-network ATM has jumped 23 percent over the past five years. Overdraft fees also surged, rising on average over the past 12 months to $32.74. That's the 16th consecutive record high.

Billions of dollars are flying out the door at Pimco investments after the firm's co-founder Bill Gross resigned, saying he would join rival Janus Capital. Before being pushed out by management at the California-based firm he co-founded, the man who has been called the "bond king" made a sudden exit. Pimco "suffered roughly $10 billion of withdrawals" after the Gross announcement, reports The Wall Street Journal. "Pimco is bracing for more outflows on the heels of the veteran investor's departure after months of internal strife over his leadership," the paper said. Pimco executives are said to have called their top clients, reassuring them that they have a first-class team of investment experts at the company.

The chairman of Lenovo Group says the company has received U.S. government approval to complete its acquisition of IBM's low-end server business and plans to use it to grow faster outside its personal computer business. He says the IBM assets will add a "growth engine" to a growing array of businesses that include computers, mobile devices and services. Also this year, Lenovo bought the Motorola Mobility smartphone business from Google.

Richard Davies Business Correspondent ABC News Radio abcnews.com Twitter: daviesnow

Bimpe29: So disgusting and unthinkable. May the Lord have mercy.

Very disgusting

prettiest1: At that age all he can think of is being intimately related with his mother not even with some else. Smh.

Very bad mehn