Saturday 13 June 2015

Nigerian Kimberly Anyadike, 15, Becomes Youngest African American Female To Pilot Plane Cross-Country

A Nigerian teen has become the youngest black female to ever fly from one end of America to the other known in aviation parlance as cross country flight. Kimberly Anyadike whose parents are Nigerians broke the U.S. record and entered into the record books when she flew flew a single-engine Cessna cross-country from her hometown of in California to Newport Virginia. Anyadike also became the youngest African American female pilot to complete the journey, which took 13 days.

Anyadike learned to fly at age 12 through the Compton-based Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, which offers aviation lessons in an after-school program for disadvantaged youths. It was their plane that she flew on her cross-country trip.

3 Year Old Boy Shoots Himself Dead With His Mother's Hand Gun

A BOY of 3 shot himself dead in the chest with his mum's handgun.

Detectives believe the toddler took the weapon from his mother's purse and shot himself accidentally while playing with it.
His hysterical mother had to be subdued by police as paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive the tot at the bottom of steps to the family's front door.
The victim was later identified as Marques Green. Detectives said no one else was involved in the shooting.
Neighbours told local station WCPO they heard Marques' devastated mum Elizabeth Green screaming: "My baby's shot himself' when she discovered her lifeless son.

Prison Staff Arrested After 'Helping Shawshank Killers Escape'

A PRISON worker has been arrested after she allegedly helped two convicted murderers escape.

Joyce Mitchell allegedly smuggled contraband into Clinton Correctional Facility, where Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped last weekend.
She gave the pair power tools and goggles with lights to aid their Shawshank Redemption-inspired plot, according to reports.
Mitchell, 51, could face seven years in prison if found guilty.
Charles Guess of New York State police said the arrest was "a large piece of the puzzle in our quest to find these two escaped murderers".

Saraki Should Be Expelled From APC With Immediate Effect Writes.... Etcetera

Remember the war over acronym between African Peoples Congress and All Progressives Congress? Remember how some politicians approached INEC to register another political party called African Peoples Congress, APC? I thought that was the beginning of the end of the All Progressives Congress. But the African Peoples Congress didn’t have the Lion of Bourdillon leading its charge, so it lost.

After winning the acronym war, APC was faced with another battle of selecting interim executives, with the merging political parties (Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party, the Congress for Progressive Change, and a faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance) insisting on holding the “juicy” leadership positions.

I Was An Innocent Girl When I Got Pregnant Says Waje

To many families in Nigeria, pregnancy out of wedlock is a big issue and not many families would be in support of it as they tend to criticize the lady involved.
There are many female celebrities who have had their own fair share of early pregnancy and are now living with it like a case of Nigerian singer, Waje, who got pregnant at the age of 18 and was neglected by many except her mother who stood by her all the way.
Waje speaking to Punch, stated that at that age, she never knew what she was doing as she was just an innocent girl who was just living her life.

Adolf Hitler May Have Hidden A Treasure Map Leading To A £50M Haul In A Sheet Of Music

A man claims to have located £50m worth of Nazi treasure after deciphering a code in a sheet of music.

What’s more surprising is Cyril Whistler has released the name of the burial spot instead of going to claim the diamonds and gold for himself.

They’re located in Mittenwald, Germany, according to the ‘map’ found in Gottfried Federlein’s Marsch-Impromptu score.

The route was supposedly put there by Martin Bormann, who was Adolf Hitler’s secretary.
‘The more I studied the piece, the more I discovered. The letters, the number and the signs reveal a route,’ Dutch violin maker Whistler told the Express.

Graphic Pictures: Bus Driver, Mechanic Arrested for Brutalising Kids with Hot Iron, Plank

All 16-year-old Kafayat Bello, a year two senior student of a school in Bariga in Lagos, wanted was to be a normal girl who could sneak out to play with friends once in a while. But what she did not expect was the kind of brutal punishment she would later get from her father, a commercial bus driver.

On Tuesday, May 2, 2015, Kafayat’s father, Ibrahim, pounced on her and whipped her till she could not walk. Not done, he plugged their pressing iron and burnt her multiple times, inflicting severe injuries all over her body.

Kafayat, whose case has been taken over by the Office of the Public Defender under the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, explained that on the day of the incident, she was given the duty of attending to a client who needed manicure and pedicure in her mother’s beauty parlour.

3 Year Old Boy spends Two Days Alone With His Mother’s Body After She Died From ‘Asthma Attack’

A toddler spent two days alone with his mother’s body after she died at home, it has been reported.

Lydia Macdonald, 28, was found dead at the property in Lickley Court, Perth, on Wednesday evening. Her death is being treated as unexplained.

Her father Ronald told the Daily Record her three-year-old son Mason, who is now an orphan, was found alone with his mother’s body.

He told the newspaper: ‘We are Mason’s next of kin and have been in the hospital with him from the start. He was very sad to begin with but has brightened up considerably. He has been told about his mum but we’re not sure how much he understands. We’ll be looking after him.’