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Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Naira Appreciates to N260/$1 on Parallel Market

THISDAY findings from most of the parallel market traders at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport and other areas around Ikeja yesterday attributed this to an increase in supply of the greenback from autonomous market sources, especially from Nigerians abroad who visited the country for the yuletide.

Two Pune Infosys campus employees were arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged rape of a woman.

According to the police, the woman cashier working at a canteen in Pune Infosys was allegedly raped by two persons inside the canteen.

French fashion house Louis Vuitton is bringing the console to your closet in its latest advertising campaign.

The brand's creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere has unveiled the face of its Spring-Summer 2016 campaign and it's none other than Lightning, a character from the hugely successful video game franchise Final Fantasy.

It isn't every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a giant squid.

The creature swam under fishing boats and close to the surface of Toyama Bay, better known for its firefly squid, and reportedly hung around the bay for several hours before it was ushered back to open water.

The train that derailed in northern Australia over the weekend was carrying more than four times as much sulfuric acid as previously announced, police said Tuesday.

The freight train had roughly 819,000 liters (216,000 gallons) of the highly corrosive acid on board when it came off the tracks Sunday morning in a remote area of northern Queensland, state police said. They had initially said about 200,000 liters of acid was on board.

The World Health Organization has declared Guinea to be free of Ebola.

It's a notable milestone because the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa began in Guinea in December 2013 and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. From there, the outbreak traveled to seven other countries. Liberia and Sierra Leone were earlier declared Ebola-free.

Stunning Photos From Calabar Carnival

Stunning photos from the largest street party in Africa, Calabar Carnival which is ongoing in Cross River State.

A Lance Corporal of the Nigeria Army was among eight persons arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to robbers in Lagos.

Among those the gang allegedly supplied arms were those robbers who raided commercial banks in Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara areas of Lagos and Ogun State, where they carted away large sums of money, recently.

It may not have been the happiest holiday for Khloe Kardashian! The reality star was reportedly dumped by her boyfriend, James Harden, right before Christmas.

“It was too much for him,” an insider told OK! Magazine. “The media scrutiny, her family’s meddling and her mood swings drove him over the edge. He told her they can still hook up, but anything serious is off the table.” Interestingly, it’s been a little while since we’ve seen this couple together, so perhaps they are taking things easy for a bit.

Tyga’s Ex Mia Isabella Mocks Kylie Jenner: He ‘Bought’ Me A Diamond First

Mia Isabella is throwing some post-Christmas shade! After Kylie Jenner posted a pic of a huge diamond ring that Tyga gave her for Xmas, Mia declared that Tyga bought her one first. See Mia’s diss pic here!

Kylie Jenner, 18, may have a brand new sparkler from her man, Tyga, 26, but she apparently wasn’t the original recipient of a giant diamond from the rapper! Tyga gave his ex, Mia Isabella, 30, a similar rock when they were together, and Mia is making sure Kylie knows that. But she isn’t being subtle about it — Mia totally mocked Kylie’s ring on Instagram!

Similar to Kylie’s ring pic where she is grasping her Range Rover steering wheel, Mia flaunted her diamond with a video of her hand on the steering wheel of her Mercedes. The replica pic wasn’t enough for Mia, though, as her caption was the biggest shade-throwing part! “Anybody can do that lol he bought me one too except I’ve had mine for years,” she wrote. Yikes, Mia was definitely directing her post right at Kylie!

Mia clearly isn’t enthused over Kylie’s massive diamond ring, Kylie’s fans certainly were! As soon as she posted the pic of her ring, fans immediately flipped thinking that Tyga had proposed. And considering the two have hinted at marriage in the past, that’s a safe assumption to make. But she quickly let fans know that while the ring was “from a special someone,” she’s not engaged. Judging by the size of the rock, though, she’s obviously in love!

Craig Strickland Missing: Singer’s Wife Begs Fans To Pray For Her Husband’s Life

Craig Strickland‘s beloved wife Helen Wisner is calling on all the prayers the family can get for her 29-year-old husband to be following alive following an accident during a weekend duck hunting trip that killed his friend. The Backroad Anthem member headed to a lake in Oklahoma with buddy Chase Morland, 22, while a savage winter rainstorm tore through the state.

Ian Fraser Kilmister, the jagged-voiced heavy-metal singer and bassist known as Lemmy, who led the loud and fast British rock band Motörhead for decades, died on Monday. He was 70.

The Texas teenager who was given probation after killing four people while driving drunk has been detained by the Mexican authorities after disappearing this month, according to CNN and television and newspaper reports in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The teenager, Ethan Couch, was granted leniency in the 2013 drunken-driving case after a witness testified that he suffered from “affluenza,” or psychological problems stemming from his family’s wealth.

If billionaire Sir Richard Branson likes your idea enough to invest in your brand, well, you’re probably onto something. In this case, that would be Ring, a souped up version of the doorbell with remote video capabilities. Branson, along with other investors, helped Ring raise $28 million in private financing last August.

In a December interview with FOXBusiness.com, founder Jamie Siminoff said his main goal now is to build the brand. “We’re pretty focused on the business with 99% maintaining growth and operations.” Siminoff also noted that sales have jumped 1330% this year but declined to disclose actual revenue numbers. In early January, Ring will release even more details on its financials.

Branson, who founded Virgin Group, which includes multiple businesses such as airline Virgin America (VA), has a net worth of nearly $5 billion, according to Forbes. As for growing that net worth Branson seems to prefer the start-up world over traditional stocks and bonds. “There are so many great ideas out there, we are keeping our ears open and looking to meeting these wonderful people,” he said during an appearance on FOX Business Network’s Mornings With Maria in November. When describing Ring, Branson’s enthusiasm was clear: “It’s one example of new technology making a hell of difference in people’s lives and protecting people.”

When asked how hands on the mogul is, Siminoff said, “Branson is amazing and we talk quite a bit.” He also credited the company’s other investors including True Ventures, a San Francisco, CA, based venture capital firm, for their guidance.

Ring, which is sold on Amazon.com (AMZN) and on Ring.com, as well as in big retail shops such as Home Depot (HD) and Lowe’s (LOW), offers homeowners a vehicle in which they can see who is at the door when they’re not home. By using your smartphone, you can talk with whoever is ringing your doorbell. Ring also has motion sensors which will trigger mobile alerts if activity warrants.

Three Police Officers Killed By a Fourth in Puerto Rico

A policeman in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce entered the office of his commanding officer, held her and two other members of the force hostage, and then fatally shot all three.

The shooter, identified as Guarionex Candelario Rivera, was arrested immediately afterward.

An Atlanta police officer is recovering after being wounded during a traffic stop that turned into a shooting.

Major Paul Guerrucci tells local media outlets that during the early Monday traffic stop, two men exited their vehicle in southwest Atlanta. Guerrucci says the passenger shot both the driver and a police officer after the driver ran toward authorities.

Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck a city and a town in northeastern Nigeria with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers Monday, killing at least 80 people, witnesses said.

In Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, at least 30 were killed and more than 90 wounded in overnight blasts and shootouts, and another 20 died in a bombing outside a mosque at dawn Monday, said Muhammed Kanar, area coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency.

The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on Monday reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, an important breakthrough for the Northeast Asian powers.

Piaget's Newest Watch Is an Electromechanical Marvel

For this one, you need to leave your snobbery about mechanical watches at the door. Piaget's latest creation, the Emperador Coussin XL 700P, uses a new hybrid movement that combines mechanical power with electronic timekeeping. Once you get rid of anti-electric bias, you realize just how awesome this is.

The New7Wonders list was elected by more than 100 million votes in 2007 to represent global heritage throughout history.

And AirPano’s breathtaking panoramic shots, show exactly why they deserve to be on that list.

He’s been dubbed the internet’s most hated man and is now facing fraud charges, so we reckon it was just a matter of time before this happened.

Martin Shkreli, former boss at Turing Pharmaceuticals and the guy famous for putting the price of Aids drugs up by 5,000%, has had his Twitter account hacked.

The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly on Monday elected Mr Onofiok Luke as its new Speaker.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Luke, who represents Nsit Ubium constituency emerged as Speaker following the nullification of the election of the former Speaker, Aniekan Uko.

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) says it has sealed more than 28 hotels due to non-compliance with the environmental laws of the state.

Mr. Adebola Shabi, the General Manager of LASEPA, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday.

The directive by the former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the withdrawal of N1.17 billion from Sokoto Rima Basin Development Commission (SRBDC) account last year is “unacceptable,” members of the House of Representatives have said.

To this end, the ad hoc committee mandated by the House to probe the withdrawal, after its meeting with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), queried how the minister’s directive could override that of the president. It sought for more details from the former minister.

A woman has been jailed for nine years after burning a man’s genitals with an iron while they had sex.Kenya Alozie, from Nigeria, also attacked the man with a broken bottle during the assault in May, according to Mirror Online.

British police described the 31-year-old’s attack as “calculated and pre-planned.”

“She ensured she had a broken bottle to hand and a hot iron to strike the victim and seriously harm him,” said Detective Constable Duncan Clark from Greenwich Police.

A pastor of the New Life Baptist Rock Assemblies at North Legon in Accra, Kwame Boateng and his tenant, Kwame Amoako were last Saturday arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for illegal power connection and theft of power.

They pleaded not guilty to the charges and were each granted bail in the sum of GH₵10,000 with two sureties to re-appear on January 9, 2016.

Cape Town - Brand new hand-held devices have been deployed by the Western Cape transport and public works department to help provincial traffic officers over the festive season.

The hand-held devices will be used by traffic officers in the field, as a fast, information-verifying tool that will assist enforcement, transport and public works MEC Donald Grant said on Sunday.

An identity of the man wanted in connection with the murder of 15-year-old Centurion resident Shayleen van Zanten has been released.

The teenager was on holiday with her father in Trafalgar, just south of Margate in KwaZulu-Natal, when she was allegedly killed for her cellphone.Police have described the suspect as short. He was apparently wearing a red T-shirt with black pants to the knee and over-sized flip-flops.

Congratulations are in order for Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach! Otherwise known as Miss Philippines, 26-year-old Pia was crowned Miss Universe on Dec. 20, in perhaps the most shocking way possible after Steve Harvey mistakenly called Miss Colombia as the winner. The world already knows where Pia is from, but with the way she worked the stage, it’s hard not to want to know more about her! Luckily, we have what you need to know right here!

Khloe Kardashian has been very open on Keeping Up With The Kardashians about her struggles with Lamar Odom. But after Khloe learns Lamar has gone off on an emotional rant about their marriage to a magazine, she decides to really open up and tell us what is going on. During the Dec. 20 episode Khloe reveals that she waited around for Lamar for two years and that she would still be married to him if he had truly tried to make their marriage work.

It was the mistake heard ’round the world. Steve Harvey accidentally named the wrong woman Miss Universe at the 2015 competition, and he felt absolutely terrible. He immediately took to Twitter to apologize for his error.

See what Steve said here!

Aww! Just four days after Dwayne Johnson welcomed his baby girl, he shared the first pic of his new daughter on Instagram in the most precious way possible.

In an adorable shot with his little girl laying on his chest, Dwayne gushed over the newborn in a long, touching message to his fans.

Iraq has chosen its first Miss Iraq for over four decades.

Eight contenders competed for the crown and the chance to represent Iraq at the global Miss Universe contest at an event moved to Basra from Baghdad following threats from conservative Muslims.

Mass protests have been held in Delhi following the release of a man involved in the gang rape of a medical student.

The man, who was 17 at the time of the rape and cannot be named, was sentenced to three years in a reform facility in 2013 and finished his time this weekend.

A guest at a wedding in Iraq died after a man standing behind him fired his automatic rifle in the air in celebration.In a video posted to LiveLeak, guests cheer and clap the newly-married couple, and one enthusiastic guest fires his gun into the air.

The cheers quickly turn to screams when the guest loses control of his rifle and accidentally shoots the man in front, who drops to the floor.

This woman is not to be trifled with.And one man who was a little too liberal with his hands found this out the hard way.

In footage taken from CCTV cameras outside a food shop in Inezgane, Morocco, a man walks past a woman in a green kaftan bending over by a motorcycle and casually squeezes her bum.

FIFA have banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from football for eight years .

The two had been under investigation by the body's Ethics Committee amid the corruption scandal that has shaken up football governance in recent months.

Tim Peake Gives First Press Conference From Space

Tim Peake has given his first press conference from the International Space Station.

Major Peake, who blasted into orbit on a Soyuz rocket on Tuesday, has said he is ‘loving every minute’ of his first days on the ISS.

Aside from giving a press conference, Major Peake will today unpack cargo from a spacecraft, spend an hour on the exercise bike and take part in a Canadian experiment called Marrow, investigating the effects of radiation on bone marrow, the European Space Agency said.

Authorities in Virginia have closed down schools after a high school geography assignment on Islam led to allegations children were being indoctrinated.

Parents of pupils at Riverheads High in Staunton took exception to a homework assignment which asked the class to try calligraphy by copying a statement in Arabic, the Staunton News Leader reporter.

The 'I Am Cait' star - who was known as Bruce Jenner before undergoing a gender transition - was handed the honour ahead of the likes of Amy Schumer, Bradley Cooper and Donna Karan.

She shared: "Our choice for the most fascinating person of the year was once called the world's greatest athlete. Traditionally that title was given to the man who won the Olympic decathlon. When Bruce Jenner won it in 1976, it was a huge accomplishment that had everybody talking. But it was nothing like this. When Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn Jenner, there was a seismic shift in the gender universe.

A cleaner who posed as a doctor and allegedly caused a woman to lose her pregnancy through the prescription of wrong medication has been arrested by the Odorkor police in Accra.

The suspect, Daniel Yartey, 37, popularly known as Dr Nartey by his neighbours at Achimota in Accra, is said to have been practising illegally for the past seven years.

A British man was stabbed to death during an ayahuasca ceremony at an Amazonian spiritual retreat in Peru.

Witnesses said Unais Gomes, 26, was killed by Joshua Andrew Freeman Stevens, a 29-year-old Canadian man, as they took the hallucinogenic plant brew ayahuasca together.

The Police on Friday arraigned a 32-year-old man, Basil Obasi, in a Dutse Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, for alleged misappropriation of company’s fund.

Obasi, a resident of opposite NEPA office in Bwari, is facing a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of company’s N773, 011.

A father told a court that he murdered his pregnant wife, six children and his mother following an argument about his son’s haircut.

Oleg Belov admitted to murdering his entire family during a ten-minute rage that began because his six-year-old had got what he termed a ‘parrot’ haircut. He told the court in Russia that his wife Yulia, 32, wanted to divorce him and then cut his son’s hair in a way he didn’t like.

Jose Mourinho Sacked by Chelsea After Dismal Premier League Form

Chelsea have reportedly parted company with manager Jose Mourinho after their poor start to the Premier League season.

The Blues are just one point above the relegation zone after a 2-1 defeat to Leicester City on Monday night, continuing a surprise collapse just months after they finished as Champions in May.

Massachusetts Teen Found Guilty of Murdering Math Teacher

A jury in Massachusetts has found Philip Chism guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 killing of his high school math teacher, Colleen Ritzer.

The jurors in Essex Superior Court on Tuesday also found Chism guilty of aggravated rape and armed robbery. He was found not guilty on a second count of aggravated rape.

Chism was charged as an adult and faces life in prison with the possibility of parole between 15 and 25 years, according to Carrie Kimball Monahan from the Essex District Attorney's Press Office.

Love can make you do some pretty crazy things. Bringing a major interstate in downtown Houston to a standstill probably shouldn't be one of them.

Vidal Valladares, 24, has been charged with obstruction of a highway, a misdemeanor, for shutting down I-45 on Sunday to propose to his girlfriend, the Harris County District Attorney's Office said. The misdemeanor is punishable by up to six months in jail.

A Canadian pastor, detained in North Korea for 10 months, has now been sentenced to life in prison there "for subversion." The Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim was found guilty of anti-government activities and of spreading false propaganda, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.

"The supreme court announced that Lim was guilty of joining the United States and South Korea in anti-DPRK human rights 'racket' and fabricating and circulating false propaganda materials tarnishing the country's image," Xinhua said.

Four Thai ladyboys have been arrested after a British man plunged to his death from a balcony last night.

The body of the man, believed to be aged 28 and from Leeds, was found in an alleyway near an apartment block in the coastal resort Pattaya at around 7.30pm on Tuesday.

He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries.

ISIS managed to get hold of chemical weapons through Turkey, it has been claimed.

Turkish MP Eren Erdem claims the terror thugs received all the components required to produce deadly sarin gas through Ankara.He told Moscow-funded RT that he believes a cover up has taken place.

Erdem, a member of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) member, claims Ankara has failed to investigate Turkish supply routes that allows the terror group to produce the deadly gas.

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