Tragedy Averted As Aviation Fuel Tanker Tumbles At Lagos Airport.

A 33,000-litre aviation fuel tanker delivering content to the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport yesterday tumbled near the airport’s access gate.
According to eyewitness reports, the tanker with the Lagos registration number AAA 991 XQ, which was filled to the brim with JET A1, fell when the driver wanted to navigate the sharp bend around the airport.
The tanker was coming from Ikeja and was going to the international wing of the airport before the accident occurred around 10am.

Tragedy was, however, averted due to the quick response of the Fire Service men of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Lagos State Fire Service, the Nigeria Police and other emergency response agencies.

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US dentist accused of killing Cecil the lion 'upset' as hunter becomes hunted

As Zimbabwean police say he faces poaching charges, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer faces furious criticism on social media

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Who shot Cecil? First it was thought that a mystery Spaniard had the blood of one of Africa’s most famous lions on his hands. Then came a fresh twist. The Cecil slayer, Zimbabwean conservations said on Tuesday, was in fact a dentist from Minnesota.

American Walter Palmer was said to be “quite upset” as the hunter became hunted. Zimbabwean police warned that he faced poaching charges, while there was a furious backlash on social media, with Facebook users variously calling for him to be publicly shamed, have his teeth pulled out without anaesthetic or be hunted and killed.

Nigerians go after gay activist, Bisi Alimi on Facebook.

A gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi, caused a stir on Wednesday as he mocked Nigeria on the Facebook.

Alimi, the first Nigerian to declare publicly his support for same sex union, noted that the country “will go down soon unless it stopped praying to God and started acting”.

He wrote from the United Kingdom where he is on a self-imposed exile.

Soon after his comment, which many considered unpatriotic, was published, hundreds of Nigerians responded on Facebook, blogs, Twitter and Instagram.

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Responding from Abuja, one Chinelo Peters described the words used by Alimi as derogatory and unpatriotic.

He urged him to channel his energy into a positive cause that could impact on the country instead of complaining from the UK.

FG goes after 'super rich' public officers.

FEDERAL Government’s anti-corruption operatives have been sent after ‘super rich’ public officers who have multiple properties and other assets suspected to have been the rewards of graft.

For now, The PUNCH learnt, the searchlight of the anti-corruption agents was on civil servants that possess many properties in the Federal Capital Territory.

Senator Dino Melaye seen escorting Toyin Saraki to EFCC Interrogation.

For the second day running, Senator Dino Melaye, who used to shout on the top of his voice over corruption, abandoned his duties as a senator to escort Bukola Saraki's wife, Toyin Saraki, to the EFCC where she is facing interrogation for allegedling stealing Kwara State funds. More photos...

Ramsey Noah reveals his wife deserves a tolerance award.

Nollywood actor, Ramsey Noah has revealed his wife ,Emilia, deserves an award for her tolerance. The father of three told Encomium,

My wife is not an ordinary human. A whole lot of women can’t take what my wife tolerates. That’s why I call her a double woman. In fact, she’s a triple woman. I give it to her, she deserves an award. A lot of women say, ‘Oh, your wife is trying.’ And I tell them, that’s why she’s better than me.

The 44-year-old also revealed they have no plans for more kids

Nigeria's Niger Delta amnesty back on track, new boss named.

Nigeria has appointed a new boss for the amnesty scheme for ex-Niger Delta oil rebels, in a move seen by observers as an attempt to put back on track the programme which doused militancy in the oil-rich region.

Violence caused by militants in the region from 2006 to 2009, including kidnappings and attacks on oil installations, played havoc with oil production in Africa's largest oil producer, which dropped from 2.6 billion barrels per day to a low of about one million.
About 30,000 former rebel fighters were enrolled in the government amnesty programme after they turned in their weapons in 2009 in exchange for training and salaries for ex-militants and provision of infrastructure in the region.

Angelina Jolie Reveals Son Maddox Has a New After-School Job.

Maddox Jolie-Pitt traveling with his mother, Angelina Jolie, and uncle James Haven in April 

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's son Maddox turns 14 next week, but he's already got a job.

In a new interview, the mother of six says that the teen, whom she adopted from an orphanage in Cambodia in 2002 when he was 7 months old, will be "involved behind the scenes" of her latest film project, which happens to be rooted in his homeland.

As reported, Jolie is directing an adaptation for Netflix of Loung Ung's memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which tells the story of the author's childhood during the 1970s Cambodian Genocide under the rule of the communist Khmer Rouge regime. Filming is beginning in November, and it's now being revealed that her eldest child will be his mother's right-hand man on the set of the film.

Champions League qualifiers: Ajax spurn two-goal lead as Basel triumph.

Ten-man Rapid Vienna stunned Frank de Boer's side, Red Bull Salzburg saw off Malmo and there Partizan held Steaua Buchare.

Ajax threw away a two-goal cushion to draw 2-2 with 10-man Rapid Vienna in the first leg of their Champions League third qualifying round clash.
Davy Klaassen had put the Dutch giants two to the good at the break at Ernst-Happel-Stadion, first tapping home from Daley Sinkgraven's cut-back before nodding home Arkadiusz Milik's wonderful left-foot cross.
Florian Kainz nipped ahead of Kenny Tete to slam home Robert Beric's cross just after half-time, but the hosts' momentum seemed checked when Stefan Schwab was dismissed for a hideous two-footed challenge on teenage centre-back Jairo Riedewald.