Takon's Fact: November 2015

Monday, 30 November 2015

Just Came Across This.. Talent Like This Should Not Go To Waste...

It's so refreshing to see young people take charge of their lives and future by making good use of their natural God's given talent. Especially in Nigeria where talent was usually looked down on and was thought to be a waste of time if you pursue a talent base dream.

Teefigz as he is popularly called is a young man but highly talented. He just dropped his single called 'PAMI DANCE' and it is already a hit.

Brothers Michael and Neil Fletcher were about an hour into their hunting trip in Dowling, Canada, when they saw a bald eagle stuck in a trap.

"It needed help so we just jumped in," Michael Fletcher, 29, told ABC News, saying he had never seen a bald eagle so close before. "It was crazy."

An official says a fire has gutted the dormitories of a girls' high school in northern Kano state, killing 7 students and injuring 25.

Beijing suffered its worst air pollution of the year on Monday, with monitoring sites throughout the city reporting extremely hazardous levels of pollutants.

City authorities issued a rare orange alert, the second highest of four danger levels.

Jason Van Dyke

The Chicago police officer who has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a black teenager is due to make his first court appearance today since his arrest.

Would you like to spend quality time with George Clooney as he showers you with compliments?

How about walk a red carpet with Meryl Streep or visit the set of "Game of Thrones"?

They are all possible: Bono is a launching an all-star campaign featuring "once-in-a-lifetime experiences" that can be won after donating at least $10 to his organization (RED), which raises funds to fight AIDS. The campaign kicks off Tuesday to coincide with World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1.

The University of Chicago has canceled all classes and activities at its Hyde Park campus after being warned by the FBI of an online threat of gun violence there.

The British Government, weekend expressed readiness to collaborate with the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s to urgently fast track the development of the Niger Delta Region.

Authorities say a suspected burglar who became stuck in the chimney of a Central California home died after the homeowner unknowingly lit a fire in the fireplace.

Within an hour of landing in Paris, President Obama made an impromptu stop early Monday morning at the Bataclan theater, one of the sites targeted by terrorists in the deadly Paris attacks earlier this month.

Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko To Meet Again In A 2016 Rematch

Tyson Fury - Left and Wladimir Klitschko - Right

Wladimir Klitschko says he will fight Tyson Fury again next year, having lost his world heavyweight titles to the British fighter in Dusseldorf.

Fury, 27, pulled off one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight history, outpointing Ukrainian Klitschko and bringing his nine-year reign to an end.

Mariah Carey has become synonymous with the holidays.

Her hit song, “All I Want for Christmas is You” is a classic, and now she’s made it into a children’s book.

ABC News’ Amy Robach sat down with the superstar to talk about the book, her directorial debut and the holidays in the Carey home.

A rare parasitic infection called Chagas disease has been gaining headlines in recent weeks after cases of the infection were reported in at least five states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chagas disease, which can cause long-term cardiac damage, is mainly found in rural Central and South America, but some experts are concerned that cases are beginning to rise in southern U.S. states.

The five candidates for the 2015 BBC African Footballer of the Year had been revealed during a special live launch broadcast in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Yacine Brahimi of Algeria, the 2014 winner, is on the shortlist along with:

The Turkish prime minister says Turkey has taken delivery of the body of a Russian pilot who was killed after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian warplane.

The Federal Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi, yesterday nullified the March re-election of Senator David Mark and ordered a fresh poll within 90 days in Benue South Senatorial District.

The court handed down the verdict in the appeal filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election, Mr. Daniel Onjeh.

Jamie Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy's record as he became the first player to score in 11 consecutive Premier League matches.

A newborn baby girl is in the hospital after she was found buried alive, under asphalt and rubble, Los Angeles officials said.

Award winning American Diva, Chante Moore, will arrived Lagos Saturday, November 27, 2015, in preparation for the hosting of the second edition of “Light Up” Music & Art Concert.

Donald Trump Insults A Disabled Reporter, Yet He Demands An Apology From New York Times

Donald Trump responded to critics who accused him of imitating the mannerisms of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski in a lengthy statement he tweeted on Thanksgiving day.

“I have no idea who this reporter, Serge [Kovaleski] is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence,” the statement began.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson donated $1,500 to a 4-month-old puppy that bears the former wrestler turned actor's name.

"Meet Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, a 4-month-old puppy, who needs your help. He was dumped at North Central Shelter with a large metal wire wrapped around the bottom portion of his mouth," the organization Saving SPOT wrote on its GoFundMe page. "But he has much bigger challenges ahead. Dwayne has a grade 5 heart murmur."

The North Lawn of the White House went on lockdown after a man identified as Joseph Caputo jumped over the fence and was taken into custody, authorities said.

“This happened on the 26th November 2015, at approximately 2:45 p.m.

An Australian set his third Christmas-themed world record in as many years Friday by illuminating a tree in downtown Canberra with 518,838 twinkling lights.

Guinness World Records confirmed that David Richards had broken the record for the most lights on an artificial Christmas tree that had been held for five years by Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. That 36-meter (118-foot) Japanese tree had set a new benchmark of 374,280 lights this month.

LIONEL MESSI is open to a move to Manchester City that could see him paid an astonishing £800,000-a-week.
SunSport revealed that Messi was considering quitting the Camp Nou for a shock switch to England.
And Messi’s representatives have had initial discussions about joining City which could see the 28-year-old sign a deal worth around £40MILLION a year.

Apprehension has gripped traders of Owode-Onirin market, along Mile 12 Ikorodu Road, Lagos, after 11 persons, including a pregnant woman, fainted after inhaling suspected poisonous fumes from substance that exploded at a section of the area, late Wednesday.

If you are a beauty queen, and you have the energy to rock on the streets, then you need not worry any more as Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has offered to put smiles in your face this season
The governor, at a glamorous unveiling of the 2015 edition of Carnival Calabar theme tagged ‘Climate Change’, which took place last Sunday, at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, surprisingly announced enlisting beauty queens as members of a new band called the Governor’s Band. “Irrespective of their states of origin, they represent the beauty, elegance, style and class of the average Cross River youth,” said the governor.

Call it the mobile music train and you would have summed up the whole essence of Globacom’s recent music concert tagged Glo Slide N bounce. One, it takes mobile phone users, particularly those on Glo network to gain entrance to the concert. Two, the music train moves around the length and breadth of the country to fish out young talents and also to entertain, give more value to mobile subscribers whose average revenue spending keep the network in business.

Death sentences imposed on corrupt Vietnamese officials will now be commuted to life in prison if they pay back at least 75 percent of the illegal money they made.

Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State, a former senator, a professor of environmental studies was in Lagos for an interactive session with relevant stakeholders involved in the forthcoming Calabar Festival. On the sidelines of the meeting the governor had an interactive session with newsmen during which he opened up on his style and strategic approach to governance.

Unemployed Gets Jail Term For Stealing A Pair Of Jeans-Trousers And Our Corrupt Leaders Get Freedom.....

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 30-year-old unemployed man, Emmanuel Ijoko, in Kirikiri Prisons for stealing a pair of jeans-trousers valued at N3,500. The Magistrate, Mrs M.O. Osinbajo, remanded the accused after he had pleaded guilty to the offence of stealing.

Top Nigerian rapper, Olamide Adedeji has announced the death of his father.
Olamide who just released his 5th studio album, Eyan Mayweather, announced the sad news on his Instagram page on Thursday.

BRITAIN’S fattest woman has found love with a wiry man nearly twice her age.
Super-sized Georgia Davis, 23, has fallen for Matthew Takel, 43.
The relationship began while Georgia, who weighed 60st in April, was having life-saving treatment to shed 20st.

By NITDA Act 2007, our primary role is to oversee the overall development of the ICT industry in Nigeria as well as promote the use and adoption of ICT in all sectors of the economy to create jobs, wealth and sustainable development.

3x3 Rubik's Cube

A 14-year-old boy has solved a Rubik’s cube in under five seconds, beating the previous world record time by 0.35 seconds.
Lucas Etter was taking part in the River Hill Fall competition in Clarksville, Maryland, on Saturday when he managed to unmix the 3x3 cube in just 4.9 seconds.

A Neurologist with Alpha Medcare, a research centre in Iba, Lagos, said inhaling smoke in any form is dangerous to health and capable of causing loss of memory.

A FEW hours after the All Progressives Congress (APC) opted for a fresh primary to fill the vacuum created by the death of its governorship candidate in November 21 polls in Kogi State, there were indications that no fewer than 27 aspirants are warming up to grab the party’s ticket.

Who steals brains? That is not as fascinating as Who buys brains? Well read for yourself....
A 23-year-old Indiana man, David Charles has pleaded guilty to breaking into a medical museum and stealing preserved human brains that he then sold online.

A Florida man who killed his wife and posted a photo of the bloody corpse on Facebook was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder after failing to convince a jury that he shot her eight times in self-defense.

The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, Thursday said the Nigeria Police needs N8.7billion to effectively combat insurgency in the North East of Nigeria.

Prof. Samuel Garba of Federal University of Technology, Minna, will Today, Thursday receive the Outstanding Medical Research Prize 2015. The International Institute for Training, Research and Economic Development (IITRED), announced this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.

A South Korean court on Thursday jailed a university professor for 12 years for forcing a student to eat human faeces and drink urine during a two-year period of physical and psychological assault.

Turkey Downed Russian Jet.... WTF!!!!

The surviving pilot of a Russian plane shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border has said no warning was given.

Capt Konstantin Murakhtin told Russian television there was "no way" the jet could have violated Turkish airspace, as Turkey said it did.

Brushing aside security concerns, Pope Francis arrived in Kenya on Wednesday on his first-ever trip to Africa and urged Kenyans to work for peace and forgiveness amid a wave of extremist violence on the continent that threatens to disrupt his trip.

Explosion rocked a mosque at Yartabki village near the headquarters of Funtua local government in Katsina State on Tuesday.
The state’s police public relations officer, Aminu Saqiq, confirmed the incident to the New Agency of Nigeria.

The Senate on Wednesday invited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, over recurring cases of bridges’ collapse in parts of the country.
The upper chamber specifically wanted Fashola to brief its committee on Works on plans for reconstruction of all Bailey bridges In the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday issued a stern warning to vice chancellors and management of universities in the country against mismanagement of universities’ resources.
He said his administration would not fold its arms and watch unscrupulous elements mismanaged funds provided to revitalize the university system.

The Federal Government said on Wednesday the payment of N5, 000 to unemployed Nigerians was being delayed because it was not captured in the 2015 budget, insisting that it will be included in the 2016 Budget.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Barr. Solomon Darlong, who stated this during a visit to the All Progressive Congress national secretariat in Abuja, said the government is making arrangement to effect the payment with effect from 2016.

Barbra Streisand said Tuesday that she’d have a hard time imagining Donald Trump as President of the United States, but thinks a general election matchup between the real estate mogul and Hillary Clinton would be "one of the greatest moments in television history."
The actress and singer, who received the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday evening, said the thought of receiving the nation’s highest civilian honor from Trump was “terrifyingly scary.

Two new studies are adding to a growing body of evidence that breast-feeding is both good for the baby and for the mother.

The studies, which focused on diabetes and cancer, found that women who breast-feed cut their risk of diabetes and cancer compared to women who did not breast-feed.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's quick trip down the aisle this past February was sparked by their deep connection.

"We connect on a lot of levels, but the first things that really got me was she's an aficionado of the blues,"

Depp told E! News about his 29-year-old spouse. "I would play a song, some old obscure blues song and she knew what it was."

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