Gistmania Blog : November 2014

Thursday, 27 November 2014

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Welcome To Spyglass Blog : R Kelly Calls Bill Cosby A Rapist: Having being accused of having sexual preference for under-aged minors and also accused of assault on late singer Aliyah when she wa...

Millionaire Demolishes Village Where He Grew Up Just To Change Lives

A millionaire Chinese businessman has bulldozed the wooden huts and muddy roads where he grew up - and built luxury homes for the people who lived there.

After making his millions, the business tycoon decided to return to the village and give everybody a place of their own to live.

The 54-year-old even promised three meals a day to the older residents and people on a low income to make sure they could get by.

The area which has been transformed in recent years and now has 72 families that are enjoying life in luxury new flats.

The millionaire said: 'I earned more money than I knew what to do with, and I didn't want to forget my roots.

'I always pay my debts, and wanted to make sure the people who helped me when I was younger and my families were paid back.'

R Kelly Calls Bill Cosby A Rapist

Having being accused of having sexual preference for under-aged minors and also accused of assault on late singer Aliyah when she was under aged, but has never been convicted, Robert Kelly (R Kelly) has lashed out on Bill Cosby for his alleged rape drama.

In a new interview, R Kelly called out Bill Cosby saying he hoped that Bill did not sexually harass Raven Simone when she was on the show.

Here’s what he said;

Nigerian Sentenced To Death By Malaysian Court For Drug Trafficking

A Nigerian man, Abuchi Ngwoke, 35, has been sentenced to death by a Malaysian Hight Court on a drug trafficking conviction . Ngwoke was arrested at a Malaysian airport in 2012 after being found with 251.66 grams of Methamphetamine, reports Sahara Reporters.

Ngwoke was arrested at a Malaysian airport in 2012 after being found with 251.66 grams of Methamphetamine. According to reports, he swallowed gemstones in Nigeria before boarding a flight to Malaysia.

A date has not yet been set for his execution.

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Court Strikes Out Charges Against Nyanya Bomber

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, struck out the three-count terrorism charge preferred against Aminu Ogwuche, the alleged mastermind of the April 14, 2014 bomb blast that killed more than 75 persons and injured 120 others at a crowded motor park in Nyanya Abuja.

In his ruling yesterday, Justice Ademola Adeniyi struck out the matter for want of diligent prosecution by the police.

Two female suicide bombers have struck a crowded market in Maiduguri the Borno state capital of Nigeria early this morning killing several people.

Eyewitness told reporters that the suicide bombers detonated their explosives across from the Monday market in the metropolis this morning around few minutes before mid-day.

Vanessa Hudgens Gets Restraining Order Against Stalker Who Flies From Africa To Marry Her

Vanessa Hudgens Wins Restraining Order Against Man Who Flew From Africa to Marry Her

Actress Vanessa Hudgens has been granted restraining order against an obsessive fan.

The man named Junior Kabongo who flew to Los Angeles from Africa to see the "Spring Breakers" actress in person and to "marry" her, has been ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from Vanessa, her sister and boyfriend.

Miley Cyrus is a really big fan of two things: pot and penises. The Singer was so happy after receiving a penis-inspired gift from Chelsea Handler. She proudly took to Instagram on Monday, November 24 to share a photo of the gift. "Possibly the best gift yet," the singer, who just turned 22, captioned a photo of her hugging the plant.

The festivities went down at LA’s Factory Nightclub, where the neon-lit venue was appropriately decked out in sex toys, paraphernalia and the Holy Grail of pizza birthday cakes.

Protests Erupt Across The Country In The Wake Of Ferguson Grand Jury Decision

Early hour flames engulfed multiple businesses and vehicles in Ferguson as gunfire kept firefighters at bay when violent protests erupted over the grand jury decision not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown's death.

The protests turned violent despite pleas for peace from Brown's family, President Obama and others.

Visitor Shatters Tower Bridge With Beer Bottle

A huge pane of glass in the spectacular Tower Bridge glass walkway has shattered after a visitor dropped a bottle of beer on it.

The pane, one of six which make up the see-through floor of 140ft-high viewing platform, was then reportedly damaged further when a woman walked on it in stilettos.

The attraction has only been opened for two weeks, but has attracted rave reviews.

Each pain of glass is nearly half a tonne in weight is made up of five different layers.

See What Bleona Qereti Wore To The AMA Awards

Bleona went the Rihanna route and arrived in an entirely sheer mesh get-up.

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Police Arrest 7 In Nigerian Assembly Scuffle

Police in Nigeria fired tear gas in an effort to prevent a top opposition lawmaker from entering parliament on Thursday.

Members of parliament had convened in the capital, Abuja, to debate President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to extend the state of emergency in the country’s northeast as part of the fight against Boko Haram militants.

The standoff began when Speaker of the House Aminu Tambuwal approached a gate leading into the National Assembly building.

Imam Imam, a spokesman for Tambuwal, said police blocked the speaker from entering the complex, without giving a reason other than they were following orders. Tambuwal recently defected from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) opposition party.

Florida State University Shooter: “I Believed Government Was Targeting Me”

A Florida State University alumnus and attorney who shot three people at the school’s library early Thursday believed the government was targeting him for persecution, detailing his thoughts in a journal and in videos detectives obtained, authorities said.

Officers fatally shot Myron May, 31, during an exchange outside the library at about 12.30am. May reloaded at least once and tried to enter the library, where 300 or more students were studying for midterm exams, but was blocked by lobby security barriers that permit only students and staff inside, Tallahassee police chief Michael DeLeo said.

Despite a seventh woman accusing him of sexual assault, Bill Cosby’s tour is still going ahead as planned, with venues saying cancellation is not an option because of financial pressures.

Bjorn Olsson, the executive director of the Tarrytown Music Hall in New York, released a statement which addressed calls for the venue to cancel Cosby’s date on 6 December. Olsson said that cancellation could prove so costly to the venue that it would have to reduce staff as a result.

The Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, suggested on Thursday he was considering pardoning journalists of the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television station jailed in his country for nearly a year.

Toni Payne Ex-Wife Of 9ice Returns To TV

Toni Payne has announced on her Instagram page that she is making a return to the big screen.

The ex-wife of singer 9ice, talented poet, writer, blogger and mother of one is currently recording a new reality and lifestyle show that would hit the airwaves in December 2014 on Silverbird Television.

9 Confirmed Dead In Thai Army Chopper Crash

Nine persons have been confirmed dead in an army helicopter crash in Thailand, the military officials said on Tuesday.

The Army spokesman, Col. Winthai Suvaree told newsmen in Bangkok.

He said that the Deputy Commander of the Third army, Maj.-Gen. Songphol Thongjeen, was among those killed when the helicopter went down in Phayao province 700 kilometres north of Bangkok on Monday. Suvaree however said that investigations were under way.

According to the report, the aircraft was a Bell 212 model.

However, the Thai army grounded its Bell 212 fleet in 2011, after three crashes of different helicopter models within two weeks which had left 17 persons dead.

Former Nigeria Beauty Queen Denies Butt Implant

Former Beauty queen, Omowunmi Akinifesi has denied insinuations that she had a butt implants, claiming that she will never submit her backside to the knife.

The 2005 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria stressed that what she has is natural. She posted the message on instagram, following allegation of butt implants.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of drug trafficking, official media said, bringing to 68 the number of people executed this year despite international concern.

“Talal Ali Qassem was captured smuggling a large quantity of methamphetamine. Investigations led to his confession,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing the interior ministry. Qassem was executed in the northern region of Jawf.

Causality figure of the bomb explosion at the busy phone market known as Kasuwan Jagol in Azare, Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State has risen to 31, while 30 other victims are currently on admission.

The Adamawa State Governor Bala James Ngillari has said about 10, 000 people mostly local hunters, would be enlisted into the vigilance group named Civilian JTF to assist security agencies dislodge Boko Haram insurgents in northern and central parts of the state.

Nigerian Nollywood actor Jim Iyke has revealed his personal life behind the entertainment scene. The actor who is hardly seen without a cool pair of shades has also talked about why he rarely acts and his love life with Nadia Buari…Here is what he has to say:

Court Orders Sealing Of Zenith Bank Over Non-Payment Of Tax To State Government

The Ondo State Board of Internal Revenue Monday sealed off offices of Zenith Bank Plc in Akure and Ondo Town over failure of the bank to remit about N100 million tax due to the state government.

The sealing of the bank’s premises was carried out by the board officials, who were accompanied by security personnel.

Terrorist Group Claims To Have Beheaded US Aid Worker

The Islamic State group released a video which shows a militant claiming to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig.

A female suicide bomber set off an explosion in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday killing 13 people and injuring 65, police said.

Ghanaian Female Rapper Confirms Leaked Sex Tape

Ghanian female rapper Itz-Tiffany has confirmed that the leaked sex tapes of her are the real deal.

Equatorial Guinea has been announced as host of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations to replace Morocco.

Morocco pulled out from staging the tournament for fears of the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) insisted that the January 17 to February 8 date will not change and disqualified Morocco from participating at the 2015 competition.

There were reports CAF was considering giving the hosting right to either Angola, Egypt, Gabon or Nigeria.

But the body on Friday announced Equatorial Guinea, who were joint hosts of the 2012 edition, as the new country to stage the championship.

The four cities selected for the finals are Malabo, Bata, Mongomo and Ebebiyin.

Man Nabbed For Raping 14-Year-Old Tuberculosis Patient

Residents of Akilo Street in Bariga area of Lagos State, were shocked when a 35-year-old commercial motorcyclist, popularly called Okada, Andrew Ekanem, was arrested by the police for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl who has been undergoing treatment for the past six months due to tuberculosis.

The Akwa Ibom State born man was said to have cornered the girl in the early hours of the morning when she went to ease herself and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.

The hopes of thousands of women mobilized for the flag-off of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Bayelsa state by Nigeria’s first lady, Patience Jonathan, were dashed as they were sent home with nothing yesterday after policemen tear gassed a couple of them.

Some overzealous security operatives also used batons on the hapless women who were frustrated for being hoodwinked by Mrs. Jonathan to come for the "empowerment program" she had claimed was from the MDG, only to be confronted with a political rally for the president’s re-election.

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Snooker Legend Alex Higgins Son Is Jailed For Robbing Newsagent

Snooker legend Alex Higgins’s son has been jailed for robbing a newsagents - after his hard-drinking father was blamed for his upbringing.

Three Brazilian have been accused of the Sweeney Todd style crime after they sold the gruesome food stuff to schools and hospitals claiming they contained tuna and chicken.

The 10 Most Notorious Looted Artworks In The World

The Horses of St Mark

A bronze set of four Greek horses walking in a line, each with one hoof raised. They were most probably made by the Greek sculptor Lysippus, who worked for Alexander the Great.

Some say they started out on the island of Chios, but they were stolen around AD 330 from ‘somewhere in Greece’ by Emperor Constantine, who put them in pride of place in his new capital, Constantinople, on the triumphal gate leading into the Hippodrome.

In 1204, they were stolen for the second time by Doge Enrico Dandolo after the sack of Constantinople in the fourth crusade. Dandolo put them on the terrace of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, where they stayed until 1797. The conquering allies sent them back to Venice after Napoleon’s fall in 1815. Current location: St Mark’s Basilica, Venice.

Dove with Green Peas, 1911, by Pablo Picasso

On 20 May 2010, a cat burglar broke into the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris and cut five canvases out of their frames – this important work from Picasso’s cubist period, plus masterpieces by Léger, Braque, Matisse and Modigliani.

The man who broke in, a Serb called Vrejan T or “Spiderman”, somehow managed to avoid 30 CCTV cameras. Sleeping guards and a faulty alarm failed to stop him.

French police later picked up three men believed to have been involved in the heist. One of the men claimed the paintings were thrown in a garbage truck and crushed, but the police say the information gleaned from them was unreliable. Current location: unknown.

Place de la Concorde, 1875, by Edgar Degas

Originally owned by the German industrialist Otto Gerstenberg (1848–1935), this Degas was sent by his daughter Margarete Scharf to the National Gallery in Berlin for safekeeping.

From here it was stolen by the Soviet army, who packed it off to the Soviet Union in October 1945 on the same train as the Pergamon Altar and Botticelli’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy.

The Russians vehemently denied having it (along with roughly 3 million other stolen artworks) until they audaciously put it on show at the Hermitage Museum in February 1995 in an exhibition called Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces from German private collections. Current location: Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

The Wedding at Cana, 1563, by Paolo Veronese

This one-and-a-half-ton painting was commissioned by the monks of San Giorgio Maggiore, and shows Jesus turning water into wine.

The huge work (measuring 666cm x 990cm) hung in the monastery, on the very wall Veronese designed it for, until Napoleon turned the monastery into his Venetian headquarters in 1797.

He transferred it to the refurbished great hall in the Louvre. When he decided to use that hall for his wedding to Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810, it interfered with his plans and he ordered it to be destroyed, saying “Since it cannot be moved – burn it.”

Luckily, the curators ignored this command. The Congress of Vienna declined to return it to Venice in 1815 on logistical grounds – it was deemed too large. Current location: Louvre, Paris.

Limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti, c 1345 BC, by the sculptor Thutmose

While he was digging at Amarna in 1912, the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt discovered this bust and stole it.

Under the established procedure of “partage”, he was meant to declare all items to an official of the Antiquities Service in Tell el Amarna, so a fair split could be made. But he did not declare her, and when she was exhibited in Berlin soon after, it caused an outrage in Egypt that has continued ever since.

When Egypt offered to exchange Nefertiti for another ancient sculpture in 1933, museum officials agreed but were overruled by Hitler, who said she was one of his favourite statues and belonged in Germany. The Nazis hid her in the Merkers salt mine, where she was found by the US army in 1945 and returned to Berlin, despite Egypt’s protests. Current location: Egyptian Museum, Berlin.

The golden death mask of King Kofi Karikari, 1837–1884

The Ashanti death mask was stolen from the royal mausoleum in Kumasi, Ghana, during the punitive Ashanti campaign of 1873. Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley had all the Ashanti gold from the entire city removed, including masks, swords, headdresses and jewellery.

The current Ghanaian government has claimed these items, which are mostly housed in the British Museum today. The mask was bought by Richard Wallace, who bequeathed it to the British nation. Current location: Wallace Collection, London.

The Art of Painting, 1665, by Johannes Vermeer

Count Rudolf Czernin of Vienna owned this Vermeer before the second world war. The count declined an offer of US $6m before the war, but in 1940 accepted RM (Reichmarks) 1.7m from Hitler – the highest price ever paid by the Führer for a painting, but a fraction of the offers Czernin had previously rejected.

The Czernin family later claimed that he sold it under duress (his wife had a Jewish grandparent) and tried to claim it back after the war. The US army found it in 1945 hidden in the Altaussee salt mine in Austria, where it narrowly escaped being dynamited by the retreating German army.

In the mine, spread out over 67km of tunnels on 18 levels, the US army found more than 6,500 artworks that had all been destined for Hitler’s planned super-museum in Linz. Czernin’s heirs have tried to recover the painting ever since, but their efforts have been repeatedly thrown out by the Austrian government, most recently in May 2011. Current location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

The Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence, 1609, by Caravaggio

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (also known as The Adoration)

Also known as the Adoration, this large multi-figure composition hung in the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily, until it was stolen on 18 October 1969.

Most people believe the thieves were the Sicilian mafia, and although various mafia informers over the years, including Francesco Marino Mannoia in 1996 and Gaspare Spatuzza in 2009, have claimed knowledge of the painting’s whereabouts, it has never been found. Spatuzza claimed it was stolen for a private collector, but was eaten by rats and pigs while being stored at a farm. Current location: unknown.

Portrait of a Young Man, 1513, by Raphael

In 1798, Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski imported this self-portrait from Italy into Poland and put it in his family museum in Kraków, where it remained until it was hidden from the Nazis (along with Leonardo’s Lady with an Ermine) in Sieniawa.

With the help of the Gestapo, it was discovered by the Nazi governor of Poland, Hans Frank, and was last seen at Frank’s apartment in Kraków.

When the Germans fled Kraków before the advancing Soviet offensive, Frank sent his paintings first to Silesia and then his villa at Neuhaus.

When the Americans arrested Frank on 3 May 1945 for war crimes, they recovered many of the stolen artworks, including the Leonardo, but the Raphael was never seen again. Current location: unknown.

Reclining Nude, 1969, by Henry Moore

This two-tonne bronze was stolen in December 2005 from the grounds of the Henry Moore Foundation in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.

CCTV cameras recorded a gang using a small crane to lift the sculpture on to the back of a truck. An hour later, the truck, which had been stolen in Roydon, Essex, was spotted carrying the sculpture through Harlow.

According to British police, it was then cut up and sent to China, via Rotterdam, where it was melted down and used for electrical components. The Henry Moore Foundation offered a reward of £100,000 for the £3m sculpture, but it is believed the scrap bronze was sold for less than £1,500. Charles Hill, the former head of Scotland Yard’s art and antiques squad, said he was tipped off by notorious art thief Jimmy Johnson that a group of travellers was responsible for the theft. Current location: unknown, probably destroyed.

From TheGuardian:

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Renowned Preacher And Business Coach, Dr Myles Munroe And Wife Die In Plane Crash

Internationally renowned preacher and business coach, Dr. Myles Munroe of Bahamas Faith Ministries International and his wife Mrs. Ruth Ann Munroe, died in a plane crash earlier today in the Bahamas.

The plane, a Lear LEA -1.05% 36 executive jet, reportedly struck a crane at the Grand Bahama Ship Yard, exploding on impact and crashing into the ground near a junkyard area.

The Bahamas Ministry of Transport and Aviation reported that the Lear 36 executive jet departed the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) in Nassau, Bahamas at 4:07PM for the Grand Bahama International Airport, a privately owned international airport in Freeport, Bahamas with nine people on board.

The plane crashed while making an approach for landing at Grand Bahama International Airport at 5.10pm, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation said. The crash killed all nine people on board the private jet. The identities of the other people on board have not yet been confirmed.

The cause of the crash was not immediately determined, though there had been heavy rain across the region. A full investigation is expected to begin on Monday.

The crash occurred as people were gathering in Grand Bahama for Dr. Munroe’s 2014 Global Leadership Forum which starts tomorrow, November, 10. Former mayor of Atlanta and former U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young scheduled to speak at the popular leadership forum, released the following statement through his foundation.

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