Passengers restrain man with tape and seatbelts mid-flight

The passenger was tied up with seatbelts

Passengers tackled a man mid-flight and restrained him using tape and seatbelts.
The man was allegedly being abusive on board Siberia Airlines Flight 546 from Hong Kong to Vladivostok on Monday, reports local media .
Footage uploaded to YouTube – which has been viewed around 450,000 times – shows someone in a red T-shirt
standing over a passenger.
Another man emerges and pushes him away before a small group wrestle him to the ground.
Pictures then show the man lying on the floor bound.
The man was arrested by police who were waiting for the plane to arrive in Vladivostok.

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Photos from actors Mimi Orjiekwe & Charles Pius's wedding...

Actress Mimi Orjiekwe got married traditionally to fellow actor, Charles Pius on July 18th. See some pics from their big day. Mike Ezuronye and others graced the event. More after the cut...

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Students protest against colleague’s death

Protesting students

ACTIVITIES around the Ugbowo area were Tuesday paralysed for several hours and lectures could not hold as students of the University of Benin protested the death of two of their colleagues who were knocked down on Sunday by a patrol vehicle belonging to the Nigerian Army.
They were said to be crossing the highway after a church service inside the campus when the accident happened. It was gathered that the two female students, identified as Rita Awele, and Efe, were on their way from a Catholic chaplaincy located within the school, when the patrol vehicle knocked them down at about 10.30am on Sunday.
It was learnt that the victims were both 200 Level students of the Department of Philosophy and they died few hours after being rushed to the hospital for medical attention.
The protest left many motorists and travellers stranded for several hours, since 6:30am when it was reported to have started. The aggrieved students lamented that there had been several deaths on the expressway close to the university’s main gate, owing to what they described as recklessness on the part of some motorists and the absence of speed breakers. They, therefore, demanded for a pedestrian bridge to be sited around the institution.
The Director of Sports of the Students Union Government, John Ogedengbe, said: “There should also be proper compensation for the families of the deceased and the army officer involved should be properly dealt with. The Commandant promised us that they will get to see the parents and they will take care of the logistics and they told us that the army officer involved was locked up. But we are not sure of their statement because we demanded an audience but they refused.”
But while the students claimed that the two victims did not survive the accident, the 4th Brigade Command and the management of the university said that one of them was responding to treatment.
The Army Public Relations Officer, Captain Jonah Unuakhalu, said that the Command had commenced an investigation to ascertain the “actual cause of the accident” while efforts were being made to reach the families of the victims.
The message read: “On Sunday morning at about 8.30a.m., there was an accident involving Operation Pulo Shield Vehicle driven by a soldier that knocked down two females, who were confirmed to be students of University of Benin.
They were, however evacuated to a nearby hospital where one was confirmed dead, while the other student is responding to treatment.”“Efforts are being made by the Command to reach the university authority and families of the two students involved in the accident and also to further dialogue with the Students Union Government to avert the protest, but the students insisted on speaking with government officials. It is advisable that the students should keep calm as the Command is looking into the issue.” Also, the spokesperson for the university, Michael Osasuyi, who confirmed that the school had made contact with the army, said: “The management is talking to them now to remain calm and abide by the rules and regulations and channel their grievances appropriately so as not to disrupt the peace. They are calling on the federal government to provide a flyover so that students are not knocked down on the highway again.

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Jonathan’s ministers behind oil theft –Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari

THE near future of some former ministers and top government officials appears to be behind bars as President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday confirmed that he had started receiving some documents, which showed that they were thieves.
The President vowed that the ex -ministers would be prosecuted based on the indicting documents while the proceeds of their fraud would be repatriated to government coffers from their multiple foreign accounts, which he said were opened for the purpose of laundering money.

Buhari said the documents at his disposal indicted some former ministers and other top government officials of massive fraud, including oil theft.
“Some former ministers were selling about one million barrels per day. I assure you that we will trace and.repatriate such money and use the documents to prosecute them. A lot of damage has been done to the integrity of Nigeria with individuals and institutions already compromised,” the President said.
He spoke at an interactive session with Nigerians in Diaspora at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC, United States of America, as part of his four-day official visit to the country.
He also said that while many Nigerians had nicknamed him “Baba Go Slow” because of the delay in forming his cabinet, he would prefer to be “slow and steady” in taking decisions.
He said the government officials who had been stealing Nigerian oil also opened as many as five bank accounts abroad for the purpose of laundering the money they made from their thievery.
The President said, “We are now looking for evidences of shipping some of our crude, their destinations and where and which accounts they were paid and in which country.
“When we get as much as we can get as soon as possible, we will approach those countries to freeze those accounts.and go to court, prosecute those people and let the accounts be taken to Nigeria.
“The amount of money is mind-boggling but we have started getting documents. We have started getting documents where some of the senior people in government, former ministers, some of them operated as much as five accounts and were moving about one million barrels per day on their own. We have started getting those documents.
“I assure you that whichever documents we are able to get and subsequently trace the sale of the crude or transfer of money from ministries, departments, Central Bank, we will ask for the cooperation of those countries to return those monies to the Federation Accounts.
“And we will use those documents to arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.”
Buhari faulted the mode of operation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, saying his administration would check the excesses of the corporation.
The President restated his position that removal of subsidy would bring more hardship on Nigerians.
He however said he would study the debate and take a decision based on his experience.
He said, “Who is subsiding who? But people are gleefully talking ‘remove subsidy.’ They want petrol to cost N500 per litre.
“If you are working and subsidy is removed, you can’t control transport, you can’t control market women, the cost of food and the cost of transport. “If you are earning N20, 000 per day and you are living in Lagos or Ibadan, the cost of transport to work and back, the cost of food. You cannot control the market women because they have to pay what transporters charge them. “If there is a need for removing subsidy, I will study it. With my experience, I will see what I can do. But I am thinking more than half of Nigerians cannot afford to live without subsidy.
“Where will they get the money to go to work? How will they feed their families? How will they pay rent? If Nigeria were not an oil producing country, all well and good. “Our refineries are not working. We have a lot of work to do.”
Buhari decried those he said had started calling him “Baba Go Slow” because he has yet to form his cabinet, weeks after his inauguration.
He said, “Within the past two weeks, I am being asked when I am going to form my cabinet. And in some quarters they are now calling me ‘Baba Go Slow.’
“I am going to go slow and steady. Nigerians should be patient to allow this administration put some sense into governance and deal with corruption.”
He also pledged to study the Diaspora Bill with a view to signing it into law as being demanded by the Nigerians in Diaspora.
The President advised the Nigerians in Diaspora looking for government jobs back home to suspend their ambition,
saying the national economy was in a bad shape and that it would take his administration about 18 months or more to resuscitate it.
He, however, promised that some of them would be engaged by the Federal Government as consultants to enable them to contribute their quota to national development.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, later issued a statement quoting Buhari as saying that his administration would trace the accounts of individuals who stashed away ill-gotten oil money, freeze and recover the loot and prosecute the culprits.
The statement read in part, “Corruption in Nigeria has virtually developed into a culture where honest people are abused.
“250,000 barrels per day of Nigerian crude are being stolen and people sell and put the money into individual accounts.
“The United States and other developed countries are helping us to trace such accounts now. We will ask that such accounts be frozen and prosecute the persons. The amount involved is mind-boggling.” One former minister, who served in the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, in his reaction on Wednesday, said Buhari was not a frivolous person and that his allegations against former ministers should not be
trivialised.
The ex-minister however added that it was only former ministers who had access to oil that could have been engaged in the stealing of the product.
The minister, who is from the South-West, but who asked not to be named, told our correspondent that Buhari, being a cautious leader, could not have made a general statement tagging all ex-ministers as crude oil thieves.
“It is only someone who has access to oil that could steal it. I won’t believe that the President made a general statement
calling all ex-ministers thieves. The President Buhari that I know doesn’t speak anyhow. This is a serious allegation that we should not trivialise,” he said.
Also a former junior minister, also from the South-West geo-political zone, told one of our correspondents on the phone late on Wednesday that he could not defend anybody because he did not know those that Buhari was accusing.
“I don’t want to react because I am not sure about those the President is accusing of stealing oil. I don’t even think it concerns me; its people like (former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani) Alison-Madueke that you should be talking to. By the way, you know I came late to the whole thing,” the former minister of state said.

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Parents, candidates protest as UNILAG defends cut-off marks

A cross-section of parents and UTME candidates protesting against the University of Lagos cut-off marks in Lagos...on Wednesday. | credits: Charles Abah

Hundreds of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates on Wednesday morning stormed the University of Lagos to protest against the decision of the institution to stop them from doing the forthcoming post-UTME.
The candidates alleged that the authorities of university, in liaison with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, had rolled out a new admission procedure that prevented them from taking the examination to secure admission into the ivory tower.
Their allegation comes as UNILAG and JAMB defended their different positions in the exercise.
The Head of Public Relations, JAMB, Dr. Benjamin Fabian, said the board did not intentionally exclude any candidate.
He said, “We are only trying to ensure that candidates have better chances for admission this year unlike what obtained in the past. This time around, we do not want to wait till universities end their first choice admissions. We do not want some candidates to forfeit their admission easily. By next week, we shall release the national distribution list that will open more opportunities for them.”
The Registrar, UNILAG, Dr. Taiwo Ipaye, said the university was only working with the post- UTME screening list sent by JAMB.
According to her, only candidates whose names were forwarded to the University of Lagos by JAMB are eligible for the 2015/2016 post-UTME screening.
Meanwhile, many of the candidates, who came with their parents, had converged on the university entrance as early as 7am, chanting solidarity songs and demanding the removal of the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde.
Their action not only caused gridlock at the entrance of the university, it later resulted in the closure of the gate.
The protesters, led by the President, Association of Tutorial School Operators of Nigeria, Mr. Sodunke Oludotun, later forced their way into the university.
According to the protesters, the university upped its cut-off to 250 marks against the recommended 180 marks by JAMB.
JAMB, on July 14 had after its sixth consultative meeting with stakeholders in Abuja, pegged the cut-off mark to 180
for candidates seeking university admission and 150 marks for those seeking places in polytechnics and colleges of education.
Oludotun, who spoke to our correspondent, described the upping of the cut-off marks at UNILAG as illegal.
He said, “Contrary to Prof. Dibu Ojerinde’s announcement of 180 as a minimum score, UNILAG has started selling post- UTME form for only the candidates that scored 250 and above and thereby putting the lives of about 24, 000 qualified and prospective candidates in a state of uncertainty and despair. We are protesting to call the attention of the Federal Government to this injustice.”

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