An electrical fire was on Thursday morning reported at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
An eyewitness said the fire emanated from some cables, which apparently melted under heat, as some welders were working at the extension of Arrival ‘D’ Wing of the international airport.
Airport officials swiftly cut off power supply to the arrival and departure halls, in order to forestall any untoward development and isolated the scene of the spark.
Billows of smoke were observed rising to the sky from behind the arrival hall.
Fire fighters were also deployed in the affected area and were able to put the situation under control.
Securitymen also erected a metal barricade around the site.
Power supply was restored to the airport terminal within a few minutes.
Flight operations were, however, not affected while the incident lasted.
However, there was a stampede as shouts of “fire, fire, fire†rent the air.
Also, some passengers missed their flights while the incident led to heavy traffic congestion on roads leading to the airport.
The General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Mr. Yakubu Dati, confirmed the incident in a statement.
He said the fire, which started at about 11.30a.m beside the ‘D’ Wing extension, was caused by welders working at the site.
It reads, “The prompt intervention of the fire service attached to the airport immediately brought the fire under control. There were no casualties.
“The only fall out of the incident was the switching off of the power source which has since been restored.
“Normal activities at the Airport which were not interrupted by the fire have continued as planes are taking off and landing without hitches.
“FAAN commends the rapid response of the officers and men of its Fire Department and other relevant agencies for restoring normalcy.
“We remain committed to providing secure, safe and comfortable airport environment as enshrined in the aviation master plan.â€
In a separate incident, a cargo plane blew off the roof of a parking lot at the airport on Wednesday night, causing damage to some cars.
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An electrical fire was on Thursday morning reported at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
An eyewitness said the fire emanated from some cables, which apparently melted under heat, as some welders were working at the extension of Arrival ‘D’ Wing of the international airport.
Airport officials swiftly cut off power supply to the arrival and departure halls, in order to forestall any untoward development and isolated the scene of the spark.
Billows of smoke were observed rising to the sky from behind the arrival hall.
Fire fighters were also deployed in the affected area and were able to put the situation under control.
Securitymen also erected a metal barricade around the site.
Power supply was restored to the airport terminal within a few minutes.
Flight operations were, however, not affected while the incident lasted.
However, there was a stampede as shouts of “fire, fire, fire†rent the air.
Also, some passengers missed their flights while the incident led to heavy traffic congestion on roads leading to the airport.
The General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Mr. Yakubu Dati, confirmed the incident in a statement.
He said the fire, which started at about 11.30a.m beside the ‘D’ Wing extension, was caused by welders working at the site.
It reads, “The prompt intervention of the fire service attached to the airport immediately brought the fire under control. There were no casualties.
“The only fall out of the incident was the switching off of the power source which has since been restored.
“Normal activities at the Airport which were not interrupted by the fire have continued as planes are taking off and landing without hitches.
“FAAN commends the rapid response of the officers and men of its Fire Department and other relevant agencies for restoring normalcy.
“We remain committed to providing secure, safe and comfortable airport environment as enshrined in the aviation master plan.â€
In a separate incident, a cargo plane blew off the roof of a parking lot at the airport on Wednesday night, causing damage to some cars.
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Mr Yakubu Dati, General Manager, Corporate Communications, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), on Thursday said that there was a minor fire outbreak at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
Dati, who said this in a news release made available to aviation correspondents, added that the fire lasted for about 15 minutes.
He said that prompt intervention of the fire service attached to the airport immediately brought the fire under control.
“There were no casualty. The only fallout of the incident was the switching off of the power source which has since been restored.
Normal activities at the airport which were not interrupted by the fire have continued as planes are taking off and landing without hitches.
“We remain committed to providing secure, safe and comfortable airport environment as enshrined in the aviation master plan, “ he said.
Dati commended the rapid response of the officers and men of the fire department and other relevant agencies for restoring normalcy at the airport.
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An Indian man has spent nine months living in a TREE because his wife refuses to say sorry for cheating on him.
The man, known only as Sanjay, walked in on his partner and a next-door neighbour in their Mumbai home.
And when she refused to apologise he climbed a nearby guava tree and has been there ever since.
The 25-year-old has survived on a diet of fruit from the tree and food handed up by relatives.
“He eats and sleeps on the tree and even relieves himself from there,” his sister told The Asian Age newspaper. Police have said they can’t intervene because he hasn’t committed an offence.
A spokesman for Cholapur police confirmed: “The man is on a tree top for the last nine months over some domestic dispute.”
Sanjay’s wife has since returned to live with her parents and has still not said sorry.
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Please say a prayer for our sister, Kechi who survived the Sosoliso plane crash in 2005. Her mother just disclosed that she has gone into surgery for the next part of her facial surgery. Let us pray that God will be the surgeon in that operating room today.
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Some Lagos bus drivers and conductors really need psychiatric check. The guy pictured above is Ibrahim, a conductor of a commercial bus in the city. During a fight with an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, he got so mad that he naked himself.
Sadly, he ended up stabbing the official, identified as Akingbohungbe Olalekan in the head… I hear the unruly conductor has been charged to court.
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Somewhere in Maitama, Abuja, Usman (not real name) was walking down the street and having a phone conversation when he was accosted by two young women dressed in skimpy clothing. Usman asked the other person on the line to hold on while he attended to the ladies standing in front of him.
“How far, Alhaji? Do you want a good time,†one of them purred demurely. The young man, realizing that he was talking to commercial sex workers, also known as ‘hookers’, hurriedly left the spot, even as the provocatively-attired duo stepped up their strides. Usman eventually bolted in a run and dashed into a neighbour’s house, panting. “When I told my friend about it, he wasn’t even surprised. Instead, he made jokes about the prostitutes’ ‘aggressive marketing’,†Usman told Weekly Trust. “Apparently, he had encountered them before, and he said he was in the company of his wife, for God’s sake!â€
In Wuse II, the story is not much different, and actually a bit more alarming. A banker who preferred to go by the name Segun said whenever he closes early from work, which is rare, he usually enjoys an evening stroll along Ademola Adetokumbo Street, a fairly busy area. Segun said: “But I had to stop, as some weeks ago, a small gang of indecently dressed women loitering around a major supermarket where whistling to me and making sexual offers, in-between chewing gum. There were about four of them and even a child would know that their dressing is not proper.†Segun said he walked on and has never taken an evening stroll since. “Imagine what would happen if, at the exact moment I’m passing them and they’re heckling me, someone I know sees the interaction? You know us, it would be re-interpreted that I was soliciting for their services. My wife-to-be would kill me!â€
In Area 11, Garki, prostitutes are normal fixtures, perhaps due to the fact that it remains one of the staunchest red light areas in the capital. Strewn with dozens of ‘joints,’ the streets of Area 11 provide shelter and recreation for commercial sex workers, as well as much-needed clientele. There, it is clear that roadside prostitution in Abuja is at its peak. Reports from Wuse Zone 4, Central Area and others paint a picture where residents are regularly harassed by desperate sex workers.
If it’s a crime, how come no positive action has been taken against it? A police source told Weekly Trust that while men of the force carry out arrests, it is not easy as some of the sex workers pose as decent girls simply out to have fun. “There’s an instance when some of my colleagues arrested some girls – obviously prostitutes – and in the morning their people came to bail them, threatening to sue us,†he said. There is a blurry line which makes arrests rather tricky, as ‘normal’ girls also dress like hookers due to latest fashion trends from America and the rest. “The society rejects it, yet its practice refuses to be ignored. The rate at which young girls are being recruited into the business everyday is alarming,†added our source.
Then DSP Moshood Jimoh, FCT PPRO told Weekly Trust that it is not easy to curb the alarming trend, as some of the arrested prostitutes actually have normal day jobs and only moonlight as hookers. He said: “When we arrest them, the charge is Public Nuisance, which is usually furthered in court if it involves someone not gainfully employed. But these girls, as it would turn out, lead double lives and actually have jobs, and that gets them off the hook.â€
A legal practitioner, Nnena, commented thusly: “I don’t think it is a crime because there is no written law about prostitution being a crime, there could be but, I haven’t come across any particular law that states that prostitution is a crime. I think they get harassed because of indecent dressing. Morally speaking, prostitution cannot be justified, however you look at it.â€
Poverty seems to be the key propeller of prostitution. A majority of the sex workers Weekly Trust spoke to are from the lower class of the society. A resident of Wuse Zone 6, who gave her name as Amina, said: “To think that in this lot is one’s dear sister, aunty and worse even, someone’s assumed innocent daughter, is an unthinkable thought.â€
It doesn’t end there. After a little back-and-forth, Weekly Trust was able to gather from a hooker who preferred to be unnamed. She said: “I am a student of University of Abuja. I need the money to help myself. In a week, I make at least N30,000. It is the only way to survive.†But prostitution gets more serious for the provider and the solicitor, because there are lots of risks involved. For instance, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are numerous and rampant.
Curiously, some of the prostitutes claim to be assaulted by policemen. “At times, we get arrested by policemen, though the customers don’t get arrested with us. But we always bail ourselves, at times with money, but most times by performing sexual favours on the policemen,†said one of the hookers. “That is not true,†DSP Jimoh said. “They will naturally want to soil the image of the police in order to gain public sympathy and to be left to continue their trade,†he told Weekly Trust.
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where young attractive girls bare it all every night of the week. The four nude clubs are Wallstreet, Club Unique, Magic City and Cazzbah. Wallstreet is located at 70B Allen Avenue while Club Uniquen is on Ogundana Street off Allen Avenue. Magic City formerly Ocean Blue, is adjacent to Sweet Sensation Bus Stop Opebi and Cazzbah is adjacent to Opebi Bus Stop.
On Fridays and Saturdays of every week, these four exclusive adult spots are filled to capacity with Magic City drawing the biggest crowd because of the ingenuity of the owners especially on Fridays, where sex is practiced on stage by two female dancers who use artificial sex organs to entertain the faithful crowd. Apart from Cazzbah, where the gate fee is N2000 everyday of the week, in the other places, it is N1000 between Sunday and Thursday and N2000 on Fridays and Saturdays.
The daily show usually starts at about 8 O’clock and gets to its crescendo around 11 pm when the hall is filled to the brim. The belly dancers cover their bodies with only panties and gradually undress as they dance around a pole until they are stark naked, to the delight of the patrons who show appreciation by throwing money at them. The more money is thrown, the more the exotic dancers display. The halls are generally filled with men and some ladies who come either with other men or with fellow ladies to enjoy the show.
A patron can request for a lap dance and pay only N1000. The exotic dancer then sits on his lap, touching him and dancing with the ultimate motive of creating arousal. There are also cabins and VIP rooms where a patron can decide to go a step further with the girl. It costs between N12, 000 and N20, 000 with the dancer collecting 60 percent of the money and 40 percent going to the management. A cabin is a very small room with one chair where the patron sits and the VIP has a large bed, a TV room, a toilet and some condoms. At the VIP room and cabin, phone numbers can be exchanged for further interactions.
The exotic dancers are usually between the ages of 18 and 25. Usually tall and light in complexion, they give only their sobriquets. They easily take other ladies to the cabin or the VIP if they can pay. It is the same price for both men and women. The girls resume work at 6 pm. They are free to go wherever they want between 7 am and 6 pm. The drinks and hot meals are usually available and most times, go for between N500 and N10, 000 for the drinks and N1500 to N5000 for the meals. Here, the ladies dance to all kinds of musical rhythms.
At Magic City and Wallstreet, adult movies are shown on displayed screens while the ladies are dancing. The show usually ends at about 5 o’clock the next day. Ocean Blue, now Magic City, was shut down last year by the Lagos State Government which claimed that the management of the club was not given a licence to operate a strip club, but the club has now reopened and changed its name and is operating unchallenged by the state government.
Codewit new learnt that at Oba Akran, there is a new nude club that opened two weeks ago and is drawing dancers from Wallstreet. In other parts of Ikeja, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, there are several similar clubs which attract mainly young girls in search of money. University students are also among them. As poverty bites harder, more girls, some underage, join the mad dance for easy money. “If I see a better job, I will leave this one, I need money, I have to raise money to go back to school,†one of the dancers told Codewit News.
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Olivia Culpo, the 20-year-old Miss USA and former Miss Rhode Island, won the Miss Universe pageant on Wednesday night in Las Vegas, becoming the first American to do so since 1997.
The Boston University sophomore outlasted 88 other competitors. Miss Philippines, Janine Tugonon, came in second, and Miss Venezuela, Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, finished third.
“What an honor! This night was a dream come true. Thank you everyone for your support tonight!! USA finally did it!” Culpo wrote on Twitter after the competition ended.
The U.S. drought in the competition had gone back 15 years. The last American to win was Hawaii’s Brook Lee.
With Culpo earning her new title, Miss Maryland, Nana Meriwether, now becomes the new Miss USA.
Culpo had told the Boston Herald this week, before she won, that the Miss Universe competition was a whole different challenge than Miss USA. “For Miss USA, I felt more pressure to be lean,” she said. “Here, they’re bigger and taller. The look of Miss Universe is more voluptuous.”
On Thursday, Culpo was ready to embrace everything that comes with the Miss Universe title. “Rise and shine!!” she wrote on Twitter. “Makeup time with @Yukyan51 for a long day of media. Ready for day one of #MissUniverse life :)”
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Finland’s government said cuts to its defense forces won’t hamper the country’s ability to defend itself as the likelihood of an extensive military conflict has lessened.
“International networking and closer cooperation are a priority,†Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen said at a briefing in Helsinki today after the government published its security and defense policy report. “Finland’s borders and sovereignty will be defended and a strong domestic defensive ability will be upheld.â€
Finland, together with neighboring Sweden, isn’t a part of any military alliance. It shares a 1,340 kilometer (833 miles) border with Russia after fighting wars against the Soviet Union in 1939-1940 and 1940-1944. Norway and Denmark, as well as the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Finland is shuttering garrisons as its aging population and technological improvements mean fewer recruits need training each year. The cuts will also help reduce its budget deficit.
Finland retains the option of seeking NATO membership, even as the government isn’t preparing an application, the report said. The government has engaged in training and exercises within NATO’s Partnership for Peace program since 1994. Its defense forces’ equipment is increasingly compatible with the bloc’s, as it has participated in NATO-led peace-keeping missions.
UN Missions
Finland has taken part in United Nations’ peace keeping missions since 1956 and currently has 177 troops in Lebanon and 141 in Afghanistan, according to the defense forces’ website.
Its conscription-based defense forces will have war-time reserves of 230,000 troops by 2015 to defend a population of 5.4 million and Europe’s fifth-biggest land mass, about the size of Germany’s, according to the CIA Factbook. The report, published approximately every three to four years, sets out the guidelines for Finnish security policy.
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