Empress Njamah stuns in new photos

 Empress Njamah shared these gorgeous photos of her in traditional outfit. In her last photo she wrote:

"Friendship is like a book, it takes few seconds to BURN, but it takes YEARS 2 WRITE!" A fan responded to her caption by referencing the fire service, lol...More photos after the cut..

Four-month-old baby dies during Cathay Pacific flight from London to Hong Kong

A four-month-old girl died while travelling on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from London to Hong Kong on Sunday.The infant is believed to have been suffering from a gastrointestinal disease when the family boarded the plane at Heathrow that day.
The four month old baby girl fell unconscious during the flight and her parents - who were planning on visiting relatives in China, alerted cabin crew immediately. Another passenger who was a nurse and saw what was going on started giving first aid to the baby.

The pilot made an emergency landing at Almaty Airport in Kazakhstan and paramedics rushed to the scene.
But the baby could not be saved and she was pronounced dead soon after the emergency landing.

The baby's mother who is believed to be a 36-year-old Chinese-French national and her father continued their journey to Hong Kong with their dead child.

Fellow passengers said they were distraught during the rest of the flight.

The baby's death was confirmed by officials but is not being treated as suspicious. A post-mortem examination hasn't been conducted yet.

A doctor told Apple Daily that parents should avoid taking sick babies onto planes because of a lack of medical support that could lead to very dangerous situations on board.


Source: The Sun

Senators unanimously reject proposed loan to buy their vehicles, say they are not interested

The Senate in Abuja yesterday, revealed, that senators unanimously rejected the proposed loan to buy their vehicles, adding that none of the 108 lawmakers wanted any part in it.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Senate Services, Senator Ibrahim Gobir, who spoke to journalists yesterday said the upper chamber never spent over N4 billion to purchase 108 cars for lawmakers, adding that only 36 SUVs were bought at the cost of N36.5 million each.


He said:

“We had a close session and they agreed that we should give one car per state; we sat down and agreed on who among the three senators from each state needs the car most and that was what happened.”

Source: Vanguard

Saraki releases statement, denies plans to disrupt his ongoing trial at CCT

Read the press statement below...

The attention of the Media Office of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has been drawn to a press statement released by a group known as the Citizen United For Peace and Stability (CUPS), Titled Security Alert! - Bukola Saraki finally declares war on the Nigerian Senate.
 

The report by CUPS stated that some unnamed sources told them that Senator Bukola Saraki has made plans to disrupt his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) by making use of thugs through some key personalities from Kwara State.

The statement is false, malicious and aimed at further denigrating the hard-earned image of Senator Bukola Saraki after their planned sponsored protest failed through earlier awareness to the general public of their sinister moves.

It is worrisome that aggrieved politicians opposed to Saraki's emergence as the Senate President, having failed to remove him, now resort to cheap blackmail by concocting lies under the disguise of "unidentified sources ".

The individuals mentioned in the statement to be planning the sinister move, are prominent Nigerians who respect the rule of law and stand strongly behind the Senate President. In this regard, this is a cheap attempt to intimidate supporters of the Senate President.

It will be recalled that this same mischievous group called CUPS had earlier circulated messages at different times requesting for funds for different non existent political gatherings.

The CUPS has been in the habit of peddling falsehood and deceiving unsuspecting Nigerians as the body has not lived up to its name of maintaining 'peace' and 'stability.'

Senator Bukola Saraki is a law abiding citizen who has demonstrated the utmost respect for the judicial system by taking the pain to attend and defend himself at the Tribunal even though the  trial is believed to be borne out of malice and political persecution.

Moreover, Senator Saraki, despite his  trial at the CCT has continued to perform his constitutional duties as the Senate President elected by his peers.

It is therefore a gratuitous insult to the Office of the Senate President, and the personalities of the patrotic and decent individuals mentioned in the concocted lies by this organisation to link them with tales of acts of gangsterism and violation of temple of justice.

This propaganda by his political opponents is not new and we urge law abiding citizens to disregard the body, its sponsors and promoters. This is the time to for everybody to forget our narrow, self-serving interest, dissuade the manipulation of state institutions to achieve personal and partisan objectives and ensure that rule of law prevails as prerequisite towards the entrenchment of our democratic tenets.

Signed:
Bamikole Omishore
SA (New Media)
Office Of The Senate President.

The Authority Newspaper Today April 20th, 2016

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Firefighter gets in trouble after his wife's breastfeeding photo goes viral

A photographer Tara Ruby released a series of photos dedicated to working moms who breastfeed, unfortunately, the husband of one of the women featured has received backlash at work. The New Mexico firefighter may be put on unpaid leave because his wife was wearing his uniform while breastfeeding.

A spokesman for the Lac Cruces Fire Department said the issue was a personal matter hence would not comment on the matter, but he said that the city does not have a specific policy regarding breastfeeding. He also confirmed the fire department’s “policy on uniforms does not specifically mention spouses, nor is it clear whether or not spouses may wear the uniforms,”, so it’s unclear what the actual issue with the photo is.

Ruby said:

"There's no difference than, say, somebody dressing up in a clown suit and doing it,". "It's the exact same thing. It's just that there's a story behind this photo and that it's a powerful one, and maybe one that not everybody's ready to hear."

Ruby said she feels like the controversy is taking a step back in the fight to normalize breastfeeding. Adding:

"We are pushing the boundary between a male-dominated role and where we're bringing femininity into that position," Ruby said. "And if we want to be a firefighter or a police officer or even active duty military, we can do that and we still have the rights as a mom to breastfeed our child."

Source: KUTWN

World's oldest dog dies peacefully, sleeping in her basket

Maggie the Kelpie, believed to be the world's oldest dog, died while sleeping in her basket on Sunday night. Maggie's owner was an Australian dairy farmer, Brian McLaren. Maggie was 30 years old at the time of her death which is approximately 200 years old in human years.
According to her owner, Maggie had been sick on Friday and died on Sunday