Dai Yue Qin, better
known as Miss Dyq, is the Queen of long hair in China. Born in April 1964 in Tong Xiang (Zhejiang province, South China), she began to grow long hair at about 14. Everybody admired her two long and thick black shiny braids so she decided to cut it off never. After graduation she worked in
a carpet factory in Suzhou for 10 years, then returned to her hometown and worked at a big hotel. As her hair-length of 3,30 meters raised more and more attraction she joined several long hair competitions and has won prizes till now. In 2001 she moved to the U.S. where her friend lives. In 2005 she visited her family and friends in China and again attended some contests and long hair shows. It takes her about 1 to 2 hours to comb her tresses which are 420 cm in length now (almost 14 feet!). The washing of that shiny flood of hair needs 5 to 6 hours every two weeks. NL, how do you see this
Eagle-eyed operatives of Imo State Police Command last Wednesday arrested two suspected kidnappers and freed a woman they abducted from Igwuruta, Rivers State.
Confirming this to Vanguard, yesterday, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Vitalis Onugu, a deputy superintendent of police, said that “in the early hours of last Wednesday, four armed men stormed the home of Mrs. Linus Okechi situated along Farm Road, Igwuruta, Rivers State, when she was about taking her children to school”.
According to the PPRO, the armed hoodlums quickly ordered her into her Honda CRV RAV4 vehicle and took her away.
“They drove from Igwuruta to Imo and on getting to Ihiagwa, Owerri West local government area, policemen on stop and search flagged them down but they refused to stop. Sensing that something was amiss, the policemen pursued them,” the PPRO recounted.
Onugu recalled that the hoodlums ran into a traffic gridlock and on realizing that the police was closing in on them, jumped out of the vehicle and ran into a nearby bush.
“The police still defied odds and ran after the fleeing gangsters. Their effort paid off as two of the four fleeing kidnappers were arrested,” Onugu said.
He gave the names of the arrested suspects as Josiah Michael, a motor mechanic, and native of Etche, Rivers State, and Ifeanyi Ezeala from Umuowa, Orlu, Imo State.
“The woman was rescued alive and unhurt, while the two suspects have been transferred to Rivers State Police Command for further investigation and possible prosecution,” the PPRO said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Baba Adisa Bolanta, has appealed to youths to resist every temptation that would lure them into crime.
Bolanta, who spoke in a telephone interview, also warned that the police would not take kindly to anybody or group of persons that proferred to take to crime instead of being useful to themselves and society.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/imo-police-arrest-2-kidnap-suspects-rescue-woman/
National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control said in Abuja on Thursday that it had established toll-free platform for feedback on adverse drug reactions.Coordinator, National Pharmacovigilance Centre of NAFDAC, Mrs. Adeline Osakwe, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.She urged MTN, Etisalat and Glo subscribers to text messages to 20543.Osakwe advised the public to regard such reports as important, stressing that the information would facilitate the agency’s work in safeguarding the health of Nigerians.She said, “If we get 1,000 reports and only one is genuine, we won’t mind.“We want people to report as much as possible so that we will begin to document what is happening to Nigerians when they use certain medicines.“For instance, if you take a drug for stomach ache and you react to it, you could just text `I took this medicine and my stomach is on fire.“When the information gets to us, we will call and interview you to get additional information that will enable us to determine whether it is actually an adverse drug reaction.“If it is serious, we can refer the person to a hospital because we do not do clinical management of problem, we do documentation.“This information will help us to assist the person and the general public because with the information we get, we get to know the people that should not take certain medicines.”
About 20 people are feared to have been killed and several others injured on Wednesday in separate sectarian crises in two local government areas in Plateau State.
While 18 people died at Wadatan Garga in Wase LGA and two at Du in Jos South LGA in similar circumstances, about 20 houses were razed at Dompar and Kurmin Dashe communities in the area.
The fights reportedly began in Wase council area, when the corpse of a man said to be Taroh by tribe, believed to have been killed by the Fulani, was found.
A reprisal attack on some Fulani men, came on the heels of this as the men were returning from a market at Wadatan Garga, leaving nine of them dead.
Also one person was left dead and another wounded after an attack on the residence of a Fulani man in Du District of Jos South Local Government Area. This provoked a reprisal as some natives returning from a nearby village were ambushed and one of them was killed while others were injured.
The killings were confirmed by the Chairman of Transition Committee of Wase Local Government Area, Alhaji Zakari Mohammed, who said soldiers have been drafted to the area to restore peace and prevent an escalation of the problem.
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The Federal Government yesterday set up an 11-man committee to probe the rot in Police Colleges.
The committee will also ascertain the amount of money appropriated for the police to renovate and upgrade the police institutions between 2009 and 2012.
Director, Special duties in the Police Affairs Ministry is the head of the probe team raised by Police Affairs Minister Omoniyi Olubolabe.
The committee has one week to submit its report.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the Police College in Lagos after Channels Television exposed the rot in the school.
Members of the committee are: Rep. of NPF-Vice Chairman, Director, Finance and Account-Member, Director, PID-Member, Director, PSD-Member, 3 Nos. Representatives of NPF-Member, Legal Adviser-Member, Head of Budget Division-Member, Head of Internal Audit-Member, Head of External Audit-Member and Secretary-PRS.
The committee’s term of reference are:
•To ascertain the amount of funds appropriated by the Federal Government of Nigeria to the NPF for renovations/upgrade of the Nigeria Police Institutions between 2009 and 2012 and total donations received in the period under review.
•To examine the budget proposed/appropriated by NPF for the Training Institutions between 2009 and 2012
•To verify the utilisation of the appropriation to the NPF for the upgrade of facilities in the following Police Training Institutions.
•Detective College Enugu;
•PMF Training Schools Gwoza and
•Illa Oragun, ATS Training School, Nonwa Tai;
•Police Colleges Ikeja, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Oji-River, PTS Iperu.
•To ascertain if the Heads of the NPF Formations were regularly updating the NPF Management on the conditions of the Institutions between 2009 – 2012 and what actions were taken by the Management of NPF sequel to such;
•To examine the design and capacity of the institutions vis-à-vis the current number of intakes;
•To examine the current condition of infrastructure in all the NPF training institutions and make appropriate recommendations to Government;
•To consider any other matter relevant.
Olubolade said his ministry and the police management team will address the rot in police colleges in the country without delay.
He spoke to reporters after a meeting with Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar at the Force Headquarters yesterday. ,The minister said the matter is of priority to the government.
Olubolade said the meeting with the IGP centred on how to fix the decay in police colleges and how to tackle the rising wave of terrorism, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the land.
The minister said: “We looked at the training of policemen and the training institutions not only on police colleges because solving the problem of police colleges alone is not enough.
“We will solve the problem of police colleges and that of other training institutions including the Police Academy in Kano as well as the Staff College in Jos.
“Once we address those issues, we will be making better progress. So, if you ask me, this meeting was aimed at repositioning the police to attend to training matters. To attend to operational matters so that this year, we will see a better policing in Nigeria police.”
“Nigerians should expect a highly professional police force that will stand up and face the challenges that are confronting our nation. And to do that, I have to constantly meet with the management team headed by the IGP who is here with me as many times as possible.
“This is to ensure that we are on course with our plan, to ensure that whatever we asked for to make the police force more efficient, is given to us. It is also to ensure that we are making progress in fighting crime, criminality and terrorism.
“Like I said, I am here to follow up on what I have just spoken about; to interact with the IGP and his management team, to look at lapses that may exist and how we will surmount them because it is a joint effort and I think it is critical to do that.
“The IGP is making some progress in certain areas and I will also have to look at them”.
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/govt-raises-11-man-panel-to-probe-police-colleges-rot/
We all knew this was eventually coming, but it's now official. Symbian on Nokia is dead.
Nokia managed to send off the once might platform in style. The 808 PureView will go down in
history as the last Symbian device by the Finnish manufacturer.
Nokia announced the news alongside its great Q4 results today, which showed $585 million profit and $10.83 billion in revenue.
Symbian OS on Nokia devices has played a key part in the smartphone game over the past ten years, but its significance was
severely reduced once the touchscreen revolution started. Some of the most notable phones to come out of Nokia were powered by Symbian - beginning with the 9210 Communicator. The Nokia E61 started a messenger phone hype that peaked with the E71, making Symbian OS the only viable competitor to the then strong BlackBerry portfolio of messengers.
Then came the cameraphone era, which gave birth to devices like the Nokia N95 , which was widely regarded as the king of the smartphone hill in its day. The Nokia N8 came at a time when Symbian was rapidly sliding into irrelevancy but still made a huge splash among camera-lovers with its large sensor and superb image quality. Heck we loved snapping photos with it and it's still the most popular smartphone in our database with over 25 million hits.
Nokia began a shift towards Windows Phone in the beginning of 2011 and starting now Redmond's mobile OS is Nokia's only smartphone platform.
www.gsmarena.com/the_808_pureview_is_the_last_symbian_by_nokia_an_end_of_an_era-news-5400.php
It was a great run...RIP Symbian 
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday set new deposit limits for all categories of account holders and introduced three-tier Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements for banks.
The policy pegs a maximum single deposit amount of N20,000 and maximum cumulative balance of N200,000 at any point in time on the Low Value Account. It also places a maximum single deposit of N50,000 and a maximum cumulative balance of N400,000 on the Medium Value Account. However for the High Value Account, no limit is placed on cumulative balance.
The policy also categorised bank customers into Low Value Accounts (Level One); Medium Value Accounts (Level two) and High Value Accounts (Level three).
A circular to all banks and other financial institutions (OFIs) signed by CBN Director, Financial Policy and Regulation, Chris Chukwu, explained that the policy became exigent after the CBN recognised that access to basic banking facilities and other financial services is necessary in achieving the policy on financial inclusion. He advised banks to adopt the new KYC requirement adding that the proposed deposit limits is meant to reduce the risk of money laundering and financing of terrorism.
He said the Low Value Accounts are subject to close monitoring by the financial institutions and less scrutiny by bank examiners.
The CBN director said the accounts could be opened at branches of banks by a prospective customer or through banking agents and no amount is required for its opening. However, such accounts prohibit international funds transfer.
According to him, the Medium Value Accounts can be opened face to face at any branch of a bank by agents for enterprises or by the account holder but, the accounts are strictly savings with no amount required for its opening. Also, where cross-checking of client’s identity cards information is not completed at the point of account opening, withdrawal would be denied.
Chukwu added that for the High-Value Accounts, banks are required to obtain, verify and maintain copies of all the required documents for accounts opening. Account is to be opened at the bank branches by physical presence of the prospective customer and the accounts could be both savings and current.
However, for mobile banking products, the account attracts a maximum transaction limit of N100, 000 and daily limit of N1 million however, such products are subject to the CBN Regulatory Framework for Mobile Payments Services in Nigeria.
He said that banks are required to have robust, effective and efficient anti-money laundering /combating the financial terrorism (AML/CFT) solutions with screening tools in place that will monitor the various thresholds. “All accounts, no matter how low the transaction or the risks, must be subjected to continuous suspicious transactions monitoring by financial institutions which will determine when incremental KYC requirements need to be provided by the customers,” he said.
He said the CBN will ensure the establishment of appropriate processes and procedures for the purpose of monitoring compliance with the regulatory framework. He added that non-compliant financial institutions would be sanctioned in line with the provisions of extant laws and regulations. He said 64.1 per cent representing 56.3 million adult Nigerians do not have access to financial services, hence the policy is also meant to bridge the gap.
