Photos: Army intercepts 92 armed herdsmen at check-points, recovers deadly weapons and charms

Army intercepts 92 armed herdsmen at check-points, recovers deadly weapons and charms

 

 The Guards Brigade of the Nigerian Army on Monday, April 18, paraded 36 armed herdsmen who were intercepted by troops of the 117 Guards Battalion Keffi along the Abuja-Keffi road on Sunday. 56 other herdsmen were arrested at the Dantata check point between Kuje and the Abuja airport.

According to the spokesman of the brigade, Captain Bashir Jajira, the 36 herdsmen were arrested by troops at the Keffi check point at about 4:30 pm Sunday, April 16, in a Diana Truck and a Toyota Camry Salon car.
He said during interrogation by troops at the check point, the herdsmen said they were going to Nasarawa LGA of Nasarawa State. Jajira said after a thorough check of the vehicles, the troops discovered one pump action gun, 19 cartridges of dane guns, 118 cartridges of ammo, 28 cutlasses, three jack-knives, 14 sticks, seven torches, assorted charms and hard drugs.

He also said the other group of 56 herdsmen were arrested at the Dantata check point between Kuje and the airport in the Gwagwalada area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

He said items recovered from them include 26 cartridge dane guns and 49 cutlasses and knives. Jajira added that all the suspects claimed to be on the lookout for cattle rustlers who stole their cows. Captain Jajira said the suspects would be handed over to the police for further investigation.

The Commander, Guards Brigade, Brigadier General Musa Yusuf, told newsmen that the arrests showed the determination of the brigade to rid the Federal Capital Territory of any criminal activity.

Source: HQ Nigerian Army

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Back to the Future Alarm Clock Is As Real As It Gets

While real time-travel is obviously not happening anytime soon, with this Back to the Future themed alarm clock, you can go to the future in seven hour eight hour increments by going to sleep. Great Scott!
[CrossleyAcoustics] spent the past few months designing and building this movie-prop worthy alarm clock, and it certainly shows. After designing everything on breadboards, he had custom PCBs made, he modeled the whole thing in Sketchup (first time he’s used it!) and even tried his hand at the sheet metal fabrication after shops quoted him thousands for what he wanted.
The coolest part of the build is that [CrossleyAcoustics] had some detailed drawings that he had made himself… when he was 8 years old. Talk about a plan coming together!


Though we have to admit, one of our favorite real-life BTTF builds has gotta be the Gek: A Modern-day  Mr. Fusion. It’s an old Honda civic fitted with a raw material processor capable of making a natural-gas like fuel from waste products — it just can’t travel through time.

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FAA SUGGESTS $1.9M CIVIL PENALTY AGAINST AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPANY

An October 6th Press Release from the FAA states that SkyPan International, a Chicago based aerial photography company conducted 65 unauthorized operations over a 2+ year period resulting in a $1.9M penalty. This is by far the most severe penalty the FAA has proposed, the previous leader being $18,700 against Xizmo Media which was issued in September.

SkyPan International isn’t your suburban neighbor’s spoiled brat kid who flies his new octocopter through the neighborhood with his HD camera running in hopes to catch…well, you get the idea. SkyPan has been in the aerial photography game for 27 years and was awarded a Section 333 Exemption from the blanket ban of commercial UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) operation from the FAA  in 2015. They also proactively contacted the FAA in 2005, 2008, and 2010 to discuss and suggest technical regulatory parameters. The seemingly civil history between the two entities leaves things in a confusing state, which seems to be par for the course when it comes to UAS.

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THE FAA WANTS YOUR INPUT ON UPCOMING DRONE REGS 

Earlier this week, the US Department of Transportation announced registration would be required for unmanned aerial systems. Yes, drones will be regulated, and right now representatives from the Academy of Model Aircraft, the Air Line Pilots Association, the Consumer Electronics Association and others are deciding which quadcopters, planes, and other aircraft should be exempt from registration.

Now, the US DOT and FAA are looking for consumer’s input. The US DOT is asking the public such questions as:

• Should registration happen at point-of-sale, or after the box is opened?
• Should registration be dependant on serial numbers? If so, how will kits be registered?
• Should certain drones/UAS be excluded from registration? Should weight, speed, maximum altitude, or flight times be taken into account?
• Should registration require a fee?
• Are there any additional ways of encouraging accountability of drone/UAS use?

Comments will be taken until November 6, with the task force assembled by the US DOT providing its regulations by November 20. The hope for all involved parties is that this system of regulation will be in place for the holiday season. One million UAS are expected to be sold by Christmas.

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LEAP MOTION WIRELESSLY CONTROLLING A PROSTHETIC HAND WITH AN ARDUINO

The Leap Motion controller is a rather impressive little sensor bar that is capable of generating a massive 3D point cloud and recognizing hands and fingers to allow for gesture control based computing. It’s been out for a few years now but we haven’t seen many hackers playing with it. [Anwaarullah] has messed around with it before, but when it came time to submit something for India’s first Maker Faire, he decided to try doing an actual project with it.

Checking out the latest Leap Motion SDK, [Anwaarullah] realized many improvements had been made and he’d have to rewrite some of his original code to reflect the changes. This time around he’s opted to use the ESP8266 WiFi module instead of a Bluetooth one. He printed off a Raptor hand (from the wonderful folks at e-NABLE) and hooked it up with some RC servos to give him a nice robotic hand to control.

The actual code being sent to the Arduino is pretty simple. The Leap Motion SDK does all the complex stuff, and in the end, just sends a serial command of how many fingers it sees to the Arduino in order to control the hand.

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DRAGON DOORS ROUND OFF HOBBIT THEMED RESTAURANT

[Abhimanyu Kumar] is renovating a hotel near Nainital, Bangalore, and like any self-respecting Lord of the Ringsfan, he wanted to give the restaurant a Hobbit theme. He built circular windows and to top it off a gorgeous round door complete with dragon hinges.

I asked him how well the doors work, as the 50kg (over 110lbs) weight of each of the doors must put a lot of strain on the hinges. [Abhimanyu] told me, “The door opens quite smoothly.While building the hinges even I was concerned about needing support as all other commercially available hinges we tried broke down or got bent.”

However, once the dragon hinge was installed it worked better that we expected and the door stays about 0.5″ over the ground at all times. The dragon hinges (made from 1/4-inch steel) integrate the hinge pins to the wings of the dragon, making it look like they are taking off when the doors open.

He has posted plenty of pictures of the build and the final product looks incredible.  The tail of the dragon is quite long and provides a lot of support for the entire door. Each hinge itself weighs about 30kg, so it should be strong enough to hold up a door for a long time without any sagging. Kudos to him for some serious engineering!

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CURB OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY WITH EXPENSIVE LED WALL

Hero-Design wants you to make art at work with this mesmerizing contraption and as far as we’re concerned they hit the nail right on the head with the inclusion of LEDs, we’re whores for LEDs. The team over at Hero have come up with an interactive wall of 464 pixels that can be individually controlled to display any of the available colors simply by turning the circular pixel in either direction.

The design is quite elegant with a luxurious color scheme of black on black on black. Until you touch a knob or play an animation, that is. The large wall unit comes with a custom designed animation of your choice along with three other animations (and hopefully instructions to create your own animation from scratch). They have taken some precautions that we’re pleased to see: each pixel has redundant LEDs in the case that one goes out and if the worst happens and the redundant goes up in smoke not to worry, each pixel is easily replaceable due to its modular design.

When it comes to price things get a little far-fetched, the model shown in the pictures and video comes in at a reasonable $25,000 and best we can tell it shows up at your door in the form of a 250lb problem that needs a few fellas worth of solution. If you’re still interested but find yourself saying: “HaD, everything you’re saying is absolutely amazing! The only problem I have is that I need MOAR LEDs! Can I buy a larger version?” Well you’re in luck, they do not technically offer a larger version of the product. They will sell you two of these at a quantity discount which brings the grand total to $50,000. We think this is a steal at twice the price and should be a breeze to hang 500lbs of LEDs without any help.

We covered a BBB + FPGA controlled LED wall before, this may be the first with individual pixel interaction that we’ve seen.

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Official photos from today's ministerial screening

Official photos from today's ministerial screening

The senate today successfully screened Rotimi Amaechi, Claudius Omoyele Daramola, Shehuri Mustapha and Ocholi James. The senate adjourned to October 27th for further screening. More pics from today's screening after the cut..

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Omawumi hangs out with Grammy award winning producer Jerry Wonda

Omawumi hangs out with Grammy award winning producer Jerry Wonda

Africa's Queen Of Live Music Omawumi is a true lady of class with substance. The Diva has recently been dropping hints that's she has is currently working on her next Album via her Instagram handle with harsh tag #JourneyToTheAlbum.

Confirmed Sources say Omawumi who spent months in U.S this year where she gave birth to her bouncing baby Boy, also used the period to work on her album, which features legendary international Artistes and producers. And some days ago, Omawumi flew back to New York and was spotted with Hot 97 OAP Ebro and Grammy Award Winning Producer Jerry Wonda in New York.

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As seen at Lagos airport (photos)

As seen at Lagos airport (photos)

Catering equipment(s) abandoned at the 'Air Side' close to the runway meant for local flights at MMIA in Lagos. Is this good? :-). Can FAAN do something about it? See an up close pic after the cut

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Chivas Taste of Luxury Hosts Olisa Adibua

Chivas Taste of Luxury Hosts Olisa Adibua

Chivas is the world’s first luxury whiskey launched in 1909: and considered to be a timeless classic, renowned for style substance and exclusivity. At the core of the brand values is the notion of success with purpose. Chivas Nigeria expresses the luxury attributes of the brand with the ‘Taste of Luxury’ concept which hosts successful individuals, who have made an impact in their various fields to a night of luxury reinforcing our values. On Saturday 17th of October, at Quilox we host Olisa Adibua to a taste of luxury for his contribution to the media and entertainment industry in Nigeria.

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Lol. CNN makes another mistake when covering Lamar Odom's story

Lol. CNN makes another mistake when covering Lamar Odom's story

CNN hosts on Thursday, discussed the sad story of former NBA player Lamar Odom, who overdosed on drugs in a Nevada brothel and is now in critical condition. However, when they were supposed to show Lamar's photo during their discussion, they showed LaMarcus Aldridge's photo instead of Lamar's. lol. People noticed the error and took to twitter to make fun of CNN.

 LaMarcus Aldridge and Lamar Odom

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22 killed after 4 female suicide bombers attack Maiduguri this morning

22 killed after 4 female suicide bombers attack Maiduguri this morning

No fewer than 22 people have been confirmed dead and several others injured after 4 female suicide bombers attacked Umari village in Maiduguri town, Borno state this morning. This comes barely 12 hours after two male suicide bombers attacked a mosque in Molai community killing no fewer than 30 Muslim faithfuls who had gone to the mosque to pray.

Confirming this morning's attack, a top official of the Civilian-JTF, Khalil Abba said

"At about 5am, four women, all armed with Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) worn under their garments made an attempt to sneak into Maiduguri through same route where last night’s bombers used, were spotted by soldiers who allegedly shot them down when they defied orders to stop advancing. One of the women was however quick to let go the trigger of her explosive, killing herself and injuring about 14 innocent villagers at village near Molai where yesterday’s blasts occurred. The women were seen trying to sneak through the bush paths along the Maiduguri-Biu road, but soldiers at the checkpoint were able to spot them after receiving some vital intelligence from informants. The women refused to obey soldiers orders to halt movement, so the soldiers opened fire on them. One of the women was unfortunately able to detonate her explosive, which triggered the ones on the bodies of the three others that were shot down. The shrapnel from the bullet had however killed many persons and injured about 14 villagers in the nearby community. We have rushed the victims to the hospital where they are currently receiving treatment”.

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Pics: Majek Fashek looking healthier as he performs at Felabration

Pics: Majek Fashek looking healthier as he performs at Felabration

Reggae star, Majek Fashek appears to be doing well, as he looked fresh and healthy while performing at Felabration recently. He has been in an Abuja based Rehab for a while. More photos after the cut...

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Lol. Photo of the day

Lol. Photo of the day

People responsibly queuing up at a bar in London. Can't say the same for Nigeria. If some Nigerians were even present in such bar, there would be no line. Lol.

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Cynthia Morgan replies Caroline Danjuma, says 'the only Danjuma I know is Daisy, who are you again?'

Cynthia Morgan replies Caroline Danjuma, says 'the only Danjuma I know is Daisy, who are you again?'

Earlier today, Caroline Danjuma called out singer Cynthia Morgan for taking a photo of herself carrying a child with a ciga in her mouth for her song cover art...(read here) Cynthia has now replied Caroline. Her reply after the cut...

Then she wrote

"All your yarns is all...Kruzzzz for me#i swear I love u guys.I Cynthia Ik Morgan in this picture...playing both characters as "Rita and "Cynthia"in these pictures.I don't Even Smoke Nor Drink In Real Life��...So save your words for yourselves...ThAnkyou Miss Caroline.We all love kids and want no harm near them.you don't love kids more than I do "Madam"but that Dosent change the world which these kids are in already...in the hands of a bad baby mama(who isn't ready)FYI that is what this picture depicts...you crucify a picture without settling down to even analyze...you should be way smarter than that...why don't you go house to house to see young couples doing drugs right before their kids...I just reached out to the whole world with this one simple act of Art...Those who can connect with it "cool"if you can't???Go back to school...and my music "Baby Mama" is/will change lives of young people....which yA'al these celebrities is making it look cool to them,that being a baby mama/daddy is the new swag..And then again the only Danjuma I know is "Daisy"So remind me,who are you again?

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SHOCKING!! See What Some Respected Nigerian Ladies Do In Dubai

It’s not information that a whole lot of women go away Nigeria and land within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for unlawful companies like prostitution.

These women have all of it going for them, blinking financial institution accounts, good homes and flashy automobiles, because of the lads who’re busy servicing their our bodies for cash.

Two months visa is what these women acquire first earlier than they will safe lodging after which delay their keep within the nation.

See these girls, they pair themselves in a room, some even keep three in a room. So, in case you wish to lower your expenses, you’ll be able to pair with any of them!” One of many Nigerian girls mentioned: “Issues will not be as simple as they was once once I began this enterprise.Don’t be deceived that everybody right here is descent as a result of you might be shocked to your bone marrow at what a few of these ladies make use of Certainly one of customer was surprised to see what was occurring and requested: “What’s happening right here?” The reply from the smiling entrance desk particular person was: “They’re out of your nation, Nigeria. They’re our friends.

There have been some weeks I made about $5,000 from these Arab and European males. “However since extra babes from Nigeria obtained into it, there are such a lot of ‘runs ladies’ in Dubai that for the previous one month, I’ve not made as much as $5,000.

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Prostitutes congratulate Eagles, promise free sex if they get gold

The Association of Nigerian Prostitutes (ANP) has congratulated the Super Eagles of Nigeria for moving on to the Quarter Finals stage of the Orange African Cup of Nations, South Africa 2013, urging them to go for gold.

ANP in a statement issued through its national secretary, Jessica Elvis urged the national team to make the country proud by moving on to the finals and bringing back the trophy.
“We want to congratulate the Nigerian National team, the Super Eagles for qualifying for the next round of the competition. We want to assure them of our usual support and partnership, we want them to bring back our lost glory in football.

Speaking further, Jessica added that the Association would declare one week of free sex if the Eagles win the trophy.
“To show our support for the national team, we’ll be declaring one week free sex if the Super Eagles can win the trophy,” she added.

DailyPost investigation revealed some members of the association are in South Africa ‘supporting’ the national team.

The Super Eagles would be confronting the Ivorian national team, the Elephants in a knockout stage on Sunday.

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