7 Jailable Traffic Offences In Lagos

Under the Lagos Traffic Law of 2012, which will be strictly enforced from Monday by the Traffic Courts, violators of some of the offences can be jailed for some number of months. Below are the seven offences that offenders can either be fined, imprisoned or both.

*Driving an unlicensed vehicle _

*Driving with a fake number plate

_ *Driving a vehicle with an unauthorized or defective number plate

_ *Driving with a forged driver’s licence

_ *Neglect of traffic directions

_ *Driving motorcycle without approved crash element by driver and passenger

_ *Operating vehicle within restricted routes or beyond official hours

_ Full Text of Traffic Law The state government last Friday inaugurated five Mobile Court buses for road traffic offenders, with a pledge to end impunity on the roads.

The Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade‎ and the State’s Attorney General, Kazeem Adeniji, restated their commitments to ridding Lagos of recklessness and impunity on the roads at the inauguration

101 People Have Died From Lassa Fever In Nigeria So Far

According to data from the nation’s health authorities released today, 101 people have died from the disease since the deadly virus hit Nigeria. Nigeria Centre for Disease (NCDC) statistics show that reported cases of the haemorrhagic disease both confirmed and suspected stood at 175 with a total of 101 deaths since August. “As at today, 19 (including Abuja) states are currently following up contacts, or have suspected cases with laboratory results pending or laboratory confirmed cases,” the NCDC added in a statement released today.

Lassa Fever: 110 Persons Under Watch In Ogun State

A total of110 peoplehave been placed under watch by medical practitioners in Ogun State following the record of the first case of Lassa Fever.

According to the state’s Commissioner for Health,Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, the number of the primary contacts with the first index case of Lassa fever in the state has increased from 60 to 110, and they have all been placed under watch. Dr Ipaye made this statement when he visited the 28-years old lady, who is the first victim in the state, on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Sagamu.

He said the Ministry of Health had tracked 50 more of the former patients who were on admission “before and after the victim was brought into the two private hospitals” for treatment. “All the 110 persons have been given a thermometer each to monitor the level of their temperature with one Surveillance Officer attached to each of them,” he said

Continuing, he said, ‘the 60 persons earlier put under watch were made up of health workers of the two private hospitals, and family members of the victim. 35 were from the first hospital, 22 from the second one and three family members of the victim.’

Corroborating the words of Dr Ipaye, the Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Yusuf Quudus, reiterated that the 110 persons under surveillance would be watched closely between 6-21 days incubation period before they would be released to their family members.

Bride Defied Restriction Treks To Registry Amidst The Lagos City Marathon [See Photo]

Yesteday, Saturday, February 6, 2016, a bride in the city of Lagos, was spotted trekking to exchange her marital vows at a registry or church.

The bride defied restrictions as a result of the first ever Lagos City Marathon to trek to her wedding venue, where she’s expected to exchange marital vows with her groom.

According to a reports, the unidentified bride was seen joining the runners by trekking to the marriage registry to sign the dotted lines.

Also spotted with the brave bride was her chief bridesmaid who was helping out with her flowing gown. The Access Bank bankrolled Lagos City Marathon saw created restriction of vehicular movements in some area of Lagos for few hours.

Kenyan Marathoner- Abraham Kipton won the inaugural edition of the race and smiled home with a cash prize of $50, 000.

See Where Two Oceans Meet But Do Not Mix (Photo)

A picture from the Gulf of Alaska that has been making the rounds on the Internet for the last few years — though particularly in recent weeks — shows a strange natural phenomenon that occurs when heavy, sediment-laden water from glacial valleys and rivers pours into the open ocean. There in the gulf, the two types of water run into each other, a light, almost electric blue merging with a darker slate-blue.

Informally dubbed “the place where two oceans meet,” the explanation for the photo is a simple one, though there are many misconceptions about it, including that catchy title.

In particular on popular link-sharing website Reddit, where users have on multiple occasions erroneously attributed the photo’s location as “Where the Baltic and North Sea meet” and the two types of water as being completely incapable of ever mixing, instead perpetually butting against each other like a boundary on a map. You also may have seen a variation on the photo featuring the same phenomenon, taken by photographer Kent Smith while on a July 2010 cruise in the Gulf of Alaska.

That photo too has been circulating the web for some time, though the misconceptions about it seem to be less thanks to Smith’s explanation of the photo on his Flickr page.

That one has also been making the rounds on Reddit and social media for years, and had racked up more than 860,000 views by early 2013 on that one page alone, Smith said.

That original photo, however, originates from a 2007 research cruise of oceanographers studying the role that iron plays in the Gulf of Alaska, and how that iron reaches certain areas in the northern Pacific.

Ken Bruland, professor of ocean sciences at University of California-Santa Cruz, was on that cruise. In fact, he was the one who snapped the pic. He said the purpose of the cruise was to examine how huge eddies — slow moving currents — ranging into the hundreds of kilometers in diameter, swirl out from the Alaska coast into the Gulf of Alaska.

Those eddies often carry with them huge quantities of glacial sediment thanks to rivers like Alaska’s 286-mile-long Copper River, prized for its salmon and originating from the Copper Glacier far inland. It empties out east of Prince William Sound, carrying with it all that heavy clay and sediment. And with that sediment comes iron.

“Glacier rivers in the summertime are like buzzsaws eroding away the mountains there,” Bruland said. “In the process, they lift up all this material — they call it glacial flour — that can be carried out.”

Once these glacial rivers pour out into the larger body of water, they’re picked up by ocean currents, moving east to west, and begin to circulate there. This is one of the primary methods that iron — found in the clay and sediment of the glacial runoff — is transported to iron-deprived regions in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska.

As for that specific photo, Bruland said that it shows the plume of water pouring out from one of these sediment-rich rivers and meeting with the general ocean water. It’s also a falsehood that these two types of water don’t mix at all, he said.

“They do eventually mix, but you do come across these really strong gradients at these specific moments in time,” he said. Such borders are never static, he added, as they move around and disappear altogether, depending on the level of sediment and the whims of the water.

There is much study being conducted on how this iron influences marine productivity, in particular its effects on the growth of plankton, which Bruland referred to as “the base of the food chain.”

But rivers aren’t the only way that glacier sediment finds its way into the Gulf of Alaska — occasionally strong winds can whip up enough silt to create a cloud of dust that’s visible even from space as its being carried out to sea. So next time somebody shares a “really cool photo” of “the place where two oceans meet,” feel free to let them know the science behind the phenomenon. After all, in this Internet age,

Man Scares Crocodiles Away By Flashing His Unclad Butts At Them (Photo)

According to Daily Sun SA,. This man named, Million Gume swims in a river full of crocodile everyday.

He is not afraid because according to him, once he flashes his Unclad bum at the crocodiles, they go away. He calls it bum swimming.

“I’m the king of the bum swim,” he laughs and demonstrates by diving into the water and sticking his Unclad bum in the air.

The 30-year-old from Mhinga Village in Malamulele, Limpopo said he’s been swimming in the Luvuvhu River for five years.

The rivers in the area are known to have many crocodiles and many locals have lost their lives in the dark water. “The crocodiles are scared of me! When I jump into the water and realise that the crocodiles want to attack me, I just show them my bum and they move away. I then carry on with my famous bum swim.” he told Daily Sun.

He said people who come to the river enjoy watching him. On Wednesday afternoon the SunTeam saw Million playing in the river. He floated with his head and upper body underwater like a drowned person.

He then disappeared under the water and after a short-time only his bum appeared. George Matiyani, headman of the Mhinga Tribal Authority, said Million must watch out.

“The crocodiles aren’t scared of his bum. They will drag his bum into the deep waters and chew him up,” he said. Matiyani warned the kids to stay away from the dangerous rivers in the village. He said the crocodiles often kill people. “The most recent victim was fisherman Thinashe Hove, who was attacked on 24 January. And the body of a 45-year-old man who was killed last month hasn’t been found yet.”

Checkout Photo Of President Buhari And Obasanjo When They Were Quite Young

Picture of president Buhari and ex president Obasanjo when they were young.