MORE ABOUT MH370 MALAYSIAN AIRLINE

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MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed -- up to 20,000 feet a minute -- reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said Tuesday.


The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard.

An extensive underwater hunt in the southern Indian Ocean has not yet found the crash site, fuelling speculation it may be outside the current search zone, particularly if someone was at the controls at the end of the flight.

A manned plane could have been glided down, allowing it to enter the water outside the 120,000 square kilometre (46,000 square mile) area being searched, some experts have suggested.

But extensive testing by aircraft manufacturer Boeing and new Australian defence department data analysis both suggest that -- regardless of the possible actions of one or both of the pilots -- the jet dived into the ocean at high speed, The Australian reported.

Once MH370 ran out of fuel and the engines flamed, it slowed before plunging down towards the water in a series of swoops -- dropping from 35,000 feet at a rate of between 12,000 feet a minute and 20,000 feet a minute, Boeing said, according to the report.

The sharp dive was confirmed by a new data analysis by Australia's defence department involving signals sent automatically between the plane and a satellite, the head of the agency leading the MH370 hunt said.

The definition of what happened ended up in the scenario that no-one was at the controls and the plane ran out of fuel.

"The Australians leading the search do not doubt that the pilot may well have been responsible for the jet's disappearance but they say critics of the search strategy are wrong to assume that means they are looking in the wrong place," as the report added.


Report coming from the Malaysian officials said last week that one of the pilots used a home-made flight simulator to plot a very similar course to MH370's presumed final route, but warned this did not prove he deliberately crashed the plane.

SEE THE FIRST NIGERIAN TO REPRESENT THE COUNTRY IN ROWING

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First of its kind-Nigeria to compete in the semi-final of a rowing event in the Olympics – Chierika Ukogu a proud Nigerian has brooked the book of record by becoming the first Nigeria to do so.


Nigerian rower Chierika Ukogu has made it on top to qualify for the semi-final of the Women’s Single Sculls rowing event at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Ukogu who finished fifth in Quarterfinal 3 was earlier knocked out but because lucky was with her was later recalled to take part in the semifinal C/D 1 Nigerian.
The 24-year-old’s event is on Thursday, August 10, 3:30om (Nigerian time).

Ukogu happens to be the first Nigerian to stand for the country in rowing in excitement describing how she would love to make Nigeria proud in the rowing event. Ukogu graduated from Stanford University and undergoes training with the US team before the Rio 2016 Olympics.

SOUTH CAROLINA GIRL DIES FROM BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA

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South Carolina cried for the death of an 11-year-old girl who died after she became infected by a brain-eating amoeba in a river where she had gone swimming, an undertaker said.


Carla Smith, director-manager of the Anderson Funeral Home in Beaufort, confirmed that the girl, Hannah Collins, of Beaufort, died on Friday night at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

According to the report from the state health department this week, Hannah is diagnosed to have been exposed to the amoeba on July 24 in Charleston County's Edisto River.
The sentence on a Facebook page dedicated to her by her mother, Elizabeth Crockett, said "I will try to find comfort in the fact I will one day be united with her in her new home, Heaven."

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in U.S, said this week that a South Carolina resident had been exposed to the Naegleria fowleri organism, which is found in warm freshwater and triggers an infection that destroys brain tissue.

The fatality rate for an infected person is more than 97 percent, according to the CDC.


The brain-eating amoeba was blamed for the death in June of an 18-year-old Ohio woman, who became infected after rafting at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

CHIOMA AJUNWA THE PROMINENT NIGERIA'S OLYMPIC GOLD POLICEWOMAN

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Chioma Ajunwa – is a proud Nigerian former athlete who is talented in the long jump

After various pros and cons in her career she achieved fame when she became the first Nigerian to win an Olympic gold in 1996 Summer Olympic in Atlanta, and up to date remains Nigeria's only individual Olympic gold medalist, while she was also working as a police officer.

SEE WHAT PETER OBI WAS SPOTTED DOING

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The national chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Oye has described the defection of the former governor of Anambra state Peter Obi to PDP as a sham.


He was sported walking back to his house on foot after yesterday’s Sunday July 7 Mass.


I guess the big man is exercising his legs. Below are some photos:




SEE WHO MAKES PASTOR ORITSEJAFOR TO PROSTRATES

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Minister Morris Carrillo on arrival

Pastor Oritsejafor invites Cerullo and his wife, Theresa, on a visit to Nigeria.
The former CAN president sported in the airport with his wife, Helen, today to officially welcome the American televangelist and other people he came with.
The great televangelist, Morris Cerullo was said to have also ministered at the Word of Life Bible church during Sunday services in Warri, Delta state.
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SEE THE NUMBER OF PICKUP TRUCK SOLD IN CHINA EVERY YEAR

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China, the world's biggest auto market in July this year, sold 1.5 million trucks in America. Together with 25 million in sales last year, less than 330,000 pickups sold in all of 2015.


Adding  to the new rules in four Chinese provinces that gives room for the previously-banned pickup trucks to drive on city streets, pickup sales could explode over the next few years.

In June from the year Pickup sales for the Chinese carmakers increased up to 36%, according to Bloomberg. Chinese brands like Great Wall are bringing new models as international brands Toyota tm and Ford eye the market, and Ford announced that it would officially bring its bulked-up  F-150 Raptor  to China beginning of nest next year, though you can already spot quite a few in affluent areas of Chinese cities, lovely to a thriving gray market.


Even as the rising popularity of trucks isn't universally welcomed, China still remains the world's largest emitter of carbon emissions.  Government policy has supported electric vehicles, but consumers are clamoring for bigger vehicles, making the country’s arms of reducing emissions and clearing city smog a tougher order.
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