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A British woman who was blasted in the face as she fled the Tunisian beach massacre refused to let go of the body of her dead husband as paramedics desperately tried to get her to safety, it emerged last night. A doctor who was the first to reach the couple has told how Gina Van Dort simply would not let go of her husband Chris Dyer, who had been shot in the head. In a testament to her love for Mr Dyer, doctors said, she managed to write a note to communicate with staff and immediately asked for her wedding ring, which had been removed before surgery which included a tracheotomy. Surveyor Mrs Van Dort, 30, and Mr Dyer, 32, an engineer, had been married for two years and were in the second week of their holiday. They were cut down by AK47 rounds as they ran into the front garden of the Imperial Marhaba hotel.  They collapsed but despite her horrific injuries Mrs Van Dort found the strength to clasp her husband’s bullet-ridden body. When she came round from emerge...

At an exchange rate of N196.90k to a dollar, the country’s fuel subsidy has dropped from the N51.61 per litre it recorded last week to N45.66 per litre, according to the pricing template by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). With this latest development, as at Monday this week, the daily payment on subsidy has therefore dropped from N2.06 billion to N1.8 billion as at June 19 2015. The landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, also dropped from N123.12 per litre as at June 11 to N117.17, while the Expected Open Market Price also dropped from N138.61 per litre to N132.66. Based on daily petrol consumption of 40 million litres, a figure supplied by the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, the total subsidy to be paid by the Federal Government to marketers on the product as of June 22 would be N1.8 billion down from N2.06 billion at N51.61 per litre on June 11. Subsidy refers to the money paid, usually by the government, t...

As written by Gordon Mah Ung of PC World Humans like to celebrate barriers being broken. The speed of sound. The first 1GHz processor, or 1TB hard drive. So get ready to pop the California sparkling wine, because we just smashed right through the 64GB system RAM barrier. That barrier, if you didn’t know, has vexed consumer computing for years now. Mainstream desktop PCs have all featured four slots for a maximum of 32GB of DDR3 RAM. At the high-end, prosumer PCs doubled that to eight slots for a maximum of 64GB DDR3.  With the move last year to DDR4 RAM in Intel’s Haswell-E, we were promised we’d finally break the 64GB mark. That time has come. Last month both Corsair and Kingston announced 128GB memory kits using 16GB DDR4 memory modules. We had to try one out.  What made this possible If you’re wondering why we’ve been locked in at 64GB for so long, it’s mostly due to the technology and process changes. DDR3 modules topped out at 8GB, in what’s ...

Very sad! A sightseeing plane crashed into a granite rock face in southeast Alaska Thursday killing all nine people on board, US police said. Emergency crews were able to reach the aircraft and confirm the deceased, but weather in the fjords prevented recovery efforts, Megan Peters from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety said. “Due to inclement weather, the body recovery effort will not be attempted until tomorrow,” she said in a statement. The plane, a single-engine DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter, went down near down near Ketchikan, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A tour helicopter spotted the plane’s wreckage some 800 feet above a lake in the Misty Fjords wilderness area, police said. The fjords are surrounded by lush forests and nearly vertical rock faces. Tour companies offer rides through the fjords, many of which include a water landing in a seaplane. The plane crashed sometime around midday and was reported overdue in the afternoon when it did not retur...

It’s hard to tell who is more frustrated at this point: Microsoft, which has been trying to simplify the upgrade process to Windows 10 as much as possible; or users, who don’t believe it could be that easy. On Friday, Microsoft’s Gabe Aul tried to explain that users would need a Microsoft account to upgrade to the latest Windows 10 preview builds, as well as the RTM version, which will be released on July 29. Implicit in that post was the assumption that users would upgrade from a genuine Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC to Windows 10  via the Windows Insider program . Some users apparently believe they might be able to upgrade a Windows XP or Windows Vista PC to Windows 10, however, simply by upgrading to Windows 10 from a Windows 10 ISO file before the Insider program expires. That is not true, Aul said. “Friday’s post was intended to clarify how the Windows Insider Program will proceed, and in attempting to do so created some unintended confusion,”  Aul wro...

His battered and bloodstained body hung for three days on the cross on which he was crucified. Around his neck, the Islamic State butchers who killed him had hung a handwritten placard accusing him of apostasy — abandoning his religion. He was just 17 and the placard explained that the unnamed boy’s crime had been to take photographs of the terrorist organisation’s headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which has become the de facto IS capital. Images of his body were smuggled to the West in defiance of the city’s terrifying religious police by undercover activists appalled at the daily brutality taking place in their city. Had they been caught, they too would have been killed; either crucified in Raqqa’s central square like this poor teenager or beheaded before a mob. Raqqa is the epicentre of global Islamic terror, a place where the barbarism of Islamic State is matched only by the sophistication of its ideologues in using social networking to recruit Muslims from acro...

The Lagos State Government has given okada  (motorcycle) riders in the state 21-day ultimatum to leave restricted routes. The government met with  okada  unions on Thursday at the state secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, where the ultimatum was given. The Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Tunji Bello, who chaired the meeting, said the government decided to give the riders 21-day ultimatum for the unions to sensitise their members to vacate the restricted routes before enforcement would begin. He said. “We have held a meeting with the  okada  unions on what should be done. We had a meeting with security agencies before now on the resurgence of  okada  riders on the highways. “They said they thought that the government had relaxed the law;   there is no relaxation. We have decided to give them three weeks for enlightenment because we are not doing anything new; what we are doing is to re-enforce the law.” Bello said when the...

A 31-year-old indigene of Delta State, Michael David, who reportedly murdered the mother of his son and subsequently reported himself to the police for arrest, has confessed that his actions was the handiwork of the devil. The suspect was involved in a fight with the victim, Oyinyechi Dennis, and allegedly stabbed her to death at Ojoku area of Lagos. It was learned that Michael, a carpenter, was scandalizing and making ugly remarks about Onyinye in their environment which led to a confrontation between the duo. The suspect, who attributed his action to the handiwork of the devil, said his action was not intentional. The suspect recounted what happened on the fateful day:  “Oyinye is the mother of my son, although I did not marry her legally but when she became pregnant for me, I went to her aunty and uncle who she was living with for introduction. We then started living together. But we had a misunderstanding and then she packed out of my house. “On Tuesday mo...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday fixed July 1 to deliver ruling on an application by the Ogun-East Senator in the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, seeking an order striking out an extradition suit instituted against him by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation. The suit filed on May 28, 2015, was predicated on a request by the Embassy of the United States of America seeking the Nigerian government to surrender Kashamu to face one count of drug-related charge before the US District Court for the Northern Illinois, Eastern Division. The presiding judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, had fixed the case for Thursday for mention. But Kashamu, through his counsel, Mr. Raphael Oluyede, raised an objection to the suit on Thursday. Kashamu had filed a separate notice of preliminary objection yet to be heard by the court. Oluyede anchored his client’s objection to the suit on the grounds of two judgments delivered by separate judges of the Lagos Division of th...