10 Most Unique Bridges in the World

A bridge is a structure carrying a path, road, railway etc. across a river, or any other obstacle. There are many bridges all over the world. Some of them are engineering marvels.

Here is the 10 most unique bridges in the world.

Glacier Skywalk, Canada

Glacier Skywalk is a stunning attraction in Jasper National Park. It is five minutes from the Discovery Center at the Columbia Glacier. This marvelous bridge lets you literally step into the scenery, high above the Sunwapta valley on a suspended glass platform.

Langkawi Sky Bridge, Malaysia

This 410 feet (125 meters) curved pedestrian cable-stayed bridge is located in Malaysia. It is around 2,300 feet (700 meters) above the sea level.

Garden Bridge, UK

This pedestrian bridge is built over the River Thames in London. It is planned to feature trees and gardens. It is planned to be 1,204 feet (367 meters) long and 98 feet (30 meters) across at its widest point.

Gateshead Millennium Bridge

This pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge is an award-winning structure. It is the world’s first and only tilting bridge. It is built across the River Tyne, between Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter on the south bank and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank.

Undulating Bridge, China

This bride is an engineering marvel. Its distinctive architecture is attracting the attention of many engineers worldwide. The Mobius strip-style pedestrian bridge arcs over Meixi Lake. With a span of 490 feet (150 meters) and a height of 79 feet (24 meters), this bridge incorporates a variety of routes at different levels. The bridge will span the Dragon King Harbor River in Changsha, China.

Helix Bridge, Singapore

This pedestrian bridge links Marina Center with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. It is located beside the Benjamin Sheares Bridge and is accompanied by a vehicular bridge known as the Bayfront Bridge.

Falkirk Wheel, UK

This rotating boat lift connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It is located in Scotland. The wheel raises boats by 79 feet (24 meters). It is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two boat lifts in the UK. The wheel has an overall diameter of 115 feet (35 meters).

Henderson Waves, Singapore

This 899 feet (274 meter) long pedestrian bridge is the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. It is 118 feet (36 meters) above Henderson Road. It connects Mount Faber Park and Telok Blangah Hill Park. It has a wave-form made up of seven undulating curved steel ribs.

Doha Sharq Crossing Bridge, Qatar

The construction of Doha’s Sharq Crossing will begin in 2015. The fluid design is part of a 12 kilometer series of connections, comprising three bridges linked by tunnels below the sea’s surface. The multi-billion dollar project incorporates vibrant areas of recreation.

The Rolling Bridge, UK

This curling movable bridge is part of the Grand Union Canal office and retail development project at Paddington Basin, London. It consists of eight triangular sections hinged at the walkway level.

The above-mentioned bridges have become world famous for their uniqueness.

source: richestlifestyle.com

BREAKING: Buhari appoints SGF, Chief of Staff, others

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the following appointments:

Engr. Babachir David Lawal – Secretary to the Government of the Federation

Alhaji Abba Kyari – Chief of Staff to the President

Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd.) – Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service

Mr. Kure Martin Abeshi – Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service

Senator Ita S.J. Enang – SSA to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate)

Hon. Suleiman A. Kawu – SSA to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives)

The appointments are with effect from today, August 27, 2015.

Engr. Lawal, the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation hails from Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa State. He graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1979 with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree and worked with the Delta Steel Company, Aladja, Nigerian External Telecommunications Limited and Data Sciences Limited before establishing his own ICT and Telecommunications consulting firm in 1990. He is also a member of the Nigeria Computer Society, the Nigeria Society of Engineers and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.

Alhaji Abba Kyari, the new Chief of Staff to the President holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick in Law and Sociology. He has worked with the New Nigeria Development Company, New Africa Holdings, African International Bank, United Bank for Africa, Unilever, and Mobil in various capacities over the years.

The new Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Ali holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Criminology. He was military administrator of Kaduna State from 1996 to 1998.

The new Comptroller- General of Immigration, Mr. Abeshi hails from Nasarawa State. He joined the Nigerian Immigration Service in 1989 as an Assistant Comptroller. His educational qualifications include a Masters Degree in Public Administration.

Femi Adesina

Special Adviser to the President

(Media & Publicity)

August 27, 2015

Photos: Some of the vehicles recovered by Bauchi Governor from his predecessor, Isa Yuguda

According to the man who shared the photo, Sageer Tafawa-BaLewa, these are allegedly some of the vehicles recovered by the present Bauchi State Governor from his predecessor, Mallam Is a Yuguda. See more pics after the cut...

Family smash into tomb of girl who woke up screaming & banging on her coffin after being buried alive...only to die again!

A 'dead' teenager woke up in her coffin and screamed for help one day after she was buried – but died again before desperate relatives could save her. Grieving family members pictured above breaking through the concrete tomb from where Neysi Perez, 16, had been heard 'banging and screaming'.

Relatives who removed the girl's corpse found that the glass viewing window on her coffin had been smashed and the tips of her fingers were bruised. But despite efforts to revive her medics found no signs of life and she was later returned to the cemetery and reburied in the same mausoleum.

Ms Perez, who was three months pregnant, reportedly fell unconscious after waking up in the night to use the outside toilet at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.

It was believed she may have collapsed in an apparent panic attack after hearing a burst of gunfire.

But when the teenager started foaming at the mouth her religious parents called the local priest believing she had become possessed by an evil spirit. Relatives told how the priest tried to exorcise her, but she later became lifeless and was rushed to hospital, where three hours later doctors declared her dead.

Ms Perez was buried in the wedding dress she had recently used to get married.

A day after her funeral, her husband Rudy Gonzales was visiting her grave at the La Entrada General Cemetery when he heard banging and muffled screams from inside the concrete tomb and raised the alarm.

The footage shows desperate family members breaking through the concrete block tomb with a sledgehammer, before bringing out and opening up Ms Perez's coffin to try to revive her.

Mr Gozales told local TV news Primer Impacto: 'I was heartbroken because my sweetheart had been taken so suddenly from me. I wanted to be near to her.

'As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside. I heard banging, then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help.

'It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn't believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope.'

Cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva said he had also heard noises coming from the grave.

He said: 'I convinced myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that there was someone alive in there.

'That afternoon the girl's husband came to me begging me to get her out because she was alive. 

'He was hysterical. The family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name.'

Ms Perez was taken by truck to the nearest hospital in San Pedro Sula, where she was carried in still inside her coffin.

But although medics tried to revive her, all the tests they carried out showed that she was clinically dead.

Doctor Claudia Lopez recalled: 'The whole family rushed in, almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in her casket. 

'I told them to take her out and put her on the bed. Everybody was claiming she was alive so I went through all the necessary procedures.

'We evaluated and tried everything but the girl was dead. They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery.'

Doctors believe Ms Perez may have suffered a severe panic attack which could have temporarily stopped her heart activity.

Another hypothesis is that the teenager had a cataplexy attack, an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function typically triggered by a strong emotional stimulus such as stress or fear, during which the victim maintains full conscious awareness.

She may then have died from lack of oxygen after waking up inside the closed coffin.

Her cousin, Carolina Perez, said: 'Once we had taken her out of the tomb I put my hand on her body. She was still warm, and I felt a faint heart beat.

'She had scratches on her forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had tried desperately to get out of the casket and hurt herself.

Ms Perez's mother Maria Gutierrez firmly believes her daughter was buried alive and blames medics for being too quick to sign her death certificate.

She said: 'The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn't. She didn't look like she had died.

'Even after a day in the tomb the colour of her body was normal, her corpse didn't smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep. 

'There was no rigamortis, her body was still flexible, it was impossible that she had been dead for so many hours.

'We were all so happy. After being declared dead for such a long time, everybody was saying that she had come back to life. 

'We were all so happy. I thought I was going to get my daughter back.'

Culled from UK Daily Mail

Woman runs over her husband after arguement, kills him (Graphic)

A woman intentionally ran over her husband in Lanham, MD, Maryland, USA with her SUV on Sunday afternoon after they argued over something. The man, who you can see under the tyre (right pic) was pronounced dead on the scene.

The suspect, Araceli Alvarez-Mendoza, 37, and her husband, Fernando Fragoso-Duana, 36, got into an argument at their home on the 9400 block of Worrell Avenue, according to Prince George's County police. Fragoso-Duana then left the home and began walking in the neighborhood. 

Mendoza followed her husband in an SUV and intentionally ran him over with the vehicle, police say.

"She ran him over. I sat there and I watched her, she did that on purpose," a witness told News4. She opened her front door to find the wrecked vehicle in her front yard, and said Mendoza stepped out of the SUV screaming. Mendoza then tried to pull her husband from underneath the vehicle to no avail.

A neighbor tried using a car jack to lift the car off of Duana.

Police arrived the scene and found Duana unresponsive underneath the SUV. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Mendoza is charged with first-degree murder and has admitted her involvement in her husband's death, police said.

Source: NBC Washington

Photos: Buhari receives UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon

President Buhari this morning received the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon at the state house Abuja. More photos after the cut...

Buhari orders probe of weapons bought since 2007

Press statement from the presidency below..

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Security Adviser to convene an investigative committee on the procurement of hardware and munitions in the Armed Forces from 2007 till now. The investigative committee's mandate is to identify irregularities and make recommendations for streamlining the procurement process in the Armed Forces.

Accordingly, the National Security Adviser has constituted the Investigative Committee as follows:
AVM J.O.N. Ode (rtd.) - President
R/Adm J.A. Aikhomu (rtd.) - Member
R/Adm E. Ogbor (rtd.) - Member
Brig Gen L. Adekagun (rtd.) - Member
Brig Gen M. Aminun-Kano (rtd.) - Member
Brig Gen N. Rimtip (rtd.) - Member
Cdre T.D. Ikoli - Member
Air Cdre U. Mohammed (rtd.) - Member
Air Cdre I. Shafi'i - Member
Col A.A. Ariyibi - Member
Gp Capt C.A. Oriaku (rtd.) - Member
Mr. I. Magu (EFCC) - Member
Brig Gen Y.I. Shalangwa - Secretary

The establishment of the investigative committee is in keeping with President Buhari's determination to stamp out corruption and irregularities in Nigeria's public service.
It comes against the background of the myriad of challenges that the Nigerian Armed Forces have faced in the course of ongoing counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast, including the apparent deficit in military platforms with its attendant negative effects of troops' morale.
The committee will specifically investigate allegations of non-adherence to correct equipment procurement procedures and the exclusion of relevant logistics branches from arms procurement under past administrations, which, very often resulted in the acquisition of sub-standard and unserviceable equipment.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
August 24, 2015

Borno Deputy Governor Zannah Umar Is dead

Borno State Deputy Governor Zannah Umar Mustapha is dead.
Though the Borno state government is yet to make any official statement, according to reports, the deputy governor died in Yola while on official trip there.

Sources close to the deputy governor said he died in his sleep at an official lodge in Yola.

Umar was reportedly discovered dead at about 8am this morning when his aides noticed unusual signs that he had not woken up early for prayers.

His corpse has been deposited at the mortuary, while preparation is being made for his burial.

Black box of crashed helicopter found

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), on Friday announced that it had recovered the black box of the Bristow helicopter that crashed into a lagoon in the Oworonshoki area of Lagos on Wednesday. Felix Abali, commissioner of the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), made this known while displaying the two devices to aviation correspondents at the bureau’s headquarters in Lagos. The black box contains the cockpit voice and the flight data recorders. Twelve people were on board the ill-fated aircraft which was heading to Lagos from an oil rig in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. While six persons survived and are responding to treatment at a private hospital in Lagos, six persons lost their lives in the unfortunate incident. The airline has not made the flight manifest public.

Photos from the funeral service of Ooni of Ife

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo led other dignitaries to the interdenominational funeral service of the Ooni of Ife Oba Okunade Sijuwade which held at Enuwa Square, Ooni of Ife's palace today August 14th. More photos after the cut...

Nollywood actor Bruno Iwuoha hospitalized in the US (photos)

This is a press statement. Read below...

You can recall last two weeks Mr. Bruno Iwuoha was calling for medical help. After that the CEO Morgan Entertainment, Emeka Morgan Nwanne Oguejiofor Jr invited him to the US and took him to one of the best hospitasl and paid all the bills including hospital bill feeding and medication bill

When Mr Iwuoha arrived the US, he was on wheel chair but right now he is very healthy. According to the doctors, Bruno will not be able to work or do certain things for 6-12 months, to give room for proper healing.

Rivers PDP drags Amaechi to EFCC over fraud allegations

PDP Rivers state chapter has petitioned EFCC over claims that the immediate past governor of the state, Rotimi Amechi engaged in corrupt practices while he served as governor. The deputy chairman of the party who made this known to newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday August 11th, called on President Buhari to be fair in his fight against corruption and ensure that Amaechi is investigated by EFCC.

He said the EFCC was petitioned over alleged corrupt practices the former governor's administration was involved in between December 1-8th 2014.

"Since the President of Nigeria, President Buhari, has told the world that he is a man with zero tolerance for corruption, we, the people of Rivers, are asking that there should be no sacred cow. We are saying that corruption in Rivers State should be investigated and justice should be done. As we speak to you, we cannot trace the proceeds that emanated from all the government’s transactions that that took place in Rivers State. Can you imagine that between December 1 and 8, 2014, with one address – 25 Trans-Amadi Road, Port Harcourt, over N21bn of Rivers funds were transferred? We are asking, where did these funds go?” he said

Actress Ufoma Ejenebor McDermott welcomes baby girl

Actress Ufoma McDermott has welcomed her second child, a baby girl. The new bundle of joy has been named Kessiena. Congrats to her.

Photos: Governor El-Rufai swears in his Commissioners

Kaduna state governor, Nasir El Rufai swore in 13 commissioners into his cabinet today. At the swearing in, he charged them to forget about their religious or ethnic affiliations and work for the good of the state

"You were selected based on your education, capacity, integrity and track record. You were not appointed to represent your LGA, religion or ethnicity. You were appointed to serve the 8 million Kaduna citizens" he said

Obasanjo pictured relishing ice cream (photos)

Former president Obasanjo pictured relishing a cup of ice cream at the Green Legacy resort, in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital recently

Made in Mbaise...........

I don't know what that's supposed to be...but well done to them!