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Man trapped in plane bathroom for 35 minutes, rescued by pilot

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A passenger named Brent found himself trapped in a plane toilet for 35 minutes, and it was the pilot who came to his rescue leaving other passengers wondering who was flying the plane.

Brent was on a domestic flight in the US, from Salt Lake City to New Orleans. He went to use the bathroom while his wife looked after their two young children. As time ticked by, his wife began to wonder if he was taking ‘longer than needed’ just to get a break from their two lively kids, aged two and four.

It was only when ten minutes had passed and the children started to become restless, with the four year old asking where his dad was. The wife shared her story on Reddit, saying: “I heard a flight attendant say the word ‘stuck’.”

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“Something clicked and I said, ‘Excuse me, is there someone stuck in the bathroom? ‘ ‘Yes’, she said. ‘The door is jammed, and someone is stuck in there’. I said, ‘… I think that’s my husband! ‘ My attention turned to the back of the plane, where sure enough, two Delta flight attendants were trying to open the bathroom door to free my trapped husband.

Soon, the two flight attendants (both women) asked a random male passenger to help try to unjam the door. He tried his best, but it was no use.”, reports the Mirror. She revealed that her husband had been gone for 20 minutes and was now “stuck in a 3.5 x 5ft pee and poop box”.

She continued: “Next up to try his luck, and I kid you not, was THE PILOT. Don’t ask me who was flying the plane. I think they may have needed his permission to potentially damage the door to get Brent out. The pilot was really giving it is all. But it wasn’t until Brent kicked the hell out of the door while the pilot was pulling as hard as possible that Brent finally made his escape.”

She said that once her hubby had managed to get free, she checked her watch to find Brent had been trapped for 35 minutes in a Delta bathroom. The relieved mum said that she was thankful her husband had not taken the four year old with him, and that it was a 34 year old man who got stuck and not an elderly person or young child.

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She added: “Delta Air Lines asked that I wouldn’t share the videos a fellow passenger took for me on social media (I couldn’t leave my kids in their seats alone to take my own pictures/videos). But customer service wouldn’t even refund our, as you can imagine, terrible flights. So…here we are.”

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Breaking: Viral ‘Baba Onilu’ in Ibadan is dead + photo

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A skilled elderly drummer in Ibadan popularly called Ayangbenle ‘Baba Onilu’ is dead, The Nation has learnt.

Ayangbenle, a special drummer for Osun during the Osun Osogbo festival is a native of Ede town, Osun State.

The drummer’s son confirmed his demise.

He said: “Baba Onilu has passed away overnight. May Almighty Allah grant him Aljanah Fidarus”.

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“Baba Onilu last word is “La Ilaaha Ila lahu”.

Ayangbenle used to drum for students of the University of Ibadan during convocations, then he also drummed to entertain corps members in Ibadan.

In April 2022, the drummer went viral when Adisa Olashile, a phone photographer and a corps member serving in Ibadan, Oyo, took random pictures of ‘Baba Onilu’ and the pictures went viral on social media platform – Twitter.

Olashile minted two of the pictures as NFT and they got collected immediately on OpenSea for 0.3 eth each – around one million naira.

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Adisa promised to give Baba Onilu 50 per cent of the proceeds and he did. Five hundred thousand naira with an additional 100 thousand obtained from donations was handed over to Baba who received the huge cash in shock and disbelief as he was also presented with a picture frame of his image.

In an interview last year, Ayangbenle said he inherited the drumming skill from his father and did not go to any training center.

He said: “Drumming is the profession of my paternal grandmother’s lineage. I started drumming in Ibadan.”

Credit: The Nation

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Tinubu nominates Melvin Ayogu to CBN board, requests Senate approval

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President Bola Tinubu has nominated Melvin Ayogu to the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria and has sought Senate confirmation for the appointment.

The Special Adviser to Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this in a statement on Wednesday.

Tinubu also sought Senate confirmation for Nwakuche Ndidi as controller-general of the Nigerian Correctional Service.

He said the requests, conveyed in letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, were read during Tuesday’s plenary.

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Tinubu had previously nominated Robert Agbide, Ado Wanga, Murtala Sagaley, Urom Eke, and Olayinka Aliyu to the CBN board in February 2024.

However, on February 29, 2024, the senate confirmed four people as members of the board of the CBN after Eke rejected the offer, citing “conflict of interest”.

Tinubu replaced Eke with Ruby Onwudiwe on March 13, 2024; however, a day after, reports circulated that the president withdrew her nomination over political affiliation with the Labour Party, an opposition of the All Progressives Congress.

The decision reportedly followed pressure mounted on the president by members of the APC, as Onwudiwe publicly supported Peter Obi, who contested on the LP platform against Tinubu, at the 2023 presidential elections.

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LSHA crisis: Tinubu meets Obasa, Meranda at Presidential Villa

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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have arrived the State House, Abuja, to meet with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The legislators who arrived in two coaster buses had been allowed into the President’s office area to wait for the meeting.

Both the reinstated Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Mudashiru Obasa, and the ousted one, Hon Mojisola Miranda, were also sighted in the team.

While Meranda arrived with her colleagues at some minutes past 2pm, Obasa arrived separately at about 2:50pm.

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The meeting may not be unconnected with the recent leadership crisis in the State House of Assembly.

It would be recalled that Hon. Obasa was impeached as Speaker by a majority of his colleagues, but he was latter reinstated after the intervention of the political leaders especially the Governor’s Advisory Council, (GAC)

Despite the Speaker’s reinstatement, it was gathered that the bad blood as a result of his impeachment is yet to be over.

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