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Woman crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed

A woman named Noela Rukundo, gave her ex-husband, Balenga Kalala, (both pictured above) the shock of his life by turning up to her own funeral, after he had contacted hitmen to have her killed while they were still married.

Rukundo had met her husband 11 years earlier, right after she arrived in Australia from Burundi. He was a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they had the same social worker at the resettlement agency that helped them get on their feet.

Since Kalala already knew English, their social worker often recruited him to translate for Rukundo, who spoke Swahili. They fell in love, moved in together in the Melbourne suburb of Kings Park, and had three children (Rukundo also had five kids from a previous relationship).

She learned more about her husband’s past — he had fled a rebel army that had ransacked his village, killing his wife and young son. She also learned more about his character. Noela's ordeal began five days earlier, and 7,500 miles away in her native Burundi.

She had returned to Burundi, her birth country, from her home in Melbourne, Australia, to attend her stepmother's funeral. She lodged in a hotel. "I had lost the last person who I call 'mother. It was very painful. I was so stressed."she told BBC

By early evening, Noela had retreated to her hotel room. As she lay dozing in the stifling city heat of Bujumbura, her phone rang. It was a call from her husband in Australia

"He says he'd been trying to get me for the whole day," Noela says. "I said I was going to bed. He told me, 'To bed? Why are you sleeping so early? I say, 'I'm not feeling happy'. And he asks me, 'How's the weather? Is it very, very hot?' He told me to go outside for fresh air." Noela took his advice. "I didn't think anything. I just thought that he cared about me, that he was worried about me." But moments after stepping outside the hotel compound, Noela found herself in danger.

"I opened the gate and I saw a man coming towards me. Then he pointed the gun on me. He just told me, 'Don't scream. If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They're going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead. So, I did exactly what he told me."

The gunman motioned her towards a waiting car. "I was sitting between two men. One had a small gun, one had a long gun. And the men said to the driver, 'Pass us a scarf.' Then they cover my face. After that, I didn't say anything. They just said to the driver, Let's go. I was taken somewhere, 30 to 40 minutes, then I hear the car stop." Noela was pushed inside a building and tied to a chair.

"One of the kidnappers told his friend, 'Go call the boss.' I can hear doors open but I didn't know if their boss was in a room or if he came from outside. "They ask me, 'What did you do to this man? Why has this man asked us to kill you?' And then I told them, 'Which man? Because I don't have any problem with anybody.' They say, 'Your husband!' I say, 'My husband can't kill me, you are lying!' And then they slap me. "After that the boss says, 'You are very stupid, you are fool. Let me call who has paid us to kill you.'"

The gang's leader made the call. "We already have her," he triumphantly told his paymaster. The phone was put on loudspeaker for Noela to hear the reply. Her husband's voice said: "Kill her." Just hours earlier, the same voice had consoled her over the death of her stepmother and urged her to take fresh air outside the hotel. Now her husband Balenga Kalala had condemned her to death.

"I heard his voice. I heard him. I felt like my head was going to blow up. Then they described for him where they were going to chuck the body." At that, Noela says she passed out. As the gang's leader ended the call to Kalala, Noela was coming round. "I said to myself, I was already dead. Nothing I can do can save me. But he looks at me and then he says, 'We're not going to kill you. We don't kill women and children. He told me I'd been stupid because my husband paid them the deposit in November. And when I went to Africa it was January.

He asked me, 'How stupid can you be, from November, you can't see that something is wrong?'" He might have been a hit-man with principles, but the gang's leader still took the opportunity to extort more money from Kalala. He called him back and informed him that the fee for the murder had increased. He wanted a further 3,400 Australian dollars (£1,700) to finish the job.

Back at the hotel, Noela's brother was getting worried about her disappearance. He called Kalala in Australia to ask for $545 to pay the police to open an investigation. Kalala feigned concern and duly wired the money. After two days in captivity, Noela was freed. "'We give you 80 hours to leave this country. Your husband is serious. Maybe we can spare your life, but other people, they're not going to do the same thing. If God helps you, you'll get to Australia.'"they told her

Before leaving Noela by the side of a road, the gang handed her the evidence they hoped would incriminate Kalala - a memory card containing recorded phone conversations of him discussing the murder and receipts for the Western Union money transfers. "We just want you to go back, to tell other stupid women like you what happened," the gang told Noela as they parted.

"You must learn something: you people get a chance to go overseas for a better life. But the money you are earning, the money the government gives to you, you use it for killing each other!"

Noela immediately began planning her return to Australia. She called the pastor of her church in Melbourne, Dassano Harruno Nantogmah, and requested his help. "'It was in the middle of the night. I said 'It's me, I'm still alive, don't tell anybody.' He says, 'Noela, I don't believe it. Balenga can't kill someone!' And I said, 'Pastor, believe me!'" Three days later, on the evening of 22 February 2015, Noela was back in Melbourne.

By now, Kalala had informed the community that his wife had died in a tragic accident. It was the day he held a memorial service for her that she walked in on him "It was around 7.30pm," Noela says. "He was in front of the house. People had been inside mourning with him and he was escorting a group of them into a car." It was as they drove away that Noela sprang her surprise. "I stood just looking at him. He was scared, he didn't believe it.

Then he starts walking towards me, slowly, like he was walking on broken glass. "He kept talking to himself and when he reached me, he touched me on the shoulder. He jumped. "He did it again. He jumped. Then he said, 'Noela, is it you?'… Then he start screaming, 'I'm sorry for everything.'" Noela called the police who ordered Kalala off the premises and later obtained a court order against him.

Days later, the police instructed Noela to call Kalala. Kalala made a full confession to his wife, captured on tape, begging for her forgiveness and revealing why he had ordered the murder. "He say he wanted to kill me because he was jealous," says Noela. "He think that I wanted to leave him for another man." In a police interview, Kalala denied any involvement in the plot. "The pretence," wrote the judge at his trial in December, "lasted for hours." But when confronted with the recording of his telephone conversation with Noela and the evidence she brought back from Burundi he started to cry.

Kalala was still unable to offer any explanation for his actions, suggesting only that "sometimes [the] devil can come into someone to do something but after they do it, they start thinking, 'Why I did that thing?'"

On 11 December last year, in court in Melbourne, after pleading guilty to incitement to murder, Kalala was sentenced to nine years in prison. "His voice always comes in the night - 'Kill her, kill her,'" says Noela of the nightmares that now plague her. "Every night, I see what was happening in those two days with the kidnappers." Ostracised by many in Melbourne's African community, some of whom blame her for Kalala's conviction, Noela sees a difficult future for her and her eight children.

Source: BBC

Photos: Building burns down at Murtala Muhammed Way today

A building was completely burnt down by fire this afternoon by Murtala Muhammed Way, Oyingbo. Thankfully no life was lost.

- Photo Credit: Twitter @Tunash88

Married professor caught having sex with his student..another student filmed it & posted it online..18+

A married college professor, who was having an affair with one of his students has been disgraced. The University of Arkansas professor was filmed having sex with a student inside one of the classrooms in the school. The student who filmed it and posted it online said the tryst happened during off-hours. Instead of showing the video to authorities, he anonymously posted it online. See the video here...but please you have to be 18+ to watch. It's graphic!

112-year-old holocaust survivor likely world's oldest living man, Group says

Yisrael Kristal, a 112-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor, is now believed to be the oldest person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Yasutaro Koide, who was also 112, held this honor until his recent passing in Japan.

Born to a religious family in 1903 in what is now Poland, Yisrael lost his first wife and their two children during the Holocaust.
He and his second wife made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in 1950, where they settled in Haifa and raised their two children, and where Yisrael started a sweets factory, Kristal’s Sweets. He still puts on tefillin and prays every day.
His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, described her father to The Jerusalem Post. 

“My father is someone who is always happy. He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has,” Kristal’s daughter continued.

“His attitude to life is everything in moderation,” she says. “He eats and sleeps moderately, and says that a person should always be in control of their own life and not have their life control them, as far as this is possible.”

Meet the disabled body builder who puts the able-bodied to shame (photos)

Twenty-six-year-old Zack Ruhl was born with brittle leg bones and missing thigh bones so doctors amputated both over the course of his life. That is as far as his disabilities go. Not only can he do pull ups from his wheelchair, he also has his own gym where he offers free classes to other amputees.

Zack, from Houston, Texas: “Anybody who has ever told me I couldn’t do something - I proved them wrong. “When I am at the gym working out that’s when life’s the best. The one word you cannot use in my gym is ‘can’t.’ That word is out of your vocabulary as soon as you come in here.”

His mother, Cheryl Corbello, was instrumental in moulding Zack into the man he is today, she didn't treat him differently and made him realise he was no different from the able-bodied.
Cheryl said: “At just seven-months-old I would never just give him his baby bottle, he’d have to crawl in his body cast to get it.

“He used to ask me to leave stuff down on the cabinets for him so he didn’t have to reach up and I told him no - I am not going to be here forever you have to learn to do things yourself.

“I told him he could be anything he wanted and I didn’t care when people told him no, we were going to find another way to tell him yes.”
Zack started playing sports and lifting weights in junior high school but his coaches were reluctant to let him play.

 

He said: “They didn’t want me to play because they thought I would get hurt.
“I am the most competitive guy I know and in high school they had a chart on the wall where they posted the highest bench press.

“I couldn’t squat or deadlift but I could bench and I wanted to be number one - in freshman year I was third place and I stayed on top until I graduated.”

Zack decided to take his knowledge and strength into his own gym where he could teach other adaptive people how to work out.

“I feel like I’m a pretty tough teacher. I just don’t like excuses at all.

“Helping other people with disabilities is by far the best accomplishment I can get.
“The classes are free for adaptive athletes because I know how hard it is not knowing what to do and a lot of people in wheelchairs feel like there is no hope.

“My message for amputees or any disability would be: don’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something.

“You always have room to grow, just keep going and don’t let anybody tell you nothing.”

Check out this photo...the school children seem to be grouped according to their race

This is reportedly a school in South Africa. Photo credit: Nunu Ndlovu

Katie Holmes flashes diamond ring amid claims she's engaged

Katie Holmes has been wearing a diamond ring on her engagement finger for months.The ex-wife of Tom Cruise did so as recently as Tuesday during a coffee run in Los Angeles. This comes just before InTouch Weekly reported the 37-year-old Dawson's Creek actress was hoping to wed her alleged boyfriend of two years, Jamie Foxx, 48, in the near future after two years of dating in secret. Another photo after the cut...

You won't believe what this lady did to a random man she met at the club to ring in the new year (photos)

There's no chill in this world any more. A video which has since gone viral, shows the lady pictured above at Park Avenue Club in Dallas, giving head to a man she met at the club just a few minutes earlier to ring in the new year. She sucked the guy off in front of the whole club - then afterwards, she walked away. Absolutely disgusting! Watch the video here and see some pics after the cut but biko, 18+

The act and the man that got jacked off...

Guinness treats fans to an exclusive preview of Guinness Africa Special at OLIC

The Expo Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites came alive on Sunday December 27th as Olamide Baddo thrilled fans to an energetic and fun evening at the second edition of the annual “Olamide Live In Concert”.



This year’s edition received a boost with Guinness throwing massive support behind one of their Made of Black ambassadors, Olamide. Amidst the excitement and the amazing performances from some of Naija’s best artistes, fans were treated to an exclusive preview of the latest addition to the Guinness family, Guinness Africa Special.

As guests arrived the venue, they were greeted by the colourful display of The Special One. Just as the night kicked off, they had the rare opportunity of tasting the unique product as beautiful ladies in stylish Ankara clothing handed out cups of ‘Guinness Africa Special’ to the utmost delight of guests, who couldn’t hide their excitement as they enjoyed the special treat. OLIC 2 was exciting, with loads of fun as fans kept screaming for more.

The night witnessed some energetic performances from Vector, Lil Kesh, Ycee, Adekunle Gold, Reminisce, Phyno and a host of other artistes who joined The Special One in making OLIC2 a truly spectacular evening. Guinness Africa Special is the latest product from the iconic beer brand, Guinness. It is the first innovation from Guinness in over 10 years.

It will be officially launched in Lagos in the next few weeks after successfully launching in other cities across Nigeria. We can’t wait! Lagos, are you ready to meet #The SpecialOne!

Follow @guinnessvip on Twitter and GuinnessNigeria on Facebook for more exciting photos of how #TheSpecialOne thrilled guests at the event.

Iranian protesters damage Saudi embassy in Tehran

Protesters in Iran, angered by the execution by Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric, broke into the Saudi embassy in Tehran early Sunday, setting fires and throwing papers from the roof, Iranian media reported.

The semiofficial ISNA news agency said the country's top police official, Gen. Hossein Sajedinia, rushed to the scene and police worked to disperse the crowd outraged by the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Shiite leaders in Iran and other countries across the Middle East swiftly condemned Riyadh and warned of sectarian backlash.

Saudi Arabia's execution Saturday of 47 prisoners, which also included al-Qaida detainees, threatened to further enflame Sunni-Shiite tensions in a regional struggle playing out between the Sunni kingdom and its foe Iran, a predominantly Shiite nation.

While Saudi Arabia insisted the executions were part of a justified war on terrorism, Iranian politicians warned that the Saudi monarchy would pay a heavy price for the death of al-Nimr.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Saudi envoy in Tehran to protest, while the Saudi Foreign Ministry later said it had summoned Iran's envoy to the kingdom to protest the critical Iranian reaction to the sheikh's execution, saying it represented "blatant interference" in its internal affairs.

In Tehran, the crowd gathered outside the Saudi embassy and chanted anti-Saudi slogans. Some protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the embassy, setting off a fire in part of the building, Sajedinia told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

"Some of them entered the embassy. Currently, individuals who entered the embassy have been transferred out (of the building). However, a large crowd is still there in front of the embassy," Sajedinia told ISNA early Sunday.

Some of the protesters broke into the embassy and threw papers off the roof, and police worked to disperse the crowd, Sajedinia told ISNA. He later told Tasnim that police had removed the protesters from the building and arrested some of them. He said the situation outside the embassy "had been defused."

Source: AP

Mexico mayor shot dead less than a day after taking office

The mayor of a city south of Mexico's capital was shot to death on Saturday, less than a day after taking office, officials said.

Gunmen opened fire on Mayor Gisela Mota at her house in the city of Temixco, said the government of Morelos state, where Temixco is located.

Two presumed assailants were killed and three others detained following a pursuit, said Morelos security commissioner Jesus Alberto Capella. He said the suspects fired on federal police and soldiers from a vehicle.

On his Twitter account, Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez attributed Mota's killing to organized crime, without citing a particular drug cartel or gang. Cartels seeking to control communities and towns have often targeted local officials and mayors in Mexico.

Mota's leftist Democratic Revolution Party released a statement describing her as

"a strong and brave woman who on taking office as mayor, declared that her fight against crime would be frontal and direct."

Temixco is a city of about 100,000 people neighboring Cuernavaca, a resort and industrial city which has been suffering kidnappings and extortion linked to organized crime groups. Though Cuernavaca is the capital of Morelos, Temixco is the seat of several state institutions including the Public Security Commission, which coordinates state and local police forces. Morelos also neighbors drug cartel-plagued Guerrero state.

Mota, who had been a federal congresswoman, was sworn into office on New Year's Day. She was killed the following day.

Morelos Gov. Ramirez vowed there "would be no impunity" in her killing and promised that state officials would not cede to what he described as a "challenge from criminals."

Federal and state forces are deployed in Cuernavaca and municipalities near the Guerrero state border in what is called operation "Delta."

Capella did not provide more details about the attack on Mota, but said that when the suspects were detained, authorities found a 9-millimeter gun, an Uzi, ski masks and an SUV with Mexico State license plates.

Morelos Attorney General Javier Perez Duron said the detained suspects have been tied to other crimes, but declined to provide more details.

Source: AP