A woman was filmed falling off a balcony of a high-rise building in Panama while trying to take a selfie on Friday. The Portuguese woman identified as Sandra Manuela Da Costa Macedo, 27, had just recently arrived to Panama where she had a job as a teacher, according to the Portuguese newspaper O Minho.

Macedo was a native of the northern Portuguese town of Aves. She is survived by two children.

Susana Cunha Barros, a Portuguese woman, posted a tribute on Facebook to Macedo.

‘So long,’ Barros wrote in the caption above a photo of the teacher.

‘Sandra… thank you for your contribution in the education of my daughter Helena… Will always be remembered with great affection.’

Macedo was filmed from afar as she tragically fell to her death from the 27th floor of a high-rise block while losing her balance taking a selfie.

She went over a balcony railing she was leaning against as she took the snap.

Sickening video footage showed her still holding the selfie stick as she plunged to the ground below.

An onlooker filming the tragedy shouted: ‘She’s mad, there she goes, look at her, look at her, she’s fallen.’

Paramedics rushed to the scene, a building called the Luxor Tower in a popular neighbourhood of Panama City called El Cangrejo after the alarm was raised just after 10 am local time yesterday.

The woman, initially identified as a Portuguese holidaymaker who had just arrived in Panama although a woman describing herself as a friend later took to social media to say she was a mother-of-two who had gone to the country to work as a teacher, was already dead when they arrived.

Construction workers on a neighbouring tower block are said to have yelled at her to get down from the railing she was half-sat on before her death plunge, but strong winds blowing at the time meant she couldn’t hear their warning cries.

Watch the video:

https://youtu.be/3YCfqN9B1kk

DailyNigerian newspaper has released a video of the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, allegedly receiving bribe, amounting to about $5million from contractors in the state.

According to the news outlet, multiple contractors who spoke with them said the governor personally receives from 15 to 25% kickbacks for every project executed in the state.

The sting operation to capture the governor on camera began two years ago when one of the contractors agreed with DAILY NIGERIAN request to plant spy camera on his kaftan lapel while offering the bribe.

During about 10 months efforts to capture the bribe giving/taking scenes, the governor’s face and body were clearly captured in nine clips, while six others did not clearly reveal the governor’s face.

About $5m dollars were delivered to the governor during the sting operation. One of the contractors who preferred not to be named said the reason he collaborated with DAILY NIGERIAN was to expose corruption and bring sanity to the country.

“If my aim is to blackmail or extort the governor, I would have used the videos get over a billion settlement or force the governor to pay the hundreds of millions of naira the state is owing my company or force him to pay back all the money I paid him as kickbacks,” he said.

“We believe if public office holders are exposed, there will be sanity in the system even if I will not be the beneficiary in future.”

However, even before the release of the video, the Kano state government had dismissed it as “cloned” document meant to blackmail and extort the governor.

“We wish to state that there is no iota of truth to these allegations and if indeed there is any such alleged video, it is at best cloned,” the Kano state commissioner for information, Muhammad Garba, said in a statement.

“The government of Kano state is taking this matter seriously, and will exploit every appropriate and legal avenue to ensure that it gets to the root of the matter and the perpetrators are brought to book.”

Watch the video below:

https://youtu.be/MGCvXTISNns

The mother of the 20-year-old model who was raped and murdered in Akure, Ondo State, says her daughter was on her period, and she wants justice.

Yemisi Ajayi, the 60-year-old mother of 20-year-old model, Seun Ajila Fionna who accused her daughter’s boyfriend who is in police custody as principal suspect of having a hand in her death, stated that the death of Seun should not be swept under the carpet.

From the investigation into the incident, it was gathered that the killer reportedly either came into the flat through the back door that was unlocked, when the victim’s mother left the house that Thursday evening or he knocked the door and was ushered into the apartment by Seun. It was also learnt that the deceased struggled with her killer, before she was stabbed severally with the knife the killer allegedly picked from the kitchen in the house last week.

While family sources confirmed that the victim was stabbed on her neck, abdomen and close to her private part ostensibly while struggling with her killer at the mother’s home located around Sunday Bus Stop, Odo ljoka area of Akure, Vanguard reported that the killer, who probably came purposely to rape her, could not be dissuaded by the blood stained menstrual pad she had in her private part but nonetheless had his way.

Families of the victim and the suspect have been friends for over seven years, and attended same church until the suspect’s father established his own church. The noodles the model had reportedly prepared to eat and a glass of water were said to have been found at the scene of the incident at their apartment, while a knife with which the victim was stabbed, a blood stained underwear and a menstrual pad were discovered under the mattress inside the room where her lifeless body was found by her mother.

The deceased who was a virgin and on her period, had declined sexual advances from the principal suspect since they started dating in January and it reportedly caused friction between them in June until the mother of the 20-year-old model intervened and told the boyfriend to allow her daughter be until they get married for sex to happen.

It was further learnt that the deceased wanted to end the relationship, after she suspected that her boyfriend may have joined a gang of online fraudsters. Though her boyfriend denied this, he however confessed that some of his friends were fraudsters. While the mother of the deceased warned the principal suspect not to trouble her daughter anymore on his sexual demand, he insisted on his demand until they parted for a while but later reunited after he reportedly promised to wait until they get married for sex.

According to the distraught mom, the suspect called her twice on the day Seun was murdered asking from her where she (the mother) was. Though the suspect has denied killing his girlfriend because they had no issues that would have led him to committing such dastardly act of murder, the post mortem examination on the corpse of the deceased would be carried out this week to determine the cause of death.

A few days ago, we brought you reports about the gas explosion that occured on Friday, in Osisioma Local Government of Abia state.

According to reports, 24 person were burnt to death in the explosion which happened in the early hours of that fateful day.

A gallant Nigerian soldier identified as LCFL Nnaemeka Sunday Evoh has been confirmed as one of the victims of the pipeline explosion.

Other The victims include a nursing mother and two other soldiers. Several others were said to have sustained various degrees of burns and were rushed to hospital.

Confirming the development after he visited the scenes of the explosion at Umuaduru and Umuimo in Osisioma LGA, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Anthony Ogbizi, said the explosion occurred due to spillage from a pipeline used to pump petrol from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) deport in Abia.

“According to the information from the NNPC depot manager in Aba, the spillage occurred from a pipeline that was undergoing maintenance,” he said.

“He said they were instructed test run the pipeline to ascertain its level of functionality. When we visited the two communities, we were informed that 14 people were reported dead at Umuimo village , while 10 died at Umuduru community . Some of victims who sustained various degrees of burns were said to be asleep when the incident occurred . They were said to have been taken to nearby hospitals and traditional medicine homes for treatment.”

Ogbizi said the police and other security agencies in the state were investigating the plausible cause of the explosion.

A friend Kelvin Chinedu described him as a great warrior.

“What a tragedy and agony? My great warrior is gone,you have been in battle with Boko Haram all this years, you visited home with songs of victory thanking God who have been with you. Am mute nd speechless over your departure, have no right to question the almighty God. He gives and at the due time he has received ur soul bk. God 9t De Nnaemeka …bye bye my warrior” he wrote.