Forbes Reveals 10 Cars That Are Phased - Out In 2016!

According to Forbes's analysis, the cars under listed are likely to be discontinued in 2016, reasons behind their re-placements are equally hinted.

Mercedes-Benz M-Class

This Mercedes model is expected to be replaced by the GLE-Class. 

MINI Cooper Coupe and Roadster

The MINI sliced and diced model of the Coupe and Roadster is replaced by the two-seat Coup and Roadster.  

Honda Crosstour

U.S buyers never really connected to this version of the Honda brand. The Pilot crossover SUV was preferred in its place.

Nissan Xterra

After more than 750,000 units sales, this rough-and-tumble truck-based SUV is being replaced by the more compact SUVs.

 Infiniti Q40

 

Expected to be replaced by the brand’s new entry-level model, The Q30 in late spring/early summer 2016.

 Scion IQ

The Scion IQ is expected to be replaced, as sales so far is not encouraging.

Jaguar XK

The sales of the XK convertible will likely be absorbed by Jaguar’s F-Type line of closed and open-roof sports cars.

Scion xB

This 2004 model boxy-looking compact wagon is being replaced by the new-for-2016 iM four-door hatchback, which is essentially a latter-day version of the discontinued Toyota Matrix.

Land Rover LR2

This Land Rover model is being succeeded by the longer/ wider Discovery Sport model with a third row seat to attract young families. 

Toyota Venza

This five-passenger midsize wagon/crossover rendition of the Toyota Camry which is more mainstream looking than the Honda Crosstour,  is phased out as it never sold anywhere as the Highlander.

7 Dead, 9 Injured In Adamawa's IDPC 9/11 Explosion!

No fewer than 7 people were killed, and 20 others injured in a bomb explosion that occurred at a warehouse in Malkohi Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Yola - Adamawa State, at about 10:50 am, Friday, September 11. 


The Adamawa spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sanni Datti said that seven of the injured persons were treated and discharged while 13 others, including four NEMA officials, are still receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Center in Yola.

World Re-Known Scientist Dies Of Drug Overdose!

Internationally re-known Cancer research expert Patrick Pollard is dead. Information revealed that Pollard suffered cardiac arrest after taking 30 Valium tablets, snorted cocaine, took heroin and alcohol, watched television with girlfriend and a childhood friend, during a party, before preceeding to the pub on June 9, the night before the incident.

Miss Hopkins woke in their home the next morning to find Mr Pollard lying in the bed next to her with blood around his nose. He was lying on his back and not breathing, with blood stains on their bed sheets. She claimed have performed CPR, but the Paramedics said there was no evidence of such an attempt. Instead Paramedics said when they arrived the couple's home in Reading, Berkshire - Englan. Patrick's body has already started rigor mortis, which indicated he had been dead for some time.

Shortly before his death, Patrick Pollard was awarded a considerable sum of money to set up a laboratory after discovering a link between diabetes and cancer. To that effect, he started a new job based at Gothenburg, - Sweden, which tied in with his research at Oxford University where he was an independent principal investigator with his own team at the Nuffield Department of Medicine.

Pastor Adeboye And Wife Mark 48th Year Wedding Anniversary!

One of the world's most respected and celebrated, yet humble individual, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye,  General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, and his beloved wife Foluke Adenike Adeboye, fondly called 'Mummy and Daddy G.O' by parishioners, mentees, friends and admirers the world over, marked their 48th year wedding anniversary on Tuesday, September 8th. 

Here's wishing the couple many more wonderful years, filled with love.

The American 'Gun-Law Reforms' Drama -- Congress At Logger Heads While Lives Are Lost With Each Passing Day!

Despite the challenges of: Climate Change, terrorism, drought/ famine, civil unrest, epidemic outbreaks, racism and others numerous to mention, currently besieging International frontiers; the United States, sure has its hands full with Internal issues.  Chief, of which is the popular debates on 'gun-law' reforms.  

Photo: Matt Bors

                                         
Debates in the '90s', on the availability of firearms and gun violence in the United States, saw two major opposing groups canvassing for the responsibility of the government, to meet the needs of the citizens; to prevent crime and death on one hand, and the right to bear arms, as seen in the second amendment of the constitution. Thus gun control and gun right groups have lobbied the Congress, for decades, to enact legislation in favour of the respective views.

In 2008, the U.S Apex Court, in a case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court ruled that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to own a gun, for personal use. However, the 5-4 decision failed to address local and state laws, as it applied only to  'Federal Laws'. To clear the air on this, the Supreme Court in July 2012, ruled that the Federal right to bear arms, equally applies at the State and Local levels, thereby lifting an almost 30-year-old Chicago Gun-ban.

Addressing this burning issue right after the Colorado theater, and the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting in 2012, Michael Shank, an adjunct Professor at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution - Washington Boulevard, suggested that "while the US protects freedom of speech for self-proclaimed skinheads and white supremacists such as Army veteran Wade Michael Page, it must also protect the public from any 9/11 and war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder that turns violent".  

Mass-shooting in the United States continues to snowball since the 18th century, as individuals, either motivated by some extreme groups ideologies, or frustrated, and needing psychiatric evaluation, go on shooting rampage, and 'copycats' tend to replicate these shootings in some other parts of the country. The ugly part of this trend, is the alarming increase in the pace and age grade of perpetrators, who turn out to be mostly youngsters. From the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, to the Colorado theater shooting, the 2014 mass killing at the University of California - Santa Barbara, the Amnicola Chattanooga, the Tennessee mass shooting, the Philip Barbour high school in Philippi - West Virginia,  the Hallwood Drive in northern St. Louis County - Missouri, the Virginia T.V journalists shooting, and the list goes on and on. 

The United states President, Barack Obama, has been pushing for tougher gun Laws, this efforts, along side those of other well- meaning U.S citizens, seemed to meet brick-walls, as the Congress is obviously divided in views, and appear more interested in politicizing the issue.  Answering audience questions about gun violence during a campaign event in Las Vegas, Democratic Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton, stated that she supports stronger, more balanced gun control laws. 

In the face of this crisis, how long will it take, till all stake-holders put aside their differences and pride, and realize that lives are being snuffed out of human beings on a daily basis, that this situation requires urgent implementation of effective measures to address it. This reminds me of the popular saying about Empro Niro, who was purported to have been: 'playing his lyre while Rome burned". 

All we see on the Media are heated debates, and campaigns in favor or against gun-law reforms, thereafter victims' relatives are pulled in to bolster these campaigns. Nothing concrete is done. Before you knew it, another shooter gets hold of a gun, and goes on a more heinous rampage. 


Obianuju Mbanusi writes.

Aylan Kurdi's Drowning, Britain To Accept "More And More" Migrants!

Going against his insistence on Wednesday August 2, that Britain would not accept “more and more” migrants, British Prime Minister, David Cameron is expected to announce that Britain will accept thousands more Syrian asylum seekers. 

Information revealed that the government is preparing plans to resettle the refugees fleeing Isil jihadists and conflict in the region in an attempt to fulfill what it termed its “moral obligation”.

Cameron's insistence on not accepting more migrants into the United Kingdom came as the crisis showed no sign of ceasing. Hours after the decision, images emerged of the lifeless body a three-year-old boy later identified as Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian refuge, lying lifeless on Bodrum beach in Turkey. Aylan drowned alongside his mother Rehen and elder brother Galip, while trying to flee war ravaged Syria. 

Aylan and Galip with their father Abdullah Kurdi

The picture, which embodies the "human cost of the crisis" went viral on the Internet, prompting debates over whether Britain was accepting its "fair share" of refugees.

Cameron, it was gathered spent much of Thursday, August 3, in talks with his closest advisers on how to respond to the changing public mood.

Three People Killed In Ojuelegba - Bridge Accident!

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency confirmed that three people died Wednesday August 2, between 4.45 and 5 pm, when an unlatched articulated vehicle carrying a 40-foot container fell off the ever busy Ojuelegba bridge, landing on a white colored salon car and an SUV in Lagos. 

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