1)Farmer Joe came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
2)A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50 and her husband was so devastated that he cried for years. Ten years after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived to be 80, how many years was he a widower?
The former bank executive is being investigated by the commission over allegations of fraudulent abuse of credit process, insider trading, capital market manipulation, and money laundering running into billions of naira.
Okoloagu, a former Nigerian Military attaché to Pakistan, was on Monday night travelling to Port-Harcourt in his 604 Peugeot car when the kidnappers intercepted the vehicle on Alaoji-Ugwunagbo area of Aba – Port Harcourt Expressway.
The Action Congress member was in company with his private driver and a security detail when the armed kidnappers surfaced from a bush and opened fire on his vehicle, forcing it to a halt.
The kidnappers immediately surrounded the car and one of them wanted to drag out the already wounded ex-Army General who sat at the back seat.
Surprisingly, as soon as he drew near, Okoloagu pulled out his revolver and repeatedly shot the kidnapper, who slumped and died immediately.
According to motorists, who watched the scene from a distance and nearby bushes, the other kidnappers immediately retreated and took cover from where they exchanged fire with the general.
The gunfire attracted an army patrol team and the kidnappers reportedly fled on sighting the soldiers.
The ex-army general and the two other occupants of his car who also sustained bullet injuries were rushed to Riverine Hospital, Umungazi, Aba, where they are receiving medical attention under heavy security provided by a platoon of soldiers from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
Okoloagu, who spoke to our correspondent on the phone from his sick bed, said, "Yes, kidnappers attacked us in Aba on my way to Port Harcourt yesterday (Monday). They shot me on the chest, shot my security detail on the hand and shot my driver on the head. I was able to kill one of the kidnappers who came to take me with my revolver before I escaped."
"My driver is still in a coma, but we are praying that the bullet did not touch his brain. I am only alive today because of my personal gun. What of the people who don't have guns?
"I think everybody in the country should have a gun since the government can no longer protect us. There is no government in Abia State."
When contacted on the phone, Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, Ali Okechukwu, said he was yet to be briefed on any of such incident.
The discovery didn't bring bitterness or recrimination. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family.
Today, the two 25-year-olds are living and working together with both sets of parents growing vegetables and coffee on a small farm in southeastern Brazil.
The chain of events started with Aliprandi, who was always intrigued that he did not resemble the four sisters he grew up with.
"There was something different," he told The Associated Press by phone. "I had blonde hair and blue eyes and my sisters had dark hair and eyes.
Aliprandi said he was 14 when his suspicions intensified after watching a TV news report on babies getting switched at birth because of mistakes at hospitals.
"I told my father of my doubts and that I wanted to do a DNA test. But it was too expensive" for the family, he said.
A decade later, Aliprandi did it on his own.
"In December 2008, when I was 24, I decided I needed an answer to my doubts and paid 300 reals ($166) for a DNA test that confirmed my suspicions that I was not the birth son of the man and woman who had raised me," he said.
It was a big shock for his parents, Zilda and Antonio Aliprandi. They at first refused to believe the results, but eventually decided to help him look for his biological parents.
The search began at the Madre Regina Protmann Hospital, where he was born.
"I showed the hospital the results of the DNA test and told them that they proved that I had been switched at birth," Aliprandi said.
But hospital officials were skeptical, he said, and asked him to have another DNA test, which he did three months later.
The DNA results were the same as the first — Aliprandi had been given to the wrong mother as an infant.
He said the hospital then searched its records and found Elton Plaster was born there on the same day.
The records led Aliprandi to the 35-acre (14-hectare) farm where Plaster lived with his parents, Nilza and Adelson, in the town of Santa Maria de Jetiba, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) from the Aliprandi home in Joao Neiva.
The Plasters agreed to do DNA tests.
"They discovered that Elton was the biological son of the man and woman that I had been calling Mom and Dad for 24 years," Aliprandi said.
"Meanwhile, Elton discovered that the couple he had always regarded as his biological parents were mine."
The discovery did not cause any upset, he said.
"Instead it sparked a desire to join our families," Aliprandi said. "Elton and I wanted to remain with those who raised us and with our birth parents. We wanted to expand our families."
So about a year ago, Aliprandi and the parents who raised him accepted an offer from the Plasters to move to their farm, where they built a home.
"This is the way it should be," Adelson Plaster recently told Globo TV. "We are all together and I now have two sons living and working here."
"It's not everyone who can say he has two fathers and two mothers living together with him," Aliprandi said.

Source : Yahoo news
