82-Year Old Granny Opens Oven To Cook Chips Only To Find A Snake Staring At Her [Photos]

A pensioner was left stunned when she opened her oven and found a huge snake lurking inside.

The 82-year-old was about to cook chips for dinner when she spotted the reptile and slammed the door shut.

She thought her eyes were playing tricks on her after recently undergoing a cataract operation, the Manchester Evening News reports.

But an RSPCA inspector soon arrived and rescued the snake, while the woman and her husband ordered from a fish and chip shop instead.


It turned out to be a non-venomous African brown house snake, measuring at least three feet long.

The woman had opened the oven door to pop in her chips when she spotted the snake - later named Sammy by the RSPCA - at her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

She said: "When I opened the oven door and saw it I got the shock of my life.

"I have recently had a cataract operation and was wondering if my eyes were deceiving me - but my husband saw it too.

Okonjo-Iweala wins six year libel case against news website

                              
After six years of legal battle, Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has won a libel case against a news website, Pointblanknews.

An Abuja High Court of FCT has ordered Pointblanknews to pay a total of N200m in damages to the plaintiff over a libelous story it published.

A clearly happy Okonjo-Iweala took to her Twitter page to share the news of her victory in court. She wrote;

Happy to finally get justice in the libel case against PointBlank News. It is important our media maintain high standards of accuracy, transparency and professionalism

Point blank news had published a false story against Okonjo-Iweala in 2012, and refused to retract, even after it was proved to be false.

The judgment by Justice Chizoba N. Oji in suit No. FCT/HC/CV/2602/12 also included an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants – the platform and its founders Jackson Ude and Churchill Umoren – from defaming Dr Okonjo-Iweala in the future.

Pointblanknews had published the false story, OKONJO-IWEALA BUYS N1.2 BILLION ABUJA MANSION in its edition of January 10, 2012 in which it alleged that Okonjo-Iweala had purchased “a massive home in Maitama, Abuja for a whopping N1.2 billion”.

According to the news platform, Okonjo-Iweala was also “pocketing $2 billion (two billion dollars) in commission in the last debt buy-back deal under the presidency of the Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration” (sic) without any proof.

The story according to investigation proved to be false as the owner, Mr Fabian Nwaora, who was mentioned in the report denied selling any property to Dr Okonjo-Iweala.

The court in its judgement imposed general damages in the sum of N50,000,000 (Fifty Million Naira) and Exemplary damages in the sum of N150,000,000 (One hundred and fifty million Naira) against the Defendants jointly and severally.

Mama Taraba' Wins UDP Governorship Ticket

Aisha Alhassan, the former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the United Development Party (UDP) for the 2019 election. A party she joined only last Saturday.

Yesterday, Olusegun Adeleye, Returning Officer and National Publicity Secretary of the UDP, declared her the winner of the governorship primary which took place in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, after she polled 246 votes.