MYSTERIOUS' SSSS' CODE ON USA BOUND PASSENGERS BOARDING PASSES MEANS EXTRA SECURITY CHECKS AND DELAYS !

United States bound airline passengers who find 'SSSS' stamped on their boarding passes will face extra security checks and delays, it has been revealed.


This  innocuous (SSSS) code, which applies to travelers flying into the United States, stands for 'Secondary Security Screening Selection'. It means the pass holder has been selected to undergo a more extensive security screening process before boarding their flight.

The screening process, which may include bag searches, pat downs and validating identity, is conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).


The TSA insists travelers who receive the 'SSSS' are selected at random, but some have claimed they are pulled aside most times they travel, according to Lifehacker.
Buying one-way tickets or paying in cash could land passengers on the TSA's secret list and lead to frequent 'SSSS' checks, the publication said.

A passenger may be able to tell they will have to undergo additional checks if they are unable to print their boarding pass at the airport's self-check-in.
 Failure to take part in the enhanced security screening will result in the traveler being denied boarding.
The scheme was introduced after the 9/11 terror attacks, to help security officials monitor potentially dangerous individuals from entering or leaving the U.S.


Secondary Security Screening Selection or Secondary Security Screening Selectee, known by its acronym SSSS, is an airport security measure in the United States which selects passengers for additional inspection. The passengers may be known as Selectee, Automatic Selectee or the Selectee list.  The number of names on the list fluctuates and is a secret, although the Transportation Security Administration apparently says there are tens of thousands of names on it.

The Selectee list has been cited by civil liberties groups to be infringing on privacy rights and potential for racial and ethnic discrimination



 (info from dailymail and wikipaedia)

US HOSPITAL GUNMAN IDENTIFIED AS NIGERIAN

The gunman, who shot six people at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Centre in New York, United States, on Friday, Dr. Henry Michael Bello, has been identified as a Nigerian.

Some Nigerians in New York, who knew Bello, confirmed this on Friday.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has also identified him as a Nigerian-born doctor.

Bello, 45, shot dead a woman, on the 17th floor and injured at least six others on the 16th floor, before killing himself the NYPD Commissioner, James O’Neil, said.

Five of his victims were seriously injured and “fighting for their lives.”

Bello went into his former workplace wearing a white lab coat with an AR-15 machine gun hidden underneath with the intention of targeting the same individual.

NYPD officials said Bello asked for a specific doctor on the 16th floor but when he was told the  doctor was not there, he became angry and started shooting at everyone.

Officials said Bello tried to set himself on fire before committing suicide.

Reports said Bello, who was hired at the hospital in August 2014 as a house physician, had been arrested in the past for sex abuse, turnstile jumping, burglary and public urination.

In September 2004, he was arrested and charged with sex abuse and unlawful imprisonment after a 23-year-old woman told officers he had grabbed her crotch area outside a building on Bleecker Street in Manhattan and tried to penetrate her through her underwear.

Court records indicated that in September 2004, Bello pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, a misdemeanour, and was sentenced to community service, while the felony sexual abuse charge was dismissed, according to reports.

He was going to be fired by the hospital, after reports of sexual harassments, but instead chose to resign in February 2015 in lieu of termination, reports added.

Reports from the New York State Education Department said Bello had received a limited permit to practice as an international medical graduate in order to gain experience so he could be licensed.

The permit was issued on July 1, 2014, and expired on July 1, 2016, while he also had a pharmacy technician license that had been issued in California in 2006.

He went to medical school on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.

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"NIGERIANS RESPOND ONLY TO MONEY...THEY DONT CARE HOW U GOT IT"~~DJ Xclusive

In what seem to be his response to Dammy Krane’s arrest over credit card fraud in Miami, United States, Nigerian superstar DJ Xclusive, has slammed disclosing that Nigerians only respond to money not caring to know how you got it.

He further advised Nigerians to act their wage, and never to allow social media determine how one lives his/her life.

Here’s his Snapchat posts;