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The Church of England is poised to consider the baptism of animals for the first time, it was announced today.

The ruling General Synod, which is next scheduled to meet in July, will consider an advisory report compiled by a panel of bishops and others entitled
All of God's Creation.

Synod members will be asked to consider the
implications of introducing a liturgy for pets 'in the
light of an emerging consensus about the value of the environment and an increasing consciousness of animal sentience and awareness', the report says.

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Could the Church of England baptise animals?

Speaking at a press conference to highlight the report's main findings, Rt Revd James Graham, the committee chair, said: 'The kingdom of God is
about renewing all of creation, including the created order. It would be possible, therefore, to envisage a situation where dogs and cats and other
pets could be ceremonially sprinkled with water to symbolise their full inclusion in the renewal of all
things.'

Pressed on whether this could be described as 'animal baptism', the Bishop said: 'In a manner of speaking, it might be seen that way by some.'


He added: 'In the past we have seen humankind as
in some way distinctive, special and set apart. Now science advises us that many characteristics we once believed to be limited to men and women are
shared with other species, including kindness and empathy. The Christian god is surely one who will welcome any created being with these characteristics fully into his kingdom.'

'After all, look at what I have in common with monkeys and chimpanzees – we're all primates,' the bishop joked, as an unamused press corps sat
stony-faced in front of him.

Asked how animals would be able to make
baptismal vows, Bishop James said: 'It's amazing what animals can do. I've trained my dog to play Widor's Toccata at weddings, and if you weren't
looking, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in quality from that of many regular human organists. It's just a bit tricky cleaning between the
pedals afterwards.'

The report was attached by conservative Anglicans
as being 'Anglicanism at its most wishy-washy'.

A spokesman for a group which claims to be more conservative than anyone else said: 'What is it again? Whatever it is, we're against it. We're always against. Now look, I've got to go as this probably means I am out of communion with you.'


But a spokesperson for a liberal group said: 'How lovely! What a nice idea. Actually, between you and me, we've been doing this in our parish for years.

We use milk for cats though, otherwise they tend to scratch. And we had terrible trouble when someone's pet spider escaped down the font overflow hole.'

Nelson Mandela with Winnie Madikizela-
Mandela after his release from a South
Africa prison in 1990. She often acted as a
conduit to his followers during his
imprisonment. They divorced in 1996.

Greg English/Associated Press
By Alan Cowell April 2, 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, whose hallowed
place in the pantheon of South Africa’s
liberators was eroded by scandal over
corruption, kidnapping, murder and the
adulterous implosion of her fabled marriage
to Nelson Mandela , died early Monday in
Johannesburg. She was 81.


Her death, at the Netcare Milpark Hospital,
was announced by her spokesman, Victor
Dlamini. He said in a statement that she died
“after a long illness, for which she had been
in and out of hospital since the start of the
year.”

The South African Broadcasting Corporation
said she was admitted to the hospital over
the weekend complaining of the flu after she
attended a church service on Friday. She had
been treated for diabetes and underwent
major surgeries as her health began failing
over the last several years.
Charming, intelligent, complex, fiery and
eloquent, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela
(Madikizela was her surname at birth) was
inevitably known to most of the world
through her marriage to the revered Mr.


Mandela. It was a bond that endured
ambiguously: She derived a vaunted status
from their shared struggle, yet she chafed at
being defined by him.
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was cheered by
supporters after appearing in court in
Krugersdorp, South Africa, in 1986. She
commanded a natural constituency of her
own among South Africa’s poor and
dispossessed.

Associated Press
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela commanded a
natural constituency of her own among
South Africa’s poor and dispossessed, and
the post-apartheid leaders who followed Mr.
Mandela could never ignore her appeal to a
broad segment of society. In April 2016, the
government of President Jacob G. Zuma gave
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela one of the country’s
highest honors: the Order of Luthuli, given,
in part, for contributions to the struggle for
democracy.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela retained a political
presence as a member of Parliament,
representing the dominant African National
Congress, and she insisted on a kind of
primacy in Mr. Mandela’s life, no matter
their estrangement.


“Nobody knows him better than I do,” she
told a British interviewer in 2013.
Increasingly, though, Ms. Madikizela-
Mandela resented the notion that her anti-
apartheid credentials had been eclipsed by
her husband’s global stature and celebrity,
and she struggled in vain in later years to be
regarded again as the “mother of the
nation,” a sobriquet acquired during the
long years of Mr. Mandela’s imprisonment.


She insisted that her contribution had been
wrongly depicted as a pale shadow of his.
“I am not Mandela’s product,” she told an
interviewer. “I am the product of the masses
of my country and the product of my
enemy” — references to South Africa’s white
rulers under apartheid and to her burning
hatred of them, rooted in her own years of
mistreatment, incarceration and banishment.


Conduit to Her Husband
While Mr. Mandela was held at the Robben
Island penal settlement, off Cape Town,
where he spent most of his 27 years in jail,
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela acted as the main
conduit to his followers, who hungered for
every clue to his thinking and well-being.


The flow of information was meager,
however: Her visits there were rare, and she
was never allowed physical contact with him.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela attended her
husband’s trial in Pretoria, South Africa, in
1962. Associated Press
In time, her reputation became scarred by
accusations of extreme brutality toward
suspected turncoats, misbehavior and
indiscretion in her private life, and a
radicalism that seemed at odds with Mr.
Mandela’s quest for racial inclusiveness.
She nevertheless sought to remain in his
orbit. She was at his side, brandishing a
victor’s clenched fist salute, when he was
finally released from prison in February
1990.


At his funeral, in December 2013, she
appeared by his coffin in mourning black —
positioning herself almost as if she were the
grieving first lady — even though Mr.
Mandela had married Graça Machel, the
widow of the former Mozambican president
Samora Machel, in 1998, on his 80th
birthday, six years after separating from Ms.

Madikizela-Mandela and two years after
their divorce. It was Mr. Mandela’s third
marriage.

In 2016, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela began legal
efforts to secure the ownership of Mr.
Mandela’s home in his ancestral village of
Qunu. She contended that their marriage had
never been lawfully dissolved and that she
was therefore entitled to the house, which
Mr. Mandela had bequeathed to his
descendants. High Court judges rejected that
argument in April. After learning that she
had lost the case, she was hospitalized.
Her lawyers said she would appeal the High
Court judgment.


‘She Who Must Endure’
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was
born to a noble family of the Xhosa-speaking
Pondo tribe in Transkei. Her first name,
Nomzamo, means “she who must endure
trials.”


Her birth date was Sept. 26, 1936, according
to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and many
other sources, although earlier accounts gave
the year as 1934.

Her father, Columbus, was a senior official in
the so-called homeland of Transkei,
according to South African History Online ,
an unofficial archive, which described her as
the fourth of eight children. (Other accounts
say her family was larger.) Her mother,
Gertrude, was a teacher who died when
Winnie was 8, the archive said.


As a barefoot child she tended cattle and
learned to make do with very little, in
marked contrast to her later years of free-
spending ostentation. She attended a
Methodist mission school and then the
Hofmeyr School of Social Work in
Johannesburg, where she befriended
Adelaide Tsukudu, the future wife of Oliver
Tambo, a law partner of Mr. Mandela’s who
went on to lead the A.N.C. in exile. She
turned down a scholarship in the United
States, preferring to remain in South Africa
as the first black social worker at the
Baragwanath hospital in Soweto.


The Mandelas were married in June 1958.
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
One day in 1957, when she was waiting at a
bus stop, Nelson Mandela drove past. “I was
struck by her beauty,” he wrote in his
autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.”
Some weeks later, he recalled, “I was at the
office when I popped in to see Oliver and
there was this same young woman.”
Mr. Mandela, approaching 40 and the father
of three, declared on their first date that he
would marry her. Soon he separated from
his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase, a nurse, to
marry Ms. Madikizela-Mandela on June 14,
1958.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was thrust into the
limelight in 1964 when her husband was
sentenced to life in prison on charges of
treason. She was officially “banned” under
draconian restrictions intended to make her
a nonperson, unable to work, socialize, move
freely or be quoted in the South African
news media, even as she raised their two
daughters, Zenani and Zindziswa.
In a crackdown in May 1969, five years after
her husband was sent to prison, she was
arrested and held for 17 months, 13 in
solitary confinement. She was beaten and
tortured. The experience, she wrote, was
“what changed me, what brutalized me so
much that I knew what it is to hate.”


After blacks rioted in the segregated
Johannesburg township of Soweto in 1976,
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was again
imprisoned without trial, this time for five
months. She was then banished to a bleak
township outside the profoundly
conservative white town of Brandfort, in the
Orange Free State.


“I am a living symbol of whatever is
happening in the country,” she wrote in
“Part of My Soul Went With Him,” a memoir
published in 1984 and printed around the
world. “I am a living symbol of the white
man’s fear. I never realized how deeply
embedded this fear is until I came to
Brandfort.”


Contrary to the authorities’ intentions, her
cramped home became a place of pilgrimage
for diplomats and prominent sympathizers,
as well as foreign journalists seeking
interviews.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela cherished
conversation with outsiders and word of the
world beyond her confines. She scorned
many of her restrictions, using whites-only
public phones and ignoring the segregated
counters at the local liquor store when she
ordered Champagne — gestures that stunned
the area’s whites.


Banishment Took Toll
Still, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela’s exclusion
from what passed as a normal life in South
Africa took a toll, and she began to drink
heavily. During her banishment, moreover,
her land changed. Beginning in late 1984,
young protesters challenged the authorities
with increasing audacity.


The unrest spread,
prompting the white rulers to acknowledge
what they called a “revolutionary climate”
and declare a state of emergency.
When Ms. Madikizela-Mandela returned to
her home in Soweto in 1985, breaking her
banning orders, it was as a far more
bellicose figure, determined to assume
leadership of what became the decisive and
most violent phase of the struggle. As she
saw it, her role was to stiffen the
confrontation with the authorities.


The tactics were harsh.
“Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of
matches and our necklaces, we will liberate
this country,” she told a rally in April 1986.
She was referring to “necklacing,” a form of
sometimes arbitrary execution by fire using
a gas-soaked tire around a supposed traitor’s
neck, and it shocked an older generation of
anti-apartheid campaigners. But her severity
aligned her with the young township radicals
who enforced commitment to the struggle.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was surrounded by
supporters in the black township of Kagiso
in 1986. Associated Press
In the late 1980s, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela
allowed the outbuildings around her
residence in Soweto to be used by the so-
called Mandela United Football Club, a
vigilante gang that claimed to be her
bodyguard. It terrorized Soweto, inviting
infamy and prosecution.
In 1991 she was convicted of ordering the
1988 kidnapping of four youths in Soweto.


The body of one, a 14-year-old named James
Moeketsi Seipei — nicknamed Stompie, a
slang word for a cigarette butt, reflecting his
diminutive stature — was found with his
throat cut.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela’s chief bodyguard
was convicted of murder. She was sentenced
to six years for kidnapping , but South
Africa’s highest appeals court reduced her
punishment to fines and a suspended one-
year term.


By then her life had begun to unravel. The
United Democratic Front, an umbrella group
of organizations fighting apartheid and
linked to the A.N.C., expelled her. In April
1992, Mr. Mandela, midway through
settlement talks with President F. W. de
Klerk of South Africa, announced that he and
his wife were separating. (She dismissed
suggestions that she had wanted to be known
by the title “first lady.” “I am not the sort of
person to carry beautiful flowers and be an
ornament to everyone,” she said.)


Two years later, Mr. Mandela was elected
president and offered her a minor job as the
deputy minister of arts, culture, science and
technology. But after allegations of influence
peddling, bribetaking and misuse of
government funds, she was forced from
office. In 1996, Mr. Mandela ended their 38-
year marriage, testifying in court that his
wife was having an affair with a colleague.
Only in 1997, at the behest of Archbishop
Desmond M. Tutu at South Africa’s Truth
and Reconciliation Commission , did Ms.
Madikizela-Mandela offer an apology for the
events of the late 1980s. “Things went
horribly wrong,” she said, adding, “For that I
am deeply sorry.”

Ms. Madikizela-Mandela at a 2009 gathering
to honor her former husband, who died four
years later.


Yet the catalog of missteps continued, cast
into sharp relief by her haughty
dismissiveness toward her accusers. In 2003
she was convicted of using her position as
president of the A.N.C. Women’s League to
obtain fraudulent loans; she was sentenced
to five years in prison. But her sentence was
again suspended on appeal, with a judge
finding that she had not gained personally
from the transactions.

To the end, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela
remained a polarizing figure in South Africa,
admired by loyalists who were prepared to
focus on her contribution to ending
apartheid, vilified by critics who foremost
saw her flaws. Few could ignore her
unsettling contradictions, however.


“While there is something of a historical
revisionism happening in some quarters of
our nation these days that brands Nelson
Mandela’s second wife a revolutionary and
heroic figure,” the columnist Verashni Pillay
wrote in the South African newspaper The
Mail and Guardian, “it doesn’t take that
much digging to remember the truly awful
things she has been responsible for.”
Joseph R. Gregory contributed reporting.
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There is no use waiting for new P-Square music, as the group has broken up for good.

If you want to know what happened between the two brothers, then check out this article, where we will tell you
the real facts about the P-Square split.

The truth It is not like the Okoye brothers have never fought before.


The two have threatened two
break up several times before (at least three
times, but who is counting?), but each time they made up and continued with their career.

So what could have happened this past September?


It has been more than half a year since the
conflict between the two brothers. There have been no major developments on the story until about a week ago, when Paul decided to give an interview to Showtime Celebrity, in which he explained what happened from his point of
view.

You can find the full interview on
Vanguard.

From what we have been able to gather, Paul does not like talking about what happened. He shared that he did not appreciate the questions
about his personal life, particularly about the relationship with his brother.


That said, Paul admitted that he took his
brother’s exit from their group to heart. For
months, he could not do anything, as he felt
really low. Nevertheless, Paul has since bounced back and returned to his normal state.


When asked about whether P-Square will ever get back together, the musician said that it was not him who left the group, and he has waited long enough for his brother to return.

Alas,
Peter did no such thing, which means that there
is probably no future for P-Square.


Now that we have talked about Paul's side of the story, let's consider Peter's for a moment.


Why did he decide to leave the group that has brought him immense popularity?


Well, the short answer is that Peter decided that he no longer wanted to be in a group with his brother, so he quit. The long answer is that Peter had a very solid reason for leaving the group.


According to various reports, both his twin
brother Paul and their older brother Jude have behaved extremely inappropriately towards Peter and his family.

Apparently, they were
stirring up all kinds of drama and even
threatening the safety of Peter’s wife and kids.


All three brothers were seen fighting in public, as well as on their social media, which only heated the public’s attention. Later, when the anger died down, the family lawyer had to come out and say that nobody was at fault for what happened, and that all that happened was
because of too much emotion and passion.


Other than that, there is little else known about the conflict and its causes. Even though quite some time has passed, it is evident that P-
Square is not very likely to exist ever.

How P-Square story started
P-Square started out as a young brother duo of Peter and Paul Okoye, when the two of them were in school, however, back then, they were not yet known as P-Square.

For some time, the brothers even were a part of a quartet that sang a cappella (can you imagine that?), but, as you
can see, it did not last long.


At the dawn of the twenty first century, Peter and Paul finally realized that they did not need anyone else to become successful musicians and decided become a duet.


Before they settled on
P-Square, they tried the names P&P, Double P
and Da Pees.


After winning Grab Da Mic in 2001 and
releasing their debut album in 2003, P-Square
began gaining immense popularity. Over the next decade, the dynamic twin duo managed to become one of the most successful Nigerian musicians, with fans all over the world.

For many years, the two were the richest musicians in the country, raking money from their tours
and music sales.

Where is P-Square now?

If you have stopped following the duo after
their breakup, then you might be surprised that two brothers are still doing very well, even on their own. Of course, they are not quite as popular separately as they were together.


As we have mentioned previously, it took a long time for Paul Okoye to return to the studio and create music on his own.

However, time has passed, wounds have healed (or at least scabbed
over), and Paul is back again. These days, the man performs under the name RudeBoy or King Rudy.

Even without his brother, he manages to
gather large crowds for his concerts, and his songs get thousands of hits. Paul also enjoys spending time with his wife and children.


If you want to follow the life of King Rudy, you can find him on Twitter and Instagram
@rudeboypsquare and on Facebook and
Snapchat @rudeboyfire. It is interesting to see
that he still has not dropped the P-Square part
from his socials.


As for Peter Okoye, he wasted no time on
building his solo career. Despite the fact that he was the one who initiated the breakup, Peter, or
Mr. P, as he is now known, often uses the name P-Square, as can be seen on his concert posters.


Just like his brother, he is making his own
music, touring different countries and
seemingly enjoying the luxurious life of a solo
artist. You can find him @peterpsquare on
Twitter and Instagram. Nevertheless, he is far
from being as popular as P-Square once was.
Overall, it seems like this breakup has been a
long time coming.


Tensions between the
brothers have been building up over the years, and 2017 just became the year when everything
fell apart. Neither of the brothers feel like
talking about this anymore, so it would be best if we leave it alone as well. Whether P-Square ever gets back together or not, we hope that both Peter and Paul have a bright future.

MILLIONS of Christians across the world had their faith shaken to its foundations after reports the Pope admitted

HELL DOES NOT EXIST and that bad people simply cease to be.

The devil is REAL: Pope says Satan
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In a jaw-dropping Good Friday ‘revelation’ Pope Francis
reportedly told an Italian journalist that at the moment of death the souls of “sinners” would “disappear”.


Furious Catholics have suggested the claim sounds more akin to atheism than Christianity.

Eugenio Scalfari, 93, said Pope Francis told him: “Hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.”

The quotes appeared in Italian newspaper La Republica, a
newspaper co-founded by Mr Scalfari.
Polish priest wishes
Pope early death over
Muslim speech
Pope tells priests not
to preach holy laws at
adulterers

The shock revelation from the spiritual leader of the Roman
Catholic faith overturns more than 2,000 years of orthodoxy.


Conservative Roman Catholics have raged at the Pope for
changing fundamental aspects of the faith set out in the
Bible.


Antonio Socci, a Catholic author, accused the Pope of
heresy and called for his abdication.
Another Vatican spoke on the condition of anonymity: “He’s
a very strange theologian, assuming Scalfari properly
understood what he was saying.


Pope Francis says there's no hell
“He increases confusion among ordinary Catholics, who no
longer know what to believe.”

The expert believes Mr Scalfari over the Vatican because “if
someone traduces your thoughts, you don’t keep inviting
him back.

Mr Scalfari said that the Pope made the explosive remarks in response to a question asking what happened to wicked
souls after death.


The Pope claimed that unrepentant sinners are not punished after death - instead, they just disappear.

Francis and Mr Scalfari, an atheist philosopher, have met
four times before.



On other occasions too, the Vatican has had to issue
clarifications after meetings with Mr Scalfari - who
reportedly reconstructs dialogue from memory without
taking notes or using a recorder.


The Vatican has confirmed that the meeting took place this
time, but insisted it was not an interview.
It said: “No words in quotation marks should be considered
as a faithful transcription of the Holy Father’s words.”


The Times welcomed the Pope’s alleged comments, however: “The Pope’s clarification that there is no such
thing as eternal fire and brimstone even for those who eschew faith should be a reassurance to everyone.”


Pope Francis has previously been criticised for replying,
“Who am I to judge?” - when asked what he thought of
homosexual Christians.

March 28, 2018, A Federal High
Court Overruled The Federal Government On The Matter Of
Nnamdi Kanu, The Biafran Leader Who Has Been Missing Since September, 2017 When The Nigerian Army Carried
Out Lethal Operations At His Home At Umuahia In Abia
State.

Since Kanu’s Trial Resumed In October Last Year After
The Military Attack, Kanu Has Neither Be Seen Nor Heard
From.


Relying On Army’s Denials Of Holding Kanu, The Federal
Government Has Since Then Claimed That His
Nonappearance At His Trial Was Enough To Revoke His
Bail And Compel His Three Sureties To Forfeit Their
Bonds.


Conversely, The Lawyers To The Sureties Had
Consistently Advanced The Argument That The Issue Of
The Military Invasion Had To Be Considered First Before
The Issue Of Breach Of Bond Or Kanu’s Trial Can Ever
Arise. But Till This Last Hearing, Counsels Have Never
Had Sufficient Opportunity To Fully Present Their
Arguments.


On February 20, 2018 When The Matter Came Up For
Further Mention, Justice Binta Nyako Of Federal High
Court Abuja Agreed To Severe Kanu’s Case From That Of
His Co-defendants, Which Then Set The Stage For
Treating Kanu’s Case Separately And Perhaps Properly.
On March 28, When The Case Came Up For A Resumed
Hearing, The Attorney General Of The Federation Yet
Again Strongly Argued For Revocation Of Mazi Kanu’s
Bond And Issuance Of Bench Warrant Against Him.
The AGF, Who Was Represented By Bar.
Shuaibu Lanaran,
Further Argued That Kanu’s Sureties ‘did Not Deserve Any
Hearing On The Matter, But Must Produce Kanu Or Face
Sanctions’.


In Opposition, Counsels For The Three Sureties Jointly
Argued That A Forfeiture Proceeding First Requires An
“enrolled” Show Cause Order Before Any Issue Of
Revocation Or Bench Warrant Can Arise.

The Lawyers Told The Court That Their Clients Are Yet To
Be Served With Such Order And Thus The Matter Cannot
Be Said To Be Properly Before The Court. Counsels Cited
Pertinent Statutory And Judicial Authorities.


In A Counter-argument, The AGF Alleged That The
Lawyers Have “conspired” To Raise Technical Defenses
To The Matter, Whereupon The Court Immediately Took
Exception To The Remark And Ordered Labaran To
Apologize To The Lawyers, Which He Did Promptly And
Profusely.


In The End, Justice Nyako Agreed With The Submissions
Of The Lawyers For The Sureties And Ordered The AGF To
Properly And Timely Serve The Sureties With An Order To
Show Cause In Compliance With The Rules Of Procedure.


The Next Hearing Is Scheduled For June 26, 2018, When
Lawyers For The Sureties Will Have The First Opportunity
To Introduce Direct Evidence Of The Army Invasion Of
Kanu’s House, Which Has Been Said To Be The Proximate
Cause Of His Disappearance. If The Court Upholds Their
Argument, Nigerian Army May Be Cited For Contempt And
That Alone Is Likely To Affect The Course Of The Trial In
Kanu’s Favor.


It Will Be Recalled That Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Was Taken On
Bail Last Year On The Bond Of N100 Million Each Provided
By Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Jewish Rabbi Immanu El
Ben Madu And Tochukwu Uchendu, An Accountant.

The Sureties Were Represented In Court By Barristers Aloy
Ejimakor, Chukwuma Machukwu Umeh (SAN), And FC
Chude.
–
NAN

The Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has called on
President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack all the
service chiefs.

The council hinged their reason on the service chiefs’
alleged inability to effectively curtail killings in different
parts of the country.


According to them, the recurrent massacre in Benue,
Taraba and Nasarawa states have lent credence to the
accusation by a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus
Danjuma, that the military was colluding with killer
herdsmen to embark on ethnic cleansing.


The YCE stated this in a communique issued after their
Expanded National Executive meeting held in Ado Ekiti on
Thursday in honour of its late President, Chief Idowu
Sofola (SAN), who died last Friday.


The communique was signed by the YCE Secretary-
General, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the chairman of the Ekiti
Council of Elders, Prof. J. O. Oluwasanmi.


It partly read, “The Yoruba Council of Elders calls on Mr.
President to relieve the present security chiefs, some of
whom are already overdue for retirement of their position
and immediately reconfigure the security architecture of
the country to reflect the federal character clause in our
constitution.


“Most Nigerians have lost confidence in the security chiefs
especially the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris,
whom the President has publicly acknowledged as
disobeying his instructions.

“The President must shed and toga of Baba go-slow and
act promptly on this matter to once again inspire the
confidence of Nigerians in his administration.


“A military which publicly claimed to be neutral where the
law of the land is being violated and innocent citizens are
mindlessly murdered by armed herdsmen is definitely
partisan and can no longer be trusted to protect all
Nigerians.”

THE King Center has denied that it gave an award to
President Muhammadu Buhari which was much
publicised on Tuesday, March 27. The centre also said
that Late Martin Luther King’s children were also not
involved in the award ceremony.


The denial came on the heels of an award by visitors
purportedly from the family of late African American
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., gave to
Buhari in Abuja.


In a tweet late Wednesday night, the official Twitter
handle of The King Center said: “The award given to
President Buhari of Nigeria was not given by The King
Center, at the request of The King Center or by the
children of #MLK and #CorettaScottKing.
@MrFixNigeria”


Those who gave the award are related to the late civil
rights activists, but they are not his direct descendants.


Kings' Family completely distanced themselves from
the said award.
In a tweet from AsoVilla shortly after the award was
given, The Presidency tweeted: “President @MBuhari
today at the State House received Martin Luther King
Jnr’s family.

He was also conferred with the 1st Black
History Month National Black Excellence and
Exceptional African Leadership Award 2018.

#AsoVillaToday”
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Remember the Nigerian Army statement concerning Sergeant Bako David, which reads.. ".there's nobody with the name Sergeant Bako David in the Nigerian Army" but I just wish to be clarified. Please, who is this dude with Nigerian Army uniform and Nigerian Army registered AK47, in a military check point, with other Army personnel and with the name tag "Bako D" AKA "Bako David"..?

The question May be rhetorical but if I can get an answer, it would be much appreciated.

Remember Sergeant Bako is the man that came out with a confession on social media that he is one among the soldiers who were paid to carry out DAPCHI SCHOOL GIRLS drama in order to convince the public that the present administration is working hard in terms of security. According to Bako, they were paid to kidnap the school girls and keep them safe for a period of time before bringing them back in the name of Boko Haram.

Recall that an army Sergeant named Bako David deserted the zoo army few weeks after the DAPCHI school girls kidnap drama which was masterminded by APC led administration and the Cabals in Aso Rock, few days later, the zoo army declared on newspaper and TV that the named sergeant was never a Nigerian soldier, but lo and behold, his images proving them wrong has just flooded the social media!

This damnable zoological contraption called Nigeria is really an evil enclave! Full of liars from the pit of hell, starting from the Presidency to the local government level, everyone in government office is a pathological liar, more especialy the Nigerian army, they never accept any responsibility for any atrocity they have committed even at the face of glaring evidence, they will still mount denial with impunity.

They mounted same denial when they attacked the family home of our Supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and went back afterwards to loot his properties.

I think we must write to this effect to prove to the world that Nigerian army and government are pathological liars that must not be taken serious, it will still give us an edge over the case of our Supreme leader which they seemed to be running away from.

Below are the pictures of the deserted army Sergeant with Nigerian flag and his names boldly written on his badge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election with more
than 75 percent of the vote Sunday, according to exit poll
data.


The Russian strongman's election win keeps him as
Russia's leader for another six years and allows him to
claim the mantle of the vast country's longest-serving ruler
other than Joseph Stalin.


Speaking to a crowd who attended a pop concert near the
Kremlin marking his victory, Putin hailed those who voted
for him as a "big national team," adding that "we are bound
for success." He said that the nation needed unity to move
forward and urged the audience to "think about the future of
our great motherland." He then led the enthusiastic crowd to
chant "Russia!"

Results from more than half of precincts showed Putin
winning over 75 percent of the vote, with Communist
candidate Pavel Grudinin and ultranationalist Vladimir
Zhirinovsky trailing far behind with about 13 and 6 percent,
respectively.


The eight presidential candidates were barred from
campaigning Saturday, but the message to voters was clear
from billboards celebrating Russian greatness — a big
theme of Putin's leadership — and Kremlin- friendly media
coverage.

The last time Putin faced voters was in 2012, when he was
up against a serious opposition movement. But since then
he has boosted his popularity thanks to Russian actions in
Ukraine and Syria.


Yevgeny Roizman, the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's
fourth-largest city, says local officials and state employees
have all received orders "from higher up" to make sure the
presidential vote turnout is more than 60 percent.


"They are using everything: schools, kindergartens, hospitals
— the battle for the turnout is unprecedented," said
Roizman, one of the rare opposition politicians to hold a
significant elected office.


A doctor at one of the city's hospitals told The Associated
Press how one kind of voting pressure works.


The doctor, who gave her name only as Yekaterina because
of fears about repercussions, said she and her co- workers
were told to fill out forms detailing not only where they
would cast their ballots, but also told to give the names and
details of two "allies" whom they promise to persuade to go
vote.


"It's not something you can argue about," she said at a cafe
Saturday. "People were indignant at first, said 'They're
violating our rights' ... but what can you do?"
Yekaterina said she isn't sure what she'll do with her ballot,
musing that "maybe I'll just write 'Putin is a moron.'" But
she clearly understands that not showing up at the polling
place Sunday will not only endanger her job, but will reflect
badly on her boss, whom she likes.
The Russian doctor said she wouldn't go to vote if she
wasn't forced to.


"What's the point? We already know the outcome. This is
just a circus show," she said.
More than 1,500 international observers joined thousands of
Russian observers to watch the vote. A Russian election
monitoring group said Saturday it registered an "alarming"
rise in recent days in complaints that employers were
forcing or pressuring workers to vote.


As U.S. authorities investigate alleged Russian interference
in President Trump's 2016 election, Moscow has warned of
possible meddling in the Russian vote.
Election observers and local media have reported threats
and coercion of voters to re-register at their place of work
and report later that they have voted.


Ella Pamfilova, chairwoman of the Central Election
Commission who was appointed to clean up Russia's
electoral system, vowed to respond to complaints about
being coerced to vote.


"No manager has the right to tell them where to vote," she
said recently.


Putin has pledged to raise wages, pour more funds into the
country's crumbling health care and education and
modernize dilapidated infrastructure.


Putin's main foe, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was
barred from the race because of a criminal conviction widely
seen as politically motivated. Navalny has called for a
boycott of the vote.

The news that a Colombian farmer finds $600,000,000 in
drug money buried on his farm has created a modern day
“Gold Rush” as people are now flocking to the Colombian
countryside with echo sounders and all kinds of scanning
equipment, searching for more of Pablo Escobar’s hidden
money pits.


Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 –
December 2, 1993) was a notorious Colombian drug lord
who at the height of his career, supplied about 80% of the
cocaine smuggled into the US.


Known as “The King of Cocaine”, he was the wealthiest
criminal in history, with an estimated known net worth of US
$30 billion by the early 1990s, and approximately US$50
billion when including money that was buried in different
areas of Colombia.


At the height of its power, Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel was
smuggling fifteen tons of cocaine (worth more than half a
billion dollars) into the United States every single day.

He made so much money that he had to spend $1000 per
week purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cash.

Pablo had so much money that he could not possibly spend
it all. He had over 800 luxury mansions all over Colombia,
owned football teams, he gave away billions of dollars to
help build hospital’s, schools, work programs and even
rebuilt entire ghettos for the poverty stricken people of
Colombia.

Even with all that going on, he still had too much cash to
hide. So he started to bury it all over Colombia. The location
of each money pit was known by only Pablo and his three
closest associates.


When Pablo was finally killed, the location of many of these
money pits died with him. The CIA estimates there to be
about 100 of these money pits that have yet to be
discovered, each containing between five hundred million to
one billion dollars.


Fast forward to today. Meet Jose Mariena Cartolos, a 65
year old farmer who recently received a $3000 grant from
the Colombian government to help him start a palm oil
plantation on land that has been in his family for over 200
years.


While digging the irrigation trench for the plantation, Jose
discovered something big beneath his feet. After further
excavation, Jose discovered several large blue containers
with something incredible inside.
Money, not just a few hundred dollars, not even a million
dollars, heck not even 100 million dollars.


This 65 year old
farmer with nothing but the shirt on his back had managed
to find one of Pablo Escobar’s money pit’s containing a
whopping $600,000,000. Yup thats right, six hundred million
dollars.

Its not clear what will happen to the
money now, but many speculate that Jose
Mariena Cartolos will not be allowed to
keep the money, but it will most likely
remain in Colombia and be used to fund
social and economical programs that help
those in poverty.

An identity card belonging to the Deputy
Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders
Association of Nigeria in Bassa Local
Government Area of Plateau State , Zakariya
Ya ’ u Idris , is now a subject of controversy .

The Police authorities said they had
commenced investigation into the matter.
While the Irigwe Development Association
alleged that the document was recovered at a
scene where some persons were recently
killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen , MACBAN
said the ID card was stolen by Irigwe youths
who attacked the house of Idris while he was
worshiping in the mosque .

The President of IDA and former member ,
Plateau State House of Assembly , Sunday
Abdu , said , “ The identity card was seen at the
scene of an attack where people were killed.

“ The issue of identity cards is a small matter.

We also recovered telephone handsets .
“ We have reported the matter to the Police
and the items have been taken for
investigation . ”
But when contacted by our correspondent, the
chairman of MACBAN in Plateau State ,
Muhammad Nuru Abdullahi , insisted that the
ID card was stolen along with other personal
documents.

He said, “ The owner of the ID card is the
deputy chairman of MACBAN in Bassa LGA .
He was chased out of his own house .

“ He left this document inside his own house ,
and they entered and picked it and then went
away with it . The man was running for his
life.

“ The incident happened on Wednesday
morning . You know , they were attacked very
early in the morning before 6 : 00 am . He was
in the mosque when they were attacked and
he was unable to return to his house.

“ That was how they picked the documents,
including the certificates of his children ,
indigene ’ s certificates of his wife and
children , his ( MACBAN) identity card , vehicle
documents and other personal items .


“ He has reported to the Police and the report
has been documented . ”
When contacted to find out whether any
report was lodged by either parties , the
spokesperson of Plateau State Police
Command , Matthias Tyopev , an Assistant
Superintendent of Police said , “ It is a sensitive
matter; no comment for now , until after
diligent investigation . ”


But the Police later said the owner of the ID
card , had reported a case of armed invasion at
his home at the Bassa Divisional Headquarters
on Sunday .

“ The man whose face appeared on the ID card
has reported at the Bassa Division today that
his ID card was missing after his house was
broken into during an attack .


“ But we have not found the ID card since
nobody has brought it to the police ” ,

The White House announced Sunday that it intends to seek
the death penalty for certain drug traffickers "where
appropriate under the law" in a bid to slow down the
country's opioid epidemic.


The White House also said that President Trump would call
on Congress to pass legislation lowering the amount of
drugs that would invoke mandatory minimum sentences for
traffickers.

Trump was expected to formally announce the plan on
Monday during a visit to New Hampshire. He will be
accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, who has shown
an interest in the issue, particularly as it pertains to children.


The president had promised to make fighting the drug crisis
a priority during the campaign. At a rally in Pennsylvania
last weekend, Trump suggested mandating the death
penalty for drug dealers in the United States and claimed the
American justice system was too soft on traffickers.


"You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you're smuggling
them in and you are making a lot of money and people are
dying. And they don’t even put you in jail," Trump said at the
time. "That's why we have a problem, folks. I don't think we
should play games."


Trump made similar comments at a recent White House
summit on opioids. "Some countries have a very, very tough
penalty -- the ultimate penalty. And, by the way, they have
much less of a drug problem than we do," Trump said. "So
we're going to have to be very strong on penalties."
The Justice Department said the federal death penalty is
available for several limited drug-related offenses, including
violations of the "drug kingpin" provisions of federal law.

The White House plan amounts to a three-pronged attack on
the opioid crisis: bolstering law enforcement against
smuggling and trafficking, building up a campaign to
educate Americans about the dangers of opioid abuse and
over-prescription and improving funding for treatment
through the federal government.


The plan's objectives include reducing opioid prescriptions
by one-third within three years and ensuring that all
government healthcare providers adopt best practices for
prescribing such drugs within five years. The White House
has also called for increased research and development
through public-private partnerships between the federal
National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical
companies.


Opioids, including prescription opioids, heroin and synthetic
drugs such as fentanyl, killed more than 42,000 people in
the U.S. in 2016, more than any year on record, according to
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trump has
declared that fighting the epidemic is a priority for the
administration but critics say the effort has fallen short.

Last October, Trump declared the crisis a national public
health emergency, short of the national state of emergency
sought by a presidential commission he put together to
study the issue.

"We call it the crisis next door because everyone knows
someone," said Kellyanne Conway, a Trump senior adviser.

"This is no longer somebody else's community, somebody
else's kid, somebody else's co-worker."

Donald Tusk says negotiations on other
issues will not progress until the Ireland
question has been dealt with



The EU has thrown down an ultimatum to Theresa
May in Brexit talks, warning that it will not open
discussions about trade or other issues until the
Irish border question is solved.


Speaking in Dublin alongside the Irish Prime
Minister Leo Varadkar, European Council President
Donald Tusk said talks would be a case of “Ireland
first” and that “the risk of destabilising the fragile
peace process must be avoided at all costs”.

“We know today that the UK Government rejects a
customs and regulatory border down the Irish Sea,
the EU single market, and the customs union,” the
Mr Tusk said.

“While we must respect this position, we also
expect the UK to propose a specific and realistic
solution to avoid a hard border.

“As long as the UK doesn’t present such a solution,
it is very difficult to imagine substantive progress in
Brexit negotiations.

“If in London someone assumes that the
negotiations will deal with other issues first before
the Irish issue, my response would be: Ireland first.”

British negotiators have long been keen to move to
discussions about trade and had hoped to do so
after the March meeting of the European Council in
two weeks, but Mr Tusk’s latest ultimatum
suggests further delays could be in store.

The EU
says a withdrawal agreement must be negotiated
by October to give it time to ratify the deal before
the UK falls out of the bloc in March 2019.

Mr Tusk recalled that the Good Friday Agreement,
whose 20th anniversary is next month, had been
“ratified by huge majorities north and south of the
border”.


“We must recognise the democratic decision taken
by Britain to leave the EU in 2016 – just as we must
recognise the democratic decision made on the
island of Ireland in 1998 with all its consequences,”
he said, in a play on the rhetoric used by Brexiteers
regarding the 2016 EU referendum.

The EU27 nations granted the UK “sufficient
progress” to move to the rest of Brexit talks in the
December meeting of the European Council after
the UK made a commitment to avoid a hard border
on the island of Ireland at all costs.

The joint report agreed by both sides stated that
the UK would maintain regulatory alignment with
the EU to prevent a hard border – unless another
solution could be found, either specifically for
Ireland, or as part of the wider trade deal.


Since that agreement, however, the UK has ruled
out a trade deal solution by reiterating its
commitment to leave the customs union and single
market, has ruled out a customs border between
the province and Great Britain, and has not
produced detailed specific proposals for avoiding a
hard border.

 Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has
also poured cold water on the issue, downplaying
the UK’s commitment to avoiding a hard border in a
letter to the PM.

A Nigerian jurist at the International Criminal Court
(ICC) has been elected president of the war crimes
tribunal.

Chile Eboe-Osuji, who became the first Nigerian to be
elevated to the court in 2012, would serve as ICC
president for the next three years.


The announcement was contained in a statement
posted on ICC website on Sunday.

See the full statement below:

“On the 11th March 2018, the judges of the International
Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session,
elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji (Nigeria) as President
of the Court for a three-year term with immediate
effect. Judge Robert Fremr(Czech Republic) was
elected First Vice-President and Judge Marc Perrin de
Brichambaut (France) Second Vice-President.”

The new appointee was also quoted in the statement.
“I am deeply honoured to have been elected by my
peers as President of the International Criminal Court.

As I take up my duties, I feel encouraged that I am able
to rely on the wide experience of the two Vice-
Presidents, Judge Robert Fremr and Judge Marc Perrin
de Brichambaut, both of whom I have closely worked
with previously.


“I look forward to working together with them as well
as with all the judges, all the Officials and the staff of
the Court in a spirit of collegiality. I also look forward to
collaborating with the Assembly of States Parties, civil
society and the international community at large, acting
together to strengthen and reinforce the Rome Statute
system, the 20th anniversary of the adoption of which
we celebrate this year”, President Chile Eboe-Osuji
stated following the election.

“I am also grateful to the previous President, Judge
Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, and Vice-Presidents,
Judges Joyce Aluoch and Kuniko Ozaki, for their work
and leadership,” he added.

The Presidency – consisting of the President and the
two Vice-Presidents – plays a key role in providing
strategic leadership to the ICC as a whole.

The Presidency coordinates with the other organs and
seeks the concurrence of the Prosecutor on matters of
mutual concern. In accordance with the Rome Statute,
the ICC’s governing treaty, the Presidency is
responsible for the proper administration of the Court,
with the exception of the Office of the Prosecutor.

The Presidency oversees the activities of the Registry
and provides input into a broad range of administrative
policies affecting the Court’s overall functioning.

Furthermore it conducts judicial review of certain
decisions of the Registrar and concludes Court-wide
cooperation agreements with States and international
organisation.

An Indian man poured acid over his wife, on International
Women’s Day, after she gave birth to a baby girl in
Moradabad, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The
victim, Farah Biwi, 25, suffered burns injuries to her face,
hands and stomach after her husband Siraj Biwi, 32,
allegedly threw acid over her.

The couple were married for eight years and have two
children together, both girls. Police are searching for the
alleged attacker, and hope to arrest him for voluntarily
causing grievous harm.

Farah is now being treated in hospital after the attack -
said to be motivated by her ‘failure’ to produce a male
child and fulfill a dowry.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Saturday, said
it would stage fresh protests in 88 countries to compel the
Federal Government to produce its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

This was contained in a statement signed by IPOB’s
Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful.

He noted that the absence of its leader in the country did
not mean that the struggle for Biafra was over.

“It is a known fact that IPOB is rooted in every community
and town in the South-South and South-East. Our
presence is felt even in remote villages where IPOB family
members are preaching the gospel of restoration of
Biafra.

“So, rather than diminish, our influence is growing on a
daily basis. Our positive impact resonates with the people.

Our presence in over 88 countries of the world is a
testament to our global influence.

“Everybody has come to the realisation that our leader is
the only person that can make a difference that is capable
of shaking the foundations of Nigeria. The marginalised
and the oppressed all miss him. We are still conducting
our meetings across the world and pursuing vigorously
the liberation of the Biafran people.

“We will continue our protests until the Nigerian Army
releases our leader, Nnamdi Kanu, whom they kidnapped
or presumably killed during the Operation Python Dance II
in his hometown on September 14, 2017,” the statement
read.

By Rose Moses

At the Senate the other week, another controversial
subject was thrown into the political space as Senator
Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger) proposed a Bill seeking
for establishment of an Independent National
Commission for Hate Speeches.
The Bill also prescribes death sentence for any person
found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the
death of another person upon conviction.





Hate Speech
Similarly in August last year, Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, then acting President, had at a function,
described hate speech as a specie of terrorism.

According to him, hate speech employs violence and
intimidation to achieve certain political objectives and as
such, said offenders would be punished under the Terror
Act.


The Bill by Senator Abdulahi, who by the way, is
spokesperson of the upper legislative chamber, among
other things, reads that :“A person who uses, publishes,
presents, produces, plays, provides, distributes and/or
directs the performance of any material, written and/or
visual, which is threatening, abusive or insulting or
involves the use of threatening, abusive or insulting words
or behaviour, commits an offence, if such person intends
thereby to stir up ethnic hatred, or having regard to all the
circumstances, ethnic hatred is likely to be stirred up
against any person or person from such an ethnic group
in Nigeria.”





Expectedly, the bill has stimulated discourse in many
quarters, with some Nigeria’s, ever suspicious of the
Nigerian legislators, wondering whose interest Abdulahi
was actually trying to protect with the Bill.
And for this category of Nigerians, they would like Sen.
Abdulahi to look inward and at the policies of the APC led
Federal Government, which most have alleged rode on
the back of hate speech to power, and which they term as
founder and inventor of hate speeches in present day
Nigeria.




Hate speech, they further claim, was also boosted by
President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement at an
international forum where he said it will not be possible to
treat those who gave him “97 per cent vote” same way as
those that gave him “five per cent.”

And as if to confirm the above statement made at the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC
couple of months after he was sworn in as president,
appointments into key positions and handling of other
national issues in the Buhari government, have been
glaringly lopsided.





That apart, the way and manner the Federal Government
treated agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) when compared to what obtains in the ongoing
deadly attacks by Fulani herdsmen in the country easily
defines bias.


When it comes to the war against corruption, a senator
and actually a member of the president’s All Progressives
Congress (APC) party, Shehu Sani, satirically describes
the president’s apparent predisposition, saying when
members of the president’s circle are involved, the case
is treated with some nice smelling perfume but when
opposition members are involved, government deploys
the use of insecticide.
Little wonder therefore that any criticism of this
administration’ inadequacies, or actions and inactions are
usually labeled as hate speech, which largely goes to
explain why the proposed Bill has been hugely condemned
and said to be in bad faith, even when that may not be so.





A legislative lobbyist/consultant, Akinloye Oyeniyi MLS, in
a chat, however, said the proposed Bill is one of those
that will not go far on the floor of the red chamber
because the hate speech, which it seeks to address, is
already taken care of under slander, libel, treasonable
felony and other crimes.


In the same token, the commission it seeks to establish is
duplication of the statutory functions of the National
Human Rights Commission.
Obviously in law making process, there are preliminary
considerations drafters and sponsors of Bills must adhere
to, among which are conformity with the constitution in
the area of supremacy, legislative competence,
fundamental objectives and directive of principles of state
policy, fundamental rights, and auster clauses, said
Oyeniyi.


In other words, a proposed Bill must not be in conflict
with any existing law, policy or case law, just as customs
and religious factors, as well as implementation are put
into consideration.

Thus, going by the the contents of the proposed Bill by
Senator Abdulahi, it would seem it is already dead on
arrival for the simple reason that it is in conflict with the
Constitution, existing laws like Criminal Act and Penal
Codes and the National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) Act.





What Nigeria desperately needs right now are laws that
will entrench peace, justice and good governance; laws
that will holistically address the three monsters of
insecurity, corruption and impunity, currently holding the
nation down.

When that is done, things like hate speeches will certainly
no longer be an issue, since hate speeches hardly thrive
in peaceful and just environment, where everyone feels a
sense of belonging.

A Georgia woman has been convicted for running over her
"sugar daddy" after he ended their relationship.


47-year-old Junmakia Racquel Henley was sentenced
Monday to serve 15 years in prison with another 10 years
of probation to follow for the crime.

Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds said in a
statement that Henley met the man, who police described
as a "dapper retired engineer in his 60s," at a Walmart in
Marietta in February 2016.





Authorities said after they met for lunch, the pair began to
see each other frequently for several days. Henley
pleaded with her sugar daddy to lavish her with money
and gifts and taking her out to different exotic places.


Feeling he was being scammed, after spending enough on
her, the man broke up with Henley and asked her to leave
his house on March 5, 2016.

Prosecutors said the victim walked Henley to her car
parked in his driveway, and when she got into her car, she
immediately backed up and then accelerated toward the
man, who was struck and landed on the hood of her car.

After putting the car in reverse, which caused the victim
to be removed from the car hood, Henley again drove over
him, the court heard.

She fled the scene as the victim was screaming for help,
prosecutors said.

But luckily for the helpless man, he had
his cellphone with him and was able to call for assistance
and survived the attack.

According to NY Daily News, police arrested Henley the
next day, and she denied being at the man's house at the
time of the crash.

Henley who was convicted of aggravated assault with a
motor vehicle, aggravated battery and felony hit and run,
was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison with another 10
years of probation to follow her incarceration.





She will also have to serve at least 7 years in prison
before being eligible for parole.

Mr Zhao Linxiang, the Economic and Commercial
Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, on Friday in
Abuja said the US position on Chinese loans to Nigeria
and African countries “is ridiculous”.





The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had said on
Thursday that African countries should be careful not to
forfeit their sovereignty when they accept loans from
China.


Tillerson, who is on his first diplomatic trip to the
continent, also said Chinese investments “do not bring
significant job creation locally”.
He further criticised how Beijing structured loans to
African governments.
Reacting, Zhao, at a news briefing in Abuja, said the
Chinese loans to Africa were aimed at implementing major
China-Africa cooperation projects and promoting
sustainable development in the continent.
He explained that African countries had begun accessing
the loans and implementing planned projects.




“African people should know the role the Chinese loans
play in your economy. That is the most important thing.


“Except the Chinese Government, which other government
provides loans to African countries without critical
conditions? No Western country does that.


“How can they say they suspect Chinese loans. It is
ridiculous. Without funds, how can you develop a country?
“At the beginning of our opening up to the world, 30 or 40
years ago, we opened our doors to other countries and we
borrowed from other countries,” Zhao said.






The envoy added that China-Africa relations allowed for
win-win benefits for both parties.