The Byzantine church was also damaged and restored several times through the 8th and 9th centuries. It was also flooded and buried, leaving it hidden for decades until it was rediscovered in 1956
The team also announced that the same stone flooring was once walked upon by St Nicholas. Pictures is the original foundation recently uncovered by archaeologists working at the site in Turkey
St Nicholas, who lived between 270 and 343 AD, is most famous for inheriting money that he gave away to the poor and specifically the story about how he gifted three girls with bags of gold to save them from a life of prostitution
The grey-stone building sits in a depression which is several miles deep. Although it is weathered, many of the marble columns that once stood around the church are still found on the grounds
The original foundation was discovered in 2017 when researchers found gaps under the floor of the church using electronic surveys. Pictures is the original foundation peaking out from the mosaic flooring of the church that stands at the site today
Archaeologist have been working at the site for years, carefully removing flooring of the St Nicholas church that stands in Turkey. The removal revealed flooring of the original church that was built after St Nicholas died in 343 AD
The tomb of Saint Nicolas, who inspired the stories of Santa Claus, because of his legendary charity and kindness to children, has been discovered after archaeologists uncovered the remains of an ancient church in Turkey.
The church in Demre, a town in the Antalya district in the south of Turkey was covered by rising sea levels in the Mediterranean centuries ago.
Another church was built on top of the original building to protect St Nicholas' tomb. Archaeologists only recently found mosaics and stone flooring underneath, which helped them find the original church and St Nicholas' grave.
Osman Eravsar, the head of the provincial cultural heritage preservation board in Antalya, told Demirören News Agency : "The first church was submerged with the rise of the Mediterranean Sea, and some centuries later, a new church was built above.
"Now we have reached the remains of the first church and the floor on which Saint Nicholas stepped.
"The tiling of the floor of the first church, on which saint Nicholas walked, has been unearthed."
St Nicholas, who lived in what is now Turkey between 270 and 343 AD, was a Christian bishop of Greek origin.
The discovery support claims that St Nicolas lived and died in Turkey and the team also announced that the same stone flooring found hiding beneath layers of sediment was also walked upon by the Christian figure, Demirören News Agency reports.
The Byzantine church built over the ancient foundation was a place of worship for Orthodox Christians between the 5th and 12th centuries and is surrounded by statues of St Nicholas.
It was also added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1982.
The ancient church was first believed to have been discovered in 2017 by researchers who conducted electronic surveys under St Nicholas church, which revealed gaps between the floor and the ground.
The team had announced that they may have found the tomb of Saint Nicholas, but were still working to carefully remove the Byzantine church's flooring to not damage it.
Osman Eravsar, the head of the provincial cultural heritage preservation board in Antalya, told Demirören News Agency last week: 'The first church was submerged with the rise of the Mediterranean Sea, and some centuries later, a new church was built above.
'Now we have reached the remains of the first church and the floor on which Saint Nicholas stepped,' he noted. 'The tiling of the floor of the first church, on which Saint Nicholas walked, has been unearthed.'
St Nicholas, who is famous for his gift-giving and charity to the poor, was born in the village of Patara to wealthy parents who died in an epidemic and left their son a large fortune.
University of Lagos student, Chidinma Ojukwu, accused of killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, has denied killing the deceased in a confessional video that was played before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday, October 18.
This was her claim when the court resumed watching of the recorded video footage of the confessional statement of the prime suspect.
In the video recording played before the court, Chidinma denied knowledge of who killed the deceased. According to her, she went out on the said day and by the time she returned, she saw Ataga on the floor and she quickly picked her things and left because she was scared.
“I don’t know who entered I just picked my things and left because I was scared.”she said
This is contrary to her confession when the video showing the lifeless body of Ataga was earlier played at the last proceedings on October 11, 2022, where she said that she killed the deceased on her own.
“There was nobody that assisted me, I did it alone.”she said in the video
While being interrogated in the video, Chidinma was asked why she denied knowing the deceased, and she said she didn’t deny knowing Ataga but that she didn’t kill him.
“I did not say that I didn’t know him, I said I did not kill him, I can not kill somebody.”she said
When a member of the team that interrogated her asked why she said the blood stains on her clothes were her period, she kept saying she cannot kill somebody.
“I don’t know who came in after I left the room, when I came back I saw him bleeding, I had to leave because I was scared, I did not kill him, I don’t know who killed him.”
The suspect was heard saying in the video that when she saw him in the pool of his blood she left him instead of calling for help because she was scared.
When asked why she ordered for Loud and Rophynol, the defendant responded that it was the deceased that ordered them and that she doesn’t know where he ordered them from.
Chidinma was also asked why she took the deceased’s two iPhones and Mac Laptop, and she replied claiming they were her things so she picked them and left because she was scared.
The ninth prosecution witness DSP Olusegun Bamidele from the Intelligence and Tactical Unit of the State Criminal Investigating Department Panti Yaba, while being led in evidence by the Lagos State prosecuting counsel, Yusuf Sule, gave information of how the handwritten statement of the first defendant was taken and how the second and third defendants were arrested shortly after the video stopped playing.
The investigating Police officer said that after the arrest of the first defendant, on June 23, 2021, her written statement was recorded on June 24.
In his words
“She started writing by herself, but because her hand-writing wasn’t legible I told her that she should ensure that her writing is legible or write in capital letter.
It was at that point that she said I should write for her and she confessed to killing the deceased.
She also mentioned how she had killed Michael Usifo Ataga and went away with the knife, phones and Mac book laptop. We took the first defendant to the computer village with her laptop and we located the phone hub.
I and my OC went and we met one Yomi, we invited him but he insisted on not knowing what happened so I hinted him, when he came to our office, we gave him the whole details and he said it was few days ago that the first defendant came to sell the laptop to them, and it was one of his colleagues Ifeoluwa Oluwo that they did the transactions together.
That was how the Mac book was recovered and the first defendant confessed that she was the one who sold the laptop to them.
On that same June 24, I remember she mentioned one DG, that he assisted her in getting ID card, drivers license, Access Bank ATM, among others but that she doesn’t know his full name, but only speak with him on phone.
I now said ok, assist us in this investigation so that we can get this DG, she said she doesn’t know the house, this prompted us to bring the tracking team who traced her to her house.
In the course of investigation we studied her call log very well we noticed that there were frequent calls with a particular number between June 15, 17, 18 and 21, the tracker led to the arrest of the 2nd defendant.
The team traced the 2nd defendant to Surulere before he was arrested, the 2nd defendant threw away his phone through the window and also attempted to jump through the window but he was held by the waist.
Four other phones were recovered from him, two small size Itel phones and two Tecno phones.
Eventually, when he was brought to our office I called him DG, he said his name was not DG, then I confronted him with who is Chidinma, then he narrated how he met Chidinma.
He said he met Chidinma through a friend called Sam, who was an ex-boyfriend of the first defendant and that he is capable of getting international passport, drivers licence, statement of bank.
The second defendant said that he got Chidinma’s number from Sam and after conversations he visited her at choice places at Sabo Yaba.
Along the line he said there was a particular day during the week when Chidinma called him and requested that he gets her Loud, smoke and Rophynol, he collected the money and went to Shitta area of Surulere and got the Rophynol from the Mallam in that area.
He said he remembered sending it to the first defendant while she was at Lekki, through a dispatch rider, he told me that he supplies her two or three time in Lekki, with Loud, smoke and Rophynol.
He said on one of the occasions he called the first defendant when the dispatched rider got to Lekki and she went to collect it,” the witness said.
Bamidele who continued in his evidence, said that the 3rd defendant was arrested through the help of the foster father of Chidinma Onoh Ojukwu and their uncle Mr. Obi alongside their mother.
He said the 3rd defendant narrated that the iPhone was gifted to her by Chidinma and she had questioned the first defendant where she got the phone from and she said it was one of her boyfriends that gave her.
The three defendants were arraigned on October, 12, 2021, on a nine-count charge preferred against them by Lagos State Government.
Ojukwu and Quadri are facing the first to eight counts bordering on conspiracy, murder, stabbing, forgery, making of bank statements and stealing. The third defendant, Egbuchu, is facing the ninth count – stealing of iPhone 7 belonging to the late Ataga.
Ojukwu and Quadri are alleged to have conspired and murdered Ataga on June 15, 2021, by stabbing him several times with a knife on the neck and chest. The alleged murder took place at 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. The duo were also accused of committing forgery by procuring and making bank account statements purported to have been made by the deceased.
Justice Adesanya adjourned till October 20, 2022 for the continuation of trial.
I think the amount allocated to Lagos is wrong. Dangote has been doing a lot of business and paying so much tax to Lagos government, the money should be deducted and given to Kano before hunger finish hi brothers up north
A whole Kano, with over 10 million people in population is doing only 40 billion with Edo sitting on top of Kano, looking over its head
Bini no dey carry last abeg
South west #972 billion North West #174 billion Only? Haba, upon all the landmass, and small South west is still beating them silly?
Lagos should just buy over Yobe state
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We no dey carry last........be it politics, Budget, Education, Health facilities and many more.
At least 13 people have now died after a Russian fighter-bomber plane crashed into an apartment block in the southern Russian town of Yeysk on Monday night, October 17.
Footage shared on social media showed flames pouring from two apartment blocks after the jet hit it.
A local correspondent in Yeysk told Russia's state-run TV channel Rossiya 24 that two pilots of the Su-34 jet, on a training flight, ejected before it hit the building.
Rescuers revised the death toll after finishing their search of the rubble, Russia's emergencies ministry said. Three children were among the victims. Pupils from a nearby secondary school were among more than 360 people evacuated from the crash site, Russian media reported.
The officials said 68 were rescued from the blaze in the nine-storey block.
Nineteen injured people are being treated following the crash.
"According to a report from the pilots, who jettisoned from the plane, the reason for the crash was a fire in one of the engines during take off," the Russian defence ministry said.
"At the point where the Su-34 came down, in the courtyard of a residential block, the plane's fuel supply caught fire," it added.
The port town of Yeysk lies near the eastern Ukrainian war zone, across the Sea of Azov from the devastated city of Mariupol.
It has been used as a major training ground for Russia's naval aviation.
A woman who poisoned her former boyfriend’s oatmeal and strangled him with his tie over the custody of their child, has been sentenced to 115 years in prison.
Heidi Marie Littlefield, 42, was found guilty of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, during a seven-day trial in Hamilton County, Indiana, US.
Francis Kelley’s body was found in January 2021, and the prosecution said he had been strangled while acute fentanyl intoxication was listed as a contributing factor to his death.
Mr Kelley’s mobile and iPad had text messages which showed that Heidi Littlefield had been to his home in the days before he was found dead, it is reported.
"The two were in the middle of a custody battle regarding their two-year-old child in common," the affidavit said.
In one text message, he questioned whether she had tampered with his oatmeal, according to the court document.
"Did you do something to the oatmeal that was in my fridge?" he asked her, reported the Indianapolis Star.
It was alleged by the prosecution that Littlefield had thought up multiple ways of killing Mr Kelley.
She decided on buying fentanyl from drug dealers in Ohio with her 23-year-old daughter Logan Runyon, it is claimed.
She then asked her daughter to enter the victim’s house and put the fentanyl in his oatmeal.
Logan Runyon gave evidence saying that they tried three times to poison his food and that on the third time, on January 14, 2021, they entered Mr Kelley’s home the following day and found him struggling to breathe while face-down on the floor, it is reported.
The daughter said that her mother, Littlefield, wanted her to break his neck which she couldn’t do due to Kelley’s size.
And it was at that point it is claimed that Littlefield went upstairs, grabbed Mr Kelley’s tie and tightened it around his neck.
Three days later he was found dead by police.
It is also alleged that Littlefield gave Runyon’s former boyfriend Robert Walker $2,500 to hire a hitman but the couple spent the money on drugs, clothes and hotels, reported the Indianapolis.
Runyon pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to murder and was sentenced to 26 years in jail while Walker was given 10 years also for conspiracy to murder after pleading guilty in May.
As part of Runyon’s plea agreement, she agreed to testify against Littlefield.
Asked why she had helped her mother commit murder she told a prosecutor: "Because I love her and because we never really had a good relationship."
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