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Washington, DC – A year after
Donald Trump urged thousands of
his supporters to “ fight like hell ” just
hours before the US Capitol building
was overrun on January 6, 2021,
authorities in the United States are
still prosecuting accused rioters.
More than 700 people have been
arrested over the incident , which
Democrats often describe as an
insurrection that aimed to violently
prevent the certification of President
Joe Biden’s election victory.
Trump was impeached by the US
House of Representatives for
“inciting” the riot. But last month
the former president remained
defiant, rejecting any criticism of his
role in an attack that he said was a
“completely unarmed protest of the
rigged election”.
While Trump appears to have
escaped legal repercussions for the
Capitol riot so far, many of his
supporters have not.
Federal authorities have levelled a
myriad of charges against suspected
rioters, ranging from entering a
restricted building to more serious
counts such as assaulting officers
with dangerous weapons.
Here, Al Jazeera examines the legal
cases involving some of the most
memorable faces from January 6.




Jacob Chansley, the ‘QAnon Shaman




With a pointy beard, an American
flag painted on his face, and horns
sticking out of his fur hat, the
shirtless and heavily tattooed, self-
described “ QAnon Shaman ” rapidly
rose to internet fame after the riot.
Images showing Jacob Chansley
shouting while standing inside the
Capitol building quickly became
synonymous with the events that
unfolded that day.
Chansley, who is from Phoenix,
Arizona, was arrested on January 9
and initially faced a six-count
indictment.
He was accused of scaling the Senate
dais and “taking the seat that Vice
President Mike Pence had occupied
an hour earlier” when Congress was
attempting to certify the election.
In February, he released a statement
through his lawyer apologising for
his actions during the riot and
voicing disappointment with Trump
for failing to pardon him and other
January 6 suspects before leaving
office.
“I am sorry for having aroused fear
in the hearts of others. That was
wrong. Period,” he wrote.
Chansley eventually pleaded guilty to
obstruction of an official proceeding
in a deal with the prosecution that
saw the other charges dropped. He
was sentenced on November to 41
months in jail.
His defence lawyer, citing Chansley’s
“mental health infirmities” that
were diagnosed in 2006 and 2021,
painted his client as a vulnerable
individual, accusing Trump of
inciting the riot “by and through his
actions and words”.
“Mr. Chansley is not a political
prisoner. He does not seek to be
labeled such. Rather, this case is
about a frail and vulnerable
human,” Konder Watkins, the
lawyer, wrote in a court filing in
November.



Kevin Seefried, who wielded
Confederate flag inside Capitol




Holding a Confederate battle flag
inside the US Capitol, Kevin Seefried,
of Laurel, Delaware, instantly
became one of the recognisable faces
of the January 6 riot.
The flag was used by southern states
that seceded from the US in 1861 to
maintain slavery, sparking a bloody
four-year civil war. It is seen as a
symbol of hate and racism, but
supporters of the flag say it
represents southern heritage.
Seefried was taken into custody with
his son Hunter on January 14. In
April, a joint federal indictment
against the pair was unsealed.
The older Seefried faces five counts
relating to unlawfully entering the
Capitol, the most serious of which –
corruptly obstructing, influencing
and impeding an official proceeding
– carries a maximum jail sentence of
20 years. Hunter was charged with
eight counts, including engaging “in
an act of physical violence within
the United States Capitol Grounds
and any of the Capitol Buildings”.
“Defendant Kevin Seefried told law
enforcement that he had traveled
with his family from Delaware to the
District of Columbia to hear
President Trump speak, and that he
and Hunter Seefried participated in a
march from the White House to the
Capitol led by an individual with a
bull horn,” an affidavit by the FBI on
the Seefrieds says.
Seefried, who has been free on bond,
pleaded not guilty in May. In
October, a federal judge in
Washington, DC set his trial for June
2022, according to the Reuters news
agency.



Richard Barnett, who breached Nancy
Pelosi’s office




Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US
House of Representatives, is the
most powerful legislator in the US;
she is third in the line of succession
for the presidency, and virtually
nothing gets a vote in the lower
chamber of Congress without her
approval.
On January 6, 2021, Trump
supporter Richard Barnett, who goes
by the name “Bigo”, was
photographed with his feet on her
desk in a picture that captured the
chaos of the riot.
“I put a quarter on her desk even
though she ain’t f*****g worth it,”
he later said outside the Capitol in a
viral video that has been cited in the
legal case against him. “And I left
her a note on her desk that says
‘Nancy, Bigo was here, you b***h’.”
In the video, Barnett also held up an
envelope that he said he took from
Pelosi’s office.
He was arrested two days after the
riot and spent more than three
months in pre-trial detention.
Prosecutors, who had accused him
of bringing a stun gun into the
Capitol, argued that he posed a
threat to the community.
“The defendant entered the office of
Speaker Pelosi where he seems to
have posed for photographs before
taking her mail and allegedly leaving
her a disturbing note – and telling
the media about it,” they wrote in a
court filing in January 2021.
“Then, the defendant acted swiftly to
remove his numerous firearms and
the stun device from his residence
prior to his arrest, supporting the
inference that he intends to retain
control of them.”
A federal magistrate judge agreed
with them in a January 28 ruling,
saying that Barnett came to
Washington, DC from his home in
northwestern Arkansas on a “critical
day under our constitution,
prepared with a weapon and cloaked
with entitlement”.
The defendant was released late in
April after an appeals court ruled
against pre-trial detention in a case
similar to his.
Barnett faces seven federal charges ,
including entering and remaining in
a restricted building or grounds with
a deadly or dangerous weapon,
which carries a maximum sentence
of 10 years in jail if proven beyond a
reasonable doubt. He has pleaded
not guilty, and a date has not been
set for his trial.
Since his release, Barnett has been
outspoken in criticising the
conditions of his imprisonment in
the first half of 2021. “As far as
apologies or regret … no comment,”
Barnett told a local Arkansas news
outlet in November. “You can pretty
much guess how I feel, but I can’t
comment on it.”



Aaron Mostofsky, who wore fur pellets
inside the Capitol



Aaron Mostofsky’s outfit – brown fur
pelts and a wooden staff – earned
him the nickname “caveman” after
his photos went viral during the
riot.
But other accessories he carried – a
body armour vest and a riot shield –
may land him up to 10 years in jail,
as federal prosecutors allege the
items belonged to US Capitol Police
and have charged him with theft of
government property.
Mostofsky, the son of a prominent
Brooklyn judge , was arrested on
January 12, 2021. He faces eight
federal counts, including obstructing
official proceedings and assaulting,
resisting or impeding an officer.
Mostofsky, who has been free on
bond, pleaded not guilty in March,
and his trial is scheduled for
January 22, according to the US
Justice Department.
On the day of the riot, Mostofsky told
the New York Post that he felt
cheated by the election results. “I
don’t think 75 million people voted
for Trump — I think it was close to
85 million. I think certain states that
have been red for a long time turned
blue and were stolen, like New
York,” he said in an interview cited
in an FBI affidavit .



Jennifer ‘Jenna’ Ryan, who posed next
to broken Capitol window




Despite not facing more serious
charges that could have carried
years in jail, Jenna Ryan became one
of the faces of the January 6 riot
after posting a photo of herself
posing with a peace sign next to a
broken Capitol building window.
“We just stormed the Capital. It was
one of the best days of my life,” Ryan
wrote in a still undeleted tweet at
6:42pm local time on the day of the
riot. She would later insist that she
did nothing wrong, stressing that
she will not go to jail in a social
media post that invoked her “blonde
hair” and “white skin”.
Late last month, Ryan reported to a
federal detention facility in Texas to
serve a 60-day jail sentence after
pleading guilty to a charge of
parading, demonstrating or
picketing in the Capitol.
Ryan, a Texas realtor, flew by
private jet to Washington, DC, to
participate in a protest against the
US election results, which took place
before the riot.
Ryan’s lawyers have argued that she
was inside the Capitol for two
minutes, going no more than three
metres (10 feet) inside the doorway.
But prosecutors say she was aware
of violence at the Capitol, illustrating
the “nature and seriousness of the
offense she joined”.
In the year following the riot, Ryan
has repeatedly portrayed herself as a
victim. “Just like they did that to the
Jews in Germany. Those were
scapegoats,” she told NBC News last
month. “And I believe that people
who are Caucasian are being turned
into evil in front of the media.”
Last month, she said in a TikTok
video that she will try to lose weight,
work out, practise yoga and “detox”
in prison. In a December 14
newsletter, she also shared tips on
prison life that she said she acquired
through research. “Keep your head
down and do your time with no
drama,” she wrote.



SOURCE: https://www.aljazeera.com:443/news/2022/1/5/where-are-they-now-the-faces-of-the-january-6-us-capitol-riot

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Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel
Peace Prize-winning activist for
racial justice and retired Anglican
archbishop of Cape Town, died on
Sunday at the age of 90.
An uncompromising foe of apartheid
– South Africa’s brutal regime of
oppression against the Black
majority – Tutu worked tirelessly,
though non-violently, for its
downfall.
The buoyant, blunt-spoken
clergyman used his pulpit as the first
Black bishop of Johannesburg and
later archbishop of Cape Town as
well as frequent public
demonstrations to galvanise public
opinion against racial inequity at
home and globally.
Tutu’s death on Sunday “is another
chapter of bereavement in our
nation’s farewell to a generation of
outstanding South Africans who
have bequeathed us a liberated
South Africa” President Cyril
Ramaphosa said in a statement.
“From the pavements of resistance
in South Africa to the pulpits of the
world’s great cathedrals and places
of worship, and the prestigious
setting of the Nobel Peace Prize
ceremony, the Arch distinguished
himself as a non-sectarian, inclusive
champion of universal human
rights.”



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A devastating swarm of tornadoes ripped
through Kentucky and five other US states,
killing dozens of people and leaving a trail of
destroyed homes, factories and warehouses.
Rescuers combed through fields of
wreckage after a tornado outbreak
roared across the middle of the
United States, leaving dozens dead
and communities in despair.
A twister carved a track that could
rival the longest on record as the
storm front smashed apart a candle
factory, crushed a nursing home and
flattened an Amazon distribution
centre.
“I pray that there will be another
rescue. I pray that there will be
another one or two,” Kentucky
Governor Andy Beshear said, as
crews sifted through the wreckage of
the candle factory in Mayfield,
where 110 people were working
overnight Friday when the storm
hit. Forty of them were rescued.
“We had to, at times, crawl over
casualties to get to live victims,” said
Jeremy Creason, the city’s fire chief
and EMS director.
In Kentucky alone, 22 were
confirmed dead by late Saturday,
including 11 in and around Bowling
Green. But Beshear said upwards of
70 people may have been killed
when a twister touched down for
more than 200 miles (320 kilometres)
in his state and that the number of
deaths could eventually exceed 100
across 10 or more counties.
The death toll of 36 across five states
includes six people in Illinois, where
an Amazon facility was hit; four in
Tennessee; two in Arkansas, where a
nursing home was destroyed; and
two in Missouri.
If early reports are confirmed, the
twister “will likely go down perhaps
as one of the longest track violent
tornadoes in United States history,”
said Victor Gensini, a researcher on
extreme weather at Northern Illinois
University.
The longest tornado on record, in
March 1925, tracked for about 220
miles (355 kilometres) through
Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. But
Gensini said this twister may have
touched down for nearly 250 miles
(400 kilometres). The storm was all
the more remarkable because it
came in December when normally
colder weather limits tornadoes, he
said.
Debris from destroyed buildings and
shredded trees covered the ground
in Mayfield, a city of about 10,000 in
western Kentucky. Twisted metal
sheeting, downed power lines and
wrecked vehicles lined the streets.
Windows and roofs were blown off
the buildings that were still
standing.






Source : https://www.aljazeera.com:443/gallery/2021/12/12/in-pictures-search-ongoing-after-devastating-tornadoes

Security operatives of the the Ogun State
Police Command have apprehended a pastor
for planning with his wife to defile a 16-year
old.
The pastor, Peter Taiwo who is attached to
Christ Apostolic Bible church, Alaja Oke,
Saje, Abeokuta allegedly connived with his
wife, Elizabeth Taiwo to rape a 16-year old
choir members in their church.
The spokesperson of the state police
command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, released
a statement saying that the suspects were
arrested after the teenager lodged a
complaint that while in church the pastor’s
wife asked her to go to the clergyman’s
room because he wanted to send her on an
errand.
Oyeyemi stated that when the teenagers got
to the room the wife locked the door and the
pastor proceeded to rape her.
‘’She explained further that the pastor’s wife
later came in after her husband has satisfied
himself and met her crying and she told her
to stop crying as she is now a woman. She
then warned her never to tell anybody or else
she will die.
“Upon the report, the Dpo Adatan division, SP
Salaudeen Abiodun, quickly detailed his
detectives to the scene, where the randy
pastor and his wife were promptly
apprehended.
“On interrogation, the couple confessed to
the crime but blamed the devil for it. They
also pleaded for forgiveness from the victim.
“The victim has been taken to hospital by the
police for medical treatment.’’
Oyeyemi also said that the state
Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole,
has asked for the transfer of the suspects to
the anti-human trafficking and child labour
unit of the state criminal investigation and
intelligence department for further
investigation into the matter.


Source : https://www./2021/12/12/pastor-plans-with-wife-to-allegedly-rape-16-year-old-choir-member/

village ? whose village people insult us for celebrating flyover while dey live in potopoyo

Biafra was formally recognized by
Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast,
Tanzania, and Zambia. Other
nations that provided SUPPORT
AND ASSISTANCE to Biafra, included
France, Spain, Portugal, Norway,
Rhodesia, South Africa, and
Vatican City.

HallaDaTruth:

Don't let hatred and tribalism cloud your mind. Who gave us weapons during the war ?, who gave us money during the war, even when Food was being brought to us, the plane was shut down yet we held our ground. Why not research rather than coming here to display ignorance. Name the countries that fought on the side of Biafra, i am waiting.

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A jury in the United States has found
Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all
charges related to the shooting of
protesters at a demonstration
against racial injustice in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, last year.
Rittenhouse, now 18, had faced a
potential life sentence for fatally
shooting two demonstrators, Joseph
Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and
wounding a third, Gaige
Grosskreutz, during the mass
protests on August 25, 2020.
A 12-member jury on Friday found
Rittenhouse not guilty on two counts
of homicide, one count of attempted
homicide and two counts of
recklessly endangering safety.
Rittenhouse broke down sobbing
after the verdict, which came shortly
after the judge warned the
courtroom to remain silent or be
removed.
“The charges against [the] defendant
on all counts are dismissed with
prejudice and he’s released from the
obligation of his bond,” Judge Bruce
Schroeder told the court.
Rittenhouse’s lawyers during the
trial argued he had a right to carry
the semi-automatic rifle he brought
to the demonstration and had acted
in self-defence after being attacked,
while prosecutors had accused the
teenager of provoking the deadly
violence.
the widely watched case stirred
bitter debate across the US over
racism, gun violence, and
vigilantism, with several civil rights
and racial justice groups denouncing
Friday’s verdict as a “travesty”.
“Rittenhouse’s trial highlights an
urgent need for reform for both
police and the criminal legal system.
The system is broken, and it
desperately needs to be fixed,”
Shaadie Ali, interim executive
director of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin,
said in a statement.
“The verdict in the #KyleRittenhouse
case is a travesty and fails to deliver
justice on behalf of those who lost
their lives as they peacefully
assembled to protest against police
brutality and violence,” the NAACP,
a racial justice advocacy group, said
in a tweet.
The Congressional Black Caucus, a
group of Black federal lawmakers,
added: “It is unconscionable our
justice system would allow an armed
vigilante … to go free.”
Reporting from outside the
courtroom, Al Jazeera’s John
Hendren said there is “great
concern” over possible unrest after
the jury’s decision.
“We’re likely to see a very strong
law enforcement presence later
today,” he said. “Whether we see a
repeat of what happened in the
summer of 2020, we do not know.
There haven’t been huge crowds
gathered at the courthouse steps.”
A resident of Illinois, Rittenhouse
had travelled to nearby Kenosha
when protests erupted in August
2020 after a white police officer shot
Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the
back, paralysing him.
The demonstrations came amid
widespread civil unrest in US cities
following the death three months
earlier of George Floyd, an unarmed
Black man, who was killed in
Minneapolis by a white police
officer.
Rittenhouse claimed he was in
Kenosha to protect property from
rioters and to provide medical
assistance to anyone who needed it.
But the prosecution said the teenager
instigated the deadly violence.
Prosecutor Thomas Binger
repeatedly showed the jury a drone
video that he said showed
Rittenhouse pointing an AR-15-style
weapon at demonstrators.
“You cannot hide behind self-
defence if you provoked the
incident,” Binger said during his
closing arguments. “If you created
the danger, you forfeit the right to
self-defence by bringing that gun,
aiming it at people, threatening
people’s lives. The defendant
provoked everything.”
Rittenhouse’s lawyers had moved for
a mistrial, claiming prosecutors had
provided them with an inferior
digital version of the drone video
that showed Rittenhouse raising his
gun and pointing it towards the
protesters. During deliberations, the
jury had asked to view the video
again.
Rittenhouse’s defence team also had
attempted to paint the protesters as
the ones who incited the violence.
In closing arguments, Mark
Richards, Rittenhouse’s lawyer, had
called Rosenbaum – the first person
who was fatally shot during the
protest – a “rioter” and a “crazy
person” who went after Rittenhouse.
“Mr Rosenbaum was shot because he
was chasing my client and going to
kill him, take his gun and carry out
the threats he made,” said Richards,
adding that Rittenhouse was then
attacked by a “mob”.
Rittenhouse took the stand in his
own defence during the trial, saying
in dramatic testimony that he feared
for his life on the night of the fatal
shootings. “I didn’t intend to kill
them. I intended to stop the people
who were attacking me,” he told the
court.
The judge was forced to order a
break in proceedings after
Rittenhouse began sobbing while
recalling the events that led to the
shootings.
In a setback for the prosecution
during the trial, the judge dismissed
a charge against Rittenhouse for
underage possession of the firearm.
The not-guilty verdict appears to
have rested on the definition of self-
defence in Wisconsin state law and
the jury’s interpretation of videos of
the incident, said Gene Rossi, a
former federal prosecutor who has
been watching the trial.
The defence’s reliance on second-by-
second analysis of the videos and
Rittenhouse’s own testimony proved
critical in winning his acquittal,
Rossi told Al Jazeera.
“The jury must have strongly felt
that Mr Rittenhouse did not
adequately provoke the reaction of
the deceased victims and that he had
the right to self-defence,” he said.
But Rittenhouse’s detractors pointed
to the bigger picture to assess the
now-acquitted defendant’s role in
the killing. “The micro-specifics of
Rittenhouse’s case don’t matter,” the
Gravel Institute, a left-wing advocacy
group, said in a tweet.
“What matters is that the system felt
it had to go through them with such
detail and care. Has it ever extended
that leeway to the millions of people
who carried some drugs, or
shoplifted, or violated their parole?”


SOURCE: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/19/kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty-on-all-charges

Hadone:
So what? Even if Elrufai can build heaven on earth, provided the good people of Kaduna State continues to live in hunger as a result of massive retrenchment, salary cuts, and a lot of policies which basically had no impact but only create unnecessary hardship to the masses. We will never appreciate what ever structure that stupid government put in place

Nobody need your stinking appreciation, we people of Kaduna appreciate what our Malam did to us, tell Una govt to do Dsame, bunch of Clowns

DSC7:
Las las.....
Makarfi started it.....

who told u dat, d 1 dat makarfi did was small and it was demolished,

our oyel money !!!

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The United States marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with pleas for unity at solemn ceremonies given added resonance by the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban.
At the September 11 memorial in New York, relatives wiped away tears, their voices breaking as they read out the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the attacks, the deadliest in US history.
The service at “Ground Zero” where most died – some of whom jumped to their deaths from the burning towers of the World Trade Center – took place under tight security, with Lower Manhattan effectively locked down.
The first of six moments of silence was marked at 8:46am, with a bell ringing to symbolise the time the first hijacked plane crashed into the North Tower.
At 9:03am, attendees stood still again to mark the moment the South Tower was struck. At 9:37 am, it was the Pentagon, where the hijacked airliner killed 184 people in the plane and on the ground.
At 9:59am, the moment the South Tower fell. At 10:03 am, they remembered the fourth plane to crash in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought the hijackers. And at 10:28am, the North Tower falling.


Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/9/12/us-marks-20th-anniversary-of-9

xpressionx:
I am not learning anything from him.
if government gives me half the support they give Dangote,I will be competing with Jeff Bezoz and Elon Musk

funny guy
u made me laugh so hard

congrat little man

Good 4 u

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North Korea celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its foundation with a night-time parade in the capital, state media reported on Thursday, publishing photographs of marching rows of military personnel in orange hazmat suits, but no ballistic missiles.
Kim Jong Un, the leader of the reclusive state, watched from a balcony as paramilitary and public security forces of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, the country’s largest civilian defence force, began marching in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung square at midnight (15:00 GMT) on Wednesday, the official KCNA news agency said.
Rodong Sinmun, the ruling Worker’s Party’s newspaper, published photographs of people in orange hazmat suits with medical-grade masks in an apparent symbol of anti-coronavirus efforts, and troops holding rifles marching together.
Some conventional weapons were also on display, including multiple rocket launchers and tractors carrying anti-tank missiles.
No ballistic missiles were seen or mentioned in the reports, and Kim did not deliver a speech, unlike last October when he boasted of the country’s nuclear capabilities and showcased previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missiles during a pre-dawn military parade.
“The columns of emergency epidemic prevention and the Ministry of Public Health were full of patriotic enthusiasm to display the advantages of the socialist system all over the world, while firmly protecting the security of the country and its people from the worldwide pandemic,” KCNA said.


Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/9/9/in-pictures-north-korea-founding-day-parade