Defending champions Nigeria, hosts Senegal win big on #AfroBasketWomen Day 1
DAKAR (Senegal) - Reigning champions Nigeria got off to a perfect start at the FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2019 with a 75-26 win over Tunisia at the magnificent Dakar Arena on Saturday to go top of Group B.
Power forward Evelyn Akhator dropped the tournament's first double double with 13 points, 12 rebounds, three assists, two steals and one block to inspire D'Tigress to a resounding victory to send an early warning to all their opponents.
"WE STILL NEED TO GET BETTER BECAUSE THIS IS THE [WOMEN'S] AFROBASKET. THIS GAME WAS LIKE BREAD AND BUTTER BECAUSE THE MAIN MEAL IS YET TO COME SO WE HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTING AND PLAYING HARD," - Akhator
A 14-6 lead at the end of the first quarter showed the gulf in class as Otis Hughley Jr's outfit dominated the action on both ends of the court with absolute command showcased by Atonye Nyingifa who got right to the gist of the matter and eventually dropped a total of 12 points, picked four rebounds and one assist.
At half time, Nigeria led 40-10 much to the discomfort of the North Africans who were torn in between anger and disappointment for such a mediocre fight they put up against a much stronger side.
Hughley Jr used the opportunity to rotate his squad and give minutes to everyone while trying out different combinations on court and indeed as he said later, Nigeria are turning a new page from the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2018 showdown in Spain.
Akhator told FIBA.basketball exclusively after the game that, "We still need to get better because this is the [Women's] AfroBasket. This game was like bread and butter because the main meal is yet to come so we have to keep fighting and play hard."
None of the Tunisian players made it to double figures but Rania Laouini picked eight rebounds and made five points in a game that her and her teammates will want to forget for more reasons that one.
I follow Grandson, and his Youtube recording was precisely the event you described. He actually called for the excesses of Ibo in Yorubaland to be curtailed. Grandson admits there are legitimate and honorable Ibos living in Yorubaland but they are a very small subset. The prevalent atrocities and particularly the acts of boldness and absence of fear or propiety in their conduct and relationship on Yorubaland is what irks Grandson, coupled with the Nigerian question.
Ibos are spreading fake news if they are now claiming that Grandson called for revenge on death of a Yorubaman.
Thanks for clearing this up naptu. God bless you my brother.
Go to the first post on this thread. There is a YouTube video in that post. Listen to 2minutes.14 seconds and 2.15 in that video. Then go to the screenshots in that post. Adeyinka Grandson posted a picture of the ballots that Demola and his gang burnt. Check the second screenshot and see what he says about that picture.
MetaPhysical: So there is a Yoruba burnt at Okota, separate from Yoruba beaten for ballot papers.
The initial rumours were that Demola (an OPC leader) was burnt when he tried to snatch ballot boxes. It turns out that he was beaten, but he was not burnt. Residents (including both Yorubas and Igbos) rescued him and took him to the hospital. What was actually burnt was the motorcycle with which he and his gang came to the polling unit. There's actually a picture of the motorcycle on fire.
I said Grandson called for revenge on a Yoruba killed.
Can you defend why he would be beaten till he fell, and while on the ground continued to be wedged with stone?
1) Grandson called for revenge on a Yoruba killed. That Yoruba was Demola. Watch the video, he repeatedly referred to the person that was burnt at Okota. Demola was not burnt. It was his motorcycle that was burnt. That's fake news.
2) Why would I defend and illegal and barabaric action??
Odingo1: By coming to burn ballot papers in a place that voting is going on, remember that Buhari ordered a shoot at sight order to anyone stealing ballots papers. So what is your question.
MetaPhysical: So why didnt you hand him over to those authorised to shoot at sight?
That was fake news. Demola was not burnt and he did not die. It was his motorcycle that was burnt.
erico2k2: What a stupid thing to do, his life is finished in the UK, he better pack his bags and go to 9ja, with these kinds of offence he is done.NO LIFE!
The lunatic has been making similar statements since c2012. He was also arrested in 2015.
VolvoS60: ^^^ As always, very well put together. I haven't read anything about Hanan Ashrawi in a long time - but I do remember her rather masculine voice.
How do you typically source your material? Any background in library science or history?
Any plans to collate your posts on here into a permanent record? I ask this because I almost wept after this site went down during the so-called NL tsunami - when hundreds of priceless (and yes they were priceless) threads were lost. To this day I do not know exactly what happened because I was offline around that time (in 2014 I think?).
If you know what happened at that time, kindly give a condensed summary (my apologies to anyone who feels I'm derailing the thread) with links, if possible.
Thank you.
Nairaland went offline for a few days. It was allegedly hacked. The admin had to restore the site from a backup copy. The last backup was done a few months before the site went offline (I think it was 3 or 4 months before it went offline). Everything that was posted between the time that the backup was created and the time that the site went offline was lost.
"Kayode Ogundamisi is spreading fake news. He used to work for Sahara Reporters, with Sowore. I think they've separated now. They are both involved in fake news. He was with OPC before Gani Adams expelled him. He spread fake news when I was arrested by two policemen in London in 2015.
He said that I'm under restriction. I'm not under any restriction. He said I'm on tag. Look at my feet, I'm not on tag. I have two properties in London. The police only told me that I can only sleep in one. I'm not under any restriction.
I have over 400 videos. Some people reported 40 of my videos and the police investigated and found incitement to violence in 17 of them. They are investigating. We all know where this is coming from. It's coming from the Ibos".
Watch video here:
Please disregard Kayode Ogundamisi aka Kayode Irodamisi' tweet about Adeyinka Grandson. Kayode Irodamisi is involved in Fake New. Adeyinka Grandson is not on a watch list or on electronic tag. pic.twitter.com/249zE6gjcx
At precisely 5:35am, Adeyinka Grandson was arrested by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command for the offenses related to Terrorism and Public Order Acts.
Grandson called for the killing of Igbos residing in Yoruba land for not voting the candidate of their choice” during the March 2019 General Election.
Adeyinka Grandson’s arrest was based on his controversial YouTube videos, Facebook &Tumblr posts and a website linked with the name of the YYF, but does not belong to the YYF, the Yoruba man specializes in calling for the killings of Igbos who are based in Yoruba land.
Adeyinka was accused of instigating racial discrimination against the Igbo people and for encouraging terrorism all which he denied. He was granted a conditional bail at 9:15pm on the 6th August 2019.
As part of his bail conditions, he cannot access, use, or post on Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr or the website linked with the Young Yoruba for Freedom, which of course does not belong to the YYF. He was directed to report back to the Police station on the 2nd September 2019.
Anduku: Is it not amazing how you conveniently left out names like the Clintons, George Mitchell, Bill Richardson and all the other high ranking Members of the Democratic party that were also accused?
Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and other very wealthy and connected people.
No matter how many people you mention, you'll still be accused of "leaving someone out". Go through my posts on this thread, I have mentioned the Clintons and others. What political party does Prince Andrew belong to?
AreaFada2: I think the whole thing is very murky. Hard to tell who is who. Our people say by night grass become human beings.
Some communities are probably in strangle-hold of kidnappers that virtually everyone accepts it as a good business. Or even plays some role in it.
Under direct instructions from powers that be, the security and military agents do hunt down kidnappers. But it doesn't seem to be the case generally.
Kingspin: Somebody is not doing his/her job well? What is happening in the North is now a biz venture and those involved are known both by the community and security agents.
The security agents have been compromising that is my point and such is making the fight against these criminals unsolvable
That is a completely different point from saying that the "security are just wearing uniform and collecting money". That is an insult to the memory of the IRT policemen that lost their lives while trying to arrest a kidnapper. The same policemen that have arrested many kidnappers in the past. It's also an insult to many other security officers that are risking their lives and trying to do their jobs properly and keep you and I alive.
If you say that some people are not doing their jobs well, I can agree with you. If you say some people have been compromised, I can agree with you. But it's not true that "the security are just wearing uniform and collecting money".
A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016, against Epstein and Donald Trump by a California woman alleged that the two men sexually assaulted her at a series of parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994, when she was 13 years old. The suit was dismissed by a federal judge in May 2016 because it did not raise valid claims under federal law. The woman filed another federal suit in New York in June 2016, but it was withdrawn three months later, apparently without being served on the defendants. A third federal suit was filed in New York in September 2016. The two latter suits included affidavits by an anonymous witness who attested to the accusations in the suits, asserting Epstein employed her to procure underage girls for him, and an anonymous person who declared the plaintiff had told him/her about the assaults at the time they occurred. The plaintiff, who had filed anonymously as Jane Doe, was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles press conference six days before the 2016 election, but abruptly canceled the event; her lawyer Lisa Bloom asserted that the woman had received threats. The suit was dropped on November 4, 2016. Trump attorney Alan Garten flatly denied the allegations, while Epstein declined to comment.
On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's Office, was after 3 1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.
Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a TV was installed for him, before he was moved to the stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time. The Sheriff's Office received $128,000 from Epsteins's non-profit to pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriff's Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade visitor logs were not). He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments.
Epstein served almost 13 months before being released for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010. While on probation he was allowed numerous trips on his corporate jet to his residences in Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was allowed long shopping trips and to walk around Palm Beach "for exercise".
After a contested hearing in January 2011, and an appeal, he stayed registered in New York State as a "level three" (high risk of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation. At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney inexplicably argued unsuccessfully that the level should be reduced to a low risk "level one" and was chided by the judge. Despite opposition from Epstein's lawyer that he had a "main" home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the judge confirmed he personally must check in with the New York Police Department every 90 days. Though Epstein had been a level three registered sex offender in NY since 2010, the New York Police Department never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance is a felony.
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The immunity agreement and his lenient treatment were the subject of ongoing public dispute. The Palm Beach police chief accused the state of giving him preferential treatment,[63] and the Miami Herald said U.S. Attorney Acosta gave Epstein "the deal of a lifetime". Following Epstein's arrest in July 2019, on sex trafficking charges, Acosta resigned as Secretary of Labor on July 19, 2019.
In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year." It resulted in a 53-page indictment in June 2007 that was never presented to a grand jury. Alexander Acosta, then the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators". According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes." At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald states: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims."
Acosta later said he offered a lenient plea deal, because he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade" and to "leave it alone". Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two state charges (for soliciting prostitution and for procuring an under-18 for prostitution), register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI. The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported (somewhat inaccurately), "Despite this, the U.S. government eventually agreed to allow Epstein to plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl under Florida state law. Epstein agreed not to contest civil claims brought by the 40 women identified by the FBI, but escaped a prosecution that could have seen him jailed for the rest of his life."
A Federal Judge later found that the prosecutors had violated the victims' rights in that they had concealed the agreement from the victims and instead urged them to have "patience."
In March 2005, a woman contacted Florida's Palm Beach Police Department and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been taken to Epstein's mansion by an older girl. There she was allegedly paid $300 to strip and massage Epstein. She had allegedly undressed, but left the encounter wearing her underwear.
Police began a 13-month undercover investigation of Epstein, that included a search of his home. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also became involved in the investigation. Subsequently, the police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. Interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, a high school transcript and other items found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under 18. The police search of Epstein's home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their investigation.
The International Business Times reported that papers filed in a 2006 lawsuit alleged that Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his property to record sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes, such as blackmail. Epstein allegedly "lent" girls to powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail information. In 2015, evidence came to light that one of the powerful men at Epstein's mansion may have been Prince Andrew, Duke of York. A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day. Eventually the FBI compiled reports on “34 confirmed minors” eligible for restitution (increased to 40 in the NPA) whose allegations of molestation by Epstein included corroborating details. Julie Brown’s 2018 expose in the Miami Herald identified about 80 and located about 60 victims. She quotes the then police chief, Michael Reiter, “This was 50-something ‘shes’ and one ‘he’ — and the ‘shes’ all basically told the same story.”
In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit saying that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one molestation count.
Epstein's high-powered team of defense lawyers included Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, and former Clinton special prosecutor Ken Starr.
After press reports that Epstein would be charged with one count of aggravated assault with no intent to commit a felony, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter accused the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry Krischer, of being too lenient and was instrumental in bringing in the FBI. Instead Krischer convened a Palm Beach County grand juryusually only done in capital cases. Presented evidence from only two victims, the grand jury returned a single charge of felony solicitation of prostitution, to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.
In 2005, the Palm Beach police in Florida began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he molested her 14-year-old daughter. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty and was convicted in a Florida state court in 2008 of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an under-18 girl for prostitution. He served 13 months in custody with work release, as part of a plea deal, where federal officials had identified 36 girls as young as 14 years old who had been molested.
Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died on August 10, 2019, after reportedly hanging himself in his Manhattan prison cell.
This is a conspiracy theorist's heaven. He had previously been arrested for sleeping with underaged girls, but he was only given a slap on the wrist (in fact, he was treated like he was above the law). This was way back in the mid 2000s.
Some of the people that were involved in the first case say that they were told to back off because it involved national security/the intelligence services.
Then he was arrested again and there were rumours that he supplied underaged girls to Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and other very wealthy and connected people.
Now he is dead.
Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York
Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, US media report.
His body was discovered at 07:30 local time (11:30 GMT) on Saturday at the facility in New York.
The circumstances of his death are unclear. He was reportedly on suicide watch following an earlier incident.
Epstein, 66, had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and conspiracy charges and was being held without bail.
Last month, he was found semi-conscious in his cell with injuries to his neck. He was treated at a nearby hospital, reports say, before being returned to New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Epstein was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.
He was arrested on 6 July after landing in New Jersey on his private jet.
Who was Jeffrey Epstein?
New York-born Epstein worked as a teacher before moving into finance.
Prior to the criminal cases against him, he was best known for his wealth and high-profile connections.
He was often seen socialising with the rich and powerful, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and the UK's Prince Andrew.
Reports of Epstein's wealth vary, with his Virgin Islands-based firm generating no public records.
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To this day I do not know exactly what happened because I was offline around that time (in 2014 I think?).