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A group of nuns who denounced Christ and sell cannabis to help the needy say they are defying President Trump to sell even more.

The Sisters of the Valley are California’s self-ordained feminist ‘weed nuns’, and they say they are on a mission to heal and empower women with their cannabis products.

Based near the town of Merced in the Central Valley, which produces over half of the fruit, vegetables and nuts grown in the United States, the Sisters of the Valley grow and harvest their own cannabis plants.

The sisters insist they aren’t scared by President Trump’s stance on drugs – in fact, quite the opposite they are expanding in spite of him.

The group had roughly $750,000 in sales last year, the most since it started selling products in January 2015.

Currently, the group makes online sales to Canada, and they hope to expand and launch an operation there in two months.

The sisterhood however stress that its seven members, despite the moniker, do not belong to any order of the Catholic Church.

‘We’re against religion, so we’re not a religion. We consider ourselves Beguine revivalists, and we reach back to pre-Christian practices,’ said 58-year-old Sister Kate, who founded the sisterhood in 2014.

Despite posing as a religious group, Kate adds they’ve not really received much criticism.

‘We’ve gotten a few hate calls but, by and far, the Catholics understand what we’re doing, she said.

The group says its Holy Trinity is the marijuana plant, specifically hemp, a strain of marijuana that has very low levels of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive compound in the plant.

Sisters of the Valley turn the hemp into cannabis-based balms and ointments, which they say have the power to improve health and wellbeing.

“A sister becomes a sister through a commercial relationship and earning a wage or a commission and we want to grow this way because we want to free the women, we don’t want to make them more dependent,” said Kate, whose real name is Christine Meeusen.

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http://punchng.com/nuns-denounce-christ-sell-indian-hemp/amp/

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA —The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for suspending Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr. David Babachir Lawal and Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke.

This came as Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, yesterday, urged the President to purge his cabinet of corrupt elements, saying “a lot of them have one mess or the other.”

Reacting to the suspension of the SGF and the D-G, NIA, General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, wondered why the Vice President should be the person to investigate criminal allegations against the SGF.
He said: “Well, we think that it is something that is positive.

There are those who will say that it has taken long, particularly the issue of the SGF. Well, government has now decided to suspend them and investigation is going on, it is fine.

“But what we don’t understand is how an administrative committee, chaired by the Vice President, will be investigating what is an alleged criminal offence.

However, whatever processes they have chosen to adopt, what is important is that they need to bring the facts before the nation.

“We need to know that there are no sacred cows and at the end of the day, we hope that justice will be done and citizens will be able to attest that justice has been done.”
On whether the president should extend the action to other political office holders having corruption allegations against them, Ozo-Eson said the normal practice was that people with established corruption cases against them should step aside.

He said: “Once there are allegations of corruption and there are prima facie cases established while such investigation is going on, the normal practice is that people step aside, or are suspended or they remove themselves from the process.”

Also reacting to the suspension, National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Chijioke Ugwoke, said: “Should Buhari be serious with his anti-graft campaign, the Presidency should not be investigating the SGF and others.

“If somebody in the Presidency is accused of corruption, the usual anti-corruption agencies that investigate other ones, should also investigate the SGF. The Presidency should not investigate Presidency, nobody should be a judge in his own case.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/osinbajo-not-qualified-probe-sgf-nlc/

By ‘Boye Oseni
THERE is an old saying, dating back to those inglorious slave-dealing days on the South American plantations that still make the rounds today in Salvador, Bahia State, and the first colonial capital of Brazil. Slaves, mostly Yorubas from West Africa, reportedly confronted their slave-masters with this bold prediction, “Your people may have conquered us, but our culture will eventually conquer you.”
Salvador, Bahia, is an important cornerstone of the celebrated and vibrant Brazilian national tourism, but that industry in this nation’s fourth largest city by population swims along in a deep current of old Yoruba influence. This is one place beyond old Yorubaland where you wake up to the sweet and exotic aroma of palm oil wafting from all corners.
Mrs. and Mr. Boye Oseni; Minha Linda, a Salvadoran (middle), at the Odoya Restaurant, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Step out, and Yoruba traditional gods are waiting with their holy embraces on street corners. Step in to the tourist section and you get welcomed in this foreign land by people in distinctly gorgeous Yoruba attires. Far away from its West Africa home base, it’s certain to proclaim that Yoruba traditional culture is well, alive, and openly dictating the samba moves in this north-eastern corner of Brazil.
Street corners and public squares
Yoruba gods, giants of Yorubaland of yore, are enjoying unsurpassed embrace here in a foreign land that has also learned to appreciate and proudly uphold revered Yoruba mores, ranging from dresses, food, music, and religion. An average day here in Salvador is suffused in open sightings and reverence of Yorubaland, an experience bound to be ignited by the sighting of a certain mid afternoon ubiquity unexpected in this clime.
These are the Baianas de acarajé, famous stalls and respected merchandizing chambers for fried bean cakes (akara, the popular pan-Yoruba delicacy), dotting most street corners and public squares here mid afternoon. Here, women dressed in flowing white attires, reminiscent of Yemoja worshippers in Yoruba land of old, sit in their stalls, religiously rolling out magnificent akara balls – deeply fried, fresh, hot and steamy, and drenched in good old red palm-oil – for unending lines of patrons. An assortment of mouth-watering offerings garnished with dried shrimps and hot pepper that will freely compete with the world famous “akara’Jesha” and possibly out duel the old “s’ekepu”offerings on Ibadan streets of old.
Early to late evenings may go to encounters with akassa, a culinary cross between the traditional Yoruba corn meal (ekÍ yangan), shapala and moin-moin – additional delicious offerings from the now-transformed mid-afternoon akara chambers, all beautifully wrapped in the traditional palm frond leaves.
The only thing missing here is a calabash of foamy palm-wine and you will be smack back in any old ÌyÍ town. Given the abundance of palm trees and coconut all over town here,it’s a good bet some good palm wine tipple must be here some place awaiting an adventurous tapper. For the daring adventurer, the food stalls experience here is a call to further cultural exploration trips that may sure lead to the terreiros – the temple or the grove of gods – to partake in Candomble, a fusion of African religions combining Yoruba, Fon and Bantu cultures but largely dominated by Yoruba Orica worship.
Depending on which of the many temples in town that you land, it’s not unexpected that you end the night with a round of ‘amalu.’ Rings familiar? That is the Yoruba amala – dark, rich and supple – which you are invited to demolish with forks or knives, Just come as you are, and bring those organic natural forks (fingers); a familiar scenario from hearth.
Step out in the day, familiar faces of Yoruba women in their ‘abadas’ (a form of skirt, ‘Kaba,’ as those roomy skirts that used to be common in Yorubaland are called), pearly smooth dark skinsand proud “pepsodent” smiles greet you on public transportations billboards, heralding tourism in Salvador. These are the “Minha Linda” (My Lovelies) of Salvador. You could of course call them the ÌmÍ-Oge(s)of Salvador tourism and you would be right.
If only these women spoke Yoruba, they would be Aduk¹ or Anik¹in any Yoruba town. Or they could just be ’Yetunde, to again affirm another of Prof. Soyinka’s observation of the power of Yoruba culture to integrate ancestors into the present. Whatever your take, these are plain natural black pearls – no bleaching, no ‘yellow-fever skin.’ Simply and without arguments, proud jewels of inherited Yoruba women beauty.
Again, they stand proudly in contrast to women encountered on a recent travel in modern Yorubaland, from mega Lagos to sprawling Ibadan and the historical Abeokuta city, where it seemed women have become nothing but masquerades in motion with heads dominated by those wild and scary head-scratching “Brazilian weaves.”
For a glimpse into and additional appreciation of the glories of Yoruba traditional religious past, welcome to Dique Do Tororo (or maybe, make that Totoro, a popular section in my own Abeokuta, Ogun State) next to the world-class Fonte Nava Arena in the Itaipava section of Salvador. Come here to engage with Yoruba gods in their splendor.
On this massive lake in a corner of Salvador, you are confronted with the giant sculptures of selected twelve ‘Orixas’ (Ori’as in Yorubaland) proudly alive in public eye (oju aiye)and surrounded by a beautiful park in the city center for all to behold and adore.
Here, proud Yoruba gods stand tall, occupying dignified spots next to the revered local space reserved for that special god dearest to the Brazilian heart – the god of soccer.
Arriving at this spot, you wonder where else in these times you can find such grand public display of Yoruba gods (Ori’as) in their magical splendor. Surely not in modern Yoruba land, where neglect has resulted from years of colonial persecution, full frontal assault from missionaries, both foreign and local, and modern day religionists , who have combined to forcibly relegate local gods to the realm of the uncouth, and dismissively labeled adherents as mere idol worshippers (“awon aborica”).
Clearly, the shrines of Yoruba gods may have been foreclosed and put up for sale at home, but the proud Yoruba princes and princesses of yore are busy spreading their comforting messages of common humanity and human unity overseas.
They keep waxing strong with messages of universal accommodation, patience, tolerance, and the love and acceptance of neighbors as the debts that every man and woman owes the other for mutual peace and progress in our increasingly inter-connected but troubled world. May they continue to answer our prayers wherever we encounter them in the global village. Ac¹, Edumare.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/yoruba-gods-food-shine-brazil-2/

sonsomegrigbo:
How to be an instant millionaire as a whistleblower:

1. Locate anywhere ghana must go bags are being sold:

2. Try to identify anyone buying two or more Ghana must go bags.

3. Follow the person without the person noticing that you are following.

4. If the person goes to a high class neighborhood, you are on your way to being a millionaire.

5. Hang around the neighborhood until you see the movement of the ghana must go bags and the rest is left to you.

Other ways to be an instant millionaire include:

1. Hang around the cemetery to look out for what is being buried in the grave. It could be $$$$ or ££££ or €€€€ or ####.

2. Apply to be either a cook or a driver or a house help or PA to a big oga or a minister or a legislootor or a custom officer or a top military officer. If you get a job with a Governor, you are already a millionaire. When you see ghana must go bags being off loaded from a car, la ju (shine your eyes).

3. Slip into anywhere a soak away is being dug and find out what is going into the soak away . Ditto for overhead tanks.

4. Go into an un-completed building and check for signs of an unusual activities there.

If you don't succeed after trying these methods, blame the old woman in your village.

But if you blow and they didn't find anything....

How to be an instant millionaire as a whistleblower:

1. Locate anywhere ghana must go bags are being sold:

2. Try to identify anyone buying two or more Ghana must go bags.

3. Follow the person without the person noticing that you are following.

4. If the person goes to a high class neighborhood, you are on your way to being a millionaire.

5. Hang around the neighborhood until you see the movement of the ghana must go bags and the rest is left to you.

Other ways to be an instant millionaire include:

1. Hang around the cemetery to look out for what is being buried in the grave. It could be $$$$ or ££££ or €€€€ or ####.

2. Apply to be either a cook or a driver or a house help or PA to a big oga or a minister or a legislootor or a custom officer or a top military officer. If you get a job with a Governor, you are already a millionaire. When you see ghana must go bags being off loaded from a car, la ju (shine your eyes).

3. Slip into anywhere a soak away is being dug and find out what is going into the soak away . Ditto for overhead tanks.

4. Go into an un-completed building and check for signs of an unusual activities there.

If you don't succeed after trying these methods, blame the old woman in your village.

The Nigerian Police arrested 53 persons during a gay marriage and arraigned them on Wednesday before a Magistrates’ Court in Chediya in Zaria, Kaduna State.
The prosecutor, Mannir Nasir, said the accused were arrested on April 15 at Zaria Motel.
They are charged with conspiracy, unlawful assembly and belonging to a gang of unlawful society.
Nasir said the offences contravened Sections 97, 100 and 197(a) of Criminal Procedure Code.
He said: “On April 15, 2017 at about 2100 hours a team of policemen led by DSP Muhammad Lawal-Mashi arrested and brought to police station 53 persons.
“The arrested persons included Jibril Abdullahi, Sagir Abubakar, Anas Mohammed, Mustapha Ababukar, Musa Ibrahim and Suleiman Usman among others, all of various addresses.
“Information reached the police that these group of persons conspired to celebrate a gay marriage at Zaria Motel between one Faruk and Sanusi both at large.”
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Their counsel, Yunusa Umar, asked the court to release them on bail in line with sections 35 (4) and 36 (5) of the Constitution.
Umar lamented that the accused persons were detained in police custody for more than 24 hours contrary to the provisions of the constitution.
He told the court that most of the accused persons were students in their tender age.
The Chief Magistrate, Auwal Musa-Aliyu, granted bail to the accused persons in the sum of $1,200 each, with one surety each in the like sum, who must be a blood relation to the accused.
He ordered that each surety must present two passport size photographs, valid identity card, bank account number, letter of credence from a traditional ruler, a 2015 utility bill and a valid GSM number.
The Chief Magistrate adjoined the case until May 8 for further hearing.

Source:

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/53-arraigned-for-attending-gay-marriage-in-nigeria/

Delta state police command at Uvwie LGA in Delta state have killed a notorious armed robber known as Tompolo.

The deceased is not be confused with the former Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, who was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in February, 2016.

According to reports, Tompolo and his gang were involved in a shootout with the police and local vigilante members when he was shot. The incident happened on Saturday 9th of April 2017.

The gang members were robbing an unidentified woman at gunpoint around 5 am when they were accosted by the policemen. Tompolo was shot dead while 3 others sustained gunshot wounds.

Tompolo had been terrorising the community before his death.

The Divisional Police Officer of Enerhen, CSP Hassan Galadima said: ” I’m aware of the incident. It’s not just the vigilante that killed the robber. They were on patrol with the police. We shot him and the rest escaped with bullet wounds. We recovered from them some expended and live cartridges inside the gun.”

onyenze123:
sonsomegrigbo
The truth and nothing but the truth.

hmm

Professor of Christian theology in University of Ilorin, Pius Oyeniran Abioje, has dismissed the agelong Biblical claim that Jesus Christ died to save the world.

Speaking while delivering the 167th Inaugural Lecture of the university, entitled, ‘Christian Prophets and Other Prophets in Nigeria’, the professor said Jesus Christ was killed by haters of truth.

Abioje, who noted that critical prophets should anticipate opposition and conspiracy from unexpected quarters, said: “The conspiracy that killed Jesus Christ came from the millieu of the chief priest and the political elite.
“Regrettably,the interpretations by many Christians is that God wanted Jesus to die so as to save the world. Yet the world continues to persecute innocent critical prophets.

“Why cannot Christians emphasise that Jesus was killed by haters of truth,the religio-political powers that be,particularly since the world is still seeking redemption?
“Nigerians should learn to see critical prophets as friends of the society,and pardon them whenever they happen to err,since no human being is infallible.”
The professor asked the people in positions of authority to learn to see critical prophets as partners in progress towards human edification,not as adversaries.

The university don also admonished: “Divinatory/esoteric prophets should avoid fraudulence.” They should see their divinatory knowledge as divine endowment to be used altruistically and not for exploitation.
“People who consult esoteric prophets should be discerning and not gullible. “ They should avoid frequent recourse to divinatory prophecy to avoid mediumistic psychosis”
Abioje also urged Nigerians to strive to become critical prophets to speak against evil on behalf of God and try to live holy lives.

He however advised: “Academic p rogrammes generally should include introduction to critical prophecy,which makes a person to be committed to advocacy in godly words and actions,even as medical doctors,engineers,architects,lawyers and so on and not only as clergy men and women, Virtues for which critical prophets strive is unarguably the key to individual and social progress,even when truth can be very bitter.”

A former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the activities of church leaders are contributing to the rampart cases of corruption across the country.Speaking on Saturday at the convention of Victory Life Bible Church International in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Mr. Obasanjo said fighting corruption should not be a one-off affair because it would bounce back with vengeance.'There is no doubt that all our institutions have been tarnished by the brush of corruption,' Mr. Obasanjo, a retired army general, said in his speech titled 'The Role of the Church in the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria.''If the Church, as an institution, does not take bribe or get involved in other corrupt practice, the behaviour of some of our men of God leaves much to be desired.'They not only celebrate but venerate those whose sources of wealth are questionable. They accept gifts (offering) from just anybody without asking questions. This gives the impression that anything is acceptable in the house of God.'But if Jesus can chase out those buying and selling from the temple with the declaration that, 'My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves,' then it is time to stand up against corruption.'Mr. Obasanjo, who was represented at the event by Femi Olajide, the chapel of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library's Christ the Glorious King Church, called on the Church to clean its Augean stable in order to restore its holiness.He also advocated that prosperity messages be preached with caution and moderation.'Our present day 'money changers' and 'merchants' must be chased out of the Church and put to shame in the larger society.'While miracles, signs and wonders are the expectations of true believers, such must be based on righteousness. To preach that one can acquire wealth without labour is not only deceitful; it is a call to corruption. It is false preaching and it is sinful.'We must be careful in believing and celebrating every testimony of miraculous blessing, hence we end up being hoodwinked into celebrating corruption.'Mr. Obasanjo, who was president between 1999 and 2007, said he took a 'bold step' to curb corruption, adding that the fight against corruption was made a 'top priority' during his administration.He also said his government never lacked the political will to support the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, two anti-corruption agencies Mr. Obasanjo created.He further said the rise of public administration and the discovery of oil and natural gas were two major events that increased corrupt practices in the country.'The government has tried to contain corruption through the enactment of laws and the enforcement of integrity systems, but success has been slow in coming,' Mr. Obasanjo said.'Legislations alone are not enough as they are often breached by those who make them and those who implement them.

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Because it says about your bleaching habit.
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"When used on a long term basis, bleaching products containing hydroquinone can yield unfavorable side effects such as exogenous ochronosis. It is a condition that causes paradoxical grayish and bluish skin hyperpigmentation. Another complication of long term use of the same products may offend other people. A study in the International Society of Dermatology last 2008 discovered that the individuals on long time hydroquinone skin lightening therapy may suffer from what you call a “fish odor syndrome”. The smell resembling to a decayed fish is due to the discharge of a chemical called trimethylamine in the saliva, vaginal, sweat and urine secretions.
Other consumers reported severer side effects of using skin lightening products. Medical experts think that this is the case of using skin bleaching creams that contain strong chemicals other than hydroquinone. In South Africa and other African countries where the use of hydroquinone-containing creams were banned, researchers found out that those prohibited bleaching products also contain illegal chemicals such as glucocorticoids and mercury. Experts believed that these contaminants and not hydroquinone were the cause of the severe side effects.
Several skin bleaching creams that contain hydroquinone also have potent steroids added to their list of ingredients. Powerful steroids such as clobetasol propionate and betamethasone, although deemed very effective in lightening the skin, pose serious risks to its avid users. Diabetes mellitus and Cushing’s disease are just two of the many Endocrine conditions people using potent prescription strength topical steroids are at risk of having."

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos zone, this evening uncovered yet another large sum of suspected laundered money to the tune of N448,850,000 (Four hundred and forty eight million, eight hundred and fifty thousand naira) only in a shop at LEGICO Shopping Plaza, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The money stashed in several Ghana Must Go bags were in N500 and N1000 denominations, hidden in a shop awaiting conversion into foreign currency.

Relying on information provided by a concerned whistle blower, operatives of the Commission swooped on the shopping complex and sought the identity of the owners of two shops, LS 64 and LS 67 which were under locks and keys.

The shops had signages of Bureau de Change. Inquries about the owner of shop 64 indicated he had not been seen for a long time, as they claimed the shop had not been opened for businesss for close…

Read More…..PM News

SOME OF THE PRESIDENTS ADVISERS NEED TO BUCKLE UP. ~ Ishiyaku GangJidda
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So it turns out the President did not have to send Magu's name to the Senate for confirmation after all. An erudite lawyer, Jibrin Samuel Okutepa (SAN), gave a free lecture this morning on AIT's Focus Nigeria. He quoted a section of the constitution to buttress his point, section 171 of the constitution to be precise.
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EFCC being a department in the Justice Ministry does not require anyone heading it to be confirmed by the Senate.
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One is bound to ask, why did the AGF not advise the President accordingly? Why did he allow the President to send Magu's name to the Senate for confirmation? The Senate too ignorantly seized the opportunity to blackmail Mr. President.
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Now that three very senior lawyers in the persons of Jibrin Samuel Okutepa (SAN), Prof. Itsey Sagay (SAN) and Femi Falana (SAN) have all agreed that it was wrong to send Magu's name to the Senate for confirmation in the first place, what next?
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Jibrin Okutepa (SAN) suggested the President writes the Senate informing them that Magu's name was sent to them for confirmation in error. The President should quote the section of the constitution that gives him the power to appoint a Chairman of EFCC without recourse to the senate. He should then go ahead to announce Magu as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Shikenan!!
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The AGF needs to sit up. All this confusion arose because he failed to advise the President accordingly.

You Omokri!
lalasticlala abeg everybody must hear this
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President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to declare open this year’s Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship in Sambisa forest in Borno.
David Ahmadu, the Chief of Training and Operations, Nigerian Army headquarters, disclosed this at a news conference on the championship in Maiduguri on Friday.
Mr. Ahmadu, a major general, said the event was slated for March 27 to 31 at the former stronghold of the terrorist Boko Haram sect.
He said the championship was part of the training activities of the Nigerian Army aimed at sharpening the marksmanship of its personnel.
“The Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship otherwise known as NASAC is part of the training activities scheduled for 2017.
“It is a championship among the formations of the Nigerian Army, the objective of the event is to sharpen the marksmanship skills of the army personnel,’’ Mr. Ahmadu said.
He said, “All formations of the Nigerian Army will be competing with the best carting away the prestigious Chief of Army Staff trophy.’’
Mr. Ahmadu said the championship was aimed at consolidating on the total defeat and routing out of Boko Haram terrorists from their operational headquarters in camp zero in Sambisa forest.
“Furthermore, the championship will also mark the commencement of the ongoing plan to move speedily and make the Sambisa forest general area safe for habitation.
“It is also to make the place an area for the Nigerian Army training activities,’’ he said.
Mr. Ahmadu said: “To this end provisions had already been made for the reopening of more roads, construction of culverts and bridges by army engineers to facilitate easy movement to the general area.
“There is no gainsaying that the championship is set to another epoch making event that will further emphasise the Nigerian Army efforts and resolve in meeting its constitutional role of defending the territorial integrity of the nation,’’ he said.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah and Jane Echewodo


A 32-year -old Kenechukwu Okonkwo was yesterday convicted to 14 years imprisonment by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday for raping a 29-year-old Virgin, names (withheld) .

In her judgment, Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye held that the prosecution proved their case beyond reasonable doubt, after which she convicted the defendant on a one count of rape contrary to Section 258(1)of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011. “In the light of all my findings, the prosecution has proven their case beyond reasonable doubt.

“I find you Kenechukwu Okonkwo guilty of rape contrary to Section 258(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011, “ the judge said. The defence counsel, Mr Worer Oduagbaka, in his allocutus, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy. Ipaye while pronouncing the sentence noted that rape is a serious crime which must be eradicated.

“Rape is an act of an extreme violence against women, society must have zero tolerance to this act against the honourable members of the society.
“I hereby sentence you to 14 years imprisonment to commence from today, March 24,2017,” Ipaye said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/32-yr-old-guard-spend-14-yrs-jail-raping-virgin/

Yoghurt is good for digestion, clear skin and glossy hair. But a new study has found yoghurt could also treat depression.
Researchers at the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine have found yoghurt’s probiotic bacteria,
lactobacillus , in the gut affects the level of a metabolite in the blood called
kynurenine, which has been shown to drive depression.
Experiments on mice showed playing with this ‘good bacteria’ alone was strong enough to ease blood pressure, stress and depression.
When Lactobacillus was diminished in the gut, the levels of kynurenine went up – and depression symptoms set in.
Lead researcher Dr Alban Gaultier of the UVA Department of Neuroscience and its Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, noted: “The big hope for this kind of research is that we won’t need to bother with complex drugs and side effects when we can just play with the microbiome. It would be magical just to change your diet, to change the bacteria you take, and fix your health – and your mood.
Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions in the world.”
The role of the gut microbiome – the bacteria that live inside us – has been of tremendous interest to researchers studying depression and other health conditions, both mental and physical.
Gaultier set out to see if he could find a concrete link between depression and gut health.
“When you’re stressed, you increase your chance of being depressed, and that’s been known for a long, long time. So the question that we wanted to ask is, does the microbiome participate in depression?’
The answer appears to be yes. A single strain of Lactobacillus is able to influence mood,” Gaultier said.
The researchers warned that yogurt should not yet be seen as a treatment alone.

Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin, on Friday presented a seven-month old Tiger to Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin.
Chief Igbinedion said he came to present the tiger as a mark of respect to the monarch in the palace.

Oba Ewuare N’ogidigan received the gift from the Esama.
The Oba’s palace was agog as many persons, including chiefs, thronged the venue to catch a glimpse of the tiger.
Oba Ewuare asks parents to teach children to speak, write Bini
Also the Oba of Benin has called on parents in Benin and abroad to encourage and assist their wards to speak and write in Benin language.
The oba made the call when he received the three pupils he awarded scholarship during his post coronation tour of Benin speaking communities and their parents in Benin on Friday.
According to Oba Ewuare, speaking the Benin language would serve as means of identification and promotion of Bini culture.
Oba Ewuare charged the parents of the awardees to guide their children to attain proficiency level in the use of Bini language and culture at all levels of education
He reiterated that the palace was determined to revive the rich Benin cultural heritage.
The Oba awarded scholarship to master Agobor Aisosa, Osakpamwan Osagumwenro and Osukhon Gift of Osaretin Primary School in Egboko village, Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the state during the tour.
The awardees had narrated an ancient Benin story in Edo language during post coronation tour to the community.
The three awardees and their families were in the palace to thank the monarch.

Traditional platforms where football fans normally watch the Super Eagles whenever they are in action were blank for Thursday’s much-talked about friendly against the Teranga Lions of Senegal.
That development did not go down well with many Nigerians as they could not get a grasp of their darling team who ended up playing a commendable 1-1 draw against the second most ranked team on the continent.
Several reasons have been mentioned as to why the Super Eagles game did not make it to live TV despite the quality opposition they were lined up to face.
SuperSport, the cable satellite television station that aired most of Nigeria’s recent matches, said it did not bid to air the friendly.
In a chat with PREMIUM TIMES, Felix Awogu, the General Manager of SuperSport West Africa, said his organisation did not bid for the right to beam the Super Eagles game for a number of reasons.
“You are not given the rights to show a match, you actually bid for it and in the case of Thursday’s game we did not bid” Awogu explained.
According to the SuperSport boss, logistics around the Senegal-Nigeria game were not too clear hence the reason why they did not bid for the right, let alone show the game.

More at

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/227084-nigerians-couldnt-watch-super-eagles-play-senegal-may-not-watch-burkina-faso-match.html

spartan117:
Who else has noticed dat d rate of zombism on nairaland has reduced. D zombies seem to be running out of ideas on how to defend their Master

Back to d to pics, Mr fayose pls continue to put dis incompetent govt on their toes so dat d likes of lie mohamed and liemee adesina will not overrun us with lies and propaganda

You call us zombies but we are not...

BTW I thought all the haters, wailers and biznessmen like you have committed suicide on arrival of the People's Beloved PMB.

Blos be brave to act like your fellas...

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Law enforcement officials in Peru last weekend made a different kind of score than the one soccer giant Lionel Messi is used to making when they seized 1,417 kilos of cocaine bearing the FC Barcelona star’s likeness and name.
The cocaine, worth an estimated $85 million on the street, was discovered inside containers of squid filets and destined for Belgium. The shipment was headed to the port area of Callao after making its way overland to the capital of Lima.
Drug trafficking from Peruvian ports is believed to have risen since a new law authorising the military to shoot down drug-smuggling aircrafts in the jungle was passed in 2015.
“Most of the 1,288 packages of drugs were camouflaged as squid filets and had a label that said ‘Messi’ along with a picture of the Argentina player Lionel Messi wearing the shirt of the Spanish club Barcelona,” a press release from the Peruvian National Police’s Anti-drugs Office (Dirandro) stated.
No one has been arrested or detained in connection to the cocaine shipment, but Mexican drug cartels are believed to be involved in the trade, the release said.
“There is no doubt that this is an international organisation,” the release stated. “And it is likely that the Mexican Sinaloa cartel is behind this thwarted shipment.”
The Sinaloa Cartel, once headed by imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is believed to be one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organisations and the cartel with the largest international reach, reports FoxNews.com.
Along with the bricks of cocaine bearing Messi’s name, other packages were wrapped in black and featured a logo saying “King” with a likeness of the king of Spain.
The branding of bricks of cocaine is a common technique employed by drug trafficking organisations throughout Latin America in an effort to guarantee the purity of their product and that the packaging has remained sealed.
Peru is the world’s second largest producer of cocaine next to neighbouring Colombia and leads the world in coca leaf growing, churning out about 60,000 tons a year. Coca leaf is the base substance from which cocaine is made.

Peruvian police have announced that they have intercepted 1,417kg of cocaine on Wednesday.
The substance was packaged with images of Barcelona star, Lionel Messi.
The packaging did not only have Messi’s face plastered all over it, they also bore his name, Barcelona’s logo and the seal of the King of Spain.
The seized cocaine reportedly has a street value of $85 million.
It was found stuffed in nearly 1,300 squid fillets, that were being prepared to be shipped to Belgium.
No one has been arrested for the shipment yet.

HungerBAD:
Interesting.

Interesting? how?

A 57-year-old pastor, Abel Eku, has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command on for allegedly attempting to
blow up a church in Benin » , the state capital after placing a homemade explosive in the auditorium.
Punch reports that Pastor Eku was arrested after the explosive device was discovered by the police at the headquarters of the Christ Chosen Church of God while the church was preparing to hold its international conference and world convention on January 22, 2017.

Pastor Eku who was paraded by the police alongside other suspects at the State Command Headquarters, confessed that he planted the bomb » because he was angry that the church sacked him over marital issues he had with his wife.
The suspect said it was the way and manner he was dismissed from the church that made him decide to bomb it but later regretted his action and he was the one who called the church officials to inform them of the bomb and the location.

Pastor Eku said he had served the
for 25 years after his parents sowed him as a seed and for them to just dismiss him like that was hard to bear and hence he decided to take the action.
Hear him:

“I am 57 years old. I had marital issues with my wife and we came to the church to resolve it but it was not resolved. It led to my dismissal.

I was very bitter about the dismissal. I didn’t have the intention of killing people. My action is very bad.
I have served in the church for 25 years. My parents offered me to the church as a first fruit because of their inability to have children. I was given to the church as a first issue.

My parents were married for many years without any issue, so they vowed at the altar that any first child God gave to them would be given to the church.
That was how they gave me to the church. It was out of annoyance that I planted the bomb. I was dismissed from the church after serving for 25 years. After planting the bomb, I was not happy with myself.

I had a change of heart and called the people to tell them about it. It was to scare people. I had to call people to check and detonate it."
According to the police, Pastor Eku confessed that he made the explosive using some local raw materials and also planted it in the church himself.

What do you guys think...

tanx op. it's nice to dance in church . I have release more than twice in the church today, thanks to those dangling bra less sound boobs of girls surrounding me. #RCCGISTHEBEST
#RCCGROCKS