The Pastor had handed over the diamond to the government in return for a promise of using the 59% government tax revenue from the sale (about $3.9 million) to provide basic infrastructure and amenities in the community while a quarter of the funds will be shared among the mining crew.
The stone was sold on 4th December, 2017 to a British Jeweler in a high publicised auction held in New York.
The little village has no electricity, modern health facility, public water supply or access roads.
If you’re yet to have a self-driving car but want to solve a persistent problem of finding your room footwear, then check out this self-parking slippers from Nissan.
The Japanese auto company recently developed the self-driving slippers, which upon being removed will drive themselves back to their original positions.
A Mexican millionaire father living in the United States is being investigated by police after a viral video showed his 12 year old boy being entertained by strippers during his birthday party.
In the disturbing youtube video (was later taken down by YouTube), the shirtless boy was seen being caressed by two scantily clad strippers. Police said that they launched the investigation after a video of the stripper dancing with the topless boy went viral on the Internet.
The boy was seen placing his hands on the stripper’s behind. The other stripper then pushed her breasts into the boy’s head while his father laughed nearby.
The authorities said that they are investigating the strippers for sexual assault on a child while the boy’s father might face a child endangerment charge.
According to Estrella TV, a Spanish-speaking TV channel in the United States, the father claim he hoped to turn his son into a man.
Today, Turing may best be known for his work at Bletchley Park during World War II, and his part in breaking the then famous German Enigma code that proved too good for the allies to decipher.
His trial for homosexuality and subsequent death (alleged to be by suicide) remain debatable controversies.
By this time Turing was also a well known mathematician.
As a young man, his idea of a ‘Universal Machine’, a hypothetical type of computer, resolved one of the most important problems in 20th century mathematics.
On 4 September 1939, the day after the UK declared war on Germany, Turing reported to Bletchley Park, the wartime station of Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS).
Much of Turing’s work was not published in the formal sense of appearance in a scientific journal of the day.
Turing Test:
In 1936 Turing published a paper in which he came up with the idea of the Universal Turing machine which was capable of computing anything that was computable.
Von Neumann acknowledged that the central concept of the modern computer was due to this paper. In 1950 Turing proposed an experiment to find out if a machine was “intelligent”.
The idea was that a computer could be said to “think” if a human interrogator could not tell it apart, through conversation, from a human being. The test is now called the Turing test.
Even though they were last shown more than a decade ago, we can still re-watch these timeless adverts thanks to Youtube.
MTN ‘Sharp Guy’ Tv Commercial
A creation of ad agency SO & U, the ad features a man, obviously a student in a tertiary educational institution setting who went overboard by dropping his phone with a lady who had repeatedly turned down his advances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25SH_0y_xw The male student’s gamble paid off when hours later he used a borrowed phone to call his line and finally got a chance to speak with his dream girl who having picked up the ‘lost phone’ simply waited for a call from the ‘forgetful owner’.
MTN ‘Dance with Me’ Tv Ad
With Enrique Iglesias 2001 pop hit ‘Hero’ playing in the background, ‘Dance with Me’ was a romantic affair featuring a couple having a long distance call.
MTN ‘Na Boy’ Tv Ad This ‘Joy of Grandmotherhood’ doesn’t need an explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9srw0_j-V4 Relevant to mention is the fast-spread jubilation among the young, sleeping and market-trading populace in the community who trooped around the elated grandmother to celebrate the phone-transmitted good news from her son about the birth of her new grandson.
MTN ‘Sunrise’ ad You’d forgive me for sharing almost romance-only MTN commercials if you recall this memorable advert which has the male actor taking view advantage of a captivating, orange-glowing and window-piercing sunshine to remind his dialled up lover of her illuminating presence in his life.
GMBuhari: Recounting the Ghanaian expulsion of Nigerians in 1969, some Nigerians justified the 83’ and 85’ expulsions as being neccessary. The aliens were accused of taking jobs meant for Nigerians and adding to the high crime rates
That exactly is Trump's campaign
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There are differences in many ways. In truth, the Ghanaian community in Nigeria had very highly skilled labor and a very low crime rate.
There's little to support an inference that 2 million Ghanaians drove Nigerians out of jobs into crime.
An expendable scape goat was merely found by the Nigerian government who had no idea how to manage an economy outside oil booms.
Bilabong: And Ghana must go was the ATM of those days... Every essential in transferring money.
To be fair, the practice of stuffing cash in big bags started with public officials (both military and civilian staff) during the military era who wanted off-bank transactions (usually illicit).
In the latter days of January 1983, thousands of Ghanaian travelers having left Nigeria for Ghana after being expelled, were stranded at the border between Benin Republic and Togo.
Some of the fairly jolly ones turned on loud radio stereos playing Bob Marley’s 1977 hit song ‘Exodus’.
Many had evacuated with their families on moment’s notice, hurriedly stuffing most of their belongings into big, cheaply available chequered bags
The biggest mass movement since the 1966/67 pre-civil war evacuations in the West African country had begun.
The big hollow bags earned a new name from locals, a name that decades later is still a symbol for the huge state-triggered self-deportation, ‘Ghana-must-Go’.
Up to 2 million undocumented immigrants, mostly Ghanaians have been sent packing and were heading home.
Nigeria’s then President, Shehu Shagari was heading into a presidential election and amidst a worsening economic situation, was not reluctant using the mass expulsion of foreigners as a campaign tool to win votes.
“If they don’t leave they should be arrested and tried and sent back to their homes. Illegal immigrants, in fact, under normal circumstances, should not be given any notice whatsoever. If you break a law, then you have to pay for it,” he explained on national radio.
The ‘undocumented’ Ghanaians were mostly artisans, some others with higher education have already risen to become administrators and even university lecturers in Nigeria.
Sadly for them, according to the Nigerian government, they all had to go.
Some of the documented migrants, fearing hostility from locals decided to go too.
The travellers who continued by road from Benin had another problem – The Ghanaian government led by the military dictator Jerry Rawlings had shut the country’s border with Togo in fear of a repeat of an earlier attempted coup.
Togo in turn also shut her border with Benin, trying to prevent an influx of up to a million travellers who might get trapped within it’s tiny territory while being unable to cross over to Ghana.
Ghana finally gave in and opened its border with Togo and Togo soon followed suit at it’s border with Benin.
A repeat expulsion was done in 1985.
Massive commodity shortages caused by rapidly rising inflation and foreign exchange problems made the new military regime to use the same scape-goat twice.
Many Ghanaians who stayed back in Nigeria in 1983 or the tens of thousands who returned shortly afterwards, were asked to leave the country again.
In the 1985 expulsion, up to 200,000 people left though the Nigerian government had intended to make the number up to 700,000.
Recounting the Ghanaian expulsion of Nigerians in 1969, some Nigerians justified the 83’ and 85’ expulsions as being neccessary. The aliens were accused of taking jobs meant for Nigerians and adding to the high crime rates.
On the other side, Ghanaian government radio rained fire and brimstone, ”Nigeria should be ashamed of itself. The action of Nigeria is contrary to the charter of the Organization of African Unity.”
It demanded that Nigeria reimburse Ghanaians for property they were forced to leave behind after both expulsions and accused the Nigerian police of killing up to 65 people who were allegedly murdered while crossing over to Benin from Nigeria.
The Nigerians however denied any killing and instead accused western journalists of fabricating reports to ‘divide black people’.
Diplomatic relations between both countries were restored back to normal after some years but the Ghana-Must Go’ reminder remain in Nigeria with the chequered ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bags still available in street shops
The ‘Sallekhana’ is allowed in Jainism when ‘normal religious life’ is not possible because of old age, extreme calamities, famine, incurable disease or when a person is near death.
Each year, up to 500 Jain followers in India starve themselves to death. As the sometimes publicised process take place, dozens of people (including fellow believers) gather around to wait and watch the person die.
Taking the holy vow to fast until death is thought to offer salvation and liberation of the soul, by allowing followers to give up all worldly attachments, including the flesh.
Sometimes police will disrupt the ritual and force feed participants. Many Jains are angry that it’s considered suicide, and instead say it’s normal rite and should be treated with the utmost respect.
Hundreds of Jains make the oath each year, some of them monks, though the majority are among the lay members.Up to 60% of the participants are women and it is thought that women are more strong-willed and religious than men.
While the practice is popular with those that are ill and near death, some healthy people also strangely partake in the practice. In 2009, there were 550 Jains who took the oath in India.
The fast record in recorded memory for a person surviving is 87 days, achieved by 60-year-old monk Sadhvi Charan Pragyaji in 2009. Before she died, about 20,000 followers trooped to see her.
There is debate about the practice from a legal right to life and a freedom of religion stance.
In 2015, the Rajasthan High Court banned the practice, considering it an act of suicide.
Later same year, the Supreme Court of India stayed the decision of the Rajasthan High Court and lifted the ban on the rite.
In early 2007, the former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared that he’d invented his own miracle cure for the virus using a mixture of herbal medicine and spiritual healing techniques but many died after administration of his concoctions. [img]https://qzprod.files./2016/12/ap_16336480282565-e1481329883107.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=5615[/img] Forcing thousands of people with HIV to undergo treatment with a mixture of herbs and enchantment he came up with, The Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who left the country a year ago after two decades in power, has been accused of many crimes which include his strange HIV cure program.
Even more bizarrely, Jammeh claimed the cure only worked on Thursdays and Mondays. Not surprisingly, this was denounced as quackery of the most dangerous sort by health experts around the world.
But in The Gambia itself, telling the then president that he was talking nonsense could land one in prison.
Lamin Ceesay, a Gambian health activist who himself is HIV positive was sent an invitation through his charity, asking for 10 volunteers to be the first batch of guinea pigs for the president’s six-month treatment programme, he decided it was an offer he couldn’t refuse.And so the treatment began. Each morning the president would rub a mysterious green paste into the patients’ bodies, while chanting prayers from a leather-bound Koran.
Then, twice per day, they would drink from a bottle filled with a yellow herbal potion. Jammeh refused to say what was in it, despite being told that if he really had found a cure for HIV he could file for a patent and make Gambia rich overnight.
Whatever it was, it gave Ceesay constant diarrhoea. He also caught tuberculosis from another patient, and eventually grew so weak that he had to be transferred back to a proper hospital. Tests then showed that his HIV viral load had soared, and he was put back on the ARVs again.
As the first person in The Gambia to publicly declare himself HIV-positive, Lamin Ceesay thought he was doing the right thing. It was back in 2000, when many people were still ignorant about HIV, and when HIV-positive people had to cope with stigma and prejudice on top of everything else.
On World Aids Day that year, Ceesay plucked up the courage to go public and took part in a street march put on by an HIV charity. It earned him the respect of health campaigners worldwide. But a few years later it also brought him to the attention of Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh.
“I thought about just sending other people on the programme, but I feared if I didn’t go myself, it might get me into trouble,” he said.
“I also thought, ‘Why not? It can’t do any harm.'”
That was where Ceesay was wrong. It was only when he arrived at the president’s makeshift clinic at the presidential palace that the ground rules of the programme were explained. No smoking, or drinking tea or coffee. No sex. And crucially, no taking of mainstream medicine – including the anti-retroviral drugs given to him by his regular doctors.
In the end, some 9,000 people are believed to have been treated, although since Jammeh kept all the clinic’s records secret, nobody has yet established just how many of them died.
One thing now seems sure, though – the only “miracle” about his cure was that anyone survived at all.
If you prefer preparing fast foods, then this french dish recipe isn’t for you
Described as an easy dish to make (by French standards maybe), the beef Bourguignon’s recipe as listed on French Today include ingredients such as 2 different onion varieties, chocolate, flour, wine and of course, the beef.
The boneless meat takes at least 2 nights of cooking, spicing, cooling and re-heating to make the dish.
For the food enthusiasts, the beef bourguignon will surely be a savoury try.
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