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and my case is different!

The world's second-largest gem-quality diamond has been sold to a London jeweller for $53m (£39.5m) approximately 1.9 trillion naira.

Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds , bought the diamond privately after it failed to meet its reserve price at an auction last year .

The 1,111-carat stone was recovered by Canadian firm Lucara Diamond Corp in Botswana two years ago.

Lucara said the price was an improvement on the highest bid received at Sotheby's in June 2016.
The diamond is named "Lesedi La Rona", which means "our light" in Botswana's Tswana language.

The stone was first formed between 2.5 to three billion years ago and is roughly the size of a tennis ball.
As well as its size, the diamond has been certified as being of "exceptional quality and transparency" by the Gemological Institute of America.

Mr Graff said "The stone will tell us its story, it will dictate how it wants to be cut."

The company says it will be scanned using state-of-the-art 3D equipment that searches for inclusions - small imperfections in the heart of the stone - to decide how the diamond will be polished.
Then an expert team will examine the diamond using microscopes to pick up and navigate any further pinpoint inclusions.
They will then work out how to cut the diamond and into how many individual stones.
Graff acquired another 373-carat diamond that was originally part of "Lesedi La Rona" earlier this year.
The company says it will cut the smaller diamond first and with the knowledge gained from that, they will decide how to work on the larger gem.
The "Lesedi La Rona" is the largest gem-quality diamond discovered in more than a century, and the second-largest ever. The largest was the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1905.

Graff described the stone as "the world's most valuable rough diamond".

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Lawlahdey:
The wife is into BDSM buh hubby doesn't have dominant bone in him so she had to get it outside.
Can't blame her.

what!!!.....its marriage for God sake.whatever you see in there you manage.

COYG

Ladyjumong:
are u okay,is uyo a biafran state or niger deltan

keyboard warrior relax...you can make your point without being insultive.

LadyGoddiva:
How una take know na?

God bless you...I've been wondering how they saw the interior oo.

what is earth turning into?its becoming inhabitable daily.from hurricane with different names to earthquake. lord save us.

so what??

Educative

which way Naija?....for my biafran brothers which way Biafra?

wow.....ritualist everywhere.

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9inches:
All I know is that God will judge him

haha.....abeg judge who??

AntiIPOB:
Don't mind them,and they are busy complaining about appointment in government they put or invest nothing in it,Igbo's want to be treated like first class race by all means possible.

they want to reap where they didn't sow.....a won drama kings

let them send as many as they want,,its still not the solution to their problem...even countries where the killing of Christian is evident nothing has been done by the so called international bodies..and will those country declare Biafra?...who is deceiving who?

ELKHALIFAISIS:
how do they smuggled him inside the Secretariat because I didn't hear or see any motorcade this man is epitome of failure, Wondering what he is going to say

and you are an epitome of what??..am sure nobody from your lineage has ever become LG CHAIRMAN and you call him failure?..eediot

Balkan:
No single igbo man on his crew.
Na wahooo. Python dance against the Igbos is at all levels

95% Igbo votes was given to Jonathan and he didnt die because of that but now you people are bitching about him not liking you and the few Igbo's in his cabinet you will criticize and call them Hausa Ass Lickers,bastard e.t.c how can you people be pleased??.

[quote author=Okwyjesus post=60608294][/quote]I agree with you but Igbo's brag a lot which really piss people off..you dont need to tell us what you can or cannot do.

op we hail thee happy married life in advance bro.

Okwyjesus:
Everybody knew the Igbos are capable of anything hence the effort to correct the wrongs.

and they have started again..chest beaters.

nice one op

Evaberry:
very few men are victims of domestic violence. Women always bear the brunt of a man's anger


No matter what a woman says or does, a man should never hit her, a man is physically stronger than a woman so hitting her will inflict serious physical damage, whereas a woman may not cause any real harm to a man.

Op the husband in your write Up should have quietly left the compound and go relax somewhere until he was sure his wife had calmed down. when a woman is angry she throws all reason and caution to the wind, it therefore falls on the man to be understanding and reasonable


Engaging in a fisticuffs with a woman is wrong and should be condemned.

do you know the injury the woman's word would have inflicted on the man....some women are specially gifted the spirit of trouble making, they can provoke JESUS to fight.

ydass:
An Igbo man declaring war against his people Sad. How can he say no hiding place for bafrans. All Igbos support biafran except the governors who are you going to govern when you kill all your people.. ass holes

point of correction sir not all Igbo support ipob.

which one be why did you RAN AWAY......

ritababe I hope you are not willing to trade word with those guys ooo....they are quite good at doing that....just chill out.

comshots:
Buhari and buratai ordered his Fulani soldiers to kill ibo civilians simply because they don't want to be part of Nigeria while Islamic terrorists in the north are being released from detention on their instructions.ICC loading........

I hate Bragging and it seems that's what you guys do best....what will ICC do? arrest Buhari? or declare Biafra?......mtcheww.

Tensions were growing between protesters and police in St Louis
Friday afternoon after a judge acquitted a former officer of murder in the 2011 shooting death of a black motorist.
By mid-afternoon some officers were changing into riot gear amid scattered reports of bottles and rocks being launched at police and reporters by demonstrators, although by mid-afternoon the protests remained mostly peaceful.
Police have made at least one arrest, and a number of demonstrators engaged in civil disobedience, such as blocking official vehicles. Local media said some protesters had been maced by officers.
Several city streets were closed down to allow for growing crowds, which have swelled beyond a “free speech zone” the city designated for demonstration. Some protesters have taken to the streets carrying firearms and tactical gear, which is legal: Missouri is an open-carry state. Missouri governor Eric Greitens put the national guard on alert leading up to the verdict and some military units have been seen moving from barracks into the city throughout the afternoon.
The protests were sparked by the acquittal of former officer Jason Stockley, who shot 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith five times with his own AK-47 assault rifle rather than his service weapon at the end of a high-speed chase. The officer said he saw Smith holding a gun and felt he was in imminent danger. Prosecutors said Stockley planted a gun in Smith’s car after he shot him.
Assistant circuit attorney Robert Steele emphasized during the trial that police dashcam video showed Stockley saying he was “going to kill this motherfucker, don’t you know it”. Less than a minute later, he shot and killed Smith. Stockley’s lawyer dismissed the comment as “human emotions” during a dangerous police pursuit.
Thomas Harvey of Arch City Defenders, a St Louis civil rights law firm, said: “If police can announce they are going to murder, carry personal AK-47s, plant weapons and shoot unarmed people five times at close range with no consequences, no black man in America is safe.”
Stockley, 36, could have been sentenced to up to life in prison without parole. He left the St Louis police force in 2013 and moved to Houston.
It is unusual for officers to be charged with killing suspects on duty, and few have been convicted in such deaths, regardless of the circumstances. Stockley’s verdict was handed down by circuit judge Timothy Wilson, who oversaw the bench trial. Stockley requested that the case be heard by a judge rather than a jury despite objections from prosecutor – probably to avoid risking a jury with a substantially black composition.
On Monday, the city’s black police organization, the Ethical Society of Police, issued a letter calling for Stockley’s conviction based on the “physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, questionable tactics, and numerous violations of SLMPD policies/procedures”.
Before the verdict, activists in St Louis threatened civil disobedience if Stockley were acquitted, including possible efforts to shut down highways. Amid growing unease, the mayor and an attorney for Smith’s fiancee publicly urged for calm.
Governor Greitens met and assured black faith leaders that peaceful protesters’ rights would be protected, but said violence would not be tolerated.
Barricades went up on 28 August around police headquarters, the courthouse where the trial was held, and other sites of recent or potential protests. Police said they were trying to ensure safety “due to recent events around the country”.
The St Louis area has a history of unrest in such cases, including after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014. Protests, some of them violent, erupted after the black 18-year-old, who was unarmed, was killed by a white police officer. The officer was not charged but later resigned.
The Stockley ruling also comes on the heels of a travel advisory for black motorists in Missouri that was issued in August by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The NAACP cautioned people to “warn your families, co-workers and anyone visiting Missouri to beware of the safety concerns with travel in Missouri”, after the governor signed a bill rolling back civil rights protections that some activists called Jim Crow-esque.
In Smith’s case, the encounter began when Stockley and a fellow officer tried to corner Smith in a fast-food restaurant parking lot after seeing what appeared to be a drug deal. Stockley testified that he saw what he believed was a gun, and his partner yelled “Gun!” as Smith backed into the police SUV twice to get away.
Stockley’s attorney, Neil Bruntrager, argued that Smith, a parole violater with previous convictions for gun and drug crimes, tried to run over the two officers. Stockley fired seven shots as Smith sped away. A chase ensued.
The defense claimed that at the end of the chase, Stockley opened fire only when Smith, still in his car, refused commands to put up his hands and reached along the seat “in the area where the gun was”. Stockley said he climbed into Smith’s car and found a revolver stuffed between the center console and passenger seat.
Prosecutors questioned why Stockley dug into a bag in the back seat of the police SUV before returning to Smith’s car. The gun found in Smith’s car didn’t have his DNA on it, but it did have Stockley’s.
“The gun was a plant,” Steele said.
The case was one of several in recent years in which a white officer killed a black suspect. Officers were acquitted in recent police shooting trials in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. A case in Ohio twice ended with hung juries, and prosecutors have decided not to seek a third trial.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/15/ex-st-louis-police-officer-found-not-guilty-murder-jason-stockley-anthony-lamar-smith