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SUFFERInSMILIIN:
Nigeria is a nation of illiterate the people are stupid vote for themselves and suffer all over the world. When you take a trip to Canada America and Europe Nigerians will tell you they have to vote for themselves they have to do it by themselves then they stupid idiot I in another man's land. The problem of Nigeria is not the leaders but the coconut head citizens. In every aspect Nigerians are left in the world but they want to vote for themselves and suffer

What stop you from studying toxicology in US or any other countries and come to Nigeria and establish yourself

Five American service members were killed in a crash late Friday after their helicopter had a "mishap" during a training exercise and went into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the military said Sunday.

Two officials confirmed that the five were Army special operations soldiers, as first reported by The New York Times and Washington Post. Search and rescue efforts went into Saturday before being called off, according to the officials.

The craft that crashed was an MH-60 helicopter, the officials said.

U.S. European Command said in an initial statement on Saturday that the cause of the crash was under investigation but "there are no indications of hostile activity."

The aircraft was conducting a "routine air refueling mission" when the "mishap" occurred, according to European Command's statement on Sunday. Further details about what went wrong were not provided.

The helicopter went down near Cyprus, a third U.S. official said. The crew was part of special operations forces recently sent there to be in place if needed to help evacuate American citizens from the region amid the unfolding Israel-Hamas war, according to the official.

The names of the dead have not yet been released, pending notification of relatives.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in his own statement that "while we continue to gather more information about this deadly crash, it is another stark reminder that the brave men and women who defend our great nation put their lives on the line each and every day to keep our country safe. They represent the best of America. We will remember their service and their sacrifice."


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5 US special operations troops killed in Veterans Day weekend crash after training 'mishap': Officials
LUIS MARTINEZ and MATT SEYLER
Sun, November 12, 2023, 10:15 PM GMT·2 min read

Five American service members were killed in a crash late Friday after their helicopter had a "mishap" during a training exercise and went into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the military said Sunday.

Two officials confirmed that the five were Army special operations soldiers, as first reported by The New York Times and Washington Post. Search and rescue efforts went into Saturday before being called off, according to the officials.

The craft that crashed was an MH-60 helicopter, the officials said.

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U.S. European Command said in an initial statement on Saturday that the cause of the crash was under investigation but "there are no indications of hostile activity."

The aircraft was conducting a "routine air refueling mission" when the "mishap" occurred, according to European Command's statement on Sunday. Further details about what went wrong were not provided.

The helicopter went down near Cyprus, a third U.S. official said. The crew was part of special operations forces recently sent there to be in place if needed to help evacuate American citizens from the region amid the unfolding Israel-Hamas war, according to the official.

The names of the dead have not yet been released, pending notification of relatives.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in his own statement that "while we continue to gather more information about this deadly crash, it is another stark reminder that the brave men and women who defend our great nation put their lives on the line each and every day to keep our country safe. They represent the best of America. We will remember their service and their sacrifice."

"My prayers are with the patriots we have lost today and their families, loved ones, and teammates," Austin said.

European Command officials and Austin's statement initially conflicted on the timing of the incident, whether it was late Friday or early Saturday. The Pentagon said Sunday afternoon that it was late Friday.

President Joe Biden publicly mourned the deaths, saying in a statement that military members "put their lives on the line for our country every day. They willingly take risks to keep the American people safe and secure. And their daily bravery and selflessness is an enduring testament to what is best in our nation."
Acknowledging the crash occurred at the start of Veterans Day weekend, Biden said, "We once more affirm the sacred obligation we bear to those who volunteer to serve our nation as well as their families, caregivers, and survivors."

"Jill and I are praying for the families and friends who have lost a precious loved one—a piece of their soul. Our entire nation shares their grief," the president said.


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/5-us-members-killed-crash-163110264.html



Brainlight:
GOD WHEN E GO REACH NIGERIA TURN

E go reach Nigeria when peter obi become president

Blackpowers101:
Even after that "your fada nyash "?

I wonder

Wealthoptulent:
Nice as u gained the ground ahead... na that Bini boy's Descendant , e no train am well (they into scam, and saying one government no good. Them be citizens Good?)

That's SLAWOMIRR

I laugh tired this morning

Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have been convicted of exploiting a young man from a poor village by bringing him to London to donate a kidney. As they await sentencing, the BBC reveals details of the conspiracy.

Student Sonia Ekweremadu appeared to have an ideal life - wealthy parents at the heart of Nigeria's political system and a place at a leading UK university - but she was also desperately sick and needed a kidney transplant. Her dad, Ike Ekweremadu, paid fixers and middlemen thousands of pounds to arrange a donor.

Daniel, whose real name cannot be reported for legal reasons, grew up in a big family in rural Nigeria, without running water or electricity. Aged 15, he was selling mobile phone accessories from a barrow in the capital Lagos and sending money home.

In 2022, aged 21, he walked into a police station near Heathrow, tired, homeless and terrified. He told police he had run away because people wanted to take one of his kidneys.

Trader gives evidence at organ donation plot trial

Mum accused in organ plot denies helping find donor

While Daniel pushed his barrow, at the other end of the Nigerian social ladder, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice grew increasingly worried about their daughter's health.


The Ekweremadus approached a middleman, Dr Obinna Obeta, who in July 2021, had himself received a kidney donation, using his connections to make it happen: a Nigerian doctor friend in Cambridge organised fundraising, a young donor was found in Nigeria, and the private operation took place at London's Royal Free Hospital.


Ike Ekweremadu is an opposition senator 2003
The Ekweremadu family wanted Dr Obeta to repeat the process for Sonia. Dr Obeta asked his donor to find someone willing to provide a kidney for Sonia. He suggested Daniel.

Daniel claimed Dr Obeta had promised to bring him to Britain and never mentioned a kidney transplant. "I will live in his house and he will get work for me. He asked me not to tell people that I'm coming to the UK," Daniel told the court. When Dr Obeta asked Daniel to undergo medical tests, Daniel thought they were for a visa application.

His UK visa was granted in January 2022. Good news, Daniel thought. Dr Obeta's help was as if "from God", he said. Once in London, however, he had to sleep on Dr Obeta's sofa and says the doctor used him as a houseboy.

Behind the scenes, Ike Ekweremadu, communicating through his brother, a doctor, was being asked to pay Dr Obeta nearly £2,000. Daniel was to receive £6,000 for a kidney, while the operation, at the Royal Free private wing, would cost £80,000.

In the UK it is a breach of the Human Tissue Act to pay or reward transplant donors who should, in any event, be family members or people with close emotional ties to the recipient.

The Ekweremadus seemed aware of this. They invited Daniel to lunch at a West African restaurant in south London, telling him to dress up. Sonia was there and her picture was taken with Daniel. Her parents and Dr Obeta were pretending they were cousins. Sonia was acquitted of being involved in the conspiracy.

The donor, the recipient and senior kidney consultant Dr Peter Dupont all met for the first time on 22 February 2022.

Daniel told the Old Bailey jury: "He asked me did I know I was going to do a kidney transplant. I was shocked. That was the first time I heard about the kidney transplant." It was also, he said, the first day he had ever heard the name Ekweremadu: "I was crying and shaking."

In a letter asking a colleague for a second opinion, Dr Dupont noted Daniel had not seen his supposed cousin Sonia for a decade and had "significant reservations about donation".

Meanwhile, the Ekweremadus and Dr Obeta sent Daniel prompts to improve his cover story, paying a translator to coach the 21-year-old for his meetings with doctors.

The second doctor, Dr Philip Masson, was also concerned Daniel could not understand the risks of donating. Dr Dupont stopped the process, concluding Daniel was "medically borderline", had a "tenuous relationship with the recipient", lacked maturity and could not fund his future medical care.


Sonia Ekweremadu desperately needed a kidney transplant
Within weeks, Ike Ekweremadu was texting Sonia pictures of new potential donors. She replied: "The dark one looks better. The light one looks like he will run away."


Meanwhile, Daniel was visited by two men at Dr Obeta's south London flat. He said one of them, a doctor, pressed on his stomach, leaving Daniel terrified they might try to remove a kidney once he returned to Nigeria.

He ran to the police and Ike, Beatrice and Sonia were arrested, along with Dr Obeta.

At the Old Bailey, three of them have now been convicted of breaking modern slavery laws by bringing Daniel to the UK to provide a kidney for Sonia.

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Sonia's transplant was halted - but the Royal Free had previously carried out the transplant received by Dr Obeta, who had also falsely claimed he was a relative of the donor.


A key figure in both cases was Cambridge-based NHS doctor Chris Agbo, who runs a side business helping foreign patients get treatment in Britain.

It was Dr Agbo who fundraised for Dr Obeta's transplant, organised meetings with the hospital and discussed payments with the Royal Free hospital's private wing.

He appears to have believed he should be rewarded for his company's work by the Royal Free.

On 8 December 2021, he wrote to Dr Dupont: "This is the third transplant patient that my company has brought to the Royal Free... We have never received any form of incentive from Royal Free Hospital. Hope this time my company, Vintage Health Group, will be treated differently and fairly."


No money was paid. Dr Agbo is being investigated by both the police and the General Medical Council, which has imposed conditions on his medical licence. When the BBC asked him what he knew about Daniel being brought to the UK seemingly unaware of the potential transplant, he declined to answer.

The Human Tissue Authority says it has referred other questionable cases, not linked to Dr Agbo, to the police in recent years.

As for the young Nigerian who was flown to London to provide a kidney for Dr Obeta, the BBC found him living in a small east London flat with condensation on the windows, still suffering from pain and weakness, the consequences of giving up a vital organ.


Ike Ekweremadu
Nigerian politician




https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigerian-street-trader-trafficked-uk-143242019.html

Hmmmm

 Jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu's family lost a legal challenge against the British government in a London court on Thursday over his continuing detention in Nigeria.

Kanu's brother Kingsey Kanu brought a judicial review against Britain's Foreign Office over its alleged refusal to acknowledge that Nnamdi Kanu, who holds Nigerian and British citizenship, was the victim of extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021.

Kingsley Kanu's lawyers argued that the Foreign Office should reach a concluded view on whether his brother was the victim of extraordinary rendition in order to properly assess what steps to take to assist Kanu.

Judge Jonathan Swift dismissed the case in a written ruling on Thursday, in which he said the Foreign Office's decision not to express a firm view about Kanu's treatment, either privately or publicly, was a matter for the government.

However, the judge added that the British government's approach will also now be informed by a ruling given by Nigeria's Court of Appeal on Oct. 13, which found that Kanu had been been unlawfully abducted and rendered to Nigeria.

Nigeria's Court of Appeal also dropped seven terrorism charges against Kanu, who remains in detention pending an appeal against that decision by the Nigerian government.

Britain's Foreign Office and Kingsley Kanu's lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Kanu founded the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to press for the secession of the Igbo ethnic group's homeland, which covers part of southeast Nigeria.

Authorities view IPOB as a terrorist group and banned it in 2017. IPOB says it wants to achieve independence through non-violent means.

The region tried to secede from Nigeria in 1967 under the name of Republic of Biafra, triggering a three-year civil war in which more than a million people died, mostly from starvation.

https://news.yahoo.com/biafran-separatist-leaders-brother-loses-115003361.html

Because obi didn't win right......

Hambivert:
The only affirmation I want now is for INEC to come out and say that the elections did not go on as they promised Nigerians it would, and that it was riddled with wide spread violence, ballot snatching, voter intimidation, vote buying, and technical glitches to name a few.

Buhari is a monumental and collosal failure. He promised a free and fair election for posterity, but we forgot he is clueless as always.
What a sparogative waste of 8 years and waste of trust.

Buhari used Nigerians to play Chess.
Hoarded the currency, deployed military on the eve of the elections to make us let our guards down, starved our engines of fuel, and the last stroke of it, he made a particular candidate win in some states that we thought he wouldn't win so as to fly with the narrative the elections was free and fair.

To me, Buhari can never change. He is a failure, him and his cronies.

tishbite42:
Afonjas and hypocrisy
It is now nice one, good gesture
If an Igbo man did this it will be a sign of bad governance

Ori e ti gbale....make igbo do am first

justwise:
Who made the application? Herself or an agent?

She went to their embassy in Abuja last week