President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has declared 3 days of countrywide mourning following the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II.
In a declaration on Friday, the outgoing president mentioned that the mourning length will begin at the eve of Friday, September 9, 2022, and end, at sundown, on Monday, September 12.
President Kenyatta additionally directed all Kenyan-led nation agencies, each neighborhood and abroad, to make sure that every one Kenyan flags inside their premises are flown at 1/2 of mast in the course of the 3-day length.
“The Flag of the Republic of Kenya will be flown at 1/2 of-mast at State House and all Kenyan Diplomatic Missions, Public Buildings and Public Grounds, all Military Bases, Posts and Stations, on all Naval Vessels of the Republic of Kenya, and but someplace else during the Republic of Kenya; from sunrise on nowadays till sundown on Monday, twelfth September 2022,” stated President Kenyatta.
“Our country wide flag will be flown at 1/2 of-mast for the identical duration of time in any respect High Commissions, Embassies, Consulates, Diplomatic Offices and different centers of the Republic of Kenya abroad.
While sending out his condolences to the Queen’s own circle of relatives and the humans of Britain, President Kenyatta went directly to hail the deceased matriarch as a gallant chief who will pass down in records as one of the maximum devoted contributors of the Royal Family.
“Our inner most sympathy and condolences exit to His Majesty King Charles III and the relaxation of the Royal Family. Rarely has one individual so epitomized the very excellent of humanity and management via selfless public carrier because the Late Queen Elizabeth II did in her 70 years on the helm of the UK and the Commonwealth, and in her existence of ninety six years,” stated President Kenyatta.
“In all that, as governments rose and fell, new international locations had been born, and the geopolitical sands shifted again and forth; Queen Elizabeth II remained our one steady and an unshakeable rock of determination to duty, grace, sacrifice, public carrier, and the dedication to God, Country, and Family. May God relaxation her soul in peace.”
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died on September 8, 2022, on the age of ninety six, at Balmoral, Scotland.
Kenya is certainly considered one among 36 Commonwealth international locations for whom the Queen has served as a symbolic figurehead.
A priest in Nnewi Anglican Diocese, Rev. Barr. Ogbuchukwu Makuo Lotanna has just resigned from being a priest in the Anglican Diocese, with plans to kick off a movement that supports Polygamy.
To Reverend Ogbuchukwu, Polygamy is not bad. He said he has taken his time to discover the truth about Polygamy, which the Church has been hiding for a very long time. He claimed that he has received a divine mandate from God to kick off a movement in support of Polygamy called ‘Gideonites’ and that their place of worship will be called ‘Gideonites temple’.
Reverend Ogbuchukwu who is a legal practitioner has also advised men to marry their side chicks, instead of sleeping around with women who they’re not married to. He said that it will help in reducing sexual sins.
Reverend Ogbuchukwu also said that what God hates is unnecessary divorce, and not Polygamy.
This is the tale of the primary oil war, which changed into fought withinside the nineteenth century, withinside the vicinity that have become Nigeria.
All thru the nineteenth century, palm oil turned into rather sought-after via way of means of the British, to be used as an business lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain become the world’s first industrialised nation, so that they wanted sources consisting of palm oil to hold that.
Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, that’s local to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance got here a century later. By 1870, palm oil had changed slaves as the principle export of the Niger Delta, the location which changed into as soon as called the Slave Coast. At first, maximum of the exchange withinside the oil palm turned into uncoordinated, with natives promoting to people who gave them the nice offers. Native chiefs together with former slave, Jaja of Opobo have become immensely rich due to oil palm. With this wealth got here impact.
However, a number of the Europeans, there has been opposition for who might get preferential get entry to to the rewarding oil palm exchange. In 1879, George Goldie shaped the United African Company (UAC), which changed into modelled on the previous East India Company. Goldie efficiently took manipulate of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his business enterprise had 30 buying and selling posts alongside the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a sturdy hand towards the French and Germans withinside the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British were given the region that the UAC operated in, covered of their sphere of have an impact on after the Berlin Conference.
When the Brits were given the phrases they desired from different Europeans, they started out to cope with the African chiefs. Within years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs alongside the Benue and Niger Rivers while additionally penetrating inland. This circulate inland changed into towards the spirit of verbal agreements that have been made to limition the organisation’s sports to coastal regions.
By 1886, the agency call modified to The National Africa Company and become granted a royal constitution (incorporated). The constitution accredited the business enterprise to manage the Niger Delta and all lands across the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the agency turned into once more renamed. The new call turned into Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, until this day.
To neighborhood chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged loose alternate withinside the region. Behind, they entered personal contracts on their phrases. Because the (deceitful) personal contracts have been frequently written in English and signed through the nearby chiefs, the British authorities enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, while he attempted to export palm oil on his own, became pressured into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja became “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to go back home, however he died at the manner returned, poisoned with a cup of tea.
Seeing what took place to Jaja, a few different local rulers started to appearance greater intently on the offers they have been getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms became Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like maximum rulers withinside the yard, turned into confronted with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He additionally resented the monopoly loved through the Royal Nigeria Company and attempted to are searching for out beneficial buying and selling phrases, with mainly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).
By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company more and more more dictated whom the natives may want to exchange with, and denied them direct get right of entry to to their former markets. In overdue 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and attempted to shape an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma in opposition to the Royal Nigeria Company to take again the exchange. This is enormous due to the fact whilst Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.
On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an assault at the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which become in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-sunrise raid had greater than one thousand guys involved. King Koko’s assault succeeded in shooting the base. Losing forty of his guys, King Koko captured 60 white guys as hostages, in addition to lots of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then tried to barter a launch of the hostages in change for being allowed to selected his buying and selling partners. The British refused to barter with Koko, and he had 40 of the hostages killed. A British document claimed that the Nembe humans ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, beneathneath Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe human beings died and smallpox completed off numerous others.
By April 1895, enterprise had lower back to “regular”, regular being the situations that the British desired, and King Koko turned into at the run. Brass turned into fined £500 via way of means of the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted guns have been back in addition to the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko turned into presented phrases of agreement via way of means of the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British right away declared him an outlaw and supplied a praise of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He devoted suicide in exile in 1898.
About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, changed into run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger become nicely and without a doubt underway. The instant impact of the Brass Oil War become that public opinion in Britain became towards the Royal Nigeria Company, so its constitution turned into revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its constitution, the Royal Niger Company bought its holdings to the British authorities for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s alternate rate) turned into efficiently the fee Britain paid, to shop for the territory which became to grow to be called Niger
Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has named his former Deputy, Dare Kadiri, as one of those behind his ordeals with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
While maintaining his innocence in the recent EFCC charges against him, Oluomo said “I will want the court to decide because the hyperbolic nature of the petitions written by the impeached former Deputy Speaker, Dare Kadiri was also reflected in the charges.”
In a statement on Friday after he resumed office, following the perfection of his bail conditions, Oluomo said he was not the Accounting Officer of the Assembly, adding that the House only operates one bank account.
“By law, I am not the Accounting Officer of the House, for emphasis, the House under my leadership operates only one bank account since 2019, through which running costs and allowances are paid directly into the bank accounts of individual Honourable members and staff of the House including the petitioner,” he stated.
Oluomo clarified that “charges 10 and 11 are for the Eighth legislature before I became the Speaker.”
He added that the refusal to honour the initial invitation of the EFCC was because of the method adopted by the anti-graft agency, which he said is against section 36 of the Constitution.
“We challenged it in court, this is in the public domain as it was widely reported but the EFCC refused to wait for the pronouncement in that case before taking further steps, despite having joined issues with us in court.
“I have always been disciplined and upright in my position, conduct and dealings with people, I shall continue to remain myself with truth and honour as my goal. I thank everyone that showed love and concern in the last few days. Thanks and God bless you all,” he submitted.
Queen Elizabeth II has died at age 96. The royal family gathered at her bedside in Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch has been planning for her succession for some time. Members of the royal family, including Charles, the longest-serving heir in British history, have increased their responsibilities as the queen’s health declined.
Charles, as the queen’s eldest son, inherits the sovereign title and job as head of the Commonwealth, along with other assets such as land and property.
In the past, the queen expressed desire for Charles to take over the Commonwealth. “It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations, and will decide that one day the Prince of Wales should carry on the important work started by my father in 1949,” she said in 2018 after he was unanimously voted to be the next head.
Charles, 73, has waited decades to become king and is the longest-serving heir in British history. He is the eldest of four children born to the queen and her late husband, Prince Philip. When his mother assumed the throne at age 25, he became Britain’s heir apparent at age 3. Charles’s titles include Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay and Earl of Carrick.
Charles married Diana Spencer in 1981, and the couple became known as the Prince and Princess of Wales. They had two children, Princes William and Harry. Charles and Diana separated in 1992. Following Diana’s death in 1997, Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, now known as the Duchess of Cornwall, in 2005.
Charles has long campaigned for a better environment, championing global sustainability in speeches over the years. His work includes expanding education and opportunities for young people in the United Kingdom.
His full name is Charles Philip Arthur George, so he could select any of those as his regnal title. This means that Britain’s next monarch might not go by the name of Charles, or he could decide he wants to be referred to as King Philip or King Arthur.
U.S govt. concurs to lessen Hushpuppi’s sentence to 11yrs for assisting detectives clear up different crook instances . . Prosecutors withinside the United States have requested a federal choose to condemn Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas to eleven years in jail and 3 years of supervised launch for his position in a multinational conspiracy that earned him hundreds of thousands of bucks among 2019 and 2020. . .
American lawyers led via way of means of Khaldoun Shobaki withinside the U.S. Central District of California (Los Angeles) argued that Hushpuppi must additionally be requested to pay $1.7 million in restitution; $500K in fines and $one hundred in administrative fees, consistent with guidelines submitted in advance of his sentencing on September 21. . .
The improvement got here extra than years after the notorious Internet fr@ud ringleader become arrested in Dubai in June 2020 for using a couple of schemes that focused sufferers in Europe and the United States. He pleaded responsible in April 2021 after prosecutors found his involvement in a separate conspiracy to defraud a Qatari businessperson, who lost $810K withinside the system of looking to reap an elusive mortgage to installation an global school. .
The prosecutors argued that their sentencing hints have been suitable thinking about the gravity of Hushpuppi’s crimes. The authorities stated one in every of his co-conspirators Ghaleb Alaumary became sentenced to one hundred forty years in prison for violating the identical set of crook codes. . “By his personal admission, throughout simply an 18-month length defendant conspired to launder over $three hundred million,” the prosecutors stated.
The authorities stated Mr Abbas’ crook direction become premeditated, despite the fact that he had a clean hazard to pick a profitable profession as a law-abiding citizen. . .
Mr Abbas’ sentencing, the authorities argued, turned into decreased due to the fact he cooperated with detectives on our crook instances below research and prosecution in American courts.
Speaking from his clinic bed, the victim who is an international student, said he was with two of his friends when some police officers accosted them and ordered them to enter their vehicle.
He said the officers identified one of them and asked him to go while they told him and his other friend to enter their vehicle.
The victim went further, said the officers asked for their phones and they surrendered them to the officers.
According to some of his statement,
“after searching their phones and not finding anything incriminating, the officers turned to his friend and asked him why he wasn’t into “Yahoo Yahoo” He stated.
He said he mentioned one of his friend not to answer the question which lead to the officers who then started beating him.
When speaking, said the officers took them to the station, collected their phones and then threw them into the cell, He said he started becoming unconscious inside the cell and the officers then brought him out and took him to his hostel where they dumped him.
The caretaker of the hostel confirmed the incident and said the officers did not move as they saw him rushing the victim to the hospital.
Ahmed killed his Yahoo friend “Wasiu” in Modakeke because he makes massive money from fraud.
We killed our friend because he made more money from internet fraud and was always flaunting his success- 28-yr-old suspect confesses
A murder suspect, Wahab Hammed, 28, who was recently arrested by men of the Osun state police command, says he conspired with his friend, Adegoke Ayobami, 31, to kill one Oguntade Wasiu because the deceased was making more money than the two of them.
While being paraded before newsmen at the state police command on Wednesday, September 7, Hammed said he and Ayobami were friends to the deceased and also engaged in Internet fraud, which fetched Wasiu more money than the two of them.
“I am a tailor by profession and I have a shop but I also operate motorcycle for additional income. I am from Modakeke in Adesiyan compound. I also engaged in Internet fraud but I have never hit any money.
Wasiu was a friend to Ayobami. I knew him through Ayobami and he was into Internet fraud. He has been into yahoo before our friendship more than a year ago.
I and Ayobami killed Wasiu because he was always telling us about his achievements, about how much money he was making from internet fraud and how he flaunted his successes like opening a shop for his wife, buying gold and many more. All these grieved my heart and made me envy him.
And I have always wanted to collect his money so that I can use it to cater for my need.
We killed him on August 8, 2022. We lured him to a new site because he came to me that he wanted to buy a piece of land. Ayobami and I took him to a site at Modakeke. After we inspected the land, on our way back, I was in front, Wasiu followed me and Ayobami was at the back. Ayobami held him at the jugular and while he was shouting he hacked him on the head with a cutlass.
We never had a plan to kill him but to collect money from him, but Ayobami eventually killed him. I went to report myself at the police station days later.”
The Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, said the suspects would be arraigned in court after the conclusion of the investigation.
Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the usual bearer of the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday visited the countrywide secretariat of his birthday birthday celebration along his walking mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and slammed the Labour Party LP Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi for falsifying financial records to woo gullible Nigerians.
He said; “We aren’t threatened. We are devoted and we’re very happy with ourselves, we’re of an orderly manner, we’re devoted to democratic standards and values; we aren’t bickering in any manner and you realize that. Can you assert that of the alternative parties? We aren’t spewing faux facts and incorrect figures. Can you are saying that of different parties? Well, we’re what we’re, a innovative birthday birthday celebration.
“It is a brand new horizon and we guarantee them that each Nigerian will advantage I am very positive that there can be a clean alternate and we are able to keep improvement in a fast manner.
“Let the election be over. That is one step. We need to follow INEC and rules concerning the elections, while we end that, we are able to unveil to you the ones matters that we’ve for the united states and our objectives, our creed, our dedication ought to be improvement and our dedication to transformation, and our willpower to carry assist to the teeming Nigerians.
“To all of the individuals in attendance that day (of a number one election), we need to mention thank you. We have come collectively as a political celebration and we’ve taken progressivism as our doctrine. We need to be modern in our thinking, our deeds and our goal to serve the united states.
“Yes, I admit that democracy is a challenging, very difficult and tough gadget to manage. We have visible demanding situations left and proper out of doors the global sphere of politics, however we’re decided to make sure that we democratise Nigeria absolutely and stay a beacon of democracy as the biggest kingdom of the black race withinside the world.”
No fewer than 480 police constabularies have protested the alleged non-payment of their 18-month salary in Osun.
The constabularies recruited to complement the police structure by providing intelligence, among others were inaugurated in May 2021 at Police Headquarters, Osun State after their training in April 2021.
The protesting officers who were in their uniforms, converged on the Old-Garage area, marching through Oke-Fia, Alekuwodo before storming the Ola-Iya flyover to press home their demands.
They carried placards with several inscriptions such as: ‘Pay our salary now’; ‘Okada riders are sleeping with our wives’, ‘Pay us our 18-month salary’, ‘pay us’, ‘Our Stipends And Allowances’ and ‘18 months without kobo’ among others.
One of the leaders of the protesting policemen, Constable Tijani Adewale, said despite the non-payment of salaries they are committed to duties stressing that amid their predicament three Constabularies died while on duty. He lamented commercial tricyclists and motorcyclists have snatched their wives due to their inability to provide for them and their children.
“We have gone to the local government, honourable and dignitaries in the state yet no positive result. We lost three persons in Ikire and one in Iree. These people died in the course of discharging their duty.
We are very dutiful even though we have not been paid a dime. Due to unpaid allowances, tricycle and Okada riders have snatched our wives because of their inability to take care of them.” he said
Osun Police Commissioner Olawale Olokode later joined them at the Ola-Iya bridge and ordered them to stop the protest immediately. He assured them that the concerned authorities will intervene in the matter to solve their plights.
“You are embarrassing the force with your protest. You should have channelled your grievances to the appropriate quarters. You are disturbing public peace with this your protests. As far as you are wearing this uniform, we expect you to maintain high discipline as a force man” he said.
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