A Greene County man was sentenced on Tuesday to 3,000 years in prison for sex crimes against children. According to a news release from the district attorney’s office, Matthew Perry was convicted of 13,143 felony counts of sex crimes against children, including 2,190 counts of rape of a child under age 13. Perry was found guilty after a four-day long trial in November. He will not be eligible for parole until the year 3523.
The Magistrate, Bankole Okuwasanmi, ordered that the suspects, Sunday Obasuyi (42), son of the deceased; Akinniyi (51) and Bobafe Sunday (51), be remanded pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
By Abdulrahim Sufyan
The Supreme Court says "the CJN has been in Nigeria, and presided over meetings of the National Judicial Council (NJC) held on 16 and 17 March."
The Supreme Court has denied a media report that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, met with Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, in London.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the allegation of over-voting, the basis upon which the election tribunal anchored its decision nullifying Mr Adeleke’s victory in the Osun State governorship election.
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday affirmed the election of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Osun State.
Being unable to juggle two tasks simultaneously has been recognized as a sign of mental (or "cognitive") decline after age 65, but this research shows that the ability actually starts to fall off in middle-age. The finding could spur calls for earlier screening, researchers say.
"The ability to maintain walking performance while performing another task, a common scenario of walking in daily life, starts to decline in the middle of the sixth decade of lifespan," said lead researcher Junhong Zhou. He's an assistant scientist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
Multiple press sources, including ABC News, say the grand jury will meet Thursday on another case it is reviewing and is expected to resume the Trump case on Monday.
New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg is also reportedly seeking to bring one additional witness before the grand jury next week.
By Ahmad Sani
The police in Niger State have found two children abducted from Suleja, Niger State, in Lugbe, Abuja, five months after they were declared missing.
In an earlier report last October how the two children, Abdullahi Umar (five) and his younger sister, Rahama (three), were abducted by a couple who parked into their compound as co-tenants.
I’ve read a story once of a man called Thomas Fuller. Thomas wasn’t his given name when he was born, nor was his last name Fuller — born around 1710, the was snatched up and sold as a slave in 1724, aged fourteen. From there on out, until the end of his days, he was a piece of human property.
No one ever bothered to teach Fuller how to read or write. He remained illiterate his entire life. He nonetheless had tremendous brainpower — he could count like no other, out of the top of his head. Like Dustin Hoffman’s character in the film Rain Man, the enslaved man could solve incredibly complex sums and equations in his head and do so rapidly. The tribe to which Fuller had belonged, known as the Bassari, famously used to have "specialists who were trained in the memorization of sums”. It is likely that as a child, before being enslaved, he was trained as one.
People who feel they aren't worthy of being listened to tend to talk quickly.
They think what they have to say isn't important. So ensure that you aren't rushing. Be calm!
2. ACCOMPLISH SMALL GOALS
Try making your bed in the morning. If you do this regularly, you will have accomplished the first task of the day.
It will give you a small sense of pride and not be afraid to try again or make the next tough decision.
3. WALK 25% FASTER
Observe carefully, and you discover that body action is result of mind action.
Throw your shoulders back, lift up your head, move ahead a little faster, and feel self-confidence grow.
“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. There is no matter.”
"Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world."
“Time does not exist – we invented it. Time is what the clock says. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
"A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
By Abubakar Hussain, Minna
A soldier has reportedly shot a commercial motorcycle rider and his passenger, a nursing mother and her baby, in Babanna community in Borgu LGA of Niger State.
Daily Trust gathered that the incident happened on Monday evening when the victims were returning home from the Babanna weekly market.
Residents said that the soldier fired a gunshot at the commercial motorcycle rider for refusing to pay the N200 bribe he demanded and that the bullets penetrated his stomach and hit the woman he was carrying, as well as the baby on her back.
A resident, Saidu Babanna, said, “One of the soldiers deployed in Babanna to protect lives and property shot three people because of a N200 bribe. When the victims were entering Babanna in the morning, soldiers collected N200 from them at their checking point, and when they were returning from Babanna to Nigangi in Benin Republic, the soldiers demanded another N200 from them, which they couldn’t afford to pay. That was what led to a soldier opening fire and killing the three people on a motorcycle on the spot.”
Another resident who didn’t want his name mentioned said, “The incident happened on Monday evening. The Babanna market is on Mondays. The victims were returning home from the market. When they were coming in the morning, there were many soldiers at the Benin Republic border who stopped them and collected N200 from them. So, when they were going back, the same soldiers stopped them again and demanded N200 again, which the Okada man refused to give. They started arguing and the Okada man kicked his motorcycle and zoomed off and a soldier also kicked another motorcycle and followed him until he overtook him. He then fired the gun and bullets penetrated the stomach of the motorcycle rider and hit the woman he was carrying, killing the woman and the baby instantly.”
He said the soldier was arrested and taken to the 221 Battalion, Kainji, New-Bussa, Borgu LGA, following a call to military authorities by the district head.
He said the woman and her baby died on the spot while the Okada man was responding to treatment in a hospital in Benin Republic.
Another source said, “It was the arrest of the soldier and the intervention of the district head that saved the situation from degenerating into a fracas between youths and soldiers.”
Effort to get the reaction of the Niger State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, was not successful.
But the chairman of Borgu LGA of Niger State, Alhaji Suleiman Yarima, confirmed the incident, saying the woman and her baby died but that the motorcyclist survived and he is receiving treatment at a hospital in Parakou in Benin Republic.
‘’The victims are from Benin Republic, who came to the market in Babanna to shop. It’s a weekly market. The bodies were taken to Benin Republic and can’t confirm their burial for now. However, investigation is ongoing,’’ he said in a text message sent to our reporter late yesterday.
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy
In the year of grace 1735 on the 3rd of July in the Cathedral of Palermo the end of the Habsburg rule was officially sanctioned, at only eighteen, Charles III of Bourbon was crowned Rex Utriusque Siciliae (King of the Sicilies).
From this moment on, the Spanish Crown will do everything to strengthen ties with the local feudal class, developing and promoting new relations with the Sicilian aristocracy, which had the need to have “dignified” abode in the city to better exercise its own power. Palermo becomes a construction site, and among the local aristocrats a real competition begins in building sumptuous homes, making them a symbol of their prestige and their rank, as well as their immense wealth.
Many of the Palazzos that survived the neglect and bombs of 1943 are still there to make a fine show of themselves, but one in particular, located in the heart of the historic centre of Palermo, has had the privilege of crossing the centuries unscathed by wars or anything else, preserving itself both in the architectural structure and in the interiors, including the furnishings, it is the Palazzo Valguarnera Gangi.
As soon as you cross the threshold you are in front of an enfilade of halls for a total of 8000 square meters: the red hall, the blue one, the dining room, the ballroom , the hall of gilded mirrors with the Vietri ceramic floor, painted with flowers and animals including the leopards and also a beautiful terrace, overflowing with ceramics from Caltagirone, from which you can admire the facade of the church of Sant’Anna.
Inside, the rooms are full of precious objects, embroidered tapestries, glassware and porcelain, not to mention all the original furnishings with sofas, consoles, carved chairs, decorated walls, boiseries, doors painted in gold and tall mirrors.
Palazzo Gangi represents a very high moment of Italian Rococo. Over the centuries, the house has remained intact up to the current owners, the Vanni Mantegna of San Vincenzo, who took over the ownership of the palace, by inheritance, in 1995. Today, the Princess Carine Vanni Mantegna of Gangi opens its doors telling the story room by room.
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A diagnosis
Among the worst diseases are those that tell you, once diagnosed, that you only have so much time, whatever the doctors try. That even with a medical miracle, your days are counted.
Stage 4 cancers fall into this category.
You often don’t see or feel them coming. They could have been reaping inside you for five to ten years, before the first signs occur.
Innocent signs. Little lumps that could mean nothing. Little brown irregular dots on your skin. A cough that doesn’t go away. A sorrow throat. Tiredness.
From Shehu Kabiru, Gombe
The police in Gombe State have arrested a 38-year-old teacher, Abubakar Muhammed, for allegedly defiling four pupils who are sisters aged eight, nine, 12 and 14.
ASP Mahid Abubakar, the command’s spokesman, who disclosed this in a press statement, said the suspect was arrested on March 7, at about 11am following complaints from the pupils’ father who reported that the sexual assaults were committed between January and March, 2023.
From Animasahu Bola
Tawakalitu Olayiwola, an Ibadan-based trader on Wednesday asked a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 20 year-old marriage on grounds of theft and battery.
Olayiwola said that she decided to call it quits with her husband, Ganiu Olayiwola, because her life was under threat due to constant high blood pressure.
She said that Ganiu had been battering her since 2003 at any slightest provocation.
“He even attempted pouring acid on me and this is the reason why I became hypertensive.
“Ganiu had never been a responsible husband to me and father to our three children.
“My Lord, he usually gives the three children and I N1,000 as feeding allowance for six months.
“Due to his lack of care, I worked very hard to keep the home going, especially the children, but Ganiu was unhappy with me.’’
From Shamsudeen Aliyu Kano
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks of sweeping a street and one week of sweeping a court premises and toilets for admitting to calling a married woman on phone.
The man was earlier arraigned before the court presided over by Justice Abdu Abdullahi Waiya by the Kano State Police Command over a count charge of trying to woo a married woman, an act which is against the norms and teachings of Islam.
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From Aliyu Kazeem, Benin
The police in Edo State have arrested four persons who disguised as military officers over armed robbery and cultism.
Parading the suspects in Benin, the command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwanbuzor, said the suspects were arrested following a petition to the police commissioner by one Grace Ainabe over a robbery incident in her house.
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The police in Ogun State have arrested a 33-year-old woman, Ifeoma Ossai, for allegedly killing her 50-year-old landlord, Monday Surulere Oladele, over a disagreement.
The victim’s brother, Olaleye Taiwo, reported to the police that his brother, Oladele, had a fight with his tenant over an electricity bill and that in the process she grabbed his manhood and dragged it.
He said his brother fell on the ground and was rushed to the Ota General Hospital where he was confirmed dead.
By Musa Yusuf
No! The Obedient is not a political party. It is a movement inspired by youths to compel the government to stop the impunity of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit that culminated in the #EndSARS protest.
I suggest obedience should be a force to correct and criticize any action or inaction of our government. It should be a group of people (not just youth) whose positive action is taken upon themselves individually and collectively towards bringing patriotic people into government.
He said people who voted for him did not do so on the basis of ethnicity, saying the electorate knew what he stood for. He added that he even got more votes from Lagos indigenes than those referred to as “visitors.”
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday reserved judgement on the Osun State governorship appeal filed by Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The appeal filed by Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party is against a judgment of the tribunal which invalidated his election as governor of Osun State.
The three-member panel of justices led by Justice M.F. Shuaibu began sitting on the appeal at about 10am.While Adeleke is the appellant, Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress are 1st and 2nd respondents in the appeal marked: CA/AK/EPT/GOV/01/2023.
Now he was not mesmerized by a beautiful woman, spending his last night writing up his final thoughts before being fatally shot in a duel. (Galois.)
He also did not die young after having caught TBC. (Ramanujan.)
He was not a womanizer with many kids shared with many women, did not become schizophrenic, and did not end up as a recluse after throwing a part of his mathematical writings away in a bonfire. (Grothendieck.)
He wasn’t — and isn’t — any of this.
By Charles Awuzie.
It's bad news - and also good news. Be patient as I explain.
Yes, the court granted INEC permission to RECONFIGURE BVAS devices.
That's the bad news.
The court took this decision because INEC filed an affidavit before the court claiming that the information on BVAS can not be tampered with or lost. This is not true. Any Data 'can' be 'tampered' with.
Unfortunately, the legal team of Peter Obi did NOT challenge this affidavit - and the court let INEC have their way.
At that moment, the husband raised his neck slightly as a sign of security, he knew that his wife would say yes, since she had never complained during their marriage.
However, the wife responded with a resounding - 'NO.!!! ...... does not make me happy' ... And to the astonishment of the husband... he continued: -It doesn't make me happy.........I am happy! ... Whether I am happy or not, that does not depend on him, but on me. I am the only person on whom my happiness depends.
This was taken from the Polish book How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks written by Witold Szabłowski.
This was an incident recalled by Saddam Hussein’s personal chef, Abu Ali.
As the story goes, Saddam Hussein took his staff (including Abu Ali) and his personal friends on a cruise on his personal boat along the length of the River Tigris.
On this particular day, Abu Ali was told by Saddam’s bodyguard Salim that he had the day off as Saddam wanted to cook some koftas as a token of appreciation to his guests.
This was something new for Abu Ali.
By Usman Ajayi
The election was scheduled to hold on Saturday, 11th March, two weeks after the presidential election.
There are strong indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will postpone the Governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, 11 March.
After the lost battle of Lagunillas (around 1500), the Spanish mutilated about 150 Mapuche warriors who had lost to them.
They chopped off their right hands and cut off a piece of their noses. Because of this, the Mapuche became even more incensed against the Spaniards.
The Nigerian government has started paying subsidies again for the premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, according to the Int...
