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Three men given life sentences for killing a high schoolstudent in the United States have been declared not guilty of the charges after spending 36years behind bar. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at Harlem Park Junior High School in West Baltimore. They were aged 16. The Baltimore City state attorney found that there was error in the initial police report that led to their conviction. This conclusion came after a joint investigation that later found that the trio were innocent. The state attorney added that the convicted innocent men needed to be apologized to. He opined that beyond apologies, they deserve to be compensated, and that he'll fight to make sure they are given it.

Iraq is a highly Islamic nation under the leadership of highly recognized spiritual Ayatollah. But beaming daily in also a highly secretive conspiracy are actions that should make the religious mind quease. Sex trade in the pseudo of pleasure marriage. Pleasure marriage is Iraqis prowl by sex hungry men for young girls, sometimes who could be their granddaughters. It involves a kind of contract verbally made and orchestrated by a cleric, given out young teenagers aged between 11-15 to men outside their parents' consent, to be temporarily married. This happens just easily and without any stress, save for the pay. It could be contracted over the phone, where all that is required of the brainwashed girl is just a directed consent. This temporary 'marriage' could be as temporary as just for a day. Most of these girls are virgins and are made to believe the cleric that what they are doing amounts to nothing sinful or evil. Most of whom are later left in devastating and ru...

The governor of Cross River State has continued to wow Nigerians with his high-sounding grammar, this time around giving it a connection to fiscal matter. The professor governor threw up the vibe of his grammar during the year 2020 budget presentation at the chamber of the state house of assembly. Prof Ayade termed the budget 'The Budget of Olipotic Meristemasis', drawing it from the resolve that the budget would be instrumental towards spearheading the growth and development of the young state. 1.9billion was earmarked for the year 2020 fiscal year, with over 911bn representing 83 percent going for capital expenditure and just 188bn represnting 17 percent of the budget given to recurrent spending. According to the governor this ratio is in continuation of his desire to commit more to infrastructure and physical development.

Some days past the social media was awash with frenzy involving two sisters and hip hop star Davido, where the former alleged the later impregnated one of them. The incident, which the two sisters had described moments later as just prank, seemed to have gone beyond the joke it was claimed to be especially as it got between the duo of Kayode Ogundamisi and the subject of focus, David Adeleke alias Davido. But then, what even brought about Ogundamisi's involvement in the first place? Was his name ever mentioned in the initial bric-a-brac of pregnancy or no pregnancy? Were the two ladies involved in a way related to him? What on earth would have drove him into the case to become the very object of seriousness in an issue given the primal claime to be mere prank? These as some sideways questions an onlooker just getting to know of the issue may ask. On getting wind of the 'prank', Davido didn't think of it lightly as the accusing sisters would later try to have him...

Humility is the substance of what makes us flesh and blood; for to be humble is to be human and to be human is to be humble. Ultimately, it is to say that we cannot make a distinction between the two. But what essentially is humility? Humility is staying within the ambit of the human corridor. It's realizing that as humans we have limitations and having to work with that reality. Humility does not equate to timidness, it doesn't amount to abdication of your dignity in pretentious submission. Humility is holding your onion and yet realizing that you're human. To live outside of this context is to in a way seemingly disown the fact of our humanness or at best to live in pretence. Our nature as human is created in a staple imperfection, that even as much as we try to pursue perfection, we are forever deluded of it, just making the circuitious effort to attain it. God in his infinite wisdom has decided to make us human, substance of imperfection for the very reason that ...

Indeed, in the human cycle of life, a person of 59 years old is generally considered as mature and is expected to have reached a certain standard in what's overall assessment. The years of childhood with the parental support and of the exposure that comes along with puberty and growing into adulthood are all committed to making him a true, responsible adult. And at 59, so many expectations should have been met. This is ordinarily the expected. Today, Nigeria marks 59 good years of nationhood, of a nation independent and sovereign under God. It's been a long time since our political independence was birthed in the morning of October 1st, 1960, and our journey all along the years is something that, regardless of how we differently perceive it, ought to be a narrative of remarkable essence. The beauty of the processes that would eventually evolve into what was to be described as an independent Nigeria is worth reminiscing, at least if for the reason that it will get u...

Many complaints of police unpermitted search have continued to increase. And slowly, again, it appears we are forced to re-echo the need to have the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police scrapped. Just like what instigated the earlier call, with a massively trending hashtag of #EndSARS , to which then Acting president Yemi Osinbajo intervened and it quickly became as if the notoriety settled down, the selfsame insensitivity has begun to rear its head. We still hear of instances of police arbitrarily stopping young men and rashly searching their private properties such as wallets and mobile devices. We hear of contrived imposition on these young men by the same police to part with their money- on grounds of perceived fraud. Many, out of understandable fear have fallen cheaply and victims. But the responsibility of the SARS unit of the Nigerian Police and its duties are clearly spelt out; they must adhere to them. It doesn't encompass molesting and co...