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Middelburg – "I cannot forgive them because they failed to have mercy on my child when they forced him into the coffin," said Lonia Mlotshwa, shortly after her son's attackers were sentenced to jail. "I am very happy. As a mother, I am satisfied [and] sentencing should not be something that kills you. I would not have my child today [had they succeeded in their plans]," she said. Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen - the men who forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin - will spend 11 years and 14 years respectively behind bars. When Judge Segopotje Mphahlele handed down the sentences in the High Court, sitting in the Middelburg Magistrate's Court on Friday, she said the conduct of the two men was "humiliating and disgusting". They had forced Mlotshwa into a coffin and threatened to pour petrol on him. The incident was filmed and when the video went viral on social media, it sparked an outcry and people demanded justice. Mphahlele said their conduct goe...

The alleged leader of the group National Action will face court accused of encouraging the murder of Ms Cooper, above °'Neo-Nazis in plot to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper' °Alleged members of far-right group are charged Two alleged members of a banned far-right group were charged yesterday in connection with a plot to murder a Labour MP. Christopher Lythgoe, 31, the alleged leader of the neo-Nazi group National Action, will face court today accused of encouraging the murder of Rosie Cooper, the MP for West Lancashire.  A 22-year-old man, who cannot be named, has been charged with the intention of committing acts of terrorism and threats to kill, Greater Manchester police said. Prosecutors will allege that the younger man sought and received permission from Mr Lythgoe to carry out an attack, The Times understands. The pair have also been charged with belonging to a proscribed organisation along with four other men.

An attempt by a mother of two children to smuggle a phone to her boyfriend in prison custody has been foiled by the officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The 33-year-old woman, Fatima Balogun who has been arrested by men of the Special Intelligence Unit of the NPS, carried out the action on Wednesday at the gate lodge of Abeokuta maximum Prisons in Ibara. The suspect confessed that she hid the phone which she bought for her boyfriend identified as Ganiyu Ajibode, in the cooler of soup from the Prisons officials. Balogun said she was a divorcee with two children before she met Ganiyu about two years back. The suspect who said she lived in Fagba, Iju-Saga in Lagos, said she had never visited the Prison since her boyfriend was remanded for armed robbery six months ago. The Controller of Prisons, Ogun State command, CP Benson Abolade said the action was a threat to national security, as the suspect was arrested for trafficking in Prison, which he said was...

The Treasury Department issues new sanctions on seven individuals and three entities connected to the North Korean regime. The sanctions are in response to a State Department report on human rights abuses by the autocratic government of Kim Jong Un. The sanctions freeze any property or interest in property within U.S. jurisdiction and generally prohibit transactions by U.S. citizens with any of the sanctioned individuals or groups. The Treasury Department on Thursday issued sanctions on seven individuals and three entities connected to North Korea after a new State Department report on human rights abuses by Kim Jon Un's regime. The sanctions freeze any property or interest in property within U.S. jurisdiction and generally prohibit any transactions by U.S. citizens with any of the sanctioned individuals or groups. Among the sanctioned entities are the government of North Korea and the Workers' Party of Korea. "North Korea is run by a brutal regime that continues to engage...

The former manager of a Shelton restaurant is accused of sexually harassing employees and touching them inappropriately. Police started the investigation in March 2016 when three female employees of Dee's Kitchen at 509 Howe Ave. in Shelton went to police to report that 58-year-old Bryan Stockbridge, of Ansonia, was sexually harassing them and had touched them inappropriately on several occasions. Detectives quickly obtained an arrest warrant, but they could not apprehend him, police said. They then obtained information that Stockbridge fled to California after an interview with detectives. Shelton police obtained information today that Stockbridge was back in Connecticut, living in Ansonia, and they took him into custody. Stockbridge has been charged with three counts of fourth-degree sexual assault. He posted a $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Derby Superior Court tomorrow.

A Catholic student group at Georgetown University that promotes the benefits of traditional marriage risks losing its funding and other university benefits after being accused of fostering hatred and intolerance. Love Saxa advocates for marriage as " a monogamous and permanent union between a man and a woman, " the group states in its constitution. That definition of marriage happens to be in line with that espoused by the Catholic Church, raising the question of how administrators at Georgetown , the United States ' oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning , will handle the controversy if it eventually comes before them. "I suppose the question for Georgetown is whether they think Catholic kids can still be Catholic there, " said Chad Pecknold, a theology professor at the Catholic University of America. About half of the student body identifies as Catholic , according to the university. Seventy - five percent of Catholics ages 18 to 29 favor sa...

Worried Trump Will Strike North Korea, Democrats Pitch Bill To Slow Him Down They want to require congressional approval before Trump could call for a nuclear or conventional attack.   President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy North Korea" to defend the U.S. or its allies in his address before the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 19. President Donald Trump 's increasingly tense relationship with Pyongyang has rattled members of Congress to such a degree that three Democratic senators announced a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit Trump from striking North Korea ― with nuclear or conventional weapons ― without obtaining congressional approval first. Sen. Chis Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted a series of messages about the proposed legislation, which he is introducing with Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.). ″My bill ... makes clear that any unauthorized preemptive strike on N Korea - nuclear or conventional - is illegal," Murphy wrot...

A woman who twice tricked and stole cash from an elderly former wrestling star has avoided jail. Sharon Francis Reid, 42, targeted Roney Smith in his own home, getting away with £340. Mr Smith, who lived in Wilmslow and was a star on the wrestling circuit in the 1960s and 70s under the name 'Jumping Jim Moser', died in November last year after a short illness, aged 82. But in the years leading up to his death when he was 'generous and vulnerable', Reid targeted him and even tried to seduce him to get away with cash, a court heard. In November 2015 she visited and faked that she needed the toilet before sneaking away with a wallet containing £300 and mobile phone, the court heard. She struck again the following month by claiming she had been the victim of an assault, prosecutors said. In her desperation, Reid even tried to seduce the elderly athlete before tricking him into thinking he had left his gas on then pushing him over and stealing £40 from his pocket, the court ...

A family were left traumatised after their neighbour broke into their home and held a knife to the mother's throat until they gave him the keys to their rusty old Skoda. Jamie George, 27, smashed the front window of the house, on the street where he lives in Rusholme , at 5am and when the woman came downstairs to investigate he threatened her with a knife. Her husband followed and the intruder held the knife to the woman's neck and threatened to stab her unless they gave him their car keys. The man woke their four-year-old daughter as he scrabbled to find the keys. Manchester Crown Court heard the level of violence and force used to steal a nearly 15-year-old 'rusty' car was 'incomprehensible'. The incident on July 18 left the family fearful of living in their own home having flashback and nightmares. George, who had drunk a bottle of brandy and taken anti-depressants, had broken into two empty houses on the street where he lives with his pregnant partner and le...

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°Recommends scrapping of overlapping agencies °Threatens to publish MDAs withholding audited account The lingering dispute between the Senate and the Executive arm over the retention of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), made a rude re-entry into the front burner of public discourse wednesday as the Red Chamber threatened to filibuster the confirmation of the nomination of Ms. Aisha Ahmad as a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). President Muhammadu Buhari had forwarded Ahmad's nomination to the Senate for confirmation as a replacement for Mrs. Sarah Alade whose tenure expired in February. But the Senate said yesterday that it would not consider the nomination in line with its July 4, 2017 resolution to suspend all executive confirmation requests until Magu is removed. Besides, it said, the hostility would persist until the Senate's power of confirmation of nominees to the boards of commissions establ...

45-year-old Nigerian man Paul Gabriel Amos, who had previously been charged in a United States court for swindling Citibank was charged in a district court, Singapore on Wednesday, October 25 with laundering S$1.7 million. On October last year, Amos went viral after he was arrested for reckless and dangerous driving. Amos, who is a Permanent Resident in Singapore and married to a citizen, also faces eight charges under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act. Amos was prosecuted in a New York district court in 2009 for committing bank and wire fraud, according to a The New York Times report. He was accused of duping Citibank of S$27 million in September 2008 by using documents purportedly signed off by Ethiopian bank officials instructing the bank to wire the sum to accounts controlled by Amos and others around the world. While he was held in the US for a few months, Amos was not convicted. It was not stated in court whether the money la...

Longtime political journalist Mark Halperin is out at MSBNC following accusations that he sexually harassed five women while he was head of ABC News. "We find the story and the allegations very troubling. Mark Halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood," MSNBC told Fox News in a statement. Halperin, the co-author of best-selling book " Game Change ," was accused in a CNN report of groping the women in the 2000s while he worked as ABC News' political director. "During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me," said Halperin, who serves as a political analyst on NBC and MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I'm going to take a step back from my day-to-day wor...

Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano, the First Lady of Anambra State was recently spotted in her husband's party attire buying food items from market women in the state, just weeks before the 2017 gubernatorial election. Before this outing, the first lady was seen on top of a moving bike in public. Many think her move is to convince people in the state to re-elect her husband, Governor Willie Obiano in the next governorship election which will take place on the 18th of November. See photos below...  

A few days after a director in the Kogi State civil service reportedly killed himself over unpaid emolument, 40 Nigerian senators have donated at least 1,260 bags of rice to civil servants in Kogi State, a lawmaker said. Kogi is one of the many states currently owing workers' salaries and entitlements. The senators reportedly made the donation at the instance of one of their colleagues, Dino Melaye, Kogi-APC Earlier at the plenary, Mr. Melaye had called the attention of the Senate to thesuffering of civil servants in Kogi State. "Today, in my state we live in perilous time and vicissitude. The social media and newspapers have been awash few days with unfortunate incident of a civil servant who committed suicide upon receiving information that his wife gave birth to triplets", he said. "He is (was) being owed 11 months' salary. Another civil servant was seen crying because he could not provide N3000 for drugs and the child died. Their salaries must be paid; pensio...

North Korea: Take hydrogen bomb threat 'literally'   04:17 Pyongyang ; A senior North Korean official has issued a stern warning to the world that it should take "literally" his country's  threat to test a nuclear weapon above ground. The official, Ri Yong Pil, told CNN in an exclusive conversation in Pyongyang that the threat made by North Korea's foreign minister last month should not be dismissed. North Korea "has always brought its words into action," Ri said, visibly angry. North Korea's missile tests Speaking on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly last month, Ri Yong Ho, the foreign minister, raised the possibility that North Korea could test a powerful hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. The threat came hours after US President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea in a speech to the UN. "The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think y...

- As early as 5 AM, voters were already lined up outside polling stations in preparations to cast their vote in the repeat presidential election - High voter turn out was reported in Mt Kenya - Little activity was reported in NASA opposition strongholds; Nyanza and Western Kenya - Raila Odinga asked his supporters to stay home and pray instead of taking to the streets to demonstrate as earlier planned 9:39 -  Kisumu Central Returning Officer John Ngutai waits for Presiding Officers and Deputy Presiding Officers to collect voting material for 196 polling stations. No one showed up 8:50 AM -  Heavy rains hamper distribution of voting materials in Wajir; some polling stations in Wajir South and Wajir West yet to receive ballot papers 8: 26 AM-  Election materials including, ballot boxes and electronic kits to identify voters and transmit results have not arrived in polling stations in Kisumu and Homa Bay counties 8:23 AM -  90 percent of polling stations have been opened in the country ~ ...

- The National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga has announced plans to turn the alliance into a resistance movement - The Opposition leader's surprising announcement comes just hours ahead of the October 26 repeat election - He also asked his supporters not to participate in the poll urging them to stay away from polling stations The National Super Alliance(NASA)leader Raila Odinga now says he will transform the coalition into a resistance movement. He also said he will mobilise his supporters to use civil defiance and boycott commodities of government allied companies. "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. When there is no justice for the people, there will be no peace for government…National Super Alliance(NASA) will change from tomorrow to National Resistance Movement..we will use civil power to defend our constitution,"   he told his supporters during a rally at Uhuru Park, Nairobi,Wednesday,October 25. NASA supporters have been asked not to h...