Monday, 13 March 2017
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Delta CP seeks collaboration to tackle cultism, herdsmen menace
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The menace of cultists and the excesses of herdsmen rocking Delta State need the partnership of the local vigilance and community heads to curb criminality in Ughelli and its environs.
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, said this at a security summit held yesterday at Ughelli ‘A’ Division.According to him, “We are allowing the local community to have a say in the decision making and this makes the police to respond promptly to distress calls.
“Aside kidnapping, the command had received cases of sexual harassment, raping and killing by suspected herdsmen and these are issues that need to be addressed urgently.”
Also, a member representing Ughelli Constituency I in the Delta State House of Assembly, Samuel Mariere said that a bill is before the state House of Assembly and once passed, the menace of herdsmen will be checkmated across the state.
Ughelli ‘A’ Division DPO, Jonathan Acha, who described the activities of herdsmen and cultists in the state as worrisome, said: “If we continue to over-look the activities of cultism in the society, we would end up losing the lives of our youths. As for the herdsmen, it’s an issue that needs to be addressed on a round table.”
Acha said security activities should be taken as everybody’s business, if Ughelli must be free from hostage by cultists and herdsmen.He noted that community policing all over the world is the engine room for proactive management of crimes at the community level in any geographical location; adding that this basic fact is not new in the Nigeria policing system, but in all, the system until now, never encouraged open relationship with community vigilantes.
Similarly, the member representing Ethiope East Constituency, Delta State House of Assembly, Evance Ivwurie, has said that the desert across the River Ethiope called Ovre-Abraka has become a safe haven for herdsmen as all kinds of criminal activities was being perpetrated in the place, saying that failure on the part of the government to comb the area with a view to unraveling the activities of the herdsmen, remained detrimental to Abraka people.
Ivwurie spoke at the security meeting in Abraka with the President-General of the kingdom, youths, men, women and security operatives in the area.
According to him, the desert “seems to be a big community where various kinds of criminal activities thrive.’’
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Friday, 24 February 2017
Russian writer sparks war of words by joining Ukraine rebels
Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin gives a press conference to present his new book "Platoon. Officers and rebels of Russian Literature" in Moscow on February 21, 2017.<br />Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP
One of Russia’s best known novelists, Zakhar Prilepin, has sparked a bitter row among top writers by revealing he is now fighting with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
Prilepin is acclaimed for novels drawing on his experiences of serving with Russian forces in Chechnya and as a member of a banned radical nationalist group, and has won some of Russia’s top literary awards.
The shaven-headed writer has been a frequent visitor to the rebel east Ukraine since the start of the conflict in April 2014, acting as a “consultant” to Donetsk rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko.
In an interview with popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda last week the 41-year-old revealed he is now the deputy commander of his own battalion, shocking the literary scene.
“I think a writer has a right to any position,” Prilepin said at a midweek Moscow news conference.
“He can stand with a flag saying peace to the world or he can take up arms.”
– ‘Deserves hatred’ –
For Prilepin, the conflict in Ukraine has seen a major change as he has gone from a member of a banned group fiercely opposed to the Kremlin to supporting the official line.
He was part of the outlawed National Bolshevik Party led by fellow writer Eduard Limonov, which used to see its illegal rallies crushed by riot police, but then supported Moscow’s seizure of Crimea in 2014.
By becoming one of the most high-profile Russians to join east Ukraine’s fighters, Prilepin has prompted outpourings of bile from top literary figures with more liberal views.
Viktor Pelevin, one of the best known post-Soviet writers, wrote on Facebook: “When your books are shit, you have to earn money from terrorism.”
Meanwhile Dmitry Bykov, a poet and writer known for an award-winning biography of Boris Pasternak, told Gazeta.ru that “Prilepin deserves hatred.”
In a comment reported by state television, Vera Polozkova, one of Russia’s best known young Russian poets, wrote on Facebook that she “will open a bottle of the best champagne when they finally blow his… head off.”
“The country’s blogosphere is buzzing. It has divided into factions: those who are for Prilepin and those who are against,” wrote Life News website.
Prilepin said the reaction came as as a surprise but he welcomed the fact it had “put writers back on the newspaper front pages.”
A German literary agency has reportedly dropped Prilepin over his role fighting with separatists who are called “terrorists” by Kiev.
“I live in the context of Russian literature. It’s much more important to me what Tolstoy and Dostoevsky would say and think about me than what the current European hypocrites will say,” he responded.
– ‘Deadly risks’ –
Prilepin is taking time out from the military campaign to present a new book — called “Platoon: the officers and rebels of Russian literature” — which tells the story of famous writers who took up arms including national poet Alexander Pushkin.
Prilepin compared himself with the likes of Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Lermontov, who fought as soldiers and drew on the experience in their writing.
He even went so far as to say he could see such figures joining him in the rebels’ self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic.
While his involvement with the rebels has set off literary skirmishes back in Moscow, Prilepin admits that he faces far more real dangers on the ground in east Ukraine.
In recent months, several rebel battalion commanders have been assassinated in violent attacks inside the rebel-controlled region, killings Prilepin blamed on “various sabotage groups”.
The rebel leadership says Ukraine was behind the deaths, while Kiev insists they were down to either infighting or score settling by the insurgents’ puppet masters in Moscow.
“I want to live, I like living,” he said, while adding: “Why hide it or beat about the bush, there definitely are risks.”
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Thursday, 23 February 2017
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WHO says 300 million people suffer depression, 800,000 commit suicide yearly (Read full details)
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More than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression, which is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
WHO, in a global estimate published yesterday noted that at its worst, depression can lead to suicide and close to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year, which is the second leading cause of death in 15 to 29-year-olds.
The body said that although there are known, effective treatments for depression, fewer than half of those affected in the world (in many countries, fewer than 10 per cent) receive such treatments.
It noted that barriers to effective care include a lack of resources, lack of trained health-care providers, social stigma associated with mental disorders, and inaccurate assessment.
According to the WHO, in countries of all income levels, people who are depressed are often not correctly diagnosed, and others who do not have the disorder are too often misdiagnosed and prescribed antidepressants.
Indeed, the burden of depression and other mental health conditions are on the rise globally. A World Health Assembly resolution passed in May 2013 has called for a comprehensive, coordinated response to mental disorders at country level.
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Monday, 20 February 2017
Patience Jonathan sues EFCC for alleged rights violation
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Former First Lady Mrs. Patience Jonathan has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking to enforce her fundamental human rights.
She is praying the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, to declare that the freezing of her bank accounts and those of her relatives by the anti-graft agency was a gross violation of her rights to fair hearing and to own property.
Represented by her counsel, Granvill Abibo, she said the breaking into and ransacking of her family property by officials of the Mrs. Jonathan is also seeking a declaration that her incessant harassment is based on her contrary political views and for being the wife of a former president, who belongs to the opposition party.”
She is also seeking the sum of N2billion naira as damages for the alleged violation of her fundamental human rights.Justice Saliu Saidu has fixed April 24, 2017 for hearing of the motion.
Abibo told the court that he needed time to respond to the counter affidavit that the commission had sworn to.Counsel to the EFCC, Kayode Oni, told the court that the commission received the applicant’s processes last week and also responded at the same time.
In his motion of preliminary objection, he urged the court to dismiss the entire suit for want of jurisdiction. He said his argument was based on the fact that the entire suit is speculative and an abuse of court process against the respondent.
Oni added that the court lacks the requisite jurisdiction to determine the suit as presently constituted, because it did not disclose any good, valid or reasonable cause of action against the respondent. He said Mrs. Jonathan was never invited or investigated in any way whatsoever by the Port Harcourt office of the EFCC.
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Monday, 30 January 2017
PHOTOS: Tanzania suspends mining after 15 workers were trapped for 3 days
The Tanzanian government has reportedly suspended mining at a site in Grita town where 15 workers were trapped underground for three days. The suspension comes after Fourteen Tanzanians and one Chinese were rescued from the Chinese-owned gold mine on Saturday, January 28, 2017.
The trapped miners who looked weak after they were rescued are said to be receiving treatment at a health centre. In November 2016, five miners who were also trapped underground for more than 40 days, were also rescued.
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Sunday, 29 January 2017
‘I Don’t Feel at Home’ wins top prize at Sundance (Read full details)
PARK CITY, UT – JANUARY 22: Elijah Wood, Metta-Marie Kongsved, Macon Blair and Christine Woods attends the Netflix Celebrates The Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017 in Park City, Utah. Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for Netflix/AFP<br />Gustavo Caballero / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
“I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,” a movie long on ambition and longer in title, came away with the top prize as the Sundance Film Festival wrapped Saturday.
Starring Elijah Wood, it was announced at its world premiere in the Utah mountains last week as the only festival entrant with a grammatical sentence as its title.
“Green Room” actor Macon Blair’s directorial debut is a bloody crime comedy with an escalating body count in the best traditions of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, the Coen brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Netflix financed movie co-stars Melanie Lynskey (“Heavenly Creatures”) as a nursing assistant worn down by people’s unkindness who eventually snaps when her house is burglarized.
It won the grand jury prize in Sundance’s “US dramatic competition” section.
Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini’s “Dina,” described by critics as a “non-fiction rom-com” won best US documentary.
The film follows an eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter as they navigate their evolving relationship in an unconventional love story.
Many critics have pointed out that this year’s festival was more overtly political than in previous years.
Fittingly, Sundance’s awards show opened with a sideways dig at President Donald Trump’s order suspending the arrival of refugees and tough new controls on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Sundance Institute head Keri Putnam told the audience she wanted to “acknowledge the artists from Muslim majority countries who joined us at the festival this year.”
The US dramatic audience award — the second prize to the grand jury award — went to Matt Ruskin’s “Crown Heights,” the story of a man fighting to clear his name after being wrongly convicted of a crime.
The US documentary directing prize went to Peter Nicks for “The Force” — a portrait of the Oakland police department — while the US documentary audience award went to “Chasing Coral,” which sounds the alarm on the decline of coral reefs.
Tarik Saleh’s Swedish thriller “The Nile Hilton Incident” came away with the grand jury prize for world drama while Feras Fayyad’s “Last Men in Aleppo,” about the Syrian conflict, won the world cinema documentary competition.
The Sundance Film Festival founded by actor Robert Redford is considered a showcase for independent and documentary films and festival winners often go on to receive critical acclaim and Hollywood awards season glory.
Last year, the crop of movies shown at the festival yielded “Manchester by the Sea,” which is up for six Oscars next month, including best picture and best actor for its star Casey Affleck.
“This has been one of the wildest, wackiest and most rewarding festivals in recent memory,” said Sundance director John Cooper.
“From a new government to the independently organized Women’s March on Main, to power outages, a cyberattack and snow at record levels, the work of our artists rose above it all and challenged and changed us these last 10 days.”
Here is a full list of prizewinners from Saturday’s awards:
– US DRAMA –
Grand Jury Prize: “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.”
Audience Award: “Crown Heights”
Directing: Eliza Hittman, “Beach Rats”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith, “Ingrid Goes West”
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance: Chante Adams, “Roxanne Roxanne”
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director: Maggie Betts, “Novitiate”
Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Daniel Landin, “Yellow Birds”
– US DOCUMENTARY-
Grand Jury Prize: “Dina”
Directing: Peter Nicks, “The Force”
Orwell Award: “Icarus”
Audience Award: “Chasing Coral”
Special Jury Award for Editing: Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista, “Unrest”
Special Jury Award for Editing: Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista, “Unrest”
Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Yance Ford, “Strong Island”
Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking: Amanda Lipitz, “Step”
– WORLD CINEMA DRAMA –
Grand Jury Prize: “The Nile Hilton Incident”
Audience Award: “I Dream in Another Language”
Directing Award: Francis Lee, “God’s Own Country”
Screenwriting: Kirsten Tan, “Pop Aye”
Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions: Jun Geng, “Free and Easy”
Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Manu Dacosse, “Axolotl Overkill”
– WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY –
Grand Jury Prize: “Last Men in Aleppo”
Audience Award: “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower”
Directing Award: Pascale Lamche, “Winnie”
Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana, “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World”
Special Jury Award for Editing: Ramona S. Diaz, “Motherland”
Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva, “Machines”
‘I Don’t Feel at Home’ wins top prize at Sundance
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