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Reports of Nigerian ex-millitant Tompolo's 7 WARSHIPS!!!

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There have been reports that Nigeria's ex militant, Tompolo acquired 7 warships. Well here's what constitutional lawyer, prof. Itse Sagay had to say about it.<br />
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Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, has warned that the acquisition of seven warships purportedly by ex-Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo, poses a threat to the nation’s security.<br />
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Sagay, who condemned the purported acquisition in a statement on Tuesday, said the Nigerian constitution does not approve of any individual carrying out security duties on Nigerian waters except the country’s armed forces.<br />
We had earlier reported that Tompolo had denied the reports that he bought the decommissioned Norwegian warships and upgraded them with new weaponry, saying it was part of attempts to tarnish his image as well as force him to withdraw his support for President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the 2015 elections.<br />
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However, in his statement yesterday, Sagay said “The news of the recent acquisition by Tompolo’s Company, Global West Vessel Service of seven war vessels, is extremely disturbing and destabilising.  Given the volatile nature of Warri/Benin Rivers Area, and the over bearing violence of the Ijaw against the Itsekiri in particular, this is a sinister and dangerous development.<br />
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“There is no provision in Nigerian Law that permits the engagement of private persons and outfits to carry arms and engage in security operations in Nigerian waters.  This duty is the exclusive responsibility of the Nigerian Navy.  Section 3 of the Armed Forces Act, Cap. A 20 of the 2004 Laws of Nigeria provides as follows:<br />
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“(3)The Armed Forces shall be charged with the defence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by land, sea and air and such other duties as the National Assembly may, from time to time, prescribe or direct by an Act”. (4) Notwithstanding the generality of the provisions of subsection (3) of this section –<br />
(a)The Navy shall, in particular, be further charged with – (i) enforcing and assisting in co-ordinating the enforcement of all customs, laws, including anti-bunkering, fishery and immigration laws of Nigeria at sea (ii) enforcing and assisting in co-coordinating the enforcement of national and international maritime laws ascribed or acceded to by Nigeria”.<br />
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The constitutional lawyer, therefore, urged the Federal Government and security agencies not to treat the matter with kid gloves, describing the development as a blatant illegality.<br />
“Therefore the present situation in which Mr. Government Ekpemupolo has been allowed to bring in a naval fleet into the Western Delta area of Nigeria constitutes not only a  threat to peace in that area, but also a blatant illegality”, he said.<br />
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Reports of Nigerian ex-millitant Tompolo's 7 WARSHIPS!!!

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Wonders! Cameroon's new law spells death penalty for protesters!

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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Cameroon Journal Yaounde</strong> – Cameroon’s National Assembly has voted into law a bill tabled by government prescribing death sentence on individual(s) who stage public demonstrations. The bill tabled in the form of a law punishing individuals found guilty of acts of terrorism slowly but surely proceeded to rope in perpetrators of public demonstrations. Government originally submitted the bill to parliament under the title ‘bill N° 962/PJL/AN on the suppression of acts of terrorism.’</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Observers have said the bill as drafted deliberately defines the word ‘terrorism’ to include citizens who carry out public protest against the regime. The law is seen mainly to deter a massive political uprising in the country in the magnitude of what took place in Burkina Faso and led to the fall of the Compaore regime.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fears are rife in the country that the voted law shall automatically apply on the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC activists and even journalists who report positively on the activity of any</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">demonstrator(s).</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SDF members of parliament distanced themselves from the bill which passed thanks to the CPDM overwhelming majority. The vote took place yesterday, Thursday evening, December 4.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once President Biya affixes his signature on the bill, it becomes law and gets enshrined in the penal code of Cameroon. Contrary to the 1996 constitution which authorizes public demonstrations, the bill is a sharp contrast of the right to public demonstration. Chapter II, section II, paragraph 1 of the bill opens with the intent to completely annihilate any attempt of public demonstration.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It states; “Whoever, acting alone as an accomplice or an accessory, commits or threatens to commit an act likely to cause death, endanger physical integrity, cause bodily injury or material damage, destroy natural resources, the environment or cultural heritage with intent to: a) </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">intimidate the public, provoke a situation of terror or force the victim, the government and/or a national or international organization to carry out or refrain from carrying out an act, adopt or renounce a particular position; b) disrupt the normal functioning of public services, the delivery of essential services to the public or create a crisis situation among the public; c) create widespread insurrection in the country; d) shall be punished with the death penalty.”</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The wording of the bill makes it difficult to draw a line between terrorism and public demonstration. Chapter II, section 4 of the bill harps on what it refers to as ‘laundering of terrorism. “Whoever: a) procures, receives, keeps converts, transfers dissimulates or disguises goods that are proceeds or acts of terrorism; b) partakes in the use or sharing, even occasionally, of proceeds of acts of terrorism; shall be punished with the death penalty.”</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under this clause, journalists could be very vulnerable, especially when section 8 of the law prescribes severe sanctions on individuals who disseminate publicly, the activities of ‘terrorists.’</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Whoever publicly acclaims acts of terrorism shall be punished with imprisonment of from fifteen (15) to twenty (20) years or a fine of from Twenty-five million FCFA (25.000.000) to fifty million (50.000.000) or both such imprisonment and fine.”</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Owing to the peculiarity of the said offences, the bill places offenders exclusively under the jurisdiction of military tribunals, while the provisions of the penal code, the criminal procedure code and the military justice code that are not repugnant to the law shall, going by the bill remain applicable.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, the SDF parliamentary group issued a memo signed by the group leader, Joseph Banadzem condemning the immensity of the bill and distancing themselves from it. While</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">acknowledging the adverse role terrorism plays in the society, the memo partly states; “this law which seeks to suppress acts of terrorist movements or organisations and their members, accomplices and accessories lacks definition and makes every citizen a potential terrorist.”</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The SDF memo observes that the motive behind the bill is to muzzle the</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">press and curb opposition activities.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Either in its lack of reflection or its ill-intended move, the government has rather geared</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">its objective to; muzzle the press, open up avenues to curb opposition activities, give blanket check to administrative and judicial authorities… indeed, this law makes the entire country becomes a ZOPAC.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The SDF MPs have in the memo drawn the house speaker’s attention to the fact that the death penalty is illegal because it violates the universal declaration of human rights to which Cameroon is a signatory. Apart from stating that government has not clearly defined what terrorism is, Fru Ndi’s MPS also argued that the bill is unjust, cruel and counter-productive, given that it justifies excessive violence as well as promotes numerous human right abuses through state security apparatus.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The bill is also coming at a time when the opposition SDF announced only just last month that next month, January 2015, it is going to lead a massive uprising of the people that should usher Biya out of power as in the case of Blaise Compoare in Burkina Faso.</span></div>
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Wonders! Cameroon's new law spells death penalty for protesters!

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Introducing a real African-American legend. HARRIET TUBMAN, a true HERO!<br />
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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends,[1] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.</div>
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Tubman was born Araminta "Minty" Ross to slave parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess (and later her son Edward). Ben was held by Anthony Thompson, who became Mary's second husband, and who ran a large plantation near Blackwater River in Madison, Maryland. As with many slaves in the United States, neither the exact year nor place of Araminta's birth is known, and historians differ as to the best estimate. Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement[2] while Jean Humez says "the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later."[3] Catherine Clinton notes that Tubman reported the year of her birth as 1825, while her death certificate lists 1815 and her gravestone lists 1820.[4] In her Civil War widow's pension records, Tubman claimed she was born in 1820, 1822, and 1825, an indication, perhaps, that she had only a general idea of when she was born.</div>
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Modesty, Tubman's maternal grandmother, arrived in the United States on a slave ship from Africa; no information is available about her other ancestors.[5] As a child, Tubman was told that she was of Ashanti lineage (from what is now Ghana), though no evidence exists to confirm or deny this assertion.[6] Her mother Rit (who may have had a white father)[6][7] was a cook for the Brodess family.[3] Her father Ben was a skilled woodsman who managed the timber work on Thompson's plantation.[6] They married around 1808 and, according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, Mariah Ritty, Soph, Robert, Minty (Harriet), Ben, Rachel, Henry, and Moses.[8]</div>
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Rit struggled to keep her family together as slavery threatened to tear it apart. Edward Brodess sold three of her daughters (Linah, Mariah Ritty, and Soph), separating them from the family forever.[9] When a trader from Georgia approached Brodess about buying Rit's youngest son, Moses, she hid him for a month, aided by other slaves and free blacks in the community.[10] At one point she confronted her owner about the sale.[11] Finally, Brodess and "the Georgia man" came toward the slave quarters to seize the child, where Rit told them, "You are after my son; but the first man that comes into my house, I will split his head open."[11] Brodess backed away and abandoned the sale.[12] Tubman's biographers agree that stories told about this event within the family influenced her belief in the possibilities of resistance. To learn more, go o wikipedia.</div>
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VIDEO: An unseen footage of Eric Garner left to die!!!

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Zambian opposition fighting deepens!

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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Zambian</span> Opposition infighting that has been going on for a while now is reported to have deepened. Read report from <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">VOA </span></span>below...<br />
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The former president of Zambia’s opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) party has won a court injunction reversing his suspension.<br />
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Nevers Mumba had asked the court to declare his ouster illegal, but MMD National Secretary Muhabi Lungu said the party is not threatened by Mumba’s court injunction. <br />
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Lungu reportedly said Nevers should forget about being chosen the MMD’s presidential candidate in next January’s special election because the party has already chosen its candidate. <br />
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The party’s national executive committee decided to remove Mumba and replace him with former President Rupiah Banda. <br />
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But Rafael Nakacinda, party presidential office spokesman, said the MMD constitution automatically recognizes the party president as its presidential candidate.<br />
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“He [Mumba] got an injunction in order to stop the national secretary of the party from interfering with his functions as party president.  There has been an illegal process that the national secretary, in collaboration with the former president, engaged in to try and create a vacancy in the presidency as a way of wanting to bring Mr. Rupiah Banda back,” he said.<br />
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Nakacinda said both Lungu and Banda do not seem to believe in the rule of law.<br />
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“Unless both Mr. Lungu and Mr. Banda do not believe in the rule of law, which I would say at this particular time there are bad signs which the Zambian people and the world must watch out for because, if we cannot respect our courts, then they are already showing signs as a people that do not respect the rule of law. And, therefore, if they have the chance to get into government, we will end with a kind dictatorial leadership,” Nakacinda said.<br />
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Nakacinda said Banda would be the wrong candidate for the MMD because he lost the 2011 presidential elections to the Patriotic Front party.<br />
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“There is nowhere in our constitution where it says that, when an election comes, then they should begin to look for another candidate when there is a sitting president who is eligible to stand,” Nakacinda said.<br />
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Nakacinda accused Lungu and Banda of using tribalism and “illegal” means to get Zambians to rally around Banda.<br />
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“We should not just be doing things for political expedience. We should make sure that the foundation upon which every action is taken is legally correct, morally correct, and politically correct,” he said.<br />
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Inspiring Video! Sierra Leonean in the US send medical supplies home to combat Ebola!

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50year-old <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Thomas Bobby Smith</span> send medical supplies, wheel chairs, donated shoes e.t.c. from the U.S back home. I mean... talk about <span style="color: #3d85c6;">great black men</span>. He said something in the video that really inspired me. Smith said you don't need a lot of money to help people overseas. His work shows that small projects can have big results. Watch video and read report from VOA below.<br />
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Fifty-year-old Bobby Smith of Germantown, Maryland, knows he might not be alive today if he still lived in his native Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world. The average life expectancy there is only 47. His chances would be even be slimmer now, as Ebola ravages the nation. Smith has lived in the United States for 25 years and came as an immigrant sponsored by his sister. <br />
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To give back, three years ago he began a small volunteer organisation, Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone, to help the disadvantaged in his homeland. When the Ebola epidemic began this year, Smith got donations of medical supplies, such hospital gowns, masks and gloves, to send to the country’s main hospital in the capital, Freetown, to protect health workers there. He’s also been sending rolling beds and wheelchairs since the facility doesn’t have any. <br />
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His mission has become personal since two of his relatives in Sierra Leone have died from Ebola. “My people are dying,” he said. “I’m just trying to help as much as I can.”<br />
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Smith knows what it’s like to save lives, since he works on the surgical team in the trauma unit at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Much of what he ships back home are surplus items donated by hospitals, which Smith says can be put to good use in a country sorely lacking medical supplies. <br />
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Pointing to partial rolls of medical tape, he explained, “[The hospitals] don’t want to reuse it, so they’re just going to dump it.”<br />
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Along with other volunteers, Smith packs the materials at a warehouse in Fairfax, Virginia, belonging to the Brother’s Brother Foundation, a U.S. charity that provides medical supplies to needy countries. Luke Hingson, president of the group, calls Smith inspirational. “He sees a problem and works to bring the best out of other people to solve the problem.”<br />
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A Maryland chapter of the international service organisation Rotary Club has donated $5000 to Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone. Barbara Ott, head of the group, says Smith stands out in the work he does for others, “by giving his heart and soul and personal resources.”<br />
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During the past three years, Smith has also jump-started other projects.<br />
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Some fishermen in Sierra Leone didn’t have boats, so using his own money, plus donations, he bought three boats for them to share. <br />
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His former primary school didn’t have a library, so he helped build one and filled it with books. <br />
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And when Smith sent over four thousand pairs of donated shoes, he saw the eyes of schoolchildren light up. “It’s like Christmas for them,” he said.<br />
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He also has handed out meals for homeless amputees, living together in camps, who lost their limbs during Sierra Leone’s brutal 11-year-long civil war that ended in 2002. He met them at a beach where they were having some fun in their otherwise difficult lives. <br />
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“After the civil war there were thousands of amputees without homes," Smith explained. "Every Sunday, they have a group that plays soccer.”<br />
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His organisation is also helping the homeless make money. “We sent tools to them so they can make a living because they can make pots and pans.”<br />
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Smith's efforts show that small projects can have big results, improving and saving lives. <br />
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“You don’t need a lot of money to help people overseas,” he observed.<br />
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Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone is continuing to send medical supplies. Once the threat of Ebola has ended in Sierra Leone, the group plans to send a team of health workers from the U.S. to perform surgeries for free.<br />
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Inspiring Video! Sierra Leonean in the US send medical supplies home to combat Ebola!

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"All Because of Tonga!" Joey B drops Tonga video.

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Fast rising Ghanaian artist <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Joey B</span> has dropped the video of his hit song <span style="color: #3d85c6;">'Tonga' </span>featuring Ghanaian rap star <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Sarkodie</span>. Enjoy Video below...<br />
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"All Because of Tonga!" Joey B drops Tonga video.

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VIDEO: Stella Damasus finally clears the air about her relationship with Daniel Ademinokan.

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The former Nollywood sweet-heart <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Stella Damasus</span> would finally open up about her relationship with <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Daniel Ademinokan </span>after three years. A relationship with so much controversy. She would also be speaking on her relationship with veteran actor, <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Richard Mofe-Damijo</span>. In and interview with <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Emma Emerson</span> of <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Golden Icons </span>scheduled to premier live on the <span style="color: #3d85c6;">16th of December 2014.</span><br />
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VIDEO: Stella Damasus finally clears the air about her relationship with Daniel Ademinokan.

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Ghanaian actor Majid Michael testifies against Nigerian impersonator in court.

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Ghanaian actor <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Majid Michel </span>appeared in court Tuesday to testify against a <span style="color: #3d85c6;">37-year-old Nigerian </span>who was arrested by the La Police for impersonating him. The Nigerian, <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Kelvin Ogodogu</span>, was arrested on Saturday, November 15 through the help of some of his neighbours in Kosoa in the Central region for trying to defraud a US-based <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ghanaian lady</span>. The Nigerian, posing as Majid Michel on Facebook, solicited funds from unsuspecting persons, including the US-based Ghanaian lady, Ikay, to bury his mum. Kelvin Ogodogu was arraigned before the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) Magistrates’ Court in La on Thursday, November 20 where he pleaded not guilty to the charges of impersonation and attempted fraud. During the second hearing on Tuesday, November 25, presided over by Judge Charles Yaw Boateng, State Prosecutor, Chief Inspector Ophelia Denteh led the award winning actor to give his evidence. Majid Michel gave an account of how he met Ikay and how the lady informed him about the imposter on Facebook. His 45 minute narration also included an account of how he set up a surveillance system to help apprehend Kelvin. Kelvin asked Majid what he discussed with Ikay when they met in the US which the actor answered. The accused also quizzed the actor when Ikay realized that she was dealing with an ‘imposter’ on Facebook. Majid responded that it was a day after the event that the lady realized. The court after taking Majid’s account then adjourned the case to Thursday, November 27. The court, Myjoyonline.com gathers, will also hear Kelvin’s testimony during that hearing.<br />
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AUDIO: 'Adebayor's mother came to me for 'juju' to control him'!

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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">H</span></span>i guys, there is an update on the Adebayor family 'juju' accusation. Recently, Mallam Suleman Raji (picture above), the alleged 'juju man' confessed to peace fm that Adebayor's mother came to him for 'juju' that would enable her control her son together with his affairs. He told peace fm he had been working as a 'juju man' for 25years and that he inherited his powers from his late father. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The 50 year old further told peace fm that he helped the Tottenham striker's mum dissolve his marriage and that the woman is impossible to satisfy. He said he has prove to back up his claims, together with so many other accusations. Guys...it's despicable! </span></div>
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AUDIO: 'Adebayor's mother came to me for 'juju' to control him'!

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Ray Rice wins appeal!

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Ray Rice the NFL player who was charged as a result of a domestic violence charge has won the appeal after he was suspended indefinitely. Report from CNN below...</blockquote>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- Former Baltimore Ravens running back <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/27/us/ray-rice-fast-facts/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ray Rice</a> has won his appeal of his indefinite suspension by the NFL for violating its domestic violence policy, the players union said Friday.</div>
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"The suspension has been vacated," George Atallah, the assistant executive director of external affairs for the players' union, said.</div>
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"I made an inexcusable mistake and accept full responsibility for my actions," Rice said, referring to two disturbing videos that show him knocking out his now-wife, Janay Rice, on an elevator in a casino in Atlantic City on February 15. "I am thankful that there was a proper appeals process in place to address this issue."</div>
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He said he will continue to work hard to improve himself and learn from his mistakes.</div>
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Former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones, a neutral arbitrator, presided over Rice's appeal hearing in New York earlier this month.</div>
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Her decision means Rice is immediately able to play but any team will have to consider the consequences of signing someone whose domestic-violence case has been so public.</div>
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Source: CNN</div>

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