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Intimidation by Prof.Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 12/11/2021
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- In The People Talk
Intimidation is an outburst of human aggression to resolve matters without having regards to the rule of law.
This always happens in an environment of that is not orderly perhaps due to the weakness of the leader or the failure to apply the rules of law in the power dispensation.
Cases of intimidation,most of the times,may create an environment of fear in the individual or people been intimidated.
Chains of reaction arising from this, may result in anarchy or a state of chaos leading to a breakdown of law and order.
This is the reason why the issue of intimidation must be addressed with all seriousness.
Aspirants for leadership positions must also be sensitized on how best to control their temperament and the effective use of the rule of law to resolve issues.
Basically,leaders must embrace management by equity and administration by justice to avoid the possible feeling of being cheated or marginalized in order that no one would be tempted into intimidating others.
Intimidation may come from persons given positions of authority they are not competent to occupy.Leaders by their nature always want to be respected with their views being implemented by their subjects without delay or hindrance.
However,when policies are rolled out but considered not feasible due to the poverty of ideas of the leader,people are bound to resist such order.
This may warrant the leader to exercise wrongly his executive power through intimidation.
This kind of action exposes the weaknesses and limitations of such a leader making him or her to be vulnerable to serious agitations which may ultimately cause chaos and eventual stalemate in development or if the situation is not properly controlled, it may lead to the eventual removal of the leader.
Poor governance in several nations have degenerated the fabric of discipline to the point of lack of peaceful co-existence.
In such a nation, characteristics factors of intimidation would manifests blackmail that usually create fear of possible shame and the loss of goodwill.
When this is not properly controlled further intimidation would follow to make sudden wealth,while those who intimidate enjoy illegally acquired money, the victims become indebted or sickly.
In summary,therefore,intimidation in all forms and ramifications as a process of discouraging or restraining fellow human beings from acting by threats,blackmail or violence must be guided against grooming the people to respect the rule of law in resolving issues as well giving due regards to the fundamental human rights of others for the purpose of enhancing peaceful co-existence.
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Learning and its Challenges
- By solomon2day
- On 11/11/2021
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- In Solomon's Column
An official report in Great Britain in 1818 described the overall outcome of education of all sorts in this period as a'' lamentable deficiency'' in education for the poor.
Even though the voluntary effort was restricted to the towns, the country districts constituted wells of ignorance.
It is to be noted that some districts in London had half of their population in the category of stark illiterates.
Sadly, this is the situation in most states in Nigeria today. The vice of ignorance is now a dangerous threat to public order.
The deliberate creation of the uneducated by the government at all levels is now the basis for misrule and poor governance.
Political reasons for the deteriorated standards of education are visible everywhere in the country, even as political concessions have overwhelmed educational opportunities.
The government discrimination at all levels, in public-owned educational institutions, has ensured that indigent children must be held responsible for their poverty, while the elite determines the happenings in the private-owned institutions with the aid of their wealth from known and unknown sources.
According to John Stuart Mill, ''Education provided by the public must be education for all, and to be education for all it must be purely secular education. '' This is, however, not the case in Nigeria.
Of great worry is the fact that the country is in urgent need of suitably qualified and efficient teachers.
Sadly, those available have, over time, displayed and exhibited little talent and questionable culture. Those in charge of quality assurance also fall within the range.
The vicissitudes and challenges of life in several cities and towns have coarse and degraded many sections of the population to the extent that manners and culture have deteriorated rapidly.
Indeed, most of the products of Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary levels of education are living examples to conclude that little or nothing was learned in these citadels of learning. This is disturbing.
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Live by Piety in Your Faith by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 09/11/2021
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- In Special Report
There is an urgent need for religious leaders to realize that they are susceptible to people's casts of doubt and aspersion on the way they run the affairs of our religious systems. This is because acquisition is necessary for an environment of doubt(where devilish things occur incessantly without control, even under the roof of very many people and the houses of God in particular).
The Holy Bible in Mark 3: 22-29 refers, ''22And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
23And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
24And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26And if Satan rises up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
27No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
28Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
29But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:''
In the same vein, in the Holy Quran 22: 52 the Almighty God asserted that all holy prophets experienced the envious attacks of satan, but for their scripture compliance, it was possible for them to enjoy timely divine intervention, to be able to successfully deliver the message of God without hindrance.
The Holy Quran 16: 97-100, harps on the premise upon which satanic interference can take place but overcome.
'' Whoever, works righteousness, man or woman and has faith, verily to him will We give a life that is good and pure, and we will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions when thou dost read the Quran(the scripture), seek Allah's protection from Satan, the Rejected One. No authority as he(satan) over those who believe and put their trust in their Lord. His authority is over those only, who take Him as patron and who join partners with Allah.''
It is, therefore, left to I and you to stand aright in our faith to enjoy divine strengthing, or we live waywardly or frivolous lives that constitute the path to destruction.
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Terrorism Sponsor- Drug Kingpin Plead Guilty
- By solomon2day
- On 04/11/2021
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Colombian Drug Kingpin and Paramilitary Leader Pleads Guilty to Operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Daniel Rendon Herrera, also known as “Don Mario,” a citizen of Colombia, pleaded guilty to engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The proceeding took place before United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry. When sentenced, Rendon Herrera faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and up to life imprisonment, as well as forfeiture in excess of $45 million and a fine of up to $2.25 million.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s National Security Division; Ray Donovan, Special Agent-in-Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division (DEA); Rick J. Patel, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, New York (HSI); Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI); Dermot F. Shea, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD); and Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent, New York State Police (NYSP), announced the guilty plea.
“With today’s guilty plea, Rendon Herrera, who was once the most feared narco-terrorist in Colombia, admitted to leading one of the world’s largest and most violent drug cartels and flooding the streets of America with cocaine. Rendon Herrera also admitted to providing material support to a designated terrorist organization that brutally killed, kidnapped, and tortured rival drug traffickers and civilians.” stated United States Attorney Peace. “I commend the determined efforts of countless members of law enforcement, foreign and domestic, who brought the defendant to justice.”
“By his admission, Daniel Rendon Herrera was a leader of a brutal and murderous narco-terrorist organization in Colombia, and he trafficked more than 80 tons of cocaine,” stated United States Attorney Williams. “Rendon Herrera oversaw operations of a paramilitary cartel that carried out kidnappings, torture, and murders. Now, through the combined efforts of law enforcement officers and prosecutors, Rendon Herrera awaits sentencing for his crimes.”
“Don Mario’s guilty plea has left footprints for other drug kingpins to follow,” stated DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Donovan. “This notorious founder and leader of Clan Usaga is facing the consequences of his billion-dollar cocaine empire that spread fear, drug addiction, and death throughout Colombia and the United States. I commend the law enforcement alliance that has worked for years to bring Rendon Herrera to justice.”
“Rendon Herrera, one of Colombia’s most prominent and feared drug kingpins and once the leader of the narco-terrorist Los Urabenos Drug Trafficking Organization, committed heinous crimes in pursuit of power and profit. This plea demonstrates HSI and its law enforcement partners’ commitment to disrupting and dismantling the criminal organizations responsible for the dangerous narcotics flooding our streets. We will continue to pursue these organizations at the highest levels, both at home and abroad, and put an end to the terror that they generate across the world.” stated HSI Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Patel.
“All roads travelled by international drug cartels seem to lead straight to our cities, where their members poison our neighbors and wreak deadly havoc. In this case, Mr. Herrera admits to supporting designated terrorists as they kidnapped, tortured, and murdered people so he could build his power and wealth. Our pursuit of these groups won't wane with his guilty plea today. Even now, we are on to the next leader who most likely believes he won't suffer the same fate,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Driscoll.
“Our NYPD investigators work tirelessly to avert narcotics, terrorism and threats from the kind of violent, overseas criminal enterprises that this long term investigation has dismantled. I commend our officers, our law enforcement partners and the prosecutors in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York for their public service to all New Yorkers in achieving today’s guilty plea,” stated NYPD Commissioner Shea.
According to court filings and facts presented during the plea proceeding, the guilty plea stems from Rendon Herrera’s role, since the late 1990’s, as a leader of the designated foreign terrorist organization, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), and as founder and leader of Los Urabeños Drug Trafficking Organization (the Urabeños, also referred to as Clan Usuga and Clan del Golfo), effectively the successor organization to the AUC.
The AUC, founded in 1997, was a Colombian paramilitary and drug-trafficking organization, designated in 2001 by the United States Department of State as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially-Designated Global Terrorism Organization. The AUC engaged in armed conflict with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia (FARC), Colombia’s main guerilla group, and sought to remove FARC sympathizers from positions of power and influence in Colombia. To support its political and terrorist objectives, the AUC imposed “taxes” on cocaine trafficked through AUC-controlled areas and engaged in violent attacks including murders and kidnappings. By 2006, many members of the AUC demobilized as part of the Colombian government’s Justice and Peace process – a process under which paramilitary members surrender to the Colombian government and relinquish their criminally-derived assets in exchange for reduced sentences and amnesty from extradition. Rather than submit to the peace process, Rendon Herrera re-mobilized the AUC as the Urabeños.
The Urabeños, like the AUC, continued to finance their paramilitary and drug trafficking by imposing a “tax” on multi-ton shipments of cocaine that transited through areas in Colombia controlled by the organization and were ultimately destined for importation into the United States. The Urabeños employed “sicarios,” or hitmen, who carried out various acts of violence, including murders, assaults, kidnappings and assassinations to collect drug debts, maintain discipline, control and expand drug territory, and to promote and enhance the prestige, reputation, and position of the organization. In 2009, when Rendon Herrera was captured by the Colombian National Police, he commanded 16 “bloques,” or territories, across Colombia and thousands of armed paramilitary fighters.
In connection with his plea, Rendon Herrera accepted responsibility for trafficking at least 73,645 kilograms of cocaine. The charges relating to the AUC were initially filed in the Southern District of New York and transferred to the Eastern District of New York for the consolidated plea. The charges relating to the Urabeños originated in the Eastern District of New York. Additionally, since 2009, Rendon Herrera has been designated by the United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Rendon Herrera is also wanted to serve sentences for convictions in the Republic of Colombia relating to numerous homicides, weapons, and narcotics trafficking, which remain pending his service of his sentence in the United States.
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s International Narcotics and Money Laundering Section. Assistant United States Attorneys Jonathan P. Lax, Francisco J. Navarro, and Andrew D. Grubin are in charge of the prosecution, with assistance provided by Assistant United States Attorney Alexander Li of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and Trial Attorney Elisabeth Poteat of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs handled the extradition in this matter and the Department of Justice Judicial Attaché’s Office was instrumental in supporting the case.
This prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States by using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies against criminal networks.
The Defendant:
DANIEL RENDON HERRERA (also known as “Don Mario”)
Age: 56
Antioquia, Colombia
Source : FBI
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Freedom by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 04/11/2021
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- In The People Talk
Over the ages, absolute power was discovered to corrupt absolutely, similarly, absolute freedom could as well lead an individual astray through its overbearing nature with tendencies to become overbearing. This usually manifests in the patriarchal setting wherein women's rights are most of the time trampled upon. This is why gender mainstreaming becomes an issue to promote inclusiveness for a better world order where stigmatization and marginalization shall be completely absent.
Curtailed freedom becomes an issue of abuse if the searchlight is on probing the activities of the slave trade experience.
In this light, freedom, and independence have a direct correlation through which a nation can be assessed. Nations, where corruption and institutional indiscipline thrive, will ever depend on foreign services through loans and debts by successive governments. This would bring in its wake political instability as a result of poverty and its attendant consequences such as armed robbery, ritual killings, insurgency, pickpocketing, terrorism among several others.
The essence of child-rearing and natural nurturing through formal and informal education to the point of adulthood for maturity, professionalism for the right career. The child is given the opportunity to enjoy freedom and independence to be able to be a change agent or a game-changer in the scheme of transforming progressively.
Any nation that fails to develop the youth in the right way will ever deny them the right to freedom and independence with the consequence of lagging behind in the committee of nations and a much dire consequence on its people not being able to cope in the world of global competitiveness.
In the final analysis, freedom as a primary condition of enjoying civil liberty must be the behavioral objective of culture, education, and religious exercises for political gladiators to emerge in a society where freedom is sacrosanct for the right and accelerated development.
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Helplessness in the Face of Dirt
- By solomon2day
- On 02/11/2021
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- In Solomon's Column
In early Victorian Britain, health and cleanliness were visible challenges in the slums.
The outbreak of cholera in 1832 and 1837 prompted the Government to probe the causes of the fever.
In 1838, three medical experts-Dr. Southwood-Smith, Dr. Arnott, and Dr, Kay-submitted Reports anchored on the physical causes of Cholera fever in London. This included Dr. Southwood-Smith's worrisome account of the slums of Bethnal Green and White chapel.
Indeed, the above mentioned and others-the Report of the Health Towns Committee published in 1840 and the Report by the Poor LawCommission, authored by Edwin Chadwick and published in 1842-the Report on an Inquiry into the sanitary condition of the laboring population of Great Britain, in addition to the Royal Commission which also compiled Reports in 1844 and 1845 revealed that although Britain was blazing the trail in the world in industrial development, living conditions of its citizens were in a terrible and poor state, with typhoid fever wreaking havoc among the populace.
Interestingly, major cities and towns in Nigeria presently are very dirty and overcrowded, while estate developers ignore the rules and regulations guiding the erection of structures.
Several homes and shops are constructed in the smallest space with inferior materials and active connivance of government officials.
The dirty habits of the people and absence of facilities for environmental sanitation have converted these cities and towns to poisonous dens of filth and disease, where refuse habitations include streets, drainages, roads, and residential premises.
The poor state of septic tanks in homes, badly constructed drainages, lack of potable water, and poor environmental sanitation practices among the people have exposed the nonchalant population to various diseases including Cholera.
Of note is the fact that residents and occupants of No. 5 Kehinde Aderibigbes Street, Olorunsogo, Molete, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, not only vandalized the next building, No. 3 but also converted it to a refuse dump and place where excreta is also dumped.
Government officials have long before now admitted the evil, but blame their superiors for the public health situation.
Those-in Chrage at all levels of government look on helplessly as the people contend with the hazards of a dirty environment.
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Factors Upholding the Concept of Puritanism by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 02/11/2021
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- In The People Talk
The demand of God from man is to identify the variables that are the determining factors for the realization of body preservation from sins, crimes, and soul purification from devilish thoughts.
The Holy Bible, Mark 7: 17-23 refers, ''And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within and defile the man.''
Let us take an in-depth look into our ways of life, so as to be able to work on the weak areas for us to be wholesome in our religious practice. This will enable us to achieve a perfect God/man relationship that would set us free from the clutches of satan.
The Holy Quran 7: 157 offers us effective solutions for ease of achieving body preservation from sins and crimes as well as soul purification from devilish thought processes considering the four variables that characterize our behaviors and attitudes in life.
1)Role modeling what is just.
2)Forbidding what is evil.
3) Consider what is lawful as good and pure only.
4) Prohibit what is bad and impure.
The goal is to avoid frictions in our social interactions as well as to be vulnerable to poison through food and drinks.
Divine promise for those who can with the fear of God observe the four articles of faith above is a free offer from God as a favor and reward of just worship or been scripture compliant: Releases them from the yokes that are upon them. Be wise.
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Clampdown on Drug Traffickers
- By solomon2day
- On 28/10/2021
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International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Traffickers on the Darknet Results in 150 Arrests Worldwide and the Seizure of Weapons, Drugs, and over $31 Million
Darknet Narcotics Vendors Selling to Tens of Thousands of U.S. Residents Charged
Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to announce the results of Operation Dark HunTor, a coordinated international effort on three continents to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the United States, Australia, and Europe, was a result of the continued partnership between JCODE and foreign law enforcement against the illegal sale of drugs and other illicit goods and services. Operation Dark HunTor builds on the success of last year’s Operation DisrupTor and the coordinated law enforcement takedown earlier this year of DarkMarket, the world’s then-largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet. At the time, German authorities arrested the marketplace’s alleged operator and seized the site’s infrastructure, providing investigators across the world with a trove of evidence. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and JCODE have since been compiling intelligence packages to identify key targets.
Following the DarkMarket takedown in January 2021, U.S. and international law enforcement agencies identified Darknet drug vendors and buyers, resulting in a series of complementary, but separate, law enforcement investigations. Operation Dark HunTor actions have resulted in the arrest of 150 alleged Darknet drug traffickers and other criminals who engaged in tens of thousands of sales of illicit goods and services across Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Prior to, but in support of Operation Dark HunTor, Italian authorities also shut down the DeepSea and Berlusconi dark web marketplaces which boasted over 40,000 advertisements of illegal products. Four alleged administrators were arrested, and €3.6 million in cryptocurrencies were seized in coordinated U.S.-Italian operations.
Operation Dark HunTor resulted in the seizure of over $31.6 million in both cash and virtual currencies; approximately 234 kilograms (kg) of drugs worldwide including 152.1 kg of amphetamine, 21.6 kg of cocaine, 26.9 kg of opioids, 32.5 kg of MDMA, in addition to more than 200,000 ecstasy, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methamphetamine pills, and counterfeit medicine ; and 45 firearms. Darknet vendor accounts were also identified and attributed to real individuals selling illicit goods on active marketplaces, as well as inactive Darknet marketplaces such as Dream, WallStreet, White House, DeepSea, and Dark Market.
Operation Dark HunTor led to 65 arrests in the United States, one in Bulgaria, three in France, 47 in Germany, four in the Netherlands, 24 in the United Kingdom, four in Italy, and two in Switzerland. A number of investigations are still ongoing.
“This 10-month massive international law enforcement operation spanned across three continents and involved dozens of U.S. and international law enforcement agencies to send one clear message to those hiding on the Darknet peddling illegal drugs: there is no dark internet. We can and we will shine a light,” said Deputy Attorney General Monaco. “Operation Dark HunTor prevented countless lives from being lost to this dangerous trade in illicit and counterfeit drugs, because one pill can kill. The Department of Justice with our international partners will continue to crack down on lethal counterfeit opioids purchased on the Darknet.”
“The men and women of the department’s Criminal Division, in close collaboration with our team of interagency and international partners, stand ready to leverage all our resources to protect our communities through the pursuit of those who profit from addiction, under the false belief that they are anonymous on the Darknet,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Only through a whole of government and, in this case, global approach to tackling cyber-enabled drug trafficking can we hope to achieve the significant results illustrated in Operation Dark HunTor.”
“The FBI continues to identify and bring to justice drug dealers who believe they can hide their illegal activity through the Darknet,” said FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. “Criminal darknet markets exist so drug dealers can profit at the expense of others’ safety. The FBI is committed to working with our JCODE and EUROPOL law enforcement partners to disrupt those markets and the borderless, worldwide trade in illicit drugs they enable.”
“Today, we face new and increasingly dangerous threats as drug traffickers expand into the digital world and use the Darknet to sell dangerous drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamine,” said Administrator Anne Milgram of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “These drug traffickers are flooding the United States with deadly, fake pills, driving the U.S. overdose crisis, spurring violence, and threatening the safety and health of American communities. DEA’s message today is clear: criminal drug networks operating on the Darknet, trying to hide from law enforcement, can no longer hide. DEA, the U.S. interagency, and our valued international partners, are committed to dismantling drug networks wherever they are, including on the Darknet.”
“Illicit darkweb marketplaces represent a significant threat to public health, economic, and national security,” said Acting Director Tae Johnson of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “By working collaboratively and sharing intelligence across local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and its partners are disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal organizations responsible for introducing dangerous narcotics and other contraband into our communities.”
“The dark web has become an underground facilitator of illegal commerce,” said Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). “Criminals use the dark web to sell and ship narcotics and other dangerous goods around the world, often relying on the postal system and private carriers to deliver these illegal products. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is committed to finding and stopping these drug traffickers.”
“The Darknet no longer provides a concealing cloak for criminals to operate,” said IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Chief Jim Lee. “The expertise of our agents and law enforcement partners helped uncover significant quantities of narcotics and money — both cash and virtual currency — derived from illicit means.”
“The point of operations such as the one today is to put criminals operating on the dark web on notice: the law enforcement community has the means and global partnerships to unmask them and hold them accountable for their illegal activities, even in areas of the dark web,” said Europol’s Deputy Executive Director of Operations Jean-Philippe Lecouffe.
The extensive operation, which lasted 10 months, resulted in dozens of federal operations and prosecutions, including:
Four search warrants were executed in furtherance of a multiagency investigation resulting in the seizure of approximately $1 million in drug proceeds (including approximately $700,000 in cryptocurrency), eight firearms, one vehicle, and various controlled substances including MDMA, LSD, and cocaine. The FBI, DEA, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and USPIS jointly conducted the investigation. According to court documents, the targets of the investigation were operating over multiple Darknet marketplaces to traffic methamphetamine, counterfeit pressed Adderall (containing methamphetamine), MDMA, cocaine, and ketamine to customers throughout the United States. The investigation revealed that the organization’s base of operations was in Houston, Texas, and the organization shipped to various cities throughout the United States. Six defendants are charged in a five-count indictment in the Southern District of Ohio with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, sale of counterfeit drugs, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The FBI in conjunction with the USPIS, FDA, and DEA, had been investigating a criminal enterprise that operated two Darknet vendor accounts. One of the accounts was operated out of the Miami area and the other out of the Providence, Rhode Island, area. According to court documents, the vendors, Luis Spencer, 31, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Olatunji Dawodu, 36, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Alex Ogando, 35, of Providence, Rhode Island, allegedly advertised and sold pressed fentanyl pills throughout the United States. Agents identified several other co-conspirators and obtained search and arrest warrants for each. During the execution of the warrants, agents seized approximately $770,000, one weapon and approximately 3.5 kilograms of pressed fentanyl. Spencer, Dawodu, and Ogando are charged in the District of Columbia with conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.
Kevin Olando Ombisi, 32, and Eric Bernard Russell Jr, 36, both of Katy, Texas, are alleged to have participated in Darknet controlled substances trafficking activities using the moniker Cardingmaster and are charged in a 10-count indictment in the Western District of Tennessee with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, attempted unlawful distribution of controlled substances, sale of counterfeit drugs, money laundering conspiracy, and mail fraud. According to court documents, Ombisi and Russell are alleged to have used the moniker Cardingmaster and conspired and attempted to, and did unlawfully distribute the Schedule II controlled substance methamphetamine, which was falsely represented to be Adderall, through the mail in the Western District of Tennessee and elsewhere. In conjunction with their arrests, the government seized more than $5 million in assets alleged to be connected to the drug trafficking activity. The case was investigated by the DEA, HSI, USPIS, and the FDA, and is being prosecuted by the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee.
An indictment and criminal complaint are merely allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Operation Dark HunTor was a collaborative initiative across JCODE members, including the Department of Justice; FBI; DEA; USPIS; ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); IRS-Criminal Investigation; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the FDA’s Office of Investigations. This operation was aided by non-operational supporting participation from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Local, state, and other federal agencies also contributed to Operation Dark HunTor investigations through task force participation and regional partnerships. The investigations leading to Operation Dark HunTor were significantly aided by support and coordination by the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), multi-agency Special Operations Division, the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section’s Digital Currency Initiative, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, the Fraud Section, the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the National Cyber Joint Investigative Task Force (NCJITF), Europol and its Dark Web team and international partners Eurojust, Australian Federal Police (AFP), Bulgaria’s General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (Главна дирекция Борба с организираната престъпност), France’s National Police (Police National - OCLCTIC) and National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale – C3N), Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt), Central Criminal Investigation Department in the German city of Oldenburg (Zentrale KriminaIinspektion Oldenburg), State Criminal Police Offices (Landeskriminalämter), State Criminal Police Office of Lower Saxony (LKA Niedersachsen), various police departments (Dienststellen der Länderpolizeien), German Investigation Customs ( Zollfahndungsämter), Italy’s Finance Corps (Guardia di Finanza) and Public Prosecutor’s Office Brescia, the Netherland’s National Police (Politie), Switzerland’s Zurich Canton Police (Kantonspolizei Zürich) and Public Prosecutor's Office II of the Canton of Zurich (Staatsanwaltschaft II), and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and NPCC.
Federal prosecutions are being conducted in more than 15 federal districts, including the Central District of California, the Eastern District of California, the Northern District of California, the District of Columbia, the Southern District of Florida, the District of Massachusetts, the District of Nebraska, the District of Nevada, the Western District of New York, the Southern District of Ohio, the Northern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Western District of Virginia, the District of Rhode Island, the Western District of Tennessee, and the Western District of Washington.
JCODE is an FBI-led Department of Justice initiative, which supports, coordinates, and assists in de-confliction of investigations targeting for disruption and dismantlement of the online sale of illegal drugs, especially fentanyl and other opioids. JCODE also targets the trafficking of weapons and other illicit goods and services on the internet.
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Stand Right in your Faith by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 28/10/2021
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Faith is a link between man and his creator.
Mankind has two challenges on this: that God is all-encompassing hence there is no basis for discrimination. And that religious activities have conditions for acceptance before God.
The declaration of God in the Holy Quran 2: 62, ''Those who believe in the Quran(the Muslims), and those who follow the Jewish scriptures and the Christians and the Serbians-any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.''
All adherents are, therefore, identified of which only one is good on the issue of achieving tranquility of the mind, peaceful co-existence, safe and secured environment, and sustainable development.
There are some adherents who do not allow the word of God to take root in their minds.
Another set of adherents are those that are like a rocky edge, without room for in-depth knowledge resulting in stunted growth because the root of the seed or words of God cannot get to the mineral resources bed of life.
The third type of adherents could be regarded as suffering from bad peer group bandwagon effect where the adherents are filled with the worries of a life-Godly mind with a satanic environment.
The fourth one that is good can bring forth the expected buoyant yield could be likened to that of the fertile soil of Godly mind in a Godly environment.
References to back up the above claim could be sighted in the Holy Bible Mark 4: 1-10, Holy Quran 11: 113, 18: 27-28.
In the Holy Bible Isaiah 6: 9-10, ''And he said, Go, and tell these people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10Make the heart of these people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.''
The Holy Quran corroborates this assertive judgment of divine substance in 2: 6-7, '' As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether thou warn them or do not warn them; they will not believe. Allah hath set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing. And on their eyes is a veil: Great is the chastisement they incur.''
From these lessons let there be a paradigm shift of positive turning effect on your attitudinal disposition towards God and His words by standing aright in your faith to be a good vehicle of God and a veritable tool for development in your society.
Only God can make things work, I need God, you need Him, we all need the almighty Allah. Give Him total submission to His will to overcome barriers of life and quench the inferno of insecurity.
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Truth by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 21/10/2021
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Truth avails a nation while falsehood destroys it.
It also strengthens the bond of truce while falsehood weakens the ties of friendship.
In all spheres of human life, truth is an essential element for peaceful co-existence and interpersonal relationships on socio-political, economic, and business transactions.
Truth has to do with fulfillment and sincerity in agreement, keeping promises, respect for the oath of allegiance, and holding in trust resources for distribution based on the equity concept.
This is the reason why the concept of truth could be described as a fundamental code of life that must be learned and taught across the limes of formal, informal, and non-formal education to serve as the backbone of all socialization processes.
The element of truth, if altered, will always produce leaders without credibility and will ever rubbish efforts in realizing good governance.
Truth dictates that wealth acquisition must follow legitimate means for the resources to be able to create an impact on the expected targetted areas without creating room for agitations.
The Holy Quran 2: 42 refers, '' And cover not the Truth when ye know what it is what it is.''
Above all, education is fundamental to the realization of the truth in any society.
This must reflect in all processes of parenting, friendship, teaching, and learning, scripture compliance challenge, business transactions, and political activities.
The truth must manifest in everyone and the society as the conformity to facts and reality.
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The Vigorous Pursuit of Profits
- By solomon2day
- On 18/10/2021
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- In Solomon's Column
In the 19th century in England, children and adults of both sexes were subjected to despicable factory labor.
Even though there were several factory-reform movements that led the agitations for an end to inhuman practices in the factories; the stubborn, unscrupulous, and grasping attitude of the factory owners, who were in their private lives often kind fathers and husbands, such as John Bright, resisted reforms in their factories and still engaged children of nine years old to work in these factories.
In the same vein in Nigeria today, the exploitation of labor, children inclusive is now very prominent.
Underaged children engaged by those in the Organized POrivate Sector(OPS) and government contractors are commonplace in a number of states, while these contractors minimize costs by going further to engage cheap labor and procure inferior materials.
However, in England, factories, workshops, and mines reforms became a reality after a long and painful struggle against the resistance of interested parties and the passive attitude of others.
Sadly in Nigeria, despite existing legislation on child labor and exploitation of labor, the ugly acts continue unabated due to the overbearing nature of interested parties who are beneficiaries of government patronage and stakeholders in the Organized Private Sector.
Indeed, the absence of those in the mold of John Doherty, Robert Owen, John Fielden, John Wood, G.S Bull, and Anthony Ashely in the Nigerian space today; has allowed for the continuation of the anti-labor practices. This is obviously in favor of the government and the OPS, since the emphasis is on the benefits and not the losses.
Unfortunately, the will of the Government at all levels to enforce regulations is almost non-existent and on the other hand slow in realizing its responsibilities.
Not surprisingly, a strange development that is fast becoming the norm in major cities and towns across Nigeria, is the increasing population of prostitutes, minors inclusive, in newly constructed hotels. This is in addition to the emerging generation of young criminals, who report daily to older men and women in these hotels.
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Divine Judgment by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 14/10/2021
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Most often, human beings forgive people for what they perceived as offenses against them which out of the offenders' acts of soberness and repentance may necessitate an individual to declare forgiveness.
In every human system, the customary, magistrate, high, appeal and supremer courts have jurisdiction to hear and judge cases.
However, most times the judgments emanating from these courts are controversial.
Religious books unanimously agree that human beings must not be judgmental to the level of condemning others, most especially when perceptions are different on the same issue at stake.
We must rather live to tolerate one another and to role model virtues to be able to correct perceived aberrations from others.
Divine judgment from God is justified by the claim of been our creator most especially on the ways we live our lives justly or unjustly, sinfully or sinlessly, crime-prone and crime-free.
In a situation wherein lies are peddled to live comfortable lives, the law of natural justice or karma or retribution is bound to take emerge.
We can now appreciate the scriptural submissions that our activities here on earth with the interplay of very many forcers surrounding us deviate us from the path of righteousness for a test or assignment to be assessed by the almighty God our creator.
Divine judgment, therefore, should be seen as eternal and more grievous than any judgment human beings can give themselves.
Divine judgment should not be perceived in the negative sense, that is as a disaster or misfortune inflicted by God as punishment.
Judgment may favor the good ones and it may not favor the bad ones before God.
The scripture upholding our religious beliefs would only remain an article of test on the way we keep to it And live by it.
Human judgment is always bereft of divine substance, for the judge to be able to reflect into the past genealogical order before passing judgment.
To err is human and to forgive is divine.
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The Tax Burden
- By solomon2day
- On 10/10/2021
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Nigerians continue to groan as the strangulating grip of the tax regime at all levels of government tightens.
The reason for the tax regime by Those-in-Charge is obvious-more revenue-even as Those-in-Charge has decided to take additional loans to finance projects that fall under the category of misplaced priorities.
However, during the Napoleonic wars, one of Those in Government in Britain, Pitt, resorted to an income tax to aid the defraying national expenditure. The burden of the war debt was humongous. £ 74,500,000 revenue was required annually to service the debt and other expenditures.
This was four times the pre-war budget, which resulted in the multiplication of taxes. During this period, government officials made excusable mistakes or were rather frankly ignorant. Indeed, smuggling and other sharp practices became prominent.
There were taxes on the import of manufactured goods and taxes on the export of raw materials. There were also various revenue taxes on consumption whose range and number had gone beyond the roof tops due to the pressure from the Napoleonic wars.
The article of Sydney Smith in The Edinburgh Review in 1820, summed up the precarious situation confronting Nigerian presently: ''Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth or covers the back, or is placed under the foot-taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion-taxes on earth, and the waters under the earthy-on everything that comes from abroad or grown at home-taxes on the raw material-taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man-taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health.....''
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There is a Shortage Qualified Teachers In Nigeria-NUT President
- By solomon2day
- On 06/10/2021
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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has decried the acute shortage of teachers in Nigeria.
The assertion was made on Tuesday by the National President of the NUT, Dr. Nasir Idris in a goodwill message on the occasion of the World Teachers' day in Ibadan, Oyo state.
''The NUT has noted with dismay the acute shortage of teachers in our schools, resulting in unhealthy teacher-learner ratio. We, therefore, call on State Governments to ensure adequate recruitment of teachers for effective teaching and learning schools, Dr. Idris stated.
Similarly, The NUT State Chairman, Oyo state wing, Comrade Tojuade Adedoyin noted that despite a myriad of challenges confronting the state government, ''the administration of our God Sent Messiah(GSM) still found it necessary to employ 5,000 qualified teachers into the core teaching service of Oyo state Public Secondary Schools.''
Comrade Adedoyin went a step further lamenting that ''our Primary schools are short of staff due to the retirement of teachers. I humbly request Your Excellency to grant approval to SUBEB for recruitment of teachers into various Public Primary Schools across the state.''
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True Riches by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 04/10/2021
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- In The People Talk
Riches are like a double-edged sword, wherein one side is evaluated through spiritual endowment and the other side through socio-economic achievements.
The Almighty Allah recommended due process for achieving riches.
The Holy Quran 11: 16 refers, '' There is no moving creature on earth, but its sustenance depended on Allah: He knoweth its resting place and its temporary deposit: All is in a clear record.''
The regulatory measure, therefore, is preferred as a due process of acquisition of wealth through the dignity of labor by legitimate means. If we follow this, the created social classes would have been justified through hard labor and competence, with the consequential result of promotion to get higher classes of economic and social levels.
However, tur riches become elusive when we illegally acquire wealth without any regard for the due process of legitimate earning.
Corrupt enrichment, therefore, erodes away the spiritual endowment, making the victims wallow in the bondage of satan.
The Holy Bible, James 1: 9-11 becomes food for thought to be rightly guided on true riches from the legitimate acquisition of wealth. ''9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.''
The lesson from this is that beyond the fundamental need, luxuries must be allowed to go into the areas of services where others are in dire need to promote the principles of equity.
The Holy Quran 13: 26 refers, '' Allah doth enlarge, or grant by strict measure, the sustenance which He giveth to whom so He pleaseth. Thew worldly rejoice in the life of this world: but the life of this world is but little comfort compared to the hereafter.''
This corroborates, that for believers true riches are given by strict measure with the accompanying endowment of the Holy Spirit.
Wealth acquired, therefore, through unjust means or injustice would have trampled upon the fundamental human rights of access of others by depleting their resources for the dubious man to live in affluence.
The almighty God, therefore, declared in the Holy Bible, Isaiah 59: 1-2, that He is all caring, saving, hearing, and seeing, and ready to answer people's requests, most especially the believers.
The Holy Quran 2: 45 refers, ''Nay seek Allah's help with patient perseverance and prayer: It is indeed hard except to those who are humble.''
Seek, therefore, for true riches through the respect for the dignity of labor and legitimate earning as a believer to be endowed by the almighty Allah with spiritual richness and tranquility of the mind, with all promises of God guaranteeing people's safety and the security of lives and properties.
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Understanding Repression
- By solomon2day
- On 04/10/2021
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The bad harvest of 1792 in England, the grave discontent among the people, the high rate of unemployment, the prohibitive prices of food items, repression by the government among numerous other factors had adverse effects on its socio-economic and political development.
In Nigeria in 2021, insecurity, hunger, poverty, the high unemployment rate, violent crimes, incompetence, misplaced priorities, mediocrity, the beautification of lies and falsehood, the condemnable activities of state actors and their agents have visible prints in every part of the country for the people to see.
Indeed, the insinuation is that leadership at all levels has derailed.
The ignoble roles played by the likes of John Castle, Oliver, and George Edwards, all provocative agents of the government and spies, have further dented the image of the leadership and also eroded its credibility.
The actions of Pitt in the House of Commons and Grenville in the Lords resulted in the passage into law of the Seditious Meetings Bill and the Treasonable Practices Bill, re-echoed in both chambers of the National Assembly.
Unprovoked attacks by the government, with the aid of armed force upon unarmed people exercising their constitutional rights to meet together to make in a peaceful and dignified manner, rational demands in the name of justice, is already a policy of the government.
Nigeria has its own version of the ''waterloo'' massacre.
Restrictive laws have only succeeded in promoting disaffection and discontent in different parts of the country and the destination now is a departure from all principles of the constitution.
Those-in-Charge in the mold of Pitt, Eldon, Castle, and Sidmouth understand the language of repression best, while the disillusioned and impoverished citizenry watches helplessly.
However, the consolation for the people lies in the fact that the time is too short for the functionality of the various distractions lined up by the leadership to cover up its failures.
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Defective Agents of Socialization Threats to the Youth-Prof.Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 01/10/2021
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The overbearing influence of dysfunctional agents of socialization including defective parental upbringing have all combined to make the youth tobe threats to Nigeria’s future.
This assertion was made on Friday by the Founder, Spiritual Head and Grand Imam of Shfaudeen-in-Islam Worldwide, Prof. Sabitu Olagoke in his message to the nation on the occasion of the 61st independence anniversary of Nigeria.
‘’Today’s youth suffers from immature parental care and dysfunctional agents of socialization. The youth in Nigeria are at the receiving end of all activities emanating from Religion, Culture, Education, Politics and Society. Unfortunately, when each of these agents are poorly managed the effect on the youth may be a temporary or permanent damage to to their growth and development as a costly prize for the nation’s future.Thuggery,truancy, examination malpractice, hawking, unwanted pregnancy, rape, vandalism, pedophilia and other antisocial behaviors result from these deficiencies.Products of very faulty backgrounds are enmeshed in entertainment,poor reading culture, and mindset to loot the national and state treasuries at any given opportunity. They lack moral candor for leadership with wrong value orientation that is bad for leadership,’’ Prof. Olagoke concluded.
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New Jersey Man Extradited to United States to Face Charges for Wire Fraud and International Money Laundering
- By solomon2day
- On 01/10/2021
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Press Release
TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey man has been arrested for charging unauthorized credit card transactions for music lessons that were not provided to students, and laundering these funds outside of the United States, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
Michael Lawson, 49, was indicted in 2013 on six counts of wire fraud and six counts of international money laundering. Lawson was extradited from the Czech Republic, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bongiovanni in Trenton federal court, and was released.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Lawson was the owner of several internet-based companies that matched art and music teachers with students in need of lessons throughout the United States. The students entered into contracts with Lawson’s companies and agreed to pay for lessons via online credit card transactions. Beginning in November 2008, Lawson started renewing students’ contracts for music lessons without the students’ knowledge and consent and started charging the students’ credit cards for the lessons that they had not requested. Lawson then directed the funds to be transferred internationally to accounts that he controlled abroad.
The counts of wire fraud are punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense, whichever is greatest. The counts of money laundering are punishable by a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $500,000, or twice the amount involved in the offense, whichever is greater.
Acting U.S. Attorney Honig credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge George M. Crouch Jr. in Newark, with the investigation leading to the charges. She also thanked the U.S. Marshals Service; the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic; the Czech Police Presidium; INTERPOL; the office of FBI Legat Prague; the office of FBI Legat "The Hague;" and FBI-New York JFK Airport Resident Agency, for their assistance. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided substantial assistance in securing Lawson’s arrest and extradition from the Czech Republic.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Suggs in Trenton.
The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Tolerance by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke
- By solomon2day
- On 29/09/2021
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The significance of tolerance among the people of the world is relevant when one considers diversity, most especially in the area of opinion molding about people.
Tolerance, therefore, needs to be taught as part of the socialization process in the search for peace and unity to be realized to a sustainable level of human social interactions, otherwise, the agents of socialization themselves may not even know peace, not t talk of having the ability to regulate and control intolerance for one another.
For example, on the homefront, the discriminative attitude in child-rearing by parents; may influence siblings to become intolerant of one another.
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The absence of tolerance has resulted in the death of one of the parties in the homefront due to domestic violence.
Furthermore, the absence of tolerance has led to the loss of lives and the destruction of properties during religious crises.
For the realization of tolerance in religious circles, the internalization of the teachings from the scriptures is crucial to achieving peace, unity, and development.
In the final analysis, tolerance is essential to promote a safe and secured environment as an enabling instrument for the survival of the dynamics of all agents of socialization-the school, church, mosque, government, home, associations, peer groups among several others.
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Plea for Debt Forgiveness Questionable and Laughable-Ex-Officio TUC
- By solomon2day
- On 27/09/2021
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The plea for debt forgiveness by the leadership in Nigeria at the recently concluded 76TH United Nations General Assembly has been described has questionable and laughable.
These views were expressed by an Ex-Officio of the Oyo state council of the Trade Union Congress(TUC) who is also a former Chairman of the union in the state,Comrade Andrew Emelieze.
‘’How can a country that is yet to settle debts of over 33 Trillion Naira and which is still planning to borrow ask for debt forgiveness ? How has the unsettled loans been spent ? How shall the loans that shall be borrowed be spent ? The present administration has less than two years to stay in office. The request by Nigeria is questionable and laughable.This is tantamount to taking the international creditors for granted’’, Comrade Emelize concluded.
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