2021 may be year of famine
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By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR, CON
PRIOR to colonisation, hunger and famine were alien to most African countries as there was widely-acknowledged food sustenance.
Each household practised one form of farming or the other and consequently, there was enough to feed the family while the excess was exchanged by barter through some other forms of payment. This boom in food production had the effect of boosting the economy and therefore, the concept of begging for alms was totalling unheard of. There was no poverty, famine, or the incidence of begging in Africa. Lord Macaulay, in his address to the British Parliament on February 2, 1835, aptly remarked thus:
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Police arraign man, 24, over alleged theft of N240,000
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The Police in Ogun State on Tuesday arraigned a 24-year-old man, Ndubuisi Emeka, before an Ota Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly stealing N240,000 belonging to his friend.
Emeka, who lives at No. 21 Ifelodun Street, Iyana-Iyesi, Ota, is facing a charge of theft.
The Prosecutor, Insp Emmanuel Adaraloye, told the court that the defendant allegedly committed the offence between August and October at Ajisafe Close, Oko Baba Ajeri, Ota in Ogun.
Adaraloye said that the defendant, who is friend of the complainant, Mohammed Abdulqudus, stole N240,000 from his Guaranty Trust Bank Account.
Two men guilty of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants found in lorry
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Two men were on Monday found guilty of manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who died in the back of a lorry in Essex, England in October 2019.
Gheorghe Nica, 43, from Essex, and the lorry driver, Eamonn Harrison, 23, from Northern Ireland, were found guilty for the deaths of the victims.
During the trial in London, the court heard the victims were discovered in the container after it was parked in an industrial estate in Essex.
It had been taken by road from Dunkirk in France to Zeebrugge in Belgium, from where it was put on a Britain-bound ferry.
Dana Air reacts to allegation of discrimination against ’persons with disabilities’
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By Lawani Mikairu
A person with disability, Dr Chike Okogwu, has accused Dana Air of discrimination stating the airline barred him from boarding with a claim that ”a new policy forbids carrying” passengers ”with wheelchair”.
In a thread of tweet on Monday, Okogwu, complaining of the alleged unfair treatment said; ”This is indeed the height of discrimination against persons with Disabilities in Nigeria.
”I booked a 7:20PM flight from Abj-Lag which was reschdld to 9.05PM. I got my boarding pass only for DanaAir to say a new policy forbids carrying us with wheelchair.