Popular evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke dies

Popular evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke, is dead.

His death was announced in a statement signed by his wife, Anni Bonnke.

The statement was shared on Evangelist Bonnke’s verified Facebook page on Saturday. In the statement, Anni said, “Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ. It is with sorrow that the Bonnke Family would like to announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. 

“He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on December 7, 2019. For the past 60 years, he has preached the glorious Gospel of Jesus throughout the entire world. We want to thank you on behalf of him and our family, for your kind love and unwavering support, which enabled him to preach the matchless message of salvation to countless people. He preached Jesus.”

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ORJI UZOR KALU DIDN’T STEAL ANYTHING FROM ABIA STATE, HE JUST STOLE ABIA STATE.

Orji Uzo Kalu

..and we will be happy to see others join him there.

If on whatever basis you defend any past or present Governor of Southeast extraction indicted and found guilty of looting/ embezzlement or misappropriation of public funds, you are worse than the notorious Anini and deserve to "be stoned to death."

I have read from a lot of people attaching tribal sentiments to Orji Uzor Kalu’s slam, with many brewing this ironical tribal sentiment, that his conviction is linked to his 2023 Presidential ambition or his ability to financially sponsor a candidate to the contest, and I felt a rude shock down my spine.

(Anyway, no Igbo man will be president come 2023) let’s forget it!

Like seriously? You don’t even care if the monies are looted from you? All you care about is using same monies to fund a puppet and a stool-pigeon to power, who they will still turn around to control and manipulate?

Joshua Dariyr, is from the North, he is a former Governor and APC senator as at the time, but he is in Prison today. Is this also war against Igbos?

Jolly Nyame, is from the North and a former Governor. He was an APC senator, but he was convicted too. Is this also a witch-hunt against the Igbos?

Orji Uzor Kalu’s case was established under PDP government and he was tried severally before APC took over at the centre and he is APC member as at today. Let us drop this tribal sentiments when all these politicians are facing the wrath of their own creation. THEIR EVIL CREATION!

How can you defend someone who doesn’t and will never defend you?

See, I don’t care if Hausa looters are tried or not; I don’t care if Yoruba looters are tried or not; whether they are tried, convicted or not, mental and physical poverty will still ooz from their region.

I am concerned about the greed, wickedness, selfishness and efulefuism of our Igbo political leaders. When they look into our faces, what do they see? Do they see a happy people?

A selfless leader will not marginalise his own people when the Northerners are marginalizing his region. Build your people, build your region with what you have, and we can even become better than those who claims to be Nigerian Monarchs.

There is no insurgency in the Southeastern Nigeria, the annual SECURITY VOTE of each state of the South-East is enough to build:

1. A standard Seaport in Southeast
2. An international Market in Southeast
3. The Second Niger Bridge
4. One good specialist hospital each state
5. Good road network linking all the Southeast states
6. Enhance agriculture in Southeast
7. Most importantly, human capital development.

THESE ARE THE SECURITY VOTES OF 4 SOUTHEASTERN STATES ANNUALLY.

IMO STATE: N333.333M Monthly (N4B Annually)

ENUGU STATE: N600M Monthly (N7.2B Annually)

ANAMBRA STATE: N850M Monthly (N10B Annually)[1]

ABIA STATE: N700M Monthly (N8.4B Annually)

EBONYI STATE: N291,666. (3.5B Annually)

TOTAL N129.1 billion each term. For 20years since 1999, this is enough to develop a region.

Security vote in Nigeria is a monthly allowance that is allocated to the 36 states within the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the sole purpose of funding security services (Not Salaries) within such states and the governors are advised to use their discretion in ways and how to spend the funds. It is not accounted for by them.

They steal these monies and still pocket 1/3 of our monthly allocations from federal, Including oil derivations and we are supposed to clap for them and shout marginalization for them when they are tried and convicted?

You that cannot feed 3 square meal daily is defending them? Your Mumu is factory fitted.

Stand with Igbo businessmen, defend them and leave these politicians to face their karma with the people they sold us to.


#LetsMakeAbiaStateAbetterPlace.🙏
#LetsMakeSoutEastAhomeForUsAll🙏

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Orji Uzor Kalu sentenced to 12 years jail over N7.2bn fraud

Orji Uzo Kalu

Former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu was on Thursday found guilty of N7.2 billion fraud by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by the presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed Idris.

Kalu’s company, Slok Nigeria Limited, he used to defraud Abia State was forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Also, his aide, Jones Ude who was the Director Of Finance in the Abia State House was sentenced to a five-year jail term.

The presiding Judge, Idris described money laundering offence as a crime against humanity.

Details later…

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North Korea fires test missile into Japanese airspace

 

A North Korean short-range missile was fired into Japanese airspace during a weapons test early Tuesday morning, representing the latest shot across the bow by Pyongyang against Washington and its allies in the Pacific.

The missile shot that penetrated Japanese airspace was reportedly one of three fired from the peninsula, according to officials in Tokyo and Seoul. While one of the missiles flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, it remains unclear whether the other test shots targeted the same area.

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The Pentagon confirmed Monday night U.S. time that officials from the North American Aerospace Defense Command detected a single missile shot fired from inside North Korea.

That test shot, defense officials noted, did pass through Japanese airspace before crash-landing into the Pacific Ocean. Japanese military forces stationed in and around Hokkaido were placed on high alert, in conjunction with U.S. missile defense systems based at Yokota air base.

 

Command officials “determined the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America,” but that they were coordinating closely with their counterparts at U.S. Pacific and Strategic Commands to assess any possible threat to American allies in the region.

“We’ll take utmost efforts to protect the public,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a statement shortly after the test shots crash landed.

“This reckless act of launching a missile that flies over our country is an unprecedented, serious and important threat,” he said.

 

The last missile launch to violate Japanese airspace took place in 2009.

The missile launch is only the latest instance of North Korea’s continued use of using its nuclear and missile programs for saber rattling, this one during the massive “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” military drills between American and South Korean forces, scheduled for Aug. 21-31.

The exercise is one of the largest joint military drills carried out on the peninsula, involving a number of the 28,000 U.S. troops based near the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, as well as their counterparts in the South Korean military.

The U.S. and South Korea pressed ahead with the military drills despite both claims by the North that the exercises are a dress rehearsal or cover for an invasion and more gentle suggestions by China that canceling or delaying them might serve as a good-faith gesture and prod the North into broader negotiations on its nuclear and missile programs.

Since command officials opted to go forward with the exercises, the North Korean regime has unveiled images of what are purportedly prototype designs for two new missile systems and threatened new rounds of nuclear weapons tests.

Earlier this month, tensions between the North and the U.S. reached a fever pitch after President Trump’s bellicose threats to rain “fire and fury” on Pyongyang, should it threaten American interests in the region. In response, Pyongyang threatened to fire long-range missiles at U.S military installations on the island of Guam.

Earlier Monday, officials at the United Nations released a letter from North Korea’s U.N. ambassador asking that the Security Council schedule an urgent discussion about the military exercises, which are adding “fuel to open fire.”

The U.S. is staging a “provocative and aggressive joint military exercise at this critical moment of the Korean peninsula, where the situation is just like a time bomb” that nobody is sure “when to blow up,” Ja Song Nam wrote in a letter Friday to the Egyptian delegation.

Egypt currently holds the rotating Security Council presidency and has the power to schedule debates.

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Jailed German nurse may have killed 86 patients – Officials

 

A German nurse serving a life sentence for murdering two of his patients is believed to have killed at least 86 people entrusted to his care, officials said, on Monday, in what they described as an imagination-defying series of crimes.

The nurse, identified as Niels Hoegel, was sentenced to life in prison in February 2015, after he confessed and a court in the northern town of Oldenburg found him guilty of administering overdoses of heart medication to some patients in an intensive care ward in Delmenhorst. He was convicted of two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and causing bodily harm to patients and is serving his sentence.

During his trial, the former nurse had also confessed to intentionally inducing cardiac crises in 90 of his patients, 30 of whom he said had died. That prompted officials to launch an investigation into the deaths of some 130 of Hoegel’s former patients. The results were presented Monday in Oldenburg.

At least 84 of the convicted killer’s former patients were found to have died after suffering from injections of five different forms of medication, Johan Kuehme, chief of police in Oldenburg, told reporters.

Authorities are waiting for the results of another 41 toxicology reports, the results of which could drive the number of confirmed deaths even higher, he said.

“The realisation of what we were able to learn is horrifying,” Mr Kuehme told reporters. “It defies any scope of the imagination.”

Hoegel, now 40, told the court at the time that he had enjoyed trying to revive the patients. But his efforts did not always succeed, leaving some to become his victims.

The special commission, launched in October 2014, after Hoegel’s confession, combed through evidence that included more than 500 patient files. It based its conclusions in part on toxicology tests on the remains of 134 possible victims, who were exhumed to see if they contained traces of the chemicals the nurse had confessed to using.

It found that Hoegel had administered lethal injections to patients at a hospital in Oldenburg, where he worked from 1999 to 2001.

The investigation also found that although the high number of patients dying under Hoegel’s care was noticed by other staff members in Oldenburg, no action was taken to understand why.

As suspicions began to swirl around the nurse, he was later transferred from a ward to a position in an anesthesiology unit, according to the public broadcaster NDR.

There, a doctor who worked with him at the time told Hoegel that his services were no longer wanted, because he was always forcing himself into the spotlight when trying to revive a patient, the broadcaster reported.

Nevertheless, after the nurse quit his job in Oldenburg, he was issued a recommendation that bore no indication of any concerns about his ability to carry out his duties, the broadcaster said.

In December 2002, Hoegel then took up a new job as a nurse at the hospital in Delmenhorst.

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Meningitis outbreak in Nigeria kills more than 300

A new strain of meningitis has emerged, and there are not enough vaccines against it, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control warned.

A meningitis outbreak has killed more than 300 people in Nigeria, the country's Center for Disease Control said.
The agency reported a wide outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis across 15 states.

A new strain of the disease called "stereotype C" has emerged, and last week the Center for Disease Control warned that there were not enough vaccines against it.
"There is a vaccine available," Chief Executive Chikwe Ihekweazu said, "but it is not commercially available for the stereotype involved in this specific outbreak, and we have to make application to the World Health Organization for the vaccines."
However, in a press release on April 1st, Health Minister, Professor Isaac Adewole, said that up to 1.3 million vaccines have now been acquired.
"We have secured 500,000 doses of the meningococcal vaccines from WHO which will be used in Zamfara and Katsina states," Prof. Adewole said. "While additional 800,000 units from the British government."

Nearly 2,000 suspected cases have been recorded and 109 have been treated since the outbreak began in February. 

An emergency response team has been sent to the five states in the northwest of the country.

As one of the 26 countries on the African "meningitis belt," Nigeria records some of the highest incidences of the disease on the continent.

The outbreaks peak in the dry season in certain states due to the low humidity and dusty conditions and usually end as the rainy season approaches, Ihekweazu added.

"Meningitis is a tough disease, especially during this period, and it is associated with overcrowding, understanding the living conditions in the country, people must keep their building ventilated," he said.

According to the WHO, even when the disease is diagnosed early and adequate treatment begins, 5% to 10% of patients die, typically within 24 to 48 hours of the onset of symptoms.

Some common symptoms are stiff neck, high fever, sensitivity to light, confusion, headaches and vomiting. 

 

 

 

Local and international organizations are working together to manage the epidemic. "We believe that our concerted efforts will bring this outbreak under control, as we also work towards preventing outbreaks of this scale in the future," the Center for Disease Control stated.

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Japanese scientists want to be first to drill into the Earth's mantle

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    Scientists say they still need to do further research before drilling can begin
    But they're hopeful they can begin drilling by 2030

Humans have been to the Moon and explored almost every corner of the planet -- but there's one place they have never been.
A group of Japanese scientists said they plan to be the first group to successfully drill into the Earth's mantle, the planet's vast molten-rock interior, which lies just beneath the outer crust.

Researchers at Japan's Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) say they are hoping to discover more about how our planet was formed and what the mantle is composed of. Japanese media first reported on the project earlier this week.
The mantle makes up more than 80% of the entire Earth's mass, lying six miles (10 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.

A piece of peridotite, the rock believed to make up Earth's mantle.

"We don't know the exact (composition) of the mantle yet. We have only seen some mantle materials -- the rock is very beautiful, it's kind of a yellowish green," researcher Natsue Abe, who works for JAMSTEC, said.
The Japanese government, which is helping fund the expedition, hopes the research could help discover ways to better predict earthquakes, Abe said.
"In Japan we have some volcanoes, earthquakes and such kind of natural hazards. People (want to create) some monitoring or analysis equipment but we don't know ... what kind of factor to use," Abe said.
"So we need to know the natural system more clearly or precisely ... we have to observe the earth more precisely."

Journey to the mantle 

Three drilling sites are currently under consideration, Abe said, all of them in the Pacific Ocean.
"One is off Hawaii -- we're going to survey there -- another one is off Costa Rica, (and) the last one is off Mexico," she said.
To access the mantle, JAMSTEC wants to use one of the most advanced drilling vessels currently available, the Chikyu.
"It's the biggest drilling ship of our science area, so the drilling capability is three times longer, or deeper, than the previous (vessels)," Abe said.
Japan's deep-sea drilling vessel, Chikyu, anchored at a pier in September 2013. 

Japan's deep-sea drilling vessel, Chikyu, anchored at a pier in September 2013.

The researcher said the Chikyu's drill will drop down through almost 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ocean before reaching the ocean floor.
It will then bore through 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) of the sea floor, or the planet's crust, before it reaches the mantle.
"We already drilled and have taken some samples from the ocean floor but (only) from the top," Abe said. "(We want) to dig from the ocean floor to the deep pristine mantle."
Drilling will start by 2030 at the latest, according to Abe. 

Four objectives 

Their project has four primary objectives, only the first of which is to access the planet's mantle by drilling through the sea floor.
"The second aim is we want to investigate the boundary between the oceanic crust and the mantle," Abe said. "The third one is we want to know how the oceanic crust formed." 

The final objective is to further examine how deep microbial life exists inside the planet. "(What is) the limit of the life inside the Earth?" Abe said.
Before any drilling can begin, there's more research that needs to be done to build the right technology, Abe said, but she was convinced the project was "feasible."
"If we dig into the mantle we will know the whole Earth history, that's our motivation to search," she said.

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