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Texas Man and Woman Indicted for Money Laundering for Online Fraud Schemes

on September 27, 2022

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Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts Defendants allegedly laundered proceeds of Ponzi-style investment fraud schemes based in Nigeria and romance scams BOSTON – A Texas man and woman were indicted today by a federal grand jury for allegedly operating an unlicensed money transmitting business to launder the proceeds of online investment fraud and romance fraud schemes. Charles Ochi, 27, of Grand Prairie, Texas, and Vanessa Okocha, 24, of Houston, Texas were indicted on one count each of money laundering conspiracy, one count of conspiracy to conduct an unlicensed money transmitting business and one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Ochi will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date. Okocha remains at large. According to the charging documents, beginning in or around 2016, Ochi and Okocha conspired with others to launder and transmit proceeds of Ponzi-style investment fraud schemes based in Nigeria and of romance sca

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Capitol rioter, a ‘one man wrecking ball,’ gets 7-year term

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Kenyan Lawyer In ICC Case Linked To New President Found Dead

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Kremlin Announces Vote, Paves Way To Annex Part Of Ukraine

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Less Than A Third Of LAPD Mental Health Calls Are Being Handled By Mental Health Professionals

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‘Fighting Fit’: Trial To Show Oath Keepers’ Road To Jan. 6

on September 24, 2022

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After Days Focused On Ukraine, Other Concerns Emerge At UN

on September 23, 2022

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NY Probe Found Potential Crimes. Why Isn’t Trump In Cuffs?

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USC Scandals Take Center Stage At LA Mayoral Debate

on September 22, 2022

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Millennials, Assembled: At UN, Younger Leaders Rise

on September 22, 2022

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Trump’s Legal Woes Mount Without Protection Of Presidency

on September 22, 2022

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The Scourge Of Sexual Violence In West Africa, Unveiled

on September 21, 2022

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Noncommunicable Diseases Now ‘Top Killers Globally’ – UN Health Agency Report

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How L.A.’s Pot Czar Is Bringing Order To The Wild West Of Weed

BY SARAH DAVIDSON LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE Ask pretty much anyone in L.A.’s cannabis industry how the process of turning the former black market green is going, and they’ll admit it’s chaos. Applications for temporary licenses to sell marijuana run $9,000 to $12,000, and the city bureaucracy is painfully slow-moving. A little over two years into legalization, L.A. has issued only 179 temporary licenses to grandfathered-in medical cannabis retailers. The city expects to begin its third phase of licensing for newcomers this spring, though an exact time line is still TBD. As a result, the illicit market is flourishing, and the LAPD has started to crack down on an estimated 2,000 illegal weed shops. By the end of last year, legal weed in California had brought in $471 million in tax revenue—far less than Gov. Jerry Brown’s $630 million prediction. All of this is to say, the arrival of legal weed to the country’s largest cannabis market has been nothing short of disappointing. But you

USC Scandals Take Center Stage At LA Mayoral Debate

BY SULLIVAN MARLEY , REAGAN SMITH AND JOSH FLOWERS LOS ANGELES (USC ANNENBERG MEDIA) -- Candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso clashed over each others’ involvements with the university, as well as homelessness, crime and other issues. Los Angeles mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso addressed their ties to USC and their roles in various university scandals in a debate Wednesday at the Skirball Cultural Center. Following the L.A. County Sheriff debate, Caruso and Bass took the stage to present their positions on pressing issues like homelessness and safety in the community. Moderators Gabriela Teissier, Elex Michaelson and Erika D. Smith directed the debate, with some audience members having the opportunity to share questions and concerns. Initially, the debate was supposed to take place at USC, but the university announced in August that, “accommodating the timing and logistics required to host the requested two back-to-back debates simply was not possible.” USC student Jam

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Indicted Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana Loses Seat in House Runoff Election The investigation of Jefferson began in 2005 when Jefferson was videotaped by the FBI receiving cash in leather briefcases in Virginia for a deal in Ghana that he wanted a financial stake in. The money was to be split with the Nigerian Vice President to insure that their contracts would go forward. READ MORE>>> Nigeria opposition doubts Yar'Adua's electoral reform Lagos, Nigeria - Angered by the recent praises heaped on the embattled Nigeria's electoral boss Maurice Iwu by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the country's opposition has expressed doubts that the government is serious about its much touted electoral reform. READ MORE>>> Jailed: The prayer group fraudster who swindled worshipers out of tens of thousands of pounds A pensioner who used 'prayer sessions' to help defraud a church minister and a worshipper out of tens of thousands of p

Nigeria @ The 2012 London Olympic Games

"Our inability to win any medal so far is as disappointing for my team and myself and for all Nigerians everywhere," ...................Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, Minister of Sports A team that left Nigeria three weeks ago with hopes of stellar performances and becoming conducts during the London Olympic Games, ended up with the worst records and all sorts of moral outrages since the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games' sex scandals. Fifty-five athletes in eight sports, twelve coaches, twenty-nine administrative officials and nine medical personnel had been delegated for the 2012 London Olympic games with athletics having the highest number of overall staff of 29 athletes, 14 coaches and 2 administrative staff; basketball with 12 players, 2 coaches, and 2 officials; boxing with three boxers, two coaches and two officials; canoeing with one athlete, a coach and two administrative staff; table tennis with four athletes, two coaches, and two officials; taekwondo with two athletes,

Live Updates: U.N. General Assembly

President Joe Biden address the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly : European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he is calling an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers and will start proposing new sanctions to respond to Russia’s latest “unacceptable” threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine and upcoming referendums for Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine to become part of Russia. He told a news conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly that he expected the meeting Wednesday night to also discuss how to continue providing military support to Ukraine and putting pressure on Russia. Borrell said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine is a danger to the world and an attempt to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters. But, he said, “he has failed, he will fail again.” He

Trump’s Legal Woes Mount Without Protection Of Presidency

Pages from a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruling that lifts a judge's hold on the Justice Department's ability to use classified documents seized by the FBI at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, are photographed Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The ruling clears the way for the department to immediately resume its use of the documents in its investigation.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick) BY ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Stark repudiation by federal judges he appointed. Far-reaching fraud allegations by New York’s attorney general. It’s been a week of widening legal troubles for Donald Trump, laying bare the challenges piling up as the former president operates without the protections afforded by the White House. The bravado that served him well in the political arena is less handy in a legal realm dominated by verifiable evidence, where judges this week have looked askance at his claims and where a fraud investigation that took root when Trump was still president burst

DR Congo President Denounces ‘Aggression’ By Rwanda, Calls On UN To Support African-led Mediation

President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session. Image: Cia Pak/UN The major challenges facing humanity “complex and interlocking,” Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said on Tuesday evening, while he also noted that the DRC had faced decades of 'agression' at the hands of a neighbouring country. “Peace and security for all, controlling climate change, relaunching the global economy post-COVID economic recovery; combatting poverty and promoting collective well-being” are today’s most pressing challenges, he said. Overcoming them will require working in greater concert, with more cooperation and solidarity between States and nations, the DRC leader said in his adress to the opening of the UN General Assembly's annual high-level debate. Terrorism Stressing that international peace and security remai

Africa Is doing Its Part But Must Do More, Says Rwandan President Kagame

UNITED NATIONS President Paul Kagame of Rwanda addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session. Image: Cia Pak/UN Referring to a world in a state of turbulence, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday called for multilateral cooperation and efforts to address intersecting crises, including climate change, food price inflation, conflict and migration. The Secretary-General’s landmark report Our Common Agenda has only grown in value since it was launched one year ago. But he cautioned that the perception that the international system is no longer up to the task has only deepened. International cooperation can address challenges Despite shortcomings, he flagged that global health was an example that demonstrated how international cooperation can successfully address “the issues that matter to all of us.” In his address to the annual high-level debate in the UN General Assembly, Mr. Kagame paid tribute to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and

NY Probe Found Potential Crimes. Why Isn’t Trump In Cuffs?

FILE - Donald Trump, right, sits with his children, from left, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Trump International Hotel on July 23, 2014, in Washington. New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) BY MICHAEL R. SISAK AND BERNARD CONDON NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general says her three-year investigation of former President Donald Trump uncovered potential crimes in the way he ran his real estate empire, including allegations of bank and insurance fraud. So why isn’t Trump being prosecuted? Attorney General Letitia James didn’t seek to slap handcuffs on the Republican this week, as some of his critics hoped. Instead, she announced a civil lawsuit seeking $250 million and his permanent banishment fro

Trump pal Thomas Barrack accused of being United Arab Emirates agent and trying to influence U.S. policy for ‘power and money’

Tom Barack BY JOHN ANNESE NEW YORK (NY DAILY NEWS) -- After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, his mega-rich pal Tom Barrack started formulating a plan with officials at the United Arab Emirates on how to influence U.S. policy — and was asked to provide information about who’d be tapped for crucial cabinet positions, federal prosecutors allege. “The defendants saw an opportunity, an opportunity to use Barrack’s unique access to Donald Trump to gain power and money for themselves,” Assistant U.S Attorney Hiral Mehta said Wednesday, in his opening argument at Barrack’s Brooklyn Federal Court trial. Barrack, 75, and his assistant, Michael Grimes, 29, are accused of working on behalf of UAE agent Rashid Al-Malik Alshahhi, to further the country’s interests from 2016 to 2018, all while never registering with the U.S. government as a foreign agent. When the FBI questioned Barrack in 2019 about whether Alshahhi requested he take action on behalf of the UAE, “he lied to them, again and again

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: BIAFRA: Relative Discourses

I signed up because I had little experience in Africa, after having served in the United Nations forces in Congo. Also upset about what happened in Biafra and Czechoslovakia, I did not want to stand next to and just watch.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: JULIUS KPADUWA

The problems that confront Imo State are really not unique. It is the same problem that confronts almost every state in Nigeria, and it's one of economic development. The primary thing or my clear vision for the people of Imo State will be getting all the able-bodied men and women back to work, so that we can begin to have the quality of life that has so far eluded the people of Imo State.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Where We Met

But seeing a Nigeria headline on my screen it then occurred to him I must either be a Nigerian or perhaps a curious minded fellow who is reading to find out about the notorious Boko Haram, if they have captured more of their victims, or if there's an ongoing battle between the insurgents and the nation's security forces. Elevating my head up and starring at each other, I told him I was Igbo

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Otokoto Saga Interview

Now, the main question is about eleven year old Ikechukwu Anthony Okonkwo whose head was found dripping with blood with the convicted murderer Innocent Ekeanyanwu on a police tip-off inside a traveling commercial bus at Eziama in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE AMBROSE EHIRIM-CHIKA UNIGWE INTERVIEW

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: THE SYLVESTER MENSAH STORY

The idea of writing a book had always engaged my thoughts based on reflections and the desire to share my experiences. The motivation was however triggered after reading the book of a gentleman l consider the busiest in Ghana, H. E. John Dramani Mahama

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: DR. APOLLOS NWAUWA

Contrary to what many think, the Igbo Diaspora is not really a homogenous, coherent group. Like other ethnic nationalities in the USA, the Igbo Diaspora consists of peoples from all walks of life separated by everything and only united by the fact that they are all Igbo. Serious social class disparity exists between them; therefore, presenting a united front in influencing or engineering actions at home continues to be a challenge.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: OZO'S KENI SAINT GEORGE

It was indeed a very boisterous, purpose driven, well-to-do Royal family. I come from a lineage of Royals and a well groomed family unit. My Father, Chief George Ozuloke, was a Court Judge for all of 18 years. He was both a Christian and Animist. He had 7 wives of which my mother was the first. I went to St. Martins Primary School and later to a wonderful School – Abbot Secondary Grammar School in Ihiala, my town. I even did a stint in Ihiala Seminary trying to be a Catholic Priest

Sovereign National Conference: A Symposium

A sovereign nation is born when, out of civilization, any such populations of human assemblage pledge loyalty and confide their trust to a governing body which they elect to oversee to their security, welfare and yes, to their happiness. The ensuing system of governance thrives and becomes sustainable by the wishes of the people whose interests it caters for.

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