A 24-year-old photojournalist, Yinka Badmus, who works with Talk Village International, is currently cooling off at Ikoyi Prisons because of his hairstyle.
He was reportedly arrested by policemen attached to the Lagos State Anti-Cultism unit for wearing dreadlocks, which the officers allegedly said made him look like a cultist.

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Kai-Fu Lee, the author of bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, told Dailymail the world of employments was facing a crisis ‘akin to that faced by farmers during the industrial revolution.’

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Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi has won the long-awaited presidential poll in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the electoral commission said Thursday, paving the way for the country’s first handover of power in 18 years.
“Having gained… 38.57 percent of the vote, Felix Tshisekedi is provisionally declared the elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo,” said Corneille Nangaa, the head of the Independent National Election Commission (CENI).
Shouts of joy erupted at the commission’s offices as the historic results were announced.
The DRC has been in the grip of a two-year-old crisis over the succession of President Joseph Kabila, who said last year he would step down after nearly two decades in power.
The candidate he hand-picked to succeed him, loyalist, former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, came third in the poll.
The other main opposition candidate, former oil executive Martin Fayulu — who was tipped as favourite in the few pre-election opinion polls — came second, official results showed.
According to the initial timetable set out by the CENI, the definitive results are due on January 15 with the swearing-in of the new president three days later.
The result could still be appealed in the Constitutional Court.​

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A 29-year-old National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, Odedele Feranmi, was yesterday arraigned by Osun State Police Command before an Osogbo magistrate court for alleged reckless driving and killing.
The accused was alleged to have driven in a reckless manner and caused the death of a 16-year-old girl, Olasunkanmi Pelumi, on January 4. He was said to have killed the deceased in front of government office, Gbongan road, Osogbo, while coming from Ibadan to resume at his Primary Place of Assignment in Osogbo. The Police prosecutor, Mr. Oladoye Joshua, said the accused killed the deceased with his Honda car with number plates Lagos MUN 187 CU around 11.30am. He said the alleged offence contravened the provision of section81 (1) Cap 115, Vol 6, Laws of Osun State, 2003. Counsel to the accused, Mr. Bola Abimbola-Ige, urged the court to grant his client bail on liberal terms, promising that he would not jump bail. He said the accused is still presumed to be innocent in accordance with Section 36(5) of the 1999 Constitution, and the provision of Section 118(2) of the Criminal Procedure Law of Osun State. He urged the court to exercise its discretional power in favour of the accused by releasing him on bail, pending his trial. The accused told the court that he was expected to resume at his place of primary assignment, PPA, on Monday January 7, in Osogbo. He said he was coming from Ibadan where he lives, when the incident happened. Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, who was reluctant in granting the accused bail, said: “The accused person is reluctantly granted bail in the sum ofN500,000 with two sureties in like sum. Magistrate Ayilara said the sureties must be resident in the state and the car of the accused be moved to the court so that he can stand trial. He said the father of the accused should drop three passport photographs and sign undertaking and adjourned the matter to January 30 for mention.

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Police in Gomba District have arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly abusing President Museveni.

Police identified the suspect as Joseph Kasumba, a resident of Kanoni Town Council and driver of a pickup truck that transports agricultural produce to the different markets in the area.

Kasumba allegedly abused the President on January 1 as he ( Museveni) was travelling from St. John’s Cathedral, Kasaka where he had attended New Year’s church service.

“When his [Museveni’s] convoy reached Kanoni Town, Special Forces Command soldiers reportedly ordered one of the drivers to move his vehicle from the road to allow the presidential motorcade pass. This is when a group of youth allegedly led by Kasumba started exchanging words with the soldiers and abused President Museveni, calling him all sorts of names including Bosco. They also blamed him of constructing narrow roads,” a police source who did not want to be named because he’s not authorized to speak to the media said on Thursday.

Gomba District police Commander, Mr Robert Kuzaara said Kasumba is in their custody at Kanoni Police Station pending investigations.

He said the suspect is likely to be charged with alleged alarming, annoying and ridiculing the person of the president contrary to the Penal Code Act.

Related cases

Kasumba is not the first person to get in trouble for allegedly attacking the President.

Makerere University research fellow, Dr Stella Nyanzi also spent the festive season in jail over abusing President Museveni and his deceased mother on September 16 on her Facebook page.

In October last year, one Suzan Namata was arrested after taking a video threatening to hit President Museveni with her genitals if he didn’t release Kyadondo east MP, Robert Kyagulanyi from prison.

In the same month, detectives also arrested Moses Nsubuga popularly known as Viboyo for singing a song in which he allegedly used obscene words to refer to government leaders including President Museveni and Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga.

Last July, Mr Hope Mulangira Kaweesa, a Democratic Party supporter, was also arrested on similar charges after he allegedly circulated an audio threatening to harm President Museveni.

The name ‘ Bosco Katala’ has over the last month gained traction as a derogatory term used to refer to what the young people on social media see as Museveni’s backward national policies and personal enrichment at the expense of the taxpayer.

Katala is a word from the widely spoken Luganda local language, that means ‘someone who is unsophisticated or a socially awkward person, usually from the village’.

The origin of the name Bosco stems from a commercial that was released by the biggest telecommunications company in Uganda, MTN, promoting the use of cashless transactions using mobile money.

The advert ‘tells the story of Bosco’, an middle-aged Ugandan man who comes to the city, and goes shopping at a supermarket in a fancy shopping mall, where he is shown how to pay using mobile money.

Bosco rides his bicycle through metal detectors, escalators and supermarket aisles.

A woman who was in a vegetative state for years gave birth. Police want DNA from men who work at the facility

Police investigators have begun to gather DNA from men who work at an Arizona care facility where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth last month.

Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson said Wednesday the woman and child, who was in medical distress after being delivered December 29, remain in the hospital.

CNN is not reporting the woman’s name because she is the victim of sexual abuse.

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The High Court has ordered six police officers to pay Sh4 million to a lawyer they had arrested and detained illegally. The officers will also pay Sh3.8 million to 19 other people they had arrested and locked in a cell at the Ongata Rongai police station. Each of the 19 complainants is to get Sh200,000. The officers had argued that the petitioners were idle and disorderly. But Judge Reuben Nyakundi yesterday ordered that no state money should be used to pay the cash. This means that each officer will have to part with Sh1.3 million. He found officers guilty of violating the rights of arrested persons and right for representation.

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