South Africa's Ex-President Jacob Zuma Gets A 15- Month-Jail-Term for contempt of court

Former South African President Jacob Zuma

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption during his tenure from 2009 to 2018, NPR reports.

According to the report, Zuma was not in court for the ruling on Tuesday and has been ordered to hand himself over within five days to a police station in his hometown of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province or in Johannesburg. If Zuma fails to turn himself in within five days South Africa's minister of police and the police commissioner have been ordered to take him into custody within three days.

"The Constitutional Court can do nothing but conclude that Mr Zuma is guilty of the crime of contempt of court," Judge Sisi Khampepe said. "This kind of recalcitrance and defiance is unlawful and will be punished. I am left with no option but to commit Mr Zuma to imprisonment, with the hope that doing so sends an unequivocal message... the rule of law and the administration of justice prevails. The majority judgement orders an unsuspended sentence of imprisonment for a period (of 15 months)," she declared.

Zuma, 79, is accused of enabling the plunder of state coffers during his nearly nine-year stay in office.

Nnamdi Kanu Back In Nigeria, Re-arrested

Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of IPOB                     [Photo Credit: Pulse.ng]

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of banned separatist group the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been arrested and is in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to face trial, a spokesman for the justice minister said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

Intercepted on June 27, Channels Television reports that Kanu is expected to be re-arraigned before the Federal High Court for the continuation of his trial, an information made known at a briefing in Abuja on Tuesday by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.

According to Mr Malami, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the Federal Government’s application to detain the IPOB leader in a DSS facility ahead of the continuation of his trial.

Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.

An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%.

And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average.

The AP analyzed figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data.

Among them: Only about 45 states report breakthrough infections, and some are more aggressive than others in looking for such cases. So the data probably understates such infections, CDC officials said.

Still, the overall trend that emerges from the data echoes what many health care authorities are seeing around the country and what top experts are saying.

The cutest thing you'll see all weekend - The Wild Capture

Take this for a weekend laugh from The Wild Capture:

U.S. Catholic leaders say they aren't moving to deny Biden communion

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden pray at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops quietly clarified this week that there will be "no national policy on withholding Communion from politicians" after some bishops had raised the issue.

Why it matters: A wave of controversy and debate occurred after the conference overwhelmingly voted to draft a "teaching document," which many hoped would rebuke Biden and other Catholic politicians for receiving Communion despite their support for abortion rights, per AP.

·         Four days after the vote, the USCCB released a Q&A without its previous references to Biden, a national policy or abortion.

If you hear that Catholics want to deny Biden Communion, check the details

A priest holds the Eucharist in this illustration. (CNS/Bob Roller)

Conservative media was recently buzzing with headlines proclaiming that huge majorities of American Catholics think President Joe Biden, a Catholic, should be denied Communion because of his pro-choice policy position.

The Federalist proclaimed "Majority Of Church-Going Catholics Believe Biden Should Not Receive Communion"; National Review asserted "Majority of Church-Going Catholics Say Pro-Abortion Politicians Shouldn't Receive Communion"; and The Washington Examiner warned "Bishops beware: 74% say no Communion for Biden."

But there are big problems with these headlines and the poll that produced them. For one, CatholicVote.org, the right-wing Catholic group that conducted the poll, did not actually ask respondents what the bishops should do about Biden given his stance on abortion, but rather what decision "public officials" should make for themselves when they publicly disagree with church teaching.

Had the words "Biden" and "abortion" been in the question, the results may have looked quite different (as they do in other polling).

I hosted a delegation of the National Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria - Uzodimma

From the official Facebook page of  Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State:

I hosted a delegation of the National Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NOPPMAN) in my office led by their National President, Alhaji Aliyu Maitasimu Isah.

Today, our administration fulfilled a 25 year old promise to Chioma Ajunwa - SANWO-OLU

Today, our administration fulfilled a 25 year old promise to Chioma Ajunwa, Nigerian Gold Medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. I presented her the documents to a 3-bedroom flat at the Babatunde Raji Fashola Housing Estate in Iponri.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State posted the message via his official Facebook handle, Thursday.

According to his post, Chioma Ajunwa-Oparah (MON) set a record as the first Nigerian and Black African woman to win a gold medal at the world’s biggest sporting event and brought honour and glory to our country.

She watched him die slowly and probably enjoyed every minute of it as the demons in her rejoiced and screamed "hail satan!" - FFK

From the INSTAGRAM DESK of Femi Fani-Kayode:

Mr. Usifo Ataga was butchered in cold blood.

The fact that he went to a hotel to sleep with a 21 year old woman does not mean he deserves to be butchered.

He was slaughtered and gutted like a barbecue pig in an abbatoir and his blood was drained simply because he has a high libido and a weakness for women.

Some people are now trying to rationalise his murder and justify it and they are claiming that he "deserved what he got!" This is utterly shameful.

This man was BUTCHERED in cold-blood by a cowardly, worthless, dangerous, conflicted, psychotic, drug-crazed, sociopathic, psychopathic, predatory, wicked, heartless prostitute and monstrous sex maniac who stole his money after cutting his throat and slicing open his stomach.

She watched him die slowly and probably enjoyed every minute of it as the demons in her rejoiced and screamed "hail satan!".

This was a triumph for the devil and no-one else and the man was the victim whilst this heartless Dalilah and Jezebel that gutted him was the predator.

Mr. Ataga leaves behind his parents, his wife and his two beautiful children. Can you imagine what they must be going through right now. Who will speak for him and who will fight for them? Who will ensure that justice is served?

The bitch from hell that murdered him deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest, convicted of first degree murder and hanged by the neck until she is dead according to the law.

Honestly dis girl need hot slap - Bobrisky

FROM THE INSTAGRAM DESK OF Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju a.ka. Bobrisky:

Honestly dis girl need hot slap. Someone you should have kept lowkey to urself and be chilling with his money. You went ahead to kill him without considering his wife and children feeling, just because he wanted to chill with you. Sad 😞 Some of dis girls are wicked and I honestly believe is d kind of friends they keep around them. Imagine a 21yrs old girl smoking like a hire assassin . This will serve as a lesson to all married men to be extremely careful before you accept any girl into ur life. What if is a set up sent by ur business partner or friend to kill you, your own is too see fine girl with big yansh next minute you don carry her go hotel. You want to end ur life with 10min enjoyment, you want to make ur wife at home and children fatherless just because you saw One rubbish girl somewhere... Nobody is a saint here but be careful when playing ur cards. Cheers

Video of 21-year-old Chidinma smoking - LIB

The alleged video of 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu surfaced after she confessed to killing Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga who she accused of becoming allegedly violent after they allegedly got high on roofies, Linda Ikeji's Blog reports.

What's your take on this?

Chidinma is also a victim - Omokri

Chidinma Ojukwu

FROM THE INSTAGRAM DESK OF RENO OMOKRI:

Very Unpopular Opinion (you guys know I don’t go with the crowd. I go with my conscience)

Everybody is in a rush to demonise Chidinma. But it takes two to tango. Chidinma is 21. Usifo was 50. Between them, there existed a 29 year age gap. She could have been his daughter.

How many of you condemning Chidinma were mature at 21? We are now circulating videos of her smoking. How many of you did not smoke at 21? She erred. She should be punished. However, let us try to find out why it happened and make course corrections as a society.

Chidinma is also a victim. Of bad parenting and a bad society. We are now a society that is so religious that we expect ‘grace’ to cover everything.

Maverick City’s Worship leader apologises for ‘inappropriate’ wedding photo

Chandler Moore with his wife Hannah.(Photo: Instagram/Chandler Moore)

With a swipe on Christian critics, the lead singer of a popular US Christian worship band has issued an apology over a wedding picture he posted on Instagram.

The post has since generated over 10,000 comments from his fans on Instagram particularly, from Christians who called it "ungodly" and unbecoming of a believer.

"No one needs to see your private married life except the two of you. This was too far sir, it's not right," Mermaid_the_artist said in a comment.