When Harriet the toy monkey went missing from her tiny human, Savannah, during a recent trip to Buckingham Palace, the 5-year-old Australian was devastated.
The Harlem Globetrotters, a predominantly black professional U.S. basketball team, is now remembered for its ball-handling, antics, tricks and entertainment.
It pays to have good counsel and even better to heed them. For American actor and singer Jason Weaver, he has his mum to thank for the steady cheque he receives since featuring in Walt Disney’s 1994 feature animation film ‘The Lion King.’
Friends and family in Baltimore are mourning the death of Tyrique Hudson, a 22-year-old software engineer who was gunned down by his white neighbour while leaving for work this month. Hudson, who had just earned a computer science degree at North Carolina University, had moved to his apartment complex outside of Baltimore to start his software engineer job at Northrop Grumman.
At a will reading, every relative of the deceased present expects the lawyer to mention their name when the property is being distributed. For the family of Lord Glenconner, it came as a surprise when the lawyer allocated all his estates to his black manservant Kent Adonai.
A federal jury in Massachusetts has awarded $27 million to Mark Schand, a Connecticut man who spent 27 years in prison for a killing he maintains he didn’t commit. Schand spent 27 years behind bars trying to prove his innocence until his case caught the attention of a New-Jersey based ministry, which worked with his lawyers to free him from prison five years ago.
At a time many African countries and governments are pushing for a departure from the use of canes as a correctional measure in schools across the continent, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has absolutely no qualms in deploying canes in schools. Magufuli has backed a senior government official who caned a group of secondary school students, accused of charring their dormitories.
Rwanda has passed a law repealing over 1,000 colonial-era laws from its statutes. This comes after Rwanda’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs State Minister, Evode Uwizeyimana advocated for the scrapping of the colonial laws. Germany ruled Rwanda from 1900 to 1916.
Few in Nigeria’s socio-political history rose swiftly on the ladder of prominence yet died not in the evening of their lives but rather in the noon when there was so much more to do.
It pays to have good counsel and even better to heed them. For American actor and singer Jason Weaver, he has his mum to thank for the steady cheque he receives since featuring in Walt Disney’s 1994 feature animation film ‘The Lion King.’