Expatriate resigns in protest over company’s maltreatment of Nigerian workers!

According to Vanguard Newspapers, a Base Maintenance Manager at Caverton Helicopters, Surendra Bhagwandass, resigned yesterday over non-payment of salaries and unfair treatment of Nigerian workers in the company.

The expatriate accused the company which has contracts with oil firms like TOTAL, SHELL, among others for not paying the salaries of its Nigerian workers last month, December 2013.

He also said that unlike the foreign workers, the Nigerian staff do not enjoy all the benefits that comes with the job even though they put in more effort.

Bhagwandass who tendered his resignation letter through an email to the management of Caverton said that he became frustrated knowing that the expatriates workers were being taken care of while their Nigerian counterparts were not only poorly paid but their salaries delayed and described the development as unfair.

“Shame on you guys. I heard from the people I work with that they are not paid for the festive season. This is a security breach as I now feel uncomfortable to travel and work, while you guys have a merry time.

“Please have heart as these people have families, while you all enjoy the best; being with your families. You all (set) break the record as the only company in the world who do not pay your workers. Shame on you guys,” the expatriate stated in the email.

Some of the Nigerian workers at Caverton Helicopters said it was painful to know that expatriate staff were paid in dollars but the Nigerian workers who put in more effort on the job were paid less.

They also said, that while they are not given accommodation or security escorts, expatriates enjoyed such benefits.

“They are paid in dollars, we in Naira but we work more than them. Several staff have been attacked because they leave their houses around 4 am. There is no security for us. But they enjoy everything in our country,” the staff said.

He further accused Caverton Helicopters of failing to take good care of its staff even after promising oil companies that it would do so before signing contracts with them.

The Personal Assistant to the Managing Director of Caverton Helicopters, Mrs. Doyin Elegbe denied the allegations.

Obama, world react to news of Ariel Sharon's death!

President Obama says Ariel Sharon ‘dedicated his life' to Israel, sends ‘condolences’ to leader’s family in statement.

President Obama expressed sorrow about the death of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Saturday, joining other United States and world leaders in commenting on the life and passing of Sharon.

 “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to the people of Israel on the loss of a leader who dedicated his life to the State of Israel,” the president said. 

“We reaffirm our unshakable commitment to Israel's security and our appreciation for the enduring friendship between our two countries and our two peoples.”

.............."The State of Israel bows its head over the passing of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon," current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, expressing "deep sorrow" over the news.

"His memory will forever be held in the heart of the nation," Netanyahu said.

.........Sharon was "a brave soldier and a daring leader who loved his nation and his nation loved him," said President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres, a longtime friend and rival. 

"He was one of Israel's great protectors and most important architects, who knew no fear and certainly never feared vision."

......In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron said: 

"Ariel Sharon is one of the most significant figures in Israeli history and as prime minister he took brave and controversial decisions in pursuit of peace, before he was so tragically incapacitated. Israel has today lost an important leader."

......Russian President Vladimir Putin

 "highly praised Ariel Sharon's personal qualities and his activities to protect Israel's interests, noting a high respect for him among compatriots and his high authority in the international arena.

..........United Nations spokesman said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "saddened" by Sharon's death.

"Prime Minister Sharon will be remembered for his political courage and determination to carry through with the painful and historic decision to withdraw Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip. His successor faces the difficult challenge of realising the aspirations of peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people," a UN statement said.

.......Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, posted on Twitter: 

"Ariel Sharon was a great leader of Israel. A brilliant military commander, but also a wise statesman seeing the necessity of peace."

......“Ariel Sharon's journey was Israel’s journey,” Secretary of State John Kerry said. 

“The dream of Israel was the cause of his life, and he risked it all to live that dream. … During his years in politics, it is no secret that there were times the United States had differences with him. But whether you agreed or disagreed with his positions … you admired the man who was determined to ensure the security and survival of the Jewish State.”

.......Bill and Hillary Clinton praised Sharon as leader who "who gave his life to Israel."

In a statement, the former US president and his wife, the ex-secretary of state said: "It was an honour to work with him, argue with him, and watch him always trying to find the right path for his beloved country."

"Ariel Sharon gave his life to Israel - to bring it into being, to sustain and preserve it, and at the end of his long service, to create a new political party committed to both a just peace and lasting security," they added.

........"Laura and I join our friends in Israel and around the world in mourning the loss,” said former President George W. Bush, commenting for himself and his wife.

“He was a warrior for the ages and a partner in seeking security for the Holy Land and a better, peaceful Middle East.”

Ariel Sharon’s Troubling Legacy- Human Rights watch!

According to Human Rights Watch, Ariel Sharon died without facing justice for his role in the massacres of hundreds and perhaps thousands of civilians by Lebanese militias in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. The killings constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Sharon also escaped accountability for other alleged abuses, such as his role expanding settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, prosecutable as a war crime. Sharon ordered the removal of all Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and from four West Bank settlements in 2005, but the overall number of settlers in occupied territory increased significantly during his term as prime minister.

“It’s a shame that Sharon has gone to his grave without facing justice for his role in Sabra and Shatilla and other abuses,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “His passing is another grim reminder that years of virtual impunity for rights abuses have done nothing to bring Israeli-Palestinian peace any closer.” 

Relatives of the victims of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre carry candles on the 18th anniversay of the massacre, September 15, 2000.

Sharon, as Israel’s defense minister in 1982, had overall responsibility for the Israel Defense Forces, which controlled the area of the Sabra and Shatilla camps. An Israeli commission of inquiry found that he bore “personal responsibility” for the massacre and that he decided Phalangist militias “should be sent in” to the camps from September 16 to 18, despite the risk that they would massacre the civilian population there. The militias killed between 700 and 800 people, according to Israeli military intelligence estimates; other estimates were much higher. The dead included infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly, some of whose bodies were found to have been mutilated.

In February 1983, the Kahan Commission, Israel’s official commission of inquiry investigating the events, found that the “serious consideration… that the Phalangists were liable to commit atrocities… did not concern [Sharon] in the least.” Sharon’s “disregard of the danger of a massacre” was “impossible to justify,” the commission found, and recommended his dismissal as defense minister. He remained in the Israeli cabinet as a minister without portfolio and later became prime minister in 2001, serving until his stroke in January 2006.

Israeli justice authorities never conducted a criminal investigation to determine whether Sharon and other Israeli military officials bore criminal responsibility. In 2001, survivors brought a case in Belgium requesting that Sharon be prosecuted under Belgium’s “universal jurisdiction” law.  

Political pressure led Belgium’s parliament to amend the law in April 2003, and to repeal it altogether in August, leading Belgium’s highest court to drop the case against Sharon that September.

Sharon long promoted establishing unlawful Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. In 2005 he ordered Israel’s withdrawal of nearly 8,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of four West Bank settlements, but during his term as prime minister, the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, increased from roughly 388,000 to 461,000. The transfer by an occupying power of its civilians into an occupied territory is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, and a potential war crime.

A West Bank separation barrier that he approved in 2002 was largely built inside the West Bank, contrary to international humanitarian law, encompassing many settlements on the Israeli side.  Since 2003, the Israeli military has subjected thousands of Palestinians who live in areas of the West Bank between the barrier and the 1967 armistice line (the “Green Line”) to severe, discriminatory restrictions on their freedom of movement, with devastating economic and social consequences.

During Sharon’s term as prime minister, Israeli forces killed more than 1,430 Palestinian civilians, while Palestinians killed 640 Israeli civilians, according to data collected by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Israeli forces also unlawfully demolished hundreds of homes in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

“For the thousands of victims of abuses, Sharon’s passing without facing justice magnifies their tragedy,” Whitson said.

Source: Human Rights watch.

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Man bags 13 years for filming rape of four-year-old!

The man pictured below was jailed for a total of 13 years after he filmed himself raping a four-year-old girl.

Brett Deane, 28, from Welland Road, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, was caught after police were alerted that images of sexual abuse were being posted online.

Deane was arrested the following day and his mobile phone seized.

Officers also discovered explicit drawings depicting a man raping two children labelled as being aged 11 and 12.

Deane, was charged with 10 counts comprising: two counts of raping a girl under 13; four of serious sexual assault and taking, making, possessing and distributing an indecent photograph of a child.

He pleaded guilty to all charges and was jailed for a total of 13 years.

Detective Sergeant Amerjit Singh, of the force's Public Protection Department, said: "It is almost impossible to comprehend such an horrific act of attacking a young child who had no way of defending herself.

"Deane did not give a moment's thought to what impact his actions will have on such a young victim who will, no doubt, be haunted by this abuse for many years to come."

Amina Agboola: Mum Charged Over Toddler Death!

A mother has been charged over the death of her two-year-old daughter, after her boyfriend was accused of the girl's murder.

Amina Agboola died in November 2013 after being taken to Peterborough City Hospital with serious injuries.

Mother Sarah Raqueman, of Scott Drive in Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, has been charged with causing or allowing the toddler's death and two counts of neglect against two other children.

The 28-year-old was remanded in custody when she appeared at Peterborough Magistrates' Court this morning. She will next appear before Cambridge Crown Court on January 14.

Dean Harris, her 19-year-old boyfriend, also of Scott Drive, has already been charged with murder.

He is next due to appear in court on February 28.

The couple were arrested after taking Amina to hospital. A post-mortem found she died from a blunt force injury which ruptured her liver.

After her death Amina’s father, Reuben Agboola, said: "I want to thank everyone for the continuing love, prayer and support for my little princess.

"I am extremely grateful and proud to have her as my child, I believe she is now at a better place."



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Ariel Sharon dies aged 85!

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died after eight years in a coma.

Ariel Sharon, was reportedly Israel's prime minister in one of its most turbulent phases and one of the most controversial figures in its history.

Dr Shlomo Noy, who personally treated Sharon since his debilitating stroke eight years ago, said that Mr Sharon had struggled with "surprising strength" over the past week as his condition had deteriorated. "He departed peacefully with his wife and family at his side," he said.

The decorated former army general was pronounced dead at the Tel Hashomer Hospital, near Tel Aviv, days after doctors reported a sharp deterioration in his health, leading to multiple organ failure. He was prime minister from 2001 until he suffered a massive stroke in January 2006, which left him incapacitated.

Widowed twice, Ariel Sharon is survived by his sons Gilad and Omri.

South African Church Where Members Eat Grass!

This is reportedly happening live in South Africa.

At Rabboni Centre Ministries, a South African church at  Garankuwa TUT campus at Pretoria is where the pastor alleged  have his members eat grass. 

The name of the pastor is Pastor Lesego Daniel. The church has a closed group on Facebook with the name Rabboni Centre Ministries. 

These pictures you are staring at were reportedly posted on Facebook and Twitter. The group is only accessible by its members as efforts to check the page is not possible.

According to someone who claims to be privy to this via twitter the pastor does this while trying to prove a point that humans can be controlled by the spirit of God and can survive on whatever they choose to eat. 

As they eat, they are kicked and stepped upon and are said to be dead to touch during the ordeal. 

See these handles @ClaysonMonyela and @ah_qu_uh  on twitter for more. The pastor himself is reportedly on twitter as @rabbonitv (Pastor Lesego Daniel).