A Nigerian Pastor and Wife Arrested In US After Starving Son To Death In 40-Day Fast.

In the above picture are the emaciated faces of Kehinde Omosebi (left), aged 49, and Titilayo Omosebi (right), aged 47. They are residents of the United States and both face up to 37 years in prison on a combined sentence as they have been charged with starving their 15-year-old son to death.

 

Another son, aged 11, was found alive but he was extremely emaciated. According to the Madison State Journal, Kehinde, the boys’ father, who claimed he is a pastor with Cornerstone Reformation Ministries, had ordered a religious fast that lasted as long as 40 days. All the boys had as nourishment during the fast, which began on July 17, was water. The deceased died on Friday in Reedsburg, while the couple was charged on Tuesday in Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA.

 

According to Reedsburg Police Chief Timothy Becker, policemen had to break through padlocked doors to reach the boys at a residence on Alexander Avenue on the west side of the city, on Sunday, after the father reported the death to the Police, two days it occurred. On the other hand, the 11-year-old boy had to be assisted to walk out of the residence. He held onto a Bible and an envelope, which, according to the Police, contained pamphlets about death, which were distributed to the officers when they arrived at the residence. In a letter signed by the 11-year-old, and addressed to ‘Lawyers of Sauk County Circuit Court’, he wrote: “The hunger is too much. Please help me now so I may eat. I can’t continue in such a life with no food and If I don’t get food now I’ll probably die of hunger.”

 

He has been taken to the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, and placed in protective custody. Speaking on the state of the Omosebi’s residence, Becker said: “The residence had no phone, no power, no food. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It’s tragic.”

 

Sauk County Circuit Judge Wendy J.N. Klicko set bail at $5,000 for Kehinde Omosebi, and ordered him to have no contact with his surviving son. An initial court hearing for Titilayo was delayed. However, both parents are said to be eating again, according to Becker.  Kehinde told Police that it wasn’t the first time the family would be involved in a religious fast, noting, however, that this was the longest and they were awaiting “blessing from God”. He also told the Police that the fast was supposed to end on Friday, the day his son died. Furthermore, he said they were moving to Atlanta, because God had directed him to. Titilayo also told the Police that they needed God’s blessing before relocating, just as she claimed the fasting began on July 19, while the boy said it began on July 20.

United We Stand, Divided We Fall.

"United We Stand, Divided We Fall." - Samuel Dickinson a.k.a. the Penman of the Revolution. He penned this phrase to incite fellow Americans against the tyrany of the British colonial "masters". He was also one of the delegates from Delaware during the writing of the American constitution.  

His old phrase "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" has since been used as a rallying call for centuries by all victims of tyrany and oppression across the world. 

The Dumb Trump Supporters in Nigeria.

It’s been a strange phenomenon, seeing and hearing some Nigerians rallying supports for the now President-elect Donald Trump during the last American presidential election. Initially, it started as a mere curiosity for those of us Nigerian-Americans. Then, it graduated into some sort of amusement. Finally, their actions rose to the level of irritation. Those Nigerians did not only flood the social media on behalf of Trump, they also campaigned, argued and fought with those who refused to support Trump. And this was a presidential campaign taking place in a far-flung foreign nation.

The situation became really critical because those Trump supporters were not resident in the United States. They are over ten thousands miles away. In fact, a whole lot of them have never set foot on the soils of the United States. And when Donald Trump was declared the winner, they all jubilated as if the man was a family member. Even Trump must be baffled. However, from all indications, those Trump supporters in Nigeria can easily be divided into three categories: 

1. There are some "alakatakiti" (religious fanatics) who support Trump because he is a "Christian". Unwittingly though, these people are indicating that their own Jesus Christ is racist, discriminatory, misogynistic and disrespectful to other people that are different by way of race, nationality and religion. The Christian fanatics are inadvertently telling the rest of us that they don't even know the real Jesus Christ!

2. There are supporters of the erstwhile president of Nigeria (Jonathan) that are sore losers and blaming the man's loss at the last Nigerian election on Obama and Hillary Clinton. Yet, rationale people all over the world may want to ask them where the correlation or relationship is between the current Nigerian president (Buhari) and Hillary Clinton. What sheer stupidity!

3. And, finally, there are those in the third category. They are the closet haters. They have always hated the guts of their family members, friends and all the Nigerians in the diasporas. Many of these Nigerians have done all they could to migrate abroad but failed. So, their collective wish is for someone like Trump to deport all Nigerians in God's own country. Someone needs to tell our dear envious folks back home that it's not our fault that they don't appreciate their situations in life. And they need to STOP stressing themselves over such a dumb wish!

We Must Vote.

 

"Too many of my friends gave their lives for our right to vote. I think about them every time I step into the voting booth.

I remember their faces, the sounds of their voices. I wonder what could have been, had we not been cheated of their light - of their lives.  

We must never, ever forget their sacrifice. We must honor it and cherish it. Tell your friends: We must vote."

- John Lewis, Congressman for Georgia 's Fifth District, civil rights hero, and author of March.



Oprah: ‘You don’t have to like her'.

 

Oprah Winfrey’s message for undecided voters is simple: There’s only one choice, and you don’t have to like her. 

The former talk show host and media mogul, who endorsed Hillary Clinton in June, said she has been largely silent in this election because she wasn’t sure she had words that were loud enough to be heard over the tumult. 

“The reason why I haven’t been vocal, other than saying I’m with her, is because I didn’t know what to say that could actually pierce through all the noise and the chaos and the disgusting vitriol that’s going on and actually be heard,” Winfrey told the Dallas-based pastor T.D. Jakes, according to an excerpt of the hour-long sitdown to air next Thursday.



“But there really is no choice, people. All the people sitting around talking about they can’t decide. This is what I wanna say — wait a minute,” she said, silencing Jakes to make her point. “I hear this all the time. You get into conversations — and there’s not a person in this room who hasn’t been in this same conversation — where people say, ‘I just don’t know if I like her.’”

 

But you don’t have to, Winfrey said, stressing that’s not the question voters should be asking.

 

“She’s not coming over to your house! You don’t have to like her,” she said. “You don’t have to like her. Do you like this country? Do you like this country? You better get out there and vote. Do you like the country? Do you like freedom and liberty? Do you like this country? OK. Do you like democracy or do you want a demagogue?”

 

Courtesy: Politico.



The 2016 American Presidential Election Debates.

When is the presidential debate?  

The first of three presidential debates is Monday, Sept. 26 at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. Two more debates are set for Oct. 9 and Oct. 19.

What time does the debate start?

Each of the three presidential debates begins at 9 p.m. ET and ends at 10:30 p.m. ET.  

Who will take part in the presidential debates? 

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump will be the only participants. Libertarian Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Green Party failed to make the cut based on their results in the most recent major polling.  

How can I watch the debate?  

The first debate will be broadcast live on each of the major networks and leading cable news sites, including NBC News and MSNBC. It will also be streamed live at NBCNews.com and MSNBC.com and on the NBC News apps on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. You can also watch in virtual reality on NBC News' Virtual Democracy Plaza.

Who will serve as moderators of this year's debates? 

Lester Holt of NBC News will moderate the first debate. ABC News' Martha Raddatz and CNN's Anderson Cooper will co-anchor the second presidential debate. Fox News' Chris Wallace will moderate the third. Meanwhile, Elaine Quijano of CBS News will serve as moderator for a vice presidential debate between Gov. Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Kaine on Oct. 4.

Courtesy of NBC News.