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When you watch the classic cop shows you probably see someone getting arrested in a crazy way. They are chased for a half mile jumped on subdued maybe yelled at quite a bit and then finally put in hand cuffs. Even though a wild chase for arrest is unlikely it can happen and sometimes does but in reality police offers will simply arrest someone to keep them from running or trying to flee a scene. The exact definition of arrest according to Frank Shmallegers book “Criminal justice a brief…

staff needs an email address and other Google Apps products to work and collaborate with others. ------------------------------------------------- Vendor Profile Globasure Technologies Ltd (Globasure), a financial technology company, located in Lagos, Nigeria, develops and provides innovative end-to-end payment solutions and services to the financial sector. With strategic partnership with major EFT POS terminal manufacturers and payment solution providers, coupled with highly skilled and…

environmental and health problems. It all started with oil drilling in the Lago Agrio Oil Fields of Ecuador. After their establishment in Ecuador in 1964, the Texaco oil rigs began wreaking havoc on the local communities. (Amazon Watch, 2013). Texaco, as well as the prominent Gulf Oil Corporation, began to drill for oil in the Oriente region of Ecuador (Solano, 2013). However, it was not until 1972 that Texaco began to drill for oil in the Lago Agrio Oil Field, one year before the OPEC Oil…

There was a suspicion that the British were more instinctively inclined towards the north. Fredrick Lugard was believed to have harbored contempt for the educated and Europeanized Africans of the south, and had once recommended moving the capital from Lagos to the northern city of Kaduna. Even if this bias was not based in fact, it was widely believed to be true by Nigerians. The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 was a direct result of these tensions. As early as 1912, the British socialist E.D. Morel…

controlled by Fatah terrorist launching an attack on Israel’s Red Sea port of Eilat. 11/21/1977 – The “Don Carlos” was seized by members of a Moslean Separatist rebel group. 11/21/1977 – The Danish vessel “Lindinger ivor” was attacked by pirates on the Lagos coast. 10/23/1976 – Lebanon. The Greek vessels “Rko”, “Riri”, and “Spiro” were bombed and sank. 9/16/1976 – U.S. A Soviet cargo ship was bombed by an anti-Castro refugee group. 8/1/1976 – The Greek vessel “Tina” was sunk by three limpet…

You gotta give Melania Trump credit for being glam no matter the occasion. First Lady Trump decked the halls and trimmed the White House tree wearing a designer label coat indoors. Melania ushered in the Christmas season and shared several pictures of her looking jolly and ready to spread holiday joy. As the holiday lyrics go, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas." However, as one person quipped, Melania Trump must have thought it was snowing inside the White House when she wore her coat inside…

National Security and its implementations in the United States have caused persistent conflicts between those who want protection and those who want to keep their civil liberties. Moreover, Many citizens were not aware of this conflict prior to the gruesome aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack. This devastation, referred to as 9/11, was the result of an attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and an attack on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. As a result, the United…

Dreams” on 29th August at Bella Ultra Lounge in CA, which is expected to shed light on a little discussed social matter in Nigeria, plight of children in divorced families. This book is based on true life events of Uzo, who spent her early childhood in Lagos Nigeria until she was twelve. Her life story was never accounted by her or another until she decided herself to begin to…

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. While the symptoms and signs of coronary artery disease are noted in the advanced state of disease, most individuals with coronary artery disease show no evidence of disease for decades as the disease progresses before the first onset of symptoms, often a "sudden" heart attack, finally arises (Gaziano et al.,…

Floating School Iwan Baan’s series of photographs called, “52 Cities, 52 Weeks: Floating School illustrates the resilience of a fishing village of a pulpous slum area of Lagos, Nigeria called, Makoko (Guardian). The Nigerian government claimed that the homes on stilts had become unsafe, then ordered the homes to be demolished because of the “…heavy rains and rising sea levels…” that have reeked havoc on the community for decades (Guardian). Between the innovation of the architect of the…